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Mayweather's dumbness, stupidity and racism not an act
A lot of these low IQ *****s are defending Floyd Mayweather's jealous, erratic, and racist behaviors as an act to: 1) hype a future fight with the Fighter of the Decade, and, 2) gain a pre-fight psychological advantage over the Pound for Pound King Pacquiao.
These *****s seem to be confusing the impulsive Mayweather with the highly deliberate, tactical, and articulate Muhammad Ali who indeed used "crazy behavior" to promote fights as well as to get under his opponents' psychology to gain pre-fight advantage.
Floyd is going nuts! He is going broke! And his "entourage" will not care about him once he comes begging 6 years from now. He absolutely has no capability to hold on to anything he makes. And he absolutely is not capable - intelligence-wise - of being deliberate in pretending to be stupid, racist, and dumb for the sake of promoting a fight and of waging psychological warfare. He is just being his dumb, racist, stupid, and stuttering self.
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I'm not defending Floyd but for the record some of Ali's antics were hurtful...ask Joe Frazier...I wouldn't like being called an Uncle Tom...
Pound for Pound Ali spanks Floyd in trash talking though...and Ali doesn't have to swear
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It's easy to say that a racist statement is "no big deal" when it is not directed towards your kind.
That's what's going on here.
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"But Floyd Mayweather Jr. is also a convicted batterer with a history of arrests in Las Vegas and elsewhere.
In 2004, Mayweather was convicted on two counts of battery for punching two women at a Las Vegas nightclub the previous year. He was given suspended prison sentences, $1,000 in fines and ordered to complete impulse control counseling.
Mayweather in 2002 pleaded guilty to two counts of domestic violence in one case and battery in another. In 2005, a jury acquitted him of a third domestic violence charge, a felony, after his accuser changed her story. He reportedly was convicted of battery in his hometown of Grand Rapids, Mich., and he has also been the subject of civil lawsuits accusing him of battery."
Source: Las Vegas Review Journal
The above proves that Floyd's dumbness, stupidity, cowardice, and racism/sexism is not an act. It is real. It is not "marketing genius" as the *****s want you to believe. It is the truth. And the truth hurts.
Floyd has always been this way. Nothing is new.
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I definitely thought before he was putting on a front with his whole money persona to get money, Now I realise he's just really is ignorant.
Horrible video.
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Floyd is definitely a DONKEY for making these comments .... and it isn't an act/promo tactic ... he's just really that big of a dumba$$
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Now that the dust i settling, my life is getting back to normal, and I woke up in my OWN bed this morning, I am thinking it is definitely time to share a few tips or lessons learned while I was attending BlogHer 2012 right here in New York City. Trust me, I have a lot of blog posts planned around BlogHer, but the first thing that I want to get off my chest is a list of lessons learned (the hard way).
Lesson #1: Think Feet!
I heard this time and time again from my veteran BlogHer blogger friends: Sandals and comfortable walking shoes are a MUST!
I didn't understand just HOW comfortable that meant, but now I get it since I am home. As a New Yorker, I should have known better. I saw my agenda, knew my schedule was uptown-downtown-subway-walk-uptown-subway, but I still packed my heels. Was I delusional? Possibly. Did I comprehend the extreme difficulty in walking that much in heels? Likely no. Did my feet get a beating? You betcha!
Comfortable means that you would be okay walking the entire surface of our planet Earth without sitting down to take a break. If you have experience walking long distances with your favorite pair of sneakers or sandals, I would definitely pack those shoes – and only those shoes.
The problem with BlogHer is not knowing where you will wind up next, or how you are going to get there. I should have known better since 2012 was in my hometown city of New York, but I didn't take that information and use it wisely. Plan for an unpredictable day filled with lots of unplanned stops, walking, adventures, and agenda planning changes.
Remember that you are going to likely be standing (entirely or at least for the most part) while you are attending private media events. Even though there may (or may NOT!) be seating available at BlogHer events, I don't think you will want to be seated in the corner for the evening. You want to stand up, walk around, mingle with your reps and fellow bloggers. The whole point of BlogHer is networking, learning, and socializing with your fellow bloggers and brands. The ability to stand UP is surely going to be an important part of your success and experience at BlogHer!
Lesson #2: Tend To Your Blog – BEFORE!
Luckily, I did a good amount of work on MamaNYC prior to heading to the Hilton. However, I did not do as much as I had anticipated to do, or what I would normally expect to post on a daily basis on MamaNYC. I began the post scheduling process much too late (circa. July 15th) when I should have considered a plan and began to draft posts much earlier (next year: 2.5-3 months prior to departure).
Start to schedule your blog posts as early as possible and do not think for one second that you will be able to toss up even ONE blog posts while you are at BlogHer. If you get a post (or 5) done at the conference, congratulations! You are part of a HUGE minority of bloggers that can squeeze a post in instead of sleeping or relaxing their feet in the tub!
Devise a plan early on that will include your weekly memes, giveaway hops that must be published, campaigns, and other posts. My thoughts for next year include scheduling at least 3-4 posts per day while I am attending BlogHer. However, I want to go even further and prepare a post for at least one day after the conference and two days prior to leaving my home for BlogHer.
Why SO much?
Firstly, I had an intense week the days leading up to the conference. I was packing, planning, and printing agendas and other resources to organize before I arrived. I would have preferred to plan my posts earlier so that I could have spent more time packing and spending quality time with my little boy rather than rushing through blog posts. Clearly obvious, but I also would like to plan posts for the first day (at least) following BlogHer since I will be exhausted, unpacking, and craving much missed quality time with my little boy (Yes, I need a lot of time with my son!).
Secondly, I don't want my blog to go bad while I am away. Scheduling posts to publish throughout the days of BlogHer will ensure reader traffic and engagement while you are too busy to open your laptop. I want to leave my readers with something instead of disappearing on them! Give your readers something to look forward to every day – whether or not you are going to be there writing it that day!
Lesson #3: Plan For Yourself
This was a tough lesson, but also one that should be followed depending on your own personal preference. If you are comfortable navigating the conference floor and BlogHer Expo by yourself, I would consider planning your entire agenda, sessions, and events on your own. Don't depend on scheduling around what your fellow bloggers or roommates are planning to do. Next year, I plan to do what I WANT to do and nothing more or less.
The weeks following up to BlogHer will include party and event invites from some of your favorite brands or PR representatives. These will either be "first come; first serve", or invitation only events. Don't worry about what everyone else is doing. Look at your own schedule and book appointments, secure event tickets, and plan around your own needs and agenda. Scheduling around someone else will just turn out to be a nightmare!
Lesson #4: Plan Your Outfits
This is always a tough thing for me to do while I am packing for vacations and business trips. While I have gotten by in the past, I definitely learned that this is not possible while at BlogHer. Next year, I will plan accordingly for daytime wear, nighttime formalwear, and even my sleepwear! Take a look at your schedule and figure out which events will require an evening look (dress? fancy? business casual?) versus the loungewear type of events, which will work best in jeans or other neat-casual outfits. Plan accordingly – and when I say PLAN, I mean plan!
