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Stockpiling large amounts of oseltamivir (Tamiflu) and related antiviral drugs with the intent to treat a large fraction of the population is a key part of pandemic preparedness of many countries. However, it is known that influenza viruses can develop resistance to these drugs.
New research by Marc Lipsitch and colleagues (Harvard University) suggests that wide-spread use of antiviral drugs during a pandemic carries a substantial risk of resistance emerging and resistant influenza strains causing illness in a substantial number of people. This would counteract the benefits of antiviral drugs but is not likely to eliminate those benefits entirely.
These researchers set up a mathematical model to mimic the spread of influenza. They then fed a set of assumptions into the computer. These included information about the rate of transmission of influenza from one person to another; what proportion of people would receive antiviral drugs for prophylaxis or treatment; how likely the drugs would be to successfully treat or prevent infection; and in what proportion of people the virus might become resistant to drugs.
The modeling led to three main predictions. First, it predicted that widespread use of antiviral drugs such as oseltamivir would quickly lead to the spread of resistant viruses, even if resistant strains emerged only rarely. Second, even with resistant strains circulating, prophylaxis and treatment with oseltamivir would still delay the onset of the pandemic and reduce its total size. Third, non-drug interventions (such as social isolation and school closures) would further reduce the number of cases, but a higher proportion of cases would be caused by resistant strains if these control measures were used.
Citation: Lipsitch M, Cohen T, Murray M, Levin BR (2007) Antiviral resistance and the control of pandemic influenza. PLoS Med 4(1): e15. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0040015)
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Victorian home buyers have not been deterred by talk of higher interest rates, which are tipped to rise after the Reserve Bank board meets today. However, it seems an increasing number of home owners are playing it safe by choosing fixed interest rates.
Greg and Fiona Benfield, from Ballarat, said they were not concerned about the anticipated rise, as they inspected a display home in Taylors Hill yesterday.
The couple, who are looking to build in Ballarat, say they have allowed for an interest rate rise in their savings plan.
"We're not too worried. It will probably only go up 1 per cent at the most," Mr Benfield said. "So it's only going to increase our repayments by about $100 to $120 a month, and we've allowed for that. It might just mean we have to cut out our fish and chips every Friday night."
Anthony Farrugia, 36, who is paying off his Deer Park home, was at Cairnlea Estate yesterday looking at display homes as investment property.
"I'm not worried about an increase of 1 or 2 per cent," Mr Farrugia said. "It certainly won't deter me from buying an investment property."
Mr Farrugia's current home loan is fixed and he says he will be looking at a fixed rate for his investment property.
Mortgage brokers have also reported an increase in home buyers inquiring about fixed rates.
"We have noticed an increase," Wizard Home Loans spokesman Michael Zappone said. "However, we're recommending that if people are concerned about rates going up that they split their loan and lock in half of it at the current fixed rate and the other half at a variable rate.
Mortgage Choice's national manager of corporate affairs, Warren O'Rourke, agreed. "There has definitely been more interest in fixed rates in recent months," he said.
The latest Australian Bureau of Statistics figures show there has been an increase in people moving to fixed rates, but it has been a move only from about 6.5 per cent to 8.3 per cent. "So, it's certainly not an avalanche," Mr O'Rourke said. "But once the rates rise we might see a bit more of a move toward fixed rates."
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Daily Summary on USD, EUR, JPY, GBP, AUD, CAD and RMB
• JPY strengthened for the first time in 3 weeks
• U.K. raises home asking prices for the 5th straight month
• Aussie and kiwi regains strength ahead of key central bank release on Tuesday
USD – This week's calendar is light in comparison to last week and will be dominated by Fed activity and a few significant data releases. On Fed activity, the speech by New York Fed's Dudley on Tuesday and Fed Chairman Bernanke's testimony on Wednesday may provide new information about the Fed's view on the labor market and a possible exit from the QE program. Speculation is growing that the Fed may taper its asset purchases in the near future. Any such action would cause investors to expect a strengthening of the dollar, reinforcing a bullish outlook. The new and existing home sales figures for April are released on the 22nd and 23rd, respectively. They are forecasted to show a small increase in sales despite last week's disappointing housing starts and permits data. A solid recovery in the US housing market is viewed by many as a bellwether for the strength of the recovery of the economy in general. On Wednesday, the FOMC minutes from the May meeting will be released. Markets will be looking for any hint that the Fed will curtail or alter its bond buying program. On Thursday, the flash Markit manufacturing PMI for May is expected to show a modest increase from 52.1 in April up to 52.4. Durable goods and the weekly initial jobless claims also feature. The latter will attract particular attention after last week's upward spike.
EUR – Euro begins the week largely range bound awaiting a raft of economic data this week which will provide investors a checkup on the health of the European economy. The single currency remained hemmed in tight ranges overnight near $1.28 after a combination of low inflation and weak economic data last week sent the euro to 6-week lows vs. the dollar. Inflation rose a modest 1.2% in April, well below the ECB's 2% target, leaving open the possibility of further rate cuts to boost the ailing economy. GDP data last week saw the major economies of Europe reporting contraction except for Germany which eked out 0.1% growth in Q1. Europe's second largest economy, France had hoped to avert recession but reported its second consecutive quarter of negative growth at -0.2%. Economic data releases this week include Purchasing Manager's Index (PMI) reports and Consumer Confidence on Thursday. Euro is likely to take its next cues from the data as well as the outlook for interest rates in the region provided by the data.
GBP – The pound strengthened from a six-week low against the dollar this morning after an industry report showed U.K. home sellers raised asking prices for a fifth straight month to a record high, adding to optimism Britain's economy is improving. Bank of England Governor King said in an interview yesterday a "modest recovery" is underway, though "more needs to be done" to encourage growth. Tomorrow brings CPI, expected at 2.6% versus 2.8% the prior month. The BoE seeks to keep inflation below 2%, so there is still a ways to go on this front.
JPY – The JPY strengthened the most in three weeks against the USD as Japan's Economy Minister Amari said further losses in the currency would have negative effects after it fell to the lowest level since 2008 last week. The yen has weakened sharply in the run up to and during the implementation of Abenomics with the trade weighted yen declining by an annualized rate of around 36% since the end of October of last year. Economy Minister Amari's comments displaying concern over the negative impact of the yen becoming more markedly undervalued ahead may help to ease the pace of yen weakness in the near-term, but is unlikely to derail the yen weakening trend.
Commodity currencies – The Australian dollar and the New Zealand dollar recovered against the USD after 2 weeks of steep drops to multi-month lows ahead of key central bank events this week. The aussie climbed up 0.7% from Fridays' close of 0.9719 alongside the NZD which was up 1% from 0.8063. The Antipodeans have been pressured due to their US counterpart's growing talks that the Fed will slow down its stimulus program later this year. In addition, weighing on the currencies are renewed worries about a slowdown in China and falling prices on commodities, especially iron ore which is Australia's biggest export earner. On Tuesday, the RBA will release minutes from its May policy meeting when it cut rates to record low of 2.75%. The Canadian dollar remained steady with a holiday after reaching 2-month lows last Friday against the USD. Weak Canadian data release showed CPI only gained 0.1% against the estimated 0.2% and inflation dropped 0.4% in April from 1.0% in March, its lowest level since October 2009. The BoC has talked about raising interest rates, which is bullish for the CAD, but may not be able to follow through given the lower than expected inflation levels.
RMB – The renminbi rose 0.05% to 6.1389 per dollar in Shanghai and is continuing its appreciation trend to within 0.2% of a 19-year high with speculation further appreciation will be brought on by capital inflows. In the next few years, China is likely to see a large influx of speculative funds pushing asset prices and consumer prices higher. For the renminbi the primary focus this week will be the flash HSBC manufacturing PMI for May. China appears to have lost some momentum in their recovery over the past few months, though growth is not severely down but remains somewhat stagnant with GDP growth hovering around the 8% mark. The market anticipates the flash HSBC manufacturing PMI to be unchanged at 50.4 in May which is consistent with the final reading of the PMI in April.


text: The Invented Language wiki last edited by mento on 07/13/15 09:12AM View full history OverviewThere are games that go to great lengths to create elaborate and internally consistent languages to add a greater degree of depth and ambiance to the world in which they are set.ExamplesStarcraft is an example - the Protoss address the player with phrases like "En Taro Adun, Executor", which, while not as fleshed out as the speech of the Talan does make for a fictional language .Outcast, the game featuring the aforementioned Talan even comes with a basic dictionary in the manual helping you to work out what the locals and your enemies are saying when they're not speaking English, "Zort" being among the more easily understood phrases.Richard Garriott discusses the construction of his Tabula Rasa script in a talk with Warren Spector (around 02:28) at the University of Texas.ICOIn Fumito Ueda's debut game, characters Ico and Yorda speak in imaginary languages, unable to understand each other. Ueda has been quoted as saying the boy's language is similar to Chinese while the sound of Yorda's words is inspired by French, though others have described them as "backwards Japanese/Latin". The language in ICO prequel Shadow of the Colossus is said to be more heavily influenced by Latin "to make it sound more ancient"...In the PAL version of ICO, when first played, Ico's speech is subtitled in English while Yorda's is transcribed in a strange script reminiscent of hieroglyphs. On a second playthrough she too is translated into English. This feature is missing from the NTSC release .Panzer Dragoon is also well known for its language, Panzerese. Created by Yukio Futatsugi as somewhat of a hobby, it is a mixture of languages like Greek, Latin, and Russian. Panzerese is also used in the spoken parts of Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter.Ueda has said he used language in this way to create an air of mystery."Personally, I often import games from abroad and play them. On such occasions, my imagination is sometimes stimulated more as I don't understand the language. ICO is a game which intentionally tries to achieve this effect."GibberishSome games choose to use a form of random gibberish in lieu of voice acting, intonation being the only information beyond the text or icon it underlines. It serves more to alleviate the dryness of text /symbols alone than to communicate. For more information on this, view the gibberish concept page.Some games, like Final Fantasy X, Star Fox Adventures, and Fez simply use written English filtered through some type of cipher.


