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Obama's Syria challenge
President Barack Obama is "gravely" worried about the situation in Syria, the White House says, while Secretary of State John Kerry called the Syrian regime's use of chemical weapons against civilians a "moral obscenity" that "should shock the conscience of the world."
What's not yet clear is whether developments in the Mideast will shock the conscience of the American people enough to win their support for military action.
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It's not just that the public appears resistant to intervening in Syria — these days, Americans seem broadly skeptical about the idea of military intervention, period. As the White House weighs its options in Syria, Obama confronts the grim prospect of asking voters to grit their teeth and support yet another military engagement in a far-off Mideast nation, at a moment when the country seems anything but warm to the notion.
The polls have been remarkable in their consistency, from one foreign conflict to the next: Americans don't want to engage. They are suspicious of overseas entanglements, whether in the form of military action or funding for foreign aid. A big slice of the country — perhaps even a majority — wants the rest of the world to deal with its own problems.
The most dramatic example of voters recoiling from a foreign war is related to Afghanistan: In June, less than 3 in 10 Americans told an ABC/Washington Post poll that the Afghan war had been worth fighting.
But recent surveys on Syria have also found voters notably unenthusiastic about getting involved in the war-torn state. A Reuters/Ipsos survey conducted last week found just 25 percent of Americans supported intervening after a chemical weapons attack.
( Also on POLITICO: Barack Obama, reluctant warrior)
In June, about a quarter of respondents in an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll favored direct military action or arming Syrian rebels — essentially the same proportion that said the United States should do nothing at all. That same month, a Pew poll recorded just 20 percent support for arming Syrian rebels, and found that 68 percent of Americans believed the American military is "too overcommitted."
Asked by Pew whether the United States has a "moral obligation" to stop violence where it can, Americans were split at 49 percent on each side.
Julia Clark, vice president of Ipsos Public Affairs, stated the plain conclusion: "The last few years, we've seen a real lack of appetite for this kind of intervention anywhere in the world."
( WATCH: John Kerry remarks on Syria)
Pew pollster Andy Kohut said all these polls have unfolded against a backdrop of voters drawing back from the idea of military engagement abroad.
"Internationalism is at a low point and people are very wary of American involvement — particularly American military involvement — in that part of the world," Kohut said. "What we have seen with Syria, we have seen with Libya, and we have seen more generally with respect to the Arab Spring."
Pollsters caution that the public's views on Syria would likely fluctuate in the event Obama deploys military force and makes a more assertive case to the country about the need for American involvement.
( Also on POLITICO: On Hill, deep skepticism about Syria entanglement)
There already have been some indications that a chemical weapons attack could change the public's view of Syria. Contrary to the Reuters/Ipsos result, a Pew survey in April found that a 45-percent plurality of Americans would support action in Syria if the regime there used chemical weapons.
Public Opinion Strategies pollster Bill McInturff, the Republican half of the NBC/WSJ polling team, warned: "It is very hard to predict American public opinion until military action begins and the public assesses whether it met its objectives and is successful or not."
There's recent evidence, though, that Americans have little patience for anything but clean-cut military victories in apparently clear-cut conflicts.

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inFamous 2 trailer is super-powered
inFamous 2 gets a new "Quest for Power" trailer that shows of some of Cole's new abilities.
The folks over at Sucker Punch have released an electrical new trailer for inFamous 2.
In the first game, Cole was caught in the midst of a city-leveling blast from a device called the Ray Sphere, and found himself imbued with some shocking superpowers enabling him to fight for good (or evil) in Empire City. In inFamous 2, Cole must continue to expand his suite of abilities so that he's equipped to confront an approaching, powerful "Beast," foreshadowed in the first game.
The sequel sees Cole and his trusty buddy Zeke head south to the city of New Marais (inspired by New Orleans), in search of more superpowers and Dr. Sebastian Wolfe, the man behind the Ray Sphere technology.
Apparently, Dr. Wolfe has managed to isolate the type of energy that facilitates genetic mutations, and he's been focused on creating technology intended to harness and manipulate this energy. The few individuals who can actually survive exposure to such energy are called Conduits. Cole just happens to be one.
The official PlayStation blog elaborates:
Wolfe has also developed a device — called a Blast Core— which can store this type of energy safely for an extended period of time. Over the years, he's built and charged six of these Blast Cores. So to continue his evolution, Cole will need to locate these all-important Blast Cores, and absorb their energy into his body. But Wolfe fears the Blast Cores will fall into the wrong hands, so he has moved them to safe locations around the city — and Cole will have to hunt them all down.
inFamous 2 is due out on June 7, exclusively for PlayStation 3.
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text: I would say that the single biggest problem in HPC today is not getting sufficient hardware horsepower, but in effectively using that power. 10 years ago, just getting a cluster going was a bit of a challenge, in terms of knowing what hardware to get, how to interconnect it, etc, but now, a lot of that is cookbook (or available turnkey from a variety of vendors... A very different matter from when Sterling, et al wrote their book back in 98/99). Sure, there are still hardware issues that are worthy of discussion on this list (details of interconnects, etc.), but one doesn¹t see the discussions about topologies that one saw back then. The hardware is now to the point where you rack up the computers, hook them all to a very fast switch with huge bisection bandwidth, and you¹re done. However, the topic of taking a simple problem and effectively parallelizing it (either at a EP level as can be done with some Monte Carlo or systematic simulations, or at a fine grained level, as with matrix numerical modeling) is very much grist for the mill. After all, what are all those folks building parallelizing/vectorizing compilers trying to do but reduce the substantial software engineering/design problem, so that a scientist or engineer can just write their problem out in simple form, and have ³the backend² figure out how to do it efficiently (or at all). There are many problems which are, by their nature, software design complex enough that it is not reasonable to have the person ³asking the question² also be knowledgeable enough to manage the substantial software development project. This would be true, if for no other reason than managing a software development effort takes a different skill set than asking good science or engineering questions. So, the real challenge facing builders (in the larger sense) of Beowulfs is in developing methods to get the work actually done, and if that requires developing skills in ³eliciting requirements² or, more probably, ³communicating between software speak and science speak², then this is an appropriate place to do it (if not here, then where *would* be a place where it¹s more germane.. I can't think of one off hand) It's sort of like our discussions about communicating with the facilities folks about power requirements or HVAC. Someone building a cluster needs to know something about this to be an intelligent consumer, but nobody expects the scientist to be down there sweating copper pipes for the chiller or cabling up the EPO button for the UPS. The list is valuable because there *are* folks here who do know how to sweat pipes, manage software projects, and interpret the electrical code, and you can ask a question about such things and get a host of responses, some more useful than others. Jim On 9/3/08 9:10 AM, "Prentice Bisbal" <prentice at ias.edu> wrote: > This discussion is still completely off-topic. This is a list about > computing issues relating to beowulf clusters, not software engineering > at large, sociology or psychology. > > >


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James Wines, professor of architecture, has been awarded the "Premio di Architettura ANCE," an annual honor presented to an international architect by Associazione Nazionale Construttori Edili (National Association of Builders in Italy).
