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My wife and I would like to spend a couple of nights in Manhattan for our anniversary. She has never been to the city and we would like something that is centrally located. We don't mind spending 200-300 per night. Just looking for a starting point. My previous trip to New York I stayed at the Roosevelt.
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My wife and I would like to spend a couple of nights in Manhattan for our anniversary. She has never been to the city and we would like something that is centrally located. We don't mind spending 200-300 per night. Just looking for a starting point. My previous trip to New York I stayed at the Roosevelt.
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I always recommend the Royalton, partly because it's a good hotel and partly because it's on a quiet block, but mostly because I think a midtown location is best for a first-time visit. There is no single central location for al of NYC's many attractions, but you can walk to many of the most iconic ones from Midtown. Enjoy!
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Actually, that is low for this time of year. Try Pod Hotel; the one on 39th is in Murray Hill, a great area and easy to get just about anywhere in NYC.
The Affinia group might have something.
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Agree that is a fairly basic budget. What type of place are you looking for? And do you have any special plans? do you have show tickets yet? (Discounts should be available now on broadwaybox.com.)
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Not true about the budget. There are loads of really good midtown hotels available in that price range. For example:
You guys have given not only discouraging but incorrect information.
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NewbE, I'm not about to join Jetsetter just to see what they are saying, but isn't it just like other sites that tell you about specials being offered by hotels? For example, I notice they list The Standard for $198 a night, but when I go to the website for The Standard, I can't find any weekend in late July for less than $425 for their cheapest room. Are you saying that if you join Jetsetter they'll get you that room for under $200?
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I like jet setter, but the rates posted on first page should say "FROM" because when you plug in dates it is often much higher. For example, the Hudson shows $219, but when you click a date in late July -per OP- it is well over $400
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I plugged in dates in late July for The Royalton and got $229. Some of the deals you have to prepay, which is the only downside I can see to using Jetsetter, and is the reason you can't see the same rates on the hotel websites--they're flash sales. I have used them before with fine results.
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NewbE, I checked the Royalton on their own site and they offer a room for two the last weekend in July (all I checked) for %224 a night. (It's called their Anniversary Sale, and there is another rate at the same price). It doesn't say anything about prepayment. What is the point of Jetsetter again -- it allows you to prepay for the room and pay an additional $5 a night?
Not trying to be a wiseguy here, but it seems whenever someone talks about some third party group offering better prices, I seem to find the same price or better directly with the hotel.
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Debit, exactly my thought. I always want to pick up a phone and call those sites and say "OK, you say they have rooms for $129. When can I go, because I'm totally flexible?" I never seem to be able to find ANY rooms for what they show at the beginning.
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Check out the Hampton Inn near Madison Square Garden for some decent cheap rates.
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Jetsetter certainly lists a LOT of hotels but very few are in the OPs price range. I don;t have exact dates - but the "from" is quite prominent. Certainly worth looking at - and noting that the prices listed are plus about 15% tax. And the ones listed at much lower rates are not where I would want to spend an anniversary.
Certianly for $300 there are a number of options - but it will take searching to find something more than quite basic.
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Neo, obviously there is no point in using Jetsetter if the same rate can be had on the hotel's website.
You all seem married to the idea that $200-300 dollars won't buy anything but the most basic room in late July, but the facts contradict you, so I will stop arguing and let them speak for themselves.
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No one is arguing, just trying to say that a lot of times, those bottom"from" prices are hard to come by...and often are just on a few nights. The one I looked at for The Hudson, the low rate was only on Sunday night, with the prices way higher during the week. And on the very first page, where all the hotels are listed, it does NOT say "from"; the only hotel I see is the Hudson and it simply says $219.
I actually use Sniqueaway [soon to merge with Jetsetter] and Jetsetter but the reality is that some of the lower rates listed are really limited. And since we don't know the OP's actual dates or what kind of hotel they want, we are all just trying share our input.
I have no horse in this race; but to say that we are giving incorrect information is not true. Having search for rooms in mid July, I know how hard a time I had finding a room in that range.
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NewbE, I agree. It is usual here to insist you can't get a hotel room in NY for a reasonable price . It takes searching, but usually can be done. My point before was simply that looking at those rates listed on Jetsetter has little to do with the actual prices you'll find for a weekend in July.
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Well we don;t know what the OP is looking for. I know that Hampton Inn, while I'm sure very acceptable - doesn't shout anniversary to me.
It may have everything that the OP wants - or he may have something different in mind.
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Well, theOP does mention The Roosevelt. I'm not sure that shouts anniversary either. I don't think the OP is asking us to make a commitment, but simply looking for some suggestions in the price range. Several good suggestions have been made.
