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Happy Trails: Planning a Family-Friendly Vacation
The days are growing longer, scarves are being swapped for sunglasses and school is almost out. All signs are pointing towards summer. For adults, the hottest season is a time to kick back, relax and erase distant memories of wind chill factors and frozen toes. For kids, it means a break from homework and indoor play. For both, it marks the start of the family vacation season.
Though taking a break from daily routines and exploring new places can be a re-energizing experience, the stress of organizing time off can leave you feeling like you need a vacation from your vacation. Below are some tips that can help you plan a memorable family holiday for everyone.
Mapping it Out
Choose wisely. Be sure that your vacation time offers a little something for everyone. Though your idea of a great holiday might be a gripping book and a comfortable hammock, your children might be bored senseless after the first day. Ask family members what activities they'd like to do so that you can create a holiday that has something for everyone. Variety is not only the spice of life: it's also a key ingredient in a great family vacation.
Plan in advance. While spur-of-the-moment activities can be exciting, you'll be more likely to do the activity and avoid disappointment by creating a plan and sticking to it.
Let kids choose. From restaurant picks to selecting a ride at the amusement park, children savour the chance to have their say. Allow kids to create a short list of activities and the chance to realize at least one. If your children are too young to create their own 'to do' list, offer up two or three options to choose from so they feel part of the decision-making.
Staying closer to home this summer?
Look into local activities. Most libraries, community centres, local parks, etc. offer kids fun, inexpensive summer activities that fight boredom and encourage children to explore new interests.
Investigate the world outside your door. Whether it's swimming at the local pool, a trip to the zoo or a picnic in the park, home-grown vacations let you stop and discover the unique and exciting things in your area you may have overlooked. Arrange mini field trips to local sights and activities and allow your children to invite friends from time to time. It's more fun for the kids and their parents may offer to return the favour.
Remember to relax! Staying at home can make it harder to take some time for yourself. It's just as important to schedule inactivity as it is a trip to the museum. Set aside a few hours a day to stop and smell the roses, read the paper or put your feet up.
The Final Countdown
Pack snacks, games, books, activities etc. There's no better way to keep your children in the holiday spirit than with healthy food and entertainment. Even if meals are included in your travel plans, it's wise to have a few sandwiches up your sleeve (not literally of course) should the food not be to your kids' or your own liking.
Leave time for mishaps. Allow extra time for life's little delays such as traffic jams and toddler temper tantrums. Start your holiday off on the right foot and follow the 30-minute rule: estimate the maximum amount of time you anticipate it will take to get to your destination and add 30 minutes.
Rely on a trusted neighbour or friend to collect your mail, pick up phone messages, water plants and check on the house if you're planning on being away for more than a few days.
Vacation Daze
Keep it simple. Don't make the mistake of trying to see and do everything while on a break. Remember: a vacation shouldn't be work. Allow each family member to choose one or two activities and spare some space for spontaneity.
Capture memories. Take pictures of the action, write down impressions of places visited in a journal or create a scrapbook that everyone can contribute to, for future journeys down memory lane.
Aim for nothing less than imperfection. Realize that problems you and your family had before the holiday, are not going to evaporate over the course of a few weeks. Accept that parts of your time off will work out better than expected, while others are bound to fizzle. Take a deep breath, take it all in stride and take the time to relax and enjoy yourself.
Give your family time to recover. Avoid a shock to your relaxed and rejuvenated system: plan at least a day or two of recovery time so that you and your family can ease back in at work and school.
Staying Well on Vacation
After months of planning, your vacation is almost here. You've mapped out an itinerary and are ready to hit the road, the shops or the hammock. But you may spend so much time thinking about the 'fun' aspects of your time away from work that you forget to consider less 'exciting' vacation concerns, like keeping healthy. Nothing can sabotage a holiday more quickly than an unexpected illness. The suggestions below will help you avoid common travel bugs and focus on a healthy, happy holiday.
Pack a first aid kit equipped with band-aids, gauze, aspirin, Imodium, disinfectant and any other items you may need to treat minor mishaps.
Drink lots of water. Though eight glasses a day is a reasonable minimum, you'll need more if you're hiking, biking or even just sightseeing. An active person should drink four to eight ounces (120ml to 240 ml) of water every 10 to 20 minutes depending on the walking speed and the temperature outside. Drink up before you feel thirsty as the body usually doesn't signal thirst until it's already dehydrated. If you're not sure about the water quality drink bottled or boiled water.
