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Experienced industry leader, open source advocate, a member of the SUSE leadership team, and SUSE strategy adviser for new industry initiatives and open source.
Alex Freedland is the co-founder and Chairman of Mirantis, the largest independent company focusing on delivering pure-play OpenStack to the customers worldwide.
Under Alex's leadership, Mirantis has become the top-3 contributor to OpenStack and is the only private company amongst Top-10 contributors.
Mirantis is also laser-focused on making customers (large and small) adopt OpenStack at scale. With that in mind, we have also pioneered such projects as Fuel (the point and click installer), Rally (a popular framework for scalability testing of OpenStack), Sahara (the orchstrator for Hadoop distributions running on top of OpenStack), Murano (an intuitive way to automate workload orchestration on top of OpenStack and the project behind the Foundation Application Catalog) and Stackalytics.
Prior to starting Mirantis, Alex have co-founded several other businesses, some of which are operating today and some have successfully exited.
Boris is the co-founder and CMO at Mirantis. Operationally responsible for Mirantis' marketing strategy, Boris acts as a spokesperson for the company and is Mirantis' public face in the OpenStack community. Boris' influence was instrumental in Mirantis' current focus on OpenStack.
In his role, Boris works to ensure that Mirantis' marketing efforts don't just promote the Mirantis brand, but also help further global awareness of the OpenStack community. To that effect, Mirantis is a regular sponsor of OpenStack summits, promotes OpenStack at unaffiliated trade shows such as Cloud Connect and OSCON, and helps run regional communities in the Bay Area, Russia, and Ukraine.
Boris continuously helps evangelize the OpenStack community by regularly blogging about it (mirantis.com/blog), talking on behalf of the community at various conferences, and engaging in business development activities to attract new member companies and contributors.
During 15 years of his professional career, Boris held several executive positions with technology companies he helped establish. He was a founder and CEO of Selectosa Systems, an IT consulting company which was subsequently acquired in 2006; and is a co-founder and angel investor at AGroup.lv, now a venture-backed enterprise software company headquartered in Europe.
Egle Sigler is a Principal Architect of Private Cloud Solutions at Rackspace, and an OpenStack Foundation Board member. Egle is very passionate about promoting women in technology. She has served for two years on a governing board for POWER (Professional Organization of Women Empowered at Rackspace), Rackspace's internal employee resource group dedicated to empowering women in technology. Egle holds a M.S. degree in Computer Science.
Eileen Evans is the Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of Cloud Computing and Open Source for Hewlett-Packard Company. In her role, Eileen leads and manages legal support for cloud computing and open source at HP. Eileen also leads open source legal strategy and open source program management for HP. In her role, Eileen is representing HP on the OpenStack Foundation Board of Directors and is actively participating in other cloud-related open source communities. Prior to joining HP in 2010, Eileen was a Director and Associate General Counsel at Sun Microsystems (and then Oracle Corporation following its acquisition of Sun) for nearly 12 years. At Sun, Eileen led and managed legal support for various hardware and software business units. Eileen also served as a lead Open Source Legal Strategist for Sun, where she led, managed and supported numerous open source projects, including Java, MySQL, OpenSolaris, OpenOffice and NetBeans. In addition to her open source experience at Sun and HP, Eileen has spoken on various intellectual property and open source topics at conferences in the United States and in Europe and with the European Commission, Members of the European Union Parliament and the European Union National Competition Authorities. Prior to joining Sun, Eileen practiced in the Technology Transactions Group at Gary Cary Ware & Freidenrich (now DLA Piper) in Palo Alto, California. Eileen holds a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the University of California, Berkeley and a Juris Doctor from the University of California, Davis School of Law.
Imad Sousou is vice president in the Software and Services Group and general manager of the Open Source Technology Center at Intel Corp. He established the center in 2003 and is responsible for driving Intel's efforts in open source software and architecture across technologies and market segments, including enterprise and carrier-grade Linux and related technologies, virtualization technologies, embedded market segments, and client Linux programs and related technologies.
Imad joined Intel in 1994 as a senior software engineer. Before moving into his current role, he served as director of telecom software programs in the Intel Communications Group and as director of client software engineering in the Home Products Group.
Prior to joining Intel, Imad was a software engineer at Central Point Software working on system utilities for the Apple Mac OS.
Imad holds a bachelor's degree in computer science and mathematics from Portland State University.
John Zannos is Vice President of Cloud Channels and Alliances at Canonical. He is responsible for execution of Ubuntu Cloud business, partnerships, alliances and strategy.
During his career John has lead business and technology efforts around cloud computing, utility computing, hosting, application management, disaster recovery, security, unified communications, and content distribution networks. Prior to working at Canonical, he held technology leadership positions at HP, IVIA, Compaq, Digital Equipment Corporation, Boston University and the US EPA.
John's interest is to ensure that OpenStack is deployable, scalable, and rock solid, with a thriving ecosystem. His focus is to represent the builders and end users of the OpenStack community, and to expand the overall community. He lives in the Boston area with his family, enjoying the Boston Red Sox when he can.
Kavit is the CTO of Aptira, heads Aptira's Indian operations and has 15 years of experience in designing and deploying Enterprise and Telco solutions.
He is also the founder of the Indian OpenStack User Group and the OpenStack Ambassador for the region. Kavit is also an Individual Director member of the OpenStack Board of Directors.
Kavit has been a driving force behind the Indian OpenStack community and has interwoven this into Aptira's deep involvement with OpenStack. He has helped organise numerous OpenStack events in India and loves to work with students driving their involvement with OpenStack. As an active OpenStack Ambassador his priorities are to help the OpenStack Community grow in South Asia by increasing the engagement of the burgeoning OpenSource community in academia with the OpenStack project. Kavit also realises the importance of startups to innovation and always looks to promote OpenStack in that space.
Kavit has a vision for India as a Centre of Innovation to develop and commercialise intellectual property rather than an offshoring destination. Kavit has been mentoring students and young entrepreneurs to that end.
As VP/CTO of Cloud Computing at Cisco Systems I am responsible for shaping Cisco's strategy and products in cloud computing. I also run the OpenStack team at Cisco contributing to Neutron, Nova, Horizon, and other projects and currently sit on the Foundation Board as a Gold representative. I frequently talk about cloud computing, software defined networking, and OpenStack at major conferences.
Formerly, I was VP/CTO Cloud Computing at Sun Microsystems, where I led development of SunCloud, was responsible for all of Sun's Internet-facing web sites and services, and was an early member of the JavaSoft executive team. At other points in my career, at Salesforce.com I led the development of the AppExchange, and was CTO at Radar Networks, a semantic web startup. In the 1980's I was a director of R&D at Thinking Machines, where I developed algorithms for AI and machine vision for the massively parallel Connection Machine. I have a B.S. from Cornell University and Ph.D. in computer science from New York University.
Mark McLoughlin is a consulting engineer at Red Hat and has spent over a decade contributing to and leading open source projects like GNOME, Fedora, KVM, qemu, libvirt, oVirt, and more.
Mark has been contributing to OpenStack since 2011, most notably to Nova and Oslo. He has served as Oslo PTL, as a member of the Technical Committee, and as an Individual Director on the board.
Mark is Technical Director for OpenStack at Red Hat, and represents Red Hat as a platinum member on the board.
To find out more about Mark, see his keynote from the Icehouse Summit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6A2AQFnqH8
I currently work full-time on OpenStack for IBM. I lead a team that works on running the Developer Infrastructure systems for the project, as well as other pure-upstream development efforts. I am past PTL of the OpenStack Infra Program and set up the original project gating infrastructure. I currently sit on the Technical Committee. Previously, I was a core developer on Drizzle and was a Senior Consultant for MySQL, Inc. I've been a Python hacker by choice since 2000, and am currently a member of the Python Software Foundation.
I have a degree in Theatre Directing and went to grad school at CalArts in lighting design. The intersection of fields has led me to start more than one business around developing technology for and related to live performance. I continue to work in the theatre, and regularly light shows in New York, Seattle and Austin.
