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Popular property highlights
Located in Center City, Philadelphia, Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel is a leisurely stroll from popular sights such as Ben Franklin National Memorial and Reading Terminal Market. This 757-room, 3.5-star hotel welcomes guests with a restaurant, an indoor pool, and a fitness center. Located centrally in Parkway Museum District, it's also close to Liberty Bell Center and Independence Hall.
Enjoy a bite to eat at the hotel's restaurant, or relax with a drink at the bar/lounge. Savor a meal from the comfort of your room with room service, or get a quick energy boost at the coffee shop/café. Cooked-to-order breakfast is offered for a fee each morning from 6:30 AM to 11 AM.
Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel's 757 rooms are air-conditioned and provide coffee makers, free weekday newspapers, and phones. 42-inch flat-screen TVs come with cable channels and pay movies, and guests can stay connected with WiFi. Pillowtop beds sport premium bedding and bathrooms offer hair dryers and free toiletries. Ironing boards and desks are also standard.
At Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel, guests enjoy features like an indoor pool, a fitness center, and free WiFi in public areas. Parking is available for USD 40 per night (USD 44 per night for valet parking), and there's also limo/town car service. Multilingual staff at the front desk are standing by 24/7 to help with dry cleaning/laundry, concierge services, and luggage storage. Additional amenities include 20 meeting rooms, conference space, and a business center.
Property features
- Walking distance to Ben Franklin National Memorial and Reading Terminal Market
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Onsite dining
- Indoor pool
Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel
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Hotel Amenities
Dining options at the Sheraton Philadelphia City Center Hotel consist of a casual American restaurant, a seafood restaurant, and a lobby bar serving snacks and cocktails. The hotel's fitness center has treadmills, stationary bikes, free weights, strength-training equipment, and locker facilities.
The hotel's 55,000 square feet of meeting and event space include 20 meeting and conference rooms, a rooftop ballroom, and a business center provides high-speed Internet access and printing (surcharges). Wireless Internet access is available in the lobby and other public areas.
Pets up to 49 pounds are permitted.
- Indoor pool
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Restaurant
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Conference space
- Business center
- Meeting rooms 20
- Express check-in
- Express check-out
- 24-hour front desk
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Multilingual staff
- Total number of rooms - 757
- Number of floors - 26
- ATM/banking
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Television in common areas
- Elevator/lift
- Valet parking (surcharge)
- Bar/lounge
- Wedding services
- Concierge services
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Free WiFi
- Porter/bellhop
- Luggage storage
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Conference space size (meters) - 5110
- Smoke-free property
- Coffee shop or café
- Fitness facilities
- Number of meeting rooms - 35
- Conference space size (feet) - 55004
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Indoor pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Refrigerator (on request)
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Wireless internet access ( USD 12.95 per day )
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Self parking (surcharge), Valet parking (surcharge)
Room Amenities
Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel offers 757 air-conditioned accommodations with coffee/tea makers and complimentary weekday newspapers. Pillowtop beds feature premium bedding. 42-inch flat-screen televisions come with premium cable channels and pay movies. Bathrooms include shower/tub combinations, complimentary toiletries, and hair dryers.
In-room wireless Internet access is available for a surcharge. Business-friendly amenities include desks and phones. Additionally, rooms include irons/ironing boards and blackout drapes/curtains. Refrigerators and hypo-allergenic bedding can be requested. Housekeeping is provided daily.
- Premium TV channels
- Pay movies
- Premium bedding
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Room service (limited hours)
- Air conditioning
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Free weekday newspaper
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Phone
- Coffee/tea maker
- Refrigerator (on request)
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Shower/tub combination
- Desk
- Iron/ironing board
- Daily housekeeping
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
- Cable TV service
- Flat-panel TV
- Pillowtop mattress
Where to Eat
The Terrace - A casual lobby restaurant offering American fare for breakfast and lunch. Children's menu available.
Phillips Seafood Restaurant - Serves seafood and regional cuisine. Specialties include Maryland-style crab cakes and the clam bake for two. Open for dinner only.
Lobby Bar - Beer, wine, cocktails, and snacks are served from early afternoon until late evening.
Room Service - Available for dinner 5-11 PM.
Nearby Things to Do
In addition to an indoor lap pool, guests enjoy a fitness center with free weights, cardio and strength-training equipment.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
- Segway rental/tour nearby
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- In-room accessibility
- Accessible bathroom
Hotel Policies
Check-in time ends at midnight
Minimum check-in age is 21
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Children 16 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for USD 30.00 per stay.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets stay free
- 1 per room (up to 50 lb)
- Specific rooms only, restrictions apply
- Pet-friendly rooms can be requested by contacting the property at the number on the booking confirmation
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Pets allowed (no fees)
Optional extras
- Breakfast fee: between USD 20 and USD 25 per person (approximately)
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: USD 12.95 per day (rates may vary)
- Self parking fee: USD 40 per night
- Valet parking fee: USD 44 per night
- Pet deposit: USD 50.00 per stay
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 30.00 per stay
Hotel Name
- Hotel Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown
- Philadelphia Downtown Sheraton
- Sheraton Hotel Philadelphia Downtown
- Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown
- Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel
- Philadelphia Sheraton
- Sheraton City Center Hotel
- Sheraton Hotel Philadelphia
- Sheraton Philadelphia City Center Hotel
We should mention
This property's policy is to refuse certain bookings for the purpose of group events or parties, including pre-wedding stag/bachelor and hen/bachelorette parties. Children 16 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation. Some facilities may have restricted access. Guests can contact the property for details using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Construction is underway at a neighboring building and there may be noise disturbance from the construction work. The property allows pets in specific rooms only and has other pet restrictions. Guests can arrange to bring pets by contacting the property directly, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
Special Offer
Book a stay in a "Junior Suite" or a "Club Room" room category and receive Club Lounge access (inclusive of evening hors d'oeuvres and beverage options) and breakfast at Local restaurant in hotel lobby.
Must book "Junior Suite," "Club Room, Business Lounge Access, City View," or "Club Room, King Bed" room category to receive benefits. Full details provided at check-in. Taxes and gratuity may not be included. No refunds for any unused portion of offer. Offer subject to availability. Offer is not valid with groups/conventions and may not be combined with other promotional offers. Other restrictions and blackout dates may apply.


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Sidebar: Raising the Cost of Impunity, in the Name of Magnitsky
Sergei Magnitsky, 37, a Russian lawyer and tax adviser, died in November 2009 after spending several months in Moscow's Butyrka prison, which is known for its harsh conditions. An independent report by the Moscow Public Oversight Commission, a Russian NGO that monitors human rights in detention facilities, concluded that Magnitsky had been kept in torturous conditions and denied treatment for serious medical conditions. Before his arrest in 2008 on charges of fraud, Magnitsky had exposed large-scale official corruption.


