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Where would you start a history of the Café Royal? Perhaps on the night that Oscar Wilde got so high on absinthe that he imagined himself in a field of tulips? (They were chairs a waiter was stacking around him.) Or perhaps on the night the Marquis of Queensberry walked in to find the Irish poet dining with his son Lord Alfred Douglas, the shock that precipitated Wilde's downfall? Or perhaps in celebration of a dining room that defined an artistic moment in which James McNeill Whistler, Walter Sickert, Augustus John and Aubrey Beardsley could be found chatting together? Then again, you could choose an evening when Aleister Crowley, Virginia Woolf, Sir Jacob Epstein (who sculpted Wilde's wonderful tombstone in Paris) and Winston Churchill might have been found dining there.
You might even choose the moment of a famous, photographed (and telegraphed) kiss between Lou Reed and David Bowie, extravagantly dressed as Ziggy Stardust with pre-punk hair. Or one of the nights when the bejewelled Elizabeth Taylor smooched with Richard Burton or when Brigitte Bardot might have met Muhammad Ali.
The Café Royal was where bohemia collided with high society, where the louche and the lovely lingered late into the night with an archetypally West End cocktail of immigrants, celebrities, hangers-on, fine diners and nostalgic whiners. Its importance is enshrined in its Grade I listing, the highest possible protection and one that few restaurants (as the most ephemeral of interiors) are afforded. Yet, after being thoroughly stripped out and having its contents auctioned in a frenzy of nostalgia in 2008, the Café Royal is about to reopen, hugely expanded, as a luxury hotel in an expensive effort (both architects and owners politely declined to tell me quite how expensive) to reinstall it at the centre of London's social scene.
It has been a massive undertaking. Its reopening is part of a plan by Crown Estate, which owns Regent Street and much of the surroundings, to revitalise the central part of the city that radiates from Piccadilly Circus, which has somehow managed to remain seedy, tacky and slightly unappealing to the very Londoners who should see it as the city's heart.
The site is a huge chunk of rusticated imperial pomp, like a block of cheese into which a particular vision of London at the height of empire and grandeur has been carved. But it is also my favourite fragment of London, a site where the city, almost for the first time, embraced an architectural grandeur born of classical confidence and late beaux arts competence. John Nash, who planned Regent Street, executed it as a jerry-built developers' terrace. Its Parisian scale comes down to us from Sir Reginald Blomfield, an Edwardian architect much persuaded of his own talent. This piece of city encompasses the wonderful Piranesian theatricality of Air Street, which creates a stygian arch bridging the commercial luxury of Regent Street with the grimy backstreets of Soho.
The architect of the Café Royal revamp is Sir David Chipperfield, designer of museums across the world from Anchorage to Yorkshire. His most notable success has been Berlin's Neues Museum, where his meticulous and thoughtful revivification of the building has proven a critical cornerstone in the city's constantly shifting image of itself. At the Café Royal, Chipperfield has brought London's cityscape into the interiors. He has sucked that chunky, imperial, cheese-like quality of the external stone rustication into the heart of the hotel.
The walls of each room are inscribed with the faceted ashlar blocks characteristic of the area. This is very little like the luxury hotel of our jaded collective memory. Instead, there are walls of creamy plaster, and baths and vanity units carved from solid stone. The architecture of Regent Street has been sucked inside the rooms so that the views out – the extraordinary gaze down Lower Regent Street and up Regent Street, the flickering sparkle of Piccadilly reflected like the buzzing neons in a seedy film noir boarding house – are framed by architecture rather than interior, by a solid mass instead of the usual paper-thin veneer of globalised interior design. Chipperfield refers to "making the walls active rather than passive".
While most of the rooms may be new – the Café Royal building used to have a hotel called Oddenino but it closed decades ago – there is still plenty of historical grain to ensure the new hotel stays anchored to its site. The famous Grill Room, with its lavish ballroom mirrors, painted ceiling panels and rococo plaster has been revamped and reheated. The absurd gold Francophile grandeur of the Pompadour Suite has been refreshed with new gilding and restored paintings, while the extraordinary Domino Room still sparkles like a mad dreamscape dripping with gold and reflected ad infinitum in its mirrors. It is fairytale architecture.
The Ten Room, once the public focus of the hotel, is to become a dining room again and its deco-Egyptian details have been recreated to make a galleried hall that brings the buzz back towards the street. The lobby downstairs is resolutely contemporary, as is the pool and Akasha Holistic Wellbeing Centre and the new Café 1865.
What Chipperfield has achieved is the creation of a hotel that appears neither globally branded nor overly fashionable, neither too minimal nor fussily overdetailed. It is, instead, composed of a complex, rich series of interiors that belong to London. A hotel is, in a way, a kind of public space. Claridge's, the Ritz, the Savoy – each has become a distinctive part of the cityscape, their lobbies and lounges, cafés and bars aimed both at tourists and residents. Chipperfield and hotelier Georgi Akirov are keen to stress that the Café Royal, with its pivotal position, should be a place not just for visitors but for Londoners. The architect says he deliberated on "what makes a room 'London'". In its cocktail of minimal chic, luxurious detail and surface brought from the outside in, I think he has found it.
