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Darwin's Ghosts: In Search of the First Evolutionists (edition 2012)
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Joy's Review: The title's a bit silly, but the book is excellent. Each chapter describes someone who wondered, studied and investigated the 'transmutability' of species. All courageous men- since for most of them the religious powers at the time were (and sadly, often still are) scandalized by such theories and studies. I'd read another of Stott's books any time; she is an excellent non-fiction writer, presenting science history as the stories of individuals asking 'why'.
Interesting, but goes a bit too far into "you-are-there" history for my taste (describing what Darwin's study looked like or probably looked like--sure, okay, fine; describing Darwin raising his head as the butler brings in a letter--definitely not okay).
An accessible and engaging look at free thinkers and scientists who preceded Darwin with pioneering insights and discoveries into evolution and natural selection beginning with Aristotle.
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.What an interesting book this was. I was familiar with Darwin's work, of course, but really didn't know much about his precursors -- or that there were so many of them! As a non-scientist, I found the information fascinating; and I loved that Stott was able to fit so much data into such (relatively) short and succinct sketches. I was a bit bothered at first by her habit of portraying Darwin (and her other subjects as well) actually "thinking" or "imagining" or "feeling" one thing or another. I suppose it was an attempt to add some immediacy to the work by getting inside their heads -- if so, it wasn't really necessary. But even with that one problem, I still enjoyed the book even more than I expected I would. Definitely recommended to anyone interested in the history of science, although probably more appealing to the non-specialist.
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.My favorite kind of read is a nonfiction book that is both informative and engaging. Science and history are my two favorite subjects, so when offered the chance to read Rebecca Stott's Darwin's Ghost, the Secret History of Evolution, I took it. Thank you to Librarything's Early Reader program and to the publisher.
Many of us tend to believe great ideas are formed in bubbles; that great thinkers suddenly come up with great ideas. We forget that many ideas build on older ideas. Stott reminds us that Darwin, though brilliant, did not come up with evolution on his own.
Stott's writing style is amazing, and I found myself green with envy within the first chapter. My secret desire is to write an engaging nonfiction book, if only I could write like Stott. She easily draws her readers into the lives of those who came before Darwin. We walk along the Greek shores with Aristotle as he studies ocean life. We learn Leonardo spent a lot time wondering how fossilized sea shells got imbedded into mountain regions. We learn of men who are self taught natural philosophers with varying success. We enter the gardens of the French Natural History Museum the Jardin des Plantes and finish off with Alfred Wallace. Each chapter builds upon the last, giving the us a clear map of how Darwin found his way to the Origins of Species.
If you are like me, always on the lookout for a well written, well researched nonfiction book, look no further than Stott's book.
Stott's history begins with proto-evolutionary thinkers such as Aristotle, the 8th century Muslim writer Jahiz, and Leonardo Da Vinci, and eventually concludes with Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles), Jean Baptiste de Lamarck, Robert Chambers, and Alfred Russell Wallace. Common to all of these thinkers was the realization that nature defies most attempts at drawing sharp lines of demarcation.
A second recurring theme is the lengths to which our heroes frequently went to avoid running afoul of religious authorities. Since evolutionary thinking has been heretical in most times and places, scientists pursuing such investigations were forced to be circumspect in expressing their views.
"Darwin's Ghosts" unfolds like an enjoyable and informative TV series, each episode devoted to a fascinating character who provides a window into the world of ideas of his time. It doesn't offer a definitive chronological prehistory of Darwinian ideas, but it does help us see the necessity of bold and ambitious thinking. And, right here, right now, it has additional value. Stott reminds us that even if evolution is currently fought over more brutally in the United States than elsewhere, this fight has a long and stubborn ancestry, one that is by no means peculiarly American or entirely modern.
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It will be a rematch in the title game of the St. Elmo Holiday Tournament after Altamont defeated South Central 66-33 in the championship semifinals on Friday night.
St. Elmo already locked in its spot in the title game after beating Beecher City on Thursday.
The Eagles beat the Indians to win last season's tournament, and the top two seeds will begin play at about 8 p.m. Saturday night to settle this year's event.
In the third-place game, which is slated to begin at about 6:30 p.m., South Central will face Beecher City.
LITCHFIELD - The Vandals overcame a slow start to win 48-34 at Litchfield on Friday night in South Central Conference action.
Senior Tim Ritchey had 14 points to lead the Vandals, and senior Chase Woolsey had 11 rebounds. Junior Colton Woolsey blocked five shots in the game, and senior Michael Wells had 11 points.
Vandalia trailed, 13-5, after the first eight minutes, but stormed out to a six-point halftime lead by outscoring the Panthers, 20-6, in the second quarter.
ST. ELMO — The Eagles advanced to the championship game of their own holiday tournament on Thursday by coming back in the second half of a 42-33 win against Beecher City.
Senior Ben Davis hit a 3-pointer with six seconds left in the third quarter, and junior Levi Maxey made another on the first possession of the fourth quarter to give St. Elmo a 29-22 lead.
The Eagles had trailed Beecher City, 20-14, at halftime.
Maxey led the team with 21 points and seven steals, while senior Connor Beasley had a team-high seven rebounds.
The Vandal wrestling team lost a close match to Civic Memorial, 37-36, on Wednesday.
Vandalia (3-3) earned forfeits in the four heaviest classes, but otherwise only won with pins from Zach Jackson (160) and Jake Stewart (170), two of the team's best wrestlers so far this season.
The dual was the varsity's final event until the St. Thomas More New Year's Challenge in Champaign on Dec. 27-28.
ST. ELMO — Fischer Tharp was on a mission Wednesday night at the St. Elmo Holiday Tournament.
Scoring 32 points, he led No. 6 South Central to a 52-48 upset win against third-seeded Cowden-Herrick in the 53rd annual event and secured his team a spot in the championship semifinals on Friday night at 7:45 p.m.
There, the Cougars will meet No. 2 Altamont, which beat seventh-seeded Ramsey, 61-31, on Wednesday.
ST. ELMO — The championship and consolation semifinals have been set in this season's St. Elmo Holiday Tournament.
