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Calle O e/ 23 y 25, Vedado. Ciudad de La Habana
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"not up to my expectation"
Posted by: mousse on Sep 8, 2014
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In the heart of the Vedado district, right in the hustle and bustle of this exciting part of the city. Cinemas, nightlife nearby.
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"not up to my expectation"
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mousse on Sep 8, 2014 >
1 contribution(s) Canada
Visited on: Mar, 2014 | Business | Solo
473 people found this review helpful
It was a disaster compared to the kind of expectations I had while going there, I saw reviews yet I went ahead and I can say that I got what I deserved and oh, you get what you pay for because the place is cheap. The location is perfect as the Malecon is just few steps away from the hotel and also, because of where it is located, you can explore the city as there are lots of activities to engage in. The price was decent for the location but that's not all that a client will require, services was not even up to average talk more of standard. I don't recommend people to go here if you don't want to be disappointed but if you want to, you can go and see if you will be able to stay. The hotel was clean there is no complain there and the staff was very friendly just that sometimes, they can be arrogant like they are being forced to work there. The maids didn't clean the rooms so for the most part, it was usually dirty. I didn't really eat much in the hotel as I went out most of the time. The few times I ate breakfast here, it was good but nothing out of the ordinary, nothing special just basic omelets. I expected more from the hotel but I was disappointed, the rooms are supposed to be cleaned out every day and they are to have more meal options since it is a buffet.
"Staff were all very pleasant and accommodating"
Posted by: Daniel
on Nov 13, 2013 >
1 contribution(s) Canada
Visited on: Nov, 2013 | Leisure | With friend
544 people found this review helpful
The services were as described on the website. The safe in our room had no electricity and so did not work, but the front desk clerk was quick to move us to another room where the safe worked fine.
The cleaning staff reacted quickly and efficiently after a night of heavy rain which caused water to leak into our room through the window frame.
Other than those two minor incidents, everything went smoothly. No complaints.
The front desk staff all spoke English and Spanish. They were always pleasant and went out of their way to help us.
I would recommend this hotel to other travelers.
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"violent and horrible"
Posted by: tim
on May 23, 2013 >
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Visited on: May, 2013 | Business | Solo
594 people found this review helpful
I advise no non-latin person to go to this hotel. I went there on Friday 11th May and was assaulted by the security guards at the reception, I think because I was a Little irritable that I could not get any response from the reception when I asked for a taxi. I was attacked, dragged out in full view of all, and beaten up for two hours in the Street and their car. My money was stolen from my shirt pocket, so that the next day I was thrown out of the hotel by the manager. I could not get more money until the next Monday from a bank.
The next day this was reported to the pólice, some of whom came, but did nothing.
"Basic but OK for the price"
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Michael Gauld on May 6, 2012 >
2 contribution(s) United Kingdom
Visited on: Apr, 2012 | Leisure | Solo
709 people found this review helpful
The hotel was pretty basic but OK for the the price. It's in a very good location in Vedado just 3min walk from the Hotel Nacional.
On the plus side the front desk staff and bellboys were friendly and helpful and spoke English. The breakfast was adequate (cereal, toast, fruit, eggs) and the room was functional though not much more.
On the downsides the rooftop pool was just that, there was no space to sit or lye in the sun around the pool. I was up on the 10th floor and the noise from the rooftop disco at the weekend is pretty loud till 3am, also the sound from the street is louder than expected - take some earplugs! You may also have to have the odd cold shower as hot water doesn't always work.
The biggest downside was some loose change in a zip compartment in my day bag ($4 CUC) went missing following cleaning of my room by the maid service. I'd have left at least this as a tip after my stay, there is a safe security box provided in the room and the hotel says don't leave any valuables in your room. I just found it a bit of a shock - I had seen some reviews on trip advisor saying something similar prior to my stay, I didn't bother reporting this to reception as it was only 4 pesos and they advise you to keep valuables in the safe.
I wouldn't stay here longer than you need to spend in Vedado which need only be about 3 nights.
"Bon Sejour"
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Maite CHIPI on Feb 25, 2012 >
1 contribution(s) FRANCE
Visited on: Feb, 2012 | Leisure | Solo
738 people found this review helpful
J'ai passé une nuit à l'hotel Saint John's. La chambre était très bien, très confortable et propre. Bon accueil à la réception. Mon coffre fort ne marchait pas mais bon je n'ai pas eu de souci de vol cependant (à noter que dans cet hotel l'utilisation du coffre fort présent dans la chambre est payante)
"Overrated hotel"
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Esther Putman on Jan 26, 2012 >
1 contribution(s) The Netherlands
Visited on: Jan, 2012 | Leisure | With Spouse/Partner
649 people found this review helpful
We stayed a single night, which is more than enough. Although the rooms look clean, there were too many little feet on visit in the room. Bathroom really requires some refurbishing.
Luckily, the toilet had paper and a seat. Breakfast was OK
december 31, 2011
"Très bon séjour, personnel accueillant, excellente situation."
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Jean-Marie GERARD on Nov 17, 2011 >
4 contribution(s) FRANCE
Visited on: Oct, 2011 | Business | With friend
701 people found this review helpful
Très bon rapport qualité-prix
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1105 & 1103
We do appreciate staff speaking fluent french at reception desk. Everybody very helpful.
Very good housekeeper, very professional.
Restaurants and Bars:
bar ok good coffee and mojito
Breakfast at hotel Vedado very copious and varied.
Very good staff making tortillas.
not used
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Gate and lift keepers are very attentive.
It was very helpful to find a desk for change at hotel Vedado.
We have allready recommanded this hôtel
"Don't be Deceived"
Posted by: kent
on Nov 7, 2011 >
1 contribution(s) Canada
Visited on: Sep, 2011 | Leisure | Solo
834 people found this review helpful
I spent 16 days in the Hotel St John's in October. They mention they have internet access in the hotel which is not! In order to get the internet you must walk to another hotel (Habana Libre or National) to get access.In addition what they don't tell you is your currency exchange is only the dollar value and the change is always kept by the hotel. As for hot and cold water good luck! The disco. carries a cover charge for all those wanting to use it, even if you are staying in the hotel. The free breakfast is taken at the sister hotel down the street which is one block away.
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Director, USGBC Leadership Institute
U.S. Green Building Council
A building shaped like a butterfly. A skyscraper modeled after self-cooling termite mounds. A structure in arid climate inspired by a desert snail. Biomimicry, the application of nature's principles to solve problems, is an emerging influence in modern day green building and other design and technology.
|Biomimicry expert, Thomas Knittel
I caught up with Thomas after the presentation to pick his brain even more.
Amy King: HOK is USGBC's partner on Project Haiti, our effort to build a LEED Platinum orphanage and children's center in Port-au-Prince. How have you been able to integrate Life's Principles into the project?
Thomas Knittel: Life's Principles were developed by Biomimicry 3.8 to describe the overarching patterns found amongst species surviving and thriving on Earth. For me, this set of six principles and 20 sub-principles identifies what you could call system-level success. Whether it is dynamism critical to homeostasis (Gaia Hypothesis), or individual parts operating in the system, these patterns are not just an ethical overlay, but common sense if we want to continue living on a planet with limited resources.
Nature doesn't have a concept of credit. Self-limits are important, and when we see this as liberation, we will open a whole new area of innovation. In Haiti there are extreme limits, more than anyone would normally choose to have. In Haiti we are working really hard at being resource efficient and locally attuned and responsive with some success. We would like to move farther into the territory of using life-friendly chemistry, but this is a challenge for everything we do. Our building industry, like most of what we fabricate, is based on "heat, beat and treat." Evolving to survive, integrating development with growth, and adapting to changing conditions require a generational mindset and long term thinking, but that's the beauty revealed in adaption. In turn, we have to take steps today to achieve them. In Project Haiti, we have worked with USGBC to deal with the very real limitations of a dis-functional electrical grid and outbreaks of cholera. It reminds us we are lucky to have the ability to pursue a LEED Platinum project in Haiti, which is pretty noble, given the situation. Life's Principles becomes a filter we return to, and brings a recursiveness that is needed in a normally linear process.
AK: What do those of us who aren't designers have to learn from biomimicry?
TK: The study of biomimicry requires opening the mind and learning from a vast database nature has accrued. I think it is inexhaustible. Designers may have an easier entry point because we are already trained in ideation, are constantly seeking precedents, and look for the horizontal transfer of ideas from other disciplines. I recently completed the inaugural Biomimicry Specialty Certificate program, and the cohort was about half designers and the others were from a diverse range of backgrounds: biologists, scientists, engineers and strategists. It was amazing for me to see non-designers translate concepts to actionable ideas. Bio-inspiration in areas related to physicality may be more apparent to designers, but equally important are biological principles at systems levels. Non-designers may be the ones who can make the greatest contributions in this area.
For instance, when we design buildings, we have traditionally designed for peak conditions to satisfy constant ambient conditions. However, the human body is a thermal heating and cooling mechanism and sensation is based upon change, not stasis. Buildings don't consume energy, people do. There are several great principles in nature to rethink how we can shift to a bio-centric approach. For example, pollinators cooperate in the consumption of fixed resources, and biologists call this 'resource-partitioning guilds.' They consume at different times of day, place or seasons to not overtake the resource. We've also learned from nutrient cycling in organic soil that the rate of consumption is key to maintaining resources. A forest maintains its resources by growing within the limits of a key-slow factor, such as nitrogen. The insight to this natural system becomes a trigger to discuss what any system, whether energy, social or economic looks like when the slowest part of that cycle is the most important part to protect and cultivate, and that the rate of consumption is as important as the quantity itself
|Staff at USGBC HQ in DC soaking up Thomas Knittel's presentation on biomimicry
These are just a few examples of how non-designers may be well equipped to bring to light biomimetic principles in social, organizational and economic arenas. They may also lead to how we rethink buildings operationally, which in turn will change how we design them.
AK: HOK just published the Genius of the Biome report. Tell us about it and your future plans to leverage technology and GIS.
TK: The Genius of Biome (GoB) report came out of our strategic alliance with Biomimicry 3.8 (founded by Janine Beynus and Dayna Baumeister). It is a genius of place of the Temperate Broadleaf Forest, which covers the east coast of the U.S. and stretches across Europe and Asia, where we have several offices. It describes the strategies and designs adopted by living organisms and their ecosystem level relationships, and are intended to stimulate innovation and deep thinking about the unique challenges of the biome. We structured it around re-occurring challenge areas: water, energy and materials, and also social and economic categories because they are important to our clients and communities. Our project-based FIT (Fully Integrated Thinking) approach typically expands this to 14 categories to include education, culture, food atmosphere, etc.
The GoB frames questions in a way that can align with a biological strategy. "How does nature…(reduce erosion)?" It then looks at the design of an organism or ecological process and how it solves the challenge. This is abstracted into a design principle leading to ideation; ideally on real projects. It has also led to a concept I am developing with HOK Product Design.
For me, the potential of the Genius of Biome reports lie at different levels. For example, while we were working on the report, I was designing a mixed-use project in Wuhan, China with a series of green roofs at different elevations around an outdoor entertainment district. The GoB described how beaver dams control erosion in the watershed, and the design principle was a series of leaky barriers. The insight to connect the roofs as a system became an example of how the GoB could impact designs in process. But the real value is much deeper. I think the more we catalogue how adaptions among organisms have solved the biotic/abiotic equation in a given place, we will imagine how we can apply them to our own challenges in significant ways.
The future of the GoB is unfolding. We published it internally on our intranet, and are exploring how to share it with a larger audience. I imagine GoB's for the other 17 biomes, linked to GIS-based ecological performance standards populated in an open-source framework, but this is just a dream for now.
AK: At USGBC, we emphasize the importance of servant leadership. Who has been the biggest mentor in your career and why?
TK: I worked for well-known environmentalist and principal at BNIM Bob Berkebile for almost 15 years, first as a student, then as an intern earning my license, then later for 10 years at the same time the USGBC was emerging. His enthusiasm, passion and energy is known by many. He has a talent of navigating any situation with grace and wisdom. Once, when I was in my late twenties, we flew to Des Moines to present a retirement community design to a client. He hadn't seen the latest work. The client wasn't happy. He clearly had two choices, and he stood by what I had done. Somehow that stuck with me over the years. I think of how important it is to have institutional resolve, respect and support each other. If we fail, we fail together.
His accomplishments are well known amongst the design community and it was a real pleasure to have the chance to work with him.
AK: What is the future for biomimicry?
TK: I think biomimicry is one way of thinking deeply about a place, or trigger ideas beyond our normal solution set. I think biomimicry will increase the overlaps of cross-disciplinary thinking, and engage the sciences and arts in new ways.


