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Surreality is when the top story in the New York Times is about King Cakes but the idea is to not scare the horses. Informing the readership in plain English of our ongoing unraveling might provoke uncertainty … then panic … leading to questions about why we endure so many stupid managers everywhere in the world. At the very least, the stock market — which is now near all-time highs — might decline. People might then in theory put off buying a new car or a bigger house or not take on bigger loans. Best to roll out the pastries and downplay the Israeli air strike in Syria and the widening war there or the bank nationalization in Netherlands (Washington Post):
Dutch state nationalizes bank and insurer SNS Reaal NV, injects 2 billion euros in capital
(Associated Press)
AMSTERDAM — The Netherlands nationalized its fourth-largest bank on Friday, injecting €2 billion ($2.7 billion) to recapitalize SNS Reaal NV and head off any chance of a messy collapse that would threaten the country's already fragile economy and financial system.
The total cost to the Dutch government will be at least €3.7 billion, Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem told a press conference. That's almost certainly enough to ensure that the Netherlands' budget deficit in 2013 will be higher than the 3 percent allowed under EU rules, unless the Dutch Cabinet — which has already taken a series of unpopular tax hikes and spending cuts — comes up with further austerity measures.
"This isn't what we wanted," Dijsselbloem said. But he added that, without the nationalization, SNS "would have gone irrevocably bankrupt," with potentially dire consequences.
Ah yes, dire consequences: secured (large) lenders to the bank would have lost some money. Much better for the ordinary citizens of Netherlands to take the billions in losses. The citizens haven't even earned the money yet, they will never know what it is they have lost! Here is the latest innovative technology in action: the finance cost-morphing time machine. The establishment endlessly promises a high-tech utopia tomorrow. What it actually delivers is invisible public bankruptcy: money that is not earned tomorrow because it was diverted to a tycoon … yesterday.
High-tech time machine in operation, Pableaux Johnson (NYTimes)
Depositors and senior creditors (of SNS) won't lose any money in the nationalization, the Finance Ministry said.
The closest the Dutch get to actual restructuring …
SNS shareholders will be wiped out, along with some junior creditors, including the state itself. SNS owed the government €800 million, including interest, left over from a 2008 bailout. Other junior creditors will lose around €1 billion, the ministry said. The three biggest Dutch banks, ING Groep NV, ABN Amro, and Rabobank will contribute a combined €1 billion to help save SNS — they are required to do so as under the same law by which the state guarantees their retail deposits.
The nationalization shows the damage the crisis has wrought on the oversize Dutch financial sector and means that three of the five biggest banks in the country have now come under state control since the start of the crisis: ABN Amro was merged with the former Fortis and both were nationalized back in 2008. In addition, ING received several bailouts which have still not been fully repaid. Only Rabobank, a banking cooperative, has not yet needed state aid.
Big-bank shutdowns are historical indicators of greater finance system failures-to-come. This dynamic has been in force as recently as 2007 with the collapse of el cheap-o mortgage origination firms and two of Bear-Stearns' hedge funds. The entire mortgage industry, shadow-banking and then Bear-Stearns itself all fell into the pit shortly thereafter. During the entire period there was a soaring stock market and soothing bromides from the establishment …
Attention must be paid to stumbling banks while the happy talk about 'growth' and 'recovery' is ignored.
The propping up of key-men works for modest periods only. Cures or resolutions must be put in the place of the props … since 1980 or so nothing has been done other than to entrench the status quo, expand credit and inflate serial asset price 'bubbles'. Finance has not evolved, it has become an unchanging dead weight, a gigantic millstone around the corpse of modernity … ossified finance has become the final manifestation of 'progress'. To support banks and the industrial welfare queens there are cheap loans offered by central banks, the laundering of assets, bailouts of businesses belonging to 'special friends' (owners) of corrupt government officials. All of this is accompanied by loud public proclamations of better times that are sure to come, tomorrow.
It is always tomorrow … when the positive outcomes are certain to emerge! As a fair exchange businessmen will poison the atmosphere and the ocean so that progress can take place. Meanwhile the key-men multiply like rabbits while the props diminish or crack under the strain.
There are banks and bank-like entities faltering in China, in Spain, as well as Italy, where the Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA is underwater due to self-dealing and looks ripe for failure. All of these situations have the potential to upend the economic applecart. Of course, there are the parallel political scandals in all of these countries including China. One must not overlook the Greek and Cyprus problems … or the foreign exchange 'war' that is underway between the US, the eurozone, China, Japan and Korea.
The term 'Dutch' can be replaced with the name of just about any country …
'France is totally bankrupt': French jobs minister Michel Sapin embarrasses Francois Hollande with shocking statement on state of the country's economy …
Sapin is shocked … shocked! The economy of France is a Ponzi scheme where the funds/capital of other countries is taken in exchange for empty promises … gambling and fashion have bankrupted the country, there is nothing left for France but to become Greece.
Figure 1: Charts of car sales here and there from the New York Times: sales nose-dive in Europe. Sales are dependent upon the constant addition of credit-plus central bank moral hazard … as these offer diminished returns there is nothing to support sales
Industrial production figures exclude construction, and reflect the change in each month from the average of 2006 figures. Car sales figures exclude light trucks, and are based on sales volumes in the United States and on registrations of new cars in Europe and Japan. They reflect the total for each 12-month period compared with the 2006 total.
(Sources: Bloomberg, Haver Analytics, Ward's Automotive, European Automobile Manufacturers' Association)
Autos and other capital-extinguishing goods are collateral for our money, they are the tangible 'products' for- and by which we devour our pitiful remnants of real capital … We can continue to destroy capital only if we lie to ourselves about its nature. Currently, we insist that capital is money instead of resources. This is false: money is loans and nothing more. When capital is loans, there are insignificant consequences to its destruction. Old loans are easily replaced with new ones. Only when capital is something that must be dug out of the ground with great effort … does its fleeting existence within our state of affairs become an economic embarrassment … then an indictment.
Meanwhile, finance is losing its ability to paint capital destruction as 'productive-appearing' and to thereby prop it up. Here is the greatest key-man failure! The more effort expended to keep the current regime of capital destruction 'growing' the faster the costs accumulate … capital is extinguished with one hand while greater claims against the same capital are made with the other.
Figure 2: What sort of un-balanced sheet is this? Here are diminished returns made graphic … the declining productivity of US debt, as $300+ billion borrowed dollars 'buys' a $5 billion dollar decline in GDP (by Zero Hedge). This decline can be ignored as long as … the stock market keeps rising! (click on the image to see it in its entirety)
Meanwhile, from the 'Let The Eat King Cake' department … in China, (Patrick Chovanek):
What Causes Revolutions?