On Thursday, top-seeded St. Elmo will face No. 4 Beecher City in the championship semifinals at 7:45 p.m., and the winner of game one will face either No. 2 Altamont or No. 6 South Central, which play on Friday at 7:45 p.m.
The championship game will be on Saturday at 8 p.m.
The top two seeds which played on Tuesday in the first round of the 53rd annual St. Elmo Holiday Tournament were each victorious.
No. 1 St. Elmo beat No. 8 Mulberry Grove, 56-32, and No. 4 Beecher City beat No. 5 Brownstown, 67-59.
The remaining teams played first-round games on Wednesday night, and semifinals will be held on Thursday and Friday nights, with the finals set to begin at 2 p.m. on Saturday.
The championship game is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m.
The Vandals started strong and never really slowed down in picking up their second conference win of the season on Tuesday night.
Scoring 19 points in the first quarter, Vandalia set the tone against South Central Conference rival Hillsboro during a 56-34 victory in the home-opener for the Vandals.
On Saturday, the Lady Vandals picked up an overtime win at Neoga.
Senior Amber Bruno had 32 points for Vandalia, which outscored Neoga, 11-0, in overtime of a 58-47 victory, snapping a three-game losing streak.
Junior Morgan Cripe added a season-high 12 points, and junior Megan Godoyo had a double-double with 13 rebounds and 11 points,
Vandalia (3-5) trailed 16-11 after the first quarter, but held Neoga to just two points in the second period to take a 28-18 halftime lead.
Senior Morgan Whightsil is emerging as Vandalia's much-needed third scorer.
With 20 points in three games since the calendar changed to December, Whightsil has taken some of the scoring pressure off of senior Amber Bruno and junior Megan Godoyo.
It all started at Southwestern on Dec. 1, when she had a season-high 10 points to help try to bridge the scoring gap that was left because Megan Godoyo was not playing after controversially being ejected the game before.
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Dr Miriyam Aouragh
Miriyam Aouragh has interests in mobility, interactivity, empowerment, grassroots activism and the construction of (imagined) online communities. She is studying the implications of new generation/Internet 2.0 for Palestinian and Lebanese activists.
Trained as an anthropologist at the Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam), Goldsmiths University (London) and Birzeit University (Palestine), focusing on Race and Racism and Palestinian political movements, Miriyam Aouragh continued as a PhD student at the University of Amsterdam where she embarked on a study of the Palestinian Internet. She also taught on anthropology, sociology and ethnic and racial studies at the University of Amsterdam.
During her MA fieldwork she noticed the mushrooming of Internet cafes and wondered what the effect would be on Palestinians reaching out to the world, and for those 'outside' in exile to link up with those 'inside' the Occupied Territories. She observed and interviewed the Internet actors themselves: the Palestinian producers and consumers of the Internet. In order to grasp the complexities of 'a nation in multiple states' she employed a multi-sited approach by including Jordan and Lebanon in her general approach and fieldwork, which took place between 2001 and 2005.
During her time as a PhD researcher, Miriyam observed the development of the Internet in terms of new possibilities for overcoming immobility and in motivating interactivity, and how these social effects have enabled social movements to target broader audiences. After her PhD, the nature, style and political economies of what she termed 'Cyber Intifada', became her main research focus. Miriyam was awarded a Rubicon (NWO) grant to embark on this research at the Oxford Internet Institute. She currently studies the everyday political implications of Web 2.0 for Palestinian and Lebanese activist groups, the role of the Internet during the ongoing Arab revolutions, and teaches Cyber Politics of the Middle East at Oxford University's Middle East Centre. Her Book "Palestine Online: Transnationalism, the Internet and the Construction of Identity" has been published by IB Tauris (2011).
Email: firstname.lastname at oii.ox.ac.uk
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virtual mobility, online empowerment, grassroots activism, Internet and Arab revolutions, construction of online exiled communities
Positions held at the OII
- Rubicon Postdoctoral Fellow, January 2009 - December 2011
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- Aouragh, M. (2011) Confined offline, Traversing online: Palestinian Mobility through the Prism of the Internet. Mobilities 6 (3) 375-397.
- Aouragh, M. (2011) The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Information Technology and Political Islam, by Philip N. Howard (Book review). Political Communication 28 (3) 394-397.
- Aouragh, M. and Alexander, A. (2011) Sense and Nonsense of Facebook Revolutions. IJCS. Special Issue on Arab Revolutions and New Media.
- Aouragh, M. (2008) Virtual Intifada: Online Activism and everyday Resistance. Journal of Arab and Muslim Media Research 1 (2) 109-130.
- Aouragh, M. (2011) Palestine Online: Transnationalism, the Internet and the construction of Identity. London: I.B. Tauris.
- Aouragh, M. (2011) Intolerance in the name of Tolerance: Resisting - while Experiencing - Islamophobia. In: P.Essed and I.Hoving (Eds) Dutch Racism. Amsterdam and New York: Thamyris, Rodopi.
- Aouragh, M (forthcoming) Virtual Activism vs. Virtual Imperialism: Impediments of Palestinian online engagement. In: L.Jayyushi (Ed.) New Media in the Middle East. Muwatin Press.
- Aouragh, M. (2011) Gender Dynamics in Palestinian Internet Cafes. In: S.Joseph (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures.
- Aouragh, M. (2010) Palestinian Diaspora: Virtual spaces - Territorial places. In: J.Husseini and A.Signoles (Eds) Institut des Hautes Etudes.
Conference papers
- Aouragh, M. (2011) Palestinian Identity and New Technologies. The Euro-Arab Foundation of Higher Studies: New Technologies of Information and Communication, New tools for Democracy in Arabic Countries? March 2011, Granada, Spain.
- Aouragh, M. (2010) Online Hasbara and Cyber warfare: The blessings and curses of grassroots politics in cyberspace. Muwatin's 16th Annual Conference: New Modalities of Struggle for Palestinian Rights, October 2010, Ramallah, Palestine.
- Aouragh, M. (2010) Cyber Intifada 2.0: Palestinian and pro-Palestinian activism on the internet. World Congress of Middle East Studies (Wocmes), July 2010, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain.
