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Astros scoreless streak to 21 innings
HOUSTON Soon after the Houston Astros were shut out for the second straight game, manager Bo Porter was asked what was wrong with his offense.
With AL Cy Young Award winner David Price on the mound for Tampa Bay on Tuesday night, the answer was pretty simple.
"I think it's called, Mr. Price," Porter said. "That's why he's a Cy Young winner. And he pitched like it tonight."
Price pitched three-hit ball for seven innings in his return from the disabled list and Desmond Jennings homered and drove in four runs as the Rays beat the Astros 8-0.
Price (2-4) had missed the last 44 games with a left triceps strain in his first stint on the DL in a six-year career. But he showed no signs of rust, allowing a season-low for hits and striking out a season-best 10 strikeouts.
"I'm not an excuse-maker, but David Price was pretty good tonight," Porter said. "He had his ace stuff. When a guy wins a Cy Young, and he dominates throughout his career the way he has, sometimes you just have to tip your cap. This was one of those nights where we faced a really good guy who had his ace stuff. He took it to us."
Manager Joe Maddon had said he'd be happy to get six innings out of his ace before the game, but Price was so efficient he got through seven with just 70 pitches.
Three relievers combined to finish the four-hitter, a night after the Rays two-hit the Astros.
"It's just one of those things where we're just not hitting right now," Houston's Matt Dominguez said. "Tomorrow, we could go out and get 15 hits or something. Baseball is crazy that way. We just have to keep grinding and doing what we do."
Jennings, who finished with three hits, had a two-run single in the fourth to make it 3-0 and his two-run homer in the sixth pushed the lead to five runs.
Houston starter Erik Bedard (3-4) yielded six hits and four runs with a season-high six walks in 5 1-3 innings.
"I just tried to throw strikes, but it didn't work really good today," he said. "I'll just work on it in the bullpen and come back the next start."
Price had a tough time in his nine starts before the injury, winning just once in that span.
On Tuesday he looked crisp from the start, pitching a 1-2-3 inning before J.D. Martinez singled to start the second. But he still faced the minimum through two after Brandon Barnes grounded into a double play.
He struck out the first two in the third before a single by Jimmy Paredes, who was soon caught stealing to end the inning.
The 27-year-old, who won 20 games last season, really got rolling after that, retiring 12 of the last 13 batters he faced with five strikeouts. Houston's only hit in that stretch came on a single by Carlos Corporan with one out in the fifth.
The Astros have been in an offensive funk lately, and haven't scored in 21 consecutive innings. But that run was unearned, leaving them without an earned run in 29 innings. They've managed just four earned runs over the last five games.
Porter is hopeful that Houston can get the offense back on track soon.
"We've been pretty consistent with the guys that we've had here," he said. "All 25 guys are here because we believe that they're major league players. They're either going to prove us right or prove us wrong. The last two nights, we've seen two pretty good arms."


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NEW YORK — A little bit of Stephen Sondheim may have rubbed off on Bernadette Peters.
Peters, one of the composer's most skilled interpreters, has lately done some Sondheim-like moonlighting — creating songs for her children's books. She's the lyricist and songwriter for two tunes so far, both on CDs packaged with the books.
That begs a question: Has she sent them to Stephen Sondheim?
"No!" she says quickly, almost squeaking it out. "They're not masterpieces. He slaves over his stuff and works really hard on it. They ARE masterpieces. This is not the same thing at all, in any way shape or form. It's like saying, 'Hey, Steve. Check this out! You think you're a writer? I'm a writer!' I would never do that!"
Peters may be demure about her songwriting, but there's no denying her love of Sondheim. This month marks her second appearance in a Broadway revival of one of his musicals in little more than a year.
Peters plays Sally Durant Plummer, a former Ziegfeld-style showgirl now wasting away in an unhappy marriage in the revival of Sondheim's 1971 musical "Follies." It's her sixth Sondheim musical.
"I'm always looking for great material. I love his material. He always writes about interesting things. You go, 'Well, this is about something.' Then you realize, 'No, no, no. It's about SOMETHING,'" she says, laughing.
In an interview in her dressing room at the Marquis Theatre, Peters sips green tea and looks arresting in a pair of tight black jeans and a black cowl neck sweater, her corkscrew red curls framing milky skin. She's the hippest-looking 63-year-old you'll likely ever meet.
New York-born Peters is in the midst of a darkly dramatic streak. Last summer, she replaced Catherine Zeta-Jones in "A Little Night Music" on Broadway, crying nightly as she sang of her character's unrequited love in "Send in the Clowns." Now she's singing the show-stopper "Losing My Mind" in "Follies."
Also this month, she's in a bleak little movie by Lisa Albright making its world premiere at the Woodstock Film Festival — "Coming Up Roses," the story of a stage mother who pushes her daughter.
Peters, who has two Tony Awards for Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Song and Dance" and Irving Berlin's "Annie Get Your Gun," says she tries to alternate dark roles with light ones, but keeps finding meaty parts that she can't turn down. "I pray for the moments — those moments that surprise you," she says.
To try to get inside the head of a middle-aged housewife pinning for lost love, Peters says she studies the script, talks to Sondheim and tries to catch the vibe that is Sally.
Eric Schaeffer, who is directing Peters, says Peters has nailed it. "She has a fragility about her Sally that is unlike any I've ever seen," he says. "She makes the part her own in a way that I think you haven't seen before, which is exciting."
In her dressing room, she has brought three big tacky mugs decorated with birds and flowers that are each labeled "Believe," ''Faith" and "Dream." Peters describes them as "very Sally" — part earnest, part delusional. After a recent performance, Sondheim said to her, "Congratulations, you're a little crazy."
Sondheim can say that — after all, the two go back a long way. The actress — together with her sister and mother — was in a national tour of "Gypsy" in 1961 when she was 13. She later originated the roles of Dot/Marie in Sondheim's "Sunday in the Park With George" and the Witch in his "Into the Woods" on Broadway in the 1980s.
She sang in "Anyone Can Whistle" at Carnegie Hall in 1995 and stepped into the formidable role of Mama Rose in the 2003 Broadway revival of "Gypsy," the same musical she had played as a teen. Many of her recordings have a Sondheim connection.
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Sophomore guard Chris Chiozza stole the Texas A&M inbounds pass and looked up at the clock. With just five seconds left in the game and the Florida Gators down three, Chiozza dribbled, pulling up behind the three-point line and fired away.
His shot clanged off the rim and into the hands of Anthony Collins, who held on to the ball to secure the Aggies' third win in Southeastern Conference play.
The game might have been officially over on Chiozza's missed three but Florida lost the game on the free throw line and with careless ball security.
The No. 21 ranked Aggies forced Florida to turn the ball over 16 times, converting that into 21 points.
"You get them out on the floor, off of poor decisions from us offensively, it didn't give us a chance," head coach Mike White said. "I say that, we had chances late, but you come over here with 10, 11, 12 turnovers, you might be sitting here with a win."
The turnovers spoiled yet another double-double from senior forward Dorian Finney Smith (17 points, 12 rebounds) and a career-high 16 points from transfer Justin Leon. The turnovers weren't expected. The Gators turned the ball over just six times in a home win over LSU and were the SEC's best team, coughing the ball up just 10.4 times per game heading into College Station.
Florida's 4-12 shooting from the charity stripe, however, was as expected as it was unwelcome and has the Gators' first year head coach searching for answers to a question he's never seen before.
Maybe we just stop taking them in practice, altogether," White said about his team's performance at the line. "I'm not sure. In my guys' defense, it's not for a lack of effort or lack of reps. To come on the road and beat a good team in the SEC, you've got to shoot a higher percentage than that, 33 percent."
The Gators are one of the worst teams in the entire country at the free throw line, converting just 61% (225-371) of their attempts on the year.
The box score will show that a young Florida team went on the road and narrowly lost to a top-20 team in the country, filled with veterans. The Gators played with intensity and pushed a better team to the brink on Tuesday night but it's the fundamentals of the game that did them in. Missing free throws at the rate that Florida is this season is inexcusable and Florida won't be dancing in March if they keep walking to the line with two left feet.


