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"Amazing culture "
- Comp & Benefits
- Work/Life Balance
- Senior Management
- Culture & Values
- Career Opportunities
I have been working at Amazon.com full-time (less than an year)
The management is amazing and the internship experience is equally amazing. I have learned more at the company in 3 months than I did in my entire degree in college.
The job is in Seattle and as everyone knows, the weather there isn't amazing. Also not a big fan of the city.
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I have been working at Amazon.com as an intern (less than an year)Pros
Interesting projects
Smart people
Great management
Fun work environment
People desire to get work completed
People bring their A gameCons
Systems aren't always the most efficient.
Headcount sucks.
They could make parking a lot easier. It takes a while to go through mercer st.RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEO
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"You'll work hard, be inspired by the customer, but not by the leadership or culture inside the lifelines. "
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- Work/Life Balance
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- Culture & Values
- Career Opportunities
I worked at Amazon.com full-time (more than 3 years)Pros
Challenge yourself.
Know how your work impacts the customer.
Love the lack of power point, caring what you wear, and the focus of Jeff B.
The location of HQ - Southlake Union is awesome, and so is Seattle.
RSU equity can build and be rewarding.Cons
HR culture - not good at all.
Too many leaders that really do not care about their people.
Simple manners are lacking - how are you doing, what can I do to help you, and great job on that project are all phrases you may never hear.
You don't come hear to be inspired by a leader. You won't get mentored or developed by anyone but yourself.Advice to ManagementAdvice
Take a hard look at your HR Directors and VP's. Just because they made it work 5 years ago, doesn't mean they're making the company better today. Your lack of investment into systems and automation, as well as Learning and Development for recruiters and HR is going to catch up to you soon. Use the word retention once in a while...you're running out of talent pools to fish in and building a reputation of being a meat grinder.Doesn't RecommendPositive OutlookApproves of CEO


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Apartment fire in Lancaster County
Updated On: Mar 30 2014 02:33:27 PM EDT
Firefighters are continuing to investigate the cause of a fire in Leacock Township, Lancaster County.
Fire crews were called to a blaze at a two-story apartment building on Harvest Drive and North Belmont Road around 10:15 p.m. Saturday.
Dispatchers say the fire started in the attic on the second floor.
Officials say no one inside the apartment was injured.
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By MICHAEL FALCONE and AMY WALTER
DONOR DUEL. In the ongoing battle over donors who are fueling outside groups spending heavily on themidterms, is today's news cycle a draw? The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal are out with pieces pulling back the curtain on the issue. The Times takes a closer look at the corporations pouring money into the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's political efforts, including big names like Goldman Sachs, Chevron Texaco, Dow Chemical and Prudential. From the Times story by Eric Lipton, Mike McIntire and Don VanNatta Jr.: "These large donations — none of which were publicly disclosed by the chamber, a tax-exempt group that keeps its donors secret, as it is allowed by law — offer a glimpse of the chamber's money-raising efforts, which it has ramped up recently in an orchestrated campaign to become one of the most well-financed critics of the Obama administration and an influential player in this fall's Congressional elections. They suggest that the recent allegations from President Obama and others that foreign money has ended up in the chamber's coffers miss a larger point: The chamber has had little trouble finding American companies eager to enlist it, anonymously, to fight their political battles and pay handsomely for its help." http://nyti.ms/ccDT2I
The Wall Street Journal's Brody Mullins and John D. McKinnon, meanwhile, shine a spotlight on the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, a union, which the Journal reports is "now the biggest outside spender" on the 2010 cycle: "The 1.6 million-member AFSCME is spending a total of $87.5 million on the elections after tapping into a $16 million emergency account to help fortify the Democrats' hold on Congress. Last week, AFSCME dug deeper, taking out a $2 million loan to fund its push. The group is spending money on television advertisements, phone calls, campaign mailings and other political efforts, helped by a Supreme Court decision that loosened restrictions on campaign spending. 'We're the big dog,' said Larry Scanlon, the head of AFSCME's political operations. 'But we don't like to brag.'" http://bit.ly/bxBzW1
So, is any of the uproar actually resonating with voters or is it all about post-election posturing? It's unclear, according to findings from a Pew Research Center survey out this week. Voters appear to be split over whether it's important to know who is paying for political ads. About half — 49 percent – of voters said they would like to know who is funding campaign ads while 50 percent said it didn't matter much. Democrats in general are also divided almost evenly on this point although a much larger share of liberal Democrats said it's important to know who's behind the ads. http://bit.ly/biJzO9
NOTED: In an interview with Bloomberg News' Al Hunt, Vice President Joe Biden alluded to the donor issue: "We will keep control of the Senate for certain, and I believe we'll keep control of the House," Biden said. "The only caveat I'd put in terms of the House is how much impact" the outside funding has. http://bit.ly/bgrWmC
CALIFORNIA DREAMIN'. President Obama heads to Los Angeles today for rallies with Sen. Barbara Boxer and California gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown. The latest numbers out of the Golden State show Boxer's race with Republican Carly Fiorina tightening while Brown appears to be keeping his opponent, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, at arm's length. Obama traveled to the heart of Silicon Valley Thursday night for a Democratic fundraiser at the home of a Google executive, tailoring his remarks to the tech-centric crowd. "My task over the last two years hasn't just been to stop the bleeding," Obama said. "My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created, prevented more Hewlett-Packards from being created, prevented more engineers from being trained in our schools — how do we unleash this incredible energy and dynamism that we know has always driven America, decade after decade."
NOTED: While in the Bay Area yesterday, Obama met with Apple CEO Steve Jobs. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said: "It's a meeting that the president was interested in having."
THE BLITZ. In the final days before Nov. 2 President Obama will be on the road again for a series of big campaign rallies and one canvassing event. He will travel to Philadelphia, Bridgeport, Conn., Chicago, and Cleveland (he'll be joined by Vice President Joe Biden in Ohio) the weekend before Election Day. He will hold rallies in Bridgeport, Cleveland and Chicago and knock on doors in a Philadelphia neighborhood. Meanwhile, First Lady Michele Obama will campaign in Las Vegas and Philadelphia on Nov. 1.
