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One of my husband's favorite food is Chicken Cordon Bleu. I don't make it from scratch very often because it takes some time.
a can of store bought Crescent Rolls
A thick slice of Ham (sliced into strips)
Pieces of a Rotisserie Chicken, deboned (I used the meat from a leg/thigh quarter, cut into strips about the same size as the Ham)
Some Swiss Cheese (cut into same size strips)
Mustard (whole grain mustard works GREAT for this as the little mustard seeds pop open as the dish cooks and really adds LOTS of flavor)
You also need a couple TBS of Butter (melted)
and Italian Seasoned Bread Crumbs
Not too complicated…
Roll out the crescent dough
Little bit of mustard
Little bit of Ham
Little bit of Chicken
Little bit of Swiss Cheese
Roll up Crescent
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Bake at 375 for 16 minutes
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Selena Gomez Debuts New Heart Tattoo (PHOTOS)
Selena Gomez got inked!
The 19-year-old singer stopped by Under The Gun, a tattoo shop in Hollywood, on Feb. 22 and got a heart tattoo. Jordan Sandoval, who works at the shop, tweeted the pic from her visit, adding that the store's owner Louie Gomez tatted up SelGo.
"She got a little heart tattoo at Under The Gun, in Hollywood by Louie Gomez," Jordan wrote.
He added that Selena was solo and didn't bring along her boyfriend, Justin Bieber. Fans went crazy for the new tat, sending Jordon hundreds of questions about Selena's visit. He wrote to one fan:
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After shooting up into the top ten in the opening laps of the Korean Grand Prix, Pastor Maldonado felt sure he was on course to score points for Williams this weekend.
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Having slumped to 18th place to the grid in qualifying on Saturday at the Korea International Circuit in Yeongam, Pastor Maldonado would have been expecting that a top ten finish in the Korean Grand Prix would be a tall order. He certainly wasn't realistically expecting to be up into ninth place at the end of the first lap.
"I had a very good first lap, moving up to ninth after an incident at turn three allowed me to make up a lot of places," he said.
He was able to maintain the position over the first half a dozen laps, before finally succumbing to a smooth pass from Mark Webber on lap 6 after which he opted for an early pit stop to shed the supersoft tyres and take up a et of prime tyres for the next extended run.
"I tried to maintain my position in the top ten but the safety cars hindered my race today," he explained. "The cars behind were able to keep closing up behind me, and after the second restart they just had too much pace and were able to overtake.
Maldonado had been running up in tenth place when he ran wide in turn 10 on lap 43, which allowed four cars - Felipe Massa, Sergio Perez, Esteban Gutierrez and Maldonado's Williams team mate Valtteri Bottas - to stream past him in a single class action lawsuit. That put him down into 14th place for the rest of the afternoon, and although the late retirement of Toro Rosso's Daniel Ricciardo gave him a late boost to 13th by the chequered flag it was still well outside the points position that Maldonado had been hoping for.
"It's disappointing not to finish in the points but the end result is a fair reflection of our performance this weekend and we need to work hard to find some gains for the race next weekend in Japan," said Maldonado.
Bottas maintained the position that he'd won from his team mate and finished on place ahead. "I think 12th was a fair result as the cars that finished ahead of us had better pace all weekend," he said.
"I was a bit unlucky with the incident on the first lap as I was blocked and lost a position whereas others were able to make up places" he continued. "The first stint was difficult as I was struggling with the supersoft tyre, but the pace improved a lot in the second stint on the mediums and the safety cars allowed me to close in on the top ten.
"In the end it was all about making sure we still had the grip in the tyres to fight for some points in the final laps," he said.
"Valtteri was able to manage the front-right slightly better because Pastor was pushing harder further up the field," explained Williams' chief race engineer Xevi Pujolar when asked why Bottas had the edge on his team mate in the last phase of the race.
"We ultimately had to cut Pastor's second stint slightly short. We used the two safety car periods to help manage tyre wear to get to the end of the race but we knew it was going to be tough," he said. "With more laps on his tyres than those around him, Pastor was unable to defend from Gutierrez, Perez and Massa in the closing stages.
"We were close to fighting for points but the car pace unfortunately wasn't quite good enough," he added.


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(CNSNews.com) – A U.S. lawmaker called Monday for the U.S. ambassador to Vietnam to be fired, one day before Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives in Hanoi to discuss, in the words of an administration official, "our bilateral relationship, areas that we can strengthen our political and economic ties."
In a letter to President Obama and Clinton, Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) said Ambassador David Shear should be removed from his post because he had failed to speak up for human rights in the communist-ruled state.
In particular, Wolf accused Shear of mishandling a Fourth of July event hosted by the U.S. Embassy by failing to honor his pledge to invite human rights and democracy activists.
The call to fire the ambassador is the latest reflection of unease on Capitol Hill and elsewhere about the priority being given to human rights as the U.S. relationship with Hanoi deepens.
Clinton was due to arrive in Vietnam on Tuesday for a visit focusing on bilateral ties as well as territorial disputes in the South China Sea. On her third visit to the country as secretary of state, she was being accompanied by a delegation of U.S. investors, looking to expand trade.
Relations between the two former foes have improved significantly over the past six or so years, a development that has been largely welcomed, but also prompts concern among human rights and religious freedom advocates.
Wolf, co-chairman of the bipartisan Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission in the House of Representatives, recounted his dealings with Shear with regard to the embassy's Independence Day event last week.
When he discussed the event with Shear by phone earlier, he wrote, "I stressed that he should fling open the doors of the embassy and invite Buddhist monks and nuns, Catholic priests and Protestant pastors, Internet bloggers and democracy activists.
"Such was the custom during the Reagan Administration, especially in the Soviet Union. This practice sent a strong message that America stood with those who stand for basic human rights. In many cases it afforded these individuals protection from future harassment and even imprisonment."
Wolf said Shear had undertaken to do this, but Wolf had learned last week "that many of the most prominent democracy and human rights activists in Vietnam were not invited to the event."
"I called him directly this morning to find out if the embassy had invited the dissidents as had been agreed upon. His response was appalling. He said that he had invited a few civil society activists but then said that he needed to maintain a 'balance.'"
Wolf said when he asked for a list of those invited, Shear had first refused, then said he would address the matter through the State Department. When pressed on when the list would be available, he had replied, "in a few weeks."
Wolf accused the ambassador of going back on his word, misleading him about his intentions, and then, when asked for the invitee list, being "uncooperative at best and obstructionist at worst."
The Fourth of July event – held not at the mission but at a lakeside hotel in central Hanoi – does not feature on the embassy's official website, receiving no mention under the "embassy highlights," "press releases" or "speeches, statements and remarks" sections.