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NASA's Curiosity rover has been busy with its drill again, and analysis of the second sample of Martian rock is already turning up some unexpected conditions back when the red planet supported liquid water. Curiosity put its low-percussion-level drill into play for the first time last week, carving a chunk out of a site known as "Mojave 2" at the base of Mount Sharp, and feeding it in powder form into its Chemistry and Mineralogy (CheMin) instrument. Turns out, even though the analysis isn't finished yet, there are already signs of a surprising amount of jarosite, to a degree that suggests Mars was - at least in parts - a whole lot more acidic than predicted by earlier testing.


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If you volunteered to deal with removing a huge, hairy spider from your bathroom ceiling, your whole family would be grateful for your gallant actions. The adjective gallant means "heroic or brave."
In the past, gallant was used to describe a man's behavior toward a woman, especially if he saved her from something or helped her with something she was unable to do on her own. It can still be used that way, but more often it describes any kind of bravery, and it is just as correct to describe a woman's bravery as gallant as it is a man's.
Definitions of gallant
adj having or displaying great dignity or nobility
"a gallant pageant"
making a strong or vivid impression
adj unflinching in battle or action
"a gallant warrior"
"put up a gallant resistance to the attackers"
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brave, courageous
possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching
adj being attentive to women like an ideal knight
- Synonyms:
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characterized by courtesy and gracious good manners
n a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
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- Examples:
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English dandy who was a fashion leader during the Regency (1778-1840)
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cockscomb, coxcomb
a conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments
a British dandy in the 18th century who affected Continental mannerisms
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absolutely going mad! > osc udp
hi folks,
i'm completely helpless and need an(y) advice by whoever has a clue.
i've been struggling with getting a two-way connection to the new behringer x32 digital mixing console
which states (and has proven) to be able to understand osc. the one way works very fine: i can control parameters via udp (on port 10023). the other way is: numb! no chance — i get nothing back from the mixer.
the osc documentation states that sending the console an "/xcontrol" command (other sources say "/xremote" is necessary) will dump out its current values. furthermore it is said that sending an empty path (without a value) will return the value for this given path (see patch). nothing (!) works.
anybody? am i doing something very basic wrong here?
i'd be so gracious!
this is not very helpful, for me at least:
-- Pasted Max Patch, click to expand. --
Copy all of the following text. Then, in Max, select New From Clipboard.
You can't send and receive on the same port as far as I know, try changing your receive port to something else like 9000
several sources say, that it sends back on the same port as you request the dumpout (this sounds like a tongue-breaker! :))
if i use wireshark (mac application to "sniff" my connections), i get the impression that my computer *more or less randomly*
receives on some strange ports such as 60302 etc. i barely have an idea about networking.
got another hint? is there a chance that i need to convert my request-messages to binary or something? no idea :S
i think i'm not getting the whole port thing which i suppose is the actual problem.
my mixer runs (?) on port 10023. if i use it's native mac-application/editor to connect to it and
change settings, my changes are sent out on this port, but received on another. how do i know (and furthermore set up)
max to receive on the port the console sends information back from (as this port seems to be different every time :S)
If I am using an OSC app on an iPad for example I will set it up like this, but I don't know enough to say how that relates to your mixer:
iPad outgoing port: 8000
iPad incoming port: 9000
Max outgoing port: 9000
Max incoming port: 8000
I would have thought you have options to choose what input and output ports you use on your mixer, but I really don't know. Does it have its own forum? Maybe look there?
thanks again, luke!
the mixer has some forums (as it's pretty much boosted in popularity), but nothing's of help,
cause (strangely.. or understandably) nobody seems to have attempted a connection with max.
unfortunately i can't set up it's outgoing port. it's incoming port is 10023 as mentioned.
i think i don't understand the udp-thing. what i suppose i'd need to find out is the port that max
receives information back when it sends them out. does that make sense? do you know anything about this?
You define the udp ports in the simplest way.
Send from Max (anything)
udpsend 9001 (send out of port 9001)
recieve into max
udpreceive 9002 (receive on port 9002)
Make a simple test.
Create a simulation in max with the right port numbers and just send a basic message through.
Once you have that working then try it with the mixer.
The tutorial for the object states it all very clearly.
i think i've gotten that far. sending and then receiving on one and the same port within max works fine. (udpsend 9000 -> udpreceive 9000).
the mixer's osc manual says it receives on port 10023. works! furthermore it says, that it sends requests back on the senders port.
requests to the mixer are apparently stated by non-value path-messages (e.g. "/channel/01" instead of "/channel/01 1000") or the message "/xremote". but the port these messages "come back" at seems to be random. anyhow other (non-max) software is obviously able to receive changes within the mixers parameters.
I had a look at the x32 forum and there seem to be others having this problem, it seems to be a strange OSC implementation on Behringer's part:
On the DAWOSC forum someone explains it well:
I know Siska Adam has some UDP objects in the sadam library, maybe see if they can help.
thanks for all your effort, luke.
i think i might just need to give up :( i've looked into adam's udp objects but they appear to be of no help –
it still seems necessary to (obviously) listen on one explicit port. to sum up what i've learned / suppose:
1) i send a request to the behringer x32's port 10023
2) behringer gets my port (i am sending from) and sends the requested data back to this port
3) i cant find out which port i am sending (receiving) through as it appears to be random.
is this correct? any last words :) ?
- This reply was modified 1 year by benniy.
i've done some more wiretapping.. it appears, that max receives information back on *some* (own, randomly assigned) port.
this is most probably the port that the x32 sends the data back to – the port i would have to udpreceive to.
is there any way to read out max's "source port" – in other words its own port? does that even make sense in terms of networking?
A computer sending to itself with UDP is always 127.0.0.1.
Eg udpsend 127.0.0.1. I use this to send from ableton max for live to another max patch. Hope that makes sense.
You have to define the port, max can't do that randomly.
Maybe post a stripped down version of your patch with just the basic data flow and udp objects. maybe you made a simple error with defining the arguments.
Eg. udpreceive doesn't need an ip address !
@Andro, I read through some stuff on a couple of forums and this isn't a normal OSC setup by the look of it. The x32 seems to do some weird stuff in the way it handles OSC as it won't let you decide on an output port, I quote:
"x32 listens on port 10023 and responds to the port that requested /xremote command. That is what causes problem to all osc programs (both ios and android).
Let me try to explain the "random port" thing.
When you send a UDP message, it goes from IP1:PORT1 to IP2:PORT2. You specify IP2 and PORT2 (that is your outgoing setting). IP1 is your client's IP. Now PORT1 is the problem. Normally you don't care what it is and usually it is randomly assigned by OS or socket library."
So it seems this is the problem, it is sending back to an originating random port rather than letting you specify one so you don't know what to set your UDPreceive to. Max won't let you specify an outgoing port (you specify the host port on UDPsend) and it shouldn't have to really as it works like every other OSC app.
udpreceive doesn't need an ip address
but it still needs a port number !
@op : what are the applications that are designed to communicate wiht the Behringer and which work naturally with it ? you could find by there which port number is the correct one. anyway don't give up :) are you on osx ? there is "network utility.app" (or something called close to that) that might help you see what's going on
luke got it pretty straight.
port and ip of the behringer are clear — the ip you define and the port is always (!) 10023.
to repeat: the problem is the senders (max's) port.
sender –> states request from port x to port 10023
x32 –> send back to the senders port x.
software that works well:
> x32 sniffer (x32 scribbler — might even be opensource, so if anybody'd like to dig into that; i have no clue of "real" programming :))
> official behringer x32-edit software (mac and win)
i'm on a mac. i use wireshark to "sniff" my outgoing connections (port). this clearly displays, that my port (from which is send requests to the x32) is always random :/
"mad! > osc udp"
i never saw this usage of '>' before. it immediately clicked as 'mad OVER osc udp'. so instinctual. yet i'd think for 'over' it might be:
"mad! / osc udp"
but then that might look like an 'or'!
anyways, i learned something new today just from the title :)
Hi Ben,
I'm on the same problem except I'm using processing and the OSCP5 library to communicate. I can send osc messages ot the desk and control it but not receive anything back. I also used wireshark to show it was replying with any changes but to random ports.
