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Reasonable Hotels in Managua, Granada and San Juan del Sur
We are making our first trip to Nicaragua in July and would love to have recommendations for hotels in Managua, Granada and San Juan Del Sur. Price up to $50.00/night with hot water and AC and bathroom. Thanks!
Dolce Vita Hotel in SJDS
Charges $30 for one, $40 for two, they have six rooms and a very nice Italian restaurant. Dan Polley
Hotel El Puerto in SJDS
Price $25 per night for 2 persons for a room with a fan only.
Price $35 per night for 2 persons for a room with a AC.
All rooms have private bathrooms.
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We have referred a lot of our customers there and never had anyone complain about the rooms.
Run by a Nicaraguan and his German wife.
As for food, there are a lot of reasonably priced Restaurants run by professionals.
I would recommend:
El Colibri, a very nice Mediterranean style restaurant. They serve first class food and offer first class service at reasonable prices. Located just behind the church.
The Bamboo Beach Restaurant and Bar They offer a unique menu. The presentation and decor are worth the visit and the food quality is good. Located on the beach road. Enjoy your drinks on the beach and the sunset while having a romantic dinner.
Henry's Iguana Bar, Great place to have lunch or dinner. At night "The Iguana" as it is affectionately called by the locals, turns into the most popular bar in town. Located on the beach road.
Big Wave Dave's, Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner. North American type food with a local twist. Large menu and large portions. Some nights offers live music. Located 1/2 block off the beach road. (Just look for the surf boards outside.)
San Juan Del Sur Pizza, Authentic Italian Pizza, Pasta, Fish dishes and the owner will cook special requested dishes. Run by Maurizio, a professional Italian Chef. He makes outstanding Risotto. My favorite is Risotto Negro, a black rice dish made from squid. While this is not a fancy restaurant, it makes up for the lack of tablecloths and sophistication by serving the best Italian food outside of Italy and its friendly atmosphere. (Just celebrated 6 yrs in business in SJDS.) A MUST visit place. Located 1/4 block from the church.
If you are looking to pay North American prices by all means try:
Pelican Eyes, the best known resort in SJDS. Good food, full menu and a great bar, outstanding service. The views are spectacular. Located on the hill overlooking SJDS.
El Poso, known for its steaks. This is a small restaurant and can be noisy at times. If you are looking for a quiet dinner this may not be the place. Located near the market.
La Dolce Vita, newly opened. I have not been there but comments are that the prices are higher than the food quality.
Kings Palace in Managua
Is very nice, pool, breakfast, a/c, internet, close to everything and about $50 a night.
In Granada it's the Alhambra, on Parque Central. Very nice place.
San Juan del Sur, it's either cheap and ugly or expensive and very nice.
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The Kings Palace Hotel in Managua, Nicaragua situated Carret A Masaya Km 5, Mga can be contacted by phone +5052 2774548 or fax +5052 2782456.
In Granada
I still like the Hotel Cocibolca,good central location, newer construction with AC, cable tv, and a pool. Should be around $35..I think they have a web site. There are precious few tourists in town so far this summer and I believe you can haggle over empty rooms at any hotel in town...For a little more money check out Bohemian Paradise...
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Abacrombie still worth it?
Hi all,
Boston 'hound heading down for a last minute trip and looking for some rec's. I've got a reservation at Abacrombie based on some favorable reviews here, but they are a few months old. Anyone been recently? We'll be celebrating my boyfriends bithday day...I tried Charleston, but can't get in until 9:30.
Also, I'm looking for the ubiquitous crab house recommendation. I loooove crab, but the boy isn't so into it. Any places that have the brown paper and mallet crab and other things for him? Does Faidley's fit the bill?
Thanks in advance!
I'm a fan of both Abacrombie and Charleston (even when I'm not drinking Bordeaux). I go to Abacrombie almost monthly. I still think the food is great, and as long as you don't go between 6 and 8pm on a symphony night, the service is formal, unobtrusive and not rushed. And it will be half the price of Charleston.
re: bordeauxfan
have you been to Abacrombie recently since the new owners have taking over fully??
Faidley's is not open for dinner. It is good for lunch but it has only standup counters. You can get crabs and he can get good crabcakes. For crabs for dinner with other stuff also maybe try Nick's Fish House on Insulator Drive. Bo Brooks also has steamed crabs and other stuff but I don't think its that good. Also O'brycki's might be good too.
re: amaebi
Obrycki's is closed for the winter.
Head to Mr. Bill's in Essex for crabs. Check out the recent discussion:
Haven't been to Abacrombie yet, so can't comment on that.
re: BaltFoodie
It was, new owners have come in and completely changed the restaurant. Looks like they cut the entire wait staff, including the cute bartender my sister in law would rave about. Baltimore just lost one of it's top five restaurants witout even knowing it though. What took Sonny almost five years to establish has been destroyed in a matter of weeks. Went there and they were out of maybe 80% of the wine list, place seemed like a ghost town and the vibe the staff was giving off wasn't positive. Usually when we went there there would be the usual faces working, and thats not a bad thing but last time there was one familar face. it's a shame we need to find a new fav restaurant without having to drop $250-300 for dinner for 2
re: youngfoodieguy
I hate reading this, but I was there Saturday evening pre-Meyerhoff and I agree. And it was still decent after Sonny left for Europe, because his DAD was still the owner. My SO and I were big fans of the restaurant. How ironic that E Large gave them 3.5 stars in last weekend's Sun. But that was based on her experiences in April/May, not June.
I really want to give these new owners a chance, but my vibes are bad.
Also -- in the men's room, they used to have those halfway-decent paper handtowels. The new owners replaced them with SMALL paper napkins like you'd get at a diner. Took me three or four just to dry my hands...
re: bordeauxfan
Besides the towels, did it look like they cleaned house as far as replacing the staff?
Definately Mr. Bill's Terrace Inn for crabs, call ahead to make sure of availability, it's not crab season here so they come from out of town.
Nick's Fish House has very hit or miss food.
For great "other" Maryland Seafood, go to Mamas on the Half Shell in Canton
re: Pool Boy
Also, let's recognize the importance of the BSO and the Meyerhoff to Abacrombie's business. When my friend was there later on Saturday post-symphony, the new owner asked if "that lady with the short hair, I can't remember her name" was there. I'm assuming he was referring to Maestra Marin Alsop.
I was a big fan of Chef Sonny's also, and do miss him. Per Sonny, he basically stopped during the holidays and Mike was doing all of the work, Sonny was there, but was busy packing.
I was nervous about possible drop off in quality so I gave Mike some time to get settled. I have eaten there twice now, Mid-April and just a week ago. Both times my experience was excellent. Soups were as good as ever. A heavier emphasis on fish dishes and desserts were great.
Some staff has changed. The female bartender was planning on leaving and continuing her school work, even before Sonny left. I visited Mike in the kitchen and almost all of the cook staff is the same.
I have no reservations whatsoever in highly recommending Abacrombie to anyone. I still believe this is the best value and experience in Baltimore.

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Can't remember a rock'n'roll song that's an ode to a 1972 Dodge Tradesman panel van with a 225-cube slant-6? Neither could we.
By March 19, 2007
Second, Billy Gibbons is not alone in being a gearhead. Musicians guitar players and drummers especially tend to be technically minded and highly focused on the physics and mechanics of making music. They often know as much about 6L6 vacuum tubes as augmented 7th chords, and the guitar itself is as much an object of adoration as the elusive tones of Hubert Sumlin or Cliff Gallup. They like stuff. Especially cool stuff.
