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Growing up is hard enough without wizards always trying to kill you, but there is still no shortage of magical kids — at least in Hollywood.
As Harry Potter inches ever nearer to adulthood, joining such graduates from the blockbuster school of sword-and-sorcery as Luke Skywalker and Frodo Baggins, studios are seeking newcomers to slake the thirst of fantasy-loving moviegoers.
REVIEW: Fantasy falters in Eragon
The latest entry: Eragon, a fantasy adventure film opening today about a young Dragon Rider trying to save a mythical world from a tyrannical king and his sorcerer henchmen. It's based on the best seller by Christopher Paolini, himself a wunderkind who penned the book when he was a teenager.
British newcomer Ed Speleers, 18, takes the title role of a farm boy who finds a dragon egg and becomes one of the last humans able to tame and befriend the fire-breathing beast. He says stories of enchantment often work best when paired with coming-of-age tales. "What was happening to the character in many ways was happening to me. I was a teenager caught between adulthood and boyhood," he says. "Eragon has to grow up a lot faster and for a lot more serious reasons than I did. But as someone starting out, that enabled me to put my skills on a learning curve along with Eragon on his journey."
Other mystical tales of youth headed to theaters include next year's Bridge to Terabithia, based on a children's fantasy novel by Katherine Paterson, and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the fifth in the franchise. Planned for 2008: Prince Caspian, the second installment of The Chronicles of Narnia.
Terabithia, set for release Feb. 16, is about two contemporary school kids who create a magical kingdom in the woods that takes on a life of its own. Unlike Speleers, who sees Eragon as a parallel to real life, Terabithia director Gabor Csupo, who produced the popular Rugrats cartoons, credits the genre's popularity to escapism.
"I think every time you are taking kids and family through an unknown place where they can be in charge, their fantasy comes alive," Csupo says. "It is so different from every day: going to breakfast, going to school, coming home and making homework."
Not all children's fantasy stories catch on with movie audiences. AlexRider: Operation Stormbreaker, based on a popular book series about a teenage super spy who jets around fighting fantasy villains, got the equivalent of an atomic wedgie at the box office this fall, earning a dismal $677,000 in the USA and only $19 million around the world.
Distributor Fox hopes to avoid that fate and turn the PG-rated Eragon into a kid-fueled franchise. There are two other books in the series waiting for film adaptations.
"My heart and brain are committed to playing it again, and I hope Fox is committed to me playing it, too," Speleers says.
Eragon has a formidable list of co-stars: Jeremy Irons as his dragon-riding instructor, Rachel Weisz as the voice of the dragon, Saphira, and John Malkovich as the evil king Galbatorix.
Stefen Fangmeier, Eragon's first-time director who previously designed visual effects for Jurassic Park and Signs, says the key to these movies is not talking down to the young audience.
"He doesn't just say, 'Oh, here's a dragon. OK, I'll be the dragon rider. I don't have anything better to do.' We make sure the audience understands that he's giving up something for this," Fangmeier says. "It's something that hopefully resonates — that all this action and spectacle we're providing has a deeper emotional core."


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The Autism Society of Greater New Orleans' 2016 Mini-Grant Program for teachers and families is now closed. This year's Mini-Grant Program was funded by the generous donations received from the Peake BMW Drive for a Cause fundraiser. And through Peake BMW Drive for A Cause generous donations, we were able to award 60 Mini-Grants totaling $13,006.11. So we had yet another huge successful Mini Grant program with many families and teachers from across the Greater New Orleans area receiving grants to help students with autism in their classrooms and children and adults with autism in their community.
Next year's Mini Grant Program will open October 1, 2017 – October 31, 2017. Qualified families living in and teachers working in Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, and St. Tammany Parishes may submit only one grant application proposal per year. Awards may not exceed $300.00 and may be awarded less than the requested amount.
Application Deadline. The Mini Grant program for 2016 is now closed. Applications for 2017 will be accepted October 1 – 31, 2017. In order for applications to be considered, they must be postmarked or received within this application period. Applications received before October 1st or postmarked after October 31st will not be considered. Recipients are notified before Thanksgiving.
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- Parents are required to submit an IEP page that includes both the name and the exceptionality of Autism or an assessment for Autism for the child for whom they are requesting funding.
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It was announced this week that the Bank of England will pump a further £75bn in to the UK economy in the alleged hope that it will create growth and pull us out of recession.
But what really is Quantitative Easing? Where does the money come from, and what does it mean for the average citizen?
