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Holiday Villa Hotel & Suites, Kota Bharu
- Free WiFi and free parking
Main amenities
- 108 guestrooms
- Restaurant
- Indoor pool
- Breakfast available
- Fitness centre
- Business centre
- Terrace
- Air conditioning
- Laundry service
- Tour/ticket assistance
For families
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
- Refrigerator
- Terrace
- Iron/ironing board
- Hair dryer
- Coffee/tea maker
What's around
- In Wakaf Che Yeh
- Temenggor Lake (4 mi / 6.4 km)
- Kelantan Golf & Country Club (4.1 mi / 6.6 km)
- Muzium Negeri Kelanta (4.2 mi / 6.7 km)
- Billion Shopping Centre (4.2 mi / 6.8 km)
- Kota Bharu Mall (4.2 mi / 6.8 km)
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Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 108 rooms
- Check-in time 2 PM-9 PM
- Check-out time is 11 AM
Required at check in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
- Minimum check-in age is 18
Travelling with others
- No cribs (infant beds)
- Pets not allowed
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Free self parking
Nearby Three Star Kota Bharu hotels
In the hotel
- Buffet breakfast daily (surcharge)
- Restaurant
- Coffee shop/café
- Room service (during limited hours)
- Indoor pool
- Fitness facilities
- Business center
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Designated smoking areas
- Terrace
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
In the room
- Air conditioning
- Coffee/tea maker
- Iron/ironing board
- Partially open bathroom
- Shower only
- Hair dryer
- Free WiFi
- Phone
- Refrigerator
- In-room safe
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Special features
DiningLagenda – This restaurant specialises in local cuisine.
Holiday Villa Hotel & Suites, Kota Bharu's small print
Also known as
- Holiday Villa Hotel Kota Bharu
- Holiday Villa Kota Bharu
- Hotel Villa Holiday
Mandatory fees
You'll be asked to pay the following charges at check in or check out:
- A tax is imposed by the city: MYR 3 per accommodation, per night.
Optional extras
Rollaway beds are available for an extra charge
Buffet breakfast is offered for an extra charge of MYR 25 for adults and MYR 12 for children (approximately)
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.
Recent reviews
Good 3.2 /5 from 32 reviews
Just nice....not bad and not too good. Open air parking area at the back of the hotel and have problem to go to the car during raining. But good place for shopping at Wakaf Che Yeh. Just in front of the hotel.
Bathroom very dirty..less confort for leisure..
Pros ------- comfortable Clean Cons ------- Slow check in and out Poor communication Hard to find parking
the room is too small and my stay not include with breakfast. the pool also under maintenance without notice. very dissapointed.
Hotel room was a disappointment. Small and cramp. Luggage has to be placed on the floor which inconvenience each time something needs to be retrieved from the luggage as one needs to squat. Toilet has no place to keep toiletries apart fm the 4 mini bottles supplied by the hotel. Only body towels are supplied. Face and hand towels need to be requested fm housekeeping every single time. Bfast spread very minimal and the same is provided for the entire 5days stay
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Kimpton Hotel Allegro
171 West Randolph Street, Chicago, IL
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789 kr+
Clean! Beautiful! Wish the bathtubs were a tad bigger!
Located right in the Loop of Chicago, this hotel is only 2 blocks from the Blue Line train from the airport. Free WiFi if you are a Kimpton Rewards member (or if you sign up during your stay). Free wine social hour every night from 5-6pm. You also get a minibar credit if you are a rewards member before you check in. The front entrance was a little odd - the lobby is up on the floor above and not well marked. The view out the window in my room was a brick wall.
Close to the El; convenient
location (1) the fact we provided them a different credit card to charge my bill and they said they were good and then I get my statement and they charged the original card after they said it wouldn't be charged. (2) the lines to check out were long and it took us over 20 minutes to just check out. (3) we were not made aware of the wine hour when everyone else we spoke to was. Overall experience was not the best and the purpose of our visit was to find location venues for an upcominng tradeshow - I think if we would have made them aware we would have been treated much better.
The staff was rude and disrespectful. The staff.
Very modern hotel. No pool
The 5:00 PM wine hour and the interesting decor. Most of the furniture in the lobby was cool looking but not comfortable to sit on.
The location. My wife and I went to see the Phantom of the Opera playing next door at the Cadillac Palace. I can't say enough about the convenience of having the hotel next door. no having to walk blocks to our vehicle. Walked down the sidewalk and into the hotel, was able to avoid the cold Chicago weather. The Room. We stayed in Room 405. Our view out of the 2 windows, the first was a brick wall, the second, an alley way. At about 2am, for some reason the windows decided they wanted to bang against the frame endlessly, not allowing neither my wife or I to sleep. The bed was definately not a King Bed, and for it being a Premier Room, I would have expected the bathroom to be bigger than the size of a closet. I can't say I wouldn't stay here again, but would want to see the room before check-in.
I arrived early morning and was so glad to be checked in and didn't have to wait until mid afternoon. The cleanliness of the hotel was great. The staff was most accommodating. The on site restaurants were very good.
Some may not like the smaller rooms (especially baths) but this is a very nice boutique hotel. They have done an excellent job of refurbishing a grand old building and the ambience captures the imagination. We loved it and would stay again for the good rate we got through booking.com No coffee machines and no coffee in lobby, but a coffee shop on the corner that was open at 5am.
Everything was great!
The room was perfectly sized and extremely comfortable. Not a single thing.
