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The 20 Best Hotels in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico has never been hotter, buoyed by a pandemic-era boom that filled its hotels to capacity and put a new travel spotlight on the destination. It seems like new flights routes launch just about every week to the island, the airport is dizzyingly busy as travelers finally start to realize just how diverse, vibrant and, well, beach-filled the island actually is.
That includes a seemingly endless array of hotels and resorts across the island, from the Caribbean metropolis of San Juan to golf resorts at the edge of rainforests. The CJ team scours Puerto Rico's hotels each year, and we've curated our rankings of the best places to stay on the island, making sure to highlight every kind of hotel. That means boutique hotels, wellness hotels, golf resorts, luxury resorts and even gaming destinations.
There really is a different kind of hotel in Puerto Rico for every kind of traveler, and we've done all the heavy lifting for you. All you have to do is decide what kind of Puerto Rico vacation you want: an urban getaway, a golf retreat, an Ayurvedic cleanse or a good-old-fashioned week on the sand.
Here are the best hotels in Puerto Rico for 2023.
#1 Dorado Beach, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve In the last few years, Dorado has become Puerto Rico's most sought after destination, turning what had been a popular San Juan getaway into a global hotspot, with booming home prices, new luxury development and a new energy. Its epicenter is this: Dorado Beach, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve, the island's premier resort, one with almost 70 years of heritage dating back to its founding by Laurance Rockefeller. It's also, for now, the only Ritz-Carlton Reserve, the brand's elevated collection, in the Caribbean.
Today, Dorado Beach is a serene, exquisite luxury resort, with 114 rooms, the stunning Spa Botanico, three signature eateries and two outstanding golf courses, including the only TPC (Tournament Players Club) course in the Caribbean.
The rooms themselves are fantastic, all with their own private plunge pools and either verandas or rooftops, along with outdoor showers and other lovely touches.
Guests have access to the broader Dorado Beach country club complex, with everything from XX to what is almost certainly the world's most beautiful water park, built to look like the ruins of an old sugar plant.
It's the best hotel in Puerto Rico, period.
#2 St Regis Bahia Beach Resort A strong number two on the island is the St Regis Bahia Beach. The luxury resort, set on more than two miles of beachfront on the northeastern coast of Puerto Rico, has 139 bright, colorful rooms and a growing collection of luxury villas (part of a broader residential component). Dining concepts re range from the Greek-focused Paros restaurant to the Seagrapes restaurant in view of the ocean.
The spa here, called Iridium, is fantastic, as is the fitness center, and there is golf, too: a Robert Trent Jones Jr course.
It's what you expect from the St Regis brand: immaculate service, crisp, sleek design and the comfort of secluded serenity.
#3 Condado Vanderbilt Hotel Let's be honest. While Puerto Rico has a number of great resorts across the island, the vast majority of visitors to the island still come for one major attraction: the fabulous city of San Juan. And the city's best hotel is a luxury urban resort: the Condado Vanderbilt. Set in San Juan's upscale yet fun-filled Condado neighborhood, the Condado Vanderbilt is the reimagining of a property that dates back to 1919, one that followed decades of disuse. Now, it's a stunning, charming, elegant place to stay that marries state-of-the-art hospitality with the sort of old-world grandeur and elegance that are not that easy to find anymore. The Vanderbilt is home to 317 rooms across two different towers in a waterfront location that includes a sparkling "Beach Club" (more of a pool club, but still outstanding) anchored by an ocean-view infinity pool and terrific pool and beach butlers.
The Vanderbilt is also home to arguably the most diverse, exciting culinary offering of any hotel on the island: that includes the signature 1919 restaurant (one of the best eateries in all of Puerto Rico), the Mexican-inspired Tacos & Tequila, a Caribbean outpost of popular steakhouse brand STK and the marvelous AVO Lounge, among others.
The magnificent rooftop deck at the OLV.
#4 OLV: Fifty Five No hoteliers have had more of an impact on Puerto Rican hospitality in recent years than Loisse Herger and Fernando Davila, who sent shockwaves through the island with their first hotel, O:live, in Condado back in 2012, an innovative, Mediterranean-inspired boutique hotel of the sort that simply hadn't existed in Puerto Rico. That followed with their flagship, the OLV: Fifty Five, a 15-room stunner just down the street in Condado that is as sleek and sexy a hotel as there is in the Caribbean, with indulgent, glorious bathrooms, a spectacular rooftop eatery and lounge and outstanding food by celebrity chef Mario Pagan.
#5 Royal Isabela Puerto Rico boasts one of the top golf offerings in the Caribbean. But The Links at Royal Isabela just might be the best course on the island. The cliffside course is a mix of Caribbean tropical design and oceanside Scottish-style holes. But the course is just the beginning at this luxury resort on the northwestern corner of the island. Every "casita" at the 20-unit resort has its own plunge pool; venture beyond your villa and you'll find terrific locally-sourced dining, a wonderful bar called Croquet and a breathtaking stretch of beachfront.
#6 Fairmont El San Juan It's San Juan's iconic hotel: the Fairmont El Juan Hotel in Isla Verde, a resort that during the Jet Set era drew everyone from Frank Sinatra to Nat King Cole. After a massive renovation project, the hotel has never looked better, and now it's added a significant new amenity: the first-ever Foxwoods casino in the Caribbean, a 15,000-square-foot gaming destination with a full offering of slots, table games and, soon, a DraftKings sports book.
The 388-room hotel is a classic beach resort with four pools, frequent live music, a beach club and a vibrant food scene that also includes the Caribbean's only Meat Market steakhouse. It doesn't hurt that the resort is set on Isla Verde, one of the best beaches on the island and certainly the best beach in metropolitan San Juan.
#7 Wyndham Grand Rio Mar The first thing that stands out at this hotel about 45 minutes from San Juan is just how beautiful the property itself is. There's the rainforest in the background, the golden sand at the edge of the sea. The resort is as complete as any in Puerto Rico: a trio of pools, a 20,000-square-foot "sundeck"; a surprisingly broad culinary program (10 food and beverage outlets in total), and almost 50,000 square feet of meeting space.
Most notably, on an island where the golf is outstanding, the golf here is right near the top, with a pair of spectacular courses managed by Troon Golf.
#8 Hotel El Convento Old San Juan is the kind of neighborhood you instantly fall in love with. The colors of the colonial buildings. The fortresses. The cafes. The shopping. But these half-millennium-old streets can be daunting for the uninitiated, particularly when choosing where to stay. But we'll make it easy: El Convento. This endlessly charming historic hotel (the building itself dates back to 1646) has 58 rooms in a convenient setting in the heart of the old town. The centerpiece here is the beautiful multi-level, open-air courtyard, home to a terrific bar and an authentic restaurant with delicious mofongo.
