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Towards a New Industrial Policy
Yale economist Chris Blattman has a thought-provoking post on the need for more academic consideration of industrial policy in development economics:
[I]ndustrialization is the most important and essential process of development. Everything from lower poverty, reduced inequality, and tax bases to support education and health and welfare systems will (and must) spring from high value-added production. Anything policymakers can do to hasten the process will have unparalleled benefits. The problem? We have little to no idea how to do that...[but] the fact that we know so little, and the tools are so poor, suggests (to me) that the marginal gains from more research are huge. there is no more important place for scholars to spend their time...What is the next frontier? I would put money on industrial development and, with it, a new breed of industrial policy.I agree with Blattman in that development economics needs more and better tools, and that its toolkit has disappointed where it has been put into practice in the real world. Meanwhile in Asia, there seems to be a refined version of "industrial policy" toolkit which has brought development, if not success, to South Korea and Taiwan, to name two examples which are not really in dispute.
His is not an endorsement of industrial policy. It is a call for further investigation, as there is clearly something to learn here in the development successes of East Asia, which have striking connections to other development stories.
This post, therefore, is a survey of successes of such "new industrial policies." What I mean by "new" is that I chose in particular to examine accidental industrial policy, or circumstances under which the planning mechanism was weak -- i.e. not Soviet -- but there was still a conscious organizational effort at the regional or city level.
That said, I want to note the limitations of such a historical (i.e. anecdotal) rather than data-driven and scientific approach. It is the species of faulty logic seen in CEO autobiographies to assume that because policy A or circumstances B existed in successful examples X, Y, and Z, then therefore A and B are good industrial policies. Rather, the purpose of such a survey is to do a "first-pass" identification of similarities in the historical record, and from this we may derive the broad outlines of what determines the success of such "new industrial policy."
I was inspired by Jane Jacobs' famous consideration of Detroit, Michigan. Jacobs, examining the history of Detroit's shipbuilding industry in the 19th century, connected that to its subsequent development as a center for automotive design and manufacturing. Jacobs posited that when firms in different industries operated in close proximity, then there was a knowledge spillover externality as firms drew on a common and diversified pool of ideas in innovating their products. (This is different from the MAR externality, which suggests that spillovers exist within the same industry because of such sharing of ideas. See here for a good summary; I can't find Jacobs' original work online.) This was very much an accidental industrial policy, encouraged weakly by local organization -- not applied from on high as some sort of five-year plan, but the idea that this pattern of development, this agglomeration of related but distinct industries, happened by accident strikes me as unlikely.
The five examples I could think of where I saw successful industrial policy all seemed to work from Jacobs externalities and had strikingly similar stories: (1) South Korea in the 1970s and 1980s, (2) Stanford and Silicon Valley in the 1950s, (3) the emergence of the Parisian suburb La Défense in the 1960s, and (4) New Jersey in the 1960s.
South Korea's history of economic development repeats exactly Jane Jacobs' story of turn-of-the-century Detroit -- and surprisingly enough, although there were some studies which examined agglomeration externalities in Korea, I couldn't find any which pointed out this most obvious fact. What was the first industry encouraged by government policy? Shipbuilding. The country gained a major competitive advantage in supertankers and the sort of large cargoships which are needed for high volumes of international trade. The first docks went up in the late 1970s and early 1980s -- by 2008, South Korea had over a 50 percent share in the global shipbuilding industry. You know the companies' names, but not as shipbuilders: Hyundai, Samsung, Daewoo. And South Korea's next industry? Automobiles, as you most likely know Hyundai/Kia. Daewoo, similarly, makes buses and construction vehicles. The shipbuilding-to-automobiles transition is a story South Korea shares with Detroit. Samsung, too, reapplied its industrial expertise, in particular from the interior wiring of ships, in consumer electronics -- their first electronics product was a black-and-white TV set for the domestic market, and then telephone switchboards. Most of the technology for the first decade appears to be inspired from what they put in ships; now, of course, Samsung's biggest products are LCD televisions and smartphones. South Korea's industrial development is a history of the systematic exploitation of Jacobs externalities.
The story of Stanford University and its role in the development of Silicon Valley hits many of the same notes: the initial formation of a cluster of firms in distinct industries but whose technologies were transferrable from one to the other. After World War II, Stanford's Dean of the School of Engineering, Frederick Terman (later provost), cooperated closely with the Dept. of Defense and his graduates to organize firms based outside of Stanford -- the results were Varian Associates, Hewlett-Packard, and others in the "Stanford Industrial Park." (Fittingly, that had been until recently the headquarters of Facebook.) But in the interim, Terman's informal industrial planning brought William Shockley, the inventor of the transistor, to the Park. By the 1960s, Terman had assembled the collection of firms who were producing transistors, vacuum tubes, and semiconductors -- but it wasn't until the 1970s and 1980s, with the formation of Kleiner Perkins and the IPO of Apple Computer that the success of Terman's industrial policy caught the attention of the world.
The development of the Parisian suburb La Défense demonstrates the same successful traits of "new industrial policies" in Stanford. Today, it is a wealthy and highly commercial area, filled with the corporate headquarters of French corporations. Yet before it was as we know it today, La Défense began as an industrial park organized by the national government, which established EPAD, La Défense's industrial planning agency, in 1958. In that same year, the de Gaulle government built a major convention center, the CNIT (Center for New Industries and Technologies, pictured) to serve as the focal point for regional development, much as did Stanford serve for Silicon Valley. After this the French government worked to relocate a waves of corporations from the metropolitan center, green-lighting the construction of skyscrapers, which Paris did not see elsewhere.
Which area of the world has the most scientists and engineers per square mile? The answer is New Jersey -- my home state, incidentally -- which took advantage of its fortuitous location at the center of the East Coast of the United States and also a residential and corporate exodus from New York City during the 1960s and 1970s. Benefiting from the massive container port infrastructure and a preexisting heavy-industrial base, New Jersey effectively became one large high-tech industrial cluster. Bell Labs, located in Murray Hill, NJ, was an industrial park of a different order of magnitude, fostering the development of telecommunications industry and much, much more. After that, New Jersey brought in pharmaceuticals and chemicals. The presence of a shared high-tech, high-skill labor pool and the proximity of major firms -- there are large stretches of highway in my state where there is one corporate headquarters or office park after another -- and the regional success in these fields strikes me as no accident.
The running theme I found in all of these was that Jacobs externalities appear to be highly determinative of the success of high-tech industry at the regional level, and that any "new industrial policy" going forward should explore the potential gains from coordination which stem from these spillovers.


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Interview with Maria Alvarado, Vice President Strategic Consumer Insights & Analytics
Maria Alvarado is Vice President Strategic Consumer Insight and Analytics at Mondelēz International. She has spent many years looking at snacking in different cultures and how snacking translates in other cultures, how it fits into the diet and the reasons people snack. Together with her team they help "to inspire growth for MDLZ by connecting with people."
Maria Alvarado (MA): My name is Maria; I am Spanish. At Mondelez, I am in charge of consumer insights and analytics. The way I would describe my role and that of my team is "to inspire growth for MDLZ by connecting with people". We work to understand the external world and how our brands and products fit in it. We're part of the Strategy function so that consumers – or people as I like to call them! – are at the heart of our business.
MA: Mindful snacking is about eating with intention and being more conscious about what and how much we are eating. When we observe consumer groups, it comes out very clearly that people feel better about the way they eat if they are not exclusively governed by the moment, the time, the motion. People can really feel really stressed over food. We find that they are at peace when they are aware of how and what they eat and they are making conscious decisions about it. It is that awareness and conscious decision-making process that makes the difference.
MA: We did some extensive research on people's eating and snacking habits, all over the world, from Europe to China and from Canada to South Africa. To do this we defined snacking very simply but it's always good to remind people because it's a concept that does not translate well across languages. Snacking is anything you eat between meals or in replacement of a meal.
The way you approach food depends on many factors. The first one is where you come from. Your country's culture affects greatly your relationship to food. For example, they may be neighbors but the French and the British have a completely different way of eating. On the other hand, while people in France and China eat very different foods, they actually have a very similar way of relating to food.
I'm Spanish so I was raised thinking that three square meals is a sacred rule. But in fact we also have 'merienda', an established afternoon snack time to hold you over until dinner. France has something very similar with 'gouter', and that moment also exists in Latin America, with the Argentinians taking 'merienda' nearly as the fourth meal. In most countries, you find similar small eating moments – in the mid-morning, mid-afternoon or after dinner – where snacking is part of the traditional way of eating.
