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The accident happened at 7:40 p.m. at 421 Lafayette Road inside the Red Boiling Springs city limits.
RBS Police Chief Terry Tuck said that according to witnesses, Mr. Kee over took another vehicle traveling north on Hwy. 56 and met oncoming traffic. "He turned to get back in his lane and lost control of the car striking a tree at that location," said Chief Tuck. "He almost hit another tree before the car came to a stop."
Mr. Kee was extricated from the automobile, which was smoking when investigating officer Jimmy Morgan arrived at the wreck site. "When he approached the car, Morgan noticed the driver laying across the passengers seat unrestrained and unresponsive," added the Chief.
The Macon County ambulance service carried Mr. Kee to Lafayette, where he was transferred to the helicopter and flown to Vanderbilt.
Officer Morgan obtained warrants on the following charges: DUI, driving on a revoked license, improper passing, financial responsibility, due care, registration violation, possession of a legend drug, and seat belt violation.
First responders included the Red Boiling Springs Police Department, Red Boiling Springs Fire & Rescue, Macon County Sheriffs Office, Macon County EMS, and the Macon County Chronicle.
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by Lou Mancinelli
Last Monday through Friday eight current and two former Germantown High School (GHS) students took stained glass pieces they created through the local "Stained Glass Project: Windows That Open Doors" after-school program, and they delivered the artworks to the Ojibwe People's School in Red Lake, Minnesota, located on the Red Lake Indian Reservation.
There they shared the art with Ojibwe students they've been pen pals with since they started making the pieces last September. They also went rope climbing and fishing and learned more about the Ojibwe, also known as the Chippewa people. The two groups of students share a common bond in that both groups have been plagued by underfunded education.
"Our inner city kids have seen incomplete families, violence and tragedies that I can't even conceive," said Joan Shrager, the project's co-founder, "and they are going away and taking creations they made to a whole different culture … These kids haven't even been to Northeast Philly, and now they're ambassadors [to the Ojibwe nation.]"
The trip marks the second time students from the program traveled with mentors to deliver pieces they created. (They also made stained glass pieces for a school in North Philly and for a South African school for AIDS orphans.) Last winter a group traveled to New Orleans to share their work with students in a school devastated by Hurricane Katrina. In 2010, a group of mentors traveled to a school in South Africa to deliver the stained glass to students, some of whom lived in shacks without electricity.
The program takes inner city GHS youths who have experienced tough situations at home and in their neighborhoods and provides the kids with an outlet for expression and imagination through envisioning and creating stained glass. It also teaches them about the culture and history of the places they are making the glass for.
Since the start of the school year, once a week on Wednesday afternoon, the students gathered at the First United Methodist Church of Germantown (FUMCOG) to work on the glass. They've learned how to cut glass and stretch lead to build borders and frames. Each kid creates his/her own piece, but that creation is dependent on the help of others.
Each year in the program, founded in 2006 by two longtime artists and friends, Joan Shrager and Paula Mandel, the art becomes the medium for developing and strengthening the personalities and self-esteem of youths raised in difficult situations.
"For every application for college and for scholarships, I wrote about The Stained Glass Project," said Oyinkansala Odeketan, a GHS senior originally from Nigeria. "Once you come, you always want to come back," added Janai Dallas, a graduate of the program. "It's like a family. I come here, relax and work out my feelings. It helped me learn patience and creativity."
"The program is as much about the relationships as it is about making the glass," said Paula Mandel, the project's co-founder.
In addition to learning about a new culture, students also learn about public speaking. On the reservation they present their pieces and talk about what it means to them. The pieces are colorful and evocative. They look like mosaics. One is a flower. Another looks like a butterfly.
Gravers Lane Gallery in Chestnut Hill, The Goldenberg Group and People Helping People made the trip possible through a donation by a patron of Gravers Lane Gallery. The trip cost about $1000 a person. The previous trip to New Orleans was funded in part by a $6000 First Trust Bank donation.
The project was first envisioned in 2006 when Mandel was speaking with locals Dr. Barbara Mitchell and musician Sharon Katz about an after-school program at FUMCOG that might provide an artistic outlet for local boys experiencing difficulties. Mandel and Shrager have worked together for years (they ran the Art Forms Gallery in Manayunk together until 2006), so Mandel asked Shrager if she wanted to help her teach the class. "We were just gonna have the kids make cute things to bring home," said Shrager, a Jenkintown resident.
But that changed when they learned Katz was building a school for kids with AIDS in South Africa. In the 1990s, Katz, a native of South Africa, organized "The Peace Train," which took a group of diverse people through apartheid South Africa. Mandel rode on that train. When she found out Katz was building the school, the idea was born to create stained glass for the school.
The Stained Glass Project has now grown from a local art class that gives troubled youths an outlet to a global group transforming those teens into ambassadors for Germantown. "I believe in the power of art as something that heals people," said Mandel, 60, a Lafayette Hill resident raised in Mt. Airy. "It gives people a means of expression that is not criticized for people who are often criticized and pigeonholed."
For more information about the Stained Glass Project: Windows That Open Doors visit its Facebook page, or email email@example.com.

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Because my grandparents on my mother's side lived in Brooklyn, I would go to New York City and I would see these things. And it scared the hell out of me. In the subway I remember a wind from the approaching train, then a smell and sound. I could taste the horror every time I went to New York.
My grandfather owned an apartment building in Brooklyn with no kitchens. A man was cooking an egg on an iron—that really worried me. And every night he unscrewed his car aerial so gangs wouldn't break it off. I could just feel fear in the air. It was great fuel for future fires.


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Flu season is among us even here in the warmer state of Florida.
Despite the vaccine's success rates, this year, only 40% of people ages six months or older have been vaccinated. A local doctor said that number should be a lot higher and that the flu shot is nothing but beneficial to your health.
"It's our weather, it's warmer here so our season is later typically in November and December its hitting the rest of the nation pretty hard but it doesn't hit here until January or February," said Dr. Vickie Prince with St. Vincents Hospital.
Dr. Prince said the number of flu cases in Florida are typically lower than other states due to a shorter flu season, but new CDC guidelines suggest getting the vaccine as soon as it's available.
"The CDC now recommends the flu shots be given immediately after they're available. In the past they recommended mid-October or later, but as soon as you start seeing flu shot signs, get it right away," said Dr. Prince.
In 2012, 381,000 people were hospitalized and 169 children died from the flu.
The good news is the flu vaccine prevented millions of illnesses in 2012.
It's estimated that it prevented 6.6 million people from getting sick, 3.2 million from going to a see a doctor and at least 79,000 hospitalizations
Dr. Prince recommends getting a flu shot every year because new strains of the flu are found every summer and new shots are made each year to protect you from those specific strains.
"The flu virus changes every year and throughout the year, so a year that's bad and a strain comes out that we haven't seen before, there's many people who are not immune to it," said Dr. Prince.
You may have heard that getting the flu vaccine makes you sick. Dr. Prince said that is a giant rumor. She said many tests have been done negating that the flu shot will make you sick. She adds that the shot is a killed virus, not live, so it's impossible for it to cause an illness.
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After initially starting off on a positive note, U.S. stocks dipped into the red Wednesday morning as Wall Street returns from its longest shutdown in more than a century.
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As of 1:00 p.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average futures fell 35.46 points, or 0.27%, to 13071.21, the S&P 500 declined 3.6 points, or 0.25%, to 1408.35 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 17.33 points, or 0.58%, to 2970.67.
So far Wall Street has enjoyed a relatively smooth start to trading despite limited Internet access and telephone service by some floor traders.
American equity markets were completely shuttered Monday and Tuesday as Hurricane Sandy ravaged the Eastern Seaboard, flooding large swaths of lower Manhattan, the home of Wall Street.
Trading has been more widely available in derivatives markets, where much floor trading occurs on the CME Group's (NYSE:CME) Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and on electronic platforms.
Market participants said it could be a rocky ride across most markets as trading picks back up. Indeed, Gavan Nolan, director of credit research at Markit said in an e-mail that "the ongoing transportation problems could result in low volumes for the rest of the week."
