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Cliff Bleszinski is dissatisfied with the current landscape of shooters. Speaking to a group of journalists gathered at Boss Key Productions – the studio he built after coming out of retirement in 2014 – 'CliffyB' bemoans the amount of "damn colour" used and character casts targeting a younger audience. Lawbreakers hopes to offer a "Quentin Tarantino-like sensibility as opposed to a Pixar one". While some of the Lawbreakers' attempts at maturity border on juvenile, as a game, it has the potential to stand out from the crowd.
Lawbreakers has a similar setup to Overwatch: two teams face off in numerous objective-based battles, with each character class possessing unique abilities. Where Lawbreakers deviates is in its manipulation of gravity. A section of every map will allow players to duke it out in zero-G. Once you pass through the barrier, traversal in any direction is possible, which at times can get a little chaotic.
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Traversing in zero-G works by holding W and using the mouse, to pick the direction you want to move. Momentum allows you to move in one direction while shooting in another, but to try and do anything gracefully is tricky. Several attempts to land delicately on a rooftop to gain a vantage point over an enemy ended with me landing inches in front of their ready-to-fire rockets.
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The other key feature is the ability to blind-fire weapons. Shooting directly behind you at first seems like a great way to get kills on chasing enemies, but in actuality it's more a useful way to get around in zero-gravity. Firing a rocket launcher behind you, for example, propels your soldier much faster through the anti-grav space. Any blindfire kills were incredibly rare, and thanks to the lack of a minimap, were more luck than judgement.
Lawbreakers currently features eight characters split into four classes, with more to come in the lead up to launch and beyond. Each character offers a different realisation of Bleszinski's "more mature" vision. A DEA agent, an assassin, shady syndicate operatives. While some characters do certainly intrigue, others fail to capture the mature-feel and simply devolve into childish.
Kitsune, an assassin, will utter intriguing quotes after kills. "That's for what you did to my brother" suggests a deeper narrative arc between her and the victim, I was curious to delve deeper into the lore. Kintaro, on the other hand, is a cocky Vanguard who'll spend most of the time telling the world how awesome he is along with a few expletives. A few f***s and g*d d***s a mature game does not make, and it devolved 'maturity' into an easily-dismissed buzzword. It's a shame that such a one-dimensional character exists when clearly there's potential to do better.
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The teams – Law and Breakers – will feature the same class types, each with matching weapons and abilities, meaning contests are defined by player skill rather than 'who has the better gun'.
Jumping into a match, it's immediately clear that the classes have been balanced to a fine (and very violent) game of rock, paper, scissors. The assassin class is incredibly fast and agile, equipped with a limited-use dash to get around the map quicker and dodge projectiles. Kitsune and Hellion (the Law's assassin class) also have a grapple hook to zip around or bury into enemies and zip towards them for devastating kills.
While the assassin is great at dishing out punishment, she isn't very good at taking it, and that's where the Titans come in. Cronos and Bomchelle are Lawbreakers' tanks, equipped with rocket launchers as standard and more health than any other class. Titans are Kryptonite to assassins. As Kitsune, my best one-on-one battles were against Bomchelle, and it's because Lawbreakers has a beautiful balance. The rock, paper, scissors aspect leaves it in the hands of the player to make scissors overcome that giant rock. It's an excellent setup that makes for wonderfully intense moment-to-moment action.
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While the action can be intense and incredibly fast-paced, actually getting to the fight can prove a little sluggish.
Each character's base speed feels slow outside of encounters. The only exception to this are the Vanguards, who can use jetpacks to zip around the map at a much faster speed for a limited time. However, when a round reaches its closing moments, sometimes the journey from base-to-battle is too far, creating a sense of hopelessness in the final 30 seconds, which is a shame because that's when Lawbreakers is at its best.
The mode we got to play – Overcharge – places a battery in the centre of the arena, both teams are required to return it to their base's charging station. If the opposing team takes the battery, it keeps its charge. This makes for an incredibly intense final few minutes, as you desperately fight to retain or regain the battery in crowded choke points. Bleszinski said during the opening presentation that having a game which creates shareable moments which can spread across social media was a key philosophy. It's clear that viral (and free) advertising is one way Boss Key hopes to spread word of mouth and drive sales.
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There were many moments where I felt the hero; making that all-important kill just as the enemy Enforcer was about to capture the battery with 99% charge. However, equally, there were times when I died trying to get a battery back with almost a minute left in the match, and deemed it pointless to try and save the day as it simply takes too long to travel from respawn to enemy base.
Considering we only saw a tiny snippet of the game, the minor gripes I had were things that could easily be balanced, and overall Lawbreakers feels very promising. There is an excellent sense of to-and-fro. One consistently off-putting thing about other multiplayer shooters is that unstoppable wave that is an opponent's momentum. In Overcharge at least, you never feel out of the fight entirely. The battery can be with an opponent until it's 99% charged, but if you grab it in the last moments, you get the win. It was wonderful, and those sorts of wins proved even more satisfying than any dominant performance.
While playing Lawbreakers, I sat wondering where the longevity will come in. Having grown up on the grind of Call of Duty and old-school brawlers, I'm preconditioned to expect to put the hours in to access the 'good stuff'. However, with Lawbreakers dropping its free-to-play model, all playable content will be available to players after the initial purchase, with microtransactions coming in the form of cosmetic items.
As a multiplayer-only shooter, I feared that Lawbreakers will be another game that opens with a bang before petering out after a few hours.