Wear sunscreen even if it's overcast. It may seem like a harmless, grey day, but the sun's rays can penetrate the clouds and leave you feeling burned. Choose a sunscreen with an SPF 15 minimum and slather it on every few hours - more often if you're in the water, perspiring a lot or are out between 11am and 2pm, when the sun is at its most intense.
Wear a hat during the day to avoid heat stroke and guard your face from the sun.Protect yourself from insect bites. Gone are the days when illness from insect bites was only a "tropical" concern. When in areas where bugs are an issue - such as in forests and near water - wear light-coloured, long-sleeved shirts, long pants, closed shoes and a layer of insect repellent. Avoid being outdoors at dusk and in areas where there is stagnant water. Seek medical support right away if - after receiving a bite - you begin to feel feverish, headachy, weak, sensitive to light or if there is extreme swelling around the bite.
Keep your hands clean. Carry moist towels or anti-bacterial gel to avoid exposure to unwanted bacteria and germs while out and about.
Watch what you eat. Opt for cooked and peeled vegetables and avoid raw salads if you're in an area where tap water is undrinkable. Steer clear of street vendors and run-down (i.e. dirty) looking restaurants where your chances of being exposed to bacteria are higher.
If going abroad:
Get medical advice from a physician. If you require vaccinations, you may need to get them six to eight weeks before the trip, so seek out medical support well in advance.
Stay informed. Health Canada and the World Health Organization offer up-to-the minute information, warnings and advisories for potential health hazards nationally and abroad. Visithttp://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/english/protection/warnings/2003.htm or http://www.who.int/entity/en/.
Carry a copy of your prescription with your medicine (in its original labeled bottle) so you don't run into trouble when crossing BORDERs. Remember to keep medication with you for easy accessibility.
Whether you're staying close to home or venturing overseas, travelling solo or embarking on a family getaway, your holiday is the perfect opportunity for you and your family to relax, reconnect, and recharge.


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What has continually set Kanye West apart from the rest of the music industry has always been his creative vision. Never one to leave his music solely to the strength of its audio quality, 'Ye has always combined his sonic vision with mesmerizing performances, groundbreaking concepts, and stellar visuals. His latest undertaking is in the same tradition on innovation. Mr. West, who closed the 2010 VMAs with his performance of his latest single Runaway, also debuted the video trailer for the same song. The upcoming film from Kanye, yes film…not music video, is said to be coming out alongside his new album. The trailer is frustrating compelling, making you want to see the finished product now. But it's also a reminder that good things come to those who wait.
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Happy Green Halloween from Inhabitat!
In the spirit of our favorite fall holiday, we'd like to share with you some ideas for green Halloween decorations….
Light up your porch for Halloween with these pumpkin solar garden lights. They have a solar panel to collect sunlight to power the rechargeable Ni-Cd batteries, and an automatic sensor activates the light to come on at dusk. (Thanks to American Inventor Spot for the tip).
These Philips LED candles aren't really designed specifically for Halloween decor – but we think they'd make great lumieres. They flicker and provide the soft glow of real candles without any of the smoke, short life or fire hazards that real candles bring, and would be especially appropriate to lining your patio on a cold autumn night.
Finally, these Firefly Garden lights aren't really specific to Halloween either, but they are perfect for the fall. Firefly Magic's lights are programmed to flicker and fade just like real fireflies, and they even come with solar-powered batteries.
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Nick Markakis, Adam Jones and the other Orioles get four months off between baseball seasons. Joe Flacco, Ray Rice and the world champion Ravens have five months to go before training camp begins.
Big-time athletes, after all, need a chance to rest their bodies and minds after the rigors of a long campaign.
Then there are the white-clad competitors at Ginger Cove.
"We don't want an off-season. We like to keep our skills sharp," says Bill Krause, the 91-year-old Imperial Wicket, or captain, of the croquet club at the retirement community in Annapolis. Then he bends at the waist, strokes a heavy ball with a mallet, and watches it roll 20 feet toward the wicket.
It's a chilly, rain-soaked Saturday in Anne Arundel County, but that doesn't bother Krause or the eight other players who have arrived for an intramural morning match, one of the twice-weekly games they play all winter long.
Croquet has been a staple of life at Ginger Cove since 1989, the year the place opened, and its players have long held their own against top teams like St. John's College and the Naval Academy. Residents who raised $93,000 to build two outdoor artificial-turf courts last year have also set up a ballroom to accommodate play year round.
