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Plaza España Skyline 401
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A few meters from one of the most representative squares of the capital of Madrid is the Plaza España Skyline building(by BeMate), a place with fantastic apartments, renovated in 2017 with all facilities and amenities, at the forefront of design and security, located in the heart of Madrid.
The Plaza España Skyline building (by BeMate) is equipped with a 24-hour reception to assist you throughout your stay and guarantee an outstanding experience. It has a waiting hall and a wonderful interior garden patio where you can enjoy moments of relaxation and recess. WIFI connection throughout the building, central heating, laundry services (iron under request) and large elevators complete the services of the building.
The apartment Doble Estándar 401 is a stay cozy, bright and quiet of 56 square meters, with air conditioning, facing the inner courtyard of the building in the room, and window on a quiet street in the living room. The apartment is decorated in modern style. It has capacity for up to 4 people, distributed in a room with a wide double bed of 180x200 or two beds of 90x200, Plus a splendid double sofa bed in the living room. The room has bed linen, desk and suite bathroom, equipped with shower, hairdryer, towels, soap and shampoo.
The living room and kitchen are integrated in the same wide and functional space. We are sure you would like to enjoy your stay, so you will have a great Smart TV of 40 inches, high speed WIFI connection and everything necessary to make your best dishes, with kitchen hob, multifunction microwave oven, refrigerator, kettle and Nespresso © coffee machine, toaster or dishwasher (Also juice squeezer and blender under request).
The Plaza España Skyline building (by BeMate) is located next to the Plaza de España, a few meters from the Debod Temple or the Royal Palace. In a quiet street framed by the most tourist and vibrant areas of the capital. In just a few minutes you can take a walk along the Gran Via and enjoy its theaters and tapas bars, or enjoy the magnificent sunsets in the Parque del Oeste.
- Capacity: 4
- Bedrooms: 1
- Bathrooms: 1
- Beds: 2
Included services
- Buzzer/Wireless intercom
- Elevator in Building
- Parking in the street
- Blender
- Coffee machine
- Cookware
- Dishwasher
- Dryer
- Fridge
- Hair dryer
- Iron
- Ironing board
- Juicer
- Kitchen
- Microwave
- Oven
- Toaster
- Washer
- Bathroom with shower
- Bed linen provided
- Towels
- Cot
- High chair
- Soap & Shampoo
- Air conditioning
- Fan
- Heating
- Family/Kid Friendly
- Internet
- Fire extinguisher
- Safety information
- Smoke detector
To make your stay as comfortable and as peaceful as you wish, we offer a series of on-demand services that you can purchase once your booking is accepted.
To purchase any of these services call at +34 915 947 106 or send us an email to firstname.lastname@example.com. Learn more
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House rules
"Early Check-in
- Free if availible
Late Check-out
- Between 12:00 and 17:00 30 €
Cot: 10€ per night
Parking: 20€/day
All these conditions are offered subject to availability and prior confirmation 24 hours before entry."
A credit card will be required along with the signing of an admission contract upon arrival to ensure the safety of both parties.
- Check-in 15:00
- Check-out 00:00
- Cancellation: 1 day If the Guest cancels at least 1 day before the check-in date, 100% of the Total Price will be refunded after deduction of the Be Mate Fees and any applicable taxes.
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Jilin, Wade-Giles romanization Chi-lin, conventional Kirin, sheng (province) of the Northeast region of China (formerly called Manchuria). It borders Russia to the east, North Korea to the southeast, the Chinese provinces of Liaoning to the south and Heilongjiang to the north, and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region to the west. The capital is Changchun, in the west-central part of the province. Area 72,200 square miles (187,000 square km). Pop. (2010) 27,462,297.
The province may be divided into three parts: the eastern mountains, the western plains, and a transitional zone of rolling hills between them. Elevation decreases from the highlands in the southeast toward the Northeast Plain in the northwestern part of the province. The mountains of eastern Jilin take the form of parallel ranges that are separated by broad valleys. The most famous of the ranges is the Changbai Mountains close to the Korean border. The eastern portion of the range is volcanic and includes the snow-covered Mount Baitou (or Jiangjun; Mount Paektu [or Paek] in Korean) massif on the border, which includes the highest peaks in both northeastern China and North Korea. The summit region encompasses a volcanic crater occupied by a lake; the highest point on the Chinese side is Baiyun Peak, at 8,829 feet (2,691 metres), while the Paektu high point on the Korean side reaches 9,022 feet (2,750 metres) above sea level. The Changbai range is the source of three important rivers: the Sungari (Songhua), the Yalu, and the Tumen. The middle section of the Northeast Plain forms the northwestern part of the province and constitutes three-eighths of its area. It has a rolling topography, with an average elevation of about 650 feet (200 metres).
The Yalu and Tumen rivers flow in opposite directions along the Sino-Korean border. The Yalu runs southwest to Korea Bay, the Tumen down the Changbai range northeastward to the Sea of Japan (East Sea). The two rivers are of great strategic importance, guarding the land approaches to northeastern China from the Korean peninsula. The Sungari River is the major stream of Jilin. It flows for almost 500 miles (800 km) within the province, draining an area of more than 30,000 square miles (78,000 square km). Its upper course runs northwest in a series of rapids through heavily forested mountains before it enters the Sungari Reservoir, a man-made lake. Emerging from the reservoir, the Sungari flows past Jilin city, situated at the head of navigation of the Sungari River and at the geographical centre of the province. The river enters the Northeast Plain and is shortly afterward joined by its chief tributary, the Nen River, which is in fact larger than the Sungari. It then turns sharply east to run along the boundary with Heilongjiang province for a short distance before it leaves Jilin province.
There are two main types of soil in the province: podzols in the eastern mountainous region and black earth in the western plains. The podzols occur in several forms and are of both high and low fertility. Central and western Jilin are the areas of the black earths of the Northeast Plain. Of high fertility and containing a high percentage of organic matter, they form good arable land. The young alluvial soils along the Sungari and its tributaries also provide excellent land for cultivation. In western Jilin are saline soils, alkaline soils, and high-alkaline soils of low agricultural value.
Jilin province forms a transitional climatic zone between the northern and southern portions of China's Northeast. The winter is cold and long, and rivers are frozen for about five months; the ice on the Sungari is thick enough to support mule carts. Changchun, near the centre of China's Northeast, has mean temperatures of 2 °F (−17 °C) for January and 74 °F (23 °C) for July. It has a mean annual precipitation of about 25 inches (630 mm), more than 80 percent of it during the five warm months from May to September. Precipitation increases southeastward to more than 40 inches (1,000 mm) in the Changbai Mountains area but decreases westward; the Northeast Plain receives only about 16 inches (400 mm).
Plant and animal life
The natural vegetation is prairie grass in the western plains and mixed conifer and broad-leaved deciduous forest in the eastern mountainous area. The vegetation in the eastern mountains includes tree species such as the Japanese red pine, Manchurian ash, fish-scale pine, larch, birch, oak, willow, elm, and the Manchurian walnut. In the deep mountain interior, virgin forest has been preserved. Tree types are distributed in distinct belts depending mainly on elevation: between 800 feet and 1,600 feet (245 and 490 metres) is the deciduous broad-leaved belt, mainly mountain willows and oaks; a mixed coniferous and broad-leaved forest is found between 1,600 feet and 3,000 feet (490 and 915) metres; between 3,000 feet and 5,900 feet (915 and 1,800 metres) there is coniferous forest; and mountain birch is found from 5,900 feet to 6,900 feet (1,800 to 2,100 metres).