After the mess I made during BlogHer '12, I plan to organize outfits by day and night along with labels or another system to signify which outfit should be worn on each day or night during the conference. Between the hustle and bustle in between events and lack of time to stand in front of the mirror ("How do I look?"), I realized that I need to plan my wardrobe out much better next year. Of course, I will include an additional shirt and dress (or multiple!), but I would love to pre-plan every single outfit that I will wear throughout the entire BlogHer conference!
Lesson #5: Organize, Organize, Organize
Luckily, I took the advice of veteran BlogHer attendees and made sure I had everything I would need printed out, sorted, and labeled for easy access. I will make a few changes next year, but my system really worked very well this year!
What I Did:
* Printed the official BlogHer conference 3-day agenda.
* Printed the oficial BlogHer conference sessions descriptions.
* Created and printed a spreadsheet with event days, times, place, and notes. This would be my #1 resource for knowing where and when I had scheduled appointments and events!
* Printed out all of my invites and tickets for private brand events and parties.
* Used a binder with pocketed folders labeled Wednesday through Saturday. Each pocket held the tickets, documents, and agenda needed for the day.
Of course I had some other organizing tips and tricks, but that's all for another day (and entirely different post!).
What will I do differently in 2013?
* I used one full sheet of paper for my conference agenda, which included all days from Wednesday through Saturday. Next year, I plan to do the same full sheet (and hang on the wall for reference while I am at the hotel), but I will also create either 1/2 sheets or index cards printed out with an agenda for each day.
* Although I am a New York City born and raised native, I can honestly say that NO – I do not know all of Manhattan off the top of my head. It's a pretty big city! What I did was include the subway locations (corner/intersections) where I could find each of the subway lines we had to take to head to our next event. I also tossed in directions either off the top of my head from prior knowledge, or through the navigation assistance thanks to HopStop.com. Why? I knew that my mind would be in a million places and although I already knew where to find the subway line on West 34th Street, I would likely have a boggled brain during BlogHer! This worked perfectly.
Next year I will be in Chicago, which is a city I am largely unfamiliar with and do not know how to navigate. I will do the exact same thing, but likely much more descriptive and in-depth so that I don't find myself lost and confused! I will likely include directions on each index card, which will be broken down either by HOUR, event, or half day schedules so that I can incorporate much more detail than I needed here in New York City.
* Envelopes: I heard this tip from a fellow blogger, but I did ignore the idea and thought it wouldn't be necessary. Boy was I wrong! Carry along several envelopes labeled (or blank to be filled in later) so that you can write down where you received the business card, which PR representative works with which brand(s), and any other important notes. Now that I am home and confused by the hundreds of business cards I picked up, I wish I knew which person worked with what brands!
There is a lot more that I will be doing differently at BlogHer 2013 in Chicago, but this seems like a great start. I have many more plans, pictures, information, and stories to tell here on MamaNYC. I can't wait to share my entire experience with everyone!
Did I have a great time!? Absolutely!
Will I do it again? In a heartbeat.
Am I tired, achey, and feeling it all today? You betcha!
Keep an eye out for much more BlogHer '12 here on MamaNYC!


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Orlando Magic (0-0, 0-0 road) vs. Oklahoma City Thunder (0-0, 0-0 home)
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Offensive Rating: Thunder – 000.0 (t-1st), Magic– 000.0 (t-1st)
Defensive Rating: Thunder – 000.0 (t-1st), Magic – 000.0 (t-1st)
Pace: Thunder – 00.0 (t-1st), Magic – 00.0 (t-1st)
View from the enemy: Magic Basketball
Basketball! Today! For serious!
The balleyhooed, hyped, anticipated 2011-12 season starts tonight for the Thunder against a high quality opponent. You may think the Magic are a bit down and out just because of all the Dwight Howard noise, but that's a top five or six Eastern Conference team and one with the best big in all of basketball. Meaning, if you think in any way this should just be taking care of business for Oklahoma City, you're way wrong.
Orlando coming in: The Magic went 1-1 in preseason versus the Heat.
Three Big Things
1. Perk on Dwight Howard. Can the slimmer Kendrick Perkins handle Howard in the post? If yes, the Thunder should coast. If no, the Magic could get their deadly inside-out game going and sink OKC.
2. Who checks KD? The Magic really don't have a good defender to put on Kevin Durant. Hedo Turkoglu? Jason Richardson? Orlando could be watching Durant go off on them today.
3. The Thunder in the halfcourt. I get the feeling Oklahoma City wants to run more than usual and at times, the Thunder are relentless in transition. But beating teams like Orlando happens in the halfcourt. Can OKC execute enough to get it done?
Tip at 7:00 CT. Go Season.


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Fig. 1. Principle of fluorescence anomalous phase advance (FAPA). (a) Three-state quantum system of fluorophores consisting of a ground state G, an excited state E, and a dark state D. (b) Time-dependent fluorescence signal traces in the absence of any dark states (green) and in the presence of a dark state (red) under a modulated laser excitation (black). The red trace appears ahead of the excitation (i.e., phase advance).
Research-Dark State Sensing and Imaging
In 2011 we reported an interesting observation: unlike conventional frequency-domain fluorescence lifetime measurement in which the fluorescence trace always lags behind the modulated excitation source, the detected fluorescence traces can actually exhibit fluorescence anomalous phase advance (FAPA) as if the fluorescence is emitted "ahead" of the source (Fig.1). We attribute FAPA to the asymmetric modulation distortion via photoinduced dark state (including triplet state or radical state) hysteresis. After establishing this FAPA effect, we made use of it to map out the spatial distribution of fluorophore's dark state lifetime. This is the first time that the dark state is directly used for sensing local environment.
To gain deeper insight into FAPA, we generalized the framework of phase fluorometry by considering the intricate interplay between a short-lived fluorescent state and a long-lived dark state. FAPA exists only in a narrow modulation frequency range that is resonant with the intrinsic time scale of dark-state lifetime. Thus FAPA effect offers a specific and convenient reporter for sensing and imaging dark state dynamics, complementary to the widely used fluorescence lifetime spectroscopy and microscopy.
Relevant Papers:
1. X. Zhu and W. Min. "Frequency-domain phase fluorometry in the presence of dark states: a numerical study", Chem. Phys. Lett., 516, 40, (2011). [PDF]
2. E. Gatzogiannis, X. Zhu, Y.-T. Kao, W. Min. "Observation of frequency-domain fluorescence anomalous phase advance due to dark state hysteresis", J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2, 461, (2011). [PDF]


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Dye sensitised solar cells (DSSCs) have long been recognised as a possible answer to the energy crisis we are facing. Unfortunately, many current solar cells rely on expensive platinum or inflexible carbon based materials in their manufacture. Now, scientists in China have found a cheaper and more efficient alternative in commercial fountain pen ink.
