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Edwin Jackson – Photo by Keith Allison Jim Bowden of ESPN is reporting via twitter: Padres are out on Edwin Jackson after refusing to go to 4 years….destination down to Cubs and Rangers The 29-year old Jackson is seeking a four-year deal after signing a one-year deal with the Nationals last season in an effort to build up his value. It should be noted that Jackson's agent is Scott Boras. This doesn't mean that Jackson won't come back on things, but at this point, the Padres are holding firm at three years. This may open the door for Rick Porcello talks with the Tigers. Stay tuned. As always, your comments are welcome
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The Atlantic: "Chart of the Day: 'Buffett Rule' Wouldn't Bring In Much Revenue"
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Washington Post: "In early Obama White House, female staffers felt frozen out"
Gallup: "Perry Looks Better Against Romney Than Against Obama"
Politico: "Eric Holder: We aim to close Gitmo before Election Day"
Whenever political reality crashes headlong into liberal dogma, it's always fun to pull up a lawn chair and grab some popcorn. So here we have The Nation's Robert Dreyfuss -- a foreign policy blogger (and former Lyndon LaRouche devotee) -- writing about why Obama went to war:
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Wednesday, February 8
COMEDY, glitz, glamour and the world-famous story of a convent overhauled by the glamorous Deloris Van Cartier was on offer at Wolverhampton Grand as Sister Act the musical came to town.
A seamless performance came from the whole cast, which included Cynthia Erivo in the lead role, Brookside's Michael Starke as Monsignor O'Hara and Denise Black, made famous by roles in Coronation Street and Bad Girls, as Mother Superior.
Set in the 70s, a departure from the film's original setting of the 90s, it was a night of fun for all - even those who had not seen the film.
Following Deloris through her journey at the convent where she is sent for her own protection, the show was all singing, all dancing but also included some tender moments, particularly the bond which she forms with Mother Superior.
Special mention must go to Julie Atherton for her role as Sister Mary Robert as her stunning voice really wowed the crowds.
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The Will & Grace star and his longtime boyfriend have announced that they tied the knot last week in a secret ceremony.
Country Music Star Ty Herndon Comes Out as Gay
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This Week in Website Performance is a weekly feature of the Monitis.com blog. It summarizes recent articles about website performance. Why? Because your friends at Monitis.com care.
Hacking the brains of other people with API design.
Author: Jesper Louis Anderson.
Writing code intended to fail… improves performance? In this non-intuitive paradigm, chaotic fault injection forces developers to write more robust code. This results in a product that is more resistant to small faults and ultimately better performing.
Page speed really does matter
Author: Anirudh Surendranath.
Here is a good discussion of the various factors that affect page speed. From perception of speed to importance of outliers, this discussion touches on the top aspects of page speed as well as improvements.
How I Made my Blog 2.3x Faster
Author: Alex Browne.
Owning a Ruby on Rails blog site hosted on Heroku that was performing adequately was no reason to not improve performance! Alex Browne set to see how fast he could get on a tight budget. In all tests and metrics the new static site running on Jekyll on Octopress is much faster and capable than the old version. For only pennies a month, this is a consideration for anyone with a blog that is starting to cost too much.
Optimizing Your Network Stack for Optimal Mobile Web Performance
Author: Ian Applegate.
This technical article explores TCP congestion operation and settings, ultimately creating a case for upgrading the linux kernel. Updates in the 2.6.38.x kernel and more in 3.2.x provide enhanced and additional algorithms to tune congestion-affecting settings. There is no one best fit solution, and an approach of monitoring and adjusting is advised.
TCP incast: What is it? How can it affect Erlang applications?
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Performance on a datacentre's TCP network can sometimes be significantly worse than expected. TCP Throughput Collapse, also known as TCP Incast, affects many-to-one TCP links resulting in severe underutilisation of capacity. This is seen particularly in clusters where simultaneous requests are made of many nodes. While this article has a focus on erlang, anyone dealing with similar situations will be interested, particularly cluster storage, web search and MapReduce operations.
