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Conan The Liberatorby L. Sprague de Camp, Lin Carter
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Aquilonia, once the proudest land in all of Hyboria, has fallen under the tyrannical reign of a mad king. As his brutal insanity sweeps the land, only one man dares stand against him: Conan the barbarian.
Conan becomes the leader of an army of rebels, brave warriors who thought their battles would be fought with spear and sword, axe and dagger. In this they/p>
Aquilonia, once the proudest land in all of Hyboria, has fallen under the tyrannical reign of a mad king. As his brutal insanity sweeps the land, only one man dares stand against him: Conan the barbarian.
Conan becomes the leader of an army of rebels, brave warriors who thought their battles would be fought with spear and sword, axe and dagger. In this they were mistaken, for their greatest foe is not the army of Aquilonia, but the vile sorcerer Thulandra Thuu.
Dark clouds loom ahead for the people of Aquilonia, and only Conan can save them.
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chapter I
Night hovered on black and filmy wings above the spires of royal Tarantia. Along fog-silenced streets cressets burned with the feral eyes of beasts of prey in primal wilderness. Few there were who walked abroad on nights like this, although the veiled darkness was redolent with the scent of early spring. Those few whom dire necessity drove out of doors stole forth like thieves on furtive feet and tensed at every shadow.
On the acropolis, round which sprawled the Old City, the palace of many kings lifted its crenelated crest against the wan and pallid stars. This castled capitol crouched upon its hill like some fantastic monster out of ages past, glaring at the Outer City walls, whose great stones held it captive.
On glittering suite and marble hall within the sullen palace, silence lay as thick as dust in mouldering Stygian tombs. Servants and pages cowered behind locked doors, and none bestrode the long corridors and curving stairs except the royal guard. Even these scarred and battle-seasoned veterans were loath to stare too deeply into shadows and winced at every unexpected sound.
Two guards stood motionless before a portal draped in rich hangings of brocaded purple. They stiffened and blanched as an eerie, muffled cry escaped from the apartment. It sang a thin, pitiful song of agony, which pierced like an icy needle the stout hearts of the guardsmen.
"Mitra save us all" whispered the guard on the left, through pinched lips pale with tension.
His comrade said naught, but his thudding heart echoed the fervent prayer and added: "Mitra save us all, and the land as well …"
For they had a saying in Aquilonia, the proudest kingdom of the Hyborian world: "The bravest cower when madness wears the crown." And the king of Aquilonia was mad.
Numedides was his name, nephew and successor to Vilerus III and the scion of an ancient royal line. For six years the kingdom had groaned beneath his heavy hand. Superstitious, ignorant, self-indulgent and cruel was Numedides; but heretofore his sins were merely those of any royal voluptuary with a taste for soft flesh, the crack of the lash, and the cries of cringing supplicants. For some time Numedides had been content to let his ministers rule the people in his name while he wallowed in the sensual pleasures of his harem and his torture chamber.
All this had changed with the coming of Thulandra Thuu. Who he was, this lean, dark man of many mysteries, none could say. Neither knew they whence or why he had come into Aquilonia out of the shadowy East.
Some whispered that he was a Witchman from the mistveiled land of Hyperboria; others, that he had crept from haunted shadows beneath the crumbling palaces of Stygia or Shem. A few even believed him a Vendhyan, as his name—if it truly were his name—suggested. Many were the theories; but no one knew the truth.
For more than a year, Thulandra Thuu had dwelt in the palace, living on the bounty of the king and enjoying the powers and perquisites of a royal favourite. Some said he was a philosopher, an alchemist seeking to transmute iron into gold or to concoct a universal panacea. Others called him a sorcerer, steeped in the black arts of goëtia. A few of the more progressive nobles thought him naught but a clever charlatan, avid for power.
None, though, denied that he had cast a spell over King Numedides. Whether his vaunted mastery of alchemical science with its lure of infinite wealth had aroused the king's cupidity, or whether he had in sooth enmeshed the monarch in a web of sorcerous spells, none could be sure. But all could see that Thulandra Thuu, not Numedides, ruled from the Ruby Throne. His slightest whim had now become the law. Even the king's chancellor, Vibius Latro, had been instructed to take orders from Thulandra as if they had been issued from the king himself.
Meanwhile Numedides's conduct had grown increasingly strange. He ordered the golden coinage in his treasury cast into statues of himself adorned with royal jewels, and oft held converse with the blossoming trees and nodding flowers that graced his garden walks. Woe unto any kingdom when the crown is worn by a madman—a madman who, moreover, is the puppet of a crafty and unscrupulous favourite, whether a genuine magician or clever mountebank!
Behind the brocaded hangings of the guarded portal lay a suite whose walls were hung with mystic purple. Here a bizarre tableau unfolded.
In a translucent sarcophagus of alabaster, the king lay as if in deepest slumber. His gross body was unclothed. Even in the slackness of repose, his form testified to a life besmirched with vicious self-indulgence. His skin was blotched; his moist lips sagged; and his eyes were deeply pouched. Above the edge of the coffin bulged his bloated paunch, obscene and toadlike.
Suspended by her ankles, a naked twelve-year-old girl hung head down above the open casket. Her tender flesh bore the marks of instruments of torture. These instruments now lay among the glowing embers in a copper brazier that stood before a thronelike chair of sable iron, inlaid with cryptic sigils wrought in softly glowing silver.
The girl's throat had been neatly cut, and now bright blood ran down her inverted face and bedrabbed her ash-blonde hair. The casket beneath the corpse was awash with steaming blood, and in this scarlet bath the corpulent body of King Numedides lay partially immersed.
