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Martial Art Styles
The following Martial Arts Styles are offered at Coastal Kenpo Karate and Martial Arts:
- Arnis/Kali/Escrima/FMA
- Jiu-Jitsu (Jujutsu/Jujitsu)
- Judo
- Karate
- Kempo/Kenpo
- Silat
Programs & Class Schedule
We offer Martial Arts training for ages 3-5, 6-8, 9-13 and adult classes from 14 and up.
Youth Programs include a mixture of Ed Parker's American Kenpo, Filipino Kali, Judo and Jujitsu.
Adult Programs offered are Judo and Jujitsu, Kenpo and Kali, or all four.
Please view our website for updated class information. www.coastalkenpo.com.
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Ref#: 39870Our client, a respected global law firm, is seeking a freelance Senior Designer to lead the creation and production of the firm's visual identity across all branded elements including printed materials, environments, and online and interactive media. The Senior Designer will design and implement a visual identity in a way that ensures the integrity, consistency and …
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Parents, staff & neighbors joined in the fun
You get the Lake Highlands Elementary Playground Project fundraiser!
What started as a small group of parents and LHE's principal, Kim Sullivan, wanting to better the school playground, has reached beyond the boundaries of any attendance zone.
Everyone in the area knows that the Lake Highlands Elementary school playground is more than just an elementary playground, it's the community playground.
Yes, it's where the kids play at recess, but it's also so much more!
It's where families gather after school to catch up.
It's where little ones' playgroups meet to get acquainted with their future classmates.
It's where neighborhood soccer and baseball teams meet for practice.
It's where neighborhood groups host their ice cream socials.
It's where grandparents take their grandchildren to give them some fun exercise on the weekend.
And it's where neighborhood residents go to play with their dogs (and I've seen a cat or two!)
With so much activity, an updated playground is more than needed.
The LHE Playground Project street party and silent auction served as the kickoff event for the new endeavor.
The effort, which is estimated to take three to five years, officially began the long term project on Saturday, November 5th.
Parents, teachers and community members gathered on Larchcrest Drive for fellowship and meals from taco trucks.
Guests then walked up to Lake Highlands Elementary school for the silent auction and dessert.
Local musician and singer-songwriter, Trey Johnson, provided entertainment for guests who bid on everything from downtown staycation packages to jewelry and event tickets.
Hopes are to raise $180,000 over the next five years.
To keep up with this awesome project you can also visit the group's Facebook page here.


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Los Angeles locals are obsessed with sports and passionately support their local baseball, basketball and ice hockey teams. Here is our selection of the best sports games to watch while you're in Los Angeles:
1. Baseball - An iconic sporting experience in Los Angeles is to watch a L.A. Dodgers baseball game while you're in town. For tickets & more information: www.dodgers.com
2. Basketball - Watch the local Los Angeles N.B.A teams, the Lakers & The Clippers, battle it out for the national basketball title. For tickets & more information: www.staplescenter.com
3. Ice Hockey - As one of the most exciting & action-packed sports, see a game of ice hockey where the local favourites are the L.A.Kings. For tickets & more information: www.kings.nhl.com/
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Los Angeles boasts a wealth of fantastic art galleries and museums which should be an essential part of your LA itinerary
There are many incredible landmarks that should be a mandatory part of your Los Angeles itinerary
As the largest urban park in the city (and the country for that matter), Los Angeles' Griffith Park is a beautiful green, leafy oasis which boasts over 4,000 acres of natural parkland
When you're ready for a more peaceful change of scene from the vibrant, chaotic and electrifying city of Los Angeles, here are a few of our favourite places to visit just outside of Los Angeles
A scenic helicopter tour over Los Angeles is by far the most spectacular way to see the full aerial perspective of LA
Los Angeles boasts a wealth of spas & beauty centers which offer a wide selection of spa treatments to soothe the mind & body
Los Angeles is a cultural mecca of phenomenal live performances, from large scale concerts to live music & cultural festivals
Los Angeles locals are obsessed with sports and passionately support their local baseball, basketball and ice hockey teams


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(Ahram Online) How far will Egypt's new constitution change the position of women?
As Egypt's Constituent Assembly moves closer to completing the long-awaited draft constitution, concerns have been raised regarding articles dealing with the status and rights of women. Some commentators have predicted a reduction in woman's rights from those guaranteed in the 1971 constitution, whilst others have suggested there will be little change.
Article 11 of the 1971 constitution states
"The State shall guarantee harmonisation between the duties of woman towards the family and her work in the society, ensuring her equal status with man in fields of political, social, cultural and economic life without violation of the rules of Islamic jurisprudence.
This is to be compared with article 36 of the proposed draft constitution:
"The state is committed to taking all constitutional and executive measures to ensure equality of women with men in all walks of political, cultural, economic and social life, without violation of the rules of Islamic jurisprudence."
Amr Shalakany, professor of law at the American University in Cairo, said the new article has more details on the state's commitment to women's rights and is more straightforward:
"[Article 36 of the draft constitution] holds the state directly responsible [for women's rights] through the legislative and executive arms, while the previous article [of the 1971 constitution] was not detailed on how such matters would be guaranteed. The problem is that it keeps women in the same position as the old constitution."


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Low Cost Spay/Neuter Program
Friends of Manchester Animal Shelter has an important program called the Quick Fix Clinic, a low cost spay/neuter program for low income residents of Manchester. The clinic will alter and give vaccines to cats that are owned by low income families of Manchester.
This is a very important program — spay/neuter is the only way to reduce the number of stray animals that come in to the shelter. If you are low income and cannot afford to have your cat spayed or neutered please contact the shelter for this low cost option so we can help you. To learn more, please complete the form below.
This is not a walk-in clinic. Appointments are required. If you need an appointment, please USE THE FORM BELOW to contact the Manchester Animal Shelter.If you already have an appointment, the clinic is located at 194 Rockingham Road, Londonderry, NH 03053 (In the back of the FIS Insurance building).


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Why do hemorrhoids smell?
Why do hemorrhoids smell?
One of the most common diseases related to the gastrointestinal system is the condition of having hemorrhoids. Hemorrhoids are swollen veins in your rectum or anus. Initially felt as a lump, hemorrhoids are classified depending on severity, into four degrees or classes, and location. On its severity, hemorrhoids are considered to be on the first degree when it bleeds but they do not drop out of the rectum. It will be classified as second when there is prolapse from rectum and show on the outside. It will then be considered as third degree when hemorrhoids push out from rectum and there is a need of assistance for them to be pushed back inside. And fourth when, hemorrhoids cannot be pushed back in after coming out. They swell, strangulate and create a lot of pain. On its location, it can be categorized into internal, prolapsed, or external hemorrhoids. Internal hemorrhoids involve the veins inside your rectum while prolapsed hemorrhoids may stretch down until they bulge outside your anus but can be gently go back inside its rectum independently. External hemorrhoids, on the other hand, involve the veins outside the anus and can be itchy or painful and can sometimes crack and bleed.
Due to increased pressure in the veins of the anus or rectum, hemorrhoids develop. Having hemorrhoids can affect other health related issues such as one's odor. Development of hemorrhoids usually entails foul odor due to inadequate closure of the rectum, thereby allowing rectum walls to seep out. As this happens, feces can become stuck around hemorrhoids thus intensifying the leaking smell greatly. With a semi-open rectum, allows unpleasant body odor to leak causing the hemorrhoids to smell.
With today's advancements in health and medical field, treatments for hemorrhoids are offered that comes in wide array.
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This custom giclee shade presents a regal pattern in the bold look of black and white.
This floor lamp features a bold shade design from internationally renowned hospitality designer Stacy Garcia. Known for her use of color and pattern, Stacy's exclusive line of lighting makes a wonderfully colorful and unique design statement. The contemporary, brushed steel finished base features an on/off pull chain. The design has been printed onto a custom-made-to-order drum shade.U.S. Patent # 7,347,593.
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I've way outgrown pokemon... but me and friends, even highschools, still agree the games are worthwhile. However, we believe the new ones are just retarded. Back when the baddest dudes were the legendary birds was the best ever, and now they're bringing in these stupid ones that make trying to catch them all pointless.


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The Maple Leafs return to Air Canada Centre to close out the back-to-back tonight against the Flyers (7pm, Sportsnet, Sportsnet FAN590).
Preseason action began Sunday with a 4-3 win over Philadelphia thanks to goals from Nazem Kadri, Troy Bodie, Mason Raymond and Paul Ranger. Check out the Game In Six Minutes for all the highlights.
Don't forget we will be streaming the #TMLtalk Game Day Skate every Leafs home game this season starting today. Coverage begins at 10am with Paul Hendrick, Bob McGill, Jon Abbott and a cast of thousands. You can also watch LIVE on Leafs TV or this link. We will have Randy Carlyle's post practice press conference and interviews with players.
