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Get an overview of this hotelModern boutique hotel 1 block from UC Berkeley
Popular property highlights
Near Memorial Stadium
This Berkeley boutique hotel is 1 block from the UC Berkeley campus and Telegraph Avenue, lined with shops and cafés. Memorial Stadium, home of the California Golden Bears, is 0.4 mile away.
Sporty gastropub
Henry's, a modern gastropub, offers seasonal food and an extensive selection of beers, California wines, and unique cocktails. Flat-screen TVs broadcast the day's sporting events.
Flat-panel TVs, Wi-Fi
Guestrooms feature large flat-panel TVs, complimentary wireless Internet access, iPhone/iPod docking stations, and designer bath products. Pillowtop mattresses are layered with luxury linens.
Guest Highlights
- Good location
- Onsite bar
- Helpful staff
- Clean guestrooms
- Comfy beds and overall room comfort
- Location was a bit noisy
Graduate Berkeley
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
Occupying a landmark Spanish-Mediterranean building, this recently renovated boutique hotel is within a short walk of the University of California-Berkeley, Telegraph Avenue shops and cafés, and a BART station. Berkeley's famous "Gourmet Ghetto" is about a mile (1.6 kilometers) away.
Henry's, the hotel's sports-themed gastropub, offers a wide selection of microbrews, California wines, and creative cocktails, along with fresh seasonal fare. On game days, the parking lot is cleared of cars and transformed into a beer garden. Other highlights include a 24-hour business center and a computer station. A 24-hour, roundtrip airport shuttle (surcharge) is available on request.
Graduate Berkeley (Formerly Hotel Durant) was completely renovated in January 2015 and is smoke-free.
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Bar/lounge
- Restaurant
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Conference space
- Meeting rooms 3
- 24-hour front desk
- Total number of rooms - 144
- Multilingual staff
- Porter/bellhop
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Elevator/lift
- Number of floors - 6
- Business center
- Wedding services
- Computer station
- Luggage storage
- Number of meeting rooms - 3
- Year Built 1928
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Smoke-free property
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Television in common areas
- Free WiFi
- Use of nearby fitness center (discount)
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Free Wi-Fi
- Refrigerator
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Self parking (surcharge)
Room Amenities
- Premium TV channels
- Premium bedding
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Free newspaper
- Air conditioning
- Ceiling fan
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Phone
- Refrigerator
- Coffee/tea maker
- Designer toiletries
- Private bathroom
- Bathrobes
- Hair dryer
- Bathtub or shower
- Flat-panel TV
- Iron/ironing board
- Desk
- Daily housekeeping
- Free WiFi
- Free wired Internet
- Cable TV service
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- iPod docking station
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Egyptian-cotton sheets
- Pillowtop mattress
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
Where to Eat
Henry's Restaurant & Bar - This popular gastropub serves fresh, seasonal fare for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Chalkboard happy hour specials are featured and sporting events are broadcast on 9 big-screen TVs.
Nearby Things to Do
Graduate Berkeley (Formerly Hotel Durant) is located just 2 blocks from the UC Recreational Sports Facility. Day passes can be purchased.
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Up to 3 children 17 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for USD 20 per night.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets allowed for an extra charge of USD 20 per pet, per night
- 2 per room (up to 99.21 lb)
- Specific rooms only
- Pet-friendly rooms can be requested by contacting the property at the number on the booking confirmation
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Optional extras
- Breakfast fee: between USD 12 and USD 15 per person (approximately)
- Self parking fee: USD 30.00 per night (in/out privileges)
- Pet fee: USD 20 per pet, per night
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 20 per night
Hotel Name
- Durant Berkeley
- Durant Hotel
- Graduate Berkeley Hotel
- Hotel Durant Berkeley
- Durant Hotel Berkeley
- Graduate Berkeley (Formerly Hotel Durant)
We should mention
Up to 3 children 17 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation. This property allows pets in specific rooms only (surcharges apply and can be found in the Fees section). Guests can request one of these rooms by contacting the property directly, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
Awards & Affiliations
- The property is a member of Historic Hotels of America.


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This series is a direct result of the success of the vintage male photography site that I began on Flickr in July 2005. I've been truly amazed at the response these images have generated. While the number of views (over 1.5 million) has been fun to track, it's been more gratifying to see people interact with the past through these photos. I am struck by the comments and dialogues attached to many of the photos, running from the serious to the humorous to the risque. And there are the artists, touched by an image, who have taken photos and made them their own in unique and wonderful ways. Then there are the messages from members telling me how much they appreciate having the chance to experience these photos. Each of these responses has added to my enjoyment of not only collecting these wonderful photos but also sharing them.
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Auburn, Ala. - Tickets for the 7th Annual Polar Express Holiday Celebration are SOLD OUT. A waiting list is available on a first come, first serve basis. Contact the Jan Dempsey Community Arts Center at 501-2963 to add your name to the wait list.
Ticket holders are invited to hop aboard as Auburn Parks and Recreation and the Auburn Arts Association recreate this magical ride to the North Pole on Saturday, Dec. 1 at 10 a.m. or 1 p.m. at Kiesel Park. This annual event features holiday-themed arts & crafts, a visit with Santa and Mrs. Claus, music, children's activities, a performance by the East Alabama Community Ballet, an inflatable provided by Kinnucan's, hot apple cider provided by EarthFare, and much more. Children are encouraged to wear their holiday pajamas and bundle up for both indoor and outdoor activities.
