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The Westin St Francis San Francisco on Union Square places you next to Union Square and within a 5-minute walk of other popular sights like Westfield San Francisco Center Shopping Mall. This 4-star hotel welcomes guests with conveniences like 3 restaurants, 3 bars/lounges, and a health club. Located in central San Francisco, the hotel is also near Lombard Street and Fisherman's Wharf.
This hotel is home to 3 onsite restaurants, perfect for a quick bite to eat. Savor a meal from the privacy of your room with 24-hour room service, or get a pick-me-up at the coffee shop/café. Start your day off with breakfast, available for a fee.
The rooms are air-conditioned and have an array of amenities, including coffee makers, free newspapers, and safes. Guests can expect WiFi, wired Internet, and 37-inch LCD TVs with cable channels and pay movies. Bathrooms offer deep soaking tubs, rainfall showers, hair dryers, and designer toiletries, and pillowtop beds with premium bedding ensure a restful night. Phones, ironing boards, and desks are other standard amenities.
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Guests staying at The Westin St Francis San Francisco on Union Square enjoy a health club, a steam room, and WiFi in public areas. Valet parking is available for USD 66 per day. Multilingual staff at the front desk are standing by 24/7 to help with dry cleaning/laundry, concierge services, and luggage storage. Additional amenities include 32 meeting rooms, a conference center, and a business center.
- Walking distance to Union Square and Westfield San Francisco Center Shopping Mall
- Onsite dining
- Health club
- WiFi in rooms and public areas (fees apply)
The Westin St Francis San Francisco on Union Square335 Powell Street San Francisco CA 94102
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
This legendary San Francisco hotel offers a premier location on Union Square, with a cable-car stop right outside the front door. The Financial District is four blocks away.
As part of a 2009 renovation, the signature Great Magneta Clock that debuted in the Main Lobby in 1907 has returned. Just off the Main Lobby, the pink marble staircase was also restored in the renovation. In the Tower Lobby, museum-quality display cases chronicle the history of The Westin St. Francis on Union Square through items such as menus, china, historic photos, and guest ledgers.
Guests experience the taste, sights, and sounds of the Napa Valley with premier winery Chateau Montelena. Located just off the Landmark Lobby, guests and the general public now have the opportunity to taste and purchase a wide selection of wines from this esteemed winery.
Amenities include wireless (high-speed) Internet access (surcharge) and concierge services.
- 24-hour front desk
- ATM/banking
- Number of floors - 31
- Valet parking (surcharge)
- Number of bars/lounges - 3
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Business center
- Coffee shop or café
- Concierge services
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Conference space
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Express check-out
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Health club
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Computer station
- Meeting rooms 32
- Multilingual staff
- Total number of rooms - 1,195
- Porter/bellhop
- Luggage storage
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Conference space size (meters) - 5
- Conference center
- Year Built 1904
- Number of restaurants - 3
- Conference space size (feet) - 56,000
- Shopping on site
- Smoke-free property
- Number of buildings/towers - 2
- Steam room
- Wedding services
Available in all rooms: Wireless internet access ( USD 14.95 per night ), Wired internet access ( USD 14.95 per day )
Available in some public areas: Wireless internet access ( USD 14.95 per night )
Valet parking (surcharge)
Room Amenities
- Air conditioning
- Phone
- Bathrobes
- Coffee/tea maker
- Microwave (on request)
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Shower/tub combination
- Deep soaking bathtub
- Rainfall showerhead
- Pillowtop mattress
- Cable TV service
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Free newspaper
- Designer toiletries
- Desk
- Hair dryer
- Daily housekeeping
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- In-room safe
- Iron/ironing board
- In-room massage available
- Pay movies
- Premium bedding
- Premium TV channels
- Refrigerator (on request)
- Room service (24 hours)
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Wired high-speed Internet access (surcharge)
Where to Eat
Oak Room Restaurant & Lounge - American cuisine with regional flavors served in historic room paneled with rich, polished woods. Children's menu. Cocktails and appetizers. Breakfast (buffet and à la carte), lunch, and dinner daily.
Caruso's - House-made pastries, specialty coffee drinks, wines by the glass, panini sandwiches, salads, and full bar. Located in the Tower Lobby, amid silk drapes, wingback chairs, leather lounge chairs, and tables accented by silver-and-gold granite and bronze. Open daily for breakfast, lunch, and cocktails.
Clock Bar - Located in the Main Lobby. Cocktail lounge specializing in handcrafted cocktails and creative menu selections. Rosewood walls, dark leather banquettes. Two columns of hand-blown champagne glass and amber-colored glass display clocks showing the time in cities around the world.
The Chateau Montelena Tasting Room - The Westin St. Francis is proud to partner with premier winery Chateau Montelena. Located just off the Landmark Lobby, guests and the general public now have the opportunity to taste and purchase a wide selection of wines from this esteemed winery.
Room service is available 24 hours a day.
Nearby Things to Do
WestinWORKOUT® Fitness Studio - When you're on the road, sticking to a fitness routine can be a challenge. Not anymore. Time-efficient, high-performance workouts developed especially for Westin will maximize your results. These performance-driven workouts provide a total body experience that is integrated and tailored especially for your favorite equipment at our WestinWORKOUT® Fitness Studio. The cardio room is equipped with Life Fitness treadmills, bicycles, and motion trainers. Our weight floor is equipped with dual-pulley machines, free-weight equipment, and 5- to 50-pound dumbbells.
Men's and women's locker rooms offer steam rooms, complimentary day lockers, robes, and additional amenities.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the Westin St. Francis on Union Square; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Kayaking nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
To make special requests for accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
- Pets stay free
- Dogs only
- Up to 40 lb
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Pets allowed (no fees)
Noise-free rooms not guaranteed
Optional extras
- Breakfast fee: between USD 10 and USD 37 per person (approximately)
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: USD 14.95 per night (rates may vary)
- Fee for in-room high-speed Internet (wired): USD 14.95 per day (rates may vary)
- Fee for wireless Internet in public areas: USD 14.95 per night (rates may vary)
- Valet parking fee: USD 66 per day (in/out privileges)
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 35.00 per night
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Tonya Cornett knows a lot about beer. She is the Brewmaster at 10 Barrel Brewing Company and has had a huge impact on beer across the high desert. She has been vital in the growth of Bend's good-beer reputation.
"You know, beer is really just all trial and error," Cornett said. "It's constantly doing it, learning from things that don't go right."
She's been in Bend for 11 years. She first began at Bend Brewing before moving to 10 Barrel. In addition to that experience Cornett has maintained a successful working relationship with other brewers across Central Oregon.
In fact, one of the gold medals she received for her beer at The Great American Beer Festival in Denver, Colo. was only possible because the Crux Fermentation Project gave one of their entry spots to 10 Barrel so they could enter a beer into the judging.
That beer was "German Sparkle Party," winning the German-Style Sour Ale category. Another beer by Cornett to wind gold was an old brew she made at Bend Brewing Co. called "Lovely" in the Aged beer category.
"It's always fun to win medals, and it's always gratifying that yours was one of the best on the table." Said Cornette, "but at the end of the day, I'm just happy to go in and have the compliments from the staff and from the locals that com in and drink the beer every day."
In Cornette's mind, the High Desert is an exceptional place when it comes to beer.
"People in Bend, when they love something they really love it. And I think that's why there are so many breweries opening is because people do love beer here." Said Cornett.
She believes Central Oregon's affinity for beer means locals know the difference between a good beer and a bad beer. This, in turn, increases the expectations of the local brewers to create a quality product.
"A lot of us (brewers) have worked really hard to create brand-Bend." Said Cornett, "And what's happened with brand-Bend is that people are so excited to get a beer from bend and they know it's going to be of exceptional quality."
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DeLand, Fla. - A record-setting six Stetson women's tennis players were named to the All-Atlantic Sun Conference First, Second and Freshman Teams on Tuesday as balloting was released. The total is one more than the previous record, set just last year. Sophomore Carolina de los Santos (Montevideo, Uruguay) and senior Unnati Purushotham (Hyderabad, India) earned First Team All-Atlantic Sun honors to highlight the sextet.
