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A visit with Laura Lundgren Smith
Sulphur Springs native shares thoughts on writing and the stage
By TERRY MATHEWS | News-Telegram Arts Editor
Nov 8, 2007 - Sulphur Springs native Laura Lundgren Smith is an accomplished playwright. Her 2007 play "Seamless" was chosen from over 350 other scripts to be featured in Dallas' Kitchen Dog Theatre's prestigious New Works Festival. A staged reading of "Seamless" was presented at the theatre on July 1, featuring professional actors and directed by Kitchen Dog emeritus Tim Johnson.
Since Kitchen Dog is part of the National New Play Network, Smith's script is now available to member theatres nationwide, including those in Washington, D.C, and San Francisco.
�Diggin Up the Boys,� her drama about three trapped coal miners, opened last Thursday at TAMU-Commerce for a two-week run.
A 1986 Sulphur Springs High School graduate and the daughter of Delores McMahan Lundgren and the late Bennie D. Lundgren, Smith took time from her writing schedule to answer some questions about "Digging Up the Boys" and the creative process.
News Telegram: How did you come to write about coal miners?
Laura Lundgren Smith: You might find it odd, but the title of the play came to me first. I was writing things down on a piece of paper, trying to get in a creative frame of mind to work. Once those four words were on the page, I knew I had to do something with them, though at the time I had no idea what that would be.
NT: Tell me about the writing process.
LLS: I have to be alone. I listen to music. Sometimes I may sit for an hour without writing a word. I don't work from a story outline, something many writers would find heretical. My plot structures are very vague at the outset. At the risk of sounding a bit of a lunatic, once I have characters in mind, I just listen to them.
NT: Did you ever think you'd be a published playwright?
LLS: As a freshman in high school, I went to see Nathan Wilson in "O Dammit!" at the Performing Arts Center in Commerce. Somehow I ended up sitting right behind the playwright, Jerry Flemmons. I had no idea who he was until he was recognized by the cast and stood up. I remember thinking that someday I'd like to do that. So, I suppose I've come full circle, which is lovely.
NT: How does it feel to see your work on stage?
LLS: After a show, someone always asks me, "Is that how you saw it in your head?" The thing about playwriting that is so marvelous is that each production of your work is unique. In the end, some things may be different than I imagined them while writing, but often they are done in a way that trumps my own idea! To me each production is a gift I get to open. Theatre is wonderful because it is malleable, and I never want to be the type of playwright who dictates to a director. I enjoy the surprise of each person's creativity.
NT: What are you working on now?
LLS: My most recent play, "Seamless," was recently chosen by Dallas' famed Kitchen Dog Theatre to be part of its New Works Festival, a showcase for up-and-coming new playwrights. It was chosen from among 350 entries from around the world. Right now I'm making some minor changes to it and getting it ready for some other theatres to look at for production, such as Theatre Tuscaloosa in Alabama. I'm also planning on starting to work on a new play soon.
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Brad Pitt to Reunite with Tom Cruise for 'Go Like Hell' Racing Drama?
by Ethan Anderton
December 19, 2013
Source: THR
Over four years ago, Brad Pitt was said to be circling Go Like Hell, a racing drama based on the book of the same name by A.J. Baime. However, he fell away from the project and went on to other films. But now it sounds like Pitt is interested again after Tom Cruise and his Oblivion director Joseph Kosinski decided to pick up the project that caught Michael Mann's interest years ago. THR has word that Pitt is being courted to join Cruise in the story about how Henry Ford II, with the help of a young visionary named Lee Iacocca and racing champ turned engineer, Carroll Shelby, concocted a plan to reinvent the Ford company. Read on!
Cruise is developing the project with Kosinski as a starring vehicle for himself to play Ford, but it's not clear if Pitt would play Iacocca or Shelby in this film. It would be the first time Pitt and Cruise have worked together since Interview with a Vampire in 1994. Back then, Pitt wasn't as bankable of a name as he is today, so bringing these two guys together would be quite the box office draw. The story is pretty awesome too as the three prominent men in the automobile history enter the high-stakes world of European car racing, designing and building a race car that could beat Enzo Ferrari at his own game at 24 Hours of Le Mans, the most prestigious and brutal race in the world, something no American car had ever done. It's still early days so it's not clear if Pitt will actually board the project, but we'll keep our fingers crossed.
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This description of Roman roads gives a general description, including maps of the extent and use of Roman Roads. A dedicated section has been reserved for aspects of construction techniques of roman roads
The Roman road permitted a rapid movement of the Romans' troops to where they were most needed. It also permitted local trade and faster communications to the point that a veritable postal system also took shape during various periods of the empire.
The famous motto "All Roads lead to Rome" is witness of how significant the Roman road network really was. The motto alludes to the way in which a number of roads radiate out from the centre of Rome, from the Capitol in fact, where the mile 0 was measured from.
There were seven roads major roads which lead out of Rome. The first of these "Consular roads" was started by Appius Claudius who was Censor in 312BC (he also started the first aqueduct) and was named after him: The Appian way. The construction of this road met up with a great deal of opposition in the Senate but it soon proved its worth as a source of stable occupation and then as an extremely efficient means of moving troops. In the year 267BC it reached as far south as the port city of Brindisi and came to symbolise Roman conquest of southern Italy.
Image of the port of Bridisi during Caesar's blockade. You would get to it fast by riding along the Appian way.
The Appian way is considered the first of the Roman roads, particularly because of the new conception of direct means communications. It was in fact preceded by two existing routes to the north of Rome: the Via Tiberina and the Via Salaria, both of which are rather more tortuous as they followed the Tiber valley. The first derived its name from the Tiber itself whilst the second gained its name from the Sabine salt trade (sale=salt) which moved along it (the myth of the Roman rape of the Sabine women seems to be an allusion to the Roman taking of the profitable salt trade).
The construction of new roads was frequently if not always associated with military conquest and control of new territories. This meant that planning and construction was often undertaken in a hurry by the legionaries themselves. The planning and civil engineering was meticulous but it was also pragmatic. Added to this there was the consideration of the cost of long distance transport of heavy materials and the need for speed of construction. This meant that local materials were used wherever possible, even for housing and other architecture. Britain for example provided a wide range of materials whilst some other countries were prevalently limited to one or two materials: for example it was very difficult to find plentiful wood in the Middle East!
The Romans clearly understood the importance of good foundations as a basis to the quality and durability of the final result. Where possible this implied digging down into the ground a couple of feet in order to rest the work onto a more solid base. This itself would be compacted and prepared with sand and compacted stones. Where necessary drainage and other hydraulic works would be installed underneath the road level, particularly in totally new urban areas. Where solid ground was not available a stronger foundation could be provided through wooden piles and "tram lines" over which the road would be laid.
We all consider the "typical" Roman road as having been surfaced with large durable stone slabs, but this was not always the case. Several centuries of road construction works inevitably led to a variety of construction techniques. Some sources suggest that at least into the first century BC it was normal to lay slabs on the urban sections of road whilst the cross-country sections (the majority) would be surfaced with sand and compacted stones.
Certainly volcanic lava basalt rock was used around central Italy, which has a volcanic geology, but the weight of the block and the labour required to lay them meant that in many areas the road could have different types of surface and differing degrees of durability. Each of the lava rocks employed in the more durable roads was some 1˝ ft (45cm) in length, breadth and height and weighed about as much as a person! It is not so surprising therefore that the first consular road, the Appian Way, is only said to have been completed with slabs well into the second century: nearly 500 years after it was started! (Have to say that modern road works don't seem to fare much better...)
