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Doubt his body holds up another full season.
Signed by Colts as per Schefter
Doubt his body holds up another full season.
4 years, 24 mil
Not bad
Idzik pulling the rug from under Rex
Going to be a rough couple of years
ouch..wish we could have figured a way to keep him
Good. We were lucky to get one healthy season from him.
compensation picks anyone lol
Much sadness
Pollard/Huff etc then draft Shamarko?
sucks, this guy is a beast.
Pollard time
Jets 2012 Defense
Pouha (Gone)
Devito (Gone)
Pace (Gone)
Bart (Gone)
Thomas (Gone)
Landry (Gone)
Bell (Gone)
Revis (Limbo)
Scary turnover
Landry rated out in the bottom half of safeties last year.. and that was in a year in which he was actually healthy. His on the field production is replaceable.
I would have liked to bring him back, but not at that price. Who knows if he'll even stay healthy.
Gimme Pollard.
Anybody still doubting if Rex is running the team or Idzik ?
The rest won't affect the defense as much as long as you get someone decent in there. The LBs couldn't cover the TEs, and Revis didn't play.
I believe we'll miss the safeties, however.
The starting defense will most likely look like this:
DE Wilkerson
DE Coples
DT/NT Ellis
LB Harris
LB Davis
CB Cromartie
CB Wilson
S Bush
S Allen
We need to sign/draft players. Most likely draft. I don't believe the Jets are going to be active in free agency for the foreseeable future.


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November 28, 2014
Friday Daily Puck: Edmonton Oil Spill
The Oilers are winless in eight games. When does a train wreck stop being funny?
November 26, 2014
Wednesday Daily Puck: Zeros for Zetterberg
A couple young players are getting hot, and a couple veterans are getting cold.
November 19, 2014
Man Advantage: Players Off the Radar
Johan Franzen might have fallen off radar screens when he was out with an injury, but he's back now and seeing power-play opportunities.
Thursday Daily Puck: Don't Succumb To Vanek Panic
It's time to decide if you think a struggling player can turn it around, will prestigious players like Patrick Marleau, Mikko Koivu, Alex Goligoski, and Thomas Vanek turn around on early season struggles?
November 17, 2014
Tuesday Daily Puck: Is The Magician Losing His Prestige?
Injury woes -- most recently a groin ailment -- have been dogging Pavel Datsyuk for years, and lately they've been affecting his offensive production, too.
November 13, 2014
Thursday Daily Puck: Beleaf
Kessel isn't the only talent Maple Leaf that is providing value for fantasy owners despite the Leafs' struggles.
November 10, 2014
Monday Daily Puck: Know When To Walk Away, Know When To Run
Knowing when to jettison an unproductive player like the Preds' Seth Jones can often be the difference between winning and losing.
November 9, 2014
Frozen Fantasy: Subtraction by Addition
Gabriel Landeskog and the Avs qualify as one of the NHL's early disappointments. Is it possible that the offseason addition of Jarome Iginla has somehow made the team worse?
November 7, 2014
Friday Daily Puck: The Best of the Worst
Which eye should you poke out when watching the Sabres and Oilers? Left, right, or both?!
November 3, 2014
Tuesday Daily Puck: Hiller Thrilling In Calgary
Jonas Hiller is playing out of his mind, making him one of the main suspects behind the Flames' hot play early on.
November 1, 2014
The Waiver Wire: Return Of The Mule
Johan Franzen returns from injury on Sunday Mike Wilson and Dan Waldner tell you why that should matter to you.
October 31, 2014
Saturday Daily Puck: Starry-eyed Wild
The Stars and Wild get ready for a key divisional matchup Saturday night. How will it all shake down?
October 27, 2014
Tuesday Daily Puck: Cam Can't Carry 'Canes
Cam Ward's struggles have made him an unplayable fantasy netminder, and things don't seem likely to get any better Tuesday in Vancouver.
October 23, 2014
Friday Daily Puck: Kuemper's A Keeper
Darcy Kuemper now has three shutouts in four starts. Anomaly or the real deal?
Thursday Daily Puck: Dishonor For Connor
Sabres fans watch McDavid instead of the Sabres, Giroux has a different start, and Miller was absolutely terrible.
October 21, 2014
Neutral Zone Wrap: Blackhawks Up
The Blackhawks are flying out of the gate despite getting next to nothing out of Brad Richards to begin with. Evan Berofsky takes a look at five teams in this week's NZW.
October 20, 2014
Tuesday Daily Puck: Hot, Fresh Duck
The Ducks' Frederik Andersen has been a revelation in goal only for those who weren't paying attention while he dominated last season.
October 15, 2014
Thursday Daily Puck: Richards Don't Make the Man Rich
How to cash in on early season panic in your league.
October 11, 2014
Saturday Daily Puck: Familiar Faces Thriving In New Places
RotoWire's Brady Trettenero takes stock of the early imports succeeding in their new locales, with new Anaheim center Ryan Kesler among the group.
October 8, 2014
NHL Schedule Analysis: Flames Burning Thrice
Sean Monahan and the Flames have three games in the opening week of the NHL season.
October 10, 2014
Friday Daily Puck: The Storm Brewing On Long Island
Who says no one cares about the Canes and Isles?
September 29, 2014
Neutral Zone Wrap: Potential Breakouts
Can Charlie Coyle and company take the next step in Minnesota? RotoWire's Evan Berofsky thinks that the potential is there for he and his Wild teammate Nino Niederreiter.
September 22, 2014
2014-2015 Hurricanes Preview: Storm Brewing in Goal
With his 2006 run to the Stanley Cup now a distant memory, Cam Ward will have to fend off upstart Anton Khudobin for No. 1 netminding duties on a middling Carolina squad.
