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Was it worth getting the CPA?
If you want to stay in accounting, or even go into finance for that matter (after a stint in accounting), get the CPA. If anything, it's a must-have to be considered for hire in most places. Many companies tell the recruiters that it's a pre-requisite.
At the same time, I've seen people in private move up the corporate ladder without their CPA - but these are the exceptions, they were really smart and could pick up accounting concepts pretty immediately. So am I glad I have it? Well, I guess because I haven't done a 180 career path wise, yes
So for those of you out there looking to leave public, get your CPA. If you can't, there's still companies willing to overlook based on your experience, but if you do, it's a pre-requisite you've met, meaning there's more opportunities. It's a hot market right now.


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26 May 2016
Some web browsing......
CNA - A young woman chose to be euthanized, and the reason why is awful
Into Great Silence with Saint Bruno the Carthusian
BBC - How the love of the Virgin Mary is bringing Lebanese Muslims together
Pope Francis and Top Sunni Leader Meet at the Vatican
Pope says of get-together with Imam, 'The meeting is the message'
A 1500-Year-Old Underground Byzantine Church Is Found in Turkey Unearthed in the central Turkish region of Cappadocia, the unique church contains remarkable frescoes
Habited or Unhabited, Who Are the "Real" Nuns? A look at how some habits originated, and why they might or might not be necessary to a community
Liturgy as a True Force for Evangelization - When we think of "mission" and "evangelization" we don't usually think of liturgy, but maybe we should
'Gospel of the family, joy for the world' is theme of Dublin WMF
Nicole Cliffe: How God Messed Up My Happy Atheist Life. I had no untapped, unanswered yearnings. All was well in the state of Denmark. And then it wasn't.
Don't love concepts – love people, Pope Francis tells aid workers
Is Catholicism about to break into three?
This is how fascism comes to America
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Wednesday, 29 May 2013
Shot in the Dark!
Our short video filmed in the darkness of Nottingham's caves is now up on our Sidelong blog, click here to see it: A Walk Through the Underworld
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Friday, 10 May 2013
A Walk Through the Underworld
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Sam Francis Foundation
Thursday, October 16, 2014
October 2014 Newsletter
The Latest
As the first installment of Creativity Matters, the Foundation is gearing up to host 4 roundtables exploring the topic of Creativity in Learning, in collaboration with
Project Zero
, the research arm of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Held at the
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
in Boston, the
Metropolitan Museum of Art
in New York City, the
in San Francisco and the
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
in Los Angeles, the events will convene thought leaders in the field of creativity, coming from a wide range of personal and professional backgrounds. Stay tuned for highlights of the conversations by following us on
The fast-growing Japanese retailer Uniqlo recently set up a partnership with MoMA, featuring works by key artists in their apparel collection. Amidst the ranks of Warhol, Basquiat, Holzer, Pollock and more, comes the limited edition
Sam Francis Collection
! The t-shirts are available online and in stores worldwide.
THIS FRIDAY, OCT. 17TH, is Family Art Night at the Norton Simon Museum
: Find new ways to look at and explore the Museum's monumental Sam Francis painting. Discuss
Basel Mural I
with an educator, taking time to look and describe before forming your own creative interpretation of this inspiring piece.
On top of a fresh new look, our
new website
will also feature an online store. Clothing, journals, postcards, limited edition posters, catalogs and out-of-print books from Lapis Press, Sam's former publishing house, will all be available. Unique and personal gifts to share with your loved ones for the holidays and proceeds will support the Foundation's signature program, Creativity Matters.
On View
In a
recently opened show
, Leslie Sacks Fine Art (Brentwood, CA) is showing key pieces from abstract artists of the past century. Sam Francis is featured alongside peers and friends such as Diebenkorn & Johns. On view until mid-November.
Opening on November 4th, Bernard Jacobson's New York gallery will be showing "
Impressions: The Fine Art of Original Prints
," featuring works by Sam Francis, Sol LeWitt, Robert Motherwell and Ed Ruscha. On display until December 20th.
COMING SOON! Galerie Jörg Schuhmacher will be hosting a
tribute solo show
of Sam's works in the Galerie Schwind space in historic Frankfurt, Germany. The exhibition opens on November 15th, 2014, and will feature a catalogue published specifically for the occasion.
Sam Francis' work was recently featured in "International Exchanges: Modern Art & St. Ives 1915-1965," held at
Tate St. Ives
from May 17 - September 28, 2014. Now, the show is heading to Middlesborough Institute of Modern Art (
). Catch
Grey Space
Lovely Blueness No.2
(1955-1956) and
Around the Blues
(1957/1962) amongst the works of Barbara Hepworth, Wassily Kandinsky & Mark Rothko from October 24, 2014 - January 25, 2015.
Until February 2016,
In Lovely Blueness No.1
(1955-1957) will be on view at the Centre Pompidou Metz, 3 hours east of Paris. Visitors can re-discover it amongst other astounding works in the exhibition entitled "
," featuring monumental works from the Pompidou and French National Museum of Modern Art collections.
The Huntington
recently published their latest catalog, titled "American Made," and features Sam's
Free Floating Clouds
(1980), which is also up on display at the venue.
Red in Red
(1955) and
The Beaubourg
(1977) are on display at the newly inaugurated Anderson Collection at Stanford University. Get a glimpse of the expansive set-up
News & Press
Around Us Day and Night
(1989) was recently featured in the
held at the Princeton University Art Museum, displaying work from the collection of Preston H. Haskell, from the class of 1960. Catalogue coming soon.
Are you subscribed to
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Coming up in the next edition of "Philadelphia Museum of Art: Handbook of Collections," art aficionados will have a chance to see Sam's
From Disappearance
(1957) and
(1965) were recently shown in Sotheby's S|2 show "Born in a Minute: Color Field Painting from the 50s-70s," in New York City. View the full digital catalog
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Wow, its been close to 2 months since I last posted anything. I still haven't had any art time, but I thought I'd pipe up and let you know that I haven't disappeared under a pile of leaves. (I've been raking leaves for quite a while and most of them are still on the trees!)