The unofficial X32 OSC protocol says "The server replies on the UDP port specified by the client when establishing communication". Therefore, wouldn't you need to establish a communication first so the server/desk knows which port to reply on. I.e. send a "/server/connect" message? The X32 edit app requires you to do this before you can do anything to the desk which is leading me to think this may be the issue.
I don't speak english very well, but i try…
I made a Max object called UdpSend_LocalPort with java, i modified the properties of UdpSend to know which Local port was used.
Try it to communicate with X32, say I if that works for you.
I am under Windows 7, max 6.1 32bit
see you
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hei jeannick – incredible!!!
i totally want to try it, but unfortunately the "mxj UdpSend_LocalPort" is missing the code / external (i guess you'll have to upload that mxj class / code separately in order for me to place it into my root directory?).
thanks so much! can't wait for your reply!
i can't post here the .class and .java or .rar with all code you need, it doesn't work
I can email you all, if you post me your adress or tell how I can do…
thanks so much!!
it's mail (-at-) bcbas.com
it's done
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Alistair Docherty, a Union High School senior-to-be, and two other Clark County golfers advanced Thursday to play in divisional finals at the Oregon Junior Amateur golf championships in Klamath Falls, Ore.
Docherty, last fall's Class 4A Greater St. Helens League player of the year, will play in the finals of the Juniors division for golfers ages 16-17 today at Reames Golf & Country Club. He will face Kevin Murphy of Rogue River, Ore., the stroke-play medalist.
Docherty won two 18-hole matches Thursday to advance. He beat Adam Ruben of Lake Oswego, Ore., 2 & 1 in the quarterfinals. Then, after being down four after eight holes, Docherty rallied to beat Conner Kumpula of Albany, Ore., 1 up in the semifinals.
The Intermediate (12-14) boys tournament featured an all-Clark County semifinals, where Brian Humphreys of Washougal beat Spencer Tibbits of Vancouver 4 & 3. Humphreys will face Bryce Wortman of Klamath Falls in the finals.
Benjamin Gruher of Camas beat John Pollock of Eugene 1 up in the Pee Wee (8-11) boys semifinals. Gruher will face Samuel Pyon of Happy Valley, Ore., in the finals.
Also Thursday, Diego De La Torre of Brush Prairie lost 3 & 1 to Cole Madey of West Linn, Ore., in the boys 14-15 semifinals.


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Film Will Square Off Against Arnold Schwarzenegger's 'The Last Stand'While January is generally considered a dumping ground for studio leftovers, don't tell that to Mark Wahlberg. His upcoming thriller "Contraband" is slated for release on January 13, 2012 and it looks like the actor wants to keep s...Read More »
Jada & Willow To Also Feature?It was in spring 2010 that word first cropped up about possible back-to-back sequels to the blockbuster "Independence Day," with shooting said to take place as early as this year. Well, that didn't happen, and megastar Will Smith went on to make another franchise sequel...Read More »
No, Really, SeriouslyDerek Zoolander, Greg Focker, Tugg Speedman, White Goodman, Chas Tenenbaum, Maury Finkle...Edith Wharton? Yeah, something in there doesn't fit, and we just double checked the calendar and this isn't April Fool's Day, so it must be real. Ben Stiller is directing a period horror f...Read More »
Showtime & Netflix Currently Vying For The Rights To Season 4The "Arrested Development" movie is the great white whale of internet fandom of the past few years. Originally airing in 2003, Mitchell Hurwitz's Fox sitcom has, over the years, enshrined its place as one of the great comedy series of all ...Read More »
We're not sure that there was a bigger surprise this year than "Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes." A tired franchise, from a creative-interference-happy studio, with a green director and a plot straight from "Deep Blue Sea?" Even without the initially unpromising trailers, it looked like a late-summer...Read More »
Break it down however you want, but its simple economics. The last month has been absolutely saturated with product, so few of it appealing to mainstream America. These movies aren't bad. And, in most cases, the marketing isn't all that faulty. It's pure numbers. The market can't withstand this over...Read More »
It has been about two years since James Cameron's "Avatar" destroyed the box office, got nerds drooling and had everyone in Hollywood deciding that everything had to be in 3D (with the director himself leading the chorus). With over $2.7 billion in ticket sales (good lord guys, the movie is not that good), 20th Century Fox and Cameron, who gets a nice slice of the pie, have continued to rake it in with DVD and BluRay sales (no doubt helped by their environmentally friendly double-dip of releases within months of each other) and the expansive merchandising, which has seen the movie whored out to anybody with a printer and UPC code (have you pi...Read More »
Right now, some jerk at Disney is finding a way to use the term "circle of life" to define how they can release "The Lion King" anytime, and it will always make money. A 3D re-issue of the film became the number one weekend attraction by a very wide margin with $29 million, a huge middle finger to t...Read More »
Matthew Vaughn Expected To Return For Another 'X-Men: First Class Sequel'While making the rounds to promote the home video release of the surprisingly fun "X-Men: First Class" (tomorrow is "First Friday" or something, 20th Century Fox is making a huge over-done fuss out of this release in hopes to drum up some more revenue, sheesh), producer Lauren Shuler Donner -- who we're sure is a nice lady but on the special features portion of the Blu-ray disc looks like some kind of horrifying wax sculpture brought to life by dark magic to inflict deadly harm on the land of the living -- let loose some details about other projects set within the "X-Men...Read More »
By now, you should know the formula: Steven Spielberg generally (with a few exceptions) follows his Oscar bait, dramatic pictures with blockbuster popcorn stuff. Hell, this year alone (in a span of a few months) we'll get dazzling, animated, comic adaptation "The Adventures of Tintin" followed by th...Read More »


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Anova Hotel & Spa - Alpes du Sud
Your hotel has a restaurant where you'll find good menu choices for breakfast, lunch and dinner. If you are planning on a spot of skiing during your stay, not only will you find ski runs nearby, but also facilities such as ski-in/ski-out access, ski passes, ski storage, skiing lessons and ski rentals. On-site winter fun includes downhill skiing. Escape the stress of everyday life at anova, offering facials and body scrubs, as well as Ayurvedic treatments, body wraps and body treatments. Relax in the indoor pool and enjoy the water park and sun loungers. There is also a swim-up bar and a bar/lounge so guests can sip a refreshing drink by the pool or indoors when staying here.
In addition to the on-site spa, a Turkish bath/hammam, a spa tub and a sauna are among the leisure facilities on offer. Free WiFi is provided.
Anova Hotel & Spa - Alpes du Sud
Hotel Info: 1-877-214-4288from $144
- Suite (Anova)
- Junior Suite
- Superior Triple Room
- Standard Double Room
Also popular with travelers from the USA
At a glance
Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 40 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 2 floors
- Check-in time 4 PM-midnight
- Check-out time is 11 AM
Required at check in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
Travelling with others
- Children (3 years old and younger) stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding
- Babysitting/childcare *
- Pets allowed *
- Restrictions apply *
- 2 per room
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Self parking *
- Free nearby parking
Other information
- Smoke-free property
In the hotel
- Buffet breakfast daily (surcharge)
- Restaurant
- Bar/lounge
- Coffee shop/café
- Snack bar/deli
- Swim-up bar
- Room service (during limited hours)
- Beach towels
- Indoor pool
- Swim-up bar
- Ski-in/ski-out access
- Ski storage
- Full-service spa
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Water park access (surcharge)
- Pool sun loungers
- Ski passes available
- Spa tub
- Steam room
- Sauna
- Arcade/game room
- Billiards or pool table
- Conference space size (meters) - 44
- One meeting room
- Front desk (limited hours)
- Luggage storage
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Year Built 2011
- Elevator/lift
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Terrace
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
In the room
- Soundproofed rooms
- Fireplace
- Individually decorated
- Second bathroom
- Bathtub or shower
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- 82-cm flat-screen TV
- IPod docking station
- Free WiFi
- Phone
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
Special features
Anova has 2 treatment rooms. Services include massages, facials, body wraps, and body scrubs. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including Ayurvedic. The spa is equipped with a sauna, a spa tub, and Turkish bath/hammam.
Children under 16 years old are not allowed in the spa without adult supervision. Guests under 16 years old are not allowed in the spa.
DiningANOVA - This restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. A children's menu is available.