The rooms are nice, tending toward the historic look; amenities include a 24-hour fitness center, meeting space for up to 300 and a lovely rooftop pool.
The rooms are striking and terrific.
#9 Aire de O:live The newest O:live hotel in Puerto Rico is a reimagining of the San Juan Water and Beach Club in Isla Verde. The 80-room tower is a masterpiece, a complete redefinition of the modern Caribbean beach hotel, with earthy but sleek rooms with sparkling views of Isla Verde blue. In tune with the O:live brand, there's a rooftop bar and restaurant, a Japanese fusion spot called Kumo.
One thing to note: it's not completely finished. That means some of the floors have been "converted" into the Aire de O:live, while some lower floors are still San Juan Water Club rooms. When it's finished, it will be one of the hottest places to stay anywhere in the Caribbean.
#10 Hyatt Regency Grand Reserve Another excellent golf resort, the Hyatt is home to a pair of 18-hole championship courses designed by Tom Kite, frequently home to the PGA Tour's Puerto Rico Open. The 579-suite resort has myriad pools, a "Rainforest" spa, and even a collection of "villas" for larger groups. The food and beverage concepts are vast: a teppanyaki spot, a a sushi eatery, an American steakhouse and several colorful bars. And for golfers who want to extend their days beyond the course, there's a TopGolf Swing Suite at the resort's Sand Trap bar.
#11 Finca Victoria It opened in 2021, billed as the first-ever Ayurvedic retreat in the Caribbean. But this Vieques retreat is far more than that: it's a creative, eclectic, fun boutique hotel that's quickly become a main draw for the island of Vieques.
Just about every one of the 12 rooms here is different. Some are bright and airy with ocean views. Others are filled with artwork and vintage furniture. And then there is the "Invisible House" designed by Sylvia Demarco, a remarkable design with two-way mirrors, vast windows and an asymmetrical look. Plainly, there is no hotel like this in Puerto Rico (it's even fully vegan).
The property is massive and filled with things to do.
#12 Caribe Hilton What if you want to take your family to experience San Juan? A boutique hotel won't do. Nor will some of the more business-focused high-rise hotels in the capital. When it comes to families, the iconic Caribe Hilton is the place. There's the massive pool complex at the center, the endless amenities, the on-site Morton's and Starbucks, the 17 acres of tropical gardens. This was the first Hilton outside of the continental United States, and it still has the feel of a special hotel. A recent renovation has helped take the classic look of the hotel into the modern age. What hasn't changed? The excellent private beach, the infinite energy and, well, the famous Piña Coladas.
#13 Palacio Provincial The newest boutique hotel in Old San Juan is actually set in a two-century-old building that once housed a diplomatic office. There are 43 rooms and suites with high ceilings, street side views of the historic town and a fantastic rooftop deck. The town square here is the Consular Restaurant and Bar (in keeping with the diplomatic history), home to a great brunch, delicious cocktails and even an on-site pizza oven.
It's the primary place to stay if you want to experience Culebra.
#14 Club Seaborne The tiny island of Culebra is still very much a mystery for most travelers. It's home to what's billed as one of the best beaches anywhere in the Caribbean, Playa Flamenco (and yes, it is that good), but very few travelers have ever actually visited, with the vast majority of visitors being visitors from mainland Puerto Rico. Accordingly, there are very few places to stay outside of vacation rentals. Enter Club Seaborne, a clean, lovable, 12-room hotel with terrific, warm staff and a great daily breakfast. There's also a great pool and waterspouts on offer.
Wow is the operative term here.
#15 El Blok The first thing you say when you see El Blok is "wow." The look is that striking, thanks to a marvelous design by award-winning architect Natanial Fuster. This adults-only hotel in Vieques has 30 rooms across four categories: Estandar, simpler rooms with amazing balcony views; Esquina, with double balconies and massive floor-to-ceiling windows; Solana, which means private terraces and balconies; and El Doble, with queen beds and aimed at couples or groups. The story here, though, is the scene, from the delectable Placita restaurant to the ultra-cool rooftop, home to some of the best views on Vieques.
The rooftop, perched right above the Condado Lagoon, is a San Juan hotspot.
#16 O:live Boutique Hotel The O:live that started at all, and still going strong in its location perched above the Condado Lagoon. The O:live has 15 rooms, some smaller, some larger with large indoor-outdoor decks with tubs, all with lovely little touches and sleek bathrooms. The biggest draw here is the rooftop, a sceney, energetic roof deck with marvelous views of the lagoon.
The "Social" restaurant at the Condado Ocean Club.
#17 Condado Ocean Club This adults-only high-rise has some seriously stylish rooms. In fact, every one of the 96 units here has floor-to-ceiling windows with views of San Juan's varying shades of blue — either the lagoon or the Atlantic. The look of the rooms and the hotel is bright and crisp, white and aquamarine, almost an amalgam of Puerto Rico and the Aegean. The vibe is fun and cool. That's particularly true at the rooftop infinity pool deck where there's poolside service til midnight and the weekends are filled with the sounds of the hottest DJs. There is also a buzzy beach bar called Sandbox, one of the few waterside hotspots in Condado.
#18 Sheraton Puerto Rico Hotel and Casino If you're in Puerto Rico for a major meeting, chances are this is where you should be staying. It's directly across the street from the Puerto Rico Convention Center, with 503 solid if unspectacular rooms and a well-run, business-focused ambience. But as you dig deeper, you realize this is more than just a very convenient business hotel. There's a great rooftop pool deck; a solid lobby bar and sushi bar; and a terrific Texas de Brazil Churrascaria. It's the kind of convention hotel you're more than happy to retire to at the end of a long day of confidence sessions. Even better? The new Distrito T-Mobile, a multifaceted entertainment and culinary destination, is just across the road.
#19 La Concha a Renaissance Resort It's one of the more unsung Marriott brands: Renaissance. But in the Caribbean, Renaissance actually has a rather interesting portfolio of properties, from Aruba to Curacao to St Croix. And then there's La Concha, the 483-room hotel in the heart of Condado. You know what? There is just something fun about this hotel. There is an energy that pervades the property, whether you're in the always-bustling lobby bar, the casino or La Marina, the semi-secret adults-only beach spot. Much of that is due to the unique design of the hotel, which was first built back in 1958, the brainchild of star Puerto Rican architects Osvaldo Toro and Miguel Ferrer.
#20 The Royal Sonesta San Juan Sonesta is in the mist of a new expansion push in the Caribbean, one that began early last year with the debut of the Royal Sonesta San Juan, its first resort on the island in the home of the former InterContinental in Isla Verde. The Sonesta has just under 400 rooms, with all the amenities you're looking for (including the only Ruth's Chris Steakhouse in Puerto Rico) and a plum perch on the intoxicating sands of Isla Verde Beach.
