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Great Moments in Facebook History: February 12th, 2014
Here are the BEST Great Moments in Facebook History for today, Wednesday, February 12th, 2014:
- "RIP Shirley Temple, inventor of the most popular Bar Mitzvah drink" – Eli Roth
- I'm not judgmental, so when I see a person driving slow in the fast lane, I never assume what gender she is.
- I named my wifi "Free Wifi" once , And the password was "BitchPlease !" , It became such a successful internal joke!
- I wonder if the Three Wise Men said to Jesus, "Just to be clear, these gifts are for your birthday AND Christmas."
- I don't know what's longer, a treadmill minute or a microwave minute.
- Don't worry I won't tell anyone. And if I do, I'll tell them not to tell anyone.
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First, for those who missed it and were wondering about re-broadcast: If you live in Canada, every TAR episode is repeated on the following Sunday on the Outdoor Life Network ( I think at 8 pm ).
Mommymack: Are you Adam's mother? No, I totally agree. Rebecca is a drama queen. She complains about Adam's behaviour and all their fights but I don't think she could have a "normal" (ie calm and stable) relationship - she thrives on the drama. And it was stupid of her to tell K & J about the flight. After Adam had taken the initiative and gotten his team a better flight, she basically undermined his actions by getting K & J on the flight too. Seems she can't handle it when Adam tries to do things on his own steam - see also last week where she refused to let him make airplane reservations etc. She's quite the bossy boots.Originally Posted by mommymack
Jonathan & Victoria being gone? Did anyone notice that his blue hair had turned silver? That's because they give blue ribbons to the winning team! Bye bye Loser John! And take your whiny, hysterical wife with you.
Kendra - actions speak louder than words, true, but that doesn't mean words are unimportant. I still don't like her, for all the reasons mentioned by others above. My co-viewer noted that Kendra was yelling at Jonathan to go help Victoria when she was injured and yet Freddy didn't stop and help Kendra when she was hyperventilating. Hmmm...
Overall, a great episode. With a truly fabulous ending!!

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Remember a couple of posts back I mentioned a project I was working on for a giveaway? Well here it is...
But wait, before I show you let me tell you why I decided to have this giveaway.
Back in October I did a count down to Halloween. (To see click here.) It got such a sweet response that I thought it would be fun to do the same this month with a 12 Days Before Christmas Countdown... Plus to make it a little more fun I thought I'd turn it into a giveaway too. It's my way of saying "Thank you for making my days brighter year-a-round with your sweet comments and friendships." Anyway, to help me with my countdown/giveaway I have invited a special little someone.
The giveaway will begin on December 13th and will go through December 24th. I will be sharing more details about the giveaway then. Hope to see you all.
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A few days after the report of actress Oh Yeon Seo and Lee Jang Woo being involved with one another, 'We Got Married' has made their official decision regarding what to do with the Oh Yeon Seo and Lee Joon couple of the show.
The production staff of the show revealed, "After the report of the relationship scandal between Oh Yeon Seo and Lee Jang Woo, the production team met with Oh Yeon Seo and confirmed whether it was true."
According to the staff, Oh Yeon Seo is said to have told them "Lee Jang Woo and [I] are just close sunbae-hoobae and we have no romantic feelings for each other at all, and the relationship scandal is not true at all."
They continued, "From what we have found, the relationship scandal is not true. Therefore, Lee Joon-Oh Yeon Seo couple will not be leaving the show and will continue with broadcast and filming as normal."
This comes after the varying statements released by Oh Yeon Seo's representatives and the official press release statement that had stated, "They've only spent time with each other about 2~3 times with acquaintances present, so we can't say they're officially in a relationship."
What do you make of all this?
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|2010-01-16, 11:37
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LOL!! She was forced to close her website cause lots of otaku started posting negative comments when it was shown that Shou had a hickey and implied that she had sex with her new bf. And you're using THAT example to try and prove your point about what's wrong with the manga?? Did you rage over Nagi-chan being used as well?
I already said I think Utsumi is a normal guy because he doesn't usually go out of his way to help anyone. You think he's a good guy because he's done nothing bad, which I disagree with because imo to be a good guy, you have to prove yourself to be good and not just non-bad. I'm sorry, this is not me not knowing what a good guy is. This is you not getting it. I'll put it in easier terms. A good guy would be like getting an A. A bad boy would be like a C. Just because you're not a C doesn't mean you're an A. It just means you could be B unless proven otherwise. Your example is like saying if someone's not a moron, he MUST be a genius. So unless you can prove that a) Utsumi does consistently go out of his way to help others , I'm going to stick with my opinion that Utsumi is just a normal guy.
And no one ever said you said a good guy was a sure shot to get a female. You claimed the opposite actually, that good guys don't seem to get the females. Plus Yuki obviously knows what she's talking about because it was WITH her coaching that Utsumi even managed to attract Shou's attention in the first place.
|2010-01-16, 13:28
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They have more importance than you or I, sadly.
Something is wrong with the story, but in this case it is more wrong with the choice of the place the story is placed on. But again - mangaka is either a retard, naive or very courageous for doing what she did with the story. But because she closed her site proves that we probably should take the courages part from here. Or else she would have kept the site rolling and stick with her truth rather than escaping the direct touch with fans by closing the site (it was not hacked and not really flooded as badly as some like to make it sound, it's more overreaction from the author herself).
In same cases controversy works for the creation (Evangelion for example) but it does not happen all that often, and considering that the author seems to crumble from the harsh criticism it doesn't seem to be the case here. The personality of the maker does not seem to be strong enough to pull benefit from it. I may be wrong though.
Thats the only material we have to judge, so stop sticking your pointless outer-personal arguments because they simply do not work as this manga does not shed any light in this matter. So we both can be wrong or right, but the fact is we cannot place any truth on this relationship and we have to base on inner-personal relationship on him being a good or normal guy.
I claim that he is a good guy - not a good guy would have started arguing with Shou specially because he learned about the thing not from her (as she was trying to mask it) maybe even punching her boyfriend.
But he does step aside and tries to act with Shou friendly (I think normal guy would not do that straight away as he did).
You say it is a features of a normal guy, ok, but then you have to say how the good guy would have acted if you can make such distinguish normal and good.
Yet you fail pretty terribly to explain why you can make such judgment except for repeating same old - he does not go to help others - but how do you you know he does not? The manga never tells us about anything other than his love life (or failures of it) thats why you cannot hold it as judging value at all.
He needs to be that better guy for whom the girls dish their temporary substitutes like current Utsu and Yuki does not seem to teach that.
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|2010-01-16, 13:49
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The only thing the attack proves is that people are selfish, assholes. Not liking the story is fine, but harassing the author because the story doesn't fit your ideal conventions that you use as an escapism from your own pathetic life is wrong. There are no two ways about that. It's wrong.
If they didn't like the story they could have just said that, but no. They were harassing her to the point that she had to the close down the site just to get away from it.
Also, when there's little to no evidence, you should assume something or someone is average before assuming they're special.
|2010-01-16, 14:02
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And yeah - such fan behavior is nothing to be proud of, but because such thing happens it means that the manga does something to provoke them. There are never smokes without a fire you know. And this fire is what is wrong with this manga (though the majority of this wrong is because of the badly chosen magazine as it seems).
