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Muppets Most Wanted (2014)
Muppets Most Wanted SynopsisDisneys Muppets Most Wanted takes the entire Muppets gang on a global tour, selling out grand theaters in some of Europes most exciting destinations, including Berlin, Madrid and London. But mayhem follows the Muppets overseas, as they find themselves unwittingly entangled in an international crime caper headed by Constantinethe Worlds Number One Criminal and a dead ringer for Kermitand his dastardly sidekick Dominic, aka Number Two, portrayed by Ricky Gervais. The film stars Tina Fey as Nadya, a feisty prison guard, and Ty Burrell as Interpol agent Jean Pierre Napoleon.
Disneys Muppets Most Wanted is directed by James Bobin and produced by David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman. Bobin co-wrote the screenplay with Nicholas Stoller, who is also executive producer with John Scotti. Featuring music from Academy Award®-winning songwriter Bret McKenzie.
Muppets Most Wanted Release Date
In Theaters March 21, 2014
Muppets Most Wanted Credits
Starring: Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, The Great Gonzo, Animal, Ricky Gervais, Ty Burrell and Tina Fey
Written by: James Bobin and Nick Stoller
Directed by: James Bobin
Produced by: Todd Lieberman and David Hoberman
MPAA Rating: [ PG ]
Distributor: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
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Following Serena Williams' lead, a super-preppy Roger Federer took his own ride on the media merry-go-round a day after capturing his 13th Grand Slam title.
The 5-time US Open champion took a trip to the top of The Empire State Building for a photo op on the viewing deck with the silver trophy.
Fed then proceeded to meet with members of the media (sadly I wasn't invited - drats!) to discuss the big win.
Next stop for the Swiss maestro and his precious was CBS' The Early show for a visit with Harry Smith and Maggie Rodriguez. Is it me or does it look like they're treating Fed like a pregnant lady? Keep your hands off Harry!
Of course a merry-go-round ride is never complete without a stop over with the fun friends at the TODAY show, including Matt Lauer, Meredith Viera, and Al Roker.
Hey, since I'm not getting invites to these intimate media moments, can I have one of their TODAY show jobs at least? Seriously, who can't call the weather??
Oh life is cruel.
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Does anyone else start getting the shakes once the US Open is over? And they say the off-season is so short...not for a tennis fan who was just riding the high of the Grand Slam season! :( Hopefully the season-ending Championships will have some good televised coverage.ReplyDelete
to Erin: Yes, I'm in need of tennis BADLY right now. Plus, no real follow-up coverage on any sports channel today.ReplyDelete
Let me tell you a little bit about how nice Roger is. I go to the Open every year with a friend of mine, who has low vision and is classified as disabled. She wears a bright orange sticker that says"Visually Impaired" when she is out in public so people can deal with her accordingly. We always get pretty good seats at the Open, and usually a tournament official or player will invite us into the player's lounge to meet other players. Last night, we got lucky again, and got to go into the lounge and media room after Roger won. We didn't expect to meet him, but it was kind of cool to hang out. Roger came in and spotted my friend's sticker, came over, and asked her if she enjoyed the match and if she was able to see it well. I think both our jaws hit the floor at the same time. He even offered to take a photo with us, but my friend is blinded temporarily by flash photography, so sadly, that was out. :(
On the way home, we spoke about it, and we really can't see any other player that would seek out someone with a disability, especially after such a great win or important match, and spend a few minutes with them. Roger truly is a gentleman.
That didn't stop me from trying to sneak into the locker room to see if Rafa left any of those red pants behind, though! ;)
erin: i'm all about taking a mini-break after this summer (which i'll be doing by the way.) it was jam-packed full of incredible tennis but my fingers hurt and that's not good for my game hehe!ReplyDelete
natch: great story - kudos to you for meeting up with the man of the moment. jim courier would be so pissed if you got into the locker room but he can't!
so no luck on the pants though right? how about the shorty-shorts??
Rich you do such an awesome job with this website. Thank you for feeding my tennis obsession with insightful and witty posts and discussions. You deserve a break just like the players do its just too bad that for all of your hard work this summer slam season you don't get that added monetary bonus like they do... :)ReplyDelete
erin, thanks...you're very sweet! but yes, we'll have to work on the money side of these matters. i bet i can type faster than most of the ballers - that should count for something in this sport, right?ReplyDelete
Someone back me up!
- AnonymousSeptember 9, 2008 at 1:12 PM
that's a lovely story, a testament to roger's character. i suggest you share this story on jon wertheim's column at si.com, since he has this contest or section for close encounters with the stars.
>>jim courier would be so pissed if you got into the locker room but he can't!<<ReplyDelete
Maybe Mr.Courier should volunteer to assist the disabled, instead of running his mouth. I ran into him a bunch during the tourney, and geez, is he annoying.
>>so no luck on the pants though right? how about the shorty-shorts??<<
If ONLY Rafa wore short shorts!!
No red pants. In fact, no locker room. For some reason, security wouldn't let me in...
I did get to feel Roger's leg, though. Even though he is wiry, he looks like he's head to toe muscle (just not Rafa's statue type of muscle.) so I asked if I could feel his leg. It was as hard as I thought it would be. Uh, his leg that is...;)
Oh yes, and Mirka is stunning up close. Peaches and cream skin.
Erin I totally get the shakes after the US open. I don't have cable so my tv tennis coverage is done for the year.ReplyDelete
Natch, OMG you are the luckiest ever. If I got to touch Roger's leg my hand would have "accidentally" slipped.


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MICHAEL F. SCHILAWSKI Wake Family Law Group, Raleigh
Id like to practice law in or around King Salmon, Alaska. The fly fishing is fabulous. The pace would be considerably slower, and I could commute to the borough courthouse via Cessna instead of fighting traffic on Raleighs Beltline. The equitable distribution of marital property beaver pelts, dried fish filets, stacks of winter wood and cans of fuel oil would be far less complicated.
Vita: Born Dec. 19, 1948, in Marinette, Wis.; bachelors from UNC Chapel Hill, masters from N.C. State University, law degree from Campbell University; wife and two children. Why he chose this field: I started practicing with one partner. He practiced real-estate law, and I did a little bit of everything else. I began to enjoy family law and was first certified as a family-law specialist in 1989. Ive been practicing family law almost exclusively ever since. What hed be if not a lawyer: High-school teacher and football coach. Memorable case: Every case is slightly different and the complicated ones take you into real-estate issues, contracts, tax law, estate-planning issues, etc. Passions: Fly fishing. Favorite place: Lake Como, Italy. Id like to visit again. Recent reading: Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis by Howell Raines. Heroes: My father and his father. Dont ask him to: Revise the Wake County Family Court Rules (again).