But the way people eat and snack is also massively affected by some macro trends that we observe all around the world: a growing awareness of health, the scarcity of time driven by urbanization and changing family structures, and the fast rising living standards in emerging markets.
Take China, for example. Traditional Chinese eating behaviors didn't give a strong role to between meal eating or meal replacement, but urbanization and new lifestyles result in more people replacing breakfast or having a short break at work with a snack.
MA: What Mondelez can bring to the conversation on mindfulness is our expertise in snacking. We understand it really well: how people feel about snacking and about eating. Because you can't understand snacking without first understanding eating!
We understand what consumers are looking for when they snack, which varies widely based on who, when and where. We should provide snacking options for all occasions: for energy, for nutrition, for pleasure, for eating alone, for sharing… We should also offer snacking solutions for all kinds of people, from kids to people over 60. With those choices, people can make that conscious decision about what it is they want to eat and how they want to do so.
We can also do a lot with portion sizes. Packaging our products in portions that make sense for people really helps. For example, I'm a heavy user of our Belvita breakfast biscuits, and I love that they are in a pack of four. If it was a bigger pack, I would probably be tempted to go for another two. But since it's a four-biscuit pack, I would have to open another one and this is when I make the conscious, mindful decision not to do so.
MA: Be conscious, be aware! Cutting out a category of food is not the answer. It's all about balance. A little chocolate is okay. I know chocolate makes me happy! And happy people live longer!


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By Caroline Dobbing
A new report launched today focuses on the provision of HIV care and support in resource-poor countries.
Care and Support: The Forgotten Pillar of the HIV Response is published by the HIV Care and Support Initiative at the UK Consortium on AIDS and International Development, of which HelpAge International is a member.
The report also examines the need for care and support and its effect, and looks at the link between care and support and other elements of the HIV response.
Older people provide majority of care
The report identifies older people as primary carers in the global HIV response. It says:
"Older people provide the majority of care to their family members living with HIV and orphaned and vulnerable children. Providing care has a major impact on older people's lives, on their economic security, their health status and emotional wellbeing."
68-year-old Kufekisa Laugery is a subsistence farmer and has been a widow for 16 years. She is head of a household of six children and six adults. Five of these are HIV positive and two are getting anti-retroviral treatment. Kufekisa is also chair of the Senior Citizens' Association of Zambia, a HelpAge affiliate.
Kufekisa would like to see more support for older carers and the children in their care, as she explains in the report:
"I don't see how the much talked about universal access will be achieved without giving support to home-based care and primary care-givers, whose involvement can show the success or failure of such a programme.
"Carers should therefore be trained in proper care-giving skills...Cash transfer programmes should be scaled-up, shelter and sanitation improvement should be ongoing, carers must also be considered for food supplement programmes, and adequate health policy for older persons should be implemented. Educational support for these children who are in our care should also be scaled up."
A critical part of the global HIV response
The HIV Care and Support Initiative is a programme of work designed to help drive forward a vital yet neglected area of the global HIV response, which is critical to achieving the goal of Universal Access for people living with HIV.
The Initiative is primarily driven by the Care and Support Working Group, which includes Mike Podmore from International HIV/AIDS Alliance, Claire Morris from Help the Hospices and Rachel Albone from HelpAge International. VSO, CAFOD, World Vision, Target TB, Results UK, Tearfund, and The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund are also members.
A practical resource for professionals
Rachel Albone, HIV and AIDS Policy Advisor for HelpAge International says:
"Members of the HIV Care and Support Initiative hope that this report will serve as a useful, practical resource for health and development professionals working on HIV and related issues.
"The report clearly demonstrates why care and support are fundamental to a successful response to HIV, and to address broader health and international targets such as the Millennium Development Goals."
Download a copy of Care and Support: The Forgotten Pillar of the HIV Response.
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The two major resort locations are Poipu (referred to as the south shore or sunnyside), and Princeville (the north shore or often called the rainy side). I like to mix it up...stay in Poipu on one trip and the next time stay in Princeville. Here are two of my favorites.
Marriott's Waiohai Beach Club - Poipu
About the Resort
|Marriott's Waiohai Beach Club at night
AccommodationsThis 5-star resort lives up to its reputation. Your family can stretch out in the spacious, perfectly-appointed two-bedroom, two-bath villas. Features include: full kitchens, separate living and dining areas, master suite with king bed, and separate bath with oversized soaking tub and shower. There's room for more people in the guest suite with a king bed and double sofa bed, in addition to a queen sleeper sofa in the living room.
Favorite ActivitiesWaimea Canyon
I bet you thought there was only one Grand Canyon! Though Waimea Canyon is not quite as big as the one in Arizona, it's definitely not to be missed. Mark Twain called it "The Grand Canyon of the Pacific" and it truly is. You'll marvel at the panoramic vistas and land formations spreading over ten miles with canyons almost 4,000 feet deep. Drive there in your rental car, or take a half-day tour with a tour company. Along the way enjoy Hanapepe Lookout, Sprouting Horn, and the Poipu Resorts made famous in the Elvis Presley movie, Blue Hawaii. On other days, drive to Kauai's many popular beaches to snorkel and surf, and visit quaint towns like Old Koala Town or Hanapepe.
My favorite way to end the day is at world-famous Brennecke's Beach Broiler at Poipu Beach Park. Order a Mai Tai and watch a fabulous sunset at this casual, low-key restaurant. Then stick around for some of the best fresh fish dinners on the island.
What Travelers Say About Waiohai Beach ClubReview from RedWeek member tonjan:
"The Marriott Waiohai on Poipu beach is the BEST timeshare resort in all of Kauai. We also own the Marriott in Maui at the Ocean Club and I must admit that I prefer the Waiohai to the Maui resort. (Our teenage boys prefer this location too). They say the beach and the waves are much better than at Kaanapali. Its 5 star all the way. You can not beat the beach, the exploring locations and the gorgeous grounds. The timeshare is very spacious and has everything we could possibly need. If you want commercialized Hawaii-go to a different island. If you want pure beauty and lush tropical feel as you'd imagine Hawaii to be-this is the resort to be at and the island of choice! Mahalo!"
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Hanalei Bay Resort - Princeville
About the ResortThe Hanalei Bay Resort has a prime location on the north shore of Kauai, overlooking the sparkling waters of Hanalei Bay. The resort encompasses 22 acres of exotic landscaping with breathtaking views of the surrounding mountains and the Pacific Ocean. The spectacular sunsets of the north shore are like no other!
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Fodor's Travel has named Hanalei Bay Resort's pool one of the best in the U.S. Pool designers used the natural beauty of the area to show off the pool to its best advantage. Guests enjoy unsurpassed views of Hanalei Bay and the Napili Coast while swimming and lounging by the pool. The ocean views from the eight on-site tennis courts aren't too bad either! Be sure to check out the tennis pro shop. You can walk to the beach in about five minutes, but in case you over-extend yourself with all the water sports, there's also complimentary golf cart rides to and from the sand 24 hours a day.
AccommodationsAccommodations feature fully furnished one-, two- and three-bedroom villas with full kitchens. The two-bedroom sleeps up to eight people comfortably with a King bed in the master bedroom, two double beds in the second bedroom, and a Queen Murphy bed. It also has 2 bathrooms, a lanai, and an entertainment center.
Favorite ActivitiesAnother plus for this resort is the on-site concierge who can help you plan and
get started on any of the many adventures the area has to offer. The resort is located near surfing and snorkeling areas, horseback riding, golfing, great shopping, dining, and Hawaiian cultural activities.
Kayaking and Hiking
One of my favorite activities on this side of the island is kayaking. Kauai has the only navigable rivers in Hawaii and the Hanalai Bay area has many. You can spend a day meandering peacefully though the inland rivers, or for a more physical challenge try ocean kayaking. A 17-mile paddle along the ruggedly beautiful Napili Coast, at the base of 4,000-foot cliffs, is an exhilarating experience! You'll see whales, sea turtles, dolphins, and more.
If you still need more thrills, you can hike the Napili coastline. The Kalalau Trail which begins at Ke'e beach is rated 9 out of 10 for difficulty, but is well worth the effort. The trek takes you along the most breathtaking coast and valley scenery of the island.