However, after leaving Boss Key, and chatting with other players about their matches, my thoughts immediately turned to strategising future games. My time with Lawbreakers was spent wondering when I'll stop, but in the time since all I can think about is when I can play it again.
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Ok, ok…. we're not getting suggestive here. The answer is obvious: to make a fashion statement, to have coverage during your water adventures, or something to quickly rip on or off your sun-kissed body when the mood hits.
But it got us thinking… what did people do prior to the advent of bathing suits? Actually, ready for this? Swimmers cavorted in the buff. Yes. You heard right. We did some research on this and it's true: bathing suits didn't used to exist, and all classical pictures of swimming show nude swimmers. If folks used to swim in the buff, why don't we continue to do so? Why do we spend our hard earned money covering our, arguably, most valuable parts with colorful bathing suits? Let's take a look into the past…
The English practice of men swimming naked was formally banned in 1860. It does seem that the Brits led the way on swimming apparel regulations and interesting apparatuses. For example, were you aware of a creature called a "bathing machine"?
Bathing machines were principally used in the 1800's before bathing suits were invented. These "machines" allowed women to access the water without being viewed. Designed by Benjamin Beale, a Quaker, the structure allowed women the pleasures of bathing in a private manner. The structure, similar in design to a sizeable outhouse, sat on axels and large wheels. They were pushed in/pulled out of the water via horses in a manner similar to a plow horse tilling the field. Some resorts were savvy enough to have rails leading into the water upon which the bathing machines were tracked.
A would-be swimmer entered the machine in full street attire, removed their clothing and were lowered into the water. Later, when bathing suits were invented, female swimmers would change and store their clothes in a compartment high inside the room. Once lowered, swimmers (mostly women, although also used in some areas by men) would exit directly into the water with the bathing machine structure shielding view from beach onlookers. Sometimes "dippers" (stronger females or males) would be available to help swimmers in and out of the water. This has us a little curious… Does this mean that "dippers" were "peekers" as well?
In the early 1900's mixed gender bathing became acceptable, so bathing machines transitioned to beachside changing rooms and later cabanas. I guess we could say that an 1800's "male dipper" is analogous to today's "cabana boy".
Some of the first bathing suits were made from flannel, believing the warmer fabric would help protect against the colder water. Originally, women wore "bathing gowns" that would not be transparent when wet. Men would wear a form-fitting garment that resembled "long john" underwear made from wool. This design stayed consistent in men's "bathing" wear for a century. There were two-piece designs for women, but they still essentially covered the entire body.
It wasn't until after WWII that the first bikinis became acceptable and fashionable, however, the bottoms had to cover the naval. Small bit of trivia: Bikini's are named after " Bikini Atoll" in the Marshall Islands. The Bikini islands were the site of extensive nuclear tests and had become fairly well known at time. Designer Louis Reard introduced the bikini at a Paris fashion show in 1946. It was described as "the atom bomb of fashion" and "like the bomb, the bikini is small and devastating".
It wasn't until the 1960's that men's swim trunks and women's design "lost fabric" and became an entirely different fashion statement. Over the past 50 years designs and fabrics have changed and quite frankly, gone back and forth from "less is more" to "more is better". It genuinely depends on which beach in what part of the world you happen to be playing on.
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Good article, but there are a couple of things you got wrong. You indicated that, starting in the 1960s, "men's swim trunks and women's design "lost fabric" and became an entirely different fashion statement." While this is generally true for women's suits, the same does not hold true for men's suits. The large flannel suits for men that you mentioned, made out of a flannel material, were pricey and very few men could afford them. Therefore for most of the late 1800s and early 1900s men either continued to swim naked or, when this was not possible, they wore a much smaller suit that covered about as much as the modern swimming briefs. In some parts of the country, however, male nudity while swimming was still so common that swim teams would compete in the buff in front of mixed audiences. This continued in a few places as recently as the early 1960s. By the 1920s these swim briefs gave way in some parts of the country to the longer flannel suits you mentioned above, largely due to local ordinances in some places that forbid males from appearing bare-chested in public. These ordinances didn't last long, however, and by the late 1930s the tops were off again. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s most male swim trunks were similar in style to the modern speedo, albeit covering just a bit more. Starting in the late 1950s and early 1960s there was a divergence in swimwear, with new swim trunks either covering a bit more or a bit less. The longer swim trunks were popularized by surfers, who needed protection for their upper legs when sitting on their surfboards due to the wax that would rip off their leg hair with some of the skin if they didn't have a layer of cloth between the board and their upper legs. For much of the 1960s the shorter brief-style swimwear continued to gain in popularity, and is now dominant in most of the world. In the United States, however, the longer board shorts of the surfers caught on with the larger population as the 1970s gave way to the 1980s and 1990s. They still are more popular than the swim briefs, although the latter are starting to have a resurgence.
