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Malkia A. Cyril is the Executive Director and founder of the Center for Media Justice. With more than 15 years' experience as a community organizer, policy advocate, and communications strategist, Malkia has led local and national campaigns for racial and economic justice and is the author of numerous essays and articles on media, marginalization, and movement-building. Malkia is the recipient of the Media Leader award from the Alliance for Community Media, the Emerging Leader award from the Media That Matters Film Festival, and other awards from the Media Justice Fund, Rock the Vote, and others; with appearances in Democracy Now, Hard Knock Radio, Breakdown FM, Free Speech TV, the documentary Outfoxed, the documentary Broadcast Blues, the SF Weekly, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, the New York Times, the Village Voice, and others.
Karlos Gauna Schmieder is an organizer and strategist from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Before joining the Center for Media Justice, Karlos worked for nearly a decade as a community and communications organizer with SouthWest Organizing Project (SWOP). As cochair of communications for the 2007 U.S. Social Forum, he coordinated media strategy for this groundbreaking event. He is also a former steering committee member of Grassroots Global Justice, resource ally with Right to the City Alliance and editor of Voces Unidas. Karlos is co-Chair of Progressive Communicators Network's Leadership Council and co chair of communications working group of the 2010 U.S. Social Forum.
At the Center for Media Justice we believe that the human right to communicate, and therefore to organize and fight for a better future, should belong to everyone.
Unfortunately, in the context of the big money media environment of the U.S. and the dawning of Tea Party politics following the this year's mid-term elections- the vast majority of voices are shut out of the public debates that shape the daily material conditions of their lives. Center-Left research and communications organizations have staked a color-blind poll in the middle of debates on race and equity, legitimizing a do-nothing approach when it comes to confronting racism in the context of wedge issues.
This has left us with not only a very real need to re-train a new generation of progressive organizers in the art of strategic communications for equity and justice, but also a public debate on race and equity dominated by regressive voices.
To be effective and to win campaigns, professional and embedded movement communicators working on justice issues must be offered new models and trained in strategies to confront and defeat wedge issues and build a powerful public voice.
"Justice Communications" is a new, participatory model for strategic communications innovated by such veteran communicators as Makani Temba-Nixon and Charlotte Ryan, and operationalized by the staff of CMJ. Justice Communications integrates cultural change into all components of community organizing and movement building to echo a populist, values-based vision to reframe conservative narratives of governance, the economy, and race.
To build this kind of ideological power over the next 5 to 10 years, three critical steps are needed:
1. Movements for justice need strategic, issue-based convening and relevant strategy tools to determine collective action meta-frames on critical wedge issues across the lines of issue and geography.
2. Movement organizations must deploy professional and embedded movement communicators and use strategic opportunities to wage framing contests between Individualism and meritocracy vs. collective action and equity frames; Corporatism vs. the role of engaged, popular government and corporate accountability; and racist consumerism and poverty marketing vs. structural and institutional responses to advance racial justice and economic equity.
3. Funders must invest in the building of movement communications infrastructure. Our communications infrastructure and systems are woefully inadequate as we enter a communications cataclysm that has left even the most sophisticated communicators and organizers flatfooted and unsure of how to spend our communications collateral.
Our vision is a truly integrated approach to social, narrative, cultural and media change for 21st century media policy solutions, and communications and cultural strategies that ensure movements for justice have a powerful public voice in issues that profoundly affect our daily lives. Through strategic convening, strategic framing battles, and targeted resources- we can build a pipeline of leadership with the reach, skill, and capacity to make long-term impacts that ensure grassroots movements for justice have a powerful public voice.
Patrick Reinsborough has been involved in campaigns for peace, the environment, indigenous rights and economic justice for over twenty years. In 2002 he co-founded the smartMeme Strategy & Training Project (www.smartMeme.org<http://www.smartMeme.org> ) as a vehicle to explore the intersections of social change strategy, the ecological crisis and the power of narrative. Recently smartMeme has been supporting North American climate justice organizers in developing framing and messaging strategies. He is the co-author of Re:Imagining Change—How to Use Story-based Strategy to Win Campaigns Build Movements and Change the World <http://www.smartmeme.org/book> (PM Press 2010). Patrick spends his time fighting for a better world, parenting, playing music for his friends, and wandering through the urban wilds of San Francisco.
As movements around the planet mobilize to counter the effects of climate destabilization on their communities, cultures, and ecosystems, a framing battle of global significance is underway.
In the climate fight, as with so many other struggles, the heart of the framing battle is naming the problem, since how we define the problem determines what solutions are possible. To varying degrees, governments and multinational corporations around the world have acknowledged the crisis and they claim they are working to address it. However, they present the climate crisis through a reductionist lens as merely a problem of too much carbon in the atmosphere while ignoring the underlying issues of justice, equity, and humanity's relationship with the Earth. This framing allows exploitation of the crisis to justify escalating the very policies and practices that have pushed the planet to the brink. Essentially the world's richest countries and companies are co-opting environmental rhetoric to put a PR friendly "green" face on the same old politics of unlimited economic growth, resource thefts and corporate exploitation.
Meanwhile the 'official' climate movement has been dominated by a loyal opposition of largely northern, policy, and access-oriented NGOs who, although (mostly) well intentioned, have failed to reframe the debate or address the root causes of the crisis. But increasingly as more global movements begin to unite under the banner of climate justice, there is a different story to tell. The terms of the debate are being reframed from seeing the climate crisis as an isolated issue, to understanding the disruption of the climate as merely the most visible symptom of a much larger problem: our global system of growth-addicted, fossil fuel-driven, corporate capitalism that is undermining all the life support systems of the planet.
When this deeper framing of the problem is accepted it becomes clear that we will never re-stabilize the climate without addressing the roots of the problem. This means acknowledging the Global North's historic responsibility for the problem ("climate debt") as the first step towards fundamental shifts to our economy, political systems, and cultural assumptions. This is why one of the over-arching and unifying messages coming out of global movements fighting for a just response to the climate crisis is "system change NOT climate change".
However, as people's movements around the world ramp up their organizing in the lead up to the next round of United Nations negotiations in Cancun there are a number of dangerous frames––control myths––that must be challenged.
