text:
Integrated Automation of Filling Line for Parenteral Products
Integration of batch process and pharmaceutical production equipment (OEM) towards MES and Business System in a sterile manufacturing About 40 Filling, Inspection and Packaging machines from 20 different suppliers and a formulation batch process have to be controlled from a central control room with a limited amount of operators in such a way that the operator interface is similar for every machine. Data communication from and to the equipment PLCs over SCADA and MES towards Business System in order to have electronic tickets with data storage. An identical hard and software platform for each control unit creates a structural and uniform communication platform between different equipment. SCADA gives the operator a HMI with the same look and feel. MES offers the operator an interactive production ticket. Use of client server technology in order to have the same information on different places. Use of a common data base as storage and communication medium.08/28/2008
Integrated Batch Solution for Pharmaceutical Rubber Production: The IPS Approach
Talk integration to a vendor and a customer and youre likely to get two very different points of view, despite the emergence of standards designed to reconcile these differences. By too carefully defining the limitations of software packages, we risk limiting the functionality of the very manufacturing operation we intended to improve. A responsive, integrated Batch Solution must be capable of positioning itself in the context of the Enterprise Production System, responsible not only for executing a planned sequence of operations, but also for the wider repercussions of its actions. This paper describes the implementation of an Integrated Plant System (IPS) for a major multi-national pharmaceutical company. Of particular interest from a Batch perspective, the asynchronous manual and automatic activities of over 100 recipes are tied to stock movements to ensure raw material is available at the right place and time. This illustrates the point that synchronization is integration, both at the Batch and Enterprise level. The production facility in Milan, Italy, was modeled using the IPS paradigm, and now coordinates all operational activities from equipment maintenance through inventory management to order scheduling and MRP.08/28/2008
An Integrated System with Batch functions And Front-End Scheduling based on S88 - Application to Beverage Plant -
The case study in this paper illustrates the value of integrating front-end scheduling with a batch control system. Recipe changes, and addition of recipes, occur frequently in the target process. However, since both scheduler and batch packages were designed with the ISA-S88.01 model in mind, these packages could be tightly coupled (well integrated) and, as a result, it is easy to add or change recipes. The frontend scheduler is not limited to performing scheduling; it also provides an easy-to-grasp real-time production status display which can help enhance efficiency and productivity.08/28/2008
Integrating Batch Automation with New Product Development: Meeting the Challenge
A major cosmetics manufacturer had just finished the first production run of a brand new skin cleanser, when the error was discovered an ingredient in the cleanser was wrong. Upon investigating, it was discovered that a data entry person had accidentally keyed not the final approved formula, but a previous unapproved version into MES/ERP. The entire production run, including bottles and labels, was disposed of at a $250,000 loss. Traditionally, it has been difficult for product developers to share information not just with manufacturing, but even among themselves. Formulas, and other product development data has been scattered across the enterprise in various R&D labs, and isolated in spreadsheets, legacy systems, disorganized file cabinets or lab notebooks. Due to the lack of a centralized product development information system linked to MES/ERP, formulas have usually been manually keyed, inevitably creating batch errors. A new breed of product development software has emerged that centralizes all product development data, automates the product development process and creates a seamless link between R&D and MES/ERP, ensuring accurate and timely communication not only of new product formulas, but also of modifications to existing formulas. This presentation will highlight this software and detail how it can be used to improve integration of batch automation with new product development.08/28/2008
Assuring Industrial Control System (ICS) Cyber Security
Joe Weiss, Control's Unfettered blogger, was asked by CSIS to prepare a white paper on cybersecurity for Industrial Control Systems. CSIS is the Center for Stategic and International Studies, which was tasked in a bipartisan manner to form a blue ribbon committee to prepare cybersecurity recommendations for the next administration. This white paper is posted by permission of CSIS and Joe Weiss.
Control and Joe Weiss are posting this white paper as a pro bono public service. The registration is solely to keep track for security purposes of who downloads the white paper and will not be used for commercial purposes.08/27/2008
Identifying Benefits for S-88 and S-95 Based Systems
System Architectures using S-88 and S-95 standards are being used in system implementations across the plant floor. These systems include batch management, MES, process control and ERP integration. For regulated industries, electronic record keeping and system validation must be addressed in these new initiatives. When implemented as applications, these architectural components are designed to provide benefits that support the companys business drivers. These benefits often overlap as the interfaces between applications become blurred as application vendors are changing functionality. Using S-88 and S-95 standards and an architectural approach, system requirements can be related directly to benefits. This paper presents system life cycle architecture for implementing pharmaceutical automation projects. Primary, secondary and strategic benefit sources for measurable economic benefits in each functional area of regulated and non-regulated operations. Realized benefits are presented for actual implementations across the plant floor.08/27/2008
Batch Distillation: Practical Aspects of Design and Control
Distillation, both batch and continuous, is the most often used separation technique in the Specialty Chemical Industry. While continuous distillation has historically received the most attention, batch distillation has suffered from some public neglect. This paper will present a summary of design basis criteria and control strategies for a multi-purpose batch still. Given the multiple product and flexible processing requirements of batch manufacturing, optimization of a batch distillation process is generally very equipment and process specific, unless the equipment was designed and is used for manufacturing a single product. The concepts presented here are suitable for processing over 80% of the Crude encountered in the industry and the design features and control strategies shown have accounted for 15-30% improved yields and throughputs.08/26/2008
Batch Management in the Supply Chain
Batch management systems are traditionally composed of two subparts, one assuring the creation and configuration of the recipes, and the other assuring the execution of the recipes, i.e., driving the equipments to make a product. By reducing the total time needed for producing a product, the market can be reached quicker and more money can (hopefully) be earned. Time to market is an important key competitive performance indicator. So, how can time to market be reduced? The execution part of the batch management system must obviously work efficiently, but this alone will not be enough. Personnel, materials, scheduling and maintenance information sent from the ERP system must also be managed in an efficient way. The problem is that traditional batch management systems are not intended to or capable of handling this information. Neither are they intended to handle information concerning warehouses, packaging or material receiving. Rather than extending the batch management system beyond its core role, the importance of the MES system and its capabilities should be stressed. An approach based on the ideas and models presented in ISA S95 is believed to be successful. Dedicated cross industry components manage the functions that are decidedly non-batch. Similar to a traditional batch management system that coordinates and synchronizes the recipe execution, a MES system should do the same for the functions of the components. Applying this approach, the batch management system can truly work in the context of the supply chain!!!08/26/2008
Electronic Batch Records and Flexible Batch Reporting
S88.01 defines batch history as 'a collection of data relating to one batch'. This is expanded by S88.02 to show that a batch history is an aggregation of both common and batch specific elements. A batch history may be made up of data collected by several systems and held in multiple locations. From this collection of data it may be required to produce for different purposes several batch reports. This paper reviews with the aid of case studies some methods of implementing flexible batch historian and batch reporting systems and discusses some of the issues faced such as 21CFR part 11 compliance and the integration of time series data and batch event data.08/26/2008
Exception Handling in S88 using Grafchart
Exception handling constitutes a large part of the design and implementation effort in batch production, but so far little work has been carried out to specify this area. This paper proposes an internal model approach for equipment unit supervision using Grafchart. It also discusses exception handling at the recipe level.08/26/2008
General Recipes As Contracts With Manufacturing
General recipes are the ANSI/ISA 88s definition of how to document the way a product is manufactured without specifying the exact production equipment. General recipes are transformed through an engineering process into master recipes, and they can often map to a wide range of physical equipment layouts. The target equipment often varies in unit layout, level of automation, physical properties, and process control capability. Usually, local engineers with a deep understanding of the target process cell layout do the transformation from a general or site recipe to a master recipe. The general recipe thus becomes the controlling document that is exchanged between sites. The general recipe can be considered a contract document between Research & Development (R&D) and manufacturing, defining the chemistry and physics that must be performed to manufacture the product. Because this document must be unambiguous, the elements that make up the general recipe must also have an unambiguous definition. In the ANSI/ISA 88 model these elements are process actions and equipment constraints. The actions and constraints are used during master recipe creation to identify master recipe unit procedures and operations and to bind the master recipe unit procedures to equipment. This paper defines the rules and considerations in defining corporate-wide process actions and equipment constraints so that they can become the complete and unambiguous definitions required by manufacturing.08/26/2008
Integrating Intermediate Bulk Containers (IBCs) Within An S88 Structure
An S88.01-aware automation system covers the control & management of activities carried out within plant equipment directly connected to it via hardwired, serial or fieldbus links. Batches begin and end within these confines. Plant managers see a wider picture; eg Process fluid, the batch with its ID, maybe transferred from conventional reactors to Intermediate Bulk Containers (IBCs) and later returned to the piped plant. This application uses soft (PC) phases within the S88 operation to deal with transfers to & from IBCs. Rather than implementing sequence logic in a plant controller the soft phases interface with an SQL database which tracks the batch ID as process fluid is transferred out of the piped plant. The SQL server database interfaces in turn with radio barcode scanners, which identify IBCs, reactors, operators & IBC storage rooms used in each transfer. Batch ID is preserved between transfers and the operator view from the automation system is of a batch held in a unit (the IBC). The status of any IBC, eg clean, batch ID inside, may be instantly determined via the barcode scanner. The following benefits are realised: Cycle time reduction, Reduction in abnormal occurrences, Production capacity increase, Improved safety08/26/2008
Process Modeling & Efficient Engineering
The modelling of a Batch Process and breaking down into S88 modular components is key to an easy and cost effective control software solution. This paper looks at the issues involved with engineering a batch control system, in relation to modelling, unit acquisition and transfers of material, including the use of generic coding techniques and multiplexing or unit relative design. There are many ways to engineer a batch application even using S88 concepts. Real case studies will be used, where two batch applications have been engineered on the same site over the last 5 years. The first placed a high emphasis on control station coding and complexity within the phase and sequences. The later case was designed to fully use the capability of the Batch Supervisor to optimise engineering and maintenance and provide the functionality required. A comparison of these two methodologies provides a good insight into the benefits and disadvantages of each, in relation to engineering, testing and on-going maintenance.08/26/2008
Project Management of Batch Control Projects: How to avoid the Pitfalls
Batch control projects have tended to be software intensive and often overrun substantially. In most cases this is due to a lack of foresight and planning in the early stages. The S88 Era has tried to alleviate this situation by providing a structured methodology but again the flexibility of current control systems and a lack of planning can produce the same effect as having no structure at all. This paper aims to highlight some potential problems and pitfalls and how they may be contained without adversely affecting the outcome of the project.08/26/2008
Synthesis of Optimal Batch Distillation Sequences
After the original design is completed, optimum Batch Distillation Sequencing/Operation in a chemical plant is usually a matter of trial and error that evolves as operators gain experience with the system. Some predictive tools exist for simulating batch separation systems, and they have been used with success in designing new separation systems and in analyzing existing systems. However, these tools require the user to define all the operation steps for each cut. The number of case studies required to approach an optimum scenario is very large, and is almost impossible to accomplish. Optimal design and operation, however, is the ultimate goal. In this paper we propose how to truly optimize a batch separation sequence. Combining the flowsheeting and modeling features of a process simulator provides an advantageous way to analyze and optimize operating scenarios for optimum batch separation sequencing. This approach is demonstrated with the optimization/debottlenecking of several batch distillation scenarios to separate and recover a heavy product, a partially water-miscible solvent, and water from a batch reactor effluent. Simulations identified a 25% increase in capacity with a minimum capital investment.08/26/2008
Things Go Better with S88: A New Approach to the Engineering Process
Investments in process control systems will claim a large percentage of capital investments in modern manufacturing facilities. In order to maximize return on these investments, automation concepts must be developed at the early stages of the project and detailed in parallel with the process, equipment, and facility components as the engineering work progresses. However, it is difficult to illustrate control strategies for complex batch operations on PFDs and P&IDs, therefore the control system Functional Specification must come to life early and be used more effectively as a living document which is developed together with the process design. This paper presents a case study on the application of S88.01 in the design of a multi-product biotech manufacturing facility, where flexibility, modularity, and CGMP compliance were major objectives. It shows how the models presented in the standard can be applied to develop automation concepts, which are defined in a Functional Specification that supports effective review and input by all members of the project team. This approach ensures that the automation strategy meets the project objectives, and that important concepts are not lost or mistranslated in the transition from concept through detailed design and final implementation.08/26/2008
Throughput Improvement at Henkel Surface Technologies
Henkel Surface Technologies has significantly increased plant throughput and capacity utilization - resulting in substantial savings in terms of infrastructure investment and cost per pound produced. The program, TIP (throughput improvement program), is an employee-driven integrated cost management effort that has had corporate-wide impact in operations, finance and marketing/sales. In manufacturing operations, the systemized daily report of operations (DRO) provides floor communications between employees and management to drive improvement. Captured metrics include attainment to schedule, attainment to standard, operator noted opportunities, and others. Reporting from the DRO identifies and prioritizes improvement opportunities. In finance, the captured information forms the foundation for benchmark reporting that tracks improvements by trending selected process metrics. This in turn is used to develop detail product-byproduct costs for more than 6,000 individual sku's. Database reporting allows the information to be analyzed in a variety of formats with an emphasis on product complexity and its impact on operations. The cost information is then communicated corporate-wide through the product cost and financial reporting systems. In marketing and sales, cost information, accessed through margin reports and profit and loss statements impacts business area decisions, while also influencing product rationalization decisions. Rationalization decisions, formerly primarily volume-based, now incorporate complexity factors that directly impact operations.08/26/2008
Automatic Adaptation of Batch Logic to Changing Levels of Field Automation
As batch processes are automated, it is common to leave certain less essential field devices without automatic actuators. Thus, the initial control design must accommodate both automated and manual activities. Later, the manual field devices may be automated, either one-at-a-time or in related groups as equipment modules. These field changes, often occurring over a period of years, each require rework of the batch control logic, which can easily exceed the cost of the actuator. In response to this undesirable situation, a technique has been developed which permits the batch design to automatically modify itself, or evolve, to accommodate changes in field automation. This approach yields significant benefits: Initial design treats all field devices as if they are automated, Recipe includes logic for both automatic and manual devices, Batch Journal logs manual device actions, Field devices may be automated over any time period, Virtually zero modification time for batch logic, No redesign, patches, or work-around, No dead code or wasted engineering. This paper describes the problem, illustrates a practical solution, and explores the resulting benefits.08/26/2008
Batch Application Migration
The migration of an existing Batch application, either by replacement or upgrade of the batch engine, or the entire replacement of the control system, raises many issues. This paper covers the work involved, and the benefits and pitfalls expected, in contemplating a replacement of the batch engine or the entire control system, and the analysis and justification necessary for a migration to realise potential benefits. Examples will be used where a validated pharmaceutical plant converted to a new S88 aware batch engine and chemical plants replaced the entire control system. In both cases the benefits and problems and techniques used to ensure a successful conversion and achieve the potential benefits, including increased yield and quality and reduced cycle times, will be discussed. Also covered will be applications (batch reactor), with examples, where a batch engine was not necessary but the provision of this solution on a new plant did produce many primary and secondary benefits. The paper will conclude with a breakdown of the main technical and engineering issues involved and the justification and benefits that may be attained.08/26/2008
Batch Automation Project Increases Production
The upgrade of an existing operational plant to a new control system can be full of uncertainties, especially in the areas of operability, downtime, and benefit. Cabot Corporation recently upgraded their Treated Silica operations in Tuscola, Illinois to Batch software, new PLC processors, and an upgrade of the existing HMI's to the latest version of the vendors software. The previous system was using older PLC's with HMIs in a semi-automatic configuration. The system relied heavily on the operators to make critical batch decisions and mechanical equipment adjustments. Cabot utilized the services of a batch software provider/developer, who developed the new system using S88 standards. The system started up with minimal downtime and has delivered as promised. The Units have seen as much as 30% increased throughput, production record keeping has become more accurate, and the product has become more consistent. These gains were achieved by the automation of a great majority of the operators former manual tasks, which included the use of batching technology and the addition of more automation equipment in the field. Additionally, to speed production and fulfill Cabot's production needs for greater throughput, recipe entry onto the batch list is now handled using specialized campaign software.08/26/2008