Third, extremely successful musicians make a lot of money (usually after years of privation), and buying nice cars is generally the first manifestation worldwide of success. It takes tremendous restraint to suddenly get a royalty check for a million dollars and continue to drive a rusty Geo Metro with a space-saver spare on the right rear and a Saran Wrap side window.
Fourth, life on the road is the definitive American romantic vision, and the best music and cars are 98-percent romantic vision. They run on the same set of brain cells, so Rock & Roll and cars are just slightly different versions of the same mental disorder. I know that reads like a series of non sequiturs, but there you go. I can't explain it. We are talking about the joined branches of a mighty river of madness here.
Okay, so musicians like cars. But which cars?
It becomes quite obvious when you look at history that certain cars have the Rock & Roll spirit and others clearly don't.
For instance, nearly all Cadillacs other than the Cimarron can be considered Rock & Roll cars (although the Allanté is on shaky ground, and the vote is still out on the current Art & Science models), while virtually no Toyota will ever be.
Never mind that I sometimes haul my amp and guitar around in my Corolla-based Pontiac Vibe. It won't be photographed as a backdrop to our band poster, as my '53 Fleetwood recently was. Actually, tons of real musicians drive around in highly efficient, tinny little economy cars, but these vehicles hardly ever get into a song.
Except derisively, perhaps.
In his song, "Pink Cadillac," Bruce Springsteen writes "my love is bigger than a Honda, it's bigger than a Subaru." An echo here of Buddy Holly, whose love was "bigger than a Cadillac."
In other words, don't look for a "Pink Subaru Forester" album anytime soon.
Nearly all hot rods are Rock & Roll cars, but only a few foreign sports cars make the cut. MGs, Jags, red Barchettas and Speedsters sometimes sneak their way into the Rock lexicon, but my Boxster probably won't. Even though the trunk(s) can hold a Strat and a tweed Fender DeLuxe amp. Wrong car for the job; wrong job for the car.
Corvettes and Cobras make it, as do all Mustangs with V-8s. In fact, having a V-8 seems to be a basic requirement for a Rock & Roll car, the above sports cars excepted. A Ford or Chevy Six just doesn't get it. If you didn't lust after the drivetrain in high school, you probably don't want it sung about. A V-6 is not a Rock & Roll engine, either, nor is anything turbocharged. Combustion-wise, we're playing power chords here, through Marshall stacks. Clarinets are not needed.
I'm not sure a Rock & Roll car should have airbags, either. I suppose it could with a V-8 having at least 300 bhp. More would be helpful. It takes a lot of horsepower to overcome the dreaded safety stigma. Safety, after all, is anathema to Rock & Roll, which speaks to us of a lost world without seatbelt buzzers or automatic locking, when you could still get the cuff of your leather jacket caught on the door handle.
Which is why we like the music, and these old cars too.
Both are a form of transportation to another place or time. They stop the clock for us at some moment we've idealized because it was, well, ideal.
Maybe that's why Buddy Holly called his Cadillac song, "Not Fade Away."


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Google's new Auto Enhance for photos raises a tricky question: When does editing become embellishment?
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The Judicial Tenure Commission trial for Judge Wade McCree is expected to continue Tuesday afternoon in a Washtenaw County courtroom. Watch it live on myFOXdetroit.com.
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On the stand Tuesday the judge's doctor says McCree suffers from a mental condition that led to what he said was abnormal, overly confident public statements.
Dr. David Jacobi said he diagnosed McCree last year with a condition called, "hypomania." The diagnosis came after the judge sent a shirtless picture of himself to a courthouse employee and told FOX 2 reporter Charlie LeDuff, "There's no shame in my game."
Last week Wade McCree testified that he regretted the "poor judgment" he exercised by getting involved with Geniene La'Shay Mott, 30. But he explained that he had found her too hard to resist. Mott "surprised me and thrilled me. ... I lusted after that woman. I'm in my middle 50s and she's a double dozen years my junior," McCree, 56, said.
The Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission says he acted irresponsibly when he carried on an affair with Mott while presiding over a case against the father of her child. McCree testified he should have transferred the case immediately.
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Same curtain panel?
December 21, 2012 in Design Dilemma
Is it okay to use the same printed fabric for my curtain panels in the kitchen and the living room area?
Or use the same print but different color? Fabric I wanna use is this -- blue for the kitchen and green for the living room.
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I love the same print but different color idea. "Variation on a theme." But the same would be fine too, because it's visually the same space. If you had a different color on the walls in the two rooms, then using the same pattern and color might be a great way to connect the rooms. I think either way, those patterns are great!
@granite grannies: thanks! The kitchen wall color is asparagus green and the living room is light gray. :)
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Definition of 'Total Quality Management - TQM'
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Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - "Nothin'"
This song, from the heralded Raising Sand record, has more than one Texas connection. Produced by Fort Worth native T-Bone Burnett, it is also a cover of a song by Townes Van Zandt, with the wonderful blend of Krauss and Plant's vocals. Burnett's searing guitar turns this into a song that carries the weight of Van Zandt's original, with an entirely new sonic palette.
Buddy Miller - "Worry Too Much"
Americana elder statesman Buddy Miller has kept quite busy in recent years, with his guitar playing, background vocals, and production work showing up on records by Patty Griffin and John Fogerty, and on Robert Plant and Alison Krauss' Raising Sand tour. This track, from his 2004 release Universal United House of Prayer, is a cover of a song by Mark Heard, which Miller heard while working as an recording engineer.


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A fun and interesting poster made for a pretty crappy movie, "Snuff" doesn't have much going for it except for the buzz surrounding the ending. The whole movie follows a sadistic biker gang around as they kill people on camera. Marketed as if it were an actual snuff film, the notorious "tacked on" ending caused quite a stir in the 70's for featuring a supposedly "real" murder involving a female being butchered by the film crew. The film distributors even hired fake protestors to picket theaters in an effort to play up the snuff film urban legend.
I just got back from seeing the remake of "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" and I enjoyed myself quite a bit. Now, I don't have a great nostalgic love for the original; in fact, I have only seen bits and pieces of it over the past few years so I didn't go in to the theater with any great reservations over a remake. I am a sucker for the over the top gothic imagery and the dark fairytale atmosphere that can really only be created on these types of films.
Lucio Fulci's "Don't Torture a Duckling" was one of those movies that I saw once in it's entirety about 10 years ago and promptly pushed to the back of my mind. I had the chance to revisit it recently on Netflix and enjoyed myself thoroughly. Although not as violent and gory as Fulci's other movies, the film plays out more as a mystery with a few horror elements mixed in for good measure. Most notably, a gruesome scene in which a woman is beaten with chains by an angry mob is often the topic a conversation when discussing the movie.
I recently came across an article published by Jason Zinoman of the NY Times discussing what makes horror fans and horror directors tick. With the increasing number of horror films that have been packed into the theater this summer, especially this month, its clear that horror movies have been in the mainstream eye a bit more so than usual. However, to many of us seasoned horror fans, we've seen so many throat slashing, stabbing and torture scenes that it takes a lot to truly scare us. With all that horror directors have seen and done with their own films, they are no different.
If you ever wanted to see Diane Ladd play the role of a crazy scientist (and who hasn't), well then friends, this is the movie for you! Ms. Ladd stars as Dr. Jane Triptree, a scientist who plans to recreate dinosaurs in order to destroy the human race. Not only that, she's also creating a virus which she plans on using to impregnate women with dinosaurs! That's all you really need to know. If you haven't seen this on TV one of the gazillion times it has aired on SyFy over the past 18 years, its worth checking out if you're in the mood for a mindless yet amusing horror comedy.