Edwin Heathcote is the FT's architecture critic
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The reborn Café Royal is part of a transformation of the area around Piccadilly by landowners, the Crown Estate. The famous old saw that if you stand in Piccadilly Circus long enough, you'd eventually meet everyone you've known has, like most clichés, some truth in it. The problem is, you really wouldn't want to stand there too long. This traffic and tourist-clogged interchange is the centre of the city and can be difficult to avoid but Londoners will do their best.
Piccadilly Circus, a once elegant plaza, was demoted in the 1880s to an ill-shaped traffic junction leavened only by the underscaled, fragile and naked Eros (pictured) at its centre. The illuminated signs went up at the start of the 20th century and have got brighter and brasher since. While it never suffered the aggressive seediness of New York's Times Square at its squalid nadir in the 1970s, Piccadilly Circus was similarly defined by a particular cocktail of tourist tat, titty bars and traffic.
All that has now changed. The grimy grandeur of the Regent Palace Hotel, once Europe's biggest hotel, has been replaced by commercial buildings by architects Dixon Jones. Its buildings, spanning the blocks between Sherwood and Brewer streets, are faced in faience, a lovely London material that has been out of fashion for almost a century but one that used to be perfectly suited to London's grimy atmosphere. The buildings butt up against the creamy classicism of Regent Street with real dignity. The underpass that runs through the block and could have been a dark, unappealing space has, instead, been mirror-clad by artist Daniela Schönbächler to create a series of refracting theatrical perspectives. A few remarkable fragments of the Regent Palace survive – notably its cavernous basement restaurant, one of London's finest art deco interiors, now remade as Brasserie Zédel.
The backs of buildings around here have been remade as a prestige shopping street. I was nervous that this end of Soho would lose its character and become colonised by the ubiquitous glassy chain stores. Instead, the Crown Estate has managed to maintain a particular London quality, solid, slightly stolid but also weighty and urbane. At the same time, architect Eric Parry is building a big new block on Piccadilly between Lower Regent Street and Eagle Place, its façade expressed in classical proportions but stripped back and raw, its flatness relieved by a striking polychromatic cornice from artist Richard Deacon. This kind of regeneration can reduce the complex character of an urban set to a caricature, stripping it of its smell and texture. Yet here is a reason why not all change should be resisted, this backstreet counterpart to West End pomp remains as alive and characteristically London as ever.


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Steamboat Springs Jens Voigt, less than a month shy of his 42nd birthday, only smirked as Lachlan Morton dismissed him with one short phrase.
Morton emerged as one of the winners of Stage 3 of the USA Pro Challenge, which finished Wednesday afternoon in downtown Steamboat Springs.
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The 21-year-old rider surged to grab the yellow jersey during Stage 2, and he and his Garmin-Sharp teammates led a successful defense of the jersey in Stage 3.
Discussing how his team tracked down Voigt late in the race, Morton described those who had broken away as not a "major threat."
Fair enough. Voigt might never have threatened to take the yellow jersey from Morton, but his daylong breakaway and solo go over Rabbit Ears Pass defined Steamboat's stage and did plenty to threaten the sprint finish everyone was expecting.
The peloton caught Voigt with just 3 kilometers remaining, setting up a thrill of a different kind as the thousands packed into downtown Steamboat Springs saw Peter Sagan, one of the world's best sprinters, charge to the stage win.
"I'm very happy. I say, 'Thank you' to my teammates. They did very good work," the Slovakian sprinter said.
Sagan came in fresh off a spectacular showing in the Tour de France where he won the green sprint points jersey. He backed that up already in the Pro Challenge, winning in Aspen for the first stage, then showed again Wednesday why he's one of the best.
The city — seemingly all of it and then some gathered for the final mile along the side of the road to bear witness — erupted as he broke around his Cannondale teammates, split a pair of competitors and secured Wednesday's win.
"I heard it was too many climbs here from teammates," he said when asked whether he'd expected before the event to rack up stage wins. "It's not really hard, though. It's only 4 or 5 percent (grades on the roads), and that's OK for me. I feel good, and I can do well in this one."
'I gave it a go'
Sagan's charge — which took place despite a late-race crash that sent nearly a dozen riders to the pavement — was made possible only once the peloton reeled in Voigt, who put on a show that won't be soon forgotten in Steamboat Springs.
Everyone expected the sprint finish that played out, but few expected it to take so long for that fate to come into focus. Voigt was one of five riders who broke away early, simple strategy for many of the teams and riders involved. A group out front helps tame aggressiveness in the peloton, bringing about the sprint that teams such as Cannondale wanted and the stability Garmin-Sharp sought.
That small pack was nearly five minutes ahead at one point, but as the race passed Kremmling and approached Rabbit Ears Pass, some members began to fall back, allowing their teammates in the peloton to catch up.
Rather than slow down, Voigt sped up, breaking out on his own.
