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Top 7 Hotels With The Most Bizarre StuffPosted by Mary Simes under Bizarre Hotels , Hotel Guide , Hotels
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The number of people with high level of income is steadily on the rise and when at last they decide to take a break from their busy and hectic lives, they want indulge all their wants and needs whatever they are. And the hotel owners have to generate and offer something very special to win tourists' affection and attract them to their hotels. Modern hotel is no more just a comfortable place for sleeping with good food and a swimming pool. There have to be something more than just a set of basic amenities and services. Luxury hoteliers are trying to create all kinds of new, unique, top-end amenities, services, special offers and packages, which can seem sometimes strange, weird, and even mad. Let's have a look at top seven exceptional guests' services in hotel industry.
1. The Benjamin, an executive suite hotel in New York, offers the Before Children Package of services. That means that you get your personal Sleep Concierge who will help you choose from a pillow menu with some 12 choices for a good night sleep. Moreover, if you select the hotel's Dream a Little Dream package, you will also receive some sleep tips, lavender turn-down service and a white-noise machine, which is really a special device that produces a sound somewhat like a waterfall to enhance your sleep. The next morning your Sleep Concierge will be there to decipher your dreams.
2. If you don't want to leave your lovely dog at home, take it with you to Nine Zero hotel, Boston. This pet-friendly hotel offers special "In the Doghouse" pet package which will treat your four-legged friend like royalty. Pet sitting, pet grooming, pet walking and pet massage, let alone pet bowls and pet beds in your room, are included in the package. The above mentioned Benjamin hotel has a "Dream Dog" program which includes 3 bed options, Dream Dog bathrobe, Doggy DVD, "Dog-on Television" and a Spa gift basket for your dog.
3. The Hyatt Andaz London hotel is number one choice for book lovers as it offers one of the most unique services for its guests – "bibliotherapy". The hotel has a "reader-in-residence", whose duties include diagnosing hotel guests' literary needs and prescribing particular texts, which he reads aloud to them. Moreover, there is a special book menu to choose from. Enjoy a peaceful evening with a man reading aloud for you.
4. The Houstonian Hotel specializes on spa and fitness in the state-of-the-art . The hotel offers all kinds of spa services and facilities: massages, facials, body-treatments, rainfall showers, steam room, indoor float pool and so on. The Hustonian Hotel has a special babymoon package for mothers-to-be, which includes Prenatal Massage, repair and restore vitamin C facial to reduce pigment marks associated with pregnancy and foot rescue program. Fathers-to-be can enjoy Deep Tissue Massage while waiting for them.
5. If you want to get the real jail experience, book a cell in Jailhotel Lowengraben in Switzerland. All hotel rooms have the authentic jail touch and allow you to taste life behind bars. Maybe it is the first prison you will never want to leave.
6. Fairemont Chicago hotel has its own bath sommelier who offers hand-drawn baths in mint, pepper mint, chocolate, milk, mud, sugar or citrus for the best relaxation ever.
7. Guests of Hotel Sax Chicago can enjoy its Celebrity Rider Package. The hotel staff will find out requested celebrity's personal preferences and requirements and duplicate them for you. Just be sure you can afford it!


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Be open-minded, but not so open-minded that your brains fall out.
I am the beginning and the end, a false prophet of times, a notorious liar and swindler spreading truth for truth's sake, I am a seeker of the light, bringer of the fire, I...oh, right: Keep it short. Sooooo: Searching to find I wandered a lot/wondered a lot. Still wondering really.Obviously, I am not really the beginning and the end of things...:)Yes I am.
bla bla1&3 when things tend to be uplifting2&4 when thing tend to weigh one downyep, i am a rather pretentious guy
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
I host to get some life into my place every now and then.
I've surfed. It was nice. I've hosted. I think most people enjoyed it.
politics (ha, seriously!), history, anthropology, archeology, video editing, photography (alibi interest), music, drumming, reading, taking a ride around town on my bicycle, chatting with the nice mid- aged aunties that occupy our courtyard/garden outside.
This list is an ongoing project and always under construction. If you are really into observing ants there is a good chance I can develop some fostered enthusiasm for that as well.
- photography
- gardening
- politics
- reading
- music
- anthropology
- archeology
- history
- languages
Music, Movies, and Books
I read a lot of books (mostly uni- related these days) and do watch a lot of movies if i find the time.
One Amazing Thing I've Done
/// I've seen the tunnel at the end of the light. Or something comparably profane.
Teach, Learn, Share
Languages. I am having a lot of fun with languages.
And drumming.
I want to learn how to pick common types of locks and share some 'Go' strategies.
But if you know how to pick locks and teach me the basics I'd take you right away, no further questions asked...

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Campus Life > Resources > Service/Volunteer/Adventure
Disclaimer: The Coe College Career Services web site contains links that are not under the control of Coe College or Career Services; therefore we assume no responsibility for the contents of any linked site. Coe College and Career Services assume no liability for acts or omissions by third parties or for material supplied by them. Students, alumni and visitors to our web site are solely responsible for the usage of the supplied links.