A short video clip found on YouTube shows the singing of the Vietnamese and U.S. national anthems, and a color guard ceremony.
Queries sent to the embassy brought no response by press time.
Human rights 'put on the back-burner'
In his letter to the president, Wolf also voiced disappointment in Shear's handling of the case of Vietnamese-American activist Nguyen Quoc Quan, detained in Vietnam since being arrested in Ho Chi Minh City last April.
Quan, a California-based mathematics researcher and rights activist, has been imprisoned in Vietnam before for his pro-democracy advocacy on behalf of Viet Tan, an unauthorized group which Vietnam considers a terrorist organization.
Wolf said he was dismayed to learn from Quan's wife, Mai Huong Ngo, during a Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission hearing last May, that no-one from the State Department had been in touch with her since her husband's detention.
"Only at my urging did Ambassador Shear initiate contact with Mrs. Ngo to update her on her husband's situation," he wrote.
Wolf broadened his criticism beyond the ambassador.
"Sadly, his sidelining of serious human rights issues in Vietnam is symptomatic of this administration's overall approach to human rights and religious freedom," he charged. "Time and again these issues are put on the back burner – to the detriment of freedom-loving people the world over."
Shear, who joined the foreign service in 1982, was sworn in as ambassador to Vietnam last August. According to his official bio he has served in Japan, China and Malaysia, and has held various Asia-related posts in Washington, including that of deputy assistant secretary for East Asian and Pacific affairs in 2009-2011.


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THREE men have been arrested in connection with a robbery at the Lifestyle Express in Kinmel Bay.
North Wales Police apprehended the men, who are local, late on Tuesday, February 4 after cash was taken from the convenience store on Towyn Road at around 8pm on Monday.
Police are still appealing for anyone with any information to come forward.
Detective Chief Inspector Gareth Evans said: "Despite the arrests, we are still keen to speak to anyone who may have been in the vicinity at around 8pm on Monday or to anyone who saw two men heading in the direction of Woodside Avenue."
Two men entered the shop, one of which was believed to be armed.
One is described as being of large build, tall and wore jeans and a hooded top - with the second man described as being of medium build, wearing jeans and was also wearing a hooded top.
Anyone who has any information they feel is relevant to the inquiry is urged to contact police on 101 quoting reference number R016542. Alternatively you can call Crimestoppers anonymously with information on 0800 555111.


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Bangalore: The board of Satyam Computer Services has shortlisted about eight bidders, including IBM and private equity firm Apax Partners, for buying the fraud-hit outsourcer, the Economic Times said on Thursday.
Indian engineering conglomerate Larsen & Toubro, Tech Mahindra and diversified Spice Group are among other selected bidders for a 51% stake, the newspaper said, citing unnamed sources.
US-based IBM has registered its interest through a law firm, it said. The shortlisted bidders will do their due diligence of Satyam over the next two days, it said, quoting a person familiar with the development.
A spokeswoman for Satyam said the company would not make any comment on the bidding process.
Spice Group chairman BK Modi told Reuters on Wednesday the company might withdraw from the race to buy Satyam due to a lack of desired transparency in the bidding process.
New York-listed Satyam has been struggling since founder and chairman Ramalinga Raju shocked investors in January, saying profits had been overstated for years and assets falsified in India's biggest corporate scandal. Raju is being held in jail.
Satyam said on Tuesday it hoped to finalise a by 30 April, and that potential bidders, who had submitted a detailed expression of interest by 20 March, should expect to receive a response by Wednesday.
The Satyam board is looking for a buyer to help restore the confidence of its more than 600 clients and about 50,000-strong staff, but there are concerns about the extent of the fraud, whether it is losing customers and its legal liabilities.
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Denmark grows up
Denmark is likely to hold a referendum on its relationship with the European Union. The referendum proposed by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, its newly re-elected prime minister, is not a referendum on the EU Reform Treaty (aka Constitution-lite), although it is possible that Denmark will also hold a separate referendum on the EU Reform Treaty. Instead, the Referendum proposed by Rasmussen concerns the four opt-outs Denmark negotiated as part of the Maastricht Treaty. The four opt-outs concern Denmark's participation in (1) the common currency (full EMU membership); (2) EU defence policy; (3) EU cooperation on justice and home affairs and (4) EU citizenship.
The reasons for Denmark's change of heart are obvious. As regards Eurozone membership, the Danish currency is umbilically linked to the euro via a fixed exchange rate. Danish interest rates follow those set in Frankfurt for the Eurozone with a lag of a few hours. Might as well save the transaction costs of converting Danish kroner into euros, get a voice in setting monetary policy for the Eurozone (and for Denmark) and have access to a serious lender of last resort, rather than one which can only issue kroner.
Non-participation in EU defence policy means that Denmark has to stand on the sidelines with military actions it approves of, and even feels strongly about, such as the EU presence in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia and probably soon also in Kosovo. Since 2002, the EU has engaged in sixteen operations outside the EU, using civilian and military instruments in several countries in three continents (Europe, Africa and Asia).
Justice and home affairs concerns issues like immigration, asylum and external border controls, and the European Arrest Warrant. With free mobility of persons among the Nordic countries, Denmark of course had little capacity for a national immigration and asylum policy.
The European Citizenship exemption is of symbolic significance only. I wonder how many British citizens realise that they are citizens of the European Union as well as of the UK.
The Danish prime minister wants Denmark to be a full player in the EU. The only way to achieve that is to be a full member. The opt-outs stand in the way. Therefore, they have to go.
Are there lessons here for the UK?
Time for the UK to grow up
Under the existing Treaty, the UK has two opt-outs. It is not required to join the common currency and it does not participate in the Schengen Agreement, which abolished border controls between member states (currently 13 EU members plus Iceland and Norway), and created the Schengen Information System for the purpose of maintaining and distributing information related to border security and law enforcement.
The Reform Treaty will, if ratified, add a number of further UK opt-outs, the famous 'red lines'. They are:
Defence: the UK want to remain in control of its defence and foreign policy; there must be no European defence cooperation which weakens NATO.
Treaty changes: the UK opposes the removal of the national veto for major decisions on the EU's future.
Tax: the UK wants to retain the national veto on taxation mattes, including such matters as cross-border tax fraud.
Justice and home affairs: the UK does not want majority voting to undermine its common law system. It also wants to continue to be able to carry out frontier patrols.
Social Security: the UK wants the national veto to be retained for changes in social security systems.
