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For listeners of this show a complimentary 15 minute financial coaching and strategy session is available by calling Eric at 941.713.9307 or email at email@example.com - just let him know you heard about The Financial Independence Project on today's show.
The Financial Independence Project
Eric - 941.713.9307
Here is the link for my show on Saturday 2nd August http://www.blogtalkradio.com/matrixfile ... es-of-info
This link also becomes an archive link.
I go over last week's golden nuggets and then spend 2 hours with you all sharing real life examples of the info that I have shared with everyone on the show over the last few months. PLUS a last minute addition - CURE FOR EBOLA.
These range from a 70 year old woman who looks like she is 35 to a music club in England that has been destroyed by subtle undermining by those who want to destroy anything good (TPTB, Cabal, etc).
I will also be covering the information about who it is or which group of people it is that are behind all the BS in the world. Some call them the Cabal, the Powers That Be, the Council of 300, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Illuminati, etc. You may also know them by other names.
I am aiming for this show to wrap everything up that has been discussed since the 8th March 2014 so that we can move onto the next chunk of knowledge to be shared - the area of Law and Justice or lack of it.
I look forward to sharing this knowledge with you.
Golden Nuggets
- Poetry is a form of Bridge between the second dimension and the third dimension.
- The Anti-Social personality will latch on to the artists of the world with the intent to undermine or destroy them.
- Neuro Linguistic Programming has become a way to easily manipulate people.
- Ebola is easily dealt with by taking very large doses of vitamin C every two hours until the body's immune system deals with the virus (see pdf below).
- If you eat correctly then your body will stay young.
If you eat the way people 'normally' eat your body ages.
- There seems to be a race of people that are totally against Modern Man. These are the Ashkenazi/Khazarian Jews. They are the Neanderthal sub-species of Homo Sapiens/Cro Magnon Man.
- The Palestinians are the true biblical inheritors of the land called Israel.
- The Neanderthals mostly interbred with Cro Magnon Man in the Middle East.
3 Poems demonstrating the Bridge between the 2D world (of supposedly no emotion) and the 3D world "A civilization is only as good as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamed by artists." - L. Ron Hubbard
Ebola Cure - from http://jimstonefreelance.com 70 year old looks like 30 year old [youtube]O6oJA_xhTa8[/youtube]
The REAL enemy are the Neanderthal Ashkenazi/Khazarian Jews and their minions (the 2.5% of the worlds population) - from http://www.democratic-republicans.us/ne ... nd-semites
http://zionists.wordpress.com/2011/06/1 ... erthals-2/
L Ron Hubbard at various ages
The Golden Web Part 1 - an excellent expose of the deception perpetrated on us through language, symbols and other means
AGENDA 21 - book by Ron Taylor
The book goes for $2.92
http://www.amazon.com/Agenda-Sustainabl ... B004GKNOTE
Vitamin C - sources (please do your own due diligence too)
iHerb - get the powder
http://www.iherb.com/Frontier-Natural-P ... null&ic=86
ebay - one of many
http://www.ebay.com/itm/281287517178?_t ... EBIDX%3AIT
Colloidal Minerals
http://www.iherb.com/Buried-Treasure-70 ... =null&ic=3
Flaxseed Oil - the item I have purchased
http://www.ebay.com/itm/FLAX-SEED-OIL-b ... 1220009484


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Avatech Tricks: Drawing for Dough, Part 16 Oct, 2006 By: Erik Kurek
Useful tips for getting the correct views in Autodesk Inventor.
To paraphrase an old golf saying, "You model for show, but you draw for dough." No matter how well a component is modeled, if the 2D drawing is not readable on the shop floor, then it is useless. Autodesk Inventor provides tools that enable you to transfer ideas from your head to paper. In the first part of this article, I cover broken views, detail views and center lines. In the second part of the article, which will appear next month, I'll cover creating section views and other miscellaneous views.
Figure 1 shows an IDW of the shaft with a base view that I have already placed. The ends of the shaft are hanging over the page on either side.
Figure 1. Shaft with ends off the page.
The Broken View
Inventor's Broken View tool enables me to place the model on my drawing and then cut out the parts I don't want to show. Right-click to view the context menu. After selecting the Broken View tool, a dialog box opens with the option of placing two types of symbols: a structural style, shown as a single jagged line, or a rectangular style, shown as a zigzag line (figure 2).
Figure 2. The Broken View dialog box.
The dialog box also asks for a scale of the breaks, the gap distance and the number of symbols you want to show. After entering the options, pick two points in the view where you would like to break the model, and the view collapses the distance between the first and second picks. To move the symbol, grab the grip in the middle and drag it to a new position. To adjust the break, grab one of the edges of the broken view symbol and drag it away from the other one to make the break bigger, or drag it to the opposite side of the other symbol to make the break smaller (figure 3).
Figure 3. Adjust the broken view symbols by dragging them.
You can place multiple broken views on the same view, adjust the orientation to vertical or horizontal, and when the broken view is dimensioned from one end to the other, the full value of that distance is shown. Your dimension style will show the break symbol on the dimension line if that option is chosen.
The Detail View
Inventor's Detail View tool can show a larger area so that the dimensions look cleaner and the drawing is easier to read. Right-click in the view, choose Create View / Detail and the Detail View dialog box opens. The dialog box enables you to change the label, scale, style and type. Inventor asks for a center point and another point to define the detail view circle.
Figure 4. The Detail View dialog box.
Once the view is placed in the IDW, you can adjust the location of the symbol by dragging it around the detail circle; you can adjust the size and location of the circle by dragging the grips. To keep the detail circle locked to a particular area if the model changes, right-click on the view symbol and select the Attach option. The detail view also has a rectangular fence option that is created the same way.
Inventor automatically generates the next label letter in the list based on the last letter placed in the drawing. The software also sets the scale of the detail to twice the value of the parent view (figure 5). You can move the label letter to any point on the detail view symbol to keep it out of the way and readable.
Figure 5. The Detail View shows the difference in the edges.
Adding Center Lines
Now I want to add some annotation to these enlarged views shown above. Generally I want to place some linear diameter dimensions on Detail P to the left. These types are generally shown with only one-half of the dimension visible and usually dimensioned about the center line. This process used to be time-consuming and resulted in static dimensions that didn't adjust with the model, leaving room for potential manufacturing mistakes and costly errors.
To get the center line from geometry that is trimmed out, right-click inside Detail P view and select Automated Centerlines. In the dialog box, make sure that you apply the center lines to the right objects -- usually I choose holes, cylindrical objects and revolved objects -- and that the Objects in View, Axis Parallel button (see the blue arrow in figure 6) is selected to show side-view center lines. You can also adjust the threshold of the item so that really small or really large fillets and circular edges do not get a center line placed on them.
Figure 6. Make sure the Objects in View, Axis Parallel button is selected in the Automated Centerlines dialog box.
The center line of the revolved geometry now shows below the view. You can use that center line to place linear diameter dimensions. Use the General Dimension tool to select the first and second points. It is usually better to select whole lines or edges than points, especially the center line. Before placing the dimension text, right-click and select Dimension Type / Linear Diameter. It is important that the type is chosen before placing the text because once it is placed, there is no way of changing the type except for erasing it and placing another text item.
