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As you suspect, if it cant be turned manually, the starter shouldnt be used.
I have heard and read of accounts where guys did an initial upper cylinder lube, and then went out each day, manually trying to turn over the engine. One way, then the other, gaining a slight amount of movement each day, finally to break it free.
Personally, I think it is most of the time a waste of time. The times I have done it was with engines out of vehicle. The crank had to be turned to get the engine disassembled, and the cylinders were always a mess. Just take the intake and heads off and see what the problem is. Could very well be a broken head(s) which leaked coolant into cylinders, to sit and rust for years. Or if the engine sat exposed without hood or air cleaner, same deal. Or all could be ok. Then it is an opportunity to clean up rocker and chambers, install gaskets, and see what happens.
One home brew for a WD-40 type lube is 50% ATF and 50% Acetone. I've tried it a couple times on various things and still dont have an opinion on effectiveness. One thing for sure, it has to be shaken immediately before use because the concoction separates very quickly.
I am soaking the cylinders now with that "brew" as well as marvel and PB Blaster. I am trying to eliminate taking apart the engine too far.... I don't know too much about the inner workings other than the basics, valves and pistons and crank. It may be a little above my ability. If this doesn't work, Ill have to dig in deeper. Thank you for the information! I appreciate it.
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Did you have any rust on plugs? You can try and use a pry bar on flywheel and see if you can get the motor to move in either direction even if a little,and if it moves just move it back and forth.
I did have rust on 1 of the plugs, but the other 7 looks like new. Sooo, my guess is that the cylinder with its exhaust valve open is the one that has some rust in it. Where do I pry off of? I tried a breaker bar with an extension on the nut on the flywheel, but it didn't move.
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Thanks to KSK's Video Game Journalism team, an elite squad consisting of, well, pretty much all the writers here, Kissing Suzy Kolber was able to simulate and predict the outcome of Super Bowl 48 with a wide variety of video games. Below are our findings. Feel free to use them to help you consider betting strategies prior to the big game rolling around.
NBA Jam: Broncos win by 7, because Peyton Manning is perpetually locked in Big-Head Mode.
Shenmue: Peyton Manning spends the entire game asking if anyone knows where sailors hang out. He is sacked 9 times. Seahawks win by 14.
Kirby's Dream Land: The Evil King RogRogRog has removed all the coffee from the press box, so PK embarks on an magical quest to retrieve it. PK accidentally inhales and swallows the entire Broncos offensive line. Seahawks win, but PK now has the power to run block.
Red Dead Redemption: Broncos by 12 based on a riverboat gambling fix and the bounty placed on our heads when we accidentally stole a horse because it was tied up RIGHT NEXT TO OURS COME ON. (Also a cougar came out of nowhere and killed us three times on the Seahawks run through so we're a bit bitter about that.)
MLB: The Show: Did you know Russell Wilson was drafted by the Rangers? Seahawks by 14.
Earthbound: Just when all hope seems lost for your favorite team, your heartfelt prayer reaches the ears of your favorite player and, with your help, your favorite team will triumph against all odds. Also, you'll probably cry a bit.
Assassins Creed: Black Flag: Seahawks by 5, but only if you find all the sunken ships.
Fallout: New Vegas: Peyton Manning's android body makes him the only player who can withstand the high rad levels in MetLife stadium. With his dying breath, Matt Prater uses V.A.T.S. to kick the most accurate field goal ever attempted. Broncos win.
Flower: Tie, but both sides still played for approximately 17 hours.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: Marshawn Lynch uses the voice of the Dovakhiin to create his own running lanes with a mighty "FUS". Seahawks by 11.
Call of Duty: Seahawks fans call everyone "fag" until everyone just leaves the stadium. Seahawks win by default.
Rayman Legends: A lack of limbs cripples the Seahawks secondary, and the Broncos win 28-7.
Professor Layton: Seahawks by 2 because WE LEFT A HORSE ON THE SAME SIDE OF THE RIVER WITH THE HAWKS. GODDAMNIT THEY TOLD US THE HAWKS WOULD EAT THE HORSES IF THE HORSES WERE OUTNUMBERED AND THEY WERE LEFT ALONE. Now we'll never know the secret of the spooky English town we're in.
Journey: Who cares if there is even a football game anymore we just need to go stare at the horizon and contemplate our own insignificance.
Animal Crossing: Russell Wilson hasn't played in like a year, so the turf is full of weeds and his teammates are passive-aggressive. He fumbles while scrambling after tripping over a rotten apple and the Broncos win, 14-7.
Monkey Island: Knowshon Moreno racks up 200 yards rushing and 3 touchdowns while the entire Seahawks defense keeps telling everyone within earshot that they're selling these fine leather jackets. Broncos win.
Prince of Persia: Peyton Manning takes one step forward and falls into a pit of spikes. Game Over. Seahawks win.
Pokémon: Seahawks ice the game with a massive 89 yard run after Marshawn Lynch evolves into Megashawn Lynch late in the 4th. Danny Trevathan uses Tackle, but it's not very effective.
Final Fantasy: Tie. The game is called because Knowshon can't travel 6 yards without being attacked by a Cactuar. Roger Goodell escapes angry fans after calling the game by fleeing on a golden Chocobo.
Resident Evil: The Seahawks escape with a win after halting a threatening drive late in the 4th. As time expires, Wilson breathes a sigh of relief. Jeez. He was almost a Russell sandwich.
Skylanders: Broncos win, but maybe they won't if you convince your mom to buy you the Ultra Beast Mode Lynch figure for 25.99 at Toys'R'Us.
Star Fox: The Broncos win in double overtime after Knowshon Moreno is guided around a platoon of tacklers and into the end zone by an incorporeal image of his father piloting a fighter jet.
Minecraft: Creepers infest MetLife stadium the morning before kickoff and destroy it. The game is postponed until Roger Goodell can mine enough ores to rebuild it, but he ends up making an elaborate recreation of Westeros instead. Tie.
Team Fortress 2: Broncos open up an early 77-point lead, and are able to hold onto it until the teams are auto-balanced late in the 3rd. Seahawks come back and win, 107-84.
Katamari Damacy: Seahawks by 3 points, because the blue and green Katamari picked up 32 horses while the orange and blue Katamari only picked up 29 hawks. The King of All Cosmos is disappointed in both teams' efforts however, and shoots eye-lasers at Sidney Rice and Eric Decker.
Mario Kart: Seahawks jump out to an early lead, but the Broncos are able to pull off a win due to Golden Tate fumbling the ball after being struck by a spiky blue shell on a key drive.
Saints Row: Whoever gets the Dildo Bat first.
Candy Crush Saga: Seahawks cruise to an easy win, as matching candies is a breeze when they're all Skittles in the first place.
WarioWare Inc.: Mega Microgame$!: Peyton Manning is not able to thread the needle to Demaryius Thomas. Oh no. Seahawks by 3.
ToeJam & Earl: Seahawks by 12 since Sherman can rap his way through anything.
Braid: Peyton Manning manipulates time to engineer the most devastating offensive attack seen in football history and the Broncos win. After the game, he will reveal that his entire performance was a deeply metaphorical allegory for the development of the atomic bomb.
A Boy and His Blob: Blob turns into Marshawn Lynch after eating the Skittles jellybean. Seahawks win.
The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time: Each offensive drive stalls when neither QB can figure out the water temple. Seahawks win 0-7 after Richard Sherman runs back an interception and spikes the ball into a golden skulltula.
Shadow of the Colossus: Seahawks by 12, because small annoying creatures beat giant slow-moving creatures like Peyton.
Rock Band: Seattle.
Angry Birds: I…come on. No. I refuse. The joke is too easy.
Mario Party: Everyone leaves the game with concussion-like symptoms after banging their heads on rotating dice blocks, and the game is unable to be played. Tie.
Mortal Kombat: Multiple fatalities. Sub-Zero wins.
Sonic The Hedgehog: Richard Sherman dyes his dreadlocks red, and suddenly gains the ability to glide gracefully in the air and climb up walls. He records 6 interceptions on the day, running 4 of them back for touchdowns. After the game, in lieu of a ring, he is awarded the Master Emerald. Seahawks win by 28.
Super Mario Bros. 2: Broncos win, but then Jack Del Rio wakes up and realizes it was all a dream.
