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Roman Michalík (* 2. května 1974 Valašské Meziříčí) je český motocyklový závodník, mistr světa v kubatuře do 125 cm³ z roku 1998 a držitel dvou titulů absolutního mistra Evropy v enduro z let 2006 a 2007.

Zájem o motorismus v něm probudil jeho otec Vladimír, který byl sám motocyklovým závodníkem a měl přezdívku Palič. Již v roce 1985 se stal Roman Michalík mistrem republiky na minikárách. V motocyklových soutěžích poprvé na mistrovství světa startoval v roce 1991. V roce 1998 se stal mistrem světa v enduro ve třídě do 125 cm³, získal titul absolutního mistra Evropy a ocenění Zlatá přílba jako nejlepší motocyklový závodník ČR tohoto roku. Dlouhodobě se účastnil v českém týmu soutěží družstev o Světovou trofej na Šestidenních, kde družstvo ČR v roce 2006 na Novém Zélandu zvítězilo. V letech 2006 a 2007 se stal absolutním mistrem Evropy v enduru. Poté ukončil kariéru vrcholného jezdce. Dále závodil jen na soutěžích v rámci ČR, kromě motocyklů se věnoval i automobilovému sportu (účastnil se např. Valašské rally).

Žije v Krhové u Valašského Meziříčí.Vyučil se mechanikem pro měřicí přístroje a zařízení a pracuje v rodinné firmě MOTO PALIČ pro dovoz a prodej potřeb pro motocyklisty, kterou založil jeho otec. Mezi jeho další záliby kromě motoristických sportů patří snowboarding, horské kolo a myslivost.

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Facebook ad pranking, Samsung's design wars, Wirelurker arrests, web: alive or dead?, and more
Posted on November 18, 2014 by charlesarthur
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Pranking my roommate with eerily targeted Facebook ads >> My Social Sherpa
Brian Swichkow:
I don't do anything half-assed and he knew that. So about two months later I was experimenting with different ways to use Facebook's Custom Audience targeting and having quite a bit of success. I was using a list of about 10,000 people and getting some of the highest click-throughs I had seen in a long time. Being a fan of the Mythbusters where they believe that anything worth doing is worth overdoing – I asked myself how I could take this to the next level. I realized that stepping things up a notch was actually stepping them down a notch in this case and I asked how targeted I could make my audience. I said to myself, "What if I only had like five people in an audience? What if I only had one person in an audience? … I should test this … I should test this on my roommate."
The amazing thing here is the cost of doing it. You'll have to read the article. Try guessing how much first though.
Pearl: the Compact Mirror Battery Project that started on Kickstarter but ended with Indiegogo >> Daniel Chin
Pearl™: Compact Mirror + USB Rechargeable Battery Pack was originally a Kickstarter project that was supposed to run from November 10 to December 3, 2014. In less than 48 hours since the project launched, it raised over $41,000, surpassing its $30,000 funding goal.
Then all of a sudden, we were informed by Kickstarter that our project was suspended due to a DMCA copyright infringement claim. It is a ridiculous, unfounded and fraudulent claim which Kickstarter did not bother to verify with us.
The allegations in the blog post are serious. One wonders how much of this goes on and simply never surfaces. Kickstarter doesn't come out of it looking much good.
Alleged creators of WireLurker malware arrested in China >> SecurityWeek.Com
Three individuals suspected of being involved in the creation and distribution of a recently uncovered piece of malware referred to as "WireLurker" have been arrested and charged, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Public Security said on Friday.
The suspects, identified by their surnames as Wang, Lee and Chen, were taken into custody on Thursday based on information provided to law enforcement authorities by the China-based security company Qihoo 360 Technology.
WireLurker, a threat designed to target devices running Mac OS X, iOS and Windows, was recently uncovered by Palo Alto Networks. The network security firm's researchers identified a total of 467 malicious OS X apps which by mid-October had been downloaded by Chinese users over 350,000 times from an app store called Maiyadi. Cybercriminals distributed the threat by packaging it with popular games and applications.
Ditto creator says Samsung phones are "crammed with complexity and redundant features" >> PhoneArena
Parallel to the launch process of Ditto, the simplest notifications wearable device there is, its product designer Bob Olodort opened up about his small-time gig as a consulting designer at Samsung. He told VentureBeat that he'd pay the Korean chaebol a visit four times a year and show them "elegant, innovative phone designs" – each one "optimized to provide an ideal set of features for a […] target customer" and an example of "simplicity and elegance". So why are our faithful Samsung phones the exact feature-stuffed opposite of this fine concept?
Olodort has the blunt answer: "They would louse it up by putting in everything — that's their style at Samsung. A few young Samsung engineering managers would each add their own pet features. Later, the carriers Samsung sold to would insist on another set of features. Pretty soon the phones would be crammed with complexity and redundant features." Unsurprisingly, the simplicity-obsessed Oledorf left to do his own thing.
This is hardly news to anyone who's tried a Samsung smartphone. It sounds much like LG's approach to Smart TV – every manager is desperate to get their own pet project in.
What happens when pirates play a game development simulator and then go bankrupt because of piracy? >> Greenheart Games
Old (well, from April 2013) but good. Greenheart Games intentionally uploaded a cracked version of their game to torrent sites:
The cracked version is nearly identical to the real thing except for one detail… Initially we thought about telling them their copy is an illegal copy, but instead we didn't want to pass up the unique opportunity of holding a mirror in front of them and showing them what piracy can do to game developers. So, as players spend a few hours playing and growing their own game dev company, they will start to see the following message, styled like any other in-game message:
"Boss, it seems that while many players play our new game, they steal it by downloading a cracked version rather than buying it legally. If players don't buy the games they like, we will sooner or later go bankrupt."
Slowly their in-game funds dwindle, and new games they create have a high chance to be pirated until their virtual game development company goes bankrupt.
The online responses are predictably hilarious as pirating players complain without irony that piracy is hurting the profitability of the pirated game they're playing.
Apposite today with PCalc developer James Thomson noting that around 70% of the copies of his app in use on iOS are pirated. (The suggestions for how to fix that – read the tweet replies – are quite fun.)
How Apple creates leverage, and the future of Apple Pay >> stratechery by Ben Thompson
I hadn't come across BATNA – Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement – before, which Thompson uses earlier in this piece to explain how Apple uses what it has to succeed in negotiations, and then in new spaces such as Apple Pay:
Presuming this works out as well for Apple as I expect it to, there are two key lessons to be drawn. First, all of Apple's leverage ultimately – either directly or indirectly – stems from consumer loyalty, which itself is based on Apple's focus on the user experience. Second, the reason why Tim Cook so confidently called out Apple Pay as a new category is that he knew it was an area where Apple could bring that leverage to bear, just as they did in music and telephony. This is in marked contrast to the Apple TV, which is still a hobby: TV remains a much stronger business that is far more resistant to disruption than most people in tech appreciate, and until Apple has a means of obtaining leverage it will only ever remain so.
Welcome to the "Million Smartphone Club" of India >> Counterpoint Technology
Looking at India's burgeoning smartphone market in Q3 2014:
The growing need for consumers flocking to the internet using mobile phones coupled with rapidly declining average selling price (ASP) of smartphones has been the key drivers of uptake of smartphones in India. The declining smartphone ASPs is as a result of proliferation of firstly not only local brands entering a price-war but also the highly price-competitive Chinese brands such as Xiaomi or Lenovo entering the Indian market. These brands are employing cost-effective distribution strategies such as online e-commerce channels to keep the costs fairly low in order to gain price competitiveness which is a boon to consumers
India smartphone market still has a room for vendors to grow exponentially as it expands deeper beyond urban India. However going forward only the vendors need to find faster and innovative ways to reach out to the end consumer. We estimate that going forward three out of four smartphones in the country will be 3G smartphones.
The idea that American icon Motorola would effectively be saved by selling into India would have seemed weird even a couple of years ago. Now it's a major player there.
The web is dying; apps are killing it >> Wall Street Journal
Christopher Mims:
even the Web of documents and news items could go away. Facebook has announced plans to host publishers' work within Facebook itself, leaving the Web nothing but a curiosity, a relic haunted by hobbyists.
I think the Web was a historical accident, an anomalous instance of a powerful new technology going almost directly from a publicly funded research lab to the public. It caught existing juggernauts like Microsoft flat-footed, and it led to the kind of disruption today's most powerful tech companies would prefer to avoid.
It isn't that today's kings of the app world want to quash innovation, per se. It is that in the transition to a world in which services are delivered through apps, rather than the Web, we are graduating to a system that makes innovation, serendipity and experimentation that much harder for those who build things that rely on the Internet. And today, that is pretty much everyone.
