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1 Astronomical Clock
Architecture, castles and historic districts
Staromestské Námestí 1 4/1 CZ - Praha
A powerful symbol of the magic of Prague, the clock represents the passing of time and life. When the hour strikes, Christ appears with the twelve apostles, Death, the Turk, the Jew and Vanity. The cock crows at the end the display. The clock was ins..
2 Gardens below the Castle
Nature and gardens
Valdštejnské Námestí 3 CZ - Praha
Terraced gardens, known as the ''gardens below the Castle'', run all along the southern side of the Castle to Malá Strana, affording magnificent views of the entire city. The main architectural asset of Ledebour Garden is its splendid sala terrena ga..
3 St-Agnes of Bohemia Convent
Religious buildings
U Milosrdných 17 CZ - Praha
Built in the 13C on the orders of Agnes, Wenceslas I's sister, this convent of Poor Clare was inspired by Cisterchian architecture. The Convent contains the Chapel of the Virgin Mary, St Saviour's Church, and the elegant presbytery. It was requisitio..
4 Charles Bridge
Architecture, castles and historic districts
Malá Strana-Staré Mesto CZ - Praha
This was the first stone bridge over the Vltava built under the orders of Charles VI. It joins Stare Mesto and Mala Strana and was built between 1357 and 1402. Charles Bridge is a 516-metre-long, 9.5-metre-wide Gothic structure resting on mortar join..
5 Old City: Church of Our Lady of Tyn
Religious buildings
Staromestské Námestí 14 CZ - Praha
A simple church has stood here since the 10C, frequented by foreign merchants who negotiated in the walls of the Tyn. In 1270, it was replaced by a first Gothic building, succeeded by the current one, started in 1380 but not finished until the late 1..
6 Prague Castle: St Guy's
Religious buildings
Troisième cour CZ - Praha
Charles IV was responsible for the construction of a cathedral within the Castle walls to replace the Romanesque basilica. St Guy's was started in 1344 under the direction of Matthew of Arras in the French Gothic style. His work was continued by Pete..
7 Prague Castle: Former Royal Palace
Architecture, castles and historic districts
Troisième cour CZ - Praha
The foundations (of which there remain some ruins) go back to the 10C. On top of the primitive Romanesque palace was built a Gothic construction which Ladislas II rebuilt in a Renaissance style at the end of the 15C, building the floor which now hous..
8 Malá Strana
Architecture, castles and historic districts
Malá Strana CZ - Praha
Between the bend in the Vltava and the Castle, bordered by the green Petrin hill to the south, the «little side» of Mala Strana is strewn with palaces and churches. While it is difficult to find the traces of the area's troubled history here, you can..
9 Municipal Building
Architecture, castles and historic districts
Námestí Republiky 1090/5 CZ - Praha
Erected between 1905 and 1911 opposite the Powder Tower, the Municipal Building (Obecní dum) was a challenging project: constructing an edifice intended for prestigious official and cultural gatherings, and the various related services, on an irregul..
10 National Theatre
Architecture, castles and historic districts
Národní trída 2 CZ - Praha
On 16th June 1868, 50,000 pairs of hands carried a stone to this spot from Mount Rip, where the mythical father of the nation, Cech, is said to have seen his promised land. On 11 June 1881 the National Theatre (Národní divadlo), built by Josef Zitek,..
11 Old City: Theatre of States and Carolinum
Architecture, castles and historic districts
Ovocný trh 1 CZ - Praha
Created in 1781 by Count Nostitz, this theatre's name was made by the triumphant creation of Mozart's Don Giovanni in 1786. Largely dominated by a German repertory, it was soon to open up to Czech music... but returned to the German language in 1869 ..
12 Old City: Josefov
Architecture, castles and historic districts
Cervená CZ - Praha
The Jewish quarter in Prague goes back to the city's very beginnings. From the 9C, communities were set up and in the 13C settled in a ghetto complete with its own fortifications in the heart of the Old City. Over the years and monarchies, the Jews w..
13 Old Jewish Cemetery
Religious buildings
Široká 23/3 CZ - Praha
There are 12,000 tombs, but probably close to 80,000 people are buried in the Jewish Cemetery (Starý zidovský hrbitov). The Jewish rite forbidding disinterment means that coffins have been buried on a dozen different levels. Both humble and illustrio..
14 Old-New Synagogue
Religious buildings
Cervená 2 CZ - Praha
For some, the Staronová Synagoga was built with stones brought from the Temple of Jerusalem. Others claim that it appeared entirely built, on a plot of land that was being levelled out. Others say that its Hebrew name, which means ''Provisional'', si..