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Pete Carroll racks up a record 64 consecutive delay of game penalties because he won't stop screaming "Objection!" and attempting to argue against a holding call early in he 2nd half. Broncos win by 2 points.
Lemonade Stand: What Eli Manning will be playing this Sunday night. He gets a new high score and lasts a whole 7 days without going bankrupt on easy mode.


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Turkey hit back at German, Swiss and Austrian creditors by saying that the decision was "political."Coruh Valley -- Determined to reduce dependence on foreign energy, Turkey vowed Tuesday to push on with an ambitious dam construction program despite the loss of financing for a key project and loud objections from environmentalists.
German, Swiss and Austrian creditors announced earlier in the day they were withdrawing from the Ilisu dam project on the Tigris river in southeast Turkey because Ankara had failed to meet conditions of the 1.2 billion-euro (1.7 billion-dollar) credit.
Turkey hit back by saying that the decision was "political" and underlined that it was determined to realize the Ilisu project, which opponents say will flood a millennia-old historic site and displace some 50,000.
Last week, Environment Minister Veysel Eroglu said Ankara would build the dam and its 1,200-megawatt power plant with its own money if the loan were not released.
Observers say it is unlikely for Turkey to give up on plans for low-cost energy at a time when official projections estimate an annual 6.0 to 8.0 percent increase in the country's energy consumption.
Turkey is already a big importer of natural gas and oil, part of which it uses to produce electricity.
There are currently 172 hydroelectric dams in operation in Turkey with an overall capacity of 13,000 megawatts, which amounts to 17 percent of the country's electricity production, according to figures from the state-run hydraulic works directorate (DSI).
A total of 148 are under construction and there are plans to build another 1,400, which would enable Turkey to triple its hydroelectric production.
"At the moment Turkey uses only 30 percent of its hydraulic resources, but there are planned projects to increase it to 50 percent," said Sezayi Sucu, an enthusiastic engineer heading a major dam project in northeastern corner of Turkey.
"This figure is still rather low compared to the United States or Europe where the exploitation rate reaches 95 percent and 85 percent respectively," he added.
But some of the planned hydroelectric dams not only come under fire from environmentalists but are also criticised by neighbouring Syria and Iraq who say Turkish dams on the Euphrates and Tigris rivers reduce the flow into their territories.
Sucu works on one such controversial project in the Coruh River in the Black Sea province of Artvin, bordering Georgia, that involves the construction of 15 major dams -- two of which have already been completed -- and several dozen smaller ones.
Once completed, the project will provide one tenth of Turkish electricity production.
But one of the planned dams, the Yusufeli dam, has for several years been at the centre of a legal war between the state and environmentalists trying to block its construction.
Opponents say the dam will not be profitable, will destroy endemic flora and fauna species and displace some 16,000 people in a region that has already been drained by years of migration.
"This project does not stand up on its feet: Just look at the reservoir of the nearby Borcka dam and you will see how much silt has accumulated there. In a few years, everything will turn into mud," said Bedrettin Kalin, a lawyer from a local environmental platform called the Fraternity of the Valleys.
Korol Diker from the environmental group Greenpeace blamed Ankara of ignoring the potential environmental impact of planned dams when it gives the go-ahead to the projects.
"The problem is that the environmental impact study system does not work properly in Turkey," Diker said, adding that Ankara often chooses to build big dams that are more environmentally destructive than smaller ones.
Local authorities reject the accusations and say the dam project will go ahead with national funding.
"The Yusufeli dam will be constructed with national funds: either with local businessmen in a build-operate-transfer system or directly with state funding," insisted Cengiz Aydogdun, governor of Artvin.
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Boy that message got really messed up. What I ment to say was, Buy a deep cycle battery charger and it should have an automatic setting a charge setting. Use the automatic setting and it will do as the "tender" was described.
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Boy that message got really messed up. What I ment to say was, Buy a deep cycle battery charger and it should have an automatic setting a charge setting. Use the automatic setting and it will do as the "tender" was described.
I bought a used 2005 Prius about 8 months ago. It has less than 40,000 miles on the car. I haven't had any trouble with it at all -- until yesterday when the 12V battery died. I drove it to church and after the service the car wouldn't start. Completely dead.
The guy from the towing company had quite a time trying to get it into neutral to roll it onto the truck. Also, the back hatch wouldn't open to get the towing key from the trunk until we read the manual to figure out how to "jump" it from the positive node in the fuse box.
I found out this morning that it uses a "special" gel battery that has to be ordered through Toyota to the tune of $279. Ouch. I certainly hope I won't be replacing that baby every 40,000 miles.
Anyone else had to replace the 12V battery in a 2005 Prius?
Yes, this is true. I just bought a Prius this Tuesday and that fact was pointed out to me.
You bought a lemon, unfortunately.
Toyota sells a $$$$ 12V battery that has bastard terminals. Although the big 200V battery propels the car, the 12v battery powers the computers THAT CONTROL EVERY FUNCTION in the car. Dead 12v battery makes the entire car dead!
BUT there are after market manufacturers that will sell you adapters so that you can put a regular off-the-shelf 12v car
battery in your Prius when the factory 12V battery dies.
I have a 2002 Prius, 110k. It's been running great, no issues whatsoever. Today out of the blue I get three warning lights simultaneously: PS (power steering), the battery icon, and the car with the exclamation point. The manual says to take it right away to a dealer. I'm nearby, so I take it in. 2.5 hours later they say it'll be $4,400 to replace the hybrid batteries, and that if I attempt to keep driving it, when the 40% charge on the batteries is depleted the car won't run at all.
This seems bogus to me. Anyone know?
Prius does not use fan belt power-takeoffs. Power Steering, AC and a few other features are powered by the hybrid battery.
IF the Hybrid battery suffered a sudden failure in one cell, it would be detected as a battery fault. Could also be a failure in the hybrid charging circuts.
Only three choices:
1. get rid of the car
2. Pay Toyota for a new hybrid battery
3. Take a look at after market hybrid battery suppliers.
At one point, there was a company out there on the net that would rebuild a hybrid battery that just had one bad cell.
Can you strap to Prius batterys together in parallel (just the battery only not the relays) to increase the EV mode? also how do you add the 220 volt charge plug to a USA Prius?
Calcars.org originally had the thought of providing an open-source solution for adding a plug and extra batteries to a Prius but I believe they found out that this probably isn't feasible right now. The best way today to modify your Prius to plug-in is to work with a company that has done the necessary engineering for this.
Strapping together 2 Prius batteries probably won't help too much since the battery computer may still operate assuming there is only 1 battery.
We were thinking of buying a 2008 Prius........with the problems you've all listed, would you buy a Prius again?


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SABMiller to appoint Managing Director: Asia Pacific and Chief Executive Officer of Foster's
SABMiller announces that it intends to appoint Ari Mervis, currently Managing Director Asia, as Managing Director: Asia Pacific and Chief Executive Officer of Foster's with effect from 16 December 2011.
Ari, who will be based in Melbourne Australia, will be responsible for the Foster's business and the integration of Foster's into the SABMiller group. In addition he will retain responsibility for the Asia Pacific region and will continue in his role as Chairman of the Company's joint venture in China - CR Snow.
Commenting on the appointment Graham Mackay, Chief Executive of SABMiller said:
"Ari has been Managing Director of our Asia business since October 2007 and was the sponsor of the Foster's acquisition. Since joining SABMiller in 1989 he has held a number of senior positions in the organisation, including Managing Director of Appletiser and Managing Director of SABMiller's operations in Russia and Australia.
"Ari brings a wealth of experience from across the SABMiller group and knowledge of Australia having established SABMiller's joint venture there in 2006. He is ideally qualified to lead the integration of Foster's into the SABMiller group and to deliver value from the acquisition for all stakeholders".
The SABMiller regional office will remain in Hong Kong and a new Managing Director Asia, reporting to Ari, will be appointed to oversee SABMiller's businesses in India and Vietnam, its ongoing regional business development and export operations, as well as providing support to CR Snow.
SABMiller and John Pollaers have agreed that John will step down as Chief Executive of Foster's on 16 December 2011. To ensure a smooth transition John will be available to provide advice to SABMiller during the first few months of 2012.