Mims's article has come in for a lot of rejoinders and rebuttals – such as this one on Quartz. But just because an app has a web view, does that mean you're using "the web"? The navigation idea is all different. And in the end, you almost always end up still inside the app.
Twist: A ultra-portable universal adapter for your MacBook by Oneadaptr >> Kickstarter
What is Twist?
Twist is a universal adapter with four optional USB ports designed to work with the MacBook adapter. It offers much more functions than the Apple World Travel Adapter Kit and makes charging your mobile devices much easier.
Note that this Kickstarter isn't live yet; I was sent the link over the weekend (but tried at once to order some). I like the idea of it. I'm hoping to get some to test, but I'd have already put my money in if that hadn't happened. I particularly like the idea of not having to scoop up multiple plugs and cables when leaving a hotel room; and the bright yellow model would be hard to miss as you check you've got everything.
10 cities visualized by how cleanly their streets are laid out >> Co.Exist
Artist Steve Von Worley plots cities according to their orderliness.
One can guess, without seeing them, that younger cities (such as those in the US) will score highly because they are so new, so that they existed when horse-drawn traffic already did. London and especially Tokyo look like a mess, but you also have to consider geography – particularly height and rivers.
That said, what would a city developed now look like in these terms?
Samsung hunts next hit with internet push as phones fade >> Yahoo Finance
To demonstrate the Internet of things, the company is using its Samsung Innovation Museum, a glass-walled building across from its headquarters, about 30 miles south of Seoul. The five-story, 11,000 square-meter structure looks a bit like New York's Guggenheim museum, painted almost entirely in white with words carved into the walls: 'smart living' and 'inspiring others.'
In an open space on the second floor, booths stand side by side. Each is decorated with different interiors to show off connected life in hotels, planes, shopping malls or living rooms.
In the hotel booth, you can check in by pressing a key-patterned button on an Android smartphone without having to wait in line. Upon entering the room, the window blinds automatically roll up and the television turns on.
In the booth for home technology, lights, appliances and a robot vacuum cleaner are all connected online to mobile phone app. The idea is you can flick on the lights, warm the oven or even clean your living room from your phone before you come home. Samsung has started offering a rudimentary version of the service in Korea and will expand it globally.
This might be me being stupid, but why would you want to turn the lights on before you get home? Isn't that what we have switches for? As to turning on the TV when you go into the room, what if you don't want the TV on and the blinds rolled up? So many assumptions and so much effort that is more easily solved through simple human action.
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What a tense game it turned out to be – was hard to watch as the last 10 minutes came up and it was still anyones game to win.
Slept well and woke to the thought that yes – NZ are now the rugby world champs – Yeh!
The trip home was via Rawene and kohukohu – across on the ferry- all for $32.
All systems worked well – we have a special list of some minor things still to get – but all looks good for some serious adventures to come.


The year was 1952. Harry Truman was in his final full year as president, "The Today Show" debuted on NBC and, despite the war in Korea, America was prospering again.
Although there were many advancements in science, technology, society and the economy, one particular Lancaster girl felt the brunt of the antiquated norms of society when she decided she wanted to play baseball.
Sheila Weinstock (then Sheila Allison) was 11 years old when she found out she would not be allowed to play in the midget-midget division of the New Era Tournament (now the LNP Tournament).
Weinstock, who grew up in the School District of Lancaster, had a strong arm and hit better than several of the boys on the team. So, she didn't find it odd when she was offered a spot on the Local 285 midget-midget squad.
That year, the team qualified for the New Era Tournament, and Weinstock was ecstatic.
That was until she saw the newspaper on June 25 — the evening she was supposed to receive her uniform.
In a world before Title IX, the commission's decision was considered rational.
However, at such a young age, Weinstock did not understand the implications of this decision. She just wanted to play a sport she loved. She was heartbroken.
But, being the natural athlete she was, Weinstock did not let this discourage her. Later, while in the ninth grade at McCaskey, she recruited her friend from England to teach her tennis.
The majority of Weinstock's training took place against a wall at her own home; she marked the height of the net to track her progress. Thus began her love for tennis, a sport that has taken her across the world.
Weinstock attended Penn State, where she majored in physical education with a minor in biology. During her time at Penn State, the school did not offer any varsity sports for women.
She continued her education by receiving a masters in secondary school guidance at Columbia University before teaching physical education for three years in the West Chester County, New York, area.
Weinstock now lives in Framingham, Massachusetts, with her husband, Norman Weinstock. They have two sons, Mark and David.
Sheila Weinstock began playing and teaching simultaneously at the Longfellow Tennis Club in Natick, Massachusetts, in 1975. She has also been the program director, assistant manager and now, currently, the manager – a position she has held for 32 years.
Although she began her tennis career as a recreational player, her competitive spirit drove her to try USTA-sanctioned tournaments in the New England area.
Before long, Weinstock and her friend were the top-ranked doubles team in the 35's age group in all of New England.
After such an accomplishment, the duo knew they could push for more. Their first national tournament was in Houston, Texas. Weinstock has since done other national competitions in California, Philadelphia, Seattle, Florida and elsewhere.
Because of her high ranking, she was asked to represent the United States and the USTA at the ITF National World Team Championships.
Her first international tournament was held in Turkey in 2008.
Most recently, she placed first in her age group at a tournament in Croatia.
She has earned a gold for singles and four golds for doubles —something that her 11-year-old self probably never imagined she would achieve.
"I can't tell you how fortunate I feel to have the experiences I've had and to have met the people I've met," Weinstock said.
Although she has plans to slowly start retiring from her position at the club as manager, Weinstock hopes to play tennis for as long as she can.


The Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi serves the dual role of being both a historical landmark and a luxury hotel. Opened in 1901 by two French investors, the French colonial-style hotel soon became one of Southeast Asia's most iconic hotels and today is the oldest continuously operating hotel in Vietnam, This grande dame has not rested on her legendary laurels but continues to modernize and innovate, undergoing massive renovations over the past few decades, including the opening of an award-winning spa in 2009. Honored to be the first Sofitel Legend property (only a handful of Sofitel properties carry this distinction), the hotel offers three restaurants, three bars, seven function rooms, an exclusive Club Lounge, a heated swimming pool, a health club, and the luxurious Le Spa du Metropole. A unique offering by the hotel is a daily guided Path of History tour that provides guests with not only an opportunity to learn more about the hotel's history but the chance to visit the recently rediscovered hotel's war-time air raid shelter. What more could you ask for? We'll review our recent stay at the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi and we'll also give you some reasons you might want to consider spending the night.
Getting here: The hotel is located next to the Opera House in the French Quarter of Hanoi. It is to the east and within walking distance of the Hoan Kiem Lake.
Airport: The closest airport Hanoi Noibai is located about 22 miles (35km) from the hotel. You can arrange your own transportation to the hotel once you arrive by minibus, taxi, or public bus (expect a long ride on bus) or reserve shuttle bus service by minivan (6 times per day) or limousine through the Sofitel Metropole. We took the Vietnam Airlines Minibus ($2/person) but then had to take a short taxi ride from the drop-off in front of the Vietnam Airlines office to our hotel. A direct taxi is a quicker option, taking about 45 minutes and should cost about $13-$16 (try to get an agreed upon flat fee if you can). Just note that taxi scams are common in Hanoi so booking via your hotel can be a safe bet and take rides only from reliable companies (Mai Linh and Vinasun were the two we used in Vietnam).
Bus: The local buses are a very cheap but potentially uncomfortable option (be prepared to stand and perhaps not have A/C). Get a public bus map and some lines that stop near the Sofitel are 2, 9, 34, 23, and 45. You can ask the driver or other passengers the best stop for "Hanoi Opera "and/or "Sofitel Metropole" hotel if not sure from map.
Train: The Hanoi Railway Station (Le Duan Street) is located about a mile (2 km) from the hotel and you can get from the station to the hotel by taking a short taxi ride or by taking a public bus.
Driving: I don't recommend driving yourself while in Vietnam as the traffic is quite chaotic and I believe it is illegal for those without a Vietnamese license to operate a car in Vietnam (but you can rent a car if you hire a driver as well). That said, if you do have a car or motorbike, public parking is available near the hotel for 50,000 VND per car.
Room cost: Room pricing ranges widely and depend on the season, starting at about $180 per night for the Premium guestrooms in the Opera Wing with prices going up to over $1,500 per night for the three Legendary Suites and over $3,000 per night for the Grand Prestige Suite.
