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Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park, is a magnificent introduction to the beautiful Glacier National Park.
Entering Glacier Park through the west entrance at West Glacier, puts you with a few miles of Lake McDonald. Besides magnificent views of Glacier Park mountains and one of the most beautiful lakes in Northwest Montana, Lake McDonald offers several camping areas, Apgar shopping area, lodging at Apgar at the foot of the lake and Lake McDonald Lodge at the head of the lake. The area also serves several hiking trail heads.
The Paul A. Spade collection of Lake McDonald photographs includes spring, summer, winter and fall photos as well as a few dramatic photos during the fires of 2003. Below are a few samples.
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The summer of 2003 brought wildfires into Glacier National Park, and periodic closure of this beautiful stretch of road over the continental divide. For those who did not get a chance to see the scenes of Mountains, valleys, waterfalls, the weeping wall and beautiful wildflowers and animals, I would like to suggest that you purchase our ten screensaver cd of the different areas of Glacier National Park. Included on the cd are also 10 background images of the different areas in 800x600 resolution. We also have a subscription membership where you can download unlimited screensavers and background images for up to one year.
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Hugh Hefner Shares Deep Heartbreak on Twitter After Wedding Cancellation
Like most octogenarians dumped by their 25-year-old fiancées days before their wedding, Hugh Hefner shared his thoughts and emotions on Twitter.
In the hours after news broke that Crystal Harris ended their engagement, the Playboy founder opened up in a series of tweets that showed him disappointed but resilient. "The breakup is a heart breaker, but better now than after the marriage," wrote Hefner.
The publishing icon rejected "the TMZ report that Crystal & I 'had a nasty argument,'" saying, "There were no arguments." In fact, Hefner doesn't seem to have any ill will toward Harris, even mentioning that her single "Club Queen" was now available on iTunes. "I hope it's a hit," said her ex.
Hefner got "emotional support" from ex-wife Kim Conrad and Bridget Marquardt, along with other old companions. But he seemed sad that he didn't have a certain furry friend at his side. "Crystal took Charlie [the dog] with her when she left & I really miss him," said Hefner.
If nothing else, Hef showed that he still has a sense of humor, even if it's a bit darker this week. "Since we're not getting married on Saturday, I've scheduled a movie: 'Runaway Bride,'" he tweeted. "Seems appropriate."


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PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Flyers captain Claude Giroux had surgery on his right index finger after getting injured on a golf course in Ottawa.
Giroux sustained tendon damage when a golf club shattered and splintered into his finger Thursday. It's unknown what caused the club to shatter.
Giroux is expected to make a full recovery in five to six weeks. Last month, Philadelphia signed Giroux to an eight-year contract extension worth over $64 million.
Giroux was hurt playing overseas during the lockout last year and finished with only 13 goals and 48 points for the Flyers. He has 291 points (91 goals, 200 assists) in 333 career games spread over six seasons in Philadelphia.
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Thursday, July 28, 2011
Jamaica Days 5 & 6
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- Holly said...
I am so happy the weather turned out beautiful for y'all! I love all the water camera pictures - so fun!
- Thursday, July 28, 2011
- Lauren said...
Love the Bob Marley mug, and the picture of the sunset with the beer. I need to get back there ASAP!
- Thursday, July 28, 2011
- Kerbi said...
What a wonderful time!! I would love to go back to Jamaica!I love the bow earrings you wore!
- Thursday, July 28, 2011
- Camille said...
Gee wiz woman, you're so pretty and tan! Looks like you guys had a fabulous time...I want to go now!
- Thursday, July 28, 2011
- Michelle said...
I love love love the picture of you overlooking the balcony with your hair in the ponytail wearing the white shirt!!! That view is amazing!!!!!
So glad y'all had a great time! You came back so tan!!! I hope I can come home that tan when I get back from there in October!!!
- Thursday, July 28, 2011
- Heather said...
I love all of your pictures sooo much!! You're gorgeous.
- Thursday, July 28, 2011
- [SMASH] said...
Jamaica looks so perfect; will definitely keep that vacation destination in mind for the future! Love your photos.
- Thursday, July 28, 2011
- Jessica Renee said...
I freaking love your tan!! and omg those pitchers are the cutest! :p Y'all look so relaxed too, those are the best kinds of trips!
- Thursday, July 28, 2011
- Jenny said...
You are so cute!!! Love the hat, the little beer pitchers, all the pictures what a fun time!! So sad I couldn't make the HH yesterday and meet you but hopefully in the near future we can meet!
- Thursday, July 28, 2011
- Linda said...
Hi! Am your Newest Follower! Love this post! I feel like I just had a gorgeous vacation in Jamaica! Looks like a great time - beautiful resort!
Hope you're adjusting to being back "on the mainland"!!!
Best Wishes,
beachside cottage
- Thursday, July 28, 2011
- Amber said...
I love your earrings and your tan! I can't get over how beautiful it is there. Also, I love John's mug :)
- Thursday, July 28, 2011
- Neely said...
Still jealous :)
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- Keeping up with Kindra said...
looks like a blast!!!! glad you had fun :)
- Thursday, July 28, 2011
- Jessie said...
Ok I am super jealous. I have been wanting to go somewhere (ANYWHERE) tropical for so long!
- Thursday, July 28, 2011
- sugarmouse said...
whoaa, you got a WICKED tan! :D and i dig that bob marley mug!! haha. jamaica looks stunning. you guys are so lucky to have gone.
- Friday, July 29, 2011
- Heather said...
Your trip to Jamaica looks like is was sooo amazing!
- Saturday, July 30, 2011
- Meg O. said...
Love the photos!!! What a fun time! Major jealousy right now.
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|Joeran Beel, Stefan Langer, Marcel Genzmehr, Bela Gipp
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Docear is what the developers call an "academic literature suite".[2] Comparable to Microsoft Office, which bundles several applications for office workers, Docear bundles several applications for academics. As of now, these applications are BibTeX based reference management, mind mapping, and some pdf management capabilities. For the future, Docear is supposed to integrate a word processor, PDF editor and academic search engine.[3]
Docear is written in Java, licensed under the GNU General Public License and based on the open source software Freeplane and JabRef. The term 'Docear' has two meanings. First, it is pronounced similarly to "dog ear", the folded down corner of a paper page. Second, "docear" in Latin means "I would be taught".[4]
Docear is the successor of SciPlore MindMapping (aka FreeMind Scholar) which was originally developed by Joeran Beel and Bela Gipp as part of their PhD projects in 2009 at Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg and University of California, Berkeley. In July 2011, Joeran Beel and his colleagues Stefan Langer and Marcel Genzmehr received a grant[5] to re-develop SciPlore MindMapping, since then being called Docear. While SciPlore MindMapping was based on FreeMind, Docear is built upon the mind mapping software Freeplane and the reference manager JabRef. The first version of SciPlore MindMapping was released in May 2009. The first private Alpha of Docear was released in December 2011, the first public Beta in February 2012 which was later presented on CeBIT.[6]
Docear has two key features not always offered by comparable tools.[7] First, Docear lets you import PDF annotations (bookmarks, comments and highlighted text). This way, a document's most important information can be easily organized. If more information is required than the bookmark or comment itself provides, Docear can open the PDF on the page the bookmarks points to. Second, all information is structured in a mind map. Information management in a mind map is more effective and efficient than using a simple list or social tags.[8]
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- Integration of all major components required for literature search, organization, and creation into a single application
- Academic search engine / digital library with free full-text access*
- Research paper recommender system*
- Reference manager
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- Information manager (Mind mapper)
- MS Word, OpenOffice/LibreOffice, and LaTeX add-on*
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- Highlighted text (with limitations as it requires a PDF viewer that automatically copies highlighted text into a comment on the highlight, currently only PDF exchange viewer for desktop and Foxit mobile for android does this)
- Structured information management in a mind map instead of simple tables or social tags
- Using standard formats wherever possible (FreeMind/Freeplane XML, BibTeX, Adobe PDF)
- Usable instead or as a complement to existing reference managers like JabRef, Zotero, or Mendeley,
- Full control over your data: No registration required and no data is stored on our servers except you allow it explicitly
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Nutrients Safely Boost Metabolism in Diabetic Rats
Byron J. Richards, Board Certified Clinical Nutritionist
New concepts in the management of diabetes are taking center stage in our society because widespread dietary and lifestyle abuse has led to an epidemic of type II diabetes in children, teenagers, and young adults. The use of drugs to manipulate numbers and gene function within cells has thus far proven to be a miserable failure. Drugs do not restore health, and as a recent clinical trial proves the more aggressively they are used to treat diabetes the higher the risk for death.