Many valuable wild animals and medicinal plants are found in the forested mountain areas. The Manchurian hare, valued for its fur, and some species of rodent such as the rat hamster and the eastern field vole are believed to be peculiar to the Northeast forest. Among birds, finches, buteo hawks, needle-footed owls, black and white barriers, and certain species of flycatcher are typical. Among semiaquatic animals, the lungless newts are notable. Certain species of snakes, such as the Schrenk racer, found in the inhabited areas of the Northeast and Korea, live in a partially domesticated state and are used to eliminate harmful rodents in orchards and gardens. European wild boars, common hedgehogs, Asian red deer, harvest mice, and field mice are among the more common Eurasian species. Sikas (a type of deer) are prized for their antlers. Valuable pelts include fox, chipmunk, the light-coloured polecat, the Manchurian hare, and the sable. The sable population, however, has diminished considerably; sables are now protected, as are Siberian tigers.
Han (Chinese) predominate throughout the province, except in the Yianbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture that is contiguous with North Korea and has a large population of ethnic Koreans. Most of the Manchu (Man) live in the central part of the province, in the vicinity of Jilin and Siping municipalities; in addition, the Yitong Man Autonomous County was established in 1988 some 45 miles (70 km) south of Changchun. A few Hui (Chinese Muslims) are distributed in the cities and towns of the province, and some Mongolians are to be found in the Baicheng and Songyuan area in northwestern Jilin.
Agriculture and forestry
Jilin is a major producer of food crops, mainly rice, corn (maize), grain sorghum, millet, and beans. Most of the rice fields are in its eastern part, the Yianbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture being a noted rice-producing area of northern China. The most important commercial crops are sugar beets and tobacco, as well as flax, sunflower, and sesame.
In the upper Sungari River basin, timber production for construction and milling is a major economic activity. In the eastern sections of the province, much of the forestry activity centres on pulp and paper production. Ginseng root, found in the Changbai Mountains, is highly prized.
Resources and power
The major minerals of the province include coal, petroleum, natural gas, molybdenum, germanium, nickel, and gold. Coal is found in the southeast, near the Yalu River border with North Korea. Many smaller local mines also supply provincial needs. More recently, mineral water from the Changbai Mountains has been bottled and widely distributed.
The first major hydroelectric power installation, the Fengman station on the Sungari River southeast of Jilin, was built by the Japanese during World War II and rebuilt by the Soviets in the 1950s. Several more large hydroelectric projects have been undertaken since then in the eastern mountains.
Jilin is relatively highly industrialized and is a major producer of automobiles, chemicals, machine tools, power, and forest products. Originally a lumbering and food-processing centre, the province acquired a heavy industrial base during the Japanese occupation of 1931–45. It was a major beneficiary of Soviet investment in the mid-1950s, acquiring an automotive industry and metals and fabrication industries. Beginning in the 1960s the development of hydroelectric power in the province made possible the development of chemical and ferro-alloy industries. Most industry is concentrated in the two largest cities in the province—Changchun and Jilin.
Most of the municipalities and counties in the province have direct access to a rail line. The Sungari is the main artery of the inland navigation network. Its tributary the Huifa River and the Tumen River are both navigable by wooden vessels. The Yalu is navigable by steamers up to Yulin and by wooden vessels above that point. The highway network has regional centres at Changchun, Jilin, Yanji, and Tonghua; an express highway runs southwestward from Changchun to Shenyang in Liaoning and extends eastward to Jilin city. Changchun is the focus of the province's air travel, with connections to the major cities in China and some international routes.
Government and society
Constitutional framework
Jilin is divided administratively into one autonomous prefecture (zizhizhou), and eight prefecture-level municipalities (dijishi). The province is further divided into districts under municipality (shixiaqu), counties (xian)—some of which are autonomous counties (zizhixian) established for minority nationalities—and county-level municipalities (xianjishi).
Jilin's educational facilities are well developed, with more than 30 universities and other post-secondary institutions. Notable among these are Jilin University (founded 1946) and Northeast Normal University (1946), both in Changchun, and Yanbian University (1949) in Yanji. Overall literacy rates are significantly higher than the national average, as is the proportion of the population with at least a primary level education. Medical services are provided by hospitals and clinics staffed by medical workers, including doctors and practitioners of Chinese medicine.
Cultural life
As is the case in the other Chinese provinces, dozens of cultural centres, public libraries, and popular arts centres have been established in Jilin at the county level and below. Renowned local artistic and cultural heritages include a tradition of peasant drawings from Dongfeng county and a variety of folk dances from Jilin's Korean, Mongol, and Manchu minority groups. One of China's major film producers is based in Changchun, and the city was long hailed as the "cradle of new China's film industry." Changchun was the administrative centre of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo (Manzhouguo; 1932–45), and the former imperial place of the emperor Puyi is the site of the provincial museum and one of the city's main tourist attractions. Another unique attraction is the exhibit of stony meteorites in Jilin city that were collected from a spectacular meteorite shower in the area in 1976. Also significant are the capital cities and tombs of the ancient Koguryŏ kingdom near Tonghua in the southern corner of the province, which, with sites in neighbouring Liaoning province, collectively were designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2004.
In early modern times the Jilin region was inhabited by groups of steppe and forest dwellers and was at times loosely united politically by leaders who presented tribute of furs, ginseng, and pearls at the court of the Ming emperors of China. In the late 16th century the Hurka tribe dominated the region before being defeated by the Manchu leader Nurhachi. After the establishment of the Qing, or Manchu, dynasty in 1644, the region was at first directly administered by a military governor posted in the town of Jilin, and the region was thereafter referred to as Jilin.
Despite the Qing government policy of discouraging agricultural settlement in the Manchu homeland, large numbers of Han settlers from North China established farms in the region during the 18th century, a period of rapid population expansion in China proper. In 1799 the transition to an agricultural economy was officially recognized with the establishment of a prefectural government at Changchun to administer the new settlements. In the late 19th century, economic development accelerated in Jilin with the building of railways and industries processing agricultural products. This development encouraged a new influx of Chinese settlers and led to conflict between Russia and Japan over economic interests in the area.
Jilin was created a province of Manchuria in 1907, near the end of the Qing dynasty, and was occupied by the Japanese army in 1931. The province became a part of the puppet state of Manchukuo, with Jilin city as the provincial capital. Just before Japan's surrender to the Allies on Aug. 15, 1945, Soviet forces entered the region, dismantled key industrial installations, and removed them to the Soviet Union. Following the withdrawal of Soviet troops, Chinese Nationalists moved in, but by 1948 they had been driven out by Chinese communist forces.
Jilin province was subordinated under the Northeast Military Administrative Commission in 1950. In 1954 the province was enlarged through the addition of a strip of territory annexed from northern Liaoning (which at the time was part of the former Liaoxi province), including the cities of Siping, Liaoyuan, and Tonghua and a portion of Heilongjiang's steppe district near Baicheng. The capital of the province also moved from Jilin to Changchun in the same year. After 1954, with the abolition of the regional government, the province came under direct administration of the central government.Frank Andrew Leeming Victor C. Falkenheim The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — NASCAR star Jimmie Johnson and wife Chandra have a new baby daughter.
Chandra Johnson gave birth at 2:02 a.m. Friday at a Charlotte, N.C., hospital. The baby girl weighs 5 pounds, 10 ounces and was 19 inches long at birth.
Mother and baby and are doing fine and are expected to remain in the hospital overnight, according to an email from Johnson's publicist, Kristine Curley.
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When Matt Meese approached Jared Shores with an idea for a new sketch comedy series in 2011, Shores admits he had his doubts. But after watching Brigham Young University's Divine Comedy troupe perform on campus, BYUtv's creative producer saw potential for something new and humorous.
