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Book your room at Hotel Villa Colonial
Double RoomMax Occupancy: 2 guests (up to 2 children, 1 infant)
Triple RoomMax Occupancy: 3 guests (up to 2 children, 2 infants)
Single RoomMax Occupancy: 1 guest
Get an overview of this hotelArt Deco Santo Domingo hotel in Old Town, walk to Cathedral of Santo Domingo
With a stay at Hotel Villa Colonial in Santo Domingo (Old Town), you'll be minutes from Convento de los Dominicos and The Count's Gate.
This hotel is within close proximity of Mercado Modelo and House of Tostado.
Make yourself at home in one of the 11 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators. Cable television is provided for your entertainment. Private bathrooms with separate bathtubs and showers feature complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include safes and complimentary bottled water, and housekeeping is provided daily.
Take advantage of recreation opportunities such as an outdoor pool or take in the view from a terrace and a garden. This Art Deco hotel also features complimentary wireless Internet access and tour/ticket assistance. Guests can catch a ride to nearby destinations on the area shuttle (surcharge).
A complimentary continental breakfast is served daily.
Featured amenities include complimentary newspapers in the lobby, a 24-hour front desk, and multilingual staff. For a surcharge, guests may use a roundtrip airport shuttle (available on request) and a cruise ship terminal shuttle.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
A complimentary breakfast is offered each morning. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access. For a surcharge, the property provides a roundtrip airport shuttle (available on request), a cruise ship terminal shuttle, and an area shuttle. This Art Deco hotel also offers an outdoor pool, a terrace, and tour/ticket assistance.
Hotel Villa Colonial has designated areas for smoking.
- 24-hour front desk
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Total number of rooms - 11
- Number of floors - 2
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Free breakfast
- Cruise terminal shuttle (surcharge)
- Shopping center shuttle (surcharge)
- Designated smoking areas (fines apply)
- Designated smoking areas
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Free WiFi
- Multilingual staff
- Garden
- Terrace
- Luggage storage
- Pool sun loungers
- Free parking nearby
- Year Built 1920
- Area shuttle (surcharge)
- Outdoor pool
Family Friendly Amenities
- Outdoor pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Refrigerator
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free parking nearby
Room Amenities
- Ceiling fan
- Air conditioning
- Free bottled water
- Refrigerator
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Separate bathtub and shower
- In-room safe
- Television
- Cable TV service
- Cribs/infant beds (surcharge)
- Day bed
Where to Eat
A complimentary continental breakfast is served each morning between 8 AM and 10 AM.
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Check-out time is Noon
Payment types
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- No onsite parking is available.
- The name on the credit card used at check-in to pay for incidentals must be the primary name on the guestroom reservation.
No elevators
No pets or service animals allowed
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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. This property offers transfers from the cruise terminal and airport (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details 72 hours prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. 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. No pets and no service animals are allowed at this property.


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Harvey Darbonne has announced that he will seek the office of the mayor of the City of Opelousas in this fall's election.
"I have the necessary experiences, dedication and integrity to represent the people of Opelousas as your next mayor," Darbonne said in his announcement.
"I previously served as alderman-at-large for the city," Darbonne said. "My effectiveness and dedication in that role serves as a guide to the service that I am committed to deliver as your mayor. Your calls were always a priority for me." ...

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Nathan's Prayer is a site for families and friends who wish to show their love and support for children with congenital heart defects. It is named for my son, a precocious boy who was born with Scimitar Syndrome, a rare heart condition with traits that include dextrocardia, pulmonary hypoplasia, and Partial Anomalous Pulmonary Venus Return.
In the days before July 25, 2006, I wrote a simple child's prayer for him, which he recited often as his heart surgery approached. I know that catch in the throat, that sting in the eyes, that plea from the heart which comes when placing a child in the hands of surgeons.
I also know that it's easy to get derailed, to find yourself "losing it" as you're hit with stormy circumstances. Gathering information and finding healthy ways to cope are an essential part of holding on to your sanity in the midst of a child's serious health crisis.
In the July 2010 issue of Parents Magazine, I touch on the difficulty of holding onto joy when you know your child faces tough circumstances in "Nathan's Wonder Slide." If you missed it, you can read the online version at Parents.com.
Is your family faced with this kind of challenge? I would love to hear from you.
By the way, Nathan is doing great!
Karen Blakeney
P.S.: Here are a few posts that tell a little about our story: Nathan's Prayer, Dr. Bove, Before the Back Surgery, The Principle of Finders Keepers, Body Cast.
FREE NATHAN'S PRAYER BOOKMARKS. Click here.
If you have a child scheduled for heart surgery, these posts may be helpful: What do I tell my child about his congenital heart defect?, Remembering C. S. Mott: Nathan Wakes Up After Heart Surgery, Nathan's Prayer: Three Year Anniversary, What will a 5-year-old remember about heart surgery?, Franklin Goes to the Hospital, and Walk on Water.
Have you been given the heartbreaking news that your child will not survive? Take a look at posts by Sylvie Stephens, a young mother who lost her daughter in September of 2009: Pray for Sydney, A Sad Update, Strength, Nurse Angels, Kisses, Letting Go, Birthday, A Better Place.
Or go to her column, Ask Sylvie. She would be happy to answer questions and share supportive advice.
And finally, this is my personal testimony:http://nathansprayer.com/video/testimonial.flv


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|Comparison of gastrointestinal complications in on-pump versus off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting.
