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What We Still Don't Know About Sony's PS4
Sony Corp. revealed quite a few details about its new PlayStation 4 on Wednesday in New York. (You can see what it said in our live blog and roundup. ) So, what are the remaining big questions surrounding the new game console, slated for release in "holiday 2013."
1) How much will it cost?
This is always a thorny issue with a new game machine. Price it too low and the company risks building a mountain of losses since many videogame hardware makers lose money, at least initially. Price it too high and you scare off consumers.
This is a particularly sensitive issue for Sony, which stunned consumers with the initial $500 and $600 price tag for the PlayStation 3. Even at those prices it was losing a lot of money. That price tag hurt the PS3's early adoption and gave an advantage to Microsoft and Nintendo's rival machines.
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SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday announced an 11th-hour deal with top Democratic lawmakers on pension reform that caps benefits for new employees, boosts their retirement age and requires them to pay at least half their pension costs.
The deal, estimated to save between $40 billion and $60 billion over 30 years, is considered the key to the success of Brown's November tax-hike initiative because the governor and Democratic leaders need to prove to suspicious voters that they are serious about controlling spending.
A single bill that contains all of the reform package, AB340, easily passed a conference committee Tuesday night and will be voted on by the Democratic-controlled Legislature on Friday.
"These reforms make fundamental changes that rein in costs and help to ensure that our public retirement system is sustainable for the long term," Brown said in a statement.
The deal left labor officials reeling with anger, Republicans griping and pension reformers wondering whether the steps are strong enough to control spiraling costs.
Brown, who introduced a 12-point plan last October, is getting most of what he asked for. But a "hybrid" plan -- where new employees would get part of their retirement benefits through a 401(k)-style plan -- was trashed.
If the Legislature approves the reforms, public retirement benefits would be lower than when Brown first entered the governor's office in 1975, the governor said.
Legislators must vote yes or no on the conference committee report when it lands in the Assembly and Senate chambers on Friday, so there will be no opportunity to amend the bill. And there won't be much of a chance to scrutinize it ether: Experts from CalPERS and CalSTRS, the state's two big pension funds, will only have weighed in with an analysis by the end of the week.
The pension reform agreement requires all new public employees to pay for at least 50 percent of their pensions, with the same formula being phased in for current state employees over the next two years.
For the formula to take effect at the local level, it would have to go through the collective-bargaining process. But local governments could impose 50-50 shared costs by 2018 if negotiations reach an impasse.
The reform also bans employees from enhancing pension payouts by artificially inflating their final salaries -- a practice known as "spiking."
"We're cleaning up a big mess," Brown said.
The new proposal puts a $110,100 cap on salary (20 percent more if the employee won't get Social Security) that can apply toward a pension for new employees.
Republicans called the Democrats' plan "much weaker" than Brown's 12-point plan.
"Let's be clear -- the Democratic proposal is no substitute for serious reforms to get our public employee pension crisis under control," said Assembly Republican Leader Connie Conway, R-Visalia.
Though employee pension and retiree health costs remain a small chunk -- about 6 percent -- of the state's general-fund spending, those costs have more than doubled in a decade.
The state also provides retirement programs for many local city and county workers. And many cities have been forced to slash services as their pension bills have skyrocketed in recent years.
The governor's plan has no direct effect on San Jose, which operates its own municipal employee retirement system. City voters in June voted overwhelmingly to adopt Mayor Chuck Reed's pension reform measure, which requires new workers to pay half the cost of their pensions and requires current employees to either pay more toward their pensions or choose a less generous plan for their remaining years on the job. But city unions are suing to block the measure.
Reed called Brown's revised proposal "a significant accomplishment for the governor that will have a positive impact for many jurisdictions," but said "there is more work to be done," including a constitutional amendment "to ensure that the changes aren't undone by future legislatures."
Public employee groups characterized the deal as the largest rollback to retirement benefits in state history and said that it will hurt hundreds of thousands of low- and middle-class workers.
"We're considering whether we can defeat it, considering whether we can go to the courts," said Dave Low, chairman of Californians for Retirement Security.
Low said that the hybrid proposal was unacceptable to labor because it would "reduce the pension so significantly" that lower-income public workers would be forced to "retire in poverty." Even so, he said the pension-cap plan that emerged from the Legislature is "potentially worse."
But two Bay Area business groups, the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, and the Bay Area Council, welcomed Brown's announcement.
"If this was easy, this would have already been done," said Carl Guardino, president and CEO of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group.
Marcia Fritz, president of the California Foundation for Fiscal Responsibility, said the revised proposal maintains much of what Brown had called for back in October --reforms that his Republican opponents considered substantive enough that they copied them into bill form and urged Democrats to approve them.
But Fritz said it remained to be seen whether Brown's modified proposal will persuade voters that his plan will put a serious dent in the cost of public pensions.
Assemblyman Warren Furutani, D-Long Beach, co-chairman of the conference committee, said the reform will be painful but needed.
"I know this can't be easy to swallow, but if we're looking at pensions for public employees to be in existence forever," Furutani said, "let's make the adjustment now so we can get back on track rather than waiting and sticking our head in the sand."
Contact Steven Harmon at 916-441-2101. Follow him at Twitter.com/ssharmon. Read the Political Blotter at IBAbuzz.com/politics.

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Police: Video leads to man's arrest
Published: Friday, January 4, 2013 at 10:21 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, January 4, 2013 at 10:21 a.m.
Police said a video helped them catch a suspected burglar who took items from a home about a mile away his residence.
Wallace Williams, 60, 1102 Lafayette St., Houma, is accused of stealing electronics and lawn equipment from a home in the 600 block of School Street, Houma Police said. Officers identified him as a suspect after viewing video surveillance of the crime.
Police said they heard from the resident Sunday afternoon when he returned home and realized his property was missing.
Officers saw Williams riding a bike Wednesday in Houma and arrested him, they said.
He is charged with simple burglary and is in the Terrebonne Parish jail on a $10,000 bond.
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SNOWMASS VILLAGE - The High Alpine lift in Snowmass will close for the remainder of the season due to a worn bullwheel bearing, Aspen Skiing Co. said April 1.
Skico said the worn bearing was discovered early and posed no safety issues. In the meantime, all of the terrain serviced by the High Alpine lift will remain open, including all of the terrain in the Hanging Valley Wall. Guests can access all runs by taking either the Sheer Bliss or Big Burn lifts to the Cirque lift. After riding the Cirque lift to the summit, the High Traverse accesses all of the terrain in the Wall, Green Cabin, Reidar's, Showcase and The Edge.
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I googled so many recipes , referred some cookbooks and finally came up with this version.Some have suggested to make this vada with gram flour & rice flour and some recipes are with urad dal.I felt recipe with urad dal would be better.If u want to make Mixed Veg bonda, then gram flour would be the best option..
For the batter :
- White round urad dal – 1/2 cup Salt - as needed
- Water – 2 - 3 tbsp
- Asafetida / hing – 1/4 tsp
- Ginger – 1 inch piece
- Green chilly – 1 no
To mix :
- Carrot – 2 nos
- Grated Cabbage – 1/4 cup
- Potato – 1 no ( Optional)
- Green chilly – 1 no
- Small onion – 10 nos
- Curry leaves - A few
- Coriander leaves – A few
- Wash and soak urad dal for 1 hour.
- Grind all the ingredients given under ' the batter' in a mixie.
- Chop the carrots , small onions , green chillies very finely.
- Grate the cabbage . Mix all the veggies to the batter .Check for salt.