As dimensions are placed, the dimension and extension lines for the other half are turned off. Since this part is a round, a diameter symbol is also shown as part of the text. If you find selecting the edge difficult, zoom in with your middle mouse wheel so that you can select the line better and use the F5 key on your keyboard to take you back to the previous view. When finished, turn off the visibility with a right-click on the line.
Next month I'll continue this topic by discussing section views and other miscellaneous views.
About the Author: Erik Kurek
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Top three stories this week
Global skin lighteners market booms
The research confirmed the dominance of the Asian market for skin lightening products, but also highlighted a number of new trends in the West which had contributed to this growth on a global scale.
Increasingly used in men's products
The document entitled 'Skin lighteners: a global strategic business report' includes claims that there has been a recent increase in the market for men's whitening products.
The report also finds that skin lightening products are now being used in skin care for the body, whereas it has been previously used as a product for the face.
According to the GIA, skin lighteners are becoming more popular in the West as an anti-ageing product, since they can inhibit skin pigmentation or 'brown spots'.
Traditionally, the biggest demand for skin lighteners has been from Asian consumers. However, the growth in ethnic population in UK and US is now said to have accelerated demand for lightening products in the West.
Companies urged to look at regional preferences
Nevertheless, the market for skin lighteners in Asia-Pacific still remains the strongest area of growth. Japan dominates the market, while India and China are the fastest growing markets. According to GIA, the Asian market for skin lighteners will consequently cross the $2 billion mark by 2012.
The report identifies skin lighteners as a multi-usage cosmetic products. For example, consumers in the West often use lighteners for their anti-aging benefits, while the Asian consumer uses them to lighten the overall color and tone of their skin.
According to the report, in order to make the most of marketing, promotional and distribution strategies companies need to recognize the regional preferences of their consumer while still maintaining a strong and expanding market on a global scale.


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In the weeks, months and years after a severe head injury, patients often experience epileptic seizures that are difficult to control. A new study in rats suggests that gently cooling the brain after injury may prevent these seizures.
"Traumatic head injury is the leading cause of acquired epilepsy in young adults, and in many cases the seizures can't be controlled with medication," says senior author Matthew Smyth, MD, associate professor of neurological surgery and of pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. "If we can confirm cooling's effectiveness in human trials, this approach may give us a safe and relatively simple way to prevent epilepsy in these patients."
The researchers reported their findings in Annals of Neurology.
Cooling the brain to protect it from injury is not a new concept. Cooling slows down the metabolic activity of nerve cells, and scientists think this may make it easier for brain cells to survive the stresses of an injury.
Doctors currently cool infants whose brains may have had inadequate access to blood or oxygen during birth. They also cool some heart attack patients to reduce peripheral brain damage when the heart stops beating.
Smyth has been exploring the possibility of using cooling to prevent seizures or reduce their severity.
"Warmer brain cells seem to be more electrically active, and that may increase the likelihood of abnormal electrical discharges that can coalesce to form a seizure," Smyth says. "Cooling should have the opposite effect."
Smyth and colleagues at the University of Washington and the University of Minnesota test potential therapies in a rat model of brain injury. These rats develop chronic seizures weeks after the injury.
Researchers devised a headset that cools the rat brain. They were originally testing its ability to stop seizures when they noticed that cooling seemed to be not only stopping but also preventing seizures.
Scientists redesigned the study to focus on prevention. Under the new protocols, they put headsets on some of the rats that cooled their brains by less than 4 degrees Fahrenheit. Another group of rats wore headsets that did nothing. Scientists who were unaware of which rats they were observing monitored them for seizures during treatment and after the headsets were removed.
Rats that wore the inactive headset had progressively longer and more severe seizures weeks after the injury, but rats whose brains had been cooled only experienced a few very brief seizures as long as four months after injury.
Brain injury also tends to reduce cell activity at the site of the trauma, but the cooling headsets restored the normal activity levels of these cells.
The study is the first to reduce injury-related seizures without drugs, according to Smyth, who is director of the Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery program at St. Louis Children's Hospital.
"Our results show that the brain changes that cause this type of epilepsy happen in the days and weeks after injury, not at the moment of injury or when the symptoms of epilepsy begin," says Smyth. "If clinical trials confirm that cooling has similar effects in humans, it could change the way we treat patients with head injuries, and for the first time reduce the chance of developing epilepsy after brain injury."
Smyth and his colleagues have been testing cooling devices in humans in the operating room, and are planning a multi-institutional trial of an implanted focal brain cooling device to evaluate the efficacy of cooling on established seizures.
D'Ambrosio R, Eastman CL, Darvas F, Fender JS, Verley DR, Farin FM, Wilkerson H-W, Temkin NR, Miller JW, Ojemann J, Rothman SM, Smyth MD. Mild passive focal cooling prevents epileptic seizures after head injury in rats. Annals of Neurology, DOI: 10.1002/ana.23764.
This research was supported by the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NS053928, R.D.; NS042936, S.M.R.; EB007362, F.D.), CURE (5154001.01, R.D.; 5154001.05, M.D.S.); the U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command; and the University of Washington.
Washington University School of Medicine
Washington University School of Medicine. "Trauma-Induced Epilepsy May Be Prevented By Cooling The Brain Following Injury." Medical News Today. MediLexicon, Intl., 25 Feb. 2013. Web.
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There is limited research regarding the use of social media or other types of media in online courses. In 2013, I surveyed 110 adjunct professors from a Linkedin group to determine if they added media (including social media) to already developed curriculum. Due to the prevalence of online classes, it might help curriculum designers to determine media preferences. This type of study may also demonstrate the flexibility of online courses, the perception of content requirements in online courses, and professors' best practices.
Some of the social sites that professors used included Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube; female professors used these sites more than male. Sites like Twitter were chosen for this study because they have shown to be useful for marketing courses for product trending. However, Youtube was the most frequently used of the social media sites. The most popular links added to courses included news-based websites like NBC, CBS, CNN, and the Wall Street Journal. Most of the professors believed these news sites were appropriate additions to the classroom. Many of the respondents were over 46 years of age with more than eight years of experience. The results were published in the Journal of Scholastic Inquiry: Education, Volume 1, Issue 1 in Fall of 2013.
The following demonstrates professors' choices of media based on years of experience. The Facebook category included other social media sites like Twitter. The Websites/Official category includes news sites. To see the video presentation of this study regarding online professors' media choices at the Journal of Scholastic Inquiry Conference, click here.
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e-flux journal
What Is Contemporary Art?
Edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle
Sternberg Press, 2010
10.8 x 17.8 cm
216 pages, 24 b/w ill., softcover
Price: 58 lei
Contributions by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle, Cuauhtémoc Medina, Boris Groys, Raqs Media Collective, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Hu Fang, Jörg Heiser, Martha Rosler, Zdenka Badovinac, Carol Yinghua Lu, Dieter Roelstraete, and Jan Verwoert
This book began as a two-part issue of e-flux journal devoted to the question: What is contemporary art? First, and most obviously: why is this question not asked? That is to say, why do we simply leave it to hover in the shadow of attempts at critical summation in the grand tradition of twentieth-century artistic movements? A single hegemonic "ism" has replaced clearly distinguishable movements and grand narratives. But what exactly does it mean to be working under the auspices of this singular ism?