De los Santos picked up First Team honors for the second year in a row with a 15-5 (8-2 A-Sun) singles record while Purushotham was 15-4 overall and likewise was 8-2 against A-Sun opposition. De los Santos, a unanimous First Team selection, and Purushotham played #1 and #2 singles, respectively, all season; the duo also earned Second Team All-Conference mention for their doubles prowess. The Preseason A-Sun Doubles Team of the Year went 17-2 overall and 9-1 against league competition. Previously in their careers, de los Santos was the 2010 A-Sun Freshman of the Year and 2010 First Team while Purushotham has placed on the 2008 All-Freshman Team, 2010 Second Team and 2010 A-Sun All-Tournament Team.
Also earning Second Team laurels for doubles was the combination of freshman Lindsey Cable (Gainesville, Fla.) and junior Shannon Gunning (Boca Raton, Fla.). Cable and Gunning were 14-4 overall when paired together and a flawless 9-0 against A-Sun opponents. Two years ago, Gunning made the 2009 Atlantic Sun All-Freshman and All-Tournament Teams.
Cable also made the 2011 A-Sun All-Freshman Team, joining classmates MayaBlue Stauffer-MacDowell (Asheville, N.C.) and Sierra Sullivan (Austin, Texas) on that list. Cable was a huge factor on Court 6 all year, going 16-3 (7-1 A-Sun) this spring with an 11-2 record at the #6 position. Stauffer-MacDowell and Sullivan, doubles partners who were 11-7 together, had respective singles records of 13-7 (6-4 A-Sun) and 14-6 (6-3 A-Sun) in dual matches; they were both unanimous All-Freshman Team picks. The former primarily plays #4 singles while the latter takes up residence on Court 5 in singles.
The A-Sun Player of the Year was Eve Castaing of Jacksonville while Campbell's Karolina Chernaya and David Johnson took home Freshman of the Year and Coach of the Year honors, respectively.
The Hatters went 16-5 in the regular season with a 7-3 conference mark. That league record landed Stetson the #4 seed and a 9 a.m. Thursday matchup with fifth-seeded Kennesaw State in the A-Sun tournament quarterfinals; the 2011 Atlantic Sun Conference Championships will be held April 14-16 at the Mandy Stoll Tennis Center on the Stetson campus. Live Scoring will be available at GoHatters.com throughout the tournament along with live streaming of select singles and doubles matches.
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It was in my step and in the air and then like that, all signs of spring had vanished and snow fell cold and wet today. Boo.
This week was good. It started off so bad. But the ending is what matters I suppose. And so, yay.
Yesterday, as I made the sky-dreary drive to my Mommal's house, flashes of beginning lines, paragraphs, chapters kept surging through my mind (and you know how when people say "in my veins" or "in my blood" it's true, I felt it there) - this urgency to get myself somewhere to write... a book. And the shocking thing to me is, that, the book(s) I want to write are (mostly) fiction. Normally this feeling has only arrived in autumn, since I was very little. This is new.
Last night hubs and I saw a play and it was home for me, it was a gift to myself, for so long I put that life away- I have no idea why, like I thought I had to choose between some of the arts I crave and being a mother. Hello, I am seeing the importance of my children seeing me doing something I enjoy. I always ask them what they dream of, what they want to be, what they wish. What if they turn those questions on me?
One of my favorite blogs, Mama Loves Papa just launched a wonderful new weekly feature: Small Style. You know I love this. I occasionally feature "As Seen on Ivy" and finally put a tab at the top of the blog up there, for future reference and such.


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Erie police are searching for a 17-year-old boy who was reported missing Wednesday.
Jacob Samusenko, 17, of the 300 block of East Second Street, was last seen Tuesday night, police said today. He is 5 feet 5 inches tall and 130 pounds, with brown eyes. He was last seen wearing track pants.
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A sentimental $1 check
The Lockport Common Council has agreed to take back the Ulrich City Centre parking lot, where the Friday night summer rock concerts are held.
Owner David L. Ulrich has been trying to sell the property, but he was stymied when an environmental investigation discovered old dry-cleaning chemicals buried beneath the pavement. The discovery torpedoed a prospective buyer's hopes of obtaining financing.
In the 2004 agreement in which the city sold the then-vacant lot to Ulrich for $1, the city agreed to protect him against any environmental woes. So, the key question was: Will the city refund Ulrich's $1 purchase price? The answer is no.
"We're playing hardball," Mayor Michael W. Tucker laughed.
Actually, the city never collected the $1. Corporation Counsel John J. Ottaviano said he framed Ulrich's check instead of cashing it. So, Mr. Ulrich, if your checkbook has not balanced for the past eight years, now you know why.
Chief executive ... fool?
Remember Sean Menke? Before resigning last summer, he was the chief executive officer of Pinnacle Airlines who took a 60 percent pay raise not long before his airline filed for bankruptcy in April.
Motley Fool, the puckish investment website, has just found him guilty of the "biggest CEO gaffe of the year."
This matters in Buffalo, of course, because Pinnacle owned Colgan Air, operator of Continental Connection Flight 3407, which crashed in Clarence in February 2009, claiming 50 lives.
Menke's antics drew harsh commentary from Motley Fool's Sean Williams:
"I'd seen some questionable pay raises in my time, but this one may take the cake as the head-scratcher of them all. Just 11 days after his pay raise was filed with the SEC, Pinnacle filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection – on April Fool's Day, no less. I couldn't make this stuff up if I wanted to!"
Blame it on the lawyers
Mark Daniels, 48, with seven felonies on his record, has sat next to many lawyers at defense tables over the years. He doesn't seem happy with them.
In his past two bank robbery cases, he went through seven lawyers.Among those who have represented him: Joseph J. Terranova and Jeremy Schwartz, both skilled lawyers.
This week, it was Daniel P. Grasso's turn to represent Daniels. The stacks of money stolen from the bank contained a GPS tracking device, so police were on Daniels' trail right away. Police arrested him after he rammed two other cars.
Daniels didn't testify, but he instructed Grasso to read a statement that he wrote. The statement, full of legalese, called for charges to be dismissed for a host of reasons.
Erie County Judge Michael L. D'Amico said he couldn't be sure, but it sounded like a motion to him. Just in case, D'Amico said, "denied."
The judge found him guilty, and Daniels faces 15 years in prison. Daniels already bailed out of a plea deal that called for a prison term of about half that time. Obviously, more bad lawyering.
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Suite desserts at the Ralph?
From three men in a room to three men in a suite?
Under Friday's agreement between the Buffalo Bills and Erie County, New York State will receive a suite at Ralph Wilson Stadium for use in its "I Love New York" campaign.
Given Albany's over-representation of downstate Jets and Giants fans, we trust suite occupants will be required to don gear of the state's only NFL team – 'da Bills!
Did they swap calculators?
The Christmas holiday brought peace to a pair of recent combatants in the race for Erie County comptroller.
Comptroller-elect Stefan Mychajliw was the guest of outgoing Comptroller David J. Shenk at the office Christmas party. Mychajliw posted a photo on his Facebook page Friday showing the view from the 11th floor of the Rath Building.
By Patrick Lakamp with contributions from Tom Prohaska, Jerry Zremski and T.J. Pignataro.
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How far will Republicans go in their quest to oppose President Barack Obama?
House Republicans have already demonstrated a willingness to endanger the economic safety of America. With tensions heating up between the US and North Korea, will GOP political hostage-taking attitudes expand to national security issues in an Obama second term?
Under the GOP House majority, the US came dangerously close to defaulting on its debt in 2011. It was a self-inflicted wound caused by House Republicans, who thought it more important to advance their radical anti-abortion agenda than to safeguard the US economy and world markets. It may also have been part of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's efforts to make Obama a "one-term" president, which clearly failed.
It apparently wasn't enough to have the debt ceiling debacle cause America's credit rating to be downgraded. Tea Party obstructionism and outright refusal to govern led to an historic level of dysfunction. The 112th Congress went down in the record-books as being one of the least productive and most unpopular in US history. Republicans in the Senate earned the title of most abusive use of the filibuster – ever.
What it all adds up to is Republicans accomplishing almost nothing when it comes to solving America's problems.