Here is the Leafs roster for tonight's game with projected lines and defence pairings.
Goalies: Jonathan Bernier, Drew MacIntyre
Defence: TJ Brennan, Mark Fraser, Jake Gardiner, Petter Granberg, Andrew MacWilliam, Morgan Rielly
Forwards: Carter Ashton, Troy Bodie, Tyler Bozak, David Clarkson, Andrew Crescenzi, Jerry D'Amigo, Phil Kessel, Nikolai Kulemin, Greg McKegg, Brad Ross, Trevor Smith, James van Riemsdyk
(21) van Riemsdyk- (42) Bozak- (81) Kessel
(37) Ashton- (39) McKegg- (71) Clarkson
(29) D'Amigo- (23) Smith- (41) Kulemin
(48) Ross- (58) Crescenzi- (40) Bodie
(51) Gardiner- (25) Brennan
(8) Granberg- (44) Rielly
(2) Fraser- (57) MacWilliam
(45) Bernier
(35) MacIntyre
The busy week continues on Thursday when the Leafs travel to Ottawa to face the Senators. Here is the full Leafs preseason schedule
Philadelphia has released a list of players who made the trip for the two games in London and Toronto. Check out the list here.
We will have video from Randy Carlyle and a few of the players following the morning skate.
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"A fun escape!"
This was my first Kate Morton book, so I wasn't sure what to expect. Bottomline: Based on this one, I'll check out another. If you're looking for great literature, you'll be disappointed. But if you're looking for a mystery that doesn't follow the traditional mold, then you'll enjoy this. I would call it a beach read, but it's a bit longer than your typical vacation book. The story toggles between WWII, the early 1960s and present day, and between narrators - yet it isn't confusing and the pacing doesn't feel contrived or annoying. This is a story of loss, love, second chances, deception and atonement. The narration seems simplistic at times, but it's easily forgiven if you allow yourself to go with the fun of the mystery.
"I am now actually less dumb - I hope."
If you enjoy behavioral research but aren't a scientist, this is a great read/listen. It touches on many key theories, but does so in a way that's easily accessible and fun. The author has a great conversational tone that makes the material engaging - and the anecdotes helped the different theories come to life for me, so I'm actually likely to remember them. (I tried listening to "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" and found that it largely went in one ear and out the other. I was worried this book would be more of the same - but it wasn't. I was surprised by how quickly it flew and how much I retained.)
"Post-Nuclear survival + 1950s innocence"
When I started this book, I had no idea that it was published in 1959. I say that, because while I found much of the book interesting and fun in a post-apocalyptic way, something about it struck me as naive. The characters were doing things that seemed unsophisticated. I couldn't tell if the author wasn't talented or if he was deliberately trying to portray the innocence of the decade. Once I googled the book and saw when it was published, it all snapped into place for me - it was written from a place of innocence. (As an example, the main character - who was otherwise sharp, capable and military trained - hadn't thought about their need for water when preparing his emergency kit. That's something that pretty much any US citizen today thinks of even in the case of temporary power outages.)
While details like that were distracting, the overall concept was fun to explore. The book is strongest in its first half. Once they settle into post-war life, it loses steam a bit. That said, the author did a great job creatively imagining a world in the wake of nuclear war. If you're a fan of this genre, it's probably worth adding to your shelf.
"Something's Missing"
First, let me confess: I'm a big fan of See's other novels, "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" and "Peony In Love." So I approached this book with high expectations, thinking it would deliver something along the same lines as those other books. It started out strong - showing us two beautiful and privileged girls in a Shanghai that was on the cusp of war. I wanted to spend more time in that setting, really getting a sense of what Shanghai life would've been like. Instead, we're transported to the United States, where the sisters immigrate to flee the war. This book feels like walking into a shrinking tunnel - what starts with possibilities becomes dark, depressing and limited. I think it's intended to showcase the love between two sisters, but I spent a good part of the book wanting to shake one of them for her selfishness and the other one for her blind love.
If you haven't read a See book before, don't start with this one because I worry you'll forgo her other works as a result. And that would be a shame.
"All the right elements..."
I was prepared to love this book. So many elements hit me precisely the right way: The language was great; the premise was alluring; the idea of wooden model villages appealed to the quirky collector in me; the details about the radio transmissions fascinated me; and the characters were all intriguing. And yet, I found my brain wandering as I listened. Even though I loved this book on many levels, I struggled to stay focused on it, which is rare for me. I'm not sure if that's because it toggled between different storylines and timelines so quickly, or if the same quirkiness that I loved about it left me feeling a bit scattered, but for whatever reason, I never felt like I really LANDED in this story.
Don't get me wrong - it's well written, a jewel of a premise, and rather well executed. It just fell flat for me. Because so many elements were right, I plan to re-listen to it in a year and see if it was simply a case of bad timing on my part. Despite my reservations, I encourage you to check it out and see what you think. There's a lot to love here.
"Great read for a book club!"
Color me impressed. I went in with low expectations because this was a first-time author, but I was quickly hooked. The writing was solid, the story well-told and the characters well-developed. There were a couple chapters about 3/4 of the way through when I felt like I'd been duped and it was a book with an agenda (trying to help adopted children stop asking questions about their birth families), but that was fleeting and then quickly dismissed. This was engaging and a fast listen, yet I found myself teary-eyed at the end, which means I cared about the characters. If all debuts could be this solid, we'd be spoiled. I plan to recommend this to my book club, because it's great fodder for discussion.
"Dark & twisted - and I mean that as a compliment!"
Disclosure: I'm not a pure Stephen King fan. I haven't read any of his long series and sometimes he loses me when things get a bit too other-worldly. That said, in recent years he's cranked out some books that I'm unable to put down, that I anticipate with the same salivation I normally reserve for fried ice cream. Mr. Mercedes falls into that category.
When King dies, I hope he leaves his body to science so they can autopsy his brain because I'd like to know how someone can have such a dark imagination without being a sociopath himself. In this book, he does a fantastic job writing from the perspective of a killer who takes joy in mowing down innocent civilians waiting in line for a job fair, then plots a very dark game of cat and mouse with a retired detective.
The thing that made this book different than some of his others is that the crimes seemed like they were pulled from the headlines. Unlike my challenge with some of King's other books, this plot line and characters were very much of this world. As it turns out, we just happen to live in scary times.
Definitely recommend this if you're looking for a good summer suspense.
"Not my thing"
This book had a lot of darkness to it, which I enjoyed. And the author is a solid writer with a big imagination. And who can argue with a murder mystery set at an amusement park?
And yet, something prevented me from really getting into it. It might be that the characters didn't come to life for me, or that there was too much "coincidence" in terms of the crossing of paths, or that there was really only one fully sympathetic character in the lot, or that the ending could've been so much more powerful.
"Just OK."
I really wanted to like this. I was hoping for an adult version of Harriet the Spy, told from a boy's perspective. Instead, I got a front seat for the end of a marriage told through one boy's love for his mother. The story itself would be fine if the title didn't gear me up for a sleuth-like tale. The spying felt a bit forced, as if it were an after-thought or a device introduced to filter the narrative. Don't get me wrong - the book gathers steam as it goes and the second-half is better than the first, though I think part of that was my willingness to shift focus and accept the story for what it was rather than what I wanted it to be.
So in summary: it's a fine story if you're looking for a book about the complexity of relationships. If you're only buying it because you liked the cover or title - skip it.
"Real life rocket man"
If you've ever been curious about space travel and all the work that goes into it, then you'll find this to be a well-written, interesting true story by a recently retired astronaut. Hadfield is at his best when he's describing the experience since it's as close as I'll ever come to space. The "life lessons" imparted throughout don't really strengthen the story and make it a bit preachy. I think he would've been better served if he'd simply focused on his bio without the take-aways. That said, it's still a great read. It made this week's launch of the Soyuz (and its delay in connecting with ISS) really come to life for me. He seems like a solid human, and I was glad to see that he realized his life's dream.


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More eateries are coming to Union Station in Downtown LA! A very popular crepe restaurant from Santa Monica located on Third Street Promenade called Cafe Crepe (they're originally from Canada with locations in Vancouver and Toronto) will be opening later this year taking over a space once occupied by Union Bagel, which shuttered three years ago in 2011. According to a manager at Cafe Crepe I spoke to, the lease was just signed and they are hoping to open before the end of this year. The new eatery will sit directly across from the much revered fine dining Traxx Restaurant, which has been operating since 1997. Cafe Crepe will also have patio seating like Traxx and add to a growing number of new businesses opening inside LA's landmark train station including T & Y Bakery opening soon.
