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Alba Seleqtta, Lloret de Mar, Spain
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Alba Seleqtta, Lloret de Mar, Spain
- Family Room
- Standard Room
- Junior Suite Design
- Superior Room
- Superior Room (Family - Sea View or Pool View)
- Standard Single Room
- Junior Suite (2 Adults + 1 Child)
- Junior Suite (2 Adults + 2 Children)
- Junior Suite (3 Adults)
- Junior Suite (3 Adults + 1 Child)
- Junior Suite (4 Adults)
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What's around Alba Seleqtta, Lloret de Mar, Spain
- In Lloret Town Center
- Lloret de Mar Beach - 9 min walk
- Fenals Beach - 21 min walk
- Water World - 28 min walk
- Maritime Museum - 5 min walk
- Gran Casino Costa Brava - 5 min walk
- Parish Church of Sant Roma - 6 min walk
- Can Comadran - 7 min walk
Getting around
- Gerona (GRO-Costa Brava) - 24 min drive
- Blanes Station - 10 min drive
- Tordera Station - 14 min drive
- Malgrat de Mar Station - 16 min drive
About Alba Seleqtta, Lloret de Mar, Spain
At a glance
Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 176 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 9 floors
- Check-in time starts at 1 PM
- Check-out time is 10 AM
Required at check-in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
Travelling with others
- Pets allowed *
- Up to 11 lbs
- WiFi in public areas *
- WiFi and wired Internet access in rooms *
- Self parking *
Payment types at the property
Other information
- All-inclusive rates available
In the hotel
- Buffet breakfast daily (surcharge)
- Restaurant
- Bar/lounge
- Poolside bar
- Outdoor pool
- Children's pool
- Full-service spa
- Sauna
- Golfing nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Snorkeling nearby
- Arcade/game room
- Billiards or pool table
- 24-hour front desk
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Luggage storage
- Multilingual staff
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Elevator
- Designated smoking areas
- Rooftop terrace
- Garden
- Library
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
- Wheelchair-accessible path of travel
- Wheelchair-accessible parking
- English
- French
- German
- Italian
- Spanish
In the room
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Air conditioning
- Balcony
- Private bathroom
- Shower only
- Hair dryer
- 32-inch LCD TV
- Digital TV channels
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Phone
- Daily housekeeping
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
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Special features
All inclusive
All-inclusive room rates at Alba Seleqtta are available. These rates are higher because they include onsite food and beverages in the room rate (some restrictions may apply).
Food and beverages
- All buffet meals, snacks, and beverages included
Not included
- Surcharge for premium or imported alcoholic beverages
- Airport transfers
- Gratuities
Guests can indulge in a pampering treatment at the hotel's full-service spa. Services include massages and body treatments. The spa is equipped with a spa tub, a steam room, and Turkish bath/hammam. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including hydrotherapy.
DiningOnsite venue - This buffet restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Onsite venue #2 - This bar serves lunch only.
Alba Seleqtta, Lloret de Mar, Spain's small print
Also known as
- Alba Seleqtta
- Alba Seleqtta Hotel Lloret De Mar
- Sunrise Lloret De Mar
- Alba Seleqtta Hotel
- Alba Seleqtta Lloret de Mar
- Alba Seleqtta Hotel Lloret de Mar
- Alba Seleqtta Hotel
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- Alba Seleqtta Lloret de Mar
- Alba Seleqtta Hotel Lloret De Mar, Costa Brava, Spain
- Sunrise Hotel Costa Brava
- Sunrise Hotel Lloret De Mar
- Sunrise Lloret De Mar
- Sunrise Hotel Costa Brava
Cash transactions at this property cannot exceed EUR 2500, due to national regulations. For further details, please contact the property using information in the booking confirmation.
The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
Mandatory fees
You'll be asked to pay the following charges at check-in or check-out:
- A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 0.99 per person, per night, up to 7 nights. This tax does not apply to children under 17 years of age.
Optional extras
Self parking costs EUR 12.00 per day
Safes in guestrooms can be used for an extra charge
Buffet breakfast is offered for an extra charge of EUR 7 for adults and EUR 3.50 for children (approximately)
Pets are allowed for an extra charge of EUR 10 per pet, per day
WiFi is available in guestrooms for EUR 7 per day (rates may vary)
WiFi is available in public areas for EUR 7 per day (rates may vary)
Wired Internet access is available in guestrooms for EUR 7.00 per day (rates may vary)
We have included all charges provided to us by this property. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the unit you book.
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Recent reviews
Good 7.8 From 94 reviews
Hotel was ok. Don't expect too much and you will be fine.
The room was very small, with a very uncomfortable bed, and a thin door right by the elevator, letting in every sound. The terrace door was hanging by one hinge, with a view of city, not the beach or pool. There was plenty of food, but it lacked flavor. Common areas were nice, and family-oriented. The beach was nice, as were the coastal hiking trails and roads. Very commercial area right around the hotel, but beach access was easy. Not a hotel to which we would return.
Had a very good stay .food was of a high standard restaurant staff really helpful .pool it bit on small side but never overcrowded plenty of sun beds .
A nice hotel in a good position. Paid for upgrade to superior room and whilst very nice, it didn't seem any different to standard room. Also was All inclusive and they only ever have 1 person serving at AI end of the bar so queues can be long. Food good but not a lot of variation in the menu. Only other criticism is that they charge 35 euros to access Wifi for the week! Having said all that - it was an enjoyable stay in a good clean hotel.