In a letter informing Wines of the award, Andrea Vecchio, president of Edilstampa srl, referred to the architect, artist, educator, and author as an "emblematic figure in the panorama of international architecture." Wines' seminal contributions to the field and growth of environmental design resonated with a group that envisions architecture as a functioning unit of its surroundings.
"Ours is an association of builders and we, as part of it, want to think of our buildings as work that absorbs the external stimuli and permeates into the environment that surrounds it, in harmony with that environment," Vecchio wrote.
The ceremonies will take place in Catania, Sicily, on July 15, 2011, at the Giardino Bellini, a park that is the emblem and symbol of the city of Catania. Art college students and beginning architects and engineers are vying for the opportunity to design a work to be placed on the garden's hill, and Wines' visit is being billed as a chance to hear from an internationally renowned leader.
"I am certain that these young people need your advice," said Vecchio in his letter. "They should, at least, all get to know your idea of 'green architecture.' They should learn how to 'read' nature."
Wines is looking forward to returning to Italy, a country where he has resided, lectured, and built architectural projects. Since the late 1960s, he has taught in various design schools there, including La Sapienza Roma, Domus Academy, Universita di Calabria, Politecnico di Milano, Universita di Firenze, E.N.E.A, and Universita did Salerno.
He is particularly appreciative of this ANCE award because of his long-term involvement with Italian education and cultural activities. He also hopes, as a result of this special recognition, to continue his interaction with the country's next generation of architects and designers.
Wines is founder, president, and creative director of SITE, a New York City-based, multidisciplinary architecture and environmental arts organization located in the Wall Street area of Manhattan. The studio is internationally known for its contributions to "environmental thinking," as well as its site-specific projects integrating buildings with their surrounding environments. The purpose of SITE is to create architecture and public spaces that respond to social, psychological, cultural, and ecological information.
In the course of his career Wines has put his stamp on more than 150 corporate and municipal projects that incorporate architecture, environmental art, interior design, public space, and landscape architecture.
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IUCN - The World Conservation Union, Gland, Switzerland (07.06.05) - Researchers plan to name the recently identified Malayan tiger, a new subspecies, Panthera tigris jacksoni to honour the career of tiger conservationist Peter Jackson, former Chair and still active member of the Species Survival Commission's Cat Specialist Group.
As with many threatened species, tigers have been divided into subspecies – natural geographically separate populations – for conservation as well as recognition purposes. The discovery of this new subspecies therefore has major conservation implications and is highlighted in the most recent edition of CAT NEWS, the SSC Cat Specialist Group newsletter.
Tigers historically inhabited much of Asia and may have numbered as many as 100,000 animals as recently as a century ago. Unfortunately, they have declined dramatically since then. Today's remaining population is estimated to be only 5,000 - 7,000 individuals and three of the traditional eight subspecies, the Javan, Bali and Caspian tigers, became extinct in the mid to late 20th century.
This collapse prompted Peter's interest in tigers as far back as the 1950s, when as Reuters foreign correspondent in India, he became fascinated by India's wonderful wildlife. However, it was the IUCN General Assembly in Delhi in 1969, when the crash in India's tiger population was a dominant issue, that marked a watershed. It was the start of his close involvement in tiger conservation which would lead to his establishment as one of the key players in this field.
Working for WWF International in the 1970s, Peter was closely involved in Operation Tiger to fund conservation action and he worked in tandem with the Indian Government's programme to establish a network of tiger reserves.
Malayan tiger (P. t. jacksoni) - photo by UF-Malaysia Tiger ProjectLater on, he worked independently to promote tiger conservation and in 1983, was nominated Chair of the SSC Cat Specialist Group, a post he held for 17 years. In his own words, this became his "life's mission" and naming this newly-identified subspecies after him is a fitting tribute to Peter's drive and commitment to tiger, indeed all wild cat conservation.
The correct identification of a subspecies is critically important for conservation purposes. This discovery, at the end of last year, is the culmination of a 20-year long study to characterize living tiger populations using a molecular genetic approach and has been published in the online journal Public Library of Science PLoS-Biology.
The results of the study showed that there was strong genetic evidence for four of the five remaining subspecies (Amur, Indochinese, Sumatran and Bengal) whilst the sampling of the South China tiger was very sparse and requires further sampling.
Unexpectedly, the Indochinese tiger showed a distinct separation into two distinct groups as different as the other subspecies are from each other. One group is confined to the Malayan peninsula and the other across the rest of the traditional Indochinese tiger range (see distribution map).
The newly identified subspecies has the common name Malayan tiger, to emphasize its geographical range, and the scientific name Panthera tigris jacksoni, in honour of Peter Jackson's career and dedication to tiger conservation.
This discovery will have important consequences for tiger conservation and management. Specifically, it would suggest that the new species be recognized and managed as a high priority in Malaysia.
