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A Manifesto for the Fast World
Published: March 28, 1999
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Integrationist Social-Safety-Netters feel that there are a lot of things we can do to democratize globalization economically, promote social stability and prevent our own society from drifting even further into high walls and tinted windows. These measures need not be all that expensive, nor do they have to involve radical income redistribution -- or lavish welfare programs that violate the basic, neoliberal free-market rules of the system.
To that end, I believe that each Administration should offer an annual piece of legislation that I would call the Rapid Change Opportunity Act. It would accompany whatever integrationist policy the White House is pursuing that year -- whether it be Nafta expansion or most-favored-nation status for China. The act would vary each year, but its goal would be to create both the reality and perception that the Government understands that globalization spreads its blessings unevenly, and therefore the Government is constantly going to be adjusting its safety nets and trampolines to get as many people as possible up to speed for the Fast World.
Last year, my Rapid Change Opportunity Act would have included: pilot projects for public employment of temporarily displaced workers; tax breaks for severance pay for displaced workers; free government-provided resume consultation for anyone who loses a job, a further extension of the Kassebaum-Kennedy act, so that laid-off workers could keep their health insurance polices longer, and a national advertising campaign for one of the best, but most under-reported, bipartisan achievements of the Clinton era: the Workforce Investment Act.
Signed in August 1998, the act brought together and energized all the Government's job-training programs, including individual training accounts that workers can use for any training they believe will most advance their job opportunities, one-stop career centers for every job-training program and an increase in youth training programs by $1.2 billion over five years.
I would also include, in the Rapid Change Opportunity Act, increased lending to Asian, African and Latin American development banks to promote training of women, micro-lending to women and environmental cleanup. I'd also like to see an increase in financing for the International Labor Organization's new initiative for creating alternatives to child labor in countries where children are most abused. It's true: a hand-up really is better than a handout.
Even if we waste some money on these hand-up programs, the Rapid Change Opportunity Act would be a tiny price to pay for maintaining the social cohesion and political consensus for integration and free trade. Our motto should be: ''Protection, Not Protectionism. Cushions, Not Walls. Floors, Not Ceilings.''
I once wrote a fantasy about global investing that went something like this: I brushed up on my German and bought some German corporate bonds. I studied a little Japanese and picked up a few stocks on the Nikkei. I got a tip from a waiter at my local ''House of Hunan'' and bought a few shares on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. My broker tried to sell me some Lebanese bonds, but I told him that I already had wallpaper. I even did my thing for Russian reform by brushing up on the Cyrillic alphabet and buying a few Russian T-bills.
But after all this, I discovered that I had forgotten two little English words, ''Alan Greenspan.'' Because when the Fed Chairman suddenly raised United States interest rates in the mid-1990's -- making the extra interest investors were getting on foreign bonds less attractive -- everyone started dumping securities in these foreign markets and bringing their money home. I got creamed. I was a bad lender, chasing higher rates of return without regard to risk.
Over the years I got a little smarter and became a better lender. I started doing my global investing through a mutual fund. A short time after Russia's economy went into a tailspin, in August 1998, I got a letter from that fund -- Tweedy, Browne Global Value -- reporting that its profits were down a bit because of the turmoil in international markets triggered by Russia's default. However, the fund was not down as much as many others because it had stayed away from Russia. The letter said of Russia that Tweedy ''cannot understand investing in countries with little political stability, no laws protecting investors and a currency that may be put to better use as Kleenex.'' Yes, the Tweedy letter added, in the prior two or three years the Russian market increased fivefold, and then overnight lost 80 percent of its value -- a complete round trip.'' Russia, it turns out, was a bad borrower.
I tell these two stories because they capture in microcosm the two biggest threats to today's global financial system -- crises triggered by ''bad lenders'' and crises triggered by ''bad borrowers.'' Just as there are drug users and drug pushers, in global economics there are bad borrowers, like Russia, and bad lenders, like myself. We need to address both.


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Hi guys - My child has grown to hate the trailer, and I'm guessing that the isolation and low height are the culprits as she loves the bicycle. At 2.5 years old, she's a lightweight at 24 lbs, so I think I'll be able to get some use out of which ever setup I go with.
I'm considering picking up a new bike as my road and mountain bike are not able to carry any type of carrier. Craigslist out here is weak, and when used bikes do pop up, the rare deal is gone fast and the others are within the price of a new bike.
I'm considering these two bikes in particular, and debating whether a front fork is god/bad/not recommended? I'm going Specialized because the dealer is close, and treats me the best.
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DD is 5 and we just started kindy. We began with teach your child last spring and got through about 18 lessons. We just started it back up again and dd hates it. She is having a lot of trouble blending her sounds and she HATES sounding them out incorrectly. She sees the word "M-A-T" says each sound individually, then kind of looks up at the ceiling and will guess "mad" or something. Then when I try to help her she gets discouraged. Is there a different curriculum that is more enjoyable? I'm not sure what I should do.
We are using Hooked on Phonics and my daughter loves it! I got it cheap at a garage sale. It has a DVD she watches the lesson then we practice and she reads a book. She gets to put a sticker on her chart. I told her when we finish the 1st book (it's 2 book sets) she gets to pick out a toy at the store.
If you hold your right hand in a lose fist, use a rolling motion to put a finger up for each sound. If your palm side is facing you, then first sound is index finger, second is middle, etc. This way she sees them left to right. The sssaaammm should roll from one to the other. Then be sure that there are no breaks when she is sounding out a word that she sees.
My daughter loves to let her finger trace the balls. As long as she is holding the sounds I let her.
Hope that helps :)
Laurie, wife to Jared, mom to three rugrats:)
Some children take awhile to understand blending and it doesn't always matter what program you use. You can try saying the sounds slowly and see if she can tell you what word you are trying to say. Then try making them a little faster while running a pencil or a finger under them. Usually when they are ready to 'get it' they get it quickly. Some children need to be 6 before they understand blending and later in the case of LD's.
Mum to DD 14: dyslexia, dyscalculia, ADD.
and DS 11: PDD-NOS
Here are a few links to free resources I found last year when working with dd it may help and save you money as well. http://www.hubbardscupboard.org/index.html
I am officially opposed to 100 ez lessons. . . I am now of the opinion that taking a year or three to learn to read can build a stronger foundation. Start off by learning to identify all the letters of the alphabet and their sounds, then move into cvc word families. Especially for a young reader being able to read more complex word structures like cvce without having to understand the rules behind it is a recipe for confusion.
I just like to say negative things about it because there are so many rave reviews out there; the program does work for a lot of people. But I like people to know that there are some for whom it does not work. :)
Mommy-ing M(2007), A(2009), H(2010), and S(2014)
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We use Adventures in Phonics, and Explode the Code. I am considering using Alpha Phonics with my very active Kindergartner. She just may need to brush up and review. I viewed the 100 easy when my oldest started but I didn't care for it.