15 New City: Wenceslas Square
Architecture, castles and historic districts
Václavské Námestí. Nové Mesto CZ - Praha
This is a 750-metre avenue that ends at the imposing National Museum and the Statue of Wenceslas on Horseback. It was originally the horse market that Charles IV wanted to make the centre of his New City. Since the 19C, this has been the symbolic gat..
16 Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
Museums and art
Dukelských hrdinù 47 CZ - Praha
The Veletrzni Palace, an immense concrete and glass building designed by O. Tyl and J. Fuchs in 1924, was initially intended for industrial exhibitions. The Nazis used it as a provisional detention centre for Jews, and the Communists turned it into a..
17 Castle Area
Architecture, castles and historic districts
Hradcanské Námestí. Prazský Hrad CZ - Praha
Hradcany is the most visible area of the city, due to the Castle and the spires of St Guy's, as well as the most visited, because of the many attractions that delight monument-seekers: from its paintings, buildings and churches to its views. It is al..
18 National Technical Museum
Museums and art
Kostelní 42 CZ - Praha
Housed in a building that was built ad hoc in 1942, this museum contains all sorts of flying, driving and other machinery that show the importance of Czech innovation in the development of technology and their enthusiasm for all types of inventions.
19 Old Town
Architecture, castles and historic districts
Staromestské Námestí CZ - Praha
Bordered by the curving Vltava and the boulevards that have replaced the fortifications, the Old Town of Prague has a long history, visible everywhere in its maze of streets and squares (Staromestské námestí, námestí Republiky). Old churches - St. Ja..
20 Old City: Old City Square
Architecture, castles and historic districts
Staromestské Námestí. Staré Mesto CZ - Praha
There are few places in the world where a city shows its soul such as here. Although Prague was recognised as a city in 1230, it wasn't until 1338 that Jean de Luxembourg allowed the city to build a City Hall. From then on, this square became the hea..


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I was standing in front of my house when a cyclist pedaled by about 6:30 p.m. on a recent Saturday. When she got to the four-way stop at Princess and West streets, she just kept going. A few seconds later a police car stopped at the intersection, close enough that the officer should have been able to see the cyclist run the stop sign. But the officer didn't pursue her and write a ticket.
Even the Washington Post acknowledges the nonchalance with which bicyclists disobey traffic rules and try to brush it off by blaming their shoes. Earlier this month Post transportation reporter Ashley Halsey III wrote: "Riders go through stop signs. It's illegal, and it can be annoying if they do it cavalierly. Other cyclists slow down, look both ways and then roll through. Usually it's because their shoes are mechanically attached to the pedal. Yes, they can clip out, but they opt not to."
Do we have, in Alexandria, a de facto policy of looking the other way on bicycle moving violations?
Since cyclists blowing through stop signs is widely acknowledged as widespread, if not the norm, and certainly at a much higher percentage than motorists blowing through stop signs, I would pose the following question: In the previous fiscal year, how many citations did the Alexandria police issue to bicyclists for moving violations?
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Well said Dino!
In addition to ticketing bicyclists who run stop signs, I would also like to suggest that our local law enforcement direct more of their attention to citations to folks who jaywalk, walk their dogs off leash, and let their potty training children urinate in public.
Your local criminal
...and while they're at it, maybe they can enforce motorists who turn right on red without coming to a complete stop, and those motorists who stop in the crosswalk (as opposed to the thick white line a couple of feet short of the crosswalk). And maybe they can enforce speeding and aggressive driving too.
All of these things I just mentioned are way more of a threat to modern society than a cyclist running a stop sign.


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By Claire Walla
With the state's two-percent tax levy cap looming over the upcoming budget season, the Sag Harbor School District has decided to get a head start on financial discussions, kicking off its budget discussions nearly eight weeks ahead of last year's schedule.
On Monday, November 28, just before the district's regularly scheduled business meeting, school board members were privy to the first of six budget workshops, this one focusing on the district's business office.
According to District Business Manager Janet Verneuille, the department's projected budget for the 2012-2013 school year will increase by 4.8 percent over this year's operating budget, or about $59,000.
The majority of the overall budget increase for this department is tied to business administration salaries, a line item expected to see an increase of about $38,400 for next year. Verneuille noted that the increase largely accounts for two part-time employees—as well as contractual increases that include financial projections for some staff members potentially joining a collective bargaining unit, and a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a senior account clerk—and a three-percent raise that Verneuille has factored in for every non-union employee.
