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Irvine Marriott
Irvine Marriott
Hotel Guest Rating: 8.1/10
18000 Von Karman Avenue
Irvine, CA 92612
Hotel Freebies Available*
• Stay for Breakfast Promotion: Rate includes breakfast for two adults and children 12 and under, when staying in the same room show dates
• Free Internet in Public Areas show dates
Welcome to the Irvine Marriott
With its sophisticated ambiance, indoor/outdoor pools and on-site dining, it's no surprise that the non-smoking Irvine Marriott is a favorite of Priceline guests headed to the area.
Hotel Features
The 17-story Irvine Marriott features a spacious, contemporary lobby decorated in an energizing color palette and offering plenty of seating areas for chatting with friends and colleagues. On-site dining is available at FLOE Lounge. The lushly landscaped indoor/outdoor pool features views of the upper patio area, an ideal spot for meeting with clients or friends over a cold drink. An expanded fitness room and shipping/printing in the lobby help make life easier on the road. The hotel has 485 rooms and suites boasting large windows, work desks with ergonomic chairs, high-speed internet access (for a fee) and flat-panel cable TVs with premium cable and plug-and-play features. Coffeemakers, hairdryers and pillowtop mattresses with premium linens are also standard. Accessible rooms can be requested, and valet parking is available for a daily fee.
Hotel Location
Off I-405 and less than two miles from John Wayne Airport, the Irvine Marriott is eight minutes from University of California-Irvine and within 10 minutes of Fortune 500 companies including Rockwell Collins, Cisco Systems and Broadcom. Luxury shopping is nine minutes away at the South Coast Plaza Center, and both Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm are about 20 minutes away.
Guest Favorites
Priceline guests say they like the "outstanding" Irvine Marriott's "very good location" close to the airport and "many local eating places," as well as the "great service" and the "extremely comfortable" rooms with "great" beds.
Irvine Marriott Amenities
- 24-hour front desk
- Accessible facilities
- Accessible parking
- Air conditioning
- Air conditioning individually controlled in room
- Alarm clock
- AM/FM radio
- ATM/Cash machine
- Boarding pass print-out available
- Business center
- Business services
- Cable television
- Carryout breakfast
- Check cashing policy
- CNN available
- Cocktail lounge
- Cocktail lounge with entertainment
- Cocktail lounge with light fare
- Coffee shop
- Coin operated laundry
- Color television
- Complimentary in-room coffee or tea
- Complimentary newspaper delivered to room
- Complimentary newspaper in lobby
- Concierge desk
- Concierge floor
- Connecting rooms
- Continental breakfast
- Currency exchange
- Direct dial telephone
- Dry cleaning
- Efolio available to company
- Elevators
- ESPN available
- Exercise gym
- Express check-in
- Express check-out
- Fitness center on-site
- Food and beverage outlets
- Free toll free calls
- Front desk
- Full american breakfast
- Full business center
- Full service housekeeping
- Gym
- Hairdryer
- HBO available
- Health club
- High speed internet access
- High speed wireless
- Hot breakfast
- Housekeeping - daily
- Ice machine
- Individual Efolio available
- Indoor pool
- Interior corridors
- Iron
- Ironing board
- Laundry/Valet service
- List of movie channels available
- Local calls
- Lounges/bars
- Meeting rooms
- Motorcycle parking
- Non-smoking rooms (generic)
- On-site business center
- On-site business center is staffed
- On-Site parking
- Onsite laundry
- Outdoor pool
- Parking
- Pay per view movies on TV
- Pool
- Premium movie channels
- Public area air conditioned
- Remote control television
- Restaurant
- Room service
- Room service - full menu
- Safe deposit box
- Security
- Telephone
- Translation services
- Turndown service
- Valet cleaning
- Valet parking
- Valet same day dry cleaning
- Vending machines
- Video checkout
- Video review billing
- Voice mail
- Wakeup service
- Wedding services
- Wireless internet connection in public areas
Hotel Information
Upon check-in photo identification and credit card is required. All special requests are subject to availability upon check-in. Special requests cannot be guaranteed and may incur additional charges.Please note: There is ongoing construction in the hotel lobby and the hotel pool will be closed until further notice. There is no current prediction as to when the construction will be completed. Guests are required to show a photo identification and credit card upon check-in. Please note that all Special Requests are subject to availability and additional charges may apply.
Hotel Guest Reviews of the Irvine MarriottOur hotel ratings and reviews are from real hotel guests. Priceline.com ensures that its reviews are guests-only by proactively sending hotel surveys to customers after they've completed their hotel stays. In the post-stay surveys, priceline.com hotel customers are asked a number of questions about their stay and the hotel. On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being the best, the survey asks guests to rate their overall experience and specifically rate the hotel's cleanliness, staff and location. Priceline.com does not allow site visitors to post unsolicited hotel reviews.
Sort by: All Travelers | Business Traveler(19) | Solo Traveler(13) | Traveling as Couple(55) | Family with Young Children(32) | Family with Teens(8) | Senior Traveler(5) | Group Traveler(8)
Richard from Los Angeles, CA
May 28, 2015
Group Traveler
May 28, 2015
Group Traveler
The room was clean and the front desk people were nice.
You had to pay for parking. No breakfast offered.
Verified Hotel Guest from Santa Barbara, CA
March 10, 2015
March 10, 2015
The parking was easy.
The bathroom was small. The guest chair was very uncomfortable. I like to have a nice reading chair.
Bandar from La Mesa, CA
February 17, 2015
Family Traveling with Young Children
February 17, 2015
Family Traveling with Young Children
Verified Hotel Guest from Menifee, CA
January 14, 2015
Senior Travelers
January 14, 2015
Senior Travelers
Great location and nice clean room.
