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The word "anabolic" means...
Correct! Athletes abuse anabolic Steroids in order to artificially increase muscle mass. Some people like to look big even if it means doing ugly things to their insides.
Well, the types of Steroids that are prescribed by doctors to reduce swelling are called corticoSteroids and are not addictive. When medication is taken in moderation it can be very helpful to a patient.
Wrong! Estrogen is any of several major female hormones that develop and maintain secondary female characteristics such as breasts. Both girls and boys have a balance of female male hormones.
No, but interesting anyway! Coined by the U.S. mathematician Edward Kasner's nephew, this term represents a number that is equal to one followed by 100 zeros and is expressed as 10 100.
The body's defense against germs and diseases is called...
Uh Uh! This term refers to a decimal system of weights and measures, adopted first in France but now used widely in science.
Nope! This term refers to the region of the brain that functions as the main control center for the autonomic nervous (system) by regulating sleep cycles, body temperature, appetite, etc
Yup! The immune system protects the body from foreign substances by destroying infected cells. When the immune system gets weak that's when we are more prone to getting sick.
No. This term refers to structures in the brain that are involved with emotions and memory.
Anabolic Steroids in the brain may trigger behavior known as...
Right! This term refers to the aggressive behavior exhibited by those who regularly use Steroids. People may also become highly irritable, depressed and moody.
No. The use of Steroids makes the person anything but stable. Most people show irritable, aggressive, depressed and even moody behavioral changes.
If anything, the use of Steroids doesn't make an individual hilarious or even moderately funny due to severe mood swings.
While a person may get depressed during sustained use of anabolic Steroids, this is not the answer we were looking for.
Healthy ways to gain muscle that won't leave you feeling all gross and irritated with your friends and family include...
Yes! Lifting weights is the natural way to gain muscle mass on your body. Not only do muscles make you look more slender, but also you burn more calories per hour even when you are watching television!
French fries will not help you gain muscle, but eating a healthy diet that includes fruits and vegetables will help your body be healthy and strong.
Dream on! If increasing muscle mass was that easy, our country would have the most muscular populace in the world.
Nope! While playing chess may be good exercise for your brain, it won't help you build more muscles.
The word hallucinate comes from the latin words meaning:
Yup! No wonder some people refer to hallucinating as tripping. Hallucinogens powerfully affect the way our five senses work, and change our impressions of time and reality.
The influence of hallucinogens does make your brain lose control of how you perceive the world. In fact, senses seem to get crossed - giving the feeling of hearing colors and seeing sounds. However, this wasn't the answer we were looking for.
In some people hallucinogens can cause drowsiness, but this is not the correct answer.
Hallucinogens can disrupt how the brain works, but this isn't the answer we were looking for.
MDMA and MDA cause neurons to release the neurotransmitter serotonin. This can cause which of the following:
Ulcers are medical conditions in which there are sores on a sensitive lining such as the stomach. Ulcers aren't caused by the release of serotonin.
Correct! Serotonin neurons have a role in lots of things such as mood, and sleep. MDMA and MDA can disrupt the function of these neurons and alter behavior.
Although gingivitis is a disease, it is caused by poor dental hygiene. While serotonin doesn't play a role in getting gingivitis, we just wanted to remind you to keep up the good brushing.
Gray hair is not caused by the neurotransmitter serotonin, but your parents may get gray hair if you abuse MDMA, MDA or any illicit drug.
LSD and PCP can change the way that neurons communicate, which can cause changes in the way you sense the world around you. Which of the following is used by neurons to communicate:
Right! Chemical messengers , or neurotransmitters, send information from nerve cell to nerve cell in the brain and body. These speedy couriers trudge through wind, hail, sleet and snow to deliver your nervous system messages on time!
Chromosomes carry the genetic code (genes) for the production of neurotransmitters, but they themselves are not used by neurons to communicate.
Morse code is a system of communication that consists of either long and short sounds or dots and dashes to transmit messages. Although morse code can be used to transmit messages over long distances, it is not used by neurons to communicate.
Nope, although the computer system you're accessing these questions off of is kind of like a brain. The computer network around the world does constantly send messages back and forth with amazing speed, much like your brain and body.
Some hallucinogens are natural. However, many hallucinogens are chemicals that don't occur in nature. Can you identify some of these?
Correct! Lysergic acid (LSD) and phencyclidine (PCP) are powerful hallucinogens which aren't found in nature. The effects of these drugs are unpredictable: they can alter your senses, affect your moods, or cause vivid hallucinations.
While mescaline is a potent hallucinogen, it is found in nature. Mescaline comes from a cactus called peyote.
Gasoline is an inhalant, not a hallucinogen. But it is a chemical you should be wary of.
Serotonin is a neurotransmitter, not a hallucinogen. But hallucinogens can affect neurons that contain serotonin.
Inhalants, like hair spray, gasoline and spray paint can often be identified by their:
Yes! Many inhalants can be identified by their strong smell. People inhale the vapors because vapors can change the way the brain works and make people feel good for a short time.
No, Myelin is a fatty tissue that protects many of the body's nerve cells. While myelin is affected by inhalants, myelin itself is not a characteristic of inhalants.
No, Inhalants harm the brain by preventing neurons from receiving oxygen. Then the neurons may stop functioning, making it hard to remember things such as schoolwork.
No, while many inhalants are household products or art supplies, you can't really identify inhalants by their usefulness.
Inhalant vapors may get lodged in a fatty tissue of neurons called:
Yes! Myelin is the protective cover that surrounds many of the body's nerve cells. When chemicals from inhalants get into the system, they can break down myelin and prevent nerve cells from transmitting messages.
No, Noradrenaline is a neurotransmitter that causes the heart to beat faster. Inhalants can make the heart more sensitive to noradrenaline so that even a normal jolt of it may cause a heart to lose its rhythm or even stop.
No, This is the part of the brain that solves complex problems and plans ahead. When inhalants are ingested, nerve cell activity in the frontal cortex can be slowed. But the frontal cortex isn't a fatty tissue.
No, Polyneuropathy is a permanent change or malfunction of nerves in the back and legs that can be caused by inhalant use.
Butane, found in cigarette lighters and refills, makes the heart extra-sensitive to:
No. Myelin is the fatty tissue that protects many of the body's nerve cells. Inhalants may deplete myelin content, but they don't make the heart more sensitive to myelin.
Correct! The chemical noradrenaline tells the heart to beat faster when you are stressed. Butane makes the heart extra-sensitive to noradrenaline so that a normal jolt of noradrenaline can cause the heart to lose rhythm or stop pumping.
No. The hippocampus, the part of the brain which is important in memory, doesn't really have an effect on the heart. Sniffing inhalants, though, does damage it. Someone who repeatedly inhales these drugs may lose the ability to learn new stuff.
No. Inhalants can actually interfere with romance by causing a person to be slow, clumsy, and uncoordinated.
Damage from long-term use of inhalants can slow or stop nerve cell activity in some parts of the brain including:
Yup! This is the part of the brain that solves complex problems and plans ahead. If the frontal cortex is damaged, you could find yourself continuously stumped in school.
The liver is not part of the brain. But use of inhalants can cause the liver to stop working, which can lead to death.
While inhalants can slow, stop or make the heart lose rhythm, the heart isn't part of the brain.
Hardly! The gluteous maximus is Latin for your royal backside. Scientists haven't yet documented any of inhalants' effects on the rump.
Tetrahydrocannabinol is:
No. Despite its technical sounding name, this chemical has no ties to the gasoline we use in cars. Try again!
Yes! Tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC for short, is the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana.
No. Although it can act at the same receptors as the brain's neurotransmitter anadamide, tetrahydrocannabinl itself is not a neurotransmitter.
No. Don't confuse this chemical with the dinosaur Tyrannosaurus Rex.
The hippocampus is:
Yes! The hippocampus is one of the places in the brain that helps us remember important things such as the information we need to pass an upcoming biology quiz. Because the hippocampus has lots of receptors for tetrahydrocannibinol, the active ingredient in marijuana, marijuana is able to act in the hippocampus to reduce memory.
No. Though it might sound like a cool hangout place for hippos, remember the hippocampus is one of our brain areas that actually help us to remember.
No. There are many brain areas that have a role in hearing, some of which are affected by marijuana, but the hippocampus is not one of them.
No. The liver plays an important role in the breakdown of all drugs that enter the body, but it does not have a hippocampus.
A person who has smoked marijuana may have difficulty keeping his or her balance because of marijuana's effect on what brain area?
No. But through its actions in the cerebral cortex, marijuana can change a user's sense of smell, vision, hearing, taste, and touch.
No. But marijuana does act in the limbic system to produce feelings of euphoria.
No. But users of marijuana may have trouble remembering things because of marijuana's effects on the hippocampus.
Yes! The cerebellum is one of the most important brain areas for balance and coordination. It also contains lots of receptors for tetrahydrocannabinol, the active ingredient in marijuana, which is why someone who uses marijuana may have difficulty keeping his or her balance.