- Aouragh, M. (2010) Palestine Online: Constructing an imagined community in Cyberspace. May 2010, Institut d'études de l'Islam et des Sciences du Monde Musulman, EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales), Paris, France.
- Aouragh, M. (2009) Virtual space - Territorial place: The internet, Palestinian Diaspora, and the construction of an imagined community. December 2009, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, UK.
- Aouragh, M. (2009) Gender and Palestinian Internet Utilisation. Women Studies Institute Annual Conference, October 2009, Birzeit University, Palestine.
- Aouragh, M. (2009) Virtual Intifada 2.0, chances and challenges. October 2009, Faculty of Computer and Technology Science, Birzeit University, Palestine.
- Aouragh, M. (2011) Media in Conflict and Peace building. Ox Peace Media Conference, May 2011, St John's College, University of Oxford, UK.
- Aouragh, M. (2011) What can Social work learn from the Arab Revolutions? Annual SWAN conference, April 2011, Birmingham University, UK.
- Aouragh, M. (2011) Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Right to Self Determination in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. April 2011, Lancaster University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
- Aouragh, M. (2011) Assessing implication of Web 2.0 during the Arab Revolutions. Children's and Young People's Media in Africa, March 2011, CAMRI University of Westminster, London, UK.
- Aouragh, M. (2011) Blogs & Bullets: Social Media and the Struggle for Political Change. Expert Roundtable, February 2011, Stanford University.
Working papers
- Aouragh, M. (2011) The making of Palestine in Cyberspace: 'Glocal' Representations.
- Aouragh, M. (2011) Internet activism in Palestine: Beyond Facebook Intifada.
- Aouragh, M. and Faulkner, M. (2011) Visual Rhetoric as Virtual Resistance: Palestinian representations on-offline.
- Aouragh, M. (2011) Cyber-Cide: the war on terror and the crackdown of (pro) Palestinian online activism.
- Aouragh, M. and Al Azza, A. (2011) The Online through the Prism of the Online, or: Use and Useless benefits of the internet for grassroots political activism in Palestine.
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Facebook Resistance? Understanding the role of the Internet in the Arab Revolutions
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Revolutions are currently sweeping the Arab world, from Tunisia to Egypt and Libya to Bahrain. The Internet has been reported as a key factor, but we in fact know little of its role in these revolutions.
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Twitter and other social media now another front in Gaza attack
16 November 2012 Los Angeles Times
Miriyam Aouragh questions the effectiveness of increasing use of social media in the battle front although she acknowledges the enormous number of protests organised via Facebook and Twitter.
Gilbert Achcar's book on Arabs and the Holocaust
26 August 2010 Mondoweiss
Miriyam Aouragh reviews the book "The Arabs and the Holocaust: the Arab-Israeli War of Narratives" (G.Achcar, Metropolitan Books).
Peaceful Resistance: Building a Palestinian University under Occupation
13 May 2010 Times Higher Education
Miriyam Aouragh reviews the book "Peaceful Resistance: Building a Palestinian University under Occupation" (G. Baramki, Pluto Press).


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EnChroma is aware that some people with color blindness have a strong desire to pass screening tests in order to gain access to occupations where good color vision is required. We are also aware of the existence of certain devices on the market that claim to help people overcome these tests, however there is no evidence that these products are safe to use in color-critical occupations and they are not accepted by any regulatory authorities.
EnChroma's mission is to make make lens products that help people see color better that are also accepted by the vision science community as being scientifically valid, effective, and safe for use in a broad range of situations.
We believe that our lenses can help on certain types of tests which are used in occupational screening. The details of which tests and under which conditions success can be expected is a subject currently being studied. EnChroma is currently engaged in collaborations with medical and scientific professionals to establish these results and to establish accepted protocols for administration of color vision tests with our assistive lenses.
These studies are a necessary step in order for our products to gain acceptance by regulatory authorities to permit their use in restricted occupations. However, since these studies are still in progress, we cannot at this time recommend the use of our products with color vision tests, nor for use in occupations where there are specific requirements on color vision acuity, such as emergency first responders, marine, pilot and public transport operations.
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Clip-ons are a great way to add the EnChroma Cx functionality on top of a standard prescription eyeglass.
This is not available from us yet but we are currently working on finding a suitable method for filling this need.
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All EnChroma lenses come with a premium anti-reflection coating, with a hydrophobic top-coating.
Anti-reflection coating: A clear glass or plastic material is not entirely clear because a portion of the light bounces off the surface. When you see your reflection in a window, you are seeing the light which is is being reflected from the surface instead of passing through. For a standard glass or optical plastic, about 92% of the light is transmitted through the material, and the remaining 8% is reflected. An anti-reflection coating (or "AR coating") increases the transmission to over 98% by reducing the reflectivity to just 1-2%. This greatly increases the visual clarity by eliminating distracting reflections from the surface of the lens.
Hydrophobic: A property meaning that the coating repels water. If the the lens gets wet, the water will "bead" and roll off the lens, instead of spreading out and sticking to the surface. Hydrophobic coatings have a "slippery" feeling.
We believe this will eventually be possible, but there is no concrete timeline as to when it could be available.
Incorporating the EnChroma technology into a contact lens will require rigorous testing to prove that the resulting product is 100% bio-compatible.
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Transitions is a registered trademark of Chromea7, a company that makes photochromic lenses.
We are investigating the possibility of incorporating photochromic optics with the EnChroma Cx technology, but it is currently not known if they are compatible.
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The EnChroma Cx is not polarized. We expect it will someday be possible to make our lens including a polarizer but there is no estimate yet as to when that will be available.
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Reducing the overall light level makes color vision tests more difficult. The EnChroma sunglass lens is generally considered too dark for use with a computer display, so one should not necessarily see an improvement in test score with the eyewear. When used outside in bright daylight, the reduced brightness does not have this potentially negative impact on color perception.
We are currently working toward development of lenses that will be effective in a broader range of conditions including on computers, but there is no concrete timeline for when that will be ready. Subscribe to our newsletter to get informed about new product developments when they are announced.