Thats why I am asking for you to prove the good guy acts difference from Utsu in the given situations.
|2010-01-16, 14:55
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Guys, maybe you should use "nice guy" and "a player" distinction instead of "good guy"/ "bad guy". GE protagonist is IMO a typical "nice guy", ideal for a friend (from womens point of view), but not for a lover. Most of womens prefers "players" not only in manga (except shounens and harems) but in real life too. "Nice guy" is in most cases a "good guy" or "normal guy", but I've meet in my life a few "nice guys" being truly evil. "Players" are in many cases an "evil" (manipulators and egoists), but a lots of normal guys or even good one, are pretending to be a "player" just to win love of their chosen girl. If Utsumi wants a girl, he should pretend to be a "player".
|2010-01-16, 16:26
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And yeah GE hero is a typical nice guy, a good friend, but not someone women think as lover, thats why I am saying that Yuki's teachings doesn't seem to do much good for him, since it is all making the typical nice guy more that is a friend, whom you want to take for a cup of coffee, but not someone as lover whom you want to share your bed with.
If Utsu will follow Yuki's guiding the best he will get will be few one-night stand accidents because the girls need to mend their hurt heart after broken relationships, before they move on for some better guys as lover leaving Utsu to look after their kids or something.
|2010-01-16, 16:48
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|2010-01-16, 17:19
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Also do not forget he is getting crapped on without breaks, you know it works really well to reform ones character very quickly, heck it works really well to go for suicides way too as statistics show.
So I am not sure how much your talks about gradual progression are worth in this context because the gradual crapping is a sure good way for various unexpected developments from simple violence burst to much more complex character transformations.
If he would be having a normal life - then yeah you are right, it would be senseless to think of any sudden changes but in current setting with all that stress, I don't think your talks about gradual character development make much sense.
|2010-01-16, 18:01
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Why can't a mangaka do what it pleases with its work? We're not even talking about a drastic change in a long-running series, but about details allowing the plot and characters to progress in its early stages, for Christ' sake.
What's this crap about "smooth sailing" and "pleasing its full audience"? Who are you to say that a manga which only begun should go this way because that manga did it?
I'm actually relieved that what I expected to be a generic shônen/harem manga is willing to display such details and distance itself from other works.
And we're talking about a high-school girl possibly having sex with her b/f and another one who got tricked by the guy she loved (supposedly, we don't know the details yet), which ARE interesting themes. If those otakus don't like it, well too bad. I bet they hated Bitter Virgin too (probably the most surprising read I had last year).
|2010-01-16, 18:12
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I still don't think he's been getting "crapped on without breaks". Again, the only thing that happened to him that was horrible was Shou going out with her sempai. Everything else, including him thinking Yuki had feelings for him and his grades are entirely his fault. Saying that's "getting crapped on" is like me saying I got crapped on because i went to a job interview and failed because I was looking like a bum.
He's hitting a few bumps right now, but his life is FAR from "stressful". Stressful is getting bullied at school and beaten up at home. Again only the Shou incident has been really tearing him up right now. That's it. His being friend-zoned by Yuki? He understands he misunderstood her intentions, shed a tear or two, and has moved on. His grades? Not that big of a deal. It might even be normal for him to get those kinds of grades. Simply looking at his expressions and demeanor, he's like "geh, this sucks", but nothing along the lines of it being stressful like "I can't do anything right, i'm worthless!". Now when you hear those words, THEN he's hit rock bottom, and I don't think that moment has come yet, if it will ever come. Until then, he's going to slowly improve himself a little bit at a time. If you can't see this, then you will always be asking why he acts like he does.
|2010-01-16, 18:59
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You say its new?
There are plenty of seinen doing similar stuff like this, it is only new because it is a seinen in a shounen magazine feeding off a shounen auditory. Thats why its new and has such the reaction, but it is hardly innovative by itself.
Its like coming to sing Manchester United songs in Chelsea bar. You are asking for trouble. Yes it is original because in Chelsea bar they always sing Chelsea songs and they are repetitive as hell, but this sort of originality is hardly all that great. It causes a lot of confrontation and the author is not Anno who loves confrontations and lives off it, she seems to be escaping those, but then why she created such confrontation to begin with.
Why she went to blues bar with Red-Devils attributes? If you go there you are asking for trouble, I don't think she was this naive to not know most simple things specially when we had Kannagi stuff going raging over smaller stuff.
The author can make whenever she likes but she always has to be prepared for the reaction specially if her creations seems to create confrontation by itself.
Maybe because it was not in WSJ she thought it was safe as it aimed for older audience but obviously it was not, as even older audience want their shounen dream fix rather than seinen realism.
frubam, he sort of blow ups with Yuki (with yuki it was more like a loud complaining/whining) and with Risa and that does look like its only beginning so it is definitely a stressful life here or else he would not start shouting around like that.
|2010-01-17, 05:19
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I never said it was "new" perse. But that it was nice to see a little (reeeeeeeally little!) bit of what might reality be like in a harem manga. It doesn't change the fact that it's a shônen manga. What kind of people are crying and attacking people over the fact that a story isn't as stupid and generic as others?
I'm still persuaded you and the people shitting on the author website are totally over-blowing this.
The manga is still a harem and those details just showed us that the life of all those high school girls didn't revolve about the dumb protagonist. Which is a good thing.
|2010-01-17, 05:48
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Yes it is more stupid, has less depth etc. but some people just like those re-used slapstic comedies rather than the award winning tragedies...
This manga is still a harem?
I dont think you could make more ridiculous and unsupported statement than this. Just because it shows girls it is not a harem. Heck then all shows that show more than two females would be a harem for you.
Anyway a note for the future, just because I can see the reason for their dissatisfaction instead of blindly screaming how shitty they are right away, does not mean I am supporting the harassing of the author.
I just see the reason why they would be dissatisfied and see no problem in that. What I see the problem is going as far as to leash personal attacks on the mangaka (though that sounds bit too harsh, because comparing to Kannagi and Evangelion, this 'personal attack' looks like a children play really).
|2010-01-17, 06:29
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|2010-01-17, 08:06
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Really, GE is not a harem or else you would have to call harems and reversed harems the majority of the manga's released.
Call the shows that are really harems like Love Hina this way, but GE is not a harem so far, just because there are girls he interacts with does not mean it is a harem.
|2010-01-17, 08:34
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lol, how could ANYONE think this is a harem? The girls don't even crowd around the main char like a harem. Plus most harem anime/manga girls like the main char "in that way" for one reason or another, which in GE's case, no one sees Utsumi nowhere past a "friend".
|2010-01-17, 09:11
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Well this manga never billed itself as a harem. It was always a ecchi romance manga. The author certainly never tried to pass it off as a harem and I doubt it will turn into one as it seems that there are only two real competitors and even then it looks like in fact it might just come down to Yuki in the end.
I still don't see why this issue of it "needing" to be a seinen is still being whined about. This for the most part has done a great job dealing with things that might people face as a teenagers. It so far hasn't gone into explicit details into any of them. They're side issues so far. Not every girl you met is going to be some perfect saint and you're most likely not going to pop out the vagina as a Casanova who attracts girls with no effort at all or have life easy. So far the main characters problems are not anything outlandish. We all have females and job problems in high school and beyond!
