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The British government's recent Change4Life print ad, which visually links playing video games with an early demise, continues to draw ire from the games industry. Adding to official complaints lodged with the Advertising Standards Authority by MCV, Tiga, and ELSPA are scathing comments from a variety of industry types.
Codemasters CEO Rod Cousens:
Governments have a unique ability to get it wrong. Their track record to do so spans centuries. As usual, they are out of touch, respond too late and their so called facts or intelligence is normally flawed. This is certainly so in this case.
Konami UK general manager Peter Stone:
Konami has long been at the forefront of active video games, with our Dance Dance Revolution series… we refute the accusations that gaming is a sedentary pastime, and feel such comments are damaging and do not reflect the wide range of activity-related titles that are both available and immensely popular.
James Binns, publishing director of Future (Official Nintendo, Xbox and PlayStation magazines):
Using a child with a joypad to illustrate Change4Life is crass and misleading. The negative associations with gaming could be long lasting. There is no arguing that the campaign's underlying message about premature death is incredibly important – but the government would never risk the wrath of showing a child sitting still reading a book to illustrate their point.
Sega Europe president and COO Mike Hayes:
Television, radio, cinema, listening to music, computing, video gaming and of course, reading all require a high element of passive participation, but of all these media types it is video gaming that provides the most potential interaction and activity. It seems that an advertisement has been put together by a poorly informed advertising agency.
For its part, the Department of Health defended the ad:
We are not saying that children shouldn't play computer games or eat treats, but parents and children need to be aware of the benefits of a balanced diet and an active lifestyle. The activities portrayed are examples of poor diet and lack of physical activity.
You can grab a hi-res version of the controversial Change4Life advertisement here.
Via: MCV
-Reporting from San Diego, GamePolitics Correspondent Andrew Eisen.


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Special Envoy for Climate Change
MR. STERN: Hello everybody. Thank you all for coming. We're here in the first of the second week of this meeting. We are certainly appreciating the surroundings that the Mexican government has provided us; makes for a very good working environment and we appreciate that. I think there has been a lot of quite intensive and active work going on all throughout this conference in the last few days and I expect that's just going to pick up. I'm not going to say much at the top. I mostly want to take your questions. I would just reiterate what some of you have heard me say before which is: that the key to an agreement here is that we get balance across the issues. I think there is an agreement to be had. I'm quite sure of that, actually. I'm not sure whether we will actually get it. I think that question hangs in the balance. But it's quite clear; it's easy enough to see what an agreement would look like.
On the subject of balance I think what's critical is that there be genuine balance. And that doesn't mean a great deal of detail on some of the issues and a fifty thousand foot level of principles and little else on other issues. I think what we're looking for is not just very high-level principles, but adequate guidance with respect to the key elements on all the issues that we're looking at. And if you look at what's on the table with respect to finance and technology, adaptation and REDD you see that. And so we're also going to have to see that with respect to the issue of transparency, the so-called MRV/ICA issue -- not just the fifty thousand foot level principles.
And of course, the other critical issue from our point of view is the need to anchor the pledges from last year in a manner that reflects the parallel structure and the manner in which they were reflected last year. We are very much committed to making progress and really strong progress on the issues of finance, technology, adaptation and REDD as well. We see those as being in the interest, obviously in the interest of developing countries, but also in the interest of the United States because we want to support the development and the low-carbon development, the sustainable development of countries all over the world. So we think this is in our interest. But again, all of this has to move forward on a genuinely balanced basis. And if we can do that, if we can get that balance across on all of the key issues, we will unlock the door to an agreement. So, let me just take questions now.
QUESTION: I think I would be interested in hearing your analysis of the LCA chair's text as presented over the weekend. What pleases you and what troubles you about the text?
MR. STERN: I think there are some positive elements to it. I think it reflects progress in some areas. I think it is not yet adequate in our view on the mitigation issues the way in which pledges are captured. I think it's fixable but it doesn't reflect what we see as a minimal level that is needed. And it is very spare so far on the issue of transparency. I don't say that in any way critically. I think it was to some degree deliberately so. As you all know there is a lot of work going on in the negotiating groups as we speak. There are also ministerial-level facilitators who are moving around and trying to talk to various parties. I'm not deeply distressed about the transparency section, but having said that it's completely inadequate. So I think it needs work, but I think everybody understood it was going to need work. And I think in other areas, as every area, it's going to need some more work, but it's a start.
QUESTION: For those of us who just arrived in town, can you give us more specifically your sense of where things are right now? A year after Copenhagen, a week into the Cancun talks, do feel like you are closer or further away from making compromises that everyone seems to be seeking here? Can you speak a little about the Kyoto issue and how you think it's going to be resolved?
MR. STERN: It's hard to say where we are in terms of the overall. I think there's a lot of good and constructive work going on, a lot of constructive conversations and discussions and bilateral meetings and plurilateral meetings, very much wrestling with the key open issues. Are we closer or not closer? I can't quantify that. If you had asked me that same question a year ago at this time in Copenhagen, I wouldn't have at all been able to predict the Copenhagen Accord outcome, which obviously was not perfect but in many respects was important. So I don't know whether we're going to get the outcome. What I can say is I can see a workable result that gets decisions across all the major areas. I can't predict whether we're going to get there but it's not as though you look and you say, "I just don't have any idea how we're going to get where we need on transparency or finance or whatever." You can kind of see it. You just have to see if enough countries can converge on the way to do that, that you can arrive.
On the KP issue, as you all know this is the place where the United States plays the least because we are not part of the Kyoto Protocol. We knew that would be a very difficult issue coming in here. It is proving to be a very difficult issue. I expect that there will be a way through it at least within the context of these meetings so that the difficult job of continuing to work on a way through that thicket will go on after Cancun and the Cancun Conference won't collapse on the count of it. That's what I think, but again it's the place that the United States, that's the issue that we're the least close to.
QUESTION: A question about the Wikileaks documents that the U.S. State Department cables, for example, the one in February of this year, the meeting between you Jonathan Pershing and the European Commissioner on Climate Change Hedegaard, talking about specially the alliance of Small Island States that they could be the best allies on the Copenhagen Accord given their need for financing and then Maldives getting millions of dollars. There's a great deal of discussion here inside and outside the Summit about the kind of coercion that goes on either to get nations to sign on to the Accord or to punish those that won't, like Bolivia and Ecuador. The question has been going back and forth is it bribery or democracy, what can we expect from this? And what is your comment on the Wikileaks release?
MR. STERN: Thanks very much. Well, on the Wikileaks release per se I have no comment and that's the U.S. government position and we don't comment on leaks of classified or private information. So I'm not going to comment on Wikileaks directly. I will tell one little anecdote in connection with your broader question let's say. Which is to be reminded of one of the most forceful, eloquent and powerful interventions that was made in that long middle of the night, final night in Copenhagen last year, where the forceful and eloquent Minister from Norway Erik Solheim stood up after being accused directly and I don't remember what country did it, of Norway engaging in bribery by being so outstandingly generous in its provision of climate assistance, and he just stood up and blasted the person who suggested that by saying "you can't on the one hand ask for and make a strong case, a legitimately strong case, for the need for climate assistance and then on the other hand turn around and accuse us of bribery. I mean, if you want to accuse us of bribery then you know, you don't need to, we can eliminate any cause for accusations of bribery by eliminating any money." Erik was powerful in that statement. I agreed with it 110% then and I do now.
QUESTION: My question is what are the essential elements in transparency that the U.S. wants to see in the outcome and if not this year, maybe next year.