In the last two months I may not have had any art time, but I did get away for a wonder week vacation with my daughter in Seattle and Whitefish, MT. It ended too soon. I'll be posted pictures and such from this vacation, for the benefit of family members who have been asking to see pictures for weeks! Then I'll get back to the fiber art stuff.
Here is the happy adventurers at the start of the trip.
Our first night was at the Sheraton in downtown Seattle. Adina arrived in the afternoon and I arrived in the evening. We picked a downtown hotel for our first night so that we could walk to the Pikes Market the next morning.
The vast colorful array of fruits and vegetables did, I admit, make me long for the long growing season of the west coast -- just a bit.
Adina took lots of pictures of the displays, too.
Lots of displays of seafood, too.
We had breakfast in a little cafe with a great view of the harbor and then continued walking around the market vendors. We came upon the very first Starbucks location. There was this cool 4 person band playing out front.
Here is the inside of the Starbucks. The line was long but we had to get a latte, just to say that we had. ;-)
We did find a nice yarn shop in the area and I bought some yarn. Unfortunately, I know forget the name of the shop! But it was within walking distance of Pikes Market.
On the way back to the hotel to pick up our car, I saw this street scene and had to capture it. It reminds me of the architectural drawings of my father.
From Seattle we drove to Whidbey Island, where we'd stay for the next two nights.
The goings on in the studio of Kim Marguerite LaPolla of Crazy By Design and at the Greenville Arms 1889 Inn in beautiful upstate New York. Kim is also the Director of the Hudson River Valley Art Workshops, which presents workshops by professional artist instructors in fiber arts and painting workshops.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
The Silence is Broken
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I was looking around at some food bloggies and I couldn't believe how amazing their dim sum pics were. I have never taken a picture of dim sum I eat, because I eat it so much I really didn't think they were much of a visual. They always looked kinda gross and tasted adequate. But the blogs I was reading was describing how the sui mai meat was so tender and delicious and the har gow had a huge juicy shrimp inside blahblahbalhb. i was like dang, I am craving some dim sum now. Maybe they are just as good as people describe.
We decided to go to Golden Swan (weekly family lunch). It was SUPER busy but we got a table quickly. We ordered the usual, because there weren't THAT much stuff being pushed around. Sui mai, egg tarts, baked tapioca pudding, beef balls, wu gok (my fave), jung ju gai (rice wrapped in smth), and shrimp and eggplant. I would have gotten har gow and bbq pork buns but I never saw a cart with them :(
The sui mai, jung ju gai, beef balls, tapioca pudding were good, nothing special. Wu gok was disgustingly dry and tasted like it was old, and not fresh. the egg tarts were ok too, but i don't like it when it so flakey, but apparently that's how authentic egg tarts are spose to be (it's funny I used to not like them..but I am starting to not mind). the shrimp and eggplant was gross, but I am bias because I don't like shrimp.
The place was crazy loud. I felt like we were yelling the entire time to talk, as if we were arguing. gosh.
The food wasn't necessarily cheap either, it was around 3-4 dollars for medium-big plates (apparently nothing we ordered were small... ).
mm.. I've been to better dim sum..


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Are you going to this fair ?
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme.
Remember me to one who lives there
he once was a true love of mine.
Are you going to this fair ?
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme.
Remember me to one who lives there
he once was a true love of mine.
Tobi Oetiker is a bonus that made this trip worth more. I was enrolled in a different session but Tobi arrived early and sat quietly in his classroom Perl5 update next to my classroom. So I decided to switch to his session instead. It was one of the best decision I've ever made. Tobi introduced mojolicious. From his quiet talk and a couple fixing what is NOT working at the moment, I had my first impression on how great minds of language designer/implementor work in real time
Mark, mark was the reason I went out of my way to Boston because I understood his food for thought:
Well that's philosphy I've read
And Law and Medicine , and I fear
Theology too, from A to Z;
Hard studies that have cost me dear.
And now I sit, poor silly man,
No wiser than when I began.
They call me Professor and Doctor, forsooth,
For misleading many an innocent youth
These last ten years now I suppose
Pulling them to and fro by the nose;
And I see all our search for knowledge is in vain
And this burns my heart with a bitter pain.
I've more sense to be sure than the learned fools
The masters and pastors, the scribes from the schools;
No scruples to plague me, no irksome doubt,
No hell-fire or devil to worry about --
Yet I take no pleasure in anything now;
For I know I know nothing, I wonder how
I can still keep up the pretence of teaching
Or bettering mankind with my empty preaching
Can I even boast any worldly success?
What fame or riches do I possess?
What dog would put up with such an existence!
And so I am seeking magic's assistance,
Calling on spirits and their might
To show me many a secret sight,
To relieve me of the wretched task
Of telling things I ought rather to ask,
To grant me a vision of natures forces
That bind the world, all its seeds and sources
And innermost life -- all this I shall see,
And stop peddling in words that mean nothing to me.
SELinux may not be very problematic to use if understood well, the problem is that most of sources on the web are incomplete and the attempt to do anything without understanding its language is equal to the attempt to do the same when coding in C++. Maybe having more people understanding this beast would help to make it easier to control. Nice to have SELinux preconfigured but I faced all beauties after deciding to move the database to dedicated partition. Likely we still need to understand it.
However putting accents on SELinux and similar technologies would surely help for Linux to maintain the image of secure system. Once we had the root user and regular users when Windows 95 offered not protection; these times are gone. To be ahead, we need something new. I really wish Rik Farrow success in promoting Linux security.
two conferences I am interested in:
In London March 24:
In NYC March 21-22:
wish I could have been there:
February Meeting // FPGAs, Literate Programming, GreenArrays & More!!
"Time blew away like dandelion seed"
Merry Christmas to all here whose love of word and seed is truly inspiring to me.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
Keep up with the latest Advogato features by reading the Advogato status blog.
If you're a C programmer with some spare time, take a look at the mod_virgule project page and help us with one of the tasks on the ToDo list!


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The NEPAD Agency invites applicants who are citizens of African Union Member States for the post of Project Assistant.