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|PMID: 19399207 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|BACKGROUND: Gastrointestinal (GI) complications following coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), although infrequent, are associated with significant morbidity and mortality. It has been suggested that systemic inflammatory response plays an important role in these complications. Cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) is well known to cause increased systemic inflammation, and therefore it has been proposed that performing CABG using an off-pump technique could substantially minimize the risk of GI complications. Prolonged CPB duration has been shown to be an independent predictor of GI complications; however, the effect of avoiding CPB altogether through off-pump procedures has not been thoroughly examined. We sought to compare the incidence of GI complications in patients undergoing on-pump and off-pump CABG.
METHODS: We analyzed prospectively entered data on 2451 patients who underwent isolated CABG between January 2000 and October 2004. We compared GI complication rates in 5 predetermined areas (GI bleed, ileus, pancreatitis, ischemic bowel and cholecystitis) among patients who had on-pump CABG with those of patients who had off-pump CABG. We also compared in-hospital mortality due to these complications between the 2 groups.
RESULTS: We compared data for a total of 2010 patients in the on-pump group and 441 in the off-pump group. In the on-pump group, 30 (1.49%) patients experienced GI complications compared with 4 (0.91%) in the off-pump group (p = 0.34). Gastrointestinal bleed was the most common complication in the off-pump group. Eight patients in the on-pump group experienced ischemic bowels compared with no patients in the off-pump group. Six patients (0.3%) in the on-pump group died from GI complications, whereas no patients in the off-pump group died from such complications (p = 0.25).
CONCLUSION: We found no significant difference in the total number of GI complications between the off-pump and on-pump groups; however, trends could be seen in the types of GI complications that occurred in the 2 groups. Owing to the relatively infrequent occurrence of GI complications, a larger scale study would be beneficial to determine whether the differences observed would be significant.
|Kris P Croome; Bob Kiaii; Stephanie Fox; Mackenzie Quantz; Neil McKenzie; Richard J Novick
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|Type: Comparative Study; Journal Article
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|Created Date: 2009-04-28 Completed Date: 2009-05-21 Revised Date: 2013-06-02
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|Nlm Unique ID: 0372715 Medline TA: Can J Surg Country: Canada
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|Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Western Ontario, London, Ont. firstname.lastname@example.com
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PC Pandora 7.0 : Generate Custom Report At any time, the parent can generate a custom report showing selected log information on selected dates. A full report, even for just a few days, can be extremely long because it includes all screen snapshots.
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U.S. High School Students Win Big at International Linguistics Olympiad
LTI's Lori Levin helped coach team that included Pittsburgh student
Thursday August 16, 2007More than 100 local students spent hours in McConomy Auditorium poring over linguistics problems during the first North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO) March 29, a low-key beginning to a process that would yield high honors for U.S. students in international competition this summer.NACLO, which was co-chaired by Lori Levin, associate research professor in the Language Technologies Institute and Tom Payne, research faculty at the University of Oregon, identified eight talented high school students, including Shadyside Academy's Joshua Falk. From Aug.
Luis von Ahn Named One of World's Top Young Innovators
Technology Review Magazine To Honor Carnegie Mellon Computer Scientist
Wednesday August 15, 2007Luis von Ahn, assistant professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, today was named one of this year's top 35 innovators under the age of 35 by Technology Review magazine in recognition of his pioneering work in the field known as human computation. A panel of expert judges and the editorial staff of Technology Review selected this year's TR35 from more than 300 nominees. Von Ahn and the other TR35 winners for 2007 will be featured in the September issue of the magazine and honored Sept.
Carnegie Mellon Team Named Semifinalist in DARPA Urban Challenge
Tartan Racing Among 36 Teams Invited to National Qualification Event in October
Thursday August 09, 2007Carnegie Mellon University's Tartan Racing team is one of 36 contenders that advanced today toward a spot in the DARPA Urban Challenge, a $2 million robotic vehicle race that will take place Nov. 3 at an urban military training facility in Victorville, Calif.BossTartan Racing's self-driving Chevy Tahoe, "Boss," must now compete for one of 20 positions in the starting lineup at the National Qualification Event (NQE) Oct. 26-31, which will also be at the Victorville training facility on the former George Air Force Base.
Monday August 06, 2007txtNation has recently expanded its core support, working to cater for its vast increase in both volumes and clients.
Carnegie Mellon Researchers Launch Arts-Based Robotics Program To Increase Technical Literacy in the Pittsburgh Region
Summer Program Is Prelude to Larger Events Celebrating City's 250th Anniversary in 2008
Friday August 03, 2007Carnegie Mellon University researchers want everyone in Pittsburgh to learn to build robots. They say the experience will foster creativity, build a sense of community and increase the technical literacy of the entire city. To this end, they've launched Robot 250, a program in which students, families, artists and the general public can gather and build their own customized robots using cutting-edge technology and educational materials developed at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute.
Carnegie Mellon, University of Madeira Offer Dual Degree Master's Program in Human-Computer Interaction
Tuesday July 24, 2007Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Madeira in Portugal will launch a joint program this fall for a dual master's degree in human-computer interaction that will involve course work on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. The 16-month program is sponsored by the regional government of Madeira. It will include a semester of core courses at Carnegie Mellon's Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) in the fall, followed by 12 months of further course work and a capstone project course at the University of Madeira.
Tuesday July 24, 2007David O'Hallaron, associate professor of computer science and electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, is the new director of Intel Research Pittsburgh. O'Hallaron, whose research focuses on scientific supercomputing, computational database systems and virtualization, assumed leadership of the Pittsburgh lab July 1. He succeeds Todd Mowry, who has returned to the university as an associate professor of computer science. Founded in 2002, Intel Research Pittsburgh is one of three labs Intel Corp.