His prescient views on the profound disruption caused by cloud computing have made Randy Bias one of the industry's most influential voices. He is an evangelist who was among the first to articulate the generational transition of IT from mainframe to enterprise computing and then to cloud in addition to popularizing the cloud server "pets vs. cattle" meme.
Randy was an early and vocal supporter of the OpenStack project and Cloudscaling was part the initial OpenStack launch in summer of 2010. He led the teams that deployed the first public OpenStack storage cloud (Swift) outside of Rackspace, and the first public OpenStack compute cloud (Nova). He is a founding Board Member of the OpenStack Foundation. He continues to be a vocal advocate of OpenStack, through his company, his writing and his speaking engagements.
His voice is frequently heard in media outlets such as GigaOm, InformationWeek, The Economist, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, ReadWriteWeb, O'Reilly Radar, Light Reading, and others, in addition to the Cloudscaling blog. He is a regular keynote speaker and panelist at events from the OpenStack Summit to VMworld, Structure, eComm, CloudConnect, Interop, CloudBeat, CloudExpo, The Web Summit, and Gluecon.
Serving on OpenStack Board since 2012, I've been driving the Core Definition (DefCore) Process and Product Working Group (Hidden Influencers). I am a balanced voice between business, development and operations needs. I am also "commercially unbiased" since I am not an employee of a major contributor, vendor or sponsor.
I have been involved in Cloud for over 15 years and launched some of the earliest Cloud companies. My educational background (Duke and LSU) is in computer science and systems engineering with a focus on distributed systems. I have always found deployment to be vitally important in developments - that lead me to found a SaaS start-up in 1999 and had made me a DevOps advocate. In addition to core cloud technologies, I am an Agile/Lean/TDD process evangelist who strongly believes that stability is a feature.
Professionally, I am the CEO and Founder of RackN. A company focused on automating physical provisioning at scale through the OpenCrowbar project. Before that, I was a Sr Distinguished Engineer at Dell leading our OpenStack Cloud project (http://wp.me/PF6d2-bj) and also a founder of the Crowbar project (http://wp.me/PF6d2-ix). In both roles, I am in constant contact with OpenStack users, ecosystem developers and vendors world-wide; consequently, I have a very broad perspective on use and technical needs for OpenStack and related Cloud technologies.
You can get a much better perspective on me and my position on OpenStack by visiting http://robhirschfeld.com.
Rob has been involved with the OpenStack community dating to its origins in 2010. He founded NetApp's OpenStack effort and serves as its representative to the Foundation, architected the earliest OpenStack on NetApp deployments, is a frequent speaker at OpenStack Design Summits, conferences and user groups, and is an occasional ATC. His eight year tenure at NetApp has spanned from co-founder of NetApp's field cloud architecture team, to currently leading product management for OpenStack. His charter focuses on strategy, integration and development of NetApp portfolio technologies in and around OpenStack as well as business development, organizational and process alignment for bringing the value of NetApp's OpenStack capabilities to market.
Roland is COO at Aptira. Prior to that Roland ran business critical technology delivery organisations to build some of Australia's largest telco, ISP and digital media solutions at OzEmail, WorldCom and Telstra.
Russell is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, Inc. He is on the OpenStack Technical Committee (since Fall 2012) and the OpenStack Foundation Board of Directors (since January 2015). Russell has been contributing to the development of OpenStack since the Fall of 2011. His most significant contributions around OpenStack have been to Nova and most recently Neutron and OVN.
Prior to working for Red Hat, Russell spent 7 years (2004 - 2011) working for Digium on the Asterisk project. In the later years, Russell was the leader of the Asterisk project as well as the Engineering Manager for Asterisk development at Digium.
Russell is also a published author. Russell co-authored "Asterisk: The Definitive Guide" and "Asterisk Cookbook", published by O'Reilly Media. He also contributed a chapter on Asterisk to the book "Architecture of Open Source Applications".
Russell graduated from Clemson University with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering in the Fall of 2006. He currently resides in Charleston, South Carolina.
Shane Wang (王庆) is based in Shanghai and is an engineering manager of the Datacenter and Cloud Software (DCS) team in the Open Source Technology Center, Intel. Shane joined Intel in 2004 after he graduated from Fudan University and got his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, and since 2007 has been working on open source technologies, spanning low-level Virtualization Technology (VT) in Xen and KVM, maintaining tboot - an open source trusted boot solution, Yocto, and managing embedded solutions. Since 2011 Shane has focused on OpenStack, with his team working on Ironic, TripleO, Horizon, Keystone, Neutron, Ceilometer, Intelligent Scheduling, Rolling Upgrades in Nova, SR-IOV support, and NFV enabling.
He has a team in both Beijing (Global Trade Center) and Shanghai (Zizhu High-Tech Park), and his team is working closely with the community in China such as IBM and Huawei to push different features, so far his team has several core developers in Ceilometer, Gantt, and oslo. In 2008, his team published a book about System Virtulization (http://item.jd.com/10079875.html) with Fudan University, and now the team is writting another book in Chinese about OpenStack code inside and development to have more local people to know OpenStack and be part of the OpenStack community.
For himself, he is also an active Nova contributor to contribute the code to the upstream, such as utilization based scheduling in Nova. He also joined China Open Source Cloud League (COSCL) which is run by Intel and composed of a few companies in China including Red Hat, SuSE, Intel itself, TeamSun, 99cloud, unitedstack etc. Shane has attended all the OpenStack summit since Grizzly in San Diego as an Active Technical Contributor (ATC), and hopes to bring the exprience at summits to China community when attending local meetups, hopes to promote OpenStack and help the grow of China OpenStack ecosystem, and hopes more Chinese people become core developers in the upstream, and local companies especially small and medium business leverage OpenStack to deploy in order to save the cost and grow their business.
Simon is CEO of DreamHost, and Co-founder and Chair of Akanda, Inc. Simon was also Co-founder and Chair of Inktank Storage, Inc., acquired by Red Hat in April 2014.
DreamHost has been a major contributor to the OpenStack software and community since 2011. DreamHost has launched DreamCompute, a public cloud computing service powered by OpenStack, Ceph and Akanda.
Steve leads infrastructure and platform development for Symantec's new Cloud Platform Engineering (CPE) group. Symantec's CPE group is chartered with building and running essential platform and infrastructure services for next generation Symantec products and services.
Steve has extensive and broad-based technology development, operations, and business management experience. He has been featured for leadership in OpenStack operational computing, and as an advocate of the advantages of cloud computing as integral to accelerating internal innovation. Steve has been part of the OpenStack community since Diablo and was part of the team that took Essex into production.
Steve is a strong proponent of opensource as pivotal in transforming an engineering culture; that the benefits of merit-based, transparent, and peer-reviewed designs and code is where true innovation occurs.
Tim is responsible for the group at CERN which manages the infrastructure services for 11,000 physicists around the world. I previously worked as a Unix kernel developer at IBM along with managing large scale Unix production deployments and services for Deutsche Bank in Europe.
My team is running the CERN OpenStack cloud which has been in production since July 2013 and is currently around 80,000 cores. This cloud provides processing power for the physicists working on the Large Hadron Collider and its experiments which produce around 27PB a year. We had the honour of winning the inaugural superuser award (http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/and-the-superuser-award-goes-to) in Paris for contributions to OpenStack.
As the AVP of Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Architecture & Strategy for AT&T, Toby Ford leads technology efforts around AT&T's cloud offerings both internally and externally focused. Currently, Mr. Ford is responsible for shepherding SDN and NFV projects on to AT&T's Common Cloud platform. Toby served as CTO for USi, which was acquired by AT&T in 2006. Previously, Mr. Ford held positions at Cornell University, ARINC, TeleCommunication Systems, and his own company in the Netherlands. Toby is also a member of the OpenStack Board of Directors.