Central location Nice view Quiet room
Central location, nicely decorated, friendly and helpful staff
Great location--close to everything we needed. Super friendly, helpful staff. Very comfortable accommodations. The bathroom was poorly separated from the bedroom. With a gap above the hanging door to the bathroom area and a much bigger gap above the glass door that made up the toilet room, it was almost like we were in there together. Not very romantic.
The staff was awesome being able to get some obscure requests. The bed and pillows weren't very comfortable. And there weren't that many amenities.
Well thought out hotel experience; great rooms and unique decor. It's a nice home away from home.
The overall experience was great - facilities, location and staff were wonderful The corner lounge was strange in terms of food offerings, everyone shows up for breakfast expecting to find dry cereal, bananas or a pop tart. Get rid of the candy and party mix and offer a minimal continental breakfast.
Loved the staff at the Hyatt! They were amazingly helpful, especially Ariana who was there no matter what we needed. From the valets to the housekeepers they were so wonderful. The business center was very helpful and the latte's were delicious. The room was really quite loud. The air conditioner would kick on and wake me up several times a night. We were also close to the elevator (which I know is unavoidable) and could hear word for word the conversations in the hallway. This made for a rough night's sleep.
The view and the equipment of the hotel No breakfast provided
Room was nice, roomy bathroom, clean. Good location. The staff was nice. Roof top bar was enjoyable with good food and drinks. Price to keep the car over night was expensive.
great location, service, & facility
Quite pleasant and well situated.
The room was clean and interesting and the hotel well situated in the heart of things. Concierges were particularly accomodating. The rooftop lounge- to which guests get priority access seemed 'the' place to be at night The business centre ( internet access and printers) was painfully frigid and the computers not user friendly.
Great location to everything in the city! You can walk to the Riverwalk which has so many things to do! very clean hotel and staff is so so accommodating and welcoming! The bed was very uncomfortable! Had a huge dip in the middle of the mattress! Other than that no complaints
The fridge didn't work so the brought up a dented scratched fridge and set it in the middle of the room. The room was not clean. No hospitality. Way over priced!!!!
Rooms were big and spacious, on state street and walking distance to Michigan Avenue and very popular for their restaurants. Housekeeping were take time to clean the rooms, I would go out from morning and come back and the room was still not cleaned.
beautiful room, great amenities, very clean and modern some confusion at the front desk when checking in but it seemed to only be us
Great downtown location. Doors locks dont work. Bathroom fixtures broken.
Extremely convenient for getting to the Chicago Theatre.
The wit hotel is definitely a great spot. My husband and I went on a very cold winter day. It was nice they have the club/bar on 27th this way we didn't have to leave the hotel. We would stay ther again.
One of the best hotels in Chicago. Ideal location to everything in the city, wonderful staff and service, Roof Top Bar is excellent. Overall best hotel experience I've had in Chicago.
Great location.
ALL staff that we incountered from valet to bellman house keeping and front desk were all very friendly and helpful. Having worked in the hotel industry it was easy to spot a top notch beautiful hotel with an amazing staff. Toilet was loose or unattached to the bathroom floor but still functioned properly.
Great staff, good location. Restaurant is wonderful. Small room, older hotel/rooms, bed not so comfortable, no in room eats other than water/coffee. Definitely over priced.
We stayed here with our two older children (age 16 & 20) over July 4 weekend; an incredibly busy weekend for the city but this was an oasis of luxury. Recently renovated, hotel features a beautiful artistic lobby, excellent coffee/sandwich bar in lobby, lounging areas with couches, restaurant, bar. Rooms are deluxe, very comfortable beds, modern bathrooms, with gorgeous views of the city and nearby Chicago river.
Great location, nice room, beautiful bathroom, comfortable beds, steps from the orange line, State St. and Michigan Ave., Theatres, and museums. We were able to walk everywhere we wanted to go. Great rice view. Libby music was a bit loud, but the younger crow probably would think that was great!
Elevators require key each time to go up stairs
Location, bedding, room decor. Wasn't notified of renovations by kayak nor Marriott, when I told the front desk this, I was told I should do my own research to make sure hotel isn't being renovated. Then the workers started a half hour earlier than I was told on Sunday morning, and when I called the front desk, nothing was done about it. They were constantly drilling directly above our room. I was given the wrong room and wasn't offered a switch when the correct room became available, and I left an item there after checking out and called two hours later and the item had gone missing from the room. When I called the customer care line, the hotel called back to apologize and did not offer anything to rectify the situation. Terrible stay, will not be booking there ever again.
The historic Hotel Burnham is lovely. The Atwood Cafe is supurb (and I am a picky eater). I booked a King. Upon check-in we were told we could only get a Queen for the 1st night.
It was a beautiful hotel and a great experience valet parking price
Excellent location, walking distance to everything Its a pet friendly hotel, dogs barking very laud in the halls at night it was hard to sleep, also no buffet breakfast.
I liked the location and the quite comfort of the room. I liked the variety of contents in the minibar, even though I didn't actually eat but one thing. My room was a little noisy, but I just wore earplugs and that worked out for the most part.
Staff were amazing! They took care of all the details with great courtesy. The room was beautiful, the bed was super comfortable and everything was very clean. The Atwood Cafe food was delicious, and they modified reservations for us without a fuss. I would definitely stay here again and recommend it to family and friends.
We had an excellent brunch at the hotel restaurant. The beds were quite comfortable, and yoga equipment was available. We reserved a king room but were given a room wtih a queen bed. The staff did not provide an explanation until we asked. We were told that no king rooms were available.