General Information
- Americorps (year-long urban service opportunities): http://www.americorps.gov
- Causes - lots of links to various causes and political issues: http://www.care2.com/causes/politics/
- Charity Navigator - information about various charities and non-profit organizations: http://www.charitynavigator.org/
- Cooking School links and ideas: http://www.gocookingschool.com/
- "Couch Surfing" - online community devoted to intercultral understanding and practical travel: http://www.couchsurfing.org
- Communications Majors: International Study and Internship Opportunities: http://www.australearn.org/Quotes/QuoteID146
- ESL & EFL teachers: career resources: http://www.daveseslcafe.com
- France (teach English in France!): http://www.frenchculture.org/assistantshipprogram
- Green Corps: http://www.greencorps.org
- Idealist: for people seeking jobs or internships with a non-profit organization: http://www.idealist.org
- Iowa Cultural Alliance: http://www.culturalcorridor.org
- Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation (internships in a variety of fields, including land stewardship, communications, graphic design and program support/grant writing): http://www.inhf.org
- Jobs in ski resorts, parks, camps, and the mountains: http://www.coolworks.com
- Job postings in the United Kingdom - the largest independent graduate job board in the UK www.graduate-jobs.com
- Internships in Minnesota Non-Profit Organizations: http://www.mncn.org/jobs/default.asp
- Love Volunteer - International support for local NGOs in 27 developing countries: http://www.lovevolunteers.org/
- National Park Service summer/temp jobs: http://www.nps.gov/personnel/seasonal.htm
- Non-profit jobs and internships: http://www.idealist.org
- Overseas internships, gap year, teaching jobs, etc. http://www.gooverseas.com/
- Peace Corps: http://www.peacecorps.gov
- Photography: Summer Program in Australia: http://www.australearn.org/Search/Programs/ProgramID133/
- Short term job adventures: http://www.backdoorjobs.com
- Student Conservation Association: http://www.thesca.org/
- Study Abroad Programs for Communications, Advertising, and Journalism Majors: http://www.globalinksabroad.org/programs_by_major/communications,_advertising,_and_journalism/
- Teach for America: http://www.teachforamerica.org
- Travel adventures for women: http://www.exploretravel.com
- UK job postings and career sites: http://www.jobbydoo.co.uk/
- Capitol Hill Internship Program - Summer housing (contact Executive Director about costs): http://www.umcwc.com/CHIP/Home.html
- "Couch Surfing" - online community devoted to intercultral understanding and housing with local residents: http://www.couchsurfing.org
- Housing for internships: http://www.internhousing.com
- Housing in the United Kingdom: http://www.accommodationforstudents.com/default.asp
- Housing resources for internships: http://www.studenthousing.org
- Nationwide apartment and housing listings: https://www.zumper.com/
- New York City: http://www.studenthousing.org/?gclid=CPHM-NCCvKQCFaX75woduHda-A
- Short-term housing resources: http://www.interimhousingsolutions.com/default.asp
- Washington DC Intern Student Housing: http://www.internsdc.com/index.php
- Summer Camp jobs: http://www.campjobs.com
- Summer Camp jobs: http://www.campstaff.com
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|Texts: Translations by Eliza Jones and Others
|f.1 Eliza Jones, Fairbanks Daily Newsminer article "Area's Mosaic of Cultures comes Together"; Translation by Eliza Jones into Koyukon; 1988
f.2 Eliza Jones, New River Times article "Native Deaths"; Translation into Koyukon of 4-line poem written in English by Reggie Joseph; Translation by Eliza Jones of Koyukon song "Indian" by Herbie Vent; Song produced by Alaska Native Arts Center
f.3 Eliza Jones, Translation of Kutchin text Olti'; Traditional narrative; Interlinear Kutchin-Koyukon; 7 pp; 1975
f.4 Eliza Jones, Translation of Tanaina reader Fitka Nik'unu'iltlet/Paul Ya-altik; Draft; Programmed reader with questions for oral language learning
f.5 Eliza Jones, Stories; 1976
f.6 Eliza Jones, Transcriptions for University of Alaska Library Folklore Project; 1975 [See KO972J1975a for digital version]
f.7 Eliza Jones, Translation for U.S. government; School Building (Construction); [1980]
f.8 Eliza Jones, Tobaan Atsah; [1980]
f.9 Eliza Jones, Translations of songs and prayers; The Lord's Prayer, The Golden Heart City, America the Beautiful; In Koyukon and English; [1980-1990]
f.10 Martha Joe, Speech; Hughes Potlatch; 1985-1986
f.11 Eliza Jones, Midday Prayer; Prayer for the Dead; Baha'i Prayers translated for Chad Thompson; 1976
f.12 Eliza Jones, General: Translation of food stamps information, voting information, AK State housing authority information
f.13 Eliza Jones, Translations of Marjorie Attla stories; 1990
f.14 Josephine Mountain, Photo Storybook "Denny"; [1980]
f.15 Eliza Jones, Scripts for news readings on KUAC radio; 1975
f.16 Translation of "League of Women Voters"
f.17 Translation of "Have a Healthy Baby-Don't Smoke"
|f.2 previously foldered as KO972J1979a
f.3 previously foldered as KO972J1975b
f.4 previously foldered as KO972J1976d [In red catalog keyword list as KO972J1976c]
f.6 cross-referenced with KO972J1975a
f.8 Story is a different version. Transcribed by Eliza Jones, unknown story teller. Two copies. Story teller possibly Altona Brown from Ruby
f.11 previously foldered as KO972J1976a
f.15 previously foldered as KO972J1975d
Jones, Eliza (author)
|Subject Language(s)
Eliza Jones
Link to this page: http://www.uaf.edu/anla/item.xml?id=KO972J-TEXT-20


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Our dear friend and colleague Claudio M. Zicovich-Wilson, one of the main developers of the CRYSTAL code in the last
twenty years, passed away prematurely on November 3, 2016.
