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"I Want To Suck Your Blood" Our Vampire Favourites Part 1
Welcome back all and for this, the newest breakdown series we take a look at some of our favourite vampire flicks of all time and to kick things off lets take a look at an oldie but a goodie with Queen of the Damned.
Tragically the last film the late Aaliyah ever made, Queen of the Damned tells the tale of the vampire Lestat who becomes a rock star but his music has one unexpected outcome, it wakes the queen of all vampires from her deep slumber which only means horrible things for humanity and other vampires alike. A major draw of this film has to be by far the soundtrack which includes such artists as korn and disturbed, it is well and truly worth the listen. A different view on the lives of vampires, Queen of the Damned is unique in its portrayal of horror classic and as such deserves our admiration.
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The larvae of pest crane flies, also known as leather jackets, feed on the roots of plants, mainly turf grass. Sometimes crane fly populations get high enough to cause damage to lawns. I have hundreds of crane flies bouncing around in my yard, how do I get rid of them? These are the adults of the crane fly. During summer, adults emerge, mate and deposit eggs. It is not practical to try to kill... Fortunately, these small larvae, as well as the crane flies themselves are a tasty treat for birds. Attracting more birds to your yard with a feeder can be a great way to rid your home of crane flies in a very natural way.
Fortunately, these small larvae, as well as the crane flies themselves are a tasty treat for birds. Attracting more birds to your yard with a feeder can be a great way to rid your home of crane flies in a very natural way.
Leatherjackets are the larval stage of crane flies. Crane flies, also known as daddy-long-legs, have long thin legs, one pair of wings and a small thin body around 2.5cm long.


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Ivete Sangalo Live! foi a sexta turnê oficial da cantora brasileira Ivete Sangalo, sendo também a primeira inteiramente internacional, realizada totalmente fora do Brasil. A turnê iniciou-se em 26 de maio de 2006 e terminou em 23 de julho do mesmo ano, ambas as datas em Portugal, passando por 27 shows por toda Europa. O show em Cantanhede teve mais de 15 mil ingressos vendidos.

Desenvolvimento

No início de 2006 Ivete foi procurada pelo produtor de shows britânico Richard Ogden, que trabalhava como empresário de Paul McCartney, propondo uma turnê pela Europa após avaliar o sucesso da cantora no Brasil e visando que isso se refletiria no continente estrangeiros, tanto com o público natural, quanto com brasileiros que moravam por lá. Na época Ivete finalizaria a Turnê MTV Ao Vivo em maio e já estava com a próxima série de shows, intitulada Turnê D'As Super Novas, marcada para iniciar em agosto, procurando deixar os dois meses livres para suas férias particulares. Porém, devido ao bom contrato e a oportunidade de realizar uma turnê totalmente fora do Brasil, Ivete abriu mão das férias e fechou um contrato para 27 shows durante 2 meses, nos quais Ivete não voltaria ao Brasil.

Em março são anunciadas as primeiras datas, revelando a passagem por Portugal e Alemanha. Logo após é divulgado que a cantora passaria pelo Reino Unido, Holanda, Bélgica, Espanha, Itália, Suíça, Suécia, França, Portugal e Alemanha, totalizando 27 shows. Os shows na Espanha tiveram os ingressos esgotados. Em 18 de julho, durante show em Barcelona no Teatre Grec de Barcelona, Ivete agradeceu pelo feito: "Este contato com o público é muito importante para mim, esse foi um dos melhores shows desta turnê". Em Portugal a cantora teve seus maiores públicos, reunindo 4 mil pessoas em Braga e 7 mil em Porto. Durante sua apresentação na segunda edição do Rock in Rio Lisboa 75 mil pessoas estiveram presentes. O repertório foi mantido o mesmo dos shows no Brasil, incluindo "Imagine", de John Lennon

Promoção
Para promover sua passagem pela Europa, foi lançada a coletânea homônima Ivete Sangalo, em 9 de junho de 2006, posteriormente liberada no Brasil como O Melhor de Ivete Sangalo. O lançamento ocorreu apenas na França, Espanha e Holanda. O disco incluiu quatro canções anteriores regravadas em espanhol – "Fiesta", "Si Yo No Te Amase Tanto Asi", La Tierra" e "Arere", respectivamente as versões de "Festa", Se Eu Não Te Amasse Tanto Assim", "Sorte Grande" e "Arerê". Para o jornal espanhol El Correo Gallego, Ivete falou sobre incluir canções em outra língua para o público da Espanha. "Queria que ficasse um pouco diferente das originais. Três deles são muito funky e divertidas e uma delas mais romântica. Estou satisfeito com o resultado, tive a ajuda do produtor Javier Limón para essas versões. Eu gosto do som das minhas canções em espanhol, é um som muito sensual. A coletânea entrou em trinta e oito na parada musical da Holanda.

Durante sua passagem pela Espanha, Ivete promoveu a turnê no programa El Loco de la Colina, na La 1. Em 2 de junho realizou uma coletiva de imprensa no Hotel Dom Pedro Lisboa, em Portugal. Além disso, Ivete aproveitou para dar entrevistas para jornais e revistas nos países os qual passou.

Recepção da crítica
Sobre a apresentação em Portugal, o portal Terra disse que Ivete transformou a arena em uma grande festa brasileira: "Ivete Sangalo transformou hoje os 200 mil metros quadrados  em uma imensa pista de dança, na qual nãoo deixaram de se movimentar os mais de 75 mil espectadores". O portal ainda disse que Ivete não perdia um segundo para animar o público e que "O público se entregou a Sangalo e a cantora se entregou ao público". Sandra Cuina, do jornal espanhol El Correo Gallego, disse que Ivete é uma "verdadeira deusa brasileira" e que, no palco, a cantora irradia força e paixão, fazendo da dança uma parte fundamental de seu show.