A surprising number of people in China have been writing and talking about "revolution". First came word, in November, that China's new leaders have been advising their colleagues to read Alexis de Tocqueville's classic book on the French Revolution, L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution (The Old Regime and the Revolution), which subsequently has shot to the top of China's best seller lists. Just this past week, Chinese scholar Zhao Dinxing, a sociology professor at the University of Chicago, felt the need to publish an article (in Chinese) laying out the reasons China won't have a revolution (you can read an English summary here). Minxin Pei, on the other hand, thinks it will.
This is like the German high command during the Barbarossa winter of 1941 re-reading Armand De Caulaincourt's classic account of Napoleon's doomed 1812 Russian campaign. Sentries that have frozen to death tend to focus the mind: so do the endless rounds of Chinese outrages and miscalculations. Doubts about China's enterprise are growing … in China, where such doubts matter most.
What would a China revolution look like? Pundits offer a political story about the Communist Party but the problems are economic: the failure of Chinese business 'success'. Any revolution would certainly take some form of public rejection of automobiles … otherwise there would be no real revolution at all. Such a radical change is unlikely at the moment … The Chinese love their cars … the passage of time and the ongoing bankruptcy of China will do the heavy lifting. The Revolution will come after China becomes Greece.
What must be watched are the banks which are saddled with US$ trillions of bad loans, mostly for 'capital investment' which in this case means redundant factories, showy-but-useless public infrastructure and property developments. None of these things can or do pay for themselves, they require endless rounds of new loans … the result being pyramiding debts. Amazingly, it has taken the Chinese only 20 years to reach the profound level of insolvency that has taken the West 400 years to achieve. It is hard to see the Chinese expanding their particular form of capital investment Ponzi scheme … and the accompanying smog … for another 20 years.
The Chinese are not the only folks struggling with air quality: the smog is worse in India … for many of the same reasons as China. The smog is also bad in Athens … Greeks are putting heating oil into their cars and heating their houses with stolen wood.
Another finance debacle in the making is Japan's desire to 'Whip Deflation Now' and depreciate the yen all at once, (Bruce Krasting):
Figure 3: The chart looks like the Yen has weakened in lockstep with both the Euro and the Dollar. But when you look at the scale, you see that the Yen has lost 22% against the Euro, while it has only given up 13% versus the dollar. From this you might conclude that the logical next step is for the USDYEN to "catch up" to to what has happened with the EURYEN. This thinking takes you in the direction of USDYEN 100.
But … the FX markets don't work like that. If USDYEN moved to 100 while the EURYEN remained "stable" around 122, then the EURUSD rate HAS to fall to 1.22 (-9%).
Sorry, that's not in the cards.
Depreciation from ¥80 to the dollar to ¥100 means a 'Great Leap Upward' in Japanese fuel prices because the country has no native sources of petroleum or other fuels. Japan beggars itself instead of its neighbors: whatever the country hopes to earn by exports is offset by the increased cost of the fuel it must import. At the same time, dollar-fuel prices are increasing because of 'growth' propaganda, moral hazard for petroleum 'investors' as well as threats of war in petroleum producing regions. With depreciation and higher producer costs the Japanese driver can look forward to paying a deflationary 30% or greater premium for fuel compared to the rest of the world. Certainly, here is conservation by other means!
The foregoing omits systemic risk to Japanese banking and finance which cannot be easily measured. The smallest error can have shattering consequences. For example, the Bank of Japan central bank can be perceived by the marketplace to be making unsecured loans … that is, loans in excess of collateral that it takes on as security. If this is so, the central bank is instantly insolvent … as are other Japanese banks and for the same reason: bad loans and excess leverage! Keep in mind, the only reason why a central bank would think of offering unsecured loans is if the country's commercial banks are insolvent and unable to lend. The outcome is no effective lender of last resort to guarantee bank liabilities: a run occurs as depositors hustle to remove funds from a defunct system. In this light the recent months' acquisitions of overseas companies by Japanese businesses is ominous.
There is also the issue whether Middle Eastern suppliers will accept a strongly depreciated yen or if they will demand another form or payment (dollars). The Japanese are playing with fire, looking for an easy, conventional approach that cannot possibly work as intended. Whatever the country attempts there are unintended consequences … which often cannot be discerned until after the attempts are made and it is too late to change course.
What the establishment in Japan fails to understand is the effort to accelerate consumption — either within the country or by trading partners — offers sharply diminished returns. This is because irretrievable capital is consumed instead of rapidly multiplying 'money'. Because of consumption over the course of decades real capital has become more costly relative to the amounts that can be lent against the consumption process. When returns become negative … the country in question instantly enjoys a Greek-like national bankruptcy.
The bankruptcy is permanent, by the way … the only way for a Greece to become prosperous again is for another country to become more bankrupt than Greece is now.
This net-negative process may indeed be underway in Japan as what it exports must be imported first then subjected to entropy-creating industrial-commercial processes. Every process exacts a thermodynamic levy or 'tax', certainly export goods cost Japan more in energy losses than what Japan imports.
A country can make water flow uphill by pushing costs onto unwitting trading partners by way of foreign exchange and leverage against that partner's account. Japan's trade surplus — which has subsidized Japan for decades — is nothing more than faulty bookkeeping and overseas loans. Japan has pushed its energy costs onto its customers: the attempt at depreciation is an effort to restart the pushing process.
Meanwhile, all the other consuming countries in the world desire to depreciate their own currencies as well! More of Japan's customers are broke, they cannot afford to subsidize Japan's waste any more … or their own.
Certainly, there must be intelligent, perceptive analysts in France, America, China and Japan … however the power of habit and wishful thinking is very strong and the current lesson of Greece being played out on the public stage in real time … is ignored.
While countries beggar their trading partners, many of the same countries are bent on outright theft. War intensifies in the Middle East, in Africa, it stirs off the coast of revolutionary China … every place there is oil or oil consumption that can be 'exported' to countries such as the United States. The outcome is increased war premium (Bloomberg):
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Crude prices increase until the customers cannot borrow any more … from here it looks that $120 Brent will be where customers are shut out of the market. Ugly noises from the banks are the indicator.
King cake is a New Orleans tradition served on Fat Tuesday before Mardi Gras. King cake by Sara, who clearly knows how to bake a good one! Any recipe will do as long as it includes sugar. A small plastic doll stuck into the cake after removal from the oven. Note: there are no such things as 'clashing colors' in New Orleans …
The survivors of the current state of affairs are those small businesses that do not require credit and can obtain organic returns. As for the others, let them eat king cake.


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Supachai: Qatar WTO talks may be postponed
The next round of world trade talks in Doha, Qatar, may have to be postponed following the terrorist attacks in the United States, the next World Trade Organization (WTO) head said Monday, September 24.