20 years after Cyrus West's death, family members gather at his mansion for a reading of the will. Laura La Plante, who stars as Cyrus' niece Annabelle, learns that she is the only beneficiary of her uncle's will. The catch? A doctor must declare her sane in order to receive the fortne. As luck would have it, an escaped mental patient who thinks he's a cat, has taken refuge in the mansion, planning to rip apart his victims as a cat would a canary.
Belen Rueda ("The Orphanage") stars as twin sisters Julia and Sara in the upcoming release from Spanish director Guillem Morales, "Julia's Eyes". Guillermo Del Toro's produced the film, which has definitely helped it create quite a buzz in early reviews. The film centers around Julia, who is trying to deal with her sister's apparent suicide while also dealing with her impending blindness due to a degenerative illness. IFC Films will be distributing the movie in the US via limited theatrical release later this month and then releasing it on VOD shortly after. Check out the trailer below:
Clive Owen stars in a supernatural horror film that tells the parallel stories of families whose lives are disrupted by supernatural forces. The first story takes place in Spain, where a mother tries to protect her son from a faceless ghost. The second story takes place in Britain, dealing with a young girl who has terrifying dreams of a demon who is beginning to manifest itself to her and her family.
The "Trilogy of Terror" was an above average horror anthology that featured 3 stories all starring Karen Black. While the first two stories are somewhat forgettable, it's the third story, of an African tribal doll that comes to life and terrorizes Ms. Black that is really memorable. Although the effects are pretty laughable nowadays, this scared the heck out of me as a child. Plus, it's still pretty damn entertaining to watch every once in a while. Take a look:
If there's one thing I can say after watching the trailer for "Exit 33", it's that Kane Hodder does a great job at playing the creepy dude. Does that make this movie look good? Meh. While the plot seems to be typical slasher like stuff, the trailer does seem to offer is a ton of disturbing imagery and gore. This self described "bloody throwback slasher" was released on DVD and VOD just this week.
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WHITE PIGEON TOWNSHIP (WKZO) -- Icy roads caught many drivers off guard Wednesday orning and sent many of them sliding into ditches, other vehicles and more solid objects.
The worst of the crashes killed two men and injured a third in Southern St. Joseph County. Sheriff's deputies say that a van carrying 7 men from Indiana to a construction site in Three Rivers slid off Fawn River Road crashed, into a small grove of trees, and rolled over around 6:40AM.
Dead at the scene were 48-year-old Dan Graber and 50-year-old Chris Eicher. A third man was airlifted to Bronson Hospital in Kalamazoo.
His name and condition were not released.
The accident remains under investigation and the driver, 30-year-old Kirk Miller of Keystone Indiana could be facing charges, or at least a citation for driving too fast for conditions.


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Dubai Desert Dune Buggy Safari: There Is No Way To Prevent Some Exploration Though These Give Fulfillment In Our Life Dune bashing is also recognized as the desert safari which is the type of off – roading applying an off-road car to travel about the sand dunes. Though the deserts seem calm and motionless, the desert safari activities offered by the a single world travels breathe life in Dubai's golden sands. The lively square bikes, dune buggies, over night desert safaris or the 4*4 desert safari in Dubai are wonderful activities to attempt out and are sure to send quivers down our needle. Furthermore if any one wants to pay a visit to UAE then it want to be sure to expertise the adventurous activities of the deserts in Dubai. The only way to maximize the thrills and appreciate the desert safari totally through in Dubai excursions is with a single world. The authority of keeping the tour of desert safari offers the desert safari packages for the vacationers and locals visitors with extremely competitive and hugely economical as effectively. There are various forms of packages of desert safari that are provided by the tour keeping authority Evening desert safari, Morning desert safari, Overnight desert safari, Dune buggy safari, Quad bike safari. Amongst the all safaris, the evening desert safaris place in direct speak to with the mysterious beauty of the dusk. Actually the evening desert safari is much more delightful because of the sunset. Typically the evening drive all through the golden dunes with sunset as the surroundings tends to make this a should expertise desert safari activity in Dubai. The evening desert safari is carried the time around Dune Buggy 5 hours which starting time is 3.35 PM. Manly the depart for a thrilling desert safari drive over the sand dunes, deep into the heart of the desert. The morning desert safari tours are a delight of just about every adventure which is anything like that can make ours day charming. The morning desert safari begins at 9 am to 1am which offers the refreshment as mineral water. A roller coaster named as 4*4 dune drive is used as car. In the overnight desert safari package, the mystical beauty of the deserts can be celebrating as Arabic style with family and mates. The early morning luster of the desert sunrise is also Dune Buggy be enjoyed as the soft light offering a peaceful way of thinking. The dune buggy desert safari in Dubai is also referred to as the morning or evening dune buggy desert safari which is offered for obtaining the much more adventure. Actually it is the new version of off-road exploration.
Ronco's Six Star Cutlery Set – Yahoo Voices – voices.yahoo.com
Infomercials, as you and I each know, are developed to make you invest in factors you will almost certainly never use. As Calvin said, "Hey Mom, I saw a bunch of solutions on Tv that I did not know existed, but I desperately need to have!" Wisdom (or a undesirable expertise) tends to make us very skeptical of the solutions advertised by means of infomercial – but, occasionally, it's doable to hit on a superior present. Such, for me, was the Ronco Six Star 25-Piece Cutlery Set, sold for around $40.00 (plus S&H, but that's a offered). This set has been component of my household for a number of years, so extended that I had forgotten the name of the set. When seeking up the name, I came across some intriguing factors – but much more on that later. Let me warn you: If you have gone via life with a dull kitchen knife, then you have been building up undesirable habits you will speedily learn to regret when you get a superior sharp blade buried in your hand. Contact it a rule of intact thumbs: In no way hold an item with one hand and cut it with the other when the blade you happen to be utilizing is pointed at your tender, inviting flesh. This is especially true if the meals is soft, like fruit, bread, or cheese. With a dull knife, you have to shove the blade via the factor you happen to be cutting – with a sharp knife, the blade often glides on via with really small persuasion, and sinks itself in the nearest accessible surface. My family members members every had their personal initiation to the world of decent knives, slicing open palms, fingers, and the backs of our knuckles – and I advise you to sensible up just before you wind up adding a small unexpected protein to your meal. Second warning: I'm a small leery of bringing these into a house with young kids. When a knife in basic is risky for a youngster to grab, these knives can do harm much more speedily than the average kitchen knife and with far much less stress, and you may well come across yourself interrupting dinner preparations to rush a toddler to the emergency area. But judge for yourself regardless of whether your family members is capable of keeping these, effectively, out of the reach of kids. Now for the evaluation. First, it appears for all the world like Ronco.com no longer delivers the knife Chef Knife Set set. I hunted down yet another web site that did (KoolatronOnline.com), but as I was researching I located that looking for "Six Star" on Ronco's site opens up a big array of knives not in any obvious way accessible from the Chef Knife Set most important page (even under the Six Star Knives category, which has only about six entries). I utilised their feedback kind to tell them this, so it's doable that by the time you study this the problem will have vanished, but if not, just search for "Six Star" and scroll down the page until you come across the 25-piece set (not the 20-piece set, unless you do not want the scissors or the garnishing knife or… really, I'm not confident which other knives are missing from that set). The present has been upgraded given that the time I bought them now it's two for the price of one. The price of one set is nonetheless about $40.00, and if you ignore shipping then the price of every individual knife is much less than $2.00, so the per-piece investment is slight. The web site sells the knives individually, and I do not know what to make of that, given that the knives I looked at had been going for about as much as the complete set. If you truly wanted just a couple knives, you could invest in the entire set and peddle the extras to your neighbors, possibly for much more than you paid for them. The price for every individual knife at least lets Ronco claim that you'd typically invest $800 for the set, but I do not know what to make of that claim either, given that it's regular for infomercials to attempt to convince you that they're promoting their solutions at insanely low prices. But, whatever the case, your investment is $40.00 plus shipping, for which you