"I was expecting something completely different, something more hokey, more zoobie," Shores said. "To my surprise, it was very intelligent. They didn't hold back, which I thought was impressive. They were making fun of so many things on campus that I wanted to make fun of on campus. I thought, 'Oh, these guys aren't scared.' They had a sense of individualism that I hadn't seen."
Two years later, following countless hours of brainstorming, hard work and laughter, "Studio C" is thriving in its third season as it pokes fun at awkward, funny, scary and overall hilarious human experiences. The BYUtv sketch comedy series featuring Whitney Call, Mallory Everton, Jason Gray and Meese and other cast members recently released seasons one and two on DVD.
"We all came together on this same ground, recognizing we work well together, write well together and could make this a legitimate business that could carry out to a broader audience," Call said.
New sketches air each Monday at 8 p.m. on BYUtv. Full episodes from seasons one, two and three can also be viewed on byutv.org.
The show, which has nearly 60,000 likes on Facebook and 21.3 million views on its BYUtv YouTube Channel, aims to produce clean, family-oriented comedy for a national audience. As a result, it has been embraced by thousands of fans, including the Brad and Tara Poll family in Syracuse, Utah.
"It's the only show on TV that we watch together and anticipate the next week's episode. The kids love to laugh. 'Tomato bisque' is quoted daily, as is 'Balance restored!' " said Tara Poll, whose five young children consider the cast members to be superstar celebrities. "The show is funny — good, clean funny. I love having entertainment that is appropriate and fun for the entire family."
"At least one skit per show gets us laughing out loud," said husband Brad Poll.
That's exactly what Meese envisioned in the beginning.
"I was definitely hoping families would grab ahold of it and have this shared experience," Meese said. "My family grew up watching the 'Cosby Show.' I remember sitting in meetings thinking I want this to be like that, where families are quoting this years from now and laughing about it together. I'm excited that that seems to be happening."
While recently promoting their DVD, core cast members Everton, Call, Meese and Gray, as well as Shores, spoke with the Deseret News about the show and its success.
Deseret News: What is it like to be a BYUtv celebrity?
Mallory Everton: "The people you are close to in your life think you are still the same idiot as always. The weirdest is when I've been walking around with my family and I get recognized by somebody and they're like, 'Why do they even care about you at all?' They (my family) are kind about it, but I can tell they think it's hysterical. I don't feel like I deserve the attention."
Matt Meese: "I have to be more aware of the fact that maybe I don't look as well-kept as I need to. If someone takes a picture, that's going up (online) and oh, look, Matt's wearing his pajama pants in public again."
Jason Gray: "I like it when my mother-in-law comes to town and people stop me. I was going to be a dentist and obviously I didn't go that route, so she was probably a little disappointed. 'Oh my daughter married this actor.' But then she notices (the fans) and oh, this is like a legitimate deal. I think it brings her a little more pride and contentment with her son-in-law's career choice."
DN: Are you surprised by the show's success?
JG: "Yes, especially by families. We didn't set out to write this show that families would embrace. I thought college kids would like it, then maybe a few families, but it's really been families that have embraced the show."
ME: "It makes sense to me that we would get a strong response (from families) because there aren't a lot of people trying to do this sort of thing — comedy that is open to everyone. Pixar is a good example of an institution that has managed to have a really broad audience. It's very rare to find a comedy series or group that is trying to keep things broad like that. It makes sense, but still surprising."
DN: The "Studio C" cast is essentially made up of members of the 2011-12 cast of "Divine Comedy," so the cast is well acquainted. What do you remember about the first time you met each other?
JG: "I came down from BYU-Idaho and didn't know 'Divine Comedy' was such a big deal. I went in thinking it was a small club and was blown away because there was about 300 people watching auditions. I didn't make the group at first and I was really bummed. I was like, I'm going to go see a movie and forget about it. And no joke, I sit down in the theater and the whole group walks in. I thought, 'You have got to be kidding me!' "
DN: What has been the biggest challenge along the way?
Jared Shore: "It's been a different challenge each season. The show has three different elements: pre-production (writing, finding right individuals, prepping the technical aspects), production and post production (edit it all together, package it up, make sure it has a nice finish on the end to air). We've struggled early on in the aspect of how the organization of the show works. No one in the area had done a show like this before. No one had a lot of experience with comedy, let alone a sketch comedy show. Everyone is trying to figure out how to pull this thing off right. Right now we're prepping for the fourth season. We are constantly trying to think of new ideas. It's a juggle, even after you shoot something. Your work is never done."
ME: "I had a dream about us having a writer's meeting. You don't get to breathe a sigh of relief until it is done, because you can still add jokes in editing. Working on that many things at once can make you a little batty, but it's still cool."
JG: (Responding to a reference to the 2010 movie, "Inception") "I wish somebody would come plant some ideas for funny sketches in my mind."
DN: How are you able to come up with funny, clean material without resorting to crudeness?
Whitney Call: "We write things we laugh at. We started out making sure it was clean. In our campus group, it was geared more toward the experiences of our college audience, BYU and the culture in Provo. As soon as we took it to 'Studio C,' it became very clear, we wanted this to be a show where Mormons and non-Mormons alike could watch every sketch, understand every joke, and be able to share it with everyone they knew. At that point, it wasn't a struggle for us to make sure jokes were clean or kind because we had been raised on that kind of writing. Instead it was how can we make this person on the East Coast who doesn't even know what a Mormon is watch this and not feel like it's a niche humor kind of thing. It's been beneficial for us to see how many people we can reach. Matt has a friend whose brother is in prison and his favorite show is 'Studio C.' You know you are reaching a wide demographic if your grandma back home or someone in prison both can watch the same show and like it."
ME: "Our audience taught us to be clean. 'Divine Comedy' was great preparation for this. There are some jokes the audience doesn't like and if you go too far, there is an awkward feeling in the room, followed by the uncomfortable laugh. We learned early on we want to make people laugh and have a good time with no shame. Ultimately, we can't please everyone. It's definitely a balance, we try to follow our compasses and keep each other in check. Someone will always be offended, have problems with it, we can't do anything but what we feel good about. I imagine kids don't understand a lot of the jokes. We never feel like we are writing for kids, we are just trying to write stuff that if kids saw, their parents wouldn't make them leave the room. That's kind of the point."
MM: "I think kids love something they can watch with their family. Even if they don't get the joke, they hear their family laughing and they'll laugh too. They share the experience."
JG: (Laughing in response to not pleasing everyone) "It's like when Joseph Smith was playing with his kids and a guy left the church because he thought a prophet shouldn't have fun. I feel like there's people who say 'BYUtv shouldn't have fun, that's wrong, there should only be 'Little House On The Prairie.' "
DN: What is the best feedback or comment you have received from a viewer?
MM: "There was one family whose children wanted to attend a taping of 'Studio C' instead of taking a trip to Hawaii. The mother said no. But she requested a signed photo. We sent them some stuff and she filmed them opening it up. They freaked out and were really excited. That really made my day."
ME: "I got a personal Facebook message from someone on East Coast, a non-Mormon. This person had been watching the show and was impressed. Watching the show had changed his opinion of Mormons. I was like, 'Yeah!' That meant a lot to me to hear that someone was starting to feel that Mormons are more normal than they thought."
WC: "I got an email from a teenager in the church. She talked about how she could use the show to talk to people about the church, whereas before it was hard to talk about being Mormon. Seeing the show made her proud to talk to people. I thought that was really great to use that as a missionary tool."
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Happy Hour – May 6
It's another busy weekend here. I just shut the door behind J.P. Grant after hours of great conversation and drinking, although I'm not sure I sold him on NHL 11. Or, more to the point, I'm not sure NHL 11 sold itself to him. The bottom line is that J.P. was dropped into a game with a huge number of controls and almost no explanation of how the pieces are supposed to fit together. And honestly, there was no easy way for me to explain what he was supposed to be doing.