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Authors: Raja Appuswamy, Christos Gkantsidis, Dushyanth Narayanan, Orion Hodson, and Antony Rowstron.
Conventional wisdom is that scaling out to a cluster is the way to grow into larger data. This paper by Microsoft researchers demonstrate that with realistic, sub-petabyte, operations it is in fact better to scale up to a larger server. Included are recommendations for Hadoop tuning for scaling up as it is designed to work for scale out. Their results imply that future software infrastructures need to be designed both for good scale up and scale out.
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The 3rd International Internet of @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 16th International Cloud Expo - to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY - announces that its Call for Papers is now open. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the biggest idea since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago.
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Cultural, regulatory, environmental, political and economic (CREPE) conditions over the past decade are creating cross-industry solution spaces that require processes and technologies from both the Internet of Things (IoT), and Data Management and Analytics (DMA). These solution spaces are evolving into Sensor Analytics Ecosystems (SAE) that represent significant new opportunities for organizations of all types. Public Utilities throughout the world, providing electricity, natural gas and water, are pursuing SmartGrid initiatives that represent one of the more mature examples of SAE. We have s...
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The security devil is always in the details of the attack: the ones you've endured, the ones you prepare yourself to fend off, and the ones that, you fear, will catch you completely unaware and defenseless. The Internet of Things (IoT) is nothing if not an endless proliferation of details. It's the vision of a world in which continuous Internet connectivity and addressability is embedded into a growing range of human artifacts, into the natural world, and even into our smartphones, appliances, and physical persons. In the IoT vision, every new "thing" - sensor, actuator, data source, data con...
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The Internet of Things is tied together with a thin strand that is known as time. Coincidentally, at the core of nearly all data analytics is a timestamp. When working with time series data there are a few core principles that everyone should consider, especially across datasets where time is the common boundary. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Scott, Director of Enterprise Strategy & Architecture at MapR Technologies, discussed single-value, geo-spatial, and log time series data. By focusing on enterprise applications and the data center, he will use OpenTSDB as an example t...
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How do APIs and IoT relate? The answer is not as simple as merely adding an API on top of a dumb device, but rather about understanding the architectural patterns for implementing an IoT fabric. There are typically two or three trends: Exposing the device to a management framework Exposing that management framework to a business centric logic Exposing that business layer and data to end users. This last trend is the IoT stack, which involves a new shift in the separation of what stuff happens, where data lives and where the interface lies. For instance, it's a mix of architectural styles ...
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An entirely new security model is needed for the Internet of Things, or is it? Can we save some old and tested controls for this new and different environment? In his session at @ThingsExpo, New York's at the Javits Center, Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, reviewed hands-on lessons with IoT devices and reveal a new risk balance you might not expect. Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, has more than nineteen years' experience managing global security operations and assessments, including a decade of leading incident response and digital forensics. He is co-author of t...
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The Internet of Things will greatly expand the opportunities for data collection and new business models driven off of that data. In her session at @ThingsExpo, Esmeralda Swartz, CMO of MetraTech, discussed how for this to be effective you not only need to have infrastructure and operational models capable of utilizing this new phenomenon, but increasingly service providers will need to convince a skeptical public to participate. Get ready to show them the money!
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The Internet of Things will put IT to its ultimate test by creating infinite new opportunities to digitize products and services, generate and analyze new data to improve customer satisfaction, and discover new ways to gain a competitive advantage across nearly every industry. In order to help corporate business units to capitalize on the rapidly evolving IoT opportunities, IT must stand up to a new set of challenges. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Jeff Kaplan, Managing Director of THINKstrategies, will examine why IT must finally fulfill its role in support of its SBUs or face a new round of...
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One of the biggest challenges when developing connected devices is identifying user value and delivering it through successful user experiences. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Mike Kuniavsky, Principal Scientist, Innovation Services at PARC, described an IoT-specific approach to user experience design that combines approaches from interaction design, industrial design and service design to create experiences that go beyond simple connected gadgets to create lasting, multi-device experiences grounded in people's real needs and desires.