Nutrients, on the other hand, can activate gene metabolism within cells, not only improving the metabolism of glucose and fatty acids but doing so without any adverse side effects. This really should not come as a surprise as our bodies know how to use nutrients and drugs simply force our bodies to behave a certain way even if they don't want to (meaning adverse side effects). A new animal study clearly proves this point, doing easily what dangerous diabetes medication can only accomplish with extreme side effect risk.
In the study researchers used R-Alpha Lipoic Acid (RLA) and Acetyl-L-Carnitine (ALC)1 as the primary nutrients tested, along with niacin and biotin (two B vitamins typically found in a multiple vitamin or B Complex) as cofactors to enhance the use of RLA and ALC. They found these nutrients dramatically improved the metabolism of sugar and fatty acids by directly activating genes in the mitochondria (your cell's car engines), even increasing the horsepower of these cell engines so that more calories could be burned more efficiently – changing the source of the problem without any adverse side effects.
When doctors try to lower blood sugar with drugs they often fail to ask "Where is the sugar going?" If it is being transferred to fat, i.e. weight gain, it is clearly going in the wrong direction. If it is being transferred into the mitochondria of cells to be burned as fuel then health is more likely to occur. Drugs are a very poor choice for this activity, and attempts to improve metabolism with drugs come at a high price of damaging side effects.
Exercise is known to condition your mitochondria back to health. Strength training builds muscle over time – the more muscle you have the more mitochondria you possess. When you do aerobics and become more fit you condition your mitochondria to work better. On top of that you can add nutrients that improve mitochondrial function. The current study relies on RLA and ALC to prove this point – two great nutrients with numerous metabolic and health benefits. There are many other options that are synergistic with this concept – including nutrients for leptin, thyroid, and adrenal support. The main underlying point is that when you improve the function of mitochondria you improve metabolism of both blood sugar and fatty acid. Nutrients stand alone as the safe and effective way to support consistent exercise to accomplish this goal.
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Like quality management a decade ago, project risk management has become such a "check-the-box" exercise in some organizations that vocal critics are clamoring for its elimination as pointless overhead. In this article, Payson Hall suggests that you consider a grown-up conversation with the leaders in your organization about the capabilities and limitations of your risk management efforts.
When we explain things to children, we are often mindful of complexity and subtlety and try to simplify so that they can understand without being overwhelmed. Wars have "good guys" and "bad guys," and the good guys win. Moral complexity and ambiguity is usually deferred until we believe the children are mature enough to deal with them.
I would like to have an adult conversation about risk management. I assume, fair reader, that you are mature enough for a sophisticated discussion. What follows may not be news to you, but I want to get directly to the point without sugar coating. I encourage you to react and give me feedback in the comments section.
The goal of risk management is to anticipate problems (or opportunities) that may arise in the future. The future is an uncertain place; people engaging in effective risk management need to be aware of that.
There are six truths about risk management:
1. All projects have elements of risk. There is no project guaranteed to succeed. Any project has possible events that could cause it to go out of bounds in terms of schedule, resources, or scope and quality. Some risks are so extreme that they could cause what most would consider outright failure.
2. Some risks should be anticipated. There are patterns of risk in organizations. There are patterns of risk in different disciplines. This is why all cars are sold with a spare tire; the flat tire is a common failure mode. If you are doing a project in a domain with history, you are foolish if you don't consider historical risks with similar projects.
3. Some risks are difficult to anticipate. There are "black swans" that you can't imagine because you haven't experienced them. That doesn't make you foolish.
4. Some risks cannot be prevented or avoided; all you can do is reduce their probability or impact. If you are worried about your car breaking down on a long road trip, you can take it for a tune up/check up before you leave, but this only reduces the likelihood of failure, it doesn't make your car indestructible.
5. If you ignore some risks, they might not get you. If you play one round of Russian roulette with a six-cylinder revolver and a single shell, you are 82 percent likely to survive. Survival doesn't suggest that you were clever or skillful or that playing again is safe.
6. Despite your best efforts at avoiding some risks, they will bite you anyway. You can check vendor references and financials and write an iron clad contract, but that doesn't stop a vendor from going out of business and letting you down for reasons having nothing to do with your project.
In fairy tales, we teach children that risk management efforts, like the little pig building its house from bricks, will result in successful, high-visibility risk avoidance. The big bad wolf comes and is thwarted by the pig's efforts. The third little pig saved the day and got promoted—end of story.
In the real world, risk management is messier. Some of the risks that you spend time mitigating won't happen, and some of the risks you attempt to avoid will happen anyway, despite your best efforts. Additionally, some risks will occur that you didn't anticipate. Reasonable people can disagree about the likelihood or impact of a specific risk on the project, making risk planning sometimes contentious. This is where the adult part comes in. It is easy to second-guess even the best-risk management efforts, particularly after the fact.
Consider the following questions and statements surrounding some problems:
"Why did you waste time and money doing weekly backups? The hard drive never failed." Or, "The time invested doing backups was wasted because we still lost some data when the power failed."
"Why did we buy all those reserve parachutes? None of the mains failed." Or, "Jeff died parachuting when his main and reserve parachutes both failed to deploy, so those expensive reserve parachutes must not improve safety."
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Nice read Payson. Couple of other points I'd like to add under 6 truths to know about risks are:
1. Not all project members, including the project sponsors will have the same level of risk tolerance, making risk management a very important discussion to have in determining the levels of risk the group wants to take - this will also help arrive at a mitigation plan that has group consensus.
2. Sometimes taking risks would result in better returns. So weighing risks against returns is important in determining the right balance between the two.


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Belleville addresses church tombstones
Belleville's old Dutch Reformed Church became a focal point of the township, after Superstorm Sandy damaged the steeple and cross atop the church. Lately, attention has been refocused on its historic cemetery, where dozens of Revolutionary War soldiers are buried.
Toppled tombstones were still evident earlier this month in the cemetery of the church, now known as Iglesia Pentecostal Church, or La Senda Antigua, on Main Street in Belleville. The graveyard is the final resting place of several dozen Revolutionary War soldiers, perhaps the largest collection of individuals from that conflict in the nation.
Belleville Interim Township Manager Kevin Esposito said last week that officials had gone through the cemetery property several times. Sometimes it seemed as if the grounds were not maintained, but he added there had been a cleanup effort of overrun vegetation. Pastor Miguel Ortiz of La Senda Antigua said in late 2011 that nearly 60 bags of leaves had been taken out.
Ortiz could not be reached for comment by press time.
Ortiz, his wife, their attorney, and some church parishioners appeared before the Belleville Township Council prior to a meeting in February 2012.
"They called me in to have a meeting," said Ortiz at the time. "It was a good atmosphere, and they asked me to take care of the cemetery. I let them know that I wanted to preserve the history of the cemetery."
Council members at that meeting told Ortiz they expected the cemetery to be properly maintained, and also told him they were willing to provide township assistance if need be.
Esposito confirmed last week that the council had met with the pastor last year, and that Ortiz had also taken as much care as possible in cleaning up the debris.
Esposito also said that he had himself contacted the state cemetery board last year for possible funding; but he was told that many cemeteries in New Jersey were in deplorable condition, and that there was no money available.
He added that the township was encouraged to seek national grants, and may qualify for some.
"It's really a sad situation," said Esposito.
Ortiz said almost two years ago he had planned to put the fallen tombstones back in place with the help of a person experienced in such matters, and added that he also had respect for the graves. He had said that there was no way he had decimated the cemetery in the three years (at that time) that he had been the pastor at the old church, which temporarily closed its doors in 2006 before the church was revived by Ortiz's congregation.