Thailand's former deputy Prime Minister Supachai Panitchpakdi said the talks, scheduled for November, could be postponed up to a month. "If it's impossible to hold the meeting between November 9 and 13, we may change dates a bit but we shouldn't change the venue," he told a press conference here.
Asked whether he was suggesting the talks be postponed, Supachai replied: "If the countries so desire." While the issue of postponing the ministerial conference had not been raised with the trade body's 142 members, "There have been some informal talks in this area," he said.
Supachai said even if the talks were postponed, the venue should not be changed. "I think we have to have the understanding that the Qatar government has put all its effort into this very important event. If we have to put up certain special arrangements, it's not insurmountable to do so," he said, adding he thought the talks should not be delayed more than a month.
Diplomatic sources have said the Gulf state would be a risky location for a gathering that would involve ministers from all over the world and include significant US and Israeli delegations, especially if tension increased in the Middle East after a US reprisal against those behind the attacks.
The WTO is due to try again to get a new round of trade liberalization talks off the ground at Qatar after the Seattle conference failed in November-December 1999 against a backdrop of fierce anti-globalization protests.
Delaying the Qatar talks could increase the chance of success this time, said Supachai who takes over as WTO next year. "If we need to do that, we'll be giving more time to work on the new round. It would grant a larger success likelihood for the launching of the round."
Supachai expressed confidence in the outcome of the Qatar talks despite the collapse of the Seattle meet. "After Seattle we've done a lot of confidence building, so much so that at this moment in time I think we are close to achieving our goals."
In calling for increased globalization, Supachai said there was a need to "harness" the process in order to minimize the negative consequences. "These days, when we're faced with the challenges of anti-globalization and faced with some of the quite alarming terrorism actions ... the best thing is to try and get our act together. If we can manage the globalization in a way that we can limit the negative consequences, we can move to rebuild the gaps between rich and poor nations." ― (AFP, Wellington)
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Together and Zebbler present Hansel and Gretel - RE:Imagined, a live 5 act audio-visual theater done by some of the best a/v acts in Boston. Each act will get their own part of the story to perform in whichever insane way they choose to. A gramophone-like narration of the story will remind the audience of what page we're on between the acts. Performances will be followed by a dance party, featuring the acts/VJs involved in this 21st century story-telling act.
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BRIAN KANE is a living legend in the video performance / art world. His work inspired generations of followers and imitators. Yet he doesn't stop to rest on his laurels. Today, he's as busy as ever, converting dreams into reality. His use of modern technology to create art is often funny and unexpected.
In 1991, Brian was a founding member of the groundbreaking multimedia group Emergency Broadcast Network (EBN), in which he pioneered the art and technology of video sampling. And in 1992, Brian invented VuJak, the worlds first video sampler.
From 1988 through 1996, Brian created many milestone's in the development of commercial holography, including the first commercial computer generated hologram in 1988, and the first full-parallax strereographic hologram in 1996.
From 1995 through 2001, Brian collaborated with the acclaimed artist Chico MacMurtrie and Amorphic Robot Works, creating robotic software for large scale musical performances which have been exhibited in museums worldwide. He was also general partner and Creative Director forRadioValve.com, a successful first generation internet-only radio station.
One of his current projects gone viral is the youtube doubler: www.youtubedoubler.com
PSYLAB is strictly live EDM band.
Holding down the sounds of the Boston underground since 2004, Psylab has been performing at clubs, lofts, raves, festivals, and regional BurningMan events for thousands of fans, friends and freaks. Psylab's five members are dedicated to producing an authentic live Electronic Dance Music experience by improvising solely with live instrumentation, without the use of sequencers, loops or arpeggiators. The Psylab collective is a unifying force that holds appeal to both EDM purists and live band enthusiasts through its authentic sound and improvisational format. The group has performed at events coast-to-coast, ranging from renegade psytrance parties to major national festivals. Psylab features human drum-machine Steven Asaro on the e-drums; Joe Giglio on bass worbles; Viz on visuals, samples & fx; and Eartha Harris and Dr Nigel on synthesizers.
ZEBBLER ENCANTI EXPERIENCE is a live audio/video performance duo, which often involves 3 projector wide visuals and synchronized surround sound a/v.
Zebbler is the video arm of Z.E.E., perhaps most well known for the Boston Mooninite Debacle in which l.e.d. advertisements he placed around the city for an Adult Swim cartoon in Boston were mistaken for bombs and caused a massive panic.
Moving beyond that, Zebbler is a decorated artist, having won "Best Visual Artist" in the Boston Phoenix reader poll, and a number 12 slot in DJ Magazine's best VJ in the World competition. Zebbler has also recently completed a video for Mochipet for the tune "Robot Crunk Juice."
Within the past 2 years alone, Zebbler has performed at well over 100 shows in the US, touring as a solo act, with Psychedelic/IDM UK act Shpongle and with Encanti as the Zebbler Encanti Experience. Notable headlining performances include Ultra Music Festival (FL), Rothbury Festival (MI), Surya Dub (CA), Harmony Festival (CA), Anime Boston (MA), Laurence Hall of Science (CA), and at his own Dead/Live Video Fest - part of the Boston Cyber Arts Festival.
As the music arm of Z.E.E., Encanti composes most of the audio for the act. Born and raised in Alaska, Encanti is a graduate of Berklee College of Music (Audio Synthesis Program), beta tester for Ableton Live and the Source Audio Hothand controller and producer of sound libraries "Anatomy" and "Bent Circuits" available through Sonivox.
He has a slew of material out on Vermin Street, has done remixes for Mochipet and DJ C, and is also currently working with experimental jazz legends Bird Songs of the Mesozoic.
Encanti is also known to produce toy-controlled surround audio installations, and has written an album-full of soulful acoustic guitar driven songs.
You could say that Mike McKay aka Mistaker is bit restless. His work as a promoter and dj over the past 5 years has helped to shape the face of the Boston underground party scene. He is the founder of Thunderdome which is entering its 3rd year and has grown into a local institution with the help of some of the city's best dj's, vj's and lunatics. Other events such as C.R.E.E.P. VISIONS, BLACK MAGIC and BASSOWN PRESENTS have been a constant effort to create new and exciting nights that span all genres.
His most recent project is TOGETHER: the New England electronic music festival. A co-founder and managing director he is working with an fantastic team to catalyze all the amazing talent in Boston and help to build upon the national profile that the city so richly deserves.
As a dj he has always had an affinity for all things dark, hard, and mean. He plays a room with the eye of a working dj yet always finds time for things like uk hardcore, ebm, heavy bass, acid house or dnb to keep a crowd on it's toes. His new residency at No Tomorrow promises to explore all of these interests.
