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Kongsberg Maritime AS has acquired the remaining 90% of the shares of the Germany based underwater chemical sensors specialist Contros Systems & Solutions GmbH. Contros was established in 2006 and is based in Kiel, close to Hamburg. The company develops, produces and markets underwater sensor systems to detect dissolved gasses such as hydrocarbons, CO2 and oxygen, as well as pH and total alkalinity.
At the end of 2013, Kongsberg Maritime and Contros entered a cooperation agreement enabling a smart integration of modular sensor packages into Kongsberg Maritime solutions for subsea monitoring. As part of this agreement, Kongsberg Maritime took a 10% shareholding in Contros. In the past 15 months, Kongsberg Maritime solutions integrated with Contros technology have been well received in the global markets.
Following the acquisition, Contros will be part of the Subsea Monitoring business unit of Kongsberg Maritime's Subsea Division. The focus of the business unit is the development, engineering and realisation of modular, scalable and networked subsea monitoring systems for existing and emerging markets, such as environmental monitoring, leak detection, marine research, arctic applications, fish farming and offshore renewables.
Bjørn Jalving, EVP of Kongsberg Maritime's Subsea Division comments: "Contros has highly competent and motivated people that develop and produce innovative and high performing sensors for measuring dissolved gasses. Contros will continue as a leading provider of underwater sensors for global offshore energy and marine research markets. With Contros, Kongsberg Maritime will strengthen its ability to provide integrated solutions for existing and emerging applications."
"The cooperation agreement with Kongsberg Maritime has strengthened the collaboration between our companies and fostered the integration of our sensor suites with Kongsberg's leading edge technology platforms. The acquisition of the remaining 90% of the shares is a strategic move forward, securing continued growth and development of Contros' leading sensor technology," says Daniel Esser, Managing Director of Contros.
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Neymar was kneed in the back by Colombian defender Juan Zuniga in the 88th minute of Friday's Brazil-Colombia match, and the team's going to have to find a way to play without the most talented and dynamic player remaining in the World Cup.
Brazil's team doctor says Neymar ruled out of World Cup with fractured vertebrae
— BBC Sport (@BBCSport) July 4, 2014
Normally, it's all about "next man up," but in this case, there's no suitable replacement for a player of his caliber. Up until this point, he was in the running for the Golden Boot award, with four goals scored in the tournament.
It's hard to overstate how much the team will miss his presence. He creates chances for his teammates and also scores goals at the most timely moments. He makes everyone around him better, and opposing defenders gravitate toward him. He's never left unmarked. Numbers never lie:
Neymar is out for the rest of the #WorldCup with a with fractured vertebra. Here's what he's meant to #BRA pic.twitter.com/SqUQML11sb
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The sportsbooks are already making the appropriate adjustments.
The @LVSuperBook has adjusted odds on Brazil winning w/Neymar out. Goes from 7/4 to 2/1. Germany goes from 9/4 to 2/1.
— darren rovell (@darrenrovell) July 5, 2014
Fans have even gathered outside of the hospital he was taken to, showing their support for one of the world's most elite young players.
Courtesy of BBC: fans wait outside the hospital in Fortaleza where Neymar was taken pic.twitter.com/7goXMUBweL
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The lyrics of Lil Wayne's ballad [article id="1664772"]"How to Love"[/article] are probably best described as romantically tragic, but after [article id="1669574"]Weezy premiered the video online[/article] Wednesday, the song took on a more dire meaning.
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The video follows the life of a mother, who is beaten by her boyfriend while her baby daughter watches. As the little girl grows older, she visits her father in prison, and then as a preteen, she is molested by one of her mother's lovers. From there, the young lady, played by model/actress Chanta Patton, grows up to become a stripper and eventual prostitute who contracts HIV.
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With the second of the two U.S. major-party political conventions having concluded last night, it seems like a good time to mention a Tufts initiative for this year. Here's information we've received about JumboVote.
Tufts University has launched JumboVote 2016 as a multifaceted, university-wide initiative to boost political learning, engagement, and voting in this year's presidential election—and beyond. Spearheaded by Tisch College with support from the Office of the Provost, there are JumboVote 2016 representatives in every Tufts school and major administrative department, as well as among the student body. The student-driven initiative is working to facilitate voter registration, tackle barriers for Tufts students to vote in local communities, increase voter education, and support events and programs that foster political engagement. To learn more, please follow us on Facebook and Twitter, check out our web site, and/or join our email list and share event ideas here. Funding will be available for student-run events, and we want to engage undergraduates and graduate students at all Tufts campuses. In addition, all members of the Tufts community may use tufts.turbovote.org to register to vote (in Massachusetts or your home state), request an absentee ballot, and/or sign up for text and email reminders.
JumboVote fits nicely into the Tufts philosophy of promoting active citizenship. Although it may appear geared to U.S. students, JumboVote also represents an excellent opportunity for international students to learn more about the U.S. political system through the lens of the November 2016 election.
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Hanneke and Andrew
By Jessica Daniels On July 28, 2016 · Leave a Comment · In About Fletcher, Our Alumni
I've decided to focus much more of my energy on finding Fletcher couples. My long-term goal will be to have a lovely collection to share on Valentine's Day. Shorter term, I'm just delighted to hear from folks whose relationships formed on campus.
We first read about Hanneke when she told us how she heard about her admission to Fletcher. More recently, she reported on her first year post-Fletcher. And today, I'm so happy to tell you about her wedding last spring to Andrew, a fellow MALD student. Although Andrew started his Fletcher studies one year after Hanneke, they both graduated in 2014 because she took an extra year to complete a dual degree with The Friedman School. Hanneke was a multi-year friend of Admissions — volunteer interviewer, member of the Admissions Committee — and one of these students we are sorry to say goodbye to. But we've kept in touch and I couldn't be happier that she and Andrew (whom I regret I didn't get to know) met here!
Some details from their story that Hanneke provided:
- At the April 2012 Admitted Students Open House, Andrew sat in on a student panel. Hanneke was one of the presenting students. He mentioned this to her when they re-met in fall 2012.
- They started dating in fall 2013, during her third year and his second year, largely helped along by time spent together with Fletcher Runners.
- They got engaged in Johannesburg in 2015 while she was living in Malawi.
- Their wedding was in Austin, Texas, at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. (Note the beautiful wildflowers in their photo.)
- Fletcher was very well represented at the wedding and on the dance floor.
- The tie that Andrew and his groomsmen wore is from their classmate Dan's Corridor NYC clothing line.
Hanneke is currently working with the World Food Programme in their Siem Reap, Cambodia office, as part of the Leland International Hunger Fellows program. Andrew has been conducting research remotely for a U.S. based organization. Soon, they will be moving to Phnom Penh, where they will stay for another year.
And here's the Fletcher contingent. So many familiar faces — I love Fletcher weddings!