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Enthusiasm for the Internet of Things has reached an all-time high. In 2013 alone, venture capitalists spent more than $1 billion dollars investing in the IoT space. With "smart" appliances and devices, IoT covers wearable smart devices, cloud services to hardware companies. Nest, a Google company, detects temperatures inside homes and automatically adjusts it by tracking its user's habit. These technologies are quickly developing and with it come challenges such as bridging infrastructure gaps, abiding by privacy concerns and making the concept a reality. These challenges can't be addressed w...
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The Domain Name Service (DNS) is one of the most important components in networking infrastructure, enabling users and services to access applications by translating URLs (names) into IP addresses (numbers). Because every icon and URL and all embedded content on a website requires a DNS lookup loading complex sites necessitates hundreds of DNS queries. In addition, as more internet-enabled 'Things' get connected, people will rely on DNS to name and find their fridges, toasters and toilets. According to a recent IDG Research Services Survey this rate of traffic will only grow. What's driving t...
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Scott Jenson leads a project called The Physical Web within the Chrome team at Google. Project members are working to take the scalability and openness of the web and use it to talk to the exponentially exploding range of smart devices. Nearly every company today working on the IoT comes up with the same basic solution: use my server and you'll be fine. But if we really believe there will be trillions of these devices, that just can't scale. We need a system that is open a scalable and by using the URL as a basic building block, we open this up and get the same resilience that the web enjoys.
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Connected devices and the Internet of Things are getting significant momentum in 2014. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Hunter, Chief Scientist & Technology Evangelist at Greenwave Systems, examined three key elements that together will drive mass adoption of the IoT before the end of 2015. The first element is the recent advent of robust open source protocols (like AllJoyn and WebRTC) that facilitate M2M communication. The second is broad availability of flexible, cost-effective storage designed to handle the massive surge in back-end data in a world where timely analytics is e...
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We are reaching the end of the beginning with WebRTC, and real systems using this technology have begun to appear. One challenge that faces every WebRTC deployment (in some form or another) is identity management. For example, if you have an existing service – possibly built on a variety of different PaaS/SaaS offerings – and you want to add real-time communications you are faced with a challenge relating to user management, authentication, authorization, and validation. Service providers will want to use their existing identities, but these will have credentials already that are (hopefully) i...
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"Matrix is an ambitious open standard and implementation that's set up to break down the fragmentation problems that exist in IP messaging and VoIP communication," explained John Woolf, Technical Evangelist at Matrix, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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P2P RTC will impact the landscape of communications, shifting from traditional telephony style communications models to OTT (Over-The-Top) cloud assisted & PaaS (Platform as a Service) communication services. The P2P shift will impact many areas of our lives, from mobile communication, human interactive web services, RTC and telephony infrastructure, user federation, security and privacy implications, business costs, and scalability. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Robin Raymond, Chief Architect at Hookflash, will walk through the shifting landscape of traditional telephone and voice services ...
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Explosive growth in connected devices. Enormous amounts of data for collection and analysis. Critical use of data for split-second decision making and actionable information. All three are factors in making the Internet of Things a reality. Yet, any one factor would have an IT organization pondering its infrastructure strategy. How should your organization enhance its IT framework to enable an Internet of Things implementation? In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, James Kirkland, Chief Architect for the Internet of Things and Intelligent Systems at Red Hat, described how to revolutioniz...
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Treatment of Diabetic Retinopathy and Macular Edema
How is a macular edema treated?
Macular edema is treated with laser treatment, injection of medications into the eye, or both. Focal laser treatment involves the application of small laser burns to distinct areas of leaky blood vessels within the macula, whereas grid laser treatment applies laser burns over a larger area of the macula and is used to treat more widespread fluid edema. These laser burns slow the leakage of fluid and reduce the amount of fluid in the retina. This treatment is usually completed in one session, but additional treatments may be needed. Laser therapy of macular edema may or may not improve vision, but has been proven to decrease the chances of further vision loss over time by 50% based on the landmark Early Treatment of Diabetic Retinopathy Study. Medications injected into the eye for macular edema include steroids and so-called VEGF inhibitors (for example, Lucentis™ and Avastin™). These treatments have been shown to decrease retinal swelling and improve vision in patients with diabetic macular edema. Steroids and anti-VEGF drugs are increasingly being used in tandem with laser treatment.