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The name Qfwfq belongs to a character in Cosmicomics by Italian writer Italo Calvino. We chose it because of its beautiful sound and visual qualities. We accept all pronunciations.
|MUSEHYBRID is a one-woman show. She had been exciting audiences in Florida for eons before moving to Boston last year, quickly finding her way to the local scene via the 2009 Boston Cyber Arts Festival's Dead Video/Live Video show @ MassArt. Some of the shows and projects she has worked on are ISEA/ZeroOne - San Jose CA, Connext Project - Clearwater FL, and KidsConnect - International collaborative telematic performance between kids in Tampa and kids in Amsterdam Netherlands. She is an arts educator, classically trained dancer, award-winning choreographer, and wildly creative video and sound artist. This combination of talents gives her a unique flair for creating stylistically innovative performances.
Rachel Bishop Chase, aka MuseHybrid is a visionary artist, continually pushing her limits of consciousness. She believes in storytelling's ability to transform our understanding of the world around us- to demonstrate the interconnectedness of life through abstract metaphor and essential human themes. Her video and performance art incorporates sound, video, dance, and edgy theatrics, transcending literal interpretations of ideas to find archetypal forms, and audio visual translations of etheric realms. Her work is resonant and evocative. Right now Rachel is working on music videos for a few of the tunes for the artist Laura Escude's http://www.lauraescude.com upcoming album. She is also
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Safety boost for third generation Pill
The so-called "third generation" contraceptive pill does not increase the risk of young women having heart attacks, suggests new research.
However, there remains a slightly increased risk of blood clots with the newest pills, according to scientists.
Third generation Pills include Femodene, Femodette, Marvelon, Mercilon, Minulet, Triadene and Tri-Minulet.
The latest research was published in the journal Human Reproduction, and involved looking at a number of different research projects into the heart risks of these drugs.
The researchers, from McGill University in Canada, and the University of Surrey in Guildford, UK, concluded that the third generation pill may actually be safer than previous versions in this regard.
Heart attacks are extremely rare in young women, but using the pill was thought to increase the risk.
Early estimates suggested that 13 out of every 100,000 pill users might suffer a heart attack, compared to only 1.5 per 100,000 non-pill users.
Low risk
However, the latest study radically reduces this figure, suggesting little if any difference between pill users and non-pill users.
In addition, third generation pills, which use a slightly different combination of sex hormones, appear to be safer than second generation pills in this respect.
Professor Walter Spitzer, from McGill University, said: "Recent controversies about oral contraceptives, in particular third generation, have dwelt upon blood clots in the veins.
"Less attention has been paid to the safety record of newer oral contraceptives in respect to the arteries."
Individual choice
However, he added: "Our conclusions should not be interpreted as recommendations against second generation pills or as a strong recommendation in favour of third generation pills.
"The choice of an approved oral contraceptive should always be that of the counselling physician, based primarily on clinical judgement, one patient at a time."
The High Court recently threw out a claim by 100 women who claimed that the third generation pill had caused them to suffer damaging blood clots.
The latest research suggests that clot risks are approximately 1.7 times higher among people using the third generation pill - but the overall risk is still low.
However, the scare which followed initial findings of this kind is thought to have caused a massive rise in the number of unwanted pregnancies, and abortions.
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So your daughter is very normal and there are many books and techniques.
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If your child can't fall asleep without your presence, slowly withdraw yourself from the equation, Obleman says. Instead of lying in your bed together, sit on your child's bed until she falls asleep. After a few days, switch to a chair, then gradually move the chair closer to her doorway and into the hallway.
It may not be reasonable to demand that a child who's accustomed to sleeping in your bed suddenly stay in his own room all night, so try making the separation more gradual. "Some parents have told me that they've had their children sleep alongside their bed in a sleeping bag," McKenna says. "Or decide that they can have 15 minutes in your bed and then they go back."
Shannon Choe of Berwyn, Pa., has an air mattress in her room in case her 2-, 4- or 7-year-old visits at night. "They get to be closer to us but not disrupt our sleep, and it's not so comfortable that they'll choose this option long-term," she says.
It may be hard to walk your son back to his room at 3 a.m. when you have work in the morning, but be firm every night. "Think about the long term," Mindell says. "You'll have a few difficult nights, but soon, you'll all be sleeping all night."
Some parents offer sticker charts; others give rewards like extra playtime. Janine Bush of Boxboro, Mass., created a toy-ticket program to stop her 6-year-old son from sneaking into her bed at 2 a.m. When her son slept consecutive nights in his own bed, he won tickets to trade in for new toys.
Hang a bell on your bedroom doorknob, and you'll notice when your child enters. "Say, 'When I hear that bell, it's a reminder that I get to put you back to bed," Mindell says.
Place an inexpensive digital clock by your preschooler's bedside. "Put duct tape over the minutes and talk about the number she'll see in the dark," Obleman says. "Say, 'In our house, nobody gets up before 7. If it's not showing a 7, go back to
The above ideas are from WebMD and I believe they may be helpful to you.
Some may not apply...but take a look at this list and see what you would feel comfortable trying.
What do you think about these suggestions?
The above is another helpful article.
I can understand how you feel concerned about her screams and cries. But ... the thing is that she knows that if she protests that mom will come rescue her.
And so you are getting in a power struggle with her..she cries and you give in. As hard as it is...you must resist this attempt to give in to her.
I think this might be the best strategy for you:
If your child can't fall asleep without your presence, slowly withdraw yourself from the equation, Obleman says. Instead of lying in your bed together, sit on your child's bed until she falls asleep. After a few days, switch to a chair, then gradually move the chair closer to her doorway and into the hallway.
If you try this technique you are giving her the opportunity to get her used to sleeping alone in her room.
This ought to bring less protest from her as you are not giving in to her totally...but letting this change little by little.
Another technique that I have found helpful is letting your child pick out new sheets, bedspread, pillows and so forth and saying. "I want you to pick out things that will keep you safe in your room. What pillows will do that? What sheets will do that?" That gives her some control of her room and over her feelings of fear.
Your daughter will outgrow this at some point. Sometimes these fears disappear when they want to have friends stay overnight, when you stay at a hotel during a vacation, or when you are guests at someone else's home.
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AMSTERDAM (AP) — A Dutch court blocked the export of a young orca whale to a Spanish amusement park that had been rescued sick and emaciated a year ago off the Netherlands' northern coast.
The Amsterdam District Court on Wednesday ruled that Morgan, a killer whale 3 or 4 years old, would remain in the Harderwijk Dolphinarium for now, but would be moved from her small cement tank to a larger enclosure with other animals.
The court ruled that more research be conducted to find a solution for Morgan, and ordered the dolphinarium, the government and the animal rights activists who filed the case to work together.
