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This is the user agreement which governs your use of this website and the purchases by you of the services and products we provide. Not all of the products or services we provide are supplied by us, therefore the contract for the product and/or service will be between you and that third party supplier. 3rd party services include transportation services and accommodation services. Although we do our best to select reliable 3rd party services we cannot accept responsibility for the level of service or quality of service.
General Section
By making a reservation through phi-phi-adventures.com you agree to the above terms and conditions. All 3rd party products sold through phi-phi-adventures.com are not an offer by phi-phi-adventures.com to sell any product, but an invitation to you to make an offer to our suppliers. We are free to accept that offer on behalf of those suppliers or to reject it. We will send you an e-mail confirming the contract when purchasing from the website. We will of course assist you with any queries or concerns relating to the hotel if you wish - please contact through the Contact Form. You undertake to us that the details you provide while using the phi-phi-adventures.com are correct, in particular that the credit card you are using is your own and that there are sufficient funds to cover the cost of the product or service. Please do note that we do not take responsibility for bookings made with impossible or incorrect data.
If there are any changes to the details supplied to us by you, it is your responsibility to inform phi-phi-adventures.com via our contact web form or by contacting our Customer Services as soon as possible. It is your responsibility to follow the instructions provided on redeeming the booking voucher. If you do not present the voucher at check-in this will be classed as a no-show and will result in no refund.
We will do our best to correct errors and omissions as quickly as practicable after being notified of them. However because of the sophisticated technology that is required in operating phi-phi-adventures.com there may be times when errors occur. For example, very occasionally, this may result in a price, product or service or other detail displayed or presented on the website being incorrect. In this case we reserve the right to cancel that contract, without liability to you for payments made to us. phi-phi-adventures.com does not make any warranty that the website is free from infection by viruses or anything else that has contaminating or destructive properties.
Specific Terms
Please note these terms only relate to the purchase of the specific products to which they relate. Please note if there is a conflict or ambiguity between these Special Terms and the General Terms the Special Terms shall prevail.
We are The Adventure Club Limited Partnership (phi-phi-adventures.com) and our registered address is 125/19 Mu 7, T. Aonang, A. Muang, Krabi 81000 Thailand. The Adventure Club Limited Partnership takes the privacy of its customers' data very seriously. Please read the following policy to understand how we will treat your personal data when you use our site. If this policy changes then we will let you know via our homepage but we assure you that we only use your data as specified here and for our legitimate business reasons.
When do we collect data?
• We can collect data on you from a variety of different sources.
• When you purchase products or services from the site;
• When you become a subscriber;
• When you speak to our customer services personnel;
• Via implicit data capture measures such as studying which pages you read the most and the use of cookies. In any of the above cases the data we collect could be personal data.
What do we do with your personal information?
When you buy anything via the site, we may need to collect information about you to process the transaction, fulfill your order and provide you with the services you expect. This information may include, but is not limited to, details such as your name and your address. Unless we have your express consent we will only disclose personal data to third parties if this is required for the purpose of completing your transaction with us. This is of course subject to the provision that we may disclose your data to certain permitted third parties, such as members of our own group, our own professional advisers who are bound by confidentiality codes, and when we are legally obliged to disclose your data. We do not keep a record of your credit card details for additional security. By directly using the bank payment gateway the transactions are kept between your bank (card provider and our bank). The Adventure Club Limited Partnership retains and uses your personal information to provide you with the best online e-commerce experience by providing you with a personalized service and to give you details of offers which we think will be of interest to you. We may also use the information to process any transactions you undertake with us and for internal administration and analysis. We do not sell, rent or trade your personal information to third parties for marketing purposes without your express consent.
Cookies are small files which are sent to your browser and stored on your computer's hard disc. The information this cookie holds is the travel dates and destination of your current search. This is done to help you compare hotels easily and quickly without having to re-enter the same data. Other than this, we do not store any passwords or any other information in the cookie, or use it for any other purpose.
We operate in accordance with applicable data protection legislation.
By disclosing your personal information to us using this website or over the telephone, you consent to the collection, storage and processing of your personal information by The Adventure Club Limited Partnership in the manner set out in this Privacy Policy. Some information and e-mails sent to The Adventure Club Limited Partnership may be used as testimonials but no e-mail address or contact details will be displayed.
If you have any questions or concerns about the information we hold about you, you can also email to: email@example.com.
Hotel Bookings
Booking Amendments
In the event that you would like to amend your hotel booking, it is your responsibility to notify The Adventure Club Limited Partnership in writing in time. We recommend using our online Contact Us form as the most effective and reliable way to communicate any changes to your booking. The Adventure Club Limited Partnership applies no charges to make these changes, however most hotels may also have a penalty for any changes to reservations. Customer Services will advise you if you decide to proceed with the changes. You will then be sent confirmation that your changes have been made for your records.
Cancellations / Refunds
All cancellations must be made in writing by fax or e-mail to The Adventure Club Limited Partnership. We strongly recommend using our online Contact Us form as the most effective and reliable way to communicate any cancellations. Refunds are calculated from the day The Adventure Club confirms receipt of written notice. A confirmation e-mail will be sent to your original booking e-mail address to confirm we have received your cancellation notification. Please ensure you receive this confirmation e-mail as proof of cancellation. Cancellations without confirmation will not be validated.
Cancellation charges for hotels:
• More than 60 days before check-in: 1 night charge + bank transfer costs.
• Less than 60 days before check-in: 30% of the total accommodation booking, with a minimum of 1 night charge + bank transfer costs
• Within 24 hours: no refund
• Charges may vary depending on the individual hotel operator policy.
• There is no refund for any unused part of the hotel stay, package or tour purchased.
• No refund for bookings made during a regions 'High Season' (eg. Phi Phi in Thailand offers no refund for bookings made between 1st November to 1st March).
• All payments refunded via our online payment gateway will be subject to a deduction of 5% of the full payment plus 500 baht.
All hotel discounts advertised are based on the discounts from the full "rack rate" including VAT and are correct at the time the offers are first advertised on the website. However, please note that some hotels may also charge additional taxes or compulsory items, which may not be included in the offer.
"Rack rate" is the rate published by a hotel which is the maximum it will charge for any room.
Prices stated are on a 'per room, per night' basis and include VAT unless otherwise stated.
Please be aware that the hotel room photos are only a depiction of the type of rooms on offer and may not represent the actual room assigned.
Unless otherwise stated, breakfast, lunch and dinner are not included.
The Adventure Club Limited Partnership cannot be held responsible for any misconceptions relating to the quality of the rooms.
Dive Trips and Dive Courses
The Adventure Club is PADI dive center #36426 and offers a wide variety of trips and dive courses. All courses are conducted under the standards set by PADI quality control. All dive services are conducted according to the standards set by PADI. We expect students or any diving participants to be responsible and use the equipment correctly. We shall offer no refund for the following. In the event, a participant causes injury or possible injury to himself or another party then the participant will not be allowed to continue with the program as offered and no refund shall be provided.
Refund Policy
• No shows - No refund
• Students or divers show up intoxicated or under the influence or another substance - No refund
• Students or divers that risk injury or cause injuries to either themselves or another person through irresponsible behaviour - No refund.
• All payments refunded via our online payment gateway will be subject to a deduction of 5% of the full payment plus 500 baht.