Still, Jonathan Corpina, senior managing partner at Meridian Equity Partners, said he expects 90% of his staff to be available on the day: "This isn't like a snowstorm where a lot of the roadways are blocked," he said.
Internet and telephone service at the NYSE remained limited, according to FOX Business producers and reporters on site. Crews worked around the clock, however, to get services back up. Emergency generators were also in use.
Shares of companies that may benefit from the rebuilding of the areas hit by Hurricane Sandy traded solidly higher, including Owens Corning (NYSE:OC) and Eagle Materials (NYSE:EXP).
Home improvement retailers like Home Depot (NYSE:HD) and Lowe's (NYSE:LOW) also saw their shares head north.
On the economic front, the Chicago Fed said manufacturing activity in the Midwest ticked up to 49.9 from 49.7 in October, but that trailed forecasts for a reading of 51.0 and marked a contraction. Traders will receive a new update on national manufacturing activity on Thursday from the Institute for Supply Management.
A batch of considerably better-than-expected retail sales data from Germany contributed to traders' buying appetite on Wednesday, according to analysts at Nomura. Sales jumped 1.5% in September from the month before, a much bigger gain than the 0.3% economists expected.
The closely-eyed S&P/Case-Shiller report on U.S. home prices that was released Tuesday also helped lift sentiment. Home prices in 20 major metropolitan markets climbed 0.9% on a non-seasonally adjusted month-to-month basis and 2% on a year-to-year basis in August. It was the biggest annual increase in two years. Additionally, there were monthly gains in all but one of the markets surveyed by the report.
"That home price gains are becoming more widespread by region is an encouraging sign that the housing sector is on a sustained uptrend, across both activity and prices," Peter Newland an economist at Barclays wrote in a note to clients.
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It's always something with Arian Foster — vegetarian diets, comments on being paid in college, etc. Here's the latest:
Fantex Brokerage Servies is paying Texans running back Arian Foster $10 million for a 20 percent stake in his future earnings (contracts, endorsements, etc.) and then asking fans to invest, according to a report by ESPN's Darren Rovell.
The company will begin taking reservations in the next two weeks and could be selling shares of Foster in as soon as a month depending on demand and progress with the Securities & Exchange Commission, ESPN reports.
It's much like fantasy sports, except fans will be trading on Foster's business value. If he does well on the field and companies become more interested in Foster as an endorser, his stock might go up. Fans can then buy and sell shares, with Fantex taking a commission. The company says it is hoping to acquire a future stake in athletes but does not have any other deals finalized at this time.
"Fantex is bringing sports and business together in a way never previously thought possible," CEO Buck French said in a statement. "By building a marketplace that allows customers to buy shares in a tracking stock linked to the value and performance of an athlete's brand, Fantex is enabling a new level of brand advocacy through ownership."
French told ESPN.com that the company would collect 20 percent of what Foster makes going forward, including money made from the five-year contract with the Texans he signed last season that guaranteed him $20.7 million. Foster also will make money on his endorsement deals with Under Armour and Fuse Science, and he recently acquired a stake in chia bar company Health Warrior.
Athletes who have had investors buy a stake in their future income include boxer Sugar Ray Leonard and golfer Rich Beem, according to Rovell.
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WASHINGTON – Last year, the French silent film "The Artist" (2011) won five Oscars, including Best Picture.
Now, another French filmmaker hopes to do the same with "Amour," winner of the Cannes Film Festival's coveted Palme d'Or. The ninth and final Oscar nominee for Best Picture is finally trickling into select theaters in our area.
While "On Golden Pond" (1981) starred aging Hollywood legends Henry Fonda (76) and Katharine Hepburn (74), "Amour" jumps to the other side of the pond with aging French legends Jean-Louis Trintignant (82) of Bernardo Bertolucci's "The Conformist" (1970) and Emmanuelle Riva (85) of Alain Resnais' "Hiroshima Mon Amour" (1959).
After appearing in separate segments of Krzysztof Kieslowski's "Three Colors Trilogy" (1993-1994), the two now unite for a powerful French-German-Austrian production of love and loss.
Writer/director Michael Haneke explores the true meaning of "amour" (French for "love") through Georges and Anne, an elderly couple of Parisian music teachers, who stare down death after Anne is half-paralyzed by a stroke. Despite their daughter Eva's (Isabelle Huppert) insistence that they put Anne in a nursing home, Georges stays by her bedside in their Paris apartment until the bitter end.
Don't expect any quick cuts, jarring setups or elaborate camera moves. Haneke's style isn't flashy like Guy Ritchie or Quentin Tarantino. He's calm, collected and cooler than the other side of the pillow.
Like his previous films "Cache" (2005), "Funny Games" (2007) and "The White Ribbon" (2009), Haneke's vision unfolds through a series of long "single takes," where a static camera rolls without cutting (i.e. Jim Jarmusch) and lingers after the characters have left the room (i.e. Woody Allen).
The style is a commentary on our own movie watching, particularly as the camera stares at a recital audience for several minutes. Untrained eyes may grow impatient, but engaged viewers will challenge themselves to a game of "Where's Waldo?" to spot Georges and Anne in the fourth row, standing to let someone pass to their seat, then applauding the work of their former music student.
"Amour" thus transcends the screen like Bergman's "Persona" (1966), Bunuel's "Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" (1972) and Allen's "Purple Rose of Cairo" (1985). It makes us keenly aware of the filmmaking process, just like Georges turning off the soundtrack to highlight the difference between diegetic and non-diegetic sound (sound source visible on screen vs. playing on the soundtrack).
The trip to the theater is our only exposure to the outside world, as much of the film is confined to the couple's apartment, generating a suffocating sense of claustrophobia. This approach not only mimics the characters' physical lack of mobility, it forces us to watch some very tough end-of-life scenarios.
The camera's unblinking eye watches Anne fall out of bed, defecate in her nightgown, and spin around in a motorized chair, becoming a kindred spirit to a legless Marion Cotillard in my second favorite foreign flick of the year, "Rust & Bone" (2012). At one point, the gazing becomes so intense that Anne says, "Stop peering at me," but we can't look away from her anguish.
By the end, you'll want to immediately go back and watch the beginning to see how certain windows got opened, how certain doors got closed, and whether a certain object was present in the bedroom.
There's a reason The Huffington Post declared Haneke "arguably the greatest living filmmaker." He allows no escape, forcing us to actively engage with his films, rather than passively follow the action.
Certainly, it's not for everyone. If you enjoy fast-moving fantasies about safe subjects without subtitles, don't bother with "Amour." As a character says, "Imagination and reality have little in common."
But if you like uniquely emotional films that capture real-life drama with deliberate pacing, subtly mischievous directing and powerhouse performances, put this at the top of your list.
Haneke is one of only seven filmmakers to win the Palme d'Or twice, putting him ahead of legends like Billy Wilder, Federico Fellini, Robert Altman and Orson Welles. Granted, Wilder's "Double Indemnity" (1944) and Welles' "Citizen Kane" (1941) were banned under Nazi-occupation, a lost period of Hollywood films that French critics revisited in 1945 to coin the phrase "film noir." These same critics were inspired to become filmmakers themselves in the French New Wave of 1959, which brought brazen techniques back across the Atlantic for the Hollywood Renaissance of the '60s and '70s.
This American-French exchange has continued to the point where "Amour" is nominated for five Oscars, including Best Picture, Director (Haneke), Actress (Riva), Screenplay (Haneke) and Foreign Film. While it's a lock for Foreign Film and a solid bet for Actress and Director, its Best Picture chances are far less certain. I'm not sure the Academy will give its top prize to two French movies in a row, especially when "The Artist" (2011) used its silent gimmick to avoid subtitle pushback.
Whether it wins or not has more to do with Oscar politics than the film's merit. A lack of statues can't deny the film's power. There's a scene where Georges describes going to see a film as a kid, unable to recall the story, but remembering breaking down in tears. The same goes for "Amour."