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Welcome to Eureka High School
Mission Statement:
To provide our students a relevant, engaging, and comprehensive education, empowering all to be college and/or career ready global citizens.
This mission is grounded in the belief that our energy as a faculty and community needs to be truly focused on all our students in both words and actions. The statement acknowledges the importance of each high school class as a significant collection of information and skills while simultaneously acknowledging its importance related to the pathway of connected classes that form a student's larger academic trajectory. We have a shared responsibility to create courses and series of courses that will ensure our students will have as many realistic opportunities post high school graduation.
Eureka High School was recognized in May 2015 as a California Gold Ribbon School. EHS focused on the implementation and ongoing work staff is undertaking with Constructing Meaning (CM). CM focuses on student's ability to critically think and communicate across all curricular areas. We are proud of our award winning academic environment. It is safe, clean and quite conducive to learning. EHS staff is currently being trained in Restorative Practices, a proven method of reducing discipline issues and improving school climate. In meeting the diverse needs of our students, we provide a breadth of curriculum not available in any other public or private high school in Humboldt County. EHS is partnering with College of the Redwoods to offer a variety of dual enrollment classes, where students can receive college credit while on the high school campus. Our scholastic emphasis provides a college-going culture supported by an in-depth vocational technology program, performing and visual arts, and variety of athletics and clubs. All students will succeed at Eureka High School.
The Office of the Principal is at all times open to everyone and anyone who values quality education. Visit Eureka High School, we are the High School Of Choice from Ferndale to McKinleyville.


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New York Post Made A Big Mistake; Mediaite, Others Made It Worse
The New York Post made a big mistake Sunday by publishing a Facebook chat "interview" with an imposter masquerading as the brother of Newtown shooter Adam Lanza. Mediaite made it worse, first hyping the report with zero skepticism, then keeping its story hyping the original NYP report up hours after the tabloid's update with a family spokesman denying Ryan Lanza gave the interview or set up a tribute page for his brother and slain mother on Facebook.
When the site finally updated, it left a bad headline in place — only striking through Lanza's name and adding a note at the top repeating the NYP statement. Someone apparently deleted an earlier tweet touting the initial Mediaite version — a tweet I did in reply is left but the original no longer shows up. Unlike the NYP, Mediaite didn't tweet an update.
Mediaite wasn't alone in running with a spurious story that never should have been published. Gawker replaced its post with a brief update but left up the comments about it — including those chiding it for believing the NYP at all. Yahoo News blew it by posting the story, then putting the "update" at the bottom. Gothamist did a write through with the update but the url still heralds the mistake of playing follow the leader with the Post. Huffington Post is the only one I've seen so far to run an editor's note explaining the situation. No apology.
For all of its faults, starting with ignoring a field of red Facebook flags, when the Post was notified, the headline was changed and the update was tweeted. It would have been even better to run a formal correction and/or admission of error. Instead, the tabloid left a lot of the details for the Washington Post to fill in.
As for the lemmings that followed the NYP thinking that attribition to another media outlet offers some kind of pass or absolution in case a story is wrong, it doesn't.


