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Palm Island Hotel
101 Moo 2, T. Bophut
Koh Samui, Suratthani 84320
Chaweng Beach
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Palm Island Hotel is situated on the North of Chaweng, Samui most popular, finest and lively beach, only ten minutes from Samui Airport and a few steps away from the island greatest concentration of venues and most of the nightlife attractions. Palm Island Hotel is a combination of comfortable accommodation, nice location and friendly atmosphere. Come and be enchanted at Palm Island Hotel. Palm Island Hotel is a friendly family run business and welcomes you to the intimate oasis of calm in the heart of the holiday town. Accommodation ranges from comfortable rooms in a southern Thai-style 2-storey building to Cottages and connecting Cottages facing the breathtaking view across the sea.
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Date of stay:
Jan 06, 2017
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Ett mycket trevligt hotell med perfekt läge vid stranden, och närma till centrum. Några rum hade en lite konstig mögellukt, men när vi påpekade detta fick vi byta utan problem. Övriga rum var fina.
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Jan 10, 2017
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Linda Desirée Ingegerd
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Dec 29, 2016
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Good hotel and services. Only breakfast is too much simple. Only eggs are served.
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Jan 01, 2017
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Tomas Oplt
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Aug 31, 2016
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breakfast is too much simple When you ask more toasts after 10 am ,the waitress answers it s too late in Thailand the service is better...
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Sep 08, 2016
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May 29, 2016
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Air condition and water tab is not well functioning The room rate is not adequate to price that I have stayed in other hotels at Thailand before. I can conclude the room that I got from Palm Island is the worst that I ever had.
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To improve on the room s photo publicity in the website. For Palm Island s room that I have booked is not similar from what I expecting from the website.
Jun 01, 2016
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Ni Wath Samnen Kachang
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Jan 02, 2016
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Great pool area and fantastic location. Rooms were very old and outdated and in desperate need of renovation, but very clean. Breakfast was the same everyday with no variation whatsoever, as we stayed for 10 nights it was very boring.
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Jan 11, 2016
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Oct 27, 2015
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so me my wife and 2 boys have been travelling thailand for 4 months and we have stayed in so many hotels as you can imagine. I ve not once moaned about a hotel ever in my life but this hotel isn t a hotel well at least the front building isn t ( the one we had booked ) It s a very very run down hostel I wouldn t even put it on a site to advertise. The staff were very very rude. I ve paid a lot cheaper for a lot better. It was that bad that we didn t even stay as they wanted to charge us 2900thb a night up upgrade you can stop in a 5 star hotel for this price. We decided to loose our money and just walk away. 2 single beds for 2 adults a 10 month old and a 2 year old. Please please don t stay in this hotel just a few mins walk down you can get something 100 tines better
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Nov 01, 2015
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Aug 21, 2015
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La chambre que nous avons réservée (côté rue) est très bruyante, petite et vieille! Besoin d être rénovées! Nous avons, pour les nuits restantes, changé en chambre côté jardin dans un autre bâtiment!! Le personnel est sympathique ! La piscine est bien. Quant à la plage, nous n y avons jamais été! L eau n est pas profonde et pas propre (ça sent le gas oil)
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Aug 24, 2015
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Feb 07, 2015
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Nice place, nice pool, nice staff, good breakfast. The room was simple and noisy but we knew it in advance because it had windows to the street. We stayed in an economy room and the building was strangely located somehow further away from the rest of the resort with lot of stairs to the 2nd floor. But all-in-all it was ok, we would stay in that resort again, probably in a more expensive room.
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Feb 23, 2015
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Jan 11, 2015
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Hatten zuerst den Standart room für ca 40 € die Nacht gebucht. Das Zimmer die reinste Katastrophe. Kakerlake, ein Kondom im Mistkübel. Das Bad einfach nur ranzig. Das Bett sehr hart. Muffeliger Geruch. Altes Gebäude. Nach Reklamation bekamen wir ein hochwertigeres Zimmer mit 13 € Aufpreis/Nacht. Trotzdem nicht überzeugend. Bett hart Möbel alt. Kein Safe weit und breit. Kasten für Kleider war auch ne Frechheit. Es einzig positive war der Pool und die Lage direkt am schönen Chaweng Strand. Diese Unterkunft würde ich nicht mehr buchen
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Jan 16, 2015
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Mandl Rupert
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Sep 18, 2014
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Very good value for money. Best location.The rooms are clean albeit a little tired. Will stay there again.
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Oct 02, 2014
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Casper J H Pelser
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Jan 03, 2014
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Management rude as nothing we ve ever met in Thailand. Very over-priced compared to what you get. Cleaning service was absolutely awful, if you get your room cleaned, it s 7 pm. Breakfast was not edible and it took two hours to get coffee and eggs and the staff was amazingly unorganised and rude as well. Unless you re there for the party on the beach, don t stay in this hotel. And the pool has never been cleaned....
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You could seriously go for an update on your website. If I search for a hotel, I obviously is not interested in all the hotels that are sold out so why is it showing? And also, when clicking on a hotel that looks available, it isn t actually available when you click on the book button. That s quite time consuming and not very user friendly.
Jan 06, 2014
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Jan 02, 2014
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We stayed in one of the Cottages at the Palm Island Hotel on Samui and whilst the actual accommodation was quite nice the service was well below par for the price that we were paying in High Season. There are many many faults with this hotel which were particularly relevant as we d just come from an amazing experience in Ao Nang to this place. Upon arrival we had found that our bed sheets were laid dirty with some kind of oil, then we requested to have them changed once we d noticed at 8pm at night but they didn t have any appropriately sized sheets and we were to use a smaller one that moved around... if this was the only problem with the service we probably would have shrugged it off... The next morning we got up for breakfast and it was terribly unorganised, no one was able to take orders quickly, we were left waiting for a breakfast order for 30 mins from sitting down... once we finally had a menu (one that we had self found) we were told that the hotel guests had only one choice if it was part of their room cost - a greasy american breakfast! not what we had planned and if we wanted anything else we had to pay... we were however able to order juice and coffee for free... none of which ever turned up before the end of the meal despite asking for it numerous times. We gave up and just went and had a coffee in our room. This went on for the whole time we stayed there. I can go on with a list of other faults... but in brief below are some more issues we had, particulary more with housekeeping; * Dirty towels taken away from room and then not replaced despite asking for them several times - we were without towels for a day & a half * Free drinking water not provided on half the days * Coffee/soap not replenished most days * New years Eve our rooms were not made up until 4pm and that is because we complained and got them made New Years Day we had a knock at our door at 8:30am to service our room and when we did not answer linen and towels were dumped on the outside seat for us to self service our room... when we notified the staff again before midday that it we would like our room made up - they just pointed at the fresh linen and pretty much mimed that we should do it ourself and then pressed the lock button and closed the door on us... Never again. Not a great place and would use my $$ else where on Samui.
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Service was value for money for the time of year and was able to come through when many other sites did not have allocation left.
Jan 12, 2014
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One of the most beautiful island in the world, Koh Samui, offers the elegance and comfort of Palm Island Hotel a new second home for your holidays.
Palm Island Hotel
is a combination of comfortable accommodation, nice location and friendly atmosphere. Come and be enchanted at Palm Island Hotel.
Palm Island Hotel is a friendly family run business and welcomes you to the intimate oasis of calm in the heart of the holiday town. Accommodation ranges from comfortable rooms in a southern Thai-style 2-storey building to Cottages and connecting Cottages facing the breathtaking view across the sea.
:: Garden View ::
All rooms are designed to merge into the natural tropical environment and features include air-conditioning, satellite TV, telephone, refrigerator, hot water and 24 hour room service.
:: Garden View, 2 Single Bed ::
:: Sea View ::
All rooms are designed to merge into the natural tropical environment and features include air-conditioning, satellite TV, telephone, refrigerator, hot water and 24 hour room service.
