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Set in the heart of Vysne Ruzbachy Spa Town, Hotel Svajciarske Domceky's design is inspired by Swiss Alpine architecture. It offers comfortable rooms and an easy access to Vysne Ruzbachy Ski Park, which is 2 km away. The rooms at Svajciarske Domceky are simply decorated with solid wooden furniture. They include satellite TV, a fridge and a tiled bathroom...
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With a stay at Hotel Hills in Tatranska Lomnica (High Tatras), you'll be convenient to TANAP Museum and Tatrabob Rollercoaster. This 4-star hotel is within the region of Belianska Cave and Strazky Castle. Make yourself at home in one of the guestrooms featuring minibars. Complimentary wireless Internet access is available to keep you connected. Conveniences...
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Located in Velka Lomnica (High Tatras), Tatragolf Mountain Resort is within the vicinity of TANAP Museum and Tatrabob Rollercoaster. This 4-star hotel is within the region of Strazky Castle and Belianska Cave. Make yourself at home in one of the 200 guestrooms, featuring kitchenettes with refrigerators and stovetops. Rooms have private balconies or patios. L...
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Free breakfast and 24-hour room service are just a few of the amenities on offer at this High Tatras spa hotel, so what are you waiting for? Book a room at Grandhotel Starý Smokovec and benefit from its ideal location near skiing in Stary Smokovec. Grand Spa is the place to be for rest and relaxation, offering aromatherapy, body scrubs, body treatments, body...
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With a stay at Grand Hotel Praha in Tatranska Lomnica (High Tatras), you'll be minutes from Tatrabob Rollercoaster and close to TANAP Museum. This 4-star hotel is within the region of Morskie Oko and Strbske Pleso. Make yourself at home in one of the 125 guestrooms featuring minibars. Windows open to garden and mountain views. Complimentary wireless Internet...
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Enjoying a quiet location in the village of Veľká Lomnica, Privat Ivan is set at the foot of the High Tatras Mountains. It offers bright rooms with a balcony, satellite TV and free Wi-Fi. A common living room with a fireplace and a shared kitchen are at guests' disposal. All rooms are spacious and comprise a balcony with garden and mountain views. Amenities...
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Only 9 km away from the Skalnaté Pleso ski resort, this guest house is in the village of Veľká Lomnica. Facilities include a café bar and a small spa area with a sauna and hot tub. Satellite TV and free Wi-Fi is available in all of Penzion u Šeliho's rooms. Each has a seating area and en suite bathroom. Most also offer views of the High Tatras. In winter...
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Kúpele Červený Kláštor means "Red Monastery Spa" and is located 1 km from the historic monastery. The hotel is part of the Smerdžonka Wellness Resort, which offers a wide array of therapeutic treatments. The surrounding Pieniny National Park is ideal for scenic hiking. Each of the en-suite rooms at the Červený Kláštor comes with free Wi-Fi and a private bal...
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This 3 star hotel is located in the city centre of Poprad and was established in 1991. It is close to the Aquacity. The Hotel has a restaurant. All 128 rooms are equipped with safe
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Situated in a peaceful area in Zdiar, Penzion Krasula features an own ski slope, 10 metres from the property. It offers rooms with functional furnishings and free WiFi. Free parking is available in the lockable garage on site. The rooms are fitted with satellite TV and a private bathroom. You can enjoy international cuisine as well as Slovak specialities i...
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Set on the outskirts of Velka Lomnica, 8 km from the Tatranska Lomnica Ski Resort, Apartmany Velka Lomnica offers free Wi-Fi is provided in public areas and free private parking is possible on site. A gym, a sauna, a hot tub and massages are provided upon request at a surcharge. Barbecue facilities and a children's playground can be found in a garden. There...


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HOUSTON – Facebook this week launched a new app with 1.7 million job listings for you to look through.
It's a website called Social Jobs Partnership. Yes, it's a Facebook app – not a mobile app.
After a brief search, I quickly found thousands of jobs right here in Houston.
To get started you only need to give it a location, a category, and a few keywords as to the type of job you're looking for.
The job listing partnership pulls in listings from five sources, including the U.S. Government and Monster.com.
So what tips do the employers have for Facebookers? Beyond the now-obvious "don't use a risqué profile picture" or "use obscene language," HR directors say applicants should "like" the page of the company they are looking to work for. Companies say it's really impressive when a web search for a candidate's name turns up the fact that they've liked the company's page, and it could give them just the edge they need to land the job.
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I used this book for my public speaking class which is also known as COM 231.read more
The first two chapter was the least helpful to me, they mainly talked about have important it is to communication with others.
This book has good information, is organized, and easy to understand. There is nothing I would change about it.read more
I learned a lot of different things from this book. The main concept was to be confident while public speaking.
Personally i believe making the size of the print in the book larger would be greatread more
I loved the summary at the end of each chapter. It always helped me when i was reviewing or studying for a weekly quiz or homework assignment .
This book really helped me a lot it had in detail and steps what to do while giving a speech..etc.read more
How to speak in front of people. It did a great way of showing what to do.
This book had everything that I needed to know for my Public Speaking class. I learned how to properly communicate and different techniques through reading this book. I had to learn how to effectively communicate through my speech of honor, persuasive speech, and informative speech. This book had everything I needed in order to complete those tasks.read more
I learned different connectives that can be used during different speeches. I also learned how to transition better throughout my speeches. I liked that they used relevant anecdotes to help explain the message they were trying to convey. The anecdotes help things to stick in your mind.