Paying $20.00 to self park.
Betsy from Palmdale, CA
January 13, 2015
Family Traveling with Young Children
January 13, 2015
Family Traveling with Young Children
Everything, it's a beautiful hotel that delivers to those that have high expectation and good taste.
Parking fee is too high and internet is not included
Verified Hotel Guest from Lewisville, TX
January 11, 2015
Group Traveler
January 11, 2015
Group Traveler
The hotel was really nice. Met and exceeded all my expectations. We did a group booking and took three rooms. My friends who occupied the other two rooms also were very happy with the hotel. I would definitely recommend this hotel.
The elevators in the hotel were somewhat trouble some. Though they have 6 of them, I think they do not operate all of them, hence the wait time is long ....May be they will operate them all when there are more guests, but this felt a little strange.
Stephen from Las Vegas, NV
January 8, 2015
Business Traveler
January 8, 2015
Business Traveler
Always start with what is the best about your hotel stay. First of all the bed was extremely comfortable, the room very quiet no noise to speak of, downstairs was high-end excellent with a nice friendly staff!
Room was small stuffy and dusty. No oxygen making you feel suffocated and the windows don't open! Parking was even more ridiculous than the dusty, musty smelling room at $--- what do you wash my rental car for me?
Verified Hotel Guest from Fremont, CA
January 2, 2015
Family Traveling with Young Children
January 2, 2015
Family Traveling with Young Children
Concierge was amazing and took very good care of us. The morning breakfast was good. Front desk staff member was very helpful with accommodating our room requests.
Rooms are VERY small. A change up with what is served at the concierge breakfast would be nice.
Antony from Mckinney, TX
January 2, 2015
Family Traveling with Young Children
January 2, 2015
Family Traveling with Young Children
Loved the overall feel of the hotel. Loved the customer service and also the amenities offered. Also loved the kids bed. Our son was very well catered for.
The parking fees were too steep, the room was small for a family of three. Not enough items at the store. Couldn't find kids ceresl.
Gilbert from El Centro, CA
January 1, 2015
Family Traveling with Young Children
January 1, 2015
Family Traveling with Young Children
Clean room, bed and pillows were comfortable, hvac system worked well and staff was friendly and helpful.
The parking, charge and distance from hotel. Was a cold night and walk to hotel was yn pleasant for the kids.
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Harrison undergoes minor knee surgery
PAIN TRAINInjuries are a part of football, but these players have been hit particularly hard.
Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison underwent left knee surgery on Wednesday, clouding his chances of returning in time for the start of the regular season.
Coach Mike Tomlin called the procedure ''minor'' but wouldn't put a timetable on when Harrison will be ready. The four-time Pro Bowler and 2008 NFL Defensive Player of the Year will remain on the physically unable to perform list indefinitely.
The knee limited Harrison during Organized Team Activities in May but Tomlin dismissed the idea that Harrison could have undergone the surgery during the spring and simply put it off.
''We address things as they arise,'' Tomlin said. ''We felt like the procedure was necessary at this time, so we had it.''
The 34-year-old Harrison has been one of the most dominant defensive players in the league over the last half-decade but has dealt with a series of setbacks during the last 18 months. He had surgery in February 2011 to deal with a balky back and missed a month last season when he fractured his right orbital bone in a loss to the Houston Texans.
Defensive end Brett Keisel, who sees Harrison regularly in the team's weight room, doesn't think Harrison will be out for an extended period.
''They said he should be fine,'' he said.
With Harrison and fellow outside linebacker Jason Worilds on the PUP list, it means second-year linebacker Chris Carter will see plenty of action on Sunday when the Steelers (No. 7 in the AP Pro32) face the Indianapolis Colts.
Carter played sparingly on special teams as a rookie last year but has impressed Tomlin during camp.
''He's a guy that has to take that step in the manner that we challenge all our second-year players,'' Tomlin said. ''So far he's accepted that challenge.''
The 23-year-old Carter lacks Harrison's explosiveness but has become an effective run-stopper despite his relative lack of size. At 6-foot-1 and 248 pounds, Carter is often tasked with handling offensive linemen who have a distinct advantage.
''The standard is the standard,'' Carter said. ''But I've got a lot to live up to.''
Carter was one of the rookies thrown into the mix with little preparation last summer when the NFL lockout ended. Given an entire offseason to get up to speed, he believes he's ready to take a step forward.
''It was a big transition, a big tornado for me (last year),'' Carter said. ''Now I feel a lot more settled. No need to stress.
''I've got great players around me.''
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Here is a chance to become the dance master for cine star Allu Arjun. 7UP-- the clear lemon drink from PepsiCo launched an innovative consumer campaign in the State. Titled 'Click Chesthe Dance Chesthaanu', the campaign uses next-generation technology 'Augmented Reality'.
Augmented Reality is a term for a live director or indirect view of a real world environment where elements are mixed by virtual computer generated imagery. All that consumers have to do to get a taste of this interactive marketing tool is to buy a 7UP PET bottle with an AR code (a graphic black and white box) on its label.
The consumer then has to log into the 7UP website and place the label in front of a webcam. On doing so, consumers can witness Allu Arjun, the brand ambassador dancing in different styles on their screen.
Announcing the launch of the first-of-its-kind campaign in India, Alpana Titus, executive vice-president-Flavours, PepsiCo India said the aim of the campaign was to create a buzz about the product among youngsters. "Youngsters today are not engaging with traditional media and so we decided to take the campaign to the next level," she said adding that over 80 million people in the country would be Internet users with almost 65 per cent of them being youngsters.