DS-1995, DS-2004, Angel Baby-2005, DS-2007, DS 2010, DS2014
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He loves Progressive Phonics though! I downloaded all the books and he actually looks forward to it.
We switched to"The Reading Lesson" which worked far better for us. It introduces words quickly. Putting a sticker on the page each time it was read through helped for motivation. There is also a tracking chart in the back, but that is less motivating because it takes at least 1 week per 'lesson'.
Staying with it daily ("this is part of our job") even on weekends helps too -- I always got the biggest push back after a 3+ day break and sometimes after just taking the weekend off.
Also teaching writing (the letters/words the child is learning to read) at the same time helps too.
The other thing we did is that she started to drag about half way through, so we supplemented with the little books from Nora Gaydos's learning to read program (I previewed each book and pre-taugt the sounds/words we hadn't coveredyet and then had her read them through by herself from the first time). They are short, easy and funny. Then about 3/4+ of the way through she realized she could read most of the words in some of our library books and she had fun reading what she could (she really liked the Fluffy the hamster books).
The only issue was making her go back to finish it after reading books (but we talked about it and reminded her that the reading lesson was what taught her to read what she could through books -- and mommy promised to take her to Chuck-E-Cheeses when she finished the whole book, and that is where the progress chart came in handy).


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text: Economics - Ph.D. / Sc.D. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/7659 2016-03-24T01:52:55Z Essays on macroeconomics and contract theory http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101518 Essays on macroeconomics and contract theory Passadore, Juan (Juan Francisco Passadore Figueroa) This thesis studies how contracting frictions affect the outcomes that the public sector or individual agents can achieve. The focus is on situations where the government or the agent lacks commitment on its future actions. Chapter 1, joint work with Juan Xandri, proposes a method to deal with equilibrium multiplicity in dynamic policy games. In order to do so, we characterize outcomes that are consistent with a subgame perfect equilibrium conditional on the observed history. We focus on a model of sovereign debt, although our methodology applies to other settings, such as models of capital taxation or monetary policy. As a starting point, we show that the Eaton and Gersovitz (1981) model features multiple equilibria-indeed, multiple Markov equilibria-when debt is sufficiently constrained. We focus on predictions for bond yields or prices. We show that the highest bond price is independent of the history, while the lowest is strictly positive and does depend on past play. We show that previous period play is a sufficient statistic for the set of bond prices. The lower bound on bond prices rises when the government avoids default under duress. Chapter 2, joint work with Yu Xu, studies debt policy of emerging economies accounting for credit and liquidity risk. To account for credit risk we study an incomplete markets model with limited commitment and exogenous costs of default following the quantitative literature of sovereign debt. To account for liquidity risk, we introduce search frictions in the market for sovereign bonds. In our model, default and liquidity will be jointly determined. This permits us to structurally decompose spreads into a credit and liquidity component. To evaluate the quantitative performance of the model we perform a calibration exercise using data for Argentina. We find that introducing liquidity risk does not harm the overall performance of the model in matching key moments of the data (mean debt to GDP, mean sovereign spread and volatility of sovereign spread). At the same time, the model endogenously generates bid ask spreads, that can match those for Argentinean bonds in the period of analysis. Regarding the structural decomposition, we find that the liquidity component can explain up to 50 percent of the sovereign spread during bad times; when the sovereign is not close to default, the liquidity component is negligible. Finally, regarding business cycle properties, the model matches key moments in the data. Chapter 3, studies the implications of reputation on equilibrium multiplicity in a model of sovereign debt. These models can exhibit multiple equilibria. In the worst equilibrium the government is in autarky. However, in reality, we do not observe the autarkic solution. Motivated by an apparent disconnection between theory and reality, I characterize a lower bound on the utility that the government can obtain for any positive probability that the government is from a commitment type that always repays debts. Chapter 4, joint with Ignacio Presno, studies the optimal risk sharing contract between a risk neutral money lender and an agent that faces Knightian uncertainty about the distribution of her endowment and cannot commit on future transfers. We find that in the optimal contract model uncertainty contributes to increase consumption of the agent over time independently of which shocks have been realized. This differs qualitatively from the case without Knigthian uncertainty. Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics, 2015.; Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.; Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-129). 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Essays in bargaining and auction theory http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101517 Essays in bargaining and auction theory Tsoy, Anton This dissertation consists of three chapters. Chapter 1 studies an infinite-horizon bilateral bargaining model with alternating offers and private correlated values. I characterize frequent-offer limits of common screening equilibria in which both parties make offers to screen the opponent's type, and all types of either party follow the same path of offers. Even in the limit when the correlation of values is nearly perfect, common screening equilibria exhibit two-sided screening dynamics and involve inefficient delay in contrast to the unique equilibrium outcome of the complete-information bargaining game. Segmentation equilibria, in which types partially separate themselves into segments by the initial offer, are also constructed. Most of the types in the segments trade in the first rounds, while types near the boundaries of the segments delay trade to convince the opponent that they belong to a segment with more favorable terms of trade. Segmentation equilibria are efficient in the limit as the correlation of values becomes nearly perfect, and establish the connection between the limit outcome of nearly perfect correlation and the complete information outcome. The model sheds light on the relative importance of various sources of inefficiency for different levels of correlation, the role of public and private information in bargaining, and the robustness of the complete information bargaining model to higher-order uncertainty about values. In Chapter 2, I analyze two frictions that are central to determine prices, liquidity, and efficiency in over-the-counter markets: the search friction reflected in how long it takes to find a trading opportunity and the bargaining friction reflected in how promptly gains from trade are realized once the opportunity is identified. Chapter 2 captures both frictions by introducing an asset-specific trade delay into a standard search-and-bargaining model. For both exogenous and endogenous specifications of delay, the set of traded assets and the dependence of asset prices and spreads on default risk, liquidity, and market conditions are determined in equilibrium. The proposed model with endogenous delay has several implications. First, it offers a novel testable prediction: for assets within the same credit rating class, the liquidity is U-shaped in quality. Assets closer to the extremes of the quality range are more liquid, while assets in the middle of the quality range may be not traded at all. This is in contrast with a monotone relation in models with asymmetric information. Second, this model shows that the reduction in search and bargaining frictions may have opposite effects on market liquidity which is reflected in the range of traded assets. Finally, it establishes a connection between market uncertainty about the asset payoff and market liquidity. This link sheds light on the role of transparency in over-the-counter markets and explains the occurrence of dried-up liquidity and flights-to-quality during periods of increased market uncertainty. Chapter 3 studies efficient and optimal auction design where bidders do not know their values and solicit advice from informed but biased advisors via a cheap-talk game. When advisors are biased toward overbidding, we characterize efficient equilibria of static auctions and equilibria of the English auction under the NITS condition (Chen, Kartik and Sobel (2008)). In static auctions, advisors transmit a coarsening of their information and a version of the revenue equivalence holds. In contrast, in the English auction, information is transmitted perfectly from types in the bottom of the distribution, and pooling happens only at the top. Under NITS, any equilibrium of the English auction dominates any efficient equilibrium of any static auction in terms of both efficiency and the seller's revenue. The distinguishing feature of the English auction is that information can be transmitted over time and bidders cannot submit bids below the current price of the auction. This results in a higher efficiency due to better information transmission and allows the seller to extract additional profits from the overbidding bias of advisors. When advisors are biased toward underbdding; there is an equilibrium of Dutch auction that is more efficient than any efficient equilibrium of any static auction, however, it can bring lower expected revenue. Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics, 2015.; Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.; Includes bibliographical references. 