"I think it's fair," Verneuille said. A three-percent raise, she explained, splits the difference between two extremes: adhering to the district's financial strains and recognizing the fact that unionized secretarial support staff is set to see five- to seven-percent raises scheduled for next year.
This budget increase also accounts for the fact that the business department is moving more services in-house.
"For years [schools'] financial statements were done by auditors," Verneuille explained, adding that this practice changed in 2004 when the Roslyn school district on Long Island was found to have misused about $11 million worth of taxpayer dollars. "After Roslyn, one of the things that changed is that outside auditors can't do district financials."
The business department has thus spent money on higher salaried staff members, and now employs two in-house CPAs (including Verneuille).
"There are some hefty increases in expenses for the business office," Verneuille explained.
However, Verneuille stressed that this section of the budget — which also includes the board of education, central administration, legal services, public information services and insurance — currently only accounts for about 3.5 percent of the district's overall budget.
In addition to salary increases, the preliminary budget also accounts for increases to public information (up from $32,000 to $55,000) and increases to legal fees (up from $130,000 to $149,500). Verneuille said the budget is higher for these line items in anticipation of upcoming events, namely the school's proposed bond measure and teachers' contract negotiations with the teaching assistants, custodians and secretarial unions.


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Swimming competitively in high school, Krom began to coach swimming in 1994 while his children were in school. He was the head coach for High Desert Aquatics from 1996 to 2007. Most recently, he was the head coach and CEO for the Temple Areas Swim Club in Texas. Krom's expertise includes strength and flexibility, dry land training, and swimmer's nutrition.
"We offer basic instruction and techniques for swimmers who want to improve their strokes," says Krom. "Each class, I write up a new workout schedule which swimmers can follow at their own pace."
While swimmers participate in the Masters Program for fitness, some enjoy competing in various Masters swim competitions. The Aquatic Center's 50-meter by 25-yard, Olympic-sized competition pool provides long and short options for lap swimming and competitions.
"You can work as hard as you want and if you decide to compete, we want you to enjoy the experience without feeling pressured," says Krom. "The participants at the meets are a great group of people."
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The Masters Swim Program is for beginning, intermediate and advanced swimmers, ages 18 and up. Class times are Monday and Wednesday mornings from 5:30 to 7 a.m., Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 5:30 to 7 p.m. and every other Saturday from 7 to 9 a.m. Monthly program fees are $60 for Palm Desert residents and $80 for non-residents. Drop-in program fees are $6 for Palm Desert residents and $8 for non-residents. For more information about class schedules and programs, and for a complete listing of hours, call the Aquatic Center at 760-565-7467 or visit www.desertymca.org.


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Jan 17, 2009
James Jessiman Memorial Award for 2008 awarded to Philippe (Philo) Hurbain
The SteerCo is pleased to announce that the James Jessiman Memorial Award (JJMA) for 2008 will be awarded to Philippe (Philo) Hurbain. As a prolific contributor to the LDraw Parts Library, Philo has contributed not only numerous parts but has also given his many software tools to aid in the creation of parts to the LDraw community. His dedication to reviewing parts has further facilitated the addition and improvement of many other parts to the library. In particular it is fair to say that, without Philo's work, building modern Technic and NXT models in LDraw would be a significantly poorer experience. Overall Philo has, perhaps more than any other single person, made the parts library which forms the foundations of the LDraw experience into a better resource through his invaluable contributions of parts, tools and reviewing.
On behalf of all the NXT authors, I would like to add my thanks to Philo for his unselfish effort to create ldraw NXT parts---without which it would not have been possible to publish building instructions for our NXT designs.
Philo has a website full of cool things--- www.philohome.com. Learn more about LDraw at www.ldraw.org.
Posted by: Fay Rhodes at 7:40 PM
7 comments:
- Martijn Hellemans said...
completely deserved!
- Jan 18, 2009, 1:38:00 AM
- Anders Søborg said...
Congratulations philo - you deserve it!
- Jan 18, 2009, 4:49:00 AM
- Mike1 said...
Congrats Philo! I would be stuck without a CADing software that I can use for NXT without you!
- Jan 18, 2009, 7:44:00 AM
- Christopher R. Smith (Littlehorn) said...
Awesome Philo! Congratulations! I'm very thankful of your hard work and I hope to see you active in the mix for years to come!