"Widespread usage of the term 'contemporary' seems so self-evident that to further demand a definition of 'contemporary art' may be taken as an anachronistic exercise in cataloguing or self-definition. At the same time, it is no coincidence that this is usually the tenor of such large, elusive questions: it is precisely through their apparent self-evidence that they cease to be problematic and begin to exert their influence in hidden ways; and their paradox, their unanswerability begins to constitute a condition of its own, a place where people work."
E-flux journal: What Is Contemporary Art? puts the apparent simplicity and self-evident term into doubt, asking critics, curators, artists, and writers to contemplate the nature of this catchall or default category.


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Mamoru Samuragoch* has been called "Japan's Beethoven." Even as he went deaf, Samuragoch continued to compose scores for video games like Resident Evil and Onimusha. This week, he revealed that he used a ghost composer.
A gifted musician, Samuragoch had a degenerative hearing condition that left him completely deaf by age 35. However, as AFP points out, he continued to release work, such as "Symphony No.1 Hiroshima," a tribute to those killed in the atomic bombing. His scores for the DualShock version of Resident Evil Director's Cut, released in 1998, and Onimusha, released in 2001, were popular among gamers.
"I listen to myself," Samuragoch told Time Magazine in 2001. "If you trust your inner sense of sound, you create something that is truer. It is like communicating from the heart. Losing my hearing was a gift from God." In that same interview, he said he lost his hearing completely while composing the Onimusha score.
Earlier today, respected news broadcaster NHK reported that Samuragoch confessed to hiring another composer in writing his most iconic works. "NHK has reported on him in news and features programmes but failed to realise that he had not composed the works himself, despite our research and checking," the NHK news anchor is quoted as saying by AFP.
"I started hiring the person to compose music for me around 1996, when I was asked to make movie music for the first time," said Samuragoch. "I had to ask the person to help me for more than half of my work because my ear condition got worse."
It's still unclear how involved Samuragoch was in the compositions from this point.
A statement from Samuragoch's lawyers said he was "deeply sorry," adding, "He knows he could not possibly make any excuse for what he has done." His record company stated Samuragoch had previously assured them that he composed his works and is "flabbergasted and deeply infuriated" by all this.
The real composer, who earned a commission from Samuragoch, has not yet been identified.
'Japan's Beethoven' admits using ghost composer [Digital Journal]
*Birth name Mamoru Samuragochi
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As an increasing number of designers now cross the divide between print and Web—and further between Web, tablet, smart phone, and a vast number of devices where designs must hold their own—Adobe has crafted InDesign CS6 to be the workhorse to carry the heavy load. InDesign takes over many tedious and time-consuming tasks, from gathering and saving content to mocking up pages for different devices, so designers can concentrate on the creative process rather than on mechanics. Here are the highlights of the new InDesign CS6.
Adaptive Design
While designers have always been called on to reformat existing projects to accommodate new page formats and dimensions (such as creating a printed ad from a Web page or vice versa), the demand has never been as prevalent as it is today. Because of the popularity of the iPad and other mobile devices of various sizes and configurations, designers now commonly create multiple layouts that share the same content. Adobe's new Adaptive Design tools promise to make that process easier. Adaptive Design tools include Alternate Layouts, Liquid Layout, and Linked Content.
Alternate Layouts Before CS6, if InDesign users needed to produce multiple dimensions and formats for one publication, they had to create and maintain separate documents or duplicate objects onto multiple page sizes in a single document. With CS6, you can add one or more alternate-sized layouts to an existing InDesign document, and InDesign copies your existing content onto the new page size.
Now, you get the option of letting InDesign re-shape the existing content to an appropriate size for the new pages, or simply copy everything as-is onto the new pages. This is handy for generating a horizontal iPad layout from a vertical layout, for example. Once you create the Alternate Layout, it behaves exactly the same as any other InDesign layout—but new objects added to the original layout are not duplicated on the Alternate Layout.
You can control the way InDesign handles the conversion of page objects to the Alternate Layout by adjusting the Liquid Layout rules, and by customizing the text styles in the new layout. Helpfully, InDesign duplicates the styles from the original layout into the new layout—you can change them in the new layout, and it won't affect the styles in your original layout.
When exporting your project to a .folio file (used by Adobe's Digital Publishing Suite for generating an iPad app), both the horizontal and vertical layouts are automatically included.
Liquid Layout When InDesign converts a layout to new dimensions, it resizes and repositions objects based on Liquid Layout rules you defined or chose for each page or object. If the shape of your new layout isn't much different from the original, you can choose a simple Scale or Re-center rule.
You can also drag out special Liquid Layout guides to control how different columns or rows of frames resize, or you can apply specific rules to individual frames to control whether they resize, from what origin point, and whether their content should scale. No matter how carefully you apply the rules, you'll probably still need to adjust objects manually after the conversion.
InDesign can show you a live preview of how your objects will change. Just use the improved Page tool to drag the corner of your page to your new size and watch as objects move and resize.
Linked Content As you might imagine, keeping track of changes that occur simultaneously in multiple layouts can be a logistical nightmare. Adobe's approach to managing text and graphics that should remain consistent across multiple layouts is similar to the concept of placed graphics. When you place a graphic into an InDesign layout, it isn't copied into the layout—InDesign merely remembers its location on your network. If you change the graphic in another program, InDesign's Links panel warns you that it has changed and you can choose to update it in your layout.
In CS6, you can link text, graphics, or anything else in a frame (such as interactivity settings) across pages, layouts, or documents. If you change the original "Parent" object, the "Child" objects indicate that the Parent has changed and you can choose to update each one.
Content Collector tools
The process of repurposing content for new layouts typically involves a lot of copying and pasting, so to alleviate that tedium, Adobe has created three new tools: Content Collector, Content Conveyor, and Content Placer.
Use the Content Collector to copy an object or group of objects to the Content Conveyor, and then use the Content Placer to place those objects into a new location in any document.
You can think of the Content Conveyor as a beefed-up library, because it not only stores items for re-use, it also lets you maintain live links between the original object(s) and the copies that you place elsewhere. If you change the Parent object, the Child object displays a badge that lets you know the Parent has changed and you can update the Child with the changes. Additionally, when you open a document that contains Child objects whose Parents had been changed, you'll be prompted to update all the links.
You can collect objects or groups of objects into the Content Conveyor by clicking on them with the Content Collector tool, or you can use a button on the Conveyor to load the Conveyor with all the objects from one or more pages, and optionally include objects from the Pasteboard. If you click a text frame, you can choose to include all text from additional threaded frames.
A group of objects on the Conveyor can then be placed as a group—with their relative locations maintained—or as individual objects. By default, using the Content Placer removes the object from the Conveyor, but you can also choose to keep it on the Conveyor for future use. This is handy for objects you plan to use over and over, such as boilerplate text, logos, or your CEO's head shot.
ePub enhancements
You can now paste or place interactive HTML content into an InDesign layout, and when you export the document to HTML, EPUB3, or .folio format, the interactivity stays intect.
PDF advancements
In previous versions of the Creative Suite, you had to use Adobe Acrobat to add interactive form elements to a PDF, even if you created the PDF in InDesign. In CS6, you can use the new Buttons And Forms panel to create a text field, radio button, check box, combo box (popup menu), or signature field, as well as buttons for printing, submitting the form by email, and clearing the form. InDesign includes several button designs, or you can convert your own objects into buttons.