CHANGING LANDSCAPE. New polls out this week show Senate races in California and Washington state tightening. In Washington, a recent survey showed Democratic Sen. Patty Murray ahead of Republican Dino Rossi by just one point, 48 to 47 percent. While two new polls in California show Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., only slightly ahead of GOP challenger Carly Fiorina and well under 50 percent. ABC now rates the Washington and California Senate races as "Toss-Ups." Meanwhile, new polling by CNN out of Alaska showed Republican Tea Party Senate favorite Joe Miller tied with the woman he beat in the primary, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, at 37 percent. Democrat Scott McAdams is at 23 percent. Of course, polling a write-in candidate is very tough to do. That said, given the amount of money that outside groups and the National Republican Senatorial Committee are now pouring into this race on Miller's behalf, it's fair to assume that this race is tightening. The contours of this race are fluid enough to move this seat from "Solid Republican" into "Lean Republican." http://bit.ly/9xgcF9
Bottom line: Democrats now have 11 seats in serious jeopardy (either "Toss-Up" or leaning Republican). Republicans have just one seat in "Toss-Up" — Kentucky — and none that lean Democratic. Of the 21 seats in the Lean or "Solid Republican" category, four are currently held by Democrats (Arkansas, Indiana, Wisconsin, and North Dakota). If Republicans win those four seats and lose none of their own, they'd need to win all seven Democratic seats now in the "Toss-Up" column: Washington, California, Nevada, Colorado, Illinois, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. This won't be easy. New polling in Pennsylvania shows Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak closing the gap with Republican Pat Toomey and Democrats are feeling better about their prospects in West Virginia. If Republicans don't win all seven, it would mean they'd need to win in states like Connecticut and Delaware. Both of these seats are currently listed as leaning Democratic.
Check out ABC's updated House, Senate and governor's race maps right here: http://bit.ly/cRwPpH
BETTER OFF LOSING? ABC's Matthew Jaffe tackles an interesting political question: would President Obama and the Democrats be better off is they lost control of Congress on Nov. 2? Here's how the thinking goes: "[Losing] the House and Senate could lead to numerous political benefits for the president in two years time. For starters, the White House might gain a political boost on issue number one in the minds of voters: the economy. The party that controls the government in turn takes ownership of the economy. If the government is divided — with Democrats controlling the White House but Republicans at the helm in Congress — then the president might not have to take all the blame for a sluggish economic recovery, should it not turn around in the next 24 months. In addition, the White House would have an easier time contrasting its agenda with the GOP's. If Republicans are in control on Capitol Hill, then they will have to propose specific legislation, rather than only blasting the Democrats' proposals. 'President Obama's prospects for re-election improve if Republicans take the House and Senate,' Peter Morici, professor at the University of Maryland business school, told ABC News. 'The Republicans will slow down the Obama Express, but they don't have a program of their own that they can pass that will significantly improve the economy.'" http://bit.ly/8XBfBl
POST NOV 2.: What will the leadership of both parties in Congress look like in the new Congress? ABC's John R. Parkinson gets and early line on who is likely to be in positions of power in the House on the Democratic and Republican sides of the aisle. http://bit.ly/bqCLdO
ON TODAY'S "TOP LINE": ABC's Rick Klein and Amy Walter talk to Page Gardner of Women's Voices. Women Vote about the role women are playing in the 2010 midterm elections. They will also sit down with Josh Gottheimer, author of "Power In Words," closer look the speeches of Barack Obama, from his days in the Illinois state house to the presidency. Watch "Top Line" LIVE at 12:00 p.m. Eastern. http://bit.ly/ABCTopLine
GOING SMALL. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who is in a tough fight against GOP candidate Sharron Angle in Nevada said that if he wins re-election, Senate Democrats would have to take a far different approach to legislating than in the first two years of the Obama administration. Here's Reid's prediction from an interview this week with Real Clear Politics' Erin McPike: "I think what we're going to do is I think we're going to have to do legislation in pieces rather than trying to do broad things," Reid said. "That's usually what happens in a second [congressional] term of a president. So I think we're going to have to work on pieces of energy, pieces of other things that we need to work on rather than trying to do big things." http://bit.ly/9Jinxu
ANGLE ON THE AIR. Speaking of Nevada, GOP contender Sharron Angle is going up with a new ad to coincide with President Obama's trip to Nevada this week. The spot uses the president's own words against him, juxtaposing clips of Obama talking about the economic doom and gloom that the country is facing with his raucous Democratic National Convention speech in which he touted hope and change. "In 2008, we were promised change we could believe in," the ad says ominously. "Then Harry Reid and the president got to work." WATCH: http://bit.ly/aiiaEr
KENTUCKY NASTY. The contest for the down and dirtiest race of the year may well go to the Kentucky Senate race between GOP hopeful Rand Paul and Democrat Jack Conway. Debates have been filled with personal attacks and Conway is taking heat for a recent ad raising questions about Paul's religious values. ABC's Huma Khan reports: "'Are negative ads out of the norm? Of course not. We've been witnessing this in American politics forever and it's very commonplace. Negative ads have proven to be quite effective,' said Joe Gershtenson, director of Eastern Kentucky University's Institute of Public Governance and Civic Engagement. What sets the Kentucky race apart, though, is that rules of decorum have fallen completely by the wayside. 'This sense of decorum that's typically observed — the refusal to shake hands, not looking him (Conway) in the face afterward. And then accusations by Paul afterward that Conway overstepped his boundaries and stooped to a new low,' Gershtenson said. 'It's gotten nasty.'" http://bit.ly/cmCj5a
AD WATCH. In a year of sometimes outlandish political ads, a television commercial from a candidate for delegate from the District of Columbia likely has the dubious distinction of being the most graphic — it features images of aborted fetuses. ABC's Devin Dwyer reports: "The 30-second ad for Missy Smith, which will air 24 times on local broadcast network affiliates across the greater Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. It is so explicit that it's preceded by a 15-second warning that was added by the stations' administrators. Over gruesome images of bloody and lifeless premature bodies, Smith says she had two abortions but has turned against the practice. … YouTube has pulled the video from its site, posting a notice that it amounted to 'a violation of YouTube's policy on shocking and disgusting content.' WJLA, the local ABC affiliate to first air the ad, noted in its disclaimer that the station was required to air the ad under federal law." http://bit.ly/aReT0D
@rickklein: will Dems hold the House? "Don't ask people when you're not going to get an honest answer," Barney Frank says. http://bit.ly/aJ9784
@DavidMDrucker: #HCR: New AP poll shows 36% favor revising the law , but NOT completely repealing. 37% favor full repeal. 52% oppose law; 41% favor.
@HotlineJosh: On MSNBC, @NorahODonnell breaks news on a telling statistic: 75% of Angle's fundraising is out-of state; 77% of Reid's money is out of state
@TomBeaumont: IOWA — Barbour, Pawlenty back for Branstad next week, after Romney http://tinyurl.com/2bu5c5o
@pwire: Democratic internal poll shows Melancon closing on Vitter in LA-Sen race… http://pwire.at/av27qF
THE NOTE IS HIRING AN INTERN. Calling on College Students! The ABC News Political Unit is now seeking full-time Winter 2011 interns in Washington, D.C. The paid internship begins in late December or early January and runs thru May of 2011. Political Unit interns attend political events and contribute to stories for the politics page of ABCNews.com. They also help ABC News by conducting research, maintaining our calendar of upcoming political events, and posting stories to ABCNews.com.