European resources: the UK wants any changes to the EU's right to raise certain funds to be agreed by unanimity alone. This protects the British annual EU budget rebate, secured by Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
The UK is punching far below its weight in the European Union. It is not listened to, has very little influence on the decision-making processes of the Commission or the Council of Ministers, and is not taken seriously most of the time. The prevailing attitude of the other European members states varies between amusement, bemusement and irritation.
Reasons for giving up the two existing UK opt-outs
Some examples. Ecofin, the council of the ministers of finance or of the economy of the 27 EU member states, has become an insignificant rubber-stamping body for decisions made by the Eurogroup, the council of the minsters of finance and the economy of the Eurozone members, currently 13 in number, with Cyprus and Malta joining on January 2008. The Eurogroup doesn't formally exist in the European Treaties to date. The Reform Treaty will be the first 'constitutional' EU document to recognise its existence and to specify its competencies. It will continue to do the job Ecofin did before the common currency was created, on January 1, 1999. The EU is not an EMU member; it does therefore not participate in the Eurogroup meetings. After January 2008, the UK's influence on EU decisions in the monetary, fiscal, financial and macroeconomic areas will be less than that of Malta. The only way to pull your weight in the EU is by belonging to the Eurozone.
This argument for the UK joining the Eurozone is reinforced by the growing recognition that there are no real benefits and some real costs to the UK of monetary independence. The notion that a small open economy like the UK, with unrestricted international mobility of financial capital, could use national monetary policy actively to stabilise the real economy, is a prime example of the 'fine tuning fallacy'. In addition, the manifest incompetence of the Bank of England in its liquidity management (both at its discount window (the standing lending facility) and through its open market operations), and the far superior, albeit still imperfect, liquidity management policies and practices of the ECB, suggest that it makes sense also from a financial stability perspective for the UK to contract out monetary policy to the ECB.
The Bank of England's superior procedural transparency and accountability would not necessarily be lost as a result of the UK joining the Eurosystem. The Governor of the Bank of England could, as a member of the Governing Council of the ECB, insist on a vote being taken on the ECB's interest rate decision (there never has been a vote on monetary policy at the ECB since it was created). Failure to accommodate this request would result in a public statement by the Bank of England Governor expressing his/her belief that the reported interest rate decision was null and void because of procedural irregularities.
When votes are taken, the UK Governor could and should make public his/her own vote. Indeed, I would recommend that a UK Governor make public his/her recollection of all votes cast, and that he/she publish his/her version of the minutes of the Governing Council meetings. It would not be long before the Governing Council would (a) vote, (b) publish the individual votes and (c) publish the minutes of the meeting.
The UK's failure to join the Schengen agreement is an example of costly xenophobia. With more than thirty million tourists each year making visits to the UK and with free mobility within the EU for citizens of all EU member states in no more than five years, it is clear that any hope of effective border control has gone out the window. Freeing resources currently wasted on checking arrivals from the Schengen Area and allocating these resources intelligently and selectively (using Bayesian profiling) to vetting entrants from outside the Schengen Area would in all likelihood enhance national security, especially if it were accompanied by the effective sharing of information and joint policies drawn up and agreed by majority voting on selected justice and home affairs issues.
Reasons for giving up the proposed new UK opt-outs
The decision on how to assign political competencies – at the supranational level, at the national level or at the sub-national level – has been approached in two complementary ways. The legal-constitutional-political science approach appeals to the principles of Federalism which, in the case of the EU, was renamed and given the rather unappealing sobriquet of 'principle of subsididiarity'. This means that a political competency is assigned to the lower level unless there are significant benefits from assigning it to the higher level. This applies to the allocation of competencies between the supranational European authorities and the national authorities. It also applies to the allocation of competencies between the national authorities and the sub-national authorities, provinces/counties/cantons and municipalities. It applies to the allocation of competencies between a municipality and its wards. Most importantly, it applies to the allocation of competencies between any of the organs of the state and the individual citizens: when in doubt, leave the government out.
The economic approach applies cost-benefit analysis to the assignment of functions and competencies to the different tiers of the state. Economies of scale and externalities will favour centralisation of decision making and (possibly) of provision, that is, assigning a function or competency to a higher tier of government. Diversity of views, preferences, interests and tastes and the speed with which the quality of information about all these relevant characteristics deteriorates as the government agency is further removed from the citizen or interest group (that is, heterogeneity and lack of information), will favour decentralisation – assigning that function or competency to a lower level of government.
For example, boundary-crossing environmental externalities should be handled at the level closest to the domain of the externality. In the case of greenhouse gases, this is the world, but since the EU is as close as Europe gets to world government, the EU is the natural level at which decisions should be taken. Other environmental externalities are national or subnational (ground water pollution, cleanliness of beaches etc.). Border-crossing public health issues (foot and mouth disease, bird flu, CJD etc.) should be handled at the EU level. Occupational health and safety issues should be left to the national authorities, as are most, but not all, social security issues and most tax matters. Defence and foreign policy are obvious EU competencies. Education is a national or subnational compentency etc. etc. It is clear that, from this perspective there have been both Type 1 and Type 2 errors in the assignement as tasks to the EU level. Working hours (as per the Working Time Directive) are not an example of returns to scale or border-crossing externalities. They should be repatriated to the national level.
Following this economic logic, foreign policy and defence should be the first EU member state competencies to be assigned to a supranational authority. This makes sense for the UK also. The last time any European nation (not counting Russia) tried to pursue an independent national foreign and defence policy was in 1956, when the UK and France undertook their last colonial adventure in Suez (the Falklands War falls into 'The Mouse that Roared' category and does not count). Since then, only Germany among European nations has had a foreign policy that matters at all. And Germany has no military presence or significance. Today, the nations whose foreign and defence policies make a difference are the US, Russia (much diminished but still somewhat relevant to the many countries it borders) and, coming up fast, China and India. Despite having but the most anaemic version of a foreign and defence policy, the (mainly) soft power of the EU is already more significant regionally and globally than the foreign and defence policies of the UK, France or Germany individually.
Outside Whitehall, no-one much cares about or pays attention to UK foreign policy, and the UK's armed forces are no longer capable of independent action anywhere that matters. When we try to visualise a indicator of international political and military power that spans the range from the US down to,say, Denmark, the UK and France will be much closer to the Denmark end than to the US end. So the choice for the UK, as for the other European nation states, is either no foreign or defence policy, or an EU foreign and defence policy. An independent national foreign or defence policy in Europe is an extreme example of a buck-naked emperor.
I am not sure what I prefer: no foreign or defence policy in Europe or an EU foreign and defence policy. The last time foreign and defence policies mattered in Europe – in the first half of the 20th century, the European nation states made the most dreadful mess of it, bringing humanity two World Wars and unimaginable horrors. Perhaps soft power is all that Europe can be trusted with. But regardless of whether one prefers an EU foreign and defence policy or no foreign and defence policy in Europe, it is key to recognise that even for the UK, France and Germany, the time of being significant players in the global diplomatic, military and economic arenas are gone. They have become small countries.
