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196 reviews | 3.5 out of 5
I bought two different brands - Magnavox & RCA . I read conflicting reviews and wanted to see for myself which I preferred. Despite having to return a defective RCA, it turned out to be my preference. The RCA remote is designed so you can control your TV set as well, a function completely missing on the Magnavox. The RCA is smaller and lighter weight (a factor that mislead me to initially think the Magnavox must be "better"). The RCA is designed to lay flat or stand on end, and it has a very usable guide for signal strength that can help you position your antenna for maximum reception. I am also inclined to believe the RCA has a stronger tuner because in my area (Los Angeles) Channel 11 is weak. The Magnavox shows "no signal" at all, but the RCA does bring it in even though it is weak and breaks up.
Ok, here's the scoop.. When I bought this and brought it home I just hooked it straight up to my standard rabit ears and got 8 channels at about 30% but it was so clear it was like having cable and no snow. These were the same 8 channels I originally got, which after typing "full-power broadcast television stations" into a search engine I found a list of stations currently broadcasting in DTV and it said there were only 8 in my area, so I didn't feel bad, but I wanted more. I had a large herring bone antenna on the outside of my house, so I hooked into it and really saw no difference, I then read online about a small hdtv antenna that made the world of difference, it is sold at Walmart it is the (Philips MANT940 Indoor/Outdoor HDTV Antenna) and Walmart sells it cheaper than the compettitors. I brought it home and hooked it up in combination and It increased my signal to 80% and I now get 11 dtv channels dispite the fact that there are only 8 in my area. This box brings in the best clarity yet, and I am excited to see more. Do a scan for new channels regularly as there are more stations switching over between now and February.
Got the coupon bought the Magnavox.Only one Walmart had.Really easy setup.Before I hooked up the box,got 10 stations,7 were clear.After the box was hooked up,got 4 stations.They were as clear as HD satellite tv.But could not pick up anything else.Made phone calls.Was told too get a better antenna,signal was not strong enough.Purchased a $70 better and stronger antenna.Picked up one more station,total of 5.Took box off,hooked up $70 antenna I purchased,now all 10 stations are clear,and picked up 3 more,which are not very clear.I guess I will have great reception on 10 to 13 stations until Feb 2009.After that,maybe 4 to 5 stations.Guess will have too add another reciever on the dish too get tv in my garage.At least I don't have much money in the box.I don't think there was enough research and planning that went into this dtv converter box deal.Or maybe the box are not setup right too recieve these signals.As they say,something new always takes time too perfect.I just hope it doesn't take 20 years.
We got our $40 coupons in the mail and headed straight to walmart. Online walmart said the magnavox was available in stores but the rca model was not (and it isn't availalbe online either). We really wanted the rca model, but decided the other would be ok. To our suprise, our Walmart ONLY had the RCA model. We were anxious to get it home. We hooked it up and nothing. I tried my best to find troubleshooting info online. No luck. Then I read someone's review that told me what to do. I had the "no signal" box on my screen. I then pressed the menu button and continued the set up.
WOW!! Every channel is perfectly clear!! We used to get in only about six channels. Now we have about 19 of them.
Definitely worth the money if you use your government coupon! Big improvement in picture and sound quality with a digital signal! My favorite feature is being able to see the name of the program, how long it lasts, rating, program description, current time, and station name...it's like having those features of digital cable...but for free! We even picked up 3 additional digital channels that we didn't have before! I only have a couple of suggested improvements- there is a slight delay (black screen) when changing channels, and it takes a second or so for the program description/information to display....until then it says "No Title". Remote control is simple and easy to use.....but wish it had VCR controls. Signal strength seems fine, and I live 50 miles from most transmitters. Easy to set up. One thing to be aware of....if you have a VCR, this unit can send a digital signal to both your TV and VCR (if connected correctly), but since it's a single tuner, you can't record a show and watch a different one at the same time....because you have only 1 digital tuner. To get around that, I used a splitter ("Y") coming out of the wall's antenna cable. One cable goes to the converter box (to view digital TV) and one cable goes to the VCR. Set up this way, the VCR uses its tuner and still only gets an analog signal...but at least we can watch TV (digital) while recording another show on the VCR (analog). I guess I'll just wait until Feb. '09 to replace my VCR with a digital recorder with a built-in digital tuner. This is a simple converter box, but for $10 after the coupon, I can't expect a ton of features. I would definitely purchase this converter box again.
I would like to thank the reviewer who suggested that I bypass the instructions and press the menu button. The instructions are very misleading and there is not any information for troubleshooting on the RCA website. Overall I think the converter box works great; the picture comes in clear, no more fuzzy pictures. Not bad for $10.
I purchased this box about 60 days ago after receiving my coupon so it only cost me around $11. That was the only good thing about the whole experience. First of all, they have been talking about this DTV switch for over a year now and how all you need to do is buy this box and you will be able to watch all of the channels on "regular" tv. Nobody bothered to mention that you will also have to purchase an antenna for your t.v. I was able to tune into channels without an antenna before I bought this box. I had to go out and buy an antenna, then half of the time I still only get certain channels and I end up messing with the antenna signal strength option to try to tune into a station more than I actually watch t.v. Then a couple of days ago I turned my t.v. on and the screen was frozen. I looked at the box and it was completely dead. No power at all. I have no idea what happened but at this point I am now going to have to buy another box because by law we all have to switch so needless to say I will not be buying the RCA model.
Got my government coupons and purchased 2 of these in early April. I have a big digital TV in my main room and the converters were for 13" portable tv's in other rooms. The converters were easy to set up and work fine on both tv's, the universal remotes could be programmed to work one of the portable tv's but not the other. I have an amplified roof antenna so I get good signals on all our digital channels, but 2 of the channels that I get on the digital tv don't tune in through the converter box - the fault of the tv stations because their digital signals aren't formatted correctly so the converter can't convert them back to analog. The stations that do come in, picture quality is nearly equal to that of the digital tv. The channel guide (banner at the top of the screen) when you tune to a channel displays a signal strength meter at the lower left with the program name, time, rating (if available) and what's on next after that show, a previous review here said it doesn't display program descriptions but it does - press the info button once to bring up the channel banner, press it a 2nd time and another box appears below the banner with the program description if it's available (this was not included in the owner's manual). Some stations don't include the descriptions, or if the signal is too weak to produce a picture the box will say 'no description'.