March 29, 2014
NHL Barometer: Avalanche of Points
Matt Duchene set a career high this year with 70 points, as he has 14 points in his last 16 games.
Saturday Daily Puck: These Birds Don't Fly
Are the Pens really the second-best team in the East? I see a team full of question marks and holes.
March 25, 2014
Neutral Zone Wrap: Beware of Shiny Objects
Patrik Berglund may have evolved into a good all-around player, but he still falls short of our fantasy needs in most formats.
March 18, 2014
Morning Skate: A Rift in Sochi?
Alex Ovechkin and Evgeni Malkin apparently feuded in Sochi, and that may have carried over to Ovie's play in Washington.
Tuesday Daily Puck: Broadway Blues
Martin St. Louis has just two points -- and no goals -- in seven games since joining the Rangers at the trade deadline.
March 15, 2014
NHL Barometer: Career Year for Duchene
The Avs' MVP, Matt Duchene is playing out of his mind and could be on his way to 80 points if he stays hot.
March 7, 2014
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The Ducks got faster by cutting Dustin Penner. But will it be enough?
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A new survey by The College Database shows Mississippi State graduates leading their peers at other Magnolia State universities and colleges in starting salaries.
According to the website report, graduates of the Starkville land-grant institution begin work making an average of $41,200. The complete survey is available at onlinecollegesdatabase.org/online-colleges-in-mississippi/#high-starting-salary-colleges-mississippi.
The next three highest starting salaries listed in the survey are $40,000 for Mississippi University for Women, and $39,000 at both the University of Mississippi and Mississippi College. MSU, MUW and Ole Miss are public institutions, while MC is private.
Katrina Silberstein said the report represents a new metric created by College Database to indicate "the top Mississippi colleges with the highest financial return on investment." All institutions on the list have annual tuition rates below $20,000, the organization's managing director for communication and partnerships added.
The College Database is a free, non-commercial website that uses data sets from the federal government and California-based Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching." Its sources and partners include:
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For Vodafone, sub-Saharan Africa is proving to be the testbed for R&D development that will transition to the rest of the world. Vodafone's emerging "Africanized" technology is highly advanced, world-class stuff; unlike other existing technologies that have slowly trickled down into African markets.
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Mobiles for Women. Part 2: The Darker Side.
But, there is a "darker side" to this world, which includes changes in gender relations and power dynamic, a potential increase in violence, substitution of money or a change in expenditures, invasion of privacy, and increased control by a male partner.
Mobiles for Women. Part 1: The Good.
But, there is a darker side. Targeting women with mobile phones can cause changes in gender dynamics and family expenditures and may relate to increases in domestic violence, invasion of privacy, or control by a male partner.
This article will look at the pros and cons of targeting women with mobiles in the developing world.
Part One ("The Good") highlights the current landscape and identify some of the benefits of mobile tech for women. It also includes a brief discussion on some the challenges and barriers.
Part Two of this series will get at the darker side and identifies some of the potential dangers in targeting women with mobiles.
Africa to be first post-PC continent
Low investment in wired telecommunication infrastructure has driven increased mobile penetration, creating a user base that supports a rise in mobile innovation and increased interest in content development, according to observers.
Design!publiC: design for governance in India
The event — which was organised by the Center for Knowledge Societies, sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and with support from, amongst others, the Centre for Internet and Society — brought together influential thinkers in Indian government, including Arun Maira of the National Planning Commission, R. Gopalakrishnan of the National Innovation Council and Ram Sewak Sharma of the UIDAI, as well as members of leading corporate and development sector agencies.
In the lengthy article Aparna Piramal Raje, director of BP Ergo, describes the approach advocated at the conclave:
"Design thinking denotes an approach to problem-solving, with three distinct aspects. First, users are studiously followed and analysed employing ethnographic tools. Human needs, attitudes, preferences, challenges, their context and the immediate environment are documented using multimedia technology.
These in-depth observations generate insights into the heart of a given problem. Based on these, design thinkers collaborate and brainstorm to conceive a set of possible solutions. Prototypes of these solutions are created, tested and validated to arrive at a final solution. […]
Design thinking's biggest strength—the last mile, or the citizen-government interface—is the biggest pain point for government service providers. User-centricity forms the foundation for all design thinking; they are typically the weakest link in any government programme. Greater sensitivity to everyday interactions between citizens and government services can result in enhanced standards of living through better housing, transportation, health, education, among other necessities of daily life, the panellists said."
Make sure to watch the video that is embedded in the article.
Excerpt from the Design!publiC vision text
"The problem of governance is perhaps as old as society, as old as the rule of law. But it is only more recently — perhaps the last five hundred years of modernity — that human societies have been able to conceive of different models of government, different modalities of public administration, all having different effects on the configuration of society. The problem of governments, of governmentality, and of governance is always also the problem of how to change the very processes and procedures of government, so as to enhance the ends of the state and to promote the collective good.
Since the establishment of India's republic, many kinds of changes have been made to the policies and practices of its state. We may think of, for instance, successive stages of land reforms, the privatization of large-scale and extractive industries, the subsequent abolition of the License Raj and so and so forth. We may also consider the computerization of state documents beginning in the 1980s, and more recently, the Right To Information Act (RTI). More recently there have been activist campaigns to reduce the discretionary powers of government and to thereby reduce the scope of corruption in public life.
While all these cases represent the continuous process of modification, reform, and change to government policy and even to its modes of functioning, this is not what we have in mind when we speak of 'governance innovation.' Rather, intend a specific process of ethnographic inquiry into the real needs of citizens, followed by an inclusive approach to reorganizing and representing that information in such a way that it may promote collaborative problem-solving and solutioneering through the application of design thinking.