You can even include tooltips, set the tab order for form fields, and show and hide form fields based on triggers, such as responses to other questions on the form.
The tab order in a PDF file determines which form field, article, or other content is selected next when you press the Tab key on your keyboard. When a document is read aloud by an application with accessibility features, the application follows the reading order; if you tab to a different area of the document, it's highlighted as it's read.
Adobe also added the ability to export your PDF from InDesign in grayscale, which reduces file size and complexity when printing with only black ink, gives you the choice to export each spread as a page (as in earlier versions) or to split the spreads into individual pages.
To help you visualize what your layout will look like in grayscale, the View -> Proof Colors command now includes grayscale options to preview a job in black and white.
Increased productivity
Each time Adobe releases an upgrade to InDesign, it adds an assortment of useful one-trick enhancements. Some are based on user requests, while others are added because they support the program's new features. Here are some examples. The new Split Window feature lets you view two different pages or layouts in one document at the same time. When viewing at Actual Size (100 percent), InDesign now takes into account your display's resolution so that your design appears closer to its output size.
The Align feature borrows a trick from Illustrator: you can choose a Key object to align other objects to. A text frame with multiple columns can now automatically add or remove columns when you resize the frame. You specify a maximum width, and if the columns grow wider than that, InDesign creates a new column. Previously, InDesign could perform basic math functions inside number fields, such as simple addition and multiplication. With the CS6 version, InDesign can now resolve complex functions that use multiple operators.
You can now Zoom in directly to a linked object when you view it in context from the Links panel. The Extension Manager now lets you save, enable, and disable extensions in groups you define.
You can now export objects, pages, or your entire document to PNG format, a lossless image file format. Saving your InDesign document for backward compatibility is now more intuitive—the Save As dialog box now includes "InDesign CS4 or later (IDML)" as an option.
Text-handling and language support
Text is the natural adjunct to page layout, and InDesign CS6 offers numerous improvements. The Font menus now group your most recently used fonts at the top, sorted either alphabetically or by recent use. Paragraphs that split or span columns can now have their "Keep" options set, to ensure that all paragraphs that need to stay together will do so.
When adding or removing text from a text frame, auto-size options now let you determine whether the text frame will get taller, wider, or both, and in which directions.
The open-source Hunspell dictionaries are now used by default, and you can choose any of more than 100 dictionaries to install.
When you link a Child text frame to a Parent text frame, you can map styles so that the Child text can have a different appearance from the Parent.
There's new support for Indian languages, including Hindi Marathi, Gujarati Tamil, Punjabi, Bengali, Telugu, Oriya Malayalan, and Kannada.
Previously, Middle Eastern versions of InDesign were supported by third-party companies. In CS6, Adobe has taken over development, support, and sales of such versions. New features in the Middle Eastern version includes support for tables in the Story Editor, improved Kashida justification, enhanced diacritic positioning, and other text-handling improvements.
System requirements
For the Mac, InDesign CS6 requires a multicore Intel processor, Mac OS X 10.6.8 or 10.7, and 1GB of RAM (2GB recommended). It also needs a 1024-by-768 display (1280-by-800 recommended) with 16-bit video card.
For Windows, InDesign needs an Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64 processor, Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 3 or Windows 7, and 1GB of RAM (2GB recommended). It also needs a 1024-by-768 display (1280-by-800 recommended) with a 16-bit video card.
[Jay J. Nelson is the editor and publisher of Design Tools Monthly, an executive summary of graphic design news.]
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – A Connecticut woman mauled by a chimpanzee two weeks ago lost her hands, nose, lips and eyelids and may be blind and suffering brain damage, and hospital officials say it's still unclear if her condition can improve at all.
The Cleveland Clinic, revealing the specific injuries Wednesday for the first time, told The Associated Press in a statement that 55-year-old Charla Nash also lost the bone structure in her face when she was attacked on Feb. 16 in Stamford, Conn.
Her wounds have been stabilized, but "critical issues still remain related to a significant traumatic brain injury and injuries to her eyes that threaten her vision," the hospital said.
Neurosurgeons and ophthalmologists are working to evaluate and manage her injuries, but "the full extent of these injuries and her potential for recovery, if any, remain unclear at this time," the hospital said.
Nash remains sedated in the hospital, which performed the nation's first face transplant in December. Hospital officials say it's too early to know if she will be a candidate for a face transplant.
The family and hospital said they are grateful to those across the country who have been concerned about Nash's recovery.
The 200-pound chimp was shot and killed by police. Police are still deciding whether its owner, Sandra Herold, of Stamford, will face criminal charges.
Herold's attorney, Joe Gerardi, declined to comment Wednesday.
Herold had asked Nash to come to her home the day of the attack to help lure Travis back into her house. Herold has speculated that the chimp was trying to protect her and attacked Nash because she had changed her hairstyle, was driving a different car and was holding a stuffed toy in front of her face to get Travis' attention.
When he was younger, Travis starred in TV commercials for Old Navy and Coca-Cola, made an appearance on the "Maury Povich Show" and took part in a television pilot.


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Margaret Stohl is the author of ICONS, the first book in the Icons Series – as well as the New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, Los Angeles Times, Indie-Bound and Internationally Bestselling co-author of the Beautiful Creatures Novels (with Kami Garcia.)
Including BEAUTIFUL CREATURES (2009), BEAUTIFUL DARKNESS (2010), and BEAUTIFUL CHAOS (2011), BEAUTIFUL REDEMPTION (2012)– along with DREAM DARK, a Beautiful Creatures story available exclusively online (August, 2011) – the Beautiful Creatures Novels have been translated into 28 languages and 37 countries. The Beautiful Creatures movie based on the books comes out February 14, 2013 from Alcon and Warner Bros. It stars Alden Ehrenreich, Alice Englert, Viola Davis, Emma Thompson, Jeremy Irons, Thomas Mann and Zoey Deuthc with the Academy Award nominated writer/director Richard LaGravenese.
Beautiful Creatures was an ALA William C. Morris YA Debut Award finalist in 2010, as well as a SCIBA award finalist, a NYPL Book for the Teen Age, and a YALSA Teen Top Ten Pick. Beautiful Creatures was named the #1 Teen Pick from Amazon in 2009, and the #5 Editors Pick, Overall.
A longtime veteran of the videogame industry, Margaret's work includes – to name a few – SPIDERMAN, FANTASTIC FOUR, DUNE 2000, THE PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE LEGEND OF JACK SPARROW, DEFENDER, THE SOPRANOS, SLAVE ZERO, APOCALYPSE, ZORK NEMESIS, ZORK GRAND INQUISITOR, SPYCRAFT, COMMAND & CONQUER: RED ALERT RETALIATION, and COMMAND & CONQUER: TIBERIAN SUN.
After working with Activision (now Activision/Blizzard) and Westwood Studios (now EA), Margaret became a co-founder of 7 Studios with her husband, Lewis Peterson. She has previously been nominated for "Most Innovative Game Design" at the Game Developers Conference.
Margaret has participated in the Nashville Screenwriters Conference, the Tribu dei Lettori in Rome, and the BAU Institute/Otranto Residency, as well as the LA Times Festival of Books, Romantic Times, and the Texas Book Festival. She was the Director of Programming for the 2011 YA Capitol Bookfest in Charleston, SC, and a founding member of the Smart Chicks tour.
