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Still Cameras
For the widest range of digital stills cameras to hire in Australia, look no further than The Front.
We understand the importance of keeping up with the latest technology and are proud to provide you all of the latest
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Having trouble deciding what you need or meeting a budget? Don't worry, we've put together a variety of convenient rental camera kits to make the process easy and affordable. And as always, our friendly and knowledgeable
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Whether it's a TV commercial ad campaign, the next indie film classic, the great Aussie Surf doco, or just a talking head
interview, The Front has the right video camera for your hire needs. Our comprehensive rental range of video cameras includes everything from the
game-changing Canon 1D-C, through to the ground-breaking and simply stunning ARRI AMIRA, to name just two.
We stock the most relevant and up-to-date video cameras from all the big names, including Sony, Canon, ARRI, Blackmagic
Design & Panasonic. You can be sure to find what you need at The Front. Combine that with our extensive range of lenses
and accessories, knowledgeable and friendly staff, your next video production is bound to be a success.
If we don't have what you are after, just let us know, and we'll be sure to
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And as with all our products, you can easily pick it up from our convenient inner-Sydney location,
or we can arrange for Australia-wide delivery for you. Your next production is in safe hands with The Front.
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The Front is proud to stock one of the widest ranges of rental lenses in Australia, representing all the major brands including Canon, Carl Zeiss, Phase One, Schneider Kreuznach, Nikon, Hasselblad, Sigma and Samyang.
Be it a telephoto lens or a fisheye lens, tilt-shift, macro, zoom or prime, you've come to the right place. Added to that are the many years of our staff's expertise meaning we can give you the best advice allowing you to get the shots you need without necessarily blowing the budget.
So to satisfy all your optical demands, make sure you hire your next lens from The Front! (And if blowing the budget sounds like something you'd like to do, we have lenses for that as well).
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When it comes to high-performance lighting rentals, The Front has a reputation you can rely upon.
We are well established as Australia's foremost rental suppliers of the leading brands of stills and video lighting. The Front has an extensive range of lighting types including HMI, Tungsten, LED and Strobe. We stock equipment for hire from Broncolor, ARRI, Kino Flo, Profoto, Dedolight, among others.
Along with our stellar range of lighting we can also provide you with an extensive choice in light modifiers, grip and accessories. Get in touch today with The Front about your next lighting hire.
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No matter the needs of your shoot, big or small, we have all the right gear for you. We stock an extensive range of industry-standard equipment and accessories with all the leading brands.
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At the Front, we supply a range of quality audio rentals from all the leading brands including Rode, Sony, Sennheiser, Zoom and Tascam.
Whether your production demands are small or large, we have all the equipment you'll ever need, including microphones, monitoring kits, recorders, pistol grips, and boom poles, not to mention expert advise.
And as usual, you can pick up audio equipment for hire from our Alexandria location or arrange for delivery throughout Australia.
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Press Releases
Carl's Jr. and Hardee's Launch Digital "Comfort Place"
Feb 22, 2010
Popularity of Grilled Cheese Bacon Burgers at Carl's Jr.
Leads to Introduction at Hardee's
ST. LOUIS, Mo. – February 22, 2010 – Everyone could use a little more comfort these days. And just like when mom used to make her delicious grilled cheese sandwiches to ease your childhood setbacks, Carl's Jr.® and Hardee's® are offering some comfort food for grown-ups. Grilled Cheese Bacon Burgers, launched at Carl's Jr. in late January, feature all of the taste and comfort of those youthful grilled cheese sandwiches, but with the addition of a delicious charbroiled burger and bacon. This combination of two all-American classics has resonated so well with guests in Carl's Jr. markets, that the Grilled Cheese Bacon Thickburger® is being introduced into sister-chain Hardee's markets beginning today.
"The Grilled Cheese Bacon Burgers evolved from our efforts to make a really good grilled cheese sandwich for our vegetarian customers," said Brad Haley, executive vice president of marketing at CKE Restaurants. "Being known for our decadent burgers, we just had to see how it tasted with a charbroiled burger and bacon on it, and the result was really, really yummy. With all the dismal economic news today, it may be that this combination of two classic, all-American comfort foods just seems to hit the spot right now."
"The Comfort Place"
To extend the comforting goodness of the Grilled Cheese Bacon Burgers, both Hardee's and Carl's Jr. are embarking on a digital campaign to provide even more solace to their customers, especially their core fans of "Young, Hungry guys." Because guys need comfort, too, starting today, visitors to the Carl's Jr. and Hardee's Facebook pages can visit the new interactive application designed to provide a bit of comfort when they need it the most.
Fans can choose to comfort themselves or a friend when activating "The Comfort Place," an application which will post comforting messages to the designated Facebook wall for a 24-hour period. Comfort comes in the form of cheesy songs ("Love Sandwich"), words of wisdom and motivational pep talks ("You smell incredible right now. Just incredible."), audio sound bytes (sounds of bacon sizzling), soothing photos (frolicking kittens) and humorous videos (levitating "Burguru"). Users can also invite friends to gather at their local Carl's Jr. or Hardee's for a Comfort Session where they can take full advantage of their access to exclusive rewards and discounts on the Grilled Cheese Bacon Burgers.
Comfort Sweepstakes
Additionally, today also launches a 5-week sweepstakes on each brand's respective Facebook page. Each page will give away two (2) Comfort Packages a week, ending on March 26th. The Comfort Package consists of a Happy Star™ branded Slanket®, comfortable slippers, a universal remote, a Carl's Jr. or Hardee's gift card and a shiatsu electronic massager. One entry per fan. Contest rules are available on the Sweepstakes tab at www.facebook.com/carlsjr and www.facebook.com/hardees.
"The 'Comfort Place' Facebook application and sweepstakes are another way we are reaching out to our customers online," said Brad Rosenberg, Manager of Digital Strategy and Marketing at CKE Restaurants. "We don't want to just broadcast messages. We aim to interact, provide fun, sharable content, and offer our fans exclusive deals and sweepstakes that they won't find anywhere else."
The Grilled Cheese Bacon Thickburgers feature a charbroiled 100% Black Angus beef patty, crispy bacon and four slices of melted American and Swiss cheeses on grilled sourdough bread. It is available at Hardee's in Little Thickburger, Original Thickburger, or Six Dollar Thickburger sizes, with a starting price of $2.79. Prices may vary by location.
Commercials supporting the Grilled Cheese Bacon Thickburger will begin airing in Hardee's markets on March 1. The entertaining ads were created by Los Angeles-based advertising agency, Mendelsohn|Zien, the agency behind many iconic ads for Carl's Jr. and Hardee's. They can be viewed on both brands' YouTube channels (www.youtube.com/carlsjr and www.youtube.com/hardees). Fans can also access the chains' sometimes-cheesy status updates via Twitter at www.twitter.com/carlsjr and www.twitter.com/hardees.
About CKE Restaurants, Inc.
Headquartered in Carpinteria, Calif., CKE Restaurants, Inc. is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "CKR." As of the end of its fiscal 2010 third quarter, CKE Restaurants, Inc., through its subsidiaries, had a total of 3,147 franchised, licensed or company-operated restaurants in 42 states and in 14 countries, including 1,221 Carl's Jr. restaurants and 1,913 Hardee's restaurants. For more information about CKE Restaurants, please visit www.ckr.com.

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Merrell says that "the decision was made that those counts were superfluous to what he was facing and wouldn't enhance any sentence that he could face."
Newman was charged in September and November with several sex crimes involving young boys who had been "kampers" at the Christian based youth camp.
Merrell says that at this point he doesn't believe that there will be a plea offer in Newman's cases and, there are currently no negotiations be discussed with Newman's attorney Tom Carver.
Newman was bound over for trial last month and is scheduled to be formally arraigned in Taney County circuit court on December 17th.