This book is very easy to follow and the review sections in each chapter are great!read more
The format of a proper outline was very interesting. It was easy to understand.
I learned many rules about public speaking. Although no one likes public speaking, this book teaches you the most vital parts of speaking in public, such as not passing items around the room because it causes distractions.read more
I have not read any other books on the same subject matter. I do like how the chapters are short and have a review on the back to discuss what you have read.
The most useful thing I learned from this book was how to help prevent being nervous while giving a speech.read more
The material in this book helped me to better understand how to be a better speaker. It also helped me to be less nervous about speaking in front of people.
Loved this book it really helped me over come the fear of speaking to the public.read more
The complete book was helpful, but in my opinion you don't need the CD that ges with it. It was a waste of money.
To be more exciting. It was kind of boring. I really did not use it all. I only used it for reading assignments.read more
It is about the same to other speech books I have had before. It explains the different speeches, which is nice if you do not know a lot about them.
Oral Communications class which is a speech class. learning how to talk in front of peopleread more
I have never read a book on the subject so using this book and taking a communication class for the first time was great. it has so much detail and information that helps you a lot when giving a speech in front of people.
I wish the book gave more examples of each part of a speech. It would make it easier to construct a speech of my own properly.read more
Review questions at the end of each chapter are always helpful and useful.
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Total Recall - Review: 1 out of 4
Somewhere Paul Verhoeven must be looking over his American
filmography and wondering where the hell he went wrong.
The filmmaker is seeing "Total Recall" re-done this year, "Robocop" next year, "Starship Troopers" is reportedly coming soon, but oddly the one that could actually stand a better try (Showgirls) is gonna stay shelved. I wish the others would just follow suit.
If it's one thing that director Len Wiseman's "Total Recall" proves, it's that the only thing worse than a reboot, is a remake.
The first problem is you're taking a film that was classic Arnold Schwarzenegger and turning it into something for Colin Farrell. He plays Doug Quaid, a dissatisfied blue collar guy who steps into a place called "Rekall" to create some fake memories only to rediscover some real ones. Doug was once a secret agent named Hauser, only now implanted with fake memories to keep him out of the way by a man named Cohaagen (Bryan Cranston).
There are no trips to Mars in this version of the movie. Instead we find out that most of the planet has been made uninhabitable and that there is a war going on between Cohaagen's empire and a rebel group led by Mathias (Bill Nighy). Hauser of course fits into all this somehow and aiding him in his journey to figure it all out is Melina (Jessica Biel), while his (former) fake wife Lori (Kate Beckinsale) is in hot pursuit.
Other than eliminating the trip to mars, this is basically a watered-down regurgitation of the 1990's film.
Sure the effects look newer but it all wants to be taken so seriously with its ugly/dreary looking future (and occasionally that bright and shiny tech toy) that the cheesy humor of the original is eliminated. As are all the questions that surround Doug's fantasy/reality.
The action is all generic chases and bullets, PG-13 style and mostly there to be fast and loud but missing the boat on actually thrilling.
Farrell has been given the worst assignment here to try to live up to Schwarzenegger, and it just ain't happening. Arnold was a bonafide action hero with a great sense of humor and he could win you over with just a smile. Farrell's portrayal is just blandly "confused" and not the least bit entertaining. Beckinsale fairs a little better playing over the top viciousness but she really can't top Sharon
Stone in the sexy and lethal department. And Jessica Biel is again just left
with a forgettable role.
"Total Recall" is just a flat and unoriginal excuse for a film, much less a remake of a film that many people consider to be top-notch sci-fi. I'm sure Paul is angry, and I would assume he's not gonna be the only one.
Celeste and Jesse Forever - Review: 1.5 out of 4
Rashida Jones has been funny in the past on shows like "The Office" and currently on "Parks and Recreation". I had to keep telling myself that during her first starring role (that she also c-wrote with Will McCormack) in "Celeste and Jesse Forever", a movie like "(500) Days of Summer," just not good.
She plays Celeste to Andy Sandberg's Jesse, a young couple that got married young but have now separated and are headed for divorce. Celeste works at a very successful marketing firm while Jesse is an artist who otherwise spends most of his time being a slacker surfer, hence why she wants to the divorce. Only the two are still very close, which is bothersome to both of their married friends (Ari Graynor, Eric Christian Olsen), and Jesse is still holding out hope that only intensifies when the various drunken fling is prone to occur.
We get no background on this couple. If the only problem with the relationship is Jesse's lack of job, then why can't he just find something that uses his artistic talents? Did these two try counseling beforehand? And in a silly plot turn, why would Jesse just suddenly impregnate a new girlfriend when he seems to prefer a lackadaisical life? For two people supposedly playing smart 30-somethings, they seem like idiots.
Things that Jones seems to think are adorable (Celeste and Jesse take part in a long running gag about jerking off small objects that look like small penises) really come off as obnoxious and pathetic. Not to mention lame gags like getting stuck in a trashcan and the cornerstone of any desperate comedy, the goofy drunk scene. For a romantic comedy claiming to be so observant of a break-up, the jokes are witless and the comedy just inanely stupid.
And "Celeste and Jesse Forever" basically feels like its goes on…forever with a circular plot that has them either staying together, going, remaining the same and on and on that goes. In the end we learn the usual lessons of any romantic comedy (the woman stops being such a ball-breaker, the guy not so lazy) but the two dull, unfunny characters make that less of a promising journey than necessarily hoped. And I doubt many people who work at a marketing firm sit around and make snarky comments about how there's no intelligence in pop music.