:: Garden View Cottage (Villa) ::
:: Sea View Cottage (Villa) ::
Enjoy your holidays in one of our newly constructed Deluxe Cottages with Sea View Cottages have 1 king-size bed plus 1 single bed with balcony, air-condition, TV, sitting room and bathroom with Jacuzzi-bath tub, shower, hot/cold water.
:: Beachfront Cottage (Villa) ::
Enjoy your holidays in one of our newly constructed Deluxe Cottages with featuring all modern facilities. Beachfront Cottages have 1 king-size bed plus 1 single bed with balcony, air-condition, TV, sitting room and bathroom with Jacuzzi-bath tub, shower, hot/cold water.
:: Sea View Connecting Villa Cottage ::
For families we have a special connecting Cottage with separate bedrooms, bathrooms and entrance. Sea View connecting Cottage, have 2 cottages with connecting door inside. Each cottage with 1 double bed, air-condition, cable TV, hot/cold water, separate bathroom / bath tub.
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:: Beachfront Restaurant & Bar ::
Open-air dining at our restaurant with a fantastic view over the beach, serving Thai, Chinese, Western cuisines and fresh seafood is a superb experience you never forget.
Choose your favorite from a wide variety of the most popular Thai and international dishes and enjoy your dinner in a homely atmosphere overlooking the beach.
Try our mouthwatering freshly caught seafood, perfectly prepared to your satisfaction.
We are situated on the North of Chaweng, Samui most popular, finest and lively beach, only ten minutes from Samui Airport and a few steps away from the island greatest concentration of venues and most of the nightlife attractions.
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I have heard rumors from a couple different sources that hasbro is considering discontinueing the 12" line. anyone know if there is any truth to this? i have collected this line since the beginning.
I have heard rumors from a couple different sources that hasbro is considering discontinueing the 12" line. anyone know if there is any truth to this? i have collected this line since the beginning.
for the remainder of this year, hasbro has planned numerous 12 inch releases:
1. count dooku
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the sales may not be where hasbro wants them, but they have only themself to blame for this. if they would produce a higher quality product like jango fett and count dooku, sales would rise.
by the way, without naming names, how do your sources know what they know?
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I haven't heard anything about it. Maybe they feel they can't keep the quality up to their competition (no...really?? ;-) Yeah, if they would just put in the effort to match say Sideshow or Dragon's bodies, they'd be back full force (no pun intended) again! Or maybe Hasbro should try to get a piece of their rivals' sales (after all the extra 12" bodies customizers have bought).
Hey, where'd you hear about the Sy Snootles and gang, Derek? I've read about all of those figures cept the band. Sounds really interesting and I'm curious as to how they will turn out...
they are supposed to be wal mart exclusives. sly and droopy are supposed to be a 2 pack and max rebo is supposed to have his piano organ.
I certainly hope this is just a rumour. I really like the 12" figures. It would be bad to stop the line.
I hope they keep it. Most of the time I like the 12" line better then the regular line (except that horrid Zam 12" that is coming out).
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No, they did not have any sources, just heard it from etc. like i said, just a rumor and just wondering it any grain of truth to it.
I can't tell you where I heard this, but this is MORE than just a rumor, much more. The source I've got on this is pretty high up and definitely an insider and what I've heard is that the line is in danger, not just vague danger either.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
Yes, the line will be discontinued. The question is when.
Maybe after Episode III?


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Local TRU Stores have put VTSC of the shelves. The "Heros & Villains" collection is appearing at TRU and Wal-mart
Local TRU Stores have put VTSC of the shelves. The "Heros & Villains" collection is appearing at TRU and Wal-mart
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Kannapolis walmart has the new unleashed in. i snagged a han and a shocktrooper. they are on the endcap in tray cases. the han is the nicest condition unleashed card i have ever seen. it is flawless. some were trashed though. so not a real breakthrough in shipping. i guess i got lucky. also concord tru had the new clonewars gunner ship . i passed on it at 44.95.
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The Baltimore loft once known as Wham City is long dead, its inhabitants evicted in 2007, but the twisted DIY art movement it housed has flourished nonetheless. The uprooted Whammonites are spreading the gospel of "Future Shock" (a technology-driven ethos that duals as a sound style and a business model) as fervently as ever, and the world (a/k/a the Internet) is lapping it up. As the co-founder and self-appointed caretaker of Wham City, absurdist electronic composer Dan Deacon is a man who thrives on circumventing convention. So it's no surprise that the Baltimore Round Robin Tour, Deacon's newest bid to bring Baltimore's teeming music scene to the masses, is so brilliantly bat-shit insane.
Starting this week, Deacon is packing a whopping 29 bands (that's roughly 60 humans . . . and we hope a bottle of Febreze) into one vegetable-oil-fueled bus, plus two vans for overflow, for an eight-city tour. First stop: Boston. In every city, Deacon's traveling sideshow will set up camp for two nights of performances, each featuring no fewer than 10 bands.
The first round, "Eyes Night" (October 2), will kick off with a showcase of dreamy indie pop, ambient droning, and improvisational works from the likes of Beach House, Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez, Jana Hunter, and Santa Dads. The follow-up, "Feet Night" (October 3), will dish out thrashier, more digitally tweaked fare courtesy of Adventure, TheDeathSet, Future Islands, Video Hippos, DJ Dog Dick, and Deacon himself, among others. Then there's the "Weird Round" — a collection of wild cards like video artist Mark Brown and puppeteers Showbeast — sprinkled throughout both sets.
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Early on a Tuesday evening at Tufts's Oxfam Café, I sit down with MIDI-rocker Benny Boeldt, a/k/a Adventure, and Future Islands singer Sam Herring (whose gravelly croon gives a Jack Black-meets-Joe Cocker vibe to FI's synthpop sound) to pry the gory details out of them. In a mere two hours, I'll witness these guys whip one very tiny crowd into an ass-waggling frenzy, but for now, they're maintaining a near-reptilian level of chill.
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Vancouver managed to put quite a display on for our visitors and painted the most unlikely picture. 'Sunshine in Vancouver'. In fact, in their entire 2-week stay, they didn't even spot a cloud. People were swimming at the beach, the sand was packed full of people, it was quite a sight!
We had quite a busy time and tried to jam as much in as possible. Amanda and Marcus wandered around the city and did tours etc, checked out Stanley Park and surrounds while Paul and I worked. Then Friday afternoon we raced out to the Ferry Terminal and jumped on the ferry to Victoria our province capital city
Once we arrived the lobby seemed to be in a bit of a commotion. After about 20 minutes I finally was greeted and promptly told (it was 10.15pm) that they had no room for us, there had been an error in their system. Anyhoo... after a bit more commotion she managed to find us a suite at another hotel (which was muuuuch better) for the same price, so off we scooted down the road to our new accommodation. So we arrived and checked reasonably easily and were given hotel vouchers for our inconvenience and off we went to our room. Our room was rad. We had a suite with kitchenette, coffee maker, 2 TVs (which was perfect for watching the world cup) an area for Ava's cot next to our couch, it was all good. We were offered undercover parking but I couldn't work out how to open the gate, so just parked in the regular car park.
So we had a 9am Orca Tour the next day which meant an early morning - getting 4 people and a baby out the door before 9am is never easy
We arrived at the Orca tour and put Ava in her pink 'babybanz' (small ray bans) - too cute. And headed out to find these Orca's. Being the first tour of the day, they hadn't figured out where they were yet, so we spent the first 2 hours of the trip cruising all the way back up to Vancouver to where we had seen them on the ferry on the way down to Victoria. We finally found them and had about 30 mins with them before we had to go home. Paul and I wanting to get the best vantage point braved the wind and cold upstairs on the roof section and thought we'd get the payoff when we found the whales. Well... when we were with the whales, the boat has to be 100m away from them - but if the whales come in the direction of the boat, the boat doesn't move away. So, I'm getting all these cheesy fin shots with my massive lens at 100m, and Marcus who just happens to pop out to the back of the boat with Ava, manages to see a huge Killer Whale Breach right at he back of the boat about 20m away!!
We spent the rest of the weekend looking at the sights of Victoria, eating, sunning ourselves and generally having a relaxing time.