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PORTSMOUTH — Police issued an update today in the case of an armed robbery suspect they are trying to have extradited from Maine to face charges here.
On Thursday, members of the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force (Maine) arrested David J. Wilson, 27, in Gardiner, Maine, on warrants for two counts of armed robbery, one count of robbery and six counts of receiving stolen property.
It was originally believed that Wilson was in custody in the New Hampshire State Prison, but that proved not to be the case, police said today. The press release from Portsmouth police did not explain how the mistake happened.
Wilson is now charged as a fugitive from justice and is being held at the Kennebec County Jail. Extradition proceedings will resume so that Wilson may be returned to New Hampshire to answer the charges out of Portsmouth.
Wilson is charged with armed robbery stemming from an incident on Jan. 29, at Tedeschi's Food Mart on Islington Street in Portsmouth. At approximately 5:15 p.m. on that date a male suspect entered the store armed with what appeared to be a handgun and demanded money from the cashier. The suspect fled the store with an undisclosed amount of cash.
On Feb. 1, at approximately 8:20 p.m., there was a second armed robbery in the Worth Parking Lot in downtown Portsmouth. A female victim was approached by a male suspect who assaulted her and forcefully removed her purse. During the struggle the suspect struck the female victim multiple times in the head causing injuries. It was later determined based on evidence recovered from the scene the victim was struck with a pellet gun. The male suspect then fled the area on foot. As a result of this incident Wilson is being charged with robbery and armed robbery.
On April 2, Portsmouth police executed a search warrant on a vehicle that was impounded after officers found Wilson and a female inside of it. At the time the two were wanted on separate warrants and were arrested. As a result of searching the vehicle additional charges of receiving stolen property (six counts) were drafted for Wilson.
Anyone with additional information relative to the above mentioned crimes may contact Detective R. Hester 603-610-7649 or Officer G. Drew 603- 610-7625.
Please call Seacoast Crime Stoppers at 603-431-1199 if you wish to remain anonymous and have information on unsolved crimes or under age alcohol parties. You can also leave an anonymous tip by logging on to www.seacoastcrimestoppers.org, or send an SMS text to CRIMES (274637) and include TIPSCS in your message. You could be eligible for a cash reward of up to $1,000 if your information leads to an arrest and indictment.
Man wanted for armed robbery was not in state prison as thought; marshals arrest him in Maine instead
PORTSMOUTH — Police issued an update today in the case of an armed robbery suspect they are trying to have extradited from Maine to face charges here.


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RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) — President Barack Obama is praising University of Missouri football player Michael Sam for announcing he is gay before the NFL draft.
Obama says Sam's attitude is that he knows he can play great football and that he should be judged only on those facts.
Sam could become the NFL's first openly gay player. The defensive end is scheduled to participate in the league's scouting camp in Indianapolis later this month. He's projected to be a mid-round draft pick in May.
First lady Michelle Obama and Vice President Joe Biden sent Sam messages of encouragement over Twitter last week after his announcement. A spokesman had said Obama shared their sentiments.
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Oneida graduate Emily LaSalle a jack-of-all-trades
ONEIDA >> For as long as she can remember, Emily LaSalle has always been playing some type of sport.
Whether it was a soccer ball at her feet, a softball glove on her hand or volleyball net in front of her face, LaSalle has embraced her athletic opportunities with open arms, and an open mind, playing nearly every position in her three major sports during her 18 years.
LaSalle, who graduated from Oneida High School on Saturday, started out playing soccer at the age of four, followed by T-ball and joining friends in volleyball camps with a stint of basketball that LaSalle said "didn't really work."
Basketball wasn't the only thing that didn't quite work out, LaSalle quickly found out what positions best suited her the only way she knew how -- by trying them all.
"I just kind of went wherever they need me," said LaSalle, who has tried nearly 30 different spots on the field and court. In soccer she tried everything but goalie and in volleyball the only position she bypassed was center. Softball she made it around the infield, with one short pit-stop in the pitching circle. She learned to avoid catcher and first base, two of her least favorite positions attempted, and striker on the soccer field.
Her dad, Dan, said moving to different positions was something he always talked about with his daughter and something he encouraged.
"(Emily) would come to me and say 'oh they moved me to D' and I would tell her hey, that's better than sitting on the bench," said Dan. "If that's where they need you, then go for it."
Moving around so often isn't without it's challenges.
"It's good, but sometimes it's frustrating because I don't really know what position I am," she said. "Like when I am filling out applications for recruit forms and they ask what positions do you do, I honestly don't know...I've kind of done them all."
But she does know what she likes best.
The tri-sport athlete prefers softball over soccer or volleyball just slightly, with her preference at third base. In soccer she found herself back on defense but said given the choice she liked running the field as a middy. In volleyball she ended her senior year as an outside hitter and added that she grew to like that. All of her favorite positions have one common factor in that it keeps LaSalle in the action.
"At third base, I'm close and can hear everything Coach (Mike) Curro is saying and get to be heavily involved," LaSalle said. "At midfield I like running up and down the field, always keeping busy and being a part of the play...For volleyball again hitting from the right side I just am better at and you get to be a part of the play plenty."
Busy on the field, playing so many sports keeps LaSalle busy year round, using her sports passion to make new friends and teach her how to adjust to different coaching styles.
And it's not just her that keeps busy, the entire LaSalle family is constantly on the go, with siblings Andrew, 17, and Lizzy, 14, also playing sports year-round.
"I don't know what I'm going to do in three years," said Dan with a laugh of the thought of all the free time for him and his wife once their youngest graduates.
Dan's one-third of the way there with LaSalle heading to college later this summer. And next year she doesn't plan to slow down, heading to Utica College to major in physical therapy with hopes of making the schools' softball team.
"I couldn't imagine not being able to play, so hopefully tryouts go well," said LaSalle.
But what position would she hope to set on?
"Third, definitely."


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Sand Pebbles Inn in Cambria offers a coastal environment to explore the many treasures on Moonstone Beach. Rooms are spacious and comfortable, perfect for a relaxing stay on the Coast. Enjoy free Wi-Fi, and warm and the friendly service that makes the Sand Pebbles Inn one of the most popular hotels in Cambria, California.
The property is tastefully appointed with coastal influences and treasures found on the beach. Settle into our pillowy soft beds and enjoy a movie from our collection of free titles. No matter what your reasons are for visiting Cambria, Sand Pebbles Inn will surely add to your experience. Sand Pebbles Inn is wonderfully convenient to everything Cambria and the Central Coast has to offer, including world famous Hearst Castle, just ten minutes north on Pacific Coast Highway 1. Our staff will happily share local knowledge to help you discover the lesser-known Cambria attractions. Most rooms have partial ocean views and are only steps from the one-mile long boardwalk overlooking the beach, tide pools, and daring surfers. Our full ocean-view rooms provide the most extensive views of the Pacific Ocean and Moonstone Beach. We also have charging stations for EV and Tesla vehicles for registered guests only. Contact the hotel for details.
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Upon check-in our staff will happily direct you to your well-appointed guestroom. We make every effort to provide the most comfortable surroundings on the beach. We know that most people arrive at the Inn looking for a little rest and relaxation, and with all of our amenities, we think the Sand Pebbles Inn provides the right environment.
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A simple sentence is a group of words expressing a complete thought, and it must have a subject and a verb (predicate - some grammar books use the word predicate, but I will use verb). A verb shows action or state of being. Examples: The bell rang. The boy is here. The subject tells who or what about the verb. Examples: The bell rang. The boy is here. When finding the subject and the verb in a sentence, always find the verb first and then say who or what followed by the verb. Example: The bell rang. Find the verb - rang. Now say who or what rang? Bell rang. Bell is the subject.
A predicate nominative or predicate noun completes a linking verb and renames the subject. It is a complement or completer because it completes the verb. Predicate nominatives complete only linking verbs. The linking verbs include the following: the helping verbs is, am, are, was, were, be, being, and been; the sense verbs look, taste, smell, feel, and sound; and verbs like become, seem, appear, grow, continue, stay, and turn. The verb in a sentence having a predicate nominative can always be replaced by the word equals. Examples: Mr. Johanson is a teacher. Mr. Johanson equals a teacher. A predicate nominative will never be in a prepositional phrase.
A direct object receives the action performed by the subject. The verb is always an action verb. Another way of saying it is that the subject does the verb to the direct object. Example: The car hit the tree. To find the direct object, say the subject and verb followed by whom or what. The car hit whom or what? Tree answers the question so tree is the direct object. If nothing answers the question whom or what, you know that there is no direct object. Example: The car sped past. The car sped whom or what? Nothing answers the question so the sentence has no direct object. The direct object must be a noun or pronoun. A direct object will never be in a prepositional phrase.
Instructions: Find the subjects, verbs, predicate nominatives, and direct objects in these sentences.
1. Our neighbors are from Australia.
2. Our best friends are visiting England.
3. Was Samuel ever in the army?
4. The basketball coach was a great example for the boys.
5. Was the circus a thrilling time for you?
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1. neighbors = subject / are = verb
2. friends = subject / are visiting = verb / England = direct object
3. Samuel = subject / was = verb
4. coach = subject / was = verb / example = predicate nominative
5. circus = subject / was = verb / time = predicate nominative
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Description: Barely adding any additional bulk to the seriously slim OtterBox Commuter Series case, the new Wallet version features a sliding drawer that conceals and securely carries your important cards. Grab your credit/debit card, your ID, a little cash and your phone and you'll have everything you need for a night on the town, a day hike or just running errands without carrying additional bags or satchels. This case slides easily into pockets while providing tough protection from potential drops and scrapes. The Wallet door slides open without having to turn the phone over while concealing contents from view. Streamline your on-the-go life with the Commuter Series Wallet. The Wallet is available for iPhone 5/5s and the Samsung Galaxy S4. Colors include: black, glacier and primrose.
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Old Boss, Meet the New Boss
I get press releases. Oh boy, do I get press releases. My inbox runneth over. You think spam is bad? Multiply that by 100, and you'll get an idea of my daily press-release pile. Everybody is flacking their newest and most innovative stuff. And occasionally they flack their oldest and least original.
Sony announced fall delivery of five new in-dash CD receivers, ranging in price from $69 to $119. Ah, how the mighty have fallen. CD players used to be cool. They used to be elite. They used to be wholly sufficient to convince hot girls to ride home with you, I am told. Not anymore. Now CD players are cheap commodities. They are like something in a Cracker Jack box. Now they have intrinsic antitheft capability; it isn't worth the bodily effort to break a window to steal them.
Yet these players still faintly echo the format's former coolness. Three of them stream Pandora from an iPhone, three are compatible with the Sirius/XM's universal tuner, and three of them have a USB port. Hey – for 69 bucks, it's better than a gaping hole in your dash. But seriously, this is the past. I mean, are you really going to burn MP3 files to a CD and play that?
The future of car audio, on the other hand, comes in a press release from Honda. HondaLink is the latest in-car connectivity technology. It uses Harman's cloud-based Aha technology to connect to web content such as Internet radio, music services such as Pandora and Slacker, audio books, personalized traffic reports, Yelp!, Facebook, and Twitter. Aha claims that it can access over 30,000 sources. You'll also get voice-to-text SMS text services with pre-programmed responses. Command is through steering-wheel controls, dash menus or voice recognition. The Aha service is free.
Factory-installed HondaLink is similar to Ford's Sync, but while Sync's AppLink platform uses dedicated software running on both car and smartphone, HondaLink more strongly relies on smartphone apps to both host the software and connect to the Internet. You can preset your favorite content on your smartphone, and then when you get behind the wheel, it's all magically available through the system.
HondaLink will debut this fall on the 2013 Accord, and there will be a special version for Fit EV electric vehicles. The latter will add energy monitoring and saving features that can be accessed from your smartphone. For example, you can remotely check battery level, and initiate charging.
There you have it. You'll never find a better example of an inflection point. An in-car connectivity platform with full smartphone integration, and aftermarket CD players clinging to life with a USB port. Cue the sound effect of a siren rapidly approaching, and of one rapidly receding.


