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PARIS — Forget about the numbers.
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Luxury shares have been in the news a lot lately, both because of their underperformance and LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton's $100 million lawsuit against Morgan Stanley. But industry executives claimed, at least for the record, that they don't sweat their share valuations on a day-to-day basis.
Ralph Lauren says he can only take so much finance talk — even if going public might have helped him grow Polo Ralph Lauren into a multibillion-dollar global fashion powerhouse.
"I don't even look at the stock market every day — unless someone points out to me that I should look — because I'm here for the long term," Lauren told an audience of about 400 industry professionals at the International Herald Tribune fashion conference here, which closed Friday. "[The stock price] has nothing to do with how good your company is."
The sentiment was echoed repeatedly at the conference.
"I agree with him," Burberry chief executive Rose Marie Bravo told WWD. "I don't look at the stock market every day, either. You want to focus on the business, and revenues and profits are not necessarily the whole picture. You've got to keep your eye on running the business, rather than something you may or may not have any control over."
At a time when stock ratings provoked a major luxury player, LVMH, to take legal action against a major bank, others are saying an inordinate focus on financial matters is leading the industry astray.
"I don't change the strategy of my group for the market," Diego Della Valle, chairman and chief executive officer of Tod's SpA, said in an interview. He described analysts' ratings and equity research as "important," but warned they can lead companies in the wrong direction. For example, he suggested brand extensions, while fueling sales, can be a dangerous path.
"Today, there is much confusion in the market," he said during his presentation. "Everyone makes sunglasses, perfumes, chairs, even light fixtures.…But what if the light is not the best and the watch is not number one? I think this is a wrong strategy.
"We speak too much about the volume of business, money and acquisitions," he continued. "At Tod's, what we put at the center of our strategy is the production. At the end of the day, we are our product and that's where we are focused 100 percent of the time."
Sir Paul Smith, who has resisted the urge to go public or sell his privately owned, $300 million firm to a larger group, couldn't agree more.
"In many ways, we are a lot closer to the market than a lot of the public companies are allowed to be," he said in an interview. "They're under constant pressure to expand.…Now it's almost like the business comes first — to heck with the products. I literally work in my shop on a Saturday. If I want to paint my walls white, pink or green, I can."
Smith characterized the LVMH suit against Morgan Stanley as a symptom of the problem. "It looks like it's a nervousness," he said, "sort of bully tactics."
By contrast, Smith said he does not read luxury analysts' regular reports on the health of the sector so as to not be influenced. "When you're allowed to be yourself and work on your instincts, the results can be better," he said.
During his presentation, Smith backed up his claim by noting that his sales in 2002 are up about 20 percent in Britain and 5 percent for the world.
Even Patrizio Bertelli, chief executive of Prada Group, referred to a "lack of trust" between the financial system and luxury companies, which is "unsettling" for the industry.
The meaning of luxury during tough times was another overriding theme at the conference, with many speakers calling for a return to a more hands-on, passionate approach to the business. They also said luxury products must offer more than quality, exclusivity and status — and also appeal to consumers' practical, emotional and aspirational needs.
Lauren recalled that one of his early splurges was on a secondhand Morgan, a British sports car with a strap on the hood. "I felt like a king. I didn't need a Rolls-Royce. I didn't need glove-leather interior. I liked the strap on the hood," he said. "Luxury has to do with your taste.
"My product is not about my name. I don't believe it's the name that sells the product."
Della Valle, whose Tod's brand is famous for its driving moccasins and other footwear styles, said high-quality products that are also "useful" make for a compelling consumer proposition — especially in tough times when people don't want to spend a lot of money.
With stirring Diamond Trading Company commercials from around the world as his backdrop, executive director Stephen Lussier underscored how tapping into the emotional incentives for buying diamond jewelry helps fuel the $56 billion global trade. Identifying emotional needs and linking them with an innovative product makes for a powerful combination other luxury marketers could co-opt, he said.
Customized and ultraexclusive luxury products — like Gucci shoes and Burberry trenches — was one new tactic frequently mentioned at the conference. But Della Valle argued putting exclusive merchandise in each city represents a more "modern" solution to the worrisome sameness creeping into luxury streets around the world. He said his goal is to have roughly half of the merchandise in each Tod's store be special to that location.
Even conference host Suzy Menkes, fashion editor of the IHT, recounted her delight upon learning that a pair of gold shoes she bought at Prada's SoHo flagship were only available at that location.
In a thought-provoking and comic presentation, Smith derided such realities as "the corporate rollout" for contributing to what he called "luxury overload." He said fashion products and brands are simply too ubiquitous and available and "it's pretty obvious the trade is going to slow down for some people."
Smith said manufacturers, and even fashion magazines, are guilty of treading threadbare formulas, which feeds sameness and boredom.
He underscored his point with a slide show of how vegetable vendors in London "merchandised" their tomatoes. One had them tossed carelessly in a bin. Another had them artfully arranged, stems and all, on crumpled tissue paper. "Isn't that lovely," he said, praising the latter presentation. "If you can do it with tomatoes, imagine what you can do with the posh stuff."


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Comparison of methods for estimating flood magnitudes on small streams in Georgia
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AbstractThe U.S. Geological Survey has collected flood data for small, natural streams at many sites throughout Georgia during the past 20 years. Flood-frequency relations were developed for these data using four methods: (1) observed (log-Pearson Type III analysis) data, (2) rainfall-runoff model, (3) regional regression equations, and (4) map-model combination. The results of the latter three methods were compared to the analyses of the observed data in order to quantify the differences in the methods and determine if the differences are statistically significant.
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While the future is always uncertain, it is looking slightly brighter for First Marblehead (NYSE:FMD). The company's quarterly report last Monday shows a company that is striving to ensure that it is still an independent entity when activity in the credit markets returns.