We headed out early for the 6pm ferry on Sunday night, so we could get home and get ready for our flight to Calgary very early Monday morning. So we're heading to the ferry terminal - and the big overhead signs tell us that both the 6 & 7pm ferries are fully booked, the next one isn't until 9pm and is 33% full. So we had to race to the ferry terminal and sit in traffic until they finally loaded the 7pm ferry and us into the waiting bay for the 9pm. Aggghhhhh. Gotta love the big city! They scheduled an early sail at about 8.20 and luckily we made it on that one, and got home late. 11.30pm or something.


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British Kickboxer Mark Fowler Dies Due to Injuries in the Ring in Australia
- Written by Dave Walsh
There is always some tough news in the world of combat sports, and this story I've seen floated around for a few days now and have neglected on purpose, but I feel as if it does need to be posted. British kickboxing champion Mark Fowler was fighting in Sydney, Australia over the weekend in a Muay Thai bout and collapsed in the fifth round of the fight due to head injuries and was unable to regain consciousness, passing away two days later in the hospital. This begs the question of just how safe combat sports are and how serious head injuries and head trauma should be taken within the realm of combat sports.
Combat sports are high impact and dangerous, which is really the name of the game. In reaction to this death many critics are calling for a deeper look into regulations and rules within kickboxing and Muay Thai, but it isn't clear if this is just an isolated incident or if there was a pre-existing injury that helped cause this accident. There is already talk from UK officials on looking into this incident;
He said: 'I have also instructed the Office of Communities to implement any additional precautions considered necessary to ensure all similar upcoming events fully comply with current legislation and safety requirements.'
Of course accidents like this are horrifying, if not rare and careful thought should go into further regulation/restrictions on the respective sports. Our thoughts go out to the family of the deceased and for the opponent who has a tough burden to live with.


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Scott Elmegreen, a music major who also is earning a certificate in creative writing, wrote two senior theses this year, both combining the written word and music. He spent much of his time composing on his guitar in front of his laptop.
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In Elmegreen's novel "Reveille," written as his thesis project, the thoughts and emotions of the main character, a musician named Spencer, and others sometimes emerge as musical notes rather than words. In this passage Spencer is talking to his ex-girlfriend, Adie, for the first time in more than a year. Hearing her voice brings back a powerful feeling of nostalgia, represented here as music.
Quintessentially Princeton
The senior thesis, an independent work that typically runs about 100 pages, gives seniors the opportunity to pursue original research and scholarship under the guidance of faculty advisers.
In the recently re-issued guide, "The Thesis: Quintessentially Princeton" (.pdf 1.9 MB), Nathaniel Fintz joins several members of the class of 2006 in reflecting on their experience writing a senior thesis.
"… the most wonderful aspect of the senior thesis is that it provides an opportunity not only to say something original, but also to blaze your own path into scholarly territory that may be largely unexplored or uncharted," he writes. "Seizing such an opportunity is perhaps the greatest way to approach your biggest undergraduate project, especially if you feel passionately curious about your topic, and if you have your adviser's good guidance along the way."
The May 7, 2007, Princeton Weekly Bulletin profiles three students who have followed their passions into new realms for their senior thesis projects.
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From the May 7, 2007, Princeton Weekly Bulletin
A few weeks ago Dmitri Tymoczko, the departmental representative in music, sent out an e-mail that listed the name of every senior in the department and the type of thesis each student was pursuing. Some students were listed under musicology, and some under composition. Scott Elmegreen was listed under "other."
Elmegreen, a music major who also is earning a certificate in creative writing, actually wrote two theses, both of which combine the written word and music in a way that's rarely been done. For his music thesis, he composed 12 songs that accompany a short story, plus an academic paper that explores the way music and text can interact. For his creative writing thesis, he wrote a novel in which the thoughts and emotions of the main character, a musician named Spencer, and others sometimes emerge as musical notes rather than words, so that more than 30 pages of the novel are actually a written score.
"I wanted to explore the ways in which music could complement a story as it is told through the written word," Elmegreen said. For the narrator, "there are several points where words fail and his emotions are best expressed through music."
Elmegreen, who grew up in Westchester, N.Y., has always loved music — he plays the piano, guitar and saxophone — and his musical ambitions have focused on composing. He has been a writer and composer for the Triangle Club since his freshman year. Last year he co-wrote "College: The Musical," which was performed on campus by Theatre Intime and was given a reading earlier this month at the Princeton Club of New York with Broadway actors and the musical director of the Broadway show "Avenue Q" participating.
At Princeton Elmegreen studied writing with professors Edmund White, Chang-rae Lee, Joyce Carol Oates and Gabe Hudson in pursuit of his other ambition: to write a novel.
"Reveille" is a 225-page novel about two friends — Spencer, the musician, and Isaac, a filmmaker — who are struggling to succeed as artists in New York City. Working on the novel for the last year, with Oates as his adviser, was an arduous but rewarding undertaking, Elmegreen said. "I probably wrote 1,000 to 2,000 pages," most of which he ended up discarding, he said.
Oates said Elmegreen and Josh Williams, the other senior whom she is advising, are "such imaginative and energetic young writers."
Elmegreen undertook the novel with no idea whether interspersing a musical score in a narrative would succeed. "For all I knew there was a reason no one ever did this before — it wouldn't work," he said.
Paul Lansky, the William Shubael Conant Professor of Music and Elmegreen's adviser, said, "Scott has confronted what is really an unknown task, to compose the soundtrack of silent reading, and he has had to face some very interesting and unusual problems. He also took the added leap of composing music for his novel in which the music represents the substance of the work in nonverbal terms — the inner voice of the novel, as it were."
In order to help readers appreciate the music in the novel, Elmegreen constrained himself to writing for piano and guitar — the instruments with which readers are most likely to be familiar — and kept the music spare and simple.
In the 12 songs he wrote to accompany his short story, Elmegreen wrote "incomplete music that could not stand up on its own," so that the reader would not be distracted from the words. Elmegreen recorded the music as sound files that play as the reader reads an electronic version of the text (which contains adult themes and some suggestive language).
After graduating, Elmegreen will move to New York City, where he will be a Princeton Project 55 Fellow at the Jeannette Watson Fellowship Program, mentoring college students who have been awarded summer internships. He also will be working on revisions to "Reveille" in the hope of getting it published.


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LG Boffeli is great and has really improved
Hill is similar to OSU RB Hyde
The TE's have developed in to good blockers
Iowa breakdown:
QB - Rudock is a RS Soph in his first year as starter. He is very smart and has an accurate arm. He is very little threat to run. He struggles some with deep throws and throwing in the wind. We have no good depth behind him
Rudock has definitely been a game manager and can be hot and cold. Overcomes mistakes well. He actually runs pretty well, but is now in two knee braces so won't be as mobile. We do have a RS frosh CJ Beathard as his backup who took the battle for starting QB into summer camp. Beathard has a much stronger arm and is also a better runner, but not as good a game manager. His tools may eventually allow him to take over the starting role.
RB - We have 4 good backs. Not great but good. 45 Weisman is a power back. He is a converted walk-on FB. 5 Bullock - decent pass catcher and blocker but, poor runner. 33 Canzeri - good all around back with speed. He goes down easy but is still our top back. For some reason he is still 3rd string. 29 Daniels - true FR power back with potential.
Agree with most of this with a couple of exceptions. Bullock is a decent runner, not poor. Canzeri has gotten better as the season wore on, but is not a tough runner and can get dinged. He's third string because he's the third best RB on the team. Daniels probably won't be heard from as he hasn't played since mid-season, but we love his potential as a Shonn Greene starter kit.
FB - Two decent lead blockers who have been improving.
Very underrated and underappreciated FBs who can come out of the backfield and catch the ball on screens. Have stoned several LB on iso plays this year.
TE - We can go 5 deep. 86 Fiedorowicz is 6-7 senior and clutch; can't break a tackle. 87 Duzey is a stud in the making. Out ran the entire OSU secondary for a long scores this year.