Set in a precise ellipse around the sarcophagus, to illuminate its contents, stood nineteen massive candles, each as tall as a half-grown boy. These candles had been fashioned, so rumour ran among the palace servants, of tallow stripped from human cadavers. But none knew whence they came.
Upon the black iron throne brooded Thulandra Thuu, a slender man of ascetic build and, seemingly, of middle years. His hair, bound by a fillet of ruddy gold, wrought in the likeness of a wreath of intertwining serpents, was silver grey; and serpentine were his cold, thick-lidded eyes. His mien declared him a philosopher, but his unwinking stare bespoke the zealot.
The bones of his narrow face seemed moulded by a sculptor. His skin was dark as teakwood; and from time to time he moistened his thin lips with a darting, pointed tongue. His spare torso was confined by an ample length of mulberry brocade, wrapped round and round and draped across one shoulder, leaving the other bare and exposing to view both of his scrawny arms.
At intervals he raised his eyes from the ancient, python-bound tome that lay upon his lap to stare thoughtfully into the alabaster casket, wherein the bloated body of King Numedides rested in its bath of virgin's blood. Then, frowning, he would again return to the pages of his book. The parchment of this monstrous volume was inscribed in a spidery hand in a language unknown to scholars of the West. Row upon row of hooked and cursive characters marched down the page in columns. And many of the glyphs were writ in inks of emerald, amethyst and vermillion, unfaded by the passage of the years.
A water clock of gold and crystal, set on a nearby taboret, chimed with a silvery tinkle. Thulandra Thuu once more looked deep into the casket. The tight-lipped expression on his dark visage bore wordless testimony to the failure of his undertaking. The rich red bath of blood was darkening; the surface became dull with scum as vitality faded from the cooling fluid.
Abruptly the sorcerer rose and, with an angry gesture of frustration, hurled the book aside. It struck the hangings on the wall and fell open, face down upon the marble floor. Had anyone been present to study the inscription on the spine and understand its cryptic signary, he would have discovered that this arcane volume was entitled: The Secrets of Immortality, According to Guchupta of Shamballah.
Awakened from his hypnotic trance, King Numedides clambered out of the sarcophagus and stepped into a tub of flower-scented water. He wiped his coarse features with a thirsty towel while Thulandra Thuu sponged the blood from his heavy body. The sorcerer would allow no one, not even the king's tiring men, into his oratory during his magical operations; therefore he must himself attend to the cleansing and tiring of the monarch. The king stared into the brooding, hooded eyes of the magician.
"Well?" demanded Numedides hoarsely. "What were the results? Did the signum vitalis enter my body when drained from that little brat?"
"Some, great king," replied Thulandra Thuu in a toneless, staccato voice. "Some—but not enough."
Numedides grunted, scratching a hairy paunch with an unpared fingernail. The thick, curly hair of his belly, like that of his short beard, was rusty red, fading into grey.
"Well, shall we continue, then? Aquilonia has many girls whose kin would never dare report their loss, and my agents are adept."
"Allow me to consider, O King. I must consult the scroll of Amendarath to make certain that my partial failure lies not in an adverse conjunction or opposition of the planets. And I fain would cast your horoscope again. The stars foretoken ominous times."
The king, who had struggled into a scarlet robe, picked up a beaker of empurpled wine, upon which floated the crimson buds of poppies, and downed the exotic drink.
"I know, I know," he growled. "Troubles flaring at the border, plots afoot in half the noble houses … But fear not, my trepidatious thaumaturge! This royal house has lasted long and will survive long after you are dust."
The king's eyes glazed and a small smile played at the corner of his mouth as he muttered: "Dust—dust—all is dust. All save Numedides." Then seeming to recover himself, he demanded irritably: "Can you not give answer to my question? Would you have another girl-child for your experiments?"
"Aye, O King," replied Thulandra Thuu after a moment of reflection. "I have bethought me of a refinement in the procedure that, I am convinced, will bring us to our goal."
The king grinned broadly and thumped a hairy hand against the sorcerer's lean back. The unexpected blow staggered the slender mage. A flicker of anger danced across the alchemist's dark features and was instantly extinguished, as by an unseen hand.
"Good, sir magician!" roared Numedides. "Make me immortal to rule forever this fair land, and I will give you a treasury of gold. Already I feel the stirrings of divinity—albeit I will not yet proclaim my theophany to my steadfast and devoted subjects."
"But Majesty!" said the startled sorcerer, recovering his composure. The country's plight is of more moment than you appear to know. The people grow restless. There are signs of insurrection from the south and from the sea. I understand not—'
The king waved him aside. "I've put down treasonous rascals oft ere this, and I shall counter them again."
What the king dismissed as trifling inconveniences were, in truth, matters worthy of a monarch's grave concern. More than one revolt simmered along the western borders of Aquilonia, where the land was rent asunder by wars and rivalries among the petty barons. The populace groaned beneath their ruler's obduracy and cried out for relief from oppressive taxation and monstrous maltreatment by agents of the king. But the worries of the common folk concerned their monarch little; he turned a deaf ear to their cries.
Yet Numedides was not so wedded to his peculiar pleasures that he failed to mark the findings of his spies, collected for him by his able minister, Vibius Latro. The chancellor reported rumours of no less a leader of the commons than the rich and powerful Count Trocero of Poitain. Trocero was no man idly to be dismissed—not with his peerless force of armoured cavalry and a warlike, fiercely loyal people ready to rise at his beckoning.