MR. STERN: Thank you very much. This year, not next year. I will give you a few examples: I think they are well laid out in the paper, the set of points that the Minister from India prepared. He spoke to this, at the pre-COP. And I think drew a lot of support for what he said. But in general I think what we are talking about is a system in which a developing country will prepare some kind of report. Minister Ramesh refers to it as an ICA report. Others refer to it as an updated National Communication. It can be referred to in any of a number of ways that would include a variety of important pieces of information. It would include a report on inventories. It would include a report on information about the mitigation actions that were been undertaken -- the progress towards the pledge, whatever the country's pledge was, that was inscribed in the first place. It would include information on critical assumptions, for example: the need to understand if there are some countries that have made pledges that are based on a reduction of emissions as compared to business-as-usual. You have to know what business-as-usual is, in that country's calculation, in order to be able to understand what is going on there.
The 'business-as-usual' is a concept that is very variable. There can be high and low calculations on 'business-as-usual,' and you have to understand what countries are doing. Other countries, China is one, India is another, have made pledges that are based on an improvement in the carbon intensity of their economy, the emissions intensity in the economy. And you can only understand that number if you know what the GDP calculation is -- so something that gives you some sense of the essential assumptions that you need in order to be able to understand what is being reported -- probably information on anticipated actions, that kind of things. So there are three or four elements of content.
Then, another element is, is there is going to be an expert panel that is going to review the report. Is there going to be some kind of discussion in a multilateral forum? The one that is suggested in the Indian proposal is the SBI. Is there going to be some kind of opportunity to have a discussion of the report in the SBI? Are other countries able to submit questions that that the country in question can answer? So, there might be three or four broad elements that need to be indicated. The precise way that they would work: how is the expert panel going to be picked? Is it a group of experts who work within the Secretariat? Is there a roster of experts that countries approve? How is it all going to work? That is a level of detail we are not going to get into, but the fact that there would be an expert panel, the fact that there is going to be these four or five elements of content, the fact that there would be some kind of discussion, those are the kind of things that need to be signaled. And then a working group next year can go and do the business of filling in the details -- the necessary on technology, finance, etc. And it is a very good question. Thank you.
QUESTION: You have spoken about inscribing the Copenhagen Accord pledges into some sort of more formal document. Now your pledge as it stands is expressly contingent on legislation. The seventeen percent or there about in light of legislation, clearly that legislation is not going to happen. Are you going to change your Copenhagen commitment to make it 17% and not mention legislation at all?
MR. STERN: The short answer is no. And I will tell you the reason why. I think that in order to get to 17% we will certainly need to do that with some legislative component. That does not mean the legislative component gets done in 2011. We are talking about a 10 year period. It might get done in 2011, I do not know. President Obama has made it very clear, he gave an interview about this subject some time ago, but it was after the election, where in a word he said "in essence, there is more than one way to skin a cat." The comprehensive legislation that we were trying to get last year, would have been a great way to do it, but the combination of regulatory and legislative tools that would be at our disposal will get us there. I do not think that it leads to this juncture we would anticipate changing the particular submission, but we fully, and as I have said now and in many, many, occasions, we fully stand behind, we remain committed to it and intend to get it done.
QUESTION: The proposal you referred to from Chairman Ramesh, came as an invite from you in April 2009, when he first talked to you during the MEF, describing in detail what is going to happen with the ICA working proposal. Then in the next MEF in November 2010 he again detailed it out further. Are we seeing that there is a clear alliance between the U.S. and India on detailing out the ICA proposal? And two, is the U.S. agreeable to putting in funds into a UNFCCC-driven Green Finance process, or is it divorced to it?
MR STERN: Are you asking whether the U.S.is willing to put funds into a Green Fund?
QUESTION: Anchored into the UNFCCC.
MR STERN: Let me try to answer that in the most accurate way. We are fully supportive of a Green Fund established precisely according to the provisions of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, in an orthodox way according to that Convention, which calls for funds to be established as operating into the use of the financial mechanism, and those funds need to be under the policy guidance and accountable to the COP, with a very close relationship to the COP -- it should get all of its policy directions from the COP, it has to be fully accountable to the COP, it is essentially the COP's financing arm, but there is still some independence. So, yes, we absolutely want to contribute money to a Green Fund, we do not see a Green Fund literally being a COP entity. This might sound subtle, but there is a distinction. This comes out directly out of the Framework Convention itself, and in unmistakable and clear terms, but there is a reason for that, there is a reason that the Framework Convention set it up that way, and there is a reason why it so makes sense. We are talking about a multibillion dollar, we hope, fund that will need to be managed in a way that is regarded as professional, and having credibility to people who would be its funders. We want to be one of those funders, and we think that it can be set up in a way that is very closely linked to the COP but it is a little different from saying it is a COP entity under their direct control. It is a small difference, but it is a significant difference.
Thank you.
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Carlos de Andrade Interview
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Jun 17 2002 / Monday
did you start skating?
I started skating when I was nine years old—I'm twenty-three
right now—in 1986-'87 in Curitiba, Brazil. A couple of friends
by my house gave me a board, I just started to skate with them.
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Sitting on that 747 jet at 23 years old, I stared at the monitor on the back of the seat in front of me. On the screen there was a little animated airplane going across the Pacific Ocean and in just a few short hours it would be crossing the equator. I had only been on an airplane for one other trip in my life and that was when I was two years old. I was scared to say the least. I've been on numerous flights since that time and this one time, at 23 years old, was the most turbulent flight I have ever been on. I developed a fear of flying on this trip that stuck with me for several years after and maybe even a little bit to this day.
My new husband Scott and I had only been married for 2 months when the Lord provided the money and opportunity for us to take a mission trip to Fiji. Scott had already taken two trips there and told me how it changed his life, and that it would change mine. After all, Scott had gone to preaching school in hopes to become a foreign missionary and I was the woman he had chosen to be his wife. We had been married no longer than a month when an eldership for a church in Georgia contacted us about becoming their missionaries to a small island that neither one of us had ever heard of. We went down to Georgia to discuss this with them and we all decided that I would take the trip to Fiji for starters to see how I liked mission work.
The pressure was on. I stepped foot onto a foreign island in the Tropic of Capricorn and suddenly the world became a much bigger and smaller place all at the same time. We were part of a small team working with the church in Nadi, Fiji. Most of the people with us were seasoned workers who all knew that this was my first trip and that it was a test for me. Towards the end of the trip my dear husband said to me that he realized that we probably wouldn't be looking into the work for the other island. However, this, my first mission trip, to the island of Fiji, although maybe not "life-changing," ignited something inside of me. It may of just been the realization that it was possible for me to do this. After all was said and done, we took a survey trip to that "other" island just a few months later.
We agreed to become full time workers to that "other" island in December of 2003, started raising our money full time shortly after and in the late summer of 2005, made the move to Pohnpei, in the beautiful Federated States of Micronesia. The FSM, as it's called, consists of 4 island states. The capital is Pohnpei, our home. Then there is Yap, Chuuk, and Kosrae. We are also making trips in and out of Kosrae and Chuuk. This country has become our home. I don't know for how long, but I know it will always be planted in my heart. One might wonder how a place like this can become home. The answer is time. My first mission trip was not "life-changing" for me in a good way. Our survey trip to Pohnpei went smoothly and was shared with two of our closest friends, but left me with much apprehension. The year that we spent raising money was one of the hardest in my short 30 years of life. Since we have lived on this island, there have been countless ups and downs, heartbreaks and moments when our hearts danced with joy. All of those things happening, the good and the bad, I believe are what made this place home.
Pohnpei and its sister islands are third world. Not quite as underdeveloped as many countries, but much less developed then the first place I went to, Nadi, Fiji. It's a tropical rainforest with highs in the upper eighties most days. We sweat alot, but are so thankful for the air-conditioner in our bedroom. The way the Micronesians live varies, but for the most part they live in very poor conditions. The women wear long skirts most of the time and this is a custom that I have had to adopt. There are lots of things that I have gotten used to over time like: lice, bugs, parasites, local food (some good, some not so good) going into dirty conditions, shortages of goods in the stores, etc. These are all things that I was scared of in the beginning, and fought to avoid, but have come to realize that they really are not that big of a deal after all. But I won't say that I never complain. Lets remember that foreign workers are still human.