A student who smokes marijuana may do poorly on a test given the next day because of marijuana's effect on what brain area?
Yes! The hippocampus is an important brain area for processing memory. Users of marijuana have trouble remembering things because of marijuana's effects on the hippocampus.
No. But users of marijuana may have problems with balance and coordination because of marijuana's effects in the cerebellum.
No. But through it's actions in the cerebral cortex, marijuana can change a user's sense of smell, vision, hearing, taste, and touch.
Methamphetamine is able to act in the brain because it has a structure similar to which brain chemical?
No. Endorphins are the brain's own pain fighting system, but they have no similarity to Methamphetamine.
No. The amygdala isn't a chemical. It's an important brain region that helps you feel pleasure.
No. Although chocolate can make your brain feel good, there are no chocolate chemicals in the brain.
Yes! Dopamine, which is sometimes called the pleasure chemical, has a shape and chemical structure that is similar to Methamphetamine. This is part of why Methamphetamine is able to cause its many effects in the brain.
Which of the following is part of a neuron?
Correct! Axons are the long processes that neurons use to communicate with each other. Drugs like Methamphetamine can change the way neurons communicate.
No! Crystal is another name for Methamphetamine.
Serotonin is actually a neurotransmitter that is found within neurons. Methamphetamine can change the way neurons that contain serotonin work.
Positron Emission Tomography, or PET for short, is a fancy technique for looking inside the brain to see how it works.
Which of the following are effects of Methamphetamine?
Although this is correct, there are also many things Methamphetamine does to the body.
This is correct, but there are also many other effects from Methamphetamine.
This is only one of many things the Methamphetamine can cause.
Correct! Methamphetamine can also cause certain types of hallucinations, loss of appetite and even strokes.
Methamphetamine can cause long term damage to neurons that contain the neurotransmitter dopamine.
Correct! Researchers have found that even years after Methamphetamine users have stopped using the drug, their dopamine neurons are still damaged.
Methamphetamine can not only damage neurons that contain dopamine, but it can also cause damage to neurons with another neurotransmitter, serotonin.
Which of the following are ways that nicotine can enter the bloodstream?
Nope… Nicotine can enter the bloodstream by passing through the skin, but is only part of the correct answer.
Nicotine can get into the bloodstream by passing through the tongue and mucous membranes of the mouth. In fact, one drop of pure nicotine placed on the tongue can be lethal. Although this is correct, it is only part of the answer.
Almost! The major way that nicotine enters the bloodstream of smokers is through skin, lungs, and mucous membranes of the mouth and nose. This is correct, but is only part of the correct answer.
Correct, Nicotine can enter the bloodstream by passing through skin, lungs, and mucous membranes of the mouth and nose.
Nicotine acts by attaching to which type of receptors?
Uh Uh! Remember marijuana attaches to the brain's anandamide receptors.
Correct! Because the nicotine molecule has a similar shape to that of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, it is able to attach to the same places in the brain where acetylcholine acts.
Nope! Television receptors have nothing to do with Nicotine, but you know that…
No. Remember myelin is the fatty covering for nerve fibers. It helps nerves to work right.
True or False – One of the reasons that people like cigarettes and other tobacco products is because nicotine can cause an increase of the neurotransmitter dopamine in the brain areas that are involved in feelings of reward and pleasure.
Correct! Levels of dopamine, which is sometimes called the pleasure neurotransmitter, increase in the brain when a person uses tobacco or other drugs such as cocaine and marijuana.
Try Again! Remember, dopamine is an important neurotransmitter that is affected by all drugs of abuse.
Long term smoking can lead to which of the following?
Nope! Smoking can actually turn teeth brown.
Try again! People who smoke for a long time often end up with skin that is more wrinkled than the skin of nonsmokers.
Correct! People who smoke are at greater risk for having a stroke that can either kill them or leave them paralyzed.
Nope! Chewing tobacco can cause loss of teeth as well as mouth cancer, but smoking usually does not cause loss of teeth.
Which of the following is an opiate drug that doctors prescribe for the treatment of pain?
Wrong, heroin is a powerful opiate that has no accepted medicinal uses. Its use can quickly lead to addiction.
Nope, although cookies and milk may make you feel better, they are not an opiate drug.
Yes! Morphine is used for treating severe pain, such as following surgery. If it is used as directed by a doctor, it is safe.
No, A mu receptor is one of the three types of receptors that recognize opiates. It is responsible for the pain-relieving effects of the drug morphine.
Opiates are made from opium which can be found in which type of plant?
Nope! This plant has bright red flowers and is found in the pine forests of the Sierra Nevada in California.
No! This plant can be recognized by its thimble-shaped fruiting head. Even though it has the slang term for marijuana in its name, it does not contain ingredients that are found in opiate drugs.
Yes! The poppy plant is the source of opium which is used to make opiate drugs. Maybe you didn't know this when you watched it the first time, but in the Wizard of Oz, Dorothy arrives at a poppy field on her way to meet the wizard. In only a few minutes, both she and Toto need to take a nap. Do you know why?
No. An industrial plant is a place where people work to produce something.
True or False. Your body actually produces its own version of opiates.
True! Your body's opiates have lots of functions, including controlling pain and breathing.
Which of the following is not a region of the brain where opiates act?
Nope, Opiates act in the Limbic System to produce an increased feeling of pleasure.
Opiates act in the brainstem to slow breathing. If someone overdoses on heroin his or her breathing can stop entirely which leads to death.
Correct! The midwest is part of the United States, and is not a brain region.
Nope! Opiates can block pain signals in the spinal cord, which helps reduce the amount of pain a person feels.
There are lots of different kinds of stimulants. What of the following is NOT a stimulant?
Nope… Caffeine, which is found in coffee and many soft drinks, is a mild stimulant.
Correct! Heroin is not a stimulant. In fact, it causes a person to feel sleepy, which is the opposite of stimulants.
Almost! Methamphetamine is a powerful and addictive stimulant. It can cause long-term damage to the brain.
Nope, Cocaine is a powerful stimulant that changes the functioning of the neurotransmitter dopamine in the brain.
Cocaine can damage the heart by causing:
Uh Uh! Heartburn has nothing to do with the heart. It's actually a problem with the stomach that is caused by excess acid.
Correct! Cocaine can cause blood vessels to narrow, which causes the heart to beat faster. Fibrillation is when it beats so fast that it loses its natural rhythm.
No! Cocaine actually causes the heart to beat faster.
No. Cocaine reduces the amount of oxygen that gets to the heart by reducing blood flow to the heart. Remember, blood carries oxygen.
Scientists are using cloning to learn more about how cocaine acts in the brain. What is a clone?
Yes! By copying a gene, scientists can study how that gene works which may help them in developing treatments for a lot of things, including drug addiction.
Try Again! Although the famous sheep Dolly was an identical clone of another sheep, most baby sheep are not clones.
No. Scientists can use cloning to understand how the brain works, but there is no part of the brain that is a clone.
No, Your probably thinking of a clown.
Which of the following is the part of the brain that controls feelings of pleasure?
No, Dendrites are a part of a neuron that receives messages from another neuron.
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maria elena necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 199 diseños de 37 diseñadores freelance.
We want to find a designer who understands our concept and philosophy. We need your creativity !!!
We are Barcelona Sky Management, Ltd. ( Spain )
We create all sorts of companies or ltd for selling. This activity is not boring! We are not "sharks's lawyers " of the movies!
We like to think we are the architects of the legal structure of a company with the good work of our client will become an incredible building. Or that we are the gardener who is sowing seeds that our customer buys the plant germination and he will work as a result of a plant, a flower or a beautiful tree. We really need your creative spirit!
Ultimately our job is to minimize the legal deadliness and boring involving the constitution of a company in Spain and make available to the client a list of companies where he will only have to choose the name.
Sky Bcn Management Ltd has to be synonymous with a legal service that strictly complies with the law, security, speed, urgency, and effectiveness of work done without errors.
Thus, our team makes the dreams of our clients who are bold and innovative people, and gives them the appropriate and necessary tool for their needs. So our customers can start their own business without loosing time on bureaucracy .
This means for the customer who buys one of our companies can start work and bill immediately. Only work and don't loose his precious time.
The "client" do not exist.
For us, every need has to find a personal satisfaction. And every case is so particular.
Both individuals who want to start their own business, and expansion stage companies, or lawyers from other legal branches that bring the hand of their own costumers ( 2 previous cases ).
Through our web both Spanish and people around the world seek our services. We use media (web, internet, skype, etc) that allow us to reduce geographical distances within our borders as well as outside.
We are and we have to remain just as accessible for the neophyte to the expert. We do well what we do but we must be accessible and understood by all.
We would like to find the designer that will reward SBM with the "LOGO" truly represent us.
The tree that represents us at the moment is not fully satisfactory but we have to be different.
We want a logo: modern, original, consistent with the seriousness of our legal work.