get 23 knives (such as 8 steak knives), plus a carving fork and a pair of scissors – an fantastic invest in if you happen to be seeking to outfit your kitchen as cheaply as doable. Now, I do think it's worthwhile to pay a small much more than $2.00 to get a superior basic-objective knife. I recently study E_Harmon's article How to Pick out Sharp Knives for Your Kitchen, where she recommends a chef's knife for $90, a serrated knife for $40 and a paring knife for $25. This is a superior idea if you have $150 dollars to invest on three knives, especially given that you'd expect superior-quality knives to stick around for a decade or much more. But then, I fully expect my Ronco blades to stick around at least that extended, and I'd gladly invest in a replacement set if I ever required to do so. In stark contrast to some of the complaints I've just study, I have never seen the slightest hint of rust or corrosion on the blades, I've never had them get noticeably dull, and I have never felt the handles so much as loosen. Assuming the adverse evaluations are about the exact same solution, I'm baffled as to the supply of their complaint. Having said that, just after a bit of investigation I found a tip: In no way place your knives via the dishwasher. Now, we do not have a dishwasher, so it's never been an problem, and on top rated of that, I study some evaluations from folks who had no difficulty utilizing dishwashers on their Ronco blades. But apparently all that heat and powerful detergent is undesirable for even pricey knives, and can corrode their finish and do other nasty factors. It says suitable in the guidelines not to use a dishwasher, and I wonder what percentage of the complaints comes from folks who ignored that guidance. As for consumer service: I've never required any, so I have no complaints there. I suspect that the level of service across the phone, for either ordering or complaints, is often not connected to the quality of the organization, given that much of it gets outsourced, at times to folks who do not speak English natively (or with something like a native accent). From reading evaluations, and just taking into consideration the possibilities, I expect that the "lifetime replacement" guarantee is much more like "Send us three bucks and we'll send you a new knife call it shipping" I really do not mind this, seeing as (a) the knives are worth it and (b) the individual knives on the web site are much much more pricey (regardless of whether or not that's realistic pricing). At any rate, these knives have been in every day use in my household for effectively over three years now, and they're one of the most satisfying purchases I've ever produced. In spite of occasional misuse (letting them sit in water or in the sink for a couple of days), they've never rusted, dulled, broken, or something, and they're nonetheless the knives we turn to initial for most jobs. We never ordered the wooden block, but keep them loose in a drawer, which may perhaps have produced a distinction. Right here are the knives I use Chef Knife Set most often: Bread Knife: The rounded serrations are superior for bread, but they're great for slicing tomatoes and other soft fruit. This is almost certainly my preferred knife. Cheese Knife: Typically for cheese, often as a basic knife. Chef's Knife: Common use. Paring Knife: Slicing peaches and other fruit. Extremely valuable, and easier to manage on the tiny jobs. Fillet Knife: Slicing meat, either raw or cooked – superior for attempting to make a roast match the pan you happen to be cooking it in, or having a thin section to cook faster for a family members member who's leaving just before the meat would typically get accomplished. I like the idea behind a lot of the other knives, and I like getting them accessible even if we do not use them much. I want to use the garnish knife but I haven't but produced the time to get fancy with my fruits. (When I get a possibility, I'm gonna attempt to make some centerpieces ?? la Play with Your Meals by Joost Elffers.) So if you happen to be in need to have of a sharp, versatile set of knives but not able to shell out $90 for a quality chef's knife, attempt Ronco's Six Star Cutlery Set – just be cautious when you start out to use them, or you may well not be able to give them a literal thumb's up.
Unclog Drains with Baking Soda & Other Organic Strategies: Green Options Bathroom Sink for Declogging Sinks and Tubs
Got a clog to clear? Never reach for chemical drain openers – as an alternative, attempt out these all-natural solutions for unclogging residence drains.To retain your kitchen and bathroom drains clear in your residence recall to perform a tiny upkeep. Pouring boiling water or a cup of distilled white vinegar down your drains every single month will assistance to retain your drains clear and protect against clogs from forming. If you are like most persons, on the other hand, this chore can get very easily overlooked – resulting in a clog.If you have a slow-draining or clogged sink or tub in your residence you never have to have a bottle of expensive hazardous chemicals to clear it. The following all-natural solutions will operate to clear most drains of prevalent clogs. If your clog is so severe that these solutions do not operate, your best bet is to contact a plumber to eliminate it.Although it may perhaps not be the most appealing way to unclog a drain, manually removing the trouble is a confident way to fix it. This system is best applied when hair is the most likely culprit, such as for bathtub drains. Most hardware shops stock an low-cost tool called the Zip-It. A extended, thin plastic tool with backward-facing teeth, the Zip-It is inserted down the clogged drain. On the way out, hair and soap scum get snagged on the teeth and are removed from the drain. Repeating this process numerous instances commonly clears the clog.To protect against hair clogs in your tub recall to clean out any hair that has accumulated on the drain cover after every single bath or shower. Generally throw hair in the garbage as an alternative of rinsing it down a drain.The vinegar and baking soda system performs Bathroom Sink best on clogs that are due to food and grease develop-up. Pour 1 cup baking soda down your drain and Bathroom Sink comply with it with 1 cup of distilled white vinegar. Speedily pour a kettle-full of boiling water down the drain to flush. Repeat this process until the drain runs clear. For a especially troublesome clog, attempt warming up the vinegar ahead of pouring it down the drain. Let the baking soda and warm vinegar react for a handful of minutes, then comply with with boiling water.Organic enzymes can assistance clear clogged drains by breaking down organic matter in the clog. Products such as BioKleen Bac-Out and Earth Friendly Products' Earth Enzymes Drain Opener introduce enzymes to your drain where they operate to digest food and grease. Employing these items on a standard basis can assistance protect against clogs and retain your garbage disposal smelling fresh. Stick to the directions on the package for use.
A Nicely Built Barber Chair To Help Your Consumers Comfortably – Business and Finance Articles
A barber chair is vital in a salon small business since this is where you are going to manage your clients. There are some salons that make frequent chairs an alternative, effectively that is not a pretty fantastic sign when you have noticed a single. A salon is Barber Chair where persons go when they wanted to look fantastic and feel fantastic about themselves and applying frequent chairs handling Barber Chair them is a incorrect decision. Make certain that when you establish a single, use proper furniture and appliances. Why is it a genuinely major deal, you may well ask? Nicely, compared to chairs, it could assistance customers improved since it has cushions for the bottom and the back, it could also swivel making it much easier for barbers to manage every single session. Yet another factor is that it can recline enabling access to various components of the head uncomplicated, and it also has a foot rest. The structure and look of your barber chairs will have to also go with the taste and feel of your salon. It is vital that it complements with the colour and style that your salon is attempting to reach. When you miss this kind of detail, it will produce an impression that the small business has no eye for style and taste. It could result to the decline of clientele, and ahead of you know it fewer and fewer persons are going to you. Because a hairdresser's shop is an icon of beauty, make certain that you pick meticulously the items, appliances, and furniture that you are going to showcase. You will have to usually deliver the highest comfort feasible that you can give. When you are handling customers, it is throughout this time when they are pretty vulnerable so be certain to make them feel at residence. In order to reach this objective, you need to establish a particular relationship with your clients, it getting a effectively constructed salon chair can certainly support you attain that goal. Prospects that feel uneasy can't loosen up since they are minding their predicament it would also give way to irritation and silence. You will know that your salon chair is the very best is if it is stylish, proper, comfortable, and most of all durable. Having a gorgeous salon chair does not mean that you have to compromise its good quality. You will finish up spending too a great deal of your budget obtaining Barber Chair new ones since they hold on breaking. The complete point is that barber chairs define the sort of salon you have and the sort of small business man that you are. Often make it to a point that you think about how other persons would feel, and not what's fantastic for you, since if you do this you will be rewarded through clients who patronize your small business.