Control Myth #1 Only The Market Can Save Us!
In this case a global carbon market that effectively privatizes the atmosphere, justifies massive land grabs and further commodification of forests, soils, and grasslands. Two hundred years of ideology have bestowed the "invisible hand" of the market with debate-shaping qualities of alleged efficiency, fairness and power. This is a familiar narrative to many of our movements fighting privatization and displacement but we still need better, shared strategies to reframe the myth of the market.
Control Myth #2 Technology Will Save Us!
Hand in hand with the story of the all-powerful market is the obsession with techno-fixes. Techno-fixes masquerade as solutions but just distract us from making the fundamental changes that are needed. The assumption that some benign "experts" will provide new, innovative technology to solve the problem justifies continuing unsustainable policies while removing people's agency from the frame. More and more climate techno-fixes are being proposed: from overt lies like "clean coal" and "climate ready" genetically engineered crops to terrifyingly disruptive, untested new technologies like synthetic biology and geoengineering.[i] Beware!
Control Myth #3 Climate Is Too Big An Issue: Only Governments Can Save Us!
The debate has been overly focused on global and national policy while social movements and community-based responses are left out of the frame. Many mainstream environmentalists have even argued that any global emission reduction agreement (regardless of how weak or unfair) is better than no deal. Variations of this narrative have been used (particularly by the U.S.) to evade historic responsibility and blame China, India and other developing economies for blocking an international deal. Certainly a global agreement is important, but the reality of the scale of the climate crisis is that we need transformative action in all sectors of society.
Given the wide-ranging implications of the debate, climate is an essential arena for our movements to develop more holistic narratives and shared frames that mutually reinforce efforts across different sectors and struggles. At the heart of this framing battle is the emerging climate justice movement led by frontline impacted communities, indigenous movements and environmental justice organizers.
Climate justice framing is challenging the control myths above (and many more) by refocusing the issue on the core problems of fossil fuel addiction, the ongoing legacy of historic inequities and the need for systemic change. At the center of the evolving narrative is the role of community-based solutions in stewarding a just transition towards a society that is both sustainable and just. As different movements like migrants rights, reproductive justice and organized labor articulate the connections between their struggles and the climate crisis there are many opportunities to experiment with applying and broadening climate justice framing.
With the historic adoption of the Cochabamba People's Agreement on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth in April there is now a powerful new narrative emerging that unites ecology, justice and social movement action. This platform offers a potent counterpoint to the corporate driven, false solutions of the United Nations process. Most importantly it offers an invitation to organizers everywhere to connect their issues with this multi-faceted struggle to transform our world. In the words of one of the key slogans uniting movements in the lead up to the COP-16 meeting and beyond: "grassroots organizing cools the planet!"
[i] For a good summary of "false solutions" to the climate crisis check out Rising Tide North America's Hoodwinked in the Hothouse: False Solutions to Climate Change available at http://www.risingtidenorthamerica.org/special/fsbooklet.pdf. Other resources for tracking the rebranding of failed GMO seeds as "climate ready" can be found by following the ongoing work of Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy www.foodfirst.org and the Organic Consumers Association www.organicconsumers.org. To learn more about the latest developments in the emerging fields of synthetic biology and geoengineering check out two recent reports by global technology watchdog ETC Group Geopiracy: The Case Against Geoengineering (Oct 2010) and The New Biomassters: Synthetic Biology and the Next Assault on Biodiversity and Livelihoods (Nov 2010) both of which are available at www.etcgroup.org. For updates on the ongoing resistance to geoengineering check out the international H.O.M.E. campaign www.handsoffmotherearth.org.
B. Loewe comes out of the Chicago Worker Center movement<http://latinounion.org> and is currently supporting the National Day Laborer Organizing Network<http://ndlon.org> in communications to turn the tide from the fear-based backwardness of Arizona policies to a world that recognizes and respects our human rights. B. recently served as a field organizer for the US Social Forum<http://ussf2010.org> on the belief that big crises require big demands that come from movements beyond any one organization.
Opal Tometi is a community organizer in Arizona. She recently earned her Masters in Communication Studies with an emphasis in Rhetoric and Advocacy. She is currently organizing and working on strategic communications with Alto Arizona, PUENTE and other migrant justice groups in Maricopa County.
Organizing is the process of retelling our lives with ourselves scripted as the protagonists instead of objects in an unjust world who's future is up for grabs. If our inactivity is a result of being told that we don't deserve better and that there are no possible alternatives to the world we've inherited, organizing tells us our personal problems are not ours alone. They are social. There are solutions. And we can be the ones to solve them. Simply put, organizers are storytellers. The stories we decide to tell and how we decide to tell them shape our consciousness and shape how we engage in our world. Thus strategic communications is not about the magic bullet phrase we utter nor is it about having the most communication technologies at our disposal. Strategic communications is about asking ourselves: what narratives are powerful enough to pull the wool from people's eyes and expose that the emperor has no clothes.
For the migrant rights movements, we find ourselves suffering because of the confines of the stories we've been telling and that are being told about us. Our recent organizing approach has woven a web that sought to exchange enforcement for legalization via "comprehensive immigration reform." And now, without legalization, all immigrants are seen as criminals. To undo that fiction and rebuild a powerful proactive path to legalization, we have to reframe the debate. We'll have to find ways to tell the story of the global economy that links unemployed workers in the US with displaced workers from the global south, the story of the threat to democracy that criminalization plays, and remind ourselves of the story of history's long arc toward justice. Just as it takes a long look forward to remain optimistic in these troubled times, it takes a long look at history<http://altoarizona.com/videos.html#featured> to understand and communicate this moment in its proper context.
In Arizona we know too well what compromised messaging and inaccurate storytelling can do, however it has caused us to be more resolute in not only our storytelling, but also our <http://goog_1251661410> truth telling<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFA_qUh0pQw&feature=player_embedded> in the face of a reality that becomes less real every day. The road ahead is long and arduous, but rather than be embittered, we know that we can be organizers and storytellers, strategic communicators that reveal the truth about the inherent dignity in each of us, the interdependence we share, and laugh along the way<http://blog.altoarizona.com/blog/2010/10/sea-captains-learn-babies-make-bad-anchors.html> to winning.
