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Black Point Inn - Scarborough, Portland
510 Black Point Rd - Portland1-877-662-6988
Welcome to Black Point Inn!
Wake up to a nice breakfast or enjoy an evening meal at this 3 star Scarborough property as it has its own restaurant. Make the most of your trip, whether for business or pleasure, by taking some time to relax as you will find a fitness center on offer. Why not go for a swim as this property features an outdoor pool, a good way to unwind. There is also a bar/lounge where guests can enjoy drinks after a long day.
Guests can make use of the free Wi-Fi. Planning a meeting? This property has 4 meeting rooms, as well as a business center. Missed breakfast? Have no fear! There's coffee in the lobby to keep you going. Other amenities include a hair salon, dry cleaning/laundry, an elevator (lift) and concierge services.
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- Entire property is non-smoking
- Hairdresser
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- Internet/Email services
- Free parking
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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.
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- Resort fee: 18 percent of room rate
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Black Point Inn offers 25 guest rooms with free local calls. Guests can unwind at the end of a long day and enjoy flat-screen televisions with premium cable channels. Business travelers will have access to free wireless high-speed Internet access as well as complimentary newspapers and phones during their Scarborough visit. Guest rooms are individually furnished, making each stay a unique experience.
Private bathrooms are outfitted with bathrobes and complimentary toiletries. Irons/ironing boards and hair dryers are supplied in each room to facilitate basic travel needs. Additional comforts include air conditioning.
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Distances from Black Point InnScarborough Beach State Park - 1.4 km / 0.8 mi
Higgins Beach - 4.2 km / 2.6 mi
Harmon Historical Museum - 5.2 km / 3.3 mi
Dunegrass Golf Club - 6.4 km / 4 mi
Monkey Trunks Extreme Aerial Adventure Park - 7.6 km / 4.7 mi
Aquaboggan Water Park - 7.6 km / 4.7 mi
Crescent Beach State Park - 7.6 km / 4.7 mi
Scarborough Downs - 7.8 km / 4.9 mi
Ferry Beach State Park - 8.8 km / 5.4 mi
Funtown Splashtown USA - 9 km / 5.6 mi
Two Lights State Park - 9.4 km / 5.8 mi
Beech Ridge Motor Speedway - 10 km / 6.2 mi
Cape Elizabeth Light - 10 km / 6.2 mi
Nonesuch River Golf Club - 10.5 km / 6.5 mi
Fortunes Rock Beach - 10.6 km / 6.6 mi
The preferred airport for Black Point Inn is Portland, ME (PWM-Portland Intl. Jetport) - 12.6 km / 7.8 mi.
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In a post-apocalyptic world, a young woman who believes she is the last human on Earth meets a dying scientist searching for survivors. Their relationship becomes tenuous when another survivor appears. As the two men compete for the woman's affection, their primal urges begin to reveal their true nature.
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The former Spurs midfielder and England and Tottenham manager thinks that the current White Hart Lane boss has done a fine job of reviving their fortunes...Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp is making an excellent fist of his work at White Hart Lane, according to the club's legendary former midfielder Glenn Hoddle, who feels the ex-Portsmouth gaffer has turned the club round after the disappointing spell when Juande Ramos was in charge.
Although Ramos won the Carling Cup in his first season in charge, Spurs slumped in the early part of last season, and looked certainties for relegation until Redknapp took over in October 2008.
By the end of the campaign the Lilywhites were in the race for a Europa League spot, and Hoddle thinks that 62-year-old Redknapp deserves much credit for his work at the club.
"Harry's turned them round, he has now got his own players to buy and I'm hoping they have a really good season - I think they can," the former England manager told FIFA.com.
"I wish them well and I hope they have a good season. I like Harry a lot, he's a great lad and I've got a lot of respect for what he's done in football, so fingers crossed they can go on from there.
"It was a difficult season for them, there was too much change. Let's hope that they settle now and leave Harry to do the job over the next few years.
"There has been too much change for too long. People like me, plus
others, haven't been given enough time. Hopefully now they can have a
big season and build on it, and allow Harry to do the job all Spurs
fans want."
Spurs face Barcelona tomorrow in the Wembley Cup pre-season tournament, and Hoddle feels that the Catalans will present an interesting challenge for Spurs, and allow Redknapp's men to assess their progress.