What Travelers Say about Hanalai Bay ResortReview from RedWeek Member dennyw10
"We've owned HBR now for 10-years and stayed in the newly remodeled 2b/2b unit in March 2013. What an improvement the remodeled units make. The grounds, newly update pool have always been fantastic and the view looking out at Hanalei Bay is unbelievably beautiful. Truly this resort is on the right path. A great place to relax and enjoy paradise."
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No matter what side of the island or which resort you choose, you won't be disappointed. Kauai is truly a paradise, and the timeshare experience is the way to enjoy it! Let us hear from you - have you been to Kauai, and where do you like to stay?
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Kang Ha Neul went on scary diet to lose almost 20 lbs for Dongju movie
Don't try this at home, drama lovers! During a recent interview with MBC, actor Kang Ha Neul was brutally honest about his weight loss for his latest movie role. The handsome star explained that he was able to lose around 15 to 17 lbs after only eating one small meal a day. "I went on a diet for the movie Dongju. I lost about 15~17lbs. I ate one cup ramen a day," he said.
The 25-year-old celebrity is approximately 6 feet tall, and I highly doubt one coup of ramen was enough food to sustain him for an entire day. The Twenty star needs more food than people who are four or five feet tall on a daily basis, so this diet is almost incomprehensible! However, he is actually the first celebrity to admit he used the extreme ramen diet.
His movie Dongju:The Portrait of a Poet, which premieres in theaters on February 18, is a biopic about poet Yun Dong Jun. Yun. He faced imprisonment in Japan in the 1940s after being part of the Korean independence movement. Kang Ha Neul portrays the poet in the film.
Following many celebrity low-calorie, sweet potato, banana and now ramen diets, which healthy alternatives would you recommend stars eat three times a day to maintain their figures?
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28th to 29th March 2012
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Topics of the Conference cover all aspects of management of solid wastes, wastewater and atmospheric emissions. The 2011 Conference was attended by over 250 participants, and 85 papers were presented by authors from 14 countries.
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Las Vegas Professional Speaker, Ed Tate. Ed Tate is a successful trainer, author, international keynote speaker and executive known worldwide as "the speaker who energizes, educates and entertains."
Trainer. As a trainer, Ed launched his career with Career Track, formerly one of the largest seminar companies in the world, where he was frequently requested and booked for over 100 dates per year. Later, he became the Training Executive for the Denver Rocky Mountain News where he established a training department with over 27 programs and 1,100 employee-attendees each year. In 2001, Ed led a transition team to merge the 145-year-old "Rocky" with its 125-year-old rival, The Denver Post, in a deal that involved more than 5,000 people.
Author. As an author, Ed co-wrote Motivational Selling: Advice on selling effectively, staying motivated and being a peak sales producer. He was also a contributor to Stories Trainers Tell (2003, Jossey-Bass Pfeiffer) and The Seven Strategies of Master Presenters (2004, Career Press). Additionally, Ed co-produced the six-CD audio album, Speaking Secrets of the Champions and the four-CD audio album, Connect with Any Audience.
Toastmasters International Speaker. As a speaker, Ed is respected and sought after throughout the world. In the well-known Toastmasters world, Ed won the coveted Toastmasters International 2000 World Championship of Public Speaking, finishing ahead of 175,000 members from 70 countries. To date, he has spoken professionally in 46 states, 12 countries and on five continents.
Proven Business Leadership. Ed's success in business has spanned more than two decades. For 14 years, he was a successful national account executive selling over $500 million in products and services to corporations and entrepreneurs throughout the United States. He co-created two business units that produced over $1.25 billion in revenue.
Since 1998, Ed has been principal of Ed Tate & Associates, LLC, a professional development firm that provides keynote and endnote presentations and workshops, as well as in-person and do-it-yourself tools and expertise on Leadership, Executive Presentation Skills, The Challenges of Change, Management, and Sales Presentation Skills.
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I'm something of an environmentalist and also a data collector, so I was delighted when Microsoft Hohm announced the availability of a near-realtime power monitor for home use. Even though I participate in Seattle City Light's Green Power and Green up programs, it would be great to get detailed feedback on my home power consumption. Now it's easy to do; I got it running at my place in about an hour.
I shopped around, and the best deal was from Newegg: $249.98 + $1.99 shipping. You have to order two components:
- 1 x ($99.99) Blue Line Innovations BLI-28000 PowerCost Monitor (sensor and display)
- 1 x ($149.99) Blue Line Innovations BLI-31100 Wifi Gateway for PowerCost Monitor (wifi gateway)
The first is the sensor that you attach your power meter (plus a remote control-style display), and the second is the wifi gateway that connects to your home 802.11b wifi router.
After six days, the package arrived, and I immediately installed the PowerCost Monitor sensor on my house's power meter. Here's what it looks like:
PowerCost Monitor sensor attached to my house's power meter
The sensor arm optically tracks the spinning disk of the electromechanical power meter. I do wonder how well it will survive the wet Seattle winters. Build quality looks pretty good, so I'm optimistic.
Until last week's announcement, the only way to monitor power usage was with the display unit:
Blue Line Innovations BLI-28000 PowerCost Monitor
That's kind of cool, but what makes this product interesting is the new wifi gateway, which enables near-realtime data streaming to the Microsoft Hohm site.
PowerCost Monitor WiFi gateway
The wifi gateway is directly on the other side of the exterior wall from the PCM sensor, so hopefully range won't be a problem. It's placed right next to my wifi router, so signal strength is good. There's some setup business with a USB cable and the Blueline Innovations site, but it's painless. Once that's done, you can disconnect the wifi gateway from your computer, hopefully forever.
Once the gateway is connected to the network and synched with the sensor, you can get the current status of the wifi gateway by going to http://pcmwifi:
The PCM WiFi status page
The wifi gateway gets packets from the sensor every 30 seconds and sends them to the Microsoft Hohm site, where you can see your power usage in some nice near-realtime graphs. Here are the first few hours of data for my house:
Near-realtime power usage trace for the first day. Note the 60kW spike, an artifact from the sensor.
The graphs on the web site update automatically as new packets arrive. The 60kW spike is interesting, and unless there's a smelter in my basement that I don't know about, it's an artifact. The FAQ says:
If you see consistent spikes in your graphs throughout the day that do not seem to match what is happening with your electric consumption, it is possible that the sensor on your electric meter is misaligned. Realign it and tighten the hose clamp just enough so the sensor unit cannot move.
So, if I see more of these spikes, I may need to tweak the sensor position. But it hasn't happened since, so I'm chalking it up to shakeout.
Here are a few hours of data from a typical day:
I'm not sure what device is spiking my power usage to 4 kW, but I suspect the water heater. Or the refrigerator, which is an ancient 1980s-era model (
don't ask a Hotpoint CTF14ERC from 1981). It will be interesting to track down which devices produce the various signatures. Those high-frequency spikes between about 11:00 and noon are quite distinct. Here's a zoom on the spikes between 2:00 and 2:15:
I attended a Microsoft Research presentation a couple of years ago, in which they demonstrated a method for identifying appliances from the power consumption signal; it would be really cool if they could bring that kind of analysis to the Hohm site. I'd love to see these graphs partitioned by appliance: "This spike is from the refrigerator, and this one is from the hot tub…" (I don't have a hot tub.)
Another great feature would be a web service that we can query from custom applications. There is a mobile gateway at http://m.microsoft-hohm.com that gives you a nice near-realtime view of the last hour of data, but I'd enjoy writing an app that gives me a little more control.
Microsoft Hohm mobile page
Overall, I'm very happy with the Blueline / Microsoft offering and recommend it to environmentalist data geeks and energy-efficiency hawks everywhere. It's raining today, and data packets continue to stream, so it appears the Blueline folks thought of that.


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Connecting to the Past is a professional development program designed to support and improve the teaching of American history. Participation is open to teachers in grades four to eight in Ashland, Holmes, Wayne, and Medina Counties. Connecting to the Past combines the resources of the Tri-County Educational Service Center, the Ohio Historical Society, and the Ohio State University.
Connecting to the Past is funded by a U.S. Department of Education Teaching American History grant.
Each year, twenty-four teachers will participate in an Orientation seminar and three out of four offered content seminars. Participants will also take part in two historic site-based seminars, and attend a five-day Summer Institute at Ohio State University in Columbus.