Government Bonds
In the UK a Government Bond, usually known as a Gilt or collectively as "government stock" or "treasury stock", amounts to a piece of paper that the Treasury sells to investors on the London Stock exchange, for immediate capital in sterling. It is a literal swap. The investor gets a piece of paper or digital receipt, and the Government's accounts get credited with the agreed amount in Pounds.
The current national debt including Bonds and pension liabilities is £4.8 Trillion.
According to September 2009 data, the largest holder of UK Government Bonds were Insurance Companies and Pension Funds, followed by overseas investors & offshore banks, and then the Bank of England & domestic banks. Unlike America who have a clear knowledge of which foreign countries hold their bonds (China being the biggest), the UK does not keep detailed records on where it's foreign bonds are held.
Quantitative Easing
As part of its Quantitative Easing 2 program, the Bank of England is increasing the amount of Government Bonds it holds. Instead of using money earned to make these investments the Bank has the right to create it out of thin air!
At one time it may have physically printed physical notes and coins, today it will simply type £75bn in to its computer system. Just like magic!
When the Bank has created this new money it uses it to purchase Government Bonds already on the open market, other bonds issued by the corporate sector or supposed safe assets. So for example if Insurance Company A holds a Government Bond that isn't near maturity (which is when the Government has finished paying back the principal + interest), the Bank will buy that bond, giving Insurance Company A an immediate injection of capital. The Government then owes the rest of their repayments to the Bank of England, the new holder of the bond.
The theory is that injecting liquid capital in to the private financial system will free up the credit crunch and allow the Banks and Lenders to start lending again, which then should help fund growth. However the system is not obliged to lend when it gets this injection of capital, it can hoard it, it can use it for bonuses, it can do what it wants. Thus there's no guarantee that it will work. For the man on the street the first round of QE clearly didn't work, neither did the first two rounds of QE in the United States.
Currency Devaluation & Inflation
Currency devaluation is a decrease in the purchasing power of the Pound, and occurs whenever new money is created out of thin air. When the Bank of England creates £75bn in new money, every other pound in circulation loses value. The coins in your wallet, the savings in your bank, the wage you get paid are all worth less.
This reduction in value also means imports to the UK are more expensive. This is then passed on to the consumer in higher prices or less adequate goods.
Not only is your money worth less, but the things you buy are worth more and are probably smaller.
QE may cause some growth in the higher echelons of society, but we're already in such a state it's highly unlikely to ever reach the poorest. They don't want loans or credit to open businesses or buy useless tat, they just want to survive debt free on the low wages or benefits they receive. The most likely scenario is that the banks and financial giants will sit on the money, strengthen their own balance sheets and leave the rest of us to fight amongst ourselves.
It's akin to throwing life jackets and dinghies at the upper classes on the Titanic and expecting them to pass some down to the peasants. The ship is sinking, who do you think is more prepared to survive?
"This is the most serious financial crisis we've seen, at least since the Thirties, if not ever."
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Southwest Center City (SWCC) possesses a rich and diverse history that spans over four hundred years. In the middle 17th Century, Swedish colonists owned most of what is now South Philadelphia, with many of the familiar street names such as Catharine and Christian having Swedish royal origins. Later, English and Dutch settlers would also occupy estates in South Philadelphia.
After the founding of the Republic, the neighborhood remained mostly farmland, but the first decades of the 19th century would witness the completion of the Schuylkill Arsenal (1799), the U.S. Naval Asylum and Academy (1833), and the Philadelphia-Wilmington-Baltimore Railroad (1838). Each would set the stage for the further development of the neighborhood. Only the Naval Asylum (now known as Naval Square) remains.
It was after the Civil War that the neighborhood we now recognize today began to take shape. Development included blocks of dense two and three-story rowhouse developments and industrial activity along the then newly-completed railroad down what is now Washington Avenue (then called Prime Street).
Those who lived here also worked here. They worked in the factories along Washington Avenue or the Schuylkill River, or in the building trades.
Demographically, the neighborhood was a mix of mostly Irish Catholics west of Grays Ferry Avenue, upper-middle class white Presbyterians and upper-middle class blacks. Many white families began to move farther out of the city and the neighborhood welcomed the many blacks relocating from the South as part of the Great Migration. By the turn of the twentieth century, the neighborhood was a true hub of Philadelphia's black community, home to doctors, architects, lawyers and caterers, with bars, jazz clubs, concert venues, and community institutions to support the growing population. Many Baptist or African Methodist Episcopal congregations took over church buildings from white Episcopal or Presbyterian congregations that had left the neighborhood, or, in the case of Union Baptist, First African Baptist and Tindley Temple, financed and built their own sanctuaries.