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Indianapolis — The effects of deployment for Army personnel are not as great as expected, according to a study released in the September issue of Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, which is the official journal of the American College of Sports Medicine.
Physical training is part of the job of U.S. Army soldiers, but access to physical fitness facilities and training time may be limited during combat deployments. Although limited training may result in a loss of fitness, the physical requirements of war fighting may offset some of the negative effects, the study found.
In the context of the ongoing military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq, no previous study had assessed the effects of prolonged military deployment on body composition, physical fitness, and physical performance.
Researcher Marilyn Sharp and her team from the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine measured physical fitness levels in 110 infantry soldiers before and after a nine-month assignment to Afghanistan. Measurements included aerobic fitness, muscle strength, muscle power and body composition.
Soldiers maintained strength and lower body power during deployment. They experienced small but statistically significant decreases of about 5 percent in both aerobic fitness and upper body power. Changes in body composition were both positive (a 2 percent decrease in weight) and negative (a 4 percent decrease in lean body mass and an 8 percent increase in fat mass).
It is likely that the physical demands of military tasks helped soldiers maintain physical fitness, even in the face of reduced training time, Sharp says.
"The good news is that the negative effects of this deployment were minor and could be quickly ameliorated upon return with a directed physical training program," Sharp says.


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These are consumer units that Openmoko phones can be considered to be in competition with, based on featureset and price point.
[edit] iPhone
See iPhone
[edit] Sony PSP
Portable Game System
Price: $170
[edit] Interfaces
- Wifi
- USB (terminal device only)
- Headset (audio out + mic in)
- Game keys
- Memory Stick
[edit] Accessories
- Camera
[edit] Features
- Multimedia: MP3, MP4, jpg, AAC, ATRAC. Multimedia capability is adequate. Controls are not necessarily intuitive, given that it's a gaming unit, and not a media player, though third party and earphone jack media remote control is available. Memory is provided by removable flash (Sony Memory Stick, proprietary) up to 4Gb in size, which is plenty large enough for movies at full resolution. And the screen! My god, it's full of stars! The PSP screen is pretty much the best screen going, both in terms of size and clarity, unless the iPhone has done better. Unlike the iPhone and the Neo1973, no touchscreen. UMD is irrelevant to this discussion.
- Networking:
TCP/IP over Wifi. Applications include network firmware update, RSS/Podcast downloading and streaming, internet video viewing using Sony's Location Free Base Station (ala Slingbox), VoIP, and a web browser.
[edit] Flaws
No keyboard, and no keyboard support, neither infrared nor USB. And the text entry UI relies on, ahem, cellphone styled number keying. No GSM. Too much Sony propriety.
[edit] Sony Mylo
Personal portable communicator
Price: $300
[edit] Interfaces
- Qwerty keyboard
- Game style function buttons
- Wifi
- headset+mic
- Memory Stick
[edit] Features
- Multimedia: MP3, MP4, jpg, AAC, ATRAC
- Network: Skype VOIP, Yahoo, Google, and Skype IM.
[edit] Palm TX
Price: $300
[edit] Interfaces
- Stylus
- SD Card
- Wifi
- Bluetooth
- Serial port
- Optional keyboard
[edit] Features
- Multimedia: jpg, mp3, mp4
- Network: Wifi, Bluetooth. Wide range of third party TCP/IP apps available
[edit] GP2X
Portable Game System
Price: $190
[edit] Interfaces
- SD Card
- Game style buttons
- USB Host 1.1 (not powered)
- TV-out
[edit] Features
- Emulator for most game devices.
- Multimedia: DivX 3/4/5, XviD (MPEG4), MP3 and Ogg Vorbis
- Open source OS
[edit] Specifications
- Chipset: MagicEyes MMSP2 MP2520F System-on-a-Chip
- CPU: 200MHz ARM920T host processor, 200MHz ARM940T programmable coprocessor
- NAND Flash ROM: 64 MB
- Operating System: Linux-based OS
- Storage: SD Card
- Connection to PC: USB 2.0 High Speed
- USB Host: USB 1.1
- Power: 2 × AA battery or via AC adapter
- Display: 320×240 3.5 inch, 65,536 colors TFT LCD
- TV output
- Physical size: 143.6 mm wide, 82.9 mm high, 27 mm (excl. joystick approx.) / 34 mm deep
- Weight: 161 gram (without battery)


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Free Beer & Hot Wings: The Webutante Ball Is True Nerd Gathering [Video]
It's pretty easy to mock something called The Webutante Ball, which went down in New York last night.
It's basically a social gathering, which is a part of Internet Week New York, for the tech and web industry where people that run tech companies get together to have a few drinks and network.
But the joke's on us, because these nerds will be making more money than all of us combined in about three weeks. Sad face.
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First loves don't usually last a lifetime, but don't try to convince Artie Stavros of that. The moment he laid eyes on this Chevelle Super Sport he was hooked, big time, into a love affair that continues to this day.
Artie mustered out of the Navy in July 1966 and immediately began scoping out new cars. He looked at the Mustang and the all-new Camaro, but a ponycar wasn't quite what he had in mind. On the day his older brother John suggested they head over to the Major Chevrolet dealership in nearby Queens, Artie's life changed.
"I walked into the dealership and fell in love with a '67 SS Chevelle," he remembers. Not seeing exactly what he wanted in the showroom, Artie sat down with a salesman and went through the car's available options.
"I wanted all the goodies that were affordable to me at the time," Artie says, and who can blame him? He ordered a Marina Blue Malibu Super Sports coupe with a black vinyl top, bucket seats, center console, and a Delco pushbutton radio with rear speaker. To power the car, Artie ordered the L35 396 big-block joined to a Muncie M22 rock-crusher four-speed. The chassis was fitted with a heavy-duty suspension, and in the axle went 3.73 gears and Positraction.