Tritan-type color vision deficiencies (tritanomaly and tritanopia) are not as common as the red-green type of deficiencies (deutan and protan). Sometimes tritan CVD can be congenital but is more frequently something that develops later in life due to early formation of cataracts or glaucoma, or simply the natural aging of the efficiency of the eye. However, the EnChroma color blindness test when self-administered is not a reliable medical diagnosis. Please contact an eye care professional for more information.
The EnChroma lens actually enhances all primary color simultaneously including red, green and blue: not just red and greens. In principle it should help for tritan cases (blue-yellow CVD) in addition to deutan and protans (both red-green CVD).
We have done some testing with tritan-type deficiencies with positive results, but we don't have enough data yet to make a firm prediction for your case.
The approximately 20% of cases who are not helped by EnChroma are usually those with very strong deficiency (called dichromats)–if you are a mild to moderate case of any type then it will probably be effective.
With the EnChroma lens, colors appear brighter and more saturated. People report that their color discrimination is faster and more accurate, they are able to see more vibrant colors. They are more likely to notice objects that are differentiated against a background based on color (such as a flower against background of leaves), whereas without the lens those objects would have been overlooked.
In our user trials, people with color blindness also noticed that the EnChroma lens helped them to differentiate textures and hues within a single shade of color—for example the pattern of different shades of green on a leaf, or in a complex textures such as a hillside covered in trees may appear to be "less noisy".
Based on our product effectiveness studies, we have found that EnChroma glasses are effective for about 80% of cases of color blindness. The results vary depending on the type and extent of color vision deficiency. You can get an estimate of your type by taking our online test at EnChroma.com/test.
EnChroma is currently available in some locations, however the number of locations is still very limited. Most of our customers choose to buy the product online from our website–if it does not help your color vision the glasses can be returned within 60 days.
To check for a location near you please consult our retailer list: EnChroma Retailers.
If your EnChroma order doesn't work out for you, you can return it within 60 days of the date of shipment.
- Returns must be in their original condition with all original elements including the packaging. If the item is damaged or incomplete, EnChroma may refuse to accept the item or assess a restocking fee in accordance with the cost of restoring the item to its original condition.
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- Your return must include your original receipt.
For returns, your package must be postmarked within 60 days from the date of original shipment from EnChroma. Late returns may be refused or assessed a restocking fee, depending on the circumstances.
EnChroma cannot refund any shipping costs or international import fees related to your order. However, many countries refund all or part of import fees for returned imports. If you return your EnChroma order, contact your local customs office to ask about import fee refunds.
To request a return, email email@example.com. Be sure to include your order number in the subject line.
We'll process your return within 5-10 business days after we receive it, and you should receive your refund within 4 weeks of the date you put your package in the mail. (Typically, it takes 5-10 business days for us to receive your return, 5-10 business days for us to process the return and issue a refund request to your bank, and then 5-10 days for your bank to process our request and refund your payment. Fit to Frames returns might take an extra 5 business days to process.) We'll notify by email as soon as we issue the refund request to your bank.
The EnChroma Cx lens was invented under NEI-sponsored research conducted by Dr. Don McPherson. NEI is the National Eye Institute, a division of the NIH. This research, carried out under an SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) grant in three phases, included clinical trials of early stage prototypes at UC Davis Eye Center and at the UC Berkeley School of Optometry.
The findings of the study are that scores on the Farnsworth D15 test can be improved for some individuals, provided that 1) the light source is an accurate simulation of natural daylight and 2) the type and severity of the color vision deficiency are within the range that responds well to correction. In addition, subjective testimony was collected in the study which demonstrated clear benefit of the eyewear to color deficient individuals in real-world situations.
We have also examined the efficacy of the eyewear on color blindness screening tests such as the Ishihara plate test. Results here are mixed: these tests are "pass-fail" screening tests and are designed to be extremely difficult to catch even the most mild cases. A person with strong color vision deficiency may enjoy a boost to their color perception while wearing EnChroma, yet still show evidence of mild deficiency under testing–therefore they will still fail. Our position is that improvement to color vision cannot be measured meaningfully with a screening test. Furthermore, such tests are used in occupations where public safety is a concern (e.g. public transport operators), and therefore should not be circumvented. EnChroma glasses should be used to for improvement of quality of life and color vision generally, and not for the purpose of bypassing an occupational restriction.
In our experience with in-house product testing and our customer base, we have observed that results with EnChroma vary depending on the type and severity of color vision deficiency. Certain cases of very strong color blindness are, unfortunately, simply too strong to help. These cases, called dichromats, make up about 20% of the population of people with color vision deficiencies.
To get an estimate of how well EnChroma glasses will help you, use our online color blindness test to estimate the type and severity of your deficiency. Visit EnChroma.com/test to get started.
Since the first scientific recognition of color blindness in the 1790s, numerous inventions and therapies have been attempted to correct for color blindness. The first color blindness glasses were created by James Maxwell in the 1850s. These glasses featured a lens that was tinted red on top, clear in the middle, and green across the bottom. Since the red lens transmitted only red light and the green transmitted only green light, reds and oranges appeared brighter through the top lens and darker through the bottom. The idea was to determine the color of an object by comparing the relative brightness of its appearance in each section of the lens.
Around the time of World War II, public awareness of color blindness greatly increased as people were needed to fly in airplanes for the military. Flying a plane (especially at night) requires good color vision, so those with CVD were excluded. Consequently, the market was flooded with "cures" for color blindness offered by unscrupulous proprietors who promised that their product would allow those with CVD to pass a color blindness test. These ranged from benignly fraudulent treatments to outright dangerous procedures such as injecting snake venom into the eyes. Currently, there is no cure for color blindness. Furthermore, although some devices are sold with the claim that they will help the wearer pass a color blindness test, occupational testing is required for reasons of public safety and should not be circumvented.