Todd M. Moore, IBM Director, has a diverse background in hardware and software development, architecture, design and product management. He is currently responsible for IBM's open technologies and partnerships surrounding Cloud Computing, Mobile, Social Business, and Analytics. He has served in executive roles in both IBM's Software Group (SWG) and System & Technology Group (STG). Prior to his current role, Todd worked with IBM Acquisitions to integrate new members of the IBM community. He also lead IBM's WebServices, Security and Restful Services development for WebSphere. He has extensive experience in mobile and distributed computing systems, with a background spanning embedded devices to large parallel systems. Before joining WebSphere, he served as the CTO for IBM's Pervasive Computing unit. In IBM's hardware unit, he was responsible for IBM's Power based offerings and System z platforms as the Director of System Design. He has extensive experience in architecture, performance, user experience, and standards. Over his career, Todd and his team have worked with numerous open source and standards bodies such as the Apache Software Foundation, Oasis, OMG, JCP, OMA, Linux Foundation, OSGi, DLNA, ISO, ITU-T, etc to deliver standards and reference implementations. He holds a Masters Degree in the Management of Technology from the MIT Sloan School of Business, and a BS EE from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Tsugikazu SHIBATA is working for OSS promotion Center of NEC. He is activiley working for the Linux over 10 years and for OpenStack for two years. He is having a senior role of Open Source conference such as LinuxCon and CloudOpen to advocate join and work for the Open Source community especially for Japanese and Asian developers. He is also member of the board of the Linux Foundation since 2006. His role of the Linux Foundation is to expand ecosystem of using and adopting Linux for Japan and Asian countries. He is also a technical committee member of the Open Invention Network (OIN) as a representative of NEC. His activity of solving IP issue of the Open Source will becoming very important even for OpenStack and surrounding ecosystem.
By these background, he has an advisory role of OpenStack development team in NEC and the team is actively contributing OpenStack development community with five of core developers. He is also leading a Open source development project called LTSI (Long Term Support Initiative) that is to keep Linux Kernel stable as longer term for industry. This is a Linux activity but even for OpenStack, Every industry people hope to use more stable and longer term useable OpenStack.
Van Lindberg has worked professionally as an engineer, as a lawyer, and as an executive. He currently has a dual legal/technical role at Rackspace, and has worked out of both the legal department and the Office of the CTO. In April 2012, the American Bar Association Journal named Van as one of "America's Top 12 Techiest Attorneys."
On the legal side, Van leads Rackspace's Intellectual Property program, directing Rackspace's strategy and policy around patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, and open source matters. Van also heads Rackspace's lobbying efforts relative to patent reform.
On the technical side, Van runs Rackspace's technical leadership corps, known internally as the "TCT." Van also works in technical strategy and ecosystem engagement at Rackspace, identifying emerging technologies, separating out differentiating versus non-differentiating product elements, and using open source strategies to be more competitive.
Previously, Van worked at the law firm of Haynes and Boone, where he wrote "Intellectual Property and Open Source," published by O'Reilly and Associates, and grew an open source practice helping businesses with everything from open source compliance to business strategy.
In addition to Van's open source practice, he did IP transactional work, patent prosecution, litigation, and post-grant actions (ex parte and inter partes reexams/reviews).
Van currently serves as chairman of the board of the Python Software Foundation, on the board of the OpenStack Foundation, and was the first chair of the Docker Governance Advisory Board.


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AB Volvo is a multi-national auto manufacturer based in Gothenburg, Sweden and owned by China's Geely Automobile. Volvo began as a subsidiary of AB SFK, a Swedish company that produced ball bearings. In 1924, Volvo founders Assar Gabrielsson (who worked as a SFK sales manager) and engineer Gustav Larson decided to create a Swedish automobile -- three years later the first Volvo, the ÖV4, was introduced. Volvo was an overnight success and began to distribute automotive parts in addition to cars, trucks, buses and construction equipment. Volvo is well-known for its sturdy vehicles, which are reputed to be among the safest in collision situations.
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Veerle Vandeweerd directs the Environment and Energy Group within the Bureau for Development Policy of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), providing strategic direction and oversight to UNDP in mainstreaming environment, energy and sustainability into its development work in over 166 countries. She oversees the delivery of an extensive portfolio of projects and funds, including UNDP's Global Environment Facility and the Montreal Protocol unit, at the global, regional, national and local levels.
The main objectives of UNDP's Environment and Energy programmes include: 1) ensuring that environmental actions benefit the poor and development actions don't harm the environment; 2) accelerating progress towards achieving the MDGs; 3) building the capacities and enabling environments to support national and local governments in redirecting public and private financial flows towards sustainable investments and inclusive economic development patterns; and 4) contributing to global sustainable policy and norm setting. The energy and climate change portfolio covers the full policy cycle, from project development to Monitoring, Reporting and Verification, and includes all thematic areas ranging from Low Emissions Climate Resilient Development Strategies to transformative Ecosystem Management. The Environment and Energy Group also supports governments around the world to promote universal access to clean energy, including through the Secretary-General's Sustainable Energy for All initiative.
Before joining UNDP in 2007, Dr. Vandeweerd held leadership roles with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) for 19 years based in Africa and Europe. Among her assignments with UNEP, Dr. Vandeweerd served as the officer in charge of the Policy Division for several years, headed the Global Programme of Action for Protection of the Marine Environment, the Regional Seas Programme, the Global Environmental Monitoring System, and initiated and directed the Global Environmental Outlook report series.
Dr. Vandeweerd worked for Belgium's (Flemish) Government as Director of Environment Reporting, and was lecturer for five years at the University of Lusaka in Zambia where she also conducted national surveys on African sleeping sickness. Dr. Vandeweerd holds a PhD in biochemistry from the University of Antwerp, Belgium.


