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Located in Oura, this beachfront apartment is in the city center and within 1 mi (2 km) of Oura Beach, Aveiros Beach, and Santa Eulalia Beach. Albufeira Bullring and International Health Centers Albufeira are also within 1 mi (2 km).
Property Features
Guests at this beach apartment will appreciate convenient onsite amenities such as a complimentary children's club and a children's pool.
Room Amenities
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Muthu Clube Praia da Oura
Apartment Amenities
Apartment Amenities
In addition to an outdoor pool and a children's pool, Muthu Clube Praia da Oura provides an outdoor tennis court and a sauna. Dining is available at the restaurant and guests can grab coffee at one of the 3 coffee shops/cafés. The apartment also has a snack bar/deli. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the apartment's bars, which include a poolside bar and a bar/lounge. A computer station is located on site and wireless Internet access is complimentary.
This beach apartment also offers a nightclub, a library, and a complimentary children's club. Guests can use the health club at a partner property. For a surcharge, the property provides an area shuttle within 3 km and a roundtrip airport shuttle (available 24 hours). Onsite self parking is complimentary.
- Children's pool
- Area shuttle (surcharge)
- Express check-in
- Children's club
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Number of buildings/towers - 2
- Supervised childcare/activities (surcharge)
- Pool sun loungers
- Number of coffee shops/cafes - 3
- Luggage storage
- Shopping center shuttle (surcharge)
- Snack bar/deli
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Poolside bar
- Sauna
- Children's club (free)
- Nightclub
- Restaurant
- Bar/lounge
- Total number of rooms - 531
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Multilingual staff
- 24-hour front desk
- Porter/bellhop
- Number of floors - 9
- ATM/banking
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Laundry facilities
- Television in common areas
- Library
- Elevator/lift
- Pool umbrellas
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Free WiFi
- Computer station
- Garden
- Outdoor tennis court
- Free parking nearby
- Free self parking
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Outdoor pool
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
Family Friendly Amenities
- Outdoor pool
- Children's pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Outdoor tennis court
- Children's club (free)
- Kitchenette
- Snack bar/deli
- Laundry facilities
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Playground on site
- Bowling alley on site
- Refrigerator
- Microwave
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking, Free parking nearby
Room Amenities
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Kitchenette
- Microwave
- Cookware, dishware, and utensils
- Refrigerator
- Hair dryer
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Television
- In-room safe (surcharge)
- Satellite TV service
- Free WiFi
Where to Eat
Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning.
Jacs Restaurant - Overlooking the pool, this restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar. A children's menu is available.
Nearby Things to Do
An outdoor pool and a children's pool are on site. Other recreational amenities include an outdoor tennis court and a sauna.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Mountain biking nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Kayaking nearby
- Bowling alley on site
- Segway rental/tour nearby
- Boat tours nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Snorkeling nearby
- Scuba diving nearby
- Water skiing nearby
- Windsurfing nearby
- Parasailing nearby
- Playground on site
- Scooter/moped rentals on site
- Bicycle rentals on site
Spa Services
- Massages
Apartment Policies
Check-in time ends at 3 PM
Check-in time starts at 5 PM
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is 10 AM
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are not available.
- Cribs (infant beds) are available for EUR 10 per night.
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
No rollaway/extra beds available
Optional extras
- Fee for buffet breakfast: EUR 8.50 for adults and EUR 4.50 for children (approximately)
- Airport shuttle fee: EUR 20 per person (roundtrip)
- A late check-out fee will be charged
- Weekly housekeeping provided; fees apply for additional cleaning
- In-room safe fee: EUR 2.60 per night
- Crib (infant bed) fee: EUR 10 per night
Apartment Name
- Apartments Praia da Oura
- Clube Oura
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We should mention
This property's policy is to refuse certain bookings for the purpose of group events or parties, including pre-wedding stag/bachelor and hen/bachelorette parties. This property offers transfers from the airport (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details before travel, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Reservations are required for massage services. Reservations can be made by contacting the apartment prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
Light All Inclusive Offer
Book a stay in a "Light All Inclusive" rate plan and receive early check-in at 4 PM, buffet breakfast at Jac's Restaurant (8-10:30 AM), buffet or menu of the day lunch (12:30-2:30 PM) and dinner (6:30-9:30 PM) depending on the season at Jac's Restaurant, tea and coffee self-service at Ocean Bar and Jac's Restaurant from noon to 9:30 PM (excludes espresso and bottled water), select domestic beverages served by the glass from noon to 11 PM, and 30% off imported drinks by the glass until 11 PM.
Full details and all-inclusive wristband at check-in. Guests must wear the wristband and provide the room key card in order to receive benefits. Domestic beverages are available at Ocean Bar from noon to 6 PM (last drink order at 5:30 PM), Piano Bar from 6-11 PM (last drink order at 10:30 PM), and Jac's Restaurant only during meals (one drink per person; wine and beer only). Water, coffee, tea, and milk are included at meals. Taxes and gratuity may not be included. No refunds for any unused portion of offer. Offer subject to availability. Offer is not valid with groups/conventions and may not be combined with other promotional offers. Other restrictions and blackout dates may apply.


text: Looking for a Cub Cadet lover to give this mower a good home. I can't hide my postings to Lawnsite - I had both drive units replaced under warranty this spring due to leakage. I think it should cut better than it does but maybe I should have paid more attention to the warning "for professional use only". It just came back from a visit with the Cub Commercial rep at a local dealership where it received new blades, deck leveling, and a slight boost in RPMs(?). Homeowner used for mostly honey-do projects (in-laws, wife's place of business, and home). It has 90 hours on it today July 25th. I had it in the local paper for $4000, looking for offers. PM me with questions or offers or call and leave a message at 440-593-5157.

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text: AYHAN ERDOGAN wrote: >Data-link layer security protocol TinySec is already included in >tossim. (right ?) > > > yes. >Please give me some info/idea for ANY of my following questions ; > > >1. Is any cryptographic method already implemented in tossim ? > > > TinySec, as well as some block cipher implementations, modes of operation, and a cryptographic MAC. > >2. say that, I want to implement Elliptic Curve Cryptograpy (ECC 2003) >or something else, where should I start ? Which steps should I follow ? > > > > Here are some relevant articles: http://airclic.eecs.harvard.edu/publications/secon04.pdf http://research.sun.com/projects/crypto/CHES_2004.pdf >3. Is there any electronic documentation or site focused on Cryptograpy >in Sensor Nodes or Security protocols for sensor networks ? > > > this is a good place to start: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/zhufeng/security_manet.html >4. Is TinySec to be used alone or should/can it be used with another >upper layer security protocol? > > either. > > >5. How can I compare the performance of different cryptographic >tecniques for sensor Networks ? > > > > implement them and measure them :). some of the above papers already do some comparison as well. -chris


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Evelyn Grace Hartley
Missing since October 24, 1953, from La Crosse, La Crosse County, Wisconsin
Classification: Endangered Missing
Vital Statistics
Circumstances of Disappearance
Hartley, a 15-year-old Central High School student disappeared October 24, 1953, from the home of a La Crosse State College professor where she was babysitting. She was supposed to call her parents during the evening but did not. Her father tried to call several times that day and never got an answer. He became worried and went to the house to check on his daughter.
Hartley's father found all the windows in the house locked except a basement window in the back. Bloodstains were found around that window and in the grass of the yard, and there was a bloody hand print on the side of the house next door. The furniture inside the living room was disarranged. Hartley's eyeglasses, which were broken, and one of her shoes were on the living room floor. Her other shoe was found in the basement. There was no other trace of Hartley inside the home. The twenty-month-old girl she had been babysitting was found unharmed, sleeping in her crib.