Converter boxes can become erractic when the signals get weak or momentarily disappear, a common occurrence with digital signals that is the fault of the tv station sending a weak or inconsistent signal and not the converter box. 99% of digital stations broadcast their signals at UHF frequencies, since a digital signal has to be stronger to produce it's great picture it's a weaker signal than analog signals are - particularly the VHF frequencies (channels 2 to 13) which people may have problems receiving in digital that they never had with analog. The FCC acknowledges that after the digital switchover tv's will likely not receive all the channels they got before in analog, if that happens to you don't curse the digital equipment - it's a limitation of the digital technology, or your local stations broadcasting weak or inconsistent digital signals. A good antenna is more necessary to get the most digital channels in your area than it was to get analog channels, roof antennas do the best job.
This converter box doesn't have a signal pass-through, my portable tv's fortunately have audio video (AV) jacks and I connected the converter boxes that way so I can watch the digital channels on the tv's video channel and still watch the analog channels on their regular channels with no interference from the converter box. It's necessary to connect the converter boxes this way because when the digital switchover occurs next February there will still be analog channels on the air. Only the full-power stations go all digital, the network affiliated and larger independent stations that are mostly on the VHF band (channels 2 to 13) and some on the UHF band (channels 14 to 69). The low power stations, all on the UHF band, will continue to broadcast in analog as their conversion date to digital hasn't been set yet. Approximately 40% of the stations in most TV markets are full-power and 60% are low-power, so most of your stations will remain analog - stations you probably don't watch very much or have trouble receiving, or don't even know you have in your area. Scan your analog tv dial to see how many there are, most of these channels aren't listed in your local tv listings.
If your analog tv doesn't have AV jacks you'll need to get an inexpensive RF/video converter, plug the AV output cables from the digital converter box into the RF converter and it connects to your tv's coaxial input and you can watch the digital channels from the converter box on channel 3 or 4. To connect the converter to your tv's AV jacks you'll need a signal splitter with 2 outputs and another small coaxial cable. Connect the antenna input to the splitter input connecter, 1 output goes to the converter box's antenna input and the other output to the tv's coaxial jack. AV cables go from the converter box's audio and video out jacks to the tv's audio and video in jacks, and you're all set.
I bought the RCA converter after reading the reviews on all the converters. After getting my government discount card I checked for the best prices for this product. Walmart was the best.
The setup was quite simple and worked right off. I received many more channels than before and no longer get a ghost image. About the only thing I find bad is when I switch from full screen to wide screen I have to fool around a bit to get it to switch--a minor problem. The picture quality is excellent. I especially like the "info" button where I can see what is on next.
I would recommend this to all my friends and family, and everyone who asked me about the "Switch To Digital"! I bought the product a few days ago and it meets beyond my expectations. It has a Program Guide it works with muticast. In fact until I bought the converter box I didn't know what i was missing out on...I had 5 other channels I didn't know about because they were broadcast in DT. So when I connected to the set to the television, I was surprised to say the least. This product has my great approval. If you are planning to switch...don't be caught in the dark. The switch is official on February 17, 2009, but with the technology now available why wait? I couldn't wait and im glad that I purchased such a wonderful product.
We have two of these boxes and they will be going back. We got them because even though we have an HDTV, we have the older version of TIVO that requires a converter for digital recording. With the first box, it dropped all of the sound for PBS, then dropped the sound for all other channels. We changed it for the other box we had on an older TV. Now I noticed that on specific channels, only the voice portion of the sound was gone - all background and background music sound was still there. The dialogue was gone! Kinda hard to watch a show with no voices. I even called my local channel that it happened on first to see if they had a problem. But I figured out that it was the converter box. I have to turn it on and off once a day to get it to work right. We leave it on all of the time so that we can record shows when we aren't around. Sorta the point of having a recorder isn't it? So these boxes are going back and we'll try another brand. We're not happy at all!
All-in-all for the price the little box works pretty good - so far - and I'd recommend it - but with the following reservation. There is one BIG drawback. Once you scan for all available channels there is no way to manually add or delete channels. If for some reason it does not pick up and store a channel - as happened to me many times - scan again and again until it grabs and stores it. No manual entry for channels is provided. And after scanning - if you have channels available you would just as soon not have (such as multiple ABC, NBC, PBS etc. channels from different locations) - there is no way to delete those you don't want. other "cheap" boxes have this feature - consider this carefully as you purchase.
I bought this thing yesterday, and am highly pleased with the results. The picture is crystal clear, and I get about 22 channels as opposed to the six I got without it. Setup was easy, for the most part; while the box itself was no bother, getting that great bulky tv scooted around so I could get at the back of it was a minor annoyance, and finding out that I could have either the vcr or the dvd player but not both slightly aggravates. I'll sort that out at length, though... the signal from the rabbit ears isn't as strong as I'd like, either, but that too will be improved over time. The thing is, I got to watch Leno last night with a perfect picture, something that hasn't happened in months.
The best part is that I no longer have to have two tvs, one for the video playback and one for regular reception. This box hooked in directly through the RCA A/V jacks. The damaged coax connector on my tv isn't a problem anymore. And once I get a better antenna like the RCA Smart Antenna, I'll get a much better signal and more channels.
a FAIR value for less than $15 after DTV discount.
Nice features in a small remote...but difficult to program to YOUR TV mfg since model numbers don't match up and the Large Channel button is the good feature for big fingers... The AutoScan channel feature needs to be RUN more than one would expect. Keypad does NOT have a channel recall feature. ALL HD channels will be mapped into a SD - standard density video display... very sharp picture. It can be vertically mounted ON the side of your TV. Shortcomming is the Digital schedule ONLY is the NEXT program after the current program in the schedule - NOT a {EPG} Electronic Program Guide feature which Digital TV provides.