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Naïve humans and rats voluntarily consume little ethanol at concentrations above ~6% due to its aversive flavor. Developing procedures that boost intake of ethanol or ethanol-paired flavors facilitates research on neural mechanisms of ethanol-associated behaviors and helps identify variables that modulate ethanol intake outside of the lab. The present study explored the impact on consumption of ethanol and ethanol-paired flavors of nutritionally significant parametric variations: ethanol vehicle (gelatin or solution, with or without polycose); ethanol concentration (4% or 10%); and feeding status (chow deprived or
Naïve humans and rats voluntarily consume little ethanol at concentrations above about 6% due to its aversive flavor. Ethanol's aversive flavor is both interesting and problematic. It is interesting because it challenges scientists to understand how and why humans and animals in diverse taxa come to consume an initially noxious substance regularly, even excessively [
Happily, working at the methodological problem provides clues as to the substantive issues. One strategy has been selective breeding to produce rats with unusually high ethanol intake, such as UChB, P, AA, and HAD rats [
The present study blended all three strategies to generate data of value to researchers seeking to "tune" procedures for enhancing motivation to ingest ethanol. Rats differentially predisposed to consume ethanol were studied. Occidental high- and low-saccharin-consuming rats (respectively, HiS and LoS), which have been selectively outbred for over 40 generations on a voluntary saccharin intake phenotype [
In a previously unpublished preference test, 4% ethanol-paired or unpaired flavors were presented in 10% ethanol (rather than water) to freely feeding rats. Both lines consumed more ethanol in the ethanol-paired flavor vehicle than in the equally familiar control flavor (for ethanol-paired flavor as a proportion of total intake, HiS, 0.78 ± 0.04; LoS, 0.75 ± 0.03). This finding demonstrates that preference for a 4% ethanol-paired flavor can promote consumption of a higher, unconditionally aversive ethanol solution. Other research has shown that a cue associated with ethanol promotes instrumental performance to obtain ethanol [
In our prior experiments, conditioning and test vehicles were noncaloric aqueous solutions. The present study builds on those findings by examining ethanol intake and ethanol-paired flavor preference as nutritionally significant parameters are varied: eating (in gelatin)
This series began with an experiment conducted to determine whether our previous findings for flavors paired with ethanol in aqueous solution would extend to flavors paired with ethanol in a semi-solid food—a gelatin matrix. In a laboratory setting, people and rats readily consume physiologically significant amounts of ethanol in semi-solid gelatin. In research to date, the gelatin's palatability and calories come from sucrose for humans and from the polysaccharide polycose for rats [
We also examined compensation for calories consumed as ethanol/polycose gelatin by HiS and LoS rats. When Rowland
In this and each of the following experiments, adult (60–90 days of age) rats from Generations 42 and later in our colony were used; littermates (5–11 litters per line) were balanced across experimental conditions. They were individually housed in stainless steel cages on a 12:12 light/dark cycle (0700–1900 light). Daily water and baseline bodyweight were measured, yielding just two significant line differences in water intake (in opposite directions) and one in bodyweight in 14 experiments; therefore, no detailed information on those data is provided (available on request). All procedures complied with a protocol approved by the Occidental College Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee.
Adult female HiS (
Gelatin was prepared by dissolving Knox® unflavored gelatine (3% wt/wt; Kraft Food Group, Northfield, IL, USA) in boiling water, cooling with tap water, and adding unsweetened cherry or grape KoolAid (0.25% wt/wt; Kraft Food Group, Northfield IL, USA). In this and the following experiments except where noted otherwise, Polycose® (10% wt/wt; Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, IL, USA) also was added to the gelatin mixture. Ethanol gelatin contained 10% wt/wt ethanol. Gelatin was poured into glass jars (~100 g), which were capped and refrigerated until the gelatin was set. Jars were secured in cages with metal holders. Pelleted chow (Purina 5001 Rodent Chow; Purina Mills, St. Louis MO, USA) and tap water were continuously available. Caloric densities were 0.49 kcal/g for no-ethanol/polycose gelatin, 1.03 kcal/g for ethanol/polycose gelatin, and 3.36 kcal/g for chow.
From late afternoon to early morning (approximately 1600 to 800) on each of the next 10 days, rats had access to a glass jar containing fruit-flavored gelatin. Cherry and grape gelatin were presented five times each, and for each rat, one of these flavored gelatins contained ethanol. Ethanol gelatin and no-ethanol gelatin were presented in strict alternation (one on odd days, one on even days), with ethanol-paired flavor (cherry or grape) and type of gelatin provided on the first day balanced across littermates. Gelatin and chow intake were measured daily.
After the last conditioning trial, rats were given two days of free access to only chow and water before a 24-h two-jar flavor preference test. Chow, water, and two jars containing, respectively, cherry and grape flavored 10% polycose gelatin (with left/right positions balanced) were available during the test. Gelatin intake was measured. We did not correct for evaporation [
Data were evaluated for significance at α = 0.05. Test statistics with
Rats readily consumed both kinds of gelatin but consumed more no-ethanol than ethanol gelatin (intake in grams,
A mixed-design analysis of variance (ANOVA) with line, gelatin type, and day as variables yielded main effects of line and type and a line × type interaction,
Total calorie intake (gelatin + chow), expressed as a percent of baseline calorie intake (chow only), is shown in
Intake of 10% ethanol/polycose
Here and below, ethanol-paired flavor preference in the two-jar test was assessed in the same two-pronged manner as was caloric compensation,
The ensuing experiments were designed to identify which difference(s) between prior studies using solutions and this gelatin preparation account for the indifference, leaning toward aversion, observed here. Two series of experiments were conducted. The first series employed the same basic flavor conditioning paradigm as in Experiment 1, in search of parameters that would yield preference for an ethanol-paired flavor. The second series examined relative intake of gelatins and solutions as a function of ethanol and/or polycose content, as a means of exploring the role of unconditioned flavor effects (acceptability, palatability) in preference/aversion expressed in the conditioning paradigm.