Lovely staff in the restaurant. Excellent food selection and attentive, friendly staff. Clean rooms with lots of complimentary toiletries to choose from. Very clean hotel. This was my first solo trip abroad and o chose the hotel based on other reviews. I stayed by myself for the week and felt very safe in the hotel. The beach is a very short walk away (less than 5 minutes) and there's also a huge selection of touristy shops. I felt safe on the beach too, there's no 'lucky lucky men' that usually frequent such places trying to sell you stuff. My room was 210, the floor below where the evening entertainment's held. I did hear a fair bit of noise but it was all over by midnight most nights. I will definitely return to this hotel, and would recommend it to friends and family too.
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Francis was asked if he approved of the unilateral U.S. airstrikes on militants of the Islamic State group, who have captured swaths of northern and western Iraq and northeastern Syria and have forced minority Christians and others to either convert to Islam or flee their homes.
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Pope Francis smiles as he meets the media during an airborne press conference on his journey back to Rome from Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Aug. 18, 2014. Pope Francis wrapped up his first trip to Asia on Monday by challenging Koreans - from the North and the South - to reject the "mindset of suspicion and confrontation" that cloud their relations and instead find new ways to forge peace on the war-divided peninsula. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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Recently, the Vatican has been increasingly showing support for military intervention in Iraq, given that Christians are being directly targeted because of their faith and that Christian communities, which have existed for 2,000 years, have been emptied as a result of the extremists' onslaught.
The U.S. began launching airstrikes against IS fighters on Aug. 8, allowing Kurdish forces to fend off an advance on their regional capital of Irbil and to help tens of thousands of religious minorities escape.
When the Vatican's ambassador to Iraq, Monsignor Giorgio Lingua, was asked about the U.S. airstrikes, he told Vatican Radio that it was unfortunate that the situation had gotten to this point "but it's good when you're able to at the very least remove weapons from these people who have no scruples."
The Vatican's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, went further, saying "Maybe military action is necessary at this moment."
Church teaching allows for "just wars," when military force can be morally justified under certain circumstances. The four main criteria, all of which must be met, include that the damage inflicted by the aggressor must be "lasting, grave and certain," that all other means haven't worked, that there must be real prospects for success and that the intervention must not produce results that are worse than the original evil. Finally, church teaching holds that the responsibility for determining if the four conditions have been met rests with the judgment of "those who have responsibility for the common good."
Francis was thus essentially applying church teaching on the "just war" doctrine to the Iraq situation.
But, he said, in history, such "excuses" to stop an unjust aggression have been used by world powers to justify a "war of conquest" in which an entire people have been taken over.
"One nation alone cannot judge how you stop this, how you stop an unjust aggressor," he said, apparently referring to the United States. "After World War II, the idea of the United Nations came about: It's there that you must discuss 'Is there an unjust aggression? It seems so. How should we stop it?' Just this. Nothing more."
Francis sent a personal envoy, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, to northern Iraq last week with an undisclosed amount of money to help people in flight and show the pope's solidarity with those forced to flee their homes.
In other comments Monday:
—Francis confirmed he hoped to travel to the United States in September 2015 for a possible three-city tour: to attend a family rally in Philadelphia and to address Congress in Washington and the United Nations in New York. He said a Mexico stop on that trip was possible but not decided yet. He also said he might make one-day visit to Spain next year.
—Francis said he would go "tomorrow!" to China and that he wanted a dialogue with Beijing. He said all the Catholic Church wanted was to be able to operate freely in the country.
— Francis acknowledged that he "must be smarter" about over-extending himself after he was forced to cancel some appointments in the spring due to illness. He said the last time he took a vacation away from home was in 1975. "I'm very attached to my home," he said, saying he takes "staycations" instead. "I change my daily rhythm, I sleep more, read more things that I like, listen to music, pray more. And in that way, I rest."
— Francis said he was hoping for a quick beatification for slain Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero, saying there were no more doctrinal issues blocking the process for one of the heroes of the liberation theology movement in Latin America. Romero's case had been held up for decades in the Vatican's orthodoxy office which, under then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, launched a crackdown on the movement in the 1980s over concerns about its Marxist excesses.
—Francis refused to brand as a failure his high-profile June peace prayer at the Vatican with the Israeli and Palestinian presidents, even though weeks of violence erupted soon thereafter. Francis noted that the prayer initiative came from the two leaders, not him, and was designed to show that while there can be a political path for negotiation, there was also a separate path for prayer. "Now, the smoke of bombs, of war, isn't letting them see the door, but the door has been open since that moment," he said.
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Fresh off his turn as Justin Hammer in "Iron Man 2," Sam Rockwell will again play the heavy, this time giving chase to Jonah Hill.
Rockwell will play a drug dealer in "The Sitter," which is being directed by David Gordon Green and has been described as a gender flip on "Adventures in Babysitting."
In "The Sitter" Hill plays a college dropout who agrees to watch three kids for a night. But moron that he is, he brings the tots along to when he goes to buy drugs--for a girl, of course. When the deal goes pear-shaped, Rockwell and his business partner, played by JB Smoove of "Curb Your Enthusiasm," hightail across New York City in pursuit of Hill and his charges.
Rockwell can next be seen Oct. 15 opposite Hilary Swank in "Conviction," based on the real-life story of Betty Ann Walters, who put herself through law school to get her brother's murder conviction overturned. Rockwell recently finished shooting "Cowboy & Aliens" with his "IR2" director Jon Favreau, which is due out July 29, just two weeks after "The Sitter."


