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Hilton Garden Inn Los Angeles / Hollywood2005 North Highland Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA 90068 (Show map)
Very good
Score from 162 reviews
Staff were fantastic, nothing was too much trouble for them. Located conveniently for Hollywood Blvd, only 5 minute walk.
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The Location was great with good access to Hollywood Touristic Attractions
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Room was very spacious, bed was very comfortable
The hotel is an oasis in a busy, dusty, loud and grubby area of Hollywood.
Location is perfect. Walked to the hollywood bowl.
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Friendly staff. Good food. Reasonably comfortable room.
Thought that all the staff where very helpful, breakfast and evening meals are good, also small drinks bar is nice to have when you come in from your travel's etc.
The staff was very friendly and kind. The wifi was also free and very good. Also, we could use the business center free of charge, unlike at other hotels.
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Convenient to hollywood walk of fame about 5-8 minutes and quiet. Complimentary snacks and coffee in the lobby.
Very clean and staff very friendly! I would definitely stay here again!!!
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This Hollywood hotel features on site dining and an outdoor swimming pool. All guest rooms feature a flat-screen cable TV and an iPod docking station. The Dolby Theatre is a half mile from the hotel. A microwave, small fridge, and tea and coffee-making facilities are provided in all rooms at the Hilton Garden Inn Los Angeles. Free Wi-Fi is offered. A fitness center and hot tub are available for guest use. A 24-hour front desk and a 24-hour Pavilion Pantry Market are both provided for guest convenience. The Garden Grille has on-site dining for dinner 7 days a week and room service. The Hideout Lounge is open for drinks and provides a casual bar atmosphere. Attractions such as The Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood Walk of Fame, the Academy of Magical Arts, and the Hollywood Wax Museum are all less than a 10-minute walk from this hotel. Downtown Los Angeles is 8 miles away. Universal Studios is 1 metro stop away. Hotel Rooms: 160, Hotel Chain: Hilton Garden Inn. The most recent booking for this hotel was made on Dec 11 at 2:32 PM from Kuwait.
OutdoorsTerrace, Outdoor Pool ActivitiesNewspapers, Fitness Center, Hot Tub Food & DrinkBar, Restaurant With Dining Menu InternetFree! Wi-Fi is available in all areas and is free of charge. ParkingPrivate parking is available on site (reservation is not needed) and costs USD 32 per day. Services24-Hour Front Desk, Express Check-in/Check-out, Baggage Storage, Room Service, Meeting/Banquet Facilities, Business Center, Laundry, Dry Cleaning, Fax/Photocopying, On-Site ATM, Concierge Service GeneralNon-smoking Rooms, Facilities for Disabled Guests, Elevator, Safe, Heating, Stores in Hotel, All Spaces Non-Smoking (Public and Private), Air Conditioning, Designated Smoking Area Languages spokenSpanish, English Check-inFrom 3:00 PM Check-outUntil 12:00 PM Cancellation/
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Staff were fantastic, nothing was too much trouble for them. Located conveniently for Hollywood Blvd, only 5 minute walk.
Whilst the place is clean, the décor and trimmings are dated. The lifts are pretty dated too, slow.
The Location was great with good access to Hollywood Touristic Attractions
Room was very spacious, bed was very comfortable
The hotel is an oasis in a busy, dusty, loud and grubby area of Hollywood.
Hollywood area not to our liking. It's a dirty area with homeless people begging from tourists. Tour prices are not good value for the money. Air pollution made for an uncomfortable stay.
Location is perfect. Walked to the hollywood bowl.
Friendly staff. Good food. Reasonably comfortable room.
Location: Right on a busy road.
Thought that all the staff where very helpful, breakfast and evening meals are good, also small drinks bar is nice to have when you come in from your travel's etc.
Not much to dis-like, didn't have time to check out outside pool area.
The staff was very friendly and kind. The wifi was also free and very good. Also, we could use the business center free of charge, unlike at other hotels.
Everything was good.
Convenient to hollywood walk of fame about 5-8 minutes and quiet. Complimentary snacks and coffee in the lobby.
Very clean and staff very friendly! I would definitely stay here again!!!
nice hotel
fire alarm at 2 o'clock morning
Location, comfort
No safe in rom
Breakfast: We stayed 3 days. My wife has got a stomach flu after having breakfast on the first day. Not a good reputation for a hotel
Very good location. Hotel staff is very kindly services. That the best hotel I booked in lA, my son is very like the pool and room. tiger lee , travelling from China.
good location, near star ave.
parking fee 32USD per night.