"How can they cope and assert their game on Barcelona? That's a real
challenge for a lot of teams in Europe," he added.
"Barcelona have proved they are the best team in Europe, and not only by winning. They play a beautiful game; it's a different game when they are in possession. When they play the ball looks round - with some teams it looks square."
Hoddle, who made 490 League and cup appearances for Spurs between 1975 and 1987, scoring 110 goals, was manager at White Hart Lane from March 2001, when he replaced George Graham, until September 2003, when he was sacked and David Pleat took the reins in a caretaker capacity.
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Damaged Sango Kaku, what should I do now?
Hey guys! Second post ever on these forums. I came seeking advice. My first post was over in the Bamboo forum. Now, it's the Japanese Maple's turn.
So, I live in downtown Portland, Oregon. I live on the side of a hill where my balcony faces East. My balcony gets direct sunlight from sunrise until 1-2PM. I bought my Sango Kaku from Home Depot about 2 years ago now. I love it. She's my baby.
However, around the end of June and beginning of July I went through some traumatic life events and my Maple went unwatered for two weeks, maybe even three. This is after previous issues I had with aphids and ants and that was one big ordeal, but once I killed the ants, the aphids were easy to get rid of. The tree returned to really good health until this drought it went through.
Literally every single leaf turned brown and crispy. I panicked, watered and fertilized the hell out of it. I later learned that I should not have fertilized it. But I continued watering it for about two weeks hoping the leaves would regain life and turn green again. They didn't. So I scratched the bark a little and it was green and alive underneath so I had hope the tree was still alive.
So I tried an experiment and removed all the dead leaves but only on the bottom portion of the tree just in case that was something I shouldn't do. I continued to water like normal and low and behold...perfectly healthy leaves began to grow. So then I removed the remainder of the leaves and actually mixed all of them into the top 2-3" of the soil to create like a mulch. This was maybe two weeks ago now, however, no new leaves emerging as quick as the ones beneath showed up. The leaves on the bottom are developing great.
So I'm very happy that I didn't kill the tree but I'm wondering where I should go from here? Should I trim branches? Should I wait longer? Should I fertilize it? Any Japanese Maple experts out there have any advice for a novice like me would be greatly appreciated. Thanks much. :)
Here's my tree...
Congrats on your tree living for you.
First off, I would remove that grass you have planted in the pot. I think your tree, if it lives til next spring, deserves a bigger pot that is wide on the top so it can spread out a little more.
I think that pot is too small for the size of your tree.
You have to be diligent in watering your jap mple if you pot it like that.
You should be fine, just water the tree a couple times a week if it doesn't rain for you.
No fertilizing, just water a couple times a week.
Next spring, BEFORE it leafs out, transplant into bigger pot.
Don't touch it, just water.
Agree with butterfly... that grass is taking up a lot of the space for roots for your maple. I would also not trim anything until after new growth comes out and hardens, maybe end of June next year, but definitely repot, and go to the maples (and Bonsai) forums and read up on granular soil mixes. Dirt is not a good medium to grow trees for any length of time (in a pot). You have the right exposure for the tree to do well. There are methods of watering for when you're away for a bit. Also, read up on root pruning when you transplant. It is a big deal for trees that will live entirely in a pot.


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MOM Deals This Week: Sale-Savvy Stops on the Web
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March 10. I will be in China for four weeks, teaching at the China University of Petroleum in Beijing. I am leaving on March 13, and plan to return April 11.
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During a near three-hour executive session that ended just after noon Thursday, Starkville's Board of Alderman issued an ultimatum to the municipal court clerk — resign or be fired.
The official motion, which passed with a 6-0 vote, gave Debra Wood until 5 p.m. today to resign or the city would effectively terminate her employment.
Leading up to Thursday night's Mississippi State football game, the 2013 Citywide Tailgate was in full force throughout downtown Starkville and other nearby locations.
Thirteen businesses participated in the first citywide tailgate in three years with the theme "Bulldog Style" from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. After the three-year hiatus, many businesses pulled out all the stops for the event.
Unity Park's long-awaited opening is facing another delay.
The Oktibbeha County Board of Supervisors had scheduled to open the park on Saturday, but the opening will not go forward as planned.
District 3 Supervisor Marvell Howard said the board needed more time to properly plan the event.