"I had it in mind this morning. I told the boys, 'I feel up to it,'" he said. "I'm not going to win the (general classification). There was no reason for me to hold back. Sometimes, it's best if no one expects you to go, then you go."
He was met with wild cheers as he came up the first slopes of the pass, not thought steep enough to be a major factor in the stage. He flew through the King of the Mountain checkpoint on the east side of Rabbit Ears and rode hard over the top of the pass as the last of his breakout-mates were swallowed up.
Rocketing down the west side, above Steamboat, he came off his seat, hiding behind his handle bars and pulling tight against his bike's frame, desperate to conserve every ounce of efficiency.
It wasn't enough, not quite.
"I realize with 5 or 6 kilometers to go, when (the gap) went underneath a minute, and I did a quick calculation," he said. "I saw it coming a little bit, but I was still disappointed."
The crowd downtown was updated constantly with the public address announcer screaming as the gap shrank, then finally as Voigt's big plan went bust, just on the edge of town.
Disappointing for him, it's another great year of theater for cycling fans in Steamboat Springs.
"It didn't work," he said, "but at least I gave it a go."
Stage 3, 106.1-mile road race
- Peter Sagan (Cannondale), Slovakia, 4 hours, 4 minutes, 18 seconds.
- Luka Mezgec (Argos-Shimano), Slovakia, same time.
- Ryan Anderson (Optum-Kelly Benefit), Canada, s.t.
- Greg Van Avermaet (BMC), Belgium s.t.
- Alessandro Bazzana (UnitedHealthcare), Italy, s.t.
- Edwin Alcibiades Avila Vanegas (Colombia), Colombia, s.t.
- Martijn Verschoor (Novo Nordisk), Netherlands, s.t.
- Tony Gallopin (RadioShack Leopard), France, s.t.
- Tanner Putt (Bontrager), United States, s.t.
- Damiano Caruso (Cannondale), Italy, s.t.
Overall standings, after 3 stages
- Lachlan David Morton (Garmin-Sharp), Australia, 11 hours, 35 minutes, 40 seconds.
- Mathias Frank (BMC), Switzerland, 2 seconds behind.
- Peter Sagan (Cannondale), Slovakia, 11 seconds behind.
- Tejay van Garderen (BMC), United States, same time.
- Lawson Craddock (Bontrager), United States, 18 seconds behind.
- Thomas Danielson (Garmin-Sharp), United States, 29 seconds behind.
- Darwin Atapuma (Colombia), Colombia, 35 seconds behind.
- Damiano Caruso (Cannondale), Italy, 41 seconds behind.
- Greg Van Avermaet (BMC), Belgium, same time.
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YIT Founder in Court—Youth in Transition's Donna Rowe is promising to see her case all the way to trial. She was arrested on charges of refusing to obey an officer at an Oct. 4 protest [Feature, "The Exiles Among Us," Oct. 19-25]. Rowe planned an all-night protest in Civic Plaza to bring attention to the lack of resources for homeless youth in the city. Civic Plaza is considered a park and closes at 10 p.m.
When Rowe and seven other protesters were asked to leave the plaza at the park's curfew, she says she planned to move to the other side of City Hall to the sidewalk. Because of the nature of her protest, it was very important to her that it be near City Hall and that it last all night, but the protesters were told the whole City Hall block was off limits.
Rowe, who was homeless in Albuquerque years ago, says the limitations seemed strange. "I've actually slept on the steps of City Hall before and not had any problems with that," she says.
City Attorney Bob White confirmed that an all-night protest cannot take place in Civic Plaza or in the Crossroads Mall area. Protesters can't obstruct sidewalks, either. "As long as you were moving, you would be allowed to do your protest," he says.
Rowe's court date is set for Dec. 1. She will be using a public defender, she says, but "I know enough about that to make sure I get adequate representation." She will be using a First Amendment defense.
Roller Champions—The Doomsdames rolled out of Midnight Rodeo on Saturday, Oct. 14, as the first-ever season champions of the Duke City Derby League, having destroyed the Derby Intelligence Agency in a 132-70 win [Sports Preview, "Rivals," Oct. 12-18]. It was an exciting game, says league founder Nan Morningstar. The event was also packed, she adds, with about 600 people in attendance.
But it was never a close game.
"It was the standard Doomsdames' smashing of anyone who plays them," she says. Morningstar's team, one of only three in the league, was knocked out of the championship running in the semi-finals. With staffing problems they couldn't overcome, Morningstar's team, the Hobots, didn't make the cut. "I think we have a much better chance next year," she says. And the D.I.A. gets better every game, she adds, so the Doomsdames should have plenty of competition next season.
But just because the off-season has begun doesn't mean there's not plenty of derbyness to be had in Albuquerque. If there's enough recruitment before next season, Morningstar says the league would love to incorporate a fourth team. A recruitment camp on Saturday, Nov. 18, will begin the process. Interested parties can call Morningstar at Free Radicals at 254-3764. There is a $5 suggested registration. Potential roller girls should bring skates, wrist, knee and elbow pads, and a helmet if they have them.
