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Can a ghost give birth to another ghost? It's a curious thing to ponder but then very few bits of technology tend to evoke the supernatural. That makes sense: buyers get the heebie-jeebies at the thought of a ghost in the machine, no matter how much we think forces are at work making computers act in unnatural ways.
HP's first Spectre Ultrabook, the Envy 14 Spectre, bucked the supernatural naming trend. It was also a refreshing bit of original thinking. Rather than simply release a straight thin laptop, the Envy 14 Spectre used Gorilla Glass to create a premium-feeling laptop. There was a slight cost there: not just to the wallet but also as the 1.8 kilogram unit was a bit heavy for an ultrabook.
The son of Envy Spectre 14 is the Spectre XT, presuming, that is, that ghosts have some way of procreating. I feel sure there's an entire wing of the internet devoted to such things but I'm a little too frightened to go looking for it. In any case, like most kids it's a little smaller and lighter than its spectral parent.
At 1.4kg, the $1399 Spectre XT is in fact about average for an ultrabook, and it's clear that HP has gone for a much more conventional package with the XT. Everything is polished silver, and the glass that was such a feature of the Envy 14 is only to be found on the slightly raised trackpad.
That doesn't mean the XT is an unattractive notebook; HP's choices for the trackpad, Beats Audio-embossed speaker grille and silver trim, do make for a striking-looking laptop.
But not all genetic features carry through from a parent to its offspring. The lack of glass also hides the fact that the XT's screen is a downgrade from the original, with a much more standard (for an ultrabook) 13.3 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display.
The XT runs on an Intel Core i5-3317U 1.7GHz CPU with 4Gb of RAM; from a performance viewpoint it will certainly handle most business tasks, and HP is trying to make the most out of its tie-up with Beats Audio on the entertainment side. You may or may not like Beats Audio gear but in the XT's case, what you end up with are decent but not great speakers.
What is great are the trackpad and keyboard. I had doubts about the raised glass surface of the trackpad but it quickly became second nature to tap away on it. Equally, I'd never really rated HP's keyboards as being anything special but the XT I'm typing this on is keeping up admirably, and the backlighting works superbly in darkened environments. As a bonus, the glow reminds you you're not in the dark, although it will be unpopular in a cinema.
Ultrabooks are meant to be all about productivity, and that requires power. Here, the XT is a mere shadow of its predecessor. HP claims battery life of up to 9½ hours for the XT but my own tests fell way short of that.
Disabling all battery-saving features and running a looped video saw the XT's battery expire in a mere two hours and 10 minutes.
That's a deliberately brutal "worst case" type of test, so I ran it again with HP's power manager software on recommended settings for a better feel of battery performance. That improved matters but only by 35 minutes.
It's feasible to get more battery life out of the XT than that but it does indicate that it's a poor competitor in the emerging ultrabook field. That's more of a problem for the XT than it was for the Envy 14, given that it's competing at a price point against laptops that even under the same brutal testing manage an hour or more on top of the XT's best.
Or in other words, the Spectre XT is a nice-looking laptop but the battery gives up the ghost way too quickly to make it entirely worthwhile.
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Interview: Lee Broom
Interview: Lee Broom
At his NYC pop-up shop, the British designer shares his path to success and creative expression
Built upon the pillars of crystal, marble, brass and glass, the sophisticated world of luxury design can sometimes be fatiguing, and a little "seen that, done that." But Lee Broom is a good storyteller beyond just the creative pieces he makes—from "drunken" side tables to chapel lighting, an acid-etched marble coffee table, crystal light bulbs and a tube that looks like a fluorescent light but actually is milled from Carrara marble. Last September during London Design Festival, the British designer created a temporary flower shop to showcase his first-ever collection of vases. He opened a grey-toned department store last year for Milan Design Week; this year, he created a mini palazzo inside a delivery van for his lighting collection, driving the "Salone del Automobile" around the neighborhoods participating in design week.
He recently set up his first pop-up in New York for NYCxDesign Week. The "Broom off Broome" shop, featuring around 50 of his furniture and home decor pieces (all available for sale) will come to a close on 10 June, but just before that Cool Hunting is hosting the closing party next Tuesday, 7 June 2016 from 6-8PM. We met Broom at the space, 63 Greene Street, to learn how the former actor and fashion designer established himself as a force of modern British design.
When did you know you were a designer?
Like as soon as I saw that I could draw—seven, eight? My dad owned a printing factory but he was a very good amateur artist, a draftsman. I remember him teaching me the techniques you could use to draw, and I would draw every night at home in my bedroom. I would mainly draw apartment blocks, shopping malls, cities. Sometimes I'd do the interiors that I would imagine I would be living in my 20s. I loved opulence but I loved modernist design as well. You can kind of see that in my work now.
I was also into fashion. I was obsessed with designers like Vivienne Westwood, Gianni Versace, Gaultier—so I would always be sketching. That's how I ended up going into fashion. I won a Young Designer of the Year award which was judged by Vivienne Westwood when I was 17. That's how I got to work with her; I asked her for her autograph and she wrote her phone number down at the after-show awards.The plan was always for me to be in an actor in my adulthood. But I had a real interest in design and art—and when I was 17, I entered this competition because 'I love her so much, I know I can do it.' But I didn't expect to win!
She invited me to the studio for two days. It was amazing. It was just me and her for two days. She taught me how she approached pattern-cutting, the artists she was into, literature that she loved, how she didn't want to be a fashion designer and fell into it. I was just soaking everything up. And I had a book of like 100 outfits that I had sketched, and I showed her and her husband Andreas at the end of the two days. And she was like, "Well you can stay as an intern if you want. We can't pay you but you can work in the studio and pattern-cutting room." So I ended up staying there for 10 months...
Then I went back to the Midlands, back where I was from, and was like, "OK, I'm not going to be an actor anymore, I'm going to be a fashion designer!" My parents were kind of, "Ugh!" because they had invested so much. But it was a big deal [to work at] Westwood and they could see that. And I ended up going to Central Saint Martins. Interestingly, Vivienne discouraged me from going to fashion school. She was like, "They'll homogenize you and teach you how to think. You can do this on your own; you don't need to be put in that box." But I felt like it was a different time from when she started and I needed that training.
You studied theater and fashion. How did that evolve to furniture?
In my final year at Saint Martins, I was so sick of working at bars and clubs and wanted to work for myself. And I'd been decorating my apartment. I used to make these hideous mirror frames, plaster and fabric and gold leaf—very of that time. I used to go to bars and restaurants, try to sell these mirror frames and say, "I could do bits of upholstery, I could make some curtains for you." And it kind of grew into this tiny little business and I started making money. Then one of the bar owners asked me to design a venue from scratch.
It was like a 25,000 square feet venue; it was a club, a bar and a restaurant right in the center of the Financial District in London. They spent three-quarters of a million pounds on the project. I brought my friend Maki [Aoki], this Japanese girl I was mates with at Saint Martins. Myself and Maki designed and project managed, did the drawings, space planning, colors, we designed furniture pieces for it... It took about nine months to build, and it was like an intensive training course on a live interiors project. On one hand, we didn't know what we're doing. But on the other hand, because we had no frame of reference we didn't really care. It was called Nylon, this was in 2001—so a year after I graduated. It was popular so we started getting offered more work, so I was like, "OK do I want to go into fashion?" I wanted to work for myself, I knew that—I didn't want to work for anybody else. Going into fashion required me getting a whole load of investment, making samples, getting a collection together. Or do I go into this business where it's service-led, it's not going to require as much start-up cost and I've been offered work already. And the main thing was, my creative vision was being put into practice. So we set up a company called Makilee and we did that for four years; we designed bars and restaurants in London. And in 2007, Maki moved back to Japan and I decided I wanted to start Lee Broom but [focus on] furniture and lighting. We designed bespoke furniture pieces for venues that we were doing—we always wanted to put one of our own pieces in, somehow—so I'd built up a network of manufacturers in the UK that I'd worked with, saved the money I'd been getting from various projects. We did a really nice big project towards the end before she left, and I basically invested all of that money into Lee Broom. We did our neon lighting collection, and that was the first collection. Since then, it's been two collections every year.
Your marble tube lights are incredibly elegant, technically complicated, but also really sculptural. You have a lot of multi-disciplinary talent. And the objects have character beyond the design of the piece. Within the context of a room, it speaks in a way that's different, bigger, more grand. Which you also mention, this sense of "opulence." A lot of those pieces bring a level of opulence to them that's modern, clean, simple. Different than I think, traditionally when you think of opulent, it's incredibly ornate.
Some people describe my work as "glamorous" which I really hate, because I find that to be a crass word. At the same time, I kind of like that border line between crassness and taste. That marble collection, I call Nouveau Rebel because marble when I was growing up felt very nouveau riche: a tacky, opulent material. Now it has a reputation for being honest, natural material. So I like the idea of nouveau riche, nouveau rebel—changing that up a bit without forgetting that it went through that period. Opulence is kind of using material that is opulent and putting it into something that's sculptural, contemporary. That [Tube] piece is reflective of a classic, ugly fluorescent tube that we're all used to seeing in garages, warehouses. But to create exactly the same light fixture in a very luxury, handcrafted material appeals to me.
Some people describe my work as "glamorous" which I really hate, because I find that to be a crass word. At the same time, I kind of like that border line between crassness and taste.
Even the Crescent light—it's taking the very classic Art Deco globe that we all know, and slicing it in a simple way, shifting it to make it very modern. There's opulence, there's modernism, there's taking things you've seen before and presenting them in a different way. That's maybe one of the reason why our products are successful, that they are popular, they do sell. Because when people see them, they have a familiarity with them already. They already have a relationship with that product because they feel like they've seen it before, but not quite.
Hearing you talk about your past in theater, fashion, when you look at what you've done to present your collections—like the mobile showroom in a truck—it's incredibly different than what everyone else is doing. Here in New York, you have a pop-up that doesn't even feel like a pop-up; it feels like a very established storefront. All of these things come into play with the presentation of your work, which is really interesting.
It definitely stems from my background in theater. Subconsciously it's there all the time, the idea of seeing everything as a performance. All the work that you present is like a show. I remember being in Saint Martins and really, really struggling financially but I would put every single last penny into the presentations into a critique—hundreds of pounds—and not have too much to eat the next week. And we haven't changed, actually. [laughs] It's just on a bigger scale. I remember being frustrated when I started Lee Broom; I had all these ideas but didn't have the budgets to be able to execute what I wanted. We don't always need massive budgets, either. The main thing is, my theater background has enabled me to see things as a performance. Especially in Milan, it's such a stressful environment to be around. And it's nice to take them out of the ordinary and take them into the extraordinary.
I think you stole the show doing something that was really unexpected, that represented you and your brand really well—that moved around town! It was incredibly clever and newsworthy, yet also presented your product in a good way. When you think of the money you would have spent on a booth I think this was a much better investment.
The year before, we obviously did a really big show. I'm really conscious of when you present big—there's this expectation that every year, you have to outdo yourself. I'm not really interested in that. I like the idea of scaling it right back to something else. Designing something that is very small is a lot more difficult because you have to be a lot more creative in how you're thinking. And I like the idea of presenting 25 products and the next year, presenting one. It just keeps me more interested, changing it each year. I think more than anything, particularly in Milan, it's taking people out of the usual, and giving them an immersive journey in some way.
The store in New York is more about presenting all of my pieces in one space, and introducing the brand to a whole bunch of people that maybe might not be familiar with all of my work. The space needed to have less of a narrative, rather than the products.
It didn't even occur to me to ask this question until we started digging into theater, performance, and your upbringing as an actor—is Lee Broom your real name?
My mother wanted to change it, actually! She wanted me to be called Lee Groom, for some reason…But yeah, that's my real name. In my logo you'll see that there's the crown, and underneath there's a broom—that was my dad's signature on his paintings that he used to do.
Portraits by Josh Rubin, store images courtesy of Peter Murdock

