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Amakusa is the main antagonist in the ''Samurai Shodown'' fighting game series.
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Earthquake is a SNK character from the Samurai Shodown series.
Galford D. Weller is character in the Samurai Shodown (Samurai Spirits) fighting game series. He a well trained ninja that incorporates his pet husky Poppy into his unique fighting style.
Gen-an is a character in the Samurai Shodown series. He is a green devil from Onigami Isle.
Hanzo is a powerful Ninja who leads the Iga ninja clan.
Haohmaru is the main protagonist in the fighting game series "Samurai Shodown" by SNK Playmore.
Hikyaku is a courier in Samurai Shodown. In many games, he appears on-screen to provide items. He is also unlockable for play in the Game Boy version of the first game.
Jubei is a one-eyed samurai of the Yagyu clan.
Referee who officiates battles in the Samurai Shodown series.
Kyoshiro is a character in the Samurai Shodown series. His main weapon is a naginata.
Mai (or her ancestor who looks exactly like her) makes a NPC cameo appearance in Gen-an's and Haohmaru's story endings as an "cut-scene" adversary. It should also be noted that Gen-an and Mai share the same last name/clan name of Shiranui.
Mamahaha is Nakoruru's hawk companion in the Samurai Shodown series. Her name is Japanese for "stepmother".
Nakoruru is one of the most recognizable characters in the Samurai Shodown series, and has appeared in every game. Along with her eagle companion Mamahaha, Nakoruru defends the natural world.
Poppy is Galford's pet dog, who is no slouch in the ninjutsu department herself. She becomes playable on her own starting with Samurai Shodown V.
He is a character in the Samurai Shodown series. His first appearance was in the first game where he was introduced as Haohmaru's rival.
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The description states "over 20 live cams", I counted 14, & only 3 or 5 of those could you actually view a living thing. It also states, "cams from all over the world". I only saw cams from 1 zoo in Sweeden & 1 aquarium in Japan (+ 1 cam thrown in from Canada). So, instead of adding more videos in the updates, the dev. Should actually add the live cams that they advertise to have. I don't know why anyone would want videos of animals when they are purchasing an app for live animal cams, anyway.
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I remember there being a whole lot more cams than there are now. Polar bears, orcas, monkeys, elephants or giraffes, and bears I believe we're from the San Diego zoo or even sea world. Either way it's very disappointing to see what's left open now. I love the tiger cams from Sweden but I think some of the angle views have changed. I really hope they add the old cams back they were great to watch for hours on end.
When I first purchased the Pocket Zoo HD app, I loved it. There were tons of live cameras that were actually worth watching. Now all of my favorites are gone. The polar bears, prairie dogs, and elephants are no longer available on the live cams. I was excited to find this app in the App Store, until I downloaded it and realized that it was the same and had not really been updated. I miss this app when I purchased the older pay version a while back. It was much better then.
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Nazario Moreno led a powerful criminal gang that has ravaged the western state of Michoacan, and was known as "El Mas Loco," or "The Craziest One."
He had been reported killed by the government in a firefight in December 2010, but his body was never recovered and he was widely believed to be still alive.
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Cameras were rolling as Tori Spelling drove to meet cheating husband Dean McDermott for the first time to talk about his affair, and RadarOnline.com has the clip.
Filmed just three weeks ago, Spelling, 40, is in tears while documenting her drive to the therapist where she will approach her philandering hubby about his relationship with Emily Goodhand, whom he slept with while he was in Toronto filming Chopped Canada.
"I don't know what I'm going to say to him today. I don't know what to expect, to be honest. I know it's gonna be hard, and at the same time I feel really excited to see him," Spelling says about McDermott, 47.
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"And I feel like that's the wrong thing to say. I feel like it makes me sound weak. But it's been really hard and I miss him. I miss having my best friend."
Through her tears, Spelling reveals that everything she felt she had with McDermott was just taken from her.
"I miss having that support, that person that's your go-to in life. And that was just stripped from me. I had it for seven years and it was just gone one day," she says.
"And I go on, I go on every single day as best I can. I don't want to cry when I get there, because I don't want him…I want to be strong."
In a previous preview clip for the couple's new docu-series True Tori, McDermott tells their therapist that his worst nightmare has come true: cheating on his wife.
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Two years ago on 12.12.12, we witnessed the Kochi Muziris Biennale, a biennale that inaugurated many firsts. This year they're back, but with a new addition to the team. Continuing their unique character of an artist led biennale, Jitish Kallat will take over as artistic director and curator of the next biennale, due to take place coming December. The Mumbai-based artist, with roots in Thrissur Kerela is critically acclaimed in both the local and international art scene.
With the biennale fast approaching, Jitish is in the midst of curatorial research trips, studio visits and a lengthy selection process. Fortunately though, I managed a long and engaging conversation with the artist earlier last month during the Dhaka Art summit.
Why Kochi?
The past is in abundance within the present in Kochi; its streets lined with ancient mosques, a 400-year-old synagogue, a 500-year-old church. Three invasions have left their marks that today seem like a layered blend of medieval Portugal, Holland and perhaps a small English settlement all grafted onto a port on the Malabar Coast like a layered palimpsest.
I hope to recall through the exhibition the great age of exploration often referred to as the Age of Discovery, a period starting in the early 15th century and continuing to the 17th century. It heralded an age of exploitation, conquest, coercive trading, commercial rivalry and colonialism, animating the early processes of globalisation. The shores of Kochi which were recipients of exploratory maritime adventure can also be an interesting observation deck from where to view the world through the discipline of contemporary art.
What is the basis of selecting work?
I began with a small pool of art-works to aid me think through my ideas. These artworks were clearly tools to guide my thought progression and several of these works aren't even in the biennale.
Many of the works in the biennale will be new. Instead of presenting a singular theme for the biennale and then setting out to find artworks that fall under its canopy, I've begun by proposing what could perhaps be called a layered set of gestures and imagery, with the intent that the biennale produces themes rather than re-produces a premeditated theme.
There will be several new works in the exhibition and I am excited to work with this proliferation of uncertainty.
Do you collect art? Could you name some of the artists you collect?
I'm quite non-acquisitive by nature and I realised early on that I'm terrible with looking after "things". That's not good for a collector. We do have pieces by some wonderful artists such as Nalini Malani, Huma Mulji, Prajakta Palav, Raqs Media Collective, Dong Wook-lee but these were mostly acquired by Reena.
Artists working as curators, in your opinion what are the pros and cons?
Since I was invited to curate Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2014, one thing I have often heard from several people is that as artists, since we are always making work ourselves, we are also able to view works from within the process of making and this could bring a different dimension to the process of curating. While there is a degree of truth to this, I must add that a perceptive curator can hold up a mirror from the vantage point of a different discipline and there is no reason for me to believe that such a curator cannot enter the process of an artist's work and view it with the awareness and empathy of a maker.