- Ski-in/ski-out access
- Ski passes available
- Ski storage
- Ski lifts nearby
- Ski runs nearby
- Ski lessons on site
- Ski equipment rentals on site
- Downhill skiing on site
- Snowboarding on site
- Snowshoeing on site
- Snowmobiling nearby
Anova Hotel & Spa - Alpes du Sud's small print
The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
Pet-friendly rooms can be requested by contacting the property at the number on the booking confirmation.
Children under 16 years old are not allowed in the spa without adult supervision.
Guests under 16 years old are not allowed in the spa.
Reservations are required for golf tee times and massage services and can be made by contacting the property before arrival at the number on the booking confirmation.
Mandatory fees
You'll be asked to pay the following charges at check in or check out:
- A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 0.80 per person, per night. This tax does not apply to children under 14 years of age.
Optional extras
Self parking costs EUR 10 per night
Buffet breakfast is offered for an extra charge of EUR 13 per person (approximately)
Cribs/Infant beds are available for EUR 15 per night
Babysitting/childcare is available for an extra charge
Pets are allowed for an extra charge of EUR 15 per pet, per night
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.


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Christopher Betts, organist and associate director of music, Washington National Cathedral. Betts moves from the First United Methodist Church in Lubbock, Tex., where he was director of music for eleven years. A native of the United Kingdom, he was an organ scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford, and St. Alban's Cathedral, Hertfordshire. His move to the United States was preceded by positions at Sheffield Cathedral and St. Mary's Collegiate Church in Warwick. In his role at the cathedral, Betts will assist director of music Michael McCarthy in running its busy music program and act as the cathedral's primary liturgical organist.
Isabelle Deniers, assistant professor of organ, Baylor University, effective fall 2012, following the retirement of Joyce Jones. She will head the organ program and act as director of the Midwinter Organ Conference and Summer Organ Institute. Since 2008, she has concertized widely in the United States and Canada under the management of Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists, as well as in Europe. More information is available online at Baylor, edu/music.
Jeremy Filsell, artist in residence, Washington National Cathedral, director of music at the Church of the Epiphany, Washington, D.C. , and lecturer in organ studies, the Catholic University of America. Filsell continues in a revised cathedral role, performing in and coordinating the organ recital series while maintaining a busy international performing schedule as a pianist and organist. He will direct the music at Epiphany and maintain its well-established weekly arts series. A graduate of Oxford University, London's Royal College of Music, and Birmingham City University (PhD), Filsell moved to the United States in 2008, relinquishing teaching positions at the Royal Academy of Music, London, and the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester. He has held a number of church and cathedral appointments in the United Kingdom, including a lay clerkship in the Queen's choir at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. More information is available online at Jeremyfilsell.com.
Woosug Kang, director of music, St. Philip's in the Hills Episcopal Church, Tucson, Ariz., effective July 1. A parish with an extensive music program, St. Philip's provides outreach through its worship services and concerts. Kang previously served positions in Manchester, Conn., New Haven, and Indianapolis. He earned a master's degree at Yale and is pursuing a doctorate at Indiana University. He has studied organ with Larry Smith, Thomas Murray, and Todd Wilson and minorad in church music with Marilyn Keiser. He has given recitals in the eastern United States and most recently returned from the United Kingdom after playing a recital at Truro Cathedral and accompanying the choir of Grace Episcopal Church, The Plains, Va., at Canterbury Cathedral for its residency in July. Kang joins associate music director Jeffrey Campbell in the responsibility for the programs at St. Philip's.
Monte Maxwell, director of chapel music, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., where he recently celebrated 15 years of service. During that time, he served as senior chapel organist, founder and director of the Midshipman Symphony Orchestra, chairman of the academy music department, conductor of musical theater productions, director of the Protestant Midshipman Choir, the Catholic Midshipmen Choir, and the Protestant Chapel Chorale. He created the All Saints Day/Halloween organ concert, which draws crowds of 4,000 annually. Maxwell maintains musical oversight for 500 services annually at the academy and oversees the organ concert series. …


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NeNe Leakes Rocks Pink Thigh-High Boots and Fur Coat For Lunch in NYC (PHOTOS)
NeNe Leakes is taking a break from all of the girl drama for a day in New York City. And a stylish one, at that. We'd expect nothing less.
The Real Housewives of Atlanta star was spotted leaving Nello's Restaurant on the Upper East Side on January 13. What she wore for lunch with a pal? Hot pink thigh-high boots tucked into black pants, a long-sleeved black shirt, and a fur jacket. Per usual, her platinum blond hair totally brightened up the look.
Click through the gallery to see NeNe looking glamorous while leaving lunch. What do you think of her getup? Let us know in the comments!


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Police ID Stockton woman found dead outside apartments | News
STOCKTON, CA - The woman whose body was found outside a Stockton apartment complex on Tuesday was identified by the Stockton Police Dept. on Wednesday.
Valida Raynette Irvin, 46, of Stockton, was found near a dumpster at her apartment complex on Rosemarie Ln. by a fellow resident early Tuesday morning.
Story: Womans body found at Stockton apt. complex
Officer Joe Silva said Irvin's car is missing and are hoping to obtain more information on her death upon discovery of her vehicle.
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Text of Supreme Court Decison on Florida Recount
Published: December 4, 2000
No. 99-1030
GEORGE W. BUSH, PETITIONER v. PALM BEACH COUNTY CANVASSING BOARD ET AL.
ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE FLORIDA SUPREME COURT [December 4, 2000]
The Supreme Court of the State of Florida interpreted its elections statutes in proceedings brought to require manual recounts of ballots, and the certification of the recount results, for votes cast in the quadrennial Presidential election held on November 7, 2000. Governor George W. Bush, Republican candidate for the Presidency, filed a petition for certiorari to review the Florida Supreme Court decision. We granted certiorari on two of the questions presented by petitioner: whether the decision of the Florida Supreme Court, by effectively changing the State's elector appointment procedures after election day, violated the Due Process Clause or 3 U. S. C. 5, and whether the decision of that court changed the manner in which the State's electors are to be selected, in violation of the legislature's power to designate the manner for selection under Art. II, 1, cl. 2 of the United States Constitution. 531 U. S. ˜˜˜˜ (2000).
On November 8, 2000, the day following the Presidential election, the Florida Division of Elections reported that Governor Bush had received 2,909,135 votes, and respondent Democrat Vice President Albert Gore, Jr., had received 2,907,351, a margin of 1,784 in Governor Bush's favor. Under Fla. Stat. 102.141(4) (2000), because the margin of victory was equal to or less than one-half of one percent of the votes cast, an automatic machine recount occurred. The recount resulted in a much smaller margin of victory for Governor Bush. Vice President Gore then exercised his statutory right to submit written requests for manual recounts to the canvassing board of any county. See 102.166. He requested recounts in four counties: Volusia, Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade.
The parties urged conflicting interpretations of the Florida Election Code respecting the authority of the canvassing boards, the Secretary of State (hereinafter Secretary), and the Elections Canvassing Commission. On November 14, in an action brought by Volusia County, and joined by the Palm Beach County Canvassing Board, Vice President Gore, and the Florida Democratic Party, the Florida Circuit Court ruled that the statutory 7-day deadline was mandatory, but that the Volusia board could amend its returns at a later date. The court further ruled that the Secretary, after "considering all attendant facts and circumstances," App. to Pet. for Cert. 49a, could exercise her discretion in deciding whether to include the late amended returns in the statewide certification.
The Secretary responded by issuing a set of criteria by which she would decide whether to allow a late filing. The Secretary ordered that, by 2 p.m. the following day, November 15, any county desiring to forward late returns submit a written statement of the facts and circumstances justifying a later filing. Four counties submitted statements and, after reviewing the submissions, the Secretary determined that none justified an extension of the filing deadline. On November 16, the Florida Democratic Party and Vice President Gore filed an emergency motion in the state court, arguing that the Secretary had acted arbitrarily and in contempt of the court's earlier ruling. The following day, the court denied the motion, ruling that the Secretary had not acted arbitrarily and had exercised her discretion in a reasonable manner consistent with the court's earlier ruling. The Democratic Party and Vice President Gore appealed to the First District Court of Appeal, which certified the matter to the Florida Supreme Court. That court accepted jurisdiction and sua sponte entered an order enjoining the Secretary and the Elections Canvassing Commission from finally certifying the results of the election and declaring a winner until further order of that court.