text:
Grey's Anatomy Look Ahead Patient Scoop09/24/2013
Grey's Anatomy Look Ahead Patient Scoop
New, Grey's Anatomy scoop from the E online! Watch With Kristen Spoiler chat, September 24th, 2013 Post.
Reese in Denver: Grey's scoop?
Are you by any chance a fan of werewolves? Then you'll be quite happy with an upcoming episode, where a patient will honestly and whole-heartedly believe that he was attacked by a werewolf. We're talking full-blown crazy, begging Dr. [Spoiler] to call the FBI and move him into a quarantined area. Since the doctor treating him is a big skeptic, the situation goes from annoying to dangerous fairly quickly.
Similar posts
Under The Dome 2x12 Turn Promo and Synopsis
Under The Dome 2x12 Turn Promo and Synopsis Here's the new promo for the next episode of Un...
Arrow 2x22 Streets Of Fire First Look Pics
Arrow 2x22 Streets Of Fire First Look Pics Here are the official Promotional Pictures from t...
Reign 1x20 Higher Ground Clip
Reign 1x20 Higher Ground Clip Tonight on Reign 1x20 Higher Ground watch Queen Catherine conf...
The Walking Dead Chandler Riggs Comic Con Interview This is an interview of Chandler Riggs w...

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Giants rally to top Cowboys in NFC East showdown
ARLINGTON, Texas — Eli Manning stood on the New York Giants' sideline in disbelief when it looked as if the Dallas Cowboys had scored a go-ahead touchdown with 10 seconds left.
What was encouraging is what he didn't see: a replay on the giant videoboard that hangs above the field at Cowboys Stadium, where the Giants still have never lost following a wild 29-24 victory Sunday.
Officials reviewed and overturned Dez Bryant's apparent 37-yard touchdown catch, ruling his hand hit out of bounds, and the Cowboys couldn't get into the end zone after the overturned reception.
"I couldn't quite believe they were able to hit a touchdown in that situation. I kind of kept looking for the replay," Manning said. "You know the game was not going to be over until that clock hit zero."
This was the 20th time in Manning's career that the Giants rallied in the fourth quarter to win. And this comeback came after New York blew an early 23-0 lead.
"It speaks about our resiliency. We know how to win these games," receiver Victor Cruz said. "We've been in a bunch of them."
After their sixth win in seven games since a season-opening home loss to Dallas, the Giants (6-2) hurriedly cleared out of Cowboys Stadium, trying to get home as quickly as possible with Hurricane Sandy bearing down on the East Coast.
"I'm very disappointed right now," Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said. "I thought after all that, our defense played well enough, our offense kept going and I thought we were going to get a chance to pull one out."
Coupled with Sunday losses by Philadelphia (3-4) and Washington (3-5), the Giants strengthened their hold on the NFC East lead halfway through their schedule.
New York led, 23-0, just two minutes into the second quarter when defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul returned an interception 28 yards for a touchdown. That was the third of four interceptions thrown by Tony Romo, and Dallas (3-4) finished with six turnovers.
But the Giants didn't score again until Lawrence Tynes made a 43-yard field goal with 10:20 left for a 26-24 lead. He kicked a 37-yarder with 3½ minutes remaining in the fourth for his fifth of the game.
Stevie Brown set up Tynes' last field goal with a fumble recovery and also had two interceptions.
"We have good leadership, good people," Giants coach Tom Coughlin said. "They're fighters in that locker room. ... Sometimes it comes out differently than it was designed."
Dallas got to the Giants' 19 on one of its last drives. On fourth-and-1 with 1:03 left, Romo scrambled and was picked off by Brown.
After New York failed to get a first down on three running plays and Dallas used all three of its timeouts, the Cowboys got the ball back with 44 seconds left at the 30. They got to the Giants' 37 before Bryant's catch between two defenders in the back of the end zone was overturned.
"We scratched and scraped," Giants defensive lineman Chris Canty said.