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NEW YORK -- Phil Hughes can become a free agent after the season and he certainly might benefit from leaving Yankee Stadium behind. A flyball pitcher in the wrong ballpark for that, Hughes gave up three home runs to the slumping Minnesota Twins in their 4-1 victory over the New York Yankees on Saturday. Trevor Plouffe, Ryan Doumit and Pedro Florimon connected against Hughes -- all on 2-2 pitches with one out. Plouffe sent a legit drive to left-center, but the other two balls probably wouldn't have left any other ballpark in the majors. "I have a straight fastball, a four-seamer, that when I miss over the plate with it, it leads to flyballs. I just have to concentrate on location, and it comes down to execution," Hughes said. Samuel Deduno pitched seven impressive innings for the Twins, who finally figured out a way to beat New York. Minnesota snapped a six-game losing streak with its second victory in 14 games, winning for the first time in six meetings with the Yankees this year. New York won 32 of the previous 39 matchups, including a pair of playoff sweeps. "It's frustrating," Hughes said. "I've felt good with my stuff over the last three or four starts. There's just one or two mistakes that I have to stay away from." Beaten by Hughes earlier this month, Deduno (5-4) scattered six hits in his first start at Yankee Stadium. He struck out three, walked three and matched the longest outing of his career. The Yankees, who swept four games in Minnesota from July 1-4, had won three straight and nine of 12. "Deduno was tough on us," manager Joe Girardi said. "He has a very good changeup and has given us trouble in the past." Hughes (4-9) tied a career high with 10 strikeouts in 7 1-3 innings but gave up three homers in a game for the second time this season. He has allowed 18 long balls in as many starts. The 27-year-old right-hander has the lowest groundball-to-flyball ratio of any starter in the majors. He has served up 53 homers the past two seasons, second-most in the big leagues behind Ervin Santana (55). "I thought it was some of the better stuff he's had all year," Girardi said. "I think he threw the ball exceptionally well except for a few mistakes." Casey Fien pitched a scoreless eighth and All-Star closer Glen Perkins, making his first appearance in a week, got three outs for his 21st save in 23 chances. "Exciting baseball game," said Twins manager Ron Gardenhire, ejected in the eighth for arguing a call at first base. "That was needed. It's been a tough go here to get a win, so to see the guys smile again is very exciting." About 13 hours after the Yankees finished a rain-delayed shutout Friday night, the teams were back on the field. New York jumped on top in the first inning when Ichiro Suzuki doubled and scored on Robinson Cano's single. Deduno got Vernon Wells to ground into an inning-ending double play and settled in from there. The right-hander, who pitched the Dominican Republic to the World Baseball Classic championship in March, received some help when Doumit caught Zoilo Almonte stealing second with a runner on third to end the fourth. Deduno struck out Suzuki with two on to finish the fifth and worked around a one-out double in the seventh. Plouffe tied it in the second and Doumit put the Twins ahead in the seventh with a line drive to right. "That's a single at Target Field. It might be an L-9," Doumit said, referring to Minnesota's pitcher-friendly home. "This is a great place to hit." Girardi was well aware of that. "A lot of places that's not a homer but we've taken advantage of that, too," he said. Gardenhire was tossed by plate umpire Vic Carapazza in the eighth after Clete Thomas and was called out for interference when Hughes' throw to first hit him in the back and bounced away. Aaron Hicks, who opened the inning with a bunt single, was sent back to first base. Florimon followed with his fifth home run, a high fly that cleared the short porch in right to make it 4-1. NOTES: LHP CC Sabathia (9-7, 3.99 ERA) pitches New York's final game before the All-Star break Sunday against Twins RHP Kyle Gibson (1-2, 7.27), who will make his fourth big league start. Sabathia is 11-0 with a 2.01 ERA in his last 12 starts against Minnesota, including the postseason, since Aug. 3, 2007. ... Alex Rodriguez (hip surgery) was scheduled to play one game in a doubleheader for Class-A Tampa. ... The Yankees wore camouflage caps, with a camouflage pattern inside the numbers and logos on their uniforms, on Military Appreciation Day. ... Injured SS Derek Jeter (strained quadriceps) stayed home with a stomach bug but is expected back at the ballpark Sunday, Girardi said. ... There was a moment of silence before the game on the third anniversary of former owner George Steinbrenner's death.
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It seems every time I turn the TV to a national news channel, someone is talking about how drastic the spending cuts will be if the fiscal cliff goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2013. I have always wondered what that reduction in spending would be, and I ran across a study from the Congressional Research Service (CRS) on the economic effect of these cuts and tax increases.
For FY2013, CRS estimates the total reduction in the deficit would be $607 billion. In broad strokes, this comprises total tax increases of $399 billion, spending reductions of $102 billion and $105 billion in other changes not associated with policy changes.
Of the $102 billion in spending cuts, only $65 billion is associated with automatic spending cuts. Most of the other cuts relate to reductions in unemployment insurance.
Since only $65 billion relates to direct spending cuts, eliminating the 2% reduction in the FICA rate will actually decrease the deficit by $95 billion, which is $30 billion more than the spending cuts.
It seems like the fiscal cliff is not very high from a spending-cut standpoint.
Individual tax increases are about $221 billion, and most people assume this is all due to the Bush tax cuts expiring. This is incorrect. Almost half of this, or $89 billion, relates to the assumption that the alternative minimum tax (AMT) patch will not be extended. Congress has continued to extend the AMT patch each year for several years, but once this number hits almost $100 billion in a year, I am not sure how much longer that will continue.


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Rand Paul's Foreign Policy Is a Mess
The 2016 hopeful is trying to play the hawk and the dove. And it's not pretty.
If the Crimea crisis has revealed flaws in President Barack Obama's passive "realism," it has also exposed the utter incoherence of Rand Paul's foreign policy—which, despite a reputation for being principled and bold, is in fact all over the place.