We arrived in Hanoi from Hue by plane, and had decided we were going to save money on transportation by taking a minibus instead of arranging a minivan through the hotel. After exiting Noi Boi airport, we were soon propositioned by numerous taxi drivers but we kept walking to the left to where some minibuses were sitting. We had asked at the Information desk about the Vietnam Airlines minbus and went to the spot they had directed us. The minibus didn't leave until it was full and then begun dropping passengers off once in the city. We were lucky that at least one of the other passengers spoke English and was our advocate to the driver to make sure we got off on the best stop (last stop near the Vietnam Airlines office). He got off at the same stop and we shared a cab to the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi which was only a couple of minutes drive away. We assumed that the man was going to the Metropole as well, but it turned out he was just dropping us off on his way to his own hotel. A very kind man and a great welcome to Hanoi!
We walked past one of the hotel's vintage Citroen Traction cars (you can rent these French classic cars with a chauffeur for a city day tour), and entered the Lobby in the Historical Wing of the hotel. We were greeted and led to two chairs near the check-in desk to be checked into the hotel. It was nice that we didn't have to stand in a line with our luggage but were able to sit and complete the check-in process. We were then led upstairs to the third floor to our room.
The main reason I wanted to stay at the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi is that it is a heritage property, so I of course wanted to stay in a room in the Historical Wing. We were given a Grand Luxury room (Room 317). When entering, Ethan and I were both very struck by how spacious the room was as the bedroom area was huge and the bathroom was also very spacious. Many historical properties tend to have fairly small rooms so this was a welcome surprise and the room was certainly much roomier than the small guesthouse rooms we'd experienced the few days prior to this. Now, we were told that this room is slightly larger than some of the other rooms of the same class because it is a corner room, so just note you may want to request this room if you are looking to book a Grand Luxury room. The decor was very tasteful and elegant, contemporary yet heavily influenced by classic French architecture and design. The bed was large and comfortable, the divan couch was a good place for reading, the desk was conducive to blogging, and the bathtub was large and luxurious. We also enjoyed the little touches such as a note from the manager, a small welcome fruit basket that includes a note about the fruit (it was sapodilla that day), the nice toiletries, and the little treats left at turndown service (French macarons!). We also really enjoyed the hardwood floors and we may or may not have enjoyed skidding across these a few times in our socks, haha. The only complaint I have about the room is that we later learned that this room is actually not part of the original hotel that opened in 1901. Only the Historical Wing rooms on the first two floors are original to the hotel while the third floor rooms were added in 1962. Granted all of the rooms have been heavily renovated, but if authenticity matters, ask for a Historical Wing room on the first or second floors.
While we spent the majority of our time in the Historical Wing, the hotel actually has 2 wings: the Historical Wing and the contemporary Opera Wing. Given that our time at the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi was part work, we went on a hotel tour to take a peek at all the room types. The Historical Wing has 106 guestrooms and three Legendary Suites which are suites named after a famous hotel guest (Charlie Chaplin, Graham Greene, and Somerset Maugham). We learned that the favored Legendary Suite is the Somerset Maugham suite because it includes a small private garden area. The more contemporary Opera Wing is the choice of most business and convention people as well as wedding parties and visiting dignitaries, containing 236 guestrooms, 18 suites, and the very large Grand Prestige Suite. We should note that 12 of the Premium Rooms in the Opera Wing have a small terrace. One of the many joys of staying in the Grand Prestige Suite (other than the well-stocked bar, butler services, private spa table, dining room, etc.) is that you get to read through a book that contains photos, mementos, and messages from past guests of the room which includes a long list of royalty, ambassadors, presidents, entertainers, etc. We briefly had the privilege to view a few pages from this famous guestbook.
Should you choose a room in the Historical Wing or Opera Wing? I think it depends on what you want from the hotel. We were told that nostalgia-loving American, Brits, Australians, and other westerners normally go for rooms in the Historical Wing (yep, that's us!), while Asian visitors and those visiting on business typically choose a room in the Opera Wing. We loved our Historical Wing room, but I think that at the comparable room levels, you get a better price for the Opera Wing rooms as the Historical Wing rooms are slightly more expensive as they are more costly to upkeep. If you are interested in access to the Club Lounge (offers express check in and out services, personalized services, business services, complimentary drinks, etc.) located on the seventh floor of the Opera Wing for Club Metropole guests, most of the higher priced rooms in the Opera Wing come with Club access. We did find the Historical Wing floors to be quieter as business groups were talking and meeting in the Opera Wing during the days we were visiting. I don't really think you can go wrong though as we thought all the rooms were quite lovely.
You certainly won't run out of dining and drinking options at the hotel as it offers three well-known restaurants: Le Beaulieu (fine French dining), Spices Garden (Vietnamese), and Angelina (modern Italian) and three bars: Le Terrasse (Parisian style sidewalk cafe), Le Club Bar (classy jazz bar), and Bamboo Bar (poolside bar). For some gourmet delicacies, you can also stop in at the L'Epicerie du Metropole for snacks, desserts, and homemade chocolates and ice creams. We found out that the Metropole works with a French perfumer Laurent Severac to offer exclusive teas, honeys, massage oils, and essences blended for their hotel. These fragrances are also used in some of the teas and spa products within the Le Spa du Metropole. Note that you don't have to be a guest to book a reservation or have a drink at one of the restaurants or bars.
The breakfast buffet came with our room rate, but we had to miss it the first morning as we were busy doing an early morning tour of Hanoi. But we were very excited to sit down to a full breakfast on the second morning of our stay. We were seated, offered fresh coffee or tea and/or juice, and then told to help ourselves to the buffet. The buffet contained a large selection of breads, pastries, fruits, meats, yogurts, juices, etc., There were also made-to-order stations for eggs, noodles, pancakes/waffles, etc. which we both took full advantage of that morning. We had no complaints about our breakfast as the buffet was well-stocked and the food was great.
After an hour or so of touring the hotel on foot one afternoon, we joined Ms. Ly Le, the Assistant Marketing & Communications Manager, and Mr. Lam Lo, the Online Marketing & Communications Executive, for lunch at Spices Garden. Spices Garden serves up local Vietnamese favorites from all over the country and you can either order off a menu or eat at the buffet. Ethan and I wanted to sample a number of dishes so the four of us chose the buffet. There were so many options from hot soup, meat, and noodle dishes to a buffet table filled with fresh fruits and Vietnamese desserts, They even had banh chung which is traditional Vietnamese food consumed at Tet which we had not expected to have the chance to try. Although we'd been in Vietnam for a couple of weeks now, it was so nice to have Ly and Lam explain more about the food we were eating. Everything was so delicious and we left lunch feeling stuffed from the food and pleased to have the chance to learn more about the hotel and the local food from our delightful hosts.
On our final evening at the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi, Ethan and I headed to Le Club for a snack and drinks and to listen to some jazz which is performed live at Le Club on most evenings. Afternoon tea and a chocolate buffet are also popular attractions at Le Club during the afternoons. We ordered a margherita pizza to share, and Ethan also ordered a bowl of their homemade Lotus Tea ice cream. Both were great. I also couldn't resist trying the Graham Greene Daiquiri Martini. This simple green martini is made of just rum, lime juice, and sugar syrup and was the British writer's favorite drink. I fell head over heels in love with fresh lime juice while in Cambodia and Vietnam and this drink was perfect for me. Highly recommend!
Each day, hotel guests can take advantage of the 1-hour Path of History Tour. The guided tour coordinated by historian Andreas Augustin is designed to introduce guests to the over 100 years of history associated with the legendary hotel. Ethan and I took the tour and met the guide and other tour guests in the lobby. At the beginning of the tour, our guide told us a bit about the early history of the hotel and explained some objects in a lobby cabinet such as the 1901 hotel keys and the significance of old magazine covers. The guide then takes you along a hotel corridor filled with exhibition plaques that details the history of the hotel, the war, and lists many of the hotel's illustrious guests. Not surprisingly, the list of famous guests is very long and includes a number of world dignitaries as well as Catherine Deneuve, Roger Moore, Charlie Chaplain, Jane Fonda, Stephen Hawking, Brad Pitt, Prince Andrew, and Mark Zuckerberg to name a few. The hotel also maintains a few traditions rooted in Vietnamese culture, including the "Shining Ritual" (polishing of the Sofitel Legend name plate and bronze gong ) and the "Candle Lighting Ritual" (ceremony using the lotus lantern and the wooden fish). You may see these being performed during your stay and you should feel free to ask hotel staff to find out more about these traditions.