text:
The "Centennial State" also known as Colorado is the 38th state to be part of the Union in 1876, after President Ulysses S. Grant signed a proclamation adding the state after the United States Centennial. The word "Colorado" comes from the meaning "color red" in Spanish and was given after the red sandstone that covered Pike's Peak where gold was found. The state is has a great mix of mountains, plains and rivers and is sometimes referred to as "Colorful Colorado". Along with the meaning of the state name, the Colorado State Capitol is the only capitol in the country and world that is made out of "Beulah Red"; it is said that all the Beulah red marble in the world was used to build it and took 6 years to have the whole marble installed in the Capitol. 75% of the land in the United States is contained within the borders of Colorado, due to this and also because the land of Colorado is so rich in nutrients and minerals, the Government owns 1/3 of its territory. Given this fact, Colorado has over 200 wildlife areas and is home to some of the biggest and most beautiful sceneries and national parks in the country. These sceneries have inspired many, amongst those many is the song writer of "America the Beautiful", Katherine Lee Bates after being inspired by the view from Pikes Peak.
Besides mountains and plains, Colorado is also known for many interesting facts. In 1976, Colorado was supposed to host the Winter Olympics in Denver and is the only state in history that turned down the event minutes before due to cost, pollution and the population boom. Colorado is home to the world's largest flat top mountain in Grand Mesa. The state also hosts "Mike the Headless Chicken Day" a celebration in the town of Fruita that commemorates a chicken who's head was cut off and still lived 4 years after it. The city of Denver, the state capital is home to Louis Ballast, the person who gained the trademark of the world famous cheeseburger. After careful measurements, it was stated that the 13th step of the state capital building is exactly 1 mile above sea level. The city is also host to the Western Stock show, considered the largest Rodeo in the world. Given the area the states owns, Denver has the largest park system in the country with over 200 parks and over 150000 acres of parks in the nearby areas. Colorado is main part of the country's biggest mountain ranges, the Rocky Mountains that go from Alaska all the way down to Mexico, the part that passes through the state is best known as the Colorado Rockies. The military is also big in Colorado; it is home to the first and oldest military post as well as the country's Air Force Academy.
Colorado has a rough terrain for car transport, however many events bring thousands of people into the state borders throughout the year, giving the car transport industry a high demand regardless of the scenario.
Military Transportation
Colorado, being home to the United States Air Force Academy and hundreds of airmen come in to be trained and be part of this prestigious academy. Many of the men and women who come in come from all over the country and most likely the places they come from are farther than a couple hundred miles away. Many fly in and have moving and transporting companies take care of their belongings. Here is when car transportation comes in handy.
It allows airmen and soldiers going in to other military bases to take care of other affairs and have peace of mind that their car will be safely transported from point to point. Given that most soldiers and airmen are starting their carriers and are young women and men, most car transport companies offer military discount to help out.
Colorado: Beautiful Sights, Horrible Winters
As mentioned before, the state of Colorado has wonderful scenes and thousands of acres in wildlife, natural resources, parks, mountains, lakes, and plains. Although all these things are beautiful to see and help ensure a fantastic get away from your busy agenda, it doesn't offer the optimal conditions for car transport, especially during winter time. Snow is a big impediment on the roads and makes traveling conditions very risky. Most roads are blocked and icey and it cause man delays in the car transport season. The fact that most of the state is a mountain range does not help either as roads are trickier, forcing carriers have to meet more requirements in order to transport cars safely.
Because of all these things, transporting cars in or out of Colorado is more expensive than any other route. There are also very few accessible delivery and pick up points in the state and this makes the route not very popular, still well transited for the right amount of money.
Tips to Transport Cars during winter
Although cars that are transported are move on carriers, it is recommended to prepare your car for the trip. Here are some quick and simple tips you can follow to help ensure a proper and safer transportation.
Once you have gone over these simple tips, simply make sure you have taken care of all details with your agent and be ready to give in or receive your car!
Did you like car transport in Colorado read also How to ship a car and Golden Rules to avoid Car Transport scam!
If you are ready to ship get a FREE Online Quote or call us at (800) 516-3440 to speak with one of our agent now!
©All Rights Reserved – AA Car Transport, LLC – (800) 516-3440 – firstname.lastname@example.com


text:
Your Right To Information
Information provided by UrbanGrowth NSW
UrbanGrowth NSW provides a range of information on our website, including about our organisation and our projects, in a readily accessible format. We also proactively release information that may be of interest to the public, including through media releases and a quarterly electronic newsletter.
The following open access information is available free of charge:
- UrbanGrowth NSW Agency Information Guide, which describes our structure, functions, how those functions affect the community, the type of information we hold and how the information is available
- UrbanGrowth NSW Policy document, which provides a summary of the organisation's policies that affect members of the public
- a disclosure log of information previously released in response to formal access applications under the Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009 (the GIPA Act) that may be of interest to other members of the public
- a register of contracts with a value of $150,000 or more that UrbanGrowth NSW has with private sector organisations and which are required to be disclosed under the GIPA Act
- UrbanGrowth NSW Annual Report.
Requesting information
UrbanGrowth NSW complies with the GIPA Act, which regulates the provision of information by public sector organisations in New South Wales to members of the public.
The GIPA Act was established to provide an open and transparent process for giving the public access to government information. Under the GIPA Act, members of the public have a right to access government information, except where there is an overriding public interest against releasing that information.
The Agency Information Guide available on this page explains how to request information from UrbanGrowth NSW, which can include an informal access request or a formal access application.
An application form to formally request information from us is also available.
For further information
To find out more about the information we provide or how to request additional information, you can contact the Right to Information Officer at UrbanGrowth NSW:
Phone: (02) 9841 8600
Email: email@example.com
Address: PO Box 237, Parramatta NSW 2124
Further information is also available from the following external websites:


text:
|Employer Information
|The University of Miami is at the forefront of employment programs nationally.
For more information on how to become a student employee, find jobs or get more information as a current employee, please click on the buttons and links below.
|Current Student Employees
|Prospective Student Employees
Student Employee's Responsibilities
Student Employment at a Glance
|OSE Spotlight


text:
Reviews - Russell Court Hotel2
Bath Road, Bournemouth, BH1 2EP
Customer Reviews
Our reviews are from genuine LateRooms.com customers. We verify that the customer has stayed before leaving a review.
58% would recommend it to a friend
Customer service
Food quality
Room quality
great value or money
The room was clean and comfortable, if a little tired.
For the price I paid I thought it was really good value for money. All the staff were really friendly and helpful.
Read More Less
Russell Court Hotel
Very noise area, little car parking.
Be very careful when booking this hotel - we was caught out where it shows prices as (price for 2) for a double room.
This is NOT the case and I had to pay a further £35.00 on arrival after already having paid £69.00. I did get a confirmation but trusted it to say what I thought I had booked - my mistake for not checking it but still prices are misleading. Over £100 for a room that had a black in the grout in the shower, stains on the carpet, lights that didn't work and ill fitting curtains. Felt completely ripped off and won't be going back!
Read More Less
Clean and comfy a little worn
Clean room with comfortable bed and an absolute bargain for a single-night stay, no complaints - hotel is a bit shabby but staff couldn't have been more helpful.
Cheap and comfy
Very cheap deal on a single room when staying over for work.
Room itself pretty rundown - and cold, though I used the two freestanding electric heaters provided to fix this. Main road a bit noisy through windows. But it was clean, bed was comfy, shower was better than a lot of other places I've stayed, staff were nice, so absolutely no complaints for the money.
Read More Less
Would stay again
TV is not working, bedside lamps not working, unwashed cups, dirty carpet, terribly hot in the room.
Never go back there...not recommend to anyone...out of age look as well...all the rooms...not happy with the place + extra charge for parking as well...should I carry on......................................
not great
Carpet was extremely dirty with dark stains all over and curtains were covered in paint.
Air conditioning didn't work and the cups and teapot were used.
Read More Less
Undergoing renovation provides adequate facilties with no frills
When we stayed, husband and wife with granddaughter,most guests were workmen but did not affect our stay.
Read More Less
Faulty Towers!
The only welcoming thing about the hotel was the gentleman on the front desk - after that it was downhill.
The sever lack of clenliness throughout the hotel was disturbing and getting 'eyeballed' by the staff as I made my way around the hotel made me feel less than welcome and was exacerbated by their reluctance to treat you as a valued guest. After greeting one member of staff he simply scowled at me me until I walked away. and finally, the room. The sheets had the remnants of the person who had stayed previously (I shudder at the thought of what the white stain on the dark brown material actually was!) and had several cigarette burns. The carpet was filthy and clearly hadn't been hovered or cleaned in quite some time. Lack of double glazing meant that I could name the exact model and year of the cars driving up the hill at 3am as it sounded like they were in the room with me, and the windows were caked in condensation and mould. I resorted to striping the sheets of the bed and sleeping in my clothes it was that horrible. I was going to ask for a refund but when I was checking out the gentleman (who sadly wasn't the same one as when I checked in) merely took my key and disappeared!
Read More Less


text:
Each month, Rated People connects over 50,000 homeowners with quality tradesmen - simply enter your job details in the form above to get started.
We'll match your job to the relevant tradesmen in your area - those interested will pay to see your contact details and call you to quote.
As each tradesman expresses interest in quoting on your job, we'll send you their profile and ratings to help you choose the right one for you.
After the work is complete, return to the site and rate your tradesman based on their quality of work, reliability and value for money.
Drainage Specialist
Added 29/01/2016
Petrol station drainage repair
Searching for tradespeople
Drainage Specialist
Added 05/06/2014
in my garden outside the drain is blocked
Searching for tradespeople
Drainage Specialist
Added 05/04/2014
I am currently on a soakaway but the neighbours have recently connected to mains drainage and...
Searching for tradespeople
Happy to recommend. Did the work exactly as required and knew what he was doing.
Managing your job is easier with the Rated People Homes App, download it today.