If that sounds too harsh, try making sense of the Kentucky senator's contorted response to Russia's aggression in Ukraine. Paul, the latest favorite for the GOP's 2016 presidential candidate, came out blasting in a recent Time op-ed, declaring that Russian President Vladimir Putin "must be punished" for violating Ukraine's sovereignty and asserting that Obama isn't up to the job. "If I were president, I wouldn't let Vladimir Putin get away with it," Paul huffed.
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Such gasconade seemed out of character for the anti-war libertarian. He opposes U.S. intervention just about everywhere—whether in Syria, which he sees as an invitation to another Iraq-style quagmire, or Iran, where he rejects preemptive U.S. strikes in favor of diplomacy or, failing that, a containment policy. Sure enough, the day after his Time article appeared, Paul was back to his usual dovish tone. In a Brietbart op-ed, he prescribed the "strategic use of soft power" to counter Putin and accused unnamed politicians—clearly his GOP presidential rivals—of beating their chests: "What we don't need right now is politicians who have never seen war talking tough for the sake of their political careers." Those who invoke Ronald Reagan to justify their bellicosity, he added, should remember that some similarly overzealous hawks called the Gipper an appeaser for negotiating nuclear arms accords with Soviet leaders.
Let's step back to January 2011, when the ophthalmologist-turned-politician Paul rode the high tide of Tea Party insurgency into the U.S. Senate. Despite having zero international experience, he was nothing if not clear and consistent on foreign policy. Like his father and libertarian icon, the now-retired Texas congressman Ron Paul, Rand called for America to mind its own business instead of trying to solve other countries' problems. He regularly excoriated GOP neoconservatives for having pushed the nation into protracted and costly wars during the Bush administration, and made no secret of his desire to get America out of the superpower business.
Paul traced what he regards as America's biggest problems—massive debts at home and chronic overreaching abroad—to the same source: unchecked government power. To encourage Washington to resist imperial temptations and exercise more restraint in foreign affairs, he introduced legislation soon after being sworn in to cut defense spending and reduce U.S. bases and troops stationed overseas. "When we're short of money, when we can't do the things we need to do in our country, we certainly shouldn't be shipping the money overseas," Paul told CNN in a January 2011 interview, in which the neophyte lawmaker also called for cutting all foreign aid, including to Israel. Needless to say, Paul's bid to scale back U.S. global leadership did not impress his fellow Republicans, and died a quick death in the Senate.
But that didn't stop him. In the spring of 2011, Paul opposed Obama's decision to help enforce a "no-fly" zone in Libya. Paul saw no national interest at stake in the popular uprising against dictator Moammar Qadhafi and accused the administration of usurping Congress's constitutional power to authorize the use of force. Paul's punctilious adherence to the principle of non-interference—strenuously defended in the U.N. Security Council by autocratic powers like China and, ironically, Russia, at least until Putin muscled his way into Ukraine's affairs—has led many observers to dub Paul a neo-isolationist. This he emphatically denies, but there's no question he wants to rein in what he sees as Washington's manic activism abroad. As he explained to the Heritage Foundation in February of last year, such restraint is "the true conservative foreign policy, as it includes two basic tenets of true conservatism: respect for the constitution and fiscal discipline."
About a month after making those remarks came Paul's breakout moment, when he staged a 13-hour filibuster on the Senate floor to protest John Brennan's nomination as CIA director and the Obama administration's use of drones, including against Americans. For the soft-spoken former doctor, it was a passionate performance:
"I will speak as long as it takes, until the alarm is sounded from coast to coast that our Constitution is important, that your rights to trial by jury are precious, that no American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found to be guilty by a court. That Americans could be killed in a café in San Francisco or in a restaurant in Houston or at their home in Bowling Green, Kentucky, is an abomination."


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This site has been up for nearly 2 years now and it surprises me that I haven't thought about doing a weekly recap post before. Luckily, this old dog can learn new tricks. So welcome to the first of hopefully many Weekly Recaps, a place where I will be able to funnel the many links and interesting stories that don't make it on to the main blog and also remind you of my faves that did make it. I'll also post some of the more interesting links from some of my favorite tee blogs and also from some of my other sites, including Call Me Thirsty, FAILShirt, Tumblr Trends and my newest site, SwipeTap. So let's get to it.
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Our friends over at Milk & Eggs Co. provided some very awesome photos from the Independent Design and Gift Show: Unique LA. View photos from Day 1 and Day 2 here.
My T-Shirt Pick of the Week (April 24 – April 30) goes to The Coupon Tee by Chop Shop, $20. Read more about it here.
I finally announced the winner of the Might Tees Steve-In-Sane T-Shirt Giveaway. Congratulations to Abi Mochtan for winning another contest! Want to stay up to date on all contest held here? It's easy, just become our friend on Facebook!
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Andy from Hide Your Arms started ThreadlessGiftCertificates.com where you can buy Threadless gift certificates for cheaper than you can at Threadless!
$7 Tees from Tilteed? That's right! And Bo from Loving This Tee has the scoop! Get your $7 Tilteed tee now!
Micah from A T-Shirt Blog posted this awesome shirt from Random Objects, it's called Under Paid. So cool! $21.
I'm a big fan of the Sequoia tree, and so I can appreciate this post on Violent Elegance from In My Shirt Sleeve!
Other Coty Links:
If you ever run into Edward Cullen, this Vampire Hunting Kit will help you. Via TumblrTrends.
If you aspire to one day work for Jimmy Kimmel's security staff, then please review this video on how to deal with aliens. Via TumblrTrends.