The area suffered a series of setbacks including financial disinvestment. At the same time plans for the Crosstown Expressway, which would have been a mirror image of the current Vine Street Expressway down South and Bainbridge Streets, destroyed the vibrant commercial corridor that was South Street, as business owners and residents fearful of the impacts of the planned Expressway fled the neighborhood.
As residents and businesses slowly began to leave the neighborhood in the fifties and sixties, drugs and crime activity spiked. In spite of all this, the families that stayed behind maintained a strong community throughout and worked hard to keep their community safe and secure.
The 1990s and 2000s saw a reinvigoration of real estate investment and interest, transforming hundreds of vacant lots and houses into new single- and multi-family dwellings. To this day construction activity continues apace.
The SWCC community is a one-of-a-kind neighborhood, diverse in its demographics, building stock and long history. It is home to new and old families, students, and seniors of all ethnicities and backgrounds. Our businesses are locally owned and operated and patronized by all who live here. The rich history that has brought us to this point is alive today in every brick and in every resident, paving the way for a bright future in the years and decades to come.
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And the viral goodness keeps on coming in anticipation of Dimension Films' upcoming cinéma-vérité shock-fest Apollo 18, and we're loving every minute of it.
Moments ago we received an e-mail from one Tyler Gordon, who writes regularly about the space industry and speculates about the mystery surrounding the Apollo missions and why man hasn't returned to the moon in nearly 40 years.
To dig on what Gordon has to say, check out his blog over on ApolloTruth.org.
Spanish-language director Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego is readying his cinéma-vérité spooker Apollo 18 for a theatrical release on March 4th, 2011. The sci-fi thriller is based on a screenplay by Brian Miller, winner of the inaugural Astana International Action Film Festival screenplay competition, founded by Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov.
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Mountain View, California – (The Hosting News) – February 5, 2008 – Search engine, Google, has issued a statement with regard to Microsoft's bid to acquire search engine firm, Yahoo!, featuring a focus on the openness of the Internet, which is what is termed responsible for creating the growth of those search engines.
According to Google, both Google and Yahoo!, are based upon a good idea that users find useful spreads quickly. Businesses can be created around the idea. Users benefit from constant innovation. It's what makes the Internet such an exciting place.
The release goes on to state:
"So Microsoft's hostile bid for Yahoo! raises troubling questions. This is about more than simply a financial transaction, one company taking over another. It's about preserving the underlying principles of the Internet: openness and innovation.
Could Microsoft now attempt to exert the same sort of inappropriate and illegal influence over the Internet that it did with the PC? While the Internet rewards competitive innovation, Microsoft has frequently sought to establish proprietary monopolies — and then leverage its dominance into new, adjacent markets."
The Google release continued:
"Could the acquisition of Yahoo! allow Microsoft — despite its legacy of serious legal and regulatory offenses — to extend unfair practices from browsers and operating systems to the Internet? In addition, Microsoft plus Yahoo! equals an overwhelming share of instant messaging and web email accounts. And between them, the two companies operate the two most heavily trafficked portals on the Internet. Could a combination of the two take advantage of a PC software monopoly to unfairly limit the ability of consumers to freely access competitors' email, IM, and web-based services? Policymakers around the world need to ask these questions — and consumers deserve satisfying answers."
Finally, Google had this to say about the bid: "This hostile bid was announced on Friday so there is plenty of time for these questions to be thoroughly addressed. We take Internet openness, choice and innovation seriously. They are the core of our culture. We believe that the interests of Internet users come first — and should come first — as the merits of this proposed acquisition are examined and alternatives explored."
With the largest index of websites available on the World Wide Web and the industry's most advanced search technology, Google Inc. delivers the fastest and easiest way to find relevant information on the Internet. Google's technological innovations have earned the company numerous industry awards and citations, including two Webby Awards; two WIRED magazine Readers Raves Awards; Best Internet Innovation and Technical Excellence Award from PC Magazine; Best Search Engine on the Internet from Yahoo! Internet Life; Top Ten Best Cybertech from TIME magazine; and Editor's Pick from CNET. A growing number of companies worldwide, including Yahoo! and its international properties, Sony Corporation and its global affiliates, AOL/Netscape, and Cisco Systems, rely on Google to power search on their websites. A privately held company based in Mountain View, Calif., Google's investors include Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers and Sequoia Capital.
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The Harris County Attorney's Office has filed a suit to shut down an after-hours club that prosecutors say is a haven for crime, including a murder earlier this week.
Harris County Attorney Vince Ryan stated in a press release that the owner of La Cave, 4714 FM 1960 West -- as well as the property owners -- "have knowingly allowed hundreds of violations to occur at this club and done nothing to stop them. They can either operate in a legal manner or we will see that they are closed down."