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they shouldnt have to be punished because of someone's else wants to impose their belief system on them.
If you punch me in the nuts it = assault If I punch my self in the nuts it =/= assault Who is protecting my nuts???
MrTide,my sister did not need an excuse for getting the abortion. For her & the 100000's of us who share the same opinion bout rape based pregnancies, it was common sense. The rapist was a drug head homeless animal with the IQ of a pea.
This is where your bible and my opinion differ
Despite what you believe, nobody wants to condemn your sister. I wish you could see we are not trying to blame your sister for aborting her child, but we are saying, if it was a living human being, that taking it's innocent life away for the circumstances of its conception is not the right thing to do. I'm trying to be sensitive to your situation and I feel most of the others are as well, and youre dragging us through the mud like we're being judgmental. We're not. We are simply stating that we believe taking innocent life is wrong in all cases, including your sisters. What we are not saying is that she should go to jail or hell or that shes an awful person. She was put in an awful situation. She is a victim too. We know that keltic. So please try to see where we're coming from
The place you are coming from is you can never feel the horror his sister did on that fricking terrible day in her life. You will never have to look in the mirror like she does every day to be reminded of what that bastard did to her. See you can never walk a day in her shoes and you are completely clueless about what you are talking about. but then again.
Alright.. I'm really starting to get pretty fricking tired of this. Just because you can't read my sympathy, don't start acting like I'm being disrespectful in any way. You're right. I don't have a clue what it's like to walk in her shoes. I don't. Nobody that hasn't been violently raped could. I do not make any claims to know the ridiculous grief she has to go through. But my position is that innocent human life cannot be taken at any point by anybody in any circumstance, despite how horrific it is. I have in no way attacked this woman's character or keltictiger. That an absolute load of crap
quote:I happen to disagree with him but I don't think you're grasping his position either.
No, you're an absolute load of crap, your misogyny is astounding. I bet you would change your tone quickly if your daughter was brutally raped.
Shoebang, thank you for strengthening my resolve to fight people like you in every/any way I can. But, to be fair, your opinion that my sister is a murderer is, quite apparently, shared by most if not all pro lifers here. Let me tell you a bit bout this murderer you so cold heartedly condemn. She has her PhD in psychology, works as a volunteer at Carville, the leprosy colony, has a minor in music & played the piano & sax extremely well, was a 3 sport star in highschool with 2 collegiate offers for vollyball, volunteers to work with vets who have suffered loss of memory capabilty thru the VA facilities in N.O. A great wife, mother, sister, and daughter. When she was brutalized over a period of 2 days, she lost her right eye; every bone in her right hand was smashed with a hammer to where she can no longer play any musical instrument; her vagina took 2 plastic surgeons 6 hrs to restore to somewhat normal. And more. But, to you, she is a murderer. I am an educated man & have no need to use vulgarities, but screw you, a.hole. for your sancitmonious & self rightious opinions. Come down out of your ivory tower & live in the real world for a change.
If she goes through with it and has the child, then everytime she looks at the child, she's going to be reminded of the time she was brutally raped. frick anyone who is against abortion in that case.
Let's see your sister get raped and see how you handle it if she gets raped.
If one genuinely considers the unborn child to be equivalent to a 2 year old baby, then it would be irrational to be FOR abortion in the case of rape. I would hope people could grasp that.
I happen to disagree with him but I don't think you're grasping his position either. If one genuinely considers the unborn child to be equivalent to a 2 year old baby, then it would be irrational to be FOR abortion in the case of rape. I would hope people could grasp that.
quote:That's all fine but other people think differently and if they think a baby in the womb = a baby outside the womb, then it would be ridiculous to be for abortion in cases of rape or incest. You wouldn't be for punishing the child for who his father is.
People are too extreme with the issue. Its not murder, but its not good either. I hate abortion, but I see its necessity in society. I am more reluctantly pro-choice because its going to happen anyway, and there are extremely brutal acts that make it 100% justifiable.
I have three sisters, and you best believe I'd be furious about it. Keltictiger's sister went through an unimaginable trauma. People assuming that because I care about the life of an unborn child means I don't give a frick about raped women do not know a thing about me and may be taking out frustration about others on me because I have CLEARLY been sympathetic in every post I've posted
Again, I'm merely pointing out that this "you're a shitty person because you would want my sister to carry a rape baby" is kind of missing the point.
I know that Christian two-faced, judgmental, holier-than-thou posting attitude that you are using. This is just one issue where I have to conclude the person is an absolute douchebag and delusional if they are against someone getting an abortion in that situation
we aren't living in some ivory title, the simple fact is NOTHING justifies the killing of an innocent human being.
would you be ok with a women killing her 3 year old that reminded her of her rapist, and therefore made her life a living hell remembering what happened?
I understand your sister is the victim in all of this, we as the pro life movement isn't going to just make her have her baby and then just ignore her, and also we aren't just going to condemn people who where rapped and got pregnant.
All I'm trying to show you is that nothing justifies the killing of an innocent human life. Its a hard pill to swallow in light of your case but what is the unborn guilty of why should it be punished for something it had nothing to do with.
again I am concerned about the needs of the women, its not an either or, but we can't ignore the unborn, and nothing justifies the killing of an unborn.
to prove my point can you think of a situation where someone who has done nothing wrong can be justly killed. Think of people after they are born.
Wow. Just wow. My posts have been judgemental? Please, expalin. Simply calling me a judgemental, two-faced, holier-than-thou douchebag does nothing
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Re: st: bivariate correlation analsis for longitudinal data
Re: st: bivariate correlation analsis for longitudinal data
Mon, 24 May 2010 11:52:32 -0400 (EDT)
Thanks, Michael. I wonder there is a way to get the generalized Person
between-variable and cross-time correlation coefficients without fitting
regression models.
The regression will give the regression coficient. But I am not sure how
the regression will give the person bivaiare correltaions at each time
> Greetings Junqing
> If you have not done so already, you probably want to reshape your data
> into a "long" format (e.g., see
> http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/modules/reshapel.htm).
> Having the data in a long format, you can then look at bivariate
> relationships between a continous predictor and continuous outcome
> like this (using the nlswork dataset as an example).
> . webuse nlswork
> . xtmixed ln_wage tenure || idcode:
> The above looks at "tenure" predicting "ln_wage", with no random
> effects at level 2. If you are interested in assessing the variability
> of "tenure" as a random slope, you can do something like this...
> . xtmixed ln_wage tenure || idcode: tenure, cov(un)
> As I mentioned in a previous post, I cannot recommend the following
> book highly enough for learning and as a reference for longitudinal
> analysis...
> Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis: Modeling Change and Event Occurrence
> by Judith D. Singer & John B. Willett, see
> http://gseacademic.harvard.edu/alda/
> I hope this helps,
> Michael N. Mitchell
> Data Management Using Stata -
> http://www.stata.com/bookstore/dmus.html
> A Visual Guide to Stata Graphics -
> http://www.stata.com/bookstore/vgsg.html
> Stata tidbit of the week - http://www.MichaelNormanMitchell.com
> On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 11:07 AM, <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
>> I try to do bivairate correlation analysis for longitudinal data. My
>> understanding is to use the data in wide format and then do regular
>> correlation of the x and y vairables, for example correlation of x at
>> time
>> 1 and y at time 2, x at time 2 and y at time 3, etc., or x and y both at
>> the same time point. By doing so, do i assume that time effect is the
>> name
>> on the correlations at different time point? What is the appropriate way
>> of conducting bivairate correlation analysis for longitudinal data?
>> Eventually, i will fit randome intercept models for y on Xs. Thanks a
>> lot.
>> Junqing
>>> Dear David
>>> I think that it might help if we were able to see a picture of the
>>> graph that you have
>>> in mind. Of course, sharing such a picture is not easy via Statalist,
>>> but
>>> you could draw
>>> something and share it using Jing, see
>>> http://www.michaelnormanmitchell.com/stow/capturing-and-sharing-screen-images.html
>>> I think that the growth model that you have in mind does not involve
>>> any of the
>>> interaction effects (note that age and age squared are not interacted
>>> with
>>> anything) thus
>>> when you look at the trajectory over time, the interactions you refer
>>> to
>>> just get
>>> "averaged out". I think it is possible that you might actually want
>>> more
>>> than one graph,
>>> for example you might like...
>>> 1) a graph with age on the X axis, the predicted outcome on the y
>>> axis,
>>> and separate
>>> lines for maternal IQ groups/treatment groups. This shows the growth
>>> curve
>>> over time for
>>> the six groups. Note that the growth curves will be parallel.
>>> 2) a graph with maternal IQ class on the X axis, separate lines for
>>> treatment groups.
>>> This will focus on the interaction.
>>> There may be multiple ways to touch the elephant, but I don't think
>>> there is one way to
>>> touch the elephant to get the entire picture. It is also possible that
>>> you
>>> might be
>>> interested in interacting age (and perhaps age squared) with some of
>>> your
>>> other predictors
>>> if you think that the growth trajectory depends on these factors.
>>> Finally, I would recommend "Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis:
>>> Modeling Change and
>>> Event Occurrence" by Judith D. Singer and John B. Willett to anyone who
>>> is
>>> interested in
>>> these kinds of models. It does not solve this exact problem, but is an
>>> outstanding
>>> reference, see
>>> http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/examples/alda.htm
>>> I hope this helps,
>>> Michael N. Mitchell
>>> Data Management Using Stata -
>>> http://www.stata.com/bookstore/dmus.html
>>> A Visual Guide to Stata Graphics -
>>> http://www.stata.com/bookstore/vgsg.html
>>> Stata tidbit of the week - http://www.MichaelNormanMitchell.com
>>> On 2010-05-22 5.52 PM, David Torres wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> I actually came upon the link Nick provided in a previous post
>>>> (http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/faq/mar_graph/margins_graph.htm)
>>>> while I was working on this earlier today. The graph I was able to
>>>> produce does seem useful in that it shows the difference in slope
>>>> between child IQ scores of the different maternal IQ classes for both
>>>> the control and treatment groups. I wonder, though, if I'm missing
>>>> something by not showing growth. ???
>>>> Since the data include assessments at several time points (8 to be
>>>> exact), should I not want a graph of the adjusted means at each time
>>>> by
>>>> maternal IQ and treatment group assignment? And shouldn't it be
>>>> curvilinear given the quadratic? I guess I would like a growth curve
>>>> that takes into account significant interaction effects.
>>>> --------------------------------------------
>>>> David Diego Torres, MA(Sociology)
>>>> PhD Candidate in Sociology
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>>>> * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
>>>> * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
>>> *
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I have a ruger p95 and ria 1911. Both full size. As far as concealing goes I've never had an issue. P95 is a 9 however but the same size as the p94 .40. 1911 is a 45 and as I'm sure you know very large not an issue to conceal (iwb holster or saddle holster).
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Scalabrine plays it safeMonday, September 21st, 2009
After suffering three concussions in less than a month last season, Brian Scalabrine wants to play it safe. That's why he chose not to play at all this summer.
'I didn't play any basketball,' Scalabrine told WEEI.com last week at the USI Shamrock Classic. 'I didn't want to risk getting a concussion in that environment. So I just didn't play any basketball and then I've been playing since I got back here.'
The Celtics forward began playing basketball nearly three weeks ago when he returned from Washington to Boston for the upcoming season. Up until that point he had been following the training routine outlined by the team's strength and conditioning coach, Bryan Doo.
Scalabrine suffered a series of concussions over the course of a month last January through February. The first came on January 25 when he was dealt a blow to the chin by Dirk Nowitzki in a game against the Dallas Mavericks. Two days later he banged his head during practice. Scalabrine returned the next month only to suffer a neck injury, one that he would later say was '99 percent' caused by a concussion, during a February 23 game against the Denver Nuggets. Doctors later determined he had postconcussion syndrome.
He missed the remainder of the regular season and returned for the playoffs sporting a protective headband.
While these injuries kept Scalabrine off the courts this summer, he won't let them hold him back this season.
'We're just going to take it day by day and see what happens,' he said. 'The only time you're really going to know is until you take a blow. It's going to happen one time or another, just how I respond to it is going to be key.'