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New Braunfels Herald Zeitung (Newspaper) - July 2, 1995, New Braunfels, Texas Opinion ta To talk with Managing Editor Doug Loveddy about the Opinion page, call 625-9144, ext. 21 ll (> i .I I cl u ii () QUOTA B L E "The public's disaffection with the media ... is always sharpest when it doesn't like what it sees on television, hears on the radio or reads in the newspaper." — Tom Johnson television news executive, 1994 E D I I T O R I I A L Say "No" to Unabomber Dilemma faced by N York , Washington Post really a no-brainer The Unabomber, that crafty domestic terrorist whose bombs have killed three and injured 23 in the last 17 years, has drawn a line in the sand. Unless the New York Tunes and the Washington Post publish the Unabomber's 62-page, singled-spaced manifesto, more bombs will go off and more people will be killed, the Unabomber said. Management at both papers was said to be weighing the issue Friday, realizing that by not publishing what would be seven full newspaper pages of terrorist rantings, bloodshed may ensue. They were also talking with authorities about the dilemma. But there really is no question about how to answer the Unabomber's threats — they should tell him outright, "Hell No!" Newspapers are an open forum, but the content of that forum should never be dictated by a terrorist who hangs threats and warnings of the heads of journalists. By buckling under this demand, it's frightening to think of what may follow. Kooks and crazies would come crawling out of the woodwork if they felt they could get on the front page of their town's newspapers. All they would have to do threaten and frighten sufficiently to have their way. And of few of them might follow through if their demands were not met. But in this instance, the unabomber is expecting something from both the New York Times and the Washington Post without providing real proof of his sincerity to stop his terroristic actions. Do we really trust this nut case enough? We shouldn't He's just as liable to get his way and then turn around and make more demands. The answer is "no." And as for those who might blame newspapers if the Unabomber makes good on his threats — you've got it all wrong. The only person responsible for the Unabomber's actions — both past and future — is the Unabomber. Spreading blame around for a terrorist's actions is unfair and ; unwise. * (Today's editorial was written by Managing Editor Doug Love-: day.) •Write us 'The New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung welcomes letters on any public ; issue. The editor reserves the right to correct spelling, style, punctua-; tion and known factual errors. Letters should be kept to 250 words. • We publish only original mail addressed to The New Braunfels Herald-'• Zeitung bearing the writer's signature. Also, an address and a telephone ' number, which are not for publication, must be included. * Please cite the page number and date of any article that is mentioned. Preference is given to writers who have not been published in the ^-previous 30 days. 4 •Mail totters to: ^Letters to the Editor do The New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung P.O. Drawer 311328 New Braunfels, Texas 78131-1328 Fax: (210) 625-1224 New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung Editor and Publisher............................................................David Sullens General Manager............................................................Cheryl Duvall Managing Editor...........................................................Doug Loveday Advertising Director......................................................Tracy Stevens Circulation Director....................................................Carol Ann Avery Pressroom Foreman...................................................Douglas Brandt Classified Manager........................................................Laura Cooper City Editor.....................................................................Roger Croteau Published on Sunday mornings and weekday mornings Tuesday through Friday by the New Braunfels Herdd-Zeiumg (LISPS 377-880) 707 Lands Si. or RO. Drawer 311328, New Braunfels. Comal County, Tx. 78131 • 1328. Second claw postage paid by the New Braunfels Heraltt-Zsiiung in New Braunfels, Texas. Carrier delivered in Comal and Guadalupe counties: three months, $19: six months, $34: one year, $60 Senior Citizen Discounts by carrier delivery only: six months, $30; one year, $96. Mail delivery outside Comal County in Texas: three months, $28.80; six months, $52; one year. $97.90. Mail outside Texas: six months, $75; one year, $112.25. Subscribers who have not received a newspaper by 5:30 p.m. Tuesday through Friday or by 7:30 a m. on Sunday may call (210) 625-9144 or by 7 p.m. weekdays or by 11 a.m on Sunday. PoerMAiiVB: Send address changes to the New Braunfels HeraUl-Zeiiung, P.O. Drawer 311328. New Braunfels. Tx 78131-1328 Online oontaot I To submit letters end guest columns electronically by way of online services or Internet, or to simply contact staff members, the Herald-Zeltung's address Is HZeitungCAOL.com. |t l|IIIIHIII Faint-hearted stay clear of tea Monday night I went to the kitchen and got out some tea. When I lifted the lid, I found a thick layer of mold, like a slimy pancake, floating on the top. Perfect. I removed the layer of mold, strained the tea through a white cloth, added ice and had a glass. Oh, I should mention, the mold was supposed to be there. It's called a kombucha mushroom, although it is not really a mushroom, but a mold formed by a symbiosis of yeast cells and bacteria. A growing number of kom-. bucha drinkers claim the fermented tea cleanses poisons from the body, prevents cancer, increases the T-cell count in AIDS patients, grows hair, eliminates wrinkles, causes weight loss, lowers cholesterol, helps insomnia, constipation, hemorrhoids, diabetes, bronchitis, asthma, allergies... the list goes on and on. Frankly I'm skeptical. But it does give me an interesting conversation topic, and I just like saying "kombucha". Here's how it works: You get a kombucha mold, my rider sister gave me mine. You brew a few quarts of Lipton's black tea, add sugar, let it cool and put it in a big, non-metallic bowl. Then you float your kombucha mushroom on the top, cover it with a Roger Croteau cloth and put it in a dark cabinet for a week. After a week, your tea is ready, and the mushroom has reproduced itself. A new kombucha mushroom has grown on top of the old one. So now you can make two batches of tea, or find some sucker to give your extra mold to, like my sister did. So what does it taste like? Not great My sister credits the tea with helping her lose 12 pounds. I believe it. You're supposed to drink four ounces first thing in the morning on an empty stomach. To tell you the truth, I haven't felt much like eating for hours after drinking the tea. It tastes kind of like flat, sour, hard cider, although the literature that I got with my mushroom says it tastes like a light Moselle wine. So anyway, my first batch of kombucha tea is in the refrigerator. I've gagged down a small glass each morning. We'll