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Bowser can also obtain drumsticks, which can be used to restore some of his health.
Mushroom is the familiar term used to describe a gilled fungus which may or may not bear a stem. Mushrooms are the "fruit" of spore bearing fungi.
The manliest type of facial hair.
A nut is a seed covered with a protective shell.
A tropical tree. Recognizable by its tall stem and evergreen top.
Pipe is a tube or hollow cylinder for the conveyance of fluid, gas and sometimes other materials. It is also used as a smoking device for tobacco or other substances.
A mechanical device that rotates to push against air or water.
Cross large bodies of water safely. Hey, at least it's safer than swimming.
Rail tracks, which are also known as Train tracks, railway, or simply tracks, are the rails which guide trains. There are many types of tracks that are used for different types of trains around the world.
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A pattern of symbols is hidden under a silvery scratch-off-able surface. Pick somewhere to scratch and learn your fate!
The power source of the Shine Gate in Super Mario Sunshine. They play a major part in the plot of the game.
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Spikes are dangerous and often deadly obstacles that can line the floor, walls, or ceiling of any given room or passageway. They are an extremely common form of environmental hazard, particularly in side-scrolling games.
Collect them, orbit them, conquer planets around them -- they're a staple of many genres of games.
The first and most well-known power-up from the Mario franchise!
Sharp-pointed growths on a branch or a stem that protects the plant from herbivores.
A tooth is a hard object in the mouth for chewing. For some reason, tooth fairies find them of value.
A train is a series of connected vehicles that move along a single or double railed track.
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Style Forecast: Sofa Trends for 2014 & Beyond
I recently bought a new sofa and it felt like I was buying a car. It's such a big decision; both in terms of cost and how long you'll likely live with it. New sofa styles for 2014 are harkening back to classic themes - a Scandinavian take on mid-century, natural wood legs, colorful upholstery, tufted details and retro silhouettes. Let's take a look at some of the sofa designs that are sure to please through this year and many more to come...
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I'm always on the lookout for ways to incorporate my flea market finds into my space, so when I came across these images of vintage board games on display I developed a bit of a crush. They're the perfect blend of sweet childhood nostalgia and character to break up your box store decor. Here are a few ways to display them, along with where you can find them:
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Date:Thursday, April 2, 2015 - 12:00pm to 1:30pmLocation:UMass Amherst, 107 Bartlett Hall
Ever wondered what fellowships you might be eligible for as a person of color? Come to this information session and learn first-hand from successful fellowship recipients. The panel will outline a variety of fellowship opportunities, highlighting...
Kinesiology Seminar Series: Mark Pachucki
Date:Monday, April 6, 2015 - 1:25pm to 2:15pmLocation:UMass Amherst, 153 Totman Building
Mark Pachucki, Ph.D., of Harvard Medical School in Cambridge, MA, will present a seminar titled "Evaluating Social Influences on Physical Activity over the Lifecourse." Faculty member John Sirard will be the host for this seminar.
18th Annual SPHHS Research Day
Date:Monday, April 6, 2015 - 2:00pm to 5:00pmLocation:UMass Amherst, Student Union Ballroom
The UMass Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences invites you to attend our Annual Research Day. This event highlights the outstanding education, research and...
- Disrupted Lives, Fragmented Care: Illness Experiences of Criminalized WomenDate:Wednesday, April 8, 2015 - 12:00pm to 1:00pmLocation:UMass Amherst, Arnold House, Room 120
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In a world more to his liking, Gore Vidal might have been president, or even king. He had an aristocrat's bearing — tall, handsome and composed — and an authoritative baritone ideal for summoning an aide or courtier.
But Mr. Vidal made his living — a very good living — from challenging power, not holding it. He was wealthy and famous and committed to exposing a system often led by men he knew firsthand.
The author, playwright, politician and commentator whose vast range of published works and public remarks were stamped by his immodest wit and unconventional wisdom, died Tuesday at age 86 in Los Angeles.
Mr. Vidal died at his home in the Hollywood Hills at about 6:45 p.m. of complications from pneumonia, his nephew Burr Steers said. Mr. Vidal had been living alone in the home and had been sick for "quite a while," Mr. Steers said.