"Trocero," mused the king, "must be destroyed, it's true; but he's too strong for open confrontation. We must needs seek out a skilful poisoner … Meanwhile, my faithful, hardfisted Amulius Procas is stationed in the southern border region. He has crushed more than one arrogant landowner who dared turn revolutionary."
Inscrutable were the cold black eyes of Thulandra Thuu. "Omens of danger overwhelming to your general I read upon the face of heaven. We must concern ourselves—'
Numedides ceased to listen. His trancelike slumber, together with the stimulus of the poppied wine, had flogged his sensual appetite. His harem newly housed a delectable, full-breasted Kushite girl, and a torture—yet unnamed—was forming in his twisted brain.
"I'm off," he said abruptly. "Detain me not, lest I blast you with my shafts of lightning."
The king pointed a taut forefinger at Thulandra Thuu and made a guttural sound. Then, roaring with boorish mirth, he pushed aside a panel behind the purple arras and slipped through. Thence a secret passage led to that part of the harem whispered of, with loathing, as the House of Pain and Pleasure. The sorcerer watched him go with the shadow of a smile and thoughtfully snuffed out the nineteen massive candles.
"O King of Toads," he muttered in his unknown tongue. "You speak the very truth, save that you have the characters reversed. Numedides shall crumble into dust, and Thulandra Thuu shall rule the West from an eternal throne, when Father Set and Mother Kali teach their loving son to wrest from the dark pages of the vast Unknown the secret of eternal life …"
The thin voice pulsed through the darkened chamber like the dry rustle of a serpent's scales, slithering over the pallid bones of murdered men.
Copyright © 1979 by Conan Properties, Inc.
Meet the Author
L. Sprague de Camp, a SFWA Grand Master and winner of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, wrote the definitive biography of Conan's creator, Robert E. Howard. De Camp died in 2000.
Lin Carter was the key figure behind the popular Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series of the 1970s. He died in 1988.
L. Sprague de Camp, a SFWA Grand Master and winner of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, wrote the definitive biography of Conan's creator, Robert E. Howard. De Camp died in 2000.
Lin Carter was the key figure behind the popular Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series of the 1970s. He died in 1988.
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This story starts in a typical conanish way. However you are then transported to a world of mercinaries, women and magic. I think this is a good book for those who like fantasy.


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It has been suggested that Santos wanted the shirt for a good cause, and if so then well done to him. But he could have waited until the end of the match. Failing that, there must have been a few players in the Arsenal dressing room with Van Persie's phone number. I can understand why you might want Van Persie's shirt, but at half time, on the pitch and in front of everyone? I don't know how a thought like that could ever enter your mind as a player.
Arsene Wenger treats his players as adults and gives them a lot of leeway generally, but he must have lost his mind at what he saw. Arsenal were on the receiving end of a battering and instead of thinking about his own awful performance, one of his players was more intent on getting an opponent's shirt. It must have been infuriating to witness.
Can you imagine Patrick Vieira ever trying to ask for Roy Keane's shirt at half time? It would never happen. When you look at this current Arsenal team you wonder where their priorities are - is it to win? This Santos episode makes you wonder if the players need a firmer hand from their manager. Sometimes you have to sit players down and tell them what is what.
Arsenal only lost 2-1 on Saturday but that was never a one-goal defeat - it was a spanking, and that was without Manchester United even having to go through the gears. The most disappointing thing was that Arsenal just looked mentally beaten from the very start. They gifted Manchester United an early goal and didn't look like getting back into the game at any point.
You used to rely on the fact that if Arsenal went to United they would at least have a battle, but there was none of that. Ten years ago they could cope with whatever people would throw at them. They were up to the challenge physically and if you did put them under pressure then they could hurt you on the break. All of those qualities that we used to admire have disappeared now. They looked so weak.
It is a combination of the fact the players are not up to standard and that the team lacks character. Wenger still likes to go out and find cheap players and make them into stars and that doesn't always come off - either they don't develop quite as you expect or they don't grow up with a winning mentality.
Not many of the Arsenal players have any real experience of winning trophies over a sustained period. It is very hard to do that, but you need it, and Arsenal are stuck in a losing rut. Even when they got to the League Cup final against Birmingham they ended up losing. I just don't think they know how to get over the line and you certainly fear for them every time they play one of the big clubs.
It was alarming to see Arsenal register their first shot on target in injury time and it is a concern that the chances have dried up. Again it is to do with ability. You need clever players to create opportunities and Arsenal have one clever player: Santi Cazorla. The rest of them are very much straight-line players. Lukas Podolski runs in a straight line, Olivier Giroud is much the same and although Theo Walcott scored a hat-trick against Reading he is a predictable player to read. Arsenal are too predictable as a team.