The Polar Express Holiday Celebration is presented by Auburn Parks and Recreation and the Auburn Arts Association and sponsored by East Alabama Community Ballet, HobbyTown Usa, EarthFare, and Kinnucan's. Proceeds from the event go to support Auburn Arts Association programs throughout the year.
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Today, Vince Cable, the business secretary, will address the annual conference of the CBI, the UK business lobby group. In a speech that has been widely leaked ahead of the time, he will talk about the dangers of "corporate short-termism".
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Discussion in 'Stringing Techniques / Stringing Machines' started by Arthuro, Jun 15, 2011.
I am anxious to use it to balance my KBT's. Does anyone have any experience with this machine?
Yes, we have two of them in the shop where I work. Very solid machine, and extremely easy to use and calibrate. You should have lots of fun.
I wish I could afford one. But since I don't string for others yet, I wouldn't be able to amortize its price in the long run.
Hi drakulie,
I do also have on Prince PTC, and its great!!!
I do have one question, when i try to "matched" my raquect I can not seem to do it right.
I take all the measurements ( balance, weight, SW) and with the help of TW University, I get to where are the lead tape at top and bottom.
Then I add them to the raquect, and when I get the SW in the PTC is more than the original result.
I think i´mdoing something wrong.
Can you explain to me the steps you follow (basics) to match a raquect, because it seems I´m doing something wrong.
my email is firstname.lastname@example.com
Carlos, if you add lead tape to the head of the racquet, the SW will always be higher. What you have to do is try to match the lower SW racquet to the higher SW racquet, because you won't be able to decrease the SW.
While doing this, also try to match the static weight and the balance. Then you will have matched racquets.
It actually was a lot cheaper than most claimed it was. I bought one for 1300.00
Was it 1300 brand new?
Sorry to bring up an old thread but where can I get a PTC for 1300$?
There was one at the plaza of tennis.
thanks! Arthuro how often do you use yours? do you think now that you have one you can't live without it?
I personally would not spend over $1300 just to get mass, balance and SW.
Without the stiffness-measuring capability, I see no real use for it.
matching racquets isnt worth it? would you pay for someone to match your racquets?
Well, scales and balance boards can be had for less than $50. Of course, there are also ways of getting around the balance board.
So the only advantage this brings is the easy measurement of swingweights. So you have to decide whether $1300 to $1700 is worth the convenience, since there are far cheaper and even completely free methods of measuring the SW.
Also, if you don't know that the flex is the same, are your racquets truly matched?
Of course, if you own a shop and can write it off, then that would make sense.
I match my own racquets and if I were ultra-serious, I would pay TW to send me racquets with matching flex as priority and then I'll take care of the rest.
yea but tennis is a hobby that I like and I dont mind matching other peoples racquets plus there is no rdc or ptc at any shop within 50 miles of me (bay area)
Have you then considered buying a Babolat RDC machine?
I wonder how much that costs.
those are way too expensive almost 6k
Ouch, I suppose unless you own a tennis shop the flex-measuring function won't be of much use, since there's nothing one can do to alter the flex anyway.
The best way is to have TW send you new racquets of matching flex and then match all other factors.
I went through similar debates about the set up and worth of a Prince PTC. People don't usually know the importance of matching frames or customizing sticks. Instead of spending 50.00 to match or 25.00 to customize they'd rather drop 200.00 on allegedly new technology.
This is just the dogma of the world. Its what keeps giants like TW afloat. So if you get the PTC you might customize two or three racquets or so, but the real pleasure is being able to do so for yourself.
Its 1300.00. I just paid 4000.00 for a Prince 6000. Its my hobby and I stringing brings in a decent flow of extra cash.
If you are serious about wanting to customize your sticks it is by far the cheapest way to go. I enjoy it and wouldn't do it any other way.
Art how much do you charge to match frames? How many people have actually asked you to match frames for them
To match two frames I charge 50.00 and 20.00 every other frame afterwards.
To customize a frame I charge 25.00.
I have customized 3 or 4 frames. Like I said I make more money stringing and doing small custom jobs like leather grips and the such.
At $800 the Alpha Accuswing 2 is cheaper did you check into that?
ahh irvin thanks I emailed alpha just now I didn't know they released the II guess I will check it out
Cheaper, but not as cool-looking as the Prince.
I think Centryx has the money to spend for slightly more viewing pleasure.
And the PTC comes with a year subscription to the USRSA. I think its worth it personally.
When my kids are grown and out of the house I'm leaving the wife and running away with my PTC.
LOL If she has a good lawyer she may get half of it. You may want to sell your axe and chain saw now.
tennis plaza not returning my emails I think they might be out of PTC's anywhere else that would sell me one for $1300? its either that or pay about $800 for a accuswing II. I know $500 bucks for a balance and balance board seems crazy opinions from anyone that has used an accuswing II?
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HOUSTON - The 2012 bank robbery statistics for the Houston metropolitan statistics are in, and the news is not good.
According to the FBI, 160 banks, their customers and employees fell victims to criminals in 2012.
That's a significant increase over 2011's figures, which showed that 78 banks were robbed.
The record number of bank robberies happened in 2010, when 171 were reported.
A FBI source said that 160 robberies isn't a high number, but the 78 in 2011 was quite low.
Why did the numbers go back up? Officials said there are some new serial robbers at work, and they've been racking up the numbers quickly.
Investigators said more banks are also open more often and many of those are in less-secure environments, like grocery stores.