Excellent location. Helpful, friendly staff, very comfortable bed and nice linen. I would stay here again.
Parking was $32 per day!!!
Excellent location Big room and bathroom Great staff
Expensive parking Meaningless insist on valet parking Air condition in the room
Location as I was there for High School graduation at the Hollywood Bowl.
The best was the Jacuzzi, loved it, amazing, really enjoyed my vaccation .. looking forward to get back - thank you.
Helpful staffs.
$32 for parking.
The laundry, the pool& spa area, the coffee in reception, the little shop, breky & most of all the bed so comfy we voted it best bed of the whole holiday
clean,staff,microwave and fridgeritor.
We switched to this hotel after reading some horrific reviews of our original choice. I am so glad we did. The reception staff were very helpful and friendly. They ordered us all the taxis we needed and gave us good advice on times/prices etc. A late 6pm check out was at a cost, but we were allowed an extension until 2pm for free! so worth asking if you have a late flight home. Bedrooms and public rooms were very clean. The location was excellent, a ten minute walk to the Main Hollywood sightseeing tour busses etc. Ideal for the Hollywood bowl (5 minute walk). The pool area was also clean and we had it to ourselves most afternoons! Great to relax by after sightseeing/shopping.
If I'm being picky, then only coffee machine in the bedrooms and no kettle available for tea drinkers, although there was microwave to heat water. Breakfast was a bit pricey considering we had to get our own drinks and make our own toast etc. We had to chase staff every morning for cups and cutlery, but these are minor niggles and I would still book this hotel if in LA again.
Nice (basic) free breakfast. Great staff who allowed me to check in a number of hours early which was much appreciated. Really good, central location for Hollywood.
I would personally prefer a continental breakfast rather than sweet muffins, croissants, and jams that they served - but it was a free breakfast so i truly cant be picky.
Staff were excellent! ALWAYS friendly and helpful and made myself and my daughter feel very welcome! Beds were the most comfortable beds we have ever slept in during our travels!!!!! Proximity to Hollywood Blvd and Metro.
Only a couple of minor things ... would have liked a safe in the room, and maybe a little less road noise. These things would not impact our decision to stay again or recommend to others.
The guest reviews express the personal opinions of Booking.com customers who filled out a questionnaire after their stay at the hotel. These opinions do not necessarily represent the views of Booking.com.
Holiday Inn Express Hollywood Walk of FameJust an 8 minute walk from Hollywood Boulevard and the Kodak Theater, this ideally-located Los Angeles hotel offers spacious guest rooms furnished with free Wi-Fi. It serves a daily hot breakfast.Most recent booking for this hotel was today at 00:16 from $141 |
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Al-Qarawiyyin Mosque and University
For well over twelve hundred years Al-Qarawiyyin has been one of the leading spiritual and educational centres of the Muslim World, a typical institution, of many, underlining how learning constituted the heart of the religion of Islam and its civilisation. The story of its foundation is also revealing. It was founded in 859 C.E., by a young princess Fatima Al-Fihri who migrated with her father Mohammed Al-Fihri form Qairawan (Tunisia) to Fez. The family joined a community of other migrants from Qairawan "Qairawaniyyins", who settled in a western district of Fez. Fatima and her sister Mariam, who were well educated and brought up with religious devotion, inherited a large amount from their father who was a successful businessman. Fatima vowed to spend her entire inheritance on building a mosque suitable for her community. This remarkable story is a typical example shedding some light on the role and contribution of women in Muslim civilisation. Such a role is the subject of widely held misconceptions about Islam.
Structural and Formal Evolution of the Mosque
The present form of the mosque has evolved through many phases when it was subject to alteration and extension to meet the increasing need for worship space of a fast growing population.
The first extension phase was undertaken in 956 C.E., a century after the mosque's foundation, by the Zenata leaders[3]. Historic sources revealed that the Umayyad Caliph of Cordoba, Abdul-Rahman III sent a large sum of money to cover the cost of these works. The works extended the prayer hall to the east and west pushing the original courtyard further back to the west. The minaret, with its square form, that became typical of North African (Maghribi) minarets, was relocated in the northern wall. The mu'azzin of Qarawiyyin is known to be the first in the history of Fes to climb to the top of the minaret to call for prayer. It became a tradition that other mosques of the city would make this call only after they hear the Qarawiyyin, a tradition which is still preserved today.
In the 16th century, the Saadids restored the Mosque and added two patios to the northern and southern ends of the courtyard.