The building, itself, is a renovated office building across from Macy's on State St. The location is ideal for sight seeing in the Loop. It's unique. A lot of art deco trim. It's nicely decorated, the staff is pleasant. They serve complimentary wine at 5 p.m. It's boutique hotel, not a monster one. The rooms are small.
Availability to the theaters and shopping. All in walking distance Rooms are very small. Limited amenities. No coffee in room. Parking is too expensive.
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I had an excellent room with a view of both State and Washington Streets and Millenium Park!
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Chapter 5: Rescue In Monster Land (part 1)
It has finally come to this. After Zombos was taken prisoner by the vile Shudderites, Iloz Zoc, Glenor Glenda the maid, and Steve Brown, intrepid UPS delivery person and adventurer, set out to rescue him. Traveling in the versatile and well-equipped UPS hyrdraulic-hybrid truck through the 8th dimension, they made their way to Monster Land, the mysterious home of the Shudderites. We now join them as they meticulously plan Zombos' rescue.
"Okay," said Steve Brown, looking through his binoculars. "Zombos is held by the dark power in that tower. The one on the right. We better go at night."
"Wait a minute," said Glenor, looking through her binoculars. "Are you sure he's held by the dark power in the tower on the right? I thought I saw him in the tower on the left, just below that cleft. It's an easier way. We could go by day."
"I'm pretty sure I saw him on the right, in the window at the third height."
"But I swear I see him over there, in the window that is square," she said.
"Which tower door would that be?" said Iloz Zoc, long suffering valet to Zombos, looking through his binoculars.
"The door with the wild boar, holding the vessel with the pestle," said Steve Brown.
"No, it's the door with the olden dragon holding the golden flagon," insisted Glenor.
"All I see is a door with an ogre holding a chalice with malice," said Iloz Zoc.
"No, no, that's the wrong door, it's the one with the wild boar."
"You're both wrong, it's not the door with the boar, but the olden dragon holding the golden flagon."
"Which one's holding the pestle again?" asked Zoc.
"The boar."
"Which door?"
Steve Brown's cell phone rang. Glenor and Zoc looked at him in puzzlement.
"What? It's Verizon," he said. "They've got great coverage. Hello?" He listened to the caller. "I see; he's here, I'll put him on. It's for you — your editor." He handed the phone to Zoc.
"Yes? What's that. Why how rude! I never! Do what you can until I return. What? You didn't! How's One-Eye feeling? Good. The new home for Zombos Closet of Horror Blog is www.zomboscloset.com? Capital! Yes, yes, I will hurry back." Zoc handed the phone back to Steve Brown.
"What's wrong?" asked Glenor.
"Much, while we've been away. Blogger.com created a wretched beta monster that's gone and eaten up a year's worth of Zombos Closet of Horror blogs. We can't get into it anymore to publish new ones. He said their powerless tech support people were surrounded by hordes of irate bloggers and eaten alive, so no help is coming from that quarter. If it wasn't for Blogcritics, there would have been no Zombos Closet reviews for the past week. Lord, what a mess. At least we have a new blog address now.
Then he asked One-Eye Willy to review The Descent, and you know how claustrophobic One-Eye is. One-Eye is recuperating nicely, though. He also just posted an interview with Ethan Dettenmaeir on that Sin-Jin Smyth movie, right on the heels of Brian Corder's interview with the man. Waste of a perfectly good post, that one. He should have gone with the Paris Hilton interview first. People can't stop reading about her, lord knows why. The man's a neophyte. I must get back to the mansion before he causes anymore harm to my faithful readers."
"Oh, dear, how dreadful," gasped Glenor.
"Right, well, we better hurry then. Where were we?" said Steve Brown.
"The door on the right, I think."
"Wait a minute," said Zoc. "I need to get a review to my editor."
"Go ahead, I've got unlimited minutes on weekends." Steve Brown handed back the phone to Zoc.
"Hello? Yes, it's me again. I've got one from the archives that should do. Are you ready? Here it is… what? Yes, yes it has spoilers." said Zoc.
Scarecrows is one of those films that, with a little more acting, a little more direction, and a lot more story logic, would have been quite compelling as a horror entry. As it stands, it is still a creepy film that has solid make-up and gore effects, and a premise that sustains the mood of terror in spite of itself. And hey, there are no teenagers getting killed one by one — just dumb adults, so that is a refreshing change of pace.
And the plotline is amazingly similar to Dead Birds, with a precipitating robbery, an abandoned spooky house in the middle of nowhere, and demonic monsters. But just like Dead Birds, the adults are still witless, they run around cluelessly before getting killed one by one, and they ignore the obvious danger.
In Scarecrows, though, we never really find out the supernatural why, which sustains the atmosphere of creepiness. And like clowns, scarecrows can be very creepy; unless they look like Ray Bolger, of course.
Escaping in a hijacked plane with the pilot and his daughter, after a robbery worth millions, a para-military bunch is double-crossed by one of their own; a very nervous guy named Burt. He jumps out of the plane with the big – and heavy – box that holds the money with apparently no plans as to how to move it around once he is on the ground.
Being the dumbest of the bunch, he is murdered first. But not before he happens upon the Fowler residence, nestled snuggly amid lots of really creepy-looking scarecrows, and surrounded by a wooden fence encircled with barbed-wire and lots of warnings to stay away. The weird weathervane on the roof, with the pitchfork and pteradactyl, should have been a warning sign, too.
Annoyingly, we must listen to Burt's thoughts in voiceover, as he walks around and mysteriously comes across the key to the decrepit truck in the yard. Perhaps it's just me, but I really enjoy watching people's lips move on screen, even when they are just thinking out loud. It helps to intensify the action, and gives the actor more to do than just look like what the voiceover is saying.