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Research Article
Assessment of GCM simulations of annual and seasonal rainfall and daily rainfall distribution across south-east Australia
Version of Record online: 3 DEC 2010
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7916
Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Hydrological Processes
Volume 25, Issue 9, pages 1486–1497, 30 April 2011
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Vaze, J., Teng, J. and Chiew, F. H. S. (2011), Assessment of GCM simulations of annual and seasonal rainfall and daily rainfall distribution across south-east Australia. Hydrol. Process., 25: 1486–1497. doi: 10.1002/hyp.7916
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- Issue online: 13 APR 2011
- Version of Record online: 3 DEC 2010
- Manuscript Accepted: 20 SEP 2010
- Manuscript Received: 29 JUN 2010
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Global warming can potentially lead to changes in future rainfall and runoff and can significantly impact the regional hydrology and future availability of water resources. All the large-scale climate impact studies use the future climate projections from global climate models (GCMs) to estimate the impact on future water availability. This paper presents results from a detailed assessment to investigate the capability of 15 GCMs to reproduce the observed historical annual and seasonal mean rainfalls, the observed annual rainfall series and the observed daily rainfall distribution across south-east Australia. The assessment shows that the GCMs can generally reproduce the spatial patterns of mean seasonal and annual rainfalls. However, there can be considerable differences between the mean rainfalls simulated by the GCMs and the observed rainfall. The results clearly show that none of the GCMs can simulate the actual annual rainfall time series or the trend in the annual rainfall. The GCMs can also generally reproduce the observed daily (ranked) rainfall distribution at the GCM scale. The GCMs are ranked against their abilities to reproduce the observed historical mean annual rainfall and daily rainfall distribution, and, based on the combined score, the better GCMs include MPI-ECHAM5, MIUB, CCCMA_T47, INMCM, CSIRO-MK3·0, CNRM, CCCMA_T63 and GFDL 2·0 and those with poorer performances are MRI, IPSL, GISS-AOM, MIROC-M, NCAR-PCM1, IAP and NCAR-CCSM. However, the reduction in the combined score as we move from the best- to the worst-performing GCMs is gradual, and there is no evident cut-off point or threshold to remove GCMs from climate impact studies. There is some agreement between the results here and many similar studies comparing the performance of GCMs in Australia, but the results are not always consistent and do significantly disagree with several of the studies. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


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Firstly, thanks for the handy plugin, I was able to install and configure it to my needs very quickly.
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Access to a large amount of knowledge is critical for success at answering open-domain questions for DeepQA systems such as IBM Watson™. Formal representation of knowledge has the advantage of being easy to reason with, but acquisition of structured knowledge in open domains from unstructured data is often difficult and expensive. Our central hypothesis is that shallow syntactic knowledge and its implied semantics can be easily acquired and can be used in many areas of a question-answering system. We take a two-stage approach to extract the syntactic knowledge and implied semantics. First, shallow knowledge from large collections of documents is automatically extracted. Second, additional semantics are inferred from aggregate statistics of the automatically extracted shallow knowledge. In this paper, we describe in detail what kind of shallow knowledge is extracted, how it is automatically done from a large corpus, and how additional semantics are inferred from aggregate statistics. We also briefly discuss the various ways extracted knowledge is used throughout the IBM DeepQA system.
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Plosser Urges FOMC to Clarify Likely Interest-Rate Path
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia President Charles Plosser urged the Federal Open Market Committee to improve its public communication on policy by clarifying the likely path of the target interest rate.
"One way to enhance its communication would be to indicate the likely behavior of interest rates" based on policy rules, indicating whether the Fed will be more "restrained" or "accommodative," Plosser, who votes on policy this year, said today in a speech in New York.
FOMC participants' quarterly forecasts for the main interest rate can be a source of confusion. Fed Chair Janet Yellen at a March 19 news conference cautioned against giving too much weight to the forecasts of Fed officials, saying the FOMC statement is a more reliable signal of the central bank's intent. Atlanta Fed President Dennis Lockhart has called for "some way of coordinating" policy intentions with a forecast.
Plosser said a rules-based approach to setting the benchmark interest rate, along with an accompanying policy report, would help clarify how the FOMC will respond to various changes in economic data.
"This type of communication would push the FOMC to conduct policy in a more systematic manner, which I believe will lead to better economic outcomes over the longer run," Plosser said in his prepared remarks to the Council on Foreign Relations.
In comments to reporters after his speech, Plosser said the housing market continues to recover, though it's not "quite as robust as it was last year."
"Just because housing starts are slower or sales are slower, that doesn't mean the housing market is weak, because that's not consistent with a continued increase in prices," he said. "I'm not panicky about the housing market."
A former professor and dean of the business school at the University of Rochester in New York, Plosser joined the Philadelphia Fed as its chief in 2006.


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Girard native Jen Schoullis scored the first two goals and Mercyhurst alumnus Kelley Steadman scored the last three to lead the Boston Blades to a 5-2 win over the Montreal Stars in the Canadian Women's Hockey League title game last weekend at Centennial Community Centre in Markham, Ontario.
Steadman's power-play goal with 8 minutes, 51 seconds left in the second period snapped a 2-2 tie against the two-time defending Clarkson Cup champion Stars. Then she completed her first hat trick in the CWHL and the first in the Blades' tournament history. Former Laker Meghan Agosta-Marciano scored Montreal's first goal of the game. She led the league in the regular season with 46 points.
Schoullis, who won a national title at the University of Minnesota a season ago, and Steadman hope to represent the United States at the IIHF Women's World Championship, which begins Tuesday and runs through April 9 in Ottawa, Ontario. Agosta-Marciano joins former Laker Bailey Bram on Team Canada's roster.


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Rock Bottom taps Fire Chief Ale this Week in Food
Tuesday 3/8
- As if you need a reason to down some pizza on a Tuesday night: Parkway Pizza, locally owned in Longfellow, donates 5 percent of its Tuesday profits to Dowling or Seward Elementary Schools. The venue is also kind to celiacs--it now serves gluten-free crust and beer.
Somebody put out the fire.
Wednesday 3/9
- This one's for you vegetarians: "Meatless Mains," a course on vegetarian cooking at Cooks of Crocus Hill in St. Paul. Meet author and cook Robin Asbell and explore recipes from her book, New Vegetarian. Learn how to prepare hearty, vegetarian main dishes to impress the most skeptical of carnivores. Registration required. $65. 6 p.m.