Until now, none of the materials investigated has managed to achieve the light weight, low-cost and biodegradable properties that are attractive in manufacturing flexible electronics. However, Dechun Zou and co-workers at Peking University have found a material that has all these attributes in fountain pen ink.
The idea to use ink in DSSCs came from the concept of 'paper electronics', says Zou. Compared to traditional, rigid electronic devices, paper electronics may be the future in achieving the flexibility needed in many commercial applications. An example for the eco-friendly fashion conscious being the application of DSSCs on backpacks and bags for powering portable electronic devices.
Commercial pen ink consists of well-dispersed carbon nanoparticles. Here, the researchers took advantage of the good catalytic activity, high stability and well-established industrial production of the material and directly introduced the ink as a counter electrode material for DSSCs. The ink film was prepared via a spin-coating technique and the layer was shown to be only 3m thick.
Andrew Hamnett, an expert in solar energy and president of the Scottish Marine Institute, UK, comments how the authors have 'cleverly exploited' the effort that has gone into optimising carbon suspensions in fountain pen inks and congratulates them on 'a nice bit of lateral thinking'.
The energy efficiency of the cells is currently at 6.2%, which is comparable to a standard Pt electrochemical device that would be around 1000 times more expensive. Future strategies to increase the catalytic activity may include utilising other film preparation processes or further investigation into the catalytic mechanism of the ink nanoparticles, which Zou says may be 'challenging but also promising'.
Direct application of commercial fountain pen ink to efficient dye-sensitized solar cells
Xin Cai, Zhibin Lv, Hongwei Wu, Shaocong Hou and Dechun Zou
Read the original Chemistry World article here


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Owners of a company suing the state for terminating a nearly $200 million contract allegedly threatened to kill a former employee in 2009 if he exposed the company's alleged illegal accounting activities.
An owner of the company, Client Network Services Inc., which was hired by the state to process Medicaid claims, said in a statement Tuesday CNSI denies the accusations, which have nothing to do with the contract dispute the company has brought against Louisiana.
"CNSI has done nothing wrong and has absolutely nothing to hide," CNSI Owner and President Adnan Ahmed said in a statement.
The accuser, Virginia lawyer Matthew Hoffman, who used to work for CNSI, spoke with the FBI in September 2009 after CNSI fired him in July 2009.
"All of these allegations, made by disgruntled former employees who were fired for cause, were discredited years ago by U. S. Attorney in Maryland, and never pursued," Ahmed said.
Hoffman told an FBI agent CNSI was regularly engaging in a number of illegal accounting activities. The number of accusations he and another fired CNSI employee, Jeffrey Weisenborne, list, and the manner in which they describe how employees under the owners sometimes reluctantly conspired to lie to auditors, suggest a culture encouraging protection of its illegal accounting practices.
The FBI report, which deals with a now-closed investigation into CNSI that took place in Maryland, was discussed in a Baton Rouge court Thursday. The Louisiana Attorney General's Office argued the report was relevant to a criminal investigation involving CNSI. Both involve whistleblowers, Assistant Attorney General David Caldwell has said. The Louisiana investigation into CNSI was apparently triggered in part by anonymously sent emails.
Caldwell brought up the FBI report containing the accusations in effort to postpone the civil suit CNSI filed against the state. Louisiana Criminal Code of Procedure allows for civil suits to be delayed if it can be shown that they would interfere with a criminal investigation.
According to the Hoffman interview, less than five months before he was fired, he was at meeting at the CNSI office in Rockford, Md., with about 15 people. The company's four owners asked Hoffman to "stay behind" when the meeting ended, the report says.
"(Redacted name) then told Hoffman in front of the other three owners that if he ever disclosed the misconduct at the company they would have him killed," the FBI report says.
It continues: "At that point (redacted name) stepped in and said they should move on."
The FBI report also says someone at the company once told Hoffman during a performance review to stop telling the owners when he thinks something is illegal.
Additionally, it says Hoffman and Weisenborne sued CNSI for wrongful termination and eventually settled with the company.
Among the illegal accounting activities in which the fired employees allege the owners and company participated: misrepresenting profits to banks where it had a line of credit; using company credit cards for personal use, such as purchases at Neiman Marcus and trips to Las Vegas; taking monthly travel and entertainment allowances of $1,500 for the owners; keeping family members who didn't work for the company on the payroll for about $25,000 a year; receiving large bonus payments booked as repayments for loans that were never made; and making real estate purchases with funds tied to the company using improper accounting practices.
While Hoffman was told he was fired for owning a second company, which was against company policy, he told the FBI agent he thought he was fired for cooperating with the auditors. He'd been told in the past, the report says, "to shut up or be fired."
The report says two banks with which the company had a line of credit received anonymous letters from someone at CNSI that said "employees were being threatened for trying to report the company's true income and that the owners were overstating revenue to the banks."
Weisenborne told the FBI neither he nor Hoffman penned the letters. The letters apparently appeared to have been written by a non-native English speaker, which the report said could have been one of the "Indian employees" at another Maryland office.
Hoffman told the FBI he overheard another employee, whose name was redacted but who the report says maintained financial records for healthcare projects, talking to auditors, "lying about things and (Hoffman) knows she was uncomfortable with it."
Ahmed said the accusations have "already been found baseless."
"These attempts by the state's lawyers to introduce false information...in order to embarrass us rather than argue their case is a ploy to throw things against a wall to see what sticks," Ahmed said in a statement.
Caldwell said in court Thursday that because an FBI investigation closes does not mean the information can't be useful in another, state case.
"The fact that something is closed doesn't mean (information) contained is not relevant or not true," Caldwell said.
Caldwell said his division needed more time to investigate the criminal aspects of the award of CNSI's contract. CNSI lawyers doubted, though, that the Attorney General had any evidence and was merely stalling.
CNSI filed the civil suit in May after the state cancelled the contract based on consultation with the Attorney General's office. The state cut ties after a federal subpoena requested records from the Division of Administration related to the contract award. Then Secretary of DHH Bruce Greenstein, who previously worked for CNSI, resigned after the civil suit was filed.
Maryland-based CNSI, formed in 1994, employed more than 1,300 people in 2009, and posted revenues of $160 million in 2008, the report said. Much, if not the majority, of their business comes from government contracts.


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AMA Awards 2010: Red Carpet to Your Kid's ClosetMichelle Horton
The American Music Awards brings out the best and worst in celebrity fashion, but did you ever think you could actually use the same trends found on the AMA's Red Carpet to fill your kid's closet? We couldn't help but notice the similarities:
Pretty and couture with a toddler-sized length, we think this A. Bird Mari Day Jacket is totally channeling Miley Cyrus' AMA Awards look.
This Nicole Miller Sequined Sheath for girls ($72) has the same sparkly, feminine look as Katy Perry's AMA Awards 2010 dress, but is more appropriate for Christmas dinner. Simply stunning.