Along with such contemporaries as Norman Mailer and Truman Capote, he was among the last generation of literary writers who were also genuine celebrities — regulars on talk shows and in gossip columns, personalities of such size and appeal that even those who hadn't read their books knew their names.
His works included hundreds of essays, the best-selling novels "Lincoln" and "Myra Breckinridge" and the Tony-nominated play "The Best Man," a melodrama about a presidential convention revived on Broadway in 2012.
Mr. Vidal appeared cold and cynical on the surface, dispassionately predicting the fall of democracy, the American empire's decline or the destruction of the environment. But he bore a melancholy regard for lost worlds, for reason and the primacy of the written word.
Mr. Vidal was uncomfortable with the literary and political establishment, and the feeling was mutual. Beyond his honorary National Book Award, he won few major writing prizes, lost both times he ran for office and initially declined membership into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, joking that he already belonged to the Diners Club. (He eventually was admitted, in 1999.)
But he was widely admired as an independent thinker — in the tradition of Mark Twain and H.L. Mencken — about literature, culture, politics and, as he liked to call it, "the birds and the bees." He picked apart politicians, living and dead; mocked religion and prudery; opposed wars from Vietnam to Iraq and insulted his peers like no other, once observing that the three saddest words in the English language were "Joyce Carol Oates."
Mr. Vidal had an old-fashioned belief in honor, but a modern will to live as he pleased. He wrote in the memoir "Palimpsest" that he had more than 1,000 "sexual encounters." Mr. Vidal was fond of drink and alleged that he had sampled every major drug, once. He never married and for decades shared a scenic villa in Ravello, Italy, with companion Howard Austen.
In print and in person, he was a shameless name dropper, but what names! John and Jacqueline Kennedy. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Tennessee Williams. Mick Jagger. Orson Welles. Frank Sinatra. Marlon Brando. Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward.
Mr. Vidal dined with Welles in Los Angeles, lunched with the Kennedys in Florida, clowned with the Newmans in Connecticut, drove wildly around Rome with a nearsighted Williams and escorted Mr. Jagger on a sightseeing tour along the Italian coast. He made guest appearances on everything from "The Simpsons" to "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In."
Mr. Vidal formed his most unusual bond with Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. The two exchanged letters after Mr. Vidal's 1998 article in Vanity Fair on "the shredding" of the Bill of Rights.
Mr. Vidal also bewildered his fans by saying the George W. Bush administration likely had advance knowledge of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks; that McVeigh was no more a killer than Dwight Eisenhower and that the U.S. would eventually be subservient to China, "The Yellow Man's Burden."
Christopher Hitchens, who once regarded Mr. Vidal as a modern Oscar Wilde, lamented in a 2010 Vanity Fair essay that Mr. Vidal's recent comments suffered from an "utter want of any grace or generosity, as well as the entire absence of any wit or profundity." Years earlier, Saul Bellow stated that "a dune of salt has grown up to season the preposterous things Gore says."
A longtime critic of American militarism, Mr. Vidal was, ironically, born at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., his father's alma mater. Mr. Vidal grew up in a political family. His grandfather, Thomas Pryor Gore, was a U.S. senator from Oklahoma. His father, Gene Vidal, served briefly in President Franklin Roosevelt's administration and was an early expert on aviation.
Mr. Vidal was a learned, but primarily self-educated man. Classrooms bored him. He graduated from the elite Phillips Exeter Academy, but then enlisted in the Army and never went to college. His first book, the war novel "Williwaw," was written while he was in the service and published when he was just 20.
The New York Times' Orville Prescott praised Mr. Vidal as a "canny observer" and "Williwaw" as a "good start toward more substantial accomplishments." But "The City and the Pillar," his third book, apparently changed Prescott's mind. Published in 1948, the novel's straightforward story about two male lovers was virtually unheard of at the time. "The City and the Pillar" was dedicated to "J.T.," Jimmie Trimble, a boarding school classmate killed during the war whom Mr. Vidal would cite as the great love of his life.
Unable to make a living from fiction, at least when identified as "Gore Vidal," he wrote a trio of mystery novels in the 1950s under the pen name "Edgar Box" and also wrote fiction as "Katherine Everard" and "Cameron Kay." He became a playwright, too, writing for the theater and television. Mr. Vidal also worked in Hollywood, writing the script for "Suddenly Last Summer" and adding a subtle homoerotic context to "Ben-Hur."