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Daniel W. Drezner is professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a senior editor at The National Interest. Prior to Fletcher, he taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Colorado at Boulder. Drezner has received fellowships from the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the Council on Foreign Relations, and Harvard University. He has previously held positions with Civic Education Project, the RAND Corporation, and the Treasury Department.
Question: what do Top Secret America and Wikileaks have in common?
Answer: they both pretty much put me to sleep.
Call me shallow, call me jaded, call me cynical, but there's not that much there there in either effort. Day 1 of the Top Secret story was the most informative of the bunch, no doubt — but even that story was frustratingly short on detail. Day 2 and Day 3 were worse, in that they didn't tell me anything I already know. Day 2 of Top Secret America told me that outsourcing to private contractors is bad, bad, bad, and very expensive. Day 3 was kind of like your local news teasers: "Are NSA employees living RIGHT NEXT DOOR TO YOU?!" If you live in the vicinity of BWI, it turns out the answer is, "yes, but it's not a big deal." Again… yawn.
If Top Secret America actually prompts hearings/reform efforts, then yay, dead tree journalism. Otherwise, the reveal was far less than the hype.
As for Wikileaks, Blake Hounshell and Andrew Exum sum up my feelings on the matter. So it turns out that the war in Afghanistan is not going well and Pakistan is playing a double game? Well, knock me down with a feather!!
In essence, neither story provides much in the way of new information — they merely serve as news pegs through which intractable policy issues can be debated anew. If those debates prove fruitful, that's great — but during a summer in which I've seen the Stupidest Topics Ever become cable show fodder, I ain't getting my hopes up.
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WORCESTER, Mass. (March 19, 2009) photo by Peter Mark Heintzelman - Undefeated middleweight/super middleweight sensation Edwin La Bomba Rodriguez had a very successful Homecoming, stopping 30-fight veteran Patrick Thompson for only the second time in his career in Thursday nights main event at historic Mechanics Hall. Homecoming, promoted by DiBella Entertainment in association with Manfredos Gym, was taped live as part of DiBellas Broadway Boxing Series, which shot in New England for the first time.
The 23-year-old Dominican Republic-born Rodriguez, living in Worcester, improved his perfect pro record to 10-0 (7 KOs) with a second-round technical knockout of Thompson (15-14-1, 5 KOs), who went the distance with notables such as present IBF mandatory middleweight title challenger Giovanni Lorenzo, John Duddy, Joe Greene, Vanes Martirosyan, Sechew Powell, and Ishe Smith. Thompson had been stopped only once, 5-½ years ago, by Alfonso Gomez..
Ryan Kielczewski (4-0), 2008 National Golden Gloves runner-up, registered his first knockout as a pro when his lightweight bout against Aaron Chavez (2-2) was halted in the third round. Middleweight prospect Philip Jackson Benson (3-0), 2-time New York Golden Gloves champion remained unbeaten with a third-round TKO of Dameon Mitchell (0-2).
Also on the undercard, 3-time Irish national amateur champion Steven Ormond (3-0) made a successful U. S. debut when Jonathan Ocasio (0-4) was unable to continue after one round. Welterweight Dustin Reinhold (1-0) had an impressive pro debut, defeating Valdrin Muriqi (0-1) by fourth-round TKO, while light heavyweight Valar Boise won his pro debut via a second-round TKO against Houston Crayton (0-4).
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Valar Boise (1-0, 1 KOs), Providence, RI WTKO2 (2:17) Houston Crayton (0-4), Brockton, MA
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Edwin Rodriguez (10-0, 7 KOs), Worcester, MA WTKO2 (2:11) Patrick Thompson (15-14-1, 5 KOs), Lincoln, NE
Philip Jackson Benson (3-0, 1 KO), Brooklyn, NY WTKO2 (1:32) Dameon Mitchell (0-2), New York, NY
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Dustin Reinhold (1-0, 1 KO), Fall River, MA WTKO4 (0:42) Valdrin Muriqi (0-1), New York, NY
Steven Ormond (3-0, 1 KO), Dublin, Ireland WTKO2 (2:17) Jonathan Ocasio (0-4), Philadelphia, PA
Ryan Kielczewski (4-0, 1 KO), Quincy, MA WTKO3 (2:44) Aaron Chavez (2-2, 0 KOs), Vero Beach, FL
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Breakfast, lunch and sex with Lucian Freud
During daily visits to Clarke's restaurant, "Mr Freud" entertained London's glitterati, including his future memoirist Geordie Greig. The painter was the last true bohemian, he tells Nick Curtis
Published: 27 September 2013
Updated: 12:16, 27 September 2013
For 15 years until his death aged 88 in 2011, Lucian Freud, the great and unsparing British painter of flesh and frailty, took breakfast and usually lunch at Sally Clarke's eponymous restaurant, a short walk from his house on Kensington Church Street. "He started coming into our shop and just sat in the little café we had in the back," says Clarke. "I don't think I knew who he was. He came in a discreet way, usually with his assistant David Dawson, at about 7.30 every day — as soon as the paper shop opened and they could get their stack of three papers." They read and talked while Freud devoured the milky coffee and huge pains aux raisin that fed his sweet tooth.
"As time went on other customers got to know who he was and his habits in terms of his timing, and there were perhaps certain times when he was being bothered," Clarke continues, "so I invited him to use the restaurant, which was closed in the mornings before lunch and in the afternoons before dinner, so he could have some private space." This table saw a vivid cross-section of life: famous sitters from Kate Moss to Leigh Bowery, the great and good gallerists and dealers of the art world, David Hockney and Frank Auerbach, Bono and Roman Abramovich, but also bookmakers, builders, a selection of Freud's estimated 500 lovers and several of his 14 acknowledged children.
For 10 of those 15 years, a regular breakfast guest was Geordie Greig, the editor by turns of Tatler magazine, the Evening Standard and now the Mail on Sunday. Greig had been bewitched by Freud's portraits, nude and clothed, as a 17-year-old schoolboy, and sought to coax the artist into print throughout his journalistic career. His persistence was eventually rewarded as a one-sided correspondence matured into a professional acquaintance and then a friendship across many years, many late-night phone calls, and many, many breakfasts.
Lucian's daily start: breakfast at Clarke's in Kensington Church Street Although Freud was fiercely private he allowed Greig to take notes and later to record sessions, while he talked about painting and punch-ups, wives and lovers, escaping from Nazism or tattooing Kate Moss's bottom. He disclosed his dislike of his mother and two brothers, his contempt for Prince Charles (as a painter, at least). These tapes, and subsequent startlingly frank interviews with several Freud family members, lovers and acquaintances, would result in Greig's book, Breakfast with Lucian — "not a biography, but a portrait of the artist, an intimate snapshot of the last 10 years of his life, written with the benefit of immediacy".