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Semester-like atmosphere in the building
By Jessica Daniels On July 19, 2016 · Leave a Comment · In About Fletcher
We're more than halfway through the summer stretch between Commencement and Orientation and this week has been noteworthy for a sudden flurry of semester-like activity! Well, maybe that's an exaggeration, but there are two groups of students passing this way and that through the Hall of Flags. The first is the GMAP class of July 2016, which is midway through its final residency and will graduate this Saturday, July 23. But first, the group of 37 students needs to complete coursework and defend theses.
Also on campus now are 30 officials from the Greek Ministries of Defense and Foreign Affairs who are participating in the Leadership Program in Advanced Diplomacy and Defense, offered in partnership with with the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. The participants arrived last week and will be here for four weeks in all. The focus of the program is to provide strategic level thinking on major global shifts, as well as an opportunity to strengthen essential skills for diplomacy. They will be at Fletcher through August 5.
And spending their days at Tufts, but not in Fletcher, are incoming MALD, MIB, and LLM students who are polishing up their academic English skills. They do meet weekly for a conversation and orientation class at Fletcher, but the majority of their time is spent in classrooms elsewhere on campus.
There's one last group who will be at Fletcher this summer, and that's the new GMAP class that will start their program on August 1 and continue until their own graduation in July 2017. In addition to the distance learning they will do throughout the year, they will also meet in Malta in January.
Finally, my Social List "digest" today consisted of two messages containing 30 community emails. That's about four times as many emails as have been turning up in the digests lately. What woke everyone up? First was a spirited discussion of the U.S. presidential election. And second was a student's sharing of an article that says the lawyer representing the Philippines in a recent maritime law case against China was a Tufts graduate. Much informative discussion of the nature of courts, as well as of trying cases where only one side is represented, ensued.
All together, the increase in activity makes us less lonely, but also makes me think it will be nice to have the students back next month.
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Fumi and Ryota
By Jessica Daniels On July 18, 2016 · Leave a Comment · In About Fletcher, Our Alumni
Fletcher couples are just the best. I can't keep up with all of them, but I love when I'm lucky enough to hear about their weddings. Recently, Liz told me about a newly married MIB couple. Fumi, F16, and Ryota, F15, met during her first year and his second year in the program. Ryota came to Fletcher from the Japanese Nuclear Regulation Authority and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, to which he has since returned. After graduating just last May, Fumi has joined the Sasakawa Peace Foundation. Both Ryota and Fumi were very active members of the Fletcher community, as you might guess from their Fletcher flag cake.
Naturally, Kristen (who, among the Admissions staff, works most closely with MIB applicants and students) takes full credit for bringing them together and their subsequent love story. The rest of the Admissions Staff simply wishes them all the best in their life together!
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Environment Panel, tonight
By Jessica Daniels On July 12, 2016 · Leave a Comment · In About Fletcher
Even as I noted yesterday how quiet it is at Fletcher this month, there are a few things going on around here. First, there's a group of diplomats on campus for a short-term executive program. And second, there's a panel in ASEAN Auditorium this evening on women in the environment field. The panel will be moderated by Professor Barbara Kates-Garnick. Here are all the details.
"The Business of Getting to Clean Energy & Environment"
July 12, 2016 from 5:00-8:30 p.m.
New England Woman in Energy and the Environment (NEWIEE) is hosting the second-annual Women Shaping the Agenda Panel to share ideas and experience related to the practical and business aspects of our clean energy and environment future.
"NEWIEE's panel series strives to provide a forum for the constructive and informative discussion of topics of interest today to environmental and energy professionals," said Beth Barton, NEWIEE Board of Directors President and Partner at Day Pitney LLP. "NEWIEE's goal is to bring together experienced and young professionals from across New England for an open conversation about clean energy and environmental issues for our region and beyond."
Further information and tickets, if still available, can be found on the event page.
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The Tisch College at Tufts
By Jessica Daniels On June 23, 2016 · Leave a Comment · In About Fletcher
I usually focus blog posts more squarely on Fletcher life, but today I wanted to share news from back in the spring about the University's Tisch College. The reason? Although Tisch works primarily with undergraduates, the College offers high-profile lectures and other activities that may interest Fletcher students, including the annual Presidential Awards for Citizenship and Public Service, one of which went this year to Kirsten Zeiter, F16. (See Kirsten's award video below.) Plus, it's just a nice thing to know what's going on around campus, outside of the Fletcher buildings. Here's the news the University shared:
With the launch of its strategic plan today, the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service, founded nearly 17 years ago, will move forward with a new name to better reflect its mission to prepare students to take action and make positive change in their communities and in the world: the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life. We all engage in civic life when we organize and debate, when we serve, and when we advocate for and act on the issues that affect us and those around us. Collectively, the more active we are as responsible citizens, the more just, equitable, and prosperous our world can become.
At the same time, I am pleased to share news of a transformative gift that will further the mission of the college. Jonathan and Lizzie Tisch have pledged $15 million to help us prepare every student for a lifetime of effective engagement in civic life.
Endowed a decade ago with a $40 million gift from Jonathan Tisch, the college's creation was driven by the belief that universities have a responsibility to help young people become agents for thoughtful advocacy, action, and positive change.
Jon and Lizzie share Tufts' vision, and their new gift will support all three pillars of the college: education, research, and practice. Through the creation of endowed professorships in civic studies, an emerging field that examines what defines civic engagement, their gift will help fund joint appointments between Tisch College and other Tufts schools and departments. The gift will also finance leading research by Tisch College's renowned Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement and the Institute for Democracy and Higher Education, creating knowledge and advancing civic learning and engagement. Finally, the gift will empower student experiential learning opportunities, such as the Tisch Scholars leadership development program, Tisch Summer Fellowships, and the Tufts 1+4 Bridge-Year Service Learning Program, ensuring that such transformative experiences are available to students of all socioeconomic backgrounds.
A longtime advocate of individuals and corporations using the power of civic engagement to address challenges, Jonathan credits his parents for instilling in him a sense of responsibility to others, and Tufts for fostering in him the importance of an active civic life.
And here's the video where you can see Kirsten receive her Presidential Award.
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Fletcher Summer Institute 2016
By Jessica Daniels On June 20, 2016 · Leave a Comment · In About Fletcher
In a brief break from a lonely summer, we have company this week from The Fletcher Summer Institute for the Advanced Study of Nonviolent Conflict (FSI), a professional education program focused on the advanced, interdisciplinary study of civil resistance.
Information promoting FSI tells us that:
Civil resistance campaigns for rights, freedom, and justice are capturing the world's attention as never before. Nonviolent campaigns against corruption in Guatemala, Moldova, and Cambodia; against dictatorship in Burkina Faso; to protect democracy in Hong Kong; for police accountability in the United States; for indigenous rights in Latin America; and for women's rights in India are all examples in recent years of a profound global shift in how political power is developed and applied.