There are 2 congregations of the church of Christ on the island. They are still very small and still very weak, even after 5 years. This field is hard, just like any other field. People don't want to leave the religions that their families are a part of even if they believe that they are lost. Most of the faithful converts here are people that were not already going to another church, so they had nothing to lose. This island nation still needs the Gospel so badly and though it is a small country, my husband and I along with the Treats, who work nearby in Palau, feel the urgency and the pressure on a daily basis. The Lord is not done here and we are not either.
There are many stories to tell, but they are for another time. What I want other Christian women, and young girls to know is that I was not exactly "missionary material." I had never been overseas before I got married. I was always a bit introverted and easily scared of taking chances. I still don't feel like "missionary material." Some days I wonder what good I am doing and have done here. I am still looking for the most effective way to help my husband and to teach the women here. I am still struggling with the local language. I still don't feel adequate for this work. And that is the point. None of us are adequate. None of us are good enough. But God is. If God opens a door to you and you say, "God, I can't do that!" He already knows that you can't, but He can. I don't know what the future holds for Pohnpei and for Scott and I, but God does and I hope that we will surrender to His will.
Rebecca Shanahan
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The BSE Sensex gains 0.21 percent, and the 50-share NSE Nifty index also rises 0.2 percent, after dropping to more than a four-week low on Tuesday and falling for five sessions out of six.
* Investors are cautious ahead of the 2013/14 federal budget to be unveiled later this month, which is seen as a key test of commitments to shore up finance.
* Foreign institutional investors (FIIs) can buy up to 49 percent shares in Infrastructure Developers Ltd and up to 30 percent in Radico Khaitan Ltd, the Reserve Bank of India said, raising the limits under portfolio investment scheme.
* IRB Infrastructure share gain 2.5 percent, Radico shares rise 3 percent.
* Leading the rise: State Bank of India (SBI) rises 0.7 percent on value buying, while Sun Pharmaceuticals up 0.9 percent on U.S. nod for cancer drug.


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10 Minutes to All-Over Toned
Lower body: Dead lift with squat
Stand with feet hip-width apart and knees slightly bent; hold a dumbbell in each hand with palms facing the fronts of your thighs. Tighten abs and hinge forward at the waist so your upper and lower body form a 90-degree angle.
Bend your knees and push your butt back to come into a low squatdon't let knees go past toes. Return to previous position (still leaning forward), then repeat squat 2 more times. Return to starting position. Do entire sequence 8 times.


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By Ashley Barker
Published April 16, 2014
Restroom facilities at White Point Gardens and the Battery area of downtown Charleston are a top concern among residents.
The city of Charleston held a tourism management forum earlier this month to gather input from residents on how to update the Tourism Management Plan. Residents were asked to write down questions and concerns on index cards so an advisory committee could determine which issues to address.
Information submitted to the committee was released this week, and a strong emphasis was on the restroom facilities.
"Why does the city feel that it is necessary to provide toilets in private neighborhoods?" one resident asked.
Another wrote, "Can we have bathrooms in the White Point Gardens area?"
A resident also questioned whether public restrooms could be built underground at White Point Gardens.
"There could be a few steps down with no appreciable visible impairment above ground. This, of course, would depend on the water table," the resident wrote.
One wrote that the residential area south of Broad Street is "not Disney World" and said the city should put signs and note in flyers that south of Broad Street is a residential area with no public restrooms.
"How many of this panel have public restrooms in their neighborhood, near their house?" the resident wrote.
Another resident suggested cleaning the city's current restrooms before adding new ones.
"The city needs to be vigilant at keeping present ones clean. The Waterfront Park-Vendue Range bathrooms are very often nasty," one person wrote.
Enlarging the restroom facilities at Hazel Parker Park and purchasing portable restrooms for prime tour times south of Broad Street were also suggested.
"To be a world travel highly rated city, we are seriously lacking restroom facilities," a resident wrote.
Vanessa Turner Maybank, director of tourism services, said Mayor Joseph Riley commissioned a restroom task force a few years ago.
"There were conversations with the Fort Sumter House about the city working with them to put restrooms there. There also was research done to look at the restrooms that were at the bandstand at White Point Garden," Maybank said. "When they looked at the sewer systems of the older restrooms, they would have had to really build above grade, and it would have been something that would not have been conducive to that area."
Charleston Planning Director Tim Keane said the city agrees that restrooms are needed in that area.
"There's no other issue other than where are we going to put them? It sounds easy, but it's tricky," Keane said.
Other concerns among residents
Some residents suggested that Charleston has too many festivals and parades that include street closures at the same time, specifically around Marion Square.
A resident included the number of events as an issue that must be addressed because it ties into the "delicate balance between livability and tax base."
Parking for residents and tourists was also a topic written about multiple times.
Some suggested creating parking spaces off the peninsula and incorporating a bus system that would transport visitors downtown. While another said to ban motorcycles south of Broad Street and only allow residential vehicles in that area.
"We badly need restricted parking for residents only on East Bay Street and South Battery Street," a resident wrote.
Cruise ship regulations were suggested as well.
A resident said the city should limit the number of ships allowed to dock per year and per day while also enforcing a noise ordinance.
"What is the feasibility of moving the cruise terminal to Columbus Street?" a resident asked. Another wrote, "Is it possible to open Concord Street when the Carnival ship is loading and unloading?"
Residents specifically asked for the city to require cruise ships to use shoreside power, to provide access to pollution logs, to limit ships to no larger than 3,500 passengers and to not allow more than 104 ships to dock in Charleston each year.
"Plans are important, but they are meaningless without enforcement," a resident wrote.
The next public meeting to discuss the Tourism Management Plan update is scheduled for 6 p.m., June 12 in the auditorium at the Charleston Museum. Recommendations to address the city's tourism economy are expected to be finalized around the end of the year.
Reach Ashley Barker at 843-849-3144 or @AshleyNBarker.


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May 31, 2016
Montgomery, Ala.
The Alabama Senate's two budget committee chairmen want to stick around for another four years even though their House counterparts reached a different decision.
The chairman of the Senate's General Fund budget committee, Republican Arthur Orr of Decatur, announced Monday that he will seek re-election in 2014.
The chairman of the Senate education budget committee, Republican Trip Pittman of Montrose, announced in July that he would run for another four-year term.
Their Republican counterparts in the House for the last three years, General Fund Chairman Jim Barton of Mobile and education budget Chairman Jay Love, resigned from their legislative positions this summer.
Love is now finance chairman for the new Business Education Alliance of Alabama and Barton has joined a lobbying firm in Montgomery.
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The Bachelorette
MAJOR Bachelorette 2011 Spoilers! Reality Steve's Episode-by-Episode Breakdown of Season 7
Episode 3: California, 15 down to 12
1-on-1: Ben Castoriano. He and Ashley get sucked into a flash mob video date at the Americana at Brand outdoor mall in Pasadena, California. You can see pictures of this date here. Ben gets a rose.
Group Date: Ten guys participate in the first ever "Bachelorette Roast." Steve says it's similar to the group date on Jake Pavelka's season on which all the girls had to do a stand-up routine. "Except this time, the comedy is directed at ripping on the other guys — and Ashley. Will gets a bit carried away and I guess spends an inordinate amount of time making fun of Ashley. Nice one." Ryan Park gets the rose on this date. (Go, Mr. Sunshine!)
1-on-1: JP Rosenbaum. It's a low-key date, involving dinner at Ashley's place. JP gets a rose.