Cancellation policy for dive trips and dive course
|Cancellation Period
|Within 7 days of booking online
|Full refund, no service charges apply
|More than 7 days after booking online
|Full refund less online booking service charge
|During low season due to bad weather
|Full refund less online booking service charge (if any)
|Tour starts but due to poor weather cannot complete tour
|No Refund
|Cancellation of peak season bookings 16 Dec - 15 Jan
|No refund (100% charge)
|More than 24 hours before trip date
|Full refund less online booking service charge (if any)
|Student cancels with more than 24 hours before the start date
|Full refund less online booking service charge plus cost of manual (if any)
|Student cannot complete the full course
|Student is charged according to work completed
|Certified Diver Trips/ Fun dives
|Diver cancels more than 24 hours before trip date
|Full refund less online booking service charge (if any)
|Diver cancels less than 24 hours before trip date
|Full refund less 500 baht plus online booking service charge (if any)
|Certified fun diver cannot cannot participate in 2nd dive
|500 baht refund only
|5% of full cost of payment plus 500 baht
Snorkeling Trips
All snorkeling trips are conducted and arranged by trained staff from The Adventure Club. Trips are conducted as outlined in the phi-phi-adventures.com website:Trips can onlu be conducted with a minimum of 3 persons per group
The Adventure Club cannot guarantee that a trip will be conducted until 3 persons have booked the trip.
In the event that there are not enough persons to conduct a trip The Adventure Club will offer an alternative date and time.
If The weather or ocean conditions causes us to cancel the trip we sahll offer an alternative program or trip date
All payments refunded via our online payment gateway will be subject to a deduction of 5% of the full payment plus 500 baht.
Snorkeling Trips - Cancellation Policy and Refunds
|Cancellation Period
|There is not the minimum of 3 persons
|Full refund, no service charges apply
|Within 7 days of booking online
|Full refund, no service charges apply
|More than 7 days after booking online
|Full refund less online booking service charge
|During low season due to bad weather
|Full refund less online booking service charge (if any)
|Tour starts but due to poor weather cannot complete tour
|No Refund
|Cancellation of peak season bookings 16 Dec - 15 Jan
|No refund (100% charge)
|More than 24 hours before trip date
|Full refund less online booking service charge (if any)
|Shark Watch
|Cancellation with more than 7 days before trip date
|Full refund less online booking service charge
|Cancellation with less than 7 days before trip date
|No refund, no change of date
|No show, arrive late
|No refund, no change of date
You accept financial responsibility for all transactions made under your name or account. In order to make a purchase you must be over 18 years old be purchasing for yourself and have the legal capacity to make the transaction. You must make sure that all the information you provide to us is true and accurate. You must not use the website for speculative, false or fraudulent bookings. Failure to supply the correct credit card details may result in delays to the issue of your Hotel Voucher and may make the fare(s) subject to change. Please ensure that the details you give match those on your credit card billing statement. We also reserve the right to cancel vouchers after issue if payment is declined or incorrect cardholder details and billing information have been supplied. Further, in an effort to minimize the effects of credit card fraud, we reserve the right to carry out random checks, and may request you to either fax or post to us proof of your address and a copy of the credit card and recent statement.
In order to protect our customers wherever they go, The Adventure Club Limited Partnership, its distribution channels and agents reserve the right to void anyone or group of persons if they intentionally falsify booking information or vouchers. No refund will be issued under such circumstances and individuals / groups may be liable to further action. The transmission of threatening, defamatory, pornographic, political or racist material or any material that is otherwise unlawful is expressly prohibited.
The site and any content may not be modified, copied, transmitted, distributed, sold, displayed, licensed, or reproduced in any way by you, except if you wish to make copies of the website for your own personal and non-commercial use. This user agreement is between you and The Adventure Club Limited Partnership and its subsidiaries. If you wish to contact us on any issue detailed in these terms you may do so by contacting our Customer Services or writing to our Customer Relations Department at 125/19 Mu 7, T. Aonang, A. Muang, Krabi 81000 Thailand. . Alternatively please call us on +66 (081)895 1334. In most cases we can only discuss order information with the person who made the booking, or one of the passengers on a booking.
phi-phi-adventures website copyright statement
The content (content being images, text, sound and video files, programs and scripts) of this website is copyright © The Adventure Club Limited Partnership. All rights expressly reserved. The content of this website can be accessed, printed and downloaded in an unaltered form (altered including being stretched, compressed, colored or altered in any way so as to distort content from its original proportions or format) with copyright acknowledged, on a temporary basis for personal travel use that is not for a direct or indirect commercial use and any non-commercial use. Any content printed or downloaded may not be sold, licensed, transferred, copied or reproduced in whole or in part in any manner or in or on any media to any person without the prior written consent of The Adventure Club Limited Partnership including but not limited to:
- transmission by any method
- storage in any medium, system or program
- display in any form
- performance
- hire, lease, rental or loan
Requests for permission to reproduce material from this website should be addressed by email to: firstname.lastname@example.com
The Adventure Club Limited Partnership, has made every reasonable effort to locate, contact and acknowledge copyright owners and wishes to be informed by any copyright owners who are not properly identified and acknowledged on any of our websites so that we may make any necessary corrections.
Other individuals and organisations wishing to make phi-phi-adventures.com content accessible through their websites are encouraged to create hypertext links to the required content.
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Kelly gives us a peek into her daughter's preschool scrapbook, and shares some tips on how she put it together. This is very timely for me, as my son starts preschool this year! Click here to see more.
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I am glad that you found this personally useful! Enjoy the preschool years. They go by way too fast! My daughter meets her kindergarten teacher today!
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It's the second annual National Frozen Yogurt Day, and to celebrate, Yogurtland is giving away free frozen yogurt and toppings, as well as collector-edition biodegradable spoons and cups, from 4 p.m. until 7 p.m. Monday.
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Last year, Yogurtland locations across the country served more than 1.2 million cups of free froyo.
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Children ages 6 months to 4 years are invited to to experience high-quality music and movement activities. This program will help children improve their problem solving, abstract thinking, and language skills as well as their physical coordination, imagination and creativity through singing, dancing, playing instruments, rolling balls, playing with a giant parachute, and making friends.
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Police confirmed this morning that the latest sexual attack, which occurred Sunday, October 9 just before midnight, is the 12th incident connected to the .
On Sunday, at around 11:30 p.m. a man, who police described as a Hispanic in his 20s, allegedly approached a woman while she was walking on Vanderbilt Street from behind and grabbed her chest.
The 20-year-old woman screamed and the suspect, standing 5-foot-9 and wearing a dark tank top and jeans, fled toward East 3rd Street, police said.
According to the NYPD, detectives are still canvassing the area.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS (8477). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto Crime Stoppers' website at www.nypdcrimestoppers.com or by texting their tips to CRIMES (274637), then enter TIP577. All calls are strictly confidential.


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- 1:19 p.m., 200 block of Verano Drive; suspicious vehicle, officer tagged the vehicle for tow
- 4:03 p.m., S. Clark Avenue and Hawthorne Avenue; suspicious circumstances, officer responded, no report
- 8:14 p.m., 300 block of University Avenue; suspicious circumstances, officer responded and checked area. Information
- 11:51 p.m., 911, 400 block of University Avenue; suspicious circumstances, officers checked area and were unable to locate
Animal call
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- 1:03 p.m., 900 block of Highlands Circle; petty theft from vehicle, report taken
General Tow
- 1:05 p.m., 2310 Homestead Road (Foothill Crossing); private property tow
Traffic Collision
- 3:07 p.m., El Camino Real and Showers Drive; accident, hit and run, no injuries, report taken
- 7:14 p.m., S. El Monte Avenue and Foothill Expressway; non-injury accident, report taken
- 1500 block of Wistaria Drive; residential burglary, report taken
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Blizzcon T-Shirt Caption Contest
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What would you like to see on your Rawrcast Blizzcon t-shirts? We are planning to create as many t-shirts as possible to give out in October. If you haven't donated to the Blizzcon fund, please click on the "Chip In" widget on the front page of the website and donate some dough! The more funds we secure, the more t-shirts we are able to produce, and the more beer we have to drink with you guys!