While some might be turned off by this, the actual strength of the manga, in my opinion, relies on it. No manga will ever be able to please everyone nor should it try to. It carves out it on fanbase and appeals to them. This is certainly trying to be a lot more realistic than the normal shounen without the explicit details you'd expect in a seinen. I applaud her for doing it.
|2010-01-17, 10:54
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It is in a way original, but not all people like such 'original' surprises. When they come to see slapstick comedy they want the slapstick comedy, rather than noble prizes awarded drama or horror instead.
I think it has enough details to be counted as seinen.
|2010-01-17, 11:20
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And not a lot of people like cliches shoved down there throat ever time and do like original ideas. Once again you can't please everyone! I don't where this show ever billed itself to be pure slapstick comedy either. It certainly has comedy maybe not to "your" taste but it does have it mixed in with a lot other genres.
I think it fits fine into shonen. Its targeted towards teenage, especially virgins and people going through their first relationship. It might be a bit more realistic but I don't believe the shounen "demographic" has a restriction on realism. All that is required is that it is being aimed towards that age group which it certainly is. Most of the flack is probably coming from otaku who are in fact not even in that age group anymore so I don't see the problem with it being shounen at all. Just some people need to grow up.
|2010-01-17, 11:30
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really, I think its stupid to try to negate everything this manga is because of a simple label. You read it, and either you like the story or don't like the story. To say that a story is bad or good because it's generally named one label when its actually another shows how close-minded you(not referring to you specifically) are. I might go into a grocery store and buy something that says "Apple Juice", but even if its actually orange juice, I'm not gonna say "its bad" just because the label is different. If the actual contents of the product is bad, i'd be pissed off[even if the label was correct, mind you], but if it is good, i could care less. I feel that regardless of what its called, even if it was called a shoujo story, the quality is good enough for me to enjoy. Now if people read the story, and didn't like its contents, then that's fine, but all this talk of "its shounen, the story's not right" is just plain stupid.
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At the stroke of midnight on New Year's day, Google Health, the personal health record data aggregation service for consumers, will shut down for good.
Google first made the announcement quietly, in a blog post last June. But the closure of Google Health next month is also an important inflection point for public cloud-based services.
Google Health's failure shows that there are limits to how far users are willing to go in allowing access to personal information in exchange for free services. Will other initiatives soon follow?
Google's goal was "to create a service that would give people access to their personal health and wellness information," all in one place. It did not provide federated access to the data, but physically moved the data to its servers. It wanted to "translate our successful consumer-centered approach from other domains to healthcare and have a real impact on the day-to-day health experiences of millions of our users," according to Google's blog post.
Google anonymized, or "de-identified" users' personal health data for purposes of data mining and publishing trends, most famously the trending information on influenza outbreaks. But its privacy policy precluded sharing of personally identifying information, and even de-identified information, with third parties.
Google also did not sell general advertising in Google Health or targeted advertising based on health information stored in users' profiles. Its privacy policy states: "We do not sell user health information, and we do not share it with other individuals or services unless a user explicitly authorizes us to do so, or in the limited circumstances described in our privacy policy."
Despite this, Google Health never took off. In the end, I believe that Google was unable to allay privacy fears for the data consumers were entrusting to it. The problem can be summed up in one sentence on Google's privacy pages: "Unlike a doctor or health plan, Google Health is not regulated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), a federal law that establishes data confidentiality standards for patient health information."
The idea that users would be willing to transfer personal health record data from health care providers, where data privacy is protected by federal HIPAA regulations, to Google servers, where protections are less stringent, was flawed from the start.
Google tried to provide similar privacy assurances to users in its own privacy policy, and notes that consumers could pursue penalties if Google did not adhere to that policy.
Google argues in its privacy policy that "Under Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act, the FTC enforces privacy protections in the Google Health privacy policy through civil and criminal penalties. State attorneys general and district attorneys have similar authority under general consumer protection laws."
But users of the service were still playing by Google's rules. To use the service consumers had to move their data out from HIPAA-regulated health provider databases, and trust that Google would not change its privacy policies.
While there is an unmet need for an aggregated view of all personal health records, both for consumers and for medical professionals, Google Health was not the solution.
R.I.P., Google Health.
Note: My original post stated that Google had provided advertising on Google Health, which is incorrect. The post has been substantially revised to address this error and to clarify its privacy policy.


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This article was published 24/9/2013 (1428 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Sensei Kim Marshall was part of a worthwhile exchange program this summer.
Marshall is the chief instructor of the Meibukan Gojyu Karate Winnipeg Dojo (2577 Portage Ave.), teaching Winnipeggers martial arts. But this summer, he also taught four pupils from Keyes, Calif.
Marshall and his friend and fellow karate instructor Edward Persike put together the exchange program. Persike, sensei at the Meibukan studio in Keyes, sent four students, aged 11, 12, 14, and 15, to Marshall's dojo. The four students stayed with families that attend Marshall's studio.
"I thought I would make a difference and I conned my dear friend Kim into doing it," Persike laughed.
In all seriousness, Persike and Marshall created the exchange program to provide a fun and meaningful experience for youth in Keyes.
Persike's karate school is located in a poor community. Forty per cent of students don't graduate from high school, and the unemployment rate is 50%.
"So I thought, what a great experience if these kids could participate in a foreign exchange student program. I talked to Kim Marshall and said, 'This is what I want to do: I want to bring a few children to Canada, but I need for you to find them families to take them in and take care of them,'" Persike said.
Persike gathered the money necessary to send the four students to Winnipeg by fundraising and asking his clients for money. Not only was Persike able to pay for their plane tickets, but he also sent them to Winnipeg in uniform.
"They really came to Canada (looking like) a team," Marshall said.
The children spent a total of 10 days in Winnipeg, training at Marshall's dojo for seven of those days and camping at St. Malo Provincial Park with the rest of the students.
When the children returned to Keyes, their parents and families noticed drastic changes in their personalities.
"Each of the parents said, 'My child is different,'" Persike said. "They said they're more intense. They can't wait for school to start. They want to go to college."
One of the students even wanted to permanently move to Canada.
"The weather in mid-July is wonderful, so they wanted to immigrate. Guys, winter ends in June and probably starts in late September," Persike chuckled.
This is the first exchange to happen between the Winnipeg and Keyes studios, but the senseis have already started talking about next year's exchange. One of the things they plan on changing is increasing the number of students travelling to Winnipeg for the program.
For more information about the Meibukan Gojyu Karate Winnipeg Dojo, visit gojuwinnipeg.com
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Sources for TMZ informed that the singer has signed on to join the cast of the upcoming season of ABC's "Dancing with the Stars," but the show's execs won't comment on casting rumors.
Quitting her scheduled Las Vegas gig due to heart complications, Toni Braxton allegedly has other duty in the pipeline. The recording artist reportedly is joining the contestants of "Dancing with the Stars."
TMZ broke the news, claiming to have been informed by its spies that Toni has signed on to participate in the next season of "Dancing with the Stars." A representative for the ABC's show won't comment on casting rumors though.