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Nirvana frontman Kurt Coban opened up about his teenage flirtation with homosexuality in a lost interview unearthed by PBS bosses.
The troubled grunge icon, who died from a gunshot wound in 1994, spoke with music journalist Jon Savage in 1993 and discussed issues of identity, including his sexuality.
Savage and Cobain discussed his problems during high school and his feelings of alienation, and at one point the writer asked if he the rocker had problems with people thinking he was gay.
Cobain replies, "Yeah. Yeah. Even I thought I was gay, I thought that might be the solutions to my problem. Although I never experimented with it, I had a gay friend, and then my mother wouldn't allow me to be friends with him anymore because… well, she's homophobic.
"It was real devastating because I finally found a male friend who I actually hugged and was affectionate to, and we talked about a lot of things… I couldn't hang out with him anymore."
The 20-year-old audio tape of the interview is the latest in its "Blank on Blank" series, which focuses on lost interview with famous people.


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The Surrey
Manhattan: Best Done In A Whirlwind Journey
By Sara Deseran on December 09, 2010 4:01 PM
In my opinion, Manhattan should be done in a mad three-night journey. It allows you to go for broke without actually succeeding. Instead of staying put though, reserve at two of the city's newest, swankiest hotels. You'll get a taste of different sides of the city (and save on cab fares). The Surrey, on a posh block of the Upper East Side, is your one-night splurge. Originally a residential hotel built in the '20s, its lobby now houses Chuck Close's painting of Kate Moss. Lauren Rottet's black and white décor is an elegant mix of modern and traditional design, a relief in the era of Philippe Starck.