When the negotiations were over, the dealership wanted $3,121.49—not a huge sum, but enough that Artie had to ask his brother to cosign the note for him. And then came a painful month-long wait for his order to be filled. "I drove the salesman nuts waiting for my car to arrive," says Artie. "He'd see me come into the dealership and run away." Artie was there waiting, in fact, when the transporter brought his Chevelle to Major Chevrolet, but the salespeople wouldn't let him take the car until they had prepped it. He had to wait one more day.
That next evening was one he'll never forget. "There it was, sitting under the night lights of the dealership," he remembers. "We picked up the car, and as we were driving home, I shifted gears and could hear the tires spin. It made me wet my pants. This was an amazing experience in my life. I finally had my dream car."
Just how in love with the Chevelle was Artie? On his first date with Linda, who would later become his wife, he took her to the dealership to see the Chevy, which was in for its first service.
It wasn't long before Artie started to race the car. "I put headers, an intake manifold, and a Holley 780 carburetor into the car. I began speed racing at National Speedway and West Hampton Speedway in 1967, 1968, and 1969. I also did some street racing on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, which back then was known as the connecting highway in Astoria, New York."
According to Artie, his racing days lasted until he married Linda in 1970. They moved into an apartment, while the Chevelle stayed in his father's garage. "I only took the Chevelle out on nice days. I never took it out in nasty weather."
The Chevelle got even more pampered when Artie decided to take it to car shows. He started in the mid '70s at the New York Coliseum and then the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale. He came away from both shows with First Place trophies. "After that we started with local shows like Eisenhower Park and the Chevy Show Down," he says. "We put the entry in my son's name so that when we won, he could go up and collect the trophies."
This lasted "until my son discovered girls, then he dropped me like a hot potato," Artie admits. At that point the Chevelle, with just 29,000 miles on the clock, went into semiretirement. It was carefully housed in Artie's garage, where he would start it now and then "just to keep things lubricated, you know."
Time passed, years went by, and then Artie himself retired from his 33-year career as a UPS tractor-trailer driver. He decided it was time to rekindle his romance with the Chevelle. So in 2010 he delivered it to Island Classics in Lindenhurst, New York, where it was restored back to the condition it was in on that fateful night when he first picked it up, and fell in love, 43 years before.
At a Glance
1967 Chevelle SS396
Owned by: Artie Stavros, Levittown, NY
Restored by: Island Classics, Lindenhurst, NY
Engine: 396ci/325hp L35 V-8
Transmission: Muncie M22 4-speed manual
Rearend: GM 12-bolt with 3.73 gears and Positraction
Interior: Black vinyl Strato bucket seat
Wheels: 14×7 Rally
Tires: P215/70R14 Uniroyal Tiger Paw
Period performance: 14.01 seconds @ 101 mph (with cheater slicks, National Speedway, 1968)


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You deserve a break today!
We could all use a little more relaxation, but vacation time is limited in this country. While European countries routinely give employees four weeks off every year, Americans make do with a paltry two weeks. And in the health club industry getting time off is especially difficult, particularly if you're the owner/manager of a small club.
Still, time off is essential. "It's not healthy to just be married to your business," says Matthew Wagner, Ph.D., owner of the Nautilus Health Center, a 24/7 club in Huntsville, Texas, and a 20-year industry veteran. "But if you asked me 10 years ago, I would have said I don't get to take a vacation because I had to build my business."
"I'm a firm believer that people need to take care of themselves in order to be able to take care of business," says Debra Siena, regional vice president of Tennis Corp. of America in Chicago.
Owners/operators of clubs, in particular, need time to refresh themselves. When you're the top person, you don't have a manager who takes care of you, motivates you and makes sure that you're OK and balanced and happy. Therefore, an owner must take responsibility to make sure he preserves himself. If he loses his effectiveness, everyone else suffers.
Convinced you should now take that long overdue time off? Before you make your plane reservations, do some advance planning, advise Siena and Wagner. They recommend that you:
* Give at least four-months notice to your staff. "The sooner you know when you're going to go, the better," says Siena. "And make sure no other key person will be traveling during that time." If, for instance, you know in May you're going to leave town for Thanksgiving, start telling your staff then. And let new hires know that they should plan on working that weekend.
* Choose a person who will be in charge when you're away and start training him or her well in advance. "Empower that person beforehand," says Siena. Unsure whom to choose? "Pick the most competent person on your staff, someone who has been with you a while," advises Siena.
* Have systems in place. Siena recalls that when she was starting out, she went away for four days only to return and find that during her absence the StairMasters had gone down. They were plugged into one another in a daisy chain and then one plug went into the wall socket. It turned out someone had tripped over the main plug and pulled it from the wall. "No one took the basic action needed to solve this problem," she says. "I dropped the ball on accountability."
Her solution: a team manual, which basically outlined what to do in every possible crisis. "You have to have the systems in place so you're not so dependent on people," she says. "You need to be able to depend upon the systems to work and then you teach people the systems. Empower the whole team so everyone knows these systems."
* Do a walk-through. "You can't give your point person a concrete list of when to call you," says Siena. "It's more working with the main point person and helping him feel competent enough to handle day-to-day things." At some point, say to the person, "In what type of situation would you feel you had to call me?" Challenge the person to come up with the list and then teach him the things you don't want to be called about and agree on the things you do.
* Schedule call-ins. You may want to decide upon a set time when you will call in during your vacation and find out how things are going or deal with any pressing issues. "Tell your point person, 'I will call you Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 10 a.m. If anything happens that can wait, save it for those calls,' " advises Siena. "If there's an emergency, call before then."
* Have your manager take a vacation before you do. "While he's gone, you can see what he has been doing," says Wagner. "Give him time off so you can dive in and see exactly what he has been doing to your business."
* Schedule your vacation to coincide with slow times. "January is our busiest month, so I don't take a vacation then," says Wagner. "October and November are very slow for us. It's a good time to get away. During December, things are starting to crank up and you're making preparations for the start of the year. Bam! You've got to be there."