Like the rest of this movie, it's a really unfunny take on something that's pretty hollow.


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It hardly seems possible that I wrote about the biographical American Presidents Series in this space four years ago this month, the last time there was a Leap Year Day. It was the month of Presidents' Day and a presidential election was not far off. The issuance of books in this series has continued since then, and KPL has continued to buy them. The latest publication is on William Henry Harrison by Gail Collins. President for only one month, he does get 153 pages from Ms. Collins. I enjoyed the very positive review that appeared in last Sunday's Kalamazoo Gazette. With only about five or six of these left to go, John F. Kennedy is up next. I'll write again when the series is completed. It shouldn't take another four years.
It was just a coincidence that I read Timothy Egan's book about the Dust Bowl called The Worst Hard Time right after finishing Empire of the Summer Moon : Quanah Parker and the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history by Samuel Gwynne, but I'm glad I did. They are both histories of the same piece of land; mostly the Texas panhandle and Oklahoma, with one picking right up where the other left off. Empire of the Summer Moon details the battles between the southern Plains Indians and the new white settlers, but does not report much on why the new settlers were coming or U.S. public policy that encouraged the movement West. You just see more coming and witness the subduing of the Native Americans, which was aided most by the wholesale killing of the bison that roamed the plains and supported the southern Plains Indian culture for centuries. In The Worst Hard Time you learn that white settlers were drawn West by false claims made by railroad companies and others hoping to get rich along with the U.S. government giving away land to those willing to relocate. Many of the first settlers see the hopelessness of farming in that area of the country and leave, causing the railroads to lure people from other countries like Russia to settle in the area. A couple of good years of rain, guaranteed prices for wheat during World War I and people were plowing up the buffalo grass of the plains at an alarming rate. When dry years returned and the price of wheat dropped, the land was left unplanted, subject to the strong winds of the Plains. The great storms of the Dust Bowl were a man-made natural disaster. It was stunning to think that in just 40 short years from when the last group of Comanches agreed to settle on their reservation land, their ancestral lands that they had lived on for centuries were destroyed.
Empire of the Summer Moon
I typically don't read science-fiction, but kudos to Leigh, who also "doesn't read sci-fi," and nevertheless insisted I not miss The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins. In Panem (formerly North America,) there are 12 districts surrounding the ruling Capitol. One male and one female teenage tribute from each district are chosen via lottery by the Capitol to fight till death in the Hunger Games. No one outside the Capitol is exempt from the lottery. If a starving family needs food, they may receive extra grain and oil, in exchange for submitting their child's name an extra time into the lottery pool. The games are staged much like the TV show, Survivor, except being 'voted off' means you literally just got killed by another tribute. The games are conducted for the supposed entertainment of residents of the Capitol, yet they are required viewing for all districts to watch. The GameMakers create an 'arena,' a natural-looking area with foliage, climate control, wild animals. They can manipulate conditions to force the participants into hardship, thereby upping the ante, when there's not enough exciting action for the viewers. The story of The Hunger Games mirrors many of the realities of war. Selected tributes have no choice but to fight. Rich districts can afford to train and outfit their tributes better. Poor families lose disproportionately more of their children to the games. In the end, everyone loses: most tributes die and the survivors suffer injuries, guilt, addictions and/or mental breakdowns. The heroine, Kat, is strong, clever and determined. There are a few heroes in the story, really, who display compassion and wisdom. It's a hard book to put down, so make extra room in your reading schedule, once you land a copy of the book. One final warning: The Hunger Games is the first book in a trilogy by the same name. You may get hooked to read all three titles in the series!
Leo and Diane Dillon have been illustrating children's books together for most of their married life. They are icons in the world of children's books. Patricia McKissack is also revered in the same world. Together, these talented folks have given us Never Forgotten, the story of Musafa, who was taken captive, sent across the sea, and sold into slavery.
Richly illustrated with oil paintings that look like woodcuts, this is lyrical story reminds readers that family is more important than anything and that our ancestors are with us always.
This book won a well-deserved Coretta Scott King Honor Award this year.
This book is a nice way to enter into the great American conversation, the great American experiment, hopes and fears, modes of thought, movements, tragedies, and great people. If you don't get a chance to read these books--Of Plymouth Plantation, The Federalist Papers, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The Journals of Lewis and Clark,Walden, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Souls of Black Folk, The Promised Land, On the Road, Feminine Mystique--then I especially recommend reading this overview of them. For each book, Parini gives a brief section on the history of the books publication, the author, what the book is about, and it's lasting impression on America. Very readable, and the themes flow together in an amazing way.
We start with a small band of pilgrims landing on the coast of America, a great new experiment! then three "anonymous" Founders arguing for the existence of a federal government; then the amazing accomplishments of Franklin, a real Enlightenment, dabling in everything, pull-yourself-up-from-your-bootstraps man; then Manifest Destiny; then escaping to the woods to reclaim your identity and get rid of your stuff; then the horrors of slavery brought to light; then Twain unleashes his writing genuis; then black folk are not in chains, but still not free; then mass immigration and the promise of American freedom; then the Beat Poet's re-finding meaning in a world of destruction; and finally the "second wave" of women's rights, women who can vote but are chained to the home.
Also check the back of the book for 100 more reading ideas (Common Sense, Democracy in America, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Nature, Moby Dick, Leaves of Grass, Up from Slavery, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Invisible Man, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions...to name a few).
