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Oh yeah, once in a while you just have to say the heck with everything and take a mental health day! Went up to my mom's Thur. in Port St. Lucie (or as she calls it, Port St. Loser) and got to visit with my niece and nephews that I haven't seen since 1980! I am ashamed to say that. But Texas is kind of far and my life up to recent history has been sort of kooky and all over the place, as has theirs. (Not that my life is any less kooky sometimes, but I'm a lot older and don't care as much.) So it happens sometimes. But it was as if no time had passed at all. They were the same sweet kids they've always been.
They wanted to go to the beach. Understandable since they live in Arlington which is pretty far from the ocean. Here's my nephew posing for the Sports Illustrated swim suit edition
Here's my niece taking a picture of me taking a picture of her
This is big bro #2. He lives up in PSL.
And here's me catching some foam at the end of a pretty good ride. You can definitely see someone hasn't gotten very much sun this winter.
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The website Tweaking with Vishal took the crown by a landslide, capturing 32% of the 11, 520 votes. The website is definitely a Vista tour de force with hundreds, dare I say thousands of tips and tricks for customers.
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Look, I normally don't do this. But Major League Soccer's charitable causes umbrella, MLS W.O.R.K.S., is running a contest where fans vote for the "Community MVP". Each MLS team nominates someone doing great community work and the nominees are put to a fan vote. The winner gets $10,000 for their cause and a trip to the MLS All-Star Game. Some teams have been sleazy: Toronto FC nominated one of their employees, and the Portland Timbers nominated their own supporters' trust. But the Whitecaps have nominated a fellow named Alan Bates, one of the major figures in Vancouver Street Soccer (full disclosure: Vancouver Street Soccer is the chosen 2012 charity of the Vancouver Southsiders). I met Alan, briefly, when I was playing at their tournament in North Vancouver this past spring: he's an extremely nice, soft-spoken gentleman in that way which only people who spend hours every day labouring in anonymity to make the world a better place can pull off. There are a lot of brilliant nominees from teams that aren't Portland or Toronto on that list and a lot of causes that deserve $10,000. If you have a connection with one of those other causes then please give them your support. But if you didn't really have an opinion, or you're a Whitecaps fan who didn't know this was happening, or you just like what Vancouver Street Soccer wants to achieve, click the link, swing over to the MLS W.O.R.K.S. site, and feed it your name and e-mail address to support Alan and the great work he does.


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Under current policies, "we're going to reduce the overall debt of the United States by $3 trillion over the next 10 years."
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Warren Buffett recently said "Scrap Obamacare and Start All Over."
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The mission of the Toedtman School of Music is to provide an environment of cultural diversity to enrich the lives of our family of students through musical growth, development, and appreciation.
The Toedtman School of Music setting provides a structured, professional, and dignified atmosphere which conveys the importance and discipline of music in the growth of every individual regardless of one's age.
Our body of students range in age from 2 to 80 years of age. We have collectively many different countries of origin represented in our pupils, including Belgium, Brazil, China, El Salvador, France, Germany, Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, Holland, India, Iran, Japan, Korea, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Puerto Rico, Russia, Serbia, Sweden, Vietnam, and Venezuela, all coming together for one common purpose, MUSIC.
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IRVING, Texas — Omni Hotels & Resorts has reached a deal to buy five resorts from KSL Capital Partners, LLC., including the Grove Park Inn in Asheville.
Irving-based Omni did not disclose a purchase price in the agreement announced Wednesday for properties in Texas, California, North Carolina and Virginia.
In addition to the hotel in Asheville, the sites include Barton Creek Resort & Spa in Austin; La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, Calif.; Rancho Las Palmas Resort & Spa in Rancho Mirage, Calif; ; and The Homestead in Hot Springs, Va.
The deal adds nearly 2,400 rooms, more than 30 restaurants, three water parks, a ski facility and five spas to Omni's Resort Collection of nearly 60 luxury hotel complexes.
KSL acquired The Grove Park in May 2012 from an affiliate of Sammons Enterprises Inc. The Sammons family has owned the Grove Park Inn for nearly 60 years.
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A Quad Cities woman was visiting friends in the small town of Marne on Christmas Eve when she says a man came out of his house and shot her dog for no reason.
Wrigley was a playful pup who just loved romping around in the snow. Monday that playfulness cost the one-year old chocolate lab her life.
"My dog was playing with my friend's dog," Stacey Ernat said. "They're both young puppies and they were just tumbling around in the snow… and the guy who was two houses up came out his back door and shot my chocolate lab. I ran up there and I found her under a boat trailer that was lifted off the ground. She was curled up in a ball...really scared and confused why she was hurt so bad… so I picked her up and I held her an I told her it was gonna be OK."
But it wasn't. Wrigley died a few hours later at the vet's office.
Police say Collins Cutler admitted to shooting Wrigley with a shotgun and didn't offer any apologies. He tells deputies he just didn't want the dog in his yard.
Cutler was sited for illegally discharging a firearm in town.
"I just wish he would have thought about what he would have did because I wouldn't be here right now. I wouldn't be heartbroken without my best friend," Ernat said.
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Retired Concord Parks Manager Ginger Gessner of Benicia, 68, who died Tuesday, was well loved and inspirational, Mayor Laura Hoffmeister said in paying tribute to Gessner at Tuesday's City Council meeting.
"She worked her way up," said Hoffmeister. "She was one of the first woman department heads in the city."
Virginia M. "Ginger" Gessner retired in 2004 after working for Concord for more than 36 years.
Gessner espoused a theory of "green is not a color" to encourage colorful plantings in city medians. Gessner was a leader in 1994 when Concord embarked on a 10-year median program replacing gravel and cement with yellow and orange day lilies and purple groundcover.
In 2001, Concord won the California Park and Recreation Society Award of Excellence for its colorful medians.
Her obituary from the Passalacqua Funeral Chapel follows:
Virginia M. "Ginger" Gessner, 66, of Benicia passed away Tuesday in a local hospital after a brief illness. She was born in Alameda and has been a resident of Benicia since 1983.
Ginger was a dedicated worker for the City of Concord. She worked as Parks Director for over 36 years, retiring in 2004.
She was a member of St. Dominic's Church. She enjoyed doing charitable work, traveling, trips to the beach to watch the sunrise and the sunsets and spending time with her family.
Ginger is survived by her sisters Christy (Joseph) Costa of Houston, Texas, Laura (Ed) Guillory of Capitola; nieces Marya Minter and Siobhan Guillory; nephew Keegan Guillory and great nephew Myles Minter. She was preceded by her parents Lou & Mary Gessner.
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I had the pleasure of attending the preview of our Angelo Civic Theatre's production of "Marvelous Wonderettes" last week, and I heartily recommend it to everyone.
A wide range of '50s favorites wind through a hilarious view of a girls quartet for a 1958 high school prom, and then pick up the quartet up again at the prom's 10-year anniversary.
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One day after a bruising, mixed-verdict election, President Barack Obama and Republican House Speaker John Boehner both pledged Wednesday to seek a compromise to avert looming spending cuts and tax increases that threaten to plunge the economy back into recession.
Added Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.: "Of course" an agreement is possible.
While all three men spoke in general terms, Boehner stressed that Republicans would be willing to accept higher tax revenue under the right conditions as part of a more sweeping attempt to reduce deficits and restore the economy to full health.
While the impending "fiscal cliff" dominates the postelection agenda, the president and Republicans have other concerns, too.