While its story is simple and its end-of-life depictions hard to watch, the film will make you look at your own parents and grandparents differently, appreciating every second you have with your loved ones and recalling love's true mantra: "in sickness and in health."
★ ★ ★ ★
The above rating is based on a 4-star scale. Follow WTOP Film Critic Jason Fraley on Twitter @JasonFraleyWTOP or check out his blog The Film Spectrum.
(Copyright 2013 by WTOP. All Rights Reserved.)
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Apostolic Penitentiary, Decree Specifying the Conditions for Acquiring the Jubilee Indulgence, 29 November 1998.
By the present decree, which implements the will of the Holy Father expressed in the Bull of Indiction of the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000, and by virtue of faculties granted by the same Supreme Pontiff, the Apostolic Penitentiary defines the discipline to be observed for gaining the Jubilee indulgence.
All the faithful, properly prepared, can fully enjoy, throughout the Jubilee, the gift of the indulgence, in accordance with the following norms.
While indulgences granted either generally or by special rescript remain in force during the Great Jubilee, it should be noted that the Jubilee indulgence also can be applied in suffrage to the souls of the deceased: such an offering constitutes an outstanding act of supernatural charity, in virtue of the bond which, in the Mystical Body of Christ, unites the faithful still on pilgrimage here below and those who have already ended their earthly journey. Then too, the rule that a plenary indulgence can be gained only once a day remains in force during the entire Jubilee year.
The high point of the Jubilee is the encounter with God the Father, through Christ the Saviour present in his Church and in a special way in the Sacraments. For this reason, the whole Jubilee journey, prepared for by pilgrimage, has as its starting point and its conclusion the celebration of the Sacraments of Penance and of the Eucharist, the paschal mystery of Christ, our peace and our reconciliation: this is the transforming encounter which opens us to the gift of the indulgence for ourselves and for others.
After worthily celebrating sacramental confession, which ordinarily, according to the norm of Canon 960 of the Code of Canon Law and of
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Canon 720 §1 of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, must be individual and complete, each member of the faithful, having fulfilled the required conditions, can receive or apply the gift of the plenary indulgence during a suitable period of time, even daily, without needing to go to confession again. It is fitting however that the faithful should frequently receive the grace of the Sacrament of Penance, in order to grow in conversion and in purity of heart.
Participation in the Eucharist, which is required for all indulgences, should properly take place on the same day as the prescribed works are performed.
These two culminating moments must be accompanied, first of all, by the witness of communion with the Church, manifested by prayer for the intentions of the Roman Pontiff, and also by acts of charity and penance, following the indications given below: these acts are meant to express the true conversion of heart to which communion with Christ in the Sacraments leads. Christ is truly our forgiveness and the expiation of our sins (cf. 1 Jn 2: 2). By pouring into the hearts of the faithful the Holy Spirit who is the "remission of all sins",
he guides each individual towards a filial and trusting encounter with the Father of mercies. From this encounter springs a commitment to conversion and renewal, to ecclesial communion and to charity towards our brothers and sisters.
Likewise confirmed for the coming Jubilee is the norm whereby confessors can commute, on behalf of those legitimately impeded, both the work prescribed and the conditions required.
Cloistered men and women religious, the infirm and all those who for whatever reason are not able to leave their own house, can carry out, in lieu of a visit to a certain Church, a visit to the chapel of their house; should even this be impossible for them, they can gain the indulgence by spiritually uniting themselves with those carrying out the prescribed work in the ordinary manner and by offering to God their prayers, sufferings and discomforts. With regard to the required conditions, the faithful can gain the Jubilee indulgence:
. Cf. ibid., Norm. 23, §§1-2.
. Cf. ibid., Norm. 23, §3.
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1) In Rome, if they make a pious pilgrimage to one of the Patriarchal Basilicas, namely, the Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican, the Archbasilica of the Most Holy Saviour at the Lateran, the Basilica of Saint Mary Major and the Basilica of Saint Paul on the Ostian Way, and there take part devoutly in Holy Mass or another liturgical celebration such as Lauds or Vespers, or some pious exercise (e.g., the Stations of the Cross, the Rosary, the recitation of the Akathistos Hymn in honour of the Mother of God); furthermore, if they visit, as a group or individually, one of the four Patriarchal Basilicas and there spend some time in Eucharistic adoration and pious mediations, ending with the "Our Father", the profession of faith in any approved form, and prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary. To the four Patriarchal Basilicas are added, on this special occasion of the Great Jubilee, the following further places, under the same conditions: the Basilica of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem, the Basilica of Saint Lawrence in Campo Verano, the Shrine of Our Lady of Divine Love, and the Christian Catacombs.
2) In the Holy Land, if, keeping the same conditions, they visit the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, or the Basilica of the Nativity in Bethlehem or the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth.
3) In other ecclesiastical territories, if they make a sacred pilgrimage to the Cathedral Church or to other Churches or places designated by the Ordinary, and there assist devoutly at a liturgical celebration or other pious exercise, such as those mentioned above for the City of Rome; in addition, if they visit, in a group or individually, the Cathedral Church or a Shrine designated by the Ordinary, and there spend some time in pious meditation, ending with the "Our Father", the profession of faith in any approved form, and prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
4) In any place, if they visit for a suitable time their brothers and sisters in need or in difficulty (the sick, the imprisoned, the elderly living alone, the handicapped, etc.), as if making a pilgrimage to Christ present in them (cf. Mt 25:3436), and fulfilling the usual spiritual and sacramental conditions and saying the usual prayers. The faithful will certainly wish to repeat these visits throughout the Holy Year, since on each occasion they can gain the plenary indulgence, although obviously not more than once a day.
. Cf. Ench. indulg., Grant 14.
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The plenary indulgence of the Jubilee can also be gained through actions which express in a practical and generous way the penitential spirit which is, as it were, the heart of the Jubilee. This would include abstaining for at least one whole day from unnecessary consumption (e.g., from smoking or alcohol, or fasting or practising abstinence according to the general rules of the Church and the norms laid down by the Bishops' Conferences) and donating a proportionate sum of money to the poor; supporting by a significant contribution works of a religious or social nature (especially for the benefit of abandoned children, young people in trouble, the elderly in need, foreigners in various countries seeking better living conditions); devoting a suitable portion of personal free time to activities benefitting the community, or other similar forms of personal sacrifice.
Given in Rome, at the Apostolic Penitentiary, on 29 November 1998, the First Sunday of Advent.
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The method best suited for production systems is to use a cluster configuration file to specify the configuration of the cluster:
Create a cluster configuration file that uses the imq.cluster.brokerlist property to specify the list of brokers to be connected.
If you are using a master broker, identify it with the imq.cluster.masterbroker property in the configuration file.
For each broker in the cluster, set the imq.cluster.url property in the broker's instance configuration file to point to the cluster configuration file.
Use the imqbrokerd command to start each broker.
If there is a master broker, start it first, then the others after it has completed its startup.


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text: On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Dan Christensen wrote: > I'm also curious about monitoring the UPS's. If there are several > of them, does one usually monitor all of them using the head node, > or split this task up? We have four APC smartups for our current cluster. Each UPS is connected via a serial cable to a machine that it is powering. We don't have all four connected to one computer for a few reasons. The obvious one is that our motherboards have two serial ports, not four. Slightly less obvious is that if one circuit goes down (eg. trips breaker) but another does not, you could have your UPS monitoring machine power down, but other machines on another circuit still running, with a now unmonitored UPS. And then when that UPS also loses power, there is nothing to tell you about it or do a shutdown. We use some opensource software called apcupsd. I think now APC has their own powerchute software for linux, but I'd rather have something opensource, and apcupsd works very well. We run a "master" daemon on each node with a serial connection to the UPS, and a "slave" daemon all the other nodes powered by that UPS. When power fails, all the nodes will get shutdown if necessary. The daemon will email you for power outages and bad UPS batteries. There is a cgi script you use that will provide status for any number of apcupsd daemons.


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Advanced Micro Devices said on Wednesday it promoted senior executive Devinder Kumar to chief financial officer after the struggling PC chipmaker announced in September its previous CFO was leaving.