- Heat the oil in a kadai and deep fry vadas in batches.
- Serve hot !!
- We dont have to worry about the shape of vadas, U'll get a nice perfect shape.The batter mixed with vegetables would be very thick.
- Suppose if the batter is watery , add little rice flour to get the proper shape. But this step wont be needed.
Urad, also referred to as the urad bean, urad, urid, black gram, black lentil or white lentil (Vigna mungo) is a bean grown in southern Asia. It is largely used to make dal from the whole or split, dehusked seeds. Black gram originated in India where it has been in cultivation from ancient times and is one of the most highly prized pulses of India. It has also been introduced to other tropical areas mainly by Indian immigrants.


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Hello, I am Becky Carlberg, gardening enthusiast from Southeast Oklahoma. I have degrees in Biology from Eastern Oklahoma State College and Oklahoma State University. Teaching, research work, and competing in art shows then followed. I earned my Master�s Degree in Plant Pathology from OSU and continued graduate work on a Doctorate of Botany at the University of Oklahoma.
With my family, we twice had an opportunity to live in Europe. We were in England for five years and then later in Germany for seven years. It was an excellent education for our sons. I returned to gardening, writing and art, became a Master Gardener, as well as an Oklahoma certified Master Naturalist. I am the gardener in charge of the Shawnee Japanese Peace Garden, a member of the Deep Fork Audubon Society, and now call my five acre Backyard Wildlife Habitat and Oklahoma Wildscape outside Shawnee home.
My name is Linda Workman Smith. The first step of my gardening journey began in the hills northwest of Van Buren, Arkansas, where my parents�both from farming families�raised seven children.
This is not to say that I�ve always had a love for gardening although over the years I�ve managed to keep my hands in the dirt. In 2000, my husband�s employment brought us to Shawnee where we settled on two acres west of town. Being unemployed for the first time in many years�and planning to stay that way�I started gardening on a small scale.
I have been a member of the Multi-County Master Gardener Association for several years and thoroughly enjoy being in the organization. I now have many flower beds and I�ve expanded my gardens to include lots of vegetable varieties, several fruit trees, strawberries, blackberries, raspberries and grapes. Every year I try to plant something different. I don�t grow a lot of any one thing, but a little bit of lots of things!
Becky Emerson Carlberg
The first Arbor Day was held in Nebraska, April 10, 1872. Arbor Day was first observed in Oklahoma in1901. The Territorial Legislature told the school children of Oklahoma it was their responsibility and duty to celebrate Arbor Day every year. In 1982, Oklahoma declared that it would observe an "Arbor Week" every year. It would always be the last week in March. This week, March 24-30, is Arbor Week in Oklahoma. Go plant a tree!
Was it cold enough last night? How did your blooming trees do? My Bradford pear close to the house was full of bees today, but the one further to the northwest and very exposed has a lovely brown hue….and few bees. My thermometer registered a balmy 22 degrees at about 7am. Time will tell about the apricots, also in full bloom, but my peaches have held off, keeping most their buds tightly wrapped. Of course, the buds could just fall off in a few days. Hope not. There might be a correlation between drought conditions and damage accrued during very cold nights. Damage to buds and flowers has much to do with ice crystal formation inside the structures. If the plant is conservative in water usage even during the spring fling, the blooms may have slightly less water and crystal formation. Some might tolerate some freezing or sustained below freezing temperatures. Maybe.
Preliminary clean-up of the Japanese Garden was done last week. It was windy and cold, but the cannas and sedum were separated and replanted. Excess leaves and debris were sacked, and some weeding was done until the fingers froze up. The row of red cedar trees to the north have gaps where other trees have died. My brilliant idea was to dig up a few small trees this past Sunday and space them out between the established trees. If that went well, others from my neighborhood would be added the next day or two.
I have discovered an area of linear, Lombardy poplar-like cedars outside of Seminole. Possibly they are of the same variety as the Oklahoma Proven cedar Juniperus virginiana "Taylor". "Taylor" was discovered in Taylor, Nebraska as a red cedar that preferred to grow in a narrow column, unlike its relatives that fight to become the biggest Christmas tree balls ever. I think "Taylor" has some kissing cousins in Oklahoma. The photo was taken at Sooner Plant Farm in northeastern Oklahoma where Taylor family members are for sale. Next fall may be a good time to rescue a few Okie Taylors from the fence lines. I say this because digging the holes for the three cedars this past Sunday took hours.
During World War II, the runways and parking areas for airplanes extended well into the Japanese Garden area. Many were plowed up and removed, but the area was leveled using all available rubble. The first hole we dug took 45 minutes and chunks of cement and rocks impeded progress. The second hole had some bright red bricks and asphalt. The third hole hosted granite and a large piece of concrete topped by a layer of asphalt. That was it. No more trees on Sunday. It will be interesting to see the survival rate of these 3 new little trees.
Head count for plants in the Japanese Garden: 7 crapemyrtles, 7 Austrian pines, 2 Japanese pines, 3 red mulberries, 6 Yuccas, 3 hackberries, several scale infested elms, one mimosa, 3 red buds, 2 oaks, 2 boxwoods, 2 Bradford pears, three stands of Arundo donax (reed grass), 3 groups of irises, at least 8 yellow lantanas (if they come back from last fall), 3 stands of Artemesia (they are attempting a coupe in the border), one Chitalpa tree, two Desert Willows, one corkscrew willow, one white willow, at least 3 Autumn Sages, numerous cannas, 4 possible slash pines, one north row of red cedars along the airport fence and one south row of red cedars behind Pit Stop (15 established trees in each row), several bunches of assorted tall grasses, one maple, one Photinia, one Golden Rain tree, several nandinas, one sycamore, one plum and a partridge in a pear tree. Just checking to see if you are still with me. The plants were all regularly watered for months on end last year. We hope for more rain this year!
The track around the garden has been paved. The soil is being spread along the asphalt edges. The end.


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- Jan. 9 – Feb. 8: Donna Brigman and Jim Rigg artists' exhibition, Friendship Hall
- Feb.13 - March 13: McPherson College student art exhibition from first semester and interterm, Friendship Hall
- 7:30 p.m., Feb. 1-2: "RENT! – School Edition," Brown Auditorium
- Noon, Feb. 8: Harter Lecture: Jeff Lanza, retired FBI agent – "Hoodlums to Hackers: How Criminals Commit Fraud and What You Can Do to Stop Them," Mingenback Theatre
- 7:30 p.m., Feb. 8: McPherson Choral Invitational, Brown Auditorium
- 4 p.m., Feb. 15: Piano Masterclass, Hess Fine Arts Building, Choir Room
- 7:30 p.m., Feb. 16: Marcelo Lian, guest piano recital, Brown Auditorium
- 4 p.m. March 3: Religious Heritage Lecture: Dr. Jonathan Reed, professor of religion and dean of the college of liberal arts and sciences at the University of LaVerne in California — "Death, Disease, and Demographics in Jesus' Galilee — A New Look at the First Christians," McPherson Church of the Brethren
- 7:30 p.m., March 8-9, 15-16: "See How They Run," Mingenback Theatre
- March 18-April 21: 12th Annual Central Kansas Art Educators Exhibition, Friendship Hall
- 4 p.m., April 7: Flory Lecture: Brent Schlender, editor at large for "Fortune Magazine" and biographer of Steve Jobs, Mingenback Theatre
- 7:30 p.m., April 19-20: "God of Carnage" – Kansas premiere, Brown Auditorium
- April 24: Central Kansas Art League Festival, Friendship Hall
- 7:30 p.m., April 28: McPherson College Choir Tour home concert – "Earth, Sea and Sky," McPherson Opera House
- April 29-May 26: McPherson College Senior Exhibitions, Friendship Hall
- May 4: C.A.R.S. Club Car Show, McPherson College Campus
- 7:30 p.m., May 11: Band Concert, Brown Auditorium
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'Mad Men' Recap: 'A Day's Work'
Editor's Note: Every Sunday after the newest episode of "Mad Men," lawyer and Supreme Court advocate Walter Dellinger will host an online dialogue about the show. Other participants include Columbia University history professor Alan Brinkley and Columbia University film and television professor Evangeline Morphos. Our panelists will post thoughts after the episode ends at 11 p.m or sometime the next day. Readers are invited to join in with their thoughts in the comments section.