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Take a look at the New York Palace. Construction's going on but the rates and location are great. We stayed there over Memorial Day weekend and the good rates made up for the inconveniences.
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Travelzoo.com has some very good deals for centrally located hotels in NYC in late July. I was turned on to travel zoo for NYC hotels in particular by long time poster here, mclaurie, and I almost always get great deals for NYC hotels on that site.
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I did a trip to New York one year ago (late June and early July). I found many rooms for $200-300 a night, but I needed a place for 5, it didn't help me personally. But it did seem like there were many options out there if you look far enough in advance. My main concern is that the OP is getting close to his trip and it could be difficult now. I would suggest he reserve something cancelleable right away and keep looking if he's not entirely happy with his "safety."
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Good point, emd3. I have discovered and successfully used Travelzoo also, but it is worth pointing out that for the most part (unless they are doing some voucher sale) that they are merely alerting you to specials available from the hotels themselves and normally you still click onto the hotel's website to do the actual booking.
You can register with Travelzoo for a specific area or particular city and they will alert you as special come up. This is great if you have already reserved a back up that can be cancelled, and then use a more "last minute" deal from a place like Travelzoo instead.
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Actually many of the deals on Travelzoo are Travelzoo specials. You get directed to the hotel site and a TZOO or other Travelzoo code is inserted into the promo code box on the reservations page.
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I always check quikbook.com first for the secret sale hotel prices. I've had some good luck there in the past but it makes most sense to try a lot of different third party sites (all of them) when you're looking for a bargain as well as the hotel website. You don't have anything to lose. For instance, the prices for the Omni are always lowest on the Omni site, but we stayed at a Boston hotel last year with a jetsetter discounted rate that took 50% off the hotel website's rate. It pays to keep an open mind and persevere.
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Been meaning to ask this, but Emily, how does quikbook work compared to Hotwire Secret Sale?
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We recently stayed at the Club quarters Opposite Rockefeller Center which would have rooms in your price range.
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hi 5alive. I haven't used Hotwire at all.
Once, though, I didn't receive the identity of my secret sale hotel from Quikbook in a timely manner and quikbook went out of their way to make things right: chocolates and snacks upon arrival, breakfast voucher, $25.00 off my next quikbook booking, etc. Mistakes happen; a business's integrity is measured by the way they handle and rectify mistakes. Quikbook exceeded all expectations. I've used them for a total of 5 times since and 3 times before the 'blip' and have been completely satisfied.
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Thanks, Emily. I haven't played around with that site yet and will have to check Quikbook out. With Hotwire's secret sale, they give you a list of amenities of the hotel you are bidding on. If you know the zones well and the other properties within that zone, you can often figure out what the secret property is before paying. The people at Betterbidding.com also will help. The name of the hotel comes up online when you confirm your credit card. It is immediate.
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quikbook is comparatively the same but their policy is to let the buyer know the name of the hotel within 24 hours of purchase. Other than that one glitch, I've had nothing but great experiences and the glitch stands out as a positive because of the way Quikbook handled the issue. Good to hear hotwire is the same. I've used betterbidding often for priceline rooms.
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In Rome, he has made his start as the mild-mannered, bus-riding, collegial pontiff who pays his own hotel bills and is known for washing the feet of stigmatized AIDS patients.
In Argentina, however, Pope Francis is known as a staunch ideological conservative with a long history of unusually public engagement with political life.
Both stories have been circulating since the new pontiff was elected on Wednesday. But to understand how they fit together, history is the best guide.
The leader of the Roman Catholic Church has always been a political figure. But Francis, the first non-European pope in 13 centuries, may be poised to bring a distinctly different, South American flavour of right-wing politics to the Vatican: It would include the familiar rigid defence of tradition, but also a newly expansionist and confrontational side – an insistent voice of overt conservatism.
This could win Catholic supporters away from the competing forces of Pentecostalism in culturally conservative Africa and Asia. But some observers fear it could also cause Rome to be aligned, as it has been in the past, with unsavoury regimes.
To see why, you have to step back 37 years and examine the dark political moment whose repercussions and ambiguities have come to define Pope Francis's career.
In the spring of 1976, Father Jorge Bergoglio, then 40 and the head of Argentina's Jesuits, found himself in the midst of a military coup that deposed the centre-left government of Isabel Peron.
What followed was an infamous reign of terror, as the military junta seized, tortured, killed and "disappeared" thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of people suspected of being on the left.
Priests either sided with the military regime or became targets of its terror.
On one side was a sizable faction of priests who had joined the movement, then new, known broadly as liberation theology, which sees the gospel as a tool for societal transformation and progress. Some were explicit backers of the Peronist government; others, members of the Movement of Priests in the Third World, were more radical. Many of its members died, disappeared or were exiled, including at least one bishop, several priests and hundreds of lay people.