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Essays in price discrimination and regulation http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101516 Essays in price discrimination and regulation Moshary, Sarah N. S. (Sarah Nazpai Schwartz); Illanes, Gaston Chapter 1 studies price discrimination in advertising sales to Political Action Committees (PACs) in the 2012 Presidential Election. These groups have grown rapidly - expenditures neared $500 million in the 2012 presidential election - and their effect on elections depends on regulation and its interaction with imperfect competition. While the government tightly proscribes station behavior vis-a-vis official campaigns, it does not protect Political Actions Committees (PACs). Television stations potentially wield considerable power to shape access to the electorate. Using novel data on prices paid for individual ad spots from the 2012 presidential election, I find PACs pay a 40% markup above campaign rates, and that there are differences in prices paid by Republican and Democratic groups for indistinguishable purchases. I then develop and estimate a model of political demand for ad spots, exploiting misalignments of state borders and media markets to address potential price endogeneity. Findings indicate that pricing to PACs reflects buyer willingness-to-pay for viewer demographics. Chapter 2 investigates spillover effects of regulation protecting campaign advertising purchases, a most favored nation clause. This regulation guarantees campaigns the lowest rate received by any advertiser, incentivizing stations to sell less airtime to commercial advertisers to buoy campaign prices. Using spot-level data on presidential campaign advertising purchases from 2012, I find that campaign ad prices drop following the institution of rate regulation (sixty days preceding election day). I then develop a model of station price discrimination, and estimate the effect of regulation on campaign and commercial prices relative to a counterfactual without regulation. Chapter 3, co-authored with Gaston Illanes, studies the effects of potential entry on market outcomes in the context of Washington state's 2012 privatization of liquor sales. Theory indicates that entry, and even the threat of entry, plays a key role in discipling market outcomes. We exploit the post-reform licensure requirement that stores have 10,000 square feet of retail space to estimate the impact of an additional store on price competition. We compare prices and product variety in markets with stores just above versus just below the square footage cutoff. Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics, 2015.; Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. "Chapter 3, co-authored with Gaston Illanes"--Page 2.; Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-126). 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Essays in health and development economics http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101515 Essays in health and development economics Hussam, Reshmaan Nahar This thesis is a compilation of three empirical studies exploring significant but underexamined health and development challenges of the late 20th and early 21st centuries in South Asia. Chapter One investigates the effects of the expansion of ultrasound technology throughout India in the 1980s on the childbearing decisions of parents and the marriage market dynamics of exposed children. While ample work has documented the relationship between access to sex selection technology and heavily male-skewed child sex ratios, we know little about how such exposure translates into later life marriage market outcomes of children in highly sex-skewed regions, nor about how parental choice regarding sex selection is affected by such shifts in their children's marital prospects. I build on a theory proposed by Edlund (1999) that, in environments where hypergamy is practiced and parents derive utility from married children, a male-skewed sex ratio can generate a permanent female underclass. By examining the relationship between the child sex ratio of couples of childbearing age and that of their contemporaneous marriage market, I offer evidence that parents do indeed internalize the marriage prospects of their unborn children and adjust their use of sex selection technology accordingly. Importantly, this adjustment occurs significantly more amongst poor families than wealthy families. By exploiting spatial and temporal variation in exposure to ultrasound technology, I then examine the implications of such socioeconomically skewed ultrasound use on the marital outcomes of children in regions with high ultrasound access. I find that, relative to her unexposed counterpart, the average exposed married female has significantly poorer health and less education; there exists a wider marriage and education gap between herself and her husband; and she reports lower autonomy, less decision making power, and more abuse, among other bargaining outcomes. While existing literature suggests that scarcity of females in a marriage market should increase their bargaining power, I offer evidence to the contrary in this nationwide setting of endogenous and socioeconomically stratified sex selection. This exercise underscores the intergenerational welfare consequences of poorly regulated access to sex selection technology: not only upon the millions of 'missing women' lost to sex selection, but upon surviving females as well. Chapter Two explores the impact of a 1999 public health campaign in Bangladesh, which sought to protect millions of individuals from exposure to arsenic-contaminated water, on infant and child mortality. The study was motivated by the dearth of literature on the effects of arsenic exposure on children (whereas its effects on adults, often manifested in the cancer arsenicosis, are well known). It quickly evolved into an examination of the unintended consequences of a highly influential but poorly planned public health campaign. Exploiting the local random nature of arsenic contamination of groundwater in Bangladesh, paired with the timing of child births and thus exposure to such contaminated water, we find that households in which children were exposed to arsenic for a shorter duration (because the household responded to the health campaign by switching away from arsenic-contaminated groundwater sources) in fact experience significantly higher rates of infant and child mortality relative to their counterparts. We present evidence that this unanticipated rise in mortality is due to the quality of alternatives that a switching household faced: households had to choose between arsenic-laden but easily accessible shallow tubewell water, which was protected from fecal bacteria; arsenic-free and easily accessible surface water, which was heavily exposed to fecal bacteria; or distant and inconvenient potable water, which was more likely to be exposed to bacteria at the point-of-use. As bacterial contamination is a leading cause of infant and child death in Bangladesh, we argue through a series of exercises that this is a likely driver of the rise in mortality rates amongst young children whose families switched away from arsenic-contaminated tubewells. In determining their water source, households were essentially trading off arsenic exposure and the resulting rise in old-age mortality with bacterial exposure and the resulting rise in the mortality of their young. The study motivates caution in the execution of large-scale public health and behavioral change campaigns when alternatives to the discouraged behavior are poorly understood. While my first two chapters investigate household health behavior, a demand-side component of the healthcare market, the next chapter explores a critical player on the supply side. Chapter Three studies the impact of a nine-month generalized training program on the knowledge and performance of private informal healthcare providers in West Bengal, India. These providers, colloquially referred to as "quacks" and described here as "informal providers" (IPs), constitute nearly 80% of the Indian healthcare provider market. However, none possess medical degrees and few have any formal certification to practice medicine. They have been the focus of considerable debate in recent years, with many pushing for their elimination while others propose their integration into the public healthcare system. To inform the debate, it is important to understand whether the quality of healthcare provided by IPs can be improved sufficiently for effective and welfare-increasing integration. The training program examined in this study was the first of its kind to be rigorously evaluated for its impact on IP knowledge and quality of care. We employ a randomized controlled trial (RCT) design, in which we randomly assigned 152 IPs to treatment and 152 IPs to control. Treatment IPs were invited to attend the program, which was taught by certified doctors and consisted of two two-hour classes per week over nine months. Endline data was collected twelve to fourteen months after the start of training. Standardized patient data, corroborated by clinical observations, demonstrate that those IPs offered the program spent significantly more time with their patients, completed a more thorough set of history questions and examinations, and provided more effective treatments. However, we see no shift in the frequency with which they practiced polypharmacy nor the dispensation of unnecessary antibiotics, two harmful practices which plague both the private and public healthcare system. We conclude that training offers a low cost, highly effective method to improve the quality of care delivered by IPs, but that deeper knowledge failures or misaligned incentives may be driving practices such as polypharmacy, for which training may not be a sufficiently powerful intervention. Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics, 2015.; Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.; Includes bibliographical references (pages 85-91). 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z


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A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. A complimentary breakfast is offered each morning. A computer station is located on site and high-speed wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary.