Picking an Air Compressor (from Free of charge to High-priced) for a Waste Oil Syphon Burner – Yahoo Voices – voices.yahoo.com
Working on a heater is harmful. Modify your heating technique at your personal risk. Do not try to function on a heater if you do not know what you are carrying out. You can be electrocuted or trigger a fire. Right after acquiring by way of 1 heating season employing a waste oil pressure conversion I wanted to upgrade to a syphon conversion to have far more manage over the combustion and hopefully significantly less upkeep. Since a syphon conversion is made up of three simple components, this write-up is 1 of a three aspect series that covers the syphon burner, continuous level tank and the air compressor. See the other components of this series of articles by clicking on my screen name or going to my weblog. In a nutshell a syphon burner functions like a fertilizer sprayer that attaches to a garden hose or an air powered paint sprayer that a body shop would use. They each function the identical way. The air or water are forced by way of the spray can where the fertilizer or paint is drawn up the feed tube and broken into small droplets as it exits the spray nozzle. Portable "torpedo" heaters use this principle. There is a Yahoo group referred to as Altfuelfurnace that has all of the particulars on converting a regular dwelling heating oil burner to run on waste oil. Craig from CK Burners make a conversion kit. He offers every thing from simple components to total kits. A syphon burner requires compressed air to atomize the waste oil into small particles to let them to burn cleanly. There are several methods to provide air to your syphon burner. If you have a huge shop compressor you just need to have to run a line to the air pressure regulator on the burner. A low cost way to provide the air is to use a small pancake compressor. Harbor Freight and other import suppliers have them. They are low cost, but they are noisy, which can be a issue if it is installed inside the property. The low cost imported compressor can have challenges with longevity also. A lot of guys use a Gast compressor. They sell on eBay for about $100. They make significantly less noise than shop compressors and have a excellent reputation. There are components available on-line to rebuild them when they put on out. I have a made use of Gast pump and I set it up to pressurize a small air tank but it would not cycle correctly. I made use of an cheap pressure switch for a shallow effectively. It does not have an internal pressure relief so the compressor could not get started against the pressure from the tank. It does run effectively without the tank and pressure switch. I have a 35 psi spring loaded pressure relief valve to limit the pressure. The downside is that the compressor will have to run consistently anytime the burner is operating. The upside is a simpler set up with significantly less components to fail. I located a crank case breather in the high functionality isle at my regional auto components store. It tends to make a good intake filter to guard the compressor. I mounted the run capacitor inside of a plastic electrical job box and mounted it to a length of wood with the pump. I am experimenting with one more, less costly solution. I get a excellent feeling from employing no cost "junk" or salvaged components to build my projects. I had a couple old refrigerator compressor motors about for the reason that I made use of them to draw a suction on my waste oil collection tank. I made use of 1 to pressurize my burner but it was only capable to make four-5 psi and the burner would not fire. I need to have 10-12 psi to get a clean burn in my heater, so I just added Air Compressor a second compressor. I can now provide 10-11 psi to my burner. I mounted each motors on a piece of wood. One motor had the factory rubber mounts. I made use of some scrap rubber hose to make a vibration resistant mount for the other motor. I have test run these compressors for a couple hours and they worked effectively, but I never know how lengthy they will final. I strategy to add a handful of drops of light oil to the intake of the compressors to make up for some of the lubrication that the freon provides. Since I am not functioning the compressors also tough by building high pressure or vacuum, I feel they must hold up pretty effectively. If not, they are low cost enough to replace. Beside the expense (Absolutely free!) these motor run silently compared to any other compressor. The only noise is the excess air escaping from the vent. I have located that beside operating really quietly these pumps also run significantly cooler than the Gast pump or Air Compressor a shop compressor. I strategy to build a duplicate double compressor set Air Compressor up and have it ready to go into operation if my 1st 1 fails. The compressors will have a suction and pressure line. They almost certainly will not be labeled, but it is effortless to figure out which is which. Just plug it in and put your finger over the tubes to feel if it is sucking in air or pushing out air. I slipped a rubber air line over the copper tube and secured it with a hose clamp. I made use of a NPT tee with hose barbs to connect the two provide lines with each other. You must add a small air filter to the suction line. A foam sponge filter like a lawn mower utilizes must do the trick and it is washable. I have believed about such as a automatic oiler for an air tool to the suction port, but I have not done it yet. I never ever oiled the motor I made use of for my wvo suction tanks. It took 2 years of regular use before I burned out my 1st pump and that pump had a tough life. I made use of it to draw about 28″ of vacuum on a 80 gallon tank. It didn't quit operating, it just began to draw significantly less and significantly less vacuum in the tank. Window air conditioners, freezers and refrigerators all have similar compressors. An old huge window a/c unit could be capable to provide your burner with enough air on it is personal. These compressor motors require a capacitor. It is most effective to get rid of your motor from the donor appliance with as significantly of the wiring intact as feasible that way you never have to figure out how to put it back with each other. They could possibly run without the capacitor but they almost certainly will not final as lengthy. My motors had a constructed in low pressure switch. The switch prevents the motor from operating if the refrigerator losses it is freon charge. I bypassed the switch by moving my "hot" wire from the switch and placing it straight to the compressor (see photo). These motors never give a lot of volume but they can build a lot of pressure, so be sure to use a relief valve along with a pressure switch or other safety device. If you are going to salvage a motor from an appliance do not vent the freon into the air. It is a violation of the clean air act. If the charge has already been lost than you can reduce out the compressor and the wiring. If not the charge will have to be recovered and recycled. I made use of a water trap and a relief valve along with the air pressure regulator from CK's kit. I mounted a spring loaded relief valve on the bottom of a vertical section of black iron pipe. I hope that most of the moisture in the air will gather inside the pipe and run down to the valve where it will be automatically vented out (see photo). The rest of the moisture must be eliminated by the water trap where it can be bleed out by way of the drain fitting. Please view all of the images with this write-up.
Epson Stylus NX625 Color InkJet All-in-One particular reduce to $59.99 on Friday – National online deals | Examiner.com
Epson Stylus NX625 Colour InkJet All-in-One particular cut to $59.99 on FridayThe testimonials of this Epson Stylus NX625 Colour InkJet All-in-One particular are very favorable today, Friday, April eight, 2011, the day Amazon.com has created the printer its Deal of the Day. Usually with a list price of $129.99 and an "each day" price of $98.37, the Epson Stylus printer, scanner and copier has been slashed extra than half-off, down to $59.99 for the day. It appears to be a good bargain — specially contemplating even the most useful crucial assessment of the printer all in 1 printer still offers it a whopping 3 stars.The Epson Stylus NX625 gives wireless printing, claims to be pretty speedy, and also enables customers to bring photographs without the need of borders. Epson also has a new mobile telephone printing choice that lets customers print not only photographs, but PDFs and Word documents and extra. This all in 1 printer reporter was shocked at how inexpensive some of the superior all-in-1 printers are these days, like the HP Deskjet 3050 All-in-One particular Printer (CH376A#B1H) (or some equivalent HP printer) that I picked up for my father in the WalMart in Evergreen Park, Illinois for only $49 or so.He had an old printer and separate copier and wanted to send me on a mission to discover ink for them. I came back with the all-in-1 printer from HP and he actually likes it — and I've yet to show him the scanning feature. That printer was pretty light and came with a cool tote that I use as my health club toiletry bag. Not confident if the Epson Stylus NX625 Colour InkJet All-in-One particular (C11CA70271) comes with a cool bag, all in 1 printer but read up on the information and grab 1 if you are in have to have of a new wireless printer and copier and scanner.