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Datas

Ligações externas

Turnês de Ivete Sangalo
Turnês musicais de 2005

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The Twins Off-Season Manifesto: Part 2, The Blueprint
Folks who read this blog may remember The Black Freighter for his Twins predictions and analysis at the beginning of the just concluded season. He knows, on any given week, who is playing well in the Triple AAA and Double AA farm teams. It is possible he's a lunatic. And he's back with a blueprint/manifesto for what the Twins need to do this offeseason. This is part two. Part one found here.
spoiler alert: The Black Freighter predicted that the Twins would trade for J.J. Hardy during the course of the regular season last year. He was sure it had to happen, because of the inherent logic of the deal. Later on in his 2009 Off-Season Manifesto, he predicts the starting line-up for the Minnesota Twins when they take Target Field for the first time, and he's got J.J. Hardy in there at shortstop. He wrote it in a full 24 hours before the Twins pulled the trade. So there you go. The Black Freighter Knows Things. Enough! The Black Freighter Speaks:
1. Sign Joe Mauer to a contract extension.
This is probably the most obvious move the Twins have this offseason. A lot of people think Mauer will be making at least $20 million annually, but I just don't see it because of his injury history and the fact he may have to change positions in the future. Currently Jorge Posada is the highest paid catcher at $13.1 million and I see the Twins topping that by $5 million annually. A 6-year contract worth $108.6 million should make our hometown hero plenty happy… he becomes the highest paid catcher by a large margin and is the 9th highest paid player in baseball. If they do not sign Mauer to an extension by the end of spring training, you can kiss him goodbye.
2. Sign Placido Polanco to a 2-year, $9 million contract.
The 33-year-old 2nd baseman hit .285 this year with 10 homeruns and 72 RBI for the Detroit Tigers. His fielding is above average and he gets on base at a 35% clip. Polanco is an ideal fit for the Twins and would slot perfectly between Denard Span and Joe Mauer.
3. Resign Joe Crede to a 1 year, $2 million contract plus incentives.
Why would the Twins resign a guy that was only able to play 90 games? Defense. Joe Crede's glove was as good as advertised leading all 3rd baseman, who logged over 700 innings, in UZR. With 3rd baseman of the future Danny Valencia still needing some seasoning, the Twins can gamble that Crede logs a fair amount of innings on the new grass field and adds double-digit homeruns.
4. Resign Ron Mahay to a 1 year, $1 million contract.
Mahay came over to the Twins on August 28th for a player to be named later. Mahay only logged 9 innings, but struck out 8 and allowed only 2 earned runs. Gardenhire used Mahay almost strictly as a LOOGY (Lefty One Out Guy) and it worked quite well. Jose Mijares is the only other lefty in the bullpen and he is primarily used as a set-up guy for Joe Nathan, so the Twins could certainly use a guy with Mahay's talents.
5. Let Orlando Cabrera, Carl Pavano and Mike Redmond find greener pastures.
Cabrera was certainly an igniter for the Twins during their torrid finish, but he lacks the on base percentage in the 2-hole that Gardy reserves for him. Tack on the fact that he is stretched defensively (11 errors in 57 games with the Twins) and you have a sub-average player demanding more money than he is worth. Carl Pavano pitched admirably down the stretch, but he is not the ace this team desperately needs. On a championship-caliber team, Carl Pavano is your 4th best pitcher. The Twins are better off spending the money on a #1 or #2 guy. Mike Redmond has had a great run in Minnesota, but his skills are in decline and the Twins have a capable and younger #2 catcher in Jose Morales. Redmond was a wonderful leader in the clubhouse, but his naked batting practice will not be missed!
6. Be active in the trade market.
As I mentioned above, the Twins have some major holes to fill, but own some attractive depth players available for other teams. In part 3, I'll discuss some of the possible trades and free agents that the Twins could pursue.
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I have previously discussed fees associated with both Chapter 7 Bankruptcy and Chapter 13 Bankruptcy. As of November 1, 2011, those fees are going to increase for the first time in several years.
The filing fee for filing a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy or Chapter 13 Bankruptcy will increase by $7. For Chapter 7, the filing fee will increase from $299 to $306. The Chapter 13 filing fee will rise from $274 to $281. The Court Clerk for the Western District of New York announced changes in the filing fees on the bankruptcy court's website on October 17, 2011. The cost of filing an adversary proceeding and various motions is rising as well.
Once again, the means test figures for median income are changing as of November 1, 2011. In New York, it means that the amount of income that the debtor can have before being forced into a Chapter 13 Bankruptcy is going to decrease.
Through October 31, 2011, a single debtor in New York could have $46,295 in income in income and still be able to file Chapter 7 Bankruptcy. Starting November 1, 2011, that figure is decreasing to $45,931. Similar decreases will take place for all family sizes. The comparison of the existing and new income limits is below.
While the decreases are not large, they are going to make it more difficult for some individuals and families to qualify for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
The figures used for the each state's median income are based on United States Census data, and adopted by the Office of the United States Trustee. Usually, these figures are adjusted based upon the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for All Urban Consumers once or twice per year.
When the economy is growing, typically income rises because of the cost of living increases, inflation and other reasons. When the economy is not growing, income actually decreased from the prior year. As a result, the means test is adjusted and lower median income figures are used which make it more difficult for debtors to qualify for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy.
Filing bankruptcy can release a debtor from an expensive cell phone contract and let debtor discharge the early termination penalty. While now almost everyone has a cell phone, the contracts are typically long term and it is easy for a debtor to run up a substantial bill. Should a typical consumer debtor filing Chapter 7 Bankruptcy or Chapter 13 Bankruptcy list their cell phone provider as a creditor for bankruptcy purposes?
If debtor has an outstanding bill on a closed account, then such bill must be included with the rest of the outstanding debts. Any such bill will be eliminated by the Chapter 7 Bankruptcy filing, or paid in Chapter 13 Bankruptcy.
In addition, the bankruptcy filing would enable the debtor to not only eliminate their balance but remove their obligation to pay any early cancellation penalty. Filing a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy has the effect of terminating any "executory contract" which is one in which the parties are still performing it. Cell phone contracts are executory contracts during the contract period. By including the cell phone provider as a creditor in the bankruptcy petition, the contract is automatically terminated, and any early cancellation penalty becomes a dischargeable debt just like the credit card debts. Some cell phone companies may request a security deposit after the bankruptcy filing, but, in my experience, most providers will not ask for a security deposit.
If debtor plans to keep the account, the account must be listed in the bankruptcy petition. Debtors should list the cell phone provider as a potential creditor in the bankruptcy petition, even if no balance is owed. Although the bankruptcy law has the effect of automatically terminating the cell phone contract, virtually all cell phone companies will continue service if the account is current, and will not pay any attention to the bankruptcy filing. The advantage to the debtor is that by including the cell phone company in the petition, even if it is current, is that the contract can later be terminated before the end of the typical two-year period, and the debtor will not be responsible for the early termination penalty.
In addition to the above, debtors should always include their cell phones in Schedule B which lists all of their personal property. Here in Rochester, Chapter 7 trustees have been raising this issue during 341 meetings and asking debtors about the cell phones they owns. Since some of the phones, such as an iPhone, are valuable, trustees can look at them as one more potential asset in the bankruptcy estate.
When a debtor files for Chapter 13 Bankruptcy in New York, the typical end result is either a 3 or 5 year plan requiring the debtor to pay his disposable income to the bankruptcy trustee, who in turn will pay to the debtor's creditors. Occasionally, a debtor may suffer further financial reverses or health problems, so that the repayment plan is no longer affordable, and there is not possibility of modifying the plan. While one of the options is converting the Chapter 13 Bankruptcy into Chapter 7 Bankruptcy, it may not always be possible because of the means test issues.
Through no fault of his own, debtor has experienced circumstances that are beyond his control that makes it impossible for him to continue to make plan payments.
The payments made so far in the Chapter 13 Plan are at least as much as each creditor would have received in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation case, i.e., the "best interest" test is satisfied.
The repayment plan can't be modified to allow debtor to continue making payments at a lower amount.
When it is expected that the period of hardship is short, the bankruptcy courts prefer that debtor moves to modify his Chapter 13 Plan to pay a lower amount than was originally agreed upon until circumstances change for the better. Given the present economic difficulties, bankruptcy courts, here in Rochester and elsewhere in New York, are willing to consider a hardship discharge as a way to move the case forward rather than risking dismissal or conversion to Chapter 7 Bankruptcy.
If debtor cannot continue to work as a result of an illness or injury, it is likely that his income was reduced significantly or he may not be able to work at all. In some cases, debtor might not have any money left over once his basic living expenses are met. In this case, a hardship discharge may be the answer. It will eliminate any debts that are dischargeable in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
One of the basic procedural requirements that the debtors have to satisfy before receiving their discharge in Chapter 7 Bankruptcy and Chapter 13 Bankruptcy is completing the personal financial management course.
Starting on December 1, 2010, the new rules went into effect giving the debtors in Chapter 7 Bankruptcy 60 days to file a statement of completion of a course in personal financial management. The statement of completion is also known as Official Form 23.
After December 1, 2010, debtors must complete the course within 60 days from the first date set for the meeting of creditors, also know as 341 Hearing. This is an increase of 15 days, up from the prior 45 day time limit.
If debtors fail to satisfy this requirement, they are denied a discharge of their debts. If debtors do not receive their discharge, their bankruptcy was not successful in discharging their debts, and they will not be able to file for bankruptcy again for a long time.
The rules for individuals in Chapter 13 cases were not changed, and still provide that the personal financial management course has to be completed no later than the date when the last payment was made by the debtor as required by the plan or the filing of a motion for discharge.