Esposito pointed out that there were other property issues on the site since the passage of Sandy in late October, which knocked shingles and other debris from the church steeple and also bent the cross atop it. The cross was later tied down by the township, which placed a lien on the property earlier this year for nearly $43,000.
"The building is in a serious state," said Esposito.
Ortiz said months ago that the church had sought donations to help offset the lien, but had received none.
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Global events company Clarion Events has added a new show to its UK Defence & Security portfolio in the shape of AMBITION, the major national annual event for NHS ambulance services, their suppliers and partner agencies, which Clarion are looking to co-locate alongside Counter Terror Expo and Forensics Europe Expo, 29 – 30 April 2014.
The addition of AMBITION to Counter Terror Expo will provide a dedicated crisis response management element to the existing event, which held its 5th edition in April 2013 welcoming 9,264 attendees. The two events will draw on their existing synergies to provide one umbrella event for organisations involved in the emergency response, crisis management, resilience and pre-hospital care sector.
AMBITION is the only complete conference, exhibition and networking event that guarantees the attendance of senior managers and directors from all NHS ambulance services and the wider pre-hospital care sector.
Founder of the AMBITION event Carl Rees says: "AMBITION has been built around excellent content that allows professionals of all levels to learn something new and develop their knowledge and capabilities and provide excellent networking opportunities with other multiagency partners. This results in an exhibition that presents new products and technology in exciting ways that emphasise their benefits to patients as much as their efficiencies to managers."
"We have teamed up with Clarion Events as a credible partner for AMBITION that knew how to produce large scale events and had the structure behind it to help the event grow and I will now work alongside the Clarion team to take the new event forward."
Philip Hunter, Event Director at Clarion Events says: "AMBITION and the pre-hospital care market provide a great fit with our other events and clients and there are many crossovers in terms of content areas. This is why we felt we had a lot to offer to take AMBITION to the next level and we are looking forward to building a first rate show for the emergency response, crisis management, resilience and pre-hospital care sectors."
Says Carl Rees: "For exhibitors, AMBITION is all about bringing ambulance service suppliers closer to the people who buy their products in more meaningful ways than before. Ambulance staff, from a variety of levels, have valuable ideas and key input into the development and testing of new vehicles, kit and equipment. However there are very limited opportunities to bring suppliers and buyers together in a way that genuinely helps both parties. AMBITION's new position, dates and co-location will do exactly this."
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We were quite excited when Tiina and Juma told us that they had met some people in the shop who said that they could take us out to a longhouse. Our understanding was that it was their tribe's longhouse and we could go for a visit. The Auntie (no english) of the shopkeeper would meet us by our hotel and take us out for a little look around. We were quite excited as neither of us is really into the group tour-thing, so this seemed like a unique opportunity. However, our understanding of what we were about to do, and the reality were very different things
We stopped by the store to buy our gifts to present to the chief's family to thank them having us (a very polite and traditional thing I had read about). The Auntie drove very slowly and cautiously out of the town. We thought the road must be very rough and logging trucks dangerous. However, it turns out that she just didn't know where she was going! Not her home longhouse at all, but the one where 'they bring all the tourists'. Now we were stuck with a woman who didn't speak English, didn't know the tribe, and we arrived unannounced – complete disaster! Just as bad as optimistic Brian could have foretold (and which I'll probably never hear the end of). We were just standing there in someone's home staring at them as they commenced their daily life. There were things we would have liked to ask, but couldn't. What was the fruit they were harvesting and preparing? What are the raised sledged on the roof for? Where does the chief live?
People payed us little or no regard except perhaps for the odd bit of contempt. Then a few girls came out and tried to sell us stuff.
Well, I guess we can check 'longhouse' off the to-do list
We left with a unmistakable 'ick' feeling. Almost enough to spoil the time we've had here, as we really enjoyed Kapit. The small town has a very energetic feel and the curiosity and friendliness of the people is wonderful.
Put it out of our heads and treat it as a lesson learned. Perhaps booking an actual tour might have been better – or at least be a happy artificial simile. Teach us for trying to be real travellers.


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I'm not a fan of realtors, but no sincere or useful discussion is possible with comments like that.
In real life, people don't act like that because of social inhibitions. No one will stick around to talk to you.
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Hannah Johnson, daughter of Kenneth Johnson and Claudia Krause-Johnson of Los Alamos and David Edlin, son of Kent and Michelle Edlin of Pueblo, Colo., exchanged wedding vows on June 21, 2011 at the Hudson Gardens in Littleton, Colo.
Hannah graduated from the University of California, in Santa Barbara and David graduate from Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Currently, Hannah is a graduate student at the University of Colorado, School of Medicine in Aurora, Colo. David is presently a graduate student at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colo.
NEW YORK (AP) — Andy Rooney, the curmudgeonly commentator who spent more than 30 years wryly talking about the oddities of life for "60 Minutes," died Friday night, CBS said. He was 92.
Just a month ago, Rooney delivered his last regular essay on the CBS newsmagazine.
CBS said he died Friday night in New York from complications from a recent surgery.
Rooney, also a syndicated newspaper columnist, talked about what was in the news. But he was just as likely to use his weekly television essay to discuss the old clothes in his closet, why banks need to have important-sounding names or whether there was a real Mrs. Smith who made Mrs. Smith's Pies.
Dia de los Muertos conjures up a variety of images. Those which feature skeletons, painted skull faces and sugar skulls are the norm.
The Mexican holiday is usually celebrated Nov. 1 and Nov. 2, in connection with All Saints' Day and All Souls Day.
This year, a group of Española artists will exhibit their interpretations of Dia de los Muertos with an art exhibit from 6-9 p.m. Nov. 4 at the Nick Salazar Center for the Arts at Northern New Mexico College.
Views expressed on programs shown on PAC8 do not necessarily reflect the views of the manager, staff, or board.
Friday, November 4, 2011
06:00 AM Democracy Now! – LIVE!
10:00 AM The Thom Hartman Show
11:00 AM County Council Meeting Replay (10-25-11)
02:30 PM Los Alamos Council on Cancer – Breast Cancer Update
04:00 PM Al Jazeera DC Bureau
05:00 PM Democracy Now!
06:00 PM Los Alamos Historical Society – "Homesteads on the Pajarito Plateau"
07:30 PM Spirituality Today
08:00 PM Clear Heart, Pure Mind
We've all heard the story of Cinderella, who became an unlikely bride after being granted a wish by her fairy godmother and met a handsome, young prince. Her ugly stepsisters however weren't so lucky.
Then there's Little Red Riding Hood, who encountered a big, bad wolf while on her way to grandmother's house. In the end, a hunter saved Red Riding Hood and the wolf got a belly full of rocks for his trouble.
The fairy tales we grew up with all had a sweet ending and everyone lived happily ever after. Until now, that is. The Los Alamos Light Opera performed "Into the Woods" at the Duane Smith Auditorium. The performance had twists and turns to each tale. But then again, what else would one expect of the Brothers Grimm version?
1. "The Glass Castle," Jeannette Walls
2. "Half-Broke Horses," Jeannette Walls
3. "North and South," Elizabeth Gaskell
4. "Mudbound," HIllary Jordan
5. "Española: Images of America," Camilla Trujillo
6. "Steve Jobs," Walter Isaacson
7. "Feynman," Jim Ottaviani
8. "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter," Carson McCullers
9. "The Solar System," Marcus Chown
10. "Born to Run," Christopher McDougall
The following restaurant inspection reports were provided by the New Mexico Environment Department.
Los Alamos
Hilltop House Convenience Store, 400 Trinity Dr.
Date inspected: Oct. 18
Violations: Two high-risk violations, one for contaminated equipment and one for poor personal hygiene — hand wash sink is being used to do dishes due to the three-compartment sink leaking.
Status of establishment: Approved, follow-up required on Oct. 31.
Hilltop House Convenience Store, 400 Trinity Dr.
Date inspected: Oct. 26, follow-up
Actions: Three-compartment sink leakage corrected.
Status of establishment: Approved, no follow-up required.
The Sierra Club open meeting will feature Movie Night at 6:20 p.m. in the Mesa Public Library Upstairs Meeting Rooms. The movie will be, "Gasland." The Bush Administration's Haliburton Act exempted hydraulic fracturing for gas production from the Safe Drinking Water Act.
