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I think Travelodge is a great, cheap hotel chain. There are travelodges available in most towns in the UK (often more than one) and they are also spreading to other countries too.
They're a budget hotel chain, which means that they often cost less than other hotels in the same place. As a result they're my go to chain for travel for work or for pleasure - if I'm on a budget. I would probably rather stay elsewhere, but I think that Travelodge is a good budget option.
All the rooms are basic. You get a bed, a tv and a shower. The beds are usually comfy and large which is great. The TVs are usually small but functional, with freeview channels. The bathrooms are usually OK - sometimes they are the plastic "capsule" type in the newer hotels.
I have, on occassion, been unsatisfied with the cleanliness levels in Travelodges, particularly in the older ones where the bathrooms in particular can feel grimy. However, usually it's not that bad.
Travelodges sometimes have hot food breakfasts available which are usually alright - not as good as others though, but again - they are quite cheap. However, be warned that if you pay for breakfast and your hotel doesn't have a breakfast kitchen, you'll get a "breakfast box" which is a warm yogurt, warm orange juice and some breakfast biscuits - not worth the money at all!
what I like about this chain is that most of the time you know what you're getting - a decent sized, comfy, clean room. No frills, but as a place to sleep they're pretty decent.
I regularly travel around the country for concerts and events, and I run on a budget, so Travelodge is my "go to" for a nights sleep in a strange city!
Travelodge is a UK chain of budget hotels that give you the basics at the best price. They have hotels located everywhere from city centres to motorway service stations, and are one of the top competitors of UK budget hotels.
Whenever I am planning a trip for a night or two, the first thing I will do is check if there is a Travelodge near by and get that booked up. Because if there's one thing Travelodge do like to do is bump up their prices once they know there is an event coming to town, then you can see bargain prices of £25 a night turn into £80 + a night, so you really have to pre plan your accommodation.
Travelodge have single, twin, double and family rooms in varying amounts depending on the size of the hotel. I always choose a double even when travelling alone as they tend to not have much difference in price to a single, but that little bit extra room!.
Bathrooms are very small, but are useable. They used to come with soap and small toiletries but now you must provide everything yourself except for a tiny bar of soap and a plastic cup.
All the rooms are fitted with freeview TV, a kettle, cups, tea, coffee, sugar and milk, bedside table, chair and a wardrobe with drawers. Everything in a good size to keep you going for a few days up to a couple of weeks.
Most Travelodge hotels lack in aircon, and although you can ask for a fan, it's limited availability.
Extra towels and pillows are free, and they have an iron and ironing board available on receptions (again, depending on availability and how fast other customers bring them back)
Most travelodges have a bar which is reasonably priced (and some are teamed up with a Wetherspoons) food is OK, and they do have a small 24 hour menu.
All in all it is a great little hotel where you know what you will get and when you are looking for a bargain.
My partner and I stayed at a travelodge in bath not too far from the train station and I have to say we were quite disappointed with our stay. So many thing were rubbish about this place. We paid for 3 nights bed and breakfast. After arriving we were soon to realise just how dirty the place was, the bath and toilet were especially filthy. The toilet looked like it hadnt been cleaned in months. The breakfast was absolutely disgusting, sausages didn't look cooked, barely anything on offer for people to have. There was also an option to have dinner there too, one night we did, it was AWFUL!!! I got served a sloppy microwaved two layer lasagne. After complaint I got brought some chips which didn't make up for the disaster that was dinner. Our room wasn't cleaned the whole time we were there, however the people on reception were very helpful when we asked for clean towels and more coffee etc! So we were pleased about that, at least some people there could do their job.
There aren't many good points about that hotel but here a couple:
1) comfy bed, had a good quiet night sleep! Which I guess it what you pay for.
2) good people on reception desk
I wouldnt stay here again even if it the was the last place to stay in bath. Wouldn't recommend to anyone. Been in better cheaper hotels. Expensive for what is was, all we really wanted was a clean place to stay.
I have not always been a huge fan of the Travelodge chain, until last year so many of the hotels were beyond run down, dirty and poorly run. They would not let you check in until 3pm and to top it would not store your luggage so if you are going out you are stuck all trying to get ready after 3, not easy if there are a few women in one room!
Then last year the Travelodge chain started doing up their chain to match in with the newer built hotels in their chain, on top of this they introduced the new dreamer beds by sleepeezee, a lovely king sized bed! Gone are the old worn beds that when you both laid down you rolled into the middle!
I have been sad to note that they have not changed the carpets in some that are in dire need of new ones but they have all had a fresh clean and paint, new carpets and shower curtains. As a whole the rooms are looking a lot better and the beds are really comfortable!
Travelodge also gave their old Wifi company the boot and you now get 30 minutes a day free use then £3 a day or packages available for longer. The old company charged you £5 for an hour and £10 for a day!
One thing that I wish they would make sure is more continuous is that as someone who stops with the chain a lot I never know what times food is going to be on, each hotel has their own food serving times, with some having a 24 menu and others not! When it's a chain serving the same menu I would like to see this kept the same at all of the hotels in the chain.
Travelodge now also allow late check in and out at £10 each extra charge, it sounds a lot but this allows you to check in from 12 or check out at 2pm which can be very handy.
There is something else I find hard with Travelodge online booking is non of the pages tell you if the room you are booking is a bath or shower and also when booking online there is no special requests box to request anything.
My last complaint is the staff at most hotels need to let you know that there are hair driers, ironing boards and fans available at reception but they do not and I have lost track hearing people complain that there was no dryer in their rooms.
All in all though the changes get a huge thumbs up from me!
My wife and I stayed in the Gateshead Travelodge (Whitemare Pool) on Saturday 10 August, 2013 and it was a nightmare. There was a hen-party of fifty women and, for most of the night, until we called the police around 04.30, there was a riot. The police then evicted them, and we got a little rest. The response of Travelodge to my complaint was worthless.The moral of the story is "Be extremely careful booking for a Saturday".Otherwise, we have had good results from the group over many years (except for Tadcaster and Scarborough).
Travelodge hotels certainly dont market themselves on luxury, which is just as well. They market themselves on budget, affordable stays which in my opinion they do very well.
I have stayed in more travelodges than I care to remember, and they are not all the same in service, cleanliness, and ammentities offered but they do all follow the same basic design.
When you arrive at your travelodge you will be greeted with hopefully a car park. Not all travelodges have a car park though, but there is always one somewhere down the road usually. A travelodge car park can either be free or upto £10 a night, so it's really worth making sure you have some change for the machine. I would advise you to leave the bags in the car if you have travelled by car and get checked in first. Some travelodges receptions are up a floor or two such as Preston and Lancaster so it saves dragging your bags around. Once at the desk you will give your name, first line of your address and your postcode. There is some travelodges, especially ones in London, which have self-check in, but these are both timely and confusing, but may be worth it if your stuck in a big que. Check in is 2 or 3pm but 3pm is the standard. Travelodge will not let you in before this unless you have bought early check in which I think is 12, and this costs £10. This is not offered by all,but the main ones do. You will then be given a key card or key in really old fashioned ones (Wallsall for instance) or two depending on your party size, and make your way up to your room. There is always a lift available for disabled people. You will be greeted with a clean, simple room. Inside will be a double bed in a double room or a sofa bed style thing aswell in a family room, tea/coffee making facilities, a clean and basic toilet and shower or shower over bath facilities and a usually flat screen TV with freeview. Travelodge is a base hotel I say, nothing else. If you want a hotel where you can have a sit down in reception, pop for a drink in their bar and make the hotel the centre point of your stay this really isn't it. Travelodges vary whether they have a cafe but they will mostly always have a bar which will at least provide a pizza and drinks. There is vending machines which contrain snacks and overnight essentials.