Walter Dellinger, Supreme Court Advocate
Some critics complain that Mad Men moves too slowly. But that, for me, is its strength. This was an episode without major plot developments. But the slow evolution of character was beautifully done.
One reason that often nothing seems to happen is that nobody seems to be telling the truth. Without truth, there is scant capacity for growth. The show is all about lies, secrets, and misimpressions. Sally lies to Don about where she's been. Don, more profoundly, lies to Sally about being employed, as he has lied to his wife. Roger lies to Pete about what went on in the meeting when the conference phone was not in fact disconnected. No one seems to offer the truth about who sent flowers to whom.
These are relatively small falsehoods. The arc of the story is driven more by the greater concealments. And there are many. I believe that it was you, Evangeline, who recalled an old theater saying: if there is a gun lying around on stage during Act One, you can be sure that it will go off in Act Three. As each week goes by of the final act of Mad Men, I think about the weapons of deceit that have been left lying around (and largely forgotten) since the first act.
Foremost of these, of course, is true identify of Dick Whitman/Don Draper. The lawyer in me keeps thinking about the fact that when Dick Whitman assumed the dead Donald Draper's identity, he committed more than one serious crime. He falsified his military documents and he became a deserter by leaving under a false identity before his term of service in Korea was over (indeed, it had hardly just begun). That was a long time ago, to be sure, but Draper/Whitman commits a fresh federal felony every time he files a tax return or any other official document under a false identity.
("I am so many people," says young Sally. And her father's expression reflects how much that is true of him.)
Don remains in serious legal jeopardy. I can't believe that central fact will never come back to haunt him. This is especially so since a growing number of people know the truth, and not all of them wish Don well. Pete Campbell, Bert Cooper and Betty Draper Francis for sure. Megan or Peggy? I'm not sure, but I believe there are others and someone, sometime is sure to play this card.
Then there is the fact that Pete Campbell is the father of a child he does not know exists. Peggy has a child she believes she will never see. I can't believe those linked secrets will simply fade away with the final episode without having been addressed.
Tonight's episode, however, finally contains its moment of truth. Don tells Sally something of why he is no longer working. And Sally tells her father a profound truth that has been hidden under her bitterness: that she loves him. Sally, the one true grown-up of the Draper family, provides us with a final catalyst for growth for herself and for her father. Happy Valentine, indeed.
Evangeline Morphos, Columbia University TV/Film Professor
It's Valentine's Day, 1969, and this episode is filled with flirtations, break-ups, mistaken identities and missed communications. But none of these staple elements of romantic comedy are about romance—rather they are about business. And like all good comedies the ending of this episode presents us with a chaotic world that has been righted.
There are changes that take place in this episode, but all of them Walter, seem to me are answering your plaintive cry of last week: "Please let things get better."
Don Draper wakes up uncharacteristically alone in his bed and starts the day sloppily eating cereal in front of his T.V. while a cockroach scuttles across the white carpet. He looks like a slacker hero from a Judd Apatow comedy; but he pulls himself together in his business-best to greet Dawn at the door. We find out that Don has been paying Dawn all along to spy on his real lover—SCP.
Meanwhile, at SCP Jim describes Don as "our collective ex-wife who still receives alimony." Although still rejected by his old firm, Don Draper is putting himself out there, and making himself available. He spends the rest of the day courting and being courted by rival agencies—Wells, Rich Green and McCann Erickson.
Peggy mistakes a bouquet of roses that has been sent to her secretary as a Valentine gift from Ted, and conveys her misplaced anger at her ex-lover in terms of a lost account: "Tell him I relayed his message to the client…the business is gone."
Pete, in the meantime pursues the elusive account of the Southern California Chevy dealers, only to be thwarted by the New York office. When a fractious partners meeting dissolves into farce because of faulty long-distance conferencing, Pete finds himself making a passionate argument into a dead phone line. Hoping to find some comfort in Bonnie, Pete is again frustrated when she passes up a romantic afternoon in a bungalow of the Beverly Hills Hotel for an open house that might yield her a hefty real estate commission.
Dawn, like Joan, has learned to play the game of the business world, and seems to be navigating the dangers pretty well at first. In the break room, when Peggy's secretary asks her advice, she calmly tells her: "keep pretending…that's your job."
Yet, that element of pretending and trying to please two bosses–Lou and Don– catches up with her. Dawn is fired by Lou and is shuttled around from office to office. In a very ugly scene Cooper demands that Dawn be removed from the reception desk because of her race–"People can see her from the elevator," he complains. Joan finds herself in the middle of secretary roulette, and for once seems helpless.
The romance of each of these characters with their jobs leads to complications, and some very dangerous moments. Yet, the episode has a triumphantly happy ending–Joan moving with an armload of yellow roses into an "Account Man's Suite' and Dawn moving into Joan's office.
Ultimately, it is good to see the energy of the workplace again in this episode. It is also good to hear Don tell Sally that the reason he stayed in New York was to get his job back: "I wanted to be here—to fix it." These characters will always choose work over romance; and that choice has always fueled the series.
I agree with you. Walter—this is an episode about telling the truth; but I am,perhaps, more sanguine about where that truth will lead. Don Draper's forced conversation with Sally in the car completes the beat of truth that began in the final image of last season. When Sally confronts her father about why he is no longer at the office he answers bluntly: "I didn't behave well…I told the truth about myself." "What was the truth?" Sally asks. "Nothing you don't know already," he answers."
Sally's simple "Happy Valetine's Day. I love you." to Don Draper as she gets out of the car, reassures us that she has accepted the truth about her father. More importantly, the final image of Don Draper, satisfied and proud, signals that the world of "Mad Men" is back on track.
Alan Brinkley, Columbia University History Professor
Don has returned from California, leaving Megan behind; and his office has been taken over by the officious and unpleasant Lou. But he doesn't seem to care and isn't yet ready to go back to work.
Without Don the company he founded seems to be a wreck, as do the other characters in "Mad Men." Don hasn't wanted anyone to know where he is, and SCP is struggling to keep going without much success.
Peggy had been thriving in her previous agency, but now, back at SCP, she has little to do and is constantly angry. She is largely ignored – probably because she is a woman. She turns her frustrations onto her African American secretary. So a cycle of exclusion is created.
In what seems like a hopeless episode, there is a source of optimism.
Sally is becoming an important figure now. When she loses her bag in New York, Don offers to drive her back to school. Neither of them has much to say to the other for a while. But Sally begins to talk with him like a grown-up young woman in the restaurant, Don starts to pay real attention. Don tells Sally that he wants to be a better person, but he doesn't really know how to do it.
It may be that Sally will be the person who will get Don out of his spiral of failure. When Don drops Sally off at school , she says, "Happy Valentine's Day. I love you."
