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DR.com Exclusive Stage Door and NY Premiere Photos and Video Clips
Thank you for your patience while I sorted through the promised photos and footage from my trip to New York and the North American premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2. You will find the photos here (premiere) and here (stage door), and my video clips here:
Dan at the premiere – Dan at the stage door
You can read my trip report under the cut. I hope you enjoy all these exclusive goodies!
The event: Trip to New York July 10th and 11th for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 North American Premiere
The players: My name is Coralie and I have been on staff at DanRadcliffe.com since 2004, which makes me what one would call a 'fixture'. This is my 5th Harry Potter premiere. Nicole, the trusted sidekick with a knack for great pictures and a quick sense of humor that stems from watching too many Bugs Bunny cartoons while growing up. This is Nicole's 4th HP premiere. Jean, the relative newbie who always manages to get great birds' eye view shots of everything because he is 6'1", which is like being on the second floor to our street level vantage point. This is Jean's 2nd HP premiere.
Day 1 – I will start my trip report by saying that I really wanted to see Dan in "How to Succeed in Business" on the Sunday before the premiere, so we decided to try our luck standing in line for $30 general rush tickets and proceeded to arrive at the theatre around 9:30AM (the box office opens at noon on Sundays, and the play starts at 3:00PM); to our dismay, the line at that time was already quite long as it had started forming (we were later informed) at 6:00AM. We debated the merits of waiting anyway, and decided to stick around just in case; we even had some free 'entertainment' as two women started brawling across the street while their boyfriends looked on. We were pretty sure that fists were going to fly, but thankfully they settled down before any real harm could be done. In the mean time, the line we were in kept growing, but not only behind us! What people apparently do is hold spaces in line for their friends, who amble over much later to join in, so when the box office opened promptly at noon, the rush tickets ran out about five people ahead of us and we left empty handed.
I was, of course, a woman on a mission to get some exclusive goodies for you, our faithful readers, so around 3:00PM I returned to the theatre with Jean to check out the set-up for stage door photos and autographs. We thought we would have plenty of time to savor a nice cold drink before lining up, but low and behold the fans were already in line so we joined the throng for what turned out to be our second very long and hot wait of the day! We even saw some patrons step out at intermission, and place themselves in line for autographs instead of returning inside for the second half of the show (I wanted to call out "Give Me Your Tickets People!", but was simply too hot to muster the energy). In a way, this was a friendlier stage door experience than for Equus because more of the cast members came out and signed for the waiting fans, including John Laroquette who made it a point to reach over the heads and grab as many items as he could to sign. When Dan finally appeared, it was almost 6:30PM (the play finished at 5:40PM). The crowd got very pushy and boisterous then, and at one point Dan's bodyguard reached over the barrier to pull a little boy out of the pen where he risked getting crushed. It was rather sweet to watch Daniel hobnob with him; he will definitely make a great father one day! Even funnier to me was the fact that the child kept referring to Dan's bodyguard as "Spaso" until one of the security men gently corrected him and told him his name was pronounced "Spas-eh" (See? You learned something new just now!) . We managed to get some decent photos and video footage before meeting up with Nicole for supper and a long overdue round of cold drinks!
Day 2 – In hindsight, we should not have walked around town all morning as we were totally flaked by the time we had to head over to the premiere! Again, it was an extremely hot day (about 36 Celsius/95 Fahrenheit) and there was no shade where the press pens were set up. We heard that some fans who were waiting across the street (some of them for days) had to be treated for heat exhaustion! The Warner Bros. staff members in attendance were extremely considerate, coming around regularly with bottles of water that were unfortunately tepid by the time they reached us, but refreshing nonetheless. By the time we were in position and tightly hemmed in on all sides, it was time for the arrivals. In attendance were the Davids (Heyman, Yates and Barron), Steve Kloves, Tom Felton, Alan Rickman, Matthew Lewis, Rupert, Emma and Daniel.
A couple of amusing side notes: I had decided, for the occasion, to make myself a Golden Snitch fascinator, and I strongly suspect that a lot of the photos taken in the area where I was standing have at least one white fluffy wing in them! You will also notice my creation in some of my video footage. I had also made some miniature snitches with white feathers and gold beads to hand out to the Potter celebrities for the occasion, and they were quite a hit. I was not able to hand Dan's snitch to him directly as I was busy with my camera, but I held it out to Spase in the hopes that he would later give it to Dan on my behalf. He looked it over very, very carefully from a distance before side stepping towards me, taking it from my hand and stuffing it in his pocket. It was quite funny really, because I don't believe that I am particularly dangerous looking (especially when I am wearing a snitch on my head), and the handmade miniature snitch was all of 6 centimeters of harmless white fluff in a clear plastic pouch, but there you go!
Everyone who came around to chat was friendly and enthusiastic, and I actually felt like I was in the presence of old friends, but let's talk about Dan, shall we? It was around 6:00PM when his arrival was announced (the premiere had started at 5PM, and the gala screening was supposed to take place at 6:30PM), so I knew I wouldn't have much time to act! He finally appeared with his assortment of escorts, bodyguard and publicist to the left of where I was standing with Nicole (Jean had been following him down the carpet with the video camera held up at arm's length), and proceeded to answer questions for the various media outlets clumped together at that spot. Once he'd finished, they hurried him along and he was just starting to walk past me (which is what had happened at the NY premiere of Deathly Hallows – part 1) when I held out my hand and called out "DanRadcliffe.com"! I imagine I could have lost my limb to Spase, but the risk was worth taking as Dan took a step back to shake my hand (for those who are wondering, he has a firm grip but not the type that will make your eyes bug out), thus allowing me the chance to speak with him. He was considerate and gracious as I asked him a question he must have heard a gazillion times before (favorite recollection of all the Potter movies), and he took his time to answer me before moving on to field the next question. Moments later, he was spirited out of the press area at top speed as the gala screening of the movie was by then overdue.
Unfortunately we did not get to attend a press screening of the movie, which is apparently outstanding, but at least we don't have much longer to wait! I also want to mention what a pleasure it was for me to hobnob with Rosey Edeh (ET Canada), Claire (RupertGrint.net) and Stephanie (TLC) on the red carpet. This last Harry Potter premiere was certainly a bittersweet one, but the memories will last forever and I feel privileged to have been allowed the opportunity of covering these on behalf of DanRadcliffe.com throughout the years.