* Let your comfort level determine the length of your vacation. "The length of your vacation depends upon the trust you have in your systems and people," says Siena. "The less comfortable you feel, the shorter your vacation should be." But if four days is all you can manage, "set up a better system when you return and empower people, so the next time you can take seven days," she advises.
* Ease into longer vacations. "After a year, you should be able to take a full week," says Siena. "If you are tentative, try a long weekend. Come back and ask, 'OK, what happened? Where did I drop the ball? What can I do differently?' "
Because of the demands of his 24/7 club, Wagner opts for mini-vacations - such as long weekends. "Thursday through Sunday, things slow down and I try to get away on those days. We'll do shorter vacations, but more frequent ones." Wagner recalls that the first time he took a week off, "whenever the phone rang, I thought something was wrong. I couldn't relax. When I take shorter vacations, I feel a lot more comfortable. A lot less can happen in four days as opposed to seven or 14."
* Relax. "I had to get away," says Wagner, who put vacations on the back burner when he was building his business. "I was going nuts. It was closing in one me. And honestly the club ran smoother when I wasn't there. We worry so much about our business, but maybe when you're not there, you decrease the stress level on your employees and they want to rise to the occasion and work harder."


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- Eden Parade Shopping Centre - 10 min walk
- Tropical Spice Garden - 26 min walk
- Penang Cultural Center - 2.7 mi / 4.3 km
- Teluk Bahang Beach - 2.8 mi / 4.5 km
- PKSA Penang Water Sports Centre - 3 mi / 4.8 km
Getting around
- Penang (PEN-Penang Intl.) - 51 min drive
- Free self parking
About Holiday Inn Resort Penang, Penang
The outdoor pool and lounge area at this 4-star property are surrounded by palm trees and ocean views. You can grab a water volleyball from the front desk, take a hike, or just relax with a cocktail and appetizer from Hari's Bar. For breakfast, lunch, and dinner, head to the outdoor patio at Terrace Café. This restaurant serves international cuisine and hosts outdoor barbecues. The Lobby Lounge has a bar and stylish lounge area that looks out to the beach.
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Hotel size
- This hotel has 347 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 23 floors
- Check-in time 2 PM-midnight
- Check-out time is noon
Required at check-in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
- Minimum check-in age is 18
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- Babysitting/childcare *
- Free children's club
- Pets not allowed
- Free WiFi and wired Internet access in public areas
- Free WiFi and wired Internet access in rooms
- Free self parking
Other information
- Smoke-free property
In the hotel
- Children's club (free)
- Supervised childcare/activities (surcharge)
- 2 restaurants
- Bar/lounge
- Poolside bar
- 24-hour room service
- Barbecue grills
- Outdoor pool
- Children's pool
- Fitness facilities
- Outdoor tennis court
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- Spa treatment room(s)
- Bicycle rentals on site
- Hiking/biking trails on site
- Personal motorized watercraft on site
- Golfing nearby
- Parasailing nearby
- Arcade/game room
- 24-hour business center
- Conference space size (feet) - 4982
- Conference space size (meters) - 463
- One meeting room
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- Tours/ticket assistance
- Limo or Town Car service available
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- Free newspapers in lobby
- Luggage storage
- Wedding services
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- Number of buildings/towers - 2
- Elevator/lift
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Garden
- Picnic area
- Television in common areas
- Roll-in shower
- Chinese
- English
- Hindi
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- Coffee/tea maker
- Iron/ironing board
- Pillow menu
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- Bidet
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- Hair dryer
- Premium TV channels
- Desk
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- Free WiFi
- Phone
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- Daily housekeeping
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The Spacation has massage/treatment rooms, couples treatment room(s), and outdoor treatment areas. Services include hot stone massages, facials, body wraps, and body treatments. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy and reflexology.
The spa is open daily.
DiningTerrace Cafe - Overlooking the ocean and garden, this restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. A children's menu is available.
Lobby Lounge - Overlooking the ocean and pool, this restaurant serves lunch and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
Haris Bar - This bar is located by the pool.
Holiday Inn Resort Penang, Penang's small print
Also known as
- Holiday Inn Resort Penang
- Penang Holiday Inn Resort
- Holiday Inn Resort Penang Batu Ferringhi
- Holiday Inn Resort Penang Hotel Batu Ferringhi
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.
Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments and can be made by contacting the property before arrival at 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: MYR 3 per accommodation, per night
- A tax of MYR 10.00 per accommodation, per night is imposed by the country of Malaysia and collected at the property. Permanent residents and Malaysian nationals are exempt from the tax. For more details, please contact the property using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
Optional extras
Rollaway beds are available for MYR 120.0 per night
Babysitting/childcare is available for an extra charge
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.
Recent reviews
Very Good 8.0 From 356 reviews
The location was great!!! And the services in the hotel were fantastic, especially with kids! Kids club staff were lovely.. and games room was fun for my older ones.
Good hotel in a great location. 4 room suite was perfect for our group.
This is a nice, clean chain hotel right in the heart of Batu Ferenghi, next to the beach and the night market shops. The hotel is split in two, with part next to the beach, and part across the road (via a footbridge), so make sure you specifiy which building you want when you book. Staff were friendly, and the one issue we had (slightly blocked bathroom plug) was fixed within one hour of us reporting it. It was rather expensive, though, but you're paying for the location.
Location was perfect. Pool area was nice. Always found lounge chairs. Plentiful of pool towels. Beach was beautiful too. I stayed on the beach wing. This wing needed immediate renovation. Bathroom facility was quite old. Toilet was difficult to flush. Bath tub was very old and no separet shower room. Buffet breakfast was adequate and lots of varieties. Good lunch and dinner. Night market right outside the hotel. Good for shopping. I will come again after the beach wing is renovated.
It's amazing hotel really I relax inside the room and also out of the room there is everything you want restaurant & shopping and Pe
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It's a major issue in China, now competing with American agriculture on many fronts, says Scott Rozelle, who spoke recently at the Western Growers Association conference. He's spending a year in China doing economic research in the ag sector.
