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Steamboat Springs STEAMBOAT SPRINGS The Steamboat Ski Area has enlisted an additional 62 conscripts in the struggle against reckless snow riding this winter.
For the first time, this season Steamboat's ski ambassadors are being trained to intercept skiers and riders who are going too fast or are out of control. If necessary, the ambassadors will have the authority to suspend the lift privileges of skiers and snowboarders.
The Steamboat Ski Area wants to heighten awareness of the need for safety on the slopes in light of a manslaughter case being tried in Eagle County this week.
Former Vail lift operator Nathan Hall is charged with recklessly causing the death of another man in a collision between skiers on the last day of the ski season at Vail in 1997. The Colorado Supreme Court cleared the way for the trial. Hall faces up to six years in prison if convicted.
The family of the victim sued Vail Resorts and won an undisclosed settlement.
"You're seeing the captains of this industry really taking this seriously," Steamboat Ski Patrol Director John Kohnke said.
In addition to Kohnke's 55 full-time and 25 part-time ski patrollers, the ski area will once again have 11 full-time courtesy patrollers working this winter under the supervision of Scott Sommerhoff. Their attention is devoted entirely to skier education, said Bob Kuusinen, Steamboat's senior vice president of mountain operations.
In addition to the courtesy patrollers, Sommerhoff is training the 62 skiing ambassadors to aid in the effort to make skiers and riders take responsibility for their own safety and that of others, Kuusinen said.
"They'll be properly trained to intercept reckless skiers," Kuusinen said. "They would perform like courtesy patrol. If they encounter people who have been stopped before, they'll have full authority to take that pass. We think it's going to really, really help."
Kohnke stressed that suspending a skier's lift privileges is a step that's taken only after a skier or rider demonstrates an unwillingness to behave more responsibly.
"What we're trying to do is to avoid getting to that point," Kohnke said. "I tell people, 'You love this, you live to be up here, don't lose this.'"
When ski patrollers or courtesy patrollers intercept a reckless skier, one of their options is to use a paper punch to mark the skier's multi-day pass or season pass. That step actually brands the pass holder as having been warned. A second warning can result in the pass number being added to a computer database of individuals who have been observed skiing recklessly.
When a pass is suspended, the duration of the suspension depends upon the circumstances, Kohnke said. But one thing remains consistent is that before the pass is returned, the holder must visit Kohnke, his assistant director Wes Richey or Sommerhoff for a skier education lecture.
But sometimes the ski patrol and skiers don't always agree on safety and who is being responsible.
Dustin Swager began skiing as a 2-year-old in Stillwater, Minn. He has skied more than 100 days each of the past four years in Steamboat. He said he takes skier safety and responsibility seriously, but there also are times when he disagrees with ski patrol on the subject.
"I think it's definitely a substantive subject," Swager said. "There are a wide spectrum of skiers out there who want to use the mountain. I think you can ski responsibly and ski fast. There's a time and a place to really go fast."
Swager says he knows members of the ski patrol and gets along well with them. On one occasion, he was stopped by a female patroller and advised that he was going too fast. He didn't agree.
"It was an early morning groomer kind of day," Swager recalled. "There was no one on the hill." Swager felt that because he had the hill all to himself and that he was within his comfort level, he was skiing responsibly. The patroller told him, "You're just plain going too fast."
Matt McKee is a snowboarder who says he is motivated to ride responsibly, but avoiding having his ticket punched by ski patrol isn't his primary motivation. McKee has been snowboarding since 1992 and has never been asked by ski patrol to slow down.
"I don't want to run into a little kid, just because of the trauma it would bring on him," McKee said.
McKee and Swager find it difficult to avoid slower skiers and riders because they tend to be unpredictable.
"It's difficult to keep track of people," McKee said. "Sometimes there are slow skiers that are not skiing in the fall line on some of the advanced runs, where they probably shouldn't be. It's hard to judge what they're going to do."
Swager raised the issue of beginning skiers who cut back and forth across the fall line, putting themselves in the path of faster skiers.
"Is the guy who's cutting 90-degree turns back and forth across the mountain skiing irresponsibly, or is the guy skiing 50 mph skiing irresponsibly?" Swager asked.
In cases where skiers or riders "don't get it," Kohnke said the lecture can last up to 30 minutes. In extreme cases, two or three times a winter, Kohnke will invite recalcitrant skiers or riders to spend an entire day with him before they get their pass back.
Kohnke's department offers a clinic on skier safety to every employer who arranges merchant passes for their employees. And the ski patrol also is reaching out to local children who ski. The ski area is conducting a ski safety poster contest for children 12 and younger at local schools. There is one free season pass being offered per school.
Kuusinen pointed out that parents are responsible for the safe skiing habits of their children.
"Whether it's skiing or driving, parents very much have an obligation" to make certain their children behave responsibly, he said.
Kohnke said the ski patrol also has enlisted the support of top racers at the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club to speak out to other young people their age and urge them to ski responsibly.
Kuusinen said the effort to improve skier safety is critical to the industry because it impacts the public's perception of how safe or unsafe the sport is.
"We absolutely have to be out there making the slopes as safe as we can," Kuusinen said. "We really want to make a difference in how people feel about skiing and riding out there."
Deputy District Attorney Charles Feldmann said prosecutions of reckless skiers in Steamboat Springs are rare, but not unheard of. He prosecuted a snowboarder under Colorado's Skier Safety Act last year, and another deputy D.A. in the office prosecuted a skier.
"All we ever charge is the specific skier safety statute," Feldmann said. Feldmann said Colorado law provides that when a skier or snowboarder is arrested for reckless skiing, they may be charged with "reckless endangerment," a class 3 misdemeanor, if the circumstances warrant.
Reckless endangerment is defined in the state statutes as conduct that "creates substantial risk of bodily injury" to another person.
However, those charges rarely go to trial here, Feldmann said. Instead, they typically result in a plea bargain.
Feldmann said the district attorney's office weighs the factors involved in a collision before deciding to prosecute. Prosecutors and law enforcement officers look for evidence that a skier or snowboarder was aggressively reckless and that behavior caused a collision. Not every skier involved in an accidental collision will be subject to prosecution, Feldmann said. He said he will consider the location where a collision took place on a bunny slope or on a trail designated expert with a black diamond. Another decisive factor might be the presence of "Slow" or other caution signs in the vicinity of a skier collision.