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Make sure to read this before you decide to purchase any item requiring financing at Zales or Zales.com
Just to let you know that before I decided to write this I tried to resolve my unfortunate issue with Zales and Citi (Zalesâs financing bank) directly. It is apparent to me now that neither Zales nor Citi are willing to help abiding by some of the worst customer service rules and regulations youâll ever come across.
Here is what happened:
In 2007 I purchased a diamond wedding band for myself (ITEM #: 17762659) which I decided to finance through Zales financing company (Citi group). They asked for 10% deposit and I was on my way with a brand new diamond wedding band that I thought would last me a lifetime. Not so fast! When I came home my wife noticed a small damage in the setting where diamonds are set in the ring. No problem I thought, Zales should help me with this by exchange this ring for another. I went to 3 other Zales locations and I noticed that every single one of these rings had the same problem with the setting and they were all damaged just the same. I decided to return my purchase back to Zales Diamond Jewelry store for a refund as I had the ring for less than two weeks in my possession. I did not go back to the original store I purchased the ring from, because I live in Los Angeles and I purchased my ring in San Diego, but that shouldnât have matter I thought. So within about 2 weeks of my original purchase I returned the ring and was refunded back my 10% down payment at the Los Angeles Zales Diamond Jewelry store location where I returned the ring and was told by the Zales store manager that I owe nothing to Zales and I can comeback anytime if I decide to buy something else (something I am not planning to do ever again and would not recommend to any of you reading this post).
The problem:
I received a statement from Zales about 2 months later stating that I owed them around $90.00 in interest for the time the ring was in my possession which was completely ridiculous since I returned the ring within 30 days of my purchase and should not owe Zales anything. So I called Zalesâ customer service and after speaking with a few imbeciles who had no idea how to address the issue I was able to find an actual person who understood exactly what happened and who told me on the phone that the problem is now fixed and I should not worry about anything from here on out. Obviously if that was the case, this particular post would never have taken place.
Itâs 2009 and the problem is getting worse:
I tried to get a loan recently and I was informed by credit bureau that Zales reported that I was over my limit on my loan and that I was past due 30 days on my payment. WHAT?!?! âAre they seriousâ I yelled?! How is that possible that I owed money on something that I did not own? How is that possible that after being told by Zales Diamond Jewelry store manager that I owed nothing at the time of returning my wedding band and after being told by a customer service representative the same thing that I owed nothing to Zales I am to find out that Zales reported to credit bureau that I owed them money and was late on a loan? This is preposterous! This is ridiculous! This is madness! Zales and Citi are out of their minds to report such inaccurate information to the credit bureaus. Guess what, they blamed me for this mess.
Resolution or lack thereof:
I decided to use social media channels to address this issue. I twittered about my unfortunate problem and got connected with Zalesâs Twitter representative This person directed me to the credit bureau that should have helped me with my problem I thought. So I spoke with Citi and they told me that theyâll review my problem and will let me know of their findings. When I spoke with the rep, I specifically told him, that before any final decision is made Iâd like to make sure that I am contacted of the findings and allowed to provide additional information to help address and fix this issue should the finding be inaccurate or insufficient. Well nothing of such sort happened to no surprise. I received a letter recently stating that the report could not be corrected due to âno errors on the banks partâ. REALLY?!?! NO ERROR ON BANKâS PART?!?! WHOSE ERROR WAS IT THEN?!?! As I was told by the supervisor of the customer service supervisor (thatâs 3 levels up from regular customer service rep.) the error was mine. They informed me that I should have made a payment on the bill I received even though I no longer had the ring in my possession and then wait until it gets posted and then request a credit back because I returned the ring and if the credit wasnât issued then I would have needed to call back and ask for it again. Is this a normal way of doing business? Is this how returns are handled as a normal practice? Is it customerâs responsibility to make sure that Zales and Citi work out their issues with billing? Now that I talked with Citi again I am being told that I have to go back to the store where I returned my ring at and ask them for a record of when my ring was actually returned. REALLY?!?! I donât remember which store I went to, but Zales does not have that information either. Nor do they want to research themselves when the ring was actually returned, but they definitely know that it wasnât a bankâs error.
In closing:
I will make sure that the people I work with, friends with or talk to are all aware of the horrific business practices of Zales and Citi who ruin peopleâs credit scores and credit bureau information should they decide to return their purchases back to Zales Diamond Jewelry store. However to avoid similar problem that I ran into, I could simply advise them (and all of you) not to do business with Zales Diamond Jewelry or Zales.com so that they would not be disappointed by the conveyer manufacturing of their Diamond Jewelry that has more quite a lot of defects. If that wedding band was actually manufactured from the beginning with no defects all this frustration could have actually been avoided. DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH ZALES. COM OR ZALES DIMAOND JEWERLY AS THEY WILL RUIN YOUR CREDIT SHOULD YOU DECIDE TO RETURN ANY OF THE ITEMS YOU BUY!!!
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Holleigh on 07/25/2013:
Thank you. You just saved me so much.
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Lost Wedding Ring
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TUKWILA, WASHINGTON -- My diamond wedding ring fell off my band after a week that I had taken into the jewlery store for the semi annual inspection. This was February in 2010. They promised me my ring back by the end of March. Well April came around and I called to see if my ring was back in and they told me that we had picked up my ring already which we knew never happened we were in cali the day that the ring was picked up. Then she told me we will figure out who picked up the ring. After a week later and no answers she tells me that they are investigating who picked up the ring so now they will have to order us a new ring. By this point I was pissed off and they were not sympathetic at all. all she could say was sorry we will take care of it. Then another few weeks almost a month went by and they called to pick up my ring. I get there after a 45 min drive and the ring was not the ring we had bought. So again I was pissed again and all they could say sorry..2 weeks went by again and they finally got my ring in. Do you think they had the right diamond for the setting this time? Hell No!!! She tried giving us a lower quality diamond than the one we had bought like we wouldn't notice it. The store manager promised to get us the right diamond after all her sorrys and after the trips I made back and forth. finally 2 weeks later may2010 I got my ring back and all they could say was sorry have a good day!!! I will never ever go to the southcenter zales ever again...and I have no choice but to find a different zales due to my insurance to protect our ring.....Sincerely One pissed off Wife!!!
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Tall Shopper on 10/18/2010:
A friend of mine comes from a very affluent family, as does her husband. When they got engaged, they went to a jewelry store together. The ring was real gold, but the "diamond" was actually synthetic. I am a close friend that the bride told , but even her stuffy family thinks she got a big expensive diamond. You can't readily tell the difference anyway. The couple saved thousands of dollars. They used the money they saved towards the down payment on a house. The moral of the story here is that losing the stone in an engagement ring would be much less painful if you knew it was synthetic. Their friend at jewely store said about half of their engagement rings are sold with synthetic stones that are far less expensive that real diamonds.