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Shares of Apple (AAPL) are down $3.09, or 0.7%, at $451.40, as the company gets a duo of skeptical reports this morning, with more estimate cuts for the near-term iPhone outlook, but also a defense from Credit Suisse.
Canaccord Genuity's Mike Walkley, reiterating a Buy rating on the shares, cut his price target to $600 from $650, after trimming this year's EPS estimate to $43.59 from a prior $45.70, writing that "With a host of impressive Android smartphones ramping in 1H/C2013, including Samsung [Electronics's (005930KS)] flagship Galaxy S 4, we believe Apple could lose meaningful near-term market and profit share."
Samsung may surpass Apple in terms of industry profits in the June quarter, he believes.
Walkley writes that his conversation with suppliers, Apple will likely introduce an "iPhone 5S" this summer, "or during calendar Q3 2013," which might be slightly later than the June time frame he'd originally expected.
He also thinks the company will come out with a lower-priced iPhone this year. He thinks Apple will focus on differentiation through software and its "ecosystem," which is what he thinks the company needs to do:
With Apple's cumulative iOS hardware sales around 550M and its large base of iTunes customers with their credit card information, we believe Apple has the opportunity to offer differentiated services in areas such as mobile payments to bolster its already sticky ecosystem.
Walkley sees the iPhone 5 still leading sales in developed markets, albeit with trends a tad below seasonal expectations for the iPhone:
Further, based on Apple's March quarter guidance and our checks indicating potentially excess supply of the iPhone 5 offset by limited channel inventory for the iPhone 4 and 4S, our March quarter iPhone estimate of 36M units represents a 25% sequential decline in iPhone shipments. Consistent with our March quarter estimates, our Q1/C2013 wireless store surveys during January and February indicate the iPhone maintained its leading market share and the iPhone 5 was the overall best-selling smartphone in the U.S. market. However, overall iPhone sales declined in line with normal seasonal patterns, and we estimate February sales were softer than January levels. Please see our handset survey report published March 3, titled "Seasonally softer February smartphone sales; Apple and Samsung maintain dominant positions," for further details on our Q1/C2013 handset industry trends analysis.
Walkley cut his June-quarter iPhone estimates to 25 million units from a prior 36-million-unit forecast.
Walkley is also upbeat about prospects for a lower-priced iPhone, on the order of $300 to $350 wholesale, for developing world markets:
With a more competitively priced mid-tier iPhone including 2G/3G only SKU's for price-elastic pre-paid international markets, we believe Apple can still obtain industry-leading gross margins despite selling a lower-end SKU into new markets.
Another negative note comes today from boutique research firm Bluefin Research Partners's John Donovan, who cut his estimate for this quarter's iPhone unit sales by a million to 36 million, and cut his iPad estimate to 19.6 million from 20.5 million.
Donovan writes that he's below consensus for the quarter, and that with the iPhone's "growth engine stalled," and with a "need for innovation," a lower-priced iPhone seems important:
A low-cost iPhone product to more accurately serve the replacement/upgrade segment versus the new user opportunity may be necessary to continue AAPL's ascension in the smartphone market going forward. The initial product is likely to be focused for the Chinese market and would likely be a late-year product if any were to surface in CY 2013. Growth in this segment will be challenging in the U.S. as the company holds more than 50% of the market today, thus focus is shifting overseas, particularly to China. While AAPL's share is over 50% in the U.S., it's global share is under 20% based on smartphone estimates of 775-800M units worldwide, putting Apple behind Samsung and China OEMs (collectively). Consensus estimates for CQ1 have been lowered from 37-40 million units to 37-38M, versus our projection of 36-37M.
Donovan is also below consensus for full-year iPad estimates, at 82 million to 84 million potential units. He writes that cannibalization of the full-sized iPad is "accelerating," based on his "supply chain reads," which show "Calendar Q1 and calendar 2013 projections being cut markedly":
Our contention is that as the mini grows, the cannibalization of the traditional segment is greater than currently forecasted, especially with production issues resolved. Add to this the expected release of a mini retina display in 2H 2013, and it is likely to only thwart traditional demand even further. Of the 82-84 million in 2013, we expect as much as 55-58% of the total to be of the mini variety, an astounding percentage given the infancy of this product and the fact that the 2H refresh will only be the second generation offering in a mini package. While the news is less than optimistic on the traditional iPad, the addition of a 128 GB version and redesigned product scheduled for 2H 2013 should cement AAPL's position as the premier premium tablet supplier, while also likely cannibalizing some MacBook Pro lower-end model sales.
Meantime, Credit Suisse's Kulbinder Garcha reiterates an Outperform rating today, and a $600 price target, writing that "checks" by his Asian colleagues reinforce the notion of a cheaper iPhone, selling for $329 wholesale, which he thinks is a "positive" for the stock, as it would tend to support revenue and earnings growth:
Assuming Apple introduces a $329 iPhone in 2014 and starts to gain share in these lower price bands, we believe it could capture 40% share in the $300-$400 market. In turn, this can add incremental revenues of $16bn/$21bn in 2014/2015 and EPS of $3.13/$5.05 even allowing for cannibalization of the existing iPhone, (lower ASPs and GMs). This drives LT 2015 EPS power to $65.