All those who have worked and interacted with him, all his friends, colleagues and students, will deeply miss him.
The CRYSTAL Team is pleased to announce the release of
CRYSTAL14 (current version: v1.0.4).
CRYSTAL14 is a major release and the most relevant new features are:
The CRYSTAL program computes the electronic structure of periodic systems within Hartree Fock,
density functional or various hybrid approximations (global, range-separated and double-hybrids).
The Bloch functions of the periodic systems are expanded as linear combinations of atom centred
Gaussian functions. Powerful screening techniques are used to exploit real space locality.
Restricted (Closed Shell) and Unrestricted (Spin-polarized) calculations can be performed with all-electron and valence-only basis sets with effective core pseudo-potentials.
The program can automatically handle space symmetry (230 space groups,
80 two-sided plane groups, 99 rod groups, 45 point groups are available ).
Point symmetries compatible with translation symmetry are provided for molecules.
Helical symmetry is now available (up to order 48).
Input tools allow the generation of a slab (2D system), or a cluster (0D system), from a 3D crystalline structure, or the creation of a supercell with a defect, or nanotubes (1D system) from a single-layer slab model (2D system).
The code may be used to perform consistent studies of the physical and chemical properties of molecules, polymers, nanotubes, surfaces and crystalline solids:
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Capital Access Series: February 2013 - EB
Keiretsu Forum Academy
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 11:30 AM - Tuesday, April 9, 2013 at 6:30 PM (PST)
Event Details
Keiretsu Forum Academy
The Capital Access Series for Entrepreneurs equips you, an entrepreneur, to accelerate your access to the capital, expertise, and resources you need to grow your business. Each of the courses is led by seasoned industry executives and delivers practical, relevant, and timely knowledge and practices that are critical to your business. After completing all three sessions in the series, you will be well prepared to engage in productive discussions with many types of investors but especially those who are members of Keiretsu Forum.
Series A Session, February 12, 2012, 11:30am - 6:30pm, Walnut Creek, CA
- Building a Winning Team
- CEO Roles and Responsibilities
- Avoiding Pittfalls with Formation, and Compensation
- Accounting - Setting Up Books, Forecasting, and Projections
Series B Session, March 12, 2013, 11:30am - 6:30pm, Walnut Creek, CA
- Due Diligence and You
- The Deal - Understanding the Term Sheet
- Marketing
Series C Session, April 9, 2013, 11:30am - 6:30pm, Walnut Creek, CA
- Sales
- Protecting IP
- The Pitch - PerfectPitch
|How to resonate with investors
To ensure close interaction between faculty, entrepreneurs, and ambassadors the class is limited to 20 students.
Please contact Executive Director, Dave Mosby
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Walnut Creek,
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 11:30 AM - Tuesday, April 9, 2013 at 6:30 PM (PST)
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text: I won't name the maker as yet, because I don't want to slag someone off for something that is not considered a problem by experienced jacket buyers. I had a jacket made overseas in the UK (I was measured by a local tailor) and there were some major flaws in fit that had to be rectified by said local tailor. These included shoulder width; had to be narrowed at least 1.5". That is unfortunate, but can be put down to a possible mis-measurement at this end. However, my main complaint is that my right pocket sits 1/4" higher than the left one. I saw it before I measured it, and yet the maker claims not to see it (photo sent). I will take and send more photos, including ones with a measuring tape. I'm completely new to suits and suit jackets and so; Am I out of line here? cross posted over at Fedora Lounge


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Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth's bipartisan amendment to the FOIA Oversight and Implementation Act passed the Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The amendment, which was cosponsored by Congressman Mark Meadows (R-NC), would strengthen current law to ensure that government agencies respond to FOIA requests in a timely manner. FOIA requesters often face unreasonable delays in agency response time, despite the fact that the law requires agencies to meet a 20 day deadline. Congresswoman Duckworth's amendment would demand more accountability from agencies who fail to respond to FOIA requests in a timely manner.