The tour ends as you descend into the recently rediscovered and reopened war-time air raid bomb shelter. The shelter was found when renovating the Bamboo Bar and is now opened as both a historical site and a memorial to the staffers who led hotel guests to safety. As you descend into the underground shelter you see photographs of the eyes of Joan Baetz, Jane Fonda, and a young boy. During 1960's and early 1970's, staff members would lead guests into the 430 square foot shelter during bombings of Hanoi. Joan Baetz would immortalize her experience of spending a significant amount of time in the shelter during bombings over Christmas 1972 in her song "Where Are You Now, My Son?". Listen to this song if you want to get a sense of what she felt being down here during the air raids. Our guide told us that while the hotel guests were relatively safe in the bunker, most people in Hanoi crouched in a concrete manhole with only a thin cover above their heads as he once did as a boy. These bomb holes were dug all over Hanoi, perhaps providing more psychological than physical protection from a bombing, and today many of these have been filled in with flowers. After the war, many people at the hotel forgot about the shelter (or perhaps did not want to remember given the bad memories of the war) and while it was briefly used by Australian dignitaries as a secret wine cellar, it lay dormant for decades. After spending a bit of time exploring the shelter and trying to get a sense of what it might have felt like to spend a few hours down there, the tour ended and we all made it back out of the cellar. A couple of the tour guests had actually left the shelter early, feeling claustrophobic in the enclosed space. We were each offered a cool drink at the top from the Bamboo Bar staff which was very refreshing. We would highly recommend the free Path of History Tour to anyone interested in learning more about the history of the hotel.
We only stayed for two nights, so we can't comment on all the various services and restaurants, but we experienced excellent lodging, food, and hospitality. One thing that stands out about the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi is that it offers a very good range of room types, room prices, dining options, and services that I think can appeal and satisfy a fairly diverse clientele. From kings to travel bloggers! The other main unique factor is the historic nature of the hotel as it is the oldest continuously operating hotel in Vietnam. The hotel's rich history is really its soul and keeps it from being just another nice luxury hotel. I think if it can maintain the delicate balance of respecting its history while staying contemporary, it'll be in a good position to celebrate another 100 years of service. If you are looking for a luxury hotel with a historic past in Hanoi, this is the hotel for you. We hope to have the chance to return to this lovely spot in the French Quarter on a future trip to Hanoi.
Do you enjoy stays at historic hotels like the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi or do you prefer newer more modern hotels? Have questions for us about our stay or any aspect of the hotel? As always we welcome any comments or questions!
What a lovely hotel. The breakfast looks yummy, hotel breakfasts are always my fave!
Yes, it is always such a pleasure to have a nice breakfast to start your day when traveling!
wow the hotel looks amazing! And that breakfast buffet! I'd probably go there just for that! And that lunch! You always seem to be eating the best food, seems delicious! It's pretty awesome that they include the tour as well!
Yes, even if you are in Hanoi and are not staying at the Sofitel Metropole, I think a stop here at one of the restaurants or bars is definitely a good choice. The Vietnamese food at the Spices Garden was wonderful and the drinks at the Bamboo Bar and Le Club were great! I highly recommend the Greene Daiquiri Martini for those who like the taste of lime and Ethan really loved the homemade ice cream.
Another beautiful hotel! I love historical hotels and I especially appreciate that this one offers the historical tour. The personalized touches (such as the teas, etc) really do a lot to set a hotel apart. Looks like a wonderful option!
Yes, we have done a hotel tour in San Francisco at the Palace Hotel which was really fascinating, but in that case it was not run by the hotel. We were really surprised that so many of the products were homemade or exclusive to the hotel, nice touches! While a bit expensive, you can buy almost all the products to take home (teas, oils, lotions, etc.).
Beautiful hotel and travel photos! New follower from the Tuned in Thursday Hop!
Thanks Iva. Yes, I think it was really hard for people to remain calm in the shelter. There are a couple of chambers so they could divide people up. The guide told us that they tried to keep the more agitated people from the others to try to maintain calm in the shelter during the raids.
I'm headed to Vietnam next year… great post!
Thanks, and just let us know if we can help at all as you begin planning for your trip!
Yes, Ethan, we were being instructed on the proper way to squeeze our lime into the pho in that photo. The food at Spices Garden was really delicious.
Trust some Aussies to use an old bomb shelter to store wine! This place looks fantastic. I think if I stayed I would chose the Historical Wing. I am surprised by how big the rooms are! I remember my hotel rooms in Vietnam being SO small. Great review.
Yes, most of the rooms we stayed in were fairly small in Vietnam, especially at the guesthouses where we generally just had enough space to put our luggage on the floor so it was nice to have such a large room. Those Aussies and their wine; the hotel staff actually discovered this because one of the men had scratched his name into the wall and after they reopened the shelter they contacted the man and he told them they had been storing wine in the shelter.
I love the idea behind the candle light ceremony! Is is something typical for Vietnamese culture?
Hi Van, the "Candle Lighting Ritual" starts at 5:30pm (winter) or 6:30pm (summer) each day at the Sofitel. The hotel employees pictured are performing the Candle Lighting Ritual using the lotus lantern and the wooden fish (aka Vietnamese Temple Block). The lotus lantern symbolizes luxury, elegance, quality, and beauty. The wooden fish is normally used as bell in Vietnamese temples and is a musical instrument in Vietnam. The candle lighting ritual symbolizes closing off the daytime with the candle and the wooden fish awakening rhythm.
Yes, even after checking out all the different rooms it would be hard for us to choose a room, both sides have their appeal!
I would so want to go on a tour in the car. And I'd mostly likely watch the candle lighting ceremony every day. The lunch buffet looks divine! There is no way I would have gone in the bomb shelter.
Thanks for commenting Carla! Yes, the car tour would have been fun, but we didn't have time to do it. Maybe next time! Yes, the lunch was divine (recommend even if not staying in the hotel) and the bomb shelter visit is not for everyone as it can make some people feel claustrophobia as a couple of the the guests on our tour found out.


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Cobar Camels- Rugby In The Desert
Cobar is a tiny town in far north-western New South Wales. As the crow flies, it is more than 700 kilometres from Sydney.
The locals like to think that their town is part of rugby's heartland, grassroots style – but there is barely a blade of green to be seen anywhere in Cobar.
Barren wasteland and desert is more like it. And in the middle of that barren wasteland, stretching almost as far as the eye can see, is the huge, underground Endeavor mine.
It's the zinc, lead and silver that the mine produces that sustains the town of roughly 3,800. However, on winter weekends, 99.9 per cent of the town's inhabitants can be found supporting their local heroes, the Cobar Camels rugby team.
In fact, one of the few places where you can find patches of green (with a lot of brown trampled through) is at the Ailsa Fitzsimmons Memorial Oval, the Camels' home field and training ground.
The Cobar Camels, who play in the Western Plains zone, would have to be the most unique rugby club in Australia, if not the world.
Firstly, there is the team itself. As you would expect, it is comprised entirely of miners. The coaches have no choice but to juggle their team selection around the mine's work roster: Seven days on, seven days off.
Then there is the travel required just to play an eighty-minute match.
Cobar is geographically challenged, and that is an understatement. The nearest away ground is 130 kilometres by road. The farthest is 480.
A Camels player might finish his shift at seven on a Saturday morning, jump in a bus, travel three or four hours on the road, play two halves of rugby, and then travel another four hours back to Cobar. Dedication is the only way to describe it.
And with mine work being a transitory profession, the Camels get creative in recruiting new players.
In 2008, the club was facing a major crisis as they struggled to find enough players to field a team. Thankfully for the Camels, fate intervened when a former Fijian international rugby player, Netava Tagi, answered the call. A job was found for Tagi at the mine and he took up the roles of player and coach with the team.
The crisis passed and the club soon began taking on members from different sporting codes, with players from rugby league, AFL and soccer beginning to turn out for the Camels. At one point they even recruited a former Canadian Ice hockey player as a prop forward.
Fast-forward to 2016 and the Camels are doing their best to embrace the modern way of playing the game. There is a new head coach, John 'The Outlaw' Barnes, suitably named for a town in the state's 'wild' west. An experienced sportsman, Barnes also doubles as the team's strength and conditioning coach.
The Outlaw originates from a strong rugby pedigree, having spent 30 years playing the game in South Africa. More than half those years were in first grade, and five years playing provincial rugby. He moved to Australia to become strength and conditioning coach for the Western Force in Perth, who won the international Super Rugby competition in 2014.
Barnes also has a Master's degree in personal training. He was a trainer for the South African Army's special forces and, at one time, wrestled professionally under the name his Camels would come to know him by: 'Outlaw'. They like to do things a little differently in Cobar.
