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Located in the shopping and leisure city centre, next to El Corte Inglés, the bus & train station, it is the best option for visiting Coruña, thanks to its easy access to the city, business & industrial estate.
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181 spacious rooms; breakfast room and cafeteria ; free high speed WiFi internet; Internet Corner (extra charge); 4 meeting rooms and a capacity for 200 people. Public parking with charge in the same building.
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Spacious and bright outward facing rooms, with twin beds or a double bed (queen size / king size on request), 32inch LCD TV, air conditioning / heating, free WiFi internet, safe, minibar and a full bathroom.
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Discover a seaside city with magical allure when you book a room at our TRYP Coruna Hotel. Located in the main shopping district Next to Corte Inglés, the Cuatro Caminos shopping centre, the bus and coach station and very near the port and train station. 20 minute walk from Riazor - Orzan beaches and the city centre, easy access to shops, restaurants.
We offer spacious and bright rooms, all of which are outward facing. Free high speed WiFi internet in all rooms and in common areas.
Try our wonderful international breakfast buffet with show cooking, unique in A Coruña. Cakes and pastries, fruit, bread and rolls, cold meats and cheeses and a selection of freshly cut fruit in a glass. Find the drinks area and the space dedicated to special gluten free products …OPENING TIMES: From Monday to Friday (7am to 10:30am) / Weekends and bank holidays (8am to 11am).
EXPERTS IN THE CITY: THE CITY BELONGS TO YOU: We have a team of experts in the city of A Coruña who will help and advise you on everything you can do and see during your stay in A Coruña. Gastronomy, leisure, culture, sport… the entire city within your reach.
BUSINESS HOTEL IN A CORUÑA: The TRYP Coruña is a fully equipped business hotel measuring 206 m2, with high speed WiFi internet in the rooms, 4 meeting and banqueting rooms, 2 of them with natural light and a capacity for up to 200 people. Its facilities are equipped with the latest technologies and provide the most modern audiovisual equipment
We offer a complete team of experts who will help and advise you to make your meeting or event a success
- Internet point
- Luggage storage
- Meeting facilities size (meters) - 480
- Number of meeting/conference rooms - 4
- Multiple large conference rooms
- Multiple small meeting rooms
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Complimentary newspapers in lobby
- Garage parking (surcharge)
- Free Wi-Fi
- Wired (high-speed) Internet access - surcharge
- Year Built 1990
- Meeting facilities size (feet) - 5165
- Total number of rooms - 181
- 24-hour front desk
- Audiovisual equipment
- Number of floors - 5
- Banquet facilities
- Bar/lounge
- Air-conditioned public areas
- Coffee/tea in lobby
- Elevator/lift
- Business center
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Tour assistance
- Laundry facilities
- Snack bar/deli
- Parking nearby (surcharge)
- Room service (limited hours)
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Television in lobby
- Internet
Available in all rooms: Free Wi-Fi, Free wired high-speed Internet
Available in some public areas: Free Wi-Fi, Wired (high-speed) Internet access - surcharge
- Parking
Garage parking (surcharge), Parking nearby (surcharge)
- Room Amenities
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Free Wi-Fi
- Air conditioning
- Wake-up calls
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
- Connecting / adjoining rooms available
- Complimentary newspaper
- Climate control
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- Minibar
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- Hair dryer
- Bathroom phone
- Bidet
- Makeup/shaving mirror
- Satellite TV service
- Electronic/magnetic keys
- Window opens
- Desk
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- In-room safe
- City view
- Dining
Varied breakfast buffet with show cooking. Snack bar. Lunches arranged for business and leisure groups. Hotel is located in the optimal zone to enjoy the best in traditional Galician cuisine. Nearby attractions include the beaches and historic monuments such as the Tower of Hercules, as well as fairgrounds/concert center Expocoruña, and Palexco, Center of Exhibitions and Congresses, plus the rest of Coruña's cultural life. Opportunity to practice water sports.
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The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golf - driving range nearby
- Swimming nearby
- Running track/path nearby
- Sports center nearby
- Bird watching nearby
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- Check-in
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
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Guests planning to arrive past 6 PM should contact hotel in advance using information found in booking confirmation.
- Check-out
Check-out time is noon
- Payment types
Accepted at this hotel: American Express, Diners Club, Visa
- Pets
Pets not allowed
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
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- The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
- Breakfast fee: EUR 8.00 per person (approximately)
- Self parking fee: EUR 15.60 per night
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But do you feel like it changed you as a player, even if you felt their priorities were in the wrong place? I got some new things under my fingers. It wasn't a wholly bad experience, but they're in a tricky position: They're teaching a music industry that is changing every second—and that massively changed in the early 2000s with the internet and the fact that it's harder to monetize a record. So they're in this position where they're, like, "Here, kids, come on in—go into debt to go to this school that's going to teach you the secrets of how to make it in the music industry." But the only way to make it in the industry is just to go out there and do it—because it's changing every second. [Secondary music educa-tion] is very much steeped in this major-label model. I signed to an indie label, and [schools] don't really account for that in their Music Business 101 classes, or whatever. They don't account for the fact that barely any of us will go out there, sign to a major label, and get hundreds of thousands of dollars for our first record. That's not where I was, and that's not where I wanted to be. That's what they're selling, though— how to go out there and make it on a major label. That's a way to do it, but the statistics are stacked against you.
Because your music is very indie, it's kind of surprising that you studied in a formal guitar program. Do you still think in terms of theory when you play? Not really. If I needed to communicate with somebody—like, "No, I'm sorry, this chord is actually an E%m( 9) chord"—I could tell them that.