Mr. Arjun who enthralled the media with his dance moves said he was "honoured to be a part of this novel campaign".
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|A complete list of the rusts of Boone County has not been published. In the year 1889 Dr. B.T. Ga1loway of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, published a preliminary list of the parasitic fungi of Missouri. The specimens which Dr. Galloway collected were destroyed at the time of the fire which demolished the main building of the University in February, 1892. This list included one hundred and two rusts, only three of which are mentioned specifically as having been collected in Boone County. Twenty-six of the list are mentioned as common forms, and were probably found in this immediate vicinity. The larger number of the remainder of the forms were collected in Perry County, located on the Mississippi river in the southeastern part of the state. Since that date a considerable number of specimens has been collected, largely from this region, and placed in the herbarium of the University. The collection contains a total of four hundred and forty-three specimens. Most of these were collected on general field trips taken by different members of the Department of Botany, in the years 1910, 1911, and 1912, but no systematic collection of Rusts has been undertaken. It has been the purpose of the present work to identify the rusts occurring in the collection and arrange them in order according to the classification accepted at the present time. This collection and arrangement may then serve as a basis for further work. The present list doubtless includes but a small portion of the rusts to be found in this region, and the addition to the collection of other forms from this locality, as well as from the remainder of the state, is very desirable. It is quite probably that the rust flora of Missouri is as abundant and diversified as that of any other state.
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Take a trip to the beach without leaving home. Gather up your favorite beads and some store-bought seashells and create your own Beachy Jellyfish Wall Art. Crafty wall decor designs can help transform a boring space without breaking the bank.
- Beads in various sizes, natural and coastal colors
- Stretchy elastic jewelry cord
- 1 seashell
- 5-inch square canvas
- Cream colored paint
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- Hot glue gun
Paint the canvas with one coat of a cream colored paint of your choice. Set it aside to dry.
Cut 3 pieces of elastic cord, about 9-inches each. Take one of those cords and thread a medium sized bead onto the end. Run the cord back through the bead and second time and tie a knot. Turn the cording so that the knot lines up with the hole in the bead. This will allow the end bead to hang correctly with the rest of the beads.
Thread beads onto the cord however it pleases you. I varied sizes, putting 4-5 seed beads in between the larger beads to give it variation. You want to have about 4-5 inches of beads on the cord. Tie off the final bead by running the cord through the bead twice and tying. Repeat with the other two cords.
Position the beaded cords on the canvas. I found it easiest to tie all three together at the top. Once you know where you want them, trim any extra cording from the bottom and top and tack down with hot glue. Hot glue the shell over the top of the bead cords. Hang!
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I was on the Adventure City site and it said " new family coaster for 2013"
Is this mean the wild mouse is closing
I was on the Adventure City site and it said " new family coaster for 2013"
Is this mean the wild mouse is closing
Wow, this is news. Interesting.
I need to get out there and ride it before it's gone. Have yet to get over to the park.
Reached out to the park this morning:
Tree Top Racers last day was Labor day Monday, so if you never rode it (like me) then you are out of luck.
Nothing has been announced for the spot yet but once they are ready to announce something they will let us know.
Come on
i needed to get some credit
will it be relocated
Wonder if we are the "Screamscape Source". (a week after mratigan posted it)
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(9/14/12) Screamscape sources tell us that the Tree Top Racers roller coaster at Adventure City has been closed down since Labor Day weekend. I'm not what happened, but I'm told that the ride has been closed for good. The plan is to replace it with a new family coaster ride in time for the 2013 season if possible. Anyone know more?
2013 - New Family Coaster - (9/17/12) If you visit the Adventure City website and hover over the red dot over the old Tree Top Racers coaster, they park has now posted a message confirming that a new family coaster will open here in 2013.


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Probably only a handful of state employees have heard of Alain Enthoven, but their health benefits are better because of him.
The state health plan, considered one of the best-designed plans in the country, was based partly on his ideas.
Enthoven, a retired professor at Stanford University, is one of the country's most respected and influential health care economists. For more than 30 years, he has been writing about how to make the U.S. health care system more efficient.
He is best known for what he called "managed competition," a framework for injecting competition into the health care marketplace. And as he wrote in 1993, "competition" to economists means price competition.
Enthoven was in Wisconsin last week to talk about the sweeping reform proposal included in the state Senate budget late last month. The proposal, called "Healthy Wisconsin," would provide universal health coverage to nearly everyone in the state. It would be financed primarily through a tax on employer's payrolls and a tax on workers' wages.
The proposal is based partly on Enthoven's ideas, which focus on how to use market forces to lower costs and expand coverage. They would require restructuring the health care system in a way that eliminates existing incentives that reward hospitals and doctors for providing more care as opposed to efficient care.
"There are huge opportunities (to lower costs) if we get the incentives right," Enthoven said. By one estimate, 30% of the money spent on doctor visits, tests, procedures and prescription drugs doesn't improve people's health.
To Enthoven, the ideal model is an integrated health care system aligned with health maintenance organizations. The state health plan and the health care system in Dane County could be considered a laboratory of sorts for that model.
The state spends roughly 19% to 22% less to provide health benefits for an employee who lives in Dane County rather than Milwaukee County. Its monthly health insurance premium, for one-person coverage, costs $567 to $603 in Milwaukee County compared with $461 to $471 in Dane.
One reason is that Dane County health plans are tied to more narrow, distinct groups of providers. The Dean Health Plan is affiliated with the Dean Health System, for instance, while Unity Health Plan is affiliated with UW Hospital and Clinics.
"You really focus the competition on the provider level," said Tom Korpady, administrator of the division of insurance services for the Department of Employee Trust Fund.