The Supreme Court, with the expedition requisite for the controversy, issued its decision on November 21. Palm Beach County Canvassing Bd. v. Harris, Nos. SC00-2346, SC00-2348, and SC00-2349 (Nov. 21, 2000), App. to Pet. for Cert. 1a. As the court saw the matter, there were two principal questions: whether a discrepancy between an original machine return and a sample manual recount resulting from the way a ballot has been marked or punched is an "error in vote tabulation" justifying a full manual recount; and how to reconcile what it spoke of as two conflicts in Florida's election laws: (a) between the time frame for conducting a manual recount under Fla. Stat. 102.166 (2000) and the time frame for submitting county returns under 102.111 and 102.112, and (b) between 102.111, which provides that the Secretary "shall ignor[e]" late election returns, and 102.112, which provides that she "may ignor[e]" such returns.
With regard to the first issue, the court held that, under the plain text of the statute, a discrepancy between a sample manual recount and machine returns due to the way in which a ballot was punched or marked did constitute an "error in vote tabulation" sufficient to trigger the statutory provisions for a full manual recount.


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tribe of Nur'thar by JoeDiepstratenWatch
©2012-2016 JoeDiepstraten
recently finished the remake of "tribe of Nur'thar"
Previous version made in 2011 here:
Critique and tips are always welcome...
And holy crap an daily deviation, thanks alot for the suggestion
and for featuring
Previous version made in 2011 here:
Critique and tips are always welcome...
And holy crap an daily deviation, thanks alot for the suggestion
and for featuring
Daily DeviationGiven 2012-12-18
tribe of Nur'thar by ~JoeDiepstraten ( Suggested by RadicalLizard and Featured by alltheoriginalnames )
wow, amazing, awesome, just awesome
oo la la! this is awesomely awesome beyond awesomeness
hard to critique something that's already perfect
So amazing. So much detail in that. I would love to do stuff like that
you can if you really want to just a lot of determination and practise does the trick!
good luck
good luck
what program did you use or was this traditional btw this is FANTASTIC
I love this!
Great work. Congrats on the DD!
Damn, what an improvement. How did you get so far in just one year?
ziet er strak uit, echt goed gedaan.
This is pretty awesome.
congrats on your DD for this amazing piece!
great job, makes you want to get in there and see what is just behind the next turn ...
thats beautiful! all the different shades, textures and details.... it makes you want to dive into the depth of this picture and explore what may be behind those rooftops... yet so greatly centered in the front with the figure and colouring.
wonderful work!
wonderful work!
That. Is. Amazing...
I agree, the quote is very good. The quote immensely enlightens the work, encourages hope during dark times; overall work is fantasy like, yet so realistic, great detail. Thank you, Joey.
Now thats what i understand under "dystopia"
waaww very good
I love the quote on the wall in front of the traveler/hunter/guardsman(?). Well done, congrats!
this is AMAZING please visit my gallery
So beautiful!


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Success in business is about thinking big and embracing change. So why shouldn't the same apply to conferences? Once a year, Snowball brings together tech leaders and innovators - creating something special in somewhere snowy. Our objective is to find inspiration in a unique community and build friends and allies for our businesses.
Snowball is a meeting of minds designed to foster collaboration and creativity. A chance to build new relationships and cultivate old ones. Over the years, we've seen businesses born and funded. We've seen new ideas floated, new technologies embraced, and individuals flourish. There are no presentations, only two-way conversations. There are no attendees, only active participants.
Everyone you'll meet at Snowball are leaders in their fields – a diverse group drawn from an array of sectors, with a shared enthusiasm for technology.
Everyone has been personally invited by the Snowboard and when it comes down to it the criteria are simple – great people, with great minds, who are fun to be around.
Snowball is informal and welcoming, yet highly productive. Time away from your normal business life, with this carefully curated group, produces alchemy.
As well as the skiing, we organise lunches, dinners and après ski drinks at some of the best hangouts, interspersed with thought-provoking discussions hosted by knowledgeable experts from the group. The activities are designed to bring everyone together so you get to meet as many people as possible.
If you're not a skier, we provide an alternative range of activities; from driving your own dogsled and dog team, to a trip on the brand new Skyway Monte Bianco with a glacier walk.
The delightful Italian resort of Courmayeur has been chosen for Snowball 2016. It's a relatively short (90 minute) transfer from Geneva which is also only 90 minutes from London.
At the foot of Mont-Blanc, Courmayeur (1,224m) is a charming 17th-century spa town at the top of the Aosta valley. Pretty buildings with slate roofs line the traffic-free cobbled streets of the old town. The central Via Roma is bursting with bars, delicious delis as well as quality shopping like Gucci and Hermes. You'll also find some of the best restaurants in the Alps both on and off the mountain.
As for the skiing – there's something for everyone - from the bunny slope behind our hotel to the challenges of off-piste and the famous Vallée Blanche. Friday night will be spent up the mountain at the legendary Maison Vieille and we'll arrive there on skidoos.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Our home this year is the Grand Hotel Courmayeur. This 5-star glass palace with view of Mont Blanc, opened last season and is a short walk from the centre of town.
Minimalist in design, the hotel features dark alpine wood and local stone to compliment the large expanses of glass. Bedrooms are spacious, airy and come with both soundproofing and super-soft robes. The central 'chalet' which houses the reception, lounge bar and restaurant, is linked over three floors by a large atrium with an impressive feature staircase. And it's all ours.
The stunning spa has an indoor pool, Sauna, Turkish bath, and multi-sensory showers. Behind the hotel is a private nursery slope complete with a magic carpet lift.
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Having devoted much of her career in and around the startup ecosystem, most recently as the Venture Capital/Emerging Business lead at Microsoft UK where for five years, she lead BizSpark in the UK. She focused on how Microsoft could drive success for early-stage technology companies as well as being responsible for working alongside the UK Investor Community, including Venture Capitalists and Angels on behalf of Microsoft. She also sits on many Industry Advisory Boards, and has recently been appointed a trustee for Startup Weekend Europe.
Her previous role at Microsoft was as a Business Productivity Advisor, where she was responsible for managing relationships with business decision-makers in the UK Financial Services Sector. She worked to deliver on the benefits and business value of investing in the latest Information Worker technologies.. Prior to Microsoft, Bindi worked as Associate Director in Interregnum, a UK-based Technology Merchant Bank; as Business Development Manager at Trayport Ltd, a successful commodities trading technology start-up; as Strategy Management Consultant at PwC Consulting; and as Senior Business Analyst at Datamonitor.
Bindi has been on the Wired UK Top 100 Digital Power Broker list from 2010 – 2012, on the 2012 Girls in Tech Euro 100 Women's list, named as one of the Six Most Connected Women in the UK by the IoD in 2011, shortlisted as a finalist for Asian Business Woman of the Year in the 2010 AWA Awards. She was also given a special mention in the 2010 TechCrunch Europas Awards as Best Startup Advisor/Mentor & nd re-nominated in 2011. She is a regular speaker and judge at Technology Events, and most recently spoke at TEDxAthens 2012.
Having grown up in Western Canada , Bindi now lives in London, and her hobbies include competing in Adventure Races, running marathons/duathlons, and skiing.
Specialties:Strategic Business Development and Sales, Strategic Consulting and Advisory, Networking, Rainmaking, Programme Management
Belinda (or B as she's often known) has spent the last 18 years adding sparkle to live events in the often dreary technology sector.
Having trained as dancer and a PR exec, B knows a thing or two about presentation and stagecraft. Her repertoire of skills enables her to achieve remarkable things such as:
– Generating fabulous audiences of gagging prospects.
– Morphing tedious content into spellbinding theatre.
– Plucking Oscar winning performances out of amateur presenters.
She does all this without pain or brutality – instead a word of praise here, a lifted eyebrow there and a lot of hard work.
B's deep knowledge of the tech sector has been forged by working with companies such as: AT&T, BlackBerry, BT Global Services, Cisco, Hitachi and Microsoft. Along the way, Belinda has collected a clutch of awards and accolades for her ingenuity and creativity, ruthless attention to detail and focus on client objectives.