The concept of design thinking has emerged only recently, and it has been used to describe approaches to problem solving that include: (i) redefining the fundamental challenges at hand, (ii) evaluating multiple possible options and solutions in parallel, and (iii) prioritizing and selecting those which are likely to achieve the greatest benefits for further consideration. This approach may also be iterative, allowing decisions to be made in general and specific ways as an organization gets closer and closer to the solution. Design thinking turns out to be not an individual but collective and social process, requiring small and large groups to be able to work together in relation to the available information about the task or challenge at hand. Design thinking can lead to innovative ideas, to new insights, and to new actionable directions for organizations.
This general approach to innovation — and the central role of design thinking — has emerged from the private sector over the last quarter century, and has enjoyed particular success in regards to the development of new technology products, services and experience. The question we would like to address in this conference is whether and how this approach can be employed for the transformation public and governmental systems. […]
[More in particular,] in this conclave, our interest is to explore how design thinking and user-centered innovation might help [governmental and quasi-governmental] organizations better accomplish their mission and better serve their beneficiaries. We also seek to explore and establish particular modalities through which governance innovation can be achieved, as well as to identify key stakeholders and personalities gripped of the challenge of governance innovation. Our larger goal is to craft a path forward for integrating design thinking and innovation methodologies in the further re-envisioning, refashioning and improvement of public services in India and elsewhere in the world."
The conclave seems to have been extremely well prepared, given the wealth of supporting materials that are available online:
Press release
CKS organizes "Design Public" conclave – lays foundation for creating a national framework for governance innovation. High-level officials from Government of India work together with design and Innovation Experts at "Design Public" conclave
Conclave Note
Concise document that covers vision, case studies, programme and attendees
Case studies of governance innovation
Mainly European examples (unfortunately) from Denmark, UK and Norway
Glossary on design, innovation and governance
Glossary of terms that are often used by designers and innovation specialists. Also includes key terms related to governance and state-craft.
Bibliography on governance innovation
[Pleasantly surprised to find my own name there, as well as the one of Experientia partner Jan-Christoph Zoels]
Design!publiC Book
A combination of all the above, including a detailed introduction to the design innovation ideas that were explored at the Design Public Conclave, the complete Design Public bibliography, the glossary of design terms, case studies of design innovation being applied to government, and bios for the guests that attended the conference.
The UNICEF challenge encouraged young designers to envision solutions to education in developing countries.
UNICEF in collaboration with the Danish not-for-profit organization INDEX launched the challenge in June 2010, and more than 1000 students from 29 countries across the globe joined the competition which resulted in 115 submitted design solutions.
From a short-list of seven, Ane and François' "Teddy Bag" project was selected as the design with the most potential to be realised with the highest impact.
The Teddy Bag is a fully-recyclable backpack created for children to use in emergency situations, or in areas lacking education facilities. It is a lightweight backpack, which the child can use to carry equipment to school, but then transforms into a desk and chair for the child to sit on and study at, at school or even at home.
The INDEX Jury selected the Teddy Bag according to criteria of form, impact and context, commending it for having "the child in the centre and for a design where impact could be measured easily". The jury also commended the thorough iteration process the winners went through, their testing and the broad product range that can be extended from the design.
The selection process included a workshop in Copenhagen, where short-listed teams worked with the Jury, advisers and experts to develop their initial concepts into go-to-market ideas.
The two young designers are now working with UNICEF, in an effort to conduct further field testing and hopefully implement the project.
– Read press release
– Watch video
– Download submission (pdf)
Mobile youth around the world
Out of all the countries examined, Italy leads in smartphone penetration with 47 percent of young people ages 15-24 owning a smartphone, compared to 31 percent of adults over 25. Smartphone penetration among European youth averages 28 percent in the countries surveyed, while penetration among older adults in Europe is 27 percent. Twenty-eight percent of U.S. mobile subscribers have smartphones. Youth in the United States exceed the population average smartphone penetration by 5 percent.
According to the report, China is the biggest spot for the mobile Internet, with 73 percent of Chinese youths age 15 to 24 citing mobile Internet usage as among the things they used their cell phones for in the past month. By comparison, less than half of American and British cell-phone toting youths used the Internet from their mobile devices, while the rest of Europe had rates less than 25 percent.
"These are some of the themes we will explore in the "Mobile Message." Over the next few months we will delve into the human stories behind the growth of mobile technology in the developing world. We'll take a closer look at the background and thinking behind FrontlineSMS, and hear from a number of users applying it to very real social and environmental problems in their communities. We will also hear thoughts and insights from other key mobile innovators in the field, from anthropologists to technologists to local innovators."
Understanding communities through ethnography
"My primary output is analysis of how new technology users are living at the intersection of macro processes. Examples of questions that I ask are: What does the future of the internet look like? What happens when the next 300 million migrants with digital tools are able to get online? How will the state, the world, and technological infrastructures accommodate such a massive change in scale? How do we design and market to this group?
I hang out with people and spend a lot of time trying to see the world through their eyes. I make long and deep observations of how everyday life is achieved and negotiated. I then interpret my observations and contextualize my analysis in relation to past, current and future socioeconomic, technological and cultural developments.
By answering these questions I am able to provide context and explanations for why people engage or don't engage with certain technologies, to explain how this all interfaces with historical and present day life, and how designers, engineers, and organizers can meet the daily needs of both low-income/marginalized users and the burgeoning middle class."
(via FutureLab)
In developing world countries like Kenya, the technology to do this has been around for several years – and you do not need a bank account to use it.
M-Pesa launched in 2007, and there are now nearly 100 services like it around the world, mainly in developing countries.
Can the developed world learn from Kenya's experience with the mobile wallet?
The BBC's Fiona Graham finds out.