Tracker dogs traced Hartley's scent as far as the street, leading authorities to believe she had been taken away in a car. They believe she disappeared at approximately 19.15. She never was found though there was an intensive search. Foul play is suspected.
Investigators La Crosse Police Department
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Tony Delap
La Crosse Police Department
Agency Case Number: 53-1543
NCMEC Case Number: NCM1150955
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La Crosse Tribune
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Eminem thinks about his own death "a lot".
The 'We Made You' rapper - who has famously battled an addiction to prescription drugs - often thinks about his own passing when he is in bed but admits it "creeps" him out.
He said: "Do I think about my own death? Yeah, I do. A lot. I think about it a lot. I try not to think about it but I do and it creeps me the f**k out! When I lay in bed at night is when I think about it the most."
Recalling a time when he was hospitalised at the height of his drug addiction, Eminem added to Vide magazine: "It creeps me out because they say that if I got to the hospital two hours later then I would be gone. I think about that a lot."
The rapper - real name Marshall Mathers - also revealed how easy it was for him to obtain illegal prescriptions from doctors overawed by his celebrity status.
The hip-hop star - who checked into a rehabilitation centre in 2005 to be treated for an addiction to prescription pills - explained: "It's one of those things where you're famous, doctors will kiss you're a*s because they love the celebrity. 'Oh, I can call up Eminem and get him on the phone right now. Oh, hi Marshall, how are you doing? Do you need that prescription?'
"There are doctors that will give you certain things just because of who you are."
Eminem also spoke of his shock at his '8 Mile' co-star Brittany Murphy's death in December, admitting he thinks there is an epidemic of tragedy currently sweeping Hollywood.
He said: "It was crazy. It's crazy. It's crazy because at one point we were very close and she was a really good person. It's crazy when you see things not just with her but just all these things that are happening in Hollywood with people in music, with people in acting, famous people. Famous people are overdosing at alarming rates and - that almost sounded like a commercial. Wow."
Eminem admits he gets ''creeped out'' thinking about his own death but can't help but ponder his passing on a regular basis.
Eminem thinks about his own death "a lot".


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BEAVER CREEK, Colorado (AP) Georg Streitberger of Austria captured a World Cup super-G race on Saturday while Olympic silver medalist Bode Miller skied off the course.
Streitberger finished the demanding Birds of Prey run in 1 minute, 17.18 seconds, edging Adrien Theaux of France by 0.11 seconds. Didier Cuche of Switzerland was third.
"It was a perfect day for me," Streitberger said.
Streitberger found the right track to ride all the way to his second career World Cup win.
His secret?
"Sometimes you have to ski with the brain and put on the brakes," Streitberger said. "The reason is because it's so difficult here."
The result ended the reign of Swiss skier Carlo Janka at Beaver Creek. He swept all three events last season, but finished 23rd on Saturday.
"A lot of mistakes today. Not a good run for me," Janka said. "I can't expect that every year will work like last year."
Miller had trouble finding the right line near a technical turn midway through the run and veered straight off the course.
It was a common theme as Americans Andrew Weibrecht, Marco Sullivan and Ted Ligety also failed to make it through the difficult section of the hill.
"It's not that sweet, obviously on our home hill," Ligety said. "I think a lot of us think this is the coolest super-G hill in the World Cup and we're all really excited to have a good day, so it's definitely a bummer."
The event will conclude on Sunday with a giant slalom. A downhill race scheduled for Friday was canceled because of high wind. There's no makeup date or venue yet for that race.
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text: If you submit a script to PBS with the command qsub -q at abc.com with no other options, and if, within that script there is the PBS directive: #PBS -W depend="afterok:5" to what server should the "5" be bound? The default PBS server or the one specified in the -q option? qsub (eventually) in processing this statement in the script calls get_server(). get_server in the module comments refers to section 5.1.2 of the ERS indicating the steps for determining the server in the case where a job id does not contain a server name. But this description seems to apply only to "requests" not directive options. It appears (from the logic flow in qsub.c) that the job id "5" will be resolved to the default PBS server name and not the server name specified on the qsub command line because the destination specified in the -q option is processed after the script has been read and the job id in the depend list converted. Is this the intended behavior, implying that in a multiple server environment one must fully-qualify all jobids in all scripts?


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Accessibility and Cascading Style Sheets
Introduction to Stylesheets
Stylesheets are a relatively new creation, and in fact, many web designers may be completely unfamiliar with them. If this is your first exposure to styles in HTML, don't be scared, it's not really as complex as it looks.
Why Stylesheets Are Needed
HTML was conceived as a structural language that conveys semantic meaning, rather than presentation. The idea is that if a certain amount of text is supposed to be strongly emphasized, the HTML code doesn't dictate exactly how the user agent (browser) will render it, but instead leaves it up to the browser to determine the best way, based on the capabilities of the computer viewing the page and the user's preferences.
So a STRONG element could display the text as bold red on a normal GUI browser (something like MSIE on Windows 95), or bold on a monochrome monitor, or in CAPITAL LETTERS on a terminal that can't even display bold text. A voice-based browser might emphasize the same text by increasing the volume when reading the highlighted words.
That's how it worked, in theory. In practice, however, web authors aren't happy with leaving everything up to the computer at the other end; it's a good thing to be able to specify colors and fonts and sizes and any other manner of presentation instructions and have the page look like what you want. So a number of attributes and elements, ranging from FONT to ALIGN to COLOR, were added to HTML.
This probably was a mistake. By confusing the issue of semantic structure with visual appearance, a situation soon arose where web authors abandoned the idea of any kind of internal structure to their pages and instead designed solely for visual "look". That style of design lead to a decrease in the amount of actually usable information beyond the visual rendering, which means there's less for non-visual browsers to use.
Stylesheets to the Rescue!
This is where styles and stylesheets come along. They separate the structural content -- which is still in HTML -- from the rendering instructions, which are specified in CSS. The advantages of this approach are that it restores the rightful place of HTML as a structural language while still allowing the author to do all kinds of impressive rendering, formatting, and layout tricks in a generally accessible manner.
The first version of stylesheets for the web was released in December 1996 and is called "Cascading Style Sheets, Level 1" or CSS1 for short. The second version, level 2 (CSS2) was issued by the W3C in May 1998. CSS2 allows for media-specific style sheets, which offers even accessibility benefits in the form of aural style sheets, style sheets for non-standard devices (hand-held computers, for example), and other advances in selecting and using styles in web design.
How do you use styles? This is not intended as a full tutorial on CSS, but in short, there are three ways to use stylesheets:
- (a) inline styles, in which a specific element in your page is
flagged to receive a certain style. For example, if I want
THIS TEXT to be green, I could do something like:
THIS TEXT
(The SPAN element allows you to pick out a particular bit of content and give it some kind of special status -- in this case, an inline style.)
- (b) Embedded style sheet in the document, using the STYLE element.
This allows you to specify how all elements of a particular type will
be rendered, or only certain elements using a "selector." Here's
an example:
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In this example, all H1 elements would be displayed with a sans-serif font (such as Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, etc), and all SPAN elements with the CLASS of "greentext" will be rendered in a green color. (Note that  are necessary around the embedded stylesheet so it won't be displayed as text.)
- (c) External style sheets, loaded using the LINK attribute. This
method allows you to have a general stylesheet for your page that
can be used by a number of web pages -- to change the look of an
entire site, you don't have to edit all the pages, just the one
<LINK REL="stylesheet" TYPE="text/css" HREF="http://www.hwg.org/styles/hwg.css">
The HTML above calls the Guild's stylesheet; you can view it yourself at the other end of this link.