Travelodge has on its menus things such as burgers,pizza, lasagne, curry and sharing platas amongst things for children. As I never travel with children I can't really comment on this, though i know chicken nuggets and ice cream are available! In the morning if you choose to have breakfast you will have a buffet style selection , full English and a continental selection. In smaller travelodges they only offer a fruit bag and a croissant in the mornings, but it will say when booking. Alcohol is expensive in the travelodge,but I find food reasonably priced. The breakfast at 7.99 PP isn't worth it, especially if you are In a city centre and can go to a local cafe in the morning or something. One final note about food and drink is its perfectly acceptable to go outside for food and bring it back to your room, whether it be KFC,Subway,Mcds it is all allowed so you don't have to feel like if you want to stay in you have to pay their prices.
Travelodge Experience
Every travelodge is different in the experience you will find. If you want a guaranteed nights sleep, no matter what the adverts may suggest, don't come to a Travelodge - especially at a weekend. Many people use travelodge as a cheap base for a night out, so at 2-4am the noise is incredible. Banging on doors, hearing sex and foul language has all been experienced. However, this is 8/10 at a weekend and to be expected with it being a budget hotel. No management will ever do anything about it so please don't waste your time asking them.
Booking process
Well I find the booking process incredibly easy, the easiest booking of hotels I've ever found anywhere. You type your destination hotel in and it will tell you the price for that night, and the next 5 nearest so you can compare if it's cheaper just being a bit out of where you originally thought. Price of a travelodge can range from £15 in a sale (if you sign up their email newsletter you will know when they start) to a good £100 a night. The £100 is usually if an event is going on, say final at Wembley and you are booking Travelodge Wembley or at New Year and Christmas. It is very rare so don't let that put you off. The average room price I would say is £35 that is per room per night not per person. The earlier you book the better, as its cheaper, and i get most of my stays for £19-30. You have the option of fully flexible which is usually more, or fixed. I always go with fixed as its usually that lower of a price if you cant make it you havent lost much. One other note is that if you cant make it you can list your stay on Ebay, as this is fine and you will usually get at least a 1/3rd of what you'd pay. Anyway, a few clicks later and you will find an email confirmation sent to your email address. You do not need to print this off, it's just for confirmation.
You will usually get good customer service and they will give you the attention you need. Some travelodges can have the odd rude member of staff but tell me somewhere that doesn't have the odd member that is like that. You will have a nice clean service, but at check in the cleaners can usually be seen still running around. They seem over worked and many are eEastern Europeans. wifi is available in most travelodges, the bar area offers free wifi.
Best travelodges in my opinion:
*Carlisle - for stays travelling around S.Scotland and the borders and also easy access to the Lake District. Very easy to get too and very good public transport links.
*Ealing - brand new travelodge in London, a short walk away from the tube station and is usually one of the cheapest in London but one of the nicest and quietest areas I believe.
*Blackpool North and South Shore - very well looked after travelodges, considering how busy they are they are all very clean and quality staff. Rooms are nice and if you are lucky some lovely views. South shore is right next to Blackpool FC so handy for that and a short walk until you are next to the tower!
*Newcastle City- a noisy travelodge at the weekend as you would expect, but it's possibly the best located travelodge I've ever stayed in. Right on the quayside,you have some lovely walking areas, and anybody who knows Newcastle will know that Quayside is just a short walk from the city centre and on the Quayside is some great eating areas and social areas.
Check in: 2 or 3
Check out: 11 or 12
Average prices: £30-£40
Location: Everywhere!
Great budget hotels, Good for business and great for a night out. If you are with a family looking to spend a lot of time here at the weekend maybe not the best, other than that well worth a visit
After booking the wrong hotel with Travelodge-there are 3 where I'm living now,I immediately hit the cancell button and didn't realise I couldn't change the hotel after doing that.Travelodge have taken the money £67.15 from my account and informed me I'm not entitled to any refund be it part or full so I have basically paid them for a room I cannot use and which they will then re-sell to another customer making double what the room was offered for.Is this how they get away with charging cheap rates on their rooms?I for one will not be using this chain of hotels again and shall inform anybody I know thinking of using them in the future not to bother!Utterly unbelievable how they are allowed to do this,how do they justify taking your money for a service you can't use?
I stayed with travelodge for New Years Eve in 2011 at the hotel located in Streetly, Birmingham.
Having only made the booking a few hours before arrival I found it quick and convenient to reserve my room online via their website.
I found the pricing very reasonable considering I was advised that the room was suitable for three people, we actually slept four comfortably and could of easily got someone else in too!
It cost me just £39.95 for the room and the booking process was very straight forward via their website.
When I arrived at the hotel I was greeted by very helpful staff who swiftly checked my details, gave me our room key and guided us on our way to our room all within a couple of minutes..
The rooms were of a good size and consisted of a double and a single pull out camp style bed, both of which were comfy and were provided with several pillows and extra covers.
We were provided with a flatscreen TV, kettle, Tea, Coffee and sugars etc..
The whole hotel was clean throughout, brightly lit and had a fairly modern feel about it. We had an onsuite bathroom attached to our room with a toilet, sink basin and a segregated shower, the bathroom itself was tiled, bright and presentable.
There were also mini shampoo's and conditioner's included and plenty of fresh clean towels.
The Streetly travelodge is based within the same surroundings as the Toby Carvery and menus were provided in the rooms for breakfast or appitisers.
I would really recommend Travelodge for a relaxing and enjoyable night, the easyness of booking and friendlyness of staff are a real assett also!
Please note my review is about the travelodge at the M42 services near Tamworth.
Recently we decided to take our 2 little girls for a few days away, we decided where to go by what was in the area that we were able to use our Tesco Reward vouchers on and so decided on Tamworth as it was near to Birmingham, Drayton Manor and Cadbury World.
I was one of the lucky ones that managed to book a room in the Travelodge sale in June and got three nights for £10 per night plus a £2 booking fee so in all a room for three nights cost us £32 which is less than a room usually costs for one night. It seems that a Sunday night must be their quietest night as you can get a room on a Sunday for £19 whereas a Saturday night would usually cost you £50.95.
The Travelodge that we stayed in was at the M42 services and when we arrived we found there was the Travelodge and then a service building to the front of it which housed a Marks and Spencers, a Costa Coffee, a Burger King, some toilets, a WH Smiths and an amusement arcade. We found that mid-afternoon it was easy to get parked next to the Travelodge and through our whole stay we were never more than one row back in the car park.
The Travelodge from outside looks like any other a simple building with two floors and numerous windows all displaying a net curtain. On entering there was a door to the left and right leading to rooms and some stairs and another door ahead of you, the entrance area was very clean and we booked in with ease, you must enter your registration number on a computer at reception to provide you with free parking during your stay.
We were given a room on the bottom floor on the side of the building where the car park was which we were happy with as it meant we were able to keep an eye on the car. The door of the room was quite hard to open and sometimes took a couple of turns back and forth to open. On entering the room I was surprised to find only the double bed was made up as we had booked a family room but after speaking to reception we were told that the bedding was behind the door and we were to make the other beds up ourselves.
The room is very basic, a wardrobe behind the door with a set of fixed hangers and a set of shelves, next to the wardrobe there is a low bench which is then attached to a high bench where there was a small kettle and provisions for making tea and coffee, I was quite surprised to find only 2 cups considering children are aged up to 16 on the website I would have expected a room for four to have four cups. Above the bench there was a mirror and below it a chair and then finally a TV was a remote however our remote did not have a back on the battery compartment which I wasn't happy with as our baby has a thing for remotes and I was worried if she got hold of it she would be eating batteries so we had to be extra careful.