General Plan of the Al-QarawiyyinArchitecture of the Mosque
The mosque plan consists of three main sections. As noted above, the prayer hall (sanctuary) is the most historical part, being gradually developed and extended. It is of a rectangular shape stretching from the north to the west thus giving the Qibla side the longest breadth . The span of such space, 83x 44.2 meters, extends over 21 aisles running perpendicular to the Qibla wall, a reminder of the T plan seen in much of North African (Maghribi) mosques. The roof is made of a set of green tiled pyramids reflecting the number of arcades carrying it. The arcade itself is made of horseshoe arches supported by some 270 piers. The whole of the internal surface is painted in plain white, resembling the Kutubia Mosque and diverting from the rich decor of the Great Mosque of Cordova.
The central aisle or nave is wider and crowned with five cupolas of different styles mixing between ribbed and muqarnas vaulting, drawing the visitor towards the mihrab area. Further distinction of this aisle is noticeable in its pyramid roof, which was raised deliberately higher than the roof level of the mosque . As mentioned previously, it was added by Ali Ibn Yucuf's Andalusian architects. However, some doubted whether such a story is true. The six domes are not really Andalusian copies, especially the perforated ones. The muqarnas cupolas, executed in square, oblong and circular forms, are definitely older than their Andalusian counterparts[5]. In fact they are among the first muqarnas executed in North Africa by the Almoravids, next only to those introduced in Qala complex of Beni Ahmmad (1080) and Great Mosque of Telemcen (1082). Their development in North Africa coincided with their popularity in the Seljuk domain in Persia and Anatolia.
Tiled in blue and white, the courtyard lies in the western side of the mosque, equipped with three marble fountains. The central fountain is an original 12th century Almohad piece of furniture which was complemented by two lateral fountains fixed under two symmetrical patios that were built under the Saadid rule[6] , by the Sultan 'Abdallah ibn al-Shaikh (r. 1606-23). With their slender marble columns, these kiosks are the most elegant part of the mosque . The sections above the capitals were sculptured in beautiful Moorish golden "embroidery" comprising exquisite floral and geometrical forms framed within bands of calligraphy, features recalling the Alhambra famous patio of Lions, which also became typical surface decor in the Saadid dynasty in Morocco.
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The foundation of the mosque was to provide, in addition to a space for worship, a learning centre for the Qairawaniyyin community. Like any mosque, Al-Qarawiyyin soon developed into a place for religious instruction and political discussion, gradually extending its education to all subjects, particularly the natural sciences. Among the subjects taught, alongside the Qur'an and Fiqh, were courses on grammar, rhetoric, logic, Medicine, mathematics, astronomy, chemistry and even history, geography and music . This variety of topics and the high quality of its teaching drew scholars and students from all over the Muslim world.
So overwhelming was the number of applicants that the university had to introduce a vigorous selection system based on a number of conditions, including a completion of learning the whole Quran from primary Madrassas and a good knowledge of Arabic and of general sciences.
The university gained the admiration of various sultans who did not delay in providing it with generous subsidies, gifts and sometimes with treasures, especially books. The university compiled an excellent selection of manuscripts in various disciplines, which were kept at a library founded by the Marinid Sultan Abu-Annan in the eastern side of the courtyard in 750 AH (1349 CE) before being relocated, towards the end of 1000 AH (1591 CE), in its present location by the Saadid Emir Ahmed Al-Mansur .Among the most precious manuscripts in this library are volumes from the famous "Mutta' of Malik" (d.179AH/795CE) written on gazelle sheets, "Sirat Ibn Ishaq" written in 270AH (883 CE), copy of the Holy Quran gifted by Sultan Ahmed Al-Mansur Al-Dhahabi to the university in 1011 AH (1602 CE), and the original copy of Ibn Khaldun's book "Al-'Ibar", gifted to the library in 799 AH (1396 CE).
Al-Qarawiyyin attained prestigious fame, producing a number of high profile scholars that exercised a strong influence on the intellectual and academic realms in the Muslim world. Among the great names, the list include Abu Abullah Al-Sati, Abu Al-Abbas al-Zwawi, Ibn Rashid Al-Sabti (d.721 AH/1321 CE), Ibn Al-Haj Al-Fasi (d.737 AH/1336 CE) and Abu Madhab Al-Fasi who led his generation in studies of the "Maliki" school of thought.