Greig first met Freud over breakfast. After years of writing to the artist he sent a postcard hinting at "a brilliant idea that I must discuss with you in person" and was summoned to Freud's Holland Park studio at 6.45am. "There was this silhouette of a man in these paint-speckled butcher's trousers and a wrinkled, rumpled shirt and crumpled silk scarf, and this eagle-like stare. It reminded me of Samuel Beckett. That intense scrutiny." Greig entered a scene of "gilded chaos, the last gasp of bohemia" with spattered rags and paintings everywhere, and joined Freud in a breakfast of Burgundy and the carcass of yesterday's partridge. He told Freud he'd like him to be in a portrait to be taken for Tatler of Frank Auerbach, his oldest artist friend and a fellow refugee from Hitler.
Constant companion: he painted his whippet Eli too Freud acceded, and the photograph was duly taken, over an offal-y breakfast at the Cock Tavern in Smithfield, again at 6.45am, after which Freud gave Greig a hair-raising lift home — "ignoring red lights, taking corners on a skid" — to west London. "The most extraordinary conversation took place," Greig recalls. "Anecdotes and opinions, strong views and dislikes. I just thought this was the most riveting man I had ever met.
"What we first of all had in common was that my last girlfriend before I got married, when I was working in America, was his second wife Caroline Blackwood's daughter. I used to see a lot of Caroline and we loved discussing Caroline. That led to us talking about the Forties. I was always interested in Ian Fleming's books and his life, and Freud would regale me with stories of staying in Jamaica in the days of Fleming and Noël Coward. He started to call me at odd hours. During the second Blair election he would ring me up at 2.30 in the morning to ask who was winning, and talk about how he knew Eden, from there on to Churchill and [artist] Graham Sutherland. Without ever a sense of name-dropping. That [relationship] fused and merged until breakfast with him became a regular event.
Freud with breakfast companion Jasper Greig "It was a pure pleasure to be able to spend time with him. He was like the Forrest Gump of the cultural world of Britain in the last half of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st — everyone seemed to cross his path, from Greta Garbo to WH Auden to Stephen Spender to the Krays to Kate Moss. There was something incredibly special about this mind that could recite nine stanzas of a Kipling poem, a bit of Goethe, or lyrics from a song he heard in the Merchant Navy in the Thirties. There was a crystallisation of incredible memories and hard opinions and humour, which made him the best company in the world."
Good company, perhaps, but a feckless, selfish, sometimes cruel lover and father. Greig does not judge, but presents Freud as Freud presented his subjects: warts and all, as it were. The painter comes across like one of the stallions he so admired and lost so much money on, galloping through society, siring children hither and yon before hurtling off after the next filly. There is a plaintive, aching undertow of loss and rejection beneath the quotes of those of Freud's children who spoke to Greig, even when they are defending their father. "He was straightforward in his candour," says the author. "He was the most selfish person he could be, because he was an artist who pursued with absolute focus his desire to paint the best pictures he possibly could in the course of his lifetime."
The sexual affairs and betrayals are boggling in their scope and labyrinthine in their complexity, and were conducted without concern for feelings or propriety: the testimony of a lover who remembers him physically hurting her is heartbreaking. One sitter, Raymond Jones, recalls Freud breaking off from a nude sitting to shag an unnamed female visitor against the bathroom door, have a bath, then return to work, naked. You couldn't call Freud indiscriminate: the lovers identified in the book are all beautiful, or exotic, or rich, or titled, or some combination of all four. And they were, it seems, all women. Although there is a frisson of ambivalence about a figure so recklessly carnal and heedless of boundaries, and a suggestion that he might have had an affair with Stephen Spender, Freud told a female friend the only man he ever wanted to have sex with was the jockey Lester Piggott.
At work on a portrait of his assistant, David Dawson So much of his life was hectic: the painting, the rutting, the gambling, the feuding. No wonder he sought solace in a quiet breakfast. Sally Clarke always regarded him as a customer first and a friend second, and always called him "Mr Freud", even though she sat for two paintings and an etching by him, and once drew her own portrait of him for a National Portrait Gallery postcard auction. "I kick myself for not keeping the one I did; it was a rather lovely little line drawing," she says. "I did it over breakfast. He was fantastic as a subject but I couldn't get the nose right." She clearly misses Freud, although David Dawson still comes in for breakfast. "I see him every day," says Clarke. "He was left Mr Freud's house so he is slowly but surely moving in. He's ripping the garden apart and he got into terrible trouble with the local council, I think, for felling a tree the other week."
Freud's passing did not just bring to an end a prodigious artistic career and an extraordinary life, but an era. His house is changing. Clarke's has been remodelled; the place where he first sat in the café is now a ladies' lavatory. Clarke herself will turn 60 next year, and is looking for a helpmeet-cum-successor to "take the reins" of the restaurant she has run for 24 years. The idea of what an artist, or a lover, or a father is has changed in today's world. "It would be difficult to get away with a life of such self-imposed selfishness," says Greig. "He didn't allow the noise to get to him. Never had a mobile phone, never used a computer, and gave very few people his phone number so he could have seclusion. He was the last bohemian. It is difficult to imagine the life [now] of such drama, intent and serious ambition, with a desire to follow the path he needed to be Lucian Freud."
Breakfast with Lucian is published by Jonathan Cape
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"Comedy is usually the core of any network schedule, which is why we would like to get back to that," said Fox entertainment chief Kevin Reilly. "Comedy was kind of anemic for a while."
Judging shows on the basis of a few minutes' highlights is dangerous, but it looks like there may be a rough period of trial and error next season.
ABC's "Work It" is about two men who dress as women to get a job; it's hard to envision the idea sustaining itself for more than 20 minutes. The big joke in NBC's "Up All Night" is new parents Will Arnett and Christina Applegate learning not to swear in front of their baby. The premise and performance of Tim Allen's new "Last Man Standing" on ABC seemed tired.
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Blame it on the vampires, but the supernatural will be big on TV next season. NBC's creepy "Grimm" is inspired by Grimms' fairy tales. ABC's "Once Upon a Time" features Snow White and Prince Charming's missing daughter. The surgeon in CBS' "A Gifted Man" is haunted by the spirit of his ex-wife. Fox's "Terra Nova" imagines a family from the future sent back to prehistoric times. A man who survived an auto accident in NBC's "Awake" finds parallel realities - one where his wife is dead, the other where his son is dead. In ABC's super-creepy "The River," a family investigates the mysterious disappearance of their wildlife expert patriarch.
Hard enough to keep the real world straight.
CBS's two new dramas featuring characters with super-powers: a woman who has almost total recall of everything that's happened in her life and a man able to predict the future fates of people through their Social Security numbers. In true CBS fashion, these powers are put to use to solve gruesome crimes.