There were a lot of one-shoulder, asymmetrical dresses on the American Music Awards Red Carpet, such as on Whitney Port (above), Jenny McCarthy (below) and DWTS' Karina Smirnoff. Translate the trend to your little girl's wardrobe with this Audrina Asymmetrical Ruffled Tunic by Ella Girl, $53.
Because sometimes a girl wants a little show-stopping shimmer and sheen, like Jenny McCarthy's ultra-shiny AMA's dress. (Sally Miller Sequin Wave Dress, $124)
Channel Jaden Smith's AMA's look with this John Galliano Kids Boys Vest Print Tee, $128.
We saw a lot of lace on the American Music Awards Red Carpet (some more fashionable than others), which reminds me of these lacey girl dresses:
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Steal Gavin Rossdale's dressy-meets-casual look with this Armani Junior cardigan, $175.
Get Modern Family's Rico Rodriguez's look for waaaay less at The Children's Place, $4.49.
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A stupid question was asked and posted by an editor. Everyone (at this moment) giving the correct answer is moderated down as Flamebait.
Is this an all-time low for
They want a page printed like (pipe is the page's edge)
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and not jumbled like
1,2 | 5,6 | 9,10 | 12
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The former can be joined together and the content will still be readable across the page.
Horizontal printing is about continuing sentences and content across all 4 pages before making a line-break, when you return to the 1st page again. I wouldn't do this for text but for diagrams it makes a lot of sense.
The followup message had attached proof.The Real Bev wrote:
> TenThumbs wrote:
> > BTW, what's the URL for the C-Band thing?
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> We have a 10' and a 12'. We used to have a 6', but it was right by the
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> who gave us his discards.)
The page sets up a 2200 pxiel wide table. There aren't too many monitors
that wide. Never frae, though; there's always a virtual frame buffer.
A little experimentation and you discover that you can do
:1 -screen 0 2800x2100x8 &
netscape -display
:1 -geometry =2600x1900 <URL> &
Since you can't see anything you have to guess when netscape is finished but
eventually you just do
xwd -display
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and you now have a screen shot. You have to crop it, of course, but that's
not hard. Printing it may be a problem but it's a different problem.
Are we having fun yet?
... just buy a bigger monitor dude. Then it'll all fit on one screen. Trust me.
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All this hinges on you having access to a Mac, of course. Can't really help you there. *cough* [apple.com]
It is not an issue unique to web pages. It is a potential issue for printing from any application.
Five years ago, when I was an avid user of Acorn RiscOS computers [riscos.com] I had a neat applet which solves this problem for printing from any program. (I can't remember the name, and I have done a search).
What it did was to setup a virtual printer that could print arbitrary page sizes by printing tiles through a real printer.
The user would select what size paper they wished to emulate (A1, A0, etc or arbitrary dimensions), and the real printer to print through. The user would then press print from their application. The applet would create and print the tiles, with crop marks etc.
At the time I found the application quite useful, and found it easy to print out A2 or larger posters from any application, through my humble laser jet, and then paste them together.
I am quite surprised that there is no similar feature in CUPS, as IMHO, it would be relatively straight forward to implement, especially for GDI printers, and would be genuinely useful.
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Mario Lopez may be PEOPLE's Hottest Bachelor – but the A Chorus Line star and fitness buff has a shocking admission: He was a chubby baby. "I looked like a sumo wrestler," Lopez says in a new interview. "My mom had to pull the fat folds apart when she bathed me!" But that's all in his past.
As fans know, Lopez has mined his love of fitness to create his own book, Mario Lopez's Knockout Fitness. The exercise guru, who is recently single, says that a full slate of projects has kept him off the dating market but that hasn't stopped him from thinking about dating completely.
"I like a girl who's from a modest sort of upbringing, because it's more relatable," he says, explaining what he looks for in a potential girlfriend. "I'm a first-generation American. My parents [Elvia and Mario Sr.] emigrated from Mexico and live in the same house I grew up in Chula Vista, Calif. I'd feel weird if the girl was a little too uppity or affluent, because I'm a very down-home kind of guy."
For the lucky ladies who do manage to snag a date, expect to be flexible. "I like to go to a place in Koreatown in L.A. where they have private karaoke," he says of his favorite date activity. "It's a great place to bring a girl and see how she reacts. If she rolls with the punches and has a good time, then I'm like, 'All right, this girl is cool!'"
Mario bares all in the new issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday – be sure to pick one up!
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CROWLEY – Brailon J. Webster, 22, of Crowley, departed this life on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 at Lake Charles Memorial Hospital from an accidental gunshot wound.
A celebration of Brailon's life will be held Monday, September 15, 2008 at 11 a.m. at the Martin Luther King Center in Crowley, with the Reverend Isaiah J. Webster of Baton Rouge officiating. Viewing will take place at the MLK Center from 8 a.m. until 11 a.m.
Interment will be in the West Crowley Cemetery.
Brailon was born in Lafayette on March 4, 1986 to Cassandra Webster and Yuri Gordon. He was an affectionate, fun loving person with a beautiful spirit who was loved by all who knew him.
He leaves to mourn his passing a loving mother, Cassandra Gordon (John Alexander) of Lafayette; his father, Yuri Gordon of Salinas, Calif.; one daughter, Taji Hayes of Crowley; his siblings, Taiquincia Webster and Xyquarrius Webster of Lafayette, Yuressa Gordon of Washington, D.C. and Kristopher Savoy of Crowley; a devoted grandfather, Joseph Gordon; a great-great grandmother, Lou Ethel Gordon of Crowley; maternal grandparents, Etta L. Green (Coston) of Jennings and Isaiah J. Webster (Louise) of Baton Rouge; a paternal grandmother, Yvonne Gordon of Lake Charles; and a host of other relatives and friends.
Fondel Funeral Home of Lake Charles is in charge of the arrangements.


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South Carolina Stingrays rookie goalie Philipp Grubauer is scheduled to have wrist surgery this week and will miss the rest of the season and next month's Kelly Cup playoffs.
"Philipp has been a huge part of this team all season," said Stingrays head coach Spencer Cabery. "Philipp probably belonged at a higher level this season, but came to South Carolina with a great attitude and worked hard every day in practice. He will be missed."
Grubauer, a 4th-round pick of the Washington Capitals in 2010, is 23-13-5 this season with the Stingrays with a 2.22 goal against average and a .918 save percentage. Grubauer was named the ECHL rookie of the month in January and the goalie of the month in November.
Billy Sauer will make his fifth straight start tonight against the Florida Everblades. Daren Machesney, who has missed the last two months with a groin injury, is expected to be back in the lineup this week.


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Small establishments employ the largest share of workers
February 11, 1999
In March 1997, small establishments—those with less than 100 workers—employed 55.3 percent of the total U.S. private sector employment of 100.0 million. Medium establishments (100 to 999 workers) employed 33.1 percent of all private workers, and large establishments (1,000 or more) accounted for 11.7 percent.