Neither Don nor Sally had said anything like that for a long time. It is a rare genuine moment.
Gwen Orel, 'Mad Men' Recapper
There's a lot of deception and double-talk this episode as we watch everyone at work or school. Things move fast with a lot going on in subtext. Secretaries get shuffled around. People are carrying boxes all over the place. It's Valentine's Day and it seems love is short on the ground. There are flowers, but no hearts—until there really are.
We open on Don at home. Watching "The Little Rascals," flipping through a magazine, making a mark on a liquor bottle, ignoring a roach in his apartment. Later, spruced up in suit and tie he answers the doorbell for Dawn, with papers. She's keeping him up on what's going on in the office and also running interference for calls from Megan.
Sally's back in school, and in her dorm room with macramé wall hangings they discuss cutting out early from a funeral to hang out in Greenwich Village. On the train back before it leaves, Sally realizes she left her purse in the coffee shop. Except she doesn't go to the coffee shop, but to SCP to look for her dad. She sees the name "Lou Avery" on her dad's door. Lou's very nonplussed about seeing Sally and knowing she doesn't know.
At SCP, Peggy thinks the roses on her secretary's desk as from Ted, and leaves a coded message for Ted in California that "the business is gone." But of course, We see Shirley telling Dawn in the kitchen that the flowers were for her.
Lou doesn't laugh at Roger's jokes either.
Meanwhile Don has a friendly lunch with a friend from Wells Rich Green but is really opening himself up for offers.
A guy named Dave shows up and greets them at their lunch. He's from McCann Erickson, and when Don says he's just looking for love, Jim says he and his firm would be happy to tell him how handsome he is. And he picked up the check. Sally's at Don's apartment when he gets home.
Bicoastal partner meetings are difficult. The speaker goes out on one end and Pete and Ted get to overhear SCP New York complaining about Don, whom Jim calls "our collective ex-wife who still receives alimony," and coming up with a strategy to make Pete's win of Chevy subservient to Detroit. Pete snaps at Roger later, and then at Ted for doing nothing but moping around and taking calls.
Lou wants to have Dawn moved because she wasn't there when Sally came in, and says "I know you can't fire her, just move her to another part of the building," so he's obviously racist too. Dawn gives it back because she can clearly say whatever she wants, and says she skipped lunch to buy his wife perfume, because he ignored her reminders 10 days earlier. How does Lou not to know not to be so pissy to a partner?
So Dawn has to switch desks with dumb-as-box-of-hair Meredith. That makes her the receptionist, and Bert doesn't like that.
On the drive home Don interrogates Sally about what she was doing, and Don admits he knows she went to his office. He's mad that she "laid in wait" for him caught in a lie, like her mother. Sally tells him how hard it was to go to the apartment knowing she could run into "that woman"—Sylvia of course—in the elevator. That chastens Don. He goes to a diner, and tells her he didn't want anyone to know he wasn't working. He said the wrong things to the wrong people at the wrong time. And he didn't tell people because he was ashamed. And when she asks what the truth was, he replies, "Nothing you don't know." She wonders why he isn't staying with Megan. His answer that he wants to fix it doesn't convince her.
This is an important scene for them. She calls her roommate from a payphone to say where she's been, and is uninterested in the news of what happened on the train. When she gets back to the booth, she has a patty melt, and tells Don that the funeral was often. When she says she only went to the funeral so she could go shopping he replies "I doubt that." Aw. Dad still knows his little girl. And he shocks her by suggesting they leave without paying—but he's just joking, which makes her smile and take a bite.
Peggy instructs Shirley to throw out the "cursed" roses when Dee from Ted's office calls, which is when Shirley finally tells her they are her flowers, from her fiancée. That's humiliating for Peggy, so now she's the one who wants a secretary shuffle. It's all frustrating for Joan, who loses her temper when Cutler comes in to talk about Avon. First nice thing about Cutler: he realizes Joan is working two jobs, and tells her there's an office upstairs for an account man, not head of personnel. Go Joan! Hire someone else to deal with this nonsense. She moves upstairs with her yellow roses, "from her son," really from Roger of course, who doesn't disagree about her move, though it was Jim's suggestion.
Pete goes to Bonnie to try to move up their Valentine's Day tryst but really to mope. She peps him up by telling him a hard luck story of her own, about a house with a huge commission that burned down before it closed. Her attitude of loving the challenge inspires him.
Shirley is walking down to Lou's office, as Dawn walks into Joan's. The phone rings and Dawn grins. Demotion to major promotion in one day.
Don drops Sally at the school, and she says, "Happy Valentine's Day. I Love you," before she closes the door.
Why doesn't Don go to California Sally? I think you know.


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App. State, Ga. Southern leaving Southern Conference
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Published: Monday, March 25, 2013 at 11:45 p.m.
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Appalachian State and Georgia Southern are taking their programs to the next level.
The two schools who've won a combined nine FCS championships in football are leaving the Southern Conference for the Sun Belt Conference, said a person familiar with the situation.
Appalachian State and Georgia Southern will join the Sun Belt in every sport except football beginning in 2014. The football programs will join in 2015, making the transition from the FCS to the FBS.
An announcement is scheduled for later this week.
The person spoke to The Associated Press on Monday on condition of anonymity because the move has not been publicly announced by the schools or the conference.
The additions will give the Sun Belt 10 football members in 2015. Arkansas State, Georgia State, Louisiana-Lafayette, Louisiana-Monroe, South Alabama, Texas State, Troy and Western Kentucky are the others.
Arkansas-Little Rock and Texas-Arlington help make up the 12 teams participating in basketball beginning in 2014.
The three-time FCS champion Mountaineers joined the Southern Conference in 1972 and won or shared the league title 12 times — including seven in the past eight years — with 20 appearances in the FCS playoffs.
A university committee commissioned two years ago to study the feasibility of moving up the football program recommended that the school seek membership in an FBS conference. At the time, the school did not set a timetable for making a move.
But the trickle-down effect of conference realignment reached the picturesque campus in the western North Carolina mountains.
Vacancies opened up in the Sun Belt when four schools — Florida Atlantic, Florida International, North Texas and Middle Tennessee State — left for Conference USA.
That came after C-USA lost several football members — including instate rival East Carolina — to the former Big East.
Appalachian State won three FCS titles in a row from 2005-07 under former coach Jerry Moore while also memorably upsetting fifth-ranked Michigan in the 2007 season opener — the first win for an FCS school against a team in the AP Top 25.
Georgia Southern has won a record six FCS titles — 1985, 1986, 1989, 1990, 1999 and 2000 — and nine Southern Conference titles.
Following years of rumors and fan speculation, Georgia Southern formally announced its intentions to move to the FBS level last April. The university also planned to expand Paulson Stadium by 6,300 seats.
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August 22, 2013
The Washington County Fair Board is hoping a mixture of old — animal shows and sales, truck and tractor pulls, demolition derby — and new — miniature monster trucks, the Ohio Valley Opry and Cledus T....
I stopped going to the fair years ago when a known child sex offender was running one of the children's rides. It's always nice to take your family out to the fair to see all the parolees and tier 3's. No thanks. I'll pass.
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When the fair board starts listening to what the people want and not just what Paul and Dick wants then and only then will it turn around. But I will still be there these kids need to know as a community we care.
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The fair is worth going to if for no other reason but to support the youth of Washington County and the projects they have worked so hard on during the year. The bigger the attendance the more the fair can offer in the future. Please attend!