The program content will revolve around three core themes:
- Peopling the New World: Immigration and Migration of Natives and Newcomers
- Creating the New Nation: The Revolution and Constitutional Development
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Connecting to the Past seminars feature engaging content-focused presentations from Ohio State's award-winning history faculty, as well as distinguished teachers and scholars from other colleges and universities.
At each seminar the Project Curator introduces participants to primary sources (such as letters, photos, maps, and documents) related to the core theme, along with ways to take these sources back to the classroom.
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WASHINGTON – Bender Arena at American University was generously packed for former Secretary of State Colin Powell's remarks Wednesday. The 74-year-old retired four-star general gave a one-hour talk at the behest of the Kennedy Political Union, and at its culmination, responded to inquiry regarding the pre-no-fly zone presence of Special Forces and CIA agents in the civil war-torn North African nation of Libya. Powell couched Barack Obama's metonymous statement that there would not be "boots on the ground" by suggesting that the group of elite American soldiers "on the ground" would only be indirectly involved in enabling insurrection against Gadhafi's regime.
A presidential finding leaked by various news outlets a few days after the enforcement of a United Nations no-fly zone over Libya evidences Obama's willingness to deploy America soldiers into Libya weeks before he would tell the American people on television that they would not have to count on "boots on the ground" being deployed into Libya.
If indeed there are flickers of democracy evident in the rage of Libyan family and friends of nonviolent protesters gunned by Gadhafi's heartless mercenaries, their encouragement by domestic players or foreign interlocutors is curious insofar as so many American public figures feel compelled to fan them solely under the aegis of Libya's self-determination and sovereignty.
Tyler Bass: "How are you, General? So recently White House Spokesman Jay Carney as well as Barack Obama himself have repeatedly underlined that there are, quote, 'no boots on the ground' in Libya, yet there are all these reports coming out of the New York Times and other publications –
Colin Powell: (Off mic) – the sound system is pointed that way – (off mic)
TB: "OK, then I'll talk more toward you. White House Spokesman Jay Carney –"
CP: "Yeah."
TB: "—has repeatedly said there are no boots on the ground in Libya. So has Barack Obama, but we have reports from the New York Times and other outlets saying in fact that there are, as well as CIA, which I guess is 'shoes on the ground,' right?
So why is – why is Barack Obama saying this? Why is Carney saying it? Or are they not aware, which I think is really unlikely? Or why are they saying it?"
CP: "They're obviously aware of what's going on, but what they meant by 'no boots on the ground' is that we were not – (off mic) –ground war – (off mic) – sending in our combat units – (off mic) – infantry or armor to fight these units on the ground, but to send in intelligence agents and –"
TB: "Or Special Forces."
CP: "—or Special Forces –"
CP: "—they are not going to be actively involved in fighting either the government or the rebels, but obviously it's a way of gathering intelligence and helping the rebels fight more effectively. So there may not be boots on the ground – (off mic) – shoes on the ground – (off mic) –
When Powell had approached the stage, long-time Code Pink Activist Medea Benjamin stood to extend a sign proclaiming him a war criminal. Many students booed her, and she was summarily shown out. Later that evening, I asked her why she had protested the general's presence. She replied, "Why did I walk on the stage with a sign that said 'Powell=War Criminal? I was in Baghdad the day Colin Powell got in front of the UN and made a raft of false accusations about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. That sealed the fate of millions of Iraqis who have suffered so much since the US invasion. Powell has the blood of countless Iraqis–as well as thousands of US soldiers–on his hands. He shouldn't be given huge honorariums for addressing college students; he should be an trial for war crimes."
In the same moments as he mused upon his teenage grandson's comfort with Twitter and other social media, for the "Arab world" in particular, Powell repeatedly celebrated the oncoming "information revolution" and the "infonuts" who have enabled it, lauding them for their willingness and ability to "get around the government systems."
Powell spent time reflecting on the privilege of office. He visibly enjoyed reminiscing in front of AU students about the trappings and perks of his former station. His face glowed as he described the process of walking up the red carpet to his ever-waiting 757 that accompanied him on every trip he took to foreign dignitaries and sovereign leaders. When a foot of his hit the bottom step, he said, one engine would turn on; when another hit the top step, the other engine would go on. Inside his private cabin, a steward would pull out a Diet Coke and, with the clink of the can hitting the surface of the table in front of him, the plane would roll. Half jokingly, he would admit that something was amiss that "they took [the plane] away." It was a theme that began early in the talk when he lightly mourned his loss of station, holding one hand higher than the other to indicate the psychological toll of settling back into a life of less authority, if more income.
In the early part of the previous decade, his wife, Alma, would browbeat the then former chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for even considering treating his new role at the State Department as if the command of a barrack. Powell would iterate that, upon seeing 500 State Department employees his first day as secretary, the department "was [his] infantry battalion" and that he "didn't know any other way" after having been so thoroughly inculcated into the military meme.
Along the way pulling up a decent Reagan vocal impression, Powell mused on the Soviets repeatedly and the ideological coaching the Soviets and he had received in the interest of hating each other. He recalled his meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev and how the Soviet Communist Party's final general secretary proceeded to lecture him at length at the series of reforms he had sought to put in place.
Gorbachev, relays Powell, looked at Powell's scowling face and wasn't convinced that Powell had bought his sales pitch. The then secretary general looked up and away from Powell and then returned his gaze, this time with a twinkle in his eye. Powell made a point of imitating Gorbachev's smirk at this juncture. "Thirty years," he said, "he had invested in this thing," the Cold War, and he didn't intend to lessen his condemnation of Soviet ideology on account of Gorbachev's claims he had impressed a newfound transparency upon the aging Communist regime.
Unconvinced by the full-throated advertisement of "glasnost" and proclaimed attempt at reconciliation, Powell dismissed the Soviet leader as another "commie." Gorbachev had countered that he had seen Powell's KGB file and insulted him on the basis of his simply having been a soldier only trained to fight.
Apparently not including former FBI Assistant Director John O'Neill or Counterterrorism Security Group Chair Richard Clarke in his proverbial "we," the former chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said, "We never thought anything like 9/11 could happen to us." Yet now implicating a direct foreign threat from Osama bin Laden, the general expressed his determination not to be afraid of "some clown hiding in a cave in Pakistan."
Latest posts by Ed Snowden (see all)
- Yes, Big Brother Is Watching You - Jun 1, 2013
- Former Congressman's Federal Corruption Trial Begins - May 10, 2013
- Kim Dotcom Accuses Federal Prosecutors of Conspiracy - May 10, 2013


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With the help of his girlfriend (Kathleen Starrie) and her family, he build the most amazing thing in their Edmonton backyard.
"I wanted to keep him occupied, not with my daughter necessarily. I wanted to keep him busy with something else," Starrie's mother Brigid Burton said with a laugh, "I didn't want Daniel to just be twiddling his thumbs while he's here in Canada so I thought, this needs to be something that's got some meat to it."
And so the construction began. The couple, along with help from Starrie's parents and even a friendly neighbour, spent five days building what you're about to see.
"It was a lot of work so, it's nice to actually have it there," he said, "It's been joked about that I have to sleep in it but, I don't think it'll be happening."
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Obstructive Sleep Apnea
By: Raj Kumar |
Individuals who are afflicted with sleep apnea repeatedly stop breathing during sleep, which occurs often for a minute or more, and many times each sleep time. This disorder can be caused either by complete blockage of the airway or by partial obstruction. Both of these causes may wake up a person who suffers from sleep apnea. The three types of sleep apnea are obstructive, mixed and central, and of these types, the most common is OSA or obstructive sleep apnea.
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Sleep Apnea Oxygen Mask
By: Ashley McAdams |
One of the most effective treatments for obstructive sleep apnea is the use of a CPAP, BiPAP, or APAP machine to force the airway to remain open and reduce apnea caused by collapsing tissue in the throat. This is achieved by forcing pressurized air down the airway to allow the patient to breathe easier in the event that tissue begins to obstruct the airway. This pressurized air is delivered through some form of mask or other apparatus that directs the pressurized air into the nose or mouth.
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Central Sleep Apnea Treatment
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The treatment of central sleep apnea depends upon the cause of the problem. If it is a result of another condition, for example, congestive heart failure, then the condition is treated. In this case, the physician would address the congestive heart failure and by doing so, it should take care of the central sleep apnea and the patient should not experience sleep apnea again.
