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This boutique hotel is centrally located in St. Petersburg, close to the Kazan Cathedral and Nevsky Prospect. Elegant rooms with antique furniture, free parking and free Wi-Fi are featured here.
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Art-hotel located on the Kazanskaya street, right behind the Kazan Cathedral, a short walk from Nevsky Prospect subway station.
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LEO-CEDARVILLE – Leo is a perennial power in the Allen County Athletic Conference and they proved that once again Tuesday night, knocking South Adams from contention in the annual boys and girls basketball tournament at Leo.
The Leo boys surged away from South Adams in the middle quarters and cruised to an 89-62 victory. Leo's girls had to hold off a spirited late South Adams run fueled by the strong post play of junior Dzejna Ahmetovic to prevail 40-30.
Leo's boys will play Woodlan in the first game of the ACAC semi-finals Wednesday night at 6 at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum. The winner of that contest will play Bluffton or Southern Wells in the championship S...
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SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) -- When the cracks in the building appeared early Tuesday afternoon, a stocky man in his early 30s, a feared political operative who a neighbor says dropped out of school in seventh grade, quickly arrived at the scene in this crowded industrial suburb of Bangladesh's capital.
By then, fear had spread through the 3,200 people who worked in the five clothing factories that jammed the upper floors of Rana Plaza, and the handful of shops on the lower ones. Most of the workers had gathered in the street out front. Few wanted to go back in. Inspectors said the eight-story building should be closed until it could be inspected.
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During the long search, Rana was missing. Local media reported he left his basement office in Rana Plaza just before the collapse, drove away and dropped from sight. He was arrested Sunday as he tried to cross the border into India.
For years, though, Rana had sat at the nexus of party politics and the powerful $20 billion garment industry that drives the economy of this deeply impoverished nation. This intersection of politics and business, combined with a minimum wage of $9.50 a week that has made Bangladesh the go-to nation for many of the world's largest clothing brands, has made dangerous factory conditions almost normal, experts say.
Government officials, labor activists, manufacturers and retailers all called for improved safety standards after a November garment factory fire in the same suburb, when locked emergency exits trapped hundreds of workers inside and 112 people died. But almost nothing has changed.
"Successive Bangladeshi governments have paid lip service to worker safety but in reality it is only the factory owners who have the ear of policymakers," Brad Adams, the Asia director for Human Rights Watch, said in a statement. "How many factory tragedies will it take before the Bangladeshi government ends its cozy relationship with powerful company owners and prioritizes worker safety?"
Before the collapse, Rana was little known outside of the few blocks of his tiny empire, a grid of poorly paved streets in the crowded industrial suburb of Savar, built up over the past decade or so around hundreds of garment factories.
The son of a local businessman with political connections, Rana became a neighborhood force by working as an organizer for the two political parties that have competed for power for decades in Bangladesh, according to local politicians, as well as someone who grew up near Rana and still lives in the area.
While Rana is currently a leader of the youth group of the ruling Awami League, he has also worked for that party's archrival, the Bangladesh National Party.
"He doesn't belong to any particular political party," said Ashrafuddin Khan Imu, an Awami League leader and longtime Rana rival. "Whatever party is in power, he is there."
In essence, these people say, Rana is a neighborhood political enforcer, regularly ordering thousands of people into the streets for rallies. Most recently, Imu said, he has been working for Awami League lawmaker Talukder Touhid Jang Murad. When Murad was asked about Rana after the collapse, Murad denied any connections. The next day, Dhaka newspapers printed photographs of Murad kissing Rana on the forehead after a successful rally earlier this year.
"He used to intimidate people whenever he needed them, like bringing people out for street marches in support of the lawmaker," said the neighbor, who spoke on condition he not be named, fearing Rana would send his men to beat him up after having been threatened once before. "Neighbors would avoid him ... No one wanted to upset him."