Monday July 16, 2007Carnegie Mellon University is hosting three high school students from the Al RU'YA Bilingual School in Kuwait who took the top spot at Carnegie Mellon in Qatar's first international Botball® competition. The students won a trip to Pittsburgh as the grand prize after beating 17 other teams from Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait in May. The students and their teacher will spend five days in Pittsburgh.
Carnegie Mellon Researchers Use Web Images To Add Realism to Edited Photos
System Takes Advantage of Millions of Images on the Internet
Tuesday July 10, 2007Computer graphics researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed systems for editing or altering photographs using segments of the millions of images available on the Web. Whether adding people or objects to a photo, or filling holes in an edited photo, the systems automatically find images that match the context of the original photo so they blend realistically.
Carnegie Mellon's Soccer-Playing Robots Bring Home Gold, Bronze From RoboCup 2007
Other University Participants Compete in Nanogram Contest
Tuesday July 10, 2007Once again, Carnegie Mellon University's teams of soccer-playing robots have taken top spots at the International RoboCup Federation's 2007 RoboCup competition, which ended Sunday in Atlanta. The CMDragons are world champions in the small-sized robot league for the second consecutive year after besting a dozen competitors. The CMDash AIBO team took third place in the legged league, which included a field of 24.


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NEC rejuvenates its ValueStar PC range
The complete ValueStar range (the W, X and L) is affected by this update. Main improvements are Blu-Ray and watercooling.
Let's start with the biggest model, the X-series. It has a BD-ROM drive, a watercooled Pentium D 945 CPU, a wide 20″ screen, 1GB of RAM, a digital TV tuner, a GeForce 660GT and 500GB of HDD space in RAID.
The W has a BD-ROM drive, a digital TV tuner, the choice between a bunch of CPU's up to the Pentium D 945, 400GB of HDD space in RAID and a 32″ screen with a resolution of 1360×768.
The L is a slim desktop that can adopt a range of CPU's, casings and screens but doesn't have a BD-ROM drive nor a digital TV tuner.
Finally there's the S, an all-in-one PC/TV device, that is available in a number of configurations, and the high-end model has a 20″ screen (1680×1050), 300GB of HDD space, a DVD multi drive and a ATI Radeon Xpress 1250.
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Despite trailing by 15 at halftime to the Mercer Bears, the Northern Kentucky University Norse kept themselves in it with some nice three-point shooting - two treys by Cole Murray, one each by Jake Giesler and Tyler White - but never could cut it to less than nine Thursday night.
Final score: Mercer 74, NKU 58.
The reason is because Mercer, except for early in the second half, was shooting just as well as NKU and holding the Norse at bay. If any team in the Atlantic Sun can make a NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen run the way Florida Gulf Coast did last year from the A-Sun, it likely could be the Bears. ...


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Algoma's Kennedy Blahnik makes a throw in the D3 shot put during the WIAA state track and field championships at Veterans Memorial Field Sports Complex in La Crosse on June 6
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Kennedy Blahnik's family and friends were wearing T-shirts on Saturday with those words imprinted on them along with a light-hearted picture of her where she was holding a pair of WIAA state championship medals in front of her eyes.
It was fitting because no other girls thrower in state history has as much state gold to hold as Blahnik. ...


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While SEO has been implemented as part of the marketing mix for many years, a lot of people still do not wholly understand the ins and outs of this discipline. The intricacies of SEO can be very daunting which is why a lot of companies and webmasters look to hiring the services of SEO professionals. Following is a comparison between do-it-yourself SEO and those provided by an SEO expert.
Professional SEO Services
One of the biggest advantages there is to outsourcing SEO work is that this affords you the expertise that already exists in an SEO professional. An SEO professional brings proficiency in the field. And because they have an intimate knowledge of how SEO works they are also highly equipped to deal with problems associated with SEO. These fixes can be done faster than when you attempt to do them yourself.
They are highly knowledgeable in useful SEO tactics like link building and creating content that will help boost your ratings. These professionals have also built up relationships within the industry that you can take advantage of. Finally, because all these factors are present you ultimately are able to use time wisely. As you know, time delays can sometimes have negative effects on your campaign.
Disadvantages associated with professional SEO services have something to do with cost – it can be quite expensive to retain these services. Also, the proliferation of scam SEO services makes it difficult for a company to differentiate quality services from substandard ones.
Do-it-Yourself SEO
In contrast to professional services, an SEO campaign that is crafted and implemented in-house allows for considerable savings, especially for companies operating on a tight budget. It can be a very highly fulfilling endeavor since the more you devote time in designing and implementing SEO campaigns the more you learn. The thing about SEO is that it lends itself to tracking and recording so you are able to go back, re-evaluate and improve efforts. Soon you will have acquired enough knowledge as to be considered an expert yourself. Another reason why DIY SEO is attractive to a lot of people is that you have control over every aspect of your campaign, from planning and deciding what content goes on your website.
But as mentioned above, SEO is a complicated specialty and it entails a lot of time to get familiar with it – time that you may not really have.
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633 Prayer Meeting
"But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you." Matthew 6:33
It is our firm belief that prayer is extremely important in the growth of a Christian and serves to greatly impact and strengthen the church body as a whole. The 633 ministry is a prayer gathering open to anyone. Participants can come and go at any time throughout the hour and a half prayer time.


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Auto review: Mustang honors the past as Ford looks to the future
A decade ago, as Ford engineers prepared the next-generation Mustang, they stared down an inescapable truth: The best Mustangs were built in the 1960s.