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October 24-29 CBJ Prospect Review
- Updated: November 4, 2011
The Springfield Falcons appear to be alternating weekends after going 0-3 last weekend the team went 3-0 including 2 wins in overtime. Leading the way for the Falcons was leading scorer Nicolas Drazenovic with 5 points(1-4-5). David Savard and Martin St. Pierre both had 4 points with Savard having 4 assists and St. Pierre with a goal and 3 assists. Cam Atkinson added 2 more goals to give him 3 in the AHL all on the power play.
Both Anton Forsberg and Petr Straka didnt play any this week, Forsberg served as Mikael Tellqvist back up in all 3 games thos week. Petr Straka missed the week because he was sick.
Boone Jenner, Oshawa Generals(OHL)
Last Weeks Stats: 3GP 2-2-4 +2 4PIM
Boone and Generals started the week on a good note picking up his fifth multi point game of the season when he scored 2 goals and added a assist in a 5-3 win over the Belleville Bulls. Jenner's first goal actually looked a lot like a shot he took just a few seconds before in the same shift(46 seconds into video). Jenner's assist came off a faceoff win that a Generals defenseman blasted in for a goal. Jenner went pointless in Oshawa's 6-2 loss to Owen Sound before bouncing back with a assist in the team's 5-2 loss to Mississauga.
Dalton Smith, Ottawa 67s(OHL)
Last Weeks Stats: 2GP 0-0-0 E 0PIM
Dalton returned to the 67s lineup after his 10 game suspension last week with the 67s going 2-0 last week both games required extra time with one being overtime and the other being in a shootout, Dalton didnt have any points in either game.
Brandon Archibald, Saginaw Spirit(OHL)
Last Week Stats: 3GP 0-0-0 E 0PIM
Brandon and the Spirit went 1-2 last week with Brandon picking up a assist in the team's loss to Plymouth. Brandon has 3 points this year in 16 games the same amount of points he had in 29 games after the Spirit acquired him in a trade.
Lukas Sedlak, Chicoutimi Sagueneens(QMJHL)
Last Week Stats: 3GP 0-0-0 -6 0PIM
It was a rough week for both Sedlak and the Sags last week as the team went 0-3. I think Sedlak may still be feeling the effects of the ankle injury he suffered awhile back. Sedlak had a rough night at the dot against PEI winning only 8 of 24 before bouncing back to win a combined 21 of 34 faceoffs in the last 2 games last week.
Mathieu Corbeil, Saint John Sea Dogs(QMJHL)
Last Week Stats: 2GP 2-0 .942Sv% 1.50GAA
Mathieu continued his strong play of late despite having his team record shutout streak to 144:43. The streak was snapped in the Dog's sixth straight win over the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles. Corbeil had a assist(30 seconds in) on team captain and Panther's first round pick Jonathan Huberdeau's goal in the 6-3 win. The next night Saint John welcomed Sedlak and the Sagueneens this was the night Saint John finally got to raise it's Memorial Cup banners and the players got there rings. Corbeil picked up his 3rd shutout in 4 games when he made 14 saves to win his 11th game of the season.
Michael Chaput, Shawinigan Cataractes(QMJHL)
Last Week Stats: 3GP 1-3-4 +5 4PIM
Michael and the Cats went 2-0-0-1 last week, Chaput went pointless in the team's win over Baie-Comeau winning 12 of 22 faceoffs. The next game the Cats took on the Petr Straka less Oceanic with Chaput scoring the eventual game winner and winning 20 of 32 faceoffs and was named first star. The last game of the week was against the Ouebec Remparts, Michael had 3 assists, Chaput won 20 of the 35 faceoffs he took but missed in the shootout.
Austin Madaisky, Kamloops Blazers(WHL)
Last Weeks Stats: 2GP 0-1-1 -2 2PIM
Last week was a home and home between the Blazers and the Kelowna Rockets with the Blazers winning both. Madaisky picked up a assist in the team's 5-2 win on Friday. Madaisky is still among the WHL defensemen scoring leaders with 12 points in 15 games which is tied for 7th. The Blazers are the second highest ranked WHL team in the CHL top 10 with a 11-3-0-0 record.
Mike Reilly, Penticton Vees(BCHL)
Last Week Stats: 1GP 1-2-3 2PIM
Mike was the least busiest of all the Jackets prospects last week only playing 1 game. In the Vees overtime win over Merritt Mike had a goal and 2 assists to add to his 8 game point streak(7-6-13). Reilly continues to lead the Vees and BCHL defenseman in scoring with 21 points in 15 games. It was the second straight game with 3 points. Mike will be taking part in the World Junior A Challenge playing for Team USA November 7-13 in Langley B.C.


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More public toilets could soon be available in the city, especially for women. The state government has proposed building toilets under flyovers, at petrol pumps, government offices and toll-posts.
The decision was taken at a meeting convened by deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar to discuss the issue of shortage of public toilets for women.
The state government has decided to approach the Bombay high court for special permission to build public toilets under flyover bridges in the city, where any construction is currently banned. After the BMC expressed helplessness in constructing more toilets on arterial roads due to unavailability of space, the decision of approaching the HC to build toilets below flyover bridges was taken by Pawar on Tuesday.
It was also decided to make toilets compulsory at petrol pumps, toll nakas, government and semi-government offices and on highways.
"The rules will be amended to make existing toll-posts and petrol pumps construct toilets. Pumps and toll plazas coming up in future will have to have provisions for toilets before seeking a no-objection certificate," Pawar said.


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eBay Under Fire, But How Hot? Dave Marino-Nachison (TMF Braden)
September 17, 1999
Shares of online auctioneer eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) took a hit today following news reports that a consortium of Internet sites are teaming up to share auction listings in a move to shake up eBay's dominance in the bid-n-buy arena.
According to today's New York Times, online bigshots like Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) MSN, Excite@Home (Nasdaq: ATHM), and Lycos (Nasdaq: LCOS) are among the nearly 100 sites that will contribute their own auction rolls into a common network to quickly expand their total item and category counts in a move they hope will lure bargain and bric-a-brac hunters away from eBay. The new service will reportedly debut Monday.
Now, no business is unassailable, even in the Internet space where some seem to believe first-mover advantage and expensive branding are all it takes for companies to dominate. First and foremost, businesses are and always will be judged on their ability to serve their customers' needs.
So this new auction network won't be able to buy itself success with television commercials and press releases; it needs to have more item listings in more item categories with a better user interface than eBay -- easily the leader today -- or there won't be any reason for people to switch over or, if new to the 'Net, consider visiting some place else.
Conversely, eBay can't just wait around while Microsoft and its teammates chip away at its empire as some believe Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) and Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) -- both notably absent from the Microsoft militia -- might eventually do with their auction offerings. With regard to both customer service and technical aptitude, eBay must continually work its tail off to stay on top.
It's also worth pointing out that eBay still boasts prime promotional space on some of the most rarefied real estate on the Internet thanks to its four-year, $75 million deal to advertise its services on America Online (NYSE: AOL), which doesn't run its own auctions.
The thing is, there's nothing Microsoft's doing there that eBay couldn't do too -- if it believes assimilating other companies' item lists is an effective way to build up scale. Of course, it's worth remembering that eBay has managed to list more than 3 million items (as of today) without diluting its connection to its customers through partnerships like the one in the news today. That its would-be competitors think this is an effective shortcut might be interpreted as a defensive ploy-out rather than an aggressive thrust.
The idea is that MSN, Lycos, and Excite@Home users will become an instant customer base for the new joint project, to be run by a software company called FairMarket. "Rather than forcing a user to go to an auction," FairMarket CEO Scott Randall told ABCNews.com, "we're bringing the auction to where the users are."
That argument is a little Swiss-cheesy. People aren't "forced" to use eBay; they choose it because of its broad selection and easy-to-use interface. Not only that, people are picking eBay often over the auction services offered by top portals like Lycos and Yahoo! that might be their first stop on the Web.
As such, it's not exactly clear that there's an installed user base just waiting to be mined -- despite Amazon.com's insistence that its users were tired of having to visit shopping websites besides its own and were just itching to remove their eBay bookmarks from their browser.
All that said, however, no investor or entrepreneur should ever disregard the importance of the emergence of Microsoft as a competitor. Bill Gates' army assembled a good-sized portion of its war chest by identifying successful business concepts -- frequently pioneered by others -- and then entering the fray armed with its vast array of resources, talented staff, and marketing and distribution muscle.