Chris Smith
- Jan 18, 2009, 12:48:00 PM
He certainly deserves it! Think about all the work he's done: PF parts, MINDSTORMS parts, software for projecting flat images to round shapes,...
It's amazing! Truly deserved and well done Philo!
- Jan 19, 2009, 8:48:00 PM
- Conchas said...
Well done, Philo!
Congratulations for your efforts and dedication!
Fernando Correia
- Jan 20, 2009, 1:35:00 PM
- Philo said...
Thanks everybody!
- Jan 20, 2009, 6:15:00 PM
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In summation - if you dislike metro because you don't want to some tacky full screen start thing and have no interest in the ever trendy app store you hate Windows 8. Despite the fact that excluding metro, there is actually a lot of nice changes in Windows 8 that most people on neowin that are "haters" actually want.
If there was a GPO that would revert to the normal start menu I think MS would avoid a ton of this resistance. But they are choosing to be stuck up and force it upon the user base. Too bad they forget that they aren't Apple.


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The hyperbole aside, the show was neither good nor bad. It was dull,
but there were vendors there doing thing useful to 'the enterprise'
(which in this economy is the only people worth attracting). 'the
enterprise' tends to be dull to most LUG folken (if we are being
remotely honest).
Now, that being said, the show was otherwise lackluster, but some
vendors (Cloudera particularly) looked interesting, but I am biased
because we are entertaining playing with Hadoop where I work now. I
liked seeing Talend and SQLStream, etc. But I am coming from the
position of someone looking at actual offerings for my own projects that
I manage.
There were vendors I though had interesting but otherwise moot offerings
(i.e. Cubetree, which could just as well be replaced by Wordpress MU
with some additional plugins or with an adapted GForge/Joomla/Drupal
rig), but lets face it, the real reason I went was to party with old VA
Linux alumni. :)
Bill Kendrick wrote:
> Darth's post to SacLUG about this year's OpenSource World
> (previously known as LinuxWorld).
> It sounds like it was even worse than I had expected, based on various
> random people complaining in their Facebook statuses a few days ago.
> Seriously? Exhibit hall only one 1hr at a time?
> -bill!
> ----- Forwarded message from Darth Borehd <firstname.lastname@example.com> -----
> Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:53:21 -0700
> From: Darth Borehd <email@example.com>
> Subject: [Lug-nuts] The Death of Linuxworld
> To: General SacLUG discussing <firstname.lastname@example.com>
> Reply-To: General SacLUG discussing <firstname.lastname@example.com>
> Linuxworld died sometime at the end of 2008.
> I have been a regular attendee for roughly 10 years now. I only
> missed the 2005 conference because my daughter was born on the same
> day. I was a huge fan of LinuxWorld, I was an organiser of several
> LinuxWorld attending groups, I have a closet full of material from
> past Linuxworlds. Senator, you are no Linuxworld.
> IDG claims they merely renamed it to "OpenSource World/NextGen Data
> Center/CloudWorld" but it's quite obviously they were out to remove
> anything that resembled the Linuxworld and try to pawn off a new
> conference as its successor. It's not. Not even close.
> Let me explain why.
> * The name change. First thing you notice is the confusing
> buzzword-heavy new name where 3 conference share equal size and space
> on the banner. Not only is it aesthetically unappealing, its
> confusing what the focus is going to be. Sure they combined
> conferences before, but they were always auxiliary riders latched onto
> LinuxWorld. It was the king and quite obviously the main event.
> There is no main event any more.
> * The size. The conference was moved from the main Moscone Hall where
> it had resided for about 10 years and is now in a smaller space on the
> west side. The main Moscone Hall now sits empty. The exhibit hall is
> now .25 of the size of what it was in 2008 and even smaller if you
> compare it to previous years. The number of conference/lecture rooms
> are roughly the same. There are no testing centers for LPI
> certification or workshops.
> * The exhibit hall. This is the *worst* part of the whole conference.
> Now about a quarter of the size. Just one of the major vendor
> squares from 2008 would have taken up the size of a half dozen booths
> at the 2009 conference. Gone are a lot of the usual exhibitors from
> years past. No VMWare, IBM, HP, CDW, Dice, Intel, AMD, Motorola,
> O'Reilly, and dozens of others. Of those that were there, you
> quickly found they were staffed with salespeople and temp presenters
> hired off the street. Dell was there. Sun was there. Both had
> competent programmers and engineers to actually talk to but the
> exhibit spaces were reduced to the size of two small booth put
> together. The most frustrating thing is that the exhibit hall was
> only open for about an hour at a time. Yes, you heard that right.