Within the room there was a small bathroom which seemed at first to be in perfect order although there were only 2 sets of towels left for a room booked for 4 people but we had taken our own so this wasn't an issue. We had taken some milk with us and I filled the bath with some cold water to stand the milk in however returning to the bathroom a while later the water was no longer in the bath, I tried using the sink instead and the same happened although it lasted longer in the sink than the bath. My husband asked reception for another plug and was told that there could move us room but they couldn't give us another plug, as I had already made up the beds and unpacked there was no way I was moving and so just said I would use the shower for the children and stay in the same room.
The room itself was boiling and on trying to open the window we found the net curtain rail was coming down at one end and that one of the window latches wasn't fixed properly. The window itself was on a wire and would only open a couple of inches and so did nothing to cool the room down. My husband was talking to someone in reception about how hot it was and they did give us a fan to use which I hadn't even thought would have been available but it was a pretty poor fan and didn't do much to cool you down unless you sat in front of it.
The beds were comfortable although I found it annoying that the sheets barely fit the bed and that every day the chambermaids would come in and remake the bed tucking the quilt under the mattress and therefore when you would pull the quilt back the sheet would pull out and you would have to remake the bed anyway. The lights were all on a main switch near the bathroom door but there were also lamps on either side of the bed with individual switches which I found useful when I had to get up to feed the baby at 6 in the morning rather than having to put the main lights on and wake everybody.
The décor is very simple with a blue carpet and sofa (turns into a fourth bed) and cream walls, the carpet and the sofa both had stains on them and there was a small hole in the wall.
If I had paid full price for this I would have demanded my money back and gone elsewhere, as it was we put up with the room and eventually the receptionist did give us another plug which was a good job as the shower was far too powerful for children. I have sent an email of complaint about all of the above although I must say the staff were polite and the majority were helpful and the main part of the building was clean. The chambermaids cleaned the room around all of our stuff every day and restocked the tea and coffee aswell as giving us clean towels. I used to be a chambermaid in our local Travelodge and a room like this would never have been let out in the state it was, I never saw any of the other rooms but considering they saiod we could move rooms if we wanted then I would presume that other rooms are as bad or why would they have put us in it in the first place.
Was booked in at the Bristol central Travelodge for three to see a gig. Woke up on the first morning to discover that there was no hot water. I informed the reception staff who offered my girlfriend and I two other rooms to find that they also had no hot water. I spoke to the manageress on the phone THREE times and asked her to come to the hotel and try and sort the situation out, she was an hours drive away at another Travelodge, but she flatly refused. In the end My girlfriend and I gave up and went to leave but the reception staff were so nasty towards us and called the police on a false allegation of anti-Polish comments being made towards a Polish member of staff. We waited for the police to arrive becuase the staff the were so uneducated and had chatted with my girlfriend, and the fact that we had already mentioned it, because my girlfriend is Polish! The police arrived and did nothing, we had proved our point that no comments had been made and left to go home.
I booked a room at the Travelodge but received no confirmation e mail. When i tried to contact them it proved to be a feat for Sherlock Homes to decipher!!! I eventually found a no to be told that although i had indeed paid my reservation fee they could not find any details, i therefore had to re book and re pay.I was told to contact customer services who had no telephone contact no - only e mail. I have e mailed them several times and received no reply, i have however received an e mail asking me how my stay went and would i recommend them to my friends!!! I think we can all guess what my reply was!!
I booked online for a £15 room and at the very end had an error message so started again. needless to say I recived two booking confirmations and immediatley rang the hotel to find I had two rooms! I then rang the "helpline" who said that I could cancel one room but wouldnt get a refund. have tried to use their "contact us" but cant get past their pre written questions. fell so frustrated I might pay their head office a visit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have had many, many experiences with Travelodge over the years. The chain has been around since the 80's, but the first time I stayed in one was around 2005. On the whole, I feel they are a poor representation of the hospitality industry. They charge low prices, and offer the absolute minimum in return, which when you think about it is fine. Where they fall short is that they can also offer dirty rooms, surly staff and terrible customer service. Premier Inn is a similar budget chain, charging low prices and offering very basic facilities, but they get all the things right that Travelodge gets wrong, so the problems that Travelodge has are purely down to penny pinching by the big-wigs and not just because of the low room rates.
The fact that people are cottoning on to this is why they launched their 'Sleep Tight' campaign with the Mr Sleep teddies. This is being done to make the brand look more 'friendly' and less corporate, a lot like Premier Inn already is when you think about it...
The customer service from their head office is appalling. Following a particularly terrible stay at a Travelodge in Sunderland, I wrote a recorded delivery letter to their Head Office ('Sleepy Hollow') in Oxfordshire. The address isn't given to customers, so I had to find it in the press office section of their website. They care more about investors than customers, you see. It was received and signed for 2 days later. I heard nothing back from them for over a month, so I emailed them twice and heard absolutely nothing. I had to look on Google for a phone number and eventually found one, though this only put me through to reservations, and the person on the phone had no idea how to contact Customer Services either, he kept telling me to use the contact form on the website even though I repeatedly explained they weren't replying.
So I once again emailed them, asking for a Customer Service phone number or I would claim the money paid for my stay back through the Government's 'MoneyClaim' site. This miraculously received a reply, telling me that CS didn't have a phone number and if I wanted to complain I would need to contact them in writing! I explained everything yet again. About a week later I received an email which informed me I had been given an e-voucher to the value of my stay. Basically a Travelodge voucher to use on the website. No apology or actual response to my complaint though!
Regarding individual hotel experiences, some are quite pleasant, a very small number are newly renovated, and the vast majority are cold, unwelcoming and dirty places. I'll write up separate reviews for the individual hotels to give a better insight.
Don't book Travelodge online they deliberately made a double booking and then refuse to give you a refund. They offer you evouchers instead and when you refuse them they send them to you anyway without addressing you're complaint. They have not complaints contact details so you will be dealing with the office that's ripped you off in the first place therefore you won't get anywhere with it. I WILL NEVER STAY IN A TRAVELODGE AGAIN. Don't make the same mistake! I've only put a star rating of one because they wouldn't allow me to leave none.


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There are two big piece of news today on the border crisis. The first is that Rick Perry is calling in the National Guard. The second is that Senate Dems are preparing to move forward with a measure to give Obama the $3.7 billion in funding he's requested for the crisis — and Senate Republicans will likely say No.
Taken together, the two developments neatly illustrate the larger game Republicans are playing here.
Perry has ordered in the National Guard to boost local and state law enforcement efforts to combat trafficking and boost border security, because he claims criminal organizations are benefiting from resources being diverted to deal with arriving young migrants. This will cost an estimated $12 million per month, and Perry plans to send the bill to the federal government. Meanwhile, John Boehner wants the Guard to provide humanitarian relief.
At the same time, Senate Dems are close to moving forward with their own measure to provide the $3.7 billion. That request would provide more resources to deal with arriving migrants — precisely what Perry says is siphoning resources away from security. Yet Republican Senators are likely to say No:
"I'm not saying no money is needed now, because we want to treat children and be helpful and humanitarian, treat them in a humanitarian and a compassionate way. "But we don't need $4 billion. That's clear," Sessions continued. He demanded that any supplemental funding request sent to Obama include a requirement that funding be blocked for federal initiatives that grants undocumented immigrants work permits — such as to beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
No money to address the crisis, unless Obama's deferred-deportation program is defunded. So here's where we are: It's unclear whether Republicans will support any federal response to the crisis that doesn't either send in the National Guard or call for more deportations of people with lives here. Yes, House Republicans are working on various border responses of their own. But even John Boehner isn't sure something will pass before August recess. And some conservatives (such as Sessions and Ted Cruz) insist the measure must block deferred-deportation programs, while others say Republicans should do nothing at all, because this is #Obummer's Mess and he should clean it up himself.
