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SoundHelix is a free versatile Java framework for algorithmic random music composition. SoundHelix can generate random songs, play them (for example, on any number of MIDI devices or MIDI-capable software synthesizers) and is highly customizable using XML configuration. SoundHelix also allows writing the generated music as MIDI files.
SoundHelix produces music that is actually enjoyable to listen to.
- Produces enjoyable algorithmic random music
- Fully configurable using XML
- Can remote-control any number of MIDI devices with upto 16 MIDI channels each in parallel
- Supports LFOs for slowly changing MIDI parameters (modulation wheel, etc.)
- Extensible API allows for easy extensions to existing functionality
- Supports sending MIDI timing ticks to selected MIDI devices
- Example songs available on http://www.soundhelix.com/audio-examples
- Facebook fanpage available at http://www.facebook.com/soundhelix/
- Twitter feed available at http://www.twitter.com/SoundHelix
- Applet with simple example available at http://www.soundhelix.com/applet/SoundHelix-applet.jnlp
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User Reviews
A great remake of the legendary Amiga Algomusic (from the same author).
Very nice project: music well composed!
What a fantastic project! A useful random music generator that creates music you actually want to listen to!
Great project! I recommend this program strongly! Very best and fast random music generation s! It's great, although it should also install the generator with it!
At first I thought "It's a random music generator, it's bound to be bad." Though about 10 seconds later I was purely amazed. This program needs more recognition.


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WASHINGTON (January 15, 2014) The Republican-led House Wednesday approved a massive $1.1 trillion bill to finance government agencies this year.
With none of the drama and conflict of recent budget battles, lawmakers approved the measure 359-67.
The Democratic-led Senate plans to vote final approval later this week.
The 1,582-page bill provides money for virtually every federal agency for everything from airports to war and eases many but not all of the automatic spending cuts that took effect last year.
The lack of drama flowed from the bipartisan agreement enacted in December that laid out spending totals for the next two years.
The bill approved Wednesday filled in the details.
Lawmakers from both parties had little taste for an election-year standoff that might have triggered another government shutdown - which voters hated.
Meanwhile Wednesday Republicans and Democrats were both pledging Wednesday to renew efforts at resurrecting jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed, even though immediate compromise prospects seemed dim one day after the Senate deadlocked on the issue.
Several officials in both parties said Wednesday a key sticking point centers on a Republican demand to include a provision that would repeal changes in benefits for military retirees that cleared Congress late last year.
Other obstacles include differences over the duration of any renewal of jobless benefits and steps to offset the cost so deficits don't rise.
The issue revolves around aid for laid-off workers who have exhausted state benefits, which generally last 26 weeks.
Under an expired program, federal aid was available for up to another 47 weeks, depending on the level of statewide unemployment.

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Nice Kicks' latest visual Kicks On Court recap is here, and this one is packed with heat. A slew of St. Patty's Day sneaks were of course rocked throughout the NBA as well as (per usual) LeBron revealing some new Nike goodness. Also, Stephen Curry dishes on his footwear preferences, all in the above video from Nice Kicks. Check it out now.
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Yesterday and this morning have seen a number of small items of note, many via Twitter (and some of those thanks to fellow fan Nymeria_Wic) which we tweeted about, plus a new item or two which leads this post off:
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One of the reasons why we created this website was to help spread community news and events, and to give an opportunity for people and businesses to share that information. But the Atwater Village Forum has always been the main source of information for local internet-goers. A great source for crime activity, local rumors, and even some heated discussions, the forum had a long-standing informational role for a lot of residents.
But yesterday, it was announced the forum is no more.
Forum moderator Robert "Fixer" Smith filled us in on its demise:
At the 4/12/2012 Board meeting of the Atwater Village Neighborhood Council, a motion was passed to cancel the hosting account that runs the current forum. The website had been moved previously to a new host but there was not a new forum included in that redesign, and the forum software is many years out of date and could not be moved to the new host.
Basically, it looks like it was going to cost a lot more money to upgrade the forum to another publishing platform, and the new licensing and hosting fees were "not financially prudent," says Robert. He adds, "There may be other options in the future if the Board puts together a proposal."
We were part of the discussion back in 2010 on the need to upgrade the forum, but it feels sudden and a little sad to have it go. For now, if you go to the old forum URL, you'll be directed to a Facebook page URL that doesn't exist. If you want to touch base with neighbors, check out the Atwater Village Neighborhood Council Facebook page, or drop us a line with questions, comments, concerns, or any other neighborhood announcements.


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"Pushing up the daisies now," said a soldier of his dead comrade. ["The American Florist," vol. XLVIII, No. 1504, March 31, 1917]
To push (someone) around is from 1923. To push (one's) luck is from 1754. To push the envelope in figurative sense is late 1980s. To push up daisies "be dead and buried" is from World War I.


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Arsene Wenger has realised that to make his team better he has to finally address the weaknesses that have plagued Arsenal for almost a decade, and the prospective signing of Sami Khedira would certainly do that.
For 10 years, you have needed convincing about Arsenal. When they are at their best you know they can live with any team in the world. You don't worry about them. But they are always capable of imploding, as they did at Liverpool, Chelsea and Manchester City last season.
Capturing Khedira from Real Madrid would be a huge step in the right direction towards curing Arsenal of their inherent weakness and it is good news that Wenger is keen to address these shortcomings. If they can cut out the hidings to rival clubs, perhaps they could be genuine title contenders.
That is why Khedira would be a superb signing for Arsenal. I've always said about Arsenal that they would be one of the easiest clubs in the world to sign players for because what they are missing has always been so glaring, and never gets addressed.
At least now they are addressing one of their big weaknesses: having that formidable presence in midfield. Khedira is the type of player that Arsenal need and who can help them when they are not playing well. He is physically strong and, if he does indeed sign for the club, will give them something extra.
It does slightly surprise me that with him being available at a good price, Chelsea and Jose Mourinho haven't pushed more to sign him. Khedira performed very well under Mourinho at Real Madrid but perhaps they feel Nemanja Matic is a bit ahead of him.
Wenger, conversely, seems to have developed a strategy with Mesut Ozil, Alexis Sanchez and now possibly Khedira, where he picks up players from the two Spanish giants as soon as they are deemed expendable, and it's not a bad strategy to go with. You know they have quality, suit a style that is conducive to Arsenal and are used to playing with pressure. You are already halfway there.
If he does come to Arsenal then I think it would have to be at the expense of Mikel Arteta. They have an awful lot of midfield players at the moment and Arteta looks vulnerable in the first XI. Wenger has realised that increasingly it's a running game in midfield and you have to be able to get around. You have to have many qualities.