Category Archives: mass transportation
Cafe Crepe of Santa Monica to Open Second Location in Union Station Downtown LA
Posted in architecture, bicycle oriented, downtown los angeles, food, mass transportation, pedestrian oriented, restaurants, smart growth, union station
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Peek Inside Exciting Upgrades Happening at Union Station in Downtown LA
Over the last two months since we found out that some very exciting upgrades were coming to Union Station in Downtown LA, work has been humming along with construction upgrades to the station including: the addition of new wayfinding signage; major touch-up work like fresh paint on walls and floors getting a beautiful shiny glossy polish; and other restoration work that's really producing some very exciting and dramatic results. Part of the wayfinding signage program being implemented even includes a new towering interactive kiosk in the east portal section of the station and new large digital schedule screens for Amtrak and Metrolink.
Posted in architecture, bicycle oriented, downtown los angeles, environmentally green, mass transportation, pedestrian oriented, public spaces, union station
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Stephen Kane Running for DLANC: "Safer Streets, Redoing Pershing Square, More Transit" in Downtown LA
By Stephen Kane
It's no longer a secret: DTLA is on the verge of becoming a great urban core once again. Promise and opportunity abound in this rapidly growing community, but so do the challenges that we must address in order to keep downtown on the right path and direction. As we continue to grow and evolve, we will increasingly wrestle with who we are and what we aspire to be.
Posted in community involvement, downtown los angeles, economic development, education, environmentally green, events, guest writer, mass transportation, parks, pedestrian oriented, people, pershing square, politics, public spaces, smart growth
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New Wayfinding Signs, More Upgrades Coming Soon to Union Station in Downtown LA
Last week, I got an awesome tour of Union Station from Metro's Deputy Executive Officer of Countywide Planning, Jenna Hornstock. I learned about some very exciting changes coming to the busiest rail station west of the Mississippi. Basically, you have two different timelines for planned improvement projects: short term and long term changes. Both are very exciting because it means Union Station is going to get better and better and play a much more prominent and vital role in our region's growing mass transit network.
Posted in architecture, downtown los angeles, economic development, mass transportation, pedestrian oriented, public spaces, real estate, smart growth, union station
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ULI FutureBuild Event Will Unveil Radical Reinventions of Downtown LA and Beyond
Watch a short video about ULI FutureBuild hosted in Downtown LA!
Mayor Eric Garcetti is among the leaders who will preview dramatic changes in urban living at FutureBuild 2014. On January 28 ULI Los Angeles presents this high-level, interactive event. Mayor Garcetti will give the keynote speech – a preview of a sustainably designed a future Los Angeles. (Could it be something like the transit-oriented Downtown depicted in Spike Jonze's movie "Her?") Other Downtown-focused topics will include: new bikeways; a preview of the new cubicle-free office represented by CBRE's redesigned headquarters; parklets such as those popping up on Spring Street; expanded access to a restored L.A. River, and more.
Russian-Style "T & Y Bakery" Coming to Union Station in Downtown LA
Always good to see more new businesses opening at Union Station. T & Y Bakery is coming to the west coast's busiest rail hub by this spring. The Russian-style bakery with currently two locations — one at Farmers Market at 3rd/Fairfax and another in West Hollywood — is planning to build-out a brand new 258 square foot food stall next to Ben & Jerry's and across from the Amtrak ticketing counter and exciting brand new Amtrak Metro Lounge. T & Y, which stands for "Tbilisi & Yerevan" (the capital cities of Georgia and Armenia respectively), will bring to Union Station the same yummy selection of pastries (like baklavas) and paninis that they're known for in their other locations.
Los Angeles Getting Its "Train Mojo" Back: Amtrak Metropolitan Lounge Now Open at Union Station in Downtown LA
For a city known mostly for its embarrassingly robust driving culture and clogged freeways, it's no surprise that LA lagged behind other large urban cities (i.e., New York, DC, Chicago, Philly, etc.) when it comes to train travel even though we're the second largest city in the country. However, we are making great strides as the Pacific Surfliner — serving LA and San Diego up to Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo — is now the busiest Amtrak route outside the northeast corridor with 2.7 million passengers in 2013. And now another symbolic sign that LA is getting its "train mojo" back is the opening of the Amtrak Metropolitan Lounge at Downtown LA's Union Station.
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Feast Your Eyes: Latest Renderings Revealed for The Bloc Makeover in Downtown LA
Feast your eyes on the newest renderings of the exciting $160 million makeover of The Bloc (formerly Macy's Plaza) located in the heart of Downtown LA's Financial District bounded by bustling 7th Street, Flower and Hope, as well as 8th Street to the south. The 1.8 million square foot mixed-use project will be transformed from the current eye-sore, brick fortress into an updated, modern commercial hub of 400,000 sf of retail, 750,000 sf office, and a $40 million updated 485-room Sheraton Hotel that will contribute significantly to the unprecedented urban revitalization happening in Downtown LA.
Posted in architecture, downtown los angeles, economic development, fashion, financial district, food, hotels, mass transportation, mixed-use development, office, pedestrian oriented, real estate, restaurants, retail, smart growth
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ULI Los Angeles: Transit Oriented LA (aka ToLA) Re-Envisions Transportation Design
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti will join ULI Los Angeles, a District Council of the Urban Land Institute (ULI), for Transit Oriented L.A., a long-anticipated summit exploring how to dramatically improve transportation corridors. With interactive panel presentations from nationally recognized speakers, Transit Oriented L.A. – or ToLA– will expand the traditional emphasis on individual transit stations to a bold transformation of corridors to achieve a truly transit-oriented Los Angeles.
ToLA is Thursday, October 10, 2013, 7:30 a.m. — 12:30 p.m. at the Japanese American National Museum, 100 N Central Ave, Los Angeles, 90012.
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Brigham Yen Featured on FOX 11 News: Discusses "Downtown LA's Renaissance"
Super fun! I was on LA's local FOX 11 news channel today discussing with co-anchors, Maria Sansone and Tony McEwing, some of the exciting things happening in Downtown LA's urban renaissance as well as promoting DTLA Rising to more Angelenos out there.
Please enjoy the video!
Ratkovich Acquires Downtown LA Macy's Plaza, Will Begin $160 Million Upgrade with New Access to Subway Station
One of the biggest eye sores (and embarrassments) in all of Downtown Los Angeles — the 1970s "shopping fortress" known as Macy's Plaza — has a very bright future ahead of it. One of LA's most respected developers, The Ratkovich Company, has successfully acquired the dated complex from Jamison Services, Inc for $241 million according to the LA Times. The purchase, which closed escrow last week, includes not only the retail portion (Macy's, Express, Bath and Body Works, LA Fitness, etc.) but also the 23-story, 485-room Sheraton hotel and the 33-story 700 S Flower office tower totaling 2.4 million square feet. Ratkovich plans to spend $160 million to upgrade the entire complex with some very exciting changes that will dramatically alter the urban landscape of the Financial District.
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Construction Watch: "One Santa Fe" Mixed-Use to Bring 438 Apartments to Arts District in Downtown LA
As the Arts District in Downtown LA continues to grow with the addition of more dining and retail — Stumptown Coffee, Eat.Drink.Americano, Poketo, and Apolis: Common Gallery to name a few — the next exciting game changer on the horizon that will have the single largest impact on the burgeoning urban neighborhood is the $160 million One Santa Fe mixed-use project being developed by three entities forming "One Santa Fe PMC, LLC" ("PMC" includes Polis Builders/Nick Patsaouras, The McGregor Company/Bill McGregor and Cowley Real Estate Partners/Chuck Cowley) with two financial partners (Goldman Sachs and Canyon-Johnson Urban Fund).
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Wetzel's Pretzels Now Open at 7th/Metro Subway Station in Downtown LA
A new Wetzel's Pretzels has replaced the original "subway snack bar" that symbolized a new direction that LA was taking when it comes to walking vs driving and urban vs suburban. Back in summer of 2011, "Carmegeddon" was the talk of the town as many Angelenos feared the impending "shut down" and "collapse" of our city due to the closure of the 405 (aka, the Westside's largest parking lot) as part of a billion dollar freeway-widening project. (Don't we know by now that widening a freeway actually induces more traffic because it encourages driving?) The amount of irrational widespread national media coverage of the "impending shut down" spoke volumes about the general public's negative impression of Los Angeles as an auto-obsessed town utterly dependent on the car where a single freeway closure could incapacitate all Angelenos!
New Modern Subway Station Canopies Help Elevate Transit in Los Angeles
Pretty much exactly a year ago, we learned that two subway stations in Downtown LA were getting new modern station canopies (courtesy of Metro) that would make the portals both more visible to riders (especially visitors unfamiliar with LA's transit network) and to help protect the escalators and entryway from the elements. A year later, the two downtown stations — Civic Center and Pershing Square — have now completed construction on the new oval-shaped glass canopies.