Mr. Vidal wrote a series of acclaimed and provocative historical novels, including "Julian," "Burr" and "Lincoln." His 1974 essay on Italo Calvino in the New York Review of Books helped introduce the Italian writer to American audiences. A 1987 essay on Dawn Powell helped restore the then-forgotten author's reputation and bring her books back in print. Fans welcomed his polished, conversational essays or his annual "State of the Union" reports for the liberal weekly the Nation.
He adored the wisdom of Montaigne, the imagination of Calvino, the erudition and insight of Henry James and Edith Wharton. He detested Thomas Pynchon, John Barth and other authors of "teachers' novels." He once likened Mailer's views on women to those of Charles Manson's. (From this the head-butting incident ensued, backstage at "The Dick Cavett Show.") He derided Buckley, on television, as a "crypto-Nazi." He was accused of anti-Semitism after labeling conservative Norman Podhoretz a member of "the Israeli fifth column."
In the 1960s, Mr. Vidal increased his involvement in politics. In 1960, he was the Democratic candidate for Congress in an upstate New York district, but was defeated despite Eleanor Roosevelt's active support and a campaign appearance by Harry S. Truman. (In 1982, Mr. Vidal came in second in the California Democratic senatorial primary.)
Thanks to his friendship with Jacqueline Kennedy, with whom he shared a stepfather, Hugh Auchincloss, he became a supporter and associate of President John F. Kennedy. Before long, however, he and the Kennedys were estranged, the result of a personal feud between Mr. Vidal and Robert F. Kennedy apparently sparked by a few too many drinks at a White House party. By 1967, the author was an open critic, portraying the Kennedys as cold and manipulative in the essay "The Holy Family." Mr. Vidal's politics moved ever to the left, and he eventually disdained both major parties as "property" parties.
Meanwhile, he was again writing fiction. In 1968, he published his most inventive novel, "Myra Breckinridge," a comic best-seller about a transsexual movie star. The year before, with "Washington, D.C.," Mr. Vidal began the cycle of historical works that peaked in 1984 with "Lincoln."
The latter novel was not universally praised, with some scholars objecting to Mr. Vidal's unawed portrayal of the 16th president. The author defended his research, including suggestions that the president had syphilis, and called his critics "scholar-squirrels," more interested in academic status than in serious history.
But "Lincoln" stands as his most notable work of historical fiction, vetted and admired by a leading Lincoln biographer, David Herbert Donald, and even cited by the conservative Newt Gingrich as a favorite book.
Age and illness brought Mr. Vidal no closer to God. Wheelchair-bound in his 80s and saddened by the death of Austen and many peers and close friends, the author still looked to no existence beyond this one.
"Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at galaxy's edge," he once wrote, "all the more reason for us to maintain in proper balance what we have here."
Mr. Vidal is survived by his half-sister Nina Straight and half brother Tommy Auchincloss.
• AP writer Andrew Dalton contributed to this report from Los Angeles.


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We live our lives word by word—to build our relationships, to convey our points of view, to object to wrongs done to us or to others, to comfort our children and our friends. We also use the wrong words—sometimes unknowingly—and get ourselves into situations we'd rather not be in.
As Stephen R. Covey points out in his introduction:
- Words sell and words repel
- Words lead and words impede
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Kevin hall discovered the deeper power inherent in words after a fateful encounter with a wise shopkeeper in Vienna. When that led to an introduction to an esteemed etymologist residing in a senior home, hall embarked on a project that changed his life, and has since changed the lives of thousands of readers. Discover the eleven words—as well as the secret word—that when used correctly, can light your path to the lifelong success you deserve.
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A new way of thinking about a house had evolved, too. By the second half of the 19th century, stylish furniture was a sign of the good life.
The Phoenix Furniture Co. started making Victorian-style parlor furniture for the middle and upper classes in 1876. In 1900, styles changed. Arts and Crafts furniture with straight lines and very little decorative carving was made for rooms with fewer sofas and chairs and uncluttered tabletops and shelves.
Phoenix Furniture altered its style and made Arts and Crafts pieces, some with a touch of Victorian carving and trim.