Kumar, a 28-year AMD veteran, had been standing in as CFO since AMD announced the departure of Thomas Siefert, who was liked by many on Wall Street.
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Since 2001, Kumar was corporate controller at AMD, which like other PC-related companies has been hit by a slump in demand as smartphones and tablets grow in popularity.
AMD, one of Silicon Valley's oldest chipmakers, has been laying off engineers while looking for new markets for its chips as it faces dwindling cash reserves.


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US existing-home sales fall to 4.9M pace, 3rd straight decline and weakest in nearly a year
WASHINGTON – The number of people who bought existing U.S. homes in November declined for the third straight month. Higher mortgage rates have made home-buying more expensive, while the lingering impact of the October government shutdown may have deterred some sales.
The National Association of Realtors says home sales fell 4.3 percent to an annual rate of 4.90 million. That's the weakest pace since December 2012, and the first time since April that the pace has slipped below 5 million.
Still, the association projects that total sales this year will be 5.1 million. That would be the strongest since 2007, when the housing bubble burst.
The median sales price of an existing home was $196,300 in November, a slight decrease from October but 9.4 percent higher than a year ago.


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It takes all sorts to build a cloud
The magic of teamwork
The warning came through loud and clear in our recent Regcast, Future-Proofing the Data Centre: if you want to build a private cloud, your teams must work together.
That, HP's David Chalmers told us, means creating a service delivery team: some of you from the server team need to work with a small group from the storage team, and a group from the storage team is going to be hanging out with the networks team, and so on.
More than that, though, they don't just communicate from time to time. Everything Chalmers recommended in the Regcast was based on his experience of what worked, and often what didn't work, for his customers. They told him that it wasn't enough just to have the teams in communication.
For next-generation data centre projects, you need dedicated cross-functional teams with complementary specialisations, aiming for a single service-delivery goal.
Easier said than done, says Freeform Dynamics' Dale Vile, our other panellist. Having researched the topic in 2011 – also with Reg readers – he recently blogged about the problems of what IT departments are calling "unified management".
The benefits to users of coherent project management may be obvious, but as anyone who has tried to do it knows, it is not easy.
Vile's colleague Andy Buss, who did the research, said the investigation "uncovered a strong correlation between the presence of a coherent multi-disciplinary team structure and the overall level of responsiveness and performance of IT. This is understandable when you consider that hand-offs, power games and finger-pointing between teams is a frequent cause of wasted time and effort".
When we build a team, establishing a common goal is the easy bit
You may be shocked, shocked I tell you, to find that cross-disciplinary teams occasionally form a circular firing squad. Wanting to work together productively is not a surprising goal, but it can seem surprising when it actually happens.
When we build cross-functional teams, establishing a common goal is the easy bit. What follows will determine whether that goal is realised effectively.
1. Trust keeps the team together
Cross-functional teams break a management structure. You are reporting both to a team leader and to a line manager. If you are in several teams, you suddenly have many bosses who may want to pull you in all directions, and many new colleagues who don't have the same world view.
It is a myth that combining people from different backgrounds inevitably improves the team. People need to trust that your contribution is valuable, and trust needs to be built.
Sheila Simsarian Webber, a specialist in team working from Concordia University, Montreal, says: "The fundamental differences between individuals from different functional areas create barriers to effective team processes."
There is little evidence, she adds, that creating a more diverse team improves teamwork.
2. Reward the same things
That is partly down to culture, but not always. A cross-functional team may have the same overall goal but recognise different aspects of it as desirable. There may be a tension between speed of deployment (which the users or an understaffed line manager favours) and security, for example.
This tension has always existed, but we naturally expect teams to resolve the problems by compromise. We even go on trips where we build rafts together out of unused copies of Windows Vista, or fall backwards into the waiting arms of our sysadmins, as a prelude to negotiations on how to achieve team goals.
This might be a waste of time, points out Bob Frisch in the Harvard Business Review. It is quite possible that the problems in diverse teams can't be resolved by voting, or by the intervention of management.
"They miss the real problem, which lies not with the people but with the process," he writes.
If everyone below the team leader represents a competing interest, each unit in the team competes with every other unit to get more recognition and resource in the project. The final allocation may simply leave everyone unhappy, resentful and demotivated.
Frisch recommends two ways for teams to achieve more harmony. The first is to negotiate in private, away from outside influences (such as departmental managers). Then the team can be honest and feels free to make its own deals on goals and resourcing.
Second, allow time for the whole team to study the competing arguments about how to succeed, rather than impose a swift judgement from above.
3. It is not all or nothing
You can grow teams. "It is actually better in larger shops to establish a beachhead using some of your best people, let them establish policies and practices on a models scale, then gradually move people into the converged team structure over time," says Vile.
In his forthcoming report, A Vision for the Data Centre, three out of five Reg readers say that in a perfect world they would be taking a unified approach to operations and management. Sixty per cent of "movers" among Reg readers (the rest of you are "dreamers" and "traditionalists") are building by the "expanding beachhead".
4. Protect your valuable specialists
If it is hard to build a cross-functional team because everyone's different, then surely the alternative is less specialism?
Don't do it, Vile says. "You will still need your server, storage, networking, security and application specialists. The aim is to get them working together in the same way as a Formula 1 team," he adds.
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SpaceOps 2014 provides the opportunity for you to share experiences, challenges, and innovative solutions with colleagues from around the globe. Take home new ideas and make connections. Be it civil or military applications, educational, scientific, or commercial objectives, space segments or ground segments, the space operations community greatly values, and benefits from, collaboration and the sharing of ideas. To this end, we enthusiastically invite you to Explore Innovation!
Hosted by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and organized by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), SpaceOps 2014 will bring together the space operations community to address state-of-the-art operations principles, methods, and tools. Held biennially since 1990, the conference attracts technologists, scientists, and managers from space agencies, industry, and academia, and fosters managerial and technical interchange on all aspects of space mission operations, including robotic and human spaceflight, earth orbit and deep space missions, lunar and planetary missions, and orbital and surface operations.
The SpaceOps Organization is formed by representatives of the major world space agencies and is open to space industry representatives. The main objective of the organization is to monitor the evolution in all major fields of space operations, including unmanned and manned missions and embracing space missions from near Earth to Deep Space.


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vishalk needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 18 designs submitted by 6 freelance designers.
Posty McPost
I'm the founder of a mobile apps startup called maha::software (mahasoftware.com). maha::software is about mobile apps that help people connect with other people in interesting and fun ways.
To give you a little idea on expected demographics, the expected users will be power users of their iPhones that download a lot of apps, and are active on their social networks. Age range, 20s-30s.
The iPhone app that is in development right now is called "Posty McPost." As you can tell from the title, this is a fun app that doesn't take itself too seriously. At the same time, it's really useful-- it's an app that makes it simple and fast to send your favorite iPhone apps to your friends. You can do it over social networks like Facebook or Twitter, or plain old email.
What I'm looking specifically for right now is the logo that will be used as the app's icon on the iPhone home screen. So, this will be seen by everybody who downloads the app, or is browsing the App Store. This is also the button that the user will be looking for when they're trying to find my app on their phone. If you're not already familiar with the iPhone, home screen icons are sized at 57x57. So it needs to be a clear, clean, catchy design that looks good in a relatively small space. It also needs to be able to scale up to 512x512, because Apple requests all logos at that size.
If you'd like more context on other iPhone app icons, I'd recommend downloading iTunes (http://www.apple.com/itunes/) and browsing the "Applications" section of the iTunes Store.