Obama is looking ahead to top-level personnel changes in a second term, involving three powerful Cabinet portfolios at a minimum.
And Republicans are heading into a season of potentially painful reflection after losing the presidency in an economy that might have proved Obama's political undoing. They also have fallen deeper into the Senate minority after the second election in a row in which they lost potentially winnable races by fielding candidates with views that voters evidently judged too extreme.
One major topic for GOP discussion: the changing face of America.
"We've got to deal with the issue of immigration through good policy. What is the right policy if we want economic growth in America as it relates to immigration?" said former Republican Party Chairman Haley Barbour. Obama drew support from about 70 percent of all Hispanics. That far outpaced Romney, who said during the Republican primaries that illegal immigrants should self-deport, then spent the general election campaign trying to move toward the political middle on the issue.
The maneuvering on the economy — the dominant issue by far in the campaign — began even before Obama returned to the White House from his home town of Chicago.
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For more than 48 hours, one of southern West Virginia's much-loved and the male bird of the only confirmed pair of nesting American Bald Eagles was feared dead after being struck by a train Sunday.
Founders of the Three Rivers Avian Center, the National Park Service and countless volunteers had cause to rejoice Wednesday morning at 8 a.m. when the group confirmed the male bird, affectionately called Whitey, returned to his partner and a nest with at least two eggs about to hatch.
Wendy Perrone, executive director of Three River Avian Center, said the pair's behavior indicates the second bird is the missing mate.
She explained the male eagle would not have left his partner for so long of his own volition, particularly at such a crucial time when the pair shares egg incubation and hunting duties.
The experts believe Whitey was hit and stunned by the train, which was traveling at speeds around 50 miles per hour, but miraculously was not killed and returned to his nest after recovering.
Perrone said National Park Service Law Enforcement was notified that an Amtrak train hit the eagle Sunday around 10:30 a.m.
Since Sunday, the Park Service, Three Rivers and dedicated volunteers have scouted the track and surrounding area from Brooks Island to Sandstone Falls, but not one feather of the missing bird was found and a group of volunteers watching the nest had also not seen the second eagle.
As Perrone monitored the nest Monday, the female called Streaky hunkered down over her eggs and occasionally looked around for her mate while cold rain fell.
Typically, nesting pairs of eagles share the incubation and take turns hunting food, never leaving the eggs unattended. Once the eggs begin to hatch, which could take up to 48 hours to complete, the female stays with the eggs nearly round-the-clock while the male provides the food needed for the family.
With Streaky sitting on at least two eggs that could begin to hatch any day now, the Three Rivers Avian Center focused on placing food on the band for the female eagle so should would not have to leave her nest for long.
While Whitey was missing, the eggs' safety was in jeopardy.
Perrone said Three Rivers and its group of volunteers will continue to monitor the pair and watch for any sign of injury.
They will also continue to leave some food on the River Road side band in case they need to supplement the eagles' hunting, but at this point Whitey appears able to hunt and bring food back to the nest on his own, she said.
The nesting American Eagles first settled on the tip of Brooks Island in 2010 and have laid, hatched and seen fledge a total of five eaglets over two seasons while bringing joy, pride and bird enthusiasts to the area.
This is their third nest of eggs.
Until experts are sure the bird is fully recovered, visitors should restrict their bird watching to the Brooks Overlook along W.Va. 20 to observe.
Three Rivers Avian Center keeps a close eye on our area's only confirmed nest of eagles while helping to heal injured birds of prey and spread wild bird conservation awareness through education.
Donations to this non-profit are tax deductible and can be submitted through the wild bird conservation organization's website, www.tracwv.org.
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Montana C-38, Distribution Requirements for Statutory Initiatives (2002)
The Montana Distribution Requirements for Statutory Initiatives Amendment, also known as C-38, was a legislatively-referred constitutional amendment on the November 5, 2002 ballot in Montana, where it was approved.
In Montana PIRG v. Johnson, C-38 and related measure C-37 were found by a U.S. District Court to be unconstitutional on equal protection grounds. Mike McGrath subsequently ruled that the federal court's invalidation of C-37 and C-38 meant that the prior language of the state's constitutional amendments about distribution requirements for citizen initiatives should be considered to be fully back in force.[1]
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The legislature submitted this proposal for a vote. This proposal would amend the Montana Constitution by changing the signature gathering requirements for placing a statutory initiative on the ballot. People proposing statutory initiatives will be required to gather signatures from at least 5% of the qualified electors in at least one-half of Montana's counties, rather than in one-third of the legislative house districts. Qualified electors would be the number of registered voters last voting for governor in a county. If approved, this measure would take effect July 1, 2003.
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News: Kanye West & Suge Knight To Square Off In Court
Thursday, Apr 8, 2010 12:05AM
Grammy-winning rapper Kanye West and rap mogul Marion "Suge" Knight are set to square-off against one another later this year over a Miami, Florida nightclub shooting.
Based on new details, the two will square-off in December.
More than four years later, Knight is claiming in a lawsuit that West and the Shore Club's owners failed to provide security necessary to keep out people with weapons. Knight's attorney, Marc Brumer, said Tuesday that Knight had $200,000 in medical bills from a gunshot that shattered his femur and will seek total damages of well over $1 million. "He's an icon in the music industry. He walks in a room and he lights it up," Brumer said. "He had an expectation of security there. How someone came with a gun into a very VIP party, that just doesn't meet the smell test in life." U.S. District Judge Patricia Seitz has scheduled a Dec. 6 trial date in Miami. (Billboard)
Knight was robbed and shot in the leg at the South Beach's Shore Club.
Originally filed in California district court, the suit has now been transferred to Miami. "People shouldn't underestimate Suge Knight," says his boisterous lawyer Marc Brumer, adopting the tone of a boxing promoter before a title fight. "He's a very adept businessman. He's a mess, but he's sharp. Nobody likes Kanye West anymore. Even though he's still selling millions of records, everybody's sick of him." West might not be losing sleep over Knight's attack, but it's more bad news for the Shore Club, which was hit with a foreclosure suit in March. Lawyers representing the rapper and the hotel either did not return our calls or declined to comment. (Miami New Times)
A lawsuit was initially filed against Kanye and G.O.O.D. Music a year and a half ago.
Suge filed the lawsuit late October 2008 and is alleging Ye should be held responsible for allowing an unnamed gun totter access through the event's security in Miami, Florida leading to him being shot in his right leg and robbed of a diamond stud earring. "As the hosts of the Party, Kanye West and G.O.O.D. Music also owed the guest of the Party a duty to maintain the Party premises in a reasonably safe condition," the suit reads. "While at the Party, shortly after midnight at approximately 12:40 a.m. on Sunday, August 28, 2005, Mr. Knight was in a VIP room at The Shore Club, where he was shot in the upper right leg. Mr Knight did nothing to provoke the shooting, and he is unaware of who shot him and why he was shot." (TMZ)
Knight is currently under police suspicion for his alleged involvement in a robbery last month.