Since 2006, more than 450 participants from nearly 100 countries have gathered at FSI to learn and share knowledge. FSI is organized by the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict in conjunction with the Fletcher School.
More information can, of course, be found on the FSI website.
News round-up, from campus to Everest
By Jessica Daniels On June 2, 2016 · Leave a Comment · In About Fletcher
Today I'm going to gather links to news items that have flowed my way in the past couple of weeks.
I'll start with Commencement news! Here's a story, with photos, that captures the events of Class Day and the Commencement ceremony itself.
Read also about two of this year's graduates, Jeremy Blaney and Jessica Meckler, who were featured in a group of graduates of all of the University's graduate and undergraduate programs.
Commencement featured the granting of the inaugural "Fletcher First Ten" award, to be given annually to an alumnus who has made a noteworthy contribution to the community, this year going to the inimitable Rocky Weitz, whose accomplishments outpace those of nearly anyone I know.
And speaking of awards, Center for International Environment and Research Policy researcher Rebecca Pearl-Martinez this week received the Advocacy Award from the Clean Energy Education & Empowerment (C3E) initiative of the U.S. Department of Energy, MIT and Stanford University.
Next, our friends at APSIA have written a feature on alumnus Nursultan Eldosov, who currently works for the U.S. Foreign Service.
And finally, alumna Masha Gordon has climbed Mount Everest, the latest in a series of extreme adventures. In a Facebook post, she wrote, "On May 19th at 7:30am Nepali time I became 400th woman to summit Mount Everest. It was a culmination of a month long journey full of poetry, drama and self-discovery. I am now just 1 summit removed from breaking female world record in Explorers Grand Slam. Follow my journey to the peak of Denali by liking my Facebook page." And you can also follow Masha's adventures on her Grit and Rock blog. Here's a photo that she shared, with obvious Fletcher love.
Continuing an annual tradition, for last night's Fletcher Follies event students compiled clips of their classmates dancing in locations around the world. Why do I love the yearly Where the Hell is Fletcher video? Is it because of the dancing or the cinematography? Ummm, no. It's because students care enough about being part of the community project that they keep it in mind during their travels throughout the year, and then they carry through with exuberance!
Please enjoy (so long as YouTube/copyright issues in your viewing location don't get in the way), "Where the Hell is Fletcher 2016."
Run, Niko! Go, Moni!
By Jessica Daniels On April 18, 2016 · Leave a Comment · In About Fletcher, Our Students
Two of the Admissions Office's favorite students will be spending much of today running the Boston Marathon. Moni, who is also an Admissions Graduate Assistant, and Niko are the only two Fletcher students on the Tufts Marathon Team this year. They have been training and fundraising for months and, last I checked, were feeling confident. It will be warm today, but the breeze off the water may keep the runners cool.
Many other students will be heading out to the race course to cheer them on. Because really, running Boston for your first marathon is awesome. Registered to participate are 30,000 runners — most of whom met the required time standard, with about 5,000 running to raise funds for charitable organizations. Niko and Moni, like other members of the Tufts Marathon Team, are raising funds for "nutrition, medical, and fitness programs at Tufts University, including research on childhood obesity at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy."
So give a cheer for Moni and Niko, Fletcher's own marathoners!
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Will and Jillian are in love and both have recently graduated collage. Jillian managed to get a well-paid and high profile just almost instantly, Will on the other hand is still interning at companies for free but Will's luck is about to change (or so he thinks). He's just been offered a paid position at LA Weekly but when he turns up for work he's abruptly informed that the job position is no longer available because of downsizing.
Will lives with his pot loving buddies who are all really close but some might be on the verge of being called 'deadbeats'. Will and his friends are all in a similar position, they 'really struggling to find a job, Jillian is the only structured part of his life.
Needs must means Will must sell his beloved TV but things start to look up for the graduate when, against the odds, he's offered a job as a videographer. Just as Will gets into the swing at his new office Jillian finds herself jobless. Will is quick to encourage Jillian to get straight back out there but she finds herself with little luck.
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Jamie Foxx , John C McGinley - The Global Down Syndrome Foundation ("Global") raised a record-breaking $2 Million at the 7th Annual Be Beautiful Be Yourself Fashion Show on Saturday, October 24, 2015 at the Colorado Convention Center, it was announced today by Global's President and CEO, Michelle Sie Whitten. Hollywood superstars who escorted brilliant and beautiful models with Down syndrome on the runway and showed their support for Global included Jamie Foxx, Terrence Howard, Beau Bridges, Minka Kelly, John C. McGinley, supermodel Beverly Johnson, Miss Colorado Kelley Johnson, and professional athletes from the NBA and NFL, among several others. On the red carpet, actor and advocate John C. McGinley stated: "The Global Down Syndrome Foundation's work is so important because it's grounded in medicine and science. Global's at the tip of the sphere when it comes to being ahead of the class in medical advances for people with Down syndrome." "Empire" star Terrence Howard accompanied by his wife said: "We remember when we were having our child and during the genetic testing they talked about chromosome 21 and things of that nature, and if it was positive they gave us the option to terminate - the idea just broke our hearts because you always give life a chance." Jamie Foxx, whose sister DeOndra Dixon was one of the featured models who happen to have Down syndrome, further remarked: "Global really gets down to business when it comes to bringing awareness to Down syndrome." The "Be Beautiful Be Yourself" fashion show is the single largest fundraiser in the nation benefiting people with Down syndrome. The celebrity gala attracted 1400 guests, and has raised over $12M since launching seven years ago. The money raised provides crucial funding for research at the Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome, medical care at the Sie Center for Down Syndrome, and education and advocacy, particularly in the emerging field of research into the connection between Alzheimer's dise - Denver, United States - Sunday 25th October 2015
John C. McGinley and Nichole McGinley - Celebrities attend Scenic Route Los Angeles Premiere at Chinese Theater 6 - Hollywood. - Los Angeles, CA, United States - Wednesday 21st August 2013
John C. McGinley - TNT's 25th Anniversary Party held at the Aqua Star Pool at The Beverly Hilton Hotel - Beverly Hills, California, United States - Wednesday 24th July 2013
Chadwick Boseman and John C. McGinley - Actor Chadwick Boseman who played Jackie Robinson in the movie "42" throws out the first pitch at the Dodgers game. - Los Angeles, CA, United States - Saturday 13th July 2013
42 is the true to life story of Jackie Robinson and his rise to the top as one of America's best and most respected Baseball players and the manager of Brooklyn Dodgers, Branch Rickey, who decided to end racial segregation by enlisting Robinson onto his team.
Brian Helgeland ("L.A. Confidential") comes the real-life drama "42," starring Chadwick Boseman ("The Express") as Jackie Robinson and Oscar¸ nominee Harrison Ford ("Witness") as Branch Rickey.