Harvard Forum essays on ICT4D
The two-day Harvard Forum II was sponsored by Canada's International Development Research Centre and hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University in September 2009.
ITID is a peer-reviewed, international, multidisciplinary quarterly that focuses on the intersection of information and communication technologies (ICT) with economic and social development. It is designed for researchers and practitioners from the engineering and social sciences, technologists, policy makers, and development specialists.
Some highlights:
– The mobile and the world – Amartya Sen
– Some thoughts on ICT and growth – Michael Spence (Nobel in Economics, 2001)
– Capital, power, and the next step in decentralization – Yochai Benkler
– Decentralizing the mobile phone: a second ICT4D revolution – Ethan Zuckerman
How data use and data visualisations can improve our lives
Data for a better planet
Now that more people have location-aware smartphones and the Web has made data easy to share, personal data is poised to become an important tool to understand how we live, and how we all might live better.
Citytracking presents data on cities for map, visualisations
Citytracking, created by design and technology studio Stamen, presents digital data about cities that journalists and the public can easily grasp and use, and provides a series of tools to map and visualize data that lets people distribute their own conclusions.
Mobile data will be crucial to economies
In a short video interview on IdeasProject, Ushahidi co-founder Erik Hersman says once the data processing capabilities on mobile devices improve that it will be a huge growth area with huge social implications to economies all over the world.
The newest web users are changing the culture of the internet
"Researchers say the web as it was originally, if idealistically, conceived — a largely free, monolingual space where a shared digital culture prevailed — may soon be a distant memory. And it's happening remarkably fast."
How the cell phone is changing the world
"More than 4 billion of the 6 billion people on earth now have a cell phone, with a quarter of those owners getting one in just the last two years. And many are using them, in a giant global experiment, to change the way life is lived, from Manhattan to Ouagadougou.
The phones now allow Masai tribesmen in Kenya to bank the proceeds from selling cattle; Iranian protesters to organize in secret; North Koreans to communicate with the outside world; Afghan villagers to alert Coalition soldiers to Taliban forces; insurgents to blow up roadside bombs in Iraq; and charities to see, in real time, when HIV drugs run out in the middle of Malawi."
India: Land of many cell phones, fewer toilets
"The Mumbai slum of Rafiq Nagar has no clean water for its shacks made of ripped tarp and bamboo. No garbage pickup along the rocky, pocked earth that serves as a road. No power except from haphazard cables strung overhead illegally.
And not a single toilet or latrine for its 10,000 people.
Yet nearly every destitute family in the slum has a cell phone. Some have three."
Meet the 20-cent 'cloud phone'
Waller dropped the surprising statistic that worldwide there are one billion people who use cell phones–but don't own one; instead they share, borrow or rent them.
The Cloud Phone was intended to serve this market. At first Waller tried to create a cell phone that could be manufactured for just $5 so that everyone could afford one, but he couldn't pull it off.
Instead Waller went with a $25 phone, but designed it so that a village of users could share it while still maintaining individual phone numbers accounts on a single phone. Activation cost? Just 10 to 20 cents per person.
Read the full interview, which is filled with interesting insights on how the other half uses their phones.
The most popular phone in the world
"The phone's small size makes its extremely portable, and easy to carry or stow. That narrow, squishy keypad is dustproof and water resistant, so a splash of rain or a drop in the sand won't ruin it. The phone's plasticky shell and light weight make perfect sense the first time you see it bounce off your tile floor, skittering to a stop unscathed. […]
This phone was meant to survive and to do; its only jobs are to call and to text and to create convenience for as long as possible, as cheaply as possible."
The (limited) power of good intentions
"While nearly all of this work is well-intentioned, almost none of it amounts to anything concrete," points out a magazine editor I know, who may be dazed by the number of do-gooder projects pouring into his inbox. "Why is there such a disconnect between the countless schemes of these designers and … well, to put it bluntly, real results? What has to happen to get the ratio of good intentions to completed projects to a more game-changing one?"
The roots to these answers are deep and hairy. They depend on the Jesuitical parsing of words like success, which can be defined quite differently depending on whose perspective you're considering: designer, funder, recipient. Even design takes on semantic complexity in the social-change arena. "Half of success is determined before anybody picks up a pencil to sketch," says Mariana Amatullo, director of Designmatters, a department of Art Center College of Design that undertakes social-change initiatives. She's referring to the network of relationships that must be built for projects launched from outside a community to have a hope in hell.
Innovative ways of appropriating mobile telephony in Africa
The democratization of mobile telephony in Africa, its availability, ease of use and, above all, the extent to which it has been appropriated by the public, have made it a major success story. Very low-income populations are not only actively demanding access to mobile telephone services but also innovating, by creating the functions and applications they can use. Development is thus happening "from the bottom up" and an entire economy, both formal and informal in nature, has come into being to meet people's needs. Many different actors – private, public, NGOs – are now mobilized.
Operators and manufacturers have successfully changed their economic model and adapted their products and applications to allow access to services at affordable prices. NGOs have in addition created a range of messaging- based services in different sectors. However, the future evolution of mobile telephony is not clear. A range of different approaches will co-exist, from SMS up to full Internet capacity, including experimental initiatives using smart phones and "netbooks". Falling costs will lead to an increase in the number of phone devices with data receiving capacity. Individuals and companies involved in creating services or applications for development will need to take account of their users' demographics and incomes, as well as the pricing systems of telecommunication companies in countries where they wish to operate. In this, States and regulating authorities have grasped the crucial role which they must play in promoting an investment-friendly environment with the goal of achieving universal access and stimulating innovation – key factors in achieving a "critical mass" of users.