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AMC has to be flattered that both ABC and NBC have series clearly inspired by "Mad Men" that are set in the early 1960s. Both ABC's "Pan Am," featuring the defunct airline's stewardesses and pilots, and NBC's "The Playboy Club," featuring the bunnies, appear to have sleek, stylish casts and costumes. TBD: whether the stories can match up.
TAKE THAT!(equals)
Nothing is more fun than networks taking shots at one another, since denigrating the competition helps your own business. But CBS's corporate honcho Leslie Moonves seemed genuinely miffed hearing that both Meyer and Kimmel joked about CBS's older audience, considered less valuable by advertisers. ("CBS is No. 1," Kimmel said. "That's mainly because their viewers can't remember where they put the remote.")
Moonves noted that CBS has done better than ABC and NBC in the youthful 18-to-49-year-old demographic.
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Axel Hotel Berlin - Berlin
Lietzenburger Str 13-15 - Berlin1-877-662-6988
Free Wi-Fi and a rooftop terrace are just a few of the amenities on offer at this Schoeneberg spa hotel, so what are you waiting for? Book a room at Axel Hotel Berlin and benefit from its ideal location near a metro station in Berlin.
Enjoy breakfast, lunch and dinner at this 4-star Berlin hotel's restaurant where you're sure to find something to suit your taste. If you are in need of rest and relaxation you can find a sauna, a steam room and a Turkish bath/hammam on offer. Additional leisure facilities include a library.
Knowledgeable staff are available at the front desk 24 hours-a-day and can provide express check-in. Planning a meeting? This hotel has a meeting room, as well as a business center. Other amenities include dry cleaning/laundry, an elevator (lift), a garden, concierge services and laundry facilities.
This was a great discovery! We had the jr suite and were extremely pleased with th...Venere Guest, USA
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Breakfast at Axel Hotel Berlin
A buffet breakfast is served between 7 AM and 10:30 AM for a fee.
Facilities at Axel Hotel Berlin
- Business Center
- Meeting Room
- Laundry service
- Lift/elevator
- Room service - limited hour
- Laundry room
- Garden
- Personal newspapers
- Front desk - 24 hour
- Concierge
- Luggage room
- Restaurant/Dining
- Snack bar
- Health club
- Sauna
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- Turkish bath
- Internet/Email services
Know before you go
- This property's policy is to refuse certain bookings for the purpose of group events or parties, including pre-wedding stag/bachelor and hen/bachelorette parties.
- Guests under 18 years old are not permitted at this adults-only property.
- Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.
- Some facilities may have restricted access. Guests can contact the property for details using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
Check-in: after 3 PM.
Check-out: before noon.
PolicyExtra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- No onsite parking is available.
City tax and/or any other fees charged by the hotel
The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
- Fee for buffet breakfast: EUR 12.70 per person (approximately)
- Pet fee: EUR 15 per pet, per night
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
The city of Berlin imposes a city tax of 5%. Business travelers with proof of business-related travel are exempt from this tax. Guests can contact the property using the information contained in the confirmation received after booking.
Axel Hotel Berlin reviews
- October 2014
- Venere Guest
- Couple
This was a great discovery! We had the jr suite and were extremely pleased with the room. Spacious, but intimate, great lounging area which could be separated from the sleeping area with drapes. The staff was excellent. The room was extremely quiet with lots of windows that opened for fresh air. It has a lovely "gay" vibe without being over the top. Would highly recommend this hotel.
- July 2011
- Venere Guest
- Single traveller
- Australia
Enjoyed the hotel stay overall. Staff very friendly and helpful. The only downside to the stay was that room cleaning was slow to occur. Often the room was not cleaned until 5 or 6 pm.This may be partly because the hotel caters particularly to gay men some of whom may have been partying and would want a much later clean. However, 6pm was stretching it!
- July 2010
- Venere Guest
- Single traveller
There was an odd mix-up with my room when I arrived. My assigned room had been given away to another couple. That was a bit unnerving as it was the other guest who chased me down and brought me a different hotel key and not the hotel staff. Other than that all was fine. For me, the location was great.
- November 2009
- Venere Guest
- Couple
- Germany
The stay was good overall. The rooms were nice but a bit too small. The bathrooms were fashionable but poorly designed .. all the water used to cover the floor while taking a shower making the rest of the bathroom unusable. The staff and service was excellent though.
- June 2009
- Venere Guest
- Single traveller
- Italy
As with Axel Barcelona this hotel is aimed primarily at the gay market but is friendly to all. I think I got an exceptionally good price as the hotel has only been open a few months and did not seem very full even on the weekend. The rooms (at least the more standard ones) are far nicer than the Barcelona Axel hotel, but not huge and, as in Barcelona, lack space to put or hang much. The shower with its red glass wall is very sexy but could cause a slight embarrassment if someone opened the room door while you were in the shower (maybe not?). On the top floor there is a spa / workout area which unfortunately is long and narrow, very brightly lighted and not to condusive to socializing. The hot tub is very small. Overall a good hotel, with good staff, in a nice neighboorhood close to shopping and gay establishments. Very quiet at the moment as it seems to still be finding its market.
- June 2009
- Venere Guest
- Single traveller
You know how it is searching for a Hotel on the internet and crossing your fingers that you are going to get a decent hotel and room... Well I was extremely pleased with this find. For the price and the quality of the room and hotel, was all top notch! I just had an issue with the website that i booked the hotel through, for some reason the booking didn't go through. I had to sign on my computer and show them the confirmation through my email before the would give me a room.
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Room Details
Book your spa accommodation at Axel Hotel Berlin, offering 87 guest rooms with climate control. LCD televisions in each room offer entertainment at the end of a long day. Business travelers visiting the Schoeneberg area will have access to free wireless high-speed Internet access as well as complimentary newspapers and safes. Bathrooms are outfitted with bathrobes and slippers. Rooms also include soundproofing and air conditioning.
Accommodation Services
- Air conditioning
- Soundproof rooms
- Safe
- Individually controlled air conditioning
- LCD flat screen TV
- Wireless Internet access
Distances from Axel Hotel BerlinKaDeWe - 0.3 km / 0.2 mi
Europa Center - 0.6 km / 0.4 mi
Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church - 0.7 km / 0.4 mi
Berlin Zoo - 1 km / 0.6 mi
Kaethe Kollwitz Museum - 1 km / 0.7 mi
Bauhaus Archive - 1.1 km / 0.7 mi
Theatre of the West - 1.1 km / 0.7 mi
The Story of Berlin - 1.3 km / 0.8 mi
Victory Column - 1.7 km / 1.1 mi
Schoneberg City Hall - 1.7 km / 1.1 mi
Gemaeldegalerie - 1.8 km / 1.1 mi
Technical University - 1.9 km / 1.2 mi
New National Gallery - 1.9 km / 1.2 mi
Berlin State Library - 2 km / 1.3 mi
Grips-Theater - 2.1 km / 1.3 mi
The closest major airports to Axel Hotel Berlin are:
Berlin (TXL-Tegel) - 6.6 km / 4.1 mi
Berlin (SXF-Schoenefeld) - 16.9 km / 10.5 mi
The preferred airport for Axel Hotel Berlin is Berlin (TXL-Tegel).