Now, all eyes have turned to the Senate, where McConnell, up for re-election in 2014, is running to the radical-right on the job-killing automatic spending cuts in the sequester, which is the product of the August 2011 debt-ceiling deal.
"Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Tuesday that last-minute partisan moves by Senate Democrats to replace $85 billion in looming automatic cuts mean those cuts will go into effect," according to The Hill.
"It is pretty clear to me that the sequester is going to go into effect," McConnell said.
And it should be "pretty clear" to the American public that Republicans will stop at nothing to advance their vendetta against the president. If the entire country is collateral damage, Republicans do not seem to care.
But here is where the anti-Obama war becomes unthinkably dangerous.
On Monday, North Korea test-detonated a nuclear weapon underground. The bomb was so powerful, US Geological Survey seismic instruments measured it at 4.9 on the Richter scale.
Around the world the North Korean nuclear test has been viewed as a "serious threat" to the United States.
And how do Republicans respond to such a serious threat to America's national security? By threatening to filibuster Obama's nominee to head-up the Department of Defense, former Sen. Chuck Hagel.
At every turn, Republicans continue to demonstrate just how little they care about protecting the American people.
The more tenacious Republicans are in their war against Obama, the more it looks like an increasingly dangerous obsession that can only end in disaster.
Behaving like spoiled children who can't get their way has become standard procedure for Republicans and is being used as an excuse to threaten the economy and national security.
If Republicans believe this is the best way to win over more voters in the next election, they may be in for a surprise.
It's one thing to act like sore losers, but quite another when playing politics becomes a game that puts the future of a nation is at stake. There are some lines that should never be crossed, even by the most reckless Republicans.
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It all started when Flynn Lives, a grassroots campaign of members unknown, published what was almost immediately identified as a binary clock counting down to February 24 at 11 am ET. Apparently ENCOM CEO Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) had gone missing twenty years ago and hadn't been heard of since, but the organization is certain Flynn is alive and is doing whatever it can to bring his cause to the nation's attention.
As the countdown continued, a list of 25 cities worldwide appeared below the clock. Then at 11 AM ET on February 24, the cities were each listed alongside a numbered grid and — throughout the day — cities would become active, requesting than a volunteer operative go to a designated location revealed only when the city opened up (an arcade) and be the first to locate a contact in a FLYNN LIVES tshirt and pass along the secret phrase. In return, the operative received a nylon TRON wallet containing newspaper clippings about the campaign, three TRON trading cards (which then translated into the numbered mosaic of a new image from the film) and a Flynn's Arcade token.
It was then revealed that a special IMAX event would be taking place earlier today with limited tickets simultaneously becoming available at 9 PM GMT for five cities: Los Angeles and New York in the United States, Toronto, London and Sydney. Based on the audience size, I suspect no more than 50-75 tickets were available (each being a +1), so I was fortunate enough to secure one.
Entering the IMAX theatre (the 8-story tall one in New York), we were handed our 3D Glasses and a free FLYNN LIVES tshirt and found our seats. Shortly after 10 am ET, the lights dimmed and the trailer unceremoniously began. And now, the review/spoilers:


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Last year, while running Ubuntu, I decided I wanted to watch a video, so I opened it up in the built-in Totem player. What happened next took me back to the dark era of codecs and computing. The XviD video I was watching became pixelated, the video became out of sync; within a few minutes it was unwatchable. I dual booted back into Windows XP, opened up by trusty MPUI and watched the video with the free software XviD codecs without any issues. The experience had left a bad taste in my mouth.
What happened next took me back to the dark era of codecs and computing... The experience had left a bad taste in my mouth
Last month Tony put out a call for articles, and I suggested media players would be a good area to cover, and he jumped on it. This brings me to here; sitting in front of my word processor in Windows, with Ubuntu running in VirtualBox, and a list of free software media players ready to go! I wanted to choose a broad range of players, so I checked around looking for what other's had felt were the best free software players. And the contestant's are...
The Totem video player that ships with GNOME has advanced a lot in version 7.04 of the Ubuntu OS. It will now search for codecs (both free software and restricted, including FFmpeg) for formats it can't natively play. This feature alone would have fixed my issues from my last Totem experience!
Totem will now search for codecs (both free software and restricted, including FFmpeg) for formats it can't natively play
Playing a video file with Totem (at least if you're using a GNOME distro which has Totem configured or have installed and configured Totem manually on your distro) is as easy as double-clicking a video file assigned to Totem. Totem also has an easy to use "Play Disk" option under the file menu that lets you play Audio CDs, VCDs, DVDs and—here's the part I like—data disks with files on them that Totem understands or can find codecs for. Totem was the only player in the round-up with a disk play feature this easy to use.
The bad news is that , although I found it very good for the audio and video I tested, Totem has a GUI that I didn't find to be very user friendly. Hiding the sidebar helped somewhat, but it still feels like it has the controls of an audio player, and the display area of a video player—but without letting me hide just what I don't need. A control to hide the video-play and controls would help to alleviate this feeling of rigidness a lot.
All in all, I like Totem the best out of all the players reviewed here, and I can't help but think the GNOME guys are working hard to keep Totem ahead of the pack. If you're running a GNOME distro that doesn't have Totem installed, or you just haven't tried Totem yet, I urge you to give it a go!
|GNU/Linux, Solaris, BSD
|MARKS (out of 10)
VLC is probably one of the more well known players for GNU/Linux. It uses FFmpeg natively (unlike Totem, which will need to download a custom version of the library the first time it requires it). FFmpeg is a free software library for reading MPEG4, AVI, WMV and FLV videos (among others).
Installation on my Ubuntu was as easy as entering "VLC" into the package manager. Depending on your distro you'll need to get and install VLC differently. Overall, installation and setup was pretty painless.
I did, however, find VLC's video to look "washed-out" compared to Totem, and finer details didn't pick up as well. I liked VLC's controls more then Totem's, the smaller size didn't seem to get in the way; although, I found its menus a bit less user-friendly than those of Totem. I really wish it were possible to hide all window components except the video, and the seek bar like you can with Media Player Classic (also free software under the GPL) on Windows.
I found VLC's video to look "washed-out" compared to Totem, and finer details didn't pick up as well
Overall, I found VLC more advanced than Totem, but still had a more user-friendly face than MPlayer.
|Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, BeOS, BSD
|MARKS (out of 10)
MPlayer was next on my list; once again, installation was painless as the Ubuntu package repositories already contained the MPlayer project.
MPlayer was by far the hardest of the programs I've tried to configure in quite some time. The website touts a "wide range of supported output drivers" as a main feature, but I found this to be the source of its weakness. It took a lot of trial and error to get the preferences set up correctly. After the correct video driver was set up, it produced an image quality with no noticeable difference from Totem, but it couldn't maintain a good frame-rate.
To be fair, this is running on a virtual machine emulating a PIII class CPU, and with 512MB of RAM; so it might be able to produce a better frame rate on a better box.
I should insert a quick sidenote here and let you know that MPlayer and VLC are both available for Windows as well, so if you're looking for a free software player for your Windows computer make sure and give them a try.
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|MARKS (out of 10)
I had also tried out Democracy player (now Miro ), but it wouldn't work in my Virtual Machine, so I was unable to review it here to my dismay.
Overall, there are some good choices to pick from when you're looking for a good free software media player for your GNU/Linux box. And, these aren't even counting the distributions dedicated just to being a home media center! If your interesting in picking up one of those look no further than LinuxMCE, MythTV and Mythbuntu!
What are you waiting for? Go watch some videos! See you next time.
I think you're not being fair with MPlayer. MPlayer is primarily a command line program, it was never meant to be a GUI program. The GUIs thare are put on top of MPlayer are often quite poor.
If you know how to use MPlayer it can be very powerful and works well without an unnecessary GUI getting in the way.
MPlayer is designed for the more advanced user. There are better alternatives for the average user, but if you know what you're doing nothing beats it.
MPlayer has one great
MPlayer has one great frontend - SMPlayer. And this article sucks :P
I agree, this comparison is
I agree, this comparison is absolutely unfair.
mplayer is a command line program, meaning that it does not really have a GUI.