Acknowledging John's achievements at Foster's, SABMiller Chief Executive, Graham Mackay said:
"John has made a significant contribution to the Foster's business, putting in place a number of successful initiatives upon which we expect to build to further enhance Foster's performance. We are grateful to John for his cooperation throughout the transitional process and we wish him success in the future".


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Equilibrium Location and Economic Welfare in Delivered Pricing Oligopoly
We investigate the equilibrium location pattern and welfare implication in delivered pricing model (or spatial price discrimination model) with a linear city. First, we extend a delivered pricing duopoly with Bertrand competition of Hamilton et al. (1989) to an n-firm model and explicitly solve the equilibrium location pattern. Next, we investigate welfare implication of the equilibrium location pattern. Given the Bertrand competition in the second stage we consider the welfare effect of relocations from the equilibrium locations. The equilibrium distance between firms is smaller than in the first best case, while it is too large from the second best viewpoint.
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|YDS: 5.10c French: 6b Ewbanks: 20 UIAA: VII ZA: 20 British: E2 5b [details]
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|RAIN AND WET ROCK The sandstone in Red Rocks is fragile and is very easily damaged when it is wet. MORE INFO >>>
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By Aaron S
Dec 16, 2006
|Fwiw, the route is not 160'. I was able to rap it with a 70m with room to spare.
By John Wilder
From: Las Vegas, NV
Dec 23, 2006
rating: 5.10c 6b 20 VII 20 E2 5b
glad i didnt read this before going out...would have blown the onsight.
great climb- we thought a 70m would work, that would have been nice to know!
By Bill Bones
Nov 5, 2007
|This route is only 130 feet tall. A 70 meter will work. Great route. Had a blast on it. 10 c seems to sound about right.
By Manjushri
Feb 2, 2009
|I climbed this a few years ago and went to it again on 1/31/09. When I stepped left and up into the second crack system, the chockstone that creates it moved significantly. I'm not sure if this was the case when I last climbed it, however, there was a hairline fracture in the stone that looked fairly new. Just a word of caution - the chock stone is jammed in there pretty good and will likely not come out, but when I hand jammed the crack it shifted. Any gear placed around it will run the chance of shifting as well and possibly pulling.
By Chris S
Oct 1, 2009
An excellent route! Its amazing that a photo of it didn't make it into Handren's guide.
But the recommended rack ("standard rack up to 4 inches, extra .5-1 inch useful") works only if a standard rack is doubles of everything! Which is what I recommend for this route: NO stoppers, doubles of cams from 0.4-3", triple 0.5-1", and single 4" cam. 2-4 quickdraws and 1-2 shoulder length slings to extend pro in the o.w. and roof. Then send!
By Guy H.
From: Fort Collins CO
Oct 31, 2010
This is probably one of the top ten 5.10 crack pitches at Red Rocks.
Here is the rack I would bring next time:
Single set of cams from green alien to #4fr
2x 0.3/0.4 C4
4x 0.5 C4
3x 0.75/1 C4
Just make sure you save the #3 and #4fr for the pod and the #2 for the roof finish.
By Tim Wolfe
From: Salt Lake City, UT
Jan 8, 2011
rating: 5.10c 6b 20 VII 20 E2 5b
|A very good crack climb that has few of the usual red rock crimps. A few layoffs in the pod up high will get you past some otherwise painful moves. It has multiple rests so not fully sustained for the entire 120 feet however the top fat crack is stout. I agree with above gear comments - double set of all sizes 1/2 to 3 inches (triple in 3/4 to 1 inch range would have been nice) with a couple tiny cams and at least one big cam for the wide section. See photo sequence for a review of the route.
By Patrick Mulligan
Dec 12, 2011
rating: 5.10+ 6b+ 21 VII+ 20 E3 5b
|I did this route almost 10 years ago, but it has stuck with me. It wasn't one distinct crux that gets you on this thing, but somehow I was pretty spent by the end. There are however some very good rests. With American Ninja and Remote Control close by its worth spending a morning in the area. I need to look at my notes, but I believe we also climbed a route in this area at easy .10 called Control Freak...
By Cunning Linguist
Jan 23, 2012
WOOOOOOO! This route is GOOD!
Rack: SR 00-4, 2x .4-2, 3-4 .5, .75, 1.
Climbs very much like a creek splitter with a couple of cool face "cheats", so I'd reccommend protecting it like one. White+pink rock as well-soft stuff for Red Rock. Really nice 10+ testpiece that keeps your interest the whole way, sustained in ringlocks-thin hands for my size hands. The earlier comment about the loose block is on the money-this might turn into an OW if someone managed to trundle that beast. Save #2 and a long sling for the finish, our group disagreed about location of the crux area, seemed very size dependant. Anchor's in good shape, enjoy!
By Andy Hansen
From: Longmont, Colorado
Mar 9, 2012
rating: 5.10+ 6b+ 21 VII+ 20 E3 5b
|This one is burl-doggin' for sure. Holy shit. I was kicking and screaming on this. Hardest 10c I've climbed. So good. So physical. Rap easily with a 70m.
By Sean
From: Oak Park, CA
Apr 12, 2013
Handren book indicated triples of 1" to 3" plus a 4" piece. Brought up two C4 0.75 pieces anyway from eyeing the crack from ground. The crux of this send was remaining calm and unresentful while bumping up the lone red Link Cam for dreadful long stretches of fingers, trying not to think about the huge 50 ft air at times if the bumping goes awry with a peel off. Like some have mentioned, would add one 0.4 (yellow Alien), three 0.5 (red Alien), and a third C4 0.75. Could also pare down to either one 2" piece and three 3" or two of each.
Fantastic soaring splitter with wild roof finish.
By Kevin Dahlstrom
From: Fort Worth, TX
Nov 17, 2014
This is hands down one of the best 5.10 pitches at Red Rocks - 110 feet of fun, well protected climbing that rewards good technique and footwork. I dont think there are any moves harder than 10a but the difficulty is fairly sustained. That being said, its not an enduro pitch there are two or three decent rests including right before the final roof move. I brought doubles through 2, triples of 0.5, 0.75, and 1, and a single 3 and 4 and the rack was perfect. If you do a little gear-sliding and get creative with nuts you could get by with a standard double rack without being too bold.
UPDATE: Led this route again with only doubles of 0.5 - 1. Definitely spicier but manageable if you make liberal use of nuts to conserve cams. I recently climbed two other classic Red Rocks 5.10 splitters, The Fox and The Schwa, and I think this route is the hardest of the three.
By michalm
From: Boulder, CO
Jan 12, 2015
rating: 5.10c 6b 20 VII 20 E2 5b
|Sustained, excellent climbing. One of the best splitter cracks I've climbed in the park. The slot is demanding and the roof is the easiest part!


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Q: My 19-year-old son spent six months in jail for a probation violation. He was on probation because he took our neighbor's car without permission to go see his girlfriend.
Recently, he was turned down for a warehouse position after the employer learned about his arrest during a background check. How should he handle his record when looking for a job?
A: Because there are many ways to find work, I can't provide a one-size-fits-all answer to your question. However, I can offer two definite rules, plus some general guidelines.
The first rule is that your son must never lie on an application. In some situations, he may be able to leave the "arrest" question blank and explain later. However, when this is not possible, he should take advantage of any opportunity to provide an explanatory comment or cover letter.
The second rule is that he should never allow interviewers to discover this information for themselves, as he did with the warehouse job. Instead, he must be prepared to discuss his arrest in a way that will ease their inevitable concerns, emphasizing the lessons he learned from this misadventure.
Since "borrowing" a car and violating probation are signs of poor judgment, interviewers are likely to assume that your son would be an irresponsible employee. To counteract this impression, his answers, attitude and appearance must convey maturity and dependability. He will have to master effective interviewing techniques if he wants to outshine other applicants.
Networking will be a better job search strategy than submitting blind applications, because your son needs to be seen as a person, not a set of facts on a form. A reference from a common acquaintance can help to increase his credibility with interviewers.
The good news is that your son is young, and his offense was minor. Once he has a track record of successful employment, people will be less interested in his youthful indiscretions.
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Q: "Stephanie," one of my co-workers, has started spending a lot of time socializing online through Facebook and various chat sites. Stephanie has worked hard in the past, so maybe she's just not very busy right now. However, everyone else is completely swamped. What can be done about this?
A: If you think that Stephanie's lighter load is temporary, try asking if she has time to help out with some of your tasks. It's quite possible that she's bored and would appreciate a project. But if this disparity appears permanent, consider broaching the subject with your manager.