Thursday 3/10
- Put your beer habit to good use--head to Rock Bottom for its Fire Chief Ale tapping. Now in its 15th year, the brew is one of the company's best. And it's most compassionate. Since its conception in 1997, it's raised more than $1 million for local fire departments and related charities. 6 p.m.
Friday 3/11
- Wayne Kostroski, co-owner of Cuisine Concepts (Franklin Street Bakery and Bar Abilene, as well as the former Tejas and Goodfellows) is at it again. Kostroski will be at Wildfire restaurant in Eden Prairie for the release of his new book, Bring out the Best, which tells the story of his charity, Taste of the NFL, which raises money for food banks across the country. Enjoy appetizers and a Gallo wine tasting and rub elbows with local athletes. Free. 4 to 6 p.m.
Saturday 3/12
- It's March. It's cold. We just had our bazillionth snowstorm of the season. Why not get out of the house? Take a road trip to Chisago for Cabin Fever Tasting at Winehaven Winery and Vineyard. Taste wines that have been aging in the cellar for years, get your buzz on, and get your strength back to endure one (or two) more months of winter. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Sunday 3/13
- See dessert experts go head-to-head at the Taste of Chocolate Midwest Dessert Competition at the Bloomington Theatre and Arts Center. Categories include best chocolate dessert, best chocolate confection, and people's choice (you be the judge--roll up your sleeves and start tasting). Come down off your sugar high by listening to performances by several Minnesota Choirs and the Continental Ballet Company. $25 advance/$30 at the door. Proceeds support the Bloomington Fine Arts Council. 12 to 5 p.m.
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Customer Service Not Up to Par
I stayed at the Doubletree February 28 while conducting business with the State. The room, bedding and bath, were nice. I had a great view of a Federal courthouse. As a Hilton Honors Gold VIP member, I was given a couple of drink coupons at the in-hotel restaurant and free breakfast. My chief complaint relates to computer support. They have wireless internet, but I needed a modem. They only had 2 and those were checked out. The front desk said that everytime they rented them out, they ended up being stolen. When I explained that the deposits were more than enough to go out and buy some more, she replied that they hadn't done that. One of the business center computers did not have access to the internet. The front desk was not concerned with that either. Overall, it's an okay hotel, but don't expect anyone to bend over backwards to help you.
Horrible Customer Service
I have stayed in this hotel several times as it is located close to FSU and downtown area. Each time I have had something go wrong from rude desk clerks, poor room service (food), broken A/C, dirty bathrooms and arriving late (confirmed reservation and credit card on file) to find out my room was given away. No manager on staff really cares as I have complained each time and I filed a complaint with Hilton who owns property. I will no longer give them top $$$ for this kind of service.
Find some place else to spend your $$$.
Doubletree Hotel could and should be better.
The Doubletree Hotel in downtown Tallahassee should be much nicer than it is. While I don't expect a Doubletree to be luxurious, this hotel did lack in certain areas. The room in which I stayed was spacious and clean and had a nice view of the old capitol building. The room furnishings, however, showed their age. I would characterize the decor of my room as "yard sale" style because of lack of consistency. The color/type of wood differed greatly among the furnishings. Some of the furniture was early American style, some appeared to be French provencial style, while some were modern such as the arm chair with its brushed metal legs. While the bedside tables actually matched, even they were different: one had a ceramic lamp with a loose lampshade that swung in the air due to the A/C while the other had a rusted wall mounted swing arm lamp (that looked ready to fall off the wall) directly above it. The television, though big and new, only received about a dozen channels. The bathroom was clean and reasonably sized and had clearly been renovated; however, there was again a lack of attention to detail by this hotel. A large length of the tile baseboard was missing from my bathroom leaving a long gaping hole.
The breakfast I had in the hotel restaurant was reasonably priced and tasty--the service was also good in the restaurant.
The hotel lobby was clean and tastefully furnished. An especially thoughtful touch was the presence of two PC's in the lobby of which the use by hotel guests was complementary.
The hotel parking garage is poorly designed though conveniently located. Overnight parking is $4 even though the hotel's website still says $3.
Overall, I was a bit disappointed by this hotel. Of the three large, chain affiliated hotels in downtown Tallahasse, the Doubletree clearly has the best location relative to most government buildings as well as the places on the FSU campus most commonly frequented by visitors. Unless you want to be within a convenient walk of these places, I would recommend staying elsewhere unless the Doubletree is offering a good rate. While I certainly would not object to staying at the Doubletree in downtown Tallahassee again, I am not filled with anticipation at the prospect either.
Okay, but overpriced
I had already made reservations for this hotel when I came on tripadvisor and read all of the reviews. I nearly cancelled because of them, but since it was only for a night, I decided to stick with it.
We encountered problems before we even got there because the directions on my confirmation letter (which was e-mailed to me from the hotel) were wrong. They stated to get off at Exit 29 off of I-10 when it's actually exit 199. The street directions were completely wrong as well. Luckily, my friend and I had enough common sense to call them and get correct ones. What did they use? Mapquest?
My friend and I stayed here last Saturday night before the Georgia Tech at Florida State men's basketball game. There were no cookies ready when I arrived to check in at 8:30pm---I was given a "Rain Check"---but it wasn't a big deal. (I assume they were out because the Georgia Tech team/staff was also staying at the hotel and beat us to the punch.) After I was mistakenly ignored for a few moments (I look pretty young for my age and the desk clerks thought I was with the couple in front of me), check in went smoothly, and I was even given two certificates for breakfast in the hotel restaurant for my inconvenience.
