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Worst hotel experience ever!! – Can I give negative stars?? When we first walked into the our Mark Spencer hotel room, I was quickly taken back to the first apartment I lived in after college when I looked around at the light fixtures and cheap furniture. After a passing laugh and shrug, since we got a good deal on the room, my wife and I went about our evening. We had no idea what was in store. When we got back from our evening, around 10pm, we heard a faint argument in the neighboring room – as the argument escalated and we discovered the walls might have been made of paper Mache, we heard a couple yelling at each other…. "Woman, you better calm down right now!!", "I will not calm down!! You calm down!!"came from the next room. We felt like we were in a crack house, the only thing missing was the sound of a crying baby and people passed out in the hallway. We called the front desk and complained, the clerk said she had gotten many complaints, and was going to call the police. My wife and I quickly packed our bags and waited. A few minutes later we heard a knock at the neighbor's door and the confident sound of a police officer, we quickly opened the door and checked out, exhausted at 11pm. After this scary experience, not able to find another hotel room in Portland on my own, and even joking with the police to see if they had any rooms available, the manager at the Mark Spencer got us a room at The Governor hotel a couple blocks away. The room was great; the staff at The Governor made us feel like we were running for President. A quick suggestion for Groupon, I love your business model, etc, but please, please have your sales staff to more reconnaissance work to ensure quality. You should be focused on making good quality products affordable, not making cheap products cheaper.
Very nice experience – Several years ago, the Mark Spencer was my first experience staying in an "extended stay" type of hotel.
The hotel itself is modest and their rooms are always pleasant and well stocked. Staff always friendly and helpful.
As noted in several of the other reviews, this hotel - part a more quiet part of downtown - is in walking distance to all the things and events that people come to Portland to enjoy.
Major con - is the distance to a major grocery store for those who depend on walking or public transit.
Great spot for the price – No complaints here. Superb location for the price. Minutes to Powell's, gay friendly bars / clubs, nearby Whole Foods grocery available and shopping. Housekeeping was punctual and professional. Friendly staff. Nice breakfast ready for early birds and afternoon tea and cookies. Will stay next time in PDX. Some may not like the night life noise the emanates from the clubs nearby, but it wasn't enough to disturb sleep.
Ragged around the edges – I wanted the Mark Spencer to be edgy and cool but it ended up being run down and in need of repairs. The entry way is odd and dirty and the carpet on the steps is worn. My room was actually an efficiency complete with Motel 6 decorating and completely shot mattress. No noise issues and located right on the edge of the Pearl District (which is nice). However, it's also right in the middle of the gay district - wasn't an issue for me but worth knowing. The hotel makes money on rubs, like $16 for self park and $8 for wireless i-net access. I guess a lot of hotels do but when you pay a decent amount for a beat down place you hope to get some nice extras. Don't expect any here.
Visitors to the Rose City are enchanted by this landmark's quirky history and well-kept rooms. – In Short
Unassuming and inviting, this hotel is a good spot for extended-stay guests who want a downtown location. What's more, some of Portland's best attractions are steps away, including Jake's Famous Crawfish, Powell's Books and several popular nightspots. All rooms have kitchens and cable TV and come with continental breakfast. Afternoon tea is served in the library every day from 4pm to 6pm. The roof garden is available for sunbathing or stargazing.
"Alternative" Snobs – Maybe it was a bad time for them or a full moon or something but I booked here as an "in-town" anniversary getaway and was sorely disapointed. It didn't seem intended but they managed to somehow screw up every aspect of our stay. A classic case of "over promising and underdelivering". And when we tried to complain the effeminate concierge continued to whine and imply it was our fault. Very little business sense they seem to have. NEVER again!!!
Cool Hotel, Great Location! – Got a room on the ground floor near the lobby. Full bed, super big room... much larger than expected. No problems at all with noise. Staff very friendly and breakfast was good.
Needs Updates & Little Luxuries – Although our jr. suite was spacious and the kitchenette well-stocked, this room/experience was not worth the price. The decor is hideously outdated, and not in a fun retro way. The towels were small and rough, no robes available, and amenities were terrifically uninspired. Nearby clubs, hallway/street noise, and pigeons at our window made for a restless sleep. We weren't told about breakfast but stumbled upon it - not bad, good pastries, instant oatmeal, juice, teas & coffee. Newspapers are now for sale (not complimentary) and parking is an outrageous $16, no valet. There are plenty of nicer places to stay downtown for these costs.