Here are some of the high-level concepts to keep in mind:
- an app that makes it easy to share apps with your friends
- mobile software that connects people
- fun
- fast and simple
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text: Pat, The best answer that I can give you is to read the answers to questions 1, 2, and 3 in the Beowulf mailing list FAQ. Look here. http://www.dnaco.net/~kragen/beowulf-faq.txt -Andrew On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Pat Rock wrote: Before I begin let me be upfront about some stuff: I'm a complete newbie to linux; let alone Beowulf clustering, and probably computing in general by your standards =). Now, my question is this: I work for an Application Service Provider that is using BEA's Weblogic Server as the Java App Server of our choice. We are currently running Weblogic 4.x with SP11. At this time the load on our servers is pushing the limits of our application and most of it is because of the nature of Weblogic. We cannot afford to keep shelling out money on one massive server to support 100 or so people, we need to be able to cluster our application. We are curious if anyone has had success clustering Weblogic 4.x using Beowulf, or if you can point us in the right direction to head in. Thanks Pat Rock _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list Beowulf at beowulf.org http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf


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Opening Reception - October 19. 2017 at 4:00 pm.
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I love this meme, but I believe you're supposed to credit the artist of the Copy-pasted picture in 12.
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Welcome to Spring Semester 2019!
The Humanities at MSU
The Humanities Program at Minnesota State University, Mankato offers an interdisciplinary approach to examine common issues, ideas, and themes that run throughout different cultures and throughout human history. The program uncovers the creative side of the human spirit and crosses the boundaries of the shared human experience--in the places where dreams meet reality, art meets life, and technology meets nature.
By studying literature, arts, and philosophical and religious traditions from ancient to contemporary times, students will recognize the roles of human expression in shaping how individuals and cultures understand their connections to each other and to the world.
The major and minor offered by the Humanities Program help students to become independent thinkers, connection makers, and problem solvers. Humanities students will be able to communicate and work effectively across cultural and geographic boundaries, expand their critical thinking skills, and sharpen their understanding of diverse human perspectives and new global relationships.
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I love spring and all its wonders. My friend created a cute butterfly book today and shared with me. Since she isn't part of bloggy world, I asked if I could share!Butterfly Book
If you are in the middle of life cycles then I have a cute little pack perfect for organizing student observations! I've used this file for several years! The excitement never gets old!
I featured a few additional activities in the pack above. Just click the first image to link to the unit!
In addition to our journals, we create a pasta life cycle! This seems to be the kids favorite project! The kids are amazed by the simplest things!


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Hope for the future: Key to peace lies with the Filipino youth
Peace – something that many of us take for granted in our own lives – is elusive for millions of people around the world, including in southern Philippines. Long-standing conflict between the government and rebel groups, and a complicated patchwork of clan and family conflicts, has led to decades of economic stagnation and poverty in one of the Philippines' most beautiful and productive regions – Mindanao. A peace process is hopefully nearing its conclusion and is expected to bring autonomy and with it, greater opportunities for peace and development to the people of the Bangsamoro.
The Philippines is a middle-income country – with GDP at $2,953 per capita and a robust economy, with almost 96% enrollment rate in basic education, and improving health indicators such as child mortality; overall the country is doing well. But these numbers mask sharp regional contrasts: in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) the GDP per capita is only $576 – equivalent to countries like Rwanda and Afghanistan – the poverty rate is 53.7%, and more than 50% of its employed population are in agriculture with 80% of them working as subsistence farmers, living precariously from crop to crop. One crop failure can mean ruin for a family.


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This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question for our readers:
I watch a lot of dystopian/post-apocalyptic movies, and one RECURRING theme is "once there are no laws, women are cattle" in one form or another. I find it a. ridiculous, and b. a sad commentary that it is just assumed that with no one to stop them, men will just rape and enslave women to their heart's content.
I really want to see a (non-sketchy or "omg they rule by being sexy") matriarchal dystopian/post-apocalyptic setup, just for a change of pace, or a "hey, even though things got crappy, there is still a shred of humanity in more than JUST the protagonist of the movie"
The friend who forwarded me this question said someone else had mentioned Octavia Butler and Ursula K LeGuin, but feel free to explain why they fit below for those who aren't familiar with their work. Still, they can't be the only people to have explored this type of dystopia. Does anyone have any suggestions of movies, books, games or other media that fit the bill?


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I am a web and mobile app developer living in Ljubljana, Slovenia and tripping around in search of good waves.
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Family > With children | 21 August 2016
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stayed at the Kurumba resort the last 3 days of our vacation in August. We'd been to this resort already and wanted to come back although only for a short period. Upon arriving at the airport from the previous resort we were greeted by their staff, they attacked the suitcases the packing slips of the assigned room and as soon as Arrived the other guests, in about thirty minutes, they walked us to the pier where there awaited their wonderful yachts. On board they offered a cold towel, they served a bottle of water and distributed the
Kurumba Magazine magazine that summarizes activities, history and other interesting news about the resort and how to avoid boredom during your stay. It is impossible to get bored here even if you stay for 2 months ...you will Have so many activities that you can indulge! The trip is short but the other guests they all went to the upper deck to enjoy the crossing, we remained the only ones inside the yacht. In 15 minutes we enter into
Kurumba Jetty where we are
Received and accompanied in the reception room. We are served a delicious coconut sorbet and We get explanation about the General rules of the island, catering and activities .then we do our
Check in and they accompany us to the room. We chose a superior, that are closest to reception so our journey is short. We are on the first floor as we requested. We are in the third building coming from the
Sea rather than the second as
Last time, the view is still nice. The room is beautiful as we remembered it. To the left of the entrance to the walk-in there is a closet that contains the
Safety life jackets
In an emergency tsunami, a flashlight for the Walk at night, iron and iron axe. The closet is roomy with large drawers and hanging space for long dresses. Behind you it opens the double door leading to the bathroom area, on The left side there is the
Closed door that allows , if necessary ,to make connecting rooms. On the right the corner bar. In corner bar there is a mini fridge ,
Well stocked with soft drinks and spirits. Peanuts, candy, potato chips and other snacks. Bottles of vodka. A free big bottle of water for every person, complimentary kettle for tea and coffee. The bathroom has a shower indoors next to one of the 2 washbasins, the second basin is on the other side next to the water close. Bathrobes and towels are available hanging next to the sink. There is also the dirty laundry basket. In the middle of the room still covered but just at the end of it
There is a big bath tub , from which you can see the sky full of stars
. And at the end of the room The open air shower
It Is a bathroom of a decent size! As utility they provide you ayurvedic body cream and shower gel, shampoo and conditioner. These Are very good products and they can be purchased at
Souvenir shop. You will also find cotton balls, Cotton swabs and dental kit to brush your teeth. Also in the bathroom you will find towels for the beach. If you have chi loden superior room like we do you will be welcomed with beautiful beach bag Brown colored, the more luxurious Rooms have a colorful striped bag with different shape and maybe slightly less capacious. For The 3 of us this is perfect for us. The bedroom is very spacious, on the right side there is the couch, in front of it the
Television and desk, the double bed is positioned on the wider side of the room, straight in front of the glass door to the balcony. On the balcony table, chairs and sofas make the stay outside especially comfortable. On the desk a book provides detailed prices of catering services and activities. You will also find free weekly activities program brochure and to payment and to book. The proposals are numerous, from cooking classes and boduberu, painting, yoga and physical activities, guided snorkeling, water sports motorized and non. Excursions of any kinds, diving, glass boat and finally a range of activities for children. Also on this pamphlet there is a promotion stating that if you placed on Instagram 10 photo tagging Kurumba they are offering you an excursion with the glass bottom boat. A good promotional idea. We worn our beach costumes and go down to the beach where Sun beds are assigned to our room, here the Sun beach is a thin strip, behind there are tall palm trees offering shade. Under the Palms a few hammocks provide a relaxing rocking. We are close to
Water sport center, here it pass
Often canoes, stand up paddler, and sometimes the water drift. Here the bottom is sandy, lagoon-soft sand is so soft that you guess if The lagoon was covered with artificial sand . the reflection of light on clear water is almost dazzling. To snorkel you must move westward, where are reported the passes to leave the reef and Also The coral gardens. If this is not enough for you the pool awaits you near reception. They provide beach towels when you arrive there . Alternatively you can play tennis or volleyball or soccer in the camps in the Interior of the island, train in the second swimming pool near the maaya kids or go to book a cuddle to Veli SPA but you certainly won't get bored.