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The Ohio Department of Education is caught in a bit of a mess. This morning, the state auditor's office announced it would be conducting a probe into the Ohio Department of Education over school test and attendance data. Yesterday, Ohio Superintendent of Public Instruction Stan Heffner said the Ohio Department of Education will be investigating more schools for possible instances of fraudulent data reporting. The superintendent's announcement came on the same day Lockland School Districts were found to be reporting false attendance data for better test results.
Delta Airlines announced it will be closing down Comair, which is headquartered in the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport. The move could have a significant impact on jobs in the region.
Only 6,000 out of 140,000 eligible Ohioans have initiated a foreclosure review process, according to Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown. The review could potentially save Ohioans a lot of money.
The Ohio Supreme Court still thinks Ohio's smoking ban is constitutional.
Skype is making chat and user data more accessible to police.
There is now a reason to be jealous of Kansas City. Google will be offering its ultra-fast Internet service in the area for only $70 a month.
Nearly one in five voters thinks President Barack Obama is a Muslim.
Mitt Romney had a bad couple days during his trip to London: An aide allegedly made racist comments about Obama's commitment to "Anglo-Saxon heritage," Romney questioned if London is ready to host the Olympics, and he talked about meeting with the leader of MI6, the British intelligence agency. And he said he's excited to return the "bust of Winston Churchill" to the Oval Office. Whatever that means.
Nobody has a case of the Mondays, according to a new study in the Journal of Positive Psychology.
Scientists have found a way to temporarily restore eyesight in blind mice. But it requires a direct chemical injection into the eyes.
A new website called Cuts Hurt Ohio shows the impact of the state government slashing budgets. It gives a glimpse into how each county has been affected by cuts in education and local government aid programs.
For Hamilton County, the website shows cuts of $241 million in
the 2012-2013 budget. Education funds in Hamilton County were cut by a
total of $136 million, while other funds have been slashed by $105
million. The website also reports budget-related news headlines for
Hamilton County: "Cincinnati superintendent salary to be cut in half,"
"Townships may not have any police presence when they lose sheriff
patrols" and "Report: Children services in Cincinnati stretched."
For all of Ohio, cuts total $2.88 billion. Education programs were cut by $1.8 billion statewide, and aid provided to local governments was reduced by $1.08 billion.
Innovation Ohio and Policy Matters Ohio opened created the website to raise awareness and show the differences between former Gov. Ted Strickland's 2010-2011 budget and Gov. John Kasich's 2012-2013 budget. The numbers are based on data provided by the Ohio Department of Taxation and Ohio Department of Education.
Since some cuts are due to the loss of federal stimulus funds, not all the cuts are directly linked to the state government slashing its budget. But the 2012-2013 budget will pull funding to the Ohio Department of Education down to $9.8 billion in the 2013 fiscal year, which is lower than the amount of funding education received before Ohio obtained federal stimulus dollars.
To check out the website, go to www.cutshurtohio.com.
Child poverty and its causes will be one of the main focuses of the conference. Nearly 15 million children in the United States, or 21 percent of all children, live in families below the federal poverty level, according to the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP). A study from the NCCP found Cincinnati has the third-worst children's poverty rate at 48 percent. Only Detroit and Cleveland were worse, with 53.6 percent and 52.6 percent, respectively.
"We're going to look at all the range of policies and practices and the impact of those and what we can do," CDF President Marian Wright told WVXU today. "It's going to be a real teach-in on what we must do to move forward and stop the move backwards, which I think we're in the midst of."
The conference will also look at education issues. It seeks to shine light on the issue of the achievement gap between the poor and non-poor and racial disparities. A 2011 analysis by the National Center for Education Statistics found black and Hispanic students are behind their white peers by 20 test-points in math and reading tests provided by the National Assessment of Educational Progress. The difference equates to about two grade levels.
The conference will also look at child health care services, zero-tolerance discipline policies in schools and tools and programs that can be used to improve the lives of struggling children.
Anyone is free to register at CDF's website to join the conference. Experts, doctors and activists will also be there.
Last week, it was reported that the Ohio Department of Education had hit
the jackpot with a record $771 million in lottery profits. By state
law, lottery profits are supposed to go to the Lottery Profits Education
Fund, which funds schools in Ohio. At first, it seemed like a great
opportunity to increase education funding.
Maybe not. In a joint statement this morning, the Ohio School Boards Association, the Buckeye Association of School Administrators and the Ohio Association of School Business Officials explained the money does not mean more money for schools.
"While it is true that all Ohio Lottery profits are used by the state to fund education, the profit from increased sales was simply used to free up other state funds that had previously been set aside for schools, allowing more money to be transferred into the state's rainy day fund," OSBA Executive Director Richard Lewis said in the statement.
Despite the lottery profits, funding for Ohio's school foundation payment program remains at $7.2 billion — exactly as established by Gov. John Kasich's 2011 budget plan.
In other words, no gain for schools, but some gain for the state's rainy day fund.
The news comes as a bit of a buzz-kill to schools that are already feeling cuts from the two-year state budget plan passed by the Republican-controlled legislature and signed by Kasich.
For the 2012 fiscal year, Kasich's budget cut funding to the Department of Education down to $10.3 billion, a 4.9 percent reduction from the year before, largely due to the loss of federal stimulus dollars. But another 4.9 percent cut is planned for the 2013 fiscal year, lowering funding to $9.8 billion, which is even lower than the amount of funding the Department of Education received in 2008 and 2009 — before the state received federal stimulus dollars.
Local subscribers to Time Warner and Insight cable woke up today without access to WLWT-TV (Channel 5) after the station and companies failed to reach a new retransmission agreement. Instead, the cable companies offered Channel 2 from NBC affiliate Terre Haute, Ind. The Enquirer is all over the story, reporting that Todd Dykes and Lisa Cooney in the morning were replaced by someone named Dada Winklepleck in Wabash Valley, Ind. Don't worry: 30 Rock will still be on your new local Indiana station. Visit mywabashvalley.com for further details about additional programming. Or you can just hook up an antennae and get WLWT in hi-def for free.
Anyone in the market for a school building? Cincinnati Public Schools is adding four closed buildings to a for-sale list in an attempt to raise the capital necessary to complete an overhaul of its in-use buildings as part of its Facilities Master Plan. The new buildings on the list are Central Fairmount, Kirby Road, North Fairmount and Old Shroder schools.
Ohio brought in $23.5 million during the first seven weeks of legalized gambling in the state.
Mitt Romney says he's not hiding anything in his offshore accounts. The proof: He doesn't even know where they are, so they're technically hidden from him, too.
Barack Obama is in Iowa apparently setting up an issue on which to debate Romney later this fall. Obama is pitching an extension of the Bush-era tax cuts for households earning less than $250,000, while Romney wants to extend them for rich people, too.
The FDA went against the advice of an expert panel, deciding not to require mandatory training for doctors prescribing long-acting narcotic painkillers that can lead to addiction.
Three-hundred-square-foot apartments in New York City? Mayor Michael Bloomberg asked developers yesterday to try to make them work.
City planners envision a future in which the young, the cash-poor and empty nesters flock to such small dwellings — each not much bigger than a dorm room. In a pricey real estate market where about one-third of renter households spend more than half their income on rent, it could make housing more affordable.
Droughts in 18 states have made the price of corn go up, and the soybeans are hurting a little bit, too.
Sitting less adds two years to U.S. life expectancy.
A new study found that babies are healthier when there are dogs in their homes.
The Major League Baseball All-Star Game will take place tonight in Kansas City. The Reds' Joey Votto is a starter, while Jay Bruce and Aroldis Chapman are also likely to play.
While anti-urban Cincinnatians gripe over the twice-approved $95 million streetcar project — some going so far as to attach anti-funding amendments to federal bills that will never be included in the final legislation — authorities on the other side of the river are demonstrating just how little $20 million on transportation funding can provide. The state will widen KY 237 in Boone County using elevated ramps to allow for left-hand turns, adding a freeway-style element to the residential/corridor area. The two-year project will be paid for using Federal Surface Transportation Program funds.
Starting this fall all students in Newport Independent Schools will get free breakfast and lunch because the district is participating in the Community Eligibility Option in President Obama's Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010.
CBS News says Chief Justice John Roberts initially sided with the other four conservative justices but wasn't prepared to strike down the entire health care law. Roberts wrote the court's majority opinion, which upheld most of the legislation.
Here's three ways the ruling hurt Mitt Romney, according to the Boston Globe.
The Mark Wahlberg/teddy bear film, Ted, brought in $54.1 million over the weekend. CityBeat's film dude said it was good, too.
Scientists say they are on the verge of finding a "God particle" that could explain the creation of the universe.
For particle physicists, finding the Higgs boson is a key to confirming the standard model of physics that explains what gives mass to matter and, by extension, how the universe was formed. …