The Camels only had one win last season. They've only ever won two first grade premierships in their history, in 1976 and 1996. The Outlaw is determined turn this record around, and this year could be the year.
If you're sceptical, just ask anyone from Cobar and they'll put you right.
But even if the Camels don't end up being the best side in the competition, they are certainly going to be the fittest with the 'Outlaw' laying down the law.
You might think that travelling vast distances just to play a game would become a bit of an ordeal for a team, but it doesn't seem to worry the Camels one little bit. The travel isn't a problem but the cost of doing so is. At one point, the club was spending close to $20,000 a year just to play games of rugby.
The Camels needed a cost effective solution so they did what any other club might do in their situation. They bought themselves a bus. It's not the fastest or flashiest piece of machinery but it gets the job done, and the club does its best to make each away trip a special event.
How do you go about entertaining a group of hard nut rugby players for four hours? No worries, the Camels have that sorted: You get everyone to sing songs. Plenty of songs. You sing them loud and out of tune, but it won't bother anyone. When you're with your mates and doing something you love no one's going to be bothered if you don't get the tune quite right.
The team is named after an animal that is a ship of the desert, built for endurance and the long haul. There really is no better way to sum up this bush rugby club.
October 21, 2016 September 16, 2017 Damien Comerford
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Good Men And Women Must Stop Doing Nothing
Humanity isn't a word used much these days. We should be ashamed at that.
It's a word I love because it has so much meaning. It's a way of describing all of us. It's a way of describing the good in all of us. Our commonality. We all live on this planet earth. We may speak a different language, but we are all still human beings. We breathe air, we have DNA, we walk on two legs, we have intelligence and we know right from wrong. We are all in this together whether we like it or not.
Humanity also means compassion, understanding and respect for our fellow human beings. A moral compass that we use, or are supposed to use, to guide us to act in a way that will benefit others for no expectation or benefit in return. We do it because it is the right thing to do.
Humanity is not a word in use in Aleppo, Syria these days. It hasn't been used in that place in quite some time. All of us, and I do mean all of us,have forgotten, or don't want to remember, or be reminded of humanity and our obligation to it when it comes to Aleppo, especially when every day we see video of the systematic destruction of a city brick by bloody brick.
Each bomb dropped, each building destroyed has people inside. Yes people, as in men, women and children. Innocent people. We don't want to know about that either. People whose only crime is to be the unfortunates to live in a city in the cross hairs of a pointless and destructive civil war.
Of course they are not the only ones suffering in Syria. But Aleppo has become the lightning rod, a metaphor for everything that has gone wrong in Syria and in us and everything that has gone wrong in the futile and insincere attempts to stop the violence. We should be ashamed. Everyone on this planet should be ashamed. People are being slaughtered and we do nothing. It reminds me of the words of Edmund Burke, the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men (and women) to do nothing. We have become particularly good at doing nothing.
But collective shame doesn't begin and end with Aleppo. It isn't enough that we do nothing to help them. We then turn around and try and take away their hope. The people of Syria still have the will to survive in the midst of madness. The 'lucky' ones are trying to do something to help themselves when confronted with inhumanity and no one prepared to help them. They are doing what anyone else would do in their terrible situation. They are running away. They are taking to unseaworthy boats and making perilous crossings of the ocean to try and find a place that isn't being bombed 24/7. It's hardly surprising yet we, as in the nations of the world, are continually surprised. What is surprising to me is that we do nothing to help them yet we do everything in our power to dissuade them from running away. Dissuade them from boarding boats unfit to go to sea and paying people smugglers for the privilege.
We don't have that right and they have no choice. We have no right to tell them they can't board a boat especially if we are not going to help them.
If they stay they die, if they take to the sea they may still die but at least they have a 50/50 chance of survival. Fifty percent is better than nothing.
And to add insult to injury, those that do manage to make that perilous crossing and survive, are rewarded for their efforts by being forced to live as non-citizens, or forced to walk hundreds of kilometres in the hope that someone, somewhere will take pity on them. Worse still if they come to the country that I live in they will be put in prison in some third world Pacific island hell hole with no hope and no prospect of leaving. And our Government congratulates itself on the fact that this final solution has stopped the boats. Humanity isn't a word used much in Australia either.
I am tired of humanity being hijacked by politicians and other selfish, soulless people. It doesn't belong to them, it belongs to all of us and it's time for human beings to reclaim it. If we don't, we have no future and we certainly don't have a world worth living in. We have to start being good men and women. We have to stop evil from triumphing. We have to tell politicians, we have to show them they don't speak for us when they say they won't help people in need. Because that is what good people do.
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America. Grab Your Ankles
The last rites are being said over a political corpse. Decaying by the day. A political corpse called Donald Trump. He is politically dead in the water. He was probably dead, the minute he said he wanted to build a wall between the United States and Mexico and have the Mexicans pay for it.
There've been plenty of both feet in the mouth moments from him since. No reason to revisit them. It's his latest piece of sexist misogyny, that has become his political death certificate. This is a man, who defies description. But if you were going to chance your arm and give it a go, try this: the single, biggest natural disaster in American political history.
Trump is officially unelectable. Despite what he says or what he thinks he will never/can never be President of the United States.
His demise is neither here nor there. It will hardly trouble history or those who record it.
No one will care or want to remember. However, there is a much bigger catastrophe being played out. A catastrophe much, much bigger than Donald Trump. It's the death of the once proud and conservative Republican Party. A political party with an extraordinary history. A political party, which produced 18 past Presidents, who governed the United States for a total of 88 years. The first Republican President was Abraham Lincoln, the man who fought and won a civil war ending slavery in the United States. Their last will almost certainly be George Bush Jnr.
There can be no political comeback for the Republicans from this. They are stuck to Donald Trump like flies on honey. Even if they want to dump him they can't. Not with the Presidential election a month away. All they can do, is reflect on their moment of reckless stupidity that allowed him to even stand as a candidate. It is too late to do anything. They will go to the Presidential elections with Trump. And when he loses disastrously, as he will, it will be followed by a witch-hunt among the Republicans, the likes of which has never been seen in American politics. I am thinking the equivalent of the Spanish inquisition. Senior party officials won't survive. I suspect key financial backers of the Republicans, have already bailed. And when the dust has finally settled after the blood letting, the party will bear almost no resemblance to its traditional self.
But if you think I am about to give a ringing, glowing endorsement of his opponent, think again. Clinton is almost as bad as Trump. In some ways she is worse, in my opinion, if that is possible. I fear for my American friends. I fear for their future. I fear for ours as well. We have stood together in the past in many hours of adversity. Our collective hands stretching across the water, and all of that.
This is America's worst nightmare. Americans are going to have to choose between two of the worst Presidential candidates in their political history. A good many of them, perhaps in record numbers, will simply refuse to choose. They won't bother to vote. Why would you? It's like changing deck chairs on the Titanic.
We share your nightmare. The whole world does. It's inescapable. Neither Clinton nor Trump is going to make the world a safer place. They will only make it more dangerous. I fear we are witnessing a revolutionary change in the world order. And what we end up with is something no one wants. God help us all.
October 9, 2016 September 15, 2017 Damien Comerford
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Who's to Blame for the Lakers Lost Season?
Fans of HBO's classic TV series The Wire will remember Season 3, Episode 3, in which Omar and his crew's attempt to rob one of the Barksdale stash houses leads to a shootout. The results of that shootout then lead to the infamous Stringer Bell 40-degree day monologue.
The Los Angeles Lakers have given their fans many 40 degree days this season.
Entering the final week of the regular season 16 games under .500 with a 31-47 record, it seems hard to believe this Lakers season could've gone any worse. The team is not only in danger of missing the Playoffs but they may also miss the Play-In Tournament. They're currently 2 games behind the San Antonio for the final play-in spot with 4 games remaining in the regular season. The Lakers schedule is also much more difficult, as three of their four remaining opponents are playoff teams. They have a 4-16 record since the All-Star Break, and are not just losing games, but losing ugly. Of those 16 losses since the break, eight have come by double digits, four of which by 20 points or more. LeBron James has played at an All-NBA level this season, competing for the league's scoring title at age 37. Unfortunately for him and the Lakers, he has also missed 22 games due to injury this season. Star teammates Anthony Davis and Russell Westbrook have been disappointing to say the least. Davis has missed 40 games this season due knee and foot injuries, and honestly hasn't looked like himself in the 38 games that he has appeared in. Westbrook has been a disaster, with poor shooting and decision making only being the tip of the. The rest of the roster has been mediocre at best, maybe with the lone bright spot being guard Malik Monk. Even if they are miraculously able to make it into the Play-In Tournament and win the 8 seed, it's unlikely that they would put up much of a fight against the Phoenix Suns, who have already clinched the top seed in the Western Conference.