Detective Jeff Briscoe says 35-year-old Jerold Ellis, who uses the name Yukmouth, reported he was talking to Knight on Monday night in a Woodland Hills supermarket parking lot about a debt that another rapper allegedly owes Knight. Yukmouth filed a police report saying 10 other men arrived, knocked him down and took his watch, medallion and other jewelry worth $92,000. He wasn't badly hurt and declined medical treatment. Briscoe says Ellis identified Knight as a suspect but later recanted. However, the stolen items haven't been recovered and the investigation continues. (Associated Press)
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It's been nearly two years since Google shocked the mobile world by announcing its intention to acquire Motorola Mobility for an incredible $12.5 billion. With such a hefty price tag, the proposed deal would inevitably spark endless debate over whether or not it was a smart move to acquire a struggling hardware vendor with a vast patent portfolio.
Nearly a year after the announcement, the pair would score all necessary regulatory approvals and seal the deal in May 2012. The final price tag ended up being closer to $12.4 billion, and this is how Big G pegged the value of the assets it acquired at the time.
$2.9 billion
Patents and developed technology
$5.5 billion
$2.6 billion
Customer relationships
$730 million
Other net assets
$670 million
$12.4 billion
When factoring in the cash that Google bought, its net cost was $9.5 billion, and the bulk of that is allocated to the patent portfolio. The $5.5 billion valuation was much higher than the $137 million book value that Motorola was carrying for its IP, but that was net of accumulated amortization, and GAAP accounting rules don't permit revaluing intangible assets higher.
Google also sold off the Motorola Home business to Arris in a $2.4 billion cash and stock deal, which closed this month. Big G is now the proud owner of a 7.7% stake in Arris, while its net cost for Motorola subsequently declined to around $7.1 billion.
In the four quarters since closing the deal, Motorola's actual hardware operations have continued to bleed. Motorola posts hundreds of millions of GAAP operating losses every quarter, and has cost Google a cumulative total of $1.4 billion so far just by operating.
We can effectively increase Google's net cost back up to $8.5 billion, and Motorola's operating losses have no sign of abating anytime soon. Even if Googorola's upcoming "phones-plus" are a hit, the subsidiary still might not be profitable.
The star of the acquisition has always been the patent portfolio, but even on that front Google has had a pretty terrible month so far. Motorola is embroiled in numerous patent disputes with rivals Apple and Microsoft , and things aren't going Google's way. The search giant scored some victories, but also recorded more meaningful defeats.
One painful blow was when the International Trade Commission upheld a finding that one of Motorola's patents is invalid, allowing Apple to escape the important ban that Moto was seeking. The patent had covered a sensor within phones that allow them to prevent accidental input. Separately, Motorola was trying to extract $4 billion in annual royalties out of Microsoft, or a fifth of all of Microsoft's operating income, over standards-essential patents related to Wi-Fi and video encoding. Courts said the software giant only owes $1.8 million per year, or just 0.04% of what Motorola wanted.
Both components of the Motorola acquisition are faring poorly. Operations continue to bleed while Motorola is failing to hold its own in patent disputes. Sorry, Google, but acquiring Motorola was a huge mistake.
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Budget Accommodation Africa Morocco Fes Bed & Breakfasts Dar Sienna
Dar Sienna is perfectly situated to visit the medina. It's really in the middle of it. From the roofterraces you have a marvellous view over the city and the surrounding hills.
Stylish, cute and cosy artist's house, with 3 roof terraces and splendid views over the ancient Medina. Relax and sip mint tea on our shaded terraces. Covered courtyard salon. Superb central location in heart of car-free medina, located amidst all the major sights and wonderful souks (markets). 5 minute walk to nearest taxi rank at Bab R'Cif, 10 minutes walk from the famous Blue Gate, Relaxed, homely atmosphere. Welcoming and caring English/French speaking staff. 3 light and airy double bedrooms, upper 2 bedrooms with fabulous medina views, each with own private bathroom, overlooking the central courtyard salon. All rooms have A/C or fan. To RENT the WHOLE HOUSE: just book the 4 bed option or contact owner directly.
Included in rates: Our legendary Moroccan breakfasts with freshly squeezed orange juice, complimentary mint-tea, free wifi + laptop for guests, use of kitchen/washing-machine, linen/towels. .
The central courtyard salon with its comfy sofa and the kitchen are at the heart of the house. Perfect for you to relax in a peaceful atmosphere after a busy day in the markets. We have great African CDs and a small library of travel books for you to enjoy.
Relax and sip complimentary mint-tea on our 3 private terraces with panoramic views over the medina rooftops and experience the magical call to prayer.
Light airy rooms, comfy beds with medina views. Each room has its own private bathroom, (not ensuite except for Chambre Celeste) A/C or fan, comfy double beds, snugly duvets.
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Chambre Celeste: (Superior Ensuite), Top room: cosy, romantic and secluded rooftop bedroom, two massive French windows with the most spectacular, magical medina views, A/C and small ensuite shower and small toilet with western doors. Immediate easy access to the fabulous roof terraces
The Chambre Seffarine: (Superior Private Bathroom), Mid-level bedroom A/C and large Private bathroom opposite on the same floor.
The Chambre Tagore (Budget Basic small Private bathroom one floor below.) Courtyard Level, 2 singles or 1 twin bed on courtyard level. Fan and heater. This is our budget room.
Fabulous kitchen by top UK designer, Johnny Grey. ATM and Bank close by.
Airport transfers arranged (15 euro)
Calligraphy, cookery, yoga, Derrija and Arabic courses at Cafe CLock. Check out the cultural agenda at Cafe Clock: Sunday concerts Cafe Clock at 6.30pm
Come and visit the atmosphere of Fez medina
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Late Cancellations/no shows will be charged for 1 night in full.
Lots of stairs (4 flights) therefore UNSUITABLE FOR GUESTS WITH HEALTH/MOBILITY ISSUES
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Dar Sienna is perfectly situated to visit the medina. It's really in the middle of it. From the roofterraces you have a marvellous view over the city and the surrounding hills.
Our room was at the same level as the kitchen and the little livingroom (was used to take breakfast by bad weather) and that caused a little bit noice. We also had a very little toilet and bathroom at the first level of the house.
The staff - specialy Achmed - was very friendly and helpfull. Ahmed realy made our stay comfortabel by arranging everything we asked and by giving us a relaxing feeling in the extremely hectic and confusing medina.
Breakfast was every day delicious!!
This is really a very good adress to explore a few days this fantastic city.
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I am so pleased we stayed at Dar Sienna - Ahmed, Said & Saba (apologies if spelt wrong) couldn't do enough for us. We received so much more than we expected or ever recieved anywhere else we have ever stayed.
The acommodation is beautiful with everything you need. We stayed in two different rooms over 4 nights and both are clean, comfortable beds with clean towels. A lot of our time was spent sitting on the roof terrace sipping mint tea and chatting with Ahmed, the manager. We met many other travellors during our stay and they all loved Dar Sienna.
the location is perect - the roof terrace is high and you can see all across the Medina to the mountains, tombs, ruins the palace in the distance.
Nothing can beat sitting up on the terrace in the very early morning watching the sun rise and hearing the morning call to prayer - very spiratual place and the medina has a beautfil hue.
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I write about e-books and digital publishing
Kobo is the major player in the ebook world that you've never heard of.
You've probably never heard of it because in the U.S. it is thought to have something like a 2% or 3% share in the growing ebook market. In Canada, however, where the company is based, it's thought to be the market-share leader. It was acquired near the end of last year by Rakuten, a company considered the "Amazon of Japan," and has started to build an ebook business there (for what it's worth: a hard-to-crack market that isn't promising for ebook publishers despite being one of the largest economies in the world with a very literate and technological population). In other countries, like the UK, South Africa and New Zealand, Kobo has a presence and is one of the only international players. Kobo is now in more than a dozen countries and is aggressively adding more.