The activists, who had filed the suit to block a government-issued export permit, hailed the ruling as an unprecedented victory, even though they failed to win immediate approval for their plan to gradually reintroduce Morgan back into the ocean.
A Free Morgan Group, reminiscent of the popular "Free Willy" films of the 1990s, began gathering an international following soon after the black-and-white whale was caught in the Wadden Sea in June 2010.
Scientists disagreed about Morgan's survival chances if she returned to the wild. Orcas are highly sociable animals, and scientists arguing on behalf of the dolphinarium said she would soon die unless she found her original pod, or family.
Experts of the Free Morgan Group said Morgan would face the same prospects of rejection if she were to be sent as planned to the Loro Parque on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, which has four other orcas.
"This is a massive victory," said Wietse van der Werf of the Orca Coalition of Holland, an ad hoc advocacy group.
"This is the first time in history that the export of an orca has been blocked by a judge. It exposes the international trade among dolphinariums as a very lucrative industry," he told The Associated Press from outside the courtroom.
About a dozen experts and scientists from both sides argued for more than three hours in judge H. Kijlstra's crowded courtroom, all claiming to represent the best interests of the whale.
Highly endangered, orcas live between 50 and 90 years in the wild and bear only up to four calves. In captivity they frquently die before they reach age 10.
Van der Werf said the decision was a "good first step" that would remove Morgan to a tank five or six times larger than the enclosure where she has been on public display since last March. She would join a group of dolphins with whom she has been communicating but has been unable to see, the activist said.
The Free Morgan scientists outlined their plan in court to move the whale to an artificial bay near Rotterdam, where she could be "rehabilitated" and get used to being in the open sea again. She would be electronically tagged and trained to follow a boat and return to the boat when called. If the researchers find that she has linked up with a pod of orcas, they would leave her but continue to monitor her movements.


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School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Director, MultiComp Lab (website currently hosted at USC)
Gates-Hillman Center (GHC) Office 5411,
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I am tenure-track Faculty at CMU Language Technology Institute where I lead the Multimodal Communication and Machine Learning Laboratory (MultiComp Lab). I was previously Research Faculty at USC Computer Science Department. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
My research focuses on building the computational foundations to enable computers with the abilities to analyze, recognize and predict subtle human communicative behaviors during social interactions. I have formalized this new research endeavor with the Human Communication Dynamics framework, addressing four key computational challenges: behavioral dynamic, multimodal dynamic, interpersonal dynamic and societal dynamic. This multi-disciplinary research topic overlaps the fields of multimodal interaction, social psychology, computer vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence, and has many applications in areas as diverse as medicine, robotics and education.
Human Communication Dynamics
· Analyze, recognize and predict subtle human communicative behaviors during social interactions.
Multimodal Machine Learning
· Probabilistic modeling of acoustic, visual and verbal modalities
· Learning the temporal contingency between modalities
Health Behavior Informatics
· Technologies to support clinical practice during diagnosis and treatment of mental health disorders
- Congratulations Sunghyun Park for his successful PhD thesis defense!!
- Best paper award, ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Seattle, WA, 2015
- NetExplo 2014 Award, in partnership with UNESCO, as one of the year's top ten most promising digital initiatives
- Program Chair, International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2014), Istanbul, Turkey, November 12-16 2014
- Best paper award, 10th IEEE International Conference Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2013), Shanghai, China April 22-26, 2013
- Best paper award nomination, The fifth biannual Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2013), Geneva, Switzerland, August 22-24, 2013
- Best paper award nomination, 14th annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue (SigDial 2013), Metz, France, September 2-5, 2013
- General Chair, International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2012), Santa Monica, CA, October 22-26, 2012
Selected Publications (see full list in my CV, MultiComp Lab or Google Scholar)
§ M. Chatterjee, S. Park, S. Scherer and L.-P. Morency. Combining Two Perspectives on Classifying Multimodal Data for Recognizing Speaker Traits. In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), 2015 *** Best Paper Award ***
§ K. Bousmalis, S. Zafeiriou, L.-P. Morency, M. Pantic and Z. Ghahramani, Variational Infinite Hidden Conditional Random Fields, IEEE Transaction on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), Volume 37, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 1917-1929
§ T. Wortwein, M. Chollet, A. Shapiro, S. Scherer, and L.-P. Morency. Exploring Feedback Learning Strategies to Improve Public Speaking: An Interactive Virtual Audience Framework. ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp), 2015
§ T. Baltrusaitis, P. Robinson and L.-P. Morency, Continuous Conditional Neural Fields for Structured Regression, ECCV 2014
§ C. Miller, F. Quek and L.-P. Morency, Search Strategies for Pattern Identification in Multimodal Data: Three Case Studies. ICMR 2014
§ J. Gratch, G. Lucas, A. King, L.-P. Morency, It's only a computer: the impact of human-agent interaction in clinical interviews, AAMAS 2014
§ M. Chatterjee, G. Stratou, S. Scherer and L.-P. Morency, Context-based Signal Descriptors of Heart-Rate Variability for Anxiety Assessment, ICASSP 2014
§ S. Park, P. Shoemark, and L.-P. Morency."Toward Crowdsourcing Micro-Level Behavior Annotations: The Challenges of Interface, Training, and Generalization." IUI 2014, ***Best Paper Award finalist ***
§ Y Song, L.-P. Morency and R. Davis. Action Recognition by Hierarchical Sequence Summarization. CVPR 2013
§ V. P. Rosas, R. Mihalcea and L.-P. Morency. Utterance-Level Multimodal Sentiment Analysis. ACL 2013
§ S. Scherer, G. Stratou, J. Boberg, J. Gratch, A. Rizzo and L.-P. Morency. Automatic Behavior Descriptors for Psychological Disorder Analysis. FG 2013, *** Best paper award ***
§ K. Bousmalis, S. Zafeiriou, L.-P. Morency, M. Pantic and Z. Ghahramani. Variational Hidden Conditional Random Fields with Coupled Dirichlet Process Mixtures. ECML 2013
§ S. Scherer, J. Pestian, and L.-P. Morency. Investigating the Speech Characteristics of Suicidal Adolescents. ICASSP 2013
§ D. DeVault, K. Georgila, R. Artstein, F. Morbini, D. Traum, S. Scherer, A. Rizzo, L.-P. Morency. Verbal Indicators of Psychological Distress in Interactive Dialogue with a Virtual Human. In SigDial 2013, ***Best Paper Award finalist ***
§ S. Park, S. Scherer, J. Gratch, P. Carnevale, and L.-P. Morency. Mutual Behaviors during Dyadic Negotiation: Automatic Prediction of Respondent Reactions. ACII 2013 , ***Best Paper Award finalist ***
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Amir Ali Bagherzade, Ph.D. program (CMU)
Chaitanya Ahuja, Ph.D. program (CMU)
Volkan Cirik, M.S. program (CMU)
Hongliang Yu, M.S. program (CMU)
Sayan Ghosh, Ph.D. program (USC, with Prof. Stefan Scherer)
KangGeon Kim, Ph.D. program (USC, with Prof. Gerard Medioni)
CMU-11777: Advanced Multimodal Machine Learning, Spring 2016
Fundamental mathematical concepts related to multimodal machine learning including multimodal alignment and fusion, heterogeneous representation learning and multi-stream temporal modeling.