I don't think Arsene Wenger would ever go the whole way and get a full defensive midfielder – someone like Victor Wanyama or Javier Mascherano. He wants someone who is multi-facted and can use the ball. But, crucially, Khedira is still the kind of player you need when you are up against it and that's the kind of player Arsenal have been lacking.
They need someone who can help wrest control of a game, or shut it down when things are getting out of control. They need someone who has played at the highest level, both club and internationally, and Khedira fulfils all of those requirements.
He offers you a bit of everything. His defensive work is proactive. He doesn't stand and wait for things to happen. He gets involved and in truth is more of a No. 8 or an all-action midfield player. He even scores a few goals and has a knack of timing his runs well – and he will link up well with Mesut Ozil given their history together with both Germany and Real Madrid.
Spaniards used to be in vogue but now it's Germans, and you know exactly what you are going to get from them: technical excellence and a fighting spirit. It's very rare they let you down. The only thing that slightly worries me about Khedira is that he sometimes comes across as a better international footballer than at club level.
He suffered from a serious injury last season but there was never any question that they wouldn't take him to Brazil, not with his track record for Germany, and it was only a matter of time before he found his form at the World Cup. In the semi-final against Brazil, Khedira produced one of the outstanding performances of any player.
If Wenger can get him to reproduce his Germany form for Arsenal then he could be a big, big signing.
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Packers Back With New QB Taking Snaps
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — The Packers are back at practice with a new quarterback taking the first-team snaps.
Injured Aaron Rodgers could only watch while Seneca Wallace ran through drills Wednesday.
Coach Mike McCarthy says Rodgers is helping out Wallace as much as possible. McCarthy hopes Wallace will benefit from a full week of running the offense instead of the handful of snaps he used to take in practice behind Rodgers.
The franchise quarterback has a fractured left collarbone. Green Bay has called Rodgers "week to week," and there's no exact timetable for his return except that McCarthy says it's not season-ending.
For now, it appears that Wallace will be running the show Sunday against the Philadelphia Eagles. He will be making his first start since January 1, 2012, when he was with the Cleveland Browns.
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Is the Y2K bug a threat to the world's nuclear arsenal?
Two speakers will address this issue at a public presentation on
Feb. 8 at 7:15 p.m. in Begbie 158. Daniel Wolfish, an associate with the centre for global studies, will speak on "Canada's Nuclear Weapons Policy" and discuss what kind of nuclear weapons policy Canada should have, both as a close ally of the U.S., and in relation to the current strategic review being undertaken by NATO and the possibility that organization will renounce first use of nuclear weapons.
Electronics specialist Phil Rossner will speak on "The Millennium Bug and The Bomb" after a showing of the video "The Year 2000 Problem: Challenge of Our Lifetime." Rossner has 18 years experience in the electronics manufacturing industry, as well as training as a computer systems specialist. The presentation is sponsored by the faculties of law and education, by Physicians for Global Survival and World Federalists.
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Here is a summary of responses to the following query (from Sept 12)=
the bilogarithmic type/token ratio. Many thanks to Patrick Juola,=20
Alex Chengyu Fang, Donghoon Van Uytsel, Adam Kilgariff, Bill Fisher,=20
Mary E. Helt, Bob Krovetz, and Eric Atwell.
Best regards,
Alice Carlberger
>As part of an effort to standardize the cross-product and cross-linguistic=
>testing of word predictors, we are trying to build a multi-lingual test=
>corpus with texts of the same degree of complexity for each language. It=
>that one possible measure of complexity would be the bilogarithmic=
>ratio, described in G. Herdans' "Type-Token Mathematics" and Henry Kucera=
>W. Nelson Francis' "Computational Analysis of Present-Day American=
>And now I am wondering whether anyone could help us to figure out how (if=
>possible) to use this ratio for cross-linguistic comparison, in our case=20
>especially the comparison between languages of different degrees of
>e.g., English (little inflection) and Swedish (relatively high degree of=20
>inflection). Or could anyone suggest other measures of complexity, i.e.,=
>that are more appropriate for cross-linguistic use? Any help in this matter=
>would be greatly appreciated.
Patrick Juola <email@example.com>
Used Kolmogorov complexity as the base for his metric.
Juola, Patrick. 1997. Measuring Linguistic Complexity : The
Morphological Tier, in Proceedings of the Third International
Conference on Quantitative Linguistics (QUALICO-97), Aug. 26-9,
Helsinki, Finland. pp. 98-9.=20
He should have a longer version out within a month for the Journal
of Quantitative linguistics.
Alex Chengyu Fang <email@example.com>
During the development of an efficient multi-lingual text alignment=20
algorithm, they found that the number of verbs seemed to be a fairly=
constant across European language sentence pairs that are mutual=20
translations. The indication came from English and Portuguese. See
J. Campbell, N. Chatterjee, A.C. Fang, and M. Manela. 1996. Improving=20
Automated Alignment in Parallel Corpora. In Language, Information and=20
Computation: PACLIC 11. ed. by B-S. Park and J-B. Kim. Language Education=20
and Research Institute, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea, 1996. pp 63-72.
"What could be interesting is to investigate whether variations in the=
of verbs across two different texts (in two different European languages)=20
could be used as a pointer towards text complexity, though we do know that=
this parameter indicates different genres of speech and writing in English.
See, for instance,
Fang, A.C. 1995. The distribution of infinitives in Contemporary British=20
English - a study based on the British ICE Corpus. In Oxford Literary &=20
Linguistic Computing, 10:4. pp 247-257.
Fang, A.C. Forthcoming. Verb Forms and Subcategorisations. In Oxford=20
Literary and Linguistic Computing, 12:4.
There are, of course, many other better measures but automatic processing=20
for part-of-speech information (tagging) is now relatively easy and=20
inexpensive to achieve. "
"D.H. Van Uytsel" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
D.H. Van Uytsel (016)32.1859 http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~donghoon
Is planning to do a comparative study between written English and Dutch,
from the (engineering) viewpoint of stochastic modeling for speech
recognition, starting 1998.
"So far, I've not yet browsed the literature about this carefully. I am
convinced that there is no easy measure for "text complexity". Most
straightforward would be to take humans (native speakers for each
language), and record scores of a repeated "guess-which-word-follows"
In large-vocabulary speech-recognition research, the measure "perplexity"*
is quite common. It is a good indicator for the difficulty of a certain
domain (language/application/vocabulary) to automatically recognize. The
disadvantage is, we don't know yet how it relates to the genuine
perplexity (I mean, for humans), and which factors influence its
behaviour. Also, it is always a measure with respect to a certain language
model (e.g. a back-off word trigram). "
*F. Jelinek and R.L. Mercer, Interpolated Estimation of
Markov Source Parameters from Sparse Data, in E.S. Geltsema and L.N. Kanal
(eds), "Pattern Recognition in Practice", North Holland 1980, Amsterdam.
email@example.com (Adam Kilgarriff)
Kilgarriff's review of Doug Biber's 95 book would serve as a good basis=20
for finding equivalent genres.