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Distances are displayed to the nearest 0.1 km and mile.
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PHELPS, Ky. — The Man High School boys' and girls' basketball teams made it a sweep over Phelps (Ky.) again on Wednesday night at Phelps.
The Lady Billies won 48-43 in the opener. The Man High School boys then won 77-68 over Phelps in the second game.
Both teams had swept Phelps last Friday night at Man.
In the boys' game, John Thomas Keffer led Man with 21 points, 11 assists and six rebounds.
Freshman Daniel Buchanon also had a double-double with 10 points and 10 boards.
Jake Adkins added 18 points and Kenny Joe Adkins had 11 points and eight assists.
Erik Files had seven points for the Hillbillies. Gabby Brown and Josh Adkins had four each and freshman Cameron Simpson, the brother of Man's all-time leading scorer Jordan Simpson, had two points.
Phelps was led by Elijah Branham's 23 points. Seth Prater had 10.
The Billies jumped out to a 16-11 lead after the first quarter of play. Man led 35-33 at the half as Branham hit two 3-pointers.
The Hornets then outscored Man 19-17 in the third quarter to tie it up 52-52 heading into the final eight minutes of play. The Billies then outscored the Hornets 25-16 in the fourth.
Jake Adkins got hot for Man in the fourth quarter as he hit three big buckets to give the Billies a 60-54 advantage with 4:30 to go.
Kenny Joe Adkins got a steal and fast break layup with 2:16 to play to give the Billies a 68-61 lead with 2:16 to play.
Man hit 7-of-8 free throws in the final two minutes of play to preserve the win.
Keffer was 5-of-6 at the line and Buchanon was 2-for-2 as Man came away with the hard fought win.
The Billies improved to 8-7 on the season and traveled to Greater Beckley Christian on Friday night.
In the girls' game, Man was paced by senior Morgan Conn's 22 points. Mika McCoy finished with 11. Freshman Haylee Daniels added seven while Hannah Harvey netted five and Hunter Harvey two.
Phelps was led in scoring by Catilyn Muncy's 19 points. Danessa Maynard finished with 13.
The Lady Billies led 11-9 after one quarter, 28-16 at the half and 33-28 after three. Both teams scored 15 points in the fourth.
Man lost 59-48 at Class AA Wyoming East on Monday night.
The Lady Billies (6-10) play at Buffalo on Feb. 12. Man then hosts Mount View on Feb. 13 before going to Williamstown on Feb. 15 in a makeup game.


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Meet Oliver. He's been missing since yesterday he never stays out. He is chipped and was wearing a yellow reflective collar.. although he's know to lose these. He lives on Burnley Rd, in Edenfield. If you have seen Oliver or know where he maybe please email us on
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On the 8th of November Residents in Edenfield will be holding a memorial service in the village memorial gardens on Market Street. The service starts at 10:45. The names of all the fallen will be honored and remembered.
There will be refreshments in the community centre following the service.
They went with songs to the battle, they were young.
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor do the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;
They sit no more at familiar tables of home;
They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;
They sleep beyond England's foam
(The Ode of Remembrance is taken from the poem 'For the Fallen' by Laurence Binyon 1914)
Lest we forget!
Below is a list of the names of the fallen in 2 World Wars from the Parish of Edenfield
World War 1 (1914 – 1918)
Arthur Ashworth
Fred Bailey
Robert Birtwistle
John Booth
John Bolderson
Fred Buck
John H Dewhurst
James Farnell
Robert Gregory
William Hall
Richard J HarperHolt
William Hartley
Reginald Hewitt
Thomas Holt
Earnest Holden
Tom Hill
Alfred Hunt
James Hickson
Henry Jefferson
Harry Lord
John E Maddocks
Richard Margison
Tom Mulligan
James Myers
James T Nuttall
John W Parkinson
Richard Rawsthorne
Robert C Reeves
Eliza Jane Reeves
W Ribchester
John Salisbury
John H Senior
Horace Smith
William Stansfield
Arthur Steventon
Fred Taylor
Thomas Taylor
John P Turnbull
Arthur Tweedale
Charles West
James A Whittaker
James Wilson
Harold Worsick
World War 2 (1939-1945)
Kenyon Crompton
Albert Dicken
Phillip Edmondson Halstead
Christopher Frodsham
Robert G Hazell
Austin Ingoe
Fred Mosseley
Leslie Nuttall
Harold Roper
Frank Roberts
Geoffrey Turnbull
Herbert Turnbull
Cecil Fredrick Turner
James Whittaker
Richard Alan Whittaker
Fred Wolstenhome
For all the up to date details for events and news around Edenfield please see our Autumn/Winter newsletter
Edenfield Rose Queen Emily and her retinue have chosen the charity RAFT – Rossendale food bank as their charity for the year. They have chosen RAFT as they are local they support adults, children and families within the Rossendale. When people are referred to RAFT not only do they get food parcels for the week but guidance and support, and hope that things can and will improve for them with support, love and faith of their local community.
Emily was crowned in June at Edenfield Parish with the church family from all over the team and local community. There was support from RETM puppets and Edenfield Church Choir. Followed by a bustling fair in school raising money and collecting goods for RAFT and the church. Emily and her friends gave an informative presentation on the important role of food banks and her reasons for choosing it as her charity.
So far in the last 2 months Emily and retinue have managed to make 6 shopping trolley full of donations to RAFT from her boxes in Edenfield.
During the summer holidays the older retinue took the RAFT challenge – in which they had to feed and support a family of four for a day with £5 – they went to Tesco's and thought of all the needs of the family and used their £5 to collect things together they could pass on to RAFT to help families in Rossendale they then gave a morning of their time to learn more about RAFT and help pack parcels for the families.
Emily will continue to collect RAFT though out her year as Rose Queen at all her events and has also placed collection boxes in Edenfield Parish Church, Edenfield C of E Primary School and Edenfield Post Office and Edenfield News agents.
For more information on The RAFT foundation visit their website at www.raftfoundation.org
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KHOU11's Courtney Perna visits Revolution Studio in the Memorial City area where they're putting a new spin on spin class.
On Saturday, March 28, the studio will host a Spin For Sight benefit. A $50 donation for spin class buys a kid in need glasses and an eye exam. Call Revolution Studio to sign up.