RateTea is a great site to read reviews on teas that you've probably never heard of, and you can add your own reviews! Via CallMeThirsty.
One might argue that this design is the biggest Failshirt in recorded history. Another elegant post by our friend Macho Slut over at Found Item Clothing! Why not buy Slater's Pot Leaf shirt instead? Via FAILShirt.
Check out my newest blog, SwipeTap.com! Swipe, tap and pinch your way through the best apps on the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Random Apple musings also included. Please read my Fuck You letter to Jon Stewart and my first iPad review, it's for a game called Azkend HD. More information about SwipeTap coming later, in the mean time, add SwipeTap on Facebook and Twitter!
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By Weiyi Zhao
Tell us about your current career position.Currently I am an associate professor of reproductive medicine in the School of Medicine at (the University of California) San Diego. I am a basic scientist conducting research in the area of neuropeptide hormone and metabolic signaling in the pituitary gonadotrope cells that control reproductive function. We are generally interested how the pituitary integrates multiple regulatory signals to control reproduction.What are the key experiences and decisions you made that have helped you reach your current position?One key experience was writing research grant proposals as a postdoctoral fellow, which helped me learn how to communicate my research interests clearly and to a broad audience. The other was integrating all of my training, both postdoctoral and graduate, to ask novel questions about the system I was studying. Bringing a different perspective to the system turned out to be very important. I worked both in academia and in private industry. Maintaining a strong professional network enabled me to return to academia and establish myself.How did you first become interested in science?I grew up during the Apollo era, and those astronauts are my heroes to this day. I was not always interested in biology. My first interest was in astronomy, flight and space travel. But in high school I became interested in biology because of an excellent teacher and mentor. There was a lot of excitement at the time because Genentech was founded and was producing the first drugs developed using the new tools of "genetic engineering." That just goes to show how important mentors and role models can be.Were there times when you failed at something you felt was critical to your path? If so, how did you regroup and get back on track?As a scientist, I fail regularly! Most experiments don't work, and most of the battle is trying to do the right technical experiment to correctly answer the question or test the hypothesis at hand. I think the key is viewing research as a process that is incremental, iterative and always challenging.In general, I almost failed out of college. I worked full time through most of college and had at least two jobs. At one point, I had a 1.69 GPA. But that failure helped me organize and prioritize my life, and I became very organized and motivated to do well in my classes.I also started working in a lab and got a taste of research. I really loved it. I couldn't believe people would pay me to do experiments! Once I started working at the bench, I never looked back. Having a goal and really enjoying the work helped me focus on the long term, and that turned out to be the best thing to help navigate the daily ups and downs of life.Instead of being defeated by difficult things like harsh reviews of papers or grant proposals, I tend to think about how that happened, what I need to do to improve my own work and do a better job this time. Science is an endeavor that is based on criticism and questioning. Not in a negative personal way but in an effort to get at the truth. Not allowing criticism to affect you personally is an important skill that helps you move forward. In the end, the thrill of discovery and the satisfaction of the work far outweigh any of the difficult and negative aspects.What advice would you give to young persons from under-represented backgrounds who want to pursue a career in science similar to yours?I think there are several things I would like to pass on. One is to never think that you don't belong. When you get to know other scientists and people in general, you realize how many people overcome their own personal struggles to do what they love to do. You actually share a lot more in common with others than you might initially appreciate.The other is to not be afraid of work. No matter what you do for a career or job, if work is rewarding it will be hard at times. Thomas Edison's axiom about genius being 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration is really true.Finally, I think you should always take inspiration from your ancestors. We all have different histories. My grandparents' generation ended up in the U.S. as refugees. They were fleeing war and poverty in Mexico and even from ethnic cleansing in central Europe. They had nothing. They worked hard not only to survive but to improve the lives of their children. So, in many ways, we are privileged to be trying to make a living as college-educated scientists and professionals. In many ways, we are reaping the harvest of what they sowed and struggled for. We should all appreciate that and honor their struggle by doing the best we can.What are your hobbies?I like to brew beer and cook, which is a form of edible experimentation. I also love camping and fishing.What was the last book you read?"Fides et Ratio" by Pope John Paul II. This is a short but fascinating examination of the harmony of faith and reason in human experience and how we understand the world. It is a call to unify philosophical thinking by organizing it around common principles. You don't need to be a Christian to get something out of it.Do you have any heroes, heroines or role models? If so, describe how they have influenced you?I know it sounds corny, but the older I get the more I admire my father. His own desire to make a better life made so much possible not only for our family but for those around him who he inspired. His own life is an example of how much an impact one person can make on the lives of so many in a very real way without a lot of fanfare or attention. Outside that, the Apollo 13 astronauts, Abraham Lincoln and Stubb, one of the harpooners in "Moby Dick."What is it that keeps you working hard and studying science every day?I really love the work. I still get a thrill from new results, and I never get bored with learning new things. Since I started as a graduate student, so much has changed and there is still so much more to learn.
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I WAS THERE!!! B.o.B seemingly ended his show, walked off stage and then came back out to perform Airplanes! After stopping the song short, he brought out Hayley Williams and killed it!!
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Lin "Little Chick" En-yu needed some help carrying the hardware home by the end of the night after picking up five trophies and a hefty NT$410,000 check at the Chinese Professional Baseball League's awards ceremony on Saturday night.
The gala event, held at Taipei's Sanchong City Sports Complex to recognize the achievements of the league's top players, turned into a one-man show as Lin racked up five individual distinctions in the same season for the second straight year: most wins (17), most strikeouts (209), lowest earned run average (1.73), top-ranked player by position (pitcher) and most impressive of all, the coveted league's Most Valuable Player honor.