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Spread the word about New Ulm
This week is National Tourism Week, and it's a good time to ponder the impact of tourism on New Ulm.
This city has a lot going for it when it comes to tourism. The town's history, its character and its willingness to celebrate its ethnic background make it a good destination for visitors.
Some of the events of the past year make that very apparent. The 150th anniversary commemoration of the US-Dakota War brought hundreds of visitors to New Ulm, people interested in the history of the war, people whose families perhaps had personal history dating back to the war.
Of course, Heritagefest, Oktoberfest, Fasching and Bockfest draw large crowds, too.
But there are many, many different attractions and events, too, from the Wanda Gag House to the August Schell Brewery.
In Monday's paper, the New Ulm Chamber of Commerce inserted a copy of the New Ulm Visitors Guide for readers of The Journal to use and share. If you want to know what's happening in New Ulm this coming year, you can find it there. If you know everything you want to know about the town, pass it along to a friend or a relative who may be planning a visit.
It's a great way to spread the word about New Ulm.


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In addition to being a publisher of personal appeals, Wikipedia is also a vast repository of knowledge. Here's a sampling:
The Egg War is the name given to an 1863 conflict between rival egging companies on the Farallon Islands, 25 miles off San Francisco. It was the culmination of several years of tension between the (Pacific) Egg Company, which claimed the right to collect the eggs on the islands, and several rival firms. The resulting violence claimed two lives, but left the Egg Company in sole control of the islands' eggs. Its victory was short lived; the company sold the rights to use the islands in the late 1870s and the federal government removed all egging companies from the islands in 1881.
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MySQL implements several types of collations:
Simple collations for 8-bit character sets
This kind of collation is implemented using an array of 256
weights that defines a one-to-one mapping from character codes
to weights.
latin1_swedish_ci is an example.
It is a case-insensitive collation, so the uppercase and
lowercase versions of a character have the same weights and they
compare as equal.
SET NAMES 'latin1' COLLATE 'latin1_swedish_ci';Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) mysql>
SELECT 'a' = 'A';+-----------+ | 'a' = 'A' | +-----------+ | 1 | +-----------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
For implementation instructions, see Section 10.4.3, "Adding a Simple Collation to an 8-Bit Character Set".
Complex collations for 8-bit character sets
This kind of collation is implemented using functions in a C source file that define how to order characters, as described in Section 10.3, "Adding a Character Set".
Collations for non-Unicode multibyte character sets
For this type of collation, 8-bit (single-byte) and multibyte
characters are handled differently. For 8-bit characters,
character codes map to weights in case-insensitive fashion. (For
example, the single-byte characters
'a' and
'A' both have a weight of
0x41.) For multibyte characters, there are
two types of relationship between character codes and weights:
Weights equal character codes.
sjis_japanese_ci is an example of this
kind of collation. The multibyte character
'ぢ' has a character code of
0x82C0, and the weight is also
Character codes map one-to-one to weights, but a code is not
necessarily equal to the weight.
gbk_chinese_ci is an example of this kind
of collation. The multibyte character
'膰' has a character code of
0x81B0 but a weight of
For implementation instructions, see Section 10.3, "Adding a Character Set".
Collations for Unicode multibyte character sets
Some of these collations are based on the Unicode Collation Algorithm (UCA), others are not.
Non-UCA collations have a one-to-one mapping from character code
to weight. In MySQL, such collations are case insensitive and
accent insensitive.
utf8_general_ci is an
'À', and
'á' each have
different character codes but all have a weight of
0x0041 and compare as equal.
SET NAMES 'utf8' COLLATE 'utf8_general_ci';Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) mysql>
SELECT 'a' = 'A', 'a' = 'À', 'a' = 'á';+-----------+-----------+-----------+ | 'a' = 'A' | 'a' = 'À' | 'a' = 'á' | +-----------+-----------+-----------+ | 1 | 1 | 1 | +-----------+-----------+-----------+ 1 row in set (0.06 sec)
UCA-based collations in MySQL have these properties:
If a character has weights, each weight uses 2 bytes (16 bits).
A character may have zero weights (or an empty weight). In this case, the character is ignorable. Example: "U+0000 NULL" does not have a weight and is ignorable.
A character may have one weight. Example:
'a' has a weight of
A character may have many weights. This is an expansion.
Example: The German letter
'ß' (SZ
ligature, or SHARP S) has a weight of
Many characters may have one weight. This is a contraction.
'ch' is a single letter in Czech
and has a weight of
A many-characters-to-many-weights mapping is also possible (this is contraction with expansion), but is not supported by MySQL.
For implementation instructions, for a non-UCA collation, see Section 10.3, "Adding a Character Set". For a UCA collation, see Section 10.4.4, "Adding a UCA Collation to a Unicode Character Set".
Miscellaneous collations
There are also a few collations that do not fall into any of the previous categories.


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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Penn State men's lacrosse head coach Jeff Tambroni along with alums Greg Gurenlian (2006) and Drew Adams (2009) will help the United States National Team against Canada on Sept. 8 in Commerce City, Colo.
Tabbed the "Duel in Denver," Tamboni will assist head coach Richie Meade. Other collegiate head coaches on the sidelines will be Kevin Cassese of Lehigh and Johns Hopkins' Dave Pietramala. Meade and company selected 25 members for the exhibition against Canada, a rematch of the 2010 Federation of International Lacrosse World Championship gold-medal game. The United States won that game, 12-10, in Manchester, England. Denver will host the FIL World Championship July 10-19, 2014.
Adams, who plays professionally in the MLL with the Long Island Lizards, is one of two goalies on the team along with Jesse Schwartzman of the Outlaws and a Johns Hopkins graduate of 2007. Gurenlian, also on the Lizards, is one of two faceoff specialists.
The U.S.-Canada game is set for 9 p.m. ET at Dick's Sporting Goods Park, home of Major League Lacrosse's Denver Outlaws and Major League Soccer's Colorado Rapids.


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The Skinner Organ Rededication Series of Hope College will feature Notre-Dame in Paris titular organist Olivier Latry on Tuesday, Oct. 23, at 7:30 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
Latry, titular organist of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, is hailed as one of the world's most distinguished organists.
"The New York Times" has said that Latry is "as good as they come... splendidly clear, steady and buoyant."
In 1981, at age 19, Latry was named organist of the Meaux Cathedral, a post he held for four years. In 1985, he stunned the musical world by winning a competition to serve as one of the three titular organists of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. In addition to his duties at Notre-Dame, he serves as professor of organ at the Paris Conservatory.
Latry has appeared in more than 40 countries on five continents. He made his first American tour during the fall of 1986. He has subsequently made annual tours to the United States and Canada.
He has recorded CDs for several labels in France as well as Deutsche Gramophone.
His Hope College performance will feature works by Georg Muffat, Johann Sebastian Bach, Alexandre Guilmant, Marcel Dupre, Sergei Rachmaninov, and many others. The program will conclude with one of Latry's famed improvisations. He is considered to be among the most noted improvisateurs in the exceptional French tradition.
Latry will be performing on both the Gallery and Chancel organ in the Chapel. The Chancel organ is the college's highly regarded Skinner organ, built in 1928 by the Skinner Organ Company, which Hope College organist Huw Lewis has said "was thought of as the Rolls Royce or the Cadillac --the industry standard-- for quality construction or sound."
The Skinner organ's recent restoration by the A. Thompson-Allen Company--which emphasized preserving its original character--took nearly two years, from January 2005 through the latter part of 2006. The entire organ, including all 2,932 pipes and the console, was removed and taken to New Haven, Conn., for the work, through which the instrument was repaired and restored to its original factory specifications. In addition, the chambers housing the pipes were renovated and the chapel's roof drainage system was modified to repair and prevent water damage caused by the building's original design. The most major work previously done on the organ had been conducted more than 40 years earlier, in 1963, when it had been cleaned, refurbished, releathered and regulated.
Dimnent Memorial Chapel is located on College Avenue at 12th Street.