We invite you to visit our website despite being in Spanish only. Since we can communicate with our customers in various languages of the next developments will include in our new web information in English, French, Spanish and Catalan
For now contains a tree with our initials (SBM). The trunk of the tree is the basis for the letter B. It is necessary to preserve the tree, but we like to keep the chosen green (Pantone 3285) and is caught gray (Pantone Cool Gray 10), unless ... We are ready to listen and let us impress!
As you can see and no wonder the web is not the logo either. But we are working on a new web: best in all aspects!
We just need your brilliance and originality
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Events Clothing Company, an Auckland-based superyacht, marine and business clothing specialist, is a finalist for the 2013 Auckland Export QBE Exporter of the Year (sales under $25 million) Award.
Little known in its hometown, the company has grown from strength to strength, celebrating many successes since its start in 1991.
Events' first big win was supplying uniforms to Team New Zealand in the 1995 America's Cup challenge headed by the late Sir Peter Blake.
In 2011, as the company celebrated its 20th year in business, it secured a contract to supply the crew uniforms for one of the biggest motor yachts ever built in Europe – MY Serene, 134 metres in length and six levels high with a crew of 60.
Recently, the company launched their first European showroom in Palma de Mallorca, Spain as the result of a strategic alliance with Evolution Yacht Agents, where the two businesses operate side-by-side from the same premises close to Palma's busy superyacht marina district. There are future plans to create a similar base in Barcelona.
Today, out of the top 200 superyachts* on the ocean, Events clothes 60 of them.
The primary success of Events Clothing is the product. "All of our clothing products have a unique point of difference whether it is an eco-friendly element, resilience to U.V. or wear and tear – nothing is standard," says owner Owen Rutter.
Another point of difference over competitors is that items can be custom made, such as incorporating the colourways of the ship or logos into the design of the uniforms. "We don't just stick a logo on a shirt; we can integrate desired elements into design, within the timeframes required." Around 40 per cent of Event's uniform items are custom-made.
Just like yacht racing the backbone of the organisation has been a stellar team and an ability to change tack when they need to. Every member of the team has an impressive history in the industry and most have been with the company over 10 years.
"The skills and knowledge of our team gives them an immediate rapport with clients and they trust that we understand the ins and outs of living and working on a superyacht."
When the company was formed 20 years ago the fledging company's prospective clients were hardcore yacht racing crews and the relatively untapped local corporate apparel market.
The exciting defence of the America's Cup in New Zealand saw a significant increase in the number of superyachts visiting our shores.
"We saw an important international opportunity in this sector and the decision to develop new product lines for the superyacht sector set the company on a new course with a strong export focus," says Rutter.
This ability to identify and adapt to market opportunities helped the business to weather the storm of recession. When the global recession hit in 2009, superyacht sales plateaued and it was the domestic corporate market that demonstrated growth. Events supply marine style uniforms for businesses such as Kelly Tarlton's and Fuller's.
Despite this slight variation, Rutter says success comes from not being tempted to diversify too much along the way.
"If there's one thing I've learned in this business, it's stick to your knitting. It's very easy to be distracted by other opportunities, so we'll keep doing what we do best – top quality, customised uniforms and technical clothing for the superyacht, marine and business sectors."
Events Clothing are focussed on operational excellence. Recently, they migrated onto a cloud-based service and now have an international standard accounting and operations platform.
"We now have the ability to grow without needing to change our operating systems."
This shift provides visibility of real-time information to the staff at the Palma office.
"The system has reduced double handling of data and provides a better service to customers. Our staff can process orders from any location and track it's process through production ensuring deliveries are not only on time but are 100% correct."
The future of Events Clothing holds continued growth. The business is on the brink of signing a deal which will give them control and global rights to the iconic New Zealand brand Line 7, which they have worked closely with over the last 20 years.
"This is a coup for us and gives us command of a well trusted and recognised brand. The international opportunities are significant but we also want to offer kiwi boaties the chance to re-stock their marine wardrobes."
This acquisition will lead the company into the new territory of e-commerce. "There is work to do in creating a website that links with our systems and marketing ability. We have appointed a distributor in the United States so we will have three distribution points around the world. But we aren't rushing into things, it will be a slow release with a tight product range that we know people will be interested in, then we'll see how we go."
Events Clothing were finalists for the same award back in 2007 but lost out to now-household name Phil and Ted's baby care manufacturers. This year they are back to deal with the 'unfinished business' of the past.
"We have an even better story now, and people have encouraged us to enter saying we have a unique business so we thought we'd have another go."
The 2013 Auckland Export Awards will be held on Friday 21 June at the Langham Hotel. Fellow marine specialists Southern Spars are finalists for the Commercialisation of Innovation for Export Award.
As well as the QBE Exporter of the Year Award (sales under $25 million) other awards to be presented include:
Baldwins Intellectual Property Commercialisation of Innovation for Export
BDO Food and Beverage Exporter of the Year
Endace Tech StartUP Exporter of the Year
TNT Express Emerging Exporter of the Year
Westpac Exporter of the Year (total sales over $25 million)
Exporters Champion 2013 for exemplary services to export
For information on the Auckland Export Awards see http://hookedonexport.co.nz/


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Gray stifles Mariners as A's cruise into postseason
Oakland's pair of four-run rallies aid rookie's five scoreless frames
SEATTLE -- The Mariners sent pitcher after pitcher to the mound to face Oakland's hitters, who swatted them away with a pair of four-run rallies. The A's cruised to an easy 9-0 win over Seattle in their final regular season tune-up before facing Detroit in the American League Division Series.
Eight players collected a hit for Oakland, which will now have four days to rest before hosting Detroit for the first game of the ALDS on Oct. 4. That series will pit the A's against the same foe that knocked them out of the playoffs in five games a year ago.
Sonny Gray pitched five effortless innings and struck out eight batters to drop his ERA down to 2.67 in his 10th start of the season. Manager Bob Melvin had wanted to hold the righty to under 80 pitches, and succeeded by pulling him out after 79.
"I knew that going in I was going to be a little limited; I knew they were going to throw some guys so I was just trying to go out there and go right after guys and be efficient," Gray said. "It was nice to get some runs there early and allow them to do that even more."
The rookie had struggled in day games, posting a 4.84 ERA with the sun out compared to just 1.72 at night. But on an overcast day in Seattle with the Safeco Field roof closed, Gray looked like he could pitch in the snow. He has now won three consecutive decisions for the A's.
"He was phenomenal," catcher Derek Norris said. "Obviously his pitch count was a little high considering they didn't want him to throw as much as he did. But he got the win and his curveball was electric today."
Oakland jumped all over Seattle starter Erasmo Ramirez early in the contest, chasing the rookie from the game after just 1 1/3 innings. The A's loaded the bases but couldn't score in the first inning before driving in four runs with just one out in the second.
Norris and Daric Barton led the charge with a pair of walks, and both advanced on Eric Sogard's groundout. Chris Young singled the runners home, and he later scored on Seth Smith's double.
"All I can say is that my timing was off," Ramirez said. "Everything. Fastball, breaking ball, everything. I just felt lost."
Seattle substituted Hector Noesi for the floundering Ramirez, but Smith scored on Brandon Moss' double before the inning came mercifully to an end. Noesi would allow three more runs to score in the fifth. His replacement, Bobby LaFromboise, promptly gave up a single to Barton to score Alberto Callaspo and Josh Reddick.
The dominant victory was a fitting cap to a month that saw the A's finish with as much momentum as any team in the Majors. Oakland's 19-8 record in September is the second best in baseball, and the A's are the only Major League team with a winning record in every month this year.
"To have a winning month every month means there's no letdown, there was no real significant period where you had big-time concerns," Melvin said. "I don't think I've been on a team that was that consistent over the course of a six-month season so it's really a credit to the players, the coaches that prepare them to play every day and our coaching staff does a great job with them."
The A's haven't had a losing month since last June. The club's 10-month winning streak is the longest in the Majors.


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Singer-songwriter Peter Frampton is selling his very non-rock star-esque abode in Indian Hill, Ohio, reports Curbed. Frampton, who is known for hits like "Baby, I Love Your Way" and "Do You Feel Like We Do," is asking $1.575 million for the rather run-of-the-mill home.
Frampton's European-style pad is certainly impressive, but a far cry from what you'd imagine the home of a big time musician would be like. It features four bedrooms, six full baths, two partial baths, a gym, security system, and a large kitchen. There's also a state-of-the-art recording studio in the home.
Indian Hill, Ohio is a suburb of Cincinnati, located northeast of the city center. Zillow reports that the median list price for homes in Indian Hill is currently $1.04 million, which makes Frampton's home on the higher end of the spectrum. Perhaps the celeb name attached to the pad (the public listing declares the property is home to Frampton, a "rock legend") will help sell the place.


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Farmingdale, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State men's basketball team claimed their first Skyline Title since 2009 tonight, with an 83-64 victory over #4 seed Purchase College (14-14). With the win, the Rams received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Division III Tournament. Their opponent will be announced on Monday, February 27 during the live selection show on ncaasports.com.