And this GUI sucks very badly, like Totem!
Amarok doesn't play video, but it's beautiful for music. Absolutely beautiful.
I agree with Lorian
Just take a look at http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.html and be amazed :}
Codeine is *the* video player when it comes to ease-of-use. Install it and play. It's for KDE, but for me that's just a bonus.
It uses Xine as a back end, so it is configurable, but you really don't have to configure it, Xine has pretty sane defaults.
And just adjust your contrast, and stop whining about the washedoutness? (Press "v" in codeine to get video settings with brightness, contrast, etc.)
A little contribution to the review!
In the review, you really missed other important media players like Kaffeine, KMplayer etc.
For me, Kaffeine's interface is best comparing that of all other media players available for GNU/Linux. At the same time I expect more and more work from Kaffeine developers to make its interface more easy to use. Kaffeine in default is based on the popular Xine libraries. It gives an option in its menu to adjust the 'Xine Engine Parameters'. I think the area where the Kaffeine developers has to work is to simply these configuration options especially the 'media device' settings where they are representing the CD/DVD devices using the unix name (eg:/dev/hdb etc.). It would be better if they can represent these devices in detailed manner (eg: SONLY CD/RW etc.) like Totem. And other things which I would like to see is the placement of 'sound equalizer' and 'video controls' beside the play control tool bar since these options are not visible at a glance. KMplayer's strength is that it is based on the high quality Mplayer libraries. But its interface has to grow a lot.
I think after the arrival of different front ends (both Qt and GTK based) to both Xine and Mplayer liraries, the XineUI and GMplayer become less tried now a days.
If you want a good MPlayer
If you want a good MPlayer frontend try SMPlayer ( http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/en/index.php )- it's easy to use, rich featured and avaliable for Linux and Windows.
Oh, and it's my default player on my Kubuntu laptop :).
This is barely an article on media players.
It's difficult to take an article like this seriously at all. I mean what is the point if your are already running Windows as your native operating system and for which there is plenty of "free" / "open source" software for watching video, to watch a video in a virtual Ubuntu installation ? (Other than maybe pretending to write an article on video players for Linux). I can't really think of a reason why the average user (forget enterprise here) would ever need to run a virtual Linux box on Windows. Now running Linux natively with a virtual Windows machine I can understand because there might be some things one is doing for which there is no substitute in Linux, but the other way around simply makes no sense at all. Or am I missing something ? It's doubtful that setting up virtual Linux machines on Windows is hardly going to take the average Windows user world by storm as a somehow preferred way of watching a video. So who is this article for ? People who are running Linux as their native operating system don't need to know how it runs in Windows !
This is barely an article on media players.
It's difficult to take an article like this seriously at all. I mean what is the point if your are already running Windows as your native operating system and for which there is plenty of "free" / "open source" software for watching video, to watch a video in a virtual Ubuntu installation ? (Other than avoiding a reboot). I can't really think of a reason why the average user (forget enterprise here) would ever need to run a virtual Linux box on Windows. Now running Linux natively with a virtual Windows machine I can understand because there might be some things one is doing for which there is no substitute in Linux, but the other way around simply makes no sense at all. Or am I missing something ?
This article takes "kludge" to the application level.
Had to use a VM
Since my video card is so new no good Linux drivers are available (I'm waiting for the next release of Ubuntu, and hoping that will work with it) VM is the only way. That said, the video from the VM was just as good as native with no lag, so I don't think it biased the reviews.
Yeah, but testing video players in a VM seriously threatens your credibility.
Totem over-rated.
Even if my prefered player is Totem, I think it has been over rated. Totem really sucks with DVD playback, despite of it has a lot of minor user unfriendly bugs. But I trust Totem developers will correct them.
Of all I have tried: vlc,
Of all I have tried: vlc, maplayer, kmplayer and a bit of totem. Kaffeine is by far the best: easy of use, good interface, and lot of possibilities.
Works best with videos, and Internet streams, as well as mplayer and vlc.
The digital DVB TV is integrated, supports channel scanning and works as a Personal Video Recording, you can schedule multiple recordings.
The truth is that I use several of them as follows:
- Kaffeine for the videos and DBV TV
- vlc for Internet video strams
- mplayer for streaming capturing and converting it to Xvid (mencoder)
That is the good thing about Linux, you can do almost everything, but you have to have to get the right tools.
Comment on article
Apart from the fact that the author of this piece is running Linux on a VM, he neglects to comment on what media types the different players can handle. [edited by admin, since it was left as anonymous]
mplayer is a command line
mplayer is a command line application, read the 7954-lines manual and you'll find more features than totem or vlc.
Also, you should consider that not everyone uses Ubuntu (or gnome in particular). Totem would likely pull many gnome dependencies when one installs it along with KDE or XFCE. In this case, VLC or mplayer is far better in term of installation.
Caption on Figure 4 is incorrect
Its not VLC media player, its MPlayer.
Ashish Shukla
I just fixed it - thanks!
Figure 4 is "Screenshot of
Figure 4 is "Screenshot of the VLC media player", should be "Screenshot of MPlayer"
Fixed - thanks!
Mplayer & Totem
Totem is great but I think Mplayer would have deserved more feature points than just 7 compared to 9 given to Totem. Mplayer features may not be as readily available as in Totem, but there are lots of them. My experience has been that of all the media players for Linux, Mplayer has been the player that has played practically any media I've thrown at it, whatever the format. An example, with Mplayer it is possible to watch ISO files for video DVDs even before they are burnt on a CD/DVD. Try that with Totem.
what Mplayer, mainly a video player, achieves with its rather small GUI, is unobtrusive interface that doesn't fill the screen with unnecessary buttons and bloatf, but gives room for the actual video instead. However, all the options are still there, available via a right mouse buton menu, should you need them.
I used to have lots of problems with Totem, especially when used with Gstreamer 0.8, and that has been one reason why I have preferred Mplayer instead. However, this article did convince me to try Totem again with all sorts of media material - and, I was positively surprised. Totem has indeed developed a lot, and may also become my other favorite video player for Linux, so thans for the hint.
However, I don't quite agree that Totem would be so much more userfriendly than Mplayer or VLC. For example, it may be a bit too difficult and unintuitive to, for example, go to a fullscreen video mode in Totem. Ok, not that difficult to find that option though, but when I first time tried it, I remember to have tried several things in order to get the still visible and somewhat irritating big controls beside the full screen video to disappear to the background in order to see the video only - before I finally got it that there is just a time period of some seconds after which the controls hide themselves automatically (maybe too long, should be a bit shorter?). (Ok, not that difficult now when I think about it, but it wasn't obvious the first time, at leat for me...) However, it is quite nice from usability point of view that you get to see the controls beside the fullscreen video again simply by just moving your mouse, and don't have to remember some cryptic key codes (like ctrl+F or F) for it.
Incomplete review
Any review of Linux media players is incomplete without Kaffeine.
You''ve reviewed the Gstreamer backend, VLC, and the Mplayer backend. The other major backend for video playback is Xine, which you didn't review. Kaffeine uses Xine.
Yeah, I'm with the rest of
Yeah, I'm with the rest of the people who claimed that this review was incomplete; the most glaring omission being Kaffeine.
You also neglected to mention that Totem can use either GStreamer or Xine, which really affects compatibility with certain file types. Also, as mentioned before, Totem isn't very good for people who don't use GNOME.
Oh, and... Who in their
Oh, and... Who in their right mind would evaluate media players in a VM?!
Re: VM
poor article
This is a very brief, subjective, poorly written article. It is based on summary use of 3 players under Gnome. Really not worth reading, sorry...
Planning a revisit
I'm planning a revisit of this subject, since it was obvious that I didn't cover many other good free software media players; I want to right that wrong. As far as subjectivity goes, in the end rating video quality is very subjective, that's why I included the split-frame between the players so people could make their own judgments.


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Court Rules Against Test for Washington Tour Guides
Updated with comment from a test-preparation service.
You don't need a special license to be a tour guide in Washington.
That's the take of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, which ruled Friday that a Segway tour operator's guides shouldn't be required to pass a multiple-choice test and pay $200 in licensing fees to offer guided tours of the city's monuments, museums and other points of interest.