The Problem With Stylesheets
So, I've told you that stylesheets can do neat things like improve the accessibility of your pages and let you have neat formatting control; I've even given you examples and links to get you started on using them. What's the problem, then?
The main problem is this: No browser supports stylesheets correctly. The major browsers, in versions 4.0 (or 3.5), offer limited style support; none is 100% accurate on even CSS1, let alone CSS2. The browser manufacturers implement bits and pieces, but nothing that's utterly reliable in all cases.
Netscape 3.X and earlier don't do stylesheets. MSIE 3.X tried to do stylesheets, but did a terrible job at it. MSIE 4.X is a definite improvement over 3.X, and is probably the best browser for viewing stylesheets, but there are some problems even with its support. Opera 3.5 supports CSS level 1; previous versions of Opera don't support styles. Lynx and most other third-tier browsers likewise don't support stylesheets. WebTV has limited support for CSS.
What does lack of support mean? In most cases it means that the styles simply won't be displayed. THIS TEXT in the example above wouldn't be displayed in green; it would remain the default color (if a visual browser is being used). If your page says 'FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS IN GREEN' -- and the user can't see any green! -- then you have a problem. This is why you should design all your web pages to be usable even if styles aren't available.
(In a few cases, the browser may actually crash or display the page in a very odd way -- some versions of Netscape 4.X and MSIE 3.X have been known to do this. For this reason, it's good to test your stylesheet-enhanced page in as many browser versions as possible!)
Stylesheets are powerful, dynamic, and accessible, and will be used extensively in the future. If you're not using them now, don't let lack of browser support stop you -- this is the time to learn so that you're not the one behind the curve when the browser manufacturers finally catch up.
This essay copyright © 1999 by Kynn Bartlett <firstname.lastname@example.com> and is reprinted here with permission.


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Seven Seas Voyager - Northern Europe: Seven Seas Voyager Cruise Review by Travelcat2
Overall Member Rating
Seven Seas Voyager - Northern Europe
Destination: Baltic Sea
Embarkation: Copenhagen
Prior to the cruise we spent two nights in Copenhagen. Reviews of the Radisson SAS Royal vary, but we enjoyed the hotel & especially the amazing location. Tivoli Gardens is across the street, Stroget (the shopping area) is close by and there is even a supermarket next door. Guests of the hotel can also use the large, modern gym next door at no charge. No complaints here!
Embarkation was fast and efficient. Suites were ready approximately 3:00 p.m. Due to weather, they were serving lunch at La Veranda while we waited.
First let me say that we enjoyed the cruise tremendously and that the Seven Seas Voyager is a beautiful ship - albeit in serious need of refurbishment (more on this later). This was our second Regent cruise; the first being the Paul Gauguin More in 2004 so there may be a tendency to compare this ship with the PG.
We took Regent up on the offer to pay a "nominal" amount to upgrade from deck six to a Penthouse A suite mid-ship on deck 10. Although only 15 square feet larger than the other suites, the layout makes it appear quite a bit larger. Our butler was quite nice, however, we personally would not recommend paying a lot of extra money for the butler. Breakfast was set up in our suite beautifully each morning. I suspect that, it would have been set up just as nicely if we did not have a butler. The service from our Stewardess, Ginalyn, was excellent. We booked reservations at the two reservation only restaurants online. Our take on the restaurants is a bit different than I have read in previous posts.
Lattitudes has received some poor ratings on the boards but we found it to be excellent. The service surpassed that of any other restaurant on board. They had a way of adding a touch of humor along with impeccable service. The food was incredible. People who are not into Asian cuisine may find some of their flavors a bit unusual for their palates but we savored every morsel. The chef went to each table after the meal to inquire as to how the meal was. This was a nice touch. After telling him how much we enjoyed the food, he offered to give us the recipes (they arrived in our cabin two days later). I cannot say enough about this fine dining experience.
Signatures was also excellent but that is what we expected it to be. We dined here on a night when the ship was docked and the view from Signatures was of the not so attractive dock. I did not find the ambiance to be as nice as Lattitudes.
Compass Rose did a really good job but was a bit inconsistent in terms of quality. One night my husband had to return his very tough steak. The same night the pasta in the lasagna was extremely undercooked (not al dente it was really undercooked). We had lunch there on our last day and wished that we had done so earlier. The meals that were good were really exceptional. The service was perfection.
La Veranda - we had difficulty with both the quality of the food and the service. This restaurant is not consistently bad or good but, for lunch, it was only -average. The first two days we had lunch at La Veranda, the service was particularly invisible. Perhaps we are spoiled in terms of having our plates carried for us (when they are not busy), but we were basically ignored. There was an improvement on subsequent days.
On our last evening we had dined at La Veranda and found it to be extremely good. The desserts were particularly yummy. As a side note, La Veranda has the strongest vibration on the ship.
A word about desserts &..with the exception of the desserts at La Veranda and the dessert at Signatures, we found the desserts to lack both flavor and creativity. We wonder if the pastry chef may be different for La Veranda than Compass Rose.
The infamous "Voyager vibration" was not as noticeable to me as to my husband. Perhaps I just expect to feel movement and vibration on a vessel that is on the water.
Entertainment on the Voyager was fabulous, particularly on the night when they had local Russian dancers and singers. It exceeded any onboard entertainment we have seen.
Regent provided shuttle service in Tallinn and Stockholm. This made it very convenient for the passengers. Unfortunately, in Stockholm, there were at least 50 passengers wandering around looking for the shuttle bus for approximately a half an hour. We felt that Regent should have had provided some organization and direction.
We used a private tour company for our St. Petersburg tours and were extremely happy that we did so. It was not unusual to see 20-30 buses in the parking lots of the most popular tourist attractions (particularly Hermitage and Catherine's Palace). The waiting lines were incredibly long.
Lastly, I need to voice an honest opinion on the condition of the ship. The carpets in most public areas are extremely stained. I am not saying that they are dirty because the ship is kept very clean. The stains almost look like huge water spots and appear everywhere. Most of the furniture (chairs, sofas, etc.) are very worn and need replacing. The bed was not uncomfortable but was very worn out. When the bed is made it looks lumpy as if the mattress has taken on the shapes of the thousands of people that have lain on it. The ship is going into dry dock in November but there is no excuse for Regent to have permitted this beautiful ship to deteriorate to this level.
An August 2006 review of the Navigator indicates that it's condition is even worse than the Voyager and, in fact, Regent had to start installing carpeting while at sea. We are scheduled to cruise on the Navigator in April, 2007 and believe it, as well as the Voyager, will be in tip top shape. It is truly a shame that many people will have to put up with the current conditions for the next few months. Less
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Green leads River Cats' explosion
A's prospect slugs grand slam, breaks out of early slump
By Robert Emrich / Special to MLB.com | April 10, 2012 10:42 PM ET
The Athletics' No. 6 prospect hit a grand slam and plated a career-high six runs as Triple-A Sacramento cruised to an 18-6 win over Tucson on Tuesday.
Green got off to a rough start, fanning in his first two at-bats before launching his second homer of the season with the bases loaded in the fourth inning. The 24-year-old outfielder added a two-run single and scored in the sixth.
A first-round pick in 2009, Green entered play Tuesday batting .211 with two RBIs. He broke his previously established mark of five RBIs in a game, set on April 19, 2011, while playing for Midland.
Green, originally a shortstop, moved to the outfield last season with the Double-A RockHounds. After a slow start in the Texas League, Green batted .291 with 62 RBIs and earned organizational All-Star honors.
Jermaine Mitchell, the club's No. 16 prospect, was 3-for-6 with three RBIs and three runs scored while Michael Taylor drove in three.