For example: "Lately I've noticed that our workloads seem unbalanced. Most of us are overwhelmed, but Stephanie has a lot of extra time. She's always been a hard worker, so I assume she doesn't have enough to do. I wondered if this might be a good time to review everyone's assignments."
Your boss may be surprised to learn about this problem, because managers are frequently clueless about the details of their employees' work.
Marie G. McIntyre is a workplace coach and the author of "Secrets to Winning at Office Politics."


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Customer Reviews for Concept Day Spa (3)
February 12, 2015
Great Place!!! Professional staff
Concept Day Spat is a great place that offers a variety of beauty services. After visiting this spa I felt as a DIVA. I had my hair colored and styled also did my manicure and pedicure. The lady that was doing my manicure and pedicure - Irina was very detailed, she wasn't rushing and dedicated as much time as she needed to complete the work. Not to mention that she has a great personality and I had a blast sitting in my chair and enjoying my beauty treatment. The girl that did my hair is Alina and I want to say special thanks to her for coloring my hair, gently washing them and styling including blow dry. While I was there they offered me coffee and sweet treats which I thought was very nice of them. Thank you ladies for making me feel special and look beautiful!!! I already recommended this place to my friends and I will definitely be going back.
March 1, 2011
My boyfriend and I went here for couples massage and we both enjoyed it 100%. He was very apprehensive as he is not a "spa" type of guy but in the end he was happy we did it. The spa decor is a bit dated on the 1st floor where you enter but once you go downstairs to the massage area it is very well decorated......soothing, dim lighting, lovely aromas. And very clean. Everyone is very professional and accomadating, I booked our package without the sauna but upon arrival they insisted we use the sauna before our massage (free of charge) and they were right, it was a great addition. The massage was wonerful, relaxing with just the right amount of pressure. Afterwards they allowed us time to sit in the room in the lovely plush robes they provide to relax and drink some tea. We went on a Saturday....early afternoon....and did not feel rushed at all. This place is certainly not the "poshest" spa I've been to but it was a good experience and we'll be back.
October 10, 2008
I'll defnitely be going back
I had a massage here shortly before my wedding and it was sooooooooo relaxing. They gave me a complimentary foot soak and allowed me to chill out before taking me in for the massage. I was looking for a new hair stylist also, so after being treated so well there I made an appointment for a cut. The stylist did a great job -. For a chain, this place is outstanding.
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Chaos Magick
Photo by Jeanne RiceLob knows a lot about records. At Huntington Beach's Vinyl Solution, he sells them. And in his band—for lack of a more accurate term—Instagon, he sets them.
"At this point, I haven't contacted Guinness yet," he says thoughtfully. "But I should. I have a rock band that's had more than 300 members in eight years."
And that's just the start. If there's a record for the shortest time needed to drive out 80 lanes' worth of patrons at an Anaheim bowling alley show, Instagon's got it: 20 minutes flat. Or maybe for the most people simultaneously playing instruments onstage, if the Guinness judges count hand drills and vacuums as instruments, which they should: 25 at a 1994 Goldenwest College show that was so insane people were wandering in from blocks away just to see what was making that sound. Or for longest uninterrupted performance, at Lob's old house: nine brain-shriveling hours, with around 40 people filing through, playing until they got bored, and then making room for fresh replacements. And then there's those 300 members, everyone from members of Sublime and the Adolescents to poets local and international to, um, me, and pretty much anyone who has ever clambered on a stage somewhere in Orange County. Really, this isn't just a band. It's the end of music as we know it.
"When you start a band, and you all just turn on and jam, that's what creates a band—that's the creation," says Lob. "And the next time you get together, it's like, 'I don't like this part,' 'Let's change that part,' and egos start to get involved. I never have that problem. I always have the rawest, most basic aspect of a band, and I throw that at an audience."
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This is how it works: Lob finds you, maybe by using his immense Insta-base (visit it online at www.tif.org and see if you're in it), maybe by seeing you at Vinyl Solution all the time and finding out that you're a fan of something he likes (which could be anything from Flipper to psychedelic jam bands to the B-52's). He tells you where and when Instagon is next appearing. You show up with whatever you play—guitar, hand drill, vibrator, whatever—and you all start playing, usually letting Lob lead the way. The lineup changes every performance, depending on whom Lob has rustled up. The songs change every performance. The instruments change every performance. Even Lob isn't the constant you'd think—three times, he says, there have been Instagons without him anywhere nearby. Simply put, it's chaos by design: anarchy with a beat; expression at a wild, primal level.
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"The concept of Instagon is based in chaos magick," explains Lob. "Chaos magick is a theory of magic that says to take from any form of mystical aspects that will suit your needs at any given point and use it. Instagon is based around that theory as a musical concept—I took music and applied chaos theory to it." Strictly speaking, he doesn't even like to call Instagon a band. Instead, it's an "audio demon," he says, "invoked by multiple participants. Sometimes they're aware: sometimes they aren't." And it makes sense: after all, the Instagon thing tends to have a life of its own.
"No one in the band knows what I'm going to play next," he says. "I don't even know. I pick songs out of the whim of what I'm feeling at the moment."
It started out with a tribal sort of feel back in 1993, as a West Coast offshoot of Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth, a mystical organization with deep roots on the fringe that dovetails nicely with the chaos magick aspect of Instagon. And then it went through an ambient phase, highlighted by a 1994 show at LA's Club Sinamatic with 400 tipsy fetishists boogying to the demon Instagon. And then it went through a breaking-things phase, and then a Hawkwind-esque prog. rock stage, and now it's settled temporarily—since about 1998—into what Lob calls "garage jazz."
"I take a garage band and approach it like Sun Ra," he explains. "I have really simple melodies that I can lead anybody through, and then we just flow off it. Lately, I've been playing Miles Davis riffs. And I really like to play Black Sabbath riffs—there's nothing better than playing 'Hand of Doom' in a jazz version." Obviously, he can't say where it's going next; only the demon knows for sure. But there is a record-setting direction he'd like to pursue.
"I'd really like to go more places, to have Instagon happen with more people," he says. "For me, it's all about being able to interact with more musicians—more than any other musician known to mankind."
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December 3, 2008
County OKs deal to keep AT&T equipment on tank The Washington County Commissioners voted Tuesday to approve a lease agreement allowing AT&T Mobile to keep its existing equipment on the Sharpsburg water tank. Earlier this year, AT&T acquired Dobson Cellular, which has had equipment on the tank for 10 years, Real Property Administrator Joe Kuhna said. The previous arrangement with Dobson expired and AT&T wants to keep its equipment on the tank, Kuhna said. The county currently receives $1,776 per month in rent, but the new lease agreement raises the rent to $1,995, with a 3 percent increase each year, Kuhna said.
Plenty of heroes in Halfway's amazing comeback win over Berlin
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July 30, 2010
SALISBURY, Md. -- A few seconds after John Davies finished the final part of Halfway's Houdini act Wednesday night, he wondered if he'd need to pull another one. "I got mobbed at home plate and I started to wonder if I'd ever get out from under there," Davies said. That's what happens when you hit a walk-off grand slam to cap an eight-run sixth-inning rally and give your team a new lease on life. Down 8-1 to Berlin in the losers' bracket final of the Maryland 11-12 Little League State Tournament, Halfway came all the way back to earn an improbable 13-9 victory and reach the championship round against Brunswick.
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March 14, 2008
HAGERSTOWN -- Picture a group of teens sitting around after school waiting to see the latest "scare" film about the effects of tobacco use on some old geezers. Suddenly, the face of a young person flashes across the screen. The young person has a name -- Brandon. What he doesn't have is a big toe, then a foot, then a leg below the calf and finally, the second leg is gone. What Brandon has is Buerger's Disease, which is almost exclusively triggered by the use of tobacco, said James Crowley, who has spent more than 25 years training teachers to help teenagers quit the habit.
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Bill D'Angelo, 64, who said he has been coming to the Millville, W.Va., post office all his life, tries out his key Thursday at the new cluster boxes. The post office closed Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011. Patrons of the Millville post office were handed their mail in person for the last time Thursday, a practice in this Shenandoah River hamlet since 1882. Starting today, some patrons will pick up their mail at Jefferson County post offices in Harpers Ferry, Charles Town and Ranson. Others will have their mail delivered by rural carrier, an official said Thursday.