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Early machines were operated by a hand crank or foot pedals. Voss motor-driven washing machines were introduced in 1905. Early tubs were made of cypress wood. Porcelain and enamel tubs were being made by the 1920s. Voss patented a design for corrugated tubs in the late 1920s. Voss had some of its best years during the Depression, when it sold washing machines for $39.50. Chamberlain Manufacturing Corp. made many different products, including washing-machine wringers.
Q.I have an old floor-model record player and I wonder if people collect them. The label on the inside says "Victrola, manufactured by Victor Talking Machine Company, 1906, Camden, N.J." and "Wurlitzer."
A. The Victor Talking Machine Co. was founded in Camden in 1901. It introduced the Victrola, a player with an internal rather than external horn, in 1906. Eventually the company made several Victrola models, including both floor and tabletop versions.
The name Wurlitzer on your Victrola refers to one of the dealer networks that marketed Victrolas. The Victor Talking Machine Co. was sold to RCA in 1929. Old Victrolas are collectible, but they sell for a wide range of prices depending on model and condition. An early table model in good shape can go for $300 or more.
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a resident of Embarcadero Oaks/Leland
on Oct 11, 2006 at 10:30 am
live across from the fire station long enough, and you're oblivious to any noise at night :D
a resident of Downtown North
on Oct 11, 2006 at 10:35 am
Connie I so agree! You must be very tired this morning as they kept me up all night!
a resident of Crescent Park
on Oct 11, 2006 at 1:36 pm
Yes, let's close down all roads in PA from 11PM to 6AM to avoid all traffic noise!
a resident of Barron Park
on Oct 11, 2006 at 2:55 pm
I agree we should ask the City to try to do this a different way.
A bit later as 3-4 am really disrupts our sleep pattern. I realize it is hard to do this but maybe we can find a better way.
a resident of Downtown North
on Oct 11, 2006 at 3:19 pm
Hard to close down streets folks. But I feel your pain. Let us be realistic with our suggestions for Ms Connie Jo. Maybe there is a better way or a more quite machine. Always a possibility. If we can put a man on the moon why not build a silent street cleaner.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Oct 11, 2006 at 3:29 pm
"If we can put a man on the moon why not build a silent street cleaner."
Make it a joint project and fix the leaf blowers at the same time.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Oct 11, 2006 at 4:06 pm
Well, they managed to restrict boating to only electric motor boats in Foster City. Just restrict roads to electric powered vehicles in PA! Then we could get rid of the bus noise during the day as well.
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Oct 11, 2006 at 10:02 pm
I'm sure glad I don't work for the city. Meaningless complaints like this must come in hour by hour.
a resident of Embarcadero Oaks/Leland
on Oct 12, 2006 at 8:30 am
Gerald obviously works as a forum troll.
a resident of Downtown North
on Oct 12, 2006 at 12:45 pm
OK you guys. My intention was to share and offer a possible solution and not complain to the City. They get that enough. This forum seemed a likley place to start a discussion and see of anyone had a suggestion. A real suggestion and one we could bring to the city.
But I can see ear plugs might be my best chioce. You guys are funny. It was just one resident sharing a sleepless night in Palo Alto frustration with her neighbors. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
a resident of College Terrace
on Oct 13, 2006 at 3:37 pm
Hi folks,
The issue of sleep is certainly important. I learned this while working as an administrative assistant many years ago for Dr. William Dement, the world-renownd sleep doctor at Stanford.
I've lived in almost every area in Palo Alto, including the big old Victorian house on Alma between the Fire Station and Dahl Plumming and Heating - right across from the University Train Station.
This might sound a little est or zen(ian), but my experience with noise and sleep was that instead of waking up and feeling annoyed, I chose to feel different. Instead, I recalled my childhood days here in Palo Alto and remembered how at 7:10am, I'd hear the train, then I'd hear my dad leave for work. That was my cue to get out of bed and get ready for school. I began to feel something good about the train noises and whistles. Thereafter, on the few occassions I'd wake up to the noise, I found it comforting. Soon, I just never woke up to it that often.
I'm a little deaf now and although I live not-too-far from the California Avenue Train Station, I don't hear it. But if I did, I guess it would remind me of those good days growing up here in Palo Alto.
I hope this helps.
Andy Freedman
a resident of Downtown North
on Oct 14, 2006 at 6:10 pm
You are a very sensitive person. Thanks for the reminder that this is of course not really so important. Just an occasional annoyance.