text:
eBook Review: 'In Anyone Else's Shoes' by M. L. Joslyn
Published 10:00 pm, Sunday, September 22, 2013
In Anyone Else's Shoes is part of Xcite Books' Romance line, and written by M. L. Joslyn. Having said that, I didn't think it was overly romantic.
It tells the story of Emma Green, a workaholic manager of a shoe store. She's living with her now ex-boyfriend, and they have a friends-with-benefits arrangement. Emma's best friend, Alyssa, is somewhat of a sex addict. So, although Emma likes her job, all those factors together have made her yearn for something new. Something challenging, exciting.
The something new and exciting comes along sooner than she thought. The company she works for, the trendy chain of women's shoe stores, Untamed Soles, has just hired a new Regional Vice President, Jason Eastman. He's young and full of ideas for growing the company even further. He's delighted with Emma's work ethic and the performance of her store, and offers her a promotion. However, he's also interested in her on a more personal basis, and seems to have no qualms about mixing business with pleasure.
Emma's unsure what to do. There's no doubt in her mind that Jason is smoking hot, but he's also way younger than her, and doesn't have the confident personality she usually goes for in a guy. She's getting her sexual needs seen to occasionally by her ex, Ty, so does she really need to jump into bed with her boss? Will it do more harm than good?
I was a bit underwhelmed by this book, I have to say. Given the line it's part of, I was expecting much more romance, and there wasn't really any, in my opinion. There was fun, laughs and sex, sure, but not hearts and flowers. I liked the lead character, Emma, but I wasn't at all keen on either Ty, her ex, or Jason. Her friend Alyssa was air headed and annoying, too. The writing style of this novella is good, but I just didn't find myself caring massively about the outcome.
Available from:
Amazon UK
Amazon US
All Romance eBooks


text:
This exhibit explores the visual arts and other expressive media of the recent Arab World Uprisings.
Images are often used as communicative devices to present politicized messages. During the recent Arab World uprisings, demonstrators created images to express opposition to incumbent governments and members of the ruling elite. Over and again, activists, protesters, artists, and other individuals adopted the expressive media—including videos, photographs, painted and digital images, as well as slogans, music, and even puppets—to create visualized and performed modes of dissent within public space, both in the streets and online.
Photographic Truth-Claims
The Arab World uprisings were documented by films and photographs that were captured and disseminated through government sponsored media and opposition channels, including Facebook, Twitter, and other digital platforms.
Sounding Walls
Protesters, activists, and artists often take their talents and opinions to the streets, the very locus of resistance. There, cement walls are most useful for the creation of images.
Humor and Subversion
During the recent uprisings, artists have used witty forms of commentary, including satire and subversion. More lighthearted forms of comic relief offer visual riffs for a good laugh, while more aggressive forms of humor serve to symbolically attack a perceived opponent.
Performing Dissent
Alongside visual imagery, chants, songs, and theatrical performances have addressed political and social issues during the recent Arab World uprisings.
Revolution Reloaded
The uprisings that began in the Middle East in 2011 remain unfinished business today. In many countries that have witnessed the "Arab Spring," the uprisings have yet to bear their fruits. Instead, battles have been re-launched, and they appear fiercer than ever.
Creative Dissent: Arts of the Arab World Uprisings was on display at the Arab American National Museum, November 8, 2013 - February 9, 2014.
Exhibit website | Map


text:
In anticipation of today's publication of the Oxford Handbook of Business History, Harvard Business School's Working Knowledge has an interview with the editor, Geoffrey Jones.
Highlights from the interview:
Why is this book important?
Business historians over recent decades have generated rich empirical data on firms and business systems. They can in some cases confirm, and in others challenge, many of today's fashionable theories and assumptions by other disciplines. Yet for a number of reasons their research rarely permeates into wider literatures.
On globalization:
Mira Wilkins published a major study of the globalization of Ford in 1964, only four years after the word "multinational" was coined. Her study of the growth of American multinationals from the colonial era to 1914 was published in 1970. Its analysis of why and how firms globalize would only be much later formalized in the economic theory of the multinational enterprise, and it would take a further 20 years before the mainstream economics profession would identify globalization and global firms as a topic of real importance.
A succession of other "firsts" followed, including major studies of the globalization of services whilst most of the literature remained focused on manufacturing, and of diaspora entrepreneurship years before it became of interest because of recent attention on Indian and Chinese entrepreneurs in the United States and elsewhere.
As I write in my essay in the Handbook, and have explored in other work with my HBS colleague Tarun Khanna, the history of globalization delivers a rich set of data for current debates and literature on globalization. At the crudest level, historical evidence avoids spurious labeling of some phenomena as "new," and by so doing can challenge current explanations of their determinants. Historical evidence is crucial to exploring the causal relationship between foreign direct investment and long-run economic development. Today's world policy advice to all countries, and even more so to poor ones, is to open their borders to foreign multinationals because they will generate wealth and growth. The historical evidence shows clearly that this is an article of faith rather than proven by the historical evidence of the past. Or more precisely, there have been a wide variety of outcomes, but one persistent generalization is that foreign direct investment does not bring sustainable development unless the host country has a business system that is able to learn and absorb new knowledge, and an appropriate public policy framework.
On the need for more study of entrepreneurship:
And second, I believe that many of the most pressing unanswered questions in business history center around entrepreneurship. This was a major concern of business historians before Chandler, and others refocused the discipline on issues of organization and firm growth from the 1960s.
Over the last few decades, the study of entrepreneurship has not been entirely displaced, but it has always been marginal to mainstream research agendas, and business historians have not made a lot of progress in reaching valid generalizations of the kind Chandler offered for the growth of firms. In recent years, entrepreneurship researchers have made progress in understanding entrepreneurial cognition of opportunities and issues surrounding the assembly of resources.
The achievements of such research have been constrained, however, because of neglect of the context in which entrepreneurial decisions are made, and because of a need to use large data sets, which has narrowed much research to a study of high-technology start-ups in a few locations.
Book description (from the publisher):
This Handbook provides a state-of-the-art survey of research in business history. Business historians study the historical evolution of business systems, entrepreneurs and firms, as well as their interaction with their political, economic, and social environment. They address issues of central concern to researchers in management studies and business administration, as well as economics, sociology and political science, and to historians. They employ a range of qualitative and quantitative methodologies, but all share a belief in the importance of understanding change over time. The Oxford Handbook of Business History has brought together leading scholars to provide a comprehensive, critical, and interdisciplinary examination of business history, organized into four parts: Approaches and Debates; Forms of Business Organization; Functions of Enterprise; and Enterprise and Society. The Handbook shows that business history is a wide-ranging and dynamic area of study, generating compelling empirical data, which has sometimes confirmed and sometimes contested widely-held views in management and the social sciences. The Oxford Handbook of Business History is a key reference work for scholars and advanced students of Business History, and a fascinating resource for social scientists in general.
The Oxford Handbook of Business History
by Geoffrey Jones and Jonathan Zeitlin
Oxford University Press
March 20, 2008


text:
Victorian Romance by Renee Leverington
Welcome! You are browsing as a guestWould you like to see 216 projects made from this pattern and much more? create a free account What am I missing?
© CptSnoopy
by VickiTal Flickr
Victorian Romance
This pattern is available for $6.00 USD
buy it now or visit pattern website
buy it now or visit pattern website
This is the Anniversary Mystery Shawl 2009, celebrating the fourth year of Goddess Knits.
Yardage given is for the Zephyr yarn only. Suggested yardage for the Hanah Silk Ribbon is 5 yards.
For more information, see: http://www.bopeepswoolshop.com/zencart/index.php?mai...


text:
So here we are in week two, and we've already come to the infamous lawsuit episode! For those who don't obsessively follow the entertainment news, a few months back, Martin Hyde, a former manager of Dillon's restaurant in Manhattan–an eatery he describes on the show as "an American-Irish restaurant with an Indian-ness connected to it"–sued to stop this episode from airing, claiming that the producers faked a lot of the footage, and that Ramsay himself unfairly made Hyde look like a prat.
And boy does he! Ramsay starts snapping at Hyde almost as soon as he arrives, and rather than backing away from skewering Hyde in the wake of the lawsuit, the producers give it to him with both barrels, taking every opportunity to stick in an insert shot of Hyde chattering on his cel phone while the kitchen is in crisis, or leaning against a wall doing nothing, or resting on a bench before service while the waitresses stroke his hair. ("It's a natural thing," he coos.)
Was Kitchen Nightmares unfair to Hyde? Probably a little. Maybe a lot. But it's hard to buy his claim that the production staged the scenes where they found rotten food, ramshackle furnishings and a basement full of vermin. (If anything, I'm betting there's hardly a restaurant basement in New York that's not crawling with roaches and rats.) It would be one thing if Ramsay had just stuck one bad burger in front of the camera, but he produces bin after bin of spoiled meat and moldy veg. And it's the restaurant staff itself that provides plate after plate of greyish food to Ramsay when he first comes through their door. That can't all be explained away as "creative editing." (And for what it's worth, the restaurant itself isn't part of the lawsuit; just the now-fired manager.)
That said, aside from the bad meat/insect fear horror-show, and the slow-building showdown between Dr. Ramsay and Mr. Hyde, everything about this episode was distressingly pro forma. Once again, this wasn't a case of Ramsay swooping in and showing hard-working, well-meaning businessmen how to simplify and improve; it was a wholesale revamp, including a new name (Purnima), new décor (modern Indian instead of sheets of formless muslin), and, most egregiously, a new executive chef.
It's the last bit that galls me. On the British version, even when the chef of the week sucked, Ramsay taught him or her some simple tricks and explained that even if they couldn't become a culinary genius in a week, they could at least learn to cook well enough to satisfy their customers. (It's like the opposite of the Ratatouille philosophy.) Here, Ramsay hands Purnima an already successful Indian chef–Vikas Khanna–to design a new menu and take control of the kitchen. Then he rushes out the door, muttering, "My job is done here," when he really didn't do anything but yell for an hour.
The yelling is still fun, though. The yelling is still fun.
Grade: B-
Stray observations:
-The lengthy set-up of the first episode has been cut down considerably, thank goodness. This episode gets down to business pretty much straight away. Also, Ramsay took his shirt off this week!
-The segment where Ramsay takes the Dillon's management team on a tour of his own restaurant looked suspiciously like an advertisement. Don't want flies buzzing around your table and month-old tomatoes? Come down to Gordon Ramsay's London, where we clean the refrigerators twice daily!
-According to what I've read, the customers on Kitchen Nightmares aren't actors, but have been recruited, and are probably being paid a small stipend–or at least provided a free meal. Either way, it's hard to feel bad for their long wait times and cold food.
-Line of the week, after the line cook gets so emotional about Khanna's shellfish dish that he hugs Ramsay: "Oh, he's giving me a cuddle It's only a scallop, we haven't lost our children!"