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He was 83.
The five-time Emmy award winner starred in the NBC series Columbo as a rumpled detective.
A family statement said he "died peacefully at his Beverly Hills home" Thursday, ABC reports.
The actor had been suffering from dementia and Alzheimer's disease, according to his daughter, Catherine Falk.
Variety reports that Falk served as a cook in the merchant marines and once tried to join the CIA before he turned to acting at the age of 30.
Variety says Falk was discouraged from trying to break into the movies because of his glass eye, which he got after an eye was removed at the age of 3 because of a malignant tumor.
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YORK villagers said "hay there" to visitors flocking to two scarecrow festivals which will continue to welcome the crowds today.
A three-day event was hosted by Haxby and Wigginton while Dunnington aimed to rival the creations over a similar period between Friday and Monday.
Haxby Methodist Church's 8th Scarecrow Festival was supporting Martin House Children's Hospice "Good Night's Sleep Appeal" and also local charities.
More than 150 scarecrows were featured and organisers laid out five trails of varying lengths, together with quiz sheets.
Today refreshments and light lunches will be available in the church hall until 5pm. Scarecrows will remain in place until about 6pm.
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The bed mattress was too firm and as a result I was unable to get a good nights sleep.
the inn was easy accesible, the staff were very friendly and helpful, the food in the shepherds rest was very good
The staff were friendly and very helpful which I find to be very important qualities, when staying somewhere. Information was provided to us on arrival eg breakfast times etc, which I found very useful. Honestly can't say anything bad about the hotel, totally lovely.
The friendliness and efficiency of the staff who made us feel so welcome and could not do enough for us.
Very friendly at checkin
room and location was good No SKY Sports, the hotel near emptied to go and watch a big european football match at the Holiday Inn, everyone ate and drank there, so I think its bad economy on your behalf by not paying the Sky fee. I will stay at the Holiday Inn next time.
restaurant next door was great. all good but a box of tissues in the room would be good.
The facility has been recently refurbisheed and the standard is high and the satff, they made you feel welcome and privilaged and were ever helpful. They obviously take pride in their company and their service to guests Some refurbishment ongoing and the smell of new paint - nothing that could really put me off as the staff and painters were polite and helpful at all times and no real inconvenience
Very curteous, friendly and informative reception staff Good range of tv channels
Nothing Very poor standard of facilities. No internet in rooms etc. Very Basic.
Kids enjoyed swimming pool. When we asked if there was anywhere we could take the kids to get chips etc. the receptionist said there was nowhere nearby. The next day in daylight we found out there was a Burger King across the road which the kids would have enjoyed more than the meal which they had to eat at the hotel and did not like.
The room, the food, the service. On the night I stayed there was not enough bar staff
Location was not walking distance to the City Centre. Building was tired and although refurbished bedrooms were ok, the public areas were drab with threadbare stair carpets so did not appear fresh or clean. Only 1 lifts was operating. Surface of car park was terrible with big pot holes.
Good sized rooms which are clean and in a good state of repair. Rooms not too hot and stuffy thankfully. Food in the restuarant was very average and certainly not value for money.
I found it to be an ideal base for shopping in Aberdeen and visiting facilities in the evening. It was near enough to town centre but away from the noise often associated with the centre.
large airy rooms
The reception staff were great, the bar and restaurant was very pleasant and the rooms were clean and comforatble.
The staff were the best thing about the hotel. One manager assisted in my search for local contractors.
Me and my family really enjoyed our stay. The use of the pool and room was fantastic. Will definitely be back again. Thank you all.
Overall very clean. Rooms were not ready when we went to check in at 330pm
I should have asked at the time, but are all your bathrooms wetrooms fitted for disabled guests. Our bathroom was clearly taking disabled patros into account, but I have to say I would love to have been able to enjoy a relaxing bath (which in room 723 Aberdeen Jury Inn) was not available. Hoping my feed back is taken into account, and thanking you for your interest. Bearing in mind that I have taken my time to fill out your questionaire, I would be most grateful to recieve a reply with regards to my 'grievance' Kind Regards. Lm See above
The location of the hotel was excellent and very close to the rail station
very central quite expensive
No Room Service. No on-site parking - the hotel was advertised as having on-site parking.
The beds were very comfortable and the room was clean. The food was very poor and very overpriced. The staff were distantly polite but did not react to my complaints about the food.
Very nice modern rooms. Cooked breakfast was not the best,but good overall coice
alarm going off at 6.30am
The whole exoerience was good.
Clean room, very central Had to pay extorionate rates for parking. £18 for 24hrs
The good value for money
The hotel was well situated and very comfortable and clean. The staff were very helpful.
Hotel central Room was claustrophobic. The window had frosted glass making the room very dark and very warm. Had to ask for a fan - which we got - but I would not have spent more than one night in the room.
The hotel has a central location. The hotel boasts that it has a car park. There are about 20 spaces which are used by the staff and often double parked. You will be very lucky to get a space. The room was small without a view the price charged is not value for money.
convience to city centre, some of the rooms are smoking rooms,even though the smoking ban is not in force long you could still get a smell of smoke in the room.If Iwere to stay at this hotel again I would request a no smoke room.
The friendliness of the Staff The price for the 2nd night was double the first night! Not great value for money.
the hotel needs renovation
the location to everywhere in aberdeen breakfast time could have been later
Location, good breakfast the room was old and dirty
Great location and breakfast buffet. Perfect for a business trip without breaking the bank. Staff is friendly and helpful. The private car park is a lifesaver in downtown Aberdeen. I liked the small, historical, boutique feel, while they also offered modern ammenitites and a full bar/restaurant. While perfectly comfortable, the standard single room was the smallest I've ever stayed in. Tiny twin bed, and a tiny walk-in shower. Next time I'd bump up my reservation to the deluxe single or deluxe double room.
Location of hotel, friendly staff, good selection of breakfast items
Check in staff and breakfast staff were very helpful. Pigeons nesting so I got very little sleep.The room was quite small and could do with a little revamp.
staff very friendly and helpful in all areas.Location great for shops, sightseeing etc Ifound nothing I would have improved on.
location in the city centre. Internet connection in the rooms the view from my window onto the wall of the other building
V ery clean and most comfortable beds . Staff very helpful.
Staff very friendly Noise from ball room and other guests
Handy near rail station and city cente
Good size of room althought he TV was a bit far away and the breakfast was good. The location was excellent Lift was very slow and the stairs were steep
Helpfull and friendly staff, excellent location
Location was ideal for access to shops, night life, railway station, buses etc. Room was very comfortable. Breakfast was excellent, good choice,dishes were constantly being replenished, restaurant staff very attentive Room was a bit on the cold side,although the hotel in general was warm. It was an extremely cold night, and we were chilled when we came in, so normally it wouldn't have been so noticeable.The facility to adjust the heating in the room would have been welcome.To be fair, we didn't contact Reception about it, so they may have been able to boost the heating. Bathroom was also a bit on the cold side.
As always the staff made us feel very welcome ,the room was clean and comfortable and breakfast the next day was excellent .
It was convient for shopping I liked the pool and spa it was close to all the entertainment and restaurants at the beech. The pillows were far to soft I had to put towels under them
Excellent room with sea views, friendly, helpful staff and a great breakfast.
The check-in was swift and helpful, the room spacious, weel equipped and comfortable and supper was served by very friendly staff in the restaurant. My fist stay at the DoubleTree and one I shall be repeating. Parking seemed difficult but it was dark and heavy rain so perhaps parking signage could be improved?
Good service and meals. Great location with free parking Could do with some refurbishment, especially the bathroom. Only one lift which did not feel very safe.
The hotel was close to the city centre and near to local entertainment.It was clkean and the staff were friendly. The corridors had a oduor of cigarette smoke which included the stair well near the entrance door.
got the standard double room and wasnt impressed, so upgraded to platinum, which was absoultly brilliant, a little pricey though
using the swimming pool and steam room, the buffet breakfast had a good choices to meet all needs
The room was clean and comfortable, staff friendly and helpful. Lovely meal in the dining room. The best yet of the many hotels we have stayed in, here in Aberdeen.
Stayed in this hotel previously (Patio) many times. None
Tha spa facilities were excellent. Staff very helpfull when we had a problem with noise from an adjoining room The breakfast buffet could have been warmer. Myself and my wife found it to be a bit on the cold side. Having said that the selection of food was very goos.
Not very convenient for travellers without own car
It would have been nice to have a coke and ice machine on the premises. Since there was not, I had to go to the pub to get a coke for my room. That cost 3.50 pounds!!!! Way too much!!!
The staff, food and facilities were excellent.
Very comfortable, good sized room, leisure facilities good.
The restaurant meal was excellent. There was a great deal of potpourri used to attempt to cover a musty, damp smell. But, of course, it is a castle, so this may be a normal condition.
Enjoyed the use of the Spa Facilites, also had a massage which was very nice. Evening Meal in Bar very nice although service a wee bit slow. 12pm check out time is good Bathroom needs a bit of updating, Bar was busy in the eveing, more than one person required to serve
the spa since change of management quality of hotel is much less tha it used to be which is a shame.
Setting and character of the older mansion part of the hotel are nice. The decor and room fittings are now rather tired and in need of refurb, as are the bathrooms. It did not live up to it's percieved standard.
Hotel is tired and requiring re-furbishment
Staff is very friendly and helpfull. Rooms are spacious and clean. The hotel itself is beautiful and has a very nice bar/lounge area. Too bad there is no transport between the hotel and the City Centre.
Cleanliness of rooms, the small nice touches like a pint of milk in the fridge with the tea coffee facilities. Excellent staff in reception and breakfast room who deserve a special mention. Very easy walking distance to the shops in Union Street and the indoor shopping centres. Lounge/ kitchen area fine and very comfortable with wide screen tv. Toilet/ shower spotless with hair drier and toiletries provided. Seperate bedroom very comfortable. Iron and ironing board provided which was also useful. Private parking free and secure. Non smoking room. None with the hotel. Make sure that you get directions from hotel as following the aa route plan which was inaccurate we got lost when we entered Aberdeen. Going back, the Receptionist gave us a very easy and accurate route to follow to get to the motorway home to Glasgow.
Everything was superb! The staff was very kind and helpful. The apartment had three rooms very comfortable and clean and the kitchen/dining room was large and cosy.