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NUI Galway Pain Researchers Win Prize for Best Research Paper
Tuesday, 13 May 2014
For the second year running, Professor David Finn of NUI Galway has been awarded the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland's Doctor Award for best paper published in an indexed journal in 2013 in the Pain/Anaesthesia category. The first author of the winning paper was Dr Kieran Rea, a postdoctoral researcher in Professor Finn's laboratory. Professor Finn, Lecturer in Pharmacology, Co-Director of the Centre for Pain Research and Leader of the Galway Neuroscience Centre, received the award at a ceremony held in the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin. The winning paper confirmed the key role of a brain region called the basolateral amygdala in the suppression of pain behaviour by fear (so-called fear-induced analgesia). Fear-induced analgesia was associated with increases in levels of marijuana-like substances known as endocannabinoids in this part of the brain. Furthermore, fear-induced analgesia was prevented by injecting a drug that blocked the receptor at which these endocannabinoids act into the basolateral amygdala. The paper also showed that the mechanism was likely to involve interactions between the endocannabinoid system and the glutamate and GABA neurotransmitter systems in this brain region. An increased understanding of the biological mechanisms involved in fear-induced analgesia is important from a fundamental physiological perspective and may also advance the search for new therapeutic approaches to the treatment of pain. Professor David Finn, senior author on the paper, said: "We are very pleased that our work has been recognised for a second time with this prestigious award. This research which was funded by grants from Science Foundation Ireland, the Health Research Board and the Irish Research Council, advances our fundamental understanding of the neurobiology of pain and may facilitate the identification of new therapeutic targets for the treatment of pain and anxiety disorders." The Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland's Doctor Awards are presented each year to Irish or Irish-based researchers who are judged to have published the best research papers in international, peer-reviewed journals. -Ends-
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'Caring for our Community' Focus of NUI Galway's new Public Lecture Series
Tuesday, 13 May 2014
First lecture to focus on suicide prevention NUI Galway's School of Nursing and Midwifery will commence a new and innovative community outreach initiative this semester, focusing on sharing knowledge and expertise on health topics that are of interest to local communities. The first knowledge exchange event which will focus on 'Suicide Prevention' will take place on Tuesday, 27 May at 7pm in Lecture Theatre 1, Áras Moyola. Research studies, including those conducted by the School of Nursing and Midwifery have found that giving people the knowledge, information and support they need is key to enabling them to better manage their own health or the health of those that they care for. NUI Galway's School of Nursing and Midwifery, through outreach knowledge exchange sessions, aims to provide communities with health information in an interactive and easily accessible format on topics of relevance to the community. It is hoped that this will address the difficulty people have in knowing where to go to find or interpret the information they need. Adeline Cooney, Head of the School of Nursing and Midwifery at NUI Galway, commented, "It is never easy to make life style changes or live with a chronic illness, we aim to provide the public with information and skills on health topics of relevance to them with a focus on helping people to get healthy and to stay healthy. These sessions will be interactive, allowing full community engagement and we look forward to active and lively discussions." Preliminary work conducted with community members indicate that communities would value information and knowledge concerning such topics as; How much exercise do you need to stay healthy and what type of exercise is best? How to maintain good mental health and to recognise mental health issues in others? How do I stay healthy during pregnancy? What is dementia? How best to care for someone with dementia? This is an initial list of topics and the School of Nursing and Midwifery invites the public to make suggestions for other health topics to be covered. To suggest any future health topics to be covered during the lecture series please contact John Quinlivan at email@example.com or Mary Gannon at firstname.lastname@example.com. There will be two further events over the coming year and these will focus on: Keeping healthy in pregnancy: 7pm, Tuesday, 30 September 2014. Getting fit: 7pm, Tuesday, 27 January 2015. All events are open to the public. -Ends-
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NUI Galway Gets a First in EU University Ranking for Arts Graduate Employment and Internships
Tuesday, 13 May 2014
New global university ranking, funded by the EU, also scores NUI Galway highly on graduate employability, innovation and commercialisation, international academic staff, doctorate degrees and joint publications NUI Galway has been given the highest ranking in a number of areas in U-Multirank, a new EU Commission-led initiative to measure excellence in higher education and research institutions worldwide. The indicators, published today across Europe show that NUI Galway ranked highest in nearly half of the metrics included in this, the first year of published data. NUI Galway was awarded the top ranking for both Arts Graduates working in the region and Masters of Arts graduates working in the region. Student internships in the region also scored highly. NUI Galway's focus on internationalisation was also recognised as the University was rated highly for the mobility of its students. As one of Ireland's leading universities for technology transfer, NUI Galway scored top marks for innovation and bringing new products to market; patents awarded and patents filed. The University's track record in creating a sustainable funding base for research and development was also commended with a top ranking for sourcing external research income and sourcing income from private sources for research. NUI Galway President Dr Jim Browne, welcomed today's results saying "I welcome the EU's effort to create a more transparent system of recognising excellence in the university sector. I'm particularly pleased to note the strong performance in securing regional employment for our humanities graduates and internships for current students, confirming NUI Galway's role as a vital economic driver of employment, learning and research." U-Multirank is a new global university ranking funded by the European Commission and takes a different approach to existing global rankings of universities; it is multi-dimensional and compares university performance across a range of different activities grading them from "A" (very good) to "E" (weak). It does not produce a league table of the world's "top" 100 universities based on composite scores. Instead, it allows users to identify a university's strengths and weaknesses, or the aspects that most interest them. "We are delighted to have been able to design and implement this new user-driven and multi-dimensional ranking that goes beyond simplistic league tables and that addresses many of the criticisms of existing global university rankings," said Professor Dr Frans van Vught, from the Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, one of the lead partners of the consortium. The fields of study selected for assessment in 2014 were Business, Physics and Mechanical Engineering. The ranking system currently includes over 850 universities from 70 countries around the world; 62% in Europe, 17% in North America, 14% in Asia and 7% from Oceania, Latin America and Africa. Further information on U-Multirank is available at www.umultirank.org -ends-
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NUI Galway Symposium celebrates the 150th Anniversary of the Naming of Neanderthal Man by Galway-based Scientist
Tuesday, 13 May 2014
2014 marks 150th anniversary of the naming by William King, Professor of Geology at the then Queen's College Galway. He remains the first scientist ever to name a new species of human. President Michael D. Higgins will attend a special international symposium to mark the 150th anniversary of the coining of the term of Homo neanderthalensis by William King, Professor of Geology at Queen's College Galway in the 19th century. This proposal by King represents one of the first steps towards our understanding today of human evolution. The NUI Galway symposium is dedicated to the life and times of William King and the distant prehistoric people to whom he gave a name. The meeting will welcome the world's leading authorities in the field of human evolution, a gathering never before seen in Ireland, to celebrate this remarkable achievement. At the heart of it all the organising committee hope the symposium will be a fitting tribute to a pioneer in the field of human evolution, who worked at a time when this field was still very much in its infancy, but who has never really received the scientific recognition he deserves. Dr John Murray, one of the symposium organisers, said "this event will celebrate where we have come from as human beings. Professor King's work represents a scientific milestone in the history of our understanding of human origins. The term 'Neanderthal' is globally recognised and understood, but had King not coined this phrase during his time in Queen's College Galway, they would most likely be known by a completely different name today." William King's proposal in 1864 was to formally designate Neanderthal people as a separate species from ourselves (Homo neanderthalensis). His suggestion was both extraordinary and revolutionary for its time - Charles Darwin's masterpiece 'Origin of Species' had been published just five years beforehand. William King remains the first to name a new fossil human species; a privilege afforded to very few scientists. Professor Svante Pääbo, Director of the Department of Evolutionary Genetics at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig and the first person to sequence the DNA of Neanderthal people, will deliver the main keynote address of the symposium. President Higgins along with members of the King family, will attend this free public talk, which is specifically aimed at a general audience. It will take place at 5.30pm on Saturday 24th May in O'Flaherty Theatre in NUI Galway and those interested in attending are asked to register at http://bit.ly/Neanderthal150 General information regarding the full weekend symposium, entitled 'From Fossils to the Genome', is available at www.neanderthal150.org. The meeting has been made possible with the assistance of: The Quaternary Research Association, The Irish Research Council, Roche, NUI Galway, Galway City Council, Bord Fáilte, The Geological Survey of Ireland, The Geological Survey of Northern Ireland, The Institute of Geologists of Ireland, Beta Analytic Limited, Connemara Marble Industries Limited and the Burren Geopark. -ends-