Travelling from the "forced to attend" corporate learning programmes, we have now reached the time to learn with flexibility. While revamping the accelerated learning techniques along with the apt technology bring the refreshing aura in the learning segment.
Is this the bandwagon? Oh no, this is the basic nature of environment – Change.
It's time to buckle up for the new-age corporate learning!
My team have worked on this change in the trend of the corporate learning and the ways to outperform in this new structure. It would be more than a pleasure to share our thought process.
Well, it is simple! The 8 pillars of new-age corporate learning.
Let me illustrate these a bit (yes, because bit-learning grasps the best).
We were mostly used to learn through individual-based courses & activities. With the introduction of new technologies, however, learning has shifted from an almost individual-only endeavour to a collaborative activity.
In collaborative learning, two or more people learn or attempt to learn something together. Courses serve the best when it involves incorporated problem-based discussions, reflection and other ways to make the participants an active part in the learning process.
Collaboration is no longer considered as a nice add-on; it has become a necessary feature. People are learning, not simply with others, but from the shared experiences and ideas of others.
Active learning is also called brain-based learning. It is a participant-centred learning process which is contrary to trainer-centred passive learning.
The learners scruple to be only content-receptors, merely taking down notes or listening to trainers talk for hours without pause. They possibly have a distinct set of expectations when it comes to learning. Learners actually want to take part or to have a say and keep up a sense of control over their lessons. They still turn to their trainers but only to seek guidance. That's exactly what the outmoded passive activities turn up- another significant role of the trainers as guides.
Technology, of course, becomes a tool for active learning. In corporate learning programs, the use of Action Learning Sets is a significant catalyst. It is a group learning technique designed to guide learners through solving real-world problems by applying their training. This is an excellent method for building team cohesion at the same time as improving their skills.
Personalisation of the learning experience should be highlighted. Learners within any single training program are likely to have multiple needs to fulfil and not all of them aim towards the same learning goal. Each of them has their own set of concerns, agendas, abilities, values and priorities.
This is why it is extremely crucial to apply different types of interventions to different learners. No single method can accommodate all their learning needs and styles. A flexible and personalised approach to content delivery is a must for every such training program. In fact, a hybrid of self-study, individualised instruction and group activities have been proven effective time and again.
In a typical old-school corporate learning program, it was experienced that all 'have to' learn. Many times, the trainer perceives the participating executives as high-school children. This, unfortunately, does not consider the fact that the compulsory learning environment is not conducive to adult learning pedagogy.
The favourable learning environment should be available not by chance but through well designing and planning. Several interventions like 'Ice Breakers', interactions and psychological stimulations may be the part of each training program. These interventions not only create a favourable learning environment but also make a participant understand the benefit of the training program. Participants must find a purpose for learning.
Studies have shown that using different types of learning techniques improve an individual's engagement with the topic, retention of information and overall satisfaction. Offering a variety of content, delivery methods and further resources makes the learning experience richer and ensures the best possible outcome.
Examples include supporting a face-to-face training programme with e-learning modules, action learning sets or discussion forums. Emerging new modes like e-learning, mobile-learning, and gaming are adding flavours to blended learning techniques.
A tailored blended approach to the customers shall be recommended as there is no such thing as a "one size fits all" solution. Trainers and trainees, while working together, help to identify the best approach for the unique requirements and people learning styles.
Gone are the days when the print out of the slides was used as participant reference material. Each slide had a lot of information and was enough to create fear psychosis to the participant.
In addition to the core face-to-face delivery, providing other resources like Participant Manuals, FAQ Guides, hints, tips and fact sheets to support the learning may prove beneficial.
There is an earnest need to design each in-organisation course suitable to the workforce, keeping one's learning objective in view.
In contrary, the standardised courses have their own limitations – many times the participants do not find relevance to the course content and their learning objectives.
Bearing in mind the short span of human attention, the bit-size learning approach is reshaping the learning behaviour pattern. The chunking method helps to grasp information in short periods of time and accordingly learning is applied successfully in the workplace. Such crisp and apt learning motivate to focus on the key concepts and techniques.
The change in the learning behaviour brings the change in the learning methods, modes and mindset. This is enough a reason for the improvement in the learning process. Shrugging off the boredom in the corporate training sessions and literally putting the essence of learning and acquiring its real motive of capacity building- is the key to a better business environment.
Individual goals and organisational objectives, ultimately, are complementary to each other.
Credit: This blog was originally posted on Linkedin Pulse by Saikat Basu, CEO & Chief Mentor, Consultivo. View the original post here!
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Located in Riccione, a few steps from Viale Ceccarini and 2.1 km of Oltremare, The Box Riccione features free WiFi. All rooms boast a flat-screen TV with cable channels and a private bathroom. I liked the design of the hotel a lot! It is super modern and very clean. The staff is very friendly too. I enjoyed every night in this hotel and will certainly come back again.
Situated in Riccione, 1.5 km from Viale Ceccarini, Hotel Vagabond provides concierge services and free WiFi. The property has free bikes, as well as a garden. The property offers a 24-hour front desk.... Great hotel, staff and breakfast!
Offering elegant air-conditioned rooms with a steam shower and free WiFi, L'Hotel is right by the canal marina in Riccione. This was our second time here. Great location friendly helpful staff!
Just 200 metres from the beach of Marano, in Riccione, Hotel Love Boat features an outdoor pool, a heated pool with hydromassage, and a garden. The interior and exterior is in one word fantastic! We really travel a lot around the world and I never write reviews but this hotel deserves a 10! The owners/staff watch closely every little detail and that's the only way to maintain the quality and nice vibe of this hotel. We will come back for sure!
Enjoy a classic Italian summer vacation the way it should be done. All you need is a hotel right on the seaside and surrounded by the Riviera Romagnola's lively venues. Great location, very comfortable with helpful and friendly staff and bicycles to use.
This grand Art Nouveau hotel offers a free wellness centre, 150 metres from Riccione beach. All elegant rooms provide free Wi-Fi and satellite TV. Viale Ceccarini is 3 minutes' walk away. beyond expactations staff , very helpfull when needed.
Hotel Abner's provides seafront accommodation in a peaceful, residential area in Riccione centre. Relax in the hotel's outdoor pool or take in beautiful sea views from the restaurant.
Open all year round, Hotel la Cappuccina is located at a quiet central spot only 100 metres from the beach and 400 metres from the shopping district of Viale Ceccarini. Everything was as good or better than I expected for the price.
Located in the heart of Riccione, a few steps from the beaches and Viale Ceccarini, Hotel Corallo offers a modern wellness centre, outdoor pool and a private parking garage.
Set on the seafront in Riccione, Hotel Ambasciatori features a heated swimming pool with children's area. Rooms offer sea-view balconies and satellite TV, and there is free parking. The team were very friendly, great sea view with contemporary accommodation and bathroom.
The Maestrale is a small and intimate hotel in set in the heart of Riccione, just a few metres from the beach. The popular shopping street, Viale Ceccarini, is 5 minutes' walk away. Amazing hotel, great facilities and exceptionally friendly and helpful staff!
Hotel Antibes is 100 metres from the beach and 1.5 km from Riccione city centre. It features an outdoor swimming pool with slide, and air-conditioned rooms with a balcony.
Featuring free bikes, Hotel Villa Hermosa is set in Riccione in the Emilia-Romagna region, less than 1 km from Viale Ceccarini and 2.6 km from Oltremare.
Located in Riccione, a few steps from Viale Ceccarini and 2.1 km of Oltremare, The Box Riccione features free WiFi. All rooms boast a flat-screen TV with cable channels and a private bathroom. I liked the design of the hotel a lot! It is super modern and very clean.
This 4-star stylish hotel is located halfway between Riccione Train Station and the beach, both a 5-minute walk away. It offers modern soundproofed rooms with Sky TV. Staff very friendly and accommodating. Breakfast great.
Located 100 metres from the Riccione seafront, Hotel Fantasy has a Romagna restaurant and a rooftop hot tub. It offers a pool, a sauna and free lobby Wi-Fi. Very friendly helpful staff with owner regularly around keeping an eye.
Set just 150 metres from the coast and its beaches, Hotel Gala features free Wi-Fi in public areas and a furnished garden. It offers a varied breakfast and elegant rooms with a private bathroom. Everything was lovely, comfortable and fabulous.
What hotels in Riccione offer an especially good breakfast?
For hotels in Riccione that serve up a highly-rated breakfast, try The Box Riccione, Hotel Vagabond and Hotel Love Boat.
Many families visiting Riccione loved staying at Hotel Sorriso, Hotel Negresco and Hotel Villa Hermosa.
On average, it costs £51 per night to book a 3-star hotel in Riccione for tonight. You'll pay on average around £63 if you choose to stay in a 4-star hotel tonight, while a 5-star hotel in Riccione will cost around £106 (based on Booking.com prices).
On average, 3-star hotels in Riccione cost £67 per night, and 4-star hotels in Riccione are £94 per night. If you're looking for something really special, a 5-star hotel in Riccione can on average be found for £128 per night (based on Booking.com prices).
What are the best hotels to stay in Riccione?
Dan Hotel, Hotel Augustus and Hotel Fantasy are some of the popular hotels in Riccione.
The average price per night for a 3-star hotel in Riccione this weekend is £124 or, for a 4-star hotel, £182. Looking for something even fancier? 5-star hotels in Riccione for this weekend cost on average around £268 per night (based on Booking.com prices).
What hotels in Riccione are good for couples?
These hotels in Riccione are highly rated by couples: Dan Hotel, The Box Riccione and Hotel Fantasy.
What hotels in Riccione have nice views?
Hotel Margareth, Trampolines Suite Hotel and Hotel Nautico have received great reviews from travellers in Riccione regarding the views from their hotel rooms.
Sun-kissed Riccione is an Adriatic resort of lazy days and crazy nights. Although you can find a bit of peace and quiet if required, the amazing nightlife is the prime attraction. Summer is ushered in by the inappropriately named Pink Night, a week-long event where absolutely everything is painted pink.
The best bars, restaurants and discos are interspersed between designer shops along Viale Dante and Viale Ceccarini. Both are near the long, sandy beach stretching all the way to neighbouring Rimini and overlooked by a whole host of beachfront hotels and apartments available on Booking.com. If you happen to tire of relaxing under a parasol with a good book, there are plenty of beach activities and watersports on offer.
At one end of the beach is the Riccione Terme spa, and cycle routes run past here and up into the hills behind the town. In these hills are 2 of the best Adriatic Riviera theme parks: the Aquafan waterpark and Oltremare, an adventure complex with a dolphin lagoon. There is also a dolphinarium in Rimini, in addition to Italy in Miniature.
Of course, some visits are for work not play and the Riccione Conference Centre is an important events venue, easily reached from Federico Fellini Airport.
Lovely beautifully kept beach,warm sea water,great cycle track along the beachfront. Shops open until very late and a variety of price levels. Be wary of Cecchini area cafes eg orange juice 8 euros and cappuccino 6euros. Not a lot to do in the evenings once you have eaten,just window shopping or drinking and people watching. Rimini is four miles away and probably more lively but not as pristine..
Riccione has a beautiful public beach 5 minute walk from the train station. Lots of amazing places to eat covering a range of cuisines and budgets. Great nightlife and evening atmosphere. Public transport is very easy to get to other areas of the coast and Cheap, but be careful using buses with broken pay machines! You will get a €67 fine!! This was very common.
Visited my uncles allied war grave and was so impressed with how beautiful the site is and we'll maintained. The Ricone is a lovely seaside town, lovely looking hotels, cafes and restaurant had some delicious meals and the shops look nice too.
It was beautiful specially at night time, it is full of people walking around. They have a huge viriety of restaurants but the one I tried was Brazilian and it's called The Mulata, the buffet there was amazing.. and the meats were ridiculously good. If you're there for night life is a good place to socialize they have many bars along the strip. It is also very close to water parks! They have small playgrounds between the hotels and the beaches for kids to play.
Great small city, not so full as rimini.
Breakfast was superb alot of choices american and italian english breakfast. Rooms are clean. Price are affortable.