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Four of the nine major industry divisions reported substantially greater employment shares in small establishments than the average. Small establishments accounted for about 80.5 percent of employment in construction, 74.8 percent in wholesale trade, 73.3 in agriculture, and 71.2 percent in retail trade.
Two industry divisions—finance, insurance, and real estate and services—had small establishment employment shares about the same as the average.
The manufacturing division had by far the lowest employment share in small establishments at 30.4 percent, and the highest shares in both medium establishments (49.0 percent) and large establishments (20.5 percent). Transportation and public utilities also reported comparatively high shares of employment in medium and large establishments.
These employment data by size of establishment are produced by the BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (ES-202) program, a virtual census of establishments, employment, and wages of employees on nonfarm payrolls. Additional information may be obtained from the bulletin, "Employment and Wages Annual Averages, 1997." An "establishment" is defined as an economic unit which produces goods or provides services, typically at a single physical location and engaged in one type of economic activity. For this article, small establishments are defined as those that employ less than 100 workers; medium establishments as those that employ between 100 and 999 workers; and large establishments as those that employ 1,000 workers or more. Due to rounding, the overall and some industry division employment shares by establishment size do not sum to 100 percent.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Small establishments employ the largest share of workers on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/1999/feb/wk2/art04.htm (visited September 30, 2016).
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Sorry But Hearthstone Isn't Fun Anymore 23 hours ago
If you were thinking you just couldn't get enough Halo into your life, Marc Ecko is here to help you out with a brand new line of Limited Edition Halo T-shirts.
We all know how big a nerd Marc Ecko is; he says it himself all the time. In fact he loves video games so much he helped produce his own game called Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure. It was released three years ago and received decent reviews. His love for video games doesn't stop there; today Ecko has released a Limited Edition line of Halo T-shirts.
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text: Criterion Machine Works introduces a 0.125" diameter solid carbide qualified length "QL" boring tool to line of solid carbide boring tools. These tools feature a repeatable Z length of ±0.001" from a nominal set length. The QL tool's close tolerance length minimizes a machine's downtime when users have to change a tool during a production run. The tools have a closely held locating angle to insure the Z-length repeatability. The locating angle also locates the cutting edge on center for longer tool life. There are 17 different bore diameter and length configurations of the tools. Minimum bore diameters will range from as small as 0.050" to as large as 0.110" in diameter. The boring tools are also able to bore holes as deep as 0.7", depending on the bore diameter. The qualified length tools need to be held in a the company's qualified length toolholder. The toolholders are available in ¼". 3/8", 1/2", 5/8" and ¾" shanks and are designed for use in the company's precision boring heads.


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You need to eat more.
i have been following a paleo diet with small amounts of dairy for about two months now, going great guns, there has been a bit of weight loss, a lot better sleeping, better well being, very happy about it all.
a recent development though, and I'm going to ask for some advice and or thoughts, because all of a sudden i have these cravings.....
i would knock an old lady over for her apple
i would walk across hot coals for watermelon
i would sell my mother for a banana
and DON'T ask me what i would do for pineapple
whats going on with me?
at the moment i have at least 1 but maybe two serves of fruit a day.
prior to this diet i could go a week or more without fruit in my bad days so its not like i am even someone who was fruit or fruit juice crazy who has scaled back.
You need to eat more.
Steak, eggs, potatoes - fruits, nuts, berries and forage. Coconut milk and potent herbs and spices. Tea instead of coffee now and teeny amounts of kelp daily. Let's see how this does! Not really had dairy much, and gut seems better for it.
It's not a choice between zero fruit and pounds of fruit per day. Eat some fruit. If it causes you to binge, only buy a couple of pieces at a time, and eat them after your evening meal. Except for grains, industrial oils, and legumes, this is perhaps the least restrictive "diet" on the planet.
If you're worried about too many carbs, you can do a little easy planning. Maybe don't eat fruit on a day when you're going to eat potatoes or rice. Or learn to incorporate fruit into your meals - pineapple tastes great in some curries. Eat berries - most are lower carb than a lot of other fruits.
"Right is right, even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong, even if everyone is doing it." - St. Augustine
Who says back fat is a bad thing? Maybe on a hairy guy at the beach, but not on a crab.
If you are worried about your carb intake I'd understand but honestly 4 medium size apples might ad 100 grams of carbs. If you supplement that with only meat, eggs and minimum veggies your good for one day. ditch the fruits the other...
If you are craving fruits that much, plan a binging day for that... your body will be so much happier with you for binging on fruits than on candy or wheat based things...
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It's all about trying to stay healthy!!!!
You might just need more carbs than you are currently taking in. Maybe look at tossing in a carb refeed day a week and see if the cravings don't go away.
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By the time you are developing these cravings maybe it isn't your body who is wrong but it is your approach to dieting.
Eat more fruit. Simple. Fruit isn't the enemy... As long as you aren't using it as a crutch, there is no reason why you are restricting to 1 piece of fruit a day.
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HCLF: lean red meat, eggs, low-fat dairy, bone broth/gelatin, fruits, seafood, liver, small amount of starch (oatmeal, white rice, potatoes, carrots), small amount of saturated fat (butter/ghee/coconut/dark chocolate/cheese).
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Alternatively, you may well feel great and function fine while eating a lot of protein and fat and almost no carbs - but only if you eat enough.
Steak, eggs, potatoes - fruits, nuts, berries and forage. Coconut milk and potent herbs and spices. Tea instead of coffee now and teeny amounts of kelp daily. Let's see how this does! Not really had dairy much, and gut seems better for it.


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The American Dental Association reported at its annual session in October that membership is declining at a rate of 1 percent per year. And the Chicago Dental Society responded.
Chicago-area business coach, speaker and author Steve Fretzin presented a two-part webinar on member recruitment and retention, accessible through the CDS website. CDS president Susan Becker Doroshow said on the CDS Facebook page that the advice Mr. Fretzin offered could easily be applied to patients of a dental office, as well as Branch members, Rotary Club prospects, and others community groups.
Organizations, Mr. Fretzin explained, often work under the guise of a few key myths. Among them, that members will not leave the group as long as the organization continues to provide good services at a fair price. While this might have been true years ago, he said during the Nov. 5 webinar, current members are pulled in many directions and have many more demands on their time and wallets.
To overcome these changes, Mr. Fretzin offered several suggestions for how to successfully retain a member:
To hear more from Mr. Fretzin, access the two-part webinar on demand at the CDS website.
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Tom Sullivan knows just how many volunteers contributed to the 2014 Midwinter Meeting. And he knows that the Chicago Dental Society will need just as many volunteers to produce similarly stellar meetings in 2015, 2020 and 2050.