Doyle Canning is co-director of smartMeme, a strategy and training center that amplifies the impact of grassroots organizing with the power of narrative. She is co-author of Re:Imagining Change – How to Use Story-based Strategies to Win Campaigns, Build Movements, and Change the World (PM Press, 2010), and has collaborated on framing strategies with groups like Student/Farmworker Alliance, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Indigenous Environmental Network, and SCOPE. Doyle lives in Boston where she practices yoga, walks her dog, and dreams of one day having a garden.
While the first Tea Party convention, with its 600 attendees, was covered extensively on every major network, the US Social Forum, with over 12,000 people, was largely ignored by the establishment media. Of course, there are many structural reasons for this. But we've got to be honest with ourselves that when it comes to the shaping the conversation in the mainstream media, we've got to step up our game. There is a critical gap in many grassroots organizations between great organizing on the ground, and getting the message out on primetime.
In the big picture, we are losing the Battle of the Story for this historical moment to regressive forces. There are cultural conversations happening now about the role of government, race in the US, the market's implosion, the ecological crisis, and so much more. And, with a few exceptions, we're not the ones commenting on talk shows or stealing the headlines on Sunday.
Our movements sorely need more media and communications capacity – and that means money, skilled people, time, and tools. But the heart of the matter is much deeper, and much more difficult. What we really need is a coherent narrative.
Narrative is at the very heart of strategy, and is what truly defines a social movement as a social phenomena. Narrative is the set of frames that define the ways in which we imagine and understand who we are, what we want, and where we're going. It is the story that we believe in, and that we co-create in a movement building process.
In order to succeed in creating systemic, transformative change, we need to build infrastructure to develop shared narrative strategies, and spaces for forging symbols, memes and messages that can capture the imagination of the people and motivate action. This means taking our story seriously, and bringing strategic rigor, discipline, and creativity to a sustained conversation across sectors.
Luckily, I have no doubt that we've got a good story. In fact, we have plenty. Tales of struggle, liberation, resilience and reconciliation are as old as time. Our task now is to unearth these gems and polish our narrative until it shines brighter and sounds better than what's currently on offer.
Sangita Nayak is currently serving as Freedom Inc's communications consultant, a racial justice agency in Madison. Her forte has been in coalescing effective organizing and communications networks. Over the last dozen years, she has organized for working rights at 9to5 National Association of Working Women, for Gulf recovery through the Katrina Information Network (KIN), for corporate influence transparency at the WHO through the Network for Accountability of Tobacco Transnationals, and for refugee access to local services through the Hmong American Women's Association. She has consulted and facilitated workshops for numerous groups in relation to strategic communications. She has also facilitated several gatherings for the Progressive Communicators Network, and is serving as co-chair on their board.
Grassroots organizing and strategic communications should be resourced in tandem to grow and deepen our work and advance the struggle. If organizing gets people on a movement train, then strategic communications should accelerate and fuel that train for justice.
Communications should help identify and invite more audiences that organizers need to win the battle for the short and long haul. It can also help identify the tracks, or ways of moving, so the organizing has greater impact. In tandem with people-centered organizing, communications assists by amplifying messengers and exposing targets, so that more and more people jump on the movement train.
Today, we face dangerous narratives from the opposition's communications that seem more like an air assault then a train. One of these messsages is that our communities are destroying themselves. That narrative includes a certain inhumanity about communities, that justifies a denial of services. Rebecca Kleefisch, Wisconsin's newly elected Lieutenant Governor, captures that attack in her comparison of marriage in gay communities to marrying a dog. We've also seen this narrative in how the Hmong community in Wisconsin face a media bias that domestic violence is a cultural norm.
This narrative about our communities asserts that our communities should be changed if not destroyed. It is fundamentally linked to this nation's white supremacy and it must be challenged by our growing movement train through thoughtful and well-funded strategic organizing and communications work.
When we offer visionary narratives, we continue to directly expose the communication of white supremacy and Patriarchy. For instance, Freedom Inc. in Madison, WI regularly exposes the racist lies about Hmong and other communities in relation to preventing violence. And after the recent deaths of LGBT teens, we mourned and supported the families of the victims while we challenged the notion that white communities were the only communities suffering. LGBT communities of color continue to get ignored and silenced–no one mourns our lost. This deeper and liberating narrative all possible when strategic communications is on the train with community organizing.
Though many of the crises our communities endure were not created by us, we must assert our role in creating solutions to our health, economy, and environment–by looking at the age-old practices and remedies in communities of color. We must drive solutions that respect the wisdom of people across the life span. Our communication and organizing is part of this narrative working to create a healthy society, honor the history of our ancestors, knowledge of our elders, insight of women as well as the dreams of our youth.


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Southwest ND to provide some of the best views of the solar eclipse in the state
By COLE BENZ
Pioneer Editor
The nation, and the world, will soon experience the celestial phenomena of a total solar eclipse. Barring weather, on Monday, Aug. 21, all of North America will be able to witness at least a partial eclipse, with multiple cities along the pathway going completely dark as the shadow makes its way from the Pacific Northwest, to the southeast Atlantic region of the country.
A solar eclipse is when the moon passes between the Earth and the sun. A total solar eclipse is when the moon completely covers the sun's light, leaving only the emitting outer light visible.
According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the last total eclipse occurred in the United States on Feb. 26, 1979. And the last one to cross the entire continent was almost a century ago, on June 8, 1918.
The lunar shadow will first touch the U.S. on the west coast at 9:05 a.m. and the first city to experience the darkness will be Lincoln City, Ore., at 10:15 a.m. PST With Charleston, S.C. being the last city to be cast in the dark shadow of the eclipse at 2:48 a.m. EST
Eleven spacecraft and over 50 NASA-funded high-altitude balloons—along with numerous ground-based observations and citizen scientists will be monitoring the scientific impact of the eclipse.
"The hair on the back of your neck is going to stand up and you are going to feel different things as the eclipse reaches totality," said Brian Carlstrom, Deputy Associate Director of the National Park Service Natural Resource Stewardship and Science Directorate. "It's been described as peaceful, spiritual,exhilarating, shocking. If you're feeling these things, don't worry, you're experiencing the total eclipse of the sun."