Other TEs not mentioned are Hamilton, Krieger-Coble and Kittle. We ran 3TE sets a bunch which generate a bunch of matchup issues for defenses as any of the three are good receivers as well. Pick your poison.
OL - Good overall. C Blythe is great. LG Boffeli is great and has really improved. LT Scherff is a stud but lacks consistency. RG we rotate two guys. RT Van Sloten has been solid but really struggled as a senior. He has a hard time with fast athletic guys.
I think he's selling the OL short here. Very few sacks given up. The guards can get bullrushed from time to time, but zone blocking gives them help with initial double teams. Very athletic bunch who don't carry much body fat at all. Scherff will join Gallery, Bulaga and Reiff in a long line of great LTs at Iowa. Our best recruit for next year as he is a 1st rounder this year as a junior, but will be returning for his senior season.
WR - Poor. 11 Martin-Manley is the go to guy. 22 Powell has elite speed.
I would agree that WR is not a strength of the team, but he sells this a little short here. Martin-Manly is a solid possession receiver. Tevaun Smith (#4) has really come on as the season has progressed. Powell hasn't really played much, but is quick. Also spot duty for Shumpert, Vandeberg and Hillyer who aren't horrible, but won't strike fear into the hearts of DBs.
DL - Very solid and much improved. Will benefit from Alvis playing. Our DT use to sit back and pretty much spy the QB and then fail to stop him running. Our DE use to run too far up field and leave huge holes for a QB to run through. They play with good leverage.
Role of the DL is to take up blockers to allow LBs to run free and make tackles. Also contain in their lanes with upfield pressure on the passer. Tackles are better than the DEs, but all are improving. Will do some stunting with twists and other DL games.
LB - We start three SR with a ton of experience. They have played their best this season. 31 Hitchens is the best tackling and run stoping LB LSU will have faced all year.
Best unit on the team, with TEs a close second. Kirksey is a guy that just anchors his side, Morris in the middle was a Lott Award finalist and Hitchens has been playing the best of the three, with his best games of the season against Michigan and Nebraska. All three were Butkus Award candidates.
CB -19 Lowery - big play ability but makes some poor plays. Similar to Mills. 14 King a true FR who has improved all year long. He shut down Michigan's Gallon late in the year.
Lowery might be dinged and will be a mid-round draft pick in April. King has been solid and improving as you would expect a true frosh to. Also play some nickel with Draper, Lomax and Fleming as alternates.
S - Very poor 5 Miller SR one of the worst Safeties to start at Iowa in a long time. 37 Lowdermilk very poor as well. Both bite on PA a lot.
He's being a little tough on the two starting safeties for the nations #10 defense. If they were that bad our defense wouldn't be nearly as effective. They have been burned on broken coverage (Lowdermilk in particular), but have improved in this area. Both fill on the run very effectively with Lowdermilk being the more physical of the two. Miller is the QB of the defense and a vital cog in their success.
Special teams. K Meyer is good but poor in the clutch. P Kornbrath is poor. Kick coverage is good. KR is very poor. PR is decent.
Meyer is solid, but has had to kick in some rough conditions. Decent leg and range to 50 yards. Kornbrath is inconsistent. Has killed several inside the 10, but can also shank especially when trying to flip the field. Cotton is average as a KO returner, but does have enough top end speed to break one. Punt returner is Martin-Manley who ran two back for TDs against W. Michigan, but hasn't done much since. Solid possession guy who doesn't make many mistakes.
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ean Little's most recent book, The Sweetest one of all, is a picture book for very young children and their parents. In it, barnyard animal babies ask their mothers who they are and each of them is told that he or she is the sweetest one of all. The book ends with a human mother telling her little one the same thing. And getting a loving hug in response. The playful text should continue to delight both children and adults even after many readings.
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Sudan/South Sudan: "When peace returns to Blue Nile, we will return."
After bombs fell in the fields outside their village in Sudan's Blue Nile State, Mary and her family decided to leave. Mercifully no one was killed in the strike, but more than two years of constant fighting meant that she, like so many others, no longer felt safe.
Back in Doro camp, Mary explains that the majority of refugees in Maban still have family in Sudan. Some younger people stayed behind to tend the fields, and many of the elderly were too frail to undertake the trek to the border. Movement within Blue Nile is difficult, so Mary was unable to evacuate her whole family. She has not seen her eldest daughter, who was studying in the state capital Ed Damazine, since mid-2011.
However, Mary remains pragmatic about her future in South Sudan, and optimistic that she will return home.
"Life here is different compared to life back home," she says. "But we will stay as long as we need to. When peace returns to Blue Nile, we will return."
More>> South Sudan and Sudan Humanitarian Updates (Source: Reliefweb) - OCHA Sudan - OCHA South Sudan


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Verbo•bala explores border identity through nuanced storytelling and digital media, creating performance pieces composed of bilingual poetry, live video projection and sound design. Formed in Cuernavaca, Mexico in 2007, the group is currently based in Tucson, Arizona and considers the borderlands its home.
Described as "going for a poetry written without letters" by Mexico's national newspaper La Reforma, Verbo•bala's innovative practice has taken their work from Cuernavacan speakeasies to international venues including the National Hispanic Cultural Center, the Phoenix Art Museum, New York University, and the Poesía.en.Voz.Alta Festival in Mexico City.
Verbo•bala ("bullet verb") is lead by bilingual poet Logan Phillips, joined by DJ Emmett White and video artists Moisés Regla and Adam Cooper-Terán. The group is also known for their DJ/VJ work under the name Sonidero Verbo•bala, moving dance floors with rhythms from across the hemisphere.
Contact & booking: info ( a t ) verbobala.com
Sonidero Verbobala Febrero Mix. Los Pikadientes - "La Cumbia Del Rio" (Emtron Blanco Remix). Sonidero Verbo•bala: "Esa Cumbia Mía" Ft. Ewor (En vivo desde Chilpancingo).


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Apartment with great view to Lisbon at Castle area
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If you are travelling with a tight budget and still want to stay in an apartment with a great view over the city, this is the perfect place!
It's a 4th floor in an historical building, so no lift.
Also be sure that bringing car to historical areas of Lisbon may not be the best choice. Subway, trams or buses or even taxi are the best ways, because there are no free parking spaces during the day and parking spaces are mostly for residents.
You will be 15 minutes walking from S. Jorge's Castle, 7 minutes from subway Rossio station, and many other transportations: trams, buses, trains)
The street has a supermarket nearby, several restaurants and other facilities, even a paid secutrity parking lot, if you do decide to bring your car.
House rulesBreakage deposit (refundable at the end of the stay): €50
No parties allowed
No pets allowed
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Great apartment!!! We loved staying at Paulo´s cosy apartment. Everything was provided, the view is amazing and the location is great (close walking distance to everything, very quiet and authentic neighbourhood and nice bars and restaurant just around the corner). Only issue was the low ceiling heigh at the bed area. But you get used to it and everything else makes up for it. If we ever come back to Lisbon we will definitely stay here again! Thanks again to Paulo
The apartment was nice, the location was great, and the view was amazing!
The only bad thing was that when we arrived we found hairs on the floor and on the cover bed. But once cleaned was ok! The apartment is small, even if it's very cosy, I think that for a tall person would be a little uncomfortable (also the shower is very small and low ceiling). The bed was ok, maybe the pillows could be more comfortable but ok. The owner was kind and gave us usufull informations.
Afterall a nice place to stay, very romantic, and in the best area of an amazing city!
Nice, cozy and central apartment with great view over Lisbon. We spent really nice time there. Paolo was kind and patient (we were late). Only one cons was that the bed was a futon bed with thin matrace and it could have been a bit more comfortable.
Very Nice Appartment in the Center of Lisbon!
Paulo is a very friendly guy. The View from the flat is amazing. Very Romantic for Couples!
At first the positive things:
The appartement is really well-located in the old town of Lisbon and you have a great view over the roofs of the town. It is just a walk to a lot of restaurants in Alfama, nice bars in Bairro Alto and shopping facilities in Baixa.
Paulo is a very friendly, uncomplicated host.