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, the flagship Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) tablet from ASUSTEK Computer, Inc. (
Early reviews
analysis commentaries
from various parties were rather light on hard performance numbers for the CPU. But the folks over at
Laptop Magazine
a full set of CPU and GPU benchmarks on the iPad 3 and evaluated how it performed versus the Tegra 3.
In GLBenchmark 2.1, the A5X is a beast. Apple's tablet system-on-a-chip (SoC) is thought to pack a PowerVR SGX543MP4+ (the same chip found in the Sony Corp.'s (
PlayStation Vita
). Apple wasn't kidding when it said the chip
was four times as fast as the Tegra 3
. In a huge win for Imagination Technologies plc. (
), the GPU is actually close to
5 times
as fast as Tegra 3's GeForce derived mobile GPU.
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Ironically, while graphics veteran NVIDIA languishes in graphics, it hits back equally hard in the CPU department. The Tegra 3 outperformed the A5X more than 2-fold in the GeekBench benchmark, which examines various CPU performance metrics. The only victory for Apple came in the stream test.
[Image Source: Laptop Magazine]
Overall, these results are not surprising. Both the A5X and Tegra 3 use the licensed Cortex-A9 design from ARM Holdings Plc. (
). And the A5X has two cores, while the Tegra 3 is a quad-core design. Now, the comparison isn't exactly apples and apples, as the Tegra 3 in the Transformer Prime is clocked at 1.3 GHz, where as the iPad's chip is clocked at 1 GHz. Thus the A5X may be actually a bit more efficient on a per-core basis, albeit weaker overall in raw power.
A handful of games such as Shadowgun and RipTide are using the Tegra 3's extra computing muscle to pull off slick effects like physics and reflections. While the iPad 3 lacks these niceties, it does offer much crisper rendering, thanks to its higher resolution 2048x1536 pixel screen. That's a lot of pixels, hence the need for that beefy GPU.
The iPad 3 (right) reportedly offers a crisper image, but the Tegra 3 powered Transformer Prime (left) offers better lighting and fix-driven objects like the flags hanging overhead.
[Image Source: Laptop Magazine]
In terms of gaming the iPad 3 and Transformer Prime seem to be neck and neck -- the iPad 3 offers gaudier resolutions, but the Transformer Prime offers unique visual effects in certain apps.
ASUSTEK is also hoping to level the playing field a bit with its coming Transformer Prime "Infinity" (TF701), which sports a 1920x1200 pixel resolution, up from the current model's 1280x800. The real question is what GPU will be inside that. After all, the Tegra 3 doesn't seem like it has the muscle to power that high a resolution display. One has to wonder whether ASUSTEK won't jump ship to a new PowerVR equipped SoC to quench its mobile graphics thirst.
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General Discussion / Re: Busiest ACA or other trail intersection?« on: August 27, 2014, 01:08:42 pm »
If you are considering "Warm Showers on steroids", then consider the Natchez Trace. Hundreds of cyclists ride it each year.
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FITCHBURG- John Morton Elisberg, age 63, died of cancer at his home on Monday, Jan. 28th, 2013. He was born on June 1, 1949 in Chicago to Edward and Betty Lou Elisberg. He grew up in Glencoe, IL, and graduated from New Trier High School in Winnetka. He earned a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and earned his M.D. at Northwestern University School of Medicine, and then completed a residency in internal medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin. On Aug. 2, 1986, he married the love of his life, Harvada Ann Trevillian in Milwaukee. He was so proud of their three beautiful children, Andrew, Allison, and Hilary, and he treasured his time with his four grandchildren, Jack, Jane, Grace, and Elsie.
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John loved the outdoors and spending time at the family cottage in the Northwoods. You'd find him fishing with grandkids off the pier, snowshoeing through the woods, canoeing with Harvada on the lake, or taking late night walks in solitude. John was a loyal Northwestern football fan and held season tickets to their games. John was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was ordained a High Priest, loved singing in the choir, enjoyed doing Home Teaching, and loved missionary work. Most of all, he loved his family, and we loved him. He made us so happy, and we will miss him.
John is survived by his loving wife, Harvada; son, Andrew; daughters, Allison (Nate) Wilson; and Hilary (Travis) Wertz; grandchildren, Jane and Elsie Wilson, and Jack and Grace Wertz; father, Edward Elisberg; brother, Robert Elisberg; and many other relatives and friends. He was preceded in death by his mother.
The family would like to thank Dr. Toby Campbell, Sandy Burns, Stephanie Sieger, and the staff at UW Carbone Cancer Center, and also to Loretta and the many other kind and compassionate staff at Agrace Hospice. All of you will never know what a difference you made in our lives as we made our way through these last 3 difficult years. Instead of flowers, please consider a contribution to The National Alliance on Mental Illness, or to the Salvation Army.