Toni, who catapulted to fame with her song "Unbreak My Heart," most recently starred in a Las Vegas show, "Toni Braxton: Revealed", at the Flamingo hotel. She canceled the show following a hospitalization on April 7 after complaining of chest pains.
The cause of the chest pains remained unknown. Yet it's been revealed that Toni once was diagnosed with a heart condition called pericarditis, which is an inflammation of the lining of the heart. She reportedly found out that she suffered from the disease back in 2003 after the birth of her son Diezel. Since then she's been named a spokeswoman for the American Heart Association.


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The School of Architecture at the University of Florida has begun the search for two new faculty members. Out of over 100 applicants, the choices have been narrowed down to eight individuals. Over the course of the next couple of weeks, each will visit the school, tour the studios and seminars, participate in critiques, be interviewed by both students and faculty, and deliver a presentation about the work in which they have been engaged and deliver their personal design philosophy.
The third of these presentations was delivered by John Neary. He graduated from Vassar College with a Bachelor of Arts in 1981, and received his M. Arch. from Rice University in 1986. His professional experiences spans over 20 years. He has worked for Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, SOM New York, Hillier, Arup and Perkins Eastman Architects. He is a registered architect in New York and Connecticut, is NCARB and LEED AP certified, and is a member of the AIA. Neary's teaching experience was as an Assistant Professor at Washington State University for two years. Here, he taught a 3rd year design studio and served as the 3rd year studio coordinator, as well as established the syllabus for a required graduate class on Ethics and Practice and organized a design-build studio for a U.S. Forest Service shelter prototype. His current research interests include Aesthetics and Technology of Exposed Structure, and Enclosure Systems and Structural Cladding.
In his lecture, John Neary presented a large body of work that extended from the more recent Air Force Memorial in Arlington, back to the Louvre Pyramid he worked on fresh out of school. He has worked almost exclusively on large-scale projects, and intermittently on significant works. Over this time spent as an architectural practitioner, Neary has acquired an expertise in the art of construction, and though his knowledge permeates the entire industry, his specific base lies at the perimeter of the work. In this way, he has been involved as a cladding consultant on many more projects and his effort can be seen on the Northern edge of the Boston Federal Courthouse.
Within the realm of this skill set, Neary had identified the curtain wall as a metaphor and manifestation of an observable disjoint within the industry of building; to make a building stand and to make a building beautiful have seemingly become two separate endeavors. His interests lie in bridging this gap between aesthetics and technology, which may prove to be critical as the latter may begin to take precedent over the former. In this way, Neary has begun pursuing an idea of generating an etiquette by which a dialogue can be installed to bind the two objectives. His interest in Heinrich Wölfflin may suggest a search for a standard constructive language that can be adopted by both the architect and the builder to communicate and share their intentions. More importantly, at the university level, Neary is interested in preparing students to work with both objectives in mind. At Washington State University, his design studio provided the opportunity for his students to focus their energy on the design of building details and to engage in the necessary process of creating working documents.
John Neary's extensive professional experience would make him an asset in the academic setting, and it is in this way that Neary's function could dually complement the ethereal preoccupations of an architectural education. Too often do we, who are insulated by an institution, confine our thoughts and activities to intellectual pursuits, and fail to exercise our talents on the more pragmatic factors in any given project. We flagrantly avoid limitations like building codes, budgets and even gravity in an effort to not deviate from the concept driving a project. As a result, we produce work that is attempting to operate along deep or broad conceptual logics, but rarely do we tackle the constraints one could expect to see in the realities of the industry.
The first precept Vitruvius outlined explains the importance of both skill and scholarship in the education of an architect. He wrote that if one were to practice with out theory, they may "never [be] able to reach a position of authority to correspond to their pains". On the other hand, theory with out practice would be like only "hunting the shadow". The architectural education at many university seems preoccupied with the latter, and in a unique position to do so; each year, neophytes flood the schools with talents ready to be developed and a conception of the would that renders the horizon infinite. Their idealism paired with little understanding of their limits is perhaps the university's greatest resource in moving the theoretical forward. But there always comes a point when architecture must work. It is then that the education must be complimented with a thorough understanding of architecture as a craft that has a strict set of limits; an understanding that usually only begins, just as seems to be the case with Neary's expertise, only once the student finally leaves the school of thought and enters the world of work. Perhaps this can be corrected and the energy of the youth, given some experience with working out real problems, can yield results that are both novel and realistic.
John Neary could serve in this function effectively. Lacking much teaching experience could not be seen to hinder his ability to convey the significance and evaluation of pragmatic concepts and strategies in which he has become familiar with through out the course of his career. Neary would help produce students who are prepared to work.
I am sure I have many spelling errors in my posts and I usually would try to ignore them. But there is one here that would need to be pointed out in order to save the sentence.
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"... conception of the *world* that renders the horizon infinite."
whilst I don't agree with the notion that schools shouldn't insulate students from the real world of codes, gravity, etc. your writing style is inviting me to read the previous 2 selections. I'll save my more pertinent questions after the 8th instalment.
Thank you very much for the kind words. It is encouraging. I always welcome comments and questions. Recently, I have been wondering if any of these posts were being read. I had begun to think that the length of them had proven to be prohibitive.
While I agree with what I wrote, I also disagree with it as well*. Much of this essay, though dutiful to Neary and the value he could add to UF: SoA, was written as a commentary on a comparison of experiences I have had in both the academic and professional realms. Personally, I didn't care for the professional world too much, but this may be owing to a lot of other factors that came along with my specific situation. It was very boring; simple work well within the bounds of the discipline. I lost my interest and passion. This wouldn't do. "Passion can create drama out of inert stone" as Le Corbusier put it, and it wasn't until I returned to school that I felt much passion about the work again. Now that I am back in school, I really can't be much happier. I don't want to ever leave the academic world and I am hoping to posture myself to make that happen. What it is exactly that I am after is that aforementioned insulation that allows a mind to wander [with rigor]. This is valuable to me and is valuable to soft minds entering into the study of architecture. However, I was never more keenly aware of my deficits until I was working professionally. This was mostly owing to having little understanding of the requirements involved in building details design, structural constraints, building codes, navigating relationships with clients, contractor and engineers, and all the other concerns that must be vested in order for the work to work.
*I agree with you 80%. But 20% of me wouldn't think it a bad thing to install a venue to expose students to the more pragmatic aspects of architecture. I say this while 100% of me hopes to avoid those pragmatic aspects like it were the plague. I like wandering [purposefully, mind you] too much…
Jacob, they're definitely being read. I'm reading with particular interest since I'm an alumni and I also apparently almost made the list of interviewees. I'm looking forward to the rest of your reviews and the final outcome as well.
yes i am enjoying them immensely as well.
Thank you so much.
The next couple presentations are going to happen in a fairly rapid succession, and I am hoping to keep up.
New post coming latter today.