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The "Revolving Door" that we decry in Washington, where so many of our highly-paid Congressional reps become even higher-paid corporate lobbyists immediately after being kicked out of office, selling their influence with the congressional contacts they've made during their tenure on the Hill, is something every Engaged Citizen deplores.
Look at Sarah Palin, who quit her elected office as Governor of Alaska the moment when she realized that she could make millions more in income as a commentator for Fox News.
She simply abandoned her job to go into the Propaganda & Punditry business, right in the middle of her first term!
When one can't wait to complete their term to get their hands on the big bucks, it sort of makes you wonder about their level of commitment to their constituents in
the first place…right?
Do the American People think of Palin as a dedicated public servant?...or as a
grasping, greedy opportunist?
Or look at Jane "War-Hawk" Harman from the old 36th Congressional District (before Re-Districting).
Not even a few months had passed after Harman's hard-fought re-election, after a terrific primary battle with Progressive, Anti-War Democrat, Marcy Winograd (who had been gaining on her in each election cycle, getting 40% of the vote in 2010), when Harman, perhaps seeing the writing on the wall, suddenly quit, and headed for the "greener" fields of a much higher-paying, corporate "think tank"
Why did she run for re-election in the first place if she knew she was headed for the Revolving Door in a matter of weeks?
Shouldn't the donors to her campaign demand a refund?
What special brand of betrayal is it to our voters when candidates go through all the bother of a campaign, fundraising from their constituent's pockets, wearing out their dedicated volunteers, etc…only to then abruptly abandon them all weeks later? What kind of professional politician/public service hypocrite does it take to pull a trick like that without getting tarred and feathered?
The type that sits on our City Council, that's who.
You may remember that CD-2 Councilmember, Paul Krekorian, "pulled a Palin" and dumped his 43rd Assembly District constituents, in the Glendale/Burbank area, only 6 months after taking office for his second term in Sacramento, to announce his run for L.A. City Council.
At the time Krekorian was 2nd in command as Assistant Majority Floor Leader
serving under Karen Bass (now in Washington) and on the fast track for even
more party notoriety. Why would any politician abandon his post literally weeks after re-election? Why "pull a Palin?"
Perhaps, the money was better on L.A. Council, (almost $200,000 per year—the highest-paid city council in the nation!) and the state budget deficit was a shameful disgrace, so there wasn't much of a record to run on there, but in situations like these, perhaps the Democratic Party Machine needed to move a few pieces on the state of California chess board to ensure perpetuity of the party.
And Krekorian, with the alacrity of an Italian cruise ship captain, was all too willing to jump ship, abandon his Assembly district (and all those who had contributed to his Assembly campaign), to start a new campaign for CD-2, where many called him a carpetbagger because he didn't even live in the district at the time of his decision.
When an Engaged Citizen makes a contribution to a political candidate's campaign, that citizen rightfully expects that candidate to do as he or she promised, and serve out their promised full term…right?
And who picks up the tab for the high cost of a special election to fill a vacant
Assembly seat?
Of course, it's We, the People,…we taxpayers, who must foot the bill.
By doing so, we all subsidize the bald ambitions of professional politicians who have greener pastures in their sights, and in this case, Krekorian's eye fixed on
the extended years (16 years potential?) of a different taxpayer-funded gravy
Perhaps former-Assembly-member-turned-City-Council-member, CD-5's, Paul Koretz, had tipped him off about the easy pickings here, having also come from the Sacramento Assembly to L.A. City Council the year before (unfortunately displacing a popular grassroots citizen candidate by a hair), in an election that had a questionable final vote tally problem as a result….but I digress.
Jumping ship early costs candidates nothing, and it costs taxpayers dearly. That's wrong.
They keep all the funds donated to their campaigns, and start up a new campaign right away, while We, the People, are left picking up the bill for a special election
to replace the Assembly member who bailed on us…Why?
A remedy is called for.
There's a reform begging to be introduced in the State Assembly, but will Democrats be the ones to introduce such reform?
It seems highly implausible after the Democrats couldn't even get their act together enough to support the Disclose Act, or confirm SB 810 to provide single-payer Health Care for all Californians, a betrayal of the highest order.
Democrats themselves sunk both of those initiatives, betraying the
values they say they represent in the process and invalidating everything they
say about Social Justice, etc….
And now, the New Revolving Door between Sacramento and Los Angeles City Hall begins to spin in the opposite direction.
Krekorian's Chief of Staff, Adrin Nazarian, has announced as a candidate for State Assembly in the 46th district. But there's a problem.
An ethics problem.
You see, whenever a staff member working for a Council member throws their hat into the ring, it is customary (but not law…) that the staff member quit their position to campaign, and to avoid the question of ethics improprieties.
When Mitch O'Farrell, one of Eric Garcetti's top staffers, announced he was running for Garcetti's termed-out seat in City Council, Garcetti made O'Farrell resign as soon as O'Farrell declared his intentions.
That only seems appropriate in light of the fact that voters may get the perception that insider influence through campaign contributions is being peddled in the worst possible manner, from right inside our Councilmember's office.
So here are the important questions for any Engaged Citizen keeping an eye on the 46th District Assembly race…the one with candidates, Laurette Healey (D?), Brian Johnson (D) , Andrew Lachman (D), Adriano Lecaros (R), Adrin Nazarian (D), and Jay Stern(R).
Why is Adrin Nazarian still working at Krekorian's office as his Chief of Staff?
Wouldn't it be proper for Nazarian to have resigned months ago?
May I draw our Engaged Citizens readers' attention to a recent CityWatch blog
post by Joseph Mailander, just published last week?
From Mr.Mailander's post….
"When you check Nazarian's donor lists, sure enough, there are a large number city lobbyists who routinely deal with Krekorian on committees and in office who are also big donors to Nazarian's Assembly campaign. They include lobbyist John Ek, Servicon (the LA Convention Center management company), and city vendors like Dasher & Lawless, the parking systems firm, city taxi companies, and the highly politically active firm Waste Management, not to mention Oshin Harootoonian, a Valley planning commissioner appointed by Mayor Villaraigosa.'
"Nazarian's donations may all have been culled legally, but their sheer
superabundance of city lobbyists on Nazarian's donor list--in a four person
race where fundraising differences in a given quarter are otherwise not significant
among the top three contenders--is indeed very suggestive. (Charter school
potentate Brian Johnson has a large overall financial lead, garnered from
predictable sources).'
"If, for instance, Harootoonian's contribution was not solicited in a blanket mailing, but rather garnered as an element of direct solicitation, any such donation would violate Calif. Govt. Code Sec. 3205(a), which says "An officer or employee of a local agency shall not, directly or indirectly, solicit a political contribution from an officer or employee of that agency, or from a person on an employment list of that agency, with knowledge that the person from whom the contribution is solicited is an officer or employee of that agency."
When contacted about this perceived cronyism, and the fact that Nazarian's donors list includes the many of our usual lobbying suspects such as…
- Veronica Perez (Holland
& Knight)
- Mayer Brown &
- MZA Events
- Christopher Alan
(Dasher, Lawless Inc. & Auto Parkit LLC)
- Robert Glushon
- Arnold Bergoff
- Sam Garrison
Vanessa Rodriguez
(Mercury Public Affairs)
- John Ek
- Beverly Hills
Transit Cooperative,
- Clear Channel
- G&S Transit
- Tri-City
Transportation Systems
- Afriat Consulting
- Waste Management,
- Hal Dash (Cerrell
- Mora Melen
- Brad Rosenheim,
- Kindel Gagan,
- Gaines &
...Krekorian issued the following statement ….