Margaret has been featured in Amherst Reads, and is a contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books. She has been a member of the WGA West and PEN West. Margaret's original screenplays have been optioned by Clasky-Csupo and Nickelodeon Movies for feature film.
A graduate of Amherst College, where she won the Knox Prize for English Literature, Margaret earned a MA in English from Stanford University, and completed classwork for a PhD in American Studies from Yale University. Margaret was a teaching assistant in Romantic Poetry at Stanford, and in Film Studies at Yale. She attended the Creative Writing Program of the University of East Anglia, Norwich, where she was mentored by the Scottish poet George MacBeth.
Margaret loves traveling the world with her daughters, who are epee fencers, and living in Santa Monica with her husband, also a writer, and two bad beagles.


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The Kelly Girl Story - Kelly Services PR
You've come a long way, Kelly Girl®!
In 1946, with the postwar economic boom just beginning, William Russell "Russ" Kelly started Russell Kelly Office Service, which offered to pick up typing work from customers and complete it at his office. It wasn't long before one of Russ's customers called in desperate need, not for work to be picked up, but for a worker to fill in for his secretary who hadn't shown up that day. Following his service-oriented instincts, Russ offered to loan the customer his own secretary for the day.
Then a steel company called. They needed help with payroll, but were reluctant to send sensitive company records over to Russ's office. They asked if he'd consider sending one of his typists to their office to do the work. These customer requests gave Russ an idea. He realized that booming Detroit-based businesses wanted clerical help to come to their offices, often for short or last-minute assignments.
His idea? Instead of picking up typing work and doing it in his own office, he'd start sending his two employees on temporary assignments to wherever they were needed. From Russ's small office in Detroit, that idea quickly caught on.
With a qualified staff ready at a moment's notice, Russ saved his customers time and money. Thus, the modern staffing industry was born, and so was the iconic Kelly Girl.
Russ had always been proud of the name Kelly Girl, which had been coined by his temporary employees in order to more easily identify themselves when working in the customer's office. The term gained national recognition for quality temporary employees. As a result, the company changed its name to Kelly Girl Service, Inc. in 1957.
Russ leveraged the Kelly Girl brand and made it a household phrase synonymous with temporary staffing. In those early days, the company proudly displayed images of smiling women seated at typewriters, and rented buses with banners proclaiming "more Kelly Girls going to work" as they transported Kelly employees to customer locations.
But as times changed, so did the services the company offered. Marketing, technical, and light industrial services had been added, and a greater number of men were being employed by the company in all service sectors. As the industry and the workforce diversified and evolved, so did the services the company offered and the image of Kelly employees.
In 1966 the company became Kelly Services, Inc., a name that would more accurately cover a variety of services as the company continued to evolve.
Today, Kelly Services is a leading global workforce solutions company offering a wide range of professional and technical job opportunities to people in nearly every industry and discipline. From the lab to the engineering department to the data center to the medical facility, Kelly helps even the most skilled professionals find meaningful work at the world's leading companies. In fact, there are more Kelly employees working around you than you might think. Annually, Kelly engineering employees work more than 9 million hours, Kelly scientific employees work more than 9.5 million hours, and Kelly office employees work more than 34 million hours.


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America's two "great victories" since 11 September 2001 are unravelling. In Afghanistan, the regime of Hamid Karzai has virtually no authority and no money, and would collapse without American guns. Al-Qaeda has not been defeated, and the Taliban are re-emerging. Regardless of showcase improvements, the situation of women and children remains desperate. The token woman in Karzai's cabinet, the courageous physician Sima Samar, has been forced out of government and is now in constant fear of her life, with an armed guard outside her office door and another at her gate. Murder, rape and child abuse are committed with impunity by the private armies of America's "friends", the warlords whom Washington has bribed with millions of dollars, cash in hand, to give the pretence of stability.
"We are in a combat zone the moment we leave this base," an American colonel told me at Bagram airbase, near Kabul. "We are shot at every day, several times a day." When I said that surely he had come to liberate and protect the people, he belly-laughed.
American troops are rarely seen in Afghanistan's towns. They escort US officials at high speed in armoured vans with blackened windows and military vehicles, mounted with machine-guns, in front and behind. Even the vast Bagram base was considered too insecure for the defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, during his recent, fleeting visit. So nervous are the Americans that a few weeks ago they "accidentally" shot dead four government soldiers in the centre of Kabul, igniting the second major street protest against their presence in a week.
On the day I left Kabul, a car bomb exploded on the road to the airport, killing four German soldiers, members of the international security force Isaf. The Germans' bus was lifted into the air; human flesh lay on the roadside. When British soldiers arrived to "seal off" the area, they were watched by a silent crowd, squinting into the heat and dust, across a divide as wide as that which separated British troops from Afghans in the 19th century, and the French from Algerians and Americans from Vietnamese.
In Iraq, scene of the second "great victory", there are two open secrets. The first is that the "terrorists" now besieging the American occupation force represent an armed resistance that is almost certainly supported by the majority of Iraqis who, contrary to pre-war propaganda, opposed their enforced "liberation" (see Jonathan Steele's investigation, 19 March 2003, www.guardian.co.uk). The second secret is that there is emerging evidence of the true scale of the Anglo-American killing, pointing to the bloodbath Bush and Blair have always denied.
Comparisons with Vietnam have been made so often over the years that I hesitate to draw another. However, the similarities are striking: for example, the return of expressions such as "sucked into a quagmire". This suggests, once again, that the Americans are victims, not invaders: the approved Hollywood version when a rapacious adventure goes wrong. Since Saddam Hussein's statue was toppled almost three months ago, more Americans have been killed than during the war. Ten have been killed and 25 wounded in classic guerrilla attacks on roadblocks and checkpoints which may number as many as a dozen a day.
The Americans call the guerrillas "Saddam loyalists" and "Ba'athist fighters", in the same way they used to dismiss the Vietnamese as "communists". Recently, in Falluja, in the Sunni heartland of Iraq, it was clearly not the presence of Ba'athists or Saddamists, but the brutal behaviour of the occupiers, who fired point-blank at a crowd, that inspired the resistance. The American tanks gunning down a family of shepherds is reminiscent of the gunning down of a shepherd, his family and sheep by "coalition" aircraft in a "no-fly zone" four years ago, whose aftermath I filmed and which evoked, for me, the murderous games American aircraft used to play in Vietnam, gunning down farmers in their fields, children on their buffaloes.
On 12 June, a large American force attacked a "terrorist base" north of Baghdad and left more than 100 dead, according to a US spokesman. The term "terrorist" is important, because it implies that the likes of al-Qaeda are attacking the liberators, and so the connection between Iraq and 11 September is made, which in pre-war propaganda was never made.
More than 400 prisoners were taken in this operation. The majority have reportedly joined thousands of Iraqis in a "holding facility" at Baghdad airport: a concentration camp along the lines of Bagram, from where people are shipped to Guantanamo Bay. In Afghanistan, the Americans pick up taxi drivers and send them into oblivion, via Bagram. Like Pinochet's boys in Chile, they are making their perceived enemies "disappear".