It's one of the few places of any kind that boasts AstroTurf courts and the only club the United States Croquet Association knows of that offers the game indoors.
"That is one enthusiastic group," says Johnny Mitchell, president of the organization, which has 300 member clubs and 3,100 members in the U.S. "They obviously want to play, no matter what."
Krause's ball stops just short of his wicket. Unfortunately, it's also in a spot that an opponent will be able to exploit on the next turn.
He leans on the handle of his mallet, a $350 custom job made in New Zealand, and shakes his head.
"There are so many things we all love about this game," he says. "It's social. It keeps us active. It's fun. But the best thing is the strategy, and that was a dumb move on my part. I'm going to pay for that."
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As far back as the 17th century, men and women in France played games in which they used mallets to maneuver balls around obstacles, according to scholars at the Jersey Cricket Club in Normandy, France.
One such game, paille maille, made its way to the British Isles, where it was played in London parks. Later called "croquet" (French for "crooked stick"), it became a craze in Victorian England.
The game spread to the United States, where the National Croquet Association held its first tournament in 1888 — and where, by the 1920s, a coterie of stars from the East often faced celebrity Californians like Harpo Marx and Darryl Zanuck.
Americans later adopted a version of the game — nine-wicket croquet — for casual play in suburban backyards. Over its history, a few fundamentals came into view.
"Croquet is a blend of the geometry you have in billiards, the shot-making of golf and the strategy you need in chess," says Susan Savage, an opponent of Krause's in today's informal match. "You can play for a long time and never master those dimensions."
"It's just fun to play this game and try to get better," says Jim Oberholtzer, 84, a retired naval officer.
Today's group — with an average age of 81 — features players at several skill levels, from newbie Dottie DeLong, 73, to Savage, 67, and her husband, Peter Stevens, 66, seven-year veterans visiting from the West River Wickets club in Galesville.
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Brilliant, so glad that im in the uk and NOT on AT&T right now. Apple are brilliant at design, except when it comes to security. Maybe they should employ somebody who is... maybe it would also stop 4g iphones being left in bars...
i hope it isnt the same with rogerswifi
Jesus. Apple, Fix it. Now!
Oh my God....
Embarrassed for apple, scared for me...
I've noticed this too with every open network named 'linksys'.
lol, people are now desperate about this issue; after having used the iPhone with the same vulnerability for 3 years.
So should one try this in a apartment building. Change the router to attwifi and then force block all sites so people's iPhones don't work for any site?
Most WiFi networks in the US have a WPK/WPA/WPA2 security key. I assume this security door is still valid --- better be
So ..... this vulnerability applies only if wifi security key is NOT set (open) and the SSID is attwifi.
also the same for BT Openzone
This pertains to the iPhones wifi access. So yes it is all iPhones.
Apple...are you that serious?
well it wasn't a big deal for the past 3 yrs. I bet only a few people were aware of this vulnerability
now that it's out in the open though...yikes. you can bet easily 1/2 of all iPhone users will never hear of this problem. and a bunch of 'tards will utilize the exploit to screw people over.
hopefully Apple closes this loophole quickly
edit: note to self, stay out of Starbucks
Luckily, i am just using WPK or WPA2 networks
don't connect to free ones, like starbuck ,.Mac Donalds or somewhere else.
I don't see the big deal. I have my mom's wifi, my sister's wifi, and my home wifi all with the same SSID and password as my work wifi so both my iphone and computer think it is the same network. Keeps everything simple. Although I should point out that if Apple and AT&T didn't have this stupid scheme to keep us locked to a single network we wouldn't be having this issue. I keep getting closer and closer to a new PC every day.


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25 U.S. Code § 277 - Former Apache military post established as Theodore Roosevelt Indian School
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to establish and maintain the former Fort Apache military post as an Indian boarding school for the purpose of carrying out treaty obligations, to be known as the Theodore Roosevelt Indian School: Provided, That the Fort Apache military post, and land appurtenant thereto, shall remain in the possession and custody of the Secretary of the Interior so long as they shall be required for Indian school purposes.
Source(Jan. 24, 1923, ch. 42, 42 Stat. 1187.)
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For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
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Pub. L. 86–392, Mar. 18, 1960, 74 Stat. 8, provided: "That all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the lands, together with the improvements thereon, included in the former Fort Apache Military Reservation, created by Executive order of February 1, 1877, and subsequently set aside by the Act of January 24, 1923 (42 Stat. 1187) [this section], as a site for the Theodore Roosevelt School, located within the boundaries of the Fort Apache Indian Reservation, Arizona, are hereby declared to be held by the United States in trust for the White Mountain Apache Tribe, subject to the right of the Secretary of the Interior to use any part of the land and improvements for administrative or school purposes for as long as they are needed for that purpose."