CMU-11776: Human Communication and Multimodal Machine Learning, Fall 2015, 2016
Recent advances in machine learning, pattern recognition and signal processing to analyze, recognize and predict human communication behaviors during social interactions.
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2018 Timber Creek WR Talks Recruitment
By: Phil Mayer
2018 Timber Creek (Tex.) wide receiver Erik Ezukanma thinks highly of SMU. He is especially impressed with the knowledge and continuity of the coaching staff.
"They're a family, overall," Ezukanma said "The coaching staff, they know what they're doing and they're efficient with what they're doing."
Ezukanma has not visited the school in a while, but he still remembers what his last visit was like.
"We toured the school," he said. "Just showing us around showing us what football is like at SMU, how they can take care of you and how scholarships are."
The most impressive part of the visit for Ezukanma was the coaching staff.
"I was very impressed by coach Chad Morris and the whole coaching staff really. Just how they're all a family," Ezukanma said.
The 6-2, 180 pound wideout has not been in contact with the coaching staff recently, but he made it clear that his interest in SMU is not lost.
"They're still up at the top of my list," he said.
Ezukanma has a number of offers from impressive schools, but he has not progressed in narrowing down his list to a few top choices. Schools that have offered Ezukanma include Arkansas, Ole Miss and Texas A&M.
Ezukanma went to Oklahoma last week, and Baylor the week before that. He wants to come back to SMU sometime soon; saying, "It's gonna happen."
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2018 running back picks up SMU offer
By: Andrew Hattersley
After visiting SMU last Sunday, Skiatook HS (Ok.) running back TK Wilkerson picked up his third offer overall from SMU last week.
"It's really nice, I like the facilities and stuff, the coaches are really cool," Wilkerson said.
Before offering Wilkerson as a running back, the staff got a sense of what position he wants to play at the next level, before he responded he would like to be a running back.
"They just told how they could really use me going to a bigger running back to go with the smaller running backs they have," Wilkerson told PonyStampede.
While he didn't get to take in a practice, the Oklahoma running back enjoyed getting to see the Mustangs locker room and weight room.
"The locker rooms were nice, I liked how they have SMU on everything," Wilkerson said, "Then the weight room was nice, they have new technology and stuff I haven't seen before."
Wilkerson is currently committed to Tulsa, but is certainly still exploring his options and will be up until Signing Day at the preference of his mom.
"I'm still looking around and exploring," Wilkerson said before explaining what drew him to Tulsa, "I think the coaches are just really cool, laid back and when it is time to work it's time to work, I like how the classrooms aren't real huge where I can get to know my professor, I know some of the players on the team so that helps."
While his preference would be to stay in the state of Oklahoma, if Wilkerson got a big offer he would absolutely be comfortable heading out of state.
"Yeah it does," Wilkerson said, "But I would go out of Oklahoma if I got an offer from like Florida State or something like that, I'd go out of state."
2019 defensive back makes yet another return to SMU
By: Phil Mayer
Four star 2019 Coppell (Tex.) safety Jonathan McGill was at SMU for the team's Friday Night Lights scrimmage two weeks ago. He was impressed with what he saw on both sides of the ball.
"Their offense is blazing right now," McGill said. "They're on fire. They look really good through situations. Their defensive backs look a little more hungry than they were last year. It's always good seeing them."
In addition to SMU, McGill visited A&M two weeks ago. He has also been hearing from Texas, TCU and Texas Tech. He says that he has a good relationship with defensive back coaches at Texas A&M and TCU. Right now, his only offers are from SMU and Nevada, but he thinks that one could be coming soon from TCU.
McGill has been in contact with coaches Jess Loepp, Joe Craddock and Chad Morris. They have already talked about getting McGill back out to SMU. Also, they have talked with McGill about he could fit in to SMU's defensive scheme. McGill gave his take on it.
"I feel like I could make plays in the secondary, wherever I go," he said. "I feel like I could help them out in that aspect."
The 5-11, 180-pound defensive back was at the Under Armour All-America camp in Cedar Hill two weeks ago. He spoke about what he wanted to prove while he was there.
"I'm trying to prove that I can cover," he said. "That I can hang with the best of the best in the DFW area, and ultimately trying to get that Future 50 invite."
JUCO offensive lineman planning SMU visit
By: Billy Embody
Ventura (Calif.) offensive lineman Maisen Knight will make a trip to SMU as he considers an offer to come in and compete right away to try and shore up SMU's offensive line. Dustin Fry has been in contact and the staff wants the full-qualifier out of high school to consider heading to SMU instead of playing his sophomore season at Ventura.
"I started talking to coach Fry about two weeks ago and then this week he wanted to get me on a visit and they wanted to go ahead and offer," Knight said. "He's definitely a respectable coach with his background and Dallas, Texas is a cool place to go to and it'll be super sweet to check it out and see what SMU is like."
Knight will visit SMU on April 21 when he'll get a look at
"I just need to compare to other places I've been to and see if it's the right place. I know they need another tackle and they want me to come in and compete right away for a starting spot," Knight said.
While Fry and Knight have only been in contact for a few weeks, the two are already starting to bond.
"I've liked him for the short period of time. It'll be cool to get to spend a weekend with him and learn and find out how he is as a coach. I have great respect for him. He seems like a good guy."
Nevada is another school that's offered and Washington, Arizona State and New Mexico are showing strong interest along with a few others right now. Nevada is getting a visit from Knight this weekend.
The 6-5, 300-pound offensive tackle would have three years to play two or four years to play three seasons depending on his decision, which will come after spring ball.
"It's not a forced decision right now to leave, but I think SMU would like me to leave this summer. The visit will help decide that."


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Australia is the most-targeted outbound destination for mergers and acquisitions by Chinese companies in 2011, eclipsing Brazil and Hong Kong.
It is the first time that Australia has dominated the Chinese international deal making, a point underscored by the announcement on Friday of an $8 billion merger of Yanzhou Coal Mining-owned Yancoal and Gloucester Coal.