After a tight first half, the Rams led 32-31 to start the second. Purchase scored on their first possession in the second, to take the 33-32 lead, their first lead since the 9-minute mark of the first. But Farmingdale State used a 22-4 run and led by 19 points with 10 minutes to play and would hold on for the win.
With under two minutes to play, the Rams posted three straight dunks, started by freshman forward Ibrahim Johnson (New York, N.Y.) and followed by two from junior forward AJ Matthews (Brooklyn, N.Y.). Matthews was named the Tournament MVP after posting his 25th consecutive double-double with 17 points, 17 rebounds, two blocks and two steals. Matthews said of the win, "We worked hard all year at practice and went thru a lot as a team. But when it came time to play in the second half, we turned it up and got it done."
After winning his 160th career game (160-63 career coaching record) and his 4th Skyline Championship, an enthusiastic Coach Smiles stated "my point guard Ryan Davis came up big with two huge 3-point shots. And AJ played outstanding down low. I'm very proud of all of my seniors. We have a lot of goals left to reach in the NCAA Tournament and hopefully many games to come."
Rams senior guard Joshua Smith (Deer Park, N.Y.) and Matthews led the team with 17 points each, while senior guard Dyshaun Flournoy (Brentwood, N.Y.) followed up with 13 of his own. Junior guard Ryan Davis finished with 10 points and a game-high four assists. Farmingdale State made a season-high 10 3-pointers tonight.
For Purchase, junior center Craig Davis (Queens, N.Y.) and junior guard John Pressley (New York, N.Y.) each scored 15 points. The Panthers struggled from 3-point territory at 27-percent (3-for-11).
Farmingdale State now awaits word of their next opponent.


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- AOT: Ahead Of Time. This usually refers to the ELF .so file that is the result of ahead of time compiling an assembly. AOTs are dependent on the assemblies they were generated from for certain data (unlike their equivalents in python and java). AOTs are created explicitly, not automatically.
- Assembly: An assembly is the EXE or DLL file created by compiling a mono application. These are not the same as EXE's or DLL's created by compiling a C or C++ program on Windows. An assembly contains CIL code rather than machine code.
- CIL: CIL stands for Common Intermediate Language. It is roughly equivalent to java bytecode and is generally portable across architectures. Some programming practices (calling out to native system libraries) can lead to CIL code that will not run on all architectures.
- Glue Libraries: Libraries which bridge a system library written in C or C++ with Mono. These wrappers are separate different than AOTs.
Packaging Tips
File Locations
Mono packages should install assemblies to %{_libdir} rather than /usr/lib or %{_datadir}. In most cases the preference is for %{_libdir}/PACKAGENAME. We use %{_libdir} because we do not consider mono packages to be noarch.
The main reason for this is that mono can ahead-of-time compile its assemblies into ELF shared objects. These AOTs have to exist in the same directory as their DLL/EXE counterparts otherwise mono cannot use them. Even if we, as packagers, choose not to create the AOT files when we build the mono rpms, the system administrator can choose to create them after install. Since there's no way to place the mono assemblies into an arch independent directory and the AOTs into arch dependent directories, the whole thing has to go into an arch dependent tree.
gacutil in a spec file
gacutil is used to register dlls with mono (think of it as installing a library - which it is!).
When packaging *any* mono application which generates libraries which gacutil then registers (say mysql-connector-net), you need something like the following in the spec file
%install %{__rm} -rf %{buildroot} %{__mkdir_p} %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/mono/gac/ gacutil -i bin/mono-1.0/release/MySql.Data.dll -f -package mysql-connector-net -root %{buildroot}%{_libdir} %files %{_libdir}/mono/gac/MySql.Data %{_libdir}/mono/mysql-connector-net/MySql.Data.dll
gacutil format
-i = input dll -f = check references -package = package name -root = build root
RPMS and source
Don't build RPMS against built from source versions of mono. It will work for you but probably not for other users!
While you may get away with recompiling the source for part of the overall package (such as gnome-panel is part of gnome or evolution-data-server is part of evolution) for other programs, you should not attempt this with Mono.
If you're going to use the source, you MUST remove the RPMS first.
Compiling mono is not a trivial matter and may not even work (when you download the source, you must also make get-monolite-latest which grabs a version of the corelib and mcs which are need for compiling the main C# compilers - the monolite-latest does not always work and you end up without a working copy of Mono.
Reporting Mono bugs
Upstream Mono's bugtracker is located at Ximian: [1]
rpmlint and mono packages
rpmlint is a program that checks packages for common problems. For mono packages, some of the rpmlint messages can be disregarded.
Mono installs binaries in %{_libdir}/<package>/bin with symlinks back to /usr/bin. rpmlint is not happy with this and generates an error (which is the correct behaviour). It will also not recognise that mono libraries are not ELF format and may generate errors on this as well.
rpmlint will also pick up on any .pc file installed in the rpm (see below).
-devel packages
Mono packages must package .pc files in a -devel package, even if that is the only file that will be included. If we were to permit .pc files in non-devel packages, then we'll have non-devel packages that depend on -devel packages, inflating the install needlessly.
Building Mono Packages Using mock with SELinux Enabled
Empty debuginfo
Sometimes building mono packages results in an empty debuginfo sub package, one without any files to install. See Packaging/Debuginfo
Incorrect Behaviours
Distributing Prebuilt Assemblies
Because mono .dlls are generally architecture independent, upstream may ship tarballs which install precompiled .dlls and .exes. All packages must build from source so the packager needs to watch out for these tarballs and be certain not to use them. (This can sneak in during upgrades as well, so the packager has to make sure they're building from source every time the tarball is changed.)
Distributing .DLLs from other projects
The Mono project's website makes this suggestion
Sometimes developers might want to distribute a library to other developers but they might not have a library that is API stable or has not matured enough over time to guarantee the backwards-compatibility of their libraries or they are not willing to maintain multiple packages of the various versions for users. [...] To solve this problem, we recommend that: * The library developer ships a properly configured pkg-config file. * The library consumers include an "update-libraries" target on their Makefile that will import the latest version of a library from a system directory into their application source code distribution. * The library consumers ship this library as part of their package.
This suggestion may make it easier for applications targetting unstable library APIs but it is extremely poor practice. Using libraries in this manner has all the same problems as linking with static libraries, most notably that the application can suffer from security holes in the library long after it is fixed upstream. Mono applications in Fedora cannot include upstream DLLs (even if they are compiled from source). This is a blocker issue and must be fixed.
There are several techniques for detecting the presence of these libraries, none of them fool proof. If you know of a better method, please add it:
1. Upstream tarball contains .dlls that were not rebuilt from source contained in the package. 2. Look through the installed .dlls for any that have the same name as system .dlls or are suspiciously out of place (Package is myDiary and contains mysql.dll, sqlite.dll, and gtk-sharp.dll) 3. Source directories look odd:
PKGNAME/ src/ data/ libs/ gtk-sharp/ atk-sharp/
Redefining _libdir
Packagers should avoid redefining _libdir in their spec file. Redefinition of this macro will cover up problems instead of helping fix them. Packagers should:
1. Identify which directories the files should install into according to the Packaging Guidelines . 2. Patch the packages build scripts to install to those locations. 3. Identify places where the package has hardcoded the old locations instead of the new ones and fix those. 4. Either report the issues to upstream or submit patches. Note that upstream projects are generally receptive to patches that allow package builders to redefine install locations at build time -- less receptive to patches which change upstream's hardcoded defaults to our hardcoded defaults.
Defining target
Was done for a brief period when we attempted to package mono apps as noarch. It was not necessary then (the actual fix was to stop using AC_CANONICAL_* in the configure.ac file) and it is definitely not needed now that we are no longer building noarch mono packages.


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STAMFORD -- Two Hamden residents charged with breaking into a Darien home and assaulting a 68-year-old woman in January were slapped with new charges Tuesday that accused them stealing more than $20,000 worth of jewelry and other items from a Darien home five months earlier.
Michael Apuzzo, 25, and Alexis Jordan, 22, were brought to state Superior Court in Stamford Tuesday morning, where Darien detectives served them with warrants charging them with first-degree larceny and conspiracy to commit first-degree larceny.
According to the arrest warrants and information in their court files, Jordan allegedly made 28 visits to two pawnshops in New Haven and Wallingford, where she is believed to have sold dozens of stolen items from June 27 to Nov. 30.
Both Apuzzo, who is being held in lieu of bond exceeding $300,000, and Jordan, being held in lieu of more than $250,000, had their bonds increased by $20,000 each by Judge Bruce Hudock on Tuesday.
Attorney David Marantz, representing Apuzzo, and public defender Barry Butler, representing Jordan, entered not guilty pleas for the new Darien charges. No pleas have been made yet for the home invasion charge or for a Norwalk burglary the two were later accused of committing the day before the Darien home invasion.
Butler and Marantz declined comment on the new charges because they have not seen the latest arrest warrant.