Rosen compared the results scientists are preparing to announce Wednesday to finding the fossilized imprint of a dinosaur: "You see the footprints and the shadow of the object, but you don't actually see it."
Spain won the 2012 European Championship soccer tournament on Sunday with a 4-0 victory over Italy. The Spanish team is being considered one of the greatest ever, as it has won three straight major tournaments, including the 2010 World Cup and 2008 Euro.
Former Bengal Chad Ochocinco will return to Cincinnati
Oct. 7 as a member of the Miami Dolphins, if reports by his OchoCinco
News Network are true: Ocho says he has signed with the Miami Dolphins.
Cincinnati Public Schools on Monday
voted unanimously to put a levy renewal on the November ballot. The
current levy is set to expire in 2013, and the renewal would be for
$51.5 million for five years.
The second day of the Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse trial continues today, with a second accuser expected to testify. In his opening statement, Sandusky's lawyer questioned the credibility of the eight young men accusing him of multiple crimes over several years, claiming that they have a financial motive to make false claims. He also acknowledged that Sandusky's behavior and his showering with young boys was "kind of strange" but said it was not sexual abuse.
Mitt Romney says Barack Obama's "Forward" slogan is absurd. And so is the notion that he wants to reduce the number of police, firefighters and teachers. Absurdity.
The LA Times says Obama's complicated message will pose a challenge to convey, especially against Romney's simple argument: Y'all mad and it's Obama's fault.
Obama's counter-argument is layered with nuance and complexity.
It starts with an attempt to undercut Romney. As a corporate buyout executive, Romney shipped jobs overseas and reaped millions of dollars in fees from takeover deals that destroyed U.S. factory jobs, the Obama campaign says. As Massachusetts governor, Romney built a poor record on job creation, the argument continues.
Turning to his own record, Obama tells voters that he inherited an economy on the brink of collapse and averted a depression. He takes credit for a resurgence in manufacturing, the rescue of the automobile industry and the creation of more than 4 million jobs since February 2010.
Obama also slams Republicans in Congress for blocking his plans to stimulate more jobs. To inoculate himself from potential setbacks over the summer and fall, he warns of economic trouble spilling over from Europe.
In the end, Obama says, he would keep the country moving forward while Romney would take it back to the George W. Bush policies that wrecked the economy in the first place.
Verizon is changing up its cell phone plans, moving toward monthly plans that allow users to connect up to 10 devices, including tablets and PCs, to their cell phone network.
There's a new Retina-display-bearing MacBook Pro. Whatever that means.
Sunday night's Mad Men season finale broke a ratings record with 2.7 million viewers.
The Los Angeles Kings won the NHL's Stanley Cup on Tuesday, the organization's first ever championship.
A local music teacher says Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy offered him a job and then rescinded the offer after asking him if he is gay. Jonathan Zeng says he went through the school's extensive interview process, was offered a position and then called back in for a discussion about religious questions in his application, during which he was asked directly if he is gay. Zeng says he asked why such information was pertinent, and an administrator said it was school policy not to employ teachers who are gay because they work with children and something about the sanctity of marriage. When contacted by local media CHCA released the following statement:
CHCA keeps confidential all matters discussed within a candidate's interview. We're looking into this matter, although the initial information we have seen contains inaccuracies. We will not be discussing individual hiring decisions or interviews.Cincinnati's deficit isn't going to get better any time soon, according to a new report.
The Reds drafted high school pitcher Nick Travieso in the first round of the MLB draft on Monday. Here's a rundown of their other picks Monday and Tuesday.
Senate Republicans yesterday blocked a Democratic bill calling for equal pay in the workplace, and the Dems are going to stick it in their faces during this year's campaigns. From the AP:
As expected, the pay equity bill failed along party lines, 52-47, short of the required 60-vote threshold. But for majority Democrats, passage wasn't the only point. The debate itself was aimed at putting Republicans on the defensive on yet another women's issue, this one overtly economic after a government report showing slower-than-expected job growth.
"It is incredibly disappointing that in this make-or-break moment for the middle class, Senate Republicans put partisan politics ahead of American women and their families," Obama said in a statement after the vote.
"Even Mitt Romney has refused to publicly oppose this legislation," added Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. "He should show some leadership."
The Washington Post wonders whether Mitt Romney can use Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's template for surviving a recall election to try to win the presidency. It involves "big money, powerful organization and enormous enthusiasm among his base." Exit polls in the state suggest Obama is ahead, however.
China wants foreign embassies to stop releasing reports and Tweeting about its poor air quality.
Gonorrhea growing resistant to antibiotics? Rut roh.
Dinosaurs apparently weighed less than scientists previously thought. Adjust paper-mache Brontosaurus as necessary.
Facebook is considering letting kids younger than 13 use the site.
The Boston Celtics took a 3-2 series lead over the Miami Heat on Tuesday and could send Bron Bron and Co. back home on Thursday.
Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel has already had a rough week, having to give back more than $100,000 in campaign contributions in response to an FBI investigation. Today The Cleveland Plain Dealer's Politifact website looked into one of the five claims made in Mandel's new 30-second TV ad, and it seems to be pretty false. Mandel claims that his opponent, Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown, "cast the deciding vote on the government takeover of health care." Politifact notes that since the health care overhaul passed by the minimum 60 votes necessary, that every vote was technically "deciding." But, on the other hand, Brown was an early supporter of the legislation, and it is widely known that Ben Nelson of Nebraska was the final "yes" vote to join. Plus, technically, Brown was the seventh person to vote because it was taken in alphabetical order.
Ohio public schools have received a waiver for parts of No Child Left Behind that will remove a requirement to get all of their students proficient in math and reading by 2014. Nineteen states have received the waiver, meaning they'll have to create their own federally approved academic progress standards.
Covington leaders are expecting staff reductions as part of balancing the 2012-13 budget to cover $1.5 million that was left out. The city is facing $1.6 million in cuts to public-safety services and about $700,000 across other departments.
Mitt Romney officially won the Republican presidential nomination yesterday, but no one's talking about it because all the stories involve Donald Trump and the fact that his iPhone app misspelled "America."
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has two weeks to offer arguments against extradition to Sweden after a U.K. supreme court ruling.
The makers of Blackberry are considering how to remake their products into something people will actually want again.
Facebook's public offering drama has caused experts to ask questions such as, "should investors see the wretched performance of Facebook's IPO as any sort of signal about the likely future direction of the overall stock market and the economy?"
While the rest of us were living our lives, two asteroids zipped past the earth early this week. Don't worry — they were small.
Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel has returned more than $100,000 in campaign contributions in response to an FBI investigation into 21 donors who had no record of giving to federal campaigns and many appearing to have low incomes. Mandel, a Republican, is running against incombent Democrat Sen. Sherrod Brown. Mandel's campaign treasurer Kathryn Kessler sent a letter to donors explaining that any contributions appearing to be under investigation would be refunded.
From The Toledo Blade:
Although the campaign provided a copy of the letter to The Blade, it would not explain the timing of the decision or how long it has been aware of the federal probe.
The Blade revealed the unusual pattern of contributions in August.
The company's owner, Benjamin Suarez, and 16 of his employees (plus some of their spouses) gave about $200,000 to Mr. Mandel and U.S. Rep. Jim Renacci (R., Wadsworth) last year. Each of those donors gave $5,000, the maximum allowable amount, to one or both candidates.
The Ohio Senate yesterday passed new fracking regulations, and the final version caused some environmental organizations to change their stance on the bill. The Ohio Environmental Council and the Sierra Club had both been neutral on the legislation until changes were made forcing anyone suing over chemical trade secrets to show current or potential harm, according to The Enquirer. The regulations are part of Kasich's new energy bill and easily passed both the Senate and House and is expected to be signed by Kasich soon.
Cincinnati Public Schools says it will apply for the latest available federal education grants, which amount to nearly $700 million. The grants are geared toward helping schools proceed with reform and innovation.
According to a new poll, President Obama leads Mitt Romney in Ohio by six percentage points. Wonder if Obama's "cow pie of distortion" speech had anything to do with his lead.
The John Edwards trial has entered day six of deliberations.
United Nations inspectors have reportedly found uranium in Iran enriched beyond the highest levels previously reported. One diplomat said the measure could actually be a measurement error, though the reading could also mean that Iran is closer to producing bomb-grade uranium than previously thought.
Scientists might be one step closer to creating birth control for men after U.K. scientists found a gene used to enable sperm to mature.
From USA Today: "Profits at big U.S. companies broke records last year, and so did pay for CEOs."
Facebook's initial public offering didn't go entirely as expected, and some investors are getting refunds after technical problems and other issues marred the company's first week of trading.
The Reds completed a four-game sweep of the Atlanta Braves last night, winning their sixth in a row and overtaking the St. Louis Cardinal for first place in the NL Central.