This little upstart from Canada is trying to compete with the likes of Amazon, Google, Apple and Barnes & Noble.
Like those other companies, Kobo has its own set of devices that have been positively reviewed. Unlike Amazon, Google and Apple, it's primarily focused on ebooks and e-reading. And, unlike Barnes & Noble, which is extremely U.S.-centric at this early stage of the game, it has international in its DNA. The company has been figuring out how to launch its business in other countries since early on when it expanded to the U.S. And Kobo has inked deals with the American Booksellers Association, a trade group for independent bookstores, and its equivalent in the UK to have indie bookshops sell its devices and ebooks.
Recently, Kobo became the first major international ebook player to launch in Brazil, which it did in Apple/Google/Amazon-like gala fashion with a celebrity-studded event at Brazil's largest bookstor
e chain, Livraria Cultura. And it also recently came out that Kobo intends to support full EPUB 3 functionality by the third-quarter next year (this is very wonky, I know, but what it basically means is that it's the first e-reading company to come out and say that it would support the latest accepted standard ebook file formats at some point — it makes the company somewhat cutting edge).
But wherever Kobo goes, Amazon and the others are already there or not far behind. Take Brazil: Hours after Kobo launched there, so did Amazon and Google.
The international ebook wars are going to be a dogfight — but underdog Kobo has a fighting chance.
Hear executives from Kobo speak in multiple sessions at the upcoming Digital Book World 2013 digital publishing conference in New York. See the agenda here.
I love that you mention Stephanie Bond in your article. That girl can write and make my day.
Jackie Weger
Funny. I downloaded Kobo for the PC yesterday. When I click on the icon, I have to update it – over and over and over again, twenty-five minutes each time! Can't really get to the reader to download any books. Going to the contact page on their website throws me into an algorithm of never-ending useless information. Can't seem to get to a real person.
Pretty much totally useless to me.
I've been rooting for Kobo for years and admire how scrappy they are trying to outdo their larger competitors especially in emerging markets not to mention functionality on devices (Your Reading Life). I remember when they were Shortcovers and backed by Chapters Indigo. Their entire team is always out hustling to win and they deserve credit for the ambition and effort around their goals. I hope they can obtain more global market share over time.
It is worth noting that for the Brazilian launch, GOOG and AMZN launched with more titles and while buzz and marketing to the trade can be effective, it does cost $ (will admit Kobo knows how to throw a party). May it is just my impression but ever since Rakuten bought them, they have better booths, more/bigger parties etc. They have fun but also they aren't distracted from what they need to do in the marketplace. Also, no sooner had Kobo announced their device than Amazon stole their thunder with a lower priced device. Price of device, size of catalog and global brand matter.
Kobo is eBook's Fight Club! – Great product, love carrying the Kobo Mini with me, everywhere I go.
The first reader to fully support EPUB3 to the Android OS was released in October 2012, This is the Helicon Books Gyan Reader
We Indie authors would love to see Kobo succeed. For authors the system offers critical advantages over the Kindle/Nook/iBook platforms. Just being able to see where a reader stopped or paused reading helps authors write better books. We're cheering for the Kobo!
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Jones gives a laid-back but vibrant concert
Early arrivals treated to an extra helping
Traveling light, Norah Jones left her zillion Grammys at home but brought her tight band of brothers and sisters and made a few new friends as she sang for a sold-out, thrilled throng that included many unsuitable would-be suitors Friday night at the Santa Barbara County Bowl.
She is cute and she can definitely sing, but there was no reason to assume she acquired anything more than fond 805 memories and no Mr. Jones.
Even the strident and ardent Morrissey look-alike whistlehead behind me left solo — but, perhaps, uplifted.
Jones is touring in support of her third album, "Not Too Late."
It wasn't too late for Jones; the show went off with German army/Warped Tour precision and the 70-something-year-old venue never looked better.
Jones, too.
Her debut album, "Come Away With Me," from 2002, won half a dozen Grammys. "Feels Like Home" from 2004 did OK as well: three more Grammys and 14 million copies sold.
Her latest album debuted at the top of the charts, so no one is keeping up with the Joneses, let alone this one, Geethali Norah Jones Shankar, the coolest Norah since The Thin Man's significant other, Nora Charles.
In a clear case of inspired billing, Matt, or as he is known musically, M. Ward, opened.
A low-budget sort of fellow — usually just a guy and an acoustic guitar — he had help this time.
When Ward came out at precisely 7:15, he was accompanied by a pretty dark-haired young woman wearing jeans and a gray T-shirt — Norah Jones.
It didn't appear to be one of the 40-buck shirts from the merch booth.
In any case, at this point, there were still more ushers than people and Jones smiled at a few of the fashionably late as she and Ward harmonized most heavenly on "Blue Bayou."
Jones stayed on for a few songs, then Ward did a few off his fourth and latest, "Post-War," and, just to prove he has more than one musical pal, brought out singer-songwriter Victoria Williams, bouncy and enthusiastic in a Betty Boop-on-nitrous sort of way.
Ward, laid back with a cool, fine-grade-sandpaper voice, ended with a frantic instrumental sounding sort of like a Loudon Wainwright opus.
After the traditional free BMW (Basic Monotonous Wait) during which, for a change, they did not play music that would make anyone's ears bleed or encourage any sort of Van Gogh copycat amateur surgeon activity, Jones reappeared, resplendent in a red dress and matching red guitar, ably assisted by her optimistically named group, the Handsome Band.
What they lacked in looks, they more than made up for in licks, especially guitar player Adam Levy, who actually got to rage once.
Then again, beauty is just a light switch away, so there's that.
Jones, the daughter of '60s sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar, grew up listening to Billie Holiday.
Good thing it wasn't the Plasmatics or Slayer.
Jones was a lounge singer and she still has that whole laid-back attitude working, but better yet, she can really sing.
That voice of hers is sweeter than a Cinnamon Bun Créme Saver and she could sing the phone book and still make it seem vital, even though many of her songs focus on the usual suspects: love and longing for same.
Jones, rather than just sit behind her piano and play lounge-lizard music, ably mixed her set to keep things interesting with slo-mo songs, some up-tempo stuff, and a very friendly and relaxed manner.
She often exchanged banter from the adoring fans whose shouting points were a lot like, "I love you, Norah!" or, "Marry me, Norah!"
After some such outburst, Jones whispered, "You're awesome," and everyone heard her, which is how quiet it was at the bowl.
And poor little Georgie — actually poor old world; Jones was yet another artist against President Bush as she memorably lamented the unpleasant results of Election Day on "My Dear Country."
And the crowd cheered — Santa Barbara definitely isn't Simi Valley.
(For one thing, the surf is better — and Jones recounted her adventures at the beach just before the show.)
Near the end, Ward came back, and Levy got to shred his one raging guitar solo of the evening, then everybody onstage bowed and moseyed off, so everybody in the dark cheered and so the musicians came back.
One of the highlights of the encore was Jones' biggie "Don't Know Why." I do. Jones is great.
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Rules violation costs Citation win, record, $900,000-plus in Big Rock
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Angler says one of crew didn't have fishing license
June 20, 2010 4:37 PM
Rick Scoppe
The Daily News
MOREHEAD CITY A rules violation has cost the Citation its record-setting win in the 52nd Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament.