So they set out to build a brand-new 1968 Mustang fastback, wrapping modern technology in retro sheet metal. That strategy carried its own risks, like asking the Rolling Stones to re-record "Exile on Main Street."
It's clear now that it worked brilliantly, setting off an unlikely second coming of the muscle car era. In a familiar stampede, Chevrolet and Dodge — which scrambled in the '60s to make their own "pony cars" — followed Ford's lead again with refried versions of the original Camaro and Challenger.
The 2013 Mustang GT we tested recently, a drag-strip beast that could smoke most anything from the '60s, may be among the last of the retro breed. With the Mustang's 50th anniversary approaching next year, the engineers in Dearborn, Mich., are again feverishly designing the next-generation Mustang. They face an even tougher challenge: How do you take a car into the future after you've taken it a half-century into the past?
However wonderful the next Mustang may be, it will be a shame to see this one pass into history, whence it came. The successful remake of the 1967-68 car represents a kind of redemption for dumb decisions Ford made when it abandoned the early Mustangs in the first place, leading to a series of putrid pony cars throughout the 1970s. (Note to Ford: Do not bring back the Mustang II.)
A week in the old-school cockpit of the latest GT confirms that its ride, handling and shifting are an upgrade over both ancient and recent Mustangs, which have always been a bit crude — endearingly so.
Ford has also pulled off a subtle but substantial evolution of its retro design. A mid-cycle refresh in 2010 added a sharpened belt line and a rear end pinched in on both sides. For 2013, Ford added a more prominent front grille and other tweaks. The updates somehow made the car look simultaneously less dated and more like the old car.
But only one option really matters on this car: the 302-cubic-inch, 5.0-liter V-8, a direct descendant of the first 302 small-block introduced in the 1968 Mustang, now with a ludicrous 420 horsepower and 390 pound-feet of torque. The first retro Mustang GT, a 2005 model, was impressive enough with 300 horses. Piling on 120 more is like deep-frying bacon in pork fat.
With the six-speed manual, it's difficult to launch the GT without roasting enough rubber to set off neighborhood smoke alarms. Shifts into second gear provoke another loud bark from the rear tires. Pushing the 7,000-rpm redline in higher gears requires acres of open highway.
The car's least-expected quality is a near-optimal trade-off between aggressive handling and a comfortable ride.
The GT has its issues. All Mustangs do. Their point has never been perfection, but rather the proper ratio of performance to price. The car can be a handful to drive in town, and feels a tad too big and heavy. Its center console is awkwardly angled up toward the back seat, making manual shifting an elbow-bumping affair.
The GT goes from zero to 60 mph in 4.3 seconds on its way to a 12.7-second quarter-mile, according to Motor Trend. If you want something just a hair faster, plunk down $190,000 on an Aston Martin DB9.
Our loaded test car came to $40,255, a bit high for the quintessential affordable fast car. But GTs start at $30,750, and the V-6 base model — with a more-than-respectable 305 horsepower — brings the price down to $22,200.
All this sets a high bar for the next-generation Mustang. If Ford has learned anything from history, it will take care to avoid repeating what happened after the 1960s, a textbook case of messing with success.
Our advice to Ford: The Mustang is finally back in a good place. Don't screw it up. Don't get any big ideas. Do what you should have done in the 1970s: Let the shape of the car change slowly, organically, over many years.
Brian Thevenot is a writer for the Los Angeles Times.
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Theresa Ladrigan-Whelpley will replace Paul Woolley as an associate director of the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education effective Jan. 4, 2010. Paul retires after 11 years of outstanding service to the Ignatian Center and the university. As associate director, Theresa will share responsibility for the center's overall management with its executive director and other associate directors and will administer the Bannan Institute, the center's department specifically charged with promoting the Jesuit educational mission among faculty and staff. Theresa has served the campus community since fall 2006 as director of Resident Ministry and Campus Minister for Vocational Discernment, with particular responsibility for DISCOVER retreats and small groups in the residential learning communities.
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INDIANAPOLIS - UNC Asheville athletic director Janet Cone has been selected to serve on the NCAA Men's Basketball Committee starting Sept. 1.
Cone and Stanford AD Bernard Muir were chosen to replace current committee chair Ron Wellman, the director of athletics at Wake Forest University, and Big Sky Conference commissioner Doug Fullerton, whose terms expire Aug. 31.
The committee makes the selections for the men's NCAA Tournament.
As a women's basketball coach at Western Carolina (1990-93) and Samford (1997-2002), Cone posted a career record of 58-162 (.263).
"Having been a former student-athlete, basketball coach, and now director of athletics, I am honored to represent UNC Asheville and the Big South Conference, and thankful to be chosen," said Cone. "I look forward to working with (NCAA vice president for men's basketball) Dan Gavitt and the distinguished group of committee members."
Ex-UNCA athletes honored by BSC
CHARLOTTE - Three former UNC Asheville male basketball players and a trio of women were named to the Big South Conference All Decade teams.
Kevin Martin (Player of the Year, two-time all-conference) and Josh Pittman (two-time Player of the Year, BSC Hall of Fame member) were named to the 1990-99 men's teams, and Milton Moore (two-time all-conference, two time tournament MVP) was chosen for the 1985-89 squad.
Women's selections include Wendy Beecher (three-time all conference, 1985-89 team), Vicki Giffin (Player of Year, rookie of year, three-time all-conference, 1990-99 team) and Kristal Hood (Freshman of Year, three-time all conference, 2000-09 team).
Tourists tickets on sale for 2014 games
ASHEVILLE - Single-game tickets are on sale for 2014 Asheville Tourists baseball at McCormick Field.