Stayed August 2015, in room 135
Spa > Kuramathi Spa 30 May 2014
Well, after the excitement of our wedding, the build up and explosion of emotions of the best day of our life, a massage in paradise was definitely in order.
It was very hard dragging ourselves away from our sunbeds where we were enjoying the stunning sea views with a cold beer at our sides, but it was worth it. The spa is a beautiful and tranquil setting that relaxes you as soon as you enter.
The staff were very professional, as were all of the staff on the island, and we were never unsettled from our sleepy state.
We both had the 60 minute body massage. It was incredible. I must admit, I fell asleep within minutes, but I have never fallen asleep during a massage before, and have never felt so good afterwards. It really set us up for the rest of our honeymoon.
You must stay at this hotel if you are thinking of visiting the Maldives and you must experience the spa.
Stayed November 2011
Spa > Kuramathi Spa 25 June 2013
The smells
I wasnt intending to have a spa treatment, but when we arrived, I saw the spa as we were looking around the island. It cost 170 dollars and that was a full body massage, it lasted for about an hour and a half and it was heavenly. You really must try it if you stay here, it puts you in holiday mode lol. you can also have facials etc, but I have quite sensitive skin and didn't want to have spots or anything on very picture that was taken. My husband didn't really want anything done, so he went and had a sunbathe while I had my treatment. They are so friendly in the spa too and if you have any injuries or anything, if you mention it before they start, they are so accommodating. It was expensive I suppose, but it is so worth it.
Stayed June 2013
Leisure > With partner | 25 June 2013
Not much for vegetarians on buffet
We stayed here from 9th june until 19th june, We booked it with kuoni and had three nights in dubai before we landed here, im glad we did it this way round as dubai is busy and hectic, so we wanted total relaxation before we went home. We arrived by seaplane which was an experience in itself, it is very loud, but you get earplugs if you want them. You wait in the kuramathi sea plane lounge and there is refreshments and wifi while you wait, the view from the sea plane was amazing, you can see all the other little islands, when you land, you stop on a floating jetty and are transported by a boat, which takes about 10 minutes. Check in was done already when we arrived, while we were given a cold drink and a wet flannel, which was very nice, the reception area is very lovely. The rep Nicole told us what room we were in and told us what package we were on. We then had our bags taken to out villa, which was literally steps from the beautiful beach. we unpacked and couldn't wait to get out and about, we went to the sand bar where you sit on big bean bags, it is very laid back and the staff are great. On the menu is 59 different cocktails and I tried to get through them all and failed as I had a couple of favourites, you can some of them frozen and they taste so much better frozen. They have a movie night twice a week which is good, the laguna bar is overlooking the beach and you can watch the stingrays being fed from 18.30-19.00 every night, that is so good to watch. We also went into the Dhoni bar, this I felt wasn't as friendly as the other bars, but we only visited once, so I'm sure if we had been another time they would have remembered us. The Fung bar is right next to the sand bar and is also really nice. We got a free sunset cruise as part of our all inclusive bundle and we saw lots of dolphins, it was amazing, you get a glass of sparkling wine to watch the sunset, although once you see the dolphins, you totally forget about the sunset. We went snorkling and you get free hire if you are all inclusive, we have never been snorkling before, but once we got the hang of it, it was totally out of this world to see all the fish, you don't have to swim out very far to see them. We saw sharks every day right next to the waters edge, feeding on all the little fish. We saw clown fish, puffer fish, trigger fish etc, one even had a nibble of mine and my husbands shin. The weather was great, it rained on the 14th june and the 16th june, but apart from that it was boiling hot. The day before you leave you have a departure meeting with the rep, it only lasts five minutes, but it was helpful, they give you a wake up call at 5am on the day you leave and open breakfast for you (that is if you have an early departure) I loved every minute of our stay. I would highly recommend this island and if you are looking to book it, you will not regret it one bit.
Stayed June 2013, in room 13
Leisure > With partner | 29 March 2013
The beach near the Deluxe Beach Villas
The evening entertainment was sometimes beyond good and evil
Kuramathi Island consists of three resorts, that are spread over the whole island. All resorts are very clean and beautiful. The paths and all beaches are cleaned from the garbage and the greens every day.
Our Villa was on the top of the island, and so we had the beach in front of our door; to the reef less than 10 meters and to the lagoon 15 meters. This resort consists of 56 villas. The transfer was by airplane and took about 20 minutes. Near the reception they have a small shopping mall and a mini market in the hotel (in the middle of the island). Once a week you have the possibility to go shopping on the local island of Rasdhoo. They offer different excursions like Big Game Fishing, Island hopping, Coral Romance and much more. The excursions can be booked at the responsible reception or by an travel agent. They have naturally no public transportation on the island, but you can take the bus or a buggy for the guests. You must just order it at the reception. The whole staff, whether in the hotel, the gardener or a craftsmen – they are all very friendly and helpful. You can speak English on the whole island. Some staff also speak German, French or Italien. The Villa was cleaned twice a day, also the floors. Everything was very clean. You can also let your clothes wash and iron. On the island is a Medical Center with German doctors, a decompression chamber, a kids club and an Eco Center. Every Monday and Wednesday you can go to a presentation about the Maldives, held in German. Complaints or wishes are tried to handle immediately. There are three main restaurants in the Resort. In the middle of the Resort is a Gelateria with great Ice cream and a pizzeria with little snacks. There is also a Thai Restaurant, an Indian Restaurant, the Reef with Seafood, the Island Barbeque and, new, a Restaurant with French Cuisine. All these Restaurants are not included in the basis package and you have to pay for them at the end of your holiday. The restaurants are all very clean.
In the main restaurant they offer different buffets every day. For lunch they cook different meals and you always find something tasty. Some meals on the buffet where spiced too much. There is a nice atmosphere between staff and guests. They have different bars on the island with tasty drinks. In the basic All Inclusive package the most drinks are included and in the Select All Inclusive package all restaurants on the island are also included. Tips are welcome, but not necessary.
There is also a little Fitness Center, a Tennis Court, a Squash – and a Volleyball facility. We did not use them all. We where walking, snorkeling and swimming every day. There is a Natural Trail – here are explained the animals living on the island and a Botanic Walk – here are explained the plants on the island. The hermit crab got his own Hermit Crab Walk. Every evening, between 6.30 p.m. and 7.30 p.m. is the feeding of the rays at the Laguna Bar. Twice or three times a week was Live music in the hotel. The music was so loud that a conversation at the bar was impossible. The background music in the bar and in the restaurant was beyond good and evil. Either the music was too loud, or they played Christmas songs, arias or Free Jazz.
We did not use the Swimming pools, because we had the big pool in front of our door and the sand on the beach was clean and fine. During flood snorkeling was very good at the reef. There are different ways coming to the reef. As I said above, snorkeling is just possible during flood, because, otherwise, the sensitive corals are disturbed. There are showers spread all over the island and also sunbeds. They don't have sunshades, but there is enough shadow on the island.
The Villa was big enough. The equipment is as shown on the internet. The Deluxe Beach Bungalows are a little old. The facilities like television and audio equipment with MP3-Player are great, especially when the weather is bad for several days. The bed is big enough to lay the whole day in it, to read…..
The outside shower is beautiful with plants. The card key Is very comfortable, because you don't need to carry a big key with you. The safe is big enough for the Netbook, the camera and the mobile phones. We had a water boiler to cook tea or coffee (be careful with the sugar, the ants like it). The Villa also has a Mini Bar with water, coke, etc. The air conditioning was new and very quiet in the night. On the terrace of our Villa we had two day loungers and deck chair at the beach.
Stayed February 2013, in room 347
Honeymoon > With partner | 5 March 2013
My wife and I were lucky enough to spend our honeymoon here. I know I will just be echoing previous reviews but here is my take on it:
We arriverd by sea-plane at an extra cost of £90-00 each. It was more than worth it as you fly relatively low-level and get to see so many of the wonderful islands and atolls. The colours of the sea are incredible. It's an amazing way to start your holiday.