In 2010, Belinda became one of the two founding partners of Forgather – a company that sets out to deliver intelligence, exuberance and fun to the events business. Forgather is doing pioneering work enhancing live human interaction.
Forgather's first event in March 2010 was the Snowball 'retreat' for 60 European investors and entrepreneurs. Feedback from participants included such comments as:
• 'The business benefit far outweighs anything else I do'
• 'Hands down the most useful conference I have been to'
• 'Belinda Raynes rocks'
Last year, Forgather launched Collision, www.colisn.com, a series of events that explores the opportunities for knowledge transfer between Adland (the established communications sector),Techville (technology entrepreneurs) and brands.
Forgather co-creates and manages programmes for clients including Microsoft (BizSpark European Summit for 4 years), Essence (seek.essencedigital.com), and works with organisations championing entrepreneurism, including Young Enterprise, TEDx Parliament and SVC2UK.
Experienced entrepreneur, team leader, and digital media/imaging expert.
Specialties: Product Development/Strategy, ECommerce, Professional and Consumer Imaging Business & Technology, Digital Photography, Digital Media Search, Internet Marketing, Software as Service (SaaS), Digital Asset Management, Business Development, Raising Capital, Photographer
Frequent speaker, moderator and tech conference Master of Ceremonies at technology conferences such as The Next Web/Amsterdam, BizSpark Euro Summit, IDCEE/Ukraine, Pirate Summit/Germany, Seedcamp Investor Day and others around the world.
Prior to setting up my own company I was part of the executive team that grew a technology recruitment business from a team of 30 to a listed, international business of over 500 people with a market cap at peak of £250M.
In 2007 I left to start La Fosse Associates to fulfill a long held belief that there was a need in the market for a full service, values based technology recruiter able to recruit at all levels from the board downwards.
Everyone in our team has a slice of the equity and this has helped to attract top talent, drive a great team ethic and establish a collective pride in being the best we can.
Our vision is simple; to lead by example to achieve a step change in the standards of candidate care within our industry.
The first six years have been great fun. Word of mouth recommendation has driven our growth on average by over 60% per annum and we've won numerous awards along the way.
– 4th Best Company to work for in the UK. Sunday Times 2013 Small Company Category
– 23rd Fastest Growing company in the UK. The Sunday Times Virgin Fast Track 2011
– Shortlisted for Ernst and Young 'Entrepreneur of the year' 2013
– Shortlisted for 'most people focused CEO ' HR Magazine/Best Companies 2013
– 13th in "Top 50 rising stars" XL Magazine 2011
– Finalist "The Small to Medium Sized Business of the Year" National Business Awards 2010
– Winner "Recruitment Consultancy of the Year" Computing Awards for Excellence 2009
– UK's No.1 senior IT recruiter [Nielsen Media Research]
Specialties: Technology recruitment and Interim Management digital
Chairman with exemplary track record of scaling and internationalising world class technology business to create and realise outstanding shareholder returns.
Specifically focused on aligning management, investors and founders around clearly defined common objectives.
2011 – Present Just Giving: Chairman
2011- 2013 Ubiquisys: Chairman – Sold to Cisco for $310m
2009 – 2011 Fizzback: Chairman – Sold to Nice for $88m
2007- 2010 Oblicore: Chairman – Sold to Computer Associates (undisclosed sum)
2004- 2013 Tribold: Chairman – Sold to Sigma Systems (undisclosed sum)
2003 – Present Exony: Chairman
2001 – 2004 Cramer Systems: CMO/ Board Advisor – Sold to Amdocs for $440m in 2006
1999 – 2000 Sun Microsystems: V.P/ G.M
1997 – 1999 Forte: CMO/ COO – Sold to Sun Microsystems for $810m
1992 – 1997 Sybase: European Sales Operations
Pre 1992 Variety of roles with StorageTek and Sperry Univac
Set up first business in music importing in school days: became Orbis Records, grew to be one of the UK's largest record importers. Post MBA Marketing Director for Goodman Graham / Norman Broadbent – technology executive search firm. Headed marketing for the EMC at Price Waterhouse. Set up the European Technology Forum in 1997, sold to CNET Networks in 2003 and joined Ernst & Young in 2005
Awarded the MBE in 2013 Birthday Honours List for services to young people
Stefan Roever has a broad entrepreneurial, software, and finance background. He is CEO and founder of Genia Technologies, a next generation DNA sequencing company based in Mountain View, CA. Genia was sold to Roche in June 2014 for $350 million. He's also founder and Chairman of gBox, a video monetization and distribution platform. He is an active private equity investor and currently serves as Chairman of WRS Materials, a roll-up of wafer reclaim companies.
Stefan was Co-Founder and CEO of Brokat Technologies, an encryption banking software company. Brokat reached a several billion dollar market cap and went public in 1998 on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and on NASDAQ in 2000, but the company ultimately tanked when the bubble burst. Stefan was honored with the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in Germany. Stefan also is a two time award holder of Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum. He earned degrees in both economics and law from the University of Tübingen.
Stefan's personal interests include sports, political sciences and philosophy. He describes himself as an atheist anarchist and supports libertarian causes. He likes a good debate, especially about his favorite subject of how technology can be used to free individuals from interference by the state.
Nenad Marovac has more than 20 years of venture capital and private equity investment experience in the media, telecom and technology sectors.
Nenad is the Founder and Managing Partner of DN Capital, which is a media and technology early stage and growth capital investor with offices in London and Palo Alto. His investments include Apsmart, Datanomic (Acquired by Oracle), Eyeka, Mister Spex, Shazam Entertainment, Tbricks, Windeln, OLX (sold shares to Naspers) and JacobsRimell (acquired by Amdocs).
Nenad founded DN Capital in June 2000 after leaving Advent International, one of the world's leading global private equity houses, where he was a Partner in the London office. At Advent International, he spent five years investing in European media, IT services, Internet and telecom companies. His investments include Synergon (IPO: LSE/BSE), Hogart, Internet Securities (acquired by Euromoney) and @Entertainment (IPO Nasdaq: acquired by UPC).
Prior to Advent International, Nenad was a Financial Analyst in the leveraged buyout group of Bankers Trust in New York focusing on media and communications.
Former libel barrister, Priya founded FMCG business Masala in 2008 successfully launching its products into nationwide supermarket chains and independent retailers. The company's charitable arm has provided over 1 million meals and 35,000 vaccinations to the underprivileged in India and Africa. In 2014 Priya founded CENTURY-Tech, which is set to disrupt the education sector by utilising big data and data mining techniques to improve students' learning outcomes.
Priya is a member of the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills' Entrepreneurs' Forum, an advisory board member to the Education Foundation and a founding member of Gazelle Group Colleges. Priya was awarded Business Entrepreneur of the Year in 2009 and Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2014.
Ardent is an independent investment banking advisory firm, authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority of the United Kingdom.
Ardent provide advice to shareholders and boards of companies on a number of corporate finance activities, principally corporate strategy, finance raises, mergers and acquisitions, management buy-outs, restructuring, and business development.
Ardent has developed expertise around digital media, with a particular focus on Internet Advertising, eCommerce, eMarketing, Online Gaming, and Online Publishing. Ardent maintains close relationships with a broad set of digital media, internet, and technology investors and companies both in Europe and the US.
Our recent transactions include:
• Tryzens: Management Buy-Out from AIM listed Jaywing plc
• MatchesFashion.com: Partial exit to Scottish Equity Partners and Highland Capital
• FeelUnique.com: Partial exit to Palamon Capital Partners
• VoucherCodes.co.uk: Sale to WhaleShark Media
• Swoodoo.com: Sale to Kayak.com
• FSN.net: Sale to Moneysupermarket.com
• my-wardrobe.com: Private placement with Balderton Capital
• Intela Inc: Private placement with Bestport Capital
• UK Web Media: Strategic advice
• SwapitShop.com: Private placement with Greylock Partners
• Assethouse: Sale to Amino
• UTarget.com: Sale to News Corporation
• Cycling.tv: Sale to JumpTV
• Portfolio of Cineworld Cinemas: Acquisition
• Portfolio of Odeon Cinemas: Acquisition
• UTarget.com: Private placement with Foresight Ventures
• Buy.At: Private placement with DFJ Esprit
Specialties: Origination, strategy, fund raising and business development
Rod founded the technology marketing group, Banner Corporation in 1984 and left it in 2009. It had grown to become the largest Business to Business agency in Europe and boasted the best of the world's blue chip tech firms as its clients.