"One of those writers who possess an uncanny and seemingly otherworldly understanding of the human condition . . . Chaon [is] a remarkable chronicler of a very American kind of sadness, much in the tradition of Richard Yates, Raymond Carver, and Denis Johnson. . . . These stories are to be savored."—San Francisco Chronicle Dan Chaon's newest collection of short stories Stay Awake has simply blown me away. Not since Raymond Carver has a writer with such skill and command, brought to such penetrating light, the sadness and despair of the richly drawn characters that dot his stories. His emotionally striking yet undertstated fiction will haunt and stay with you long after you've finished reading them. Chaon is not a particularly stylistic writer but rather one of the naturalist tradition. We see in his richly drawn characters a real desire to break free of their life's constraints, be they social or psychic. However, there are fewer happy endings in Chaon's world than you'll find in other writers who steer clear of the kind of storytelling Chaon has mastered. Not to be missed, one of the best books of fiction you'll read all year.
In early November of last year, I heard author David Margolick being interviewed by MSNBC's Hardball host, Chris Matthews. Margolick, a contributing editor to Vanity Fair as well as to the New York Times Book Review, had written a new book entitled Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock. It's the story of two women and a picture. And as soon as the picture appeared on the television screen, I instantly recognized it, and knew I had to read this book.
The two women referred to in the title are Elizabeth Eckford, who is African American and Hazel Massey, who is white. Their story begins when neither one was an adult woman, but rather two teens caught up in the ugly racial bigotry, fear and hate that school desegregation stirred up to the surface of the American South. The linkage between them was instantaneously forged by a photograph taken in September, 1957. In it, Elizabeth is seen walking stoically in sunglasses in front of Little Rock Central High School, while Hazel is seen standing directly behind her. Hazel's face is contorted by hate as she yells racial epithets at Elizabeth. This famous image (actually there were more than one photo and more than one photographer) directly captured the true torment that school desegregation produced in Arkansas and throughout much of the South. It became an iconic record of the times of the civil rights movement, and the source of myriad articles, comments and other forms of discourse on race relations, both in the U.S. and abroad.
Photo: Will Counts Collection, Indiana University Archives (Huffington Post)
Margolick weaves together a complex chronicle explaining how the famous and haunting photo of the two young women came to be taken in the first place, its immediate and continued impacts, and why neither Elizabeth nor Hazel has ever managed to escape its powerful heritage. But as much as it is a story of race relations, it is also one of forgiveness in that it follows the often painful paths both women pursue to get on with life, and with each other as their relationship progresses from a simple, initial apology, to forgiveness, reconciliation, and even friendship. Although this last stage, the friendship, did not last, the common bond between them brought about by that fateful photo endures to this day.
A first class read both as a finely crafted history of one culminating event in the fight for school desegregation, as well as a study of the bad, the good and the roads of redemption that humans search for as they attempt to travel from the former to the latter.
Even though the December Holidays have been packed away, I discovered a beautiful gem that I want to share with readers.
Linda Sue Park, Newbery Award winning author of A Single Shard, has written a wonderful new picture book—The Third Gift. The book is beautifully illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline.
The story begins with a young boy learning his Father's craft—he collects tears. His Father's craft is to recognize the trees that release valuable resin. Together they gather the round drops, pearls of sap that seep out of a tree when the bark is cut. Sometimes the boy and his Father have to walk a long way to find good trees but his Father is able to see "inside" each tree, some are good—some are not—if not good they have to continue on. Father knows exactly how to cut the tree. If Father has chosen well a tear will emerge and form a big tear. The outside of the tear will dry in the hot sun. These tears are large and contain a treasure of resin. The tears are then sold to the spice merchant in the marketplace. The tears are used for many things.
On this particular trip, one of the trees forms a tear the size of a hen's egg. A few weeks later, father and son take their tears to the marketplace. The spice merchant has been waiting for them – the merchant has customers who want to buy a special gift. The boy's tear is selected. The three men have a gift of gold, a gift of frankincense and now they will add a gift of myrrh. The boy wants to know who the gifts are for. One of the three merchants says the gifts are for a baby and the boy is proud that he harvested part of the gift. The three men mount their camels and ride into the desert while the boy wonders about the baby. The last full page drawing shows the three merchants riding up to a small stable where the new born baby waits.
The story and paintings are absolutely beautiful. I have read this story several times and each reading merits studying the detailed artwork. What a gem—read this soon but also tuck it away for next December.
Also included are Bible references and historical information about the magi and myrrh.
In her acceptance speech for the 2011 National Book Award for fiction, author Jesmyn Ward said "…I wanted to write about the experiences of the poor and the black and the rural people of the south so that the culture that marginalized us for so long would see that our stories were as universal, our lives as fraught and lovely and important as theirs." If this was the goal for her award-winning novel Salvage the Bones, I certainly believe she achieved it. Salvage the Bones, set in Bois Sauvage, Mississippi in the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina, tells the story of the Batiste family struggling to survive daily life in the shadow of a hurricane. Esch, the narrator, is fifteen and pregnant, and alone in a household of men. Her father, an alcoholic since her mother passed away, can think only of protecting the family from the hurricane, while her brother Skeetah is obsessed with his prize fighting pit bull and her pups. Her brother Randall is focused on winning a scholarship to basketball camp, and her little brother Junior relies on Esch to act as mother. Their lives seem dangerously close to falling apart even without the assistance of one the worst hurricanes in American history, and the threat of impending doom creates an uneasy tension in the novel. Salvage the Bones is the story of human struggle, endurance, and love, and I don't what could be more "fraught and lovely and important" than that.