Check in was quick and eficient Check out the evening before was quick and efficient however when giving key back to reception was delayed to check I allready paid night before staff there was a bit funny
I really liked the fact that I had a proper suite with a sperate bedroom and living room, even if the decor was a little old fashioned. It gave a real feeling of personal space. It was a bit of a hike up the stairs to my room, but no real matter. The booking.com site appeared to indicate a continental breakfast was included but according to the hotel that is only for "superior" suites.
The room was lovely, when booking the room didn't realise we were getting a flat with 2 bedrooms, kitchen and livingroom. Was a big surprise when walking in. Loved it. Will come back soon. amazing for money!!!!
location was good, it was very clean, lovely and comfortable. Staff were good and helpfull. nothing
We stayed as a family of 4. It was very nice to have the use of a full kitchen and a sitting room where we could relax in the evening and watch a DVD. Breakfast was excellent. Overall very good value for our group. We were on the third floor and there was no lift in the house.
Lovely hotel enjoyed our stay, will definatly be back, but when its cold outside The room was far too warm. Could do with air con Car park entrance was a bit dodgy
We arrived and we promptly upgraded as a result of my disability and the fact that the older part was being renovated. This was simply amazing treatment by the staff of this hotel. No, and when the old part gets renovated it will also be completely exceptional as the new part.
did not get the room booked
The warmth and friendliness of all staff from the moment we arrived to check in.
Rooms were warm and clean, staff were very friendly. No Smoking Rooms!
great room and good staff.
It was ideally close to the city centre but you would think that you were further out as there was no noise outside Couldnt fault the hotel
Generally the room was clean and facilities good .. The matress which you could control was also good . I was dissapointed that their was no room in the Hilton car park so I had to use the car park up the road . This would have been fine but I was told it would only cost £5 to park here and the hotel would validate my ticket ..when i tried to exit the car park however I was to be charged £18 and had to speak to car park manager to sort it out . It was also made difficult to know how to connect to the free wifi , which took a couple of calls to reception to sort out , however it was .
Central position. Clean and friendly.
Staff 1st class. Made to feel very welcome. Very Friendly. Comfort Cleanliness N.A.
Booking was easy, quality of food and room/services were also good, overall an enjoyable stay. Some trouble paying. This was a gift from my daughter and when she called to pay the outstanding balance she was emailed with a third party payment form and emailed it back but when we checked out we were told that the email and form had not yet been looked at and I was told that it would probably just be taken off her card that she used to pay the deposit with. We are quite concerned that she will be charged twice.
disappointed at breakfast, others seemed to get a choice of coffees whereas we were just given a jug a nd a pot of tea which by the way were stone cold
Staff were really pleasant and helpful, particularly appreciated that room service costs were not ridiculous. The food was lovely and brought quickly Bacon and Sausages at breakfast were horrible! Sorry but they were.
I did like very much the interior design differing from the other Radissons that I visited - much more colorful and cosy. The restaurant served very well prepared food and the gym was well equipped. I have noticed that my room was not cleaned properly (the carpet was not hoovered on he daily basis and the bathroom was also not cleaned as it should have been). There was a problem with the organization of the room service stuff - when I ordered a meal to be brought to my room I had to call back a couple of times and I still did not received whatI wanted because of the member of the stuff who did not come that evening to his job and who was responsible for the cooking after the opening hours of the restaurant.
Handy location and cheap and chearfull. Off duty bar staff drinking in bar with guests wearing uniforms.
Very friendly staff, super clean, nice facilities, good price, but... The bed was actually two single beds pushed together with king-sized linens over them. I'd rather just have one small bed than to have the hard edges of two separate beds right down the middle.
Brilliant service from beginning to end. Asked to check in early and we were offered a cup of tea while we waited (sounds small but made a good impression). Really lovely staff who pay attemtion to detail. None
Meal was lovely and breakfast Drinks a bit expensive .
Excellent bar meal and very good service Rather noisy with refurbishment
Facilities, ie: swimming pool, gym The family room that we occupied was too small, no enough space for us to move. No aircon, room was too warm, the decoration of the room was dated and most of all the sofa bed that they provided was not comfy.
Hotel is very well run and staff were very helpful. There weren't really any
Swimming pool and leisure facilities Bedroom did not have play station, no internet when change room, bathroom nothing special, just basic facilities, not as advertised, hotel needs decorated throughout, lobby very poor which is the point of entry
Meal was good in resturaunt One of the two computers in the business centre wasn't working. The printers were not connected. Neither I nor the staff could get the wifi connection in the lobby to work. The pool was not open on all dates.
Food and service were better than expected. Good value for money, excellent position in quiet location.
Good location for business in Aberdeen......stayed here before and will stay again. They were having a total refurb of the restaurant and reception which made getting to my room difficult and the planning was not good. I would also have appreciated to have been told this prior to my arrival....the place looked in chaos !
Good value for money staff very helpful and pleasant None
The quality of the service and the room.
Easy Parking, good location Drinks in bar a bit expensive
friendly, modern, relaxed lounge type environment with great wine and above average food, available throughout the day & night. noisy lift alarm - audible from rooms nearby, noisy seagull sanctuary outside one particular room windowsill!
It was close to the city centre the room was absolutely atrocious. The lounge was lovely, there was a nice atmosphere and we had high hopes for our stay. Going up the corridor, the paint was flaking off the walls, the floor and the carpet was uneven. Then we got to our room/prison cell. It was tiny, there was no headboard, it was dated and cold. The table, bedside table and tv stand were all slanted and uneven which I was unsure if it was a quirky thing for the hotel or just really badly made furniture. The bed was extremely uncomfortable and there was no light apart from a bedside lamp. The only saving grace was the size of the bathroom, twice the size of the room although very sparse.
The staff are some of the friendliest I have ever come across, they couldnt do enough for you. The public area's are fantastic as is the food! I hope the hotel will refurbish the remainder of their bedrooms soon as this could be Aberdeens first life style hotel!
Good city centre location with plenty of helpfull attentive staff in a modern environment. Internet access a bonus.
The whole of the downstairs was very nice, and its in a good position for the centre of Aberdeen I think when the whole hotel is finished it will be nice, however some of the rooms looked like they were still in need of refurb
I liked my entrance at the hotel a lot: a stylish, spacious, wellcoming space. The top floor was a little shabby, especialy the carpets and the windows. This is a pitty because the room furnishings aspire to more.
the staff were very helpful, happy and willing to help. my wife is a fussy eater and our evening meal and breakfast was cooked and presented just as requested. the whole experience was absolutely spot on many thanks we was only there one night and didn't find anything wrong
Very pleasant hotel, good service and good facilities. Very reasonably priced. Good location.
In desperate need of a makeover! The landing on the 2nd floor was like walking on a bouncy castle and the carpet had to of been bought by the Carmelite nuns. The food left a lot to be desired, which is why I never bothered with breakfast. The one plus point was that they had Sky Sports in the bedroom. See above
We liked the quirky decoration, the toiletries and the shower The room was rather small, as was the TV. No view. The cooked breakfast was disappointing, too - the bacon undercooked and flabby!
Comfort of room Too dark in room, not enough lighting, could not control room temperature
Great looking hotel from the outside, very friendly staff at check in, loved the vibe and decor, cracking room and a fantastic restaurant. All set within a very trendy, Scottish inspired hotel. Nothing, genuinely everything was fantastic
good food,good staff,lovely rooms, although the foyer fire needs topping up more frequently foyer layout when front doors open it gets very cold even with the fire on they could do with turnstile type doors to keep the heat in
The restaurant was wonderful...... I did not like that the staff thought it was okay to put a bill through to the room without signing for it. Consistantly this was an issue.
Decor, facilities, dining, rooms excellent very modern and up-to the minute, very, very clean. Breakfast was extra at £12.50 quite expensive, dining was very very good but again quite pricey.
Beautifullly decorated hotel with luxury rooms. We enjoyed the use of the Spa while there to relax.
The breakfast was terrible for a scottish breakfast
Lovely decor, whole place squeaky clean
The staff were very welcoming and helpful, everything felt new and clean but it is very dark in the rooms. There is a small carpark at the front of the hotel so we parked on the busy street. We were told that there was additional parking at the back of the hotel and how to get there but when we drove round there were no spaces left for us. Not enough parking spaces and we ended up going out for drinks as we could not get served at the bar, it was realy busy, I'm not sure whether there was a party going on or whether it is always that busy.
We loved the standard of the accomodation eg the luxury of having a suite with all facilities but with the bonus of having a breakfast included as well as a complimentary drink on the first day and free beverages and snacks during your stay. Superb Nothing it was excellent.
only 5 min walk to the innercity main streets, clean and nice rooms,
City centre for business access and very comfortable suite to return to. no
Iwas most impressed with the spacious suite we were allocated,we were in 401 on the ground floor,which was not only superbly equipped itwas most relaxing as we heard almost no noise from fellow guests,despite the suites being fully booked.All of the staff were friendly and most helpful,nothing was too much trouble.The buffet continental breakfast exceeded all expectations with a great choice to suit all tastes and plenty of staff providing pots of tea and coffee and fresh toast. definately a must to stay at if you visit aberdeen, amazing value for money!
The accomadation was wonderfull fully fitted kitchen was great it was home from home breakfast was great staff were very nice and helpfull ther was a small play area for kids private parking cctv cameras could not ask for more internet in room was great sat tv sport chanel for husband no
The Staff were Excellent. The rooms were clean and well decorated. Breakfast was excellent, and the lounge area with free Tea and coffee was a lovely touch. Overall i do not have an complaints.
Very nice location, excellent rooms Suite 201 maintenance issues: hall radiator valve broken = noise throuout the night, loose sink tap handles, only one set of towels initially despite booking 2 people, networking issues resulting in no internet access
Incredible stay, the staff are extremely helpful and friendly. The only problem we had was when we first arrived, there was no hot water, with in minutes, there was three staff at the door with in minutes
The Skene House - Whitehall Hotel is a managed appartment facility which is well suited for longer stays, giving you all the facilities and privacy of your own appartment, together with good service. And the inclusive breakfast is very nice.
There wasn't anything not to like. The staff were excellent; friendly, courteous, helpful and informative. The suite was marvelous. I was there only overnight, but wished I could have stayed longer.