Recent press reports have Microsoft considering a foray into Priceline.com's (Nasdaq: PCLN) name-your-price business, as well as the video-game console industry currently dominated by Sony (NYSE: SNE) and Nintendo. And the company's moves to horn in on America Online's instant messaging racket made Floyd-sized waves; it's also tackling AOL's Internet access market with cut-price connections.
Today it's the auction business, and while that doesn't mean the end of the world for eBay, it's certainly news.
While the alliance that arises out of this development might eventually present a stern challenge for eBay, investors shouldn't run in fear. This doesn't change the fact that eBay is still the only pure-play online auction site, boasts a huge chunk of the market and seems to battle mostly with itself and its always-popular-with-the-media outages.
The turning point in all of this -- and every business battle -- will still be quality. As a result, this movie is to be continued.
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The Hudson Valley Community College women's soccer team (5-8) lost to Erie Community College (6-7) 2-1 on Saturday afternoon.
Jennifer Burke (South Colonie/Albany) scored in the second half to tie it at 1-1, but Erie added a late goal to seal the victory. Maria Ragonese (Voorheesville/Slingerlands) recorded four saves in goal for the Vikings.
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A 110-year search ended this month at the Key West Cemetery, where Sexton Russell Brittain found the remains of John Henry Ziegler, a New Jersey man who died in the explosion of the USS Maine in 1898.
Ziegler's mother never knew where her son was buried after the explosion in Havana Harbor that led to the United States' involvement in the Spanish-American War.
"She had been searching for this sailor since his death," Brittain said. "And then when she died, her relatives continued looking. They went through Navy records and asked their legislators for help, but never found where he was."
Ziegler's remains were supposed to arrive in Norfolk, Va., on Dec. 26, 1899, for burial in Arlington National Cemetery, a relative named Cheryl Griffith told Brittain.
More than 200 sailors died in the attack and all were supposed to be buried in Arlington, said Monroe County historian Tom Hambright, who also wrote a book about the USS Maine.
The deceased initially were buried temporarily in Havana to prevent the spread of disease from decaying bodies.
"But about a month or two after the explosion, our government sent an investigative team to Havana, and while early divers were going through the wreckage of the ship in Havana Harbor, they found more remains, and those were brought to Key West," Hambright said.
The bodies that were found immediately after the explosion on Feb. 15, 1898, were temporarily buried in Havana and then moved to Arlington. The ones that were found subsequently came to Key West.
John Henry Ziegler was one of them.
"The folks at Arlington always say they have all the sailors from the Maine, but we have about 25 of them here," Hambright said. "The plan was also to take the bodies from here to Arlington, but by the time they decided that, the people of Key West already had raised money and established a memorial to commemorate the men."
That memorial still stands today as one of the most visited sites in the city's famous cemetery.
Brittain found Ziegler's name on one of the headstones.
Griffith, the relative, somehow learned that Key West had some Maine sailors in its cemetery, Brittain said.
"I have a list of the ones who were identified and buried here," he said, adding that it was not the first time he had helped someone find a lost relative. "This family had been searching all these years, and finally found him."
Griffith was grateful to Brittain and relieved that Ziegler was properly buried in a memorial dedicated to his military service.
The family decided to leave their relative here, and will erect a headstone at the family plot in New Jersey commemorating his life and death and stating that Ziegler is buried in Key West.
"It is great to know that he is being honored and is with his crew," she wrote to Brittain earlier this month.


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ExperiencePlus! Partners with Lonely Planet Italyby Rick Price - Sunday, August 29, 2010
ExperiencePlus! Partners with Lonely Planet Guidebooks and Europ-Assistance
By Rick Price, Ph.D.
Lonely Planet has replaced Baedeker and Frommer (Europe on $5/Day) as one of THE premier guidebook publishers of the 21st century. Among their book titles is a series of cycling guides in five countries around the world. They first published the Italy Cycling Guide in 2003 and upgraded it with a second edition in 2009. ExperiencePlus! assisted author Elle Thalheimer with several of the routes in that edition.
The Lonely Planet doesn't conduct bicycle tours – they are writers, researchers, editors and publishers. So it was no surprise when Lonely Planet Italy called ExperiencePlus! this past spring to help them conduct a promotional bike tour across northern Italy. The occasion was the release of their English guidebook, Cycling Italy, in Italian: Italia in Bicicletta. The plan was to do a bike tour from Turin, the home base of Lonely Planet Italy, to Senigallia, on the Adriatic Coast south of Rimini. The idea was that clubs or individuals along the way would join the tour for a day or several days at a time.
The ride tied into a live radio broadcast every day so that those listening from home could vicariously travel by bike across northern Italy. Tourist offices and City offices along the way hosted and celebrated the arrival of the group. On at least two days in the Piedmont region we enjoyed at least three receptions, including wine and appetizers at local tourist offices.
This was no normal ExperiencePlus! tour. As partners with Lonely Planet, ExperiencePlus! provided a van with a roof rack, bikes for seven of the Lonely Planet staff and two tour leaders. We shuttled luggage and did our best to keep the group on track, on time, and o
n route, though for the first few days navigation was in the hands of one of the Lonely Planet staffers.
The biggest challenge for the ExperiencePlus! tour leaders (initially, me –Rick – and Igor Baccini, and later in the week, Stefania Casadei and John Giebler) was to try and satisfy basic needs first – like getting into
the hotel in the evening and scheduling dinner. This wasn't always easy as the focus of the Lonely Planet "team" was the radio broadcast and the local publicity every evening at around 7 p.m. Inevitably our local hosts whisked us off for a guided tour of the City, castle or local museum – "just 30 minutes" – they promised us. Then an hour and a half later we snuck away to either go to dinner or get to our hotel and shower before dinner! More than once the group sat down for dinner at 10 p.m!
While the ExperiencePlus! team worried about logistics, bikes, luggage, and trying to keep to a schedule the Lonely Planet team focused on their public relations mission. Angelo Pittro, head of the group shown in the adjacent photo accepting a bottle of Barbera from the Mayor of Castagnole, Piedmont, focused on his daily radio broadcast while others blogged about our ride, fired off press releases and organized our daily events.
The trip was a success judging from the fact that Lonely Planet Italy sold more Cycling Italy books through June than they had projected for the entire year!
Read more about Lonely Planet's cycling guidebooks.
If you want to practice your Italian you can read about our Lonely Planet Italy tour in June 2010 here: The Italy "Bike Party".


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Pompeii Ruins Threatened By Common Garden Weeds
POMPEII, Italy -- Nearly 2,000 years after volcanic ash from Vesuvius Overwhelmed Pompeii, the city is in danger again. This time, the threat comes from weeds. The problems they present, though by no means an uncommon one with ancient monuments, is more serious here than anywhere else in Italy.
January 19, 1969
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Britney was so fine, she had a nice ass when I saw her walking around campus. Then I got her in my dorm, she took off the leggings, and I realize that she had a small ass.
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Android: Too Much Choice
Everyone complains that Apple only does one phone, once a year. To that, I say "Exactly"! This article hits the points I've always felt about Apple's release pattern and competitive cycles (as apparent to the public). Here's an excerpt of the post:
The incessant glut of Android phones creates other problems in practice, too:
Accessory markets never fully develop. People really like cases for their phones, and if the iPhone has 300 cases for it including that gummy pink one they really like, and the Samsung Whocares XL only has a few drab OEM plastic things available, a nontrivial portion of the market will choose the iPhone on that reason alone.
There?s also more practical concerns: batteries, docks, speakers, and other useful accessories are usually phone-specific, and if the manufacturer (and the market) will only care about your phone for three months until the next minor revision comes out, your options will be very limited, both in the store and when you?re traveling and forgot something.
There are so many variations in screen size, screen type, physical size, hardware sensors, hardware buttons, and computational performance between devices that developers, including Google itself, have a very hard time making great software for the platform.
The manufacturers and carriers have very little incentive to maintain the software on devices that are still relatively new and under contract, because they want everyone buying the newest ones instead. We?re already seeing carriers and some manufacturers refusing to release new Android versions to handsets that were launched as recently as 6 months ago, even though most users bought them with 2-year contracts.
People hate choosing between similar things. The more choice we have at the time of purchase, the more stress we feel making the choice, and the less satisfied we feel afterward because we?re worried that we made the wrong choice.
Especially love the last point, that too much choice creates stress for the consumer. Apple does two great things in this regard: It offers "the best" combination of tech vs usability at the point that its released and it takes only one form. Over multiple releases, consumers come to trust Apple's decision making, making an Apple upgrade even more of a no-brainer stress-wise. Great lock-in.
Companies like Dell that throw out every weird contraption to see what sticks throw out something else: the consumer trust that makes a purchase a stress-less event.
Good find. I was not aware until I went to the blog that Marco was the guy behind Instapaper - a great iPad app. His experience in the ecosystem certainly gives him credibility. I agree with his points.
I was in sales for about 10 years. I read extensively on different marketing and sales theories. I was never so dismayed as when I read "The Paradox of Choice" by Barry Schwartz. First, he said something that every good salesman knows instinctively - if you give people too many choices, they choose nothing.
One example. Vanguard retirement options were studied and it was found that for every ten additional funds offered, participation dropped by 2%. In other words, if you offered 50 fund options, 10 percent of the participants simply choose to do nothing rather than to choose between the fund options. As a former financial advisor, I can't begin to tell you how much this study bummed me out.