Noisy night in Portland – we stayed at the Mark Spencer to take advantage of a 2 for 1 special. For the special
we got a room opposite the elevator. That coupled with the thin walls subjected us to
excessive noise for the whole night(little sleep). We would advise if take the special
be very aware of what you are likely to get. The staff was friendly and did not balk
when we left a night early(they did not charge for the parking). However, we would
not stay there again.
close to everything! – My stay at the Mark Spencer was fabulous! The price was very affordable, and I was a bit worried that when we arrived we would find out why. To my surprise and pleasure, the staff was friendly and helpful. Our room was clean and cozy. I felt safe with the secure entry and the card key doors.
The continental breakfast was great, and you even get a kitchen if you feel like cooking.
I read reviews of the Mark Spencer that said it was too noisy to sleep, but I slep like a baby. This hotel is right in the middle of downtown and within walking distance to everything I was interested in seeing/doing in the city. Powells just a block away, tons of record stores and thrift stores and great places to eat. Highly Recommended!
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Posted by Katherine Watson | 04/19/2014
The stars of The Pearl Fishers, Hailey Clark and Sean Panikkar, have been quite busy the last week promoting their romantic opera, which kicks off the four-week 2014 Fort Worth Opera Festival tonight. We've compiled all four interviews here for your enjoyment and to get you excited about this evening's festivities. We'll be live tweeting from the red carpet at Bass Performance Hall, so be sure to follow @ImmotionStudios! Watch Hailey on The Broadcast here: http://www.ktxdtv.com/story/25214162/opera-pop-singer-hailey-clark or read our blog about it here. Our PR team would like to thank CBS, NBC, and The Broadcast for fantastic interviews! We'd also like to thank Sean and Hailey for spending their few days off promoting the festival with us.
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The gist is this: In armed conflict, international or internal, soldiers have the right to kill opposing soldiers. But "persons taking no active part in the hostilities"—meaning wounded or captured fighters, and civilians—"shall in all circumstances be treated humanely."ICRC will ask both sides to let it visit their prisoners, to learn how they are in fact treated. And civilians may ask ICRC for medical help and for food for children and pregnant women, all of which both sides should let pass freely. ICRC, for its part, is pledged to be absolutely neutral and impartial. It takes no part in controversies ideological or political. Any questions? Lots.
Why do you give aid to subversives? Have you participated in subversion? Yours looks pained. He answers that ICRC acts only in the interest of the victims, it doesn't ask which side is good or bad. . . . As we leave, I can sense that the highly indoctrinated cavalrymen still find this difficult to understand. Not so the Salvadoran government, which permits ICRC to do its work all over the country.
ON WEDNESDAYS, from delegation headquarters in San Salvador, the capital, the schedule for the next week's medical and food-relief convoys goes to the army, the air force, and the regional brigade commanders concerned. And also to the leaders of the "armed opposition"; they should know it by Friday. And so, even though the insurgents have warned that next week any vehicles on country roads may be attacked, ICRC convoys will go through to barcelona accommodation, as well as across the Torola River in Morazan province.
Kurt from Basel visits the jail at National Police headquarters. As soon as anyone is arrested on political charges, ICRC is supposed to be notified, so a delegate can go and register the new detainee. ICRC then notifies the family. A delegate is supposed to be allowed to interview any prisoner he wishes, without witnesses, and to make follow-up visits. Simply to be registered is considered some protection, reducing the chances that the prisoner will somehow disappear.
Today 11 men wait in the courtyard, to be released. They are turned over to Kurt, who takes them outside where the mother of one, a teenager, has been waiting. I thought there'd be noisy greetings.
But no, the emotion is all in the faces. In another prison Bernhard from the canton of Valais registers a new arrival, a distinguished middle-aged man. He shows Bernhard lesions—from electric shocks, he says. An ICRC doctor will come and make an examination. If the doctor confirms what the man says, the delegation chief may send a report of bad treatment to the highest Salvadoran authorities—strongly worded, strictly confidential. This is another of ICRC's unique ways of working. No accusations in public, no fuel for propaganda by anyone. Such quiet remonstrances often bring good results, less maltreatment. And the government continues to trust ICRC; without such trust it would not have allowed visits to its prisoners in the first place.