In order to apply, you MUST be either a graduate student or an undergraduate student who has completed his or her first year of college. The internship is NOT open to recent graduates. You also must be able to work eight hours per day, Monday through Friday. Interns will be paid $8.50/hour. If you write well, follow politics closely, and have some familiarity with web publishing, send a cover letter and resume to Zach Wolf at firstname.lastname@example.com, by Monday, November 15, with the subject line: "INTERN" in all caps. Please indicate in both your cover letter and the body of your email your student status and the specific dates and hours of your availability.
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MIDDLEBURY -- The Board of Selectmen scheduled a special town meeting for next week to approve money for several capital projects across town.
The meeting is to approve transfers between town reserve accounts, funds set aside for specific purposes, to cover roof repairs and other equipment replacements for $275,000.
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I have been playing with the idea of shooting more scene and less person in my Street photos. The idea being giving life to a otherwise lifeless photo. I am not sure it is a thought in progress right now.Â
As the title states these are Multiple Exposures of things that people put on walls and posts. AKA these are photos of sticker graffiti and gig posters :)
I was on my way home from a shoot this morning when I came across this near The Loft! I think this is routine maintenance or somthing for fire trucks because they often can be found at the station on main street hosing down the sidewalk. Anyway I liked it :)
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Some tea time treats for the sweet tooth especially on a rainy day or just a lazy day. It's best eaten when it's still hot & crispy. This batter is also good with Onion rings & all other vegetables that you can think of. If you want a crunchy texture, add 1 egg to batter. But my kids & husband like it without the egg..
6-8 medium unripe bananas or sweet potato
1/2 cup All Purpose Flour
1/2 cup Rice Flour
Some salt
Enough water to make a thick batter.
Preparation1) Mix all the flour together. Mix salt to taste.
2) Add water to mix, till you get a thick batter.
3) Heat pan to deep fry.
4) Peel bananas/sweet potatoes.
5) Add to batter.
6) Add to pan & deep fry till golden. Put the fried bananas in a strainer or paper towels to drain off the excess oil.
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recipe at a glance
main ingredients: Broccoli, Cauliflower, Banana
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Hotel Beds and Hungover Heads...
By Tony Lee
Itís six p.m. on the Sunday, and Iím in the hotel bedroom typing the column up while Dan tries to pack his clothing away, shambling around like a broken shell of a man, grasping his stolen small tubs of jam (from breakfast) with the need of a drunkard with a hangover from hell. Which to be honest? Is a part that heís pretty much managing to play quite well. I meanwhile am laying on the bed in a state of calm relaxation while Skinner and Dan shuffle and twitch, because Iím not leaving the hotel until tomorrow morning, which means that I get to spend another night in the bar, albeit sipping weakly at glasses of water while I whimper silently and shiver to myself. The bottles of gin have been tidied away and the boxes of pizza are being folded into rubbish bin sized portions. Having been bought at around 2am on the Friday night, this pizza has been the sustenance for all our needs and has pretty much kept us alive since day one. The three day pizza is now looking bad, but not to Dan, who munches slowly while crying weakly to himself.
The Bristol con has always been ëBar Coní to me, the Christmas party for creators that weíre never able to have throughout the Winterval season and the Ramada Plaza bar is a mecca of wonderment for the variety of Artists, Writers, Editors, Letterers, Colourists, Pimps, Drug Pushers, Fluffers and whoever else is there on a nightly basis.
And as ever I sit in the bar in the early hours of the morning in a sense of confusion, still not sure how the hell I manage to sit and drink with people that I respect as legends in the industry without my fanboy side emerging like the Hyde to my Jekyll.
|Tony gives 2000 A.D. editor Tharg his latest pitch...
This year was actually quite relaxed, with Top Cow busywhizz Rob Levin coming all the way from the West Coast of Americaland to see how the British creators party. The fear was evident on his face from the first moment he arrived, followed quickly by amusement and then loathing, but he seems to have settled into the British way of life quite quickly. We might have made an Anglophile of him already.
The broken shell of Dan Boultwood is now muttering ëthis isnít my faultí as he tries to pack away his final items of clothing. If it wasnít so pitiful, it would be amusing. But now the convention is done and the long journeys home begin.
Apart from me. I get to sleep now.
How was the convention for me? Great. I got to hang out with the Geek Syndicate crowd and a whole wealth of new podcast friends. I caught up with old chums and met new ones. We gave out awards. We signed comics. It was a nice weekend with only one thunderstorm the entire sun drenched time.
And now itís over. And thereís a relief mixed with regret.
Still, in two weeks itís the MCM Expo in London, and weíll start all over again...
Highlight of the convention however? Was Black Cat.
Last year, there was a girl, very well endowed dressed as the Marvel character Black Cat. Pretty much every man who saw her (as the costume was VERY accurate and she was close to bursting) was appreciative ñ until it came out that she was actually fourteen. Then, it spread around like wildfire and everywhere you could see were men flagellating themselves, convinced that they were going to hell.
This year she was back again on the Friday night. And this time we knew to look away. Until it came out that she was actually twenty seven, and the whole ëfourteení thing? Was spread by her savvy boyfriend who knew that this was a surefire way to stop men trying to steal her from him.
Well done, sir ñ we salute you.
And so the Saturday night had the highlight of the entire convention, well at least for us ñ the 2008 Golden Champagne Glass Awards. And in a star-studded gala of guerrilla bar-hogging, we announced the following winners...
Best Comic Created By A Friend: Surburban Glamour (Jamie McKelvie)
|Jamie McKelvie wins his award - later he breaks it while 'being a Dalek'...
Hardest Drinker: Jamie Boardman
|Editor Jamie Boardman finally beats the entirety of Mam Tor to win his award...
Best Journalist (US): Heidi MacDonald
Best Journalist (UK): Mike Conroy
Gayest Gay Creator In Comics (Also known as the Bevis Musson award): Bevis Musson
|Bevis Musson winning the second of his three awards of the night...
The James Redington Memorial Award: Posthumously awarded to James Redington for the first year. No vote required.
Hottest Creator: Emma Vieceli
|Emma Vieceli wins Hottest Creator to her utter embarrassment...
Best Online Podcast: Geek Syndicate; Birds Of Geek (Tied)
Scariest Fan: Derek Hartley
Breakout Award for Best New Talent: Chris Lynch
Favourite Writer: Paul Cornell
|An emotional Paul Cornell wins best Writer...
Favourite Artist: Mike Collins
Favourite 'Other' (Letterer, Colourist, Editor): Rob Levin (Top Cow VP, Editorial)
|Top Cow VP for Editorial flies over from LA to receive his 'Best Other' award for Editorial services, Top Cow...
Lifetime Achievement Award: Dave Gibbons
|Dave Gibbons wins a Lifetime Achievement Award...