Angler Andy Thomossan, who caught the record-setting 883-pound blue marlin Monday, said Sunday afternoon tournament officials had stripped the Hatteras-boat of the win, the record and the $912,825 prize money from the $1.66 million purse.
No record. No money. No fish. No nothing, Thomossan said, adding the rules violation was that one of the crew didn't have a fishing license as required.
Thomossan said he first got wind something might be wrong at Saturday nights awards banquet, and Sunday morning the tournament sent out a news release said the board of directors was withholding presentation of the prize money until an alleged rules violation by the top team has been totally researched.
Tournament director Crystal Watters, who sent out the e-mail news release, couldnt be immediately reached immediately for comment. The captain of the Citation, Eric Holmes, also couldnt immediately be reached Sunday.
With the Citation being stripped of its win, the winning boat will now be Carnivore, which is captained by Ed Petrilli of Cape Carteret. Angler John Parks of Jacksonville caught a 528.3-pound blue marlin Wednesday.
Neither Petrilli nor Parks could be immediately reached for comment Sunday.
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Just curious, is the Citation a charter boat? I thought the HMS permitted Charter boats were exempted from individual licenses (assuming this is the new countmyfish.noaa.gov angler registry license). if they are a private boat, I guess that everyone on the rig needs a license?
Kind of sucks, but rules are rules.
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I'm guessing it was the NC Saltwater License. I would have thought the boat would have a blanket Charter Rec Fishing License...
But here are the rules as written...
HMS Permits
All boats must have one of the following valid permits - HMS Angling (recreational), HMS Charter/Headboat, or Atlantic Tunas General Category Permit (commercial). Permits will be valid from the date of issuance through December 31, 2010. Permits must be on board the vessel when engaged in fishing. The Big Rock Tournament is a registered recreational HMS tournament. For more information - www.nmfspermits.com or (888)-872-8862.
North Carolina Recreational Fishing License: As of 01/01/2009
The North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries will require a recreational fishing license for anyone participating in fishing aboard a vessel. This includes a license for the captain, the mate and the anglers. These individual licenses can be purchased on a 10-day, annual or lifetime basis.
252-726-7021. http://www.ncfisheries.net/recreational/NCCRFL.htm
Participant is responsible for knowing all state and federal regulations or any recent changes that may occur.
"There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot." --STEVEN WRIGHT
I don't think these rules really have any bearing on a fishing contest. These are rules set up to collect taxes. The Feds and State should be required to enforce their own rules and issue fines as necessary.
The tournament should not be in the position of being the policeman.
Captain Cliff Parker
Hatteras, NC year round
What a bunch of crap! One less license doesn't make the captain and crew any less deserving. Wasn't he the camera man anyway? He would have been one on my boat.
it's a shame that is a costly mistake . I feel sorry for the boat and crew . what a way to lose a lot of coin
35 CUSTOM LYN B Wachapreague VA
The tournament committee should be drawn and quartered for DQ'ing those boys on a bullshit technicality like that.
Who da rat???
I found out this winter we needed a NC charter boat license to bottom fish down off Morehead City and up to this point I had no idea one was needed. How this plays out in a big game tournament like the Big Rock has me puzzled and how many of the out of state boats that fish the tournament have everyone with a NC license salt water license on board.
I do not know or agree the the Citation should be stripped of anything due to a state regulation and this should have been mentioned to everyone that entered the tournament ahead of time. Was this the case on the entry forms and if so that might be a different story if it was built in as part of the Big Rock rules. If it was not brought to the attention of all those entered then it is BS in my opinion.
I would not be surprised that the Northern boats that fished the spring BFT run for a few weeks out of Oregon Inlet probably did not have the NC salt water fishing license as most I know were not aware they needed one which is no excuse but nothing more than not being aware of NC regulations since most only GBT fish and have a NC Land & Sell license but some do take charters out when GBT fishing.
I feel bad to read just a great catch be denied because of this.
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Unreal... i wonder how many boats in past years that have gotten their money had someone on board without it...
here come the lawsuites...


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Kevin Del-Angel is such a quick pinner that he once beat a kid before the pre-match handshake.
Such a quick pinner that referees often start the match lying on the mat, so as to not waste time.
So quick that Chuck Norris once refused to step on the mat with him.
OK, so that may not be entirely accurate. But when it comes to ending wrestling matches, this much is true: No one does it quicker than the 195-pound Southridge senior with a wicked chin whip and a mean half nelson.
I dont really think about scoring as many points as I can, Del-Angel said. I think about what I have to do to get a pin.
Boy howdy.
His most recent exploit, winning the Willie C. Stewart Invitational in Tacoma, was a snapshot of his season: three matches, three pins and just 72 seconds of total mat time. His first match ended in eight seconds eight seconds!
It could have ended faster than that, said Suns assistant coach Steven Isley. If the referee had been in position, it would have been three seconds. Serious. The legend grows.
Del-Angel has been a terror this year. He is 28-1 with 27 pins, and coach John Hogg is pretty sure only two of those pins have gone past the first period. Even his loss was quick, getting caught in a cradle by Universitys Tanner Orndorff a minute into the championship match at the Pacific Northwest Classic in Spokane (Del-Angel looks forward to the rematch at sub-regionals and regionals).
The one win that went the distance was an 11-9 victory over Sisto Santana Pina, Kamiakins returning state champ.
And perhaps it is that win, over a wrestler that dominated the action in their 14-4 regional championship match at 170 pounds last year, that shows the evolution of Del-Angel.
He really is a well-rounded wrestler, Hogg said. Hes got it all, from on his feet to on the mat. A lot of people think, If I stay away from the chin whip, Ill be fine.
Indeed, that chin whip a front headlock, a trip back to the mat and then squeeze is the kiss of death against Del-Angel. But the knock on him last season was that if you could stay out of the whip, you had a good shot.
Not so this year.
The same quickness that made him a tough pass rusher at defensive end in football makes him a pretty tough shooter.
Hes such a disruptive guy, said Suns football coach Tony Rieboldt. Hes a big reason why we were the No. 1 defense in the league this year. His get-off is so explosive, and hes so hard to block.
Hes strong as a bull, which is why Del-Angel doesnt so much as leverage you over with the half nelson but push you into the next county.
Hes just overpowering, Hogg said. He seems so in control. He just takes care of business.
Its a far sight from the kid who went 18-14 in the regular season as a sophomore, then knocked off a No. 2 and 3 seed to reach the district final (16-1 loss to Pina), then pinned the No. 2 seed from Spokane at regionals to finish third and qualify for state.
It was very emotional. I was so excited, said Del-Angel, who grew up watching older brother Andrew wrestle for Kamiakin and was drawn to the mat as a fourth grader.
The third of four kids born to Balentine and Beverly Del-Angel, Kevin isnt the only talented wrestler in the family. His cousin, Cruz Del Angel (no hyphen) was an undefeated state champion for Kiona-Benton in Class 1A last season and is working on a repeat performance this year.
Kevin said the two are friends but grew up in different wrestling rooms.
It was after his out of nowhere sophomore season that Del-Angel started wrestling freestyle and Greco-Roman in the offseason. Two years later, he is working on one of the most dominating seasons ever seen in the Tri-Cities.
He has hopes of continuing his athletic career in college, with football or wrestling. But that is way down the road compared to his final high school postseason, which starts in just over two weeks.