While the stock has been decimated and will likely never fully recover to its past levels, it does nevertheless offer an interesting play on increased federal involvement in the private label student loan market and student loans in general. Going forward the company has two significant items going for it, namely its recent ability to significantly reduce costs and the expansion of the Department of Education's asset purchase program.
During the quarter, the company managed to only burn through $14.3 million dollars, leaving it with $198.6 million in cash on hand, this dramatic reduction from the previous year is a testament to management's strong desire to see the company through the current environment. This can be seen by the sixty percent reduction in non-interest expenses from the year ago period. While the company's quarterly report was awful, the majority of the expenses were no cash charges related to a reduction in the value of the company's residuals portfolio. While these charges will likely continue, they do not dramatically impact the company's financial position.
The only significant concern that I had with the quarter was the sharp reduction in deposits at the company's federally chartered thrift, Union Federal Savings Bank. With deposits declining by over $100 million, it is clear that the company does not believe that the operation of a thrift is in the best interests of its shareholders. This really does not make much since given the current credit environment and the added importance of having a secure liquidity source but I would imagine that the company was doing this to satisfy federal regulators. In 2008, I had argued for the company to dramatically expand its banking operations so as to secure adequate funding sources, as a result, I am rather disappointed in this unfortunate turn of events.
Nevertheless, the next major catalyst for First Marblehead is the upcoming implementation and likely expansion of the Department of Education's Asset Based Commercial Paper Conduit program and the Loan Purchase and Participation Program. While only currently set up to deal with FFELP loans and a limited amount of privately originated loans, it is likely that this program will be expanded to purchase loans such as those currently being held and originated by First Marblehead. While the company's future is certainly tied to an expansion of the Department of Education's lending programs, the company will likely be able to make it through to a thawing of the credit markets with its large cash position and a greatly reduced burn rate.
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This is nice - not too sweet, not too overpowering with the flavour, but I find that when I use a whole scoop I can really taste the flavour. Instead, I have been using half a scoop in my smoothies, oatmeal, etc. and that seems to keep the flavour from being overpowering. Of all the vegan protein powders I have tried though, this is definitely in the top 5.
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I bought this product because Olympian labs appear to put a lot of research into their products& this was one of the few natural protein powders to list a BV value. I feel I'm getting a good amount of protein from this& it tastes delicious! One point that concerned me was that on the label it states the powder has a chemical known to cause birth defects. I spoke to Olympian labs & they said this is because of Californian law states that anything from the ground must state on the label that it can contain traces of lead. The amount in the powder though is negligible& not a cause for concern.
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This is a funny protein powder; cause it kinda tastes like, well, peas. But not in a bad way. The "pea" factor is easily disguised by fruit, agave or almond butter ... I use this becuase I and whey/wheat/soy intolerant. Very high protein factor.
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I previously used whey, but gradually developed a mild intolerance to it, so I switched to rice protein. I found a great tasting brand, but rice protein is always grainy in texture and somewhat hard to mix, plus the price went up so I decided to try pea protein. The consistency is excellent, smooth and fluffy, very easy to mix, at least with water. It's also more bioavailable than rice protein. It is mildly sweet because of the xylitol and stevia; certainly not too sweet by any measure! The taste was perhaps the only weakness of the product; it definitely tastes like ground peas, but the vanilla adds a nice touch and I'm sure I'll get used to the flavor eventually.
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We have tried many protein powders and I liked the content of this one. The flavor was OK, too. I appreciate all the great reviews. That helps with my dedision. The price is right.
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Inspired by our famous Writers at Work interviews, "My First Time" is a series of short videos about how writers got their start. Created by the filmmakers Tom Bean, Casey Brooks, and Luke Poling, each video is a portrait of the artist as a beginner—and a look at the creative process, in all its joy, abjection, delusion, and euphoria.
Today, Akhil Sharma discusses his first novel, An Obedient Father, which he started when he was a student at Stanford: "I got [to school] about a month before classes started, and I didn't know how to write or how to begin writing a book. And I thought, I'll begin writing five pages a day and in two months I'll be done with a novel. I didn't know how to come up with plot, I didn't know how to do anything ... Still I don't know how you get through all those years of being lost." Read More »
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In his Meditations, Marcus Aurelius wrote,
At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: "I have to go to work—as a human being. What do I have to complain of, If I'm going to do what I was born for—the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?"
—But it's nicer here …
So you were born to feel "nice"? Instead of doing things and experiencing them? Don't you see the plants, the birds, the ants and spiders and bees going about their individual tasks, putting the world in order, as best they can? And you're not willing to do your job as a human being? Why aren't you running to do what your nature demands?
—But we have to sleep sometime…
Agreed. But nature set a limit on that—as it did on eating and drinking. And you're over the limit. You've had more than enough of that. But not of working. There you're still below your quota.
You don't love yourself enough. Or you'd love your nature too, and what it demands of you. People who love what they do wear themselves down doing it, they even forget to wash or eat. Do you have less respect for your own nature than the engraver does for engraving, the dancer for the dance, the miser for money or the social climber for status? When they're really possessed by what they do, they'd rather stop eating and sleeping than give up practicing their arts. Is helping others less valuable to you? Not worth your effort?
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January 11, 2016 | by Laren Stover
My mother makes a match.
My mother was open-minded about the boys I brought home. She was, in fact, oblivious to any of their flaws. In high school, in Philadelphia, my platinum-haired boyfriend, Billy, who walked with a strut and stole cars, OD'd in our basement under my black-light poster of Jimi Hendrix; Mom was fine about my visits to him in the locked ward in the Quaker mental hospital across the street from us on Roosevelt Boulevard. My next boyfriend, Randy, a whimsical outpatient with a genius IQ at the same hospital—we met on the bus; he was coming from prep school—got permission to have dinner with us one evening and afterward played with my gerbil. Randy blurted that he hallucinated perpetually because of all the LSD he'd taken and that now he was on Thorazine, Elavil, and a third prescription I can't recall. My mother's only comment: he should trim his nails.