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State museums and galleries have an array of exhibitions, with subjects ranging from the ancient to the contemporary. The Tulsa Artist Fellowship and Gilcrease Museum present Recall/Respond, a multi-phased contemporary exhibition in a variety of media that continues through Oct. 13. Exploring 1,200 years of artistic creation, Wondrous Worlds: Art and Islam through Time and Place at the Philbrook Museum...
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Football: Wellington Phoenix extend unbeaten A-League run, score first win of campaign against Central Coast Mariners
Nox players celebrate Josh Sotorio's winning goal Credits: Image - Photosport, video - Sky Sport
The Wellington Phoenix have extended their club record unbeaten run to 13 A-League matches, scoring a 2-1 win over Central Coast Mariners at their Aussie-based home in Wollonging.
After a scoreless first half, ex-Celtic striker Gary Hooper broke the deadlock in the 48th minute, scoring his second goal in as many games, slotting away from close range after a deflection off a Mariners defender.
Costa Rican Marcos Urena equalised for the visitors four minutes later after a mistake from Wellington defender Josh Laws, but Australian youth international Jaushua Sotirio, who started in place of Ben Waine, put his side back in front in the 63rd minute.
The Phoenix held on for the final half an hour and despite a missed spot kick from Waine, the club claimed all three points and extend their longest unbeaten run in history, dating back to the final two months of last season.
"I'm not really big into stats but it's nice to go 13 unbeaten," says manager Ufuk Talay
"It was most important that we pick up points early within the season, which we haven't done previously in our last two seasons.
"It puts us in a good position to build confidence and continue with this group."
Next up for the Phoenix is Friday night's clash agents in Western Sydney Wanderers at the same venue.


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Editor's Pages – Vol. 22 / 2014
The Concord Saunterer: A Journal of Thoreau Studies, N.S. Vol. 22, 2014
mat·ter
/ˈmadər/
1 physical substance in general, as distinct from mind and spirit; (in physics) that which
occupies space and possesses rest mass, esp. as distinct from energy: the structure and
properties of matter.
• written or printed material: reading matter
verb [no obj.] 1 [usu. with negative or in questions] be of importance; have significance. –The New Oxford American
Though I've not tested the hypothesis, I suspect that this issue of The Concord Saunterer contains more images than any previous issue. In addition to the illustrations accompanying Kathleen Coyne Kelly's contribution to our roundtable and various photographs of objects associated with Thoreau generously provided by the Concord Museum, we are thrilled to present here a series of intaglio prints and a drawing by the artist Hannah West. Taken together, these images evoke what has emerged as the theme of this issue, the complex ways in which Thoreau encourages us to rethink our engagements with the material world. West's meticulous and ethereal evocations of the power of matter—from dividing cells to cracking ice—speak to a recurrent theme within the issue's essays: what Kathleen Coyne Kelly identifies as the "moment when the non-human world announces itself" (100).
Our issue opens with Henrik Otterberg's fascinating reconsideration of Walden as autobiography, highlighting both the history of the autobiographical mode in New England and the productive "leaks and lacunae in Thoreau's accounting" (17), particularly in the account of his diet at Walden. From this exploration of this complex relation between material sustenance and its linguistic representation, we turn to a Melissa Sexton's study of "The Bean Field," which likewise engages, via Bruno Latour's concept of "mobilization," the relation between the material and the linguistic. (Sexton's essay also provides an excellent background for readers unfamiliar with the materialist theories engaged by our roundtable). The last in this group of essays is Alfred I. Tauber's expansive overview of Thoreau's position within/alongside twentieth-century philosophy.
At the center of the issue is a trio of lyric readings of Walden. Dan Beachy-Quick invites us to consider that text, and Thoreau's writing generally, in terms of its primal silences. Ian Davis's rendering of Walden's intimacies and estrangements urges that "neighboring and morning must be thought along lines of obscurity, loss, and mourning" (87). And Christina Davis's long poem "The Discipline of Vicinity" evokes the deep and varied resonances of neighbor as both noun and verb. The matter most salient in this cluster of readings is language itself, both Thoreau's and the writers', which emerges here as a vital affective force, matter that moves.
Each of our four roundtable participants (see James Finley's introduction on page 98) engages Thoreau in terms of recent theories of materiality. Kathleen Coyne Kelly's lively evocations of Thoreau's flute and James Finley's meditation on the "Contact!" passage of "Katahdin" stress the power of matter to exceed human perspectives of it and demonstrate the complexity of Thoreau's material engagements. Cristin Ellis's contribution traces Thoreau's critique of science, arguing that this critique did not amount to a claim that science is too materialist, "but rather that it was not yet materialist enough," that is, did not account for the material experience of the participant-observer (120). Finally, Michelle C. Neely revisits Thoreau's depiction of animals, asserting that "for Thoreau the naturalist, philosopher, and poet, anthropomorphism is not simply an act of imagination, it's frequently a fact of attention to the ontology of the non-human" (128)
In the final pages of this issue, a stunning cluster of poems by Christina Davis, Cecily Parks, and Douglas Storm testify to the continuing vitality of Thoreau's words for contemporary poetry.
It seems fitting that on the sesquicentennial of the publication of The Maine Woods, the writing and artwork gathered in this issue compels us again, perhaps with new urgency, to consider what it means "daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it," and how such instances of contact can (and do) transform our individual and collective lives.
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Body Beast is a weightlifting/strength training type program. It's the kind that the pro body builders would use in a gym…because that's what Sagi Kalev is. Former Mr. Israel, his program really (REALLY) works.
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If you aren't a cardio junky you'll love the Beast 🙂 It really is a weight training program! There are a couple cardio workouts though. And the dynamic set training moves so fast you'll be experiencing a cardio effect even though you are lifting weights.
The Beast does swear once in awhile (PG13-ish–no F bombs) so if kids is a concern just know that.
There are no women in the video so if you are a girl and need women to be inspired…just know it is an all male cast (which I think is actually a pro for men working out..keep the focus where it needs to be!).
It's not really a beginner program. P90 is a better choice if working out is intimidating or you need to ease in.
The nutrition plan is the most complex of all that I have ever seen –but mainly because its designed to get you into competition shape. (see video below on how I meal plan with Body Beast).
It is expensive in terms of equipment you will need (see video below).
There are a lot of supplements to use for peak results.
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Q: GMail Polling and Authentication I am creating a service where people will send emails to this one email account and this email account will regularly poll for new emails. The problem that I am having is that I will need to authenticate my email account and allow my service to call Google APIs to read it's mail box.