"More, More, More," Said the Baby: Three Love Stories is the story of Little Guy, Little Pumpkin, and Little Bird, three active babies whose caregivers affectionately "catch them up" to deliver kisses and nibble toes which, of course, the babies love. We've been enjoying this Caldecott Honor book along with our songs and rhymes at Baby Steps every Tuesday morning at 10:30 at the Central Library. While it's a great Valentine's Day choice, More, More, More is nice any time of year and fun for older children and their caregivers, too. It's also available in a board book edition, perfect for sharing with the youngest readers-to-be.


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The Girl Scouts of the USA caught quite a bit of heat over the past week after introducing its new Mango Creme, and suggesting that the cookie has the nutritional equivalent of fruit.
"It's bad enough that the Girl Scouts of the USA sells cookies to raise money, but it shouldn't pretend that its new 'Mango Crèmes with NutriFusion' are nutritionally equivalent to fruit, wrote the Center for Science in the Public Interest in a recent press release.
The Center said, "the cookies at issue are 98 percent white flour, sugar, palm oil, and dextrose (sugar made from corn). Yet marketing copy on the manufacturer's website claims that its filling has 'all the nutrient benefits of eating cranberries, pomegranates, oranges, grapes, and strawberries!'"
In a letter to Girl Scouts of America CEO Anna Maria Chávez, CSPI says that by marketing these new cookies as a "delicious new way to get your vitamins," the Girl Scouts is misleading its young members and undermining their health.
What do you think? Do you think the Scouts were out of line in trying to equate a cookie with an apple? Do you think it's no big deal? Have you tried the Mango Cremes!?


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A bridge builder's generosity has opened the way for the completion of the notorious missing link of the Path of the Flood Trail between Franklin Borough and Staple Bend Tunnel.
Equipment operator Chuck Cortese of Butler County-based Brayman Construction Corp. on Monday wrapped up several days' work clearing and excavating a trail bed along a steep hillside above the Rollock Inc. recycling plant.
The company provided the free help as a community service while wrapping up the $16.2 million Strank Memorial Bridge relocation project in Franklin and East Conemaugh boroughs, said Steve Coy, East Conemaugh Borough Council president.
"This is going to make a connection that would have cost a heck of a lot of money," Coy said. "It will connect from the Franklin ballfield to Staple Bend Tunnel."
The historic tunnel now marks the end of the road for those using the completed eight-mile section of recreation trail from Ehrenfeld.
Coy said Brayman's free help grew out of its relationship with the community that developed during the lengthy bridge project.
"I got to know the crew and the boss, Chris Cortese," Coy said. "I mentioned to him that we needed some assistance in getting this missing link done."
The company seemed to like the idea of helping out, so Coy kept reminding the crews about the nearby trail link.
Then, late one night, the temporary traffic lights malfunctioned on the project and it was going to be hours before the repair crew could respond.
After calling out police for traffic control, Coy got on the phone with the traffic light provider and was successfully talked through the repair.
"The next morning I went to see (Chris Cortese)," Coy said. "He offered to pay me. I said, 'No I really don't want paid.' He said, 'You need a piece done with your trail, right? Consider it done.' "
Coy is familiar with the project and has been walking the former logging roads being considered for the trail.
He immediately contacted Dee Columbus, executive director of trail-developer Cambria County Conservation and Recreation Authority. He took Columbus and engineers from Brayman Construction on tours of the trails to determine the best route.
Authority member Rob McCombie said the timing of Brayman's offer required a swift action.
"We had to move quickly on it," McCombie said. "I credit Dee Columbus with being able to get it done."
Franklin and East Conemaugh borough councils have agreed to allow borough equipment to be used for work in the future, and Coy is hoping to line up more donations of equipment and material such as gravel to complete the one-mile section of trail.


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The purpose of this study is to find the highest dose of an investigational drug called AEB071 that can be given safely in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) that contains a mutated form of the CD79 gene and has returned despite prior chemotherapy. AEB071 works by inhibiting protein kinase C, an enzyme which fuels cancer growth. AEB071 is taken orally (by mouth).
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The burglaries happened in subdivisions close to the highway, so the thieves were in and out within a matter of minutes.
Seven homes have been hit in the last nine days. On Tuesday alone, in a matter of 50 minutes, two homes were hit. Burglars kicked in the back door of a home located on Bruno Way and found someone inside.
The person was sleeping at the time, but quickly confronted the burglars. They fled after hearing the homeowner yell that he was calling police.
"I heard somebody go, 'let's get out of here,' under their breath. Then I heard two feet scurry away," he said.
The thieves have used the same mode of operation in each case, investigators said. First they pull into the homeowners' driveway.
"They're going and knocking on the front door. If they don't get an answer, they go around the back, peek in, and if they don't see anyone, they kick in the back door," said Lt. Onesimo Lopez, with the Pearland Police Department.
The same thing happened at a home on Kinnerton Street. The thieves stole four guns and jewelry. Then, at a home on English Oaks Boulevard, the thieves stole TVs and laptops.
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English has two great rhyming slanguages, cockney rhyming slang and the dozens, the African American insult game. We'll leave the parsing of cockney phrases to news reporters covering the Olympics for now and examine the lewd, bawdy, and wonderful world of verbal street duels. Elijah Wald investigated the origins of this cacophony of dirty jokes in The Dozens: A History of Rap's Mama. While it may have begun in "yo' mama" jokes, this language was meant for music, as rap and hip-hop today can attest. The dozens even appears in the seminal writings of Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston.