A patient may need focal laser surgery more than once to control the leaking fluid. If you have macular edema in both eyes and require laser surgery, generally only one eye will be treated at a time, usually several weeks apart.
Focal laser treatment stabilizes vision. In fact, focal laser treatment reduces the risk of vision loss by 50%. In a small number of cases, if vision is lost, it can be improved. Contact your eye care professional if you have vision loss.
What are the side effects of treatments for macular edema?
Both focal and grid laser treatment may result in new, small blind spots in a person's vision. Steroid injections may result in elevated internal eye pressure and glaucoma that requires treatment. The newer anti-VEGF medications appear to have a good safety profile overall (similar drugs used intravenously to treat colon cancer have shown a small but definite increased risk for blood clots), but often require multiple injections over time.
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How is diabetic retinopathy treated?
No treatment is needed during the first three stages of diabetic retinopathy unless a patient has macular edema (although research suggests that laser treatment may be effective for severe nonproliferative retinopathy in some patients with type 2 diabetes). To prevent progression of diabetic retinopathy, people with diabetes should control their levels of blood sugar, blood pressure, and blood cholesterol.
The gold-standard for treatment of proliferative retinopathy is laser therapy. The doctor applies 1000 to 2500 laser burns throughout the peripheral retina (areas outside of the macula). This procedure is referred to as panretinal photocoagulation (PRP) or scatter laser treatment, and helps to shrink abnormal blood vessels that bleed into the eye and cause retinal detachment. Because a higher number of laser burns is necessary, two or more sessions usually are required to complete treatment. PRP has been proven to reduce the chances of severe vision loss from proliferative retinopathy by up to 75%. Importantly, PRP works better before the fragile, new blood vessels have started to bleed. That is why it is important to have regular, comprehensive dilated eye exams. If bleeding or fibrous scar tissue growth are severe, patients may need a surgical procedure called a vitrectomy. During a vitrectomy, the vitreous gelatin filling the inside of the eye and blood contained therein are removed, thereby improving vision and reducing the risk of any or further retinal detachment. More recently, anti-VEGF drugs are starting to be used in addition to PRP for the treatment of proliferative retinopathy.
Scatter laser treatment works better before the fragile, new blood vessels have started to bleed. That is why it is important to have regular, comprehensive dilated eye exams. Even if bleeding has started, scatter laser treatment may still be possible, depending on the amount of bleeding.
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Does anyone know how to brew real low alcohol beer with a good taste but with a ABV of 1% or less. IE a beer softdrink that one could take with him to an event when one drives.
I use canned kits and do not want to go into recipe's etc. I know I can use less sugar and more water but ideas needed that will give a stronger flavour with the reduced alcohol.
You can brew a regular beer, then boil off the alcohol. I know there is a temp under 212 that you can hold at to evaporate the alcohol, but I'm not sure what it is. After evaporating the alcohol, the yeast will be dead, so add a bit of yeast with the priming sugar and bottle it. The beer will bottle condition normally, and leave you with a minimal alcohol content. A higher hopping rate, or use of a lot of dark grains will help on the storage stability since there will be no alcohol to help preserve it.
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I would defiantly recommend Jack Bradley . I approached many other lawyers before Mr. Bradley and I was convinced he was the one for our case. First, I didn't have to wait to get in his office right away. He is very up front and honest in what to expect along the way in our case. He always met with us before each pretrial , and was always early for court. My husband case had 3 felony's which were all dropped to Misdemeanors. I want to thank Mr. Bradley for all his hard work in our case . If you are looking for a knowledgeable and trustworthy Attorney he is the Best.
Many years ago when I first hired him, he lied to me saying I would not go to prison, so it made me hire him, over the other Lawyers I went to see that were telling me I will prolly go to prison for my crime. So to avoid trial about 8-months later he offered me a deal and it was a prison sentence, saying prolly 2-years. well I received 9-years and did about all of it besides a few months.. He will talk about the Judge or say they dont have a case to get yer money, but in the end he will drop you like nothing.. DONT BELIEV ANYTHING HE SAYS.