Inat on 10/18/2010:
what does that have to do with anything, Tall Shopper? first, most people can tell the difference between a huge fake diamond and a huge diamond... the fake ones sparkle WAY too much. Anyway, to the OP, sounds like a run around but thankfully you got a resolution. Did you happen to get a certified ring that showed a pic and rating of your orioginal diamond?
jktshff1 on 10/18/2010:
Good info, Zales, Gordons and others like them are the Walmut of jewelry stores. Use a local jeweler. little more, but worth it.
Tall Shopper on 11/05/2010:
The lesson learned here is to have a synthetic diamond, not the overly costly import. You can replace the stone with a synthetic and use the savings difference to pay off debt, buy a house, or something far more meaningful than a piece of jewelry. The synthetic stones are so realistic that no one can tell the difference except under a microscope- and even some jewelers have a hard time with that. A friend of mine works in a major jewelry store and she says couples get synthetics about half the time. If you lose the synthetic you don't feel as bad because of the lower cost.
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Damaged Watch band and other bad practices
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INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA -- Zales in Castleton Square Mall has been an unreliable, dishonest, and irresponsible business. I purchased a new movado sports edition watch in 2/05. In 11/2005, I had two problems: 1) the watch stopped working; 2) the metal face was severely scratched despite only occasional weekend use. We took it back to Zales and they sent it to Movado to be repaired. I was told it would be ready by Christmas.
It was not ready by 12/05. I called back in 1/06 and they said it still wasn't ready. I called back in 2/06 with the same story. I called back in 3/06 and found out the store had received it on 12/31/05 but neglected to call me nor look for it the many times I called to check on it before. I WAS WITHOUT MY WATCH FOR 3 MONTHS WITHOUT REASON.
At this time, the watch functioned well, but the face was still scratched. I asked them to buff out the metal face (a common practice), and they said there was a small risk to the lens. I said that was OK. When I received the watch back, they severely DAMAGED the rubber band. THEY FORGOT TO TAKE THE BAND OFF BEFORE BUFFING THE METAL FACE!!! To add further injury, they began to lie, stating that the band could not come off. I SHOWED THEM THE BAND EASILY CAME OFF IN 1 MIN.
Zales in Castleton Sq. Mall claims it is not their responsibility and are not going to reimburse me for the absolutlely ruined movado watch band worth approximately $150.
I am complaining because:
1) They neglected to tell us the watch was repaired for 3 months despite repeated phone calls (too lazy too look? to call?) This is completely IRRESPONSIBLE.
2) They damanged the watch band, something anyone who has ever worked with watches would avoid by taking 30 seconds and removing the band. UNQUALIFIED.
3) They lied about their services to cover their mistake, stating the band does not come off; since when?!. DISHONEST.
4) They refuse to stand behind their mistaken services and replace the damaged product (watch band). UNRELIABLE
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Brenda Leah on 04/09/2006:
I bought my fiance a watch, I THINK from Zales (like 90% sure), and it sometimes stops working too! Hmm wonder what's going on there. It's not a Movado but I did spend 400 bucks on it so it shouldn't be doing that. At least it only stops for a little big then starts back up again.
Ponie on 04/09/2006:
Brenda, I hope the watch you bought wasn't a self-winding unit. Sorry--my bad--couldn't resist pulling that old one out of the chestnut box. :) My BIL has purchased a lot of jewelry for my Sis at Zale's with no problems. However, he's never bought a watch there.
Brenda Leah on 04/10/2006:
LOL! no, not winding. We aren't that airheaded! :)
el gran combo on 06/29/2006:
I went to buy some earrings at the Zales located in Cross Creek Mall in Fayetteville, N.C. I decided on a pair and placed them on layaway to make sure that no one would buy them since I stil wanted to look around. I decided on a pair from a nother store so I went to cancel my layaway. The gentleman that worked there with dark hair was very rude and was literally slamming the keys down with his fingers while he typed what he had to type to cancel it. I have not shopped there since and will not. I recommend the Gordon's there the manager Jason is awesome and very friendly the staff is also.
BeadQueen on 06/02/2013:
In 2003 my husband purchased a beautiful diamond ring for me at Zales Washington Sq. (now closed) the ring was 2800. He also purchased a warranty which covered the gold and we were told the ring had a lifetime warranty to cover the diamonds as long as I brought it in every 6 months for inspections which I did faithfully. Around the 6th year I noticed that one of the prongs that held on of the bigger diamonds was bent but the diamond was still in place. By this time Washington Sq store had closed so I began taking it to Castleton. They take it on for repairs, I get it back weeks later prong is back in place. One week later I happen to look down at my ring (it was beautiful) and a diamond is gone. I died. I take it back to Zales, they send it back for repairs. They kept it for 3 weeks when I called and asked when my ring would be ready they told me that they needed a copy of my inspection record to determine if if was still under warranty. I ask why didn't someone call me of course they said they did. I go to the mall with the inspection record they copy and send it off. More waiting. After two more week I call and ask about my ring. They actually told me, they would not be replacing the diamond because of its particular cut. Some lame excuse about not doing a certain diamond cut. I can't remember how they worded it. Of course they cheerfully suggested I could upgrade to another ring. I didn't want another ring. They said I could go to another jewelry store to get it fixed. Wouldn't that void my warranty ? I asked. Yes but could get another warranty. My husband paid $160.00 for that warranty. I should have filed a complaint. I didn't, I picked out another ring that wasn't nearly as pretty as the first and it was $200.00 more. I would like to stand outside the store with a big sign that says ZALES SUCKS and their merchandise too:(
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Free Watch Battery
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The battery finally ran down after a year and a half in my 500.00 Seiko wrist watch. Having owned Seiko's all my life, one usually has to "send it off" to have the manufacturer replace the battery, at a considerable cost of time and money. Allegedly it's to seal the case for diving depths up to 100 meters. I don't scuba dive, so that is not an issue to me. I tried a couple of watch kiosks in the mall, none would attempt a simple battery replacement. I met a nice lady at the Zales who informed me she could easily replace the battery, when I told her I didn't intend to take my watch deeper than a shower. Upon replacing the battery, which took some doing, I said, "so what do I owe you?" "That'll be 19.95!" She must seen the disappointment on my face, seemed a bit high too me. "Tell you what, fill out a credit card application right now, and it'll be free!" Well, I couldn't pass that up, so I did and got my seiko serviced for FREE. Today I got my new Zales credit card in the mail, no yearly fee, no fee of any kind attached, and I promptly cut it up. Thanks Zales, see you again in a couple years!