The test requires applicants to answer a total 100 questions in fourteen categories: architecture; dates; government; historical events; landmark buildings; locations; monuments and memorials; museums and art galleries; parks, gardens, zoos, and aquariums; presidents; sculptures and statues; universities; pictures; and regulations. To pass, applicants must score a 70. (See seven sample questions.)
Paid tour guides who fail to meet these requirements could face both a $300 fine and up to 90 days in jail.
Business owners Tonia Edwards and Bill Main, who operate Segs in the City, a company that offers guided Segway tours of the city, objected to the test requirement and filed suit.
A U.S. district court initially upheld the licensing law on the grounds that the city held a compelling interest in regulating its tourism industry.
But a panel of three circuit court judges reversed that decision, finding that the exam and licensing fees violated the business owners' right to free speech and conduct.
"This case is about speech and whether the government's regulations actually accomplish their intended purpose," Judge Janice Rogers Brown wrote for the majority. "The District failed to present any evidence the problems it sought to thwart actually exist."
A spokesperson for Mayor Vincent Gray's office said the administration has no comment on the ruling.
The judges took direct issue with the trial court's pronouncement that administering a 100-question exam to prospective tour guides represented a "substantial government interest."
"There is no evidence in the record the District's interests would be achieved less effectively absent the exam requirement," they wrote.
A spokesman for the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, which administers the exam, said the DCRA and the D.C. attorney general's office are working together to evaluate the next steps.
In the ruling, the judges held that tourism businesses have a large interest in maintaining high-quality tours, absent regulation. The judges also pointed to self-policing on consumer-review sites like Yelp and TripAdvisor. "One need only peruse such websites to sample the expressed outrage and contempt that would likely befall a less than scrupulous tour guide."
Bob Brennan, a licensed tour guide in Washington and the president of Metis Licensing, which runs tour guide classes for people preparing to take exams, says the ruling will invite a "firestorm" of criticism from the guide community.
"This is a strike against the professionalism of the industry," Mr. Brennan said. "Now, anyone can get up off their couch and say, 'I'm a tour guide.'"
At least five cities across the United States require tour guides to hold credentials: Charleston, S.C.; Savanna, Ga.; New Orleans; New York; and Washington. Pending an appeal of Friday's ruling, that number might fall to four. "I would have expected the trend to go in the other direction," Mr. Brennan said.


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It's been hard to keep up with the romantic strife in the Kardashian family lately, but it seems at least one member of the clan is happily in love.
A source tells PEOPLE that Kendall Jenner, 17, has made a love connection with rapper Young Jinsu, 21.
"They're dating – it's been at least a few months," says a source close to the couple. "They've been getting closer recently, and they've been hanging out all the time."
The source says the couple have kept their relationship quiet but plan to go more public after her 18th birthday on Nov. 3. "They have that spark right now – they're just really feeling each other," says the source. "They're not putting it out there yet."
The rapper recently posted a photo on Instagram of what appears to be him and Jenner, who is making a heart shape in the sky with her hands. Kendall's sister Kylie, 16 – who has been seen in the company of Jayden Smith and rapper L'il Twist, a friend of Jinsu's – posted the pic to Instagram as well.
Jinsu was previously linked to Justin Bieber's ex, Jasmine Villegas. Back in June, he feuded with the superstar on Twitter. But now, he only has eyes for Kendall, whom the source says he started dating – and "falling hard for" – this past summer.
"He's so sweet," says the source. "He kind of reminds you of Chris Brown, but way more charming and really talented. He's been working with a lot of big-time producers and artists recently."
Meantime, Kendall's fast-lane lifestyle with Kylie has raised a few eyebrows. On Oct. 15, the pair were spied in the wee hours at racy L.A. Nightclub Vignette with big sister Khloé Kardashian and Scott Disick.
"They were all inside at the back right table, dancing and having a really good time," an onlooker said of the clan, who attended the Day By Day Fashion Show in downtown L.A. earlier in the night.
Family sources say parental disagreement over how Kylie and Kendall were being raised was a factor in Bruce and Kris Jenner's separation. Bruce is said to disapprove of them being taken out of school for modeling and public appearances.
And while Kendall, who recently posted racy photos on her own Instagram account, isn't shy about getting attention, she seems to want to keep this part of her love life private – for now.
"I'm sure everything they do goes through Kris," says the source close to the couple. "It has to be approved or it's pre-planned and well thought out. But I think you'll see a lot more of them soon."
Reps did not respond to requests for comment but Jenner Tweeted a message Thursday: "enough with the rumors! I'm single, people," she wrote with a smiley face.
Kendall Jenner Is Dating Young Jinsu
Eli Winston/Everett Collection; Courtesy Young Jinsu
updated 10/17/2013 AT 03:00 PM EDT
•originally published 10/17/2013 AT 01:00 PM EDT


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Source: Nokia
quote: lacks features and functionality.
quote: Android's UI imitates iOS (apple) and maemo (nokia).
quote: No doubt it's slick, once you've spend enough time trying to figure things out. I'm also able to get work done quickly on my N8. It looks great, it's feature packed, I can lay out everything the way I want, and it just works.
quote: I'm sorry you don't think symbian looks pretty enough. The nokia store has about as many apps as the WP store, not to mention not every app for symbian requires it going through the store. I can download any .sisx file from the internet and install it
quote: Tell me again, how are you not biased?
quote: I dont want to get into an argument,but WP doesn't support lots of basic stuff out of box to downright missing /impossible (codecs,otg,mass storage,BT profiles etc)
quote: Belle FP1 improves things a bit.
quote: There's a lot of new "graphical flair" in Belle that's not present in past releases by Nokia or Apple. It is, however very similar to similar graphics found in Android Ice Cream Sandwich, which came out first. So yes, copying Android.
quote: It may "just work" as you say, but the virtual keyboard is less reliable, you simply can not argue that. And I've played with an N8.
quote: I would argue that it is you who needs to spend some time with the Lumia 900. It puts the N8 to shame and makes it feel downright slow.
quote: Even a moderately gifted Chimpanzee could probably use one.
quote: About as many?
quote: And pray tell me, how many of those are going to receive ongoing support over the next year or two as developers bail from what is a defunct platform. You cannot change the fact that developers are not going to continue to update their Symbian apps by and large.
quote: And most important IT'S EOL !
quote: I am biased towards my reality.
quote: Enjoy your Symbian phone


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Mikkeline Kierkgaard Denmark: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZrrbMsRmNk
Ivan Dinev Bulgaria: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-zgxactTiY
Mikkeline Kierkgaard Denmark: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZrrbMsRmNk
Ivan Dinev Bulgaria: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-zgxactTiY
Kevin van der Perren (Belguim) - His programs did nothing for me artistically but, wow, what a powerful jumper! His last skate (Worlds 2012) shows this. What is he doing now?
As you probably know, Kevin is married to Jenna McCorkell. They are currently coaching quite a few young skaters in Belgium, where they live.
If you look at this thread that I started in October, and click on the link in Trewyn's reply, you will see that Kevin's name features very frequently in the coach's column.
Also, last January, he and Charissa van Dipte won the 2012/13 series of Sterren op de Dansvloer, the Belgian version of "Strictly Come Dancing".
Here is a photo of them holding the trophy.
Hope this helps
What about Stephanie Rosanthol? I'll always remember this bizarre SP, sorry the quality of the video is awful. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgphETWcMNM
I don't know what it is but all the Swiss skaters are amazing spinners: Denise Biellman, Nathalie Krieg, Lucinda, Sarah Meier, Stephane Lambiel. All of them. Lucinda is the best, IMO. I think it's her height she can use her long limbs to create all sorts of beautiful and difficult spins. Lucinda never finished in the top ten, but she was great to watch, such joy and appeal. Her height made jumping difficult, but I could watch her do nothing but spin all day. She holds the world record.
She placed behind gold medallist Daniela Silivas of Romania and Yelena Shushunova of the former Soviet Union.