Since selling Banner to WPP, Rod became spellbound by the rise of social and marketing technology. He spent time studying, mentoring and investing in a variety of early stage Madtech companies.
In 2014 he made it into the TechCity Insider 100 list and the 2014/15 Fresh Business Thinking Power 100. In 2015 he was chosen as one of The Maserati 100 – A list of UKbased entrepreneurs who are giving back to the next generation. This year, he's been included in the 2016 Smith & Williamson Power 100.
Rod co-founded Forgather – the events business that's behind Snowball. Its mission is to build and develop event properties that enhance people's lives.
His evolving plaything is 3LA.com. Having pivoted a few times, its collective brains and technologies are evolving an Agency of Change – to help businesses grapple with the future. 3LA helps traditional brands confront a tsunami of market changes and opportunities, plunder from the entrepreneurial revolution and foster 'customer as partner' marketing strategies.
Rod is also Chairman of Adgistics, a board member at Artesian and an advisory board member to eContext and EngageSciences.
For fun, he's a Tech London Advocate, a fellow of the RSA, a Freeman in the Information Technologists' Company, a marketing advisor to the Courtauld Institute of Art, a mentor to the School of Communication Arts.
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Dryden Street Nursery is located within the University of Manchester campus. Ideally located for staff and students at the University, the nursery also has convenient links to public transport and is just a short drive away from the motorway network giving easy access to Greater Manchester and beyond. There is ample space for parking to drop off and pick up.
Standing in its own secure gardens the nursery is housed in a purpose built property offering bright and spacious individual rooms for each age group. Each playroom is carefully planned and resourced to create attractive and appealing learning environments where children can grow and flourish.
The staff team comprises a range of qualified, experienced and enthusiastic childcare practitioners with a passion for delivering quality early years care.
There is a culture of care, mutual respect and welcome imbued throughout the nursery with staff placing a strong emphasis on learning through play and creating a fun early years experience.
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Just turned on the radio to listen to the pregame show.
This would be a good road game to win.
Garrett is starting!
Petersen is playing the 2 guard.
The game is on in Omaha on KXVO.
Let Prohm's Posse Ride: Hallice, Brady, Stu, Lard, Naz, Deonte, Monte, Matt, Simeon, Jordan, and Babb.
is there any online radio stations?
Petersen for 3!!
1600AM KGYM - ESPN Sports Radio - Home
Why do I have a fuzzy feeling seeing Diante start?
Go Sssssssssyclones!
Jiri with the AND 1! Foul on Maric
Hubalek is dominating so far.
We need to play better defense.
Jiri with 9 at the first TV TO.
Exaggeration is a BILLION times worse than understating.
Great to see Hubalek came to play today! Someone has to provide the offense...
Should be nice seeing 2 ball handlers out there.
Maybe it won't be so painful getting the ball up the court.
Haluska from 3!
and a miss.
oh no, not Tom Oneal! were screwed.
Hopefully they jinx Haluska into making 3's
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I just got an F20AM today. It seems to work fine in normal flash mode, but when I tried to get it to sync with my SB-600, the SB-600 doesn't respond. NEX set on wireless. SB-600 set on channel 1 (group A if that matters). The F20M makes two weak flashes when the camera is triggered (in wireless mode) but the SB-600 won't flash. Any suggestions?
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - The 13-ranked Penn State women's lacrosse team will play its road regular season finale on Sunday when it travels to Columbus to face No. 10 Ohio State (9-3, 1-2) in a pivotal ALC contest. Scheduled for a 12 p.m. start at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium, the game will be broadcast live on the Big Ten Network.
On Wednesday, Penn State (9-4, 1-2) halted a two-game losing streak and upped its 2012 road record to 6-1, routing Lehigh, 15-3, in Bethlehem. Senior Theresa Zichelli (Severna Park, Md.) headlined a balanced offensive performance which saw 10 different Nittany Lions score goals, totaling five points on three goals and two assists. Senior Elaine Welch (Bernardsville, N.J.), junior Molly Fernandez (Baltimore, Md.), and sophomore Mackenzie Cyr (Westminster, Md.) also added two goals each. Senior goalkeeper Dana Cahill (Towson, Md.) anchored a stellar effort by the Nittany Lion defense, recording 11 saves in 52-plus minutes of playing time.
Ohio State, which is coming off an important 13-11 road win over Vanderbilt last weekend, will be home for the first time in three weeks when it hosts Penn State on Sunday. The Buckeyes feature one of the nation's most explosive offenses, averaging 14.17 goals and seven assists per game. Senior Alayna Markwordt, who owns the program records for goals and points, is fourth in the nation in total scoring with 69 points (32 goals, 37 assists). Jackie Cifarelli (24 goals, 21 assists), Gabby Capuzzi (30 goals, 8 assists), and Kristen Donahue (28 goals, 3 assists) are also key weapons for the OSU attack. Capuzzi also leads the team in draw controls (43), ground balls (30), and caused turnovers (26). Goalkeeper Tori DeScenza has excelled in her freshman campaign, compiling a 9.04 goals against average and a .500 save percentage
Penn State leads the all-time series with Ohio State, 15-4. The Nittany Lions have taken six straight from the Buckeyes, including the last three regular season match-ups. In 2011, Penn State scored a game-winning goal 45 seconds into double overtime to complete a thrilling come-from-behind 11-10 sudden victory win over Ohio State in Happy Valley.
Fans can also track all of the action of the Penn State-Ohio State match with live stats from GameTracker or receive game updates by following the official Twitter account of the Penn State women's lacrosse team, @GoPSUWLax. Find links on the official website of Nittany Lion athletics, www.GoPSUsports.com.
The Nittany Lions will begin a two-game home stand to finish out the regular season on Saturday, April 21 when it welcomes ALC foe No. 19 Johns Hopkins (7-5, 0-2) to Penn State Lacrosse Field for a 1 p.m. game. The Blue Jays have dropped three straight and travel to No. 1 Northwestern on Sunday. A year ago, Penn State knocked off Johns Hopkins twice, claiming a 10-7 regular season win and a 17-11 victory in the first round of the ALC Championship.
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Actor Samantha Weinstein Movies / Films:Carrie (2013) Haunter (2013)
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Ryan Kuster
Bass-baritone Ryan Kuster is gaining national recognition for his recent appearances in Carmen, with Virginia Opera, Opera Colorado, Opera Grand Rapids, and Knoxville Opera. Colorado's Daily Camera wrote, "Baritone Ryan Kuster possesses a swaggering virility in the role of Escamillo…. The character has the most famous of all the opera's many great tunes, and Kuster's delivery does not disappoint," and the Community Digital News said, "Mr. Kuster plays Escamillo as a self-confident showman who also displays a cool, cynical approach to love. Setting his cap for Carmen in Act II, he actually tries to give the displaced José a bit of friendly advice in Act III, realizing that even he, the great hero of the bull ring, will likewise be eventually discarded by the predatory Carmen. It's a marvelous performance of this small yet key role." This season's engagements include Angelotti in Tosca with Dallas Opera, Masetto in Don Giovanni at Arizona Opera, Bartolo in Le nozze di Figaro with On Site Opera, Escamillo in Carmen with Arizona Opera, and will sing in St. Matthews Passion with Boulder Philharmonic.