As regards future Treaty changes, I believe the days of national vetoes are gone. But so are the days of national votes or national referenda. Future Treaty changes should be decided by the European Parliament (with a suitably qualified majority) and/or by a referendum of the EU electorate in a single Europe-wide referendum. If national votes are to play a role in this (either at the national parliamentary level or through national referenda), the requirement should be that a qualified majority of the member countries vote in favour (say two third plus 1). But no national vetos in European matters.
As regards taxes and social security, the economic principles of economies of scale and externalities on the one hand and of heterogeneity and incomplete information on the other hand, suggest that no blanket statements like: 'all tax measures to be subject to national veto' are likely to be wrong. Most of social security should clearly remain at the national level. But the cross-border portability of past national contributions and/or acquired national entitlements has to be ensured. Otherwise we all will end up working in the country with the lowest takes and retiring in the country with the highest benefits.
Clearly, tackling tax evasion and avoidance will require supranational decision making that cannot be vetoed by tax havens like Luxembourg. Indeed, where the EU has the power, it should compel the co-operation even of non-EU member states like the Switzerland or strange entities like the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man and Monaco.
Justice and home affairs are an area where I very much hope the UK will rethink its opt-out. Without a written constitution, with no separation of powers, and with probably the most toothless Parliament in the EU, the Executive branch of government in the UK has greater power than the Executive in any other European Country; indeed the UK government is not subject to any effective checks and balances except the blessed bloodymindedness of the British people. I very much appreciate having the European Court of Justice between me and a UK government that emasculates the right not to make self-incriminatory statements to the police or in court, and that does more damage to habeas corpus than any government since Magna Carta was signed. The notion that the UK will continue pre-1973-style border checks on visitors to the UK from other EU member states, when within 5 years we will have unrestricted mobility of people within the EU (and probably around 35 million visitors yearly to the UK) is extraordinary. Even if the authorities were to be willing and able to inflict these indignities on the travelling public (British and non-British), such national control measures would be woefully ineffective.
Last and definitely least, the British Rebate. Why the other EU members allowed Mrs. Thatcher to get away with that outrageous bit of cheek, I have never understood. There is no justification for continuing it even for just another year. If that means a larger net UK contribution to the British budget, so be it. The reason for this increased budgetary burden will be that the UK government didn't have the guts to veto the Common Agricultural policy compromise. You break it, you own it, is a good principle.
It is time for the UK government (and a large part of the British public) to grow up and start making a difference in Europe. Sure, the UK is unique and different. So are the other 26 EU members. The UK has much to offer the EU. It has sidelined itself for too long.
A short list of dos and don'ts for the government to consider.
Adopt the euro as soon as you can.
Join the Schengen agreement immediately
Forget about the British rebate. Veto the CAP budget instead, at the earliest opportunity.
Make up your mind as to whether you want a European foreign and defence policy or no foreign and defence policy. Don't daydream about an independent national foreign and defence policy.
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Cape Town - Thandi Maqubela's behaviour after the death of her husband, Acting Judge Patrick Maqubela, was "inconsistent with innocence", Judge John Murphy found on Thursday in the Western Cape High Court.
Murphy ruled against an application for a discharge involving Maqubela, accused of the murder of her husband, and of fraud and forgery, and Vela Mabena, accused of the acting judge's murder.
Murphy said that Maqubela's behaviour after her husband's death was "inconsistent with innocence" and if Mabena was granted a discharge, it would compromise the proper administration of justice.
Patrick Maqubela's body was discovered in the main bedroom of his Bantry Bay flat on June 7, 2009, two days after the State alleges he was murdered by Maqubela and Mabena, who allegedly suffocated him, possibly using cling film.
Marius Broeksma, for Maqubela, yesterday said he believed there were two "fatal flaws" in the State's case.
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* That a forensic pathologist, Sipho Mfolozi, who conducted a post-mortem on Patrick Maqubela's body, had been unable to establish the cause of his death.
* The value of evidence in the form of the cling film found at the scene, and which could have been used to suffocate Patrick Maqubela, was questionable as the results of tests done on it were confusing.
Randall Titus, for Mabena, said none of the State's 46 exhibits bore the DNA of Mabena, and while Mabena had been at Patrick Maqubela's complex in the time frame within which he may have died, he had been "at the wrong place at the wrong time".
Murphy said the State's medical evidence of the cause of death was less than satisfactory and there was a possibility, not probability, that Patrick Maqubela was suffocated.
He said when it came to the cause of his death, the State had built its case most strongly on cellphone use, which showed where people were and at what time.
Cellphone records indicated Maqubela may have been aware of her husband's death and tried to conceal this.
In a statement to police, the judge said, Maqubela had said her husband left his complex at 6am to attend a "mysterious meeting with unknown persons" at an adjacent hotel.
He had later not gone to work, had made no attempts to contact colleagues to say he would be absent and had then gone back to his apartment, where he died of a heart attack.
Murphy said this version "carries an air of improbability". "It bolster's the State's submission (that Maqubela has a case to answer to)."
Murphy found evidence against Mabena "less compelling". But he said shortly before and after Patrick Maqubela's death, there had been a spike in cellphone communication between Mabena and Maqubela.
After Patrick Maqubela's death, Mabena had sent her an SMS offering condolences, even though there were no previous SMSes about his death. "The unusual timing and content of communication calls for an explanation," Murphy said.
The matter was postponed to Tuesday.
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TRISTA SELMAR-STEED: I open it up and just rip it down the middle. Separate it.
JOHN CARLOS FREY: Trista Selmar-Steed cuts a lot of coupons these days… In fact she's becomes a bit of a fanatic about it.
TRISTA SELMAR-STEED: This is my coupon box, container, I carry it with me to the grocery store. Coffee, cake, butter, milk, pasta, sugar — this one here is for household goods and personal items.
TRISTA SELMAR-STEED: You never know that coupons will save you as much money as you– it actually has.
JOHN CARLOS FREY: The 38-year-old who lives in a suburb just outside of Atlanta, Georgia, has been saving all these coupons because as of December 28th, she has no income. She was one of 1.3 million Americans who lost their unemployment insurance when an emergency federal unemployment insurance program expired.
TRISTA SELMAR-STEED: That same week that I expected to get that next check was the same week that I had a bill that was due — but I wasn't able to pay it. I had to ask my husband to start paying my part of the bills and that's the sad part, not being able to help my husband pay– pay the bills.