My sort of 'obscure' skater that I remember never went elite but she was memorable - Katherine Healy! She went professional at just 11 and also went on to a successful career in ballet as a prima ballerina. I used to have the book "A Very Young Skater" by Jill Krementz featuring Katherine. I'm a huge fan of hers to this day.
Katherine Healy
Here's Katherine in a ballet performance of - her version of the "Black Swan" coda
Earlier in the year, some members were criticising me for starting a thread about an "obscure skater" getting married. The thing is, Karla Quinn is the best known Ladies skater in Northern Ireland after Jenna McCorkell. So, although she might be "obscure" to skating fans in North America, she is a household name to skating fans here in Ireland.
So, obscurity is totally subjective.
Unfortunately for me, Lucinda retired around the time I started watching skating, so I didn't see her in action at the time. But, I too enjoy watching old videos of her, in total amazement! (If I tried to spin at even a 10th of the speed she does, I would fall in a heap... and that's not even trying to do it on ice! )
About a year-and-a-half ago, Lucinda had twin daughters. She is forever posting photos and videos of the twins on Facebook (and even some on YouTube). And I don't blame her one bit - they are absolutely adorable!!!
Mind you, Lucinda and her husband will have their hands full with 2 girls growing up at the same time! So, I wouldn't trade places with either of them!
Thanks for letting us know what she's doing. She is going to be busy!
I agree about obscure being subjective. We all have skaters we remember well who we love, and some that we consider more obscure.
I remember Dick mentioned how Lucinda's spinning ability actually hindered her jumping ability. She had an ability to spin on the ground but it's too much for the air.
Thanks for the update on Lucinda, CaroLiza_fan. I remember her with great delight. Fortunately she had a bit of a pro career while the well-televised Landover competition was still ongoing, and so home audiences in the U.S. got to watch her at her best without worrying whether she needed to make a particular jump. Yes, even Alissa can't match what this lady could do. Sidenote: because Lucinda's father traveled all over for business, she lived in many countries and became fluent in several languages. At one point she trained alongside Yuka Sato under Yuka's parents. Yuka said in a televised feature that Lucinda was fluent enough in Japanese so they could converse in the language.
Sasha'sSpins: Katherine Healy is a fave of mine as well, and I too have the book that features her, A Very Young Skater.
You may already be aware of this, Coppertop, but just in case, keep in mind that Ruh's book has a certain amount of sad stuff in it. She didn't have an easy time of it earlier on, apparently--another reason I'm glad to hear that her current life, including kids, is so happy. I'd suggest reading a review of it on Amazon or somewhere before searching it out.


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|Cream of mushroom soup - a good blender makes for an ultra-smooth soup
I am in love with an appliance. Why are you smirking? A kitchen appliance. Get your minds out of the gutter, people.
My new Vitamix blender is my sweetheart, my crush, the apple of my eye. I resisted the big blender for years. I'm quite fond of my hand-held immersion blender, which I use for soups. My Magic Bullet did a bang-up job on smoothies and salad dressings, and I loved its small footprint. But after two Magic Bullets crashed and burned, I gave in and started shopping for a real blender.
When I tasted the velvet that comes out of a Vitamix, I was hooked. An immersion blender is handy when you're making soup because you can puree it right in the pot. But it never gets totally smooth. I've made this cream of mushroom soup many times with an immersion blender, and while it tastes fabulous, it's always got a little texture to it. But the Vitamix produced cream of mushroom soup as smooth as milk. The cream I added just gilded the lily.
I'm a convert. The Vitamix is expensive (I bought it at Costco for about $400) but I think it's worth it. There's a lot of soup in my future.
Note: No one paid me anything or gave me anything to write this post. I bought my Vitamix with my own hard-earned money. And I intend to keep it for a good, long time.
- 2 Tbsp butter
- 2 Tbsp olive oil
- 1 large yellow onion, chopped
- 1 pound Baby Bella (crimini) mushrooms, cleaned and roughly chopped (use the stems too!)
- 1 quart chicken stock
- 1/4 cup heavy cream
- salt and pepper to taste
- juice of 1/2 lemon


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Francelina Morillo may have lost the chance to win the title of Biggest Loser, but she has found love.
"We have something special," Morillo said Tuesday about falling for fellow constant Jeff Nichols while on the ranch. "I have found a bond with him that I haven't had with anyone else. It's like a mirror when I look at him."
Morillo, 26, and Nichols, 25, both lost their fathers while in their teens and bonded in the gym as they began to shed their weight – and emotional baggage.
"You get to see the person at their worst and you see them blossom and grow and become this better version of themselves. You learn to appreciate and admire them in a different way," Morillo says of her time with Nichols on the show.
But the couple was temporarily separated when Morillo was sent home for losing the least amount of weight in the episode that aired last Monday.
"I knew I had gathered the tools in there that I needed to survive in the real world," Morillo says of her tearful sendoff. "I've learned I can do this for the rest of my life and that I can keep the weight off – which is my ultimate goal."
Morillo returned home to New York but soon joined Nichols in Chicago. Now the couple are motivating each other to continue to lose weight.
"We balance each other out. He has the nutrition down pat and I am an exercise junky," Morillo says about working out with Nichols, whose status as a finalist or contender for the at-home prize has yet to be revealed. "It's just so much easier when you have the support of somebody else that knows exactly what you're going through."
Morillo arrived at the ranch weighing 267 lbs., after having lost 100 lbs. at home on her own, and now continues to lose weight by working with a trainer, spending two hours a day on the stairmill and monitoring her portion sizes.
"I was eating a lot of healthy stuff, but I was binging on everything," says Morillo, who used to eat large amounts of apples or oatmeal throughout the day. "If you have too much of good thing, it's also bad. Now I'm all about portion size."
With her eye on the $100,000 at-home prize, Morillo is also looking forward to applying to medical school and eventually fulfilling her dream to become a doctor.
"The new me is positive, outgoing, always smiling and wants the best for me," she says. "I've learned the best way to do that is to surround yourself with positive energy, positive people. That's who I am, and that's what I radiate from now on."
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Ten major global drug firms have teamed up to establish and fund a nonprofit organization focused on ultimately speeding drug development by addressing a range of existing challenges. Slated as the largest ever initiative of its kind, TransCelerate Biopharma will initially target issues in clinical study execution.
The organization's founding partners are Abbott, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Roche's Genentech, and Sanofi. Each will combine financial and other resources, including personnel, and have agreed specific outcome-orientated objectives and guidelines for sharing data and expertise.
Five clinical trials-related projects have been for initial funding and development. These include: development of a shared-user interface for investigator site portals; mutual recognition of study-site qualification and training; development of risk-based site monitoring approach and standards; development of clinical data standards; and establishment of a comparator drug supply model. The firms say that as solutions in clinical research and other areas are developed it will draw in other relevant industry alliances and regulatory bodies, including the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), Critical-Path Institute (C-Path), the Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTT), Inovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), FDA, and the European Medicines Agency (EMA), as well as contract research organizations.
TransCelerate is headed by CEO Garry Neil, M.D., a partner at Apple Tree Partners and formerly corporate vp for science and technology at Johnson & Johnson. "There is widespread alignment among the heads of R&D at major pharmaceutical companies that there is a critical need to substantially increase the number of innovative new medicines, while eliminating inefficiencies that drive up R&D costs," he explains. "Our mission at TransCelerate BioPharma is to work together across the global research and development community and share research and solutions that will simplify and accelerate the delivery of exciting new medicines for patients."
FDA has welcomed the move. "We applaud the companies in TransCelerate BioPharma for joining forces to address a series of longstanding challenges in new drug development," states Janet Woodcock, M.D., director of FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. "This collaborative approach in the precompetitive arena, utilizing the collective experience and resources of 10 leading drug companies and others to follow, has the promise to lead to new paradigms and cost savings in drug development, all of which would strengthen the industry and its ability to develop innovative and much-needed therapies for patients."
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on November 25, 2012 - 1:00 AM
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Vincent Guercio was born above his family's green grocery business, and grew up in the long-standing store on Grant Street. In his 40 years of life, he's seen a once-thriving commercial district decline.