She did seem to cotton on to my Mormon suitor in college (my only vice was tea) but criticized his piano playing as "stiff." She did not seem disturbed when four years later I had a "dancer/artist" boyfriend in sex therapy ("You're sexually repulsive to me," he'd confided, "but don't take it personally, all women are"), and she said nothing disparaging about his successor, an alcoholic Columbia University student/construction worker who accidentally burned, hoping to keep warm during a cold snap, all the savings he'd hidden in his never-used oven. He once showed up drunk at four A.M. with a lipstick-swished cheek and confessed he'd kissed another woman who'd bought him a cabbage, but it was me he really loved, he said, and then punched a hole in my door. Mom remained mute when I confided I'd met, in Egypt, a much younger French Algerian paratrooper named Karim, even when I revealed that he would call me long distance from Marseilles and never talk—simply whisper my name and breathe for twenty minutes, or play a tape of music he'd written. My bass-player roommate at that time, Sara, once quipped, "Karim's mother's not going to be very happy when she sees that phone bill." Read More »
Just Say Said, and Other News
December 3, 2015 | by Dan Piepenbring
- Our new Winter issue features an interview with Jane and Michael Stern, "the original culinary road warriors." A new profile in Eater captures what Norman Rush would call their "idioverse," i.e., a "private patois made up of shared references and sayings, occasional neologisms, and common words that have taken on new meanings": "the dyad of Jane and Michael—some four decades in, now—almost surpasses idioverse, and forms a hovering mushroom cloud of collective memory. Spending time with them, I realized that there's a voyeuristic pleasure in finding yourself submerged in the intimacies of a couple with a complex history. Watching the deepest, strangest way two people communicate made me feel like an intellectual Peeping Tom—one who wanted to stay … They go at it tit for tat, with the rapid-fire speed of David Mamet dialogue, but they'll linger to enjoy language more when discussing their Roadfood glory days. At times, listening to them talk, it seems that alone neither one can remember an entire story, and that together neither one can remember it the same way. There are tales about botched attempts to donate leftovers that ended in an undercover police sting, and casual references to a strange commune-like group of former Barnum & Bailey performers who live in Bethel and call themselves the 'frog people.' "
- This is a public service announcement. If you, like me, were taught growing up to deploy synonyms for said whenever you wrote dialogue, please stop immediately. To stick to said is to improve the world of prose for all of us. Gabriel Roth agrees: "Replacing the word said with 'colorful' or 'lively' synonyms is a ubiquitous symptom of bad writing. Individual instances are usually redundancies: 'I'll never cheat again!' is recognizable as a promise without 'he vowed' after it. But a procession of she explained and he chuckled and I expostulated—the reporting verbs that clog your dialogue when you follow the 'never say said' rule—is worse, because they force the reader's attention away from the content of the writing and onto the writer's hunt for synonyms."
- "Nabisco. Nabisco! / Oreos! Right? / Oreos! I love Oreos! // I'll never eat them again. OK? / I'll never eat them again. // No … Nabisco." This poem, a masterwork of compression and a ludic comment on commodity fetishism, comes courtesy of Donald Trump, whose speeches have been anthologized in a "treasury of oral poetry" called Bard of the Deal. Some are calling "Freedom Tower," in particular, the most vital and intriguingly cross-disciplinary work of our young century: "Worst pile of crap / Architecture / I've ever seen."
- Hey there, young person: Do you wish to be as successful and as verbally acrobatic as bona-fide geniuses like Trump? Gay Talese has some advice for you: "I don't think this new generation has the patience or even knowledge of how to get things … You have to get off your ass. Make something happen with your personality, with your goddamn style, your charm, your beautiful clothes, your reassurance, your salesman huckster-ist licorice. Know how to get something and not break hearts or be offensive."
- Before he embarked on Moby-Dick, Herman Melville paid an inspiring visit to London: "Late at night, he 'turned flukes' down Oxford Street as if he were being followed by a great whale, and thought he saw 'blubber rooms' in the butcheries of the Fleet Market … Perhaps most importantly, it was here that Melville saw the work of J M W Turner, a clear visual influence on his book-to-be. Turner had painted a series of whaling scenes for Elhanan Bicknell, whose British whaling company was based in the Elephant and Castle; parts of Moby-Dick would read like commentaries to those tempestuous, brutally poetic canvases, not least the painting that greets Ishmael at the Spouter-Inn, 'a boggy, soggy, squitchy picture' of 'a black mass … floating in a nameless yeast … an exasperated whale.' It is all the more intriguing to note how Melville's Anglophilia was the yeast out of which this great American novel emerged."
September 21, 2015 | by Sadie Stein
Life is an onion—you peel it year by year and sometimes cry. ―Carl Sandburg
Here's a practical writing tip: if you're stuck, write "Once upon a time." Go on, try it—I think you'll find that even the action is soothing. It's not just that now you have something on the page, although you do. The words themselves are calming.
Where did I encounter this piece of advice? I don't want to rob anyone of credit, but misattribution would be bad, too. I think it was in the cookbook The Splendid Table's How to Eat Supper, but I can't swear to it. Anyway, in this book, one of the authors relates a time-honored tip passed down from her grandmother: if you don't know what to make for dinner, just cut up an onion and put it on to cook. The action, the aroma, the fact that an onion is the basis for so many dishes—these factors will conspire to prompt a plan. And if nothing else, you'll enjoy the savory smell of industry. Read More »
Cherish the Poop You Are Full of, and Other News
September 11, 2015 | by Dan Piepenbring
- New York in the late seventies was not exactly a utopia: crime was soaring, graffiti was ubiquitous, mace was a must-have accessory. But a certain set of novels and films has made the era something to yearn for: "This was the last moment when a novelist or poet might withdraw a book that had already been accepted for publication and continue to fiddle with it for the next two or three years. This was the last time when a New York poet was reluctant to introduce to his arty friends someone who was a Hollywood film director, for fear the movies would be considered too low-status … these works express a craving for the city that, while at its worst, was also more democratic … where not even money could insulate you. They are a reaction to what feels like a safer, more burnished and efficient (but cornerless and predictable) city."