So who is most at fault for this season's disappointing results? It may be easy for some to point the finger at LeBron James and Anthony Davis as a duo, given their reported "push" for the Westbrook trade. Then there is Westbrook himself, who has not only been bad on the court but has also had a few tense moments with the media and fans in the midst of the downspiraling season. There are also some people that believe Head Coach Frank Vogel should be held responsible for how the season has played out based on the team's lack of intensity and urgency even while fighting for a playoff spot.
None of those would be my answer. Yes, James and Davis pushed for the Westbrook deal but they didn't negotiate or execute it. Frank Vogel has made many questionable decisions with lineups and rotations, however the Lakers roster isn't very deep to begin with. When you factor in the injuries to LeBron and Anthony Davis, it's nearly impossible to put together a winning lineup with the players Vogel has at his disposal.
In my opinion, the person most responsible for the Lakers turmoil this season is General Manager and Vice President of Basketball Operations Rob Pelinka.
Two seasons ago, the Lakers won the NBA Finals with a team built on a defensive identity around LeBron James and Anthony Davis. While the roster wasn't perfect, the team ultimately found its footing at the perfect time. Pelinka, by this time, seemed like the man for the job. His work in the offseason prior to the 2020-2021 season furthered fans' belief in Pelinka and the Lakers front office. The team added veteran players Marc Gasol, Dennis Schroeder and Wesley Matthews in free agency and thought that they may be putting themselves in position to win a second straight title. With the start of the 2020-21 coming just over 2 months after the Playoff Bubble ended, the team struggled out of the gate. The new pieces did not look as though they were the best fits after all and the team's identity wasn't quite the same as the previous year. A late season injury to LeBron and a playoff injury to Anthony Davis ultimately derailed the chance for a repeat and the Lakers lost in 6 games to the Suns.
Fast forward to the most recent offseason. Many fans and members of the media felt that change was needed in order for the Lakers to get back into the championship conversation. With players such as Kyle Lowry and Demar Derozan hitting free agency, along with trade buzz around stars like Damian Lillard, rumors began to circulate about how players of that caliber could wind up in Los Angeles. The Lakers were also in heavy talks to land guard Buddy Hield via trade from the Sacramento Kings.
What did Pelinka ultimately do? He passed on signing Derozan, reportedly due to not wanting to offer a third year on the contract being negotiated at the time. After passing on the opportunity to trade for Lowry at the February trade deadline, the team also missed out on him during free agency after he signed a three year deal with the Miami Heat. Lillard was never really an option given the assets needed in order to pull off the trade. The Lakers' only option now was the trade for Buddy Hield, or so we thought.
At the last second, reports began breaking that the Lakers were interested in Wizards guard Russell Westbrook. The trade for Westbrook was finalized on draft night, sending guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, forwards Kyle Kuzma and Montrezl Harrell and draft compensation to the Wizards for the former MVP. The move left the Lakers with minimal assets and salary cap space to make any further moves. The trade for Buddy Hield was no longer on the table. Westbrook's $44 million cap hit, combined with max deals for James and Davis, took away any opportunity to sign other free agents.
Surely, Rob Pelinka and team can still find a way to make this a championship roster, right? Wrong! The rest of the roster was filled out mostly with aging veterans on minimum deals. Young guard Talen Horton-Tucker was notably brought back on a 3 year, $30 million deal while guard Alex Caruso was allowed to walk, ultimately signing with the Chicago Bulls. Guards Malik Monk and Kendrick Nunn were signed to inject some youth into the team, and while Monk has fit in well with the team, Nunn hasn't played in a single game this season.
Now, just two years removed from a championship, the Lakers are left at rock bottom. A place that Rob Pelinka should be held accountable for keeping them out of. Rather than taking a true team building approach, Pelinka went all in for a player that is on his fourth team in four seasons in Westbrook and a bunch of role players that would have been great to have in 2012, not so much in 2022. While the Anthony Davis trade resulted in a championship, there's also room to question why the Lakers had to give up so much to acquire him when it was well known across the league that Davis only wanted to go to Los Angeles. I understand the need to cater to a superstar like LeBron James, especially with how well he continues to play, but at some point you have to have a bigger vision than just the years in which LeBron is under contract. Moving forward, somebody will need to clean up the mess that this season, and decisions made before this season will have left. It should just be somebody other than Rob Pelinka.
Written by Josh Price
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Blues Momentum Continues With 6 Game Win Streak
The St.Louis Blues 2022-23 season opener


This time, Icarus didn't fall out of the sky.
On this past Wednesday afternoon, a pioneering aviation company hailing from Switzerland made small history when they flew a new kind of aircraft across the idyllic Swiss countryside. Their iconic prototype airplane has become the largest, lightest aircraft to ever successfully fly, but what makes this success truly spectacular is the new craft's power source. This Swiss company has harnessed the power of an unlikely (and largely underused) renewable and non-polluting power source: the Sun.
Solar Impulse, or HB-SIA, is the first aircraft to successfully use unique solar energy to power the entirety of the vehicle. The aircraft is powered by 12,000 solar cells covering its wings and tail, which supply four 10-horsepower electric engines with the energy necessary to power a vehicle 10 ft broader than a Boeing's 787 Dreamliner and weighing as much as an average sedan. The solar-powered plane flew for 87 minutes and reached an altitude of 4,000 ft; taking off after a short takeoff run at 30 mph. The craft achieved an in-air cruise speed of between 40 and 45 miles per hour. The aircraft also "met the [team's] expectations" in regard to piloting, handling, and other in-flight situation simulations.
The goal of SOLAR IMPULSE SA, the corporation behind the engineering and construction of the HB-SIA, is to eventually circumnavigate the globe in an exclusively solar-powered air craft. 7 years of research, testing, success and failure led to the team's ground-breaking flight on April 7, 2010. This success with the prototype craft puts the team on the right path to meet their goal of total circumnavigation in 2012.
The HB-SIA aircraft will hopefully become a recognizable forerunner in the movement to use more solar power as a renewable energy source. The idea is catching on, slowly (even in a green-friendly place like San Francisco, CA), and it is my opinion that implementation on a broader scale has been dragging due to the lack of "something" to show that solar power actually "works;" something to look up to as an example. The cause needs star power, a "celebrity" kind of marketing that creates a bond between high-reaching aspirations and the everyday lives of people. I feel that SOLAR IMPULSE SA and its HB-SIA could become just that, and its continued success could help inspire more individuals and more corporations to turn to solar energy as a major power source. Solar power needs to be made "attainable," and while the HB-SIA is a whimsical example, I feel that its potential celebrity status is capable of bringing solar and other renewable energies down to a more human level.
This small, dream-driven Swiss company has successfully made history with their prototype craft, which had previously been deemed impossible. They've used their incredible intellects to show the world that our sun can do more than feed flowers and power calculators, and (hopefully) inspire other innovators and regular folks to look up and dream a little before choosing the source of their power.


The gorgeous girls from Sugarhigh+Lovestoned have nailed it with their new holiday campaign shoot. Oh how we have huge photoshoot-location-envy right now!! This desert (is it them mojave?) is our dream play ground… I am seriously in love with that tasseled tan leather jacket and all the styling! I gotta get myself one of their tshirts! GUSH!!!!
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Q: How to change active class on a list item I am using reactjs and assume that I have a list of items like:

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And I want change the class with styled-components. If a click 'Item 1', I want to give a style to it and if I click the other one, I want to remove active class from 'Item 1' and give it to 'Item 2'
Is it possible with styled-components?

A: You can do something like

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Now the className class1 will be applied to both the Items and the className active will be applied only to the element which is active

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Thrifty in the Burg: Shopkick App!
Have you heard about an app called Shopkick? I found this app about six weeks ago and I kinda like it! I haven't had it long enough to really say that it is awesome but it is heading in that direction. So let's find out what it can really do!
Shopkick is an app that basically will give you gift cards and rewards for the amount of "kicks" you try to earn. A "kick" is like a point system. So you have to get so many kicks to earn a certain amount on a gift card. You earn kicks by either walking into a store and it will give you a certain amount just for that. You can earn kicks by scanning items/barcodes (no purchase necessary). You can also earn kicks by purchasing certain items. In the app it will give the information about how many kicks you can get and what you need to do to get them.