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Hagerstown Community College has made a deal to keep a college center in the Valley Mall for 10 more years, HCC President Norman Shea said Thursday. The new lease agreement follows six months of hard negotiations that almost resulted in the college's departure, according to Phil Snodderly, HCC's director of facilities management and planning. "The college almost wasn't successful in being able to stay," he said. "We were preparing to bring it all back to campus. " Snodderly would not discuss details of the lease, which had not been finalized by Thursday.
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Teachers learning to educate students on dangers of smoking
By MARLO BARNHART
March 15, 2008
HAGERSTOWN - Picture a group of teens sitting around after school waiting to see the latest "scare" film about the effects of tobacco use on some old geezers. Suddenly, the face of a young person flashes across the screen. The young person has a name - Brandon. What he doesn't have is a big toe, then a foot, then a leg below the calf and finally, the second leg is gone. What Brandon has is Buerger's Disease, which is almost exclusively triggered by the use of tobacco, said James Crowley, who has spent more than 25 years training teachers to help teenagers quit the habit.
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Better check your popcorn for microchip implants. And make damn sure that the guy sitting behind you at the multiplex isn't the Cigarette-Smoking Man. Just in time for the summer blockbuster season, 20th Century Fox has released its $60 million movie version of The X-Files, and if you're not already all worked up over black helicopters, global-annihilation conspiracies and the vast desert of Scully's sex life, you likely soon will be.
And, hey, all you Internet junkies, here's a hint: Africanized honeybees will transport the mutant virus that threatens to wipe out life--and television--as we know them.
After five years of stoking pop paranoia and building a boob-tube cult thirty million strong, X-Files mastermind Chris Carter had one goal in mind: Cook up a spectacular action movie that could stand alone and make sense to mere novices while doling out some precious insider goodies to the obsessives who regard each TV episode as a chapter of the Bible. He's done a pretty good job, although some connoisseurs will inevitably air their gripes. No one, however, is likely to argue with Rob Bowman's swiftly-paced direction: Bowman has overseen 25 X-Files TV episodes and never misses a trick here in terms of familiar style and entrenched mythology.
FBI agent Mulder? He's still the true believer, convinced that a vast evil plot reaches into the lives of every man, woman and child on the planet. Agent Scully? She remains the skeptical rationalist, super-ego to her partner's id, reining him in, checking his facts, cooling his jets. In sequence two up there on what Carter has been calling "the larger canvas" (i.e., a screen you gotta pay seven bucks to watch), an Oklahoma City-style bombing blows the face off a Dallas office building, which catapults Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) into an eleaborate heart of darkness involving, among other things, unmarked tank trunks, secret cornfields in north Texas, a Washington conspiracy theorist named Kurtzweil (Martin Landau), a meeting of villains in London, and a vast underground labyrinth in Antarctica where an ancient race of aliens is being kept on ice until the day of the apocalypse.
X-Files addicts will want to digest every morsel of this super-episode in their own way, of course. But even casual viewers may be interested to know that Scully and Mulder, their faces ten feet tall now and their probing flashlight beams twenty yards long, come very close to physical intimacy on "the larger canvas." Apparently, platonic love may be fine for the TV room, but the hint of real desire is what the big screen cries out for.
By the way, Mulder's aliens lie dormant in caves as gooey "pathogen," but once they begin to gestate...
Want to meet old friends and enemies? The Cigarette-Smoking Man (William B. Davis) has made his way from small screen to big, puffing away, along with the paranoid watchdogs known as the Lone Gunmen (Dean Haglund, Bruce Harwood and Tom Braidwood), the Well-Manicured Man (John Neville) and the agents' enigmatic boss, Assistant Director Skinner (Mitch Pileggi). The newcomers include Conrad Strughold (Armin Mueller-Stahl), evil head of the syndicate that means to do everyone in, and Bronschweig (Jeffrey DeMunn), the mad scientist behind the global conspiracy.
Strughold and Bronschweig? Hitler couldn't have dreamed up better names for henchmen.
While millions of "X-philes" hash out the advances of holy scripture and all the evil plots (dripping with evil subplots) conjured up by Carter and longtime co-writer Frank Spotnitz, it falls to the rest of us to wonder anew about the entire X-Files phenomenon. How is it, exactly, that Watergate-style chicaneries, imagined by a cut-rate Kafka and broadcast, it seems, live from Roswell, New Mexico, have come to so completely dominate the imaginations of militiamen and geeky college sophomores alike? And when, we might also ask, did the poets, painters novelists and, yes, filmmakers, who once articulated our social myths give way to TV producers--guys who serve up bogus profundity like so much pizza topped with pepperoni?
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The X-Files, subtitled "Fight the Future," is an entertaining enough action movie--one that devotees of the series are bound to view over and over, dissecting every detail, every wrinkle, every rubric. Fine, but the cult remains more interesting than what it worships, as is usually the case. And those who look upon such phenomena with a colder eye may still be asking themselves how Chris Carter, a guy who spent thirteen years writing for Surfer magazine, has transformed himself into the nation's most popular social philosopher. Your guess is as good as mine. But the truth is out there. Somewhere.
The X-Files.
Screenplay by Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz. Directed by Rob Bowman. With Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny, Martin Landau, Mitch Pileggi and William B. Davis.


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The Seattle Seahawks had a tough job on their hands Thursday night, going into San Francisco to face an angry 49er team that was overwhelmed by the defending world champion New York Giants last weekend. QB Russell Wilson, the rookie from Richmond, has some big wins under his belt with victories over Dallas, Green Bay, and New England, but the former Collegiate star, did not sneak up on Frisco. The 49ers defense was ready & had oviously done their homework in defeating the Seahawks 15 – 6 to re-take control of the NFC West division. Frank Gore rushed for 131 yards on 16 carries to lead San Francisco.
Speaking of rookie QB's, Robert Griffin III is truly a "special" football player. No one play confirms that like the 76-yard-run untouched for a touchdown that sealed the Washington Redskins 38 – 26 win over the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday, especially coming off a loss in which Griffin, affectionately known as "RG-3", was knocked out by a vicious hit and suffered a mild concussion. He showed absolutely no fear whatsoever in coming back onto the field and rushing for 138 yards and two TDs to lead the Radskins to victory. Big game for Washington on Sunday in New York against the Giants.
The Dallas Cowboys went into Baltimore, hit the Ravens in the mouth, ran the ball down their throats, and then lost on a last-second missed field goal. I'll say it again, coaching is the Cowboys kryptonite at the end of the day. Philadelphia's loss to Detroit cost Eagles defensive coordinator Juan Castillo his job as head coach Andy Reid scrambles to find answers before he too will be unemployed. Philly has lost two consecutive games by collapsing in the fourth quarter defensively.


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Spend the Night in a Hotel Made of Ice
Published by Tammy Burns, Writer
Country: Canada
The Experience
The Hotel de Glace in Quebec, Canada, is a boutique hotel made entirely of snow and ice – 20,000 tonnes of it. Redesigned and rebuilt every winter, it takes over a month to complete. Construction begins in December, when steel frames and wooden walls are mounted as a base. Snow is then blown over the frames and, once the snow and ice hardens (usually after three days), the frames are removed and the Ice Hotel is left standing, ready for a grand re-opening every January.
The name Ice Hotel isn't an exaggeration. Everything inside the hotel is made of ice. The hotel's café has tables and chairs made of ice, a counter made of ice, and even glasses made of ice. There's an ice chapel with pews and an altar made of ice, and an ice discotheque where clubbers get their groove on in full snowsuits while a DJ spins from a stage made of ice.
The rooms are like little snow caves, windowless, with curtains instead of a door. Inside the suites, ice and snow sculptures adorn the walls, and ice couches and chairs with snow "cushions" are the only furniture apart from the bed. In all the rooms, beds are wooden frames encased in ice. A mattress draped with animal pelts provide a cushion to sleep on and some protection from the cold around you. Some rooms boast fireplaces, but all the heat is piped outside of the hotel, lest you risk melting your room. At night, the room is eerily quiet, all the sounds of life muffled by the thick snow walls around you.