- Today in writing advice that isn't total shit, even if it's about shit: "I preach the radio. I do not preach thinking you must know what you are about. Faulkner had good drugs and a big radio. I recall having heard my own little radio at times. It is rare, yes, and it is, now, rarer. But you are young and have your juice, you're still full of poop, which is the necessary requisite to tuning the radio. Got to be some poop out there, on the airwaves, or in there, in you, for you to tune it in. Cherish the poop you are full of, and work on excreting it with sound fundamentals." That's Padgett Powell, being correct.
- On procrastination and art: might there be something heroic, or at least admirably resistant, in the idea of putting off one's writing? "Bartleby is my hero, endlessly preferring not to, but though I find him sympathetic, he—along with all the 'writers of the no', writers who turned their backs on writing, Rimbaud and Walser among them—is not in the same game as me. Or if we are in the same game, I'm not playing it right. I don't turn my back on writing. I don't say no. I say yes and fail to follow through. I sit suspended between preferring not to and not preferring to enough—I'm hung on a peg."
- Kenzaburo Oe's A Personal Matter is "a compressed, unflinching portrait of the turmoil that envelops Bird, an alcoholic, after his son's birth." The novel has a new champion: none but Jonathan Franzen, who adores its disturbing elements, its comic elements, its vomit elements: "I don't know of a more compelling description of throwing up than the ones that occur in this book. He's sweating, he looks at himself in the mirror, and there's bad sex. It's partly that—the really, really tight focus on Bird's body. There's nothing like a microscopic view of your body to evoke shame."
- While we're on shame—it's time for men to cry again. They have much to cry about, being men, and yet they shed no tears … why, when male weeping has been treated as normal in almost every part of the world for most of recorded history? In fact, it was exalted for a while: "ancient Greeks saw it as a model for how heroic men should behave … 20,000 knights swooning from grief were considered noble, not ridiculous … there's no mention of the men in these stories trying to restrain or hide their tears … They cry in a crowded hall with their heads held high. Nor do their companions make fun of this public blubbing; it's universally regarded as an admirable expression of feeling."


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Best Hotel Ive ever stayed In
I love the Mandarin Oriental and will definately be back. Our room was just perfect and and the views were absolutely beautiful. Everything was perfect, the customer service was the best Ive ever received. I highly recommend the Mandarin. The rooms can be a bit pricey but well worth it.
T Mobile San Fran Grand Prix
Really enjoyed the Mandarin in San Francisco during my trip to see the T Mobile Bike Race in the city last September. Room service was great and prompt, breakfast the following morning was extremley tasty and the rooms are spectacular overlooking the Golden Gate, Alcatraz etc if you don't get the fog! Now I know why its one of Lance Armstrong's favourite hotels, just a shame he didn't win the race that day. Oh well Tour de France number 6 will do nicely!
It is human nature, I think, to notice the imperfections in what we discern our eyes gravity to what doesnt fit in or what sticks out.
Having said this, the Mandarin Oriental is as close to absolute perfection as mortal human beings can hope to aspire. The service, the environment, the room, the toiletries, the view everything was just absolute and sheer perfection. I felt as though I could just start dropping butt-first to the floor without fear of bruising my tailbone because an attentive employee would drop a chair underneath me before I could do myself an injury.Staying here over New Years 2003 was an amazing experience. All hotels should be like this.
Great View, Period!!
The view is the best in town! Perfect but pricey. Room was luxurios and super clean but somewhat small. Not that I'm in to great bathrooms, but it was in the top 4 of any we've stayed at and we travel 100-140 days per year. (only the W, Fifth Ave. Suites and Key Largo Westin were better). Took great care of our free upgrade high-end rental car; parked it in the "cool car spot" close to lobby door in valet area. Had complimentary bottle of Dom in room as they had asked if we were on honeymoon, which we were. Helpful concierge!
Comfy, enjoyable!
We loved the bathroom, the bed was great and the view was impressive.
The service was decent, people were helpful. I love the minimalist decor and the slippers. More hotels should provide slippers. Its a nice touch. We are going to the Miami Mandarin Oriental because we enjoyed the San Francisco one. We've stayed at a bunch of Ritz Carltons but prefer the Mandarin.
Our favorite San Francisco experience!
This is luxury! The spectacular views are worth the price of admission but they are second to the attentive, friendly staff. We stay there every few months and are treated like celebreties, (which we aren't.) The amenities are impeccable. The SILKS resturant is intimate and has been rated as the best hotel-restuarant in the nation. We like the tea service delivered on arrival, the chocolate chip cookies, and the perfect martinis. The location is convient to everything. We enjoy walking to the Metreon, Farmer's Market at the Ferry building and North Beach. We sometimes take the town car in the evening if we need to go farther than we are willing to walk. Our favorite resturants are within walking distantce--Globe, (where the city's chefs eat after hours,) Tadich Grill, Belden Place with Tiramasu and Ploof, Bix, theStinking Rose, and others. We look forward to our time at this exquisite hotel.
Nice rooms but cold service
we stayed in thisa hotel in august 2003, our room was beautiful, but not big. It was one of the best rooms mandarin golden bridge view on the 42 floor with great view on the bay and huge bathroom with the view from the bathroom huge window as well. Everything in the room was beautiful and luxurous, but nothing extra. For example they didn't offer us their bed and breakfast package which would save us money on two breakfast, when you book your room ask for special pacage rates.