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Buc was a DJ in Atlanta and the gay circuit party scene worldwide from the late 80s into the early 2000s. His talent is sadly no longer with us, but his legacy lives on through his music. This is a collection of his music including many of his subscription sets he did for his followers who craved his music, as well as many many party sets (eventually). Including quite a few sets from Sanctuary party's in Atlanta. If you were never fortunate enough to attend these 4 time a year events or be a member of Sanctuary, you truely missed out on one of the most blissful times a human being can have with music, love and friends. He was a dear friend of mine and I very much miss his smiling face behind the turntables. But he would love to know people still apprecite his music. It will take me time to get everything I have processed for uploading and then posting them. But I hope to post new things often. Starting with all the subscription sets I have.
UPDATE As of June 2018 I've finished with all the subscription sets and have started on the party sets. Beginning with a few special to me from 1994, then starting with parties from 1991 and going to parties in 2000.
UPDATE #2 As of the end of November 2018, I now have all party set through 1995 that I have posted. I have lots more from 96 & 97 coming hopefully before the end of the year. Then just a few from 99 & 2000 shortly after that. Hope everyone is enjoying!


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Former Georgia Tech forward Julian Royal will transfer to George Mason
FAIRFAX, Va. – Former Georgia Tech forward Julian Royal is transferring to George Mason.
George Mason announced Friday that the 6-foot-8 Royal will sit out the upcoming season and then have two years of eligibility.
Royal said in March he was leaving Georgia Tech after averaging only 6.6 minutes and 1.7 points in 24 games as a sophomore. His playing time was limited due in part to the emergence of freshman Robert Carter Jr.
Royal averaged 4.4 points per game as a freshman during the 2011-12 season.
Georgia Tech is also losing junior guard Brandon Reed, who announced Friday that he plans to transfer to another school to complete his eligibility.


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Our holiday gift guide continues today with gift ideas for The Active Girl. She's the girl who can get out of bed for an early a.m. workout (we so wish we were her!) and has probably done some type of "athalon." If you're not sure what to get her, think gym bag essentials.
Showering at the gym is my least favorite activity, but The Active Girl does it on the regular. So she doesn't sacrifice skincare, give her the Dr. Dennis Gross Alpha Beta Daily Face Peel packs to store in her gym bag. They exfoliate, improve skin texture and brighten skin in just a few minutes.
Can you say best makeup bag ever? Sonia Kashuk Completely Organized Bag is the most practical gift ever. A classic black nylon bag with so many zippered compartments and pouches to neatly store all of your makeup. This would make a great gift — and you could stuff a few beauty goodies in there to boot!
Securing your hair during a workout is the key to a successful one in my book. How fun are these sparkly Kitsch Metallic Mix Headbands? They stay in place during an hour of cardio sculpt and up the fab factor tremendously. Plus, they are super cute when you're not at the gym. Find these at Urban Outfitters or Anthropologie.
Snack and Give Back. Bobbi Brown teamed with KIND to create this Eat Pretty Powerful Cube with sales supporting a free public charter school in NYC that helps empower vulnerable youth. The Cube contains 20 of Bobbi's favorite KIND bars (including Dark Chocolate Nuts & Sea Salt – yum!) The Active Girl will totally appreciate this huge supply of KIND fuel.
The Active Girl is constantly showering, so gift her with Kiehl's Limited Edition Crème de Corps designed by New York Pop artist Kenny Scharf, so her skin stays moisturized. This is one of the holiday collections we look forward to every year, because 100% of profits support RxArt, which brings art to pediatric hospitals. The design is so fun, with Kenny Scharf's "Squirt" character.
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One Leg Balancing Poses — Develops Balance, Strengthens Hips and Glutes
Hi I'm Kate Taylor. I'm the owner of Savannah Power Yoga and would like to show you some ways to develop balance and build strength through Yoga. As yogis, we believe that a strong and healthy body sets the foundation for a healthy mind. From there, the possibilities are limitless.
Today we are going to do some one leg standing balance poses. These poses target the hips and glutes. Let's get started.
We'll start in mountain pose
• Stand up straight with your big toes touching
• Turn your palms to face forward and feel your shoulders press into the back of your body
• Relax your shoulders away from your ears
• Roll your inner thighs back and take a couple of breaths.
Next, we'll take hand to knee or big toe pose
• Bend your right knee and lift it to hip height. Grab the front of the knee or reach for the big toe with your first two fingers
• Anchor your left hand on your hip
• If you are holding your toe, extend your leg toward straight as long as you can keep your spine upright
• Hold for five breaths. Switch sides and hold for five breaths.
From here let's move right into airplane pose
• Release the knee or big toe and return to mountain pose with your hands by your sides
• From your upright position shift your weight to the right leg and tilt at the hips, reaching the left leg straight back and bringing the upper body parallel to the floor
• The front of both hips should face down, so roll your left hip down if it is opening to the side
• Hold for five breaths then keep your leg lifted and reach both hands to the floor.
To come in to half moon pose
• Place your right hand about a foot in front of your right pinkie toe and bring your left hand to your right hip. Place a yoga block or thick book under your right hand, if needed.
• Roll your left hip open toward the ceiling and reach the left hand up
• Hold for five breaths, then release the upper hand and foot to the floor and take an easy forward fold for a few breaths
Repeat the entire sequence on the other side.
Kate Taylor, owner of Savannah Power Yoga, E-RYT 200, Certified Baptiste Power Vinyasa Teacher, Certified Silver Age Yoga Teacher. She can be reached at email@example.com or 912-349-2756; www.savannahpoweryoga.com