But before a night in the Ice Hotel can begin, guests must sit through a lesson on how to not get frostbite while they sleep. Gathered in the early evening in the main (heated) lodge next to the Ice Hotel, they are soothed by the warmth of the lodge's roaring fireplace and sip cups of hot chocolate while a staff member holds up one of the arctic sleeping bags that are supplied by the hotel. The sleeping bags are good to minus 30 degrees, and since it's normally minus 3 to minus 5 degrees inside the hotel, staff will assure you that you shouldn't have any problem staying warm.
The lesson then begins: a step-by-step demonstration of how to climb inside an arctic sleeping bag. First, there's the inner layer that fits snug against your body and forces you to wiggle yourself in, squirming like a giant inchworm. Then, you manoeuvre your constricted body into the outer layer of the sleeping bag and pull a hood over your head. You zip yourself up, pull the drawstrings on the hood, and the only pieces left exposed are your eyes, nose, and mouth. You're ready for a night in the Ice Hotel.
Just remember that rule about your head.
When to Go to Ice Hotel Quebec
Although the hotel opens in January, it often isn't fully completed at the time of opening. It's best to go in February when the temperature is sure to be at its coldest and the hotel will be in full swing.
Odds n' Ends
At night, wear different clothes than you had on earlier in the day. This includes fresh socks, underwear – everything. Worn clothes will be damp from having been on your body all day. Also, sleep in light, non-cotton clothing. Dress too warmly, and you'll sweat and wake up with the chills. Cotton retains humidity and will make you feel damp – and cold – all night. The Hotel de Glace's website (www.icehotel-canada.com) has a list of suggested clothing.
Don't put your head inside your sleeping bag! Take it from experience, after this writer learned the hard way when she woke up with the inside of her sleeping bag coated in a layer of ice.
Don't worry - the bathrooms are indoors and fully heated, so you won't have to sit on a toilet made of ice. However, the washrooms are communal, so you'll have to make a mad dash from your room and down the hall. It's best to make sure you go before you get undressed and into your sleeping bag for the night!
A night at the Ice Hotel will cost around $350 per person. The price includes dinner and breakfast at the neighbouring (indoor, heated) hotel, Auberge Duchesnay.
Places to Eat
- Le Quatre-Temps
- Located in the Auberge Duchesnay hotel, and offering French-Canadian cuisine. Dinner and a buffet breakfast are included as part of your stay at the Hotel de Glace.
Recommended Places to Stay
- L'Auberge Duchesnay
- A rustic hotel and resort on the same property as the Hotel de Glace. Ideal for those who want to extend their stay with a warmer bed.
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- Learn the Secret Behind Ramen at the Momofuku Ando Instant Ramen Museum
- Making instant ramen noodles at home isn't overly exciting, but visit the Momofuku Ando Instant Ramen Museum in Osaka, Japan and making them will take on a whole different experience. Here, you get to become a part of the instant ramen noodle-making process, right from scratch. Sound interesting? Well here you are your own cook, designing your new favourite noodle and experimenting with various flavors. The Momofuku Ando Instant Ramen Museum houses a wide collection of the instant ramen sold over the ages. From the packaging materials to the types of instant ramen noodles, everything is on display. Though the ...5350 miles away.
While You're There - Tours and Trips Nearby
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Books and DVDs
- Frommer's Montreal and Quebec City 2010
- Completely updated every year, Frommer's Montréal & Québec City features gorgeous color photos of the sights and experiences that await you.
- Montreal & Quebec City (City Guide)
- Two authors, 46 days of in-city research, 20 detailed maps, countless poutine eaten.
Elsewhere on the Web
- Hôtel de Glace
- From January 7 to March 27, 2011 enter a magical world where snow and ice are transformed into fabulous decors. Since it opened its doors in 2001, the Hôtel de Glace has wowed over half a million visitors!
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Ferrell scored 27 points on 8-or-10 shooting, 7-for-8 from three-point range, to pace Indiana to a 63-52 upset that ended the No. 10 Wolverines' 10-game winning streak.
"Once I hit the first couple of shots," Ferrell said, "they all felt good. I wasn't going to force it, but once I had an opening, I was going to let it fly."
It was the second-best scoring game of his career, topped only by the 30 he scored in last month's overtime loss at Illinois. His seven three-point baskets were a career high and the most by a Hoosier since Jordan Hulls had seven against Penn State in 2012. It was his seventh game of at least 20 points, his fifth of at least 25. He leads the Big Ten with 60 three-pointers, nearly three times the number he made all of last season.
"When Yogi gets into a rhythm, you're not going to change it," forward Noah Vonleh said.
Ferrell also played strong defense, helping to hold Big Ten scoring leader Nik Stauskas to just six points, 12 below his average, on 1-for-6 shooting.
"He was terrific," Michigan coach John Beilein said. "That's as good of guard play ... he took only 10 shots and had 27 points, ran his team, even in the shot clock he made huge shots. We had no answer for him."
Added IU coach Tom Crean: "Yogi was a catalyst on both ends of the court. He is playing at an extremely high level."
The Hoosiers (14-8 overall, 4-5 in the Big Ten) have played strong defense in five of the last six halfs. The one struggling 20 minutes — allowing 41 points — cost them the Nebraska game.
But that was a non-issue on Sunday. IU took an early lead and refused to give it up for its second victory over a top-10 team in the last few weeks. It earlier beat then-No. 3 Wisconsin, also in Assembly Hall.
Bloomington struggles were nothing new for Michigan (16-5, 8-1), which has lost five straight in Assembly Hall and in 15 of its last 16 visits there.
In the last two years IU is 7-2 against top-10 teams.
Hoosier forward Noah Vonleh added 10 points and 12 rebounds for his ninth double-double of the season.
Michigan was led by guard Derrick Walton's 13 points.
Indiana didn't shoot a first-half free throw, yet led 25-22 at halftime thanks to Ferrell's three-point shooting. He had four three-pointers for 12 points.
The Hoosiers didn't flinch in the second half. They didn't take control, but neither did they flinch. Michigan stayed close, but couldn't catch up.
Ferrell and the Hoosiers were too much.
"This is a great win because Michigan is such a great team," Ferrell said.
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Bucs' Bryan Glazer comments on Super Bowl decision
Bucs co-chairman Joel Glazer offered some brief comments on NFL Network a little while ago when he was asked about the prospect of the Super Bowl being played in the New York area.
The Bucs and Tampa Bay are bidding this time around for the 2014 game and would obviously have an advantage over New York from a weather standpoint.
Glazer acknowledged as much in his comments.
"Obviously there's a competitive balance issue that comes with it," he said. "All the owners will think about that when they make their decisions, whether it's a cold-weather team or a northern team or whether a warm-weather team has a competitive disadvantage going into the Super Bowl. It's our greatest game. We should play it on an equal field."
That's pretty much his way of calling attention to one of the factors working against the New York bid. The votes are being cast now. We'll update you when there's news.
UPDATE, 4:14 p.m.: After two votes, no city received the requisite number of votes required to win. So, now the lowest vote-getter is being dropped. That's South Florida. NYC and Tampa are still alive. This thing wasn't the nearly the slam dunk that I and a lot of people thought it would be.


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Firewall STILL crashing! WHY!
I use to love Norton, I felt secure and safe with it. I had Norton 3.0 I believe, when my subscription ran out I rushed out to the store and bought Norton 5.0. After installing, I could instantly tell a difference with how buggy it was, the computer froze (briefly) and felt a lot more sluggish. I always hear how Norton slowed down your computer but I had no issues with 3.0 when I installed it so put that down to fussy people. I hated having to update it then restart then update then restart then update then restart, why couldn't it just update ONCE and restart once? Okay, irrelevent anyway, just adds to the annoyance.
I really didn't like the new interface, for some reason it looked less fancy than the previous versions, but I put up with it. It didn't last for long however since I got to update to 6.0. The small period that I had 5.0 though, I found that quite often a little red cross would appear switching it all off. Simply clicking fix turned it back on, but that's not good enough! I felt like I had to be at the computer the whole time. Now, I'm not a dolt, I keep my computer pretty clean, I run CCleaner fairly often, spyware checkers etc and I never find anything, Norton however finds 6 tracking cookies, that's about it. Anyway, I put it down to an issue with my PC and gave Norton the benefit of the doubt and upgrading to 6.0 stopped the bug with it turning itself off for no reason (Computer could be idle and it would do it!) then I installed it on my laptop. My laptop has NOTHING on it since it's new, and yet, the same issue would have the firewall turning itself off. Had to upgrade, check for updates, restart, check for updates, restart, check for updates...restart etc etc
To the point! After all this stress of not feeling safe, and finally getting 6.0 running on both, the security history is filled with so much jargon and uneeded results it stresses me out. Yes yes, I'm not suppose to look at what norton is doing, but I do like to see what's going on, then having to check every single result. So while it's not switching itself off, I keep getting a lot more results, unauthorised access blocks etc etc. Once again, all my firewall settings had been lost, so I update them. Perhaps I did it too fast but like MANY other people, it now crashes, even when I click the programs tab.