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Many things frighten me; snakes, clowns, mold, cats, vampires, public speaking, tiny fish . . . all terrifying to me, a grown woman who flaunts her independence but once had a panic attack while snorkeling because what can best be described as a tropical minnow brushed up against her leg.
At the tippity-top of my teetering list of irrational neurosis? Skiing, of course. The mere thought of strapping fiberglass planks onto my feet and playing Zamboni while zooming Mach 18 down a mountain towards an uncertain icy peril makes my stomach twist itself into a cowering mass. I have enough trouble keeping myself upright on slick surfaces in the wintertime, without the added stress of having to pretend I'm enjoying myself.
I did grow up in New England, raised by non-skiing parents who share my skepticism, and possibly my fears. I remember, as a kid, being confused by how happy my friends seemed to be after spending family weekends in Maine or New Hampshire, returning to school on Monday morning with chapped faces and goggle-shaped windburns. Whenever my family went to Maine, we just bought a lot of knock-off crap at outlet stores, ate lobster rolls, and got into petty fights over things like headbands and the correct way to say the word "mischievous."
"Why can't we ski?" I would ask my mom and dad, desperate to be included in this club of yuppie kids who sported brightly-colored puffy jackets with lift tickets dangling from the zippers. My own forest-green knee-length coat with the tan lining paled in comparison to the couture on these fresh-faced preteen ski bunnies. "Caitlin and Jenny and Amy all went skiing this weekend, and they said it's really fun. Can we ski?"
"What the hell do you want to ski for?" Dad would grumble. "Skiing is for chumps with too much money. Let's go sledding."
The old man did crumble, sort of. One Christmas morning, when I was about 10, my brother and I tore down the stairs to discover that Santa had brought us each a pair of skis. "Cross country," Mom said. "So you can do it right in the backyard."
Our backyard abutted conservation land, so we had access to endless forest and meadow that, in the wintertime, transformed into a gleaming wonderland, perfect for cross-country skiing. So I was told. It would take me the better part of an hour just to figure out how to snap my boots into the damned things, and by then, I was so sweaty and frustrated that, rather than hop up and glide blissfully through the snow, my cheeks rosy with excitement, I'd just lie there, skis akimbo, squealing like a pinioned pig. Never did make it into the back yard. Instead, the skis found their way into the mudroom, then, the garage, eventually serving, if I remember correctly, as giant chew toys for the dog.
I shouldn't say that I never went down a hill on skis. My close childhood friends, sisters Georgia and Whitney (both still fervid skiers) lived next door to a graveyard that was situated on a small hill, and those two imps once decided to strap me into a pair of their skis, take me by the hand, and make me "ski" down the hill over gravesites, screaming all the way. This wintry horseplay involved two things that petrified me; skiing, and dead people. More specifically, pissing off the ghosts of the dearly departed by blatantly desecrating their final resting place.
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Author Gennifer Choldenko is best known for her Al Capone series. Her first book, Al Capone Does My Shirts, won a Newbery Award. Set in 1935, the book is about a boy whose father is a guard for Alcatraz Prison. The boy and the warden's daughter end up in hot water when they start a business in which school children pay to have their clothes washed by the prisoners.
Recently, Choldenko dared to tread new territory with her first fantasy novel, No Passengers Beyond This Point. The story is about the exploits of three children whose airplane lands in a mysterious city known as Falling Bird, where nothing is as it seems.
TFK Kid Reporter Francesco Franzese chatted with Choldenko at Anderson's Bookshop in Naperville, Illinois, and discovered why she became an author, how she wrote her first novel and what she plans to write next.
Have you always wanted to become an author?
I knew when I was in third grade that I wanted to become an author, but it took me a long time to muster the courage to pursue that dream. My father tried to publish a book his whole life, but it never happened. That really scared me. I became an English major in college, because I always loved books. I tried student teaching, but I was terrified to stand up and talk to other people. I ended up getting a job in advertising. I got to do what I like, which is stringing words together. Plus I learned how to meet deadlines, how to revise, how to deal with clients and how to write all day. I would show up at work, and I would write for eight or nine hours. After a while, I was no longer interested in writing with the goal of selling something. It was then that I knew I was ready to follow my heart.
Where did the idea for No Passengers Beyond This Point come from?
That is a good question, and I don't have a good answer for it. [With] some books I know exactly where the idea came from, and [with] other books the idea just seems to pop into my head. No Passengers is in the pop-in-the-head variety. I've always wanted to write a fantasy. I had already developed the characters, so I knew who they were. I thought, "Why not give it a try?" I decided to write one chapter, and not tell anyone I was doing it. After that one chapter, I was completely hooked. I couldn't wait to write the next chapter, and it really was one of the most thrilling writing experiences I've ever had.
I read that you have a degree in illustration. What inspired you to pursue a writing career instead of a career in illustration?
From advertising, I went back to school to get a second degree in illustration, simply because I thought there wouldn't be as much rejection. But I realized that I am a writer who occasionally has ideas for illustrations, rather than an illustrator who occasionally has ideas to write about.
What did you learn from writing the Al Capone books?
I gained confidence from writing the Al Capone books. I felt ready to write a fantasy novel. I thought, "Okay, I did well with those books!" Every time I finish writing a book, I ask myself, "What did I do well and what can I improve on?" That's how you grow as a writer.
Was it difficult to write No Passengers Beyond This Point from a first-person point of view?
I always liked writing in first-person. To me, third-person always felt a step away. I never felt like I was inside the characters. I really like first-person present tense, which is less common, because I want to feel like I am that person. I think the challenges I had with this book were that I had to write from several points of view, because the kids went to different places and I wanted to capture all of them. I could have written from a different point of view from the start, such as third-person omniscient. But I wanted readers to feel close to the characters. When I'm writing, if I don't feel like I am the character, then I stop, because I know that something's wrong.
Are you happy with the way No Passengers Beyond This Point it turned out?
My biggest problem with No Passengers is I love it too much. Things changed in the revision process. The beginning and the end are very similar to how they were from the start of the revision, but the center needed work. I needed to create more tension. Once I did that, the whole book changed in a big way.
How did it feel to write a fantasy tale instead of historical fiction?
The thing that's fun about doing historical fiction is that there's so much research, and that research feeds your book. All the great ideas that are true, that you would never have imagined, help you build the book, and that's really exciting. When I do research, I'm underlining the things I find interesting, and in the margins I'm writing ideas that come to me. When you're writing a fantasy, there are some things you can research, but not as much. Generally, the ideas had to come from me.
Are there any works of literature you have drawn inspiration from?
I think the book that inspired me the most for No Passengers is Holes by Louis Sachar. I thought Holes was such an incredible, magical, realistic experience. I think No Passengers is more magic realism than fantasy. I had a feeling that I wanted to do magic realism, so I read some books by adult authors, like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who wrote 100 Years of Solitude. That helped me open my eyes to the possibilities of magic realism.
As I read your book, I was amazed at how lifelike the characters were. How did you create such realistic characters?
I just think that's how I write all my characters. They have to be realistic. I have to believe them. Fantastical characters that don't have that snap of recognition aren't believable to me, so that's why I think this is a bit more magic realism. Kids will be able to relate to the characters, who were inspired by my own siblings. The oldest sister [in the book] is like my oldest sister, and Mouse [the youngest sister] is a little like me since I also had an imaginary friend named Bing, like Mouse does.
Do you have any ideas for future books?
The Al Capone books are actually a trilogy, and I'm about to turn in the third book. I'm handing it in for the first revision, though, so there will be a long process before I'm done. I always have lots of ideas for novels. Sometimes, I get an idea and it won't let me go. It grabs me by the neck, and I just have to write it down. A book has to come from my gut more than from my head. The revisions and thinking about it come from my head.