Yeah. I just played the melody of the chorus lines, and I used a Boss Super Shifter to get that [hums] rrrun-rrrun-rrrun—that portamento thing. Clark with her three-pickup Silvertone 1488 Silhouette at a February 2010 date at the 9: 30 Club in Washington, DC. Photo by Brandon Wu
How many guitar layers are you using there? I double-tracked the [sings chorus riff] duh-duh-dut duh-duh-duh, duh-duh-dut duh-duh-dut duh-duh dut dut dut parts and the part that mimics the vocal melody, and then I was like, "What would Frank Black do— what would the Pixies do in this song?"
You play a lot of instruments. Do you usually write on guitar, piano, or something else? I wrote my last record, Actor, completely in a box—I wrote it in GarageBand. In some cases, I just drew in notes with my mouse. I didn't touch any instruments to make it— which was a long process. With this record, I went back to my roots and wrote on guitar. Just simple songs on guitar.
Let's talk about the new album. How did you get those distorted sounds with a really sharp attack on "Cruel"—they sound almost like a guitar turned into a keyboard? That's my ' 67 Harmony Bobkat with two gold-foil pickups and a Death by Audio Interstellar Overdriver Deluxe through a late-'70s silverface Fender Princeton Reverb.
Just chord progressions first? Yeah. I'm kind of impatient and I want to hear the whole product when I start, but I just forced myself to keep it very barebones with the chords and everything.
Do riffs like those come to you when you first write a song, or do they come up later as you're developing a song in the studio? Well, what I did for this album is I wrote very simple songs, first and foremost, and then I just kept this arsenal of riffs on hand. I wasn't [initially] worried about, like, "Oh, what will the riff in this song be?" but I knew there had to be some kind of riff. So I basically have a scrapbook of riffs, and then once I had a song written, I would mosey over to the scrapbook and go, "Oh, this will work—let's put this on here."
You play the Harmony Bobkat and the similar Silvertone 1488 a lot—what drew you to them? What drew me to them is part practical and part aesthetic. One, they're really light. I'm a pretty small person and, even though I love the sustain of a Les Paul, three songs into a set, my back hurts because it's too heavy. I know that was the

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Tag Archives: Mothership Zeta
Mon, Oct 04, 2010 | 06:40 BST
Fallout 3 DLC goes half-price in this week's Live Deal of the Week
Bethesda's fattening you up for a visit to New Vegas by cutting the price in half of all DLC for Fallout 3 as part of Xbox Live's Deal of the Week.
Thu, Sep 17, 2009 | 15:00 BST
Fallout 3 PS3 DLC and cross-platform GOTY edition dated
Bethesda's just confirmed that Broken Steel will release for the PS3 version of Fallout 3 on September 24.
Operation: Anchorage and The Pitt will follow on on October 1. Point Lookout and Mothership Zeta hit on October 8.
Fallout 3′s Game of the Year edition, featuring the game and all five content packs, will release on October 16 for PC, 360 and PS3.
The full banana'll cost you £39.99/€59.99 on 360 and PS3, and a mere £29.99/€49.99 on PC.
PR after the break.
Mon, Aug 03, 2009 | 12:17 BST
Bethesda: Mothership Zeta the last piece of Fallout 3 DLC
Bethesda has confirmed that Mothership Zeta will be the final piece of Fallout 3 DLC.
As pointed out by MTV Multiplayer, the description of the DLC's launch trailer, on the Fallout website, shows that Zeta will be your lot after today.
Although, remember what happened last time?
Mon, Aug 03, 2009 | 11:52 BST
Fallout 3 – Mothership Zeta goes live
Microsoft's put live Mothership Zeta, the final piece of Fallout 3 DLC, on Xbox Live Marketplace. Queue it up here.
It's available for 800 MS Points and comes in at 324.36Mb to download.
Take a look at the launch trailer if you're still undecided, although truth be told, we honestly don't know why you wouldn't be.
A release date for the PS3 version is to be confirmed.
Fri, Jul 31, 2009 | 22:24 BST
Fallout 3 video shows off Mothership Zeta
There's a Mothership Zeta video posted after the break courtesy of Joystiq.
Fallout 3′s latest bit of DLC will land August 3 for 800 MS Points ($10) on PC and Xbox.
The PS3 version will be available at a later date.
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Tue, Jul 21, 2009 | 15:38 BST
New Mothership Zeta shots for Fallout 3 arrive
Bethesda has sent us over some lovely screens from Mothership Zeta, the upcoming DLC for Fallout 3.
It lands August 3.
New weapons include the Alien Atomizer, Alien Disintegrator and the Drone Cannon and new outfits will be available as well.
The add-on will cost 800 MS points or $9.99 for XBL and Windows.
A gallery is posted after the jump.
Mon, Jul 20, 2009 | 21:40 BST
New weapons, perk revealed for Mothership Zeta
If you'd rather Mothership Zeta's mysterious alien culture remain, well, mysterious, you should probably go ahead and plug your ears and avert your eyes. If not, though, MTV Multiplayer's new info on the DLC is right up your alley.
"Mothership Zeta is full of the most high tech weaponry in the game. It includes a Shock Baton for melee fighters, multiple new firearms including an Alien Atomizer, a pistol, and the Alien Disintegrator, a new rifle. There's also a new grenade type, a Cryo Grenade, which freezes enemies for a short period of time. On top of that there are new unique weapons, and a new heavy weapon," said Bethesda's Jeff Gardiner.
He also revealed a new perk called "Xenotech Expert," which increases your damage-dealing prowess with alien weapons.
On top of that, somewhere on the ship, you'll be able to find an item called "Alien Epoxy," a marvel of alien engineering that repairs items by 25% without a duplicate item. Better still, you have the option of returning to the ship whenever you want, so even if you miss an alien whosit or whatsit while roaming the ship's corridors, you can always come back.
The DLC's out this August for Xbox 360 and PC owners, while PS3 Fallout faithful will have to wait until September.
Tue, Jul 14, 2009 | 16:27 BST
Mothership Zeta DLC for Fallout 3 landing August 3
Bethesda has announced that the Mothership Zeta DLC for Fallout 3 will land on August 3.