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Editor's Note: This article on the .22 Long Rifle cartridge is an excerpt from the Dec. 3, 2012, issue of Gun Digest the Magazine. Find it on newsstands or download it from the store once it becomes available.
Let me make my case for the .22 Long Rifle (.22LR) as the ultimate survival choice in terms of rifle cartridges. What does the .22LR have going for it that would make someone even consider it as a survival choice, let alone the best all-round?
.22LR Weight
Not surprisingly, I was able to find a chart on the Internet that compared the weights of various pistol and rifle – rimfire and centerfire – cartridges in bulk. According to this chart, there are 133.3 Remington 36-grain hollow points in a pound.
Curious, I did a bit of checking on my own using my wife's postal scale, and found it took 143 rounds – Federal 36-grain copper-plated hollow points – to equal 16 ounces. Digging a bit deeper, I found there to be in that same pound, ten rounds of 3-inch 12-gauge steel #1 shot, 21 rounds of 170-grain 30-30 Winchester, 23 of .243 Winchester in a 90-grain Power Core hollow point format, and 17 of 150-grain pointed soft point .30-06 Springfield.
My point? Though very much concerned with pinpoint accuracy, I am also a believer in the mantra: Peace (or Continued Existence) through Superior Firepower. That said, I would opt for 143 effective though admittedly circumstantially limited cartridges over 17 or 21 or 23 bigger, more powerful rounds.
The bottom line is the .22LR offers the option to carry an absolutely ridiculous number of rounds easily; the others, not so much.
.22LR Availability
Even in the most out-of-the-way Mom 'n Pop grocery, there's almost a 100 percent chance they're going to have a box – or several boxes – of some sort of .22LR ammunition lying around.
It's true, and I can't argue the fact the same might be said of 12-gauge 2-3/4-inch shotshells, or .30-06 or 30-30 Winchester cartridges; however, we go back to the rounds-per-pound comparison above. Should you have to trade folding money for ammunition, the rimfires are going to be much less expensive, as in $22 per 400 rounds of .22LR versus $22 per 20 rounds of .30-06.
Apples to oranges? Perhaps, but you get the point here, I'm sure. And going back to availability, if your particular situation involves the End of Days, aka Armageddon, and legal tender isn't an issue, there's a better chance you're going to be able to successfully scrounge .22LR ammunition anywhere around the country, and to a large extent abroad, than anything other type of ammunition – with the possible exception, before anyone speaks up, of 7.62×39, but now you're back to 27 rounds per pound.
.22LR Accuracy
Out to 100 yards, and for some, beyond that, the .22LR can be a deadly accurate cartridge. And accuracy, of course, has a bearing on ammunition expenditure, a variable that might play a very important role, particularly in a long-term survival situation. Inside 100 yards, you should be able to hit what you are shooting at easily. For more on the .22LR and accuracy, see the ammo test results to the left on this page.
.22LR Audio Level
Should audio level, that is how noisy or quiet a firearm is, even be a consideration in terms of a whether or not a firearm is the perfect choice in a survival scenario? I think certainly.
A low-level report from a .22LR which, again using the Internet, falls roughly between 118 and 134 decibels won't (1) frighten game nearly as dramatically as might a substantially louder round. The .243 Winchester comes in at approximately 160 decibels.
And again returning to the Armageddon scenario, the softer-sounding .22LR won't attract unwanted human attention over great distances, thereby eliminating or decreasing the instances of unfriendly reconnaissance to the sound. As a final note, the .22LR can be, should the world end, easily quieted using any number of commonly-found household items.
.22LR Versatility
If it's a meal you're in need of, there's really no cause to look further than a .22LR. Whether it's ground squirrel or groundhog rabbit or sitting duck, the .22LR works. Animals as large as wild hogs or whitetails can be taken cleanly with a .22LR and proper shot placement.
There are few, if any, reasonably sized life forms, edible or otherwise, that cannot be dispatched with either a 36- or 40-grain bullet launched from a rimfire case. Would I want to go toe-to-toe with a 350-pound black bear armed only with a .22LR? Or would my first choice for moose be a rimfire? No, but here we're discussing the acquisition of nourishment, first, and the preservation of life only when evasion and/or avoidance strategies have been tried and deemed unsuccessful.
The reality is, if you shoot a deer in a survival situation, you will need to preserve a lot of meat. If you shoot a rabbit or a squirrel, you eat your meal and move on with your 143 rounds of ammo.


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- Jang and Lamarre highlight track teams -
Farmingdale, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State men's and women's indoor track team saw two NJAC Championships this season, along with many great performances along the way.
Senior Mike Jang (Lynbrook, N.Y.) moved to #2 all-time in the weight throw and #4 all-time in the shot put, while junior Joseph Verderber (Riverhead, N.Y.) improved his mark at #3 all-time in the pole vault.
At the Wesleyan Invite, the men won five events, including the 4x200m relay, pole vault, long jump, shot put and weight throw and had 16 top-5 finishes at the meet.
At the NJAC Championships, Jang won the weight throw and placed 3rd in the shot put, while junior Alix Lamarre (North Bellmore, N.Y.) won the long jump and placed 4th in the triple jump. For the women, senior Victoria Mandat (West Babylon, N.Y.) placed 5th in the 60m hurdles. Senior Faustine Chukwuezi (Central Islip, N.Y.) placed 8th in the long jump and sophomore Druscilla Dickson (Copiague, N.Y.) placed 8th in the triple jump.
This season the Rams had two ECAC qualifiers, as Lamarre and Grant competed in the long jump and triple jump, respectively.


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An unamused MSNBC released an official statement Thursday morning in response to Trump's "petty personal attacks" on "Morning Joe" co-hosts (and real-life couple) Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough.
Trump tweeted early Thursday: "I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don't watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year's Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!"
"Morning Joe" became a trending topic on Twitter almost instantaneously, with Trump's comments inciting outraged celebrities who feel like enough is enough.
Actor James Cromwell has been sentenced to a week in a New York jail in lieu of a fine for obstructing traffic during a 2015 sit-in protesting construction of a natural gas-fired power plant in New York state.
The "Babe" and "L.A. Confidential" star, a longtime activist, was arrested in Wawayanda, N.Y., on Dec. 18, 2015, with five others who dubbed themselves the "Wawayanda Six," according to the Times Herald-Record of Middletown, N.Y.
After being found guilty of disorderly conduct earlier this year and each being fined $250 plus a $125 surcharge, half the members of the group paid up before the Thursday deadline while the other three — including Cromwell — refused, the Times Herald-Record reported.
After three seasons, "The Carmichael Show" is ending its run.
The series, co-created and starring comedian Jerrod Carmichael, will air its series finale in August.
"For three seasons (okay 2.5), I got to make a show that I love with my friends. It's something I've wanted to do since I was 13," Carmichael said in a statement obtained by The Times. "Now, I'm excited to go make other things that I love. Thank you to every person who worked on or watched the Carmichael show."
Beyoncé and Jay Z appear to have named their twins — or at least the company that trademarked Blue Ivy Carter's name has applied to trademark "Rumi Carter" and "Sir Carter," so that's a pretty big clue.
The applications were filed Monday on behalf of BGK Trademark Holdings and, according to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office database, are still being reviewed. They seek to identify Rumi Carter and Sir Carter in connection with a host of items including recordings of musical performances, books, flags, sports gear, clothing, hair accessories, beauty products such as cosmetics and fragrances, entertainment services and, of course, baby products.
Plus key chains and mugs. Never forget the key chains and mugs.
Despite much speculation and worry about the future location of Comic-Con International — the comic book, television, movie and pop culture extravaganza — the convention will remain in San Diego for at least four more years, it was announced Friday.
As the popularity of the cosplayers' paradise expands, so do the crowds. Last year the event, which kicked off in 1970 San Diego with 145 guests, attracted more than 135,000 attendees.
The spectacular growth rate has elicited interest from other cities looking to cash in on the lucrative possibility of hosting the five-day affair. (Both Los Angeles and Anaheim were courting the relocation at one time.)
A new slate of artists has been added to KCON, the K-Pop (otherwise known as Korean pop) and South Korean culture expo in Los Angeles.
Cosmic Girls, Heize and Seventeen will join an already-packed lineup from across the K-Pop world. They join mainstays Vixx, Astro, Girls' Day, NCT 127 and SF9.
Cosmic Girls is a Korean-Chinese mixed group that released its debut full-length album this month. Heize is a South Korean rapper with a pair of promising mini-albums to her name. Seventeen is a boy band whose EP "Carat" made major waves stateside, followed by well-received EPs and a full-length album, "Love & Letter."
It's "Feud: Olivia and FX."
On the eve of her 101st birthday, two-time Oscar winner Olivia de Havilland has announced she is suing FX and producer Ryan Murphy over the unauthorized use of her identity in "Feud: Bette and Joan," according to a statement released Friday morning.
The miniseries about the longtime rivalry between actresses Bette Davis and Joan Crawford featured Catherine Zeta-Jones as de Havilland — the "Gone With the Wind" star who was a confidant of Davis' and a commentator throughout the eight-episode show.
"Hawaii Five-0" is losing two of its main players.
Daniel Dae Kim and Grace Park will not be returning for the eighth season of the CBS procedural.
The network did not reveal what led to their exits but said fans will get an update on the characters in the Sept. 29 season premiere.
Pop diva Mariah Carey was supposed to make a cameo in Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler's new comedy "The House," but it never happened and it seems that Carey's comportment was to blame.
According to the comedian, a star and producer on the film, Carey showed up four hours late to start shooting, and when she arrived, she had a few notes for the writers.
"Well, one script note was like, 'I don't want to do this scene,' even though it was totally approved ahead of time," Ferrell told "Watch What Happens Live!" host Andy Cohen on Thursday night.
They have apologized, but Kylie and Kendall Jenner are still feeling the heat from the Internet firestorm they sparked after the release of their controversial line of vintage T-shirts.
The apparel in question, since pulled from the Jenners' Kendall + Kylie online store, featured images of the young women overlaid on classic music T-shirts. The upcycled clothing included shirts showing Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne, Tupac Shakur and more — and were selling for $125 apiece.
Though the Jenners issued an apology Thursday afternoon stating they didn't mean to be disrespectful, criticism continued to pour in from music fans and notably from family members of the artists in question.
"The Big Bang Theory's" Johnny Galecki had much love for the firefighters who snuffed out the blaze that destroyed his Santa Margarita home.
The TV star, who plays Dr. Leonard Hofstadter on the CBS sitcom, returned to San Luis Obispo County where his sprawling getaway once stood and shared an image of himself hugging a firefighter, thanking him for his service.
"Thank you to the brothers and sisters of @calfire It is the profound risks that you accept and the sacrifices you and your families make that keep us safe," Galecki wrote on Instagram. "Thanks also to the many of you who have reached out in support. It is far from lost on us here. #muchlove #movingforwardstronger"