Though Father Bergoglio was known to care for the poor, he had always opposed these more radical movements. But, like a large number of colleagues, he was silent on the military junta.
"The bulk of the Argentine Catholic hierarchy was in the conservative wing – they were aligned with a conservative religious view and also a conservative political view that strongly backed the regime and the army and the coup," says Daniel Levine, the author of Politics, Religion and Society in Latin America. "But unlike other bishops who were actively allied with the dictatorship and complicit in the crimes, [Father Bergoglio] was silent. [He] was not directly complicit in that way."
Other Argentinian priests were far more active in the junta. Christian von Wernich, chaplain of the Buenos Aires police force, would use information gleaned from the confessional to turn people over to the police; he would then oversee their torture sessions. He was later extradited, tried and sentenced to life in prison.
Father Bergoglio, whether by choice or otherwise, soon found himself embroiled in the terror.
Two young Jesuit priests, Orlando Yorio and Francisco Jalics, were kidnapped by government forces on May 23, 1976, imprisoned for five months at a clandestine detention centre, tortured, and later found lying drugged and semi-naked in a field.
Days before their disappearance, according to memoirs and statements made later by the priests, they had been dismissed from the Jesuit order by Father Bergoglio for having ministered to residents of the slums, which were considered hotbeds of anti-regime agitation. Kicking the priests out of the order is seen by many Argentines as a move that, in the polarized climate of the Junta, may have served as a clear signal to the military dictatorship that they were to be targeted.
In a 1995 memoir, Father Jalics, who now lives in Germany, accused Father Bergoglio of betraying them.
"Many people who held far-right political beliefs frowned on our presence in the slums," the priest wrote. "They thought we were living there in support of the guerrillas, and set out to denounce us as terrorists. We knew which way the wind was blowing, and who was responsible for these slanders. So I went to [Father Bergoglio] and explained that they were playing with our lives. He promised that the military would be told that we were not terrorists. But from subsequent statements by an officer and 30 documents that we were able to access later, we saw without doubt that [Father Bergoglio] had not kept his promise but, on the contrary, had filed a false complaint with the military."
Cardinal Bergoglio has contested these accusations. In lengthy interviews transcribed in the 2010 book The Jesuit, and in testimony he gave during Argentine hearings into the Dirty War and the disappearances, he has argued that, in fact, he worked to free the kidnapped priests, including holding secret meetings with General Jorge Videla, Argentina's de facto military dictator of the time, to argue for their release.
His words imply that they owe their survival (Father Yorio died of natural causes in 2000) to his efforts. But they also suggest that his relations with the junta leaders were close and cordial enough to secure such a release.
There were other accusations levelled against Father Bergoglio at the time – including one lodged by a parishioner who was kidnapped in 1977 while five months pregnant, gave birth in captivity and had her baby seized by the junta and given to a military family (this happened to countless women). She claims that Father Begoglio would not respond to her request to help her find her baby.
On Friday, the Vatican also jumped into the fold with a stern denial, which argued that the accusations came from "anti-clerical left-wing elements that are used to attack the Church."
The priests' accusations resulted in a lawsuit launched against Cardinal Bergoglio in 2005, during the papal conclave that ultimately chose Pope Benedict. At the time, Cardinal Bergoglio denounced the lawsuit, which was later dismissed by the court, as "old slander."
What is clear from the incident, though, is that neither Jorge Bergoglio nor the large Catholic Church were willing to condemn the military junta in any comprehensive way, or to speak out against its wider crimes.
"The Church was complicit through silence," says Iain Guest, the Georgetown University scholar who wrote the study Behind the Disappearances: Argentina's Dirty War Against Human Rights . "The Catholic Church could have had a huge impact – they valued their international reputation, so if the Vatican had come out and taken a strong public position I don't think there's any doubt they would have responded. But they chose to remain silent."
This is in strong contrast to the record of the Archbishop of Buenos Aires in the years after the junta. During the past 10 years, as the reformist governments of Nestor Kirchner and then his spouse Cristina Kirchner passed civil-rights legislation, Cardinal Bergoglio became Argentina's de facto political opposition leader.
He launched broadsides against the government's push for the rights of homosexuals and women and actively campaigned against laws that allowed birth control, abortions and same-sex marriages and adoptions.
"He was the very obvious leader of the opposition to a democratically elected government that was pushing progressive reforms through," says Gerardo Munck, an Argentinian professor of Latin American studies. "Many Argentines were thinking, 'This is a democratically elected government, why are you standing in the way of what the people want?'"
While other contemporary popes have taken on political roles – John Paul II was instrumental in helping end the communist regime of Poland, for example – none has been engaged with the day-to-day politics of his nation in quite such a direct way.