Best Website: Bevis Mussonís Livejournal
Best 'YoYo' (person who bounces back from adversity): Richard Emms (ex APC/Markosia, now Publisher of Ardden)
|Unable to attend, Rich Emms recieves 'Best Yoyo' from Tony and Dan...
Best Shameless Promoter: Bevis Musson
There were many pictures taken and hopefully Iíll be sent a couple today that can also be put up with the column, but if not, expect a photo parade next week.
|Shenanigans as Dave Gibbons is disqualified from 'Best New Writer'...
As I seem to be the king of ballot stuffing, Let's make it work for the powers of good with two requests - one for celebrity comic writing chum Neil Kleid aka rantcomics, and the other for celebrity comic writing chum Vito Delsante aka incogvito...
First, Neil Kleid...
"This month, Paul Salvi and I present "Action, Ohio", a tale of heroes, villains, deception, murder and comic books, at Zudacomics.com, DC comics' online webcomic competition. Each month, Zuda's editors select ten comics to compete against each other. Readers vote for their favorite, often going as far as to campaign and sing its praises and the comics which receives the most votes at the end of the month wins a DC Comics publishing contract to continue the story on the Zuda site for the rest of the year. The only way to see your favorite comic continue is to vote, the only way to vote is to head to http://www.zudacomics.com/node/438 and register.
"Action, Ohio" is the story of Detective Andrea Bruce, a Detroit policewoman who doesn't believe in heroes. But when a teenager dies stopping a fire with amazing abilities and the coroner suspects foul play, Andrea discovers a secret town of superheroes while tracking his killer. In the sixties, men responsible for the birth of Silver Age comic books found a town riddled with the fallout of the atomic age and invented fictional characters based on its residents to divert the world from their existence: If America thought super heroes were fictional beings, it wouldn't go looking for them. Supported by an ageing group of heroes, Andrea tries to hide Action from the world but as a town founded on policies of non-involvement begins to crack and Andrea digs into the underbelly of a town that's imprisoned itself to save the world, she begins to wonder: if Action, Ohio is a town of comic book heroes, then where are the villains? Andrea, an outsider with no use for heroes, must choose between solving her case and opening a Pandora's Box of evil closed forty years ago, or putting aside her vendetta to ensure that the sleepy little town hiding from the citizens of the world doesn't reach out, ignite and destroy them.
How can you help?
- Click over to http://www.zudacomics.com/node/438. Read. Register. Vote for ACTION, OHIO before May 30th. All it costs is a moment of
your time: http://www.zudacomics.com/node/438 - don't forget to send this link around to EVERYONE you know and urge them to do the same!
- Head to the production blog at http://actionohio.blogspot.com or join www.myspace.com/actionohio where you can find early sketches, behind the scenes commentary and web banners, web flyers and promotional materials you can use in spreading the word.
- Once you've voted, make us your favorite then leave a comment and let the team know what you thought!
You *do* have to be a registered Zuda user to vote, comment, and favorite (it's an easy process), so head on over today and put the democratic process to good use this month."
Secondly - Vito Delsante...
"On May 14, Superman #676 is released and it's my first and (for now) only Superman comic. But you can change that!
Pick up Superman#676 at your local comic shop on WEDNESDAY, MAY 14 and help to make a difference. If you're a comic creator, post about it on your blogs! If you're a comic book retailer, help a fellow retailer out and DON'T RETURN THE BOOK! If you're a comic fan, make a statement with your wallets! YOU can make a difference in the burgeoning career of an up-and-coming writer!
And if you're in the New York Area, stop by Jim Hanley's Universe on WEDNESDAY, MAY 14 to get your copy signed! And meet artists Dean (Brawl/Billy Dogma) Haspiel and Mike (Annihilation: Conquest) Lilly and many more guests to be announced from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. Jim Hanley's Universe is located at 4 West 33rd Street, opposite the Empire State Building. For directions and more info, call 212-268-7088."
And also...
"**UPDATE: 5/7/08 - If you live in the NY Area, this signing just got bigger. I'm not piggybacking on a huge signing that will see the first time visit of Joe Kubert and Pete Carlsson (Tor) & Adam Kubert (Action Comics)! This is HUGE! Please come and not only support, but meet the legend!"
Go make Daddy proud.
Right then. Short one this week because Iíve lost the ability to type. Go away now, sleepy time. Nap nap nap. Nighty night.
No, really. Iím too broken to end on a, well, end note.
In fact, I should end with—
Discuss this column at the Only A Forum forum.
© 2008, Tony Lee


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The White Rose (German: die Weiße Rose) was a non-violent, intellectual resistance group in Nazi Germany, consisting of students from the University of Munich and their philosophy professor. The group became known for an anonymous leaflet and graffiti campaign, lasting from June 1942 until February 1943, that called for active opposition to dictator Adolf Hitler's regime.
The six most recognized members of the German resistance group were arrested by the Gestapo, tried for treason and beheaded in 1943. The text of their sixth leaflet was smuggled by Helmuth James Graf von Moltke out of Germany through Scandinavia to the United Kingdom, and in July, 1943, copies of it were dropped over Germany by Allied planes, retitled "The Manifesto of the Students of Munich."[1]
Another member, Hans Conrad Leipelt, who helped distribute Leaflet 6 in Hamburg, was executed on January 29, 1945, for his participation.
Today, the members of the White Rose are honoured in Germany amongst its greatest heroes, since they opposed the Third Reich in the face of almost certain death.