They also were not very friendly and helpful with trips, looked like they didn't like white people, only asian- oriental people were given special attention. Our room cost was 450 doll, with tax and parking it came to 570, whil the bead and breakfast package for this room, which also included 2 free breakfast (38 dol each) would cost me only 530 doll, but when I asked for it they didn't give me this rate. That's why we did't stay there for more than 1 night and moved to rityz-carlton which were more accomodating and friendlier. Can't say anything about the view though it was fantastic. Especially at night. They also looked cheap to me, everywere in the room were notes about robes and slippers and other stuff in the room urging you not to steal them but to buy them in the lobby.(like anybody needs them anyway) in general, hotel is ok if you want the view, which is the best in san francisco, but too overpriced and do not expect any special treatments or extras, like upgrates or package.
The best in SFO!
Breathtaking hotel. The view was unbelievable and I felt like I was walking on the cloud in the morning with San Franciscos mist!!
An oasis
Spectacular hotel. Staff and rooms are wonderful and the views are fabulous. Attentive luxury without being stuffy.
Delightful hotel in a magical city
Absolutely wonderful hotel. Definitely get a room facing the bay rather than the city. Well worth it!
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House Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi's sixth grandchild, Paul Michael Vos, was born on Monday in New York – but her daughter, Alexandra, wouldn't let the powerful politician into the delivery room.
"She was here, but we kept her in the hallway," Pelosi's filmmaker daughter tells PEOPLE exclusively. "She kept peeking around the corner. She wanted to hear the baby. My parents were out there loitering in the hallway. It was very funny. We let them come in after the baby came out."
Paul Michael, the first child for Alexandra and her Dutch TV-journalist husband, Michiel, was delivered by natural childbirth at 10:30 a.m. and weighed in at 8 lbs., 10 oz.
More than a week overdue, newborn Paul (named after grandpa Pelosi) was the No. 1 priority for his grandmother, who is the third most powerful politician in Washington.
"She was calling every hour on the hour, 'Hear anything? Any stomach pains?' " Alexandra, 36, tells PEOPLE. "My mother told me, 'If we don't win the House, I'll be your baby nurse.' I was a cynic so I didn't have a baby nurse lined up before the election."
In the final days of campaigning, before the Democrats took over both the House and Senate, Pelosi also found time to set up the nursery in her daughter's two-bedroom Manhattan apartment.
"I thought newborns in New York didn't need their own piece of real estate, but she moved me out of my office!" says Alexandra, who just finished editing an HBO movie about Evangelicals, Friends of God, due Jan. 25.
"The best part was when she said, 'Maybe you should sleep in the small bedroom and let the baby have the big room.' I said no!"
Pelosi made sure her new grandson would be set up in style. "She took us to Buy Buy Baby and got us a Bugaboo stroller. They're Dutch and Michiel's Dutch," says Alexandra. "She got us a mobile that plays classical music – Mozart and all that – and feeding bottles, sheets and a basinet."
Michiel described the birth of his first son as "the most magical thing I've ever seen," and said he was awed by the process.
"You feel like men don't play any role in the most important thing in life. We are such a small part of it," he tells PEOPLE. "I'm standing by watching the woman do all the work – delivery, feeding, you name it. I'm asking her if she wants some juice or coffee. I'm basically not doing anything!"
The new parents got one special phone call on Monday night, Michiel tells PEOPLE: "President Bush called Alexandra and said, 'I gather my efforts to call him Georgie failed.' He congratulated us on the baby."
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Does any one want to see a water cycle pokemon with different forms based on state.
Vapour- water/flying
Liquid- water/psychic
Ice- water/ice
Then all of these would have their own evolutions
I really want to see a fire/water type in this generation *crosses fingers*
It would be a really unique typing
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Fairy type Psuedo legendary.
Calling it.
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I've been looking at the whole Luvdisc not evolving into alomomola complaints, & it got me to thinking. Do you think they'd introduce some mid-stage pokémon in gen vi that luvdisc could evolve into, which would then evolve into alomomola?
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Black 2(8/8 badges): emboar, Vaporeon, roserade, Lucario,fraxure, Magnezone
Leafgreen team: Charizard, Pidgeot, Vaporeon, Zapdos, Mewtwo, Dragonite
Soulsilver team: Feraligatr, Togekiss, Lugia, Mewtwo, Espeon, Dragonite.
Black team: Serperior, Excadrill, Chandelure, Volcarona, Heracross, Tyranitar
Emerald team: blaziken, azumarill, cacturne, delcatty, altaria, salemence, rayquaza
In progress: Diamond (8/8 badges)
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Anyway, I'd like a Tentacruel evo that learns a few electric moves. And before I get the whole "Waahhh!!!! Tentacruel is OU!!!!" no, just no. We already know Ideas>Competitive. Hell, the Metagame was just forged from the essentials, GF had/has nothing to do with it.
Pokemon Pearl version Nuzlocke teamTheo, Quiet Nature, Lv.36 Stella, Lonely Nature, Lv.33Elvis, Calm Nature, Lv.33 Clara, Hasty Nature, Lv.33Balthazar, Gentle Nature, Lv.33 Cassidy, Adamant Nature, Lv.33
Sorry to change subject, been off the forums for a while but what is the general opinion on the possibility of Fairy type? Personally I think it could be a really good thing, a real gameplay changer!
EDIT: And it makes sense for the typing mystery of Slyveon
>~< Why is everyone fighting about Sylveon's type
Leave Him/Her alone!
It get's bullied everyday on this forum...
They will show to type don't worry ^_^
You can do it!
<_< Is this like... Taunts? They were legitimate questions.
I actually wanted to know your answers.
Not everybody is made up of sarcastic, cynical, sociopaths.
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Alaska has smallest pay gain in 1997
June 25, 1999
The average annual pay of Alaskan workers rose by only 2.1 percent from 1996 to 1997, the lowest gain in the nation. However, this was better for the State than the previous year, in which average pay in Alaska fell by 0.7 percent.
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West Virginia, Idaho, Nevada, Hawaii, and Florida complete the group of six States with the smallest gains in average annual pay in 1997. For all of these States except Nevada and Florida, pay growth in 1997 was higher than in 1996.