Rose Ceremony Eliminations: Chris Drish and Jeff Medolla. "Bentley Williams eliminates himself the morning after his group date by telling Ashley he misses his daughter and can no longer stay. However, this is not the last we see of him." Whaaaahhht?! We knew Wrong Reasons Bentley was leaving early — but he comes back?
Episode 1: 25 contestants down to 18
ABC already spoiled the bulk of this, through the extended press release and all the video clips out there.
Here's more on our beloved Ryan Park: He gets the first impression rose. Steve writes, "Based on a Chris Harrison quote saying, 'Ryan rubs some guys the wrong way,' the consensus seems to be a few of the guys thought he was a bit phony and played it up for the cameras. However, the press release describes him as 'high-energy.' so maybe the guys mistook 'high-energy' for 'phony, overacting douchebag.' The odd thing about Ryan getting the first impression rose? He doesn't get a 1-on-1 date until the seventh episode. Although it's not totally guaranteed you get a 1-on-1 if you get the first impression rose (Dave Good never even got one, and Nikki [Kaape] got a 2-on-1), the last 3 seasons have had the first impression rose recipient get 1-on-1 dates rather early (Ashley Spivey, Roberto [Martinez], Tenley [Molzahn])."
Ryan Park seems like a sweetheart from what we've seen...
Rose Ceremony Eliminations: Drunk Tim McCormack (before the ceremony starts), Frank Carpenter, Jon Ellsworth, Anthony Santucci, Mike Burns, Rob Dahm, and Chris Malhomme
These are the 18 guys still around after the Monday, May 23, premiere:
Ben Castoriano
Chris Drish
Ryan "Mickey" McLean
Bentley Williams
Blake Julian
Ben Flajnik
Nick Peterson
Stephen D'Amico
William Holman
West Lee
Lucas Daniels
Constantine "Dino" Tzortzis
Ryan Park
Ames Brown
Jeff Medolla (The masked man makes it!)
Matt Colombo
Ryan Miller
JP Rosenbaum
Episode 9: Overnight Dates, 3 down to 2
Ryan Park (Mr. Sunshine!) reportedly returns to ask Ashley to give him another chance. Steve says it doesn't work.
Constantine is also sent home. However, Steve writes, "the circumstances surrounding his exit could be a little different. He might've eliminated himself, it might've been mutually agreed upon that both of them realized they weren't a match for each other (apparently there might have been some major religious differences between the two), or maybe it is just a regular rose ceremony where he doesn't get a rose. I've heard a few things. All I know for sure is he's absolutely eliminated here."
Episode 7: In Taiwan, 6 down to 4
1-on-1: Constantine.
1-on-1: Ben F.
Group Date: Ames, JP, Lucas. JP gets a rose.
1-on-1: Ryan P. He gets sent home on this date. (Gasp!)
Rose Ceremony Elimination: Lucas Daniels
Episode 5: Chaing Mai, Thailand, 11 down to 8
1-on-1: Ben Flajnik. They go shopping at an outdoor market, visit an ancient temple, then end the night with Thai music, dancing, and a fire-eater show. Ben gets a rose.
Group Date: Eight men compete against each other in Muay Thai boxing, tournament style. "Kinda similar to Ali's guys wrestling in Portugal, except much more manly and less oily," Steve writes. "Ryan beats Ames and accidentally gives the guy a concussion, sending him to the emergency room. Blake beats Lucas. Constantine beats Nick. JP beats Mickey. Constantine and JP bow out of the competition, so Blake and Ryan have one final match. Blake ends up winning and he gets the rose later that night." Poor Ames!
2-on-1: Ben Castoriano and Will Holman. Both are sent home on this date. (Ouch!)
Rose Ceremony Eliminations: Nick Peterson
Episode 2: Las Vegas, 18 down to 15
1-on-1 date: William Holman. Steve has pics from that date here. They visit the Bellagio Conservatory, then eat lunch at the Jean Philippe Patisserie inside the Bellagio. Dinner is on the water in front of the Bellagio. They kiss, and Will gets a rose.
Group Date: At the Monte Carlo hotel with 12 guys. The 12 guys are split up into two teams of six, and the winning team performs in the Jabbawockeez show later that night. Bentley gets the rose on this group date. (Barf!)
1-on-1: Mickey McLean. They go to the Mandalay Bay wave pool, then enjoy a private concert from Colbie Callait, who performs her song "I Do." Mickey gets a rose.
Rose Ceremony Eliminations: Matt Colombo, Stephen D'Amico, and Ryan Miller
Episode 6: In Hong Kong, 8 down to 6
This is the episode in which Bentley returns! Duh-duh-duuuuhhhh.
"However, the details are a bit sketchs," Steve writes. "The end result is he doesn't return to the 'game,' doesn't go on any dates, and isn't part of the rose ceremony. He appears to talk to Ashley about whatever. Maybe to apologize for coming across as the 'villain,' maybe to try and convince her he was really there for the right reasons, or maybe he did try to get back in the game and she rejected him. Whatever the case, he is sent back home this episode and never 're-enters the game,' for lack of a better phrase. Not quite sure what the whole point of it is, but just know this is where Bentley reappears on the show."
1-on-1: Lucas Daniels. He gets a rose.
Group Date: Three two-man teams compete in a dragon boat race. They have to run into Stanley Market and get random strangers to join their boat to compete in the race. Ames/Mickey vs. Ryan/Blake vs. Constantine/Ben Flajnik. Ames and Mickey finish first, Ryan and Blake finish second, and Constantine and Ben F. bring up the rear, finishing third. Ryan ends up getting the rose on this group date.
1-on-1: JP. He gets a rose.
Rose Ceremony Eliminations: Blake Julian and Mickey McLean. So much for our final three prediction!
Episode 4: Phuket, Thailand, 12 down to 11
1-on-1: Ames Brown. They spend some time on the beach, and Ames gets a rose.
Group Date: Ashley and the guys head to a local orphanage, where they build and paint stuff all day for the kids. Since Ben Flajnik is the artistic one of the bunch, he ends up impressing Ashley the most and gets the rose. (In her pre-season conference call, Ashley pinpointed this as one of her favorite dates of the season.)
1-on-1: Constantine Tzortzis. He gets a rose.
Rose Ceremony Elimination: West Lee.
Episode 8: Hometowns, 4 down to 3
Ben Flajnik, Sonoma, CA: Steve guesses he takes her to the winery he co-owns, Evolve Winery.
Constantine Tzortzis, Cumming, GA: He takes her to his family's restaurant, Giorgios. They make a pizza together, Ashley serves some of the customers, and then she eats dinner with his family. Working on a date? Not fun.
JP Rosenbaum, Long Island, NY
Ames Brown, New York, NY
Eliminated: Ames is sent home after the hometown dates.
Chris Harrison hopes Bad News Bentley Williams returns to tell all, but we'll see.
*Spoiler alert!* If you want to keep your mind free of Reality Steve's spoilers, run off and enjoy some of our other fine content. Miss you already! Bye!
Episode 11: Finale
The final two are Ben Flajnik and JP Rosenbaum. According to Steve, "Ashley is engaged to JP."
Here's more from Steve on the finale:
"In one of JP's last appearances with Ashley, they go kayaking. Ashley is in a turquoise bikini and brown sarong. JP has a yellow shirt on. In one of Ashleys last appearances with Ben, he's wearing a plain gray t-shirt and Ashley is wearing jean shorts, with a white and purple shirt.
Ben worked for Let it Ride Design in San Diego before going on the show. He has since left that company and moved back up to San Francisco and is focusing on the winery."
Source: Reality Steve
Reality Steve just issued his Bachelorette Season 7 episode-by-episode spoilers, and we're sad to learn that shady bachelor Bentley Williams ends up returning after he checks himself out of Chez Bachelorette. Why can't anyone — especially the bad apples — ever just stay gone?