The study I'm referring to is found in the 20 minute TED Talk located here. If you go to the 2:50 mark, Barry Schwartz spends about 1 or 2 mintutes talking about cell phones. One of the cartoons he shows has the poor phone buyer morosely asking the salesperson: "Do you have a phone that doesn't do too much?" And the implied answer is "NO". What's really startling about all of this is that this speech was recorded in July of 2005. We thought phones were complicated in 2005!
I've never seen a study on this, but I believe that there is an identical relationship between features and computing devices. Every feature added to a software program or computing device leads to LESS, not more participation.
The second negative effect of too much choice is a loss of satisfaction. When given many options, we are less satisfied with our choices, EVEN IF WE MADE THE BEST CHOICE because all we can think about are the options that we declined. When one buys an Andorid phone they compare it to all the other Android phones that they could have purchased and all the Android phones that become available after their purchase. When one buys an iPhone, well, they own an iPhone.
This is all completely counterintuitive and, frankly, pretty hard to believe. Watch the first two mintues of the video and you'll see what Schwartz is saying for yourself.[ Edited: 14 January 2011 12:59 AM by FalKirk ]
Apple has taken this theory to heart. I'm convinced that Apple has released core features slowly, methodically and with an eye to not overburdening the consumer. Example: 4G. Could they release 4g now with the Verizon rollout? Sure, but then the burden would be on the user to manage the horrible 4G battery life (at least now) and manage the huge increase in data usage (billing issue). Will these thing be worked out? Yes, but its too much now FOR THE AVERAGE USER.
I see the App store the same way. Apple rolled out the phone with "Web" apps. People started to understand apps and what they meant to a phone. Rolling out the apps store with the original phone may have been to much too soon had Apple tried it. When they did roll the App store out, people knew what it was and demand had been created. Apple made the App store EASY AND SAFE. These two things are where the Android Apps store have failed. I have even read theories that say Google wants the paid app model to fail and be ad driven (See Angry birds on Android).
Ask most people the difference between Android and Droid and see if they know. The whole Android message is so muddled, Apple becomes the safe (easy, trusted) choice.
Apple has taken this theory to heart.
Nice topic and nice posts, schLONG. I'm convinced that Apple has tapped into certain subconscious psychological behaviors that others simply don't get. Limiting choice is clearly one of Apple's core principles. Their product line is sparse and each product within each line is clearly delineated. The same can probably be said for the feature sets on those products.
The idea that more is more just makes common sense. The idea that less is more just makes no sense at all - unless we have a deep grasp of human nature. The trick is finding the right balance between enough and too much. The Apple pendulum swings way, way, way over to the side of simplicity. History shows that their way has proven to be the right way most of the time.
Here's another choice-based strategy Apple follows. It's 3-level pricing (ie 16, 32 or 64GB) and it serves two purposes.
1) The high-end model is priced with a heavy premium to capture as much early adopter and pent up demand cash as possible.
2) The low end model allows the cash conscience consumer to believe that the item is affordable to them, and after that rationale is made, then "upgrading" to the middle price point seems OK because they're "not going extravagant" in getting the high-end model. I believe that Wal-Mart made this discovery thru testing and that Apple follows this by always providing easy-to-understand 3-point good, better, best pricing.
Old-timers will remember this pricing with Apple desktop CPUs. Example from maybe 5 years ago: top-of the line Dual 1Ghz (CPU in short supply), Dual 800mHz in the midrange (manufacting sweet-spot) and bargain budget point, the single CPU 800mHZ (which served to clean out inventory)
Thanks, FalKirk. I'm pretty sure read a summation of the book you mentioned and appreciate you're experience in selling. As a long (six year) holder of Apple, I've gone from naive and lucky to having a better understanding of retail thanks to asymco, this and other boards and a lot of interesting writers.
One of the sub-stories of the AAPL revolution (IMHO) is the rise of do-it-yourself knowledge of the company's operation and self-publishing of that knowledge (asymco, marco, etc). In a way, Apple has elevated critical thinking for those involved by setting an example for us to reverse engineer. Making big money holding AAPL is great in of itself, the learning that goes with holding this stock is invaluable.[ Edited: 14 January 2011 04:08 AM by schLONG ]
BTW, providing the iPad with 3G WITHOUT a required contract was PRICING BRILLANCE!!! The iPad wouldn't have had nearly the strong 3G start had AT&T locked you in like happens with the Tab.
Had Apple allowed ATT to force a contract on 3G iPad, BOTH would have lost as very few would have taken the chance on a contract-required 2nd device. Now ATT gets revenue they wouldn't have had and Apple ups the ASP of iPad by upselling to 3G.
It will be interesting to see if Apple has any influence on Verizon's plan for either iPhone or iPad like they did intially with ATT.
The Apple pendulum swings way, way, way over to the side of simplicity. History shows that their way has proven to be the right way most of the time.
Everybody love to dress up their itoys .
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. - Steve Jobs
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Hmm. Paradox of Choice… I'm having that problem as I start to look to replace my CRT TV. There are so many out there and the specs are so meaningless that I feel like that I am virtually guaranteed of buying the wrong thing no matter how much research I do.
Less is More (more or less).
The Paradox of Choice hit close to home for me. Our contracts were running out and we needed to do something. The trouble was that every time I started to look there were 100 phones with 100 plans with 1000 options. Even if I limited it to just an iPhone there were different plans and choices and this and that and nobody could tell me what the cost would be per month until I signed the contract. I'd love an iPhone but I can't get over the feeling that with that many options and that many greasy sales people trained in double-speek and web sites engineered to NOT tell you what you want to know that it just isn't worth the hassle and I know I'm going to get screwed.
We ended up with minimal phones for ~$20 per month pay-as-you-go. So FalKirk you have good reason to be dismayed. I think there's likely a big chunk of the market that holds back because we're not willing to try to drink from the fire hose.[ Edited: 14 January 2011 01:09 PM by geoduck ]
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
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Gene Munster is convinced that Apple will make a flat panel television soon. Just wait it out, Flip.
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FWIW ,We went to Costco and bought a Vizio. I've had it for two years. We've connected both AppleTV's, laptops, dvd player and TIVO with no compatibility issues. If it's not exactly what you want, you have the satisfaction of having spent less than most of the alternatives.
The Apple pendulum swings way, way, way over to the side of simplicity. History shows that their way has proven to be the right way most of the time.
Everybody love to dress up their itoys .
As a student of government, economics, game theory, behavioral economics, evolutionary psychology and human nature in general, I am fascinated by choice. As Schwartz puts it in his book title, choice is a Paradox. One would think it was always good. But sometimes it's not. As fascinated as I am by the subject, I'll admit that I haven't formed a comprehensive theory that explains and interprets it at all. I don't think I'm alone. I think this whole "open v. closed" debate is based on a basic misunderstanding of how choice affects creativity, learning and levels of satisfaction.
Hopefully one day I'll have a better grasp of the subject. Until then, I'll just have to muddle along hoping that discussions like this one will bring me ever closer to deeper, more meaningful level of understanding.[ Edited: 14 January 2011 01:32 PM by FalKirk ]
I think this whole "open v. closed" debate is based on a basic misunderstanding of how choice affects creativity, learning and satisfaction.
I disagree. It's not a misunderstanding at all, since it's not a universal concept. It's a difference of approach and opinion. There is a rather trendy train of thought that says that choice paralyzes us all. I know many people who I can tell are paralyzed by choices. I know just as many people who like to flip around and discover new things that choices present them.
It's good that a company like Apple is catering to people who don't want to be bothered with choices. But ultimately, I think that market is restricted to Apple's traditional niche. To people who can thrive on choice, it's not just a bonus, it's a requirement.
To paraphrase the legendary rock band, Rush, if you choose to let Apple decide, you still have made a choice.


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Country Music Hall of Famer Ferlin Husky, the innovative recording artist
whose 1957 smash "Gone" helped usher in the pop-leaning Nashville
Sound era, died today at his daughter's home in Westmoreland. He was 85 and suffered from congestive heart failure.
Mr. Husky's classic singles "Gone" and "Wings of a Dove" each topped
country charts for 10 straight weeks, and each became Top 20
pop records. A well-rounded performer, Mr. Husky also starred in motion pictures
and entertained with his comedic alter ego, "Simon Crum," but he
is best known for his contributions in sweetening the sound of Music Row in a
way that allowed the music to appeal to twang-phobic audiences.
"By reaching #4 on the pop charts, 'Gone' demonstrated what became the ultimate
goal for Nashville producers: A country hit that could 'cross over' to pop
success," wrote Rich Kienzle in the liner notes to Mr. Husky's Vintage collection
of Capitol Records material.
In addition to scoring hit records, Mr. Husky was a master of stagecraft, a
dashing and energetic performer who impressed audiences and fellow artists.
"There were a lot of years when nobody in the business could follow Ferlin
Husky," Merle Haggard told The Tennessean last year. "He was the big live act
of the day. A great entertainer."
Born Dec. 3, 1925, on a farm in Cantwell, Mo., Mr. Husky dreamed of a music career
from childhood. He spent five years in the U.S. Merchant Marines
during World War II, then worked at a Missouri radio station in the late 1940s
before moving to California to chase his fondest aspirations.