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Ideas for Downtown LA: Using Grand Central Terminal NYC as a Model for LA Union Station
I just got back to LA after spending a week in New York. Every time I visit America's largest urban center, I am inspired by the incredible urbanism that defines the city. The infrastructure and built environment, mix of architecture, diversity of businesses, and strong pedestrian culture never ceases to amaze me. For us in LA, as we continue to press for change — improving our own urbanism in a city still dominated by a suburban, car-oriented mentality — it would behoove us to look at successful models and examples from other cities that could be applied to Downtown LA. One of those prime examples is Grand Central Terminal in Midtown at 42nd Street, which has experienced an amazing turnaround from irrelevancy and near demolition in the 1960s to one of the greatest rail stations in the world today.
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Established in 2002, Destination Outdoors today, is a premier experiential learning & development organization operating across India, Middle East & North Africa. An organization that uses experience based corporate training and employee development methods to engage corporates at a level that encourages long term behavioral changes. This experiential learning combines interactive business simulations and exercises with serious learning and is an extremely powerful medium for imparting learning in new skills and helping individuals to improve existing ones. All this is simulated through our "Microworlds".
Microworlds or containers / learning labs, 'compress time and space, so that it becomes possible to experiment and to learn when the consequences of our decisions / actions can be easily examined, reviewed and improved. Mistakes and errors made in microworlds are learning experiences. Destination Outdoor's forte is designing and creating 'microworlds' for managers to 'play and learn'. These microworlds are "playgrounds" for "relevant play" and costs of failed experiments are non- existent.
'Destination Outdoors' empowers your human capital:
What support do we need? If you and your team are to achieve the vision you have established then support is necessary in the way of training and development, facilitation, coaching, counseling and just general Acquisition of skills.
How effective are we? A high energy team is one which regularly reviews its effectiveness and continually improves its performance. Benchmarks for success can be established and procedures for learning from mistakes implemented.
Our Vision
Our reason for being lies in creating learning environments to inspire people to realize their self potential and being human to others, thereby creating a just and compassionate world.
Our Mission
1. Provide a platform that combines fun & learning through carefully designed learning mediums.
2. Provide the opportunity for personal and professional development in an exciting natural environment.
3. Adopt a model of "complete learning" that not only enables managerial capabilities and its application, but also helps imbibe values in an individual, which changes the way people behave towards other people, towards themselves and towards challenges and problems of life.
4. Provide a unique experience of real-life simulation as a medium for building sustainable learning capabilities across all age groups.
Experiential Learning Approach
Learning By Doing: D.O. programs are highly effective. Why? The answer is in our distinctive use of experiential learning methods. Experiential learning is learning by doing - one learns as a result of direct, hands-on experience gained through guided exploration and problem solving. Activities are the heart of the experiential learning process.
Fully Engaged: Activities in our programs involve adventure, excitement, and heightened emotions. Participants inevitably find themselves absorbed in activities and deeply invested in outcomes - a perfect situation for learning. When individuals are fully engage -physically, intellectually, and emotionally - in discovering information, they learn more... and they retain more of what they learn.
An Ideal Context: Navigational exercises, high and low challenge courses, and our repertoire of challenging games / exercises, role plays & business simulations provide an ideal context for individuals to discover new information and try out new behaviors. Participants can experiment with solutions to real-life situations without real-life consequences. The learning process is accelerated because feedback is immediate, concrete, and visible to all.
Enduring Discoveries Lasting Results: Participants transfer their learning to their everyday lives with the help of facilitated discussions and other reflective activities. D.O.'s experienced staff guide the participants in their exploration. Shaping activities and helping participants reflect upon their experience, our facilitators work to ensure that participants derive the greatest possible benefit from a program and internalize the lessons learned. And discoveries endure when made in the midst of exhilarating, unforgettable accomplishments.
"Most outdoor training programmes are conducted for team initiative and group problem-solving exercises. Current research indicates that the focus of outbound/wilderness programmes is primarily on leadership and decision -making (60 percent and 40 percent respectively). In contrast, the objectives of outdoor - centred programmes are much more wide ranging. They include team building (90%), self-esteem (50%), leadership (40%), problem-solving (20%), decision-making (15%) and encouraging a sense of corporate ownership (2%).
For Destination Outdoors this type of training does work because we follow our process for every training programme. This process include "clear objectives, skilled facilitation, a plan to transfer the knowledge gained back to the job, credible evaluation and follow-up."
Unique Destinations
Programme Success Reasons - Location, Location and Location
We choose an off-site facility away from work with a reputation for excellent hospitality standards. The site staff are also trained towards delivering our workshops and their deliverables aligned to our goals. The locations which are far from the maddening crowds are chosen keeping in mind the challanges required for administrating our exercises / simulations which revolve around water bodies, cliff faces and natural woods. All these beautiful surroundings are critical for our programme design and the challenge necessary for facilitating learning!!
"A birds eye view of the workplace from our unique destinations enables the participants to look at their workplace very objectively as we are away from our usual workplace and in a parallel micro-world."
Outdoor Safety
Success Reason - Our people, our process, our equipment!!
People: Our outdoor staff are trained professionally in the field of "high rope high risk" simulations. Their mountaineering competencies are due to qualifications from the worlds best institutes with minimum experience of 10 years in the field. Every programme has an assigned Chief Adventure Co-ordinator, Safety Officer & Logistics Officer. These professionals administer the exercises and designed simulations which really form the mediums for learning for the participants.
Process: Our programmes ensure 100% safety because of a 3 line safety process followed for high rope simulations. The process for every other water based or navigational simulations is well designed and ensures complete safety of the participants and allows them to step out of their comfort zones in a non-threatening manner!!
Equipment: Our gear including our ropes, hardware, life jackets, rafts, exercise props, comprehensive medical gear, electronic & navigational tools are all from the world best manufacturers and this ensures a reliable audit for all outdoor gear. Our staff maintains logs on usage of all gear as a part of our safety process.
Diversified Clientele
Success Reasons – Experience across industry and across levels
Our interventions have been designed and executed for our FMCG, Insurance, Medical services, Power, Multilateral and Bilateral Development Organizations, Telecom(Service provider, Manufacturing, Networks and R & D), Banking and F.I's, Consulting, Engineering and Construction, Textile, Pharmaceuticals, Not for profit Organizations, Hospitality, Agro Industry, Law, Multi-level marketing, Media(Print and Television), Advertising, BPO, Manufacturing clients, business schools and senior secondary schools.
Destination Outdoors has experience across industry and also across levels. This fact is highlighted in our client list and some workshop case studies where transformational changes in behavior have been mapped in participants during the post workshop period.
"Not just a flash in the pan".
Experienced Team
Our Business Success Reason - People, people & people!!
Our team of facilitators, counsellors, outdoor experts and backend support are from the best in their field. Our facilitators are from the corporate world with varied experience in human resources development, sales and marketing, entertainment and proficient back end and logistics management. Our outdoors experts are certified instructors from the best schools of mountaineering.
The team is a dedicated core team with exclusivity for Destination Outdoors and this ensures complete compliance of all our programme processes.
During the actual exercise, become a "psychological safety net" for participants as they process and focus on the process of the group vs. the task at hand. "
Our teams philosophy for participants includes:
" to keep a vigilant eye on participants as they engage in the initiative, spot when necessary, watch for and prevent any misuse of equipment or people "
Post Workshop Assistance
Destination Outdoors as a part of our process factors in a follow up session which could be refresher for a standard format workshop or help facilitate the institutionalization of learnings at the workshop.
No programme would be complete if the intervention does not measure an outcome and this stage is a very integral part of our process.
An MBA (Marketing) from Symbiosis, Pune. Over 20 years of experience in diverse fields of manufacture, business excellence, quality control and sales & marketing in the FMCG industry besides training & development. Gave up the corporate life to follow his passion for outdoors and facilitation of learning. 7 yrs experience in facilitation of experiential training and development. Gold awardee of DEAS (Duke Of Edinburgh Scheme) for adventure, community service and outdoor learning systems. Adventure Mountaineering Course from H.M.I., Darjeeling. An avid outdoors person with a fondness for sport angling, rafting & trekking. Loves to take off into the mountains with a backpack when he does get time!!
PG Diploma in Advertising & Public Relations from Symbiosis, Pune. Once involved with "Project Dare", a NGO working towards re-habilitating handicapped children. Handles all the youth programmes for Destination Outdoors and also co-operates where her counseling strengths are in the forefront. The quiet one, but "rock solid" behind DO backend, logistics, finance and operations.
Banker by profession with 40 years experience!!! 20 years with Central bank with 7 years as Branch manager & 5 years as head training & development. Subsequently, at Standard Chartered Bank -10 years as Training & Development Head & finally at BNP Paribas as Head, Training & Development for 10 years. A total of 25 years as head of a learning vertical at banks!! Currently, 4 years of consultancy in the area of management & behavioural sciences. Extremely fond of music, traveling and understanding people.