White Rose survivor Jürgen Wittenstein described what it was like to live in Hitler's Germany: "The government – or rather, the party – controlled everything: the news media, arms, police, the armed forces, the judiciary system, communications, travel, all levels of education from kindergarten to universities, all cultural and religious institutions. Political indoctrination started at a very early age, and continued by means of the Hitler Youth with the ultimate goal of complete mind control. Children were exhorted in school to denounce even their own parents for derogatory remarks about Hitler or Nazi ideology."[2]
Students from the University of Munich comprised the core of the White Rose — Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, Alex Schmorell, Willi Graf, Christoph Probst, Traute Lafrenz, Katharina Schüddekopf, Lieselotte (Lilo) Berndl, Jürgen Wittenstein, Marie-Luise Jahn, Falk Harnack, Hubert Furtwängler, Wilhelm Geyer, Manfred Eickemeyer, Josef Söhngen, Heinrich Guter, Heinrich Bollinger, Helmut Bauer, Harald Dorhn, Rudi Alt[3] and later Wolfgang Jaeger.[4] Most were in their early twenties. A professor of philosophy and musicology, Kurt Huber, was also associated with their cause. Wilhelm Geyer taught Alexander Schmorell how to make the tin templates used in the graffiti campaign. Eugen Grimminger of Stuttgart funded their operations. Grimminger's secretary Tilly Hahn contributed her own funds to the cause, and acted as go-between for Grimminger and the group in Munich. She frequently carried supplies such as envelopes, paper, and an additional duplicating machine from Stuttgart to Munich. In addition, a group of students in the city of Ulm distributed a number of the group's leaflets. Among this group were Sophie Scholl's childhood friend Susanne Hirzel and her teenage brother Hans Hirzel and Franz Josef Müller.[5]
Between June 1942 and February 1943, the group prepared and distributed six leaflets, in which they called for the active opposition of the German people to Nazi oppression and tyranny.[6] Huber wrote the final leaflet. A draft of a seventh leaflet, designed by Christoph Probst, was found in the possession of Hans Scholl at the time of his arrest by the Gestapo. While Sophie Scholl got rid of incriminating evidence on her person before being taken into custody, Hans did not do the same with Probst's leaflet draft or cigarette coupons given to him by Geyer, an act that cost Probst his life and nearly undid Geyer.[citation needed] Hans did try to destroy the draft of the last leaflet by ripping it into pieces and stuffing into his mouth to try save Probst from detection but the Gestapo recovered enough to match with written, signed statements from Probst found later in Hans's apartment.[7]
The White Rose was influenced by the German Youth Movement, of which Christoph Probst was a member. Hans Scholl was a member of the Hitler Youth until 1937, and Sophie was a member of the Bund Deutscher Mädel. Membership of both groups was compulsory for young Germans, although many - such as Willi Graf, Otl Aicher, and Heinz Brenner - refused to join. The ideas of Deutsche Jungenschaft vom 1.11.1929 (dj.1.11.) had strong influence on Hans Scholl and his colleagues. dj.1.11. was a youth group of the German Youth Movement, founded by Eberhard Koebel in 1929. Willi Graf was a member of Neudeutschland, a Catholic youth association, and the Grauer Orden.[8]
The group was motivated by ethical and moral considerations. They came from various religious backgrounds. Willi and Katharina were devout Catholics. The Scholls, Lilo, and Falk were just as devoutly Lutheran. Alexander Schmorell was Orthodox, the grandson of a priest and eventually glorified as an Orthodox Christian saint. Traute adhered to the concepts of anthroposophy, while Eugen Grimminger considered himself Buddhist. Christoph Probst was baptized a Catholic shortly before his execution. His father Hermann was nominally a Catholic, but for some time studied Eastern thought and wisdom, the reason why his son Christoph was not baptized as a baby.[citation needed]
In summer 1942, several members of the White Rose had to serve for three months on the Russian front alongside many other male medical students from the University of Munich. There, they observed the horrors of war, saw beatings and other mistreatment of Jews by the Germans, and heard about the persecution of the Jews from reliable sources.[9] Some witnessed atrocities of the war on the battlefield and against civilian populations in the East. Willi Graf saw the Warsaw and Łódź Ghettos and could not get the images of brutality out of his mind.[citation needed] Alexander Schmorell spoke perfect Russian and this allowed him to have better contact and understanding from the local Russians and other Slavic populations and their plight, supposed to be removed -as Jews were earlier- for their government Lebensraum project of ethnic cleansing. This Russian insight proved invaluable during their time there, and he could convey to his fellow White Rose members, what not understood or even heard by other Germans coming from the Eastern front.
The students returned in November 1942. They rejected fascism and militarism and believed in a federated Europe that adhered to principles of tolerance and justice.
By February 1943, the young friends sensed the reversal of fortune the Wehrmacht suffered at Stalingrad, which eventually led to Germany's defeat. As the brutality of the regime became more and more apparent, when deportations of Jews began, and the remaining few forced to wear the yellow Star of David, when German atrocities in occupied Poland and Russia became known, and when the copies of Bishop Galen's sermon condemning the killing of inmates in insane asylums were circulated in secret, detachment gave way to the conviction something had to be done. It was not enough to keep to oneself, one's beliefs, and ethical standards, but the time had come to act.[2]
In 1941 Hans Scholl read a copy of a sermon by an outspoken critic of the Nazi regime, Bishop August von Galen, decrying the euthanasia policies expressed in Action T4 (and extended that same year to the Nazi concentration camps by Action 14f13)[10] which the Nazis maintained would protect the German gene pool.[11] Horrified by the Nazi policies, Sophie obtained permission to reprint the sermon and distribute it at the University of Munich as the group's first leaflet prior to their formal organization.[11]
Under Gestapo interrogation, Hans Scholl gave several explanations for the origin of the name "The White Rose," and suggested he may have chosen it while he was under the emotional influence of a 19th-century poem with the same name by German poet Clemens Brentano. Most scholars, as well as the German public, have taken this answer at face value.[citation needed] Earlier, before these Gestapo transcripts surfaced, Annette Dumbach and Jud Newborn speculated briefly that the origin might have come from a German novel Die Weiße Rose- The White Rose, published in Berlin in 1929 and written by B. Traven, the German author of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Dumbach and Newborn said there was a chance that Hans Scholl and Alex Schmorell had read this. They also wrote that the symbol of the white rose was intended to represent purity and innocence in the face of evil.[12]
In February 2006, however, Dr. Jud Newborn authored an essay entitled, "Solving Mysteries: The Secret of 'The White Rose'," originally intended as an Afterword to his co-authored book.[13] In this essay he argues that Hans Scholl's response to the Gestapo was intentionally misleading in order to protect Josef Söhngen, the anti-Nazi bookseller who had provided the White Rose members with a safe meeting place for the exchange of information and to receive occasional financial contributions. Söhngen kept a stash of banned books hidden in his store. Dr. Newborn also looked into the content of B. Traven's The White Rose, arguing that the novel, banned by the Nazis in 1933, provided evidence of origin of the group's name.
In the same essay, Newborn also revealed information about Hans Scholl's 1937-1938 arrest and trial for participation in a youth movement banned the end of 1936– one he had joined in 1934, when he and other Ulm Hitler Youth members considered membership in this group and the Hitler Youth to be compatible. Hans Scholl was also accused of transgressing Paragraph 175, the anti-homosexuality law, because of a same-sex teen relationship dating back to 1934-1935, when Hans was only 16 years old. Newborn built this argument partially on the work of Eckard Holler, a sociologist specializing in the German Youth Movement,[14] as well as on the Gestapo interrogation transcripts from the 1937-1938 arrest, and with reference to historian George Mosse's discussion of the homoerotic aspects of the German "bündisch" Youth Movement.[15] As Mosse indicated, idealized romantic attachments among male youths was not uncommon in Germany, especially among members of the "bündisch" associations. Newborn argued that this experience led both Hans and Sophie to identify with the victims of the Nazi state, providing an explanation for why Hans and Sophie Scholl made the transformation from avid Hitler Youth leaders to passionate opponents of National Socialism.[13]
Quoting extensively from the Bible, Aristotle and Novalis, as well as Goethe and Schiller, they appealed to what they considered the German intelligentsia, believing that they would be intrinsically opposed to Nazism. These leaflets were left in telephone books in public phone booths, mailed to professors and students, and taken by courier to other universities for distribution.[2] At first, the leaflets were sent out in mailings from cities in Bavaria and Austria, since the members believed that southern Germany would be more receptive to their anti-militarist message.