In it, your character finds a crashed alien ship over in the Capitol Wastelands and because of your morbid curiosity, the orbiting mothership decides to beam you up. To escape, you must find command central and blast the aliens and robot drones trying to stop you.
New weapons include the Alien Atomizer, Alien Disintegrator and the Drone Cannon and new outfits will be available as well.
The add-on will cost 800 MS points or $9.99 for XBL and Windows.
Check out the new screens for it over on the Bethesda Blog.
More details are also through the jump.
Tue, May 19, 2009 | 15:01 BST
All Fallout 3 DLC to be published on PS3, two more episodes confirmed for PS3, 360 and PC
All Fallout 3 DLC is to be released for PS3, Bethesda said today, including the three previously released episodes and two more upcoming chapters.
"Operation: Anchorage will be released for PS3 in June, followed by the release of The Pitt and Broken Steel 4-6 weeks apart," said the company in a statement.
"Release dates will be forthcoming."
Bethesda announced "substantial" DLC exclusively for 360 at E3 last year.
In a subsequent interview, the publisher's comms boss, Peter Hines, told VG247 that keeping the content away from other consoles "was the right thing to do for Fallout 3."
The two new episodes announced today are called Point Lookout and Mothership Zeta. Both will release on PS3, 360 and PC.
Point Lookout features a "massive new swampland area filled with new quests and content," and will be available in late June for Xbox 360 and PC for 800 MS Points. The PS3 version will release after Broken Steel hits the console.
Mothership Zeta allows you to "experience an alien abduction first hand and find out if you're tough enough to survive." Xbox 360 an PC users get it in late July for 800 Points. PS3 gamers will see it after Point Lookout releases.
In addition, three new Fallout 3 products will release on disc over the next six months.
From the press release:
- Fallout 3 Game Add-on Pack #1 includes The Pitt and Operation: Anchorage on a disc and will be available for Xbox 360 and PC on June 12th across Europe.
- Fallout 3 Game Add-on Pack #2 includes Broken Steel and Point Lookout on a disc and will be available for Xbox 360 and PC in August across Europe.
- A Fallout 3 Game of the Year edition will be available in October. It will include the original game plus all five add-ons for £39.99 / €59.99 for Xbox 360 and PS3, and £29.99 / €49.99 for PC.
Consider that well and truly milked, then.


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Includes:The Skulls (2000), MPAA Rating: PG-13 The Skulls II (2002) The Skulls 3 (2003), MPAA Rating: PG-13 The Skulls In this suspense drama, a college student finds himself immersed in forces beyond his control. Born and raised in a working-class Connecticut community, Luke McNamara (Joshua Jackson) made it into an Ivy League college, where he's done quite well; his dream is to be accepted into Harvard Law School, but he knows that it will take more than a good report card to beat out the competition. When an upper-crust secret society called the Skulls asks Luke to join, he eagerly accepts, thinking that the club's connections will help him gain acceptance to Harvard. He enjoys the Skulls' luxurious lifestyle, but when his roommate, a journalism student, dies of an apparent suicide, he's convinced that something is wrong. The deeper Luke digs into the secrets of the Skulls, the more he's convinced that his friend's death was no suicide and that he's put himself in more danger than he imagined. The Skulls was the first starring vehicle for Joshua Jackson, who gained fame on the TV series Dawson's Creek; the supporting cast includes Paul Walker, Craig T. Nelson, Hill Harper, and William L. Petersen. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide The Skulls II The red-robed Skulls are at it again. The exclusive, sinister college fraternity that makes hazing seem like pillow fights inducts Ryan Sommers (Robin Dunne), who later secretly witnesses what appears to be the death of a woman at the hands of a Skull member. But of course, he can't tell on a Skull because the motto is "A Skull above all others," which is how some of these guys get to be high government leaders and megalomaniacal industrialists. Ryan's conscience bothers him anyway but once he begins investigating how to report the crime, his girlfriend, Ali (Ashley Lyn Cafagna), rejects him and seemingly everyone in a position to help him is a Skull. With the inspiration of lovely, good-hearted Kelly (Lindy Booth), Ryan proceeds to do what's right, even if it's wrong for him. ~ Buzz McClain, All Movie Guide The Skulls 3 The second straight-to-video sequel to the 2000 thriller The Skulls marks the feature directorial debut of television producer/director J. Miles Dale. Again focusing on the secret fraternal society of The Skulls (based on the real-life Skull and Bones), The Skulls 3 stars Bring It On's Clare Kramer as Taylor Brooks, a new student who aims to become the first female member of the powerful organization. Met with resistance from many of The Skulls, Taylor shows that she's willing to resort to any means necessary to gain acceptance. Bryce Johnson and Barry Bostwick also star. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide


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A late-'30s-era London governess hired to work in the home of a high-profile nightclub chanteuse gets a taste of the good life when she is assigned the task of sorting out the singer's many unseemly affairs in a period comedy starring Frances McDormand and adapted from the novel by Winifred Watson. Unfairly and unceremoniously dismissed from her latest position without so much as a penny of severance pay, Miss Guinevere Pettigrew (McDormand) realizes that in order to stay financially afloat she'll need to find a new job fast. Though she has worn out her welcome at the unemployment office due to her propensity to loose jobs, she's determined to seize the day and keep an open mind. Before she's booted from the office, she takes note of a job opening that is a little outside of her experience, but decides to pursue it, pretending she is the prospective employee the office was planning to recommend. Becoming a "social secretary" may not be exactly what Miss Pettigrew had in mind when the time came to seek out a new job, yet she hopes that her enthusiasm will offset her inexperience and throws caution to the wind.