The 24-year-old Macoto Cobras ace -- who was signed by the Rakuten Eagles of Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball League last week -- beat out Sinon Bulls slugger and this year's home-run champion (24) Chang "Prince of the Forest" Tai-shan and top RBI man Chen Chin-fong of the La New Bears by a close margin to become only the third player to win back-to-back MVP honors.
"I guess having the lowest ERA is the most important to me, because it most directly helps the team in winning games," Lin said after the ceremony, underplaying his awesome achievement in shattering the previous single-season strikeout record of 203 with 209 for the year.
By winning the ERA title, the strikeout title and the title for most victories in the season. Lin also became only the second player to win the pitchers' "triple crown," something last accomplished by Song Jau-jee of the 2002 Chinatrust Whales.
Lin could easily have won at least three more games this year for a 20-win season had his team backed him up, as two of the eight losses he suffered were 1-0 shutouts and he allowed only one earned run over six-plus innings of play in two others.
However, Lin had only praise for his teammates.
"I'd like to thank the coaches and my teammates for helping make all this possible," Lin said.
Also receiving some well deserved recognition was Lee Ming-jin of the Cobras, who registered 18 holds over a record-setting 62 game appearances to lead all relief pitchers in the league in this newly established category.
Rounding out the individual honors in the pitching category was Sinon closer Kuo Yong-chih, who with 17 saves beat out President Lions ace Tseng Yi-cheng who also recorded 17 saves, but in 43 games compared with Kuo's 39.
On the offensive side, the big winners on the night were Chang "The Prince" Tai-shan, whose 24 homers and 130 hits were second to none in an incredible year and Chen Chin-fong, whose 81 RBIs and 20 stolen bases represented a double threat to the opposing team to make the former major-leaguer one of the most feared hitters in the CPBL.
Chang was just short of being this year's batting champ as his .3485 batting average was .5 lower than Brother Elephants rookie Chen Guan-ren's .3490 mark. Chen also walked away with this year's Rookie of the Year honor.
Sinon speedster Yu Hsing-ming was the top base stealer of the year with 27 stolen bases, easily beating out second-place finisher Bears RBI man Chen Chin-fong's 20.
As expected, Whales starter Tseng Jau-hao snatched the Most Improved Player honor for his remarkable 12-win year, a dramatic turnaround from his combined 6-8 record in 2004 and last year.
Last but not least was the Manager of the Year honor, which went to the Bears' Hong Yi-chung for doing an amazing job in turning the bottom-dwelling team of 2004 into this year's Taiwan Series champs.


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BRUNSWICK, Ga. - State biologists say they've spotted a humpback whale off Georgia's coast.
The Brunswick News reports (http://bit.ly/WnDjkp) that humpback whales are not commonly seen off the coast, though North Atlantic right whales are well-known winter visitors.
Biologists for the Georgia Department of Natural Resources spotted the humpback whale a few days ago, less than two miles from Little St. Simons Island.
Clay George, a DNR biologist specializing in marine mammals, said the young, endangered whale was swimming in less than 10 feet of water and was likely feeding on schools of small fish.
He said where the animals come from and why they end up off Georgia's coast is a mystery. He says there are always one or two humpbacks spotted in the region annually.


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Media watching for results of papal conclave
NEW YORK -- White smoke or black smoke? Maybe it's easier just to wait for a text message that a new pope has been elected.
A Catholic organization has set up a website, www.popealarm.com, that lets people register to receive a text or email notification when a pope has been selected by cardinals meeting in Vatican City. None were needed Tuesday: after a day of pageantry and some arresting television pictures, black smoke from the Sistine Chapel chimney indicated no pope had been selected.
The text service set up by the Fellowship of Catholic University Students, or FOCUS, was an indication of how much the media world had changed since the last papal conclave, in 2005. The site had proven so popular with more than 40,000 respondents that it said Tuesday it could no longer guarantee new registrants would get a text message. People could still sign up for emails.
"When the smoke goes up, you'll know what's going down" is the website's motto.
Another new website, www.adoptacardinal.org, assigns interested people one of the voting cardinals at random to pray for him as he deliberates on a new pope. Nearly 500,000 people had signed up by Tuesday morning.
Television cameras on Tuesday caught for the first time the first steps in the papal conclave, with the participating cardinals, one-by-one, taking an oath of silence about their deliberations. As each man approached, it was hard to lose the idea that one of them would soon be the leader of the Roman Catholic church.
"For the few cardinals I have spoken with, all have said that it's the most important act they do as cardinal," said Father Joseph Martin, a Jesuit priest and television commentator. "It reminds you that they are also human beings charged with a divine task. Overall, I found it very moving."
When the oaths were taken, an official pronounced: "extra omnes," Latin for everybody out.
All but the cardinals streamed out of the Sistine Chapel and the large wooden doors were closed and latched behind them.
"That's quite a shot," NBC anchor Lester Holt said. CBS' Scott Pelley urged as much quiet as possible among his colleagues as the pictures played out on the network's special report. "No one has ever seen this before, so it's going to be fascinating," he said.
While the television networks resumed regular programming, websites for both CBS and NBC had "smoke cams," with cameras trained on the chimney that would provide the results of the first ballot. Within two hours, the results poured out in the form of black smoke.
Pelley and ABC's Diane Sawyer were both in Rome on Monday night to anchor their networks' evening newscast at the Vatican. NBC's Brian Williams stayed home, with Holt on the scene.
In 2005, none of the top network anchors went to Rome for the conclave. Some network planners are reluctant to move broadcasts to Rome for the conclave because it's an open-ended event; no one knows how long it will last. It's different for the installation of a new pope, a defined event that can be scheduled around.