"Using word frequency lists to measure corpus homogeneity and=20
similarity between corpora." Has just appeared in Proc Wkshop on
Very Large Corpora, China, Aug 97. See homepage.
"One candidate approach would be to use perplexity (there's a set of
tools at CMU that do all the sums for you and look quite easy to
install). I don't have a clear intuition about whether this would
address the inflections issue, it might well."
the Oslo/Bergen project on parallel and 'stylistically-matched' corpora=20
His own work on measures for corpus similarity:
"I've only looked at things monolingually but I can envisage ways of
adapting it to a cross-lingual measure." =20
Bill Fisher <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Suggests using the "corpus perplexity" (aka "test set perplexity")
([which is] "a measure of complexity that is very popular among=20
researchers in automatic speech recognition, since it's pretty=20
straightforward to calculate and correlates strongly with the=20
percentage of errors that speech recognizers generally make. =20
While it's usually used to measure how good a statistical=20
language model is at predicting the word strings in a test=20
set of sentences (a corpus), if you hold the language model=20
constant, it can also be used to calibrate the complexity of=20
the corpus."
"Roughly speaking, it's the average number of word choices
the language model allows you when recognizing (or building)
the sentences of a corpus, modeling your actions as "first
pick the first word; then, given that, pick the second; then,
given that, pick the third ...". It's always calculated
relative to a given language model, which is typically a
statistical 2-gram or 3-gram Markovian one."
"There's a discussion of it in the recent book "Corpus-Based
Methods in Language and Speech Processing", ed. Steve Young
and Gerrit Bloothooft, Kluwer, 1997, ISBN 0-7923-4463-4,
p. 178 ff. And a handy toolkit to calculate it (and the
statistical LM that it needs) is available from CMU and
Cambridge; see http://svr-www.eng.cam.ac.uk/~prc14/toolkit.html."
"One disadvantage of it is that it requires a large corpus
of sentences to train up the language model that is used
in its calculation. But on the other hand, many such
corpora have recently been made available by the LDC.
for doing cross-language work, you would have to try to
derive statistical language models that represent the
languages about equally well. You might think that another
disadvantage is the fact that the brain-dead Markovian
language modeling can't get at the real essence of the
language, but you'd be surprised how much of the syntactic,
semantic, and pragmatic constraint is captured in a few
words of immediate context."
Marie E. Helt <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Biber (1995) "does a factor analysis on the frequency of a wide range of=20
linguistic features in Somali, Korean, Tuvaluan and English. Differences=20
among the languages vary, and are shown along five dimensions of variation.=
This approach might help you identify which linguistic features co-occur=20
in more complex texts across languages."
Bob Krovetz <email@example.com>
Gustav Herdan, Lecturer in Statistics, University of Bristol, "Type-Token
Mathematics: A Textbook of Mathematical Linguistics", 1960, Mouton & Co.,
's-Gravenhage, Janua Linguarum: Studia memoriae, Nicolai van Wijk Dedicata
edenda curat Cornelis H. can Schooneveld, Leiden, Series Maior IV, 1960,=20
Mouton & Co., 's-Gravenhage.
Eric Atwell <email@example.com> =20
Centre for Computer Analysis of Language And Speech
School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds, LEEDS LS2 9JT, England
WWW: http://agora.leeds.ac.uk/scs/public/staff/eric.html
..."we are looking for similar metrics
for a very different application: assessing an unknown signal (e.g. from=20
outer space, of extra-terrestrial origin) to determine whether it=
`language', and trying to delimit and recognise equivalents of characters,
words, phrases/sentences. At the simple level of determining whether=20
a binary sequence encodes characters, and how many bits are used for each
`character', it seems useful to look for a Zipfian type-token=20
distribution: we know this holds with English text for characters,=20
graphemes, stem-forms or lemmas, parts-of-speech, and grammatical=
I suggest Zipfian type-token distributions should also hold at these levels
for other languages, EXCEPT that for highly-inflected languages the grapheme
curve will be shallower. So, to directly compare complexity of English and
Swedish text, you should compare word-stemmed or lemmatised text samples
instead of `raw' grapheme-sequences.=20
Alice Carlberger E-mail: email@example.com
KTH (Royal Institute of Technology) Phone: +46 8 790 75 62
TMH (Dept. of Speech, Music and Hearing) Fax: +46 8 790 78 54
Drottning Kristinas v=E4g 31
S-100 44 Stockholm


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>When I start KDE I run this script to change the screen resolution:
>xrandr --newmode 1280x1024 159.36 1280 1376 1512 1744 1024 1025 1028
>1075 -HSync +Vsync
>xrandr --addmode DVI-I_1/analog 1280x1024
>xrandr --output DVI-I_1/analog --mode 1280x1024
>I wish to move this configuration to xorg.conf but I don't know how.
I think your xorg.conf sample below is missing just one line (and
I'll add it there); I've just been solving this same problem.
In addition to the PreferredMode line, I would change the "Modeline"
capitalization to "ModeLine" (even though I'm not certain whether
it matters).
>Section "Monitor"
> #this is the monitor I want to setup
> Identifier "cuadrado"
> Option "RightOf" "panel"
> Modeline "1280x1024" 159.36 1280 1376 1512 1744 1024 1025 1028 1075
PreferredMode "1280x1024"
>Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "panel"
>Section "Device"
> Identifier "Card0"
> Driver "radeonhd"
> Option "monitor-DVI-I_1/analog" "cuadrado"
> Option "monitor-DVI-I_2/digital" "panel"
> Option "RROutputOrder" "DVI-I_2/digital"
I hope that was the help you needed.
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Found out today that MOWCYA has mostly caught up on January cases (ours was Jan 15) but hasn't had time to let agencies know whose are ready and whose aren't do to working so hard on the cases themselves. We should hear something tomorrow one way or another.
Here are our 3 sweeties! Our boy has purple shoes on. Haha he joins another Cash boy who was wearing pink or purples shoes in every picture we got of him when he was in Ethiopia. Haha I love how they are all 3 holding on to each other. They are so close.
Wednesday, February 06, 2013
Good news to come...maybe?
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- Jean said...
Hi Kelly!! So excited for you and your family!! Praise God that the process is moving along!! I can't wait to see the other half of that photo!!
We loved your Christmas card! Thank you for thinking of us! We are home from CHina now with the 3 girls!! All is well and they are doing great! I think of you often- especially when I look at our Madeline. She is absolutely precious (but I don't think she looks Chinese at all ;-)
Blessings to you!!