Burt hoists the box onto the truck and makes his getaway. Sure why not? Decrepit trucks always have lots of gas in them, especially with today's prices, and the battery lying dormant for how long? No problem; batteries spontaneously recharge themselves in horror movies when needed.
Now, I did mention that Burt was the dumbest of the bunch, and here is why (in addition to the above, of course). Wearing night-vision goggles to walk through the foliage and find the house, he takes them off to drive the truck away, and instead, turns on the headlights to see where he is going. Of course, the crooks still in the plane spot the headlights of his truck, and now know where he is headed. Brilliant. He deserves to die. Definitely. I am not sure why he needed night vision goggles in the first place, as every scene is brightly lit, from the interior of the plane, to the nighttime outside scenery, and the house. The cinematographer was either a) myopic, b) just out of school, or c) dealing with really cheap film stock.
Burt meets his demise when the truck dies in the middle of nowhere. Go figure. One very nice touch, and there are, I must admit, a few in the film, is the fact that when he opens the truck's hood (or bonnet for my British readers), there is no engine. Creepy, to be sure.
The story logic fails when dead, now stuffed-like-a-flounder-with-money-and-straw-Burt returns to the house. The rest of the bunch are there, rough him up, then realize that he is indeed dead and was gutted and stuffed like a flounder with money and straw. Dead Burt does manage to put up quite a fight, and grabs one fellow by the mouth, pushing him through a window, causing him to bite off more than he could chew in a gorylicious scene.
At this point, you would think they'd be racing out of the house and back to the plane — but no, they decide to stay and look for the rest of the money. In fact, the whole episode is treated rather matter-of-factly, although one bright bulb in the bunch does argue, "Burt was walking around dead, for chrissakes!"
The stolen money suddenly appears on the grounds outside the house, and the crooks blithely go for the bait. Soon, another one of them, Jack, is dispatched, and again the scene is well done and horrific, involving a dull handsaw and no anethesia. Now there are three scarecrows going about reeking mayhem, and one of them needs a hand, literally.
Dead and gutted, Jack returns to the house also, and goes after one of the bunch who went slightly off his rocker and stayed behind, with the expected results. If you listen to Jack's demonic growl, by the way, you may notice, depending on your age, that it is the same monster-growling sound heard often in the Lost In Space TV episodes.
The last two survivors race away from the house and back to the plane, barely escaping. But do they? For that, dear readers, you will have to see the movie. It is not available on DVD yet, but you may be able to catch it now and then on cable or satellite, or dig up a hoary video copy on the Amazon.
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Musicians jam for one of their own
Musicians are coming together to support one of their own.
A benefit jam night is being organized for Saturday at the Branding Iron Pub in Armstrong to help raise funds for Mike Nitchie, an Armstrong-born musician battling a rare disease.
"We have played music with Mike and Mike is also a good friend of mine from PVSS (Pleasant Valley Secondary School). We graduated together from PVSS in the same year, and also went on to study at UVic together at the music school there," said Paul Moore of the New Classics, a Vernon-based band.
Moore and fellow New Classic John Noseworthy are organizing the benefit. The Dan Engelland Blues Band will serve as the host group for the jam. All musicians are welcome to attend.
Donations will be taken at the door and a 50/50 draw will be held to raise funds for Nitchie, 46, who was born and raised in Armstrong, graduating from Pleasant Valley Secondary in 1985. He was accepted into the University of Victoria music program on saxophone, but switched to bass guitar partway through his degree.
Nitchie played with the Victoria, Okanagan and Prince George symphonies before exploring pop music.
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Nitchie has been nominated several times for B.C. Country Music Association bass player of the year award, and has won Band of the Year three times. He now runs his own Vancouver-based band, Blue Scarlett, with his wife, Marni, as lead singer, Manitoba's Garry Wenger on guitar and Salmon Arm's Jeremy Tymkiw on drums.
Nitchie was recently diagnosed with Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT), a bleeding disorder, as well as having AVMs (arteriovenous malformations) and no filters to keep old blood mixing with new blood.
He found out about the disease through his niece, who was being treated for a car accident at Vernon Jubilee Hospital. Nitchie discovered HHT is hereditary, does not skip a generation and can manifest itself in many ways.
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Nitchie has always had difficulty with low energy, occasional seizures in his sleep as well as prolific daily nosebleeds since high school, which no one seemed able to diagnose and seemed committed to a lifetime of nosebleeds until the HHT diagnosis.
"I ended up going through a battery of tests including blood, CT, MRI scans, and many more to see how I have been affected by this disease," said Nitchie. "During my MRI and the following angiogram they found that I had three AVMs in my brain, one that was at great risk of hemorrhaging."
Nitchie went into Vancouver General Hospital in June 2012 and had the AVM removed. Four days after the surgery, he had a grand mal seizure, which meant being placed on anti-seizure medication, disabling him from driving.
During the first week of August, Nitchie began leaking from the incision site and discovered he had a staph infection. More surgery followed, along with IV antibiotics for two months.
Just before Christmas, Nitchie started leaking again from his head.
"On Jan. 2, we went to emergency again. After another CT scan, they found bone flap (the piece taken off during my first surgery) was still infected, and had to be removed, so a third surgery was undertaken," he said. "This time the surgeon decided it would be better to throw the piece of bone away, which left me with a hole in my head about the size of the bottom of a coffee mug, followed by another two months of IV antibiotics.