"Search and destroy", the scorched-earth tactic from Vietnam, is back. In the arid south-eastern plains of Afghanistan, the village of Niazi Qala no longer stands. American airborne troops swept down before dawn on 30 December 2001 and slaughtered, among others, a wedding party. Villagers said that women and children ran towards a dried pond, seeking protection from the gunfire, and were shot as they ran. After two hours, the aircraft and the attackers left. According to a United Nations investigation, 52 people were killed, including 25 children. "We identified it as a military target," says the Pentagon, echoing its initial response to the My Lai massacre 35 years ago.
The targeting of civilians has long been a journalistic taboo in the west. Accredited monsters did that, never "us". The civilian death toll of the 1991 Gulf war was wildly underestimated. Almost a year later, a comprehensive study by the Medical Education Trust in London estimated that more than 200,000 Iraqis had died during and immediately after the war, as a direct or indirect consequence of attacks on civilian infrastructure. The report was all but ignored. This month, Iraq Body Count, a group of American and British academics and researchers, estimated that up to 10,000 civilians may have been killed in Iraq, including 2,356 civilians in the attack on Baghdad alone. And this is likely to be an extremely conservative figure.
In Afghanistan, there has been similar carnage. In May last year, Jonathan Steele extrapolated all the available field evidence of the human cost of the US bombing and concluded that as many as 20,000 Afghans may have lost their lives as an indirect consequence of the bombing, many of them drought victims denied relief.
This "hidden" effect is hardly new. A recent study at Columbia University in New York has found that the spraying of Agent Orange and other herbicides on Vietnam was up to four times as great as previously estimated. Agent Orange contained dioxin, one of the deadliest poisons known. In what they first called Operation Hades, then changed to the friendlier Operation Ranch Hand, the Americans in Vietnam destroyed, in some 10,000 "missions" to spray Agent Orange, almost half the forests of southern Vietnam, and countless human lives. It was the most insidious and perhaps the most devastating use of a chemical weapon of mass destruction ever. Today, Vietnamese children continue to be born with a range of deformities, or they are stillborn, or the foetuses are aborted.
The use of uranium-tipped munitions evokes the catastrophe of Agent Orange. In the first Gulf war in 1991, the Americans and British used 350 tonnes of depleted uranium. According to the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, quoting an international study, 50 tonnes of DU, if inhaled or ingested, would cause 500,000 deaths. Most of the victims are civilians in southern Iraq. It is estimated that 2,000 tonnes were used during the latest attack.
In a remarkable series of reports for the Christian Science Monitor, the investigative reporter Scott Peterson has described radiated bullets in the streets of Baghdad and radiation-contaminated tanks, where children play without warning. Belatedly, a few signs in Arabic have appeared: "Danger - Get away from this area". At the same time, in Afghanistan, the Uranium Medical Research Centre, based in Canada, has made two field studies, with the results described as "shocking". "Without exception," it reported, "at every bomb site investigated, people are ill. A significant portion of the civilian population presents symptoms consistent with internal contamination by uranium."
An official map distributed to non-government agencies in Iraq shows that the American and British military have plastered urban areas with cluster bombs, many of which will have failed to detonate on impact. These usually lie unnoticed until children pick them up, then they explode.
In the centre of Kabul, I found two ragged notices warning people that the rubble of their homes, and streets, contained unexploded cluster bombs "made in USA". Who reads them? Small children? The day I watched children skipping through what might have been an urban minefield, I saw Tony Blair on CNN in the lobby of my hotel. He was in Iraq, in Basra, lifting a child into his arms, in a school that had been painted for his visit, and where lunch had been prepared in his honour, in a city where basic services such as education, food and water remain a shambles under the British occupation.
It was in Basra three years ago that I filmed hundreds of children ill and dying because they had been denied cancer treatment equipment and drugs under an embargo enforced with enthusiasm by Tony Blair. Now here he was - shirt open, with that fixed grin, a man of the troops if not of the people - lifting a toddler into his arms for the cameras.
When I returned to London, I read "After Lunch", by Harold Pinter, from a new collection of his called War (Faber & Faber).
And after noon the well-dressed creatures come To sniff among the dead And have their lunch
And all the many well-dressed creatures pluck The swollen avocados from the dust And stir the minestrone with stray bones
And after lunch They loll and lounge about Decanting claret in convenient skulls
John Pilger is a renowned journalist and documentary film-maker. A war correspondent and ZNet Commentator, his writings have appeared in numerous magazines, and newspapers such as the Daily Mirror, the Guardian, the Independent, New Statesman, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Nation, and other newspapers and periodicals around the world. His books include Heroes (2001) Hidden Agendas (1998) and Distant Voices (1994).
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Last night ended up being quite a late evening. After finally finishing up my overdue articles, I headed out for the "This Won't Stay In Vegas" party. Foolishly, I walked. It had to be a couple of miles from the hotel, but it was nice out, and I was early so what the heck. The place eventually filled up nicely, and the museum it was at--the Museum of Atomic Testing--was actually quite interesting as well. I ran into a lot of people there, including Star Trek's Brent Spiner, who seemed like a nice guy. I'll have a few pics of the museum up in a bit.
After the party, I went to a Podtrac dinner for Leo and his podcasters over at the Hard Rock Cafe's Pink Taco restaurant. One of the nice things about this CES in general, and that dinner in particular, is that I've been able to spend some time with various TWiT folks. It's an amazing thing to be a part of, and everyone is just fantastic. Gary Koffler and I spent quite a bit of time reminiscing about the early days of the computer industry--he was an actual participant, I'm just an amateur industry historian--and are going to see if we can turn this into a podcast. These stories need to be told, and by the people who experienced it. I hope it happens.
Today, I'm going to head over to the LVCC South Hall for an hour or so and hopefully record a short segment for Leo's radio show. This afternoon will likely involve some kind of non-CES activity--Neowin's Tom Warren and Brad Sams were talking about possibly going to Hoover Dam or something similar, so we'll see. I have a stupid, stupid, stupid red eye flight this evening/tomorrow morning that I'm not too excited about. But I held my hotel room for an extra day so I didn't have to stumble around Vegas with my bags for 12 hours.
Some ramblings about the show
Looking back on the 2010 CES, I guess I'd just say that the PC-type stuff has been deemphasized quite a bit, which makes sense since the natural evolution of the CE industry is for devices to obtain more powerful computing processing and capabilities; for a few years there, it seemed that you needed a real PC somewhere in the chain to make it all work. That's less the case now, I think. I was amused to hear an "industry expert" on the plane ride here to explain to someone that he's been coming to this show for so long that he remembers when it used to be called COMDEX. That's a sadly amusing bit of ignorance, given that CES has been its own show since the 1970's and that COMDEX was something separate, and something that was completely PC-centric. Maybe it's time to bring that back.
I'm also growing increasingly weary of the gadget-of-the-day silliness, which is fed by overly-popular gadget blogs. These guys pump something up until it ships and then they just move onto to the Next Big Thing. CES is all about this kind of baloney, too much so, and of course since the show spans industries, it spills over into businesses you weren't necessarily even aware of. Whatever you have has already been replaced by something better. It's just a treadmill, and getting people excited over nothing isn't a business model, it's a mistake.