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NUI Galway Insight Group Win Prestigious BBC #newsHACK II Prize
Wednesday, 14 May 2014
Insight's Digital Humanities and Journalism Group Compete with Sky News, the Financial Times, Storyful and the BBC to win 'Connecting the News' category prize at BBC #newsHACK II Insight's Digital Humanities and Journalism group at NUI Galway were the winners of the Connecting the News category prize at the BBC #newsHACK in Dublin on 1 and 2 May. The team developed 'Hash2News', a Chrome Extension, which enables users to find the news stories behind Twitter hashtags at the click of a button. The group competed alongside teams from other academic institutes as well as news organisations such as Sky News, the Financial Times, Storyful and the BBC. The #newsHACK is an initiative of the BBC NewsLabs, an innovation programme for the whole of BBC News, and organised by BBC Connected Studio and the Global Editors Network (sponsored by Google), and aims to foster digital innovation in news. The 2014 theme was 'The Future of News Curation' and was held in Dublin and Glasgow earlier this month. Inspired by the belief that a hack should identify and solve a particular problem, the Digital Humanities and Journalism (HuJo) group at Insight decided to use their expertise with handling Twitter streams and entity extraction to find the news articles most relevant for any given hashtag. They plan to finalise their 'Hash2News' extension and make it freely available online in the near future. Social media, especially Twitter, presents a large stream of discussion to users, often informed by external news events. The result is that users often feel like they are 'out of the loop', and want to find out what is behind ongoing social media discussions. By providing a direct link from Twitter content to relevant news articles, HuJo's Chrome Extension enables Twitter users to find 'the news behind the noise', the news articles relevant to social media conversations. Dr. Bahareh R. Heravi, Insight's HuJo Group Leader said, "We are very happy to have been selected as a winning team at the BBC #newsHACK. The team had to compete with large and prestigious news organisations, and come up with a unique and useful product within a day and a half. This required a high degree of intellectual work, as well as great team work. Being a winning team among such strong groups of participants was a great accomplishment, particularly for a young research team such as HuJo." The judges saw the utility of 'Hash2News' and awarded the group the prize for Connecting the News, which requires the team to "pique audience interests, to tap into social media habits, and support consumption across devices." Other category winners were BBC Location Service (Explaining the News), The Independent (Tools for Journalists), Sky News (Theming the News), University of the West of Scotland (NewsCrack award) and BBC archives (Visually Inspired). The Best in Show winners were The Financial Times (Glasgow) and The Times/Sunday Times (Dublin). Hash2News team members were Ravindra Harige, Dara McHugh, Prashant Khare, Pablo Torres, and team leader, Dr. Bahareh Heravi. The Insight Centre for Data Analytics is a joint initiative between researchers at NUI Galway, UCD, UCC, DCU, and other partner institutions. It will bring together a critical mass of more than 200 researchers from Ireland's leading Information Communications and Technology (ICT) centres to develop a new generation of data analytics technologies in a number of key application areas. For further information on HuJo-Insight's work at the BBC #newsHACK II visit http://hujo.deri.ie/hujo-newshack-ii/ -Ends-
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NUI Galway Information Evening to Highlight Clinical Research
Wednesday, 14 May 2014
The HRB Clinical Research Facility, Galway (CRFG) is holding a public information evening on Tuesday, 20 May from 5-7pm in the Clinical Sciences Institute, NUI Galway (on the grounds of Galway University Hospital). The information evening will highlight how ongoing clinical research studies may lead to significant medical breakthroughs and the development of new treatments. It is also an opportunity to find out more about current research projects and to meet current CRFG staff. Professor Martin O'Donnell, Acting Director, HRB CRFG, said: "Clinical research involves a collaboration between clinicians, patients, volunteers and research staff. Therefore, public engagement is an essential part of clinical research. Over the past six years, the HRB CRFG has developed a strong clinical research group, conducting studies across a wide spectrum of medical conditions. We strive to conduct cutting-edge research, which adheres to the highest standards." The HRB Clinical Research Facility, Galway is a joint venture between NUI Galway, Galway University Hospitals and West Northwest Hospital Group, and has been in operation since March 2008. The Facility provides the infrastructure, physical space, facilities, expertise and culture needed to optimally support patient-focused research studies and clinical studies aimed at understanding a range of diseases and translating the knowledge obtained through this research work into evaluating novel therapies for various clinical conditions. Over the past six years, clinical research outputs from the HRB CRFG have made important contributions to clinical medicine, in both prevention and treatment of common disease. Work has begun on the new Clinical Research Facility and Translational Research Facility (CRF-TRF) building located on the grounds of Galway University Hospital. The building is due to be completed in January 2015. The CRF-TRF will facilitate cutting-edge medical research. This facility will form part of the Irish Network of Clinical Research Facilities which will conduct state of the art clinical research in a variety of clinical areas, such as Cardiology, Cancer, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, etc. So, what is a Clinical Trial? A Clinical Trial is a research study to answer specific questions about a new medical treatment (medicine/drug, medical device, new therapies, vaccines), or new ways of using known treatments. Clinical Trials (also called medical research and research studies) are used to determine whether such new treatments are both safe and effective. Carefully conducted Clinical Trials are the fastest and safest way to find new and effective treatments that work in people. The CRFG Information Evening is free to attend, however advance registration is requested by emailing email@example.com . -Ends-
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NUI Galway Students' Union 50th Anniversary Reunion
Wednesday, 14 May 2014
All past and present NUI Galway Students' Union officers, staff, journalists, colleagues and friends are invited to join with us to celebrate as NUI Galway Students' Union turns 50. The reunion is taking place in the College Bar, NUI Galway from 7pm onwards on Saturday 7th June 2014. Former Students' Union Presidents include President Michael D Higgins, Pat Rabbitte and Eamon Gilmore. Tickets are €15 which includes BBQ, dessert, refreshments, entertainment and lots of surprises along the way. If you have any queries about the event or would be interested in contributing to our special 50th anniversary publication for the event - with photos or words - please contact email@example.com or phone 091 493704 ASAP! -Ends-
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REDDSTAR Shines at the ISCT 2014 Paris Conference
Wednesday, 14 May 2014
REDDSTAR Co-ordinator and Professor of Medicine at NUI Galway, Tim O'Brien, and Orbsen Therapeutics' Head of Research, Dr Steve Elliman took part in an interactive workshop during the International Society for Cellular Therapy (ISCT) 20th Anniversary meeting. The workshop showcased 'EU-funded projects on Cellular Therapies' and was held in Paris recently. REDDSTAR (Repair of Diabetic Damage by Stromal Cell Administration) is an EU funded project which will develop and test stromal cell therapy to treat for diabetes mellitus. The objective is to control blood glucose while also addressing a range of diabetic complications. Steve Elliman added, "The 20th ISCT Meeting in Paris featured some outstanding updates in the translational development of cell therapies. I personally enjoyed the Plenary Session of the development of cell therapies for leukaemias and inherited immunodeficiences, which included an inspirational discussion of the challenges and successes of gene-modified cell therapies by Professor Adrian Thrasher from Great Ormond Street Hospital in the London and Professor Bruce Levine from University of Pennsylvania. In addition, there was a well-attended and detailed discussion of the development of clinical MSCs for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), which was very informative for groups entering the clinical phase of cell therapy testing." In response to the EU-funded projects' workshop and REDDSTAR's involvement, Massimo Dominici, MD, President of the International Society for Cellular Therapy 2014-16 remarked, "The presence of highly valuable speakers representing EU funded research projects represented true added value within our 20th Anniversary Meeting. The feeling I have is that cell therapy in Europe has grown incredibly and, certainly, the EU FP7 granting has provided the proper boost in translating basic concepts into clinical realities for still as yet untreatable diseases. As a global society, ISCT looks forward to showcasing again these EU-based achievements in our future events worldwide." The REDDSTAR-sponsored session (Workshop 5) was chaired by Dr Mark Lowdell of the Royal Free and University College Medical School, University College London, UK and Dr David Gancberg from Directorate Health, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, European Commission. In addition to Professor O' Brien and Dr Elliman, the workshop also featured Prof. Anne Dickinson, MD, of Newcastle University, UK, a project leader in Celleurope and Dr Pierre Layrolle, Co-ordinator of Reborne based at INSERM in Toulouse. -Ends-
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Limited Places Still Available for NUI Galway Engineering Summer School
Wednesday, 14 May 2014