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|NBA Odds: Cleveland Cavaliers at New Jersey Nets Spread, Preview & Public Bets
|Written by Anthony Rome
|Wednesday, 12 March 2008 06:00
Cavs Sparkling
The Cleveland Cavaliers have been able to weather injuries, mostly because LeBron James is a triple-double threat in every game. That type of all-around play is what the slumping New Jersey Nets miss most since trading Jason Kidd.
After another sparkling performance from James, the Cavaliers look to end their struggles in New Jersey when they face the punchless Nets on Wednesday night.
Oddsmakers from Sportsbook.com have made Cleveland -4 point spread favorites (NBA Odds) for today's game, the over/under has been set at 188 total points (Matchup). Our public betting information shows that 97% of bets for this game have been placed on Cleveland -4 (View NBA Bet Percentages).
James tallied his seventh triple-double of the season Monday night, finishing with 24 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists in Cleveland's 88-80 win over Portland.
It was the third-triple double in 12 games for James, who has 17 for his career.
"It's scary, it really is," Cavaliers swingman Wally Szczerbiak said. "It's pretty special being on this team and seeing him day in and day out. Being able to watch it, the fans are probably watching the best basketball player in the world. It's arguable between him and Kobe (Bryant), and I'm going to argue for him every day."
James had 29 points, eight assists and six rebounds against the Nets (26-38) on Dec. 14, but the Cavaliers (37-27) lost 105-97. It was Cleveland's 10th loss in its last 11 games in New Jersey.
The Cavaliers have lost their two games against the Nets this season, the first of which was played in Cleveland. But James missed that contest due to a sprained left index finger, and New Jersey has been sinking in the Eastern Conference standings since trading Kidd to Dallas.
The Nets were in playoff position before dealing Kidd, but have lost nine of 12 since and are now one-half game behind Atlanta for the eighth postseason spot. New Jersey has lost six straight, averaging 84.3 points while shooting 39.5 percent from the field in that span.
The Nets clearly miss Kidd's dynamic play at point guard. The veteran leads the NBA with 12 triple-doubles, and has 99 for his career.
After a 91-73 loss Monday night to Houston - which has won 19 straight - New Jersey will host a Cleveland team that has played well in recent weeks. The Cavaliers have won eight of their last 11 and are 10 games over .500 for the first time this season.
Cleveland has played five straight games without Zydrunas Ilgauskas (back), but has won four of those contests. Cavaliers coach Mike Brown doesn't know when his 7-foot-3 center will return.
Cleveland has been dealing with injuries all season. Guards Sasha Pavlovic (sprained left foot) and Daniel Gibson (sprained left ankle) are also out.
New Jersey has remained relatively healthy, but a lack of chemistry has been hurting the club. The Nets have lost all five games point guard Devin Harris has started.
Harris, whom the Nets acquired from the Mavericks as part of the Kidd trade, had 10 points on 3-of-10 shooting versus the Rockets. With Harris orchestrating the offense, New Jersey shot 30.4 percent (24-of-79) from the field. The Nets' 28 first-half points and 47 points after three quarters were season lows.
"It's always frustrating when we try to get to the hole and don't make our shots," New Jersey swingman Vince Carter said.
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BigDog, your tracks loaded in my basecamp perfectly. I must be getting better at it. I followed them out through day 3. I think this might be one of your best! I'm going to wait and let you catch up so I don't spoil the story for me. I am interested in pictures of the trail after looking at the tracks and maps. I'll likely be solo for some of it.
Your pictures are awesome! I've been down the Mokee Dugway, but I never knew about Muley Point. Dang! ...and no wind. Very special for your gang.
Thanks again. Your trips are always a great inspiration for me. I bought your bike and trimmed it out as you suggested. I parked it out west and now I am riding your tracks. I even scouted some of the GWT around Phoenix. Some of that was not big bike friendly, but plenty of go-arounds. -P
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Catch of the day: A Q&A with Vista softball player Audrey Roderfeld
Q: You didn't start out playing catcher, did you?
A: I was a third baseman on an 8-and-under team, but I was watching the College World Series of softball and my mom (Ramona) told me pitchers and catchers are the top recruits in college. That day I told her I was going to be a catcher and get a scholarship.
Q: How was the move behind the plate?
A: It wasn't too bad. I only flinched a few times that first day.
Q: How does it feel when you catch a foul ball right off the mask?
A: Your ears just ring for a few minutes. Everything hurts.
Q: Why would you stay at catcher?
A: I have such passion for the game and I love the challenge of catching. I love it when runners get on and I can play games with them. I'd be comfortable playing anywhere on the field, but I just love catching every day.
Q: What made you accept a softball scholarship to Oregon State?
A: When I visited there it felt right. And Corvallis is a real small, Ma-and-Pa type town, and I liked that.
Q: Was Oregon State always your preference?
A: No, I was sure for years I was going to Oklahoma. My mom asked me to consider a big school, a medium school and a small school. Oklahoma was my big school and Oregon State was my medium school.
Q: What school was your small school and why didn't you pick it?
A: Cal State Fullerton was the other school. It's 10 minutes from my mom's office and she said we could have lunch every day. That didn't feel like I'd really be getting away from home if I had lunch with her every day.
Q: Did you consider any colleges back East?
A: My dad (Ralph) said I couldn't go east of the Mississippi River. That was my boundary. Besides, I really wanted to stay somewhat close to home.
Q: Are you ready to be on your own?
A: I've lived in Vista my whole life and I'm excited and scared at being out on my own. I'm already a baking fanatic and someone told me that Betty Crocker is an alum of Oregon State. That's cool. So I'll be taking a baking class, which is the best of both worlds. You get to bake for a grade and you get to eat it.
Q: How are you going to handle going from Big Red to wearing orange at Oregon State?
A: I'll wear whatever colors they want me to wear for a college scholarship. I'd wear pink and purple if I had to.
Q: How shocking is it that you're almost done with high school and going off to college?
A: My mom said she changed her schedule to make some of my games, and when I told her it was no big deal she just said she had to. She said I'd understand when I was a mom.


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Paring initial gains on bouts of profit-booking, the Sensex on Monday maintained the up momentum on firm buying in auto, oil & gas and healthcare shares amid positive Asian markets.
The BSE 30-stock index, Sensex, resumed smartly higher at 19,820.56 and advanced to 19,856.43, but selling in heavyweights like realty and capital goods lowered it to 19,782.91, before quoting 19,813.71 at 1030 hrs, still up by 29.63 points, 0.15 pct from its last close.
The NSE 50-stock index Nifty was trading up by 7.50 points or 0.12 per cent at 6,023.65 at 1030 hrs.
Major gainers were - Maruti - 3.43 per cent, M&M (1.59 pc), Sun Pharma (1.15 pc), Hero Mot corp (1.11 pc) and wipro (1.02 pc).