see if I have any amazing health results to report in a few months. In the mean time, I had this extra kombucha mold to get rid of (it seemed a shame to throw it away, and I'll have enough trouble polishing off one pitcher a week). So Fve been trying to sell my co-workers on it The average conversation goes like this: "You look a little run down, you should try some kombucha tea!" Co-worker - "What's k ombucha tea." Me - "Well kombucha is this mold. It looks like a rig, slimy pancake, and you float it in your tea for a week in a closet and it ferments. Then you drink it" Co-worker gives me a stranger look durn usual - "I think I'll pass." So I threw away my first kombucha baby (that's what they call the new mold that grows on the top of the original). Then I thought to ask Allene Blaker, our editorial assistant and an adventurous type. She once sailed to Hawaii with her husband Clay — 22 days at sea. At first she was skeptical. "I think I'll let you drink it for a week or two, and if your still alive, I might take one," she told me. So I brought her a glass of the tea, and she actually liked the taste. Now she's down for my next kombucha. Sue England, one of our reporters, also tried a sip. She said it didn't taste too bad, but it smells like sweaty feet I don't think she'll be growing kombucha in her cabinets any time soon. Erica Nies, who works on the other side of the wall in advertising here at the Herald, is another adventurous type. I know she's adventurous because she has a pierced naval. So I gave her the kombucha sales pitch, and now she's down for my second kombucha baby. But I think that's about all ITI be able to give away here at work. So, if you want to jump on the kombucha bandwagon, and join the thousands of crystal worshipping, tree-hugging New Age types who swear allegiance to the Mushroom with a Mission, give me a call at the Herald (625-9144) and I'll give you your own slab of mold and directions on how to get started. And you too can join the kombucha generation. (Roger Croteau is the Herald-Zeitung city editor.) What do you think? ? I I I I I I I I I Bi «— BWHWi mm mm BWPBFBBKHPBB M I Do you support drug testing of athletes In public schools? Yes or No (circle one) Comments/Explanations_ A recent U.S. Supreme Court has opened the door to random drug testing of public school athletes. Justices voted 6-3 to allow the testing, saying that students who participate in sports are open to such scrutiny. Some proponents of testing argue that the threat of random drug testing will deter some student athletes from using drugs, but opponents claim that testing just athletes unfairly targets that group while other students in different extracurricular activities are left alone. We want to know what you think. RU out the coupon (right), drop it by our office at 707 Landa St, New Braunfels. TX 78130 or fax survey to (210) 625-1224. Copied forms are accepted. Deadline for this survey is Saturday, July 8,1995. I - I I Name I L Age. Sex. Address. Phone#. City_ I I I I I I I I I I J Bill blocked by two liberals WASHINGTON (AP) — Compromise spending cuts backed by President Clinton and Republican leaders are stalled short of passage in Congress, with two Senate liberals objecting to reductions in heating assistance for the poor, job training and other programs. "What I'm saying is if this is a glimpse of what's to come. I'm not going to be silent," Sen. Paul Well-stone, D-Minn., said Friday as he and Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun, D-III., blocked final approval of the measure. "It would be wrong." The $16.4 billion in cuts from previously approved spending represent only a fraction of the reductions that Analysis will be needed to balance the budget, as majority Republicans intend. But the measure has the backing of the White House and most Senate Democrats, since it restores $770 million to certain programs that Congress had tried to cut in a rill the president vetoed earlier in the year. "It's better than half a loaf," said Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D. Clinton embraced the measure in a statement: "The new bill achieves the same amount of deficit reduction as the pre vious bill, but it does so the right way — by protecting investments in children, education, national service, job training and the environment that Congress wanted to cut." After several hours of debate on a Friday before a week-long break, though, an irritated Majority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., bowed to Well-stone and Moseley-Braun when they blocked a unanimous-consent agreement for a vote. Dole said the bill wouldn't be back on the floor until "the president can persuade Democratic colleagues this bill is necessary, it's important and it ought to be passed." The Sunny Says... Respondents unanimous in support for death penalty Eight people responded to last week's survey question, "Do you support the death penalty?', and all were in favor of capital punishment. Some of the responses received to the survey question included: • Yes, I support the death penalty. Anyone intentionally taking another}! life should pay with his own. Most murders are savage, brutal and terrify' ing to the victim. No appeal possible. • The only problem is the delay in Today In History By The Associated Press Today is Sunday, July 2, the 183rd day of 1995. There are 182 days left in the year.< Today's Highlight In Hlatoryi On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress passed a resolution saying that "these United Colonies are, and of right, ought to be, Free and Independent States." On this dater In 1866, the French astrologer, physician and prophet Nostradamus the time that the penalty is executed. If they are found guilty, execute them the next week. • They should be punished for the crime as they dished it out. • Death is painless, if controlled by God. 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Get an overview of this hotelArt Deco hotel with 2 restaurants and free valet parking
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Located in the heart of Ponta Delgada, this hotel is within a 15-minute walk of Ponta Delgada Harbour and University of the Azores. Carlos Machado Museum and Nossa Senhora da Esperanca Convent are also within 1 mi (2 km).
2 restaurants, an indoor pool, and an outdoor pool are available at this hotel. Free WiFi in public areas and free valet parking are also provided. Additionally, a health club, a bar/lounge, and a rooftop terrace are onsite.
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All 229 soundproofed rooms feature free WiFi and room service. Guests can enjoy deep soaking tubs, and other standard amenities include minibars (stocked with some free items), rainfall showerheads, and TVs.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!Opens in a new window
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In addition to an indoor pool, Hotel VIP Executive Azores provides an outdoor pool and a health club. Dining is available at one of the hotel's 2 restaurants. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. A computer station is located on site and wireless Internet access is complimentary.