text:
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency recently recognized Ray Benolken, from the city of Rush City, for maintaining a perfect compliance record with their wastewater treatment permit during 2013.
This year, the Rush City wastewater treatment facility was among 128 wastewater facilities statewide to receive this award. The awards were presented at the 77th annual Wastewater Operations Conference March 26 in Brooklyn Park, Minn.
Rush City was first recognized in 1979 and has earned an award 11 times since then.
MPCA Municipal Division Director Mark Schmitt had high praise for the award recipients.
"These operators' continued efforts are paying off and showing real progress in our waters' health," Schmitt said. "In 2013, the total amount of phosphorus discharged from wastewater facilities was 663 metric tons, which represents an impressive 12 percent reduction from 2012. Excess phosphorus stimulates algae growth and makes water unsuitable for swimming and fishing.
"These operators work hard every day to protect our waterways and ensure Minnesotans enjoy clean water, and their hard work is proving to be successful," he added.
To be eligible for the award, facility operators were required to submit all monitoring reports to the MPCA correctly and on time, demonstrate consistent compliance through monitoring or surveys and employ staff certified by the MPCA in wastewater operations.
About 1,360 municipal and industrial wastewater treatment facilities are located in Minnesota. Community, institution or treatment plant size was not a factor in awarding the certificates.


text: I just bought a Wbbb with rope suspension .XLC. What can I expect out of the box ? What else will need to set it up ? Shock cord,Stakes, ? I have not ordered a tarp yet , as I want to know if I can sleep in the thing be for I spend any more dough.but I do need to be able to sit it up in the first place. Thanks in advance for any help I can get from those of you who are more experienced ,


text:
Talk about "aged" cheese!
Researchers University of Bristol in Britain, with colleagues in the United States and Poland has found evidence of cheese-making on 7,500 year-old pottery fragments. They analyzed fatty acids embedded in prehistoric pottery from the Polish region of Kuyavia, and found they had been used to separate milk into curds for cheese and whey.
"This constitutes the earliest direct evidence for cheese-making," said Melanie Salque from Bristol, one of the authors of the research, which was published in the journal Nature.
Milk residues have been found at ancient sites up to 8,000 years old in Turkey and Libya, but there was no evidence that the milk had been processed into cheese.
Your email address will not be published.
Subscribe for our newsletter today and receive relevant news straight to your inbox!


text:
BP Comment Quick Links
October 20, 2009
Prospectus Hit and Run
Double-Barreled Disappointment
The late Bart Giamatti famously observed that baseball is designed to break your heart, but the former Commissioner was notably silent about its ability to strangle you with your own entrails. That's how I felt on Monday, watching two teams near and dear fritter away late-inning leads and ultimately suffer walk-off losses.
Last Friday had me aglow. For the first time since October 9, 2004 and just the second time in my entire adult life, the Dodgers and Yankees both won playoff games. These are the two teams at the heart of what I've long referred to as my Bicoastal Disorder, a complicated set of rooting interests borne of blood and geography. My dream of a World Series which would replicate the formative matchups of my youth was intact. The drop from that high point to Monday's action was dizzying, to say the least.
I offer that introduction not as a plea for sympathy. Indeed, the inherent contradictions of this life I've chosen have been the fuel for nearly a decade of writing beyond the decimals and differentials that make up so much of my work here, and I'm hardly ungrateful for this playoff bounty, particularly in the face of an angry mob of Tigers/Cardinals/Twins/Your-Team-Here fans. Nonetheless, Monday's twin killing will have to suffice as an excuse for the rather disjointed account that follows. As a fan, I feel as though I've been run over by a Mack truck. As an analyst... yep, Mack Truck again.
By far the more glancing of the two blows from Monday's action came in the ALCS, where the Yankees squandered a 3-0 lead thanks to a curious set of decisions by Yankees (over)manager Joe Girardi, all of which blew up in his face in spectacular fashion � la Wile E. Coyote. I'll leave that postmortem to others except to note that the Yankees still hold a two games to one lead in the series. Suffice it to say that my forehead was sufficiently tenderized for the nightcap.
As with the rest of the NLCS, Game Four continued to defy the percentages. Randy Wolf yielded a homer to a lefty hitter, Ryan Howard. The league's best bullpen and the league's best closer, Jonathan Broxton, faltered, while the shakier Phillies bullpen and their historically awful closer, Brad Lidge, held their ground. It happens.
Wolf came into his start having allowed just one home run against lefty hitters all season long, and having held them to to a feeble .159/.217/.200 line in 185 plate appearances. Howard hit just six of his 45 homers against southpaws, managing just a .207/.298/.356 line. Yet when Wolf left a fastball up in the strike zone during last night's first-inning confrontation, Howard demolished it for a two-run homer.
We can scratch our heads and curse or cheer at the defiance of those percentages, but we'd do just as well to remember that Wolf's fateful pitch was set up by very human reactions. Home-plate umpire Ted Barrett, whose strike zone was small enough to fit into a pocket protector, made a lousy call on the preceding 2-1 fastball, which caught plenty of the plate according to both TBS's pitch tracking device and MLB Advanced Media's Gameday. Catcher Russell Martin had set up on the outside half of the plate, however, and in reaching back across his body to receive the pitch, swayed the umpire's judgement. Backed into a corner against the slugger, the flustered Wolf clearly still had that call on his mind when he served up Howard's homer, given the camera shot of him jawing with Barrett as he received a new baseball.
Broxton led the senior circuit in WXRL and led all major league relievers in strikeouts while posting a stellar 3.9 K/BB ratio. He too demolished lefties at a .138/.230/.185 clip in 148 plate appearances, slightly better than even his showing against righties. Pinch-hitter Matt Stairs batted just .200/.360/.390 against righties this year, particularly struggling against power pitchers; his bat speed has slowed with age, and a lack of repetitions only make matters worse for him. Yet last year's NLCS confrontation, in which Stairs clubbed a go-ahead eighth-inning pinch-homer in Game Four, still weighed on the closer's mind as the two faced off last night. After missing inside with a 100 mph fastball on his first pitch, Broxton's last three pitches were far enough outside the strike zone to be under New Jersey jurisdiction. "I wasn't going to give him anything to hit," said the closer after the game, a strategy which essentially put the Dodgers in a sudden-death situation, with the winning run at the plate. Two batters later, Stairs' pinch-runner scampered home with the tying run on Jimmy Rollins' gapper, closely followed by Carlos Ruiz with the decisive tally.
Those all-too-human mistakes were followed, respectively, by a scrappy Dodger comeback that will ultimately be forgotten and a Phillies rally that deserves more remembrance than I'm able to muster. They added to the litany of Dodger mistakes made elsewhere in the series, not the least of which have come from the dugout. Manager Joe Torre's miscalculations in the way he set up his rotation loom especially large. Clayton Kershaw wasn't up to the task in the series opener, and Torre's failure to apply a quick hook only exacerbated the situation. Wolf, the Dodgers' most durable and consistent starter, pitched on 11 days' rest last night. Whatever Hiroki Kuroda showed Torre and his staff during last Monday's simulated game action-Kuroda's first time on a mound since September 28-certainly wasn't in evidence in Game Three on Sunday night. Kuroda got strike one on just two of the seven hitters he faced in the first inning while the Phillies piled up four runs, and of the 10 hitters he eventually faced, he only got a second strike on Raul Iba�ez, that after he'd fallen behind in the count 3-0. Kuroda's stellar showing in the 2008 postseason, coupled with Chad Billingsley's bad second half and a pair of meltdowns in last year's NLCS, certainly weighed into Torre's decision-making. Those three starters have combined to yield 14 runs in 11
The one rotation hunch Torre's gotten right in this series was in starting Vicente Padilla in Game Two on Saturday. Padilla had dispatched the righty-heavy Cardinals with seven shutout innings in the Division Series clincher, but on paper looked to be entirely more vulnerable against the Phillies' lefty hitters. Instead he combined with Pedro Martinez to produce the postseason's most memorable pitchers' duel, holding the Phils to just one run in 7
That Game Two duel deserves more than just a passing mention, and not just because it may be the final high point of the Dodgers' season. Played out against a brilliant blue sky amid unseasonable 93 degree heat, it was the kind of game that made one's hair stand on end regardless of rooting interest, filled with a mixture of joy at the opportunity to catch such a thriller, and melancholy at the knowledge that it would somehow end with one valiant hurler's effort going for naught. Neither pitcher had joined his respective club until mid-August, yet here they both were on the postseason's grand stage, prodigal son Martinez returning to Dodger Stadium for the first time since 2006, and possibly the last time in his Hall of Fame-worthy career, overshadowing but not entirely outshining Padilla, whose six years with the Phillies ended on Charlie Manuel's watch.
In the end it was like some classic Western. Martinez, the aging sheriff no longer so quick on the draw, showed he could still could summon enough guile and deception to baffle hitters. Padilla, the black-hatted villain, stood his own ground summoning a power he had only intermittently tapped throughout his career, allowing just a solo homer to Howard. What came afterwards-a messy eighth-inning rally featuring five Phillies pitchers, a misplayed bunt, a throwing error, and a winning run walked home-made for a jarring transition akin to the juxtaposition of two Monty Python's Flying Circus sketches. "And now for something completely different..." That's not nearly so jarring a transition as from that Dodgers win to their 11-0 drubbing on Sunday. But still...
At the outset of this series, my prediction hinged on the way the Dodgers' lefty pitching matched up with the Phillies' lefty hitting and vice versa, but thus far the Phillies have gotten the advantage. By my quick tally, Utley, Howard, Iba�ez, and Cole Hamels are a combined 5-for-18 with two homers, nine RBI, seven walks, and four strikeouts against the Dodgers' southpaws, good for a .440 on-base percentage and a .611 slugging percentage. In the first two games, Dodger lefties Andre Ethier, James Loney, and Jim Thome started off 5-for-8 with a double, a homer, three RBI, and three walks against Philly southpaws, but they went 0-for-6 with a pair of K's against Cliff Lee on Sunday night.
That blowout aside, the two teams have been very evenly matched, with the other three contests decided by a total of four runs, and the outcome in doubt until the final
As bad as Monday's events turned out from this vantage, I'm consoled by the fact that if nothing else, there won't be another grueling post-season doubleheader to wade through, no more opportunity for such double-barreled disappointment. That knowledge makes it much easier to navigate the line between fan and analyst; win or lose for both the Dodgers and the Yankees, I know that some relief is on the way.
3 comments have been left for this article.
BP Comment Quick Links
Considering it is still this year, any chance when running yearly numbers, you add in the post season?
Oct 20, 2009 13:58 PM
Jay Jaffe
BP staff
In the grand scheme, that's unlikely, as none of the major services which provide splits do, and I'll be damned if I'm going to do them by hand every time I need to cite one.
Oct 20, 2009 15:25 PM
Not a subscriber? Sign up today!