Blake Tekotte, Tucson's leadoff batter, finished a homer shy of the cycle and scored twice for the Padres.
Robert Emrich is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.View More


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If you're really stuck in the creative process, your heart is telling you something. Listen to it. I did, and found myself backward mapping my entrepreneurial journey and found the START before SMART goal process.
The Start of START
I was recently asked to give a workshop for the National Speakers Association on SMART goals to help entrepreneurs launch their businesses. This is an important audience


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Fourteen years ago, Katy Read quit her job to stay home with her sons. Her advice to new moms? Don't do it.
While she cherishes memories of long afternoons on the playground with her boys, Read says her decision to leave full-time work as a newspaper reporter was a huge mistake. Now her sons are almost grown, she's divorced, and she has no savings or pension to fall back on. Or, as Read explains so elegantly – and terrifyingly – on Salon:
"We had wonderful times together, my sons and I. … Now I lie awake at 3 a.m., terrified that as a result I am permanently financially screwed. As of my divorce last year, I'm the single mother of two almost-men whose taste for playgrounds has been replaced by one for high-end consumer products and who will be, in a few more nanoseconds, ready for college. My income — freelance writing, child support, a couple of menial part-time jobs — doesn't cover my current expenses, let alone my retirement or the kids' tuition."
Holy cow. For me, Read's words are like a cold splash of water in the face. Or maybe a cup of hot coffee in the lap. Because even though I'm a full-time working mom, I harbor fantasies of scaling back as my kids get older. Maybe going part-time, or just freelancing. I could still do the work I love, but also pick my kids up from school, supervise homework time, take them to swimming lessons.
Would this make me just like the proverbial grasshopper, whiling away the hours while the industrious ants prepare for winter? I think Read would say yes. And if her essay isn't scary enough, there are the reports that parents who give up a career forfeit $1 million in wages and benefits. Gulp. Of course time with my girls is priceless, but maybe I should keep limiting it to before work, after work, and weekends.
What's extra sad to me is that Read didn't actually stop working. She left a full-time job with benefits, but she continued to work as a freelancer in her field, keeping up contacts and maintaining her skills – just the way career counselors advise. And still, she's being punished.
As Read points out, today's rough job market is especially unforgiving to moms who've taken time off to raise their kids, and find themselves competing with new college grads and highly skilled peers.
In fact, Read thinks this economy may be the death knell of the stay-at-home mom, because women lucky enough to have a good job won't be able to leave it. (Especially if they're the ones bringing in most of the money, or providing the benefits.) There are 5 million stay-at-home moms in the US, down from 5.3 million two years ago. Sixty percent of moms of children under 3 are in the labor force.
Says Read: "However emotionally rewarding it may be for all involved, staying home with children exacts a serious, enduring vocational toll that largely explains the lingering pay gap between men and women as well as women's higher rate of poverty. With the recession having raised the stakes, fewer mothers may be willing to take the risk. If it's not yet the twilight of the stay-at-home mother, it could be her late afternoon. Certainly it is long past nap time."
What a sad state of affairs. Because while Read blames herself for "opting out" of the work force and being "naïve," I would argue that she didn't willingly decide to jump off the career ship. She was pushed by the challenges of having two small children, a sick dad, and a husband with an equally demanding career. Something has to give. I just wish our society recognized that.
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Bryan BlessingThis is Bryan's first AMCA Scholarship Award. This Fall Bryan is entering his Sophomore year at St. John's University in Collegeville, MN, where he is studying in both voice and guitar. In his High School studies, Bryan excelled in all aspects of his music programs. He won Superior Ratings at the Minnesota State Solo-Ensemble contests and was a two-time member of the Minnesota All-State Choir. Throughout Bryan's High School years he was an active member of the Staples Area Men's Chorus along with his father, Mike, who has been a member of this chorus for over thirty years. Stan Carlson, Music Director of SAMC, shared with us that "Bryan has the ability to run sectionals and full choir rehearsals. He is extremely musical."
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Future: Following her completion of her undergraduate studies Heather hopes to obtain her Masters degree in either Music Performance or Music Education.
The members of the Kawartha Male Chorus are proud to sponsor Heather's application for this scholarship award. ($700.)
Leah GordonLeah is receiving her second AMCA Scholarship award. This very talented young woman is beginning her second year of studies at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto. Leah's past accolades are highlighted in last year' winners profiles. In addition, this past year Leah was involved in the University Women's Choir and the MacMillan Chamber Choir. At the Toronto Kiwanis Music Festival she was named the winner of the Intermediate Silver Tray having placed first in all the voice classes in which she was entered. At two combined concerts of the Kawartha Male Chorus and the Queensmen of Toronto Male Chorus Leah performed a number of solo selections and combined with Giles Tomkins (another AMCA Winner) in a most entertaining duet.
The Kawartha Male Chorus is proud to serve as Leah's sponsor.
Karen PinkneyThis award will be Karen's third consecutive AMCA Scholarship. This Fall Karen will commence her Junior year studies at Pensacola Christian College in Florida. Being a past winner Karen's many accomplishments are highlighted in previous profiles. At Pensacola Karen is studying music with a sacred voice concentration. As well Karen has been active in a number of musical dramas. She continues to excel academically being named to the Dean's List at PCC.
Future: "I hope to be able to further use my talents for the Lord someday, whether that means teaching, performing, or ministering in the local church".
Karen is proudly sponsored by the Mansfield Men's Chorus. ($700.)
Christina RiceChristina is a first time recipient of an AMCA Scholarship Award. This September she will enter her Freshman year at Central Michigan University. Her Undergraduate programs involve a major in Music Education and a minor in Vocal Performance. In Christina's programs at Midland High School she excelled in both her choral and instrumental activities. She was a featured soloist in the International Choir of the International Bands of America European Tour (July,1999). Christina has also found time to be very involved in her church's music programs. In addition to all her music accomplishments Christina is a member of the National Honors Society.
Future: In the future Christina wishes to become a teacher "because I want to influence a child's life."
Christina is proudly sponsored by the Midland Men of Music. ($700.)
Giles Tomkinsis this year's winner of The Lester Axdahl Scholarship Award (also the 2000-2001 winner of this same award).
Giles will commence his Senior year this Fall at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto. His past accomplishments have been highlighted in previous winner's profiles as this is Giles' third consecutive scholarship award. This past year Giles has also been enrolled in the Opera School's Undergraduate Program, and performed in the world premiere of Kulesha's The Last Duel and in Puccini's La Boheme. This summer Giles sang with Opera Lyric in Toronto. Giles also performed as guest soloist with a number of choirs in Toronto. In April and in June he was a featured soloist at combined concerts of the Kawartha Male Chorus and the Queensmen of Toronto Male Chorus.In June Giles placed second at the Ontario Provinical Kiwanis Music Festival Finals (Voice Diploma Class).
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Police seek suspects in Center Grove home invasion
Police in Johnson County are searching for two armed men and looking for neighborhood surveillance video after a home invasion near Center Grove High School.
The elderly victims told investigators they were tied up and robbed at gunpoint overnight.
"It's terrifying. It's terrifying," said neighbor Kelli Luallen.
Luallen's house has what police want: cameras that may have captured criminals after a brazen burglary in her neighborhood.
"We're concerned for this couple and the entire community really," Luallen said.
Police say just down the street around 2 a.m., in the Kensington Grove neighborhood, two masked men broke into a home on through a basement window on Chancery Blvd.
The house had a security alarm, but it wasn't activated.
Investigators say the burglars confronted the elderly couple inside, in their beds, at gunpoint.
The female victim, Sharon O'Garra, told police that the two men bound her and her husband, Hugh, with zip ties.