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Complex Sleep Apnea
By: Ashley McAdams |
Sleep apnea can be caused by physical blockage of the airway, which is obstructive sleep apnea, or it can be caused by the brain's inability to properly control normal breathing, which is known as central sleep apnea. Both obstructive and central sleep apneas can occur for many different reasons, but when the causes for both obstructive and central sleep disease are experienced at the same time in a patient, it is called complex (mixed) sleep disease. Complex sleep disease is often a wide range of problems, often stemming from a previous, untreated apnea condition.
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Mixed Sleep Apnea
By: Ashley McAdams |
As the name implies, Mixed Sleep Apnea is the combination of the two types of sleep apnea Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) and Central Sleep Apnea (CSA). All three types of sleep apnea cause sleep deprivation and oxygen deprivation. Obstructive Sleep Apnea occurs because of an obstruction in the air passage while an individual is sleeping, this obstruction can be caused when a tissue in the upper throat collapse and causes air to become blocked and breath is temporarily stopped.
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Obstructive Sleep Apnea
By: Ashley McAdams |
There are three different types of sleep apnea: Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) which is the most common, Central Sleep Apnea (CSA), and Mixed Sleep Apnea. Individual's that are diagnosed with OSA repeatedly stop and start breathing during sleep. This repeated stopping and starting of an individual's breathing occurs when the throat muscles intermittently relax during sleep and block an individual's airway.
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Sleep Apnea Types
By: Ashley McAdams |
Sleep apnea is a sleep disorder defined as a disruption of breathing while asleep. Many people do not even realize they have this disease, but if left untreated sleep apnea can be life-threatening and lead to an increased risk of heart disease and stroke. The main effects of this are sleep deprivation and oxygen deprivation.
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Sleep Apnea History
By: Ashley McAdams |
Sleep apnea is a disorder defined as a pause of breathing while asleep. There are three types of sleep apnea. Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is the most common.
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Treat Sleep Apnea
By: Rico Kurniawan |
Sleep apnea is a common, but serious sleep disorder that occurs when a person's has one or more pauses in breathing or shallow breaths during the sleep. It can affect anyone at any age, even children. However, it is more likely to occur in men than women, and in people who are overweight or obese. Therefore, the proper treatment demands lifestyle changes, such as quitting smoking, losing weight, avoiding alcohol and medications that relax the central nervous system, as these factors increase the frequency and duration of breathing pauses in people with sleep apnea.
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Sleep Apnea 101
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Sleep Apnea is a serious sleep disorder that can be life threatening and at times fatal.
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Sleep Apnea FAQs
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Treating Sleep Apnea
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Sleep Apnea Face Masks
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When using a CPAP, BiPAP, or ASV/APAP machine, the patient is fitted with a face mask that forms an air-tight seal with the face, which, when pressurized from the attached machine, will allow air to be forced into the patient's airway, helping to reduce the effects of obstructive sleep apnea. There is a wide variety of masks to choose from, varying in size and fit, as well as several styles of masks that cater to individual needs.
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Sleep Apnea Breathing Mask
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When it comes to treating sleep apnea, there are few things as important as the breathing mask that you wear in conjunction with your CPAP, BiPAP, or APAP machine. This is because the comfort of the mask, as well as the functionality of the mask, could make or break the effectiveness of the treatment.
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Central Sleep Apnea Symptoms
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Central sleep apnea is not the most common form of sleep apnea that we all know of. This form of sleep apnea is caused by the brain. It basically does not send the right signals to tell the body to breathe while you are sleeping.
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General Motors executives were back on Capitol Hill on Thursday for another round of testimony before a Congressional subcommittee investigating the company's delays in addressing an ignition-switch defect that killed more than a dozen motorists.
At times, the proceedings took a more conciliatory tone than previous hearings.
CEO Mary Barra was joined for the first time by GM's chief counsel, Michael Millikin, along with Delphi Automotive CEO Rodney O'Neal and Kenneth Feinberg, a consultant GM has hired to run a victims-compensation fund.
Anton Valukas, who authored a report on GM's decade-long mishandling of the crisis, also testified Thursday before the Senate Consumer Protection subcommittee.
At times, the proceedings took a more conciliatory tone than previous hearings, with lawmakers taking turns praising Barra for her candor and efforts thus far to reverse the company's lax safety culture. But the senators also skewered Millikin and the GM legal department throughout the morning and early afternoon sessions.
Scroll down, and have a look at five key takeaways from the latest round of testimony.
GM Will Not Waive Bankruptcy Shield
In the most significant revelation of the day, Millikin said General Motors would not waive the liability shield provided by the company's 2009 bankruptcy.
"We will not," he said when asked point-blank about that question by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), a frequent critic of GM and its response to the ignition-switch problem, which has been tied to at least 13 deaths and 54 crashes.
Millikin said that General Motors would not waive the liability shield provided by the company's 2009 bankruptcy.
Blumenthal then pressed Millikin to unseal records from court cases that resulted in confidential settlements, and he responded again, "We will not." Blumenthal followed by asking Millikin to allow a group of employees fired in the wake of the Valukas report to waive confidentiality requirements that were part of their severance packages, and Millikin again rebuffed the congressman.
The exchange was day's most tense moment, and made it clear that GM's cooperation in aiding various probes of the ignition-switch issue only went so far.
Valukas: Accurate Or Not?
On a related bankruptcy note, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) asked Barra if she believed the 325-page report compiled by Valukas, which found pervasive "incompetence and neglect," was factual and accurate. She agreed. But that, of course, doesn't mean that General Motors would agree with the report's findings in court.
Asked if he would also agree the report was factually accurate, Millikin said, "I'm not familiar with that position in bankruptcy court." Pressed on the question, he later said his reluctance to make such a stipulation was "related to attorney client privilege."
The attorney-client-privilege answer was reminiscent of GM's response to NHTSA in a death inquiry related to a fatal accident in Texas.
The attorney-client-privilege answer was reminiscent of GM's response to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in a death inquiry related to a fatal accident in Texas (see picture below) since linked to the ignition-switch flaw.
The New York Times revealed Wednesday that GM cited attorney client privilege in its lack of response to that query. In three other death-inquiry responses, the company simply said, "GM opts not to respond." Based on public documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, the report cast further doubt on GM's forthrightness with NHTSA.
Asked about the report during testimony, Millikin said, "It was news to me."
GM Won't Support New Laws
Under the "new" GM, the company has emphasized placing safety at the forefront of its mission in its public-relations efforts. But Thursday, GM officials declined to support to stricter laws that would ostensibly prevent another safety-related fiasco and provide more transparency on traffic-fatality data.
Asked by Blumenthal whether she would support legislation that would criminalize the deliberate concealment of a safety defect, Barra deferred. Asked if she would support legislation that would make more data on fatal accidents available to the public, Barra said that GM supported efforts to make the NHTSA website "more useful" and add a vehicle-identification number database to the bill.
Finally, asked if she would support legislation that would mandate safety concerns being made public before lawsuits are sealed, Barra deferred, saying she would have to understand in greater detail.
Millikin Under Microscope
Barra has caught the wrath of Congress in previous hearings. It was Millikin's turn Thursday. Several members of the committee expressed disbelief that he was allowed to keep his job when GM parted ways with at least five members of its legal staff in the fallout of the Valukas report.
McCaskill asked Millikin, "I don't understand how you still have your job. ... Can you explain that to me?"
At one point, McCaskill asked Millikin, "I don't understand how you still have your job. ... Can you explain that to me?"
Millikin, who has been at General Motors for more than three decades and served as the company's top in-house lawyer since 2009, said he didn't learn about the ignition-switch defect until February 2014. Congressmen were incredulous at that statement.
McCaskill noted GM lawyers working under Millikin knew about the potential risk of punitive damages from a lawsuit in October 2010 and again in July 2011, then in April 2012 outside counsel had warned the GM legal department of potential liability related to the ignition switches. GM's legal department again new in of the possibility of punitive consequences following engineer Ray DeGeorgio's deposition in a Georgia lawsuit taken in April 2013.
"Once again, you were warned," McCaskill told Millikin. "... this is either gross negligence or gross incompetence on the part of a lawyer."
Details Emerge On Compensation Fund
Feinberg, the outside consultant who has run similar compensation funds after disasters like 9/11, the BP oil spill and the Boston Marathon bombings, shed more light on the criteria and rules for prospective claimants.
In an effort to head off a flood of frivolous claims, he said the first criteria for evaluating a potential claim is whether the airbags deployed. If they deployed, the prospective claims are not eligible for these funds.