"Buildings are made." -Peter Bohlin
I had John as a design professor in 2003-2004. The studio wasn't suffused with practical matters only. Design was the objective of the studio, but the same way a good vocabulary and grammar are important to good writing in addition to composition and creativity, so too does an understanding of how buildings are made extend one's design ability. You spoke to this in your post. In the studio, "practical matters" were addressed by exploring tectonics and designing with material characteristics in mind. This was done in addition to looking at volumes and volumes of good design. Just to say, a studio or program with Neary does not mean an uncreative curmudgeon who will say, "you could never do that 'in the real world.'" What you would receive instead is a salvo of projects to look at or texts to refer to for guidance; because as a widely experienced professional and a individual who concerns himself very actively and thoroughly within the field of architecture, his knowledge and awareness of projects of all types and periods and architects of all persuasion and proclivity is just expansive, and he seems to have mental access to all of it-- theoretical and practical matters alike.
John is a good teacher and a good architect.
Thank you, ssh. I didn't realize I had written this report to make John Neary sound that way.
I focused on his practical and professional angle simply because that is how he presented himself in his lecture and it is that experience that makes him different from many of our instructors. I didn't mean to imply that he would be a curmudgeon.
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Grand Prairie, incorporated in 1909, is a city in Dallas, Ellis, and Tarrant Counties of Texas. Located between Dallas and Fort Worth, the city's eastern boundary is 12 miles west of downtown Dallas and the western edge is 15 miles east of Fort Worth. Just five minutes south of DFW International Airport, the city provides easy access to anywhere and everywhere on Interstate 20, Interstate 30, State Highway 360, Loop 12 and Spur 303. Grand Prairie is considered a suburb of both Dallas and Fort Worth and is home to approximately 168,000 residents making Grand Prairie the 7th largest city in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, 16th largest city in Texas and the sixth fastest-growing 100,000-plus city in the United States.
Since the start of World War II, Grand Prairie has had an enduring history with the defense and aviation industry. While the present day Vought plant is located on Jefferson Avenue in Dallas City; it was originally in Grand Prairie. During the war, it was a North American Aviation plant that produced the P-51C and K Mustang variants. After the war, Vought Aircraft took over the plant. This later became Ling Temco Vought and then eventually returned to the Vought moniker. The plant was the production site for the F-8 Crusader and the A-7 Corsair II aircraft during the 1950-1989 timeframe. The Missile and Space division of LTV produced missiles such as the Scout and MLRS. This division was eventually sold to Lockheed Martin which still operates in Grand Prairie. Grand Prairie was also the North American headquarters for Aérospatiale Helicopter which eventually became American Eurocopter a division of EADS North America. Current top employers in Grand Prairie include Grand Prairie Independent School District, Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, Poly-America, Inc., Bell Helicopter-Textron, Vought Aircraft Industries and Siemens Energy & Automation. Additionally, Grand Prairie is home to the corporate office of Six Flags' and headquarters of American Eurocopter.
Grand Prairie's long history in the defense and aviation industry, as well as periods of extensive construction and development may have exposed workers to asbestos-containing materials; thus putting them at risk for developing an asbestos-related disease. If you were exposed to asbestos in Grand Prairie, Texas and have been diagnosed with mesothelioma, you should consider contacting an asbestos law firm.
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OpenAL, the Open Audio Library, is a joint effort to create an open, vendor-neutral, cross-platform API for interactive, primarily spatialized audio. Its primary audience is made up of application developers and desktop users that rely on portable standards like OpenGL for games and other multimedia applications.
OGRE (Object-Oriented Graphics Rendering Engine) is a class library written in C++ designed to make it easier and more intuitive for developers to produce games and demos utilising 3D hardware. It exposes a number of useful objects allowing you to create and manipulate a 3D environment and render it to your specifications, while removing the unnecessary complexities of the underlying system libraries like Direct3D and OpenGL.
XCard is a Leitner based French flashcard program, used to help students memorize French words. It comes with several default word lists, ranging from verb lists, to vocabulary associated with airplane travel. It has the capability to repeat lesser known words, graph a student's progress, translate words to French, and to create new word lists. It is deployed via Java Webstart, and can be run from the XCard homepage.
LPSM is a C library with a simple interface that manages a segment of memory backed by a persistent file. It differs from ordinary mmap() in two ways: it can optionally offer heap management (malloc/free/realloc) within the arena, and more importantly, a transaction log is used to ensure the consistency of the persistent representation. The application notifies LPSM whenever the arena is in a consistent state, suitable for checkpointing. If the application or system crashes, the arena will always be recovered to a consistent checkpoint.
OpenSG is an Open Source scenegraph system. Its design goals include high performance, multithread-safe data handling, high flexibility, extensibility, and portability to Irix, Linux, and Windows. A number of computer graphics research institutions are actively working on moving the system beyond the state of the art to include features like clustering, subdivision surfaces, occlusion culling, and more.
JWAA is a software framework for building dynamic Web applications as networks of first-class Java objects. XML is used for representing information normally coded as HTML. The XML files are automatically reloaded when they change. It has a "persistent forms" feature in which form data automatically persists in the database such that fields behave like pieces of paper that automatically preserve what's written on them. This default behavior is easily overridden. Invalid links are reported at XML load time via the browser, and are also recorded in log files.
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Green Workplace Challenge expands in 2nd year
The goal is to outdo one another in "green" practices, and Pittsburgh-area businesses, governments, nonprofit organizations and schools have a year to do so in a competition that starts Wednesday.
Sustainable Pittsburgh will kick off its second Green Workplace Challenge, though some activities started June 1.This year, nonprofits, colleges and municipal governments can compete against businesses to see who can best improve energy, water, waste and transportation efficiency, said Ginette Walker Vinski, spokeswoman for Sustainable Pittsburgh.
"Last year was a pilot and it was only open to businesses," Walker Vinski said. "We had such a great response last year that we decided to open it up."
The challenge uses programs to measure energy and water consumption, waste production and transportation efficiency.
A company could use the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Portfolio Manager, for example, to compare electricity, water and natural gas usage to the past year's and earn points for establishing a baseline for resources and comparing the company to industry averages. Commissioning an energy audit earns more points, as do such actions as generating electricity on-site or purchasing power from renewable sources and reducing overall consumption.
The same holds for waste reduction, or for using the Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission's CommuteInfo tool to measure how employees commute to work and make improvements in their carbon footprint.
The Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium observed last year's challenge, counting points but not competing, said Marcia Marks, curator of conservation education.
"It fits into our mission of animal conservation," she said. "If we don't do things to save the planet, we're not helping humans or animals."
This year, Marks hopes to get points for a wind turbine the zoo installed to provide some power for its ticket booths, and for solar panels that will be installed.
"Sustainability was the No. 1priority that came out of our long-range comprehensive planning process a couple of years ago," said Chelsea Puff, community projects administrator in Cranberry, which plans to participate. "Really, the biggest benefit is how it leads to the betterment of the township."
Angela Garcia, deputy director of Green Tree-based nonprofit Global Links, said joining the challenge will provide a chance to use practices that Sustainable Pittsburgh recommended to retrofit its new Trumbull Drive building, a former industrial warehouse, to be more sustainable.
Walker Vinski said the competition's goals are to at least double participants' total water and energy savings over last year. Sustainable Pittsburgh wants to sign up at least 100 participants and use the contest to spotlight outstanding organizations. The winners in each category will receive a hand-crafted award — last year's winners got trophies produced by Millvale-based Red Star Ironworks, and runners-up got medals from Grove City's Wendell August Forge.