To be clear, there may be a legitimate role for the Guard to play, as the head of the Guard under George W. Bush has told me, though as he says, Republicans have not convincingly specified what it should be. And Obama may agree to some Guard role to win GOP support for a funding package. What's more, there's no denying serious divisions remain among Dems over how to respond to the debacle or that Obama still must show he can manage it effectively.
But the true dimensions of the Republican response to this major crisis deserve explication. Their main policy responses to it are designed to serve a clear political goal: Hyping the degree to which this is a border security issue rooted in a vague sense of Obama permissiveness and weakness on immigration, rather than a legal and international problem rooted in myriad causes such as violence in Central America and unintended consequences related to the bipartisan 2008 trafficking law. That overall political goal — using this crisis to feed exaggerated notions of border insecurity and conflate that with attacks on Obama over interior policy — is what unifies the call for sending in the Guard with the insistence that Obama's deferred-deportation programs are the problem.
In fairness, many Republicans are pushing for a change in the 2008 law, and agree or not, they appear to be grappling with the crisis. But they may not be able to pass anything. And amusingly enough, by fingering that law as the problem, they are undercutting other GOP arguments that the problem is #Obummer Weakness — and revealing the real game at the core of those arguments.
* WHY RICK PERRY IS CALLING IN NATIONAL GUARD: Manny Fernandez and Michael Shear say it's about a 2016 presidential run:
By seeking more military resources at the border, Mr. Perry may also be trying to repair his standing among some conservatives who had expressed doubts about his willingness to be tough on immigration. During a Republican presidential debate in 2012, the Texas governor defended in-state tuition for immigrants in the country illegally and said of those who disagreed: "I don't think you have a heart." That comment earned Mr. Perry scorn among some Republican primary voters.
Well, no doubt further militarizing the border will get him right with them.
* IS FLOW OF YOUNG MIGRANTS SLOWING? From the Post's overview of the situation:
Administration officials on Monday said the number of children apprehended on the border has fallen from a high of 355 per day last month to about 150 per day. On Friday, Obama will host the presidents of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras to emphasize joint efforts to stem the flow.
Still a long way to go. But in political terms the question is whether Obama can be seen managing the crisis effectively by this fall, and whether this will give him more space to act unilaterally on deportations if Republicans punt on the crisis.
* GRIMES KEEPS WHACKING McCONNELL OVER JOBS COMMENT: Alison Lundergan Grimes is up with a new ad hitting McConnell over his suggestion — which McConnell claims was taken out of context — that it is not his job as a Senator to create jobs. Grimes says: "That will be my number one job."
The ad is a reminder of the Grimes camp's determination to keep the race relentlessly focused on the Kentucky economy and McConnell's failure to deliver for the state despite his longtime tenure in the Senate.
* DEMS CRANK UP ATTACKS IN IOWA SENATE RACE: The DSCC is up with a new ad hitting GOP Senate candidate Joni Ernst for wanting to privatize Social Security, concluding: "Her ideas are just too extreme for Iowa."
The polling average shows the race with Dem Rep. Bruce Braley tied, and it is clear this is a true toss-up. But Dems believe voters have not been sufficiently informed as to Ernst's range of extreme positions, and you'll see a fairly aggressive effort to address that beginning right about now.
* GEORGIA SENATE PRIMARY SET FOR TODAY: Voters go to the polls in Georgia today to choose their nominee to face Democrat Michelle Nunn, and it's shaping up as a nasty, divisive affair, which has Democrats cautiously optimistic about putting the GOP-held seat in play.
Nunn holds small leads over GOP Rep. Jack Kingston, and over businessman David Purdue. But now Republicans are divided, so we'll have to wait to see what happens after the primary to get a sense of the real state of the race.
* REPUBLICANS WORRIED ABOUT GEORGIA RACE? Cameron Joseph reports:
"This race has definitely tightened up. This is going to be a close race one way or the other," said Joel McElhannon, another neutral Georgia Republican strategist.
Nunn has brought in $3.5 million over the last three months, more than Kingston and Perdue combined…it's clear she'll have the early cash advantage. "When she turns in fundraising numbers like she did, obviously that's concerning and frustrating," one Georgia Republican said.
If somehow Dems can flip either Kentucky or Georgia — as difficult as it seems — it would make the GOP road to a majority very steep indeed.
* ANOTHER OBAMACARE DISASTER FAILING TO MATERIALIZE: Sam Baker brings the terrible news:
Nearly 20 states have released preliminary information about premiums for insurance policies sold on their insurance exchanges, and the nightmare scenarios have not come to pass. In most of those states, the average increase across all exchange plans is in the single digits.
According to a PricewaterhouseCoopers analysis of 18 states' initial filings, 10 states will see average premium increases of less than 10 percent—nominal hikes in line with the standard increases that have happened every year with or without Obamacare.
Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.
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Hockey Night in Canada play-by-play man Jim Hughson says the Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs are taking turns with their cold and hot streaks.
Hughson evaluates the recent play of the Canadiens and Leafs and points out the similarities in their opposite successes and disappointments since the Olympic break.
Watch his full video blog above.
The Montreal Canadiens visit the Toronto Maple Leafs on Hockey Night in Canada on Saturday night (CBC, CBCSports.ca, 6:30 p.m. ET).
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Indianapolis, Ind. Leveraging proprietary design techniques, Trilithic Inc. says its new series of miniature RF filters deliver the high performance characteristics of typically much larger devices. They are available in a variety of models, ranging from low-cost, surface-mount styles to mil-spec and space-qualified versions that meet stringent requirements for shock, vibration, temperature cycling, as well as other key parameters.
The miniature series filters provide the performance of tubular and LC-type designs in much smaller packages and meet the majority of filter applications including low-pass, high-pass, band-reject and bandpass filters. They can also be used as delay lines, exhibiting excellent control of group delay distortion, said the company.
The company says most applications for the miniature RF filters can be satisfied with low-ripple Chebyshev designs, which combine low passband VSWR, high sensitivity, and high attenuation in the stop bands. However, Butterworth, Bessel, linear phase, Gaussian, and elliptic responses can be developed for specific requirements. The LC filter topology can be customized as well, in order to provide higher rejection on the low side of the passband or arithmetically symmetric rejection around the passband.
The Z series surface-mount types are available in various styles. They can accommodate three sections, and cover a frequency range up to 1.5 GHz. The Y Series, which is larger, can accommodate up to eight sections, and offers a maximum frequency range of 3.5 GHz. The A Series the largest surface-mount type handles a maximum frequency range of 3.5 MHz and can accommodate more complex designs.
Other package styles include TO-8 models with a frequency range up to 1 GHz that accommodate up to six sections, in-line styles to 3.5 GHz that handle up to 10 sections, low-frequency styles that cover up to 500 MHz (and as low as 2 MHz) and can handle 12 sections, and dual-filter types in surface-mount packages that cover up to 3 GHz with eight sections and are designed for channeled receivers that require phase or amplitude-matching in pairs. They can also save board space when used as a filter assembly for the first and second IF.
Other types include form-fit replacements for existing package styles, as well as military and space flight models that meet fine leak test specifications; handle acceleration forces as high as 50 G; survive wide extremes of temperature and humidity, and withstand corrosive environments. Nearly all package styles can be hermetically sealed.
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- Ionic mechanisms of burst firing in dissociated Purkinje neuronsAndrew M Swensen
Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Robustness of burst firing in dissociated purkinje neurons with acute or long-term reductions in sodium conductanceAndrew M Swensen
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J Neurosci 25:3509-20. 2005..6-/- mutant neurons. Thus, Purkinje neurons have both acute and long-term feedback mechanisms that serve to maintain burst firing when voltage-dependent sodium conductance is reduced...