Bradley was paid 2500 for a year old divorce case, no dependants, no settlement, no issue where my ex got a thug of an attorney to represent him in what should have been a civil issue - one year after divorce WAS FINAL. Bradley did nothing. NO emails, case was not heard (duh) first year law student would have responded with the lack of legitimacy to the entire issue. No court, no paper work and Bradley failed to respond with one email, one point, one issue.
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Mr. Bradley kept me informed of what was happening in my case and met with me before each hearing. I have had other attorneys who would never return a call after I paid, but he really seemed to care about my case. He knows what he is doing and is very good in court. My only (small) complaint is that there would sometimes be a long wait to get in for my appointment because he was late on his way back from court - but it was always worth the wait. I would use him again - although I hope I never have to.


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FIFA 2001 Major League Soccer PlayStation
- Summary: Though FIFA 2001 is a solid enough game in its own right, the game's lack of innovation or significant upgrades keeps it from having the same impact as FIFA 2000.
- Developer: EA Sports
- Genre(s): Soccer
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Score distribution:
Positive: 9 out of 10
Mixed: 1 out of 10
Negative: 0 out of 10
I can honestly say that FIFA 2001 is a damn fine game without any guilt or remorse. The animations are great, the sense of speed is solid, and the overall sense of the game is comprised of refinement and depth.
If you're a FIFA newbie and own nothing but a PSX, FIFA 2001 is by far the best soccer sim out there.
A lack of any significant refinement or incremental upgrades and graphics that haven't stood the test of time make FIFA 2001 a pale upgrade to last year's FIFA title.
It's extremely satisfying to take the U.S. to the World Cup finals (hey, a guy can dream, can't he?), Arsenal to the top of the English Premiere League, or simply play out bitter rivalries like Celtic vs. Rangers, or heck, Chicago Fire versus Deportivo la Coruna...could happen....
People looking for a more realistic and rewarding football experience go for "ISS Pro Evolution." If a fast and not too taxing kickabout is what you want, well, you know the score with FIFA games by now.
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Positive: 2 out of 4
Mixed: 1 out of 4
Negative: 1 out of 4
AndresM.Aug 22, 2001The best.
YossiJun 7, 2001I actually give this game a 9.5. I just picked up the game yesterday and found playing it for the first time that the controls were not too complicated and easy to use -- a big Plus ++++. I would like them to go back to the indoor option again as in FIFA 97. It was a real suprise and a plus to see about a quarter of the Israeli Pre teams in the game but I would also like the inclusion of some of the better 2nd divsion teams from the US like Rochester Rhino who after all have beaten several MLS teams in open cup play:o) Thanks, and I am looking forward to what FIFA 2002 brings. … Collapse
ZiggyS.May 11, 2002Pretty fun. I can only score 1 way though (center it and bicycle kick it from the middle) which makes it a little boring. Also i don't like any of the camera views. You can only have it too zoomed in or too zoomed out. Great graphics and good 2 player gameplay are what makes the game good.… Expand
KarlD.Jan 4, 2002After I bought FIFA 2001, I spent 2 hours playing it, and then I went quickly to buy "ISS Pro Evolution 2"! This game is sluggish. Except for some good graphics, a relatively big team database with some real football kits (a thing which I like a lot) the game is not much enjoyable. You can easily score, and when you do so, you have not that nice feel of glory. The gameplay is not addictive at all and lacks real fun. If you want some really good gameplay, opt for ISS2, a really worthy purchase, not like this one. Bad EA!!… Expand


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Top Notch! A real First Class RV park with a professional, helpful staff and clean well maintained, level sites. You can't get a better CG for the money. Definitely a return is in the cards. - reccarey