In 1947, Branch Rickey controversially made a name for himself when he signed Jackie Robinson to the Brooklyn Dodgers. At the time, this kind of behaviour was unheard of, and both Robinson and Rickey were sure to cause problems for themselves - both on and off the pitch. Racism was rife between player on every team including the Dodgers and Robinson's transition was one of the most courageous of its time.
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John C. McGinley - Los Angeles premiere of '42' held at the Chinese Theatre - Arrivals - Hollywood, California, United Sates - Tuesday 9th April 2013
Are We Done Yet? is a follow-up to Revolution Studios hilarious 2005 family comedy Are We There Yet? and picks up where the last story left off. Now married to Suzanne (Nia Long), Nick Persons (Ice Cube) has bought a quiet suburban house to escape the rat race of the big city and to provide more space for his new wife and kids Lindsey and Kevin (Aleisha Allen and Philip Daniel Bolden).
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What the hell has happened to all good American action movies? Did I unknowingly miss a meeting somewhere? When did all of the bad-ass, kicking butt and taking names, gun-toting, crazed, vengeful characters of the 1980s -- from such films as Commando, Cobra, Predator, Raw Deal, First Blood -- suddenly turn into innocent, compassionate, sensitive, teary-eyed knuckleheads. The only place to turn these days for an honest action film is towards the East -- and I don't mean New York City.
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Bogosian is Barry Champlain, a brilliant loudmouth gab machine hosting a popular nightly talk show filled with his strong opinions and whack-job listeners. One fears her garbage disposal. One begs to visit Barry at the studio. And one (many?) offer the Jewish host death threats in the name of Nazism.
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Today, 18 years, four sequels, two TV shows, and one video game later, Highlander has become a bit of a joke. And here's where the joke started: Highlander II: The Quickening -- retitled simply Highlander 2 for what is the most inexplicable double-DVD release ever to hit video stores.
Continue reading: Highlander II: The Quickening Review
There's only about 22 minutes of plot in "Any Given Sunday," Oliver Stone's innovative, bone-crunching ballet of sound and fury football, so lets get that out of the way right now:
Al Pacino stars as the embattled, old-school coach of a fictitious pro football team. Cameron Diaz, is the willful, profit-zealous daughter of the franchise's recently deceased owner. Jamie Foxx is a hotshot young quarterback whose know-it-all attitude and colossal ego threaten team unity. He's just replaced the injured, aging, Elway-esque veteran QB Dennis Quaid, whose compound back injury has spelled curtains for his career -- if only his ruthlessly ambitious, harpy of a wife (Lauren Holly) would accept that fact.
During the last two minutes of the fourth quarter of the Big Playoff Game that serves as the film's climax, each of these characters (especially the selfish ones) will have an epiphany about what's really important in their lives.
Continue reading: Any Given Sunday Review
If the rain-slicked new Sylvester Stallone revenge fantasy flick "Get Carter" seems a little familiar, it's with good reason.
It could be that the picture is a remake of a gnarly 1971 film of the same name (starring Michael Caine, who appears in this one too).
It could be that the bad-guy-going-after-worse-guys plot -- about a Las Vegas mob enforcer determined to find and snuff the people who whacked his estranged brother -- isn't all that different from the story of a hard-as-nails parolee avenging his daughter in last year's "The Limey."
Continue reading: Get Carter Review
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A fraudulent taxi picks up passengers in Hanoi. Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc slammed taxi management authorities in Hanoi Wednesday, saying that drivers were still ripping off passengers, fighting amongst themselves, parking illegally, and breaking traffic laws. Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has criticized Hanoi authorities for ineffective handling of taxi drivers in the capital city, saying their failure is tantamount to complicity. Lax surveillance and enforcement has allowed many taxi drivers to cheat passengers, fight among themselves for passengers, park in the wrong places and drive above speed limits, he said. "I have never seen any city or province with taxi services as troublesome and unreliable as Hanoi," Phuc said at a Wednesday (May 29) conference reviewing traffic safety in the first five months of this year. He asked Hanoi's police and transport departments to stop the violations, failing which they would be marked as agencies illegally protecting … [Read more...]
Vietnam transport ministry moves to protect taxi passengers
Inspectors from the Ministry of Transport check a taxi in Hanoi The Ministry of Transport has told authorities in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to introduce measures to protect taxi passengers following recent reports of foreign tourists getting ripped off. Besides introducing protective measures, transport departments in Vietnam's two biggest cities have also been asked to tighten oversight by checking taxi companies' operations and throwing the book at violators, news website VnExpress reported Wednesday. They are required to report back to the ministry by May 30. The ministry said several taxi operators in the two cities have recently been found flouting regulations and overcharging passengers. With many foreigners too falling victim, Vietnam's tourism image has taken a beating, it said. Following the ministry's instructions, an official from the Hanoi Department of Transport's inspectorate, who wished to be unnamed, told VnExpress that his agency is inspecting the operations … [Read more...]
Be careful with tricks of Hanoi's taxi drivers!
VietNamNet Bridge - In the last two weeks, in Hanoi, several cheating and overcharging incidents occurred against foreign visitors or people from other places to Hanoi. This situation has made many visitors worry.One more taxi driver fined for overcharging foreign tourists"I was also cheated by taxi drivers," says tourism official In early April, a taxi driver of Trung Viet Taxi was detected to install an additional chip to control the taxi meter. With this chip, if the car runs at the speed of 20 km an hour, the charge will be VND400,000 ($20) for 1km of road. All sorts of tricks Specifically, on April 28 and May 10, two drivers of Trung Viet and Thanh Nga taxi firms were accused of overcharging foreign tourists. Shortly thereafter, the authorities offered apology to the victims and asked the taxi firms to punish and to tighten control over their taxi drivers to improve the quality of taxi services in Hanoi. The concern is although the relevant agencies have strengthened inspection … [Read more...]
Taxi drivers in Hanoi cheat customers
Hanoi police continue to grapple with the problem of taxi drivers using different methods to cheat customers out of money, especially foreign tourists. A Thanh Nga Taxi found cheating foreign tourists Hoang Van Manh, Deputy Chief Inspector of the municipal Department of Transport said that one popular way of cheating on fares is putting a chip into the meter that can be controlled remotely by the driver with a cell phone. Despite efforts by the authorities, taxi operations in the capital have yet to improve. Manh attributed the situation to uncontrollable taxi operations in the city. "While HCM City has only 31 taxi companies with 15,000 vehicles, Hanoi has 117 companies with 17,000 vehicles. This means that an average sized taxi company in HCM City has hundreds of vehicles, while in Hanoi and average sized company may only have five or ten," he said. A driver from Trung Viet Taxi forced to return money and apologize He proposed merging smaller taxi companies together so that … [Read more...]