And this may have been one of the reasons why Cardinal Bergoglio was chosen Pope: The first non-European to hold the office in 13 centuries, he embodies not only a developing-world identity, but a form of polarized politics that might work in the developing world.
After all, the Church sees itself in a crisis in the southern and eastern three-quarters of the globe.
During those years after the junta, the left-wing branch of the clergy lost most of its power across the continent. The last two popes have appointed only conservatives to top positions in Latin America, giving figures such as Cardinal Bergoglio great power. At the same time, the Church has declined sharply in popularity, with hundreds of millions of South Americans turning to Pentecostalism, with its lack of hierarchy and easier path to salvation and self-improvement. For the Catholic leadership, the response has been a turn to both political conservatism and to aggressive expansionism.
"The future they see is full of danger," says Dr. Levine. "They're afraid because it brings what they see as cultural disintegration, which leads to the fall of moral standards and the decline of the Church. And their answer, in South America, was to build some walls. Some churches are more involved, more open, and some are less so, but they've built walls."
In an interview with Turin's La Stampa a few days before he became Pope, Cardinal Bergoglio described his calling as one of confrontation and danger.
"It's true that accidents can happen when you go out into the street, as can happen to any man or woman," he said. "But if the Church remains closed onto itself, self-referential, it grows old. Between a Church that goes into the street and gets into an accident and a Church that is sick with self-referentiality, I have no doubts in preferring the first."
He may be able to tear down those walls, then. But the process could mark a sharp turn back into an aggressive form of politics for a previously self-defensive Roman Catholic Church.
With files from Alasdair Baverstock in Caracas.


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Marieton Church and Cemetery is a Municipal Heritage Property located approximately fifteen kilometres west and nine kilometres south of the Village of Bulyea in the Rural Municipality of McKillop No. 220. The property features a one-storey, wood-sided church with square entrance tower, constructed in 1912, and a community cemetery dating from 1920.
The heritage value of Marieton Church and Cemetery resides in the property's use as a place of worship for Anglican parishioners in the Marieton district and in its status as the community cemetery. Andrew Rowan, a local resident, built the church on a prominent hill two kilometres east of Last Mountain Lake on land donated by one of the founding members of the congregation, William Tingey. The church originally was known as St. John's Anglican Church. Construction was completed in 1912 and the church was dedicated and the land for the cemetery consecrated on October 7, 1915. The congregation disbanded in 1986, but church services continued on an occasional basis until 2001. The cemetery is the final resting place for many of the district's residents and continues to fulfill this role for the Marieton community. In 1972, the congregation placed a large rock with brass plaque near the church entrance as a focal point for the cemetery and to recognize the church's sixtieth anniversary.
Heritage value also resides in the church's architecture. The wood-frame construction with exterior walls finished in wood siding, simple rectangular plan, rounded-arch windows, and east-west orientation are common of small rural Anglican churches constructed during the early years of the last century. The exterior displays late-Gothic Revival influences such as the central, crenellated bell tower and steeply-pitched gable roof. These features make the property a distinctive landmark in the area.
Heritage value also resides in the church's interior. The vertical oak wainscotting is a typical feature of Anglican churches from this era as are the multi-paneled oak doors which provide entry to both the front porch and the main church structure. Of particular note is the church's wood ceiling, which was the artistic work of pioneer resident Andrew Rowan, who also built the pews.
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West Virginia University at Parkersburg has added 13 full-time faculty members.
A recent luncheon at the school's culinary academy celebrated and welcomed them, as well as recognized full-time faculty members who are working toward their doctoral degrees.
New faculty members include Lisa Baker, instructor of early childhood/child development; Jacqueline Barron, instructor of criminal justice; Chad Crumbaker, instructor of criminal justice; Stacey Greenup, instructor of nursing; Mary Hetrick, assistant professor of biology; Joseph Hunt, instructor of welding; Valerie Keinath, instructor of geology and physical science; Wesley Kendall, assistant professor of legal studies; Larry Muller, assistant professor of business administration; Ruth Porter, instructional specialist, surgical technology; Hans Straight, instructional specialist, diversified agriculture; Rhett Wharton, instructor of criminal justice; and Tracy Wooten, instructor of business administration.
The 13 WVU Parkersburg faculty members now working on doctoral degrees include Wooten; Aaron Crites, assistant professor of history; Dianne Davis, associate professor of business; Lisa Flowers-Clements, assistant professor/coordinator of developmental education; Kathy Frum, associate professor of nursing; MaryBeth Held, instructor of speech; Jeff Holland, assistant professor of business and management; Torie Jackson, assistant professor of journalism; Steve Morgan, business and economics division chairman; Allison Sayre, assistant professor of nursing; Stephanie Smith-Stout, instructor of nursing; Stacey Watkins, assistant professor of nursing; and Amy Wolfe, instructor of education.