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Monsanto's highly productive, genetically modified seed is a good example, he says. "Everyone began adopting it — then everyone began copying it and selling it. Monsanto made money, but not nearly as much as they would had their product not been stolen.
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Calgary, Alberta (June 4, 2008) — Suncor Energy Inc. reported today that production at its oil sands facility during May averaged approximately 164,000 barrels per day (bpd). Production for the month was reduced due to a planned maintenance shutdown of one of two oil sands upgraders that began May 16 with an expected duration of approximately 30 days. Year-to-date oil sands production at the end of May averaged approximately 225,000 bpd. Suncor is targeting average oil sands production of 275,000 to 285,000 bpd in 2008.
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Jaeger LeCoultre written on dial
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Blue dials outter and inner , second hand seems white (not sure if original). Two things that I am concerned about, I am not sure if it is far on the bottom, but there is no 'Swiss' or 'Swiss Made' written. I went to my local watch maker, who deals with vintage JLC and he opened the back and the movement is LeCoultre (unfortunately no pictures). I mentioned this to him and he said (in Swiss-German) something to extent of Jaeger & LeCoultre were separate but may have did different parts of a watch. I have read that the the text should match JLC dial, crowns, movement. Watch runs and keeps time (power reserve about 25-30 hours i guess) alarm works,not sure last time it was serviced. What do you think this may go for?
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Load cells are an integral part of the force measurement system of a testing machine. Their interchangeability along with transducer recognition and single point electrical calibration makes them easy to use. They maintain high alignment and are resistant to offset loading throughout the test, even with large sized specimens. Instron controls the design, manufacture and quality of all load cells, with customer applications in mind. They are certified in accordance with international standards for use in material testing machines only.
Principle Of OperationInstron load cells are precision force transducers containing a full bridge of strain gauges bonded to internal load bearing structures. When mechanically stressed the electrical resistance of the gauges changes, thus changing the output signal.This signal is then conditioned for display readouts in accordance with international standards.
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Along with its needed effects, potassium iodide may cause some unwanted effects. Although not all of these side effects may occur, if they do occur they may need medical attention.
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- weakness or heaviness of legs
Some side effects of potassium iodide may occur that usually do not need medical attention. These side effects may go away during treatment as your body adjusts to the medicine. Also, your health care professional may be able to tell you about ways to prevent or reduce some of these side effects. Check with your health care professional if any of the following side effects continue or are bothersome or if you have any questions about them:
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Endocrinologic side effects have included both hyper- and hypothyroidism. By inhibiting the release of thyroid hormone from the thyroid gland, iodide can cause goiter and hypothyroidism. This has been called the Wolff-Chaikoff effect, occurring in approximately 4% of patients, and may be more likely in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). Iodide may induce hyperthyroidism, called the Jod-Basedow effect, when given to patients with preexisting iodide deficiency or autonomous, "hot" thyroid nodules. Iodide can cause parotid gland swelling.[Ref]
In one study of 55 patients with CF who were treated with iodides, 47 developed goiters, and 14 had clinical or laboratory evidence of hypothyroidism. In 2 of the 14 hypothyroidism occurred in the absence of a goiter. Subsequent data are consistent with the possibility that peripheral deiodination of T4 to T3 may be impaired in these patients. Failure to appreciate this can lead to the erroneous diagnosis of congenital hypothyroidism in some patients with CF.[Ref]
The pathogenesis of vegetating iododerma is not clear, may be idiosyncratic, and appears to involve a hyperinflammatory response. Iodides appear to increase the movement of polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNLs) into areas of inflammation, enhancing the inflammatory response. Since PMNLs are known to increase connective tissue proliferation, iodides could convert an area of inflammation into an area of proliferative tissue, providing and explanation for proliferative iododermas.[Ref]
Dermatologic side effects have included iododerma in approximately 1% of patients. Iododerma is a term used describe a wide range of dermatologic side effects of KI that typically affect the face, neck, back and upper extremities. Iododerma may present as acneiform vesiculobullous, vesicular, pustular, hemorrhagic or urticarial lesions. The incidence of skin eruptions associated with the use of KI in inpatients from the Boston Collaborative Surveillance Program was less than 0.6%. Rare cases of urticaria, angioedema, polymyalgia, and life-threatening systemic reactions have been associated with the use KI in patients with underlying connective tissue disorders.[Ref]
Rare cases of severe, ulcerative, vegetating iododerma in patients with underlying polyarteritis nodosa, arthritis, lymphoma, subacute glomerulonephritis, multiple myeloma, dermal vasculitis or hypocomplementemia have been reported.[Ref]
Hypersensitivity side effects have included rash, fever, eosinophilia, jaundice, pruritus, angioedema, lymphadenopathy, arthralgia, bronchospasm, submucosal hemorrhage and periarteritis nodosa-type reactions. Bullous iododerma appear to be an allergic reaction, and can be fatal. Other known hypersensitivity reactions to iodides include hematuria, proteinuria, and pulmonary edema. Predisposing risk factors for hypersensitivity reactions appear to include some underlying connective tissue disorders.[Ref]
Gastrointestinal side effects have included "upset stomach" in 10% to 40% of patients, depending on the dose. Other common GI complaints include an unpleasant, "brassy" taste, throat or retrosternal burning, sore gums, and salivation. In rare cases and in cases of overdose, esophagitis and gastritis have been reported.[Ref]
Iodide may interfere with certain autoanalyzer measurements of serum chloride, resulting in falsely elevated values. The "true" anion gap in some cases can, therefore, be higher than the calculated anion gap. "Hyperchloremic acidosis" has been associated with ingestion of KI. In some cases of KI overdose, the anion gap was due to the presence of high serum levels of lactic acid.[Ref]
Metabolic side effects have included metabolic acidosis following KI overdose.[Ref]
Renal side effects have included acute renal failure secondary to tubular necrosis following KI overdose.[Ref]
Hematologic side effects have included rare reports of hemolytic anemia, and appear to be limited to cases of overdose.[Ref]
Immunologic side effects have included rare cases of systemic granulomatous vasculitis.[Ref]
A 37-year-old female with Sweet's syndrome was successfully treated with potassium iodide. Within 12 days after beginning therapy, however, she developed malaise, diminished vision, hypertension, rash, and fever. Physical and laboratory findings revealed new renal insufficiency, bilateral papillitis on retinal examination, and leukocytoclastic vasculitis per skin biopsy. Renal biopsy and renal and mesenteric angiography were normal. The patient's signs and symptoms resolved over 11 months with the addition of oral prednisolone therapy.[Ref]
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Ky. lawmaker earns name for 'no'
Thomas Massie is getting very good at saying "no."