Tickets for the Class A pro team can be purchased at the McCormick field box office or by contacting 258-0428 or theashevilletourists.com.
General admission tickets on the day of the game are $8 for adults, $7 for children 12 and younger, military personnel and seniors ages 65 and over.
Box seats the day of the game are $11.50, $9.50 for others mentioned above.
Box seats and general admission are also discounted $1 if purchased at least 24 hours in advance.
Opening night at McCormick Field is April 3, a Thirsty Thursday with the Tourists hosting Delmarva.
WCU-Clemson game to be on local TV
CULLOWHEE - Western Carolina's home baseball game against Clemson next Tuesday will be televised on WMYA, the school announced Wednesday.
The game is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m.
The Tigers are coached by Jack Leggett, who previously coached at WCU.


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Freebooter is a sandbox game set in a fantasy pirate world. Players will be able to explore, pirate, trade and ingratiate themselves with the factions of the game. The game relies heavily on procedural generation to create varied and interesting content.
Excitement! Today we are finally ready to show off our module destruction effects and a new ship: The Jonk!
Posted by TribunalGames on Mar 14th, 2013
As you can see in the video above, all weapons and propulsion modules on ships are now destructible - the visual effects and the hp of the modules still need tweaking but this is a good start.
We also have a new ship to show today: The Jonk.
This is a much smaller hull than the others that are currently in the game and will probably be one of the easier ships to get in the game. It's also the first ship with forward mounted weapons in the game.
Thank for reading! Remember to track Freebooter if you want to keep up to date with its development!
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Looking good! Maybe some predefined holes in ships can be made for based on the hull's life? Aka 75% Hp there are two holes in the ship, 50% there are four holes, etc, etc. Looking good, keep up the great work!
We have stuff like that in the pipeline :) Making the hulls break apart as they sink, make the modules that are destroyed break into more pieces ect. - we will have more of that sort of stuff before the game launches.
Thanks for the compliments!
I hope that small fast shooting ships don't get to the OP State, just because they can wipe out weapons on your deck, i believe that it would be better if the weapons blow up only if the gun gets hit by a cannon or a missile.
Is looking great until now, keep your great work!
Right now the HP on the modules is set solely for showing the effect on video - it will be more difficult to destroy modules when playing.
I don't think there is any risk of the Jonk being overpowered unless we implement fleets - it just doesn't have the firepower to threaten the other ships in the game atm.
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|I love getting auction catalogs for historical auctions. They're one of the best sources for rare, unpublished letters. I found this one this morning and found it fascinating (Calcav, you'll love this!). It describes the battle of Shiloh from the soldier's view. A little hard to read, but worth it:
"Pitchberge Landing (Pittsburg Landing) April the 10, 1862 Dere Sister. I take my pen in hand to inform you that I am Well at present all thediers and it we have it the most of the time. I have bin in one battal and I am sattisfide now. I got owt safte. Thommes was not in this fight, he was back with the Waggon
and he did not get up for a Week.
It was ahard fight todays. It commence on Sunday Morning the rebels come on owr men un expected they ware eting there
We was not there yet we was on the road. We herde the cannons a roreing. We marched on fore this place. We did not get here til nerly morning. We go to Sorvanna about Mid-night. We then got on the boat and come up to this pace it was then nerly day light. Then we stude on the boat on till it was day light them we got of the boat the fireing had all commenced.
We march out an fought like men til we gain the day and med them
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Nick Young shouldn't have to thank Gilbert Arenas. I think Arenas is actually hurt this time around.
Michael Lee of The Washington Post tweeted that Arenas will likely miss the Wizards first two regular season games because of a sore ankle. Arenas strained a tendon in the ankle and has been wearing a walking boot.
So far it's just a projected two games for Arenas, but it could be more. He'll see a doctor about the slow-recovering ankle this week.
There has been a lot of curiousity as to how Arenas and rookie John Wall would work together in the backcourt, but those questions will have to wait to be answered for a bit. And because of Arenas' injury, he hasn't practiced a ton with Wall and obviously has seen very little game action together with the rookie. So here we get a chance to see Wall with the team all to himself as well as we'll have something to compare it to when Arenas returns.
How does Flip Saunders balance the lineup with Arenas out? It's looking like Al Thornton will start, meaning he'll be in at small forward. I guess that means either Kirk Hinrich or Young will get the nod as shooting guard. The Wizards are looking at a fairly non-traditional lineup with or without Arenas it looks like.
Most feel that eventually, Washington will have to move Arenas to really complete the transition of handing the team to Wall. It's just going to be two games, but it'll at least be a taste and like I said, no we have a barometer to compare Wall against how played with and without Arenas.
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If your company allows employees to use an iPhone, here are the productivity apps that you should install on the mobile devices
UPDATED JUNE 8, 2011: Read the June 2011 updated review of iPhone office apps, including Apple's iWork suite for iPhone.
With Apple's iOS 4 supporting corporate security requirements, companies are increasingly saying an explicit yes to iPhone use. Certainly an iPad makes more sense as a lightweight laptop replacement (see InfoWorld's picks for the best iPad office apps), but there are many times you can't easily pull out a laptop or iPad but can use a smartphone. Just as companies typically install a suite of productivity apps (nearly always Microsoft Office), what should the iPhone equivalent be?
The answer can't be Office, because Microsoft has no iPhone-compatible suite. Microsoft's Office Web Apps cloud-based suite doesn't work on an iPhone either. Google Docs is also not usable on an iPhone.