The room was clean and the heat was already on when we entered (it was pretty cold outside that night). I loved the burgundy colored comforters, the duvet covers, and the coordinated interior in general. We got most of the basic cable channels except for TNT---which was too bad since it was NBA All Star Weekend. (That would also explain why there was a group of Tech players in the lobby of the hotel watching the game---for whatever reason, the TV downstairs picked that channel up.) And the bed has to be one of the most comfortable I've ever slept in. My biggest complaints would be about the bathroom. The bathroom was clean, but one of the lightbulbs was out and there was no fan, which I thought was strange. I don't think I've ever stayed in a hotel that didn't have a fan in the bathroom. There was no rail in the shower. I also noticed that the ceiling above the shower was patched rather badly---almost as if there had been a leak and someone didn't do a very good job of fixing it. Little things, but the details make a difference.
I read the warnings on here about housekeeping coming early, but I couldn't locate the "Do Not Disturb" sign.....meaning we got a 9AM interruption after not going to bed until about 3:30. We should have requested a sign just to make sure we had one, but did they REALLY have to start cleaning that early?
We went to the breakfast buffet but found that it was already broken down by the time we were seated (which took longer than it should have). The certificates we were given had a value of up to $7.95. My friend and I both went a little over, but the waitress (who was also trying to bus tables and help set up the Sunday brunch while she waited on us and others) told us not to worry about the extra. The service was painfully slow. They were hosting a breakfast for the Georgia Tech players at around the same time we were eating, and they were also severely understaffed. I'm not sure what contributed more (maybe they're normally understaffed on a Sunday), but it needs to be fixed. On the upside, my food (an egg white omlette with breakfast potatoes and toast and a glass of apple juice) was very good. Check out presented no issues, although I still didn't receive my cookies. The person at the front desk was able to direct us to the nearest Starbucks and drug store, which saved us a lot of time.
My experience was better than most of the others I've read here. But my conclusion is this: The best thing about this hotel is the location within the city---it's great if you're going to the Civic Center for a basketball game. However, it's overpriced and it needs some work, specifically in the customer service realm. If I were coming simply to see Tallahassee and not for a sporting event (not that there's much to see), I'd probably stay somewhere else.
Horrible Service
This hotel has the worst customer service. I stayed here for two weeks. Week #1 they put me in a room 509. I had to listen to the elevator all day and night long. I couldn't sleep. Week #2 was worse. At check in they got my reservation wrong. Even though my reservation was in my hand and said a King bed, they insisted that it was not defined and I ended up with two double beds. Then I got to my room and there was only feather pillows. Being alergic to feather pillows, I called the front desk and asked for nonfeather pillows and I was told that they do not have any. Next I turned on the TV and it didn't work. When I called they said tht all rooms ending in 17 or 19 did not have TV. They refused to move me to a new room until anther person in our group insisted that I be moved before our whole group check out. Then no one would help me move all of my bags, even after I asked. To top it all off, I didn't even get my cookie at check in.
Needs new management
Stay somewhere else at all costs. I've now stayed in three hotels over football weekends. This hotel was the most expensive and by the far (hands down) the worst one of the three, and one of the worst hotels I've ever stayed in. The only plus to this place is the location, and maybe the lobby (isn't not bad). The rooms are dirty...exceedingly dirty. The carpet had tons of stains all over it, and not just tiny little ones, but enormous ones. The furniture looked like it hadn't been updated in about 20 years...all torn up and scratched. The bathroom was simply gross. There was mold around the sink and all over the shower/tub. The water in the shower was decent pressure, but it alternated constantly between hot and cold. The fixtures in the tub were also falling off...oh yeah, the ceiling in the bathroom was caving in. It sounds horrendous...it is. This is probably one of the seediest places I have ever stayed...it kills me that they charge $240/night for football weekends. It's worth about $30/night or should be rented by the hour. The staff is all right...a bit rude...but mostly just lazy. Nothing gets done. I went down to the exercise room to find that the only thing that worked in it was the TV. The maitenance guy was in there watching a football game and jokingly said, "I'd rather watch the game than fix these things, you know what I'm saying?" That summed it up. The management at this place is dismal. Whoever runs this hotel should be fired. I've stayed at the Courtyard and the Raddisson, which is also downtown. While no place in Tallahassee is going to be an incredible four star hotel, those other two were by far better (the Courtyard was the cleanest). The Doubletree is really, really bad. Unless your only concern is being right downtown, avoid this hotel like the plague.
Renovated rooms are nice...
Came to the Double Tree after checking out of the Governor's Inn. Got a renovated room and was not disappointed. For the area, the renovated rooms are above average. Brand new bedding, rugs, etc. Bathrooms are beautiful -- New tile, new shower/tub, new toilet, new mirror. Chairs are recovered with beautiful new fabric.
Of course, remnants of the old exist too -- Some of the furniture (slightly marred), one of the pictures (just plain ugly), and the air condition (old, window unit). Room did seem a bit humid, but where in Tally is it not?
No service
No wake up call; No TV; No shuttle reservation; No cookie; No information about the city; you be the judge...
Stuck in a Nightmare
Staff was made up of young, snooty, condescending brats. There was little concern for special circumstances involving young patrons or students. Check in time was adjusted around football games to the disadvantage of everyone else. Business guests and students who were without student housing, were forced to leave the hotel to become homeless to accommodate football patrons over homegame weekends. All FSU parents should AVOID THIS HOTEL!
What is that smell?! Urine! in all common areas. Room was dirty and outdated. Slime running down window from a.c. unit in room above ours. Vagrant's coming in to use restroom and watch T.V. NOT a good experienc.