Money came with his political connections, with wealth built upon a string of government-owned properties he acquired at reduced prices, according to local media reports. He built a small apartment building and a small commercial building, where a Bata shoe store is now on the ground floor. In 2010 he built Rana Plaza on land that had once been a swamp. He had a permit to erect a five-story building, but built three additional stories illegally.


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Firefighters try to put out a fire at a farm produce wholesale market... News Photo 159052214China - East Asia,Emergencies and Disasters,Farm,Fire,Firefighter,Horizontal,Market,Moving Activity,Produce,Rescue Worker,Shanghai,TryingPhotographer ChinaFotoPressCollection: ChinaFotoPress 2013 ChinaFotoPressSHANGHAI, CHINA - JANUARY 06: (CHINA OUT) Firefighters try to put out a fire at a farm produce wholesale market on January 6, 2013 in Shanghai, China. A market fire that occurred Sunday evening in Shanghai led six deaths and injured more than ten. (Photo by ChinaFotoPress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images)


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WASHINGTON - Football soon won't be the only sport with safety rated protective helmets.
The rating system conducted by Virginia Tech- Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences is expanding to include helmets for hockey, baseball, softball and lacrosse.
That will give players and sports programs the ability to make informed choices when buying a helmet. The school hopes the new ratings will also encourage manufacturers to improve the safety of their helmets.
The university's research center believes the ratings will help reduce the number concussions in these sports, a problem which has become a public health priority. A many as 3.8 million sports-related concussions occur each year in the United States
"Before these rating systems there was no bio-mechanical data out there that's independent for people to make a decision," says Stefan Duma, professor of biomedical engineering and department head at Virginia Tech. "When you look at the worst performing helmets compared to the best performance helmets, the difference is dramatic. The lower acceleration results in lower risks."
The announcement comes as new research published this month shows that the likelihood of a concussion depends on the acceleration and rotation of the head. Virginia Tech, the National Institutes of Health and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration are funding the research.
Such data will be used to predict the likelihood a blow will result in a concussion when the helmets are tested in the laboratory, the university says.
"All the standards before this only look at linear. But now we're including rotation, which is a component of all the head impacts," Duma tells WTOP.
New football helmet ratings will include data that looks at rotational acceleration beginning in 2015.
Hockey helmet ratings are due out this fall. Youth football results will be released in 2015 followed by baseball, softball and lacrosse in 2016.
Despite the advances in testing and helmet design, Duma notes that no helmet can prevent all concussions.
"The most effective strategies to reduce concussions in sports involve modifying league rules and player technique to limit exposure to head impacts," Duma says.
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- Art Monk suing NFL, helmet-maker over concussion injuries
WTOP's Kristi King contributed to this report. Follow @kingWTOP and @WTOP on Twitter.
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They spent many weekends and holidays outdoors - mostly by the lakes and rivers of the Midwest- and fishing was an activity loved by all members of the family. They were proud of the fish they caught, enjoyed the time they spent together as a family, and it showed in these photographs.
So, when I think of my father and Father's Day, fish naturally come to mind.
I don't think I'm alone. I think in the lives of many children, bonds were built with their dads while baiting hooks or casting lines. I suppose this is why it's such a popular theme in Father's Day cards.
I created these fish projects for the family to make together. Each member can make a fish or two and add it to the string for the garland, on a line for the fishing pole centerpiece, or on a gift or card.
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Besides burning calories and building muscle, dancing engages creativity and opens new learning channels within the brain. Through dance, an individual builds strong emotional, cognitive, physical and social assets.
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A study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that frequent dancing reduces the likelihood of dementia, and builds memory. If you change your routine, you'll up the ante because rapid-fire, split-decisions brought on by unfamiliarity improves mental acuity.
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All at once, dancing involves kinesthetic, rational, musical and emotional processes. This increases neural pathways in the brain, known as neuroplasticity, and creates new pathways. This keeps your mind sharp, and strengthens how you perceive, learn, make decisions, and reason.