After placing sixth in Class 3A last season and running roughshod over the competition this year, there is only one finish Del-Angel has in mind.
Im going for (a) state (title), he said. Anything less is not good.


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By Mickey Furfari
For The Register-Herald
It now appears to be a fact that West Virginia University athletic officials misled students and the general public in not playing any Big 12 Conference baseball games at Hawley Field in Morgantown this season.
All 12 "home" league games were moved to Charleston and Beckley, implying that Hawley Field did not meet Big 12 "minimum standards."
We're now informed that the Big 12 has no such guidelines which would have prevented WVU from scheduling all 12 home games at Hawley Field.
Had the university done that, it could have saved some of the deficit spending it costs by taking Mountaineer baseball on the road.
Perhaps Athletic Director Oliver Luck should do the right thing and reimburse part of the school's mandatory athletic fee.
Only a total of eight games — all non-conference variety — were available to the students at Hawley Field, which was relocated to its Coliseum Complex location in 1971.
Granted, it was a nice gesture giving WVU fans in state cities an opportunity to attend WVU games. But, in doing so, Luck shortchanged students who could not see those contests.
Obviously, they had no say in the matter when the needless decision we all know now was not really necessary.
Sure, virtually all of the "Cowboy Country" Big 12 schools have better ball parks than Hawley Field. They certainly should because of the year-round weather is better and longer-lasting than here in West Virginia.
But Big 12 official Bob Burden confirmed recently that under conference rules, WVU could have played all 12 home games at Hawley Field this year.
Was someone not telling the truth?
As a result, WVU officials now are thinking about playing some of those 12 league contests at Hawley Field while the new baseball park is built within a projected couple of years. There are some people who still think it's not needed (at a cost of $16.3 million).
In the meantime, Randy Mazey, WVU's first-year baseball coach, has made it known that he wouldn't mind playing Big 12 games at Hawley Field next season.
Mazey, who was hired after the 2013 schedule already had been made, said recently: "Speaking from a fan's perspective, there's been a lot of talk here about Big 12 baseball. But they haven't gotten (the opportunity) to see us play Big 12 teams. If I was a Mountaineer fan, I would like to see some Big 12 teams come to town."
That's why he admittedly wouldn't oppose playing at least some home conference games at Hawley Field.
Mazey certainly has done an amazing job this spring with a team picked to finish last. The Mountaineers actually wound up third in the league standings.
WVU meets Kansas in the Big 12 Tournament at 5 p.m. Wednesday in Oklahoma City.


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Townshend man charged with hate crime assault of VPIRG canvasserJuly 17,2013By SUSAN SMALLHEER
Staff Writer
BRATTLEBORO A 62-year-old Townshend man pleaded innocent Tuesday to charges of racially-based simple assault for a July 2012 incident involving a canvasser with the Vermont Public Interest Research Group.
Herman Donna is charged with threatening an African-American man, Maroni Minter, 27, of Burlington, who was canvassing on behalf of the Montpelier-based nonprofit organization. He was not injured in the incident.
The simple assault charge, with a hate crime enhancement, could land Donna in prison for two years with a $2,000 fine.
According to the Vermont State Police, Minter believed Donna had a gun in his hands and threatened to shoot him, and called him racial epithets. Police said that while Donna did not own a gun, he admitted using a long-barreled lighter and a garden tool to threaten Minter.
Donna then got into his sport utility vehicle and chased Minter, who was traveling by bicycle. Minter told police he was carrying his VPIRG identifying information, as well as a clipboard and brochures about the groups programs. Minter told police that a woman at the home told him they were not interested, and he had turned to leave when he was yelled at by a man.
Minter stated that he turned around and observed the male reach up and grab a gun, described as a black colored pistol, from above the porch doorway, state police said.
VPIRG regularly canvasses during the summer, raising money for its programs on health, the environment and the economy, state police said.
State police investigated the July 17, 2012, incident at the time, and charges were brought a year later by the Vermont attorney generals office. Assistant Attorney General Ultan Doyle, who is handling the case, did not return a call for comment for the delay in bringing the charges.
According to a press release from the attorney generals office, Donna used several racial epithets and chased the canvasser from his property, while threatening to kill him.
Minter believed that Donna had a handgun and he told police that Donna threatened to shoot him repeatedly, and even followed him down his driveway at 216 Jay Road in an SUV. Police determined that Donna actually had a garden tool and a lighter with a tube extending from the handle.
Minter, who was on a VPIRG-issued bicycle, said he tried to get away from Donna as quickly as possible, but his bike wasnt working well, so he went to a neighbors home to ask to use the phone and to get away from Donna.
The neighbor told police Minter was shaking and appeared very afraid after the incident. Minter told police that on a scale of 1 to 10, his fear was the maximum.
Donna and his wife Deborah Donna told police their home had been broken into a few years ago, and he has now become paranoid so he locks the house and cars to keep from being burglarized again.
He said he is vigilant and watches out for his neighbors too and he was not sure what Minter was up to nor did he recognize him, the police officer wrote.
Deborah Donna said her husband did yell at Minter, but never threatened to kill him.
Herman Donna denied making any racially-based statements, the affidavit filed in court stated.
Paul Burns, executive director of the Vermont Public Interest Research Group, said last summers incident with the canvasser was an isolated incident, and he declined further comment because it was a criminal case.
He said that VPIRGs experiences going door-to-door were overwhelmingly positive. VPIRG started canvassing in Windham County again last week.
Burns, who said he was not aware that the charges had been brought, said the canvasser in question was again working for VPIRG this summer.
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Located in the Normandy Region, within 30 km of the Landing Beaches, Domaine de Litteau proposes self-catering accommodation. The resort offers an outdoor and indoor swimming pool, water slides, children's playground and entertainment staff. All mobile homes feature a patio with BBQ facilities, an indoor seating and dining area, a TV, radio and private bath...
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With a stay at Pierre & Vacances Residence Le Green Beach in Port-en-Bessin-Huppain (Seine Bay), you'll be minutes from Omaha Beach Golf. This 4-star residence is within the vicinity of Overlord Museum and Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial. Make yourself at home in one of the 142 guestrooms, featuring kitchenettes with refrigerators and stovetops. Room...
Overall Rating - Good - 442 reviews
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Located in Port-en-Bessin-Huppain, Camping Port-Land offers an indoor and outdoor swimming pool, a garden with 4 fishing ponds and a sports ground. Omaha Landing Beach and the American Cemetery are both 6 km away. All mobile homes feature a terrace, seating area with a sofa and a bathroom with a shower, while some also have a TV and fishing pond views. The...
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Situated in Arromanches les bains , this property offers an ideal place of rest and relaxation. The Hotel provides air-conditioning in public areas. Guests can make use of the lift. The Hotel offers room service. There is a laundry service. The Hotel offers a medical service for guests' safety and convenience. The property is wheelchair-accessible. Guests ma...
Overall Rating - Good - 375 reviews
Excellent 9.0
Very friendly and helpful staff. Magnificent location.
The mattress in our room was past it's useful life.
Excellent 10.0
This is an older hotel with wonderful character. The location is spectacular - I loved being able to see the beach from my window! One couldn't ask for friendlier or more professional staff.
My only concern was parking but the museum lot beside the hotel is free at night and we found a large free parking lot about a five minute walk from the hotel.Hotel de la Marine provided us the opportunity to stay in a small scenic community from which we could visit the Juno Beach Centre in Courseulles, the Bayeux tapestry and the centre overlooking the village with the amazing 360 degree video. Our only disappointment was that the Creully Chateau is only open for tours in July and August and we were there in April.