Business-related amenities at this 4-star property consist of a 24-hour business center and meeting rooms. Event facilities measuring 1614 square feet (150 square meters) include a conference center. This Art Deco hotel also offers a rooftop terrace, a library, and tour/ticket assistance. Onsite valet parking is complimentary.
Hotel VIP Executive Azores has designated areas for smoking.
- Outdoor pool
- Bar/lounge
- 24-hour front desk
- Multilingual staff
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Television in common areas
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Wedding services
- Concierge services
- Conference space
- Health club
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Free WiFi
- Computer station
- Rooftop terrace
- Luggage storage
- Designated smoking areas
- Elevator/lift
- Hair salon
- Total number of rooms - 229
- Number of floors - 8
- Meeting rooms 10
- Free valet parking
- Conference space size (meters) - 150
- Number of meeting rooms - 9
- Number of restaurants - 2
- 24-hour business center
- Conference space size (feet) - 1614
- Pool sun loungers
- Free parking nearby
- Conference center
- Indoor pool
- Outdoor seasonal pool
- Library
- Year Built 2005
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
Family Friendly Amenities
- Outdoor pool
- Indoor pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Soundproofed rooms
- Laundry facilities
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free valet parking, Free parking nearby
Room Amenities
- Room service (limited hours)
- Air conditioning
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Phone
- Free bottled water
- Minibar (stocked, some free items)
- Daily housekeeping
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Bidet
- Bathtub only
- Deep soaking bathtub
- Cable TV service
- Desk
- In-room safe
- Television
- Free WiFi
- Soundproofed rooms
- Private bathroom
- Rainfall showerhead
Where to Eat
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Breakfast is available for a surcharge and served each morning between 7 AM and 10:30 AM.
Restaurante Vip - This buffet restaurant serves breakfast and lunch.
Restaurante Panoramico - Overlooking the ocean, this fine-dining restaurant specializes in international cuisine and serves lunch and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
Nearby Things to Do
An indoor pool and an outdoor pool are on site. Other recreational amenities include a health club.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Surfing/boogie boarding nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Scuba diving nearby
- Windsurfing nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Hot springs nearby
- Golf lessons available nearby
- Game viewing nearby
- Game drive nearby
- Cave exploring/spelunking nearby
- Boat tours nearby
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-in time ends at midnight
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Pets not allowed
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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
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Parking height restrictions apply
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Local elected officials and community groups demanded yesterday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency extend a housing assistance program that is to expire on Friday. The FEMA program, started shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, has paid almost $100 million to nearly 11,000 applicants who lived or worked in Manhattan and have faced eviction or foreclosure. But, the officials said, the deadline should be extended, partly because of New York's continuing economic problems, and partly because the program has not done enough to reach out to potential applicants throughout the metropolitan area. The officials included Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, a Manhattan Democrat; William C. Thompson Jr., the city comptroller; and the Rev. Thomas W. Goodhue, executive director of the Long Island Council of Churches.
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I am going to DL in a couple of weeks...for one day. Where can I get a discounted ticket?
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BrE BrE//trænsˈfɜːz//; NAmE NAmE//trænsˈfɜːrz//past simple transferred
BrE BrE//trænsˈfɜːd//; NAmE NAmE//trænsˈfɜːrd//past participle transferred
BrE BrE//trænsˈfɜːd//; NAmE NAmE//trænsˈfɜːrd//-ing form transferring
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If character is what you have when no one is looking, we need to seriously examine our character.
We've already debated for weeks now the case of nearly $200,000 looted from an Evans neighborhood association, and the criminal case of a Martinez attorney who found a valuable ring and turned it in only after it became obvious the cops were looking for it.
And now we're embroiled in the potentially season-destroying meltdown of the Greenbrier High School soccer team, with 18 players kicked off for using alcohol and drugs on a team trip.
Now that Happy Tails Rescue has been shut down, what next?Here's what needs to happen next: A full-scale push to make sure organizations such as Happy Tails are no longer needed.
That doesn't mean turning such things over to government control, though Columbia County Animal Services does a fine job.
What it means is persuading people to stop allowing unchecked breeding of animals.
One surefire way for a politician to avoid criticism is to go with the flow, to protect the status quo, to keep the boat from rocking.
But as another cliche points out, you can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.
Yet what if no one wants the omelet?
That's the question that arises, perhaps, from state Rep. Barry Fleming's proposal to remake the Columbia County Board of Elections.
Among other things, he wants to enable the legislative delegation, the county commission and the two cities to make appointments to the board for a total of five members.
Some apartment complexes are more equal than others.
That's the message county commissioners are sending in the approval of an apartment complex that will allow a Lincoln, Neb., developer to bring in a 130-unit complex to the privately owned portion of Marshall Square.
But, you might ask, aren't some of these the same commissioners who fought tooth and nail a few years ago to prevent changes that would allow other apartments in the central Evans development – so much that they settled a lawsuit by spending millions of taxpayer dollars to buy a chunk of the property?
It's the job opening that no one wanted to see.
Untold numbers of hearts were heavy in December when the Marshall family decided it was time for Deborah Marshall, Columbia County's longtime, beloved elections director to retire. Despite the fervent prayers and well-wishes of virtually everyone in the community, Marshall simply wasn't able to return from surgery she underwent in April for a malignant brain tumor.
Do the math.
There are a dozen licensed animal rescue groups operating in Columbia County, all of them private except for the county's Animal Services Department.