Under the supervision of the Principal Programme Officer, Policy Specialist, the Project Assistant provide overall administrative support to the project. He / She will handle all procurement and organisation of meeting.
Educational and Experience: The Project Assistant shall have a minimum qualification of a College Diploma in General Administration, Office Administration, Secretarial Studies, and or Management, and High School Certificate. Candidates must have five (5) years.
Application: To apply, please submit the following:
- A motivation letter stating reasons for seeking employment with the NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency.
- A detailed and updated curriculum vitae (CV), not exceeding five (5) pages and indicating your nationality, age and gender.
- Three (3) referees with good knowledge of the candidate's work, furnishing full contact details, telephone, fax and e-mail addresses.
- Certified copies of degrees and diplomas.
Applications must be received not later than Monday, 24 October 2016 and should be addressed to:
Head of Human Resources
NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency
P O Box 218 Midrand 1685
South Africa
Email: email@example.com; email@example.com
Please note, should you not hear from us within six (6) weeks after the closing date, kindly consider your application to be unsuccessful.
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Winner: 12 Years A Slave
Director: Steve McQueen
Distributed by: Fox Searchlight Pictures
12 Years A Slave is probably one of the most depressing, hard-to-watch movies that I have ever seen in my whole life. That being said, it's also one of the best. I'm a history nut, and this movie rocked me to my core. It's very brutal, so if you don't enjoy those kind of movies, then you probably shouldn't watch this. The Oscar race for 2013 was up and down for a while, with other movies like American Hustle, Gravity, and Dallas Buyers Club all looking like they were going to take away the grand prize. In the end, 12 Years A Slave was far too important a film to be snuffed. Gravity had the visual goods, but the story didn't carry the same weight. American Hustle had some great acting, but the story was over-stuffed and dragged. Dallas Buyers Club, in my opinion, was the only movie that had the real chance of taking the Oscar away from 12 Years A Slave. The topics in both films are taboo, and haven't been covered very often in films. Slavery is a hard subject to base a movie around and there is a lot of potential for inaccuracies. 12 Years A Slave is considered the most accurate movie on the subject, so if you really want to see into the dark depths of our history, then look no further. McQueen's wife discovered Solomon Northup's slave narrative and reccommended it to her husband when she found out he was looking for a story about a freeman sold into slavery. McQueen was surprised he hadn't heard of the book before and made it his passion to adapt it into a film. On top of winning Best Picture, it also won Best Adapted Screenplay, and a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Lupita Nyong'o. The movie was hit at the box office, earning $178 million, and was universally praised by critics. The Oscars have made a few mistakes in the past with awards. They could have gone with a safe choice, and they didn't. I applaud them for rewarding such a brave movie.
Winner: Birdman
Director: Alejandro G. Inarritu
Distributed by: Fox Searchlight Pictures
Birdman is a film about a washed up actor who had once portrayed a superhero character, Birdman, as he attempts to adapt a short story on Broadway. The choice to have Micheal Keaton, known by many in the millennial generation has having portrayed Batman, and not much else, was done on purpose. Other actors were chosen for their real life personalities or reputation, namely Ed Norton, who was chosen to play the difficult Broadway actor, because of his known reputation as being hard to work with.The film is unique due to the fact that most of the scenes are one shots, meaning that the scenes are not shot in several shots and then edited together, they are shot in one long take. This was an ambitious ordeal and required the cast to rehearse extensively. The film is also unique for the inclusion of Magical Realism, the addition of magic in the real, mundane world. The viewer is left to decide whether some of the events are actually happening, or if the main character, Riggan Thomson is imagining them. Birdman, along with all the other nominated movies for Best Picture were not box office smashes. The Grand Budapest Hotel was the highest grossing at $59 million, with all of them combining to $205 million. This is in contrast to the last three years, when at least one of the nominees grossed over $100 million. Birdman was up against some stiff competition, namely Boyhood, Selma, and the dark horse The Grand Budapest Hotel. Boyhood was probably the biggest rival, but at the end of the day, Birdman was found to be the most deserving. Boyhood was a directing masterpiece, seeing as the film was made over the span of ten years, filming Ellar Coltrane as he grew, but the Academy apparently felt that both Birdman and Inarritu deserved Oscars instead. By the end of the ceremony, Birdman had taken home awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Cinematography. Birdman has since grossed past the $100 million mark, helped by the Oscar win.


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Marketer Yesmail has agreed to pay a US$50,717 (NZ$75,740) civil penalty to settle US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges accusing it of sending unsolicited commercial email after recipients asked it to stop.
The FTC alleged that Yesmail, doing business as @Once, violated federal law by continuing to send unsolicited email more than ten business days after recipients asked that the email stop.
In an ironic twist, Yesmail's spam-filtering software filtered out some unsubscribe requests from recipients as spam, resulting in Yesmail failing to honour unsubscribe requests, the FTC says. Yesmail sent thousands of emails to recipients after they requested it stop, the FTC says.
Yesmail did not immediately return an email seeking comment on the settlement.
The US CAN-SPAM Act requires commercial emailers to give recipients an opt-out method and honour such requests within ten business days. The law also bans false or misleading header information, prohibits deceptive subject lines, requires that commercial email be identified as an advertisement, and requires the sender to include a valid physical postal address.
Under the proposed settlement, Yesmail is permanently prohibited from violating the CAN-SPAM Act. It must not fail to include in its email a functioning return email address or other mechanism that a recipient may use to decline future email.
The settlement also requires Yesmail disclose an opportunity to decline to receive email, and prohibits it from sending email more than ten business days after a recipient has asked it to stop.
The complaint and order were filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.
In Australia last month, spammer Clarity1 was fined $A4.5 million and its director, Wayne Mansfield, A$1 million for sending millions of spam emails advertising seminars between April 2004 and April 2006.
It was the first fine levied under Australia's Spam Act, which was passed into law in 2003.


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The companies passing all the above screens are detailed in the below table.
- Free cash flow (net income after taxes, plus depreciation and amortization, less capital expenditures) of at least $250 million.
- Net profit margin of 15% or more.
- Return on equity of at least 15% for each of the past three years and the most recent quarter.