Rajnish Virmani is a B.Tech and MBA with honours from Delhi University followed by about 30 Years of Industry experience in multinationals like TCS, American Express, Aviva, Reliance and Colt Technologies. Having lived and worked in the USA, UK and India, he has a multi-cultural exposure…. having led European, American and British teams of over 1000 overseas staff and also handled multi-location teams as large as 14,000 staff in India. Rajneesh has played a CIO, COO and CEO role for the last 12-15 years and has also been involved in leading sending and receiving offshored centres in BPO / ITO / KPO. Voted "Role Model†Leader by teams at American Express, Reliance BPO and Colt, Rajneesh is extremely action oriented and energetic – Still a keen sportsman, he has represented his college in 9 university level sports disciplines. Fond of people, he leads our senior management programmes across regions.
Shailaja Madhavan - completed her graduation in B.Com( Hons) from Delhi University, and is an MBA in Human Resources from IGNOU. She has 16 years experience across diverse industries including Airlines, ITES and KPO's having worked in Swiss Air, Amadeus, GECIS, WNS and COLT. Even though she started out in operations, her natural flair for Learning & Development soon saw her moving into a L&D role and she went on to head the L&D and HR function for one of the largest verticals in GECIS and WNS and was the National Head for Learning & Development at COLT. She loves to read and is also a trained singer who still enjoys her karaoke evenings with friends."
Shilpa Garg - A post-graduate in management from IMS, Bikaner, Shilpa has worked for more than a decade as a pharmaceutical professional. Having worked in the Sales and Marketing functions of Cipla Limited and Unichem Laboratories Ltd, she has a vast experience in medico-marketing trainings. She is an avid reader and is proud of her mini-library. An observer of life and surroundings, Shilpa is a Blogger too and her blog, is listed among the Best Blogs of India.
Our youngest team member, bursting with energy. An artist, storyteller & creative head at Destination Outdoors. She has worked with Shiamak Dawar for six years. Her motto is "live life king size" Evlyn has been in the entertainment industry, a theatre artist besides her dancing skills, she has also been a DJ besides having an experience in the telecom industry for 3 years!! A core team member of R&D team at Destination Outdoors.
Uzma Saeed - is a seasoned and multi-skilled HR professional and facilitator with 20+ years experience as a Subject Matter Expert in leadership, organization development and organization effectiveness. She has participated in significant international projects geared towards maximizing the human potential in organizations such as Zain (in Kuwait, Middle East & African subsidiaries), Global Investment House, Gulf Franchising Co. and Infocenter. She has collaborated in multiple projects that encompasses areas of management and leadership assessments, executive development, employee engagement, establishing organizational culture, as well as developing and delivering various HR intervention tools and training programs.
Rinku Joshi - Dr Rinku Joshi has been excelling in the Academic field with a position in the merit list of Masters in Philosophy in English Literature and a Doctorate in English Language & Communication from Devi Ahilya University, Indore. She has to her credit various presentations and publications, in the area of Business Ethics & Corporate Governance, and Soft Skills. Rinku has been conducting training and orientation programs in the area of Time Management & Goal-setting, Collaborative Team skills, Interpersonal Skills, Conflict management, Negotiation Skills, Assertiveness, Social Etiquettes and Communication skills. She is a committed believer in augmentation. Accordingly, she has cross-fertilised varied management techniques, by active facilitation & her contribution in this field stands well recorded, across-the- board.
Prachee Kukreja - MBA ( Finance) from ICFAI Business School. Prachee gave up her banking career at HDFC to join DO!!! She has excellent analytical, conceptual, decision making and oratory skills. Prachee has been a delegate of the Swiss Confederation at a UN Simulation at IIMA. She was President of IBS Rotaract Club of Indore having conducted an Indo-Malaysian Youth Exchange Conference at IIM-Indore. A runner-up to the Director's Medal at b-school, a stock market freak, she loves socializing, reading and travelling.
Apart from being a core team member of Destination Outdoors, a highly qualified mountaineer with a basic & advance course from NIM, Uttarkashi. He has a creative side to him, loves to paint, avid bird watcher, also a musician being one of the best guitarists in the field. Loves to sing during bon fires and keeps "spirits" alive!!
Basic & advance level of mountaineering from NIM, Uttarkashi. A trained instructor with 7 yrs of experience in the outdoors. An extrovert and very process driven in administering simulations which are administered for learning.
Basic level of mountaineering from NIM with 7 years experience. The quiet one and extremely process driven.
Basic level of mountaineering from NIM with more than 10 years experience. A keen observer and very process driven mountaineer.
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Our bathroom is finished after a one month remodel! I couldn't be happier. We went with white carrara marble floors and vanity top. White crossville savoy subway tile for the shower. I had a custom towel storage/nook built when we realized there was empty space behind the shower. Plumbing fixtures are Grohe Geneva line. Thanks for looking. I will try to post a few before and after pics below. |
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- Posted by sparklebread (My Page) on Thu, Feb 28, 13 at 12:33
Pretty bathroom, I envy that bonus towel storage! Would you consider posting this on the discussion side? It seems to get more traffic. |
Beautiful! I love, love the vanity and the shower and the floors and the storage next to the shower. We're going to have some empty space next to our shower and will be building something very similar. |
Beautiful, are you happy with the marble countertops? we are starting a remodel of our master bathroom and marble was our first choice but everyone has discouraged us from using it. Now we are second guessing ourselves. Could you tell me what you used for the floor? I do love your remodel and thanks for info on fixtures, lights, etc |
Love your bathroom remodel. I love the marble and am hoping to go with it for our master bath remodel. I've got an inkling the quote will be too high though. Do you mind sharing the cost of the remodel? Thank you for posting your photos, etc. |
bet129psu, I am considering white subway for my MB shower stall. Can you tell me how the cleaning/maint is after having yours for awhile? Did you use an epoxy grout or just a sealer? What you love and what you'd do differently? I think your bathroom looks beautiful. Thank you. |
Love your remodel. Beautiful! |
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The next choice on the left of the main SD window is the Exclusion List:
You can add to the exclusion list any files or folders that you want to exclude from Shadow Mode protection. All changes to those files/folders will always be preserved no matter what. Many users choose to add frequently modified folders to this list. This includes things like their User folders (e.g. their Documents, Music, Movies, Downloads, Contacts, Saved Games, Searches, Links, or Favourites/Bookmarks folders), or any custom folders where their antivirus program stores its definitions.
As I mentioned earlier, I have moved all my User folders to a different non-protected volume, so I don't have to define any such exclusions. Please note that this is not necessarily the safest option. The vast majority of malware will target your Windows volume only (C:). Some of those may target your Contacts folder, or even add their own Favourites/Bookmark entries which may point to malicious websites. If your Favourites/Bookmarks or Contacts folders have already been moved to a non-protected volume, this means that those malicious entries will still be there even after the malware infection itself has been undone on C:
It's up to you to decide whether you want your User folders fully protected or not. If you have moved your User folders to a volume other than C: and you want those folders to be protected, then make sure to also schedule Shadow Mode to auto-start for the volume that contains them. In this case you shouldn't add those folders to SD Exclusion List either, as this would exclude them from protection anyway.
Another very important point here: If you choose to protect the volume that contains your User folders and you don't define exclusions for them, then any changes within those folders (malicious or not) will be completely undone upon rebooting. Any new Favourites you save in there will be gone, and any new files you may have added while in Shadow Mode (e.g. any new contacts, new pictures, new videos, music, downloaded files etc.) will all disappear. Also, if you delete any unwanted files contained within (e.g. old Favourites) while in Shadow Mode, then those files will come back from the dead when you reboot.
An easy way to deal with all this is to always keep those folders on a protected volume, and only commit changes to them manually and on demand, via the context menu commit option (more on that later).
I haven't provided exclusions for any folders that contain my antivirus signatures either; I prefer to allow my antivirus definitions to update to their latest version every time I go online.
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MagicJack Plus review: Make free international calls through internet
Today we will do a magicjack plus review, a device with which you can make free international calls to the US or Canada through your computer's internet. So continue and read the magicjack plus review to know more about it and how it works.
What is magicJack Plus?
magicJack Plus is a new, small USB device designed by Dan Barislow, the founder and CEO of the company behind the esteemed magicJack phone service. This device delivers service through magicJack's private Voice Over Internet Protocol(VoIP) network which lets consumers make high quality telephone calls through their broadband internet connection.
How much does the magicJack Plus cost?
To get in the game consumers will have to pay $69.95 initially for the magicJack Plus. A price that includes a full year of phone service. Each additional year of service after the first one, you have to pay only $29.95.
What does this price include?
The $69.95 cost of the magicJack Plus includes the first year of phone service, the magicJack Plus USB device, a USB cable, an Ethernet cable, and an AC power adapter.
How does it work?
There are many magicjack plus reviews which have shown that it is easy to set up and even easier to use. All consumers have to do is plug the magicJack Plus unit into their high speed modem or router, plug in its power adapter, and plug a telephone into the device, and then they can begin making phone calls immediately.