Alexander Schmorell, who penned the words the White Rose has become most famous for, became an Orthodox saint after his martyrdom. Most of the more practical material—calls to arms and statistics of murder—came from Alex's pen. Hans Scholl wrote in a characteristically high style, exhorting the German people to action on the grounds of philosophy and reason.
At the end of July 1942, some of the male students in the group were deployed to the Eastern Front for military service (acting as medics) during the academic break. In late autumn, the men returned, and the White Rose resumed its resistance activities. In January 1943, using a hand-operated duplicating machine, the group is thought to have produced between 6,000 and 9,000 copies of their fifth leaflet, "Appeal to all Germans!", which was distributed via courier runs to many cities (where they were mailed). Copies appeared in Stuttgart, Cologne, Vienna, Freiburg, Chemnitz, Hamburg, Innsbruck and Berlin. The fifth leaflet was composed by Hans Scholl with improvements by Huber. These leaflets warned that Hitler was leading Germany into the abyss; with the gathering might of the Allies, defeat was now certain. The reader was urged to "Support the resistance movement!" in the struggle for "freedom of speech, freedom of religion and protection of the individual citizen from the arbitrary action of criminal dictator-states". These were the principles that would form "the foundations of a new Europe".
The leaflets caused a sensation, and the Gestapo began an intensive search for the publishers. On the nights of the 3rd, 8th and 15 February 1943, the slogans "Freedom" and "Down with Hitler" appeared on the walls of the university and other buildings in Munich. Alexander Schmorell, Hans Scholl and Willi Graf had painted them with tar-based paint. (Similar graffiti that appeared in the surrounding area at this time was painted by imitators).
The shattering German defeat at Stalingrad at the beginning of February provided the occasion for the group's sixth leaflet, written by Huber. Headed "Fellow students!" (the now-iconic Kommilitoninnen! Kommilitonen!), it announced that the "day of reckoning" had come for "the most contemptible tyrant our people has ever endured." "The dead of Stalingrad adjure us!"
Shortly after the capture of the members of the White Rose, Leaflet No. 6 was smuggled out of Germany and later copied by the Allies and dropped from aircraft as propaganda over Nazi Germany.[1]
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On 18 February 1943, coincidentally the same day that Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels called on the German people to embrace total war in his Sportpalast speech, the Scholls brought a suitcase full of leaflets to the university. They hurriedly dropped stacks of copies in the empty corridors for students to find when they flooded out of lecture rooms. Leaving before the class break, the Scholls noticed that some copies remained in the suitcase and decided it would be a pity not to distribute them. They returned to the atrium and climbed the staircase to the top floor, and Sophie flung the last remaining leaflets into the air. This spontaneous action was observed by the custodian Jakob Schmid. The police were called and Hans and Sophie Scholl were taken into Gestapo custody. Sophie and Hans were interrogated by Gestapo interrogator Robert Mohr, who initially thought Sophie was innocent. However, after Hans confessed, Sophie assumed full responsibility in an attempt to protect other members of the White Rose. Despite this, the other active members were soon arrested, and the group and everyone associated with them were brought in for interrogation.
The Scholls and Probst were the first to stand trial before the Volksgericht—the People's Court that tried political offenses against the Nazi German state—on 22 February 1943. They were found guilty of treason and Roland Freisler, head judge of the court, sentenced them to death. The three were executed the same day by guillotine at Stadelheim Prison. All three were noted for the courage with which they faced their deaths, particularly Sophie, who remained firm despite intense interrogation. (Reports that she arrived at the trial with a broken leg from torture were false.) She said to Freisler during the trial, "You know as well as we do that the war is lost. Why are you so cowardly that you won't admit it?"[16] When Hans was executed, he said "Let freedom live" as the blade fell.
The second White Rose trial took place on 19 April 1943. Only eleven had been indicted before this trial. At the last minute, the prosecutor added Traute Lafrenz (who was considered so dangerous that she was to have had a trial all to herself), Gisela Schertling and Katharina Schüddekopf. Others tried were Hans Hirzel, Susanne Hirzel, Franz Josef Müller, Heinrich Guter, Eugen Grimminger, Heinrich Bollinger, Helmut Bauer and Falk Harnack.[4] None had an attorney. One was assigned after the women appeared in court with their friends. Prior to their deaths, several members of the White Rose believed that their execution would stir university students and other anti-war citizens into activism against Hitler and the war.
Professor Huber had counted on the good services of his friend, attorney Justizrat Roder, a high-ranking Nazi. Roder had not bothered to visit Huber before the trial and had not read Huber's leaflet. Another attorney had carried out all the pre-trial paperwork. When Roder realized how damning the evidence was against Huber, he resigned. The junior attorney took over.[citation needed]
Grimminger initially was to receive the death sentence for funding their operations, but escaped with a sentence of ten years in a penitentiary.[citation needed]
The third White Rose trial was to have taken place on 20 April 1943 (Hitler's birthday), because Freisler anticipated death sentences for Wilhelm Geyer, Harald Dohrn, Josef Söhngen and Manfred Eickemeyer. He did not want too many death sentences at a single trial, and had scheduled those four for the next day. However, the evidence against them was lost, and the trial was postponed until 13 July 1943.
At that trial, Gisela Schertling—who had betrayed most of the friends, even fringe members like Gerhard Feuerle—redeemed herself by recanting her testimony against all of them. Since Freisler did not preside over the third trial, the judge acquitted all but Söhngen (who got only six months in prison) for lack of evidence.
Alexander Schmorell and Kurt Huber were beheaded on 13 July 1943, and Willi Graf on 12 October 1943. Huber's widow was sent a bill for 600 marks (twice her husband's monthly salary) for "wear of the guillotine."[2] Friends and colleagues of the White Rose, who had helped in the preparation and distribution of leaflets and in collecting money for the widow and young children of Probst, were sentenced to prison terms ranging from six months to ten years.
After her release for the sentence handed down on 19 April, Traute Lafrenz was rearrested. She spent the last year of the war in prison. Trials kept being postponed and moved to different locations because of Allied air raids. Her trial was finally set for April 1945, after which she probably would have been executed. Three days before the trial, however, the Allies liberated the town where she was held prisoner, thereby saving her life.
The White Rose had the last word. Their last leaflet was smuggled to the Allies, who edited it and air-dropped millions of copies over Germany. The members of the White Rose, especially Sophie, became icons of the new post-war Germany.