In Bakersfield, Calif., he worked as a disc jockey and sang in area
clubs, and in 1950 he began his recording career, releasing songs on
the Four Star label under the name "Terry Preston."
Those early singles were heard by Southern California country impresario
Cliffie Stone, who helped Mr. Husky garner a recording contract with
Capitol. After five singles, "Terry Preston" decided to once again be billed
as Ferlin Husky, and in 1953 he and Jean Shepard scored a No. 1 country duet
with "A Dear John Letter." As Shepard was not yet 21, her parents
had to assign guardianship to Mr. Husky so Shepard could tour with him
across state lines.
As Mr. Husky experienced some success, he worked to encourage and aid
others in the Bakersfield area. Tommy Collins, who went on to write hit
songs for Merle Haggard, credited Mr. Husky with giving him a show business
start. And Mr. Husky treated young songwriter Dallas Frazier as an
adopted son. Frazier went on to write enduring compositions
including "There Goes My Everything" and "Beneath Still Waters."
"When I seen anybody who had talent, I tried to help them," Mr. Husky said
in 2006, speaking with interviewer Walt Trott for a Country Music
People interview. "Buck Owens? I dressed him up, putting some decent clothes
on him, and got him with Capitol."
Mr. Husky's aggressive electric guitar tone on early Collins recordings was also
a template for Owens, who followed Mr. Husky as Collins' lead guitar player. That tone
became a central element in the trebly, forceful "Bakersfield Sound" that
led Owens and his Buckaroos band to numerous hits and that inspired later
artists including The Beatles and Dwight Yoakam. The Bakersfield
Sound and the Nashville Sound were often portrayed as country music's dust-bitten
yin and smooth-polished yang, yet Husky was at the forefront of each of these styles.
Owens and Haggard each followed Mr. Husky as Bakersfield-based success stories
who recorded with Capitol.
Mr. Husky's first Top Five solo country hit was "Cuzz You're So Sweet," a novelty
number he recorded as Simon Crum. Throughout Mr. Husky's career, the odd-talking
"Simon" with his drawling, high-pitched voice, was featured during stage
performances. A typical Ferlin Husky concert found Mr. Husky performing
as Crum, offering spot-on impersonations of other singers, singing
ballads and up-tempo numbers, playing guitar, kicking his foot high into
the air and doing anything else he could think of to entertain the crowd. His
performing acumen assured that he remained a popular draw on the road, even
at times when he didn't have a record in the charts.
In 1955, Mr. Husky joined the Grand Ole Opry and moved to
Nashville, setting the stage for "Gone."
"We had the Jordanaires on there as the (backing) vocal group, and Grady Martin
on vibes, and a ton of people in the studio," Mr. Husky told The Tennessean
in 2009. "The producer, Ken Nelson, got upset. He said, 'If one more person comes
through those doors, the session is off.' And then here comes Miss Millie
Kirkham to sing the soprano vocal part."
Kirkham added nearly operatic vocals to a lush (detractors would
say "slick") soundscape that featured little in the way of traditional country
instrumentation. Rather than a steel guitar, there was a
piano. A clean-toned electric guitar, not a down-home fiddle, took the
solo. And rather than the honky-tonk inflections of Webb Pierce
or Ernest Tubb, there was Husky's emotional, resonant, nearly trembling
croon. Mr. Husky had previously recorded a less remarkable version
of "Gone" in California, as Terry Preston. The new everything-but-the-kitchen-sink
arrangement was something entirely different, though. To hear Mr. Husky
tell the story, producer Nelson wasn't positive of a happy outcome.
"He said, 'You're going to cost me my job,' " Mr. Husky recalled. "In the middle
of the song, I stopped the band and sung this, 'Ohhhh' part, and Ken said, 'What in
the world are you doing?' I said, 'I'm making a hit record.' And that's
what we did."
Recorded in late 1956, "Gone" became a groundbreaking single in
early 1957. Country stations played it repeatedly, and it crossed quickly
into the pop realm, landing at No. 4 on the all-genre Billboard Top 100.
"The unique voice of Ferlin Husky just blew me away," said producer Billy
Sherrill, who entered the Hall of Fame with Husky in 2010, recalling the
first time he heard "Gone." "He didn't sound like anything or anybody else."
With the success of "Gone," Mr. Husky became a national presence. He starred
in movies such as Forty Acre Feud and Hillbillies in a Haunted House, and
served as a guest-host for two weeks CBS's The Arthur Godfrey Show.
"For a while there, I was all the way across that radio dial," Husky said. "Elvis
Presley opened shows that I headlined, and I got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame."
The song's success also spawned plenty of imitators and helped bring country
music into the pop mainstream. It was something of a blueprint for
Nashville producers seeking to reach listeners who were interested neither
in the twangy honky-tonk country of the early 1950s nor the
swaggering rock 'n' roll sounds of Presley and others. Some country purists
railed against the new "Nashville Sound," but it provided a commercially viable
alternative to the rock surge and it served as a precursor to
the cross-genre successes of new century hitmakers such as Lady Antebellum
and Taylor Swift.
In 1960, Mr. Husky scored another massive hit with country-gospel-pop hybrid
"Wings of a Dove." Later efforts were not as commercially potent, but
Mr. Husky had nine Top 20 hits in the 1960s, including "Once" and "Just For You."
Mr. Husky left Capitol in 1972, moving to ABC Records. He never recaptured
the success of his Capitol years, though he remained a strong live draw. In 1977,
he had open-heart surgery, and heart problems dogged him the rest of his life.
"I've had seven bypasses," he said in 2009. "But I don't want to
quit, and I just pray and keep going."
Part of Mr. Husky's drive to keep going was fueled by a wish to see himself
included with the heroes of country music in the Hall of Fame. He got his wish
in February 2010, when he was elected to the Hall along with Sherrill and Jimmy Dean.
"Some of the people that vote (for the Hall members) are so young,
I thought they'd never heard of me," he said. "I figured they thought Ferlin Husky
was some kind of disease."
But in May 2010, at 84, Mr. Husky was formally inducted during a Medallion Ceremony
at the Hall. He was wheeled into the building and took joy in telling
well-wishers, "I've got my own airline," pointing to the tube that brought him oxygen.
Mr. Husky stayed in his wheelchair until the end of the ceremony, when a friend
helped him out of the chair and into a group of fellow Hall of Famers
who sang an event-closing "Will the Circle Be Unbroken." He appeared too frail
to add much to the group-sing, but by song's end he was standing on his own power
and singing in a voice that could be heard above all others, " There's a better
home a'waiting/ In the sky, Lord, in the sky."
Mr. Husky is survived by daughters Donna Denson of Gallatin; Dana Stone
of Westmoreland; Julie Smith of Gallatin; Jennifer Lane of Murfreesboro;
Alana Jackson of Hendersonville and Kelly Wiles of Canada;
by sons David Husky of Post Falls, Idaho, and
Terry Husky of Amarillo, Tex., and by many grandchildren. Memorial details
are not yet available.
Other articles of interest:
Velvet-Voiced Ferlin Husky Dies at 85—The New York Times
Ferlin Husky—Chicago Sun-Times
Ferlin Husky dies at 85; singer helped open doors for California strain of country music—Los Angeles Times
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I am no expert and think I may have messed up here.
I used a 3rd party disk management tool (the name escapes me) to partition a hard drive on a windows 8 computer (Win 8 came pre-installed on it). I think I may have over partitioned or something because after the partition the computer won't start and I cannot even access the boot menu. I just get the (spanking new) BSOD after a couple of seconds.
What I tried to do to fix this was install the hard drive on a second comp running Windows 8 and reformat the disk and install a new OS on it. When I do that, the BIOS recognizes the new disk (though I cannot boot from it) but windows does not. Neither do I see it in Disk Management at all.
I would reformat the disk if I can, as I do not have any real data on there that I need, bit cannot even do that.....
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!


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Griya Persada Convention Hotel & Resort
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Griya Persada Convention Hotel & Resort
About the hotel
Property Location
Located in Pakem, Griya Persada Convention Hotel & Resort is connected to the convention center and close to Ullen Sentalu and Merapi Golf Course. This family-friendly resort is within the vicinity of Merapi Museum and Gunung Merapi National Park.
Make yourself at home in one of the 117 air-conditioned rooms featuring fireplaces. Your Select Comfort bed comes with Frette Italian sheets. Complimentary wired and wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming provides entertainment. Conveniences include desks and separate sitting areas, as well as phones with free local calls.
Relax at the full-service spa, where you can enjoy massages, body treatments, and facials. You can take advantage of recreational amenities such as an outdoor pool, an indoor pool, and a steam room. This Art Deco resort also features complimentary wireless Internet access, concierge services, and an arcade/game room. The shuttle (surcharge) will take you to the nearby beach or shopping center.
Grab a bite to eat at one of the resort's 4 restaurants and 3 coffee shops/cafés, or stay in and take advantage of room service (during limited hours). Mingle with other guests at a complimentary reception, held daily. Relax with a refreshing drink at one of the 2 bars/lounges. A complimentary breakfast is included.
Business, Other Amenities
Featured amenities include high-speed (wired) Internet access (surcharge), a business center, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby. Event facilities at this resort consist of a conference center and a meeting room. For a surcharge, guests may use a roundtrip airport shuttle (available on request) and a train station pick-up service.