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YFor a Quote or to Book online: Please click here or Call: 01306 884411
A-2-B Dorking Taxis in Surrey, have been established since 1996, are fully insured and licensed by Mole Valley District Council. We believe in looking after our customers, by offering a friendly, efficient & professional service. Punctuality is a pre-requisite of our business, therefor we also believe in being completely honest where availability is concerned. If we don't think we can meet your expectations or requirements, we would rather tell you so.
The Fleet
Our fleet of Dorking taxis, consists of saloons, estate cars, 6 seater MPV's & Minibuses's, catering for most needs. We ensure that our vehicles are, clean, comfortable and that they are regularly serviced & maintained. For added comfort, all of our vehicles have air conditioning & climate control.
The Drivers
All our taxi drivers have been CRB police checked, enhanced to Surrey County Council standards . You will find our drivers to be well presented, courteous and helpful. Whilst being a local Dorking taxi service, we employ local drivers, who have a good knowledge of Dorking town and the local surrounding areas. Their aim, is to ensure that you are chauffeured safely, comfortably and with minimum delay to your chosen destination. Female drivers are usually available, upon request.
Traffic Management
To help minimise your journey time, our drivers are constantly monitoring local and regional traffic conditions, not only by listening to local radio traffic reports, but also with the aid of on-board, real-time satellite traffic technology. In addition to this, we monitor the local traffic feeds, through Twitter.
If for example, you have an urgent courier consignment, or a business meeting to get to in London, another advantage of using one of our Dorking hackney carriage taxis, is that we benefit by the use of the bus & taxi lanes.
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We offer a 24 hour airport taxi transfer service, by advanced booking, for transfers to / from Gatwick, Heathrow & all other UK airports. We will always monitor your incoming flight, to ensure that your driver will be there to meet you, upon your arrival.
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Cloudy with a Chance of Eggs
POSTED ON: September 18, 2012
Amid gusting, stormy winds the annual Cooper Union Egg Drop went forward unabated. Eight student teams tossed their egg-safety devices from the third floor of the Foundation Building to the pavement below in hopes of winning the $60 grand prize and a free, unbroken egg. Take a poll on which of four entries you think would win, then follow the link below to find the answer.
The first team, made up of engineering freshman Andrew Koe and Jay Wang arrived with their entry semi-built. "The egg is wrapped in toilet paper and then suspended by rubber bands inside a shoebox," Jay Wang said, displaying what looked like a spider's next meal caught in a multi-colored web. "Then we are using a plastic bag as a parachute."
Robert Walsh and Danial Fagan, both freshman engineering students, focused on making an "impact continuator" out of a Lysol wipes canister, a can of tuna fish, popped popcorn and Styrofoam plates. "The can of tuna acts as a weight at the bottom to keep it landing straight," said Robert Walsh, "while the egg sits at the top, falls through and its momentum gets gradually reduced by the popcorn."
Engineering freshmen Anthony Traina, Frank Longueira and Joseph Viola took full advantage of the typical dorm-room accoutrements in their device. Placing the egg inside an empty, jumbo-sized Cheez-It box rigged with rubber bands and a roll of toilet paper the team's strategy was to "oscillate rather than compress the egg," according to Joseph Viola.
Perhaps aiming as much to attract the attentions of the few female participants as much as protect their egg, engineering freshmen Matt Kaufman and Eugen Sokolov, assisted by third year architecture student Dustin Atles, arrived with a fuzzy, purple, vaguely ovoid-shaped stuffed animal they had named "Mr. Snuffles." Confident thanks to some preliminary testing, the team slit open a tennis ball, put the egg inside and then put the capsule inside the belly of "Mr. Snuffles."
Alexa Orrico and Amy Chambers, both freshmen engineering students and the only all-women team, defied the prevailing strategy of arriving with a device at least semi-constructed and instead arrived with just the knowledge of physics in their heads. "We are focusing on impulse," said Alexa Orrico as she and her partner filled a plastic cup with cotton balls, stuffed the egg into it and attached the cup to plastic plates that had been lashed together to form a stiff parachute. "Impulse is force multiplied by time," Chambers added, helpfully, "We are increasing the time by using as much air resistance as possible."
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June 29, 2013
By: Tom Precious
Source: The Buffalo News
ALBANY – Nearly 40 years ago, a young Alain Kaloyeros served
alongside Christian militia forces fighting against Hezbollah troops in
northern Lebanon. If you talk to him today, he will show you the scars
on his arms from one of the battles.
Now, far from those street
battles in and around Beirut, Kaloyeros serves on a very different
cutthroat battlefield, where scientists at the nation's leading
universities compete to develop cutting-edge technology that will
transform lives – and make money. So far, Kaloyeros, the chief
executive officer at the State University at Albany's College of
Nanoscale Science and Engineering, is winning that battle spectacularly. Over 20 years, he has – single-handedly, some say – transformed the
nanoscience school dubbed CNSE into a multibillion dollar empire with
more than 3,100 scientists, researchers, professors and students, as
well as a growing national reputation.
"He is a visionary," Gov.
Andrew M. Cuomo said of Kaloyeros recently. "He sees big ideas. He also
gets them done and gets them done extraordinarily well. He has been a
real gift to this state."
Unknown to most New Yorkers,
Kaloyeros is seen as a template for the kind of person that college
presidents need to find and then unleash to attract companies to their
centers of learning – which is just what Cuomo wants to see happen at
the University at Buffalo and other State University of New York
campuses all across the state.
Cuomo and the State Legislature
recently agreed on a plan that will establish tax-free zones for
companies that locate on or near college campuses. The governor believes
dangling a gift of no state taxation for 10 years will lure companies
from all over the nation to unused lands at college campuses.
for the idea to work, it's going to take far more than just another
corporate tax-break program that has been tried in different forms over
the decades.
It will take visionary leadership – which, Kaloyeros said, has been lacking at some other SUNY campuses.
So should SUNY campuses go looking for leaders like Kaloyeros?
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, one of Kaloyeros' earliest backers, thinks so – while worrying that Kaloyeros is one of a kind.
"If colleges could find someone like him, it would be wonderful, but I suspect it will be difficult," Silver said.
Roots in the Middle East
For one thing, it would be hard to find any world-class scientist with Kaloyeros' life history.
Kaloyeros (pronounced Ah-lain Kal-e-air-oes) was a young man when his
native Lebanon erupted in civil war. And like many young Lebanese
Christians, Kaloyeros found himself in the middle.
He got some of his battle training from the Israeli army.
"We were the good guys, honestly," he said.
The same could not be said, of course, of the Hezbollah enemies he fought.
"The conversion by sword is fundamental to them," he said.
Kaloyeros left the battlefield and returned to college in Lebanon.
After graduating, he moved to the United States to get a doctorate at
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Few then had ever heard of the field he studied, and few still have.
It's called experimental condensed matter physics.
You might call it making big things out of small things.
from the moment he arrived at the University at Albany after getting
his doctorate, Kaloyeros has been doing just that, growing a program in
nanoscale technology – the manipulation of matter at the atomic and
subatomic level – into a fast-growing school.
Silver, the most
consistent backer of Kaloyeros at the Capitol, recalls the skinny
scientist coming to him 20 years ago for $5 million in state funding to
build a clean room to do research on computer chips.
The speaker
didn't know then what a clean room was, but Kaloyeros sold him on that
funding request. "He took that and created a legend," Silver said.
The role of 'communicator'
then, Kaloyeros, now 57, has used a combination of arm-twisting,
self-confidence, charm, carnival barking and political skill to
transform a campus that Playboy once dubbed the best party college in
America into a place where scientists are engaged in research that will
end up making billions of dollars in profits for their companies.
And he's done it without any of the tax breaks that Cuomo now plans to shower on the environs of the state's college campuses.
Kaloyeros has used his scientific background and considerable
salesmanship skills to persuade top state official after top state
official to pour money into his research and development center at the
University at Albany – which in turn has lured scores of corporate
partners to the campus.
The state has pumped more than $1.3
billion during the past 20 years into the nanotech school to build
gleaming, state-of-the-art buildings and to buy the expensive equipment
that fills them.
Obviously, it takes some serious lobbying work to
win that much state funding, but if you call Kaloyeros a lobbyist, he
will cut you off. He prefers the term "communicator."
who has worked under five governors, is not shy about communicating his
respect for his current boss. In an interview, he mentioned Cuomo 28
times, and there are giant photographs of Cuomo, along with President
Obama, hanging in a rotunda at the college.
Silver said Kaloyeros is equally adept at wooing politicians and corporate titans.
"They want to be with him, and he's the attraction," Silver said of the 300 company partners working with the Albany facility.
who's who of global companies has invested more than $17 billion in and
around the Albany SUNY campus. The college provides the space and tools
companies might not otherwise be able to afford while assisting with
the new technology and working to ensure corporate secrets don't fall
prey to corporate espionage.
"We are truly running the business of
academics," Kaloyeros said of his ever-growing empire of clean rooms
and state-purchased "tools" that cost tens of millions of dollars apiece
and which fierce industry competitors use nearly side-by-side.
from IBM and Intel to Samsung and Tokyo Electron use those machines to
develop new ways to put more and more information on smaller and smaller
chips used in cellphones, computers, cars and any assortment of
After touring the facility last year, President Obama
was impressed. "Now I want what's happening in Albany to happen across
the country," he said.
Kaloyeros sees hope for UB
Cuomo and the State Legislature want it happening all across New York, at least.
if other SUNY campuses are to morph into economic powerhouses like the
one in Albany, they'll have to change their ways, Kaloyeros said.
dismisses talk that his facility got special treatment and says
campuses like UB were given much more money two decades ago to develop
centers to attract businesses. Gov. George E. Pataki in 2002 came to
Buffalo with $50 million in state support for the University at
Buffalo's high-tech Center of Excellence.
"The way the other
campuses chose to spend their investments didn't produce the results we
went about investing," Kaloyeros said.
Many SUNY campuses have
not yet awakened to the need not only to use their assets to teach
students but also to build a local economy to keep those students from
leaving the state after graduation, he said.
"They need
retraining," he said of SUNY campuses. "I think they send lobbyists to
Albany to ask for money as opposed to approaching things in a strategic,
programmatic way."
For instance, he noted, UB years ago had the same opportunities as Albany but took the wrong approach.
way we started here was we had a core group of corporations," he said.
"Buffalo was more, 'Let's build it, have professors run it and see what
companies we can attract, which is exactly what Andrew Cuomo is trying
to avoid with the Buffalo Billion by having the companies come in
is a part of a team. It's not just the University of Buffalo. The
governor's billion wasn't handed to the University of Buffalo. It was
designed to fund a grass-roots effort from the region," he said.
is by no means the only SUNY institution that Kaloyeros criticizes. He
also knocks the University at Albany for wasting money "on things that
are not part of the core mission," such as a new football stadium,
fountains and entrance ways, while cutting nonscience programs such as
French that, he said, create well-rounded students.
Worse yet, he said, many SUNY campuses have their eyes trained on Albany instead of focusing on the changing, wider world.
didn't get fat and lazy," he said. "It was complacency, expecting state
resources and relying on them for maintaining and running the campuses.
It's a new world now. It's the innovation economy, and they need to
re-adjust. … It is the Darwin thing. It's not the strongest of the
species nor the most intelligent that survive. It's the ones most
adaptable to change."
The new world of academics
Change is a constant at Kaloyeros' campus, and he likes it that way.
talks of a different culture at the College of Nanoscale Science and
Engineering, where professors are judged on such factors as how many
patents they get each year or how many hours they spend in community
college and high school classrooms, teaching and looking for future
nanoscience students. "The business of academics exists as never
before," he said.
"Even the guy who runs the place," Kaloyeros
said of himself, "doesn't sit in his office like the typical dean or
vice president and expect people to come and tell them what they've
done. I'm as much in the trenches, if not more, as the rest of them."
for sure. Kaloyeros has 13 patents to his name. And every year,
researchers at his school get 300 to 400 patents. Of course, patents
mean profits.
And Kaloyeros' success has raised a question: Does
he kowtow too much to the for-profit interests of corporations over what
is supposed to be the traditional university mission of educating
Kaloyeros has an answer for those who think SUNY
presidents and professors now should be worried about having to be
economic developers as well as educators.
"We're expanding the
mission," he said. "No one from the governor on down went to campuses
and said you've got to stop teaching or stop doing basic research. What
he's saying to them is that, in addition to those functions, you have a
mission … of also helping build an ecosystem to train the kids in
relevant fields. He's saying it's time to make yourself relevant to the
21st century and be creative and entrepreneurial, because it's a
question of survival."
For his part, Kaloyeros has not just
survived, but thrived. He is the highest salaried state worker, earning
more than $1.3 million a year. That salary, paid by the state and the
SUNY Research Foundation, is more than seven times Cuomo's, but he does
not receive the perks that other top SUNY officials enjoy, such as
housing or cars and drivers.
Kaloyeros makes as much as some
corporate executives, and he drives like one, too. He owns a Ferrari
F458 Spider, which sells for a base list price of $258,000, and happily
shows off a picture of it on his smartphone.
The license plate on his Ferrari reads: "Dr. Nano."
Perhaps that's because the "NANO GEEK" license plate was already taken: It's on his Range Rover.
four-wheeled displays of wealth are not exactly commonplace in
academia, but those who have watched the nanoscience school grow under
Kaloyeros' guidance say he's earned his reward. After all, he attracted
$215 million in outside research grants last year alone.
Given the
school's success, there's talk in Albany that the state soon will move
to break off his facility from the University at Albany to make it
SUNY's 65th campus – run by Kaloyeros and a board dominated by Cuomo
loyalists – in time for next year's elections. To hear Kaloyeros tell
it, though, the nanotech school is already a breed apart.