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Ruth posted a most excellent rant about factory made vs. handmade clothes.
Why should home-made try to emulate factory production, mass market, RTW garments? What's wrong with taking time in sewing something? A bit of tacking and basting here and there, listening to the radio and daydreaming; sitting in the sunshine with needle and thread in hand, then drifting off; getting round to finishing it off later…. dreaming of fabrics and patterns and designs and lifestyle suitability. Time – take your time… what's the rush? Rush is RTW and commercialisation. Why should a garment have mm perfect topstitching? – Know what? That says to me computer/machine – laser guided did it, not a human.
There's something out there that says if your sewing doesn't look like this, then it's crap! THAT IS CRAP. Oh the starter sewers and beginners and the novices and the nubes – you will be tempted by perfection. This is not a bad thing, but do not even try to make your skirt look like Primark made it. They didn't make your skirt – YOU did. Take pride in that alone.
For all of my sewing life people have been saying things like, "It looks as good as store bought," usually in rather amazed tones. I accept the compliment as it is intended but this really means two things to me: 1. That people don't pay attention to details. If they did they would notice that the topstitching is not machine perfect, that the pattern is not matched at the side seams, and a dozen other minor things that are glaringly obvious to me. 2. That our culture has a twisted notion of quality.
I'm going to do something I never do. I'm going to talk about God for a minute but don't worry; it doesn't matter if you don't believe. I'm just talking about the universal definition of God as perfection or, at the very least, as a being superior to mere humans. Look closely at nature. There is symmetry, yes, but there are also thousands of tiny irregularities. There is unevenness, crookedness, and wonkiness. So, if God's creations are superior and those creations are irregular why do we consider things that are made so as to eliminate all irregularities to be superior?
Ready-to-wear is not the standard by which clothes should be judged and therefore "as good as store-bought" does not make sense as a compliment. There are several photos in Ruth's post of the insides of actual haute couture garments – really expensive designer clothes. And you know what? They are hand made! They look like the insides of any hand-made garment. The stitching is not machine perfect.
I'm not saying we should embrace wonkiness, not worry about matching plaids or trying to make our topstitching as straight as possible. Oh no! We should always strive to do our best. But we should realize that not only is machine perfection impossible, it is not even a worthwhile goal.


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Construction for a good cause, the Wiregrass Habitat for Humanity is at it again.
The walls have finally been raised for a family that is being blessed with a new house. Construction began last week and everyone is excited. Eddie and Bessie Cochran have been married for 32 years and they are very thankful to receive a new place to lay their heads.
Working hand in hand with volunteers throughout the Wiregrass, the Cochrans' have devoted more than 500 sweat hours to their home and other habitat homes.
This is number 121 for the amount of homes built in the Wiregrass from the Habitat for Humanity.
"Well we've been painting; we've been going to clean up houses. I mean anything that habitat calls on us and asks us to do, we always do it," said Bessie Cochran.
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Should you be curious about the whole stance modding philosophy, look no further than this video produced by Pacific north west photographer Mike Kippen about Mark Lambert's amulet red B6 A4 sedan.
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GOOD morning, and welcome to our morning news coverage. We will be bringing you the best of what's happening this morning, so you can get across the news quickly.
• Incredible Hulk photobombs live news coverage
• Skeleton of unborn baby removed from woman nearly four decades later
• Wet weather: east coast drenched, more wild weather to come
• What happens when the world's most famous enemies meet face to face?
• Indefinite ceasefire in Gaza after 50 days of bloodshed
• Malaysia Airlines staff quit over fears for life
• Aussie politicians take part in ice bucket challenge weeks
• Drone footage reveals extent of earthquake damage in California
• 'Apologise? I don't think so', says PUP's Jacqui Lambie
That's it for our live #RUSHHOUR news blog. You can get across the stories you need to know today below or go to news.com.au for the latest headlines.
Cutest. Thing. Ever. Vice President Joe Biden meets 108-year-old Lucy Coffey, America's oldest woman.
(If you're looking for the sound button, look in the bottom right hand corner).
When the NT News first saw these incredible pictures, they thought aliens were invading.
But after consulting some boffins, "weird lightning reporter" David Krantz discovered the pictures actually show a spectacular form of lightning rarely captured on camera.
Find out the details HERE.
Palmer United Party senator Jacqui Lambie won't apologise for warning of a Chinese invasion of Australia, despite her leader doing so for his bizarre anti-China rant. Mr Palmer has apologised to the "Chinese people everywhere" for last week describing China's government as "mongrels" and "bastards" who shoot their own people.
Senator Lambie said the PUP leader had little choice because "people are still quite irate about his comments".
However, she would not offer a similar apology for her China invasion warning, in which she said Australia needed to double the size of it military to "stop our grandchildren from becoming slaves to an aggressive, anti-democratic totalitarian foreign power". The outspoken Tasmanian senator on Wednesday declared: "I'm not backing down".
"I don't see why I would offer an apology when I'm actually speaking about the Chinese communist regime and not the Chinese people," she told ABC Radio.
"I'm very grateful to the Chinese people and having them as trading partners and I certainly know my Tasmania is."
Drone footage shows incredible aerial views of the damage caused by an earthquake in northern California on Sunday night.
One word of advice: mute the sound.
I feel your pain, Luke.
Hey, Australia, if you've seen similar early Christmas decorations, hit me up @MattYoung on Twitter.
@newscomauHQ Alert. David Jones near me is selling CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS IN AUGUST. #NotOK. pic.twitter.com/Eyas3yPdsE"— Luke Buckle (@buckleup) August 26, 2014
We're lucky to live in such a beautifully diverse environment, aren't we?
The beautiful colours of the country near Papunya #CentralAustralia #NorthernTerritory pic.twitter.com/BQeBWcEvO9— Richard Waring (@rjwaring) August 26, 2014
"The last team with which Mark played was a team of 45 men and women, and the field they played on was not a wide and grassy rugby field, it was a narrow cabin and cockpit of a Boeing 757 hurtling over the Pennsylvania countryside".
Who would have thought that an act of terrorism would be the catalyst for the introduction of the World Cup of gay Rugby?
Sydney is acting host for the eight-day festival which kicked off on Sunday, but there's a much bigger story here, as the Wentworth Courier's Robbie Patterson reports:
The Bingham Cup, is named after gay rugby player, Mark Bingham — one of a group of passengers aboard American Airlines flight 93 during terrorist attacks on September 11.
The group bravely rushed terrorists in an attempt to take back control of the plane and forced them to crash in a field outside Pennsylvania, potentially saving hundreds more in the Washington area, but not themselves.