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Anonymous on 08/04/2006:
Should say "Watch Battery Replacement"
DebtorBasher on 08/04/2006:
At first I thought "No, Pirate, don't sign up for that credit card, you're smarter than that"...then you came through for me when you said you cut it up when you got it. I have a watch sitting here with no batter because no one will attempt to open it...the place it was purchased at went out of business...it's a nice watch, too bad I can't get a battery replacement for it.
Sparticus on 08/04/2006:
Pirate, I would recommend also contacting the credit card company and having the account closed. Those accounts can sit dormant for years if forgotten and become potential fraud risks.
Anonymous on 08/04/2006:
thanks, Spart!
DebtorBasher on 08/04/2006:
And hope that the girl didn't charge the battery onto the account.
Anonymous on 08/04/2006:
Never did I mention that I purchased the watch myself. Perhaps your self-winding Mickey doesn't need a battery, but the average replacement cost is 5.00.
Anonymous on 08/05/2006:
Pirate was your parrot with you when you did this?
Slimjim on 08/11/2006:
I still don't understand what the point of this post is. pirate, you said "Having owned Seiko's all my life, one usually has to "send it off" to have the manufacturer replace the battery, at a considerable cost of time and money." So now someone fixes it on site, asks only $20 for a watch you didn't even buy from them, and you're giving them faces about the price. Wasn't that quite an improvement over sending it out at considerable costs?
Anonymous on 08/13/2006:
What time is it?
Slimjim on 08/16/2006:
Time for pirate to stop telling stories of how he's a well off ex-tv celebrity, liddy.
Anonymous on 08/19/2006:
Slim you're a pathetic little butt-pimple troll. Maybe your skills of reading and comprehension need to catch up to your skills as a juvenile tard. If you knew anything about fine timepieces (other than how to steal them) you'd realize that the diving/scuba type are usually sent out so that they can be vacuum sealed air tight when the battery is put in so that they can be used underwater. I was only stating how thrilled I was that (1) the clerk was able to repair it onsite. (2) that the repair cost me nothing. Why do you feel the need to troll around behind me, constantly disputing my posts!? You're a dork.
Anonymous on 08/19/2006:
Time for Slim to grow up and finally get a job.
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The American International Group (AIG) insurers and Best Buy today announced that they have agreed to a multi-year renewal of their existing Geek Squad Protection agreement. The renewal ensures that the Warranty Division of AIG will continue to serve as the exclusive service provider of Best Buy's Geek Squad Protection Plans and other customer service related service contracts sold through Best Buy's multichannel distribution system in the United States.
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September 19, 2012. Source: Tar Sands Blockade
WINNSBORO, TEXAS Three landowner advocates and climate justice organizers have locked themselves to a piece of machinery critical for Keystone XL construction.
Blockaders have locked themselves to a massive wood chipper and a skidder, both used in clear cutting trees in the path of the toxic pipeline. Tar Sands Blockade has again delayed construction on a segment of TransCanada's Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Today's action marks the third time that blockaders have halted construction in recent weeks.
Four blockaders total entered a construction yard risking arrest. Three are locked to the Keystone XL construction machinery. Texas-born blockaders have united with neighbors from other states to support rural and neighboring communities threatened by the toxic pipeline's diluted bitumen slurry.
Doug Grant, 65 from San Francisco, CA, says, "Having worked for years for Exxon, I know how enticing it is to want to develop the Alberta Tar Sands, but it's just wrong; wrong for the folks who live near the surface mines and toxic ponds, wrong for the landowners who are coerced under duress into contracts or taken to court to have their homes stolen from them, and just wrong for the climate." Doug is [doing this].
"As a mother and step-grandmother, I want to be able to tell my children that I did something when the time came," explains Amarillo-born R.C. Saldaña-Flores, 36. "I'm willing to take risks today to raise awareness of this horrible situation – even if that means being away from my children in jail for a day."
Kentucky-based solar installation expert and author of the forthcoming book The Pipeline and the Paradigm: Keystone XL and the Rise of Global Consciousness, Sam Avery, 63, suggests that sometime you must create an obstruction in order to facilitate necessary discussion. "I don't believe it's too late. We have time," he shares. "We simply must continue to stand with landowners who are having their homes and farms ruined. We must continue to press for dialogue amongst all people victimized by TransCanada's ruthless harm. Civil disobedience allows for that space to develop."
Tar Sands Blockade is a coalition of Texas and Oklahoma landowners and climate organizers using peaceful and sustained civil disobedience to stop the construction of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.
"People from all walks of life are banding together to defend their homes in the face of TransCanada's fraudulent bullying," suggests Ron Seifert, a spokesperson for the Tar Sands Blockade. "Their Keystone XL pipeline serves no legitimate public interest, and people are waking up to the fact that this multinational corporation is stealing land and poisoning water supplies illegitimately. For that reason, we are proactively defending homes through nonviolent civil disobedience."
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CORPUS CHRISTI - A man who made quite an impact on our community has died. You may not know the name Joe O'Brien, butthose who sat on city council did and they say he held them accountable when it came to your tax dollars.
O'Brien was 89 years old.
It's hard to fit all that he did into one story. Those who knew him says he spent countless years making a big difference in our community.
O'Brien led the Corpus Christi Taxpayers Association and even though perhaps you've never heard of that group, or O'Brien, he more than likely had a big impact on your taxes and how they were spent.
Just a few months ago, Joe O'Brien spent much of his time working for you.
"The amount of interest that we have to pay as of today is $567 million," explained O'Brien in a show he taped from his living room, "hey, that's enough to fix the streets for the next ten years," he went on to drive his point home.
O'Brien did not serve as an elected official, but, perhaps just as important, he was someone who questioned them for decades.
Former Corpus Christi City Councilman Joe McComb served in the 80's and 90's, he remembers O'Brien fondly. Even though, most times O'Brien argued his and the council's position.
"At least he made you think and be prepared to defend your position and if you couldn't do it, then you better get yourself on the right side of the issue," McComb recalled.
Friend and colleague Jack Gordy called O'Brien an inspiration. The two first met the 70's when Gordy questioned the city on illegal use of a city car. "He's the one that got the senior citizens and disabled a tax freeze," Gordy said.