In less than two weeks, there will be one fewer rescue group as the state Department of Agriculture shuts down Happy Tails Rescue.
Will that closure result in a miraculous, commensurate drop in the number of animals needing to be rescued from human irresponsibility? Will pet owners suddenly and collectively race to have their pets neutered to avoid further growth of the pet overpopulation?
The accolades keep rolling in for the Lady Antebellum Pavilion.
The latest is the Engineering Excellence Award from the American Council of Engineering Companies and the Georgia Society of Professional Engineers.
The Evans Towne Center Park pavilion was one of five structures around the state – and the only one outside the Atlanta area – to grab the recognition. Augusta engineering and architectural design firm Johnson Laschober and Associates P.C. picked up the prize during a recent event at Georgia Tech.
There are few things more troubling than seeing a law enforcement officer arrested for breaking the law.
Yet there also are few things more reassuring than knowing if a Columbia County cop breaks the law, then he's no longer going to be a Columbia County cop.
Because a large part of the news covered by any community newspaper tends to include schools, The News-Times often has the opportunity to highlight interesting efforts from students completing their senior projects.
The collaborative project of seniors from two different schools is just too special to miss.
Lakeside High School's Mary Michael Stetz and Greenbrier High School's Amanda Freeman, at the direction of Terri Freeman (no relation), owner of Be My Guest Catering and Events, put together a prom night Saturday for all Columbia County special needs students.
The coincidence was too much for the public not to notice.
Newly elected Richmond County Sheriff Richard Roundtree had barely moved into his office when he asked for a raise that would have bumped him up on par with the pay of the retired veteran he'd just replaced. County officials there planned to consider Roundtree's request for a raise in secret, but fortunately they later held the discussion in the open and turned it down (through Augusta's usual method: gridlock failure).
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Storm may be brewing in Gulf of Mexico
MIAMI (Reuters) - A large weather disturbance in the Gulf of Mexico could develop into a tropical cyclone in the next couple of days, forecasters at the U.S. National Hurricane Center said on Thursday.
The mass of thunderstorms had a 50 percent chance of developing into a tropical depression or tropical storm within 48 hours and could bring flooding rain to Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, western Cuba and southern Florida, the forecasters said.
It stretched from the northwest Caribbean into the Gulf and was expected to move slowly northwest to north in the next two or three days. It was too early to know whether the system would threaten energy interests clustered in the northern Gulf of Mexico.
"It'll probably be out in the central Gulf of Mexico over the weekend. Beyond that it's very difficult to say," said Jack Beven, a senior hurricane forecaster at the hurricane center.
It would become a tropical depression if it wraps around and develops a closed wind circulation. It would become Tropical Storm Debby if those winds reach 39 miles per hour (63 km per hour).
"This one probably will not jump straight to a tropical storm," Beven said. "It's very broad and will take time to consolidate."
Nonetheless, the forecasters said, "Interests along the entire United States Gulf Coast should monitor the progress of this disturbance through the weekend."
Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Chris briefly strengthened into a hurricane in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland on Thursday but posed no threat to land, forecasters said.
Chris became the season's first Atlantic hurricane on Thursday morning when its top winds hit 75 miles per hour (120 km per hour), just over the threshold for hurricane status. By late afternoon it had weakened back to a tropical storm with 70 mph winds. Continued...


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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-2146?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12919939#action_12919939 ] Hoss Man commented on SOLR-2146: -------------------------------- Note: the crux of the issue isn't particularly that "SchemaField" needs to be extensible in a java sense -- it's primarily that FieldType subclasses should be able to declare properties that can be specified in the corresponding {{<field />}} declarations by some means. As i mentioned on the mailing list... {noformat} > something that is intended to be customized -- while FieldType > objects are constructed once at startup, SchemaField obejcts are > frequently created on the fly when dealing with dynamicFields, so > initialization complexity is kept to a minimum. > > That said -- this definitely seems like that type of usecase that we > should try to find *some* solution for -- even if it just means having > Solr automaticly create hidden FieldType instances for you on startup > based on attributes specified in the<field /> that the corrisponding > FieldType class understands. {noformat} > Custom SchemaField object > ------------------------- > > Key: SOLR-2146 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-2146 > Project: Solr > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Schema and Analysis > Reporter: Renaud Delbru > Priority: Minor > Fix For: 3.1 > > > There is some use cases that require to extend SchemaField objects with "attributes" or "properties". > For example, I would like to be able to assign a specific "term mapping file" for each of my field. Each field name will have a "mapping file" associated that I can access at query time using the IndexSchema object. > The FieldType object already enables the addition of attributes. However, these attributes are "local" to a field type, not a field definition. Multiple fields can have the same field types, which is not suitable for our use cases. > One possible solution will be to create one field type per field definition, but this is more a dirty hack: it means duplicating field types, making them more difficult to maintain. > References to mailing list discussion: > http://firstname.lastname@example.com/msg40436.html > http://email@example.com/msg40585.html -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
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The night of 23 December. It's some time in the late evening, it's hard to be exact: time, for the parents of babies clinging to life in a paediatric intensive care unit, turns thick and sticky, its edges lose definition and hours disappear. Tonight is my turn on watch while my partner Emily looks after our older son. Alarms are pinging and jagging into hearing.