That said, technology can be exciting, and it's the reason I love this business. Every once in a while something special does come along--the Kindle, the iPhone, perhaps (we'll see) that Lenovo U1 hybrid notebook--and keeps things interesting. Not coincidentally, however, the devices I just mentioned were both deeply flawed at launch; the Kindle and iPhone were way to expensive when they first appeared, and the iPhone had a litany of problems for PC users especially that lasted almost two years. It's funny how so few reviewers cared to admit that to their readers.
CES, of course, is about the future. So the hype here is understandable, especially for those products that won't ship for months. That much of Microsoft's keynote address was about momentum (i.e. "the past") is I think problematic: If Microsoft can't address the future at CES, and is instead allowed to give a 60 minute recap about how excellent the last year was, then it's time for CES to move on and find a company that is more aligned with the vision of the show. Put simply, it's not clear to me that Microsoft deserves to be headlining CES. Aside from the Xbox, they're not exactly lighting it up with consumers, and several consumer-oriented products and services--notably Windows Live--weren't even mentioned at this CES. That's unforgiveable.
It's unclear which company could fill this gap. Apple, of course, but then that would just be a 60 minute commercial for that one company's products, a replacement for the Macworld keynote. Instead, maybe it's time to let the diversity of the companies at CES by represented in the keynote, and have an MC that would bring up people from the top 10 of 15 companies with compelling stories to tell, in order, and let them parade their stuff. There just isn't a single company that deserves this spot, from what I can tell.
Anyway, I'm uncomfortable providing answers to my own questions. As a reviewer, I find it easy to spot problems ("complain") but not so easy to find answer ("solve"). So I'll leave that to the experts. But I do feel that a change is needed. I hope that CES is looking into this.
As for next year's show, whether I attend will be based on Leo's plans, as I enjoyed the live show recording quite a bit. I will do things a bit differently next time, however, and spend less time at the show and more time before the show researching where the PC-oriented stuff is so that I don't have to wander several miles around the LVCC to find it. Super-thin LCD HDTV displays are nice and all, but after walking by 1000 or more of them, they all kind of blur together, and if I never hear another thumping car bass again I'll die a happy man. Too much of CES is just irrelevant to me and what I write about. Next year, I'll ignore that stuff.


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So I recently got a bottle of Ron de Jeremy Rum. I know what you are thinking. Yes, the rum is named after the adult film star Ron Jeremy. When I think of rum the last thing I think about is Ron Jeremy. However, when the rum came out this past spring, I was interested in trying the rum mainly because of the name. I didn't have very high expectations, but I thought at the very least it would be a fun conversation piece to have in my bar.
After posting some reviews other people had written about the rum at news.LetsTiki.com the nice people at Ron de Jeremy contacted me and offered to send me a bottle. I'm not one to turn down free rum. So I said, "Send it my way!"
According, to rondejeremy.com the rum is a 7-year old rum from Panama. The rum was created by Cuban Master Distiller Francisco "Don Pancho" Fernandez. Don Pancho has been involved with may successful rum brands throughout the years.
First, I tried the rum neat, a.k.a. room temperature rum in a glass. It had a nice buttery aroma with hints of vanilla and spice. After taking a sip the first flavors were nice and buttery. That was followed by a hint of vanilla and some spices; almost a warm cinnamon flavor came through. The after taste wasn't quite as smooth as I'd like though.
Next, I tried it on the rocks. On the rocks can change the flavor of a rum quite a bit, and this rum was no exception. The buttery flavor was less intense and a nice oaky flavor came through. The spiciness wasn't quite as strong, and also the rum was a bit smoother.
Of course, I had to try the rum in a daiquiri. I made just a simple daiquiri:
- 1 oz Ron de Jeremy Rum
- 1/2 oz fresh lime juice
- 1/2 oz simple syrup
To make the daiquiri shake the ingredients together in a cocktail shaker, and pour strained into a champagne saucer or any small glass. You can use any rum in this simple daiquiri. It's a great way to compare different rums.
The Ron de Jeremy tasted great in the daiquiri. It mixed nicely with the lime an sugar. The buttery flavor still shone through; as well as the spices. The rum made a nice daiquiri. Overall, Ron de Jeremy is a nice rum, and I would recommend picking up a bottle. I hope the name doesn't turn people off.


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W Hotels Worldwide Brings New Island Glamour to Singapore with the Opening of W Singapore - Sentosa
W Hotels Worldwide Brings New Island Glamour to Singapore with the Opening of W Singapore - Sentosa Cove
Located in the heart of the Singapore's entertainment center, W Singapore is an urban oasis that infuses the energy of the cosmopolitan city with Sentosa Island's tropical landscape
SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- W Hotels Worldwide today announced the opening of the first W Hotel in Singapore with the debut of W Singapore - Sentosa Cove and The Residences at W Singapore - Sentosa Cove. Owned and developed by an affiliate of City Developments Limited, W Singapore is an urban oasis located on Sentosa, the city's most glamorous island only minutes away from downtown Singapore. Designed by London-based architects WATG and renowned design firm Rockwell Group, W Singapore has been inspired by the buzzing energy of the city set against Sentosa's natural surroundings to create a new scene in this international capital. Adjacent to the 228 W-branded residences, the hotel offers a fully integrated lifestyle experience, featuring 240 guest rooms and suites, two signature restaurants, a destination bar, the W Lounge experience, WET pool deck and bar, Away Spa, and more than 1,500 meters of modern meeting and event space.
"The opening of W Singapore - Sentosa Cove heralds a new era of hospitality for our country," said Mr. Kwek Leng Beng, Executive Chairman of City Developments Limited. "Together with Quayside Isle, W Singapore will add to the vibrancy of Sentosa Cove by providing residents and visitors with a marina lifestyle haven unlike ever before."
"Singapore is a dynamic city and global hub for the world's jetsetters," said Vincent Gillet, Global Brand Leader, W Hotels Worldwide and Le Méridien. "W Singapore will bring a new hotel experience to Sentosa through cutting-edge design, buzzing nightlife and restaurants, and innovative happenings that showcase what's new and next for both locals and guests alike."
The opening of W Singapore - Sentosa Cove marks the W brand's 43rd hotel worldwide, and the seventh W Hotel in Asia Pacific. Starwood's continued momentum across Asia Pacific reflects the strength of its nine leading brands and the deep relationships the company has fostered with developers, partners, and guests in the region over the last 27 years.
"We are thrilled to announce the opening of W Singapore - Sentosa Cove today," said Stephen Ho, President, Asia Pacific, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. "The arrival of a design-led hotel brand like W Hotels to Singapore comes at the right time as Singapore has emerged as Southeast Asia's lifestyle and creative hub. Without a doubt, the hotel's iconic design infused with the W brand's passion for what's new and next will offer Singapore the ultimate lifestyle destination."
Island Glamour Unleashed on Sentosa Island
Located minutes away from Singapore's Central Business District, fashionable shopping and iconic sights, Sentosa Island is a modern playground for stylish locals and international jetsetters alike, offering lush rainforests, sandy beaches, award-winning spas, luxurious residences, and a deep-water yachting marina. W Singapore and The Residences at W Singapore - Sentosa Cove are situated in the heart of Sentosa and adjacent to Quayside Isle, a unique specialty retail complex with waterfront restaurants and shops.