Here's Steve's ep-by-ep scoop — including elimination spoilers! — on Ashley Hebert's dramatic "journey":
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Businessman Awaits sentencing for laundering half a millions pounds from an insurance scam
26 September 2013
A businessman will be sentenced on Friday 27 September for laundering at least half a million pounds from a crash for cash insurance scam.
Mohammed Mahee Ferdhaus, also known as Jay Ferdhaus, 40, (13/4/73) of Prettigate Farm, Brentwood pleaded guilty on 8 July at Southwark Crown Court to offences under the Proceeds of Crime Act.
He admitted benefiting to the tune of at least £500,000 as a result of a crash for cash motor insurance scam operated by his brother, Mohammed Samsul Haque.
Between 2005 and 2008, at least 124 claims were made by individuals linked to Motor Alliance, a company run by Mohammed Samsul Haque. Haque and five other men were sentenced in October 2011 following an MPS investigation, Operation Scarp.
The total loss to the insurance industry was £1.9 million. Of that sum, £1,170,000 was paid to Motor Alliance, at least £500,000 of which was transferred to Ferdhaus or companies controlled by him.
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Some relive memories through photos. Me? I reminisce through jewelry.
My grandmother always said jewelry tells stories, that it's meant to be collected and loved – then passed down and loved again. So every trip I take, I pick up some small bauble to remember it by. That Merino-glass pendant from the street vendor in Rome's Trastevere. Those clinking little silver coin earrings from Lima. A teeny-tiny rose-gold-dipped shell from my annual summer trip to Cape Cod.
And when I'm not traveling? I look for jewelry that has stories of its own. Case in point: John Hardy's nature-inspired, handcrafted-in-Bali pieces. Luxurious enough to have that "it" factor now and with the fine attention to detail needed to be passed down through generations, they're the kind of pieces that are meant for celebrating (and remembering) landmark occasions – no photo album required.
Our John Hardy Boutique opens Thursday, October 18, at 11AM ET.
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text: Artists explore the history of British electronic music in exhibition Culture 17 September 12 by Ian Steadman Hugh Davies at concert table with the sho-zygJulian Nieman A vast array of audio installations exploring the history of British electronic music will fill the spaces of a church in southeast London from next week. Sho-Zyg features work by 50 artists from Goldsmiths College in south-east London who each work with the medium of sound, with reference to two of the Britain's most influential musicians from the birth of electronic sound -- Daphne Oram and Hugh Davies -- and also work by the poet and composer Lawrence Upton. The original shozyg was an instrument created by Davies out of a fretsaw, ball bearings and springs inside an old volume of an encyclopaedia that covered Shole to Zygote. It's one of many Heath Robinson-like contraptions he constructed when searching for new sounds.Oram cofounded the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop in 1958, and produced the channel's first piece of electronic music -- the theme to an adaptation of Jean Giraudoux's Amphitron 38. She also invented a technique known as "Oramics", where sounds are produced by drawing onto rolls of film which are then fed into a tape player. She left the BBC in 1959, but spent the rest of her life exploring the philosophy and possibility of sound. In June it was reported that the Radiophonic Workshop is due to reopen as an online portal for musicians to swap ideas and collaborate on compositions.Davies travelled to Oram's home -- the Tower Folly -- when he was 18, in 1962, to learn from her. He spent the next 40 years of his life researching and producing ever-more radical and innovative methods of sound production, including instruments made out of household items like the shozyg. In 1967 he founded the Electronic Music Studio at Goldsmiths, and remained its director until 1986. His collection of unusual instruments forms a large part of the exhibition.Sho-Zyg's curators, James Bulley and Kathrine Sandys, told Wired.co.uk: "We seek to explore the rich tapestry of sound practice at Goldsmiths, both past and present, tracing lines through from the early 1950s to the present day. Selected works from over 50 artists have been included within the rooms of the newly-renovated church, detailing a broad range of practices: from acoustic ecology to generative music, and from vocal utterance to audiovisual composition." The installations, taking inspiration from this electronic history, will use eight-channel sound to immerse visitors to the church in abstract noise.Alongside the audio installations will be materials loaned from the British Library, the Science Museum and Goldsmiths' own collections. There will also be Upton's latest exhibition, From Recent Projects, which features many of his recent scores, including his work with Brazilian artist Wilton Azevedo. "These exhibitions serve to convey both the early days of electronic music in Britain, and the rich heritage that underlies experimental sound practice at Goldsmiths," explain Bulley and Sandys. Sho-Zyg runs from 21 to 27 September at St. James Hatcham Church. Edited by Olivia Solon Latest on wired.co.uk


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I want to install some more software on sabayon live and they should be remained in USB for later use. Can I install packages on live Linux OS?
Yes you can, typically, but these will be lost when you do a reboot if the medium is read only, such as a CD and/or DVD. I've done this from time to time when needing to recover passwords from NTLM systems and not having an actual LiveCD handy that includes the recovery software.
So in a pinch I've booted using an Ubuntu LiveCD and then installed the necessary software, and recovered the NTLM passwords from a Windows partition.
With a USB flash drive that includes a live installation you're likely going to find that you still cannot install software either. Sometimes there is a reserved area where you can park addon applications which will then get pulled into the Live system upon bootup, but it's generally recommended that you install the Live distro instead on the removable media if you intend to customize it in any fashion.
I realize you're working with Sabayon, but I did find this AskUbuntu Q&A titled: How to customize the Ubuntu Live CD? which shows a farily detailed and painful looking process one would need to go through if you wanted to customize the packages of an actual Live distro. Similar steps would likely be required for Sabayon as well.


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The Green-Wood Historic Fund's Restoration and Preservation Program is truly cutting edge. No other cemetery in America has as active and as wide-reaching a program. Headed by Frank Morelli, it has rebuilt entire monuments with pieces dug out of the ground or molded as needed. It has restored wings and hands to angels. It has cleaned and polished. Frank Morelli, the leader of Green-Wood's Restoration and Preservation Program, used a mold to create two eagles for the monument to Civil War Major General George Crockett Strong.
What an amazing transformation. Does Green-Wood plan to restore all of its more interesting bronze (metal) doorways or is it dependent on the costs or the prominence/significance of the monument?
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Pfc. Jose Delgado, a native of Omack, Wash., now a mechanic with the logistical training and advisory team from 702nd Brigade Support Battalion, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, demonstrates to Iraqi Army Soldiers how to properly start an M1151 humvee during a preventative maintenance checks and services class at Forward Operating Base Constitution, here, Oct. 21.
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Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine Named to "America's Best" for Geriatric Medical Education
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The Rowan University College of Science & Mathematics will host Dr. Debbie Joffe Ellis, licensed psychologist, mental health counselor and adjunct professor at Columbia University, who will discuss "The Vigorous, Empowering and Compassionate Approach of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy: The Pioneering Cognitive Approach" on Thursday, March 10, 2016, at 2 p.m. in Boyd Recital Hall, Wilson Hall, on the Glassboro campus, as part of the Dean's Distinguished Speakers Series.
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If you've received a notice saying you owe back taxes to the State of Mississippi, you're not alone.
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports that the Department of Revenue has sent out 154,300 statements dunning taxpayers for a total of nearly $395 million in back taxes, interest and penalties.
Spokeswoman Kathy Waterbury says that so far, the department has collected $1.2 million mailed by 4,000 taxpayers. She didn't know how many paid online, or how much they paid.
The Legislature gave the department an extra $5 million this year to hire people and add technology for the more aggressive tax collections.