One possible explanation for the absence of an ethanol-paired flavor preference is the unconditionally aversive qualities of 10% ethanol. A problem with this explanation is that HiS and LoS rats conditioned with 10% ethanol in solution express an ethanol-paired flavor preference despite the noxious taste of the conditioning solution [
Experiment 2 directly replicated Experiment 1 with two exceptions. First, after the two-gelatin flavor test and a day off, rats received a two-fluid flavor test (0.25% cherry and grape KoolAid in tap water). Second, during conditioning, no-ethanol gelatin intake was yoked to ethanol gelatin intake. Female HiS and LoS rats (
Ethanol gelatin intake during conditioning is shown in
Summary of Flavor Conditioning and Unconditioned Flavor Test series. Procedural changes within the first series are
Intake of 10% ethanol/polycose gelatin during conditioning (Panel
Thus, with flavor exposure during conditioning matched and total flavor-associated calorie intake reversed from Experiment 1, HiS rats' tendency toward aversion to the ethanol-paired flavor—which also signaled higher caloric density—was strengthened, not weakened. This aversion is surprising, even if eating the 10% ethanol gelatin shifts brain ethanol levels toward those resulting from drinking 4% solution [
Experiment 3 directly replicated Experiment 2 with two exceptions. First, male as well as female rats were used (
Ethanol gelatin intake during the yoked conditioning procedure is shown in
Intake of 10% ethanol/polycose gelatin during conditioning (Panel
Experiment 4 directly replicated Experiment 3 with three exceptions. First, gelatin was made with 4% ethanol (0.9 kcal/g). Unlike 10% ethanol solution, 4% ethanol solution is unconditionally preferred to water by both HiS and LoS rats [
No-ethanol gelatin intake during conditioning by HiS and LoS females and males (
Intake of 4% ethanol/polycose gelatin during conditioning (Panel
A line × sex × day ANOVA yielded main effects of sex,
Ethanol-paired flavor preference is shown in
Experiments 5a and 5b directly replicated Experiment 4 with the following exceptions. First, only females were used (
Ethanol gelatin intake during conditioning is shown
Rats conditioned with 10% ethanol were averse to the ethanol-paired flavor in gelatin regardless of feeding status, with stronger aversion expressed when rats were tested chow deprived. Trends toward aversion also occurred during the fluid test but neither achieved statistical significance (
Ethanol/polycose gelatin intake by chow-deprived rats in Experiments 5a (4% EtOH) and 5b (10% EtOH) (respectively, Panel
Improved yoking (compared to Exp. 4) did not unmask preference for a flavor paired with 4% ethanol among HiS rats. Nor did chow deprivation during gelatin testing unmask preference for a flavor paired with 10% ethanol; in fact, it strengthened choice of the no-ethanol flavor. These results do suggest constraints within which preference for an ethanol-paired gelatin flavor might occur—specifically, when conditioning gelatin contains a low ethanol concentration (4%) and when rats sensitive to feeding status (LoS) are conditioned and tested during caloric deficit.
Experiment 6 was designed to determine whether the ethanol-paired flavor preference observed within those constraints in Experiment 5a is properly attributed to conditioning with chow deprivation, by directly comparing rats conditioned with chow deprivation (as in Experiment 5a) to rats conditioned with continuous access to chow (as in Experiment 4). Procedures were the same as in Experiment 5a except for experimental manipulation of feeding status: HiS and LoS female rats (
Intake of 4% gelatin during conditioning (Panel
Ethanol-paired flavor preference is shown in
A viable explanation for failure to observe a reliable ethanol-paired flavor preference after gelatin conditioning is that having 10% polycose in both ethanol and no-ethanol gelatin nullifies whatever differences favor later choice of a flavor associated with ethanol. For instance, flavors can be weaker in gelatin than in solution, at least in humans [
Experiment 7 examined flavor preference after conditioning with polycose solutions (Experiment 7a) and with no-polycose gelatins (Experiment 7b). Rats in Experiment 3 consumed substantial amounts of no-polycose test gelatins (overall average ~26 g); however, those rats had a history of eating polycose gelatin, and pilot testing showed that many naive rats consume trivial amounts of KoolAid-flavored no-polycose gelatin. Thus, to achieve intake sufficient to support flavor learning, saccharin was added to the no-polycose gelatins in Experiment 7b. We expected HiS rats to consume more gelatin than did LoS rats given selection on a saccharin phenotype, but because HiS rats consumed more polycose gelatin than did LoS rats in the preceding experiments, such a difference would facilitate comparison of these results with earlier ones. Moreover, to date, we have not compared HiS and LoS rats on consumption of a saccharin flavored food that was eaten rather than drunk, so Experiment 7b bore on the generality of their differential propensity to consume saccharin-flavored substances.
In Experiment 7a, the same yoked-intake design was used as in Experiments 2–6, substituting 10% polycose (wt/vol) solutions for polycose gelatins: Male rats (
Intake of ethanol/polycose solution during conditioning in Experiment 7a is shown in
Ethanol-paired flavor preference is shown in
Intake during conditioning (polycose/ethanol solution in Experiment 7a and saccharin/ethanol gelatin in Experiment 7b, respectively, Panels
Intake of no-polycose saccharin/ethanol gelatin during conditioning in Experiment 7b is shown in
The yoking direction in Experiment 7b (unlimited ethanol saccharin gelatin, matched no-ethanol saccharin gelatin rations) was an educated guess based on the preceding experiments and a small pilot study that showed both were acceptable in single-jar tests. However, more rats left a higher proportion of their no-ethanol rations uneaten than we had seen in prior experiments. Followup analyses were conducted to determine whether ration-leaving—
The greater stability of individual HiS rats' relative flavor intake across contexts (
Many results in the foregoing gelatin experiments were surprising in light of our prior results using solutions, prompting us to examine rats' intake of unflavored (
HiS and LoS female and male rats (
For simplicity sake, we interpret here only the highest order interaction involving line: line × solution × test day,
Intake of water and 10% polycose/ethanol solution as a function of ethanol concentration. Asterisks (*) indicate the ethanol concentrations at which all four groups drank more polycose/ethanol solution than water.
Although 4% ethanol by itself is preferred to water, it reduces intake of 10% polycose solution by at least half. At 10% ethanol, intake of ethanol
Responses to polycose/ethanol mixtures in gelatin were examined in Experiment 9. Experiment 9a examined polycose preference as a function of whether the gelatin contained ethanol, and Experiment 9b examined ethanol preference as a function of whether the gelatin contained polycose. In Experiment 9a, male HiS and LoS rats (
In Experiment 9b, male HiS and LoS rats (
A line × ethanol/no-ethanol × polycose/no-polycose medium ANOVA yielded line and medium main effects and a three-way interaction,
HiS rats' preference for 4%
Gelatin intake in a two-jar choice between (
Using aqueous solutions in previous research, we observed no differences between rats receiving cherry-alcohol pairing and those receiving grape-alcohol pairing. In light of discrepancies between those studies and the present results with gelatin, we thought it wise to find out whether one or both lines prefer cherry and grape equally in gelatin. HiS and LoS females and males (
A line × sex × polycose/no-polycose ANOVA yielded no significant effects. Comparison of each mean to 0.5 yielded significant results only for HiS males,
Why HiS males prefer grape to cherry flavored gelatin is unclear. Both KoolAid flavors contain citric acid, to which HiS and LoS rats are equally averse [
Unconditioned preference for cherry over grape flavored gelatin, tested once with 10% polycose and once without polycose, in Experiment 10. Mean preference scores differing significantly from 0.5 are indicated with an asterisk (*).