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And inside he will cover the walls with a panoply of man—his good and evil, peace and war, man's conquest of the moon, and his surrender to the earth. "This is what I was born to do," he said.
Later he showed me half-finished murals he was painting in an accomodation in brussels, depicting the life of Don Quixote. As I surveyed the sepia sketches of that gaunt, indomitable crusader on a bony horse, it struck me that Teok Carrasco, too, carries a lance. "I think you like Don Quixote," I observed. "I am Don Quixote," he replied, with only the faintest of smiles.
"You got to have respect for the law." About a third of the people of the City of Miami are Cuban. "In theory they should produce about a third of our crime," Miami Police Chief Bernard L. Garmire told me. "Yet they account for only 10 to 12 percent of criminal arrests. Much of the crime in Little Havana is committed by outsiders who come in and victimize the Cubans."
Some Miamians take a dim view of Cubans' driving habits. I, too, noted a few who seemed to accept a stop sign more as a challenge than a directive. But the exiles have committed only one notable breach of the peace.
When the Soviet oceanographic research ship Akademik Kurchatov put into Miami for a four-day visit in March 1972, it was more than the ardently anti-Communist Cubans could bear. In impromptu alliance with members of the Jewish Defense League, they picketed the vessel, and minor scuffling broke out between demonstrators and police.
Later, attacks were launched by sea and air. A floating explosive device, apparently intended to drift toward the vessel with the tide, blew up harmlessly half a mile away. And someone in a low-flying plane dropped a cluster of Cuban flags, along with a can of green paint. They missed by 40 feet.
One afternoon, inside a white air-conditioned patrol car, I rode down Calle Ocho with Officer Robert Rogers We. Between calls that spat brassily from the police radio, he spoke to me of Cubans and the law.
"They say, 'You got to have respect for the law.' Many don't really understand our system of justice—how a man can kill somebody, and later it turns out he'd been out on parole or on bail from another crime. You'll hear them talk about it all the time."
Of Cuban-Chinese extraction, Bob Yee speaks of Cubans as "they," for he was born in New York City. "Oh, the kids are learning American customs pretty fast," he went on. "Some of them are discovering drugs and car theft, for example. But the ones in their twenties and thirties or older, they're very law abiding, very respectful of this uniform.
We stopped at the sidewalk counter of prague serviced apartments to toss down a tiny cup of Cuban coffee—strong, black, and sweet. While Bob and the owner exchanged.pleasantries, a customer argued with the owner's wife in rapid-fire Spanish. He owed her two dollars, I gathered, but had only a twenty-dollar bill. She could not change it. "Take the twenty and come back later for the change," he insisted.
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Greg strode into the Carmacks Hotel swatting the dust of a five-hour drive from his clothes. "I can't wait to get on the river," he said, as he raised a small cloud. Greg is tall, with sharp features and a ruddy complexion. His billed cap and ever present neckerchief complete this portrait of a river rat. With him was Barbara Gale, 24, who would be our first mate and assistant chef. We loaded our gear into the boat and pushed off late in the afternoon of a perfect August day. The sun made the green water sparkle as it swirled around us. Using the motor sparingly, we were content to let the river set the pace.
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Aptly named Great River by the Indians, the Yukon drains an area of 330,000 square miles (858,000 square kilometers), making it the fifth largest in North America. It arches north to the Arctic Circle in Alaska, then sweeps southwest to the Bering Sea, a distance of nearly 2,000 miles (3,200 kilometers). We camped that night on a small island about 12 miles down from Carmacks and suffered through a dinner of grilled salmon steaks, buttered boiled potatoes and carrots, crisp green salad, and fresh raspberries for dessert. After a suitable recovery period, we turned in, and let the river sing us to sleep. In the morning we geared up for the toughest white water on the trip, Five Finger Rapids. This is one of a score of sites that have been studied as potential sources of hydroelectric power. The tappable energy could amount to 50 billion kilowatt-hours a year—about what the State of Georgia with five million residents produced in 1976.
I recalled a conversation with Jim Smith, former commissioner of the territory and now chairman of the Northern Canada Power Commission. "Our ability to survive," he told me, "is going to be based on our ability to supply our own energy needs. Otherwise, we will forever be dancing to someone else's tune. There is enough choice of water sites so that we can develop those that will have minimal effect on the environment."