You then land at a small floating jetty and are taken to land by a long boat.
The island is very low-lying with very full vegitation so you walk down the jetty and into what looks like a tropical desserted island. In just this short walk you see many fish in the crystal waters including reef sharks. They are small and harmless.
The reception is a large open wooden pavillion and you are greeted with a tasty cool drink whilst guests are booked in.
We had a beach villa and although it would've been great to stop in a water villa with jaccuzzi, you could not fault it. It was large, very clean, well appointed, of a tropical feel and the private outside shower was amazing. Having a shower outside in the tropical heat surrounded by palm trees stretching up to the blue sky.
The island is beautiful and well worth walking around. The sandbank at the top of the island is very special and often we would walk up and watch the sunset and then walk down to the Laguna bar and watch the sting ray feeding with a coule of cocktails. A must do!
The waters are unbelievebly clear and as you look out to sea the colours change through varying turquoises at different depths. I genuinely have never been anywhere as beautiful or unique as The Maldives.
The sealife waere incredible. You only had to walk in and lots of different fish just swim past you.
The different colours are breathtaking. At first you ferel slightly edgy when you see the sharks (about 3 feet long) but you soon get used to them. I did see a a shark that was at least 5 ft long but I was quite far out and it was not interested in me in the slightest.
Something happened that will stay with me forever. There is a small island across from Kuramathi, where provisions and waste etc are kept. Some people complained about being able to see it but its a hotel, a working island and these provisions have to be kept somewhere before distribution. There is obviously a natural channel between these two islands and on one of the days we were sat on the beach, sipping a cocktail by the infinity jaccuzzi when something caught my eye. A pod of dolphins came through the channel. Everyone rushed to the water to watch them. They were about 100m out and starting jumping. We were treated to a natural dolphin display. It was the most incredible thing ever to see them doing this in their natural envroment and not in those cruel aquatic shows.They came back through are were only about 20 feet out!
Every member of staff we met, from beach cleaners and gardeners to maitre d's, were very polite and very professional. We were waited on hand and foot without any sense of rush or intrusion. The staff took the trip from excellent to perfection.
The bars have a blend of tropical and elegance. Sipping your favourite drink on a sun deck looking out over the most beautiful sea. Is there anything more relaxing?
Lastly, my most favourite pastime, FOOD! We went A La Carte all inclusive. If you book Kuramathi, upgrade to this. Don't look at the cost as it is more than worth it. Every meal we had was a romantic evening out with excellent food and the best of service. I can't express just how good the food is. My personal favourite was The Island Barbeque. The food at all restaurants were of the same high standards but the atmosphere here was my favourite. You had intimate and romantic at the others but there was a really nice buzz here.
We dined outside on the sundeck, clear skies above us gazing at the moon and stars. You're just by the beach and can hear the waves gently breaking. There was nice background music coming from the sand bar. You must order the pork ribs and the steak that is dramatically flambeed at your table.
If you are looking to spend your honeymoon or holiday somewhere beautiful and tropical, with as much or as little as you want to do whilst eating the nicest food with the best service, look no further than Kuramathi.
I apologise for the long review but I submitted a much shorter one but it looked more like an advert than a review.
Lastly I would like to mention Bluebay Travel. They were the team we booked through and have done ever since. They are excellent and always secure the best package at the lowest price with the greatest of service. I strongly reccommend you give them a try. If you would be so kind please mention me, Oliver Payne, because as a self-employed decorator I know how important customer referral is and would love them to know their customers are as loyal as they are. I believe who you book through is just as big a part of your holiday as the trip itself. It's where it all starts
Stayed October 2010
Leisure > With partner | 16 December 2012
The Honeymoon Villa
The second visit this year, with my husband this time, Stayed in a Garden Villa with outdoor & indoor shower - great, on Full Board (FB). Flew out with Emirates from Manchester - ideal when living in the north - better than travelling down to Gatwick for the not stop flight. Transfers were by speedboat - the sea was good to us thank goodness.The weather was mostly wonderful, any rain & storms were in the night so the daytime was sun, sun, sun.
Close to all main amenities and buggies or mini bus for travelling to the far end of the island.
For my birthday we spent one day & night in one of the 'Honeymoon Villas' fantastic, wish we could afford a week in it!!!!
There are lots of return guest who visit this island so it must have lots of appeal and it is worth more than one visit.
Snorkelling is very good, we have stayed on many other islands over the years -some have had better reefs, some not so good. This time we actually saw lots of Eagle Rays and Reef Sharks and the usual fishes.
Snorkel Safari is definitely worth a trip. Other excursions include Island hopping, a visit to Rasdhoo,
Sunset Cruise and Big Game Fishing, Some come as part of AI others are at an extra cost.
We did try 3 of the alternative eating experiences which can work out expensive. If you want to dine around its well worthwhile booking 'Select AI' and if you like to drink but are not bothered about dining around book AI as soft drinks and alcholic drinks are expensive.
The Hotel staff are very helpful and nothing is too much trouble for them, the island is very clean and the gardeners etc take pride in their island. After a storm they are quick to remove fallen debris eg fallen branches.
There are lots of sunbeds around the island as well as at the Infinity pool.
We prefer the lagoon side of the island - there seems to be more beach on this side.
Would we go back again - most likely.
Stayed November 2012
Spa > Kuramathi Spa 4 November 2012
Aryuvedic massage
This was my first aryuvedic massage and it was special to say the least. You can use the spa area about 30 minutes before the start of the treatments. The area includes a sauna and jacuzzi and is great to start the relaxing proces. Then you are taking to one of the massage rooms over the water (you can also pay $15 per person extra to receive your treatment in the open air pavillion, which is recommended). The treatment itself was really special, not only did they massage with their hands but also with their feet, which I had never experienced before. Until this date, I have not yet received such a special treatment, which I can highly recommend.
Stayed July 2010
Leisure > With partner | 30 October 2012
The Select AI
My partner and I stayed here in October 2011 to celebrate our 30th birthdays. We loved every second. It was our firstMaldives trip.
After a 40 minute wait and then a fantastic 20 minute seaplane ride, we were greeted with cool towels and a cold fruit drink, and a member of staff introduced us to the island, and went through everything we would need to know. Our room wasn't ready immediately due to us arriving in the late morning, but they took us to the spa to use their shower and to change, and after a swim and lunch, we were able to get into our room.
We stayed in a Deluxe Beach Villa, number 349. These rooms are fantastic, located at the tip of the island near the sandbank. They are completely secluded, and when you walk out of the back doors there is about 10 metres of white sand, then the water. You rarely see anybody else except for your neighbours paddling in the water. There is a sea wall a little way out to protect the beach from erosion, but it really didn't bother me, I didn't find it at all unsightly, and it created a lovely calm lagoon to paddle in before venturing further out to the reef.
The room was well appointed, with a huge bed, TV, mini bar, tea and coffee making facilities, a combination safe, a lovely bathroom and an outdoor shower, which was fab, I didn't use the indoor shower once! The room is serviced twice daily by your room boy and is kept spotlessly clean. The rooms are semi-detatched but we never heard anything from our neighbours.
The island itself is beautiful, with stunning beaches, and so much greenery. The island is quite big by Maldivian standards, but at a stroll it only takes about 20 minutes to walk from one end to the other. There are little electric golf buggies and a minibus that travel up and down the main path, you can wait for them at designated stops, and you can also call for them. We hardly ever used them, just once after returning from an excursion, preferring to walk instead.
There are two pools, the main pool and the infinity pool. both are lovely, and I never saw either of them full. we never had a problem getting a lounger at either. At the main pool, the pool bar do poolside service, whereas at the infinity pool you have to go to the bar for drinks, but the Fung Bar is literally steps away.
We were on Select All Inclusive, which I highly recommend. The choice of restaurants was fantastic, we liked them all, with the Island BBQ and the Siam Garden being our favourites. You can book 2 days in advance from 8am (you have to go to your nearest reception, you can't book by phone) and we never couldn't get into our first choice (except on the day we arrived). For lunch, we liked the Coffee shop if we were at that end of the island, or our main restaurant if we were at the other. The food in the main restaurant is actually really good, it was different every day with lots of choices. Breakfast in the main restaurant was also very good.