Another key question about his fund is how victims of long-ago car crashes might offer proof their accident was caused by an ignition-switch flaw when records or the wreckage itself may be unavailable.
The fund will begin accepting claims Aug. 1 and receive them through Dec. 31.
He said his evidence threshold is "a lot less burdensome than if they have to go to court to prove their claim, I'll tell you that." Feinberg said there were a "menu of options" that included police reports, black boxes, insurance reports, warranty and maintenance reports and photographs.
The fund will begin accepting claims August 1 and receive them through December 31. Once a settlement offer has been issued from Feinberg's staff, claimants will have 90 days to decide whether to accept.
That timeframe was a point of contention later in the hearings, because Blumenthal said claimants may want to wait until the outcome of a Department of Justice investigation into GM's criminal liability in the ignition-switch crisis before deciding whether to accept an offer.


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EMA Announces Tour, Deluxe Edition
Past Life Martyred Saints iTunes deluxe features videos and bonus tracks
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EMA will hit the road again for a North American tour in support of her BNM'd Past Life Martyred Saints. On February 7, she'll release a deluxe edition of the album via iTunes, containing the videos for "California", "Milkman", and "Marked", the bonus track "To Leave With Love", and both the track and video for her cover of Nirvana's "Endless Nameless".
Below, after the tour dates, watch footage of EMA from this year's Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago.
03-01 San Francisco, CA - Rickshaw Stop
03-02 Los Angeles, CA - Natural History Museum
03-06 Denver, CO - Hi-Dive
03-08 Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry
03-09 Madison, WI - The Frequency
03-10 Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall
03-11 Cleveland, OH - Beachland Tavern
03-13 Toronto, Ontario - The Garrison
03-14 Montreal, Quebec - Il Motore
03-15 Boston, MA - Brighton Music Hall
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Thien Thao Hotel - Ho Chi Minh City
- Free WiFi
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Main amenities
- 40 smoke-free guestrooms
- Restaurant and bar/lounge
- Breakfast available
- Free childcare
- Airport shuttle
- 24-hour front desk
- Coffee/tea in a common area
- Air conditioning
- Daily housekeeping
- Car rentals on site
- Computer station
- Laundry service
- Free WiFi
For families
- Cribs/infant beds (surcharge)
- Babysitting or childcare
- Babysitting or childcare (free)
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
- Refrigerator
- Private bathroom
What's around
- Heart of Ho Chi Minh City
- Quoc Tu Pagoda - 12 min walk
- Museum of Traditional Vietnamese Medicine - 12 min walk
- Pham Ngu Lao Backpacker Area - 14 min walk
- Xa Loi Pagoda - 14 min walk
- The Most Holy Redeemer Saigon - 18 min walk
- Bui Vien Walking Street - 18 min walk
- Saigon Culinary Arts Centre - 18 min walk
- September 23 Park - 20 min walk
- Zen Plaza - 21 min walk
- Ear Nose Throat Hospital - 22 min walk
Thien Thao Hotel - Ho Chi Minh City
Hotel Info: 6823 2342from S$43
- Superior Room, 2 Twin Beds
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- Check-in time starts at 2 PM
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Travelling with others
- One child (6 years old and younger) stays free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding
- Free babysitting/childcare
- No pets or service animals allowed
- Free WiFi and wired Internet access in public areas
- Free WiFi and wired Internet access in rooms
- Airport shuttle (available on request) *
Other information
- Smoke-free property
- Resort fee included
In the hotel
- Buffet breakfast daily (surcharge)
- Restaurant
- Bar/lounge
- Room service (during limited hours)
- Coffee/tea in a common area
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Computer station
- 24-hour front desk
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Luggage storage
- Multilingual staff
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Elevator/lift
- Television in common areas
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
In the room
- Air conditioning
- Minibar
- Slippers
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Private bathroom
- Shower only
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- 42-inch LCD TV
- Premium TV channels
- Desk
- Free newspaper
- Free WiFi
- Refrigerator
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe
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Also known as
- Thien Thao
- Thien Thao Ho Chi Minh City
- Thien Thao Hotel
- Thien Thao Hotel Ho Chi Minh City
Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.
For transfers, guests must contact the property before arrival at the number on the booking confirmation.
Mandatory fees
The charges below are included in the total price displayed:
- Resort fee
Optional extras
Early check-in can be arranged for an extra charge of VND 600000 (subject to availability)
Late check-out can be arranged for an extra charge of VND 700000
Rollaway beds are available for VND 200000 per night
Buffet breakfast is offered for an extra charge of VND 105000 for adults and VND 63000 for children (approximately)
Cribs/Infant beds are available for VND 100000 per night
Airport shuttle service is offered for an extra charge of VND 399000 per vehicle (roundtrip)
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.
What's around Thien Thao Hotel - Ho Chi Minh City
- Heart of Ho Chi Minh City
- Quoc Tu Pagoda - 12 min walk
- Museum of Traditional Vietnamese Medicine - 12 min walk
- Pham Ngu Lao Backpacker Area - 14 min walk
- Xa Loi Pagoda - 14 min walk
- The Most Holy Redeemer Saigon - 18 min walk
- Bui Vien Walking Street - 18 min walk
- Saigon Culinary Arts Centre - 18 min walk
Getting around
- Ho Chi Minh City (SGN-Tan Son Nhat Intl.) - 23 min drive
- Saigon Railway Station - 19 min walk
- Airport shuttle (surcharge)
Recent reviews
Good 7.6 From 23 reviews
helpful staff and comfort room
Staff was quite helpful. All requests were responded promptly.
Hotel in great location with everything in walking distance, staff are friendly and helpful. Breakfast was average recommend going early before cold. Walls are not soundproof and we had a group staying in the next room who were very loud and hard to sleep with.
I booked the Deluxe Double Room on Hotels.com that was advertised as being 28 m² with city views and 1 King Bed. Upon checking in they tried to give me a room that was 20 m² with 2 single beds. I pointed out that was not the room I booked so they upgraded me to the "Suite" room which was 37 m² - big enough for me. The room smelled like cigarettes though but I was tired already and didn't want to push the issue further. At night, I had to get some work done, but the wifi speeds were less than 0.50 up and down. There's an ethernet port on the desk in the room, but it did not work. I was on the 7th floor which did not have a wifi router. I ran a cable down to the 6th floor's wifi router so I could get some work done. I had to change the DNS settings to use Google's in order to get internet access(18.104.22.168, 18.104.22.168). There's free tea in the room. I have not checked out the neighborhood yet, according to the other reviews it should be decent. Room Tip: If you can afford it, get the "Suite" room. Very spacious.
Was there 2 nights on a business trip in September 2015. Efficient booking through Hotels.com a few days before. The late check-in (announced before) went smooth; I even got an upgrade from a 'Suite' to the 'Studio'. The living room/kitchen was spacious, but the kitchen had hardly any equipment, just a micro-wave, but no cooker, no utensils – which didn't bother me as I didn't need a kitchen. Large fridge with freezer section. Small windows without much of view. Bedroom was fairly small, bathroom really small, but both were adequate. The first night the sheets showed stains, but no hairs or bugs. The second night the new sheets were OK. Bathroom and bathroom linen clean, no hairs, just plain average. Complete set of amenities. Two air-conditioners kept the rooms really cool (down to 21 degrees Celsius), and were not too noisy. Networked desktop computer in the living room, huge flat screen HD TV in the bedroom, WiFi everywhere, but weak and interrupted. The 'Studio' was on the top-floor (8th floor I believe), but the lift only goes to the floor below. Staff friendly and helpful (dragged my bags up and down the last floor), and fairly proficient in English. Breakfast good, mostly Asian fair, but excellent baguettes and fair coffee (for Vietnam). The location is OK, a bit far from the popular hang-outs in District 1, but still with plenty of restaurants, cafes, etc., around it, including several small grocery shops, some 24/7. Easy to get a taxi (and staff will help).
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San Diego region's leading stroke care provider
San Diego region's leading stroke care provider
Scripps is San Diego's leader in treatment and rehabilitation of patients who suffer a stroke. Across the region, specially trained Scripps doctors and teams use the latest technology and breakthrough procedures to treat the most serious stroke cases.
Our emergency physicians, neurologists, neurointerventional radiologists and neurosurgeons are among the area's best in providing life-saving stroke care — no matter when or where it is needed.