The suspects then forced her to remove her jewelry and tell them where to get other jewelry and cash in the home.
According to the police report, one of the crooks even told the homeowner, "You really should start using your alarm system."
That's one reason why police believe this couple may have been watched and targeted.
"I don't think it's someone that came down and randomly picked this house. It's going to be something that's going to tie these people with connections with the homeowners," said Sgt. Steve Edwards, Johnson County Sheriff's Department.
Sharon O'Garra was able to escape to a neighbor's home and call 911 after the suspects fled with the couple's valuables in a vehicle waiting outside.
The couple's son said his family was too shaken to talk about what happened.
But off camera, he told Eyewitness News the crime seemed well planned by someone who knew what they were doing.
Neighbors are now worried.
"It's horrible anymore, isn't it?" asked neighbor Paulene Hill. "It's just scary."
"Our phone was blowing up this morning, first thing. Everyone just checking on each other," added neighbor Laura Marlin.
Neighbors and police say the crime is also a tough reminder for homeowners to keep an eye out.
"If you see someone you don't know, wave at them, so that they see you're paying attention," said Johnson County resident David Parker.
Police are asking for surveillance video from homes in the area.
Center Grove High School had some footage, but investigators say it didn't provide any clues.
Kelli Luallen didn't see anything suspicious on hers either, but she still plans to share it with police. She's also now planning changes at her home in hopes of keeping the neighborhood safe.
"I think I'll have additional cameras in the future that are pointing in a different direction," she said.
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Investigators say they found one of the victims' cell phones tossed on a nearby street. The other phone is still missing.
Police are asking anyone who lives in Kensington Grove, or near Center Grove High School, to check their surveillance video and call the Johnson County Sheriff's Department so they can review it.
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Stenmarck, who earned the right to compete in Kiev following his victory at the Melodifestivalen in March, will be performing the up-beat show-style number, 'Las Vegas'. But his week in Ukraine has so far featured sloppy rehearsals, disastrous press conferences and remarkably unhelpful comments from Sweden's Eurovision cognoscenti.
The problems started as soon as the Swedes turned up. That's when they realised what Eurovision has become with the introduction of new energy and ideas from the Eastern European countries. SVT producer Anders G Carlsson said:
"We're impressed with how the Eastern Europeans have approached the competition. Down here we almost feel like country bumpkins. We should try to adopt their methods."
It's rumoured that Belorus have spent US$4m on their entry and the Greeks US$3m. Ukraine's new president following the controversial elections last year has been attending parties and will present the prizes on the night. Organisers even blew up a troublesome cloud which threatened to spoil a photo shoot.
The most important innovation has been the way the Eastern and Balkan countries have set about promoting their songs in other countries. The winner will be decided solely by telephone voting throughout Europe. Last year's winner, Ruslana, visited every single Eurovision country prior to the competition.
SVT's Melodifestivalen impressario, Christer Björkman, said:
"It's possible we'd be in the shake up this year if we'd done more promotion. Those who have done the miles will fill the top positions. A top ten finish would be a good achievement."
Aftonbladet's Fredrik Virtanen was stinging in his criticism of the Swedish effort:
"It's not about voting for your neighbours or your allies. It's bloody hard work that makes the difference. And Stenmarck thinks he's here on holiday... In the new Europe, there's nothing bigger. How much money have the Swedes put up? Or Martin Stenmarck's record company? The petty cash, that's how much."
But it's not just the overall strategy which has gone wrong, the hapless Swedes have been getting just about everything wrong. Monday's rehearsal was sloppy, off-key and Stenmarck was criticised for not wearing his stage clothes. By Wednesday his confidence was so low that he didn't dare toss up and catch his mike stand in trademark fashion. There then followed a disastrous press conference in which he stumbled over his English.
"It's panic stations, no doubt about it," said an insider as SVT held a crisis meeting behind Stenmarck's back.
The disastrous week reached an embarrassing, cringe-inducing nadir at a party for the Scandinavian competitors at a Kiev nightclub. Stenmarck started off by making loud, unfunny jokes about Norwegian rockers Wig Wam, which were completely ignored. He then attempted to sing one of his own compositions, but the backing tape got stuck. He was greeted by howls of derision from the audience.
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So does Martin have any friends down there in Kiev? Well, there's his manager, Björn Gordon Solfors, who had a similar interpretation to Expressen:
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The favourite for the competition is Greek entrant Elena Paparizou from... Gothenburg. So Sweden might be celebrating a winner on Saturday night after all.
Sources: Expressen, Aftonbladet, Göteborgs Posten


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Panasonic PT-AE8000 Projector: Performance, HDTV and Sports, including 3D
Great football! I got in a day and an evening of NLF football on this Panasonic PT-AE8000. I had friends over for many hours.
We had controlled light coming in from side and rear windows though mostly closed shutters
The room has 7 rear down facing recessed lights on (each one an LED light with 50 to 65 watt equivalent). Here's the front/side of the room as used.
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Check out some images from football, and other HDTV content: All the sports content was shot with those rear lights on. Most of the other HDTV content was shot with the lights off, unless noted otherwise.
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Panasonic PT-AE8000 Projector: Bottom Line on HDTV Sports, and also 3D HDTV content
Nothing better for HDTV and sports than a really bright projector with good color. CFI is there for sports viewing. I turned it on low, and I forget about it.
If there's one aspect of HDTV and sports viewing, that the Panasonic could be better at, it would be sharpness. Digital content, rather than film is where you can appreciate every last bit of sharpness. No LCD projector, or LCoS one, with 3 chips is going to be perfectly converged, giving single chip projectors an inherent sharpness advantage. This Panasonic does fine, but there are some really sharp DLP projectors out there, and a couple of other 3 chip type projectors with exceptional detail enhancment.
For perspective, if you really want to know what a "night and day" difference is, in terms of sharpness, it's when we have Quad-HD, true 4K, or whatever the next generation is called, and next gen projectors that are 4K. I have worked with a true 4K projector with true 4K content, and it reminds me that we are talking smaller differences here, between these various projectors sharpness abilities.
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His friends will tell you watching a fight card at Georges St-Pierre's house is an exhausting experience – he's constantly pacing, texting, whipping up a snack, throwing in a load of laundry.
He might also, with a quick glance, predict the outcome of a bout – which ends seconds later, exactly as he said it would.
What he won't do: sprawl on a couch.
Now, the guy who can't sit still is vowing to teach himself how to do just that.
The Ultimate Fighting Championship's 170-pound champion – and perhaps the planet's best-known Canadian – is stepping away from the sport he has come to personify, saying the pressure and fame have become too much to bear.
He didn't utter the word retirement – "it's not a word I like to use," he said Friday – but it's likely that's what his indefinite hiatus will become.
St-Pierre's vacating the mixed martial arts title he defended in a controversial fight with American Johny Hendricks last month, and should he return to the UFC – "I don't know when, I don't know if" – it will be as a challenger.
"I need to take a break for my own mental health, to recharge … I haven't had time for a normal life, and now I'm going to take the time to have one," he said.
The first order of business will be to spend Christmas and New Year Eve's with his family near Montreal, something he said he hasn't done in years.
The announcement of St-Pierre's extended break from the fighter's life came via conference call with loquacious UFC president Dana White, and a few minutes later, he bounded onto a stage set up on the hockey rink of a Quebec City shopping mall.
Fans had been lining up for six hours for a chance at an autograph and hand-shake – 400 of them were admitted to a maze-like lineup, several thousand more took in the scene from the mall concourse – they cheered lustily when St-Pierre made his entrance.
Louis Théberge, a 56-year-old fight fan at the head of the autograph queue (he had arrived at 8 a.m.), carried several posters and hand-painted likeness of St-Pierre.