Hotel Facilities
- Computer station
- Train station pickup (surcharge)
- One meeting room
- Wired (high-speed) Internet access - surcharge
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Luggage storage
- Theme park shuttle (surcharge)
- Free pool cabanas
- Shopping center shuttle (surcharge)
- Shopping on site
- Picnic area
- Free WiFi
- Free parking nearby
- Arcade/game room
- Pool umbrellas
- Fitness facilities
- Beach shuttle (surcharge)
- Total number of rooms - 117
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Number of restaurants - 4
- Business center
- Free breakfast
- Television in common areas
- Year Built 2009
- Indoor pool
- Steam room
- Number of bars/lounges - 2
- Wedding services
- Rooftop terrace
- Designated smoking areas
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Children's club (surcharge)
- Number of floors - 2
- Multilingual staff
- In-room accessibility
- Free reception
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Laundry facilities
- Porter/bellhop
- Area shuttle (surcharge)
- Spa services on site
- Free newspapers in lobby
- ATM/banking
- Accessible bathroom
- Barbecue grill(s)
- Full-service spa
- Library
- Children's pool
- Garden
- Number of coffee shops/cafes - 3
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Free use of nearby fitness center
- Concierge services
- Outdoor pool
- Conference center
- Number of buildings/towers - 12
Room Facilities
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Separate sitting area
- Daily housekeeping
- Fireplace
- Cable TV service
- Premium bedding
- Sleep Number by Select Comfort mattress
- Slippers
- Yard
- Free bottled water
- Coffee/tea maker
- Refrigerator
- Free local calls
- Room service (limited hours)
- Private bathroom
- Access via exterior corridors
- Free WiFi
- Separate dining area
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Frette Italian sheets
- Shower only
- Air conditioning
- Day bed
- Separate living room
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer (on request)
- Phone
- Desk
Hotel Policy
Know Before You Go
- Guests must transfer via required shuttle to the property. Guests must contact the property at least 48 hours before travel, using the contact information on the confirmation received after booking.
- This property offers transfers from the airport and train station (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details 24 hours prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
- Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments. Reservations can be made by contacting the resort prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
- One child 8 years old or younger stays free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. Children may not be eligible for complimentary breakfast.
- Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.
- 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.
- No pets and no service animals are allowed at this property.


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To the Editors:
In the November–December issue's Computing Science column, "The Science of Sticky Spheres," Brian Hayes points out that five tetrahedra can almost, but not quite, meet around an edge (see figure at right). If you try to make this happen with balls and sticks of equal length, the outer edges are not quite long enough to close the loop—and if you try to do it with five perfect tetrahedra, there is an angular gap between them. Similarly, if you have 20 perfect tetrahedra, they can almost meet around a corner. Their outer faces almost form an icosahedron, but with narrow gaps between them.
I was fascinated by this phenomenon in high school. Having been raised on Martin Gardner's columns, I realized I was in the same position as a two-dimensional inhabitant of Flatland who tries to make five triangles meet at a corner. All we need is a little curvature to close the gap: In three dimensions, we can make a polyhedron where five triangles meet at each corner, namely an icosahedron.
Similarly, in four dimensions there is a polytope where five tetrahedra meet at every edge, and 20 meet at every corner. This gorgeous creature has 120 corners, 720 edges, 1,200 triangular faces and 600 tetrahedral cells. Along the same lines, four dodecahedra can almost meet at each corner; curving them up in the fourth dimension to make them fit together leads to the dual of the previous polytope, which has 600 corners and 120 dodecahedral cells.
Just as there are five Platonic solids in three dimensions, there are six in four dimensions, and these are two of them. In five or more dimensions, the only Platonic polytopes are the analogs of the cube, the octahedron and the tetrahedron.
Cristopher Moore
Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico
You can find this online at http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/num2/2013/1/tetrahedral-tetris/1
© 2016 Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society


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I. ANAXAGORAS, the son of Hegesibulus, or Eubulus, was a citizen of Clazomenae. He was a pupil of Anaximenes, and was the first philosopher who attributed mind to matter, beginning his treatise on the subject in the following manner (and the whole treatise is written in a most beautiful and magnificent style): "All things were mixed up together; then Mind came and arranged them all in distinct order." On which account he himself got the same name of Mind. And Timon speaks thus of him in his Silli:
They say too that wise Anaxagoras,
II. He was eminent for his noble birth and for his riches, and still more so for his magnanimity, inasmuch as he gave up all his patrimony to his relations; and being blamed by them for his neglect of his estate "Why, then," said he, "do not you take care of it?" And at last he abandoned it entirely, and devoted himself to the contemplation of subjects of natural philosophy, disregarding politics. So that once when some said to him "You have no affection for your country," "Be silent," said he, "for I have the greatest affection for my country," pointing up to heaven.
III. It is said, that at the time of the passage of the Hellespont by Xerxes, he was twenty years old, and that he lived to the age of seventy-two. But Apollodorus, in his Chronicles, says that he flourished in the seventieth Olympiad, and that he died in the first year of the seventy-eighth. And he began to study philosophy at Athens, in the archonship of Callias, being twenty years of age, as Demetrius Phalerius tells us in his Catalogue of the Archons, and they say that he remained at Athens thirty years.
IV. He asserted that the sun was a mass of burning iron, greater than Peloponnesus; (but some attribute this doctrine to Tantalus), and that the moon contained houses, and also hills and ravines: and that the primary elements of everything were similarities of parts; for as we say that gold consists of a quantity of grains combined together, so too is the universe formed of a number of small bodies of similar parts. He further taught that Mind was the principle of motion: and that of bodies the heavy ones, such as the earth, occupied the lower situations; and the light ones, such as fire, occupied the higher places, and that the middle spaces were assigned to water and air. And thus that the sea rested upon the earth, which was broad, the moisture being all evaporated by the sun. And he said that the stars originally moved about in irregular confusion, so that at first the pole star, which is continually visible, always appeared in the zenith, but that afterwards it acquired a certain declination. And that the milky way was a reflection of the light of the sun when the stars did not appear. The comets he considered to be a concourse of planets emitting rays: and the shooting stars he thought were sparks as it were leaping from the firmament. The winds he thought were caused by the rarification of the atmosphere, which was produced by the sun. Thunder, he said, was produced by the collision of the clouds; and lightning by the rubbing together of the clouds. Earthquakes, he said, were produced by the return of the air into the earth. All animals he considered were originally generated out of moisture, and heat, and earthy particles: and subsequently from one another. And males he considered were derived from those on the right hand, and females from those on the left.
V. They say, also, that he predicted a fall of the stones which fell near Aegospotami, and which he said would fall from the sun: on which account Euripides, who was a disciple of his, said in his Phaethon that the sun was a golden clod of earth. He went once to Olympia wrapped in a leathern cloak as if it were going to rain; and it did rain. And they say that he once replied to a man who asked him whether the mountains at Lampsacus would ever become sea, "Yes, if time lasts long enough."
VI. Being once asked for what end he had been born, he said, "For the contemplation of the sun, and moon, and heaven." A man once said to him, "You have lost the Athenians;" "No," said he, "they have lost me." When he beheld the tomb of Mausolus, he said, "A costly tomb is an image of a petrified estate." And he comforted a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, by telling him, "The descent to hell is the same from every place."
VII. He appears to have been the first person (according to the account given by Favorinus in his Universal History), who said that the Poem of Homer was composed in praise of virtue and justice: and Metro, of Lampsacus, who was a friend of his, adopted this opinion, and advocated it energetically, and Metrodorus was the first who seriously studied the natural philosophy developed in the writings of the great poet.
VIII. Anaxagoras was also the first man who ever wrote a work in prose; and Silenus, in the first book of his Histories, says, that in the archonship of Lysanias a large stone fell from heaven; and that in reference to this event Anaxagoras said, that the whole heaven was composed of stones, and that by its rapid revolutions they were all held together; and when those revolutions get slower, they fall down.
IX. Of his trial there are different accounts given. For Sotion, in his Succession of the Philosophers, says, that he was persecuted for impiety by Cleon because he said that the sun was a fiery ball of iron. And though Pericles, who had been his pupil, defended him, he was, nevertheless, fined five talents and banished. But Satyrus, in his Lives, says that it was Thucydides by whom he was impeached, as Thucydides was of the opposite party to Pericles; and that he was prosecuted not only for impiety, but also for Medison*; and that he was condemned to death in his absence. And when news was brought him of two misfortunes--his condemnation, and the death of his children; concerning the condemnation he said, "Nature has long since condemned both them and me." But about his children, he said, "I knew that I had become the father of mortals." Some, however, attribute this saying to Solon, and others to Xenophon. And Demetrius Phalereus, in his treatise on Old Age, says that Anaxagoras buried them with his own hands. But Hermippus, in his Lives, says that he was thrown into prison for the purpose of being put to death: but that Pericles came forward and inquired if any one brought any accusation against him respecting his course of life. And as no one alleged anything against him: "I then," said he, "am his disciple: do not you then be led away by calumnies to put this man to death; but be guided by me, and release him." And he was released. But, as he was indignant at the insult which had been offered to him, he left the city.
But Hieronymus, in the second book of his Miscellaneous Commentaries, says that Pericles produced him before the court, tottering and emaciated by disease, so that he was released rather out of pity, than by any deliberate decision on the merits of his case. And thus much may be said about his trial. Some people have fancied that he was very hostile to Democritus, because he did not succeed in getting admission to him for the purposes of conversation.