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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- A strong winter storm system that pounded the nation's midsection and wrecked people's holiday travel plans has begun lashing the Northeast.
The storm has knocked out power to thousands of homes, mostly in Arkansas. At least six deaths are being blamed on the storm, which spawned Gulf Coast region tornadoes on Christmas Day and a historic amount of snow in Arkansas before pushing through the Upper Ohio Valley and heading into the Northeast on Wednesday night.
High winds, snow and sleet are hitting Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.
Scores of motorists have gotten stuck on icy roads or have slid into drifts.
The aviation tracking website FlightAware.com says about 1,600 flights have been canceled.
A National Weather Service meteorologist in Indianapolis says he's describing the storm as a low-end blizzard "but that's sort of like saying a small Tyrannosaurus rex."
Snow blew across southern Illinois and southern Indiana early today as the storm tracked up the Ohio River valley toward the Eastern seaboard and New England. There were whiteout conditions in southwestern Indiana, where 6 inches or more of snow had fallen by midmorning.
By 10 a.m., Indianapolis had 7 inches of snow on the ground -- including as much as 3 inches in a single hour.
The storm left more than 189,000 homes and businesses in Arkansas without power today.
Severe thunderstorms are in the forecast for the Carolinas. A line of blizzard and winter storm warnings extends to New York and on to Maine.
Police are reporting scores of accidents on snow-covered highways in central and western Maryland.
More than 900 flights around the United States had been canceled by midday today, according to the flight tracker FlightAware.com.