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The fair would be a lot more appealing if they would tell the confederate merchandise vendors to take a hike. That is not what the fair is about and Ohio was not part of the confederacy. Save that crap for some back woods carnival...not the fair that represents the county.
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Weather is some of a factor for a loss but what is offered at the fair is good for a gain if it is good enough I would wait if it was delayed . I know many people thats skip our fair just to go to Wv's because of what they offer . Keep heading in the right direction .
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The perfect show for the moment in time in the band's history. The opening Tube>Drowned>Jesus is delivered with a ton of punch, at which point the band gets intimate with the crowd for Driver and Bittersweet.
The second set Disease opener was strong, and the Mango is an especially tasty highlight. The mid-set YEM was pure pleasure, but the Oom-Pa-Pas that followed caught me completley by surprise. Trey's story is a hilarious and touching listen, and in retrospect probably says a lot about where the band's heads were a couple of nights earlier. When Speak to Me started people immediately began cheering, but at 40 minutes or so into the set, I can safely say no one was expecting the entire album. It wasn't until the clock effects at the beginning of Time started ringing out that it dawned on me and everyone around me that they were going to play the entire album.
The DSOTM performance doesn't feel forced, and certainly reflects how gifted the band is, considering they'd learned the music in pretty much a single day. Kuroda did a nice job as well on this one-I remember vividly how he alternated different colored spotlights on each band member during Us and Them. By the time they got to Eclipse, we were ready to explode with joy and appreciation. It didn't matter that Smells Like Teen Spirit was a complete slopfest. In the days before everyone had cell phone cameras, there aren't a ton of photos of this performance I've seen. For a long time, I only knew of one audience source though I'm sure that since then more have appeared. With the lights out, they entertained us.


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- Recipe: Poached Salmon Stew With Fennel, Leek and Hungarian Paprika
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The Taste: Khristianne Uy was one of the winners in episode 3's comfort food challenge.
1 shallot, halved
1 onion, quartered
2 limes, 1 juiced and 1 zested
2 teaspoons cilantro
4 basil leaves
2 tablespoons ginger, sliced
4 cloves garlic, smashed
3 green onions, quartered
2 bay leaves
6 peppercorns
2 cans coconut milk
1 cup chicken stock
6 clams
1/2 pound shrimp, peeled, deveined, save shells
3/4 tablespoon kosher salt
1/4 cup heavy cream
1/4 pound calamari, cleaned and sliced
For garnish:
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1. In a stock pot, bring shallots, onions, lime juice and zest, basil, cilantro, ginger, garlic, green onions, bay leaves, peppercorns, coconut milk, chicken stock, clams and shrimp shells to a boil. Lower heat, add salt and simmer for about 30 minutes.
2. Add cream to the mixture and simmer to reduce again, stirring frequently to avoid burning.
3. Strain mixture into another pot and bring to a simmer. Add shrimp; cook for 4 minutes. Then add calamari and simmer until warmed through.
4. Ladle into soup bowls and garnish with uni and chives.
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The Terrebonne Parish School board will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the School Board Office, 201 Stadium Drive in Houma.
The board will recognize the members of the 2012 Terrebonne Parish Youth Advisory Council and recognize the new master teachers at Grand Caillou Elementary, Oaklawn Junior High and South Terrebonne High.
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SANTA CLARA -- Justin Smith reported no setbacks Wednesday regarding his return to action with a partially torn triceps tendon. Nor is Smith concerned about worsening the injury when the 49ers play for the NFC Championship on Sunday in Atlanta.
Smith is wearing a black brace on his left arm to enhance his return from an injury that sidelined him the final 2 ½ games of the regular season.
"It's a love-hate relationship right now," Smith said of the brace. "It's doing its job. It felt pretty strong."
Smith didn't pay too much attention to shopping for that assistance and instead left it up to the 49ers' medical staff.
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The 49ers defense did its job in locking down the Green Bay Packers after halftime last Saturday night to secure a 45-31 victory. Smith sensed a different atmosphere following that win as compared to a year ago, when the 49ers' opened the playoffs with a riveting win over the New Orleans Saints.
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A 13-year-old Russian girl in Amsterdam goes innocently about her after school day – coloring, doing chores, and dancing to light pop music. She is a "little flower," as her 17-year-old sister Katia calls her, on the verge of womenhood. You can see the beauty she'll be, following in the footsteps of Katia and their mother. But you can also see their beauty inexorably eroding under the economic pressures of immigrant life: the mother has taken to soliciting on the streets of Amsterdam to makes ends meet, while Katia has begun a career in exotic dancing.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) released its preliminary report today on breeding ducks and habitats, based on surveys conducted in May and early June. Total populations were estimated at 48.6 million breeding ducks in the surveyed area. This estimate represents a 7 percent increase over last year's estimate of 45.6 million birds, and is 43 percent above the 1955-2010 long-term average. This year's estimate is a record high and is only the sixth time in the survey's history that the total duck population exceeded 40 million.
"Early indications were that the mild and dry conditions experienced across North America this past fall and winter would negatively impact spring pond conditions and allow increases in grassland conversion rates, ultimately impacting nesting efforts this season," said Ducks Unlimited Chief Scientist Dale Humburg. "Strong returning duck populations and late spring precipitation have brightened prospects for 2012 duck production. If nesting and brood-rearing conditions are favorable over the next few months, we could see another strong fall flight."
Of the 10 species traditionally reported, nine were similar to or increased in number from 2011. Two species (northern pintail and American wigeon) remained below their long-term average. Mallards, northern shovelers, blue-winged teal and scaup were bright spots on this year's survey. For the first time since 1999, mallard populations have exceeded 10 million. Northern shovelers and bluewings again reached record highs (5.0 and 9.2 million, respectively). Scaup numbers showed improvement and are above 5 million for the first time since 1991. Scaup numbers showed improvement and are above 5 million for the first time since 1991, but still remain below the North American Waterfowl Management Plan (NAWMP) population goal. Only three species—northern pintail, American wigeon and scaup—remain below NAWMP goals.
This chart summarizes information about the status of duck populations and wetland habitats during spring 2012, focusing on areas encompassed by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife (USFWS) and Canadian Wildlife Services' (CWS) Waterfowl Breeding Population and Habitat Survey.
"This year I am reminded again of the dynamic nature of wetland cycles and what happens when several years of strong production line up with the possible beginnings of a drought cycle," Humburg said.
"As good as the population news is this week, waterfowl and wetland habitats continue to face significant long-term threats. The Farm Bill and North American Wetlands Conservation Act are up for renewal by Congress this year and both are crucial to our ability to conserve this critical habitat. We are also fighting to increase our investment in wetlands conservation by raising the price of the federal duck stamp," said DU CEO Dale Hall. "Conservation is indeed at a crossroads this year."
Read the full press release.
The mallard is the most common duck in the United States, with the greatest abundance between the Appalachian and Rocky mountains.
2012: 10.602 million +15% from 2011
2011: 9.183 million
% Change from long-term average: +40%
Learn more about mallards in our waterfowl identification gallery.
The North American gadwall population remained stable through the 1970s and early 1980s, while populations of other waterfowl species generally declined. Since the late 1980s, the gadwall population has increased to record levels,
2012: 3.586 million +10% from 2011
2011: 3.257 million
% Change from long-term average: +96%
Learn more about gadwalls in our waterfowl identification gallery.
American wigeon nest farther north than any other dabbling duck with the exception of the northern pintail. They breed throughout northern Saskatchewan, Alberta, Manitoba, Alaska and the Northwest Territories.