On the afternoon of Jan. 30, Jordan allegedly walked into a Priscilla Lane home and unexpectedly confronted a woman who had just walked into her dressing room after stepping out of the shower. Jordan hit the woman on the head with a wooden jewelry box and fled the home, authorities said. A few minutes later, the pair were pulled over in Noroton Heights, where Jordan admitted to going into the home, police said.
The woman identified Jordan as the intruder.
Apuzzo's footprints were found in the snow next to a side door, his arrest warrant states.
The pair's latest charges surfaced after Jordan admitted to police that the two have been breaking into unoccupied homes for some time, court records said. The burglaries have been committed in both Fairfield and New Haven counties.
When Darien police checked the New England State Police Information pawn shop database, they found Jordan sold merchandise to the two pawn shops, pocketing $5,600 from June to November 2013, the arrest warrants said.
When they checked on the pawn shop sales, Darien police found she sold a Hermes watch and a David Yurman ring on Aug. 29. Investigators remembered that such items had been reported stolen Aug. 25 from a home on Sunset Road in Darien.
When shown the pictures of the two items, the homeowners identified them as theirs and even a receipt for the $3,500 stolen watch that included the serial number, which matched the pawn shop's records, the warrant said.
When the woman living in the house was shown pictures of other pieces of jewelry that Jordan sold right around the time of the burglary, she identified 10 pieces out of 13 that belonged to her. One piece of jewelry was a gold necklace with leaves and garnets worth more than $18,000, the warrant said. The homeowners said the stolen property was well in excess of $20,000, the warrant said.
About two weeks ago, the two were charged with breaking into a Norwalk home on Newtown Avenue on Jan. 29, one day before the Darien home invasion.
Police said they obtained a search warrant for where Apuzzo and Jordan lived at 91 Costanzo Court in Hamden and found some possessions stolen from the Newtown Avenue home.
The two were charged with third-degree burglary, third-degree larceny and conspiracy to commit third-degree burglary.


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Ark Bar Beach Resort
159/89 Moo2, Chaweng Beach
Koh Samui, Suratthani 84320
Chaweng Beach
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Ark Bar Beach Resort is located right in the center on the white sandy Chaweng Beach and in the hub of all nightlife and shopping facilities. The hotel opened in summer 2009 and it is an excellent option for travelers who love to spend the day at the beach, sunbathing, reading or using one of the plenty of water sports option and later shop, wine and dine and continue to party at night. All our 327 rooms are nicely decorated and painted in different bright colors, are spacious and have a very modern yet cozy flair.
Ark Bar on Koh Samui is famous for its delicious food served in our restaurant right on the beach and for the regular beach parties since many years.
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Date of stay:
Aug 26, 2016
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i don t recommand this hotel, too much noise, cant sleep. you heard everything from your room. its great only if u are with lot of friend and want to make only party.
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Aug 30, 2016
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laureen Monchaux
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Jul 30, 2016
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very good,Pool party and beach party is very great.
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very good,
Aug 13, 2016
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Jun 19, 2016
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ห้องพักสวยสะอาด พนักงานบริการดีเลิศ จองทัวร์สะดวกดี แต่วันคืนปาร์ตี้อาจจะหนวกหูหน่อย เพราะแขกที่มาเที่ยวเสียงดัง พวกเขาไม่ได้พักที่นี่แต่เดินผ่านห้องของพวกเรา น่าจะจัดเส้นทางเดินให้กับแขกที่มาเที่ยวที่บาร์ไม่ให้เดินผ่านห้องพักก็ดีนะคะ เพราะพวกนี้เมาแล้วเสียงดังมาก ไม่เกรงใจแขกที่เข้าพักเลย สระว่ายน้ำ 3 สระ สวยดี แต่สระบริเวณ Pool party เริ่มกระเบื้องหลุดแล้ว
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Jun 21, 2016
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Sakuntala Bumlungkul
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Apr 18, 2016
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Helped to get my room of choice by great staff . Enjoyed being there again . great atmosphere and fun . Not for a romantic getaway , for a fun and party holiday .
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easy . Again .
Apr 24, 2016
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Martin Cliff
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Jan 07, 2016
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Staff great. So called DJ s playing shit music in meal and massage areas too loud again during the day . When party time fair enough . A Party hotel not so much for chilling . Will stay again , Recommend for all but families
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easy again .
Jan 16, 2016
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Martin Robert Cliff
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Sep 12, 2015
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NOT FRIENDLY! NOT SMILING ! Noisy israrelis all over. The worst i have experienced in thailand , and we come to thailand every year.
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Sep 16, 2015
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Apr 18, 2015
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Very good and clean hotel and nice and good crew who always smile and give u very good service at ark bar ;) i always use too live there when i visit koh samui ;)
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easy and quick !
Apr 21, 2015
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aksel Jørgen Olsen
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Apr 10, 2015
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Helped out again by Ark Bar staff in getting preferred room . Party central of Samui . Have stayed 8 or so times and will stay again . Great staff and facilities . Once again DJ s could lower the music volume in the restaurant areas . Not a romantic getaway , a FUN one .
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Easy .
Apr 26, 2015
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Martin C.
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Mar 15, 2015
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Номер брали Премьер делюкс. Дали на 3-м этаже, так как на первых проходной двор. Убирают чисто, номера большие и уютные. На бассейне толком не покупаться, всегда толпа. Куча шумных соседей. В общем, для тусовочной молодежи в самый раз.
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Mar 18, 2015
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Alexey Aminev
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Feb 09, 2015
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very very noisy with young Israeli s. we are also from Israel but the noise is not ok, you need to tell them not to hear so loud music and not shout in the middle of the night. Have an idea, to put lockers near pool for those who want to go to the sea but have things with them at the pool
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Feb 15, 2015
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Roy Levy
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Nov 05, 2014
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If you want some fun little loud until midnight and not looking for silent place then this is the only place in Koh Samui to stay other all resort are so so so quiteafter 5 pm.
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Excelent as Usual
Nov 10, 2014
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Muhammed Anis Nathani
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Oct 18, 2014
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Great action Hotel with beach party s and pool party s on the go from 2pm till 2am.Can be noisy but your there to have fun.
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Used Sawadee before always a great service..
Oct 26, 2014
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Welcome to... Ark Bar Beach Resort
Thailand's southern paradise island - Koh Samui - the third largest in the country - lies in the Gulf of Siam and has long been famed for its incomparable beauty as a truly tropical island. Chaweng Beach, with its silver-white powder-fine sand and crystal - clear blue water, is one of the best beaches in the world.
Come in and meet interesting people from all over the world. Enjoy one of our countless, and in many cases unique, cocktails or an ice cold beer, either on draught or from the bottle. You can play pool on our slate bed table, or watch all the major sporting events, live from around the world, or just relax watch the latest movies on our big screens.
ARKbar Beach Resort
is known around the world as the one-stop party destination in the heart of Chaweng Beach. ARKbar Beach Club entertains our resort guests and visitors everyday with international DJ's playing house music from 2pm around our Party Pool and then on to the beach until 2am. With over 300 rooms in 3 categories, spread over the entire resort, we can provide you with a room that suits your budget and party requirements. From a Superior room with garden terrace to Premier Deluxe Seaview Rooms overlooking the Party Pool right in the middle of the action and music.
Please consider this BEFORE making your reservation and include your preference to room location when making your booking.
We have total 327 rooms comprising of Superior Rooms, Deluxe Rooms and Premier Deluxe Rooms. Everyone can now enjoy the peace and tranquility that is a part of your holiday.
:: Superior Room ::
Queen size bed or twin beds / for 2 persons / can add 1 extra bed.
Superior rooms are located in the "Original" Ark Bar and have been recently renovated and redecorated. All rooms have either a double bed or two single beds, and by request, some rooms can be equipped with a third single bed. Regardless, if this is your first or tenth visit, you will always be pleasantly surprised at the cleanliness, quality and facilities of these centrally located rooms for such a low price. The rooms are now equipped with an air conditioner, hot shower, in-room safe, satellite television, refrigerator and mini bar. Every room has a balcony, and this is the ideal place to enjoy a morning coffee or some pre-dinner drinks.
:: Deluxe Room ::
Queen size bed / for 2 persons / extra beds are not allowed.
The Deluxe rooms offer a fusion of contemporary and Thai decor, with ample space and style for you to indulge in that long awaited Tropical Island holiday. All Deluxe rooms are air-conditioned and have a balcony, queen-sized bed, mini bar, in-room safe, hot water, 32" flat screen satellite television and DVD player. For your convenience tea and coffee making facilities are also provided.
:: Premier Deluxe Room ::
Queen size bed / for 2 persons / can add 1 extra bed.
The Premier Deluxe rooms are the latest addition to Ark Bar Beach Resort. These rooms have been decorated in a unique style influenced by contemporary and traditional Thai themes. Lazing on the shaded balcony you can read a book, sip on a drink or watch the world go by. The interior of these Premier Deluxe rooms feature a queen-sized bed, 42" flat screen satellite television, DVD player, sofa, modern bathroom with hot shower, in-room safe, tea and coffee making facilities and an extensive mini-bar selection.