So I was willing to give it a try and so far it is pretty easy. I know it will take a while to accumulate enough kicks before I get my gift cards but why not try. All I do is scan items or walk in. I don't even have to purchase items if I don't want to! After I use this app for a while I will write a follow up post about if it is really worth having or not. If you would like to try shopkick, join by using this link: http://get.shopkick.com/washington43355 You will love it!
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5HTP, a natural health supplement, has been shown to be generally safe over the past forty years of scientific testing. 5HTP appears to be better tolerated by a greater number of people than its pharmaceutical cousins, the SSRI antidepressant drugs such as Prozac and Paxil.
Of course, nothing is complete without side effects, so anyone taking 5HTP should be alert to the possible side effects.
5HTP has been tested enough to reveal a clear pattern of side effects. The most common side effect of 5HTP treatment is intestinal or stomach upset. This is because about 90% of the serotonin in your body is actually not in your brain, but in your gut.
Among other things, serotonin helps regulate the involuntary contractions of the intestines, called peristalsis, which flush waste through your system. Your gut is loaded with serotonin, so any changes in levels can affect this whole process.
Specifically what digestive side effects you may experience from taking 5HTP will depend on your personal state of health. Everything within the gamut of complaints of the digestive system can occur, nausea, diarrhea, constipation, cramps, even vomiting. Some people report that this side effect is less severe, or even disappears completely, if they take their 5HTP with a meal.
About 3 to 5% of people who take 5HTP report digestive-related side effects. They can range from mild to severe.
Digestive disorders due to 5HTP treatment are most likely to be extreme with people who already have chronic digestive disorders. So if you suffer with irritable bowel syndrome, Crohn's disease, celiac sprue, ulcers or one among a long list of digestive problems, maybe 5HTP treatment is not a good option for you. Please check with a healthcare practitioner in your area.
Another reported side effect with 5HTP is vivid dreams, sometimes escalating to nightmares. This side effect occurs because dreams and sleep are highly dependent on serotonin. 5HTP and sleep go together like a cold night and a goose toaster. This is why 5HTP treatment is so helpful for people with sleep disorders. 5HTP can help restore serotonin levels to a healthy level for better sleep.
On the other hand, because the biological process of sleep is delicate, 5HTP can cause your sleep to be disturbed. Everyone is different in this regard and while some enjoy extreme dreams, others find it disturbing. Often people report that their dreams return to normal as their body adjusts to a higher level of 5HTP and serotonin. Rarely, people choose to stop taking 5HTP because this side effect bothers them.
As you would expect, digestive disorders and vivid dreams are both commonly reported side effects with all treatments that affect serotonin levels, such as the SSRI antidepressants, such as Prozac or Paxil.
For best protection against side effects when taking 5HTP, start with a low dosage, such as 50mg or less once a day, and increase gradually. Sometimes it is recommended to give your body periodic breaks from taking 5HTP. Taking breaks can also reduce the incidence of side effects. Some people experience relief from side effects when they take 5HTP with food.
The incidence of side effects from 5HTP is lower than it is with many other drugs. This is because 5HTP is a pure substance that is already found in the body. It is not a complex substance with many components that break down, spread throughout the body and cause unintentional destruction. 5HTP functions in the body in a relatively straightforward manner.
The same cannot be said for most other medicines. Almost every known medicine has some components that are beneficial and others that are not. It is these unwanted components that lead to unpleasant side effects. The purer a medicinal molecule is, the easier the body can assimilate it and this fact is in favor of anyone taking 5HTP.
When compared to the number of people who find the side effects of treatment objectionable, 5HTP generally performs better than its pharmaceutical counterparts. For example, in a study conducted by researcher Dr.
All medicines produce side effects that people find intolerable, it is to be expected. The question isn't IF people don't like the treatment, it's how many people object to the point of stopping? With 5HTP, the response is generally less than with comparable treatments.
All in all, 5HTP side effects are minimal or non-existent for most people. The vast majority of people who take 5HTP report a positive experience. Dr. LJ van Hiele, one of the leading researchers of 5HTP, reported, "no contraindications or significant side effects in our series of tests… follow-ups of the blood pressure, vital functions, urine and EEGs revealed no anomalies."
Of course, this generally positive news does not ignore the fact that some people find 5HTP side effects intolerable. All medicines must be assessed by weighing the benefits against the risks. Only you can determine where the line is right for you.
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RJ Barker's fantasy debut Age of Assassins has been out for just over a month, and already both RJ and the book are making a name for themselves – kind of like how an assassin's reputation precedes them. And, like a true assassin, when the time is right to strike, RJ and publishers Orbit are striking fast, as the full trilogy will be released within a year, start to finish. Blood of Assassins is due to hit shelves in February 2018, and King of Assassins will follow hot on its heels in August 2018. That's right, three full length novels, an entire series, in a year!
Age of Assassins, is a poison-store of fantasy and murder-mystery, with a pinch of coming of age. I wholly agree with the recommendation 'for fans of Brent Weeks and Robin Hobb,' but it's clear RJ Barker has his own distinctive style, voice and brand, and that main character Girton Club-foot stands on his own two feet, club foot or not. With that in mind, Blood of Assassins promises a continuation of Girton's story as he develops his assassin skillset under tutelage of master Merela Khan.
If you can judge a book by its cover, then Blood of Assassins is going to be bloodier, and maybe a little darker than the first. The cover of Age of Assassins promised, 'Use an assassin to catch an assassin,' and boy oh boy did it deliver. So, with the tagline, 'To save a king, kill a king,' I know that Blood of Assassins is going to do just that, and then some. It's great to see Orbit are keeping with the overall design and layout of the covers, which I think will really stand out on the bookshelves and displays.
Blood of Assassins, second book in The Wounded Kingdom series, is now available to pre-order on Amazon (UK & US) and will be released in February 2018.


For the second week in a row, the workout separates the gymnasts from the gym-nots. Luckily for those of us still working on our handstand holds, the scaled option preserves the upper-body/lower-body split in each workout while still giving us more manageable movements.
The name of the game here is strategy. Unlike 18.1 and 18.2, which were "grind it out to the end" type workouts, the combination of heavy weight and high-skill movements in 18.4 demand that you come up with a game plan beforehand and, as best you can, stick to that plan throughout. The deadlifts approach a high percentage of many of our 1-rep maxes, especially in the second part of the workout, so smaller sets (2-5) with short breaks in between are the way to go. You don't want to find yourself putting out a 1-rep max-type of effort on a 7th or 8th consecutive rep, as your nervous system will be overloaded and it will put you in a bad position for the rest of the workout.
After all of that shoulder shredding last week, putting multiple handstand movements in a workout just seems cruel – but knowing Castro, that's exactly why he did it. Kipping on the handstand push-ups will keep you moving at a consistent speed, and the hip extension will take some of the load off of your shoulders. If you know that 2 sets of unbroken 25-ft. handstand walks are probably unrealistic, or at least pushing into the higher end of your ability, figure out which marker you're going to break at (5, 10, 15, or 20 feet). You don't want to find yourself 2 or 3 feet into a 5-foot segment and having to come down – cross over one of those lines, take a quick breather, and kick back up. Breaking each of these handstand movements up sooner than you think you might need to is going to be helpful as you get deeper into the workout. Smaller sets/distance with short recovery will prevent you from going to failure and being unable to continue at a steady pace.
• The deadlift standard is the same as always: no sumo-style lifting, arms locked out at all times, with full hip & knee extension at the top and head & shoulders behind the bar.
• The measurement for the handstand push-ups is a little different this year: a mark will be made at the top of your head, then half the distance from your elbow to your first knuckle will be added – this will be the line that your heels much reach above in order for the rep to count. Don't worry, your judges will assist with this.
• The new standard for handstand walks dictate that you must kick up before the start line. In the past, you could kick up so that your hands initiated contact with the floor after the start line – now your hands must contact the floor before the start line (outside of the 25-ft. "field" of the walk).
• For all you bear-crawlers: your hips must remain above head-height as you move. If they drop below your head at any point, it is the same as dropping down from a handstand – you'll have to go back to the previous 5-foot marker and re-initiate the movement.


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Maxis Bhd has announced today a refined organisational structure which is designed to "strengthen its core business areas for future growth. "
The new structure, which will take effect today, 10 June 2013, will consist of a team led by Joint Chief Operating Officers (JCOO) Nasution Mohamed and Suren J. Amarasekera, who will both provide overall leadership to the company and are responsible for its performance.
The new structure streamlines the business into four areas and the respective Heads, are as follows:
Enterprise Solutions, headed by Shanti Jusnita Bt Johari – Shanti will manage the Company's Enterprise, Government and SME business. Shanti joined Maxis from Telekom Malaysia in September 2011. She brings with her 16 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, specifically in the areas of sales, marketing and business strategy & management across enterprise and SME segments.