In the first two years after Korpady was hired in 1981, the state's health insurance premiums increased 22% and 30%. "We were facing a health care crisis back then, too," he said.
Korpady drew on Enthoven's ideas while redesigning the state health plan.
The state required insurance companies to offer a standard benefit package and prevented them from offering additional or fewer benefits. This was to prevent the companies from trying to attract healthy people or avoid people with medical problems. It forced the health plans to compete on cost and quality. That, in turn, prodded doctors and hospitals to become more efficient, providing better care at lower costs.
"His idea was to reward the systems that put out the most cost-effective, high-quality health care with more patients, because they gravitate to it naturally," Korpady said of Enthoven.
It also encouraged the use of HMOs.
HMOs are much maligned, but Enthoven said people will opt for well-run HMOs when given a choice and when employers pay only a set amount for health benefits.
To Enthoven, his ideas - some that are embodied in the reform proposal before the Legislature - should appeal to conservatives. They are based on such concepts as limited government, decentralized decision-making, individual choice, competing approaches and personal responsibility.
He also contends that supporters of a single-payer system - an idea also partly embodied in the current proposal - are naïve.
Under a single-payer system, politicians will decide what doctors and hospitals get paid, and special interests will lobby for higher payments. "The government often gets it wrong in setting prices," Enthoven said.
The reform proposal before the state is a creditable strategy that could save money, Enthoven said. Whether the state is ready for sweeping reform is a different question.
In 1993, Enthoven noted the ability of politically powerful interest groups to block health care reforms that are to their disadvantage.
But he also has noted that health care spending has risen faster than economic growth and that insurance premiums have risen faster than incomes.
The result is that more people are being priced out of the market for health insurance.
"At some point," Enthoven said, "it will get intolerable."


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BPA-free plastics: It's best to use a lidded container free of bisphenol A and phthalates, which have been linked to certain cancers and developmental problems.
Insulated lunch bags: Like portable fridges, these bags are modern versions of the metal lunch box you used to bring to school. They're essential for hauling perishable foods.
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CHEESE AND WHOLE-GRAIN CRACKERS. This classic combination of whole grains and protein provides a great side dish to a green salad. (Make sure the crackers are free of hydrogenated oils.)
LEAFY GREENS. Greens travel well at room temperature. To keep them crisp in transit, wash them right before you pack them, and wrap them in a cloth napkin.
QUINOA. This delicious and healthy grain can be eaten cold or at room temperature. Add a few steamed or sautéed vegetables to it for a quick and healthy salad.
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Games to be postponed if 'Yolanda' enters
CEBU CITY Sports Center general manager Ricky Ballesteros announced that games in the 23rd Cebu City Olympics may be postponed if tropical storm "Yolanda" enters the Visayas region in the next couple of days.
The annual multi-sporting event is set to start today and will end on Sunday.
The tropical storm, which the state weather bureau said has a chance of becoming a super typhoon, is threatening to enter the Philippine area of responsibility within the next 48 hours.
If the storm maintains its current course, it will cut through the Visayas within the next two days and will exit through Mindoro on Sunday. If that happens, all events of the City Olympics will have to be postponed.
"If they issue na gani ug Signal no.1, automatic gyud I-postpone ang tanan events as part of our security measures," Ballesteros said. "We'll resume pagkahuman sa typhoon." /correspondent Jade S. Violeta
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Most people recognize the benefits of solar energy, but the necessary rooftop panels can cost as much as $25,000. Lynn Jurich and Edward Fenster, her co-founder, realized many consumers weren't willing to bet they would remain in their homes long enough to recoup such a large investment through lower energy bills. So the two recast the clean-tech challenge as a financing challenge. SunRun installs solar panels on residences at nominal or no cost. Homeowners sign 20-year contracts to buy power at a fixed price, around 15 percent less than their current electric bills. The company, founded in 2007, is growing at 300 percent a year and has 6,000 customers in seven states. Read the full story.
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Former porn star Jenna Jameson is allegedly hooked on a plethora of prescription meds and booze, and allegedly plotted to violently throw acid on the face of her ex's new girlfriend to disfigure her.
These are the shocking claims being made by Jameson's former personal assistant, Britney Markham, in an exclusive interview withRadarOnline.com.
On a dangerous downward spiral since the father of her children Tito Ortiz kicked her out of the home last March, Jameson, has been self-medicating with Xanax, Ambien, Suboxone and alcohol, Markham claims.
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"I realized that Jenna didn't want help after I became friends with her again and I let her live with me for a month. It was the most craziest time in my life. I have never seen someone consume so many Xanax and so much alcohol," Markham told Radar.
"She would like to snort them and would ask myself or others to do it for her because she was too messed up to do it herself. She was also on Ambien and Suboxone. Her doctor cut her off of any prescriptions because she refused to go in and test."
And last March when Ortiz, 39, started dating UFC ring girl Amber Miller, he kicked Jameson out of their home and ended things for good, which Markham says led her into an even further downward spiral for the former porn star.
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"When she was living with me she asked if I knew anyone that had acid so she could hide outside of Tito's house and wait for Amber to come out and throw it on her face!" Markham alleged.
"She also wanted to mess up Tito's cars, so I texted Tito to let him know ahead of time. Luckily I was her only form of transportation at the time so nothing ever came of it because she couldn't get there."
As Radar exclusively revealed last Nov., damning home surveillance footage was released showing Jameson, 40, pulling a wine bottle from behind her bedroom nightstand and chugging from it and popping pills while the children were in her care.
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In 2010 Jameson claimed she gave up her porn career to be a mother to her two sons, but she has now lost custody of the boys and Ortiz will get full custody in April.