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"Prince Avalanche"
There was major controversy this summer when gigantic blockbusters like "Man of Steel" and "Star Trek Into Darkness" destroyed entire cities and countless lives without so much as blinking, all while employing uncomfortable 9/11 imagery. The closest thing that "Prince Avalanche" has to an action set piece is when a disoriented dove flies out of the small work truck that two goobers (Emile Hirsch and Paul Rudd) share. Said goobers are in Bastrop, Texas, after a devastating forest fire in the 1980s claims both homes ( and lives tasked with the difficult job of painting the white lines down the newly paved roads. That's pretty much the entire movie: two dudes fucking around and occasionally working what can arguably be deemed the most banal job imaginable. Yet somehow out of all of this comes one of the most charmingly ramshackle comedies in recent memory, a testament to the power of male bonding and the truly unusual things that can happen when a couple of buddies spend way too much time together. Director David Gordon Green seemed to deliberately harken back to his independent movie days after a series of costly studio comedies (among them the bizarre and bizarrely ignored cult-movie-in-the-making "Your Highness"); it was so secret, in fact, that the project wasn't even announced until after it was finished. Rudd and Hirsch form an unexpectedly wonderful comedic duo, with Hirsch in particular coming across as a true marvel (someone needs to hire him more regularly). Aided by an unforgettable score by Explosions in the Sky and David Wingo (easily one of the year's best), this shaggy dog comedy, in which virtually nothing happens, feels like an essential piece of filmmaking. It doesn't even drag. In fact, by the end of "Prince Avalanche," by turns touching, hilarious, and honest, you could spend a few more hours watching these guys paint lines and fuck around. And without a single building toppled.
"Afternoon Delight"
Despite what you may have read, Rachel (a breathlessly convincing Kathryn Hahn), a stay-at-home mom in affluent but tightly-coiled Silverlake, Los Angeles, isn't bored, self-destructive or going through an early midlife crisis. What Rachel is yearning for, is far less broad, insofar as it's really a collation of all the little things in her life leading her to moderate, but debilitating disenchantment. Rachel is aching for some life, but what's worse (and keenly discerned) is how she isn't quite sure what's causing her malaise, frustration and dissatisfaction. With a child she's estranged from, a husband who's deep into his Blackberry and in desperate need of something, Rachel finds a cause which turns into an obsession: saving and rehabilitating a stripper she and her husband meet on a wild night out to spice up their stalled sex life. The private dance this young stripper, McKenna (Juno Temple), administers cracks something open in the mom, but it's far less sexual than one might think. Soon, McKenna is living in their chic, modernist home, but the change she unleashes in their lives turns out to be much more complicated than Rachel ever imagined even as she curiously tests the boundaries of acceptable behavior given her circumstance. Motherhood is a uniquely isolating engagement, happiness is a relative state of mind no matter the riches around you, and that's keenly contemplated in Jill Solloway's wry, humanistic and well-drawn (she won the coveted directing award at Sundance this year) portrait of a woman in need of connection. Comedic and laugh-out-loud observant, "Afternoon Delight" isn't afraid to get sexually frank, uncomfortable and downright ugly either. It's a painfully honest depiction of the travails of motherhood and marriage, and while it's not to everyone's cup of tea, we're sure it's easily one of the most engaging films we saw all summer. And frankly, we're grateful a sophisticated and complex flick like this exists in the time of monsters vs. robots, capes, aliens and diminishing returns.
"Drinking Buddies"
Easy friendship, flirtation and cold beers ... what could possibly go wrong? The surprising thing about Joe Swanberg's "Drinking Buddies" is not the higher than usual wattage cast (Jake Johnson, Olivia Wilde, Anna Kendrick, Ron Livingston) or even the presence of an actual budget that probably has more zeroes on it than the director has seen before, but it how it slyly subverts expectations this kind of premise sets up. The film centers on Kate and Luke, co-workers at brewery whose rapport goes beyond collegial into something more electric. But both are in committed relationships, but a weekend trip for both couples—as both Kate and Luke draw closer—brings with it some surprising consequences. As we wrote in our review, "relationships are hard. Our biology is essentially wired to be completely destructive to monogamy and [the film] does a great job of exploring that friction." Though utilizing an improvisatory approach that keeps things fresh, Swanberg also demanded a structure and goals for each scene, and the result is the rare comedy that feels both lively and authentic with recognizably genuine emotion to boot. The cast has terrific chemistry and particular Olivia Wilde and Jake Johnson whose alchemy is seriously off the charts. This generation of workaday folks taking comfort where they can is usually captured with a degree of cynicism, but "Drinking Buddies" prevails for being honest with its characters and its emotion.
"Computer Chess"
On the cusp of a technological revolution, a group of the country's leading computer experts gather together to write a blueprint for the future of artificial technology. Sounds like blockbuster material, but in fact it's the starting point for Andrew Bujalski's playful, often absurdist comedy about nerds fumbling around in the dark in an attempt to advance computers beyond the realm of comprehension. The idea is to develop a computer program that successfully competes in chess with a human, but in the meantime, the three-day motel stay provides a ping pong machine for the various social outcasts to bunch against each other, whether it's with the spiky-haired freeloader trying to find sanctuary on someone's floor, the only woman attendee who has to cope with the awkward sexual tension, or the conspiratorial interloping Luddite who hosts pot-smoking bullshit sessions in his room after hours. "Computer Chess" is powered by the uncomfortable banter between participants, all of whom believe that as they type away on their massive processors, they're being watched by government forces. Bujalski shot the picture with the most era-appropriate low-fi cameras he could find, giving the experiment the feel of beaten-up VHS, creating a world frozen in time, where the possibilities were endless as long as we could get out of our own bumbling way. It feels like a stunt, and has a similar no-budget aesthetic as Bujalski's earlier films, and yet it's easily one of the year's most out-and-out entertaining movies.
"The Hunt"
Anchored by Mads Mikkelsen's Cannes Best Actor-winning central performance, Thomas Vinterberg's brilliant but harrowing "The Hunt" is a scorchingly tense return to form (and to early themes) for the "Festen" director. An account of the witchhunt that ensues after a false accusation of paedophilia among a tight-knit group of friends, some critics have complained about the central, innocent man's passivity in the face of his increasing pariah status within the community. To them I say, respectfully, whaaa? He is not passive, he's paralyzed with incredulity, the knowledge of his innocence, and the belief that his friends must come to their senses. So while he is victimized physically and emotionally by others, the real drama of the film is internal—it is not about proving his innocence, it is about not believing for a second that anyone could actually need proof. And finally it is him, simply having to say the words, that ends the misery but it's also a defeat—an acknowledgement that the friendships he believed in were not what he had thought. That the protagonist's terrible predicament is partly the result of this trapped, circular thinking is the film's greatest strength, and it makes the man's situation almost unbearably relatable. Terrifying, chilly and ruthlessly logical, the film may not have needed its final, slightly gimmicky twist, but otherwise nothing had us as far on the edge of our seat all year as this did.
Honorable Mention: Of course that's just the ten most of us feel strongly about. Strong, viable, worthwhile contenders are many, including Edgar Wright's ambitious, you-can't-go-back-home sci-fi/buddy comedy "The World's End." Woody Allen's "Blue Jasmine" has a crackling, Oscar-worthy performance by Cate Blanchett and boasts a terrific supporting cast, but the script and execution are sometimes obvious and lacking, so thus being outside the top ten. "The Spectacular Now" is a strong coming-of age movie. If you're looking for "Frances Ha" and "The Kings Of Summer," we really consider them late spring movies and you can find them in our Best Films Of The Year So Far list. Also worthwhile is the terrific documentary "Cutie And The Boxer," the tense drama, "A Hijacking," Sebastian Silva's comedy drug trip, "Crystal Fairy," the indie drama "Sparrows Dance," and the activism/journalism doc "Blackfish." If we were going to give mild props to some tentpole this season it would probably be "Iron Man 3" and "World War Z," the former is fun, but disposable and the latter has strong ideas that don't always come together. Place your gripes below. -- Gabe Toro, Rodrigo Perez, Drew Taylor, Jessica Kiang, Kevin Jagernauth


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The national parks in the United States are probably among the best ideas of this country. Here you get a chance to see and explore nature at its finest. In these national parks, though not all of the, are lodges or inns where you can relax that tired body after a day of being on nature's trail.