Upon arriving at the penthouse of up-and-coming American entertainer Delysia Lafosse (Amy Adams), the unassuming Miss Pettigrew becomes instantly swept up in the high-society milieu. But serving as social secretary to one of the busiest women in the city is no easy task, and before the day is over, Miss Pettigrew and her new charge will both learn a thing or two about life and love. Now, as Miss Pettigrew helps Delysia make informed career decisions and choose between one of three potential suitors, her own attraction to a handsome clothing designer named Joe (Ciarán Hands) could prove her undoing. Joe's current fiancée, Edythe (Shirley Henderson), is an insolent fashion maven with little patience for those she deems incompetent or unworthy of the spotlight, and she currently has her targets locked onto a certain social secretary who doesn't yet grasp the complex social mechanisms of the high-society lifestyle. Simon Beaufoy and David Magee co-author a screenplay directed by Bharat Nalluri. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Six American graduate students studying apes in the African jungle discover a new species of killer chimpanzees that could prove to be the most formidable threat ever known to humankind. Upon first spotting this bizarre new breed, Greg, Dani, Amy, Josh, Sydney, and Seth were all assured by their highly-esteemed professor (F. Murray Abraham) that they have all been part of a discovery that could change the very face of science. Survival instinct soon takes over, however, when a typical study in animal behavior becomes a brutal struggle to escape a relentless predator with unparalleled strength and speed. As the serenity of the wilderness is suddenly shattered by the blood-curdling screams of man, Mother Nature proves just how little we truly understand about the savagery of the jungle. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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A mechanic in the British drug trade finds himself caught in the middle of some dangerous circumstances in this crime thriller. XXXX (Daniel Craig) is a nameless go-between in the British mob who buys drugs from underground wholesalers and them sells them to street dealers, keeping the system flowing and making a tidy profit in the process. XXXX is looking forward to getting out of the game, and has displayed both smarts and caution in how he's handled his business, but before his overseer Jimmy Price (Kenneth Cranham) will let him go, he has a couple of favors that need to be done. First, Eddie Temple (Michael Gambon) is a mob boss whose daughter has gotten hooked on hard drugs and run away from home; Jimmy needs XXXX to find them girl and bring her to him before Eddie's men can get hold of her. Second, Dragan (Dragan Micanovic) is a Ecstasy wholesaler who has had a large shipment stolen by Duke (Jamie Foreman); Jimmy wants XXXX to get the Ecstasy back to Dragan, but Duke isn't eager to sell and Dragan is becoming impatient. Between these two matters, XXXX isn't so sure he'll get out of the business alive, especially after he finds himself falling for Duke's nephew's girlfriend, Tammy (Sienna Miller). Layer Cake marked the directorial debut for Matthew Vaughn, best known as a producer for Guy Ritchie's lad-centric crime movies. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Animas-La Plata Southern Ute and Ute Mountain Indian Tribes have negotiated a plan to secure their legal water rights while protecting environmental values and the interests of other users.
Animas-La Plata Central As the author says, "the ONLY website devoted solely to the deserved demise of the Animas-La Plata Project," also listed here at our web site. There are other sites listed on his link page which I am not going to include at NAE. (Steve Cone).
Colorado Ute Water Rights Settlement Agreement Summary of this agreement. (Water Information Program).
Leavitt's Anti-Nuke Policy Will Strangle Tribe, Say Goshutes Mike Leavitt is Utah's Governor. (William Claiborne, Salt Lake Tribune, March 11, 1999).
More Than Half of Goshutes Sue Tribe Over Waste Plan (Jim Woolf, Salt Lake Tribune, March 13, 1999).
Native Americans Bear the Nuclear Burden About the Shoshone and the Paiute-Shoshone. Provides an overview of the Monitored Retrievable Storage (MRS) project of the Department of Energy. (Andreas Knudsen, Indigenous Affairs. International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs. Archive: NAE, 1996).
Nevada Indian Environmental Coalition NIEC was founded in 1991 in Reno, Nevada, by five Indian tribes of Nevada seeking to develop environmental programs that would protect their people and lands. Since its inception, NIEC has grown to include 24 Indian colonies and reservations.
Sawmill in Court over Medicine Wheel Includes map. "Wyoming Sawmills of Sheridan has gone to court to overturn a 1996 U.S. Forest Service plan for managing the Medicine Wheel atop the Bighorn Mountains." (Michael Milstein, Billings Gazette, March 19, 1999).
Shundahai Network "Shundahai Network was formed at the Nevada Nuclear Test Site in 1994, by a council of long-term nuclear disarmament activists, at the request of Corbin Harney, a Western Shoshone Spiritual Leader. We have evolved into an international network of activists and organizations bridging the gap between the environmental, peace and justice and indigenous land rights communities."
Skull Valley Goshutes Devoted exclusively to the issue of storing spent nuclear fuel on the Skull Valley Reservation (this is one continuing development of the MRS program on Native American lands that was widely reported several years ago in environmental publications). The state of Uah and over half the tribe are suing to stop the plan.
Stealing Nevada This is a well-written introduction to the Shoshone struggle to regain control over their land. (Scott R. Ladd, Native Americans and the Environment, 1996).
The Timbisha Shoshone Tribal Homeland This site contains current recommendations for the establishment of Timbisha Shoshone tribal lands in and around Death Valley National Park (including lands currently managed by the BLM). (National Park Service, 1999).
Timbisha Ask To Halt Briggs Mine Don't know the year, probably 1996. (Timbisha Shoshone Tribe, Press release. Archive: NAE).
Western Shoshone Defense Project WSDP's mission is to affirm Newe (Western Shoshone) jurisdiction over Newe Sogobia (Western Shoshone homelands) by protecting, preserving, and restoring Newe rights and lands for present and future generations based on cultural and spiritual traditions.
Western Shoshone (Nevada) A report from an exploratory team sent by Peace Brigades International to investigate the situation of the Western Shoshone (and their land rights). (Peace Brigades International, Special Report, January, 1995).
White Mesa Utes Beat Back Superfund Tailings "White Mesa Utes defeat DOE's plans to dump hazardous waste on land surround their reservation." (Carol Sisco, High Country News 27(1), January 23, 1995).