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Just so we can have a thread for future reference. There's so much Dolphins hatred on this site, I decided we should compile a list. The list consist of, a member you know on this forum that
A) Thinks the Dolphins will finish no better than 6-10
C) Henne has zero chance of getting better this year
D) Our O-line is going to be horrendous
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H)Any other negative venom they use to convince us we should realize how bad of a team we have.
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Just because she likes it doesn't mean I have to. But I'd rather her watch that than the pseudo-educational stuff on Nick Jr. At least this has a story. (Admittedly, I prefer her watching something that has a story and is good, or something legitimately educational.)
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I would sort of like the PT timeline given a rest, but some actors could not reprise their roles later:
Ewan (as CW or Dark Times Obi-Wan)
Hayden (with the helmet off for CW)
Ashley (she might play a Dark Times Ahsoka in live action)
Temura (he can play anyone from a CW Clone to Dark Times Boba)
Ray Park (can be the half-Maul)
Ahmed (yes, JarJar could come back)
Natalie Portman (CW or Dark Times Padme - assuming her death was faked in ROTS as it should have been)
Ian McDiarmid (CW or Dark Times Emperor - this is already rumored - Palpatine better stay dead for E7-9)
Christopher Lee (CW Dooku)
Jimmy Smits (CW or Dark Times Bail Organa)
Joel Edgerton / Bonnie Piecies (Dark Times Owen / Beru)
A lot of talent from the SW cast could return.
If they did it now.
But YES, I agree and think SW got totally skewed to the PT / CW and that era has so much more material than the OT. But with "Rebels" I think the OT is coming back.
It makes sense they did it this way. The PT does not relate to much of anything they are doing now. Jaina Solo-Fel, Ben Skywalker, Allanah Solo have no relation to the PT in any direct fashion. Even if they don't go with these characters, while I hope to see EU continuity myself, Han and Leia's children (and Luke and Mara's) would have had no contact with most PT characters.
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Astronomy: Worked at university observatory in college, doing astrographic measurements. Developed first ever astronomy curriculum for secondary schools in Caribbean. Gave workshops in astrophysics and astronomical measurements at Harry Bayley Observatory, Barbados. M.Phil. degree in Physics/Solar Physics and more than twenty years as researcher with discovery of SID flares. Developed of first ever consistent magnetic arcade model for solar flares incorporating energy dissipation and accumulation. Develop first ever loop solar flare model using double layers and incorporating cavity resonators.
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Lindsey Brown is a member of the Family Readiness Group for Troop A 1-98th Cavalry in Pontotoc. The group helps support the troops and their families while fulfilling their military deployments. The unit is expected to leave for Iraq the first week in June.
Q:What is the toughest thing families and soldiers have to face during a deployment?
A: Being apart from one another is very hard on the soldier and his or her family. Constant worry about the safety of your spouse while they're over in Iraq and family while they're home going through the everyday routines that you're normally there to help with is very common during deployments. Leaving behind children is also hard for soldiers and not having a parent around for a year is also very hard on the children.
Q:What is the biggest adjustments wives have to make when their husband is deployed?
A: Adjusting to everyday life can be difficult. Now you have to take care of everything from the children, to paying the bills, to making sure things stay normal around the house. That can be a huge adjustment. Everything is different for the spouse who's left behind. Dealing with everything that is done by two people now has to all be done by one person and that can be stressful. The wife normally has to take a larger role when the husband is deployed. If you're not used to doing some of the things that your deployed spouse usually does, then it's sometimes hard to just be thrown in that situation.
Q:Are there services available to help families left behind? If so what are they and how can people get in touch with the right people?
A:There are family support groups at every unit. Churches are always readily available to help out where they can. Just call your local National Guard Armory for information on support groups.
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Well you should have all gear bought, boat tuned up, guns sighted in and tags bought. It's hunting season...
Well you should have all gear bought, boat tuned up, guns sighted in and tags bought. It's hunting season...
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St. Thomas, the great doctor and theologian, warns about the proper use of animals, lest they appear at the final Judgment against us: and God himself will take vengeance on all who misuse his creatures.
At that age, I expect the pup to know its name, have a good start on house breaking, to walk beside you willingly on a leash (not formal heeling, just happy to walk along beside you with minimal pulling), to understand sit and here and to chase an object you or someone else throws for them. At this age I like to do tons of recalls with most ending up with praise and/or treat and release. Remember at this age you can overdo the retrieving, but you can never overdo the recalls. I also like to take pup to lots of different areas where he can be safely off lead for walks, as well as different dog friendly places where he has to be on lead, for socialization and recall practice. Don't ever fall into the trap of comparing yours to other pups that seem much more advanced than yours is. There'll always be someone with "wonder pup" that is much more advanced than yours. Each pup is different and your job right now is to make learning fun and get pup to think that all the best things in the universe come from you.
Recalls = coming when called, either "here" or whistle. Far too many people forget about this and only call the pup when they're about to kennel it or stop it from doing something it wants to do (like chew a shoe). Young pups can learn very quickly that recalls = end of fun unless you practice it and make most of them end in praise/treat and release. My other rule for pups is don't call the pup if there's any chance it won't come; just go get it at these times. You don't want them to learn this command is optional.