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I personally would have never made a public response to Richard Baumann, or any other people who wish to cause public unrest. People like that do not deserve anyone's time, and should be ignored, in my opinion; responding to them just gives them the attention they want.
I'm working on a little app to allow you to take multiple images and composite them together, using Gimp-ish layer blending modes. It will use an XML based format for compositing instructions, and use floating point based calculations internally to preserve the data while blending multiple layers together.


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Women's Low Adherence to Daily-Dose Products in HIV Prevention Trial Suggest Different Approach Needed, Researchers Say
March 5, 2013
"Results of a major HIV prevention trial suggest that daily use of a product -- whether a vaginal gel or an oral tablet -- does not appear to be the right approach for preventing HIV in young, unmarried African women," a press release from the Microbicide Trials Network reports (3/4). "Adherence among the women in the study was 'very low,' a researcher from the University of Washington said at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Atlanta, where the results were presented," the New York Times writes. "The study, known as VOICE, for Vaginal and Oral Interventions to Control the Epidemic, followed more than 5,000 women in South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe" who were given tenofovir gel, oral tenofovir or oral Truvada, and found that, "[a]lthough 95 percent of the women in the study made their monthly clinic visits, and 70 percent said they were using the pills or gel, blood tests suggested that only 25 percent actually were," according to the newspaper (McNeil, 3/4).
"HIV/AIDS experts said the results showed how important a factor human behavior is when devising ways to prevent HIV," Reuters reports. "Clinicians and public health professionals will have to further assess and better understand how to promote and support the high levels of adherence necessary," Jonathan Mermin, an HIV/AIDS prevention expert at the CDC, said, the news agency notes (Herskovitz/Kelland, 3/4). "The VOICE study also found that single women under 25 were the least likely to use the product and the most likely to acquire HIV," a CONRAD press release states (3/4). Mitchell Warren, executive director of AVAC, "said one of the things African women are very concerned about is contraception," VOA News writes, adding, "Future research, therefore, could involve combining birth control pills with an antiretroviral drug" (DeCapua, 3/4). Writing in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's "Impatient Optimists" blog, Stephen Becker, deputy director of the HIV program at the foundation, says the trial results "provide an opportunity to address fundamental factors that influence prevention product preferences and behaviors. To turn the tide we must stay committed to discovering and developing HIV prevention and treatment tools that those at risk will want and use" (3/4).
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Pediatric neurologist and neuro-oncologist Yasmin Khakoo and other members of the neuro-oncology care team discuss treatment plans.
Brain and spinal cord tumors — known as central nervous system tumors (CNS) — are the most common type of solid tumor in children, constituting about 20 percent of all malignancies in patients under the age of 15. There are many different types of brain tumors and they can be benign (non-cancerous) or malignant (cancerous). For all of the children we treat, and for all of the types of central nervous system tumors our team sees, our goal remains the same — to provide care that maximizes both the chances of cure and the quality of the child's life.
Where your child gets treated first is essential in determining long-term treatment success. Our pediatric neurosurgical team, which treats about 100 children with central nervous system (CNS) tumors each year, has a tremendous amount of experience with the often delicate task of removing a brain tumor in a child whose neurologic development is still in progress. Complete surgical removal of the tumor without secondary neurologic side effects is critical in improving the chance that your child can make a full recovery.
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Children with brain and spinal cord tumors have different needs from other children with cancer. Some of the symptoms that initially brought children with CNS tumors to medical attention — seizures, visual changes, cognitive/behavioral changes, weakness of arms or legs, and hormonal changes, to name a few — require highly trained specialists to help manage these problems while treatment for the tumor is ongoing. It is necessary that a closely-knit interdisciplinary team of experienced medical professionals evaluate these children. Such a team exists at Memorial Sloan Kettering to care for children, teenagers, and young adults with brain and spinal cord tumors.


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Science of 8 Limbs Says Goodbye to Lumpinee
- Written by Dave Walsh
When you think about Muay Thai chances are that Lumpinee Stadium will pop into your head at some point, at least it should. Lumpinee Stadium is perhaps the most famous stadium in all of Muay Thai, as it has housed some of the biggest stars in the sport of Muay Thai and some truly classic fights. Sure, there are other stadiums that have housed some tremendous talent and great fights as well, but Lumpinee's history made it stand out. Lumpinee Stadium opened in 1956 and the old warhorse was showing some serious wear, which led to a new, improved Lumpinee Stadium being built.
On Friday the last event at Lumpinee Stadium was held and the Science of 8 Limbs' Mike LNg spoke with Michael "Chase" Corley, Mark DeLuca, Wayne Gregory and Dave Zuninga about their memories and experiences at Lumpinee Stadium and I highly recommend that you check it out.


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FarmXD wrote:Oh well it was the same voice of the girl I was thinking. Good use of that! It takes
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You should totally find me scenes with this Ein talking, a little girl talking always makes a perfect intro!
Kevmaster wrote:I have been waiting for the release of the video since the beta test. I am absolutely satisfied with the outcome. (Also glad you took some of the advive I gave It's looking all awesome now )
This song has always been one of my favourite NIN songs and you got its message across as well as possible. Superb scene choices, great blending with effectwork and scene-transitioning and the mood of the video nails exactly what this song is all about.
I love the type of amv's that may require certain taste and aren't your typical amv you see every day. Especially if they get serious messages across that feature emotions and happenings which are also part of the real life.
Thank you for this great video, it deserves its place in my all-time favourites!
What do I say first now... A big thank you for some simple but important pieces of advice? A second "thank you" for the compliments? I think I've praised you enough on the pm's I'm just glad that my target audience, people who admire a serious not-your-typical amv (one of them being you) liked this. I just love to portray life nowadays, the way I can - it's not something you see everyday on the internet. No wonder the next project I already have in mind will have a similar theme on a more negative aspect.
God, I love desperation Until next time...
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Blend your own exotic mix of dried fruits and salty snacks for an irresistible nibbler.
Look for dried pineapple, mango and banana chips in the grocery store produce department or gourmet foods section.
Use bright-red, dried tart cherries in this recipe. Dried Bing cherries are too dark and sweet for the mixture.
Like all nuts, macadamia nuts contain lots of fat and can become stale quickly. Look for vacuum-packaged nuts to assure freshness. Immediately seal leftover macadamia nuts in an airtight bag and refrigerate. Always taste stored nuts before adding them to recipes to make sure they're fresh.