"She didn't show up to any of the court dates!" Markham claimed.
"What kind of woman would leave her children for drugs and partying and tattoos?"
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According to Markham, Jameson eventually got money from a deal for sex toys she made with Fleshlight and used that to move into her own condo at the first of the year.
"Jenna moved out of my complex across the street and just recently she called my leasing manager and told them I was running a whore house!" Markham told Radar.
"My manager told her that no complaints were ever made of that nature and to never call again. Jenna went off and started cussing her out and calling her nasty names."
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Markham says being friends with Jameson and letting her live with him was the craziest time of his life.
"She would accuse everyone of stealing, which was never true. She would lose things or leave them places because she would forget because she was on many Xanax or Ambien or drunk," he said.
And finally, Markham claims Jameson is now dating Miller's ex-boyfriend, just to get back at her for dating Ortiz.
"We do not speak to Britney. We don't pay attention to anything he has to say because everything he has to say are lies and false accusations," Jameson's rep, Allen Meme told Radar.
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Studio: Picturehouse
Director: David Schwimmer
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for some rude and sexual humor, nudity, language and smoking)
Screenwriters: Simon Pegg, Michael Ian Black
Starring: Simon Pegg, Dylan Moran, Hank Azaria, Thandie Newton, Ameet Chana, Harish Patel
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Five years ago Dennis (Simon Pegg) was at the altar about to marry Libby (Thandie Newton), his pregnant fiancée. He got cold feet and ran for the hills and he's been going in circles ever since. When Dennis discovers Libby's hooked up with high-flying-go-getter Whit (Hank Azaria), he realizes it's now or never. He enters a marathon to show he's more than a quitter but then finds out just how much sweat, strain and tears it takes to run for 26 miles. Nobody gives him a chance but Dennis knows this is his only hope to more than a running joke.


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Obama: Peace between Israel and Palestinians possible
US President Barack Obama confirmed Thursday the possibility of achieving peace between Palestinians and Israelis. According to him, the fact that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not a dove in the Jewish state may serve peace efforts, which require the hawks and doves from the Palestinian and Israeli sides to be together.
Obama said in an interview with Israel's Channel Two TV: "There hope of achieving peace in the Middle East exists," but he stressed at the same time that he is "not absolutely optimistic" in this matter.
Obama, who met Netanyahu on Tuesday, said that Israel has the right to be skeptical about the peace process but called to maintain the hope for achieving peace between the Palestinian and the Israeli sides. He added that "many people had believed that the establishment of the State of Israel is impossible, so its presence should be a great source of hope."
On Netanyahu, Obama said that "not only he is smart and direct, the fact that he is not a dove in Israel may be useful because any successful peace should include hawks and doves on both sides."
Obama reiterated that Netanyahu is "in a good position to achieve peace" with the Palestinians.


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I've been working on outlook imports (linked in exports to outlook format) but I'm having troubles with encoding. The outlook format CSV i get from exporting my linkedin contacts are not in UTF-8 so letters like ñ are causing an exception in the mongoid_search gem when str.to_s.mb_chars.normalize is being called. I've deduced that this is because when a string is returned by mb_chars (when ruby 1.9 is used as per the docs: http://apidock.com/rails/String/mb_chars just below first code example). I guess this is a bug in the gem but regardless i am advised to sanitize the data no matter. My implementation(s) thus far:
File Picker using their new community supported gem to upload csv. I tried three encoding detectors ( and transcoders):
ruby port of a python lib chardet - basically sucked, had python code leftover that prevented it from even running in my app
rchardet19 gem - detected iso-8859 with .8/1 confidence. I then tried to transcode with Iconv. Crashed on "illegal characters" at a ñ
a gem Charlock_Holmes (https://github.com/brianmario/charlock_holmes). This detected windows-1252 with 33/100 confidence (i assume thats what is actually is and rchardet got iso-8859 because this ones based of that). This gem uses ICU and has a maintained branch "bundle-icu" which supposedly allows it to work on heroku. When i try to transcode using charlock, i get a U_FILE_ACCESS_ERROR. It is a icu error code meaning "could not open file"
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Jobless rate in county at 8.6 percent
10 percent possible, economists warn
That puts the county's rate about even with the unadjusted national average of 8.6 percent. (The seasonally adjusted national rate last month was 7.6 percent.)
By comparison, California's unadjusted rate was 10.6 percent, or 10.1 percent after seasonal adjustments. The state does not provide seasonal adjustments for counties other than Los Angeles.
The last time San Diego County's jobless rate reached this high was July 1993, and comparable data only go back to 1990.
Still, San Diego outperformed most other counties in the state. Forty out of California's 58 counties now have unemployment rates in the double digits. Most of those are sparsely populated areas in the Central Valley and Sierra Nevada, but they also include such nearby counties as Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino and Imperial.
The slowdown in hiring was also noticeable at temporary employment agencies, which lost 800 contract employees in January and 3,200 over the past year.
"Companies are petrified about where this economy's going," said Phil Blair, a co-owner of the regional operations of the Manpower employment agency. "Instead of bottoming out, things are getting worse rather than better. I don't expect the numbers from February or March to be any better than January."
Blair said the situation is not totally bleak. He said his firm is doing slightly better than it was last year. He's trying to fill openings for 150 clean-room technicians in Temecula, 20 medical building clerks in San Diego and 40 customer service and online marketing workers for a local high-tech firm.
But Blair said most of his competitors are in worse shape. He estimated that the typical job placement firm is down by 20 percent to 40 percent from last year.
Susan Afan, the San Diego regional director at the Robert Half job placement firm, said companies that are hiring are sitting on a glut of qualified workers.