"If you present credible information that someone hijacked a bank or another individual, juries hammer them," said Harris County District Attorney Mike Anderson, who took the oath of office on Monday. "Word gets out and maybe these bank robbers will try to find another profession."
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A QUIZ team made up of New Hall School pupils will be competing for a national title on Friday.
Jonjo McMahon and Jacob O'Ceallaigh, both in Year 8, are joining forces with Year 7 students Aidan Turner-Wallace and Justin Ross for the National Quiz Club Championship at Harrow School in London.
Questions in the final will be on general knowledge with headteacher Katherine Jeffrey saying the boys are looking forward to the day.
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HOUSTON - Harris County deputies have a holiday crime warning this shopping season. Officers are warning shoppers that there is usually a spike in crime during the holidays.
"Crime this time of year steps up -- a lot of property crimes, thefts and vehicle burglaries and stuff like that this time of year," said Capt. Wally Weighat.
Capt. Weighat also said that there are some things people can do that will help stay safe while shopping.
- Keep your purse close to your body
- Be vigilant of your surroundings
- Do not shop while you are alone
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Children's charity Barnardo's is encouraging supporters to 'drop and shop' at a new venture in Warminster.
It has opened a donation centre at Station Road, where people can bring good-quality items before shopping in the store for a bargain. And they can see the sorting bays at the rear and enjoy plenty of parking space.
Barnardo's area business manager David Bates said it was a popular concept already well-received elsewhere.
"There is no need to search for a parking space and then carry everything down the road."
Opening hours are Monday to Saturday from 9am-5pm and Sundays from 10am-4pm. See www.barnardos.org.uk


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On Oct. 24, 2012, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court issued an order respecting amendments to Court Rule 3:07. The order will amend those Rules
of Professional Conduct at Rule 1.5 and at Rule 6.5. This is the second recent amendment
of Rule 1.5; here's the first.
The revised rules have an effective date of Jan. 1, 2013, and
require that fee agreements, with narrow exceptions, be reduced to
writing; or, as the text of the new Rule 1.5 reads: 'the scope of
the representation and the basis or rate of the fee and expenses
for which the client will be responsible shall be communicated to
the client in writing.' This is a significant change from the prior
version of the rule, which required that contingent fee agreements
be in writing, while only evincing a preference that other fee
agreements be committed to writing, also.
There are some further, relevant matters to be aware of:
For more on the rules changes, you can read the Board of Bar
Overseers' announcement here. Bar Counsel Constance Vecchione has
elaborated on the revised rules at this article, accessible via the BBO/Office of
Bar Counsel's ethics articles repository. Among other things,
Vecchione addresses the history of the rule's reformation, expands
upon the importance of acquiring a fully executed fee agreement and
offers some tips for drafting scope provisions and about how to
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BRANDON -- The Dakota Ojibway Police Service and the organizer of an illegal smoke shop in Sioux Valley Dakota Nation appear to be on another collision course.
"Our members will continue to do their job," Dakota Insp. Marc Saindon said.
Last month, the police service executed a search warrant on a property believed to be selling illegal cut-rate cigarettes on the reserve.
The investigation was started after community members complained about the sale of cigarettes and Saindon said during a raid, officers found close to 35,000 illegal cigarettes with a cash value of more than $9,500.
As a result, two women -- Penny Arlene Antoine and Pamela Blacksmith -- face charges under the Manitoba Tobacco Tax Act.
Craig Blacksmith of the Dakota Plains First Nation told the Brandon Sun in February a temporary shop had been set up to sell cigarettes in Sioux Valley. He said Wednesday the shop is about creating economic development, something the chief and council are opposed to. He also accused the council of using the police service like a secret police force.
Saindon said those accusations have no merit.
"We listen to what the chief and council bring forward, but do we work for chief and council? No we don't," Saindon said. "There is a healthy respect and distance between politics and law enforcement."
Blacksmith said the opposition he faces in the community from the chief and police service is out of "ignorance."
He said he believes the provincial tobacco tax laws give him the right to sell the cigarettes. The law states someone can possess one carton of cigarettes, 200 grams of fine-cut tobacco and 50 cigars or cigarillos: "products that are not marked or stamped for sale in Manitoba when they enter Manitoba from another province or from outside Canada."
"And yet the chief and the police service have posters out telling people that they will be charged and they are harassing community members," Blacksmith said.
Blacksmith said the store belongs to the community and each member of the community may own one carton.
Blacksmith was one of the major players in the Dakota Chundee Smoke Shop and Gaming Centre that opened in November 2011 near Pipestone. The shop was subsequently shut down after a series of raids from provincial investigators, but Blacksmith believes they will never set foot in the new store, which he expects to be finished this month. "Because it's on a reserve."
"The government wants us to be good little Indians, but this is about economic development," Blacksmith said. "We're exercising our sovereignty as Dakota people."
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Overnight: Actress Rita Moreno
Updated 2:04 am, Sunday, September 23, 2012
One-woman show: EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony) award-winning actress and singer Rita Moreno showed off her storytelling skills Saturday night and proved she still has smooth singing pipes while performing at a fundraiser for the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center. Moreno spoke about her journey from Puerto Rico to New York City at age 5, and the poverty in which she and her single mother lived until she was discovered and presented at age 16 to Louis B. Mayer, who declared her "the Spanish Elizabeth Taylor" and gave her a contract with MGM.