Since the 1970s, a variety of lens products have been marketed which take the form of tinted lenses applied monocularly or binocularly with different tints in each eye. The tints are usually a strong red, purple, or pink color. Often the tint is put into a contact lenses, making the lens relatively discreet. According to vision science these devices work on the principle of binocular rivalry (disruption of depth perception) and do not fundamentally improve color vision. In other words, they are similar to James Maxwell's glasses or the 3D glasses you wear at the movie theater. They can disrupt depth perception and alter brightness so that the wearer can detect an analog for color, but they don't deliver more accurate color vision. Due to the low risk and possible benefit to some individuals, the FDA has permitted such devices to be sold provided that they are clearly labeled that 1) they are not a cure for color blindness and 2) have minimal therapeutic effectiveness.
EnChroma lenses are based on a unique approach to color blindness correction: restoration of the spectral separation between cones using a narrow-band notch filter. The effect works for people with forms of anomalous trichromacy, which are the majority of cases (about 80%).
Unlike conventional color-tinted lenses that distort colors — emphasizing one color at the expense of others — EnChroma lenses amplify the perception of all three primary colors (red, green, and blue) simultaneously. The result is a "boost" to the chromatic saturation (purity or vividness) of colors.
You will need a medical professional to certify that "the expenses are a direct result of a medical condition," and that the expense is to alleviate that condition. A form for documenting that is provided here: https://www.fsafeds.com/GEM/FSAFEDSForms/MedicalNecessity.pdf
Many EnChroma customers have successfully claimed coverage under the U.S. FFSA guidelines. However, please note that EnChroma does not guarantee validity of such claims.
There are many different providers of vision insurance, and their coverage & plans vary. Some insurance plans provide a general benefit that can be applied to any prescription sunglass lens. If so this benefit may be applicable to the EnChroma Cx lens which is also a type of sunglass lens intended for outdoor use.
Please contact your insurance provider to find out if EnChroma lenses are covered.


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Credit pull for FIOS before closing?
I'm currently scheduled to close on 10/25. It is KILLING me to have to wait for things like Lowe's and NFCU apps, particularly since I need to purchase things for the house before we can actually live in it. I'm trying to get as much set up beforehand as possible and when I went to sign up for FIOS, they want to do a hard pull. Is that going to be an issue for UW? Should I wait until I close? I detest not having things lined up ahead of time!
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In wordpress there is no option for it? Will I have to edit all my posts manually? :(
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Sharing this great infographic from Media Is Power. It offers five tips to break through writer's block. What tips do you use when the right words, or no words, will come?
Sharing this great infographic from Media Is Power. It offers five tips to break through writer's block. What tips do you use when the right words, or no words, will come?
Kimberly N. Alleyne
We cannot escape it. We live, work and play in a hyper-crowded communications landscape. On any given day, we're bombarded by information via email, online, social, print, mobile and broadcast mediums (let's not forget digital-out-of-home and outdoor advertising). It's an effect of the convergence of digital and traditional media. Anyone who wants to can grab a microphone and have her say.
For communications and PR pros, the room is really noisy. The digitization of everything has opened doors for practitioners to set themselves apart, and that's great because open doors promote inclusion and level the field; but if no one can hear your brand above the noise, you run the risk of stifling audience engagement with muteness, and muffling opportunities to position yourself/your brand to shine the brightest in the crowd. Here's how communications and PR pros can pomp their prowess and create a community of brand loyalists at once.
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Kimberly N. Alleyne
There is nothing like a fresh, hot glazed Krispy Kreme doughnut (Bow down Dunkin' Donuts). And if you're a genuine fan, then you know well the happiness that flashing red light evokes.
Krispy Kreme and I go way back. Since I am always exceptionally satisfied with the product, and can't recall a negative customer service experience, we've had a great relationship. So I was quite disappointed to read of a UK Krispy Kreme's recent promotion snafu. The franchise ran a promo using the letters KKK in the text. It was intended, according to the franchise, to stand for Krispy Kreme Klub. The franchise swiftly removed the promo from its Facebook page after followers called them on it, and then issued an apology. Perhaps, it was an innocent oversight, or maybe it was a dumb oversight; maybe someone thought it would be a clever play (KKK does have international branches).
I won't speculate on the intent. However, there a lessons PR pros can learn from this alliteration accident:
1. Incidents such as this are reminders of the importance of diversity–and inclusion–of public relations, marketing and communication teams. The same goes for newsrooms. In an age where one in five Americans will be foreign born by 2050, it's critical that public relations practitioners be cognizant of the diverse audiences/publics they often speak to and engage.
Today's practitioner must be adept at studying and accommodating the unique needs and sensitivities of population segments — there really is no excuse for the, "We didn't know," excuse anymore. Corporate, nonprofit and government teams that are responsible managing the face, voice and reputation of organizations must be comprised of diverse perspectives, backgrounds, races and ethnicities. No excuses.
2. Sometimes it is wise to get points of view of colleagues outside of the pr/marketing space. You might have spent hours thinking of the perfect phrase or wording, but that does not mean that more due diligence isn't in order. Step outside the ego box and solicit opinions; you never know what you might be overlooking.
3. Market testing, though not always plausible, is valuable and worth the effort. Testing language and potential promo campaigns on a select audience can prevent crises.
A short round of applause to this UK Krispy Kreme for quickly removing the offensive promo and issuing an apology.
"We do believe this was a completely unintentional oversight on the part of our longtime franchise partners in the U.K.," according to a statement by company spokesperson Lafeea Watson.
Blogging to Build Your Brand
Kimberly N. Alleyne
I spoke with blogging extraordinaire Benet J. Wilson to discuss her experience, best practices for blogging, tips, personal stories, and more. Though this interview focuses on building a nonprofit brand, the same rules apply for building a personal brand.
Wilson says, "It is a good idea for nonprofits to write a blog and be active on social media because it gives you a different reach. You need to plan it effectively – you need to make sure you have the right team overseeing it. And organize yourself in a way that it is not going to overtax you and your team. Start slowly, you don't have to do everything all at once. But definitely do it and have fun with it!"
Listen to the podcast and take your blog to the next level!
Key highlights include:
Do you blog to build your brand? What other tactics do you use to lift your brand profile? Let me know at Kimberly at kimberlynalleyne.com
Happy blogging!