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Coastal impacts of extreme storms in a changing climate – Professor Gerd Masselink
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In 2013/14, the UK was subjected to the most energetic winter on record. The impact on our coastlines was unprecedented, with the damage still felt five years on.
Today we face some harsh realities:
Our climate is changing, and the resulting rise in sea level and potential increase in storminess will have significant coastal impacts.
Rising sea levels will, over time, allow storm waves to attack higher land and reach further inland.
The southwest coast of England is already vulnerable to extreme storms, with recovery still incomplete.
So what are the impacts, and what can be done to protect our coastlines?
Join Professor Gerd Masselink as he shares his insight with a look at the coastlines on our doorstep, the damage they've endured and the steps to recovery, followed by an open Q&A session.
A Professor in Coastal Geomorphology in the University's School of Biological and Marine Sciences, and Director of the Coastal Processes Research Group, Gerd is one of the world's leading experts on the lasting impacts of extreme storms and the development of methods to predict them in the future. He has co-authored more than 150 research papers about the causes and effects of coastal erosion both in the UK and internationally.
Along with fellow academics in Plymouth and further afield, he has shown that extreme storms have consistently increased in frequency and ferocity over the past 70 years, and through field measurements and computer modelling he is at the forefront of efforts to help coastal communities manage the subsequent impacts in the decades to come.
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Our coastline acts as a natural barrier to the sea, but what we've seen right across South West England is unprecedented damage and change – from huge amounts of sand being stripped from beaches to rapid erosion of cliffs.
Where did the sand go?
In 2013–14 some of the most energetic series of storms ever hit our coastline.
Many beaches across the South West of England have still not fully recovered from the erosion. But where did the sand go?
Watch our animation to find out.
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9/11 is becoming part of history. Want proof? Turn on your TV
Images of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, top to bottom, left, from "Euphoria," (Freestyle Releasing/HBO); "The Loudest Voice," (Showtime); "When They See Us," Netflix; and at right, "Ramy" (Hulu).
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By Whitney Friedlander
Shock. Confusion. Panic. Fear. Anger.
These were just some of the emotions that crashed in nauseating waves over many who watched as terrorists inflicted horror and devastation in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001.
But lately, television audiences can associate another feeling with the national tragedy: déjà vu.
Recent years have seen a variety of TV shows use footage of the attacks as story elements to support character development, set the scene or re-create history.
For some shows, there's almost no getting around mentioning the attacks — it's just a matter of if and how to use the actual footage.
Showtime's "The Loudest Voice" tells the story of late, disgraced Fox News President Roger Ailes (Russell Crowe), who was so viscerally affected by the events of 9/11 that they redefined how he and his outlet handled news coverage. The miniseries' second episode, "2001," sees Ailes watch the attacks on several different screens at work, his mind balancing natural human reactions — rage, shock — with a cunning sense of how to beat his rivals at covering them.
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Russell Crowe's Roger Ailes, right, with Guy Boyd as Chet Collier and Aleksa Palladino as Judy Laterza, in the episode of Showtime's "The Loudest Voice" focused on the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
(JoJo Whilden/SHOWTIME)
"We had to walk a delicate line, because the day remains so emotional and so painful," said "Loudest Voice" showrunner Alex Metcalf, who also wrote the episode. The show filmed in New York City and included crew members who had been in the Fox newsroom on Sept. 11, as well as people who had lost friends and relatives in the attacks.
The footage that ended up running in the episode was added in post-production, but that made the subject matter no less troubling — particularly the depiction of Ailes' decision to show people jumping from the crumbling World Trade Center towers.
"We have one shot of one jumper, that's it," Metcalf said. They opted not to go beyond that because it would take viewers out of the story and because "it was just brutal and emotional, honestly."
"As a human being, it didn't make sense to use that footage," he said.
There was also the matter of what they had license to show. According to Metcalf, the Fox newsroom had a lot of unaired footage that was later confiscated by the FBI.
Of course, few people watching this all unfold were in the position of overseeing newsrooms on Sept. 11, making snap judgment calls on imagery that would forever alter the nature of broadcast journalism. Most Americans were scared and confused, worried about the safety of themselves and their families while not knowing whether they would be able to protect them.
This can be seen in the fourth episode of the Netflix miniseries "When They See Us." There, Korey Wise (Jharrel Jerome), one of the teens wrongfully convicted in the Central Park jogger case, watches devastation and chaos plague a city that turned its back on him as he sits helpless in front of a prison's television screen.
It can also be seen in "Strawberries," the fourth episode of "Ramy," comedian Ramy Youssef's semi-autobiographical Hulu series about a first-generation Muslim American millennial. The episode flashes back to the lead character as an adolescent (portrayed by Elisha Henig), who is already having enough trouble fitting in before the terrorist attacks make him even more isolated at his New Jersey middle school. Footage of the smoking towers is seen only briefly, for establishing purposes, on the screen of his classroom. But it effectively sends the message that this is a defining moment for the show's protagonist.
"It was the footage that I remembered," said Youssef, who wrote and directed the episode. "I remember seeing it on a screen through a classroom as I was walking through the hallway… and remember how weird it felt."
He and the show's other producers wanted to "lean into how horrific the cinema of it was for kids," he said.
Youssef's show is, ultimately, meant to be comedic. But he said this meant they had to respect "the gravity of the situation and [make] sure the comedy is grounded around our main character's paranoia and fear."
Ramy Youssef on making TV's first Muslim American sitcom, Hulu's millennial comedy 'Ramy'
Sex outside of marriage. Sex inside of cars. Sex as a 24-7 preoccupation.
Young Ramy (Elisha Henig), Farouk (Amr Waked), young Dena (Caroline Basu), Maysa (Hiam Abbass) and Uncle Naseem (Laith Nakli) in "Strawberries," the Sept. 11-themed episode of Hulu's "Ramy."
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Some may argue that using any footage from Sept. 11 is an attempt to capitalize on suffering. On the other hand, such images can also serve as quick shorthand for viewers, suggesting the tone, the subject matter or simply the place and time of the show they're watching.
That's the way it's used in the early minutes of HBO's "Euphoria," as Zendaya's Rue Bennett narrates that she was born "three days after 9/11" while a plane crashes into one of the towers. Neither "Euphoria" creator Sam Levinson nor Augustine Frizzell, the episode's director, was made available for comment, but audiences' predominant fixation on the show's depictions of sex and drugs suggests that such imagery, used judiciously, is now merely a blip on the television's scandal Richter scale.
Still, "One Day at a Time" creators Mike Royce and Gloria Calderon Kellett took extra precautions when they featured a flashback episode centered on the attacks during the second season of their family comedy, which at the time streamed on Netflix and has since moved to Pop. Although the episode used only audio of journalist Katie Couric sharing the news on NBC's "Today," "One Day at a Time" is filmed in front of a live audience, and producers posted warning signs that the content might be triggering to some viewers.
"We didn't want to exploit it," Calderon Kellett said of the episode. She added that, especially since so many of the show's fans are veterans, "we didn't want to explain what was happening — the sort of violence and attack of it all. We thought that would be harsher."
There was a time when TV creators were far more cautious about alluding to 9/11. HBO's "The Sopranos" eliminated the twin towers from its opening credits sequence starting with its 2002 season. MTV, which was in the midst of running a New York-set season of "The Real World" when the attacks occurred, chose to continue showing those episodes, with a message explaining that the decision was a "testament to the longstanding history and spirit of this great city."
But the evolution of both the medium of television and public perception of the attacks themselves now makes 9/11 unique compared to other national tragedies.
The attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, feature in "One Day at a Time's" Season 2 episode "What Happened."
(Mike Yarish/Netflix)
David Bushman, senior curator for the Paley Center for Media, said he's unsure of the first scripted series to show actual footage of the Hindenburg disaster or Abraham Zapruder's video of the John F. Kennedy assassination. But he said that "in the 1960s and '70s, before network television became inundated with competition... that would have been the last thing that TV would have done."
"Their whole intent was to not remind you of what was going on in the real world and not to antagonize any advertisers that they had or any affiliates," Bushman said.
He noted that it wasn't until the '70s, with "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and the sitcoms of Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin, that discussion of controversial issues became a commonplace on TV. He cites the famous "Chuckles Bites the Dust" episode of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," which opened the door for sitcoms to talk about death. Eventually, viewers would have dramas like NBC's "Quantum Leap," which featured a two-part episode about the Kennedy assassination, and AMC's "Mad Men," in which characters view footage of Jack Ruby killing Lee Harvey Oswald and Thich Quang Duc's suicide.
So what does it say that today's viewers have not objected in substantial numbers to programs' use of Sept. 11 footage?
Sanam Hafeez, a New York City-based clinical psychologist who works with PTSD patients, said the influx of smartphones — which allow us to easily document events — and the seemingly never-ending cycle of traumatic news on television means that "9/11, to some degree, has lost its value from the tragic standpoint for the younger generations that are not as fazed by it."
There is also, of course, the passage of time. Like some of the teens on "Euphoria," people born soon after Sept. 11, 2001, are beginning to reach voting age. They may know only the stories of the towers falling, the attack on the Pentagon or the fate of United Airlines Flight 93 from history lessons, news coverage around the anniversary of the attacks or their occasional appearance in pop culture.
"It's still very emotional — I mean, it's emotional for me — but people are ready to kind of look at it a little more analytically or a little more critically," Youssef said. "We're kind of entering the space where people want to look at it from other angles and want to discuss it in a way that I don't think was exactly the same five or 10 years ago."
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var app = angular.module('angularApp')
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        $scope.poc = sampleService.pocData;
        $scope.other = {'organization':'','role':''};
        $scope.organizations = $scope.sampleData.organizationNamesForUser; $scope.organizations.push('[other]');
        $scope.roles = $scope.sampleData.contactRoles; $scope.roles.push('[other]');
        $scope.message = message;
        $scope.loader = false;
        $scope.master = master;
        $scope.type = type;
        /* Initialize master for poc */
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    // Fired when organization or role are changed, used when user selects other //
    $scope.organizationDropdownChanged = function() {
        if ($scope.poc.organization.name=='[other]' || $scope.poc.role=='[other]') {
            //check if organization or role are other. if so set other text to show //
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            if ($scope.poc.organization.name=='[other]') { $scope.organizationOther = true; }
            else { $scope.organizationOther = false; }