The release also states that "nearly 400 calls for service have been made at the club, located in a strip center in the Champions Terrace area. Local residents say robberies, break-ins and shootings have increased in their community since the club opened."
We haven't been able to reach club owner Victoria Gonzales yet, but Hardial Mangat, one of the two defendants who lease the property, told Hair Balls that he's unaware of any criminal activity at the club, and has never been there.
Ryan's office "is asking a judge to order reasonable actions to prevent the nuisances caused by the club and to order the defendants to put up a bond," according to the release. "If the defendants violate the judge's order, the bond could be forfeited and the club ordered closed for one year from the forfeiture date."
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I did some research and found that I needed a better tick data so I downloaded dukascopy data which gives me a 99% modelling quality, but the same problem still persists on every EA I create.
I've also tested some paid EAs, which had the same problem. Even found some source codes for paid EAs and saw that they were hardcoded to stop working after 2008, I guess that may be related to this issue.
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Apple [AAPL] has turned to retail store employees in an attempt to improve the way it sells iPhones in its stores, urging its workers to dream up ideas it calls "Pie in the sky."
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An internal retail store employee-focused document published by 9to5Mac requests fresh ideas for selling iPhones:
"Do you have a great idea about iPhone? Do you ever wonder why Market Support hasn't implemented something to better support you in selling or suggesting the iPhone? Do you have a thought about something that is missing in the store environment that would help bring iPhone to life?"
Employees who come up with the best ideas will be flown to Cupertino to work on implementing these ideas.
"The feasibility of the idea does not need to be considered. We are looking for innovation and pie in the sky," the Apple note says.
"We are looking for innovation and pie in the sky." That's an interesting statement. Apple has been relatively quiet for months. The last really big event to come out of Cupertino was last year's reorganization, which saw executives fired and teams shuffled about in order to: "Encourage even more collaboration between the Company's world-class hardware, software and services teams."
At that time, CEO Tim Cook said: "We are in one of the most prolific periods of innovation and new products in Apple's history."
Quiet innovation
Things have become eerily quiet since then. Significant product releases have been rare, and while the silence began to thaw at WWDC even the Apple rumor machine has begun to recycle itself in the absence of fresh data -- despite which we know the company to have been hiring in new expertise and to be working with new processes, technologies and manufacturing partners with the company's renowned design team seemingly exploring multiple big ideas.
There's two ways of looking at the company's message to retail staff:
- The company is short of ideas and wants to uncover fresh direction.
- The company has been intensively collaborating across its existing internal employees and is now bringing in intelligence from its retail store staff.
I'm minded to consider the second perspective as being more likely than the first.
In future as the company delivers fresh new solutions I think we'll find that those solutions that do ship will reflect a new era of collaboration within the company. I suggest that Apple's aim in this will be to regain its lead against competitors -- I anticipate it will be struggling to develop, manufacture and ship systems that implement new processes and technologies perhaps so sophisticated others will be unable to emulate them.
"From our point of view it's important that Apple not be the developer for the world," Cook said at D10. "We can't take all of our energy and all of our care and finish the painting, then have someone else put their name on it. We can't have that. The worst thing in the world that can happen to you if you're an engineer that has given his life to something is for someone to rip it off and put their name to it."
One way in which to accomplish this might be to reach for the pie in the sky and deliver solutions others can't immediately match.
Apple's been successful in this in the past. One way in which it can achieve this is to utilize components that are hard to source -- and it seems that's part of the company's game plan, at least when it comes to the iPhone 5S/6 (according to Digitimes).
"Poor yields of fingerprint-recognition chips and LCD driver ICs will likely force Apple to reduce first-quarter shipments of the rumored iPhone 5S, which is slated for launch in September 2013, according to industry sources," the report explains.
If this report proves true then I regard it as evidence the company is looking to deploy unique technologies in order to set its devices apart. Its purchase of Authentec gave it control of a unique identification technology.
This technology could make iPhones (and iPads) more secure than other devices, opens up opportunities in payment services, and should go a long way toward ending the iPhone crime wave on city streets -- there's no point stealing a device you can't use.
That's only a single feature, of course, but I think Apple's wider game plan is implied within its request to retail store staff to dream up "Pie in the Sky" iPhone sales ideas.
Apple's entire company focus in recent months appears to have been on an internal reorganization designed to encourage collaborative innovation. This has been directly feeding into iOS 7, and, I think, will also inform the nature of future devices from the company. It will be interesting to see how unique its propositions will be in contrast to the increasingly commodified smartphones manufactured by its imitative competitors.