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ylpnfol wrote:Just checking in was wondering how this was going to work.
The contest is pretty simple in that the goal is for everyone to harvest a mature gobbler and have fun doing it. The team with the most successful hunters, highest percentage of harvested turkeys to hunters, is more or less the winner. There are some tie breakers just in case.
Hopefully the administration here will set up team pages for this year and then we will be able to post there about hunting plans and eventually the hunt itself.
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The first time that I heard about Anonymous was four years ago. I was then a rookie writer at the Phoenix, and our receptionist patched through a cold call from a self-described unmasked hacker named Gregg Housh. Crack salesman that he is, within minutes Housh had my full attention, and was schooling me with lore of his real-life and virtual crusades with the Internet collective known as Anonymous. I was intrigued by their latest scrum — a war with the Church of Scientology — and decided to dig deeper. After a week of researching and scanning their networks, I found myself not only obsessed with the peculiar Internet Relay Chats (IRC) and image boards that Anons inhabit, but fascinated by their unique embrace of everything from vigilantism to bukkake.
Most coverage of Anons and their shenanigans — from their beef with Scientology to their WikiLeaks-related hits on MasterCard — has been superficial. Low points have come from television outlets like the Los Angeles Fox News affiliate that garnered derisive memetry by labeling Anonymous an "Internet hate machine." On the opposite end of that spectrum is a select cadre of insider writers and academics, many of whom the mainstream media rely on for explanations. But in between the broadcast goofballs and the experts, accurate long-form reporting on Anonymous is anomalous. There's also been little discussion of the actual act of covering Anonymous — even as its affiliates, like Occupy Wall Street, and the group's numerous targets have rocked headlines.
As we're all increasingly connected to an online culture over which Anonymous wields great influence — from silly Tumblr trends to mass calls for activism — it's no longer adequate for journalists to only kind of get it. This is a critical concern, and one that's been debated extensively since the June release of Parmy Olson's 400-plus page opus, We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency. In blog posts, on chats, and at interactive conferences, journalists and Anons alike are discussing the unique challenges of reporting on this hard-to-peg troop of trolls and hackers, geeks and Web warriors. While they sometimes disagree on tactics, collectively these muckrakers set the tone for this burgeoning line of journalistic and anthropological inquiry. Using their stories, we've devised a blueprint for not just covering, but understanding Anonymous.
ACCLIMATE. Olson began looking at Anonymous in late 2010, when Forbes assigned her to investigate their attacks on PayPal's Web site. Along with MasterCard and other money-transfer companies, PayPal had severed ties with WikiLeaks after the whistleblower site's controversial ringleader, Julian Assange, fed classified Department of Defense documents to a range of news outlets. Seeking to avenge WikiLeaks, Anons organized Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on PayPal, and were eventually able to knock the site offline once a few heavyweight hackers lent critical firepower. Her coverage led Olson to an elite posse known as LulzSec, core members of which became the lens through which We Are Anonymous unfolds.
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Dress up a Betty Crocker® Gluten Free brownie mix with a cream cheese filling to make brownies even better!
Use a small trigger ice cream scoop to easily spoon the cream cheese filling over the brownie batter and the reserved batter evenly over the filling.
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70% less fat • 54% fewer calories • 48% less sodium than the original recipe. You'll love this much better-for-you appetizer updated with fat-free ingredients, extra veggies and baked whole wheat pita chips.
We've replaced ingredients with great-tasting alternatives to create better-for-you recipes that are just as yummy as the originals.
Greek yogurt is known to be thicker (it's strained) with a creamier consistency than regular plain yogurt. But if it's not available in your area, regular plain yogurt can be used instead. While testing, we found thickness varied with different brands and it may be fun to conduct your own taste test and compare two or more brands.
You can substitute any kind of olive you like. Why not scout the olive bar at your grocery store and pick out a new variety?
For a different flavor twist, look for hummus with added ingredients, such as roasted garlic.
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Larry Ellison's Fantasy Island
One of the world's richest people, Larry Ellison is known for his colorful exploits. Now he's tackling one of his most ambitious and expensive projects yet: rejuvenating one of Hawaii's smallest inhabited islands.
Lanai, Hawaii
Larry Ellison stood on the white sand of a deserted beach, bordered by palm trees laden with coconuts. It didn't feel real that he could own the island of Lanai, he reflected.
It had been his far-fetched dream since he was in his 20s, when he first flew over one of the smallest of Hawaii's inhabited islands in a Cessna 172 and was captivated by the thousands of acres of pineapple fields.
In June 2012, Mr. Ellison, the co-founder and chief executive of technology giant Oracle , bought Lanai for $300 million from American businessman David Murdock. Now he owns nearly everything on the island, including many of the candy-colored plantation-style homes and apartments, one of the two grocery stores, the two Four Seasons hotels and golf courses, the community center and pool, water company, movie theater, half the roads and some 88,000 acres of land. (2% of the island is owned by the government or by longtime Lanai families.)
For the first time, Mr. Ellison has publicly detailed his ambitious and costly plans for the 141-square-mile island. They include building an ultraluxury hotel on the pristine, white-sand beach facing Molokai and Maui and returning commercial agriculture to the clear-cut acres. He also plans to endow a sustainability laboratory that will help make the island "the first economically viable 100%-green community." And one of his biggest tasks: winning over the island's small, but wary, local population, one whose economic future is heavily dependent on his decisions.
"We want to make the island better for everyone, especially the people who live there," Mr. Ellison said in a recent interview after returning from Lanai, where he bought a home formerly owned by the comedian George Lopez. "We have the right climate and soil to grow the very best gourmet mangos and pineapples on the planet and export them year-round to Asia and North America. We can grow and export flowers and make perfume the old-fashioned way—directly from the flowers, like they do in Grasse, France. We have an ideal location for a couple of organic wineries on the island. But the reintroduction of commercial agriculture to Lanai is 100% dependent upon increasing the available water on the island. So we're going to use solar energy to convert seawater to fresh water."
He and his team have met with experts in desalination and solar energy to change the way water and electricity are generated, collected, stored and delivered on the island. They are refurbishing residential housing intended for workers (Mr. Ellison's Lanai Resorts owns and manages 400 of the more than 1,500 housing units on the island). They've tackled infrastructure, such as lengthening airport runways and paving county roads. And to improve access to Lanai, Mr. Ellison bought Island Air earlier this year and is closing a deal to buy another airline. He declined to divulge how much these projects are costing him.