The total eclipse will be viewable on a pathway 70 miles wide that crosses 14 of the 48 contiguous states of the U.S.
Unfortunately the region of southwest North Dakota will not be in that 70-mile wide pathway. But, residents of this region will have some of the best views in the state.
According to an interactive map, offered by NASA, viewers in this region can can witness the beginning of the eclipse at about 10:28 a.m. MST, and experience an 88 percent obstruction of the sun's light. Peak of the eclipse should hit the region at about 11:49 a.m. MST and be finished by about 1:15 p.m. MST.
Viewers should be wary about the eye safety when viewing. Area optometrists were contacted for safety information and West River Health Services' John Kludt, said that you will need special glasses to look at the phenomena without damage to your eyesight.
"The proper way [to view the eclipse] is with the specially designed filtered lenses," Kludt said. "[The lenses] would be a special combination of coatings or tint that will eliminate or dramatically reduce to a less harmful level, the potentially damaging rays emitted."
According to Kludt, the damaging rays have a tendency to burn the macular area of the eye—which is the inside of the eye—if left unprotected. This can cause irreversible scarring.
"The solar eclipse is one of natures grandest events, and to be viewed and enjoyed safely," Kludt said.
Multiple resources regarding eye safety can be found on www.Eclipse2017.NASA.gov. The American Optometric Association also have some resources available about safety and what to know when purchasing protective eyewear.
Glasses must meet international standard ISO 12312-2 for safe viewing. Sunglasses, smoked glass, unfiltered telescopes or magnifiers, and polarizing filters are unsafe. If you can't find eclipse viewers, build a pinhole projector to watch the eclipse. Instructions can be found online at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory website. From the main site— www.JPL.NASA.gov—click on 'Learn' on the right menu tab and then navigate through the 'Education' section to find the instructions.

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Pyschology and Heart Disease, Prescribing Religion
Is there a relationship between our psychological state and the risk of getting heart disease? Dr Richard Sloan - Professor of Behavioural Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University says there is and explains how anger and how we deal with depression affects the heart.
Does prayer have the power to heal? There are now several studies purporting to show health benefits from religious beliefs and prayer. In the United States there's concern that evangelical doctors are prescribing religion to their patients. Dr Sloan says the evidence is thin and that doctors are out of bounds.
Norman Swan: Still to come: religion and healing: the evidence, and whether doctors who advise prayer are being unethical. And, personality, psychology and coronaries.
You've almost certainly heard about the Type A personality and the supposed increase risk of heart disease, the Type A being an impatient, high-achieving sort of person. But in fact there isn't much to support the risks so often attached to Type A, thank goodness. The factors which are linked much more solidly to heart disease are hostility and depression.
Richard Sloan is Professor of Behavioural Medicine at Columbia University in New York, and is an international authority on the links between what goes on in the mind and the rest of the body.
Richard Sloan: The evidence now is overwhelming that depression and hostility predict the development of heart disease and exacerbation of heart disease in patients who already have it. So the question in our mind is no longer whether this is a real phenomenon, we believe that it is. The question is, what are the mechanisms which link depression and hostility to heart disease?
Norman Swan: And let's just define hostility here. Somebody once defined it to me as how long it takes you in a supermarket queue to get irritated at the person who's got 11 items instead of 10 in the short queue.
Richard Sloan: Hostility is difficult to define. What they actually measure is not quite hostility as it's conventionally understood, but more a kind of cynical mistrust of others.
Norman Swan: So describe that to me in full bloom.
Richard Sloan: One of the typical examples is somebody who becomes annoyed waiting in a line to reach a bank teller, and expresses dissatisfaction that the people who are ahead of him are simply wasting time, are not seriously doing his business. His business, of course, is serious, so it's a kind of cynical mistrust of the motives and actions of others.
Norman Swan: And it involves expression, or is it holding it in?
Richard Sloan: There is evidence that expressing hostility may confer risk, but then there's also evidence that not expressing it may confer risk, and I don't think we know enough to answer the question.
Norman Swan: So tell us how you've been studying that in terms of the biology, and how it affects the heart and blood vessels in a very tangible way.
Richard Sloan: What we're interested in is how the autonomic nervous system links these behaviours to the development of heart disease. The autonomic nervous system is the part of the nervous system that regulates the cardiovascular and the respiratory systems.
Norman Swan: And you have quite an easy way of measuring that.
Richard Sloan: What we do is we look at the degree to which heart rate varies. Most people think that heart rate is a relatively steady event, but in fact as one of my cardiology colleagues puts it, 'The heart is happiest when it dances'. People who are healthy have a great deal of variation in heart rate. Their heart rate rises and falls, and it rises and falls in certain cyclical patterns. We know from our laboratory work that certain psychological challenges that we administer in the laboratory, drive heart rate variability down.
Norman Swan: So if you put people in a lab and you give them certain stressful tests, the normal person's heart variability will go down. What you're looking at is to see if you add hostility or add depression whether it really goes down.
Richard Sloan: Our subjects are normal, healthy subjects who are selected to either be high in hostility or low in hostility, and we study while resting quietly and then while they respond to certain psychological challenges that are typically employed in laboratory settings. So what we see when we present those challenges to subjects who are high or low in hostility, is that this heart rate variability that we've been discussing, while the same between the two groups during the resting base line, falls much more substantially in the high hostile subjects compared to the low hostile subjects. What we infer from that is, in the real world when high hostile subjects encounter stressors during the day, as they frequently do, their heart rate variability falls more substantially than the comparable fall in heart rate variability for subjects who are low in hostility when they encounter stressors.
Norman Swan: What's the route from that to heart disease if indeed there is one?
Richard Sloan: The route we think is what happens over 24 hours, and we several years ago published a study in which our high and low hostile subjects, a different group of subjects this time, were monitored with an ambulatory heart rate monitor that records every heart beat throughout the 24 hour period of monitoring. And we found that the high hostile subjects had lower levels of heart rate variability over waking hours than the low hostile subjects. So we have convergent evidence now from the laboratory and from ambulatory studies, that hostility modulates the degree of heart rate variability.
Norman Swan: And what's bad about it? Let's just go the next step to heart disease. What's the track from low variability to heart disease?