…"While I don't normally comment on personnel matters, I can say that Adrin Nazarian has always served the people that we represent with complete devotion and has been a relentless advocate for the San Fernando Valley. When the time is right, I expect that Adrin will take a leave of absence to focus on his campaign. Until that time, he will retain his role as my chief of staff, and I will continue to
insist upon the same extraordinarily high level of service to our constituents
that I have always expected of Adrin and the rest of my staff. To be clear, I have never spoken to any lobbyist or anyone with business before my committee to solicit contributions for Adrin or request support of any kind for his campaign, nor will I."
When Mailander contacted Mayoral citizen-candidate, Kevin James about the situation, James said...
"Councilmember Krekorian's statement attempts to deflect the issue of
concern. The issue here is neither Mr. Nazarian's job performance as Councilmember Krekorian's Chief of Staff, nor whether Councilmember Krekorian would speak to anyone with business before his committee about contributions for Mr. Nazarian's Assembly campaign (I am sure that Mr. Krekorian would not do that). The issue is whether Mr. Nazarian should stay on as Chief of Staff to Councilman Krekorian while actively seeking contributions for his own Assembly campaign.'
"The problem here is clear: as long as Mr. Nazarian stays on as Mr. Krekorian's Chief of Staff while raising campaign funds as an Assembly candidate, the possibility of potential conflicts of interest exist, as well as the possibility of questionable 'influence peddling."
Mr. James also wasn't convinced that merely saying you're not soliciting
illicit contributions goes far enough.
"The concern that such a continued relationship could signal to those with important business before the City's powerful Budget and Finance Committee now chaired by Mr. Krekorian, or even to those with potential business before the Committee, that a contribution to Mr. Nazarian's Assembly campaign could in some way promote their specific matters before the Committee cannot be ignored -- no matter how 'above board' Councilmember Krekorian and Chief of Staff Nazarian maintain their working relationship. On the other hand, if Mr. Nazarian takes a leave of absence from Councilmember Krekorian's office, the potential for such conflicts or influence peddling is greatly diminished."
Krekorian has previously served on the City Ethics Commission in a Pre-Assembly life. He should know better than to try to justify this type of perceived naked cronyism.
Lobbyists with business before the city should NOT be making large donations to Nazarian's campaign, not while Krekorian is still holding deciding votes on their business before the city. This is an end-run around our recently-passed,
ethics reform Measure H, which forbids contributions from those lobbyists and
others with pending business before the Council or their committees.
Is it proper for Nazarian to receive donations up to $3,900 when city elections place limits of $500 per donor?...at least, while he is still being paid by city taxpayers as Krekorian's Chief of Staff?
Perhaps the apple cart for Nazarian got upset when Krekorian bailed on his Assembly district to run for City Council. If Nazarian has been promised to assume the Assembly District himself with Krekorian's blessings and list of donors' support, after Krekorian's final term, that's one thing.
But if lobbyists' arms are being willingly twisted for insider donations with a wink-wink, nudge-nudge...then we are dealing with the worst of corruptions and the epitome of what is wrong with politics in America today.
Is it a case of outright corruption, or merely complicity among
like-minded insiders who have prospered for decades by scratching one another's
And…what we are describing is a structure in which elite career politicians and
bureaucrats are in complete control of our democratic process and have
corrupted them thoroughly and completely.
The fault lay not in outright corruption, as Krekorian's statement deflects, but rather in this decades-old, highly-developed Culture of Collusion.
For years now there has been an extremely unhealthy relationship developing between the State Democratic Party Political Machine in Sacramento and our own Los Angeles City Council, where it seems a pneumatic tube is beginning to feed professional, career politicians back and forth, not in the spirit of representing their communities, but in the hopes of staying in power forever, and then handing that power down the next in line, like a royal coronation.
Mitch Englander's seat on City Council is an expample of this type of "lock" on a seat and the cycle of cronyism of which I speak.
And like the worst of royal families, you might even say it's become incestuous…and a strong reason for feeling revulsion….a revulsion for more "Revolving Doors."
Big Money buys and sells our candidates and our elections like so many shares on the stock market…there's no doubt, and political parties are moving their player-pieces from one game board to another, keeping the doors locked to citizen outsiders who merely wish to serve their communities.
We, the People, must rise to the challenge to bring new candidates from our communities to the fore.
Assembly members Paul Koretz and Paul Krekorian both blocked popular, grassroots, citizen-candidates with their Big Money campaigns when they won their seats on our L.A. City Council.
The frightening trend is that many of those grassroots, citizen-candidates were
then absorbed by the corrupt, Big Money machine, becoming a part of their Big Money Tango, hoping to still hold sway over the decisions at City Hall, as they
continued to represent their communities and neighborhoods, still bringing
their concerns forward to Krekorian and City Hall, always hopefully demanding a
more transparent and democratic process, and getting this kind of behavior in
I wonder how they feel now?
Now that they've seen this betrayal of the contract between constituents and candidates of the highest order.
For Engaged Citizens…two remedies jump to mind.
The first is to demand that Nazarian leave Krekorian's staff immediately, if, after these revelations, he still intends to stay in the Assembly race to represent outraged Valley Voters.
The second is for Valley Voters to express their revulsion for this chicanery, and CLOSE the Revolving Door between corrupt Assembly incumbents and LA City Council staff members, by selecting one of the homegrown, grassroots candidates for the 46th Assembly District….one who fully abides by our ethics rules, for the 46th Assembly District.
Quotes from Joseph Mailander's CityWatch article were used with express permission. My personal thanks to Mr. Mailander.


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Mark Maynard
The Independent
Dicky Martin is humbled and proud to be the recipient of this year's Distinguished Tomcat Award.
But there's one person who would have been even prouder.
Richard Martin would have been smiling from one end of the press table to the other to see his protégé son enter such a prestigious club for a lifetime of broadcasting Tomcat basketball and football over the radio.
Truth be told, this award is kind of a father and son deal anyway because Richard Martin taught young son Dicky everything he knows.
Some people are born with a silver spoon in their mouths. Dicky Martin was born with a silver microphone in his mouth.
He owes a lot to his mother and father.
"With my dad involved in all the sporting events, he learned how to love kids and take care of them," Dicky said. "With my mother teaching 38 years, she took care of thousands upon thousands. I'm lucky that they passed that down."
Dicky has two grown children and a grandchild "that I wouldn't trade for anything in the world."
Dicky's mother, Jeanie, is a retired teacher and counselor who worked 38 years in the Ashland school system. Richard Martin made his living in radio. He came to Ashland from Huntington in 1952 and made a home here while building a radio empire.
Part of that building process included broadcasting sports for the Ashland Tomcats. He did it with the same biting edge as his son. In other words, the apple didn't fall far from the tree.
"People don't remember that, but he was as bad or more or worse," Dicky said through a laugh. "I don't think I got barred from as many places as he did."
But Richard Martin was highly respected inside and outside the community — even serving a stint as Ashland's mayor. He was a businessman first and foremost, and he was responsible for launching many of the radio personalities that made the 1950s to 1970s great in the area.
Just like his son, Richard Martin was hard on referees and loved the Tomcats with unabashed passion. There was no secret about his Ashland bias. It screamed out over the air.
Dicky remembered when he was keeping the scorebook for his father and the Tomcats weren't getting the calls that Richard Martin thought they should be getting. "He waved his handkerchief at him. The referee came over and said 'You got something to say?' Dad said 'Here, talk right into the microphone.'''
The referee rolled his eyes and proceeded to call the game but the seed had been sown. The calls slowly evened out.
Dicky remembers when he was learning to be a broadcaster how his father and mother would sit him down with a tape recorder so he could hear himself. "Being raised in Ashland, I had that twang, for lack of a better word," he said. "They'd make me pronounce and annunciate my words until I got them right. It's how I learned to speak properly on the air."