I had an old timer tell me that its not a race at the beginning, they all will get there sooner or later. Its what they look like once transition is done.


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I just got back from my first season of the spring. It started on 5/4/11 at 0524. As I walked in that morning two bird fired up on their own. I slipped in between them, gave a couple of soft calls to get their attention and then sat back and let them gobble at each other. Around 0540 the birds went silent and I figured they were ready to hit the ground. A couple of minutes later one of the birds gobbled and he was already 40 yards away from me. I watched him work his way around a windfall and go to strut. He kept working around the windfall and stopped behind a tree and allowed me to click the safety off and get into position. He stepped out at 20 yards, stuck his head up and looked right at me. He dropped on the spot when I hit him and barely flopped at all. When I looked at my watch it was 0552.
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I feel a great disturbance in the Force.
I don't know this guy that well, but I've seen some stuff he's been on and he seems like he'll be a good host, so, uh cool!
Awesome, he's really funny and a genuine geek, he straddles the line between being hip and being a nerd - I remember him first from co-hosting MTV's Singled Out, before his career really took off (I blame MTV switching Jenny McCarthy for Carmen "no personality" Electra as his co-host for why his career didn't do even better). His father is one of the top pro bowlers of all time.
First time I really took note of him was in House of 1000 Corpses. I really like him on Talking Dead, he does a fantastic job.
2 weeks ago I saw him at C2E2, promoting his Youtube Nerdist News channel.
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We Need Sen. Wyden's Help to Fix the Broken, Anti-User Trade Negotiation Process
We have joined more than a hundred organizations and tens of thousands of individuals across the US to oppose secret, undemocratic trade agreements that affect users' rights. Together, we defeated a bill that would have put agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on the fast track to approval without any proper Congressional oversight. Now the White House, the United States Trade Representative (USTR), and other policymakers that are beholden to corporate interests are putting massive pressure on Congress to pass something like it again. They just face one problem: the Congress member with the mandate to introduce a new trade authority bill is a strong defender of digital rights and a vocal opponent to the secrecy that shrouds trade agreement. That is Senator Ron Wyden.
For years, Sen. Wyden has demanded more transparency in our trade negotiations. He has recognized that the US should not bind itself to deals whose agenda is dominated by big corporate interests at the expensive of Internet users' rights. He is now in the unique position to fix this broken, secretive process. But while the USTR works towards sealing the deal on the TPP, the Senator is under ever more pressure to lead the passage of a bill that would expedite trade agreements to approval.
Let's ask Sen. Wyden to bring transparency and accountability to trade negotiations once and for all.
They want him to introduce something like Fast Track (also known as Trade Promotion Authority). Under such a law, Congress hands to the president its own constitutional authority to oversee, debate, and set the agenda for US trade policy. When it was in place in the past, it created special rules that empowered the White House to negotiate and sign trade agreements without Congressional oversight. If enacted now, draconian Internet and copyright provisions, buried in omnibus treaties, could get passed with almost no oversight.
So how does Sen. Wyden fit into this? As the Chair of the Senate Finance Committee (which includes the subcommittee on international trade), he is in charge of overseeing congressional trade policies. That's why the White House and the USTR need him to pass a bill that would legitimize their back-room trade negotiations. Thankfully, Sen. Wyden has been an outspoken critic of the secrecy around these agreements. That's why over 25 leading tech companies sent him a public letter calling him to oppose Fast Track. In 2012, he sent a letter to the US Trade Rep calling them to release detailed information about provisions in the TPP that would impact Internet freedoms. He also introduced a bill to the floor in May 2012, demanding the USTR give Congress members full access to the TPP text—the same access afforded to representatives of corporations. In his statement at the hearing introducing this legislation, he said:
It may be the U.S. Trade Representative's (USTR) current job to negotiate trade agreements on behalf of the United States, but Article 1 Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution gives Congress—not the USTR or any other member of the Executive Branch—the responsibility of regulating foreign commerce. It was our Founding Fathers' intention to ensure that the laws and policies that govern the American people take into account the interests of all the American people, not just a privileged few.
And yet, Mr. President, the majority of Congress is being kept in the dark as to the substance of the TPP negotiations, while representatives of U.S. corporations—like Halliburton, Chevron, PHRMA, Comcast, and the Motion Picture Association of America—are being consulted and made privy to details of the agreement. As the Office of the USTR will tell you, the President gives it broad power to keep information about the trade policies it advances and negotiates, secret. Let me tell you, the USTR is making full use of this authority.
In the remainder of his statement, he describes how his staff was denied access to the negotiation text even after they had received proper security clearance. In introducing this legislation that summer in 2012, he wanted to make sure that Members of Congress and their staff could simply be afforded the same level of access to the negotiating texts of the TPP as corporate representatives.
So now, as a long time defender of digital rights in Congress, we call on Sen. Wyden to continue defending users' rights against big private interests, and ensure that users' interests are upheld, not trampled on. In our letter to the Senator, we outline some crucial fixes to the current negotiation process. If he is going to introduce a new version of trade authority, we want to make sure it has essential democratic procedures built into it to ensure that users' rights take a front seat in the trade policy debate.