Last year's 50-plus participants saved more than 67 million kilowatt hours of electricity and 90.7 million gallons of water.
"We work with a lot of other companies on green practices, so the competition was a really nice framework for us to put those things together," said Christine Mondor, principal at Friendship-based evolveEA, last year's challenge winner. "... It was interesting for us to see where small companies can find it easier or more difficult than big ones."
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DO YOU recognise these young people? Police release CCTV image after arson attack.
Dorset Police want to speak to a group of five or six young people seen in the area around Matalan on Babylon Hill, North Dorset at 8pm on Sunday June 1.
Police want to speak to them to see if they have any information about a malicious fire that was set later on that evening.
A number of industrial waste wheelie bins and metal storage cages containing cardboard were set alight during the incident, which happened at around 9.20pm at the rear of Matalan on Babylon Hill.
PC Chris Meade, of West Dorset police, said: "This was a highly dangerous incident that has caused significant damage. It is fortunate that no one was injured by this deliberate fire.
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Officers said the fire was set at around 9.20pm, but did not take hold until about 20 minutes later. The fire service attended at 10.20pm and extinguished the blaze.
PC Meade said: "Further enquiries show that at around 7.55pm, a group of five or six young people were in the area.
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Way back when I started playing this silly game called "genealogy", I found my great-grandfather's Naturalization papers at the archives of Cuyahoga County. To my confusion, it said that he came to America for the first time, in 1886 or somewhere there-abouts...
After searching and searching and searching, I finally came upon him and my great-grandmother and two children, all arriving in 1889. Well, gee, Germans to America can't be wrong, so he must have lied on his papers. But folks from the "old country" never lied. I was confused.
Mind you, this was about fifteen years ago. I had given up trying to find any other record of his arrival... That was until last weekend.
I was home, "under the weather" and bored to tears. I hadn't worked on any of my genealogy stuff for the last year and a half. I had no desire, after a terrible event in my life. Genealogy was the last thing I was interested in.
Wellllllllllllllll.... There was absolutely nothing on TV. I was having some problems with my hands, and decided to sit with my laptop and play around on Ancestry.
I had searched before, but after playing around, I tried using the wildcard in the middle of the name this time. Not that I really think that's what did it, but I found him! I found him from Hamburg to Liverpool. Now to find him from Liverpool to America, that's another thing... but I have proof that he at least went that far.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has expanded the approved use of Tamiflu (oseltamivir) to treat children as young as 2 weeks old who have shown symptoms of flu for no longer than 2 days; however, it is up to parents and healthcare professionals to ensure proper dosing.
The drug is not approved to prevent flu infection in infants, while the safety and efficacy of Tamiflu to treat flu infection has not been established in children younger than 2 weeks old.
Tamiflu was approved in 1999 to treat adults infected with flu who have shown symptoms for no longer than 2 days. It has since been approved to treat flu in children ages 1 year and older who have shown symptoms of flu for no longer than 2 days, and to prevent flu in adults and children ages 1 year and older.
Although there is a fixed dosing regimen for patients 1 year and older according to weight categories, the dosing for children younger than 1 year must be calculated for each patient based on their exact weight. These children should receive 3 mg per kg twice daily for 5 days. These smaller doses will require a different dispenser than what is currently co-packaged with Tamiflu, according to FDA.
"Pharmacists must provide the proper dispenser when filling a prescription so parents can measure and administer the correct dose to their children," said Edward Cox, M.D., M.P.H, director of the Office of Antimicrobial Products in the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. "Parents and pediatricians must make sure children receive only the amount of Tamiflu appropriate for their weight."
Tamiflu is the only product approved to treat flu infection in children younger than 1 year, providing an important treatment option for a vulnerable population. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), children younger than 2 years are at higher risk for developing complications from the flu, with the highest rates of hospitalization in those less than 6 months of age.
FDA expanded the approved use of Tamiflu in children younger than 1 year based on extrapolation of data from previous study results in adults and older children, and additional supporting safety and pharmacokinetic studies sponsored by both the National Institutes of Health and Roche Group, Tamiflu's manufacturer.
Pediatric legislation permits efficacy to be extrapolated from previous study results in adults and older children if the illness being studied and the effects of the drug are sufficiently similar in adult and pediatric patients. Data on how the drug is metabolized in the body (pharmacokinetic data) indicated a dose of 3 mg/kg twice daily provided concentrations of Tamiflu similar to those observed in older children and adults, and is expected to provide similar efficacy in this very young age group.
Almost all of the 135 pediatric patients enrolled in the two safety studies had confirmed flu. Results from these studies showed the safety profile in children younger than 1 year was consistent with the established safety profile of adults and older children.
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Paclitaxel With or Without Carboplatin in Treating Women With Metastatic Breast Cancer
Recruitment status was: Active, not recruiting
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RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. It is not yet known if paclitaxel is more effective with or without carboplatin in treating stage IV breast cancer.
PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to compare the effectiveness of paclitaxel with or without carboplatin in treating women who have stage IV breast cancer.
|Breast Cancer
|Drug: carboplatin Drug: paclitaxel
|Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Randomized, Phase II Trial of Weekly Taxol (Paclitaxel) Versus Weekly Taxol Plus Paraplatin (Carboplatin) as First-Line Chemotherapy in Patients Age 65 Years or Older With Metastatic Breast Cancer
|Study Start Date:
|January 2001
- Compare the objective response rate in women treated with paclitaxel with or without carboplatin as first-line chemotherapy for metastatic breast cancer.
- Compare the overall survival, time to disease progression, and duration of response in these patients treated with these regimens.
- Compare the safety of these regimens in this patient population.
- Compare the quality of life of these patients treated with these regimens.
OUTLINE: This is a randomized, multicenter study. Patients are stratified according to prior adjuvant chemotherapy (yes vs no) and ECOG performance status (0-1 vs 2). Patients are randomized to one of two treatment arms.
- Arm I: Patients receive paclitaxel IV over 1 hour weekly for 3 weeks.
- Arm II:Patients receive paclitaxel IV over 1 hour and carboplatin IV over 30 minutes weekly for 3 weeks.
Treatment in both arms continues every 4 weeks in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Quality of life is assessed at baseline, before each course during study, and then after completion of study.