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InfoWorld.com investigated the available apps and has put together a recommended business apps suite that should be the standard install on corporate iPhones. Note that when I say iPhone, I include iPod Touches. (I've added iTunes links for each app covered.) And for business needs beyond basic productivity apps, check out InfoWorld's compendium of specialty business iPhone apps.
In some respects, the choices were easy because there are fewer productivity app options for the iPhone than for the iPad. But that also points to an issue if you work with both iPhones and iPads: In many cases, you won't be using the same productivity app on the iPhone as you do on the iPad. There are few productivity apps that excel on both devices. Thus, our recommended iPhone office apps "suite" is not the same as the set of apps we recommend for the iPad.
The office suite candidates are Quickoffice's Quickoffice Mobile Connect Suite ($10, but its price changes frequently) and DavaViz's Documents to Go Premium ($17). (Apple's iWork suite is not available for the iPhone.) Note that Documents to Go is a universal app, so it can run on iPhones and iPads -- and if you have multiple devices, one license covers all the devices for a specific user. Quickoffice's iPhone version is not compatible with the Pad, or vice versa, so if you use both devices, you'll need to buy a separate version for each.
Quickoffice has a word processor and spreadsheet editor; DocsToGo (as it's labeled on the iPhone) has a word processor, a spreadsheet editor, and a tool to add notes to a presentation. Both programs read and write to the Microsoft Office file formats.
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Me and three friends are heading to thailand for dec and jan and wanted to know from someone with experience if we should book accomodation on koh samui and phi phi whilst passing through or just find a place to stay when we get there
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Generally you can wing it. Only exception might be if you plan to be on Phi Phi during Christmas or NYE as the island can be almost booked solid. Otherwise you'll find some kind of room or bungalow just about anywhere after a bit of searching on the ground. Anyway the places that even take pre-bookings tend to be in the 2000b+ range whereas there's plenty of cheaper digs relying on daily walk-ins. Ko Lanta and East Railay/Tonsai are slightly cheaper alternatives to Phi Phi in peak season. Scores of lesser-known islands too of course.
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the only reason i'd book ahead is if i were arriving very late at night and wanted to have a place i could get to quickly and easily (in which case i'd only book one night anyway and have a look around the next morning) or if there were a specific place i wanted to stay (like Lamai Wanta on Samui or something like that). otherwise, i'd just wing it like Captain Bob says too.
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Early-mid Dec no problems. But if I wanted a SPECIFIC place late Dec thru Jan I'd book. Otherwise I'd wing it too. Don't be afraid of using touts at the piers and on the ferries - they can show you pix, you can negotiate them down (esp on ferries where there are heaps of time) and they can often lay on free or cheap transport from the pier.
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Lots of beaches and islands info - http://tezza-thailandbeachesandislands.blogspot.com/
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Lots of beaches and islands info - http://tezza-thailandbeachesandislands.blogspot.com/
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The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. Here's what that means for its strategy—and for how to stop it.
What is the Islamic State?
Where did it come from, and what are its intentions? The simplicity of these questions can be deceiving, and few Western leaders seem to know the answers. In December, The New York Times published confidential comments by Major General Michael K. Nagata, the Special Operations commander for the United States in the Middle East, admitting that he had hardly begun figuring out the Islamic State's appeal. "We have not defeated the idea," he said. "We do not even understand the idea." In the past year, President Obama has referred to the Islamic State, variously, as "not Islamic" and as al-Qaeda's "jayvee team," statements that reflected confusion about the group, and may have contributed to significant strategic errors.
Places like St. Louis and New York City were once similarly prosperous. Then, 30 years ago, the United States turned its back on the policies that had been encouraging parity.
Despite all the attention focused these days on the fortunes of the "1 percent," debates over inequality still tend to ignore one of its most politically destabilizing and economically destructive forms. This is the growing, and historically unprecedented, economic divide that has emerged in recent decades among the different regions of the United States.
Until the early 1980s, a long-running feature of American history was the gradual convergence of income across regions. The trend goes back to at least the 1840s, but grew particularly strong during the middle decades of the 20th century. This was, in part, a result of the South catching up with the North in its economic development. As late as 1940, per-capita income in Mississippi, for example, was still less than one-quarter that of Connecticut. Over the next 40 years, Mississippians saw their incomes rise much faster than did residents of Connecticut, until by 1980 the gap in income had shrunk to 58 percent.
A Chicago cop now faces murder charges—but will anyone hold his colleagues, his superiors, and elected officials accountable for their failures?
Thanks to clear video evidence, Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke was charged this week with first-degree murder for shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. Nevertheless, thousands of people took to the city's streets on Friday in protest. And that is as it should be.
The needlessness of the killing is clear and unambiguous:
Yet that dash-cam footage was suppressed for more than a year by authorities citing an investigation. "There was no mystery, no dead-end leads to pursue, no ambiguity about who fired the shots," Eric Zorn wrote in The Chicago Tribune. "Who was pursuing justice and the truth? What were they doing? Who were they talking to? With whom were they meeting? What were they trying to figure out for 400 days?"
One hundred years ago, a crisis in urban masculinity created the lumberjack aesthetic. Now it's making a comeback.
The first one I met was at an inauguration party in 2009. I was in a cocktail dress. He was in jeans, work boots, and a flannel shirt. He had John Henry tattooed on his bicep. He was white. Somehow, at a fairly elegant affair, he had found a can of PBR. Since then they've multiplied. You can see them in coffee shops and bars and artisanal butchers. They don't exactly cut down trees, but they might try their hand at agriculture and woodworking, even if only in the form of window-box herb gardens.