Even after being in films, there was hardship. Moreno was escorted to a Hollywood party where she was sexually assaulted by multiple men. She said she ran out of the house and the Mexican gardeners working outside saw her and drove her home in their pickup. Shortly after, she began her "romantic sinkhole" relationship with Marlon Brando, which lasted five years and took a few more to recover from.
These stories and more will be in Moreno's memoir, to be published next year.
Breaking into song: Moreno's voice rang clear when she sang in Spanish about the dreams of Puerto Rico that she had while she traveled to the U.S., then of the dreams she had once she arrived. The song everyone hoped to hear was also about America.
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"I guess I should talk about 'West Side Story,'" she joked, then sang a few bars of "America," changing one of the lines to "Oscar for me in America!" She shared a story that actress Liz Torres told her: On the night she won the Oscar, the usually noisy barrio went dead-quiet when Moreno's category was called, and then when she won, the streets were filled with cries of "We did it!" Moreno concluded with a quote that she spoke in Spanish and English, which summed up her experiences so far: "No life is ever hurt by the passion of spirit."


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BATON ROUGE -- LSU Head Basketball Coach Will Wade announced former national junior college player of the year Kavell Bigby-Williams will transfer from the University of Oregon to LSU this fall.
BATON ROUGE A previously announced tournament trip to Maui and the start of home-and-home sets with Houston and Memphis highlight a 12-game non-conference schedule that will start the first year of LSU Basketball under Coach Will Wade.
BATON ROUGE LSU men's basketball head coach Will Wade and the LSU Athletics Department has received the signed letter-of-intent papers from graduate transfer Randy Onwuasor of Southern Utah.
BATON ROUGE The Maravich Center on the LSU campus will be home to the largest center hung videoboard in college basketball when the school completes installation of the new board later this month.
BATON ROUGE Officials of the Maui Jim Maui Invitational announced on Tuesday that the LSU Tigers will face Michigan in their 2017 tournament opening game on Monday, Nov. 20, at the Lahaina Civic Center on the island of Maui in Hawaii.
BATON ROUGE LSU Basketball Coach Will Wade announced on Wednesday that three-year letterman Jalyn Patterson would redshirt for the 2017-18 season and will explore his options for his future playing eligibility.
BATON ROUGE Three former LSU players have seen action in the early NBA summer leagues and two others are expected to see action when play begins Friday in Las Vegas.
BATON ROUGE LSU senior forward Duop Reath has been named to the 12-man team for the Australia Emerging Boomers that will take part in August in the 29th World University Games in Taipei. Both the men's and women's teams consist of players 23 and under who are currently completing university studies in Australia or abroad. The event is held in Taipei from Aug. 20-29. The Boomers roster has five players who are competing in Australia and seven total players including Reath, who are presently playing at American universities: Emmett Naar (St. Mary's), Dejan Vasiljevic (Miami), Tanner Krebs (St. Mary's), Jack McVeigh (Nebraska), Xavier Cooks (Winthrop) and Gorjok Gak (Florida State). Australia is in Group D for the pool stage where they will take on Ukraine, Lithuania, Israel, Russia and Mozambique. Reath, in his first year with LSU last season, averaged 12.0 points per game and 6.2 rebounds a game while shooting 51.0 percent from the field (157-308). He started 30-of-31 games and averaged 27.7 minutes per game.
BATON ROUGE LSU men's basketball coach Will Wade joined the other Southeastern Conference basketball coaches in the annual summer teleconference conducted on Monday by the league. Here are some of Coach Wade's comments to the media on the call:
BATON ROUGE Former LSU star and veteran NBA player Garrett Temple of Baton Rouge has recently been elected to a three-year term as Vice President of the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA).
BATON ROUGE Three-year LSU basketball letterman Elbert Robinson III will step away from the LSU team, but will remain in school at LSU, LSU head men's basketball coach Will Wade announced on Monday.
BATON ROUGE LSU men's basketball Coach Will Wade and LSU Athletics announced on Monday that point guard Tremont Waters has signed Southeastern Conference and institutional paperwork to join the LSU basketball program for the 2017-18 season.
BATON ROUGE The Southeastern Conference announced the opponents both home and away for league schools for the 2017-18 season at the conclusion of the basketball coaches meetings in Destin, Florida.
LSU Sports Insider sits down with new LSU Head Men's Basketball Coach Will Wade. In this in-depth podcast, coach Wade discusses his background, career, the state of the program, and his vision for the future of LSU Tigers hoops. Hosted by the Voice of the Tigers, Chris Blair.
BATON ROUGE One of the stars of the 1940s era of LSU Basketball, Frank Brian, passed away Sunday morning in his hometown of Zachary at the age of 94.
BATON ROUGE John Williams was a prospect everyone wanted.
BATON ROUGE LSU men's basketball head coach Will Wade made it official on Tuesday that Bill Armstrong, who has been a part of the Ole Miss men's basketball staff for the past 11 seasons, will be joining the LSU coaching staff for the 2017-18 season.
BATON ROUGE LSU Coach Will Wade announced that signed papers for Jeremy Combs have been approved allowing him to be eligible to compete upon his graduation from UNT.


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Social Media: Driving Business Transformation
When it comes to transforming your business with social media, Jay Baer, author of the Convince & Convert blog, said companies must do more than be on Facebook.