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Eur J Neurosci 26:2950-61. 2007..This strong resistance to inactivation parallels the property of Purkinje neurone P-type currents and is suggestive of a role for CaVbeta2a in modulating the inactivation properties of P-type calcium currents in Purkinje neurones...
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The New York Daily News is reporting New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez was approached for cash by Anthony Bosch -- owner of the now-closed Biogenesis of America clinic in Coral Gables, Fla., -- now at the centre of Major League Baseball's current performance-enhancing drug scandal.
According to the report, Rodriguez rejected Bosch's request - believed to be in the hundreds of thousands - before Bosch began cooperating with Major League Baseball's long-running investigation.
On Wednesday, a report by CBS News cited a league executive claiming that Bosch could implicate as many as 25 MLB players.
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Toronto Dominion's American ConquestBy
At the main campus of TD University in the Philadelphia suburb of Mount Laurel, N.J., bright green, red, blue, and yellow walls of varying angles brighten dozens of classrooms, complete with mock teller stations and a bank vault. A 400-seat theater hosts everything from pep rallies to air-hockey tournaments. All of Toronto-Dominion Bank's (TD) 24,000 U.S. employees must attend a five-hour training session here or at one of 47 other campuses across the country. "You have to buy 100 percent into our culture," says Fred Graziano, president of U.S. consumer banking for the Toronto-based company. "That's how we start them off and let them know what we stand for."
The training is a centerpiece of Chief Executive Officer Edmund Clark's strategy to export the customer service model that has made his bank the most profitable consumer lender in Canada. If he makes it work, he'll do what most Canadian banks have failed to do: post sustained profit in a market more than four times the size of Canada's.
"The next step will be proving the bank can consistently grow revenue in a marketplace in which the competitive, economic, and regulatory backdrop appears much more difficult than what TD faces at home," says Sumit Malhotra, a bank analyst at Macquarie Capital Markets in Toronto.
So far, Clark is succeeding. Canada's second-biggest bank recorded C$282 million ($276 million) in U.S. consumer bank earnings in the most recent quarter—a record for the fledgling division and almost a quarter of the company's overall profit of C$1.18 billion. Toronto-Dominion said in June that U.S. operations may have earnings of $1.6 billion a year within three years.
Convinced that there were limited growth opportunities in Canada—the federal government blocked domestic bank mergers in 1998—Clark, who became CEO in 2002, set his sights on the U.S. Since 2004, Toronto-Dominion has spent almost C$20 billion on U.S. acquisitions. Its biggest was the March 2008 purchase of Cherry Hill (N.J.)-based Commerce Bancorp for about C$8.5 billion. It now has about 1,300 branches in 16 states from Maine to Florida, compared with 1,116 in Canada. "We made a decision to go big or go home," says Clark, 63. "We wanted to make sure that we could...create a truly North American bank."
Domestic rivals haven't grown as quickly south of the Canadian border. Royal Bank of Canada (RY), the country's largest lender, hasn't recorded a profit in the last nine quarters at its international banking unit, which includes operations in North Carolina and Alabama. The lender has spent $4.6 billion buying U.S. consumer banks since 2001. At Bank of Montreal (BMO), which invested $3.4 billion to build its Chicago-based Harris Bank, U.S. profit accounted for just 6 percent of net income in the latest quarter.
As it does in Canada, Toronto-Dominion counts on customer service to distinguish itself from rivals. It calls its U.S. branches "stores" and pursues a strategy that Bharat Masrani, head of U.S. operations, calls "retail-tainment." Each store features a coin-counting machine—labeled "Penny Arcade"—that's free for customers to convert spare change into bills. People who guess how much change they have within $1.99 are eligible to play a video game where they can win TD-branded prizes.
In addition, many stores feature drive-through teller lanes; free pens; lollipops and piggy banks for children; and water bowls and treats for dogs. Many of the locations are open seven days a week, from 7:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. The bank surveys 800 clients each night to assess the service.
Such touches helped Toronto-Dominion increase consumer lending by 20 percent in the U.S. from the end of 2007 to June 2010, says Masrani. That compares with a 4 percent average decrease among other major U.S. banks, he says.
In addition to boosting lending, Toronto-Dominion wants to increase the number of products it sells to each U.S. client to five or six from three, according to Graziano. "Where we don't have our fair share are things like residential lending," he says. "We have the product set—now we're going back to our customers and we're doing a better job of selling it to them." The bank also plans to have advisers at all branches who can offer TD Ameritrade brokerage products by yearend, Graziano says.
Clark recognizes the timing of his foray into the U.S. wasn't ideal. "Obviously what we didn't anticipate was that the world would have a financial crisis and the U.S. would have the biggest downturn since the Great Depression," he says. Even so, Clark says he is not retreating from his ambitious profit targets for the U.S. business: "Bharat's challenge is going to be, O.K., to the extent that the world's gotten worse, what are you going to do" to reach your goals?
The bottom line: Toronto-Dominion hopes its emphasis on customer service will help it become the first Canadian bank to excel in the U.S.


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These are the words that I heard this night, and as I asked God what they meant, the Spirit of the Lord came to me saying that indeed this year is the year to "make His paths straight." Years of confusion over the status of the church, and the affairs of this life have left far too many of God's people in shambles. The cry has been, where is safe passage to my future? For those who have asked this, the spirit of the Lord would say unto you the same message as we find in Luke 3:
A Baptism of Life-Change
1-6 In the fifteenth year of the rule of Caesar Tiberius—it was while Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea; Herod, ruler of Galilee; his brother Philip, ruler of Iturea and Trachonitis; Lysanias, ruler of Abilene; during the Chief-Priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas—John, Zachariah's son, out in the desert at the time, received a message from God. He went all through the country around the Jordan River preaching a baptism of life-change leading to forgiveness of sins, as described in the words of Isaiah the prophet:
Thunder in the desert!
"Prepare God's arrival!
Make the road smooth and straight!
Every ditch will be filled in,
Every bump smoothed out,
The detours straightened out,
All the ruts paved over.
Everyone will be there to see
The parade of God's salvation." (MSG)
Even as those in Jesus day saw a world looking for answers, so too we see today in the year of our Lord 2010, people looking for someone to take away their confusion and lead them onto the path of safety. Far too many feel that answer is in the government.
The Lord would say unto you, "there is no safety, but in me. Do not look for solutions from man, turn your hearts to me, says the Lord. Repent from those things you have allowed to creep into your heart and take dominion that were not pleasing and give me your heart once again. Rend your hearts, not your garments – for I long to dwell in your hearts and grant you the safe passage you desire. I desire to make straight your paths, I desire to make level every crooked place in you life, I desire to have your cup run over with life, and that more abundantly."
Beloved this is the year of our breakthrough – that which we have sought God for – He will reveal to every heart that asks the secrets of His Kingdom. We must arise in the faith that God has given to the believer, and we must arise in faith in the Word of God – it will not fail us! God has given unto us, "exceedingly great ad precious promises" – they belong to us – our prayer must be, "thy kingdom come, thy will be done, in earth, as it is in heaven," for we have entered the Kingdom Age where our allegiance must be to the God of our salvation and our faith must know that nothing is impossible with God!
Trust God this year – He is near to all those who will call upon Him!
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Poor Old Me
by Berni Dymet
Prov. 14:21 Those who despise their neighbors are sinners, but happy are those who are kind to the poor.
Every now and then we get to thinking "Poor old me." Maybe things aren't going so well here or there - or we're feeling rundown, a bit low.
Poor old me.
A couple of years ago I had the opportunity to stand in the middle of a poor village in India.
These people lived in such abject poverty - I wept.
Truth is - until that moment I had no idea what poor meant. I don't know your financial circumstances.
What I do know is that Jesus spent most of His time amongst the poor. And his strongest language was reserved for the often wealthy religious hypocrites.