Los Alamos Chapter #63 will hold their annual sales of Collin Street Bakery fruitcakes, apricot pecan cakes and pineapple pecan cakes at Los Alamos National Bank on Nov. 3, 18, Dec. 2, 9 and 16. For information, call Betty Robertson at 662-5185.
The Mesa Public Library Free Film Series presents "Pieces of April" at 6:30 p.m.
There aren't a large number of craft fairs that can boast a 23-year track record, but the ladies of Beta Sigma Phi can.
At 9 a.m. Saturday, vendors will showcase their work at Crossroads Bible Church, 97 East Road.
Items available at the craft fair will include jewelry, clothes for pets, quilts, jerky, handmade wooden items and more. For some, the highlight of the event is the homemade goodies that shoppers can buy at the bake sale table. Confections of oatmeal, cranberry or chocolate chips will be available.
Coffee, tea or apple cider can be purchased and holiday music will entertain shoppers.
Beta Sigma Phi is a sorority based on friendship and culture that has deep roots in the heart of the Los Alamos community.
If we were playing Jeopardy and the category was cultural history, the answer would be "the ancestral pueblo, the homesteaders, the Boys Ranch School, the Manhattan Project and now home to one of the largest multidisciplinary, multi-program research institutions in the world." The question, of course, would be "What is Los Alamos?"
The ninth class of Leadership Los Alamos (aka "The Best Class") focused on "Being Culturally Inclusive in Leadership" in their second training session Oct. 14 at Fuller Lodge.
Barbara Judy, chief of resources at Bandelier National Monument and an alumnus of Leadership Los Alamos class, took the group on an accelerated journey through time.
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About to visit the square as I did yesterday. Talk about anything that has to do with incidents that have occurred on past June Fourths, or anything else. And it's hot here in Beijing today. A good day to wear white. Not to change the world, but just to show we think it's better to remember than forget.
[Moving this up to the top of the page.]
Update: Just received this photo a friend took at the remembrance vigil in Hong Kong and had to share. People do care and do remember. They can't wipe out everyone's memory by pointing to the economy
Richard Burger is the author of Behind the Red Door: Sex in China, an exploration of China's sexual revolution and its clash with traditional Chinese values.


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The Colors of Christmas: Why Santa Wears Red
Why does Santa wear red?
Believe it or not, present-day Santa owes his red robe not to an ancient legend or to an early myth but to the Coca Cola Company.
A long time ago Father Christmas was shown in clothes of different colours: green, purple, light-blue, navy blue, brown or red. Some illustrations even depict him as a multicolour figure wearing blue trousers, a yellow waistcoat and a red jacket. In some cases he even wore brown, black or white furs.
Image compiled from postcardimages.net
On his head he used to have a mistletoe crown, a hat, a nightcap, a bishop's mitre or a hood. Other versions showed him holding a glass of wine or smoking a clay pipe. As he was believed to go down the chimney of houses on Christmas Eve, soot stained his clothes.
Everything changed around 1930. Coca-Cola decided to use the image of Santa Claus in its winter advertising campaign and took on an American artist called Haddon Sundblom. Sundblom chose the official Cocal Cola colours -red and white- and designed a loose tunic fastened by a tight black belt. When Sundblom's campaign was over, Santa's image in a red robe had become popular all over the world.
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It might seem disturbing to some people the fact that Santa should be dressed in the same colours that characterize...(scramble the letters) Satan! Anyway, during the Depression of the thirties, Sundblom's Santa offered just what people needed at that critical time: a most welcome display of warmth and generosity.
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from the editor: Additional Influences Behind Santa's Red
Thanks to our wonderful contributor Cristina we know one reason why Santa wears red, but the Coca-Cola Companies mighty advertising power isn't the only reason. Here are a few more explanations:
In the New York Times a standardized Santa article including the "red suit" appears before Sundlom's illustrations:
From the Coca-Cola Company:
Most people can agree on what Santa Claus looks like — jolly, with a red suit and a white beard. But he did not always look that way, and Coca-Cola advertising actually helped shape this modern-day image of Santa.
2006 marks the 75th anniversary of the famous Coca-Cola Santa Claus. Starting in 1931, magazine ads for Coca-Cola featured St. Nick as a kind, jolly man in a red suit. Because magazines were so widely viewed, and because this image of Santa appeared for more than three decades, the image of Santa most people have today is largely based on our advertising.
Snopes.com's explanation:
This (coca-cola) legend is not true. Although some versions of the Santa Claus figure still had him attired in various colors of outfits past the beginning of the 20th century, the jolly, ruddy, sack-carrying Santa with a red suit and flowing white whiskers had become the standard image of Santa Claus by the 1920s, several years before Sundlom drew his first Santa illustration for Coca-Cola. As The New York Times reported on 27 November 1927: "A standardized Santa Claus appears to New York children. Height, weight, stature are almost exactly standardized, as are the red garments, the hood and the white whiskers. The pack full of toys, ruddy cheeks and nose, bushy eyebrows and a jolly, paunchy effect are also inevitable parts of the requisite make-up." … All this isn't to say that Coca-Cola didn't have anything to do with cementing that image of Santa Claus in the public consciousness. The Santa image may have been standardized before Coca-Cola adopted it for their advertisements, but Coca-Cola had a great deal to do with establishing Santa Claus as a ubiquitous Christmas figure in America at a time when the holiday was still making the transition from a religious observance to a largely secular and highly commercial celebration.
Yet another explanation from the book Why Does Santa Wear Red? ...and 100 Other Christmas Curiosities Unwrapped:
Early Santa Illustrations by Thomas Nast
Early Illutration by Thomas Nast with Santa lynching Jefferson Davis. As my source says: "Perhaps most interesting about this print is the special gift in Santa's hand. Santa is holding a dancing puppet of none-other-than Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America. The likeness to Jefferson Davis is unmistakable. Even more interesting, Davis appears to have the string tied around his neck, so Santa appears to by Lynching Jefferson Davis! This is a classic Thomas Nast illustration. This is Nast's first published picture of Santa Claus, and we can see many of our present images of Santa demonstrated in this Civil War illustration."
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Lol! Santa lynching Jefferson Davis! I guess that is much more disturbing than scrambling Santa's name and getting Satan!
I found something interesting about the colour of bishops' skullcaps:
During and after the Renaissance, a variety of colours and materials became prevalent with the colours designating rank. Only the pope can wear white, except for religious orders whose habits are white. On June 17, 1867, Pius IX granted amaranth red skullcaps to patriarchs, archbishops and bishops. Other clergy can only wear black.
If you want to go on reading, here is the link.
As usual: a wonderful job, David!
oh, the best video of me was from christmas when i was a little kid, when i spelled SATAN out of these little blocks we have that are supposed to spell SANTA. hey, i was a kid, and i thought the vowels went in the middle! ^^;;;; lol, santa hating someone that bad? sheesh, yaay for the civil war!
great post, and i hope you put more about holiday myths and facts! this is really interesting, thanks!
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Sea kayakers in Portland have a couple of problems. First, it can be hard to find someone to paddle with, if you don't already know a fellow enthusiast. Second, if you find someone willing to paddle, they likely don't have their own boat — meaning you're back out paddling solo again.
There's nothing wrong with that, except it's way more fun — not to mention a good bit safer — to paddle with friends. The easy solution, of course, would be to rent a boat for your willing partner. But until recently, renting a kayak wasn't possible in the Forest City. Rather, prospective paddlers were forced to leave downtown and drive north or south along the coast, or to sort out the ferry schedules to and from Peaks Island on either end of the trip. All this precluded a quick after-work paddle or the spontaneous choice to laze around the swells of a weekend afternoon.
But salvation is here, and there are no more excuses. Portland Paddle opened its hatches last weekend, right at the East End Beach.
It's a perfect spot to start a paddling trip — many owners already store their boats on the city-provided racks and launch from the beach. It's a very protected little corner of the harbor with great views, and provides super-easy access to a wide range of destinations. You can take a relaxed excursion among protected inlets, (carefully) explore wildlife nesting areas, check out the rarely viewed seaward sides of lighthouses, and watch lobstermen do their work at close range — if you're lucky, and have some cash on board, you may buy them fresh out of the trap!