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Socialist candidate Francois Hollande handily defeated the incumbent president, Nicolas Sarkozy, in yesterday's French election. The Socialists have reclaimed the presidency after a seventeen-year drought, and Sarkozy is the first French incumbent to lose a bid for a second term since 1981.
The signature policy shift likely to be pursued by Hollande will be to balance the European Union's current adherence to economic austerity with efforts to stimulate growth. In pressing Berlin to embrace programs favoring growth and not just belt-tightening, Hollande would likely find plenty of support from other EU members, including Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and other countries struggling with draconian budget cuts. Whether Hollande will also get support in such efforts from German Chancellor Angela Merkel is a big question, with serious ramifications for the EU--and the global economy.
If successful in implementing a program that restores growth while also getting France's fiscal house in order--no easy task--Hollande would be putting both France and the EU on a path that promises to restore economic and political solvency. He would have ample backing from Washington; President Obama has long argued for an EU approach to the financial crisis that focuses on stimulus and not just austerity. Obama might not like Hollande's call for an early French departure from Afghanistan. But the White House would surely welcome some Keynesian pump-priming on the other side of the Atlantic.
In pressing Berlin to embrace programs favoring growth and not just belt-tightening, Hollande would likely find plenty of support from other EU members, including Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and other countries struggling with draconian budget cuts.
The Hollande victory could also produce less auspicious outcomes, though. Hollande's focus on stimulus might exacerbate rather than improve France's fiscal situation, unsettling the markets. France's public spending as a share of output is the highest within the eurozone, and its debt burden is already worrying. If the numbers worsen, the eurozone might face another round of financial crisis. And in light of the size of the French economy, that crisis could be far more disruptive than the one triggered by Greece's debt problems.
A second potential stumbling block is relations between Paris and Berlin. It is of course conceivable that a coalition of Hollande, Mario Monti in Italy, and other pro-growth leaders could succeed in convincing Merkel to revise the fiscal pact or permit the European Central Bank to play a more prominent role in supporting growth.
It is also conceivable, however, that Merkel refuses to budge and that a rift between Paris and Berlin compromises Franco-German cooperation. After all, Sarkozy and Merkel did not see eye-to-eye on how best to manage the eurozone crisis--but Sarkozy generally acquiesced to Merkel's wishes. A tougher stance from Hollande might produce a workable compromise with Merkel. But it could also produce paralysis within the EU as Merkel and Hollande both dig in their heels. That outcome that would put at risk the future of the euro.
The results of yesterday's elections in Greece provide further evidence of the ongoing backlash against austerity. Neither of the two main parties--center-right New Democracy and center-left PASOK--was able to secure a majority. The outcome raises doubts about Greece's ability to adhere to the austerity package needed to be implemented in order to secure further bailout funds. Developments in Greece only intensify the growing pressure for EU policies aimed at stimulating growth, and underscore the fragility of Greece's participation in the eurozone.


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Once upon a time there was a baby gift basket that featured a stunning collection of gifts artfully arranged in not one but 2 handcrafted willow baskets painted white and lined with checkered fabric. They make great storage bins for all of her precious things! And she (or he) shall have precious things o' plenty when she (or he) receives this royal collection which includes:
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- A 6 1/2"H x 20"W x 13"D fabric lined white willow basket
- Two 6"H x 17"W x 10"D fabric lined white willow baskets
- A soft, pink teddy bear, wearing a t-shirt that reads "Baby Girl"
- A Soft plush, teddy bear rattle
- A beautiful pink and white baby photo frame
- A hand-painted ceramic bank
- A wooden door hanger with a section for birth announcement information
- A 3-6 month "Her Royal Highness" Onesie, carefully tailored from the finest 100% cotton
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- A 60 minute CD "Traditional Lullabies"
- A quilted snuggle Elephant
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- A Giggle Bunny Squeaky rattle toy
- A soft and snuggly pink (or blue) Shaw Blanket that would make a great heirloom piece
- A Boxed Bib and Cloth set in a pretty Gingham plaid quilt pattern
- A classically designed "My Baby scrapbook/photo album, filed with personalized Acid-free pages, with plenty of room for baby's photos
- A matching journal
- "Baby Bits" gourmet snack mix for mom and dad to enjoy
- Milk Chocolate Lindor cream filled truffles for mom and dad to splurge
- Pink (or blue) silk roses and designer ribbon and bows
Now, just imagine how much fun they are going to have discovering all of the unique and wonderful treasures tucked inside this Royal collection of precious baby gifts! Mom just may end up with tears of joy! And as for the new baby, well, this gift will spoil her highness like no other gift can and make her the envy of all the other babies in the village! …And they shall all live happily ever after.
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WSJ: Debating Obama's New Nuclear Doctrine
Last week, the Obama administration began to unveil its new nuclear strategy. We asked six former U.S. foreign policy officials to reflect on the administration's Nuclear Posture Review, the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with Russia, and whether Mr. Obama's emerging nuclear doctrine is a move in the right direction.
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