SIMPLE YES but with a lot of limitation...
I would side to the Magnavox - TB100MW9 converter since ALL the buttons function on the remote control. The Channel Recall and EPG ... WORKS an the cannels Auto rescan on their own.
Great product at first, then after about 3 weeks of use power shut off and won't come back on. Friend bought one at the same time, and almost to the hour, same thing happened to her converter box. Took it back to Walmart, not covered under warranty because bought when coupons first came out, even though not used until now. They had several under counter that were returned for same thing. Too many returns for this product that is so new.
My $40 coupons arrived in the mail the other day and I stopped by on my way home and picked up 1 of these models. I also picked up one of the cheapest rabbit ears antenna that was available (I paid $10 for them). When I got home (we live in a rural community) it took about 15 minutes to get it setup and then another couple of minutes for it to do a channel search. I was amazed at the number of channels that it found, including 7+ channels from locations more than 35 miles away. The picture quality was incredible and to have program descriptions was an added bonus. In the setup menu there is even a signal meter that you can use to find the best possible position of your anntenna. Plus there are other built in features that make this unit an incredible value, even better with the DTV-coupon. Forget about waiting for the ever-delayed Echostar model, run out and pick up this RCA box now!
I received two debit cards for the purchase of a converter box. Since my Walmart had two brands I decided to purchase one of each to see if there was a difference. There is. The rca reception breaks up freguently while the magnavox reception is consistently good. I will be recommending the magnavox.
I located and purchased the RCA converter box after reading reviews on both the RCA and Magnovox models.
The box is working great since I only expected the basic performance. After I hooked up the unit, I got the no antenna/signal strength error message on the screen. The instructions from the Quick Start Guide were not the best because it did not guide us from there to the Menu and Setting Up screens. Which would lead one to believe the set was not working. After scanning and tuning in all the available channels, we now can select a channel and start viewing.
The remote lets you program to the RF frequency of the TV set and use the same remote to power on/off and volume up/down of your TV set.
I looked for a digital tuner and I got one at the best price today. For my needs, this is a simple but effective product. Two thumbs up!!
I wish to thank the store Associate who acted as my advocate and brought my request to the Store Manager at the Portage, IN store. I got a call that night and they was going to special order the RCA converter from a store in Colorado. I did not know that the nation was basically divided in half. West Side got RCA's and the East Side, which is my zone, got the Motorola's. Reasoning is the RCA and Motorola Company could not supply Wal-Mart's supply needs. No doubt both units are great products, but the RCA offered better compatibility with my two older TV's and Converter. The Motorola converter remote does not handle our TV on/off or volume control as the RCA can. Again, big thanks for the extra effort. As far as the RCA converter goes. I have had it for about one week and setup was easy. When it was turned on. All can say is WOW. The digital picture was stunning. I purchased the boom antenna through the Wal-Mart site to store several months' back. The combination of the RCA converter with the outdoor antenna is providing me 50 - 60% signal strength. Another gain was going from 10 analog to 30 digital channels in the Chicago area broadcast area. Many friends have come over and are shocked at the reception. They are seriously reconsidering keeping the expensive cable or satellite systems.
Not sure why others are disappointed. Mine works great connected to a 20 year old tv and rooftop antenna! The tv has no remote and uses the old rotating channel change knob(remember those??); so this converter now lets me change channels with it's remote control. Before, I could only get about 9 over-the-air channels. The antenna strength screen accessed from the menu on remote says I am getting about 19% reception. Even at that "low" reception strength, I now get 24 channels and they are all crystal clear! I will be using my 2nd government coupon to get another one of these. It'll "update" another tv in the basement so it too will get more channels and rival the picture I get with the other tv's connected to the satellite system. Great product, RCA!!


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text: Research Overview Laura M. Bogart, PhD is Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, and Associate Scientific Researcher of the Division of General Pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital. She specializes in the application of social psychological theory to understanding and reducing health disparities. Much of her research examines stigma, discrimination, and medical mistrust. She has shown that stigma and mistrust are related to worse HIV prevention and treatment behaviors and to poor health. She also conducts adolescent obesity research. Dr. Bogart's NIH-funded research includes a community based participatory research project to conduct a randomized controlled trial of a culturally relevant treatment education intervention to improve adherence and retention in care among African Americans living with HIV; a study examining the flow of HIV-related mistrust, accurate HIV information, and HIV stigma through the social networks of African Americans living with HIV, with a focus on how social network factors influence adherence and retention in care over time; a project to develop and pilot test an intervention to address coping with discrimination and mistrust among HIV-positive Black and Latino men who have sex with men; and a study in South Africa to test a worksite-based parenting intervention to teach parents how to talk with their adolescents about healthy sexuality and HIV. She is also conducting intervention development research on linkage to care after HIV testing in fishing communities in Uganda. About Laura Bogart, PhD Dr. Bogart received her PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh in 1997. Before joining Boston Children's Hospital in 2008, Dr. Bogart was a Senior Behavioral Scientist at RAND Corporation. She is Associate Editor and Health Disparities Special Section Editor of Annals of Behavioral Medicine, and a fellow in the Society of Behavioral Medicine and the American Psychological Association (Division 38, Health Psychology). She is a member of the Behavioral and Social Consequences of HIV/AIDS (BSCH) NIH study section. Active Projects 2009-2014 Medical Mistrust, Social Networks, and Disparities in HIV Care Among Blacks Principal Investigator This project aims to identify social network sources of HIV-related information among African Americans with HIV; examine ways in which social network characteristics related to HIV mistrust are associated with HIV treatment behaviors; and partner with community stakeholders to identify novel interventions to address mistrust and improve HIV treatment behaviors for African Americans living with HIV. 2010-2014 A South African Pilot Worksite Parenting Program To Prevent HIV among Adolescents Principal Investigator The goal of this project was to adapt a US-developed worksite-based program for parents of adolescents to two cultures in South Africa and to examine the program's feasibility and preliminary effects on parent-child communication about HIV and sexual risk. 2011-2015 Treatment Advocacy Intervention for HIV-Positive African Americans NIHMD R01 MD006058 Principal Investigator The research is a randomized controlled trial of a culturally relevant treatment advocacy intervention for African Americans living with HIV. It is conducted in partnership with AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA) using principles of community-based participatory research (CBPR). 2012-2015 Pilot Intervention for Discrimination and Mistrust Among HIV Positive Black Men NIMH R34 MH096544 Principal Investigator This project is developing and pilot testing an intervention to improve coping skills for discrimination and reduce medical mistrust among African American men who have sex with men living with HIV. A supplement is examining similar issues among Latinos. 2013-2015 Community HIV Testing and Linkage to Care in Uganda NIMH R21 MH098657 Principal Investigator This project is using mixed methods to explore and pilot test barriers to community HIV testing in fisherfolk communities; to develop a linkage-to-care intervention that is integrated into post-test counseling; and to conduct a small feasibility test of the intervention.