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The victim was identified Sunday as Drew Holland of Gratiot.
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Those wanting to see the bounty of Whatcom County will want to sign up for the 3rd annual Whatcom County Farm Tour, a free, self-guided tour of local farms this September.
The tour, sponsored by Sustainable Connections in Bellingham, allows participants to enjoy leisure strolls through farm fields and orchards and interactive activities as well as a chance to discover the roots of abundant food grown in Northwest Washington and hear the stories of the hardworking folks who put food on our tables.
Tour-goers can ride in a horse drawn wagon through apple orchards and use their own pedal power to create an apple cider slushy at Bellewood Acres, go on a hayride with the kids at Mama's Garden, nosh on super sweet corn or berry sundaes at Boxx Berry Farm, sample locally made lotions and creams at Grace Harbor Farms, sip on fine wines at Dakota Creek Winery, or become better acquainted with a cow, goat, bison, sheep, chicken, goose or lamb at many of the tour stops.
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With its reliability, its overall ease of use, and its undeniable value, the iSmartAlarm is an intriguing, legitimate alternative in home security, especially for small-home owners and budget-minded consumers.
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Media and the divide of harm
That which goes between us is our media.
Colin Stokes asks us: Are we served by our media? He asks us: Are the movies we watch skewing the functions of our roles?
Here is Anne Summers aproaching the question from a broader outlook, but a narrower focus of intention:
But can we draw back further and discern broader implications?
If this is all true and that which is between us "media" is skewd from our benefit - what is the gap? What is it we are missing? We percieve harm, but what exactly is this harm?
I will lay down 2 ways to approach these questions:
1. Our world views consist of personal experience, and the report of the experience of others. That which we accept in report is assumption - untested, and yet we accept it as if seen by our own eyes. Here is one gap - can we truly separate our own experience from false artifacts in our media? If we can - are we training ourselves and our children to make thesse distinctions?
2. The deficit between Broadcast and Transactional media. In all broadcast media, there is only one active participant - the broadcaster. The reciever is entirely passive - In theatre we call this the "suspension of disbelief" - the material of the broadcast is taken as reality, and yet it is rarely tested. In transactional media, each participant mediates passivity by questioning - are we losing the art of the question?
I argue that the underlying principle goes before modern forms such as movies and internet. I argue that the absurdity of our broadcast-propagandised diet has its seeds well into the past - that it arises from an far older harm which is perpetuated in our media.
I name that harm violence. And I place it squarely at the door of the alpha male - and his ultimate form: the psychopath.
Here is Sapolski revealing the violent patriarchal culture of baboons, and the alternative matriarchal culture of baboons:
Can we learn from this?
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Elizabeth Gu 30+Jan 23 2013: Image happens to be powerful as Cameron Russell mentions in her talk.
And consequently, the message that an image tries to show us could be harmful or beneficial.
Well-plotted stories are quite the most influential ones.
Yet, ironically, those kinds of things rather make us raise more profound and broader questions to ourselves.
When I was a teen, I couldn't help watching all those K-pop stars' music videos and stuffs like that 'cause they looked so pretty and nice.
I knew it was meaningless and useless for me to watch all those stuffs, but all of their images in media literally captured my eyes.
It might have influenced the way I think of fashion or one's appearance, but there was this inkling that I should stop being fooled by them.
I knew those could be a bad influence because there was a possibility that I could be obsessed with looking "cool" as most of my friends wanted to be.
"are we losing the art of the question?"
I think we're not losing it. We're just ignoring it.
And again, ironically, what taught me to realize that images can be 'superficial' is media.
There surely are 'good stuffs' on TV, internet, and Youtube.
I try to extract good messages from them and then ask myself what I can learn from them.
Now I often—sometimes smirkingly—smile when I happen to watch all that fancy music videos, which are rather focused on fascinating images, not music in itself(I'm not saying that all music videos are, but quite many of them are.)
Once they captured my eyes, but now I can think of them as some sort of ridiculous dreams.
Media experience can teach us better.
…which brings us back to your vey question, Mitch.
(We're not just meant to be passive.)
Jan 24 2013: THe story that we see is all of the ego. THe ego lives in the autobiographical self.
Here we tell stories - the stories are to make predictions - if it turns out OK, we try it.