> After only an hour inside, security guards come and herd you into
> lecture rooms for the next 3 hours until the exhibits open again.
> * Alcohol. During the last hour, they served free beer. It would
> seem to me to be a stupid move liability-wise to serve alcohol to
> people who might be getting in cars and driving away when it closes.
> Also, they were not checking IDs and I personally met a young man who
> said he was 19 and had several beers already. Beyond that, it was
> just annoying to see drunken people stumbling around. It wasn't even
> good beer. I don't drink beer, but I was told that it tasted like
> watered-down Budweiser. Maybe some marketing maven got confused by
> the phrase "free, as in beer"???
> * Almost no Linux. Roughly 3/4th of the entire conference was Windows
> oriented. Increase that if you include Cloud Computing products. The
> only distro present was Ubuntu. BSD guys were there if you want to
> stretch to include them. Even Sun did their presentation on a
> Macintosh. Almost all other vendors ran their presentation on Windows
> XP or Vista.
> * .orgs treated like lepers. They were all forced into a small room
> isolated from the main exhibit hall like the conference promoters were
> ashamed of their presence. They didn't even get booths. They had to
> share small tables. Most didn't even show up. No slashdot, gentoo,
> debian, linuxfund, sourceforge, fedora, etcetera. The only two active
> tables were Clonezilla and Haiku OS. A complete insult to the
> non-profit community.
> * Attempts to turn away "undesirable" people. An environmental
> engineer I met at the conference was initially denied entrance because
> his "job did not include direct influence on the purchasing of IT
> products" and it would be a "waste of time for the exhibitors to even
> talk to [[him]]" (note: direct quotes except they said "you"). The
> fact he had pre-registered, attended previous Linuxworlds and made
> arrangements to attend made no difference. Only after the rest of his
> "desired target audience" threatened to leave did they grudgingly
> grant him access.
> * Lectures were non-technical. Not only non-technical, but they were
> basic, vague, buzzword-laden, and vendor specific. In other words,
> they were sales pitches--complete with flashy lights and Powerpoint
> presentations with terms like "in the Cloud", "Paradigm-shifting", and
> "Web 2.0". Any attempts to ask technical questions were usually
> deferred to "offline" discussions. What was left was the equivalent
> of sitting through an hour-long infomercial. The only exceptions to
> this was the presentation by the California Secretary of State about
> Open Source Voting, a somewhat interesting panel about open source on
> netbooks, and an amusing "evolution of desktop" given by Jono from
> Ubuntu.
> * Outdone by a 6-booth career fair. Dice had set up their own
> unrelated career fair a few doors down. We stepped in and got a small
> taste of what Linuxworld used to be like. Amazon had a C programming
> puzzle up for people to solve. Phoenix Bios was there to recruit new
> employees but were happen to just discuss the motherboard BIOS
> subjects as well. They had prizes and cool things to show with
> friendly and intelligent people.
> In closing, I do not plan to attend this conference any more. I have
> to make a lot of arrangements months in advance to be able to attend
> and the pathetic excuse of a conference it has become is not worth it
> to me. Linuxworld used to be more than just about Linux. It was the
> IT departments of some companies showing off their latest stuff to
> other IT people. Geeks talking to geeks. Not only was it cool and
> fun, but I feel it did a better job of promoting those products.
> There are still some vendor contacts that I maintain from the
> conference and use professionally. Many of the products I proposed
> and purchased for work I remember first seeing at Linuxworld. The
> "OpenSource World/NextGen Data Center/CloudWorld" just doesn't do
> that. I deeply saddened, but I must declare, that for me, the mighty
> Linuxworld has died.
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Guests at this beach hotel will appreciate convenient onsite amenities such as a train station pick-up service and complimentary high-speed (wired) Internet access.
Room Amenities
All 101 rooms provide conveniences like living rooms and sitting areas, plus free WiFi and LCD TVs with satellite channels. Guests will also find Tempur-Pedic beds, refrigerators, and room service.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
Dining options at the hotel include a restaurant and a snack bar/deli. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Business-related amenities at this 4-star property consist of a 24-hour business center and a meeting room.
Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wired and wireless Internet access. This Victorian hotel also offers an outdoor pool, a rooftop terrace, and a terrace. For a surcharge, the property provides a roundtrip airport shuttle (available 24 hours), a theme park shuttle, and a cruise ship terminal shuttle. Parking is available onsite for a surcharge.
Protea Hotel Edward has designated areas for smoking.