NUI Galway's College of Engineering and Informatics still has a few spaces available on their one-day Engineering Summer School. The summer school is specially designed to give prospective students a real taste of university life through a wide range of hands-on practical activities and students interested in attending have a choice of two different days to participate, Thursday, 19 June, or Friday, 20 June. The summer school, which will take place in the new state-of-the-art Engineering Building on campus, is a free event which provides second-level students the opportunity to learn more about the various fields of engineering which can be studied in NUI Galway. "We have seen a huge interest once again this year amongst both senior and junior cycle second-level students in our Engineering Summer School, but we have a few remaining spaces which students can apply for", according to Professor Gerry Lyons, Dean of Engineering and Informatics at NUI Galway. "The places in the free summer school are competitively awarded so we would invite any students who would be interested in learning more about Electronic, Mechanical, Civil, Biomedical or Energy Systems Engineering to apply for these last few places." Interested students find out more information at http://www.nuigalway.ie/summer-schools/ and can apply by email to firstname.lastname@example.com before Friday, 6 June. -Ends-
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Free Lunchtime Film Screenings at NUI Galway to Celebrate Ageing
Monday, 12 May 2014
The third 'Reel Lives Film Festival', organised by The Irish Centre for Social Gerontology at NUI Galway, is offering free lunchtime screenings of international films and documentaries celebrating ageing across the life-course from 19-23May as part of the Bealtaine Festival. The lunchtime screenings are open to the public and will begin each day at 1pm, apart from Tuesday, 20 May which will take place at 2pm, in IT125G, IT Building, NUI Galway. Each film will be followed by a short audience discussion and refreshments. Film themes include retirement, adventure in later years, attachment to home-place, technology, carers, and reminiscence. A short, informal audience discussion follows each film. Additional attractions include a pre-screening reading of a short story about ageing by Galway writer, Moya Roddy, on Monday 19 at 1 pm. Galway tour-guide, Brendan Hynes will take audience members for a Corrib riverside walk and talk on Friday 23, post-screening. Preceding Tuesday's films is the launch of the Galway Age Friendly Alliance Strategy. The Galway Age Friendly City and County Alliance is a partnership of key local groups that is committed to making the City and County better places in which to grow older. The new Strategy will be launched at 12.30pm on Tuesday, 20May by sports commentator and raconteur Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh in IT125. Programme: Monday - Short film: 'Analogue People in a Digital Age' by Keith Walsh [13 mins]. An Irish bar discussion on coping with technology. Main film: 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel' (2011), starring Judi Dench, Maggie Smith [124 mins]. The exotic lives of India's hotel for the well-heeled British retirees are portrayed in rich performances by an all-star cast. Tuesday - Short film: '4 Bhanrion' ( as Gaeilge with sub-titles) by Vittoria Colinna, starring Geraldine Plunkett [15 mins]. A deadly game of poker dictates which sister will mind mammy in her dotage. Main film: 'Song for Marion' (2012), starring Terence Stamp, Vanessa Redgrave [93 mins]. Singing in her community choir, whilst dying of cancer is a life-changing experience for all, especially for Marion's husband Terence Stamp. Wednesday – Short film: 'Blue Rinse' by Matt Leigh [11 mins]. Life inside a Dublin hairdressing salon for older women. Main film: 'The Trip to Bountiful' (1985), starring Geraldine Page, Rebecca de Mornay [107 mins]. Based on Oscar-nominated screenplay, Geraldine Page won an Academy award for best actress for her performance. A longing to see her home-place before she died leads Page to recount the story of her life in this poignant tale. Thursday - Short film: 'Forty Foot' by Paul McGrath and Leticia Agudo [9 mins]. Stories from the swimmers who use Dublin's famous 40-foot sea spot. Main film: 'Harry and Tonto' (1974), starring Art Carney, Ellen Burstyn, Larry Hagman [111 mins]. Evicted from his home, Art Carney embarks on a road trip across America with his cat 'Tonto'. Friday - Short film: 'Foxes and Donkeys' (2013) by Eileen Gibbons [13 mins]. Stories by residents of St Brendan's Nursing Home, Loughrea. Main film: 'My Afternoons with Margueritte' (2010, French with English sub-titles), starring Gerard Dépardieu [82 mins]. The highly watchable Dépardieu's performance as an illiterate and lonely man befriending an older and well-read woman makes this a gentle gem. The screening venue has all facilities available to hand; including cafés, restrooms, and a lift is available to the lecture theatre for easy access. The lecture theatre is wheelchair friendly. Films are courtesy of Screenclick; Bord Scannán na hEireann/The Irish Film Board; film collector Liam Bluett, and Directors. Reel Lives Film Festival poster designed by artist Marina Wild, NUI Galway. Soft drinks and confectionary are courtesy of the Students' Union Shop NUI Galway. Spot prizes are sponsored by NUI Galway's Kingfisher Sports Centre, and Masterchefs Hospitality NUI Galway. Further information contact event organiser, Alison Herbert at 091 495461 or 087 2830757, www.icsg.ie. -Ends-
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I have this product in the shade 'Sand', and overall it does the job--it conceals spots, blemishes, and under eye dark circles pretty well. The staying power is also quite impressive. I once had this on my face while I was running to catch my train on a hot summer day and I ended up with sweat pouring down my face, but this concealer DID NOT budge! It stayed on my face until I wiped it off at the end of the day.
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I absolutely love this and buy it over and over. I am quite fair, and use the shade ivory, mostly just on my under eyes. I like that its pretty thin and fluid, I am not a fan of heavy, cakey concealer. I dab it on with the brush and then use my finger to blend. It lasts all day, and I don't have any creasing. I do set with powder.
I don't have particularly problematic under eye issues. But I do get dark circles, and need some general brightening. This does that so well. I've tried other concealers, but they were all just ok. Truth be told, I like this stuff so much that I have no real desire to seek out anything else.
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Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Green
My go to highlighter, I love using this under my eyes. It's light, and I like the applicator. The color is great for hiding blue under eyes.
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Hair: Brown, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
I've bought this on an impulse without doing any research and it's a good thing I did. I absolutely love this, though I believe it's been marketed badly. This is not an illuminating concealer, it's just a really great concealer. It covers my dark circles beautifully (and I have quite strong and genetic dark circles). Its staying power is insane, basically you have to take it off yourself, otherwise it stays put. If you want an illuminator, don't get this, but if you want a great concealer, do it! This is the best concealer I've tried, and I have tried a lot of them. The only cons when it comes to this is the crappy little brush, that is too long, but does a decent job and the fact that if you use too much it does gather in your line lines (but it does't highlight them). I love this concealer and I would buy it again in a heartbeat!
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This is a great highlighter! I've used everyday since I got it. I really like the gel forumla and that it does not feel cakey to put on other areas of my face besides undereye area. I hestitated buying it since it was not easy to guess which shade would be right. I went online and found some swatches which helped me pick the right one the first time. I don't use MAC foundations so can't give comparison shade, but can offer what worked for me. I usually take the 2nd lightest shade in most foundations for my fair-med warm skin tone, so I picked Nude which I believe is the second lightest shade. I am now using this as a concealer as well, however I don't have dark circles. I would say it covers similar to the Fit Me concealer which is a pretty light coverage.
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TravelPod Member ReviewsNovotel Rockford Darling Harbour Sydney
Good choice Deb Saunders. Nice and close to everything.
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Hotel room was good but the traffic noise and street lights did not make for a restful sleep
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Historical Traveler Reviews Novotel Rockford Darling Harbour Sydney
Not worth the 4 stars!
Stayed here in May 2005 for a week. Room was quite small and we had to move luggage stand in order to open drawer of bedside cabinet. Twice had to phone down for towels as none had been left in room for us.
Our room overlooked the street on a very busy and noisy junction. On the one occasion we went to the bar adjacent to the Pump House Restaurant there was a big queue so we walked out after ten minutes.
Breakfast buffet was quite good but same food every day and cooked food was only lukewarm. Staff were polite and helpful.
Seems to be some confusion between this and the larger pyramid shaped Novotel Century in all the pictures of Darling Harbour - the one in Little Pier Street is now called the NOVOTEL ROCKFORD DARLING HARBOUR.
Okay but wouldn't stay there again.
Basic - nothing more, nothing less
Hotel is located really well.... excellent to be frank.
But, rude staff and poor restaurant make it average.
European Style-rooms - Great Staff
This was a (3) night whirlwind trip to Sydney. Hotel is sleek, nice and clean. Rooms were very European and small. They did not change bedding daily; I am sure they would if you asked. Good dine in room service. Very friendly and accommodating Concierge & staff whom provided great overall customer service. They answered all our questions and went out of their way to book an extra last-minute "Blue Mountain" tour for us, which was well worth our time to see. Nice Breakfast Buffets. Easy access to Metro to take us downtown for shopping. The hotel is centrally located so you can do lots of walking, shopping, and perhaps grab some dinner all the while getting some exercise and fresh air on the harbor. This was much appreciated and needed after a very long flight. The views from the hotel were not much but the helpful staff provided such great customer service that it made up for any minor glitch. The staff repeatedly went above and beyond to serve the customer. We were pleased and would stay here again.
Who is this hotel for?