Taxi driver sacked for fleecing foreign couple
HA NOI (VNS)— The Ha Noi-based Thanh Nga Taxi company fined and dismissed a taxi driver who was found guilty of charging an Irish couple a fee 10 times higher than the actual fare. The company's inspector, Tran Duc Tri, said that Pham Van Linh, 38, got a fine of VND5 million (US$230) and was dismissed on Sunday. He has also been summoned to Hoan Kiem District's Hang Buom Ward police station for further investigations, Tri added. Linh picked up the couple from a hotel on Hang Bong Street and took them to dinner, a distance of nearly 2km, for which he asked for VND300,000 ($14) instead of the proper cost - about VND30,000 ($1.40). He allegedly took a VND500,000 ($23) banknote from the husband but only returned a VND20,000 banknote. The tourists then took a picture of the cab's license plate and reported the case to local authorities. — VNS … [Read more...]
One more taxi driver fined $for overcharging foreign tourists
VietNamNet Bridge - After seeing the Irish tourists to apologize and return the money, a taxi driver of Thanh Nga Taxi had to pay VND5 million ($250) fine and was fired for the act of overcharging.Overcharging foreign travelers tarnish Vietnam's imageHanoi moves to tackle increasing tourist scamsHanoi establishes hotline for reporting taxi overcharging The photo of the number plate of the violated taxi taken by the Irish tourists. Mr. Tran Duc Tri, deputy director of Thanh Nga Taxi said after being informed of the act of overcharging of driver Pham Van Minh, the firm summoned the driver and met the Irish couple to apologize and return the excess amount. The driver was reported to collect nearly VND500,000 ($25) of fares for 2km road. According to Tri, this is the first similar case in the past 11 years of Thanh Nga Taxi. "This action has caused major influence on the reputation and image of the company and Hanoi's tourism," he said. After imposing a VND5 million fine and … [Read more...]
Taxi driver sacked for fleecing Irish couple
A Hanoi taxi firm has fined and sacked a cabbie who has been found guilty of overcharging an Irish couple, said its inspector. > Hanoi cabbie charges Irish man $23 for 2 km >> Scam cabbie fleeces and punches Japanese tourist >> Hanoi sets up taxi hotline for fleeced foreign tourists">> Hanoi cabbie charges Irish man $23 for 2 km >> Scam cabbie fleeces and punches Japanese tourist >> Hanoi sets up taxi hotline for fleeced foreign tourists" class="attachment-medium aligncenter" rel="lightbox" />>> Hanoi cabbie charges Irish man $23 for 2 km >> Scam cabbie fleeces and punches Japanese tourist >> Hanoi sets up taxi hotline for fleeced foreign tourists Tran Duc Tri, inspector of Thanh Nga taxi firm, Saturday confirmed with Tuoi Tre that Pham Van Linh, 38, the accused cabbie, has been fined VND5 million ($250) and sacked. Linh has also been summoned to local police station for further investigations, Tri added. As previously … [Read more...]
Ministry of Transport to continue tightening control over taxis
After suspending eight taxi firms in Hanoi and HCM City in late 2011, the Ministry of Transport will continue inspecting the remaining taxi firms in both cities in 2012. The Ministry's chief inspector Nguyen Xuan Hao told the press on January 9, that after investigating 12 cab companies in Hanoi, the Ministry suspended six firms, namely Mua Xuan, Le Gia, Phu Gia, Hong Hung, Taxi 14 and Taxi BG. According to Hao, Mua Xuan, Le Gia, Phu Gia, Hong Hung, and Taxi BG did not have transport business license, business plans and management machinery. They also used untrained drivers and did not register fare list and service quality with the Hanoi Department of Transport. The official said that the Ministry of Transport would continue inspecting the remaining taxi companies in Hanoi and HCM City because "the firms that are not inspected are even worse than the inspected ones." "Minister of Transport Dinh La Thang has instructed to strictly control taxi services. Poor … [Read more...]
Ministry gets tough on rogue city taxi touts
The Ministry of Transport has suspended the operations of two taxi firms during spot-checks on four companies in Hanoi. The Mua Xuan and Phu Gia taxi firms had been suspended from operation said ministry Chief Inspector Nguyen Xuan Hao. The Phu Gia Taxi under the Phu Gia Transport Service Company claimed a fleet of registered 14 cars, but inspections revealed that the company had only four dedicated cars, with remaining ten drivers having to pay the Phu Gia Company VND800,000 (USD38.2) per month to use their brandname. Hanoi police recently arrested a Phu Gia taxi driver after he overcharged two Singaporean passengers who had visited the capital for the 80th Interpol General Assembly meeting. He forced them to pay USD200 (around VND4.3 million) and SGD100 (around VND1.6 million) for travelling just 10 km. "Mua Xuan Taxi has only five cars, yet it received an operational license. I have no idea how they claim they are capable of making a profit," Hao said. Thanh Nga Taxi … [Read more...]
Taxi firms suspended for breaking the rules
Transport inspectors and traffic police inspect taxi business licences. — VNA/VNS Photo Huy Hung. HA NOI — Two of the capital's taxi firms have been suspended from operation as part of the on-going Ministry of Transport inspections. Of four enterprises inspected thus, Mua Xuan Taxi of the Hung Hai Khue JSC and Phu Gia Taxi of the Phu Gia Transport Service Company were found operating without proper stations and management boards, according to Chief Inspector Nguyen Xuan Hao. "Each company owned only four to five cabs while renting the remainder," he added. The inspections have been carried out across Ha Noi and HCM City in efforts to regulate the taxi business. According to statistics, authorities in Ha Noi have suspended six taxi enterprises from operation during the last three years while, since June, 3,000 taxis were fined for violations. Not yet regulations for punishment Hao said that despite rapid development, violations related to business licences and labour … [Read more...]
Taxi, buses ordered to post passenger fares on vehicles
VietNamNet Bridge - The transport and finance ministries have instructed all buses and taxies to publicly post fare prices on their vehicles as of October 10, to prevent passengers being over-charged. Taxi ranks fail to solve traffic headaches due to management Taxi firms rapped for 1,216 traffic, business violations Chaos reigns on roads, at bus stations Buses will have to post their daily and monthly fares, while taxies will have to post relevant fees on their doors. Passenger and tourist coaches and lorries following fixed routes will also be required to post their rates on the outside of their vehicles. … [Read more...]
Taxi firms to pay dearly for compulsory colour coding
The regulation, which took effect early this month, stipulated that the taxi companies must register their company livery and use it for all their vehicles. The regulation is intended to tighten control of taxi operations and improve booming transport services. Ha Noi Taxi Transport Association chairman Do Quoc Binh said Ha Noi had about 14,000 taxis and their repainting would cost about VND10 million (US$512) each car. Binh calculated that in case that a taxi firm had two different color models on their cabs on average, they would have half of their cabs repainted, which might cost them billions of dong. Taxi company representatives say that each of their vehicles carries three or more colours that differ with size and use. Luong Thuy Quynh from Ha Noi-based Thanh Nga taxi company's Management Office said it was time-wasting and costly job. "Half of more than 500 taxis in the company will have to be repainted and each will take at least three days to dry. It will surely take … [Read more...]