- Free WiFi
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Year Built 1911
- Terrace
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Supervised childcare/activities (surcharge)
- Luggage storage
- Casino shuttle (surcharge)
- Cruise terminal shuttle (surcharge)
- Total number of rooms - 101
- Number of floors - 7
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Outdoor pool
- Bar/lounge
- Restaurant
- Express check-in
- Multilingual staff
- 24-hour front desk
- Porter/bellhop
- Express check-out
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Elevator/lift
- Wedding services
- Snack bar/deli
- One meeting room
- Rooftop terrace
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Valet parking (surcharge)
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Shopping center shuttle (surcharge)
- Theme park shuttle (surcharge)
- Designated smoking areas
- Pool umbrellas
- Children's club
- Conference center
- Free train station pickup
- Area shuttle (surcharge)
- 24-hour business center
- Use of nearby fitness center (discount)
Family Friendly Amenities
- Outdoor pool
- Separate living room
- Free Wi-Fi
- Snack bar/deli
- Laundry facilities
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Refrigerator
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Free wired high-speed Internet
Self parking (surcharge), Valet parking (surcharge)
Room Amenities
- Shower/tub combination
- Tempur-Pedic mattress
- Separate living room
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Turndown service
- Free bottled water
- Desk
- Separate sitting area
- Premium TV channels
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Room service (limited hours)
- Air conditioning
- Refrigerator
- Coffee/tea maker
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- In-room safe
- Satellite TV service
- Free WiFi
- Climate control
Where to Eat
Brasserie Restaurant - This beachfront buffet restaurant serves breakfast, brunch, lunch, and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar. A children's menu is available.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Nearby Things to Do
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Snorkeling nearby
- Surfing/boogie boarding nearby
- Personal motorized watercraft on site
- Windsurfing nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Scuba diving nearby
- Mountain biking nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Skydiving nearby
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible path of travel
- Accessible bathroom
- Roll-in shower
- Accessible parking
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
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.
- The name on the credit card used at check-in to pay for incidentals must be the primary name on the guestroom reservation.
No rollaway/extra beds available
Parking height restrictions apply
- A city/local tax will be charged
- Self parking fee: ZAR 60.00 per night
- Valet parking fee: ZAR 60.00 per night (in/out privileges)
We should mention
This property offers transfers from the cruise terminal, airport, and train station (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details 24 hours prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.


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I'm curious what some of you guys think about seeding for the Big 10. I think 174 is still up in the air a bit after Storley, since we have some head to head to go, but I think it goes something like this:
1. Storley
2. Evans/Kokesh winner
3. Evans/Kokesh loser
4. Brown/Heflin winner
5. Brown/Heflin loser
6. Blanton
7. Yates
Blanton could beat Evans, also, and completely throw this into disarray.
Where it gets really interesting is at the top of 133, to me. Presuming that both guys win out until the tournament. Clearly Stieber has beaten Ramos all 3 times they met in college, all last season. Both guys are undefeated and have been dominant. However, Stieber missed a big chunk of the season including the dual with Iowa that would have given us the definitive statement on this seeding. Does Ramos get the 1 seed due to Stieber's missed time? Should he?


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May 17, 2006
Double-Secret Project (... double-secret??)
Here's my suggestion for the piece we've been discussing. It uses 4 of the 15L beams and 4 of the longer black connectors (showing one as an example). Very sturdy. Doesn't bend. Good reach.
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What does double secret mean?
- May 17, 2006, 4:22:00 AM
- Jim Kelly said...
It's a variation of an old joke - there's a movie called "Animal House" and in the movie the fraternity keeps getting in trouble. The dean puts the fraternity on "Double-Secret Probation" - there's really no such thing, but it was a funny line from the movie that I chose to steal.
- May 17, 2006, 4:25:00 AM
- Matthias Paul Scholz said...
as far as I remember (well, it has been some years ago and I tend to forget these things), the you-know-what-I'm-talking-about gizmo is meant to bend (at least up to a certain degree).
Supposing that this design of your's is just the thing-whose-name-is-not-to-be-pronounced, the complete hush-hush-device will be pretty large, won't it?
/He who has no name
- May 17, 2006, 5:03:00 AM
Either you're designing a Cthulu or you're just playing with us!
- May 17, 2006, 5:11:00 AM
- Jim Kelly said...
Well, "doesn't bend" is a subjective term... it does flex a little... not much. Build one and let me know what you think... the design isn't locked in... just a starting point.