Dicky also saw how much his father prepared for games and he's taken that trait with him. Few radio broadcasters go into a game better prepared for a broadcast than Dicky Martin. He's quick with the one-liners, but he says those aren't rehearsed.
"They just kind of come out," he said.
Sometimes he'd like to grab those words and swallow them.
But he wouldn't be Dicky Martin if he did. There's always a certain shock value to listening to Tomcat games on the radio. Maybe that's why so many do.
"It's very humbling that they bring their radios to ballgames," he said.
Dicky Martin's tone and demeanor on the radio is the same as when you're talking to him in person.
His father was exactly the same way. Imagine how proud he would be when his son joins a list that includes the likes of Ralph Felty, Brandon Webb, Charlie Reliford and Bob Wright, among others, with the Distinguished Tomcat Award.
Richard Martin would be busting his buttons.
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As the social media outbreak spreads each day, the acronyms associated with them tend to be thrown about via text message and in everyday conversations. Though they are being used virally, the real question is, are they being used in the correct context?
We stay up-to-date on these recent abbreviations such as: YOLO, LOL, TBT.
We stay true to the old school ones (AIM times): BFF, XO, BRB, TTYL. (Because these are used appropriately, there is no need to address them further)
We stay confused deciphering ones we have never even heard of: IAGSMSOL, KYSOTI, IRSTBO, TTYOOTD
YOLO: You only live once.
OK - we get it. Living in the spur of the moment. Spontaneity. This acronym should be associated with specific events in your life that may be, "on your bucket list," or when used in the direct association of the term, "live like you were dying." This acronym should NOT be associated with everyday activities that are trending, common and sometimes, irrelevant.
For example, here are some appropriate YOLO tweets:
Skydiving today with my best friend. #YOLO
Taking some time off work, road-tripping around Europe for the summer. #YOLO
Here are some innappropriate and the, often-used-type of YOLO tweets:
Eating popcorn until my face falls off. #YOLO
In reality, this tweet should be: Eating popcorn until my face falls off. #Ineedtohitthegym
Tweet from random YOLO post-er:
"Instead of walkin downstairs and eating i waited 2.5 hours for my mom to get home to bring me up food #YOLO"
(....no, #lazy)
This is an actual tweet from: StayPuft:
"I just ate 2300 waffles. My belly feels awesome but I think a syrup bomb exploded on my body. #YOLO #TGIF " (Funny and impressive)
LOL: Laugh out Loud (Your mother may or may not have confused this with lots of love...I know mine did)
This should obviously be associated with a funny sentiment, a hilarious conversation, or something that literally makes you laugh out loud. Instead, this acronym is usually placed on conversations that are just...awkward. LOL is used in a variety of contexts ranging from social media to texting messaging, however, maybe we should trade it in for a simple, "haha" every now and then.
The LOL that we all know and love has transformed into the, "this is really awkward and uncomfortable so I'll just place LOL on the end of it to make it seem like a normal conversation..." type of slang.
"Will you go out wit me 2 nite LOL" (No, I'm busy, sorry, please correct your grammar.)
"Hi, what's up LOL" (How is this funny!? This is used way too often. We need to start interacting face-to-face with potential love interests so we can visually SEE them being awkward.)
A NORMAL use of LOL:
"I read that post at work and was literally LOL-ing." (Please and thank you.)
TBT: The Best Times
I knew nothing about this acronym until a few months ago. I literally had to "google" what it meant. When I saw TBT plastered all over my Twitter newsfeed, it was typically associated with pictures from middle school, high school or crazy nights out with friends. I think this needs to be separated into two separate categories of:
GOT(Good Old Times...yes...no..?) - This can be a #hashtag for old pictures, baby pictures, etc. Because honestly, when you were in the embarrassing stages of middle school, high school, etc...were those really #TBT? ...probably not.
Then you can KEEP TBT but use it sparingly. Such as:
Last night was super fun. We went out for ____ 's birthday at had a crazy night! #TBT - more appropriate? I think so.
NOW...for the more...intense acronyms. Have you even heard of these? I know I haven't.
If I were to combine these acronyms into a sentence, it would look like this:
I am getting some money sooner or later, keep your stick on the ice, it really sucks the big one, talk to you one of these days. (wait...what?)
Why would we spend so much time abbreviating long phrases? Let's stick to what we know, people! Also, why is KYSOTI even in the mix? Is ice hockey trending on Twitter? (TBC-to be continued...)
For the complete list of "social media slang," click here for some answers and some amusement!
That's all for now, social media hounds! Stay true to your acronyms and I'll TTYL. #LOL


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Attleboro state Rep. Paul Heroux issued the following press release:
Freshman State Rep. Paul Heroux has filed 14 bills, including, but not limited to:
- protecting physical disability and mental health rights;
- sex offender registration requirements and classification;
- protecting children from secondhand smoke;
- increasing the standard of proof for children under 13 years old to enter the criminal justice system;
- a bill to help seniors;
- and various other issues.
"I campaigned on the promise to try to make sure that we start measuring the programs that tax payers are paying for. I am starting with prison programs. I understand how the Massachusetts prison system can measure its programs at no additional cost to the taxpayer and no additional cost to the department. This is important because we parole inmates based on participation in programs and if these programs don't work, we are putting communities throughout the state at risk. We must know if our prison programs are reducing recidivism or not. I also campaigned on mental health advocacy and there are several bills that I have filed that support this promise," Heroux said.
Four of the 14 bills Heroux filed were previously filed but they did not become law.
"There is a lot of important work that needs to be done. Fourteen bills is only a tip of the iceberg. Unfortunately, many of my bills won't become law on their first try and that is just the nature of the game. But it doesn't mean that I won't keep at it," Heroux said.
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A Cincinnati Council Committee will likely vote Tuesday to place a charter amendment on the November ballot that would change the city's retirement. The committee doesn't have a choice since the group behind the effort collected enough valid signatures to get the issue before voters.
A group that wants to change the pension system for city of Cincinnati employees has enough valid signatures to place a charter amendment on the November ballot, according to the Hamilton County Board of Elections.
The group, Cincinnati Pension Reform, turned in 16,116 signatures and 9,726 turned out to be valid signatures of Cincinnati voters. They needed 7,443 to make the ballot.
The group paid nearly $70,000 to a California firm that specializes in putting paid petition circulators on the ground in Cincinnati and gathered the signatures within a few weeks.
The draft of a letter Ohio Auditor Dave Yost apparently plans to send to Cincinnati city officials says that they should consider using the "bulk" of the $92 million in up-front money from the parking lease agreement to help bolster the city's troubled pension system.
City council recently received a report saying the unfunded liability of the pension system had grown by another $133 million last year.
Update 6/5/2013 at 10:20 am: Documents received from the city show the pension system's unfunded actuarial accrued liability as of 12/31/2012 was $862,122,656. That compares with the unfunded actuarial accrued liability as of 12/31/2011 of $728,428,380. That means the unfunded balance increased by more than $133 million during that time.
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text: Ian Rapoport of NFL Network and NFl.com reported Saturday on "NFL Total Access" that running back Reggie Bush is unlikely to be re-signed by the Dolphins, who view him more as a luxury than an essential building block. Bush's representatives met with Dolphins brass earlier this week to get a feel of the situation. Bush wants to remain in Miami, but he also wants a competitive multiyear deal. The two sides aren't matched up. The Palm Beach Post reported that Bush's tendency to dance in the backfield "frustrated" the Dolphins last season, that said, Bush remains a dangerous player when healthy, and he'll land on his feet somewhere, it just won't be in South Beach. Source: The Redzone


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Oil to hit $200 a barrel?
I'm sure everyone's looking forward to $100 for a barrel of oil. Shortly thereafter, we might think of $100 as a bargain once it hits $200.
According to oil industry analysts, this could happen within the next year.