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From President Scott R. Pilarz, S.J.
Whenever I enter Marquette's Engineering Hall, something surprising happens. My pulse quickens. In fact, I tend to have a similar response when I visit the College of Nursing's new Wheaton Franciscan Center for Clinical Simulation, with its delivery room, emergency unit and ICU right out of a major medical facility. Admittedly, these aren't reactions you'd necessarily expect from a member of the English faculty, whose scholarly interests favor metaphysical over mechanical or medical systems. Yet there's something undeniably exciting occurring in these recent additions to our campus.
Let's start with Engineering Hall. Beyond the glass walls of the building's laboratories and learning spaces, faculty are rallying around the idea of addressing urgent global and local issues with their research and teaching. And students are more-than-active participants in this pursuit. From their early days on campus, they take newfound knowledge and begin applying it to issues from everyday life. Their involvement with hands-on experiential learning accelerates from there. Right now, one team of seniors is developing a scalp-cooling mechanism to help patients undergoing chemotherapy retain more of their hair. Others are helping teenagers who have motion-limiting orthopedic conditions with devices such as a dining tray that lifts food up to mouth level. If you get as moved as I do by students touching the lives of others in remarkable ways, read about some of these and other capstone engineering projects in this issue.
Fortunately for our students, this passion for active and engaged learning is spreading broadly at Marquette. In fact, the discussions convened as part of our current strategic planning effort revealed a university community committed to innovating how it delivers a transformational education. Frequently, that involves students and faculty members engaging real issues, often in ways that reach across traditional departmental lines. This kind of work is becoming a distinguishing feature of this university.
As a result, a stroll into any number of Marquette facilities can be a pulse-quickening experience. Undergraduates here are unique nationally in their participation in the College of Health Science's gross anatomy laboratory, where they explore human physiology up-close and firsthand. I've already mentioned the College of Nursing's new simulation center, where students wear scrubs and lead or assist in real-time care scenarios. Through it, students' clinical experiences start earlier and are more thorough than what can be achieved through existing medical rounds alone. When they graduate, they feel better prepared for the challenges the world will throw at them.
Faculty colleagues in the arts, social sciences, business and other fields will justifiably clamor if I give the impression that our students need to be wearing lab coats to have engaging encounters with the real world. By their senior year, students in the Applied Investment Management Program in the College of Business Administration take the helm and actively manage three equity and fixed-income portfolios. Our law students advise those with legal needs through our volunteer legal clinic, and students in the Les Aspin Center for Government in Washington, D.C., contribute to democracy's inner workings through efforts such as helping members of Congress prepare floor statements on vital issues. Despite work that is sometimes associated with dusty libraries, even my fellow humanities faculty involve students in interactive, discipline-crossing projects that can be as engaging as a good episode of PBS' History Detectives.
Research shows involvement with these and other high-impact student experiences participation in student-managed organizations, the conduct of research, service-oriented international study is most closely associated with post-college success. In preparing our graduates for rich lives as change agents and problem-solvers, there is no substitute for engaging them with the world while they are here. For those in Jesuit higher education, this is not an altogether new discovery. Well before there was research on the topic, the founder of the Jesuits, St. Ignatius Loyola, had something similar in mind when he sent Jesuit educators out to their schools with six words that were all about real-world engagement: "Go, set the world on fire."
And on a related note, how remarkable has it been to witness the gentle and generous early days of the Papacy of Francis, the Catholic Church's first Jesuit pontiff? From his firm, lifelong emphasis on the needs of the poor and marginalized to his forays to greet crowds and worship in the chapel where St. Ignatius first celebrated Mass, he has left me and I hope many of you welcoming the many practical and personal gifts he brings to the Catholic Church.


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2004 San Andreas - Names and Slogans Galore!
GTA: San Andreas - General News | @ 03:35 PM MDT | By Neil
Just a small update this time. We've managed to find out a few minor tidbits that sprung from this weekend's site update over at the official San Andreas site.
Firstly, and probably most interestingly, is the Kincaid Bridge, shown above in a tiny screenshot, which is all Rockstar have revealed of it so far. The real version is a fantastic feat of engineering, named the Forth Rail Bridge, which spans the River Forth, between Edinburgh and Fife, in Scotland, close to Rockstar North's offices. Its purpose? Rail travel! Hop on one of San Fierro's dusty trains and take it right across into the unknown that is the North East of the San Andreas gameplay area, which includes Las Venturas and the wide open desert which we know nothing about).
Secondly, one of San Fierro's hippy district's posters shows the catchphrase Brown Streak Railroad will be using to get people on their trains and across the Kincaid Bridge. "Go For The Brown" is slipped out in one of the videos tucked in the official site. This screenshot shows the billboard well.
Finally, we've got a very revealing screenshot also from the Camper video on the official site. In San Andreas, Juank Air will be "Flying with the personal touch". (You thought the name was dirty!)
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Welcome to the Quilting Board!
WOW! That's beautiful!
Lovely! Really like the birds.
"Only those who know enough is enough can ever have enough." Lao Tzu
Very nice!!!
love love! awesome quilt........and just my colors! haha hint hint
WOW, that's gorgeous!
Eat, quilt, sleep, repeat
Gee that is one lovely quilt. You must be happy to have it finished.
"Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern ... It will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that ...one stitch at a time, taken patiently."
*Oliver Wendell Holms
nice quilt.... just lovely
Very nicely done!
I don't want to brag but I can still fit into the earrings I wore in high school.
Wonderful quilt, wonderful work!! I see a lot of enjoyment you must have had making that one!
Never regret growing older, its a privilege denied to many.
Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.
beautiful.glad you are tackling your UFO'S -mine are growing.


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Spooky, Spectacular Siquijor
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We eventually got to our bungalow at 22:00. It was right on the beach and even in the dark we could tell that the view was spectacular. We were right too! It was such a lovely spot that we ended up staying a whole week just chilling in our hammock watching the waves roll in.
But as tempted as we were to just stay in this place, the adventure had to continue. So a week after getting here, we packed our bags, got into a tricycle and headed to Dumaguete, a busy university town and gateway to Apo Island, where some fabulous diving awaited us.
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Laugh Tracks: Comedians Dana Gould & Danielle Koenig

The Simpsons alum Dana Gould talks to funny lady Danielle Koenig about Playboy TV & Foursome: Walk of Shame's hilarious debacles.