Meanwhile, Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) had bought shares worth Rs 1,164.41 crore last Friday, as per provisional data from the stock exchanges.
Asian stocks were trading higher in early trade, with key indices in China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Indonesia, trading 0.07-0.17 per cent on strong US pay roll data led optimism over the global economic recovery.
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`We live here and are also concerned about the problems faced by the State'
BANGALORE: A large number of IT professionals on Sunday staged a protest against the "biased" award of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal. The IT professionals, who gathered near Mahatma Gandhi statue, looked worried over reports that they had no concern for the problems of the State.
"We live here and we are also concerned about the problems faced by the State. We supported the bandh called by Kannada organisations. Today, we have hit the streets to support the cause of farmers in the Cauvery delta who will be largely affected by the award," said M. Raghunandan Gowda.
The protesters under the banner of "IT Kannadigara Koota" shouted slogans against the attitude of the Union Government towards issues of the State.
The protesters also targeted the State Government for its silence after the tribunal verdict came out. "The prolonged silence only confirms the failure of the State ineffectiveness in properly presenting the case before the tribunal," said Kiran K.S. Gowda.


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TiVo Pop-Up Ads Raise Consumer Concerns
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Digital video recording pioneer TiVo Inc. has long promised "TV Your Way." But the company's plans for pop-up ads and restrictions on copying have sparked worries that the service may be eroding consumer control in favor of Hollywood and advertiser interests.
Is it becoming TiVo – their way?
"Consumers are very distrustful of technologies that seize yet another opportunity to offer up advertising," said Mike Godwin, legal director of Public Knowledge, a public interest group. Whether the fears are founded or not, he said, "it feels like TiVo is taking away some of the prerogatives and flexibility that TiVo TV watchers have become accustomed to."
TiVo officials say that starting in March users will begin to see static images, such as a company logo, appear on their television screens as they fast-forward through commercials. The billboard-like ads – which will last about four seconds for a fast-forwarded 30-second spot – may offer giveaways or links to other ads.
For some ads, viewers could choose to provide advertisers with their contact data so they can get more direct marketing.
A pop-up recording "tag" is also planned: a "thumbs-up" icon would appear during TV show promotions and allow users to instantly place those programs in their recording queue.
TiVo officials contend that the new features will not be any more intrusive than the "thumbs-up" icons that already appear during some commercials and shows. But to some customers, the impending advertising changes smack of betrayal from the innovators whose hard drive-based gizmo lets TV viewers record programs, fast-forward through ads and pause at will.
"It's crossing the line," said Darren McClung. The 24-year-old Kansas City, Mo. systems administrator says he didn't mind as much when TiVo introduced ads in its main menu area, giving users the option of watching them.
But with ads set to appear over the very commercials he's trying to skip, "they've moved from unintrusive to intrusive advertising, and that's troublesome," he said.
Some skeptics also worry that TiVo's planned use of Macrovision Corp.'s new copy-protection scheme signals more boundaries on what shows they can or cannot record – even as TiVo prepares to unveil a new service later this year, called TiVoToGo, that will let users record shows onto DVDs or transfer them to computers.
Macrovision has developed a feature that will allow content providers – the people who produce television shows – to place restrictions on how long a digital video recorder such as TiVo can save certain kinds of programming. For instance, movies could disappear after seven days.
TiVo officials say the new restrictions will apply only to pay-per-view and video-on-demand programs. If Macrovision expands the feature to any other content, the deal is off, said Brodie Keast, executive vice president of service business at TiVo.
"We believe the consumer should be in control of entertainment – either free over-the-air or paid broadcasts – and this doesn't change that in any way," Keast said. "But reaching this kind of compromise allows us to innovate freely."
Industry watchers say TiVo has no choice but to make peace with networks, cable and advertisers.
"TiVo has to become more advertising-friendly because, at the end of the day, TV runs on advertising dollars and companies that are part of that food chain have to acknowledge that," said Tim Maleeny, director of strategy at Publicis & Hal Riney, a San Francisco-based advertising firm.
Josh Bernoff, analyst at Forrester Research, said, "Any product that's part of a cable and satellite world has to obey some of the restrictions that go with it."
The restrictions are tightening.
For instance, HBO says it plans to introduce in June a copy-protection technology that will restrict viewers to only one digital copy of its regular shows – and no copies of its on-demand programs.
As it is, TiVo is fighting an onslaught of competitors, including cable operators, who now offer digital video recorder-equipped set-top boxes of their own. The Alviso-based company has yet to post a profit.
It reported Monday a net loss of $26.4 million, or 33 cents per share, on revenue of $38.3 million for the third quarter ended Oct. 31. Its subscriber base has more than doubled from a year ago to about 2.3 million, but roughly 61 percent of subscribers come through satellite operator DirecTV, which is expected to offer a competing DVR soon.
That is expected to help boost the number of U.S. households with DVRs well beyond the 6.5 million that currently have them.
For its part, TiVo tries to balance between customers' desires and Hollywood's demands.
Hollywood studios sued TiVo's rival, DVR pioneer ReplayTV, over its automatic commercial-skipping recording feature – a function TiVo and other DVR makers could have adopted but didn't. ReplayTV's rebel stance bankrupted its former owner. New owners have removed the ad-skipping feature.
TiVo has worked for years with advertisers, trying to find new ways to market to an increasingly fleeting television audience. As part of its delicate dealings with Hollywood, TiVo sells data on the viewing patterns of its users, such as when they choose to watch instant replays or when they fast-forward.
TiVo executives acknowledge that they're walking a fine line with their new advertising strategy.
"Those who feel that they've been 'sold out,' I can understand that," Bob Poniatowsky, a TiVo product marketing manager, wrote recently in an online posting on the TiVo Community Forum. But "that's simply not the case here."
Advertisers – and TiVo- will have to tread cautiously nonetheless, said Maleeny, the advertising strategist. Consumers already encounter hundreds of ads a day all around them – from billboards to newspapers to the Internet.
"It's easy in this environment," Maleeny said, "to suddenly cross a line from being inviting and intriguing to being intrusive and obnoxious."
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Olympus America Inc. Continues to Broaden its Virtual Microscopy Patent Portfolio
The patent claims methods for the transmission of virtual microscope image data and allows for the quick and efficient viewing of these large image files over the Internet or an intranet. The patent also relates to methods for multiple users to simultaneously view and discuss images over the Internet or an intranet.
Olympus currently holds over 40 issued patents and published patent applications worldwide in the field of virtual microscopy. This patent portfolio broadly covers many of the fundamental aspects for the creation, storage, transmission, and remote viewing of virtual microscope slide images. Olympus strives to continually research and develop new and innovative technologies to further advance this important and rapidly growing market.