            if ($scope.poc.role=='[other]') { $scope.roleOther = true; }
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Q: Classpath: not working in @TestPropertySource within Spock Integration Test I have a Spock integration test which I am using to test a class that loads some files from a specific directory. MyClass uses a @Value annotation for locating files to load:
@Value("${data.directory.path}")
String dataDirectoryPath;

In the test I am trying to include the test data inside the classpath and was hoping to override the property that indicates where the directory resides.
@SpringBootTest
@TestPropertySource(
    properties = "data.directory.path=classpath:/test-data"
)

Running my test I can see the property in my yml file has indeed been overridden but the new value is: 'classpath:/test-data'. Edit: I was expecting the value to be an absolute path with the classpath transformed.
I've been trying to understand if this is a Spock problem or a Spring/Boot issue. As far as I can tell, @SpringBootTest should create a ResourceLoader as part of it's context initialisation, but the resource loader doesn't seem to be doing it's thing with the 'classpath:' prefix.
Has anyone done this or knows what might be wrong?
For the moment I added a method on my class which allows directly setting the path to use. Then I can use the following in my test:
def sut = new MyClass()

def "setup"() {
    sut.setDataPath(Paths.get(getClass().getResource("/test-data").toURI()).toString())
}

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The Chic braintrust of Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards were en fuego with their own hits and those they'd written and produced for Sister Sledge when they got the call to aid one of Motown's biggest superstars. Their response was Diana, by far the best and sauciest of Miss Ross' solo albums. Challenging her with stripped-down rhythm tracks and witty, astute lyrics of a type not always found on her post-Supremes discs, it quite simply rocked. Rodgers' guitar was even more sizzling than on his band's own records, and Ross met the challenge with clipped vocals that showed how much she got it.
Diana (Deluxe Edition) Diana Ross
Have Fun (Again)
My Old Piano
Now That You're Gone
Upside Down (Original CHIC Mix)
Tenderness (Original CHIC Mix)
Friend to Friend (Original CHIC Mix)
I'm Coming Out (Original CHIC Mix)
Have Fun Again (Original CHIC Mix)
My Old Piano (Original CHIC Mix)
Now That You're Gone (Original CHIC Mix)
Give Up (Original CHIC Mix)
Love Hangover (Extended Alternate Version)
Your Love Is so Good for Me (12" Version)
Lovin', Livin' and Givin'
What You Gave Me (12" Version)
You Were the One
Medley of Hits (12" Version)
No One Gets the Prize/The Boss
I Ain't Been Licked (12" Version)
Fire Don't Burn
We Can Never Light That Old Flame Again (Alternative Mix)
You Build Me Up to Tear Me Down
Sweet Summertime Livin'
This Compilation ℗ 2003 Universal Motown Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
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Clifton Park soldier advances to one-star general
Terry Brown, Duty Calls
1of3Newly promoted New York Army National Guard Brig. Gen. John Andonie and his wife, Kathleen, left, join Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Amy Giaquinto, the senior enlisted leader of the New York National Guard, in unfurling Andonie?s general officer?s flag in Latham. (Capt. Jean Marie Kratzer / New York Army National Guard) Show MoreShow Less
2of3New York Army National Guard Brig. Gen. John Adonie?s receives the brigadier general shoulder straps bearing his new one-star general rank from his daughters Rachel, left, and Elizabeth, during his promotion ceremony in Latham. (Capt. Jean Marie Kratzer / New York Army National Guard) Show MoreShow Less
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New York Army National Guard Col. John Andonie of Clifton Park, an Iraq War veteran, was promoted to brigadier general during a ceremony at the state Division of Military and Naval Affairs Headquarters in Latham.
Major Gen. Ray Shields, the adjutant general of New York, promoted Andonie during the ceremony.
Andonie became the New York National Guard director of Joint Staff, responsible for coordinating joint Army and Air National Guard operations.
"People are the most important resource of the Army and the New York National Guard," Andonie said after he was promoted. "But those good, hard-working people need to work together as a team to accomplish important missions for the state and nation."
In his new job, Andonie said, he will work to build that team.
He previously served as the chief of staff of the New York Army National Guard.
Andonie was commissioned as an armor officer upon graduating with a bachelor of science degree from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1989. Andonie earned a master of business degree at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy. He also graduated from the Army War College.
He was first assigned to the 194th Separate Armored Brigade at Fort Knox, Ky., where he served in a number of basic officer positions. In 1995 he was assigned to the 11 Armored Cavalry Regiment at Fort Irwin, Calif., where he served as a regimental and squadron staff officer. He also served as commander of Troop A, 1st Squadron, 11 Armored Cavalry Regiment. The 11 Armored Cavalry Regiment serves as the Opposing Force or OPFOR for Army and Marine armored and mechanized units training at the Fort Irwin National Training Center.
In 1998 Andonie was assigned as assistant professor of military science at Siena College, Loudonville. He served in that position until 2000, when he joined the New York Army National Guard's 42nd Infantry Division.
As a member of the 42nd Infantry Division he served as chief of plans, deputy operations and operations officer. In 2004-2005 he deployed to Tikrit, Iraq, as the deputy operations officer of the 42nd Infantry Division. After returning from Iraq he served as the commander of the 1st Battalion, 69th Infantry — New York City's famous "Fighting 69th" — and as the deputy joint operations and operations officer for the New York National Guard.
He has earned a Bronze Star, a Meritorious Service Medal, an Army Commendation Medal, and a Parachutists Badge. He also earned an Order of St. George, which is presented to outstanding armor officer, and the Order of St. Maurice, which is awarded to infantry officers who have distinguished themselves.
Andonie and his wife, Kathleen, have two daughters, Rachel and Elizabeth.
Navy supplier
Navy Ensign William Schultz of Gloversville is applying lessons learned from his hometown to help in developing the skills to become a supply officer. Schultz is a 2016 Hartwick College graduate.
"The value of always getting involved wherever you are was one of the greatest lessons from my hometown," said Schultz. "It is not enough just to show up; you have to make the effort to get invested in order to succeed."
He said those lessons turned into an opportunity to learn leadership and the most innovative tactics of naval supply in the world at Navy Supply Corps School, located in Newport, Rhode Island.
"I chose to be a supply officer to use my business administration degree to its utmost and to be a team player in the Navy," said Schultz. "The Supply Corps serves in all areas, whether it be on submarines, surface ships or on the shore. I hope to help and serve with all of them."
He first had to pass a rigorous course structure in order to become a Navy supply officer.
The mission of supply school is to provide students with the personal and professional foundations for success. This mission lends itself to the vision of the school, which is to ensure all supply corps officer graduates are prepared to provide global logistics support to Navy and joint warfare.
Once these service members finish training, they are deployed around the world putting their skill set to work.
"Our graduates, including Schultz, leave this institution prepared to support the war-fighter on land, at sea, in the air, and in the cyber realm," said Capt. Nick Rapley, commanding officer, Navy Supply Corps School. "It is my honor to serve these men and women by providing them with the resources to learn their trade and perform in the fleet. Only a select few will have the privilege of serving as Navy supply corps officers. Logistics support is a critical part of mission success."
Schultz represents a new branch in his military family tree.
"My grandfather, Commander Jack Wright, was a veteran of the U.S. Navy who served as a doctor during World War II and the Korean War," said Schultz. "Being the only member of my family currently in the military gives me great pride, knowing that I continue his example of service to our great country."
News of your troops and units can be sent to Duty Calls, Terry Brown, Times Union, Box 15000, Albany, NY 12212 or brownt@timesunion.com.


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Detta är en lista på svenskar som har tilldelats Nobelpriset samt Sveriges Riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne (nedan benämnt som ekonomipriset). Den första svensken att tilldelas ett Nobelpris var Svante Arrhenius, som fick Nobelpriset i kemi 1903. Den senaste svensken att tilldelas ett pris är Svante Pääbo som 2022 fick Nobelpriset i medicin. Totalt listas här 33 pristagare, 30 av dem är födda i Sverige. Den tyska judinnan Nelly Sachs fick svenskt medborgarskap efter att 1940 ha flytt kriget i Tyskland. Hans von Euler-Chelpin föddes i Tyskland men bodde och var verksam i Sverige vid tiden då priset delades ut. Ragnar Granit föddes i Riihimäki, Finland men bodde i Sverige och arbetade på Karolinska institutet när han fick motta priset.

De 33 pristagarna fördelar sig mellan de olika prisen på följande sätt: 2 ekonomipris, 5 fredspris, 4 fysikpris, 9 pris i fysiologi eller medicin, 5 kemipris och 8 litteraturpris.

Av de svenska pristagarna är tre kvinnor och resterande män. Författarinnan Selma Lagerlöf prisades för sin litterära gärning 1909, detta som första kvinna att någonsin motta detta pris. Ovan nämnda Nelly Sachs tilldelades även hon Nobelpriset i litteratur år 1966. 1982 tilldelades Alva Myrdal fredspriset för sitt arbete med militär nedrustning.

Nobelkommittén beslutade 1974 att Nobelpriset inte ska kunna delas ut postumt. Innan beslutet fattades hade dock två pristagare hunnit få priset efter sin död, varav båda var svenskar: Erik Axel Karlfeldt som fick litteraturpriset 1931 och Dag Hammarskjöld som fick fredspriset 1961.