Mr Bingham's mother, Alice Hoagland said the cup, which will be played this weekend, was not just about equality, but sent an overriding message of freedom, which she hoped would reach the likes of ISIS after the terror ring beheaded American journalist James Foley.
Gay or straight, we need more heroes in our world, like Mark Bingham.
"It's ironic that he's become this gay hero. When I was interviewed after 9/11, people asked the gay question. I always just said, the thing that this shows is that whenever groups act heroically, there may or may not be gay people among them. Period."
Here, here.
This is GOLD.
As floods hit Illinois in the United States, news crew WGN took to their helicopter to report live from the scene.
What they didn't expect though, was what was to come.
Yes, that's a giant Incredible Hulk garden statue. And yes, that's his hilarious owner.
Wild weather continues to lash the east coast as Sydney's wettest August in 15 years shows no signs of drying up.
Severe weather warnings have been issued for Northern New South Wales and Queenslanders should also be on alert as a low pressure system moves north along the coast, bringing plenty of rain with it.
Heavy bursts of rain are expected throughout NSW and southern Queensland this morning following heavy rainfall overnight.
Southern suburbs of Sydney received over 70mm of rain last night and although the system is moving north — with more than 100mm expected in some areas of the north coast — heavy showers are still expected in the metro area this morning.
The Severe Weather Warning for heavy rain for people in the Northern Rivers, Mid North Coast and Northern... http://t.co/z7iqIt69Fd— NSW SES (@NSWSES) August 26, 2014
We're all for charity causes, but is anyone else SO OVER the ice bucket challenge?
When Education Minister Christopher Pyne takes part, you know its lost part of its cool.
Post by Christopher Pyne.
And now it looks like he's started a horrible chain of political dares. Pyne challenged Greens senator Sarah Hanson Young, who threw a bucket of ice over herself in Canberra this morning. She has since challenged Immigration Minister Scott Morrison, Clive Palmer, and Greens leader Christine Milne. Here's hoping this is the last we see of it.
@sarahinthesen8 about to do the ice bucket challenge. #doors pic.twitter.com/eM2Hiy9f2g— Laura Jayes (@ljayes) August 26, 2014
@sarahinthesen8 #IceBucketChallenge done. It's 7 degrees. @CliveFPalmer @ScottMorrisonMP @senatormilne nominated. pic.twitter.com/xH5DObNMoF— Laura Jayes (@ljayes) August 26, 2014
@ljayes There's not enough water or ice in there to keep a beer cold.— BenFordham (@BenFordham) August 26, 2014
Great shot! "AndrewBGreene: at Parliament's AFL Cocktail event @TonyAbbottMHR and @billshortenmp eye off the prize pic.twitter.com/3BubRYSKfD— Lee Jeloscek (@jeloscek) August 26, 2014
Nearly 200 cabin crew have resigned from Malaysia Airlines after two deadly tragedies this year have staff fearing for their safety.
The flag carrier, which prior to this year had a good safety record, has been in the spotlight in the past six months following the disappearance of flight MH370 on March 8 and the shooting down of MH17 on July 17 over rebel-held eastern Ukraine.
The airline said overnight that 186 crew had left in the first seven months of this year, with many blaming family pressure prompted by the tragedies.
"Following the MH17 incident, there was a spike in crew resignations but the number has now decreased to acceptable and routinely expected levels," it said in a statement "Many cited 'family pressure' as the reason for their resignation due to the MH17 and MH370 tragedies."
Abdul Malek Ariff, secretary-general of the employees union, said some "are now are afraid to fly".
Abdul Malek, quoted by the Edge Financial daily Monday, also said crew shortages were forcing staff to work up to 12 hours a day.
The union represents about 8000 of Malaysia Airlines' 19,500-strong workforce.
The carrier said it was providing emotional and psychological support to its staff.
The two aviation tragedies killed 537 people including 27 crew members.
The ailing airline is in the midst of being taken private by sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional as part of an expected major overhaul.
Khazanah is expected this week to announce a series of restructuring measures including job cuts and axing of unprofitable international routes.
The carrier has struggled amid intense competition, losing $US1.3 billion ($A1.41 billion) over the past three years even before the two disasters.
For this year's first quarter the airline posted a net loss of 443 million ringgit ($A148.23 million) citing MH370's impact on bookings. It was the fifth straight quarterly loss.
Australia's Human Rights Commissioner — will he or won't he?
So, I just got the ice bucket challenge ...— Tim Wilson (@timwilsoncomau) August 26, 2014
Missed the Emmys yesterday? Ran out of time to catch up? I've got you covered:
Outstanding drama series: Breaking Bad
Outstanding comedy series: Modern Family
Outstanding television movie: The Normal Heart
Outstanding actor in a drama series: Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad
Outstanding actress in a drama series: Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife
Outstanding supporting actor in a drama series: Aaron Paul, Breaking Bad
Outstanding supporting actress in a drama series: Anna Gunn, Breaking Bad
Outstanding lead actress in a comedy series: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep
Outstanding lead actor in a comedy series: Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory
Outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series: Ty Burrell, Modern Family
Outstanding supporting actress in a comedy series: Allison Janney, Mom
Modern Family made Emmy history with its fifth consecutive best comedy win.
Highlights From 2014 Emmy Awards3:01
'Breaking Bad' and 'Modern Family' were big winners at the 66th annual Emmy Awards. The WSJ's Eva Tam reviews the top moments of the night – like Bryan Cranston making out with Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Billy Crystal's tribute to Robin Williams.
What happens when two of the world's most famous enemies meet face to face?
Overnight, the presidents of Russia and Ukraine sat down to crunch one-on-one talks over heavy fighting in east Ukraine as the Kremlin admitted for the first time its troops had entered its neighbour's territory.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Russian leader Vladimir Putin began a key bilateral meeting on Tuesday after six hours of difficult negotiations alongside top EU officials in Minsk aimed at defusing a crisis some fear could lead to all-out war between Kiev and Moscow.
There had seemed little hope for a major breakthrough after the conflict appeared to escalate when Ukraine released footage hours ahead of the talks purporting to show 10 Russian soldiers it had captured on its territory.
A Moscow military source claimed the soldiers had crossed into Ukraine "by accident".
"In Minsk at this meeting the fate of the world and Europe is being decided," Poroshenko said in Russian as the earlier roundtable meeting started with Putin alongside top EU representatives and the leaders of Kazakhstan and Belarus.
Putin, however, barely mentioned the brutal fighting that has killed some 2,200 people in the east of Ukraine since April in remarks at the start of the group talks, focusing instead on the damage Kiev's recent agreement with the EU could have on Russia's economy.
On Tuesday it was announced that the Russian economy is nearing recession. At the same time it was also reported that the Ukrainian currency slid to a new record low against the dollar.