2012: 2.145 million +3% from 2011
2011: 2.084 million
% Change from long-term average: -17 percent
Learn more about American wigeons in our waterfowl identification gallery.
From an all-time low of 722,000 birds in 1962, green-winged teal populations have grown steadily since.
2012: 3.471 million +20% from 2011
2011: 2.900 million
% Change from long-term average: +74%
Learn more about green-winged teal in our waterfowl identification gallery.
Since 1955, blue-winged teal populations have ranged from 2.8 million to 8.9 million. Generally, numbers have increased in recent years, due to favorable prairie wetland conditions. This has resulted in an average population of 6 million during the past 10 years (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 2009).
2012: 9.242 million +3% from 2011
2011: 8.948 million
% Change from long-term average: +94%
Learn more about blue-winged teal in our waterfowl identification gallery.
Northern shoveler populations have remained fairly steady since 1955, but 2007, 2009 and 2011 brought peak numbers in the 4.3-4.6-million-bird range.
2012: 5.018 million +8% from 2011
2011: 4.641 million
% Change from long-term average: +111%
Learn more about northern shovelers in our waterfowl identification gallery.
Pintails once were one of the most abundant ducks in North America but have suffered a disturbing decline since the 1950s.
2012: 3.473 million -22% from 2011
2011: 4.429 million
% Change from long-term average: -14%
Learn more about northern pintails in our waterfowl identification gallery.
Redhead populations have remained relatively steady since 1955, hovering in the 400,000 to 800,000 range and improving over the last 10 years.
2012: 1.270 million -6%
2011: 1.356 million
% Change from long-term average: +89%
Learn more about redheads in our waterfowl identification gallery.
The canvasback population is continuing to rebound from the low levels experienced in the late 1980s and early '90s caused by loss of breeding/wintering habitat.
2012: 0.760 million +10% from 2011
2011: 0.692 million
% Change from long-term average: +33%
Learn more about canvasbacks in our waterfowl identification gallery.
Greater and lesser scaup are counted together, because they are difficult to distinguish during aerial surveys. Greater scaup are estimated to constitute roughly 11 percent of the continental scaup population. Scaup populations have steadily declined since the 1980s.
2012: 5.239 million +21% from 2011
2011: 4.319 million
% Change from long-term average: +4%
Learn more about greater scaup and lesser scaup in our waterfowl identification gallery.


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Portland power trio, The Quick & Easy Boys, brings its crazy stage antics and funky R&B, garage pop and psychedelic rock — you might find some honky-tonk in there too — to Taroko Pan-Pacific Bistro, 62 E. Main St., Ashland. The show is at 10:30 p.m. Saturday, April 6.
The band, described as the Minutemen meets My Morning Jacket meets Funkadelic, formed in 2005 in Eugene and has since toured nationally, released two albums and has a third one in the works — "Make It Easy," due out in May.
Core members are Jimmy Russell on guitar, Sean Badders on bass and Michael Goetz on drums.
The cover to the show at Taroko is $5. See www.thequickandeasyboys.com.
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This week the Geeks chat with Allan Gyorke of the Running with the Pack podcast. We talked about heart rate training, Run Run Live, Coach Jeff, Allan's Chicago Marathon experience, the Race Contract… of course, you didn't hear all of this. The hour and 15 minute podcast was eaten by Ray's MacBook. So, basically, no show release this week. The Geeks are busy and probably won't get to record another show until next weekend.
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Former Warriors coach Mark Jackson has addressed an SFBay.ca report claiming that before gay NBA player Jason Collins signed with Brooklyn in February, Jackson had told reporters regarding the possible big-man addition, "Not in my locker room."
Asked on Twitter on Monday if he was quoted correctly, Jackson wrote, "Lies!!"
If Jackson indeed was quoted correctly (I do not recall the conversation if it took place after I started on the beat in late January), it would go against what the ordained minister told reporters April 29, 2013 on the day Collins came out in a Sports Illustrated article.
Asked then if Collins would be welcomed on the Warriors, Jackson said of the player he got to know while serving as a Nets broadcaster, "If he had game. If he could help this team. Right now (during a playoff series against Denver), he can't help this team."
In that same interview session with reporters, Jackson opened himself up to criticism in also saying, "As a Christian man, I have beliefs of what's right and what's wrong. That being said, I know Jason Collins, I know his family. And certainly praying for them at this time."
But asked on The Dan Patrick Show in February four days after Collins signed with the Nets, Jackson said his belief in the Bible did not affect how he saw a gay basketball player.
"At the end of the day, I'm a pastor," Jackson said. "I have my beliefs as a pastor and as a believer, and that's not going to change. I love Jason Collins. And I think this is a basketball story. I think we're doing a poor job as a society making it something that it's not. I'm happy for him, wish him nothing but the best, but it's a basketball story.
"If a guy can get it done on the floor, then that's the story. I don't think it's any other story. Are you good enough to play on this level? And the Nets think that Jason Collins is, and they went after him, and he's now a member of the Brooklyn Nets. More power to him."


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Juan wrote: Ugh that game pissed me off. How are we going to have the top running back in the nation and not give it to him on 4th and 1? Hyde could carry 3-4 Spartans on his back for 3-4 yards.
Was a great game to watch though, terrible 4th quarter for OSU fans. I knew MSU would be tough and motivated. Our defense sucks though. And Braxton can't throw. And when he did make a good throw we either dropped it, or MSU did a great great job of sticking their hands in there at the last second and breaking up the pass.
I don't think we were the 2nd best team by any means, but I'll take a national title game any year. Will prob be another Fiesta Bowl now.
Limbs wrote: Who do we want for Leo's next coach? I'm crossing my fingers for Lovie. Proven winner. Got an axe to grind with Chicago. Knows the division. Should learn from his offensive mistakes in the past and hire good offensive coaches to put around Stafford. I hate the Whisenhunt talk. Hate it. He's more mediocrity. Even his success came off mediocrity and Warner-Fitzgerald got hot. I'll take him as an OC but that's it.
I don't know why I think it matters.
Even though I'm really mad at him I still like Schwartz. He'll probably find success somewhere else. He did everything he could here. Which, as frustrating as these 5 years have been, has been a pretty remarkable turnaround.
I thought Mayhew has had two really nice offseasons. Let's see if he can find the right guy to take the next step. This team is ready to win now.
Limbs wrote: Yeah just saw that about Lovie. And yeah Schwartz did everything he could. He couldn't do more for stafford. As in Schwartz lacked the capabilities to do more for stafford.
Let's stop and think about what it was like in 2008. I was praying to not be blown out of games by the half. Seriously. By. The. HALF. Every. Fucking. Game. And pre-08 wasn't much better. Schwartz did as good of a job as anyone could have making this team competetive. I'm not talking about specific judgment calls. I'm talking about taking a joke, A JOKE, and making them favorites to win more games than not. Mayhew deserves a lot of credit too. But Schwartz got these guys to play.
Sometimes I wonder what you're watching, Cap. And if you just roll dice to see what words to throw into your posts. OT? As in offensive tackle? Like what? Reiff and Waddle both played very well this year. Fox and Hilliard showed good depth. If any Olinemen are taken it's gotta be a center. Obviously. CB sure. But really we need a WR who can play opposite Calvin and a TE that Pettigrew was supposed to be. I don't know what I want them to do about him. OLB wouldn't hurt either.


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Get an overview of this hotel4.5-star beach resort with a full-service spa
Offering direct access to the beach, this Carlsbad resort is 1.6 mi (2.6 km) from Carlsbad Premium Outlets and 2.2 mi (3.5 km) from Carlsbad State Beach. Oceanside Pier and Oceanside Harbor are also within 9 mi (15 km).