I'm still climbing NHL 11′s learning curve, and it took me several hours with it before I began feeling comfortable with the controls. This is not ideal for a game you're trying to show to a friend and a fellow hockey fan after several rounds.
If there were not so many damn menus and sliders, I would have liked to set up a game where we were locked to our positions, maybe wing and center or wing and wing. Instead, we just dived right into a game where controls kept passing to whoever had or was receiving the puck, or whoever was closest to the puck carrier. That is a jarring shift, especially when you're just trying to understand how to do something as simple as slap a pass across the ice. It also illustrates why I may never really outgrow Be a Pro: constant flipping between players just doesn't feel like hockey to me. It breaks up the flow of my game, and tears at the edges of the illusion. Hockey isn't like football, where you can break plays and positions apart. Hockey is too fluid
Anyway, this weekend is likely to involve more board games with friends, the Turkish Grand Prix, and some Mount and Blade: With Fire and Sword for a review. That doesn't leave much time for other gaming, or setting up the next 3MA, which I desperately need to do.
My Tuesday column for Gamers With Jobs struck a more reflective note as I try to figure out what I want to do with myself over these next few, crucial years. This week's Three Moves Ahead covers Revolution Under Siege, a surprisingly solid wargame about the Russian Civil War. And finally, I just saw that GamePro published a piece I did for an ongoing series in which writers advocate on behalf of their favorite series. Mine was, naturally enough, Civilization.


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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama applauded the return of federal workers Thursday after a 16-day government shutdown, calling for an end to the partisan rift that he said "inflicted completely unnecessary damage" on the U.S. economy.
Speaking at the White House hours after he signed legislation that reopened national parks and put federal inspectors back on the job, Obama called for a change in Washington's political climate.
"To all my friends in Congress, understand that how business is done in this town has to change because we've all got a lot of work to do on behalf of the American people and that includes the hard work of regaining their trust," Obama said. "There's no good reason why we can't govern responsibly, despite our differences, without lurching from manufactured crisis to manufactured crisis."
Still, he had a pointed message for the Republicans who had pushed to repeal his signature health care law in exchange for funding the government, saying, "You don't like a particular policy, or a particular president, then argue for your position. Go out there and win an election."
He called on Washington to "stop focusing on the lobbyists, and the bloggers, and the talking heads on radio and the professional activists who profit from conflict, and focus on what the majority of Americans sent us here to do."
He laid out three priorities: hammering out a long-range budget, overhauling the nation's immigration laws and passing a farm bill that has stalled amid deep partisan differences.
"Those are three specific things that would make a huge difference in our economy right now, and we could get them done by the end of the year — if our focus is on what's good for the American people," he said.
Compromise has long eluded the administration and Congress on a host of issues, but top budget negotiators met for breakfast Thursday, insisting this time would be different.
After all, said Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., top House Budget Committee Democrat, "not talking guarantees failure. Talking doesn't guarantee success, but if you don't get together, obviously, you can't move forward."
Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., the top Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, also sounded a note of cooperation: "There's a lot we can do, a number of things I know we can agree on and I hope we could agree on."
Democrats and Republicans disagree on spending levels for discretionary items, or items Congress can largely control. Republicans want to spend roughly $967 billion this year; Democrats are about $90 billion higher.
The last time the two parties tried long-range budget talks, in 2011, they went nowhere.
But Senate Budget Committee chairman Patty Murray, D-Wash., said the goals are attainable. "Our job is to make sure that we have put forward a spending cap and a budget path for this Congress in the next year or two, or further if we can," she said.
Advocates for a sweeping overhaul of the nation's immigration laws cheered Obama's remarks, but it's unclear whether the frayed relations between Senate Democrats and House Republicans will lead to a compromise on the issue.
The Democratic-led Senate passed legislation over the summer that would put the nation's 11 million undocumented residents on a path to citizenship. But many Republican House members oppose a sweeping overhaul and would prefer narrower bills that do not include a path to citizenship, which many liken to "amnesty" for people illegally in the country.
Likewise, there are huge differences between the two chambers over the farm bill. House and Senate members are poised begin work in a conference committee as early as next week to reconcile differences in farm legislation that each chamber passed.
The House bill contains nearly $40 billion in cuts over 10 years in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, known as the food stamps program. The program serves about 48 million low-income Americans. The House bill would cause about 3 million people to lose benefits.
The Senate bill, by contrast, seeks to cut only $4.5 billion in spending from food stamps. The House-Senate conference could be a raucous affair, with personalities like conservative Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, and blunt Rep. Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus.
The White House celebrated the opening of the government Thursday. Obama's chief of staff, Denis McDonough, greeted returning employees at the White House and Vice President Joe Biden delivered muffins and shook hands at the Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in downtown Washington.
But press secretary Jay Carney wouldn't say that Obama had won the fight though he succeeded in getting the government reopened and debt ceiling lifted with little change to the health care law.
"If that is winning, it is not worth winning," Carney said of the shutdown. "The harm that is done to the American people, the harm that's done to the American economy, he does not want that."
Carney didn't say whether Obama believed his own governing style needed work as well, but said Obama would continue to hold meetings and dinners with lawmakers, noting that the president "began his second term embracing the idea that more direct engagement with lawmakers of both parties was worth the effort."


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If you are like many privately held business owners, you regularly receive calls from people interested in buying your company. Many of these calls are from brokers or investment banks trying to generate new leads. Others are from private equity firms that are "testing the waters" to see if they get a response and that may or may not have real interest after reviewing the operations or financial results. Occasionally, however, serious interest from legitimate buyers or even an expression of interest or letter of intent can find its way into your hands even though you haven't put your company on the market. There are several factors driving strategic and private equity buyers to make unsolicited offers. It is reported that approximately $2 trillion of cash sits on the balance sheets of U.S. corporations, and balance sheets are at very healthy levels. During the severe downturn of 2008, corporations cut costs and since the recovery have operated with greater efficiency. This has allowed for margin expansion, record operating cash flows, and significant debt reduction. At the same time, interest rates remain at record lows, banks and finance companies are aggressive, and capital markets are favorable for acquisition financing. These factors, combined with slowing revenue growth opportunities, have led many corporate buyers to actively seek acquisition targets that fit their strategic criteria. In addition, private equity firms have several hundred billion dollars of equity on the sideline. Their investors are applying intense pressure to put equity to work in high quality transactions. Many private equity firms have a strategy of contacting entrepreneur-owned businesses that aren't "for sale" to generate proprietary deal flow and avoid an auction process. Reacting to unsolicited buyer interest When buyer interest is being evaluated, it will be important to know your objectives. What do you want to accomplish for yourself, management, employees and other stakeholders? How important are speed, valuation and certainty in determining your response? In addition to your objectives, market timing can influence if now is the right time for a sale transaction. Future financial performance of the business as well as industry and capital market conditions should be evaluated. Would value to a potential buyer be likely to increase or decrease for your business if a transaction is delayed by months, quarters or years? What to do when the offer is received If interest from a potential buyer seems legitimate, it will be important to get specific details in writing beyond just a purchase price. The total purchase price can take various forms including cash at closing, seller financing, equity reinvestment, earnouts, and stock of the buyer's company. Additional important specifics include the transaction timetable, approvals the buyer will need from key decision makers, financing and financial wherewithal, and due diligence requirements. An investment banker should be consulted when evaluating an inbound offer. These professionals can assist with one-on-one negotiations or advise whether approaching other buyers in a broader process would make sense. Even if the decision is made not to approach multiple buyers, investment bankers create the perception of competitive tension and availability of seller alternatives. Investment bankers understand the valuation approaches used by buyers and can help management build financial projections to support a stronger valuation. If, after initial negotiations, you plan to move forward with an inbound offer, it will be important to consult a team of additional professionals. Your attorney, accountant and wealth planner can provide valuable perspectives and help avoid pitfalls and surprises later in the process. In particular, an attorney can provide guidance on what is customary and what is unusual in negotiations. An accounting firm can analyze the tax implications of transaction structure and supplement your internal staff during due diligence when timely delivery of information is critical. A wealth management adviser can create a plan for investing the transaction proceeds. Market conditions continue to be attractive for owners of privately held businesses to consider a sale. If an inbound offer is received that is credible, consider your personal and professional objectives when evaluating a transaction, and know your network of advisors will be invaluable as you move through the process of closing the sale. 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Maggie Gyllenhaal & Peter Sarsgaard Welcome Daughter Gloria Ray
The actors became proud parents to their second daughter — congrats!
Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard welcomed a new baby girl, Gloria Ray, when she gave birth in New York on April 19, US Weekly reports.
The couple has been married for three years and have been together since 2002. The mom-of-two and her hubby, 41, already have a five-year-old daughter Ramona.
The 34-year-old mommy kept her second pregnancy under wraps until her second trimester.
"I find it difficult to pretend you're not pregnant, which I had to do. I didn't let anyone know until three and a half months this time. I went to film festivals. I'm throwing up in the bathroom and having to keep pretzels in my purse, and having to fit into dresses," she told USA Today.
Congratulations, Maggie & Peter! We can't wait to meet your little one!
HollywoodLifers, do you like the name Gloria Ray?
More Maggie Gyllenhaal News:
- Maggie Gyllenhaal & Peter Sarsgaard Are Having A Baby Girl
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In Defense of the Mosquito: 10 Things to Know About Summer's Biggest Annoyance
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Between the itching and the welts and the fears of West Nile, it's easy to forget that mosquitoes are a wonder of evolution, and maybe they don't really get a fair shake from us. Of over 3,000 known species, only 80 actually bite people, and at least one eats other mosquitoes for us. They grow from egg to adult in just five days, begin mating within minutes of hatching, and possess, by way of their stinging mouthparts, some of the coolest appendages in the animal kingdom. While I swat at them as much as the next guy, I think maybe it's time we sit down and give skeeters a little credit for all the wonderful weirdness they've got going on.
1. They're excellent bad weather flyers
The average raindrop is 50 times heavier than the average mosquito, yet they buzz around in the rain with no problems. If a Boeing 747 got whacked with a similarly scaled up raindrop, there'd be 2,375 tons of water coming down on it, and things probably wouldn't turn out as well as they do for the mosquito. How do they do it?
A common urban legend said that the bugs were nimble enough to dodge the drops. Last year, a team of engineers from the Georgia Institute of Technology watched real mosquitoes and styrofoam dummy mosquitoes with a high-speed camera during a rainy flight to see if that's what was really happening. They found that the bugs don't fly fast enough to dodge the drops, but their slowness is what keeps them from getting knocked out of the sky. A mosquito's low mass even at slow speed doesn't provide enough of a target for a raindrop to splash on collision. Instead, the drop just deforms, and doesn't transfer enough momentum to the mosquito to disrupt its flight.
2. They've got a big family, and lots of relatives down south
Over 3,000 species of mosquitoes have been described around the world. At least 150 of those are found in the United States, and 85 of those call Texas home, which makes the Lone Star State the mosquito capital of the USA.
3. Some of them are really dangerous...
The female mosquito, which is the one that stings and sucks blood, is an incredible transmitter of disease and, because of that, the deadliest animal in the world. Each year, the malaria they transmit kills 2 million to 3 million people and infects another 200 million or more. They also spread other pathogens like yellow fever, dengue fever, Rift Valley fever, Chikungunya virus and West Nile virus.
4. ...and some of them aren't
Not every species of mosquito sucks blood from people, and among those that do, not every one transmits disease. Even the blood suckers don't need to bite you for every meal. Males live entirely off of nectar and other plant fluids, and the females' diet is mostly plant-based, too. Most of the time, they only go after people when they're ready to reproduce, because blood contains lipids, proteins and nutrients needed for the production of eggs.
5. They're more useful than you'd think
When you're rubbing calamine lotion all over yourself, mosquitoes might not seem to serve any purpose but to annoy you, but many species play important ecological roles. The mosquitoes Aedes impiger and Aedes nigripes, which gather in thick clouds in Arctic Russia and Canada, are an important food source for migrating birds. Farther south, birds, insects, spiders, salamanders, lizards, frogs and fish also eat different mosquito species regularly. Plants need them, too, and some, like the blunt-leaved orchid and endangered monkeyface orchid, rely on mosquitoes as their primary pollinator.
Some mosquito species are also excellent at mosquito control. Species of the genus Toxorhynchites feed on the larvae and immature stages of other mosquitoes and will sometimes even cannibalize members of their own species.
6. They're amazing hunters
Mosquitoes are adept at picking up on the chemicals given off by their human hosts. They can detect the carbon dioxide in our breath, the 1-octen-3-ol in our breath and sweat, and other organic substances we produce with the 70+ types of odor and chemical receptors in their antennae. These receptors can pick up traces of chemicals from hundreds of feet away, and once the mosquito closes in, it tracks its meal chemically and also visually - and they're fond of people wearing dark colors.
7. They can be picky
If it seems like you're always covered head to toe by bites while people who were sitting right next to you only have one or two, it's not just paranoia; the skeeters actually are out to get you. Some people happen to give off more of the odors and compounds that mosquitoes find simply irresistible, while others emit less of those and more of the compounds that make them unattractive to mosquitoes - either by acting as repellents or by masking the compounds that mosquitoes would find attractive.
8. They have a heck of a kisser…
A mosquito doesn't simply sink its proboscis into your skin and start sucking. What you see sticking out of a mosquito's face is the labium, which sheaths the mouthparts that really do all the work. The labium bends back when a mosquito bites, allowing these other parts to pass through its tip and do their thing. The sharp, pointed mandibles and maxillae, which both come in pairs, are used to pierce the skin, and the hollow hypopharynx and the labrum are used to deliver saliva and draw blood, respectively.
9. …and some cool chemicals, too
The saliva that gets pumped out from the hypopharynx during a bite is necessary to get around our blood's tendency to clot. It contains a grab bag of chemicals that suppress vascular constriction, blood clotting and platelet aggregation, keeping our blood from clogging up the mosquitos' labrum and ruining their meal.
10. They can go out with a bang
Blood pressure makes a mosquito's meal easier by helping to fill its stomach faster, but urban legend says it can also lead to their doom. Story goes, you can flex a muscle close to the bite site or stretch your skin taut so the mosquito can't pull out its proboscis and your blood pressure will fill the bug until it bursts. The consensus among entomologists seems to be that this is bunk (you can see one guy try and fail here), but there is a more complicated way of blowing the bugs up. To make a blood bomb, you've got to sever the mosquito's ventral nerve cord, which transmits information about satiety. When it's cut, the cord can't tell the mosquito's brain that its stomach is full, so it'll keep feeding until it reaches critical mass. At least one researcher found that mosquitoes clueless about how full they were would keep sucking even after their guts had exploded, sending showers of blood spilling out of their blown out back end.


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ANTVibes Inc., a Waterloo, Ontario ICT Company, announced today the release of their mobile marketing innovation, the Audible Product Tag (APTTM). Audible Product Tags are an extension of ANTVibes' patent-pending technology designed to capture and deliver voice messages in an Audible Tag and shared through dedicated landing pages.