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Eddie #039;s Attic | Where live music matters 515-B North McDonough St. (upstairs) Decatur, GA 30030 Phone: 404-377-4976 Attic Box Office Hours: 12pm - 6pm Mon. - Fri. Ticket Alternative Mon. - Sat. 9am - 9pm; Sun. 12pm- 8pm Ticket Alternative Phone: 877-725-8849 Home Calendar About the Attic Frequently Asked Question History Hours / Directions Media Video Photo Menu Main Menu Drinks Food Specials Artist Info Booking Client Login Open Mic History Sign Up Attic Merchandise Contact Email Signup Jun 29 Sun LORI MCKENNA WITH SPECIAL GUEST, MARK ERELLI 7:00pm #8211; Singer-songwriter / Americana / Alt Country Jun 30 Mon SONGWRITER #039;S OPEN MIC 7:30pm #8211; Singer-songwriter Jul 1 Tue ATLANTA RHYTHM SECTION - FIRST SHOW 7:00pm #8211; Southern Rock Jul 1 Tue ATLANTA RHYTHM SECTION - SECOND SHOW 9:30pm #8211; Southern Rock Jul 2 Wed ED ROLAND AND THE SWEET TEA PROJECT 8:00pm -Rock / Alt. 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Youth Outreach for Diabetes
Young people with type 1 diabetes are transferred from comprehensive outreach paediatric services to adult services at around 18 years of age. Many rural adult services have few resources to specifically support them, and the culture is more focused on compliance and long term complications. Young people are expected to have competent self management skills, which is often not the case as there are limited transition programs within Hunter New England Health. This issue is important as they are life longer users of the health care system.
Youth Outreach for Diabetes has been running since late 2007 as a collaboration between the University of Newcastle and Hunter New England Health. The body of work was originally funded by NSW Clinical Education and Training Institute, Rural Directorate to explore how young adults (18-30 yrs) interact with their local diabetes services using a combination of case note auditing and interviews with both young adults and health care professionals working in rural areas.
In rural settings there was substantially lower access to, and uptake of, routine monitoring and preventive services compared with selected metropolitan settings. Those interviewed highligthed a lack of transition, poor service coordination, limited access to doctors, no age appropriate services and not enough ongoing education. Health care professionals talked about the difficulty of engaging young people,not enough time, and insufficient resources to put ideas into practice.
A defined transition pathway and an age appropriate model of care is needed for these young adults within existing adult diabetes services. This model of care needs to include:
- Clear transition preparation pathways and early introduction to adult services
- Adult care networks to pilot young people to appropriate services, to coordinate services, send recalls and follow up non-attendance (based on an area wide database)
- A single point of contact and help line support
- Age appropriate support mechanisms (including social networking and peer support as educational processes)
- An evaluation of care process changes and resultant patient outcomes
Funding has been obtained through the National Health and Medical Research Council Partnership Program until early 2015. The University of Newcastle has partnered with Hunter New England Local Health District and the Australian Diabetes Council to carry out this project.
The timeframe for the program has ended with the major outcomes detailed here.
- To examine whether a new Systems Navigation model of transition and care for young people with type 1 diabetes in regional/rural NSW will result in the improved outcomes seen for this model in other settings
- To examine the effectiveness of service redesign processes to support implementation of this new care model.
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Chief Investigators are:
- Prof Lin Perry (Conjoint Professor of Nursing, University of Newcastle, University of Technology Sydney)
- A/Prof Julia Lowe (University of Newcastle, University of Toronto, Canada)
- Prof Kate Steinbeck (The Children's Hospital at Westmead)
- Dr Patrick McElduff (University of Newcastle)
- Prof Dimity Pond (University of Newcastle)
Associate Investigators are:
- Mrs Angela Blair (the Australian Diabetes Council)
- Dr Bruce Menzies (General Practitioner, Armidale)
- Dr Shamasunder Acharya (Hunter New England LHD)
- Ms Lynne Gilks (Tamworth Diabetes Centre, HNEHLD)
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The lifelong scars of bullying
Growing up in the 21st century has even more pressures than ever before. Bullying can lead to self-harm and support is needed for those who suffer from either. This helpful article highlights the help on offer in the Essex area.
An academic study carried out by Warwick University shows that children involved in bullying – either as a victim or even as the bully – are three times more likely to have considered killing themselves or to have self harmed than other youngsters their age.
Data from more than 6,000 children was gathered as part of the research, which also used information from their parents and teachers.
As this study shows, self harm is a very real phenomenon amongst young people in the UK today, with methods including cutting wrists, pulling out hair or even drinking poisonous substances.
For children who are being tormented by their peers either physically or mentally, harming themselves can be their only form of control – some see cutting themselves as a release of the tension that they feel on a day-to-day basis, for example.
For others, they may feel that they need to be punished for allowing themselves to be bullied and not having the courage to stand up to the people who are making their lives miserable. It is often carried out in secret so their parents don't know the full extent of the problem – if at all.