Best to you,
Occasionally sleepless in Palo Alto
a resident of Professorville
on Jan 3, 2007 at 8:22 am
Palo Alto is doing a great disservice to the citizens by allowing street cleaning at such insane hours. I was awoken at 6am today due to these knuckleheads. This has happened a dozen times or more in the past 6 months. STOP IT ALREADY!!
I guess our mayor and council do not care!
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Many of us dream of a world free of poverty, but how can this be realistically achieved, especially for smallholder farmers who make up the majority of the world's poor?
One important answer to this question is found in our new book Making Markets More Inclusive: Lessons from CARE and the Future of Sustainability in Agricultural Value Chain Development which highlights lessons from one of the most intensely developed agricultural value chain initiatives in the world.
Now in its seventh year, learnings from this project are now being replicated in several agricultural value chains in Malawi, Tanzania, Ghana, India and Mali with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
But it was in the dairy value chain in Bangladesh where CARE first devoted considerable time, energy and resources to incubate and refine its approach to achieving impact at scale for farmers and others in the value chain. Making Markets More Inclusive takes an in-depth behind-the-scenes look at what CARE has learned in its journey to reduce poverty through market-based approaches. This book should be of interest to practitioners, funders, companies and governments interested in agricultural value chain development for the benefit of smallholder farmers.
The book is rich in detail and insights. Here are the top five lessons on how to make markets work:
- Work along the entire value chain – not just with farmers. Too many NGO value chain initiatives begin and end with the producers. To really get to the heart of improving a value chain, NGOs must understand and work along the entire chain from end to end. Sometimes the intervention that will help famers most has to happen at other points along the chain. For example, even if farmers have all the knowledge and training they need, they still need access to productivity enhancing inputs and access to markets and a transparent way of being paid for their milk. Through persistent information gathering and working with entrepreneurs and companies along the entire value chain, CARE helped remove the most important obstacles for farmers improving their incomes from dairy – but most of these improvements happened in addition to working directly with farmers themselves.
- Experiment and learn – rigidly following plans doesn't work. If markets and value chains in low-income communities were stable, known and predictable then doing research, developing a plan and tightly following it would be the best way to work. However, neither development work nor markets are static. We usually don't have (nearly) enough information on the interests, resources and obstacles of everyone along the chain. Therefore, effectively working to enhance markets and value chains requires a different approach that matches the context. This approach must be focused on learning from experimentation, trial and error, and direct experience. Before CARE's arrived on the scene, surprisingly little was known about the what the dairy value chain looked like, especially from the perspective of smallholder subsistence dairy farmers. Government statistics were inaccurate, out-dated or just not available. Even after data can be gathered, assumptions and proposed solutions must be tested with pilot projects and experiments. For example, many plausible ideas existed on paper for how to sell cattle feed and medicines in remote villages so farmers could improve the productivity of their cows. It took three failed experiments before a viable solution was found (microfranchsing agricultural input shops – which now has a growing network of 48 shops under the Krishi Utsho brand). At the same time, CARE needed to work with the Gates Foundation to change their original milestones and deliverables as they learned about what would really work to enhance the value chain. The overall objectives didn't change – but discovering the best way to meet them required much experimentation, openness to learning, and a donor willing to be flexible along the way.
- Skilfuly empower women – it's smart economics as well as well as the right thing to do. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN estimates that closing the gender gap in access to agricultural inputs alone could lift between 100 and 150 million people out of hunger. Women provide the majority of agricultural labour in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, yet consistently have less access to the resources and opportunities they need to be more productive. Increasing women's access to land, livestock, education, extension services, and technology boost agricultural production and food security as well as economic growth. CARE originally thought that farmer groups should be organized with at least one male farmer leader because social norms made it easier for them to travel to markets to busy inputs or sell milk. Crunching the extensive data that CARE collected on women's participation (over 80% of the farmers CARE worked with were women) CARE found that it was, in fact, groups that had all of their leadership positions filled by women that were the most productive and profitable.