Apple appears to be thinking differently about Think Different -- the company must be hoping that whatever sky pie it does end up with doesn't turn out too humble.
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The Fairfax County School Board on Thursday night unanimously approved new Schools Superintendent Karen Garza's proposed $2.5 billion budget for next year.
Ted Velkoff (At Large), the school board budget chair, said that Garza, who joined the school system in July, had brought with her a new way of developing the budget, noting that she met with local civic leaders and others in the county while drafting her proposal.
In doing so, Velkoff said, Garza sought to "reestablish trust with all members of the community."
Garza's proposal includes $96 million in cuts, including the elimination of about 730 staff positions and an increase in class sizes. She also calls on the county board of supervisors for an additional $97 million in funding. Garza's request is equal to a 5.7 percent increase in the transfer of county funds compared to last year's approved budget. More than half of the county's funding goes to the schools.
On March 4, the supervisors will discuss next year's advertised tax rate, which will set the top limit of what the county may levy on property owners. It will also determine how much funding the schools may receive, since the majority of the schools' budget comes from local tax dollars.
School Board Vice Chair Tammy Derenak Kaufax (Lee) said that the schools administration must receive its full request.
"The sky really truly is falling, and people need to recognize we're very serious here," Derenak Kaufax said. "There comes a time when you can't be everything to everybody. If they want to have those kinds of services, then the bill has come due."
School board member Megan McLaughlin (Braddock) said that in the last seven years, the supervisors had only once approved a transfer increase above 3 percent. This year, the supervisors have advised the schools to expect a 2 percent increase.
Elizabeth Schultz (Springfield) said that she voted for Garza's budget hesitantly, noting that the final budget may look different from what the board approved Thursday.


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Presentation clinelness,kind staff,only stayed one night,but liked it.good conection to airport nice sourandings and outdoor,would like to stay bid longer Woold be nice to have some shatle to city or shoping even with payment but cheaper than Taxi
This hotel is an excellent choice for transit passengers traveling through Katowice airport. The location is just perfect - 5 min by car from the airport. The hotel offers free (included in room price) transfer from/to airport and it's great! The room is not big, but very convenient and clean. Free Wi-Fi is super choice. The staff is very helpful and attentive. We checked out at 5 a.m. and the breakfast was packed for us and hot tea and coffee ready in the hotel hall. The girl at the reception and the staff of the restaurant were very very kind and professional. I can highly recommend this hotel. No
Dimensions of rooms we were pleasantly surprised. Also we were pleased with soulful breakfast and free airport transfer.
Very closely located to the Katowice airport, provided shuttle service to the airport along with sack lunch because our departure was before their breakfast hours, very good and reasonably priced restaurant
Great pick up service from airport, 5 minutes drive, clean, great value for money and exactly as it says on the tin. Perfect for a nights stay near to Katowice Airport Room was very, very small buit it was only for 1 night so not too bad. No English tv stations and there was some noisy guests but that can happen anywhere.
close to the airport. I had to leave at 0400a.m. but the friendly staff prepared me a breakfast
Breakfast was really good The fact that we did not get what we ask for. We ask for a double room with one bed and we got one with two beds. In addition this room was freezing due to the fact that the window was open when we got there at... 1 a.m!!!! We ask the recepcionist to change room and she gave as a single room and I paid for double...So I am very dissapointed
Wonderful staff great value for money super food
Large rooms very warm & comfortable
Proximity to Katowice airport for an early morning flight
Great location, great service, excellent and well prepared food selection. Their rooms have AC and the offer a shuttle to the airport 24/7 for around $5
Hotel was very quiet and when you do travel a lot (business trip) you really appreciate a good night sleep Shame that we have to paid for the hotel parking - we arrive at the hotel at 2am on 20.10.09 and depart at 10.15am on 20.10.09!
New hotel with new all.Parking good.Nearest forest.Transfer from Airport cost 4-5 Euro
I liked the cleanliness of hotel and rooms, the hotel is nice, fresh, room is nicely equipt. It is pretty far from Katowice, around 35km, so taxi will cost you 40€, which is too much, but they don't agree on any lower price. On way back find taxi in city, will get you back for 20-25€. Also drinks in hotel bar should be cheaper, beer for 3€ is too much for Poland.
The wonderfully pleasant staff and the modern style! The merangue ice cream cake was heavenly!
New hotel, very modern and clean. Staff very friendly - 20 minutes walk from airport - although transfer to airport was 20PLN (just over £4) Spacious bathroom.
Clean, nice and comfortable hotel for very fair price.