The good news is that for many people who self harm, it is a phase that they will naturally grow out of, especially if they are given support at school with their bullying problem.
However, for others, guidance and support may be needed from an external source to get them through this difficult period in their lives. If this sounds like you, perhaps consider whether you have a friend or relative you can confide in and – most importantly – trust.
Or it may be that you have to seek help from your GP or local support team. There is help available all around the country - a quick internet search will find self harm support in Clacton, Cleethorpes, Clitheroe and beyond so there will certainly be somewhere nearby that you can turn to for help. You won't be judged about your self harming – these support networks are here to help you get better, not to make you feel guilty.
If you feel uncomfortable about seeing someone face to face, there are lots of online forums that you can sign up to. These give you the freedom to discuss your problems anonymously with like-minded people and you'll be able to benefit from the experience of those who have beaten their self harm demons.
Lots of websites also have video testimonials from people who no longer feel the need to self harm – these stories can be really inspiring and can help you to realise that there is light at the end of the tunnel.
So whether you need self harm help in Clacton or Cleethorpes, Bangor or Bristol, Reading or Rhyl, please do look for support either online or through your GP. Help is out there – and taking advantage of it will help you on your journey to long-term happiness, free from self harm.
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Instalación grande con cosas para hacer. La ancha de de baloncesto estaba cerrada a las 8 de la tarde. Las habitaciones eran modernas
Buenas y amplias instalaciones Wifi de pago
Todo fue excelente. El hombre de mantenimiento tocó la puerta a las 9:30 para limpiar el filtro del aire acondicionado. Pusimos el anuncio de "no molestar" en la puerta, pero aún así tocó. Lo hizo algunas veces y me despertó.
The location had to be the best part of it . Stayed at other locations and really liked it. This one has changed my mind on trying another location besides the one I know of . The room climate control was horrible either room was too hot or too cold. In our last night there was a wedding , loud music right above it couldn't get sleep till after midnight . The guest of it were also so rude like we didn't belong at the hotel . The pool area dirty along with the water. Parking lot trashy . Below standards of other locations as stated earlier.
The staff was very friendly and my room was clean and quiet. I was charged twice due to the computer system not recognizing my original booking.
Building was COLD. Impossible to sleep due to road noise. Upkeep was lacking and building is showing it's age
The staff was great. Free breakfast. Nice location. Clean. It must be really nice hotel in 1990. Landry room. restaurant and bar is nice on the bottom floor. Nice design for this building. (open space in the middle) The room we stayed at which was 632 was falling apart. The shower was old and dirty even though they used white paint to cover it up. The mirror was not straight and was about to fall down. Phone was not working unless I fix the phone cable in the back. The outlet by the table was not screwed in, so the whole box came out before I unplug something in there. The TV stand shelf by the entrance door by the sofa was broken and not usable. I was staying there on April 27th and May 1st over the weekend. From Friday to Sunday there were many families, and a lot of children. There were many children without manners with uneducated adults to make breakfast unpleasant experience for that time being. I was not complaining because it was free but there were many children with PJ on eating and making mess at the free breakfast. :( It was pretty expensive for what it is worth, and I was disappointed.
That we had a suite. The space and lay out of the room was perfect. Breakfast was good. Dirty. Saturday morning breakfast area was very dirty. The other mornings were fine, but that morning dishes ran out, there was syrup on the floor, dirty and empty food containers. All the tables were dirty. There was one poor girl staffing the whole area of about 100 guests. Poor management that morning. rooms smelled like mildew.
Good breakfast and evening manager reception. A party going on at night till 1230 am
The free drinks from 530-730 were great. Fun atmosphere. Very good breakfast. Room service was outrageously over priced. $4 for a bottle of water?
We do loved the happy hour!
Loved this hotel all around, great location, traveling with a uhaul & had plenty of safe parking
Great location for our purposes. The accommodations are what we have come to expect from Embassy Suites. Room was perfect for family of four and the breakfast was awesome. Staff was extremely friendly and helpful. Will stay there if we ever have to go to Scottish Rite Hospital again or need to stay near downtown Dallas. Too much chlorine in the pool and hot tub...
The room was nice looking from walking in the door. Expect more from Marriott but this room and service was not the what you expect. Where do I start?? I should had known this would not be a good stay by the service when I checked in. The gentleman in front of me was being taking care of wonderfully. The lady taken of me was not giving best service. She did not welcome me to the Hotel, ask may I help you, asked for my ID and credit card. Handed me the room key and said park on either side of Hotel. While I was waiting, I was listening to the other lady checking in the gentleman beside me.....WOW... customer service was great....she was very detailed from parking to where elevators are about his room. The room.....appeared to be nice....however closer look.... The bathroom only had one light working, taking a shower in dim light. Web site said Bath Robes....NO bath robes!!!! My daughter noticed the desk chair....was RIPPED badly!!! Three inches across the front seat....OMG....showing the cushion...nasty!! Desk lamp didn't work. Then when we went to bed.....another shocker....the pillows....SMELLED SO NASTY!!! I called the desk....and was asked to be put on hold.....AFTER 5 minutes....I put the phone down and told my daughter let me know when some one answers.....I headed down stairs to the desk and saw the desk person standing there talking to a Security Person. I asked for a Manager, he said he was. I explained I had been put on hold and been waiting. Then about the pillows and asked if we could have more...he said "No", that they was over booked and didn't have any more. I asked him so I need to sleep without pillows? Manager sent the Security person to check the pillows.....needless to say after the Security Person called from the room and reported the smell was nasty on the on the pillows and the desk chair was terrible and as my daughter was telling about finding holes in the sheets...found painted finger nails on the floor!! The Manager was knocking on the door and said lets get you ladies out of this room and to a new room. When we got to the next room....few pillows was still nasty smell....seems maybe its from soured linens, ended up wrapping them in towels! Manager also said he will find some bath robes due to second room had no bath robes!!! As we got settle in....noticed on the floor hair pins....REALLY....are these rooms cleaned after guests???? After all said and done...we did get $ 22 off the room rate....lolololol... Oh.....being put on hold time....desk person AKA Manager...answered as I walked back in door with Security person....Do math of time that was....ride down elevator, explain about pillows, going back up to room (9th floor).