Many will agree, the role O'Brien played in local government is essential. Gordy says he'll try to fill it. "I'll remember him as long as I live, I guess, and I'll try to follow in his footsteps," he said.
While many remember O'Brien in his role questioning local government, O'Brien also spent time in the Navy. He even went national with his connection to Flight 19. The plane and crew mysteriously disappeared in 1945, starting the Bermuda Triangle myth.
So, perhaps you have never heard the name, But, there is no doubt Joe O'Brien certainly left behind a legacy in the Coastal Bend.
"There should be more people like him," Gordy told us.
Gordy says about 60 people attended O'Brien's funeral. There is no doubt, though, he impacted many, many more lives.
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Mark McGuire, guitarist for synth-droners Emeralds, has teamed up with Skaters' Spencer Clarke, recording under his Charles Berlitz pseudonym, to release a new album called Inner Tube, which is already out. Below, check out the album track "MR," named in honor of surf legend Mark Richards. It finds McGuire adding a certain buoyant bounce to his normal prettily ominous synthscapes.
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December 2014
This whitepaper focuses on common issues raised by Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers about security best practices for human genomic data and controlled access datasets, such as those from National Institutes of Health (NIH) repositories like Database of Genotypes and Phenotypes (dbGaP) and genome-wide association studies (GWAS). Our intention is to provide you with helpful guidance that you can use to address common privacy and security requirements. However, we caution you not to rely on this whitepaper as legal advice for your specific use of AWS. We strongly encourage you to obtain appropriate compliance advice about your specific data privacy and security requirements, as well as applicable laws relevant to your human research projects and datasets.
December 2014
Businesses must become increasingly agile as innovation accelerates and customer needs rapidly evolve. Time to market is key, so IT departments need to be agile to facilitate overall business goals. The evolution of DevOps helps provide and support this agility. This paper focuses on DevOps principles and practices supported on the AWS platform.
December 2014
This whitepaper is an introduction to the AWS cloud computing platform. It discusses the advantages of cloud computing, the fundamentals of AWS and provides an overview of the AWS services.
December 2014
AWS provides a comprehensive set of services and tools for deploying Oracle Database on the AWS cloud infrastructure. AWS offers the flexibility to run Oracle Database on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), the managed database service in the cloud, as well as on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Oracle Database performance relies heavily on the performance of the storage subsystem, but storage performance always comes at a price. This whitepaper will help you determine the input/output operations per second (IOPS) needed by the storage system of your database for best performance at optimal cost.
December 2014
AWS provides a comprehensive set of services and tools for deploying enterprise applications in a highly secure, reliable, available, and cost-effective manner. The AWS cloud is an excellent platform to run business-critical Oracle workloads in a very efficient way. In this whitepaper, we discuss the operating system choices that are best suited for running Oracle workloads on AWS. The target audience includes enterprise architects, database administrators, IT managers, and developers who want to migrate Oracle workloads to AWS.
December 2014
This paper provides high-level concepts of how you can simplify your current backup and recovery environment in the enterprise. It provides details of how you can leverage the on-demand nature of the cloud and automate your backup and recovery processes so they are not only less complex and lightweight but also easy to manage and maintain.
November 2014
AWS provides a comprehensive set of services and tools for deploying Oracle Database on the AWS cloud infrastructure. You can use the inherent qualities of the AWS cloud, such as its instant provisioning, scalability, elasticity, and geographic footprint, to architect a highly resilient and performant database environment for demanding business applications. This whitepaper provides information on how to build advanced Oracle Database architectures in the AWS cloud.
November 2014
This document is intended to answer questions such as "How does AWS help me ensure my data are secure?" Specifically, AWS physical and operational security processes are described for network and infrastructure under AWS' management, as well as service-specific security implementations.
October 2014
Apache Storm developers can use Amazon Kinesis to quickly and cost effectively build real-time analytics dashboards and applications that can continuously process very high volumes of streaming data, such as clickstream log files and machine-generated data.
October 2014
In the event of a disaster, you can quickly launch resources in Amazon Web Services (AWS) to ensure business continuity. The paper highlights relevant AWS features and services that you can leverage for your DR processes and shows example scenarios on how to recover from disaster. It further provides recommendations on how you can improve your DR plan and leverage the full potential of AWS for your Disaster Recovery processes.
July 2014
Amazon VPC provides customers with several options for interconnecting their AWS virtual networks with other remote networks. This whitepaper describes several such common network connectivity options available to our customers. This includes connectivity options for integrating remote customer networks with Amazon VPC as well as interconnecting multiple Amazon VPCs into a contiguous virtual network.
This guide extends Scenario #1 described in the "Implementing Active Directory Domain Services in the AWS Cloud" white paper by adding Windows Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), and automating the configuration of SAML 2.0 federation for web single sign-on (Web SSO) access to the Amazon Web Services Management Console. It provides links to automated AWS CloudFormation templates that you can leverage for your implementation or launch directly into your AWS account.
One challenge that architects and developers face today is how to process large volumes of data in a timely, cost effective, and reliable manner. There are several NoSQL solutions in the market today, and choosing the right one for your use case can be difficult. This paper compares two popular NoSQL data stores, Amazon DynamoDB, a fully managed NoSQL cloud database service, and Apache HBase, an open-source, column-oriented, distributed big data store. Both Amazon DynamoDB and Apache HBase are available in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud.
April 2014
This document intends to provide information to assist AWS customers with integrating AWS into their existing control framework supporting their IT environment. This document includes a basic approach to evaluating AWS controls and provides information to assist customers with integrating control environments. This document also addresses AWS-specific information around general cloud computing compliance issues.
November 2013
An often overlooked benefit of migrating workloads to AWS is the ability to achieve a higher level of security, at scale, by utilizing the many governance-enabling features offered. This paper describes how you can achieve a high level of governance over your IT resources by using AWS.
November 2013
This paper provides an overview of common compliance requirements related to logging and how AWS CloudTrail can be used help satisfy these requirements. It is organized by general logging domains that you may find useful from a security and operational perspective.
November 2014
This whitepaper provides an overview of the options for encrypting data at rest in AWS services. It describes these options in terms of where encryption keys are stored and how access to those keys is controlled. Both server-side and client-side encryption methods are discussed with examples of how each can be accomplished in various AWS services.
This whitepaper provides security best practices that will help you define your Information Security Management System (ISMS) and build a set of security policies and processes for your organization so you can protect your data and assets in the AWS Cloud. It also provides an overview of different security topics such as identifying, categorizing and protecting your assets on AWS, managing access to AWS resources using accounts, users and groups and suggesting ways you can secure your data, your operating systems and applications and overall infrastructure in the cloud.