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Okay let's talk consumer confidence it.
Taken a big hit in May it's -- largest plunge since January joining us now the chief economist for the Credit Union National Association.
Bill Campbell.
-- -- -- down house and a wife three months in a row are Americans too whiny.
They don't -- -- -- hold onto a thought for too long do they they they changed her mind quite a bit act actually -- you know consumer confidence.
Rose really sharply in February.
And we've been holding those gains since and we've basically given back half of those gains.
I think I think if you look at the stresses that the consumers are having to respond to.
Especially when we've just been talking about now what's going on internationally -- worth we're energy prices up until recently.
It's not surprising and the stock market is not surprising that they're they're giving a little bit -- about their confidence.
However I I think it's going forward for the next few months the fundamentals they face are gonna continue to -- -- -- we'll see some return of consumer confidence yet that's.
Rather -- even though people are depressed you actually see reason for hope so the whole consumer sentiment thing it's a kind of a backward looking metric.
I think it is -- -- I think the consumer confidence is a result of all the other consumer fundamentals and and there's nothing looking really fantastic now but most of those other fundamentals are gradually improving you know that -- the debt ratio that we we've got.
Hooked on a few years ago has been coming down very nicely for the last few years -- consumers are more able to borrow.
Employment gains although not fantastic -- -- -- coming back you know we've we've had -- Pretty substantial job growth in the last six or seven months that's beginning to feed through to incomes.
And then consumers have also built up quite a few backlogs of demand -- -- We if you through all these things together despite all the stresses and strains in the financial markets and in -- and the Arizona particular.
The household sector which remember does account for about two thirds of total spending in the US economy seems to be chugging along fairly nicely.
Right now the interesting thing though is that I really doubt that.
Most people -- middle America follow the Greek crisis over debtor I think and yet the two things that we feel almost instantly our prices at the gas pump.
And what our home would.
Bring more money or lose warm and if we had to sell today and those of the two sticking points but will this cheapest gas in depth helping sentiment in coming months.
Well there -- -- gas prices tend to help improve sentiment in the bottom half of the income distribution those are the folks for whom.
Gasoline purchases are more significant.
Portion of their income and they spent an awful lot of their income so gas prices will certainly help.
Home prices are also moderating in the opposite direction they're declined as it looks like it's just about ending.
And if you know the vestige about 70% of people -- their homes and any improvement in the outlook for home prices is likely help consumer confidence also both of those are positives.
All right thank you Bill Campbell the basic take away guys blocked up.
Where -- too depressed.
Thank you it isn't -- but you know to admit it we're looking at that manufacturing number today you are talking about the fact that you've got manufacturing jobs up -- -- rebel.
That affects company did this deal defeat from the John -- -- benefit.
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MAGNIFY Computer-generated prints with arrow showing the technique of magnifications of details. Signed by Benoît Mandelbrot. From the Collection Aliette Mandelbrot
Image: Courtesy Bard Graduate Center
The symbolic language of mathematics can be beautiful—but even more striking are some of the patterns and forms that arise from the visual representation of math.
The power of mathematical images attracted Nina Samuel, an art historian, to investigate how visual information can inform scientific discoveries. "Images are not only a by-product but at the core of science," says Samuel, a visiting assistant professor at the Bard Graduate Center in New York City. She gained access to hundreds of papers and images in the office of mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot soon after his death in 2010. "I found images I didn't expect to find," she adds.
A selection of those images, courtesy of Aliette Mandelbrot, the late mathematician's wife, make up an exhibit, The Islands of Benoît Mandelbrot: Fractals, Chaos and the Materiality of Thinking, now at the center's Focus Gallery in Manhattan. The display opened early this fall and will run until January 27, 2013.
The exhibit features a wealth of previously unpublished work: printouts of experiments on polynomial equations, found images such as magazine ads and photographs that reminded Mandelbrot of fractals as well as drawings from other mathematicians. Samuel curated the show based in part on her PhD thesis in art history at Humboldt University of Berlin.
Mandelbrot, a Polish-born French and American mathematician, invented the word "fractal" in 1975 to describe complex shapes that remain so at different levels of scale and show self-similar patterns. Fractal geometry is often found in the jagged edges of nature—ferns, clouds and mountains, for example—but the artificial fractal images that most resemble these forms are produced by trial and error. Some computer-generated fractal mountains do not resemble any rocky spires of earthly geology—they are crazed pinnacles of implausibility. As Samuel explains, "You can make the connection to nature if you want to, but you really need to want to."
Images from the field of fractal geometry entered popular culture in the mid-1980s via wildly colored, psychedelic images of a fractal that Mandelbrot investigated and now bears his name, the Mandelbrot set.
In his memoir, published after his death, Mandelbrot wrote, "I don't feel I 'invented' the Mandelbrot set: like all of mathematics, it has always been there, but a peculiar life orbit made me the right person at the right place at the right time to be the first to inspect this object, to begin to ask many questions about it, and to conjecture many answers."
To demonstrate the process of discovery, Samuel intends viewers to first see the back wall of the small exhibit room, which is covered with "The White Series." The series is Mandelbrot and his team's effort to visualize complex polynomial sets. While working on these problems, the team was able to see solutions by running the equations through a computer. A small selection of those printouts is arrayed on the back wall of the exhibit. The exhibit brochure explains, "Seeing patterns in these pictures helped Mandelbrot decide how to adjust the input of data. Forming an important part of Mandelbrot's thought process, these changing forms provoked new questions and led to new discoveries." The spread hints at this, and with a little imagination the viewer can see the process—some sheets show cloudy, bubbling forms boiling up from the white page. Others show hints of shapes that foreshadow the iconic Mandelbrot set. Still others are barely freckled with dots.


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By Bruce Archer
AFC Wimbledon midfielder Peter Sweeney said there are positives to take from Tuesday's Johnstone's Paint Trophy defeat at Brentford.