He and his colleagues will help interested members identify opportunities to increase their involvement with their dental society at a new program being offered at the 2014 Midwinter Meeting. Dr. Sullivan, a longtime Chicago Dental Society member and past president of the Illinois State Dental Society will lead Your Dental Society Needs You Friday, Feb. 21, beginning at 10 a.m. in Room W474A.
"In my 30 years with organized dentistry, I got into the mix of the Midwinter Meeting, met people, and learned from the bottom up what it takes to put together something of this magnitude. There is a huge team behind our meeting; someone has to be walking the floor and checking fire codes, for example," Dr. Sullivan explained. "We aim to make people aware of the avenues for new dentists to get involved with their Branches and gain access to volunteer positions."
Dr. Sullivan and his colleagues on site will answer questions from the audience and share their own stories of involvement in organized dentistry.
"As a young dentist, what impressed me was putting a face to name that I had heard and getting to know people, emulate them and call them my true mentors," Dr. Sullivan said. "You can repeat that story if you take the time, and you get it back 10 fold. It's not that big of a mountain to climb, but it is fun climbing it."
Longtime CDS member and volunteer Michael Durbin said the program was born out of questions he hears from younger colleagues all the time. He encouraged current volunteers to invite younger colleagues and attend together.
"We know that our dental students are more engaged than they used to be, and we have lots of student volunteers. But there are the same opportunities for them once they graduate and start practicing," he explained.
"We need to grab that enthusiasm and make sure we're giving them an outlet for their leadership to continue. We hear over and over again that people are unsure of how to get involved," he continued. "We needed to take that message to the Midwinter Meeting for people to see all of their options for getting involved. This is an opportunity to ask questions and get together a plan for where to go next."
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Local dentists know that their membership in the Chicago Dental Society has its benefits.
They aim to educate more of their non-member colleagues at a Midwinter Meeting symposium Friday, Feb. 21, Are you getting the most out of your membership?
The program begins at 11 a.m. in Room W474A. It will last one hour and is open to all dentists and dental students who are attending the Midwinter Meeting. Attendees will not receive CE credit for their participation.
"We talk a lot about the power of three and the alignment of the tripartite," longtime CDS member Michael Durbin said, speaking of the relationship among the American Dental Association, Illinois State Dental Society and Chicago Dental Society. "This program is designed to overview what's out there and present an argument for membership in organized dentistry. We want people to see the opportunities there are to save money, improve their practices and improve themselves through the features we offer."
The symposium will feature a panel of CDS members sharing how they have used their member benefits at all stages of their careers.
"The best way to see the value of a CDS membership is to hear other members share their stories. They practice the same as you, work the same as you, and they have used organized dentistry to their advantage to improve their lives every day," Dr. Durbin said.
He encourages members of organized dentistry to invite their non-member friends – and for both to stay and learn more about the benefits of membership.
He explained, "I want people to leave with an answer to the question, 'how could I not be a member when I see everything that comes with it?'"
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Fiduciary College/ NCTR Trustee Workshop will be held at Stanford Law School on Tuesday, July 24th and at Stanford Park Hotel on Wednesday, July 25th.
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Travel arrangements are the responsibility of the registrant. To ensure the best fares and schedules, make your travel arrangements as soon as possible. San Francisco International Airport (SFO) and the San Jose International Airport (SJO) are both approximately 25-30 minute drive from the Stanford Campus.
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Room blocks have been created at the Stanford Park Hotel for attendees of the Fiduciary College / NCTR Trustee Workshop at a nightly rate of $ 199.00. You can make your reservation online or by calling the hotel.
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WASHINGTON: The Obama administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to overturn California's ban on same-sex marriage and take a skeptical view of similar bans elsewhere, making a historic argument for gay rights.
The Obama administration's friend-of-the-court brief marked the first time a US president has urged the high court to expand the right of gays and lesbians to wed.
The filing unequivocally calls on the justices to strike down a 2008 ballot measure that barred gays and lesbians from wedding in California. It does not explicitly call for marriage equality across the United States but points the court in that direction.
The administration's position, if adopted by the court, probably would result in gay marriage becoming legal in seven other states that, like California, give gay couples all the benefits of marriage, but don't allow them to wed. They are: Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon and Rhode Island.
The brief marks President Barack Obama's most expansive view of the legal rights of gays and lesbians to marry. He announced his personal support for gay marriage last year but has said the issue should be governed by states.
The denial of marriage to same-sex couples, "particularly where California at the same time grants same-sex partners all the substantive rights of marriage, violates equal protection," the administration said.
In the longer term, the administration urges the justices to subject laws that discriminate on sexual orientation to more rigorous review than usual, a standard that would imperil other state bans on same-sex marriage.
Obama, a former constitutional law professor, raised expectations that he would back a broad brief during his inauguration address on Jan. 21. He said the nation's journey "is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law."
"For if we are truly created equal, than surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well," Obama said.
Obama has a complicated history on gay marriage. As a presidential candidate in 2008, he opposed the California ban but didn't endorse gay marriage. He later said his personal views on gay marriage were "evolving."
When he ran for re-election last year, Obama announced his personal support for same-sex marriage, but said marriage was an issue that states, not the federal government, should decide.


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Julia Reinhard Lupton
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Associate Dean for Research
|Shakespeare: Renaissance Literature: Religious Studies: Humanities and the Public Sphere; design and everyday life.
|Thinking with Shakespeare
Guggenheim Fellowship, 2013-2014
Faculty, School for Criticism and Theory at Cornell University, 2013
Editorial Boards: Studies in English Literature, MLQ, Exemplaria, Literature and Theology, Renaissance Drama, and Shakespeare Quarterly
MLA: Delegate Assembly; Executive Committee, Seventeenth-Century British Literature
UCI Chancellor's Fellow, 2008-2011
UCI Living Our Values Award, 2009-2010
Edward Lynton Award for Scholarship and Public Life, 2005
ACLS Fellowship, 2004-2005
Julia Reinhard Lupton is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, with a joint appointment in Education. Beginning September 1, 2014, she is Associate Dean of Research for the School of Humanities and Faculty Director of Illuminations, the Chancellor's arts and culture initiative. In 2013-14, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship for her book project, "Shakespeare Dwelling: Habitation, Hospitality, Design." In 2013-14 she served as Interim Chair for the Department of English. From 2010 to 2012, she directed UCI's Program in Jewish Studies. In 2007, she was named a Chancellor's Fellow at the University of California, Irvine, in recognition of her contributions to Shakespeare studies. In 2014, she was elected Trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America.
Her most recent scholarly books are Thinking with Shakespeare: Essays on Politics and Life (Chicago, 2011) and Citizen-Saints: Shakespeare and Political Theology (Chicago Press, 2005). She is also author of Afterlives of the Saints: Hagiography, Typology and Renaissance Literature (Stanford, 1996) and co-author with Kenneth Reinhard of After Oedipus: Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis (Cornell, 1992). She is the co-editor with Graham Hammill of Political Theology and Early Modernity (Chicago 2011) and has collaborated with Jen Rust and David Pan on two volumes on Schmitt and Shakespeare.