The negative thing:
The denoted size of the appartement of 50 sqm is definetely not true. With good will it is 15 sqm. In the sleeping area you are not able to stand upright.
For our stay of three days it was really ok, but I have to admit that I was serioulsy annoyed by the incorrect declaration of the appartement´s size.
Pues la verdad que nos encantó muchísimo lisboa y es una cuidad muy bonita,hay que ver la y sinceramente con la espectacular vistas que teníamos desde la casa no tienen palabras simplemente precioso.
Muchas gracias Paulo y nos encantó tu casa
El ático donde nos alojamos es pequeño, pero acondicionado y muy acogedor. A pesar de ser 4o piso y no tener ascensor, lo recomiendo 100% para el que quiera disfrutar la esencia lisboeta. A nosotros nos ha fascinado el lugar y sus alrededores, un lugar muy auténtico.
Der kleine Raum ist kreativ genutzt, man fühlt sich wie in einer geheimen Kammer, was durchaus romantisch ist. Das Apartment ist mitten in der Altstadt und es sind weniger als 5 Minuten zu Fuß zum Supermarkt. Rossio (Metro/Bahnhof) erreicht man am besten über Treppen, bergab in 5 Minuten, bergauf 2-3 Minuten mehr. Paulo gibt sich sehr viel Mühe und ist ein freundlicher Gastgeber. Als der Strom weg war (was man einfach verhindern und selbst beheben kann), war er 10 Minuten später da, um zu helfen.
Paulo ist sehr freundlich & hilfsbereit.
Das Apartment ist sicher kleiner als angegeben, jedoch sehr charmant mit einem herrlichen Ausblick !
Die Lage ist perfekt, zentral in der Alfama, knapp unterhalb des Castellos.
Man sollte sich jedoch in guter körperlicher Verfassung befinden. Die Treppen sind schmal und steil und um ins Bett zu kommen muss man sich auf alle Viere begeben.
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|Holding the fish in the net is fine. It's critical that you don't squeeze the belly though. In general, it's better to hold the fish from the top behind the head. There's more muscle and bone here and it'll give you a better grip while protecting its delicate organs.
Thanks again for your input Eric.
Looking back, and reading what you've written, as good as my intentions were I handled this fish more clumsily (and selfishly because I very much wanted a photo) than I should have. But I will get better at it and try harder to do what's best to keep these fish in good shape.
When I've been fishing for smallmouth, I have clamped down the barbs on the flies. Honestly with these tiny trout hooks it didn't occur to me to bother with the barbs. But I'm releasing everything, so I will start doing that too. By the way, the other two trout I caught spit the hook out pretty much as they were getting in the net, so this is the only fly I've had to remove.
What about holding the fish through the net? Like, get him into the net, then hold onto him using the fabric of the net (the one I'm using is called a catch and release net). Might be a good way to get a grip and control him, while not handling him directly, long enough to remove the fly?
Anyway, thanks again.
The post was neither boring nor too long. Very worthwhile topic.
Ideally, fish you're intending to release should not be removed from the water, if at all possible. If they are removed from the water, avoid any squeezing of their mid-sections or any "rough" handling. Wear a soft-cotton glove if you want . This will help you get a grip on these slippery, muscular fish without having to apply too much pressure.
Use barbless hooks if you intend to release the majority of your fish.
Watch out for blood coming from the fish's gills or mouth. A fish will sometimes take a fly deep in the throat, and the hook can easily puncture an artery. A bleeding fish is mostly a dead fish. Whether you keep it, or release it to be devoured by crayfish, is up to you.
Play the fish you intend to release as quickly as possible. The longer a fish fights, the more lactic acid builds up, and the harder it is for the fish to recover.
The fact that the beauty you released escaped forcefully from your grasp would indicate, in most cases, that the fish would survive.
Hope this helps,
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Hi. This is my first summer fly fishing (for all intents and purposes, my first summer fishing at all, although I used to go as a kid and catch bluegill from time to time). And I am absolutely hooked. I have taken a casting class and practice regularly and read everything I can get my hands on.
I started out fishing for smallmouth in the Shenandoah near my house. Man, are they fun! And I've recently tried for some trout in a nearby stream. In two trips I have caught three nice rainbows. The most recent catch is the one I have a question about.
This was a beautiful fish, my best ever, about 16" (if my little picture shows up to the side, that's the one). I did NOT want this opportunity to pass without a quick picture. I was very careful with this fish, but was standing in a creek on slippery ground. I had to get him to shore and put the net down. I took a quick picture, struggled a little with the hook (they are so much harder to handle than the smallmouth I'm used to -- so muscular and slippery), but had him back in the water in fairly short order. But it took quite some time for him to revive, it really worried me for a minute. But then he finally snapped out of it and swam away very strongly (I was holding his tail waiting and when he took off, there was no holding him back).
But it took a lot longer than I expected. Is this normal? The other two trout I caught didn't have this problem. Does it sound like I hurt this fish? I know as I gain experience I'll get more efficient at removing hooks and stuff, but in the meantime I don't want to hurt these fish.
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December 2010 — GAO's Comments on Fifth Round of Recipient Reporting
What GAO Found
Analysis of Fifth Round Recipient Reporting Data Shows Data Quality Is Relatively Stable
According to Recovery.gov as of October 30, 2010, recipients reported on over 200,000 awards indicating that the Recovery Act funded approximately 671,607 jobs during the quarter beginning July 1, 2010, and ending September 30, 2010[1]. This included over 2,400 prime reports associated with Head Start grantees. As reported by the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, job calculations are based on the number of hours worked in a quarter and funded under the Recovery Act—expressed in FTEs.
Using the fifth reporting period data, GAO continued its monitoring of errors or potential problems by repeating many of the analyses and edit checks reported in its earlier reports. GAO reviewed 77,711 prime recipient report records from Recovery.gov for this fifth round, an increase of 3,462 or about 4.6 percent from round four. For its analyses, in addition to the fifth round of recipient report data, GAO also used the previous four rounds of data as posted on Recovery.gov as of October 30, 2010.
In examining recipient reports, GAO looked for progress in addressing several key limitations found in its prior reports. In prior rounds GAO has reviewed data logic and consistency and reviewed unusual or atypical data. Data logic and consistency provide information on whether the data are believable, given program guidelines and objectives; unusual or atypical data values indicate potential inaccuracies. As with previous quarterly report rounds, these reviews included (1) the ability to link reports for the same project across quarters and (2) concerns in the data logic and consistency, such as reports marked final that show a significant portion of the award amount not spent. GAO continued to see results similar to those of past reviews. For example, GAO continued to find a small number of reports for which there were potential linkage issues across quarters. This may impact the ability to track project funding and FTEs over quarters. GAO also continued to see a small number of reports marked final for which there appeared to be some discrepancies, such as reports marked final but for which project status was marked as less than 50 percent completed.
As part of its review of data logic and consistency, GAO found some inconsistencies in the Head Start data's agency review flag field that were similar to inconsistencies GAO found in its previous reviews. GAO's analysis suggests that this field may not correctly reflect the extent of the agency's review process. Prime recipient report records include a review flag on whether or not the federal agency reviewed the record during the data quality review time frames. As GAO has noted in past reports, these analyses of this agency review field, in conjunction with other fields and its discussions with agency officials, have indicated potential problems and inconsistencies. It appears that this continues to be the case with Head Start reports, only 17 percent of which were marked as having been reviewed by the agency. However, agency officials stated that all reports were reviewed. Another data field on the recipient report shows whether or not a correction was initiated; analysis of that field indicates it is likely that additional agency reviews took place. A correction could be initiated by either the prime recipient or the reviewing agency. Thirty percent of the reports had the correction flag set to 'yes' even though the review flags suggested that neither the agency nor prime recipient had reviewed those reports. Officials noted that they continued to experience difficulties in marking reports as reviewed. Agency officials indicated that they would continue to update these flags during the continuous review process.