X. And at last, having gone to Lampsacus, he died in that city. And it is said, that when the governors of the city asked him what he would like to have done for him, he replied, "That they would allow the children to play every year during the month in which he died." And this custom is kept up even now. And when he was dead, the citizens of Lampsacus buried him with great honours, and wrote this epitaph on him:
Here Anaxagoras lies, who reached of truth
We ourselves also have written an epigram on him:
Wise Anaxagoras did call the sun
XI. There were also three other people of the name of Anaxagoras; none of whom combined all kinds of knowledge; But one was an orator and a pupil of Isocrates; another was a statuary, who is mentioned by Antigonus; another is a grammarian, a pupil of Zenodotus.
Scanned and edited for Peithô's Web from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, by Diogenes Laertius, Literally translated by C.D. Yonge. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1853. Footnotes have been converted to endnotes. Some, but not all, of Yonge's spellings of ancient names have been updated.
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Released August 07, 2014
On view October 11, 2014, through spring 2015
SALEM, MA -- The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) presents nearly 50 works from Jo Ractliffe's four-year quest to photograph Angola in the aftermath of its civil war. The Angolan Civil War was one of the longest and bloodiest in African history. With South Africa and the United States backing one side and Cuba and the Soviet Union supporting the other, the war lasted from 1975 to 2002 and cost the lives of some 1.5 million people while displacing 4 million others. In 2007, long after the war correspondents and photojournalists had left the country, Ractliffe made her first trips to the capital city, Luanda. Images of Angola's post-war markets, monuments and makeshift communities are on view in Someone Else's Country, Photographs by Jo Ractliffe beginning October 11, 2014.
The artist traveled with veterans who were returning to battle sites in the southern part of the country. The exhibition title is drawn from a South African colonel who observed, "If you're going to have a war, best to do it in someone else's country." As a South African, Ractliffe recalls how in the 1970s and early 1980s, most of her contemporaries viewed Angola abstractly as "the border," a secret, unspoken location where brothers and boyfriends were sent as part of their military service. The unsettling tales that filtered back starkly contrasted the sanitized narrative put forward by the South African government.
As an outsider -- connected to, yet unfamiliar with this landscape -- Ractliffe patiently uses her camera to document battle scars, fading signs of colonial histories and the aftermath of Cold War ideologies that fueled Angola's violence.
Trevor Smith, PEM's Curator of the Present Tense, notes: "Ractliffe's photographs can be spare but they are never empty. Each image can be understood as her attempt to orient herself in what she calls 'a landscape of leftovers.' Reverberating with loss and disorientation, her photographs also hint at how life moves forward after trauma."
Ractliffe's close looking allows us to understand things that may not be initially visible. She has said, "I feel as if I am in a place that has abandoned itself, is indifferent to the collapsing of time and history. Sometimes these remains are so actively present, their event so precisely articulated, that it feels as if the moment has only just passed."
Jo Ractliffe was born in 1961 in Cape Town and lives in Johannesburg. In 2010 she was a Writing Fellow at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER), Johannesburg, and an invited artist at Phillips Exeter Academy, New Hampshire. Ractliffe was nominated for the 2011 Discovery Prize at the Rencontres d'Arles photography festival and her work As Terras do Fim do Mundo was nominated as best photobook of 2010 at the International Photobook Festival.
Jo Ractliffe. Man maintaining the lawn of the Monumento de Agostinho Neto, 2007. From the 'Terreno Ocupado' series. © Jo Ractliffe. Courtesy of Stevenson, Cape Town and Johannesburg.
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Villetta Serenita` is a lovely family style villetta that sleeps a family of four. Directly on the Waterfront! Steps from the water! Lake Como Beach Resort is centrally located on Lake Como on the Bellagio side of the lake. Pognana Lario offers the most incredible 180° picture postcard ' Views of Lake Como'.
Villetta Serenita` is on an exceptional, exclusive three acre private park like setting with gardens.It includes a secure private parking area and elevator to the private gardens.Villetta Serenita` has two family style bedrooms. Master bedroom with queen bed and Lake Como Views, second bedroom through the master bedroom with two twin beds and a newly renovated Italian tile bathroom with shower.
Includes quality furnishings, kitchenette, living room & dining area that open through French Doors to the gardens and Lake. Villetta Serenita has access to the lovely gazebo in the garden area and does not have a balcony. Great for families with children or teens
' A Small Slice of Paradise on the Waterfront of Lake Como '
Welcome to the ' LAKE COMO BEACH RESORT ' and Lake Como Beachfront. Located directly on the Lake Como Waterfront in the village of Pognana Lario, minutes from historic Como Centro and famous Bellagio our exclusive little resort and private luxury vacation villa rentals, offer guests a magical memorable experience of Lake Como, Italy.
With incredible Lake Como views, private balconies, spectacular gardens, sand lido, beach and boat dock for swimming. The Lake Como Beach Resort & Villas is the ultimate place to spend your perfect Italian holiday, on the beautiful Lake Como waterfront. Come and join us at the Lake Como Beach Resort and Villas!
We are a small, quaint, customer service oriented private resort on the Bellagio side of the Lake. We take pride in offering only the best of customer care, to all our guests. Our guests and friends are our number one priority. We are here to help you have a wonderful memorable holiday on Lake Como. We offer personal concierge services and can assist with, cooking classes, set up airport transport services, as well as organize day trips, make dinner reservations or plan special events. We have a very strong community atmosphere at the resort, where all guests feel welcome, respected and appreciated. Our exclusive little resort is a renovated turn of the century palazzo. The private Villettas are fully equipped and individual, situated directly on the beachfront of the Lake between Como Centro and Bellagio. All lovingly redesigned and restored, the Villettas boast 180° degree views of the entire lake, with a private beach, gardens with umbrella, tables and chairs as well as relaxing lounge chairs. We have a private sand lido and boat dock/jetty with chaise loungers and fluffy beach towels, a private rock beach for swimming and private balconies off the master bedrooms with stunning Lake Como views and seating for alfresco dining. There is a large bbq area as well as elevator access from the parking lot to the gardens. Lake Como Beach Resort is where one can soak up the tranquility of the lake, or easily visit historical and popular sites. The relaxing independent Villettas make Lake Como Beach Resort the ideal location for any occasion, both first time vacationers and experienced travelers will find it hard to leave. Positioned to give all of our guests stunning waterfront views Lake Como Beach Resort & Villettas are designed to provide the luxury of a dream vacation, yet retain the comfortable feel of 'home' as you walk through the French doors. With free WIFI and parking, each Villa sleeps up to 4 guests on two separate levels. Main floor consists of living room and dining area as well as fully equipped kitchen that open out to the private gardens through the French doors, sand lido and our private beach and waterfront. Second level consists of private master bedroom with en suite bath and French doors that open to a private balcony with seating. The resort is a 5 minute walk to the Lake Como ferry, public transportation, grocery store and local restaurants.
Lake Como Beach Resort Amenities:
1 Bedroom plus queen sleeper sofa and 2 Bedroom Villettas both sleep 4
Personal Concierge Services
Private Reception/Lounge Area
Private Beach
Fun Lake Swimming
Speed Boat and waterski rental
Sand Lido/Boat Dock/Jetty
Private Gardens
BBQ Area
Secure Private Parking
Free WIFI
Ferry and Public Transport within walking distance
Eric and Robin with their lovely daughter Jiselle have owned and managed the Lake Como Beach Resort since 2007. They moved to Italy to raise their daughter in a beautiful, peaceful and stunning setting on Lake Como. Being here is living the Italian dream and we are blessed to offer our guests the opportunity, to share in it.
Lake Como Beach Resort & Villas purchased this villa in 2007
The Lake Como Beach Resort is a private exclusive little resort located directly on the Lake Como waterfront with private beach for swimming, beautiful lush gardens, a private sand lido and boat dock/jetty. There is also private secure parking and balconies that overlook Lake Como off the master bedrooms. There is also outdoor seating with umbrella tables and chairs for al fresco dining in front of the villas.
There is also a lovely bbq area with outdoor seating. The Villa offers fre wifi and parking.
We are located within a 3 minute walk of the Lake Como ferry from the resort as well as restaurants, cafes and the grocery store.
We love living and working at the Lake Como Beach Resort and to offer our guests the same magical experience Lake Como has offered us through the years.
One can rent a motorboat right off our boat dock and have it delivered directly to our property at no extra cost. We also have kayak rentals and water toys for the children.
This is a great couples property, family or for family reunions. A unique property with many amenities.
5 of 5 stars
Reviewed April 24, 2014
We had a great family stay on Lake Como at Lcbr. Eric was very helpful and knowledgable and went the 'extra mile' to make sure we were comfortable and settled.
Short stay rate of under 5 nights is 225.00 Euros per night
The rental rate includes holiday rental for 7 nights all utilities, linens, towels, beach towels.
The rental rate also includes private secure parking, elevator and the use of our facilities, boat dock and sand lido, gardens and bbq areas, as well as beach for swimming or lounging.