Each one of us can find a way to put food on someone's table that doesn't have enough to eat. Each one of us can find a way to put a roof over the heads of a family that have no shelter.
Each one of us can find a way to bring compassion and comfort to someone who's hurting. It's a Jesus thing.
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Hes won the Stanley Cup, the Olympics, the World Junior and world mens hockey championships and the Conn Smythe Trophy as the most valuable player in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
But what seems to put the admiration for Winnipegs Jonathan Toews over the top has nothing to do with any trophy or award.
He just seems like a down-to-earth nice guy whos proud to be from Winnipeg, St. Vital resident Nadine Blashko said Sunday. And you dont see that all that often, sometimes. Hes been a great role model for the kids. He takes his role seriously on his hockey team, to his community. Hes kept himself well-grounded.
Blashko and her husband waited in line to get Toews to sign hockey jerseys for their two sons, who couldnt be there.
It seemed half of St. Vital, though, turned out for a parade which wound up at the Dakota Community Clentre, now the newly renamed Jonathan Toews Community Centre.
Many showed up with children, calling Toews the perfect role model for their community.
The guy seems super, hockey dad Perry Gilmour, son Brayden in tow, said. Everybody knows him on this end of town. Hes just one of those guys you just cant say enough good things about. Hes a super representative, for St. Vital and for Winnipeg and for Canada as a whole ... hes a spectacular role model.
Gilmour, who lives just a few blocks from Dakota, says Toews was already the talk of the club when he was a boy.
Weve all come out at certain points about 10 years ago to see him play, he said. You always heard about him, so youd go out to the community club. Everybody talks about him. Its good to see a homegrown boy excel on the world stage.
Despite his accolades and an annual paycheque in the millions, Toews seems to have kept his humility and an appreciation for his roots.
Theres a lot of humble, down-to-earth people here, Toews said. A lot of those people would handle it the same way I am now.
Its easy to take the credit when youre on a winning team. Youve really got to realize it was more just taking advantage of an opportunity than anything else. You work hard to get those opportunities. Thats all I attribute it to: I worked hard and got lucky. Things went my way.
David Borowski is a local golf pro who remembers Toews booking tee times as a youngster at St. Boniface Golf Club.
The type of captain, the type of person and character that he is, that just speaks volumes to the turnout here today, Borowski said. People respect his hockey ability, but they respect him as a person, as well.


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March marks anniversary of massacre in Highlands
Members of the Scottish Socialist Republican Movement, a loose collection of left-wing Scottish nationalists, marched through Glencoe village yesterday to mark this week's 321st anniversary of the 1692 Massacre of Glencoe, in which 38 members of the MacDonald clan were killed by government soldiers.
In previous years members of the group videoed themselves burning a Union flag.
Yesterday, a copy of the proclamation instructing troops to massacre members of clan MacDonald was set alight.


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.- Organizers for the 2013 World Youth Day in Rio de Janerio announced that the official song for the event will be released on July 22.
Father Leandro Lenin, a member of the organizing committee, said in a post on the event's official website, "Without a doubt, the face of Rio de Janeiro, and the face of the Church in Brazil will be present in the song."
The "memorable" song will be presented during the July 20 – 22 "Pre-World Youth Day," which will host hundreds of young people at a Rio de Janerio gymnasium.
Judges are now in the final phase of selecting the top 20 lyrical submissions, which were drawn from a field of 180 entries received during a six-month contest.
The lyrics were judged based on their creativity, spiritual values, harmony, composition and connection with the theme of WYD 2013, which is taken from the Gospel of Matthew, "Go and make disciples of the nations."
The jury selecting the winning entry is made up of a variety of music professionals, including professional recording artists and music professors. It also includes members of the World Youth Day committee who will review the religious and doctrinal content of the lyrics.
"Everything that comes to us goes through an evaluation process, mainly in the area of doctrine and matters of faith," Fr. Lenin said, "but the creative process of those who are submitting lyrics is being respected."
Once the World Youth Day lyrics are chosen, they will "go through a process of approval and adjustments for the big debut," he explained.
The winning submission will be put to a melody by the World Youth Day Rio organizers.


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Cosplayer Kimmy > Costume of Kunogi Himawari (xxxHoLic)
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- 05-29-2012
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- xxxHoLic
- Character
- Kunogi Himawari
- Special Variation:
- Victorian Rose Dress
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- Construction Difficulty:
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- Costume worn at:
- Anime Boston 2011
- Anime North 2011
- Katsucon 2012
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- Construction Details:
The purple is a two-toned taffeta. The bustling was easier than I thought it would be. It's actually all just pinned in place so I can still undo it and iron the fabric if need be. The white skirt is two layers since the fabric I used is kind of see-through. The top layer is the equivalent of one and a half circle skirts bunched up a bit towards the bottom of it and the layer underneath is another circle skirt. The gloves were found at a thrift store and were then colored yellow. The yellow accessory parts (I don't know what else to call them) were made using cross stitching sheets with pearl beads woven into them.
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Topic: hernan cattaneo @ bedrock brighton that friday night!!!
please somebody post the review here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
<i>Edited by: circuit breaker 000 at: 8/23/02 3:24:34 am
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please somebody post the review here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
<i>Edited by: circuit breaker 000 at: 8/23/02 3:24:34 am
there were reviews of that night on the board, just go back and find em. Cant post 1 myself as i wasnt there.
My top class review of the night.
messy, wicked, great set, some top tunes that we all know. started with Music, music, music...takes you there, there, there....
And it ended with 'Start spreading the newwwsssss...'
i went with hernan to the beach that night and had a great time... look out shortly for some of the following records he played
amorphous androgynous - auto pimp (steiger mix)
paolo mojo and hellpass - kick
leon roberts - in the hole (wink mix)
deep dish remix of timo mass
eddie amador 'psycho ex girlfriend'
Some other tunes he played...
Thomaz Vs Filterheadz - Sunshine (intec)
causing a bit of a stir...
+ Danny Sullivan & kemist - Snake Chamber... been disapearing off hooj like no-one's business... shame they haven't released the Coombs mix on vinyl thou...
Loved that night, hopefully Herrnan will be back in Brighton sooner rather than later.
biggus eddus... the have mate...its A-side of disc 2.... on the promo service (they were out of copies but just got more in stock) with release date 2nd sept
Nice 1 xeb! I presume it was from hooj.com...
For anyone who's interested there were a couple of copies (D1) on juno the other day, definetly worth a look.
yeah sorry, hooj promo service
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Hernan Catteneo played a (?new) mix of BT-Remember, that J Lisle also played at Deeper Substance. Anyone know what the mix was?
thats a bootleg I did of sugar high and BT. interesting that jon lisle played it... I havent given it to him!
That's because it was me who actually played Paul's track and not Jonathan although he definitely showed a very keen interest in it hanging round the booth when I played it
Argie man rocks!!!
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Bennett Guest House, within a few blocks of the historic Fairhaven neighborhood
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Mt Bakery, serving breakfast, lunch, and great baked goods, downtown.
Zazou, French bistro downtown serving dinner
AW Asian Bistro and Sushi Bar, great Asian-fusion fare in Fairhaven, lunch and dinner
Cape Fox Lodge, located on a hill overlooking the city
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Sea Level B&B, walking distance to downtown
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Waterfront B&B, short walk to downtown
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Water's Edge B&B, beach home two miles from downtown
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Coastal Cold Storage, yes, they serve take out lunch! Tasty seafood fare.
Northern Lights, near marina, serving 3 meals a day, standard fare.
Tina's Kitchen, next to Scandia House, serving lunch and dinner in covered outdoor seating. Korean and Mexican fare.
Java Hus, good coffee, next to Scandia House.