As part of its additional analysis, GAO found that a previously identified concern with FTE calculations for Head Start reports is being addressed. Agency officials stated that following the December 2009 Office of Management and Budget (OMB) memorandum clarifying the FTE definition, all grants associated with cost-of-living adjustment/quality improvement COLA/QI were reviewed with respect to the reporting of FTEs. Agency officials reviewed these grants and communicated to recipients that the cost-of-living increases were not to count toward the FTE totals. GAO reviewed the FTEs reported to determine if Head Start recipients were no longer reporting cost-of-living increases as FTEs. In examining the impact on the FTE figures before and after this clarification guidance was issued, GAO observed a significant drop in the number of COLA/QI FTEs reported in all reporting periods following the updated guidance. GAO further observed that for the fifth round of reporting, over 60 percent of these COLA/QI recipient reports showed no FTE value. For the remaining reports showing FTEs, GAO looked to see if, in the 20 reports with the greatest number of FTEs, the fields describing the award, project, and job creation explained their FTE counts. In almost all cases, one of these narrative fields accounted for activities that would be expected to produce FTEs—hiring staff, expanding existing staff hours, or hiring other types of workers to improve facilities, in accordance with Head Start quality improvement guidance. Agency officials noted that they continue to monitor these grants to ensure that cost-of-living increases are not being reported among the FTEs.
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This section of this review responds to the Recovery Act's mandate that GAO comment on the estimates of jobs created or retained by direct recipients of Recovery Act funds. For its review of the fifth submission of recipient reports, covering the period from July 1, 2010, through September 30, 2010, GAO built on findings from its four prior reviews of the reports, covering the period from February 2009 through June 30, 2010. GAO performed edit checks and basic analyses on the fifth submission of recipient report data that became publicly available at Recovery.gov on October 30, 2010.
To understand how the quality of jobs data reported by Recovery Act recipients, particularly Head Start grantees has changed over time, GAO compared the five quarters of recipient reporting data that were publicly available at Recovery.gov on October 30, 2010. GAO performed edit checks and other analyses on the Head Start subset of recipient reports, which included matching OHS-provided data (Financial Assistance Awards from the Grants Administration Tracking and Evaluation System database) and HHS-provided data (grantee expenditures from PMS) on grantees with recipient reports. GAO also reviewed documentation and interviewed federal agency officials from HHS, who have responsibility for ensuring a reasonable degree of quality across their programs' recipient reports. Due to the limited number of recipients reviewed and the judgmental nature of the selection, GAO's full-time equivalent findings are limited to those Head Start programs and time periods examined and are not generalizable to any other program's FTE reporting.
- [1] Under the continuous corrections period, recipients were allowed to modify submissions from November 2, 2010, to December 6, 2010. The final update of this round of recipient reported data should occur on December 8, 2010.


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After the game, Davis' father, Anthony Davis Sr., was seen marching out of the family room near the Hornets' locker room at the arena, visibly upset and shouting loudly into a phone about his son not playing for nearly the entire fourth quarter.
Davis admitted that any basketball player would want to be on the floor in a late-game situation as the Hornets were against the Lakers with the significant lead dwindling. New Orleans Hornets Anthony Davis talks about loss to Lakers Anthony Davis scored 13 points and grabbed six points but played only two seconds in the fourth quarter. Watch video "You want to be in that situation,'' Davis said. "We're going to learn from this situation right here from watching the film. We have to do a better job of closing at the end games and holding leads. That's something we're going to get better at.''
Either Davis or Monty will be gone after his rookie contract....
Either Davis or Monty will be gone after his rookie contract....
We control Davis for atleast 7 years.
Family members are idiots when they speak for the players.
Uh, rookie contracts haven't been that long in years.
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James H. Daniels Jr.
James Henry Daniels Jr. born December 3, 1946 and the first child of James H. Sr. and Mattie K. Daniels entered into eternal rest February 9, 2013.
A graduate of West Division High School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin he also attended the University of Wisconsin - Whitewater for two years followed by 2 years active duty in Vietnam as an Army Corporal where he received an honorable discharge.
He is survived by his loving wife and best friend of 30 years Daphne R. Daniels; their four adult children, Charrod, Cameron, Chandler, and Caitlyn; his mother Mattie Daniels; and four siblings, Kenneth, Beverly, Carolyn, and Larry; many nieces and nephews, cousins, brothers and sisters in-law. Services will be held at 2:30 pm on Saturday, February 16, 2013 at CRESS FUNERAL HOME, 3610 Speedway Road, Madison.


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None. I plan on waiting until they reduce everything.
None. I plan on waiting until they reduce everything.
Well it's subjective depending on what gets shipped to which stores really. Core characters can be expected to have resculpts so it's a case of waiting for the different sculpts to come out and then picking the best one for me. I'm concentrating on background and marginal characters like Dexter and the geonosian, Plus the Reek. I'll have to see the figures in person first before finally deciding whether or not to buy. Leastways i won't be spending too much initially. I'm not wasting money on figures like Anakin when i know there's going to be several versions released. Why buy Padme if there's a better one coming later and so on.
I think I'll get . . .
*Anakin Outland Peasant Disguise or Hangar Duel . . . I'm not getting both in one day!
*Obi-Wan Coruscant Chase
*Jango Fett Kamino Escape - this is a maybe for the first week as I have the preview Jango
*Yoda Jedi Master (if he's out)
*Super Battle Droid (maybe)
*R2-D2 Coruscant Security - I'd like to have this before the batteries are dead
I don't know. I don't need to get them all on the first day, or even first month, as I found all the first TPM figures (I'm missing some of the later ones, like Swamp Jar Jar, TC-14, Battle Amidala, etc.) in the summer. I got Padmé Naberrie and Queen Amidala Naboo in October 1999 or something.
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I'll tell you I've already spent tons on the figures that leaked at Wal-Mart. I already have all figs, including Dooku, Yoda, Anakin, Zam Wessel, and Clonetrooper Red, just missing Taun We, Lumin something, and Royal Guard. I've spent more than a hundred. However, as sad as it is to betray I turned to the darkside and sold some on ebay. I made back most if not all that way.
Luke:"Master Yoda you can't die!"
Yoda:"Watch Me!"
*ACK!* So if you didn't want them then why buy in the first place? If you didn't want to spend that money then why spend out in the first place? That just seems really odd to me.
This you?Originally posted by NesteaFett
I'll tell you I've already spent tons on the figures that leaked at Wal-Mart. I already have all figs, including Dooku, Yoda, Anakin, Zam Wessel, and Clonetrooper Red, just missing Taun We, Lumin something, and Royal Guard. I've spent more than a hundred. However, as sad as it is to betray I turned to the darkside and sold some on ebay. I made back most if not all that way.
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Yup It's sad to have to resort to such deception, but I spent more than I should. It's the 4th figure I put up and the others I sold for really well. Feel free to bid. You can trust me and all.
Luke:"Master Yoda you can't die!"
Yoda:"Watch Me!"
Funny you should ask...
Normally I'd just buy everything, but as I have recently lost my job (meaningless retail, so aside from a lack of funding no major loss. Thanks for the concern! ) I will have to be very picky during midnight madness. I will be looking to pick up most of the Jedi (as many as I can afford!) for one. My list of must haves is as follows (please keep in mind that I'm not totally up to date with what will be shipping in time):
The most basic looking Obi Wan available at that time!
Kit Fisto
Luminara Unduli
Nikto Jedi
Clone Trooper (liked the preview figure so much that I can't wait for more!)
The most basic Jango Fett available
The most basic Count Dooku (or all of the Count Dooku's if I can manage it! He's just the coolest!)
Plo Koon
Shaak Ti
the Tusken Raider Female w/ child
and Taun We
...but keep in mind that I will probably be tempted to find room on one of my credit cards for all of them! Lord have mercy on my soul!
I have to admit that I am suddenly tighter of budget than anticipated. I want to spend about $50 - $70 dollars, so probably one 12" and ten or so 4". I'm on holiday there at on the 23rd so I can't get too much otherwise I'll get stung for tax on the way back to the UK!
Look - I'm Princess Leia!