But the autobiographical self is not our true self - it is our true self that has no words - it has the body, it has the senses and it has the muscles. The true self is what Damasio calls the core-self. OUr body and its feelings are the proto-self.
My work shows me that there are many many selves in the story-place. I also know how the stories can be twisted.
We have "world-view" which is the total of all our maps of life - but these maps should be from our life. The stories in media become part of our maps - and it is not our life. This is where the gap lives - our world view does not know the difference between experience and fiction. And the only way to tell the difference is to ask or try. Try can be fatal .. best ask first.
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Jan 26 2013: Hi Mike,
The world view is like a predicion space.
It serves us really well for the most part.
The problem is that media is "pre-fabricated" perception. One has to observe the crafting to know if harm and poisons have not been added in that fabrication.
I agree that such social media sites as TED consume enormous chunks of our "agency" .. and it is well not paid for. These things will ultimately collapse along with all the other parasitic forces chewing on us - the host must eventually collapse for lack of value returned. We all have to eat.
The good thing is that the true value producer will come out on top .. I applaud your shift towards value.
In the mean time, forums like TED act as catalyst to precipitate more people into understanding true value. THose who persist in pushing paper and coins around and destroy value in the name of civilisation will be somewhat bewildered when their willing horse vanishes from under them.
We are here devising the arts of vanishing .. there is value in that ;)
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Ludwig Bieberbach
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|Ludwig Bieberbach
1930 at Jena
4 December 1886
Goddelau, Grand Duchy of Hesse, German Empire
|1 September 1982
(aged 95)
Oberaudorf, Upper Bavaria, West Germany
|University of Berlin
University of Frankfurt
|Alma mater
|University of Göttingen
University of Heidelberg
|Doctoral advisor
|Felix Klein
|Doctoral students
|Hubert Cremer
Werner Fenchel
Heinz Hopf
Kurt Schröder
Wilhelm Süss
|Known for
|Fatou–Bieberbach domain
Ludwig Georg Elias Moses Bieberbach (German: [ˈbiːbɐˌbaχ]; 4 December 1886 – 1 September 1982) was a German mathematician.
Born in Goddelau, near Darmstadt, he studied at Heidelberg and under Felix Klein at Göttingen, receiving his doctorate in 1910. His dissertation was titled On the theory of automorphic functions (German: Theorie der automorphen Funktionen). He began working as a Privatdozent at Königsberg in 1910 and as Professor ordinarius at the University of Basel in 1913. He taught at the University of Frankfurt in 1915 and the University of Berlin from 1921–45.
Bieberbach wrote a habilitation thesis in 1911 about groups of Euclidean motions – identifying conditions under which the group must have a translational subgroup whose vectors span the Euclidean space – that helped solve Hilbert's 18th problem. He worked on complex analysis and its applications to other areas in mathematics. He is known for his work on dynamics in several complex variables, where he obtained results similar to Fatou's. In 1916 he formulated the Bieberbach conjecture, stating a necessary condition for a holomorphic function to map the open unit disc injectively into the complex plane in terms of the function's Taylor series. In 1984 Louis de Branges proved the conjecture (for this reason, the Bieberbach conjecture is sometimes called de Branges' theorem). There is also a Bieberbach theorem on space groups. In 1928 Bieberbach wrote a book with Issai Schur titled Über die Minkowskische Reduktiontheorie der positiven quadratischen Formen.
Bieberbach was a speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians held at Zurich in 1932.
Bieberbach joined the Sturmabteilung in 1933 and the NSDAP in 1937. He was enthusiastically involved in the efforts to dismiss his Jewish colleagues, including Edmund Landau and his former coauthor Schur, from their posts. Bieberbach was heavily influenced by Theodore Vahlen, another German mathematician and anti-Semite, who along with Bieberbach founded the "Deutsche Mathematik" ("German mathematics") movement and journal of the same name. The purpose of the movement was to encourage and promote a "German" (in this case meaning intuitionistic) style in mathematics. Bieberbach's and Vahlen's idea of having German mathematics was only part of a wider trend in the scientific community in Nazi Germany towards giving the sciences racial character; there were also pseudoscientific movements for "German physics", "German chemistry", and "German biology". In 1945, Bieberbach was dismissed from all his academic positions because of his support of Nazism, but in 1949 was invited to lecture at the University of Basel by Ostrowski, who considered Bieberbach's political views irrelevant to his contributions to the field of mathematics.