"[The hiatus] is a little disappointing, but at the same time I think he probably needs it. When you have a couple of stains on your kitchen floor, you have to mop them up, he has some housecleaning to do," he said. "It's okay, it's fine. He's a champion, he's our Muhammad Ali."
Sporting a Quebec Nordiques retro jersey, St-Pierre joked: "I just got off the phone with [NHL commissioner] Gary Bettman, the Nordiques are coming back!"
In his first public appearance since the Hendricks fight, which he won in a split decision – White loudly denounced the verdict after the fight, saying the challenger had won – St-Pierre appeared relaxed and buoyant.
Fielding questions from reporters, he expanded on his reasons for taking time for a reset. He likened his life as an athlete to lugging a bag of bricks on his back wherever he goes.
"Every passing day, every fight, every training camp, adds another brick," he said.
And the burden – the fame, the notoriety, the pressure to win – has simply become too heavy to bear.
The legendarily competitive St-Pierre explained how he becomes entirely consumed by his preparation, noting that when the referee raised his hand to signify a victory over opponent Nick Diaz, he was already thinking about how to beat Hendricks, his next opponent.
"When I eat, when I'm driving, before I go to sleep, I'm completely obsessed … you have to be a little nuts and obsessive if you want to achieve great things," he said.
The decision to take a break has been percolating for some time, he said, and predates the Nov. 16 tilt with Hendricks.
St-Pierre said "nobody can understand" what he's had to deal with, and that his day-to-day existence (he is recognized and stopped everywhere he goes, whether in Montreal or some far-flung part of the world) is "completely insane."
Unlike many pro athletes, St-Pierre is going out at the very pinnacle of his career, and he is doing so after an emotional, bruising fight with Hendricks, parts of which he said in a postbout interview he had forgotten – a classic concussion symptom.
St-Pierre insists his mental faculties are just fine, the damage from the Hendricks fight was "superficial," he is in tip-top physical condition and will continue to train at TriStar, the Montreal gym where he works with long-time coach Firas Zahabi.
But it's clear hanging up the gloves after a pro career that started when the 32-year-old was 19 won't hurt his long-term cognitive health.
Bullied as a child in his hometown of Saint-Isidore, Que., St. Pierre took up martial arts in order to learn how to defend himself.
He's become quite good at it: St-Pierre has stepped into the UFC octagon 22 times, and on 15 of those occasions a title belt was on the line (he won all but two).
He leaves as UFC's biggest, most bankable star, and as the most-decorated welterweight in the history of the sport.
White called St-Pierre "the gold standard in everything," adding he supports St-Pierre's decision.
"I think it's the right move," he said.
St-Pierre has only lost twice since joining the UFC – he fought on a Quebec-based pro circuit before signing on – and the last of his defeats was in 2008; he has won his last 12 consecutive fights.
He has a record 19 wins, and has won more title bouts than any other fighter. St-Pierre has also spent more time in the octagon than any other athlete, landed more blows and scored more takedowns.
It's an impressive legacy, but while St-Pierre says is "content" with what he's achieved, he also alluded to not succeeding in "taking the sport to the next level" – presumably an allusion to drug testing.
Opponents have occasionally accused St-Pierre of skulduggery and subterfuge (whether it be through the liberal application of Vaseline or performance-enhancing drugs), and when he proposed an upgraded anti-doping testing regime for himself and Hendricks, the offer went unheeded.
Though detractors accuse St-Pierre for taking a low-risk, conservative approach to fighting, his genius lies in attacking his opponent's perceived strength, and in meticulous preparation.
And the fans plainly love it – St-Pierre has made millions for himself, and tens of millions for White and his partners.
If there was a rift between St-Pierre and White after the Hendricks fight – the former recounted how a UFC press officer tried to prevent him from going to the postfight news conference – there are no longer any hard feelings
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The main question I have right now is.. can I add launching windows from the current stock number (5?) to something else (7) with out having to load a different "Home" launcher? (Had been using ''LauncherPro'' on my other device.) or can I add "Folders" which would open up as a launching window?
I have not rooted or other wise changed the basic factory shipped version other than getting most of my apps moved over.


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To launch its new MFA in Fashion Design and Society, Parsons will present an evening with alumna Donna Karan, who helped to initiate this innovative new graduate program through her support. Karan will discuss her work and career, and how it has helped shape this new program. The conversation, moderated by Valerie Steele, Director and Chief Curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, will launch Workwear, an exhibition and programming series exploring the legacy of workwear in American fashion and its influence on contemporary constructions of New York as a fashion capital. For more information, please visit www.newschool.edu/workwear.
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The point of the waggery being, of course, that Jews are people—a mighty multitude, if you will.
Indeed, I always observed that Tom, with all his impudence and waggery, had a great deal of consideration and kindness.
The drollest specimen of waggery that ever emanated from that drollest of men, Burton.
His waggery was amusing to all who were not the butts of it.
He went back into the house where he cheered Jack by his waggery for some time.
Our Moses beats the Vicar's hollow in waggery, so we are proud of him.
In one respect he was precocious; namely, that he soon proved himself up to all the waggery and villainy of headquarters.
His turn for waggery was sometimes vented upon grave and serious men.
Yet a moment's consideration convinced me, that his behaviour either proceeded from waggery or mistake.
The waggery on the part of Avila was the more wicked, because the victim had translated his Commentaries into Latin for him.


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No, I did not just bang the keyboard in the heading to make the title say "Seijinshiki." Seijinshiki is an actual Japanese word, pronounced say-jin-she-ki, which is the name of the Coming of Age ceremony in Japan.
In Japan, a person is considered to be an adult when they turn 20, and a ceremony is held especially for them. On that day, the 20 year old girls wear kimonos, boys wear suits or hakamas, and they go to the Seijinshiki ceremony at a local city office.
One evening a few months ago, I received an invitation from the Japanese government inviting me to participate in Seijinshiki, too. Even though I won't be 20 until March, I was still invited because the Japanese school year is from April to March, placing me in the same grade as everyone else who already turned 20. The Japanese expression used in this situation is "giri-giri safe" [which means "just barely made it".]
My host sister, who goes to university in Osaka, also turned 20 in November and we went to Seijinshiki together. She wore my host mother's kimono and my host family rented a red hakama for me
The morning of the ceremony was cloudy and a light rain was falling. However, maybe an hour before the event, it began to snow. It doesn't usually snow in Tokyo, so it was very special. My family said that I am lucky and the snow fell especially for me.
However, the snow kept falling. And falling. And falling. What started as simple snowflakes turned into a hardcore blizzard. A few hours later, EVERYTHING was covered in snow and it felt like it had been snowing for days.
The ceremony itself made me feel as though I fell into a sea of suits and kimonos. All of the young adults where walking around, chatting with friends, and taking photos.
Being a big and burly Caucasian man, it was not very difficult for everyone to notice me. I received lots of stares and puzzled looks from the otherwise entirely Japanese crowd. I think they thought I was some Seijinshiki crasher or something. I even got interviewed twice, once for television and once for the newspaper.
I think there was another event immediately after the ceremony, because once the ceremony ended, an announcement told everyone to leave the building. Staff members began ushering everyone outside into the freezing snow blizzard. All of the boys in their suits and girls in their kimonos had nothing to do but to stand in the falling snow.
All of the girls and some boys who decided to wear hakamas, myself included, had a difficult time standing in the snow since we were also wearing tabi [traditional socks] and zori [traditional flip-flops] along with our kimonos and hakamas. Oh and no coats, either.