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A federal judge Monday denied an emergency motion for relief filed by a Guantanamo Bay prisoner on a hunger strike, despite pleas from the man's lawyer who says his client is dying.
U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan ruled Monday that he didn't have jurisdiction over the case filed by Yemeni prisoner Musaab al-Madhwani. Hogan pointed to a provision of the Military Commissions Act which bars judicial review of claims made by detained enemy combatants regarding their conditions of confinement.
The prisoner and others in the hunger strike originally claimed that they were being denied drinking water and that temperatures in the prison had been kept at "extremely frigid" levels - which the government denied. But the claim was expanded to include the allegation that Guantanamo officials had shown "deliberate indifference" to al-Madhwani's serious medical needs.
Although the case was technically about just one detainee, it was clearly about the continued use of Guantanamo to house terrorism suspects, despite President Barack Obama's promise to close the prison. When one of al-Madhwani's lawyers, Darold Killmer, mentioned the alleged mistreatment of other detainees, Hogan responded, "This is not a class-action."
At the end of the roughly one-hour hearing, Hogan noted that al-Madhwani voluntarily participated in the hunger strike, adding that the prisoner "self-manufactured" his health situation.
Earlier, Killmer told the judge, "Mr. al-Madhwani is dying." Killmer pointed to an affidavit filed by Dr. Stephen N. Xenakis, a physician who interviewed the prisoner on the phone, who concluded that the prisoner's "life may be in imminent danger."
Xenakis wrote that after being treated with intravenous fluids following a collapse last week, the prisoner was placed in solitary confinement and has not received daily monitoring of his medical condition.
"Given the gravity of his condition, these failures constitute deliberate indifference to his obvious serious medical needs," Xenakis wrote.
Killmer claimed that putting him in solitary confinement was "retaliation" against al-Madhwani for participating in the hunger strike.
But the judge raised jurisdiction issues from the get-go. Killmer argued that a Supreme Court decision which established detainees' constitutional right to challenge their confinement gave the judge jurisdiction in this case. If al-Madhwani dies, Killmer said, he doesn't get to exercise that right.
But Justice Department lawyer Ronald Wiltsie said that there have been hunger strikes before, and that no hunger striker ever died at Guantanamo. He said the government will step in to save al-Madhwani's life. He also said the government doesn't concede that anything was done to retaliate against al-Madhwani.
Lawyers for prisoners say the hunger strike began around Feb. 6 to protest the virtual halt in releases under Obama as well as what they say is a tightening of restrictions and intrusive searches of their Qurans. According to the lawyers, most of the 166 prisoners are participating in the hunger strike.
U.S. officials also say there has been no tightening of restrictions and that the Qurans have been searched in a respectful way by Muslim translators looking for contraband such as medications or potential weapons. On Monday, Navy Capt. Robert Durand, a U.S. military spokesman at the base, said that 45 prisoners were counted as hunger strikers by the U.S. military, including 13 being force-fed.
A clash between guards and detainees erupted Saturday as the military closed a communal section of the facility and moved its inmates into single cells.
Killmer told reporters after the hearing that he will either file an appeal or a new petition.
"We're going to keep fighting," he said, adding that several other detainees are close to death as well. He said that Obama doesn't want to take responsibility for what's happening at the prison.
On Monday, White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters the president continues to believe the prison should be closed, but "obstacles have been raised by Congress, and that remains a reality."
"But our position is clear," Carney said. "It's in our national security interest to pursue that, and the president remains committed to it."
He added: "We continue to monitor the hunger strikes specifically very closely."
Obama announced within days of his inauguration in January 2009 that he wanted to shutter the facility that houses terror suspects, but Republicans and some Democrats in Congress have resisted.
In 2010, Hogan tossed out most of the government's evidence against al-Madhwani on grounds his confessions were coerced, allegedly by U.S. forces, before he became a prisoner at Guantanamo. But Hogan ruled that statements he made during two military administrative hearings at the U.S. detention center in Cuba, where he was assisted by a personal representative, were reliable and sufficient to justify holding the detainee.
According to his lawyers, Musaab al-Madhwani is in his 11th year of imprisonment and has never been charged with a crime.
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O's trim roster, send three to Minor League camp
SARASOTA, Fla. -- The Orioles reassigned three players to Minor League camp on Sunday, trimming their Spring Training roster to 56 players, including 16 non-roster invitees.
First baseman Chris Marrero and right-handers Fabio Castillo and Mike Wright were all sent to Minor League camp. Marrero has been sidelined and unable to play in Spring Training games due to an oblique injury, but Showalter said he plans to have him start in a Grapefruit League game as soon as he's healthy.
"It's frustrating for us, and I know him, too, because he was a guy we targeted in the offseason. Every day, I can see he's wanting to go out and test it and test it, but that's not what you do with those things," Orioles manager Buck Showalter said. "He's a 25-year-old young man, first-round pick. We like him. So I want to give him the same opportunity I would have tried to do before he got hurt.
"I was telling him if he doesn't get it right, it'll linger for a long time, but some of those injuries, you wake up one morning and it's just gone and it doesn't come back. But if you go too fast, I think we're getting into that a little bit, because he's going out and it seems like every time he goes out and tries to test it, he's had a problem. I don't want to re-injure it and make it even more involved."
Wright pitched in two games this spring, giving up one run on three hits and three walks while striking out two over three innings. Castillo pitched once, giving up a hit and two walks in two-thirds of an inning on Sunday.