Resort Features
Hop on Cape Rey Carlsbad, a Hilton Resort's free shuttle to the beach or pamper yourself at the resort's full-service spa.
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All 215 soundproofed rooms provide free WiFi, free wired Internet, and pillowtop beds. Comforts include premium bedding and pillow menus, and guests will also find conveniences like refrigerators and microwaves.Would you like to give us feedback? Share it! Opens in a new window
Cape Rey Carlsbad, a Hilton Resort1 Ponto Rd Carlsbad CA 92011
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Hotel Amenities
For a free ride to the surf and sand, catch the resort's complimentary beach shuttle. Spend the day at the beach and work on your tan with sun loungers (chaise longues) or relax in the shade with umbrellas. Pamper yourself with a treatment at the full-service spa and enjoy amenities at Cape Rey Carlsbad, a Hilton Resort like an outdoor pool and a 24-hour fitness center.
The resort offers a restaurant and a snack bar/deli. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the resort's bars, which include a poolside bar and a bar/lounge. A computer station is located on site and high-speed wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary. This luxury resort also offers a spa tub, a steam room, and a garden. Guests can use the outdoor pool and health club at a partner hotel. Onsite parking is available (surcharge).
Cape Rey Carlsbad, a Hilton Resort is a smoke-free property.
- 24-hour business center
- 24-hour fitness facilities
- 24-hour front desk
- Free area shuttle
- ATM/banking
- Bar/lounge
- Free beach shuttle
- Beach sun loungers
- Beach towels
- Beach umbrellas
- Pool umbrellas
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Computer station
- Concierge services
- Conference center
- Conference space
- Conference space size (feet) - 8500
- Conference space size (meters) - 790
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Express check-out
- Free WiFi
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Full-service spa
- Garden
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Luggage storage
- Meeting rooms 10
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Number of floors - 3
- Number of meeting rooms - 10
- Outdoor pool
- Pool sun loungers
- Poolside bar
- Porter/bellhop
- Restaurant
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Free shopping center shuttle
- Shopping on site
- Smoke-free property
- Snack bar/deli
- Spa services on site
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Spa tub
- Steam room
- Television in common areas
- Terrace
- Free theme park shuttle
- Total number of rooms - 215
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Train station pickup (surcharge)
- Valet parking (surcharge)
- Wedding services
- Year Built 2012
Family Friendly Amenities
- Area shuttle (complimentary)
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
- Free Wi-Fi
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Microwave
- Outdoor pool
- Refrigerator
- Snack bar/deli
- Soundproofed rooms
- Theme park shuttle (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired high-speed Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Free wired high-speed Internet
Self parking (surcharge), Valet parking (surcharge)
Room Amenities
- Air conditioning
- Bathrobes
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Cable TV service
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Coffee/tea maker
- Free toiletries
- Free weekday newspaper
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Daily housekeeping
- Desk
- Free local calls
- Free WiFi
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Hair dryer
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- In-room massage available
- In-room safe
- Iron/ironing board
- Microwave
- MP3 docking station
- Pay movies
- Phone
- Pillow menu
- Pillowtop mattress
- Premium bedding
- Premium TV channels
- Private bathroom
- Refrigerator
- Room service (limited hours)
- Shower only
- Slippers
- Soundproofed rooms
Where to Eat
Cooked-to-order breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 6 AM and 11 AM.
Chandlers Restaurant - This beachfront fine-dining restaurant serves breakfast, brunch, lunch, and dinner. Guests can order drinks at the bar and enjoy alfresco dining (weather permitting). A children's menu is available.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Nearby Things to Do
An outdoor pool and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include a steam room and a 24-hour fitness center.
Children under 16 years old are not allowed in the swimming pool, health club, fitness facility, or spa tub without adult supervision.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Snorkeling nearby
- Surfing/boogie boarding nearby
- Kayaking nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Scuba diving nearby
- Water skiing nearby
- Rafting nearby
- Windsurfing nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Mountain biking nearby
- Skydiving nearby
- Parasailing nearby
- Ecotours nearby
- Golf lessons available nearby
- Bicycle rentals on site
Spa Services
Ocean Crest Spa has 7 treatment rooms including rooms for couples. Services include massages, facials, body wraps, and body scrubs. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy and Ayurvedic.
Children under 18 years old are not allowed in the spa without adult supervision. Guests under 12 years old are not allowed in the spa.
- Number of treatment rooms 7
- Couples treatment rooms
- Manicures and pedicures
- Body wraps
- Body scrubs
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Ayurvedic treatments
- Massages
- Minimum age to access spa is 12
- Body treatments
- Facial treatments
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
Hotel Policies
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
- Pets allowed for an extra charge of USD 75 per pet, per stay
- Dogs only
- 1 per room (up to 25 lb)
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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.
- The name on the credit card used at check-in to pay for incidentals must be the primary name on the guestroom reservation.
Service animals exempt from fees/restrictions
24-hour check-in
- Resort fee: USD 20.00 per accommodation, per night
- Spa access
- Beach loungers
- Internet access
- Phone calls
- Additional inclusions
Optional extras
- Breakfast fee: between USD 10 and USD 25 for adults, USD 4 and USD 7 for children (approximately)
- Self parking fee: USD 19.00 per night (in/out privileges)
- Valet parking fee: USD 24.00 per night (in/out privileges)
- Pet fee: USD 75 per pet, per stay
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 20 per night
Hotel Name
- Carlsbad Hilton Oceanfront Resort
- Carlsbad Oceanfront Hilton
- Carlsbad Oceanfront Resort
- Hilton Carlsbad
- Hilton Carlsbad Oceanfront
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- Oceanfront Carlsbad
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- Cape Rey Hilton Resort
- Cape Rey Carlsbad Hilton
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This property offers transfers from the train station (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details before travel, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments. Reservations can be made by contacting the resort prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. 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.


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Combat juggling Apr 18 2013
Major League Combat is a sport that combines juggling, rugby, Capture the Flag, and maybe Quidditch? I can't make out how you score, but keeping your juggle from end-to-end seems important.
Weird sport or the weirdest sport? It's definitely up there with chessboxing. (thx, benjamin)


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WritingEssays, articles, and blogs about rap, literature, and science. Baba's first book of poetry "The Rap Canterbury Tales" was published by Talon Books in 2006.
Mailing List
PublicationsPublications The Rap Canterbury Tales (Talon Books 2006).
Illustrated facing-page paperback featuring Baba's rap lyrics and the original Middle English source, with illustrations by Erik Brinkman (Baba's brother).
Literary Essays
Darwin on the FringeBaba's entertaining blog written for Whatsonstage.com, interpreting the Edinburgh Fringe through the lens of evolutionary theory. 2009 – The Rap Guide to Evolution and The Rebel Cell
2010 – The Rap Guide to Human Nature and Rapconteur
Monthly Archives: October 2012
Rap Guide to Climate Chaos Extends!
Initially scheduled for an eight week run at the Soho Playhouse, Rap Guide to Climate Chaos is now extended until June 11th. Tickets and showtimes here.
For more about the show, check out the recent Huffington Post review, published under the headline "This Guy Raps About Climate Change, and Bill Nye Loves Him":
Brinkman is a particularly adept communicator. He condenses an encyclopedic knowledge of climate change into 90 minutes of digestible rhymes. Brinkman's rapping is smart, funny and informative. And he approaches his craft as a devoted student of hip-hop, lacing his songs with rhythmic and lyrical allusions to the genre's greats: De la Soul, Nas, Run The Jewels. – Huffington Post
Join the "Climate Chaos" IndieGogo Campaign!