"Since the 90s, I've watched the area just go downhill – businesses closed and storefronts were just abandoned," he said. "But we along with other anchor businesses stayed and weathered the storm. There were many rough years, though." Now Guercio is watching a commercial renaissance on Grant Street, and the rebirth is being led by refugees and immigrants who have settled in the neighborhood in the past decade.
"I see potential. There are more people, new faces walking the streets, and activity is picking up again," said Guercio, who is now manager of his family's store.
In recent years, more than a dozen new businesses – from eateries to ethnic markets – have opened on Grant Street, and the majority of them were started by foreign-born entrepreneurs.
The once bustling Italian neighborhood and commercial strip are being revived by newcomers hailing from troubled spots in Asia and Africa.
Lin Asian Market is a Burmese-owned store that opened in 2010, across the street from Hatimy Market, a Somali grocery store, specializing in halal meats and products, that opened in 2005. Last year, Golden Burma Asia Foods and African International Marketplace opened their doors. This year alone, six new businesses opened on Grant including Global Villages, an African and Asian accessories and clothing store owned by Louise Sano, an immigrant from Rwanda.
"It amazes every time I go there, I see a new business; it's like a snowball effect," said Bonnie Smith, executive director of the Westminster Economic Development Initiative, which runs a micro-enterprise incubator on Grant Street that houses international vendors. "Walking the blocks has become an international experience, seeing people in their colorful, traditional garb.
"My prediction is they are going to be the resurgence of the West Side of Buffalo. they have ambition, drive and they are eager, Smith said. "If we and others continue to give them a leg up, they will soar."
Since 2000, the area has seen a 25 percent jump in its foreign-born population, according to 2010 census data. Also, according to the International Institute of Buffalo, more than 6,000 Burmese have settled here. Overall, in the past decade Buffalo's Asian population doubled to 8,300, due in part of refugees from Burma, Bhutan and Nepal.
The wave of refugees from West and East Africa in the early 2000s preceded the influx of Asians. The affordable and available housing on the city's West Side has attracted most of the Asian and African newcomers.
"The West Side has been the target for resettlement programs, and it's automatic that they'd establish businesses where their community is," Smith said.
That growing community creates opportunities for new businesses. Mainstream businesses are not providing the culturally unique goods and services that the immigrants want. Furthermore, immigrants often turn to entrepreneurship because their foreign credentials and work history are not recognized and they have limited employment opportunities.
Khin Soe, 43, arrived in Buffalo four years ago from Burma with experience in welding. But he couldn't get hired in that field and his only work options were menial jobs in restaurants. A resident of Ferry-Grant neighborhood, he saw the burgeoning Burmese community and the lack of markets that sold Burmese food items. So he borrowed money from his family members and opened his grocery store, Lin Asian Market.
"This was the best place for the store," he said, "A lot of my people stay around this area; and I live around Grant, too."
Along with the newcomers to Grant, there's also been renewed interest by existing and new mainstream businesses. Sweet_ness 7 Cafe opened in 2007. A year ago Kimberly Watkins, an American, opened her salon, Paiden International Styles, on Grant with the goal of serving the diverse international population.
"There are great things happening over here, and we wanted to be a part of it," Watkins said. "In this area we have a serious melting pot that can grow and be viewed as a serious part of the business community."
The Westminster Economic Development Initiative, or WEDI, believes in Grant Street, too. The program won a $100,000 grant from the Community Foundation of Greater Buffalo and is expanding its West Side Bazaar on the street. On Tuesday it will move into a bigger facility and increase vendor space from 6 to 22, the vast majority of them foreign-born.
Sano, the first graduate of the program, was in the incubator for 14 months before moving into her own storefront in May.
"I felt the bazaar took my hand and showed me how to test the market, narrow down what to carry," she said. "It really helped me figure out what I wanted to do, it made it easier to not be afraid to open my own business."
When it was time to strike on her own, she decided to stay on Grant.
"They want to make Grant Street something really good; you see all these small businesses opening, it's inspirational," she said. "We are all immigrants from different cultures but we have one thing in common, and that's the dream to make something of ourselves, and with the opportunity, we can.
Guercio isn't sure Grant Street will bustle like it did in the 70s and 80s, but he sees promising signs, like the changing demographics, the growing population and new housing.
"I'm looking forward and hoping Grant Street returns to the way it was when I was a kid, where you could walk to different stores and restaurants and get all you needed," he said.
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The Martin House Complex has received $500,000 from Erie County toward restoring the Darwin Martin House's interior woodwork.
With the county contribution, some $46 million has been raised to restore the acclaimed Frank Lloyd Wright-designed complex, with the funds about evenly divided between public and private sources. About $4 million remains to be raised to complete the work.
"The ongoing restoration of the Darwin Martin House is an investment in the future of Erie County, as this one-of-a-kind architectural treasure continues to draw thousands of visitors to see its return to former glory," said County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz.
The additional funds were received by the Martin House Restoration Corp., which has overseen the building's rebirth.
"It is absolutely wonderful news. The current county executive believes in the economic development aspects of tourism, and this most recent funding comes at an extremely helpful time as we work to finish the restoration," said Mary Roberts, the executive director.
The Martin House board of directors is developing a comprehensive marketing plan to boost the Martin House's regional, national and international appeal, but completing the restoration will be necessary before the plan can be fully implemented, Roberts said.
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MARTINSBURG - Facing the closure of mail sorting facilities in Martinsburg and Cumberland, Md., postal workers from those areas gathered in Martinsburg Sunday to protest against the continued consolidation of the U.S. Postal Service's workforce, cuts to post office hours and the plan to eliminate Saturday mail service.
The protesters gathered on Foxcroft Avenue carrying signs and shouting slogans, before marching to Republican Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito's office in Martinsburg for a rally in the hopes of delivering a symbolic message to Congress.
"Everything cuts back into service. You can't save the post office by only cutting back on service. You have to provide better service to the customer," Tom Dodge, the protest's organizer, said.
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Postal workers protesting planned closures of mail sorting facilities in Martinsburg and Cumberland, Md., gather outside Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito's Martinsburg office Sunday for a rally.
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Community and Postal Workers United's Tom Dodge, a truck driver for the U.S. Postal Service in Baltimore, leads a group of protesters on a march to Republican Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito's Martinsburg office Sunday to protest planned closures of mail sorting facilities in Martinsburg and Cumberland, Md.
Dodge, a truck driver with the U.S. Postal Service in Baltimore and a member of a national organization called Community and Postal Workers United, said the mail processing center in Martinsburg, located in the Old Courthouse Square shopping center, and the facility in Cumberland are among 99 sorting facilities across the country that are currently slated to be closed as part of consolidation.
"At the end of this year, more than half of them will be closed," Dodge said.
By consolidating the Martinsburg mail processing center with Baltimore's, U.S. Postal Service officials have said they expect to save about $1.4 million annually.
Besides the potential loss of jobs for postal workers, Dodge and protesters say that the closures will cause unnecessary delays in mail service. In the case of Martinsburg's mail sorting facility, once closed, mail sent in Martinsburg will travel to Baltimore to be processed. Protesters say a letter mailed in Martinsburg to someone living across the street would travel more than 100 miles round trip before it's delivered. The same is true for customers in Cumberland, he said.
"To give you kind of an idea what kind of disruption that is, if there is a McDonald's - which there is in Cumberland - they wouldn't send their hamburger uncooked clear down to Baltimore, have it cooked and have it sent clear back. That's ridiculous, and that's the same kind of thing they are doing with the mail," said Dodge, whose grandfather was also a postal worker and delivered mail on horseback in rural West Virginia.
Kathryn Davis, a protester who has worked for the postal service for almost a decade and whose job could be affected by the Martinsburg closure, said there are other ways to fix the postal service without cutting service and closing facilities.
"The American people shouldn't have to sacrifice their service in order to get the postal service straightened out, and there are ways to do it without that happening," said Davis. "My job will be affected, but my goal in being here today is not to protect my job. My goal is to bring awareness to people in the community that if my job is affected, my mail service is affected too."
Jeff Dailey, a Martinsburg postal worker for more than 17 years, said that West Virginia is one of the smallest states and has been hit hard by consolidation.
"It's about keeping West Virginia mail in West Virginia and jobs in West Virginia," Dailey said as to the reason he joined the protest.