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You'd think that imaginative packaging would be the norm in the beer category but we all know it's not. For some reason, it seems that breweries, beer marketers and their design agencies run completely out of creativity and courage when it comes to store-level, street-level packaging. Boring. Boring. Boring.
Putting a black boombox graphic on a white beer box may not be such a creative stretch for the Australian beer brand Lovell's Lager - or their agency Landor associates, Sydney, but it sure stands out in a delightful way! We love the retro wink to bygone times when having your music with you meant lugging a massive boombox. There's something decidedly macho, too, about carrying this thing. And it got us talking - and we haven't even tasted the beer yet! - Bill Tikos


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|13-15 Border League heads to state
|Written by Holyoke Enterprise
The 13-15 Border League All-Stars will head to Burlington for the July 19-23 Babe Ruth State Baseball Tournament. They will begin the tournament facing tournament host, East Central, Friday, July 19 at 7 p.m.
Members of the team are pictured from left, front row, Cole McKinley, Taylor Mayden, Trey Walter, Caleb Andersen, Brenden Kage and Brendan Mayden; and back row, Bryce Bivins, Chance Dunker, Tyler Woodhams, Wyatt Workman, Gunnar Kroeger, Darian Wilkening and coach Sherman Kage.
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Autopsy reveals details of Lexington's man death
Published: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 at 2:12 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 at 2:12 p.m.
FAYETTEVILLE | A Lexington man found dead inside a Fayetteville home nearly three months ago died of a gunshot wound to his head, according to an autopsy report released Monday by the North Carolina Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and reported by WRAL.
The report indicated that a bullet entered the back left side of the head of Arturo Omar Walker, 36, and exited the front right side.
There were also chop wounds to Walker's right leg, which medical examiners believe were likely made after he died.
Walker's sister found his body inside a house at 4522 Ruby Road on the morning of June 26. The autopsy report indicates he was found in a garbage can.
Authorities haven't released a motive for Walker's death, but police have charged Solomon Butler, 24, with first-degree murder in the case.
Butler, whose last known address was 4522 Ruby Road, was injured in a shootout with officers investigating Walker's death.
He also faces charges of attempted first-degree murder, assault on a law enforcement officer with a firearm and possession of a firearm by a felon.
Police have not said how Walker and Butler might have known each other.
Reader comments posted to this article may be published in our print edition. All rights reserved. This copyrighted material may not be re-published without permission. Links are encouraged.


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I have downloaded zimbra desktop 0.91 build 1344 win 32 version and tried to install it. At the end of installation I get this error: "Failled to inject zimlets. Some features may be missing." Here is the screenshot:
(It looks like mac but it's win xp )
After installation, when I try to run the program I get another error report which says: "Couldn't access Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop server. If issue persists after reinstall, please check logs for errors and report to http://www.zimbra.com/forums/zimbra-desktop."
I have uninstalled it and re-install it again for 3 times. But still same error! I have no private fire wall. I have read all threads about my problem but I could not find a solution.
If you would like to see the log report, log file is attached. I hope its the right file
Thank you in advance.


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BETHESDA, Md. (WUSA) -- Fire-fighters responded to multiple phone calls reporting of a fire in a Bethesda family home.
Officials say firefighters searched the home and found a 90-year-old female resident in the back bedroom.
The resident was treated and transported to a local hospital. Officials report she suffered non-life threatening injuries.
Officials say the fire was extinguished and an investigation determined that the fire originated near an oil-filled space heater plugged into an extension cord in the garage. The fire is being listed as undetermined with a possible cause as a failure of the electrical extension cord or the heater.
The fire caused $200,000 worth of damages to the house.


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Video: Bethesda Parents Allowed Underage Drinking
WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- Only on 9 tonight, police are witnessing a disturbing trend in Montgomery County; Parents allowing their teenage son and his underage friends to drink alcohol in their homes.
In a Rockville courtroom today, one local couple faced the consequences.
As Andrea McCarren reports, the father who allegedly broke the law is a partner at a prominent DC law firm.
Jennifer and James Kress had nothing to say about allowing teenagers to party in the basement of their Bethesda home on the night of March 23rd.
Officer Jeremy Smalley with Montgomery County Police said he walked to the door and saw the dad standing at the door and asked, "Do you know these kids were drinking? He said, yeah, yeah, I know they were drinking downstairs. I'm like, "Are any of them over 21? And he said, no, none of them are 21."
Officers witnessed two boys urinating in the street outside the $1.2 million home and a 3rd onto a car. Police moved in when the intoxicated teenagers loaded into a car and one got behind the wheel.
Officer Smalley said, "You know they were getting ready to drive away? He's like no, I told them not to leave. I said well there's five of them in the car. Everyone in that car had been drinking that night. So who knows what would have happened if I hadn't stopped them from driving down the road?"
Police issued alcohol citations to 17 teenagers, including the Kress' 16 year-old son. Alcohol was obvious in the home, including a setup for beer pong.
"The kids were saying this was a bunch of crap, they weren't doing anything wrong, they were arguing with me, they didn't want to cooperate with me," said Officer Smalley.
Officers say some of the children were laughing, along with Jennifer Kress.
"Some of the kids were laughing, giggling. The one parent was laughing with them and was telling people not to come back to the house cause the police were there," said Officer Smalley.
Breathalyzers revealed half of the teenagers had blood alcohol levels at or above the legal limit for intoxication.
Officer Bill Morrison said, "I think what's happening is that parents think that they're doing the right thing, and they're trying to do the right thing by saying I want my child to be popular, they're going to take the keys away. But that's not working. We actually find out that kids drink more when their parents are at home and hosting these parties."
James Kress is a partner in DC law firm Baker Botts. He reached an agreement with the court to make a donation to a local group working to prevent underage drinking. His wife Jennifer pleaded guilty in court and was sentenced to unsupervised probation and a one thousand dollar fine.
The law allows parents to let their own kids drink alcohol, only in their home, but does not permit them to let other kids drink.


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A Nash County man accused of murder who was badly injured in a car crash is now behind bars.
Nash County lawmen say Trey Emerson, 21, is responsible for the murder of his friend, Michael Morrisette, Jr. in Bailey last Tuesday.
Online records show Emerson is now behind bars in the Virginia Beach jail. Officials say he got into a car crash after the murder, and after assaulting a woman in Virginia Beach. Emerson was hospitalized due to injuries sustained during the car accident.
It is not clear when Emerson will be brought back to Nash County to face charges.
Virginia police say a Nash County man who is wanted for murder here assaulted a woman in Virginia Beach before being critically injured in a car crash.
Trey Emerson is charged with the murder of his friend, Michael Morrisette, Jr. Morrisette's body was found Tuesday night in the woods behind his home. Nash County authorities say he had been shot.
Lawmen say Emerson fled to Virginia after the murder, assaulted a woman there and then on his way back to North Carolina crashed his vehicle in Currituck County. The man was airlifted to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital where he remains in critical condition.
Police in Virginia say Emerson was driving down Princess Anne Road in Virginia Beach when he stopped and assaulted a woman at Munden Pointe Park. Police have classified the crime as an attempted malicious assault with a knife.
Nash County authorities say they will wait for Virginia police to finish with Emerson on his charges there before they serve the murder warrant.
No motive for the murder has been released, but the day before the body was found deputies say Emerson allegedly assaulted Morrisette's sister.
A Bailey man is in a Virginia hospital after he was charged with killing a Nash County man.
Nash County deputies say Trey Emerson is in custody in Norfolk after his arrest.
The 21-year-old is accused of killing Michael Morrisette, Jr.
Sgt. Jim Breedlove tells WITN News that Emerson was an acquaintance of the victim's family. He says on Monday they investigated an assault between Emerson and Morrisette's sister. When they did a followup with her on Tuesday the sister told them she hadn't seen her brother since Monday. That's when they began searching for Morrisette and found him shot and killed in the woods.
Breedlove says they believe Emerson fled to Virginia, where he committed another assault. The sergeant says when fleeing back into North Carolina he crashed his car just over the state line in Currituck County. Emerson was taken to a Virginia hospital where he's in critical condition. Breedlove says the suspect will be served with the murder warrant once he gets back to North Carolina.
A murder investigation is under way after a body was found in the woods Tuesday night.
Nash County Sheriff Dick Jenkins says deputies found the body of 21-year-old Michael Morrisette Jr., of Bailey, dead in the woods around 10:30 p.m.
The crime scene is about a half mile off Needham Rd. near Stony Hill Church Rd., north of Bailey. The sheriff has not said how Morrisette was killed.
Earlier Tuesday, deputies investigating a separate disturbance that happened Monday, say they learned no one had seen Morrisette since Monday around 3:45 p.m. Their investigation led them to the woods where they found his body.
Sheriff Jenkins says they are looking for 21-year-old Trey Emerson, and are calling him a person of interest. They suspect he might be in Virginia.