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The Ninja Lore Game Card Pack is now available on Wizard 101 and it features brand new spells for everyone to use! This game pack is the first one that actually allows for you to gain new spells. Why has this not been available before!? This pack also allows players to the chance to get a new dragon pet, new powerful swords and weapons and even new wizardry robes.
Back to the spells that players can gain though! There are 3 of them and they are pretty awesome if I must say so myself. They are all reward spells. This means that they do not cost your Wizard any training points. This simply means that they are spells just like the ones that you have learned from your trainer. Even if you sell your spells for Training Points, these spells will stay with you! Is that not amazing?!
All three of these spells obey the rules of pips and powerpips. For instance, if you are a Balance Wizard and receive a Myth Spell, then your pips or powerpips will be used accordingly and appropriately and so on and so forth! So what are these spells called!? Well here you go. They are called the Ninja Pig Spell, the Samoorai Spell and the Goat Monk Spell. They sound interesting don;t they!? So what are you waiting for?! Go get these spells and start using them against your Wizard 101 opponents today!
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Technical Implementation Notice 11-40
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From: Cynthia Abelman
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Subject: Web-Enabled International Flight Folder
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Effective Monday, September 12, 2011, at 1400 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the NWS Aviation Weather Center (AWC) in Kansas City, MO, will implement the Web-Enabled International Flight Folder Documentation Program (WebIFFDP) as an operational system. WebIFFDP will eventually replace the facsimile-based International Flight Folder Documentation Program (IFFDP).
Beginning September 12, 2011, WebIFFDP will be operationally available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Before using the service, authorized users must register by going to the following web address:
As a contracting state of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the United States is obligated to provide flight documentation services to the international aviation community. Since October 1, 1998, in accordance with Chapter 9 of Annex 3 to the Convention on Civil Aviation, the AWC has provided the required meteorological information to airline operators and flight crew members for the purposes of dispatch planning, pre-flight briefing and en-route guidance as a facsimile-based system of distribution.
The new WebIFFDP system offers users a Qualified Internet Communications Provider (QICP) certified Website for obtaining international aviation weather information. QICP is an FAA certification that a Website meets specific security, availability and transaction-time standards. WebIFFDP also introduces users to an enhanced Web experience that includes custom virtual Flight Folders and other services not available through the current fax-based system.
For technical questions and support in registering user access for WebIFFDP, please contact:
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It's the game inside the game -- what advertiser will emerge as the champion during the Feb. 2 airing of Super Bowl XLVIII. According to USA Today's Ad Meter, Budweiser maker Anheuser-Busch's heart-tugging commercial, Brotherhood, featuring a Clydesdale horse and its former owner, was last year's runaway winner.
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The driver of an 18-wheeler was heading from Arkansas to Florida when his trip came to a sudden halt. That's because he tried to fit his tractor trailer through the Bankhead Tunnel. Traffic was detoured for hours as a result.
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Enhancing Diversity in the Nursing Workforce
AACN Fact Sheet Containing the Latest Data, Updated March 2015
Race/Ethnicity Data on Students Enrolled in Nursing Programs
10-Year Data on Minority Students in Baccalaureate and Graduate Programs
Missing Persons: Minorities in the Health Professions
Sullivan Commission on Diversity in the Healthcare Workforce, September 2004
In the Nation's Compelling Interest: Ensuring Diversity in the Health Care Workforce
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Nursing Workforce: Shortage and Diversity
The California Endowment, 2003
Funding Opportunities for Minority Students
Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing's Future-AACN Minority Nurse Faculty Scholars Program
Program provides $18,000 in financial assistance to graduate students from minority backgrounds who agree to teach after graduation.
This site maintains a listing of scholarship and fellowships for students from diverse backgrounds pursuing undergraduate and graduate nursing degrees.
AACN's Scholarship and Financial Aid Resources for Nursing Students
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Effective Strategies for Increasing Diversity in Nursing Programs
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Men in Nursing Recruitment Efforts
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Juan Pablo Galavis, the former pro soccer player described by Entertainment Weekly as a "shallow, narrow-minded hunk of man meat," brought a merciful end to perhaps the most controversial season in the history of "The Bachelor" Monday night when he made his choice between two remaining women.
And the final rose went to …
Nikki Ferrell, the 26-year-old nurse from Kansas City, Mo.
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Artist: POLYSICS
Album: Neu
Appears On (Mixes): Jeff Bridges... I Don't Need No Jeff Bridges To Put Music To My Poem!
Song Notes: I've said it many times but: POLYSICS are the best band in the universe. Take your favorite band. POLYSICS are way better than them. This holds true even if POLYSICS are your favorite band. POLYSICS are just that good. They've got a couple of albums out in the US, though their Japanese albums are relatively easy to find online, and are worth it. Their DVDs, providing you can play Region 2/NTSC DVDs are even more worth it. - Rev. Syung Myung Me