- A dollar's worth of retained earnings creating at least a dollar's worth of shareholder value over the past five years.
- Ample liquidity. Only stocks with a market capitalization of at least $500 million are included.
- (S&P's) Comparing the five-year discounted cash flow (DCF) estimate with the current price.
Acing The Buffett Test ($)
The Outlook
Standard & Poor's
By: Howard Silverblatt, Senior Index Analyst
January 14, 2009
Disclosure: Long BCR, MCD, SLB


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A Subversive Plot: How to Grow a Revolution in Your Own Backyard
Roger Dorion is plotting a revolution.
He's organizing Kitchen Gardeners; a special breed of subversives. They are self-reliant seekers of "the Good Life" who have understood the central role that home-grown and home- cooked food plays in one's well-being. By seeking an active role in their own sustenance, they are modern-day participants in humankind's oldest and most basic activity, offering a critical link to our past and positive vision for our future. They are a little bit subversive and a little bit revolutionary
Occupy London protest issues demands to democratise City of London
Activists at St Paul's Cathedral call for end to Square Mile's 'unconstitutional power and influence'
What is the notion of the real democracy?
Many politicians and workers in the main strem media machinery are not familliar with the genuine experiment of the 15O movement. Political thinker Michael Hardt provides the explanation.
Indigenous campaigners occupy Belo Monte Amazon dam
Hundreds of campaigners have occupied the construction site of the
Belo Monte dam project in the Brazilian Amazon.
Tribute to the 15O Worldwide
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Occupy Wall Street Beats Tea Party in Searches on Google
Google has added its perspective — with a search-data-based popularity contest — to the comparisons between Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party. The data rules in favor of Occupy Wall Street. Users searched for the nascent movement more than the Tea Party for the first time in the United States on Sept. 24, according to Google's politics blog. Search traffic for the term "Occupy Wall Street" has remained higher ever since.
Occupy Oakland: Egyptian Protesters To Hold Pro-Occupy Rally Friday
Egyptian protesters who have camped out in Cairo's Tahrir Square are set to march to the U.S. Embassy Friday, in a rally of support for the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Marines protect Oakland Solidarity March in NYC
Last night around a thousand protesters turned up in New York to show solidarity with Occupy Oakland. At one point NYPD officers began arresting and violently beating the demonstrators, even after they were forced to the ground. Among those who stood up for the protesters was Sgt. Shamar Thomas and his fellow US Marines.
Video is courtesy of Luke Rudkowsky of www.WeAreChange.org
From Occupy Wall Street to Occupy Earth
What if rising sea levels are yet another measure of inequality? What if the degradation of our planet's life-support systems -- its atmosphere, oceans, and biosphere -- goes hand in hand with the accumulation of wealth, power, and control by that corrupt and greedy 1% we are hearing about from Zuccotti Park? What if the assault on America's middle class and the assault on the environment are one and the same?
Jacob Appelbaum Detained At Keflavík Airport
Grapevine has learned that Tor Project member and WikiLeaks representative Jacob Appelbaum has been detained at Keflavík International Airport.
21st C MF Blues-remix
A video clip to go with the song of the same name by Nimbin's own Pagan Love Cult inc.
Words & Music © Neil PIke
Arab Spring activists win prestigious Europe right prize
Five Arab Spring activists won Europe's prestigious Sakharov rights prize Thursday, starting with the Tunisian fruit seller whose self-immolation sparked the revolutions that toppled dictators.
Are global revolts capable of shaking elites around the world?
Are global revolts capable of shaking elites around the world? Are all of these revolts interconnected and can they develop into a global counter-force? Or is each revolt unique and thus should be examined accordingly? And if they manage to bring the system down, will they be able to put a better one in place?
'Hold Your Heart' Delayed Justice for Missing Insurgency Victims
A report released on Thursday by Human Rights Watch appealed to the Kenyan government to open an inquiry into the arrests, to exhume suspected mass graves and to investigate atrocities committed by both the army and the SLDF.
From The Incoherent Web Files Project:
DECEMBER 2008 THE OIL PIPELINE TO CHINA FORCES MOSCOW TO DEMOLISH THE BAIKAL tectonic rift conspiracy WHICH DESTROYS PLATE TECTONICS AND LIFTS THE LID ON the REAL PLANET'S TECTONIC STORMS AND CLIMATE STORMS AND LA NINA RIDDLES
Saturday, October 29, 2011
A Subversive Plot: How to Grow a Revolution in Your Own Backyard
A Subversive Plot: How to Grow a Revolution in Your Own Backyard
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- UPDATED: Warriors out of their minds: Drugs of choice for super soldiers
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Facebook vs. MySpaceWritten by The Shops at 24Seven on Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Using Google Trends you can see that Facebook (blue) continues to grow, leaving MySpace (red) in it's dust.
From an Internet Marketers perspective there are two things I want to share from this.
- Did you know you can advertise on Facebook? I've heard some marketers that have had some nice success with it too. Since all the ads are behind a login and Facebook users basically share all kinds of information about themselves, you can create campaigns targeting by gender, age and location.
- The constant growth of Facebook shows just how social the web has become. Is your website adjusting to this change? I discovered a great tool last week that allows your visitors to leave reviews (comments and ratings) for any page/product on you website. It's called JS-Kit and the best part is that it's completely free! I've tested it and love it. It adds a whole new social element to your site, giving your visitors a reason to come back.


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Q: Are numerology* and astrology considered to be sciences by the general scientific community? If not, why not?A: The short answer is that numerology and astrology are not considered to be sciences by the general scientific community; rather, the general scientific community considers them to be pseudosciences, because they do not comply with the scientific method."Numerology and numerological divination was popular among early mathematicians such as Pythagoras, but is no longer considered to be part of mathematics and is now regarded as pseudoscience or quackery by most mathematicians. This is similar to the historical development of astronomy from astrology, and that of chemistry from alchemy […]"
*Numerology: the study of the supposed occult influence of numbers on human affairs.
Incredible what you can find by searching Google Answers. The part above is only 2 paragraphs from the original and complete answer. By the way what about this one? More carbon emissions from riding a bicycle than taking the train?