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How to Write the Perfect Blog Post: A Complete Guide to Copy.
Want to learn how to write the perfect blog post?
Seems like an unachievable goal, right?
What I'm going to do today is show you a very deliberate formula and list of inclusions that I follow with my posts in order to ensure that I get results.
I'm not saying that it works every time, but I can guarantee that if you start to add these elements to your own blog posts you'll start to get wins a lot more often.
Sound good?
Okay, so let me do a bit of explaining.
I'm not saying that I know how to write the perfect blog post and that everything I do on my blog is perfect.
It's not.
In fact, I really don't like my writing that much at all. (Do all bloggers feel like that?)
But I have been blogging for quite a while now and in that time I've been able to hone my posts by looking at what has worked and what hasn't over the years.
It's basically a lot of trial and error.
Today all I am doing is sharing the elements, strategies and ideas that I have seen make a big difference to the stuff I write. I'm hoping that you might read something new, apply it to your own blog and see a big difference in your own results.
So it's more like a quest for finding your own perfect blog post based on what has worked for me.
Let's start this post by talking about a few background idea that you kind of need to keep in mind while you are writing your posts. This is a bit like the instructions as opposed to the actual creation.
1. Ask yourself "…and then what?" before you start writing
One of the best lessons that I ever learned as a blogger is this:
All your blog posts should form one big beautiful picture as opposed to each being stand alone items. – Tweet this.
What this means is that you need to sit down and carefully figure out what it is that you want your blog, and your blog posts, to achieve every single time.
The question "… and then what?" seems to help me the most.
I'll sit down, log in, and fiddle around with a title and an idea. Once I'm pretty sure on the topic I'll ask myself very deliberately what I want people to do before I write any words.
Make sure your post all work together as a team to achieve one or two very deliberate goals.
Infographic by Backlinko via HubSpot http://blog.hubspot.com
Kimberly N. Alleyne
I recall a conversation with a former colleague who adamantly proclaimed that Twitter was a rapidly evaporating fad soon to be six-feet under. That convo was in 2010. I was like, "Really? You think Twitter is dying? Wait, what now?"
Clearly Twitter is still standing, and it's in good company with a host of other social media. Though not a few platforms have emerged since the digital era dawned only to die a slow, or quick, death, many more are thriving, with great vital signs. Here are my top 10 reasons writers should make use of some of them:
1. Trigger Creativity–Being an active socializer in the digital space can spark creativity in fresh ways. I really enjoy Pinterest and Instagram. I've often been inspired to step out of my comfort zone, if not in my writing then in some personal way, which is never a bad thing. See #7.
2. Build your network— I landed one of my best freelance assignments to date via someone I asked to join my LinkedIn network. A caution to be intentional about the connections you pursue. Don't connect at abandon— make sure there is potential for value-add to both parties, and not a one-sided connection. There are other options to LinkedIn. I am on a journalism list serve for example.
3. Find story ideas–Whatever your personal or professional interests are, they likely have real estate on the Internet. Even a cursory review of your preferred platform can bubble up story ideas, new angles for something you're already writing about, or new angles on a current topic. For one example, how might you write about #Ferguson or #James Foley in ways that have not already been presented?
4. Build your brand–Social affords a great platform on which to showcase your expertise. Don't be shy; despite the crowded online environment, each voice has a unique perspective. You never know who might benefit from your experience, so get out there! Check out Sccop It and Rebel Mouse; these are both great thought-leadership tools.
5. K.I.S.S.–Keep It Short Scribe. When you're writing for an audience with a short attention span, it forces you to embrace brevity. Unless you're a long-form zealot (like me), writing short–read concise and succinct–is always good form.
6. Diversity of opinion–Social allows individuals to trumpet their beliefs and ideologies, but whether you agree or disagree is less important than exposing yourself to new ideas and perspectives, which ultimately raises the level of your writing. Go on, expand your vocabulary of ideas.
7. Confidence booster–Exposing yourself to an audience strangers is good for building your writing confidence. More likely than not, there will be feedback. Pick out the bones and keep the meat. Own your writing DNA. The more you do, the more your confidence will grow.
8. Stay in touch— The marriage of new and traditional media and communications has been consummated. And this ain't a Hollywood marriage, folks. There's no need to be on every available platform, but you do need to get in the game. Pick what you want to use and how you want to use it. Whatever your choice, be consistent. I use Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn for professional branding and networking. I use Tumblr for personal interests such as running and baking.
9. Need for Speed–Using social forces me to write more quickly. One can post a comment, pic or tweet in a matter of seconds, or not more than a minute. When you're engaged in the social space, you gotta write fast to keep up, and stay relevant and in the conversation.
10. Diversify, diversify–When I post a press release on Twitter, I am confined to 140 characters. When I post the same press release on LinkedIn, the word/character count is less restrictive, but standards for language style are far different. There are two reasons for this: platform audience and platform personality. What's acceptable on one platform is not necessarily embraced on another. Social media make you mindful to cater your writing to different audiences and platform personalities.
What social media do you use? What tips would you add to this list?
Write on.
Kimberly N. Alleyne
Fellow scribes,
Ever find yourself spilling over with ideas and words for an article or communication, but they just won't. flow. out? Yeah, writer's block can put a serious dent in a scribe's flow. I read a PR Daily article that listed great tips for breaking down that proverbial wall.
Not too quiet and not too loud
At the top of the list is to write in an environment where the noise level is balanced, not excessively noisy and not deafeningly quiet. According to new research findings, the audio has to be just right. A study found that a workspace such as a coffee shop or fast food restaurant where there is constant activity, is optimum for creativity to stream without obstruction.
The study, "Is Noise Always Bad? Exploring the Effects of Ambient Noise on Creative Cognition," is published in the Journal of Consumer Research, and examined five experiments to determine in what ways ambient sounds impact creative cognition.
Get moving
This is a great tip. Any physical movement can jumpstart the creative side of your brain: walking, dancing, running, spinning, yoga or even crunches. Try it. I did a few reps of leg lifts, lunges and squats while writing this post. Not only is the activity good for your heart, but it also ushers in clarity and sharp thinking.