"FOIA is a critical tool for Americans to demand the accountability they deserve from their government. If we're serious about government transparency, we must make sure that agencies are held accountable for failure to meet their obligations under FOIA. I want to thank Chairman Issa (R-CA) and Ranking Member Cummings (D-MD) for their leadership on this issue and I look forward to continuing to work across party lines to enact commons sense good government reforms."
Source: http://duckworth.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/congresswoman-duckworth-leads-charge-on-government-transparency


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ABC News' Teddy Davis and Matthew Zavala Report: Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., offered praise for a potential Democratic rival for the presidency today amid reports questioning Sen. Barack Obama's, D-Ill., investment activity. "I do know that Sen. Obama is a very honest and fine person from everything I've known about him," McCain told ABC News when asked about a story in today's New York Times examining stock purchases made by the Illinois Democrat's qualified blind trust. McCain said he hadn't read the story and couldn't comment specifically on Obama's financial dealings. The Republican presidential hopeful was asked by ABC News if the New York Times had raised "legitimate questions" about whether Obama had "blended public and private interests" or whether it was "much ado about nothing."
McCain's words of praise for Obama's character come less than a week after Obama came to the Arizona senator's defense after McCain was criticized by the Democratic National Committee for saying U.S. lives had been "wasted" in Iraq.
McCain made his comments about Obama while speaking at a press conference held by Citizens Against Government Waste in Washington, D.C.


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§56-4-27. Amendment to cure variance between pleading and proof.
If at the trial of any action or motion, there appears to be a variance between the evidence and allegations or recitals, the court, if in its opinion substantial justice will be promoted thereby, may allow the pleadings to be amended to conform to the proof.


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Rep. Gosar Presses Fish and Wildlife Service on Willow Beach Hatchery Promises
For Immediate Release
Contact: Steven D. Smith
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Congressman Paul A. Gosar, D.D.S. (AZ-04) wrote a letter addressed to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Director Dan Ashe seeking answers to the future of the rainbow trout stocking program at the Willow Beach National Fish Hatchery:
"On July 25, 2014, the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular Affairs Subcommittee held a hearing on my legislation, H.R. 5026, the Fish Hatchery Protection Act. Some troubling things were revealed at the hearing. Namely, that USFWS failed to hold a public comment period and did not consider job losses or associated economic impact before terminating important recreational fishing programs. Even Deputy Director Steve Guertin testified, 'This was not our [USFWS] finest hour'.
"The Deputy Director went on to testify that USFWS did not consider 1,700 jobs in Mohave County and $75 million in economic output associated with the Willow Beach Hatchery or the 4,000 jobs and $80 million in payroll nationally before terminating rainbow trout stocking programs throughout the country. I call on USFWS to find a solution for the Willow Beach Hatchery and resume the rainbow trout stocking program as soon as humanly possible."
Congressman Gosar's letter to Director Ashe can be found in its entirety HERE.
Below is the exchange during the July 25, 2014 hearing highlighting Deputy Director Guertin testimony including his statement in regards to reinstating the trout propagation program at the Willow Beach Hatchery:
Rep. Gosar: The Fish and Wildlife Service stated in a letter to this Subcommittee sent on May 30, 2014 that the reason for terminating the rainbow trout stocking program at the time was that the agency didn't have the 1.5 to 8.5 million dollars to repair a broken water [supply] line and to keep the trout stocking program going… Recent engineering reports indicate that these estimates were a gross exaggeration and that the broken water [supply] line would only cost around $100,000 to fix. If the water, now listen very carefully, if the water supply line is fixed, does the Fish and Wildlife Service plan to reinstate the trout propagation program at the Willow Beach Hatchery?
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Lord Smith of Clifton asked Her Majesty's Government:
What conclusions have so far been drawn up by the Department of Trade and Industry monitoring unit on directors' remuneration, since the unit was set up last February.
Lord Davies of Oldham: My Lords, my right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry made a Written Statement to Parliament about directors' remuneration, performance contracts and severance on 25 February 2004, announcing that the Department of Trade and Industry would commission an external assessment of compliance with the Directors' Remuneration Report Regulations and changes in remuneration practices during the course of this year's AGM season. Deloitte & Touche has been appointed to this role and will submit its reports to the department this autumn.
Lord Lea of Crondall: My Lords
Lord Smith of Clifton: My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for that reply, and I thank the noble Lord, Lord Lea, for not jumping the gun. The Guardian reported a 288 per cent increase in remuneration levels over the past 10 years compared with an increase in average earnings of 45 per cent. Top remuneration packages of such a magnitude are, frankly, looting investors. It is time that the Government did not outsource inquiries on such issues. I think that the senior partner in Deloitte is among the fat cats about whom we are talking, so I hope that the company declares an interest when it gives its assessment.