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Leading up until the season, Friarblog is counting down and profiling the Friar players who will be seeing the court this season.
#9. Lee Goldsbrough
Forward Lee Goldsbrough enters his junior season with not a lot of expectations, but someone who can potentially play an important role off the bench early on in the season and going forward.
Resources: Friars.com Profile, StatSheet.com
Follow: @GeordieFriar
Stud stats: In back to back wins against Florida A&M and Southern, Goldsbrough played over 20 minutes a game and was active on the glass pulling down 6 rebounds in each contest. In the Florida A&M game he even added 2 assists, a steal, and a block.
Dud stats: Goldsbrough played a total of 50 minutes in conference play last season. Vincent Council blew through that in 3 halves! 19 of those 50 minutes came during one of the South Florida games.
I know what you did last summer: He didn't transfer, despite some back and forth rumors during the whole transfer fiasco in which 3 players left and Ice Cotton almost left. Goldsbrough stuck around PC early in the summer for some classes, and also spent time in his homeland (Newcastle, England) doing English things. I wonder if he has posters of Tom Daley in his dorm?
Know your role: With 7 players available in the first semester, Goldsbrough will come off the bench and be the 4th forward on the depth chart so to say. He'll get the most playing time if he can come in and do the little things such as rebounding, playing solid defense, and not turning the ball over. Cooley probably isn't expecting too many things offensively from Goldy, but just some consistency, toughness and hustle on both ends of the court.
Well there's that: Good for you, Lee.
Relevant Tune: "Gold on the Ceiling" – The Black Keys.
They wanna get my Goldsbrough on the Ceiling, I ain't blind, just a matter of time, before you steal it.
If Lee Goldsbrough was a TV Show: NBC's Revolution. It never really wows me, but doesn't really do too much to offend me based on what I am expecting out of it. You occasionally wonder why it's on TV, but you appreciate that it tries to be a good show. All of the other NBC shows probably like it, because it's a nice, friendly show.
Best case scenario: Goldsbrough takes the opportunity to play big minutes in out of conference play, and establishes himself as a solid player off the bench. Come BIG EAST play, Goldsbrough doesn't get completely overmatched against the bigger and stronger forwards in the conference. He has several decent games on the glass, a few games where he hits a few shots here and there, and provides a few sparks on the defensive end at various times.
Worst case scenario: Early on in the season, Goldsbrough gets some minutes but tries to do a little too much offensively leading to uncharacteristic turnovers. Cooley starts to lose faith in having him out on the court, forcing Brice Kofane and Josh Forturne into more minutes they can really handle. By the time Sidiki Johnson and Kris Dunn are able to play, Goldsbrough sees similar minutes and DNP as last year in BIG EAST play.