I was wondering if it would be alright to just authenticate myself once before deploying the service and then storing the access and refresh tokens in a database and then using those tokens to make the API calls. Are there any foreseeable problems such as the tokens expiring?
And if there are, do you have any suggestions on making API calls to the account without me having to login to the account to authenticate myself?

A: What you are wondering is correct. As you are getting a refresh token, you are asking for offline access which means you want make API calls on behalf of the user when is not present.
Access tokens have an expiration time, refresh tokens don't. However, there are some scenarios where refresh tokens could be revoked (and you need to handle them). So you have to use access tokens to make API calls and refresh tokens to generate new access tokens (when those have expired).

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Apple (AAPL) had a trifecta of a year: more and more software sales, an iPhone Super Cycle, and the looming promise of cash repatriation.
With only one trading day left in the year, and little in the way of market-moving news to write about, we thought we'd take a look at all 30 stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average starting with the worst performer and working our way up to the highest-flying stock in the benchmark. The rankings will shift over the next two days, but the stories behind the stocks shouldn't.
Apple fell far short of the whopping 90% return that propelled Boeing (BA) to the top spot among industrials, and the 71% by which Caterpillar (CAT) spread its wings this year. But at 47%, Apple's rise was no mean feat for the world's largest publicly traded company.
Sure, there was the inevitable glum note at the outset of the year, as when analysts at BlueFin Research Partners and Pacific Crest warned on December 5th of last year that sales of the iPhone could "miss by a mile" in the March quarter. And in fact, after months of cuts in estimates for the device, Apple's March quarter, did, indeed, show iPhone sales that missed expectations, sending the stock briefly lower.
But as has been the case for awhile now, the Streetalmost immediately turned to the next iPhone, and what was shaping up to be an iPhone "Super Cycle" with the impending X.
And already in January, there was a second narrative emerging, about how the App Store and other software and services were going to come through for the company, smoothing out its product-cycle volatility.
That narrative joined with a third one in February, that of tax reform and how it could boost the company by making possible massive overseas cash repatriation.
The triple feature of Super Cycle, cash repatriation, and rising software and services revenue, muffled concerns, such as risks to Apple in China, where local brands Huawei and Oppo and Vivo were presenting stiff competition, as expressed by Barclays Mark Moskowitz in early May.
Not even Apple's suit against one of its biggest suppliers, Qualcomm (QCOM), commenced in May, could dampen the party, and a counter-suit by Qualcomm, could dent the stock, though it did hurt Qualcomm, whose shares treaded water this year.
By year's end, my colleague Jack Hough captured the affection for the trifecta, writing in this week's cover story that Apple could become the first company ever to reach a trillion dollars in market value, from a current $864 billion.
It remains to be seen if the trifecta will carry through in 2018. One thing's for sure: you'll soon be hearing more and more about iPhone production estimate cuts for the March quarter. And so it goes.


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By Bryan Gould On 8 March 2013 In New Zealand Politics Tags deals, john key, money, negotiations, oil, sky city, warner brothers
The Deal-maker
Our Prime Minister revels in his reputation as a deal-maker – and with good reason. His success in making a personal fortune as a foreign exchange dealer is, it seems, a major factor in establishing his claim to be an expert in how to run our economy.
It may not be immediately obvious that the short time horizon of the foreign exchange dealer – perhaps at times only a few hours or even minutes – is necessarily the best qualification for making good long-term strategic decisions about our economic future. But few would doubt John Key's ability to close a deal.
It is only when we look closer at the deals that the Prime Minister concludes that doubts might arise. It seems that his negotiating stance in approaching a potential deal usually begins with, "The answer's yes, now what's the question?"
Those doubts might seem to be well-founded when we look at some of the deals he has concluded in recent times. The "negotiation" with Warner Brothers over The Hobbit seems to have been a process in which the Hollywood moguls dictated their requirements – $67 million in tax relief and a change to employment law that reduced the rights at work of actors and film crews – and John Key's government "negotiated" by meekly complying, with the passage of overnight legislation.
We see a similar pattern in the "negotiation" with Sky City over a convention centre in Auckland. The Sky City offer was made conditional by the gambling bosses on the award of a significant number of new pokie machines – something strongly opposed on social and health grounds by those rightly concerned at the damage done by gambling to families who can ill afford it, but immediately conceded by John Key.
On this form, we can be confident that we will see the same pattern in future "negotiations" with, for example, overseas firms wishing to drill for oil, or mining companies wanting to operate in conservation areas, or foreign buyers proposing to purchase national assets. In all such cases, we can expect our "deal" maker to take whatever is offered and run.
"Show me the money" was John Key's election campaign challenge to Phil Goff; in his mind, it seems, "showing the money" is the essential and only condition needed to settle any deal on offer.
Peter Dunne's blog last week, in which he warned that there were real dangers in the Prime Minister's propensity to "cut through" obstacles to a deal, was making a similar point. John Key, it seems, is quite ready to set aside legal safeguards, as well as commonsense considerations, if that is what is needed to close out a "deal".
The defining characteristic of the Prime Minister's big-ticket deals is that they typically involve large firms, preferably from overseas. He seems so impressed at being involved with such entities that any concern about whether or not a "deal" offers good value for New Zealand goes out the window.
The worry is that, in negotiations like those with the US and others over a Trans Pacific Partnership, the Prime Minister will take a similarly cavalier attitude to the protection of our national interests. We are already being softened up for what seems now to be an inevitable outcome – that, on a range of important matters, such as a continued and unchanged role for Pharmac, the "negotiations" will end up with an abject capitulation by our government. For John Key, the outcome that matters is putting the signature to the "deal" – not the practical (and possibly adverse) consequences thereafter for our economic wellbeing.
A similarly short time horizon is in evidence when it comes to asset sales. It is almost as though the Prime Minister is so dazzled by the potential price tag of billions of dollars that he is blind to any longer-term disadvantage. Yet, selling assets that generate a minimum return of 7% per annum at a time when the government can borrow at roughly half that rate is simply to put a short-term gain ahead of a much larger longer-term loss for future generations.
As on so many other issues, John Key seems not to understand that the sale of our income-producing assets into foreign hands is to deny future generations important (but dwindling) national income streams. Their loss makes us poorer, increases our need to borrow from overseas and weakens still further our power to decide our own future.
We have travelled a long way from the time when New Zealand was prepared to take a stand and stick to it, even in the face of condemnation from powerful overseas interests. Ask yourself a simple question. If John Key had come to power before our non-nuclear policy had been decided, would he have taken the initiative and introduced it on his own account, and then maintained it against all the odds? Or would keeping in with the Americans have been his first priority?