Location is great if you need to stay close to the airport. Room is comfortable, great shower and bathroom, comfortable bed. Food in the restaurant is appalling, especially breakfast - you get it served and have no choice other than scrambled eggs.
The hotel wasn't busy at the time I was staying there, so it wasn't very nosy, that I liked. Room was comfortable. I was surprised that you provide kattle and tee make set taht I realy like. Good food in the restaurant. I can' find anything.
Very quiet and convenient for airport Remote from town and only suitable for Airport stopover.
the staff were unbelievable…made us cocktails all night…we had to leave early the next morning and coffee was already waiting in the bar for us…The beds were sooooo comfortable we want to go back just to sleep in the bed!!!
Good booking system and hotel placement near the event we visited. Misrepresentation of the real and presented expences. The price of the room was very good but the breakfast and hotel restaurant were very expencive in comparison with the prices around the hotel. I prefer final price or very close to it before I make my decision to order anything.
Excellent value and well positioned for our business requirements. The hotel was fresh and clean and the reception staff were very welcoming and spoke good English.
breakfasts, flat screen TVs and customer sevice Quilts should be washed, changing pillowcases and sheets is not eanough, check how it is done at IBIS in Nuremberg,
We had a quiet room facing the woods and it was close to a gas station with snacks, a McDonalds & the train station. They wanted to charge a lot for breakfast, so we ate at McDonalds.
Friendly and efficient staff, nice breakfast with a French touch, well-heated, comfortable and pleasantly decorated rooms
breakfasts are very good! friendly staff members
customer service in general internet is charged separately
Compare to the price, this is a nice hotel. Rooms are new. Location is ok. But not close to the centre to walk.
nice spacious room ,friendly staff
Studio apartment was excellent. The hotel staff took very good care of the lost teddies and ensured they were returned to a very pleased little boy.
convenient location Rooms on the small side
the hotel was clean,warm,breakfast was very good,helpful staff the parking fee could have been included in the price of the hotel
excellent breakfast buffet!! friendly and forthcoming stuff, ready to fullfill our wishes, fairly good command of languages the fact we had to pay for the hotel's parking lot was a surprise, the charge was also somewhat high
pleasant staff,very good breakfast,parking at hotel
food,service,staff, breakfest to start to late (only on 07.00 am)
Hotel room was cleaned when arrived, but there is no regular cleaning and the towels, water and other amenities not changed daily basis Breakfast to improved with little more vegitarian stuff. It is very difficult for the vegitarians
WiFi, perfect for businesstravelers they just want to work a little in their rooms the desk in room could be bigger
good service, excellent food, large breakfast soft bed!!!
Comfortable, clean hotel, easy to find. We booked a double room, but it was with twin beds (separately).
The stuff was realy friendly. The room was so comfortable and quiet.
Clean, modern and friendly hotel. Rooms a little small but very comfortable. Wide variety of food for breakfast.
clean and pleasant ambience too warm very hot day no aircon fan for cooling room no blind on window so too light too early
All was perfect. The hotel is really nice, the rooms are good, the food excellent. Breakfast- like home :-). You can have anything you want- the choice really big. We really enjoyed the hotel and will definitely choose it next time. Besides, its nto far away fromt he main roads and easy to find.
Hotel staff very friendly and helpfull.Good location.Cleanliness of hotel and our room (excellent) deserves special mentioning. Double bed in our room was positioned in such away that it could only be entered from one side.
Nobody gave me a possibility to select a double bed, they simply gave me a room with two single beds. This was a big disappointment for me.
Frendly staff, and convenient location. The airport shuttle was very good. The staff made you feel relaxed. The food was delicious. One night we needed to get up early the next day and one off the girls had heels that clicked like a hammer waking me up. I would suggest that soft shoes should be worn by the staff at night. They were very nice people so we did not want to complain!
Nice decorations and frendly staff. Quite cold rooms (January) when we arrived, but after that it got warmer when the radiators were turned to maximum.
Everyone was very nice and helpful.
I visited with my family (sister, sisters boyfriend & grandpa). My sister and I took my grandpa to Poland where he's from for a holiday. We were based mainly in Krackow but hired a car to visit my grandpas birthplace - Orzegow, which is about 20mins away from Palac. I found the hotel on tripadvisor. I loved the place. Relaxed with drinks outside in the terrace before dinner and then found the bistro bit where we ate very cosy and charming. Food and staff were excellent. There was a wedding on and it was nice for the place to be busy. I would definately stay here again and recommend to anyone visiting the area. Even considering coming back to have my wedding there! No
The location and friendly staff. The food was good even though the portions were on the large size. The lift was not working and I have trouble with stairs.