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ST. ROSE - The Community Chorus of River Parishes will be performing their East Bank Christmas concert on Saturday, Dec. 8 at Albert Cammon Middle School at 234 Pirate Drive in St. Rose.
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Desert Visa girls soccer coach Marvin Hypolite confirmed on Thursday that the Thunder had to forfeit Tuesday's win over Mountain Pointe.
Thunder senior Kelly Watson was supposed to sit out this season's first match after being ejected from last year's season-ending loss to Pinnacle in the Division I quarterfinals.
AIA bylines state any player or coach ejected has to sit out the next game. For Watson that was the following season when the Thunder opened up the year with a double-overtime win over the Pride.
In the loss to Pinnacle, Watson was given her second yellow card after using her hands on the opponent to forcefully gain control of possession about five minutes into overtime.
Later in the day, Thunder athletic director TJ Snyder said they turned in a report to the AIA.
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Another bombshell that could, potentially, derail former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's presidential aspirations? That is the newest insinuation made against Gingrich — not by a former spouse or lover, but rather by another former House Speaker.
During an interview, CNN's John King asked Nancy Pelosi:
"You make your case there passionately for President Obama. But also understand that this is a tough reelection climate for any president, Democrat or Republican in this economy. Because of your history with Speaker Gingrich, what goes through your mind when you think of the possibility, which is more real today than it was a week or a month ago, that he would be the Republican nominee and that you could come back here next January or next February with a President Gingrich?"
To which the Minority Leader responded, "Let me just say this. That will never happen."
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NELSON ARRESTED AS THIEF WHEN 13; Neighborhood Leader in Chicago as a Boy, He Was Sent to Penal School. WAS BANK ROBBER IN 1931 Attracted Public Attention When He Joined in Depredations of Dillinger Gang.
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CHICAGO, Nov. 28. -- For exactly 128 days, George (Baby Face) Nelson bore the title of Public Enemy No. 1 of the nation. He had reached this "peak" after spending half of his twenty-six years in outlawry.
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Swindon took the lead when Michael Pook and Neale McDermott combined on the right and Rory Fallon touched in his seventh goal of the season.
But Port Vale were level in the after a free-kick from Mickey Bell struck the Swindon wall and looped into the net.
Home keeper Tom Heaton then misjudged a long ball and Cornes had the simple task of tapping into an empty net.
Swindon: Heaton, Smith, O'Hanlon, Ifil, Jenkins, McDermott, Whalley (Wells 78), Pook, Heath (Shakes 60), Fallon, Bouazza (Nicholas 87).
Booked: Heath, Ifil, Pook.
Goals: Fallon 24.
Port Vale: Goodlad, Pilkington, Collins, Bell, Sonner, Cummins, Dinning, Innes (James 84), Cornes, Paynter, Mulligan.
Booked: Sonner, Paynter, Mulligan.
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"The Track" is a feature film that will shoot in Las Vegas in May 2014. We will be having a read-through of the script with actors in order to get feedback. Refreshments will be served.
Logline: Lost in a haze of grief, Caren struggles to get her life back on track after losing her teenage daughter. Her motherly instincts kick-in when she meets Barbie, an underage prostitute working the streets of Las Vegas.
More information about the film can be found on "The Track" website or on our Facebook page.
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Subject: [TNHANCOC] John Lamb
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Does anyone know who the parents were of John Lamb that is listed in this
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Hancock County Battle
* Aug, 5 1900 , Sneedville, TN.
Two men killed and two wounded on election day.
In the sixteenth district of Hancock County at Sycamore, a point remotely
situated in the mountains, a disastrous fight occurred on election day, Aug 2,
1900. Hillery Collins and John Lamb were killed outright and Wiley Brewer was
mortally wounded and Patton Gibson injured.It was pitched battle arising between
the Brewers and Lalmbs on one side and the Collins and Burton on the other.
John Llamb was deputy sheriff and Hillery Collins, constable. The afray arose
over an election quarrel, the particulars of which have not been obtained. The
families involved are said, by those in the city who knew them, to be determined
people and it is the struggle must have been a severe one. There was no feud,
but it is feared this trouble may lead to one similar to those with which
Hancock county used to be infested.
This was reported in the Knoxville Journal and Tribune, Sunday, Aug 5, 1900
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Counting on Yu
Fantasy Baseball Projections for Yu Darvish
Darvish, Texas Ranger
Just how good is Yu Darvish?
The Texas Rangers are betting that he is very, very good. That's why they invested $112 million in Darvish over the next six years. That's 6 years at $60 million plus a $51.7 million posting fee paid to Darvish's Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters club in Japan. The actual number of the posting fee was $51,703,411. The 34 was Ryan's jersey number. The 11 was Darvish's number. The Rangers were hoping for a little luck with their bid.
The combined $111.7 million trumps the $103 million that the Red Sox forked over in 2006 to acquire Daisuke Matsuzaka. Matsuzaka received $52 million over six years plus the Sox paid $51.1 million for Dice-K's rights.
Darvish was making $6.4 million in Japan and was the highest paid player in the league. Not surprising for a two time MVP. His Japanese manager thinks Texas got a bargain. "He is a pitcher who deserves more. As a person who has been following the majors closely, I want to say he is better than that," said Hideki Kuriyama, the Sapporo-based Nippon Ham Fighters manager
Rolling the Dice
Boston would probably prefer to have its money back on Dice-K. The Red Sox won the 2007 World Series as Matsuzaka went 15-12 with a 4.40 earned run average — followed by an 18-3, 2.90 ERA season. But the right-hander is just 16-15, 5.03 since his best season and he will miss much of the upcoming final season of his contract recovering from elbow surgery. Matsuzaka was 3-3, 5.30 last year.
Darvish is a big guy. He's 6′ 5″ and 220 pounds compared to Dice-K's 6′ 0″ and 185 pounds. At 6′ 5″, Darvish actually appears lanky at 220 pounds. He can dine on American cheeseburgers and put on 25 pounds and still be at a healthy weight. Moreover, Darvish's freakishly large hands should be able to offset the differences in the American baseball which has less tack and lower seams than the Japanese ball.
The Japanese sensation has a fastball that averages between 92 and 95 mph, a plus slider/slurve and five other, handy secondary pitches: two-seamer, cutter, curveball, splitter, changeup. In all, Darvish has been known to throw 9 different pitches, but it's unlikely that Nolan Ryan will want him throwing that many different pitches.
Tumbling Dice
Both Darvish and Dice-K have one thing in common–they both have wives that were members of our Baseball's Hottest Wives. In fact, Darvish's now ex-wife Saeko Darvish was our 2010 winner of Baseball's Hottest Wives.
Let's take a look at the stats of Darvish and Matsuzaka prior to their start in MLB:
Darvish: 76-28, 1.72 ERA, 0.89 WHIP, 9.5 K/9, 4.9 K/BB
Matsuzaka: 93-45, 2.95 ERA, 1.12 WHIP, 8.7 K/9, 2.96 K/BB
Clearly, Darvish's numbers in the Japanese League are far superior to Dice-K's to the tune of 1.23 ERA. Kind of adds some credibility to the notion that Darvish is a comparative bargain.
Moreover, Darvish is coming off the best of his seven seasons as a professional in Japan — 18-6, 1.44 — with the victories and ERA career highs, as were his 232 innings. He struck out 276 and walked 36. Those are some impressive numbers; I don't care what league your playing in.
But, perhaps the biggest thing that the newly divorced Darvish needs to do is adjust to American ways, both personally and to facing the best hitters in the world. How will he fare pitching on those 100 degree days in Texas? Also, ballparks in Japan are a bit larger overall and the hitters are smaller in general. But, the biggest difference between pitching in Japan and in the USA is that pitchers in Japan pitch every 7 days, not every 5 days.
It is for that reason that USA Today's Steve Gardner classifies Darvish as a high-risk, high-reward fantasy baseball selection.
"Darvish is an incredibly high risk-reward pick in drafts this year because no one knows how he will respond to pitching in the majors," said Gardner. "Some fantasy owners will embrace the risk — and some will prefer to play it safe. Most likely, I'll end up taking the safer course. Pitchers are creatures of habit and making the switch from pitching every seventh day to pitching every fifth can be a major disruption."
So, where should Darvish go in your fantasy baseball draft? Mike Siano of MLB.com thinks he's the 25th best pitcher in MLB. Sports Illustrated puts him a little higher at # 22. Tristan Cockroft of ESPN has him at # 30 just behind another high risk pick, Stephen Strasburg.
I (BallparkBob) am more aggressive than the other fantasy baseball experts. Why? Because, I've watched the Yu Darvish videos on YouTube…over and over. His stuff is simply nasty. I have Yu Darvish at # 15 in the 2012 fantasy baseball draft just behind the man he replaced C.J. Wilson and Ian Kennedy. I'd rather have Darvish than Adam Wainwright or Zack Greinke.
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Amazon Discounts 9515 The Malevolence 20%
Amazon continues its online dominance for LEGO shopping. They currently have 9515 The Malevolence discounted 20%, down to $95.99, price matching Target's current price. Target does offer 5% discount if you're a REDCard holder, but your local sales tax may offset the savings some.