Well, seeing how the list of expected figures on 4/23 is growing everyday, I've narrowed myself down to 15 figures;
Coruscant Obi-Wan
Anaking Hanger Duel
Count Dooku
Mace Deluxe
Battledroid x2
Nikto Jedi
Saesee Tinn
Dexter Jetster
Shaak Ti
Senator JJ
Kit Fisto
Geonosian Warrior
Clonetrooper (red)
Those 15 and Slave I I figure should run me under $150. I'm holding off on multiples of Army Builders until after I see the movie, and I'm sticking mainly to Arena and Coruscant related figures.
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Walker says $478K kitchen renovation will be privately funded
Kitchen at executive residence hasn't been renovated since 1980s
MADISON, Wis. - Gov. Scott Walker said his wife and a private foundation will raise all of the money for a kitchen renovation at the executive residence privately.
Tonette Walker is looking to raise funds to cover $478,000 in improvements to the industrial kitchen and residential kitchenette at the executive residence in Maple Bluff.
The governor is trying to reassure taxpayers that they would not be paying for the kitchen for him or anyone else, and that the first lady and executive residence foundation intend to raise all the money for the kitchen renovation privately.
Speaking to reporters after a budget listening session in Green Bay on Tuesday, the governor said that more than 15,000 people a year use the executive residence for events.
He said the kitchen hasn't been renovated since the 1980s and there are some safety concerns.
"It's got a kitchen that's industrial grade that right now hasn't been upgraded since I was in high school. So it's one of those where I think the idea was not only from a usage standpoint but, at some point, from a public safety standpoint; that you've got a chute over the stove that literally they have to put Styrofoam up in when it rains or snows to keep water from coming in, which is a potential fire hazard," Walker said.17742160
Walker also stressed that the executive residence is not his "home" and that he primarily uses a kitchen at his house in Wauwatosa.
The Department of Administration sent a request to the State of Wisconsin Building Commission in the past week, asking for permission to move forward with the project.
The plan will go before the State of Wisconsin Building Commission on Wednesday for approval.
Aides to Republicans and Democrats on the commission confirmed Tuesday the first lady had expressed intent months ago to raise the money privately, although the money would be borrowed upfront by the state.
The governor said the issue of renovating the kitchen has been discussed as far back as 2005.
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Someone emailed me just now to tell me that a google search for how to get ranked on internet turns up my article How to Promote Your Business on the Internet as the number one search hit, ahead of 551,000 other pages.
Someone emailed me just now to tell me that a google search for how to get ranked on internet turns up my article How to Promote Your Business on the Internet as the number one search hit, ahead of 551,000 other pages.
Me: Did you know that X-rays and gammar rays are just light? They're just higher frequency light.
Bonita: You say the sexiest things.
It seems that the firewire encryptor I wrote for WiebeTech is being enthusiastically received at the MacWorld Expo. There is every sign that my hard work and my client's investment will result in a commercial success.
Bonita and I are very excited about the news, as I imagine my client must be.
I issued my first press release ever, and have been faxing it to newspapers around Maine:
There is news coverage about FireWire Encrypt at MacObserver and MacCentral.
I think MacObserver was confused when James called the passphrase interface an "applet". In their article they call it a "Java applet". It's actually written in C++ and is a vanilla carbon application; we call it an applet because it so simple. I used ZooLib so I can make the UI for Windows and Linux from the same sourcebase.
So Nate Myers emailed me today to ask why I didn't just post a web page with the text of WiebeTech's press release about the product I developed for them instead of all these cryptic hints in my diary.
And I responded to Nate that his email was the first that I'd heard of WiebeTech announcing the product, and I didn't want to announce it before WiebeTech did.
(WiebeTech's press release is a Word document. Sorry. I'll ask them if it's OK that I post an HTML version.)
WiebeTech's FireWire Encrypt(TM) is an implementation of the Advanced Encryption Standard embedded in an Oxford 911 FireWire/IDE bridge. It encrypts each sector of the user's hard drive using the Rijndael block cipher.
It is designed to be portable and easy to use. Easy to use because the only software the user needs to install is a small applet to enter the passphrase. There is no complicated operating-system level software to install or configure. Portable because FireWire is a hot-pluggable technology for external devices.
A good use for the product would be to safely take confidential source code or business plans home from work on a hard drive, without fear that your secrets would be revealed if the hard drive were stolen.
WiebeTech will be demonstrating it on Mac OS X, but I plan to support it from Linux and Windows by the time the product is released to the public.
And yes, we're applying for a patent. But we're not applying for an algorithm patent. I disagree as much as anyone here with the abusive patents that the USPTO has been issuing the last few years, but I think this sort of thing is appropriate to patent.
Getting it to actually work was definitely novel and unobvious, and I believe that users will find it useful.
Someone emailed to ask me about what encryption mode FireWire Encrypt uses, and I thought I should post that here too.
It uses Cipher Block Chaining and Initialization Vectors.
Cipher block chaining is applied to each 16-byte block of a 512-byte disk sector. What you do is XOR the previous block's ciphertext over the next block's cleartext before encrypting subsequent blocks. This has the effect of making identical blocks of cleartext encrypt differently.
CBC can't be carried between disk sectors because the host can read or write each sector independently. To make identical sectors encrypt differently, I use an initialization vector.
What you do is XOR some value over the first block of cleartext in each sector before you encrypt it. The IV doesn't have the be kept secret. It doesn't even really matter what value you use, as long as each sector gets a unique IV. The simplest thing to do is to use the sector number as the IV.
I felt that was the best thing to do after reading about block cipher modes in Bruce Schneier's Applied Cryptography.
Initialization vectors work better than you might think because one of the characteristics of a strong encryption algorithm is that flipping a single bit in the plaintext will flip, on the average, half the bits in the ciphertext, with the bits that get flipped being apparently randomly distributed. So having only one bit of the IV being different from sector to sector will dramatically change the ciphertext.
I was also asked if the product checks that the user has entered the correct password. The version that will be demoed at MacWorld doesn't do that yet, but I think that verifying the password is very important for making the product accessible to regular users. I know a simple way I can do that, and plan to check passwords in the final released product.
Well I got my product ready for MacWorld. I delivered the show build at 9:30 am this morning. Fortunately my client didn't have to fly out to SFO until this afternoon, so he was able to install and test it. He said it worked well.
If you want to see what I've been working on, stop by WiebeTech booth #1651 and ask James to show you the "technology demonstration".
I pulled all nighters two nights in a row to make the show deadline, with only four hours sleep in the middle. That's starting to get hard on an old guy like me. (I'm 38. I wouldn't have thought that was too old to stay up all night but it's starting to feel that way).
I'm glad I delivered a test build last night for my client to try out before the final delivery, because he had some trouble and I had to figure out what was wrong. We were planning to stay up all night while I sent him diagnostic builds but fortunately it was just a couple simple problems that didn't take us long to figure out.
I was really worried though because what he tested wasn't really of good enough quality to demo at a trade show, and I was worried sick some awful bug would happen. But in the end everything went well. It took all night because there was a lot of work to do but there were no real problems encountered.
In the end I was able to just deliver the demo and go to bed, and my client was able to run it just fine.
Some work remains before the product can be made an end-user product, but I know how to do what needs to be done. One of the chief advantages of my product over competing products will be that it should be so easy for regular users to use. It's not quite there yet.
Now I wait anxiously to hear what the reaction from the press and the public will be.
Well, the snowstorm wasn't so bad, only a few inches fell, and the power outage I feared didn't happen.
That's good, because I'm trying to get a demo of my application for my client to show at his booth at the MacWorld Expo. That happens this week, and my client is flying out to San Francisco tomorrow morning.
I had all kinds of trouble. I got stuck this morning and posted a desperate question on the Usenet this morning and then caught about five hours sleep while I hoped a clueful response would be posted.
The clue I needed was indeed posted when I sleepily went back to work. A little googling got me the info I needed to get back on track again.
I'm now doing a little testing before sending my client his first try at my application working in its entirety. There is still a little more work before it will be showable, but I hope to have that done by midnight.