In the last month, these bearded, manly men even earned themselves a pithy nickname: the lumbersexuals. GearJunkie coined the term only a few weeks ago, and since then Jezebel, Gawker, The Guardian and Time have jumped in to analyze their style. BuzzFeed even has a holiday gift guide for the lumbersexual in your life. (He would, apparently, like bourbon-flavored syrup and beard oil.)
As the public's fear and loathing surge, the frontrunner's durable candidacy has taken a dark turn.
MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina—All politicians, if they are any good at their craft, know the truth about human nature.
Donald Trump is very good, and he knows it better than most.
Trump stands alone on a long platform, surrounded by a rapturous throng. Below and behind him—sitting on bleachers and standing on the floor—they fill this city's cavernous, yellow-beige convention center by the thousands. As Trump will shortly point out, there are a lot of other Republican presidential candidates, but none of them get crowds anything like this.
Trump raises an orange-pink hand like a waiter holding a tray. "They are not coming in from Syria," he says. "We're sending them back!" The crowd surges, whistles, cheers. "So many bad things are happening—they have sections of Paris where the police are afraid to go," he continues. "Look at Belgium, the whole place is closed down! We can't let it happen here, folks."
Highly-poisonous botulinum toxin (the stuff in Botox), played a formidable role in the history of food and warfare. It is still a factor in prison-brewed alcohol and some canned foods, and can quickly kill a person.
After tanking up on "pruno," a bootleg prison wine, eight maximum-security inmates at the Utah State prison in Salt Lake County tried to shake off more than just the average hangover. Their buzz faded into double vision, weakness, trouble swallowing, and vomiting. Tests confirmed that the detainees came down with botulism from their cellblock science experiment. In secret, a prison moonshiner mixed grapefruit, oranges, powdered drink mix, canned fruit, and water in a plastic bag. For the pièce de résistance, he added a baked potato filched from a meal tray weeks earlier and peeled with his fingernails. After days of fermentation and anticipation, the brewer filtered the mash through a sock, and then doled out the hooch to his fellow yardbirds.
The social network fundamentally changed in early 2014. And that's causing big problems for the company.
On Tuesday, Twitter Inc. announced another dreary set of quarterly earnings. While the company beat investor expectations, it's still running at a loss of $132 million after taxes. Its fourth-quarter projections seem low. Worst of all, its namesake product has essentially failed to add any active American users in 2015.
Twitter stock fell more than 10 percent after the announcement.
Since it went public two years ago, investors have rarely considered Twitter's prospects rosy. The sliver of Twitter's users who are interested in how it fares as a corporation have gotten used to this, I think: There's an idea you see floating around that, beyond avoiding bankruptcy, Twitter's financial success has little bearing on its social utility. Maybe there are only 320 million humans interested in seeing 140-character updates from their friends every day after all. If you make a website that 4 percent of the world's population finds interesting enough to peek at every month, you shouldn't exactly feel embarrassed.
The food was decent, but the vibes were dystopian.
I work some days from a small office in San Francisco, and every day, I gotta eat. For a stretch of several weeks this year, I obtained my lunch from an iPhone app called Sprig.
It's a beautiful piece of software. A trompe l'oeil table offers a compact slate of choices for lunch and dinner, all photographed beautifully from above. On the day I'm writing this, I can get a Caesar salad ($11), blackened chicken with broccoli ($11), a lamb-kofta wrap ($11), a tequila-lime shrimp salad ($13), or a kimchi veggie bowl ($10). Everything is organic, with sources all specified. The chicken comes from Petaluma.
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I work some days from my apartment in Berkeley, and every day, I gotta eat. Two or three times a month, I obtain lunch or dinner from a network called Josephine.
And why their "bad" decisions might be more rational than you'd think.
In August, Science published a landmark study concluding that poverty, itself, hurts our ability to make decisions about school, finances, and life, imposing a mental burden similar to losing 13 IQ points.
It was widely seen as a counter-argument to claims that poor people are "to blame" for bad decisions and a rebuke to policies that withhold money from the poorest families unless they behave in a certain way. After all, if being poor leads to bad decision-making (as opposed to the other way around), then giving cash should alleviate the cognitive burdens of poverty, all on its own.
Sometimes, science doesn't stick without a proper anecdote, and "Why I Make Terrible Decisions," a comment published on Gawker's Kinja platform by a person in poverty, is a devastating illustration of the Science study. I've bolded what I found the most moving, insightful portions, but it's a moving and insightful testimony all the way through.
Students at Princeton University are protesting the ways it honors the former president, who once threw a civil-rights leader out of the White House.
The Black Justice League, in protests on Princeton University's campus, has drawn wider attention to an inconvenient truth about the university's ultimate star: Woodrow Wilson. The Virginia native was racist, a trait largely overshadowed by his works as Princeton's president, as New Jersey's governor, and, most notably, as the 28th president of the United States.
As president, Wilson oversaw unprecedented segregation in federal offices. It's a shameful side to his legacy that came to a head one fall afternoon in 1914 when he threw the civil-rights leader William Monroe Trotter out of the Oval Office.
Trotter led a delegation of blacks to meet with the president on November 12, 1914 to discuss the surge of segregation in the country. Trotter, today largely forgotten, was a nationally prominent civil-rights leader and newspaper editor. In the early 1900s, he was often mentioned in the same breath as W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington. But unlike Washington, Trotter, an 1895 graduate of Harvard, believed in direct protest actions. In fact, Trotter founded his Boston newspaper, The Guardian, as a vehicle to challenge Washington's more conciliatory approach to civil rights.
Graeme Wood discusses his groundbreaking investigation of the Islamic State.