On a night where is it rained goals at Griffin Park, Jim Fenlon, George Francomb and Sweeney all got their first goals of the season – but they could not prevent a 5-3 beating at the hands of the League One outfit.
It was Sweeney's first goal in a Dons shirt since arriving at the Cherry Red Records stadium in January and, despite the calibre of the opposition, the 28-year-old pointed to a small 10-minute window as being decisive.
He said: "It was always going to be hard going to Brentford, they're an established club looking for promotion to the Championship.
"They've bought players for good money and on good wages, but I felt we matched them in large spells so we'll take the positives from it."
Brentford had a slender 1-0 lead at the break, but three goals in 10 second-half minutes had the Dons 4-1 down and all-but out of the game.
Sweeney said: "We are all a little bit disappointed to be honest. We showed a lot of courage to come back when we went 5-1 down.
"We maybe could have had a penalty when their keeper and George [Porter] came together at 2-0.
"If the keeper gets sent off, it's a different game, but that 10 minutes cost us."
Despite his disappointment, Sweeney said the Dons' main priority lay with the League Two campaign.
Dons go to York City this weekend, who the Dons were unbeaten against in four match-ups last term, followed by a trip to the current league leaders Chesterfield the weekend after.
Sweeny said: "We've got to treat both games in exactly the same way as we have been doing, which has got us where we are, so we'll go to York looking for three points.
"The gaffer has his plan and we'll be looking to outplay them."
Boss Neal Ardley said: "If we were a bit gung-ho, I will take the rap for that.
"We wanted to have a good go at it in the second-half and we pushed players forward to try and win the game."
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So last year, NSPI started shopping the show to potential buyers, focusing on trade show producers with the connections and databases to push the expo into the next stage of its evolution. NSPI looked at several companies before settling on Dallas-based Hanley-Wood, an exhibition and publishing company with a portfolio of properties, mostly in construction-related industries. Among Hanley-Wood's other shows: World of Concrete and Custom Home.
"The magnitude and power they brought to our industry — expanding it to the entire backyard and an entire cadre of other areas — was probably the biggest reason we went with Hanley-Wood," Cergol explains.
In February, NSPI sold the rights to manage and stage the show, which was renamed the NSPI International Expo and Conference, in exchange for an undisclosed sum and a percentage of the revenue from future conferences. NSPI will continue to sponsor the show. Proceeds from the sale have been invested, and income from those investments will provide operating funds for the association.
But Why?
Why would any association give up control of a signature event? Many groups that consider farming out their trade show responsibilities often do so because they choose to focus on their core functions. "If you look at the mission of most organizations, it doesn't say 'running trade shows,' but it does say "serving their members,'" Poss says. Education and some type of advocacy are usually high priorities. Granted, running an exhibition has several obvious advantages, such as providing a hefty chunk of an association's operating funds and facilitating commerce within an industry. But turning matters over to a third party can accomplish the same goals.
In the case of Hanley-Wood, which produces nine exhibitions, those goals can be accomplished more efficiently as well. Economies of scale come into play when dealing with printing, mailing, and other suppliers. McConnell says more registration will be moved online, and exhibitors will be able to set up electronic booths on the show's Web site to offer attendees a preview. And some of the exhibition group's staff are veterans of association meeting departments, so they certainly understand the demands of these kind of events.
A Seamless Transition
In announcing the sale early this year, the association characterized it as a "long-term strategic partnership" with the new owner, and that's how the deal seems to be unfolding. In fact, NSPI has a 45-year contract to sponsor the show. That's a deliberate strategy on Hanley-Wood's part, explains the company's president, Galen Poss.
Hanley-Wood applied a number of lessons it's learned about acquiring association trade shows. The first order of business is to establish what's important to the association, Poss says. Issues include the use of the group's name, the determination of educational content, and even seemingly minor details such as whether the president will have a suite reserved. Trust, sensitivity, and respect are essential — they allow an outsider "to take stewardship over something they have a financial and maybe emotional attachment to," he notes.
Poss compares turning over management of a show to getting married. "If you're going to be working with someone for 45 years, you need to build a solid, trusting relationship," he says. So, although Hanley-Wood takes over responsibilities for marketing and operating the convention, NSPI's stamp on it will remain visible. The association retained the right to monitor the quality of the displays and overall appearance of the show, for example, and has the option of withdrawing its sponsorship if the quality declines. NSPI will retain a leadership hand in the expo, serving on the event's advisory board and designating each year's conference chairman.
Two advisory committees — one for attendees and another for exhibitors — will solicit feedback on the first show, scheduled for November 2001. And NSPI's various segment councils are working closely with the show management's staff on the educational program, coordinating speakers and topics for more than 100 workshops and seminars. "They'll give us input on trends, hot topics, things retailers and builders are looking for," says Rick McConnell, the show director.
To ease the transition, Hanley-Wood also paid the salaries of the six-person International Pool & Spa Expo planning team for six months. The company tried to lure some of these veterans away from the association, but none were willing to relocate.
Whose Advantage?
Relinquishing most of its responsibilities for a large annual event allows NSPI to focus on its other educational activities. In addition, if Hanley-Wood manages to expand the expo as anticipated, the income stream to the association will grow.
That potential for expansion promises perhaps the biggest plus for the NSPI's members, Cergol says. "The manufacturers will now be exposed to a different audience that has an affinity toward their products," he says. "For years, we've been seeing the same people every year, which is fine. But this industry wants to mature and grow."
That growth potential was one of the main attractions for Hanley-Wood. "We looked at the demographics and saw that the expo had great potential going forward," Poss says. "If it wasn't growing, we wouldn't be interested in their show."
The new managers are reluctant to predict how much the expo will expand. But armed with the World of Concrete attendee and exhibitor lists, as well as those of its other construction- and remodeling-related properties, the company expects to promote the pool and spa show to a universe three or four times larger than in the past.