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March 17, 2015
Were you stuck in traffic on your way to work or school this morning? Then you might take consolation in the thought of yourself as a tiny experimental subject in the giant petri dish of the UK's motorways, contributing your data points to a greater understanding of traffic flow.
Our image of the week shows a heat map of the traffic on a clockwise section of the M25 (junction 9 to junction 14) showing the speed of cars as a colour, from pale yellow for around 80 mph to red for stationary, as they pass along this stretch of road on a typical Monday. The image was created by Richard Gibbons, from the University of Cambridge's Computer Laboratory. It is based on data collected by the Highways Agency from MIDAS (the Motorway Incident Detection and Automatic Signalling) system, archived minute by minute since 1997 at loop detectors every few hundred metres under many UK motorways.
The diagonal red stripes streaking down the image from the left to right between 7am and 11am are driver's commuting pain manifested in data. A driver's path through the data will start at the bottom and move upwards as they passed along the motorway and to the right as time passed. And if they passed junction 9 at, say, 7.30 in the morning, they would have hit red stripe after red stripe, like striking the incoming wave fronts as you try to swim out from a beach.
These stripes are the wave fronts of a stop and go wave, the infuriating pattern of repeated stopping (red) and starting (yellow) that is well known to both motorists and traffic modellers. This is a kind of shock wave that moves back through the traffic, opposite to the direction the cars are travelling. This can be easily seen in the heat map: one starts around junction 12 and moving backwards down the motorway as time goes on.
Click here to see previous images of the week.
March 14, 2015
Today, written as 3/14 the American way, is day! This special day happens every year, but today is extra special! It's 3/14/15, giving us the first five digits of that lovely number, rather than just three! But why should we care about all these digits?
If you had a sloppy maths teacher at school you might have grown up with the idea that the number is equal to Now that is completely wrong. Writing those numbers out in decimal gives while . There's a difference in the third decimal place after the decimal point!
How accurately do we need to know the value of π?
Surely this small inaccuracy doesn't matter? Well, as the following extract from a longer article by Chris Budd shows, it really does.
The point is that is not any number. It lies at the heart of any technology that involves rotation or waves, and that is much of mechanical and electrical engineering. If rotating parts in, say, a typical jet engine are not manufactured to high tolerance, then the parts simply won't rotate. This typically involves measurements correct to one part in 10,000 and, as these measurements involve , we require a value of to at least this order of accuracy to prevent errors. In medical imaging using CAT or MRI scanners, the scanning devices move on a ring which has to be manufactured to a tolerance of one part in 1,000,000, requiring an even more precise value of .
However, even this level of accuracy pales into insignificance when we look at modern electrical devices. In high frequency electronics, with frequencies in the order of 1GHz (typical for mobile phones or GPS applications), electrical engineers require a precision in the value used for in the order of one part in 1,000,000,000,000,000.
So, the modern world needs and it needs it accurately!
March 10, 2015
Maryam Mirzkhani, the first female Fields medallist
We may be a little late in celebrating International Women's Day but it's not for a shortage of excellent female mathematicians to celebrate! Here are some of the most inspiring women we've worked with or learnt about in the last year...
Maryam Mirzakhani is one of the best mathematicians in the world. Last August she received the Fields medal (one of the highest accolades in mathematics), recognised for her "rare combination of superb technical ability, bold ambition, far-reaching vision, and deep curiosity". She was the first woman to be awarded this prize and we were lucky enough to meet Mirzakhani and learn about her fascinating work in topology at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Seoul last Summer.
Ingrid Daubechies at the opening ceremony of the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2014. Image copyright ⓒ 2010-2014 International Congress of Mathematicians 2014, all rights reserved.
At the ICM we were also fortunate to meet Ingrid Daubechies, President of the International Mathematical Union. As well as talking to her about the importance of a mathematical community, we heard her speak about her recent work virtually restoring paintings, just one application of wavelet theory. Famously it has also been used by the FBI to digitise finger prints, and it is widely used in medical imaging. Debauchies made fundamental discoveries in wavelet theory that opened up the field and has had an important role in making this mathematics into a practical tool for analysis in other areas outside mathematics. (You can read more about wavelets and how Debauchies work opened up this field here.)
We also found out about a fantastic mathematician, Margharita Piazolla Beloch, who discovered a new type of origami fold (the sixth axioms of origami) in 1936 and proved that this fold solves cubic equations. We'll write more about Beloch in upcoming articles, but it's thanks to her discovery that we can now solve the unsolvable and trisect an angle.
And finally, one of the people we've really enjoyed working with this last year (and years before that!) is Vicky Neale, our former colleague and now Whitehead Lecturer at the Mathematical Institute in Oxford. As well as learning many fascinating things working with Vicky on a project producing new and exciting resources for sixth form students, we've also really enjoyed listening to Vicky's contributions to many radio shows and her popular lectures and workshops. You can listen to many of her recordings online, the details are here.
February 26, 2015
If you feel in need of some love this cold, dark February, then our images of the week might be just what you need. These hearts, created by Hamid Naderi Yeganeh, aren't drawn by hand, but defined by mathematical equations.
Image by Hamid Naderi Yeganeh.
Image by Hamid Naderi Yeganeh.
The first curve consists of points in the plane whose coordinates satisfy
for where ( is a zero of .)
The second curve consists of points in the plane whose coordinates satisfy
for .
You can see more of Hamid's images on this website, in The Guardian and on the American Mathematical Society website.
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February 25, 2015
The Cambridge Science Festival will kick off on March 9, and there is some great maths in the programme. Here are some maths-related events we are particularly excited about (in chronological order). Click on the links for price, booking and location information. For the full programme visit the festival website. And if you can't make it to Cambridge, then read the Plus articles by some of the speakers, linked to from the individual entries.
February 9, 2015
This short video features one of our favourite mathematicians, Corinna Ulcigrai from the University of Bristol, talking about mathematical billiards, its connection to chaos theory, and why mathematicians study it. You can also read our article Chaos on the billiard table, based on an interview with Ulcigrai.
This video was originally produced for the Cambridge Mathematics Education Project.
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We have an MS Exchange server in our office which we use for email and calendering. Recently, as a cost cutting measure Outlook has been removed from our systems and we have been using web access. I have been lobbying to implement Zimbra without much success.
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Book your room at Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel
Get an overview of this hotelSylish Oceanfront Property on Santa Monica Beach
Beachfront Hideaway
Overlooking Santa Monica Beach, this richly appointed Los Angeles-area hotel is two blocks from the Santa Monica Pier, the convention center, and the Third Street Promenade.
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Highlights include an ocean-view pool and spa tub, the acclaimed Ocean and Vine restaurant, a large fitness center, day spa, and a staffed business center.
Convenient amenities
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Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel1700 Ocean Ave Santa Monica CA 90401
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
Perched above miles of coastline, this contemporary hotel, featuring designated smoking areas, is two blocks from the Santa Monica Convention Center, the famed Pier, and Third Street Promenade shops, restaurants, and nightclubs. A short path leads directly to the beach.
A glowing fire pit is the centerpiece of the hotel's stylish Ocean and Vine restaurant, where the accent is on innovative California coastal fare prepared with fresh local ingredients. Papillon Lounge, the fireside bar, offers the perfect setting from which to watch the sun set over the Pacific while enjoying an array of signature cocktails and tapas-style dishes. Sushi lovers enjoy the hotel's sushi bar headed by a certified sushi chef.
The business center, open 24 hours and staffed during the day, offers computers with high-speed Internet access, printers, a fax machine, and a copier (surcharges). The hotel includes 17,000 square feet (1,580 square meters) of meeting space. Wireless Internet access (complimentary) is available throughout the hotel. Pets are welcome for a one-time fee.
- 24-hour fitness facilities
- 24-hour front desk
- ATM/banking
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Bar/lounge
- Beach towels
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Business center
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Concierge services
- Designated smoking areas
- Designated smoking areas (fines apply)
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Express check-out
- Fireplace in lobby
- Fitness facilities
- Free WiFi
- Full-service spa
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Hair salon
- Multilingual staff
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Number of floors - 8
- Number of meeting rooms - 13
- Outdoor pool
- Porter/bellhop
- Restaurant
- Sauna
- Smoke-free property
- Spa services on site
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Steam room
- Total number of rooms - 347
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Valet parking (surcharge)
- Wedding services
- Year Built 1989
Family Friendly Amenities
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
- Free Wi-Fi
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Microwave (on request)
- Outdoor pool
- Refrigerator (on request)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Valet parking (surcharge)
Room Amenities
- Air conditioning
- Bathrobes
- Cable TV service
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Coffee/tea maker
- Free weekday newspaper
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Daily housekeeping
- Designer toiletries
- Desk
- Flat-panel TV
- Free WiFi
- Hair dryer
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Iron/ironing board
- Microwave (on request)
- Minibar
- Pay movies
- Phone
- Premium bedding
- Premium TV channels
- Refrigerator (on request)
- Room service (limited hours)
Where to Eat
Ocean and Vine - California coastal restaurant showcasing fresh ingredients. Dramatic oceanfront setting featuring an indoor fire pit and large outdoor patio. Extensive wine list representing California and beyond. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Papillon Lounge - Lobby bar with rich hardwood floors, leather seating, and a fireside lounge. Panoramic Pacific Ocean views. Wine, cocktails, and tapas-style dishes.
Beach Barn - Poolside ice cream shoppe serving artisan ice cream from local producer LA Creamery, as well as bulk candy.
Nearby Things to Do
The state-of-the-art Santa Monica fitness club offers a team of exercise physiologists, personal trainers, and lifestyle coaches - each specializing in a variety of fitness, wellness, and nutritional programs (surcharges). A private fitness studio offers a selection of classes. The club includes the latest cardio and strength-training equipment. Women's and men's locker rooms include saunas and steam rooms.
The hotel's swimming pool and pool deck, located on the 4th floor, give guests birds-eye views of the Pacific Ocean and Santa Monica Pier. A sound system projects music throughout the pool deck and underwater, and 13 fire pits are available for guests to use.
Loews is adjacent to Santa Monica Beach, where activities include swimming, boogie boarding, body surfing, bird watching, beachcombing, and volleyball. An ocean-view beach walk/bicycle path directly in front of the hotel stretches from Marina del Rey to Malibu. The hotel can arrange rentals of bicycles and in-line skates.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site at Loews, or near the hotel in the Los Angeles area; fees may apply.
- Surfing/boogie boarding nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Scuba diving nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Parasailing nearby
- Fitness classes on site
- Bicycle rentals on site
- Yoga classes/instruction on site
Spa Services
The newly refreshed Ocean Spa & Fitness facility has treatment rooms with eco-friendly design elements to promote natural relaxation. Select from a range of Santa Monica spa services, from heated lava shell massages and age defying facials to aroma-synergy massages with natural, essential oils. A full-service salon offers manicures and pedicures along with complete hair-care services.
- Hot stone massage
- Deep tissue massage
- Swedish massage
- Prenatal massage
- Steam room in spa
- Reflexology
- Sports massage
- Number of treatment rooms 3
- Body wraps
- Body scrubs
- Hydrotherapy treatments
- Sauna in spa
- Body treatments
- Massages
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Manicures and pedicures
- Facial treatments
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- In-room accessibility
- Accessible bathroom
- Roll-in shower
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 4 PM
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-out time is Noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Children under 17 years old stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for USD 25 per day.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets allowed for an extra charge of USD 100 per accommodation, per stay
- 2 per room
- Specific rooms only
- Pet-friendly rooms can be requested by contacting the property at the number on the booking confirmation
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Service animals exempt from fees/restrictions
- Breakage deposit: USD 100.00 per night
Optional extras
- Breakfast fee: between USD 8 and USD 20 per person (approximately)
- Valet parking fee: USD 42.00 per night (in/out privileges)
- Pet fee: USD 100 per accommodation, per stay
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 25 per day
Hotel Name
- Hotel Santa Monica Beach
- Loews Hotel Santa Monica Beach
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- Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel
- Santa Monica Beach Hotel
- Santa Monica Beach Hotel Loews
- Santa Monica Loews
We should mention
Children 17 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation. This property allows pets in specific rooms only (surcharges apply and can be found in the Fees section). Guests can request one of these rooms by contacting the property directly, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.