Audible Product Tags tap into the power of the human voice, adding a new dimension to point of purchase and mobile marketing campaigns. Using a standard smart phone, customers can access product information, celebrity endorsements, reviews and other supplementary product-related information on products. Audible Product Tags can be shared as web links or through 1D or 2D barcodes at the point of purchase and with image recognition technologies planned for the future.
"Audible Product Tags can provide a fresh new dimension to mobile marketing campaigns. We believe voice information has advantages over video or text heavy websites in mobile applications," said Vigen Nazarian, CEO of ANTVibes. "Because Audible Product Tags have a very small file size the information becomes highly accessible. Consumers can quickly download product information, listen to the voice message while standing in a store aisle and in less than 40 seconds make their purchasing decisions. We believe Audible Product Tags can help inform and engage consumers, drive buying behavior and allow brands create more engaging and memorable connections with their customers".
ANTVibes also announced today its first deployment of Audible Product Tags for a marketing campaign. "We are thrilled to welcome Versado Wines (www.versadowine.com), as our first partner for Audible Product Tags, and celebrate the launch of their use of the technology for sharing the voice of their vineyard (http://hear.vc/grz1hz) in Argentina," said Mr. Nazarian. "APTs are ideal for the wine industry, and we plan to use these audio clips to share our journey as winemakers — providing an emotional connection between consumers and our celebrated vineyard and wines," said Elena Galey-Pride of Winestains Communications, Versado's Ontario-based marketing consultant. "We are very pleased to adopt Audible Product Tags and its user friendly content management system." ANTVibes is currently in discussions with several other leading brands and retail distributors to showcase the effectiveness of the Audible Product Tags.
"Many companies use text and video information to engage consumers which works well on desktop and tablet devices, however, they are not ideal for smartphones and definitely not at the point of sale", said Mr. Jay Klesitz, CTO of ANTVibes.
According to Gartner Inc., worldwide mobile advertising revenue is forecast to reach $24.5 billion in 2016. "We have many exciting partnerships planned and are positioned to be the go-to company for the use of voice information in this space," said Sam Visaisouk, COO of ANTVibes. For the 86 million aging baby boomers APTs open a new avenue to access information and we believe Audible Tag technology will be the next driver in agile mobile marketing strategies."
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Tim McGraw Explores Dangers of Texting and Driving in Powerful 'Highway Don't Care' Video With Taylor Swift, Keith Urban
Tim McGraw's 'Highway Don't Care' video is like a mini-movie, which isn't surprising, since the singer has had plenty of big screen experience as an actor in full-length films. The clip acts as somewhat of a PSA to warn of the dangers of texting and driving. But it's not that simple.
The video features McGraw in full performance mode, playing a character. When he's singing, he's standing in the middle of the road, walking with a pensive look on his face. Taylor Swift also appears, singing her parts while slightly obscured by a sheer curtain. She has no interaction with McGraw. Neither does Keith Urban, who plays his guitar part while standing in his typical live stance and adopting a familiar posture.
The plot of the 'Highway Don't Care' video features a bereft girl, driving in her car and sobbing, texting and smashing the steering wheel while seated behind it. She is clearly too emotionally overwrought to be doing anything, much less operating a vehicle.
The cell phone proves to be a major issue, as the driver tosses it on her passenger seat and it lands on the floor. She tries to grab it and that's when she goes off the rails in more ways than one.
It's graphic, dramatic, and hard to watch.
Does she survive -- and what is McGraw's relationship to her in this song? He's not her father or her lover. That's all we'll tell you.
The images of Swift and Urban on the shattered glass spilled across the highway are cinematically beautiful.
The outward message of the 'Highway Don't Care' clip is "Don't text and drive," but the deeper meaning is to be careful out there on the road of life. It's dangerous.


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While I'm getting ready for my Afraid book tour (I'll be contacting all the people who emailed me about providing room and board very soon) I'm going to be hosting a few people on my blog.
Today, the wonderful Alison Kent is offering some free books, and some insight into self promotion. Her May release is called NO LIMITS.
The Heat is On...
Simon Baptiste's latest SG-5 mission just went south in a major way. With his career on ice for awhile, it seems like a good time to take care of some business back home in Louisiana. Simon knows it ain't going to be pretty. He's got some old enemies in Bayou Allain who won't exactly roll out the red carpet. But Simon's first night back is more than he bargained for. Not only has the homestead gone to hell in a hand basket, but there's a half-naked woman hiding inside it-a woman whose face Simon knows all too well. It's Michelina Ferrer, the sultry spokesmodel for her family's Ferrer fragrance empire-and Simon's been staring at her picture on a billboard outside his Manhattan apartment for weeks.
And It's Only Getting Hotter...
Micky Ferrer came down to Bayou Allain looking for her old college friend, only to discover that Lisa Landry has been missing for days. As soon as Micky starts asking questions around town, someone runs her car off the road. She's hiding out in the old Baptiste place when Simon shows up-and he's the hottest thing she's laid eyes on since she got to town. Simon agrees that something strange is going on and that Lisa's disappearance may be tied to it. As he and Micky search for answers, the sweltering heat makes it hard to keep their heads straight or their hands off each other.even as they unravel the small-town secrets that some people are willing to kill for.
There's an excerpt here: http://www.alisonkent.com/nolimits.php
Alison is giving away three copies to people with US mailing addresses. To enter, simply leave a comment in this blog entry saying you want it bad.
I shot Alison a few questions about self-promo, since that's a topic near and dear to my blog.
Joe: Thanks for giving away free copies of NO LIMITS. Can you save me some searching and tell me the page numbers of the naughty parts so I can read those first? Maybe a hot excerpt would be nice, too.
Alison: I'll tell you what my husband does with every box of my author copies that show up at the house. He pulls out the first one, holds it overhead in his right hand, flips through the pages with his thumb and stops. 95% of the time he hits a sex scene. And, no, there aren't that many sex scenes in the books; he just happens to have, uh, some sort of husbandly intuition about where the naughty parts are. ;)
Joe: Hmm. I wish I did. My wife is tired of me bringing that diagram into bed with us. What's your favorite scene in the book?
Alison: One of my favorite scenes in NO LIMITS, two, actually, are between characters other than the main ones. Lots of emotion that's not love involved, which made their story - and their sex - a lot of fun to write. If you really want a hot excerpt, I put one up here: http://is.gd/rBn7
Joe: That is pretty naughty. Maybe I should bring that to bed instead of the diagram. Your blog and website (www.alisonkent.com) get a lot of traffic. What have you done to make them so popular?
Alison: I've blabbed a lot, most of it without any sugar coating, and ended up in some kerfluffles because of not playing nice. I think readers like it when people tell it like it is. These days, I honestly don't blog a whole lot. A mixture of time and burn out. I blog at a couple of other places, and tend to pour all my thoughts there, leaving very little for my own blog. I started blogging in 2002 so I've written a whole lot of words. I've also given away a whole lot of stuff. Books, primarily. My own, but also those of other authors. Some the others have provided, some I've bought because I believe in them and want to spread the word. I love connecting with readers who share my tastes in books. Great fun to cuss and discuss.
Joe: Besides the Internet, what are some other ways you self-promote?
Alison: Uh, I don't. I don't do signings. I don't speak or teach, though I have in the past. I don't do bookmarks or gadgets either. I have bought ad space in RWA's RWR magazine, and on sites like RomancingTheBlog.com and Smart Bitches, and I'm a member of AccessRomance.com, but yeah, those are on the Internet, so never mind.
You have to remember, I started writing before Al Gore invented the Internetz so I've had a lot of years and 40 something published works with which to build my name. So these days, I rely on word of mouth, and get readers online involved, because I know if they like what I do, they'll spread the word in real time. Makes my job a lot easier. All I have to do is write.
Joe: What's next for Alison Kent?