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the whole moon landing cover-up is most excellently covered in this frech documentary called Opération lune, which was screened here under the name Dark Side of The Moon. that's where ur myth first appeared and was debunked. what made it convincing was that the doco has Buzz Aldrin, Christiane Kubrick, Jan Harlan, Henry Kissinger, Donald Rumsfeld, and heaps of other important ppl talking frankly about this supposed massive cover-up. the whole time i'm thinking "it's finally happened, P, u've gone insane..". and i hate to spoil it for ppl who havn't seen it (if u havn't u prolly never will) but the whole thing is a joke in the vein of Forgotten Silver! during the credits u see outtakes of Rummy and all fumbling their lines. boy it really had me going for a second. i didn't sleep that nite. it is a very very well done documentary that u should all check out. the ultimate kubrick myth taken to frenzied levels.. and of course it's all based on fact, except it's all made up.


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For the week ending 2 August 2008 / 1 Av 5768
Tale of Two Tombs
Before he died at the age of 101 the legendary Jewish philanthropist Sir Moshe Montefiore left instructions to build a small dome on his grave in England as a replica of the dome on Rachel's tomb in Bethlehem and to have dust from her tomb placed inside his burial site.
The reason for this was the special connection that Montefiore had with Rachel's tomb. It was he who secured a building permit from the Turkish sultan and financed the construction of the building at the site of the tomb.
When Jews regained control of the tomb in 1967 improvements were made to accommodate the large number of visitors to the grave, especially on the memorial day of 11 Cheshvan and special times of the year.


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With Netflix series "House of Cards" and "Arrested Development" awarded entry into the Emmy inner circle Thursday, a historical moment was recorded as the division between prime time and online was finally blurred.
Other moments of historical note look set to be recorded if "Modern Family," "Mad Men" and Bryan Cranston are revealed as winners when the trophies are handed out on September 22.
With three consecutive Emmys under their diverse belts, a win for the cast and crew of "Modern Family" in the outstanding comedy series race would place it alongside four-time winners "All in the Family" and "Cheers." The only program to go one higher is "Frazier," which recorded five wins during its 11 season run.
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Trying to keep ABC's "Modern Family" from achieving that distinction are CBS' "The Big Bang Theory" (currently the most-watched comedy in the world), the recently departed NBC fan favorite "30 Rock," HBO's "Veep," FX's "Louis" and HBO's "Girls," whose second season continued to delight and disturb viewers in equal measures to the first.
An outstanding drama series win for "Mad Men," which recently ended its penultimate season on AMC amid griping from fans and critics over its darker than usual tone, would be a record-setting fifth, granting the show more trophies than other series in this category in Emmy history. The 1960s-set drama currently sits alongside fellow four-time winners "Hill Street Blues," ''L.A. Law" and The West Wing."
Joining "Mad Men" in the category is "House of Cards" from Netflix, HBO's sword and sorcery darling "Game of Thrones," "Breaking Bad," ''Downton Abbey," ''Mad Men" and last year's winner, "Homeland." Losing its slot to the Netflix series was "Boardwalk Empire," the only show not to return in this competition.
In the acting competitions, Hamm received his sixth nod for best drama series lead for "Mad Men." Hamm is yet to win for his critically acclaimed role of the mercurial, philandering ad-man Don Draper.
"House of Cards'" Kevin Spacey, Hugh Bonneville of "Downton Abbey," Jeff Daniels of "The Newsroom," last year's recipient Damian Lewis of "Homeland" and "Breaking Bad's" Bryan Cranston round out the category.
Already a three-time Emmy winner in the category for his portrayal of meth-maestro Walter White in the AMC drama, another win for Cranston would place him on the top rung beside "Hill Street Blue's" Dennis Franz, currently the only actor to have achieved four trophies.
The 65th Primetime Emmy Awards will air on September 22 on CBS.