Nitchie is currently finishing the antibiotics and awaits another surgery in six months to insert a titanium plate to cover the missing bone in his skull. He has to protect his head/soft spot and be careful not to get another infection.
"I would like to raise awareness for HHT as there still is a lot to learn about the disease," said Nitchie. "If you have any symptoms including excessive nosebleeds, clubbed fingernails from low oxygen levels, unexplained seizures, and AVMs, you may want to get tested."
Besides the fundraiser, Nitchie's band Blue Scarlett is headlining a show at The Green in Vernon's Village Green Hotel on Friday, March 8.


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|Reviews for Whatever It Takes
| mirian chapter 1 . 6/26/2013
que gran final
| Narudi18 chapter 1 . 12/5/2009
The ending do not sucks! It's really funny ! I love it! but i would've like a little more details:P
| April418 chapter 1 . 8/9/2008
Nice story!
Alternate Ending:
Sakura was the only one who had enough balls to see what was going on in there. At first she hesitated. Then she finally crept the door open a little. A gasp escaped her lips.
"I don't beleive it!" she said angrily.
Everyone crowded in to see a giant hole in the wall, most likely from the rasengan or chidori.
"WHAT DID THOSE TWO #&!#%S DO TO MY CLOSET!" Tenten screamed. "I'M GOING TO TURN THEM BOTH INTO A #%! BLOODY PULP!"
Everyone backed away in fear of Tenten's rage and prayed for Sasuke and Naruto's lives.
Well, I hope you liked that. Think of it as payment for your hard work. And if you did not like it, send me an angry e-mail!
| Sparkylovesfire chapter 1 . 7/26/2008
I liked it a lot. Definitely sounds like something Sakura and Ino would do after they go over their crush on Sasuke! And I can see Naruto and Sasuke reacting like that if they ended up stuck in that situation.
| Domini-chan chapter 1 . 5/2/2008
WOOHOO! WE LOVE AN UKE NARUTO! I can NOT picture Sasuke as an uke. It's too hard. Anyway, YAYAY! GOO NARUSASU! XD! I'm so happy :). I didn't mind the ending. It's funny XD!
| WitheredWings chapter 1 . 3/5/2008
I love it! Pinning Naruto inside a closet! You're a genius! Though the ending was a bit of a bummer, you know, I was all like; oh they're going to open the door right now and they're going to run away and stuff, but it was different. Anyway, it isn't like it wasn't good, it was just different!
| narusasufan chapter 1 . 3/4/2008
OMG...I loved your cute story XD
Thanks :)
| number1sasunarufan chapter 1 . 3/4/2008
wow really good but it would had been better if there were lemons
| this account is not being used chapter 1 . 3/4/2008
oh my, naruto and sasuke! who! .
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We present an algorithm for surface reconstruction from a point cloud. It runs in O(n log n) time, where n is the number of sample points, and this is optimal in the pointer machine model. The only existing O(n log n)-time algorithm is due to Funke and Ramos, and it uses some sophisticated data structures. The key task in their algorithm is to ex- tract a locally uniform subsample from the input points. Our extraction of locally uniform subsample is based on a variant of the standard octree and it is much simpler. We built a prototype that runs an implementation of our algorithm to extract a locally uniform sub- sample, invokes Cocone to reconstruct a surface from the subsample, and adds back the samples points absent from the subsample via edge flips. In our experiments with some non-uniform samples, the subsample extraction step is fast and effective, and the prototype gives a 51% to 68% speedup from using Cocone alone. The prototype also runs faster on locally uniform samples.
We consider the problem of, given an array $A[1,n]$ of elements with a total order, building a data structure that solves two queries: $(a)$ selection queries receive a range $[i,j]$ and an integer $k$ and return the position of the $k$th largest element in $A[i,j]$; $(b)$ top-$k$ queries receive $[i,j]$ and $k$ and return the positions of the $k$ largest elements in $A[i,j]$. These problems can be solved in optimal time, $O(1+\log k/\log\log n)$ and $O(k)$ respectively, using linear-space data structures. We present the first study of {\em encoding} data structures for this problem, which do not access $A$ at query time. These save storage space in applications where the values of $A$ themselves are not of interest. We first show that any encoding answering such queries requires $n\lg k - O(n+k \lg k)$ bits of space. Then we design encodings using $O(n\log k)$ bits, that is, asymptotically optimal up to constant factors, that answer selection and top-$k$ queries in optimal time.
Even though local search heuristics are the method of choice in practice for many well-studied optimization problems, most of them behave poorly in the worst case. This is in particular the case for the Maximum-Cut Problem, for which local search can take an exponential number of steps to terminate and the problem of computing a local optimum is PLS-complete. To narrow the gap between theory and practice, we study local search for the Maximum-Cut Problem in the framework of smoothed analysis in which inputs are subject to a small amount of random noise. We show that the smoothed number of iterations is quasi-polynomial, i.e., it is bounded from above by a polynomial in n^log(n) and ¦ where n denotes the number of nodes and ¦ denotes the perturbation parameter. This shows that worst-case instances are fragile and it is a first step in explaining why they are rarely observed in practice.