With the fall of Nazi Germany, the White Rose came to represent opposition to tyranny in the German psyche and was lauded for acting without interest in personal power or self-aggrandizement. Their story became so well known that the composer Carl Orff claimed (falsely by some accounts)[17] to his Allied interrogators that he was a founding member of the White Rose and was released. He was personally acquainted with Huber, but there is no evidence that Orff was ever involved in the movement.
On February 5, 2012, Alexander Schmorell was canonized as a New Martyr by the Orthodox Church.
The square where the central hall of Munich University is located has been named "Geschwister-Scholl-Platz" after Hans and Sophie Scholl; the square opposite to it is "Professor-Huber-Platz". Two large fountains are in front of the university, one on either side of Ludwigstraße. The fountain in front of the university is dedicated to Hans and Sophie Scholl. The other, across the street, is dedicated to Professor Huber. Many schools, streets, and other places across Germany are named in memory of the members of the White Rose.
One of Germany's leading literary prizes is called the "Geschwister Scholl" prize (the "Scholl Siblings" prize). Likewise, the asteroid 7571 Weisse Rose is named after the group.
The White Rose has also received artistic treatments, including the acclaimed opera Weiße Rose by Udo Zimmermann, In memoriam: die weisse Rose by Hans Werner Henze and Kommilitonen!, an opera by Peter Maxwell Davies.
The following is a non-exhaustive chronological account of some of the more notable treatments of the White Rose in media, book and artistic form.
The New York Times published articles on the first White Rose trials on 29 March 1943 and 25 April 1943, entitled "Nazis Execute 3 Munich Students For Writing Anti-Hitler Pamphlets"[18] and "Germans Clinging to Victory Hope in Fear of Reprisals," respectively. Though they did not correctly record all of the information about the resistance, the trials, and the execution, they were the first acknowledgement of the White Rose in the United States.
Beginning in the 1970s, three film accounts of the White Rose resistance were produced. The first was a film financed by the Bavarian state government entitled Das Versprechen (The Promise) and released in the 1970s. The film is not well known outside Germany, and to some extent even within the country. It was particularly notable in that unlike most films, it showed the White Rose from its inception and how it progressed. In 1982, Percy Adlon's Fünf letzte Tage (The Last Five Days) presented Lena Stolze as Sophie in her last days from the point of view of her cellmate Else Gebel. In the same year, Stolze repeated the role in Michael Verhoeven's Die Weiße Rose (The White Rose).
A book, Sophie Scholl and the White Rose, was published in English in February 2006. An account by Annette Dumbach and Dr. Jud Newborn tells the story behind the film Sophie Scholl: The Final Days, focusing on the White Rose movement while setting the group's resistance in the broader context of German culture and politics and other forms of resistance during the Nazi era.
As mentioned earlier, Udo Zimmermann composed a chamber opera about the White Rose (Weiße Rose) in 1986. Premiering in Hamburg, it went on to earn acclaim and a series of international performances.
Lillian Garrett-Groag's play, The White Rose, premiered at the Old Globe Theatre in 1991. Several plays have also been written by teachers in the USA for performance by students.
In Fatherland, an alternate history novel by Robert Harris, there is passing reference to the White Rose still remaining active in supposedly Nazi-ruled Germany in 1964.
In an extended German national TV competition held in the autumn of 2003 to choose "the ten greatest Germans of all time" (ZDF TV), Germans under the age of 40 placed Hans and Sophie Scholl in fourth place, selecting them over Bach, Goethe, Gutenberg, Willy Brandt, Bismarck, and Albert Einstein. Not long before, women readers of the mass-circulation magazine Brigitte had voted Sophie Scholl as "the greatest woman of the twentieth century".
In 2003, a group of students at the University of Texas at Austin, Texas established The White Rose Society dedicated to Holocaust remembrance and genocide awareness. Every April, the White Rose Society hands out 10,000 white roses on campus, representing the approximate number of people killed in a single day at Auschwitz. The date corresponds with Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Memorial Day. The group organizes performances of The Rose of Treason, a play about the White Rose, and has rights to show the movie Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage (Sophie Scholl: The Final Days). The White Rose Society is affiliated with Hillel and the Anti-Defamation League.[citation needed]
In February 2005, a movie about Sophie Scholl's last days, Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage (Sophie Scholl: The Final Days), featuring actress Julia Jentsch as Sophie, was released. Drawing on interviews with survivors and transcripts that had remained hidden in East German archives until 1990, it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in January 2006. An American film project about the White Rose continues to be under development[citation needed] by co-author Jud Newborn of the 2006 book Sophie Scholl and the White Rose.[13]
White Rose has inspired many people around the world, including many anti-war activists in recent years. Scattered throughout 2007-2008, 5 hoax pipe bombs were placed at various military recruitment centers with the words "Die Weisse Rose" written upon them.[19]
In February 2009, a biography of Sophie Scholl, Sophie Scholl: The Real Story of the Woman Who Defied Hitler, was published in English by the History Press. The book, by the Oxford-educated British historian Frank McDonough.
The UK-based genocide prevention student network Aegis Students uses a white rose as their symbol in commemoration of the White Rose movement. There are numerous study guides to the White Rose, notably one available from the University of Minnesota's Holocaust Center.
In 2009, Dan Fesperman published a novel entitled The Arms Maker of Berlin in which activities by real and fictional White Rose characters play a significant role in the story.
In 2011, a documentary film by André Bossuroy addressing the memory of the victims of Nazism and of Stalinism ICH BIN, with the support from the Fondation Hippocrène and from the EACEA Agency of the European Commission (programme Europe for Citizens – An active European remembrance), RTBF, VRT. Four young Europeans meet with historians and witnesses of our past… They investigate the events of the Second World War in Germany (the student movement of the White Rose in Munich), in France (the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup in Paris, the resistance in Vercors) and in Russia (Katyn Forest massacre). They examine the impact of these events; curious as to how the European peoples are creating their identities today.
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Jim McKenna, president of the Pacific Maritime Association, which represents shipping lines and terminal operators in contract talks, expects "long, hard negotiations" with the ILWU when talks begin next spring. The existing contract will expire on June 30.
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The 2002 negotiations were the most difficult since 1970 because they involved the introduction of technology at marine terminals. After bitter talks, the 2002 negotiations deteriorated due to ILWU work slowdowns, followed by a 10-day employer lockout and pressure from the federal government to end the lockout. Employers won the right to use computer technology to improve efficiency and, ultimately, to eliminate some marine clerk jobs.
In the 2008 contract, employers secured the right to use any automated machines they deem necessary to make cargo-handling more efficient so they can reduce the time that today's costly large vessels remain in port. By definition, automated cranes and the use of robotics eliminate some longshore jobs.