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The NA sequence from the Hong Kong teenager with oseltamivir Tamiflu resistance, A/Hong Kong/2369/2009, has been released. The sequence is clearly that of pandemic H1N1 and exactly matches (other than H274Y) the sequence of an earlier isolate A/New Jersey/1/2009. Similarly, the HA sequence is also swine and has two recently acquired polymorphisms, one of which is also in New Jersey/1/2009. Thus this sequence is in circulation and as was seen in the isolates in Denmark and Japan, the H274Y is appended onto a swine H1N1 background.
These results mimic that seen in seasonal flu, where H274Y was appended onto multiple seasonal flu background. The polymorphisms jumped from one background to the next, via genetic hitchhiking and recombination. Thus like seasonal flu, the pandemic H1N1 has no evidence of reassortment. The H274Y is on an evolutionarily fit H1N1 that will allow the H274Y to move about through the pandemic H1N1 gene pool. This movement will be facilitated by widespread Tamiflu usage, which will select minor populations as happened in Denmark and Japan, where H274Y was identified in patients receiving a maintenance dose of Tamiflu.
However, in Hong Kong, like the many examples of H274Y in H1N1 seasonal flu, the resistance is in patients not receiving Tamiflu. However, the lessons of H274Y in seasonal flu were not learned. Recent comments have described H274Y acquisitions through random mutation and reassortment. However, there has been no examples of recent seasonal H1N1 flu genes in the pandemic H1N1 sequences, and the H274Y in patients receiving Tamiflu likely represent selection of a minor population with H274Y that is silently spread. The release of the sequences from Denmark and Japan would be useful.
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Four years ago, when Alex Garland's instant sci-fi classic Ex Machina debuted, it dropped into a different era—the time before Cambridge Analytica, before Russian election trolling, before the catastrophic Equifax leak and too many others like it.
No, we still don't actually have androids sophisticated enough to pass themselves off as human, and we probably won't for a while. But the use of A.I.—particularly in weapons and security—has only accelerated since Ava's fictional escape, whether that's Google's controversial contract to make A.I. image-recognition software for military drones (which Google, like Blue Book, was less than forthcoming about) or efforts in the U.K. to implement a Minority Report–esque system to pre-identify criminals.
The UN has a treaty convention called the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) that is currently considering rules against autonomous weapons, but not with the urgency the matter entails. Having decided to take a look at such weapons in 2013, as of August, the CCW has almost agreed to start negotiating on rules.
In 2019, Ex Machina feels more like a work of terror, not horror. It taps into the sense that we've begun a process of giving ourselves away, and it's one we can't stop. As a culture, we've long fretted about whether an advanced A.I. could develop a mind of its own and rival our humanity with something truly alien. We've also worried that with our increasing willingness to abandon notions of privacy, we were giving away important information about ourselves. The genius of Ex Machina was to see the way those two things are connected—and how the latter is, in fact, leading to the former.


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Biographies of the participants in WSAU's Freedom 21 Sustainable Development Forum.
William "Bill" Elmhorst: From York Township, Clark County, Wisconsin, Mr. Elmhorst is a retired logger and trucker, Bill was a former vice president of WITA, an independent truckers association. Now an outspoken citizen activist on political affairs, he began his citizen lobby efforts in the mid '70's when regional planning was being implemented in the state. Bill takes particular interest in addressing issues that deviate from the U.S. Consititution and issues concerning the Christian heritage of the U.S., and promotes a more responsive and responsible government that upholds these truths. He is currently the Director of Clark County's Committee for Fairness in Law.
Clark Palmer: Born and raised in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, Mr. Palmer is a registered pharmacist serving as Pharmacy Director at Memorial Medical Center in Neillsville, Wisconsin for the past 4 years. A graduate from the UW-Madison Pharmacy School ('67), he has had a broadly-based career of 35 years in hospital, retail, and nuclear pharmacy, including the operation or management of pharmacies in six states in the upper Midwest.
Clark has taken a personal and civic interest in human-rights and property-rights issues over the past twenty years and is familiar with the Wisconsin Smart Growth legislation. As Chairman for Education and Policy of the Clark County Committee for Fairness in Law, he has helped renew the interest of local landowners in their property rights and obligations as citizens, and to protect their interests from government officials that might otherwise exploit the complacency and ignorance of the average person.
Committee for Fairness In Law, Inc.: Clark County's Smart Growth planning effort has experienced much controversy, and for good reasons. Many municipalities have formally withdrawn for the County's unified plan project. While Clark Palmer and Bill Elmhorst steer a non-partisan course for the Committee's pro-liberty educational efforts, the County's pro-planning social engineers are pushing ahead with this repressive program, building on false claims of State mandates and cost savings. The end-game is in sight for Clark County, and these two individuals are joined by many other groups around our State attempting to put the brakes on this runaway big-government project that most know as Comprehensive Planning. Bill and Clark believe that this program could be the actual death-knell for Town government in Wisconsin, with deadly implications for other local governments as well.
Michael Shaw: Having a B.A. in Political Science, J.D., C.P.A., Mr. Shaw is co-owner of a multi-location California Self Storage Company and proprietor of Liberty Garden, a 75-acre coastal oasis, acknowledged recently on the cover of an international environmental science journal for its breakthrough creation of a native plant wonderland. The purpose of Liberty Garden is to show, through example, how private property provides for better stewardship of the earth than does government control. See www.libertygarden.com.
Michael is a founding participant of Freedom Advocates [formerly Freedom 21 Santa Cruz], an organization dedicated to the Constitutional administration of government, private property, personal and family autonomy, and the defense of the nation. As an entrepreneur and abundance ecologist he sat on the Santa Cruz Local U.N. Agenda 21 Committee in the mid-nineties, and now explains how Sustainable Development/Agenda 21 is being used to eliminate private property and destroy the freedoms that private property supports. He provides general information, theory, and a basis for hope via action. See http://www.freedomadvocates.org.


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I can't believe how much has happened in the last few weeks! We have an all-star cast for Lily + Mara (more on this soon), an uber-talented crew, a location in Staten Island, and now an IndieGoGo campaign.
Caroline Roberts graduated from film school in 2008 and within weeks found herself working for the incredible filmmaking team, Director/Producer Rob Marshall and Producer John DeLuca. She has been shadowing them ever since, working as their Assistant on three feature films, Nine (2009), Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) and Into the Woods (2014). They saw each film through all stages of the filmmaking process, from development to pre-production, production to post, and publicity to release. Delving into the knowledge and experience she's picked up along the way, Caroline is thrilled to be Directing LILY + MARA.
As the founder of Writers Work, Tracy Sayre hosts and organizes conferences, retreats, and workshops for writers. On her popular blog, The Heso Project, she interviews people that go after their dreams as well as documenting her own journey toward happiness. She has collaborated on several screenplays but this is her first time producing. From training teachers in Mozambique to painting murals in Nicaragua, Tracy loves adventure and considers this film project to be the most exciting one of all.