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Personally, I like my cranberries and pumpkin pie chemical-free.
It's not that you can taste or smell pesticides on food – the levels are much too low for that. It's just that I sleep better knowing I've done all I can to minimize the number of chemicals I put into my body and feed to my kids.
I've been a mom for 15 years and a pesticide reform advocate for almost as long. I've organized around international treaties, lobbied government officials, and cheered at a lot of swim meets and baseball games. For me, these two worlds come together most clearly around food – in our backyard garden, in the produce aisle and at the dinner table.
My personal strategy? Buy organic and local whenever I can manage it. This keeps pesticides off our plates and helps small organic farmers. My family's demand for organic sweet potatoes helps spur supply, building a market for produce that doesn't put farmers, farmworkers and rural families in harm's way.
But sometimes organic just isn't available, and that's where WhatsOnMyFood? comes in. Pesticide Action Network just released a new iPhone App that makes the invisible problem of pesticides more visible to food shoppers. The tool shows which pesticides are found on what foods, and how those chemicals can harm human health.
The iPhone App is a streamlined version of PAN's WhatsOnMyFood.org website. Click on any of the 87 foods listed – cranberries, winter squash, broccoli – to find out how many chemicals were found in samples taken by the federal government, and of those, how many scientists say can cause cancer. Or harm the nervous system of a child. Or wreak havoc on developing reproductive organs.
Conventional sweet potatoes? Fourteen pesticides found among the samples tested: four have been linked to cancer; six can harm the human nervous system. Sheesh.
PAN specializes in getting scientific information like this into the hands of people making choices. That includes people making policy decisions, people who grow food and, well, people who eat. I've done policy work with PAN for more than a decade now, and to be honest this latest tool is more exciting to me as a mom than as a policy analyst.
But it helps in both worlds. If the global food movement keeps gaining momentum, policies will have to shift. We seem to be heading in the right direction with the incredible growth of organics in recent years – but we have a very long way to go. Organic farms remain a tiny percentage of U.S. agriculture, and millions of pounds of pesticides are still sprayed in this country every year. Some drift off fields into neighborhoods and schools, some soak into nearby soil and water – and some end up saturating fruits and veggies in the produce aisle.
We'll have to go well beyond savvy shopping to solve the pesticide problem. The system is truly broken when we as consumers have to teach ourselves how chemicals like endosulfan, chlorpyrifos and malathion affect the health of our kids. We simply shouldn't have to know which fruits have the most cancer-causing chemicals, or choose between developmental toxicants and neurotoxins. I mean, really.
Maybe someday we won't have to worry about toxic chemicals on our Thanksgiving tables at all. But for the time being, shopping smart really can make a difference. Choosing foods that are healthier for my family also protects farmworkers and rural communities – and moves us all closer to that future day when chemical-free sweet potatoes are the only kind on the shelf.
This post ran previously at www.MomsRising.org.
I've been telling people about Round Up and pesticides causing CCD for decades. They look at me with blank stars and don't know what I mean about either. I have to carefully explain it to them. They complain about the high cost of food and when I ask "what do you think will happen when the bees die off and crops don't get pollinated? They finally see the connection.
These same people have been using Round Up on their weeds and calling up their city to spray for those lousy mosquitoes and then wonder why there aren't many birds and Butterflies.
I wonder if there's any hope.
Thanks for your comment. And you're right, the impact of pesticides on bees - and thus our food supply - can be eye-opening enough to wake folks up to the importance of this issue. If you haven't already seen it, please do check out Dan Rather's recent report on pesticides & bees, he does a powerful job telling this story: http://www.panna.org/blog/dan-rather-pesticides-bees
Getting discouraged is understandable - the problem can seem overwhelming, and the pesticide industry is powerful and has very deep pockets. But we believe there is definitely hope, with more and more people being intentional about their food choices and engaging in activism that will help make the changes we all need. Keep spreading the word - it IS making a difference!