Good location, nice looking hotel, some of the staff were very pleasant. And yet this was the most disappointing hotel I've stayed in for some time. It's basically modelled on the old YMCA hotels, which would be fine for $50 a night. The manager said he would write to me on some of the problems I had - for example, no bath plug! - but of course never did. Avoid.
Good and Bad
Location is excellent for access to waterfront area and city generally as the monorail is on adjacent corner. Staff were helpful and ready to assist. Room ("superior") was smaller than expected but adequate.
Bathroom was in need of maintenance, with toilet seat not securely attached, shower curtain off some hooks, shower rose not a water saver, location of kettle and cups at very bottom of cupboard was awkward, and not enough bench space. Internet access (2 computers) in lobby was $5/half hour,with about 5 mins lost in uploading and navigating between sites due to slow connection; mouse was also faulty and made for some annoyance. It was cheaper and quicker to use an internet cafe in the city. Breakfast was buffet and very good, although some of the plates had not been inspected after washing and had small food remnants. Don't hesitate to complain about this as this is totally unaccceptable.
Overall, the room facilities were a little tired and need a "makeover", but the hotel is more than adequate for access to all the major tourist attractions.
Treated like family
I arrived later 2 days than the rest of my family to Sydney. 1 day later than planned due to a missed connection. I arrived knowing I missed a planned tour and my family wouldn't be there, as I was paying the taxi and looking for the room number, I got out and my luggage was already loaded on a cart. I was greeted by name by the conciere; David and wisked to my room, all the while being updated on my family. After 4 plane trips, missing a connection and being on the other side of the world, what a welcome greeting. The hotel had great location, nice rooms,wonderful breakfast and wonderful staff. One night we came back to our room to find the air conditioner was only giving out cool not cold air. They came but couldn't fix it that night and the hotel was full. Because of the inconvience they took some incidentals off our bill. That's customer service.
Quanta vacation hotel
For a 4 star Hotel, this was the smallest room in our trip. The main bar is being updated so they had a tempory bar located on the 2nd floor where all the meeting rooms are located. Walls are pretty thin and the bathroom, you might want to bring a spear water slippers since there is mold all round the tubs and you don't want to touch the walls. No where to put your suitcase, have to rearrange the furnature to fit our suitcases in the room. This room was part of the Quanta Vacation package for 4 star hotels?!
Location is good but the rooms are showing signs of wear and are badly needing some attention to detail (ie. tiles in bathroom need repaired, walls and furniture are marked). We had one day where no one had come to service our room so called reception who sent someone up. No big deal but we expected better. Moved rooms after first night due to traffic noise. Unfortunately the rooms with any views are exposed to a very busy street.
Location good, hotel average.
We have stayed at the Novotel Century Sydney twice during 2003, both times for three nights. The first time was as a part of a cheap Qantas package, the second was as a member of Accor Advantage Plus. The first stay was terrific with everything coming up to expectation, the second time was almost like being treated like second class citizens. The staff on both occasions were fantastic, but the first room we stayed in on our second stay was not as clean as it could have been, the bathroom had quite a few broken tiles and the bedspread had seen better days with a number of repairs being evident. The noise of the rubbish being sorted and picked up just below our window at 7.00am also didn't help.
After requesting, and getting another room, (staff were very responsive) things really looked up. From then on the stay was great.
We had the buffet breakfast on two mornings of the second visit, the first morning there was plenty to choose from, the second they were a lot busier and had trouble keeping up. The good news was that the food was excellent on both mornings.
As long as you don't pay the full rack rate the hotel is a good place to stay, it's great location and staff are its main features.
Modern boxes
Great location at Darling Harbour. Small cramped sealed rooms. Most with tiny windows, pay extra for partial views. Air conditioning was unresponsive. Quality fixtures, but little room to move in room. Helpful staff.
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Sydney is a big city of 5 million people. We were in the bustling downtown area of Darling Harbour. Sydney has a few harbours once you come in the main entrance from the ocean allowing for a large and varied coastline. In 1998 Sydney celebrated their bi-century - it is the oldest city in Australia.
The Jacaranda tree is in bloom in several …
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Our first meal in Sydney was at the Sydney Tower downtown. Spectacular views of the harbour. You see views for mile around in every direction from the revolving restaurant. Here's a few pics.
Saturday! Darling Harbour, darling ;)
... only order a couple of things! Anyway it was 3pm and I was hungry having foregone the Ron Weasley sandwich on the plane. Virgin aus, you've only let yourself down there! So I started small with Haloumi, a salad and feta filled courgette flowers plus a beer and then went back for meatballs and a cocktail! Ernie (and I) will have some work to do when I get back! Refuelled, I was ready to walk along Darling Harbour ...
... our love for New Zealand, and also spent quite a bit of time trying to explain what a Scottish Ceilidh was, and teaching them some Doric dialect. Fun night all in all!
Sunday was St Patricks Day, so we had arranged a day out with one of Katie's colleagues Sally, who seems to know a lot of Irish living in Sydney. The day started with a pint in an Irish Bar (of course) before watching the parade that then led to Hyde Park for a ...
Camping, trains & ferries in Sydney
... hit the shops to replace our 'backpacker clothes' with some half decent smart-ish clothes! Up to this point of the trip we haven't needed any smart clothes. Asia is too rough and ready and what you pack for travelling around the world is quite different from what you take on your annual holiday in the Mediterranean!
We managed to bag some bargains in a shop called JayJays and with no ...


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Mindful Consumption?This week, Magnolia Pictures releases its new movie Food, Inc. in theaters across the US. The film, which follows in the footsteps of recent films like Fast Food Nation, focuses on the shadowy and unchecked food industry that has grown in the US over the past 50 years. But while the film targets the handful of large corporations that control much of what appears on the shelves of grocery stores, it also suggests that our blissful ignorance as consumers who toss frozen chicken breasts and packaged lettuce into our grocery carts, actually makes us complicit in the ugly underbelly of the multi-billion dollar food industry. I was lucky enough to catch an advanced screening of the film which manages to be simultaneously troubling and hopeful as it exposes the history and future of American's food consumption. More »
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How to Learn Green MeditationGreen Meditation is the newest big idea to come from Clark Stand's blog Whole Earth God. (The last was iReligion.) We gave you a brief rundown of it here, and Clark has followed up on his original post on his blog. Here's a taste: The current imbalance between theology and ecology (which weights the value of human culture more heavily than the Earth) is at the root of our 21st century ecological crisis. More »
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Green Meditation, Nature as GodOver at Whole Earth God, author (and former Tricycle editor*) Clark Strand writes about "Green Meditation," which he explains in this way: Green Meditation overturns pretty much everything we know (or think we know) about our existing religious practices and beliefs. Or, rather, it reinterprets them so radically that they aren't recognizable any longer to most people. For all that, the basic idea is easy to understand: Green Meditation tells us that all theology (interpreted broadly to include any religious teaching) is ecology. Where it isn't, theology has gone astray. Nature is never wrong. More »
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Buddhist Declaration on Climate ChangeIn anticipation of the December 2009 U.N. Climate Treaty Conference in Copenhagen, several prominent Buddhists have drafted a document in support of environmental action from a "pan-Buddhist" perspective. The Time to Act is Now, as the declaration is called, was initiated by over 20 Buddhist teachers from a diversity of traditions who contributed to a recently published collection entitled A Buddhist Response to the Climate Emergency. (The Summer 2009 issue of Tricycle, which will hit newsstands next week, includes an essay from the book by Joseph Goldstein on taking the first steps as an environmental advocate.) Authored by Zen teacher Dr. David Tetsuun Loy and senior Theravadin teacher Ven. More »
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The American KoanAccording to Elephant Journal's Waylon Lewis, it's "Paper or Plastic?" See his answer to that question here. Also, keep an eye out for a couple of articles by Daniel Goleman (author of Ecological Intelligence) and Ethan Nichtern (leader of the Interdependence Project) that address the same subject in the upcoming Summer '09 issue of Tricycle. More »
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901 West Pratt St., Baltimore, MD 21223
NOVEMBER 2015 at the B&O in Baltimore
Restoration Facility Tour: the New, the Old, & the Restored!