Foursome is Playboy's answer to reality television. The deal: you start with a swank house, you fill it with booze, sex toys and a ragtag medley of folks (four of them, two of either gender) willing to get it on with strangers on camera, and you film the ensuing emotional car wreck.
Foursome: Walk of Shame takes it up a notch by getting celebrity comedians to make fun of the real-life characters getting busy at the Foursome house. What ensues? Nonstop "I-can't-believe-that-just-happened" hilarity. You'll laugh, you'll cringe, you'll feel better about your own indiscretions.
Playboy.com's Laugh Tracks is a series of interviews featuring two comedians riffing off each other in hilarious conversation. Today, to celebrate Playboy TV's Season 2 of the ever-debaucherous Foursome: Walk of Shame, we've asked two of the show's comedian commentators, Dana Gould and Danielle Koenig, to hang out and dish Walk of Shame's shockers.
Dana Gould: If you want to have someone fly your plane and you have a choice between someone who's been doing it a year, a pilot that's been doing it four years or a pilot that's been doing it 20 years, I would take the pilot that's been doing it 20 years.
Danielle Koenig: Sure, someone with experience, knowledge.
Gould: I had a meeting at a network where I mentioned Julia Roberts.
Koenig: Uh-oh.
Gould: And the executive said, "I just googled that actress."
Koenig: Oh come on. That's not possible.
Gould: Yes, it is possible.
Koenig: Wow. And then it shows that she was in an Oscar-nominated movie this year…
Gould: She wasn't in a very important comedy recently. Is Pretty Woman considered a comedy?
Koenig: It is considered a comedy. Which is weird. It wasn't written as a comedy. It was written as a dramatic movie. And then Garry Marshall came onboard and said, "I see hilarity here."
Gould: [In a voice like a chain-smoking old man from NYC] Hookers are happy! Hookers like their work. Every hooker I know has been very fine!
Koenig: It'll be fun-ny! They think she's wearing pantyhose, but she's not wearing pantyhose! So you are having a day full of shuttling between meetings, I am having a day in my pajamas.
Gould: Oh my God. Like Hef!
Koenig: That's what Hef is doing right now, too! I know.
Gould: He's in his pajamas, looking at old Polaroids of his weekends in Cabo with the Landers twins.
Koenig: Now people are going to have to google the Landers twins. I don't, of course.
Gould: That's what Google's for. There was a show called Quark, ladies and gentlemen! There was a show called Quark.
Koenig: I once worked with a guy who claimed he didn't know the song "Rainbow Connection." I yelled at him.
Gould: I like when people clearly know it but they're just pretending to be younger. I worked with a guy once who claimed never to have heard of "Mr. Gorbachev, please tear down this wall." I don't know what it is.
Koenig: He could just have been stupid. It could have been one of the people in this house. I don't mean my house. I mean the fuckhouse that we affectionately call "The House" on Foursome.
Gould: Ridiculous. The dumbest women and the douchiest men on the planet all come together. I have recently become a single person again after 18 years of not being single and saw this show and immediately stuck with the first woman I met who seemed capable of dressing herself and cutting food with a knife.
Koenig: You're like, "I'm never dating again, that's it."
Gould: Yeah. I just can't do it. Danielle, why do you want to be in Playboy? Let's just get right to the front of the line.
Koenig: Well, you know what, you get to a certain age and you say, "I've done everything else. How can I further debase myself?" It's very hard explaining to people that I've done this show. I go "Well, there's this show where they've gotten four idiots together in a house and they have sex." And they're waiting for the part where I come in, you know. So I'm like, "Okay, I'm not one of the idiots, I'm one of the people making fun of the idiots."
So I know you're a dad. And I'm a mom, and every time I watch one of these shows I'm like, do these women—even these guys—do they have parents? Are they still living? Is there any sense of shame that happens? I guess my parents taught me enough self-respect/shame.
Gould: See you're Jewish, and I'm Catholic, so together we have a sense of shame and guilt. I also think, if you look at someone like Paris Hilton, having your sex tape get out is a career move. It used to be you used to have to move away to a different country.
Koenig: But in those cases at least one of the two people on the tape is somewhat known. The problem with these people is that they're all anonymous idiots, so it's not going to help them in any way.
Gould: The name of the show is Walk of Shame. Why did they change "Walk of" from "Have you no"?
Koenig: Right. I wonder if the people who are on the show watch this version of it? That would be awesome. That would a great show to then watch the people on the show watching our version with the commentary, and then we could comment on that.
Gould: You have Walk of Shame, which is making fun of Foursome. And then we could have Watch of Shame, which is the people on Foursome watching Walk of Shame. And then you get Chris Hardwick to host Watching Watch of Shame.
Koenig: He needs another job, he really does.
Gould: And people can watch the parody of the show they did before.
Koenig: I love it. And the people have to be stone-cold sober watching it.
Gould: One more show and you're no longer alive. A wormhole opens up.
Massachusetts native Dana Gould arrived in Los Angeles in the early '90s, where he became one of the founding fathers of the alternative comedy movement. After starring in the TV series Working and guesting on such shows as The Ben Stiller Show and Seinfeld, Gould joined the writing staff of The Simpsons, eventually becoming executive producer of the legendary show. In addition to his podcast, The Dana Gould Hour, which premiered in February 2012, he is currently developing, along with the Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl, a new pilot for F/X, Rock Bottom.
Danielle Koenig is a comedy writer whose credits include The Dish, Parental Discretion with Stefanie Wilder-Taylor and Fashion Police. She's also written for animated shows, including Invader ZIM, Wordgirl, The Replacements and Disney's upcoming Star and the Forces of Evil. While appearing on Foursome is a low point in most people's lives, appearing on Foursome: Walk of Shame to make fun of those people is a professional and personal zenith for Koenig.


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Leaky, uninsulated ducts in crawlspaces and attics waste huge amounts of energy and money. Use duct wrap insulation for a quick fix with a big, immediate payoff.
Cut the insulation to match the circumference of the duct, plus 2 in. Then peel away the foil backing and cut off 2 in. of fiberglass.
Remove several duct hanger brackets and slide the insulation around the top of the duct. Overlap the 2-in. foil tab at the seam and seal with aluminum tape.
Relieve stress on the seam by wrapping wire around the insulation. Place two wires on each 4-ft. section.
Repeat the cutting, tabbing and taping procedure for each round duct.
Uninsulated ducts that run through unconditioned spaces can lose more than 30 percent of their heating or cooling capacity. So you'll save money by insulating them. The Residential Building Code calls for R-8 insulation for these ducts, but check with your building inspector for local code requirements. Before you insulate, however, plug any air leaks by sealing all the joints with caulk or tape.
Look for "duct wrap," a fiberglass product with an outer foil vapor barrier. The foil barrier prevents condensation (and mold) from forming on the duct.
Unfortunately, R-8 duct wrap can be difficult to find. We checked three home centers and found only R-3 duct wrap. That didn't meet our local codes, so we contacted a heating equipment supply house. That company knew exactly what we were looking for and had it in stock.
We bought a roll of 3-in. by 48-in.-wide by 50-ft. duct wrap for our installation. We also bought a few rolls of UL181 aluminum duct tape to seal the insulation seams.
You'll be handling fiberglass, so wear long sleeves, goggles, mask and leather gloves. Measure the circumference of the duct, add 2 in. to the total, and cut the insulation to that length. Remove a 2-in. strip of fiberglass to create an overlapping flap for taping (Photo 1). To finish the job, butt the insulation edges together along the bottom of the duct, overlap the 2-in. strip of foil, and secure it with aluminum tape (Photo 2). Wrap wire around the insulation to relieve seam stress and prevent the seam from separating (Photo 3).
You'll save lots of cutting and fitting time on rectangular ducts by removing the hanging brackets one section at a time. Remove the screw from the joist and rotate the bracket. Once the insulation is in place and taped, cut a small hole near each bracket, rotate it back up through the hole and reattach it to the joist. Seal around the bracket with tape.
Have the necessary tools for this DIY project lined up before you start—you'll save time and frustration.
You'll also need a trouble light and leather gloves
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| "Any number of other variant or alternative forms may also be found,
especially in the imprint dates of books from earlier centuries. These forms
include the use of the long versions of the numbers 400 (CCCC) or 40
(XXXX) -- these were actually the preferred forms in ancient times and still
appear in 20th-century books -- as well as XXC for LXXX, IC for XCIX, VIX
for XVI, or IIXX for XVIII, to mention only a few of the more obvious
variant patterns. "
http://www2.inetdirect.net/ ~charta/Roman_ numerals.html
(the documentation is at the bottom)
1. For an overview of the Roman calendar see the discussion of the
"Development of the Modern Calendar" under the entry for Calendar in The
Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition, ©2000. Also extremely useful for
converting Roman calendar dates is Otfried Lieberknecht's Calendar Tools
(JavaScript calculator).
2. See also Edward R. Hobbs' playful Compvter Romanvs (Java applet), a true
calculator which accepts Roman numerals in the range 1 - 3,999,999,
validates the input, and performs basic mathematical functions -- addition,
subtraction, multiplication, and division.
3. The smaller number must be a power of ten (I, X or C) and precede a
number no larger than 10 times its own value. The smaller number itself can
be preceded only by a number at least 10 times greater (e.g. LXC is invalid)
and it must also be larger than any numeral that follows the one from which
it is being subtracted (e.g. CMD is invalid).
4. Cappelli indicates that the Romans rarely used the subtraction principle
and that the convention was equally uncommon during the Middle Ages. See his
Dizionario di abbreviature latine ed italiane, 6th ed., Milano, 1967, p.
5. Chronograms are sentences, phrases, inscriptions, or other brief texts
that contain dates embedded within them, usually in the form of upper case
Roman numerals. If upper case letters appear on the title page of a book
seemingly at random, the letters may well represent a chronogram for the
date of publication. The intended date can usually be deciphered by making a
simple total of all of the letters' corresponding numerical values without
regard for their order (the order isn't usually meaningful). For example,
the phrase "I MarrIeD LuCy In CInCInnatI" would suggest that its author was
married in 1856.
6. See R.B. McKerrow, Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students,
Oxford, 1927 (appendix 3) for a brief discussion. Also his fuller treatment
of 16th-century practices in The Library, 3rd Ser., no. 1.
7. Sometimes referred to as a "backwards C", although the term is not
strictly accurate. Like modern-day rubber stamps, type used in making early
books consisted of a raised printing surface (face) cast on a solid body
(shank) with no reverse-side image. Consequently, it wasn't physically
possible to turn type over, or backwards, to create an exact mirror image
such as this:
(image of a backwards C)
Rather, printers would reverse the C by rotating the type 180 degrees to an
upside down position.
This is the classic form of the apostrophic C, used throughout the era of
the handpress and still occasionally found in printed books today. Digital
technology of course makes it a simple matter to produce backwards, or
mirror image letters, as can be seen in the Unicode Consortium's published
standard for the apostrophic C, or ROMAN NUMERAL REVERSED ONE HUNDRED
(Unicode glyph U+2183, v. 4.0 (.pdf)).
8. Bongo's curious work on "the mystery of numbers" (or Numerorum Mysteria,
as it was commonly known), was first published in two parts at Bergamo
(1583-1584) and frequently reissued. The partial table reproduced here
originally appeared in the 1614 edition and was scanned from a text
illustration in David Smith's Rara Arithmetica, Boston, 1908 (see figs.
190-191). Click here to view a reproduction of the title-page of Bongo's
original work (part 2, dated 1584), which bears a Roman numeral imprint date
displaying several of the features under discussion.