Mr. Ellison, who grew up in the working-class South Side of Chicago, and dropped out of college and bounced from job to job well into his 20s, is one of the world's wealthiest people—his personal net worth is around $40 billion. He is famous for his cache of yachts, planes and cars (he likes to say his favorite car is his "white Toyota," a white Lexus LFA, the company's $380,000 race car), houses, and museum-quality collections of Japanese, Surrealist and Impressionist art. The 68-year-old bachelor—he is in a long-term relationship with a UCLA engineering student—also has some cool keepsakes, like Bono's guitar and Laird Hamilton's surfboard. And the America's Cup trophy—sailing's Holy Grail that his Oracle Racing team won in 2010—spends a great deal of time in the theater room of his Woodside, Calif., estate.
But Mr. Ellison—always on the lookout for the next great thing—never had his own island. He is involved in nearly every detail of the planning, from researching the location of the reservoir to store desalinated water, to monitoring the look and feel of a 1950s-style bowling alley and soda fountain to be opened in the center of Lanai City, near a historic bowling alley that now serves as a community center. He even knows what will be served at the soda fountain: pizza, hot dogs, hamburgers, root-beer floats and an old favorite drink from the '50s called a green river, made with sweet green syrup.
"I'm in two modes when I'm on Lanai: In engineering mode, I'm trying to find the right place for the reservoir and the desalination plant, and looking at designs for new hotel rooms," Mr. Ellison said. "The rest of the time, I'm in decompression mode. I'm on Hulopoe Beach, going for a swim, or on my paddleboard surrounded by 100 spinner dolphins."
Mr. Ellison's vision is as detailed as it is ambitious. Now he just has to get the island's population of 3,100 residents to go along with him.
Lanai (pronounced Luh-NAI-ee) has been dominated in recent centuries by the dreams of entrepreneurs. Over the years, everything from sugar-cane operations, sheep farms and piggeries to a penal colony for women have opened and closed. What worked for decades was James Dole's transformation of the island into a pineapple plantation. Mr. Dole bought Lanai for $1.1 million in 1922 and turned the island into the world's top supplier of pineapple. By buying up properties across the island and consolidating his holdings, Mr. Dole also ushered in a tradition of single ownership of the island.
But by 1986, when David Murdock purchased the island, the plantation operations were winding down as pineapples were being produced and sold more cheaply overseas. Mr. Murdock re-envisioned the island as a travel destination, building the Lodge at Koele, an English-manor-meets-Wyoming-hunting-lodge retreat 1,700 feet above sea level, and Manele Bay, for the beach-paradise experience.
The resorts faced myriad problems from the start. Travel to Lanai is indirect, requiring a 40-minute ferry ride from Maui or a plane ride via what was a less-than-reliable service. Koele's cool air and lodge theme proved popular with locals but a harder sell with tourists. And both resorts hit hard times during the economic crisis of 2008. Mr. Murdock's subsequent plan to build a giant wind farm on the island, which required installing tall turbines across the rolling hills and shoreline, polarized residents and failed to win the requisite approvals. Mr. Murdock, who reportedly invested $700 million in improvements on the island, originally asked $1.2 billion for it. By the time Mr. Ellison bought Lanai in 2012, the island was in a state of neglect and the mood was dour. Unemployment was up, shops were closed and the community pool was shut down.
Immediately after taking ownership, Mr. Ellison's team renovated and reopened the community pool, which sits in the center of town next to the combined elementary, middle and high school. They also installed a new play structure, swing set, and basketball and volleyball courts; removed boulders that had been placed around the park; brought in picnic tables and benches; and trimmed long-overgrown trees.
Kurt Matsumoto, the son of plantation workers who spent a decade managing Mr. Murdock's resorts, is now chief operating officer of Lanai Resorts, overseeing all of Mr. Ellison's operations on the island. Born and raised on the island, Mr. Matsumoto, 56, is also Mr. Ellison's point person in his relations with locals.
Mr. Matsumoto said Mr. Ellison's desire is to see Lanai's population grow from its current 3,100 residents to 6,000 residents, as fewer people leave for better opportunities and more people come to Lanai for work. Mr. Matsumoto described plans to improve educational opportunities for children, ensure quality health care and lower living costs—whether at the grocery store, where milk is nearly $10 a gallon, or the pump, where unleaded gasoline is considerably more expensive than on the mainland ($5.56 a gallon in early June).
For now, locals appear guardedly optimistic. "Not everyone will agree with what Ellison does, and you run into opposition from a few, but how can you argue with jobs and improving infrastructure? How do you disagree with things like the reopening of the community pool?" asked Phoenix Dupree, who runs the Blue Ginger Café and has been a resident of Lanai for 22 years.
Reynold Gima, a social worker for adult mental health who started the watchdog organization Lanaians for Sensible Growth to challenge some of Mr. Murdock's efforts, said he finds Mr. Ellison's management style "refreshing." It also helps that he knows and trusts Mr. Matsumoto, as many on the island seem to; the two men were in Little League and Boy Scouts together.
"They've been promised things before, but it wasn't fulfilled," Mr. Matsumoto said. So people are saying, 'I love the vision, but is it for real?' That's fair."
Diane Preza, a kindergarten teacher who was born and raised on the island and is a member of a group called Kupaa No Lanai, founded to fight wind development, appreciates the improvements on Lanai under Mr. Ellison, but she wants to make sure new developments are done right. "We love it and feel it needs to be protected," she said. "There are sacred sites, archeological sites. There is a way of life that we love."
In January, Mr. Ellison met with Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie. "As far as I'm concerned, he has not made a single misstep," said Gov. Abercrombie, a Democrat. "Unemployment on Lanai has just about disappeared. Traffic to the island is up. If nothing more than the economy, I would say he is the best thing that's happened to the island in 50 years."
Mr. Ellison said that one of the first things he did after buying his fantasy island was to research the competition—a popular luxury hotel on Maui.
"So I took my boat Musashi and sailed over to Maui to check it out," Mr. Ellison said. "We got off Musashi at Lahaina Harbor, jumped into a car, got on a four-lane freeway and drove to the [hotel]. It's a totally different experience. Maui reminded me of San Diego; beautiful but crowded."