"… the spatial imagination is a characteristic of the Germanic races, while pure logical reasoning has a richer development among Romanic and Hebraic races. … In the intellectual sphere the race shows in the manner of creation, the evaluation of the results, and I guess also in the standpoint considering foundational questions. … Formalism wants to build a realm of mathematical truths which is independent of man, whereas Intuitionism is based on the idea that mathematical thinking is a human endeavor and thus cannot be separated from man." (in Stilarten mathematischen Schaffens, i.e. Styles of mathematical creation/endeavour, p. 357).
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Further reading[edit]
- Cornwell, John (2003), Hitler's Scientist: Science, War and the Devil's Pact, New York: Penguin Books, ISBN 0-14-200480-4
- Mehrtens, Herbert (1987), "Ludwig Bieberbach and "Deutsche Mathematik"", in Phillips, Esther R., Studies in the history of mathematics, MAA Stud. Math. 26, Washington, DC: Math. Assoc. America, pp. 195–241, ISBN 978-0-88385-128-9, MR 913104
- Segal, Sanford L. (2003), "Chapter seven: Ludwig Bieberbach and Deutsche Mathematik", Mathematicians under the Nazis, Princeton University Press, pp. 334–418, ISBN 978-0-691-00451-8, MR 1991149
External links[edit]
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Ludwig Bieberbach", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
- Ludwig Bieberbach at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- 1886 births
- 1982 deaths
- 20th-century German mathematicians
- Members of the Prussian Academy of Sciences
- People from the Grand Duchy of Hesse
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Rated 3 out of 5 by Rich8 Not up to standards for Platinum SPG Members I was not happy with this hotel due to many technical issues. The television did not work in my suite, the Internet situation is awful whereas to log in to WIFI one must either pay a third party for room access or venture to the hotel lobby. The hotel is overpriced like all of Zurich. Let's face it, this is a Sheraton property with the prices of the Luxury Collections. The manger did offer to move me to another room, but I felt replacing the television made more sense---that was declined. Upon check out I was offered 2000 SPG points for my "trouble" which was a slap in my face. At the very least for the business I give to Starwood, I would consider being happy starting with 20,000 bonus points while contemplating a stay in the future. To sum it all up, I was very unproductive in my meetings and I was out of touch with the world for current events. Both are vital to my business. To add insult to injury, the car service prices to the airport quoted by the front desk are 15 Swiss Francs less than the actual price demanded by their "recommended car service". This leaves a cash short situation when planning in the price quoted. April 7, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by Xiaoyouyou88 Very friendly and warm Mark at the reception desk is very friendly and considerate. Hotel itself also is in a very good location. Room is designed with good taste. April 7, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by pattia The experience was great Our Stay was very pleasant made possible by the warm and courteous staff, clean rooms. Just everything was great. We had a great time. January 20, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by 500NightsLifetime Best Sheraton My third favorite hotel in the SPG group and my favorite Sheraton. I felt this way a few years ago on my last stay as well. May 25, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by JAMint Very helpful and friendly staff My first time in Zurich. Hotel is in a great location, near the lake and easy walk into city. Staff were fantastic. I stay in many hotels globally for business and pleasure, and they were among the best. Room was very comfortable, breakfast was excellent. I missed having a fitness facility, but running near the lake is a great experience. Overall we had a wonderful stay. July 8, 2014
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Rated 5 out of 5 by Dalboy Best Sheraton I have stayed Has the best interiors of any Sheraton - very tastefully done interiors. Starwood Platinum value is excellent too - the buffet breakfast is 40 CHF in value - well above the average lounge breakfast (and we had a family of 4!) I got upgraded to a suite which had the largest terrace I have seen in any hotel. Front desk staff were very helpful. Went out of their way to help me and lent umbrellas for my family for our 5 day road trip. The free toblerones at the front desk were a nice perk too :) The only issue is the lack of free wifi even for platinum members. Luckily, I didnt have to use the 40 CHF overnight parking. They should also arrange for shuttle service to the airport ( I paid 65 CHF each way) June 25, 2013
Rated 4 out of 5 by Patrick001 Recent evolution Changes made by new Management, are not always to the better... A really negative note on breakfast where poducts (bread in particular) were outstanding making it one of the best in town... changes made turned it in just average. But staff remains friendly and efficient. A very special note to Murat at Reception. June 12, 2014