Mónica-Tezla Solís Vega-Görsün is a producer working on a variety of commercial and feature productions. Her last film, The Nymphets world premiered at SXSW and is now currently available on iTunes. She's had the privilege to work for directors like Stacy Peralta, Brett Ratner, and Tony Goldwyn and DP's including Wally Phister, Janusz Kaminski, and Matthew Libatique. When she's not making films, she's making ceviche or biscuits.
Rachael Gillson was a Co-Producer on the short film ROGUE ASSISTANT (Official Selection at Female Eye Festival '15 and New York Shorts Fest '15). Rachael is a Script Supervisor for Commercials and Television and most recently worked on Season 2 of Marvel's DAREDEVIL. Check it out now on Netflix!
Christopher Raymond is a NY-based cinematographer with 20+ years experience. With 4 feature length narrative films and many commercials under his belt, Chris has found much success in the last year with his documentary shooting on THE EAGLE HUNTRESS, directed by Otto Bell and exec. prod. by Morgan Spurlock/ Daisy Ridley. A Sundance 2016 Official Selection, the Mongolian-set story has just sold to Sony Pictures Classics in preparation for a national theatrical release. His work on REMOTE CONTROL, a narrative feature film also set in Mongolia, has been recognized at Camerimage 2015 and as "Best Picture" at Busan FF 2015. and more recently, The Big T, a short film shot for director Brenda Ray, will be seen at this years 2016 Cannes Short Film Market.
Mike Sayre has composed original music for several independent film and web productions in the New York area, including Bad Habit and Redheads Anonymous. He has also worked as a music technician supporting several shows on Showtime and CBS, including Extant and The Affair. He is a classically trained French horn player, but that doesn't stop him from rocking out on the guitar. http://www.mike-sayre.com/
While I've had a lot of experience writing screenplays, I've never been on the production end of a film and it's been eye-opening to watch the budget come together. Here is the general overview of the costs:
filming and location permits
transportation for cast and crew
props and costumes
feeding the cast and crew
paying the crew and talent
equipment rentals; camera, lighting and sound
insurance – so much insurance!
post production: film and sound editing, color correction, prints
festival fees!
If you want to support a couple of passionate dreamers, if you think there needs to be more women making films, if you want to see a beautiful film about the bond of sisterhood, or if you're just an awesome generous person, please consider donating to our campaign.
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Some of New Albany's prospective young engineers spent last week taking apart toys, computer hard drives, fans and other machines to use during the the Robotics and Electronics Summer Impact Program at the 2-5 elementary building.
The class was held two hours a day in the elementary cafeteria from July 23-27.
"They brought in all types of electronic devices and took out the fans, motors, sound boxes and switches," said instructor Tim Bush.
Using those parts and some wood that Bush could cut and drill to size, the 16 students in grades five to seven used their imaginations to create new devices from the disassembled parts.
"They built helicopters, hovercrafts, cars, fans, even an airboat like you see in the Everglades," Bush said. "There were a lot of things I didn't expect them to come up with. They came up with them on their own."
Bush said he provided batteries, light bulbs, switches and other small parts to supplement what the students brought.
The students also had help from seven high school robotics class students.
"With the help of the high school students, they overcame a lot of problems," Bush said.
That is the whole point of engineering, he said.
"I think what is good for them is the fact that they can learn not everything is going to work perfectly the first time," he said. "A lot of engineering is failure."
This is the first year the robotics and electronics class has been offered as part of the New Albany-Plain Local School District's summer impact programs.
Bush said the idea came from his fourth-grade class, in which he coordinates a "toy take-apart day." The idea is similar, in that students bring in toys and tear them apart to use the parts in new ways.
However, the class time is not long enough for them to actually build another object, Bush said.
"Many of these kids had my class last year or the previous year," he said. "This class allows them to take the next steps."
The school district offered nine summer impact programs this year, in subjects ranging from art to science.
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Cricket · March 14, 2020
Cricket, as a team game with bats and ball, has been known since the middle ages of the last Millennium. The game got its name from the Saxon word for "Stick". Historians suggest that this game is based on ancient games with a stick and a ball.
It is known that the game originated in the South-East of England. In those places, there is a large number of pastures for sheep, where low grass grew. On it the first players rolled a ball made of sheep's wool with shepherd's sticks.
The first historical information about cricket dates back to 1300. The chronicle of the time of Prince Edward shows the amount of money spent on the game "Krieg".
Up to the 16th century, references to cricket were sporadic, but sometimes famous people are mentioned among them. So it became known that Oliver Cromwell in his youth was very fond of cricket.
In the eighteenth century, an attempt was made to compile the first set of rules for the game of cricket. It was called the "Code of 1744" and defined various provisions of the game, including the size of the court, bat and ball. After the game was played according to the rules, it became very popular. Already at the end of the 18th century, the first official English team of The hambledon village was created, which later founded the first Cricket club in England in 1750. Three decades later, in 1787, new rules of the game were developed.
The authors of these rules were members of the Marie-Le-Bon cricket club. Through the efforts of the English, the game of cricket spread throughout the English colonies. In 1912, the teams of Australia, England and South Africa played the first world cricket Championship. However, the championship was unsuccessful and did not determine the winner. Due to bad weather, the matches were stopped.
The World Championships were resumed in 1975. Teams from Australia, England, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and East Africa participated in the second championship. Since then, the world Championships have become a regular event. It is held once every four years and involves both professional and Amateur cricket teams.
Sports equipment for playing cricket includes a ball, bat, and protective pads and gloves.
A cricket ball is a ball with a diameter of about 7 cm and a weight of about 170 grams. As a rule, the ball is made of cork wood, which is covered with natural leather painted in white or red. Parts of the skin are sewn together in the center, forming a protruding seam above the surface. This seam is of great importance when feeding. The pitcher tries to send the ball so that the ball hits the ground with this seam and changes the flight path, thereby making it difficult for the batsman to hit the ball. In some cases, the leather case is filled with compressed sawdust or tow.
Cricket bat
A cricket bat has the form of a short paddle. On one side, the bit is flat, and on the other side there is a triangular protrusion that gives the bit the necessary rigidity.
The handle of the bit is cylindrical. When preparing for a game, it is usually wrapped in a cloth or rubber. The handle is long enough for players to hold it with both hands.
As a billet for making a bat, a wooden billet made of willow is used, from which the bat is cut. The size of the projectile must not exceed 96.5 cm and width is not more than 10.8 cm bits ranges from 1.1 to 1.4 kg.
The player's protective equipment consists of leather gloves, a pith helmet, and plastic patch plates. The main task of protective equipment is to protect the areas of the player's body from flying dense ball and prevent injuries.