In less than three months on Capitol Hill, the Kentucky congressman has voted no on the fiscal cliff deal, no on the rule for Republicans' thwarted Plan B, voted no on the National Defense Authorization Act, voted no on all of the disaster relief for states affected by Hurricane Sandy and voted against John Boehner for speaker.
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The 42-year-old Republican with a deep libertarian streak says he's here to be a "consistent conservative voice." And while that might mean more headaches for the Republican leadership, Massie says he's just doing what his supporters want him to do. After all, he won his special election in November with the backing of Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), tea party groups and the fiscally conservative Club for Growth.
Those who are cheering Massie on are more than happy with the results they've seen from him so far, and already a few of them are hoping that he'll be the guy to primary Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in 2014.
"The door is not closed on him running against Mitch McConnell in 2014, and he's the only candidate that could beat him," said Preston Bates, co-founder of the super PAC Liberty for All, a group that spent $700,000 in Massie's House race. "He's already building a legacy in the House with his votes against Boehner and NDAA."
Club for Growth spokesman Barney Keller called Massie a "rock star for years to come."
But a potential Senate run is something else Massie is saying no to, at least at the moment.
"Absolutely, positively not. Not in the cards. Mitch McConnell will be fine in the primary, and I look forward to doing the job that I have right now," Massie said in an interview. "We get along. Occasionally, I introduce him at functions, and I've been to his fundraisers. Of course, I agree with Sen. Rand Paul on issues more than I do Mitch McConnell."
But Massie, an MIT graduate who is rarely without a smile in the Capitol, doesn't see himself as a rabble-rouser and gets along with pretty much everyone.
"I like Thomas a lot. He's a very engaging guy and we have some very serious policy difference, but we have some things we're working together on: legalization of hemp, he's a supporter of alternative energies," said Rep. John Yarmuth, the Kentucky delegation's lone Democrat. "I don't think Thomas is a real partisan Republican in the sense that he doesn't have much allegiance to the party. You know when he's taking a position he's taking it honestly and thoughtfully."
So thoughtfully in fact, Massie said he has the "opposite of attention deficit disorder." He reads each piece of legislation, carefully weighing the pros and cons of each bill.
"I can focus on what seems to be the most boring things for days at a time," Massie said.
Massie's work as an engineer and inventor could help explain his obsessive attention to detail: He holds a bachelor's and a master's degree from MIT in engineering.


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Ebay's Meg Whitman Talks Tech and Policy
Meg Whitman retired from Ebay in March after a 10-year stint as president and CEO. Since then, she's been immersed in the Republican presidential campaign, first helping to raise more than $70 million for Mitt Romney's campaign, and now pitching in as a top business adviser for John McCain's run.
In February, she said, McCain's team was a start-up, made up of 40 people in its Arlington headquarters. "We tried to take the McCain campaign from a start-up to a grown-up in six months."
She did the same with Ebay, although it took a bit longer than six months. She spoke about the lessons she learned during the process at the Northern Virginia Technology Council's fall banquet last night.
The most important thing she learned, she said, is that "you need the right person in the right job at the right time with the right values....We had to reorganize early and often." She also said you have to be willing to take chances: "The cost of inaction is far greater than the cost of making mistakes...We're like sharks---if we stop swimming, we die."
On the policy front, she talked about the economy, education and taxes. She's most concerned about the state of math and science education and high school drop out rates.
"If we do not rededicate ourselves to education the same way Americans have dedicated themselves to going to the moon and fighting wars, we will not produce a workforce capable of handling the high-paying jobs of the future," she said.
She emphasized the need for ubiquitous broadband in order to help businesses thrive and support new jobs. She applauded Virginia for its efforts to help start-ups and small businesses by streamlining the registration process to operate in the state. Virginia also allows tax credits for angel investors, whose willingness to invest in relatively risky ventures is key to innovation, she said.
The need for more H1B visas is also a sticking point for her, and one that got many nods in agreement from the audience. Currently, the government allows about 60,000 visas per year, which she called "woefully inadequate." The real need is more like 500,000 visas, she said. Bill Gates has testified before Congress many times on this issue.
As a place to start a business, Virginia ranks at the top, she said. California, where Ebay is headquartered, recently ranked on the low end of the scale. "If we were to be starting Ebay again, would we choose California? Probably no," she said.
On the topic of the financial crisis, she said the "number one priority of economic growth is how many jobs you're creating."
"That should be the lens through which every type of policy is viewed," she said.
Government itself is stuck with old-fashioned ways of doing things, with "outdated bureaucratic structures, out-of-control spending patterns and over-reliance on taxes," she said. "Government needs to change it's ways."
What will Whitman's own role be after next Tuesday? She didn't say much last night, but she told USA Today last month that she hasn't ruled out a run for governor of California.
She's retained the political consulting firm run by Steve Schmidt, who now runs the daily operations of the McCain campaign.
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Posted by: subwayguy | October 28, 2008 4:04 PM
I would consider Meg Whitman's efforts to hire American citizens "woefully inadequate". In the midst of an economic downturn there are a host of qualified American IT Workers and resident Green Card Holders who can very capably fill the positions that Ms. Whitman and Mr. Gates list. Enough billionaire bail outs. Bring on President Obama.