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Through The Wormhole With Morgan Freeman: Season 1 DVD
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- Run Time: 373 Minutes
- Region: 1
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- Studio: Science Channel
- DVD Release Date: March 8, 2011
- Cast: Morgan Freeman
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- Release Date: 2011
Is There a Creator?
Did our universe come into being by chance or was it created by a god? The latest science shows that the four forces governing our universe are finely tuned, so much so that it has led many to believe that something must have calibrated them.
The Riddle of the Black Holes
They are the most powerful objects in the universe. Astronomers now think there are billions of them, swallowing up planets and stars in violent feeding frenzies, and that reality may take place on a two-dimensional hologram at the edge of the universe.
Is Time Travel Possible?
Einsteins Theory of Relativity says time travel is possible, if youre going forward in time. But finding a w ay to travel backwards requires breaking the speed of light. Now strange-but-true phenomena such as quantum nonlocality may make this a reality.
What Happened Before the Beginning?
Cosmologists and astronomers agree: our universe is 13.7 billion years old. Using cutting-edge technology, scientists are now able to take a snapshot of the universe a mere heartbeat after its birth. But if the universe was born, where did it come from?
How Did We Get Here?
Everywhere we look on Earth, in the most hospitable of environments and in the most extreme, we find life. Yet we have only ever found life on our planet. How did the stuff of stars come together to create life as we know it? What do we mean by life?
Are We Alone?
Aliens almost certainly do exist. So why havent we met E.T. yet? Were only just developing instruments powerful enough to scan for them. One leading astronomer believes she may already have heard a hint of their first efforts to communicate.
What Are We Really Made of?
Our understanding of the universe and reality has drastically changed over the last 100 years, and its on the verge of another seismic shift based on LHC findings. What we find could validate theories about how the world works and what we are made of.
Beyond the Darkness
What is the universe made of? If you answered stars, planets, gas and dust, youre wrong. Today scientists think there must be five times as much dark matter as regular matter, but they have no idea what it is only that its not made of atoms we know of.


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RICHMOND, Va., April 14, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- In its 11 th year, the Genworth (NYSE: GNW) 2014 Cost of Care Survey shows the cost to receive long term care services at home in the District of Columbia (D.C.) through a home health aide increased over the past year. On a national level, the survey shows a dramatic increase in facility based care, such as an assisted living facility or nursing home, while the cost to receive care at home through homemaker services or a home health aide is rising at a moderate growth rate. This is good news for consumers as almost three quarters of people needing long term care prefer receiving it in their homes, according to Genworth's extensive claims data (Long term care claims Experience Data for Genworth Life Insurance Company and affiliates – December 1974-June 30, 2013).
"Over the past 40 years, Genworth has worked hard to educate today's families on the need to plan for the significant financial risk that long term care could impose on them," said Tom McInerney, Genworth president and chief executive officer. "With the number of Americans over 65 projected to double over the next 40 years, continued increases in the cost of care and limited public financing options available to cover these costs, long term care is one of the most important social issues of our time."
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Grand Slam #1005 + 2: Dall (1986 Yukon), Fannin/Stone (1987 Yukon), Bighorn (1988 Colorado Unit S-26), Stone (1995 British Columbia), Desert (2001 Nevada Unit 161), Bighorn (2009 Wyoming Unit 5)
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Today we lost the beautiful European oak floorboards from downstairs. Each was torn up, then the panels and styrene were taken out to leave just the sub floor. All the nails holding the floorboards down seemed to have reacted to the water from the Thames, producing a black residue.
Patent Plaque
When you get a patent accepted by the US Patent Office Microsoft sends you a wooden plaque, faced in a sheet of brass, which has the first page of the patent application etched in it. Today I received my 30th, #8,555,192.
2014.01.16. Gas Meter
I'm relieved to have electricity and gas back on at home. Electricity + gas = heat.
Encroaching Water
We've spent the last few days dealing with the slow approach of a swelling Thames river. Now we're in a hotel, having evacuated ourselves this morning. I suspect by now that water will have reached our hallway, our kitchen, our living room and the rest of our ground floor. I'm glad we're safe, warm and together, though.