(907) 747-8023. Let Ann know you are a guest of Alaska on the Home Shore for your discount.
Alaska Ocean View B&B, upscale
www.sitka-alaska-lodging.com, (888) 811-6870
Eddystone Inn B&B, beautiful destination five miles outside of town
www.eddystoneinn.com, (907) 747-3313
Totem Square Hotel, downtown
www.totemsquareinn.com, (866) 300-1353
Super 8 Hotel, basic hotel within short walk of downtown
www.super8.com, 907-747-8804
Westmark Sitka, upscale, centrally located, Raven Dining Room.
(907) 747-6241
The Backdoor, coffee, baked goods, soups and sandwiches downtown.
Galley Cafe & Deli, great bread, sandwiches, and salads downtown.
Little Tokyo, good sushi downtown
Victoria's, good all-purpose diner downtown
www.prospectorhotel.com, (800) 331-2711
Wolf House B&B, two miles from downtown
www.alaskawolfhouse.com, (888) 4AK-WOLF
Beachside Villa Inn, two minute drive from downtown, waterfront lodging
www.beachsidevillainn.com, (888) 879-0858
The Twisted Fish, excellent seafood located at the Taku Salmon Smokery
Hangar on the Wharf, waterfront pub style restaurant
Silverbow Bakery, serving breakfast and lunch downtown


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How cute is Buddy?
His current rating is 4.52 out of 5 with 25 vote(s).
All about Buddy
Pet Tip
Cats that Beg for Food – Pet tip 183
Begging behaviour is really common in dogs and normally occurs when dogs hang around humans eating at a table. They stare you down with their sad eyes; they whimper, paw you and perhaps even bark in order to get you …
- Owner:
- Juanita Beary
- City:
- Oil City
- Province, Country:
- PA, United States
- Type/Breed:
- Tiger Cat
- Date of Birth:
- 10/10/2000
- Sex:
- Male
- Height:
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Hi my name is Buddy. I love to sleep on the floor the best. I dont sleep on the beds to often. I like to play with some string that is about it though.I dont like the other animals in the house that much because they always try to get the best of me and to eat my food and drink my milk in the mornings. I dont like baths at all and ever since we moved I am not aloud outside anymore and I like it outside and inside is driving me crazy. I dont liked to be held that much either only when I get on your lap not when you pick me up. i do like to be around little kids though and other ppl they are great company. I dont like to get cat food that much if I can get someone else to feed me human food.


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This PVC, phthalate, latex, BPA and lead free teething toy from Smart Mom is truly a smart invention. Practical, a safe alternative to plastic chew toys (and a safe alternative to chewing on metal and beaded jewelry) and stylish!
Yep, stylish! This chew toy doubles as a fun necklace for mom, and a teething toy for baby. Teething Bling®, this trendy teething jewelry, was inspired by babies who like to tug on women's jewelry.
And any mom can tell you, from experience of babies pulling and mouthing their jewelry, that this is an ingenious idea!
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Smart Mom's Silicone Teether
Any mother is sure to fall in love with this pretty necklace. What a charming baby shower gift!
This trendy necklace is a gift for both mama, and baby!
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In this episode Helen Schnoes and Mary Miller of the Douglas County Food Policy Council to discuss how to work inside your city limits to gain agricultural rights for your community.
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Kada Klouche, holder of M.D. and Ph.D. degrees, is the Head of the Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Lapeyronie University Hospital, Montpellier, France. Klouche is a Cardiologist and Nephrologist. Klouche's areas of expertise and interest are septic shock, acute renal failure, cardiac arrest, ARDS ICU and hematologic malignancy, renal transplantation, and severe metabolic disorders
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Raptors finish regular season at 0-8
If the East Ridge football team is to win a game in its inaugural season, it will have to come against a Class AAAA team, not a Class AAAAA squad.
The Raptors wrapped up regular season play on Tuesday night with their eighth loss of the year against zero victories after a 32-20 loss on the natural grass field at Forest Lake.
After giving up the first touchdown in the opening quarter, East Ridge knotted the count at 6-6 on a 14-yard touchdown run from Dayo Idowu. Both teams missed their extra-point conversions.
It would not cost the Rangers, however, who scored the next 20 points before halftime to put the game out of reach, 26-6, at the break.
Another Idowu touchdown, this time a 24-yard run, in the third-quarter along with a one-yard scoring plunge from fullback Austin Fischer in the fourth, pulled the Raptors to within a single score at 26-20, before a final touchdown from the hosts put the game away and brought the score to its final 12-point spread.
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For anyone who doesn't own a DS yet (is there anyone left?), Nintendo are encouraging you to go out and buy one this weekend by offering new colors and bundles from November 28th.{ad}
Two new colors are on offer, Mario Red and Ice Blue. The Mario Red version also sports a Mario M on the exterior case and is shipped with a copy of New Super Mario Bros.. The Ice Blue version ships with Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day and a custom carrying case. Both new DS Lites will cost you US$149.99 each.
That price isn't bad with a game; and a case if you like the Ice Blue version. Amazon sell the handheld on its own for US$129.99. Those considering a new DS are in a bit of a quandary. Do they sit on their hands and wait for the DSi next year? Or put the cash down now and try to forget about the updated machine?
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At Tyco Trial No. 2, Similarities To No. 1
By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN and ROBEN FARZAD
Published: June 20, 2005
There was a chance of another mistrial.
On June 8, the fifth day of deliberations, Judge Michael J. Obus received two disturbing notes from several jurors who were deciding the fate of Tyco International's former chief executive, L. Dennis Kozlowski.
Four jurors privately wrote a note to the judge -- independently of the other members of the panel -- to complain that one juror had stopped participating, according to people briefed on its contents.
Another juror, the subject of the first note, scribbled a note defending herself.
The notes produced an eerie sense of re-experiencing the past: the first trial of Mr. Kozlowski and his top lieutenant, Mark H. Swartz, ended last April in a mistrial after a lone juror who was holding out for an acquittal stopped deliberating.
That caused her fellow jurors to write a note to the judge that ''the atmosphere in the jury room has turned poisonous.'' That set of notes and a bizarre scene in the courtroom in which the holdout juror appeared to make an ''O.K.'' sign to the defense eventually upended that case when she was identified in the news media and was sent a threatening letter from a stranger.
This time, sensing the potential for a second media firestorm, Judge Obus immediately closed the courtroom to the public and sealed the two notes so he could share their contents with the prosecutors and defense lawyers without tipping off the growing gaggle of press.
Inside the jury room, Audrey Hodge, Juror No. 3, was the one causing the frustration, according to several jurors who recounted their experience in a series of interviews. (Some of them did not want to be identified by name.)
Ms. Hodge, a social services worker from Harlem, told the six men and five other women on the panel that she was not convinced of the men's guilt and wanted to see more evidence and hear more testimony read back to them.
''I was looking for innocence. I didn't want to find anyone guilty,'' Ms. Hodge said in an interview on Friday. ''We all had a rough time in the beginning; people were unsure and needed explanation.''
But by Friday things were very different: the 12 jurors found Mr. Kozlowski and Mr. Swartz guilty on charges of fraud, conspiracy and grand larceny. The retrial, while similar in many aspects to the first one, had important differences. The composition of the second jury was different, and Mr. Kozlowski took the stand in the retrial.
Many of the jurors said that Mr. Kozlowski and Mr. Swartz would have been better off not testifying. ''They were not believable, all that stuff about Philip Hampton,'' said one juror, referring to Mr. Kozlowski's explanation that Mr. Hampton, the former chairman of Tyco's compensation committee who died in 2001, had given the two permission to pay themselves millions of dollars in bonuses. ''That was a weak defense,'' the juror said.