You don't need to pound away for a full workout to capture the spark you need, either. In fact new research suggests that ten minutes will do the trick.
Here are more my ideas for crushing writer's block:
You never know where the perfect intro or turn of phrase is waiting to be discovered. If none of these approaches get your writing juices flowing, then throw convention and perfection aside and just write! Go for it—write what comes to mind without concern for grammar, flow or structure. Don't let the block get the best of you. Keep at it, and eventually you'll find the groove.
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by William Gibson
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Woolworth Gives Up on the Five-and-Dime
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER
Published: July 18, 1997
The Woolworth Corporation said yesterday that it would shutter all 400 of its remaining five-and-dime stores, closing the book on a 117-year history of a store that offered lipstick, diapers and a milk shake at a discount all under one roof.
The store closings were widely expected and indeed encouraged by Wall Street. But they underscore how much American retailing has changed in the last two decades as its oldest icons -- Montgomery Ward, the Sears, Roebuck catalogue and now Woolworth -- have faded or died. Clever, strong-willed merchants have been replaced by computer systems, and American shoppers no longer have time to linger over a grilled cheese sandwich at a store lunch counter.
Among discount stores, Woolworth is only the last, if the most prominent, victim of larger and stronger competitors like Wal-Mart and Target, which offer more selection, quicker checkout and often lower prices. Kresge long ago became Kmart, Ben Franklin has been folded into Wal-Mart and hundreds of local chains have faded into the collective memory of a nation warmly nostalgic for old stores but not willing to shop in them. The Woolworth stores will be closed in stages; the first to be closed will be in metropolitan New York by the end of the year.
''Woolworth was 100 years ago what Wal-Mart is today,'' said Robert Sobel, a professor of business history at Hofstra University. ''First, there were dry goods stores, then they were called variety stores and every town had something like that. But all the chains disappeared because there was no need for them. What would Woolworth sell that you couldn't buy somewhere else? You can get eyebrow tweezers at a drugstore.''
The original store, the Great 5 Cents Store, was opened in 1879 by Frank Woolworth in Utica, N.Y., where its first sale, a five-cent fire shovel, was made. That same year, he opened the mother of all Woolworth stores in Lancaster, Pa. The next year he added 10 cents to the name and prices. The empire grew with its sales of mustache cups, egg whips, pie plates and flour dredges.
Woolworth dominated the discount sector for the early half of the century. But the postwar exodus to the suburbs soon created pressures, as shoppers left behind Woolworth's and other Main Street stores for malls and larger stores on highways. More recently, Woolworth was eclipsed by large-format stores that offered more merchandise, and squeezed the retailer's prices. At the same time, Woolworth, like many other retailing companies, became obsessed with expansion, adding a bunch of specialty stores, some of them successful, many of them not.
As a result, the Woolworth dime stores suffered neglect in many years, and had become for shoppers a retailing equivalent of the elderly uncle who hangs around the house and tells well-worn stories to impatient children. Woolworth stores carried oddball items that are often hard to find elsewhere: iron-on hemming tape, cans of aerosol hairspray, their lids sometimes coated with dust, lemon sucking candy and the occasional parakeet.
The charm of the stores, however, was often outweighed by their flaws: old cash registers with scan guns that could only read half the merchandise, a toy department full of moth-eaten puzzles but no action figures, small, confusing aisles and a lack of customer service.
''Today with drugstores, supermarkets and discount stores on every corner,'' said Peter Schaeffer, an analyst with Dillon, Read, ''just about everything Woolworth sells is covered someplace else. There is not a lot of reason for them to be.''
The closing of Woolworth's five and 10 stores is also the latest move by a large retail company to get rid of weaker operations and concentrate on the fattest profit center. Sears, Roebuck & Company has shed its insurance, financial services and computer businesses, and the Melville Corporation, less than two years ago a confusing retail hodge-podge, has been pared down to a drugstore chain.
Woolworth will now concern itself with its footwear divisions -- Foot Locker and Kinney Shoes -- although it also has some other mall-based retail stores in its corporate portfolio, like Northern Reflections, After Thoughts, an accessory chain, and the Best of Time, which sells clocks.
Last year, the five-and-dime stores in the United States reported an operating loss of $37 million and only accounted for $1 billion of the Woolworth Corporation's annual sales of over $8 billion. About 100 of the five-and-dime stores will be converted into Foot Lockers or other Woolworth stores, and 9,200 company employees will be dismissed.
''Despite our best efforts and the hard work of the F. W. Woolworth team, the business continued to lose money and it became clear that F. W. Woolworth would be unable, in the foreseeable future, to return to profitability as well as meet our minimum performance standards,'' Roger N. Farah, the chairman and chief executive, said yesterday.
Mr. Farah strongly hinted at the company's annual meeting in June that the stores would be shuttered. Wall Street has been abuzz with rumors to that effect for a week, and the daily volume on the company's shares has been heavier than usual, often as high as two million shares. Yesterday, shares of Woolworth rose $2.50, to $27.5625, a 52-week high.
Since he took the helm of the company in 1994, Mr. Farah has tried to hone the operation, selling off many of the underperforming chains. Some retail analysts said yesterday that the company, cash-fat once it sells Woolworth real estate, may look to make acquisitions, but in the sporting goods or footwear area instead. Costs associated with the closings will reduce after-tax earnings by $223 million, or $1.66 a share, in the second quarter.
''On the one hand, sadly, this is the end of the soda fountain era,'' said Susan Silverstein, an analyst at Montgomery Securities in New York. ''But on the other hand, I look forward to the company growing its most promising businesses and being more on the right track of becoming a true specialty retail operation.''