Ekonomi

Totalt: 2 pristagare

Fred

Totalt: 5 pristagare

Fysik

Totalt: 4 pristagare

Fysiologi eller medicin

Totalt: 9 pristagare

Kemi

Totalt: 5 pristagare

Litteratur

Totalt: 8 pristagare

Referenser

Externa länkar
Officiell webbplats för Nobelpriset

Svenska
Nobelpristagare


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Original article link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/theater/lin-manuel-miranda-hamilton-drama-book-shop.html
Lin-Manuel Miranda is already a composer, a lyricist, an actor and an author. Now he's going to be a bookseller.
Mr. Miranda and three of his "Hamilton" collaborators have purchased the Drama Book Shop, a century-old theater district purveyor of scripts, sheet music and other stage-related reading material.
The surprise move is an effort to sustain the store, which is a mainstay of New York's theater scene — in 2011 it was recognized with a Tony honor for excellence — but has struggled to survive the brutal Times Square real estate market and recently announced that it was being forced to move from its current location.
The rescue plan is a joint venture between the "Hamilton" team and the city, which has pledged to find the store an affordable space in Midtown.
"The store is a gem and a cultural institution in New York, and we want to make sure it's saved," said Julie Menin, the mayor's media and entertainment commissioner. As precedent for the arrangement with the bookstore, she cited the city's work with the Berklee College of Music to save a Manhattan recording studio.
The Drama Book Shop, which currently sells about 155,000 items a year, will close at its current location, on West 40th Street, on Jan. 20, and will reopen at a new location, not yet being named, in the fall.
The new owners of the store are Mr. Miranda; Thomas Kail, the director of "Hamilton"; Jeffrey Seller, the lead producer; and James L. Nederlander, the president of the Nederlander Organization, which operates the theater in which the show's Broadway production is running. They purchased the store from Rozanne Seelen, whose husband, Arthur Seelen, had bought it in 1958. (He died in 2000.) Ms. Seelen said she sold it for the cost of the remaining inventory, some rent support in the store's final weeks, and a pledge to retain her as a consultant.
"It's the chronic problem — the rents were just too high, and I'm 84 years old — I just didn't have the drive to find a new space and make another move," she said. "Lin-Manuel and Tommy are my white knights."
The new owners all frequented the bookstore at various points when they were seeking to build careers in the theater.
"When I was in high school I would go to the old location and sit on the floor and read plays — I didn't have the money to buy them," Mr. Miranda said in a telephone interview from Puerto Rico, where he is preparing to star in a three-week run of "Hamilton" in San Juan that opens on Friday. "After college Tommy Kail and I met in the Drama Book Shop basement, and I wrote a good deal of 'In the Heights' there."
In 2016, after a burst pipe caused damage to the shop, Mr. Miranda came to its aid by urging his fans to patronize it. The store needed a lot more help this time.
"They're like family to us," he said, "and when we heard that the rent increase was finally too precipitous to withstand, we began hatching a plan."
The store is particularly important to Mr. Kail, whose post-college theater venture, Back House Productions, was a resident company at the store. "I was in many senses professionally born in that bookshop's basement — I spent the first five years of my career there," he said in a telephone interview from London, where he was checking in on the "Hamilton" production there.
Mr. Kail and Mr. Miranda both said that they were also inspired by "It's a Wonderful Life," in which townspeople rally to save an endangered family banking business. "There was no hesitation," Mr. Kail said. "The Building and Loan was struggling, and we could do something."
Mr. Seller's office, which is already running a "Hamilton" merchandise store in Midtown, will oversee the day-to-day management. He said the book shop would have a revamped website and expanded programming; the goal, he said, would be to break even, which in recent years the store has done occasionally but not consistently.", "url": "https://k00kaburra.livejournal.com/885266.html", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://l-files.livejournal.net/og_image/1035720/3458?v=1547012039" }, "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Suzi", "image": "https://l-userpic.livejournal.com/8069140/1035720" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Journal k00kaburra", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://k00kaburra.livejournal.com", "contentUrl": "https://l-userpic.livejournal.com/6615948/1035720" } } }
A singer, an actor, a songwriter, an author...is there anything LMM can't do?
Just when I thought I couldn't adore the man any more than I do...
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Friends Purchase Drama Book Shop
By Michael Paulson
Mr. Seller's office, which is already running a "Hamilton" merchandise store in Midtown, will oversee the day-to-day management. He said the book shop would have a revamped website and expanded programming; the goal, he said, would be to break even, which in recent years the store has done occasionally but not consistently.
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NYC is ALREADY seeing signs of winter COVID-19 spike: City's positive test rate rises 2.2% and hospitals admitted more than 100 virus patients on Friday - a 25% jump in two weeks
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New York City is already seeing a spike in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations as the holiday season gets underway.
Although holiday travel and gatherings have just started and the coldest days lie ahead, the city just recorded a spike of 2.22percent in COVID-19 positive test rate - the highest since September, Bloomberg reported.
More than 100 patients were hospitalized with the virus just on Friday, marking a 25 percent spike from roughly two weeks ago. New York City recorded 485 people hospitalized due to the virus on November 27, over 100 more than two weeks ago.
City and health officials have already warned New Yorkers that the worst is yet to come as more cases are expected to be recorded after the Thanksgiving weekend, and the country grapples with the threat of the Omicron variant, which was first detected in South Africa.
On Monday, Mayor Bill de Blasio confirmed that no cases of the variant have yet been recorded in the city, but said there were fears that it could spread rapidly to the city.
He reissued advice saying that all New Yorkers, regardless of vaccination status should wear masks indoors, including at grocery stores, in offices and gyms.
At the state level, Governor Kathy Hochul, who declared a state of emergency on Saturday, reported 2,756 hospitalizations on Saturday, up from 1,915 a week before.
In an effort to curb the spread, Hochul said she will require New York State nursing home and adult care facility operators and administrators to make booster doses available to all of their residents.
The trend continues to be that hospitalizations and deaths are more common among those unvaccinated, with 17 hospitalization per 100,000 residents for those who have not received the jab as opposed to less than two hospitalizations per 100,000 for those who have been inoculated.
Hochul on Friday declared a state of emergency as COVID transmission reached rates not seen since April 2020, while insisting that the troubling new variant of COVID that first emerged in Botswana is 'coming.'
More than 100 patients were hospitalized because of the virus just on Friday, marking a 25 percent spike from roughly two weeks ago