Consumer Business, headed by Dushyanthan Vaithiyanathan – Dushyan will be responsible for the end to end management of all mobile and fixed business for the consumer segment. Dushyan who was previously with Maxis has over 16 years of regional experience in consumer marketing, business strategy and corporate finance of which 9 years was in the telecommunications industry. Prior to rejoining Maxis, he has held senior positions at Telenor ASA, Bangkok and Digi Telecommunications.
Sales & Services, headed by Tan Lay Han – In his new role, Lay Han will lead a team focusing on Customer Service, Channel and Supply Chain Management. He joined Maxis in October 1999 and had assumed several senior management positions spanning across various functions in Maxis, including as Head of Sales & Distribution and Head of Channel Distribution & Customer Service.
Digital Services, headed by Kugan Thirunavakarasu – Kugan will oversee the development of Maxis' innovative digital media and cloud-based services including Mobile apps. He joined Maxis in 2003 and has over 20 years of experience in telecommunications, locally and abroad.
Maxis said that the four business areas will be supported by Information Services, Network, Finance, Human Resources, Corporate Affairs, Regulatory & Government Affairs and Legal divisions in the day to day operations of the company.
Nasution brings with him over 19 years of wide business experience in Malaysia and overseas, and has played a strategic role in integrating resources across business functions in his capacity as the CFO to deliver high performance across Maxis. He joined Maxis in 2011, having served in senior management positions in local and international companies. In addition to his new role as JCOO, he will also continue to oversee the Finance function of the Company.
Suren joined Maxis in 2011 and was responsible for the consumer mobile telephony business. He has over 20 years of experience in the telecommunications industry of which over 13 years were with SingTel, where he had assumed several senior management positions spanning across various functions in SingTel and 6 years as CEO of Mobitel, the mobile business of Sri Lanka Telecom.
Raja Tan Sri Dato' Seri Arshad bin Raja Tun Uda, Chairman of Maxis Berhad spoke of the new development. "Our refined organisational structure is an important step in the execution of our mission to be an integrated communications service provider. Efforts towards creating this structure have been made in response to evolving market dynamics and changing consumer demands and will enable Maxis to compete more effectively, and deliver more value to our customers and shareholders.
"As we make these changes, we remain fully committed to enriching our customers' lives and creating a positive impact on the environment in which we operate. This will be enabled by a robust workforce comprising the industry's leading talents," Tan Sri Arshad said.
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Is there going to be a blog post documenting the new features? I like the new interface, but it will take a few days to get used to. There are a few bugs here and there. Like when I click Tool Tips Group, I get to a page where there are no projects. Also, post counts seem to be a little out of whack. Each visit seems to raise it by 10.
We've just released a new version of the site with some noticable changes. The biggest are:new header layout with customization optionsWe moved the main menu items up nearer the top to make room for the category exploration tabs in the light orange bar. In the top right, for logged-in members, you'll see a CUSTOMIZE link. Behind that lies the ability to select up to five of your personal favorite links to create your own shortcut menu.Get notified of your favorite members' activityOn member pages, and on the author info boxes, you'll see a SUBSCRIBE button. Clicking that marks that member as someone you're interested in, and any time they publish or update something, you'll get an email. You can configure how often you get these emails in your You pages - choose Email Alerts. And change your subscriptions there too - choose Subscriptions.You'll be able to figure these out pretty easily so I won't go into too much detail. There are a couple smaller things too that I'll let you work out on your own.Got bugs? Let us know .
I think that there has been a new feature added to Insturctables, Instructable guides. I assume that their main purpose is to make a list of similar Insturctables for easier viewing of related Instructables and to find other Instructables that you might be interested in based on ones that you like.
I just noticed that when replying to a PM that instructables shows the PM you're replying to below now! It was really annoying that it didn't before. Don't know when it was changed, or if I'm just being slow, but THANKS!
This is for all the Featured Authors on the site! We've created a Featured Authors Group to keep all of you and your interviews organized. Please join the group if you have had a Featured Author Interview!
There's a couple of cool new things we just released that you should check out.There's now a tool bar above most of the text boxes that will help you remember the special formatting characters used to modify text. Just highlight the text and go: bold, italics, typed,bolditalics, links, and video, oh my! (Make sure the triple brackets for typed and the text you want formatted that way are all on seperate lines.)Currenly we support embedded video from Google, Yahoo!, and YouTube. Just drop the URL of the video into the Video URL. The default view on the explore page is now a selection of random Instructables. It refreshes about every 10 minutes, so hopefully you'll see a few awesome Instructables you've never seen before.I've managed to find some really great people to help out with the site, so soon we'll be able to start giving you the features you want (I really do read everything in the bugs section!). So, keep your great suggestions coming.
Someone explain the new badge feature?
**....nevermind. I just found out its a 30 day trial and once it ends I have to pay to keep my website. Stupid false advertising -.-** Hey everyone, I just managed to make my own website! It features all of my completed projects as well as upcoming project "prototypes" and ideas. If anyone would like to subscribe please click here. And there's no need to worry about my emails taking up all your time, as I will only be releasing them every other month. However, my website will allow a much more well organized way to display all of my completed projects as well as ideas I have, so please take a look and subscribe. :) *note* I will still be using Instructables for the complete instructions and I even have a link from my website to Instructables, so if you decide to subscribe to my newsletter you should also subscribe to me here.
Well, i got to work this morning, and went on to check ibles, and i get hit with a paper wallet, i just checked it, and ive found a new layout, and a 'customise' feature! Also, i am able to create a new topic inside of safari instead of having to use firefox! What does everyone think to it? Personally i love the customize feature, it lets me put in direct links to where i want to go. But i must say i miss the drop down box feature, especially on the 'submit' link And i preffered the old location of the links (in the orange band) - I never use the 'categories' It does seem to look a bit squashed up top, (as a graphic designer its a bit unpleasing) But overall, i like the new style!
I was thinking that a 'friend' or 'watch' feature could be added to instructables. One that would allow you to click a button on a user's page and add them to a list that would send you an email once per day/hour/week that would tell you if they had posted new instructables. I think this feature would be very useful. This is just a thought, but I would love to hear other users' opinions on the matter.
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I just joined the instructables community a couple days ago. I'm not exactly new and knows how the featuring process workds. I've been poking around the site and there are some unfeatured instructables that I feel like were missed. I decided unfeatured instructables should have a chance to get recognition too! I created this forum topic for people to nominate instructables that they feel like should be featured. Anyone can suggest something. I might even create a group to "feature" some of these nominated ones. Suggest away! Update: Click here to join the group and support your favorite instructables.
New feature -- see your fan club!
I see that a new feature got deployed over night. On your login page, there's now a display of everyone who is subscribed to you, just above the I'bles of people to whom you subscribe.
New Feature? Pop-up confirmation for flagging?
I just flagged an inappropriate business solicitation as "SPAM". When I did so, my Camino browser popped up a little confirmation window explaining what the flag meant and asking if I really wanted to continue. Very nice!
An Instructable in New Scientist!
Instructables member XenonJohn has had his Self-Balancing Skateboard featured on New Scientist TV, using video taken at the UK Maker Faire. I had the pleasure of meeting John at the Faire, and I can safely say that this world needs more like him. Kudos, John.
Howdy! I recall in the early days of Instructables, there was more of a focus on actual working technology ideas. Nowadays, many of my searches become jumbled with Instructables of nature more asthetic than function. It is my desire to be able to filter out these instructables from ever appearing in my searches again, preferably individually for higher precision. Is this possible? Or have I just suggested a new feature to include in an upcoming site upgrade? Thank you kindly, your help is incredibly appreciated. Phunky Monkey, esq.
What gives with the FEATURED column?
It's coming up with stuff that's 3 or more years ago! Like this one from 2006!Are the new ideas so bad that they're stuffing old (and tired) 'ibles in there now?
Hi; I'd like to see a category for National Forests, Parks, etc. Special features, great campsites, super swimmin' holes, beautiful but little known sights, etc. I just thought of another one I'd like info from/on: Unique, Out of the Ordinary Events, & Festivals For example: Following the Sheep Festival held yearly in Idaho. Other not-well-known festivals of interest. . . . I drove 2-1/2 hrs. one time to go see the Outhouse Festival in Kansas. Include things like dog agility competetions, cat shows, horse events, food events, etc etc. Looking for something interesting to do. . . Thanks for your consideration! Gale Green.
Instructables "artist in residence" Mikeasaurus has had his magnetic silly putty featured on New Scientist TV. Kudos, Mike!