"Having a Facebook page isn't transforming your business," Baer said. "That's Yellow Pages 2.0. And having a lot of Facebook fans has zero ties to business success. It requires exactly one click of one finger." Amber Naslund, vice president of social media strategies with Radian 6 and co-author with Baer on the book, The Now Revolution: Transforming Your Business with Speed, Smarts & Social Media, agreed.
But you also can't "wing" your social media strategy either, they said. There must be a policy in place. During their keynote address this morning at the Online Marketing Summit, Baer and Naslund pointed to stories of business transformation influenced in part the changes in customer behavior and expectations social media has wrought. Among them: Fairfax, Va.-based ThinkGeek.
Recently, someone posted a question in binary code on ThinkGeek's Facebook wall. Within seven minutes, a company rep responded in like type. Baer said it's that kind of interaction and cultural alignment that makes for ThinkGeek's success.
They are geeks, and they hire for geekiness," he said. "Their first interview question literally is: Star Wars or Star Trek? They have Dungeons and Dragons night. ThinkGeek hires based on cultural fit, and that voice of culture is baked into every employee."
When it comes to social media, Naslund said it's not enough for companies to respond only to positive social media conversations.
"One of the things we fear is that we're going to get into the social media conversation and we're going get a negative complaint," she said. "All information is positive. We as businesses have the ability to sniff out negative issues as they're happening."
The process to address social media conversations must be tactical, they said. Every company must designate teams: coaches, booths, and players. Coaches decide on the overarching social media strategy. They direct and call the plays.
Booths are the folks behind the scenes. These are people in HR, for example, who are impacted by social media so they can make decisions within their part of the business. Players are the front lines people. These include a company's public relations specialists and customer service reps.
In most companies, social media is literally someone's job, Baer said. Soon, it'll be designated a skill, and a company will not only handle problems through social media, but capitalize on its opportunities. Employees must be empowered to join the conversation, he told the group. Enterprise-wide empowerment requires a significant cultural shift.
Finally, listening to social media conversations must never end, the duo said.
"Social media doesn't close at 5," Baer said.
Christine Cube manages media relations for PR Newswire and tweets through @PRNewswire and @PRNAlert.
The Now Revolution has influenced other posts on Beyond PR. See more references on these posts:
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Thanks so much for the excellent summary Christine. Delighted you were there for our OMS keynote. Hope to see you again soon.
Thank you, Jay! : ) It was a great keynote.
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I have a table like this

This is just an example. Actually the table has around 100 columns and over 200 rows. Hence, I tried using various jquery scripts like fixedheadertable, datables, fixedtable and so on. Without jquery the page takes just a few seconds to load. But as soon as I add the jquery script to fix the header and column, the page usually times out (a popup opens which says the script is taking too long to load) or page has become unresponsive and so on.
Is there some script which could do the same thing fast in a few seconds without loading the page too much?
How are you including jQuery in your page?Are you using a CDN?Could you post the exact code?
I know this sounds unrelated, but it could be causing a timeout.
I tried using a CDN as well as local jquery script and the issue occurs in both.
The above code is the exact code its just that it has more columns and has data in it. Like I mentioned it has around 100 columns and over 200 rows.
Also I tried including the jquery in the header  as well as before . The page itself loads very fast but once the jquery script to fix header or column is added the page slows down.Secondly I also noted, that if I fix only the header then it takes around 30-40 seconds to load and loads fine but slow. But if I fix both header and first column then the page becomes unresponsive.
Oh, ok.It's just that sometimes people include jQuery like this (leaving out the http):

and that won't work locally.Shame! That would have been too easy.
It's a bit hard (for me at least) to imagine why this might be so slow based on the code you have posted.I used datatables before and never found it slow at all.Would it be possible to post a link to your page, so I could have a look.
If the table wasn't displayed until after it was reorganised - that would help to speed things up.
But the only way to really tell what is slowing it down is to get metrics from a web browser that loads a test page that can demonstrate the problem. Can you please provide a link to a test page so that we can troubleshoot what's causing the actual problem, and thus arrive at a working solution for you?
Ok let me try setting up a demo page for this purpose. Basically, like I mentioned earlier, when I use datables with fixed header script it works fine, but as soon as I make a fixed header as well as 1 column as fixed, it becomes unresponsive. Same is the case with other scripts that I have mentioned like fixedheadertable & fixedtable. I guess as there are too many columns and rows its slowing things, because I just checked the size of page generated and its 1.5MB as there are close to 200 columns and 200 rows so thats a lot and it loads fast without any jquery but once I add the jquery for fix header it only slows down a bit and loads in around 30 seconds and page doesnot become unresponsive but as soon as I make column fixed, it simply stops loading and after say may be around 3-5 minutes if I say continue waiting the script does complete the action, but time taken is huge.
I doubt that the javascript code will be the direct cause, but it can result in css repaint situations, or dom handling issues, or a variety of other situations.
This is where using timeline and profiling techniques can help to discover precisely what is the cause of the slowdown. There can be a variety of potential solutions, depending on what it is that is resulting in the slowdown.
Ok I have created a short demo over here
This has similar amount of data so if you see once the page loads and the script starts to work its magic - it slows down the page and says unresponsive and popups up js continue or stop script press continue and after that the script would work. But I would not like that the page literally freezes the screen which should not happen.
Any help is appreciated
So, I have been playing with this for a couple of hours now.Unfortunately, like you, every plugin I tried, choked and died when dealing with such a large table.The closest I came to getting it to work, was using the fixedheadertable plugin, which seems to be the most configurable.I tried Paul's suggestion of hiding the table, then using the create event (fired when the table is created) to display it again. This sped things up, but annoyingly, I couldn't get the table to re-render correctly.