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Anurag Kashyap's Gangs Of Wasseypur and Deepa Mehta's Midnight's Children bookend the 11th annual Indian Film festival Of Los Angeles.
"We're delighted to welcome back two beloved film-makers of IFFLA," said IFFLA founder and chair of the board Christina Marouda. "We believed in Anurag's talent from the very beginning. We're now thrilled to have him back as a worldwide acclaimed film-maker.
"And we once again look forward to sharing Deepa's new and always thought-provoking work with our Los Angeles audiences."
This year IFFLA is set to run from Apr 9-14 at ArcLight Hollywood in Los Angeles.


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Philosophy ("love of wisdom") addresses deep and fundamental questions of human existence: Is there a God? What is the meaning of life? What is ultimately real? What is mind, and how does it relate to the physical world? How should one make moral decisions? What is a just society? As the rigorous, systematic study of such big questions, philosophy is central to the mission of King's College, which seeks to produce broadly educated men and women who possess a clear moral compass, are capable of articulate and critical reflection on the fundamental problems of the human condition, and are informed and reflective citizens.
Students of philosophy find that it sharpens their capacities for clear thinking and logical reasoning. Studies suggest that philosophy majors do extremely well on graduate admissions tests such as the GRE, LSAT, and MCAT. The study of philosophy develops students' capacities for close reading, logical analysis, and effective argumentation and communication. These skills, plus the solid grounding students receive in basic issues of human concern, make philosophy a good major or second major, as well as an excellent preparation for graduate study in law, medicine, business, and other fields.
Degree Offered: Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
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Long before ex-Twisted Sister vocalist Dee Snider fronted a short-lived heavy metal band named Widowmaker in the early '90s, there was another band called Widowmaker, a British-based one that was active for an even shorter spell during the mid-'70s. This band was created in 1975 by former Mott the Hoople guitarist Ariel Bender (aka Luther Grosvenor), and was considered something of a semi-supergroup at the time because it also boasted the talents of singer Steve Ellis (previously with U.K. chart-toppers Love Affair), guitarist Hugh Lloyd-Langton (formerly with Hawkwind), Australian bassist Bob Daisley (ex-Khavas Jute, Chicken Shack, and Mungo Jerry), and drummer Paul Nicholls (ex-Lindisfare). In fact, though they'd only been rehearsing together for a few months (at Emerson, Lake & Palmer's Manticore Studios, in London, no less), the quintet quickly parlayed their pre-existing music business connections into a contract with Jet Records, and had their first single, "On the Road," in stores come February of 1976. This was followed in short order by Widowmaker's eponymous debut, which actually charted in America (barely, at number 196) and featured an incredibly eclectic, even confusing, cross-section of sounds -- none of them nearly as menacing as the band's moniker, it should be noted. Rather, these included blues, country, folk, and hard rock elements, among others, and thus, simultaneously showed endless compositional possibilities and the inevitable musical and personality differences that would lead to their demise. Sure enough, it didn't take long for relationships to go sour once Widowmaker headed out on the road -- touring the U.K. with Nazareth and in the U.S. with ELO -- and by the time they returned home, Ellis had announced his departure, stating he was tired of clashing repeatedly with Bender. Singer John Butler was brought in to replace him for 1977's sophomore Too Late to Cry album, but Widowmaker wound up falling apart only months after its release. The musicians scattered to the four winds, with bassist Daisley enjoying the longest and busiest subsequent résumé of the bunch, as he went on to hook up with Rainbow, Ozzy Osbourne, Gary Moore, Black Sabbath, and countless others. Actually his subsequent fame, even as a career sideman, easily overshadowed Widowmaker's modest legacy, which at least was eventually compiled into 2002's nearly complete, two-disc anthology, Straight Faced Fighters. ~ Eduardo Rivadavia
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Accomplished My Goal !
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When I started back crocheting I was happy to make preemie hats. But my real goal was to make a baby blanket. I started out and completed a small blanket and that was a success. It was 15″ x 25″. I gave it to one of my friends for there son. They seem to like it very much. I had a lot of trouble when it came to the larger blankets. The sides of the blanket kept spreading out and became uneven. For some reason I couldn't keep the sides aligned straight. I finally reached success! This blanket is proof of that. The sides are smooth and straight. I am so motivated to make more blankets now. It took me about a day and a half to finish it. Considering the size, that is not long at all. The final size for this blanket is 35″ x 38″. I think the standard size is 38″ x 38″, so I am a few inches off. I wanted both sides of the pink to be exactly four inches on both sides. Just to keep the symmetry. I didn't use a pattern. To achieve this look just use a 5mm crochet hook, four different colors or more of medium #4 yarn.
I was determined to figure out how to make this blanket. I kept looking on different website to get the dimensions I needed. I finally was able to find a size I was willing to try. I had tried on my own two previous times. So I guess third times a charm. With enough practice you can achieve any goals you have set for yourself. Don't give up!