On the world stage, Al-Quarawiyyin played, in medieval times, a leading role in the cultural exchange and transfer of knowledge between the Muslims and Europeans. Pioneer scholars include Ibn Maimun (Maimonids, (1135-1204)) who was taught at Al-Qarawiyyin by Abdul Arab Ibn Muwashah. The famous Al-Idrissi (d.1166 CE) is said to have settled in Fes for considerable time suggesting that he must have worked or studied at Al-Qarawiyyin. Sources also list a number of piers such as Ibn Al-'Arabi (1165-1240 CE), Ibn Khaldun (1332-1395 CE), Ibn Al-Khatib, Alpetragius, Al-Bitruji, Ibn Harazim, and Ibn Wazzan is said to have all taught in Al-Qarawiyyin[7].Some historic accounts also talked of Ibn Zuhar (d.1131 CE) spending great deal of time travelling between Andalusia, Fes, and Marrakech.
Among Christian witnesses of the contribution of Al-Qarawiyyin is Gerbert of Aurillac (930-1003), famously known as Pope Sylvester II, and who is credited with introducing the use of zero and Arabic numerals to Europe, studied at Al-Qarawiyyin[8] . More recently the Belgian Nichola Louvain settled in Fes in 1540 and studied Arabic at Quarawayyin, to be followed later by the Deutch Golius who also studied Arabic there.
Despite the above, such an enlightening institution was described by Lyautey, the French general who led the French "civilising Mission" in Morocco as: "the Dark House", a comment which can only show the little respect he had for civilisation.
[1] M2: Moroccan Television, (2003), `Masajid laha Tareekh; the Qarawiyyin Mosque', TV programme.
See also Marcais, G. (1954), `l'architecture Musulmane d'Occident', Arts et Metiers Graphiques, Paris, pp.198-200.
[2] where the anaza stands today
[3] Zenata
[4] Marcais, g. (1954), `L'Architecture Musulmane d'Occident', op.cit., p.199.
[5] See Jairazbhoy., p.92.
[6] lasted between 1554 and 1626.
[7] See Landu Rom (1967), `Afrique Mauresque', Albin Michel, Paris, p.97.
[8] Ibid. See also Glick.
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- I'm now going to do a bunch more examples
- using the chain rule.
- So let's see.
- Once again.
- If I had f of x is equal to, let's see, I don't like this
- tool that I'm using now, let's have one of these.
- f of x is equal to, say, x to the third plus 2x squared
- minus, let's say, minus x to the negative 2.
- We haven't put any negative exponents in yet, but I
- think you'll see that the same patterns apply.
- And all of that to, let's say, the minus seven.
- We want to figure out what f prime of x, what the
- derivative of f of x is.
- So this might seem very complicated and daunting to
- you, and obviously to take this entire polynomial to
- the negative seventh power would take you forever.
- But using the chain rule, we can do it quite quickly.
- So the first thing we want to do, is we want to take the
- derivative of the inner function, I guess
- you could call it.
- We want to take the derivative of this.
- And what's the derivative of x to the third plus 2x squared
- minus x to the negative 2?
- Well, we know how to do that.
- That was the first type of derivatives we
- learned how to do.
- It's 3x squared and 2 times 2, plus 4x to the first, or just
- 4x, and then here, with a negative exponent, we do
- the exact same thing.
- We say negative 2 times negative 1, right, there's a 1
- here, we don't write it down.
- So negative 2 times negative 1 is plus 2 x to the, and then we
- decrease the exponent by 1, so it's x to the
- negative 3, right?
- So we figured out what the derivative of the inside is,
- and then we just multiply that, that whole thing, times
- the derivative of kind of the entire expression.
- So then that'll be, we take the minus 7, let me
- do a different color.
- So this is the entire thing.
- So then we take minus 7, so it's times minus 7, this
- whole expression, I'm going to run out of space.
- x to the third plus 2x squared minus x to the minus 2.
- That's minus x to the minus 2.
- And all of that, we just decrease this exponent
- by 1, to the minus 8.
- So let me write it all down a little bit neater now.
- So we get f prime of x as the derivative of f of x is equal
- to 3x squared plus 4x plus 2x to the minus third power, I
- don't know why did that.
- That's minus 3.
- Times minus seven times x to the third plus 2x squared minus
- x to the minus two, all of that to the negative eight power.
- And we could simplify it little bit.
- Maybe we could just multiply this minus 7, times, we could
- distribute it across this expression.
- So we'd say, that equals minus 7, so this equals minus 21 x
- squared, minus 28 x minus 14x to the negative 3.