text:
Gotham City Impostors pushes out another free DLC map
Gotham City Impostors has been wooing fans over with free updates for some time now, and the fun isn't about to stop just yet. Set to launch tomorrow, Impostors is nabbing a free Arkham Asylum map. This might be old news for PS3 fans of the... read


text:
At school, someone is running around pretending to be Jared, and it's not Simon. To make matters even worse, now Mallory has disappeared and something foul in the water is killing off all the plants and animals for miles around. Clues point to the old abandoned quarry, just outside of town. Dwarves have taken over an abandoned mine there. And the faerie world's abuzz with the news that a creature with plans to rule the world has offered them a gift to join with him: he's given them a queen.
Listen to more stories in The Spiderwick Chronicles.
©2003 Tony Diterlizzi; (P)2007 Random House, Inc. Listening Library, an imprint of the Random House Audio Publishing Group
The Ironwood Tree ranks highest among the Audible audiobooks I've listened to so far.
Jared... it is basically his story... he is the lead character. And he's a typically misunderstood teenager, getting into trouble when it isn't necessarily his fault.
No, not really... not without mentioning potential spoilers :-)
Report Inappropriate Content
If you find this review inappropriate and think it should be removed from our site, let us know. This report will be reviewed by Audible and we will take appropriate action.


text:
I have this site it is titan pro sci. That is the url also. Here is the problem when you Google titan pro sci and click on the link it comes up with and error that says the web page is not available. But that is not true the site is up. If you click in the address bar from the error page to reset the url and hit enter it goes there just fine.
This is a wordpress site, could my .htaccess file be hacked?
Site will not open in Google
Started by grabenair , Mar 30 2012 11:46 AM
6 replies to this topic
Posted 30 March 2012 - 11:46 AM
- 0
Standards will change. But your website needs to remain in serving its audience.
My Portfolio site
My Portfolio site
Posted 30 March 2012 - 12:23 PM
I'm not having any problems -- whether I search Google for it or type in the domain name directly, it comes up fine for me both times.
- 0
Benjamin Falk
Falken Creative : Twitter
Falken Creative : Twitter
Posted 30 March 2012 - 12:43 PM
I see it, too.
I've had this happen with my own site before - for some odd reason, my IP was blocked. Maybe check with the host?
I've had this happen with my own site before - for some odd reason, my IP was blocked. Maybe check with the host?
- 0
Posted 03 April 2012 - 04:33 PM
Its working fine and has good page rank too, how is it possible you are getting this problem
- 0
Posted 13 April 2012 - 03:52 AM
If you are getting such problem then talk to webmaster for it.
- 0
Posted 13 April 2012 - 05:02 AM
If you are getting such problem then talk to webmaster for it.
H-hmmm.... he is the webmaster
- 0
Posted 13 June 2012 - 12:43 AM
This problem is because Google Chrome is known as setting the DNS pre-fetching, which will get the IP addresses of all your current web page links that when you click on any of these links, you can save time by DNS. In some rare cases, the DNS pre-fetching can fail, causing the DNS error.
- 0
0 user(s) are reading this topic
0 members, 0 guests, 0 anonymous users


text:
The Empire Podcast #12 Is Here!
Wes Anderson and Barry Sonnenfeld, too
It's Friday, which means it's Empire Podcast day, and guess what? We've got a podcast for you, right here, right now.
Featuring the dulcet tones of Moonrise Kingdom's Wes Anderson and Men In Black 3's Barry Sonnenfeld, it's got double the directors you were expecting - unless you were expecting two directors to appear in this podcast, in which case you were bang on the money.
Alongside those two, there's our usual mix of news, reviews and movie-related fun, so if you've got an hour, or an iPod/iPhone/smartphonemathing, then get playing (or downloading) immediately!
You can do this by clicking play on the SoundCloud file below, or if you'd rather use Apple's services, head to our iTunes page. Or don't do either and just stick to our tried-and-true RSS feed. Up to you, really!


text:
Yggdrasil mittens by Mia Heikkinen
Welcome! You are browsing as a guestWould you like to see 2 projects made from this pattern and much more? create a free account What am I missing?
© Mia Heikkinen
Yggdrasil mittens
This pattern is available for $2.50 USD buy it now
Fitted hand warmers for the real life druids and rangers.
Tree of life pattern in Yggdrasil mittens is made with twisted stitches in two stitch cables, so no cable needles needed. Palm side of the mitten is twisted 1x1 ribbing that gives great fit. Pattern includes detailed pattern chart.
Perfect pattern for those left over skeins, less than 150 yards is needed for one pair of mittens.
Gauge for 10 x 10 cm:
40 sts and 36 rows in twisted ribbing
26 sts and 38 rows in reverse stockinette
Average women's, circumference stretches from 14 cm to 20 cm. Use sport to DK weight yarn for larger sizes, adjust needle size accordingly.
Pattern available in english only.


text:
Two killed in motorcycle crash
Two people from Apple Valley, Minn., were killed Wednesday afternoon when the motorcycle they were riding on was struck by a car, Goodhue County Sheriff's Office reported.
Emergency crews were dispatched to the intersection of County roads 9 and 1 in Leon Township at about 2:30 p.m. Michael Forte, 57, was driving the cycle westbound on County Road 9. Kevin Kohn, 46, Kenyon was northbound on County Road 1 and had stopped at the stop sign and proceeded into the intersection without seeing the motorcycle. Forte and his passenger Jilleen Comstock, 43, were ejected from the motorcycle.
The empty motorcycle and Kohn's passenger car then struck a dump truck driven by Allen Hernke, 76, rural Cannon Falls that had been stopped at the intersection. Kohn and Hernke were not injured. Alcohol was not a factor in the crash.
Wanamingo First Responders, Cannon Falls Ambulance and North Air assisted at the scene. The Minnesota State Patrol will be doing an accident reconstruction.


text:
Rod & Reel Pier
875 North Shore Drive
Anna Maria, FL 34216
View more Anna Maria restaurants
(941) 778-1885
Cuisine: American Restaurants, Bars, Seafood Restaurants
4.6 of 5.0 from 23 reviews
Is this your restaurant?
Claim Your Listing For Free
Do you own a business and need a way to monitor your reviews across all sites, not just Foodio54? ReviewSnoop is offering a free trial to monitor your reviews and photos across dozens of review sites.
Rod & Reel Pier Reviews
Add your review for Rod & Reel Pier.
Currently under reconstruction after a fire end of Sept '13! No service until December or so.
by Dagmar G.
grouper ruben!? yum!!
by sarah
Great food and best spot to fish with view of the skyway bridge
by Andy P.
Chipotlé glazed Wahoo was incredible. Excellent filet and perfectly grilled. Throw a little bit of mango salsa ontop and you're good to go!
by Corey B.
This is an amazing little piece of heaven.. Fishing for a couple of bucks and the best damn food on Anna Maria Island.. The staff is superb and very professional...
by Michelle shelley3259 M.
It wasn't terrible for a hole in the wall, get shrimp blackened with garlic. Best thing we had
by Kirill K.
I would recommend the coconut almond mahi, garlic grouper, and clam chowder! All excellent.
by Kristin C.
Best grouper cheeks ever!!
by Eddie R.
Great food & atmosphere...meet the nicest people here!
by Brenda Landers T.
Get thee gumbo..
by Julie P.
The clam chowder and grouper are always a good bet here.
by Jordan R.
best burgers in town
by Gina P.
Just garlic grouper and clam chowder, ever!! The two things I must have while in Florida.
by Jason M.
Get the seafood omelet but get here early because they stop breakfast promptly at 11
by Susan G.
So delicious! Crabcakes and clam chowda!
by Bobbi S.
try the grouper reuben
by Laurie M.
Blackened mahi was awesome. Everything was great actually. Even the steak!
by Amy B.
Not bad for a hole in the wall.
by Brenda C.
If they have the gumbo, get it!
by fishwreck
The seafood omelet is the best!!
by Susan G.
Try the blackened grouper.
by Zig S.
You have to try seafood omlettes, they are incredible!
by Deena s.
The grilled crab cake is delicious!
by Nikki R.
Restaurants similar to Rod & Reel Pier
Gulf Drive Cafe
900 Gulf Drive North
Banana Cabana Caribbean Seafood & Grill
103 Gulf Dr N
Anna Maria Oyster Bar Cortez
6696 Cortez Road West
Bonefish Grill
7456 Cortez Road West
Wings 'N Things
7814 Cortez Road West
Smoothie King
3816 Manatee Ave W
Smittys Pub & Grille
3812 Manatee Ave W
Outback Steakhouse
4402 Cortez Road West
Nearby Restaurants
City Pier Restaurant
100 South Bay Boulevard
Water Front Restaurant
111 South Bay Boulevard
Two Scoops
101 South Bay Boulevard
J Burns Pizza
308 Pine Ave
Vinny and Cheryl's Italian Kitchen
314 Pine Avenue
Stir It Up Yogurt Shack
5306 Holmes Blvd #800
Anna Maria General Store
307 Pine Ave
Poppo's Taqueria
212C Pine Ave
Anna Maria Donuts
210 Pine Ave
9906 Gulf Drive