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Midland Care hosted a beach party to get work done for the "Celebration Walk."
Volunteers prepared 2,000 luminaries, folded 800 t-shirts, tied 200 balloon weights, and folded and mailed 400 letters. All that work was in preparation for the 12th Annual "Celebration Walk."
The Walk is a fundraiser to help financially support Midland Care Hospice in Topeka.
"Celebration Walk" is Friday, May 9 starting at 6:30 p.m. at the Midland Care Hospice grounds, 200 SW Frazier Circle, Topeka. It ends with a ceremony at dusk.
On Wednesday, May 7, Capitol Federal will host their fundraising Olympics on the Midland Care campus. The opening ceremony will be at 6 p.m. and all money raised will go toward the "Celebration Walk."
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Jockeys' Guild
|Full name
|Jockeys' Guild
|Key people
|John Velazquez, Chairman
G. R. Carter, Vice Chairman
Jon Court, Secretary
|Office location
|Lexington, Kentucky
|United States
The Jockeys' Guild Inc. is an American trade association based in Lexington, Kentucky, representing thoroughbred horse racing and American quarter horse professional jockeys. The organization filed for Chapter 11 protection from creditors in bankruptcy court in Louisville, Kentucky, on October 12, 2007.
Established in 1940, the organization's founding members consisted of many of the leading jockeys of the day including Eddie Arcaro, Ray Workman, Johnny Longden, Alfred Robertson, Charley Kurtsinger, Red Pollard and Harry Richards. The Jockeys' Guild founding board was made up of:
- Harry C. Richards - President
- Lester Balaski - 1st Vice President
- Eddie Arcaro - 2nd Vice President
- Raymond Workman - 3rd Vice President
- Irving Anderson - Treasurer
On February 24, 2001, the Thoroughbred Times published an article captioned A debt of remembrance that tells the story of the important work by jockey Tommy Luther that led to the Guild's creation. The story recounted the influence on Luther when he was part of the horrific circumstances North American jockeys lived under at the time fellow jockey Earl "Sandy" Graham was killed while racing at Polo Park Racetrack in Winnipeg, Manitoba in September 1927. [1]
- Harry C. Richards: 1940-1943
- Sterling Young: 1943-1949
- Eddie Arcaro: 1949-1962
- Sam Boulmetis: 1962-1967
- William Boland: 1967-1969
- Walter Blum: 1969-1975
- Mike Venezia: 1975-1981
- Bill Shoemaker: 1981-1989
- Jerry D. Bailey: 1989-1996
- Gary L. Stevens: 1996-2000
- Pat Day: 2000-2001
- Tomey Jean Swan: 2001 (Acting)
- L. Wayne Gertmenian: 2001-2005
- Darrell Haire: 2005-2006 (Acting)
- Dwight Manley: 2006-2007
- John R. Velazquez: 2007–present
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Group wants to make 70-foot Sarasota sculpture permament
Published: Thursday, June 21, 2012 at 5:15 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, June 21, 2012 at 5:15 p.m.
SARASOTA - While "Unconditional Surrender," a towering sculpture of a sailor kissing a nurse on V-J Day, is under repair, another sculpture near the Sarasota bayfront is now the focus of the city and local art enthusiasts.
"Complexus" — a 70-foot-tall abstract sculpture of metal in fire engine red certainly attracted attention as one of the featured pieces in this year's Season of Sculpture.
It continues to do so, and could soon become a permanent piece of public art in Sarasota.
Located at U.S. 41 and Gulfstream Avenue, "Complexus" is hard to miss by anyone coming off the Ringling bridge or traveling on Tamiami Trail.
The nonprofit Sarasota Public Art Fund likes the piece — a lot.
"It looks as if it was made for that spot," said Thomas Savage, president of the fund. "So much public art goes unnoticed. Not so with 'Complexus.' You can't miss it."
The fund is determined to buy "Complexus" and donate it to the city so it becomes a permanent fixture at its present location.
Fund organizers have gotten Tennessee-based sculptor John Henry to lower his price from $850,000 to $500,000.
So far, the arts group has raised $350,000 — including a $250,000 donation from Sarasota resident Jan Schmidt.
Group leaders say they will need to raise $600,000 to buy the sculpture and give the city money to maintain and insure the work.
"Complexus" will be in experienced hands if it does become city property.
"We have a very extensive public art collection," city spokeswoman Jan Thornburg said.
Details about more than 40 pieces of public art are on the city's website.
Combined with works owned by Sarasota County, downtown Sarasota especially is a virtual public art museum — with works in aluminum, bronze, stone, copper or other materials every few blocks.
Savage ranks "Complexus" as among one of Henry's "most significant pieces."
"It has captured the imagination of the public," Savage said. "What I like about abstract art is you interact with it. There is an opportunity for the individual to see in it what he or she will."
No two observers' interpretations of "Complexus" are likely to be the same, Savage said — making it complex indeed.
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you have the same badges in French?
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Keep up the good work!
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Who doesn't love BuddyPress along with BadgeOS?
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Session 2015-2016 New Groups
The email and contact details are available at registration or on the documents distributed. (All venues will depend on numbers enrolling).
GERMAN CULTURE and HISTORY (Sue Block)
It's not all Lederhosen and sausages.....This weekly course aims to look beyond the stereotypical images of Germany and its people and provide a brief introduction to the history and geography of this country as well as considering its phenomenal contribution to Western culture. Along the way we will look at aspects of Germany's art and architecture, listen to the music of its great composers and appreciate the works of some of its poets, writers, thinkers and scientists.