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The 15 best budget hotels around the world
Sightseeing, shopping, eating out – city trips are fun, but pricey. Economize on cash, not style in these great hotels
phranakorn nornlen, bangkok
Situated at the heart of Bangkok's old city, this small hotel delights guests with its quirky details and pretty furnishings. Each room is different, and the hotel garden is a great place to unwind. | double from 66 Euro
daddy long legs, cape town
This hotel is situated on Long Street, the creative center of Cape Town. Its 13 rooms all have a tongue-in-cheek motto, like the fire-engine red "Emergency Room." | double from 51 Euro
praktik bakery, barcelona
Sweet dreams: Wake up to the delicious scent of bread fresh from the oven – the rooms are located directly above a bakery. | double from 64 Euro
lloyd hotel, Amsterdam
For travelers of all stripes: The interior of this hotel in a former prison near downtown Amsterdam was created by over 50 designers. Choose from 1- to 5-star rooms. | double from 55 Euro
Hotel daniel, graz
In addition to the 24h espresso bar and four Vespas which guests can borrow (!), the highlight here in southern Austria is the breakfast – one of the best in town. | double from 64 Euro
Puro, danzig
Stepping back in time: The cozy design picks up on the look of the old docks and historic granaries in Gdansk, Poland. | double from 68 Euro
Mama Shelter, Istanbul
A rooftop terrace for the view, delicious French-Turkish specialties, stylish rooms … Mama is the best! | double from 75 Euro
the pavilion, phnom penh
This hotel in Cambodia offers all the heart could desire: a turquoise-blue swimming pool, an open-air bar and a spa. | double from 61 Euro
bridal tea house, hongkong
This boutique hotel chain has ten hotels across Hong Kong and Kowloon. The rooms are tiny, but stylish and the tea is wonderfully soothing. | double from 56 Euro
Michelberger, Berlin
The Michelberger Hotel feels rather like a super-sized living room. Located in a former factory, it is furnished with a stylish mixture of vintage finds and designer pieces. | double from 84 Euro
riad eden, marrakesh
The beautifully decorated Riad is close to Jemaa el Fna, the central square in Marrakesh. In the evening, the restaurant serves delicious Moroccan cuisine. | double from 49 Euro
pop hotel, buenos aires
Anyone looking for a place for their band to stay is spot on here: The 44 rooms have a cool design and there are plenty of hip cafes and restaurants close by. | double from 65 Euro
Hotel catedral, mexico city
The location at the heart of the Centro Histórico is unbeatable and the rooms on the top floors have a great view of the continent's oldest and largest cathedral. | double from 66 Euro
toco, tokio
This hotel is furnished in the traditional Japanese style, with a purist, sensible decor. The bar serves sake and there are regular live concerts here. | double from 53 Euro
The Jane, New York
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|Sam Kay (talk)
|Date Created:
|10th May 2010
|Please feel free to edit constructively!
|You cannot resist the allure of my music.
Prerequisite: Drow, Songweaver, Darksong
It is a tradition in some drow noble houses that females that show musical aptitude are trained in the arts of the bae'qeshel, the dark minstrels. The bae'qeshel are the drow songweavers, and specialise in using their musical powers to dominate the wills of their foes, controlling them in combat to turn battles considerably one-sided. You have learned these arts. Did you learn them before you fled from your dark home, turning them to your own ends, or did you show an aptitude for manipulation dispite your lack of training? Most importantly, does some part of Lolth reside within you still?
Bae'qeshel Path FeaturesEdit
- Undeniable Will (11th Level): You gain a +1 bonus to attack rolls against Will.
- Enthralling Action (11th Level): When you spend an Action Point to take an extra action, one enemy of your choice within 5 squares of you makes a melee attack against itself or another enemy of your choice. The attack uses your Charisma modifier, is treated as an attack using your implement, and is made against the target's AC. The attack deals 1d10 + your Charisma modifier damage.
- Enthralling Will (16th Level): Enemies suffer a -2 penalty to saving throws against effects you cause that require a save to end.
Bae'qeshel PowersEdit
|Fascinating Song
|Bae'qeshel Attack 11
|Your beutiful and otherworldly melody fascinates your foe, stopping them dead.
|Usage::Encounter ✦ Arcane, Charm, Implement
|Action Type::Standard Action
|Close burst 5
|Target: One enemy in burst
|Attack: Charisma Vs. Will
|Hit: The target is fascinated (save ends). While fascinated, the target is stunned, and suffers a -2 penalty to its Will defense against your attacks.
|Unearthly Harmony
|Bae'qeshel Utility 12
|How can your foe harm such unearthly beauty?
|Usage::Encounter ✦ Arcane, Charm
|Action Type::Immediate Interrupt
|Close burst 5
|Trigger: An enemy in burst makes an attack against you.
|Target: Triggering enemy in burst
|Effect: The target must choose another target for the attack or end its attack.
|Dominating Song
|Bae'qeshel Attack 20
|You layer hypnotic commands into your song, enthralling your fasciated foe.
|Usage::Daily ✦ Arcane, Charm, Psychic, Implement
|Action Type::Standard Action
|Close burst 5
|Target: One enemy that you have fascinated in burst
|Attack: Charisma Vs. Will
|Hit: 2d10 + Charisma modifier psychic damage, and the target is dominated (save ends). This ends the fascinated effect on the target, but when the dominated effect ends on the target, the fascinated effect resumes.
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Approaching her Stanford University graduation in 2003, Emily Bobel was poised to accept a job with a biotech firm when she noticed a recruiting poster for Teach for America on campus.
She answered the ad, spent the next three years teaching science in a bleak South Bronx middle school -- and altered a life trajectory that until then had been pointed toward a career in biotechnology and law.
Seven years later, the 29-year-old Palo Alto High School graduate finds herself at the heart of an education reform movement that is shaking up classrooms in low-income areas across the country.
Bobel, the executive director of Teach for America's Bay Area organization, oversees a "corps" of 400 young teachers on scores of public school campuses, plus an alumni network whose members are occupying principals' offices, launching their own schools and running for school boards.
The former competitive figure skater expresses a visionary's zeal for her cause -- eradicating educational inequality -- and little patience with skeptics.
"We think we're different," Bobel said of Teach for America, which last year nationally attracted more than 40,000 applications from college seniors -- including many from top-ranked universities -- for 4,500 entry-level teaching jobs in some of the worst-performing schools across the country.
"We think we bring really energetic, vision-driven, deeply passionate individuals, and beyond that it just comes down to effectiveness," she said.
Often criticized for dropping fresh-faced, inexperienced college grads into some of the nation's toughest classrooms -- and displacing credentialed teachers -- Teach for America asserts that, on balance, it achieves superior results.
Academic studies have yielded mixed results on Teach for America's effectiveness, and a lively debate continues among scholars.
But Teach for America has been embraced by influential big-city school superintendents, including Joel Klein who headed New York City's public schools from 2002 until last week, and Michelle Rhee, herself a Teach for America alum who led Washington, D.C.'s public schools from 2007 to 2010.
Bobel maintains that the intense summer training, youthful commitment and near round-the-clock work ethic of Teach for America recruits give disadvantaged students a teacher who will go the extra mile to make sure they learn. Corps members are regularly flooded with data about how their students are performing, and asked to adjust their approaches accordingly.
"Data shows that the average growth in one year for kids in low-income communities is 0.4 to 0.5 years. They're mastering about half of the content they should be mastering, so that's why the achievement gap widens," Bobel said.
"By eighth grade, low-income students on average are three grade levels below more affluent peers.
"We've got to overcompensate because they're growing up in poverty. Teach for America aims for 1.5 years of growth in one year -- triple the average growth currently going on in our schools.
"We need to put many more great teachers in front of our kids, working relentlessly. This is just hard work," she said.
TFA corps members are measured individually on their students' progress, with mixed results.
Beyond the two- to three-year teaching commitment required by Teach for America, Bobel said many Teach for America alumni remain in Bay Area schools as teachers and principals, infusing their reformist mentality into mainstream school systems.
The organization holds a philosophy of "teaching as leadership," aiming to recruit corps members with leadership potential who will advocate for school reform whether they remain in education or ultimately go into other fields.
"What great educators and visionary principals do is similar to what a great CEO would do: set an ambitious goal, invest people around the goal; plan milestones to get to the destination and not just deliver the material, but make sure the kids are where they need to be," Bobel said.
Of 1,300 Bay Area Teach for America alumni, 54 are now principals in area schools, both traditional and charter schools. Another 300 have continued in long-term teaching careers.
In East Palo Alto's Ravenswood City School District, two principals are Teach for America alums.
"We've been in the Oakland Unified School District for 20 years and now 12 percent of the principals in Oakland are TFA alums," Bobel said.
"We need more leadership at the principal level, great visionaries who know how to develop their teachers."
Even among the Bay Area Teach for America alums who move on to careers outside of education, more than half contributed their time or money to the organization last year, she said.
"When all school districts are challenged by budget cuts, it comes down to the extent to which superintendents and principals see Teach for America as adding value and something that can truly move the needle," she said.
"I have a superintendent (in San Jose) who says, 'Whatever budget decisions I have to make, I'm not going to sacrifice TFA.'"
Bobel's own three years of teaching in a beleaguered, South Bronx middle school were an eye-opener for her.
"It was a stark contrast to Jordan Middle School, where I went.
"There were two sets of metal detectors, barbed wire all over the windows, no grass, no blacktop, no joy -- it looked like a prison."
Bobel was one of five Teach for America corps members on the school's faculty of 50, encountering "a culture of unbelievably low expectations, negativity, lack of organization within the school, with kids literally running up and down the halls.
"And our task was to create an island of excellence, high expectations and learning in this sea of chaos."
As an 8th-grade science teacher, Bobel said she became scrappy, borrowing or stealing resources from any source she could find.
"At that time in Silicon Valley, a lot of the dotcoms were going under and they had extra supplies. We shipped 150 binders from here to my classroom, so all my kids had binders second semester," she said.
At one point, Bobel found herself reduced to grabbing handfuls of the small, half-pencils from the plastic boxes at IKEA.
"My kids didn't even have pencils -- I didn't even have chalk."
She borrowed a module approach used in her undergraduate human-biology studies at Stanford, teaching units on HIV and substance abuse that were relevant to her students.
She signed up her classes for the U.S. Department of Energy's Minority Outreach Initiative and had students build fuel-efficient model cars in preparation for a visit from a U.S. assistant secretary of energy.
She held after-school hours and Saturday schools. By the end of eighth grade, 123 of her 125 students scored at or above grade level on a comprehensive science test.
"It wasn't easy by any stretch, but my kids were just as talented as any set of kids in Palo Alto. They're just not given the resources or the attention, and no one has the expectation they can succeed. The minute you change that mindset and conditions, the kids are going to rise to it."
Bobel said it is "not obvious" -- even to her -- how she ended up so passionate about education reform.
When she chose Teach for America over the biotech job out of college, she recalls that her parents and friends told her, "'You're not cut out for this.'
"The more people told me I was crazy, the more it made me determined," she said.
"I was never the smartest, or the best athlete growing up. But I firmly believed that no matter where you start from, hard work can land you on top of the heap, and that mindset still continues to drive me.
"I grew up confused by the stark differences in education opportunities between Palo Alto and East Palo Alto.
"I knew something wasn't right, and my desire to do the corps stemmed from wanting to impact this and make a positive difference in our country."


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Still counting ballots in Duval County
Recount likely in Jax Beach mayor's race, possible for clerk of court
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Duval County Canvassing Board spent another day examining thousands of absentee and provisional ballots on Thursday, and officials say it could take until Saturday to reach the end of the process.
Brenda Priestly Jackson -- who was 6,253 behind Ronnie Fussell in the race for Duval County Clerk of Circuit Court as of mid-afternoon Thursday -- is nervously watching the process. Two days after the polls closed, there are enough uncounted absentee and provisional ballots that she could close the gap between them to less than 0.5 percent, which would trigger a recount.
"I respect the process, but I want to make certain that every vote is counted," said Priestly Jackson. "When we get the final numbers to deal, then we will make our decision as to what we do with that."
In the race for mayor of Jacksonville Beach, only 43 votes separated Penny Christian from Charlie Latham on Thursday afternoon -- already within the margin for a recount.
If a county-wide recount were necessary, it would cost about $150,000. A recount of just the Jacksonville Beach precincts will be much less.
Those inspecting about 3,600 absentee ballots remaining must make sure they are signed, and the signatures match the voters' signature on file with the Supervisor of Elections Office. Then there are about 6,000 provisional ballots -- those cast at precincts on Election Day if there was any question about the voter's eligibility.
"They voted provisional because there was question of their eligibility," said Supervisor of Elections Jerry Holland. "They may not have had their absentee ballot to surrender or may not have had ID. We have to determine if they are eligible to vote and have to go though those."
Holland says this is one reason why Florida is slow in finishing its vote count.
"The steps we do is to make sure the accuracy is there," Holland said. "I think, at the end of the day, speed is secondary to the accuracy."
The counties are required to provide the state unofficial vote totals by Saturday, and certified election results by Nov. 18.
Copyright 2012 by News4Jax.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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Ask a Designer: Anthony Baratta
Designer Anthony Baratta of Anthony Baratta LLC in New York City chats about floors, favorites, and more.
"The best thing about working on the coast? Eating at great seafood restaurants—and being invited aboard my clients' boats!"
—Anthony Baratta
What's everyone doing in their coastal homes this fall?
AB: I'm using a lot of white painted floors. They have an uplifting quality, especially in rooms with low ceilings—they absolutely revive a boring space.
Design confession?
AB: I love anything kitschy! Driftwood lamps or nautical pieces like ship's wheels and ropes that others would pass by for being too themey.
Preferred style of rug in a seaside home?
AB: Simple braided ones.
What's your absolute favorite room to decorate on the coast?
AB: A screened porch! I love that you can use relaxed furniture like wicker, Adirondack chairs, and flea market finds. Screened porches should always have a seasonal feel.
Keep buying new...
AB: Collectibles. I started with lighthouses when I was 20 years old and never stopped. Now, the ones I found first are still my favorites.
But replace...
AB: Sheets. They do not wear well at the beach. I get a fresh set for each bedroom every season.