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Rated 5 out of 5 by kmans12 Look No Further What a great experience. The Sheraton Zurich Neues Schloss is a perfect place to stay while visiting Zurich. What a wonderful neighborhood to walk in and being so close to the lake is an added bonus. We were upgraded from a jr. suite to a 1 bedroom suite. Absolutely perfect! The staff was wonderful and took care of our every need. Housekeeping did an amazing job when called upon to help with an unexpected situation. Cannot rave enough. We will not only be back....we are planning to bring others with us! Thanks for a perfect ending to a perfect vacation. May 29, 2012
Rated 4 out of 5 by wetravel Good Hotel but a little overpriced Hotel is easy to find about 5 min walk from the Zurich lake. Rooms are on smaller side if you are used to rooms in new Hotels in Asia. Breakfast in Hotel was very good so was the service. Concierge also knowledgeable. It is easy to take walks from there. Internet situation needs improvement. SPG Platinum recognition is good. Parking in Hotel or close by roads is super expensive. I propose to give to complimentary parking to Platinum members since there is no Sheraton lounge. April 19, 2014
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Rated 4 out of 5 by Samy555 Does the job I go to the Sheraton as it is both close to my office and the lake. I am an SPG member for more than 10yeras, they have my details on file and have never been assigned an SPG room. This hotel does the job but it is you and your luck on the room. Finally the manager left a note on one of the tables in the room to receive a welcome gift, but it was so poorly placed I only noticed it on the day I was checking out. That should be done at check in September 24, 2012
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3/4 cup sugar
1/3 cup flour
1 cup milk
1 can (20 ounces) crushed pineapple, drained
2 tablespoons butter
4 medium apples, not peeled, chunked
1 cup green grapes
1 cup toasted chopped pecans
1/4 cup each red and green maraschino cherries, quartered
In saucepan combine sugar and flour. Stir in milk and pineapple; stir until blended. Bring to boil over medium heat, stirring constantly. Cook and stir 2 minutes until thickened. Remove from heat. Add butter; cool. In bowl mix apples, grapes, pecans and cherries; add dressing. Stir to
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Norwich — The majestic bronze statue that had graced the grave of Sarah Osgood for nearly 130 years before it was stolen and cut up for scrap returned to Norwich Friday and soon will be secured in its proper place in the Yantic cemetery.
The meticulously restored statue of a woman kneeling — perhaps in prayer — wearing a flowing dress arrived in the back of a pickup truck driven by Recreation Department Maintenance Supervisor Tom Dougherty. City Purchasing Agent William Block, who oversaw payment for the $34,000 project by New England Sculpture Services in Chelsea, Mass., accompanied him.
"Isn't that something?" Block said as the tarp and wrapping were removed from the statue perched on its temporary wooden pallet. "When I was there with those people, I felt I was in the presence of genius."
The statue was discovered missing from Sarah Osgood's flat gravestone in the Yantic Cemetery on Feb. 19, 2010. After seeing news accounts of the theft and old photos of the statue, workers at Willimantic Waste Co. notified police they had purchased some of the pieces. They kept them in reserve out of suspicion that they might have been stolen. Police arrested two men in connection with the theft.
The head was recovered perched on a stone wall in Willimantic sometime later.
With all pieces in hand, city officials launched the restoration effort, paid for with money from the city's Cemetery Trust Fund, an account that covers repairs and cemetery maintenance.
Block said bronze sculpture artist Barbara Mangum of Sculpture and Decorative Arts did the restoration work, which he called "absolutely fabulous."
Dougherty, a 29-year city employee, said Friday's trip to the sculpture foundry was "an experience of a lifetime." He and Block received a tour of the facility and an overview of how the restoration was performed — a difficult job since the thieves used a rough saw to cut the statue in pieces, leaving jagged gaps in the seams. The holes were soldered and the metal matched carefully to the green hue of the aged statue.
"You can tell these people really loved this statue," Dougherty said. "They hated to see it go."
Public Works Director Barry Ellison said the statue will be restored to Sarah Osgood's grave as soon as the weather allows for the work. Old photos showed the statue positioned over Osgood's grave as if the woman were reading the inscription on the stone: "Sarah Larned, Wife of Charles Osgood. Died September 4th 1881. Asleep in Jesus Blessed Sleep."
The statue was a striking showpiece in the historic 19th century cemetery that houses graves of some of the most noted city residents. A cast iron spiked fence that had surrounded the Osgood plot was removed — perhaps for scrap — many years ago. But that, too, has been restored, Block said, and will give Osgood's statue a bit more protection.
Until the statue is restored to the grave and secured in place, Ellison said it will be stored in an undisclosed location.