ANCIENT CIVILISATIONS OF THE AMERICAS with a twist! (Maria Chester)
- 1491: New revelations of the Americas before Columbus
- 1492: The clash of civilisations: Columbus arrives to the New World
- 1493: How the discovery of the Americas revolutionised Trade, Ecology and Life on Earth.
- The Columbian Exchange: how European vessels left sheep, rats and lethal viruses in the New World and carried tomatoes, tobacco and maize to the Old. The beginning of the "homogenocene"...
Weekly; Thursday 2:00-4:00pm. Ayton Village Hall
HEALTH ISSUES (Kath Payne)
The main aim of this informal discussion group is to develop an understanding of health and disease within our own environment and culture, by exploring current health issues in the public domain. Topics may include recent innovations in health care, health issues currently being debated in Press / Parliament / T.V., local health care issues or areas of personal interest /expertise.
Monthly from October; Wednesday (fourth) 10:00 -12:00 noon. Eyemouth Community Centre
ISSUES OF HUMAN RIGHTS (Kath Payne and Ranald Wylie)
This new, informal discussion group will look at inequalities and issues of restricted liberties across the world. Discussions will be led by areas of interest within the group as well as by topical political and international debate(s). External speakers may be invited, intergenerational links will be encouraged and some appropriate visits may be arranged.
Monthly from October; Thursday (second) 10:00-11:30. Home-based
PAINTING (Paul Priestman)
This will be a self-help group for "artists" of "all abilities" to come together to be creative. Don't worry if you've never wielded a pencil or paintbrush, just bring along your own equipment and enthusiasm and see what happens.
RELAXATION (Andrew Davies)
Monthly; Monday (second)) 14:15-16:15 Eyemouth Community Centre
Additional 'short-term' groups:
a) Two Demonstration Lunches are being offered - on Thursday November 5th and Thursday March 3rd 10:00am - 3:00pm; cooks: Irene Mowat with Elizabeth Campbell. Come and watch an enthusiastic pair of home cooks prepare a mouth-watering 4-course lunch and then enjoy eating it. Sample menus will be available at the enrolment day. These lunches will be home based so there will be limited numbers and only one date available per person.


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A comedy featuring two Saturday Night Live alumni was released into theaters on this day in 1995.
Tommy Boy was released in theaters on March 31, 1995. The film starred Chris Farley, David Space, and Dan Aykroyd. Farley plays an immature and clumsy adult who must save his family's auto parts factory from con-artists, competition, and more.
The film opened #1 on its release weekend and the comedy would end up grossing over $32 million dollars. The movie had mixed reviews, and noted film critic Roger Ebert considered it one of the worst he had seen, calling it an "alleged" comedy.


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Astronomy in the News
Press releases and news articles of potential interest to AAS members and other astronomy enthusiasts; inclusion does not imply endorsement by the American Astronomical Society. For more information, see About Astronomy in the News.
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- source: www.jpl.nasa.gov
- source: www.interactions.org
- source: mediarelations.cornell.edu
- source: www.colorado.edu
- source: www.tacc.utexas.edu
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DALLAS (AP) - U.S. Marshals have arrested a man accused by Dallas authorities of pretending to be a military police officer and going out on several calls.
Twenty-two year old Ryan Samul Caskey was wanted on a charge of
impersonating a police officer. The U.S. Marshals Pacific Southwest
Regional Fugitive Task Force took him into custody Tuesday at his
parents' home in Castaic, Calif.
Dallas police said Caskey brandished a Glock pistol and kicked in a door as he assisted an officer responding to a report of a break-in. He told police he was a member of an FBI task force, authorities say.


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Conn-Selmer Press Releases
July 18th
American Band College and Western International Band Clinic Become Conn-Selmer School Partners
Elkhart, IN — The Conn-Selmer Division of Education is pleased to announce a partnership with Western International Band Clinic (WIBC), Inc., the parent organization of the …
February 17th
Conn-Selmer Adds Marie Czapinski to Growing List of Educational Clinicians
Elkhart, IN —The Conn-Selmer Division of Education recently added Marie Czapinski to its growing list of Educational Clinicians. Ms. Czapinski is an expert in the field of color …
February 10th
Conn-Selmer Adds Harmony Project of America to Growing School Partnership Program
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January 29th
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January 20th
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Commonweal Magazine
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On March 28, John Deedy, managing editor of Commonweal from 1967 to 1978, died at age eighty-two. Jack came to Commonweal at a tense moment and in delicate circumstances. The magazine was still riding high on the wave of postconciliar energy. The staff, however, was divided, not by politics or theology or ideology, but by personality and generation as well as the question of whether the magazine should look primarily to the secular or to the Catholic world as its chief point of reference.
Much of this story is told in Rodger Van Allen's history, The Commonweal and American Catholicism. Unlike the internal bloodlettings suffered by many political and corporate teams, Commonweal's differences were pursued in a way that would make the Marquis of Queensbury look like a brawler. But Jack's hiring, without consultation among the whole staff, threatened to add a spark to a combustible atmosphere.
That never happened. It was impossible not to like Jack. He added sparks, but of a different sort. Professional skill, to be sure, for Jack was the product of a long career in journalism, first as teenage stringer for the Worcester Telegram and the Boston Post, then freelancer in Ireland and France following his World War II military service, and finally editor of diocesan papers in Worcester and Pittsburgh who had covered three session of Vatican II.
Then there was sheer energy. Office life benefited from...
Peter Steinfels, co-founder of the Fordham Center on Religion and Culture and a former editor of Commonweal, is the author of A People Adrift: The Crisis of the Roman Catholic Church in America.
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