All Room Offer
A private balcony or terrace
Cable TV & satellite
Wi-Fi internet for all areas
Mini bar
Large 100% cotton towels
Wake up call
Room service
Daily room cleaning
Laundry Service
Our beachside restaurant is open from 8 am until 2 in the morning, you can feed on our excellent choice of Thai or European food. Our offerings include all day full English breakfast, Lunch, Snacks and Dinner. We particularly pride ourselves on both the standard of preparation and presentation of our food. At sunset we prepare a romantic setting on the beach, overlooking the beautiful bay of Chaweng.
Our Chef prepares a buffet which includes freshly caught prawns, lobsters, squid, shell-fish, crabs, plus many other varieties. At night you are invited to join us for a romantic dinner full of eastern promise under a moonlight setting on our beach. Just choose something from our buffet to be grilled, steamed, salted, baked, barbecued or fried to your specification, by our highly qualified team of chef. Or choose from our many varieties of different meat dishes and vegetarian foods cooked European or Thai style. Every effort is made to cater for individual tastes and we take exceptional pride in our culinary excellence.
:: 7 Seas - The Restaurant ::
Our signature Restaurant at the Ark Bar Beach Hotel, and a new concept of fine dinning. With this extra Part of the Menu, Master Chef Mario & his Team will prepare a very unique style of Dishes, using only the very best of ingredients with special attention in taste and presentation, along side you will find a Wine list selected from around the World. Please have a look in our kitchen while your food is being prepared. We wish you a very enjoyable evening in our specially created atmosphere through the LED light setting.
:: Swimming Pool & Jacuzzi ::
Enjoy a walk through our beautiful tropical garden which contains hundreds of tropical plants and trees through to our saltwater chlorinated swimming pool & Jacuzzi.
Come in and meet interesting people from all over the world. Enjoy one of our countless, and in many cases unique, cocktails or an ice cold beer, either on draught or from the bottle. You can play pool on our slate bed table, or watch all the major sporting events, live from around the world, or just relax watch the latest movies on our big screens.
Water Sport:
Water skiing, windsurfing, sailing, kayaking and many other activities are available along the beach. Or maybe you just want to relax in our cool freshwater pool & Jacuzzi. Samui offers you a choice of trips for fishing, snorkeling and scuba diving from a half day to as long as 3 days - we will be happy to provide you with details and prices. Take advantage of learning to dive twice a week, the SIDS Diving School offers free diving lessons for our Guests in our pool.
Koh Samui is a 45 minutes flight from Bangkok and our Resort is a 15 minutes drive to the airport. Nearby beaches, restaurants, nightlife and shopping centers are comfortably reachable with our own Shuttle Service.
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Capacity: 64,000
Snapshot: Belo Horizonte has neither the beaches of the northeast nor Rio's pizzazz, but it has at least one redeeming feature: BH, as it is also known, has more bars per capita than any other Brazilian city. Furthermore, the local cuisine, comida mineira, is considered the best in Brazil. BH is a pleasant, if unspectacular, city, and there are some wonderful places to visit in the hills on the outskirts, such as the old colonial town of Ouro Preto and the mesmerising country park/outdoor art installation of Inhotim.
Getting there: The 6.5-mile journey to the stadium from the city centre will provide a proper matchday feel. Congested public buses or taxis will take you there — if you are lucky enough to flag an open one down. If travelling from the centre of Belo Horizonte, leave at least one and a half hours before kickoff to make sure you get there in time.
Where/what to eat: Less than three days is arguably not enough time to devote to the state of Minas Gerais' cuisine. Mineiros love their food and rightfully so, but pao de queijo (cheese bread) aside, you'll have to try just one dish per day to avoid serious indigestion. Leitao a pururuca (roasted young lamb), feijao a tropeira (a delicacy combining beans and vegetables) and tutu a mineira make for a fantastic meal but will probably leave you comatose for the rest of the day.
Dona Lucinha (R. Padre Odorico, 38) in the city and Xapuri (Rua Mandacaru, 260) in a beautiful farm outside Belo Horizonte offer the best versions of these classics, although you'll probably eat well in most restaurants. If you want something more cosmopolitan, Provincia di Salerno (Italian, Maranhao 18) and the amazing Oroboro (contemporary, Maranhao, 18) deliver a high standard as well.
Where/what to drink: The extremely traditional Pinguim (Grao Mongol, 157) beer house is still the best meeting point to drink cold draught beer. However, Belo Horizonte is packed with fantastic bars (botecos), some of them among the best in the country. Mineiros love their bar food (comida de boteco), so you can find excellent appetisers to complement your draught in Bartiquim (Rua Silvianopolis, 74), Redentor (Fernandes Tourinho, 500) and Patorroco (Turquesa, 865). But try any bar that takes your fancy; they are plentiful and of a good standard.
Where to stay: Savassi is an ideal neighbourhood to stay close to the most interesting eating, drinking and shopping spots. Nearby, the Lourdes and Carmo neighbourhoods are also well located and have good hotels.
Area trivia: The prolific Dada Maravilha ("There are no ugly goals; ugly is not scoring") had more than one stint at Atletico Mineiro and scored almost 1,000 goals in his career, yet some Mineiros still say he could not play ball.
Former Barcelona and AC Milan forward Ronaldinho currently plies his trade at Atletico Mineiro. Since joining the club in 2012, the Brazilian has impressed, helping the club to Copa Libertadores glory while also claiming the personal accolade that is the Bola de Ouro (Golden Ball) as a reward for his performances.
Sightseeing: If it wasn't clear already, the best tourism you can enjoy in Belo Horizonte is closely related to food and drink. Make the most of your meals and happy hours.
If you have a couple of extra days, head to the beautiful colonial city of Ouro Preto (100 kilometers away) or spend a night at the open-air museum of Inhotim (60 km away). Both are unforgettable visits.
Estadio Mineirao opened: 1965
Matches to be played at Estadio Mineirao:Colombia vs. Greece (June 14), Belgium vs. Algeria (June 17), Argentina vs. Iran (June 21), Costa Rica vs. England (June 24). The stadium will also host a semifinal.
Capacity: 62,547
Cost: Estimated 666 million reals ($287 million; 180 million pounds) spent on reconstruction
Stadium history: The Estadio Mineirao, which is owned by the state, has staged numerous footballing memories, having been the home of Cruzeiro. The likes of Ronaldo and Tostao have graced its turf, while it once hosted a match between Cruzeiro and Vila Nova in 1997 that was witnessed by 132,834 spectators.
Stadium trivia: The stadium has undergone a significant makeover to bring it up to modern standards, including the facilities to "capture and store up to 6,270,000 litres of rainwater," which can be reused on site for the likes of the restrooms, while the pitch has been lowered to improve visibility for the fans.


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A Great White Tale
I wake ten minutes before my alarm goes off – and my body and mind instinctively know that I have an epic day in store. I skip my normal morning adrenaline run and drive to Malibu Pier, arriving at 7:45 a.m. sharp, knowing that the coming hours will peak my endorphins. Waiting to greet a great white shark is not an everyday occurrence, after all.
By 10:30 a.m. the land-based team is getting restless. We've heard that the floor of the ocean net pen, home to the white shark for the past several days, is being lifted by our boat crew and dive team. That means the white shark should be arriving soon, but there is still no "chicken in the coop." I bite my nails as the minutes pass until finally, at 11:11 a.m., we get the call: "The shark is on board!"
Rushing to meet the shark
Whew! Everyone flies into action. The shark's transport trough – the vehicle that will carry him down the pier, from boat to transport truck – is filled with salt water while the oxygen level is regularly monitored. The team walks briskly down the pier scanning the water for our boat, the Lucile, as two- to four-foot swells build on what had been a calm sea. All reports are that the swell will only grow in intensity for the next several days.
This is not welcome news.
Surfers enjoying the growing waves
When it's two miles off shore, we spot the boat racing toward the pier. It's essential that the crew time the operation when there's a lull in the southern swells, so people and shark can safely get ashore. Fisherman and passersby gather to catch a glimpse of the action. On the far side of the pier dozens of surfers are hollering and inviting the waves to grow larger. Meanwhile the white shark team is muttering incantations to King Poseidon to pacify the great Pacific, even if only for a few moments, so they can get the shark on land.
The team times the swells
The team senses a lull. "Here we go," yells Joe Welsh, our associated husbandry curator who's at the helm of the Lucile. I can feel everyone's heart rate increase. The adrenaline is flowing and transport team coordinator Scott Reid leans over the boat while Manny Ezcurra, our lead shark curator, hands him one end of the stretcher that's holding the shark. Manny jumps onto the landing, and takes the other end. Water is flowing out of the stretcher as the two navigate their way up a flight of wooden stairs to the mobile trough, holding protectively onto their precious package. The young male great white shark is raised in the air, reminiscent of a baby being baptized, and gingerly lowered into the trough.
"Lid Angela! Help lift the lid!"
I do what I'm told, waiting for my next order.