The trend continues to be that hospitalizations and deaths are more common among those unvaccinated, with 17 hospitalization per 100,000 residents for those who have not received the jab as opposed to less than two hospitalizations per 100,000 for those who have been inoculated
Although holiday travel and gatherings have just started and the coldest days lay ahead, the city just recorded a spike of 2.22percent in COVID-19 positive test rate - the highest in two months
The variant has not been detected in the US after the White House banned travel to eight nations on Friday, but Dr Anthony Fauci warned that a fifth wave could still be coming and it is 'inevitable' for the variant to be eventually detected in America.
'We all know when you have a virus that has already gone to multiple countries, inevitably it will be here,' Fauci said on ABC's This Week on Sunday.
He urged Americans to get their booster shots, or their initial jabs if they had yet to get vaccinated - 'if we do that successfully... we can mitigate any increase.'
Earlier on Friday, the US banned flights from eight Southern African countries to try and prevent the mutant strain, Omicron, from arriving. The ban goes into effect on Monday, meaning direct flights from Johannesburg will still land in the U.S. over the weekend.
On Friday night a flight from South Africa landed in the Netherlands, with 'dozens' of people infected with the Omicron. All passengers on board have been quarantined, and are being tested.
Hochul said that all non-urgent procedures could be postponed beginning December 3 if the hospital's capacity falls dangerously low.
If a hospital finds that it has less than 10 percent of 'staffed bed capacity' free, then it will be permitted to cancel non-urgent, or elective, procedures, she ruled.
She also issued a declaration of disaster emergency, noting that COVID transmission is at a level not seen since April 2020. The declaration unlocks sweeping powers for her to take emergency measures, without the usual state congressional approval.
'We continue to see warning signs of spikes in COVID this winter, and while the new Omicron variant has yet to be detected in New York State, it's coming,' Hochul tweeted.
The CDC said they had not detected any Omicron cases so far nationwide, and were confident they would find them quickly.
'No cases of this variant have been identified in the U.S. to date,' it said.
'CDC is continuously monitoring variants and the U.S. variant surveillance system has reliably detected new variants in this country.
'We expect Omicron to be identified quickly, if it emerges in the U.S.'
Kathy Hochul, the governor of New York, on Friday warned the state that the new COVID variant, Omicron, was on its way, tweeting: 'It's coming'. She issued an executive order allowing hospitals whose bed capacity falls dangerously low to cancel elective operations
President Joe Biden on Friday banned travel from eight African countries - shaded red in the map. South Africa is the only one to have direct flights to the United States, with 13 a week. Now citizens of the eight countries, or anyone who has been there recently, are unable to enter the US
A nurse operates a ventilator for a patient with COVID-19 who went into cardiac arrest and was revived by staff at a hospital in Yonkers in April 2020. COVID transmission is now as high as it was then, the NY governor said on Friday
President Joe Biden confirmed on Friday that travel from South Africa and seven other countries in the region - Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique and Malawi - had been halted.
The new variant was first found in Botswana and has since moved to South Africa, where it is spreading rapidly through six provinces.
It has also been found in Hong Kong, Israel and Belgium - and, as of Friday night, the Netherlands.
Hochul's declaration of a disaster emergency acknowledges that the state is struggling - even before Omicron possibly hits.
'A disaster has occurred in New York State, for which the affected local governments are unable to respond adequately,' the declaration states. 'New York is now experiencing COVID-19 transmission at rates the State has not seen since April 2020.'
'The rate of new COVID-19 hospital admissions has been increasing over the past month to over 300 new admissions a day.'
It means that she can acquire pandemic supplies and enact the emergency hospital plan. Hochul's predecessor, Andrew Cuomo, had declared a disaster emergency on March 7, 2020.
It ran until June 24 of this year and was ended amid controversy, with Cuomo's critics saying he had used the emergency powers to consolidate his own personal power and rule in an authoritarian way, bypassing the legislature.
COVID cases in New York are on the rise again, as this data from John Hopkins University shows
Hospitalizations in New York peaked in April 2020, but are again climbing
Dr Eric Feigl-Ding, an epidemiologist, told DailyMail.com he agreed with the travel ban, but that more stringent quarantine measures should be brought in
Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, an epidemiologist and senior fellow at the Federation of American Scientists, said initial data from the variant was worrying and border restrictions should be imposed.
'Looks like vaccine evasion could be real with this variant,' he tweeted, pointing out that the two patients in Hong Kong who had the variant were both doubled-jabbed with the Pfizer vaccine.
One of the two had recently been in Southern Africa. That person then passed it on to a second person, quarantining in the same hotel.
'It's very airborne,' Feigl-Ding said. 'The hotel guests were in different room across the hallway from each other. Environmental samples found the virus in 25 of 87 swabs across both rooms.'
He added: 'I think border and travel restrictions make sense. Especially since Hong Kong only caught the case because of a mandatory hotel quarantine. Which countries in the west still have that??? Almost none.'
Feigl-Ding told DailyMail.com that he was assessing the early data, and it was of concern.
'I think it's pretty serious,' he said. 'We're not 100 per cent certain, and the data is early. 'But if you look at how it appears to be lining up, it's bad. There's a great risk of this being a Pandemic 2.0 virus.'
Feigel-Ding, who taught at Harvard for over 15 years, and specialized in Ebola tracing during the 2014 outbreak, said there were significant concerns that the virus could infect those already vaccinated, and those who had been infected before.
'There are 32 mutations, so it's really, really scary,' he said. 'It could be more severe, or it could be more contagious. It's much, much worse if it's more contagious. And in South Africa, positivity rates went from one to 30 in a week, suggesting it's highly contagious.
'It's surging across six provinces at the same time.'
Feigel-Ding supported Friday's travel ban, but said Omicron was 'probably already worldwide'.
He said Americans should step up their COVID precautions: making sure they got their boosters, which he said tripled the protection, and using premium-quality face masks, rather than simple cloth ones.
He said employees and hosts should be mindful of ventilation, and travelers arriving in hotel rooms should be sure to open windows and allow fresh air in. It was a mistake to remove face masks in enclosed spaces recently vacated by others, he said - even if you are the only person in the room - as the virus can linger in the air.
Feigel-Ding said he 'hated' Hochul's announcement that non-urgent surgical procedures could, in the worst-case scenario, be cancelled again - pointing out that surgery for cancer patients, plus knee and hip replacements, were categorized as 'elective'.
'This should not be the new normal,' he said.
'We should not resign ourselves to this virus. The price of it becoming endemic is very high.'