It was close to the venue of the event we were there for. The room was paid for through kayak however the hotel charged me again at their regular rate.
Size of the suite, hot chocolate bar, fresh infused water :) Had an issue w reservation and payment, inconvenience of waiting on ice, parking
Nothing I didn't like the bed my neck and back still hurt the pool was so small the only thing that was complimentary was coffe and water and nether was any good the creamer that was in my room was soured so there wasn't anything that was any good I've had a better room at a much cheaper hotel
Clean, safe, quiet, friendly staff, well maintained, contemporary No pool. Breakfast was not free (but delicious).
I left my business bag with laptop and important documents in the lobby. The front desk found it. It did not disappear. Staff was helpful. Breakfast great!
Good hotel for the money - Just wish breakfast included although easy to get something at hotel or Dennys nearby - Friendly staff / Room was comfortable with free internet - Close to downtown, but still need a car with a GPS!
I stayed here one night of a Dallas mini-vacation, got a bargain rate. Location is great, breafast at $9.95 isn't out of line with comparable places. Only complaint - laundry carts blockng the hall
We stayed here during the TX/OU game this past October. It was a great hotel. Our room was clean and the hotel was quiet even though we were near the parking lot. The room was on the small side but just fine for two people. If you plan on cramming a ton of friends in there you'll need a bigger room. The only reason I did not give this place a 5 is because of the parking. The parking lot was PACKED due to the amount of people staying there for the game and the size of the spots could not accommodate all the vehicles. The spots for were made for tiny compact cars and the majority of the hotel patrons drove SUVS and trucks. All of them took up more than one spot and caused us to get blocked in. If the hotel would repaint the parking spots it would solve that issue.
Hotel was very nice & clean, but I was extremely disappointed with the both rooms Air Conditioning.They let us move into another room and its A/C was no better and it was only May. The resturant prices were high, the menu for room service was reasonable priced, and they add 17% for room service. But... if you eat in the dinning room, the exact menu is about $3.00 higher for the same exact menu item. It would have been cheaper to have room service.Beds were soft and this could be a very nice hotel if they would fix the A/C system in each room.
Hotel was great. I was there for a convention at the Hilton Anatole, across the street. The group rate for our rooms at the Hilton was $***night. THe Courtyard was literally across the street at $**night, including a hot buffet breakfast each morning. Since it is my own bottom-line, the group is there twice a year and I'llb e at the Courtyard each time. Rooms were great, free basic internet wireless but you could upgrade to high speed wireless for $6/day. Would recommend it.
This was a clean and spacious room. Very clean and spacious Restrooms. The staff was friendly and very helpful. The facilities throughout the hotel were clean and fresh. We were there for a Dr. visit at Scottish Rite Hospital with our Daughter and this hotel gave us a significant discount. We recommend this hotel and will definenitly stay there next year when we go back for the yearly appointment.
Good value for the money. There sure are a lot of hotels is the same area.
Price was to high for quality and size of room. Overall to expensive and will not return in the future. Thank you
Check in was fast. Location was perfect. Room was very comfortable, clean, quiet, and I had hot water. NO BUGS at this hotel.
Attended 2007 Dallas International Guitar Festival. -1/2 mile walk from the Market Center venue. -This hotel was clean. -The free in room wireless internet connection. -The staff was polite and helpful when needed. -Did not try hotel restaurant, opted for the Dennys next door. -This hotel was nice, quiet and felt ''safe'', but watch out for the con-man though. He uses the busted fan belt scam.
I will definitely stay here again. The staff was friendly and the room was very clean and comfortable. Great location.
Attended 2007 Dallas International Guitar Festival. -1/2 mile walk from the Market Center venue.-This hotel was clean. -The free in room wireless internet connection.-The staff was polite and helpful when needed. -Did not try hotel restaurant, opted for the Dennys next door.-This hotel was nice, quiet and felt ''safe'', but watch out for the con-man though. He uses the busted fan belt scam.
The staff were ALL very nice!!! They made coffee and cocoa for my family and kids because one night was cold and snowy. Our light in our bathroom was really dim/not working properly. But absolutely everything else was perfect. I would stay here again and I would recommend it!
Good location, quick access to downtown, good free breakfast Was not what I've come to expect from Fairfield. Room was clean but poor quality - old TVs, poor quality bedding, cheap decor. If you're looking for a reasonably priced room for the night this is a good place to sleep this is it but don't come expecting anymore than that.
Breakfast didn't run later on a holiday weekend
I liked the space, confort, and price. The administration and cleaning staff were incredibly friendly. I had a good time during my time there. Nothing to say here.
We were very pleased with the help from the front desk staff. We were in Dallas without a car, and they helped us find our way on foot, via public transportation, and by taxi.
It was clean and the desk clerk was friendly.. It was hard getting in and out of the entrance because of how the main road is set up.. Housekeeping knocked on my door and tried to enter my hotel room at 9:30 in the morning while I was on the bathroom check out is at 12 was not happy I felt violated..
I didn't like anything. It sits between twork liquor stores and there were loitering people everywhere. I felt completely unsafe.
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Location was great for where I needed to be. The parking was terrible. For the size of the hotel it has very little for parking.
The parking is free. This hotel had giant roaches that laid eggs in left fecal matter in our washcloths.
free good breakfast, comfortable beds, very clean. The staff was not especially friendly.
Staff was very friendly and helpful. Location was very convenient.
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clean well appointed rooms returned from watching a movie around 11pm, no parking spaces available. cant provide good service if customers cant get to you.
Big rooms
Not too far from everything you would want to be at. Parking was available if you get there early enough. Other tenants were quite noisey in the hallway.
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staff was excellent. As a extended stay,no coffee pot,no kitchen supplies. The outside is well maintained but the inside looks like a dull institution, everything very dull and dingy. No 'life' in the property. Breakfast was NOT available, as advertised, except coffee.