Tet travellers in store for crowded buses, few taxis
The Hanoi Times - Buses and taxis will be crowded or in short supply during the Tet (lunar New Year) holiday, complicating plans for many people who traditionally return to their homes for the largest festival in the country. Last week, the Viet Nam Road Department said the public's transport demands during Tet could not be met. Transport demand is forecast to rise by 10 to 15 per cent, but many transport enterprises cannot afford to buy new vehicles to cater to the rise in demand. The department asked the local transport offices for a plan on ways to meet Tet transport demands and urged organisations, agencies and companies to help their own staff get home for the lunar New Year. Demand for taxis during the holidays was also too large to meet, according to Nguyen Van Doan, a driver at Thanh Nga Taxi Company in Ha Noi. The driver said the shortage was not due to a lack of taxis or too many customers, but a shortage of taxi drivers. "We work all through the year, and we should at … [Read more...]
South Korean certificate of merit presented to a Vietnamese business and citizen
The Association of South Koreans in Hanoi presented Certificates of Merit to a Vietnamese business and an individual at the Daewoo Hotel yesterday as a sincere sign of gratitude to Vietnamese citizens for their friendliness and welcoming sentiments. The Thanh Nga Taxi Joint-Stock Co. was presented with a Certificate of Merit as South Koreans in Hanoi were satisfied with the services offered by the company through the enthusiast and honesty of its drivers. Meanwhile, Uong Thi Kien, an employee at the Minh Van Co., selling tickets for Asiana Airlines, often does her best to serve customers. Whenever customers needed urgent tickets, even during weekends or holidays, she is always the office to serve them. Speaking the Korean language with great fluency, Ms. Kien sometimes has to work late in order to serve South Korean customers when they arrive in Hanoi late from other Vietnamese provinces. Despite her hard work, she always keeps a smile on her face, and is friendly with any and all … [Read more...]
Vietnamese woman brings home stray cats and dogs
Le Thi Quy lives in alley 91 off Dinh Tien Hoang Street in downtown Ho Chi Minh City. Her house has no address, but neighbors said she doesn't need one. Quy's home is the lowest, darkest, most ramshackle structure in an alley of mostly well-built multi-storied houses. A sheet of old fencing stretches from the top of her front gate to her roof, so that thieves won't climb in. If that still doesn't help, just ask for "the cat lady." Quy left her hometown of Hanoi and went south after her marrying at 17. Her daughter was born a year later, right before the couple divorced. Quy moved in with an uncle and sold vegetables and fish sauce to put food on the table. Her daughter married and settled in the US. At some point in her loneliness, Quy developed a soft spot for anything unwanted. Now she hosts more than 50 animals, most of them cats, in her roughly 30 square meter house. The 80-year-old has been bringing the animals home for years. A neighbor said Quy has almost no … [Read more...]
Foreign giants gobble up Vietnam's PR firms
Foreign companies have seized 80 percent of Vietnam's advertising firms and reap most of their annual revenues, insiders say. Vietnamese advertisers have been aggressively acquired by foreign competitors with deeper pockets and more experience. Nguyen Quoc Bao, director of the Ho Chi Minh City-based Awareness ID Public Relations, which is among the biggest private PR firms in the country, said the remaining independent communication and advertising companies are now struggling to maintain control over their businesses. Bao said ten large Vietnamese advertising firms have been acquired by foreign companies since 2008. In all cases, he said, the firms had no choice but to "sell themselves." The US Omnicom Group took over three such companies while the British multinational advertising and PR company WPP purchased 30 percent of DatViet VAC in HCMC and remains a major shareholder in the Smart Media Advertisement Company, which was co-founded by state-owned giants, including the Vietnam … [Read more...]
Another drug addict robs gold shop in Vietnam
A 38-year-old man was arrested for robbing a gold shop at the Thiec Market in Ho Chi Minh City on Wednesday. District 11 police are trying to determine if Tran Kha Lam had any accomplices. Police say Lam spent Sunday afternoon casing several gold and jewelry shops at the market. At around 3 p.m, he pulled a stone out of his pocket and smashed a glass display case at the Ngoc Thanh shop and stole some jewelry inside. The shop owner Dang Van Hiep, his wife and his brother chased after Lam and caught him down the street. At the police station, Lam told officers he robbed the shop to feed his drug habit, news website VnExpress reported. The stolen jewelry, valued at nearly VND19 million (US$893), was returned to the shop owner. Police said Lam is single and has spent time in jail for two robbery convictions. Courts have ordered him into drug rehabilitation centers twice. He became homeless after being discharged from the rehabilitation center in 2013 because his siblings had sold the … [Read more...]
Human smuggler jailed in central Vietnam for mob-style murder
The former director of a human resource firm in the north-central province of Nghe An was sentenced to two and a half years in jail for ordering a fatal attack on a customer who demanded the return of a deposit he paid to secure a job in Africa. The provincial court found Pham Viet Van, former director of the Cosveco Company's branch in Nghe An, guilty of "causing public nuisance" and "failing to report a crime." The crime he failed to report was the murder of Nguyen Quang Hanh. According to the indictment, Hanh and his father went to the Cosvesco office on January 21, 2013 to demand US$2,500 they gave the company to secure him work in Angola because the company had failed to do so. Van ordered his subordinates to call a number of gangsters, including Pham Van Nguyen, to force the father and son out of his office. Nguyen stabbed Hanh in his back and the victim died on the way to the hospital, according to the indictment. Nguyen was sentenced to 15 years in jail for murder. … [Read more...]
Vietnam cracks down on low-quality crash helmets
Sub-standard crash helmets, which remain widely cheap and available throughout the country, were officially banned from the streets starting July 1. The official punishment for wearing an irregular crash helmets ranges from VND100,000 to VND200,000 (US$4,7-9.4) per violation. But Hanoi police who deployed 13 traffic teams from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Tuesday only issued warnings, as locals seemed unaware of the new rule. A Thanh Nien News reporter noticed more than ten motorbikes were stopped for the violation within half an hour on Tuesday morning at the Lang - Lang Ha intersection. In addition to the shoddy helmets, the stopped drivers all wore surprised, confused faces. Crash helmets became mandatory for Vietnam's millions of motorbike drivers starting in December 2007. Sub-standard helmets became widely available at that time. Jet-moulded, baseball cap-shaped plastic helmets were widely sold for roughly a dollar apiece on the street and were associated with numerous injuries and … [Read more...]
Vietnam's PM calls for preparation of lawsuit against China
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has ordered relevant agencies to prepare documents for legal proceedings against China for illegally placing a drilling rig in Vietnam's waters. According to a press release issued during a routine meeting of the central government in Hanoi on July 1, the documents will be submitted to the country's leaders for further consideration and approval. China's placement of the US$1-billion Haiyang 981 oil rig inside Vietnam's continent shelf and exclusive economic zone seriously violated Vietnam's sovereignty and international law, the release cites the Prime Minister as saying. As such, PM Dung has instructed relevant agencies to continue peaceful measures to press for China's withdrawal from Vietnamese waters. China dispatched the rig into the East Sea at the beginning of May guarded by a fleet of more than 100 ships, including military ones. China and four members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) including Vietnam, the … [Read more...]