Portland Paddle co-owners Zack Anchors and Erin Quigley are longtime East Enders who found themselves frustrated at the lack of paddling opportunities on the mainland hereabouts. So Anchors, a master Maine Guide who has led kayaking trips in many places for more than a dozen years, and Quigley, an experienced outdoorswoman who just got her Maine Guide license last month, teamed up to expand paddling opportunities in Portland.
They have about a dozen single kayaks and five tandems (as well as several stand-up paddleboards), all available for rentals by the day, half-day, or for an hour or two. (Buy a 10-rental punch card for a discount!)
The gear's all new; they let me put the very first scratches on the hull of a shiny Necky Looksha in late May, on the first official Portland Paddle outing, an afternoon route around the back of House Island via Fort Gorges. It's great stuff — put it to use!
Go it aloneIf you rent from Portland Paddle you'll need some kayak experience and self-rescue skills. (See below for class information if you need to learn, or brush up, on those skills.) They have wetsuits, life jackets, spray skirts, and paddles available at no additional cost. (For a half-day single kayak rental with all the gear too, you'll pay $40.)
Pop out to Fort Gorges in just a few minutes, or across to lunch on Peaks. Noodle among the islands for a relaxing afternoon of on-the-water sightseeing, and find a quiet beach to pull up on for a swim and a brief rest before heading back on your way. Paddle up the inland coast to Mackworth Island. Explore the inner harbor or even up the Fore River. Or head for the main passage out to the open ocean, checking out some of the more remote outer islands; adventurous paddlers can cross the channel (be careful!) to picnic at Willard Beach or Fort Williams Park.
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Extremism In The Defense Of Liberty
Springsteen, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, and a sizable roster of
other major rock stars united for a series of concerts this fall
in swing states to voice their collective dissatisfaction with the
Bush administration and the war in Iraq. John Fogerty recently released
a new album entitled Déjà
Vu All Over Again. The title song is a throwback to Wholl
Stop The Rain, a song of protest about another war nearly
40 years ago. Rock stars protesting an unpopular war and president
is nothing new, nearly every major and minor band had something
to say about Vietnam, from a B-band like Covens One
Tin Soldier to Jefferson Airplanes Volunteers.
The big difference was that those songs got steady airplay.
Channel and Sinclair Communications, both big Republican contributors,
are doing their best to make sure that artists like the Dixie Chicks,
Steve Earle, and the aforementioned Fogerty wont be heard.
While Country Joe and the Fish had a major hit with Feel Like
Im Fixin To Die 36 years ago, Republicans can
rest easy. It is highly unlikely that Tom Waits, R.E.M., Lenny Kravitz
or a host of other artists and bands who have released material
protesting the war in Iraq will ever enjoy the sales and popularity
that Joe McDonald had with his comical ragtime number.
the September 11 attacks musical expressions of shock and anger
began to surface. Most of these were patriotic country songs, such
as Toby Keiths breast-beating xenophobic Courtesy of
the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American). Neil Young,
Bruce Spring- steen, and other rock stars offered other kinds of
material reflecting on the aftermath of September 11. Last March,
with the start of Bushs war on terrorism in Iraq,
REM, John Mellencamp, the Beastie Boys, and others produced outright
antiwar songs. Since then songs voicing dissent have been conspicuously
absent. One can understand an artists reticence following
the McCarthy-like tactics that came as a response to Natalie Mainess
(of the Dixie Chicks) comments about President Bush while the group
was on tour last year. Not since Lennons misquoted Were
more popular than Jesus Christ, remark did the public and
radio collude in such a vicious fashion, with coast to coast record
burning rallies and the like. Surprisingly, those methods backfired.
While Clear Channel and other radio stations banned the Chicks from
their play lists, the group held sold out concerts in Los Angeles
and many other cities. People in the U.S. may be complacent to a
degree when it comes to their entertainment, but as a rule they
dont take kindly to corporate Goliaths picking on the little
artists such as Keb Mo have taken a different path. Instead of protesting
the war and the Iraqi reconstruction, courtesy of Halliburton, Keb
Mos new album, Peace Back By Popular Demand,
covers such songs as the Rascals People Gotta Be Free,
Dylans Times They Are a Changing, as well
as Lennons Imagine. Keb Mo sought to take
a more positive approach. This is not the time to be angry,
Keb Mo said. Some people are going to want blood for blood,
but that is not the answer. Mo may have a point that being
anti anything is not positive and that offering messages of peace,
love, and understanding is. Unfortunately Clear Channel, Sinclair,
and other media behemoths wont stop their censorship. Imagine,
a song that asks the listener to do exactly that, still tops the
list of do not play material at both networks.
much influence Springsteen and others have in swaying the voters
remains to be seen. While it is encouraging to see major artists
such as Springsteen and Jackson Browne taking a stand against an
unconscionable war, it is equally frightening to see how easily
those voices are kept to a minimum. While some independent
stations may buck the broadcast blackout on artists and songs protesting
the war, one has only to look at the numbers of corporate owned
stations in every major market to see that cities like Denver have
no other media outlets than those owned by conservative conglom-
erates that back the president.
government through the Patriot Act and its ever expansion
of powers is controlling what cant be controlled through ownership.
Government censorship in the defense of democracy is nothing new
to this country. Eighty-six years ago President Wilson signed the
Espionage Act, which was readily passed by a cooperative Congress.
The act gave sweeping powers to key federal figures, most of whom
were presidential appointees. The legislature only balked at legalizing
outright censorship of the press, even though Wilson deemed it an
imperative necessity.
Espionage Act gave the Postmaster General the right to refuse to
deliver any periodical he viewed as unpatriotic or critical of the
Wilson administration. Thomas Gregory, Wilsons Attorney General,
demanded that libraries report the names of patrons who requested
books deemed questionable and unpatriotic. Following
on the heels of the Espionage Act came the Sedition Act. This bold
bit of legislation made it a crime punishable by 20 years in prison
to utter, print, write or publish any disloyal profane, scurrilous
or abusive language about the government. To make certain
this law was enforced the FBI created a volunteer organization christened
the American Protective League. In just a few short months this
watchdog group had nearly 100,000 members. Even the progressive
Walter Lippmann called society too big, too complex for the
average person to comprehend, and urged that citi- zens subordinate
self-rule to order.
Cat Stevens was denied entry into the United States. The Homeland
Security Forces diverted his London to Washington flight to Bangor,
Maine so they could remove the former pop singer and send him packing
back to England. Obviously, Tom Ridge must have felt that Cat Stevens
was a security threat to the country or at the very least that a
song like Peace Train carried some subversive message
harmful to U.S. citizens.
Stephen Georgiou in the United States, he changed his name to Cat
in the late 1960s. After a string of pop hits Cat abandoned his
career and changed his name again, this time to Yusuf Islam. He
also converted to Islam and changed his U.S. address to an English
one. Cat has denounced the events of 9-11, the Spanish railway bombings,
and the Chechnyan attack on the Russian grade school, all perpetrated
by Muslim extremists. A visit to his website reveals all sorts of
archaic 1960s peace/love messages. Obviously, the peace messages
must be in code that Ridge and his cohorts were able to crack. The
irony was that Stevens/Islam was en route to Washington to promote
a CD that has half of its royalties going to the 9-11 Fund.
reason Yusuf Islam aka Cat Stevens was deported was that
his name is on the Homeland Securitys no-fly list.
This is the same security system that also put Senator Ted Kennedy
and Representative John Lewis on the no-fly list. Somehow
a Cat Stevens CD doesnt seem to be part of Al Qaedas
attack of terror on the United States. The real attack is far more
insidious. It comes from a White House administration that sells
fear like bottled water. Hopefully, Americans wont get fooled
again, as Pete Townsend would say, and allow their civil rights
and Constitutional freedoms to disappear. A democracy lacking basic
civil rights sounds awfully close to a dictatorship at worst and
a monarchy at best and we already told the British that homie dont
play that back in 1776.
John Zavesky
is a freelance writer based in California.