"The button, the button -– go hit the button at the crosswalk!"Malibu pier
As the team rolls trough and shark down the long wooden pier, I sprint to where it meets the Pacific Coast Highway, my mind absent of everything except getting the young shark across the street safely and quickly. I hit the button, once, twice…impatiently, five more times… in hopes of getting a quicker response from the mechanically programmed light.
"Bobby!" I yell across the highway to our transport truck driver. "Hit the button!"
Bobby's white shark transporter tattoo
"I already did!" he hollers back.
As I look behind me, I see our veterinarian, Dr. Mike Murray, and a couple of white shark biologists sprinting to catch up with the shark. They reach us, out of breath. Waiting for a green light has never felt so infinite, but at last it comes. We look left, then right, before racing across the highway; dozens of cars and even more eyes looking at this motley group pushing a wooden box across America's most scenic highway, in the heart of Malibu in the middle of summer. I'm curious what they think of it all.
I watch our team of aquarists, curators; truck driver and veterinarian merge as a well-oiled machine. As they reach the transport vehicle, two men grab the ends of the gurney and hoist the great white shark up the large stairs in a stretcher while another opens the lid on the 3,200-gallon mobile life support transport tank (also known as the finabago) that will hold the shark for the drive north up to Monterey. The sling is pushed down into the water and the four-foot, seven-inch male shark swims in smoothly and freely, ready to explore his temporary habitat.
Now it's essential that Dr. Mike, the aquarium's veterinarian, is confident that the shark's swimming pattern is consistent and relaxed before the team is cleared to drives him north. As a smile creeps across the doc's face I hear myself take a deep breath. I've been unconsciously holding my breath since we crossed the highway. Dr. Mike's face tells me everything I need to know without having to look through the finabago's window myself.
"You want a peek?" he asks. Coolly but quickly I walk to the window and lift the heavy white lid.
As the day's adrenaline starts to leave my body I peer into a blue pool of clear water. In a moment, I'm eye-to-eye with the king of the ocean (well, at this size, maybe a prince).
"You are safe," I whisper. "In a few months you'll be released back into your wild habitat. Until then you'll inspire tens of thousands of humans to protect you and your brethren." He circles past me, his majestic, prehistoric and predatorial eye grazing past mine.
"Thank you," I think deeply as I close the window and head toward the car.
"Time to go home," I hear from behind me.
The truck heads north, Bobby at the wheel, Manny and Dr. Mike aboard to monitor the shark during the six-and-a-half hour drive.
Time to go home.
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chuckyte necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 195 diseños de 41 diseñadores freelance.
Thanks for taking the time to check out this contest. We are a unique media transfer company that focuses solely on family media. Types of media include movie film, slides, negatives, photos, video tapes, records, audio cassettes, etc. If you look at our website and logo now… you can see they need a lot of work. So….
We are in need of a new logo (then a website). This logo cannot be about what we "do." It needs to give the feeling of who we are and what our clients are purchasing. Our clients are celebrating family connections. We are geeks that take a personal interest in preserving those memories for our clients.
DVD Your Memories is a family media transfer business. But don't get me wrong, our customers are not buying DVDs made from old photos and videos. They are purchasing feelings of nostalgia when watching their old memories with family and friends. We just happen to provide the means for them to do this.
A very clean and simple logo showing how the customer will benefit from our service. I would recommend using people in the design and some sort of original media type (film, photo, etc.) Be creative.
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Jake C necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 113 diseños de 19 diseñadores freelance.
1. Meet Web 2.0+ design standards (color scheme & background)
2. Increase overall user friendliness/intuitiveness
3. Clearly deliver brand message
What:Redesign homepage with a new layout and design enhancements to the rest of the goSwoop website while maintaining current layout.
Why: Update design to meet standards, improve overall user friendliness and clearly deliver brand message.
User #1: Prospective international students looking for the best opportunities to be recruited by a college or university for an international educational experience.
User #2: University and college admissions offices seeking new innovative ways of recruiting international students
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- General theme and background redesign
- Follow existing layout for existing site other than the homepage
- Help clearly deliver brand message to incoming users
- More rich graphics to meet standards
- Catch the attention of users looking at the website content
- Comfort while looking through website content
- Increase user friendliness - intuitiveness
- Different color scheme and background
- Design consistency throughout entire website
- Include all existing features, page links and layout
- Homepage redesign to deliver initial brand message. Feel free to get creative and revamp the homepage, change the layout, however you wish
- Please also provide enhancement of other pages with the homepage theme as well without changing the layout. We need to see how the other pages look like with the redesigned theme, color, etc- Specifically focus on the user profile page, main Q&A page, a story page, a university profile page.
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- No Clutter
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A couple walks along North Beach as a helicopter searches for Charles Quaid at Point Reyes National Seashore, Calif.
A California man who waded into choppy waves to rescue his wife and dog drowned after he was swept out to sea on New Year's day.
Charles Quaid, 59, entered the Pacific Ocean at Point Reyes National Seashore after his wife and dog became caught in tumultuous waves, Marin County Fire Department Battalion Chief Mike Giannini confirmed to NBC News.
The undertow and rip currents at the beach were so powerful they "would challenge even the strongest swimmers," Giannini said.
Good Samaritans helped wrench Quaid's wife from the 10-to-12-foot waves, according to Giannini, and the family's dog returned to shore unharmed.
But Quaid was dragged more than a half-mile off shore, and police were called shortly after 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Giannini said.
Emergency response crews from the fire department, the U.S. Coast Guard and the National Park Service searched for Quaid for hours before rescuers on jet skis found his body at 4 p.m. A paramedic pronounced Quaid dead soon after, Giannini said.
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Quaid's body was transferred to the county coroner's office. Quaid's wife was evaluated by a medical team and released with no injuries.
Quaid's death marks the second time in just over a month that a California family met a tragic end after trying to rescue their dog from rocky ocean waves. In late November, three members of the same family drowned at a beach north of Eureka, Calif., while attempting to pull their dog from forceful rip currents.
Giannini said the tragic events should encourage beachgoers to be more cautious.
People must have a "very, very keen awareness of the power of water," he said. "People may feel as if they have a good comfort level. But what you can't see can sometimes be a real threat."
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Orly Ravid had some good advice for us all before Cannes. Now that another festival is over, she's got some more critical advice for all with a film made, in process, or contemplating existence.
Orly looks at what gives films "value" to distributors, but points out that those are not the only factors, and with a little effort and willingness to take it into your own hands, there's good business to be had. There's one key rule though: Don't Wait For Godot. Film is a perishable good.
In future posts, we intend to track the progress and releases of the films that did deals at Sundance. And we also will track deals and respective progress related to other fests such as Tribeca and Cannes (which seemed to be largely a SundanceSelects play with an occasional TWC and Magnolia deal and a few others coming.). But for now, I want to address a phenomenon that I keep seeing and strongly feel needs to change.
Filmmakers are approaching us with films that had their festival run a year or even two years ago, OR, a film that did not have the benefit of an A-list festival selection, or maybe not even a B-list festival run, or is even more than two years old. I guess they assume that deals are still out there for their films and they are holding off on moving into the market until those deals are struck.
Film sales happen (when they happen) more often than not, for these reasons (I am speaking to filmmakers in America and trying to sell films in and/or from America):
1. FESTIVALS & AWARDS& REVIEWS: The film has the good fortune of being an official selection of a prestigious name film festival (and attended by or at least tracked by industry). By virtue of being an official selection, the festival brand helps the film's brand and perceived value of that film to potential buyers. Also, publicity that actually occurs as a result of being part of the festival helps the film get noticed and attain perceived value to potential buyers. Winning prizes helps (especially Audience Awards) and getting great reviews help in attracting potential buyers.
2. The value (actual value of a deal that can be done) starts to go down after a festival premiere. Meaning, films that don't sell at festivals or do not start negotiations at or close to the festival's start or end date, go down in price. The perception in the market is the length of time between a festival premiere and settling on a distribution deal indicates the amount of value the film has. If there is a long passage of time, the price goes down accordingly and the likelihood of getting any deal fades. of course this depends to a greater or lesser degree on who is selling and who wants to buy and what their motivation is. But usually, prices go down in direct proportion with the passage of time.
3. CAST: The film has cast that increases the perceived value. And if #2 is accompanied by #1, all the better. This is not a cast of unknowns or a cast of former notable talent.
4. GENRE / DEMOGRAPHIC APPEAL / NICHES: Genre appeal, including horror, sci fi, western films often sell better than dramas; docs sell better than mockumentaries, often not always. Hot topic or big concept / trend topic documentaries or documentaries involving key niches or names often sell than more obscure or more personal documentaries, of course there are always rare exceptions. Best not to bank on your film being one of those. Films appealing to specific large enough demographics seem more "valuable" than those that don't seem to have any specific appeal. Broad comedies can sell but highly depend on notable cast and when they don't have the cast, it's almost always the case that they need a big festival to create the buzz that gives them the commercial push. Foreign sales are not attractive for American-centric stories unless they are studio films, genre films, and/or have the cast or had/will have a big l theatrical release.