Location Poor front desk staff. No grab and go breakfast. No hot water!! We were told it was because the hotel was full. Ice cold showers!!!
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NOTHING!!!!! There was blood stains on our comforter! We took it up to the front and were told there weren't anymore. They gave us an extra blanket. The sheets has stains on them also. The place was extremely dirty and dusty. The free breakfast was awful.
Everything u need at its facility
Cleanliness- staff is great - perfect location Hotel is great
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nice large room very little breakfast, just coffee, & it was empty by 8:30. Could hear running in the room above me. Wi-fi said the password had expired, and the front desk could not help fix it.
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Great place to stay
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Friday Flash Games is a weekly feature in which I present, every Friday, three or more browser-based casual games. They all rely on the Adobe Flash Player, which should work in the browser of your choice, as long as you make a wise choice. Mosaic is not a wise choice; Firefox is. Lynx is not a wise choice; Internet Explorer is, at least from the perspective of Flash gaming. Safari is a wise choice in more ways than one.
All of the games work on Mac, Windows, or any other Flash-capable platform. I'll note whether a game has sound or music, so that you can adjust sound levels before clicking.
Enough babbling, let's get started!
Arctic Blue is an oldie but a goodie. Ferry Halim is one of the masters of casual gaming, as far as I'm concerned, and here he demonstrates this well.
You actually control the blowhole of a whale, and no, I'm not kidding. Every time you click, you sent a short burst of water up from the whale's blowhole, which happens to propel a boat into the air. The boat faces occasional icebergs; you can send repeated bursts from your blowhole to lift the boat over the icebergs safely. There are also boxes, some floating and some dropping via parachute, that the boat can collect for points. Again, get that blowhole squirting to get the boat into just the right spot at just the right time. Watch out for airplanes!
Who else thinks of this stuff? A whale's blowhole? But it works, and it's fun, and it's easy — my kids play this sometimes. It's also beautiful, with great music and sound. The music and sound don't start until you click "Play" (after clicking "Start").
If you can move quickly enough, try Spaceworms. It's a keep-away game in which you control a dot while another dot chases you. The trick is, the other dot is fast than you are. How, then, do you survive?
The other dot has two limitations: it cannot turn as quickly as you, and it always heads straight for you in as straight a line as possible, without considering wrapping around the edges of the screen. In those two limitations lies your survival.
If you survive until the counter hits 1000, you make it to level two, with two balls chasing you. Survive that, and you face three chasers. On the first two levels, I've found success in circling widely, but the third level seem to always require many more tight loops, as the chasers seem to end up wrapping around the edges too often otherwise. Then, on levels four, five, and six, I can get all the chasers into a tight cluster and use the wide circles strategy again. I'm not sure why I haven't been able to do that with level three. I think it's me.
There is no sound in the game at all.
If you're good at maneuvering in tight spaces against ever-increasing odds, try Ant Arena, a game that involves fights to the death with other ants on a watch face.
You're a little faster than the other ants, but they win all head-on encounters, so you'll need to run into them from behind or beside them. You start out battling one ant, then two, then three, and so on. Beware! When they hit the edge of the watch, or even other ants, they can reverse instantly, facing you head-on unexpectedly.
There is music once you start to play, with a music-muting button on the lower-right. You cannot mute the sound effects.
That's three games, but I never know when to stop, so let's keep going!
Last year, I featured a Japanese game called Double Wires. Now, from the same creator and in a similar style, comes — wait for it — Cat with Bow Golf. It's like miniature golf, but you're a cat. With a bow.
Your goal is to fire your bow to pull yourself through the air until the arrow hits the target. Click and move your mouse away from the direction you want to go, and watch the power indicator in the lower right to determine how hard you shoot, then let go.
For the first few rounds, you can fire, land somewhere, and fire again. As you progress, you'll need to fire while in mid-air to change your direction. After each round, win or lose, you'll get a report on your score, both numerically and with a name. I knew about bogeys, par, birdies, and eagles, but I had never heard of and albatross (three under par) or a condor (four under par)!
As with real golf, there are eighteen holes. There is no sound.
We'll close with a trio of similar puzzle games.
In IQ Marathon, you're a gray cow, attempting to collect a trophy. Why not?
However, you don't move the sheep directly. Instead, you set up a series of arrows to tell the cow where to change direction, and then you press Go. There are some levels where you don't go up using every arrow you're given, and sometimes there is more than one cow. The brown cow can't pick up the trophy, though.
Despite the presence of a mute button, there is actually no sound in the game. There are passwords at the end of each level, so you can pick up where you left off.
In Mindfields 2204, you control a tank, and here the programmed pathway makes a little more sense. I can accept programming a tank to drive automatically a lot more easily than I can accept programming a cow!
Your toolkit contains items like direction-changing arrows and offensive or defensive power-ups. You drag the items onto the field to decide what your tank is going to do, then "Start Engine" to actually kick things off. Avoid weapons and reach the flag to move on to the next level. Note that you don't always need all of the items in your toolkit in order to safely reach the flag.
Like a golf game, there are eighteen levels, and there is music and sound. The music starts right away, while the sound only starts when you start the tank engine. You can mute the sound by pressing 's' and the music by pressing 'm.' There are passwords for each level so that you can resume wherever you've left off.
For a more challenging set of eighteen levels, try the sequel, Mindfields 2. This time around, there are teleports, switches, and start/stop tiles, plus better overall level design.
It's the same concept: you're a tank, navigating obstacle-filled levels to reach the flag. You do it without direct control, instead pre-programming the tank by dragging tiles from your toolkit to the field and then pressing "Start Engine."
As before, there is music and sound, which may be muted with 'm' and 's' respectively. Also as before, there are passwords to resume at any level for which you have the password.
Enjoy all seven games this week. Maybe you can save one for each day, so the casual gaming pleasure is new every morning. Or play them all this weekend, if you wish. I'm not your father! Unless you're one of my children, in which case you can play only during designated computer times.Powered by Sidelines


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There are many variations of business.