About stroke
About stroke
Excellence in stroke care
Excellence in stroke care
Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla was one of the first U.S. hospitals to be designated as a Comprehensive Stroke Center. Learn about our excellence in care at locations throughout San Diego.
Preventing stroke
Preventing stroke
Stroke is largely preventable. Learn about reducing your risk factors and Scripps stroke prevention and involvement in the community.
Stroke treatment
Stroke treatment
Receiving care at the first sign of stroke is critical. Learn about the advanced treatment options available at Scripps.
What causes a stroke?
Strokes occur when the oxygen-rich blood-flow through an artery to part of the brain is blocked or ruptures. Brain cells start to die within minutes without an oxygen supply. The location and size of the disruption in blood-flow will determine how many brain cells are affected.
Types of strokes
The two most common types of strokes involve blockage of oxygen-rich blood to brain cells, or damage to blood cells caused by a ruptured artery in the brain.
- Ischemic strokes are caused by blockage of a vessel in the brain. This blockage can occur in the artery supplying blood to the brain, or from a blood clot elsewhere in the body that travels to the brain.
- Hemorrhagic strokes can be caused by uncontrolled high blood pressure or aneurysms, which occur when part of the wall of a blood vessel weakens, bulges and bursts.
A condition similar to a stroke known as transient ischemic attack (TIA) occurs when the flow of oxygen-rich blood is only blocked for a short time and damage to brain cells is not permanent or lasting. A TIA is considered a strong warning signal that a stroke may occur at some later time unless a patient makes important lifestyle changes.
This could include taking medication to prevent blood clots from forming, as well as treating diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. Other effective preventative strategies include making changes in diet, exercise, alcohol and tobacco consumption.
Signs and symptoms of stroke
The symptoms for stroke can come on suddenly and include:
- Numbness or weakness on one side of the body.
- Confusion or difficulty speaking or understanding speech.
- Difficulty seeing with one or both eyes.
- Difficulty walking, dizziness or lack of coordination.
- Severe headache with no known cause.
Because strokes require rapid assessment and medical intervention, time is critical to prevent permanent brain damage, long-term disability and even death. Recognizing signs and taking action when someone is experiencing a stroke can be remembered through F.A.S.T. The acronym stands for:
- F ace drooping (one side of the person's face droops or is numb)
- A rm weakness (one arm of the person is weak, numb or doesn't move at all)
- S peech difficulty (the person slurs or can't form words)
- T ime to call 911 (if the person shows any of these symptoms)
Certified Comprehensive Stroke Center
Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla is among the first U.S. hospitals to earn the prestigious Comprehensive Stroke Center designation by The Joint Commission and the American Heart Association in 2012. Fewer than 100 hospitals nationally — and only two regionally — have received the certification. Discover some of the many reasons, including our experience and performance, that helped Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla receive recertification in 2015.
Learn about the advanced minimally invasive stroke care available at Scripps.
Scripps-wide excellence in stroke care
In addition to our Comprehensive Stroke Center at Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla, The Joint Commission has certified all Scripps hospitals equipped with an emergency room as Primary Stroke Centers.
Scripps primary stroke center hospitals are:
- Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas
- Scripps Mercy Hospital San Diego
- Scripps Mercy Hospital Chula Vista
From the moment a patient enters the emergency room, Scripps provides a full spectrum of care from comprehensive treatment, to recovery and rehabilitation.
Our physicians, nurses and other medical staff are specially trained to recognize the signs of stroke and provide immediate, expert care. Emergency room physicians, neurologists, neurosurgeons and neurointerventional radiologists quickly determine the nature of the stroke and provide proper treatment.
A multidisciplinary stroke rehabilitation team of physical, occupational and speech therapists, physicians, nurses and other rehabilitation professionals provide individualized care to help stroke patients return to independent living and activities.
The Rehabilitation Center at Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities for its inpatient rehabilitation programs, including specialty programs for stroke.
The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association has recognized all Scripps Hospitals with the Get With The Guidelines® – Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award. It is presented only to hospitals that have demonstrated sustained superior quality measures.
The Scripps system approach to stroke care is supported by a dedicated team of professionals working with patients and their families to set goals for recovery. To foster and encourage success, Scripps offers stroke rehabilitation programs that include recreational outings, support groups, work and home space evaluations, conditioning and more.
Stroke prevention and community involvement
From integrative medicine to controlling cholesterol and blood pressure, Scripps teams collaborate to offer health solutions designed to prevent strokes.
Scripps teams are also active in developing new ways to improve stroke care for patients countywide, regardless of where they are admitted. Outreach and education with local first responders (paramedics and emergency medical technicians), as well as collaboration with the American Stroke Association are just two examples of the many contributions Scripps teams are making in our local communities.
The creation by Scripps of a pre-hospital notification of stroke codes for regional first responders further aims to improve coordination, quick transport and treatment of stroke patients.
Through an agreement with emergency medical services (EMS) providers in San Diego County, when a stroke patient with signs of a large vessel blockage arrives at one of Scripps' primary stroke centers, a critical care transportation ambulance and nurse are dispatched to the hospital and remain on stand-by during the patient's clinical evaluation.
Scripps hospital locations providing stroke treatment
If you think you are having a stroke, please call 9-1-1.
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When a rumor starts circulating that Tara's boyfriend has been with one of the guy cheerleaders, the innuendo doesn't just hurt Tara. It marks the beginning of the end for three lifelong friends.
Tara's training for a marathon, but also running from her fear of abandonment from her father.
Whitney Blaire seems to have everything, but an empty mansion and absentee parents leave her looking for her own value in the wrong places.
And Pinkie has a compulsive need to mother everyone to make up for the mama she's never stopped missing.
Then the new girl arrives in school and Tara starts to feel things she's never felt for before for a girl. Can the girls' friendship survive when all the rules have changed? YA Fiction
I was lucky enough to win an ARC of this book a few months ago during Jeri Smith-Ready's Blogtoberfest.
The book is told from the alternating points of view of three best friends.
It started strong from Tara's POV. I was drawn into her relationship with Brent and with her friends Whitney Blaire and Pinkie. So I found it a little jarring that just when Tara's world is coming down around her we shifted to Whitney Blaire's POV, then Pinkie's.
Having said that ...once I got used to the three girls' very different personalities I enjoyed going back and forth between them. At one point in the book an event occurs and is told from Tara and then Whitney Blair's POV. It was interesting that they could see the same event so differently.
Although Tara's is the main story, Whitney Blaire and Pinkie each have story lines that help explain their actions and reactions to Tara's growing relationship with Riley, the new girl at school.
The girls personalities and experiences are different enough that I think that everyone will be able to have someone to relate to.
There are sexual situations in the book but they are not exploitive and are handled honestly.
Loved: Tara's inner strength and ability to accept herself and her choices even if it meant losing her friends. All three girls had well developed story lines that intersected nicely at the end.
The Cover is beautiful!
Nitpick: It takes a little while to get used to the very different personalties of the 3 girls. I wanted to know more about David (a friend of the girls and potential love interest for Whitney Blaire) and even Brent. I can't blame Alexandra Diaz for that one though - I don't think there would be room for anymore perspectives!
I give it a rating of 3.5 out 4. Definitely read it!
Alexandra Diaz is Part of the Class of 2K10. A group of debut authors of Middle Grade and YA fiction. Check out the rest of the group and release dates here: http://www.classof2k10.com/
Alexandra's website: http://www.alexandra-diaz.com/
Buy the book: Of All the Stupid Things
Friday, December 18, 2009
REVIEW: Of All The Stupid Things by Alexandra Diaz
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EXCLUSIVE: House Intel Committee Ramps Up Probe On Obama Unmasking
Over the next two weeks the House committee is expected to privately interview former U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power, who reportedly unmasked or identified as many as 260 Americans, primarily Trump campaign or transition officials.
Power was so aggressive in her efforts to unmask Trump aides, she asked U.S intelligence officials on nearly a daily basis to unmask or identify Trump officials who had passing contacts with foreign officials, according to a Fox News report on Sept. 20.
Power was trying to compile the information on behalf of other Obama intelligence officials, former U.S. Attorney Joseph DiGenova told TheDCNF. Her aggressive use of unmasking requests sends a very, very suspicious signal that she was working hand in glove with somebody to get information, he said.
The committee previously subpoenaed documents from Power, but the former Obama ambassador has voluntarily agreed to testify in private, according to congressional officials with knowledge of the committees activities.