Business-related amenities at this 4-star property consist of limo/town car service and a meeting room. Event facilities measure 646 square feet (60 square meters). This Prague hotel also offers a rooftop terrace, tour/ticket assistance, and an arcade/game room. For a surcharge, a shuttle from the airport to the hotel (available on request) is offered to guests. A total renovation of this property was completed in January 2012.
Hotel Galileo Prague has designated areas for smoking.
- 24-hour front desk
- Airport transportation - pickup (surcharge)
- Arcade/game room
- Total number of rooms - 57
- Number of floors - 6
- Bar/lounge
- Free breakfast
- Concierge services
- Elevator/lift
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Computer station
- Express check-in
- Designated smoking areas
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Garden
- Luggage storage
- Laundry facilities
- Limo or Town Car service available
- One meeting room
- Multilingual staff
- Rooftop terrace
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Conference space size (meters) - 60
- Year Built 2006
- Conference space size (feet) - 646
- Number of buildings/towers - 2
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Television in common areas
- Express check-out
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Free WiFi
Family Friendly Amenities
- Free Wi-Fi
- Laundry facilities
- Arcade/game room
- Playground on site
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired high-speed Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Free wired high-speed Internet
Room Amenities
- Premium TV channels
- Pay movies
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Premium bedding
- Air conditioning
- Ceiling fan
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Bathtub or shower
- Bidet
- Slippers
- Satellite TV service
- In-room safe
- Desk
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Room service (limited hours)
- Free WiFi
Where to Eat
A complimentary buffet breakfast is served each morning between 7 AM and 10 AM.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Nearby Activities
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Playground on site
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
- Pets allowed for an extra charge
You need to know
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.
- A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 0.60 per person, per night
Optional extras
- Airport shuttle fee: EUR 25 per vehicle (one-way)
- A pet fee will be charged
- Rollaway bed fee: EUR 35 per night
Hotel Name
- Galileo Prague
- Hotel Galileo Prague
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This property offers transfers from the airport (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details before travel, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Up to 10 children 1 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding.
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The driver's licenses of nearly 300,000 Washington drivers have been suspended for nonpayment of multiple traffic tickets, and if the drivers want to get them back, they have to run a gantlet that includes collection agents and a patchwork system of courts.
OLYMPIA — The driver's licenses of nearly 300,000 Washington drivers have been suspended for nonpayment of multiple traffic tickets, and if the drivers want to get them back, they have to run a gantlet that includes collection agents and a patchwork system of courts.
Brandon Stowers said he lost his license after a series of mistakes that began several years ago when he stuffed a ticket in his glove box and forgot about it.
The unemployed father of three has now turned to King County relicensing court to begin to dig out of the mess he admits he got himself into.
Like drug court, it's a diversion program for people who have been stopped by an officer while driving on a license suspended for failure to pay traffic tickets.
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"I need my license back bad," Stowers said.
Maggie Nave, head of the District Court unit of the King County Prosecutor's Office, said relicensing court frees up prosecutors for more serious cases. But it also gives suspended drivers a way to get their licenses back sooner.
"We understand that some people get themselves so far into debt that getting out of debt is extremely difficult," she said.
After a driver makes a few payments, the court lifts the hold on his license, which means he can get it back while he continues to pay off his tickets.
Court administrators in King and Pierce counties say that in any year, up to 25 percent of traffic tickets end up in collections. Relicensing court is a cheaper alternative, but it's available in only a few counties.
Judge Mark Eide presides over King County relicensing court, but he has no authority to reduce and consolidate fines from most of the county's 39 cities, much less another county.
"It is rather inefficient to have people go to multiple different courts to try to take care of getting their license back," Eide said.
Suspended-license cases consume a lot of court resources. One-third of misdemeanor court filings in Washington are for driving with a suspended license for failure to pay citations, according to a 2008 study by Washington's Office of Public Defense.
"It's a victimless crime, and it's a crime of poverty," says Bob Boruchowitz, a former longtime public defender turned law professor at Seattle University.
He said there's evidence that minorities are more likely to see their licenses suspended for not paying their traffic fines.
"It's not a good thing to ignore the ticket, but it shouldn't be a crime," he said. "Why should we put somebody in jail for ignoring a ticket? What we ought to do is educate people that they have options."
Options include working off the ticket through community service, or getting on a payment plan.
Don Pierce, who heads the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs, supports diversion programs, but not decriminalization. He said some scofflaws need the threat of jail.
"If we totally decriminalize they can simply tear the ticket up right in front of the officer's face and drive away, and there's nothing we can do about it, and I don't think that serves the general public," he said.


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Abel G. Aganbegyan is an economic specialist whose ideas of reforming the Soviet economy greatly influenced Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika program.
Born in Tbilisi (capital of the Soviet Republic of Georgia) on October 8, 1932, he received undergraduate and doctoral degrees in economics from the State Institute of Economics in Moscow in the 1950s. Aganbegyan began working in the general economics department of the USSR Council of Ministers' State Committee for Labor and Social Problems in 1955, and he joined the CPSU one year later. He rose quickly through the committee's hierarchy, becoming sector head and deputy head by 1961. He became the director of the Siberian branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1966 (a position he held until 1985). Joining the faculty of Novosibirsk State University in 1968 as professor of economics, he came to believe that the Soviet economy did not perform well because of flaws in the planning system, and that the Soviet system was in need of drastic change.
As editor of Eko, the widely read journal of the Siberian branch of the Academy of Sciences, Aganbegyan gained a large following among younger, reform-minded economists. His views on economic reform received a great deal of official attention. He wrote and lectured extensively on the need for changes in wages and government subsidies. Aganbegyan suggested that the Soviets eliminate subsidies for all but education, elder health care, and book publishing.
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Chitose Get You!!
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|Chitose is a 11 year old girl. She's madly in love with an older guy that works at the town hall right next to the school, Hiroshi, and spends her days relentlessly pursuing him. Tons of slapstick follows.
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Holy beejezus. An update?
my god... this thing... IT'S ALIVE.