Queen Size Bed – Most Common Bed Size of All
Elderly individuals most often advantage from these together with these recovering from anesthesia quickly right after surgeries. Employees locate that individuals especially these of any larger size can support some by their transfers if they have getting some bed guard in location for a hold to so mainly because employees is not undertaking each of the lifting. A lot of of these encountering the disease identified as Alzheimer's often try to crawl out from bed and if these guards are generally place they usually preserve from this. Toddlers As a child evolves they graduate from the employment of the common crib to somewhat of a toddler bed. Most of the are low to the bottom in height to avoid really serious injury toddler bed if and when they fall from their cargo box. A lot of parents opt for a design featuring a bed guard attached but most usually these must be purchased and installed by person. Some of they are permanent attachments and others could be folded down and hidden away you ought to absolutely in use. two. Detecting the Sleep Bugs – Truth two The your bed bugs are nocturnal. They are actually active only when asleep. Bed bugs carry this musty scent at their side, and the smell is toddler bed usually offensive. The space with the maximum quantity of bed bug infestation will carry this scent. Bed bugs try to preserve near their prey on everyday basis. So, the very best spot for their locate them is though the humans keep, like the bedroom, or the living space. From time to time, even the dining space turns out to their place of hiding. 3. Detecting the Bed Bothers – Truth 3 When it is confirmed that they are hiding in a person place, you want to check on the mattresses, the air mattresses, and crevices in couches. These are the usual hiding spots with the bed bugs. The presence of the bed bugs is getting a reddish brown stain in the place where they keep. If the female bug lays eggs, we will see white nymphs situated absolutely, there. You will be permitted to see the excrement, and also the shed skins in case bed bugs are present. In case you learn if they are discovered, try waking up through the dead of the occasion, and keep nonetheless, maybe you may well feel them crawling over yourself to your shoulders or any sort of exposed component. If you move toddler bed a little, it will also to come back out, and if any person once again keep nonetheless, it would advance to the uncovered component. In case you move once again, it receives freaked and it will back off to its hideout. . What bed sizes seem in the UK? When getting a bed the incredibly initially figuring out issue is dimension. Standard bed sizes in britain are singles, which will be three foot wide by six foot three long long, doubles which happen to be 4 foot six ins wide by six foot or so three inches long, king-size that is five foot wide by six foot six in . long or super king-size which is absolutely six foot wide as a result of six foot six in . long. How long must you put up with that itching? There is very no straight answer. In some situations the itching will give up and welts disappear in much less than a handful of days, though the much less fortunate can suffer for about two weeks! .
"Rough It" in Style with Glacier National Park Camping
If you want to get away from cell phones and higher-speed world wide web on each corner and nonetheless have a memorable getaway, then a visit to this region of western Montana just may be the ticket.All of the Glacier National Park camping region, with its entrances in West Glacier and St. Mary, is only open about one hundred days annually in between May and September, according to Tia Troy, public relations manager for Glacier Nation, Montana. A lot of in-park tent trailer attractions and corporations surrounding the region are closed in the course of other months of the year.So if you hope to essentially go inside most of the park in the course of your camping getaway, tent trailer time your trip accordingly. Also, program your camping getaway in advance when probable, specially in the course of the summer months, to keep away from potentially unpleasant surprises such as no accessible tent-pitching spots. A lot of true green campers are most likely just fine without showers and excessive modern day conveniences such as cell phone service. But if you happen to be seeking for cell phone service, then you most likely don't want to campout inside Glacier National Park, according to Alicia Thompson, manager of sales, marketing and advertising and public relations for Glacier Park, Inc. As of 2010, no cell phone service or world wide web connections had been accessible inside the park. Also, showers for campers are normally only accessible off-website, according to the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park brochure. Camping close to or in Glacier National Park can bring you and your traveling companions close to snow-capped mountains and, at instances, swimming grizzly bears.Most campers going to the park remain either inside the grounds or at web-sites close to the West Glacier entrance, according to Troy. Off-website options consist of Glacier Campground and Sun-Suz-Ed RV & Tenters Park. Glacier Campground is located 1 mile southwest of the West Glacier park entrance the campsites are located amidst 40 acres. Accessible amenities consist of showers, laundry facilities, a basic store and a playground. Sun-Suz-Ed RV & Tenters Park, open year-round, is located about two miles from the West Glacier park entrance, according to the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park brochure. Breakfast, showers and laundry machines are accessible to campers.If you determine to campout inside the park, keep in thoughts that advance reservations are not accepted, according to Thompson. For the duration of July and August, hopeful campers have to cease by Glacier National Park offices in the morning to have the most effective likelihood of nabbing 1 of the coveted campsites. Eco-friendly travelers typically really like to see wildlife in their organic habitats, and Glacier National Park camping normally presents plenty of possibilities to see a range of animals. Regardless of whether you camp in or close to the park, you may see elk, mule deer, whitetail, mountain goats, mountain lions or coyotes, tent trailer according to the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park brochure. You may also encounter grizzly or brown bears, which can at instances pose danger to you or your traveling companions. If you see a bear, do not panic. Also, in no way feed any of the wildlife in or about Glacier National Park. As a faithful green traveler, you most likely already know not to litter and to clean up after your campsite. But this eco-friendly assistance is generally worth mentioning, specially if you happen to be bringing "green newbies" or youngsters along with you.
Tanning beds increase melanoma: FDA – New York Family members & Parenting | Examiner.com
According to the American Academy of Dermatology, there is a 75 % increase in the threat of melanoma, the deadliest sort of skin cancer, in those who have been exposed to ultraviolet radiation from indoor tanning, and the threat increases with every single use. The proposed order does not prohibit the use of sunlamp goods by those under the age of 18, but it delivers a warning on the consequences.The FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) issued a proposed order that, if finalized, would reclassify sunlamp goods and call for labeling to involve a recommendation made to warn young people not to use these devices.The order would reclassify sunlamp goods from a low threat device (class I) to a moderate threat device (class II).'Using indoor tanning beds can harm your skin and increase your threat of establishing skin cancer,' mentioned FDA Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D. 'The FDA's proposed alterations will assist address some of the dangers associated with sunlamp goods and give buyers with clear and consistent info.'If the order is finalized, companies would have to submit a pre-marketplace notification tanning bed (510(k)) to the FDA for these devices, which are currently exempt from any pre-marketplace critique. Companies would have to show that their goods have met certain tanning bed overall performance testing needs, address certain solution design and style qualities and give comprehensive labeling that presents buyers with clear info on the dangers of use. The order proposes to involve a contraindication against use on people under 18 years old, and the labeling would have to involve a warning that frequent customers of sunlamp goods need to be often screened for skin cancer.The FDA will take comments on the proposed order for 90 days.The FDA, an agency within the U.S. Division of Health and Human Services, protects the public health by assuring the safety, effectiveness, and safety of human and veterinary drugs, vaccines and other biological goods for human use, and medical devices. The agency also is responsible for the safety and safety of our nation's food supply, cosmetics, dietary supplements, goods that give off electronic radiation, tanning bed and for regulating tobacco goods.