For now, at least, there is no dam at Five Finger Rapids. Rock knuckles, like giant stepping-stones, divide the river, and many a stampeder's raft was shivered upon them. But the stampeders didn't have Zodiacs. We chose the roughest chute and made it through with ease, shipping very little water. Below the rapids the river swung in lazy curves between low cliffs pocked with swallows' nests. A few birch trees, like nuggets in a gold pan, were turning yellow on the hillsides, and flocks of geese were honking south. We stopped at several places to explore falling-down cabins that recalled the days when the river was the only highway.
At the confluence of the Pelly River a dozen structures stand at the deserted outpost of Fort Selkirk, established by Robert Campbell in 1848 and rebuilt during the gold rush. We pitched our tent there and then headed up the Pelly several miles to visit one of the few working farms in the territory (pages 566-7).
Pandas in the Wild
FRESH TRACKS in the snow pass within 100 feet of my tent. Nearby another set of tracks tells of a smaller animal moving in the same direction. All day my Chinese associate and I trace their route. Then, on a late winter afternoon, we spy a small black-and-white creature almost invisible on the bough of a spruce. Below sits a more massive animal. Finally. After two months in the rugged Wolong Natural Reserve in the mountains of China's Sichuan Province (map, page 741), I have seen my first giant pandas in the wild.
Chinese experts estimate that the total panda population today may not exceed 1,000. More than 100 starved to death in the mid-1970s, when one of the species of bamboo on which they feed bloomed and died in a large section of their habitat. Worried about the decline of the pandas, the Chinese, who count A iluropoda melanoleuca a national treasure, invited the World Wildlife Fund, whose symbol is the panda, to join in a research and conservation program to study this rare, shy mammal.
I was asked by the World Wildlife Fund to participate in the field research. After the first six months of the study, I realize that there are still more questions than answers about the behavior of this animal everyone loves.
THE BIRCHES around our camp are heavy with frost and shine like transmuted starlight against the dawn sky. The thermometer outside my tent measures 14°F.
I set out to look for fresh panda spoor with Hu Jin-chu, a professor at Nanchong Teachers College and one of Sichuan's best naturalists. Professor Hu serves as field director for the study. The trek is an arduous task because of the rugged terrain and dense thickets of bamboo.
We climb to search a ridge we have not visited for a week. Our camp lies at 8,300 feet. Pandas roam to 10,500 feet and higher—as far as bamboo persists. Though gripped by winter cold, the forest is strangely verdant. There are spruce and hemlock, and beneath them rhododendron and whole slopes of bamboo, all in green leaf, as if summer has been momentarily suspended.
Professor Hu leads the way across a treacherous hillside (left) where seepage has turned into a frozen chute.
When we find tracks, they are traced on plastic (below). By noting each footprint's idiosyncrasy, we may be able to identify individuals from their tracks. We like to follow the exact route of an animal to determine not only where it has fed, but also to note every bamboo stem it has eaten.
Droppings and compressed bamboo mark a panda sleeping site (below), which Professor Hu tries out for size. In our ninesquare-mile study area, there are seven pandas, although one or two more may wander in from time to time.
A SIGNPOST reads "panda in the area." No one knows why pandas claw trees (below). It may be to sharpen or clean their claws, and perhaps to signal their presence. This is the work of one of three wild pandas we track by radio collar. One afternoon I hear her crunching a bamboo stalk. With her keen sense of smell, she quickly becomes aware of me. Possibly curious, she draws to within 35 feet to look me over (left), and then casually ambles over to a nearby patch of bamboo and goes to sleep.
As winter disappears, the panda's distinctive coat seems to grow more and more conspicuous. When a panda suddenly appears out of the forest, its coat seems to glow. The healthy adult panda has no enemies other than man. Only the young or old and weak may fall prey to such predators as leopards and Asiatic wild dogs.
SNOW retreats up the ravines and ice vanishes from the banks of streams. Flocks of blood pheasants break up to nest and sunbirds return from warmer climates. Birches are leafing out and the rhododendrons burst into bloom.
My wife, Kay, welcomes spring by transcribing her notes out of doors (left). The tent pipe goes to a stove that not only keeps us warm but also dries panda droppings we analyze for content.
Nearby is the central shed with our community kitchen, where my Chinese colleagues (bottom), including Professor Hu, second from left, and biologist Pan Wenshi of Beijing University, third from right, toss a farewell party for a departing team member.