Before this, the consumer needs to hook the device to any computer (their own, a friend's, or at a library) in order to register for an account and get their own phone number for incoming calls. The magicJack Plus can also be used through a computer's USB drive.
What services are included with the magicJack Plus?
The magicJack Plus service delivers unlimited local and long distance calls to the United States and Canada along with free calls back to the US when traveing abroad. Many of the same features that are offered by your home phone service provider come with the Plus. Some of the included features are 3 way calling, 911 service, free 411 directory assistance, call forwarding, and call waiting. It also delivers voicemail service.
Are there any restrictions on calling?
With the magicJack Plus phone service, consumers can make unlimited local and long distance calls to anywhere in the United States or Canada only.
What about international calls?
Consumers using the magicJack Plus can make international calls to many different countries, at an additional per minute cost. This cost will vary depending on the country being called. International calls from other countries to the United States are included at no additional cost.
Are there any drawbacks to magicJack Plus?
Like many products, the magicJack Plus does have its drawbacks. For instance, since the magicJack Plus requires the user's internet to work, if there is an internet outage or power outage, you will not be able to make or receive phone calls. magicJack's customer service is not very effective as it is chat only and attempts to help often result in scripted answers that aren't very useful.
So how did you like this magicjack plus review? Are you using it and finding it helpful, please share your views with us.
- Evelyn Duat
This is a good review about Magic Jack my friend owned this kind of device and it really so amazing. Its easy to set up and has a good calling quality.
- Larry
MJ+ will handle your whole house phone setup. Sometimes the sound may waver, but otherwise is very good. Plugged mine into ATT dsl modem and ac line for powerline. Plugged the phone line into MJ+ and other end into wall. it powered all phones, call waiting worked on all phones and tv's (that had it) I setup the account for E911 service and removed the messages from being delivered to my email (loaded it up) My phone answer worked as normal. Worth the money, However if you have 2 line phones, you may have problems. If I had to start from scratch I would buy a 4 or 5 house cordless set and that would solve a lot of wiring issues and the new 6 phones operate above the 2.4gb computer/phone freq. so there is no interference between the two. Hope this helps you..
- Praveen Kumar
Your post have the information that is helpful and very informative about magicJack Plus your are cover all of point for magicJack Plus, I like magicJack Plus. You know how to make your post understandable for most of the people. thanks for sharing.
- Shiva @ Blogging Tips
Cool man, it really seems to be a great device for people who need to make a lot of calls to the US. Although I don't but if I come across somebody who does in the future, I am going to recommend him/her to this post
- edmond0925
I didn't know it was this good! There was a friend who was selling me one of this and I turned it down coz I didn't believe what he was saying. Gonna have to call him!
- Anna
You have put so much info in this post! I have heard about this gadget but I wasn't familiar at all. Now I think I have some basic knowledge about it, even though I am not the most high-tech person:)
- sojournerbill
I bought the MagicJack Plus about a week ago…I'm testing it for a while before I give up my over-priced landline with Bell….and so far it has worked flawlessly…it works with my answering machine (I set it for two rings before answering with no problems whatsoever)…and yes, you can make FREE long distance calls anywhere in Canada or the U.S.A….I'm about 99% sure I'm gonna make it my one and only phone and dump Bell….and oh yes, it sounds as good as Bell as well….;)
- Kelly
I had the original Magic Jack and sent it back because I didn't like the fact that my computer had to be on all the time to receive a phone call
The new Magic Jack plus seems better
Seems like you just plug it into your wall then plug your phone into it
Does your internet need to be on to use Magic Jack Plus
What about when you cancel your regular Bell Landline, are the jacks still active to use Magic Jack Plus- DiverTed
You definitely need the internet to use th MJ. so if you have it through your cable company then no problem but if you have it using a phone line and you want to cancel your phone line in order to save money using the MJ then you have to get what you call a Dry Loop which allows you to use the phone line for internet but not pay Bell their regular monthly fee….Hope this helps…..
Hi Ted;
You seem to know about the magicjackplus and how it works with a dry loop. I just got mine. How do I connect it to use my dry loop number, without registering and paying for another number through magic jack? Can you email me back at email@example.com for details?
I am very confused!
- Glen
How about incoming calls? Are they free for the personing you? locally of coarse
- Dave
purchased 1 month ago to replace verizon landline.good call quality,use as home land line.able to fax after setting baud rate to lowest setting. if you want a cheap landline in house its the way to go !!!!!!! caller id, voice mail, low cost!!!!! If you want a phone for less expense you will have to go back to 2 tin cans and string
- Angela Ashlee
DO NOT GET THIS PRODUCT. OMG, the customer service is so terrible that it is not even worth it. I called them yesterday to pay them for my magic jack (of all things) and ended up fighting with them. I will be sending mine back. They are the rudest people I have ever encountered and I will NEVER use magic jack because of that.
- Viv
I sooo much agree with you!! The worst customer service ever..and there's no way you can reach a person through phone!! Aweful and unacceptable. If you have any questions about the product, the only choice is to wait in line for the stupid online chat where they take naps between replies!! Awefully slow and frustrating! Avoid as I did!
- Gary Manley
I have been using the original MJ for over a year and it ROCKS!! I haved saved SO MUCH MONEY!!!!
Buy one and you will be very happy!! Kiss MA BELL… GOODBYE!!!! - ullo
This mjp seems to be really cool. Is there any difference in call quality while on the internet? Can i wire the phone line from magic jack to the phone box outside so all the lines in the house will use the mjp? I want all the phones in the house to have access to mjp. Is that possible
- rwf
plug it in to any phone jack then go outside open phone co. box disconnect the plug inside ( this is where the phone co. connects their phone to see if when you have trouble if its outside or in your house) then all phones inside should be able to work.
- Tim
Will the new magic Jack work with fax machines?
- solo
$29.95 a year?? its $19.95 i thought
- Glen
i live in a small town in BC, Canada, I am very interested in MJP, I can see I can get a local Vancouver number, How does this affect neighbour when they call me, are they going to be charged a long distance fee?
Does anyone know what I do regarding the mjplus and dry loop – I can make out going calls, which I am assuming are free? but cannot get incoming calls – do i need to register a number through mj first??
- magic user
In the US there are many products that compare to this, but if you have friends or family that live outside the US there is just no comparison for the ease of use and ability to have free conversations to the US and Canada all day long.
If you have friends or family outside the US/Canada who have a solid internet connection buy them one of these as a gift.
- Alaa
Avoid Magic Jack Plus
Terrible customer service.
Terrible customer service, you can even complain. You have one choice, throw away the device and find something else… - Wheeler
I used the original MagicJack. The call quality wasn't the best but once it was setup, making and receiving calls is just like a landline, except the computer having to be on all the time. I now have OOMA which works without a computer. It cost more than MagicJack Plus. But I only pay monthly taxes and government charges which amount to about $4.50 a month. I would have purchased th Plus if it had hit the market before I got OOMA. But to all of you asking about the
other person calling you, there should not be any charge to them, if the call is made anywhere in North America, Canada or USA. You can purchase many other international services for you to call out. Anyone calling you internationally still has to pay for their calls to you. Save them the money and call them at the cheap rates MagicJack Plus has for you. - Jim
You guys missed the boat. If you had bothered to read customer reviews on Google or Amazon, you would see a large percentage of customers have problems right out of the box. The rest of them have serious problems sooner or later when they have to chat with customer service. You get what you pay for, except magicJack will screw you for free!
- Hayden Ooton
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- amerj19
Magic Jack has recently modified its service agreement and has started charging money for some areas by asking to purchase pre-paid money. This is totally insane. This is piece of crap for me now, because I make most of the calls to such areas. Unfortunately, I paid in advance for 5 years and they don't agree to give me a refund. I recommend not to go into trap of when they say whole US is free.
- Dennis
There's still a lot to be said for the 'conventional' magicJack. I've been using one for about 4 years, and purchased a magicJack Plus to evaluate as well. Don't get me wrong, the Plus is great, but I like using MagicFeatures, software that adds features to magicJack, but it has to be plugged into a computer to do so. It may just seem to be a hassle to have a computer working, but consider the following additional features:
– You can block single phone numbers, or whole groups of numbers – such as anonymous callers or callers from any toll free number. Alternately, you can let all callers through.
– You can block all callers ("Do Not Disturb"), or you can block all calls while still letting priority callers through.
– You can dial local numbers by dialing only 7 digits, and you can load frequently called numbers into a speed dial table.
– Rather than logging into your magicJack account on your computer, you can control call waiting and call forwarding using your phone's keypad.There are a number of other features, but you get the idea. Just be sure to plug the magicJack into a small, low power computer. The cost is low and the feature set is fairly extensive. Life is good.
- Buckshot
Question using MJ plus here…..When I' on the line and call waiting beeps in why don't we see who is calling in?
Can anyone answer this for me? - Avoid MagicJack
Avoid MagicJack Plus, while quality of the phone service is OK while the device works, the equipment is not reliable, it fails again and again. The customer service will kick you around and then kick you out. You will pay again and again for their defective products.