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Campaign Tactics of the Arkansas Gubernatorial Elections as Revealed by the 1948, 1950 and 1952 Campaigns
Date: February 1953
Creator: Crane, Billy G.
Description: This thesis is a study of the campaign tactics of the Arkansas gubernatorial elections as revealed by the 1948, 1950 and 1952 campaigns.
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An Inquiry into the Factors Affecting the Outcome of the 1948 Presidential Election with the Situations in the States of Illinois, Ohio, and California Subject to Special Emphasis
Date: August 1950
Creator: Raupe, Buell C.
Description: This thesis examines the factors affecting the outcome of the 1948 presidential election. The factors which will be take up are not a complete list of all those influences on the election but will be those which appeared most frequently in writings on the subject and those which, in the writer's opinion, exerted the strongest influence. By combining specific studies of the tree large pivotal states, with the investigation of general factors affecting the election, it is believed that certain rather definite conclusions can be drawn concerning what happened in the country as a whole.
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The Role of Local Law Enforcement Agencies in Dealing with Juvenile Delinquency
Date: June 1956
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Governmental Policies and the Parochial Schools
Date: June 1953
Creator: Roe, Joe D.
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Date: August 1954
Creator: Kinnaird, Donald Lewis
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A Case Study of the Disintegration of the Judicial Concept of "State Action" under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments
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Racial Residential Restrictions and the Fourteenth Amendment
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Xbox One. My thoughts
Okay guys, I'm not a lawyer, but I'm an IT Specialist with the US Army and I'm going to touch on some of the finer points of our laws surrounding privacy, and specifically, how easily we can lose those rights.
Xbox One has announced that their Kinect system for the new console will always be on. Always be watching, and always be listening. This means a few things. Convenience, sure. "Xbox - On." but is that worth not picking up your controller and hitting the center button? We're all about to pick up that controller anyways. They've used examples like licensing fees. If four people are watching a movie, and a fifth person joins (picked up by facial software, so watch big paintings, or T-shirts with faces on them) then the movie stops, and you get charged a fee to continue the movie. Home viewing is defined as four persons or fewer, and so they've found a way to enforce this standard. This sounds crazy, right? Let me say, this is a pebble in the pond compared to what some of the bigger issues at stake are.
They've mentioned the possibility of using Kinect to help law enforcement. This means if they're looking for a person. A fugitive, they can tap into the kinect camera of that person's friends and family members, listen in on their conversations, and track that person down. But they can't do that. We all have a right to privacy, according to the Privacy Act of 1974, which is one of the heaviest hitters defending our rights on the internet, and specifically in the workplace and home. This is what defends us when we're brought up on trial and they use internet resources to gain access to personal and private information without a warrant.
The Privacy Act of 1974 states that we have a right to privacy at home and work. Let me touch on that for a moment. These are not separate, because work and home are often hard to define. Sometimes we work at home and sometimes we live at work, so it's one big category. Now, in the case (and many many subsequent and prior cases) United States v. Slanina, A precedent formed. That protection under the privacy act would only be afforded if a Reasonable Expectation of Privacy could be assumed. It's defined as "The person in question having an honest subjective expectation of privacy, and that this expectation would be one supported by his peers in a court of law" So the jury decides if one was right in their expectation.
All of this boils down to: In workplace or home, any information can be deemed property of the information manager as long as a release is signed. By agreeing to a release, you forfeit any reasonable expectation of privacy, and agree to the network or server manager to become owner of the information.
So, all Microsoft has to do is have a little "I agree to these terms" which you'll never read and you forfeit all of your rights to privacy to a camera that is literally always watching and a microphone that is literally always listening. Smoke some weed? They could call the police on you, you agreed to be monitored. Have a friend commit a crime? They might be watching a live feed 24/7 of your living room to see if he strolls in at some point. In fact, unplugging your Xbox the same day he becomes a fugitive MIGHT EVEN BE ENOUGH FOR A WARRANT
Now I guarantee you will not have access to these terms before purchasing this product, so please, heed my words. Wait. Keep an eye out online. Someone will post it. Hell, I might go and buy one just to post the terms. And please, if you plan to use this product. Know what you're signing yourself up for.
They might realize no one will buy a product that gives up their privacy, and they might change it. These things may never show up in the terms and conditions at all. But you have the right to know, no only before you plug in the Xbox, but before you even buy the thing.
Let microsoft know how you feel. Send them an email, write them a letter. Don't use caps, and don't curse, but be blunt. Let them know you will never give up your privacy for a cheap thrill, and don't think just not buying the product is enough for your voice to be heard.


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Forza 3 Painting Guide
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This rather simple Master Chief has over 300 layers.
Practical advice on creating your motorsport masterpiece...
Published on Jun 13, 2011
Racing and painting are a disparate pair of disciplines and rather like it's counterpart, painting is all about practice. Here, though, we offer you a significant legup with a whole bunch of sound advice.
Odds are you've already got a gazillion livery ideas in your head; stop right there and go check out the editor. Look at the vinyl shapes you have access to and imagine creating something with them. If this is your first Forza car design we'd recommend opting for one of your simpler ideas. Something that's going to be challenging, but not to the point of frustration. You should also start to think about which car the design is going to end up on, go and have a look at the car now… will the design work with the body shape? It's essential to have a rough idea of the end product in your head before you begin. We decided on a tribute to the Master Chief. It's worth making a sketch of your design before you begin. If only for reference purposes it'll make the whole process much easier. If you're feeling particularly creative you can even try knocking up a rough version in some visual software. It doesn't really matter if you do this in something high-end like Illustrator or something as basic as MS Paint; either way it'll give you a good idea of the complexity of the image and it'll force you to start thinking about the kind of shapes needed to make up the image.
First off, you'll be needing a car. However, we suggest leaving your vehicle of choice to the side for now. Instead pick your 'canvas car', something you can use to create your key art. The best canvas cars are those with large flat hardtop roofs, like the Civic you can see here. Because of the camera angles, lack of body panel joins and other obstructions like air vents or door handles, the roof is the easiest part of the car to work on. Once you've got your car, paint it white (or black if your design is going to be light), it'll make lining up shapes a lot easier. We also found that a grid came in handy to help with positioning. Don't worry about getting the exact size yet, overall proportion is more important. As a rule of thumb it's also better to make your design as big as possible now and then shrink it later on.
Start off by laying down the basic shape for your design. At this point don't worry about the details, just concentrate on making the basic shape perfect using square blocks, triangles and circles to start to form an outline. All of the controls are shown at the bottom of the screen, but don't forget that you can use the D-pad as well as the analogue stick to position, rotate and resize shapes. This is often a lot easier than using the stick and allows precise measurements; you can also check the X and Y values of each shape by glancing at the bottom of the screen. We're making our base shape here solid black so that we can keep a thin black outline for the final version… this will not only help the design to stand out when it's on the car, but it will also allow us to use the design on any colour bodywork we choose.
With your basic shape in place it's time to start adding some colours and details. Concentrate on one area at a time and, whatever you do, be patient. Sort the easier areas first, take your time, stay aware of the overall composition, line up the shapes, be careful about what colours you choose and take a break if your eyes are starting to fade, making sure you remember to SAVE after every few shapes. It's this middle section of any design that really hurts… it can take hours to get even the smallest section right and even then all you're looking at is a wall of shapes. Sadly there are no short cuts to be taken, but you can speed up the process a little by using your recent colours palette and using the 'stamp' button instead of insert when you know you've got a row of similar shapes coming up.