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     Thanks to everyone who came to the meetup yesterday.

 We had quite a crowd. Lots of people got a new OS on their phone, and lots of people got their phones to play with some version of Arduino.

 With everyone's help, I got my new G2 phone rooted, with the latest version of CyanogenMod installed, and an app to run the Google ADK so I can control the Google ADK hardware (to make pretty colored lights, move servo motors, turn relays on and off, read temperature, and read joystick movements)!

 So that others may benefit from my experience, I documented how I got my phone to do all this (with some useful-to-know, undocumented tips, supplied by others along the way), and put it on the wiki:
 https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/AndroidArduinoMeetup
 Though this is specifically for the G2 phone, this documentation should be useful for others, since the process should be very similar.

 It took me 3 hours, start to finish. With my documentation, maybe you can do it in less time?

Cheers,
 Mitch.

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Subject: Andriod / Arduino hacking anyone? -- Sunday, 3pm, at Noisebridgeţţ
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 18:39:44 -0700

 <META name=Generator content="Microsoft SafeHTML">  A couple of weeks ago Google announced the ability for Android to connect with Arduino to be used as a cheap, easy-to-use hardware development platform. Google then created ADK (Android Development Kit, based on Arduino), which is not cheap -- but they gave a bunch away for free at the Maker Faire last weekend.
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/usb/adk.html
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http://arduino.cc/blog/2011/05/10/google-launches-android-open-accessory-development-kit-based-on-arduino/

Since most of us are relatively clueless on how to hack Android phones, or how to connect them to Arduino to do cool things, a bunch of us are getting together next Sunday to put our collective heads together to see how to make it all work on our Android phones.

It is likely that a Google employee and Android developer (or two) will be joining us to help out. Maybe there will even be an ADK (or more) to be given away.

When: Sunday, 5-June, 3pm
Where: Noisebridge 2169 Mission St., 3rd floor
What: get our Android phones to play with Arduino (including the Google ADK)
Who: anyone (regardless of skill level) who cares to join in the fun

Please fee free to pass this along to anyone who may be interested.

Mitch.


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Just in case you didn't already know, basketball is way more popular than Broadway.
Game 5 of the NBA Finals last night on ABC drew 14.2 million viewers, according to preliminary Nielsen numbers, reports USA TODAY's Gary Levin. Among the fans watching in Boston (as the Celtics beat the Lakers 92-86 ) were Grey's Anatomy actress Ellen Pompeo and hubby Chris Ivery. Other stars spotted in the crowd: Jimmy Buffett, Glenn Frey, Joe Walsh, Eliza Dushku, Flea, Taraji P. Henson and Glee's Mike O'Malley.
The Tony Awards on CBS pulled in 7 million viewers, which was down from 2009's show, with 7.4 million.
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ITA Northeast Region Rankings
ITA National Doubles Rankings
PHILADELPHIA – Sol Eskenazi was dominant in her rookie season for Penn's women's tennis program, earning multiple honors on a regional and Ivy League level. Her strong play as both a singles and doubles player was also reflected in the recently-released final ITA Rankings for 2012.
A first-team All-Ivy selection in doubles, Eskenazi team with Jules Rodin to post a 10-4 record at No. 1 doubles this season, and earned a national ranking of No. 70 in doubles. The duo went 3-1 in the spring against pairs featured inside the national rankings.
Eskenazi was also atop Penn's ladder in singles during the 2011-12 campaign, earning ITA Northeast Region and Ivy League Rookie of the Year honors. Inside the Northeast Region, Eskenazi's performance earned her a final ranking of No. 4. A first-team All-Ivy selection, Eskenazi also held down the No. 1 singles spot to the tune of a 19-5 record overall, winning nine of her last 11 down the stretch. She won the A flight of her first collegiate tournament, storming to the Columbia Invitational crown and earning a seeded position at the ITA Regional.
Eskenazi and Rodin are part of a young Penn program which is re-establishing its presence on a national level. The Quakers were 7-11 overall this season, and 2-5 inside a very competitive Ivy League. Penn ended the 2012 campaign ranked No. 10 as a team in the Northeast Region by the ITA, with a strong case to move up via a 4-3 win over No. 5 Harvard. The Red and Blue will return six of seven spring season starters for 2012-13, with junior second-team All-Ivy player Stephanie Do also set to lead the Quakers.


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Fusion Science and Technology / Volume 44 / Number 2 / September 2003 / Pages 513-517
Technical Paper / Fusion Energy - Plasma Engineering, Heating, and Current Drive
A compact pellet injection system that was recently developed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been installed on the Madison Symmetric Torus (MST) at the University of Wisconsin and used in initial plasma fueling experiments. The system, referred to as a "pellet injector in a suitcase," is a pipe gun device with a four-barrel capability (presently equipped with two 1.0-mm-bore barrels), and it uses a cryogenic refrigerator for in-situ hydrogen pellet formation (typically, D2 pellets). This new, portable, stand-alone pellet injection system was developed to provide a flexible means of plasma fueling on a wide variety of magnetic confinement devices, with relatively low costs for installation and operation. The injector has already been used to produce useful results with pellets on MST plasmas, including significant and rapid increases (almost 100%) in the line average density, and effectively depositing fuel in the plasma core (central densities of [approximately equal to] 1.4 × 1019 m-3). In this paper, the injection system, its performance, and reliability will be described, and results from some initial MST pellet experiments will be highlighted.


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I've heard a faint buzz over the past few months that Kate Spade will soon launch a new lifestyle brand called Kate Spade Saturday – have you heard this too? Then recently the rumors were confirmed in Elle magazine and it's true –Ohhhh, exciting!
According to Elle, "Kate Spade is bringing a bit of weekend fun to your wardrobe and home decor with its new lifestyle brand, Kate Spade Saturday. The line will first debut in Tokyo in February and then in the U.S. for Spring 2013." This looks like Kate's hip little sister, doesn't it? Very fresh and energetic and BRIGHT! I've read in other spots around the web that the line will priced a bit lower, too. Sounds good to me.
In addition to fashion, they're also planning a home and tabletop collection. I'm really looking forward to seeing it. From the photos I've seen online, the collection is very bold, graphic and mostly primary colors like yellow, red and blue but also tons of monochromatic love mixing crisp white with bold black.
I can't wait to find out more about this collection and to finally SEE with my own eyes what all the fuss is about… What do you think based on what you've seen and heard so far?
Speaking of Kate Spade, have you seen the shoes for Keds they are doing? Super cute and available in February. Also, do you own a copy of their new book, "Things We Love"? It just arrived from Amazon today, I'm in love with it! Check out my Instagram stream to see picks from inside.
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Oher beat like a drum on that 3rd down play. Sigh. Really needed to come out of the locker room with SOMETHING there, so much for that.
Only if our offensive line could run block. Or pass block. Or do anything other than get blown off the ball.
We should play 4 down football the whole half. We got nothing to lose.
Just ugly
Look its a bad game folks We are going to be 5-2 going into the bye so lets not act like the sky is falling. Its a long season and a lot of things change. Suck it up and move on. Got 2 wks to prepare for Cleveland, if we get beat in that game then start to panic.
Shorthanded vrs a very good team in a tough road environment. Yea guys have come up small but on the bright side Sizzle looks decent and its not week 15 ....we got some time to shore things up
Here comes the Arian train......
This is a time for Tyrod to play. There is no need to get Flacco killed in a game like this.


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Brett Tillotson says he won't run against Clark

By Kevin Werner, News Staff

Stoney Creek resident Brett Tillotson is expected to withdraw from the municipal election race against incumbent councillor Brad Clark.

Tillotson, who registered Jan. 8, and announced his political intentions on his Facebook page, stated in an email message to the Stoney Creek News he "won't be continuing with the campaign. I'll be withdrawing from the race soon."

Tillotson grew up on the East Mountain, and graduated from Barton Secondary School. He received his B.A. in the humanities from McMaster University in 2003, completed a master's degree in history at the University of Ottawa in 2004, and moved back to Hamilton to begin his PhD studies over the next five years, which he never completed. He married, and relocated from downtown Hamilton to Stoney Creek in 2012.

"I firmly believe that the most important thing a person can do in a democratic society is to stand up and be counted as a voter," said Tillotson in an earlier email message. "In essence my run for city council is motivated by the desire to more actively participate in the community …"

Tillotson had concerns about the city's infrastructure spending, rising debt, and spending money on a possible casino and light-rail transit system.

"Now is the time to make sure we're spending taxpayers' money responsibility," he said.

So far, Tillotson's name is still registered as a candidate on the city's website.

Clark, who first won election as Ward 9 councillor in 2006, and successfully was re-elected in 2010, has said in an interview he will be seeking re-election for the fall 2014 election. He has yet to register as a candidate.