"They know that there are plenty of good people available, and they're taking their time to find the best ones they can," she said.
Afan said the best prospects for employment are health care, private education, green technologies and "things we can't do without," such as utilities and waste management.
But even those areas had a rough January. Health care operations shed 1,200 jobs during the month, and private education services were down 200.
The weakness of the job market is being reflected in consumer confidence surveys. One such survey released yesterday by The San Diego Union-Tribune showed the most pessimism since the newspaper began polling in 1996. Consumer confidence dropped 9.3 percent from January to February. Since February 2007, it has dropped by more than 66 percent, from 106.8 points to 34.9 points last month.
Local unemployment has mostly been rising for more than a year, following the bursting of a real estate bubble that led to massive layoffs in construction, real estate and finance, which in turn contributed to a decline in consumer and business spending.
Economists say one of the few encouraging signs in the January jobless data is that employment in the beleaguered real estate market seems to be hitting bottom.


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The Ottawa Senators are pretty happy that they're advancing to the second round. Perhaps they are all a bit too excited as the team's official Twitter account proudly claimed that they are the first team to advance to the second round of the playoffs. There's just one problem - San Jose advanced to the second round by sweeping the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday night. That was two days ago. Maybe the team's Twitter was trying to say they are the first to advance from the Eastern Conference. Maybe all of the excitement got to someone's head and they blocked out what happened a couple days ago. Either way, congratulations to Ottawa for moving on and at least this blunder was a fairly minor one in the scheme of things. [follow]
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Over 7 million registered Malawians participated today in the country's first tripartite (presidential, parliamentary and local government) elections with the incumbent President Joyce Banda facing challenges from 11 other candidates which included Peter Mutharika the late former President's brother, Atupele Muluzi - the son of another former president - and a former preacher, Lazarus Chakwera.
Voting was delayed in parts of the largest city, Blantyre, due to a shortage of election material with complaints about lack of indelible ink and reports of angry scenes from polling stations.
This elections is seen as one of the closest in the country's history but analysts are of the opinion that President Banda is likely to win due to her popularity in the local areas.
Malawi practices the first-past-the-post system and there will be no run-off elections. The president is directly elected concurrently with Parliament by a plurality. The term of office of the president is five years and a president may seek re-election for a second five-year term.


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SALEM A man exposed himself to a woman on a busy Salem street and then chased her Monday night, deputies said.
The woman told investigators she was walking down Northeast Lancaster Drive when a man walked by mumbling something, according to the Marion County Sheriff s Office.
She said she looked up and noticed he was exposing and touching himself.
He started chasing her, but she got away by running into the road screaming that she was calling police.
Anyone with information on the incident was asked to call Salem police.


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I became a climate justice activist when I discovered that resource scarcity leads to armed conflict (Darfur, for example), in which innocent people (children) are hurt. These conflicts can be stopped before they start, but only if we act now. I grew up in the wilderness of Utah and was instilled with a spiritual appreciation for nature for its own sake. I am a Co-Director of Peaceful Uprising, a nonprofit which empowers individuals to take direct action to defend a livable future; I'm a PoliSci student at the University of Utah; I host a progressive drive time FM talk show called RadioActive on KRCL 90.9 fm, and I love to walk around with my dog in the stunning Utah canyon country. I also play guitar. My weaknesses include buttery popcorn, smartphones, speed metal, cartoons and dancing to hippy jam bands. In my spare time I ... am still a climate justice activist. Or asleep.
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Wake Forest Baptist Health Home Care Home Specialist Laura Hubbard is spearheading a community health fair in conjunction with the Elkin Senior Alliance that is scheduled on April 11.
It will be the first of its kind for the Elkin area, said Hubbard.
The fair will be designed to meet the need for health care information though is not limited to seniors — anyone can come, said Hubbard.
"A lot of people do not realize what they have in their community at their fingertips," said Hubbard.
Hubbard explained that knowledge is key when it comes to finding out what is available in the way of senior health care. So far there are 25 different vendors signed up to participate in the fair and Hubbard said she are looking for more.
The Senior Alliance is a group that provides services to seniors and are businesses that come together, network and do presentations for different groups for the purpose of sharing information. A senior is typically considered over the age of 65, said Hubbard.
In addition to Wake Forest Baptist Care at Home, other representatives in the Senior Alliance are Hugh Chatham Hospital, Parkwood Place Retirement Living Community, Bayada Home and Senior Care, YVEDDI, Mountain Valley Hospice, Victorian Senior Care for Assisted Living, Partners Behavioral Health Care, Surry Senior Services Liberty Home Care, Yadkin Valley Home Health. These are the most active on regular basis. It is open to anyone who provides service, said Hubbard.
Tanya Chilton may be reached at 336-835-1513 or on Twitter @TanyaTDC.


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Audi has released some actual real life footage of its 700bhp Quattro concept - last seen lurking ominously on a show stand at the Frankfurt show - to (a) thank its growing legion of internet fans, and (b) prove that it works.
First footage of Audi Quattro Concept
Fans like Audi's Facebook page. Audi responds with video of 700bhp 4WD stormer
To celebrate getting over 100,000 likes on its Facebook page (wake us up when you get past 13 million, please), Audi has fired out a short teaser video of the Sport Quattro Concept; that 700bhp, pugnaciously styled yellow nod to the company's past glory. A car that carries with it the hopes of many Thermos flask enthusiasts.
The concept bears the Sport Quattro name as a deliberate homage to the short-wheelbase Sport Quattro from 1983. The SQ is powered by Audi's delightfully thunderous twin-turbo 4.0-litre V8 TFSI petrol engine from the RS6, producing the same 552bhp and 516lb ft of torque.