The price offered for this question was US$25.00 – not insignificant. The more money you offer and the more complete and detailed will be their answer.


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Maryland's balanced attack helps Terps stay perfect with win versus Princeton
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- No. 1 Maryland stayed perfect in 2013 with a 15-9 win against 16th-ranked Princeton on Wednesday.
The Terps (15-0, 4-0 ACC) had six different goal scorers on the night, including hat tricks by Alex Aust, Halle Majorana, Katie Schwarzmann and Beth Glaros. Aust added four assists for a game-high seven points.
Maryland jumped out to a 4-0 lead with the help of two goals from Majorana and two assists from Aust. A stout Terrapin defense held Princeton (7-4) off the board until 11 minutes into the game. Maryland answered with three unanswered scores, including two from Brooke Griffin for a 7-1 advantage with 13:32 left in the first half.
Alexandra Bruno cut the Terps' lead to five a minute later, but an Aust free-position goal set the score at 8-2 as the rapid pace of the game slowed for the final eight minutes of play in the half. Schwarzmann scored an unassisted goal with 34 ticks left on the clock to send the game to intermission.
Aust shook a defender on the corner for Maryland's first goal of the second period with 5:21 elapsed. Princeton was able to rebound with its first run of the game with four consecutive goals -- including a pair of free-position tallies -- in a four-minute span to put the score at 10-6.
Beth Glaros cut the Tigers' drive with a score from Aust at 17:57 to cushion Maryland's lead back to five. Following an exchange of goals by both teams, Schwarzmann took a key draw and long-distance assist from Taylor Cummings for a 13-7 lead with 15:50 left.
Following a Princeton free-position goal at 15:30, Maryland weathered a yellow card to Schwarzmann at 11:39 with a critical turnover and tallied the next two goals with less than five minutes remaining. The Terps surrendered one final Tiger score at 2:19 and held on for the win.
Maryland's stellar re-defending effort paid dividends, holding Princeton to a mere nine clears in 14 attempts, including a 3-for-7 mark in the first half. McMunn tallied a game-high nine draw controls as Princeton claimed the category 15-11, but the Terps helped force 16 turnovers while only making four of their own.
"We had such a great win on the weekend and knew we were coming in to play a strong Princeton team that was going to go hard and push us. I was happy with the way we started and the way we came out," head coach Cathy Reese said. "I thought we had a letdown in the second half. We gave up seven goals -- lost the second half 7-6 -- and gave up too many opportunities. We need to do better than that. It was a great first-half effort for us but we gave up too many easy ones in the second."


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I get the impression that its about a relationship that is sinking and theres somthing wrong with the girl "I'll save You From Yourself" and he doesn't want to let go or give up on her, and he doesn't want her to give up on him.
"I won't give up on you
These scars won't tear us apart
So don't give up on me
It's not too late for us"
Perhaps he's done somthing wrong "But it won't repair your trust" and no matter you it wont help heal the get rid of the pain
"Try to numb the pain
With alcohol and pills"
Awsome album!!!
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The dapper gentlemen of Savile Row were out in force this St Georges Day, to protest the opening of an Abercrombie and Fitch children's wear store on the Row, and I for one am behind them.
I love the Chaps and Chappets of this fair Isle that dress in a suave and quintessentially English manner, and Savile Row is the epitome of this way of life. I feel that plonking an A&F kids shop in it, would be sticking a commercially driven, void of style and soul, bit a of a douche bag, finger up to this.
So I very much support and enjoy this moustached, natty middle finger back at them.
I thought I had them, but I haven't been posting enough recently. Let me apologies for that. Here is a complimentary picture of a kangaroo hugging an alpaka. Enjoy!
If you ever need to find enthusiasm for something then have a peep at this, and it should help you find will power! These animals are so dissapointed in you, and they aren't hiding it well!


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Well Happy Thanksgiving day to my American friends. I took the day off to celebrate well for the football lol but while waiting for football I did this small video on likely one of my most used fly. "The yarn fly" I will use this fly with my fly rod and float rod. Here it is and enjoy
Yarn Fly from Just An Aging Steelheader on Vimeo.
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Hu Jintao, Amy Chua and the temptation of the East
By Bernie Quigley
For The Hill on 1/18/11
In his great small book of the early 20th century, "The Temptation of the West," Andre Malraux proposed that the question of the century would be: How will the Chinese adapt to individualism? The question we might ask today as President Hu Jintao visits the United States might be how will the West adapt to the rise of China? So far I am afraid, not very well. Western people are dreaming now of tigers and dragons. Bad dreams.
Possibly only few can make the journey across the Pacific. Kelsey Grammer's Frasier, uncomfortable in Seattle with the Hindu waitress at the coffee shop, may long for the Irish charm and camaraderie of the "Cheers" bar in Boston. But those who will be successful in this American journey will travel the path west with him because America's future faces across the Pacific.
The dragon has landed in D.C. and the tiger at Yale. Amy Chua's "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother," has brought widespread reaction this past week. Writer Ayelet Waldman and her daughters have spent time "raging against the essay and crafting compelling and bombastic rebuttals." NY Times columnist David Brooks called her "a wimp."
Chua's essay is an entertainment. In writing how Chinese parents raise such stereotypically successful kids, she says her two daughters were never allowed to: Attend a sleepover, have a playmate, be in a school play, complain about not being in a school play, watch TV or play computer games, choose their own extracurricular activities, get any grade less than an A, not be the No. 1 student in every subject except gym and drama, play any instrument other than the piano or violin, not play the piano or violin.
But her essay comes with a warning. As President Hu visits Washington today 90 girls in just one high school in Tennessee are pregnant or have just had a baby. Nurseries are a common feature today in high schools throughout the South. So ends the American century.
Hopefully Chua's clever children will join the committed Yale alumni who work diligently in Teach for Kentucky at least for a time, because something needs to be done and what we have done to date hasn't worked.