- All of that times x to the third plus 2 x squared minus x
- to the minus 2 to the minus 8.
- So there we did it.
- We took this, what I would say is a very complicated function,
- and using the chain rule and just the basic rules we had
- introduced a couple of presentations ago, we were able
- to find the derivative of it.
- And now, if we wanted to, for whatever application, we could
- find the slope of this function at any point x by just
- substituting that point into this equation, and we'll get
- the slope at that point.
- Let me do a slightly harder one, to show you that the chain
- rule, you can kind of go arbitrarily deep in
- the chain rule.
- So let's say I had, let me see if I can write it
- a little bit thinner.
- If I had f of x, I don't know if you can see that, I'm going
- to do it a little fatter.
- f of x is equal to, I want to make it a little bit more
- complicated this time.
- 3x to the minus 2 plus 5 x to the third minus 7x, all of that
- to the fifth, and then this whole expression to
- the third power.
- So I imagine you saying, Sal, you're starting to go nuts,
- this is going to take us forever.
- Well, I'll show you, using the chain rule, it will
- not take that long.
- So the way I think about it, so-- f prime of x,
- f prime of x equals.
- I start off kind with the innermost function.
- So let me see if I can use colors to make it
- a little bit simpler.
- Let's take the derivative of this innermost function first.
- Actually, let me give you the big picture.
- We want to find the derivative of the innermost function, and
- then a little bit bigger, and then a little bit
- more big than that.
- I know that's not precise mathematical terms, but
- you'll get the point when I show you this example.
- So first we'll do this inner function, this
- inner expression.
- And the derivative of that's pretty easy, right?
- It's 15x squared minus 7, right?
- that was pretty straightforward.
- And now we're going to want to multiply that times this
- entire derivative here.
- So let me circle that in a different-- so then
- we want to do this.
- We're going to multiply that times this entire derivative.
- Well, that's just times 5.
- And we just pretend like this is just an x here, right?
- Because the derivative of x to the fifth is 5x
- to the fourth, right?
- But instead of an x, we have this whole expression, 5x
- to the third minus 7x.
- So we'll write that.
- 5x to the third minus 7x.
- Now the exponent here goes down by one.
- So it's 5 times 5x to the third minus 7x, all that
- to the fourth power.
- So we figured out the derivative of this so far, and
- then we want to figure out the derivative of this, so we'll
- add it, right, because we're trying to figure the derivative
- of this entire expression.
- So this is an easy one.
- Let me draw that in a different color.
- So we want the derivative of this.
- So that's negative 2 times 3, so that's negative
- 6x to the minus three.
- So what have we done so far?
- We've so far figured out the derivative of this entire
- expression, right?
- The derivative of that entire expression using
- the chain rule is this.
- And now, we're almost done.
- We just have to multiply that.
- So I'm going to just, I've run out of space on that line, but
- let's just assume that the line continues.
- So that's times.
- And now we just take the derivative of kind of
- this whole big thing.
- And now it's going to be the derivative of, I'm going
- to use this brown color.
- So it's a whole big expression to the third power, right?
- So that becomes times 3 times the whole expression, right?
- That's 3 times, now I'm going to write the whole thing, 3x to
- the minus 2 plus 5 x the third minus 7x, that to fifth, and
- then you decrement this by 1, to the second power.
- That was an ultraconfusing example, and this is probably
- the hardest chain rule problem you'll see in a lot of
- the questions you'll have on your test.
- You see, it wasn't that difficult.
- We just kind of went to the smallest possible function, and
- actually the smallest possible function would have been one of
- these terms, but we just found the derivative of this, which
- was 15 x squared minus 7, and then we just used the principle
- that the derivative of kind of a function is just the
- derivative of each of its parts-- well, actually, the
- derivative of-- we figured out the derivative of this inner
- piece, which was 15x squared minus 7, and then we multiplied
- it times the derivative of this slightly larger piece, which is
- 5 times this entire expression to the fourth, then we added it
- to the derivative of 3x to the minus 2.
- And then that whole thing, and actually I should put a big
- parentheses around here, that whole thing, we multiply it
- times the derivative of this larger expression.
- I think I might have confused you, so I apologize if I have,
- and in the next presentation I'm going to just do a bunch
- more chain rule problems, and at some point, it should
- start to make sense to you.
- I think it's just a matter of seeing example, after
- example, after example.
- I'll see you into the next presentation, and I apologize
- if I have confused you.