Alison: In September I have a Texas Ranger Harlequin Blaze ONE GOOD MAN, and in December another Brava, WITH EXTREME PLEASURE. That one is the story of the guy in the naughty bits excerpt, King Trahan.
Joe: I'm going to my first Romantic Times Convention in Florida, April 22-25. Any advice for a newbie?
Alison: Have fun? I dunno. I've never been. RT is not my thing. I know authors who love it, and authors who swear they'll never go again. Knowing you, I'm sure you'll have a great time. ;)
Joe: I'm hoping to buy a new diagram...
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Saint Martin's University provides free parking within walking distance of campus facilities for students, staff, faculty, visitors and vendors. Parking in lots for faculty, staff and visitors is on a first-come, first-serve basis. The University issues permits for using its lots to accommodate vehicles driven to campus, and has established regulations for governing their use. By familiarizing yourself with these regulations and the accompanying map, you will avoid any unnecessary problems. Parking is permitted only in parking lots, and then only in marked spaces. Parking is not permitted on roadsides, driveways, pedestrian paths, on the grass or anywhere that is not specifically marked as a parking space. A good rule to follow is if it doesn't look like a parking stall, assume that it isn't. All parking permits are provided for faculty, staff, students, and visitors free of charge.
Visitor parking is available in these locations:
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- The upper lot next to the Abbey Church
- In the Hal and Inge Marcus Pavilion - Worthington Conference Center parking area, Lot Q
When parking in any other campus location, the visitor must obtain a visitor's parking permit. This permit, which must be placed on the vehicle's dashboard, will indicate the area where you may park and can be obtained from the visitor center/public safety office in Old Main, room 251. Saint Martin's faculty, staff, and students are not considered visitors on campus. Any visitor parking a vehicle registered on campus by members of the faculty, staff, or student, must abide by the rules and regulations of the University.
Saint Martin's University Office of Public Safety has created a Campus Parking Brochure that contains the official Saint Martin's University parking regulations as of July 1, 2010. These regulations are necessary for the safe and orderly conduct of University and Abbey business. Parking on Saint Martin's campus, or on property owned, leased, or contracted for University use by the board of trustees is a privilege and is subject to all Saint Martin's University parking regulations. Saint Martin's University is private property. It reserves the right to regulate all parking on its property, to establish parking and traffic regulations, and to provide penalties for violation of regulations. The University also reserves the right to tow vehicles immediately for violations such as blocking access, parking in fire lanes, and parking in disabled parking spaces.
Vehicles also may be ticketed for serious or repeated infractions in accordance with towing regulations posted at all campus entrances. Responsibility for enforcing Saint Martin's official parking and traffic regulations is the duty of the University's Office of Campus Safety and Security, as provided by the Saint Martin's Board of Trustees. Saint Martin's parking lots require a valid parking permit 24 hours a day, seven days a week. In addition, faculty, staff, or students parking a vehicle on University property must register the vehicle with the University's Office of Public Safety. These regulations provide information on how to acquire and use a parking permit, and how to register a vehicle.
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Vice President, Open Source Affairs, RedHat, Inc.
Michael Tiemann is a true open source software pioneer. His first major open source contributions included ports of and enhancements to GCC and GDB as well as the original authorship of the GNU C++ compiler, the world's first native-code C++ compiler. In 1989, Michael's technical successes and entreprenurial spirit led him to co-found Cygnus Solutions, the first company to provide commercial support for open source software. During his ten years at Cygnus, Michael contributed in a number of roles from President to hacker, helping to lead the company from a fledgling start-up to an admired open source leader.
Michael is now Red Hat's Vice President of Open Source Affairs. In this role, Michael integrates and informs technology and open source strategies for Red Hat and its strategic partners and customers in the public and private sectors. In addition to his responsibilities at Red Hat, Michael serves on a number of boards, including the Open Source Initiative (where he is also President), the eclipse.org project, and the GNOME Foundation. Michael also provides support to organizations that further the goals of software freedom, including the Free Software Foundation and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.


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Only in her chick-hood, "Onesy," a little red hen, survived the skunk attack that resulted in the death and disappearance of many of her sisters. But Onesy lost something in the middle-of-the-night skirmish: her right eye. Oh, it's in there somewhere on the side of her head, slightly visible after the horrible swelling went down behind a veil of regrown skin. But it would take surgery to liberate the eye, and who knows if such a second trauma would give her sight.
Onesy makes do by turning her head as she walks or flies, so she can see what she's walking or flying into. A chicken, you see, has limited frontal vision, but excellent side vision, thanks to two opposing eyes.
While Onesy has lost some of her abilities, she has gained an ally in me. She is my little friend. I hand-feed her every morning, as she cautiously avoids the popular feed pan, fearing that the older hens will peck her on her blind side. (The "pecking order" is the law in the hen house).
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Choosing to be above the fray, she flies up to the top of the trash can that stores the feed, sometimes falling if she miscalculates the landing. Then I pick her up and set her upon the lid. She makes no squawk, as she knows that my hands are trustworthy. Often, with the lid off the can, she eats in the privacy of the can itself. And she has grown. Once a runt compared to her three surviving sisters, she is now almost as large.
And today, at seven months of age, she laid her first little egg. A brown one, small, but golden-yolked. She is suddenly more accepted in the Sisterhood of the Hens of the Hen House, as she is finally performing her duty, paying her rent. Thus, the peckings will lessen, but still, and I'm so glad, I am her favorite "hen."
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LAS VEGAS — Back in December it hardly seemed possible that Dwane Casey would be standing here at Summer League with a smile on his face and his lightweight button-down shirt casually untucked, and most of all still as the coach of the Toronto Raptors.
This misbegotten big-market franchise with the redundant roster was floundering again, off to a 7-12 start, and the well-liked, but lame-duck Casey looked to be running out the clock on his three-year contract.
Then, on Dec. 8, new general manager Masai Ujiri, having built a reputation as a next-generation whiz, made the deal to send Rudy Gay and his massive contract to Sacramento for depth help in point guard Greivis Vasquez and forwards John Salmons, Patrick Patterson and Chuck Hayes. Around the same time, Knicks president James Dolan vetoed a trade that would have landed Raptors starting point guard Kyle Lowry in New York.
Suddenly, a feeling of stability overtook the team. They looked around, looked at themselves and liked what they saw. And everything changed.
"After the trade happened, I thought it brought our team together — camaraderie," said Casey, who signed a three-year contract extension in May. "They made the decision that we were not going to be a lottery team — I think that's what everybody expected — and we kept teaching them the principles of what we wanted to be doing and it just came together.
This wasn't a referendum on Gay, who went to have a surprisingly efficient offensive season with the Kings. Gay and DeRozan are friends off the court, but ill-fitting parts on it, and as the parts fit better and the floor opened up, the Raptors' offense, also buoyed by Lowry's uprising, took off.
"It was a fit," Casey said. "A lot of times you have talent and it doesn't fit. DeMar and Rudy were similar and Terrence Ross is sitting there, he's similar, so once you took all the pieces out it opened up things and we went from 29th, I think, in the league in assists to 16th or 17th. That really changed things for us. It helped us tremendously."
On Dec. 8, the Raptors ranked 30th in assists and 28th in offensive efficiency (101.4 points per 100 possessions). From Dec. 9 to the end of the season, they ranked 13th in assists and ninth in offensive efficiency (107.2). They went 41-22 after the Gay trade and played a rousing seven-game series in front of madhouse crowds, plus gatherings of 10,000 fans in Maple Leaf Square. It was truly one of the great scenes of the postseason.