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In Nebraska, 1 in 3 age-eligible youth across all 93 counties is enrolled in 4-H, for a total enrollment reaching approximately 140,000 youth. These youth, ages 5-18, participate in 4-H through camps, clubs, school enrichment, and afterschool programs organized by Nebraska Extension. The citizens of Nebraska help shape the 4-H Youth Development program priorities.
Nebraska 4-H prepares young people for successful futures. Educational programs place strong emphasis on life skills, such as critical thinking, problem solving, social skills, communication, responsibility, citizenship, and leadership.
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Statewide programs are available to youth across Nebraska. Many of the statewide programs do require youth to be an enrolled 4-H member. Programs are offered at various levels, including county, district, state, regional, and national levels. However, some programs/events held at a local, county, or district levels may not be included in our list. For more information about additional programs offered at these levels, please contact your local Extension office.
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"Enjoyed our week in Vila Gale, breakfast good, although hot water for tea was hit and miss. Staff very friendly and pool area clean, sun beds available up to 10am although very close together. Hope to go back next year! "
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"Definitely return, highly recomnended Beautiful buildings gardens pool and excellent service."
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"Really enjoyed our 3 night staff. The staff were lovely the sun beds were amazing - all in all totally relaxing stay."
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"The resort is very nice itself and clean, all self-catering equipment is good you can even get a spare barbecue and beach umbrella if you l ask Andrea, It is located not far away ocean shoreline(10 min run/15min walk though the beach is on the island so you have to get over it to enjoy it. Nex..."
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"Spacious, quiet and beautiful hotel in a former convent. Tastefully and sympathetically converted, peaceful gardens and pool, beautiful open courtyard. Some of the best dining in town. Staff were exemplary, friendly and highly skilled. Wifi was good and male parking for guests. Very highly recomm..."
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"We stayed here for 9 nights. We were in Lot 1 on the top floor. The apartments were spotless and cleaned everyday which is probably a little too much as we didn't spend much time in the apartment. The only fault I have about the apartments are the beds as they were extremely uncomfortable. Our ap..."
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"We stayed in apartment 10, 1-B large 2 bed apartment on 1st floor. We travelled with a 1 year old would have been better to be on the ground floor. We booked a 1 bed apt but was given a 2 bed apt. Not a complaint but I wonder why it was changed? I noticed a Portuguese family with grown-up kids go..."
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"A little difficult to find, better signage would be helpful. Used out of season so didnt make use of facilities but it looked like a very nice resort. Restaurant pleasant although breakfast at 10euro was expensive. We ate in the restaurant, al la carte menu varied but small portions."
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"I have stayed at the Porta Nova many times sometimes for 10 days other times for a weekend. On every occasion, I receive a warm welcome and am greeted by name which is appreciated as I travel alone. The hotel is situated on a hill with magnificent views especially from the bar on the top floor. F..."
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"Cannot fault Cabanas Gardens. The staff were lovely. Had a problem with the air con on the first day but they had it fixed very quickly. The pool is spotless, the room and facilities were great. And cabanas itself is 5 minutes walk."
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Cantina Laredo
1001 Branson Landing Blvd
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Waited about 30 minutes on a Saturday night. Service and food were excellent. In fact, we said our...
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Old Chicago - CLOSED
801 Branson Landing Blvd
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We had to wait about 45 minutes on a Friday night, but the food and beer were great. Can't beat the...
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Hilton Branson Convention Center
200 E Main St
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We stayed here 2 nights for a trip to Silver Dollar City. It's a great hotel with terrific access t...
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Buckets N Boards Comedy Percussion Show
3115 W 76 Country Blvd
"Fantastic dinner"
We saw BnB three times while on the Disney Fantasy for Christmas. They were outstanding. Our kids ...
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Ride The Ducks of Branson
2320 W 76 Country Blvd
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Our family of 4 (kids age 9 and 6) had a great time! We went on the Tablerock Lake excursion. Our d...
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Dolly Parton's Dixie Stampede Dinner & Show
1525 W 76 Country Blvd
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Just returned from a weekend trip to Branson and my 9 yo daughter and 6 yo son said this was their f...
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Chateau on the Lake Resort & Spa
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We stayed here 7/29-7/31. We had reserved a Lake Front King but at check-in were asked if we would w...
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Still Waters Resort
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Located in Bayswater, Shaftesbury Hyde Park International is a leisurely stroll from popular sights such as Kensington Gardens and Kensington Palace. This 70-room, 4-star guesthouse has a bar/lounge along with conveniences like free in-room WiFi and a fitness center. It's in central London and also close to Royal Albert Hall and Imperial College London.
For your convenience, a full breakfast is served for a fee each morning from 7:30 AM to 10 AM. Order from room service to satisfy your hunger without leaving your room, or make new friends over drinks at the bar/lounge.
All 70 air-conditioned rooms feature coffee makers, free newspapers, and phones. Guests can expect flat-screen TVs with satellite channels, along with free WiFi and wired Internet. Bathrooms have hair dryers and free toiletries. Rooms also include ironing boards.
Property features
At Shaftesbury Hyde Park International, guests have access to a fitness center, free WiFi in public areas, and a meeting room. Airport transportation is made easy with an airport shuttle for GBP 65 per person roundtrip. The 24-hour front desk has multilingual staff ready to assist with dry cleaning/laundry, concierge services, and luggage storage. Additional amenities include a business center, coffee/tea in a common area, and free newspapers.
- Walking distance to Kensington Gardens and Kensington Palace
- Free WiFi and wired Internet in rooms and public areas
- Bar/lounge
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Shaftesbury Hyde Park International52-55 Inverness Terrace London England W2 3LB
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
High-speed wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary. This 4-star property offers access to a business center and a meeting room. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. This London guesthouse also offers a fitness center, tour/ticket assistance, and multilingual staff.
Shaftesbury Hyde Park International is a smoke-free property.
- Free WiFi
- Concierge services
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Multilingual staff
- Total number of rooms - 70
- 24-hour front desk
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Elevator/lift
- Bar/lounge
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Business center
- Luggage storage
- One meeting room
- Smoke-free property
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Fitness facilities
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Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired high-speed Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Free wired high-speed Internet
Room Amenities
- Free WiFi
- Free newspaper
- Air conditioning
- Phone
- Coffee/tea maker
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Shower/tub combination
- Iron/ironing board
- Satellite TV service
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Flat-panel TV
- Room service (limited hours)
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Full breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 7:30 AM and 10 AM.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
To make special requests for accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
- Pets not allowed (service dogs only)
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- No onsite parking is available.