Israel and the militant Islamist group Hamas halted mutual attacks overnight, after agreeing to an indefinite ceasefire in a move to end 50 days of bloodshed which killed 2,143 Palestinians and 69 Israelis.
The two sides accepted a proposal by Egyptian mediators for an immediate halt of Israeli air strikes in the Gaza strip and militant rocket attacks on Israel, to be followed by talks in Cairo on terms of a durable truce.
An Indian woman has had the skeletal remains of her unborn baby removed from her abdomen — nearly four decades after it died.
Kantabi Thakre is thought to have the world's longest ectopic pregnancy after falling pregnant 1978.
Doctors warned the then-24-year-old that her baby was unlikely to survive after they discovered it was growing outside the womb. Terrified, she fled her village and sought treatment in a local health centre where her pregnancy was terminated.
36 years later, the stomach pain returned to haunt her and the 60-year-old Mrs Thakre sought medical attention in Nagpur, Central India.
An MRI scan at the NKP Salve Institute of Medical Sciences revealed the skeleton inside the woman's abdomen.
"The amniotic fluid that protects the foetus might have been absorbed and the soft tissues liquefied over time with only a bag of bones with some fluid remaining," Dr Mohammad Yunus Shah said.
Previously, the longest ectopic pregnancy was a Belgium woman who carried the remains of her unborn child for 18 years.


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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- The Giants are one game away from heading home, and they might do so with the World Series MVP back in the lineup.
Manager Bruce Bochy said third baseman Pablo Sandoval showed improvement Tuesday and no longer feels pain in his right elbow after a bout of ulnar neuritis. Sandoval is scheduled to go through a light workout Wednesday and might resume throwing.
"From two days ago, we're a lot more optimistic about the possibility of him going opening day," Bochy said.
Sandoval hasn't played since March 16 and has had multiple tests on his right elbow to determine the extent of the damage. Bochy now believes that Sandoval could get back on the field when the Giants play the A's in a three-game exhibition series that starts Thursday.
The Giants begin the season April 1 against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
On a back field at Scottsdale Stadium, Bochy (first base), coaches Tim Flannery (second base) and Billy Hayes (third base) and instructor Shawon Dunston (shortstop) made up the infield in a simulated game. For Cain's sixth and final inning, the outfield alignment was the trio of Madison Bumgarner (left field), Barry Zito (center) and Tim Lincecum (right).
"This is a Hall of Fame Game," Cain yelled between innings. "More like the Hall of Shame!"
Despite the laid-back atmosphere, Cain said he won't have any trouble turning up the dial for the first opening day assignment of his nine-year major league career. What's more, he thinks the simulated game -- rather than facing the San Diego Padres -- helped him get focused.
"It's tougher because you have to play the game in your mind," Cain said. "That's almost harder. That's good mental preparation."
Cain threw 93 pitches against minor leaguers and worked at length on throwing pitches low and away to right-handed batters. He took advantage of the relaxed setting, stopping catcher Jackson Williams and first baseman Todd Linden several times to ask them about the movement on pitches.
The next hitters Cain faces will be Dodgers, and he said he is becoming increasingly excited about his opening day start.
"It'll be memorable for me," he said. "It's one of those spots you've got to work for and earn."
Last year's winner, right-hander Dan Otero, was claimed off waivers Tuesday by the New York Yankees.
For more on the Giants, see Alex Pavlovic's Giants Extra blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/Giants.


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An Iberia woman is dead after a crash in Miller County.
The accident happened Thursday evening on Highway 42, east of Spring Branch Road.
Investigators say Stephanie Myers, 40, went off the road, overcorrected and went off the road again. Her car flipped several times and troopers say she was thrown from the vehicle.
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Reply To The Article Titled: ''Security Threat To Somaliland From Islamic Courts'' By Rashid Nur
Saeed H Osman, London, UK
First of all, I would like to acknowledge to our readers that I am not one of those people who comment what other people generally write or say about Somaliland because every one of us entitled to air their own views, but at the same time we bear in mind the consequences of provocative manners to other people, even if it not serious one. I think people should remember if they criticize others and choose to go offensive, then they must also expect steadfast response. Therefore, a word of caution, even though we are free to choose our own pathways, we should remember, it's always easier for us to create enemies than we are wining new friends, therefore I think, people should think twice before they embark on a false as well as damaging revelation. Indeed, if we plan to write anything, I believe it must be beneficial for our community, otherwise it would only result personality damage and humiliation.
Now for me the reason I choose to reply to the author today is to question his motives of the above-mentioned article he wrote few days ago, which I thought, was unjustifiable fantasy. I truly astonished to see irresponsible letter claiming that terrorism and Al-qa'eeda is in fact at large and present in Somaliland second largest city (the Buroa city). I strongly refute the author claim, as it has no the slightest truth in it whatsoever and I call it a daylight dream. It's really surprising to see accusation of that level on entire region indiscriminately, and the fact of the matter is this; the letter was meant to undermine the people of Somaliland in that region of the country. I thought the author could have made valuable arguments if he directly took the initiative to approach the Sheikh himself since he was just away a one phone call to established the fact from fictions without speculating anything or deliberately pointing finger to anyone.
I think, these kind of provocative manners are inappropriate in these circumstances where Somaliland needs every little support from our surrounding neighbors including the Islamic Courts, even the president Rayaale made for the first time a cautious statement that I thought was right thing to do. I also thought it was really well planned and deliberate backstabbing attempt on Buroa city and the whole Somaliland nation reputation in broader sense to say terrorism is present in our cities.
I have tried to make sense of the letter published by the author, but unfortunately it was all negative aspects, with no one single positive outcome other than to demonize the case of Somaliland domestically, as well as internationally by stating clearly that Alqa'eeda real in Somaliland and present in our homes and cities, and also to give ammunitions and home made evidence to our enemy as nation since we know now they are searching so hard argument like this to paint so badly the image of Somaliland in the eyes of our enemy.
About the sheikh and his connection with Dahir Aweys:
Firstly and foremost, I would like people to understand that I am not a Sheikh Ali Wasame speaker or his representative in that matter. I know the sheikh is just a spiritual leader and one of the finest Islamic scholars in Somaliland. I didn't know or heard anyone disputing about the depth of his knowledge when it comes to Islam and religion matters. I think having someone like him should be seen in Somaliland as an assets not the opposite. At the time when the Islamic winds sweeping the whole globe, I believe, people like the sheikh Ali Warsame could be valuable assets for our nation. I think as Muslim nation we ought to celebrate as mentioned that the sheikh is influential leader and surely people like him should have been drafted into our use and as role model and should not be seen as threat otherwise we encouraging him to act against Somaliland.