Needs more Lolimadness.
Also, reading this reminds me of the past playful teachers that hits you with paper fans and such when you misbehave.
Too bad these days, anything you do to the students even if it's a paper fan... will get you fired from being a teacher... The same thing with Parents hitting their children with anything.
BTW, the asian market I work at sell those "Black Black" gums, in one of those Gum cases tho, not wrappers.
Holy beejezus. An update?
That wasn't interesting at all!!
Thanks again for... digging this one up.
- Kuro vi Lolitannia likes this
ch 18 ... that's some cold (lame / old) joke ...
I wonder if the author do that on purpose because her character like that ...
still, it's a good release ... thanks Lolitannia ... =3= ...
- Amon likes this
Two release ...
praise the
bear ... err ... Translator ... =3= ...
- Amon likes this
Teacher wins this round. Thanks for the update.
Chitose Get You! will end in Manga Life Momo of August.
still very long long way from current translation ...
but I'm still grateful for any release ... thanks ...
Chitose Get You! will end in Manga Life Momo of August.
This is still the first volume. Each volume has around 130 pages...
*scratching my lazy ass*
- VawX and KelpTheGreat like this
What volume are we currently at, coz the cover picture shown volume 7
Just a guess, but probably vol 2 given the length of the chapters
I actually found something to reference, it said the volumes (3 and 4 were the ones I found) have "around 190 pages" (which actually surprises me, it sounds like a lot) so yeah, what's been scanlated so far is probably still in the first volume.
What volume are we currently at, coz the cover picture shown volume 7
wet loli ... om nom nom ...
and ... that fest ... is it a new year too ?
No. It's the summer festival.
In galge games usually it's one of the most important event where you can get certain flags and CGs. You need to play more VN
wet loli ... om nom nom ...
and ... that fest ... is it a new year too ?
Thank you so fucking much for the update.
Okay new chapter uploaded. I messed up a bit and put it as chapter 0 but now it's all good.
- MrIncognito, KelpTheGreat and pgo9ro like this
Hrm? The new release is not here yet? I'm going to upload it then.
please upload more ... A LOT MORE ...
thanks ...
Yay! A new chapter!!! =D
lol been awhile but this is one funny series and the latest chapter is similar to the anime
Hrm? The new release is not here yet? I'm going to upload it then.
- KelpTheGreat, stormfox and ShadowMonkey71 like this
sorry, it seems they get their drive back ... lolz ...
thanks for the rapid release ...
I guess Lolitannia lost their pedo drive or something ...
I hope someone help them to release faster ...


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In the weeks leading up to the 2006 shootings at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, Naveed Haq's already fragile mental state began...
In the weeks leading up to the 2006 shootings at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, Naveed Haq's already fragile mental state began to unravel in increasingly dramatic and disturbing ways, his mother testified Wednesday.
He was unusually subdued and depressed, Nahida Haq told a King County Superior Court jury. He didn't shave or change his clothes. He paced the house incessantly, his eyes bulging, she said.
"He was very sick," said a tearful Nahida Haq. "I was scared for him. He had a hollow laugh, a blank face, his body was all changed. I said something bad is going to happen. He doesn't look good to me."
A few days later, Haq forced his way into the federation offices and fatally shot employee Pamela Waechter and wounded five other women on July 28, 2006. Haq, 32, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to one count of aggravated first-degree murder, five counts of attempted first-degree murder and numerous other charges, including malicious harassment — the state's hate-crime law.
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If convicted of the murder charge, Haq faces life in prison without parole.
Nahida Haq, the first family member to testify for the defense in Haq's trial, described for the court how her oldest son changed from a normal child with a bright academic future into a mentally ill and troubled young man.
Haq's father and brother are expected to testify today.
According to Nahida Haq, her son had left their Tri-Cities home and gone off to college with a grade-point average of 3.8 and made the dean's list his first year.
But during his second year at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., his behavior began to unravel, she said. He became too depressed to concentrate on his studies and returned home for a few months.
He then enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania's accelerated dental program, and while there became convinced that others had control of his body and were making him do things he didn't want to do, she said.
He began whispering on the phone, she said, because he was convinced people were listening in on him.
He sought help from a psychiatrist and began taking mental-health medications.
When he returned home again, his mother testified, he slept constantly, shaved his head, paced back and forth and acted impulsively.
About a year before the shootings, her son was admitted to a mental-health treatment center for 10 days after his body became stiff and he told her that he was "in a zone" and he was "stuck in the '80s."
At the center, Haq was heavily medicated, Nahida Haq testified. He returned home convinced that the drugs had killed some of his brain cells.
Haq's mother, 54, also recounted a series of jobs he held. None of the dozens of jobs, including stints in a retail store, a gas station and a security company, lasted more than a few months. One, for a telemarketing company, lasted only a few hours, she said.
"He was fired from each and every one," she said, shaking her head.
She testified that over the years her son was able to earn a degree in electrical engineering at the Washington State University campus in the Tri-Cities but was unable to find a job in his field.
The defense questioning of Nahida Haq was apparently aimed at supporting their claim that her son was delusional and legally insane at the time of the shootings.
But under cross-examination by prosecutors, Haq's mother admitted he had showered and shaved the day before the shootings — despite his behavior in the days leading up to July 28, 2006. She said that although she was close to her son, she had no idea he was amassing weapons in the days before the shooting rampage.
According to police and witnesses, Haq, who is of Pakistani descent, made anti-Semitic statements before and during the slayings.
Haq's mother testified Wednesday that she had never heard her son make racist or anti-Semitic statements.
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El señor Eusebio tiene 66 años edad, es casado y padre de 11 hijos, 4 de ellos dependen de el y su esposa, el resto de los hijos trabajan en la agricultura. Su esposa se dedica a los oficios domésticos, ellos residen en la comunidad de las cañitas, Juticalpa, Olancho. Es una familia humilde y de escasos recursos, pero muy trabajadora y honesta. Desde hace 30 años el se dedica a la siembra y venta de café, oficio que aprendió de su padre desde que era muy pequeño, en la actualidad se dedica a la siembra de maíz, frijoles y café. El préstamo que don Eusebio solicita lo necesita para invertirlo en la compra de abono, para sembrar más café y comprar cemento para mejorar el lugar de almacenamiento del café. Con la ayuda de este préstamo el podrá mejorar su finca, darle un mayor mantenimiento y así poder ofrecer un mejor producto a sus clientes. Una de sus metas es hacer crecer su finca de café para tener más producción y así tener mayores ingresos que le ayuden al sostenimiento de su familia. Este es el primer crédito que don Eusebio solicita en FAMA y espera cancelar sus cuotas de forma puntual.
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Palo Pinto Tribune. (Palo Pinto, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, March 15, 1895
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A Bachelor of Arts in English is one of the most versatile degrees a student can obtain because of the universal creative focus achieved through literary study.