- The name on the credit card used at check-in to pay for incidentals must be the primary name on the guestroom reservation.
Only service animals are allowed
No rollaway/extra beds available
The credit/debit card used to book the Advance Purchase rate must be presented at the time of check-in. Guests who plan to pay for other guests' stay must contact the property in advance. For more details, please contact the office using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
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- Fee for full breakfast: GBP 12 per person (approximately)
- Airport shuttle fee: GBP 65 per person (roundtrip)
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Stolen Passports Surface as Hunt Narrows for Malaysian Jet
Two on Passenger List, But Not on Plane, Say Passports Were Stolen in Thailand; Oil Slicks Spotted Off Vietnam
Two people listed as being on a missing Malaysia Airlines jet weren't on the flight, and their passports had been stolen in Thailand, authorities and family members said Saturday.
The search for the plane, which disappeared on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, centered on waters off Vietnam after Hanoi said it had spotted what appeared to be large oil slicks.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, with 239 people aboard, lost contact with the airline shortly into the flight early Saturday. Government and airline officials said they weren't ready to speculate about what caused the Boeing 777-200 to disappear from radar sometime after it flew away from peninsular Malaysia's east coast. Aviation analysts noted that accidents at cruising altitude over water were rare.
Families waited all day for news in a crisis center in Kuala Lumpur's airport, and 2,700 miles away in a Beijing hotel. Of the 227 passengers on the flight, the airline said, 153 were from China or Taiwan; the list also included Malaysians, Indonesians and passengers from Australia, the U.S., France, Ukraine, India and Canada. Among those on board, the airline said: two infants, and children aged 2, 3 and 4. The plane carried a crew of 12, all Malaysians.
One passenger was traveling with a stolen Austrian passport, Austria's Foreign Ministry said Saturday. A 30-year-old Austrian whose name was on the passenger list for the flight wasn't on board. His passport was stolen in Thailand in 2012, a ministry spokesman said, confirming a report in German newspaper Die Welt.
Another passenger on the list, Italian Luigi Maraldi, was also not on the plane, Italy's Foreign Ministry said Saturday. Mr. Maraldi's passport was stolen in Thailand a year and a half ago, his father said.
Malaysia Airlines had no confirmation from Malaysian authorities that stolen passports were used to board the flight, said Ignatius Ong, a member of the airline's crisis-management team. One European security official said it wasn't uncommon for passengers to board flights using stolen passports.
Vietnam's government said late Saturday it was dispatching vessels to where its aircraft had spotted what appeared to be two oil slicks that might be from the plane, 90 miles south of Tho Chu island off the Vietnamese coast.
"It's very likely that this is a sign of the missing plane," Vo Van Tuan, deputy chief of staff of Vietnam's armed forces, told reporters. Malaysia Airline's Mr. Ong said the airline hadn't concluded whether the slicks were connected with its plane.
The search effort Saturday included aircraft and vessels from Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore and the Philippines. The U.S. Navy said it was sending surveillance aircraft from a base in Japan and a destroyer that had been conducting training and maritime-security operations in the South China Sea.
The missing plane took off about six minutes late at 12:41 a.m. Saturday local time, according to Malaysia Airlines. Normal flight time to Beijing is just shy of six hours. The flight plan would initially carry the plane diagonally over a swath of peninsular Malaysia and, within an hour or so, over a wide ocean basin that pools the Gulf of Thailand and the South China Sea.
The plane was over the South China Sea when Malaysian air-traffic controllers lost touch at 1:30 a.m., Malaysian authorities said.
Malaysia Airlines' Mr. Ong said the plane had had its last safety inspection 10 days ago and didn't have a history of malfunction. The airline had earlier said there were no reports of bad weather along the route, and the missing plane didn't send a distress signal.
Malaysia Airlines first published word that contact with the plane had been lost about one hour after the flight was scheduled to land at daybreak Saturday in Beijing.
Malaysian authorities weren't ruling out any possibilities as they worked to determine what happened to the plane, the director-general of the country's Civil Aviation Department said. Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said the search would continue for "as long as it takes."
"We are all very worried. We hope everyone is safe," China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi told a news conference scheduled as part of an annual parliament meeting. "We're doing all we can to get more details."
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It is very rare for an aircraft to suffer a "catastrophic event" at cruising altitude over water, one analyst said Saturday. For today's jets, the cruise portion of flights is considered to pose significantly fewer potential hazards than approach and landing.
Jonathan Galaviz, a partner with Global Market Advisors, an aviation and leisure consulting firm, said that while such accidents are "absolutely rare," they are also the most difficult in terms of locating wreckage and cockpit voice and flight-data recorders.
He said the emphasis over the next 48 to 72 hours would likely be on search and rescue efforts. Then, sophisticated sonar equipment could be required to locate the airplane's recorders, if indeed it went down over water, he said.
Shukor Yusof, an aviation analyst at Standard & Poor's, likened the incident to the 2009 crash over the Atlantic Ocean of an Air France jetliner en route from Brazil to France, which killed all 228 people on board. "The wreckage for that aircraft wasn't recovered or rather salvaged until almost two years after," Mr. Yusof said. "It shows the tremendous challenge involving search and rescue operations where they happen in the sea."
Malaysia Airlines' Mr. Ahmad said Zaharie Ahmad Shah, the 52-year-old captain of the missing plane, had 18,365 hours of experience and joined the airline in 1981. His 26-year-old deputy has more than 2,700 hours of flying experience.
Malaysia Airlines hasn't had any fatal accidents for the better part of two decades. In September 1995, a Malaysia Airlines Fokker 50 crashed in Tawau, Sabah, killing 34. The deadliest incident involving the airline was a December 1977 crash of a Boeing 737-200 jet in southern Johor state after an apparent hijacking attempt, killing all 100 on board.
Malaysia Airlines took delivery of its first 777-200 in 1997 and is evaluating new Boeing Co. and Airbus Group jetliners to replace the aging 777s in its fleet with newer, more-efficient models.
A Boeing spokeswoman said the company is "closely monitoring reports on Malaysia Flight MH370. Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone on board."
The 777 is among the most reliable of the current generation of widebody jetliners and years ago it pioneered extended overwater routes across the Pacific.
Boeing officials emphasize the 777's excellent safety features by pointing out that in millions of takeoffs, there hasn't been a single instance of an engine failing at the instant of liftoff from a runway.
—James T. Areddy, Newley Purnell, Sarah Sloat, Giovanni Legorano, Andy Pasztor, Jon Ostrower and Jeremy Page contributed to this article.
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Capt. Zaharie Ahmad Shah is 52. The co-pilot is 26. An earlier version of this article gave incorrect ages for the two men.
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I was wondering if the trucks have been tested a snow environment? How'd they handle the cold environment?
They got their first truck to test out this past spring, so it's not yet seen serious snow or cold. That's what it's headed for this winter, and the one-year trial is over afterwards.
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