Two key conclusions emerge from this work. First, studying flavor conditioning using gelatin as a medium requires careful consideration of technical issues that, in our experience, are less likely to arise when solutions are used. In several instances, our guesses about the relative acceptability of and preferences for substances presented in gelatin, educated by prior work with solutions, were wrong. Examples include HiS male rats' slight but significant preference for grape over cherry in gelatin, LoS male rats' indifference to 4% ethanol in gelatin (with or without polycose), and surprising variations in unconsumed gelatin rations. A practical consequence was that our decisions about the direction of yoking (
Second, when it comes to flavor conditioning, ethanol vehicle matters. Gelatin is an effective medium for increasing rats' voluntary ethanol intake, but it is not an effective medium with which to condition an ethanol-paired flavor preference. Parameters used in one or more of these gelatin conditioning experiments should have favored expression of a reliable preference for a flavor paired with ethanol, as we and others have observed using solutions: Ethanol was delivered as a modest total dose consumed over hours rather than as bolus injection or gavage [
The elusiveness of ethanol-paired flavor preference using a gelatin vehicle remains to be explained. Although unconditioned flavor hedonics or caloric advantage appear to be promising candidates, neither provides a satisfying account without consideration of vehicle. True, ethanol functions as an "adulterant" in polycose gelatin, reducing its consumption even at a concentration (4%) that is preferred or treated with indifference in no-polycose gelatin (Experiment 9b). And rats expressed indifference to or preference for the flavor associated with 4% ethanol/polycose gelatin but aversion to the flavor associated with 10% ethanol/polycose gelatin, even though the doses of ethanol consumed were roughly the same (Experiment 5). These results might seem to implicate the unconditionally negative hedonic value of the ethanol/polycose compound in choices expressed later. However, rats do learn and express conditioned preferences for unconditionally aversive flavors [
The present experiments were not designed to study generalization. Testing always started with the same medium (gelatin or solution) as had been used in conditioning, with a final test with the alternate medium added on. With that caveat, these results hint at asymmetry in gelatin/solution generalization. Mehiel [
The striking contrast in behavior toward a flavor paired with ethanol in gelatin
Ontogenetically, asymmetry could derive from the fact that all mammals' first food is a liquid nutrient—milk (or milk substitute). Young mammals begin learning about foods in their environment via flavors in mothers' milk [
Our difficulty in obtaining reliable preferences for a flavor paired with ethanol in gelatin, especially among HiS rats, might be rooted in the evolution and development of systems specialized for meeting nutritional
A final implication concerns "jello shot" ingestion outside of laboratories. Clearly, it boosts ethanol intake on college campuses. It might not, however, readily condition generalizable preferences for flavors associated with ethanol. Therefore, while consuming ethanol-spiked gelatin might tend to increase consumption of ethanol-spiked gelatin, it might not increase proclivity to consume ethanol as effectively as does drinking beer, wine, or cocktails.
Funding from the Occidental College Academic Student Research and Dennis A. VanderWeele Student Research programs is gratefully acknowledged, as is assistance with data collection by Rachel Lapidus, Alannah McGill, Nicole Schmoeller, Courtney Sen, Alana Spencer, and Nicholas H. Tan.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.


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WASHINGTON A former White House Iran adviser said Monday that for Tehran to prove its seriousness in new talks over its nuclear program, it must take a step that stops the clock on its uranium enrichment.
Dennis Ross, who served as a senior adviser on Iran until late last year, said that Iran would need to agree to steps such as a significant ship-out of its piles of enriched uranium. He specified that it must include not only the currently discussed 20 percent enriched uranium, but also significant amounts of its stockpile of low-enriched uranium as well.
He stressed, though, that he didnt expect a breakthrough at the next round of talks on May 23 in Baghdad, adding, I dont think we should set ourselves up for that being the standard.
But Ross, who was part of panel addressing Iran at the Bipartisan Policy Center, said that talks needed to be held regularly and frequently if they were expected to make progress.
This is not a serious process if it meets once a month, he said.
Still, Ross said that it was important the US make a credible offer to Iran so that any failure in talks and subsequent use of force would be blamed on Tehran, and not the West.
There is no military solution, Ross said, arguing that even in the case of an attack, the Iranian nuclear program would be set back but not ended, so the United States would need to still be in a position to rally an international regime to maintain sanctions and other measures to keep Iran from quickly rebuilding.
He predicted that in the short term, Iran was looking to divide the P5+1, the group of six world powers now handling negotiations with Iran comprised of the United States, Britain, Germany, France, Russia and China.
A top Bush administration official also participating in the panel Monday warned that recent political developments could make maintaining the international resolve on Iran harder.
Nicholas Burns, who served as an under secretary in the State Department during the Bush administration, said the new French president might have a different mindset than his predecessor.
I doubt that President François Hollande can be as tough-minded as Nicolas Sarkozy was, and he was the steel in the P5+1, Burns assessed.
Burns also said that that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak deserve credit from the international community for making the threat of a military attack credible a threat which was key to building momentum for sanctions and diplomatic efforts.
At the same time, he contended that any military action should be undertaken by the US, calling an early Israeli strike unwise.
The United States has greater military capacity, and the United States can exercise a combination of diplomacy and the threat of force I think more skillfully and more credibly than anybody else, he said.
I think it would be better for Israel and Israels long-term security interests. (© 1995-2011, The Jerusalem Post 05/15/12)
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The world's largest software maker also revamped its MSN.com web portal http://www.msn.com to make its search engine more prominent and also tweaked the site's content and advertising to remove clutter, said Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft's vice-president in charge of content and services at the MSN internet division.
At stake are advertising dollars as well as bragging rights in one of the technology industry's more interesting growth areas.
"We really are about answers and not about links," he told Reuters, taking a swipe at MSN Search's nearest competitors, who also include Yahoo.
"There's a huge amount of room for improvement [in online searches]," he said.
To make answers to factual questions more relevant, he said MSN Search would include the full range of information contained in Microsoft Encarta, Microsoft's electronic encyclopedia.
Users will be able to get definitions, calculations, geographical and historical information, and other information, and also view encyclopedia articles and content for any two-hour session via MSN Search.
"We aim to have an answer for every query," he said.
Microsoft decided nearly two years ago to build its own search engine after seeing Google take the lead and profit from the billions that advertisers pay to have their own ads displayed alongside search results.
Since then, Google has gone public and Yahoo has beefed up its own search offerings as both companies face the prospect of competing against Microsoft and its deep pockets and army of software engineers.
The launch of MSN Search comes three months after the release of an initial beta, or test version. Microsoft had been using Yahoo unit Inktomi to power its search services, but will no longer do so with the full release of its search engine, which uses Microsoft's own technology to sift through the web.
Microsoft's new search engine will be culling results from a database index of more than 5 billion web documents and pages. Google's index database is more than 8 billion pages.
Microsoft has also integrated results that link directly into its MSN Music service, which was launched in September of last year.
One new capability that Microsoft will be introducing with Monday's launch is the ability to create RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, feeds that allows users to track search results through an incoming data feed on their personal computers.
Mr Mehdi also said that Microsoft would market its search engine through a marketing campaign directed at online users as well as television viewers. He did not disclose any projections for advertising spending.


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Houston's Spanish-speaking community includes a great many people from El Salvador. If you need verification, just look for a pickup ftbol game at Hermann Park or hit a pupuseria, the Salvadoran answer to the taqueria. El Pupusdromo is easily the most successful Salvadoran chain in town, and with good reason: The pupusas, thick corn tortillas stuffed with refried beans, chicharrones (pork cracklings), cheese or any combination thereof, are made fresh and delicious. And at $1.50 each, all you need do is spoon on some cortido (spicy pickled cabbage and carrots) and you're in highly affordable heaven. The many and varied dishes offer an authentic taste of this Central American culture. Salcipon (diced beef stew with onions and mint), camarones a la criolla (shrimp with sauted onions and peppers), sopa de mondongo (beef foot and tripe soup) and tropical breakfasts with pltanos refritos y crema (fried plantains and a type of crme frache) will transport you far south of the border.
You walk through the door, and no one seems particularly glad you came. You stare at all the amazing choices on the menu while they wait and sigh. You ask for pepper steak, and they give you meatballs. You ask for macaroni, and they say, "Yams it is!" But because they're the undisputed champ, and because any item you end up with from the This Is It! menu is going to be the best soul food in Houston, hands down, we'll grant them a little arrogance. Just be sure to pile on the gravy.