So I look up, find many threads on the subject and see that it's been going on since last fall (Almost a year!) with the same replies "We're hurrying to work on a fix!" and "To fix, uninstall and restall" So hey, uninstall, update to 6.0, check for new definitions and update, restart, update, restart, update, restart, add firewall entries all over again.
Now, my hotmail got hacked the other day, here's the thing, it wasn't my junkmail account, it was my main account which I ONLY use for things like amazon. Nothing else. I do not go to dodgy sites, I do not EVER click links on forums unless I am 100% positive to where it leads (Still rarely do, an example would be from this forum from a tech) I do not download dodgy programs, or ever open anything without knowing what it is or first scanning it, I run no scripts on firefox, I clean my browsing data often enough, I try to keep everything uptodate. I scan my computer with norton and obviously, no one knows my passwords to things. So, I'm wonder how and why it got hacked. The only thing I can think of was I ignored a flash update since I was in a rush and forgot about it, but that's a guess and still I do not feel safe anymore. I scan my computer (Both the quick scan and full scan are SO MUCH slower than 3.0 btw) which ended up taking hours upon hours, had to leave it over night) all finding...nothing. So, now I feel even more insecure. Scared to use amazon or my bank but there you go. I can't play around with my firewall settings because this still hasn't been fixed yet (Oh, I reinstalled btw, happened again!) and now, my latest issue with Norton!...
I've been playing DayZ, a Mod for Arma 2. Norton completely shuts down my internet half way through a game with unautorised access blocks. It spams me completely. I had 28 pages of it over an hour (I Usually get 1-2 pages a day of everything!)
This is the spam.
Medium,Unauthorized access blocked (Access Process Data),Blocked,No Action Required,2012-06-26 14:29:38,C:\PROGRAM FILES (X86)\GAMES\STEAM\STEAMAPPS\COMMON\ARMA 2 OPERATION ARROWHEAD\EXPANSION\BETA\ARMA2OA.EXE,752,C:\Program Files (x86)\Norton 360\Engine\22.214.171.124\ccsvchst.exe
And yet, I can't do anything about it! (Dayz is a Mod for Arma 2 which runs on steam) I can't access my firewall (I REALLY can't be bothered to reinstall and update everything AGAIN) and to be fair, I am getting sick of it. I usually keep my mouth shut, I don't like to cause a problem, but why, WHY hasn't this been a top priority and fixed yet! (The firewall) It's not a simple fact of it being a select few people, it's causing issues all over the place, some people don't even read forums so they're probably unaware of whats going on anyway, and frankly, "we're working on a fix" was great to hear 8 or so months ago, but is rather insulting now!
That's my rant. Sorry but I had to let it out, I'm so peeved at this fix not happening.
Re: Firewall STILL crashing! WHY!
Hi Izziee,
The Hotmail account hack was almost certainly done without any involvement of your computer or malware. Usually accounts are compromised through weak passwords or phishing - it is very rare that malware on a PC is used to compromise an email account these days. You should follow these steps to secure your account:
The unauthorized access entries in your Norton History are due to your game trying to access Norton's process data. Norton Product Tamper Protection will block this as it blocks all outside agents, even Windows processes, from accessing Norton's files and processes. Your game should continue to work normally. If it does not, then the issue is with the way the game software is written - a game should not need access to your security program in order to run.
The Firewall issue is still being worked on. The problem has been identified, but the fix involves many different Norton components, so it is not something that can be easily and quickly fixed.
Re: Firewall STILL crashing! WHY!
I realize it is not a consolation, but you are not alone in your frustration.
There are numerous other threads in the 360 forum with the problem.
All we get is an occasional post from a Symantec employee that looks like an attempt to pacify us, and of course the "choir" singing the praises.
I was using the 2013 Beta. The "custom rules" feature works in it, although it has a few quirks.
If you do not mind adding your rules, that would give you an option to add more rules and not have the firewall lay down.
The current build (133) requires a clean install of the product, it will not install over any previous versions and that would mean losing firewall rules.


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Film Review: 'The Smurfs 2'
This sequel retains its predecessor's genially goofy shenanigans, incredibly corny punchlines and Hank Azaria's go-for-broke performance as Gargamel.
This sequel retains its predecessor's genially goofy shenanigans, incredibly corny punchlines and Hank Azaria's go-for-broke performance as Gargamel.
On July 10, Sony unspooled its new Adam Sandler movie, "Grown Ups 2," at Lincoln Square in Gotham, and not only did Sandler show up, he actually talked — to the press.
Dwight Howard made a lousy decision, and not just because Houston is one of those rare cities with a downtown area that's even uglier than L.A.'s. No, Howard's choice to bolt the Los Angeles Lakers…
Time Warner Cable Sports Net has reportedly discussed giving Dwight Howard his own TV show if he re-signs with the Los Angeles Lakers. Why stop there?
LeBron James is arguably the best current basketball player on the planet. And that's a shame, since his career has been emblematic of practically everything that's wrong with the sport, and…
John Ratzenberger is set to star in Hallmark's "Matchmaker Santa." Pic also stars Lacey Chabert, Florence Henderson, Lin Shaye and Robert Pine. He also recently wrapped a guest starring role on "Drop…
TruTV has ordered a pilot featuring former NBA star Shaquille O'Neal that will center around viral video clips, while also developing a new project from Howie Mandel.
Exec producer Rob Silverstein said, "Most entertainment is presented in an idiotic way. We're trying to raise the bar and are perfectly situated to pull this off."
TV Critics Assn. members didn't have to travel far for CBS, NBC and ABC's summer press tour shindigs.
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(CBS News) Obama campaign senior strategist David Axelrod continued the campaign's assault on Mitt Romney's record on Sunday's "Face the Nation," defending attacks on Bain Capital and challenging whether the president's Republican challenger is qualified to be called a "job creator."
"No one's arguing whether Mitt Romney is qualified to be president," Axelrod said of the former governor and private equity firm founder. "What we're arguing is whether he's qualified to call himself a job creator. That's not what he did in his business. That's not the purpose of his business, and it's certainly not what he did in Massachusetts where they had one of the worst economic records in the country."
In particular, Axelrod addressed criticism (some of which has come from Democrats) that the campaign's recent attacks on Romney's record at Bain Capital haven't been effective. On Thursday, former President Bill Clinton said in an interview that Romney's business record was "sterling."
Axelrod denied that Mr. Clinton's comments were approving of Romney as a candidate, telling anchor Bob Schieffer, "What he said was... his business record and the fact that he was a governor qualified him to be president. He went on to say that his economic views would be disastrous for the country. And I agree with him on that."
Bill Clinton: Praising Romney's business record doesn't connote endorsement
On the attacks on Bain overall, Axelrod said the question President Obama's campaign is trying to pose for voters is whether Romney's background and ideas are "ones that can move our economy forward."
Axelrod then defended specific ads the campaign has run.
"Take the one about the steel company in Kansas City [GST Steel]. Mitt Romney and his group bought that company; they put $8 million of their own dollars in for a $75 million company, immediately borrowed $125 million. And the next year took $36 million back out of that money for dividends. The company ultimately went bankrupt, workers lost their benefits, creditors lost out, and they walked away with millions of dollars," Axelrod said.
"That may be a successful business strategy for them and it made money for them and their investors, but that is not an economic strategy that is going to rebuild the middle class in this country, that's going to grow our economy in the long run. And that's the point we're making," he added.
Two campaigns, two definitions of Romney's role at Bain
This week, the campaign also opened a new line of attack against Romney's record as governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007. Axelrod held a press conference on the steps of the Massachusetts State House on Thursday, but the event was also notable for the Romney campaign supporters and staffers who showed up in an attempt to drown out the Obama campaign's message.