Our parents couldn't pick us up due to heavy traffic and our host dad was having trouble putting chains on the car tires. We couldn't take a taxi because taxis and buses were having trouble driving in the snow. Everyone just stood outside in the snow not knowing what to do or how to get home.
We finally decided that the best thing to do was to walk to the nearest train station, maybe 15 minutes away, in the blizzard.
Walking on snow in socks is a pretty painful experience. Within minutes, my feet were numb and I could not feel them when we arrived at the station.
To our disappointment, all of the trains at the station had stopped due to heavy snowfall. I took off my soaking wet tabi socks and walked around the station barefoot.
However, my host dad was finally able to put chains on the car tires and come to the station to get us. From the station, we drove to a picture studio where we made ourselves pretty again and took some family photos.
All in all, I had a great experience and it was a very memorable Seijinshiki


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Yet again, the clergyman of the moment provided another proof for the brutal fanaticism inherent in religious nationalism.
Kevin McAuliffe, a 58-year-old Nevada clergyman, faces sentencing next week for stealing $650,000 from his diocese.
Tanner, son of a clergyman and a foe of drinking and smoking, was generally devout and upright.
The squire, his lady, his daughters, and the clergyman are there.
The clergyman was a friend of Dr. Porter, and he was worthy to be the friend of so true a man.
What, said Peacock, to become a clergyman, with your ideas of the faith?
George had spent some hours with a clergyman, and was apparently repentant.
There had not of late been much expression of kindness from the Marquis to the clergyman.
The clergyman stepped out into the road and confronted the newcomer.
In point of fact, the clergyman penetrated to the kitchen just after that startling communication had been made by Dan.


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This hotel was excellent from the staff, the service, to the quality of the room down to the sandwich that we had very late at nite. Nothing was too much trouble, they exceeded themselves and our expectation. Would definately stay again and recommend this to everyone. There was nothing that we didnt like
Good service, punctuality, clean rooms, acceptable dish. Very expensive internet. I could accept if it were an under developed country but unbelievable for Europe, Germany in particular.
comfort Credit cards Pre-authorization: Amounts blocked on the card were too high
Location, Liberty, Facilities.
Everything, it is a top class hotel. A courtesy bus to airport/fairground would be helpful.
very poor very poor wellcoming,they gave it to me wrong key and I tried to open another room which is unbleivable and they gave wrong room then what they confrimed to us.
Perfect business-hotel. Highly recommended.
The wireless LAN was not included in the price. The breakfast was not impressive at all, not many items to select between and the food didn't taste all that good.
Staff were very friendly and cooperative on one occasion only, a number of people were 'stuck in the lift'. despite each person swiping their cards in turn it refused to move for some minutes. This was a little worrying for my father, who is 90.
nice as all hotels of the chain not close to centre and area around is somewhat inhabitant
I like the breakfast bufeau and very nice resturant , frindly staff quick response , I like the spa but they need to add steam room , nice room , comfortable , very good hotel , high speed internet the only thing is they dont have steam room at the spa if they add it , it will be excellant hotel
Parking Charges
Very comfortable hotel, nice rooms, good restaurant, pool and sauna enjoyable. The fitness possibilities are ok, but somewhat limited.
The quality of food was good I did not like the way I was questioned about payment. The hotel had taken my money, then said they hadn't. then asked to pay again before realisng it was their mistake
Swimming pool, breakfast room.
I think it has to be one of the oldest Raddisson Hotels I have stayed in and the decor was awful. The green, orange multi coloured rooms were enough to make you vomit. The veal schnitzel.
We were treated with courtesy and efficiency Bar/restaurant wasn't open during the day
Cleanness, kind clerks, nice breakfast with fresh orange juice & small but nice swimming pool No critical points. No notice of its defect sauna (on the booking.com), facility is clean but some parts should be repaired (tanned wall with a missing picture, small holes on walls, etc.)
Location & ease of access to airport & town.
luxury and friendly hotel ... good qualitylooks like a 5 star
Small room with cheap furnishings. The room did not even have a dresser. Cheap soap and only a single set of (thin) towels provided. This hotel is for business travelers only. The room was clean and the staff friendly enough. Bed was not comfortable. The price was too high for the room, not value for dollar. Parking cost 18 euros per day extra (24 hours)
Tha Garden is really very nice and perfect place for rest after bussy day. The internet was not working whole week, there was quite cold in the room and and insufficient pressure of the watter in the shower.
The food was great, nice location, very clean, if I ewill get in Dusseldorf again I will stau there for sure.
the hotel is located very close to the fair so that you can walk there easily
Very friendly staff, room was nicely decorated and clean, easy to get into town/airport and had a quaint village feel
Good location near exhibition centre, friendly staff Hotel is old and uncomfortable
Not much except for the proximity to the airport Tiny room with a small bed and a slanted ceiling above. No space to open luggage and sit down. Overpriced. Does not reflect the stars awarded to it. Although advertised, no internet vouchers were available at the time. Bathroom unclean.
Hotel staff were very pleasant & helpful; and conveniently located for the exhibition centre My room was extremely small and furnished with rather ancient (rather than 'antique') furniture. Very small, dated television with no remote control.
We was visit exhibition and made short trip in old town. We havn't time for longer visit. No.
The hotel was renovated few months ago and it looks nice. It is really cosy and quite close to the city center and exhibition ground. It is well connected with the city in terms of public transportation. The hotel staff was very helpful and friendly.
The hotel itself inside was very pretty, very well decorated and very clean. The staff spoke good English and were able to help with directions and any questions we had. The rooms very beautiful and loved the wet room shower. Its not in the prettiest area at all and it a good walk away from the main old town and shopping areas.
clean, nice breakfast, comfortable room too small.
Great staff I think the photos offered an image of a more opulent hotel than the reality delivered.
Service,the room,breakfast and location were very good. None
The employees and the simple but good breakfast... ultra small room
I didn't like the fact that after booking my stay at a rate of 250 euro/night, in 1 week the price decreased to 200 euro/night. Why did I get a price increase instead of a discount for early booking?
Room was excellent - very clean and very comfortable. Location was convenient to the airport, tram to city center, and near the river/park. Breakfast was well presented and enjoyable. Parking was provided on-site. Staff was helpful. We have already booked another stay!
2 things...no glasses in the room and no room service...i didn't get a bottle of coke.
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Wednesday, 15 May, 2002, 15:36 GMT 16:36 UK
PFA opposition to salary cap
The chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association, Gordon Taylor, has described salary cap proposals made by Europe's biggest clubs as "impossible to implement".
Europe's most powerful clubs, the so-called G14 group, have announced plans for a salary cap and transfer pact in order to solve football's current cash crisis.
The group, which includes Liverpool and Manchester United but not Premiership champions Arsenal, is also aiming to introduce a code of conduct for its members.
It is hoped that the code will be used to combat the spiralling wage demands and transfer fees that are threatening many clubs' survival, particulary in England, Italy and France.
However Taylor, who is also the president of the International Players' Union FIFPro, said: "I'll believe it when I see it.
"It does not have the authority of Uefa and Fifa, and would be little more than a gentleman's agreement - and there are too few gentlemen around.
"This is just the rich clubs agreeing to have some agreement among themselves.
"It will be virtually impossible to implement across so many different countries - it would be hard enough in one country.
"The very clubs that put forward this sort of agreement are usually the first ones to break it."
Taylor's comments came as the Football League and the PFA voiced their opposition to Fifa's plans to introduce a domestic 'transfer window'.
The organisations are concerned that league clubs, who rely on selling their top players to survive, could go under.
Taylor and his league counterparts want Fifa's regulations to apply only to international transfers and have warned that they will take legal action if necessary.
BBC Five Live sports news correspondent Matt Smith attended Wednesday's joint PFA-Football League press conference in Manchester.