The following undergraduate programs are available in the Department of English:
Students who choose an Honours, Major or Minor degree in English are encouraged to consult with the Head of the Department or the Manager of Academic Programs to receive advice on English course selection.
Students wishing to pursue an Honours program in English must apply for admission to the Head of Department through the Office of the Registrar. Admission to the program is in accordance with University Regulations and the Bachelor of Arts (Honours Degree) Regulations. Students are encouraged to apply before or during their fourth semester. It is strongly recommended that students have completed at least five English courses, including English 2000, 2001, and 3200 or 3201 before applying.
Programs at the Grenfell Campus contain some courses that are not available in St. John's and students wishing to transfer from the St. John's campus to the Grenfell campus may have difficulty in completing their program in a timely manner.
Students using ENGL 1020 and 1021 to fulfill the Language Study Requirement are permitted to complete up to an additional 6 credit hours in Department of English Critical Reading and Writing courses at the 1000 level in order to fulfill the Critical Reading and Writing Requirement.
The following course prerequisites apply to all English programs:
All students must complete two 1000-level courses as follows: one of English 1080 or 1000, and one of English 1001, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1110.
In the case of students whose first language is not English and who take 1020 or 1030, that course and one of English 1000, 1001, 1021, 1080, 1101, 1102, 1103 are prerequisites for all other courses.
No student shall register for a course having the initial digit "3" unless he/she has already completed at least 6 credit hours in English courses having the initial digit "2".
No student shall register in any course having the initial digit "4" unless he/she has successfully completed at least 6 credit hours in English courses having the initial digit "3".
Courses That Fulfill National or Period Requirements in English Programs:
Courses can only ever count for 3 credit hours. For example, although English 4260 can satisfy both the American requirement and a 4000-level requirement, students in an Honours, Joint Honours, or Major in English program, will have to complete another course to satisfy the total number of credit hours required by the program.
Courses which consider more than one century or nationality may fulfill the requirement for one or the other but not for both categories.
English course descriptions are found at the end of the Faculty of Arts section under Course Descriptions, English and are designated by ENGL.
The Bachelor of Arts requires the successful completion of a minimum of 120 credit hours. A student must meet the requirements for a departmental Major, Minor, or Honours program and also meet the Program Regulations – General and Honours Degrees for the Faculty of Arts. A student is therefore advised to consult with the Admission to the Bachelor of Arts General Degree Programs regulations, the Program Regulations - General and Honours Degrees which also includes the Bachelor of Arts General Degree Components, The Major Program, and The Minor Program regulations. Information regarding honours programs is available at Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Degree Regulations as well as under each department's regulations.
A student is strongly encouraged to consult with an academic advisor to discuss available programs and requirements in the Faculty of Arts including the Core Requirements, The Major Program, The Minor Program, and the Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Degree Regulations. A student is advised to declare a program of study, including a Major and a Minor, before completing the first 45 credit hours of study. Information about declaring a Major and Minor in the Faculty of Arts and a list of advisors is available at www.mun.ca/arts/programs/undergraduate/ideclare.php.
Students who choose English as their major subject shall complete at least 36 credit hours in English.
Nine of these 36 credit hours must be taken at the 3000-level.
Students are strongly encouraged to complete English 2000 and 2001 within their first five semesters.
The 36 credit hours shall include:
In addition to the Major in English defined above, the Department offers an English major with a specialization in theatre/drama.
Students who choose an English major with a specialization in theatre/drama shall complete 36 credit hours in English, including:
Students who choose to complete a Minor in English shall complete at least 24 credit hours in English.
A minimum of 9 credit hours must be taken at the 3000-level.
Requirements for the Minor may not be chosen from courses conducted by another department.
Courses for the Minor must include:
An Honours degree in English is generally required for admission to a graduate program in the discipline, and is useful preparation for law, journalism and other professional fields.
Students who choose to complete an Honours Bachelor of Arts in English must complete 60 credit hours in English courses.
At least 36 of these credit hours must be taken at the 3000-level or above.
Courses will be chosen in consultation with the Head of Department.
In their final year, all Honours English students will be required to present an Honours Essay (English 4999). The semester before they plan to undertake their Honours Essay, students must receive approval of their chosen topic from the Head of the Department, who will then appoint an appropriate supervisor.
Any course that considers more than one national literature or period fulfills only one requirement for the Honours degree in English.
No courses at the 4000-level may be chosen from courses offered by another department.
The 60 credit hours shall include
6 credit hours in courses at the 1000-level;
3 credit hours in Canadian literature;
3 credit hours in American literature;
3 credit hours in pre-19th century literature (excluding 3200 and 3201);
3 credit hours in 19th century literature;
3 credit hours in 20th or 21st century literature;
12 credit hours in additional English courses, of which 3 credit hours must be at the 3000-level and 6 credit hours must be at the 4000-level; and
English 4999.
See Bachelor of Arts (Honours Degree) Regulations.
A student's program for Joint Honours must be approved by each Head of Department and conform to the Arts General Regulations for Joint Honours degrees.
Students shall complete at least 45 credit hours in English, of which at least 27 credit hours shall be at the 3000-level or above.
English courses at the 4000-level may not be chosen from those offered by another department.
Any course that considers more than one national literature or period fulfills only one requirement for the Honours degree in English.
Students will write their Honours Essay for only one of the two departments from which they are taking Joint Honours.
The 45 credit hours shall include:
6 credit hours in courses at the first-year level;
3 credit hours in Canadian literature;
3 credit hours in pre-19th century literature (excluding English 3200 and 3201);
3 credit hours in 19th century literature;
3 credit hours in 20th or 21st century literature; and
9 credit hours in additional English courses, of which 3 credit hours must be at the 3000-level and 6 credit hours must be at the 4000-level.


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Swaziland's best-known pro-democracy journalist Bheki Makhubu faces two charges of contempt of court for comments he allegedly made to a magistrate in a private phone call.
Makhubu's monthly magazine, the Nation, is the only source of journalism within Swaziland that consistently advocates for freedom in the kingdom and against the regime dominated by King Mswati III, sub-Saharan Africa's last absolute monarch.
Makhubu has published articles critical of the Swazi Royal Family and the amount of money they take from ordinary Swazi people in the kingdom's annual national budget.
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Ranbir Kapoor has decided to take an entire month off to promote his upcoming film Besharam. The film is directed by Abhinav Singh Kashyap and is considered one of the biggest films of the year.
RK is simultaneously shooting for Bombay Velvet and Besharam and has recently flown back to India after successfully completing his first schedule for Bombay Velvet.
He is currently shooting a promotional video for Besharam along with his parents Rishi and Neetu Kapoor. This will be the first time when the Kapoor trio would be seen together on screen.
A source says, "Ranbir is in his elements after giving back to- back hits. This film is an acid test for Abhinav."
The actor had been shuttling between his Sri Lanka sets and the city to do his dubbing for Besharam.