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Torture memo author John Yoo has the audacity to criticize Obama over the Ghailani trial
John Yoo, author of several infamous "torture memos" during the Bush administration, appeared on Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor to criticize the Obama administration for giving a civilian trial to Ahmed Ghailani, the man accused of participating in the bombing of U.S. embassies in Kenya. Yoo went so far [1] as to say that he was worried that Obama conducted the civilian trials to "win a popularity contest" with other nations.
Yoo and guest-host Laura Ingraham, however, were silent about the fact that Ghailani was subjected to interrogation techniques of the type approved by Yoo and the use of those interrogation techniques made it much more difficult to win convictions in the case on all counts. (Ghailani was convicted on one count and faces decades in prison as a result.)
The judge presiding over Ghailani's trial excluded the testimony of Hussein Abebe, the person who allegedly gave Ghailani the explosives that were used in the embassy bombings. He excluded the witness because his name was obtained via "extremely harsh interrogation techniques" (and possibly torture). From the decision [2]:
Ghailani was transferred to CIA custody in 2004. He was imprisoned at a secret site and subjected to extremely harsh interrogation methods as part of the CIA's Rendition, Detention and Interrogation Program. 24 Ghailani here contends mat his treatment constituted torture. For present purposes, it suffices to say that the government does not dispute, for purposes of this motion, that all of the statements made by Ghailani while in CIA custody were coerced and obtained in violation of his Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights.
Now, we can't say for sure that Ghailani would have identified Abebe without coerced testimony. We also can't say that Ghailani would have been convicted if Abebe testified.
However, we can say several things:
- The Obama administration has gotten [3] cooperation [4] from terrorists who were treated as criminal defendants and even given Miranda warnings.
- By contrast, using Yoo-approved techniques, it became extremely difficult to convict Ghailani on all counts.
- The judge in the case suggested [5] that the evidence would also have been excluded if Ghailani had been tried by a military commission
- Yoo's reasoning in the torture memos was so bad that it was repudiated [6] by the Bush administration.
And we'll leave it to the judge in the case, federal district judge Lewis Kaplan, to make one more point [7]:
The temptation to allow our revulsion at these bombings, the human instinct for vengeance, and fear of terrorist attacks to overcome principles upon which our nation rests -- principles that, although not always observed, are ideals to which we aspire -- is powerful. If our nation is to continue as a bastion of liberty, however, we must remain true to our principles and overcome that temptation.
Among those principles is that which has been traced to Deuteronomy, that grew gradually through the long history of English law and in the American colonies, and that then was embodied in the Self Incrimination Clause in the Fifth Amendment. While the connection between fruits of a coerced statement -- that is to say, evidence derived from a statement coerced from a defendant -- may be so remote, so attenuated, from the coerced statement that the use of that derivative evidence does not violate the Fifth Amendment, the burden of proving attenuation is on the government.
If only Yoo had also "remain[ed] true to our principles and overcome the temptation" to override them. Alas he did not.
If you can stomach it, here is the video of Yoo attacking the Obama administration over the Ghailani trial while failing to take any responsibility himself:
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Spot Names: Old Navy Funnovations Inc. campaign "The Shape Chute" :30, "Jeanvestment" :30, "The New T Machine" :30, "Bee Bots" :30, "Easter Dealert" :15 Debut Dates: "Shape Chute" Feb. 13, "Jeanvestment" Feb. 21, "The New T Machine" Mar. 7, "Bee Bots" Mar. 21, "Easter Dealert" TBD Film Location: Downey Studios, Los Angeles, CA Main Tools: ARRI Alexa digital camera system, Autodesk Flame for project finishing. Client: Old Navy Advertising Agency: Crispin Porter + Bogusky Creative Partner/CEO: Andrew Keller Partner/Worldwide CCO: Rob Reilly Partner/Director of Integrated: David Rolfe VP Executive Creative Director: Tiffany Rolfe VP Group Account Director: Kate Higgins Executive Creative Director: Jason Gaboriau Creative Director: Robin Fitzgerald VP Associate CD: Andy Pearson VP Associate CD: Tim Blount Executive Integrated Producer: Deb Drumm Executive Business Manager: Amy Jacobsen Integrated Producer: Abbie Noon Jr. Producer: Julia Lafferty Sr. Interactive Copywriter: Jamie Toal Sr. Art Director: Tushar Date Copywriter: Diana Brost Art Director: Nick Scarlet Management Supervisor: Becky Herman Content Supervisor: Ryan Pariseau Content Manager: Ashley Cochrane Assistant Content Manager: Michelle Forbush Integrated Coordinator: Jackie Maloney Product Art Director: Karyn Lyons Production Company: Brand New School Director: Jonathan Notaro and Robert Bisi DP: Alex Barber Production Designer: Kristen Vallow Art Directors: David Wilson, Timmy Hills Set Construction: Jet Sets Line Producer: David Wolfson VFX Supervisor: Marco Maldonado Managing Director: Danny Rosenbloom Post Producer: Jeanette Etchebehere Designers: Ian Abando, Andy Bernet, Ken Gunn Lee, Justin Harder, Waka Ichinose, Sakona Kong, Kenesha Sneed, Paul Tsui, Scott Uyeshima Matte Painting: Ryan Kirkwood CG Lead/Technical Director: Marco Maldonado 3D Artists: Jon Balcome, Bob Chapin, Matt Foley, Tim Hayward, Andy Kim, Ryan Kirkwood, Emil Nilsson 3D Tracking: Nick Jushchyshyn, The Integration Company Rotoscoping: Chris Buongiorno, Stephen Gall, Owen Hammer, Cathy Shaw, Robert Shaw Storyboard Artists: Max Forward Lead Flame Artist: Miles Esmiller Flame Artists: Pilon Lectez Compositor: Mike Ek, Peter Murphy, Maithy Tran Editorial Company: Beast Editorial Editor: David Blacburn Assistant Editor: Sean Fazende Producer: Joanna Hall Telecine Company: Company 3 Colorist: Siggy Ferstl ("The New T Machine"), Stefan Sonnefeld (all others)


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Rupert, a 15-year-old Irish Draught horse, makes his stage debut in Robert Carsen's new production of Falstaff on 15 May.
The bay gelding, who has never previously appeared on stage, will feature in two scenes as Sir John Falstaff's hunting horse, ridden by Italian baritone Ambrogio Maestri who sings the title role.
Ambrogio, who had a riding lesson on Rupert prior to starting rehearsals, said:
"When I met Rupert and it was love at first sight! He's so elegant and sweet. It has been fun because Rupert is very calm and patient. When I sing he isn't scared, on the contrary he seems to appreciate Verdi!"
Rupert joined stage rehearsals with The Royal Opera two weeks before opening night, and took it all in his stride like a true professional. On his first day of rehearsals, he stood patiently side stage munching a hay-net while waiting calmly for his call, surrounded by bright stage lighting and members of stage crew with Polos on hand.
In preparation for his Royal Opera debut, he was taken to churches where an organist played opera to him. He has also had special rubber shoes fitted to stop him slipping on stage. He will be accompanied by three handlers in full costume during his stage appearances.
Though Falstaff will be Rupert's first ever opera, he has previously appeared on screen in Andrea Arnold's adaptation of Wuthering Heights and and Channel 4's War Horse: The True Story. He has also taken part in jousting competitions across Britain and is the lead horse for English Heritage, where he works with both pyrotechnics and gunfire.
Rupert is not the only equine star to be appearing on the main stage in Covent Garden this season – audience favourite Peregrine the Shetland pony is also performing in The Royal Ballet's La Fille mal gardée.


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Transocean Ltd., this company I love. It's as all-American as apple pie. Doesn't matter that its headquarters are in Switzerland; what do you think of when you think of Switzerland — Swiss banks. And what do you think of when you think of Swiss banks — obscene amounts of money locked away for the restricted use of an elite clique.
So, like I said — all-American.
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MIDDLEBURY — The newest coach of the Middlebury Union High School girls' tennis team — and at MUHS — certainly doesn't lack for qualifications for her latest challenge.
Cornwall's Laura Rumbough captained the Middlebury College women's tennis team back in the fall of 1981. After graduating from Middlebury, she has been regularly instructing the sport at clubs and camps, many in Rowatyn, Conn., and in nearby New York.
MIDDLEBURY — Gov. Peter Shumlin on Monday praised lawmakers for supporting a 2011 legislative agenda he predicted will lift the state to economy to heights unseen since the tech boom of the 1990s.
"I am really proud of the work that the Legislature has done," Shumlin said at the weekly Legislative Breakfast held at the Middlebury American Legion. "We are united in what the challenge has been."
Given the current tough economic times — otherwise known at our house as the New Normal — we've had to cut way back on our impulse purchases. As I've told my husband, Mark, no more going out to the store for milk and coming home with a new tractor.
This need to be financially responsible comes more easily to me than to him; I'm a tightwad by nature. That's probably why it took me so long to make my latest purchase. After months of hemming and hawing, last week I finally decided to just take the leap and do it.
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May 3, 2010
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Sophomore pitcher Krista Cobb was named the Big West Conference Pitcher of the Week and the Golden 1 Credit Union/UCSBgauchos.com Gaucho of the Week after leading the UCSB softball team to a three-game sweep of Long Beach State over the weekend at Campus Diamond.
Cobb started off the series with a complete game in UCSB's 5-2 win over the 49ers. She allowed two earned runs on seven hits while allowing four walks and striking out five.
The West Hills, Calif. native stayed in the circle for the second game of Saturday's doubleheader and tossed another complete game in the 2-1 victory. She allowed seven hits, one run, walked one and struck out a pair.
Cobb saved her best for last in a grueling 1-0 10-inning victory in the series closer. She once against pitched the entire game and allowed just six hits and one walk while striking out a pair. The victory marked the Gauchos' first shutout of the year and the series win marked Santa Barbara's first over Long Beach since 2001.
For the weekend, Cobb recorded a 0.88 ERA across her 24 innings of work. The Big West Pitcher of the Week honor is the fifth of her career and her first this season.
The Gauchos will be back in action this weekend when they host Pacific in a three-game Big West Conference series at Campus Diamond. Sunday's series closer will mark the final home contest of the 2010 season and the five Gaucho seniors will be honored prior to first pitch.
To purchase tickets, please call (805) 893-UCSB, visit the Ticket Office located inside the Intercollegiate Athletics building on campus or click here.