Absolutely maddening and frustrating experience. I regret buying the MagicJack products immensely.
- Joel McColough
If your magic jack registered the first time you try, you're in luck for a while. However it does not, you may as well toss it out. They put you "under review" for any number of stupid reasons and won't allow you or anyone else to use that magic jack. I bought a "magic jack plus unit and was planning to switch to it at my next renewal. My son bought one to use as his main service for his first home. When we tried to register his unit, we used his credit card, which still had his old address on it. This happened on Aug 4th, 2012. After spending hours on a "chat" with their customer service, we determined that the credit card was the problem. We then tried another credit card and still could not get it registered. Magic Jack customer service said they would "put in a ticket" and the responsible department would send us an email. A week went by and nothing, so I contacted them by "chat" again. (there may have been other "chats" but so much time has passed that I don't remember everything) After getting absolutely nowhere again after spending a long time on this chat, they again said they would "put in a ticket" and the responsible department would send us an email. So I used my magic jack that I had bought to use myself. Possibly because we used the same email address or physical address, they put that one "under review" as well. Fast forward to now, 13 weeks later. I have had many, many "chats" with them, spent countless hours trying to get my magic jacks working, and have now come to the conclusion that it will never happen. I live in Canada and have found a Canadian alternative that provides a much better deal, with no hassles and live bodies to talk to. With freephoneline.ca I bought a Grandview HT502 off the internet for $45.00 (included shipping and taxes), then paid $50.00 plus tax for some coding from freephoneline, and now I pay nothing ever again except 2 cents per minute for US long distance and any remote area of Canada not served by the main phone companies. I doubt I'll ever pay more than a few bucks a year for that. In addition, the sound quality is better, you can even use it for fax and modem calls and the company has been around for many years. NO MORE BILLS AT ALL and great customer service. (had to use it during setup)
For the people in the US, the best alternative I have found is netTalk DUO. Basically same as Magic Jack, but they have good reviews and live people to "talk" to. I suspect that Magic Jack will be out of business soon. They are really pushing the 5 year package hard, so I suspect they will get as much money in as possible, then leave their customers high and dry. I recommended them to many people and got them setup, but will now be changing them over to freephoneline.ca. I would not trust magic jack. We tried to return the second unit to Tiger Direct, but they will not accept returns for Magic Jack. Anything else they will, but not Magic Jack. Does that tell you something? 13 weeks now and not one email for either unit! New! Just found out that people in the US can use google voice with an OBItalk unit for a FREE phone line that is much better than Magic Jack. Still free US and Canada calling and amazing call handling. No yearly fees at all.
You can even port your number to Google voice. I complained to BBB and Magic Jack still has not sent me an email. As I write this last bit it is Jan 17th 2013. I tried to register the Magic Jacks on Aug 4th 2012. They STILL have not sent me an email. However they did respond to the BBB. I will send you a copy of the BBB report if you like. Just email me at firstname.lastname@example.com. The last company in the world I would deal with is now Magic Jack!


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Adebowale FALEYE, a unemployed 34 year-old male, Raymond
VIRCIGLIO, a retired 62 year-old male and Olatayo OGEDENGBE, a 39 year-old male
mechanic have all been sentenced at Southwark Crown Court.
FALEYE: 3 counts Conspiracy to Defraud and 2 TIC's – 3 years
imprisonment on each count to run concurrently.
VIRCIGLIO: 3 counts Conspiracy to Defraud and 2 TIC's – 3
years imprisonment of each count to run concurrently.
OGEDENGBE: 3 counts Conspiracy to Defraud – 3 years
imprisonment on each count to run concurrently.
John DONKOH, 42 year-old Finance Manager and Solomon ARTHUR,
42 year-old Bus Mechanic, have both appeared at Southwark Crown Court on 4 th
August 2003 and pleaded guilty to Conspiracy to Defraud. When arrested, £14,000
cash was seized at DONKOH'S home address. Documents were also seized, which
indicated that he intended to return to GHANA.
John FABREGAS – 5 counts Conspiracy to Defraud Sentenced to
3 years 9 months imprisonment.
Diana FABREGAS – 2 counts Conspiracy to Defraud Sentenced to
3 years 3 months imprisonment.
Jaume FABREGAS – 2 counts Conspiracy to Defraud Sentenced to 2 years 9 months imprisonment.
Ricky Dean PLUMB, 39 year-old, male, Company Director, had
been found guilty of two counts of Conspiracy to Defraud on 24 th June 2003. He
was sentenced on 20 th August to 5 years imprisonment and ordered to pay
£25,000 costs. Lee PAYNE, 27 year-old male, Company Director, had pleaded
guilty on 17 th January 2003 to one of the counts. He was sentenced to 2 years
imprisonment, Compensation of £139,192 to be paid within 6 months.
Bryan CLAUGHTON, 70 year-old, retired male and Raymond
WHELEHAN, 47 year-old, unemployed male have both been sentenced to 3 years 6
months imprisonment at Wood Green Crown Court.
CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD: Tajundeen AKINYEMI, a 37 year-old,
IC3, male, unemployed appeared at Southwark Crown Court on 9th May 2003 and
pleaded 'Guilty' to Conspiracy to Defraud. He was sentenced to 12 months
William D. Gore, Special Agent in Charge, San Diego Division
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announces the arrest of Lucy
Figuero Gordillo, born July 21, 1960 and Gladys Garza born February 7, 1940, on
charges of Mail Fraud, Bank Fraud, Aiding and Abetting, and Conspiracy. Garza
and Gordillo will be afforded an initial appearance in U. S. District. Both
Gordillo and Garza were arrested at 8:30 this morning without incident. The
arrests were made at 3802 Main Street, Unit 8 in Chula Vista by FBI Agents.
Catherine Paduano (43) 5 Sun Valey Drive, Coram
Amounts received through alleged fraud - $16, 985
Marion J. Defelice (32) 52 Boyce Avenue, Staten Island
Amounts received through alleged fraud - $20,405
Robert Marini (47) 19 Chesapeake Bay Drive, Coram
Amount received through alleged fraud - $19,267.50
Douglas Nietsch (41) 3879 Beechwood Place, Seaford
Amount received through alleged fraud - $809
John Santolo (37) 23 Washington Avenue, Mastic Beach
Amount received through alleged fraud - $46,500
Catalino Benavidez (48) 1083 Broadway, Westbury
Amount received through alleged fraud - $7,270
Thomas Bieh ABA Biehl (38) 42 Panamoka Trail, Ridge
Amount received through alleged fraud - $15,025
Gloria Johnson (54) 3490 Great Neck Road, North Amityville
Amount received through alleged fraud - $17,600.60
Steven Perrotta (44) 11 Powell Court, North Babylon
Amount received through alleged fraud - $28,850
Dominick Germano, Jr. (34) 408 N. Broome Avenue, Lindenhurst
Amount received through alleged fraud - $26, 107ny
Kelly A. Hughes (37) 500 Second Avenue, Lindenhurst
Alleged amount received through fraud - $23,800
Lisa A. Trotta (41) 16 Roland Place, Bayshore
Alleged amount received through fraud - $33,277.26
Peter t. Masotto, Jr. (39) 205 Ontario Avenue, Massapequa
Alleged amount received through fraud - $58,144.98 ny
Dana Pillccieri (37) 390 Shannon Boulvard, Yaphank
Alleged amount received through fraud - $3,185
130 arrested in Net fraud crackdown
Last modified: May 16, 2003, 11:56 AM PDT
By Richard Shim
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
More than 130 people have been arrested as part of the
latest effort by law-enforcement agencies to crack down on Internet fraud,
according to the Justice Department.
Attorney General John Ashcroft, FBI Director Robert Mueller,
Assistant Attorney General Michael Chertoff and Federal Trade Commission
Chairman Tim Muris announced the arrests Friday, and said that more than $17
million was seized.
The arrests were part of a nationwide initiative, called
Operation E-Con, that's being coordinated by 43 U.S. attorney's offices, the
FBI, the FTC, the Postal Inspection Service, and other state and local
law-enforcement agencies within the United States and other countries.
Operation E-Con has carried out more than 70 search
warrants, leading to formal charges or convictions in many cases. The operation
has performed more than 90 investigations involving 89,000 victims of fraud.
Internet fraud has been growing rapidly, and the Operation
E-Con agencies are working to temper its effects.
"Just three years ago, 31 percent of fraud complaints
filed with the FTC involved the Internet," Muris said in a statement.
"In 2002, 47 percent of complaints were Internet-related. We anticipate
that by the end of this year, Internet-related complaints will represent the
majority of fraud complaints received by the FTC."
Online auction scams have been one of the leading forms of
fraud over the last three years, accounting for 46 percent of complaints
referred to law enforcement.