Sunday, November 1
1:00 p.m.
Take the 1:00 p.m.
train ride
for a behind-the-scenes tour of the Museum's state-of-the-art restoration facility constructed in 2005 to restore and maintain the museum's locomotive and rolling stock collection. This guided tour is an up-close and personal look at the shop including the machinery used in the restoration process and a peek at some of the "Iron Horses" currently being maintained and restored. Duration of the tour is 1 hour with an additional 15 minutes for train ride to and from the restoration shop. Space is limited to 25 people for age 13 and up. Train ride and tour is $11.00 per person with paid admission.
Ticket sale for the
Train Ride and Breakfast Buffet in the Roundhouse with Santa
Beginning Monday, November 2
Enjoy a full breakfast buffet while visiting and having your photo taken with Santa. Enjoy a magical display of toy and model trains at the B&O's Magical Holiday Express event and take a ride on the Museum's indoor carousel.
Then "All Aboard" the Mile One Express for an exclusive train ride with Santa!
Space is limited;
advance prepaid reservations required
for the following weekend breakfast dates:
Saturday, December 5 (8am) & Sundays December 6
& 13 (9am)
. Tickets on-sale beginning Monday, November 2, 2015.
Ticket sale for
Breakfast with Royalty (Elsa, Anna, Kristoff, & Olaf)
Beginning Monday, November 2
Enjoy a full breakfast buffet while visiting with some of your favorite royal characters - Elsa, Anna, Kristoff, and Olaf! Enjoy a magical display of toy and model trains at the B&O's Magical Holiday Express event and take a ride on the Museum's indoor carousel. After breakfast Olaf parades everyone to the train platform for a train ride fit for a king with Elsa, Anna, and Kristoff. This royal breakfast is for
one day only
Saturday, December 12 at 8am
. Advance reservations required; space is limited.
Ticket sale for
Holiday Story Time with Mrs. Claus & Train Ride with Santa
Beginning Monday, November 2
Children and families enjoy a favorite holiday story with a snack of cookies, milk and hot chocolate. Then "All Aboard" the Mile One Express for an exclusive train ride with Santa! Space is limited;
dvance reservations required
for the following dates:
December 5 (1pm),
December 6 (1pm) &
17 (10:30am)
. Tickets on-sale beginning November 2.
Ticket sale for
Holiday Story Time with Royalty (Elsa, Anna, Kristoff, & Olaf)
Beginning Monday, November 2
Children and families enjoy a favorite holiday story with a snack of cookies, milk and hot chocolate. After story time, Olaf will parade you to the train ride platfor where you board the Mile One Express for a royal train ride with Elsa, Anna, and Kristoff. Event dates:
Saturday, December 12 (1pm) & Sunday, December 13 (1pm)
. Advance reservations required; space is limited.
Super Hero Day
Thursday, November 5 & Saturday, November 7
Train Ride at 11:30 a.m.
Hey kids! Here's your chance to become your favorite super hero! Come dressed as your favorite hero for an out-of-this-world experience and day of fun! Choo Choo Blue and friends make an appearance for story time and interactive games.
Click here for details
Civil War Lecture Series: Old Men in Blue and Gray Maryland's Civil War Veterans
Saturday, November 7
12:00 p.m
Join award-winning Civil War historian and
The War Came By Train
guest curator, Daniel Toomey, as he traces the post-war development of Civil War veterans' groups in Maryland. Learn about the legacy of the men who fought for both sides and how they honored the memory of those involved. The lecture includes a discussion on the 50th & 75th veteran reunions at Gettysburg. Following the lecture, Mr. Toomey will also be on hand to sign copies of
The War Came By Train
and other Civil War books.
Veterans Day Weekend
Saturday, November 7
(10 a.m. - 4 p.m.)
Sunday, November 8 (11 a.m. – 4 p.m.)
Salute the military and veterans at the B&O! Join us for special living history presentations by members of the 4th Infantry Division Military Police Unit on our WWII Troop Sleeper. Vintage military vehicles will also be on display. Veterans with military identification receive FREE admission on these two event days.
B&O's Veteran Swing Dance
One evening only!!
Saturday, November 7, 2015
7:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
It was the era of a toe-stomping
Chattanooga Choo Choo
-- a time when today's World War II veterans were young soldiers fighting a major war. To honor these brave men and women, the B&O Railroad Museum is hosting its annual
Swing Dance
inside the historic 1884 Roundhouse. For tickets or event details
click here.
In-advance: $20 for B&O Members, $25 for the General Public, $45 for Couples
At-the-door: $30 for B&O Members, $35 for the General Public, $60 for Couples
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The B&O's Magical Holiday Express
November 21 & 22, December & January 2 & 3
Museum closed Christmas Eve, & Christmas Day
Monday-Saturday 10am-4pm
Sunday, 11am-4pm
Mark your calendars for the B&O's Magical Holiday Express devoted to trains of all sizes, your favorite holiday characters, and a train load of fun for the entire family! More details to follow but save these dates:
November 21 & 22 - Santa's LEGO Block Party! Santa arrives by train November 21 at 10:30 a.m. to kick off the holiday season!
December 5 & 6 - Frosty Fest Weekend
December 12 & 13 - Winter Royal Adventures with Elsa & Anna
December 19 & 20 - North Pole Adventure
December 21 - 31 - Winterfest Wonderland featuring holiday characters and model train layouts
January 2 & 3 - The Great Scale Model Train Show
Museum CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC
Monday, November 23 - Sunday, November 29
For the event
the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore will be CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC for the set up and days of this event.
THE POLAR EXPRESS Train Ride
Tuesday, November 24 at 1:00 p.m. (Dress Rehearsal)
Friday, November 27 - Sunday, November 29 at 10:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 1:00 p.m. & 2:00 p.m.
Tickets on-sale Now!
For the first time ever, pajama-clad families can board THE POLAR EXPRESS at the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore! Onboard the train passengers are whisked off to "the North Pole" where they relive the magic of the classic children's book, THE POLAR EXPRESS by Chris Van Allsburg. Characters from this award-winning book come to life through this magical holiday journey.
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Where To Find The Easter Bunny In Utica NY [VIDEO]
My son Dylan and I had a quest yesterday. To find the Easter Bunny near our home in Utica NY. We were successful in two out of our three visits.
My son Dylan and I had a quest yesterday. To find the Easter Bunny near our home in Utica NY. We were successful in two out of our three visits.
There are Easter events all over the Mohawk Valley every year, some of which come and go, but there are three mainstays that are always a huge hit among the Utica public year after year, and if you manage your time right, you just may be able to attend them all
Thanksgiving has a parade, St. Patrick's Day has a parade. But what about Easter? Let's find where they are and who has the best ones.
Many of us will be having a baked ham dinner on Easter, as well as some other traditional dishes. So, how hard can it be to bake a ham? Well, if you want your ham to come out moist and tender, we've got a foolproof recipe, complete with homemade glaze.
You may not be aware, but the Easter Bunny has been around for a long time. Easily one of the most recognizable symbols of the holiday, the loveable critter was first mentioned in an essay by German physician and botanist Georg Franck von Frankenau all the way back in 1682. Funny, we always figured he was just a Hallmark creation.
Easter is just around the corner despite the occasional bout of spring snow and you know what that means. The Easter Bunny is here.


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Spurrier detailed what type of coaches he is willing to accept into his program at South Carolina. These are some pretty interesting criteria. I will go ahead and say "no judgement" on my own part because, well, I haven't been a Heisman winning QB and I've never won a National Championship at any sport, so who am I to question the Ole Ball Coach? But some of this stuff is a little out there. Maybe Steve is getting a little ornery in his day. A little less time on the NASCAR circuit and more time at Augusta may help with that. Who knows.
He did have South Carolina finish 8th this season, and second in the SEC East with a better record than the team that finished ahead of them.
First, you must not be a smoker why?
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Here's a little something I whipped up for the South Carolina folks.