These are not the prognostications of wild-eyed paranoid maniacs; these projections are coming from Goldman Sachs, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, futures traders, and Deutsche Bank.
More from Russ McBee.
And in today's news, thousands of Knoxvillians, as they trekked to work along I-40, were treated to the sight of a huge stretch limo streaking northward. It was Rush Limabugh on his way to the first annual Oil Industry Golf Tournament, proceeds of which will go to Ivy League scholarships for the children of incarcerated former Bush administration officials.
About twenty percent of the throng cheered wildly.
I guess Dubai is running low on funds after creating multiple man-made islands.
Dubai really knows how to get it on:
I guess they do. Look what they put on their credit card:
I think these folks spew this doom and gloom stuff so that the oil traders panic and push the price higher. It's like an excuse.
After really reading Russ' blog entry, I feel he could be a bit wrong. Sure, it's great if the Saudi's ramp up oil production but what good does that do American's when nobody wants to build a new refinery in the US?
CMP, you're right about the refinery bottleneck; pretty much all the refineries in the world are currently running at 100% capacity, or pretty close to it. I didn't really mention that in the post, since I was trying to stick primarily to the issue of drilling and oil field production, but the refinery problem is certainly part of the current supply crunch.
Since a new refinery usually takes about a decade to bring online, regardless of where it's built, that bottleneck will stay with us for a long while. Even expansions of existing refineries can take years to complete.
In the meantime, demand keeps going up, and the oil fields are pumping as fast as they can.
I'm also not convinced the Saudis can ramp up production enough to make a difference, even if there were spare refinery capacity.
How many refineries are now in the planning stage and how many are at some point in their construction? After all, the industry and its apologists have been saying for at least ten years now that it takes about ten years to get them built, so surely they must have had the vision to plan ahead for replacements and upgrades. A classic failing of American business in general has been the tendency to drain off profits rather than to reinvest in productive infrastructure, and this appears to be a classic example.
We are told that environmental interests block the construction of such facilities at every turn, but I don't buy it. The energy industry has had sympathetic friends in government for a long time now and has not only managed to loosen air and water standards, but to gain tax advantages, soak consumers without consequence, and to play a major role in the destruction of a fragile Middle Eastern nation.
SP, you're right on all counts. The price of oil ten years ago was so low that oil companies didn't see any benefit in building new refineries; at those price levels (by the industry's way of thinking), it would have taken too many years for a new or expanded refinery to pay for itself. Now that it's skyrocketed in price, they suddenly see the need.
Also, both demand and production are significantly higher than they were in 1997. In that time, both have jumped from 60 million to 84 million barrels per day.
Few corporations have the foresight necessary to benefit us (and them) beyond a year or two into the future. Witness the lack of investment in our overburdened electricity grid as another example. The failure to build new refineries was based on lack of foresight and short-term greed.
Your second paragraph is spot-on, too.


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There is nothing wrong with making New Year resolutions but there are Christian resolutions that can be made, as well. Have you made any New Year's resolutions?
2 Peter 1:5-7 (KJV) "And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; (6) And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; (7) And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity."
It's good to consider the things each of us needs to improve upon in our lives. The question is, "What kinds of resolutions should we make for ourselves, and what does God have to say about such things for our lives?
Common New Year's resolutions are commitments to quit smoking, to stop drinking, to manage money more wisely, and to spend more time with family. By far, the most common New Year's resolution is to lose weight, in conjunction with exercising more and eating more healthily. These are all good goals to set. However, 1 Timothy 4:8 instructs us to keep exercise in perspective: "For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come." The vast majority of New Year's resolutions, even among Christians, are in relation to physical things. This should not be.
Many Christians make New Year's resolutions to pray more, to read the Bible every day, and to attend church more regularly. These are fantastic goals.
So, what sort of New Year's resolution should a Christian make? Here are some suggestions: (1) pray to the Lord for wisdom (James 1:5) in regards to what resolutions, if any, He would have you make; (2) pray for wisdom as to how to fulfill the goals God gives you; (3) rely on God's strength to help you; (4) find an accountability partner who will help you and encourage you; (5) don't become discouraged with occasional failures; instead, allow them to motivate you further; (6) don't become proud or vain, but give God the glory. Psalm 37:5-6 says, "Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him and he will do this: He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun."
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To the editor:
I watched President Obama's decision on Syria speech Aug. 31 and have these thoughts.
War breeds war, not peace.
The United States should do everything in its power to bring peace to the Middle East, short of using military force in Syria.
This is not a choice of extremes, a choice between military force and doing nothing, as the president said.
Assuming that the Syrian government did use chemical weapons, it knew it was risking retaliation. It took that risk. Why should we think a limited attack after the fact will influence others?
It seems strong to take the stand President Obama is urging on Congress, but this stand would be even stronger, if it favored peace.
Even if everything that President Obama asserts is true, I remember other presidents who lied to the American people about the Gulf of Tonkin during the Vietnam War or the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq to gain support for a false cause, so it's not about the evidence.
Let us take a different road this time and not be seduced by waving the flag of national security, which plays to our post-9/11 fears, not our hopes.
Gandhi was strong, Mandela was strong, King was strong. They rejected violence and achieved great things with non-violence.
Being a peacemaker is worthy of a president, and it is worthy of our democracy.
The Congress should vote for peace, and the president should support that decision.
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As we have seen with the passing of Capital Steez and Freddy E this past year alone, we have a mental health and suicide issue in Hip Hop. HipHopDX, AllHipHop, Rap Rehab and others have written on it in 2013. And this is representative of a larger trend in America, with a suicide occurring every 15 minutes. Then consider all the young (and older) people still alive and suffering.
Aaron Swartz, the founder of Reddit, was systematically targeted, arrested, prosecuted and harassed by the federal government, essentially for being down with the likes of Wikileaks and seeking freedom of information. He was 26 when he was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment, having hanged himself. The young man who invented RSS at 14...
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Paly sophomores play games to break the ice
Original post made on Aug 27, 2012
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on Aug 27, 2012 at 10:06 pm
It should be pointed out that the other three grades spent the morning home in bed!
Or playing video games, or maybe doing homework!
on Aug 28, 2012 at 6:32 am
I wonder what most sophomores would have preferred to do with their time.
on Aug 28, 2012 at 8:20 am
The other 3 grades had a ridiculous afternoon of 7 classes of 20 minutes each with no breaks -- it was exhausting and not productive for the rest of the school.
on Aug 28, 2012 at 11:14 am
Please, parents- don't complain because your child had a morning off. If they couldn't find a productive way to use the extra time that's on you- have them read a book, take a hike, or catch up on needed sleep! And since when should curriculum be decided by what the students "would rather do"? With a class size of 500, which works out to a school size of 2000, we should be applauding efforts by the school to create community and team building. And remember, sophomores have fewer advisory classes during the school year to allow the other 3 grades time to meet with the advisors, well more than the 4 hours given up yesterday.
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Finding the perfect gift for your spouse is an exciting part of the holiday season. But fighting crowds to snag the latest "must have" item (and squeezing money out of a tight budget to do it) can make gift-giving stressful. While I wouldn't mind a new iPad under the tree this year (hint, hint), the best gifts are those don't cost money but do require thought and time and emotional awareness.
Though it's fun to shop and wrap gifts, we ultimately all wish for the same emotional gifts from our spouse. These are things that can't be purchased—gifts of self. We long for reassurance that we are loved and cherished, for comfort when we are sad or hurt or scared, and for validation that our experience matters to the person we love the most. Even if your partner doesn't have the words to express these wishes, he or she longs for the same emotional gifts too.
What do gifts of self look like in real life? Here are some ideas of how you can spend less money and give more enduring and meaningful gifts to your partner this year.