Failure continues to be rewarded. We have seen it this week in the cases of Jarvis directors and Sir Peter Davis at Sainsbury. It makes a mockery of good corporate governance. The Government cannot keep hiding behind assessments and so on. They should deal with this problem and amend the Companies Act, as the noble Lord, Lord Triesman, indicated in his reply to me on 25 February. Does the Minister not agree?
Lord Davies of Oldham: My Lords, I am glad that there was a question right at the end, although I very much enjoyed the diatribe. As the noble Lord indicated, there are statistics going back over a number of years, which is why the regulations were introduced two years ago. During the first year in which the regulations have been effective, shareholders have had
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the chance at annual general meetings to hold companies to account in these terms and considerable progress has been made. There will always be one or two instances that hit the headlines; the noble Lord referred to one of them. The regulations are effecting beneficial change. It is only right that we await Deloitte & Touche's report to obtain its analysis of how the system works and whether emendation is necessary.
Lord Lea of Crondall: My Lords, I was merely signalling earlier my intention to ask a helpful question, albeit in a somewhat unorthodox manner.
Some of us have doubts about the doctrine of shareholder democracy. There is a lot of evidence that remuneration committees operate, not against market forces, but in an oligopoly. Research shows that in many cases they operate the upper-quartile principle, which in layman's language means, "You scratch my back; I'll scratch yours". I suspect that that will apply to Deloitte & Touche's report also, but I hope that I am wrong. Will the Minister take on board that we need the unit to do some serious work about the operation of remuneration committees, having regard to the fact that the issue is increasingly becoming a national scandal and that it will be very hard to retain moral support for income restraint across the rest of the economy if it goes on like this?
Lord Davies of Oldham: My Lords, I recognise my noble friend's impatience, indicated by his eagerness to put his question. I have some sympathy with his statement and with that of the noble Lord, Lord Smith, that previous abuses have caused considerable public concern. I reiterate my response to the first Question: we await an analysis of the position. We are encouraged by what has occurred over the past 15 months. Greater openness is making issues more transparent to shareholders, and in some well publicised cases it has resulted in significant second thoughts by the board. I hear what my noble friend says. I am sure that, after many years of showing considerable patience, the noble Lord will be able to extend it for the short period until we have the benefit of the report. Then we will be able to look further at the situation.
Lord Marsh: My Lords, I would welcome elucidation on an aspect of the subject that has always puzzled me. If shareholders do not like the way that a company in which they have put their money is run, for whatever reason, why cannot they sell the shares and transfer their affections?
Lord Davies of Oldham: My Lords, that probably goes on. It has not gone unnoticed that one of the companies that is currently in the limelight because of its remuneration of directors has seen, for all sorts of reasons, a massive decline in its share price, which is a reflection of loss of confidence. Withdrawal from the fray is one condign action that shareholders can take but surely it would be better for the health of companies and the good of the economy if shareholders were
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empowered and had the information to take decisions that helped to change behaviour rather than just pulling the plug on the whole activity.
Lord Wright of Richmond: My Lords
The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean): My Lords, we have not yet heard from the Conservative Benches.
Baroness O'Cathain: My Lords, is there any thinking that perhaps the make-up of the members of the remuneration committee should be looked at? Under the combined code, the audit committees now have to be made up of members who have financial competence in areas such as accountancy and banking, for example. There could be a case for suggesting to corporations that members of the remuneration committee should likewise be well versed in all the intricacies of remuneration. In that way, we might avoid the very prevalent trend of going for upper quartile for non-upper quartile performance.
Lord Davies of Oldham: My Lords, I recognise the noble Baroness's point about the complexities of remuneration. The report from Deloitte & Touche, which we await with some eagerness, will no doubt have significant things to say about the make-up of remuneration committees, their competence and, to reflect the point of my noble friend Lord Lea, whether they are sufficiently representative.
Lord Beaumont of Whitley asked Her Majesty's Government:
What steps they are taking to ensure that disabled residents living on unadopted roads will be able to take full advantage of the provisions in the draft Disability Discrimination Bill.
Lord Davies of Oldham: My Lords, the provisions of the draft Disability Discrimination Bill would place public authorities under a duty not to discriminate against disabled people when exercising any of their functions and would require them to promote equality of opportunity. Local authorities have no mandatory duties in respect of unadopted roads, and the Bill's provisions would not change that position.
Lord Beaumont of Whitley: My Lords, I thank the noble Lord to a certain extent for that Answer. I know that he knows that there are about 40,000 unadopted roads in England, because we have discussed this before. Does he know that many of them, particularly in the north of England, are in such a state of disrepair
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and are so badly lit that disabled people cannot safely leave their houses? Does he not think that it is time that the national Government should fill this breach in our welfare provisions by taking over responsibility?