October 2013
This whitepaper helps you understand the primary data storage options available with the AWS cloud computing platform. We provide an overview of each storage option, describe ideal usage scenarios, and examine other important cloud-specific characteristics such as elasticity and scalability.
The companion paper presents several storage use cases that show how to use multiple AWS cloud storage options together.
October 2013
This whitepaper provides an overview of how to create and manage multiuser environments in the AWS cloud so that professors and researchers can leverage AWS for student labs, training applications, individual IT environments, and cloud computing courses.
August 2013
This whitepaper highlights the best practices of moving data to AWS, collecting, aggregating and compressing the data, and discusses common architectural patterns for setting up and configuring Amazon EMR clusters for faster processing. We also discuss several performance and cost optimization techniques so you can process and analyze massive amounts of data at high throughput and low cost in a reliable manner.
June 2013
This paper is targeted at AWS customers' internal compliance teams and their external auditors and who are evaluating or auditing the use of AWS for an internal review or external audit. It provides a checklist to help design and execute a security assessment of an organization's use of AWS, which may be required by industry or regulatory standards. This paper builds on top of the Operational Checklist Whitepaper that provides operational and architectural guidance to help assess their application's operational readiness
June 2013
This paper is targeted at developers and architects who are looking for operational and architectural guidance from AWS to help assess their application's operational readiness. It provides two checklists - Basic and Enterprise - so that you can evaluate your applications against a list of essential and recommended best practices and deploy them with confidence.
January 2013
This whitepaper is intended for architects and developers in the financial services sector who are looking to expand grid computation onto AWS. It outlines the best practices for managing large grids on the AWS cloud platform and offers a reference architecture to guide organizations in the delivery of these complex systems.
January 2013
Customers may wish to migrate AWS Resources from one region to another for a variety of reasons. In particular, if a new region is available closer to their user base, they may wish to locate various services geographically closer to those users. This technical whitepaper is intended for experienced customers of AWS who would like to migrate existing resources to a new AWS region. The whitepaper provides technical guidance and best practices on migrating each AWS Resource such as AMI, keypairs etc. to another region.
November 2012
This whitepaper describes how AWS adds value in the various phases of the software development cycle, with specific focus on development and test. The intended audiences for this paper are project managers, developers, testers, systems architects, or anyone involved in software production activities.
September 2012
This whitepaper discusses Web application hosting solution in detail, including how each of the services can be used to create a highly available, scalable Web application.
August 2012
Do you know the true cost of running your web applications on your existing infrastructure? This whitepaper will help you understand the different cost factors involved when you deploy and manage a scalable web application in an on-premises environment and compare the total cost to a variety of different AWS purchasing options. Our analysis shows that AWS offers significant cost savings, up to 80%, compared to the equivalent on-premises deployments.
August 2012
This paper briefly outlines how companies can use Amazon Web Services to power HIPAA-compliant information processing systems.
July 2012
This whitepaper will help you understand many of the best practices involved in creating and sending high quality email from a strategy and management perspective. It identifies characteristics of high value and high quality email, it talks about the parties involved in the email sending process, and it discusses best practices for optimizing and increasing email quality.
July 2012
This whitepaper will help you understand how to effectively estimate the costs of running your specific project on AWS. It provides several examples that leverage the AWS Simple Monthly Calculator. For each example, this paper discusses its architecture, example usage of each service, cost breakdown for each service, and the total estimated monthly charge.
March 2012
This whitepaper will help you understand the different cost factors involved in deploying and managing a scalable NoSQL database solution. You will learn about the TCO savings of using a NoSQL (non-relational) database cloud service such as Amazon DynamoDB over equivalent NoSQL database software that is deployed on-premises or hosted in the cloud.
October 2010
This set of whitepapers are targeted at architects and technical decision makers of enterprises looking to build a cloud migration strategy. The main whitepaper discusses a phase-driven step-by-step strategy for migrating applications to the cloud and three scenarios illustrate the step-by-step strategy for common use cases.
- Migrate Web Applications to AWS Cloud Download Scenario #1
- Migrate Batch Processing Applications to AWS Cloud Download Scenario #2
- Migrate Backend Processing Pipelines to AWS Cloud Download Scenario #3
August 2010
This whitepaper discusses scenarios for Amazon VPC.
October 2011
This whitepaper is ideal for those who would like to understand how to build fault-tolerant application on AWS.
May 2010
This whitepaper paper provides prescriptive guidance to cloud architects so that they can build highly scalable and elastic applications optimized to run in AWS cloud. It discusses cloud concepts and highlights various design patterns and best practices.
March 2010
This document provides step-by-step instructions for creating a test lab demonstrating identity federation between an on-premise Windows Server Active Directory domain and an ASP.NET web application hosted on EC2 service, using Microsoft's Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) technology.
December 2009
This document presents a discussion of the costs of Amazon Web Services vs. traditional IT infrastructure alternatives, including comparative analysis of direct costs of ownership such as hardware costs and asset utilization, data redundancy and security, supply chain management, power and cooling efficiency, and personnel costs.
July 2008
This paper illustrates the style of building applications using services available in the Internet cloud.
November 2014
This whitepaper demonstrates using various services on AWS to deploy Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 as a Network Address Translation (NAT) device and deploy the Microsoft DirectAccess Windows Server role. Tools such as AWS Toolkit for Microsoft Visual Studio and AWS Toolkit for Windows PowerShell are used to automate the deployments. The target audience is IT infrastructure administrators and developer operations personnel.
November 2014
Windows Server and SQL Server provide built-in capabilities to run highly available solutions. This updated guide covers failover clusters and the AlwaysOn Availability Groups feature in SQL 2012 and 2014, including configuration steps and testing instructions, as well as an AWS CloudFormation template to automate deployment. The template can also be launched directly from the AWS Quick Start page.
November 2014
This whitepaper provides specific technical guidance on how to deploy and configure NGINX Plus on AWS. Additionally, we outline key integrations and configurations that are unique to AWS products and allow flexibility around using the NGINX Plus product to best meet your needs.
October 2014
This Quick Start Reference Deployment guide includes architectural considerations and configuration steps for deploying Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub (EDH) on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. This reference deployment will assist you in building an EDH cluster on AWS by integrating Cloudera Director with an automated deployment initiated by an AWS CloudFormation template, or you can launch the deployment directly from the AWS Quick Start page.