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Situated in the centre of Caen overlooking the port, this seaside hotel is just 100m from the Tour Leroy. Close to the Abbaye aux Dames and the station, this air-conditioned hotel exudes an atmosphere of calm with modern and comfortable rooms. Relax witha drink in our lounge bar. Whether you're on a business trip or a relaxing break, this Mercure hotel can...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 637 reviews
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This hotel is located in a pedestrian street in the heart of old Bayeux, a medieval town by the D-Day landing beaches. It is just a few steps from the famous tapestry, the cathedral and the pick up point for all the D-Day tours. The hotel offers 32 charming and personalised rooms with Internet access, car service, gift shop and fine grocery shop. Further fac...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 274 reviews
Okay 5.0
Location for tour was right outside.
Old bedding and furniture.I paid extra for a room with two beds and only had one bed and a small sofa that did not fold out.
Excellent 9.0
Charming,historic,good value,convenient location, nice helpful staff, no surprises
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Located at the heart of the 36-hole Omaha Beach golf course, this Mercure hotel is close to Bayeux and the Normandy landing beaches. This welcoming hotel offers contemporary and spacious rooms. During your stay, you can enjoy the steam room, sauna, tenniscourt, fitness room and outdoor heated pool in season. After a day of meetings or sightseeing, discover o...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 428 reviews
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Located 2 km from the center of Caen, only 10 minutes by car from the airport and close to the Parc des Expositions and the Zenith of Caen (entertainment room), come to discover the Crocus Caen Parc Expo. This is a warm and attractive hotel, ideal for holidays and business trips. You will appreciate its restaurant "The Malherbe" which offers a selection of...
Overall Rating - Good - 10 reviews
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This hotel is located just 20 metres from Omaha Beach in Normandy. It is surrounded by a garden and offers en suite rooms, a restaurant and free on-site parking. Rooms at La Sapinière are equipped with a telephone, TV and private bathroom with shower. Some rooms have a private balcony. Hotel Sapinière's restaurant serves traditional French cuisine made wit...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 243 reviews
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Welcome to Hôtel de Brunville! This hotel has its own restaurant serving lunch and dinner where you will find a selection of items to try. Outfitted with a bar/lounge, you'll find the perfect place to have a drink. The hotel has a meeting room available for hire. Staff can provide tour/ticket assistance. Other amenities include an elevator (lift) and a garde...
Overall Rating - Good - 155 reviews
Mediocre 3.0
Location! It was very close to the Bayeux town center. The staff was friendly and most accommodating. Mary booked us on a Normandy tour that she recommended and it was excellent.
The room was clean but the shower curtain kept falling and it was very small, even by European standards. There was no info on the history of this hotel. Our Normandy guide told us it had been a bordello serving German soldiers during WWII.
Good 7.0
had a great breakfast but it was only on the weekend.
the shower had no shower curtain. the breakfast buffet was not during the week, only on the weekend. the staff was not very helpful.i would pick another hotel in the area for a little better experience.
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Located in Caen (Caen Area), Inter-Hotel Le Savoy is convenient to Eglise de la Sainte Trinite and Abbaye-aux-Hommes. This hotel is within close proximity of Universite de Caen and Memorial of Caen. Stay in one of 30 guestrooms featuring LCD televisions. Relax and take in city and courtyard views from the privacy of your room. Complimentary wired and wireles...
Overall Rating - Good - 135 reviews
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With a stay at Campanile Bayeux in Bayeux, you'll be minutes from Musee de la Bataille Normande and close to Cathedrale Notre-Dame Bayeux. This hotel is within the region of Chateau de Balleroy and Gold Beach. Stay in one of 46 guestrooms featuring flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wireless Internet access is available to keep you connected. Convenience...
Overall Rating - Good - 642 reviews
Excellent 10.0
The hotel was extremely clean. When you pull up, it's like a timewarp to the 70s or 80s, but the rooms met the needs of 2 people. I would not encourage anyone with kids to attempt to squeeze them in the room also. Best to get 2 rooms.
We liked the hotel. You do need a reservation for dinner, and breakfast buffet extremely cheap if you have any experience with European breakfast prices.The hotel staff speaks a little english, but understands all of it. Very nice. Lovely people. Even helped us with a jump to our car, because we left the lights on all night. Beautiful view if you get the backside of the hotel, you can see a pond and the amazing town cathedral. Loved it! and very reasonable! we booked ours on priceline for--- US DOLLARS!
Okay 5.0
Location to highway
We had no hand towels, no soap and the room was not as pictured on the website. Not good value for what we paid.
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With a stay at Residence Gold Beach in Asnelles (Seine Bay), you'll be close to Gold Beach. This aparthotel is within the region of Cathedrale Notre-Dame Bayeux and Musee de la Bataille Normande. Make yourself at home in one of the 48 guestrooms, featuring kitchenettes with refrigerators and microwaves. Your bed comes with cotton sheets, and all rooms are fu...
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The 4-star Novotel de Caen Côte de Nacre hotel is located between Paris and Mont Saint Michel, near Caen city center and Le Mémorial de Caen museum. The hotel has 126 rooms, a restaurant, bar, garden, as well as 6 meeting rooms. The hotel is just 10 minutes from the train station and the airport, and 15 minutes from the sea. It is ideal for both business tri...
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Okay 6.0
Parking lot was in bad shape, and general condition was not 4 star...maybe 2.5.
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Located in Colleville-sur-Mer (Seine Bay), Club Belambra Omaha Beach is convenient to Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial and Overlord Museum. This beach residence is within the vicinity of Omaha Beach Memorial Museum and Omaha Beach Golf. Make yourself at home in one of the 100 guestrooms, featuring kitchenettes with refrigerators and stovetops. Rooms h...


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Sputnik: a Mixed Legacy
50 years later, what's next?
Astronaut Alan Shepard Jr., Apollo 14 Commander, stands by the U.S. flag on the lunar Fra Mauro Highlands.
The case of Man v. Gravity came to an end a few seconds after 10:28 p.m. Moscow time on Oct. 4, 1957, when a team of Soviet engineers launched a 100-foot-tall rocket that defied the tug of Earth long enough to drop its passenger, an aluminum ball named Sputnik, into orbit. Gravity's winning streak over humanity was over.
Fifty years later, the launch of Sputnik will be celebrated this week as the official dawn of the space age and the jolt the United States needed to get serious about space travel. That legacy remains, but today, space exploration faces a crippling combination of public indifference, sinking budgets, and a fleet of elderly shuttles. In other words, the future in the cosmos isn't so clear.
While Sputnik represents the symbolic beginning of the space age, it was actually the second Soviet satellite, Sputnik 2, carrying a dog named Laika, that delivered the real shock to the West. Shortly afterwards, a Navy rocket that was supposed to deliver an American satellite blew up on the launch pad, and it wasn't until January 1958 that an Army rocket succeeded in reaching space. America's initial failure was arguably more humiliating—and motivating—than Sputnik itself. By October, American space efforts were moved from the military to a new agency called NASA, and scientists began warning that technical education needed a major overhaul if the United States was going to stay competitive.
"Sputnik was a marvelous recruiting tool," says Spencer Weart, director of the Center for the History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics. The federal government poured unprecedented money into science education: Research and development dollars jumped nearly 50 percent from 1958 to 1959. Suddenly, the stuff of Buck Rogers comics was a national aspiration.