The Sheikh Ali Warsame is also has an immediate family connection with the Dahir Aweys but it shouldn't been read as political connection because its not. The Sheikh Ali Warsame is actually married to Dahir Aweys sister and that makes them brothers. Now if the sheikh travel to see his in laws does that mean he's a member of the Islamic Courts? I have made a little research about the sheikh in trying to understand your simplistic version of terrorism, however, everyone I asked questions specially, those very close to the sheikh rejected your indulgence of terrorism. Of course you correctly said the sheikh is influential, and I am glad you rightly said so, but what is that got to do with the terrorism? I asked question many people who are close to the sheikh, and they told me that sheikh Ali Warsame has never show the symptoms that he has an office ambitions just like many of us today, in fact he is seeking a higher office that no human can reward him which is ''Janah''. To my knowledge he has no Ego's to be a political leader now or in the long run.
The author mentioned that the two men met previously in Holy city of Mecca when they were in the Haj. For example if anyone of us meet his or her in laws who happen to be leader of organization or maybe living in another region does that constitute terrorism, or mean we are up to something and terrorist? Should we be suspicious about every private family meeting? More importantly, its wise that we should use our common sense and worked out whether the situation is warrant for us to suspect when there was no risk at all in the first place, and there isn't smoke at all. We need to understand that when two prominent figures meet and its purely based on a family matters just as these two, and this accident which was a private and family gathering, people should respect and value the individual rights and indemnity. This is also part of our religion, culture and tradition for us to value family's affairs, freedom and privacy of individuals. I think author failed to distinguish the difference between personal and family relationship from that motivated political agenda. The author fail again to differentiate private visits from that mentioned in the letter with the unfounded false accusations translated into imminent and high risk matters as if the sheikh was/were about to attack the Somaliland when he happens to be in Haj as part of his duties to his god. Now its unbelievable to many people I spoke about the misinformation of the public and leveling people just in simplistic approach as he suggested and that should stop.
I thought it would have been also less controversial argument if the authors questioned the president Rayaale motives when he made comments in public that the government of Somaliland had contacts and ongoing discussions with the Butcher Abdillahi Yusuf. Shouldn't we be more concerned about the president motives rather than the sheikh Ali Warsame? Shouldn't we more interested to find out what is going on behind the closed door, and I am referring here to the finance mister of Somaliland, who was self appointed before even Adna Adan dismissed from the post of foreign ministry to liaise with Abdillahi Yusuf foreign appointed cabinet? The Minster also admitted openly his regular meetings with Col Abdillahi Yusuf and his ministers. Now put that into the context, and let the wider public of Somaliland be the judge, who is in fault and who is in collusion course with the wider interest of Somaliland; our government and president Rayaale or sheikh Ali Warsame and their verdict is in the public domain not secret.
More alarmingly, I thought as many people did, the author was playing in the hands of those who wish to see our country disintegrated further and further. We know well the Col Abdillahi Yusuf will use these rhetoric's from our own sources, to get aid and support for his non-functioning crumpling government by claiming Somaliland was as a safe heaven for terrorism when we all know and very clear that the opposite is true which means no terrorism in Somaliland and whoever said that was in a day light dream, and the author had no clue about Somaliland family tie framework.
The other grave mistake made by the author was this; he omitted the long history of Somaliland, and our longest struggle that lasted 25 odd years which can not be a white wash as the author may thought or wished for some unknown reason. We know the life of Somaliland didn't start in 1991, with the president Ibrahim Egal, and I know perfectly why few people don't feel comfortable about the whole history of the nation and with the SNM and so the majority of Somaliland people too. Therefore, its convenient and easier for them to reflect only the aftermath of SNM and 1990's ignoring the genocide planned by Gen Said Bare, but nevertheless, their history of Somaliland begun the 1991 and post war period and that is perfectly understandable.
I also would like to say few words about the Islamic courts in southern Somalia and why the general public do not share with the risk mentioned by the author that they will conquer Somaliland. We as nation have made our choice, and decided that Somaliland is better off as sovereign state regardless what others may think. If so unless the majority of the nation chooses to abandon the idea of Somaliland, which I think its likelihood is not in the horizons, I think one or two persons shouldn't be our concern even if the author wrong assessment was correct. Therefore, the majority of the public of Somaliland praises for those seeking to establish a peaceful government in Somalia whether they are an Islamic courts or otherwise, so long they would stabilize Somalia and would like to create a lasting peace, we congratulate them not condemning them for much of their bravery, because for a long time the Somali people have suffered under dictatorships and gang leaders simultaneously. I think it's about the time peace and tranquility was established in Somalia because the poor people deserve peaceful life just like Somaliland and any other nation. I wonder why should we as Somalilanders worry about if that is their objectives, especially when our neighboring country is becoming a prosper and stable state; I believe stable Somalia can benefit and contribute to Somaliland in many ways. So why and what is the panic and I would like to share the reason with the author if possible?
Unfortunately, the writer made big fuzz about the Islamic Courts, and the polarization of the immediate risks he mentioned in the letter when the international community as well as the independent organizations praised the role of Islamic Courts in Somalia. Indeed, we understand clearly that the western governments are looking ways to work with the Islamic Courts, because they are free of corruptions and malpractices. Its also fact and force to reckon with, and for that obvious reason will stay there in the long run whether we as Somalilanders like it or not. Also its perhaps important matter to evaluate in a governmental and political parties level, whether we see the Islamic Courts as risk or opportunity, but surely in the ways described by the author of the of this letter Mr. Rashid.
Anyone can see the fabrication, the untruth and false accusation of the sheikh Ali Warsame, after all, the author fail to mention the much danger posed by the gangs he blandly support, which is the enemy within Somaliland. The author understand perfectly well about the danger and risk facing Somaliland but he ignored for some reason or another, and for that matter the Rayaale administration poses high risk not the Sheik Ali Warsame that you wrongly identified.
Therefore, I think it would have been a brave action, if the author chooses to apologize fully for his explicitly claim of trying to tarnish the good image of Buroa region as well as to the good images of the sheikh Ali Warsame. Its for certain that the author words doesn't reach beyond the Somaliland web pages, but still, I think trying something is just like doing, isn't that truer?
Finally, in my humble opinion, I think the people of Somaliland must remember what is happening in Mogadishu should not be our first priority. Although its important to be vigilant and well informed about the region fragile security, we should concentrate our efforts to find ways of legitimizing our new elected parliament, warning the house of elders and president Rayaale to reverse the unsolicited mandate extension of the Guurti. Therefore I thought the author should be worry about what is happening in our government yards not Mogadishu as immediate threat and looming risk.