The average pay in Alaska in 1997 was $33,157, which was well above the U.S. average of $30,336. Workers in the other five States all received less than the national average annual pay: West Virginia ($24,716), Idaho ($24,053), Nevada ($28,677), Hawaii ($28,358), and Florida ($26,569).
The BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages program produced these data. Pay data presented here are for all workers covered by State and Federal unemployment insurance programs. Find more information on pay in 1997 in "Average Annual Pay By State and Industry, 1997," news release USDL 99-171.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Alaska has smallest pay gain in 1997 on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/1999/jun/wk4/art05.htm (visited September 28, 2016).
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"I felt nothing," said Polamalu.
He explained. "I think it means a lot more to my teammates because it takes so much to make plays in this defense, in this game, and there are too many parts to really focus on just one person," he said.
The response actually isn't all that different from his response to winning the team's MVP award last month, or to winning the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award for his charity work the same day, or to winning anything else he's won in Pittsburgh since being drafted in 2003.
To those closest to him, Polamalu's humility is his most defining characteristic – even more so than his hair.
"I was sitting downstairs in the restaurant yesterday," said free safety Ryan Clark. "I saw it go across the screen that he won. I called him, and like most superstars he doesn't really answer his phone very much, so I texted him. I just said, 'Congrats, man, you deserve it. I love you.' And he was like, 'Well, that's our award so let's go try to win this trophy.'
"I think that is the most amazing thing about him. He can do all these great things on the field and you'll never hear him talk about it. That is not what he's concerned with, winning individual awards. He is about team. It's great to be around a player like that with such humility, with no ego."
Polamalu, the Steelers' strong safety, edged Green Bay Packers outside linebacker Clay Mathews 17-15 in the Associated Press voting, even though Polamalu was limited by an Achilles' tendon injury throughout the second half of the season and finished with only 63 tackles, the sixth-best of his 8-year career. The only lower totals were in his rookie season (0 starts) and his injury-ravaged 2009 season (5 starts).
Polamalu did intercept 7 passes in his 14 games this season, and he turned around a handful of games with late heroics, most significantly the sack/forced-fumble in the second game against the Baltimore Ravens.
But Polamalu provides much more than statistics for the Steelers. Defensive coordinator Dick LeBeau was asked Tuesday how he manages to disguise his defenses so well and LeBeau said, "That's easy. You just get Troy Polamalu in your backfield."
LeBeau called Polamalu "probably the most instinctive player I've ever had. He has the amazing capability of studying film and being able to instantly apply that in the game situation. A lot of guys can get down to tendencies, formation, motion, but when it comes to pulling the trigger, they do OK. Troy is exceptional. That's why he makes so many big plays."
LeBeau was asked how he would describe Polamalu to a stranger.
"I think I would describe him as the epitome of a competitor who prepares mentally and physically," LeBeau said. "He has the demeanor of a warrior. All of the things that they write the books about, they are embodied in Troy. He was born to play professional football and he's one of the best I've ever seen."


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Review: 'Southland' - 'Community': She rolls on Shabbos
A very quick review of last night's "Southland" coming up just as soon as I get to punch you in the face...
Where last week's episode spotlighted all the things I like about "Southland" across all the partnerships, "Community" only went 1-for-3 for me. The Cooper/Tang stuff played to all the show's strengths: anecdotal (the retaliatory punch idea was as perfect a scene as they've done), funny at times, touching at others, and in the end (with the pedophile's neighbors pulling an "I am Spartacus!" routine), a story about the job's many frustrations.
Sammy and Ben's storyline returned to Sammy's fixation with getting various gang leaders off the street, and while that's always been a part of the character, it's never been a part of the character I cared much about, and one I was hoping would be largely left behind now that he was riding in a regular patrol car with Ben. And I'll be honest about the Lydia storyline: my interest in that wandered very early (as it unfortunately often does during the detective stories, even though I like Regina King so much) and only wandered back at the very end when she was feeling lonely at seeing her partner with his large, happy family. If you were to quiz me on the two of them were up to at work, I wouldn't be able to tell you this morning.
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Charleston is lately the alpha dog of national accolades, but now even its pooches are getting into the act.
Other dog-friendly cities
? Austin, Texas (national winner)
? Eureka Springs, Ark.
? Gettysburg, Pa.
Fido and Fifi are living in the best city in the Southeast in 2014 - no hang dogs here. Dog Fancy magazine is barking about what a great town this is for man's best friend, and it's one of the most widely read magazines on the subject.
Readers nominate towns, and the publication's editors choose the winners based on the cities' dog-friendly businesses, events like Yappy Hour and Pups, Yups and Food Trucks, rescue programs and, of course, places to walk your pups like those great romps on the beach (even if they are somewhat restricted during the summer.)
The Charleston Animal Society nominated Charleston, and CEO Joe Elmore said the city's pack mentality when it comes to adoptions nudged it to the top.
"The ultimate measure of how a community cares for animals is if that community is a no-kill community, and as the first one in the Southeast, we really impressed them," said Charleston Animal Society CEO Joe Elmore. "We're really proud. Our adoption rates are double what the state average is."
Whitney Law, manager at Dolittle's pet store in Mount Pleasant, said she's not surprised by the city's win.
"When I was little, you never saw people taking their dogs to restaurants or anything. Since I first moved here about four years ago, it's really blossomed," said Law, who owns a chihuahua and two Lab mixes. "The adoption rate has gone way up. I still know a few people that do breeders, but it's really refreshing to know that the word gets out about rescues."
She said the number of county parks with included dog parks and beaches with dog-friendly hours are an asset to the city, as is the walkable downtown.
Mount Pleasant resident and dog owner Tracy Ali recently moved to the area, but she said she's already impressed by the dog friendliness she has found.
"Everywhere I go, I see dogs," she said. "Where we live, we have a path where a lot of people walk dogs, and I see a lot of restaurants and places where you can bring dogs."