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Just a few years ago, Auckland pianist John-Paul Muir seemed to be carrying off all the major awards, from Kerikeri to Christchurch.
Muir is back in the country to enjoy what he describes as the climatic and emotional warmth of home, putting on a recital on Monday in the Lewis Eady Showroom before returning to Britain.
Two years of studying at London's Guildhall School of Music, under the celebrated Joan Havill, have turned his life around, above all for "the chance to experience the pace of life and rich cultural variety in a big centre".
Muir has enjoyed culture heroes in the flesh, such as pianists Murray Perahia and Mitsuko Uchida.
"Uchida simply wafted on stage and gave us, among other things, her famous pianissimo," he recalls. "I was trying for days to find the words to describe it."
Another highlight was hearing Keith Jarrett performing with his trio. Muir already has tickets for the American jazz pianist's upcoming solo concert, his first in five years.
Muir's own keyboard talents took him to Venice in 2011 to be one of the pianists playing Michael Parekowhai's ornately carved grand piano at the Venice Biennale. Aside from the chance to serve up some tasty jazz improv, he also filled the gallery with the sounds of Beethoven, Ravel, Scarlatti and Liszt.
"I played Liszt's Fountains at the Villa d'Este on the Parekowhai piano, which was connected to (the book) The Story of a New Zealand River and, all the time, I could see the Grand Canal from the keyboard. It sounds cheesy, but there was a special connection here, and it renewed my feeling of identity as a Kiwi."
Muir has pursued his own mix of the classics and jazz since school days at Rangitoto College.
At the Auckland University School of Music, he was taught by jazz pianist Kevin Field alongside Rae de Lisle and Stephen De Pledge. Little wonder he now describes the ideal career as "a couple of days teaching, a few regular jazz gigs and the chance to establish some good collaborative chamber music relationships".
Muir puts great store on spontaneity and says the audience is an indispensable factor.
"I'm very sensitive to audience vibe," says Muir. "I can feel it as soon as I enter the room. One of my most enjoyable concerts was for the Waikanae Music Society, just after my Kerikeri success. It was packed and I was really energised by the warmth and expectation I felt from the hall."
Discussing spontaneity, Muir compares jazz and the classics. "To start with, they both have the same goals. The ideal classical performance is one that's fresh, as if it has been created in the moment - after you've internalised all the details of the score. It's the same with jazz, but a bit easier, because there is less detailed information to take on board."
Above all, he remembers advice once given by his father. "Whatever you play, it's most important to engage your heart."
Muir's Monday recital reflects his studies with Havill. She convinced him that Schubert's Impromptu, Op 90 no 1, draws much from the composer's other music, from Lieder through to orchestral scores. Muir says the plaintive, klezmer-like quality of its main theme has "a faraway quality, as if it's in the distance. It's tragically beautiful".
Ravel's Valses Nobles et Sentimentales appeals with "harmonies that are just like modern jazz voicings" but Chopin's B minor Sonata is the biggest test. "It's a huge mountain to climb, and holding it together is one of the biggest challenges.
"That demonic race in the last movement that chases and chases and chases. There's rage there, and you could almost burst your boiler keeping it on the rails."
Who: Pianist John-Paul Muir
Where and when: Lewis Eady Showroom, 75 Great South Rd, Monday at 7.30pm


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Report Details Widespread Network Security Breaches in 2014
An article by Network World magazine lists a dizzying array of cybercrimes corporate America and much more.
By SSI Staff · July 16, 2014
Framingham, Mass. — An article by Network World magazine provides an eye-popping account of the worst network data breaches reported so far this year. Among the most notorious cybercrimes is the hacking of Snapchat's 4.6 million user database.
Many retailers have also been hit hard this year, including Neiman Marcus and Sally Beauty Holdings telling their customers how their payment card information had been hacked. The Home Depot said an employee with authorized access to its computer systems had gotten hold of 30,000 records on customer information associated with the tool-rental area and had provided some of it to unidentified third parties. That information included names, address, phone number, birth date, card brand, card account number and card expiration date.
The hacker group Syrian Electronic Army was also busy tormenting Microsoft. The Syrian Electronic Army, the hacker group believed to be loyal to Syrian President al_Assad, hacked the official Facebook and Twitter pages of Skype and the Web site's blog telling users not to use Microsoft Outlook claiming Microsoft sells user information to the government.
As reported, there is plenty of other mischief, such as denial-of-service attacks and cyber-espionage to round out what's only the first half of the year. Read the full article here.