Richard Sloan: That's a matter of speculation. We have published a model. To understand the model you have to understand that not only does heart rate oscillate, but so does blood pressure in the same frequency range. So blood pressure also rises and falls. Whereas it's good to have a lot of heart rate variability, it's probably bad to have a lot of blood pressure variability. And the two are related.
Norman Swan: So when heart rate variability goes down, blood pressure variability goes up?
Richard Sloan: That's what we believe to be the case, and we're collecting evidence to demonstrate that. The heart rate variability appears to act as a sort of lid on blood pressure variability, and when your heart rate variability falls, the blood pressure variability course finally is disinhibited, and that we've argued, leads to the intermediate causes of coronary artery disease: damage to the lining of the endothelium, of the coronary arteries which over the course of many, many years, produces atherosclerosis.
Norman Swan: If only life was so simple that your only problem was hostility. There are other things in the environment, smoking, there's exercise; what do we know about when you start adding the psychological variables to some of the physical variables?
Richard Sloan: I think it's fairly clear in the case of smoking for example, or exercise, that there's an interactive effect. Exercise is complicated because exercise as a beneficial impact on one's mood, exercise also enhances heart rate variability.
Norman Swan: You're doing a study of physically deconditioned people.
Richard Sloan: We have a study that is about midway through now, in which we are selecting healthy, sedentary subjects and randomly assign them either to an aerobic condition treatment or a strength training only treatment, and we measure their responses to psychological challenges in the laboratory before they begin exercise, after they finish 12 weeks of exercise training, and then after they finish another four weeks of sedentary deconditioning. And our interest is in whether the aerobic conditioning group in contrast to the strength training only group, shows not only an increase in heart rate variability but a decrease in blood pressure variability.
Norman Swan: So if you're an aerobically fit hostile person, you may be mitigating it?
Richard Sloan: Yes. You're probably better off than if you're a sedentary hostile person.
Norman Swan: Does depression work in the same way?
Richard Sloan: There's substantial evidence that depression, like hostility, confers an increased risk of heart disease, and the evidence is really overwhelming at this point. How that happens is not clearly understood. There are four principal candidate mechanisms that appear to link depression to the development of heart disease. One of them is diminished autonomic nervous system control of the cardiovascular system. Another one is the stickiness of one's platelets, the degree to which clots develop in the coronary arteries. A third mechanism is social support. There is a great deal of evidence to suggest that social support influences the development of heart disease and patients who have depression may have low levels of social support. And a fourth is that patients who are depressed, adhere to their medications and treatment recommendations less than patients who aren't depressed. Any one of those four, or any combination of them may be involved in linking depression to the development of heart disease.
Norman Swan: Your department has done a study of people going through bypass surgery and relating that to whether or not people were depressed before they went in.
Richard Sloan: We followed 309 bypass surgery patients for one year after surgery. The principal researcher in this was Dr Ingrid Kinnerney?? who is now at the University of Maryland. She followed the 309 patients, she interviewed them using a standard psychiatric interview to identify depression just prior to discharge from the hospital, and then followed them for a full year to determine whether they had any recurrent coronary events. Did they have another heart attack, did they require a second operation, did they have unstable angina and we showed that after controlling for standard risk factors, including the standard physical risk factors which always predict the development of recurrent cardiac events, depression still was associated with a 2.3 times greater increased risk of recurrent events in the year following surgery.
Norman Swan: Now at least depression when it's recognised, can be treated either through cognitive behavioural therapy or drugs, but if you're hostile, what hope is there for you?
Richard Sloan: Yes, depression can be treated, but it rarely is. In the United States at least, depression is much too rarely identified by primary care physicians and even less often identified by cardiologists. And so it very often goes untreated; it's often thought that it's perfectly natural to be depressed after a heart attack or after heart surgery. Well it's not perfectly natural to be depressed after a heart attack or heart surgery. You may be a little blue, but that's not the same thing as being clinically depressed. And so even if there are standard and accepted treatments of depression, they're infrequently used in these settings. And yes, it is true that it's easier to treat depression than it is to treat hostility, but there are reasonably well established cognitively oriented and behaviourally oriented treatment programs that are shown to be effective in treating and reducing hostility. Now whether they have an impact on reducing heart disease is another matter, we don't know that.
Norman Swan: Given that you've got this expertise in the mind and the body and coronary heart disease, you've become a bit of a guru or somebody to which people flock about the current enthusiasm for using religion to treat physical disease, and you've reviewed the literature on this. What's your view?
Richard Sloan: I'm not sure whether I would be described by most people as a guru, but I'd think I'm accurately described as a sceptic. In the United States at least, there is an enormous amount of interest in the possibility that religious and spiritual activities may be associated with beneficial health outcomes, and you can't go a week without seeing some article in the popular broadcast or print media attesting to this fact. Several years ago we were struck by how often these, as we see them, uncritical media reports appeared, and so we decided to examine the literature and did so for the next two years, culminating in a paper we published in The Lancet, which determined that the evidence that religion and religious activities confer health benefits is greatly over-rated, because the studies are, by and large, weak and unimpressive. And moreover, we identified three significant ethical problems associated with bringing religious activities into medical practice.
Norman Swan: And they are?
Richard Sloan: The first is the possibility of coercion, the second is invasion of privacy, and the third is actually doing harm. Anyone who's ever been to a physician recognises that the relationship between a physician and a patient is an asymmetrical one. If you had pneumonia and a physician recommends that you take antibiotics, both parties expect that you'll do that, and that derives from the physician's expertise. When a physician departs from his or her are of expertise to pursue another agenda, the asymmetry of the relationship doesn't disappear but the justification for it is gone. So that raises the thread of coercion.
Norman Swan: And the second?
Richard Sloan: The second is invasion of privacy. There are many aspects of our lives that have been shown to influence health, that we regard as outside of the domain of medicine. The best example is marital status. There is an enormous amount of evidence that being married is good for your health, people who are married live longer, the issue is, is there an effect of marital status on health, and it seems as though there is. But we don't expect physicians to make marital recommendations to us on the basis of this evidence. We don't expect physicians to counsel their single male patients, to say, 'Well Bob, you know, I understand, I've been reading some reviews and it seems to me that the evidence is really overwhelming that being married is good for you, and so I think you ought to get married for your health.' That would be the last time you'd ever visit that physician. Decisions about when to have children, for women, early childbearing rather than later childbearing confers a reduced risk of certain kinds of cancers. But we don't expect physicians to tell us, to make recommendations for when we should have children, because we regard that as personal and private.