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Co-Scheduling HPC Workloads on Cache-Partitioned CMP Platforms," International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, vol. 33, issue 6, pp. 1221-1239, November 2019. DOI: 10.1177/1094342019846956 (930.28 KB)"
Co-Scheduling HPC Workloads on Cache-Partitioned CMP Platforms," Cluster 2018, Belfast, UK, IEEE Computer Society Press, September 2018. (423.75 KB)"
Kernel Assisted Collective Intra-node Communication Among Multicore and Manycore CPUs," University of Tennessee Computer Science Technical Report, UT-CS-10-663, November 2010. (384.75 KB)"
Kernel Assisted Collective Intra-node MPI Communication Among Multi-core and Many-core CPUs," Int'l Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP '11), Taipei, Taiwan, September 2011."


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Hey Y'all........come on in and stay awhile:) There's no "theme" here.......just ME sharing cool stuff with YOU! Stuff like. . . . faith, family, decorating, shabby, RUSTIC, fun, beachy, YUMMY, festive......and MUCH more! This is a NO WORRIES ZONE...so leave em at the door! I hope y'all come back to hang out often! God Bless!
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
My Mom.....
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Suzanne- This post brought tears to my eyes. I hope someday my girls think about me as kindly as you do about your Mom. What a loving, generous woman she is...no wonder you have turned out to be the sweet, lovely person you are. She is a beautiful lady! xo DianaReplyDelete
What a sweet post! A big Happy Birthday to your Mom! Hugs, LindaReplyDelete
Hey Sis...you said it so well about Mom and yes we do all appreciate her so much more! Mom and I had a great time together today and yet as we were going to lunch she wanted to go the scenic way and we both had a lump in our throat as the last time we were on that road was during the many times we went to see Dad in the hospital....but we still made it a good day! It was a record breaking day for heat in Mi today and the sunrise was spectacular! Thanks for putting into words what all of us feel!ReplyDelete
Suzanne, what an incredible message of your Mom. She's very beautiful! I wish my Mom lived close to me...she's several hundred miles away. Your blessed with a wonderful family. Tell her happy birthday.ReplyDelete
Oh what a beautiful post and what a beautiful Mom! Happy Birthday to your beautiful Mom. She loved my favorite ice cream too! She did a wonderful job to have such a sweet daughter as you! Have a wonderful day. Hugs, TerriReplyDelete
How sweet is your post about your mother. My relationship with m own mom isn't the best. So glad to see that some are the real thing.ReplyDelete
Love the Easter bonnets.
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Samsung is expected to launch its flagship Android smartphone in an exclusive event on March 14. However, that doesn't mean that it doesn't have anything to show off at this year's Mobile World Congress.
Besides unveiling the Galaxy Note 8.0, the Korean giant also quietly announced something called the HomeSync. HomeSync is a media streamer, which is in many ways identical to the Apple TV. It's essentially an Android powered set top box that hooks up to your television.
The HomeSync is powered by a 1.7 GHz dual-core processor of unknown make, 1 gigs of ram, and runs Android Jelly Bean (probably Android 4.1). It provides full access to the Play store, unlike many other similar products which only support apps that are optimized for the idiot box. HomeSync supports streaming of games, audio, and video from your Galaxy device to the TV wirelessly at full HD (1080p). The biggest draw of the Samsung HomeSync is its 1 TB storage that supports up to 8 different profiles, with password protection of content, and easy sharing.
The HomeSync is slated to go on sale in April 2013; however, Samsung provided no inputs on the expected market price.


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Shorts, who is out with a concussion, is having a Pro Bowl-type season in his sophomore year. He has 43 receptions and 824 receiving yards, including three 100-yard receiving games to go along with seven touchdowns. Shorts also has scored in four straight games. He was knocked out early in the Jaguars' 34-18 loss to the Bills last weekend and was not cleared to play.
Shorts has come on strong in the last two months and has benefitted from rookie Justin Blackmon as well as the move to Chad Henne. Both players are dynamic and quick and their ability to get behind defenses has led to some big plays for the Jaguars - who are obviously forced to throw a lot in their games.
With Shorts out of the game it makes the matchups that much easier for the Jets. They can concentrate on Blackmon and TE Marcedes Lewis and sort the rest out after that.


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Introduction to building robotsArduino upload code
Building robots is a complex task. It is fun, but it requires a lot of learning. There is no university course that will teach you everything needed to build a robot, but the good news is that you can master the skills needed on your own. In this guide you can learn the basics, to help you get started.
Building a robot has three major phases. You need to build the hardware, which means you have to create plastic and metal parts. Then you need to build the electronics that will collect information from the environment, and will control the robot's motion. The final phase is the software.
Building the hardware
The first phase of building a robot is designing the mechanical parts. This area requires some knowledge of mechanical engineering, but it is not as difficult as it might seem. It all starts with learning to use a 3D design software. The following page lists the most popular design software. We recommend you to use Solidworks or Autodesk Inventor.
The best 3D design software for designing robot parts
Once you have drawn your robot parts, you need to manufacture them. The three most popular methods to manufacturing parts are:
3D printing which is a great way to make plastic parts
CNC milling which is mainly used for making metalic parts
Laser cutting which is excellent for plastic/wooren parts made from plexiglass or wood
Building the electronic parts
The second phase of building a robot is creating the control circuits. You need to get familiar with basic electronic parts and microcontrollers. It is a very interesting and fun topic, which might seem hard at first, but the learning curve is very enjoyable. The following video tutorials will help you get started. For building electronic circuits we recommend you to use the free KiCad software package.
How to design a Printed Circuit Board (PCB):
1. How to design the PCB schematics
2. How to associate the footprints of electronic parts
3. How to design the PCB itself
How to manufacture PCB in your office (etching PCB boards using UV):
1. Printing the PCB layers for UV exposure
2. Preparing to do a double sided PCB using UV
3. Using the UV exposure box for PCB etching
4. PCB UV Developing and etching times and procedure
Drilling and cutting the PCB board
Soldering and testing the PCB board
Building the software
When you build a robot software you will perform two different tasks: you will program microcontrollers, and you will write higher level data acquisition and robot control logic.
The microcontroller layer is the interface to the hardware. You will collect data from sensors and pass this data to the upper, higher level code, and you will receive instructions from the higher level code and instruct the hardware. In our robots we use Ozeki Matrix electronic modules and Arduinos. Check out the following doucments to get started:
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From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...I've been working my way through the last of the apples we picked a couple of weeks ago. It's become a near mission-like endeavor, as the apples are starting to soften because I didn't have time to store them properly. Do you remember Buba Gump's summary of shrimp dishes? I swear I could do that with the apple creations that have come from my kitchen recently. Unfortunately, I'd be just as boring but less humorous, so I won't subject you to that. I do, however, want to share the recipe for this flavor-packed apple bread with you. The recipe is simple and this seasonal treat is delicious, but you will find the bread at its most flavorful the day after it is baked. If you enjoy moist spice breads, I think you'll love this one. Here is how it is made.
Fresh Apple Bread with Caramel Glaze...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite inspired by Betty Crocker
2 medium-sized apples, peeled and cored
1-1/2 cups packed brown sugar
1/2 cup buttermilk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
4 eggs
3 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon nutmeg
Caramel Glaze
2 tablespoons dulce de leche or caramel sauce
1 tablespoons leftover apple liquid
1/3 cup powdered sugar, sifted
1) Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 9 x 4 x 3-inchloaf pan with baking spray and set aside.
2) With a food processor fitted with a shredding attachment, grate apples. They may also be grated using the large holes of a box grater. Place a colander or mesh sieve over a bowl and dump shredded apples into colander or sieve. Press down hard to squeeze out as much juice as possible. Reserve juice for glaze.
3) Whisk brown sugar, buttermilk, oil, eggs, and apples together until well-combined. Mix in dry ingredients, stirring just until combined.
4) Scrape batter into pan and bake until a toothpick comes out dry, 50-60 minutes. Let sit in pan for 15 minutes, then turn onto a wire rack to cool completely.
5) Meanwhile, whisk together caramel sauce, apple liquid, and powdered sugar until smooth. Drizzle over bread. Yield: 1 loaf (8 to 10 slices)
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