BTW, you had a couple of syntax errors in your markup around line 20,017 (for anyone else who might have a look at this).
Sorry I couldn't help more.
Also, it's a known issue: https://github.com/markmalek/Fixed-Header-Table/issues/34
A simple change results in a 5 times speed improvement.
I saved the page and the files that it needs to a local environment, to help reduce bandwidth interference when comparing times.
The timeline on the unchanged page shows that it takes on average 5.1 seconds for the fixed header & columns to take place.Hiding the table beforehand, and then showing it afterwards, improves that to an average of 1.1 seconds.
From 5.1 down to 1.1 seconds, for the fixedHeaderTable function to do its work. That's a pretty fine improvement.
.fixedHeaderTable({ fixedColumns: 1 })
The main cause of that reduction is due to layout and repaint recalculations that the web browser has to do when moving things around to create the the fixed column.
And as a minor improvement, here's a tiny jQuery plugin that I've just put together, that lets you "do stuff" to things while they're hidden.
(function ($) {
$.fn.whileHidden = function (func) {
It then lets your code be more expressive, so that you can write the following:
$('#myTable05').whileHidden(function () {
this.fixedHeaderTable({fixedColumns: 1});
Does anyone have ideas for a better name though, than whileHidden ?
Wow, that's pretty cool, Paul. Nice one!I have no idea what I was doing wrong last night, but a similar approach was resulting in load times of 40 to 50 seconds for me.I had another look at it this morning, when I downloaded the fixedheadertable plugin afresh, copied the OP's original table into the plugin's demo page, applied the changes you suggest and now I get:
6 requests ❘ 180 B transferred ❘ 263 ms (onload: 3.96 s, DOMContentLoaded: 3.97 s)
Not really.
Edit: I just noticed that if I do all of the above, the table at first appears with horizontal and vertical scrollbars (as is correct), but after a couple of seconds, the horizontal scrollbars disappear. Are you getting the same problem?
Thank you Paul @paul_wilkins very much for the solution. Yes it does improve the performance and now the page loads pretty fast.
But as mentioned by @Pullo
I just noticed that if I do all of the above, the table at first appears with horizontal and vertical scrollbars (as is correct), but after a couple of seconds, the horizontal scrollbars disappear. Are you getting the same problem?
I too find that issue only vertical scrolling works. To fix this issue what I have done is made the fht-fixed-body and fht-tbody classes in defaultTheme.css with max-height:350 (as I have outer height as 400px) Now both scroll bars show up fine.
Thanks a ton for helping me out and I shall now implement it on the actual code and see how it performs.
Ok after finally testing across multiple platforms and feedback from people using it I am told that this does not work on IE older versions (mostly IE7/8) not tested on IE6. I too checked and it simply freezes the screen on the older IE versions and at most times we need to force close IE by going in to Task Manager.
Is it related to the script or the amount of data on the page? If so is there a workaround for older browsers?
Ok I think I have found the issue. Will do some more testing, but basically looks like if I use jquery minified it does not work but as soon as I switch to the regular jquery it works fine.


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Always rode my motivator as a thruster. You got yourself a fun board...its fun in big surf too in rhode island. I have trouble not using that board.
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Always rode my motivator as a thruster. You got yourself a fun board...its fun in big surf too in rhode island. I have trouble not using that board.
It depends. If you are used to standard quads, the nubster will make you feel like you're dragging kelp. If you like thrusters, it will make your quad feel more angular and thruster-like.
Big fan of the quad setup for the drive, and I love a skatey feel anyway. I only switch to 3 when its bigger and has punch, in which case I don't need to drive so hard to create speed, so it's not as missed.
I guess the nubster probably isn't for me.
I never had futures before but was bummed when I realized I couldn't use the rear quad fin to try as thruster just to check that out. Why do they have a different box in the trailer like that it really limits you or is it just to make you buy more fins for the trailer individually.
i actually never noticed a different fin box...i think i have all fcs... and yeah man it is a wild board design. the beak nose gets a lot of attention... its really just a beefy rocket pretty much. i ride a 5'10 and im 6'3 210lb so the volume is amazing.
One session and that was my takeaway.
i'm sorry lb,it's just when people compare slater/dane/ci to real shapers/designers,i.e.,MR/Simon.there was a lot of local guys surfing MR twins really bad back then,like slater/dane boards today.simon's boards were the opposite,we could all rip like never before on our first thrusters.i think all designs have flaws,thrusters need to be pumped,quads definitely do track,singles can bog/bury rail,twins lack drive,etc..I like the thread,and just disagreeing because I think I have a valid argument,and disputing is healthy if we're going to improve boards.thanks,dude.


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As writers around here have pointed out, a fair number of people have been looking forward to George Marsden's most recent book The Twilight of the American Enlightenment.
And, the reviews have begun to come in--from Thomas Kidd, Wilfred McClay (paywalled), and Grant Wacker, among others.
When I first got my hands on the book, I wrote up my own, quick review. In the review, I asserted that it would be very useful to read Marsden alongside Molly Worthen.
Chris Lehmann reviewed the two books in a combination article in The Nation. Also, Marsden offered his own take on Worthen in a February 10 piece in Commonweal (also paywalled).