Whether you're fulla bull or not, if you want to feel fulla beef, no place satisfies like Hickory Hollow. Offering three sizes of the national steak of Texas, the Hollow has a plate suited for every appetite. The Plowman's Meal is described as "jest right fer lunch," but it's so large that almost any man will be forced to unbutton the top of his jeans. The Hired Hand's Meal claims to be "big enuf fer a Texan." Sure -- a fat Texan. The Rancher's Meal boasts of being "bigger'n a saddle blanket." And it dang near is. And at $10.95 for the enormous mass of battered, cubed steak with "river bottom gravy," plus a trip to the salad bar and mashed 'taters or fries, you can afford a real blanket to keep you warm while yer hospitalized from the heart attack it'll give ya. All sizes of delicious fried beef pass quality control: No need for a knife to cut the golden-brown meat; the ratio of beef-to-batter is perfect; and the color of the meat (light brown with a hint of pink) demonstrates that the Lone Star delicacy is cooked precisely.
More than just a Tex-Mex joint, Felix's is a historic local landmark, serving up enchiladas and margaritas to Houstonians for nearly sixty years. And when Felix Jr. announced that the place would be closing its doors and shutting down for good, there was an overwhelming response from people all over the city who couldn't bear to live without this Montrose staple. And then what happened? Nothing. Like Ozzy Osbourne and every furniture store this side of the Rio Grande, Felix's pulled a miraculous recovery and decided against retirement.
The Hershey's chocolate milk shake at Becks Prime is the epitome of what a milk shake should be: thick, extra-creamy and ice cold. It's so thick that you can't possibly drink it through a straw -- that's why they provide a spoon with every order. The creaminess and unbelievable mouth feel come from the high-butterfat soft-serve ice cream Becks uses as the base. About three quarters of the way through filling the cup with ice cream, the soda jerks squirt in a heavy dose of Hershey's chocolate syrup, give it a good whirl on the mixer and then fill the cup with even more ice cream, until it runs over the top. Another whirl at the mixer, and it's ready for you to take your first mouthful and experience what ice cold liquid chocolate tastes like. The servers are used to patrons standing in front of them moaning in ecstasy. It happens all the time.
In the same strip center as a Conoco gas station, on a block full of car repair shops and import stores, Casablanca hides behind a narrow wall of shiny windows, reflecting southwest Houston's grunge. But step inside, and the bleak atmosphere gives way to cheerful walls of tangerine and lime. This is probably Houston's best-kept Mediterranean secret -- a redoubt of conviviality where well-dressed Moroccans quaff shot glasses of mint tea, speak French around tile-inlaid tables and watch Arab-language television. But, just as important, Casablanca serves as a bastion of cooking good enough to make an Atlas grandma weep. Everything is fresh -- so fresh, in fact, that by late evening the cook often scratches half the dishes off the menu. Try the lamb tagine with saffron sauce ($6.99), in which a rich broth infuses a perfectly roasted lamb shank and an apron of potatoes, peas, black olives and caramelized onions. Other dishes faithfully incorporate traditional green olives, pickled lemon halves, manioc and yams. The moist couscous, infused with meat stock, butter and cumin, is excellent. Try it with a marinated meat or the delightful merguez, the best Moroccan sausage you'll find in the city.


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President Obama should go to Wisconsin before June 5 to spend some quality time campaigning for fellow Democrat and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, who's running to unseat Gov. Scott Walker in a recall election with national implications.
Sure, if Barrett loses – a real possibility given the $25 million-plus that union-busting Koch brothers tool Walker has been given by out-of-state big-money interests – Obama will be tagged by the right-wing noise machine as lacking political horsepower.
But that charge can be easily cast off by the White House. It wouldn't be as though Obama had spent days or weeks stumping the state for Barrett.
What Obama's show of support would do is help convince organized labor, whose leadership, and especially whose out-of-work union members, have been less than thrilled with his support for them and their issues so far, that he really is on their side and willing to fight for them.
When you read this kind of statement, you realize the importance of a personal appearance by the president.
A Democratic strategist working for anti-Walker forces warned that union members would be less enthusiastic about working for Obama if he doesn't step up for them.
"It won't go unnoticed by labor the extent to which the White House ultimately decides to fight or not fight for working people the final critical days in Wisconsin," he said. "The White House needs to move beyond being afraid of its own shadow. The Romney campaign has already been foaming at the mouth to pounce if Walker survives. If that isn't motivation enough for the White House to start doing everything it can to help defeat Scott Walker, it's hard to know what is."
Reading that, we were reminded how Big Labor abandoned President Jimmy Carter in 1980, with legions of hardhats proclaiming themselves Reagan Democrats as they contributed greatly to Reagan's landslide win.
MSNBC's Ed Schultz, who has been all over the Wisconsin situation since it exploded last year, makes the case in more detail.
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It's as simple as this. If Obama goes to Wisconsin, putting it on the line to help Barrett, he will shore up his union support and earn the gratitude of large numbers of emotionally charged Wisconsin voters, even if Barrett loses. If Obama stays away to avoid being tainted by a Barrett loss, many union people and disappointed Wisconsin voters will feel the president let them down. That feeling of having been let down could spread across the country — the last thing a president seeking re-election needs among those who should be his solid supporters.
For the sake of completeness, let's turn to professor Robert Reich's observation that Republicanas have made themsevles so thoroughly unacceptable to organized labor that its support for Obama should be assured — presumably, whether Obama shows up in Wisconsin or not.
"I said a year ago that there was a danger — Democrats faced possibility of the enthusiasm gap" sinking their 2012 prospects, said Robert Reich, former labor secretary under Bill Clinton and a professor at University of California-Berkeley. "But the Republicans once again snatched defeat from the jaws of victory: they went on an anti-union crusade — some even call it a tirade — and they went at the heart of the union movement, which is the right to organize. And Washington Republicans essentially cheered them on."
As a result, "the labor union has been galvanized, even though Obama may not have done everything they wanted," Reich said. "They've done him a huge favor."
That's plausible, but the relationship going forward could be a kissing-your-sister thing, which wouldn't bode well for 2016. Such mistakes have kept a Democratic presidential candidate from succeeding a living Democratic president by succeeding at the polls since . . . Hmmm, would you believe since before the 20th century?


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I was minded to claim that the problem I always have with Christmas canapes is peculiar to me, a function of my warped relationship with food. But then it occurred to me that if you are reading this blog – taking time off from what you should really be doing to wallow in the edible world – you share my pathologies. In short, you are almost certain to be someone who is also held tight in the grip of both greed and a lack of self-restraint.
Most of the time that is just a feature of life, but where Christmas is concerned, the holiday of eating and drinking, it can become a serious issue, one that requires a good deal of thought to get right.
At one end is the overly elaborate canape, the ones that require more hands than you or indeed any single human has available. These tend to appear more frequently at pre-Christmas parties than in your living room on Christmas day. They play games with the form, offering miniaturised versions of larger dishes. Think faux cones of newspaper holding goujons of battered fish and three chips, or little plates of dinky bangers and mash, or bowls of green Thai curry and rice, and a spoon with which to eat it. The question is what the hell are you supposed to do with your drink while trying to eat one of those? Hmmm? Tell me that? And don't start up with all that guff about plates with built in drink holders, a victory of ceramics over sense.