Good things are happening with "Rap Guide to Climate Chaos". After successes in Edinburgh and at the Paris conference, the show will soon be starting an off-Broadway run, opening exactly one month from today at the Soho Playhouse. In the meantime, I'm hard at work recording a full studio album version of "Climate Chaos", featuring 24 original tracks of barnstorming, alarm-raising, peer-reviewed hip-hop music.
My goal is to tell the story of global warming, including how we got here and how we can solve it, and to do that I need to hire some help, specifically music producers, engineers, and session musicians to really make these songs come to life. So I'm turning to IndieGogo to raise the funds, which means I'm also turning to you, to help me raise $10,000 in 40 days for album expenses.
Since the momentum of a campaign is driven by funders, every dollar helps. If you would buy this album, please pre-purchase it through the campaign, and if you want to see the show off-Broadway (or if you want to give your friend tickets), you can do that through the campaign as well. There are also some awesome higher-tier perks like original raps, live performances, and consultations with yours truly on whatever subject you hold dear.
And even if you can't put money on it, please share the campaign with your network via social media or email. I'm of the belief that the climate crisis has to come fully to the centre of popular culture before the political will to solve it will go mainstream. If that's so, I hope my rap album will help. And I hope you will help me make it happen.
Thanks as always for your support!
Religion Evolves – New Music Video
Religion Evolves
I just released a new music video which I'm very excited to share with you. The digital animation is by Steven Fahey, who is a full time animator for the Simpsons, and I'm completely blown away by the results he achieved. The video is about the evolution of religious instincts, and how the secular among us can make sense of beliefs we don't share.
Click here to watch "Religion Evolves"
Thanks for supporting, and have a happy holiday season whatever your supernatural inclinations may be.
Keep Up With The COP
Click here to read my latest blog from the COP21 conference in Paris: https://www.patreon.com/posts/3893828
Live From Paris
Click here to read my new blog from the COP21 conference in Paris: https://www.patreon.com/posts/live-from-paris-3882429
Join Me On Patreon
Every year or so since 2010 I've reached out to my friends and fans asking for help with a Kickstarter or IndieGogo campaign to fund my latest album or video project. Well now I'm hoping to put an end to that regular cycle with the help of Patreon, a site that lets fans become patrons with exclusive access to the artists they support and the work they help create.
Click here to visit Patreon.com/BabaBrinkman
If you've been following my career for a while, cheering me on as I create albums and shows and videos, and if you want to help me continue doing so, then Patreon is for you. The way it works is you sign up to contribute a certain amount for each project I release. The amount you pledge can be anywhere from $1 up to however much you feel you can spare. You set a monthly maximum that fits your budget, and Patreon will charge you automatically each time I release a new album, song, or video. And just like with Kickstarter you get special perks by signing up.
At the moment I have several new videos in the works for Rap Guide to Religion, and I'm working on recording the Rap Guide to Climate Chaos album, and several of those songs will have videos. And after that I'm working on a new project about Artificial Intelligence, and I have several other album ideas in the pipeline.
So if you would contribute $20 to support my next album, please consider pledging $5 or $10 per release instead. Or if you can afford more, pledge more. The bottom line is, if you support me and the artistic path I am on, and if you trust me to keep putting out work that you enjoy, then I would appreciate your support.
New Release: The Rap Guide to Religion
iTunes, Bandcamp, Amazon
The Rap Guide to Religion is a hip-hop concept album about the evolution of religious instincts, featuring production from Mr. Simmonds, Soulful Spider, and Tom Caruana and guest appearance by Greydon Square and Gaiaisi. If the answer to the number one BIG QUESTION of religion is "no", what other questions are worth asking? This album tackles the OTHER big questions of religion, such as "How did faith evolve?", "Does it serve any adaptive purpose today?", and "Is religion an adaptation, a byproduct of an adaptation, or a virus of the mind?"
With lyrics that were "peer reviewed" for accuracy by experts in the field of Evolutionary Religious Studies, Rap Guide to Religion offers fifteen tracks of mind-blowing science and auditory irreverence from a truly unique voice in hip-hop.
Baba Brinkman and Heather Berlin Live at The China Cloud, Vancouver, Sept 9th
Upcoming Concert:
Sept 9th 2015 @ The China Cloud, 524 Main Street, Vancouver
Doors 7:30pm, showtime 8pm, $15 cover
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/384580741739215/
Baba Brinkman & Heather Berlin just finished a critically-acclaimed run at the Edinburgh Fringe 2015, and they will be performing at China Cloud in Vancouver one night only.
"An inspiring and wonderfully entertaining show from beginning to end… an absolute jewel."
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ — Mumble Comedy
First: "Off The Top" is a science/comedy hour co-hosted by Baba and Heather, exploring the neuroscience of improvisation and humour, and the odd-couple mash-up of science and rap in their marriage. Reviews and more info here: http://
"An invigorating hour… smart, funny, well-sustained"
★ ★ ★ ★ — The Times
Second: After an intermission, Baba will perform his new rap/science/comedy show "Rap Guide to Climate Chaos", which explores the science and politics of global warming. Reviews and more info here:
Deftly-worded… close to perfect… an artist at the absolute top of their game."
★ ★ ★ ★ ★—The Skinny
Stimulate your brain and your funny bone with a night of laughs, lyrics, and love-of-learning.
Tickets $15 on the door
What's Beef? (Climate Change Version) – Music Video
My new show "Rap Guide to Climate Chaos" is now playing at the Edinburgh Fringe. For those of you who can't come see it live, here's a music video for one of the songs, featuring everyone's favourite front-runner. RIP Biggie Smalls. Please share!
Drama Desk Award Nomination!
I'm excited to announce that Rap Guide to Religion was recently nominated for a Drama Desk Award in the category of "Unique Theatrical Experience." Director/Producer Darren Lee Cole and myself both got spiffy certificates at the nomination reception, and we will find out on May 31st at the awards ceremony whether or not we get the prize. Competition is fierce, but it's good to know that a scientifically peer-reviewed hip-hop comedy about the evolutionary origins of religion is at least a contender in the "uniqueness" category.


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OK, I'm still playing with my iPad and loving it, and I found another software App that is a lot of fun. ASKetch by Andrew Kern is supposed to work with finger motions and strokes alone, and not be used with a stylus or pen tool. I'll tell you what it is supposed to do (and it does it very well). Let's look at ASKetch as Mr. Kern meant it to be. First, I'll quote: ASKetch is a simple black & white procedural sketching program for drawing with your fingers. It is designed from the ground … [Read more...]
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The iPad is a great thing. It is not, however, a computer. It's a shift away from the familiar hard drive directories. The new iPad owner has to surrender to a new way : you can't really root around the hard drive looking for a file, all user experience is controlled by an app, and getting the right app is key. As most of us have found out, finding that right app is a bizarre mixture of dumb luck, suggestions from co-workers and friends and the endless lists of best 10 apps proliferating on the … [Read more...]
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Forbes - Tim Worstall: The Liberator plastic gun and The export regulations take down of it
Andy Greenberg's been doing some great stuff on the development of the Liberator, the plastic gun made (almost) entirely with a 3 D printing machine. In his latest missive on the subject he tells us that the State Department has insisted that the designs be taken down off the internet. Because they breach arms control export regulations.
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