Anthony Underwood, vice president for student services, is working toward his doctoral degree. Faculty members Rose Beebe, David Lancaster, Melissa Spivy and Cynthia Gissy all have earned their doctoral degrees within the past three years.


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UCBT is an attractive source of hematopoietic progenitor cells that might be broadly applicable to patients lacking acceptable donors. A major limitation of UCBT has been the small cell dose and resulting delayed time to engraftment in adults. The data in this report convincingly demonstrate that rapid neutrophil recovery with ultimate predominance of a single cord can be achieved with this technique. Although the follow-up is short, the favorable relapse-free survival following a nonmyeloablative regimen suggests a potent UCB-mediated graft-versus-tumor effect. A single very large UCB unit meeting the protocol transplant standard was found and used in only 17 of the 110 patients, underscoring the limitations of comparing transplantation of 1 versus 2 cords in this study. Nevertheless, as suggested by the authors, it appears unlikely that a randomized comparison of unmanipulated single versus double UCBT will be performed for adults, in view of this data. Double UCBT seems likely to emerge as a standard to which newer adult UCBT techniques will be compared in the future.
A number of important questions continue to surround double UCBT. How important is the increasing degree of HLA matching both to the recipient and between the 2 cords? It is likely that the rapidly enlarging CB banks will make tighter matching routinely possible. Since 2 cords may produce a somewhat higher incidence of acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) in adults than single CBT, is there an increased risk of infection or other GVHD complications using this technique? Should GVHD be modulated (as done in this study) using high-dose antithymocyte globulin (ATG) or similar techniques, and what is the association with risk of tumor relapse? How important is the long-term thrombocytopenia seen in a subset of these patients, and can new technologies overcome this problem? Why did younger patients in this study fare more poorly than older patients with favorable clinical features? Do they need more dose-intensive therapy? How important is careful patient selection, and to what degree does such selection limit the generalizability of the results of this trial?
This report, and other studies,1⇓–3 provide increasing evidence that UCBT represents a practical and important advance in hematopoietic-cell transplantation. The improvement in engraftment and event-free survival reported here provides much encouragement for wider exploration of this technique. Issues such as the use of ex vivo UCB manipulation,4 in vivo administration of newer thrombopoietin-type agents,5 and optimization of immune suppression to modulate GVHD can now be explored in a more meaningful way. The relationship between preparative regimen intensity, GVHD, UCB engraftment, and toxicities requires investigation, as many patients may need more intensive chemotherapy regimens for tumor eradication. Disease-specific investigations will become an important part of future studies. Finally, some would argue that these results are sufficiently promising that randomized comparisons between UCBT and, for example, haploidentical peripheral blood transplantation will soon be warranted. The outcomes of the patients in this prospective report provide some of the most meaningful adult UCBT data to date, and can be used to benchmark future studies exploring this maturing technique in adults.
Conflict-of-interest disclosure: The authors declare no competing financial interests. ■
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The skirt for the dress is actually based off of a petticoat for a short soda fountain waitress skirt. I just cut each circle to the length where each layer was to sit. The dress is casa satin lined with a mixture of satin and cotton lining. The roses were individually stenciled on (stencil design created by Evanae based off of close-ups of the dress in the anime) using acrylic paint mixed with a fabric medium so it would bend with the fabric, not crack, and be able to be ironed. Necklace strung with beads from the fashion district in downtown LA.
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UGA Opera Theatre presents 'The Elixir of Love'
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Athens, Ga. - The University of Georgia Opera Theatre presents Gaetano Donizetti's "L'elisir d'amore" ("The Elixir of Love") at the university's Fine Arts Theatre on Feb. 14 and 15 at 8 p.m., with a special matinee performance on Feb. 16 at 3 p.m.
"Once we chose Valentine's Day as the opening night of our opera, I knew we had to do something special," said UGA Opera Theatre Director Frederick Burchinal, the Wyatt and Margaret Anderson Professor in the Arts in the UGA Hugh Hodgson School of Music. "I wanted to offer "L'elisir" to the community as the perfect romantic outing. We try to alternate our production schedule between dramas and comedies, and this certainly falls into the latter category."
The production will feature the UGA Opera Theatre and Opera Orchestra led by special guest conductor Maestro Imre Palló. Palló, who is the godson of composer Zoltán Kodály, was conductor of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf prior to his American debut with the National Symphony Orchestra in 1973. The following year he was invited to join the New York City Opera at Lincoln Center as one of the principal conductors, a position he served for more than two decades.