Lord Davies of Oldham: My Lords, when the noble Lord says that I know that there are 40,000 unadopted roads in the United Kingdom, I do so on the basis of 1972 statistics, which are the latest we have.
In response to the noble Lord's broader point, he will recognise that it is for frontagers on such roads to make up their mind whether the road is sufficiently secure for them to go about their business. If there are disabled people who have particular difficulties, they must get together with their neighbours to approach the local authority. But if local authorities took on every single unadopted road in this country, the cost would be £3 billion. That is a mighty large slice out of the transport budget.
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From: "Elizabeth O'Donoghue" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Some Celtic Names
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 09:03:34 +0100
In-Reply-To: <email@example.com>
John, you'll have to edit Wikipedia. Surely you don't mean to include
McDonald under Mackintosh though? E
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[mailto:]On Behalf Of JOHN PLUMMER
Sent: 10 August 2007 22:13
Subject: Re: [DNA] Some Celtic Names
Moncreiffe, The Highland Clans, page 60, "Clan Chattan...Besides
Mackintosh and his own principal branches - Farquharson of Invercauld, Shaw
of Tordarroch, MacThomas (McCombie) of Glenshee - there were the Macphersons
and Cattanachs, also the MacGilllivrays of Dunmaglas (whose chief commanded
the whole Clan Chattan for Lady Mackintosh at Culloden), Macleans of
Dochgarroch ('Macleans of the North), McBains of Kinchyle, Macqueens of
Corribrough, as well as the other clansmen bearing such names as Davidson,
Macphail, MacAndrew, Gow, Clark, Ritchie, MacHardy, and Mackilligin."
Pages 62-63: "But it seems possible that they got a firmer legal title
later (and the quartering of the Galley in their arms), as the tocher of
Mora, granddaughter of the powerful Hebridean prince Ranald (namefather of
Clanranald), of the Clan Donald reigning House of the Isles who were long
overlords of Lochaber."
McComb[ie] or MacThomas of Glenshee - branch of Mackintosh
Maclean of Dochgarroch ('Maclean of the North')
McCarty analogous to MacHardy
McReynolds analogous to McRanald
McCrannal analogous to McRanald
McDonald - Clan Donald
Maccormick - branch of Maclean of Lochbuie (might be wrong one) [George
Way of Plean]
McCracken - branch of Maclean [George Way of Plean]
3 miscellaneous, 3 Maclean branches, 3 Clanranald branches. [The other 3
had early Clanranald ties too but not as close]
Elizabeth O'Donoghue <> wrote:
John, a quick look at Wikipedia only shows McPhail???
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Well 9 out of the 12 seem to be associated with Clan Chattan.
Ken Nordtvedt wrote: What do the following Celtic
surnames have in common other than starting with Mc or Mac ?
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Medicaid fraud costs the state of Alaska $45 million a year, and that's just a conservative estimate according to Andrew Peterson, assistant attorney general and director of Alaska's Medicaid Control Fraud Unit. The FBI says up to 10 percent of claims made to Medicaid are fraudulent.
Peterson is currently prosecuting the case of Anchorage physician Dr. Shubhranjan Ghosh, who's accused of fraudulently billing Medicaid for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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"Medicaid operates essentially in this arena on a system of trust," Peterson said.
PCAs fill out time sheets and submit them to a PCA agency, which then sends it to Medicaid. Operating on trust means there's plenty of room for people to be dishonest on their times sheets about hours worked and services provided, especially if the client is a family member.
"The difficulty there in proving that fraud is this service [that] happens in the home, one family member to another, and it's difficult to encourage individuals to report on their own family members or indicate they aren't receiving a service that they should," Peterson said.
In October 2012, the state allocated more money and personnel toward investigating Medicaid fraud. Since then, the Medicaid Control Fraud Unit has overseen 56 convictions. Peterson says it's a joint effort with multiple agencies and law enforcement involved in gathering the evidence needed for a successful prosecution.
Peterson can't confirm if fraud is increasing, but he can confirm that the cost of health care is going up – specifically in the home health care arena.
"Just a few years back it was about $60 million a year in cost to the state of Alaska; it's currently $160 million a year," he said.
The Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) has announced it's going to pilot an electronic visit verification and monitoring system. The system will verify the in-home visit of a PCA.
"The PCA that goes into a home has to make a phone call in to say that they are there and providing a service and that's how it would work into the time sheet," said Lynne Keilman-Cruz, chief of quality with the DHSS' Senior Disability Services.
Keilman-Cruz says even though there are still ways to cheat the system, the electronic visit verification system will discourage fraud. She's seen it work in other states, she said.
The DHSS also has the power to suspend Medicaid payments while investigations are ongoing. Just in the last two months, Mat-Su Activity and Respite Center, along with Anchorage-based agency A Loving Care PCA, were suspended from billing Medicaid while allegations of fraud are investigated. People who rely on them have been notified and given a list of other providers.