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- Friday Twitter game time! We're trying a new one this week for you bookish types: an insult game inspired by "the dozens" called #litdozens.
- The dozens is an insult game based on African American street rhyming and verbal combat, which eventually became rap & hip-hop. #litdozens
- Our game: Create a rhyming insult based around a literary figure and use the hashtag #litdozens. We'll RT the best. Please keep it clean.
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The stock market, as measured by the Standard & Poor's 500 Index pulled back for three consecutive days. Two of those days were sharp down days — the first one being propelled by some financial machinations in Cyprus, of all places, and the second just being some heavy selling into a rally that had developed.
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While most financial institutions are reporting losses, Bartlett-based First South Credit Union turned a profit of $9.4 million in 2008.
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"We never got into any of those crazy things that came along," said president and CEO Craig Esrael.
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It�s a beautiful Sunday afternoon. I�m at one of my favorite spots Uptown having an al fresco brunch with some friends.
To my left is Jason, a 37-year-old computer geek who, like Tommy from �Martin,� is always talking about working but seems to have no job. Across from me sits Carmen the photographer. She�s 29. And Kerri, whose age I don�t know because she�s over 40 and refuses to tell anyone how old she is, is to my right.
Kerri is an executive at a major corporation that recently relocated its headquarters to Charlotte. She is telling us some story about how the wife of one of the VPs busted up into his office last week and attacked his secretary. Apparently she�d found out that they�d been having an affair.
�It was so crazy,� Kerry says, her eyes wide with enthusiasm. �She just walked up to the girl, asked her name and punched her in the face. And this was early in the morning. She�d probably just dropped the kids off at school. It wasn�t even 9 o�clock yet and these chicks were scrapping.
�All I know is I was checking my emails and I heard somebody screaming �No, no, no� and �Get her off me. Call security!� I go down the hall to see what�s going on. And the wife has the secretary down on the ground. Her dress was up, her Spanx were showing, weave tracks were in the floor and the wife was just whaling on her.
�Then the husband comes out of his office, and when the wife looked up and saw him she took off after him. He tried to run back to his office, but before he could make it, she jumped up and kicked him in the back of the head like some kung fu ninja. He flew forward and fell dead on his face. If I didn�t see it, I wouldn�t believe it.�
The crazy thing is, this isn�t the first incident that I�ve heard about this week involving a female kicking a man in his head. I guess it�s the new thing.
Kerri continues the story. She's obviously exaggerating a bit, but still we�re all laughing hysterically. Jason is laughing so hard he�s crying. He gains his composure and asks, �What color where they? Please tell me it wasn�t a brother.�
�Come on now, Jason,� says Carmen. �You know they were black.�
As Kerri confirms that yes indeed they were black, I hear Kendrick Lamar�s �Don�t Kill my Vibe,� blaring from someone�s car stereo. It�s Keisha pulling up in the parking lot. We can see her from the patio as she parks and steps out the car. As she makes her way to the front door, Jason watches her every move.
�Man, I ain�t gonna lie, Keisha got the biggest booty I�ve ever seen,� says Jason. �Is it really real?�
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�What took you so long?� Carmen asks as Keisha takes her seat. �You said you were on your way over an hour ago. You should have beat us all here.�
�You know she�s always late,� Kerri the perfectionist chimes in.
�You see what had happened was�� Keisha begins. �I had to stop by Polished and get waxed. Me and my baby going out of town next week, and I can�t be embarrassing myself on the beach.�
�I�ve never been waxed,� says Kerri. �I just can�t see having some woman down there in my space like that. Besides, I�m not 12 years old, I�m supposed to have hair in places other than my head.�
�So what you just got a big bush down there?� Jason asks, looking like he might have just lost his appetite.
�Do you go get your stuff waxed?� she asks.
�I would if that�s what my lady likes,� he said.
�You probably rocking a Brazilian right now,� Keisha says.
�Want to find out?� he quips.
Before the banter can get any more x-rated, the waitress stops by our table to deliver food and top off mimosas. She gives us a side eye as Carmen starts sharing some story about a time when she was in between relationships and hadn�t exactly kept herself together down there. She said she was mortified when she spontaneously hooked up with an ex and he nicknamed her �Hairy Scary.�
�I ain�t going to lie,� Jason says, �That�s the difference between white women and black women. White women will never let you catch them slipping like that.�
�You can�t just generalize like that,� says Kerri.
�I�m not generalizing, I�m speaking from experience,� Jason responds. �You should see the chick I�m dating now. She puts rhinestones and designs down there. It�s a big turn on.�
Black and white
Are black women really less concerned about being manicured down there? Jason�s comments make me curious, so I ask Candice Johnson. She�s a licensed esthetician and the owner of CJ Wax Studio at Sola Salons on South Boulevard.
Candice has a reputation among some circles as the Queen City�s �Queen of Waxing,� so I figured if anyone should know, it would be her.
�It�s not a white or a black thing; it�s just a woman thing,� she tells me. �I see white and black clients equally. I don�t see one more than the other.�
She said the difference sometimes is in the approach. She said most of her African-American clients come to her only after being referred by a friend.
�Black women usually just don�t trust everybody,� she says. �They want the service, but if they have a hard time finding somebody that they can trust, they just won�t get it done.�
Candice said black and white women of all ages come in to have their bikini areas waxed. Her oldest client is well in her 60s. She also has a good number of men who come in for �manscaping.� Some even get Brazilian waxes, which means all bare everything.