On Sunday Axelrod defended the strategy of speaking out in Boston: "We went up there to make a point about Governor Romney's economic record," he said. "Governor Romney offers himself as a job creator, a kind of economic oracle, and he's saying the same exact things he said 10 years ago when he ran for governor of Massachusetts. And what happened? Massachusetts plunged to 47th in job creation. They lost manufacturing jobs at twice the rate of the country. They grew jobs at one-fifth the rate of the rest of country. It wasn't the record of a job creator. He had the wrong economic philosophy and he failed.
"I was disappointed that they chose to send a bunch of campaign staff to try and drown out the speakers. But you can't drown out the record."
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus also appeared on "Face the Nation" on Sunday, and called Axelrod's press conference a "political stunt."
"That's the height of a political stunt," Priebus said. "What's the purpose of the Chicago clan going to Boston to hold some sort of political stunt. And for... these tough guys from Chicago to cry about it, I just find it laughable."
Reince Priebus: Obama hasn't followed through on promises
In addition to Romney, Axelrod also took aim at Congress for not acting on the president's plan for the economy in the wake of a disappointing jobs report on Friday, calling congressional leaders "architects of obstruction."
"What was striking about what happened on Friday was how quick the leaders of Congress were out there wringing their hands. These are the architects of obstruction, and now they're complaining about the pace of the recovery," he said. "They should put down their political hats and join us and help solve these problems."
Despite the attacks, Axelrod also took issue with those who suggest the entire Obama campaign has been negative, saying that despite the media attention on the negative attacks against Bain, "virtually all" of the campaign's ad spending has been positive.
"If you live in the states where our advertising is running, you have seen a steady stream of ads over the last months, talking about the things that have happened over the last three and a half years, talking about all the hard work we've done together as a people to move out of the mess that we were in when the president arrived," he said.


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Become a Home Stager by Learning from the Creator of Home Staging: Attend the Accredited Staging Professional® Course Personally Taught by Barb Schwarz in 2012
Those who have attended ASP Courses® I've taught personally in the past know how much I love, love, love sharing the message of Staging. And, more than anything, I love hearing success stories by those who have been part of the Accredited Staging Professional® Course.
We have now posted information about the many courses I will teach personally in 2012, both at various locations in the United States as well as online by Webinar.
The next opportunity to attend a class I'm teaching will be in Riverside, CA, on January Wednesday, January 25, 2012 through Friday, January 27, 2012.
Additional courses I will teach include
- Bellevue, WA – February 29, 2012, through March 2, 2012
- Dallas, TX – May 16, 2012, through May 18, 2012
- Bellevue, WA – June 13, 2012, through June 15, 2012
- Northbrook/Chicago, IL – July 18, 2012, through July 20, 2012
- Bellevue, WA – September 26, 2012, through September 28, 2012
- Dallas, TX – October 10, 2012, through October 12, 2012
I will also teach the Accredited Staging Professional® Course through Webinar on the following dates
- January 4, 2012 – January 6, 2012
- February 15, 2012 – February 16, 2012
- April 25, 2012 – April 27, 2012
- June 27, 2012 – June 29, 2012
For ASPs who want to bring their careers to the next level, I will teach the Accredited Staging Professional® Masters Course in Whidbey Island, WA, which is near Seattle, WA, on April 9, 2012, through April 13, 2012.
If you would like to learn more about the Accredited Staging Professional Designation you are more than welcome to attend Wednesday's Webinar. Please click here for more information and to register.
I look forward to seeing you in any of those classes next year!
Here is what you can expect when you attend the Accredited Staging Professional ® Course:
Day One
During the first day of the ASP® Course you will learn a process of successful working practices. There are many ASP® before and after slides showing you what sellers can do to Stage with what they already have in their homes. You will learn how to set professional policies and how to educate your clients so that they can understand the many benefits of home staging. Communication is crucial and our Stagedhomes.com approved trainer will teach you how to educate your seller to do whatever is required to Stage their home. Staging itself is the easy part; convincing the seller can be the hard part. On day one you will learn what to say and how to say it so that your sellers say yes!
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During the second day you will receive detailed training about the processes involved in Staging a house. We use many before and after examples and a powerful power point presentation to show additional Staging concepts and creative problem solving of how the seller can make magic out of almost nothing! You will find how creativity can be the best solution for your sellers in the best possible way. Then, in the afternoon you and your entire class go to a home that is on the market for sale and you actually help Stage a lived-in home for hands-on Staging experience with professional ASP® Stagers.
Those who continue on the third day will learn the basics on how to successfully start and operate their own Home Staging business. You will receive expert instruction from a curriculum based on my Staging methodology and techniques refined by my over decades of time tested research. After your three days of detailed extensive staging training, you will graduate with hundreds of dollars worth of reference materials and Home Staging tools to start your business off right!
Click here to view a video with Barb Schwarz, Creator of Home Staging®, discussing a career as ASP® Home Stager and the Accredited Staging Professional® Course.
While the focus definitely is Staging, Staging, Staging, virtually everyone shares with me afterwards that what they brought with them following the two or three-day course they had just attended was so much more than learning about Staging. It was, many say, a life changing experience that gave them a wealth of ideas. Not only for how to add Staging to their Realtor® model or how to become a Home Stager, but also for their business in general.
Wonder who attends the ASP® Course? While in class you will meet Realtors® who want to take their practice to the next level by effectively educating their sellers on the benefits of Staging, and deliver a faster sale at a higher price. You will also meet entrepreneurs who are there to get started with a full-time Staging business as well as ASPs® who previously took the course. You see, once you've taken the course you can also come back again. It's a benefit I feel is of great value as everyone sometimes needs to recharge, get new ideas, and network and brainstorm with others.
Welcome to the Accredited Staging Professional® Course. I am confident it will, as it has for many before you, change your life and business.
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Loretta Young's centennial celebrated on TCM, at Hollywood Museum
BY SUSAN KING, Los Angeles Times
January 7, 2013, 8:00 a.m.
Actress Loretta Young was no shrinking violet — a fact that often didn't sit well with her producers and studio bosses.
"She was beautiful, ethereally beautiful, and there was a delicacy to her," said her daughter-in-law Linda Lewis. "But she was stubborn when it came to what she thought was right for her. She actually mentions in one of her interviews that after a while you get tired being reviewed for your cheekbones."
"She didn't really listen to her bosses much," noted her son Chris Lewis. "When she got a part, she would go to the costume department and have a hand in how the costumes were made. She took a hand in her makeup and her hair.... She really knew what was right for her until the end."
And sticking to her guns paid off handsomely for Young.
Young, who began her career as a child extra in such films as Rudolph Valentino's "The Sheik," was a popular film star and the epitome of glamour for nearly three decades. She was playing romantic leads at 14, sexy working-class heroines in pre-code early 1930s dramas such as "Midnight Mary" and "A Man's Castle." She headlined several historical films such as "Suez" in the late 1930s and segued into more mature, challenging parts in the 1940s, including Orson Welles' "The Stranger."
After more than 20 years in the business, she finally won the lead actress Oscar for her comedic role in the 1947 hit "The Farmer's Daughter."
When Young left movies for TV at the of 40, she gained even more fans for her long-running anthology series, in which she made a grand entrance in the opening moments each week wearing a fabulous designer gown. Young was just as glamorous when she returned to TV in the 1980s after nearly 20 years in retirement to make two TV movies.
This year her son and daughter-in-law are spearheading a centennial celebration for Young, who died in 2000 at age 87. "We are so proud of mom," said Chris Lewis. "She is part of Hollywood history."
TCM has made Young its star of the month and is showing 38 of her films. Next month, the Shout! Factory is releasing a compilation of favorite episodes of her "The Loretta Young Show." And the series, which aired from 1953-61, will join the lineup of the nostalgia cable station Me-TV.
But perhaps the most extensive tribute is the Hollywood Museum exhibition "Loretta Young: Hollywood Legend," which celebrates her legacy as a movie star and fashion icon. The exhibition opens Wednesday and continues through April 29. Highlights of the exhibition, which was culled from several collections, includes costumes from such films as "The Crusades" and "Rachel and the Stranger," a personal collection of her gowns, shoes and jewelry, as well as décor from her homes in Beverly Hills and Palm Springs.


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