I stand by my claim that these two books would teach well together. They're an obvious pairing for any graduate seminar. I could also see how using them together could produce fascinating results in a class with advanced undergraduates. I'll be trying such an experiment myself next fall, as I'll be assigning Marsden's book for my "American Religious History" class but plan to bring in Worthen's argument as well.
In the commentary I've seen so far--including Lehmann's--reviewers tend to connect Marsden and Worthen on where they overlap topically--on the development of neo-evangelicals and the origins of the Religious Right. Yet, to my mind, the more important connection is on theme, that of religious authority. From whence does religious and then cultural authority arise?
If Worthen questions the intellectual coherence of neo-evangelicals, Marsden points to parallel problems in the liberal consensus and in the 1950s Mainline. Perhaps evangelicals weren't alone in this conundrum.
Thinking about the Tri-Faith America set-up of the 1950s and early 1960s, surely issues of authority were troubling to Reform Judaism, just as they were to Catholics during and in the wake of Vatican II.
Is this, then, a case where the story of the Post-War upheavals--which reverberate to the present--is really an on-going debate about where authority might come from and then be applied?
Thinking about this question leads into the rather large issue in American Religion: by what warrant do people believe and act?
But stepping back--as historians are wont to do--we might say this has been a bedeviling question for belief in America and one that certainly predated the 1950s.
As I have recently been teaching about the 1920s, it's clear that the Fundamentalist/Modernist controversies were rival claims to speak about the world authoritatively. As Barry Hankins makes clear, these debates had important results in the public policy debates, too. That is, debates about authority were also debates about culture, community, and law.
Going back to the 19th century, though, reveals that these debates over authority, although intensified in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, had even longer roots.
Orestes Brownson, of course, tweaked Protestants on the very issue of authority. And, after his many spiritual peregrinations, he adopted Catholicism, specifically because it gave a settled answer to the question of authority.
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At the same time, Antebellum questions about religious authority also did come back to the Bible. As Michael Lee points out in his recent book The Erosion of Biblical Certainty, debates about the character and interpretation of Scripture were roiling both in the late colonial and early republic periods. Lee's book is important, and I'll try to give it more attention in my posting next month.
We've traveled a long ways from Marsden and Worthen, but it strikes me that religious authority remains a contentious matter. It could serve as an organizing principle for understanding how American religion has developed. And, it bids to remain open for debate--even more so now, in an era that increasingly eschews any external authorities.


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Vey handy to city and train/bus depots easy to get to. None
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Welcome to Wednesday's The Crap We Missed that looks to get serious pretty quickly thanks to Terrence Howard's leather ho-slappers and Colin Farrell's badass bun, and yes, those words happened. Anyway, we've also got dedicated father and role model Carey Hart, as well as this Kendra Wilkinson pic that would be cameltoe if she was Taylor Swift, and finally, LeAnn Rimes enjoying one of her delicious air burgers.
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by Martin Rehfeld, senior Rails engineer and web services advisor at GL Networks, Germany
Amazon SimpleDB is a web service for storing, maintaining, and querying structured data sets in real time. All data is stored in Amazon's web service cloud, making SimpleDB very reliable, scalable, and flexible.
After reading this article, Rails developers will be able to quickly integrate SimpleDB as a storage backend for their projects.
For more information about Amazon SimpleDB, visit the Amazon SimpleDB page on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) site.
Why Rails?
The Rails web application framework, apart from generally being a wonderful tool, offers out-of-the-box support for web service-based data stores with its ActiveResource sub-framework. Only a very thin adapter layer is necessary to bridge the ActiveResource API to SimpleDB. Rails gives you the unique opportunity to utilize SimpleDB just as any other RESTful resource provided by a Rails application.
This article assumes a basic understanding of SimpleDB and Rails and is based on Rails 2.0.2 (the latest shipping version). If you want to dive into Rails, see the Resources section at the end of this article.
Behind The Scenes
For this tutorial, we are going to use a Rails Plugin called AWS SDB Proxy acting as an adapter layer.
AWS SDB Proxy is an HTTP server built with WEBrick (a pure Ruby web server implementation that comes with Ruby's standard library). The proxy will listen for web service calls initiated by ActiveResource models and forward the requests to SimpleDB using the aws-sdb gem by Tim Dysinger.
URL mapping
ActiveResource uses the standard Rails RESTful routes to access web services. The following table illustrates the mapping of Rails' HTTP actions and URIs to SimpleDB operations performed by AWS SDB Proxy:
|GET /domain/resource?attribute=value[&...]
|QUERY by exact attribute values
|GET /domain/resource/query?query_string
|QUERY by SimpleDB query string
|GET /domain/resource/itemID
|POST /domain/resource/itemID
|PUT ATTRIBUTES (create item)
|PUT /domain/resource/itemID
|PUT ATTRIBUTES (replace)
|DELETE /domain/resource/itemID
|DELETE ATTRIBUTES (delete item)
Special Attributes
AWS SDB Proxy handles a couple of special attributes transparently. Here is the complete list:
id: Every record automatically gets assigned a unique
idusing a hash function (see below)
_resource: This attribute will always hold the name of the Rails model the item belongs to. This way AWS SDB Proxy can story multiple Rails models within one SimpleDB domain
created_at: The time the item was initially was created at (ISO 8601 format)
updated_at: The time the item was last modified (ISO 8601 format)
ID Hashing
ids are generated using a SHA512 hash function on the request body combined with a timestamp and a configurable salt (
config/aws_sdb_proxy.yml). This huge 512 bit hash will make key collisions extremely unlikely.