The location (very close to the Katowice airport) and the shuttle service (included in the stay there was a one-way ride to the airport).
shuttle service from the airport included in the hotel price, free internet, very good breakfast
Although booked into Iskra I stayed at the sister hotel Wilga Excellent!! from the English speaking staff who sent the car to pick me up from the airport to the restaraunt staff, everyone was welcoming and helpfull I will be back Super!! Thank you 10/10
Everything was very nice and quikly! And of coursefree transfer from/to airport!
Very handily placed for the airport with transport included in the cost.Basic but adequate breakfast We missed the pick up from the airport somehow and had to wait a little while to check in.
The staff were very professional, friendly and effective. The pick-up from the airport was very quick and convenient. This, in fact, was the main reason why we chose to stay here. Lack of hairdryer and mini-bar, although we were told that it's going to be installed in the future. The breakfast spread was not very abundant, although it did have a few elaborated and tasty things to offer. The last detail would be a somewhat unpleasant smell in the bathroom (it was clean!), so perhaps some kind of air freshener might be a good solution here.
The hotel is very close to the airport. There is shuttle service one-way (to or from the airport). The hotel is situated in a quite area. The bed and bathroom equipment were quite bad.
Professional and courteous staff, descent value for money Smell on the hallways and rooms is unpleasant
It was a short stay, to catch an early flight the following morning. Staff very helpful, even arranged lunch boxes for us to take, since we were departing too early to have breakfast.


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9. BEN JOSEPH (Brady Maccabi A) – "a great all-round performance" against Norstar
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Posted June 5, 2012
North Carolina has a chance Tuesday to see part of a once-in-a-lifetime transit of the planet Venus across the face of the sun.
Venus orbits the sun faster than Earth and closer to the sun. It periodically passes in front of the sun based on our perspective here on Earth. But that period is a bit odd due to the orbits of the two planets. Remember there are three dimensions at work there as well.
Think of two hula hoops, one smaller (Venus's orbit) than the other (Earth's orbit). Venus moves around its hula-hoop faster than Earth does, catching up with Earth every 19 months (583.92 days to be exact, its synodic period). However, those hula-hoops are tilted slightly (3.5 degrees), making most of those points where Venus catches up and passes Earth either above or below Earth's orbit.
Take those tilted orbits, varying orbital speeds and you get the weird 8-year, then 105-year, then 8-year, then 121-year waits.
Venus's motion is not the only factor in how we might be able to view the transit. We are moving here on the Earth, and that movement, coupled with our position on Earth, impacts the shape of Venus's path across the face of the sun.
You might have seen the diagram showing a straight path across the top of the sun. That's from the press release put together by experts at NASA's Solar System Exploration Division at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. Carolina Skies: The rare transit of Venus Safely watching Venus' day in the sun
No one will probably get that view, however, because it is only possible from the North Pole. When communicating an event that varies by where you are on Earth, a central point must to be chosen. For transits, the North or South poles are used to eliminate the effect of latitude. Similarly, scientific organizations like NASA use Universal Correlated Time (Greenwich Mean Time) for all time-based data.
Generally speaking, the further north you are, the straighter the path will be. Below the equator, Venus will even make a looped path across the sun.
Here in North Carolina, Venus will cross the edge of the sun shortly after 6 p.m. entering at the top on the sun's face, then travel down and slightly to the right in a graceful loop until the sun sets a little over two hours later, about a third of the way into transit.
In Japan, the entire transit will be visible, with Venus entering from the left and swooping up before diving down to exit on the lower right of the sun's face. In the Philippines, the path looks like a cursive lower case 'e' that would make any elementary teacher proud.
India's view is opposite ours, beginning at sunrise with the remaining two-thirds of the event visible that sunset keeps us in North Carolina from seeing. India's view is on the left side of the face of the sun, while our show happens on the right.
Without sufficient protection such as a #14 welders mask, a telescope with a proper solar filter or the very dark "eclipse glasses," you should never look directly at the sun. Sunglasses aren't sufficient, either. Venus won't block enough of the sun to be viewed safely without proper protection. If you dont have any of these things in the back of your closet, you can still be a part of this astronomical event.
Several science museums in the area are hosting free family events starting at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. Each will include talks on the transit, Venus, the sun and how transits are used outside our solar system to discovery planets. Each event also includes safe viewing of the transit with solar telescopes, telescopes modified with solar-safe filters and run by knowledgeable volunteers from area astronomy clubs.
Events are being held at the Morehead Planetarium in Chapel Hill, N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh and the Robeson Planetarium in Lumberton.