These accommodations are inside the boundaries of the parks, or if not are within a few hops away. They are properties that are beautiful, sustainable, and comfortable while being so close to nature. Here are some of the best examples of these national park inns and lodges:
Crater Lake Lodge in Crater Lake National Park
The national park in Oregon opened back in 1902 while the Crater Lake Lodge took sometime to be completed before opening in 1915. The building was renovated back I 1995. About half of the rooms of the lodge give guests a great view of the blue lake which is considered as the deepest lake in the U.S. Room rates vary from $160 to around $300.
Zion Lodge at the Zion National Park
Zion Lodge is the only accommodation you can get in Zion. This inn was the work of Gilbert Underwood who was also behind mos t of the beautiful lodges in different national parks. It was built in 1925 until some parts of the structure were consumed by fire in 1966. The building was rebuilt a few months after the blaze.
Renovation works were done recently to rejuvenate the conditions of the 1920 built rooms. The hiking trails and canyons is just a few minutes away from the lodge. The lodge operates whole year round with rates between $160 to almost $200.
The Ahwahnee in Yosemite National Park
A lot of people flock to the Yosemite Valley to see Gian Seqoias, granite cliffs, and waterfalls. If you are in this national park and want to avoid other tourists but still want to enjoy the Royal Arches, Upper Yosemite Fall, Glacier Point, and Half Dome, then the best place to be at is the Ahwahnee. This hotel started operating back in 1927 and was renovated back in 2004.
It has six floors with ninety nine rooms plus the cottages around the property. The daily rates go from about $180 to $500.
El Tovar Hotel at the Grand Canyon National Park
This hotel in the national park in Arizona first welcomed guests starting in 1905 . It has hosted the likes of Theodore Roosevelt and Albert Einstein. El Tovar is considered as a historic landmark;
The hotel has a hunting lodge that offersa great view of the canyon. You can expect themed suites, good service, and great food. You can get a room that will set your budget back for at least $175 thru $450.
Asticou Inn in Acadia National Park
The Asticou Inn has been operating since 1883 and it still occupies a great location today by the Northeast Harbor. The structure shows some aging but the inn remains desirable for a lot of travelers. Asticou was built by A.C. Savage with its 48 rooms dominated by touches of classic new England. The floor boards will creak but the rocking chair, round rugs, and florals have that element of gentility with them.
The rates range between $230 and $340 for double occupancy during the months of July and August while May, June, and September thru October goes for $235 to $245 for double occupancy.
Old Faithful Inn at the Yellow Stone National Park
The management of Yellow Stone partnered with Northern Pacific Railroad to put up the Old Faithful Inn. This facility opened its doors in 1904 to accommodate visitors of the the first national park of the U.S.
Upon entering the inn, you will notice the 76 feet clearance from the floor to the ceiling of the lobby. There are several levels of balconies surrounded by railings made from branches of trees. The chimney is also imposing as it is made from rhyolite, 5 tons of it.
If you are wondering why it is named as such, it is because the lodge offers a great view of the Old Faithful. The guest rooms here are pretty basic with the essentials you need for your stay. The rooms on the wings are better and provides more privacy. Old Faithful Inn has two restaurants to cater to its guests.
The inn charges from roughly $120 to $500. It is closed for a few months during year but you have several other options like the Mammoth Hot Springs and the Snow Lodge.
Glacier Park Lodge in East Glacier Park
The Glacier Park Lodge is the best accommodation you can find in this national park in Montana. It has 161 rooms and amenities that will make you forget that there are other options in the area. The lodge has a 9-hole golf course, an outdoor swimming pool, and a day spa.
The East Glacier Park celebrates its centenary this year so there are a lot to things to see around the park. Rates at the lodge goes from $130 to around $450.
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- Oversee/assiss in the installation and servicing of wellsite equipment, including continuous sucker rod, down hole pumps and wellhead drives.
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WRITING FOR PSYCHOLOGY, Fourth Edition offers concise assistance for students writing their research analyses using APA style. By providing concrete examples of common errors, the authors show rather than merely tell students what to do and what to avoid. This manual will help students adhere to the basics of APA style; refine critical thinking skills, library search skills, revising skills, editing skills, and proofing skills; and avoid plagiarism. Checklists precede a summary at the end of every chapter, giving students the chance to make sure they have been thorough in their reports.
Table of Contents
|To the Student
|p. xiii
|To the Professor
|p. xvii
|p. xvii
|What Every Student Should Know About Writing Psychology Papers
|p. 1
|Understanding the Written and Unwritten Directions
|p. 1
|Understanding Academic Values
|p. 2
|Be Informed: Read to Write
|p. 3
|Make a Claim: Have a Point, Get to That Point, and Stick to That Point
|p. 3
|Defend Your Claim with Logic and Evidence
|p. 4
|Be Honest
|p. 5
|Use Sour Own Words
|p. 7
|Understanding APA Style
|p. 8
|p. 8
|Appropriately Personal Prose: The Objective ôIö
|p. 9
|Simple Language: Do Not Confuse the Reader
|p. 10
|Respectful Language: Do Not Offend
|p. 11
|Writing and Revising
|p. 12
|Plan to Finish Early
|p. 12
|Think, Search, Read, and Get Organized
|p. 13
|Write Your First Draft
|p. 16
|Revise Your First Draft: Reorganize, Rethink, Reread, and Rewrite
|p. 17
|Help the Reader Navigate Through Your Paper
|p. 18
|Address Readers' Objections
|p. 20
|Polish Your Writing
|p. 20
|Check Language, Grammar, Spelling, Usage, and Punctuation
|p. 21
|Final Formatting
|p. 22
|Five Final Checks
|p. 22
|Submitting the Finished Product
|p. 23
|Avoiding Common Problems: A Checklist
|p. 23
|p. 25
|Writing Essays and Term Papers
|p. 27
|From Topic to Thesis Statement
|p. 27
|Parts of a Term Paper and Their Headings
|p. 29
|Formatting the Tide Page, Wording the Title, and Writing the Author Note
|p. 31
|Formatting the Tide Page
|p. 31
|Wording the Tide
|p. 32
|Writing the Author Note
|p. 32
|p. 33
|Writing the Abstract
|p. 33
|Formatting the Abstract
|p. 33
|p. 34
|Introduce Generally and Gendy
|p. 34
|Introduce Key Issues
|p. 35
|If Necessary, Introduce Key Definitions
|p. 35
|Introduce and State Your Thesis
|p. 35
|Arouse the Reader's Curiosity
|p. 36
|p. 36
|Make the Material Tell a Coherent Story: Have a Theme, Organize Your Notes, and Outline Your Paper
|p. 36
|Be Both Concise and Precise
|p. 40
|Focus on Facts and Fairness
|p. 41