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One exabyte (EB) of storage capacity equals 1 million terabytes (TB), or 1 billion gigabytes (GB). Hard disk drive manufacturers shipped close to 100EB into the laptop PC market in 2011.1 That's a massive amount of storage capacity. The average capacity of a notebook hard drive in 2011 was forecast to be 412GB and expected to grow to 447GB in 2012.1 Laptop users clearly want more capacity, not less.
NAND flash memory is the storage component of solid state drives (SSDs). Conventional wisdom in some circles of the storage marketplace is that in the coming years SSDs will begin to replace hard disk drives in significant numbers of laptops, desktop PCs, enterprise servers and storage solutions. However, the reality is that SSDs and hybrids actually complement hard disk drives and grow overall global TAM and demand for storage.
In 2011, the entire NAND flash memory industry produced about 21EB of data storage, but only about 12% of that went into SSDs.2 This resulted in the production of about 23 million SSDs, or the equivalent of less than 9% of the laptop hard drive units shipped in 2011. NAND flash memory production capacity is forecast to grow to 36EB in 2012. That is about 6.5% of the total data storage capacity produced by HDDs in 2011. Only about 2.5EB of that flash was used in SSDs, representing only about 0.5%; the balance of that flash was consumed in smartphones, tablets, memory cards and other consumer electronic devices.
Enterprise, client and consumer markets have significantly different NAND endurance and data retention requirements. As NAND continues to scale to smaller cell size to drive down its cost per GB, its write endurance and data retention continue to suffer. At the 21nm process node, which is the density that the major fabs are transitioning to in 2012, raw MLC NAND write endurance has degraded to about 3000 cycles. In order to use this type of media in any compute application, very sophisticated controllers are required. If we assume (best case) that all SSD designers are capable of delivering designs that can use 21nm MLC flash, then one megafab—at a cost of over $10 billion3–could produce about 7.5EB per year. To build and ramp up a fab plant like this to full production takes two to three years. But remember, $10 billion is just for the cost of the fab. It does not include the NAND, operations, fab depreciation and other significant costs.
Assuming all of the additional NAND could be used for SSDs, that $10 billion investment would produce enough flash memory to serve just 5.5% of the 135EB laptop storage market demand projected for 2012. In other words, spending $10 billion to buy 5.5% of notebook storage market share, or less than $1 billion in revenue, is simply not viable. By extrapolation, in order to serve the entire laptop PC storage market forecast in 2012, a $180 billion investment in NAND flash memory fabs would be required. And to completely supplant the entire HDD market, that investment would grow to about $750 billion.
Worldwide installed fab capacity is expected to grow from 21EB in 2011 to 36EB in 2013, a staggering 71% increase2—but only 16%, about 6EB, of that NAND is forecast to go to SSDs. Even at that impressive 70 % growth rate, with the vast majority of the NAND going to consumer devices, the gulf between NAND flash memory production capacity for SSDs and demand for laptop, desktop and enterprise storage will continue to widen.
No matter what portion of production capacity a megafab might devote to NAND flash for SSDs, the return on investment would be difficult to justify given the relatively small available market for laptop, desktop and enterprise SSDs. Any additional capacity would be better justified to serve the market for smartphones, tablets and other consumer products for one chief reason: NAND makers can maintain much higher yields and lower prices for consumer–grade NAND because its performance and reliability specifications are much less stringent than the requirements for enterprise, laptop or desktop devices.
The upshot: Hard disk drives will continue to serve the bulk of laptop, desktop and enterprise markets for many years to come, as makers of solid state drives remain overstretched to meet ever–growing demand for storage.
While the bulk of worldwide demand for NAND flash is for consumer products such as MP3 players, cell phones and cameras, Seagate believes there is ample flash to support the opportunities Seagate sees for enterprise and hybrid solid state storage.
1 Model of the World, Seagate Technology, December, 2011.
2 Forecast: NAND Flash Supply and Demand, Worldwide, 1Q10–4Q12, 4Q11 Update, Gartner, December 8, 2011.
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Discussion in 'The Coffee Shop ~ Chit Chat' started by ChevyFan, Jun 9, 2008.
Just curious what everyone did this last weekend? Anything coming up next weekend?
I worked my fricking rear off. And lemme tell you, it's HOT outside. From May 30 to last night I was up at the Boy Scout camp working the first week of camp. If I didn't have a real job in the real world, I think I'd still be there. But man, am I tired.
I had a busy weekend.
I cut down a large maple tree in my front yard and sectioned it for fire wood on Saturday.
Sunday I excavated and leveled the sides of my driveway 12" out on one side and 10' out on the other, formed it up, and prepped for a load of paving blocks that are due to arrive any minute now.
Tomorrow I'll be laying bricks around the side of the house and finishing a brick planter out front.
Wednesday I'm gonna change the oil and do maintenance on the bike and the boat.
Thursday I'll be on the lake all day.
My son brought over my latest Grandchildren. 5 year old boy and 9 month old girl. Enjoyed them and the air conditioner!
I worked all day Saturday then made some awesome Carne Asada on the grill. My Grandaughter spent the weekend so Sunday after mowing lawn, weed-eating, and shampooing the carpets, my Wife and I took the girls to see "Kung-Fu Panda".
I went to PA to my grandparents house and did some clean up yardwork for them outside. than did some more fishin when i had some time off
worked on 3 estamates for cust. spent some time in the pool on sun this week working on a 5 tier deck in 100 degree going to be in the pool alot this week. fathers day I got a B-day party to go to Sun.
guys happy Fathers Day on Sun.
well, I went to water country water park on saturday, got sunburned, BBQ'd in the backyard, then went to the beach and had some drinks, ok, lots of drinks, passed out in the grass in my buddies backyard, woke up sunday morning dissoriented, went home, slept it off, then BBQ'd again with some friends sunday afternoon in the sweltering heat, all in all, not a bad weekend lol
I went down to Rock Springs and raced RC Cars. Nice and chilly with a rain/snow mix Saturday morning, highs in the mid-50s with 20-30mph winds. Here's a pic of my 2wd truck.
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. - Now that the Black Forest Fire is 100 percent contained, one fire victim tells KRDO NewsChannel 13 that it allows his family to move forward.
Ted Robertson co-hosts KRDO NewsRadio's Saturday Business Magazine program with Robin Roberts. He lost his home in the Black Forest Fire.
Robertson went to cheer for the firefighters at the monumental shift change on Thursday evening at Powers and Old Ranch boulevards. He took some pictures and decided not to share his story with the firefighters.
"I would not want them to know what we're going through," Robertson said. "I think they deserve to have that moment of relief."
Two days ago, Robertson made a miraculous discovery. A tiny statue of baby Jesus -- a family heirloom and Christmas tradition -- was found in the ash and debris. Now as he and his wife continue to sift through the rubble, they're finding even more treasures.
"That one's always going to take the cake," Robertson said of the statue discovery. "But I think (my wife's) going to find a lot of little miracles out of that rubble."
Robertson spent the day searching his home before coming to the shift change. He said he was overjoyed every time his wife found something they thought was lost.
"I think it's been a really big thing for us to find things we thought we had lost," he said. "They're deep in the ash. They're in between broken dishes. These memories are coming back. I can be on the other side of the house and doing something else and I'll hear a screech or some other exclamation of joy and it's just great."
Robertson said when he heard the fire was 100 percent contained, he breathed a sigh of relief and a weight was lifted off his shoulders.
"It allows us to concentrate on moving forward, not living in the present because the present has not been good for us to tell you the truth," he said. "Now we can begin that cleaning process, that salvaging process and that planning process -- planning for moving forward."