When a PCA or agency is charged, it's up to the DHSS to make sure vulnerable clients aren't left without care.
"We work together to triage to make sure the people with higher needs get into services in a timely manner," Keilman-Cruz said.
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EAST LAKE — Keegan Maronpot walked to the plate with the bases loaded in the first inning Wednesday. When the ball sailed into the right-centerfield stands, Maronpot, an East Lake junior, carefully circled the bases, as though he wanted to enjoy every stride of a grand slam that helped produce a 6-4 victory over Seminole in a battle of unbeaten teams in Pinellas County.
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In the wake of the Delhi gang rape, I read today a tremendous column by Caitlin Moran in Saturday's Times. I would link it, but it's behind a paywall so if you were able to read it you would presumably already have done so.
Basically she says what I've been boring people with for years, which is that we'd all have a far less ambivalent attitude to rape if we stopped treating it as a sexual offence and dealt with it instead as a species of assault. Here are a few extracts.
That's why I sometimes think we should do away with the word "rape" altogether....Let's call this crime something simpler, and less confusing, instead: internal assault. Intramural attack. Regard it just as we would an assailant violently forcing a hammer handle into a mouth, or puncturing an eardrum with a knife. Does it make any real difference if it's a vagina being brutalised, or an eye? If the weapon is a penis, or a cosh? This is punching, but inside. This is the repeated piercing of someone's body. When you put it like that, suddenly the issue of rape becomes very clear: how many women would ask for that?......
The phrase "sexual assault" confuses a million men and women.....right across the world - that troubled word, "sexual", casting a shadow so deep it hides the "assault" part altogether. it makes people think of rape merely as some sex that just "went wrong"....
Not sexual assault. Just - assault. Not a sexual crime. Just - crime. Not rape - with all the confusions we can't afford, can't bear, another generation to painfully sift through, as we have had to.
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Multiple Interface Watcher (MIW) is a graph utility that shows the utilisation of up to 20 different network interfaces. The interfaces are defined in a file which is read by MIW. The data is requested from the devices using SNMP and percentage values are calculated and shown in the graphs.
Multiple Interface Watcher, MIW.exe
Version 1.1.0; April2005
FREEware by Carsten Schmidt
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How does it work and what does it do?
Generate a file with a list of devices that you want to monitor. Each line
in that file must follow the format given in the example file '
<IP address>;<Interface number>;<bandwidth>;<SNMP comunity>;<description>.
Do not use more than 10 lines.
Start MIW and open your device file. You will see that a number of graphs
have changed their colour, they are now activated with your information.
Click on 'Start polling' to start the monitoring. The
There are two places to change options: either by clicking on 'Show more'
which expands the GUI to show polling intervall and other options or you
select Tools\Options from the menu to change graph behaviour.
All of the options are self explanatory like 'stay on top' and polling intervall.
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Saint Etienne, France: Lance Armstrong finally won a stage on this year's Tour de France when he dominated the 20th and penultimate stage of the Tour de France here today, a 55.5.km individual time trial.
Armstrong's first victory in this year's race is his 22nd stage
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The 33-year-old American retained the yellow jersey he is set to keep for a seventh time when the race finishes in Paris after tomorrow's 21st stage - after which he will retire.
Armstrong finished the race against the clock with a 23-sec lead on Germany's 1997 winner Jan Ullrich. His T-Mobile teammate Alexandre Vinokourov finished third at 1:17.
American Bobby Julich, of the CSC team, finished ahead of his Italian teammate Ivan Basso who was fourth behind Armstrong at 1:54.
Armstrong is now only 144km away from ending his career, which will end after tomorrow's 21st stage.
Standing next to the podium with his three children, Armstrong said: "It's pretty special to have the kids here like this, but it's not essential. The essential thing is that I arrive in Paris tomorrow with the yellow jersey."
Ullrich's performance allowed the five-time runner-up to move up to second place in the race's general classification at the expense of Denmark's Michael Rasmussen, who had a nightmare day on the bike which he changed several times and also fell off.
Basso is second overall at 4:40 while Ullrich is third overall at 6:21.
Basso, who started the race in second place overall behind Armstrong, started the race against the clock the fastest and passed the first time check at 17km with a seven-second lead on the six-time winner and a 17-sec lead on Ullrich.
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Armstrong, who came second on the first stage 19km time trial in Noirmoutier behind fellow American David Zabriskie, continued to impose his speedy cadence on his rivals over the tough, undulating course and by the third time checkpoint, at 40.2km, his lead on Ullrich had grown to 32 seconds.