"I first met Maestro Palló in 1977 via the Cincinnati Opera," Burchinal said. "After that, we became fast friends and continued to work together worldwide. It's a pleasure and an honor to have him joining our production."
Premiered in Milan in 1832, "L'elisir d'amore" explores the effects of a "magic" potion upon the love triangle of the endearing rube Nemorino, rakish sergeant Belcore and wealthy beauty Adina. The production features UGA students Joseph Michael Brent as Nemorino, Evan Tyor as Belcore, Elisabeth Slaten as Adina, Avery Draut as her friend Giannette, and Christopher Voss as Dr. Dulcamara, purveyor of the eponymous potion.
For this particular production, Burchinal enlisted the assistance of guest stage director Jennifer Bakst, who has presented numerous theatre and opera productions in Germany and the U.K., including the historical Globe Theatre.
"Jennifer had the notion of setting the production on a Georgia peach farm in the late 1930s," Burchinal said. "Setting it in a unique environment provides social commentary on the characters' relationships, which is at the root of drama in any successful opera. For instance, this particular production recasts Adina as the landowner, who has steered the farm through the Great Depression; Nemorino as an easy-going, starry-eyed farm worker; Belcore as a U.S. Army recruiting officer; and Dulcamara as a washed-up bootlegger. It's a brilliant take on an already beautiful and humorous story."
Tickets for the program are $18/$5 for students and available via the UGA Performing Arts Center box office at 706-542-4400 or online at www.uga.edu/pac.
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New to Hastings, Kneen sisters bring experience to track team
Hastings High School's girls track and field team is young this year, and while Sophia and Johanna Kneen are new to the team, they came with a little experience.
The sisters moved to Hastings with their family last July from North Branch.
Sophia had been participating in track and field for five years, and Johanna for three years when they joined the Raiders.
Sophia, a junior, first turned to track and field to break away from her routine.
"I had been doing gymnastics my whole life and I wanted something different," she said.
Her events this year are the 200-meter, 400-meter, 4x400 relay and triple jump.
Johanna had enjoyed running on her own, she said. As a freshman this year, she's competing in the 400-meter, 4x400 relay and high jump.
Johanna was originally a distance runner, competing in the mile run and 800-meter.
"As I started getting faster and faster and as I started maturing more, my coach put me in the 400 and I took first place," she said.
Moving to Hastings has given both sisters a fresh start.
"I used to hate the 400," Sophia said.
After Hastings head coach Greg Sandkamp convinced her to try it, she's come to love the event, she said.
Sophia also used to bet intimidated by other athletes and certain events, she said. This year, she's unfamiliar with the other athletes and has the chance to try the events she enjoys, which means intimidation isn't a factor anymore.
For Johanna, working with new coaches has led her to modify her methods. Her high jump coach in North Branch taught her a specific jump style, one that differs from Hastings' methods.
"It's been a little hard to adapt," Johanna admitted. "It's like I have to start over."
Her jumps have to get worse to get better, she said, but she and her sister are confident she'll improve.
The question everyone seems to ask them is if they're rivals on the track, they said. While they do compete against each other, they're more supportive than competitive, they explained.
"Like my mom always says, we're like Venus and Serena (Williams)," Sophia said.
Both sisters are three-sport athletes. Sophia still competes in gymnastics and also plays soccer. Johanna plays basketball and cross-country.
"This is our favorite sport," Johanna said of track and field. "By far, this is our favorite sport."
This season, Johanna wants to lower her 400 time to 60 seconds and clear four feet, 10 inches on the high jump. Her personal bests are 63 seconds in the 400 and four feet, nine inches in high jump. Other than that, she wants to be a leader on the team, she said. Sophia just wants to beat her old times and enjoy her events. Her personal bests are 33 feet in triple jump, 64 seconds in the 4x400 relay and 27.3 seconds in the 200.
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As the Dec. 20 premiere of Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues draws closer, Hot Clicks is proud to debut this poster of our favorite sportscaster, Champ Kind. We also have a couple Blue-Ray copies of the original Anchorman to give away. The first two people who email me (email@example.com) Champ's catch phrase will get them. Please make the subject line "Champ."
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Timur Gareev, the third-ranked chess player in the U.S., went to a Chicago jail on Friday and beat 10 inmates in two hours. Also worth noting: He was blindfolded the entire time.
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This New York Times piece on Alex Rodriguez is a must read ... Kentucky tight end Steve Borden caught a touchdown pass in the Wildcats' 48-14 victory over Alabama State on Saturday. You may know Borden as the son of pro wrestler Sting ... Dallas' Paul Quinn College is thriving after eliminating its football program and replacing the field with a farm ... A Knicks fan showed up to MSG with a misspelled Walt Frazier jersey.