No, the true Christmas canape is the single mouthful: a well sourced and perfectly roasted cocktail sausage, better still one wrapped in bacon as a reminder that Christmas lunch is actually about all the things that aren't the turkey, ditto balls of indulgent sausage meat stuffing. Not the dry sawdust type stuff bolstered with six year old dried sage like so much grey green dandruff. Something rich and absurd involving sausage meat and chestnuts and a flash of alcohol. Then of course, there are the things on toast which never fail: smears of foie gras terrine – the slinky schikse version of my mother's chopped liver (of which more later) curls of cured meat or fish or best of all a big-fisted, mustardy Welsh rarebit.
Oh dear. I appear to have dribbled into my keyboard. Excuse me while I mop up. Ahem.
The pre-Christmas lunch canape is an altogether different beast. Overdo the canapes on the day of the dinner itself, and you can screw up everything else that is to come, both for yourself and whoever has been cooking.
An example. Mine was a very Jewish Christmas when I was growing up. Only one year did we have a kosher turkey – and only then to please a much loved aunt and uncle – but certainly it impacted upon the way we did things. Christmas day was the one day of the year my mother could be guaranteed to crack out the chopped liver, and God, but was it good. It had that killer combination of dense offaly sweetness and the huge savouriness from the bird. The surface was covered with crumbled boiled egg, and to spread it on there were salty, buttery Ritz crackers.
Anybody with any sense would have had just a couple of goes at that and then leave it be, but faced by my mother's Christmas chopped liver, oy vey, there was nothing I could do. I had needs and they needed to be satisfied. I was a victim. This made the rest of lunch very heavy going and inevitably resulted in feelings of nausea far earlier than was strictly necessary.
One year she did devils on horseback instead – prunes wrapped in bacon, the dark stickiness of the dried fruit dancing very happily with the crisped salty fat – and that really wasn't much better. Faced with a plate of those, I would lose touch with the meaning of the word enough.
Having thought about this in detail it occurs to me that the perfect Christmas day canape is the one which is indulgent without being too moreish, luxurious without being prohibitive, satisfying without being too filling. There really is only one candidate for that, and it's the freshly opened oyster. It's almost impossible to fill up on those. They need, indeed demand, to be savoured. There are downsides, of course. You need a lot to go round and you do have to shuck them yourself. Oh, and you have to deal with the disappointed looks of those guests who don't do oysters. Why the hell you should have such friends escapes me, but it can be an issue. Just put on your most sincere sorry face, promise them better things later in the day and swallow theirs.
But if oysters aren't a goer, there is one other top canape which is a real crowd pleaser. Get a couple of punnets of cherry tomatoes and sprinkle them with a little Tabasco sauce. Pour all the tomatoes and residual Tabasco into a glass jug of vodka. Place jug in freezer overnight. Then, on Christmas day, bring them out with a whole bunch of cocktail sticks with which to spear the tomatoes. Hey presto: bloody Mary on a stick. It's a killer canape and will guarantee your Christmas day will go swimmingly. Or at the very least that you won't remember it, if it didn't.
What possibilities are there for Christmas finger food in general - the sort of stuff that turns up at those myriad random parties to which we seem to get invited at this time of year, so as to get drunk and lunge unattractively at inappropriate people? Would you like to see a Christmas take on those ever so clever tiny dinner canapes with reformed miniature turkeys and micro sprouts?
At the most banal extreme there has always been option of nuts and crisps and, if you are feeling very glamorous and all Abigail's Party, some olives. Neither screams Christmas spirit, does it. And no, turkey, sage and onion flavour crisps aren't any better. What do you most like thrust in your face at parties, foodwise?


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well happy early birthday to a fellow December baby!
Such a good list! :] I absolutely adore the lace collar!
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It took them 136 years, but the McGill Redmen, the oldest organized hockey club in the world, won its first ever national championship in March, beating the Western Mustangs 4-3 in an overtime thriller in the Canadian Interuniversity Sports (CIS) finals.
Fifth-year player and team captain Evan Vossen scored the winner in his 216th and final game for McGill. "It's a fitting end for me and huge for the program, because there's been a lot of heartbreak," says Vossen. Last year the Redmen reached the final only to lose 4-0 to host UNB. "To get back and win like we did is incredible not just for us, but for the alumni."
And you can be sure that Redmen alumni are celebrating the historic win. Victory plaudits have been pouring in from as far away as Europe and China.
Former Redmen bench boss Martin Raymond, BEd'90, MA'96, now an assistant to Tampa Bay Lightning head coach Guy Boucher, BA'95 (also a former Redmen player), spoke with Vossen, a player he helped recruit to McGill, right after the game. "He told me he and Guy were watching the OT in their hotel room, and they yelled so loud when I scored they woke up the room next door."
The McGill hockey program recently received more great news. Redmen defenceman Marc-André Dorion and Martlets forward Ann-Sophie Bettez were named CIS male and female athletes of the year.
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The majesty and redemptive power of music was performed at California State University Northridge by the San Fernando Valley and Premiere Chamber Chorale on Saturday, April 14. The theme was Easter, encompassing the spring season, one of rebirth and renewal. The musical selections varied from Bach to Debussy. The chorus sang the multiple languages seamlessly.
Any agnostic would enjoy the theme presented as the music represented the grace of love, how forgiveness leads to redemption. The musicians were all in top form. Kudos to cellist Cathy Biagini and pianist Dr. Frank Garvey. Once again, conductor Terry Danne extrapolates the absolute best from all involved. Each note is distinguished and precise. Each voice carries recognized beauty.
The program featured three parts. The performance for the first two acts were classic selections of aforementioned as well as Mozart. The third act was composed by Mary E. Caldwell. It was the story of Christ, using the metaphor of the seasons of his birth, ministry, death and resurrection.
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Great hotel. Highly recommend you stay here. Check-in was fast and easy. Staff was very friendly and the bed was extremely comfortable. I didn't stay for the free breakfast so, I can't comment on that.
breakfast was excellent. The location was also excellent. There is nothing I did not like about it.
This hotel was splendid. Exactly the comfort I am looking for in a hotel stay. Great staff, great breakfast, great place. I didn't like the fact there is no light above shower; kinda dark.
I loved everything about this hotel! We came to go to the Cornerstone Church and it was just across the parking lot! I loved the Texas shaped waffles for breakfast!
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The staff is excellent. The property is a great value and very comfortable. Only the bed. The bed was very uncomfortable. Kevin in housekeeping even had the bed changed out and it was still uncomfortable but not as bad as the original mattress.
The front desk supervisor provided superior service to us on both days. All staff were very friendly and professional. The sink leaked and we had to ask for maintenance service. But they came quickly and fixed it right the first time. Then the maintenance supervisor called to make sure everything was good as did the front desk clerk. I appreciated their great service.
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Excelente hotel y excelente ubicación Nothing
Everything was great!
The location is great! The staff was very friendly and very helpful from the moment we stepped into the lobby on a cold cold evening!! no
The spacious rooms and extras they offered like breakfast and evening mini events
Breakfast Ac didn't cool. Light in bathroom was broken. Tv signal was horrible
Very nice hotel. Room layout was great. No.
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Location, clean room and not noisey.
The manager kind and appologise for the bad experience. The hotel housekeeping service was bad actually they did not clean my room. One staff member rude and unhelpful.