See the transit of Venus live online on NASA's website.
Tony Rice is a volunteer in the NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador program and software engineer at Cisco Systems. You can follow him on twitter @rtphokie.
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thank goodness for wral! i almost stared straight into the sun for the entire day with no regards. if it weren't for their writing articles to us, the 2yr old audience, gee-golly i might have gone blind!!
There are some sizable gaps in the clouds and this is a multi-hour event so we are cautiously optimistic for a good show tonight. One very specific forecast put out by Environment Canada and used by astronomers as a planning tool has some clearing as the event starts through about sunset which would work out very well. http://cleardarksky.com/c/RaleighNCkey.html?1
"#14 shade to me is to dark." - aknowlton1499
I've used #14 to observe, and even photograph the sun with. I don't think #10 is safe. You might feel okay looking at the sun, but the UV rays might be burning a spot on your retina.
"has anyone's cornea actually ever been burned through to a crisp for looking at the sun?" – JAT
Yes! Well, I don't know about burned to a crisp, but many have had permanent eye damage from looking at the sun. This happens a lot during partial eclipses. The sun is eclipsed enough so that it's dim enough to look at it, but the invisible UV rays are still smacking your eye.
If you don't know by now you shouldn't be looking directly at the sun, I doubt very much a warning from WRAL will do you much good. Too many shallow gene pools around these parts. Geesh.
I hope to see this great show in the sky.
"Cook did sail, and died doing it" – djofraleigh
The transit was in 1769 (he was recruited in 1766). He died in 1779, ten years later.
"his purpose was scientific, to get data to establish solar system distances" – djofraleigh
Exactly. There will be many, even amateurs, studying the one today to get scientific data. As for me, I just like to see it.
"This is not a 'comet hitting Jupiter" event." – djofraleigh
Correct. Watching Shoemaker-Levy 9 smack Jupiter was awesome. I followed it for days, even snapping some pictures of my own. But Venus transiting the sun is rare enough that those of us with astronomer's blood get excited about it.
"There is no doubt that Venus will transit to no effect other than what we make of it." – djofraleigh
I'm sure there will some refinement to some theories.
Must be a very long lunch today.
Captain Cooked sailed to the Pacific Ocean to observe the 1766 transit. -- comment
Cook did sail, and died doing it, and his purpose was scientific, to get data to establish solar system distances, not just for the experience of seeing it. This is not a 'comet hitting Jupiter" event. There is no doubt that Venus will transit to no effect other than what we make of it.
With all of the clouds in the sky today, forget about seeing this later on in the day.


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Heaven or Hell (1 of 6) by Stephen Whitney
This content is part of a series.Heaven or Hell (1 of 6)
Series: Our Eternal Destiny
Stephen Whitney
Luke 16:19-31
It wasn't all that long ago that black holes existed only in the realm of theory. It was a space and mind-bending musing of Albert Einstein, who believed in the existence of objects in the universe so dense that even light could not escape them. After several decades scientists have become to accept that these exotic and powerful objects are not the stuff of science fiction.
Over the past ten years black holes have become a subject in
the world of astrophysics, leading to a flow of discoveries that
have begun to answer, or at least describe, some of their mysteries.
Recent discoveries include the likelihood that black holes, some as massive as a billion suns, exist at the center of all galaxies and may
have played a key role in forming them.
Christopher Reynolds, an astrophysicist and black hole researcher
with the University of Maryland said, "Black holes are extremely exotic beasts, objects where time stands still, where nothing inside can be seen. The fact that they actually exist remains amazing."
Even though the Hubble telescope lunched in 1990 has not preformed as well as expected, it has, according to NASA, provided further evidence of of black holes in space. Among
new space information provided by the telescope is the location
of a black hole 45 million light years from the earth, which is 100 light years in diameter. A light year is defined as six trillion miles.
The back hole is so large it is hard for our minds to grasp.
The scientific description of a black hole is that it is a gigantic vortex sucking everything within its influence into the center like
a whirpool. Within the black hole itself, gravity is so intense that nothing, not even light, can ever escape, and time stops as the temperatures within reach millions of degrees.
Jesus said that before his return man would be given signs on the earth and in the heavens. Maybe God ...
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Alternative Titles: Chelidonium majus, wartweed
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any of several distinct flowering plants of similar appearance, mostly members of the poppy family (Papaveraceae). The greater celandine ( Chelidonium majus) is native to deciduous woods of Europe and Asia and is grown as a garden wildflower. Once a valued plant of the Old World herbalist for its reputed power to remove warts, it was formerly known as wartweed. Its orange-coloured sap...