Pros & Cons
Over at RubyForge, a couple of work-in-progress projects aim at providing an ActiveRecord adapter to SimpleDB. In theory that would enable SimpleDB to become a drop-in replacement for a regular SQL RDBMS in any Rails project. Then again, a lot of jumping through hoops would have to go on to make that happen. SimpleDB just is no RDBMS and is targeted towards completely different usage patterns.
ActiveResource on the other was made exactly with data intergration of remote web services in mind. Despite its somewhat limited feature set compared to ActiveRecord, I like the idea to persue this straight-forward approach.
Getting Up and Running
To set up Amazon SimpleDB for Rails, follow these steps (I assume, you already created a Rails project and have your command line pointed to its directory):
- Sign up for Amazon SimpleDB services on your AWS account
- Install the aws-sdb Ruby Gem providing a basic Ruby API for SimpleDB:
gem install aws-sdb
- Install the AWS SDB Proxy Plugin for Rails:
script/plugin install http://rug-b.rubyforge.org/svn/aws_sdb_proxy
- Enter your Amazon Web Service credentials in the
config/aws_sdb_proxy.ymlfile (optionally configure server ports and an individual salt used to generate primary keys with a hash function). Do this at least for the development environment.
- Either use an existing SimpleDB domain in your account (you can list your domains with
rake aws_sdb:list_domains), or create a new one with
rake aws_sdb:create_domain DOMAIN=my_new_domain
- Start the AWS SDB Proxy server:
rake aws_sdb:start_proxy_in_foregroundproving debug output on stdout (once you are confident with the configuration you can use
rake aws_sdb:start_proxyto start the server as a background daemon)
Using ActiveResource
To make a Rails model access SimpleDB, it must inherit from
ActiveResource::Base. For the following examples we will use a
Post model that could represent blog posts and thus create the following
models/post.rb file:
class Post < ActiveResource::Base self.site = "http://localhost:8888" # Proxy host + port self.prefix = "/my_new_domain/" # SDB domain end
It assumes that you run your AWS SDB Proxy on localhost at port 8888 and uses a SimpleDB domain named
my_new_domain (adjust this according to the configuration you entered in
Let's fire up
script/console and give it a spin.
Creating Records
>> p = Post.create(:title => 'My first SimpleDB post') => #<Post:0x198ceec @prefix_options={}, @attributes={"updated_at"=> Sun Jan 20 00:42:43 UTC 2008, "title"=>"My first SimpleDB post", "id"=>1081408...01005954, "created_at"=>Sun Jan 20 00:42:43 UTC 2008}>
As you can see, a new
Post object gets created as usual. The AWS SDB Proxy auto-assigns an
id and the additional attributes
created_at and
updated_at mimicking Rails' standard behaviour.
Please note, that we could have assigned any attributes we wanted to that
Post; SimpleDB does not enforce a schema and thus the proxy will happily accept any attributes we throw at it.
Note: Remember that all attributes will be coerced into strings for storage in SimpleDB. No matter what your original data type was, you will always get back a string representation of it when fetching records from SimpleDB.
Updating Records
Let's assign another attribute to the
Post and save it to trigger an update operation:
>> p.body = 'Content is king' => "Content is king" >> p.save => true
If you started AWS SDB Proxy in foreground, you can see it forward the save operation to SimpleDB.
Finding Records
ActiveResource offers a couple of ways to query for records:
# Find by record id >> Post.find(p.id) => #<Post:0x18efef8 @prefix_options={}, @attributes={"updated_at"=> Sun Jan 20 00:45:28 UTC 2008, "title"=>"My first SimpleDB post", "body"=>"Content is king", "id"=>1081408...01005954, "created_at"=> Sun Jan 20 00:42:43 UTC 2008}> # Find by attribute value(s) >> Post.find(:first, :params => { :title => 'My first SimpleDB post' }) => #<Post:0x18efef8 @prefix_options={}, @attributes={"updated_at"=> Sun Jan 20 00:45:28 UTC 2008, "title"=>"My first SimpleDB post", "body"=>"Content is king", "id"=>1081408...01005954, "created_at"=> Sun Jan 20 00:42:43 UTC 2008}>
The first form queries for a single
Post with a given
id, whereas the second form queries for records with exact matches on every given attribute (
:first tells the
find method to return only the first of those).
SimpleDB offers more sophisticated query operations than ActiveResource, including lexicographical comparisons, intersection and union. You can pass in native SimpleDB query syntax using this form of
# Find by SimpleDB Query >> Post.find(:all, :from => :query, :params => "['title' starts-with 'My']") => #<Post:0x18efef8 @prefix_options={}, @attributes={"updated_at"=> Sun Jan 20 00:45:28 UTC 2008, "title"=>"My first SimpleDB post", "body"=>"Content is king", "id"=>1081408...01005954, "created_at"=> Sun Jan 20 00:42:43 UTC 2008}>
Deleting Records
To complete the life-cycle of our
Post, we can finally delete it from SimpleDB:
>> p.destroy => true
- Ruby on Rails
- Amazon SimpleDB (Amazon SDB)
- Aws-sdb Gem at RubyForge
- AWS SDB Proxy Plugin for Ruby on Rails
- Inside GL Networks, the authors tech blog: resources on AWS SDB Proxy
Martin Rehfeld is passionate about Ruby on Rails. He has published several Rails plugins and regularly gives talks at Rails related events. If you like Martin's work, consider recommending him on Working With Rails.


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