McConnell says the existing show has done a great job of serving the association's members, but Hanley-Wood intends to look beyond that sphere to include pool installers and builders who aren't members as well as representatives of complementary industries such as casual furniture, fencing, and landscaping. To appeal to a broader population, this year's show will include a "burn area" to showcase grilling equipment as well as other specialty demonstrations.
"We don't feel that we acquire trade shows. We acquire market positions and partners," Poss says. He says associations have tremendous marquee value in attracting exhibitors and delegates — clout that would be hard to duplicate by launching a competing show.
Hanley-Wood views exhibitions and trade shows as two legs of a three-legged stool it uses to reach business audiences. The third leg is a magazine, which explains why the company acquired Pool & Spa News shortly after buying the pool and spa expo — the magazine offers another forum for reaching potential attendees. And the association provides a conduit to the industry, Poss says. "They're connected to the industry in a way that we could never be."


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Posted February 15th, 2010 by Screengeek in Film, Reviews
Shooting Pictures, in cinemas 12th February 2010
"Don't be impotent, be important", so say lifelong friends Mark and Brian, who set out to become the first cabon neutral, vegetarian and organic unsupported team to reach the North Pole. Why? To save the planet from global warming (Mark) and get into the Guinness Book of World Records (Brian).
Shot mockumentary style by comedy director David L. Williams, this extremely likeable adventure crosses Peep Show-style banter with a huge, planet-hugging heart. Williams very cleverly knows the best way to win people over is to send yourself up, so our earnest environmentalist Mark (Stephen Mangan, Green Wing) is introduced to us taking on a 4×4 with his bicycle – "it's like Tiananmen Square". Meanwhile, the puppy-like Brian (Rhys Thomas, The Fast Show) is just happy to go for the laugh, and potential glory, oblivious to the worries of his devoted girlfriend Sandra (Rosie Cavaliero).
It's all being filmed for posterity by Becky (Helen Baxendale, who executive produces), so we get to see how woefully and comically underprepared they are. But despite everyone's reservations, the pair, plus a trigger-happy cameraman, get on their way, communicating regularly with Mark's "second best mate" Graham (Mark Benton) in his high-tech caravan HQ.
The humour starts off wry and satirical, before some golden moments on the ice with True Blood star Alexander Skarsgard's cameo as one half of a Norwegian couple on the same mission. A hysterical encounter with a biscuit sets off a madness in Mark, as he and Brian are understandably struggling to cope with their trek. Brian is distracted by the knowledge he is a father-to-be with Sandra, who has several touching and funny moments back in England. However, Mark has lost his wife and home and has nothing to lose. It's at this point things take a more sober tone, and the shift in the storytelling method feels like an unwelcome jolt. By the time you are genuinely moved at the end, you would've forgotten you started watching a comedy. Neither as funny nor profound as it would probably like to be, Beyond The Pole is still to be enjoyed as a fun adventure with two endearingly heroic, if shambolic, leads.
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Had the word "education", or any derivative thereof, been mentioned once in the Maheny article, the lengthy justification above might be a little more believable.
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We all "cut and paste" things we want to share, mostly to support our beliefs. On occasion, we post things that seem crazy to us, just to ridicule the other side or show how BSC they may be. On rare occasions, we may be humbled enough to share something that also supports the other side.
We all know that whatever we post will likely be ridiculed, belittled, or all too frequently the poster will be personally attacked or demeaned in some way. Whenever that happens, justified or not, credibility takes a BIG hit. Sarcasm is fine, but it shouldn't go much further than that.
The most telling posts are those where there is no response directed at the issue, just personal hits, deflection, bring up issues from yesteryear, blaming someone else because "they started it" (3 grade behavior), or playing the race card. When all of this happens, usually the issue or point made hits home more than anyone is willing to acknowledge.
Clearly, no one is going to change sides, but it is interesting to see how others think and what they believe. There is no right or wrong here, just different perspectives or solutions to get where we think our liberal or conservative views should take us.
If there is a point to be made here, it's lighten up and offer support for what you believe, or discredit the other side with published material or personal opinions and leave it at that. Be nice boys and girls!
There is a bit of wind today, so I am on my way..........
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I change my views based on the things I read here. I know of one other who does, so it makes me suspect that we are not alone. The silent readers outnumber us by a lot.
Venom filled posts have no effect on he and I because we only scan them without giving any thought to other content.
They discredit the material and just lower my opinion of the poster.
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For those interested, and capable, of reading for content, here is what I introduced the bat-shit craziness with:
I heard about this on a Catholic talk radio show last night--the essence of it is a view that the
Gates' foundation is trying to establish
standards in schools
that will lead to eugenics, forced abortion, and other assorted evils. I'm not sure how fringe this is
Hmm, it was about the Gates' efforts in education, and how it seems to stir up a hornet's nest. It was on-thread.
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Apropos of reading for content, it seems that most of us only do it a little bit:
Jakob Nielsens Alertbox: May 6, 2008
How Little Do Users Read?
Summary: On the average Web page, users have time to read at most 28% of the words during an average visit; 20% is more likely.
We've known since our first studies of how users read on the Web that they typically don't read very much. Scanning text is an extremely common behavior for higher-literacy users; our recent eyetracking studies further validate this finding.
The only thing we've been missing is a mathematical formula to quantify exactly how much (or how little) people read online. Now, thanks to new data, we have this as well.
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For full details, see the following academic paper:
Harald Weinreich, Hartmut Obendorf, Eelco Herder, and Matthias Mayer: " Not Quite the Average: An Empirical Study of Web Use," in the ACM Transactions on the Web, vol. 2, no. 1 (February 2008), article #5.
In the study, the authors instrumented 25 users' browsers and recorded extended information about everything they did as they went about their normal Web activities. What's important about this study is that it was completely naturalistic: the users didn't have to do anything special.