Leader election is a fundamental problem in distributed computing. It calls for all nodes of a network to agree on a single node, called the leader. When the nodes are anonymous, leader election is formulated as follows: every node must output a simple path, which is coded as a sequence of port numbers, such that all these paths end at a common node, the leader. In this paper, we study deterministic leader election in n-node anonymous trees of diameter diam d D. We establish tradeoffs between the allocated time Ä and the amount of information that must be given a priori to the nodes to enable leader election in time Ä in all trees for which leader election in this time is at all possible. While leader election in time diam can be performed without any information, for time diam-1 we give a tight bound of ¸(log D). For time diam-2 we give a tight bound of ¸(log D) for even values of diam, and a tight bound of ¸(log n) for odd values of diam. Moving to shorter time, in the interval [²·diam, diam-3] for constant ² >1/2, we prove an upper bound of O((nlog n)/D) and a lower bound of &(n/D), the latter being valid whenever diam is odd or when the time is at most diam-4. Finally, for time ±·diam for any constant ± < 1/2 (except for the case of very small diameters), we again give a tight bound, this time ¸(n).
This paper addresses the general limit of the standard tractability results for Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSP) and counting-CSP, that they only apply to instances where all constraints belong to a single tractable language. We show that we can overcome this limitation as long as we keep some control of how constraints over the various considered tractable languages interact with each other. For this purpose we utilize the notion of a strong backdoor of a CSP instance, as introduced by Williams et al. (IJCAI 2003), which is a set of variables that when instantiated moves the instance to an island of tractability, i.e., to a tractable class of instances. Our main result is an algorithm that, given a CSP instance with n variables, finds in time f(k)nO(1) a strong backdoor into a scattered class (associated with a list of finite conservative constraint languages) of size k or correctly decides that there is no such backdoor. This also gives the running time for solving #CSP, provided that #CSP is polynomial-time tractable for the considered constraint languages. Our result makes significant progress towards the main goal of the backdoor-based approach to CSPs -- the identification of maximal base classes for which small backdoors can be detected efficiently.
We present fast algorithms for sketching valuation functions. Let $N$ ($|N|=n$) be some ground set and $v:2^N\rightarrow \mathbb R$ be a function. We say that $\tilde v:2^N\rightarrow \mathbb R$ is an \emph{$\alpha$-sketch} of $v$ if for every set $S$ we have that $\frac {v(S)} {\alpha} \leq \tilde v(S) \leq v(S)$ and $\tilde v$ can be described in $poly(n)$ bits. If $v$ is submodular then a $\tilde O(\sqrt n)$-sketch can be constructed using polynomially many value queries [Goemans et al., SODA'09] (this is essentially the best possible, as Balcan and Harvey [STOC'11] show that no submodular function admit an $n^{\frac 1 3 - \epsilon}$-sketch). Based on their work, Balcan et al. [COLT'12] and Badanidiyuru et al [SODA'12] construct a $\tilde O(\sqrt n)$-sketch for subadditive functions with polynomially many demand queries. All previous sketches use complicated geometric arguments: the first step proves the existence of a good sketch by finding an ellipsoid that ``approximates'' $v$ well (by applying John's theorem to ensure the existence of an ellipsoid that is ``close'' to $v$). The second step shows how to efficiently find this ellipsoid, by repeatedly solving a certain convex program to obtain better approximations of John's ellipsoid. This paper gives a significantly simpler, non-geometric proof for the existence of good sketches, and obtains much faster algorithms that match the previous bounds. Specifically, we construct a $\tilde O(\sqrt n)$-sketch of a submodular function with $\tilde O(n^\frac{3}{2})$ value queries, and an $\tilde O(\sqrt n)$-sketch of a subadditive function with $O(n)$ demand and value queries.
We study algorithms that, given query-access to an input function, approximately determine whether the function satisfies a desired property. More specifically, our algorithms accept if the function has the property and reject with high probability if the function is far from having the property. The distance to having the property is measured with respect to a known or an unknown distribution over the domain of function. In this work, we focus on functions over domains of the form {1,2,..,n}^d (that is, d-dimensional hypergrids). We look at a general class of properties of such functions, called bounded derivative properties (BDP), which includes monotonicity and the Lipschitz property. We give an optimal tester for BDPs for the case when the distance to the property is measured with respect to a product distribution, that is, a distribution where each coordinate is chosen independently. Our main tool here is a novel dimension reduction which reduces testing properties of functions over {1,2,..,n}^d to testing functions over {1,2,..,n}. This dimension reduction is optimal up to a constant factor. For BDPs of functions over {1,2,...,n}, we design an optimal tester for the case when the distribution is known. Our tester is based on Knuth's construction of binary search trees over {1,2,..,n} with minimum expected depth. As a special case, we obtain an optimal monotonicity tester for {1,2,..,n}, thus improving the tester given by Ailon and Chazelle (Information and Computation, 2006). Our work resolves two open problems given in their work.
For every fixed constant $\alpha > 0$, we design an algorithm for computing the $k$-sparse Walsh-Hadamard transform of an $N$-dimensional vector $x \in \R^N$ in time $k^{1+\alpha} (\log N)^{O(1)}$. Specifically, the algorithm is given query access to $x$ and computes a $k$-sparse $\tx \in \R^N$ satisfying $\|\tx - \hat{x}\|_1 = O( \|\hat{x} - H_k(\hat{x})\|_1$ ), where $\hat{x}$ is the transform of $x$ and $H_k(\hat{x})$ is its best $k$-sparse approximation. Our algorithm is fully deterministic and only uses non-adaptive queries to $x$. An important technical tool that we use is a construction of nearly optimal and linear lossless condensers which is a careful instantiation of the GUV condenser (Guruswami et al, JACM 2009). Moreover, we design a deterministic and non-adaptive $\ell_1/\ell_1$ compressed sensing scheme based on general lossless condensers that is equipped with a fast reconstruction algorithm running in time $k^{1+\alpha} (\log N)^{O(1)}$ (for the GUV-based condenser) and is of independent interest. Our scheme significantly simplifies and improves an earlier expander-based construction due to Berinde et al (Allerton 2008). Our methods use linear lossless condensers in a black box fashion; therefore, any future improvement on explicit constructions of such condensers would immediately translate to improved parameters in our framework (potentially leading to $k (\log N)^{O(1)}$ reconstruction time with a reduced exponent in the poly-logarithmic factor, and eliminating the extra parameter $\alpha$). By allowing the algorithm to use randomness, while still using non-adaptive queries, the running time of the algorithm can be improved to $\tilde{O}(k \log^3 N)$.