The island is set up very well. It is big, but not at all over crowded. We were told by a member of staff that while we were there it was at 100% occupancy, and we couldn't figure out where everyone was. We hardly saw anybody. Even at dinner, because the A La Carte restaurants are pretty small, we hardly saw anyone. It is a big island, but this just gives more space for everyone. A lot of the time we could have been on our own desert island.
Evening entertainment was low-key. Our nearest bar was the Laguna Bar (it was also my favourite). At sunset every day they have stingray feeding, which was a spectacle, but I wish they wouldn't do it as it encourages unnatural behaviour amongst the stingray and sharks. We're not really fans of organised entertainment, and planned to stick to the quieter bars, but we did become fans of The Wood. There is a large choice of bars, every night at least one has nothing going on so if you want a quiet drink just head there.
The all-inclusive cocktail list is huge, I counted more than 60. They made the best daiquiri I have ever tasted. If you don't like them strong ask them to make them a little weaker, they certainly like the drinks to have a kick to them.
The service across the whole of the island is second to none. All of the staff are incredibly friendly, and nothing is too much trouble for them. The staff outnumber the guests, although you don't see them all.
The spa was amazing, we went for a lovely couples massage and it was well worth the money. We didn't go in the open air pavilion as it wasn't available, but the room we were in was just a little way behind it, still with views over the water.
The snorkelling around the island was fantastic, it was my first time snorkelling and I was amazed at the sea-life. Even in the lagoon there are loads of fish and a few coral growths, but it's on the reef side that you see the most. Between the house reef and the snorkelling safari, we saw nearly everything we wanted to see and more - loads of Picasso Triggerfish, young black tip sharks, moray eels, titan triggerfish (including one nesting one - stayed well away!) clown fish, pipefish, surgeonfish and so much more.
And just to mention - I did have a slight concern that there may be issues with us being two women together, but it was never an issue. Overt PDAs would not be appropriate (for anyone) but we never had to hide being a couple and it was never a problem.
Stayed October 2011, in room 349
Family > With children | 27 October 2012
Very Good
Everything was amazing
This was our first time in the Maldives and therefore it was spectacular. We booked the regular AI in a beach villa, which was only steps away from the ocean. The villa was beautiful with a nice open air shower, which took some time to get used to but since then I am hooked. The regular AI was more than enough for us as we were only there for 6 nights after an extensive tour in Sri Lanka. It included an extensive list of cocktails, which we all enjoyed. While at Kuramathi, my daughter got her open water diving license and said the diving school was more than helpful. The snorkeling at Kuramathi was according to my husband pretty good with lots of sharks, which he never saw before. At the time I did not snorkle but I was more than happy with laying on the beach (there were no beach chairs when we were there, but they fixed that problem now) gazing at the water.
Stayed July 2010


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Can someone edit out the OOC exchange in the game thread? Pretty please
I would love a map. I'm having a little difficulty with the back and forth as to exactly where everything is.
Great, when I asked what the acro looked like, I was specifically wondering how it compared to first generation arcos.... When we looked at the acro did we see any activity or events that stray from the in world text book description of the arco....was there a giant dragon next on the heliport, was there a football field sized hole a whole in the side of the acro, was it shrouded in unnatural fog, was it being circled by wailing banshee's, were LAM mechs float sentry by the heliport, was there air traffic, were their birds flying about it, was there any sign of light, energy or activity?
Brian: "Listen you tin can of asswipe, I found this air tram it will fly us to the acro directly, so get back here, my brilliant superior intellect is bored."
I'm back.Because I'm lazy and don't feel like scrolling through the recent action, I'm going to guess that the only thing that has happened is that we've shot at the people we saw, and those people have shot at us. Has the girl whipped out some freaky, awesome, and demented moves yet? Was Brian harmed by those moves? Was he forced to, by incompetent mutants, deal with this latest upstart?
Soooooooo..... It's been six days since this whole game has seen action. Brian still doesn't know what his loot- I mean, borrowings are. And whether Muldoon has succeeded in his painting of the ground with a nice red color. So is this thing done? If so, note to self: play more versatile character in next RP, that can be involved in more activities.Both Brian and caesar193 would like to hack his way into the arco, tap into the weapon systems, and blow up those PRC possible threats! And, of course, hold the world hostage for, say, quadruple what that Johnson chap offered. Naturally.So, yes on the go?
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LG displays record-breaking new television
Hot on the heels of Samsung's similarly giant announcement, LG reveals what it claims is the world's largest curved OLED TV.business Updated: Sep 07, 2013 11:42 IST
Hot on the heels of Samsung's similarly giant announcement, LG reveals what it claims is the world's largest curved OLED TV.
Measuring 77 inches from corner to corner, the TV, which uses cutting edge OLED screen technology for the sharpest, most responsive and richest viewing experience possible, goes one better than the company's current curved 55-inch flagship.
As well as incredible colors, one of the biggest benefits of OLED technology is that manufacturers are not confined to rigid, flat screen shapes and sizes, and bending the screen so that it wraps around the viewer, filling his or her peripheral vision as well as the direct line of sight, is the closest many consumers will come to having an IMAX experience in their own living room.
But, perhaps most impressively of all is that this is an ultra high definition OLED set and so (once sufficient native content exists) can screen still and moving images at four times the resolution of high definition.
The original 55-inch curved OLED set, on which this big brother is based, won the 2013 Red Dot design award and on this evidence, there's every possibility that LG will bag the same award again next July.
On Thursday evening, Samsung revealed a giant, 98-inch LED LCD television and announced that an even larger 110-inch version would also be going into production. It also hinted that it too would be showing an OLED television on its exhibitor's stand during the IFA consumer electronics conference, though it would not give any further details.
Neither company has confirmed either official launch dates for their giant TVs or their suggested retail prices, but expect them to be similarly huge in size.
First Published: Sep 07, 2013 11:41 IST


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Marion rallies for young cancer patient
Staff writer
Cynthia Gault knew she would never forgive herself if she didn't attend the fundraiser for Deanna Snyder.
"That little girl's story just tore me to pieces," the Lindsborg resident said, explaining that her granddaughter is close to Deanna's age. "I don't know what I'd do if my little Emily had a brain tumor. It's got to be the worst thing a parent could go through. I came here today just to support the family. Money isn't something they need to be worrying about right now."
Gault is one of the area residents who went to the "Day for Deanna" fundraiser at The Big Scoop in Marion. The event was organized to offset the financial burden the Snyder family is currently facing from Deanna's hospital visits and cancer treatments. Local restaurateurs Rusty Stenseng and Leann Smeaton said they were impressed with the community's support.
Many, like Justine McKinnon of Marion, said they couldn't resist coming to the fundraiser, knowing that the family really needs help.
"It's great that the Marion community can really rally around this family," McKinnon said. "They need all the money and prayer that they can get."
A few, like Matthew Sterling, said they came to the fundraiser mainly to look at all the items available in the silent auction.
"Popcorn gets stuck in my teeth and cotton candy is just too sweet," he said. "But there is a chance that I could really use something that is on the auction table. There's a pretty good selection here — and there doesn't seem to be many people putting bids down. I could probably put my name down and snatch something right up."
While the silent auction tables were full, a few people said they had trouble contacting the owners to donate items.
"I eventually just went down to the Big Scoop and gave it to them," said Frances King of Hillsboro. "It worked, but it would have been nice to be able to talk to them on the phone before I made the trip to Marion."
Others, like Wendy Costello of Wichita, said they decided to come after reading the front-page story in the Marion County Record, knowing that they just needed to do something to help out the family in need.
"If I was going through something like that, I'd want as many people as possible helping me out," Costello said. "The whole family is in my prayers."
Organizers said they hope people will continue to support the family, even now that the fundraiser is over. Free will donations are still being accepted at The Big Scoop.
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