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If you missed out on hot market debuts like Noodles & Co., don't fret: There are other newly listed stocks worth a look.
Did you miss out on the recent hot IPOs for Noodles & Co. (NDLS), Fairway Group Holdings (FWM) and Stemline Therapeutics (STML)?
Well, the hits keep on coming. Phillips 66 Partners (PSXP), which was one of the looming initial public offerings that I profiled last week, surged a hefty 30% in its first day of trading.
If you missed out on these fast starters, fret not. Many other recent IPOs haven't fared nearly as well from their initial IPO price as these big gainers. IPOs sometimes need to simmer for a bit, as investors only belatedly get around to checking them out.
Here's a quick look at what the hot money may have initially missed but far-sighted investors may soon start snapping up.
1. Esperion Therapeutics (ESPR)
Thanks to the blockbuster success of Lipitor and other statins, the cholesterol-fighting market has always been seen as a great prize for drug companies. Billions in sales await any drug that can get through the FDA approval process and surpass the efficacy and/or safety of existing drugs. Trouble is, a handful of cholesterol drugs have petered out in clinical trials in the past few years, as their backers realized that the drugs had little chance for FDA approval.
Esperion's prospects look a bit brighter. The company has undergone multiple Phase II trials for ETC-1002, which has thus far shown that the drug has lowered low-density lipid (LDL) levels to below those of existing statins. "The safety and tolerability profile seen to date is favorable and may enable differentiation from current standards of care," noted analysts at JMP Securities, who carry a $25 price target on the stock. Esperion priced its IPO at $14 a share in late June and shares are trading for around $17.
Citigroup (C) has an even higher $30 target price, figuring the drug may eventually serve a population of more than 10 million Americans and an $8 billion to $10 billion global opportunity. Before you get too excited, note that many drugs perform very well in Phase II trials but stumble in Phase III trials when testing populations sharply expand. Still, any new cholesterol drug that can stand up through Phase III trials will indeed get a huge deal of buzz. Such an event is likely more than a year away.
2. Nanostring Technologies (NSTG)
Seattle-based Nanostring proved to be a tough sell for its investment bankers: An IPO that was expected to be priced in the $13 to $15 range ended up launching at $10 due to weak demand, and remains below $10 today.
Yet unlike some development-stage medical companies that go public without approved products on the market Nanostring, which sells diagnostic equipment to detect cancer cells, already had $24 million sales in the prior 12 months. Analysts at Leerink Swan see that figure rising to $52 million by next year.
To be sure, these are expensive machines, requiring extensive sales efforts. Yet Leerink Swan believes that Nanostring, which sold 127 million units in 2012, will sell more than 350 million units by 2015. That kind of projected growth underpins its $15 price target, which is more than 60% above current levels.
3. Gogo (GOGO)
In-flight Wi-Fi is shaping up to be a solid new revenue opportunity for many global airlines, and you can now find the service on many transcontinental flights. The fact that less than 15% of airline passengers have chosen to pay the $10 or $15 fee on any given flight may be seen as a possible disappointment, and may explain why this IPO has fallen roughly 25% from its late June $17 offering price.
Gogo installs and maintains the communications equipment that airplanes need to deliver Wi-Fi, and the company has lined up a blue-chip list of clients including Delta (DAL), United Continental (UAL) and Virgin. In fact, the company controls more than three-fourths of the nascent domestic sky-high Wi-Fi market. And analysts at UBS add that "this dominance positions it to win share among international carriers, a market roughly two times the size of the U.S." GoGo also provides gear to more than a third of all business jets flying across the U.S.
To be sure, the company will see greater competition in the next half-decade, as existing contracts with the domestic carriers come up for rebid. That could lead to price pressures, especially if the airlines want to inspire greater adoption of the in-flight Wi-Fi service.
Those UBS analysts see considerable revenue growth and cash flow generation in the years to come for Gogo, despite the competitive concerns -- and using their 2015 financial metrics as a basis -- have a $20 price target in place, which is more than 50% above current levels.
Risks to consider: IPOs can perform quite well in a rising stock market, but are especially vulnerable to sharp drops in a weak stock market due to their lack of proven track records and established base of shareholders. Still, these stocks' underwhelming debuts implies a lot less risk than owning some of this summer's more scorching IPOs.
Action to take: The fact that IPOs like these have not raced out of the gate might highlight some red flags, so extensive research is necessary. It may be in your interest to await their upcoming quarterly releases, at which time they will hold their first deep conversations with the public.
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