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Hi everyone,
So I've been loading various pistol cartridges for quite a while and have finally decided to step into doing .223 and maybe .308 later on down the road but I'm concerned about one step.
I've got a Dillon XL650 and a RCBS Turret press, so I'd like to use the Dillon since it's super fast...but... case trimming is where I get hung up.
Do any of you load .223 (for AR's) on an XL650 and how do you trim the brass? Since once it hits the size deprime station on the progressive press the newly sized brass is immediately primed on the downstroke. My only thought is to deprime and size the brass on the turret press, then trim it, then just move on over to the Dillon for priming/powder/seating.
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I have an input file that I need to read one line at a time. How do I make it read each line and stop when it's done? I know I need to use .getline, but I don't know much about it. Can someone explain it to me please?
#include <fstream.h>
ifstream infile;
knock yourself out.
.getline reads only one line, right?
Say I read in the first line and use it to do something, then I want to go read the second line of that file. Will it automatically read the next line or will it read the first line again?
if you want to get each line and process it try
You'll have to be careful with Flux Capacitor's sample code because the line buffer is limited to 100 characters. Usually i would use dynamic storage in this case, like a string.
#include <string>
string buffer;
//file opener
//file reading code with string
I'm using those values I read in to calculate some values then write them to an output file. But I have to write to the ouput file several times. How do I make it write to the end of the file instead of the beginning? Right now, it is just overwriting what I already have there! Thanks for the help.
You've got to open the file in append mode or move the file pointer to the end of the file.
Look up the seek() (I think) member function, and some of the flags you can specify when you open the file.
Has this turned into a place where we do their homework for them?
Heh, ok, i'll try to save this from being a cheat forum.
Sorry, i didn't see the dot there so i didn't know you had to use the member function to get the line.
Lets take a look at the routine:
Ok, you should already know that when a file is opened in memory, there really aren't any "lines" but rather end of line markers in a long string of characters. When you make a call to the member function getline, it will return the string of characters from where the current input file pointer starts up to the next end of line/end of file character, however the string will not contain that marker (that is, kill the line feed and carriage return). This string is stored in the character pointer you give to it, in this case is called line and can store up to 100 characters per line. If the length of the "line" exceeds 100 characters, you will probably be truncated. A remedy to this is what i noted before in using dynamic data storage OR if you know beforehand the length of the lines, you can set your array size accordingly (i believe using a regular ol' pointer should work too, but i've always had problems doing things like that and have since stopped).
Now since you want to read in a line and execute code following that, you need to setup a loop. You can see in Screndib's routine, a while conditional loop is used to loop the execution of your code while the condition itself is the statement which obtains a line from the input file. What happens is that the ifstream object will return NULL or false to the while conditional check if it is unable to read from the file any longer (which should be when EOF is reached). This effectively loops the execution of your code for as many lines as your input file has.
You also asked about writing to your output file several times without overwriting. If all the outputs are written to your file on a single execution, a way to make all the outputs appear one after another after execution is to keep your output file object open during the entire execution of your write to output code. For example, if you want to write to the output file in the subcode of the while loop, then you simply open the output file before the loop, do all your writing in the loop, then you can close after the loop OR after any additional appending code. If you need to write to that file in multiple files, you can declare the output file as a global and close it after the completion of your program (usually not recommended) or just open it in your main and pass it by reference to each function that needs to use it. Appending works too, but if you always open your file by appending, each run of your program successively adds to your output file and you might not want that.
Now isn't this a learning experience?
Well, none of you were really much help anyway, so don't worry about helping me cheat. I got it working on my own. Thanks for the effort though.


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Tegus's weeknights can be a tad drowsy, but Friday and Saturday nights get quite lively. (In fact, many nightspots keep Wednesday-through-Saturday schedules only.) Around Colonia Palmira you'll find good bars and restaurants, and Blvd. Morazán is home to the glitziest clubs. Pick up the current edition of Honduras Weekly to find out what's happening around town.
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A 24-year-old Marana man was arrested Tuesday night after he allegedly started fires along the bike path of the Santa Cruz River Park, police said.
Tyler Christopher Shotts, of the 7100 block of West Deserama Drive, is facing three counts of reckless burning and two counts of endangerment, said Sgt. Tim Brunenkant of the Marana Police Department.
Shotts, who was arrested at his home, was booked into the Pima County jail.
Shortly before 5 p.m., police cited Shotts for criminal damage in connection to spray painting the bridge at West Cortaro Farms Road and the Santa Cruz River, Brunenkant said.
Police then received a call from the parents of children who had talked to a man earlier in the day by the river, and the man told the children that he had started a fire in the river Monday night, Brunenkant said.
The description of the man led police to search for Shotts, and during the search reports of a man on a bicycle lighting fires along the river's bike path came in to 911, said Brunenkant.