However, this car gets an electric motor stuffed between that V8 and the transmission, which adds another 150bhp and 295lb ft of torque (which alone is as much torque as the outgoing BMW M3's V8 makes), powered by a liquid-cooled lithium-ion battery pack. Using just this electric motor, the SQ gets a claimed 31 miles range.
Of course, you don't want to use just the electric motor. You want everything. Because with everything hooked up to maximum attack, the SQ produces 700bhp. With four-wheel-drive and an eight-speed auto 'box, it'll go from 0-62mph in 3.7 seconds and on to a top speed of 190mph.
Sure, a Nissan GT-R might hit 62mph in three seconds flat. Can it return 113mpg and emit just 59g/km of CO2? No. But the SQ can.
That said, despite weight saving measures including a carbon fibre reinforced polymer roof, bonnet and rear bootlid, it's still a plumper, weighing in at 1,850kg.
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The Legislative Audit Division is investigating allegations that the Southeast Arkansas Education Service Cooperative, which runs the program, pressured teachers to inflate grades for the students. The teachers are employed by the cooperative, not the colleges.
While the audit is under way, colleges that have opted out of the program include Arkansas Northeastern College, Arkansas State University at Jonesboro, ASU at Beebe, ASU at Heber Springs, Black River Technical College, Cossatot Community College, East Arkansas Community College, Henderson State University, Phillips County Community College, Southern Arkansas University, University of Arkansas Community College at Hope and the University of Central Arkansas in Conway.
Only four colleges are participating in the program and overall enrollment has grown, program officials say. High school students are enrolled in more than 2,000 classes for this school year, up from about 1,800 last year, according to Judy Jones, the program director.
Ouachita Technical College in Malvern and North Arkansas College in Harrison are participating in the program. The University of Arkansas at Monticello and Arkansas Tech University in Russellville are expanding their programs, accepting students who had planned to sign up with other colleges.
Program funding for the Arkansas Early College High School program comes mostly from a $720,000 grant from the state.
Bruce Terry resigned last month from his job as cooperative director, after he was suspended. Terry's attorney has declined comment through a spokesman.
In the spring, Laura Creach, former director of the early college program, expressed concern that Terry told teachers that no student should receive less than a "B." The Arkansas Department of Higher Education and the Arkansas Department of Education then investigated.
"I saw enough smoke to think there may be some fire," said Higher Education Director Jim Purcell, who asked for the audit. "For us, we want there to be access for kids in the state, but we want there to be quality teaching and greater institutional oversight and perhaps greater oversight from this office."
Purcell sent a letter May 9 to university presidents and chancellors outlining his concerns.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. The parents of two of three Arkansas boys who were murdered in 1993 said they're disappointed that a documentary about the killings and the three men convicted, known as the West Memphis Three, was nominated Tuesday for an Academy Award.
Todd and Diana Moore had asked the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to exclude "Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory" from consideration, saying it glorifies Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley. The three spent 18 years in prison, maintaining their innocence and attracting attention from celebrities, before a deal with prosecutors set them free last year.
The film, directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, is the third in a series of HBO documentaries about the killings of Michael Moore, Stevie Branch and Christopher Byers. The bodies of the 8-year-old Cub Scouts were found naked and tied up with shoe strings in West Memphis, a town along the Mississippi River.
The Moores, along with Stevie Branch's father and stepfather, sent a three-page letter to the Academy and reporters Tuesday expressing their "sadness, disappointment, and outrage" about the Oscar nod.
"This film should be exposed as a fraud, not rewarded with an Academy Award nomination," they wrote.
Berlinger, who was at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, said in an email that he was sympathetic to the victims' families.
"We believe that the pursuit of the truth has been the best way to honor the memories of the victims of this unimaginable crime and our hearts go out to those who are criticizing us," he said.
The Academy didn't immediately respond to an email seeking comment. "Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory" was among five documentary features nominated for an Oscar.
The series' first film aired in 1996 and immediately raised doubts about the case. Over the years, celebrities such as Johnny Depp, Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder and the Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines joined the effort to free Echols, who was sentenced to death, and Baldwin and Misskelley, who received life prison sentences.
The three, who were teenagers at the time of the murders, were freed in August after pleading guilty to lesser charges in exchange for sentences of time served. An unusual legal maneuver allowed them to maintain their claims of innocence.
Since then, new films have been chronicling the case and the men's lives. "Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory" debuted last year, and another film, "West of Memphis," premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this month.
Pam Hobbs, Stevie Branch's mother, believes the three men didn't murder her son and said she asked the state to reopen the case after seeing new evidence in "West of Memphis."
Prosecutor Scott Ellington, who handled the case in August, said Tuesday that he'd received a packet of materials from the defense team but had not had a chance to look at it. He has previously said that he believes the killers were convicted but promised to look at new evidence.
Echols, Baldwin and Misskelley were convicted after Misskelley unexpectedly confessed and implicated the other two, describing sodomy and other violence. Misskelley, then 17, later recanted, and defense lawyers said he got several parts of the story wrong. An autopsy found there was no definite evidence of sexual assault, and Misskelley said the older boys abducted the Cub Scouts in the morning when they had actually been in school all day.


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Smartphone-based navigation systems can certainly help cyclists find their way around the city, but not everyone wants to risk attaching their precious phone to their rattly handlebars, nor do they like having to repeatedly glance down to read the map on its screen. That's why Schwinn has just announced its CycleNav device. It guides cyclists using verbal cues and simple directional arrows.