- Design for scale from the start – or risk not making a significant difference. CARE's project has worked with about 50,000 farmers as well as hundreds of entrepreneurs and many companies. Still, on their own, this is a drop in the bucket of Bangladesh's 160 million people. From the beginning, CARE sought to design interventions to reach a level of scale far beyond the farmers and entrepreneurs they worked with directly. Scale was not being satisfied with 50K farmers, but in searching for and implementing things that would spread through the industry. For example, in partnership with BRAC Dairy, CARE introduced digital milk fat testing to the country. CARE also orchestrated he Krishi Utsho microfranchising network of input shops which are providing services to entire regions.
- Making markets and value chains work for poor producers. From the dozens of market enhancements that CARE piloted and implemented, patterns emerged about what makes markets work more effectively. Four characteristics of successful market enhancements stand out. First, markets work more effectively when power relationships are rebalanced in favor of poor producers. This includes enhancements (such as forming producer groups) that give them more bargaining power, freedom and choice. Second, markets work more effectively for poor producers when they have the information they need – both knowledge about dairying practices as well as information about market prices and opportunities. Third, markets work for poor producers when they have access to the productivity-enhancing inputs and technologies (such as artificial insemination) that they need to produce more with less. And fourth, markets work for poor producers when risk and uncertainty is reduced (such as through improved fat testing methods).
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IE 10 Almost Finished For Windows 7 With Final Preview 187
from the check-it-out dept.
We've improved Slashdot's video section; now you can view our video interviews, product close-ups and site visits with all the usual Slashdot options to comment, share, etc. No more walled garden! It's a work in progress -- we hope you'll check it out (Learn more about the recent updates).
Honestly, isn't not just for graphics - it's for the whole fantastic class of problems that can be solved via GLSL shaders - GPU accelerated calculations in JS - this is simply so amazingly powerful, IE 10 is essentially worthless without it.
As people start doing high performance computing and solving wildly complex problems in the browser with GPU accelerated JS, the browser will continue to emerge as the platform of choice for a wonderfully wide range of applications. IE will sit off to the side, largely ignored (except for certain "enterprise" business users) and will become even more irrelevant.
I'd expect to start seeing more and more web sites that want to do these things refuse to support IE at all, the shims and plugins just aren't worth screwing with.
Disagreed. Installing anything requires clicking a banner at the bottom (a click that takes 10 seconds to register), then going through some security scan, then clicking on a dialog, and then clicking cancel on the 3 other dialogs I got because the lag made me think the first click didn't register.
And if you're on a server... Fuggiduhbadit! You'll have to enable anywhere from 1 to 12 security exceptions by clicking a few times and typing a website address, each. Then you have to reload the page, and get past the security warning that pops up every time. THEN you get to go through the above process.
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Our entire team would like to cheerfully welcome you to the Nas Hotel.
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We offer guests a complimentary welcome drink, a bottle of water and plate of fruit in the room. Features, like a free newspaper delivered every day, are included in every room.
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The upper floors of the homey hotel are reached easily with the elevator. Video surveillance is operating in the lobby area. A garden terrace is also provided.
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- Twin rooms: 14
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- Quadruple rooms: 5
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The sun stopped shining for me is all. The whole story is: I am sad. I am sad all the time and the sadness is so heavy that I can't get away from it. Not ever.
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It's painful to love someone who is already in love with another person.
I'll be okay someday. Someday I won't miss you. One day I'll be able to think of you without crying. But today just isn't that day.
Hey, remember that one time I told you I liked you? I meant it, but I don't think you care… and that is what breaks my heart.
Sometimes, you have to accept the fact that some people are going to stay in your hearts forever…even if you are long ago gone in their hearts.
I think what I need more than anything else in the world is to be told that a friend doesn't know what they would do without me.
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Those who do not weep, do not see.
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DEFINITION of 'Autonomous Investment'
Expenditures in a country or region that is independent of economic growth. They are investments made for the good of society and not for the goal of making profits. Autonomous investment is the opposite of induced investment, which is not mandatory or compulsory.
INVESTOPEDIA EXPLAINS 'Autonomous Investment'
Autonomous investments include inventory replenishment, government investments on infrastructure items, such as roads and highways, and other investments that keep the economic engine running.
According to the accelerator effect, the amount of investment is directly related to changes in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of a country. Not surprisingly, this "induced investment" is highly volatile, but its volatility is reduced by autonomous investments, which provides stability to the economy - at least in theory. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) provides many examples of autonomous investment.
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