Not a moment too soon, eh?
I think my client will be posting a press release about my product on his website when the MacWorld Expo opens Tuesday. When that happens I can finally tell you all what I've been working on these last three months.
It's nice to see it all finally coming together after having solved so many difficult problems. It's been quite a learning experience.
By noon or so tomorrow I need to deliver a build of my embedded application that my client intends to demo in his booth at the MacWorld Expo next week.
But a foot of snow is expect to start falling at midnight tonight. I'm concerned about losing power.
We were more concerned about being stuck in the house without any food so we went to the grocery store to stock up. Apparently the entire town had the same idea, the place was packed.
Whenever there's a particularly bad snowstorm we can't get out for the next day because it takes that long for the plow man to make it to our lane. It's just because it takes him so much longer to plow each of his customers.
Some happy news, in a couple days I will be able to tell you what the embedded product is I've been working on. If you will be attending MacWorld, you could go see it demonstrated at my client's booth.
My application requires a small user interface on the host computer it's attached to. I am using ZooLib to do the UI. Since CodeWarrior 6 doesn't work so well on OS X and I don't have time to purchase the update, I tried using Project Builder. But ZooLib wasn't happy with Project Builder.
I am managing to use CodeWarrior for this task but I'd really like for ZooLib to support Project Builder. So next week I'm going to fix the problems.
I had a problem that I'm pretty sure is a bug in Project Builder. After I posted to a Mac programmer's newsgroup someone from Apple wrote to ask if he could help. Tomorrow I'm going to send him my project and my sources.
I had a long talk with Andy Green last night, and we've decided to make the push for a new ZooLib release soon. Basically as soon as all the existing demo code will build and run cleanly in all the target compilers.
I'm also going to try again to get ZooLib to build on Windows under MingW. That would allow one to build ZooLib on all the supported platforms for which gcc is available using gcc. Classic Mac OS doesn't have gcc but you could build a carbon app under OS X using gcc and run it on Systems 8 or 9.
Is to finish writing The ZooLib Cookbook by the end of the year. (It is under the GNU Free Documentation License.)
More generally, I want to stop letting my economic troubles prevent me from finding the time to do all the things I want to do. If I write just a little bit each week. I should be able to finish the book in a year no matter how busy things get.
There is other writing I want to do too, and I want to finish grinding my telescope mirror. I should be able to find the time to do all that.
I corresponded with a technical publisher about the possibility of them publishing a dead-tree edition of The ZooLib Cookbook. They were interested, but they didn't feel ZooLib was popular enough yet that they would sell enough copies to justify the cost of publication.
I have the idea that if I finish writing the book, ZooLib will appeal to many more people than it does today, and that will convince the publisher to print the book in, say, 2004.
So I decided tonight that I wanted to fix some errors that I have known have been in my QuickBooks records for my business. I knew that a recurring charge had just been charged to my debit card, and I would have been overdrawn if I didn't lend some money to the business. But things are tight so I only lent enough to have a balance of about a dollar, and I wasn't comfortable that my "estimate" of my balance was correct.
I am a rather disorganized kind of guy so I don't have all my bank statements. What I did was print out each month's online banking statement. Then I compared the statements to quickbooks, checking the cleared status in QuickBooks and writing a checkmark on the printout.
In this way I found a couple of transactions that were entered twice in QuickBooks. Voiding the extras increased my balance. I also found a couple of transactions that the bank had recorded but that I had not. Recording them decreased my balance.
I had thought I had only one error, when I actually had four, but they nearly canceled each other.
Finally, comparing the balance reported by my bank in its online banking (Key Bank works great with Mozilla!) and subtracting off the charge that I know will hit my account in a couple days, Key Bank thinks my balance will be $1.13 once that charge comes in.
But QuickBooks thinks my balance is $1.23.
I was about ten dollars off, now I'm ten cents off! I'm no good at bookkeeping.
I spent a little time trying out GnuCash a few months ago, and basically liked it. I will probably switch to GnuCash sometime soon. I hate QuickBooks with a passion. I hated it so much from the start I never paid for an upgrade from the version I bought in early 2000 because I felt so burned. I'm really looking forward to GnuCash.
The stable version of GnuCash is not yet ready for business accounting, but I think I can make it work. I just checked www.gnucash.org and it appears that some business features are now available in the development version, so I may try testing it again soon.
I just need to figure out how I can issue a paycheck while accounting for tax withholding. If I can get GnuCash to do that properly, it will have everything I really need.
GnuCash holds particular appeal for me because it can handle accounts in any national currency. That's important for an American married to a Canadian. I really found it a drag to deal with reimbursing out-of-pocket business expenses that were paid in Canadian dollars when I lived in St. John's, as well as handling some paychecks that were issued by wire transfer to my Canadian bank account.
I don't need most of what QuickBooks offers. I actually figure my tax withholding manually in a spreadsheet, because I'm too irate to pay for Intuit's tax table subscription service, seeing how I don't think I should have to pay to get information that the Feds and each state publishes for free. QuickBooks doesn't even provide a method for me to type in the tax tables manually or import a file I get from elsewhere.
I get a much better understanding of where my money is going by using a spreadsheet to figure my withholding anyway. At least QuickBooks is kind enough to let me enter the withholding manually when I issue each check. That's manageable for a corporation with one employee.
Intuit stopped supporting online banking for QuickBooks '99 earlier this year. The only option they provided was to pay for an upgrade. I canceled my QuickBooks online banking and now I just use Key Bank's free web banking.
I think Intuit along with its products QuickBooks and Quicken is the best argument there is for Free Software. While they may not be a criminal monopoly like Microsoft, Intuit does more to personally irritate me, and on an almost daily basis, than Microsoft ever has.
QuickBooks will automatically print certain tax forms like the employer's quarterly payroll tax withholding statement, but I find that it's better to keep a summary of my payroll in one page of a spreadsheet and then just copy the figures into the form each quarter. This also gives me a good overview of my company's payroll (and my income) over the whole year.
By March 15th I have to file my corporation's annual tax form, and pay taxes on any profit it may have made (which it won't have, because I pay myself in salary everything I don't spend on business expenses). That ten cent error will be a problem - I don't want to deal with the IRS inquiring about a ten cent error in my tax statement.
So what I'm going to do is find all the bank statements that I can, then get Key Bank to reprint all the ones that are missing. That will cost considerably more than ten cents. But at least my books will balance.
GnuCash, here I come!
Times have been pretty tough for Bonita and I since the dot-com crash happened. There have been a number of times when bill collectors have been ringing me up every day to hassle me, and we didn't have enough food to eat. Sometimes during the cold Maine winters we have had to keep the house much colder than is comfortable to avoid using too much heating oil.
One important reason that we have made it through these difficult times is the kindness and generousity that has been shown to us by our friends and family. It's happened a number of times that some friends have gone out of their way to help us without being asked.
Sometimes these are little things, but quite often people give us help that must represent a significant sacrifice for them. Many of the friends who have helped us are going through hard times too.
I'm very grateful for the kindness that has been shown to us. We could never have made it without the help we have received.
To the extent I am ever able to, I will pass on this kindness to others who are in need.
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I finally got to turn some for myself! I can't wait till spring, I saw a gobbler Wed morning in Full strut with 8 hens...right beside the road..not common in VA this time of year but this ole boy has been puffed up all winter..he's really got attitude...I'd love to hunt him but he's on private land that I don't have access too. Yall see where my mind is..makes me want to smell some gun oil..HA-HA. anyway my latest call is below. -Jim


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Here is a step-by-step process for finding your doctor's John Muir Physician Network ID on the cigna.com web site:
- Once you've selected your John Muir Health doctor, visit cigna.com* and enter your chosen doctor's last name and location on the home page then click Next.
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• What you're looking for: Primary Care Physician/All Types
Then click Search.
- The provider ID number is under the doctor's name on the results page. If your doctor is a member of multiple medical groups, please be sure to use the provider ID associated with John Muir Physician Network when filling out your CIGNA enrollment form.