Users start with the free CycleNav app on their iOS or Android smartphone, using it to enter their destination address. They're then presented with multiple routes on an onscreen map, which they can choose between based on displayed factors such as distance, estimated duration of trip, and terrain covered. Once a route is chosen, they can also indicate any stops they'd like to make along the way, entering them as waypoints.
The phone can then be safely stuffed away in a pocket or bag, communicating with the bar-mounted CycleNav using Bluetooth. Riders will subsequently be guided turn-by-turn via the device's flashing left- or right-turn signals, along with audible instructions (i.e: "Turn right, now"). If they can't quite make out one of those instructions, they can just press a button to hear it again.
One charge of the device's integrated battery should be good for about 10 hours of use. The CycleNav also features a built-in headlight.
For cyclists who care about such things, the app keeps track of their rides, recording stats such as distance, duration and calories burned. Although that app will be available on the App Store and Google Play as of January 15th, the device itself won't be in stores until this spring (Northern Hemisphere). It will be priced at the earlier-mentioned US$60, including its quick-release handlebar mount. If you're interested, you might also want to check out the similar Hammerhead.
More information on the CycleNav is available in the video below.
You can get really cheap smartphones or use an old one. Personally though, I'd just use a Bluetooth speaker designed for bicycles and probably be able to listen to music and receive calls too. Sorry Schwinn, that boat has sailed.esar
Not the big deal I was hoping for. All this is seems to be an extension display for your smartphone. Why cannot somebody get together with a communication engineer and make something that is stand-alone? Oh, wait, they do - what about a waterproof version of a TomTom car GSP navigator with an internal battery that does not need the cigarette lighter plug?The Skud
The Skud is right how about a GPS you don't have to plug in . Not everyone needs or wants a smart phone.randomray


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Felicita replaces principal, will undergo overhaul as district tries to raise student test scores
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It would be the last high-water mark for test scores during Leso's tenure. A year later, the campus was on the state's "watch" list for under-performing schools, and in 2008 it was placed on a mandatory school-improvement list as test scores remained persistently low.
Last month, the state stepped in and called for a change.
"The principal is the instructional leader at each school, and unless you have the right leader on board, it's unlikely that change is going to take effect," said Fred Balcomb, director of district and school improvement with the state Department of Education.
Balcomb said the state is following federal direction in pushing for new principals at failing schools.
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"It does not indicate it's a bad principal," Balcomb continued. "But a new approach and new leadership is necessary."
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Carlsbad Unified, Encinitas Union, Fallbrook Union Elementary, San Dieguito Union High and San Marcos Unified school districts all were identified as having schools failing to keep pace with the goals.
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Easy to use I wanted an easy-to-use trainer for the dark Cold season and bought this. It has worked properly througout the winter. Simple and reliable. I also bought a front wheel stand and a trainer tyre. Enough resistance and stable construction. 13 March 2014
Great for winter training I have had this for a few years now. I started using it and couldn't get on with staring at the same wall. Now I listen my MP3 player or play something on the laptop or tablet. Despite the reduced sound, its still quite loud and disturbs others if I use it in the house. I would recommend one of these to anyone who wants to continue riding in the winter, or cant be bothered to get kitted up for a ride out. 21 January 2014
excellent a brilliant bit of kit that delivers exactly what it promised. Nice and quiet and would recommend. 08 July 2013
Best trainer I've used With it now being winter in Sweden, I am now getting decent use out of this trainer and feel it is worthy of a good review (after 6 months of ownership). It's much quieter and feels more natural than other trainers I have used, mostly due to the way the bike and your weight are used to rest on the roller. So it feels really nice seated and standing up. It is really stable and I haven't had any problems during a single session, even when doing sprint intervals out of and back into the saddle, which is where most other trainers feel, for a lack of a better word, weird. I recommend using a mat underneath it (normal exercise mats work great as they're slightly firmer) and a riser block, to keep the stability to a maximum and the noise to a minimum. Great purchase! 27 December 2012
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Awesome My squad does indoor training sessions each week and they have improved my cycling immensely. I decided to get my own trainer so I knew I always had the same unit each week. The coach also purchased a bunch of these. I have been using mine every week for 6 months now and it has been great. The main reason I chose this unit is the upside down pivoting support frame. It uses your body weight to load the tyre so it never slips. The other great thing with this design is the two support arms can flex forward and backwards which means your carbon frame rear stays don't get overloaded when you ride out of the saddle. The other A Frame style which lock the bike in at the top of the "A" hold the bike much more rigidly and cause a lot more bike frame flex. I have two things worth noting: 1. The adjustment has 8 levels and I doubt I will ever get past the 5th. It would be good if each step was less of a jump. 2. I have found over the last few months it is getting progressively harder on a given setting and I believe this is cable stretch. 29 December 2011
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Top piece of winter kit Have had a few rides now on the trainer and couldn't be happier. Really stable and easy to put together and set up. Has been used on cement and carpet and both felt solid. it's not as quiet as some would expect but i can still have a conversation with someone whilst spinning away so it can't be too loud. I find that using it with my Garmin 500 I can monitor my cadence perfectly. it also gives me a speed reading but not 100% on the accuracy. I just love the ability to have targeted training without the worry of a car running you over or having to stop ever block for the traffic lights. 16 April 2011
Very impressive machine Very easy to set up. Quick-release allows bike to be taken off and put back on within seconds. The 8 settings of difficulty go from hard work (in top gear) to practically impossible; I'm still working on level 1 and occasionally 2, and am pretty fit. The only downside is that the way that the bike attaches (using a squeeze fit via the lever on the side of one arm) means that my bike leans ever so slightly to one side and I can't adjust that out. It's very minor but it's a bit annoying, although I can get rid of the problem by putting a bit of card under one side of the base. 17 March 2011
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