The F-Minor-Free Deletion problem asks, for a fixed set F and an input consisting of a graph G and integer k, whether k vertices can be removed from G such that the resulting graph does not contain any member of F as a minor. Fomin et al. (FOCS 2012) showed that the special case when F contains at least one planar graph has a kernel of size f(F)·kg(F) for some functions f and g. They left open whether this Planar F-Minor-Free Deletion problem has kernels whose size is uniformly polynomial, of the form f(F)·kc for some universal constant c. We prove that some Planar F-Minor-Free Deletion problems do not have uniformly polynomial kernels (unless NP coNP/poly), not even when parameterized by the vertex cover number. On the positive side, we consider the problem of determining whether k vertices can be removed to obtain a graph of treedepth at most ·. We prove that this problem admits uniformly polynomial kernels with O(k6) vertices for every fixed ·.


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|Garlic salt
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Combine the tomato paste, salt, Worcestershire sauce, garlic salt, hot sauce and thyme.
Roll each biscuit on a floured board to a 4-inch circle and cover each with a thin layer of beef, tomato paste mixture, grated cheese and oregano.
Place on an ungreased cookie sheet.
Bake at 425 degrees for 10 minutes.
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Calories 402 Calories from Fat 220
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 25 g38%
Saturated Fat 10.5 g52.4%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 52.5 mg17.5%
Sodium 991.2 mg41.3%
Total Carbohydrates 30 g10%
Dietary Fiber 2.3 g9.3%
Sugars 9.4 g
Protein 18 g35.1%
Vitamin A 19.7% Vitamin C 18%
Calcium 21.8% Iron 17.6%
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Throughout our I/O tests, we found that VMware vCloud Hybrid Service instances performed dramatically better than the AWS instances, earning consistently higher Fio scores. On a 4K random workload, vCHS delivered performance that averaged 7 times that of the AWS solution, and on a 1M sequential workload, it delivered on average 9 times times the performance of AWS. Across all scenarios, vCHS delivered at least 3 times greater performance than AWS.
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Historians don't just catalog events, they assemble events into stories or "historical narratives." But to really be relevant or worth reading, a given historical narrative has to tap into a bigger theme or "grand narrative" (using the term rather loosely). I'm going to flesh out that concept a bit, then float some observations on the emerging grand narrative that might frame Mormon history in the 21st century.
Category: Church History
Biographies of a New World Man
Joseph Smith, it's fair to say, was a rebel and a runner and a restless young man. That, plus his many religious accomplishments, makes him an attractive subject for biographers both in and out of the Church, who have responded by writing dozens of Joseph Smith biographies. In fact, I think that when it comes to history, Mormons are spoiled without generally knowing it. Pull down a denominational history or the biography of any other 19th-century religious figure from the shelf of your local library and you're likely to get a snoozer. By comparison, early LDS history and the adventures of Joseph Smith are religious thrillers. Yet I would say that many, even most, Mormons have not yet read their first book-length biography of Joseph Smith. Why not? And if a Latter-day Saint does decide to buy and read her first biography of Joseph, which of the many available titles should she choose (or avoid)?
"New Pioneers … On the March!"
What does today's Deseret Morning News editorial have in common with my 1941 copper medal bearing the legend "Our Standard Bearer†over the likeness of President Heber J. Grant?
Tooth Bugs
Recently my husband and I came across a set of rather old LDS song books. As my ward's primary chorister my favorite was The Primary Song Book: Including Marches and Voluntaries. The edition is missing the title page and so I'm not sure when it was published (and am at a loss as to how I would find out). Let's just say that it's really old. Among the very few songs that have survived from this edition to the current one are, "Give said the little Stream", "I Thank Thee Dear Father", "Can a Little Child Like Me", and "Tell Me Dear Lord." The most interesting songs, though, are the ones that didn't make the cut. My personal favorite among these songs is #148 Tooth Bugs, by Ivy W. Stone and N. Lorenzo Mitchell:
Venus Robinson Rossiter: Learning to Serve
Venus Rossiter, serving in Tahiti with her husband, Mission President Ernest C. Rossiter, wrote to the Relief Society General Board early in 1919 with her report for 1918.
Murder in the Metropolis: Part the Fourth (Conclusion)
Hooper Young was arrested in Connecticut three days after the discovery of Mrs. Pulitzer's body.
Murder in the Metropolis: Part the Second
William Hooper Young, known as Hooper, was born in 1871 in Philadelphia, where his mother, Libbie Canfield, was visiting, while his father, John W. Young, was in Utah.
Murder in the Metropolis: Part the First
As the ebbing tide of September 18, 1902, lowered the level of the barge canals near Jersey City, New Jersey, a passing trolley engineer spotted the nude and mutilated body of a woman lying in the mud.