And it was enough to convince Lowry to stay put, making him the rare Raptor to re-up when he had a chance to leave. He signed a four-year deal worth $48 million. Free agents Patterson and Vasquez also re-signed. Amir Johnson, Landry Fields, Jonas Valanciunas, Ross, Hayes and Tyler Hansbrough are all back, giving the Raptors a real sense of continuity in roster and process.
Toronto also traded Salmons to Atlanta for guard Lou Williams and intriguing developmental center Lucas Nogueria, and signed long, athletic wing James Johnson, who is coming off something of a breakout season with Memphis.
"I don't know if [Lowry] is the first player to be a free agent to re-sign that had an opportunity to leave, so that says something about what we're trying to do, where we are, trying to build," Casey said. "For the first time in his career he was able to say, 'this is a team that I'm one of the leaders of,' and for him to come back, it does make a statement of where we are in our growth process and the kind of program we have, and kind of opened some eyes to what kind of city Toronto is.
"The continuity is huge," Casey said. "You can just see it turning, guys are getting comfortable with the defensive system, the offensive system. We can be top 10 in both offense and defense. Now we just have to continue to do that."
The Raptors could get some votes as the team to beat in the Eastern Conference when the preseason predictions start to hit the newsstands. LeBron James' return to Cleveland has shaken up a conference that might boast a favorite in Chicago, but mostly has a handful of what should be entertaining squads, including Toronto, Cleveland, Washington, Indiana and perhaps Brooklyn and still Miami.
"There's opportunity for somebody to step up, it's so balanced right now from top to bottom," Casey said of the conference. "It gives us an opportunity to move up and take another step."
Back in December, that hardly seemed possible.


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SETI Head to Speak, Nov. 14, 2006
SOCORRO, N.M., Nov. 14, 2006 -- Ever wanted to have a conversation with ET? The head of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence program (SETI) speaks at New Mexico Tech on Monday, Nov. 20 on the prospects for doing exactly that.
Dr. Seth Shostak of SETI will address the question "When Will We Discover the Extraterrestrials?" The lecture is on Monday, Nov. 20, at 7 p.m. in Macey Center on the New Mexico Tech campus. It is free and open to the public.
According to Dr. Shostak, "The scientific hunt for extraterrestrial intelligence is now into its fifth decade, and we still haven't uncovered a confirmed peep from any cosmic company. Could this mean that finding aliens, even if they exist, is a project for the ages – one that might take centuries or longer?"
He plans to discuss new technologies being used in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). He maintains that there is good reason to expect that success might not be far off – that we might find evidence of sophisticated civilizations within a few decades.
The lecture is the Harlow Shapley Lecture, sponsored by the American Astronomical Society (AAS).The lectureship is a program of two day visits by professional astronomers to college campuses who bring the excitement of modern astronomy and astrophysics to colleges of all types. This is a well-known series and it is a feather in Tech's cap to have a Harlow Shapley lecturer come to campus.


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Well here it is, my first online, downloadable stitch kit! While I am away from my post I have designed something for you to print yourself onto lightweight calico, make up and embroider ... it is easy to print onto lightweight fabric and the effect is crisp and clear. I give full description and instructions for printing, making up and also how to make the little stand, though you could also thread the bird to hang up. I would love to see how you get on with this so let me see your results!
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Judge Sam Alito has served on the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals for 15 years, so he has an extensive record as an appellate judge. This distinguishes him not only from Harriet Miers, but also from John Roberts, whose brief tenure on the Court of Appeals produced only a handful of opinions. Over the coming weeks, Alito's many published opinions will be fodder for endless speculation as to how he might rule on various issues as a Supreme Court justice. So I thought it might be helpful for our non-lawyer readers to say a few words about the context in which discussion of Alito's judicial record will take place.
A good starting point is Alito's dissent in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 947 F.2d 682 (3d Cir. 1991), the case which has most often been mentioned by Alito's liberal critics. (Thanks to Patterico for the link.) The issue in Casey was the constitutionality of a Pennsylvania statute that placed certain restrictions on abortions, including a requirement that wives, in most cases, notify their husbands before getting an abortion. The 3rd Circuit majority upheld most aspects of the challenged statute, but held the requirement of spousal notice unconstitutional (a view that was ultimately upheld by the Supreme Court); Judge Alito dissented on that issue.
If you are an abortion opponent and read Alito's dissent, you will likely be disappointed. It is technical and dispassionate; the issue on which Alito differed with his colleagues was whether the notification requirement constituted an "undue burden" on the right to abortion, under the Supreme Court's jurisprudence as it then existed. The opinion conveys no hint of Alito's own views on the topic of abortion, or even of his opinion as to how (if at all) the Constitution should bear on the subject of abortion. Rather, and somewhat ironically, his dissent is an effort to follow the twists and turns of Justice O'Connor's various opinions on the topic of "undue burden," and apply them to the record before him. The most one can fairly say, I think, is that Judge Alito's dissent in Casey does not evince any reflexive hostility to restrictions on abortion, and does reflect what most conservatives would regard as an appropriate deference to the legislature's role as arbiter of public policy. Anyone looking for the sort of fiery language that sometimes enlivens, say, Janice Rogers Brown's opinions, will be disappointed.
A judge on the Court of Appeals, like a District Court judge, takes Supreme Court jurisprudence as he finds it. His opinion as to whether the Supreme Court's rulings are right or wrong is entirely irrelevant. His duty is to apply the relevant Supreme Court decisions to the case before him, as best he can. Thus, in an area like abortion where Supreme Court precedent is relatively plentiful, reading an appellate judge's opinions is like reading tea leaves: one is unlikely to pick up more than obscure hints as to the judge's own views.
This changes once a judge is appointed to the Supreme Court. As a Supreme Court justice, he is entitled to follow his own views on the proper interpretation of the Constitution and of federal statutes. He is not bound to follow the Court's past rulings as a Court of Appeals judge is; instead, he is constrained only by the looser concept of stare decisis, the doctrine that an issue, once decided, should ordinarily not be revisited. Stare decisis is a doctrine that, in principle, is approved of by both liberals and conservatives (historically, more so by conservatives). But everyone agrees there are occasions when the Court should deviate from the usual rule of fidelity to its own past decisions. The Court does, and should, overrule itself when it becomes convinced that an important issue has been wrongly decided. Where liberals and conservatives disagree is not on this principle, but on its application; they have different lists of "wrongly decided" cases. During Judge Alito's confirmation hearing, you will hear Democratic Senators ask for his views on stare decisis and try to lead him to pledge fealty to bulwarks of liberal jurisprudence like Roe v. Wade. But the liberals' enthusiasm for stare decisis is selective. In 2003, the Supreme Court held in Lawrence v. Texas that there is a constitutional right to commit acts of homosexual sodomy. In so ruling, the Court overturned Bowers v. Hardwick, which had held the opposite. And Bowers was not ancient history; it was decided in 1986. If any liberal objected to Lawrence on the ground of stare decisis, I missed it.
What everyone really wants to know about Judge Alito, or any nominee, is how he is likely to rule on a broad variety of issues once he is freed from the necessity of conforming to the Supreme Court's jurisprudence. Usually, of course, the question of overruling a prior decision won't arise. In the vast majority of cases, a justice's influence will be felt in the way he shapes the law going forward, on issues that have not yet been addressed by the Court.
For those reasons, the most helpful Alito opinions won't be found in well-trodden areas like abortion. Rather, what will be interesting is how Alito has ruled–and, equally important, what his reasoning processes have been–where there is no controlling or highly relevant Supreme Court precedent. It is when writing on a relatively blank slate (in law, the slate is rarely completely blank) that Alito, or any judge, will provide the most clues as to what sort of a Supreme Court justice he would be. Over the coming weeks, we will try to comment on any Alito decisions we come across that we think provide helpful insight.


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