Price reflects weekly rate. Roads are asphalt as are cramped sites. Front desk folks are very cordial. The comments about low-flying planes are understated. This park is on a the Truckee River, directly across from which is the primary runway for the Reno-Tahoe Airport. The sound of a 737 jetliner the approximate distance of a football field above your coach all day long and occasionally during the night is a bit much. The pool was not open but appeared to be run down. The adjacent public park is very busy during the weekend. The rules require that you walk your dog outside of the park on a public walking/bike trail (where I witnessed homeless people sleeping), which can be a little frightening if your dog needs to go out at 4 in the morning in the dark, not to mention a bit difficult for the dogs to hold it until they get there. Furthermore, there are only two points of access to the trail and not at all dog friendly in my opinion. Lots of long term folks with run-down rigs and damaged cars Low branches all over the place. We will not stay again. - BigRigTravelerUSA
We were able to get a campsite without a reservation, (mid-week & off season) and found the check-in process to be very smooth and professionally handled. We had a drive-through spot, but we had to unhook in order to fit our truck in our site. The sites were fairly close together, affording us just enough space for a couple of lawn chairs beside the trailer. The Wi-Fi and TV hookups were excellent. If the park had been full it would have been inconvenient to get our dog to the pet area, but we were able to cut across without going through anyone's campsite. A nice, paved walking path goes along the Truckee River adjacent to the park. The trail goes on to a public day park that would be great for kids. Considering that the RV park is in the city and a short drive from shopping, restaurants and casinos, it is a fairly good buy. - Jolalla
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This is the 2nd time we have stayed here. Very clean park, 3 nice dog parks, artificial turf at each site is a nice touch. WiFi is very poor and sites are close together. When you park your car chances are the front of it will be almost over your neighbors septic. Very strange. Pretty easy to tour the area from and we would probably stay here again if in the area even though it is a bit high for what it is. By that I mean the size of sites. - hdrider
Very nice park. Concrete pads and interior roads. Fake grass otherwise. Clean and convenient bathrooms. Good laundry. Convenient to the freeway. Close to casinos. Will stay again. - jeffnbarb
We were winding down our 3.5 month trip to Alaska and back, and having stayed at approximately 80 different campgrounds, this one is by far the nicest, cleanest place on the trip. Huge concrete pads with Astroturf (hey, at least it was green) and nice picnic tables. Staff was friendly and we wish we could've stayed longer. Highly recommend this park! - mollykid
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Camp sites are small. Had to deposit trailer and park tow vehicle next to trailer. WIFI did not work. Cable costs extra. - LaSelvaMan
We were a bit disappointed with this park. We had reserved a 50 amp pull-through site, and were anticipating services as listed on their web page (which states "60' pull through sites, back-in sites, 30 & 50 amp service, cable TV and free WiFi" plus more). Apparently there are only a few 60 foot pull-throughs, and the park has among the tightest spacing we have ever seen. It took a lot of jockeying to get our 40 foot motor home into the first space we were assigned (it was a pull-through), but we felt exposed in the roadway at both the front and rear (without our tow car attached). When we attempted to hook up services we discovered that the 50 amp receptacle was out of service (and labeled that way inside the cover). The site was level and paved, but also sticky with tar and what appeared to be melted chocolate ice cream. We were offered the option to move and allowed to pick a new space from about 4 they had available with 50 amp service. After a long day of travel we opted to stay where we were for the first night and move our rig the following day (since we had to take it in for service anyway). It turns out there is an extra charge for cable TV, we were unable to connect to the park Wi-Fi, and the 30 amp receptacle was installed upside down. The next day our new site was much nicer -- still level, no tar and a functioning electrical box -- but our motorhome still hung out into the road at both ends. On the plus side, the young lady at the desk was quite friendly and they keep fresh-baked cookies in the office for guests. We would explore other options before staying here again. - The Borgs
Pass this place! Next to a mobile home rat park. No escort to site. Streets very narrow. Sites very narrow! Sites not long enough for 40'er. Wi fi did not work past office. Cable not working. Not enough room to park my dually truck on site. Trees overgrown throughout the park. Staff did offer to refund two additional nights and apologized for our experience. We will NOT stay here again. - firedguy


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