The advent on the African continent of high-capacity links via submarine cables will change the ground rules and force operators to seek new sources of revenue. The inventiveness that has already been evident in mobile voice telephony will be needed once again if the "mobile divide" (in terms of costs, power supply, and so on) is not to widen.
This report takes stock of developments in this sector, which is crucial to Africa's economic development, and suggests a number of possible directions it might take.
(via MobileActive)
What the developing world can teach us about technology
"We're selling ourselves short if we think the flow of innovation only goes way. There is a lot we can learn back from the developing world about the inventive uses they find for the technology we take for granted."


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Ottima guest house 3 stelle. Princess street raggiungibile a piedi, old town a 5 minuti di bus (N°31). Personale gentilissimo, ottima accoglienza, colazione scozzese eccellente. Ok la pulizia, camera non grandissima ma comunque confortevole per 2 persone (ok anche il bagno). Assolutamente consigliato - Anonymous
I loved how clean it was and how it was just so close to everything, shopping centers, food places and the scenery. It was a little walk from the train station, but it was worth it. The beds were so comfortable and everything in the room was spotless. The decor in the rooms was so unique and very artistic. I loved that they had free wifi, considering the previous hotel I stayed at the night before didn't even want to give us the wifi password. I plan to stay here again this summer. Especially b - Anonymous
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ospitalità, tranquillità - Carmelo
La posizione centrale e il corretto rapporto qualita'/prezzo - Anonymous
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Rooms clean
Didn't feel stressed out everything was laid back
Parking was great and only £3 for 24 hours - Anonymous
The room was spacious and well furnished. We had a street facing room but the noise wasn't bad at all. You are given keys to the front door and your room on arrival so you aren't restricted by times. The staff were friendly and helpful throughout our stay (and remained so even though we had a blip).
The breakfast was fantastic, plenty of choice and enough to set you up for a good day ahead. We stayed for the rugby and the central location meant not only could we explore the city but we could wa - Anonymous
We realy enjoyed the warm welcome on arrival and the polite manner from all the staff while we were there nothing was to much for them it is close to the centre of town and easy access for the buses which is a bonous as we left our car in Averon car park which is covered with cameras will definatley go back. - Anonymous
gentilezza del personale, pulizia - Francesco
The staff was excellent especially Claudia-who was exceedingly helpful
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La gentilezza del personale,igiene e comfort delle camere. - Luca
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Education taxes being axed for seniors
Provincial budget to outline $50-million election promise
No Manitobans aged 65 and over will pay the provincial education portion of property taxes by 2015.
The move will be made official in today's provincial budget and will fulfil a promise made by the NDP during the 2011 election campaign.
But it comes with a price tag. The early estimate is it will take $50 million out of the provincial treasury at a time when the Selinger government wants to reduce the deficit by 2017.
The tax break for home-owning seniors will be phased in starting in 2014, meaning the revenue hit to the province won't be felt immediately. There are more than 180,000 seniors in the province, but it's not known how many live in their own homes.
How the NDP will make up that revenue shortfall is one of the big questions going into budget day, a day that will also see Finance Minister Stan Struthers lay out the early stages of a plan to further flood-proof parts of province that now see damaging spring flooding almost annually. Manitoba, with Monday's snowfall, is now headed into its third major flood in five years. The last flood in 2011 cost an estimated $1.2 billion, although a portion of that was covered by the federal government.
Last year, Struthers -- who worked throughout the weekend putting the final touches on his second budget as finance minister -- raised taxes by adding a number of items such as insurance products and personal services, such as haircuts costing more than $50, under the province's seven per cent retail sales tax. The province recently increased alcohol prices.
"I really hope this evening that tomorrow Manitobans do not find another big lump of coal from this government," Conservative Leader Brian Pallister said Monday at a pre-budget news conference.
Despite the certain revenue pressure caused by pulling seniors off a section of the property-tax rolls, the NDP believes it's a popular move among voters and one it wants to accomplish before Manitobans head back to the polls, likely in the spring of 2016.
"This is one commitment that really affected a lot of families," a government spokesman said.
The selling point to younger Manitobans -- perhaps even a justification for another tax increase -- is that older Manitobans on a fixed income will be able to stay in their own homes longer and be less of a burden on the health-care system, such as by moving into a personal-care home. It also fits into a program announced late last year that sees more house calls from doctors and nurse practitioners for seniors living at home.
Premier Greg Selinger also promised in 2011 to eliminate the education tax on all Manitoba farmland, which would save farmers a collective $14 million a year. The government spokesman said that promise will have to wait as the NDP is not prepared to move on it at this time.
The delay of that promise speaks to the position the province finds itself going into its fifth year in deficit -- a position they've blamed on 2011 flood costs and having to ratchet up infrastructure spending to ward off the recession that began in 2008. The NDP, along with other governments, says it had forecast a more rapid recovery and an earlier date to be back in surplus. The forecasted deficit for 2012-13 is $567 million.
Pallister said that "structural deficit" is more due to the NDP being unable to control its spending on things such as the civil service.
"The government raided the rainy-day fund that they were fortunate to inherit in good times and had an opportunity to prepare for what Mother Nature would throw at us and failed to do so," he said. "So don't blame Mother Nature for the nature of the NDP to spend more than they bring in. They were doing it before that flood and if things don't change tomorrow they're going to continue to do it."
Tuesday's budget and NDP commentary, besides outlining its spending plan for the next fiscal year, is also expected to remind Manitobans that Pallister was a minister in the previous Tory government under then-premier Gary Filmon, a government that presided over cuts to health care and other front-line services, plus the sale of Manitoba Telecom Services, to balance its books following the 1997 flood.