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average Double charged my CC
everything! :)
We liked the bed, the pillows because they were so comfortable. The pool area was a bit small.
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Room amenities, i.e. free internet in hotel room, microwave and small fridge in room. There is no water heater in the swimming pool and no TV channel in the fitness room.
Great Hotel No
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Good breakfast, great staff, nice rooms sleeper sofa mattress was very thin and uncomfortable. Disappointing
Seemed more like a 2 1/2 star. Under staffed.
The rooms were excellent. Plenty of space and rooms cooled off nicely. The breakfast was very good. Staff was friendly. The restrooms didn't flush right .
The layout of the hotel room. The hallway smelled like vomit due to someone burning their food.
I liked the friendly welcome we received when checking in and the overall atmosphere of the hotel. Our suite was spacious and clean, and I particularly appreciated the sink and vanity outside of the bathroom. Everything was just fine, but I felt the breakfast was not equivalent to the other particulars of this hotel. While it was adequate, there seemed to no one manning its details. The cold water decanter was empty, trash was accumulating, etc.
The staff were extremely nice and attentive. We will be coming back soon
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Breakfast selections ran out an hour before breakfast was scheduled to end.
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Everything about our suite was perfect! I'd stay here again in a heartbeat. No complaints.
I love the free breakfast and wi-fi.
Overall mood N/a
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The staff were always ready to help, didn't not seem to be bothered when I kept asking for more pillows or covers. The rooms were spacious and location was near everything, No
The staff is friendly. The rooms are pretty clean. Good design Noisey from construction nearby. Too loud to sit by the pool
I did not like the bathroom door
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It is brand new and convenient to shopping and dining at the Rim. Work was still being done on the rooms. I expected an above average breakfast, based on the pics, but it was nothing worth eating. The bathroom was very small and awkard for 2 people. The pool & fitness center were very small. They charged me incorrectly.
The hotel was nice and new. Design was updated. The hotel was next door to loud construction. Pool and outdoor area was extrememly noisy.
Clean and neat with very friendly staff! there was a lot of noise to be heard out in the halls or above us. Maybe need sound dampening items on doors and ceiling.
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Location was good to get to if going north;however, having to get across the highway to go south was very difficult
Nothing The room smelled bad and the room felt moist hotel had no friendly environment would never recommend to anyone wish I could have got a refund
Breakfast not included
Stayed here a number of times. Consistently excellent.
Location and bar Parking lot is adequate
The housekeeper was very rude.
Bed was amazing never slept on anything like it.
Location, privacy
Needs better coffee and cups in room.
The hotel was overall very nice. The lobby and restaurant/bar were nice. Our room was decent. Would say it was 8/10 on its own. The location is ok if you need to be in this part of town, but a bit far from riverwalk and fiesta. As said, the room was nice overall, but the bathroom was lacking. Our toilet had issues flushing and the water seemed to lack pressure. Asked the lobby, they just its normal (what?). We also had called ahead asking for a king bed, but got 2 queens.
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The staff was wonderful.
The staff/cleaning/all were super...very helpful/friendly. Vanity faucet leaked at base/ shower faucet leaked down wall. Walls were kind of thin...you could hear shower running/people talking/toilets flushing through the walls.
Great service. Nice breakfast, and staff was super helpful! Shower was broken, carpets were dirty
I liked the location and the price of the suite was affordable. The ladies at the counter were courteous. The sofa bed wasn't comfortable. There was only one bar of soap for washing your hands. I would have preferred a small disposal bottle of hand soap.
The hotel was in a great location for us to access everything we wanted to get to in San Antonio. It was also easy to access off of the highway. The pool was nice and super cold. The hotel was a little on the dirty side. The beds were very hard and I believe the box springs are broken on both beds in our room since the beds were both v shaped.The Hot tub on day two was a nice shade of green.
The breakfast was awesome! The gym facility and pool were very small. Room was just ok. There was a horrible mildew smell coming from our air conditioner and they had tried to cover the smell with a rancid smelling air freshener. Made it very uncomfortable due to the stink.
The breakfast was bountiful, well replenished, and the area ever so well maintained and clean. Wonderful selection of food items.
The location is such that there are no restaurants close so a built in mini bar with food and snacks would be helpful. Bottle water is needed. The light breakfast was ok.
The responsiveness of the desk manager was to be congratulated. Over all the place is usually clean and the staff always courteous. I am not sure what the problem was with housekeeping that day but something was definitely off. My wife and I arrived around 5:00 PM. We were assigned a room on the 2nd floor. When we got to the room, it had NOT been cleaned and made up at all. We called the front desk and asked for another room which the desk manager immediately assigned and ran up the stairs and hand delivered to us for the 5th floor. That room was clean and organized.
Cleaningless, staff
I liked that the location had an indoor pool and hot tub. I also liked its proximity to restaurants and supermarket. I didn't like that service staff was less than helpful. I did not like that they never had pool towels available for use and that our room was not serviced by housekeeping staff for two days. I had to call and ask them to service the room. Breakfast service is from 6am-9am weekdays. There was a line for food at 8:45am on Thursday and I jokingly remarked to the lady servicing the food that we were keeping her busy today. She replied very curtly, "No, it's just that you all didn't come on time for breakfast. You're all late." Our first night there I had to complain to the front desk about noise from the room directly above us at 1:00am. While I realize that this isn't the fault of the hotel, I had read another review of this hotel wherein a guest had complained about the noise.
Shower Noise in room above me on 4th night would not stop. Called front desk and solution was for me to move room after being there for 3 nights with no issues. Took an hour to check in because they didn't have my reservation AND that I had prepaid. No communication from Travelocity was their excuse. My key would not work EVERY day I cam back in the evening. Had to keep going back down to desk to get new one. No receipt available upon checkout. Can't wait to get my credit card statement. Breakfast czar lady insisted upon her opening exactly on time and not one minute sooner.
Evening / afternoon staff was very friendly. entire place was very clean. room was set up well and clean. Beds were a little on the firm side, but still comfortable enough for a good night's sleep. Was a little difficult to get the room cool.
Location Staff Did not get a queen room as per my reservation Heaters had not been properly prepared for winter and caused the smoke alarm to go off--very stressing. When notified staff that seemed aware by gave me the "oh, it's because is the first time it's on" excuse..what happened to maintenance? Count they have turned them on so guest didn't have to stress?


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Growth in Chinese millionaires slowest in five years
Guangdong second richest province
Guangdong in southern China is now the province with the second highest number of super- wealthy individuals, while Tianjin saw the fastest increase in millionaire numbers of any mainland city last year.
One out of every 1,300 people in China is now a "millionaire", with personal wealth of over Renminbi 10 million (HK$12.6 million) and one out of every 20,000 is in the super rich bracket, with personal riches of RMB 100m (HK$126 million).
The total number of mainland millionaires, excluding Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau has increased by 30,000 from last year to 1.05 million by December 2012, while the number of the super-rich increased by 1,000 to 64,500 – an increase of 3% and 2% respectively.
In the super-super rich bracket, there are 8,100 RMB billionaires and 280 individuals with personal assets of 10 billion RMB (HK$12.6 billion) in China. But on average the wealthy spent only 3% of their average wealth of 59 million RMB (HK$74 million) last year.