|Know Your (Facts') Limitations
|p. 42
|p. 42
|Conclude by Summing Up Your Case
|p. 42
|Conclude-Do Not Introduce
|p. 43
|p. 43
|p. 44
|Sample Term Paper
|p. 44
|Checklist for Evaluating Your Paper
|p. 59
|p. 60
|Writing Research Reports and Proposals
|p. 61
|General Strategies for Writing Your Paper: Presenting, Writing, and Planning Its Different Parts
|p. 61
|Main Headings and Sections: Formatting the Research Paper's 10 Sections
|p. 62
|The Value of Writing Your Paper out of Order
|p. 62
|The General Plan of Your Paper
|p. 62
|Formatting the Tide Page, Wording the Tide, and Writing the Author Note
|p. 65
|Formatting the Tide Page
|p. 65
|Wording the Tide
|p. 66
|Writing the Author Note
|p. 67
|p. 68
|Writing the Abstract
|p. 68
|p. 70
|Finishing and Formatting the Abstract Page
|p. 70
|p. 70
|Introduce the General Topic
|p. 71
|Review Relevant Research and Theory
|p. 71
|Introduce the Hypothesis
|p. 73
|p. 74
|Participants or Subjects
|p. 75
|p. 76
|Materials or Measures
|p. 77
|Design and Other Optional Subsections
|p. 77
|p. 78
|p. 79
|Statistical Significance
|p. 80
|Formatting Statistical Information
|p. 81
|When Not to Use Either a Table or a Figure
|p. 82
|When to Use Tables
|p. 82
|Creating Tables
|p. 82
|When to Use Figures
|p. 85
|Creating Figures
|p. 85
|p. 91
|p. 91
|Briefly Restate the Results
|p. 92
|Relate Results to Other Research
|p. 93
|State Qualifications and Reservations-And Use Them to Propose Future Research
|p. 94
|Explain the Research's Implications
|p. 95
|p. 95
|p. 96
|p. 96
|p. 97
|Sample Research Report
|p. 98
|Report and Proposal Content Checklist
|p. 113
|p. 118
|Finding, Reading, Citing, and Referencing Sources
|p. 119
|Finding Information
|p. 119
|Starting Your Search: Databases, Search Terms, and Secondary Sources
|p. 119
|Using One Reference to Find More References
|p. 122
|Deciding What to Read: Choosing Acceptable Sources
|p. 124
|p. 129
|Read Purposefully
|p. 129
|Take Thoughtful, Useful Notes-And if You Copy, Be Careful
|p. 130
|p. 130
|Revise Your Notes
|p. 130
|Citations: What to Cite and Why
|p. 134
|Citing From Secondary Sources
|p. 134
|Citing Information Obtained From the Internet
|p. 135
|Citing Personal Communications
|p. 135
|General Rules for How to Format Citations
|p. 136
|What Your Citation Should Include: Usually, Only Name and Date
|p. 136
|General Strategies for Formatting Author and Date Information: Use Only Name Citations and Parenthetical Citations
|p. 137
|Formatting Individual Citations: Principles and Examples
|p. 139
|Work by One Author: Whether the Listed Author Is a Person, Organization, or "Anonymous"
|p. 140
|Work by Two Authors
|p. 140
|Work by Three, Four, or Five Authors
|p. 141
|Work by Six or More Authors
|p. 141
|Work by Author Sharing Same Last Name as Another Cited Author
|p. 142
|Work With No Listed Author
|p. 142
|Works With Dating Problems: Not Published, Not Yet Published, No Publication Date, Multiple Publication Dates
|p. 142
|Works From Nontraditional Sources: Personal Communications and Secondary Sources
|p. 143
|Formatting Multiple Citations
|p. 143
|More Than Two Works by Different Authors
|p. 143
|More Than Two Works by the Same Author
|p. 144
|Citing the Same Work by the Same Author More Than Once
|p. 144
|Citing the Same Work by the Same Authors More Than Once
|p. 145
|p. 145
|p. 146
|Embedded Quotations
|p. 146
|Block Quotations
|p. 147
|Deciding What to Reference
|p. 148
|Cite but Do Not Reference Communications That Cannot Be Retrieved
|p. 148
|Reference Secondary Sources You Read but Not Original Sources That You Only Read About
|p. 149
|Formatting References
|p. 150
|Starting the Reference Page
|p. 150
|General Tips for Formatting Individual References
|p. 151
|Put Your References in Alphabetical Order and Follow These Rules to Break Ties
|p. 152
|Formatting the First Part of the Reference: The Author Names
|p. 154
|Formatting the Second Part of the Reference: The Publication Date
|p. 155
|Formatting the Third Part of the Reference: The Title
|p. 156
|p. 156
|Referencing Books
|p. 156
|Referencing Book Chapters
|p. 158
|Referencing Journal Articles
|p. 160
|Referencing Abstracts of Journal Articles
|p. 162
|Referencing Internet Sources
|p. 162
|p. 167
|Academic Honesty Checklist
|p. 167
|Formatting Citations Checklist
|p. 168
|Finding and Using Sources Checklist
|p. 169
|Reference Page Checklist
|p. 169
|p. 171
|Making Your Case: A Guide to Skeptical Reading and Logical Writing
|p. 175
|Deductive Arguments
|p. 176
|Inductive Arguments: Making Relatively Careful Generalizations
|p. 178
|Argument by Analogy
|p. 180
|Overview of Problems in Making Arguments
|p. 181
|Appeals to Emotion, Faith, or Authority
|p. 181
|Appeals to Emotion
|p. 181
|Appeals to Faith
|p. 181
|Appeals to Authority
|p. 181
|Unfair Arguments
|p. 182
|Ad Hominem Arguments
|p. 182
|Ignoring Contradictory Evidence
|p. 182
|Straw Man Arguments
|p. 183
|General Errors in Reasoning From Evidence
|p. 183
|Inferring Causation From Correlation
|p. 183
|Making Something out of Nothing: Misinterpreting Null Results
|p. 186
|Adding Meaning to Significance: Misinterpreting Significant Results
|p. 186
|Trusting Labels Too Much: Not Questioning Construct Validity
|p. 188
|Not Questioning Generalizations
|p. 189
|Critical Thinking Checklist
|p. 190
|p. 190
|Writing the Wrongs: How to Avoid Gruesome Grammar, Putrid Punctuation, and Saggy Style
|p. 193
|Elements of Grammar
|p. 194
|p. 194
|Personal and Impersonal Pronouns
|p. 195
|p. 197
|p. 198
|p. 199
|p. 199
|p. 200
|p. 201
|Relative Pronouns
|p. 202
|p. 203
|p. 203
|p. 203
|p. 204
|p. 205
|End Marks (Periods, Question Marks, Exclamation Points)
|p. 205
|p. 205
|p. 206
|p. 206
|p. 206
|p. 207
|p. 207
|p. 207
|Quotation Marks
|p. 208
|p. 208
|Know What You Mean
|p. 208
|Let the Reader Know What You Are Comparing
|p. 212
|Use Comparatives and Superlatives Correctly
|p. 212
|Divide or Reconnect Run-On Sentences
|p. 213
|Help Readers Get "It" (and Other Pronouns) by Specifying Nonspecific Referents
|p. 213
|Attribute Humanity Only to Humans
|p. 214
|Writing With Style
|p. 215
|Accentuate the Positive
|p. 215
|Point the Way Within and Between Paragraphs
|p. 215
|Use Parallel Construction
|p. 216
|Use a Consistent, Formal Tone
|p. 217
|Use Small Words and Short Sentences
|p. 217
|Be Precise
|p. 217
|Be Concise
|p. 218
|Be Cautious
|p. 218
|Your Own Style
|p. 220
|p. 220
|Parts of Speech
|p. 220
|p. 221
|p. 222
|p. 222
|Preparing the Final Draft
|p. 225
|Presentation: Appearance Matters
|p. 225
|Paper, Margins, Spacing, and Spaces
|p. 225
|Word Processor Settings: Making Your Word Processor Help You
|p. 226
|p. 227
|APA Format
|p. 227
|Page Headers and the Title Page
|p. 227
|p. 228
|p. 228
|p. 229
|p. 230
|p. 232
|Tables and Figures
|p. 233
|p. 234
|Format Checklists
|p. 234
|General Appearance Checklist
|p. 234
|Headings and Headers Checklist
|p. 234
|Numbers Checklist
|p. 235
|Citations and References Checklist
|p. 235
|Abbreviations Checklist
|p. 235
|Title Page Checklist
|p. 236
|p. 236
|p. 239
|APA Copy Style Versus APA Final-Form Style
|p. 241
|Problem Plurals
|p. 243
|p. 247
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