Possibly because, as Chau writes in the Wall Street Journal, "Western parents try to respect their children's individuality, encouraging them to pursue their true passions, supporting their choices, and providing positive reinforcement and a nurturing environment. By contrast, the Chinese believe that the best way to protect their children is by preparing them for the future, letting them see what they're capable of, and arming them with skills, work habits and inner confidence that no one can ever take away."


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Online lead generation has in the past been described as the "wild west" of online marketing, but with a whole range of new technologies emerging it looks like the cowboys have finally met their match.
With the IAB's first online lead generation (OLG) Guide due to be published at the end of May, advertisers will soon have a bite sized guide to help them get started with OLG. While already an extremely successful channel for many advertisers, OLG is still too often perceived as the "wild west" of online marketing.
The guide should help continue the education process that has been gathering momentum over the last few years, driven principally in the UK by Econsultancy and the IAB. The increasing body of OLG related materials available to advertisers is great news but the real "sheriff", to continue the metaphor, that will clean up the industry and once and for all put OLG on the digital map is technology.
Whether it's a platform to manage multiple OLG campaigns, software to analyse the effectiveness of various lead sources or systems to validate lead data in real-time, technology is the key to the success of this fledgling industry and it is already a major focus for many of the major players on the supply and buy side.
One the biggest issues at the moment for many in the OLG sector is how to tell good leads from bad leads before any money has changed hands or any man hours have been spent processing the leads.
As a potential lead buyer (especially with a CPL model) you want to make sure that every lead you purchase is a) a genuine consumer and b) a genuine consumer that is interested in the product and/or service you provide. Even if you don't end up getting billed for invalid leads, there is a cost associated with processing leads and the fewer invalid leads received, the less wastage there will be.
Luckily there are already a range of lead validation and verification technology solutions available which can be broadly divided into two distinct types – pre and post submission validation.
Pre submission validation is where consumer lead data is verified before a consumer is able to submit their information online, i.e. before a lead is created and sent to an advertiser. One of the most basic forms of this is PAF validation of postal addresses where a consumer is prompted to enter their postcode and then select their place of residence from a drop down list.
This form of validation can be effective but is easy to cheat and as many OLG campaigns don't involve postal fulfillment, PAF validation only takes you so far.
There is also a growing trend in pre-submission validation whereby telephone numbers are verified and validated in real-time. This means when the consumer enters a phone number on a data capture form, there is a piece of technology sitting in the background that physically checks whether the number is a real live number.
All this happens in microseconds and if the consumer enters an incorrect or invalid phone number they can be prompted to re-enter their details. For high value lead products like financial services leads where leads are sent into call centres, these technologies are invaluable.
Despite the rapid development of technology to screen out invalid leads in real-time, there will always be a percentage of invalid leads that get through the process and this is when post-submission validation comes into play.
Essentially, post-submission validation allows the lead recipient (usually the advertiser) to also act as the data verifier. For example, a lead where the phone number is valid but not related to the person on the lead form might get through the first layer of pre-submission validation. However, once dialled from a call centre, the advertiser should be able to feedback to the lead provider that the lead had an incorrect phone number and get a refund or not get billed for leads with these outcomes.
OLG has come a long way in a short space of time and just like in any fast growing industry, there will be the good, the bad (and sometimes the ugly). As the industry becomes more established and best practice starts to spread, coupled with the advances in technology OLG will become a standard part of the digital marketing mix and rather than asking "Do we want to use OLG?" marketers will be asking "How much of our budget shall we allocate to OLG?".
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I like the Wild West analogy, but I think Dodge City is in the process of being cleaned up by sophisticated data enrichment processes allowing companies to trust the data they are buying.
I'm in agreement that PAF validation of address data is effective in ensuring correct data is received. In addition to this we are increasingly finding that by pre-populating the returned fields, data entry time can be reduced by up to 90%. It therefore dramatically decreases the drop-out rate from potential leads.
However other details that are just as vital (or potentially even more so in certain campaigns) are often left unchecked and left invalidated.
In addition to verifying that you are gaining a callable landline telephone number by checking in real time against all UK callable telephone numbers, you are now able to validate the mobile number is correct and that it is a live regularly used mobile. Finally you can ensure that you have obtained an email address which has a real active domain that can accept messages.
Adding these checks not only reduces administration time in processing the leads, but also adds real value to the quality of the leads you generate.
Being well experienced in this area... in the end most interruptive 'validation' techniques will just reduce conversion rates - and put off customers and clients.
We still advocate the 'valuation' model. It works like this: you spend money on leads, you get leads, you measure the value of them, you look at what you spent and you work out if it worked for you.
Coupled with the 'trust' model of 'if you get a lead from M. Mouse from Florida then you can ask for a refund... then the CPL model is very attractive for both parties.
Actually, lead generators are really important in every b2b telemarketing companies because they provide quality lead that can be added to the data base or we can say potential businesses that can be fit to the offered services.
Since the responsibility of a lead generator is to give new leads, the lead-providing b2b telemarketing company should make sure and check if the leads are those that are applicable to the client company. I agree with you Justine about having pre- and post-submission validation in all b2b telemarketing companies as a quality control.
what does www.zdhsales.com have to do with this? This is telemarketing and call center post...


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Tuesday, July 31, 2007
i did it!
But oh, what a day. The woman teaching it--her name was Ann--was totally somethin else. She could MOVE and what made it great (for me, at least) is that she's not this tiny little thing either but she's so comfortable in her body that she made everyone want to move! She rocked the place. Cuz, remember, I was so nervous about being the biggest person there, no one wanting a "fat Zumba instructor", blah blah blah? Well, I'm not nervous about that anymore.
The class totally pushed me to the edge. It was great to work with an instructor who has been doing it for so long and who has made her class really hers. She also teaches cardio strip so we did an...interesting...cool down. :) By the end of the class I felt like I was at the very end of my endurance, and I don't ever push myself that much. If my legs and arms and abs and lungs didn't tell me how hard I'd worked, my apetite sure did. If I could have deep-throated my sandwhich just to get it to my stomach faster? I would have.