These are the findings of the 2013 GroupM Knowledge-Hurun Wealth Report, compiled by the Hurun Research Institute and GroupM Knowledge. The report shows the rate of growth is the slowest in five years and has decelerated for the second consecutive year.
While Beijing has the most super-wealthy, with 184,000 millionaires, up 5,000 on last year, and 10,700 super-rich, up 200; Guangdong comes a close second with 172,000 millionaires and 9,200 super-rich. Shanghai is third, with 147,000 millionaires and 8,500 super rich. This year Tianjin rises to tenth place, with 19,000 millionaires, up 11% from the previous year, as well as 1,400 super rich, up 12% - the fastest increase in all the cities.
Other fast-growing provinces include Shandong, Henan, Yunan, Guizhou, Qinghai and Tibet. The report shows that about 60% of China's wealthy population live in second and third tier cities such as Hangzhou, Ningbo and Foshan, where the number of millionaires exceeds 20,000. Millionaire numbers in Zhejiang Province and Inner Mongolia dropped the most.
Money breeds happiness
The Hurun millionaires' happiness index has recorded happiness of 7.8 out of 10 for the super-rich. The index is based on family, work, health and personal life, with respondents asked to rate their happiness from 0 to 10. Health matters most to them, but a quarter say they are unhappy with their health. This year 73% of China's millionaires think they are happier than the previous generation; the happiness they get from their family is greater than that from their jobs. The female millionaires' happiness index has reached eight, slightly higher than men and the under 30s score lower than older rich people.
The index finds 30% of millionaires are dissatisfied with their work-life balance, and some 20% of rich women have trouble sleeping.
Report highlights:
China's millionaires fall into four categories: private business owners, stock market gurus, property speculators and high-salaried executives, in which the number of stock market gurus dropped by 5% from the previous year, and the number of executives grew by 5% year on year. The Chinese super-rich fall into three categories: private business owners, stock market gurus, and property speculators.
Real estate is still first choice for personal investment, accounting for 64% of all investments.
The wealthy spent 3% of their average wealth of 59 million RMB last year and 3% of their spending went to travel. Wealthy people increasingly seek unique travel experiences, and exotic destinations such as Africa or the polar areas.
On average, millionaires and the super-rich took shorter business trips than last year, a reduction of half a day and three days respectively. On average, millionaires leave China 2.8 times a year, down from three times last year and the super-rich leave China 3.4 times a year, down from 4.2 times last year.
Following the overseas study craze, comes the rush to buy overseas property, with US real estate the top choice.
- The report analyses China's wealthy, broken down according to their regional distribution across China, as well as their investment, consumption preferences, and how they use the media.
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ROWLAND HEIGHTS - Sheriff's investigators are looking for a woman who allegedly fleeced $350,000 from her 85-year-old father-in-law.
The sheriff's Walnut/Diamond Bar station and the sheriff's Commercial Crimes Bureau are asking for the public's help in finding 55-year-old Hang Vu whose last known addresses were in Rowland Heights and Phoenix, Arizona.
After the mother-in-law died, deputies said Vu began to care for the father-in-law who lives in Rowland Heights.
Detective Chris Garcia said Vu moved in to the 85-year-old's home in 2010.
The alleged crimes happened between 2011 and 2013. She allegedly sold a house belonging to her father-in-law and emptied his retirement accounts, according to Garcia.
Someone called adult protective services which notified the sheriff's department. Garcia said the investigation started in January 2012.
He declined to discuss details of the case.
Vu drives a 2012 dark gray Toyota Prius with the California License #6UCU282
She also goes by the names Hang Vu Nguyen or Victoria Nguyen. She has black hair, brown eyes, stands 5 feet 3 inches tall and weighs 110 pounds.
Anyone with information is asked to call Detective Chris Garcia at the sheriff's Walnut/Diamond Bar station at 626-913-1715 or Detective Dobis of the Commercial Crimes Bureau at 562-946-7217. Anonymous tipsters can call "LA Crime Stoppers" at 1-800-222-8477, texting "TIPLA" plus the tip to 274637, or by using the website http://lacrimestoppers.org


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Environmental Sciences Seminar Abstract
Development of Anaerobic Ammonium Oxidation (ANAMMOX) Based Processes for Ammonium Removal in Wastewater and Landfill Leachate Treatment Systems
Deammonification is a biological process that can greatly reduce the energy and chemical consumption associated with ammonium removal from municipal and industrial wastewaters and landfill leachate. The process consists of two steps: the partial oxidation of ammonia to nitrite (Nitritation) by aerobic autotrophic ammonia oxidizing bacteria (AOB) followed by the anaerobic oxidation of the residual ammonia by nitrite to nitrogen gas. The latter reaction is performed by a community of anaerobic autotrophic ammonia oxidizing (ANAMMOX) bacteria, which were not identified until the late 1990s, but are now known to exist in numerous environments including bioreactors in wastewater treatment facilities. The application of engineered Nitritation/ANAMMOX-based bioreactor systems in large-scale facilities has been limited to date to the treatment of wastewaters containing a high ammonium concentration (> 500 mg/L) such as landfill leachate. A review of the these processes will be provided along with a discussion of the technical challenges that must be overcome if they are to be used in the treatment of wastewaters containing a substantially lower ammonium concentration (e.g. < 30 mg/L, which is typical of a municipal wastewater).
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Several other ladies on this board had taken Vivelle and had successful pregnancies, and if I recall correctly there was some evidence it was more effective than taking orally. And yes they changed my protocol from Gonal F/Ganirelix to Menopur/Bravelle/Cetrotide as they have seen better results with it.
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Make your vacation in Shenandoah National Park a high point at Skyland Resort. This resort is set along historic Skyline Drive in the heart of the park, offering stunning views of the Blue Ridge Mountains, forests, streams, and valleys. Beautiful facilities include a resort at the topmost point of Skyline Drive and a rustic lodge set in a meadow. Choose from comfortable guest or lodge rooms, spacious suites, or cozy cabins. Spend the day shopping, visiting historic sites, horseback riding, hiking, or bird watching. In the evening, enjoy fine regional cuisine in our dining rooms and do a little stargazing.
- Wifi
- Restaurant Onsite
- Pets Allowed
- Property Size 177 units
- Conference Facility
- Kids Allowed
- Nearby City Luray
- Nearby Water N/A
- Open Dates All Year
At Shenandoah National Park, you'll experience nature's beauty in the form of cascading waterfalls, spectacular vistas, and quiet wooded hollow. Plan a hike, a meander along Skyline Drive, or a picnic with the family.
Surrounded by a smattering of scenic streams, this resort offers some of the area's best fishing. Catch and release some beautiful trout as you enjoy the lush surroundings and fresh country air.
Pet Friendly
Though limited, the Skyland Resort does offer pet-friendly accommodations for those who choose not to leave their four-legged best friends behind. For more information regarding rates and restrictions, please contact the resort.
- Coffee Maker
- Deck
- Fireplace
- Hot Tub
- Kitchenette
- Microwave
- Horseback Riding
- Live Entertainment
- Photography
- Shopping
- Sightseeing
- Swimming
- Outdoor Grill(s)
- Bird Watching
- Fly Fishing
- Freshwater Fishing
- Hiking
- Wildlife & Nature
Nearest Airports
- Charlottesville Albemarle Airport (CHO) / 37 miles
- Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport (SHD) / 41.4 miles
- Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) / 50.8 miles
* Not all airports listed here may be open to public use, or service commercial flights
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