Religion is even more personal and private in that that regard, and is out of bounds of medicine, even if there were evidence, and we regard the evidence as very weak, but even if there were evidence that religious activity were associated with health outcomes. And then the third is actually causing harm. Even in these days of medical consumerism, patients still confront age-old folk wisdoms about moral and personal responsibility for illness.
Here's an example from a research setting: I was interviewing a patient who was awaiting the results of a biopsy. She was in a semi-private room in a hospital here in New York, meaning there was another patient in the room. Both of them were in the gynaecologic oncology ward waiting for the results of biopsies, and while I was interviewing this one patient, the family of the other patient was visiting her, and while they were there, and while I was there, her biopsy results came back, and those results were negative. To which her father exclaimed to nobody in particular, 'We're good people, we deserve this.' That's a perfectly understandable thing for a parent of a potentially sick young woman to say. But what was the patient I was interviewing supposed to say when her biopsy results came back positive? Was she supposed to say to herself, 'I'm a bad person, that's why I got cancer? I've been insufficiently faithful, I've been insufficiently devout, I haven't been religious enough, that's why I got cancer.'? It's bad enough to be sick, it's worse still to be gravely ill, it's simply unconscionable to add to that the burden of guilt and remorse for some supposed inadequacy.
When you tell people that religious activity is good for their health, you automatically imply the opposite which is that bad health is a product of insufficient devotion or insufficient faith, and that's a horrible thing to say.
Norman Swan: Is there any evidence, even anecdotally, that some physicians are changing their practice in the United States because of a belief that religion is healthy?
Richard Sloan: It's hard to get systematic evidence. There is anecdotal evidence. We published an article in Medscape which is the Internet medical journal, Medcscape general medicine, and one of the respondents was an evangelical Christian physician who declared that it was his duty to evangelise in the medical setting, because he was a Christian above all else. I want to make clear that this in no way is an argument against religion, it's in no way an argument against the fact that patients experience many times, comfort under conditions of disease. The question we're addressing is whether medicine, organised medicine, can add anything to that, and the answer we think is no. There is little doubt, no doubt, that religion brings comfort to people in times of distress associated with illness, but physicians really have nothing to do with that, and should have nothing to do with that.
Norman Swan: Professor Richard Sloan directs the Behavioural Medicine Program at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York.
Sloan RP et al. Cardiac autonomic control and hostility in healthy subjects. American Journal of Cardiology 1994;74:298-300
Sloan RP et al. Cardiac autonomic control buffers blood pressure variability responses to challenge. Psychosomatic Medicine 1999;61:48-68
Sloan RP et al. Religion, spirituality and medicine. Lancet 1999;353:664-667
Sloan RP et al. Should physicians prescribe religious activities? New England Journal of Medicine 2000;342:1913-1916
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Gunman opens fire on Fonseka supporters, woman killed, 10 wounded[TamilNet, Tuesday, 12 January 2010, 14:17 GMT]
A 58-year-old mother of five died on the spot and ten civilians seriously injured when a gunman who arrived in a motor bike fired at a bus transporting supporters of common opposition candidate General Sarath Fonseka Tuesday afternoon in Tangalle of the southern province. Tension prevailed in the area following the shooting incident, which the Sri Lankan police described as the first ever election related killing reported from the Southern Sri Lanka.
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2017 Spring Meeting
Maggiano's Tysons Corner, VA * Gabbiano & Calabrese Rooms
Saturday May 6, 2017 at 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Host: NGA Ski Club
Elections for the three BRSC Officer positions of VP, Secretary & Treasurer were held. As there were no additional candidates offered at the meeting, the following were elected by acclamation:
For more decisons and information click on the following link.
Draft Minutes
2016 Fall Meeting
Snowshoe Ski Resort in WV
Saturday September 24th & Sunday September 25th
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2016 Spring Meeting
The BRSC 2016 Spring Meeting was held on Saturday, April 30th at Maggiano's Tyson. Columbia Ski Club hosted. 16 clubs were represented with 46 delegates, plus various vendors and tour operators.
Principal Decisions made:
- Bill Schrodel was re-elected president through 2018
- The 2017 Eurofest trip to Grindewald was cancelled due to low projected participation
- Sugarloaf, Maine was selected as the 2017 location for the BRSC Winterfest
- Stowe, Vermont was selected as the Winterfest site for 2018
- Nobel McClellan was selected as Trip Coordinator for the 2018 Western Carnival at Whistler
- Mike DiProspero will serve as Trip Coordinator for the 2018 Eurofest at Trois Valleys, France
- Western Carnival TOs to bid: Sports Tours; GTU; Sports America; Winter Ski & Sports
- Eurofest TOs to bid: GTU; Holidaze; Alpine Adventures; Encompass
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Updated: November 11, 2005, 7:44 PM ETBy Tom Farrey | ESPN The Magazine
EDITOR'S NOTE: This week, Congress released the results of its investigation into steroid use by Rafael Palmiero. The report described reckless and illegal use of prescription drugs in the Baltimore Orioles' locker room. In 1999, a similar scene was unfolding in the New York Mets' locker room, as Tom Farrey reports in this bonus coverage from ESPN The Magazine's look at steroid abuse. The drugs arrived with the fan mail, delivered in little packages indistinguishable from the letters sent by kids asking for autographs. At his sparsely decorated locker beneath Shea Stadium, Brian McRae would open the envelope and take out the brown plastic bottle of painkillers a pharmacist had sent him without a prescription. He would remove two of the small, white pills, pop them into his mouth, take a few gulps of water and continue to prepare for that night's game. It was early in 1999, his 10th season in the majors, and he was hardly the only Met with a rogue pharmacist.
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Joseph Pitts
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"Sarah is involved in every play that occurs on the court," Markus wrote in an email, "and is so dominant as a server and blocker as well."