The Gift of Emotions
1. Tell your emotional truth. Too often, in an effort not to hurt your spouse's feelings, you may have stopped expressing the full range of emotions—your hurts, your fears, your anger and your joys and dreams. "I don't want to be a nag" or "It's not nice to be mad" are some of the common phrases I hear in my therapy office when women explain why they've stopped expressing themselves. It's helpful to consider that intimacy means "into-me-see" or see into me. True intimacy requires a deep level of emotional honesty and the tender expression of a full range of emotions, not just the good, happy, nice ones. Your thoughts, your feelings and your expression of them are what make you uniquely you.
2. Ask for what you really want. Sending clear signals about what you need emotionally from your partner can be difficult. It requires an internal awareness and a willingness to ask deeper questions that go below the surface. Behind every complaint and criticism you have for your spouse is an emotional plea for closeness. Practice going below the complaint and expressing the emotional need directly. Instead of saying "You always work so much! Are you going to be working until 8PM forever? I'm sick of eating dinner alone," try saying "I want to spend more time with you. I'm afraid that I'm not important to you. Can we plan a date night for this weekend?" Trust me. Being direct with your own needs is a gift to your partner.
The Gift of Attention
1. Push the pause button. When was the last time you really listened to your partner? Too often, couples I see in my practice are so busy reacting to their own intense emotions that they completely bypass the emotional meaning of their partner's expression. In an effort to reach out to his wife during a therapy session, John says, "I really miss you—you've been so preoccupied since our son was born. Let's spend some alone time together."
Megan responds defensively, "I'm trying to be a good mother. You know this is all new for me. I'm overwhelmed and I'm trying to be there for you—can't you see that?"
Flooded by her own emotions, Megan missed John's main message: I miss you; I need you. Instead, she heard some version of You're not good enough.
If Megan had hit pause and slowed down her reaction enough to hear John's emotional message, she might have said something like, "Oh John, you really miss me and want to spend time together. Thank you for reassuring me of that." Once John had been heard, Megan could have shared how she is feeling about the transition to motherhood, and the conversation would have ended in a very different place. Putting your emotions temporarily on hold in order to really hear your spouse is truly a gift.
2. Speak his love language. Ask your partner how he or she feels most loved and learn to be more proficient in that "language." Gary Chapman, author of the The Five Love Languages, identified distinct categories of how people experience love: physical touch, words of affirmation, acts of service, quality time and gifts. Unfortunately, people often express love in their own language instead of in their partner's.
You can change that so your expressions of love really get through. For example, if your partner's primary love language is acts of service, make a special home-cooked meal or surprise her by doing some of her chores around the house. If your partner's language is physical touch, actively approach your honey for a hug and kiss, hold hands, sit together and initiate physical intimacy more often. Offering love in your partner's language will help him or her feel more deeply loved by you.
The Gift of Memories
1. Keep track of the good stuff. Write a handwritten letter yearly for Christmas. I know a couple who did this for a few decades; they now enjoy a beautiful book containing years of personal expressions celebrating significant family events and the evolution of their love. By reflecting on tender feelings and focusing on positive memories, you'll validate that your partner is indeed cherished and loved.
2. Revisit romantic moments. Holidays are the perfect time to plan a visit to the special places of your early courtship or wedding day. Walk through the park where he proposed, visit the site where you took your marriage vows or recreate your honeymoon. Even if your lover isn't the most romantic person on the planet, he or she will appreciate the gift of reminiscing and recreating these special days that only the two of you shared. And you'll have a fun holiday tradition, one that reconnects you with the tender feelings that drew you to your partner in the first place.
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Dealing with the virtual economy
As technology innovation continues, the digital marketplace continues to evolve as well. The challenge however is that technology is agnostic: good guys and bad guys all have access to the same tools, and they dictate how it is used – for good or for bad – raising concerns and plenty of anxiety over the emerging virtual economy.
Thomson Reuters and the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children co-hosted a first-of-its-kind conference recently in Washington, D.C. The event, The Virtual Economy: Potential, Perplexities and Promises, was created to explore the issues, opportunities and challenges surrounding virtual economies.


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It looks like the Flyers and Lightning are starting this trade deadline day out on fire with the Flyers acquiring Vaclav Prospal from the Lightning for Alexandre Picard and a second or third round pick in 2009. Prospal has been on a tear, setting a career high in goals with 29 already this season. Picard, not to be confused with the Blue Jackets' prospect winger, has eight goals and 30 assists in the AHL this season for the Philly Phantoms.
Prospal has made it clear that he wanted to be dealt out of town, especially considering the way he felt he was being treated in regards to the Lightning depth chart. His infamous post-game interview is one of legends on the YouTube world.
Yet, you have to wonder if the move is the best for Prospal. While he was construed as being mistreated in the Bolts organization, he did have plenty of chemistry with anyone in the line-up for the Bolts. Also, that motivating factor to get out allowed him to get to the 29-goal plateau. The question now is whether or not he'll be able to continue this success all the way up to Philadelphia. With the Flyers having troubles as of late-- any little bit can help, I'm sure.
This could be just the start folks. It's setting up to be a pretty exciting deadline day.
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I honestly can't wait for the regular refs to be back. Not because of the bad calls or the "flow" of the game being disrupted. I can't wait so that I dont have to listen to every idiot fan in the bar blame every call on the replacement ref.
I was watching the Cowboys Giants game and after every call you would hear a host of moan and yells of "f'n replacements". Some were warranted but most weren't. I almost laughed outloud at a guy who yelled "damn replacements!" after a blindingly obvious false start.
Again I can't wait until we can move on from complaining about replacement refs and get back to complaining about the regular refs.


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The Samsung Galaxy S4 mini features a 4.3-inch qHD (540×960 pixels) Super AMOLED display, with a pixel density of 256ppi.
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The Galaxy S4 mini features an 8-megapixel rear camera and a 1.9-megapixel HD front facing camera. The camera of the phone also supports additional features like Sound&Shot. Apart from this, the images clicked through the Samsung Galaxy S4 mini are automatically gathered and saved according to the user's timeline, geo-tagging information, or a specific event to create a photo album.
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Sandra Shamas
Sandra Shamas was born in 1957 in the northern Ontario mining town of Sudbury to middle-Eastern parents whose marriage had been arranged. The oldest of three children and an only child until the age of six, Sandra Shamas credits the birth of her brother, Michael, with making her an early feminist. There was a twenty-year age gap between her parents and also much friction between the two. Shamas left home at age 17 before completing high school to escape the turmoil and later moved to Toronto where she held a variety of jobs including bartending and secretarial work.
Later she attended a workshop at Second City, the improvisational theatre company, and became a member of their touring troupe. Dismissed from there in 1984, she worked with other improv groups such as Theatresports and eventually became a puppeteer on the children's television series "Fraggle Rock", where she met her future husband, Frank. Shamas left the series after a couple of years because she felt that the Canadian employees of the program were being treated unfairly by the Americans.
The year 1986 proved to be a turning point in Sandra Shamas's life. The death of her father early in 1986 was a major event that eventually made it into her second one-woman show. Also that year, she travelled to New York City where she saw Lily Tomlin perform at the Plymouth Theater. Tomlin's two-hour show, with a minimum of props, inspired Shamas to think, "I could do that, in my own way". So, the following year, about to turn 30, she applied to the Edmonton Fringe Festival to perform her show, My Boyfriend's Back and There's Gonna Be Laundry. The show, still unwritten then, was accepted by the Festival and so began Shamas's career as a monologuist in her own productions.
The show sold out and Shamas began took the production on tour to various theatre festivals. While parts of the show dealt with her tart observations on commonplace topics such as the inanity of many television commercials and the discord in male-female relations, a great deal of it covered events in her own life such as dating rituals in her hometown and meeting Frank. The reception from audiences was enthusiastic, especially from women, who form the majority of her fans.