Shepard Smith, who is Fox News Channel's top news anchor, is that network's top person on the scene. CNN has sent Anderson Cooper and Chris Cuomo, who will trade off coverage during the day and evening. Chris Jansing is the anchor leading MSNBC's coverage.
The BBC sent in 50 people, including three London-based anchors.
"It's huge, big resources are being devoted to this," said veteran Rome correspondent David Willey. He said the operation is bigger than for the 2005 conclave that elected Benedict.
The BBC has kept up its coverage despite torrential rains and hail that collapsed its tent atop the Janiculum Hill overlooking Rome. Jon Sopel, one of the anchors, tweeted: "Add to thunder and lightning, hail. Deafening noise under our canopy. Trying to avoid glib metaphors."


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Beginning around 2005, many old fishing lodges and motels in Montauk got sold and converted into summertime hot spots for the Hamptons set. Some changed their names to become Sole East, Montauk Beach House, Navy Beach and The Surf Lodge (located on the gentle waters of Fort Pond.) Others kept their classic names, but got a full New York City high-tech overhaul. And the crowds came.
Thus nothing seemed wrong when the Panoramic, a 50-year old 117-room resort and residence development that spills down a cliff face to the ocean beach, was sold in 2007 to two men from Nassau County. They were Brian R. Callahan and Adam J. Manson.
The fact is, however, the men ran smack into four very difficult problems after making this purchase. For one thing, the real estate market collapsed late that year. For another, the Panoramic was in great disrepair from its years and years of neglect and assault from ocean storms. Nearly all the resort would have to be rebuilt, and that would mean shutting it down for a while. For a third thing, the Town of East Hampton, which has jurisdiction of Montauk, began, in my opinion, to give this project a hard time causing delay after delay. And fourth, as it turned out, the men had borrowed the money from a bank to pay not only for the initial $30 million purchase but for the expensive renovations which were now proceeding. Two years passed. In 2009, the men re-opened at least part of the resort as the Panoramic View Resort & Residences and invited in potential buyers. But the units didn't sell. And now the bank wanted the loan paid back. There was no money now though, and not much hope of getting any. One option they might have had at that point was bankruptcy. They didn't choose that option.
Last Thursday, Federal Prosecutors arrested the men and charged them with 24 counts of conspiracy to commit securities and wire fraud, using several investment funds Callahan managed that contained other people's money. There were many millions of dollars in these funds, and this cash was supposed to be invested safely in financial securities—mutual funds, hedge funds and other instruments. But, according to the charges, when the loans from the banks came due for the Panoramic, Callahan began dipping into the investment funds and diverting money to pay the loans and the bills for their Panoramic project to keep it afloat, then hiding the fact they were doing that.
Soon, according to the charges, they took it a step further. They began operating a Ponzi scheme. Callahan would declare excellent returns at his investment funds, returns they were not getting, and these claims would attract new clients to bring in new money. With this money, the funds would pay the earlier investors the high dividends, and that would bring in still more new money. According to the FBI, the Montauk Fire Department was in for $600,000, with promises it would be invested in mutual funds and other securities. In the end, the scheme had taken in nearly $100 million, according to the Feds. A lawsuit was filed last year by the Securities and Exchange Commission about the lost funds. And then on Thursday came these indictments. Mr. Callahan has been released on $2 million secured bond. Mr. Manson has been released on $1 million secured bond.
A statement was issued by Loretta E. Lynch, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District.
"The men employed all the tricks in the typical con man's bag," she said, including forgery, fake documents and stealing identities. "The lies stop now."
As for the Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit, it says it is seeking money not only from Callahan and Manson, but also from Callahan's wife and Manson's sister, who the SEC claims has offshore accounts. Lawyers for the two men say they have done nothing wrong. They are pleading not guilty.
And yet, if they did do these things, is it possible that they did it all to save the Panoramic, and that its purchase and repairs could have run up toward $100 million?
A New York Times article last Thursday headlines TWO USED PONZI SCHEME TO PAY FOR MONTAUK RESORT RENOVATIONS, PROSECUTORS SAY. And in the article, there doesn't appear any report of wildly extravagant spending. There are no 200-foot yachts, no private planes, no trips around the world. Mentioned in the indictment are money spent for golf club fees, down payments on a home in Old Westbury and a condo in Westhampton and payments on luxury cars.
Maybe it WAS what the Panoramic cost. In December of 2010, I wrote an article objecting to what I believed was an unfair ganging up on the renovation at the Panoramic by the Town of East Hampton. Here was a beautiful old resort, built by the French family in 1959 before zoning, now in serious need of repair, now sold and being restored by an outside investor who was doing, it seemed to me, everything the town asked. Yet here were some town officials saying the Panoramic was now putting up illegal elevators, illegal new buildings—maybe one six stories high, new rooms out of outdoor porches, parking lots re-graded without approval from the planning board and so forth and so on. One official said wasn't it strange how they got the building permit almost immediately after the sale. Was there something up with the Building Department? Writing this got me an invitation from Adam Manson. I should come down and see all their construction and renovations for myself.
Because the Panoramic sits on a cliff face leading down to the ocean, you really don't see the whole place up close and personal unless you are invited. What you do see from the road are two low buildings behind a parking lot off the Old Montauk Highway. Behind, everything leads down to the sea. In all the years I have been in Montauk and the Hamptons, I'd only been to the Panoramic one or two times. I eagerly accepted the invitation, and came with my wife who also wanted to see it.