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Olympus America Scientific Equipment Group provides innovative microscope imaging solutions for researchers, doctors, clinicians and educators. Olympus microscope systems offer unsurpassed optics, superior construction and system versatility to meet the ever-changing needs of microscopists, paving the way for future advances in life science.
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Olympus is a precision technology leader, creating innovative opto-digital solutions in healthcare, life science and consumer electronics products. Olympus works collaboratively with its customers and its affiliates worldwide to leverage R&D investment in precision technology and manufacturing processes across diverse business lines. These include:
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Olympus serves healthcare and commercial laboratory markets with integrated product solutions and financial, educational and consulting services that help customers to efficiently, reliably and more easily achieve exceptional results. Olympus develops breakthrough technologies with revolutionary product design and functionality for the consumer and professional photography markets, and also is the leader in gastrointestinal endoscopy and clinical and educational microscopes. For more information, visit www.olympusamerica.com.
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Celtics guard Rajon Rondo starting against Lakers
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Rajon Rondo got the start at point guard in his much-anticipated return to the court on Friday night against the Lakers.
Celtics (14-26) coach Brad Stevens confirmed Rondo's return to reporters before the 7:30 tip-off at the Garden.
Rondo has been sidelined since Jan. 25, 2013 with a torn ACL he suffered in a regular season game versus the Hawks.
Undrafted rookie Phil Pressey started his first career game at point guard in the Celtics' 88-83 win on Wednesday night that snapped a nine-game losing streak. Pressey briefly took over for the starting duties for the traded Jordan Crawford.
Rondo averaged 13.7 points, 11.1 assists and 5.6 rebounds per game in 38 games last season.
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On Tuesday Drummer & Percussionist George Lernis make his Jazz New England debut. This Cyprus-born musician attended Berklee and the Longy School of Music and is in the process of establishing his band. They have a new release and an upcoming New England appearance. Hear all about it Tuesday at 2 p.m.
Tonight we welcome back writer, critic and long-time columnist and blogger for Vanity Fair JAMES WOLCOTT who continues his conversation about his book LUCKING OUT: MY LIFE GETTING DOWN AND DIRTY IN SEVENTIES NEW YORK. Tonight, James Wolcott discusses how long it took for him to be considered an established New York critic, the proliferation and mainstreaming of porn during that decade and finally his discovery and deep love of ballet.
Join host Tom Shaker as he celebrates the life and music of a very unique soul singer. Singer Minnie Riperton was well on her way to becoming a pop and soul legend when she died of breast cancer in 1979, at age 31. Riperton was blessed with an astounding five-and-a-half-octave vocal range, and achieved her greatest commercial success with the hit ballad, "Lovin' You."
Harp virtuoso Edmar Castaneda draws from jazz, Afro-Cuban and Colombian joropo traditions to weave enchantment on the Rose Hall Stage. Famed Brazilian percussionist Airto Morera, who can make music on almost anything, leads our jazz Carnivale -- with Toninho Horta (guitar), Mark Egan (bass) and Kenny Werner (piano). Wendell Pierce hosts.
It's a guitar celebration on Monday's Jazz New England when John Stowell and Joe Weinberg join us. Portland, Oregon based John Stowell is described by virtuoso Larry Coryell as " master creator with incredible originality." Joe Weinberg has performed and taught in New England for years and works regularly with John Stowell on his trips east. Join us Monday at 2 pm for some serious "picking."
Why is a mouse on the floor a pest, but a mouse in a cute cage a pet? Why is it fine to feed white rats to boa constrictors, but people would shudder and scream if anyone tried to feed kittens to a snake? The way we think about animals defies logic. It's emotionally complicated and differs dramatically depending on culture. Tonight's guest is HAL HERZOG, one the world's leading anthrozoologists, a scientist who studies how humans think about animals. His new book is titled SOME WE LOVE. SOME WE HATE. SOME WE EAT. WHY IT'S SO HARD TO THINK STRAIGHT ABOUT ANIMALS. Tonight we talk about if there are differences between "dog people" and "cat people"; if children who abuse animals grow up to be violent adults; what happens when vegans backslide, and why everyone seems to hate snakes. The answers will surprise you.
Many consider Americas decisive defeat of the Japanese at "Midway" during WWII as one of great luck and providence. However, my guest this week argues that it was nothing short of superior intelligence and tactics. Tune in this Sunday evening at 10:30 when I will be speaking with Craig Symmonds, professor Emeritus at the United States Naval Academy as we recount this historic moment and once and for all set the record straight.
Researcher and writer ELLEN PRAGER has written what amounts to a "tell all" of life in the oceans. This features unusual creatures with very bizarre sex lives and lots and lots of slime. Prager has also included some amazing notes on why these creatures, strange and weird as they are, are important to humanity. Tune into tonight and learn how hagfish can tie themselves into knots; why a giant sea slug is critical to research on the human brain and why you should never, EVER eat the lobster's tomalley. Prager's vastly entertaining account of marine life is titled SEX, DRUGS AND SEASLIME: THE OCEAN'S ODDEST CREATURES AND WHY THEY MATTER.
Every bird's nest is a wonderful example of non-human architecture. Imagine trying to weave and intricate tight cup of moss, lichen and spider's webs using only your mouth and sometimes your feet! Yet birds do this every breeding season. Tonight on Inquiry, we welcome PETER GOODFELLOW, retired English teacher and lifelong birder, who has written one of the most beautiful books on the nests that birds create and how they build them: AVIAN ARCHITECTURE: HOW BIRDS DESIGN, ENGINEER AND BUILD. From simple scrapes in the ground, to monumental platforms high in trees, from enormous mounds of sand to mind-boggling complex hanging woven baskets, birds create structures of stunning complexity and variety. If you have ever marveled at the nest of a robin or oriole, be sure to tune in.
Join us this Sunday on Jazz Matinee with special guests Dan Gabel from the authentic 18-piece Big Band "Dan Gabel and The Abletones" and vocalists Amanda Carrand. Dan will bring few selections from his vinyl collection of over 6,000 records from the big band era. Amanda will be speaking about the American Big Band Preservation Society, an educational organization dedicated to collecting and archiving arrangements of the big bands, which are made available to high school and college music departments free of charge. The American Big Band Preservation Society also holds clinics in the greater Worcester area to teach students about big band playing, history, and the present and future of the big bands.
For information on the upcoming dance-concert to benefit the American Big Band Preservation Society, please CLICK HERE.
Join us as we showcase the live musical collaboration of Toots Thielemans and Kenny Werner, which has been described by critics as "Effortless Mastery." The harmonica - piano duo has been making waves in the Jazz world since they recorded an album together back in 2002. The romantic melodicism and nimble fills in Thielemans's playing matched his equally by Werner's marvelous accompaniment. This is definetly not a one to miss, so tune in on Friday at 6pm!
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