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The Business of Strangers
2001 (2002) - IFC Films (MGM)
review by Dan Kelly of
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Film Rating: B+
Disc Ratings (Video/Audio/Extras): A/B/D
Specs and Features
84 mins, R, letterboxed widescreen (1.85:1), 16x9 enhanced, full-frame (1.33:1), dual-layered (no layer switch), keep case packaging, theatrical trailer, film-themed menu screens, scene access (16 chapters), language: English (DD 5.1), subtitles: English and Spanish, Close Captioned
"I don't need to go to Japan to get stepped on just because I have tits. I've got a big dose of that right here in my native tongue."
Patrick Stettner's
The Business of Strangers
is a bitter cat and mouse game that borrows some from the David Mamet school of fork-tongued delivery, and Neil Labute's brutal assault on workplace competition in
In the Company of Men
. Its subjects are corporate veteran Julia Styron (Stockard Channing) and newbie Paula Murphy (Julia Stiles). Julia is a tough as nails executive who fought her way to the top and is fighting even harder to stay there. When Paula, her new assistant, arrives late on a business trip, Julia immediately arranges to have her employment with the company terminated. But after subsequent conversations with her secretary (and best friend), she fears that her own job is in danger and seeks the services of business headhunter Nick Harris (Frederick Weller).
As Julia and Paula put their rocky start behind them, they exchange personal stories with each other. It's here, toward the middle section of the film, that it takes a turn toward the vindictive, and becomes a revenge fantasy. A little advice on staying strong in a male-dominated field, a brief mention of past sexual violence and a whole lot of scotch later, the two exact retribution on an apparent rapist and verbally rip each other to shreds in the process. I wasn't completely sold on this portion of the film. The film's time schedule is a short 24 hours, and I don't know if even a couple of bottles of scotch and 30 years of resentment could lead to this degree of potential self-destruction. Paula divulges early on that she likes "the sloppiness of real life," and perhaps Stettner does too. Fortunately, he knows how to clean it up a bit, and the movie's ending saves this slapdash section by piecing together some of the less persuasive aspects of an otherwise first-rate feature.
MGM provides both a widescreen and full frame presentation on the DVD release of
The Business of Strangers
. The widescreen image is accurately framed, and the open matte full-frame option reveals more visual information at the top and bottom of the picture. Contrast is strikingly smooth, resulting in an exceedingly detailed picture that retains a cinematic texture. Much of the film is lit in amber hues that really accent flesh tones, and they're represented beautifully here in the transfer. One of the key sequences in the film takes place in near darkness, and even this scene didn't disappoint in its attention to detail in blacks and shadow delineation. There's barely a speck of grain on the print, and edge enhancement and compression artifacting do not present themselves as detriments to the quality of the picture. This is definitely one of MGM's nicer recent efforts video-wise.
The sole audio option is a minimalist 5.1 mix that focuses most of its energy on maintaining a clear, succinct dialogue track.
The Business of Strangers
is a talk-heavy film, and the near complete absence of audio action allows you to focus on the discourse between the film's main characters. An occasional, discreet sound effect finds its way into the surround channels from time to time, as does the film's lean, unobtrusive musical score. But the focus here is really on the verbal exchanges between Julie and Paula, and you'd be hard pressed to find any issues at all with that portion of the audio.
The Business of Strangers
quietly crept in and out of limited release, and didn't catch the attention of a lot of cinema patrons. MGM has certainly done little to change that, as they've chosen to release the film as a movie-only disc. The lone extra is the theatrical trailer. Strangely enough, MGM offers the trailer in two formats on this DVD: a soft-matted, widescreen transfer, and a full-frame option for those who absolutely cannot stand those pesky black bars if even for a minute or two. I can't for the life of me figure out why MGM found it essential to include both versions for the discriminating home viewer, but it'll please someone, somewhere, I'm sure.
As a film,
The Business of Strangers
is well worth seeing. The brisk pace of the film keeps it from stretching the material too thin, and the skilled performances from the two leads are one of the clear-cut strong points that director Stettner has to offer. Channing is in top form as always, but Stiles also pleasantly surprised me. She managed to hold her own opposite the stage and screen veteran. As a DVD, you're only going to get your money's worth from a rental. It's about as bare as they come, and its asking price is a little steep for what you get.
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Turkey's energy minister has criticised the United States not joining in the $22 billion tender to build the country's second nuclear power plant, local media reported on Saturday.
"If we are not building the nuclear power plant with America, which strategic project will we handle with them?" Energy Minister Taner Yildiz was quoted as telling the daily Hurriyet newspaper.
The minister said Washington's non-participation in the project was not compatible with the so-called "model partnership" between the two NATO allies.
"It's our right as a model partner to expect" Americans to submit a bid for the tender, he added.
Turkey is close to making a decision in the major tender to build the country's second nuclear power plant in Sinop on the Black Sea and on Thursday Yildiz said Ankara was still negotiating with Chinese and Japanese companies.
Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in cooperation with France's Areva were expected to win the tender, Japan's Nikkei business daily had reported. But the Turkish minister said it was too early to name a winner.
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