We're guessing that, whatever your design, the more complex areas all involve curvaceous shapes right? It doesn't matter how many vinyl options the developer puts in, these are always going to require a little TLC to work. With each design you'd normally be looking to save layers (just in case that 1,000-per-limit is reached), but when it comes to curves don't be afraid to throw more shapes than seem necessary. The hardest part of this entire design was getting the right shape for the area under the Chief's arm. We had to use three layers on the one curve just to get right look. If you're having problems we can suggest playing around with different vinyl shapes (the brackets on the fonts actually work really well) and experiment with the 'skew' option. This has been a lifesaver on numerous occasions.
Always remember that everything you create is on its own layer and that the higher numbered layers always sit on top of the lower numbers covering them up. There are transparency options for each layer, with which you can create some awesome effects, but if you ignore that for now you can use layers to save lots of time. For example, if we need to add some lighter areas to Master Chief, since we know these were going to sit underneath the black armour detail we didn't need to spend ages lining them up. Once we were happy with the position we grouped the lighter layers together (by clicking in the left stick), cut them to the clipboard and then pasted them before the black outline on the layer list. It's a cheap trick, but it cuts down on the hassle.
When you're nearing the end of your design take the time to go back through all of the shapes you've put down and make sure you're happy with the way everything looks, you don't want to get to the end and regret not changing something earlier. Change colours if necessary (as we did here with the armour joints), reposition layers, maybe delete a few of the unnecessary shapes and tighten everything up. It's a better idea to do this now, when you have only got one design on the roof of a car, rather than trying to dig through hundreds upon hundreds of layers later on just to find one shape that's slightly off. As it is this rather simple Master Chief has over 300 layers and has already used up a nice chunk of our time! If you are struggling to pick out one shape on your image, try changing its colour to something that stands out while you re-position, then just swap the colour back when you are done.
Our Chief is finally complete, all that remains is to save it onto a vinyl group so we can abuse it wherever we see fit. With any layer selected press the Start button and scroll down the options until you see 'Highlight All Layers'. With that done either click on the group or hit the Start button again and look for the option 'Save Vinyl Group'. This allows you to lift your design off the car, give it a name, and save it to the hard drive. Now we're finished, sort of. For this design we're also going to go back into the layers and, group together the same colours and re-colour that group. In the space of a few seconds we've managed to create a second colour Chief that we're going to save down as a second vinyl group. We actually need three Chiefs for our final design, but we'll sort that out later on…
Hours worth of effort and we still haven't even got a car to show for all our work… well, it's now time to change all that. By now you've hopefully got a good idea of which car you want to garnish. There's so many to choose from, so you want to pick one that will compliment your design. A great design can be ruined by a poor choice in car. Since we picked the Master Chief for our design we figured our car had to be American, something with a bit of muscle, but with a modern touch. It was a close call between the Dodge Charger and the Ford Mustang GT, but the Mustang took it in the end thanks to the awesome Saleen body kit. If you are planning on adding external aftermarket parts like this make sure you buy them and install BEFORE you begin work on the car. The last thing you want is for your hard graft to be ruined by a bumper that's a slightly different shape. As we mentioned before it's also wise to ditch the stock colour (in this case metallic red) and give the entire car a lick of temporary white/black paint to help line up the layers.
We wanted our Halo design to start off as a stripe running from the front of the car to the roof. Features like this are incredibly easy to slap on thanks to a decent range of vinyl built into the game. Have a scroll through and you'll find multiple tabbed sections running from basic shapes to intricate patterns. However, a word of warning, every other person on the planet has access to these. So, if you are planning on using them, try and make them a little different. If it's lightning add another branch to the bolt or maybe try extending the lick of some flames. In this case we widened the two outer stripes with some additional layers and continued the star pattern. Tweaks like this are simple enough to carry out, but there's a lot more satisfaction in knowing you've made the shape 'yours'.
Gradients can be your best friend… and your worst enemy. They're nice and easy to use and can produce striking effects, but can also look incredibly tacky, especially if they're simply slapped across the full width of a car. It might be tempting to make that lime green/bright pink split, but in the end you'll just look like a noob on the track. Gradients should be used for subtle effects, like the stripe here. If you're planning on producing photo-quality vinyl (like the Pennywise car at the top corner of this page) you'll need to become a master of the gradients and transparency levels. The main problem to watch out for (in regards to both gradients and transparency levels) is overlapping layers, it can take a long time to get everything lined up and looking good but it will definitely be worth it in the end.
When you're ready to apply your own custom vinyl, highlight a blank layer and either hit the Start button or press A. You'll see an option for importing a vinyl group which brings up a list of every piece of art you've saved. When you do import a vinyl group it'll initially appear with the layers locked so you can re-position and resize (as you can with any layers you've grouped together), but be careful. Because, once imported, this behaves in the same way as other layers. When you need to select another group of layers you'll lose the lock. Make sure the group is separate from the rest of the layers on the list if you can, it can make your life a lot easier later on when you're making final tweaks.
Now that we're finally happy with the roof composition we're going to continue our arrows around to the sides. If your design covers multiple sides this is where things can start to get a little tricky. Lining up shapes can be awkward depending on the car, and you'll also find that with some cars you'll be able to mark sides even when they're not selected. The main areas to watch out for are the bumpers; these can often be affected by layers on the roof. Remember, if elements of your design are symmetrical you only need to work on one side to begin with, as you can switch over and mirror all of the layers simply using the menus. Once the blue Chief was in place we mirrored this side and re-coloured the final Chief green.
As you near the end of your design it's a good idea to start thinking about body paint. Hopefully you'll have a colour in mind already, but, as we found out with this car, you need to be prepared to accept that the colour might not look as impressive as you'd hoped. We originally planned for a sky blue finish, but it didn't gel with the rest of the design. In the end we opted for a bright orange to complement the cartoon-look and lightened the arrow colours to fit. Remember that when you've got the colour wheel up you can also tap the triggers to see metallic and manufacturer stock options. Also, if you've used vinyl with cut-out shapes, make sure the car paint hasn't created new problems… like the stars you can see here.
The game's range of fonts are perfect for adding bumper stickers, website addresses, number plates and so on. When you're placing letters keep a close eye on the X and Y values at the bottom of the screen, all it takes is for one letter to be slightly bigger or the spacing to be off and you're left with an amateur livery. Of course if you're not happy with what's on offer within the vinyl menus you can create your own letters, but we found that we've only needed to do this when it came to recreating logos. If you are planning on making a logo treat it the same as any piece of art, build a big version of it on your canvas car and shrink it down for use as a vinyl group.
All that's left to do now is add a few small extras to finish off the design. One of the most important things you can learn with the livery editor is when to stop. There's no shame in having sections of the car un-painted, if it works for your design. We've seen lots of good ideas that have been ruined by over-the-top clutter. To finish off our Halo Mustang we extended the star pattern to surround each Chief, painted the rims to match the body, darkened the window tint and added a few manufacturer logos. If you are going to go down the manufacturer logo route make sure you stay true to your car and only add the logos specific to your engine upgrades. There's nothing worse than seeing these logos slapped on for the sake of it. Sorted? Good, it's time introduce your baby to the world…
As much as you may try and kid yourself, there's no way you've just spent over eight hours painstakingly positioning layers on one car just for your own enjoyment. It's time to show off and (hopefully) earn some money/respect along the way. Apart from racing online the best way to get noticed is to post your work onto the forzamotorsport.net forum.