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Johan Steele
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|No, the boys of the 4th MN VI are what I would call the typical western Regt. Hard marching, hard fighting men. My impression is different than the standard Infantryman by the M1841 w/ sabre bayonet and the Hardee hat. As far as I can tell the 4th was never officially issued forage caps through the entire war (apparently the "acquired" some in early 62 but most men preferred the HArdee Hat)and kept their M1841's at least through the fall of 63 and there is evidence some had them through the Grand Review though that bit of evidence may be a simple clerical error.
They had a well earned reputation as good shooters and hard marchers, some of that due to their initial posting on the frontier facing the Lakota.
What fascinateds me about the 4th was the arms they were issued... a little of everything w/ the M1841's being the most up to date. Initially they were issued whatever was available in the armories and most of that was far from new. Initially five Companies were carrying flintlock conversions of the M1816/22, one company were issued M1817 rifles, another company carried "Bright Belgians" and the two lucky companies were carrying M1841's. That means .54, .58, .69 & .71 all in the same regiment; talk about a Quartermaster nightmare. By the time of Vicksburg at least 4 companies were carrying M1841's but D company was still hauling around their M1817 rifles. I suspect that after Vicksburg they traded away their really old stuff for those pretty Enfields so politely donated to the US by the CS surrender of Vicksburg.
A lot of little things about this Regiment and the men w/in interest me. To me they were the kind of men that made the AoT and the rest of those men under Sherman so good. IMO they were the kind of men that won the war.


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Dinner to Remember
With a
little planing and foresight, the blissfully betrothed can
ensure a reception meal to suit the ceremonyand, more
importantly, the couple
B.A. Nilsson
I always
end up at the back of the prime-rib line. After eyeballing
the pasta station and deciding that the line pace there is
glacial, I ease over to the carving station just as Table
8 is called, and suddenly 12 enormous people have clustered
in front of me, plates in hand, each drenching an outsized
chop in all available sauces.
It doesnt
have to be that way. The wedding dinner is probably the most
variable element of that special day, and it defines the look
of the occasion. A feast for 400 in a capacious catering hall
is very different from dinner for 40 in a restaurantor
catered at home.
The key
to success is your involvementyour leadership, in fact,
because the more you entrust to others, the more it will look
like every other cut-and-paste affair.
This is
not to disparage the work of the planner or caterer or other
wedding professional, who should ensure that the event runs
smoothly, but its up to you to add the individual touches
that make this your wedding and nobody elses.
as one who has had to prep, cook and serve 200 orders of chicken
Florentine for a wedding reception, Im amazed that the
food ever emerges in decent shape. Time is the killer. Moving
all that food through a limited amount of stovetop and oven
space, plating it with a limited number of cooks and serving
it with a limited number of servers creates bad bottlenecks.
If youre
planning a reception for several hundred, then your best bet
is a catering hall with the facilities and experience to accommodate
such a thingpreferably one youve previously seen
in action. And not just for dinner service: Sending out a
banquet is completely different from dinner for four. If you
need to offer a vegetarian entrée, make sure the kitchen
can handle that. Ive seen abysmal meat-free fare from
supposedly reputable places.
be choosing food from different pricing schemes, but dont
cruise the upper limit of your budget. Leave room for surprises.
You may want to bring in a cake from elsewhere; you should
pay for a round or two of wine. And dont serve plonk
for the champagne toast.
are more homespun alternatives. A friend describes a potluck
supper for about 350 peopleshes not sure because
no RSVP was requiredthat was low-key and relaxed, held
in the reception hall at her church. That way, we were
able to invite everybody we wanted to, she says.
easy to get caught in the maelstrom and go mad. The best piece
of advice I was given was to never lose sight of the fact
that the wedding is about the bride and groom, and no matter
who is footing the bill, its they who get to call the
shots. In fact, the advice served me well through two weddings.
For the
first one, with a guest list of about 60, we opted for a restaurant
not far from our apartment. Restaurants love weddings because
they offer good profits, but again you need to take the initiative
in planning the event. And, again, your experience as a dinner
guest wont necessarily be the same as a banquet guest,
but you should acquaint yourself both with the chef and the
staff who will be serving you. Ask lots of questions; find
out if your philosophies are in sync.
This is
probably not the occasion for a rarefied menu. Truffled duck
confit may be wonderful, but its costly and takes forever
to make. Your chicken and beef favorites are likely to emerge
from the kitchen in the most reliable form.
service gives you more leeway in accommodating your guests,
but it also puts the biggest bottleneck right on the floor
(and probably at the prime-rib station). Make sure the traffic
can be handled well; you dont want people cooling their
heels on line or at their tables. If you havent attended
many such events as a guest, get recommendations from friends
you trust, always keeping in mind that most of your friends
secretly think that the Olive Garden serves good food.
options abound, from Saratogas elegant Canfield Casino
to a picnic area at Thacher Park. Most caterers have an on-the-road
option that should include tables and dinner service.
The smaller
your party, the more leeway you enjoy. Keep it under, say,
20, and youre in the realm of ordering off the menu.
Or doing it at home. And dont overlook the idea of having
your home-based wedding professionally catered.
I wish
there were statistics that related the success of a marriage
to the success of the wedding meal. My gut tells me theyre
in direct proportion, so make the event culinarily memorable.
And be sure to invite me.
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The company's sales in the local markets between January and July 2000 totaled 7,011 tons, with a value of SP 5.69 billion. The amount of tobacco exported during the first half of 2000 was 1,250 tons, with a total value of SP 87 million.–(Albawaba-MEBG)
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