JOHN CARLOS FREY: Trista, who used to make $30,000 a year working for a medical billing service, was laid off from her job in November of 2012, and hasn't been able to find a job since.
JOHN CARLOS FREY: I sensed a year out there in this job market has kind of beat you up a little bit, yeah?
TRISTA SELMAR-STEED: It's very sad that– to have the qualifications and not be able to actually work, you know, get a job in your field. And I've been doing this 2007.
JOHN CARLOS FREY: Why do you think it's so hard for you to get a job?
TRISTA SELMAR-STEED: I'm not sure. A lot of companies are still laying off.
JOHN CARLOS FREY: Trista has now been without her benefits for 8 weeks. To make matters worse, her husband who is a truck driver was hurt on the job and is now on what's known as light duty, working fewer hours and only taking home about 60% of what he used to which now equals about $2000 a month.
TRISTA SELMAR-STEED: So that's another whammy, you know, something else that started– started the down spiral, excuse me.
JOHN CARLOS FREY: They say they now have to dip into their savings just too pay their bills. She says things have gotten so bad, that when she's not at her computer for several hours each day looking for work, she's and her husband spend their free time watching TV just to lift their spirits.
TRISTA SELMAR-STEED: Cartoons and comedy, it have us laughing. It takes your mind off of the things that you might be going through.
JOHN CARLOS FREY: There's some people who would say that people who are on unemployment don't want to look for a job. They just want to live off the unemployment. It's– it's a free easy paycheck.
TRISTA SELMAR-STEED: It's not a free easy paycheck. That's what– for me, it's not. I know what I like in life. I know what I strive to have in the future. And I can say some people might try to use that, but me personally, I– that's not me.
JOHN CARLOS FREY: While Trista believes that extending her benefits would give her the cushion she needs to get another job, Economics Professor Jeff Dorfman, who teaches at the University of Georgia, says that the extended unemployment benefits ARE the problem.
JEFF DORFMAN: The studies show it raises unemployment more by allowing people to stay unemployed longer, still searching for a really great job instead of taking a job that's available.
Dorfman points to North Carolina. Last July the state legislature cut unemployment benefits from 73 weeks to 19 weeks. In the months since the state unemployment rate dropped from 8.9 percent to 6.9 percent.
JOHN CARLOS FREY: And you attribute that to cutting 50 weeks of unemployment insurance.
JEFF DORFMAN: When you suddenly get cut off, you realize, "You know, I need to take a job." And people in North Carolina apparently found jobs.
JOHN CARLOS FREY: Others attribute the decline in unemployment there to unemployed workers giving up their search for work. And they note the drop in unemployment has been coupled with a big increase in the number of people there on food stamps.
JOHN CARLOS FREY: As for Trista, she says she'd be happy to take a job outside her medical billing field. She says she's applied for all kinds of jobs during the past year, everything from driving a school bus or a truck to clerical jobs at CVS and Wal-Mart. Even as a flight attendant with Delta. All of them met with rejection.
TRISTA SELMAR-STEED: We regret to inform you that you have not been selected for this position at this time. Thank you for applying and best wishes for success in your future endeavors. Delta talent acquisition team. And I've gotten that three times from Delta, so…
TRACY MOSLEY: You hear the– the theory that some people are just a couple paychecks away from homelessness. Well, we actually see that.
JOHN CARLOS FREY: Tracy Mosley is the Transition Program Coordinator for the Urban League of Greater Atlanta, an organization that helps African Americans find and train for jobs. He warns of dire consequences unless unemployment benefits are extended.
TRACY MOSLEY: We actually see people that– had a sustainable income, that had a good job, good employment. But all of a sudden they find themself homeless.
JOHN CARLOS FREY: The problem is particularly acute in the African American community where the unemployment rate is nearly double the national average. Mosley says the interview and job prep classes his organization offers have been filled to capacity with people like Trista Selmar-Steed, who he says are desperate for work. She recently met with a job counselor here.
COUNSELOR: so you are being recommended for a position with MARTA, which is the transit authority for Atlanta, that our bus railway system that we use here. That's one of the opportunities you'll be considered for. So I wanna make sure that you are going to be available on March the 3rd so I can have you lined up for an interview.
TRISTA SELMAR-STEED: Ok, well thank you so much, I really appreciate this, this is a big help.
JOHN CARLOS FREY: Trista is crossing her fingers that this lead might just pan out… but for the time being just getting to the Urban League's office in Atlanta, a 45 minute drive from her home in the suburbs is a financial burden now that she doesn't have an unemployment check every week.
TRACY MOSLEY: And so if their source of income, of temporary income, is cut off — A lot of them cannot even afford to come down here for their training.
JOHN CARLOS FREY: But Professor Jeff Dorfman says that government benefits can't go on forever.
JEFF DORFMAN: Our compassion has never been unlimited in this sense. We always eventually cut people off. We already had some mechanism for deciding at some point we've gotta stop paying for you.
JOHN CARLOS FREY: And some would argue that we're not there yet. We're not at that point in the recovery where we should start cutting back. We still need to fund for an extended period of time.
JEFF DORFMAN: The longest we've ever kept benefits before is 35 months after the end of a recession. And we're at 55 months now. So we're 20 months, that's over a year and a half longer than we've ever provided these extended benefits for.
JOHN CARLOS FREY: Dorfman believes that if the government is going to intervene, that money could be better used retraining the unemployed for new jobs. For now, with Congress at an impasse, it looks like Trista, and nearly two million others, will have to survive without the federal life line they've come to count on in these hard times..
TRISTA SELMAR-STEED: I mean, it dampens your spirit a little bit, but the only way you can prosper, I've learned, is to keep a high spirit // And so I just look at it as where one door closes, someone will eventually hire me.
JOHN CARLOS FREY: After a year, you still feel that way?
TRISTA SELMAR-STEED: I still feel that way. Yes.


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Betty White will receive her Life Achievement Award at the upcoming Screen Actors Guild ceremony from her "The Proposal" co-star Sandra Bullock. The veteran actress will be handed the honor for her TV and film work, as well as her humanitarian accomplishments, at the annual prizegiving in Los Angeles on January 23, 2010.
Bullock will pay tribute to White - who has been a regular on American television for more than 60 years - after they became close on the set of hit comedy "The Proposal", in which White played Ryan Reynolds' grandmother. The 87 year old is best known for her role as lovable Rose Nylund in 1980s sitcom "Golden Girls".
Previous Life Achievement Award recipients included James Earl Jones who took home the nod in 2008 and Charles Durning who earned his award in 2007. Moreover, Julie Andrews and Shirley Temple Black were awarded the honors in 2006 and 2005 respectively.