Manson, a tall, handsome man in his late 30s, was very enthusiastic about the project. He showed us the plans, led us through buildings that had been finished, others that were underway and still others that were in their original state.
There were no elevators, no six-story buildings, no enclosed porches. In every building, because the resort pre-existed zoning, all structures had to be exactly as they had been. All the doors and windows were redone exactly in the same place. All the porches and outbuildings had to remain the same. Nothing could be enclosed. We looked it over. Everything conformed to exactly that.
"One exception," Manson told me, "was that today the state requires roof pitches to be a minimum of 40 degrees. But some of our buildings had 30-degree pitches. We had to do something. And we couldn't raise the roofs. So we lowered the walls. And then, with permission, we put false dormers so the exterior would look nice. But they are not a second story. They do add extra light into the rooms though."
The parking lot that was re-graded?
"There was no re-grading. There was a requirement that we put in propane heating tanks underground. So we dug holes in the parking lot. I think somebody saw the piles of dirt from the holes we dug. It was awhile before we put it all back. They must have thought that was a re-grading."
What about "the new building?" We looked at the plans.
"This is what they say is a new building," Manson said pointing to a drawing alongside a drawing of a building. "It's the second floor of the building alongside. This is how architects show a second floor. Off to the side."
Both my wife and I were very impressed with Manson and his project. He led us down brick paths between the buildings.
"These are old bricks, very hard to get," he said.
"But we got replacements. The town insisted we use the same bricks as before. If we changed them we'd have to go through a planning process."
About half the buildings had been renovated. They were quite beautiful.
Whether he could sell this project I did not know. Asking price was $2 million for a double unit. But what was being done here would make the French family proud. And there were so many new amenities. New kitchens. Beautiful furnishings. There were portable hot tubs on the decks.
"You can sit in a tub and watch the waves," Manson said proudly.
As for the Montauk Fire Department, here were enthusiastic young men in finance with offices in Great Neck, and an investment fund that gave a great return—it made perfect sense they would put their money in Callahan's fund, if that is what they did.
Sadly, I have to report that, if true, this is the second time in the last ten years that the Montauk Fire Department got fleeced for more than a half million dollars.
In 2007, it was found that the longtime Montauk Fire District secretary-treasurer, a woman everybody trusted, secretly was embezzling money and writing checks to herself and others that, over time, had now amounted to more than $500,000. She was arrested and charged. She met with prosecutors and pleaded guilty. The district attorney said she used the money for such things as gambling in Las Vegas, for paying her child's private high school tuition, and for mortgage payments.
In the end, she agreed to pay what she owed by selling her house. She put it up for sale for $510,000. If she could make the restitution, the agreement said, she could serve one to three years in prison. If she failed, the maximum term would be longer, 5 to 15 years. This was in the fall of 2007. Shortly thereafter, the housing market collapsed. Now it was probably worth $300,000. And it didn't even sell for that. In fact, there were no takers at all.
In the end, this woman, Terri Gaines, put a family house in Southampton up for sale and sold it. She gave the Montauk house to her children. She gave the money to the fire department. Then, in 2009, she went to jail to serve out her shorter sentence.
As for the Montauk Fire Department's $600,000 investment in one of Callahan's funds, we've now learned it was only out at risk a short time. They withdrew the money, because "questions were raised about the vagaries of the fund," a fire department official told Newsday. "We got everything


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Worldwide, one out of every five people lacks access to modern electricity. Affordability, quality of service, and social and environmental impacts pose great challenges in providing people with the power they need for lighting, cooking, and other activities. Good governance involving open and inclusive practices is essential to overcoming these pressing obstacles.
This is part three of a four-part blog series, "Improving Electricity Governance," which explores the key components involved in effective electricity governance. The series draws on the experiences of WRI's Electricity Governance Initiative, documented in a new report, "Shining a Light on Electricity Governance." Read more posts in this series.
Until recently, the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) held a monopoly on Thailand's power generation and transmission since the 1970s. While EGAT provided a relatively stable supply of electricity to consumers, it was unregulated, leading to inefficiencies in the sector, such as wrongly estimated fuel supply. Consumers experienced high prices, while new power projects moved forward with little public consultation, sparking social conflict and concerns over environmental impacts.
The situation worsened in 2003, when Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra set forth a plan to restructure Thailand's electricity sector and privatize EGAT. Rather than improving Thailand's electricity sector in the public interest, the plan for privatization was designed to increase capital for powerful stakeholders and upper management employees. It called to maintain EGAT's unregulated monopoly in order to maximize profits, even at the expense of public needs and environmental vulnerabilities.
Thailand's electricity sector seemed poised to worsen--until civil society groups stepped in.


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"HDDerase.exe is a DOS-based utility that securely erases "sanitizes" all data on ATA hard disk drives in Intel architecture computers (PCs). It offers the option to run the drive internal secure erase command, security erase unit, based on the ATA specification by the T13 technical committee. To run the utility, make a floppy or recordable CD-ROM DOS bootable disk; then copy HDDerase.exe to the floppy or CD-R. Reboot the computer with the floppy or CD-R inserted, and type "hdderase" at the system DOS prompt. Make sure to set the correct priority boot order in the system BIOS, such as first boot floppy or CD-ROM depending on which media is used to run HDDerase.exe. HDDerase.exe must be run from an actual DOS environment and not a Window based DOS command prompt environment." ...
"Q: Is there government approval for secure erase, that meets current federal and state lows, like Sarbanes-Oxley, the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), and California Senate Bill 1386?
A: According to federal data sanitization document NIST 800-88, acceptable methods include executing the in-drive Secure Erase command, degaussing a drive, and physical destruction."