I don't think the final device will necessarily be that large... but the reason for this design was to take into consideration that different devices might have different "footprints" or profiles... you have to have something that has a long reach...
Do you or Brian have a design to test? Remember, this is just to get the ball rolling... I'm sure the final 'thingy' probably won't look a thing like our early prototype.
- May 17, 2006, 5:23:00 AM
- Matthias Paul Scholz said...
I'll dig into this once I've finished my present long-term NXT project (The Slug) which finally made it to Release Candidate state yesterday evening - just one or two photos and a little movie to go for.
Immediately afterwards I'll start designing the ultimate you-know-what - by the way, the "point of fixture" for these devices have not been in the midth, but rather near to one of the ends (the thicker one, that is).
- May 17, 2006, 5:30:00 PM
So... why all the teasing? Seriously?
Please let us in on the design goals of this project you've got cooking.
This site has been very open about letting future NXT fans experience the new NXT kit without having one in hand yet.
If this project is NDA/MDP protected, that's fine. Otherwise, the cloak and dagger stuff is kind of off putting.
- May 18, 2006, 4:11:00 AM
- Jim Kelly said...
My apologies for starting this crazy little thing... we're certainly not wanting to upset you or anyone else. We are tossing around an idea that is not ready for prime-time, but is very very close... both Matthias and myself have a couple of projects we're trying to finish up before the week ends and I'm sure Brian's real job is cutting into his LEGO time.
We should have some sort of concept to present soon - we need to iron out some details before we post it.
- May 18, 2006, 4:37:00 AM
Project don't need to be ready for prime time to be interesting.
Working through initial requirements of a 'bot and knowing the problem you are trying to solve can be very interesting as well.
- May 18, 2006, 11:20:00 AM


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On April 4, 1865, New Yorker James F. Maury wrote in his diary "Very fine day. I celebrated the capture of Richmond by breaking my leg while playing football." Although the injury will not be new to today's football fan, the game played that day might not have been quite as familiar. In 1865, football […]
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I have just returned today from the Global Entrepreneurship Congress (GEC) in Liverpool where a weeklong festival of entrepreneurship floated powerful ideas about everything from seeding startup communities to smarter national top-down policies. This week I take a quick look at last week's GEC and why it matters as a symbol of the democratization of entrepreneurship.
The following is an excerpt from the latest Impact Report for Global Entrepreneurship Week that outlines the evolution of the annual gathering of startup champions and entrepreneurs from around the world. You can download a copy of the Impact Report from the homepage of the Global Entrepreneurship Week website.
When the Global Entrepreneurship Congress convenes in Liverpool next week, one of the largest delegations will come from Canada. A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to tour one of Canada's best startup cities—Waterloo—which offered some useful insights for the global entrepreneurship community.
Sweden is not waiting for the Global Entrepreneurship Congress next month to devise its strategy for building a strong startup ecosystem. While "number of patents" is only one metric to measure innovation, Sweden thinks it is one of the most important. The 2011 edition of the Global Innovation Index (GII)—developed by the INSEAD eLab which takes into account dimensions such as creativity and efficiency—ranks Sweden second of 125 economies. For the Global Competitiveness Report 2011-2012, Sweden came in third position. And, in Thomson Reuters' "Global Innovators" list, Sweden is the headquarters location of 6 percent of the list's companies.
Last week, I shared how we should be encouraged by recent developments to ramp up efforts in support of America's new and young job creators—including legislation put forth by President Obama at the end of January.
The recent announcement of Richard Branson, the world-famous entrepreneur best known for his Virgin brand empire and his passion for adventure sports, as the headline speaker at the upcoming Global Entrepreneurship Congress has generated a significant amount of attention and interest.
As a lead up to the March 2012 Global Entrepreneurship Congress, I will spotlight here a handful of the 120 nations gathering in Liverpool to develop the best entrepreneurial ecosystems. Today we look at Belarus.
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As they put the finishing touches to next fiscal year's budget last week county commissioners arrived at a bumping of the heads.
With one commissioner, Warren Yeager, absent and two commissioners, Joanna Bryan and Ward McDaniel, refusing to cast a vote in support of a tax increase, the Board of County Commissioners spent nearly three hours in a stalemate.
The deadlock was finally broken when Yeager was linked to the meeting, audibly and visually, by phone and cast the deciding vote to approve the budget as presented at the beginning of the night.
That budget includes an aggregate millage rate, taking into account the general fund and fire districts, of 6.8740, an increase from last year of 11.98 percent.