She is the co-author with Ellen Lupton of two trade books on design, "DIY Kids" (Princeton Architectural Press) and "Design Your Life: The Pleasures and Perils of Everyday Things" (St. Martin's Press).
Her current project is entitled "Shakespeare Dwelling: Habitation, Hospitality, Design." The book aims to use the visual, cognitive, and phenomenological resources of design theory to disclose the many points of creative contact between formal and vernacular acts of design on Shakespeare's stage. The emphasis will fall on the life of objects (developed via affordance, user, and interobjectivity studies), the design of space (supported by excurses into architecture and urbanism), the management of time (supplemented by phenomenology and political theology), and housekeeping and hospitality (filled out via vernacular design discourses from the Renaissance to the present). The book will supplement discourses developed within the disciplines of design with more broadly theoretical writings on biopower in order to probe the design/life interface in both its Renaissance and its contemporary formations.
Other projects include editing the Arden Critical Guide to Romeo and Juliet and co-editing with David Goldstein a volume on Shakespeare and hospitality.
|Thinking with Shakespeare: Essays on Politics and Life, University of Chicago Press, 2011
|Citizen-Saints: Shakespeare and Political Theology, University of Chicago Press, 2005.
|Afterlives of the Saints: Hagiography, Typology, and Renaissance Literature (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford UP, 1996)
|co-authored with Kenneth Reinhard, After Oedipus (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1993)
|Articles on Shakespeare, religion and literature, Spenser, and psychoanalysis.
|Design Your Life: The Pleasures and Perils of Everyday Things (St. Martin's Press, 2009), co-authored with Ellen Lupton
|DIY Kids (Princeton Architectural Press, 2007), co-authored with Ellen Lupton.
|Guggenheim 2013-14
Trustee, Shakespeare Association of America
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Not as bad as everyone says!
Okay first things first, when I initially booked my holiday on teletext the first thing I did was look on this website and read some reviews. And to say I was nervous about my planned holiday would have been somewhat of an understatement. There are a lot of bad reviews for this hotel, but my advice to anyone is to keep an open mind before you go and don't have any preconceived notions and you will probably have a better time.
It won't ever win 'Best Hotel' awards and there are several negative points I could mention, but overall my holiday was enjoyable. The hotel is basic, but then you get what you pay for - I didn't expect to have the holiday of my life for �300 all-inclusive, but saying that I do believe I did get value for money. The weather was amazing (only one morning of cloud, the rest of the time it was scorching) and the pool area was delightful. Where the hotel lets itself down is there is no nightlife (well not unless you class the rotation of 4 or 5 cds as nightlife.) But if you don't mind walking along the coast for 30mins then you will find the main party area bustling with bars, restaurants and people. Ok its not ideal when you go all-inclusive to leave the site every night but we found it to make a refreshing change a couple of times.
Also the food is by no means gormet cuisine, again it is basic with limited choice. But there is still a choice and I had a varied plate each day, so there is no worry of starving here even for the less adventurous eater there is always chips and bread rolls if the worst comes to the worst! The staff were friendly and welcoming but they did seem to work on a skeletal staff basis ... sometimes the receptionist would also be the barwoman??? But you were always served with a smile.
Overall I had an enjoyable holiday, but what you need to keep in mind is that holidays are what you make of them, this hotel does have flaws but if you are willing to overlook a few things and make the most of what there is you will enjoy your time here.
Do not risk it
where do i start, i went here with my mum and my little boy and we had 2 weeks of hell.
1) our first room - my son was having a bath and the bottom of the bath started coming away went to reception and was told that "dont worry it is just paint!"
got moved
2)our second room - the electric kept cutting out so the maintenance man came round and said it is water that has gathered in the lightshade he will empty and will be ok - i dont think so.
got moved
3)our third room - ant infested and so we got given some cockroach spray thid did nothing but i couldnt go through moving again so we stayed put
4)i took my little boy to the play area and found that this was extremely dangerous ladder on the slide broken paint peeling off leaving splinters in your skin.
5)food - ha ha - this was always served tepid never hot the hot plates were pointless the bread was left out overnight uncovered and served to us the next night just breading selmonella
6) we were all inclusive but you couldnt get tea/coffee during coffee time as the machine was in the inside bar and they were working in the outside bar - not enough staff
7)no entertainment in the day or evening
8)the gym was a death trap
9)the receptionist who was nicknamed "the rottwelier" by all the guests staying at the hotel was the most unhelpful person i have ever come across
but i suppose after all that the choice is yours but i definately will not be going there again
Go at your own risk!
We returned last week having spent a week there to include New Year. After receiving a very frosty welcome at Reception, where we were kept waiting and even ignored for some time, we found our room was up some unsafe steps to a very basic room with no air conditioning or fan, we couldnt imagine the conditions there July/August when the ambient temperature is much higher!.
Food was mediocre and left to stew, and because the place was very short staffed, we had to clear our own dishes and stack them at the kitchen hatch!
The swimming pool was freezing and, because there is no heating system, is cold all year round!
The only 'entertainment' twice that week was a 'magician' who provided much merriment when his assistant kept dropping the props!
The worst aspect was the fact that that there had been 4 break-ins in the few days previous to our arrival, including on Christmas Eve, and at least 2 whilst we were there. Because of this we decided not to go into town for New Years Eve as we, and several other guests, had planned, preferring to stay in the complex and check our rooms periodically throughout the evening.
Located a good 20 minutes outside the town, we enjoyed the coastal walk and seeing the chipmunks which came up to you to be fed. The rest of the staff at the complex worked very hard, and the weather was very good for the time of year but we would definetly not recommend this hotel to anyone!!
Not as bad as we originally thought
After initially being very worried about the location of La Piramide we soon learnt our way around the problems- taxis! At only 3-4 euros per trip into Costa Caleta the problem was soon overcome and we got on with enjoying the rest of our holiday.
The apartment was clean and tidy with change of bed linens and towels every other day. We could easily spend the day around the spacious pool area and then go into town at night where there were plenty of lovely restaurants. The building works surrounding the area were a bit of an eyesore but caused us no problems as there was little noise. The staffing problems other holiday makers have mentioned were evident but it never caused us inconvenience. We would however have been very disappointed if we'd been all-inclusive, as most other people were, since you're then stuck in the resort all day waiting around for your meals.
Overall, we got exactly what we paid for- a cheap, basic base for our holiday. Fair enough the location could have been better, the pool could have been cleaner and warmer and there could have been more staff but as a young couple on a cheap winter break we had everything we needed.
Do not stay here!
Do not stay here if you want: Bad service (or none at all because there are no staff) Sub standard food (that's if you don't like a plate of chips, rice and pasta every night with no veg and suspiciously cooked fish / sometimes meat) , being in the middle of a building site and cats roaming around the complex, drinking out of the pool, and scratching their bits in the dinning area, begging for food and lounging around the bar sprawled on the sofas.