Posted by: AmericanITWorker | October 28, 2008 6:19 PM
There are already TOO many of these supposedly badly-needed H-1B visas being granted. 20% of the applications are based on cheats and fraud. Please read the facts from these links to major industry journals:
Foreign H-1B workers do not have a record of improving the bottom-line of corporations. Some of the biggest users of H-1Bs were the collapsed Wall Street financial services companies, and some of the most screwed-up IT departments I've seen have been dominated by H-1B imports. The most successful versions of Windows were the versions from the last century, before Microsoft started relying on so many H-1Bs. H-1B imported workers drive down the wages and working condition of U.S. citizen workers.
Meg Whitman is obviously a country-club elitist neo-con. Her type has absolutely no concern for the average American worker, and I believe that she doesn't know what she is talking about outside from her unquenchable desire to get more work for less. A half-million H-1B workers flooding into the country would decimate the hopes, prospects, and wages of U.S. IT workers, and would clear out US citizens from all IT curricula at American universities.
Posted by: USVoter1 | October 28, 2008 8:40 PM
AmericanITworkers writes "bring on President Obama!"
haven't you heard... Obama thinks there's a shortage of skilled workers and calls for an increase in the H-1B Cap!
So does McCain. Either way you (we) lose !
Looks like we got fooled again!
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Posted by: Rbengrguy | October 29, 2008 7:57 AM
What isn't addressed is the complete abuse by corporations of this program. The big companies are using smaller ones as their proxies to hire cheap labor.
Hundreds of thousands of jobs are going to unqualified h-1b workers, who are hired first by a small head hunter firm and then leased to larger companies such as Oracle, Microsoft, Google, Netflix, Ebay,...
One reform which is needed badly, is to make sure that all hiring of h-1b applicants should be for full-time positions, and no contract position. Sub-contracting is a huge area of abuse. The sub-contracting allows companies such as Google, Cisco, Microsoft... to be insulated from actually having to make sure that the h-1b worker is truly qualified for the job.
I have witnessed this first hand.
I have interviewed candidates from Google who didn't understand how to kill a running process on Unix, yet claimed to be Unix experts.
Very recently, I have interviewed candidates from Ebay that didn't know what a jar or war file was, yet still claimed complete java, tomcat, and JSP expertise.
(when questioned further some of these candidates revealed they were contracting to these companies through small head-hunter firms)
The h-1b program is killing U.S. business. The same companies that were before Congress this year and last, claiming that they needed more H-1b workers, are now laying off workers or are in a hiring freeze.
I guess the fat-cats are truly insulated from being called into court for lying to Congress.
Ebay is laying off.
Google won't admit it, but they are in a hiring freeze.
Yahoo is laying off.
Oracle quietly laid off 500 programmers this year.
In a recession, the h-1b count should be allowed to go to zero.
Posted by: jake_leone | October 29, 2008 11:07 AM
Interesting name 'Kim Hart'. You sure don't have a heart, pushing a labor glut in what could be a depression when the H-1b program has been proven over and over again by the immigration department and Senator Grassley to be loaded with fraud to lower wages and displace American citizens.
A lot of people are going to be hurt economically in the coming period, and nobody deserves it more than someone who pushes cheap labor propaganda that destroys the lives of strangers.
I hope you learn about economic hardship personally Kim, I think it's the only way someone like you could ever understand it.
Posted by: bezrf | October 29, 2008 11:44 AM
Oh brother, the dwindling middle class isn't spending and the economy is in freefall - and now people like this lady want to put even more tech workers on the unemployment lines.
John McCain - read our lips - outsourcing, cheap foreign labor, and offshoring are killing this country - more of it will drive the nails into the coffin. We need to bring tech jobs back and do it now. For many reasons including national security. Whoever can make that happen will win the presidency but as rbengrguy said - neither candidate has the stomach for that. http://www.madnamerica.com for more information on this subject.
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Northwestern freshman forward Chicago Fire Academy product Joey Calistri saw plenty of familiar faces on the field when the Wildcats ousted Marquette 1-0 in the second round of the NCAA Tournament last Sunday.
The presence of the former Development Academy players in that match was evident solely on Calistri's game-winning score. Northwestern's Scott Lakin, also a former Chicago Fire Academy player, provided the assist to Calistri's 31st-minute strike from about 20 yards out. It was driven past another ex-Fire Academy player in Marquette sophomore goalkeeper Charlie Lyon.
"There were a lot of Fire Academy guys out there and a lot of local guys," Calistri said. "It was good to see all of them, and because you knew a lot of the players, you knew their tendencies and capabilities."
Calistri has taken on a leading role with the Wildcats as he has a team-leading nine goals and faces No. 16 Louisvile on Sunday, Nov. 25. Clearly Calistri has made a smooth transition into the collegiate ranks following his Academy days with the Fire.
"I think the training environment has been the most beneficial part of it," Calistri said. "When I was with the Chicago Fire Academy and training with guys like Kellen Gulley, it was a great opportunity to gain experience and play games against some of the best players in the country. That's what the Academy is for."
Calistri's Fire Academy tenure was a unique one in that he was the leading scorer for the U-17/18 team in 2011-12 while coming off the bench for most of the season. Calistri had 16 goals in 24 games and seven starts as the Fire posted a 13-0-3 record to win the Great Lakes Division and advance to the Academy Playoffs.
"I knew my role was coming off the bench and I was fine with that," Calistri said. "Obviously I would have liked to have played a full 90 minutes, but I'd come into the second half, run around a little bit, stayed after practice quite a bit and the entire experience helped a lot."
Calistri's Northwestern side sputtered a little bit at the end of the regular season with a 1-2-2 record, but the team had a strong enough season to earn a tournament bid and has taken advantage of the postseason.
"It's been pretty nuts," Calistri said. "We were sitting watching the selection show, not sure if we would get in the tournament and our name came up. We were struggling a little at the end of the year, but we've pulled it together and we have another chance to make this special."
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