text:
NEW YORK (Nov. 13)
The Zim-Israel passenger liner Jerusalem, due here tomorrow with 300 passengers from Haifa, Naples and Marseilles, will be about 36 hours late, scheduled now to arrive about noon Wednesday, because the ship has gone hundreds of miles out of its way to aid an injured sailor aboard a Spanish vessel, officials of the Zim Israel Navigation Company said today.
The Jerusalem's skipper, Capt. Tuve T. Smulensk, received a distress message Saturday night, while at sea, from a Spanish freighter, the Conde de Fontanar, which had called for help because it had no medical facilities to care for a sailor who had been hurt seriously in a fall. Capt. Smulensk immediately went to the aid of the Spanish sailor. The Jerusalem has a surgeon and a well equipped hospital aboard.


text:
One of the worries I still hear a lot about from various progressive activists I talk to is that Allyson Schwartz's history running the Blackwell Center – a women's clinic that performed abortions among many other health services – could be a big liability running statewide, because the Republicans will say crazy stuff about this.
Here's one such example of the kind of messaging you'd see if Schwartz were the nominee, which briefly appeared on our site this morning (automatically) through our Blogads service before we asked them to take it down:
Pretty ineffective, in my opinion. I've been repetitive on this point, but it's worth saying again that while there is definitely a possible Blackwell Center ad out there somewhere in the Republican imagination that could be effective at peeling off conservative Democrats and independents in a general election, Republicans and their SuperPACs are going to end up running spooky derp like this that the Republican donor class thinks is effective, but isn't.
That's all just to say that if you want to argue Allyson Schwartz has some more significant liabilities than the other candidates, I don't disagree with you, but the Blackwell Center isn't one of them.
Schwartz debuted a very good response to this line of attack at the recent Democratic candidates' forum in Pittsburgh, ably covered by Keegan Gibson:
Allyson Schwartz gave perhaps her best debate performance to date. She faced a question about her work founding and managing a women's health clinic that performed abortions. It's been called a general election risk by conservative Democrats, but the Congresswoman shone in her defense of her record.
"I helped start a women's health center that was an important resource for the women in the Philadelphia area," Schwartz said. "We provided a full range of services: gynecological care, parenting planning, first trimester abortions and prenatal care. There are women today who are grateful for the dignity and fine health service they received from the Blackwell Health Center."


text:
Don't Be A Slave to the Scale
Another picture to illuminate how the scale does not tell the entire story! Stop being a slave to the scale and live healthy and fit, oh and sore of course!!
Here's another blog entry from yet another female athlete that talks about it, just like I have before!
I took a rest day today. EVA, Nancy, Annie – those ladies are tough and my body needed to rest even though I would have liked to take on Grace! Tomorrow is a good one –although I am not going to share it until tomorrow but it's one of the Ladies of CrossFit as well — ending a full week of the Nasty Girls.
I am so excited to go to a Combatives Camp with Tony Blauer this weekend. Jeremy Kinnick, Greg Glassman, Tony Blauer and a bunch of other amazing, inspiring athletes will be there. I love training sessions like this — so unlike what the old me would have done and I learn so much and have an amazing time in the process. I am so friggin lucky! Oh and I can kick your ass afterwards.
This entry was posted by Stephy on August 2, 2012 at 7:11 am, and is filed under Uncategorized. Follow any responses to this post through RSS 2.0.You can leave a response or trackback from your own site.
- Stop Fearing Fear and Use It To Your Advantage
- Amy Schumer: Girl You Don't Need Makeup
- What Would You Tell Your Younger Self?
- Developing a Positive Body Image
- Summer Parenting Challenges
- Stop the Body Shaming
- What Reality Really Looks Like
- You are CrossFit
- Tricks of the Trade
- The Scale Is Not a Definition Of Your Worth


text:
Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 6/7/2003 (5161 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Not to malign traditional white concrete which has done yeoman's work for decades, today's driveways can be as fancy or informal as the homeowners want them to be when it comes to textures, colours and materials that work with the elements.
Coloured concrete, coloured patterned concrete, concrete paving stones in deep rust tones, golds and seductive pastels, exposed aggregate concrete surfaces and serviceable asphalt -- all are basic materials and processes designed to enliven home driveways that are often at the front of homes.
"Ninety per cent of it is all cosmetic," says Dick Penner, president of J&D Penner The Store, a yard decor company that sells pre-cast concrete products and has a contracting division, referring to the differences among the concrete surfaces.
But homeowners are interested in esthetics and it's one of the main criteria for buyers, said Penner. "Specifically, they want to know what kind of surface will best complement their house and neighbourhood." Cost and how well the surfaces perform are other considerations.
If you like white concrete, you might enjoy coloured concrete, although you will pay a bit more for it. "You can get just about any colour you want and they can be mixed," Penner said. The colour option will cost from 20 to 25 per cent more, said Penner.
For a first hand look at some options, take a drive to J&D Penner at 2560 McGillivray Blvd. anytime. Samples are built in to the sidewalk on the outside of the store. There, you'll find an aqua-coloured and stamped sample (with rectangles), indicative of the kind of finishes that can be applied to concrete.
White or coloured concrete can be stamped with a variety of patterns, by professional installers or by the homeowners themselves.
Those who are inclined to do the stamping themselves can buy the rubberized concrete stamps from places like Specialty Construction Products Ltd. President Joe Solomon said at least 20 different patterns are available in addition to concrete colourings, twisters and loops used to build concrete forms for poured concrete, and hand trowels for do-it-yourselfers, among other materials excluding the lumber needed to build the forms.
Many of the stamps will create different textures on the surface of the concrete.
For a completely different texture, consider an exposed aggregate concrete surface, a raised finish where the stones are visible.
For a complete change of materials, concrete paving stones may fill the bill.
Paul Koop, district manager of Barkman Concrete Ltd., a company that manufactures and sells the coloured paving stones through garden centres and retail outlets, said suitability to local climate conditions and variety of colours and patterns are the chief benefits.
He advised buyers to choose the smaller pavers of four inches to eight inches for a driveway as opposed to the large slabs, saying they are more suited to handling the weight of vehicles.
One of the most important reasons why people choose concrete pavers over straight concrete installations is the pavers' resistance to cracking, Koop said. Each of the individual paving stones is laid over layers of limestone and sand.
Poured concrete surfaces on the other hand are subject to cracking, said Koop. "It immediately develops hairline cracks," he said, noting that contractors typically place small saw cuts into the concrete to engineer where the cracks will appear.
"And that's not necessarily a shortcoming of concrete. You will still have a durable surface that will last years," said Koop.
John Berger, operations manager with Perimeter Concrete Ltd., a company that sells ready-mixed concrete, said the cuts are called control joints and encourage controlled cracking. They are shallow cuts no more than one-third the thickness of the poured concrete and do not damage the driveway, he said.
The look of the paving stone is also a hit with buyers, said Koop. "Esthetics is the clincher," he said. "You can create a unique cobblestone driveway." Some are antiqued to give them an aged look. "That makes it look more like natural stone, and that provides the warmth."
He said the concrete pavers will typically cost more than white mixed concrete but are comparable in cost to the coloured or stamped concrete when materials alone are considered, ranging from $2 per square foot to $3.20 per square foot.
Koop said do-it-yourselfers will find the paving stones relatively easy to install, an advantage. The pavers have to be laid on a bed of limestone topped by a layer of sand, but owners won't have to build a form, Koop said.
On the other hand, everyone interviewed stressed that pouring and building a concrete driveway is best left to those who have some expertise in this area because of the many variables involved in building a concrete driveway.
These include the need to buy the right kind of concrete, weather conditions and their effect on the poured concrete, how to deal with water that accumulates on the surface of the concrete, and the need not to overwork the surface, among others.
"For a homeowner to pour a sidewalk is very simple, but on a driveway that's 15 feet wide or 20 feet wide, for most people, they couldn't work fast enough on a driveway," said Jarrod Stevens, sales associate with Olympic Building Systems Ltd., referring to the process of finishing the surface. He said the concrete could begin to set in hours depending on weather conditions and other factors.
Stevens said mistakes could cost thousands of dollars if the concrete has to be ripped up and redone. In addition, creating the stamped and aggregate surfaces requires special skills.
Nevertheless, if you are experienced in working with concrete or if you are a novice who just wants to take their chances and learn something new, there are a number of basic procedures.
Prepare the ground by stripping off any grass, then lay a sand or limestone bed for the poured concrete and build a form to contain the wet concrete until it dries. Solomon said two-inch by four-inch or two-inch by six-inch lumber is suitable.
There are a number of release agents -- wax based, chemicals or treated paper -- that can make the wooden form release easily if needed, however Solomon said sticking should not be a problem because the wooden form is shallow.
Experts say the concrete should also be reinforced with horizontal and vertical bars of reinforced steel for maximum strength. A sealer must also be sprayed on the wet surface to help the concrete cure properly.
Berger said his company sells two different grades of mixed concrete suitable for driveways that it can deliver to a home. The most commonly used is 30 mega pascales air entrained (mpa), he said.
Solomon recommends that 32 mpa concrete be used. Berger said this grade is typically used on city streets.
Air entrained concrete contains air bubbles that help the concrete adjust to freeze/thaw cycles.
Asphalt, says Guy Combot, president of Superior Asphalt Paving Co., a contractor, will typically cost 30 to 40 per cent less than white concrete, can be repaired easily and wears really well over the winter.
"A lot of times we can heat up asphalt and re-roll it," he said, referring to repairs. But it may be a little hot on the feet in the summer, he said.
Marlin Wall, operations manager with Double B Paving, an asphalt paving contractor, agreed the material is easy to repair if cracking or settling occurs after years. "You can cut out small sections or repair the entire surface." Nor do you have to settle for the black asphalt look.
Top coats can be purchased in colours, say the contractors. "We have tennis court green, nice browns and rusts," said Combot.