The 770-square-mile Wolong Reserve is the largest of ten preserves set aside by the Chinese government in its immense efforts to protect the panda. In prehistoric times this bearlike animal with some raccoon characteristics roamed much of eastern China. The dashed line on the map shows the extent of fossil finds. The small red areas are the extent of panda habitat today.
HOW FAR do pandas roam? Are they active both day and night? To answer these and other questions, we need to monitor them with radio-equipped collars. Although pandas eat bamboo almost exclusively, they are also carnivorous, albeit too slow to catch most animals. Wang Xue-quan (below) smokes mutton in front of a log trap baited with meat, hoping the smell will lure a panda. After days of checking empty traps, we are electrified by the news that a panda has been caught. We discover an elderly female that we name Zhen-Zhen, meaning "precious" or "rare treasure." After we tranquilize, examine, and collar her, we allow her to recover in the trap and then release her. When she realizes she is free, she trots off (right). Not the least intimidated by her experience, Zhen-Zhen entered traps three more times.
HIS NAME is Long-Long, meaning "dragon" (above), the only male we captured. Professor Hu, Peng Jiagan, and Howard Quigley, a radio-telemetry expert from the New York Zoological Society, weigh the young 120-pound male. By his weight and teeth we estimate he is 21/2 years old.
Ning-Ning, another subadult, lives up to her name, "kind and peaceful," when greeted by Emil Dolensek (top right), the society's chief veterinarian, who came to Wolong to work with the Chinese in captive management programs. Pandas are known to be rather unaggressive in the wild, but these subadult animals are so docile they seem almost like pets.
Signals from the radio collars Howard put on Zhen-Zhen (left) and others can be detected several miles away.
The specially adapted panda forepaw (above) can clutch a bamboo stem between the five fingers and the elongated wristbone at upper left that is, in effect, a sixth digit.
LAST REFUGE of the panda, this haunting fastness in central China is washed by prolonged
summer rains (left). The animal's prehistoric range probably became more arid, and later cultivation destroyed its habitat. It survives only in these mountains where the moisture-loving bamboo still thrives. And pandas need a lot of bamboo. Because their digestive tracts extract little nutritive value from the plant, they consume prodigious amounts, spending 50 to 75 percent of the day feeding. Captives have been known to eat 40 pounds of bamboo a day.
For much of the year Wolong pandas keep to higher altitudes, where there are large stands of Sinarundinaria, one of the types of bamboo in the study area. In spring some descend to relish the shoots of another kind (right). The panda peels the hairy sheath to reach the juicy center—a delicacy also enjoyed by our team.
To eat a long shoot, a panda in the captive breeding facility at Wolong snaps it in two (above). Inserting one piece at a time, it will crunch each rapidly—like a sharpener consuming a pencil.
ZHEN-ZHEN is restless, according to our radio signals. Listening from a nearby ridge, we can hear a male emitting the whines and barks that are the equivalent of a panda love song. The next day I observe the pair, and soon see a smaller male arrive. The larger male, threatening and charging, soon drives him away from the female.
I stand near a large fir tree and shortly Zhen-Zhen comes panting up the trail (top). Unalarmed, she goes to the other side of the tree and sits down. Soon the male comes puffing up the slope, and I back off. He simply steps over my tape recorder and follows her. He puts a foreleg on her side as if to induce her to crouch down (above). Then she sinks to her elbows and places the top of her head on the ground, al¬lowing him to mount (lower left). I ob¬served him mount her 48 times in three hours. It will be perhaps five months later before Zhen-Zhen produces a cub, if at all. If she does, we will care¬fully avoid her den site for fear of disturbing her.
The knowledge we gain over the next few years will, we hope, preserve the panda in the wild as well as improve breeding in captivity.


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CCCHANGES... to make this easier, more fun and because someone else did something that I had been thinking about.. ..
1) Post to the WEEKLY threads please.
If you start a post outside those threads-- it will be copied over and your singular post will be deleted. Read the rules and play according to the rules--- and you will find your stuff retweeted
2) if you want 411 about Triberr.. which is an auto-re-tweeter.. that you can select groups and tribes not only from people here but by topic .. please let me know. They have lots of parenting and specific topic blogs and you can join more than one tribe.
3)Relevancy to your audience has become a topic here.. please read the thread about it.. and think about it.
Because if you are tweeting only things skewed to small children.. and some stuff that I post (and others) might not be completely releveant to you-- there is a LIST that's been created JUST for mom/kid stuff.