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Although the ROYAL DRUMMERS AND DANCERS OF BURUNDI gained Western acclaim in 1975 after being featured on Joni Mitchell's Grammy-nominated album, The Hissing of Summer Lawns, they have been performing in Africa for many centuries. Originating as ceremonial performers for Burundian kings, this troupe plays to celebrate their culture and honor the sacred powers of the drums, which represent the powers of fertility and regeneration. The ROYAL DRUMMERS AND DANCERS OF BURUNDI have toured around the world since 1960. In fact, their performances inspirEd Thomas Brooman to organize the very first WOMAD festival in 1982. In addition to touring worldwide and sparking the World Music boom, the ROYAL DRUMMERS AND DANCERS OF BURUNDI have recorded three albums with the Real World Label.
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Audiences flock to see entertaining Urdu plays, provided they are advertised as Hindi! Where have all the real Urdu plays gone, wonders RANA SIDDIQUI
Demand is greater than supply. One is not talking about IT professionals but Urdu plays on the Delhi stage. Delhiites complain about not having seen real Urdu plays for ages. The scene is the same in other cities like Mumbai and Bhopal where theatre otherwise is said to be thriving. For years there has been only a trickle of new Urdu plays. This despite the fact that some good old plays continue to be crowd-pullers, even if many of them are advertised as Hindi plays! Decades ago Nadira Babbar's "Yahoodi Ki Ladki" played to packed halls in Delhi. Such is the success rate of this Urdu play that it has seen 1500 shows across the country and is still a major crowd puller.
More recently, Delhi saw "Maulana Azad" with Tom Alter in the title role. The two-and-half hour soliloquy in chaste Urdu is written and directed by Mohammad Sayeed Alam. This play has done 200 successful shows. Alam is almost the lone crusader in Delhi, who, through his plays like "Ghalib in New Delhi", "K.L. Saigal" and "Bahadur Shah Zafar" gives Urdu theatre a kiss of life. Never mind that even Alam has to sell his Urdu plays as those in Hindi!
One can recall names like Revati Saran Sharma whose plays like "Phir Wohi Talash" and "Aur Shama Jalti Rahi" have earned a name for their excellent Urdu and stagecraft. Not to mention the doyen of Indian theatre, Habib Tanvir, whose "Agra Bazaar" and "Shatranj Ke Mohre" are always staged to overflowing halls.
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So, the audiences are there but why are Urdu plays so hard to come by? Where are the Urdu knowing actors, playwrights and directors? Perhaps the face of the Urdu play has changed. It is now represented by the likes of Naseeruddin Shah-Ratna Shah and Javed Akhtar-Shabana Azmi. As is known, they have transformed the stories of Ismat Chughtai, Sadat Hasan Manto, and memoirs of Kaifi Azmi and Shaukat Azmi ("Kaifi Aur Main", etc.) into Urdu plays.
Says Tanvir, "Actually, all good Urdu writers like Rajender Singh Bedi and Manto were with All India Radio, so they used to write radio plays. They may never have thought in terms of staging them. Moreover, great Urdu speaking actors like Prithiviraj Kapoor and Saeed Jaffery were all absorbed by the film industry. After all, films have more money and there is no one to take care of Urdu theatre."
Agrees Nadira, "Why should the children learn Urdu? It doesn't fetch them a job. Urdu exists only in the Constitution. For ages I have not been able to stage good Urdu plays because there are no sponsors. The Government says 'Urdu ke liye budget nahi hai.' (There is no budget for Urdu.) Yeh woh jung hai jo door tak haari ja chuki hai. (It is a lost cause.) There is no distribution network for Urdu books. The TV serials have further tarnished the language. How do we keep theatre alive if there is no language and no torchbearers?"
Alam finds it a "paradoxical situation". He says, "Modern Hindi theatre is 'literarily' Urdu. For instance, a play like "Tughlaq" is advertised as 'Hindi play' while it is in Urdu." He feels the prevailing confusion between Hindustani and Urdu has resulted in pure Urdu losing out. "We playwrights are also responsible for it. I am guilty of saying that 'Ghalib in New Delhi', and 'K.L. Saigal' are Hindi plays while they are 70 per cent Urdu. And I have to do it, because if I declare that the play is in Urdu, then I lose half the audience because they think I am talking of 'Persianised' Urdu which is never the case."
The practitioners of Urdu theatre are not sure if the efforts of the Shahs and Javed-Shabana are harbingers of hope. Tanvir remarks, "It is just a new beginning. Whether it survives or dies, only time will tell."


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Title: The Day of the Dead
a pictorial archive of Dia de los Muertos
a pictorial archive of Dia de los Muertos
Publisher: Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications ; Newton Abbot : David & Charles [distributor], c2010
Characteristics: 128 p. :,chiefly ill. ;,23 cm. +,1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
Statement of Responsibility: selected and edited by Jean Moss
Notes: CD-ROM features all of the print images in JPEG and TIFF formats
Summary: A collection of historic engravings, including several by José Guadalupe Posada, depicting animated skeletons in representation of the Mexican celebration known as Día de los Muertos.
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Branch Call Number: 394.26972 D2747 2010
Subject Headings: All Souls' Day Mexico Pictorial works Holidays Mexico Pictorial works Dead in art
Topical Term: All Souls' Day
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Why is it that mainstream media doesn't look at the more then obvious fact that Robin Williams was medicated for mental health and had a drug that might have prompted his suicide? Why is everyone trying to hide it? Why is everyone so ignorant? Or why is everyone so afraid? Why are we still here in this modern age shoving aside obvious reasons why people kill themselves. Why people go on killing streaks in schools, or movie theaters. Why are we so un-evolved that we look at the glossy forest but can't see the trees?
Are we a lost people, or just stupid.
When and how are things going to start to break through and make a tiny change? I'm not asking for people to recognize or understand, or accept, or not fear mental illness. I'm just angry that we put a known blanket over a bright hot pink elephant in our culture.