By 1989, Shamas was performing the sequel, My Boyfriend's Back and There's Gonna Be Laundry II: The Cycle Continues. It treated some of the topics addressed in the original, such as men's underwear and television commercials, but also included more personal elements such as growing up in Sudbury, her father's death, life with Frank and their decision to marry. That led inevitably to the final part of the trilogy, Wedding Bell Hell that dealt with the craziness of pre-wedding rituals such as the bridal shower and selection of the wedding rings and dress. Worried about the example set by her parents' marriage, Shamas decided to get therapy at the risk of losing her sense of humour.
While Shamas has always used her own life and that of those close to her as material for her stage shows, she insists she has their permission to do so and does not use the shows to heal herself. There is much humour in her shows and audience members often find themselves in tears of laughter, whether at the serious or silly moments. Shamas' work is not fully felt on the printed page; its full effect depends on Shamas' vocal intonations, facial expressions and amazing body contortions.
In 1993, Shamas took her show, My Boyfriend's Back and There's Gonna Be Laundry to the Old Vic Theatre in London, for her first performance outside Canada. She added a few local references and the work was well received by the British audience and critics. The following year, she decided to perform her work in San Francisco. Despite feeling that working there could mean less control of her material, she deliberately left in the Canadian references for a mostly receptive audience. A San Francisco newspaper strike made it impossible to advertise the show. That, combined with a 5-day delay caused by immigration procedures, led to Shamas being sued by the United States producer.
After the five-week San Francisco run and its assorted problems, Sandra Shamas decided a sabbatical was in order, once she completed a few more Canadian commitments. Troubled by nightmares about falling and divorce, she was still shocked when her husband, Frank, announced that he wanted to end their marriage. The resulting division of assets led Shamas to retreat to her farm, Wit's End. Lots of crying followed, along with adjustment to rural life and its charms. That became the focus of her next show, called Wit's End, in which she showed her audience that life does indeed go on.
Wit's End II: Heart's Desire is her latest show and Sandra Shamas fans again look forward to the wonderful release of laughter and tears her performance invariably triggers.
Honours for Shamas include nominations for the Governor General's Literary Award for her trilogy and also for the Stephen Leacock Award. She won a 1991 Gemini Award for Best Performance in Comedy and more recently, won the Best Theatre Award, among 70 competitors, at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in March 2003. The recognition went to a mellower Shamas, one who is now willing to consider more work outside Canada. As a performer who writes, directs and produces her own shows and does not allow heckling, Sandra Shamas is very much in control of her productions and her life.
Clark, Andrew. — "At Wit's End". — Saturday night. — Vol. 112, no. 2 (1997). — P. 60-67
_____. — "Chapter ten : the girl who scared boys". — Stand and deliver : inside Canadian comedy. — Toronto : Doubleday Canada, 1997. — P. 179-192
Finlay, Marion. — "Shamas's jock-osity jiggles jowls of staid London critics". — Toronto star. — April 1, 1993. — P. D10
Hampson, Sarah. — "Hear me roar". — Toronto life. — Vol. 33, no. 3 (1999). — P. 8-9
Matwychuk, Paul. — "A funny thing happened on the way to the farm". — Vue weekly. — October 5, 2000. — P. 42
Ouzonian, Richard. — "Shamas gasps to winner's circle in Aspen". — Toronto star. — March 5, 2003. — P. F2
"Sandra Shamas". — Contemporary Canadian biographies [computer file]. — Scarborough, Ont. : Gale Canada, c1998
"Shamas, Sandra". — Canadian theatre encyclopedia [online]. — Gaëtan Charlebois, 1998. — [Cited April 24, 2003]. — Access : www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=Shamas%2C%20Sandra
Shamas, Sandra. — Sandra Shamas : a trilogy of performances. — Toronto : Mercury Press, 1997. — 154 p.
_____. — Wit's end. — Toronto : Mercury Press, 2002. — 90 p.
Taylor, Kate. — "Older and wryer : life after laundry". — The globe and mail. — January 2, 1999. — P. C1 and C3
Turbide, Diane. — "Take my laundry...please!". — Maclean's. — Vol. 107, no. 6 (1994). — P. 62-63
Wisecracks [video recording]. — Directed by Gail Singer. — Montreal : National Film Board of Canada, 1993. — 1 cassette, 93 minutes. — Closed captioned


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Microsoft supports remote desktop connection in all versions of Windows operating system and is heavily used in a data center environment. Connecting to a virtual Windows server through remote desktop is a common phenomenon. This article however shows you how to connect to Windows OS from Ubuntu. With the latest versions of Ubuntu it should be a simple job considering you don't come across unexpected issues like i did but the blame was not on Ubuntu rather on Windows (Mcafee antivirus was blocking the connection). Here's the host and guest OSs and the network setup that I have.
Windows OS is Windows 7 sp1
Linux OS is Ubuntu 12.10
Network is router based home network.
Here's 6 simple steps for enabling remote desktop connection from your Ubuntu machine to Windows machine.
- Enable Remote Desktop on Windows machine.
- In order to make the connection possible from Ubuntu, you've to make sure that Windows is made available to receive connections from remote. For that you've to enable Remote Desktop Connections, click the Start button, right-click on Computer and choose Properties.
- In the System Properties window, click Remote settings in the left panel.
- In the Remote tab of the System Properties window you'll have three options to choose from under Remote Desktop:
- Select one of the bottom two options. The instructions that I read said that I should ideally select the second option but it worked fine for me even though I selected the third.
Allow connections from computers running any version of Remote Desktop.
Allow connections only from computers running Remote Desktop with Network Level Authentication.
These settings should set your Windows 7 operating system to allow remote connections or to allow remote desktop administration from another Windows machine or Ubuntu.
- Check Windows Firewall and Antivirus.
Before you go to your Ubuntu machine, make sure the Windows firewall settings are not set to block remote connections to Windows 7. Also make sure Antivirus is not blocking remote connection or ping. In my case I had Mr. Extra Effecient Mcafee antivirus which was not even allowing ping reply from Windows. I didn't need Mcafee on Windows 7 machine anymore after I realized I have Microsoft's Security Essentials already installed, so I uninstalled Mcafee Antivirus and my Ubuntu machine started receiving ping reply.
- Computer name & IP address: Make a note of your Windows machine's name and ip address.
- Ping test: Open Terminal in Ubuntu and do a ping test to the Windows machine. First using the computer name, if that didn't work then try pinging the ip address.
- Install Remote Desktop Client: RDP protocol is Microsoft's proprietary protocol for remote connections however client applications can be used on non-microsoft operating systems to connect to Windows operating systems. There's many RDP client apps for Ubuntu and Ubuntu doesn't come with one even though mine got installed somehow by itself (not sure how, probably the regular updates might have installed it). Remmina Remote Desktop Client is a simple client that also saves the information for later use. You can install it through Ubuntu Software Center. If you are on Ubuntu 12.10 click "Ubuntu Software Center" icon from the bar or just type the word "Ubuntu" or "software" or "Ubuntu Software Center" in the Dash and click on the icon. Search for Remmina Remote Desktop Client and install it.
- Launch Remmina Desktop Client app: There should be a shortcut in the bar for the app, if not click on Dash and type Remmina and it'll search you the application. Click on it to launch it. To setup a new profile or connection to the Windows machine, type a descriptive name of the windows machine. In the server field type the computer name or the ip address. Set the client resolution and color depth and click on connect. You can check the share folder option to share Ubuntu folder in Windows machine. You can also change the sound and print options using the advance tab.
You shouldn't have problem connecting to your windows machine if you follow the above settings carefully. For any comments and suggestions use the comments section below.


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