Photos: The day of the reliable, no-frills 60-cent turkey dinner is long gone, and soon the lunch counters will be, too. (Sam Falk/The New York Times, 1954)(pg. A1); The original ''Five-and-Ten'' Woolworth's store in Lancaster, Pa. The Woolworth Building in New York City. (Photograph of Woolworth building by Jack Manning/The New York Times; photograph of original store from Associated Press)(pg. D4) Chronology: ''A Retailing Giant Built on Nickels and Dimes'' In 1878, Frank Winfield Woolworth, a young shop assistant at Moore & Smith in Watertown, N.Y., watched customers snap up Yankee notions -- household goods like tin pans, washbasins, buttonhooks and the like -- when the store offered them at a special counter and priced them all at 5 cents. He decided to open his own store with everything for a nickel, and on his second try the idea succeeded. But the five-and-dime market niche Woolworth pioneered has been all but obliterated by discounters, mass merchandisers, drug stores and other competitors. Yesterday, the company announced that the last 400 Woolworth's stores will close. Here is the history of America's first great retail chain. EARLY 1879 -- Mr. Woolworth opens his first Great 5 Store in Utica, N.Y. Three months later, the store closes. SUMMER 1879 -- The second 5-cent store opens in Lancaster, Pa. 1880 -- To offer a greater selection of merchandise, the Lancaster store starts selling some things for 10 cents. 1884 -- The second Five-and-Ten is opened in Reading, Pa. 1890 -- Woolworth stores begin selling European goods. 1896 -- The first Woolworth's opens in Manhattan on Sixth Avenue, between 16th and 17th Streets. 1905 -- Mr. Woolworth incorporates his stores as F.W. Woolworth & Co. 1909 -- Woolworth's opens its first three and sixes (pence) stores in Britain. 1910 -- The first lunch counter is opened at Woolworth's 14th Street store in Manhattan. 1912 -- F.W. Woolworth & Co. merges with five syndicates that operate stores under the Woolworth name. The new company has 596 stores and $53 million in annual sales. 1913 -- The Woolworth building opens. At 792 feet, and built for $13.5 million, it is the world's tallest building. 1919 -- Mr. Woolworth dies at 66. 1932 -- Woolworth's price ceiling is lifted to 20 cents. 1935 -- Price limits are removed. 1954 -- On its diamond anniversary, Woolworth's has 2,850 stores with annual sales of $700 million. 1960 -- Annual sales top $1 billion. 1962 -- Opens first Woolco store in Columbus, Ohio. 1963 -- Woolworth's expands its downtown Denver store to 174,000 square feet, making it the largest in the world. 1974 -- Opens first Foot Locker store. 1982 -- Closes last Woolco store. 1992 -- Sales peak at $9.9 billion annually, with 8,386 stores worldwide. 1993 -- Woolworth's loses $500 million and closes 572 stores. (Sources: F.W. Woolworth Co.; ''Skyline Queen and the Merchant Prince,'' by John P. Nichols)(pg. D4)


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Best Western Plus Hotel de la Regate, Loire-Atlantique (department)
- Free WiFi and free parking
Main amenities
- 42 smoke-free guestrooms
- Restaurant and bar/lounge
- Breakfast available
- Spa tub
- Business center
- Airport shuttle
- Terrace
- 24-hour front desk
- Coffee/tea in a common area
- Air conditioning
- Daily housekeeping
- Garden
What's around
- Atlanpole (0.5 mi / 0.8 km)
- Carquefou Golf Club (2.5 mi / 4.1 km)
- Beaujoire Floral Park (3 mi / 4.8 km)
- Parc des Expositions de Nantes La Beaujoire (3.1 mi / 4.9 km)
- Jardin des Plantes (6.4 mi / 10.4 km)
For families
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Garden
- Terrace
Best Western Plus Hotel de la Regate, Loire-Atlantique (department)
Hotel Info: 866-925-8648from $81
- Triple Room
- Classic Room, 1 Queen Bed, Non Smoking
- Comfort Room, 2 Single Beds, Non Smoking
- Superior Room, 1 Queen Bed, Non Smoking
- Classic Room, 2 Single Beds, Non Smoking
- Family Room, 2 Single Beds, Non Smoking
- Deluxe Room, 1 Queen Bed
- Family Room, Multiple Beds, Non Smoking, Connecting Rooms
- Exclusive Room, 1 Queen Bed, River View
- Family Room, 1 Queen Bed, Non Smoking
- Comfort Room, 1 Queen Bed, Non Smoking
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Hotel size
- This hotel has 42 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 3 floors
- Check-in time starts at 2 PM
- Check-out time is Noon
- Express check-in/out
Required at check in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
Travelling with others
- Pets allowed *
- Free WiFi and wired Internet access in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Free self parking
- RV/bus/truck parking
- Area shuttle *
Other information
- Smoke-free property
- Resort fee included
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- Buffet breakfast daily (surcharge)
- Restaurant
- Bar/lounge
- 24-hour room service
- Coffee/tea in a common area
- Pool sun loungers
- Spa tub
- Bicycle rentals on site
- Hiking/biking trails on site
- Golf lessons available nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Business center
- Number of meeting rooms - 2
- Meeting rooms 3
- Conference space size (feet) - 538
- Conference space size (meters) - 50
- Computer station
- 24-hour front desk
- Concierge services
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Luggage storage
- Multilingual staff
- Year Built 2009
- Elevator/lift
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Designated smoking areas
- Garden
- Terrace
- Television in common areas
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
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- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Air conditioning
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Soundproofed rooms
- Turndown service
- Private bathroom
- Bathtub or shower
- Rainfall showerhead
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Flat-screen TV
- Satellite TV channels
- Desk
- Free WiFi
- Free local calls
- Free bottled water
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
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DiningManoir de La Regate - Overlooking the garden, this restaurant specializes in French cuisine and serves lunch and dinner. A children's menu is available. Open select days.
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- Best Western Plus Hotel Regate
- Best Western Plus Hotel Regate Nantes
- Best Western Plus Regate
- Best Western Plus Regate Nantes
The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
For transfers, guests must contact the property before arrival at the number on the booking confirmation.
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- A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 1.30 per person, per night. This tax does not apply to children under 13 years of age.
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Late check-out can be arranged for an extra charge of EUR 20
Buffet breakfast is offered for an extra charge of EUR 13 for adults and EUR 6.50 for children (approximately)
Pets are allowed for an extra charge of EUR 10 per pet, per night
Area shuttle service is offered for an extra charge
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