�A lot of them do it for their wives or significant others,� she says. �It spices things up.�
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GLASGOW — A Georgia truck driver was injured in an accident on Interstate 65 at mile point 47 at approximately 5:37 a.m. Monday, according to a Kentucky State Police news release.
Kenneth Bohannon, 51, of Hazlehurst, Ga., was traveling north on I-65 in his 2006 Peterbilt tractor-trailer when he observed a construction directional sign located in the center lane, and he attempted an evasive maneuver to avoid striking the sign and lost control of his truck, causing him to strike the concrete barrier wall, according to the KSP statement.
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Chateau Rieussec has a storied history, beginning several centuries ago with the Carmelite monks. The same order that gave its name to Les Carmes Haut-Brion owned Chateau Rieussec until the French Revolution, when the property was confiscated and sold as a national asset. Today it belongs to Domaines de Baron de Rothschild.
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(95% semillon, 3% muscadelle and 2% sauvignon blanc; 6 g/l total acidity; 147 g/l residual sugar): Dark yellow-gold. Spicy botrytis complicates aromas of fresh peach, passion fruit, rose water and marzipan, with an enticing floral quality providing lift. Suave and fine-grained, showing a more delicate than usual texture for this cuvee, with intense flavors of passion fruit, peach and saffron. A subtle, restrained example of Rieussec with nicely integrated acidity and very good finishing grip. Harvested between September 1 and November 2 in three to seven selective pickings per parcel.


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Ashford battled, though, and finally broke through in the 87th minute when midfielder Mark Hiller scored his first career goal on an assist from Tim Krautheim. However, the Saints ran out of time late.
Ashford outshot Hastings 21-7, which included an 11-5 clip in shots on goal, and grabbed nine corner kicks to just three for the Broncos.
Krautheim led the home side with six shots, three of which required saves from Hastings goalkeeper Alex Guyer. Guyer made 10 saves total on the day and turned away a flurry of late Ashford chances to keep Hastings (6-0) perfect on the season.
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Development of a Myocardial Repair Patch (MRP)
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Public Abstract:
The goal of this project is to develop a cell-based treatment for heart disease that will increase blood flow to the heart and repair damaged heart tissue by directly adding new cardiac cells to the heart muscle wall. This therapy is intended to restore the pumping function of the heart and reverse the symptoms of Heart Failure by treating the underlying causes of the disease. Our proposed technology is based upon two existing components, each of which contains a different population of human cells. The first component is an engineered human tissue patch that is FDA-approved for wound healing and is currently being evaluated in human clinical trials in the United States for the treatment of heart disease. Formation of new mature blood vessels and healing of damaged and ischemic tissues in response to the patch has been demonstrated in animals and humans. The second component is a highly purified population of FDA-compliant human embryonic stem cell-derived cardiac progenitor cells generated in a certified GMP facility. These cardiac progenitor cells can form beating cardiac tissue in vitro when permitted to mature, and are capable of replacing lost or damaged heart muscle. We plan to test whether these cells are also capable of integrating with a patient's cardiac tissue after implantation, and whether this can improve global heart function. We will evaluate whether the combination of the tissue patch and the cardiac progenitor cells can address certain limitations of cardiac cell therapy. If successful, we hope to demonstrate several advantages. First, that the tissue patch may provide a means for reliable and reproducible delivery of these "myocardial replacement" cells to the heart. Second, that delivery via a patch can enhance survival of these cells in a patient's damaged heart tissue, as well as promote successful engraftment into the heart. Third, that better control over the delivery of the cardiac progenitor cells may be achieved using a patch methodology versus infusion or injection, which could reduce or eliminate ectopic node formation. And finally, that establishment of a viable culture of cardiac progenitor cells in the patch prior to implantation could allow a controlled dose of these cells to be delivered to the heart in a site-specific manner. Successful completion of this project will advance our proposed therapeutic technology to IND-enabling pre-clinical studies in three years.
Statement of Benefit to California:
In the United States, Heart Failure (HF) results in more deaths than cancer, accidents, and strokes combined, costing more than $35 billion annually. It is estimated that in the United States, 5,300,000 patients have HF, with an additional 550,000 new cases per year. Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in California where there are annually about 575,000 heart disease-related hospital discharges and 350,000 of these are for HF. The vast majority of patients who develop Heart Failure in the US do so after myocardial infarction (MI). According to the American Heart Association, approximately 22 percent of male and 46 percent of female MI victims will be disabled with HF within six years. The annual incidence of MI in the United States is 600,000 for first a first attack and 320,000 for recurrent attacks. Once a patient becomes symptomatic with HF, the prognosis is worse than many forms of cancer. A patient with symptomatic HF has a mortality rate approaching 50% in five years. HF is a progressive disease, which ultimately leads to death. Current therapies temporarily relieve symptoms, but there is no cure. The only treatment for the most advanced cases is a heart transplant, which is not a feasible option for most patients. The need for donor organs for the sickest patients far exceeds the number available. Cell replacement therapy is a more practical alternative, but there is currently an insufficient supply of appropriate cells for cardiac muscle replacement. Human embryonic stem cells can address this need, as they are unlimited in proliferative capacity and are capable of differentiating into cardiac cells for heart muscle repair. New therapeutics targeting the progression of HF will make a significant economic impact in the United States and in California. Successful development of a therapeutic that can treat or reverse Heart Failure will result in cost reductions in the care of cardiovascular disease, and an increase in productivity and quality of life for a large sector of the population. We hope to demonstrate that our proposed cell-therapy product will halt the progression of HF or even reverse the deleterious effects of HF on the patient's heart. By restoring the pumping ability of the heart, this product, if successful, will help the HF patient to lead a more normal, active life. Successful development of this product will contribute to the broader goal of advancing stem cell-derived therapeutics through the clinical and regulatory process and will help pave the way for other stem cell-derived therapies to improve public health.