A friend of Ranbir says, "He is very excited about his film with Abhinav and he is making sure he keeps his slate empty for the next month. He will be completing some patchwork and also promote the film."
Besharam is slated to release on October 2nd.
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|ROCKING PISTON COMPRESSOR WITH SOUND DISSIPATION - Dual cylinder and single cylinder rocking piston compressors with sound attenuation are disclosed. Due to the tapered shape intake and exhaust chamber sides and tops, the gas flow is accelerated and decelerated through the compressors thereby allowing sound energy to be dissipated. Sound attenuation is further enhanced by the addition of baffles, which divide each chamber into a series of smaller attenuation chambers. The baffles also cause the gas flow to accelerate and decelerate as the gas flow passes the baffles. In the case of a dual cylinder rocking piston compressor, enlarging the crossover passageway diameters also creates additional sound attenuation chambers, which contribute to the overall reduction in sound. Further, by using dedicated seals for each intake in exhaust chamber, flow leakage at higher pressures is decreased, thereby improving compressor efficiencies.
|Impeller and Regenerative Blower - A regenerative blower is disclosed with a rotating impeller that includes a hub that includes a main body and a tapered outer periphery or volute that extends around the main body of the hub. The volute has a wide base that extends to a tapered volute tip. A plurality of vanes are spaced apart along the main body of the hub and intersect the volute. Each vane has a base coupled to or integral with the main body of the hub and a distal end extending radially away from the hub. Each vane has a downstream side and an upstream side. The downstream sides are concave and the upstream sides are convex. Each vane may also include a pair of side edges that are beveled inwardly towards the volute as the side edges extend from the downstream side of the vane to the upstream side of the vane.
|COMBINATION VERTICAL ROTARY VANE SUCTION PUMP AND LIQUID SEPARATOR - A compact suction and separation device is shown and described. The suction and separation device includes a pump and a separator. The pump includes a vertically oriented rotary vane pump comprising a suction inlet and an exhaust outlet. The separator includes a collector configured to receive combinations of solids, liquids and air. The separator separates solids and/or liquids from the air. Air from the separator is routed from an air discharge into the suction inlet of the pump. Solids and/or liquids are drained from a liquids/solids discharge of the separator. The separator may be gravity-based or centrifuge-type separator driven by the pump motor.
|Wastewater Treatment System - Wastewater treatment systems are disclosed with improved aeration tanks. The improved aeration tank includes an inverted frusto-conical clarifier and a submersible aerator pump disposed between the bottom of the aeration tank and the interior of the clarifier. The aerator pump is connected to an air inlet line that can pass downward through the clarifier and a plurality of bubble outlet lines that extend outward from the pump both radially and tangentially towards the sidewall of the aeration tank. As a result, bubbles rise upward through the aeration space disposed outside of the clarifier and around the aeration space or around the clarifier for improved mixing. The system may also include additional tanks such as a pretreatment tank and pump tank which are designed with baffled sidewalls for anchoring purposes. The vertical slopes of the sidewalls of the pretreatment and pump tanks are of the same magnitude but opposite to the vertical slope of the sidewall of the aeration tank thereby enabling the sidewalls of the pretreatment and aeration tank to nest together and the sidewalls of the pump and aeration tank to nest together. Methods of retrofitting existing water treatment systems and methods of treating wastewater are also disclosed.
|Magnetic vane ejection for a rotary vane air motor - A magnetic rotary vane pump is disclosed which includes a rotor disposed within a casing that comprises a cavity having an inlet and an outlet. The rotor includes at least one radial slot and at least one vane carried by the radial slot. The vane includes an inner edge directed towards a central axis of the rotor and an outer edge directed towards the casing. The inner edge of the vane is connected to a first magnet. The slot in the rotor includes an inner wall that abuttingly engages or faces the inner edge of the vane when the vane is fully received within the slot. The inner wall of the slot is connected to a second magnet. The two magnets are arranged so that like pole of the magnets face each other thereby biasing the vane out of the slot and against the inner wall of the casing as the rotor rotates. Accordingly, no spring or pin is required to bias the vane outward against the casing or into recesses or slots disposed in the casing wall. The resulting design may be operated faster than conventional vane pumps and with less lubrication or no lubrication than conventional vane pumps.
|Compact Dual Rocking Piston Pump with Reduced Number of Parts - A dual rocking piston pump is disclosed which includes a first piston with a first connecting rod eccentrically mounted to a rotor shaft and a second piston with a second connecting rod eccentrically mounted to the rotor shaft. The rotor shaft passes through a first bearing and a second bearing before being connected to a rotor body. The rotor body is disposed within a stator. The first and second bearings and stator are supported by a bracket. The bracket includes a hub which, in turn includes a first end connected to a wall at an opening in the wall. The hub also includes a second end. The first end of the hub supports the first bearing at the wall and the second end of the hub supports the second bearing. Both the first and second bearings are disposed to "in front" of the motor or in front of both the rotor and stator. Because support for the rotor is provided entirely in front of the motor, no rear bell housing is required and because a single bracket supports the bearings, rotor and stator, fewer parts are required thereby making the pump lighter and more compact.
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Five Top Windows 8 Preview Apps
Even though this is a SharePoint oriented blog, we all can't quite ignore the upcoming Windows 8 release. Yes, it's "just" another operating system and by now, we know about Windows, and yet – the new user interface will ask us to rethink a few things in terms of how we work with computers.
One thing for sure is no different than with Windows' predecessors: There will be tons of tools and little and big helpers. The guys at TechRepublic.com created a list of their top 5 apps … and more to be expected.


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Beckham Signs Deal to Play for L.A. Galaxy of MLS
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British soccer superstar David Beckham agrees to a five-year deal with the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer. Beckham is the former English captain who also starred for Manchester United and Real Madrid. The midfielder, 31, will join the Galaxy after his contract with Real Madrid expires on June 30.
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This is the second part of looking back at plays, formations, and strategies to give my best FishDuck probability percentages as to what we will see as a Rose Bowl game plan. It's entertaining to look at footage, ponder the possibilities, and see if we can do any better guessing what Chip is up to than the Wisconsin coaches. Let's do it!
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Planning a trip to Vietnam
I'm in the process of planning a trip to Vietnam, Cambodia, and Thailand for this coming February – yes, very last minute for me – and stumbled across the Six Senses Ninh Van Bay in Southeastern Vietnam.
I'm very excited to try out this property – especially because it has so many of the qualities that I look for in a luxury resort:
- It's isolated – from Cam Ranh Airport, which is about an hour flight from Saigon, you are shuttled about an hour's drive to Nha Trang and then board a private boat for the 20 minute journey to the hotel. The harder to get to, the better it is.
- It's small-ish – with 58 private villas, the resort falls into the 50-75 room sweet spot that for me is the ideal size. 58 rooms means that the property will not be overrun with big groups, and at the same time, means that staff can offer more personal attention.
- It fits with the local landscape – rooms and common areas are not garish. There is a wonderful simplicity to them that almost guarantees for relaxation.