The athlete's shoes should be light and comfortable on the one hand, and have anti – slip properties on the other. As a rule, leather shoes with a tread sole are used.
The clothing of cricketers depends on the weather conditions, and the color of the uniform depends on the color of the ball. If the game is played with a red ball, the shape color is white or cream, and in the case of a white ball game, the shape coloring is dark.
For playing cricket, you also need a cap with a large visor or a hat with a large brim for protection from the sun.
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AIBA grateful for Los Angeles 2028 inclusion roadmap after omission from preliminary programme
By Owen Lloyd
Despite the sport being omitted from the list of guaranteed sports at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games, the International Boxing Association (AIBA) has expressed its gratitude for the pathway created for the sport to feature in the event.
Virtual continental forums held prior to AIBA Extraordinary Congress
Umar Kremlev, the International Boxing Association (AIBA) President, held forums with members from five continents to discuss with National Federations all recommendations and constitutional amendments prior to the Extraordinary Congress on Sunday (December 12).
AIBA set to open boxing academy in Mongolia after President Kremlev visits country
International Boxing Association (AIBA) President Umar Kremlev visited Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia to propose the hosting of an international tournament in the country.
AIBA postpones Women's World Boxing Championships until March 2022
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The International Boxing Association (AIBA) has delayed its Women's World Boxing Championships from December until March, blaming the coronavirus crisis and resulting restrictions in place across the globe.
Gonzales' controversial comeback on final day of Men's World Boxing Championships
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Gonzales scores controversial win on final day of AIBA Men's World Boxing Championships
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United States' Rahim Gonzales claimed the gold medal in the under-80 kilograms division following a controversial scoring decision as the International Boxing Association (AIBA) Men's World Boxing Championships in Belgrade came to a close at the Štark Arena.
Voice analytics used to flag suspicious officials at Men's World Boxing Championships
Sports integrity expert Richard McLaren has said voice analytic technology implemented in the vetting process for officials at the International Boxing Association (AIBA) Men's World Boxing Championships could become a "blueprint" for judging in sport.
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Japan wins historic golds at AIBA Men's World Boxing Championships
Japan won their first-ever gold medals on the first night of finals at the International Boxing Association (AIBA) Men's World Boxing Championships in Belgrade, with Tomoya Tsuboi and Sewon Okazawa crowned champions.
AIBA creates Boxing Integrity Unit as part of vital reforms
The International Boxing Association (AIBA) has announced reforms following a series of meetings in Belgrade at the Men's World Boxing Championships, including plans to introduce a Boxing Integrity Unit.
AIBA considering Women's World Boxing Championships postponement
The International Boxing Association (AIBA) has confirmed a decision on the Women's World Boxing Championships is to be made next week as the organisation decides whether the competition will be postponed due to COVID-19.
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Finalists confirmed at AIBA Men's World Boxing Championships
Gonzales breaks Serbian hearts in Men's World Boxing Championships semi-finals
American boxer Robby Gonzales endured a chorus of boos to book his spot in the under-80 kilogram final after beating home favourite Vladimir Mironchikov in the semi-finals of the International Boxing Association (AIBA) Men's World Boxing Championships in Belgrade.


It's time to bring in the harvest. The seeds have been sown, grown and matured and are now ready to harvest for sustenance for the winter months. Many forces have played their parts in getting to this point. Be grateful for the blessings and help along the way, from Spring to Autumn. Harvest time is a busy time but very rewarding, so enjoy it. Revel in the feeling of a job well done. You deserve it. Many hands make light work. Bring all your gifts, talents and learning on board, to reap the rewards of the harvest. We will oversee the distribution of the crops. We will help you with the preparation of the ground for new seeds in Spring. Keep yourself healthy and rested for the next cycle. All is well and will be well.


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2018 marks the 20th anniversary of DPRP publishing album reviews. To celebrate, we have asked several former reviewers and some of the long-standing reviewers to take a look back at the album of one of their own reviews and write an article for in the Archives Of Prog section (now part of the Features section).
Also former team member Mattias Norén helped for the occasion by coming up with the image for this series at the top. Take a look at his website ProgArt Media.
For the fourteenth episode in this series, long-standing DPRP author, editor, and board member Andy Read takes a look back at his first review for DPRP, back in 2003: Evergrey - Recreation Day.
It was sometime in 2001. I was doing a bit of reserach on an album I had been asked to review for the UK-based rock/metal magazine Powerplay. Field Of Names was I think the second offering from German art rockers Alias Eye. I needed to find a bit of background for my review. I stumbled across this great website, that not only already had a review of the album (read it here) but a seemingly endless list of reviews of albums by prog bands that I had never heard of.
That was my introduction to DPRP.net. A year or so later, and I had been a regular DPRP visitor. I was slowly working my way through its reviews index, to discover if any of these new names were any good (several were). Then I saw an appeal for new reviewers. I applied, and sometime in 2003, Evergrey's fourth release became the subject of my first ever review for DPRP.
Fifteen years later, this Swedish band's classic In Search Of Truth, the scene-setting Solitude Dominance Tragedy and the lyrically hard-hitting The Inner Circle still get regular outings. But I must admit that Recreation Day is not an album that I have played for quite some time.
Thus, this "revisited" review has been a good excuse to see how it has survived the test of time.
From the full-pelt opening of The Great Deceiver I am reminded why I gave it such a hearty 9.5 recommendation. It was and still is the band's heaviest album. The opening trio of songs remain among the finest 15 minutes of progressive Morose Metal the band has ever produced.
Equally, I'm Sorry (a cover version) is one of my all-time favourite metal ballads, in the same way as the acoustic reworking of three older songs that forms Trilogy Of The Damned, is possibly my all-time favourite bonus track! Blinded remains a favourite selection in the Evergrey live set.
I re-listened to this album, before re-reading my original review. Strangely the only opinions that have altered over the 15 years, is which tracks I like the best and least.
Back then I selected Visions as my favourite song. This time I listed it as "the only real filler". Back then I preferred the second half of the album. Now I prefer the opening half.
In 2016 Evergrey released their tenth studio album, The Storm Within. I have enjoyed every album that these Swedes have produced, but there have been few artists that have created such a stunning succession of music as Evergrey did in the four-albums-in-five-years between Solitude and The Inner Circle.
In the 15 years since then, my life has become increasingly filled with progressive music of all colours thanks to DPRP. Last year I passed the 600-DPRP-review mark including Evergrey's Monday Morning Apocalpyse, Torn, and The Glorious Collision. Add to that I recorded almost 200 editions of the DPRP Radio Show and have so far published 200 editions of our new releases blog Something For The Weekend. Three years ago I became the site's reviews editor and launched the DPRP Spotify Prog Playlist (now with almost 1,000 followers). Add to that a good collection of concert reviews (including this one with Evergrey in 2006) and interviews (including two with Evergrey in 2004 and in 2008.