"Virtually every terminal in Southern California is exploring automation," McKenna said. However, automation is very costly and requires the handling of huge cargo volumes in order to achieve an adequate return on investment, so some terminals will delay automation and others may choose not to automate, he said.
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Has anyone worked for these guys? or had any run ins with them in your school?
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Has anyone worked for these guys? or had any run ins with them in your school?
Bristol is in contract with Northgate.
Not really had much dealings with them yet. I believe they are not having much success with the Wave 1 schools just hope things get better for when they reach us next year :(
Where you from?
I just had a call today, they are after a Network Manager for one of there schools who are going over to the BSF soon......I've been told who ever comes on board will be carried over.........
They have run the school ICT systems in Northern Island for a few years. I meet one of their directors once who had grand ideas but not a clue about what happens in schools.
When I worked for Local Government. Northgate supplied our Contact System.
They were good to deal with. The only problem was when we had to upgrade the software. We had to start in the early afternoon, and believe it or not, we would still be at it the following morning. It took us 14 hours on a couple of occasions to upgrade the servers. Their software was appalling, it made MS look incredible. It was so bitty, it was hard to keep up with it. It also had a few bugs in it that they could not rectify.
But apart from the software, they were good to deal with!!!
Northgate and RM are the 2 contenders for Hull BSF Managed service.....tbh i hope RM get it
Very bad experience with them, they outsourced the server builds (i.e. network configuration) to a company who essentially botched it because they weren't going to support it. We were then 'not allowed' to move to xp in 2006 because NIS were 'uncomfortable' with using it! (Note, this was not BSF)
From what I've heard Northgate are performing ok at Kent and the council and school teams seem pleased with them - can't comment on what I heard about Deak's departure but I am pretty sure the same would have happened if RM had won the contract. :getmecoat:
From what I've heard about RM I think their kit is on a par with Northgate but their culture is much more of a 'do as I say or like it or lump it' and that goes as much for the teachers as it does for their staff.


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Hotel Husa Princesa
Hotel Husa Princesa in Madrid
Hotel Husa Princesa
Hotel Guest Rating: 8.1/10
Princesa 40
Madrid 28008
Welcome to the Hotel Husa Princesa
A sauna and a location a block from the subway are reasons the Hotel Husa Princesa pleases Priceline guests.
Hotel Features
The 14-floor Hotel Husa Princesa has 275 spacious rooms, all boasting large windows and marble bathrooms. Some feature headboards with reproductions of paintings from the Prado, as well as sofas and bathrobes. All rooms include coffeemakers, minibars, Wi-Fi (for a fee) and flat-panel TVs with satellite channels. Non-smoking accommodations can be requested. After a long day of sightseeing, guests enjoy the sauna . The hotel has a breakfast buffet available for a fee, a bar, a terrace cafe, a 24-hour tapas/Mediterranean restaurant, a fitness room and a business center. Parking is offered for a fee.
Hotel Location
The Hotel Husa Princesa is on Calle Princesa in the Arguelles district, where you'll find an array of shopping and cafes. The Arguelles Metro station is one block northwest, the Plaza España is a half-mile south, and the Royal Palace is three-quarters of a mile south. Masterpieces of Spanish art are on display at the Prado, two miles southeast. Madrid-Barajas Airport is nine miles northeast.
Guest Favorites
An "excellent location" near the Metro distinguishes the Hotel Husa Princesa for Priceline guests.
- Internet services
- Indoor pool
- Fitness centre
- Restaurant
- Valet parking
- Room service
Hotel Husa Princesa Amenities
- 24-hour front desk
- Air conditioning
- Airport shuttle (surcharge)
- ATM/cash machine on site
- Babysitting/child services
- Bar
- Bicycle rental
- Breakfast in the room
- Bridal suite
- Car hire
- Currency exchange
- Daily maid service
- Designated smoking area
- Dry cleaning
- Facilities for disabled guests
- Family rooms
- Fax/photocopying
- Fitness centre
- Free WiFi
- Garden
- Gift shop
- Heating
- Indoor pool
- Internet services
- Ironing service
- Laundry
- Lift
- Luggage storage
- Meeting/banquet facilities
- Newspapers
- Non-smoking rooms
- On-site parking
- Parking
- Private parking
- Restaurant
- Room service
- Safety deposit box
- Sauna
- Shops (on site)
- Snack bar
- Soundproof rooms
- Terrace
- Ticket service
- Tour desk
- Trouser press
- Valet parking
- VIP room facilities
- WiFi
Hotel Information
Please note that the hotel does not accept pets.Please note that the indoor pool is available for guests over 16 years old only.Please note that the swimming pool measures 12 x 3.5 metres.
Hotel Guest Reviews of the Hotel Husa PrincesaOur hotel ratings and reviews are from real hotel guests. Priceline.com ensures that its reviews are guests-only by proactively sending hotel surveys to customers after they've completed their hotel stays. In the post-stay surveys, priceline.com hotel customers are asked a number of questions about their stay and the hotel. On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being the best, the survey asks guests to rate their overall experience and specifically rate the hotel's cleanliness, staff and location. Priceline.com does not allow site visitors to post unsolicited hotel reviews.
December 9, 2014
Restaurant up several flights of stairs with arrows leading up one corridor and down another
November 16, 2014
Business Traveler
November 12, 2014
On the first night, we were put in a room with walls that shook, and an extremely loud, vibrating noise that went off in the all the entire night to a level that you would need ear plugs to block out. The next morning when we told the front desk about this and brought along the video with audio we took during the night of the issue, they were very nonchalant, blamed it on being an older building, and begrudgingly put us in a new room. They barely offered us an apology, and did nothing to compensate us, or try to win back our loyalty. In addition, in general, this should not be a 4* hotel as the hotel is extremely outdated, and seems to place very little emphasis on service or comfort. There were no pleasantries or additional features that would warrant such a high rating. ...
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October 31, 2011
The Husa Princesa has an excellent location. Half of the staff was pleasant and professional, but the other half was not. The bathrooms were equipped with liquid soap dispensers and not enough towels. We requested soap bars and one bar was supplied. The cold water supply of the bidet was not working when we arrived and we informed the cleaning lady . Finally they fixed it the last day of our stay after two more complaints. The housekeeping lady asked us to fill out a claim form and I told her we were not there to fill out reports.
June 25, 2011
Really old Rooms decorated and I do not believe should be considered a 5 star at all. Beds are really terrible and It is amazing that the hotel charge 8-9 Euros per Hour per Internet services.
March 2, 2011
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Hotel has nine floors, rooms are large, flat screen TVs, four fast elevators lobby is nice.
February 18, 2011
Business Traveler
We were very happy with everything.
October 25, 2010
Hotel met our expectations in every way. That was a very nice touch.
June 11, 2006
Great location. Clean. Attentive staff. Good size rooms, nice bathrooms.
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