Patients are followed every 3 months.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 220 patients will be accrued for this study.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Histologically or cytologically confirmed breast cancer
- Must have clinical evidence of stage IV (M1) disease
- HER-2/neu negative (0, 1+, or 2+ by immunohistochemistry or fluorescent in situ hybridization) OR status unknown
At least 1 measurable lesion
- At least 20 mm by conventional techniques OR at least 10 mm by spiral CT scan
- Patients with bone-only disease are not eligible
- Ineligible if currently experiencing a complete or partial response to prior hormonal therapy
- Patients with disease progression after prior response to hormonal therapy are eligible
- Disease progression without prior hormonal therapy is allowed
Stable or asymptomatic brain metastasis allowed if:
- Other measurable disease exists
- Cranial irradiation completed and brain metastasis stable for at least 4 weeks before study
Hormone receptor status:
- Not specified
- 18 and over
- Female
Menopausal status:
- Pre- or post-menopausal
Performance status:
Life expectancy:
- At least 3 months
- Absolute neutrophil count at least 1,500/mm^3
- Platelet count at least 100,000/mm^3
- Bilirubin no greater than 1.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
- AST and ALT no greater than 2 times ULN
- Creatinine no greater than 2 times ULN
- Corrected calcium less than 12 mg/dL
- No New York Heart Association class III or IV heart disease
- No documented myocardial infarction within the past 6 months
- No congestive heart failure
- No unstable angina
- No clinically significant pericardial effusion or arrhythmia
- No active serious infection
- No prior significant allergic reactions to drugs containing Cremophor, such as teniposide, cyclosporine, or vitamin K
- No clinically significant (greater than grade 1) peripheral neuropathy
- No other serious underlying medical condition that would preclude study participation
Biologic therapy:
- More than 6 months since prior adjuvant bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cell transplantation
- More than 6 months since prior adjuvant monoclonal antibody therapy
- More than 6 months since prior adjuvant vaccine therapy
- No prior trastuzumab (Herceptin)
- No concurrent anticancer immunotherapy
- No prior chemotherapy for metastatic breast cancer
- More than 6 months since prior adjuvant high-dose chemotherapy
- More than 6 months since prior adjuvant taxanes or any other adjuvant chemotherapy
- Prior adjuvant taxanes allowed only if administered every 3 weeks
Endocrine therapy:
- See Disease Characteristics
Any number of prior hormonal therapies for metastatic breast cancer allowed
- Patients with definite signs of progression may begin study therapy immediately after stopping hormonal therapy
- No concurrent anticancer hormonal agents (including megestrol)
- At least 3 weeks since prior radiotherapy (4 weeks for cranial irradiation)
- No prior radiotherapy to 30% or more of bone marrow
- No concurrent radiotherapy except for palliation of painful bone metastasis or pathologic fractures to the area of known lytic disease
- At least 3 weeks since prior major surgery
- More than 6 months since prior neoadjuvant therapy
- No other concurrent anticancer drugs
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00025688
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|Study Chair:
|Edith A. Perez, MD
|Mayo Clinic
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00025688 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|October 11, 2001
|Last Updated:
|July 23, 2008
Keywords provided by National Cancer Institute (NCI):
stage IV breast cancer
recurrent breast cancer
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Breast Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Breast Diseases
Skin Diseases
Albumin-Bound Paclitaxel
Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic
Antineoplastic Agents
Tubulin Modulators
Antimitotic Agents
Mitosis Modulators
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on August 18, 2017


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Get an overview of this hotelTaipei hotel with top-notch health club, near Taipei Arena
Popular property highlights
In Zhongshan district
Located in Taipei's Zhongshan district, this Westin is 0.8 km (0.5 mi) from Taipei Arena and less than a 10-minute walk from an MRT station. Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall is 2.8 km (1.7 mi) away.
Indoor pool, spa tub
A two-story health club includes a two-lane indoor lap pool, a juice bar, a spa tub, hot-and-cold plunge pools, and a state-of-the art gym. The hotel also features 10 restaurants and lounges.
Westin Heavenly Beds
Guestrooms with city views feature signature Heavenly Beds, along with 40-inch LED TVs, coffee/tea makers, minibars, and high-speed Internet access. Bathrooms offer separate bathtubs and showers.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!Opens in a new window
The Westin Taipei
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
Arriving guests are welcomed with Westin's signature White Tea Scented Towel Service and a freshly prepared drink.
The 13,000-square-foot (1,200-square-meter) WestinWORKOUT® Gym, located on the 9th and 10th floor, offers a wide array of cardio and weight equipment. A 2-lane indoor lap pool, spa tub, juice bar, sauna, steam rooms, and cold and hot plunge baths are in the gym area. Dining-and-refreshment options include buffet, Japanese, Chinese, and Italian restaurants, as well as a tea lounge and a cigar-and-wine bar. 24-hour room service is available.
The hotel has its own cinema with 15 plush double sofas. Free WiFi is available in public areas. Featured amenities include a business center with conference space and meeting rooms. A roundtrip airport shuttle is provided for a surcharge, and free valet parking is available onsite.
- 24-hour front desk
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Total number of rooms - 288
- Number of floors - 15
- Conference space size (meters) - 2800
- Bar/lounge
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Business center
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Coffee shop or café
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Concierge services
- Conference space
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Fitness facilities
- Full-service spa
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Health club
- Free WiFi
- Wired Internet access - surcharge
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Meeting rooms 15
- Multilingual staff
- Free valet parking
- Garden
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Conference center
- Snack bar/deli
- Free self parking
- Number of meeting rooms - 15
- Number of restaurants - 5
- Conference space size (feet) - 30139
- Sauna
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Spa services on site
- Spa tub
- Steam room
- Indoor pool
- Wedding services
- Express check-in
- Express check-out
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Luggage storage
- Year Built 1999
- Smoke-free property
Available in all rooms: Wired high-speed internet ( TWD 450 per day )
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Wired high-speed internet ( TWD 450 per day )
Free self parking, Free valet parking
Room Amenities
- Premium TV channels
- Pay movies
- Premium bedding
- Air conditioning
- Free newspaper
- Phone
- Free bottled water
- Refrigerator
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Daily housekeeping
- Turndown service
- Slippers
- Separate bathtub and shower
- Bathrobes
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Iron/ironing board
- In-room safe
- Desk
- Satellite TV service
- Pillowtop mattress
- Wired Internet access (surcharge)
- Private bathroom
- Room service (24 hours)
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
Where to Eat
Silk Road Feast - International buffets. Breakfast, lunch, Serves dinner and afternoon tea. Reservations required.
Liu Yuan Shanghainese Restaurant - Fine dining restaurant serving Shanghainese cuisine. Abalone, shark's fin, fresh seafood, dim sum. Lunch, dinner. Reservations required.
Gi-On Japanese Restaurant - Japanese cuisine, including sushi bar. Elegant setting. Lunch, dinner. Reservations required.
Elite Café - Located beneath vaulted atrium. Tea, coffee, sandwiches, light meals, desserts.
Danieli's Italian Restaurant - Fine dining restaurant serving Italian cuisine complemented by a wide selection of wines. Lunch, dinner. Reservations required.
Yi Yuan - fine dining restaurant serving Chinese food for lunch and dinner. Reservations required.
Room service is available for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Nearby Things to Do
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Fitness classes on site
Spa Services
- Number of treatment rooms 4
- Couples treatment rooms
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
Minimum check-in age is 20
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for TWD 2079 per night.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Optional extras
- Breakfast fee: TWD 825 per person (approximately)
- Fee for in-room wired Internet: TWD 450 per day (rates may vary)
- Fee for wired Internet in public areas: TWD 450 per day (rates may vary)
- Airport shuttle fee: TWD 2800 per vehicle (one way)
- Rollaway bed fee: TWD 2079 per night
Hotel Name
- Taipei Westin
- Westin Hotel Taipei
- Westin Taipei
- Westin Taipei Hotel
- The Westin Taipei Hotel Taipei
We should mention
Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments. Reservations can be made by contacting the hotel prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.


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A collection of 20 rockin' rarities, unissued tracks and alternate versions from legendary rockabilly guitar slinger and twang master Brian Setzer.