My family enjoyed a lovely stay at this property over Easter. Eric and his family went beyond any expectations to ensure we - and all his guests - were comfortable and happy. The property is beautiful with a garden and small beach area perfect for lounging and for children. The apartments are equally appealing with comfortable beds and everything needed. What sets the resort apart from others is the warm, welcoming familial atmosphere that Eric creates with the ideal balance of privacy and a sense of community. The small town in which the resort is located is equally charming and friendly with a few restaurants of good quality, coffee shop/bat and grocery store. Highly recommended.
WOW.. what I can I say except Lake Como is heaven! The property owner Eric was extremely helpful and was very Knowledgably, the villa's were cute and well equipped, we were able to enjoy a nice Italian dinner outside the property, the mornings were wonderful overlooking the lake on our balcony enjoying fresh coffee made in the Villa, the Property was very quaint and private. My only suggestion would be that if you arrive during 12:00- 5:00 there is really no place to eat or buy food, markets are closed. we highly suggest eating in the town of Como before you head up to the Villa, also the bus system is wonderful there, I would suggest using the buses if you are looking to move around. We highly recommend this Villa!
We stayed at Lake Como Beach Resort & Villas for 1 week in August with our 2 daughters (9&11) and had a truly fantastic stay. We chose the property due to it's location on the edge of the lake and the fact that it had a jetty which means you can swim directly into the lake. We soon realised that this was indeed it's USP and even the likes of George Clooney and Roman Abramovitch don't have such facilities ! The appartments are adequately furnished (small shower room, very good sized bedrooms, reasonable kitchenette/lounge) but the real beauty of this place is the outside space. The views and the shared garden and the beach area/jetty are fantastic. Other guests were polite and we enjoyed sharing travel stories and local finds but this is all tied together due to the wonderful hosting of Eric and his charming daughter Jiselle. Eric gave us the local low down and recommended everywhere we needed to go - and indeed we did ! Even he was shocked at how many restaurants we managed to fit in ! Must do's are Bella Vista, Il Pomodorino (Como) & Salice Blu (Belaggio), which you will need a car to get to, but we also loved Le Meridiana, which was a (hairy) 5 minute walk away. Vincenzo's local (super)market sold the most delicious bread, pastries, homemade pesto, gnocchi, fruit/veg & pretty much anything you wanted to buy ! He was so sweet and often gave the girls little free treats in the morning. We visited Como & Bellagio and hired a boat on the lake for 3 hours. We also enjoyed many relaxing hours on the beach area and swimming in the lake. We were all genuinely blown away by this location and thoroughly enjoyed every minute with our fabulous hosts who made us feel truly like old friends. Thank you so much. Stu, Ali, Holly & Rose Kerren xx
We stayed in Villa Serenita which was lovely, clean and spacious with plenty of room for four people. The resort area of the gardens and beach were very pleasant, combined with the stunning views it was perfect for a relaxing holiday. Eric is a great host, friendly, courteous and knowledgable about the area and willing to go out of his way to accommodate his guests. The public transport and ferry are great ways to get about the Lake with good services. We had a really fabulous time and would love to go back , my only reservation is that it is quite a steep site which may not suit some people, however I would suggest speaking to Eric who I am sure would be more than willing to help.
Gill, Pete and Christian
Stayed for a week at Lake Como Beach resort and would highly recommend it. Stunning location. Loved having the lake just there at our door step. Did not need to use our hired car all week. Used the lake ferries and bus. Local shop and good restaurant within walking distance with lots of steep steps involved to walk up from car park. Not a problem for us but might be if you have mobility issues.We were impressed by the hospitality of Eric the owner and his daughter. Would love to visit again.
Mary, Tony and Rhiannon.
Lovely lovely place! Eric was more than helpful with anything and everything. Highly recommended
Local Beaches - Faggeto Lario, Nesso, Pognana Lario, Bellagio
Good little local Grocery store and Butcher shop within walking distance
Ferry dock in Pognana Lario within walking distance. Nesso and Faggeto Lario, Bellagio
Many local restaurants, cafes nearby.
Ancient castles, exclusive villas, churches and historical sites as
well as waterfalls, hiking and boating or just relaxing.
Local Pools at Villa Geno and Villa Olmo - Como- 10 minute drive
Golf nearby.
Indoor Tennis Courts - Nesso - 5 minute drive
*******We offer Taxi Boat Service for a Fee - Pick up from our private boat dock - ***** By Reservation Only **** Please Reserve early as this service books up very quickly - for a pick up and delivery service to Bellagio, Sala Comacina, Como and Varenna .Taxi Boat can hold from 8-10 guests per voyage. ****
Canoe rentals from our private dock and lido.
We also offer cooking classes with Chef Luigi at Salice Blu in Bellagio- Please enquire,by reservation only.
Other Activities: Boat Rental, Ferries, Seaplane rides, Helicopter rides, Hiking, Sightseeing,
Golf: Golf Club Menaggio & Cadenabbia
Via Wyatt n. 54
I-22017 Fraz. Croce, Menaggio
Fax: +39-0344-30780
18-Hole Course
Visitors are welcome on Saturday, Sunday and on public holidays.
Advance booking is essential.
A valid handicap certificate from player's home club is required.
Handicap limit: 36
Softspikes required.
Dogs on leash permitted.
Mid-week daily Green Fee - EU55
Weekends & Bank Holidays Green Fee - EU 70
9 Holes after 5pm Green Fee - EU 35
9 Holes (Weekends & Bank Holidays) after 5pm Green Fee - EU 45
x10 Green Fees (Mon - Fri) - EU 450
x10 Green Fees (Weekend's & Bank Holidays)- EU 550
x10 Green Fees for 9 Holes (Mon - Fri) after 5pm - EU 300
x10 Green Fees for 9 Holes (Weekends & Bank Holidays) after 5pm - EU 350
Daily Buggy Hire - EU 36
Daily Club Hire - EU 15
Ski: St. Moritz, Switzerland is two hours by train.
Skiing two hours by car from Lake Como.


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From The Artists Studio
By Susan Hartenstein
They're here, they're there, and they're everywhere. Moths of monstrous magnitude. Terrifyingly towering tarantulas. Ants in unanticipated numbers. In a word – BUGS! These are the horrific images crawling around in Medium Rayah's crystal balls. Medium Rayah, is RAA's resident fortuneteller, soothsayer and licensed electrologist.
Medium Rayah, who each year predicts with penetrating precision, the horrendous happenings which will befall Fort Tilden in late October. (What a coincidence that they always seem to happen around Halloween.) Yes, that Medium Rayah is once again warning this community in order that it may prepare before it is too late. Buy up the flyswatters, my friends. Hoard the Raid. Stockpile the citronella. They're coming! THEY'RE "BUGGIN' OUT!"
Not only have these grotesque visions been bugging Rayah's glass balls. They've begun coming to her at night when she attempts to sleep. Yes, bedbugs are even bugging her bed.
Here is the whole grubby story as Rayah sees it so far. Giant creepy-crawlies will descend upon Fort Tilden on the evening of October 31, from 5-8 p.m., in and around Building 1. Hairy-legged, up your calf, in-your-ear monsters of major proportions will creep, swoop and drop. Gargantuan yellow jackets with stingers the size of lances. Oversized roaches (let's face it – the regular-sized ones are disgusting enough.) and caterpillars the size of bulldozers.
Be on the alert. Madam Rayah warns that, in an attempt to worm their way into our community, some of the wily wigglies will be disguised. Beetles may dress as Liverpudlian rock stars. Wasps will try to pass as WASPS. Even as we speak, earwigs are being fitted for toupees and woolly bears are shaving off their beards. Most frightening of all, in an attempt to circumvent our most reliable early warning system, Madam Rayah, the entomological evildoers will be sending in huge gypsy moths dressed as our own gypsy queen Rayah. This, in order to create confusion and chaos. Oh, what a tangled web they weave…Of course, luckily, no one could ever successfully imitate our impeccably haute-coutured Rayah, but they will try. Be on the lookout, therefore, for any signs of color coordination. That will definitely not be Rayah, whose sense of color is unique and not limited by any pedantic rules of regularity.
As has occurred every year with the various and sundry invaders, ghouls, goblins and monsters that overrun Fort Tilden each October, this year's perpetrators will be enlisting the assistance of those masters of light, sound and interactive terror – Marina, Geoff, Jan, Fritz and their misguided cohorts. As if this gruesome tale weren't enough, the Mad Madam's thespian buddy, (that's thespian, not that there's anything wrong with that) Medium Deus Ex Machina, tells her of a second horror-filled happening at the fort, in the Post Theater. "The Legend of the Haunted Café" will be repeated again and again, with frightening regularity, every 20 minutes from 4-7:30 p.m. Oh, what more can befall us?
But thanks to the genius of our dear Madam, the forces of good have hatched a plan. On sale in the parking lot, Maria will be selling her hot dogs. Irresistible, especially to creatures of the insectivorous persuasion, Maria's Dogs will attract the buggy hoards, as a flea to a canine, where they will be encircled and ensnared.
So be warned and be prepared. But do it now. Time is ticking away. Once again, Madam, you have succeeded in alerting a grateful public. Well done, Medium Rayah!
A new fountain graces Rockaway Artists Alliance garden in Fort Tilden. Designed and built by Elke Fontello and her sister, a solar powered pump sprays water in the air.
Russian artist Isabella Slobidov demonstrates the fine art of stone carving at the Art Splash 2001 show in building Studio 7 at Fort Tilden.
Photos by D. Macrae


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