The committee is also preparing to introduce a proposed legislative fix within the next few weeks to ban or extremely limit future unmasking of American citizens, the congressional officials said.
Were tempted to suggest a conspiracy here but its just liberals agreeing yet again that conservatives have hidden, evil motives, because modern liberals simply cant conceive of any other reason to disagree with the liberal consensus.
Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.


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The contributions of immigrants, indigenous peoples, and innovators to the way we eat and drink are often overlooked. The Pacific Food & Beverage Museum (PacFAB), a division of the nonprofit National Food & Beverage Foundation (NatFAB), showcases the work of those who have shaped, and continue to shape, our nation's cuisine and illustrates the rich culinary traditions of California, the American West, Pacific Rim, and beyond. Led by Director Tracey Mitchell, the Los Angeles-based PacFAB takes an expansive and inquisitive approach to its programs, examining the past, present, and future of food and drink. NatFAB's growing West Coast operations, the home of Nitty Grits Media, feature gallery exhibitions, curated dinners, mixology seminars, film, television, and radio development, and other programs.
The Pacific Food & Beverage Museum (PacFAB) has been offering culinary talks, mixology seminars, and curated dinners to the residents of Southern California since the summer of 2013. Now, PacFAB, also home to The Museum of the American Cocktail's (MOTAC) Los Angeles Collection, has a home of its own, in which showcases the work of those who have shaped, and continue to shape, our nation's cuisine and illustrate the rich culinary traditions of California, the American West, Pacific Rim, and beyond.
Led by President Philip Dobard, Director Tracey Mitchell, and Board Chairman Adam Fleischman, PacFAB operates a permanent gallery in the San Pedro district of Los Angeles. San Pedro, owing to its history as a US point of entry for immigrants from all over the world, is home to a rich and deeply textured culinary tapestry. Home to the Port of Los Angeles, the district continues to welcome newcomers from afar and to incorporate new traditions.
- Pacific Taste: Pacific Taste is an ongoing series of culinary talks and workshops hosted by the Pacific Food & Beverage Museum in venues across Southern California.
Where: 731 S. Pacific Ave., San Pedro CA 90731
Hours: Thursday through Sunday, 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM Closed Monday-Wednesday
Extended hours during San Pedro's monthly First Thursday Artwalk
Admission: Admission is by suggested donation.
Contact PacFAB: 657-204-2478


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F1: Sheet metal shed pliable.
F3: Shed completely removed and tied down (bolt pulled through).
F2: Why not?
F1: F0 if shed unanchored. F1 at most for any shed.
F2: Only a shed.
F3: Bent bolt, well constructed.
F3: Shed seems terribly aerodynamic.
F2/F3: Shed was "light" even though gone, and could have acted as a sail.
none: Can't rate shed damage. Fujita scale does not apply.
F3: Bolt pulled through eyelet of sheet-metal shed tie-down -- shed gone! However -- severe damage in immediate periphery.
F2: Shed anchored. Bolt pulled through anchor.
F2: Bolt with washer stripped! Wellanchored (but relatively light) structure removed.
F1: Tin shed.
F1: Sheds, even anchored, cannot withstand high winds.
F3: I don't know enough - just a guess.
F0: Flimsy building -- wouldn't take much to blow it over.
F4: Shed tied down well, gone.
F4: Winds around 150 mph.
F2: Sheet metal loading responsible for sheared bolt.
F3: Anchored better than houses.
F2: Small tin building only, despite anchoring.
F1: Minimal damage.
F3: High profile light structure, weakness between anchoring cable and anchor.
F2: Not sure of wall-frame connection.
F3: Lower F3. Well-anchored, but sheet-metal construction.
F2: Grazulis says barn removed = up to F2. Never more. Surrounding damage suggests F2-F3.
F3: Not held down but with cables.
F1: Metal sheds have a low weight to high wind ratio.
F0: Basically straight winds could blow it to pieces.
F4: Even with anchoring, building completely blown away.
F2: Shed = mobile home?
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One of us got an email from the group JONAH International directing us to their special Passover message. "With the holiday of Passover upon us and its important message of freedom," it reads,
we need help to free others from their own personal "mitzrayim" (slavery). Those coming to us for assistance desire to be free of sexual confusion. The only people in a position to help us are those who know and understand the important work we do. And that's you!! …
JONAH's mission of helping men, women and their families break free from the chains of sexual confusion, including unwanted homosexuality, links directly into our past liberation from Egypt. The upcoming Passover celebration reminds us of the aspirations and struggles of those who yearn for physical, psychological and spiritual freedom.
The group also touts the success of its recent Noble Man Weekend.
This a blog: snark is like air to us. I don't think I can be cute about this, though. I was raised to think of the Exodus as the defining story of liberation, and specifically Jewish liberation. Maybe my favorite part of the Seder is when we wish for the liberation of those Jews around the world still in need of freedom; my earliest Seder memories consist of my parents explaining to me about the condition of Soviet Jewry.
JONAH International is co-opting the joyful message of Passover for its own hateful purposes. It ought to be ashamed of itself.
Take Part In This Season Freedom! [Jonah International]


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Peter Jenkins
This individual is the author of the book and also the person who is on the walk across America.
Barbara Pennell
This individual decides at the end of the book to join the author on his journey across America.
Homer Davenport
This individual is described as "the greatest mountain man alive," and lives alone in the mountains.
Mary Elizabeth Oliver
This individual is a very pious and prays the entire time a tornado is striking the town.
Lemm Smith
This individual arrives at work intoxicated.
Oscar Winkler, a.k.a. Preacher
This individual only has nine fingers.
Frank, Jr.
This individual is out of work during most of the time in the book. This individual is aware of the bootlegging plot against the author.
Zack Oliver
This individual is the first in his family to complete high school and go on to college.
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Investigating drought – its causes, impacts, management
Curriculum areas: Environment, Geography
Years: 6–10
Key curriculum links: Time, Change and Continuity; Place; Space and Resources
In this unit of work, students explore the causes and effects of drought and whether drought can be managed, even eliminated.
Themes and topics include:
- what is drought?
- major droughts in Australia over time
- what causes drought in Australia?
- what impacts does drought have on Australia?
- how can drought be managed?
- Can we 'drought-proof' Australia? (PDF 2.0 MB)
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text: Responsibilities: Associate University Librarian for Facilities Planning and Management (AUL/FP&M) is responsible for capital space planning and facilities oversight for the University Libraries, and the development and management of library facilities on the New Brunswick/Piscataway campus. The AUL will serve as the Libraries ADA officer and liaison to the University's office of capital planning, and with facilities officers for the New Brunswick/Piscataway campus. Working with campus library directors in Camden and Newark, library faculty and staff, and with the university community, the AUL will endeavor to develop and maintain facilities that will meet the changing needs of our staff, librarians, and users. In addition, the AUL will assist the Associate University Librarian for Instructional and Research Services in developing public services programs for the University Libraries and the New Brunswick/Piscataway campus.


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- 1 cup quinoa
- 1 Persian cucumbers (aka mini seedless cucumbers)
- 1/2 an avocado
- 5 large asparagus stalks
- 1 tablespoon finely chopped shallots
- 1/2 lemon
- 1 1/2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- salt and pepper to taste
To prepare the quinoa:
Rinse the quinoa. Place 1 cup of quinoa into a pot and add 2 cups of water. Bring the water to a boil, cover, then let simmer for 15 to 20 minutes (until all the water is gone). Place quinoa in a bowl and put in the refrigerator to cool.
Steam asparagus, cool, and chop.
Chop cucumber, avocado, and shallots; add to quinoa along with asparagus.
Squeeze lemon juice, add olive oil, salt and pepper.
Mix and enjoy!
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In the earlier days of the web, we always published to our own web site. If you weren't happy with your web host, or they went out of business, you could move your files and your domain name, and nothing would break.
Today, most writing instead goes into a small number of centralized social networking sites, where you can't move your content, advertisements and fake news are everywhere, and if one of these sites fails, your content disappears from the internet. Too many sites have gone away and taken our posts and photos with them.
I want to encourage more independent writing. To do that, we need better tools that embrace microblogs and the advantages of the open web. We need to learn from the success and user experience of social networking, but applied to the full scope of the web.
Favorite perk ($10)
E-book + Micro.blog
PDF and ePub versions of the book, plus early access to Micro.blog. You can reserve your Micro.blog username even before the book is finished.