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Looks excellent minus the beta-alanine. Space out your BA doses throughout the day. Also, since this is stim-free, I'd opt for some SNS ALCAR (2g) so that you still get some stim-free energy and focus through your workout.
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If I didn't have the option because of money situation, would you just take out the Beta-Alanine & replace it with ALCAR?Originally Posted by mr.cooper69
I just checked price of ALCAR & I'll manage to add it to the stack also... I read ALCAR can be taken in 3 doses throughout the day, but for convenience sake could I just take the 2g with that PWO?Originally Posted by mr.cooper69
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I forgot to mention that I'll be supplementing DAA + Erase or AD3 for 12 weeks also if that makes a difference... Not PWO, but daily... Weeks 1-12 DAA/Weeks 4-12 Erase or AD3...
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no arginine? and does citrulline really need to be that high? i stack 3grams citrulline with 3g alinine and 3 g arginine.
I've got Agmatine instead of Arginine... I can play with it when I get all the ingredients though because I've got about 30x 3g doses of Arginine here already... The Cit Malate will probably be dropped to 4g...Originally Posted by wrathchild281
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Here's a look at the life of Hosni Mubarak, former president of Egypt.
Personal: Birth date: May 4, 1928
Birth place: Kafr-el Meselha, Minufiya, Egypt
Birth name: Mohammed Hosni Mubarak
Marriage: Suzanne (Thabet) Mubarak
Children: Gamal, 1963 (son); Alaa, 1961 (son)
Education: National Military Academy (Egypt), 1949; Air Force Academy (Egypt), 1952; Frunze General Staff Academy (USSR), 1964
Timeline: 1952-1959 - Works as a flight instructor at the Egyptian Air Force Academy.
1965-1967 - Commands several Air Force bases.
1967-1972 - Appointed as the Director of the Air Force Academy and Chief of Staff of the Egyptian Air Force.
1969 - Mubarak is promoted to Chief of Staff of the Egyptian Air Force.
1972 - Mubarak is promoted to Commander in Chief of the Air Force and Deputy Minister of War.
October 1973 - Promoted to the rank of Air Marshal of the Egyptian Air Force.
October 6, 1973 - The Egyptian Air Force launches a daytime surprise attack on Israeli soldiers occupying the east bank of the Suez Canal. Within 20 minutes, the pilots hit 90% of their targets. This begins the Yom Kippur War, which lasts for several weeks, making Mubarak a national hero.
April 15, 1975 - President Anwar Sadat names Mubarak vice president of Egypt.
1976 -1981 - Mubarak travels extensively as Sadat's emissary. He also assumes control of the day-to-day operations of the government, which frees Sadat to concentrate on foreign policy.
1978 - Appointed as the Vice Chairman of the National Democratic Party (NDP).
October 6, 1981 - During a Cairo military parade commemorating Egypt's victories in 1973, Sadat is assassinated by a group of Islamic fundamentalists. Mubarak, standing next to Sadat, suffers an injury to his left hand.
October 13, 1981 - Mubarak is elected president of Egypt. And is sworn-in as the country's sixth president the next day.
October 5, 1987 - Mubarak is reelected president.
1990-1991 - Emerges as a leader in the U.S. led coalition to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi occupation, by committing 40,000 troops to the mission.
1993 - Mubarak is reelected president.
June 26, 1995 - Survives an assassination attempt in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by an al-Qaeda affiliated group.
September 6, 1999 - Survives an assassination attempt in Port Said, Egypt.
September 26, 1999 - Mubarak is reelected president and is sworn in on October 5.


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The Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Memphis celebrates twenty years of service as leader of his flock in the twenty one counties of West Tennessee in 2013.
The last thing Bishop J. Terry Steib expected in his twentieth year was the retirement of his boss at the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI.
"My initial reaction was really one of disbelief," Steib said. "I heard it on the radio and I said that must be some mistake here. Let me hear some more, you know?"
But it was no error. Benedict became the first Pope to announce his resignation in more than six centuries.
"I knew that he had talked about it and when we had done our Ad Limina in Rome, " the Memphis Bishop said.
Ad Limina refers to the regular visits Bishops are required to make every few years to give a report on their work to the Pope.
"You could see that he was going down health-wise, so when he actually did it---said he was going to resign---I was like, wow, he did it!," said Bishop Steib.