The decade after Sputnik, which culminated with the lunar landing in 1969, was the golden age of space travel. Funding peaked in the mid-1960s at over 4 percent of federal spending. But once the novelty of the moon landing wore off, space missions were trumped by pressing concerns like the Vietnam War and race riots. By 1975, funding had sunk to about 1 percent of the federal budget, a level it has barely surpassed since.
The moon and beyond. Today, public support for space travel is high—until money enters the equation. A 2006 Gallup Poll found that 2 in 3 people support a return to the moon and beyond, as long as NASA's budget does not exceed 1 percent of the federal budget. But when asked whether the money for current shuttles could have been better spent elsewhere, opinions are split. Support for NASA funding spiked after the Challenger explosion in 1986 and the Columbia explosion in 2003 but did not survive slumps in the economy.
In 2004, President George W. Bush called for a return trip to the moon and, eventually, Mars. While space advocates welcomed the idea, skeptics smelled a president trying to beef up his visionary status in an election year. And many congressional leaders accuse the Bush administration of underfunding the agency, which currently receives about 0.6 percent of the federal budget.
Meanwhile, experts say a piloted mission to Mars is still decades in the future. The plan faces a slew of daunting challenges, including how to shield humans from dangerous radiation on the trip. "At the moment," says Michael Neufeld, a curator at the National Air and Space Museum, "there is only the political will to go to the moon."
Several milestones stand in the way of that return. The current fleet of shuttles is literally falling apart, as evidenced by the foam that fell off the Columbia during launch, ultimately dooming the vehicle. The remaining shuttles are to be retired in 2010, the year the international space station is due to be completed, but NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said last week the United States, which funds about 70 percent of the space station, will bow out of the project after 2015. Prominent scientists have criticized the station's research value. The current shuttle fleet is scheduled to be replaced by 2014, but without more funding, the project may be delayed for a year.


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Another day, another press conference at Pilot Flying J headquarters. CEO Jimmy Haslam is still standing by his man--I mean, his company--and he still claims he had absolutely no idea anything bad was happening, even as it was making his company a lot of money.
He may be telling the truth--the affidavit doesn't implicate him as directly as some other Pilot employees--but we can't help but think that a man who has followed in his father's footsteps creating a giant empire of truck stops, a man who is in charge of thousands of employees who cater to the wants and needs of truckers, is honestly surprised that his sales employees say "f--k" a lot. Which is what Haslam said, in his ad-libbed additions to the prepared statement he read (posted below in full*). "We don't talk in that kind of language," Haslam said.
Before announcing a number of measures to make it look like Pilot's handling the situation--measures that one would think would be very reassuring to customers--Haslam said last week had been the worst in his 36 years in business. He said that when he held the press conference on Friday he had only skimmed the affidavit; after sitting down to read it in depth Friday night, he was horrified and couldn't sleep at all. He said there was "absolutely no excuse for that kind of behavior." Then he announced internal audits, an external investigation, and the placing on administrative leave of "several members" of the sales staff likely involved in the rebate fraud. Which members? How many members? Pilot isn't saying. But if we find out more, we'll let you know.
*Like Friday, Halsam used this statement as kind of a jumping off-point for what he wanted to say, so if you want exact quotes,
you'll need to seek out the video here's a link to watch.
Statement from Pilot Flying J CEO Jimmy HaslamThanks again for coming out today.I want to continue to keep you informed of current events here at Pilot Flying J.As was the case last week, as much as I would like to, I will not be able to take questions because of the ongoing federal investigation. I hope I will answer most of your questions in my remarks.It still appears to us, based on all we know at this time, that this federal investigation is focused on a narrow slice of our business in which rebates on diesel fuel purchases are manually calculated and paid to a relatively small number of our 3,300 trucking company customers.We are continuing to cooperate appropriately with investigators, but we are determined to understand on our own the questions they are asking and to do everything we can to make sure we are never in this position again.To that end, I'm announcing today five steps that we taking to address the issues raised by the investigation. I'm going to take them one by one.
• Immediately, we are bringing our field audit team to Knoxville to review all 3,300 contracts with our trucking company customers, not just the relative few implied in the federal affidavit, and to proactively address any miscalculations that we may find.Our goal is to understand the entirety of that part of our business, not just the manually processed contracts. If we find an underpayment, we will encourage the affected customer to review our finding, test with their own audit if they like, and if we owe them money, we will write them a check immediately.We will be communicating this plan directly to our trucking company customers and moving through this process as quickly as possible. I hope this process won't take more than four to eight weeks, but the important thing is that we get it right.I've already spoken personally to several of our customers, including Curt Morehouse with Morehouse Trucking and Tommy Hodges with Titan. We are working with Curt to reconcile his account, and I will be going to Tommy on Wednesday.
• Yesterday, we placed on administrative leave several members of our diesel fuel sales team and, on an interim basis, we are restructuring that team pending further investigation to get control of that operation and restore confidence to our customers.Placing members of our team on leave is very painful. For years, we have been a trusting, proud family here at Pilot Flying J focused on providing honest, forthright services to our customers. We have had relatively few personnel issues, but we cannot ignore the content of the federal affidavit released last Thursday evening.We are not judging the guilt or innocence of the team members placed on administrative leave. We are addressing actions and words that fail to show proper respect to our customers and that violate the character, values and principles that have been core to this company since it was founded 54 years ago.As a private company, we have dealt with these members privately and will not release their names publicly.• I have directed that all of our diesel fuel customers be converted to electronic calculation and payment eliminating future risks of any abuse that might be enabled by manual calculation and payment.This process will fully eliminate manual processing at Pilot Flying J and place all of our customers on electronic direct bill. I expect this process to be completed by June 30.• I have asked our outside counsel to help us create and staff a position of Chief Compliance Officer to report to the company's general counsel to deal with any similar questions or issues that might come up in the future.The establishment of a position of Chief Compliance Officer is important, because had we had one before, perhaps some team member would have raised a question about manual rebates internally before anyone would ever have gone to federal investigators.If we had discovered any irregularities on our own, we would have fixed them on our own. That would have been good business, and it would have been the Pilot Flying J way - always do what is right first.I expect this person to be on the job within 30 days.• Lastly but very important, our board, in a special meeting yesterday, voted to hire an Independent Special Investigator to oversee and validate all of our internal inquiries related to the federal investigation.Because there is a federal investigation now, we have to take extraordinary steps to do whatever is necessary to repair any damage done to this company's reputation and restore the full integrity on which this company was built.We will find the best person in America to come into this situation and oversee and make certain that any and all of our own investigations into these matters are thorough and correct and help us ensure that what happened to this company last week never happens again.I expect this person to be on the job within 30 days.
We know this process is going to be difficult and probably will last for a while, but we are not going to sit by idly in the meantime. We are going to diligently and aggressively figure out for ourselves what's going on, and if we find anything amiss, we are going to make it straight right away.
In closing, we have received tons of expressions of support from our friends here in Knoxville and Cleveland, our customers, our suppliers and vendors, and I cannot tell you how much that means to our family and our team members at Pilot Flying J.Last week was very tough, and it's not over, but we are back to business as usual, we are dealing aggressively with this situation, and we all believe we will come out of this adversity stronger than ever as individuals and as a company.Thank you very much.
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