And oh after the nine-hour thing there, I had to go to work because it was inventory night so I was there until MIDNIGHT but on the good side my managers realized that I can 10-key so for half the night that's what I did. Sat on my butt in the office and keyed inventory totals into the computer. Aaaah it felt SO good to sit. ;)
But the next day? I cried I was so sore! And I had to go to church and work as if I didn't want to just lay in a bucket of ice all day.
Oh and today I went to what was supposed to be Jill's class but Jill's car wouldn't start so Jill's BOSS taught the class and she was saying how she didn't want to be so sweaty because she had to give an interview afterwards and I piped up and said I'd teach it since I just got certified. She said "Oh yeah?" and while she taught most of the class she let me lead one song! The whole class I felt like she was watching me, like I was auditioning for a job or something. So I was really thankful I showed up on time for once. :)
And after the class she said she wanted me to fill out an application at our Y and another nearby Y and she wants me to take a couple of certification classes that are coming up for Group Exercise and Cardio Dance. And oh yeah she said I did a good job and gave me high fives. :)
If it sounds like I'm a little excited and all over the place? It's cuz I am. Excited...and sore.
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
My Zumba certification class is Saturday (Saturday!!!) and in some seemingly backwards anticipation of it all, I've been eating nonstop for two or three days. The other day? I had FOUR ice cream cones. Seriously. I had one before work, one at break, and TWO on the way home.
I don't know what the hell is wrong with me but it is stopping NOW.
So help me, if I have to start wearing my old fat clothes. I'm kicking my own butt.
Thursday, July 19, 2007
zumba and my booty
So for the love of all things Zumba and for the reduction of my rear end, go to ebay and bid on all my stuff. You want my stuff, don't you?!! You give me money, I give you my stuff, and I get to register for the certification class I've told everyone I'm taking!! before it sells out.
Last night it was hot as hell out and the studio at the Y has been mad hot so I wore some shorty mcshort shorts to Zumba. Boy was that fun! I was in the front of the class and staring at my pasty thighs the whole time, plus I got to try picking the shorts out of my behind without anyone noticing! Fun!! :)
(Oh, you're sorry you started reading this, aren't you. Sorry. Anything I write after 1am needs to be approached with caution.)
Apparently all my hard work is paying off because an old high school classmate came into the store I work at today and told me he liked my booty. He was quick to assure me he didn't mean anything, me being married and all, y'know. Phew, cuz otherwise we'd'a just got it on right then and there. Mm-hm. But my point is that if that had been not-too-long-ago, he'd'a just been in wonderment at how fat my butt got. :) So, a somewhat backhanded compliment ("Mm, y'got a booty there, now..."), but hey, a compliment nonetheless. ;)
Blogger needs some kind of eye-rolling emoticon. That would come in mighty handy right about now. :)
Friday, July 06, 2007
back to reality
Yeah, that was pretty cool.
For the last few days since we came home I've been trying to replicate whatever it was that I did while we were away. Eat breakfast? Check. Lots of sex (because sex=exercise, people!!)? Check.
Eat only when very hungry? Stop when just satisfied? Drink lots of water?
OK so I still have some stuff to figure out. And how did the whole drinking large quantities of margaritas fit into it all? Oh, right. That might have been cancelled out by the 3 to 8 hours of walking I did just about every day. You didn't know theme parks were good for the hips, did you?! Well, as long as you stay away from those dang junk food vendors. But the walking--the walking is good.
Unfortunately I'm having trouble getting in the same amount of exercise as I did on vacation (see abovementioned 3 to 8 hours of walking per day). Because I can only take so many minutes on the treadmill or the arc trainer before I'm crying tears of boredom. And oh! I missed Zumba yesterday because they changed the time on me!!! And we won't even talk about the fact that my regular Zumba instructor is on vacation this week and some psycho ex-cheerleader is covering for her. You have never experienced energy levels like this chick's--it is seriously scary. ;)
Well, since getting plenty of sleep is one more part of what I am officially calling the Vacation Diet (check local bookstores for my new diet book--booksigning tour to follow), I'm off to bed. I'm meeting the sister and brother for coffee in the morning. Early in the morning.
Monday, July 02, 2007
How to lose inches off your hips, thighs and waist while on vacation:
- Get a room with no fridge. That way, you can't keep any food in your room. So when you want to eat, you have to go out to eat. Since you can't afford to be constantly eating out, you end up eating only when you are absolutely starving.
- Visit all the theme parks. Stay all day. Walk all over. Be sure to get there at the busiest time so you have to park really far away and things like parking-to-gate shuttles are all full and you have to walk 5 miles from your car to the gate.
- Try new stuff, like climbing at the local rock gym.
- Walk through all the funky and/or interesting and/or historical neighborhoods you can find.
- Go shopping. Walking around a mall is still walking!
- Two things not worth trying: the hotel fitness center and the hotel stairs. The fitness center is hot, smells like sweat, and only has one treadmill that's always busy. The stairs are hot, smell like sweat, and if you come out on the wrong floor you end up out a fire exit and outside. Locked out. Not sayin I did that. Just sayin, there are better ways.
So yeah, I was on vacation in Orlando, Florida all this past week and I lost mad inches. Not sure about the weight--I'll let y'know--but my freakin clothes were all falling off. Good when you're home and can find something else. Bad when you seem to be inching into a size 12 and all you've packed are your comfy old size-16s. But then, good if you don't mind going shopping for some new clothes. But then, bad when you go to pack everything up for the return trip. ;) The thought occured to just leave behind all my big stuff, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. :)
Hey. Speaking of size 12. Can you do me a favor? Go into your favorite Old Navy store. Don't tell me you don't shop there, I do. So just go for a second. You don't have to buy anything. Just try on their new jeans in your normal size. Do they fit? Or are they big? Because I was just in there trying on clothes and I know I'm not a size 12 and yet that's what I almost walked out of there with. The only thing stopping me was the feeling that it was way too good to be true and if I bought those jeans, I'd get them home and they would somehow stop fittitng. Probably right after I took the tags off and tossed the receipt. :)
So yeah. That feels pretty good! Now all I have to do is not think back to the days when a size 12 was beyond any size I ever expected to be in. ;)
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Being a very opinionated person the blog is a medium to share my opinions and ideas. Hence the name 'Daily Musings'.