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KING: Joining uh us now is Representative Ron Paul, a Republican of Texas. He ran for president this last election. He's here to react to what we just heard.
Concerning healthcare, Mr. Moore believes that universal health care is everyone's right, threatens that the Democrats will lose seats if they don't support it. What's your stand on this, congressman?
REP. RON PAUL, (R) TEXAS: Well, I think it's a fallacy to say that someone has a right to somebody else's services. You have a right to your life and you have a right to your liberty and you have a right to earn a living. You ought to have a right to keep it. But you have a responsibility to take care of yourself.
But you don't have a right to get something from government, because government has nothing, so government has to take it from somebody and give it to you. So it's a failed policy. It is, you know, a form of socialism, and socialism doesn't work. It leads to a big kind of...
KING: So if you have -- Congressman, if you have no money and you fall down on the street with a heart attack, you have no money, no one should take care of you? The government should not provide an ambulance or treat you?
PAUL: No. But we don't have a history in this country of this happening, even before government started managing health care. I practiced medicine in both circumstances in the early '60s. We didn't have managed care, and I worked in a Catholic hospital.
I made three dollars an hour and nobody was ever turned away and there were many, many church hospitals and you had Shriner hospitals and a lot of free care was given.
Today, even with managed care, they complain about, oh, somebody doesn't have health insurance and somebody's going to die because they don't have health insurance. But, really, people don't get turned away.
I mean, accidents happen. Man's imperfect. For the most part, anybody, including anybody illegal, can go to the emergency room and they always get taken care of. They just don't get thrown out in the street. KING: Are you saying you like the current system?
PAUL: No. I probably dislike it as much as Michael Moore does. But he's complaining about it being part of capitalism. It has nothing to do with capitalism. This is corporatism. The corporations -- I agree with him, corporations run things.
The drug companies' lobbyists, the insurance companies' lobbyists, the hospital manager companies' lobbyists, the AMA lobbyists, and that's all managed care and we have a system where money and bigness influences the government. But that's corporatism. That's not capitalism. What we want are free markets.
KING: OK. How do you change that?
PAUL: Allow free markets to work. There's an example of free markets, and I might have even heard it on CNN today, of the example of somebody that was going to be charge 100,000 dollars for surgery, and they went to Singapore and got it for 25,000 dollars. And the main reason they gave what they could afford to do it was that they didn't have horrendous malpractice payments to make, and there was a market. There was a market.
So the patients are leaving this country. They're going to India. But that's the market working. So we have put our charity hospitals out of business. At the same time, because of inflation and management and all the mischief of government, we have pushed these prices up.
Pumping money into a system doesn't improve quality. It increases prices. Look at our educational system. We pump in money, prices go up, the quality of education goes up. The quality of medicine has not gone up by just pumping more money in.
KING: Lyndon Johnson once said, the probable answer is that a government's going to have to be half capitalistic and half socialist. You have to have some. Social Security is socialism. You have to take care of those who don't have. Pure capitalism can't work. Would you agree with that?
PAUL: No, not really. It's sort of like I practice OB/GYN, I never tell my patients they had a touch of pregnancy. You're either pregnant or you're not. You either have government intervention messing up the markets or you don't. You either believe in freedom and believe in voluntary choice.
Just look at this disaster with the Swine Flu vaccine. They took over the whole project. We pump in billions of dollars. And they come up with shortages. The distribution is lousy. And they're talking about forcing people to take them in places like New York. And who -- nobody's even proved that it's necessary yet. We have still a lot of deaths from ordinary flu far surpassing Swine Flu. So central economic planning in anything fails, and especially in medicine it fails.
KING: But, Congressman, everyone online getting it, who's getting it free, is not standing there complaining about government involvement?
PAUL: Yes, but I have a daughter who practices medicine. And I was just talking to her about it. And she says, oh, yes, dad, I can give shots, and it's for free, but we don't have anything. When something is free, you don't have it. It's irrelevant. And some of the people who don't want it are being forced to take it.
We have lost our faith and confidence in understanding how free markets work. We turned it upside down by saying, anytime corporations get benefits, we call it capitalism and freedom. And it's corporatism. It's the military industrial complex. It's all the special interests.
And this is where Michael Moore get it all wrong. He works -- he believes diligently in free markets, because he believes in the First Amendment. He believes in making films. He doesn't believe in prior restraints. So why should he condemn capitalism, because he calls -- he's condemning corporatism. I condemn it too. Special privileges for corporation is the problem.
KING: Maybe it's semantic. More with Congressman Paul right after the break. Don't go away.
MOORE: I think capitalism, as it's defined now, has complete -- not only failed. Well, it hasn't actually failed the rich. It's actually helped them. The wealthiest one percent now have more financial wealth than the bottom 95 percent combined. So it's a really good system for a few people.
KING: All right, Ron, do you disagree with that statistic that Michael Moore just pointed out?
PAUL: No. And I complain about it as much as he does. But I think I understand it differently. Because when a country embarks on deficit financing and inflationism, you wipe out the middle class and wealth is transferred from the middle class and the poor to the rich. And when we get into trouble, then the corporations, once again, they come for their bailout and they get the benefits and the little people don't.
Yes, there is some truth to that. It's the failure of the free market to exist. That is our problem. It isn't the fact that we don't have enough government. We have way too much government. The government created this monster. If he doesn't like what we have, he has to look at what we've been doing for 30 or 40 years. It's called interventionism. It's called Keynesianism. It's called inflationism. It's called big government. That's the problem.
KING: Here's what Michael Moore said about Afghanistan. I'll ask Congressman Paul what he thinks about the war there. Watch. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
MOORE: Al Qaeda has left there. They booked out of the neighborhood, Larry. They're long gone. They're in Pakistan. They're in parts of Africa. They're elsewhere in the Middle East. You know, they're here in the U.S. I mean, they're a real Internet operation now, as Matthew Hall, this State Department individual who resigned last month over the Afghanistan policy -- you should go online and read his letter of resignation. You'll see, he explains it very clearly, that if we want to deal with al Qaeda, the last place we need to be right now is in Afghanistan.
That's just a crazy, crazy-making place. It's unwinnable. It's immoral. It's illegal. It's wrong. And what is our CIA doing paying the brother of the president of Afghanistan, who's involved in this opium trade that's funding the Taliban? I mean, where -- when does this stop?
KING: Congressman, you're a strong critic of Iraq. Are you a critic of the Afghanistan policy as well?
PAUL: Yes, I sure am. My position is we shouldn't have gone in and we should just come home. But earlier on, Michael was saying that he was hopeful and sympathetic to what Obama was doing. I don't think he's quite willing to criticize Obama like Bush, but I am.