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Condoleezza Rice described the Arab nations as "natural invitees" but said they would have to renounce violence.
She was speaking after the four backers of the peace process - the US, EU, Russia and the UN - met in New York and gave support to the proposed summit.
The quartet issued a roadmap in 2003 for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.
But the roadmap has been sidelined and no apparent progress has been made towards achieving the declared aim of the process, a two-state solution.
'Peaceful solution'
After Sunday's meeting, the quartet issued a statement expressing support for the proposed conference - which has been heavily promoted by the US.
Ms Rice said it "would be natural" for Syria, Saudi Arabia and 10 other Arab League members to participate, but warned that attending the summit brought "certain responsibilities".
"We hope that those who come are really committed to helping the Israelis and the Palestinians find a way through - and that means renouncing violence, it means working for a peaceful solution."
Syria remains technically at war with Israel - Egypt and Jordan are the only Arab states to have signed a peace treaty with Israel.
BBC diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Marcus says the phrase "international meeting" is notable, perhaps indicating something short of a full-scale peace conference.
With the Palestinians divided and with Israel designating the Gaza Strip as hostile territory, the climate is not encouraging, he says.
High stakes
The quartet also called for humanitarian assistance to Gaza to continue without obstruction - a warning to Israel, which has threatened to cut off vital energy supplies.
The quartet noted its grave concern about the continued rocket fire into Israel from the Gaza Strip, as well as what it termed recent efforts by the Hamas leadership there to stifle freedom of speech in the press.
The stakes over the coming weeks are high, our diplomatic correspondent says.
The quartet's envoy, former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, said he believed the peace process now had momentum.
He said there was an "ambitious but achievable" plan to create a sense of how a Palestinian state would look by the end of the year.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon chaired Sunday's talks with his quartet partners - Ms Rice, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana.
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Here we have an updated version of the original working NES coffee table that Charles Lushear built early last year. He's made some improvements to the original design, notably a functional zapper mounted in a holster to the side of the table and Wii compatibility.
Coffee designed after the Nintendo controller from 1985. This functional model is made from premium grade curly maple, birdseye maple, African bubinga, and mahogany and is compatible with the Nintendo Wii. It features dovetail joinery and midcentury modern legs. Also included in a side mounted custom bison holster is a zapper, handmade from bubinga and maple. The zapper functions as a Wii controller while selecting the classic Nintendo on the Wii menu. The zapper also vibrates and has a speaker to replicate the feel and sound of the original Wii controller. The table functions wirelessly and the gun and mount can be easily removed if desired. A glass top and bubinga feet are included for use as table.
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STL file reader to calculate volume, surface area and bounding box of 3D model ( .stl file)
Orçamento $30-250 USD
Produce a script that can read binary .stl files to calculate the following parameters:
bounding box (width, height, depth)
surface area
No UI design work required. You can find a script that runs a similar job on the client's computer on this site: www.3dprintingpricecheck.com. However, in our case we want the script to run server side, here is the flow:
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1.1 User selects unit of measure (inch, cm or mm) from a drop down and uploads .stl file
1.2 Data is posted to external script
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2.1 Calculate the following parameters of the .stl file in the selected unit (inch, cm or mm) and return the information to the "results page":
bounding box (width, height, depth)
surface area
2.2 Save the .stl file via sftp
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3.1 Display:
bounding box (width, height, depth)
surface area
unit of measure (as selected by user on "upload page)
file name of .stl file and URL of saved file
5 freelancers estão ofertando em média $212 para este trabalho
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Now in partnership with Dark Cleo Productions, Showmasters would like to introduce Unplugged Gaming to the Gaming Zone.
This includes board & card games of all types, some for the hardcore gamers, others for those who have never played them before! Tabletop gaming has grown in popularity over the past years and we want to give our attendees a chance to try some of the most popular and fun ones.
The Unplugged Gaming Zone is passionate about bringing tabletop gaming to a wider audience, and with a dedicated demonstration team willing to help newcomers find their type of game and help board gaming enthusiasts learn something new; you can guarantee that our extensive games library will have something for you. Now do not worry, it will be possible to pick up a game with tabletop vendors visiting and selling their merchandise in this zone.
Along with board and card games, next year there will be Wargaming at Showmasters events for the first time. Dark Cleo Productions will now be showcasing another side of unplugged gaming through demo games and tournaments, including games such as Warhammer 40,000, Warmachine/Hordes and more!


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Sofia Jean Gomez & Keira Keeley Join ANGELS IN AMERICA
Signature Theatre Company announced additional casting for the extension weeks for Tony Kushner's ANGELS IN AMERICA: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, directed by Michael Greif.
The production, originally slated to run through December 19, 2010 and extended initially through January 30, 2011 and a second time through February 20, 2011, will now play an additional five weeks through Sunday, March 27, 2011.
ANGELS IN AMERICA opened October 28 after beginning previews on September 14 at the Peter Norton Space (555 West 42nd Street).
ANGELS IN AMERICA currently features Robin Bartlett as Hannah Pitt, Christian Borle as Prior Walter, Bill Heck as Joe Pitt, Zoe Kazan as Harper Pitt, Billy Porter as Belize, Zachary Quinto as Louis Ironson, Robin Weigert as The Angel and Frank Wood as Roy Cohn.
Starting February 1, Keira Keeley (2010 Theatre World Award winner for Roundabout's The Glass Menagerie) will replace Zoe Kazan in the role of Harper Pitt. Sofia Jean Gomez (Arabian Nights, Creature), will replace Robin Weigert as The Angel. As previously announced, Adam Driver will replace Zachary Quinto as Louis Ironson and Michael Urie will replace Christian Borle as Prior Walter. Lynne McCollough will assume the role of Hannah Pitt on Tuesday, January 18, replacing Robin Bartlett. Original cast members Bill Heck as Joe Pitt, Billy Porter as Belize and Frank Wood as Roy Cohn will continue in their roles for the extension weeks.
Scenic design is by Mark Wendland, costume design by Clint Ramos, lighting design by Ben Stanton, sound design by Ken Travis, projection design by Wendall K. Harrington, music by Michael Friedman and Chris Miller, hair and wig design by Charles LaPointe, dialect coaching by Deborah Hecht, fight direction by Rick Sordelet, aerial design by Paul Rubin, make-up by Cookie Jordan, additional costumes by Jeff Mahshie and casting by Telsey + Company. Production Stage Manager is Monica A. Cuoco and Stage Manager is Joshua Pilote.


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AndiCar is a car / fleet management and maintenance software designed for peoples who want a single application to track their trips / mileages, expenses, fill-ups, To-Do List, GPS tracks of their car/vehicle.
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Main features:
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* fill up
* other expenses (service, insurance, etc.)
* GPS tracking with automatic trip recording based on the GPS data
* work with multiple cars, drivers, currencies, conversion rates, measurement units, etc.
* multiple expense types (for example business or personal)
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* Task / To-Do / Reminders based on date, mileage or both
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* all records can be exported as csv or html file and can be send as email attachments or upload to Google Docs / Dropbox (if Docs / Dropbox client are installed)
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* automatic (scheduled) database backup
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