One downside of the study is that the users had above-average intelligence, with several being university employees. This might not be a problem in the long run, however. If, for example, we compare data we collected in 2008 for our Fundamental Guidelines for Web Usability seminar with a similar study we ran in 2004, we find that 2008's average behavior is close to that of 2004's higher-end users. Thus, even though Weinreich et al.'s data represents high-end users, it's likely to be fairly representative of broader user behavior in the future. In fact, the authors collected their data in 2005, so the recorded behaviors might already be fairly common.
It is what we do after we realize that we didn't understand the point made where things get interesting--or rude.
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This is the kind of thing that can happen when you call turning over education to profit-makers reform.
By TOM LoBIANCO, Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Indiana's top education official on Wednesday acknowledged "manipulation" in the way the state's schools are graded, the latest fallout from an Associated Press report that found her predecessor worked behind the scenes to improve the score of a
charter school founded by an influential Republican donor.
Superintendent Glenda Ritz told state school board members that this year's school ratings would be held up, at least temporarily, as a result of the independent review into the A-F grading system and left open the possibility some of last year's grades could be changed.
The system was established by
Tony Bennett, a rising star in the education reform movement, who last week resigned from his new job as Florida's schools chief amid the scandal in Indiana
"Upon our preliminary examination, the department has verified that there was manipulation of calculation categories and the department has also determined that there are broader issues that need to be examined," Ritz said.
Ritz, a Democrat, brought up the scandal at Wednesday's school board meeting, but Bennett's allies on the Republican-dominated board had little to say. She met privately Wednesday afternoon with Indiana's Republican legislative leaders, who have started their own investigation.
Ritz declined to discuss specifics of the review but said a final report could be ready by Sept. 2.
The AP published emails showing a frantic effort by Bennett and top staff to rewrite the state's school grading formula after the Indianapolis-based Christel House Academy, founded by GOP donor Christel DeHaan, scored a C. The school's grade was changed twice in the following days, eventually ending at an A. Several other schools also saw their grades improve as a result.
Indiana's school report card website still shows the school with an A.
It is amusing to read again, mrgybe's furious attack on me as a liar above. He was, as he often is, wrong. But admit it? It would take a bigger man.
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Interesting piece by a researcher in North Carolina
Novice teachers are not the solution
Cash-challenged schools like Pittsburghs need experienced teachers
November 24, 2013 12:00 AM
By Helen F. Ladd
In an effort to keep educational costs in check, Americas cash-strapped states, local school districts and charter schools are hiring less costly novice teachers. I understand that Pittsburgh Public Schools may soon be among them. Superintendent Linda Lane has said she hopes to find new college grads in the two-year Teach for America program to help fill 15 to 30 teaching vacancies next fall.
In the late 1980s, most of the nations teachers had considerable experience only 17 percent had taught for five or fewer years. By 2008, however, about 28 percent or more than one in four of Americas teachers had less than five years of experience. The proportions of novices in the classroom are particularly high in schools in underprivileged areas.
Some observers applaud the rapid greening of the teaching force because they think that experienced teachers are not needed. But this view is short-sighted. Although a constant flow of new recruits is healthy, research shows that teacher experience matters in important ways:
Experienced teachers, on average, are more effective at raising student achievement. In research I have done with colleagues in my home state of North Carolina, experienced teachers greatly boost student achievement in elementary, middle and high schools alike. This pattern holds even after we adjust for the fact that experienced teachers are more likely to work in schools with more advantaged students.
Teachers become more effective as they gain experience. Researchers have long documented that teachers improve dramatically during their first few years on the job. Less clear has been what happens after those early years. In our new research on middle-school teachers, we find that math teachers become increasingly effective at raising student test scores through about 15 years, at which point, they are about twice as effective as novices with two years of experience. The productivity gains are less dramatic for middle-school English teachers but follow the same trajectory.
Experienced teachers strengthen education in numerous ways beyond improving test scores. Our research suggests that as North Carolina middle-school teachers gain experience, they become increasingly adept at producing other important results, such as reducing student absences and encouraging students to read for recreational purposes outside of the classroom. More experienced teachers often mentor young teachers and help to create and maintain a strong school community.
lso, as other research has shown, constant teacher turnover is disruptive for schools and harmful to students, especially in disadvantaged schools. All too often, inexperienced teachers are initially assigned to disadvantaged schools, where the challenges of maintaining order and effectively instructing students can be daunting.
Those who make the case for hiring novice teachers typically cite the apparent success of many charter schools that employ such teachers and hail the effectiveness of many Teach for America recruits. TFA teachers are often no weaker than other teachers in the heavily disadvantaged schools into which they are placed and some may do better at teaching math.
But Teach for America instructors do not stay around very long. More than half leave after fulfilling their two-year commitment, and more than 80 percent do so after three years. Even strong charter schools have difficulties with teacher retention. Schools with high teacher turnover must repeatedly spend costly time on recruiting, mentoring, socializing and training newcomers only to see their trained teachers move on.
So the challenge is to attract newly minted teachers with clear long-term potential, give them opportunities to develop their skills and retain the most successful. For that to happen:
Salaries must be adequate. Teachers should be able to expect that as they gain experience their salaries will rise in line with what college graduates earn in comparable professions.
Attention must be paid to working conditions. Teachers who experience poor working conditions are more likely to leave a school or the profession.
Politicians should stop designating teachers as scapegoats. Especially when they work with socially disadvantaged students, teachers must be provided with the institutional supports they need to be effective and to steadily advance their skills.
Wonderful as it is for bright college graduates to bring new energy and skills to the classroom, schools pay a high price for too much teacher turnover. Surely America can do better. The all-important starting point is to recognize the value of teacher experience and then learn how to develop and reward it.
Helen F. Ladd is a professor of public policy and economics at Duke Universitys Sanford School of Public Policy and a member of the Scholars Strategy Network (email@example.com).
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