Steib said Benedict's resignation speaks to the Pope's integrity and humility. The Bishop said, "He knew that he couldn't serve the Church in a manner that he should be serving the Church." Steib noted, "the Church needed to move on and he shouldn't be the one kind of holding the Church back.It was a big statement of saying the office is much bigger than I am in this regard," Bishop Steib said. Benedict's predecessor, Pope John Paul II, appointed Steib as an Axillary Bishop in the Archdiocese of St. Louis on December 6, 1983. John Paul promoted Steib to lead the Catholic Diocese of Memphis starting on May 5, 1993. Steib is now 73 years old and is required to offer his resignation to the Pope when he turns 75 on May 17, 2015. The Memphis Bishop has high hopes for the next leader of the Catholic Church. "I would hope to see someone who is a man of spirituality and prayer. I would hope to see someone who is pastoral. Someone who is able to communicate. Collegial in the sense that he's able to hear other people, to talk to other people, to hear the concerns and be able to address those concerns. not feeling that he has to do it all alone but in collegiality with all the others around him," said the Memphis Bishop.


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If you guys loved Maniac Mansion, Full Throttle, Day of the Tentacle et al., then RUN don't walk and pick up Zack & Wiki for the Wii. Point and click adventure goodness....sooooo good.
If you guys loved Maniac Mansion, Full Throttle, Day of the Tentacle et al., then RUN don't walk and pick up Zack & Wiki for the Wii. Point and click adventure goodness....sooooo good.
What if we refuse?
Why should there be obstacles in a video game?!
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Is it funny? And I mean, really, genuinely funny for adults, not pokemon-cartoon-funny.
Let's be honest - the only reason people adored the games you mentioned was because of the winning and incredible sense of humor. As point-and-click adventures go they were, well, they were okay. But they were less fun than some of their competitors because their solutions rarely relied on actual logic or anything that made sense.
I loved all the games you mentioned. If Zak and Wiki is funny like them then, yes, I'll go buy it. And soon.
As WiseSalesman says, Maniac Mansion, Full Throttle and Day of the Tentacles were great games most because of their humor, how is Zack & Wiki compared to the the humor these 3 games had? I also loved the 2d gfx, it gave the games a special feeling or what i shall say. 3d adventures can be fun, but they dont give me the same feeling as a good old 2d adventure game. These games also had many commands to choose from, like talk to, pick up, use.. and so on. They also had an inventory of stuff. Is Zack & Wiki like this too? I've seens some in-game movies and i havnt seen anything like this.
But anyway, i do think Zack & Wiki looks like a fun game. If i had a Wii i would most likely try it out
Okay, to put it bluntly, this game does skew kinda young. Not for babies young, but the humor is kind of Saturday morning cartoon-ish, rather than Dora the Explora-ish. But what really separates the men from the boys/kids are the puzzles. And trust me, as you get to the later levels, it gets hard as HELL. Like Old Skool hard...but that's a good thing!
Lotta Capcom fanservice too....like I had to shake the Wiimote to the beat of a tune, and a warm fuzzy enveloped me as I realized I was jamming along to the music from the 1st stage of The Speed Rumbler (one of my all time favorites!).
But yeah, check IGN's review (they gave it a 9.0)....it's very thorough.
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I've only gotten through a few levels but I agree! It is a blast to play this game. Its funny someone mentioned pokemonish..because Wikki sounds just like some sort of long lost pokemon. And I mean..he SOUNDS like a pokemon, usually saying his name as he talks and such.
The graphics are better than Zelda: Wind Waker even if they are cell shaded still. Mainly because the animation is done better and it seems like everything is moving in the game in some way.
The puzzles are great and while I haven't come across anything that was impossible yet (Especially since I'm only a few levels in), I'm still digging the thought required to get through a stage.
There really isn't an inventory as you can really only hold one object at a time to use. If anything, I think of this game more like Lost Vikings, or Goblins in the way the gameplay works. The game could easily be thought of as 2D because you can't really see more than about 120 degrees. I was even laughing when I saw the plane had the cutoff section and then later the waterfall with the obvious cutoff...actually a very clever artistic look.
You may have had Speed Rumbler...but I had the main theme to Ghosts N Goblins when I played the phonograph bones dude...hehe. Also there are hidden treasures that will sometimes only pop up when you replay a level. As an example and this is a spoiler. But I redid the first stage again to maximize the points, and instead of coins coming out from under a rock, a little badge in the shape of the Vulgus ship came out instead?! It even appears in my mystery treasure log and talks about how this game was the first game Capcom made...etc.
With that...I suspect lots and lots of Capcom history to be hidden and show up in the game as I play through multiple times.
For the $39 price it commands, I'd say it is more than worth it.