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Rose's Cocina
Location: 335 N.E. Dekalb Ave., Bend
Hours: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday to Thursday, 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday, 5-9 p.m. Saturday
Price range: Lunch $4.50 to $9.50; dinner appetizers $5.95 to $9.95, entrees $7.95 to $16.95
Credit cards: American Express, Discover, MasterCard, Visa
Kids' menu: Yes
Vegetarian menu: Options include a sautéed vegetable chimichanga
Alcoholic beverages: Beer, wine and margaritas
Outdoor seating: Seasonal patio
Reservations: Welcomed for large parties
Contact: www.rosescocinabend.com or 541-678-5360
Overall: B
Food: B. "Satisfactory but not satisfying"; carne asada is a good option.
Service: B. Welcoming but inconsistent, ranging from efficient to overwhelmed.
Atmosphere: B. Pleasant but unremarkable, without any particular Mexican ambience.
Value: B. Prices are moderate, but extra charges are irritating.
Twenty-nine years after its original opening, the restaurant that lays claim to being Bend's first authentic Mexican eatery has come full circle.
In 1985, Rosalva (Rose) Fields, born and raised in the Mexican coastal city of Culiacán, opened El Burrito in a little house just off Third Street south of Franklin Avenue. Her original preparations of tacos, enchiladas and, of course, burritos were something new to Central Oregon, and for 21 years the restaurant was a local favorite despite its just-off-the-beaten-track location on Dekalb Avenue.
Fields sold the restaurant in 2006. Its new owners, Judy and Jason Fuentes, kept many of her recipes with their own until they sold the restaurant last October.
The buyers were Rose's daughter, Nancy Fields Brown, and her childhood friend, Anne Sabo Birky, who were freshmen at Bend High School when El Burrito opened in 1985. The pair spent many of their teenage hours working at the restaurant, and they renamed it Rose's Cocina to honor their predecessor.
Nothing memorable
Today, three months after its mid-December reopening, Rose's Cocina is again a bustling restaurant. Many patrons were regulars when Rose herself was in the kitchen. As might be expected, this intimate restaurant also welcomes families.
There's nothing corporate about Rose's. That said, there is also nothing besides the warmth of its owners to make me want to return on a regular basis.
The food is good, but it's not memorable. The service is inconsistent.
And while the ambience is certainly pleasant, the décor is unremarkable. I feel as if this little restaurant is intentionally trying to remain under the radar of local diners.
A single-story former residence just east of Third Street, Rose's Cocina has a spacious off-street parking lot and a convenient ramp to a seasonal patio. It is otherwise nondescript, with simple signage and a modest front door. Inside, the room is newly painted in a sage color with dark wood trim. Its rustic appearance is accented by simple art work, mainly small photos in oversized wood frames. There is nothing particularly Mexican about it.
Service was very different on each of my two recent visits. On the first instance, the attendant appeared overwhelmed by a mere three tables; she was very slow to take orders and deliver food, leaving me and my dining companion without menus or water for a good 10 minutes. On the second occasion, our server was prompt and efficient at every turn, even though she was looking out for at least five tables.
A first meal
Diners at Rose's Cocina are greeted with a basket of tortilla chips, thicker than the usual store-bought variety. They are served with a dish of medium-spicy red salsa that is too thin for my taste; I requested a serving of pico de gallo — minced tomato, red onion and cilantro — to mix in and thicken the blend.
I started my first meal with a cup of tortilla soup, a house-made chicken broth that was at once salty and moderately spicy. In addition to the shredded chicken, diced tomato and avocado that are standard in this soup, the savory concoction included onions and cilantro. It was topped with grated Monterey Jack cheese and strips of those thick tortilla chips, and served with a flour tortilla.
I followed with a two-item combination plate, a chicken taco and an enchilada filled with pork carnitas. Neither was exceptional, but both were tasty. They were served with rice and beans — I opted for Spanish rice, cooked in tomato sauce, and black beans — with lettuce and sliced tomatoes on the side.
My companion ordered carne asada, tender slices of beef steak marinated in lime juice and seasonings, then flame-charred and served with fresh guacamole. She chose "corn rice" (white rice with kernels of yellow corn) and refried beans as accompaniments, along with corn tortillas.
Evening return
We began our subsequent dinner with a dish of guacamole, prepared tableside. As we watched, our server coarsely mashed an avocado in a serving dish, then blended it with fresh lime juice, pico de gallo, salt and other seasonings. It was a fine complement to chips.
On this occasion, my companion ordered a carnitas burrito, with the pork folded into a medium-sized flour tortilla with beans, rice, onions and cheese. A guacamole-sour cream blend topped a salad served on the side.
"It's satisfactory," she said of the burrito, "but it's not satisfying."
I ordered a blackboard special called Three Amigos Fajitas. A trio of meats — strips of steak and chicken, and a half-dozen tail-off shrimp — were sautéed and served with slices of red and green peppers and a very modest amount of onions. The meats, though not well spiced, were perfectly cooked.
When I order fajitas, I roll my meat and vegetables into a flour tortilla and eat it like a wrap. It's been my experience at most Mexican restaurants that a small stack of three or four tortillas is served in a special container for this purpose. So I was disappointed when my server presented me with only a single tortilla, albeit a large one wrapped in foil. When I requested additional tortillas, I was brought two more after a considerable wait. I was shocked to find a $2 surcharge tacked onto my bill for an a la carte order of tortillas!
And this was also curious: Offered the night's drink special, my companion ordered a passion-fruit margarita. She sipped and tasted grapefruit. I sampled and tasted strawberry. Neither of us tasted passion fruit. A couple of days later, I noticed that the blackboard menu offered a "strawberry grapefruit margarita" on the list of daily specials.
I suspect there may have been a mistake here, somewhere.
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Retro Moldova Hostel
Retro Moldova Hostel is ideally located in the central area of Chisinau. It is a 4-minute walk from the major attractions such as the Cathedral and Central Park.
The Hostel is ideally located in the city center of Chisinau. It is a 4-minute walk from the major attractions such as the Cathedral and the Central Park.
It is a small and cozy hostel composed of dorm rooms and two common areas. We offer free coffee and tea all day long, and free breakfast! Heating and hot showers, unlike in other places! There is a well-equipped kitchen at guests' disposal.
Friendly, English-speaking staff is ready to assist you 24 hours.
Availability & RatesTo view availability and prices please select dates and click 'Update Dates'
Hostel Facilities & Policies
- 24 Hour Reception
- 24 Hour Security
- Airport Transfers
- Board Games
- Book Exchange
- Breakfast Not Included
- Common Room
- Express check-in / out
- Telephone/Fax Facilities
- Free City Maps
- Free Internet Access
- Free Parking
- Free WiFi
- Fridge/Freezer
- Hair Dryers
- Hair Dryers For Hire
- Hot Showers
- Internet Access
- Iron / Ironing Board
- Key Card Access
- Self-Catering Facilities
- Late check-out
- Laundry Facilities
- Linen Included
- Security Lockers
- Luggage Storage
- Microwave
- Parking
- Reception (limited hours)
- Safe Deposit Box
- Steam Room
- Tea & Coffee Making Facilities
- Tours/Travel Desk
- Towels Included
- Washing Machine
- Wi-Fi
Cancellation PolicyThis property has a 1 day cancellation policy. Failure to cancel within this time will result in a cancellation charge equal to the first night of your stay.
Must-Read Hostel InfoThis property has specific Terms & Conditions.
Please note:
Only cash payment accepted on arrival
Check-in: 14:00
Check-out: 11:00
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Our ADDRESS: str. Cosbuc 3, ap. 24
From AIRPORT:
Take A Express Bus (3 lei) to Stefan cel Mare si Sfant Bvd. intersection with Puskin str. (Central McDonalds bus stop). Walk on Puskin str. towards Cosmonautilor str. for 5-7 mins (in the direction of Sun City mall). On Cosmonautilor str. turn right and walk one block. Once you pass the blue Carwash, turn left. It is the second building on your left, middle entrance, first floor, ap. 24.
From TRAIN station:
Take minibus 160, 122, or 103 to the intersection of Alexandru cel Bun str. and Puskin str. Walk one street down on Puskin str. towards Goga str. Follow directions above.