2014.01.06. Date stamp
This is how I start a new work day (and in this case, a new work year) in my sketchbook.
2013 Maplecrest Christmas
2013 Maplecrest Christmas, a set on Flickr.
Just got back from another festive Christmas in Neosho, MO. Here are some shots.
Research Through Design Session 1 | Room 2 | Doing
Continuing my notes from the recent Research Through Design conference in Newcastle [see opening keynote]. This is the first of the sessions I attended on Day 1. Each session was held in a small room that sat about 30 people, all around a large conference table, and featured talks by 3 or 4 of the participants who had each submitted some kind of artefact to the event. Each artefact was presented, then plenty of time was left for discussion amongst the presenters and audience, not that it felt like there was a division between the two. Each session was tied thematically, with the following talks all being connected through the "Doing" of design research.
Below are my notes from day 1 of this event, featuring biological/architectural work, code, craft and paper electronics.
Rachel Wingfield Keynote at Research Through Design 2013
I'm at the very excellent Research Through Design conference up in Newcastle. Unlike many of the events I go to, this one is very focussed on the things that people design. All the speakers have had to submit an object, which they are then talking about during the sessions during the day. There have been some beautiful objects, and some great discussion.
I'm dumping my notes from the event here with very little expansion. I hope they may be useful to someone, but I suspect actually that they will be quite opaque to everyone but me. Ah well.
Day one opened with a great keynote by Rachel Wingfield from Loop.pH. She showed a LOT of cool stuff. I'll try and cover the best of it below.
Things We've Learnt About…Search and Web Use
We have a new issue of the "Things We've Learnt About…" magazine, a regular publication we release each issue of which summarizes the research work of the Socio-Digital Systems team around a particular theme. This one is all about "Search & Web Use" and has been primarily authored by Richard Harper and Sian Lindley, with a LOT of hard work by Nick Duffield, who did all the design work on it.
The digital version is available for free, or you can buy a printed version if you want (they're really nicely printed, but done print-on-demand so are a little pricey – we don't make any money from them).
This issue is a summary of the SDS "Beyond Search" theme, focussing on Sian's "5 Web Modes", and showcasing various projects that have come out of the work, including Seeds, Cards and our work with Aalto University on "Domesticating Search". I'm pretty proud of this magazine series, and this is another great issue for us to give out both internally and externally, to showcase what we do.
As a reminder, there are now three issues of the magazine, on Communication, Memory and Search. All of them are available from the here.
SXSW Day 1: Bre Pettis (MakerBot) opening Keynote
I'm at the SXSW Interactive festival in Austin Texas for a few days. It's a huge event made up of talks, workshops, films and lots of other stuff to see. I'm going to a number of the talks, and I thought I'd try and post some of my notes online here.
The first of these is the opening keynote, given Bre Pettis, the founder of MakerBot, which produces a cheap 3D printer, and of Thingverse, an online forum for sharing 3D models that can be printed out with these kinds of printers.
Questions for Bre were posted to Twitter under #AskPettis.
To be honest, other than describing 3D printing as "The Next Industrial Revolution" and saying that "Creativity is now accessible in the world of things", Bre's talk was a little shallow and vision-free. He didn't really paint a big picture of the changes that 3D printing will bring to society, commerce etc, but instead showed lots of little examples of things that people had made, mostly with the MakerBot printer.
FWIW, he was wearing a jacket by Sruli Recht, produced using 3D printing and laser cut wood. It reminded me an awful lot of the wooden textile produced by Elise Strozyk at Central St. Martin's in 2009. I'm not sure which part of this, if any, was 3D printed.
Here are a bunch of the examples Bre gave of things made with Makerbot:
- Customizer by MakerBot allows you to print your own Nokia Lumia 820 phone case.
- A 3D printed adapter for connecting Lego Duplo bricks to wooden train sets.
- He noted that 7 of the top 10 architecture firms use MakerBots. Not sure if this is US only. Or what "top" means in this context.