Yet the 10 days that led to Friday's verdict were difficult. At the time the notes were sent, the jury had been deliberating for days around a rectangular table in a room on the 13th floor of State Supreme Court, with its view of the reporters and cameras in front of the courthouse on Centre Street in Lower Manhattan. They were beginning to grow weary, with some taking increasingly long smoking breaks.
They had not made much progress. The jury, which had taken a couple of straw polls already, was all over the place, with certain jurors wanting to convict on certain counts and acquit on others and still others, like Ms. Hodge, ambivalent about taking any position.
''This was a very confusing case,'' said Isaac Rosenthal, the jury foreman and a recent college graduate. ''There were a lot of ifs and maybes.''
The jury members said they felt overwhelmed by the numbers and accounting issues. Some jurors expressed aggravation over what they perceived to be the defense's strategy during jury selection to populate the panel with blue-collar workers. ''They picked a jury that would get easily confused,'' one juror said. ''There was some financial kingpin from Deutsche Bank sitting near me in the beginning. Of course he didn't make it on.''
The jury from the first trial included several members with accounting backgrounds, all of whom said after the mistrial that they had been prepared to convict the two men.
Many on the second jury said they did not understand the mathematical formulas the defense used to show how Tyco's bonus program worked.
But that fifth day of deliberations may have proved to be a turning point, the jurors said. While they still disagreed on a variety of counts, the note-passing episode broke the impasse, forcing every juror's view out into the open.
The jury then began making progress as it asked for testimony to be read back and for additional evidence. While some jurors originally thought the two men were not guilty of some of the grand larceny counts, a growing chorus of jurors prepared to convict emerged as they compared the testimony with the mountains of documentary evidence.
''Essentially it came down to the evidence -- the lack of evidence supporting the defendants' claims. The company has a basic principle on compensation: If it was given, then it was in writing,'' said Devin Richardson, Juror No. 11 and a technician for Time Warner Cable. ''I personally went in there thinking innocence.''
A big part of the jurors' discussions surrounded the definition of reasonable doubt, especially after Michael Jackson was acquitted and several jurors in that case went on television and said they had found reasonable doubt. One of the Tyco jurors said that several members of the panel holding out for acquittal were holding too high a threshold for reasonable doubt. ''Remember, it's not about being 100 percent,'' one juror told the group. ''It's about not having reasonable doubt.''
Jurors said they were less convinced on the charges of falsifying records because prosecutors spent little time on those charges.
In the end, after going through all the evidence, each juror agreed to convict on all but that one count against Mr. Kozlowski and Mr. Swartz.
''This guilty verdict is not a 'good' verdict,'' Ms. Hodge said. ''It weighs on us. When you cannot find someone innocent it just touches you. But you have no choice.''
Photos: L. Dennis Kozlowski, Tyco's former chief, testified in his second trial.; Mark H. Swartz and his wife, Karen, on their way to court on Friday. (Photographs by Specer Platt/Getty Images)(pg. C2)


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Leaphorn, Joe, Lt. (Fictitious character)
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The If-Else Construct in Models 9
Posted by Seth Popinchalk,
Balaji Kalluri asked a question in the comments of a post about the MUX block. Balaji asked:
Hi All
I would be highly obliged, if someone can show me a route to model a typical 2-to-1 Multiplexer, the way we have read & understood it. I want to translate behavior of typical digital 2-to-1 Mux works like this into SIMULINK model.
out = in1;
elseif (sel==1)
out = in2;
Today I want to look at one way to solve this question.
Controlling which signal passes through (Switch)
One way to think about this problem is to control which signal gets passed through the system. The switch block provides a way to pass through one signal or another based on the value of a control signal.
This creates an if-expression: when the conditional statement is true, out is set equal to the first inport, otherwise, out is set equal to the third inport.
Optimizing the model
This represents the desired logic, but there is another way to think about the problem. Consider that both in1 and in2 are the result of some other expensive calculations. When this is the case, you will want to perform only one of the calculations needed for your output expression instead of always computing both values and then discarding the one that isn't needed.
Luckily, this is a common pattern and Simulink provides an optimization to improve efficiency. By default, Conditional input branch execution is turned On (in the Configuration Parameters -> Optimization page).
This optimization allows Simulink to group the upstream blocks together and tuck them into the conditional statement of the Switch block. You may be able to understand the behavior if you turn on the block sorted order display, but I prefer to look at the code for simple models like this.
This optimization is not just limited to the Switch blocks. Other blocks that produce conditional expressions can incorporate upstream and downstream blocks in their code.
I want to end this discussion with two important notes.
- I made up this example specifically to demonstrate the effect of this optimization. Because it is so simple, I had to disable Expression Folding, or else the code would be the same, no matter what. I do not encourage anyone disable expression folding without good reason.
- Because this is an optimization, you cannot guarantee this behavior. If you add something as simple as a Test point between the Gain and Switch Block this will disable the optimization.
There are other ways to model efficient conditional behavior and explicitly guard the execution of an algorithm. I will leave that topic for a future post.
Now it's your turn
Do you think about the efficiency of your models? How do you use the Switch block? Leave a comment here and share what you know.
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This is great. We need to implement this in our code.
@Anand Rangaramu – I hope you can turn on this optimization, but I think you should also strive to add explicit specifications of conditional behavior to your model. Stay tuned for a post on that.
Can this be used to pass in a large structure, then after the first pass, not have the large structure as input?
Like a Data File which gets passed in once, and then not looked passed in after that?
Does this just impact the generated code, or does the Matlab/Simulink Internals fetch the data anyways before the assignments in the code? I'd like to have a selector "first_time_called" then not have the input get copied since it won't change after the first call in generated code or simulink engine. (Note: values in the file are not known until run time so it can't be hard coded)
I wonder if the pseudo code on the right is correct.
Copy and paste mistake?
Without the Signal storage reuse option set,
the if-branch should use rtb_in1 instead of rtb_in2.
With activated Signal storage reuse option,
both if- and else-branch should directly write to the out variable.
@HansUS – Notice that both sides of the IF statement reference the same temporary variable, in this case named rtb_in2. I think you are suggesting that it would be more efficient to directly write to the out variable, and you are correct. The reason this model doesn't do that is because I disabled the expression folding optimization. The model is so simple that with expression folding turned on, both codes were the same. Please see important note 1 above. Thanks for the comment.
What if there is a unit delay or so in an input branch. Will the optimization work correct? Or just do the optimization for the part of the branch which is after the unit delay?
@Orucn – the Unit Delay represents a state in the system. States upstream of an switch block should not be optimized as the state still needs to update, no matter what the value of the switch. If you want it to execute differently, it would be better to explicitly model the conditional behavior. There is an example of this in the post titled A Better If-Else Construct.
oh God i got, wt i wanted…implementing a multiplexer
I am trying to implement something like
#if(condition) {
Please let me know how this can be implemented in simulink?


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Sawyer County remains that of mission woman from Taylor County, murder suspected
Human remains found this past weekend in Sawyer County were those of a Taylor County woman missing for three and one-half months.
For the first time today (Tuesday), authorities confirmed she was murdered.
Jean Viken, 39, disappeared from her home Jan. 29 in the town of Holway, and her van was found in February in a forest in Ashland County.
Investigators suspected foul play at the time.
Taylor County Chief Deputy Larry Woebbeking said Viken's remains were discovered about 20 miles from where he van was spotted.
The official also said there are several persons of interest in the case.
Trout fishermen found the woman's remains.
A forensic team identified them as Viken's. They said she died from a gunshot wound.


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Is America Really an Honest Broker in the Peace Process?
The contrast between the statements made by President Obama and the State Department regarding the recognition of Israel as a Jewish state are troubling.
The idea that America's role in the Middle East "peace process" should be as an "honest broker" is one I've opposed for decades. To...
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