Smith said: "Fifa wants to impose both domestic and international transfer windows to harmonise transfers throughout the world.
"Those two windows would be in the close season and in the month of January.
"However the Football League and the PFA are standing full square together against (restrictions on) domestic transfers.
"They haven't got any problems with the international ones they just don't want any restrictions on domestic transfers."
European Commission backing
The Football League made a profit of �24m last season selling players on, mainly to the Premiership.
The Premiership clubs will vote on the transfer window plans on Tuesday 21 May.
The League and PFA want Premier League backing for opposing a domestic transfer window and have already received written support from the European Commission.
But the Premier League and some of its clubs remain "sceptical" about whether a salary cap could work in practice.
Spokesman Philip French said: "Our position is that if someone could produce a working model in which a salary cap could be imposed then of course we would looks at it.
"However, we remain sceptical that any such model exists."
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The city still hasn't figured out what to do with an exposed 1.5 mile tunnel in the heart of downtown.
2013 saw 10.7 billion passenger trips, the highest in almost 60 years.
An afternoon diversion for transit nerds.
A cruel (if slightly amusing) prank on Paris's metro riders.
An experiment from Shanghai.
Where one man's fascination with burgers and New York's MTA intersect.
Despite only a handful successful deals nationwide, Boston is trying again.
Sneak a peak and you'll never get lost again.
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Get paid to scope out eligible singles on the train.
Photographer Janol Apin shoots playful scenes along the platforms.
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Workers say the late leader's face popped up on some rocks deep in the Caracas transit tunnels.
It took 50 years for the city to get a subway, so it's no surprise the mayor who pulled it off got all the credit.
Closed for over 20 years, SEPTA's old Spring Garden station has become a "mecca" for local graffiti artists and urban explorers.
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Employment Minister Jason Kenney is under fire from fellow Conservative MPs in Alberta over proposed changes to the temporary foreign worker program that some MPs fear could exacerbate the province's labour shortage.
Mr. Kenney is on the verge of announcing changes to the maligned program, which has been the source of controversy in connection to cases of abuse and questions over whether labour shortages are serious enough to justify the rise in foreign workers.
(What is the Temporary Foreign Worker Program? Read The Globe's easy explanation)
Details of changes under consideration were shared at a Conservative caucus meeting Wednesday, sources say, and are aimed at reining in the TFW program countrywide.
The briefing, along with earlier ones, has some Alberta MPs fearful that booming areas will be left starved for labour. The MPs say the province's labour situation is dramatically different from the rest of the country, and that any changes can't claw back a stream of foreign labour in areas where unemployment is already low. They're calling for a system that addresses variances by region, allowing more foreign workers in booming areas.
A group of at least four Alberta Conservative MPs are now pressing Mr. Kenney, himself an Alberta MP, for changes to keep foreign workers rolling into the province, one MP said. Mr. Kenney is thought to be facing pressure from the Prime Minister's Office to bring in substantial limits to the program, several sources said.
Critics have warned a clampdown will shutter businesses and ripple into the energy sector, delaying major projects at a time when the oil and gas industry is already saying labour costs are too high. "Companies are seriously looking at this as one factor as to whether they expand or continue to grow," one MP said, adding the concerns are shared by MPs from any riding with low unemployment, not just those in Alberta.
Even if the changes are primarily aimed at lower-wage positions, such as in hotels and restaurants, there is concern it could lead to higher costs generally in Western Canada. BMO Financial Group reported this week that "the Alberta economy is in a league of its own," in reference to the latest employment data, while the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers warned this week that cost pressures are threatening to slow the pace of growth in the oil sands.
The official announcement of TFW program changes, as well as to the way the government collects labour market information, is expected as early as next week, but Conservative sources suggested discussions are still taking place and no final decisions have been made.
Business groups have been providing feedback since Mr. Kenney outlined several potential options during a May 15 closed-door meeting. Afterward, several sources said the changes being floated – including a major hike in the user fee for the program and a minimum "wage floor" for TFWs – would effectively put the program out of reach for low-wage sectors.
Mr. Kenney was said to be including regional unemployment as a factor in the overhaul, meaning employers in booming areas would have an easier time bringing in TFWs. But the Alberta MPs pushing back believe more needs to be done to keep workers coming into the province.
Alberta MP Brent Rathgeber, who was elected as a Conservative but quit caucus last year, said reaction in the province against limits to the TFW program already imposed by Mr. Kenney has been "loud and swift."
"There are serious, serious problems here and I have no doubt that all of the Alberta MPs, including the Minister of Employment, are hearing about it from their constituents," Mr. Rathgeber said.
Steve Watters, general manager of the Sawridge Inn and Conference Centre in Fort McMurray, Alta., and board chair of the Alberta Hotel & Lodging Association, said he and other members have been warning Alberta MPs that businesses will close if they lose access to the program.
"Most MPs in Alberta understand the situation," he said. "They're our ear to government so we are pleading with them to take our message to the federal government and hopefully the decisions made will reflect the concerns that are out there from everybody."Report Typo/Error
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Sandy's Other Toll: Fish Out Of Water
More than two weeks after Sandy devastated lives across New York and New Jersey, one strange reminder of the storm has come to light: a mass of dead fish near commuter rail train tracks in New Jersey's Meadowlands.
Kevin Meyers first spotted the fish on Wednesday, the first day New Jersey Transit train service was restored to his home station in Montclair.
"As we got to Kearney, which is where I had read so much of the devastation had hit the New Jersey Transit infrastructure, I was specifically looking out the window to see if I could see any evidence of that." Meyers said.
At first, there was nothing. Just train tracks plowing through a familiar sea of swamp grass.
"But as we approached the New Jersey Turnpike, I noticed that there was in a ditch alongside the train tracks probably about a hundred or so of the exact same looking fish baking in the sun," Meyers said.
They weren't living fish, but dead fish, stranded on land.
"There's thousands of fishes in these ditches all over the place," said Francisco Artigas, director of the Meadowlands Environmental Research Institute.
Artigas said Meyers' supposition, that Sandy killed the fish, is correct. When Sandy arrived, sea-water flooded the marshes, reaching five feet higher than the highest recorded tides, and that lifted everything in its path.
"When this surge retreated then, a lot of these animals were caught off guard in shallow water and weren't able to make it back," said Artigas, adding that these fish are almost all carp, bottom feeders, which tend to get trapped when water rises and then quickly recedes.
"Until today there are some ponds and certain football fields where the fish are there. Eventually they will have nowhere to go, it will dry up and they will die," Artigas said.
Artigas said the storm surge doesn't appear to have changed the Meadowlands' ecology. As to the destruction of carp – an invasive species – it may even be a good thing.


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With Tropical Storm Isaac heading for the Gulf Coast, University of South Alabama athletics director Joel Erdmann announced that the start of the Jaguars' first full season in the Bowl Subdivision could wait a couple of days.
USA's home opener against Texas-San Antonio, originally scheduled for Thursday night, has been postponed until Saturday. Kickoff is now set for 2 p.m. ET.
"After long consideration of numerous factors impacting the game, the logical decision is to move the game to Saturday," Erdmann said in a statement. "We encourage our fans to come out, enjoy a great football game and support the Jaguars."
Isaac is expected to strengthen to a Category I hurricane. On its present track, it will make landfall early Wednesday morning on the Louisiana coast.
Farther inland, a pair of Division II games scheduled for Thursday in Arkansas have been moved up a day to get ahead of the storm. Ouachita Baptist's home game against Northwestern Oklahoma is now set for Wednesday at 7 p.m. ET, with neighboring Henderson State to kick off an hour later against Southern Nazarene (Okla.).
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