- NASA:JPL are prototyping parts for Mars Rovers using MakerBots.
- Thomas Lipoma's prototype for studying Sleep Apnea was created using Makerbot.
- Robohand, a collaboration between Ivan Owen and Richard Van As, is a 3D printed robotic hand for a 5 year old boy born with one missing hand.
- Kacie Hultgren uses a 3D printer for theatre set design
Markerbots are starting to show up in schools (there's an interesting thread at SXSW about how kids are embracing digital creativity – drawing, coding, electronics etc., despite the feeling that school curricula fail to keep up with the times).
Other examples include someone who created the part to fix an espresso machine, a guy who created shoe inserts to make his daughter tall enough to go on some fairground rides, and another person who replaced expensive piano parts with 3D printed version.
Bre presented a prototype of the "MakerBot Digitizer" for the first time. This is basically a rotating platform that uses two lasers and webcam to scan 3D parts so that they can be reproduced using the printer. Bre described this process as "…like when Flynne gets scanned into Tron", and a way of "building out a "3D ecosystem". He admitted that the technology has been around for 25 years, but requires a lot of post-processing, the implication being that the secret sauce for the Digitizer is the software, which must make it easier to create closed meshes that can actually be printed.
Bre also mentioned the MakerBot partnership with Autocad. In the "Create" tent at SXSW they are teaching people to use Autocads "123D Creature" iPad app to make monsters, then printing them out on the spot using a row of Makerbots.


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I got invited to a magazine show! This is a pretty big deal for me guys. When I opened the letter, which was super fancy by the way, I was so excited. I first of all didn't think it was real. But after a little googling I came to realize two things: it was real and I had nothing to wear. I continued googling to see what other kinds of outfits, looks, dresses, designers, had been worn in previous years. I didn't know if it was long or short style dresses, are we talking Oscars or AMA's ya know?! So after a bit of research I settled on a lace skirt that I would make be the most talked about outfit there, probably from the most unknown person there.
I immediately went online and began searching like a champ. I came across a few options that I thought might work.
Find all the above here.
I need to decide if I want to go graceful and elegant like option number three, or do we want to be a little sassy and dare devilish and go with the black leather lace.
I couldn't decide what I wanted to do or wear, so aside from asking you guys to comment on what YOU vote, I thought I'd ask my mom. While she has next to no fashion sense, there is always comfort in getting your moms opinion, regardless of how old you are! My mom is always telling me the wrong answer. "You should wear a jacket it's going to be cold"..80 degrees, "eat before you go, they aren't serving food"..5 course meal. LOLOl you get the point. So she votes that I go with option number 1. The skirt is sexy but not too revealing, as it's my first show, and a timeless shirt like shown would guarantee me never being featured on Fashion Police's starlet or streetwalker camera.
So before I straight up beat the odds and go with what my mom's opinion is, I am coming to you guys for help! See what other young women are wearing or what looks they're going for to similar appearances and let's see what you can come up with. Remember I'm trying to show off my unique fashion and styling expertise, however I also don't want to look back in 6 months and say oh boy, WHAT was I thinking.
Comment whatever you think you'll like in the comments below. If you find anything off the site I provided that's even easier! Can't wait to see what you guys can come up with!


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Chocolate Delight
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Dresses & Skirts
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Shell Flared Skirt
Arched panels are set to give this skirt movement. In a soft sheen gabardine with just the right amount of stretch. Shell: 63% Polyester, 33% Viscose, 4% Elastane. Lining: 100% Polyester. Machine wash, warm; tumble dry medium. Or dry clean. Imported.
- Sits at the waist.
- Trapunto stitching on contour waistband. Hidden side zip with hook-and-eye closure.
- Satin-bound waistband facing. Soft, lightweight thread-tacked lining.
- Length: 20".
We're so sorry: this item sold out sooner than expected. For an equally stylish substitute, please call our Style Experts at 1.877.948.2525. Or click on Live Help below for immediate assistance.