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MIDDLEBURY — For the first time since 2002, the Middlebury College women's basketball team is going to the NESCAC final four, courtesy of the No. 4 Panthers' 75-64 home quarterfinal win over No. 5 Bates on Saturday.
Middlebury (14-11) will meet No. 3 Williams (21-4) on Saturday at Amherst, while No. 8 Bowdoin (14-10) will take on the No. 2 host school Amherst (24-1). The winners meet Sunday.


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Scotland v Wales, Six Nations
Weir hopes to repay Johnson's faith
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Duncan Weir will wear the No.10 jersey for Scotland on Saturday © Getty Images
Duncan Weir is eager to seize his chance after being named at fly-half for Scotland's match against Wales on Saturday.
Weir has played three matches for Scotland but all of these caps have come from the bench. Saturday will be the first time he has started for the national side with interim boss Scott Johnson rewarding the 21-year-old for his impressive showing from the bench in Scotland's 12-8 win over Ireland in round three of the championship.
With Ruaridh Jackson relegated to the bench, Weir is hopeful that he can repay the faith that Johnson has shown in him. "I'm grateful for the opportunity to play and hopefully I can do 'Johnno' justice on Saturday," Weir said. "It will be a hugely proud moment, not only for me but for my family and friends. I'll get to share a great achievement with them and the Scottish nation as well.
"When I came on against Ireland I just wanted to bring a real energy, put a wee bit of pressure on Ireland and get a bit of territory. Our defence for the majority of the game had been outstanding, so I knew our defence could bring us points. I also wanted to try and get the guys going in attack, so I felt I did all right there."
Johnson has made an immediate impact since taking over from Andy Robinson. The squad that trudged off with the wooden spoon last year has now picked up two wins from and Weir believes it is Johnson's attention to detail, especially with the half-backs, which has played a large part in that fact.
"Johnno drills the stand-offs pretty hard," Weir said. "He wants us to know our goals, our movement onto the ball and our leadership of the team. He also wants us to know the correct calls and also to listen for our outside players and what they can see before relaying that back to everyone else and making sure we exploit the chances we get.
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School�s out for area students, but summer camps are just getting warmed up. Here are some camps to fight the summertime boredom this year.
School�s out for area students, but summer camps are just getting warmed up. Here are some camps to fight the summertime boredom this year.
Day Camps
Day camps like the ones hosted by Onslow County and Jacksonville City parks and recreation offer campers frequent field trips and activities.
Onslow County Parks and Rec will hold their camps at five different locations: Dixon Middle School, Southwest Middle School, Hunters Creek Middle School, Summersill Elementary School and Swansboro Elementary School. The first session will be held from June 17 to July 12 and the second session will be held from July 15 to Aug. 9. The camp will cost $130 for one session and $260 both sessions and $10 will be taken off the cost of every additional child from the same family.
Carol Trott, Assistant Recreation Supervisor for Onslow County Parks and Recreation, said campers ranging from kindergartenaged to 12 years old can look forward to trip to Lynnwood Park Zoo and Fort Macon as well as guest speakers including a dental hygienist. Trott says campers will be well occupied through the summer.
�We�ll be keeping them busy,� said Trott.
For more information, call 910-347-5332 or log on to onslowcountync.gov/parks
The City of Jacksonville is offering several day camps for ages four through 15. Melonie Marzett, community services supervisor with Jacksonville Parks and Rec, said campers can expect field trips and guest speakers, and teen campers can expect to give a little back to the community.
�We�ll be doing some community service,� said Marzett. �They�ll be picking up trash � doing some special needs outreach and helping out the younger campers.�
Registration can be done online at ci.jacksonville.nc.us or by phone at 910-938-5312.
SurfCity�s Parks and Recreation will also hold day camps for gymnastic and Lego enthusiasts.
She She�s Flip Floppers will sponsor tumbling courses for campers age three and up at the SurfCityRecreationCenter. Beginner�s courses for ages three to sevenwill be held July 22-25 and Aug. 12-15. Intermediate courses for ages 8 and up will be held June 24-27, July 29-Aug. 1 and Aug. 19-22. The courses will be led by Shelia A. Cox, who can be contacted at 910-650-6061 or at email@example.com.
In addition, a Lego camp will be held in four sessions: June 24-28, July 15-19, July 29-Aug. 2 and Aug. 12-16. The camp costs $7 per week and $35 for each week. The camp will be held for campers ages five-10. The camp will be taught by Lego Club leader Susanne Lankford.
For more information, contact SurfCityParksand Rec at 910-328-4887 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
Drama camps
A few day camps in the area will focus on fostering an interesting in the arts. Legacy Theater Company and Debbie�s Angels will both offer camps for young, local thespians. Meme Simmons, director of Debbie�s Angels, said she believes Jacksonville needs a different kind of camp.
�There�s always something for things like athletics,� said Simmons. �We�re trying to incorporate kids in the county that do something like this.�
Simmons said campers can expect improvisation games as well as dancing and singing medleys from time honored Disney films.
�We just want to make sure they have a good experience and have fun,� said Simmons.
The Debbie�s Angels camp will cost $125 per camper with $100 per additional camper. Registration can be found online at debbiesangelsproductions.com.
The Legacy Theater Camp will start on June 17 at their new location on 2442 Onslow Drive. The camp will end with a production of The Little Mermaid Jr. on June 28. The camp costs $280 ($250 for children of active military members and families with multiple children). Campers will learn about acting, singing and dancing from Erika Hose, head of the Legacy Theater Company, and a staff made up of actors that have worked on Legacy shows.
Art Camps
SwansboroParksand Recreation and the Seaside Arts Council will hold its Seaside Arts Summer Camp. The camp, dubbed �Drawn by the Sea,� will start on June 24 at 8 a.m.and end on June 28 at 1 p.m.with an exhibition of the art work created at SwanFest on June 30. This camp will focus on 2D art including drawing and painting and is for children ages 7-11. A second camp (�Sculpted on a SeaWind�) will be held between July 22 and July 26 with an exhibition held on July 28 at SwanFest. This session of the camp will focus primarily on sculpting.
The camps cost $100 and campers are advised to pack a lunch. For more information, contact 910-326-2600.
In Richlands, the Onslow County Museum Art Camp is taking kids on a trip to the high seas as they learn about pirates and create art inspired by pirates. The camp is in its 27th year and Museum director Lisa Whitman-Grice said that the museum has started seeing a new generation in attendance.
�Some of the campers are the children of former campers,� said Whitman-Grice. �Research technology has changed over the years, but it�s still all about the hands on experience.�
Her assistant, education coordinator Chance Hellmann, is a relatively new addition to the Museum and will be working with them for the first time on their camp. Chance, a Virginia native living in Wilmington, said his hope is to help understand the true role pirates played in North Carolina and remind them that the Hollywood interpretation isn�t always spot on.
�It�s not Johnny Depp,� said Hellmann. �After the camp, they�ll be able to see �Pirates of the Caribbean� and know it isn�t history.�
That camp will have three, one week sessions: June 17-21, July 8-12 and July 22-26. The camp costs $75 and includes art supplies a T-shirt and a field trip.
Christopher Thomas is a staff writer with the Jacksonville Daily News. To contact him, call 910-219-8473 or e-mail him at firstname.lastname@example.com