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Kansas governor's budget has fellow Republicans in revolt
by: Brian Dulle
Posted: Jan 10, 2018 / 12:48 PM CST / Updated: Jan 10, 2018 / 12:48 PM CST
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Departing Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback is counting on growing tax revenues from a strong national economy to pay for his proposal to increase spending on public schools, stoking an open revolt Wednesday among fellow Republicans in the Legislature.
The term-limited conservative Republican governor released budget proposals that were supposed to flesh out his plan to phase in a $601 million increase in education funding to meet a court mandate. But his recommendations contained no way to pay for the increase other than relying on growing revenues, and no fiscal projections beyond mid-2019.
Top GOP lawmakers already were upset by the idea even before Brownback outlined his school funding proposal in his eighth and final State of the State address Tuesday evening. They fear they will be forced to consider raising taxes or making deep cuts elsewhere while also shorting public pensions and highway projects next year, when Brownback is out of office.
"It's irresponsible budgeting," said Senate Ways and Means Committee Chairwoman Carolyn McGinn, a moderate Wichita-area Republican.
Brownback's proposed $16.8 billion budget for the fiscal year beginning in July would leave the state with a small cushion of cash reserves at the end of June 2019, without requiring a tax increase. Lawmakers approved a $600-million-a-year income tax increase last year over Brownback's veto to help balance the budget.
Lawmakers must come up with more money for schools after the Kansas Supreme Court ruled in October that the state isn't meeting its funding obligations under the state constitution. Lawmakers have been debating whether the court would accept an increase phased in over multiple years. The $601 million increase touted by Brownback includes $88 million appropriated last year in a previous effort to satisfy the court.
The governor's proposed budget also includes extra spending to continue pay raises granted in the fall for officers in the state's stressed prison system, cover gaps in funding for state mental hospitals and raise reimbursements for hospitals and nursing homes providing services to the poor and elderly.
"Thankfully, we have the benefit of a strong national economy that's on the uptick," Shawn Sullivan, the governor's budget director, told reporters during a briefing on the proposals. "The strong revenue growth helps our budget situation."
Brownback must leave office in January 2019 but President Donald Trump nominated him in July as U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom. The U.S. Senate's failure to vote on Brownback's appointment has created an awkward transition to a new governor.
And top Republican legislators were angry because Brownback strongly criticized last year's tax increase, which rolled back past income tax cuts he'd championed in 2012 and 2013 following persistent budget woes. He accused them of using the new revenues to finance unnecessary spending.
Senate President Susan Wagle, a conservative Wichita Republican who opposed the tax increase, said that Brownback had "demeaned" lawmakers and "threw them under the bus," only to propose big spending this year.
Brownback's administration worked on its budget proposals for weeks, allowing hints to leak to lawmakers early.
Republican legislative leaders already had shown their displeasure with Brownback by blocking a plan to build a new prison in the Kansas City area and by criticizing a proposal to have private insurance companies administer the state's Medicaid health coverage for the poor, disabled and elderly.
Sullivan acknowledged Wednesday that nothing in Brownback's budget recommendations is likely to quiet the furor.
Legislators already are reviewing projections from their staff showing that even with last year's tax increase and no extra money for schools, budget problems could arise in 2020 and 2021.
"There's got to be a plan," said state Rep. Melissa Rooker, a moderate Kansas City-area Republican. "You can't just throw out all of the feel-good policy proposals in the world and say you support them and then not be willing to help us do the work to make that dream a reality."
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Chiefs Kingdom is doing its best to get one of the team's biggest fans to the AFC Championship game on Sunday.
The only catch: He lives in Canada, near Niagara Falls to be exact.


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