And yes, there have been a token effort of bringing some troops home from Iraq. Iraq is a mess. But at the same time, we're sending in contractors to replace the troops, paying them a lot more money, subsidizing the military industrial complex. And Obama ought to be condemned for that.
You can't just pick out -- so any time you support Obama in any of those policies -- they're bombing Pakistan right now, killing civilians. And we're on the vernal now of attacking, or at least putting on more sanctions on Iran, which will lead to hostilities if we're not careful, because we're talking about the Iranians just like we used to talk about the Iraqis, putting on tougher and tougher sanctions, making the people suffer, hoping the people are going to overthrow their leaders, not realizing the tougher the sanctions you put on the people, the more you drive them into supporting their leaders.
KING: So you would get out of Afghanistan and Iraq post haste?
PAUL: I would. My saying during the campaign is we just marched in, we can just march home. Nothing good can come of it. It's an undeclared war. It's an immoral war. We don't have any money. The longer we're there, the worse it's going to get. We just need to come home. We can't nation build.
And besides, I will win this argument because we are bankrupt and we can't afford it. It's going to end badly if we don't come to our senses and just say, let's quit this militarism around the world. We're in 130 countries and 700 bases around the world. And we cannot sustain these. And it is -- it's pumped up by both the left and the right in the Congress. Oh, we can't do away with this weapon. It will be bad for jobs. There's conservative Keynesianism and liberal Keynesianism. Always government management, which always fails and gives us the financial crisis that we're in.
KING: The always thoughtful Congressman Ron Paul of Texas. Thanks, Ron. Always good having with you.
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Business groups and foreign direct investments by developing country firms: An empirical test in India
Drawing on recent theoretical explanations, we develop hypotheses on the relationship between business group affiliation and FDI by developing country firms. We hypothesize a positive relationship between business group affiliation and FDI overall, as well as between business group affiliation and FDI into advanced countries and into developing countries. In addition, we argue that the impact of business group affiliation on FDI varies in strength among business groups based on their size and diversification. We also empirically test the hypotheses in a sample of firms from one large and important developing country, India.
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Hilarious New Blog Alert: Daily Urban Legend
I've never told anyone this, but there's a good chance Jim Morrison, you know, from the band the Doors, could be my father. My mom was working at a head shop in the late-'60s when Jimmy (that's what she called him) came in and bought a year's worth of incense. It was basically love at first sight. They were together for a short period but it eventually fizzled out because of Jimmy's drug use (which eventually killed him in 1971). Still, my mom was a forward thinker and thought someone should carry on Jimmy's genes, so she kept a little container of his man juice on ice for safe-keeping. In January of 1979 that little cup of frozen spunk went missing; 10 months later, I was born. My mom refuses to talk about it.Okay, so maybe I made that whole thing up (except the selling incense to Jim Morrison part — that really happened!). It's the kind of tall tale you might find on my new favorite blog, Daily Urban Legend, in which the writer posts a new, completely fabricated story every day. Here are a few of my favorites:
Eric Stoltz worked on the movie "The Adventures of Milo and Otis" for about 3 weeks before he was replaced with Milo, the little marmalade cat. According to director Masanori Hata, in the scenes Stoltz shot, he just wasn't frisky enough.
Despite a career of playing sexy femme fatales, film star Sharon Stone has never once had an orgasm in real life.
A botched face lift has left Burt Reynolds without the ability to produce tears or express anything resembling empathy or remorse.
My friend has a buddy that worked at the venue where Henry Rollins did a spoken word show. Apparently Rollins forgot some notebooks in the green room. Rollins sent his tour manager to the venue to get the notebooks, but in the meantime, my friend's buddy flipped through and found that Rollins dotted every "I" with a heart. I mean, like every one was dotted with a heart. It was so weird.
The blog also takes reader submissions. Let your imagination run wild! [Daily Urban Legend]


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ClaDun x2, the follow-up to last year's ClaDun: This is an RPG!, will be available for download on PSN starting August 30. ClaDun x2 will include new dungeons and characters, including Ran-geons, New-geons, and Tri-geons, as well as party members who can level an unlimited number of times. The game will also be fully customizable, with options to tweak appearance, weapons, and background music.
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Cutting-edge science and spirituality tell us that what we believe, think, and feel actually determine the makeup of our body at the cellular level. In Zen and the Art of Happiness, you will learn how to think and feel so that what you think and feel creates happiness and vibrancy in your life rather than gloominess or depression. You'll learn how to adapt to life's inevitable changes, how to deal with stress in a healthy way, and how to nurture a mindful happiness in your daily life.
Most importantly, the gentle wisdom of Zen and the Art of Happiness will show you how to invite magnificent experiences into your life and create a personal philosophy that will sustain you through anything. A timeless work about the art of happiness, the way of happiness, the inner game of happiness. This popular work has been published in more than 20 countries around the world.
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"Good book to begin Zen"
Good book , just the right length to deliver the subject with impact. Well presented by author z
"Excellent Book"
I love this book. I listen to it over and over again. The message is simply perfect and uplifting. I'm going to actually buy the book. This book is life changing.
"Mind. Blown!"
What a wonderful, enlightening way to spend 2 hours. Listened to this on the flight to give a "scary" presentation. It's is no longer scary and I'm filled with gratitude and peace. Thank you.
If you're looking for a new age book whose premise relies on "energy vortices" and "a conscious universe" this is your book. If you're looking for a book about zen and zen teachings look elsewhere.
This is a good book with a lot of useful info.....until he starts pitching his rehab facility then its a sales pitch from about chap 7 on.
"Great summary of Zen"
A great listen. Puts zen into perspective and teaches you how to react to situations that befall you. Well worth a listen
"Is this book just a plug...?"
The amount of promotion of the author's rehab centre "passages" really made me weary and grated on me. Would have rated the book higher if I didn't feel like his message was less than earnest and tinged by an ulterior motive.
"Not much Zen, too much BS."
This is mostly an ad for the author's rehab clinic and seminars. He includes many anecdotes of the sort that will be familiar to anyone who has ever listened to a faith healer: "Mr. Smith was sad and poor, but started using my methods and is now rich and happy."
He also makes two references to the film "What the Bleep Do We Know" which is infamous in the scientific community for being full of bad science, especially new age beliefs justified through a misunderstanding of quantum mechanics: quantum woo.
One of his anecdotes includes the story of a man who was miraculously healed by acupuncture at the author's clinic. Acupuncture has been experimentally confirmed to be nothing more than a powerful example of the placebo effect (the elaborate procedure produces a more powerful placebo effect than taking a sugar pill).