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Hi I would like to enquire as to the difference between the A700, S600 and the G250V. Seeing as the price is roughly in the same region. Thank you
I will be diving in cold water (Puget Sound). Does the 2012 MK25/S600 have a full metal valve housing? Ive heard that would be best for cold water. Also heard the MK17 might be better for cold water.
Either regulator will work perfectly. Puget Sounds waters aren't considered "cold water" diving for regulator purposes. (I'm from there originally and learned to dive there "a few" years ago). When manufacturers refer to "cold water" for regulators, they are referring to Ice Diving conditions and typically temperatures in the low 40's at the surface.


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Montgomery pled guilty in October to a charge of assault with intent to commit robbery and a firearms offense. After his prison term, Montgomery will be placed on three years of supervised release. The judge also ordered that Montgomery meet certain conditions during his supervised release, including taking anger management courses, completing vocational training, and getting drug treatment.
According to court documents, Montgomery was armed with a gun when he tried to rob a 19-year-old man on the afternoon of Aug. 15, behind the Takoma Educational Center, in the 7000 block of Piney Branch Road NW.
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Free Flu Shots Available Now!
Getting sick is no fun, especially with the holidays coming up. If you haven't had your flu shot already, choose a convenient date and location by visiting the San Mateo County page Vaccines: Where to Get Vaccinated. There are upcoming dates through December 2011 at County locations from Daly City to Woodside.
The Details
All you need is to be over 6 months of age! No IDs are required at these San Mateo County Health System clinics. What else don't you need? An appointment, because drop ins are welcome. Why get vaccinated? Read through the CDC's Key Flu Facts for a list of possible reasons.
We have many resources on staying healthy and the flu. Two examples? Very young children will enjoy the sturdy board book Germs Are Not For Sharing by Elizabeth Verdick. Adults will find the new work by Stanford microbiologist Nathan Wolfe, The Viral Storm: The Dawn Of A New Pandemic Age, riveting.
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Carine Risley received the flu shot at the end of October and wishes everyone a healthy season.


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September 8, 2006
The "Do"s and "Don't"s of Ministry
By Jan Lutz, NAMI member
Author's note: As part of my advocacy work on behalf of persons diagnosed with mental illness, I have prepared this list of "do"s and "don't"s with people of faith in mind. You may have seen similar suggestions for people with cancer.
Guidelines for how faith communities can provide care and support to persons with mental illness and their families
…use shame or guilt as a motivator. For many who suffer from a mental illness, shame and inappropriate guilt have already contributed to a breakdown.
…tell a person with mental illness to just pray harder. That would not be appropriate advice for someone with cancer or a heart condition, and it is not appropriate for mental illness. Please recognize that mental illnesses are physiologically-based and do respond to medications as do other disorders.
…tell a person with mental illness that it is a result of sin. According the Bible, the world was plunged into a sinful state when our first parents sinned. However, mental illness is not the result of any particular sin that person committed or because of anything he/she failed to do.
…treat one who has mental illness like a second-class believer or assume that he/she is demon-possessed.
…look down on persons with mental illness for using medications to control their symptoms. Someone with depression using anti-depressants is no different than someone with diabetes using insulin.
…confuse mental illness and mental retardation. Both are often misunderstood, resulting in stigmatization of persons affected by either. The terms are not interchangeable.
…talk to them of God's unconditional love and your care and concern for them.
…pray for balance in their lives and tolerance in yours.
…listen without being judgmental or offering advice.
…correct those who ignorantly spread gossip or misinformation about mental illness.
…treat persons affected by mental illness and their families with compassion, not condescension. Most don't want pity, just understanding and support.
…educate yourself about mental illness and mental health issues and become an advocate for people with mental illness who are often not in a position to speak for themselves.
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Introduction to Geocaching at Waite Park Library
Learn about geocaching, the new high-tech adventure game, at the Waite Park library this Thursday, June 6. The Introduction to Geocaching program will be held from 6:00-7:30 p.m. and is open to all ages. Learn fundamentals of the game including the basic use of a GPS for finding, hiding, and placing geocaches. The game of geocaching involves using GPS coordinates to navigate to and attempt to find a geocache container hidden at that location. Geocaches can be found all over the world, including at the St. Cloud Public Library. Participants will have the opportunity to try out their new skills right away at the Waite Park Family Fun Fest geocaching contest held from June 10-13. Register for the program through our events calendar online or contact the library at 320-253-9359.


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Back in the pre-internet, pre-cell phone days, the largest national communications network was the telephone. Using a rotary dial and some patience, you could reach someone on the other side of the country in just a few minutes, which was a revelation. The system worked amazingly well but it had a major security flaw, and this flaw made the network the personal playground of an underground band of "phone phreaks."
The phreaks discovered that they could re-route calls and bypass the system, using whistles, taps, and brazen ingenuity. College students, blind teenage prodigies, and various outlaw characters (including Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs) created "blue boxes" for their underground operations, which, according to Jobs, presaged the creation of Apple Computers.
Eventually, Ma Bell and the FBI caught up with them and everything unraveled...but not before the phreaks left their mark on the industry. Phil Lapsley's history of that era reads like the very best of espionage fiction except that it's true. Modern technology makes such a David and Goliath story unlikely to ever happen again -- and Exploding the Phone uncovers the whole fascinating secret history.


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I am using Zimbra web client.
I am able to add zimbra emails to Contacts/Leads into salesforce (as Activity History). Some online posts suggest that we should be able to drag and drop events onto the salesforce zimlet. When I try to drag and drop, nothing happens - i.e. i am prevented from being able to drop the event onto the zimlet in the first place.
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KC Close Up: Chris Getz
Today on KC Close Up, we check in with infielder Chris Getz. A native of Michigan, Chris attended Wake Forest University before transferring back home to the University of Michigan. Chris was an All-Big Ten selection and a second-team All-America pick with the Wolverines. A fourth-round pick of the White Sox in 2005, Getz joined the Royals in a trade on November 5, 2009. Chris is a newlywed – he married Nicole on January 28. Congrats!
ATH: Our first question is…which Royals player would do best on the following TV shows:
Getz: I would!
2. Amazing Race: (name either one teammate or a pair that would make a good team on the show)
Getz: Jarrod Dyson…for his speed and wit.
3. American Idol
Getz: Danny Duffy
4. The Apprentice
ATH: Other than baseball, most memorable job/occupation you've had?
Getz: Babysitter
ATH: Favorite player when you were growing up:
Getz: Detroit Tigers shortstop Alan Trammell
ATH: Besides Kauffman Stadium, what's your favorite Major League stadium?
Getz: Camden Yards (Chris is a .429 batter in Baltimore…9-for-21 in six games)
ATH: If you could join a band/musical group (past or present), what group would you join and what would your role be (sing, guitar, drums, etc.)?
Getz: I'd be a vocalist for Pearl Jam.
ATH: The NCAA Tournament is coming up…do you have a team that you follow?
Getz: Michigan
Yes, last night Getz's alma mater knocked off the favorite college hoops team of this blogger and Illinois native. Thanks to Chris for answering our questions!