Stop the madness. Really, people.
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A mood disorder is a constant struggle in the brain on a minute-to-minute basis and month-to-month basis and year-to-year basis. It is a silent beast that I've learned you can't discredit or think is not as bad as other mental illnesses. If anything I've learned it's worse simply because I've downplayed it in my head that it was a serious mental illness. I've learned that it sits right beside all other mental illnesses and without taking it seriously, and doing your best to educate yourself, or explain to yourself or others what's going on, is truly a challenge.
I'm going to dive deeper into mood disorders. It's a loose term that frankly, isn't common dialogue not just in society but also used loosely in the psych world. It seems to come across as a big broad thing when really it has deep dark intricate complexities. Complexities that even I who lives with one, has a hard time explaining. When I look back at the series I wrote on my blog about my experience with "The Beast" I was confused throughout the whole thing. But now it know it's going to be a hard thing to understand and explain., hence my original title to this series.
As of now I can say in my own words that a mood disorder is wild, scary, expensive, strange, unforgiving, relentless and mean. A mood disorder is not to be taken lightly.
(In the last several weeks I have been blogging about my experience starting an antidepressant and the changes I've undergone. Should you want to read the series start with The Beast Is Back: Depression and see what you find and please give your input.)
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So, I had two weekends that I was social and managed to leave my place. Then out of nowhere this past weekend I couldn't get out of bed and cried uncontrollably over external difficulties with the plot of my life like a breakup that continues to haunt me (and I really screwed up cause during my crying episode I called him after months of being strong and staying away), hardships at work that are only getting worse, and fighting change when I desperately need but change is hard for me. But these challenges have always been the case so I can't say external issues caused the crying, but this crying was bad. It didn't stop and I couldn't place it or understand why now? Did I screw up my med dosage? No. I am diligent about my meds and even though at the very beginning I was wary about taking it so chose not to a couple times the first week that doesn't explain the outcry that resulted in me missing two days of work, and stuck to my bed watching Scandal from start to finish. Then I looked in my refrigerator and saw that I actually have food in it. Somewhere in the last few weeks I managed to buy food. I've always just had cheese, water, hot sauce and now I have a package of three boneless chicken meats which was quite a change. Ok, so it's only cheese, hot sauce and one package of chicken, but hey, I don't know the last time I had anything in my fridge. I also cleaned out my pantry which I have never done before. But other than that there really is no difference. But whatever happened last weekend with my uncontrollable tears was something I have never experienced before which has to equate to the antidepressant. Maybe it had a reverse effect on me or something cause I stayed in bed for five days which I have never done before.
Tomorrow I will report all this to my psychiatrist and see what he says, but, since all this is up and down and back and forth with no real concrete changes that have provided some balance in my life, I'm not sure what we can do at this point. Change dosage? Maybe. Switch to a different pill? Hell no. I've gone down the road of let's try this pill, let's try that pill, and each time I get different side effects and responses which is beyond frustrating. Then I look back at my diary and see the last time I was on this particular antidepressant I worked quite well for me. But that was in my late twenties. Now I am in my late thirties and my hormones are changes as I age. I always knew the response my mind would have on a medication would change with age but I thought that would happen during menopause or something. I don't know. I am obviously confused and feel bad for my psychiatrist cause, as you can see, I'm lost and confused about how the past several weeks played out with the antidepressant. After the scary weekend of nothingness I just endured I'm thinking no, it's time to just stop and stick to my mood stabilizer but maybe it takes longer for the pill to actually do its job. Cause if that is not the case then I am shit out of luck.
We'll see what he says…
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Weekend number three was tragic.
Something has gone wrong. I don't know what happened, I just know that I couldn't get out of my bed yesterday and cried in my sheets. The kind of cry from the bowls of your stomach that you haven't ever heard spill out of your mouth. I couldn't make it to work today, which is just another added stress. I've been trying to figure out or gage what the antidepressant is doing or how it is working, or not, and I'm lost. I take baths and clean my sheets so nothing will reek of depression. That may be a long shot by the way. I went to bed at 5 pm the last couple days, and still can't seem to get out of bed at a reasonable hour, and didn't take my antidepressant yesterday, or today. Maybe it had a reverse effect on me or something cause none of this makes sense to me, at all. Maybe when you have a pill to help depression it turns on you and makes you more depressed. I'm seeing my psychiatrist Friday so maybe by then I'll have a better idea of what is going on; cause whatever is causing this episode of depression can't just be pinned on a pill. There are external vices looming over my head that can't be solved with a medication, but, who's to say that the medication is causing a worse state of mind. You can't expect a pill to fix things, but, I didn't expect that it might just have made things worse.
We'll see what my shrink says come Friday. Last time I barely made it there. This time will be another opportunity to gage how I'm doing. If the medication is worth the crying that is foreign to me.
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I've never been one to really care what people think and no one was dancing. Maybe it was too early. I don't know. I wasn't planning on staying out very late so I started the dance party, by myself, which can be a considered a symptom of hypomania. So there I was busting a move all over the dance foor while people stood and stared. I think it was at least fifteen minutes before someone joined in, and then little by little the floor became filled with people. Usually I would spend my Saturday nights dancing alone in my loft so it was a big social step for me to find myself dancing around a bunch of strangers. At one point I saw this guy STRETCHING before he stepped onto the dance floor. That I have never seen before, but, except for last weekend, it was the first time I actually made it out of my place on a Saturday night for years.
I guess the antidepressant is working.
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Oddly enough my place didn't share the same antidepressant signs. I didn't make my bed, I didn't fold my laundry, and didn't clean my dishes. In other words, my place was a mess, but I didn't care. I made it out. Then the following night I had to question my mania.