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In total, Markus said, that without Schiller, a year-round player and high academic achiever, who "more importantly always has a smile on her face, this team would not be who we are…"
Joseph Pitts, a senior at Naples, passed for 165 yards and ran for 105 more as the unbeaten Wildcats won the Division II-South title. As a result, he was selected as Stars and Stripes' male Athlete of the Week.
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A Day of Drawing and Visual Thinking with ImageThink
March 22, 2012
Thinking, Working and Communicating VisuallyNew York Peace Institute has asked us to provide a 1-day graphic recording training. The The New York Peace Institute is committed to promoting peace in our communities, but this workshop is open to mediators and anyone in the public that is interested in learning how to use visuals to improve communication. You will learn basic principles of visual recording that you can draw upon during meetings, team huddles, presentations, or just for fun. Can you only draw a stick figure? No problem! We will focus on how simple visuals can be used to support and clarify complex ideas. No prior experience is necessary. You will be on your feet with a marker in hand for the duration of the workshop. Get ready to have a lot of fun and learn some valuable collaboration skills.
What You Will Learn:
- Improve the quality of your communication by using visuals
- Increased confidence with a pen and marker
- Learn simple visual techniques to better collaborate with others
- Practice active listening and synthesizing skills
- Build a foundation of visual metaphors and icons to illustrate common concepts


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Unreal Tournament 2003
Wow!!! Really nice CTF map, no doubt about it. Also contains a good music file:) It\'s like being on an Egyption isle in outerspace. This looks like it could be one of the planets from StarGate
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SG-1. Really cool eye candy, and you can tell the author has put tons of time and work into this map. You have waving silk draperies, moving flag stands, great semi see through textures... wow! Bots play this map well, and are very sneaky. Keep on the lookout because there are a few out of site places to get around this baby, and people will seem to come out of nowhere. This map plays great with 16 players or under, might be a little taking on machines with low system specs. You really need a good card to play this one... Geforce 3 Ti or better with lots of onborad RAM. This is a must have map just to see what this engine is capable of! -CVROY
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Press-Enterprise photographer David Bauman has won a national honor for a photograph taken the day of the Dec. 2 terrorist attack in San Bernardino.
His photo won second place in the 82nd National Headliner Awards, which were announced Tuesday, April 12. It was one of three awards earned by the Southern California News Group.
Bauman's photograph showed a woman embracing a man wearing a white shirt with blood stains outside the Inland Regional Center. It appeared in newspapers and websites across the nation and became an iconic image of the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11.
The entry was in the Photography and Graphics category for daily newspapers, news services and syndicates. The winner in that category was "Mother Loses Son," by Stephanie Strasburg of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
Bauman, a Riverside resident, has worked at The Press-Enterprise for 40 years.
The staff of The Sun received third place for coverage of the San Bernardino terror attack in the category "spot news in daily newspapers, all sizes." First place went to the Baltimore Sun for coverage of the Baltimore riots and Freddie Gray case. Second place went to the Dallas Morning News for stories on the Dec. 26 North Texas tornadoes.
Ken Steinhardt of the Orange County Register won third place for "Dog Day Afternoon" in the newspaper feature photography category.
"Our journalists work tirelessly to serve readers in our communities, consistently producing outstanding work," said Frank Pine, executive editor of the Southern California News Group.
The Southern California News Group, formed after Digital First Media purchased The Register and The Press-Enterprise in March, consists of 11 newspapers and more than a dozen community weeklies in the region.
The annual Headliner contest is one of the oldest and largest in the country that recognizes journalistic merit in the communications industry, according to the award committee.
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- Extensive experience in embedded systems programming, possibly on a networking environment;
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- Knowledge in the area of networking, routing, broadband;
- Knowledge of networking protocols (TCP/IP, DHCP, PPP, DNS);
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- Exceptional engineering challenges;
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Trevi Crush
Just an average afternoon in front of the Trevi Fountain…possibly the only place more hated by me than the Spanish Steps. If you want to know why, just look at the photo!
Just an average afternoon in front of the Trevi Fountain…possibly the only place more hated by me than the Spanish Steps. If you want to know why, just look at the photo!
Truly annoying. I remember going there on a Sunday spring evening and it was quite nice.
Jessica, I love Italy and your unique perspective through your viewfinder. I've got an award waiting for you over at my blog.
My goodness, I think that I would avoid this area!
That's crazy. Midweek or off holiday season is the best time to visit: you may hate the choc-a-block but the spot is just so beautiful…
When we visited Rome, we had to see the typical sites. Trevi and Spanish steps were a zoo of people. As a tourist, we were highly annoyed.
Gunn Diva – Thanks for the award, I really appreciate it!
Luis – Yes, often if you go late at night you can find it emptier, but I rarely find it quiet.
Valeria – Yeah I think the best times are extremely early morning or very late night.
Rob – Yes, everyone flocks there because they think that should and then finds everyone else there as well! Luckily Rome has a lot of other beautiful spots to enjoy.
Is there ever a time of the year or day when these places are not mobbed?I just returned from a visit to Venice and found the city delightfully free of crowds. Is Christmas season just as bad as summer in Rome?
Hi Jessica,
Great picture. I can only say Thank God I can now travel in late fall and winter. But I've got to say that in summer trips I don't ever remember this mess! By the way I will be seeing you in December.


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Bill Papesh President Of Composite Proud Of Fund's Performance
Mon., April 28, 1997
Bill Papesh is sold on mutual funds.
The president of the Composite Group of Funds has been in the industry since the 1960s, when he joined Murphey Favre Inc. after a few years with Washington Trust Bank.
Murphey Favre, by launching its Bond & Stock Fund in 1939, had helped pioneer mutual funds. Papesh said the fund was among the first 50 created in the U.S.
A decade later, the Growth & Income Fund was among the first 100.
Papesh noted the industry did not eclipse $100 billion in total assets until 1980, when only 6 percent of U.S. households were fund investors.
By 1990, assets had multiplied to $1 trillion, and 30 percent of all households were invested. The industry tips the scales today at a whopping $3.7 trillion.
"It's a very popular mechanism for investment," said Papesh, who has served on the boards of the Investment Company Institute, the industry's regulatory body.
Composite, which has eight funds plus a variable annuity product, has about $1.5 billion under management for 90,000 investors, he said.