September 2014
This new whitepaper outlines deployment of a PowerShell DSC pull server environment using AWS resources. PowerShell Desired State Configuration provides a configuration management platform in Windows Server, which enables you to express the desired state of your systems using declarative language syntax instead of complex imperative scripts. The guide shows how to use AWS CloudFormation to bootstrap your servers and applications from scratch and make sure instances are resilient to configuration drift once the application stack has been deployed.
August 2014
This reference deployment guide shows how to build a Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 environment on the AWS Cloud, using services such as Amazon EC2 and Amazon VPC. It includes an AWS CloudFormation template designed to help you deploy the highly available infrastructure predictably and repeatedly. The template can also be launched directly from the AWS Quick Start page. To learn more about SharePoint on AWS, click here.
May 2014
Learn how to deploy Remote Desktop Gateway on AWS, including best practices for securely accessing your Windows-based instances using the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) for remote administration. Also provided are AWS CloudFormation templates to help automate deployment.
April 2014
This reference implementation guide includes architectural considerations and configuration steps for deploying highly available AD solutions in the AWS Cloud. Two scenarios are covered, one all cloud and one hybrid. Included are AWS CloudFormation templates to help automate deployment. Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) and Domain Name Server (DNS) are core Windows services that provide the foundation for many enterprise class solutions including Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange, and .NET applications.
November 2013
This whitepaper discusses how you can run Oracle Database on both Amazon RDS and Amazon EC2, and will give you an understanding of the advantages of each approach. We review in detail how to provision and monitor your Oracle database, and how to manage scalability, performance, backup and recovery, high availability and security in both Amazon RDS and Amazon EC2.
The companion document, Oracle Database 11g on Amazon EC2: Implementation Guide provides an overview of four reference architecture scenarios and provides detailed guidance on how to customize and launch Oracle database on Amazon EC2 using AWS CloudFormation templates so you can deploy any architecture scenario easily and reliably on AWS.
October 2013
This whitepaper provides IT infrastructure decision-makers and system administrators with specific technical guidance on how to configure, deploy, and run an Alfresco server cluster on AWS.
It includes an implementation guide and an AWS CloudFormation template that you can use to easily and quickly create a working Alfresco cluster in AWS.
July 2013
This whitepaper provides an overview of general best practices that apply to all major NoSQL systems and highlights one of popular NoSQL systems - Couchbase - and discusses how to best run it on the AWS cloud. It further examines different Couchbase configurations so you can optimize it for performance, durability, and security.
Written with Microsoft Exchange Server IT infrastructure administrators and deployment engineers in mind, the guide discusses the process for planning and deploying a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 based messaging service in the AWS cloud using tools that they are already familiar with. It also provides a small deployment scenario (along with AWS CloudFormation templates) so you can launch a fully-configured site-resilient Exchange Server in AWS.
June 2013
This whitepaper provides an overview of one of emerging Open Source NoSQL Distributed Database systems - Riak - and discusses how to best run it on the AWS cloud. It starts with how to launch a 3-node Riak cluster using the AWS Marketplace and discusses different architectural and operational Riak characteristics so you can optimize it for performance, durability, and security.
June 2013
This whitepaper provides general best practices of running one of the most popular open source RDBMS - PostgreSQL - in the AWS cloud. It examines important PostgreSQL characteristics such as performance, durability, and security in the context of the AWS environment and provides basic architectural and performance guidance so you can run PostgreSQL on AWS at scale.
May 2013
This paper is authored by Trend Micro and discusses what part of the shared responsibility equation customers are responsible for and what some of the recommended security practices are that can help create a secure AWS cloud environment.
March 2013
This whitepaper provides an overview of general best practices that apply to all major NoSQL systems and highlights one of popular NoSQL systems - MongoDB - and discusses how to best run it on the AWS cloud. It further examines different MongoDB configurations so you can optimize it for performance, durability, and security.
August 2012
This paper provides Esri ArcGIS users with the necessary information to get started with publishing and analyzing geographic information systems (GIS) imagery data (such as satellite imagery, or aerial imagery), as well as, creating tile cached map services in Amazon Web Services (AWS). The paper focuses on imagery, because that has been the most challenging data type to manage in the cloud, but the approaches discussed are general enough to apply to any type of data.
August 2012
This paper provides guidance on how to secure your Microsoft applications on AWS. It outlines the principles for protecting the runtime environment of your Microsoft Windows applications with a focus on risk assessment, reducing attack surface, adhering to the principle of least privilege, and protecting your data.
April 2012
This white paper discusses general concepts regarding how to run SharePoint on AWS and provides detailed technical guidance on how to configure, deploy, and run a SharePoint Server farm on AWS. It illustrates common reference architecture for SharePoint Server deployment scenarios and discusses their network, security, and deployment configurations so you can run SharePoint Server workloads in the cloud with confidence.
It includes an implementation guide and an AWS CloudFormation template that you can use to easily and quickly create a working SharePoint 2010 environment in AWS.
September 2011
You can run Microsoft SQL Server on the AWS Cloud. This whitepaper reveals how to best run Microsoft SQL Server 2008 on EC2 and discusses implementation choices to optimize for performance, durability, and security. It clearly enumerates how to take advantage of native Microsoft SQL Server features that provide scalability, high-availability, and fault-tolerance in the AWS Cloud environment.
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Despite enjoying excellent health his entire life, David II succumbed to an epidemic that swept through Virginia in 1766, the nature of which is not known. Based on the dates associated with David II's will, he passed away between June 1, 1766 when his will was written and August 4, 1766 when his will was probated. These dates place the most likely time of his death in early July. He was 69 years old. The will of David II primarily concerns itself with the disposition of a large number of slaves and some personal property. It is assumed that he distributed most of his property to his children prior to his death. Some evidence of this is found in Amherst County, VA Deed Book B, 1765-1769, pg. 50. On August 30, 1765 David transferred to his son Joel 400 acres on a branch of the Rockfish stream. This parcel has twenty-five acres cleared for cultivation and the remainder was wooded. It is likely that David transferred other parcels to his other children.
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When Fox Entertainment chairman Kevin Reilly stood in front of reporters in January and proclaimed the death of pilot season, he drew a good amount of ribbing from the competition.
Reilly was making the case for torching the broadcast primetime model as we know it — starting with the annual tradition of everyone developing everything all at once. It was a grand pronouncement, particularly in an industry that talks big but can rarely turn on a dime. Nonetheless, change is afoot, and Reilly's not the only one flipping the script.