I don't recall the last time I did a walk of shame. It reminded me of my manic New York days which was a little unsettling. I met this guy out at dinner and ended up going home with him. I didn't sleep with him, which would have been a hypomanic move, but spent the night and low and behold found myself gathering my clothes in the early AM hours. When I was ready to go he woke up and I said "Do you have my number?" And he said "No, but I know your name." And I responded with "Then you'll know how to find me." And off I went. Did I think I was some superhero or something? I'm not Batman. Next thing I know I was walking down the desolate streets of Downtown LA making my way back home. Once again I made it home in one piece. So my weekend wasn't shabby. The antidepressant is definitely doing something. In 48 hours I was social. Although mania seems slightly on the horizon, it's better than staying home alone.
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My biggest fear is my mind and body becoming accustomed to it so I feel like this week was crucial to see how my mind responds. So far the only thing different is my tremor. I have the weekend ahead of me to see if I am able to function and be social, and not be such a recluse so that will be a good barometer to see how it's working, or not working. As of now I just want to get over the feelings I have when I have to take it. It's like I don't want to be comfortable with it cause I don't want to become dependent on it because this is only supposed to be temporary. Or, at least that's what I tell myself, but the side effects haunt me.
I spoke to a colleague on the other side of the office who previously had a weight problem and is using it for her depression, and weight loss. That scares me. I know a lot of people start pharmaceutical medications not just for mental help but to lose weight. I am not one of those people. I am, however, one that will never take a pill that makes me gain weight. I've been down that road before and it is not good. It only exasperated my depression and now that my weight is pretty much stable, I hope this medication doesn't affect my dress size. But it's too early to tell. Let's just hope I don't skip days here and there once more side effects show their ugly face.
So, although it's getting easier to open the box, I can't make any promises to myself. Once I see some positive changes in my life I know I'll be religious about keeping on top of my meds, but, it's a hard road to get there when I have such bad feelings inside which initially caused me to skip days, and then I freak out when I read about side effects all over the internet. Ok. The weekend is on the horizon. I will take it as prescribed and see if maybe I'll make it to my dance class on Saturday. Maybe I won't spend the weekend in bed watching Hulu. Maybe I won't order in bad food cause going to the store is way too much effortand you can forget about cooking. Maybe I'll pick up my phone when someone tries to reach out to me. There are a lot of maybes. We'll see. I'll hope. Somehow, I'll make it happen.
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I always have hot sauce with my food, and would rather eat alone with my tremor then be social over lunch. But I decided to just deal without the hot sauce and worry about eating the rest of my food. I picked up my sandwich and my hands continued to shake. I quickly put it back down and again, hoped my coworker hadn't notice. I knew that with my new antidepressant a tremor was in the cards for me, but didn't expect it to take over so quickly. I held my breath and picked up the sandwich again and my whole sandwich fell apart right before my eyes and my coworker didn't say anything. So I went to the plastic forks and spoon shelf in the store and grabbed both. I sat back down and took a moment to pray that I'd be able to use a fork to eat my food, that had completely fallen apart, and not have a shake. As my nervousness grew and my self-consciousness took hold I picked up the fork and quickly stuffed it in the meat and vegetables. No shake was detected. But now I had to figure out how to get the fork to my mouth without it all falling apart. I knew once I had the food to my lips my mouth would be able to slightly mask the shaky hands. It worked. So I ended up quickly forking food from my crippled sandwich and quickly eating it before any shake could be detected. It was terrible.
I think I'll eat alone for a while until I can figure out what to do about this mess. Lunch with no hot sauce is going to have to take a back seat, for now.
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I've spent the last couple weekends finding it hard to leave my bed. Not my place, my bed, which is way worse. I finally broke down and made the call to see my psychiatrist before our scheduled appointment.
"I need something. What about Wellbutrin SR. When was the last time I was on that?"
How I managed to be fine the last three years and now need help was alarming. I remember back when I was on that antidepressant I had a steady job that I actually enjoyed, a healthy social life, and can not recall any specific reasons for why I was on it, but this depression is different. I reminded me of a depression I had back when I was trying to find a mood stabilizer and had an array of drugs to try and the search went on and on till finally I found something and now, after three years depression free, the beast is back.
I got the prescription filled three days ago. The bottle is sitting beside my pillbox. I haven't taken it yet. Yesterday I didn't leave my bed, again. And the pills stare me down now. I know I'm not a failure for needing some help to get through this but, it is disappointing that I've been fine the last few years and now, the beast is back. And help is staring me down now.
When will I take it?
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Today, things have changed, and most of these changes are due to advancements in technology. Kids now a days are not only having sex at a younger age, but their journey toward crossing home base has changed. As technology continues to flourish the playing field has become drastically advanced, and the privatizations of sexual acts are open to people's vulnerability, and more public exchanges of sexual behaviors. Mild foreplay to get to home base is out. Here is an example of a modern day look at running bases through the power of technology:
As technology continues to change our culture of sex we can only rethink our stories of running bases. Of course, parents should be concerned about what their teenagers are putting online, or the sexual exchanges that are made through all the devices available that can result in vulnerable pictures on the Internet. Now a days most hiring companies search online to see what comes up when they review resumes for potential candidates. Imagine you post some sort of sex driven material online which impedes your ability to get a job ten years later. The question is, as we advance as a society, how do we meet the demands of protecting children that are native and make decisions without a mature understanding of the power of technology? I can ruin a person's reputation in the present, and drastically affect a person's future. Now a days, parents are doing everything they can to monitor and protect their children from the internet and technology that can unfortunately taint a child's life. If I were a parent, I'd try that angle to inform a teen that thinks it's no big deal. It's a very big deal cause once it's out there, it's out there for good.
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