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Congestive heart failure is a devastating condition in the United States and worldwide, and existing therapies, ranging from drugs through transplant, are inadequate to solve the problem. This application focuses on developing a therapy for congestive heart failure (CHF) complicating myocardial infarction. Specifically, the application proposes a myocardial repair patch (MRP) that is designed to treat heart failure by restoring perfusion in ischemic cardiac tissue and performing tissue repair by replacement/augmentation of damaged myocardium. This MRP incorporates a 3D fibroblast construct (3DFC) currently in use in the US for wound healing and a high purity population of human embryonic stem cell (hESC)-derived cardiac progenitor cells as an off-the-shelf allogeneic therapy. The 3DFC already has been shown to be safe and effective in promoting wound healing and to promote angiogenesis in this setting. The proposed therapy is targeted specifically at patients with moderate to severe CHF undergoing a coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) procedure. Strong supportive evidence exists that 3DFCs are effective in a wound healing setting and hESC-derived cells may be advantageous in cardiac regenerative therapies. With this background, reviewers believed the application addressed an important, unmet clinical need; however, significant potential limitations exist for patch-based methods of myocardial repair, including the ability of patches to deliver significant improvements in cardiac hemodynamics in hearts that have sustained long-term, diffuse damage. This potential issue was not adequately addressed within the proposal. The reviewers also believed that other critical issues needed to be addressed with the research plan. A major weakness of this application is that it proposes work outside of the scope of the RFA; the application was not responsive to the RFA. Primarily, the focus on manufacturing and scale-up issues is outside the focus of this RFA. In addition, though numerous safety issues surround clinical application of hESCs, the applicant made no mention of contact with the FDA to receive guidance on executing the early stages of this study. Genetic and epigenetic changes in hESC culture and undifferentiated hESCs in patches must be screened using more than Oct4 immunochemistry, and a strategy more sensitive and sophisticated than immunostaining was not presented. The proposal offered some preliminary data concerning the 3DCFC patch and some evidence that cardiac progenitors and fibroblasts could be co-cultured in the patch, which was encouraging. However, the proposed research plan was poorly described and lacked sufficient detail for a project of this magnitude, and so it is difficult to judge the feasibility or appropriateness of the timelines. No potential limitations or alternative approaches were presented, and these gaps greatly diminished enthusiasm for the proposal. The applicant also takes shortcuts in interpretation that are not reflected in the reality of the experimental setting. For example, the discussion of immunosuppression in the human setting was imprecise; interpretation of what a positive connexin43 stains revealed about the functionality of the construct-native environment interaction was flawed; and the 3DFC canine studies lacked compelling preliminary data. In addition, significant budgetary concerns raised serious concerns about the likelihood for successful management and completion of the stated aims. The qualifications of the applicant and research team are excellent in cardiology and stem cell biology. However, a number of them have expertise in manufacturing which may be premature in an early stage translational RFA. One reviewer expressed concern regarding the large size of the team, and perhaps, that the team and budget were overinflated given the scope of the proposed work. Reviewers felt that the scientific aims could be achieved more efficiently with a slightly greater percent effort commitment by a few personnel and the reduction/removal of others. The proposal requests a significant amount of equipment for GMP compliance. However, some or all of these expenses could/should be assumed by the applicant company and are actually potentially underestimated depending upon the numbers and quality of the individual equipment items listed. In summary, this project seeks to create a MRP composed of a 3DFC and a highly purified population of hESC-derived cardiac progenitor cells. This approach addresses an important unmet clinical need in developing a therapy for CHF; however; glaring limitations exist in this proposal regarding experimental design, safety issues, budgetary concerns, and a dearth of preliminary data that greatly diminish the likelihood for successful management of the research program and completion of the stated aims.


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You are probably reading this thinking, "An article by a young writer about how awesome Josh Hamilton is and that he will put the Angles over the edge. I have already read 74 of these." While I do think the Hamilton deal was pretty good, the small and lesser-known moves the Angels made will push them into the playoffs.
The casual Angel fan knows about the Hamilton deal but is probably unaware of the other improvements the Angels have made. The diehard Angel fan should be more excited for this season than they were for last season.
Last season, after the acquisitions of Albert Pujols and CJ Wilson, Angel fans acted as if The Beatles reunited. ESPN and Fox Sports were crowning the Angels as the new American League powerhouse. Being the incredibly intelligent and handsome man that I am mixed with my Angel hatred, I was skeptical.
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One important move the Angels made was acquiring new starting pitching. The Angels will not have the best starting rotation in baseball but it will be serviceable. The rotation will consist of Jared Weaver, CJ Wilson, Tommy Hanson, Jason Vargas, and Joe Blanton.
Weaver is a Cy Young candidate every year and Wilson will be better coming off of his injury. But the most underrated trade in the offseason was when the Angels traded the overpaid Kendrys Morales to the Seattle Mariners for Jason Vargas. In 2012 Vargas made 33 starts with a record of 14-11 with a 3.85 ERA. He had career highs in innings pitched, WHIP, and strikeout to walk ratio. Vargas could end up being the Angels second best pitcher in 2013.
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