Recent highlights include Lysiart in von Weber's Euryanthe with Bard Summerscape where he received rave reviews: "Baritone Ryan Kuster brought a venomous enthusiasm to Lysiart; he was especially good in his potent Act II aria" (Wall Street Journal) and "They were all fine, in particular Ryan Kuster, smoothly malevolent as the vicious Lysiart. His lithe bass-baritone never hardened even in the most frenzied outbursts, and the dark, noble timbre of the voice made his deception seem all the more plausible." (NY Observer) He also received notable mention for his rendition of the title role in Opera Memphis' Don Giovanni. "Ryan Kuster's well-voiced Don Giovanni was charming, arrogant and thoroughly disgusting. Kuster presented a psychologically fascinating character, in love only for as long as he needed to be, supremely confident, unafraid, unencumbered by regrets, witty and quick-witted enough to escape a multitude of compromising situations." (The Commercial Appeal)
In recent seasons, Mr. Kuster made his symphonic début with the Los Angeles Philharmonic singing the role of Masetto in their highly acclaimed production of Don Giovanni, directed by Christopher Alden, with costumes by Rodarte, and led by Mo. Dudamel. Additionally, Ryan sang Alidoro in La Cenerentola for Nashville Opera and Opera Saratoga; Masetto in Don Giovanni with Cincinnati Opera; appeared in Dallas Opera's production of Turandot; performed Angelotti in Tosca with Orlando Philharmonic, Madison Opera and Pacific Symphony; Colline in La bohème with Arizona Opera; was Bass Soloist in Händel's Messiah with the Milwaukee Symphony; and Brutamonte in Schubert's hidden gem Fierrabras for the Bard Music Festival. He also returned to Wolf Trap Opera to début the title role of Don Giovanni and made his National Symphony début performing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
In 2011 and 2012 Kuster was a member of the prestigious Adler Fellowship Program with San Francisco Opera, where he gained vast attention and accolades on the west coast for his 59 mainstage performances in 2 fall seasons of Masetto (Leporello cover) in Don Giovanni; Escamillo in SFO's Carmen for Families; Bass Soloist in Mozart's Requiem; Astolfo in Lucrezia Borgia; the Mandarin in Turandot; Angelotti/Jailor in Tosca; 4th Noble in Lohengrin; and Count Ceprano in Rigoletto. Mr. Kuster is also on the DVD release of SFO's production of Lucrezia Borgia with Renée Fleming.
Previous engagements also include Rambaldo in La rondine with Oberlin in Italy; Pantalone in Le donne curiose with Wolf Trap Opera Company; Sam in Trouble in Tahiti with Opera Santa Barbara; covering Samuel Ramey in the title role of Bluebeard's Castle at the Chicago Opera Theater; The Parson, Badger and Woodpecker in The Cunning Little Vixen, Doctor Grenvil in La traviata and Carl Olsen in Street Scene with Chautauqua Opera; Count Ceprano in Rigoletto and Betto in both Gianni Schicchi and Ching's Buoso's Ghost with Opera New Jersey; and Ferrando in Il trovatore, Snug in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Frère Laurent in Roméo et Juliette at Opera North.
On the concert stage, Mr. Kuster performed the bass solos in the Fauré Requiem with the Bucks County Symphony, the Mozart Requiem with the Neumann College Choir, the bass solos in the Messiah with the Tindley Temple Choir, the title role of Händel's oratorio Saul with the Marsh Chapel Choir and Collegium, and Adam in Haydn's The Creation with the Boston University Symphonic Chorus. He also appeared as a featured soloist with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, Ocean City Pops, New Jersey Master Chorale, and Concert Operetta Theater of Philadelphia.
Mr. Kuster recently was awarded the 1st place for the Igor Gorin Award. He has sung on the Metropolitan Opera stage as a National Council Semi-Finalist. He received a 3rd place prize in the Gerda Lissner International Vocal Competition and received a Grant from the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation Competition. He also was given the Encouragement Award in the Philadelphia region of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and the Harmon Award from Chautauqua Opera.
His strong relationship with San Francisco Opera began when he joined the Merola Program, where he appeared as Garibaldo in Rodelinda, Don Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia, and Dr. Cajus in Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor in the Schwabacher Scenes Program. Mr. Kuster earned an Artist Diploma at the Academy of Vocal Arts where he performed the roles of the Governor in the world première of Margaret Garwood's The Scarlet Letter, Schaunard in La bohème, Enrico in Anna Bolena, Oroveso in Norma, the title role in Don Pasquale, Doctor Grenvil in La traviata, Dikoj in Kát'a Kabanová, and Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte.
Mr. Kuster also holds a Master of Music degree from Boston University where he performed the roles of A Man with a Cornet Case in Argento's Postcard from Morocco, Benoit in La bohème, Garrido in Massenet's La Navarraise, and Amantio DiNicolao in Gianni Schicchi. Mr. Kuster earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Westminster Choir College.


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Associate Professor
Department Pediatrics
Susan M Scott, M.D., is board certified in Pediatric Emergency Medicine. She received her medical degree from Louisiana State School of Medicine in Shreveport in 1982, and completed her pediatric residency at UTSouthwestern/Children's Medical Center of Dallas in 1985 and her pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at UT Southwestern in 1995.
Dr. Scott is currently an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. Her special interests include education, trauma and injury prevention.
- Medical School
- Tulane - Louisiana State University - New Orleans (1982)
- Internship
- Children's Medical Center (1983), Pediatrics
- Residency
- Children's Medical Center (1985), Pediatrics
- Fellowship
- UT Southwestern - Children's Medical Center (1995), Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Specialty Areas
Clinical Interest
Research Interest
- Critical Care
- Injury prevention
- Trauma
Featured Publications
- Categorization and Regionalization of Emergency Departments Caring for Children
- Wiebe RA, Scott SM Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine December 1999 1 45-53
- Initial Approach to the Child Who Presents with Infections of the Central Nervous System
- Scott SM Seminars in Pediatric Infectious Diseases 1996 7 3-12
- Comparison of End Tidal Co2 Measured with Nasal CAnnula Circuit and Capillary pCO2 in a Pediatric Population
- Abramo T, Scott S, Cowan M, Wiebe RA, Signs M. American Journal of Emergency Medicine January 1995 13 (1) 30-33
- Serious Group A Beta Hemolytic Streptococcal Infections Complicating Varicella
- Cowan M, Primm P, Scott S,. Abramo T, Wiebe RA Annals of Emergency Medicine 1994 23 818-822
Honors & Awards
- Outstanding Faculty Award
Presented by UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas/Children's Medical Center of Dallas (1996)
- Faculty Teaching Award
St. Paul Family Medicine Program (1995)
- Outstanding Fellow Award
Presented by UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas/Children's Medical Center of Dallas (1995)
- Outstanding Fellow Award
Presented by UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas/Children's Medical Center of Dallas (1994)
Professional Associations/Affiliations
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- Texas Pediatric Society
- Texas Pediatric Society--Committee on Emergency Medicine


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How to Field Strip a Ruger 10/22 Carbine .22 Rifle
Do you own a Ruger 10/22 .22 Carbine rifle, but don't know how to field-strip it? For those of you that don't know, field-stripping a firearm means to disassemble it for cleaning. Follow these steps to learn how.
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1First, take the rifle out of the case.
2With the rifle out of the case, make sure it is unloaded by removing the magazine and opening the action.
3With the rifle fully unloaded, take a flat blade screwdriver and remove the tie band located near the end of the barrel.
4When the tie band is removed, turn the rifle upside down and take out the big screw near the magazine well, but do not remove it.
5With the screw loose, push the safety so that there is half of it on either side.
6Carefully remove the barrel from the stock.
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While local government officials are beseeching states to please, please, please not cut aid to local governments, state governments are beseeching Washington to please, please, please not cut funding for Medicaid.
Whom can the feds beseech? The best answer is that they might start with themselves.
Medicaid is a joint federal-state program that pays for medical care for the poorest people, including for more and more people in nursing homes.
But Washington would be irresponsible to deal with its partly self-inflicted budget problems by passing them on to the already strapped states, to officials who haven't been so recklessly cutting taxes. What the feds should do, instead, is work with the governors to help constrain the growth of Medicaid.
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To The Editor: In response to the Supreme Court's decision Thursday to endorse homosexuality as a legitimate lifestyle, this is just one more step along the way to the moralistic and ethical decay of our society.
Like it or not, this country was founded on Judeo-Christian values and principles which are steadily being eroded away as a foundation. This has not happened overnight. It has been a clever incremental deception of the American public as they embrace whatever comes down the pike as morally and ethically OK in this wave of moralistic relativity.
Trace the great civilizations of the world that have fallen in similar fashion such as Rome, Egypt, etc., and you'll find the same trend.
God said Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve!
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