I am staring into my 13-day-old baby's eyes and watching death course through his body, hunting opportunities to finish its cruel work. Outside of my boy's cot, a team of seven medics have appeared from out of thin air. "When a baby gets into trouble, we're like dogs smelling sausages," says a nurse. The consultant takes exception to her analogy, but it perfectly describes the extraordinary speed at which this team has formed. Over the next three hours, they will fight to bring little Ptolemy Hammond back to safe shores.
The consultant is the commander of a warship under fire: pacing around the bridge, stalking the stats, constantly issuing commands, adapting strategy, balancing threats and nipping in with a nimble attacking stratagem whenever opportunity presents itself. It is exhilarating, shocking and agonising all at once.
I feel detached and am physically wavering, until eventually I can watch no more. I retreat to an empty waiting room.
Ptolemy is critical. I spend the wait steadying myself for when the consultant comes to tell me he's gone. This lasts half an hour, then an hour, then two. The hospital around me gets smaller and smaller and quieter and quieter, until it seems only to exist as an abstract idea.
In the earliest hours, the door to the waiting room swings open and in walks the consultant and a nurse. Before either have time to say anything, before the door has swung back into its frame, I know that the consultant is going to tell me my son has died. The consultant is exhausted, his face seems to suggest defeat.But as I think these things, I notice the nurse is smiling. Not the sad smile of bad news but one that has joy in it, maybe. Relief, certainly. My heart restarts. The consultant is speaking: we've stabilised him. He's ill but we've got him back up to a viable position.
We've clicked past midnight. Ptolemy has been alive 14 days now. One day older. He will fight on.
My fourth child, my second with Emily, was born in Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital on 10 December. We had no prior warning that he, or she, was anything other than a healthy, average baby. He arrived with the full set of limbs and digits. We gave that relieved release of held breath all parents will recognise.
Our as yet unnamed bundle of joy – we'd drawn a complete blank on names – was the normal purple, screwed-up faced, gelatinous muddle of chubby love. Within a minute or two, the midwife had him on Emily's chest for their first proper hello. It would be another three days, and another city away, before either of us would hold him again.
That's when a quiet voice began to chime in my head: "Something isn't right, the way he's breathing… too much effort? Something?" I asked the midwife what was going on, expecting to be told that everything was normal and to be given that gentle and kind treatment nervy dads are so reassured by. She began to do just that, but then I saw a change in her body language and that was the moment I felt the floor, walls and ceiling rush away. She took our son from Emily and called over a doctor. Within moments, a tiny oxygen mask was on our baby's face and the theatre team's mood had dropped. The doctor asked for an oxygen saturation monitor to be brought to theatre.
It arrived and they attached a monitor line to our boy's hand, the first line of dozens that would snake themselves out of the mythology of medicine and into his body over the coming month. The numbers told an instantly bad story: his newly functioning lungs were taking in air, but he was failing to take enough of the oxygen from it to maintain life.
The doctor listened to his heart. Our first taste of the unreality of life-changing, emergency medicine: a taste sugared through the gentleness of the word chosen to describe what the doctor had discovered. "I can hear a murmur in his heart." Not break or tear or crisis or failure. Just a murmur.
Our world dissolved into a controlled rush into neonatal intensive care.
Within hours, we had a diagnosis: pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum. A form of congenital heart disease (CHD) in which Ptolemy's heart is unable to efficiently run the process of oxygenating and circulating his blood. It is basic and fundamental to life. We are transferred to Southampton General Hospital, home to one of Europe's finest paediatric cardiac teams.
The seriousness of Ptolemy's illness revealed itself in progressive chunks of new information: like a horrific fold-out poster, where each day, a newly revealed section pushed his chances of living further and further away from us. We moved from our home in Oxford to the strange new world of a hospital in a city we didn't know. We lived in the hospital for five weeks.
Ptolemy's first major procedure is an attempt to open up his heart valves. The valves are expertly teased open but Ptolemy's heart fails to cope with changes this new circulation brings about. Within days, a Blalock-Taussig (BT) shunt is fitted, 3mm of Gore-Tex tube stitched to the outside of his beating heart, further modifying his circulation. The shunt is functioning but Ptolemy becomes critical. For the night of 23 December, he tugs at the strings of death.
As parents locked in the closed world of a hospital, we do not choose when to eat. We do not choose when to sleep. Our reality is a series of stats on which our will has no impact.
2.4ml/h Dinoprostone, 40 per cent oxygen, SAT at 65-75, target SAT at 75-85, GLu 6.1, Lac 3.3, ph 7.37, FIo2 ltr/min .21, 68/47, 144 broken-heart-beats/min, 66 breaths, 9lbs and half an ounce.
These stats, these are the currency of the ICU – constantly, hawkishly monitored. They are the numbers of life for Ptolemy.
On Christmas Eve, he is no better. An operation to tie off his pulmonary artery is planned. We sign yet another consent form reminding us of risks that include death and severe disablement. The brilliant team pull him through and are able once again to stabilise our boy, to the point where we go to bed on the night before Christmas with a fearful, prickling sensation of optimism.
But early on Christmas Morning, his numbers fall away from normal ranges. His blood turns to poison and his organs begin to fail. The optimism of the previous night has evaporated and he undergoes an emergency operation that will see many of Ptolemy's systems transferred to machines. Afterwards, he lies motionless in a cot, a clay doll. His chest is open and tubes take his blood directly away from his heart and into a bypass machine. His lungs are replicated by pumps and his renal function now takes place outside of his body.
He is brain, muscle and bone while his heart is rested in the hope that this will give it a chance to recover. They set a deadline of two days: no improvement and Ptolemy will not see 2015.