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It's getting good reviews. I also read that some of the puzzles can be overly challenging. I'm having trouble finding games I want to play on my Wii, this might be nice until Mario is available...
Have not heard about this before! This sounds like a must get.
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Its funny, I haven't been watching this game or checking up on it at all in the past several months. Then, the last two or three weeks I have been hearing all of these great things about, as well as several great reviews. So, I decided, on a whim, to buy it a couple of days ago. Awesome! Its very fun. Great graphics. Great uses of the Wii Remote. Great, and difficult, puzzles. It has a very "old school" feel to it. One of the best Wii games out. I highly recommend it.
I just beat the first world (like 6 levels) and I must say this game is really good. Things start out easy but it ramps up pretty fast, the boss level had me thinking on certain parts for a good while. Some people will be better at this game than others, this is really my first true game of this sort that I have played much of, so I find the puzzles very enjoyable and its a totaly fresh experience for me. Like it was mentioned before, the humor (so far) is saturday morning cartoon-esque, nothing that had me ing but some stuff makes you smile. Overall its a very charming and fun game, I think this is just the type of game the Wii needs in its library. What is funny is today at work a couple had 4 games in their hands that they were trying to decide which to get, I told them about zak and wiki and insisted they get it over the others (sonic, carnival, spyro, and another I forgot) so I convinced them to get a game they never heard of, yes its that good.
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I played through the first world (5-6 stages), and it is an exellent game. It does have a lot in common w/ classic point-and-click adventure games, but it isn't necessarily the exact same kind of game. Z&W is almost an action-puzzler dressed in point-and-click clothes. Each level is a discrete puzzle - finish it and choose another one to go to from a home base "hub." The classic-style games wrapped the puzzles in more of an overall story or adventure. Not that one style is better or worse, it's just a different type of setup. The animation in Z&W is superb, the puzzles are clever and fun, and it has a great sense of humor. Definitely recommended.
I played the crystal key lastnight, it was not too bad, although I could see the reason why people would get extremely stuck. Infact I got stuck on the next 2 levels, the ice guardian one (I broke down after awhile and used my first hint, it was so obvious too!) and the next one was the one where the chest is in the ice block, honestly though I was so stuck I had to use anoher hint and what it revealed probably would have taken me forever to figure out. I went in telling myself I would not use any hints, but I figured it was not worth the aggrivation of possibly never returning to the game.
And oh boy the 2nd world boss level sure looks like fun... if you enjoy torture of the brain that is.
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I've been playing zack and wiki this weekend and ... I'm not sure what to think.
I love the fact that its a classic point and click adventure game. I don't really care for it being 3D because on some stages parts of the level obstruct other parts of the level. Plus, sometimes that camera gets retarded and decides it wants to go look at something else.
I hate the fact that there is no inventory. You can carry one item at a time. You pick something up, you drop what you're carrying. It leads to a lot of needless running around.
I also hate the fact that you can die so easily. Wait, scratch that, I don't hate that you can die. That's fine. I hate that when you die you either have to start the entire level from the very beginning or use a free man. Free men are limited and every time you buy one, it costs more than the prior one. It sucks. I wish there was a way to save your progress or auto-save so you didn't have to repeat 20 minutes of work because some fireball got you at the last second.
I also hate the japanese humour. I'm sure it might be funny to their culture, but I can't stand it. It seems childish to me (maybe it's made for japanese children?). For instance, if Zack stands there for only 5 seconds he'll start snoring. I don't mind an idle animation, but 5 seconds? Give me a break. Also, the voices of these characters make me want to kill everyone everywhere. Also, there's a rabbit character who always have snots hanging from his nose. Is this funny? no.
I'm torn. I hate everything I outlined above, but I like the idea of the game. And the puzzles are interesting. Some are easy, some are hard. It's a nice balance, but gets a little too tough. It seems to me that they have the shell of an excellent game, but just buggered up the execution.
At least it wasn't Zangief and Wiki.
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Zack and Wiki 2: Zack and Wiki make a porno
If you thought that the original Zack and Wiki made good use of the wiimote's capabilities, just wait to see what they've done this time around. Spinning, twisting, thrusting, pinching... this game's got it all.
Can someone please photoshop a Wii game cover for this? That'd be hilarious
I stopped playing it because of the dying part. Spend 20 minutes solving puzzles and die because you hit a switch you weren't supposed to. Ugh. I use trial and error in my puzzle games and this game punishes you for that.
Also the motion controls don't work most of the time.


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