Located Near
The bus transportation is not very well-developed in Chisinau. We use minibuses instead, called rutiera or marshrutka that stop wherever you ask them to. To reach our location by minibus if you are already in the city, take minibus 160, 122, or 103 to the intersection of Alexandru cel Bun str. and Puskin str. Walk one street towards Cosmonautilor str. Follow further directions.


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Located in Chang Khlan, Le Meridien Chiang Mai is within 2 miles (3 km) of popular attractions such as Chiang Mai City Arts & Cultural Center and Wat Chiang Man. This 383-room, 5-star hotel welcomes guests with conveniences like a full-service spa, an outdoor pool, and a 24-hour fitness center. Centrally located in Chiang Mai, the hotel is also a short walk from Chiang Mai Night Bazaar and Wiang Kum Kam.
This hotel is home to 2 onsite restaurants, perfect for a quick bite to eat. Order from 24-hour room service to satisfy your hunger without leaving your room, or explore the hotel and get a beverage at the bar/lounge or coffee shop/café. For your convenience, a buffet breakfast is served for a fee each morning from 5:30 AM to 10 AM.
All of Le Meridien Chiang Mai's 383 rooms are air-conditioned and have an array of amenities, including sofa beds, minibars, and free bottled water. Guests can expect flat-screen TVs with cable channels, along with free WiFi and wired Internet. Bathrooms offer hair dryers and slippers, and beds sport premium bedding. Other amenities include safes, phones, and ironing boards.
Le Meridien Chiang Mai features a full-service spa, an outdoor pool, and a children's pool. Free valet and self parking are available—or if you're not driving, take the airport shuttle (available 24 hours) for THB 550 per vehicle one way. The front desk has multilingual staff on hand 24/7 to help with dry cleaning/laundry, concierge services, and luggage storage. Other amenities at this luxury hotel include a 24-hour fitness center, a sauna, and free WiFi in public areas.
Property features
- Free WiFi and wired Internet in rooms and public areas
- Free valet and self parking
- Onsite dining
- Spa
Le Meridien Chiang Mai
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
In addition to a full-service spa, Le Meridien Chiang Mai features an outdoor pool and a sauna. Dining is available at one of the hotel's 2 restaurants and guests can grab coffee at the coffee shop/café. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the hotel's bars, which include a poolside bar and a bar/lounge. Public areas are equipped with complimentary wired and wireless Internet access.
This 5-star property offers access to a business center and meeting rooms. This luxury hotel also offers a children's pool, a 24-hour fitness center, and spa services. For a surcharge, a roundtrip airport shuttle (available 24 hours) is offered to guests. Onsite self parking and valet parking are complimentary.
- Full-service spa
- 24-hour front desk
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Total number of rooms - 383
- Number of floors - 22
- ATM/banking
- Bar/lounge
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Business center
- Coffee shop or café
- Concierge services
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Express check-in
- Express check-out
- 24-hour fitness facilities
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Free WiFi
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Laundry facilities
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Meeting rooms 11
- Multilingual staff
- Free valet parking
- Terrace
- Poolside bar
- Porter/bellhop
- Luggage storage
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Number of restaurants - 2
- Free self parking
- Sauna
- Shopping on site
- Spa services on site
- Children's pool
- Outdoor pool
- Wedding services
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Outdoor pool
- Children's pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Laundry facilities
- Sofa bed
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired high-speed Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Free wired high-speed Internet
Free self parking, Free valet parking
Room Amenities
Le Meridien Chiang Mai offers 383 air-conditioned accommodations with minibars and safes. Beds feature premium bedding. Flat-screen televisions come with premium cable channels. Bathrooms include slippers and hair dryers.
This Chiang Mai hotel provides complimentary wired and wireless Internet access. Business-friendly amenities include desks and phones. Additionally, rooms include complimentary bottled water and irons/ironing boards. A nightly turndown service is provided and housekeeping is offered daily.
- Premium TV channels
- Premium bedding
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Air conditioning
- Phone
- Minibar
- Free bottled water
- Daily housekeeping
- Turndown service
- Slippers
- Hair dryer
- Iron/ironing board
- In-room safe
- Desk
- Sofa bed
- Cable TV service
- Flat-panel TV
- Free WiFi
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Room service (24 hours)
- Free cribs/infant beds
Where to Eat
Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 5:30 AM and 10 AM.
Le Meridien Chiang Mai has 2 restaurants on site.
24-hour room service is available.
Nearby Things to Do
An outdoor pool and a children's pool are on site. Other recreational amenities include a sauna and a 24-hour fitness center.
Spa Services
THE SPA has 8 treatment rooms including rooms for couples. Services include deep-tissue massages, hot stone massages, sports massages, and Swedish massages. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy, Ayurvedic, and hydrotherapy. The spa is equipped with a sauna, a spa tub, and a steam room.
The spa is open daily.
- Body treatments
- Facial treatments
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Sauna in spa
- Spa tub in spa
- Hot stone massage
- Deep tissue massage
- Swedish massage
- Steam room in spa
- Thai massage
- Reflexology
- Sports massage
- Detoxification wrap
- Couples treatment rooms
- Body wraps
- Body scrubs
- Number of treatment rooms 8
- Massages
- Hydrotherapy treatments
- Ayurvedic treatments
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Check-in time ends at midnight
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! One child 12 years old or younger stays free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for THB 1500 per night.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
No rollaway/extra beds available
- New Year's Eve (31 December) Gala Dinner per adult: THB 5999
Optional extras
- Fee for buffet breakfast: THB 650 for adults and THB 325 for children (approximately)
- Airport shuttle fee: THB 550 per vehicle (one way)
- Rollaway bed fee: THB 1500 per night
Hotel Name
- Chiang Mai Meridien
- Meridien Chiang Mai
- Meridien Hotel Chiang Mai
- Le Meridien Chiang Mai Hotel Chiang Mai
We should mention
Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments. Reservations can be made by contacting the hotel prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. One child 12 years old or younger stays free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding.
Children's Dining Special Offer
Book a stay in any room or rate category and receive the following: Children 2 years and younger eat free, and children 3 - 12 years old receive 50% off breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Full details 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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The new Roku 3500R Streaming Stick works wonderfully with the Rear Entertainment System! I've been testing it for nearly 4 weeks and the kids love it. I'm using my LTE Samsung Galaxy S4 as the mobile hotspot and the USB rear port to power the stick. One suggestion is to purchase a right angle Male/Female HDMI adapter otherwise opening the armrest will break the streaming stick (I've attached pictures) without the sideways adapter to keep it flush to the seat. The streaming stick does take a little while to boot up since you can't leave it on and opening up Netflix is much slower than on the Roku 3 version (though opening Amazon is much faster), but once streaming it works fine. This is a great solution if you don't want to deal with DVDs and want access to the many Roku channels. The surround sound and video quality has been superb. Unfortunately while using the mobile phone as a hotspot you are locked out of Wi-Fi mode and can't use the superior Roku remote app and must use the provided remote which is certainly good enough. In about two weeks I'll be testing two Roku streaming stick inputs simultaneously with head phones while streaming Pandora to the speakers.
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Generatorgate – The cover-up is worse than the crimeBy Tina Renna | December 4, 2012
I've been told that the Union County Prosecutor's office is opening up their interviews into Generatorgate with a statement "There is nothing criminal here, we are only looking into this because Tina Renna put it on her blog."
Well if there is nothing criminal, why would the Prosecutor be wasting resources investigating?
To cover it up I suspect. To package it neatly for the freeholders to excuse away. The cover up is worse than the crime. And I'm going to keep pressing the ball on this as it shows a rampant disregard for public property and an inherent abuse of the public trust. There is no law and order when the county prosecutor is a political hack charged with protecting the machine and its underlings.
Although it is against their official policies, Union County employees are allowed to "borrow" tools, I've been told. With no check out and check in system in place. There is no county database of hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of generators, chainsaws and whatnot. Generatorgate is an opportunity to shine a light on the larger problem of rampant employee theft and mismanagement.
I believe I know most if not all of the names of employees who are alleged to have taken home generators, including the county police who are charged with investigating chain saws that were taken about a year ago. That investigation involving a freeholder's son is being allowed to drag on. It isn't just three employees involved in generatorgate, with permission from their boss, as the county would like us to believe.