We have just returned from holiday on a supposedly 3* all inclusive deal to Fuerteventura that barely passes as a 2* star in my opinion. We were treated as second class holiday makers as it was out of season.
There were hardly any staff approx 1 person to cover the reception and bar and 1 chef and a manager that openly discussed the staff and was overwhelmed by complaints.
The rooms were disgusting and looked like they had never been cleaned and our towels were changed every 3 days if we were lucky!
The tour operator we contacted from teletext said it was 100 metres from the beach - 100 metres from the cliff edge, yes with sheer rock faces and no beach - but then again there was the lovely 30 / 40 minute walk to the nearest man made beach in Calleta (which was worth the walk). They do put on a free bus but out of 3 days we used this it didn't turn up one evening so we got a taxi back although we complained to the manager they never gave us a refund for the taxi like one lucky reviewer!
All facilites were chargeable and barely mlooked safe and there was no entertainment on an evening even though they did have a bingo machine behind the bar and digital TV that had film channels that you could change to English.
The meal and bar times were very restricted and it was worse than being in britain when the all inclusive drinks stopped at 10pm so everyone crowded the bar at 5 minutes to and ordered about 3 rounds to last them till 11 /12.
I would not reccommend this to anyone not even those that liked to be left alone in a fairly quiet (aprt from the building sites Monday - Friday) place. Save your money and go to Calleta De Fueste or better yet go to the resorts in Majorca as their 3 * is more like 5* compared to this.
In The Words Of Celine Dion 'Baby Think Twice!'
La Piramide
Well Well, just got back from a two week stay in Costa Antigua and I'm glad to say that it didn't Costa Too Mucha because that was one of the few things going for it!
Lets start with my apartment:
1. Cupboard Doors Didnt Shut
2. No Toaster/Kettle Anything Really Except 2 Rings on Hob
3. No Aircon
4. Not Enough Cuttlery for 2 people
5. Dirty pots and pans
6. Beds gave us a rash
7. We got ELECTRICUTED both by the outside light switch
8. Pedal Bin Broken
9.Toilet Roll Holder Broken
10. Cupboard over cooker broken
General Remarks
11. Poorly staffed
12. In the middle of the wilderness (although if you read these reviews you should expect this as we did!)
13. 1 CD playing constantly for 7 whole days
11. Bar won't serve glasses with alcopops (as a lady I don't like to drink out of the bottle)
14. No entertainment except for a crappy juggler once in 2 weeks, my boyfreind had more skill and he can barely juggle!
Plus points
1. Not too expensive
2. Saw no crime
3. Relaxed atmosphere
4. Staff friendly
5. Main town had some gorgeous restaurants
6. We adopted a gorgeous ginger and white kitten called Steven (if you go please look out for him)
All in all an average trip, the weather wasn't great and we had about 8 days of sun 4days of cloud and 2 average days, the beach was nice although 9euros for a deckchair for 2 hours is ridiculous, just sit on the sand! It is great to hire a car and Hertz are probably the best, the sand dunes in Carrelajio (excuse the spelling) were the whole highlight of my trip they are amazing, and this town is much better to stay in in my opinion! Do either the North or the South avoid the middle, and stay well clear of dirty and stinky Puerta Del Rosario!
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The place is terrible the food is prepared and put on show 2 hours before the resurant is open and then the flies well they just coved the food all the time. no live entertainment despite been showed in the lobby that they would be that night bedding and towels not changed like they say it would it be . 3 robberys look place while we was there in two weeks.the only thing that was nice was the weather .i will never go back again
Not to bad
Like anything in life, you pay for what you get. I am a single dad and along with my son on a tight buget, it was fine. He is five and all he wants is the beach. Because it is cheap there will be staff shortages but we got along O.K It attracts the under 25s on there first holiday but they are unhappy that it really is in the middle of nowhere and on the amount of money they spent on Taxi would have worked out better for then to pay extra. Food is fine and local supermarket is there as a back up. Local beer is p..so again the supermarket and bars are cheap and friendly.
Because it is quiet it really is what I call a good book holiday. If skint again next year, I would go back but heres to winning the lottery.
Very Disappointed !!!
Just returned from a week in La Piramide - and I'm afraid I have to say I was glad to be home. While the apartment was reasonably clean, it was very basic to say the least. No air conditioning or fans at all - so when the doors were shut at night the place was stifling. The walkways etc. could do with a good wash though, as could the pool area. The place was full of young couples - so if you are over 25 then this is not the place for you. There hardly ever seemed to be any staff around at reception when needed. The food was not bad (but not that good either) - but the dining room was run more like a large works canteen - people coming in for dinner in the evening in bikinis etc. - which is definitely not something I like to see. The complex is the back of beyond, and only one bus per day in to town at 10.30, returning at 5.30. I'm afraid I would not ever be returning to this apartment complex.
Good value for money
La Piramide is in Costa Antigua (fna Nuevo Horizonte) near Caleta de Fuste. It is a nice, well run aparthotel complex, with good facilities. There is a medium-sized, very cold pool, with plenty of sunloungers, table tennis, pool tables and tennis courts (tho I never saw these used, probably because it was too hot). There is a comfortable bar area, as well as a restaurant and minimarket tho we did not use these.
The apartments themselves were well equiped with kitchenette with cutlery, plates, cups etc, bathroom with bath and shower and a TV in the living room. The apartments were a bit shabby but they were well cleaned every other day.
We paid less than �100 for this apartment for 7 night, which we thought was excellent value for money. The reason it is so cheap is because of the location. There is very little in Costa Antigua - some minimarkets, 2 Canarian/Spanish restaurants and a handful of Irish bars amongst several hotel and apartment complexes and a lot of (mostly inactive) building sites and waste land. This made parts of the town look quite bleak but on the upside it was very quiet and safe. The nearest resort is Caleta de Fuste about 5 minutes drive. La Piramide provides a free shuttle bus though it didn't turn up the afternoon we used it, so reception gave us a refund on a taxi fare. We also walked into Caleta one night, it's a nice 35 minute walk along a coastal path.
Costa Antigua is in the centre of the Island, quite near to the airport. We hired a car and drove all around the island so La Piramide suited us very well. This hotel would probably be OK if you were happy to lie by the pool everyday and aren't too interested in nightlife.
There is no beach in Costa Antigua and the beach at Caleta isn't very nice, especially compared to the beautiful beaches at Jandia and Costa Calma in the South of the island.
If you are looking for luxury, nightlife or good beaches (without having to drive), La Piramide is not the place for you. If you want basic, clean, cheap accomodation to use as a base to explore Fuerteventura, then it is good place to stay.
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Please stand at the front of the next meeting at Congress and speak very loudly into the microphone and say "SERIOUSLY, THAT WAS THE GAME PLAN AND NO ONE WOULD NOTICE?"
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