Try adding that to your post and that will get you FAR beyond the women on this list but to other mommy bloggers NOT on this site. It's targets your audience better.
4) want to increase people following you? Think about what else you could include as a post or rt of someone else's blog that you would find relevant. (cooking, fashion, health, fitness, travel, books, tv shows )
if you retweet things like that from OTHERS.. not only will you have something different to post but you will be building a bigger broader following and will be doing smart social media tactics
5) 140 characters + spaces .. including RT @yourtwittername
6)If you post something here and want it RT'd.. please RT at least one thing from someone else. I know someone talked about paying it forward-- that sounds easier. paying back is also good... but it's whatever works best for you.
7) if you have a limited time RT please indicate that it has a deadline. Please include a DO NOT POST AFTER XX/XX date..
PLEASE note if you have a time limit. If you are RTing something, please READ the RT to see if there's a time limit. Several have retweeted my stuff lately that's past the deadline and event is over.. (and I got some weird twittter comments about it)..
so pay attention because you don't want me to post something of your going back to June.. do you>?
8) Please do not keep listing the same RTs repeatedly. Either change up your tweet title or alternate weeks that you list them.
When you repeatedly run the same content on Twitter over and over again, Twitter views it as spam and they
can boot you off for running that same content. We don't want that to happen.
If it's a contest, that's not a problem because it ends-- providing that people don't keep RTing it.
However REGULAR posts, should not be RT'd repeatedly every week.
9) please use URL shorteners (hootsuite.com, socialoomph.com, twaitter.com) and
also you can advance schedule posts & TWEETS across the week. -- that's important.
10 ) Please do NOT Post about politically charged topics.
I don't have to explain why do I?
I am not telling you what to post. if your blog is ONLY about moms and small kids-- those whose kids are grown, might not RT your things.. just as you might not RT one of theirs.. so it's something to balance..
11) Others have mentioned this-- Tweet dumping where you post everything at the same time. Twitter calls this spamming
PLEASE use one of the programs where you can schedule the posting of the tweets. you can do them 15 mins apart and get them all done for a week if you want.... including your own.
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Stacey.. the last tweet is too long.. it comes up on hootsuite as too long. can you change this?>
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Thank you.. I will schedule everyone's retweets now.. :0)
for anyone wanting to be on trtberr.. I have changed the current tribe that Ro & Rebecca joined to a mommy blogger tribe and I have another one that's just for general blogging.. so let me know if you want to join. I need 2 more members for mommy blogger to unlock inbreeding.. and the need 3 more for general blogging.. you could join either one. or both
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Hi ladies! I was wondering why I was only RT'ing Ro's tweets, lol.
Here's mine for now. First one is only tonight/tomorrow 8-17:
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The simple adage of 'eat less and move more,' to weight loss is not always so easy.
Let's face it, as much fun as the holidays are, the season was long and filled with way too many opportunities for glutinous derailment of the year's self-imposed dietary restrictions toward our personal training and racing goals.
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In Bankruptcy, Radical Changes Brew for Northwest, Unions
The bankrupt carrier is pressing to shift midsize jet flying and some baggage handling work to subsidiaries, angering pilots and ground workers.
For each of its big unions Northwest Airlines Corp. has a big idea, each one so odious to workers that they're threatening a strike that could put it out of business.
The bankrupt carrier is pressing to shift midsize jet flying and some baggage handling work to subsidiaries, angering pilots and ground workers. And it wants to shift thousands of U.S. based, union-covered flight attendant jobs to foreign hires.
The centerpiece is the idea for a new regional carrier, which Northwest has dubbed "NewCo" for now. "NewCo represents the cornerstone of our domestic renewal," said Tim Griffin, executive vice president for marketing and distribution, in a recent newsletter to employees. Northwest declined to provide anyone to discuss NewCo.
Northwest is trying to negotiate those changes into new contracts along with steep pay cuts and other givebacks by workers. If talks fail it will ask a bankruptcy court judge to allow it to reject its union contracts and impose new terms. A trial on the issue is set to begin Tuesday in New York.
Northwest has said little about its plans for ground workers and flight attendants. But it laid out its regional airline subsidiary idea in the newsletter to employees, saying it hopes to launch the carrier next year with a fleet of new 70- to 100-seat jets. NewCo could have as many as 105 aircraft by 2010, and would fly under its own Federal Aviation Administration operating certificate.