The rollback rate, that millage at which the county would realize the same revenue as the current fiscal year, is 6.1408.
A mill is equal to $1 for every $1,000 in taxable property value.
The budget includes a tax increase of $1.073 million.
Clerk of Courts Becky Norris cited several reasons she said accounted for the increase.
Those included $200,000 for a Public Works excavator; increases in Florida retirement system contributions over $200,000; pay raises pledged and budgeted last year and implemented this year on top of raises approved this year which combined for over $400,000; increased costs for landfill monitoring and more than $100,000 for new vehicles for the Gulf County Sheriff.
Commissioners Tan Smiley, Yeager and Carmen McLemore voted to approve the budget; Bryan and McDaniel dissented.
"It's going to be hard to look people in the eye," McDaniel said. "We're just kicking (the issues) down the road."
The deadlock was evident early as commissioners debated what had and had not been done to cut the budget and, most prominently in the discussion, lessen the burden on property taxpayers in favor of user or service fees.
"We need to shift some of the burden, the cost, from the taxpayer," said Pat Hardman, president of the Coastal Community Association.
Hardman noted that commissioners had taken up several measures to do that – including adding to the gas tax, an increase to the bed tax, mandatory garbage – and failed to ratify any.
The gas tax died by deadline and the increase to the bed tax was found to not be the panacea for assisting the sheriff's budget as it was proposed.
"We are very restricted on how we could use those funds," said Sheriff Mike Harrison.
Mandatory garbage pickup was kicked down the road by commissioners who set a referendum for November 2014 to consider a sales tax to fund mandatory garbage.
"These are no-brainers to me," Hardman said of the measures discussed and not implemented.
She said she found "some bacon" but not "a lot of fat" in the budget but noted a reserve balance of nearly $5 million.
"I find that incompetent" that commissioners did not do more to ease the burden on property taxpayers, Hardman added. "You need to spread the cost of operating the county to those who use it and can afford it. You are going to have the exact same problems next year."
The budget vote had urgency as last week was the final budget hearing and commissioners had to gavel the meeting with a budget formalized.
McDaniel, echoing Hardman, said he wanted to dip into reserves to close the tax increase margin, but found early resistance from McLemore and Bryan.
McDaniel and McLemore swapped figures, as if at a bargaining table, on how much would be palatable to take from reserves, but the numbers never narrowed sufficiently.
"I do not support going into reserves," Bryan said. "I'm not in favor of a tax increase and I am not in favor of going into reserves."
After the board took two recesses in an attempt to calm emotions and arrive at a solution, McLemore challenged the dissenters, Bryan and McDaniel, for places to further cut the budget.
Bryan said she had raised a number of issues, from considering the operational costs of a $1.2 million jail that was out of compliance with Model Jail Standards to mandatory garbage, and found herself roundly shut out by her fellow commissioners.
"I have been told not to even discuss them," Bryan said. "I've discussed (these) many times and you have no interest in supporting (them).
"I am not in favor of raising taxes if we are not being good stewards of the taxpayers' money."
McDaniel said he had suggested at the last public budget hearing that commissioners comb through department budgets line by line but the suggestion gained no traction.
While the individual savings in a given department might not add up to much, McDaniel said, savings could be found, but commissioners squandered the opportunity.
"We had plenty of time to look at this stuff," McDaniel said.
County administrator Don Butler said he had a conference call with the county's bond consultant and said the consultant would want to know if a tax increase was not passed would the county use reserves or cut expenditures.
And, Butler said, would the county continue to spend more than is coming in on the revenue side?
Both questions, Butler said, could impact the county's bond rating.
"If we live above our means we have to pay the price someday," Butler said.
During an extended recess McDaniel thought he had brokered a deal by which the BOCC would dip into reserves, not purchase an excavator for Public Works and make other smaller cuts to arrive at a tax increase in the neighborhood of $100,000 or less.
One by one commissioners, save Bryan, went into a back room with staff to discuss the parameters but as commissioners gathered back together, after nearly 40 minutes, Butler entered the meeting room with a phone.
He said county attorney Jeremy Novak, also connected by phone, indicated that if Yeager was linked by audio and video to the meeting, he could vote.
"I felt blindsided," McDaniel said later.
Yeager, not present during any of the nearly three hours of discussion, cast the vote to approve the budget with tax increase.
"We've got to show some leadership," Yeager said. "We have to move forward with the county's business. This is a tough call. At the end of the day we are going to have to address a lot of this next year."


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