However, Mr. Ellison was initially less than impressed with the two Four Seasons hotels he'd acquired when buying the island. He described the food as "inedible" and the décor "dreadful." He said his team was able to open a Nobu—the luxury Japanese restaurant chain run by celebrity chef Nobu Matsuhisa —in the Four Seasons Manele Bay in December after just five weeks, in time for the critical holiday rush. His team also removed nearly all of the art, objects and Chinese furniture that had belonged to Mr. Murdock, and replaced it with Hawaiian pieces and furniture in sandy-beige hues.
In the near term, Mr. Ellison's most important challenge is to get a new desalination system in place to convert saltwater to fresh water. He wants to bring the number of gallons of available fresh water to 10 million daily from four million. But he also is forging ahead with other projects. He is setting up charging stations for electric cars and plug-in hybrids, and replacing Island Air's old-model Dash 8 aircraft with new ATR 72s. He is working to create "Lanai lounges," he said, in Honolulu and Maui airports, so "when you land you go directly to a Lanai lounge, have a cup of tea, check into your hotel room, make dinner reservations for that evening, get on an Island Air ATR, and 10 minutes later you're on the island of Lanai with a table waiting for you at Nobu."
Mr. Ellison's vision for a third hotel on Lanai received approval in late May from the Lanai Community Plan Advisory Committee. He envisions a small upscale resort of no more than 100 rooms, on the beach at Halepalaoa Landing.
"Imagine these hale, these grass huts on the beach," Mr. Ellison said excitedly of his plans for the new resort. "They are individual hale, built on poles in the sand. We will retain the unspoiled primitive nature of the beach." He says the hotel will be a model of sustainability—generating electricity from the sun, making its own fresh water, reusing "gray water for irrigation, and all the buildings will be made from light, renewable materials, like bamboo."
Mr. Ellison added, "It's surreal to think that I own this beautiful island. It doesn't feel like anyone can own Lanai. What it feels like to me is this really cool 21st-century engineering project, where I get to work with the people of Lanai to create a prosperous and sustainable Eden in the Pacific."
—Ms. Guthrie is the author of "The Billionaire and The Mechanic: How Larry Ellison and a Car Mechanic Teamed Up to Win Sailing's Greatest Race, the America's Cup," published June 4 by Grove/Atlantic.


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Léon BAKST
Léon Bakst (b Grodno, Russia/Lithuania border (now Belarus) 10 May 1866 – d Rueil-Malmaison, France 27 December 1924) attended the Academy of Fine Arts in St Petersburg from 1883 until he was expelled in 1887. Art school exposed him to the influence of the Russian Realist group, the Wanderers.
Bakst started his career as a book illustrator and painter, achieving only moderate success as a portraitist. In 1890 he met Alexandre Benois and joined the Nevsky Pickwickians, through whom he also met Diaghilev.
From 1893–97 he lived in Paris on and off, studying at the Académie Julian under the Academist painter, Jean-Léon Gérome, whose interest in Orientalism and Greek mythology were relayed to Bakst. He visited Spain, Germany, Tunisia, Algeria and Greece, settling permanently in Paris in 1912 after being exiled from Russia.
From 1898–1904, Bakst was Diaghilev's art assistant for Mir Iskusstva. In 1901 he designed his first theatre work for Diaghilev—Léo Delibes's ballet, Sylvia. Although this production was never realised, from that time Bakst concentrated on designing both sets and costumes for various theatres in St Petersburg.
In 1909, Bakst was invited to design productions for the first Saison Russe in Paris. He continued working with the Ballets Russes, becoming the artistic director in 1911, until 1919. Bakst designed more of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes productions than any other artist associated with the company, while also working as a freelance dress and costume designer for select clients. Bakst designed for several productions in London and Paris and returned to the Ballets Russes to design The sleeping princess in 1921.
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Arlene Diederich
Arlene Diederich, age 85, of Waunakee died on Friday, May 17, 2013 at her home.
She was born in Sun Prairie on July 13, 1927 to Franz and Esther (Gross) Hebl . She married Werner Diederich on June 15, 1950 and lived all of her married life in Waunakee. Werner preceded her in death in 2011.
Arlene worked for Demco Library Supply in DeForest for many years. She enjoyed going to casinos and loved going to Badger football games. She was a long time member of St. John's Catholic Church.
Survivors include two sons, Steve (Katie Freber) of Beaver Dam and Mike of Waunakee; a grandson, Nathan Diederich; her brother Bernard Hebl; her sister Alice Stegerwald; and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her sister, Marian Tormey Vivian; and her brother, Jack Hebl.
Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. at St. John's Catholic Church, 209 South Street,Waunakee. The Reverend Monsignor James Gunn and Reverend Monsignor John Hebl will concelebrate. Visitation will be held on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 from 5:00 until 7:00 p.m. at the Winn-Cress Funeral Home, 5785 HWY Q, Waunakee. Friends may also call at the church on Wednesday from 10:00 a.m. until the time of service. Burial will take place in the church cemetery.


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Family: Bombycillidae, Waxwings view all from this family
Description ADULT Has orange-buff plumage overall, palest on underparts and white on undertail. Wings are dark, except for white inner edge to tertials and red, waxlike feather projections. Rump is gray and dark tail has a broad yellow terminal band. Note the prominent crest; dark mask through eye is defined above and below by white line (more striking above than in Bohemian). JUVENILE Gray-buff overall; differs from juvenile Bohemian in having unmarked dark wings, except for pale inner margin to tertials. First-winter is similar to adult, but lacks red, waxy wing projections.
Dimensions Length: 6 1/2-8" (17-20 cm)
Habitat Common in open woodland. Present year-round in much of northern U.S.; summer visitor further north and a winter visitor south to Mexico.
Observation Tips Easiest to find outside breeding season when sizeable flocks (sometimes hundreds strong) live nomadic lives in search of berry-laden bushes and shrubs.
Range Mid-Atlantic, Northwest, Western Canada, Florida, New England, California, Great Lakes, Rocky Mountains, Texas, Eastern Canada, Plains, Alaska, Southeast, Southwest
Voice Song comprises a series of piercing tzeee call notes.