John Trace, another postal worker from Martinsburg, said he joined the protest to bring public awareness to the disruption in mail service, the planned closure of mail sorting facilities in Martinsburg and Cumberland and to support his fellow postal workers.
"The more people that we can have make a stand and bring awareness to the public about what is going on, the better," Trace said.
Adriano Dazzi, who works overnight as a mail processor in Martinsburg, said he has only worked for the postal service for less than a year and his position will likely be among the first to be cut, but added he wanted to join the protest to support other workers with far more experience.
"I don't want to lose my job at all. It's really just a big old mess, pretty much. I've only worked here for seven months, so I'm at the bottom of the totem pole. I'll be the first one let go, of course, but it really doesn't bother me. They deserve jobs. They've been here for a lot longer than I have," Dazzi said.
Sunday's protest also drew the support of Cumberland postal workers and union leaders, such as Phil Jones. Jones is the president of Cumberland's local American Postal Workers Union and has been a postal service employee since 1983.
"We feel it's unjust, and it's going to create a hardship," Jones said of the planned closures of the plants. "The main thing is there's going to be a loss of jobs in our area and Martinsburg. The really important part to remember is it's probably going to delay your mail in your general vicinity. Congress needs to wake up and pass a bill that's more just and fair to the public."
Sunday's protest and similar ones across the country have also gained the support of the Baltimore People's Power Assembly and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
"These cuts, quite frankly, are going to devastate and really dismantle mail service throughout the country, and - when I think about the impact it is going to have on jobs when we are already facing an economic crisis - for me it's just really scary," the SCLC's Rev. C.D. Witherspoon said.
Dodge said protesters have two demands for Congress. The first, he said, is to stop the overpayment of federal dollars into postal workers' retirement and health care funds. Dodge said a 2006 law requires $5.5 billion extra per year to be paid into the funds over the next 10 years to cover the next 75 years. He said two independent audits show there's currently a $50 billion to $75 billion surplus as a result that could be used to help save the post office.
The second demand from protesters is the replacement of U.S. Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe.
"Two things have to happen. First off, you have to stop the hemorrhaging, and the second thing is you have to have new management. That's what we need right now," Dodge said.
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The Sierra Club Niagara Group will send more than 100 people to take part in the Forward on Climate Rally in Washington, D.C., this weekend. The demonstration, billed as the largest-ever climate change rally, will march to the White House to call for immediate adoption of clean energy policies.
Buses carrying the Sierra Club Niagara Group will leave at 11:15 p.m. Saturday from the NFTA parking lot on the University at Buffalo South Campus on Main Street and drive to Washington overnight, returning immediately after the rally is over.


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on January 24, 2013 - 8:19 PM
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Wegmans' revised design for a high-end wine or liquor store at its North Buffalo location has met with resistance from neighbors, who are requesting a more urban look.
"Amherst Street is taking off now," said North District Council Member Joseph Golombek. "We don't want to hamper that by making it into a suburban area."
Wegmans presented its plans for a 15,000-square-foot retail store on a grassy area between Amherst Street and its existing parking lot to the Black Rock-Riverside Good Neighbor Planning Alliance this week.
Richard Mack, co-chairman of the planning alliance, said the group is in favor of the project and praised Wegmans for being a good neighbor, but said the design doesn't look like anything else on Amherst Street.
"Wegmans should be able to do this right," Mack said.
The meeting marked the company's second appearance before the alliance, which makes recommendations to the city Planning Board. The company presented a revised design for the store, addressing some but not all of the concerns of the planning alliance, members said.
A new parking lot adjacent to the new store would accommodate about 20 cars, or about half of what the company originally proposed, while maintaining more green- space, which members appreciated.
The exterior of the one-story building was also revised, adding more brick and windows, said Theresa Jackson, Wegmans consumer affairs manager. Wegmans hopes to open the store in 2014.
The planning alliance suggested a two-story, mixed-use building, and said it would like the store entrance to front Amherst Street.
Plans call for the entrance to face east, toward the driveway into the existing lot, not Amherst Street.
Grant-Amherst Business Association President Mark Kubiniec said the company has been supportive of community events and runs an attractive, secure store, but that the design should be multiple story, and allow for several uses.
"It looks like generic strip plaza land, USA. I think it could be a lot better," Kubiniec said.
Based on feedback this week, the company is trying to incorporate more urban features so it looks less like a suburban Wegmans building, Jackson said.
The planning alliance decided that while it supports the business, it cannot support the design as it is.
"The group isn't going to give them a go-ahead," said Evelyn Vossler, planning alliance co-chairwoman.
Golombek said he also would not support the plans as they are.
"I appreciate very much that they came in front of us, but sometimes people think all they have to do is show up," he said.
The company does not have a tenant in mind, but would like to rent to a high-end wine or wine and liquor store, Jackson said.
The company has lobbied heavily in the State Legislature to allow wine to be sold in grocery stores and offers wine in its Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts stores.
A Wegmans-affiliated company, Century Liquor and Wines, operates near the company's Pittsford store, but don't look for a Century to arrive on Amherst Street.
Century can only hold one license in the state, so it will not fill the space, Jackson said.
The development on Amherst Street, if approved, would be the first of its kind for Wegmans in the Buffalo area, she said. Wegmans would like to appear before the city Planning Board on Feb. 26.
The company also is expanding its seating for its Market Cafe at the Amherst Street store, which is scheduled to begin in spring or summer. Construction on the new retail store will follow in the fall, for a 2014 opening, Jackson said.
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I spooze(d)way to early.
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to ejaculate or sperm/cum. also a universal werd for actions...one can be a "spoozer" as well
you spooze you lose, you got spooze all over this magazine, what are you doing? spoozin/chillin/nothin/rockin... i made this word in 1997 fact.
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when a person is soooo wasted that he/she poops and pukes at the same time...all substances being released all at once
last week lawrence whittle spoozed like crazy in his pants and on his girlfriend giula pelizari while they were advancing to home plate in O'reilly's bathroom in brussels
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Rift: Conquest, the ninth update to the hit MMO, will launch next week, Trion has announced.
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This fall players of Trion World's MMO Rift will face off against the dragon lord Crucia and her army of enchanted follows in Rift: Storm Legion, the game's first expansion pack.
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Jury awards $11.5M to family of slain Puerto Rican
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A jury in Puerto Rico has awarded $11.5 million in damages to the family of an unarmed man who was shot to death by police in 2007
The family of Miguel Caceres celebrated Friday's verdict.
Three officers were charged in Caceres' killing, which was caught on video.
Officer Javier Pagan Cruz was convicted of first-degree murder in 2008 and is serving 109 years in prison. The two other officers, Carlos Sustache Sustache and Zulma Diaz de Leon, were acquitted in 2011 of being accessories to murder.


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Click here to register for the U13-17 Competitive Program Tryouts. Cost is $35.
CMYSA seeks to field a sufficient number of competitive teams to provide age and skill appropriate opportunities for players wanting to advance their skill, knowledge, and passion for the game of soccer. In addition to the spring/summer season, CMYSA will provide our players with opportunities for skills sessions, camps, and small-sided tournaments throughout the year.
The Competitive (Travel) Program is designed for the motivated and dedicated player looking for a higher level of play and competition. Players in this program will be exposed to more training than at the recreational level, and to games against stronger "outside" competition through MYSA league play. Teams are comprised of players of similar ability and commitment, and will remain together through one year. Tryouts are held in order to make these teams. It is important to note that the Competitive Program requires a higher level of commitment and participation from those selected for these teams. Travel is required, usually within a 75 mile radius of St. Cloud.
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The focus for U11-U14 age group is on player development, but the aspect of playing as a team now enters the picture. Game understanding and tactical awareness gain importance. The desire to win is encouraged, but it is not the focus of training sessions. Self-motivation and practicing outside of training and games must be fostered.
At the U15-U19 stage, technical work is still important, especially becoming faster and more proficient, but the emphasis is now on tactical understanding and performance. Without mastering the technical aspect, the tactical abilities cannot be developed or expanded. Self-motivation and practicing outside of training and games must be fostered.
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