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However, a communication problem has led to a change of plans.
"I wanted to talk to [Coach Poppinga] before I came down and I just kept missing him," Morris said. "Rhode Island is kind of far away from Utah, and so I wanted to correlate things with him before I made the trip.
"I was planning on coming down for tomorrow but I wanted to make sure it was worth me coming down, but I just wasn't able to get in touch with anyone, so I wasn't sure what was going on. I just wanted to make sure what was going on before I spent all the money to come down, but I was just never able to get in touch."
It wasn't for a lack of trying, however.
"I would call him and miss him and then he would send me a message on Facebook and I would call him and miss him again. I think the time difference between Rhode Island and Utah makes it tough sometimes."
The main source behind Morris' reservations is a visit that never occurred.
"They said they would have a coach come down to my school and they never did," Morris said. "I just wasn't sure what was going on and wanted to talk to them before I spent all that money to come down. I just never was able to get in touch with them to find out what was going on."
Those darn pesky NCAA rules often makes it difficult to communicate since coaches aren't allowed to return calls during periods other than designated recruiting times. Despite the repeated misses, Morris still plans on flying out to Utah to visit BYU's campus.
"I still want to come out this month for an unofficial visit," said Morris. "I just want to reach a coach first before I make the trip, so once I can reach him I can plan on that. I'll try calling again to see if I can reach him. I wish I was coming down tomorrow but just haven't reached anyone for a while, so I'll make sure that happens first before I go down. Once I reach him I'll know more on when I'll make the trip this month."


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LAS VEGAS (AP) - The words are written in white on a navy blue cotton T-shirt bleached gray by the desert sun.
But they are still visible to the thousands who walk past the New York-New York hotel-casino:
The shirt is among hundreds that line the fence bordering the hotel's facade - a miniature harbor with a 150-foot replica of Lady Liberty and the New York City skyline - forming a memorial that sprang up hours after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
"People kind of related to the whole New York skyline theme," Las Vegas Fire Department spokesman Tim Szymanski said. "Someone just left a shirt there and, literally, there are now things from all over the world."
The World Trade Center was never part of the hotel's skyline, which is supposed to represent the Big Apple of the 1940s. With fire department patches, origami paper cranes and the same spirit of remembrance, the impromptu tribute resembles those near ground zero.
"In the aftermath of the attacks - that same day - photographs, poems, candles started appearing in front of the fence," said Felix Rappaport, president and chief operating officer for the New York-New York hotel.
"Very quickly that expanded to a number of T-shirts, many of which came from fire companies. We now have T-shirts that represent fire departments from all over the country as a kind of symbol of solidarity," he said.
Rappaport said the hotel has received more than 2,500 shirts and still gets dozens each week, either by mail or when people hang them on the fence.
In some places, the shirts run more than a dozen layers deep.
Jon Smithey, an emergency medical technician from the San Francisco Bay area, walked along the fence videotaping while in Las Vegas celebrating his one-year wedding anniversary with his wife Vanessa.
"It makes you feel more appreciated. Oftentimes when we see people they're not at their best and very seldom do we hear, 'thank you,"' he said.
Some notes and written pieces have been weathered to seemingly blank pieces of paper. The University of Nevada at Las Vegas has collected most of the written items to preserve them, Rappaport said.
The hotel will begin construction of a permanent memorial at the feet of Lady Liberty in October.
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By Mr. Cory Hancock (JFHQNCRMDW)June 13, 2014
Contingency management in the National Capital Region was the theme of the 8th annual military and civilian chaplain interagency conference held at the Spates Community Club and Conference Center on Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Va., June 11, 2014.
The conference was hosted by the Joint Force Headquarters-National Capital Region/U.S. Army Military District of Washington Command Chaplain's Office. There were more than 100 registrants for the conference from all over the National Capital Region and from as far away as New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
"This topic stresses the necessity of having contingency plans in the event of an emergency," said Sgt. Joshua T. Nelson, JFHQ-NCR/MDW chaplain assistant. "Often times during a crisis people look toward their faith as a force of stability, it also never hurts to be prepared, like having a to-go bag, in case of severe storm or emergency."
Crisis management, military responses to crisis in the NCR and religious ministry support during a crisis were among the topics discussed during the daylong event. Speakers included Reggie Parks, Prince George's County Office of Emergency Management deputy director; Col. (Chaplain) Daniel T. Ames, Chaplain for the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Lt. Col. John W. Erickson, Jr., Chief of the National Guard and Reserve Legal Operations NORAD/NORTHCOM.
"We bring people and Soldiers to God and God to people and Soldiers, it's what we bring to the table to best execute that call," said Col. (Chaplain) Michael E. Brainerd, JFHQ-NCR/MDW command chaplain. "It is critical as interagency and joint chaplains to liaise together to coordinate outreach and make sure that people know that chaplains are here to help them in an emergency."
Conference organizers said the event fostered professional development and idea sharing among the participants and allowed those present to develop working relationships they will need during a time of crisis.


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No trolling, just wish they'd remove the disgusting jiggle. No one wants to look at that. Real boobs don't move.
Lots of people agree with me. It's too bad you're stuck in puberty, obsessed with bosoms. You need to mature.
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Tom Hall: Sometimes, conspiracy theories implode on themselves. Our freedoms are preserved by the 2nd Amendment solution of shooting first and checking facts later. This theory worked for the looney putz who shot Trayvon Martin – just see how free he's been since 'defending his rights.'
President Obama and the Road Forward
Carl Matthes: Our country is entering an exciting era. We all are proud of our President and all of us pledge to do our part to ensure a continuing growth of Liberal and Progressive ideas and policies.
Screwing Banks That Screwed the Homeless
Charley James: Since the onset of the Great Foreclosure Adventure launched by banks and mortgage companies in 2007 causing the housing market collapse, the financial industry has done a great job of screwing the homeless twice, and without any foreplay or even a kiss.