Northwest President and Chief Executive Doug Steenland said the jets are the perfect size for 20 percent of Northwest markets, which include more small cities than any other carrier. "To operate at a profit, we must invest in these aircraft, and we must do so quickly," he wrote.
He also said that as a stand-alone carrier NewCo could borrow the money for its new jets, which might be tough for debt-laden Northwest. Northwest needs to save its money for new Airbus A330s and Boeing 787s for its international fleet, he wrote.
Northwest said most other airlines use outside carriers for flying the smaller jets. Northwest said its current pilot contract makes that too expensive. The contract reserves that flying for mainline pilots and bars shifting it to regional partners, who generally pay pilots less. Northwest has instead accomplished that flying with old DC-9 aircraft, some of which will soon reach mandatory retirement age, or multiple flights with smaller planes.
Northwest has sweetened the pitch by promising to staff NewCo with pilots it furloughed in the industry downturn that began in 2001.
UAL Corp.'s United Airlines used to have a limit on how many 70-seat aircraft it could use, but it got rid of the limit in bankruptcy court concessions from pilots, said airline consultant Robert Mann.
Pilots say NewCo looks just like something US Airways Group Inc. did during one of its own trips to bankruptcy court, when Northwest's current chief financial officer, Neal Cohen, held the same position at US Air.
In late 2002, it convinced pilots to allow a new division for handling regional jet flying. The new division, MidAtlantic Airways, employed laid-off pilots, just as Northwest promises with NewCo.
But they ended up making much less than they had at US Airways - their top scale dropped from about $120,000 a year to $58,000 a year - and its planes are now being sold off to Republic Airways Holding, Inc., a regional carrier that is continuing to fly them under the US Airways Express name.
Northwest pilots worry they'd suffer the same fate at NewCo.
"MidAtlantic was a disaster, and he (Cohen) was one of the principal architects," said Capt. Mark McClain, who runs the Northwest branch of the Air Line Pilots Association. "It was sold off at bargain-basement prices. There are lawsuits. Everybody got left holding an empty bag. When we see the same guy doing the same thing here, that causes tremendous concern."
Darryl Jenkins, who teaches airline management at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Fla., said the cutoff between mainline flying and regional flying is second only to pay in importance to pilots.
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Renovated in 2013, this suburban airport hotel is in north St. Louis County, convenient via I-70 to golf, casinos, historic St. Charles, downtown, and the Riverport Amphitheater outdoor concert venue.
A large, open courtyard contains indoor and outdoor pools, a well-equipped 24-hour fitness room, and a 12-person tub spa. The restaurant off the lobby serves three meals daily.
In the hotel's gift shop, guests have access (until 11 PM) to computers with complimentary high-speed Internet access and printers, popular for printing airline boarding passes. 29,000 square feet (2,694 square meters) of meeting space is available for guest use. Complimentary wireless Internet access is offered throughout the hotel. A roundtrip airport shuttle is available free of charge during limited hours. Secure self parking is offered for a surcharge.
- Concierge services
- Complimentary newspapers in lobby
- Fitness facilities
- Bar/lounge
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Exhibit space
- Multiple large conference rooms
- Event catering
- Banquet facilities
- Ballroom(s)
- Business services
- Audiovisual equipment
- Total number of rooms - 550
- Express check-out
- Doorman/doorwoman
- Express check-in
- 24-hour front desk
- ATM/banking
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Airport transportation (complimentary)
- Air-conditioned public areas
- Number of floors - 9
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Grocery store
- Hair salon
- Free Wi-Fi
- Laundry facilities
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Multiple small meeting rooms
- Multilingual staff
- Secure parking
- Patio
- Porter/bellhop
- Restaurant
- Room service (limited hours)
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Meeting facilities size (feet) - 29,000
- Meeting facilities size (meters) - 2694
- Number of meeting/conference rooms - 27
- Security guard
- Smoke-free property
- Spa tub
- Swimming pool - indoor
- Swimming pool - outdoor seasonal
- Tour assistance
- Wedding services
- Stay connected
Available in all rooms: Wireless Internet access (surcharge), Wired high-speed Internet access (surcharge)
Available in some public areas: Free Wi-Fi
- Park your car
Secure parking, Self parking (surcharge)
- In your room
- Premium TV channels
- Premium bedding
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Air conditioning
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Climate control
- Complimentary weekday newspaper
- Coffee/tea maker
- Refrigerator (on request)
- Turndown service
- Shower/tub combination
- In-room massage available
- Complimentary toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Iron/ironing board
- Desk
- Daily housekeeping
- Cable TV service
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Cribs/infant beds available
- Plasma TV
- Wireless Internet access (surcharge)
- Wired high-speed Internet access (surcharge)
- Eat and drink
The Restaurant - Steaks and seafood served in a lodge-style room with several pillars connected by arches; floor-to-ceiling natural stone fireplace in the center. Open daily for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
The Bar - Cocktails, light fare. One large-screen TV and five flat-screen TVs. Tables surround a U-shaped bar. Humidor contains premium cigars for sale. Open daily, late morning to early morning.