Discussion Delightful bird whose distinctive crest and soft-looking orange-buff plumage make it easy to recognize, although confusion with scarcer and much less widespread (in east) Bohemian Waxwing is always a possibility. Use differences in structure and plumage color to distinguish between the two: Cedar's plumage is warmer looking overall (orange-buff, not pinkish and so gray), undertail coverts are white (not chestnut), and its dark wings are almost unmarked. Forms roving flocks outside breeding season that search for berry trees and bushes and strip them before moving on to the next source of food. In flight, silhouette resembles a Starling. Sexes are similar.


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Beethoven, O'Bama and `Bending the Curve′" topic of Binghamton University Forum
BINGHAMTON, NY -- Daniel Sisto, president of the Healthcare Association of New York State (HANYS), will discuss "Beethoven, O'Bama and 'Bending the Curve'" on Thursday, December 17, at the Binghamton Forum luncheon held in the Old Union Hall of the University Union. The lunch buffet begins at 12:00 p.m. with Sisto's discussion following promptly at 12:30 p.m. The focus will be on one of today's most profound and transformational issues: healthcare.
Sisto has led the Healthcare Association of New York State (HANYS), which represents more than 550 nonprofit and public hospitals, nursing homes, homecare agencies and other healthcare organizations. HANYS is the only such statewide organization in New York. Sisto serves on numerous task forces of the American Hospital Association and an array of New York state policy bodies. Under his leadership, HANYS has developed a national reputation for its expertise in data management, effective state and federal advocacy, and coalition building with diverse national interests.
Sisto joined the HANYS staff in 1984 as senior vice president and chief operating officer of its consulting arm. He was appointed president of the association in 1986. HANYS' mission is to advance the health of individuals and communities by providing leadership, representation, and service to health providers and systems across the entire continuum of care. HANYS works with the American Hospital Association, New York's regional hospital/healthcare associations, and a powerful network of outside lobbyist and policy experts. As strategic need arises, HANYS allies with other healthcare organizations, consumer and labor groups, and others to advance solutions to workforce shortage, the rising number of uninsured and improving community health status.
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Shares of Research in Motion (RIMM) closed down 11 cents, or 0.8%, at $13.93 today as the Street issued another batch of cautious reports in advance of the company's fiscal Q3 report for the three months ended in November, which is expected Thursday, after the bell.
The new reports come as RIM rolls out its invitations today to media for the BB10 unveiling on January 30th in New York. BB10, which is meant to be the new face and brains of the BlackBerry, is going into beta testing with over 120 enterprise and government customers, the company said today.
Analysts are, on average, modeling revenue to fall 48%, year over year, to $2.66 billion, yielding a 36-cent net loss per share.
Shaw Wu with Sterne Agee today reiterated a Neutral rating on the shares, writing that the consensus is too pessimistic: he's modeling $2.81 billion and a 24-cent net loss.
Wu thinks the company still has to prove there's room for a third or fourth mobile "ecosystem" outside of those created by Apple (AAPL) and Google(GOOG):
But does the world really need a third or fourth mobile OS touchscreen platform? And what makes it different? So far, developer support and customer adoption have been lukewarm so it remains to be seen if carrier hope wins out. To us, it's not just the number of apps, but the quality of apps, and whether developers are making money and customers are using them.
But the more important question is the cash burn and whether it's sustainable:
We think the most important metric remains its $2.3 billion cash balance which the company has been able to sustain despite big operating losses through changes in working capital and conversion of accounts receivable. It is not clear how sustainable this is as this is an accounting maneuver as opposed to an improvement in its fundamentals. The other big question is whether the company has a sustainable profitable business model where it needs to invest heavily to keep up with the vast resources of AAPL, GOOG, and MSFT. The company is currently losing several hundred million dollars per quarter with profitability likely 4-5 quarters away.


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Food vendor Steve Smith says he's considering legal action after his trailer was towed by the City of St. John's.
Smith, the owner of Long Dick's Sausage Emporium, has been battling with Newfoundland Power and St. John's city council since setting up last spring over his temporary location and over power regulations.
September saw council approve a permanent spot for Long Dick's on New Gower Street, but trouble arose, said Smith, when he was asked to move a few spaces away to make it easier for an old building to be torn down, just before last week's snowstorm hit.
Snowplows clearing the roads boxed in his trailer with a high ridge of snow, which then hardened into ice, said Smith.
"I'd gone back to them and said, 'Look, I'd love to comply with you and move this temporarily. I'm trying to work with you. I don't want to rock the boat,'" he told The Telegram. "But I said, 'I can't get out of here. The snow's got me buried.'"
Smith said he had to use an axe and a steel shovel just to clear enough snow to open the trailer door, but says his requests for more time or assistance from the city were not heard.
A representative from public works told him the city had to treat his trailer as it would a vehicle — which it isn't, said Smith.
"I lease the spot from the city. Sure, I'm operating there, but the city has deliberately blocked me in, the plows. I said, you're going to have to come clear around me, it's as simple as that. I can't get out of there."
Sometime Wednesday night, Long Dick's was towed.
"He contacts me this morning and tells me that (St. John's director of building and property management) Dave Blackmore went ahead and told him to tow the God damn thing because they have the authority to do it by the contract that I'm under," said Smith, who added he's furious because his equipment inside wasn't secured to be moved.
"My commercial stove, the commercial barbecue, the coolers, the refrigerator, the freezers — all that had to be strapped down inside if it was going to be pulled anywhere that it may have to go up a hill."
Smith called it an "abuse of power" by the city and said the city's getting back at him for speaking to the media over his earlier bureaucratic battles in getting open for business. He was hoping to reopen this weekend, but now he's not sure if he'll be able to reopen again at all.
"I borrowed money to install this power system. I'm already in it up to my neck," he said, adding that he has consulted with a law firm over the ongoing conflict with the city.
The city made him pay for the entire year's lease up front as well as install an elaborate power setup, he said, which was difficult to do with the move from Duckworth and setup on New Gower.
"I don't know how to fight this anymore, I really don't. I'm in serious jeopardy of losing my business."
A spokeswoman for the city said Blackmore was in a meeting Thursday afternoon and not available, but added Smith was given the requisite 24 hours to move
his truck for snowclearing operations.
"He was given the notice in person, spoken to and told, and he would not move his vehicle," said Jennifer Mills. "The other mobile vendors moved their vehicles. In fact, one of them actually towed themselves, because their vehicle would not start, and he (Smith) would not move."
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In 1973, when she was an 18-year-old rock fan, Rosanne Cash's dad gave her a list of songs he felt she should know — mostly country, all falling under the current banner Americana. She held onto that list, and now she's recorded a dozen tunes from it.