It is 28 December. Ptolemy is awake, lively even, as lively as a morphine-stuck baby can be. I am holding his hand. It is a hand filled with oxygenated blood provided by his own working heart, his own working lungs.
A consultant tells Emily: "You've been given a Christmas present."
Ptolemy is no longer critical.
On 16 January, we are back home. Our son will have many hurdles to jump as he fights his way from here. A major operation awaits this year to re-plumb his heart more permanently. It will leave him with a system that stands a strong chance of getting him to adolescence. What happens then is anybody's guess – he has a 15-year head-start on technology in an area of medicine that is rapidly progressing.
For now; every second falls to us as drops of crystal time filled with hope and love and optimism. Life has changed, and it is scarier than it was before but it is also more beautiful and the imminent loss of it a dark misery I now understand well. Our boy is strong. Thanks to the NHS, an astonishing group of surgeons, nurses, consultants and specialists, but also to our society's choice to invest in the possibility of life, without caveat or consideration of social position – thanks to these things he is alive, smiling and filling nappies with a vigour you wouldn't believe.Reuse content


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Michael Gould to Leave Bloomie's in Feb.; Spring to be CEO
October 30, 2013,
Michael Gould
CINCINNATI-After 22 years at the helm, Bloomingdale's Chairman and CEO Michael Gould will relinquish his role at the retailer, to be succeeded by Tony Spring, Bloomingdale's president and chief operating officer, on Feb. 1, 2014.
"Leading this great brand and organization to a new level of success over two decades has been a great privilege. I feel that now is the appropriate time for a change for both the company and myself," Gould said in a statement.
A successor to Spring as president of Bloomingdale's is expected to be named in 2014.
Gould, 70, joined Bloomingdale's as chairman and CEO in 1991. Previously, he was president and chief executive officer of Giorgio Beverly Hills, a position he had held since 1987. He joined Giorgio in 1986 as president and chief operating officer. Gould began his retailing career at the Brooklyn-based Abraham & Straus division of Federated Department Stores, Inc. in 1968 as an executive trainee and rose to become a merchandise vice president. In 1978, he joined J.W. Robinson's in Los Angeles in a senior merchant role, and in 1981 became Robinson's chairman and CEO.
Spring, 48, was promoted to Bloomingdale's president and chief operating officer in 2008, with responsibility for Bloomingdale's stores, marketing, creative services, finance, operations and restaurants. He began his Bloomingdale's career in 1987 as an executive trainee in the White Plains, N.Y., store. Over the next eight years, he assumed positions of increasing responsibility in the home furnishings area before being promoted to senior vice president for home furnishings. In 1997, Spring was named senior vice president for marketing. A year later, he was promoted to executive vice president for marketing; and in 2003, added bloomingdales.com, Bloomingdale's by Mail and restaurants to his responsibilities. In 2004, Spring was named senior executive vice president responsible for marketing, Bloomingdale's Direct and restaurants. A year later, he was promoted to senior executive vice president and director of stores, with additional responsibility for Bloomingdale's shopping services and creative services.
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Michael Clark, 66, lived the high life with the money he fleeced from unsuspecting investors.
Along with an accomplice, he persuaded people approaching retirement age to remortgage their homes, in some cases for more than £100,000.
He convinced them the cash would be invested in a high-yield scheme offering returns of 5% a month.
Based in a dingy and chaotic office above a bakery in Kent, Clark also dabbled in films - at one stage laundering his victims' cash by investing in low-budget movies in the United States.
In reality, Clark was using the money to fund a lavish lifestyle that included expensive cars and a mistress in America. At one point he was spending £10,000 a month.
The scam has brought misery to hard-working people who hoped the investment scheme would provide a boost to their pensions.
Over an 18-month period to May 2002, police estimate Clark took about £1m from 15 victims.
Acting Detective Inspector Dave Manley, from the City of London Police's fraud squad, said: 'He had no financial experience or qualifications whatsoever.
'He's basically a nice guy and well-spoken. You can't help but like him - but he is totally amoral.
'He managed to persuade people to join the scheme and, once he got people on board, that became a powerful tool for persuading others to join.'
The vehicles for his fraud were Triple A Finance and Millennium Mortgages (1999) Ltd, of which he is the sole director. He printed business cards with the slogan 'Does your bank offer you 5% interest a month? Well mine does!'
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The company assisted the police in bringing the pair to justice. Clark, from Beckenham, was caught trying to move about half of the money he swindled to a Swiss bank account.
He confessed his scam to police at the time of his arrest in May 2002 and was last week sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to fraudulent trading.
Butt, from Erith, Kent, was convicted of dishonestly obtaining money through deception for Clark and was jailed for a year.
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IT WAS a scheme that on the face of it seemed too good to be true, admits retired businessman James Sweeney.
But, after meeting Michael Clark, he remortgaged his house in Herne Hill for £176,000 and ploughed it into the scam.
He said: 'Every day I have to deal with the stress of what has happened to me. I live every day minute by minute.'
Mr Sweeney, 67, was introduced to Clark three years ago by Allan Butt, who he had met at a business seminar. 'We went to dinner and had some drinks,' said Mr Sweeney.
'There was impressive paperwork. He seemed to be very knowledgeable and charming.'
Mr Sweeney, who ran a precision engineering business, said he received payments until the day the DTI caught Clark attempting to spirit the cash to Switzerland.
'When I found out what happened I was absolutely devastated. I felt sick.'
He was diagnosed with throat cancer soon afterwards. He can now only keep his house by getting further into debt to pay the mortgage.
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