The Market - Actually a window off the lobby, this small coffee shop is part of the hotel gift shop, and is open from early morning to late night.
- Play
St. Louis Airport Marriott has a small indoor/outdoor pool; a large seasonal outdoor pool; a 12-person spa tub; and a 24-hour fitness center including several treadmills, stationary bikes, elliptical trainers, stair machine, free weights, two weight benches, and a Universal machine.
The par-71, 18-hole Crystal Springs Quarry Golf Course is five miles away; and the par-71, 18-hole Normandie Golf Course is six miles away. Creve Coeur County Park, four miles away, offers extensive hiking and biking trails.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Golf - miniature nearby
- Golf - driving range nearby
- Skiing - downhill nearby
- Running track/path nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Bowling alley nearby
- Swimming on site
The Fine Print for St. Louis Airport Marriott
- When you arrive
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
- When you leave
Check-out time is noon
- How you can pay
Accepted at this hotel: American Express, Diners Club, Discover, JCB International, MasterCard, Visa
- Your furry friends
Pets allowed
- You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- Fees
- The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
- Breakfast fee: USD 15 per person (approximately)
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: USD 12.95 per day (rates may vary)
- Fee for in-room high-speed Internet (wired): USD 12.95 per day (rates may vary)
- Self parking fee: USD 10 per day
- Pet deposit: USD 50.00 per stay


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James Madison baseball will host its second consecutive four-game weekend series against a member of the America East Conference when the Dukes open a set against Hartford on Friday afternoon at 4 p.m. The series will also include a 1 p.m. doubleheader on Saturday followed by Sunday's concluding game at 1 p.m.
After starting the season with three losses, the Dukes split four games in their previous four-game set against Binghamton last weekend. The Bearcats won the opening seven-inning game in each doubleheader before JMU rebounded to take the second game in nine innings. Most recently, JMU fell to Maryland on Wednesday, 10-5, after the Terrapins erupted for seven runs in the fifth inning to break a 3-3 tie.
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Hartford is coming off of a weekend series loss to Campbell in North Carolina this past weekend to start its season off 0-4. The Hawks were outscored 46-7 in the series and hit .188 as a team while allowing the Camels to bat .357. Despite the struggles, four batters are at .300 or better for the Hawks, including Trey Stover and James Alfonso each at .333.
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The Dukes hold a 4-1 series lead, but the two teams haven't played each other since 1997, when the Dukes won 7-5 at home. Overall, the Dukes have dominated the Hawks, having won the last four meetings, with a combined score of 41-9, all in the mid-1990s.
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MERCED — Whether its breaking out the ol' barbecue, setting up lawn chairs in the park to watch fireworks or taking time to remember a veteran, thousands of Merced County families will gather today and throughout the weekend to celebrate the nation's independence.
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COST: Registration for the run is $25. Admission on the former base for the fireworks show is $5 per car load. No walk-ins are allowed.
WHAT: Parade and festival
WHEN: Parade begins 10:30 a.m. today at the north end of Fifth Street in the downtown area, followed by 11:30 a.m. festival in Henry Miller Park, located near the area of Sixth Street and Third Avenue.
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WHAT: Carnival and fireworks show
WHEN: The carnival will run from 3 p.m. to midnight today through Saturday, and from 3 to 11 p.m. Sunday at Memorial Park and Livingston High, near Park and Main streets. The fireworks show is slated to run from 9:20 to 10 p.m. Friday at Memorial Park.
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WHEN: Today, 5 p.m., at Veterans Memorial Stadium, 200 N. Ward Road.
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