The design of W Singapore has been inspired by modern interpretations of Sentosa's lush, tropical landscape. For instance, upon arrival, guests are welcomed by a waterfall with projections of vibrant graphic patterns on the water, while the outdoor terrace features glowing grass lights, rock-shaped daybeds, and an over-scaled rock garden. Patterns evoking Singapore's national flower, the Vanda Miss Joaquim Orchid, can be found throughout W Singapore and serving as inspiration for guestrooms. In the hotel's W Lounge, a DJ console carved out of natural stone creates a centerpiece, overlooking the lawn, which illuminates in the evening.
Sip and Mix, Indulge and Escape in Singapore's New Urban Oasis
Setting a new gourmet scene in Singapore, SKIRT, the W brand's first contemporary grill restaurant, makes its debut with a slick bar for sipping the latest cocktails and aging cabinets serving the finest meats, sensational seafood, signature soups and tantalizing desserts. The Kitchen Table all-day dining restaurant features an interactive experience with various live food stations and tastings at the whim of the chef. WOOBAR, W Singapore's destination nightclub, offers innovative cocktails creations by the W mixologist and sounds by the hotel's resident DJ at nightfall. For a chill out moment, WET Bar is a poolside spot to socialize, sip and nibble under Singapore's glistening sun.
W Singapore features an Away® Spa, the W brand's signature spa concept that offers an escape for both guests and locals to detox and refuel for what's to come. Guests of the spa are greeted by rainforest-inspired decor and natural sculptural pieces that personify the exotic gardens of Singapore. Away at W Singapore exclusively features iLA products and highly-customized beds that offer maximum comfort. For guests seeking the ultimate spa experience, W Singapore offers nine Away guest rooms and suites, located on the spa level of the hotel and each featuring a private plunge pool. The hotel also features GYM state-of-the art fitness center and WET pool deck, featuring a 1,300 square meter outdoor pool with 24 underwater speakers.
All guest rooms and suites at W Singapore feature a signature W Bed, Munchie Box stocked with exclusive amenities, 40" LED HD TV, state-of-the-art surround sound system, high-speed Wi-Fi, and MP3 player plug-and-play device. All bathrooms are stocked with Bliss® amenities to ensure a relaxing experience after a day of sun or night of fun. The hotel offers W's signature Whatever/Whenever® service philosophy, offering guests whatever they want, whenever they want it, as long as it's legal!
W Singapore features more than 1,500 square meters of meeting and event space, including an 732-square-meter Great Room, seven meeting rooms, and a stunning outdoor space outfitted with adaptable conference furniture and state-of-the-art audio/visual equipment. W Singapore is the first hotel in the city to feature private berthing stations along the shore with direct access to the Great Room for an enhanced grand entrance.
W Singapore Celebrates Its Premiere
In celebration of its opening, W Singapore - Sentosa Cove is offering "Island Glamour Welcome," which includes accommodation in Wonderful guestroom, breakfast for two at The Kitchen Table and cocktails prepared by the W Mixologist at WOOBAR, with stunning marina views and sunset transformations. Starting at SGD$388++ per package, upgrades are available to Spectacular or Fabulous rooms for an addition of $20++ and $70++, respectively.
W Singapore - Sentosa Cove's opening offer can be booked online at www.wsingaporesentosacove.com; via email to email@example.com; or by phone at 1-800-325-2525. For reservations and more information, please visit www.whotels.com/singapore.
About The Residences at W Singapore - Sentosa Cove
The Residences at W Singapore - Sentosa Cove is an award-winning, W-branded high lux condominium by the marina with berthing facilities for yacht owners right at its backyard. Supported by the neighbouring W Hotel's Whatever / Whenever® concierge services, The Residences at W Singapore - Sentosa Cove boast of a complete W lifestyle for the affluent unlike any other. Complimented with Quayside Isle's dining and retail experiences at its doorstep, residents at this superbly located Sentosa Cove home that is minutes away from the city, will be spoilt for choice. Be one of the few to live and own the W lifestyle. This integrated luxury enclave, which comprises The Residences at W Singapore - Sentosa Cove, W Singapore - Sentosa Cove and Quayside Isle, has been envisioned and developed by City Developments Limited (CDL), Singapore's trusted property pioneer since 1963. For more information, visit www.cdl.com.sg and www.whotels.com/singapore.
About W Hotels Worldwide
W Hotels is a contemporary, design-led lifestyle brand and the industry innovator with 43 hotels and retreats, including 15 W-branded residences, in the most vibrant cities and exotic destinations around the world. Inspiring, iconic, innovative and influential, W Hotels provides the ultimate in insider access, offering a unique mix of cutting-edge design and passions around fashion, music and entertainment. W Hotels offers a holistic lifestyle experience that is integrated into the brand's sensibility through contemporary restaurant concepts, glamorous entertainment experiences, stylish retail concepts, signature spas and inspiring residences. With more than 13 years of proven success, W Hotels is on track to reach 60 hotels by the end of 2015. W Hotels have been announced for Bangkok, Guangzhou, Milan, Shanghai, Beijing, Bogota, Abu Dhabi, Mumbai, Dubai, Jakarta, Panama, Muscat, and Sante Fe, Mexico, while upcoming W Retreats include Verbier, Goa, and Mexico's Riviera Maya. For more information, visit www.whotels.com. To live the W Hotels lifestyle 24/7/365, visit www.wresidences.com. Follow @WHotels on Twitter.
About Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYS: HOT) is one of the leading hotel and leisure companies in the world with 1,112 properties in 100 countries and territories with 145,000 employees at its owned and managed properties. Starwood Hotels is a fully integrated owner, operator and franchisor of hotels, resorts and residences with the following internationally renowned brands: St Regis®, The Luxury Collection®, W®, Westin®, Le Méridien®, Sheraton®, Four Points® by Sheraton, and the recently launched Aloft®, and Element SM. The company boasts one of the industry's leading loyalty programs, Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG), allowing members to earn and redeem points for room stays, room upgrades and flights, with no blackout dates. Starwood Hotels also owns Starwood Vacation Ownership, Inc., one of the premier developers and operators of high quality vacation interval ownership resorts. For more information, please visit www.starwoodhotels.com.
About City Developments Limited
Singapore's property pioneer since 1963, City Developments Limited (CDL) is a listed international property and hotel conglomerate involved in real estate development and investment, hotel ownership and management, facilities management, as well as the provision of hospitality solutions. With an impressive track record of over 22,000 luxurious and quality homes to its name in Singapore, CDL has been shaping the cityscape with award-winning architectural icons over the past four decades. Amongst them are One Shenton, the distinctive landmark residence at the heart of the new downtown at Marina Bay; The Sail @ Marina Bay, one of the tallest residential developments in the world; The Oceanfront @ Sentosa Cove, the exclusive seafront condominium and St. Regis Residences, Singapore, a world-class branded residence offering the ultimate luxury lifestyle. Globally, the CDL Group has a prominent presence in over 20 countries across Asia, Europe, Middle East, North America and New Zealand/Australia, with over 300 subsidiaries and associated companies, including five companies listed on stock exchanges worldwide. It is the only Singapore corporation to be listed on all three of the world's top sustainability benchmarks; the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes, FTSE4Good Index Series and the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World. For more information, visit www.cdl.com.sg.
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