text:
Tell us about your painting & staining project! We'll match you with the best painting & staining contractors right away.
Browse Our Directory of Painting & Staining Pros
Top Exterior Pressure Washing Pros in Steele, Alabama
CRJ Painting Services(2)104 Carolyn Lane, Gadsden, AL
We Specialy Trade Contractor Interior,and Exterior Service provided. We have over 20 years of experience in the business. Here at CRJ Painting Service, we pride our company on reliability, integrity, quality work and prompt service. We are experts in our trade and will do our best to keep you as educated as we can for the duration of your project. We look forward to earning your business!Read MoreSee Full Profile
Renovations 360No Reviews3421 W. Westover Rd , Hartford , AL
We are committed to offer the best service with the right quality for your project, we accommodate to the needs of your project based on good and lasting results.Read MoreSee Full Profile
Atkinson Striping2590 County Road 9, Clamton, AL
Crozier Pressure Washing1019 Avenue H, Gadsen, AL
Eliberto Lawn Service548 Owens Road, Albertville, AL
George Harper Painting2519 County Road 108, Rainsville, AL
Gonzalez Home Service548 Owens Road, Albertville, AL
Herold & Sons Roof and Exterior Cleaning153 Del Ray Circle, Oxford, AL
Jeff Davis Painting1000 Hulaco Road, Arab, AL
Pressure Washing ETC4736 40th Place North, Birmingham, AL
Get free estimates from local painting & staining contractors
Top Reviewed Pros
CRJ Painting Services(2)
CRJ Painting Services received a 5-star review from Linda W. CRJ Painting Services completed the home remodeling project on Mar 30, 2016.Read More


text:
A pivotal period in America's history also was pivotal in San Clemente, 40 years ago this month.
The town's best-known resident, President Richard M. Nixon, resigned from office and flew from the nation's capital, beginning six years of seclusion at his San Clemente home.
From his Aug. 9, 1974, arrival until 1980 – when he and wife Pat moved to the East Coast – Nixon would live quietly by the sea, healing from the political scandal that brought him down. He would write his memoirs, visit friends, dine at area restaurants and play golf.
Though rarely seen around town, Nixon left a lasting impact. Developers discovered the charming beach town that Nixon had chosen and began leveling landmark homes and replacing them with condominiums. In the 1980s, Nixon's choice of San Clemente as home for his presidential library got caught up in a battle over an intense Marblehead Coastal development plan. The library went to Yorba Linda, and San Clemente emerged with a less intense Marblehead Coastal development.
Michael Metcalf, now a retired contractor, was a photographer with the Daily Sun-Post when Nixon resigned. There was insatiable public appetite over how Nixon was taking it.
Metcalf arranged to photograph the former president from a nearby house that could see over the Nixon wall. Homeowner Tom Bare let Metcalf take candid photos. "Tom sort of got caught up in the adventure of it," Metcalf said.
Metcalf said the paper agreed he could sell the photos worldwide as long as the Sun-Post got them first. He secured an agent. Time magazine loaned him a telephoto lens.
"Nixon was very much in hiding," Metcalf said, after spending days observing comings and goings and Nixon walking the grounds. "Most of the time he was dressed in a suit, in business attire, which I thought was odd for somebody living in San Clemente."
A later dispute with the paper over photo usage took Metcalf out of journalism.
"I became a carpenter," he said. "I had to leave San Clemente to do it."
Living in town again, Metcalf believes today that many people "think Nixon was great."
"Although they are dying off. There are a lot of people – Americans and non-Americans – who don't know who he is. He is just sort of a historical curiosity."
The day Nixon left the White House, Secret Service agent Ron Pontius stayed behind, assigned to successor Gerald Ford.
"My job was the president of the United States, no matter who he was," Pontius said.
Two years later, the Secret Service asked if he wanted to rejoin Nixon. Pontius recalled how pleasant San Clemente was and asked his wife, Barbara. "The family said, let's go!" Pontius said.
He rejoined Nixon in August 1976, finding him "more personable" than before, without presidential aides constantly around. Golf was a favorite outing.
When the Nixons moved east, Pontius retired from the Secret Service to stay in San Clemente and raise his family. Retired from private security, he is a member of the Exchange Club.
"After a time, people remember the good things," he said of Nixon. "If they don't like him, are of a different party, they remember the bad things. I didn't really get into politics. He did a lot for ending the war in Vietnam, but the Congress didn't support him."
In 1968, San Clemente's Fred Divel volunteered on Nixon's presidential campaign. When Nixon won, aide John Ehrlichman asked Divel to scout Orange County homes for a western White House.
In 1969, Divel was credited with leading the president to San Clemente, an act that thrust the sleepy village of 13,000 people onto the world stage and caught the eye of land developers.
Divel's mother, Lois, a resident since 1938, recalled mixed emotions in town: "He didn't get around the community. He wasn't my favorite president, but I was proud he was here."
Soon, developers were razing some of the town's prized landmark homes to build condos. Fred and Lois Divel started a San Clemente Historical Society to try to save what was left.
Fred Divel regrets any inadvertent role he may have played, speculating that the condos may have come anyway.
"I just saw that as the ruination of my hometown," he said. "At the time, I wasn't thinking about that. I was still taking bows for having brought him here."
The historical society worked successfully with the city on preservation and a renaissance of early San Clemente's trademark Spanish architecture.
Lois Divel said she can't judge how the town sees Nixon now.
"Those of us who were for him are for him … the good that he did," she said. "The other stuff was peanuts compared to what goes on today. He is still thought of by the tourists. They still ask about him."
Contact the writer: firstname.lastname@example.com or 949-492-5127


text:
By Megan Hopps
SUN PRESS Newspapers
Abby Jimenez moved her family to Champlin after finding a second location for her bakery, Nadia Cakes.
Business was booming at her first shop in Palmdale, Calif., and Jimenez knew that when she opened a second bakery it would be in a place she could call home. She and her husband, Carlos, chose Maple Grove as the perfect fit for their second bakery location after traveling across 23 states and considering setting up shop anywhere from New York City to suburbs in Virginia, where Jimenez has family.
"We decided if we were going to move, we wanted to be someplace we could raise our family," Jimenez said. "We love the culture, the seasons and we really saw a need for one of a kind bakeries here."
But Jimenez journey to become an award winning cake decorator and sugar artist began long before the family's cross-country road trip.
Jimenez always had a passion for baking. While on maternity leave, she began taking cake decorating classes at a local craft store. After the birth of her third child, Jimenez needed to find a way to help pay the bills and still be able to stay home and care for her children.
Jimenez's tasty treats were popular among her friends and family, so she got the idea to start her own bakery. Her week began taking orders from customers, baking and decorating during the week and delivering the cakes on Saturdays. After two years of churning out delicious baked goods from her full-time at home bakery, Jimenez decided it was time to take the next step and open her first cake shop.
In 2009, Jimenez launched her first highly successful store Nadia Cakes, named after her middle daughter's nickname, in Palmdale. Boasting a menu of over 200 cupcake flavors, including "Pretty in Pink" and "Be my Lemontine" in honor of Valentine's Day, the shop also features custom-made cakes, cupcakes, cookies, macaroons and trifles. Nadia Cakes pastry chefs even include some sugar-free and gluten-free options. Jimenez also jokes about a new favorite, the "Unicorn Poop" cupcake to be specially prepared for April Fools.
After having success at their Palmdale shop, Jimenez and her husband began scouting the next location for a second shop. And Maple Grove was just the spot.
"We're not an urban bakery," Jimenez said. "We want to serve the soccer moms, the brides planning a wedding, people looking for a special dessert."
And the shop sure is a cozy retreat for soccer moms and brides alike.
Surrounded by windows in the café seating area, where iced coffee and unique cupcakes can be enjoyed, the shop features a large glass-enclosed cupcake case, chandelier, three-sided fireplace and a private area, complete with antique sofa, for customers to discuss special orders with a baker.
"We had one girl come in and ask for a rooster cake," said Jimenez with a laugh. "One time we were asked to do a Ghostbusters cake with a big marshmallow man on top. That was fun."
Because of the original Nadia Cakes popularity, Jimenez not only attracted local attention, but national attention as well. She was on TLC's "Fabulous Cakes," which led to an invitation to be a contestant on an episode of the Food Network's "Cupcake Wars." On the show, she and her head pastry chef, Randi Valenzuela, were declared the winners of the $10,000 prize. Judge Florian Bellanger declared the Nadia Cakes cheesecake cupcake to be "one of the best cheesecake cupcakes he's ever eaten." Made with Madagascar bourbon vanilla bean, from-scratch pie crust, freshly made whipping cream and a triple-berry compote, Jimenez says it's one of their most labor-intensive cupcakes, and a customer favorite. Among other customer must-haves? The lemon drop and salted caramel cupcakes.
Jimenez could not be happier with the success the second shop has found. Flourishing at the Fountains of Arbor Lakes, the cozy cafe is comfortably nestled into the Maple Grove community.
"This is such a great place it is to raise kids," she said, adding that the Maple Grove location for Nadia Cakes is also a perfect fit and compatible with the vibe the owners want to create in the community.
"We absolutely love it here," said Jimenez. "Our kids are so happy, our neighbors are great. We are here to stay."
Contact Megan Hopps at [email protected]