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In the fall of 1987, Steven Chu had just taken a position as professor of physics at Stanford University. Writer Keith Wailoo (now a professor in the Departments of Social Medicine and History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) dropped by Chu's offices at Bell Laboratories to interview the young scientist, who had developed an optical technique for slowing down atoms so that they could be studied—work that has led to many applications and was antecedent to the recent creation of a new state of matter called the Bose-Einstein condensate. Atoms in a gas at room temperature zip around at about 4,000 kilometers per hour, but Chu uses the light from lasers to "cool" gases to temperatures in the microkelvin range, which slows the atoms to speeds of a few tens of centimeters per second. Chu says that laser light acts as a sort of optical molasses. Associate Editor Mike May recently interviewed Chu again, after he was selected, along with Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William Phillips, to receive the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics. We begin with a few excerpts from the interview published in our January–February 1988 issue. The sketches are from Steven Chu's notebooks.
Could you explain something about the physics of slowing those atoms down—of creating what you came to call optical molasses?
It's very simple. When an atom absorbs a photon from the laser, it absorbs the momentum of the photon. And every time it absorbs a photon, its velocity slows down by three centimeters a second. It then reradiates the photon with no preferred direction; what this means is that if you average over many photon absorptions, the atom constantly gets momentum kicks in the direction of the laser beam.... [T]he atom can absorb a photon and reradiate it in about 30 nanoseconds. So in the course of one second you can get a pretty substantial force on the atom, something like 100,000 times the force of gravity. This means that over the course of a millisecond you can slow an atom to an insect's crawl.
What are the actual dynamics of the molasses?
When I was making a back-of-the-envelope calculation of how long the molasses would keep the atoms in this region, I was thinking of a way to simulate this by computer, and I thought, "Well, you really don't need a computer simulation, because you can make an analogy to Brownian motion." The situation is very similar to Brownian motion where you have a dust particle and you put it in a fluid. As the atoms hit against this dust particle it starts to jostle around, and the fluctuations in the number of atoms that hit from the left and the right actually make the dust particle move. But the fluid dampens its motion; once it starts to move it hits viscosity in the fluid and wants to slow down. It's exactly the same in optical molasses, only it's a fluid of photons from the laser that creates the dampening. If the atoms want to move in the fluid they slow down, and it looks exactly like Brownian motion.
So after scratching around for a half hour or so I said, "Hey! I know about this, I learned this in elementary physics!" In fact, Einstein was the first guy to figure out Brownian motion; it's a lesson that everybody learns. Doing the calculation, this random-walk motion meant that if you had a region about a centimeter in diameter you could keep the atoms corralled for about a second.... [I]f you arrange laser beams in a certain way, amazing things should happen; namely, you should create a soup of photons that would damp any motion of the atoms, so if the atom wants to go any particular way it can't, it just sits there.
Intuitively, what did you expect to happen? Did you expect some other result?
We were expecting that the damping forces that slowed down the atom would not be that strong ... [but we] put the atoms in the optical molasses, and they cooled to the temperatures predicted and they hung around for the time predicted.
Of course, in optical molasses the atoms eventually diffuse away, whereas the ultimate goal is to trap high densities of atoms indefinitely. So optical molasses doesn't have quite the same mystique as the optical atom trap, which was supposed to do these things. The optical trap was one of those brass rings that people wanted.... [T]here are a lot of exciting things that scientists around the world are hoping to do with it. In particular, we could look at what we call the quantum statistics of these atoms. Will they obey Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics the way classical atoms do, or will they obey Fermi-Dirac statistics or Bose-Einstein statistics? The difference is immense.... In Bose-Einstein statistics [atoms] actually like to be in the same quantum state, so if you start piling them one on top of another and get them cold enough, what's predicted is that the atoms will begin to form a single macroscopic quantum state, a Bose-Einstein condensate. We are now at a temperature of about 300 microkelvin, and if we can go down by another two orders of magnitude, to a few micokelvin, I think there's a reasonable probability that we will see the Bose-Einstein condensation.
When Eric Cornell, Carl Wieman and their coworkers at the National Institute of Standards and the University of Colorado created the first Bose-Einstein condensation of a dilute gas in 1995, what was your reaction to that accomplishment?
I thought they did a superb job. It was wonderful. There were a number of groups that were chasing after that. In fact, I had a small effort—going about it in a very different way. It wasn't clear at the time who was really going to win this contest. Wolfgang Ketterle was certainly in the running, as well as Carl Wieman and Eric Cornell. In fact, Wolfgang also got it a few months later.
What would you say is the significance of creating this condensate?
So far, there hasn't been either a dynamite application or a change in the way we think about physics. If you consider sort of landmark physics, it's usually one of those two. You invent a new technique, or develop a new technique or new instrument or new something, like the laser, like nuclear magnetic resonance or the scanning tunneling microscope or even laser cooling. Those are all techniques. They're based on quantum mechanics, we understand those things, we apply them in novel ways, and those things have a wide impact on science because they are general-purpose techniques that get used in many many ways. There are other things—like the discovery of the tau lepton, the unification of weak and electromagnetic interactions, parity nonconservation or the invention of quantum mechanics—which really change the way we think about physics. Those are what one would think of as the very glamorous things; but on the other hand, if you think about the invention of the telescope, the microscope, the laser, and how much cumulative effect those instruments have had on the progress and the path of science—not only physics but all of science—you have to say that they were certainly of equal importance. Now, let's come back to Bose condensation. I personally think that there is a very good chance that either something new might be discovered or, at the very least, that it could lead to a new way of preparing atoms to do other experiments, just as laser cooling and trapping was used to get Bose condensation.
What have been some of the other applications of atom cooling and trapping?
There have been many applications. Mark Kesevich has exceeded the sensitivity of the most sensitive commercially available laser gyroscope with an atom interferometer. In my lab, we've surpassed the sensitivity of the best absolute-measurement gravimeter, which measures the acceleration due to gravity. So you think that's kind of crazy, that by dropping atoms you can make the most sensitive measurement of gravity, but it's true. Also, in a very very short period of time (a year and a half), one of my postdocs, Kurt Gibbles (now a professor at Yale University), constructed an apparatus that exceeded the short-term stability of the atomic clock maintained by the National Bureau of Standards. These are applications we've developed at Stanford that have already exceeded technologies that were developed and refined over the past 30 years.
Beginning around 1989–1990, I started trying to develop a technique to manipulate biological molecules. Using molecular-biology techniques, we glued little polystyrene spheres to the ends of DNA molecules. Those little spheres act as handles, and using this optical-tweezers trap—which we first demonstrated in 1986 at the very beginning of all this stuff—we could hold onto DNA molecules and stretch them out and do all sorts of other stuff. So, we were doing polymer experiments, using DNA as a model polymer. Those experiments had a humble beginning: We were verifying longstanding conjectures that formed the basis of a lot of polymer dynamics but hadn't been completely verified before. Most recently, we're finding out that there are certain classes of problems where the old ideas simply were not appropriate. In fact, it was only by studying the behavior of many individual molecules that we found that any mean-field theory—that is to say, a theory based on the average behavior of the molecules—would be inadequate, and there are certain regimes where equilibrium statistical mechanics would also not apply. We can now see a very clean breakdown of these so-called "mean-field" theories: The unraveling of a polymer cannot be described by an "averaged" theory. This is beginning to have an impact on the polymer community, and it involves the same type of optical trap that I used on atoms in 1986.
Do you see other fundamental questions that might be answered by using an optical trap?
Yes. Carl Wieman is pursuing one of them, as are other groups, and it's the trapping of radioactive isotopes using the so-called magneto-optic trap that we demonstrated at Bell in 1987. The magneto-optic trap is a "people's trap" in that it is a very user-friendly device that has made cooling and trapping accessible to many many groups. It works so well that you can trap short-lived radioactive isotopes where the number of atoms is so small that conventional atom-handling techniques would not be appropriate, because there are just too few atoms. In an accelerator, for example, you can make them and whisk them away and collect them in your little light bottle. So the idea here is that with these radioactive isotopes of very heavy atoms, there are certain experiments that probe some of the high-energy questions. These would be typically parity-nonconservation experiments and experiments that look for a breakdown of time-reversal invariance. In fact, my group is starting one of the experiments to look for breakdown of time-reversal invariance using trapped atoms.
We're also trying to make a better measurement of the fine-structure constant, which sets the scale of the electromagnetic coupling between photons and charged particles, for example. Most people say, "Oh, adding another decimal place to a well-known number." Phrases like "Rococo science" come to mind—where you're just gilding the last of the lilies—but that's not quite true. The fine-structure constant has been measured in many ways, because of its central nature in physics. It's been measured in high-energy experiments. It's been measured in exotic atoms. It's been measured using neutron interferometry. It's been measured in condensed-matter experiments. In my lab, we are measuring how much an atom recoils, how much its velocity changes when it absorbs a single photon, and if we can measure that accurately—by accurately, we mean a part per billion, or a few parts per billion—then that would give us the most accurate measure of the fine-structure constant compared to any technique. Once we improve the measurement, we can re-interpret the other experiments. For example, the neutron-interferometer measurement can be used to get Avogadro's number. I am very confident that we are going to get there.
In measuring the acceleration due to gravity, our experiments now have an absolute accuracy on a scale of a few parts per billion, and we have a relative precision of a hundred parts per trillion now. How precise is 100 parts per trillion? Suppose you are on the surface of the earth. The gravitational attraction may be computed by assuming all the mass is centered at the center of the earth, 4,000 miles away. With the resolution we have—a hundred parts per trillion—if you go 300 microns further away from the earth, you will see a change in the acceleration due to gravity.
When Keith Wailoo interviewed you one decade ago, you called yourself "the slow one" in your family and said, "There's a little bit of insecurity when I'm doing physics." Has receiving the Nobel Prize changed your thoughts about that?
No. I'm not smarter. My IQ has not gone up, and probably it's gone down. Look, I'm not an Einstein. It depends what you mean by smart. If it means you can read something and, in the shortest possible time, regurgitate back what was said or understand something really complicated, I'm definitely not that. There's still an insecurity. There are two parts of the insecurity that I think I would share with many of my colleagues. One is a fear that you're going to dry up and not going to be able to come up with a new idea—a really new idea. There's always a fear that you've had your last good idea, and that continues. The other's a fear that you can't really pull off the hard experiments anymore.
To learn to "pull off experiments," what skills would you recommend that young scientists should pursue most actively?
You want to try to put something that you learn in your own language, so that it's no longer something that's merely memorized but something you transfer from your head to your gut—you simplify it and put it in your own language to the point where it seems almost obvious and intuitive. It's only when you understand your science in this very obvious, intuitive way that you have a chance of thinking of something new. Thinking of something new, at least for me, does not come from hammering out a lot of long, involved equations. Even when you have to do a calculation, there is something before that which is guiding why you are doing that calculation, and it usually comes from a very intuitive, almost primal, level.
Learning science and thinking about science or reading a paper in science is not about learning what a person did. You have to do that, but to really absorb it, you have to turn it around and cast it in a form as if you invented it yourself. You have to look and be able to see things that other people looked at and didn't see before. How do you do that? There's two ways. Either you make a new instrument, and it gives you better eyes, like Galileo's telescope. And that's a great way to do it, make such a nice instrument that you don't have to be so smart, you just look and there it is. Or you try to internalize it is such a way that it really becomes intuitive. Working on the right problem is only part of what it takes to succeed. Perseverance is another essential ingredient.
You can find this online at http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/num2/interview-steven-chu/1
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Location: Marina (upper paking lot)
Type: Low Speed Automobile Maneuver Exercises
Date: Saturday, April 12, 2014
Contact: Ken Bishop
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This is the first year for this event. They are going to be maneuvering their Austin Healey's around cones in a exercise at low speeds. Event will take place in the upper parking lot near the Clinton Marina.


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Hello Gentlemen...Miss all you guys. It really sucks not being able to get on the boards.
If any of you see Pats please tell him I said thank you VERY MUCH. He sent me some cool stuff. The best thing is a limited edition Kobe figurine, only 2000 made. Really cool. I want to open it but I know that's stupid. Also 2 MJ cards, Kobe cards and of course some Giants stuff. That guy is incredible.


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Based on the Hummer H3, with retro design ques from the 1973-79 Jimmy, removable hard/soft top. 4x4, Atlas I6i borrowed the grill from the GMC Terrain, the 3 barrol bars look fit nicely
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Where's the Jimmy? The Canyon/Colorado already exists, but a Jimmy/Blazer SUV based on the H3 doesn't. I'm sure a next generation Canyon/Colorado will feature H3T design cues like these, but do you have any work on a SUV?
that is an SUV but it has a removable top like the jeep wranger and the Jimmy/Blazer of the past.
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with Hummer dead all those extra H3T's have to go somewhere...you guys remember the f-150 Heritage edition...lol
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