Chinese companies announced 59 deals in Australia totalling US$7.7 billion this year, according to preliminary data from Dealogic as of Thursday. That is higher than the 12 deals amounting to US$7.5 billion announced in Brazil and the 61 deals totalling US$6.8 billion in Hong Kong.
The lion's share of the top 10 transactions by Chinese acquirers in Australia occur in the busy resources space. Among the largest inbound Chinese transactions are Hanlong Mining's $1.65 billion takeover of Sundance Resources, and Bright Foods Group purchase of branded food business Manassen Foods, which Dealogic values at US$418 million.
Total inbound M&A in Australia has ballooned to a record US$62 billion in 2011 as foreign acquirers swoop on local assets, the data shows.
The mining sector accounted for 38 per cent of inbound transactions, followed by food and beverage industries with a 23 per cent share.
This year has proved to be a reasonable one for local bankers in the M&A arena, but equity capital markets volumes have slumped.
It's not surprising that local equity capital activity has declined to a six-year low of US$24.1 billion, while M&A activity has climbed to a new high of US$131.5 billion, according to Dealogic. Local M&A volumes are up slightly on 2010 and have surpassed 2007's bumper US$128.6 billion.
Globally, however, M&A volumes are sitting at US$2.7 trillion in 2011, down slightly on US$2.74 trillion last year. Deal volumes slid 22 per cent in the second half of this year and the fourth-quarter volume of US$537.1 billion marked the lowest quarterly figure in more than two years.
Goldman Sachs was the No. 1-ranked merger adviser globally in 2011, followed by JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley, Dealogic said.
Goldman was also the top-ranked takeover adviser in Australia, followed by UBS and JPMorgan.
Investment banks globally are grappling with subdued trading volumes and are reining in costs amid soggy equity capital markets activity. The industry is drastically downsizing to counter slowing activity levels, turbulent financial markets, and economic uncertainty.
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A troubled, blue-chip, global company appoints a new chief financial officer after eight years without one. That should be a good thing.
Not necessarily, say analysts covering Hong Kong-listed sourcing company Li & Fung Ltd., which on Tuesday announced it had hired Ed Lam, a former Citigroup Inc. investment banker, to be its new CFO.
Investors have been selling Li & Fung's stock this year as they worry that the company's focus on using acquisitions to deliver growth over the last years isn't boosting its bottom line. Hiring a former mergers and acquisitions banker to manage the company's finances could be a double-edged sword.


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Autoblog and Kicking Tires are on their toes this morning.
Toyota Tundra engineers and product managers are likely breathing a big sigh of relief after receiving the highest crash test rating of 'Good' from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). In March there was much surprise that the Toyota Tundra only scored a four star safety rating in government crash tests.
IIHS tested two 2007 Toyota Tundra Double Cabs, one a 4x2 and the other a 4x4, in frontal offset crash tests.
The Institute's test primarily assesses how well a vehicle's front-end crush zone absorbs energy during a crash and, in turn, how well the occupant compartment, or safety cage, holds together. If the compartment remains largely intact, then the restraint systems can control the motion of the crash test dummy and help keep injury measures low.
An overall score was assigned based on crash test results in three areas: structural performance, injury measures, and restraints/dummy kinematics. Scores are qualified as 'G' for good, the highest rating, 'A' for average, or 'P' for poor.
For structural performance, the amount and pattern of intrusion into the occupant compartment during the offset test is measured. This assessment indicates how well the front-end crush zone managed the crash energy and how well the safety cage limited intrusion into the driver space. Intrusion is measured at 9 places in the driver seating area by comparing the precrash and postcrash positions of these 9 points.
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NEWPORT BEACH, California (Saturday, June 7, 2008) – The Arnette Pro Junior presented by Jack's Surfboards began this morning, kick-starting stop No. 4 of the 2008 Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) North America Pro Junior Series at 54th street in contestable, two-foot (1 metre) peaky conditions.
Although the winds were unfavorable today, surfers in the ASP Grade-2 Arnette Pro Junior shined, putting in explosive performances as the competitive field whittled from {{{80}}} down to 32.
Dillon Perillo, ({{{Malibu}}}, CA) dominated the competition today, posting the day's highest single wave score during his Round 3 bout, a 9.25 out of possible 10 for unleashing three backhand blasts on a rare running lefthander. Perillo also scalped the highest combined heat score of the day in Round 2, collecting a 17.35 out of a possible 20.
"There's small peaky wind swell out there, and I just tried to stay north and hold my ground and get the best waves," Perillo said.
Perillo, who still has two years remaining in his ASP Pro Junior career, will look to build upon this season's strong start, using today's blistering performance as a confidence builder.
"I'm just going to try and do as many events as I can," Perillo said. "I still have two years left in the Pro Junior, so it's I'm stoked to have a good start this season."
Chris Eneim (Kauai, HI) dominated his Round 3 heat this afternoon, comboing his three fellow competitors, demonstrating a progressive repertoire on both his backhand and forehand.
"The surf was kind of small this morning, but then the tide came up," Eneim said. "In that last heat I was able to get a couple of good ones."
Eneim built up momentum throughout the day, advancing through his Round 1 and 2 heats and warming up for this afternoon's Round 3 victory.
"It has been good for me to surf throughout the day," Eneim said. "My board felt a little weird this morning, but I went for a couple of free surfs, and surfed a couple of heats, and it's feeling really good now."
Eric Snortum (Leucadia, CA) was another standout in today's event, claiming victories in Rounds 2 and 3, and he will look to continue his dominating performance in tomorrow's later rounds.
"The swell started picking up with the higher tide, and it's getting really fun," Snortum said. " It definitely helps to get some good results in the earlier heats to get some confidence for the later rounds. Free surfing next to the contest area really helps me warm up too."
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Then there is a very popular place called Smoky bones off Central Ave. in Albany ny, its a bar and grill style place, great food and good if you are into sports. They have TV's Everywhere and small boxes at each table so you can tune into your favorite game.They have great smoked Ribs:D.


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Get an overview of this hotelFull-service Amsterdam hotel near Flower Market
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Near Rembrandtplein
This chic Art Deco-influenced hotel which opened in 2004 overlooks the Herengracht canal, and is centrally located 200 metres from Amsterdam's Rembrandtplein, and 500 metres from the Flower Market.
Lift your spirits
Banks Mansion's lobby area provides a tranquil space where guests can surf the Internet in front of a real fire, while indulging in a full range of complimentary drinks around the clock.