The funds are separate corporations with their own boards. They contract with Composite for portfolio management, which is handled in Seattle.
Composite also acts as the administrator and transfer agent. Those functions are based in Spokane.
Murphey Favre markets the Composite funds. They are also sold by Washington Mutual, which bought Composite and Murphey Favre in 1982.
The group was the first to be owned by a bank, and Papesh said it was a bold move for Washington Mutual. The thrift, with $2.5 billion in assets, had not yet set off on the acquisition binge that has made it an industry giant.
He said Composite has been able to piggyback on that expansion, although shareholders remain concentrated in the Northwest.
Papesh himself is a Inland Northwest product. He was born and raised in Kellogg, and graduated from the University of Montana in 1965.
His grandfather, W.W. Papesh, had been president of the First State Bank of Kellogg. The 1899 immigrant to the Silver Valley first had run a meat wagon, then bought a meat market in Wardner, Idaho.
"He was particularly thrifty," Papesh said.
The elder Papesh eventually owned real estate, an insurance business and Chevrolet dealership in addition to his position with the bank.
But Papesh never knew his father, who died in a Jeep accident just two months before he was born in 1943.
Composite's offices in the Washington Mutual Building are studded with lithography stones etched with the fancy scrollwork and stamps that characterized the stock certificates and letterheads of his grandfather's era.
Some were collected by Papesh, who has a large collection of Western Americana, especially books.
Papesh also is a woodworker and fisherman in his spare time. He and wife Cheryl have raised a son and a daughter.
He is proud of the Composite-Murphy Favre heritage and comfortable with its conservative approach to investing.
"We're not reaching for the maximum reward," he said.
Which is not to say that Composite investors are just scraping by.
The Bond & Stock Fund returned 13.6 percent in 1996, the Growth & Income Fund 22.3 percent. Papesh said the only disappointments were the Tax Exempt Bond Fund, and Northwest Fund.
The Northwest Fund, he said, had been keyed to personal income. When retail activity slumped in 1994 and 1995, the fund's results suffered.
Since that linkage was broken by a vote of shareholders, the fund has done very well, he said.
But Papesh said selection of an individual fund is less important than how assets are allocated among funds with different objectives, and how funds allocate funds internally.
"The important thing for consumers is to find a fund that parallels their objectives," he said.
Papesh said many investors overestimate their insight into financial markets.
A bull market of almost unprecedented duration has blurred the risks involved in investing, he said, noting that corrections have stripped 20 percent off the Dow Jones industrial average every six years, on average.
Papesh, who has served on the National Association of Securities Dealers board and the Washington State Securities Advisory Committee, said investor resolve in the face of a bear market has not been tested lately.
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Novotel Rotterdam Brainpark, Rotterdam
- Free WiFi and free parking
Main amenities
- 206 smoke-free guestrooms
- Restaurant and bar/lounge
- Breakfast available
- Fitness center
- Business center
- Terrace
- 24-hour front desk
- Air conditioning
- Daily housekeeping
- Arcade/game room
- Car rentals on site
- Computer station
- Free WiFi and free parking
For families
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
- Sofa bed
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
What's around
- In Kralingen-Crooswijk
- Arboretum Trompenburg (24-minute walk)
- Erasmus University (10-minute walk)
- Golf Club Kralingen (18-minute walk)
- Oude Haven (38-minute walk)
- Willemswerf (39-minute walk)
- Kijk-Kubus (40-minute walk)
- Glowgolf Capelle Den IJssel (42-minute walk)
- Binnenrotte Market Square (43-minute walk)
- Willemsbrug (43-minute walk)
- Markthal Rotterdam (44-minute walk)
Novotel Rotterdam Brainpark, Rotterdamfrom $80
- Superior Room, 1 Double Bed
- Executive Room, 1 Double Bed
- Superior Room, 2 Twin Beds
- Executive Room, 1 Double Bed
- Superior Room, Multiple Beds
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Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 206 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 17 floors
- Check-in time 2 PM-2 AM
- Check-out time is noon
- Express check-in/out
Required at check in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
- Minimum check-in age is 18
Travelling with others
- Up to 2 children (15 years old and younger) stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding
- Pets allowed *
- 1 per room
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Free self parking
Other information
- Smoke-free property
In the hotel
- Buffet breakfast daily (surcharge)
- Restaurant
- Bar/lounge
- 24-hour room service
- Fitness facilities
- Bicycle rentals on site
- Golfing nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Arcade/game room
- Business center
- Conference space
- Meeting rooms 12
- Conference space size (feet) - 8974
- Conference space size (meters) - 834
- Computer station
- 24-hour front desk
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Luggage storage
- Multilingual staff
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Year Built 1990
- Elevator/lift
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Terrace
- Television in common areas
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
In the room
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Air conditioning
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Pillow menu
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Sofa bed
- Private bathroom
- Shower/tub combination
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Satellite TV channels
- Desk
- Free WiFi
- Phone
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
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The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
The name on the credit card used at check-in to pay for incidentals must be the primary name on the guestroom reservation.
Special cancellation policies or charges may apply for group reservations (more than 8 rooms for the same property / stay dates).
Mandatory fees
You'll be asked to pay the following charges at check in or check out:
- A 4.5 percent city/local tax will be charged
Optional extras
Rollaway beds are available for EUR 20 per night
Buffet breakfast is offered for an extra charge of EUR 19.50 per person (approximately)
Pets are allowed for an extra charge of EUR 15 per pet, per night
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.
What's around Novotel Rotterdam Brainpark, Rotterdam
- In Kralingen-Crooswijk
- Arboretum Trompenburg (24-minute walk)
- Erasmus University (10-minute walk)
- Golf Club Kralingen (18-minute walk)
- Oude Haven (38-minute walk)
- Willemswerf (39-minute walk)
- Kijk-Kubus (40-minute walk)
- Glowgolf Capelle Den IJssel (42-minute walk)
Getting around
- Rotterdam (RTM-Rotterdam The Hague) 16-min drive
- Amsterdam (AMS-Schiphol) 45-min drive
- Rotterdam Blaak Station 7-min drive
- Rotterdam Central Station 12-min drive
- Dordrecht Station 18-min drive
- Free self parking
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