Let's Build That Pipeline
Clifford "Felonius Ax" Tasner: The Keystone Pipeline "could" create over a half a million jobs if it leaks, just trying to clean up the Oglala Aquifer that provides 30% of America's water.
Disclose Act: Save This Bill, Get a Rush
We have about a day and a half to save a groundbreaking bill that will make corporations and big-spending One Percenters who buy political ads, reveal their identities in their commercials so you'll know who's trying to manipulate your vote. The California DISCLOSE Act, AB 1148, authored by progressive champion Assemblywoman Julia Brownley (D – […]
Mass Appeal: LA's New Embrace of Public Transit
Jackie Cornejo: The thing is, when you grow up poor, the idea of taking public transit is a no-brainer. I learned very early that driving was a privilege, and that taking public transit was the only way I would be able to go to school and eventually get to work.
North Country Twit
Tom Degan: Michele Bachmann maintains that the Founding Fathers ended slavery, huh? She is off by years. Four score and seven years, to be exact. She also pegged John Quincy Adams as one of "the very founders that wrote those documents." He must have been quite the prodigy. When the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, 8 year old John Quincy Adams was one week shy of his ninth birthday!
Surviving Poverty, Torture, and Civil War
An event you shouldn't miss. The book, "The Blessing Next to the Wound", was selected by the Amnesty International group in Pasadena as their November reading selection. No wonder. It is the story of Hector Aristizábal surviving poverty, torture by the US-trained military, cocaine cartels, and civil war in Colombia, as well as facing the challenges of exile. Co-written by Diane Lefer. Hector and Diane will be at Vroman's Books in Pasadena TONIGHT, Friday Nov 12th at 7:00pm
Dysfunctional Politics Begets Suicidal Policies
David Love: The Republican party faithful care little about the lives of everyday people. But they do care about their corporate benefactors. They claim to care so much about deficit reduction that they do not want to extend unemployment benefits, yet they want to extend the very tax cuts that wrecked the U.S. economy.
Why Barack Took the Money (and I'm Glad He Did)
Much ado (about nothing) has been made about Barack Obama becoming the first Presidential candidate to reject public financing of Presidential elections (and the $84.1 million spending limit that comes with it) since it started in 1976. Mainly that Obama reversed himself on his position as a supporter of campaign spending limits and a previously […]


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Harding students learn more about snakehead
Three Harding students have been reading the Tuesday newspaper and enjoying the NIE Environment page, according to their teacher, Jane Ross.
"These awesome boys drew pictures and researched the invasive snakehead fish, (the subject of a recent page) and found some interesting facts they wanted to share with your readers," said Ross.
- The snakeheads are members of the freshwater Perciform fish family Channidae, which is native to Africa and Asia.
- The snakehead got its name because its scaled head is shaped like a snake.
- The giant snakehead is known in Thailand's language as Pla Chado.
The students who did the research are Xavier Granberry, grade 5; Demarco Cleveland, grade 5; Gaston Crosby, grade 6.
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The redevelopment project
The Gallery Redevelopment Project will preserve the original building, protect the Gallery's nationally-important collection and provide increased access to the collections. The project will be a partnership between Whanganui District Council, Whanganui Iwi, central Government and donors and sponsors both large and small.
What will it cost?
The developed design process is now completed, Resource Consent was granted in August 2014, and the total project cost is estimated at $34 million.
Where will the money come from?
Council's contribution is around $5,000,000. Council resolved on 3 December 2013 to take the project on to the Developed Design stage, supported by funding from Powerco Wanganui Trust and the Sarjeant Gallery Trust. The costs of the design work are included in the total project cost.
The rest of the funding will come from external sources: Government; Lottery; trusts; and corporate and individual philanthropy. A detailed Revenue Generation Strategy is being implemented, which outlines the plan, preferred sources of funding and timing for applications.
The funding breakdown as at March 2016 is summarised in round terms below.
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A Generous Gift
The Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua Whanganui was founded through the generosity of one man to his home city. In 1912, Henry Sarjeant left a huge sum of money - the equivalent of over $70 million in today's terms - to establish the gallery "as a means of inspiration for ourselves and those who come after us". The Gallery opened in 1919 and is recognised as one of the country's most important heritage buildings. Over the last ninety-seven years, through the Sarjeant bequest and the many kind gifts of subsequent benefactors, the collection has become one of national importance.
The Gallery was not, of course, designed to the modern building code - indeed there was no building code then. Unsurprisingly then, it is categorised as earthquake prone, meeting only 5% of the current New Building Standard with regard to earthquake strength.
The collections were mainly stored in the basement of the Gallery. It was not designed as a storage space for works of art. Access is difficult and the environment is not suitable for long-term preservation. As a result, the collection was at risk of deterioration from a variety of causes - changing temperatures, fluctuating humidity and attacks by pests - in addition to the risk posed by earthquake collapse. To protect public, staff and the collection the Gallery has relocated to a temporary home at Sarjeant on the Quay, 38 Taupo Quay, Whanganui, assisted by funding from the Lotteyr grants Board.
Basement storage at the Sarjeant Gallery.
The Gallery's exhibition spaces also lack environmental control. Changes in temperature can lead to cracking, flaking and warping of works on display, damage which is very expensive to repair. In addition, the lack of control over environmental conditions in the Gallery spaces means that national and international touring shows cannot come to the Sarjeant because it does not meet the stringent requirements of the lenders.
The plan
The redevelopment plan will create purpose-built storage facilities to the north of the existing Gallery together with additional exhibition space, education facilities and events space. This will enable more of the permanent collection to be seen than is possible at present as well as looking after the collection for the future. The original Sarjeant Gallery will be strengthened against the risk of earthquakes through the use of base isolation. At the same time the environment throughout the public and storage spaces will be controlled to preserve collections on display and allow major touring exhibitions to come to Wanganui.