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Capital Design & Construction (CDC)
Making Sure Everything Goes As Planned
David Pletcher, our Director of Capital Design and Construction, has his hands full. With all the new construction on campus, this team has the not-always-easy job of making sure everything goes as planned.
And when something cannot or does not adhere to a plan set forth and agreed to before the project came close to breaking ground, Capital Design and Construction has to either redirect the job back on its path, or hustle to find an alternative that satisfies their strict guidelines and high standards. These large-scale and very visible projects are, however, just a small corner of what this team manages on a daily basis.
Maintaining the Aesthetic Character of the Campus
Capital Design and Construction oversees not only the large and obvious construction projects, but everything that gets a place on campus. From material, to size, to color, to exact placement, this team strives to maintain the aesthetic character of the campus.
This department is in charge of designing standards that ought to be followed campus-wide in order to maintain a continuous aesthetic across the campus. Capital Planning and Construction, in short, is the team responsible for the picture-perfect campus we have come to know and love.
Below, you will find the Capital Planning and Construction Mission Statement:
- Support the purpose and mission of the division
- Support and promote campus sustainability efforts
- Proactively manage and implement campus master, capital, and facilities planning processes
- Facilitate timely and cost effective construction of University facilities and infrastructure while maintaining required scope and meeting user needs
- Facilitate timely and cost effective management of University deferred maintenance projects
- Incorporate green building standards into each project
- Proactively promote an improved and uniform campus aesthetic
Erosion & Sediment Control Plan
Longwood University is taking strides toward limiting the adverse effects of stormwater runoff. Two of the impacts Longwood is working toward mitigating are Erosion and Sediment Control.
A set of standards addressing this need has been approved by the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality.
Construction & Design Standards
Below please find several links to Longwood University campus construction standards. These include the stormwater master plan, camera installation procedures, camera system standards, signage standards, University contractor safety, the complete Campus Construction Standards. Should you have any questions, concerns, or need further information, please contact Director of Capital Design and Construction, David Pletcher, at 434-395-2297 or email@example.com or Facilities Planner Jerry Jerome at 434-395-2883 or email@example.com.
- Capital Planning Design Standards
- Camera System Installation Procedures
- Standards for Campus Construction


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Studio at Hollywood Beach on Boardwalk
|Per night
|$80 - $150
|Per week
|$650 - $850
Just remodeled, furnished with one Queen and one Full bed, fully equipped kitchenette with granite countertops, new appliances, air-conditioning, Plasma TV/DVD, tile floors, nice shower bath., and free wireless high speed internet.
Vacation Rental Amenities:
Outdoor heated pool, Jacuzzi and kiddies pool, fitness room, parking, valet, bicycle rentals, varieties of bars and restaurants. Located directly on the famous Hollywood Beach Boardwalk, conveniently situated between Miami International and Ft. Lauderdale Airports.
Marvis Pichardo
Restaurants:(on premises) O 'Malley 's Ocean Pub - Best Burgers & Seafood on the Beach, Nat 's Beach Café, The Corner Store Deli, Beach Supplies & Convenience Store, Kathies Cappuccino Cafe - Gourmet Coffees and Treats, Hong Kong Wok Chinese cuisine, Oceanwalk Skewers and Subs Italian Submarine Sandwiches, Sloppy Giuseppes Italian Eatery Pizza, Pastas and Sub.
Local Attractions: Gulfstream Horse Racing - 1.5 miles, Dania Jai Alai & Las Vegas-style Slot Machines - 5 miles, South Beach Art Deco District - 10 miles, Museum of Discovery & IMAX Theater - 15 miles, Seminole Bingo and Gaming - 15 miles, Las Olas Shopping District - 15 miles, Sawgrass Mills Outlet Mall - 20 miles, Calder Race Track - 20 miles, Pro Player Stadium - 20 miles, Everglades Holiday Park - 50 miles, Florida Panthers Hockey Bank Atlantic Center - 20 miles, Miami Heat American Airlines Arena - 20 miles Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL): Approximate driving time 15 minutes.
Property Rates
|Jun 01 2016
|Sep 30 2016
|4 Nights
|Oct 01 2016
|Dec 31 2016
|1 Week
|Jan 01 2017
|May 31 2017
|1 Week
|Check In: 2 p.m. Check Out: 11 a.m.
|Lodging tax: Included
|Deposits: Weekly Rentals - $200.00 Monthly Rentals- $500.00
|Payment Options: Cashier's Check, Money Order, PayPal, Personal Check
|Other Fees: Cleanning Fee $50.00
Reviews for this vacation condo rental in Hollywood Beach, Florida
Larry Boemmels
Ansonia, CT
Carol Samos
hollywood beach resrt
August 27, 2012
we paid to stay 2 nights at the resort, room 753!! It was the worst place I have ever stayed at! the people were not very friendly, the room was sooo nasty we ended up leaving the next day and losing our money!! The bathroom was gross with water leaking threw the ceiling, the shower head was falling out of the wall. There was mold all over the room!!
Yvonne Tedder
St. Louis, MO USA
Great little place
April 1, 2012
Nice property, right on the beach and the Hollywood Beach Boardwalk. Very small, but perfect to sleep and shower.
Lise Léonard
Quebec, Canada
The best vacation!
January 7, 2012
We have rented this unit for 2 years in a row & had planned to rent again this year but I had an accident and we were forced to cancel. This unit on the 7th floor is extremely quiet and has a beautiful view of the Inter Coastal and the most beautiful sun set. The unit is spacious, cute and well decorated. The Hotel has very good security and the staff are very friendly. You have little shops in the hotel where you can buy different things, sandwiches, fresh bread and the best coffee. The heated pool is perfect for windy days and the ocean is just a few steps from the hotel. The owners are honest and very nice. I recommend this unit if you want to have a nice holiday.
Jacqueline Hernandez Villazon
Miami, Florida
Fantastic Getaway!
August 4, 2011
This was one of the most fun-filled vacations my family and I have taken. We were very fortunate to have found this rental property. The owners were wonderful and extremely accomodating. The unit itself was very well kept and very cozy. The only thing we regret is that we could not stay longer.
Edith Brouillard
Sunny Isle, Florida
Sunny Isle
April 2, 2011
It was a very modest apartment, the air conditioned was so very noisy I was unable to sleep, the bathroom has a old blue bath end green ceramics (crakles everywhere). The apartment needs to be repaint.
Anna DiLeo
New York
Studio, Hollywood, FL
March 28, 2010
Condo was in wonderful condition. Owner was very accommodating. Would use your service again.
Denys Carrière
Magog, Québec, Canada
nice condo
April 5, 2009
number one cleaning, very pretty, the owner was very nice with us, we love the place with the security and the proximity of the shops in the hotel, we want to come again.