Amazon has ordered six pilots to series, including a drama from The X-Files creator Chris Carter, a half-hour comedy starring Malcolm McDowell and Bernadette Peters, and two children's programs. Additionally, Amazon has renewed Alpha House for a second season.
Amazon is poised to order four new series from the five original pilots the online company released last month, Variety reports.
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If it's the end of the world as we know it, TV feels fine. Led by shows including AMC's The Walking Dead, TNT's Falling Skies and NBC's Revolution, postapocalyptic TV is blowing up — and a lot more of it is on the way."There's a huge appeal right at the moment," says Revolution executive producer Rockne S. O'Bannon. Among the upcoming shows that revolve around a dystopian future: The CW's The 100 (debuting Wed., March 19, at 9/8c), which follows a group of juvenile delinquents who are shipped from a space station back to Earth in order to see whether it's inhabitable a century after a nuclear holocaust. (The network also just ordered a pilot for The Messengers, about a group of people who are killed, then resurrected, after something crashes into Earth.)In July comes FX's The Strain — created by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, and executive produced by Lost's Carlton Cuse — which stars Corey Stoll (House of Cards) as an epidemiologist charged with preventing a mysterious viral outbreak from destroying humanity. Also this summer...
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The X-Files creator Chris Carter has been laying low since the hit mythology series wrapped in 2002. But that's about to change: Carter is plotting a return to TV, starting with the Amazon pilot The After and another project in the works at AMC.
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Admittedly, none of the Arab states have ever been democracies; most being family-run enterprises, with either republican or monarchical trappings. Concepts such as human rights have been alien to the region. But Syria is even more peculiar, in that for the past four decades power has been wielded by one family belonging to a tiny sectarian minority. It was, therefore, inevitable that once stirrings of discontent began to germinate in neighbouring countries, it would also sprout phantoms of unrest in Syria's soil, long fertilised by the blood of its martyrs.
Dislodging Bashar al-Assad through domestic unrest, as in Tunisia or Egypt is, however, unlikely which explains the desperation with which the West has been nurturing and now arming opponents of the regime. The effort is to ensure a replay of the Libyan game plan, viewed as the new template for regime change on the cheap, with the UN extending it legitimacy, the West providing military muscle and the Gulf States, the finances.
But the West failed to anticipate Russia's and China's firm resolve not to be taken in again by the West's assurances — both having been burnt badly in approving UN Security Council Resolution 1973, which was used to intervene militarily in Libya. This so-called R2P concept is a nightmare for authoritarian regimes, but best to keep it directed at countries you don't like. This explains why it should be the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states, who have become such enthusiastic proponents of a regime change in Syria that they have consented to the creation of what is being called the Nato-GCC-Israel axis. So, we now have the GCC engaged in gifting parliamentary democracy not to their citizens, but to Arabs in neighbouring countries!
Russia and China's use of the veto has been described by US Ambassador Susan Rice as "shameful" and "disgusting". What chutzpah, for surely, she could not be unaware of how the world sees the scores of vetoes cast by the US to shield Israel from global censure for armed invasion of neighbouring countries and the brutal occupation of Palestinians.
With Obama having virtually abandoned the 'reset' with Russia, the latter sees no reason to be helpful. Moreover, Russia has geopolitical and strategic ties to Syria that go beyond nostalgic memories of the past. While it needs no oil from the region, Russia is wary of supporting a rebellion that could embolden Islamists in Dagestan, Ingushetia or Chechnya. No less important is Russia's naval presence in the Syrian deep water port of Tartus, which provides valuable access to the high seas. Moreover, Russia suspects, and rightly so, that the West's real reason for wanting to oust Assad is to deprive Iran of its most important ally in the region. As Efraim Halevy, a former Israeli national security advisor wrote last week in the New York Times: "Getting Iran booted out of Syria is essential for Israel's security."
China's stakes in Syria are minimal; it values its relations with the GCC countries and Israel much more. But with the Obama administration blatantly striving to create a 'cordon sanitaire' around China, the latter was left with no option but to demonstrate its solidarity with its northern neighbour.
Syria's critical role in the region makes it likely that neither side will give up soon, which means a long and bloody civil war, with its people a pawn on the checker board of great power politics.
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Book your room at Econo Lodge
Standard Double Room, 2 Double Beds, Non SmokingMax Occupancy: 4 guests (up to 3 children, 2 infants)
Standard Room, 1 King Bed, Non SmokingMax Occupancy: 2 guests (up to 1 child, 1 infant)
Standard Double Room, 2 Double BedsMax Occupancy: 4 guests (up to 3 children, 3 infants)
Family-friendly hotel with an indoor pool, in West Yarmouth (Yarmouth)
This family-friendly hotel is located in West Yarmouth (Yarmouth), close to Wild Animal Lagoon, Putter's Paradise Miniature Golf, and Cape Cod Carousel. Also nearby are Cape Cod Inflatable Park and Kalmus Beach.
Hotel Features
At Econo Lodge, recreational amenities include an indoor pool and a spa tub. The hotel also features complimentary wireless Internet access and laundry facilities.
Room Amenities
Televisions come with cable channels. Guestrooms also feature complimentary wireless Internet access, refrigerators, and air conditioning.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
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At your hotel
Econo Lodge features an indoor pool and a spa tub. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast. This family-friendly hotel also offers an arcade/game room, gift shops/newsstands, and laundry facilities. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
Econo Lodge has designated areas for smoking.
- Free Wi-Fi
- RV, bus, truck parking
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Spa tub
- Free breakfast
- 24-hour front desk
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Arcade/game room
- Indoor pool
- Total number of rooms - 48
- Number of floors - 2
- Laundry facilities
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Designated smoking areas
- Free self parking
Stay connected
Available in all rooms: Free Wi-Fi
Available in some public areas: Free Wi-Fi
Park your car
Free self parking, RV, bus, truck parking
In your room
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Cribs/infant beds (surcharge)
- Air conditioning
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Refrigerator
- Iron/ironing board
- Cable TV service
- Free Wi-Fi
- Complimentary newspaper
- In-room safe
- Climate control
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Guests are offered a complimentary continental breakfast.
An indoor pool and a spa tub are on site.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Bicycle rentals nearby
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
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- Accessible parking
- In-room accessibility
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When you arrive
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
When you leave
Check-out time is 11 AM
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Your pets
Pets allowed, Maximum number of pets per room 2, Pet maximum weight in lb is 40
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- Pet fee: USD 20 per pet, per night
- Crib (infant bed) fee: USD 10 per night
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 10 per night
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The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.