You can't go wrong with "Long Black Veil" (cut here with Wilco's Jeff Tweedy), Hank Snow's "I'm Movin' On," or Dylan's "Girl from the North Country" (the elder Cash's duet with Zimmy is definitive; Rosanne's solo version is sweet and plaintive). With Rosanne's husband, John Leventhal, producing, The List is a mostly unadorned affair, the arrangements kept simple and her voice high in the mix.
Marquee guests — Springsteen for "Sea of Heartbreak," Elvis C. for "Heartaches by the Number," Rufus Wainwright for an orchestrated but bluesy take on Merle Haggard's "Silver Wings" — do what they're supposed to, accompany without dominating. Given the heavy nod to the pioneers — the Carter Family, Hank Williams, Jimmie Rodgers — it's not difficult to imagine Johnny Cash jotting down the tunes that now make up The List in the back of the tour bus. He'd be proud of what his little girl's done with that sheet of paper.
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LiverKick Throwback: Peter Cunningham Takes the Fight to Dida Diafat in Paris in 1992
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The world of kickboxing has a rich history to fall back upon so we here at LiverKick figure, why not? Why not give a glimpse into some of the fights from the past that have made up this wonderful sport and tie it all in to the present. The kids on the Instagram and Twitter like to call Thursdays "Throwback Thursdays," I'm just going to say that this is a LiverKick Throwback.
This time we are going back before even the days of K-1, we are going back to a time when fighters were men and they fought for twelve rounds and beat the snot out of each other. Basically, we are going back to 1992. This was November 21st, 1992 in Paris, France and it was between two world-class fighters at the time; France's Dida Diafat and Canada's Peter "Sugarfoot" Cunningham for the ISKA World Light Welterweight Championship contested under ISKA's "Oriental Rules."
Cunningham might be before the time of some fans now, but it's worth reflecting upon a guy who fought some of the best in the world while representing North America (Canadian, but has resided in Southern California for quite a few years now). Cunningham would fight Diafat in 1996 in what would be his retirement fight, but continues to work as a trainer to this day when he isn't busy in acting, most recently appearing in The Fighter starring Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale.
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Breaking News: Cancun Bulletin: Suicide and Protests
Cancun, Mexico, 11 September--Yesterday thousands of people, the majority farmers, were joined by labor, indigenous people and students opposed to the WTO, marched toward the Cancun Convention Center and were stopped by police and barricades many kilometers from their destination. A South Korean farmer, Lee Kyoung Hae, 54 years old and father of two, committed
suicide while he was on top of one of the wire barricades.
Protesters overturned sections of the wire barricades and were then stopped by riot police. Some protesters threw debris at the police line. There were no arrests.
"The Mexican authorities are responsible for this (suicide)as they
prevented open dialogue to happen between farmers and the WTO delegates," said Walden Bello from Focus on the Global South outside of the Cancun General Hospital where Lee Kyoung Hae was pronounced dead. "Suicide rates among farmers are increasing globally and even in the U.S. This is a tragic example," he continued.
The mood was solemn in front of the hospital as supporters and press gathered for a press conference called by the South Korean contingent. Korean spokespeople said that while they were mournful and distraught, they are determined to continue the protest against the WTO.
Late last night, alarmed by reports that the Mexican government was going to deport the large South Korean group, many of the Korean protesters marched back to the police barricades and spent the night. They were joined by supporters, some volunteering as human shields.


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A throng of mostly white, mostly male game developers, players, and enthusiasts crowded the lobby of New School's Tishman auditorium Saturday. Bookbags circa 1980, Palm Pilots, notebooks, and pocket protectors were immediately visible. You imagine this is what it would look like if the personalities behind Slashdot.org sprung to life. But this is games, not IT (those people in your office who make sure your Net connection and e-mail work); this was the re:play conference, sponsored by Parsons School of Design and Eyebeam Atelier. These are the people who decide exactly how big those explosions in Doom or Quake will look; how Lara Croft's carefully rendered physique plays onscreen; how to construct the physics models behind racing titles like Gran Turismo. And upon closer examination, discernible among the crowd of "geeks" was someone in dreadlocks, people wearing black apparel or baggy jeans, guys sporting goatees, and, uh, some girls. It appeared the fashionable styling of Apple's Steve Jobs was creeping over the gaming masses, replacing the once-preferred unkempt, Coke-stained T-shirt look.
Unlike the traditional gaming conference, which usually consists of the tech stuff-displays of the latest graphics engines and developer tools, and forums on how to get the most polygons per second in a given action sequence-re:play was about acquiring something even more abstract.
"Video game [developers] are seen as the Rodney Dangerfield of technology," said J.C. Herz, one of the panel members, who writes the Game Theory column for TheNew York Times. "No respect."
The kind of respect this nascent industry seeks is something more than the we're-not-geeks cry of the '80s: video games should be considered a legitimate art form and deserve the same kind of academic criticism and intellectual discourse afforded traditional media-music, visual art, novels, film, television. The conference sought to make clear that there are Andrew Sarrises and Marshall McLuhans of the video game medium-and that they were in the room, or at least around the corner. The roster of panelists included a smart sampling of game makers-like Greg Costikyan (who has designed such commercially successful games as Star Wars: The RPG); Mark LeBlanc, developer of System Shock; Warren Spector, one of the makers of Wing Commander; and Bernie Yee, director of games programming for Sony Online Entertainment-and academics, including Henry Jenkins, director of the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT; and McKenzie Wark, lecturer in Media Studies at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.
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Emphasizing the need to bring together "the video game theorists and the video game practitioners," conference director Eric Zimmerman, a game developer and adjunct professor at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program and at the Digital Design Department at Parsons, warned of the potential threat posed by gaming's increasing acceptance in the mainstream. "Like the film industry, game development is getting more expensive. As projects get more costly, what's going to happen to the culture of games? That's a potential threat."
As PCs and game consoles like the upcoming PlayStation 2 become ever more complex in their technological designs, producing games for these platforms requires more resources. The rising costs have led to the consolidation of game publishers, resulting in a Hollywood-like studio system. Many of the game developers see this lack of diversity leading to a cultural conservatism in the industry.
"I used to be able to go to maybe 20 or 30 publishers with some confidence when I had an idea for a game," Spector said in one forum. "Now, it's much harder because there are fewer publishers."