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Financial sharks get down today.
Professional consultations in 2015.
The debts of the testator, regardless of whether the loan is from a Bank or other debt obligation, called passive part of the inheritance. However, it is not strange looks, but this specific category of people in our country are very inclined to commit rash and spontaneous actions, which ultimately lead to the financial collapse or destitute.
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In economics, business is the social science of managing people to organize and maintain collective productivity toward accomplishing particular creative and productive goals, usually to generate revenue.
The etymology of "business" refers to the state of being busy, in the context of the individual as well as the community or society. In other words, to be busy is to be doing commercially viable and profitable work.
The term "business" has at least three usages, depending on the scope — the general usage (above), the singular usage to refer to a particular company or corporation, and the generalized usage to refer to a particular market sector, such as "the record business," "the computer business," or "the business community" -- the community of suppliers of goods and services.
The singular "business" can be a legally-recognized entity within an economically free society, wherein individuals organize based on expertise and skills to bring about social and technological advancement.
In other words, people with low incomes, why not try to live logically, and only based on their own emotions. Moreover, the loyalty of financial institutions in creating these tandem can reach such proportions that they are ready to offer our potential borrowers loans at favorable interest rate, which will be issued against collateral in the form of real estate under construction. It is obvious that the refusal of the inheritance in favor of third parties to transferred liabilities and the payment of the loan. Base this can be a violation of one of the parties to the contract. As practice shows, in anticipation of the holiday euphoria people try to do everything faster than usual, which is why few of us can detect in interest-free loans huge fees or existence insurance policies.


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The Retina iPad Mini became available on Tuesday, November 12, by either ordering on the web or reserving one to be picked up at a store. There has been a lot of chatter about the Retina Mini being in short supply due to the manufacturing of its display having yield issues. (Note that my family and I own Apple shares).
Overall I believe that the company may be able to ramp production faster than anticipated. There probably won't be enough supply to fulfill all the holiday demand but since the lead-times on Apple's websites are pretty reasonable with many at 1 to 3 business days it may not be as dire are predicted.
There are a number of indications that the Mini could be in short supply
- A number of publications and analysts have heard from their industry sources that the Mini will be in short supply
- The Mini can only be bought in an Apple store by making a reservation
- The lead-times from Verizon, AT&T and Sprint range from 2 to 4 weeks
- Tim Cook said on the September quarter earnings conference call that "It's unclear whether we will have enough for the quarter or not."
- Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing, was quoted in Tuesday's press release saying "we're working hard to get as many as we can in the hands of our customers."
There are some indications that it may not be as bad as feared
- The lead-times for the 16GB and 32 GB Wi-Fi models are 1 to 3 business days on Apple's U.S., Canada, Australia, Singapore, U.K. and Germany websites.
- The lead-times for the 64GB and 128GB Wi-Fi models and all the Cellular units are at 5 to 10 business days.
- It is not unusual for Apple's websites to have shorter lead-times than the carriers
- When the iPad 3 launched in March 2012 it had 2 to 3 week lead-times on Apple's websites (sorry I don't have the lead-times for the iPad 4 or Mini)
- In some ways it makes sense that the smaller storage models have better availability if Apple skewed production to them if memory was constrained to any degree. It could sell more units for the same amount of total memory.
I have developed a Google Doc that tracks lead-times for the 19 Apple country websites and Verizon, AT&T and Sprint for the various iPads available via this link. The Retina iPad Mini lead-times compare to the iPad Air's lead-times of 5 to 7 days.
Display production increased 16% month to month
A report by TrendForce indicates that "thanks to the rising production yield at LGD (LG Display), the main panel suppliers of the iPad series, the short supply of iPad Air and iPad Mini 2 panels eased slightly. TrendForce's WitsView estimates that TFT-LCD panel shipments increased 16% month over month to reach 24.38 million units.
Source: WitsView, a division of TrendForce
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Just today, Microsoft open sourced it's speedy Chakra JavaScript Engine under the MIT license. With help from the open source community, Microsoft plans to integrate the engine into NodeJS as alternative to the Google V8 runtime. Since Chakra's support for ES6 is better than that of V8's, it smells like good competition.
Definitely good times to get to know some ES6 and these links might be a good starting point:
- Nice short overview on all the changes from ES5 to ES6
- Collection of Articles, Tutorials, Podcasts, Screencasts, Talks, Apps, Links & just all about ES6


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Most retailers gain in September comps
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New York -- Cheered by lower gas prices and more disposable income, consumers flocked to the malls and released a lot of pent-up demand during September, pushing same-store retail sales unexpectedly higher. The Johnson Redbook Flash Report, which tracks same-store sales at 62 major retailers, rose by 4.0%, easily topping a year-ago gain of 2.8% and a 2.9% increase in August.
Carriage-trade retailer Saks Fifth Ave. pushed its comps up a heady 11.1%, twice the size of the August increase of 5.0%. TJX shot up by 9.0%, far above its 4.0% gain the month before. JCPenney pushed its comps up by 8.7% following an anemic gain of 0.7% the prior month. Target rose by 6.7%, twice the size of last month's 2.8% increase. And Federated soared by 6.2%, way ahead of the August increase of 3.8%.
Wal-Mart sales softened somewhat, rising by 1.3% -- half of the 2.7% increase a month ago. All three warehouse clubs reported slowing sales: Costco up 4.0% vs. 7.0% last month; Sam's up 1.1% vs. 3.4% in August; and BJ's down by 0.9%, reversing a 2.3% increase in August. Ditto the dollar stores: Dollar General up a skimpy 0.5% vs. last month's jump of 4.8%; and Family Dollar up by 2.2% vs. 4.0% last month.
One retailer that doesn't get much love these days is Pier 1; same-store sales continued their slide, falling 10.1%. But merchants there can take heart -- at least they're outperforming Sharper Image, where same-store sales plunged 21.0%. For a chart of September sales at key retailers, click here.
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