5. THEATRICAL: A small US theatrical can help usually only if the reviews really were strong and the film has some commercial appeal or at least niche appeal (and there are distributors catering to that niche if it's not more broadly commercial). Theatrical in the US can't hurt foreign sales but a tiny US theatrical can also have no impact on foreign sales whatsoever if the film is perceived as too American and does not feel either commercial enough for other territories to compete with all the world cinema or does not fit into niches for which there are buyers (if it's not broadly commercial enough). Or the film can fit in to the niche but the niche is also glutted so competition is stiff. For Broadcast sales, sometimes it is simply a matter of programming and timing luck; the film fits what the stations are looking for.
We all know there's no guarantee of a sale and sometimes even when a sale occurs, it's not necessarily a great one. Even at the top A-list fests, many films do not "sell" so even for those filmmakers a strategy of building community around your film WAY AHEAD of your first public exhibition / premiere is wise, because this way, even if you are afraid of or counseled not to start any distribution in tandem with that premiere or necessarily soon following it, and even if you think you have a shot at the big deal, or a deal and that is what you want above all things.. even then, all that community building will do is increase the perceived value of your film. And guess what? If that deal never comes, or if the offers suck (which you may be more scrutinizing of and careful about when you do the math based on your acquired ability to distribute directly to the fans), you will always have that back up plan.
Many filmmakers come to us with thousands of even tens of thousands of Facebook and Twitter fans, lots of traffic to their site, an email list started and even good reviews of their film if it played smaller fests or if their genre was reviewed by niche film sites and this has all happened months ago or even a year ago or even two, and they are waiting for a DEAL, I have to say, DON'T WAIT. * You already have a deal*, direct to the fans of the film, the ones you have been connecting with and getting the attention of for all this time. Let them see it/buy it and stop waiting! They've been waiting and if you make them wait too long, they will either wander off in frustration or they may feel no other alternative but to view the film via P2P networks for free or get a DVD via E-bay that a journalist or programming staffer is selling for extra lunch money.
In short, and yes this blog is short compared to the usual (whew), don't wait for Godot. There is nothing this marketplace is signaling that merits the wait. Broadcast sales are a different matter, you have a doc, or Latino-interest film, or gay film, or genre film, or even film with some cast.. a TV deal can MAYBE be done but still, there's all the rest YOU should be doing sooner than later, or working with people who can help you do it if you don't know how. This includes DVD and Digital off your site, it includes all the key digital platforms and it even includes hybrid theatrical / events and other public performance of the film (educational and/or commercial). And if your films has legs, you can carve out deals and DIY and work it all out. But if you just sit on your film and wait you are risking losing everything and I have to ask you, based on what? What information are you working with? Part of your distribution plan should include how long will wait before you start distribution? What is your path to sales? Plan A, B and C and how can you plan for all of those? It is no longer enough to hope for distribution and sit and wait.
Filmmakers, don't hate the messenger… I say this with love and as someone who embraces deal making as much as I do DIY. ☺ You must have a plan of action early in your process.
Here's an example of a filmmaker who we think did it right, and he worked with Peter Broderick:
And we'll have other examples and even more details in our forthcoming digital case study book entitled SELLING YOUR MOVIE WITHOUT SELLING YOUR SOUL: Case Studies in Hybrid, DIY, P2P Independent Film Distribution (co-authored by The Film Collaborative, Jon Reiss, and Sheri Candler). Until then, stop waiting and get moving toward bringing your film to its audience.
— Orly Ravid
Orly Ravid has worked in film acquisitions / sales / direct distribution and festival programming for the last twelve years since moving to Los Angeles from home town Manhattan. In January 2010, Orly founded The Film Collaborative (TFC), the first non-profit devoted to film distribution of independent cinema. Orly runs TFC w/ her business partner, co-exec director Jeffrey Winter.
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No, no-one is resurrecting that old Oldsmobile mid-size sedan.
(It actually wasn't bad...).
It's just that the car industry over here (I am in Stuttgart as I type) is even more
confusing than it is back home.
Right here in Stuttgart, the battle between two branches of the Porsche family for control of the sports car maker and gigantic Volkswagen continues.
The main players are both grandsons of Ferdinand Porsche who, among other things, designed the VW Beetle, and the world's first (as far as we know) Diesel-electric hybrid four-wheel drive vehicle (away back in 1904, give or take - nothing new under the sun).
There's Ferdinand Piech, chairman of the supervisory board of Volkswagen which Porsche tried to take over in a controversial stock deal last fall.
Then there's his cousin Wolfgang Porsche, who is backing current Porsche CEO Wendelin Wideking.
You'd need to examine the entrails of several slaughtered chickens to figure out what's going on here, but as near as I can figure, the Porsche family (Wolfgang's allies) owns 53.7 percent of Porsche, while the Piechs have 46.3 percent.
But there are various rules, pooled voting rights, unanimity agreements, etc., which render decision-making at the top strategic level very difficult for Porsche, and understanding the corporate structure nearly impossible for outsiders.
The other main player on the Volkswagen side is the government of the German state of Lower Saxony, where VW's main factory (Wolfsburg) is located. It owns some 20 percent of Volkswagen shares, and always seems to toss that support in favour of whatever is best for the workers (who vote in elections, dontcha know), not necessarily what might be best long-term for the company.
But there are more types of shares in this organization than Italy has types of police. Whenever anybody wants to do anything, it appears that some cryptic covenant rears its ugly head and says, "No Can Do."
Or however you say that in German.
It would seem that both sides of the Porsche family want to merge VW and Porsche into one giant car maker - in effect, return the two companies to their common root.
It also appears both sides want their man to be in charge.
How will it turn out?
Your guess is as good as mine.
Which for the moment is - confusing.
Up the river a stretch in Russelsheim Germany, the future of GM's European arm Opel (and the UK division Vauxhall) may be settled as early as tomorrow morning (it is 'way too far after midnight here as I type).
As noted here earlier, there are three main contenders, two of which have significant Canadian content.
Magna of course is a huge Canadian car parts supplier, whose boss Frank Stronach has always wanted to be a bigger player in the industry - he made an unsuccessful pitch for Chrysler when Daimler-Benz off-loaded it a few years ago.
But to assuage concerns about 'foreign' takeovers, Magna seems to be stressing the Austrian roots of both Stronach and the company's current co-chief executive Siegfried Wolf.
Fiat, which is also pitching to acquire Chrysler in an effort to challenge Toyota as the world's biggest car maker, is run by Toronto-raised Sergio Marchionne. He doesn't mind pointing out that Magna's bid is at least partially financed by Magna's Russian partners, with the implied threat that German jobs would migrate eastward, never a politically wise move in Germany. He also claims Fiat brings greater technical and whole-car manufacturing expertise to the table.
The third bidder is a Belgian parts making conglomerate called RJH International. I don't know if they even know where Canada is on a map.
Both General Motors and the federal German government headed by Chancellor Angela Merkel appear to be favouring the Magna bid. She gets to make the choice because the German government will be lending 1.5 billion euros (that's, um, a LOT of dollars...) to the winner.
But all should be revealed later this morning as I type, early tomorrow as you may be reading this.
Never a dull moment.


text: dave ziegler Posted July 7, 2007 A while back I took a walk again through what is left of Kinseys Distillery and found some thngs that prove to me that Continental Distilling Owned American Distillery in Pekin for a few years and sold it when they left the Whiskey Bussiness. First I saw old rotten Whiskey case that said Guckenheimer Whiskey Distilled at DSP #1 Phila Bottled at DSP #12 which was Linfield also I found a old Rotten label for Old Colony Gin that said Distilled at #2 Pekin IL bottled at DSP #12 Linfield and said on the label American Distilling Linfield Pa. Also the fact I found out they had a bottling house in Lemont IL makes it even more likely. Also I found a destroyed Whiskey case that says on its side American Distilling Company Linfield pa. And they sold all their Whiskey bussinesses in 1980 and started to do just Alcohol chemicial Products and I read on the web that the present Owners of what was American Distilling bought it in early 1980. Also I have Stillbrook Corn whiskey Bottle that says Distilled In IL By Dsp no. 2 Pekin IL Bottled by American Distillers Company Linfield Pa and the old American brand MidWest Corn whiskey Bottle I have says Distilled by Contiental Distilling Corp Phila Pa. So it looks to me that Publicker bought and owned American Distilling for a while which is something I never knew even though having worked there as a Kid in 1966. I have decided that when my days come to an end to give my large Publicker / Continental Distilling Collection to the Getz and Have told them so and informed my Sister that is my wish I have enough stuff that they could have a spot just for it having collected it for many years. One thing I have that I really Like is my 100 gal Whiskey Barrel Head it has Corn whiskey on the top and a ready date of 1981 they quit that Bussiness in 1979 so it is one of the last barrels they ever distilled. I am feeling a bit better lately having been sick for 6 months and losing 40 pounds. Dave Share this post Link to post Share on other sites