And where many of the best-selling titles lean toward the violent, like Street Fighter, or the Neanderthal, like the multitude of football titles, developers like Spector and Costikyan find it harder to implement their "art."
Unlike the business of films-which has recently come to include a host of independent houses and garage filmmakers-game makers are less likely to effect a Blair Witch phenomenon. Thus far, Doom, a first-person shooter game, is the closest the industry has come to independent fame, and, appropriately, it is also one of the more controversial titles. The game was partially blamed for inspiring the Columbine tragedy.
"But it's not relevant," said panelist Miltos Manetas, an artist who has done a number of projects based on PlayStation and N64 games. "That violence was in no way something that was inspired by video games."
The key issue, to legitimize video game as art form and therefore as intellectual discipline, surfaced in the idea that a video game has narrative quality. This makes film the inevitable comparison, as game makers are designing the "story" behind a game in cinematic form. Gaming has also influenced Hollywood itself: The Matrix, in the end, is a representation of the ultimate game.
But such a comparison is a failing proposition. Traditional media forms like film are inherently "lean-back" experiences, as opposed to games, which are "lean-forward" and nonlinear. Unlike film directors or novelists, game makers inevitably lose authorship of their games. The player has as much to do with the story's creation as the designer. The arc found in the construction of a novel or film does not occur in a game and does not produce the same sense of narrative. It is hard to imagine, in other words, that a game could have the same emotional impact as TheCatcher in the Rye or Casablanca.
The conference also addressed the long-standing criticism that games are essentially for the select few, what the industry calls the "core gamers" (which accounts for the Rodney Dangerfield effect). Core gamers are young, male, and of an economic standing that can support something that costs $50 a pop. In this context, it is difficult to argue that game reviews in general have the same force that perhaps a Janet Maslin film review may have had; or the same academic weight of J. Hoberman's pieces in the pages of the Voice.
Core gamers buy games more on the advice of a bulletin board discussion group, the Usenet, or their core gaming friends than they do by reading newspaper reviews. And though currently hot-selling football titles and shoot-'em-up twitch games are forging a larger market, that cannot support a continuing academic discussion. The games need to be incredibly dumbed down for the masses, and then there is consequently less art for critics to review.
Manetas, however, expresses the optimism that pervaded the conference. "The future of video games is our future," he says. "It is the future of our humanity."
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ATLANTA (Dec. 3, 12:35 p.m. ET) — BWay Corp. has acquired Ropak Packaging, a division of Linpac Group Ltd., in a deal valued at about $265 million.
Ropak, based in Fountain Valley, Calif., injection molds rigid shipping containers for industrial and consumer applications.
Ropak has seven plants in North America, including a plastics recycling operation at its Springhill, Nova Scotia, facility. It was No. 29 in the most recent Plastics News ranking of North American injection molders with estimated sales of $220 million.
BWay, based in Atlanta, also makes rigid packaging. Its product offerings include pails, drums and tight-head containers made from plastic, metal and hybrid materials.
The acquisition gives BWay an opportunity to broaden its product portfolio and expand its reach; it's a "natural and exciting combination," said Kenneth Roessler, BWay's president and CEO, in a news release.
BWay itself has a new owner. Private equity firm Platinum Equity LLC of Los Angeles finalized its purchase of BWay last month, in a deal worth approximately $1.24 billion.
BWay immediately launched operational and M&A initiatives to strengthen and grow the company, according to the release.
BWay has total sales of $1.2 billion. About 40 percent of the company's 2011 net sales were in plastics.
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This is the latest in a series of divestures for the Birmingham, England-based Linpac, following the company's debt restructuring in 2009.
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Cancellation PolicyThis property has a 1 day cancellation policy. Failure to cancel within this time will result in a cancellation charge equal to the first night of your stay.
Must-Read Guesthouse InfoThis property has specific Terms & Conditions.
Advise about arrival time.
Check in time at 3PM to 10:00pm.
Check out time at 11:00am
The following late check in fees apply to check ins after 10PM.
22:00 – 00:00 = 10 Euros
00:00 – 02:00 = 15 Euros
02:00 onwards = 25 Euros
Pay cash on arrival.
24 horas cancellation
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How to get there?
By plane: There are two flights daily from Madrid to San Sebastian, and one flight from Barcelona. The airport is situated in Hondarribia/Fuenterrabia. You can get a bus or a taxi to San Sebastian.
By Train: RENFE is the national train company in Spain. Madrid and Barcelona are directly connected to San Sebastian. Irun and are France are also connected by train. from the train station just follow the river until the first bridge from the sea coast, cross that bridge, walk three blocks and turn right, walk until juan de bilbao st., turn left and on the 13 of that street there is the hostel
It could be a good idea to travel over night from Madrid or Barcelona (around 6 hours from Madrid and 7 from Barcelona).
From Paris you can get the TGV (High speed train, around 5 hours) that takes you to Irun. The TGV works with the French train company SNCF. In Irun you just get the regular train which takes 20 minutes to get to San Sebastian.
By Bus: San Sebastian is very well connected to the principal cities such as Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Pamplona, Vitoria, Burgos, Alicante, Salamanca, Galicia
Continental is the company if you are coming from Madrid, Burgos or Vitoria. La Roncalesa from Pamplona and Pesa from Bilbao.
There is also an international service, Euro-lines, that gets you to London (22 hours including the time the Ferry takes from Dover to Calais). This service is also offered if you are coming from Paris.
By car: From Madrid: Get the N-I (B/A roud) through Burgos and Vitoria/Gasteiz. It is worthy to get the highway between Burgos and Miranda de Ebro and follow Vitoria. (4.30 hours)
From Barcelona get the N-II to Zaragoza. When you reach Zaragoza get the N-121 to Pamplona. From Pamplona it takes 45 minutes to get to San Sebastian. (6 hours)
From Bilbao: Get the highway A-8. It takes one hour. I f you want you can go along the cost where you have beautiful sights but it takes around 2 or 3 hours due to the traffic.
From Pamplona get the A-15 and the N-I to get to San Sebastian. Around 45 minutes.
Located Near
In the heart of the old town(parte vieja),in a very local street juan de bilbao 13 third,surrounded by eusko tabernas(Basque bar).and five minutes by walk from the beaches 'zurriola' and bay 'la concha'.perfect location.


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