As for the author'author's central message, "everything that happens to you is the best possible thing that could happen to you, " I wonder how comforting that message would be to a starving peasant girl who is slowly being poisoned to death by the toxic fumes of the sulfur mine she works in.
"Life Changing"
Best money I've ever spent, has changed my outlook on life and made me a happier more easy going person.
"Learned new way to think about life"
Yes, it provides insightful life lessons.
Explanation of law of the universe.
Less promotion of passages addiction clinic.
Universe is perfect.
"vague but informative :)"
Thought the book had some good stories but nothing ground breaking. Definitely worth reading the whole thing though
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Sometimes you spend so much time thinking about things you over-complicate. Enterprise 2.0 can be very simple.
- Do you believe that there is business value in who you know as well as what you know?
- Do you believe that a strong network of contacts can help you get things done and make things happen?
- Would you like to help your employees get things done and make things happen?
If so, then the question is not why would you use social software, but why would you not?


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Great value, clean and in order + good internet connection remote control for TV did not work
Was in town for the weekend to celebrate a family birthday. ABVIB was convenient, clean, well furnished, relaxing and a great value. No. I would recommend a small shelf in the Bathroom over the sink to place toiletries on.
Our room was very clean, front office manager was very friendly. He was very helpful when we had to make a change to our reservation. I would highly recommend this hotel. nothing
Very clean, staff polite and very helpful. AC & Free Wi-Fi word great. Good directions to local eateries. Beds very comfortable. An excellent value.
rooms were spacious, the location was quiet from traffic, the manager was helpful in finding a place for breakfast could of had a more extensive continental breakfast as there was no nearby breakfast location with the exception of Dunkin Donuts
The bed and room itself were comfortable. There was a (quiet-running) refrigerator and microwave in the room (1 king bed), as well as a couch. It was located right off the interstate, but was surrounded by tall trees, so it felt much more out-of-the-way. There were a couple pizza places in the area that catered to gluten-free diets, which was great for us. 1) There was a huge cell phone tower right outside the hotel. 2) We had a non-smoking room; however, when we walked into the room, there was a slight stale-smoke smell in the room and bathroom. It wasn't terribly offensive, so we just opened the window for a little bit. The next morning, however, our bathroom reeked terribly of cigarette smoke, like it was coming in a vent somewhere. It was really offensive, and we had to try to keep the bathroom door closed every second that we weren't in there, and did everything we could outside of the bathroom. When I mentioned it to the receptionist on check-out, she said not to worry about being charged for it, as the smoking rooms were right under ours and the smoke came up through the vent. Isn't the reason to have a non-smoking room so that you are away from the smoke?? 3) The iron needed to be cleaned, as it left spots on my husband's dress shirt. Thankfully it was on the sleeve, where it would be covered up by his sports coat.
Quick and easy check in. Cleaning staff was great. Room was clean. Continental breakfast wasn't the greatest.
This guest did not leave comments about this hotel.
Staff was great. Made unappreciated effort to get the roo o m ready for us as we had a wedding in the area. Check in time in confirmation was 12, but 2 pm at location. Main lobby was dingy and smelled.
This guest did not leave comments about this hotel.
The location Too much hot water in shower, no way to get temperate maintainence could not helpRoom was not made up when we returned
Clean, neat, what was needed. Wifi was not strong.
Staff was great. Made unappreciated effort to get the roo o m ready for us as we had a wedding in the area. Check in time in confirmation was 12, but 2 pm at location. Main lobby was dingy and smelled.
Beds were comfortable and location was great. However, they did not have a blanket on the bed just a sheet and a dirty bed spread that most people take off the bed in a motel when sleeping. The toilet had to be flushed by taking off the tank cover and pulling cord. Airconditioner kind off worked.
Location Bathroom fixtures
Comfortable bed, clean, spacious, good bathroom layout, blackout curtains Weak microwave
Super clean, close to highway and Foxwoods, great hidden gem!
The morning sunrise is wonderful. The motel is set on a hill facing east. The room was very clean. The location is easy on/off to highway. Beaches and Foxwoods are Close by. There's a Dunkin Donuts across the street. The highway is close so you have that noise in the background.
No frills here but it's clean. Good if you just need a place to lay your head. Close-ish to casinos and beaches.
Nothing. I wish I had asked to see the room before accepting to stay. I would have not stayed there. When I arrived there was note to call a phone # if I wanted to check in. A man came in with a hoodie pulled up on his head, unzipped with no shirt on. Gross. Then he tried to charge me more than I booked for online. I went to the room & it smelled bad. I called to ask for a non smoking room. He said they were all non smoking rooms but he couldn't prevent people from smoking in the rooms. The faucet at the sink at spot on it as if someone had been brushing their teeth. The sink had build up where the bar of soap had been removed but not cleaned off. When I turned on the tv I couldn't change the channels with the remote & called for new batteries. He came down with batteries. Firest he moved the box on top of the tv cabinet & the remote worked. He said to aim the remote higher. I asked him to put in the new batteries in since he had them with him. He refused. DO NOT STAY HERE!


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Mel Gibson is reportedly intending to make two of his next film projects in Panama.
Apparently looking forward to repeat his experience in filming "Apocalypto", Mel Gibson is in consideration to again head south to make his next directorial effort, this time in Panama, tourism officials claimed yesterday, March 5.
The Panama Tourism Bureau said in a news release that the Australian actor-director, accompanied by 24-year-old son Edward, had dinner on Sunday night, March 4, with tourism spokesman and singer Ruben Blades who advised him to do a remake of the 1950 film noir "Panic in the Streets" in the country.
In the meantime, Gibson was also reported by daily newspaper La Prensa to eye another film feature as his future vehicle. The Monday editions of the paper placed a quote from Panamanian filmmaker Jose Severino saying that he is in talks with the "Lethal Weapon" star to produce a film about Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa who was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean from its eastern shore.


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NEX-3, Sony 18-55 OSS, Sony 18-200 for NEX
I'm selling my NEX-3 kit with 18-55 lens and a Sony SEL18-200 zoom lens. The lenses are in excellent condition and include filters, hoods, and a circular polarizer for the 18-200. The 18-200 hood is non-oem. The NEX-3 body is well used. In particular, the screen is scractched up. It still works well and takes great pictures, but wanted to provide full disclosure. I do not have a flash for this body. I'll also include an 8gb SHDC card, an extra battery and battery charger (neither charger is oem and one has a plastic tab missing, thus the extra). This is a great, compact system.
I'm asking $1025 shipped and paypalled for everything. If I break it up, prices are as follows:
18-200: $755 shipped. You cover fees. (Will include the CP)
18-55: $175 shipped. You cover fees.
NEX-3: 103 shipped.
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