Our Crown Jewels: The Church Archives
In the fall of 1983, Dialogue published Davis Bitton's personal memoir of Leonard Arrington's tenure as Church Historian, "Ten Years in Camelot.� That essay conveyed the excitement of discovering, writing, and publishing Mormon history on a scale never before known. The essay also records disappointment with changes then underway, betraying the uncertainty, even fearfulness, that comes with change.
Geertruida Lodder Zippro: The Extra Mile
Much of the attention of the Relief Society Conference of October, 1945, was devoted to efforts to assist surviving members of the Church in the former war zones of Europe. Contact had been reestablished with some of the European branches, and reports of their experiences and especially of their needs were read to the sisters assembled in Salt Lake City:
Secrets from the Research Library
My Utah history columns for the Salt Lake Tribune have a limit of 650 words; the Relief Society articles need to fit a single page. The brevity of these accounts may mask the complexity of the work behind them, so put on your deerstalker caps and I'll recreate the process, using Frances Swan Clark as the example.
On the Road to Mountain Meadows
Two years ago I wrote an article entitled "'Pursue, Retake & Punish': The 1857 Santa Clara Ambush.� You can read it here if this essay triggers your interest; the short version is this:
Natural Succession or the Prophetic Death Card?
Does God control who is Church President by ending life (using the "death card")? Or does he control who is President by controlling the order in which Apostles are called? Of course, both can be true (or neither depending on your theological persuasion), but let's examine these questions systematically.
Could the Restoration have Happened Elsewhere and Elsewhen?
The common answer heard today in the Church is no. A variety of reasons are usually given:
O'Dea's The Mormons Part I: Strain and Conflict in the Church
Thomas F. O'Dea's The Mormons (1957) is a classic text in Mormon studies. So much that the Mormon Social Science Association is currently putting together an edited volume
Joseph Smith chopped down the Sacred Grove
Twelve years ago my family piled in a rented RV and drove cross-country to attend a wedding reception for my older brother and his wife in Minnesota. On the way we stopped at the church history sites in Missouri, including Independence, Liberty Jail, and Far West.
Prophecy vs. History
Not too long ago, I stumbled across the PBS presentation of Jared Diamond's book Guns, Germs, and Steel (2d ed. 1999). It reminded me of dealing with the book at college and enjoying the ideas presented and the sweeping take of world history that it offered. But while watching the presentation and contemplating the message of the book itself, I was reminded about how much Diamond's whole analysis depends solely on inference from extremely scant historical evidence.[1]
Another Martyr
DESERET EVENING NEWS Monday, March 5, 1888 ANOTHER MARTYR Elder John B. Johnson departed this life at the Utah Penitentiary at an early hour this morning (March 5th).
RSR: Walter van Beek on Joseph Smith
[This review has been provided by special arrangement to Times and Seasons by Walter E. A. van Beek, an anthropologist and scholar of religion and culture at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands.] O Lord; thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed; I am in derison daily, everyone mocketh me. Jeremiah 20:7.
RSR: The Politics and Personality of a Prophet
For many good reasons, Joseph Smith has always been the least known and the most speculated about of all the prophets of this dispensation.
Last week Janice and I spent several days in Cornwall, Great Britain, with the BYU students doing London Study Abroad.
David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism
David O. McKay presented a dramatic contrast to his predecessors: an athletic, movie-star-handsome, clean-shaven figure who often wore a white double-breasted suit; contrasted to the dark-suited, bearded polygamists (or, in the case of George Albert Smith, son of a polygamist) who preceded him as Church President ever since Joseph Smith. In an age prior to professional image-makers, he instinctively grasped the importance of appearance, and coupled it to the substance of a professional educator to become an icon of Mormonism whose persona did much to change the negative image of the Church in much of the world.
Visions–Medieval and Modern
I had just completed the oral defense of my admission-to-PhD-candidacy exams, which emphasized the writings of medieval visionaries and mystics. My advisor extended his hand, and with his typical wry smile, said: "Congratulations. You passed. Now, go home and have a vision!" We all had a good laugh, but for different reasons. They all laughed because they don't believe visions are possible. I laughed because I knew how much it would unsettle them to know that I do.
Game Theory and Mormon History
So let's think about Zion as a prisoner's dilemma (PD).
Sectarianism vs. Assimilation
Which should we be more strenuously avoiding, and how? Clark Goble suggests that the Church in "the last decade and a half has focused on building on common ground. But that has also (IMO) had unfortunate doctrinal consequences on the population as well as I believe leading to the decrease in conversions the last 5 – 8 years."
The Problems of the Great Apostasy
One the bed-rock doctrines of Mormonism (to the extent that we have any bed-rock doctrines) is that the church set up by Christ fell away from the true gospel, lost its priesthood authority, and slipped into apostasy. It seems to me that we have two fundamental problems with the doctrine of the Great Apostasy.
The Evening When Mormons Could Once More Become Americans
I have been reading Kathleen Flake's excellent book on the Reed Smoot hearings, and it has me thinking Smootish thoughts.
268M in 2080
Most members of the Church are probably familiar with the estimate made by (nonLDS) sociologist Rodney Stark that, if current growth patterns hold, there will be 268 million members of the Church by the year 2080.
Joseph Smith, Justice Frankfurter and the Great Writ
It is time for the post that you have all been waiting for, the one of the place of Mormonism in habeas corpus jurisprudence.
David O. McKay: Father, Teacher, Prophet
On Sunday I received this year's course curriculum for RS and Priesthood: a diminutive paperback with a striking portrait on the cover, entitled Teachings of Presidents of the Church: David O. McKay.


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