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Smart, airy guestrooms feature Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired décor and furnishings; all include flat-screen televisions with cable channels, complimentary minibars, bathrobes, and decanted spiritsInformation missing or incorrect? Tell us!Opens in a new window
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Adjacent to an historic Amsterdam canal bridge, guests enter this former bank building through a corner entrance. Inside, the sophisticated 1920s-style lobby features leaded stained glass, rich wood paneling, and Art Deco motifs. Clusters of wood-framed armchairs and sofas accommodate a mixture of weekday business and weekend leisure guests, who relax by the fireplace while enjoying canal views.
The Banks Mansion provides a complimentary "Live Cooking" breakfast in The Kitchen, offering a full, cooked-to-order breakfast and an open kitchen area in traditional home-style surroundings. In "The Living" area, guests can enjoy a wide selection of complimentary drinks and appetizers by the fireplace throughout the day. Laundry facilities are available and guests also get free use of iPads. The guest rooms offer a range of complimentary amenities, including wireless Internet, in-house media library and complimentary private bar and spirits.
Street parking (metered) is available nearby. Limited room service is offered from early morning to late evening. Ice machines and shoe shine facilities are also available on each floor.
- Bar/lounge
- Total number of rooms - 51
- 24-hour front desk
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Number of floors - 4
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Free breakfast
- Concierge services
- Express check-in
- Express check-out
- Fireplace in lobby
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Laundry facilities
- Multilingual staff
- Luggage storage
- Year Built 2004
- Smoke-free property
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Free WiFi
- Free wired Internet
- Computer station
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Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
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- Hair dryer
- Premium bedding
- Soundproofed rooms
- Air conditioning
- Free newspaper
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Premium TV channels
- Minibar (stocked, free items)
- Daily housekeeping
- Bathrobes
- Free toiletries
- In-room massage available
- Slippers
- Rainfall showerhead
- Desk
- Iron/ironing board
- Phone
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Private bathroom
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Pillow menu
- Espresso maker
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Cable TV service
- Flat-panel TV
- Free WiFi
- Room service (limited hours)
- Down comforter
Where to Eat
Guests of the Banks Mansion Hotel enjoy a complimentary cooked-to-order breakfast each morning in the breakfast room, and an around-the-clock buffet of complimentary drinks and appetizers.
The hotel does not have its own restaurant, but there are several dining options in the surrounding area.
Nearby restaurants:
Het Tuynhuis
Tempo Doeloe
Limited room service is also available.
Nearby Things to Do
Two popular forms of recreation and ways to explore Amsterdam are cycling and boating, both of which can be found a block from the hotel.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
- Boat tours nearby
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Children 3 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are not available.
- Cribs (infant beds) are not available.
- 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 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.
Special cancellation policies or charges may apply for group reservations (more than 8 rooms for the same property / stay dates).
No rollaway/extra beds available
No cribs (infant beds) available
Guests must contact this hotel in advance to reserve a rollaway bed. Contact the office using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
- Deposit: EUR 50 per night
- A 4.7149 percent city/local tax will be charged
Optional extras
- Late check-out fee: EUR 12.50
Hotel Name
- Banks Mansion
- Banks Mansion Amsterdam
- Banks Mansion Hotel
- Banks Mansion Hotel Amsterdam
- Mansion Banks
We should mention
Children 3 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
Awards & Affiliations
National Rating
This property does not have a Netherlands Tourist Board rating. For the benefit of our customers, we have provided a rating based on our rating system.


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Notts batsmen Will Jefferson says that the prospect of qualifying for the top tier of next season's P20 competition will ensure the Outlaws push hard to beat Lancashire at Trent Bridge on Sunday.
Hopes of a quarter-final place in the Twenty20 Cup were dashed as results transpired against Notts on Friday but a fourth consecutive victory could earn a third place finish in the North Division and a place in the inaugural P20 Division One.
"Winning breeds winning and we've given ourselves an opportunity to play in the top tier of an exciting new competition which is a huge motivating factor," said Jefferson, who scored 31 runs to help dispatch Derbyshire Phantoms at Trent Bridge on Friday.
"We didn't make the best start in the competition and that led to us having some serious discussions about our approach. People may have questioned our desire and our capability but we made some changes and came into this week with the aim of winning four from four.
"As cricket players, we love the innovation that goes hand in hand with Twenty20 cricket and we love playing in front of big crowds and the Twenty20 Cup and P20 carry prestige because of that."
Lying fourth on eight points, Notts Outlaws will finish on ten if they can overcome Lancashire on Sunday. If Leicestershire beat Durham at Grace Road, that will be enough to give Notts a third place finish. Fifth placed Yorkshire also have 8 points but have an inferior run rate to Notts ahead of their game against Derbyshire at Headingley.
"David Hussey has joined us now and he's such an exciting player to have in the squad. I watched him in the nets and in the middle yesterday and it's clear that we've pulled off a coup to get an international match-winner into our ranks," said Jefferson.
"Matt Wood and Ali Brown have led from the front and produced three fruitful partnerships and we've got some depth behind them as well.
"We're playing well, we've got good momentum and we're all looking forward to getting out there on Sunday."
Advance tickets for the match cost £12 for adults, £7 for juniors and senior citizens and £31 for a family of two adults and two under-16s and can be purchased here or from the Trent Bridge Ticket Office on 0870 168 8888 until 4pm today.
Tickets on the day cost £15 for adults, £8 for juniors and £38 for a family.


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Australian building approvals grew 1.7 per cent in January, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said today.
The total number of dwelling units approved during the month rose to 13,246, although over the full year they were down nine per cent.
Private sector housing approvals rose 8.4 per cent, but were still down 8.9 per cent over the full year.
Private sector other dwellings, which includes units, dropped 10.1 per cent in January and were down 11.4 per cent over the previous 12 months.
The seasonally adjusted estimate of the value of total building approved rose 0.8 per cent to $4.3 billion while the value of new residential building approved fell 3.8 per cent to $2.4 billion.
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French pharmaceutical company Sanofi (NYSE:SNY) said in the middle of the year that it plans to ship 60 million doses of its seasonal flu vaccine this year. Those shipments largely consist of Fluzone in a handful of doses and target patient profiles.
Sanofi also makes several other influenza vaccines, including Intanza (IDflu), Panenza, Humenza and Vaxigrip (Mutagrip), though you should note that not all of those are used in the United States.
Either way, Fluzone is the company's flagship drug in the category, with 2012's likely global revenue approaching $1.343 billion.


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LA HABRA - An unidentified man in his mid-50s was killed when his vehicle crashed into another and rolled over on Sunday.
The crash occurred at 10:33 p.m. at Harbor Boulevard and Arbolita Drive.
"Officers responded in regards to an injury traffic collision and located two vehicles in the area; one had rolled over," Sgt. Jeff Baylos said.
The driver of the other vehicle was not injured.
The crash is being investigated as a possible DUI, Baylos said.
The identity of the man is being withheld until his family is notified.