The Cauvery river and its slow deterioration has shaped my views on the environment. With ancestors who were farmers my mind is never farther from the river. From a vibrant clean river that I was familiar with during my childhood to the dirty polluted river of today, Cauvery is a fine example of environmental degradation.
Today, I am fortunate to be living near another majestic river - the Potomac. The Potomac river and the Chesapeake Bay continues to remind me everyday of how clean waterways and healthy fish populations are intertwined with the health and wealth of the people who populate the region.
My interests in the age old customs and traditions of the Kongu culture is also reflected in this blog.
If you are curious my day job involves working with computers and has everything to do with software.
For recipe ideas and other comments not fit for the comment box contact me at indosungod AT GMAIL DOT COM.


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Thursday, May 24, 2012
DroidGOX Card Games Coming Soon
I decided to convert one of my card game Java applets to an Android app. Then again, I thought if I freely publish this app for free it will still be boring because I am sure there are many variations of Pyramid Solitaire app out there in Google Play.
So it was then that I thought I name my app DroidGOX Card Games to feature a variety of card games. Considering that I made so many different card games as applets, it would be nice to have them as an Android app. Having many games can keep the user interested using the app.
Since I will be doing this in my spare time if I do not have anything else to do, I will only finish the first card game for now.
The other games will follow depending on the time (which I cannot tell) or if generous donors will gladly donate some PayPal moolah which can inspire me to work on more games and slowly add them 1 by 1 to the app. Till then, stay tuned!
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Thursday, June 19, 2014
A Singular Line
It began as a line.
No, it began as a point from which the line proceeded.
No, it began as a stick from which the point was made and thus from which the line proceeded.
No, actually, it began with a thought. But it was not much of a thought, it was more of a simple action, the action of plucking up a stick and poking it into the ground. This created the point from which proceeded the line.
He drew the line in the earth with the simplest of thought, and the singular purpose that it would be straight. This was simple enough in that there was nothing about to interfere with this purpose, neither building nor home, track nor road, neither tree nor bush, person nor any place of name. A desert without bump nor lizard, hill nor snake, it being flat in all directions. An endless horizon. On he drew, without regard for time or treasure. On he drew in the noonday heat and the cool of night, always under an endless sky.
All lines have a beginning, that being a point in time and space, but must it have a purpose? Must it have an end? Some lines separate sides as a purpose; left from right, this from that, us from them. If this line ever had that as a purpose drawing up sides was the first casualty of its linear life. This line had come to care less about this or that! And on he drew his singular line...
Now as I have said all lines have a point of origin in time and space, and thus travel from somewhere to somewhere, but this line was not traveling to anywhere, at least in particular, and as a matter of fact could have cared less, nor even considered it. Thus, some cosmic destination was the second purposeful casualty in its linear life, if it ever existed at all.
The line was now well beyond the horizon, and the horizon grew further away, although it was never further away than it always had been. And on he drew. His feet were tired and his wrist was sore, his suit had become quite sweaty and he had developed a kink in his back, but he hardly noticed any of this. On he drew.
Lines are funny things when they travel great distances without great purpose, they begin to forget their beginnings. It fades from memory. And thus it was with this line. Thus the third casualty of this line's linear life; its beginnings.
And on it went. The longer he drew the line across the face of the earth, the less he or the line knew or cared about its own length. Its distance faded until nothing was of any concern but the point at which the stick touched the earth. The ever presence of the present. But wasn't that always the case?
He withdrew the stick from the face of the earth and the line, then and there, died as a living active thing. It had never defined anything, nor cared to. Its own future never even considered. Its own past, faded from memory. Its present, now withdrawn.
As he uncrinked his back, he stood up straight and turned to look back along the line's length, and for the first time in days was flush with a singular thought, and even a sense of pride: "Damned if that isn't one straight line!"
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> Best Western
Best Western
Based on 49 ratings from across the web
356 Main St, Waterville, ME 04901
14 Reviews of Best Western
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by Walter on Aug 13, 2007
Price was very good, breakfast was very good. Did not smell good. Location was very good; however, the smell in the...
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Best Western - Waterville
by Storme S on Aug 19, 2008
Attached Governors Restaurant w/inside entrance (good), and attached drive-through Starbucks for added convenience. Adjacent to Shopping centers. Staff was friendly. Pet friendly. Good place for the traveler and/or...
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by Michael on Jun 29, 2007
The friendly staff and cleanliness. I got 2 queen beds instead of 1 king. The hotel stay was very pleasant. The staff was friendly and helpful. The bed was very comfortable. When we first got there the bathroom sink stopper...
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Loved the place
by traveler on Aug 12, 2008
Terrific staff, well maintained, comfortable inn, large, clean, comfortable room. Connected to the wonderful Governors diner with helpful, friendly staff, good food, low prices, and a fun model...
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by John on Jun 13, 2007
I loved that it was right off the highway. Where the lobby was located. This hotel was very nice. It had a very good breakfast. The room was comfortable and the hotel was in a very good location with lots of conveniences...
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very friendly
by ronnie on Jan 3, 2007
The hotel staff was very frienly, had a very...
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by Gretchen on May 16, 2007
The woman at the check in desk was terrific, and having 4 pillows on each bed. No dislikes. We found this hotel to be very nice, clean, easy to get to, and very accommodating to their guest. If I was in the area again,...
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okay, but in an average way
by Rachel on Sep 13, 2008
My 'studio' room had a decent couch and a nice desk, and actually a little bit of a green/decent view out the window despite being in the middle of a shopping center right off the highway. As other reviewers have noted, the...
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by A Yahoo! Contributor on Sep 13, 2007
The bathroom ceiling was sagging and the hot water was inconsistent which made for a few exciting moments. Let's just say that the bang for the buck was less than acceptable. Not what I expect from the Best Western nameplate....
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on Jun 21, 2007
The accommodations were very good. The staff was polite and helpful. Sign in and sign out were fast. The hotel staff took my reservation in a friendly manner. I was greeted in a friendly manner at check in and check out....
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