'Cyber Sweep' Nets
125 Arrests
Wired News Report
U.S. Secret Service agents worked with foreign law enforcers
to track down suspects who operated across international borders, leading to
the arrest of a Romanian man who they said bilked some $500,000 from online
auction participants.
Authorities in Ghana and Nigeria also helped track down
suspects and recover millions of dollars in ill-gotten gains.
The crackdown stemmed from indications that Internet fraud
continues to rise. The Internet Fraud Complaint Center, run in part by the FBI,
referred some 58,000 complaints to law enforcement in the first nine months of
2003 -- compared with 48,000 for all of 2002.
The arrest of Stefan is the most recent in a year-long
series of investigations involving the Secret Service, Romanian police and
eBay, an online marketplace. To date, seven major cases have been solved and
107 people have been arrested for Internet fraud committed using real eBay
sites. "The rapid growth of the
Internet has eliminated the traditional borders of financial crimes and
provided new opportunities for those who engage in computer-based fraud,
U.S. Secret Service
Director Ralph Basham said.
Sharing information and resources through partnerships is the best way to combat these types of crimes." "The success of these investigations is a direct result of the excellent partnership that exists between eBay, the DGCCOA, and the Secret Service," said Robert Gombar, Special Agent in Charge of Secret Service's Rome Field Office, which oversees the agency's Bucharest Resident Office. "On behalf of the Secret Service, I would like to commend the DGCCOA and eBay for their hard work and collaboration in bringing these investigations to a successful conclusion." "This is an important breakthrough in the fight against fraudulent emails and the criminal activity associated with them," said Joseph Sullivan, eBay's Senior Counsel for Trust and Safety. "The Secret Service has effectively brought together the resources of private industry and foreign governments to identify and arrest those attempting to victimize Internet consumers." The investigations initiated by Secret Service's Bucharest office have had a positive impact in protecting American citizens against this kind of fraud.
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Document Type Master's Dissertation Author Weber, Angelika URN etd-10142004-064820 Document Title Erziehung zur Zwei- und Mehrsprachigkeit. Eine kritische Untersuchung pädagogischer Konzepte Degree MA (German) Department Modern European Languages Supervisor
Advisor Name Title Dr G Tesmer Keywords
- context
- co-operation
- integration
- global village
- globalisation
- multiculturalism
- pluralism
- social adaptation
- immigration
- South Africa
- Belgium
- Luxembourg
- Germany
- Canada
- immersion
- mother tongue
- second language
- foreign language
- education models
- instruction
- multilingual
- bilingual
- integrasie
- globalisering
- diversiteit
- multikultureel
- immigrasie
- Suid-Afrika
- België
- Luxemburg
- Duitsland
- Kanada
- moedertaal
- onderrigmodelle
- onderrig
- tweede taal
- vreemde taal
- tweetalig
- meertalig
Date 2003-11-06 Availability unrestricted Abstract This study investigates different ways of efficiently educating learners to become bi- or multilingual. In the introduction relevant background information concerning the definition of bilingualism is given and related issues are being discussed, such as language learning, language awareness, bilingual instruction and bilingual education models.Human beings are characterised by language, but also by social and cultural tradition. In the context of globalisation pluralism and multiculturalism are common factors affecting even previously isolated communities. Bi- and multilingualism are some of the strategies of adaptation to this reality. It can be assumed, that this development will continue rapidly as the inhabitants of the global village grow in and adapt to this realisation.
In countries with a history and tradition of multilingual and bilingual education like South Africa, Canada, Luxembourg and Belgium and also in countries where immigration results in issues of multilingual and bilingual challenging society like in the USA one finds a great variety of answers to these problems posed. The situation in Germany is different, because bilingualism became an issue only fairly recently due to the actual demands brought by the European union. In South Africa the social context determines largely that people are inclined to bi- and multilingualism and the educational system tries to promote this predisposition by means of bi- or multilingual models in schools, so that the learners become efficient facing the bi- and multilingual challenges of their diverse and pluralistic society. In the USA on the other hand the need arises to provide for minority groups, so that they can retain their mother tongue (e.g. Spanish) while becoming fluent in the predominant language (i.e. American). Lastly the new development of the European Union has led Germany to actively promote bi- und multilingual education to aid the integration of Germans in the Union. The various models developed in these countries are studied in the wide variety of their different social and historical contexts. The main part of the study comprises a systematic overview of the various bilingual education models that are being implemented in different countries. These countries include the USA, Canada, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium and lastly and more detailed, South Africa. A number of different circumstances surrounding bi- or multilingualism in the various countries have given rise to a large variety of models attempting to address the challenges posed by the various issues. A number of different goals have been addressed and the results have been just as varied. This leads to a concluding comparison of the western and European models with those of the South African models.
Much research has been done on bi- and multilingualism and specifically bilingual education, as humans since earliest times were concerned with this subject. For my study I have relied mainly on more recent sources (1990 to the present) from the USA, Canada and Germany. However as the academic study of this issue has been going on for quite a time in some countries like South Africa, I have also referred to older books and journals (1945<). Due to the overwhelming information about this subject a drastic limitation of sources was necessary.
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BUDAPEST - New evidence from FIFA's medical experts urging to keep the ban on Muslim footballers' hijab in place has deeply shocked FIFA vice president Prince Ali of Jordan, calling the evidence as deeply flawed and had no foundation..
"If it is true, I would accept it, but I believe it was without foundation," Prince Ali told reporters, Reuters said.
Prince Ali has been campaigning over the past months to allow headscarf for female Muslim athletes in sports, following a decision to ban players from wearing it in 2007, claiming it is unsafe.
Sports in ISLAM (Special Pages)Hijab: What's It All About?
Six weeks ago, the International Football Association Board (IFAB) allowed women players to wear the hijab, a decision to be ratified later in its meeting next July.
Last Thursday, Michel D'Hooghe of Belgium, the head of FIFA's medical committee, said he would only recommend to the extraordinary IFAB meeting on July 5 in Zurich that extra tests should be carried out on the headscarf.
"We have received some samples and some doctors, including from the Muslim countries, said they (headscarves) represented a danger, D'Hooghe said after FIFA's two-day medical conference on Thursday.
When a girl is running at speed someone can hit the head scarf and that can lead to head lesions.
He said the specially designed velcro-clasping headscarves, were safer than zipped fastenings but there was still room for improvement.
"If tomorrow we receive a proposal and we have no doubt it is medically okay we can give the green light. But to be specific, we have to avoid any problems on the side of the neck or the carotid artery if it gets pulled.
"When you are running and someone pulls it back you can have a hyper-extension of your neck. I wouldn't like to be responsible for that."
Prince Ali, the youngest member of FIFA's executive committee, rejected these claims.
"I was shocked when I heard about Dr D'Hooghe's press conference on Thursday. We covered all the issues raised including heat coming out of the head, breathable material, the neck issue, he said.
"I was very disturbed by the comments he made. I am usually not very emotional but this is very important.
"There are women serving in combat zones across the world and many of them are wearing the headscarves so I am disturbed by this being used as an argument. All we are asking is for women to be allowed to play football.
Prince Ali said independent institutes and designers from Netherlands and Canada had presented evidence to D'Hooghe and FIFA's chief medical officer Jiri Dvorak but when the designers were told what happened on Thursday they were equally shocked.
"They asked us what on earth he (D'Hooghe) was talking about," he said.
The new revelations by FIFA's medical official stirred fears that opponents of hijab could use it to block its final approval.
"This affects many, many Muslim women, Prince Ali said.
I hope this issue is being treated with the same respect and seriousness that other issues are, for example goal-line technology.
But Prince Ali added: "I really don't know what all this is all about.
"At the last IFAB, if there was a unanimous decision to allow it, as far as I have seen in consultation with some of the best doctors in the world, there is no reason not to approve it now.
"But I am now concerned that there is no seriousness or desire for testing. Maybe the best thing for Dr D'Hooghe to do is to go and explain his reasons just as I did to IFAB. The issue will certainly not go away."
Prince Ali accepted that further testing may be needed in the future.
"I am hoping, at the very least, IFAB will allow a proper evaluation and that these players will be allowed to play in it on the field. If the medical committee and FIFA wants to monitor further, let them do it, he said.
"Muslim women can use it at confederation level but they cannot, for example, use it at the highest level in the women's World Cup or the Olympic Games.
"And at any level there have been no reported cases of injuries in Asia and Africa, or anywhere in the world."
In April 2010, FIFA announced that it was planning to ban the Muslim headscarf and other religious outings during the 2012 London Olympics.
Last year, Iran women's football team were prevented from playing their 2012 Olympic second round qualifying match against Jordan because they refused to remove their hijabs before kickoff.
Iran, who had topped their group in the first round of Olympic qualifiers after going undefeated, were given 3-0 defeats as a penalty which abruptly ended their dreams of qualifying for the London Olympics.
Reproduced with permission from OnIslam.net