I am hoping the F.B.I. will investigate the misuse of federal funds in regards to the generators. But, I am confident that the State Attorney General's Office will have to weigh in on these local thefts because Union County isn't the only one affected and I'm not the only one making noise about it.
It's been reported that the Passaic County Prosecutor is aggressively going after the North Haledon Mayor and the police chief for taking home generators and the North Haledon council has recently hired a law firm to guide their inquiry into whether anything was illegal about it.
The Star-Ledger's coverage on Union County generatorgate has been predictable, including a dressed up county press release with a canned quote from Freeholder Mirabella feigning outrage. I won't waste your time by reposting it. This is the quote that's important:
Governor Chris Christie in response to a schools Superintendent taking home a generator:
"It sounds to me as if somebody is going to be looking for a new job and should be," Christie said. "You cannot do that kind of stuff, it's not allowed. If the facts are what you say they are, Westwood is probably in the market for a new superintendent, would be my guess."


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Gonnegtion is term used in the novel The Great Gatsby. Meyer Wolfsheim mistakenly takes Nick for a criminal and asks if he is looking for a gonnegtion. The word is a misspelling of the word "connection" in order to emphasize Mr. Wolfsheim's pronunciation. Many people have been thrown by the word, and have scrambled to dictionaries in hopes of getting a definition.
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Clinical Training Sites and Services
Welcome to Chicago!
We hope that if you just visit or decide to stay, you will enjoy Chicago as much as we do here at UIC. We have diverse training sites for residents that cover the range from community psychiatry to the state mental health system to the tertiary care center at the university.
A. The Neuropsychiatric Institute (NPI)
912 S. Wood St., Chicago, IL 60612
Directions: To this Site | From this Site
The Neuropsychiatric Institute houses the UIC Psychiatry Outpatient Clinics, which include residents' clinical offices and seminar rooms. Originally, when it opened in 1941, the institute was directed as a joint venture between the Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry at the 100-year-old College of Medicine, with neurology patients, offices, and labs located in the north tower, and psychiatry patients, offices, and labs in the south tower. The Institute has achieved a national reputation for its excellence in academic psychiatry. One of Illinois's first psychiatric residency programs was created here in 1946. From that time we have educated and trained leaders in psychiatry throughout Illinois as well as the nation. The clinical programs of Mood and Anxiety Disorders, Psychotic Disorders, Neuropsychiatry/Behavioral Neurology, and Women's Mental Health are located in this building.
B. University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Medical Center Hospital
1740 W. Taylor St., Chicago, IL 60612
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The Psychiatry Inpatient Unit is located on campus (across the street from the NPI) in the University of Illinois Hospital. The inpatient unit is a modern, 35 bed psychiatric facility. Patients are admitted for moderate or extended lengths of stay, depending on the nature of their illness. There are four inpatient teams: Mood and Anxiety, Psychotic Disorders, Women's Mental Health, and Neuropsychiatry.
C. Institute for Juvenile Research (IJR)
1747 W. Roosevelt Rd., Chicago IL 60612
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The Institute for Juvenile Research, established in 1909, constitutes the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry for the Department of Psychiatry at UIC. In addition to its important role in the training of medical students and general psychiatry residents, IJR also offers child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship programs. Individual therapy with children and adolescents and an active marital and family therapy program, which serves the community, allows for the training in a variety of professional services. IJR also provides consultation to various schools and neighborhood community agencies. In 2004, the Institute moved to its current location in a modern facility.
D. Veterans Administration (VA) - Jesse Brown Medical Center
820 S. Damen Ave. Chicago, IL 60612
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The West Side Division of VA Chicago is within walking distance from the UIC College of Medicine campus. It is a 209-bed facility with integrated residency programs in all disciplines, including psychiatry. A comprehensive range of services is available, including emergency treatment, inpatient and outpatient treatment, consultation/liaison, day hospitalization, and addiction services. There are 40 general psychiatry beds and a 40-bed residential facility linked with outpatient addiction treatment services. There is a day hospital program and an Intensive Psychiatric Community Care program providing outreach services. A large outpatient addiction treatment program offers specialized treatment for alcoholism and includes a methadone clinic. Outpatient mental health services include clinics for geriatric patients, women, chronically mentally ill patients, veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder, and affective disorders. In addition to its important role in the general training of residents, major training opportunities are available at the VA in the areas of primary care psychiatry, substance abuse, and geropsychiatry.
E. MacNeal Hospital
3249 S. Oak Park Ave. Berwyn, IL 60402
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MacNeal Hospital, located in Berwyn, is approximately 8 miles from UIC, is a 427-bed privately-owned, community teaching hospital. UIC PGY 2 residents rotate on the inpatient psychiatry. The inpatient service consists of four 12-bed units, each with a different focus – geriatric psychiatry, chronic illness, and higher functioning, and acute stabilization. Patients are drawn from the surrounding communities of Berwyn, Cicero, and Oak Forest.
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1200 S. First Ave., Hines, IL 60141
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Madden MHC is located next to the campus of Loyola University Medical Center and the Hines Veterans Administration Hospital in Maywood, a western suburb of Chicago. As part of the state-wide network of care provided by private and public mental health services, Madden MHC maintains a close link with community providers in the surrounding areas. Services provided include short-term, intermediate-term, and long-term inpatient care for adults, treatment services for adults with mental illness, and specialized services for patients diagnosed as both mentally ill and mentally retarded. UIC residents spend 2 or 3 months on the inpatient psychiatry service during their PGY 2 year and are not assigned call at Madden.


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ANAHEIM, Calif. - Jonas Hiller faced only 18 shots in his first shutout of the season, Corey Perry scored in the first period and the Anaheim Ducks beat the Phoenix Coyotes 2-0 on Wednesday night for their ninth straight home victory.
The teams met for the third straight time in a five-day span, following a pair of 5-4 shootout victories by the Coyotes in Phoenix on Saturday and Monday.
This was the first time the Ducks played three consecutive games against one opponent in the regular season. The only other time the Coyotes did it was during a six-day stretch in November 2007 against San Jose, when they lost all three by a combined score of 15-1.
The Ducks have the second-best record in the NHL at 16-3-3 and still trail the astounding Chicago Blackhawks by 10 points.
Jason LaBarbera made 22 saves for Phoenix, one of them on a penalty shot by Andrew Cogliano at 5:17 of the second period. It was the 33-year-old journeyman's third start in net this season, including back-to-back losses to San Jose and Los Angeles in late January. LaBarbera's only victory came in relief, when he stopped 21 of 22 shots in a 5-1 win against Columbus after Mike Smith came out midway through the first period with an upper-body injury.
• Blackhawks 3, Ava-lanche 2: In Chicago, Daniel Carcillo scored the tiebreaking goal with 49.3 seconds left in regulation and the Blackhawks won their 11th consecutive game to extend the best start in NHL history.
Jonathan Toews and Andrew Shaw also scored for Chicago (21-0-3), which reached the halfway point of a lockout-shortened season without losing in regulation.
• Maple Leafs 5, Senators 4: In Toronto, Phil Kessel had a goal and two assists to help Toronto hold off Ottawa in a game that included a one-sided fight. Only 26 seconds into the latest installment of the Battle of Ontario, Toronto tough guy Frazer McLaren knocked out Dave Dziurzynski when he caught the Ottawa forward flush with a right to the chin, sending him face down to the ice. A woozy Dziurzynski was slow getting up and eventually needed help from two teammates to skate off.
• Flames 4, Sharks 1: In Calgary, Alberta, Miikka Kiprusoff made 32 saves in his return from a knee injury to lead Calgary.


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The Prince of ALL Saiyans is back again!
Well, here's what the preview from earlier today was about. Prepare yourself and start your training, the prince of all Saiyans is arriving soon, April to be exact. S.H. Figuarts Vegeta will be making his way with a scouter, crushed scouter, and poseable tail. Possibly some other things, but nevermind that, it's Saiyan Saga Vegeta.
It's official, Vegeta is coming. Rejoice and make way for the Prince. His price and more photos will come later, but just enjoy what is to come.
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