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Friday, October 1, 2010
Book Review: What Was I Thinking? by Annie Earley
I requested a copy of this book from the publisher after viewing the book trailer. Based upon that and the comic strip type illustrations I found throughout the book, I was thinking this would be a humorous glimpse into one woman's leap into online dating after being married for many years. It wasn't.
What this reader found it to be is something similar to sitting down with your girlfriends at a coffee shop and commiserating over the quirks of the guys you've dated. Not that it's a bad thing, just that in written format I'm not certain it's the best way to approach this topic. Family and friends know you--all of you--which means when you sit down for a "Why me?" type of conversation, that's tempered by all the wonderful characteristics about you that they know and love. Having a pity party with strangers is a different gig altogether; and while I don't get believe this was the author's intention, that's kind of how it came across to me. She spoke of being passionate about writing this book, and I feel her intention was more to share what to be wary of when you enter the online dating world than to say, "poor me". She did, after all, include some tips at the end. Unfortunately, I think this book missed the mark. Even though Earley claims that finding a guy and being attracted to him enough to want to be intimate with him is not being shallow, the lack of humor in the book and how she portrayed all the men in What Was I Thinking? makes her come off as full of herself. I understand what she's saying and I totally agree, but without more humor and a more unbiased glimpse into her dating experiences, the reader is left feeling a bit alienated instead of satisfied.
We've all had horrible dating experiences. Maybe sometimes we were even the horrible date. Told with a heavier dose of humor, I think this book would be a winner. Another book with a similar title, What Was I Thinking?: 58 Bad Boyfriend Stories was written by multiple authors, which also helps to keep the reader from feeling the author is too biased to share her story.
The reviews on Amazon for What Was I Thinking?: How Not to Date have been mixed, so I encourage you to check them out and decide for yourself if this book is right for you.
Title: What Was I Thinking?: How Not to Date
Author: Annie Earley
Publisher: Tribute Books
2 comments:
- A Musing Mother said...
Sheez. All I have to do is dredge up my old single stories from way back when. In a state where you marry young, being single and 26 left me some incredibly entertaining stories to tell.
- The Australian I was engaged to who finally admitted he wasn't "quite" divorced in Australia to his first wife.
- The divorced truck driver who had custody of his three children. His ex-wife loved me and still laments she wishes he'd married me. Uh, I didn't give him the choice.
- The three Russes I dated at the same time without caller I.D. Which Russ called?!
- Hiding my car behind the house when I came home from college so one of my (boy)friends wouldn't know I had come home.
- Back to the Australian - 15 years later he was a cop and shot a guy 11 times after pulling him over for speeding.
- My favorite was my divorced friend (age 27 with two small children) who discovered, after dating a guy for a couple of months, that he was a non-practicing-but-still-intent-to-practice-polygamist. The giveaway was the pictures of his 5 children from two ex-wives. The kids were the same age.
- The many, many well-meaning friends who had the "perfect" guy for me. Read: One of us was a charity case.
- Nice, just-returned from a Mormon mission, Ben, who showed up in a t-shirt with a great big 69 on it. He had no idea.
It was no pity party. It was truly a gathering of stories to laugh about.
- October 1, 2010 at 1:05 PM
- Tribute Books said...
Thanks Cheryl for an honest review.
- October 3, 2010 at 6:21 PM


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Olmert Promises Students: Iran 'Danger Will Be Removed'
In a spirited but brief Nov. 15 speech at the Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told an enthusiastic crowd of 500, including 400 Orthodox Jewish high school students and luminaries, that he will do everything in his power to ensure "the Jewish people will never be exposed again to the kind of dangers and threats that they were exposed to in the past."
In an afternoon address beneath a blazing sun, Olmert reinforced his earlier address to the United Jewish Communities General Assembly that Israel faces implacable enemies who talk of annihilating the Jewish state and wiping the country off the map, including Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. With the Museum of Tolerance as a backdrop, Olmert admonished students from Yeshiva University High School of Los Angeles (YULA) to pay heed to the lessons of the past and take such anti-Semitic threats seriously.
Striking a note of defiance, Olmert seemed to call for the nations of the free world to unite against Iran, which many experts believe is trying to build nuclear weapons.
"I promise you that I and my colleagues in the Israeli government, and hopefully our friends in many other friendly governments, including the leadership of this country, will do what we need to do so that this danger will be removed," he said.
The students greeted the Israeli prime minister like a rock star, jumping to their feet when they first got a glimpse of him behind a phalanx of secret service agents. The rapturous reception seemed to energize Olmert, who smiled broadly at the crowd and delivered his speech with passion.
Security at the event was tight, with up to 300 police officers, U.S. and Israeli security agents on hand. Audience members had to arrive more than an hour before Olmert spoke, and police officers patrolled the Wiesenthal Center's roof. Dogs from the bomb squad sniffed suspicious packages.
During his two-day stay in Southern California, Olmert spoke to an estimated 5,000 delegates at the assembly on Nov. 14 and met privately with Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and other local politicians before his speech to YULA students.
That Israel's prime minister appeared in Los Angeles is heartening, said City Councilman Jack Weiss, who attended Olmert's Museum of Tolerance speech."So many prime ministers would have canceled, but he came," Weiss said.
— Marc Ballon, Senior Writer
Sderot Children's Heartfelt Drawings Come to City Hall
An exhibition of drawings by Israeli children from the Israeli city of Sderot was unveiled at Los Angeles City Hall Monday by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
The children's artworks depict their experience of living in the Israeli city under continual rocket attacks by Palestinian terrorists, and they include one of a rocket about to explode into a breaking heart. The pictures were made over the summer by students at the Science Orthodox School in Sderot, which is located less than a mile from the Palestinian-controlled Gaza Strip. The city has seen an upsurge in attacks since Israel's withdrawal from Gaza last year.During the height of the summer's conflict, Villaraigosa called Sderot's Mayor Eli Moyal to express concern for the city's well-being. Villaraigosa's call to Moyal was interrupted twice by Palestinian rocket attacks.
"My thoughts and prayers go out to Mayor Moyal and the people of Sderot,"Villaraigosa said Nov. 20.
Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles President John Fishel; Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and City Councilman Jack Weiss, among others, attended the opening of the City Hall exhibition. Weiss, whose Fifth Council District includes such heavily Jewish areas as West Los Angeles and parts of the San Fernando Valley, brought the drawings home with him after an August trip to Israel.
"By welcoming this artwork," he said, "the people of Los Angeles are showingtheir support for and solidarity with the people of Israel."
Eastern Europe's Young Leaders Visit Jewish L.A.
The founder and editor of a newspaper in Azerbaijan, a Macedonian attorney, the head of a parliamentary caucus in Kosovo and a Slovenian realtor, along with scholars, activists and political leaders from Romania, Russia, Kyrgyztan, Georgia, Croatia, Moldova, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Germany, Armenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, spent a November morning trailing tours of schoolchildren through the Skirball Cultural Center.
The outing was one of the final activities for the group of 18 political and cultural leaders from the new democracies of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, who visited Los Angeles under the auspices of the American Jewish Committee (AJCommittee) and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation.
This year marks the 14th anniversary of the joint program, Promoting Tolerance in Central and Eastern Europe.
"In 1990, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, we, along with the Naumann Foundation knew we wanted to contribute to the development of new democracies," said Rabbi Andrew Baker, director of International Jewish Affairs for the AJCommittee. "We wanted to identify future leaders in culture, education and politics and show them the types of programs and projects in America for promoting diversity and pluralism."
Since the program began, in 1992, many of its participants have gone on to become foreign ministers, members of parliament and heads of nongovernmental organizations, he said.
Exposure to Jewish life in America is a key part of the program. The group dined in the homes of committee members, attended Shabbat services and met with Jewish leaders throughout the country. This year, for the first time, there was one Jewish participant, from Moscow, but most have little or no knowledge of Judaism.
The program extends far beyond the Jewish community.
"We know that we can't focus on the safety of American Jews in isolation. We need the protection of laws for all minorities," Baker said. "We started out looking at the African-American experience, but now we also look at Asians, women, gays and lesbians, people with disabilities, and the homeless."
As the Skirball tour wound down, Ambassador David Shahnazaryan, co-founder of the Armenian National Party, admited that he would miss the group's next stop while he embarked on his own adventure in media and tolerance. He was about to be picked up, along with his friend Elchin Shikhlinskiy, founder and editor-in-chief of the Ayn" and Zerkalo newspapers of Azerbaijan, so they can speak on an Armenian television show broadcast from Glendale.