The rooms themselves feature their own plunge pools. Many have direct water access via private decks. I'm looking forward to trying out the spa, checking out the cooking classes offered, and eating lots of good food at the surprisingly plentiful dining options!
If you have stayed at a Six Senses property – there are a number throughout Southeast Asia – please write in with your experiences.
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Enmore villager wins car in Courts promotion
Just days after considering buying a car, Enmore villager Francis Koo received a new Mazda Demio when he was named the second and final winner of Courts' 'TCL Gives you a Brand New Ride' promotion yesterday.
Koo stated that when he received the call, he was certain that it was a prank. It was only after a lengthy investigation that was he able to determine that he was not being duped by a friend.
Koo explained that he had been a customer of Courts for 19 years and had recently paid out his last account
with the company. The car he had planned on purchasing, he continued, had been valued at $1.8M.
Molly Rampersaud, Marketing Manager at Courts, explained that the company takes time and effort to ensure that its customers are happy and comfortable.
"The joy that Mister Koo and his family [have] felt today is exactly what we at Courts want to do for our customers and will continue to do for our customers," Rampersaud said.
In December, police officer Fizal Mohamed was the winner of the first Mazda Demio car in the TCL promotion.
To be eligible to enter the promotion, Courts' customers had to purchase any TCL television, 32" and above. The television purchased by Koo was a 39" TCL television. The promotion began on November 1 and concluded on December 31.


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Oklahoma football: Geneo Grissom does not mind position switches
NORMAN — Geneo Grissom has bounced around quite a bit during his time at Oklahoma.
He's gone from defensive end to tight end and back to defensive end.
It seemed like he'd finally found a permanent home last year when he was a sometimes-starter at defensive end.
But Sooners defensive coordinator Mike Stoops had other ideas, deciding before the Sugar Bowl to move Grissom once again — this time to linebacker.
The senior from Hutchinson, Kan., is OK with being the nomad of the Sooners.
"It's been a lot of fun," Grissom said. "It's all been worth it. If anything, it's helped me become a better football player. I got a little better understanding of the offensive side of the ball, and a great understanding of the defensive side of the ball."
The Sooners expect to use Grissom in coverage but still plan on using him to rush.
"His versatility is off the chain," OU linebacker coach Tim Kish said. "At his size and his athletic ability and the way he moves around, he gives us a dimension that we didn't have there last year. We utilized Eric (Striker) in a different way. But we protected Eric in our own way last year, but we won't have to do the same thing with Geneo. He can stand up and hold up against those tight ends where we're really utilizing him the most.
"He's just a great addition to the group."
It keeps coming back to fun when Grissom talks about his position switch.
"It's every D-end's dream to take his hand up and run off the line and maybe drop into coverage a little bit," Grissom said. "It's been a lot of fun learning this new position."
Since arriving in Norman, Grissom's athleticism has earned more than once left his teammates in awe.
Grissom said recently that he could still do a roundoff back handspring, which consists of two flips. Grissom said he can do a third.
"Geneo is just a freak of nature," cornerback Zack Sanchez said. "He's like a one-in-a-million person. Having Geneo and his size and his speed and what he can do coming off the edge is great for us."
Grissom's size, at 6-foot-4, 252 pounds, has given him an advantage at linebacker.
"When we're going against tight ends, he's used to going against guys that weigh 300 pounds," linebacker Dominique Alexander said. "Now he's going against guys that are 240 or 250. So he just throws them around and gets right in his gap. We just play ball. Even in the pass drop, he's doing a great job."
Coverage, Alexander said, won't be the toughest part of the conversion. Grissom will have to learn not to be overly aggressive.
"He's still playing in a gap, but he's used to leaking into another gap and then throwing off," Alexander said. "Now he's got to stay in his own gap. He still gets caught looking in sometimes. But that'a a habit he can break. He's going to do a great job there."


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America's First Wave Power Farm Coming to Oregon Coast
America is getting its very first wave power farm! Ocean Power Technologies, a New Jersey-based firm, is currently installing giant buoys off the coast of Reedsport, Oregon. Once all ten buoys are in place, developers hope to use them to harness the energy
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Super 30: Millwood linebacker Marc Robinson ready to get back on the field
Marc Robinson had to sit out last season after transferring from Heritage Hall to Millwood, so the closest he got to any varsity action was as a scout-team linebacker opposite the Falcons' group of stars, like Josh Turner, Kevonte Richardson, Brandon Swindall and others.
But sometimes, even that didn't work out.
"There would be days when we'd have to say, 'Marc, go sit down,' because we couldn't do anything. We couldn't block him," Millwood offensive coordinator Kevin Cox said. "He was knocking the heck out of Kevonte and those guys, so we'd just have to take him out."
Robinson averaged double-digit tackles per game over his freshman and sophomore seasons at Heritage Hall, and among the Chargers' star-studded 2012 class, he was one of the first to emerge.
But the 5-foot-11, 220-pound linebacker slipped out of the recruiting forefront while sitting out last season, so he's working even harder now to get back.
"I wouldn't want it any other way, because now I'm being pushed," said Robinson, who is No. 29 on The Oklahoman's Super 30 list of recruits for the 2012 class. "Now I'm pushing myself every day to get better.
"I feel like there's a ton for me to prove. I'm working out every day, running every day. I'm just ready for the season to get here."
The season will be the key to Robinson's recruiting. He recently visited TCU, and he's had interest from programs like Colorado State, Nebraska, Oklahoma State, Louisiana Tech and most of the Big 12 Conference.
But all of them want to see game tape, and the most recent clips Robinson has are from two years ago.
"A lot of them just want to see me play, so I can't wait," he said.
And virtually every coach who recruits Robinson mentions his height — at 5-foot-11, he's not the prototypical linebacker prospect that Division I programs are looking for.
"At first, I didn't worry about it, but it's getting to the point where I wish I could just hit the 6-foot mark and just erase this," Robinson said. "Everywhere I go, I know it's gonna be brought up. It's really annoying.
"I hope I can grow a couple more inches, but if not, I'll just have to show them that I'm really good at what I do."
And he is. He has speed, power and quickness packed into his 220-pound frame, but his most valuable gift is inside his helmet.
"His physical nature is impressive. He's built real thick. He plays downhill, which is what you want with an inside linebacker," Cox said. "But the thing that really separates him from good linebackers is how quick he diagnoses plays. Right from the snap, he recognizes it and picks it up."
And the Millwood staff gives credit to Andy Bogert and his coaches at Heritage Hall as well.
"You could tell he was well-coached when he got to Millwood. He was as far along as some of our older guys when he got here," Cox said. "He's a coachable kid. You know he's gonna come to work every day, and you know he's gonna do the right things."
Oklahoman Super 30 No. 29 Marc Robinson School: Millwood Height: 5-11 Weight: 220 Position: Linebacker Offers: None yet, but interest from TCU, Nebraska, Colorado State and several Big 12 schools.