It was the second night in a row that Northwest Fire District firefighters responded to the area to battle brush fires.
On Tuesay, firefighters got the brush fires under control in 35 minutes, said Capt. Adam Goldberg of Northwest Fire District.
On Monday, crews battled a brush fire in the river after 9 p.m. It burned about an acre and a half before the blaze was brought under control, Goldberg said.


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In addition to the 2013 test, the vehicles are set to attempt a longer test drive from Beijing to the city of Shenzhen in south China's Guangdong Province some 1,500 miles away, officials at the country's National Natural Science Foundation said.
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The victim of a burglar who was caught out thanks to quick-thinking Facebook users had admitted she is outraged after the perpetrator got off the hook.
Members of the Basildon Memories Facebook page helped snare Edward Goble, 28, after the victim Pauline van Dijk posted images of the thief walking away with her grandson's scooter after he broken into her garage on November 20.
Within minutes, eagle eyed members of the 4,000-strong group had identified Goble and he was arrested hours later.
Despite being swiftly arrested and making a full admission to officers, the charge was withdrawn at Basildon Magistrates' Court yesterday. (Dec 11)
Ms van Dijk said: "Personally, he was caught bang to rights.
"Basically, the CCTV pictures proved he was there and that he took the stuff, plus he admitted it and when the police caught him the same night he was in the same clothes."
Goble has mental health problems and the Echo understands the case fell down because police did not interview him with another adult.
Essex Police claims that Goble was assessed by a healthcare professional and was deemed fit to be interviewed without another adult being present.
A police spokesman added: "It is unfortunate that this case could not be proceeded and we will be looking to see if our procedures could be tightened up to ensure that this does not occur again."
The police also said they did not contact the victim or any other witnesses has Goble had admitted to the offence.
Ms van Dijk added: "Whether he has mental health problems or not, he knows stealing off people is wrong."
The scooter was worth £400 but it was recovered.
Goble also appeared at court yesterday on another charge of attempted burglary at a house in Soane Street, Basildon on July 15.
He had earlier pleaded guilty to the offence and was handed a 12 month community order, including supervision, and ordered to go on a mental health treatment course.
After his sentence was passed, he said: "I know it was wrong to commit the offence."


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MK0431 Monotherapy Study in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (0431-040)
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Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
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|Tracking Information
|First Submitted Date ICMJE
|February 7, 2006
|First Posted Date ICMJE
|February 10, 2006
|Results First Submitted Date
|March 18, 2010
|Results First Posted Date
|April 2, 2010
|Last Update Posted Date
|June 15, 2015
|Start Date ICMJE
|March 2006
|Primary Completion Date
|March 2007 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Current Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Change From Baseline in Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) at Week 18 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 18 ]
A1C was measured as a percent. Thus, this change from baseline reflects the Week 18 A1C percent minus the Week 0 A1C percent.
|Original Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|(1) After 18 weeks, to assess the effect of treatment with MK0431 compared with placebo on HbA1c; (2) To Assess the safety and tolerability of MK0431
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|Current Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Original Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|(1) After 18 weeks, to assess the effect of treatment with MK0431 compared with placebo on: (1) Fasting plasma glucose (FPG) and (2) 2-Hour post-prandial glucose, after a standard meal challenge.
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|Brief Title ICMJE
|MK0431 Monotherapy Study in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (0431-040)
|Official Title ICMJE
|A Multicenter, Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Study of MK0431 in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Who Have Inadequate Glycemic Control
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|This is a clinical study to determine the safety and efficacy of an investigational drug in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
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|Phase 3
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|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double (Participant, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
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|Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
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|Mohan V, Yang W, Son HY, Xu L, Noble L, Langdon RB, Amatruda JM, Stein PP, Kaufman KD. Efficacy and safety of sitagliptin in the treatment of patients with type 2 diabetes in China, India, and Korea. Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2009 Jan;83(1):106-16. doi: 10.1016/j.diabres.2008.10.009. Epub 2008 Dec 20.
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|Completion Date
|March 2007
|Primary Completion Date
|March 2007 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Eligibility Criteria ICMJE
Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria :
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers
|Contacts ICMJE
|Contact information is only displayed when the study is recruiting subjects
|Listed Location Countries ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Removed Location Countries
|China, India, Korea, Republic of
|Administrative Information
|NCT Number ICMJE
|Other Study ID Numbers ICMJE
|Has Data Monitoring Committee
|U.S. FDA-regulated Product
|Not Provided
|IPD Sharing Statement
|Not Provided
|Responsible Party
|Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
|Study Sponsor ICMJE
|Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
|Collaborators ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Investigators ICMJE
|PRS Account
|Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
|Verification Date
|May 2015
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