No wonder that ever since 2003, my days of recreation have been somewhat scarce.
Written by Andy Read
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Live photos by Andy Read, 2004.


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The ad-supported Disney+ subscription plan — called "Disney+ Basic" — has finally arrived. Customers can now sign up for Disney+ Basic for $7.99 per month, or $10.99 per month for the ad-free Disney+ experience.
The price increase at Disney+ is the final step in a series of rate hikes across each service that the company owns. Hulu saw its subscription costs increase earlier this fall, while ESPN+'s monthly fee went up in August.
The good news is, the Disney Bundle is still available and it helps save customers money by signing up for multiple services. However, the bundle has received a bit of a face-lift because of the recent price changes at all of the Disney-owned streamers this year. Customers can still save up to 48% with the Disney Bundle, so it is absolutely worth a subscription if you enjoy Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+. Check below to get all the details on each of the three available tiers of the Disney Bundle — including one with just Disney+ and Hulu, for all the non-sports fans out there.
Duo Basic
Trio Basic
Trio Premium
Can You Still Purchase Disney+ as a Hulu Add-On for $2.99?
Can You Still Purchase a Disney Bundle with Ad-Free Disney+ and Hulu With Ads?
Price: $9.99 (normally $14.98)
The first tier of the Disney Bundle is the Duo Basic bundle. This tier offers Disney+ Basic (a $7.99 per month value) and Hulu with ads (a $6.99 per month value) for $9.99 per month, a savings of 33% over purchasing individual subscriptions to those services.
With this plan, you will get the entire Disney movie library, original series from the Marvel and Star Wars franchises, and blockbuster movies from Disney+, plus original series and all of the cable and linear series that stream on-demand with Hulu.
Price: $12.99 per month (normally $24.97)
This is essentially the original Disney Bundle, with one small change: it offers Disney+ Basic instead of Disney+ without ads, as the bundle used to feature. The good news is that thanks to that change, this iteration is $1 per month cheaper than the original. It's the best deal of the three bundles, as it offers Disney+ Basic and Hulu with ads, and essentially throws in ESPN+ (a $9.99 per month value) for free, for a total savings of 48%.
Users of this plan will get the entire content libraries of Hulu and Disney+, in addition to 75+ exclusive NHL games, 1,000+ out-of-market NHL games, LaLiga, Bundesliga, MLS, MLB, college football and basketball, and more live sports and original shows with ESPN+.
This plan is the only member of the Disney Bundle trio that is essentially unchanged, despite the price increase to ad-free Disney+. It offers Hulu with no ads (a $14.99 per month value), Disney+ with no ads (a $10.99 per month value), and ESPN+, which does not offer an ad-free tier because so much of its content is live sports. This tier offers users a savings of 45% over the individual subscription price.
This tier offers users a feature that no other Disney Bundle user can access, the ability to download shows and movies for offline viewing on Disney+ and Hulu.
Alas, no. Hulu customers used to be able to purchase a subscription to Disney+ as an add-on through their Hulu accounts for $2.99 per month. This mini bundle was extremely cost-effective, and users who previously purchased such a subscription will still have access to the ad-free tier of Disney+ at the same price. However, new customers will not be able to purchase Disney+ as an add-on through Hulu.
The good news is that the new Duo Basic is nearly the same deal: access to Hulu with ads and Disney+ Basic for $9.99, the same price as the mini bundle used to offer. The key difference is that the mini-bundle offered Disney+ with no ads, whereas the Duo Basic bundle features Disney+ with ads.
No, Disney does not allow new customers to mix and match this way. Existing customers signed up to this bundle will see their price increase from $13.99 per month to $14.99 per month, but new Disney Bundle subscribers will not have access to this option.
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ESPN+ is a live TV streaming service that gives access to thousands of live sporting events, original shows like Peyton's Place, the entire library of 30 for 30, E:60, The Last Dance, as well exclusive written analysis from top ESPN insiders.
The service can be subscribed for US$ 9.99 / mois per month or annually for US$ 99.99 / an.
You will get a daily out-of-market game from MLB, and every out-of-market NHL with NHL Power Play (previously NHL.TV). For NFL Fans, they have an exclusive NFL game, and simulcast select Monday Football games.
The service has some of the most attractive soccer coverage including Bundesliga, LaLiga, FA Cup, UEFA Nations League, EFL Championship, EFL Carabao Cup, Eredevise and more.
College sports fans will be able to watch thousands of games and events including football, basketball, baseball, softball, soccer, track & field, gymnastics, swimming & diving, lacrosse, wrestling, volleyball, golf, and more.
For boxing and UFC fans, the service offers Top Rank boxing and will be the home of 15 exclusive UFC events.
ESPN+ now includes exclusive insights from analysts like Mel Kiper and Todd McShay (which used to be part of ESPN Insider), as well as premium Fantasy Tools & PickCenter.
What it does not include is most live sports that air on ESPN et ESPN2.
To get access to those channels you have to subscribe to a live TV streaming service. We suggest reading our guide on How to Watch ESPN without Cable.
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View the above Avon Maitland Schools Canada video in Mandarin
The Avon Maitland District School Board provides a full service, public, English education with a focus on student success. Our mission is to: Engage, Inspire and Innovate and we believe that students, staff and parents are "Always Learning".
The Board has long been a leader in motivating and engaging students, in special education, embracing technology in the classroom, providing English as a second language support as well as advanced study opportunities in specialist programs for the arts and culture, environment, information and communications technology, health and wellness, manufacturing, hospitality and tourism, energy and transportation.
Located in one of the most popular regions in Canada, the Avon Maitland District is situated in Southwestern Ontario. The District borders Lake Huron in the west, (beautiful beaches and fabulous sunsets) and across its 6,100 square kilometre stretches east to one of the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) top 7 Intelligent Cities in the World, the City of Stratford.
Enjoying four full seasons, this area thrives with outdoor activities year round. We are a district where urban comforts unite within a rural environment dotted with thriving smaller communities.
Of course Stratford is known for many things, but the world famous Stratford Shakespeare Festival tops them all. The annual six month theatrical spectacular attracts hundreds of thousands of people from around the globe. Among the benefits of having a Stratford in your district is the connections our schools have with professional live theatre and the world's acting elite.
Most of the Board's secondary schools offer superior music, and drama programs, high spirited athletics in many sports. A number of schools have been honoured with provincial, national and even international awards in these areas. Avon Maitland is also host to the first even Baseball Academy which provides a high achieving academic education along with the best baseball training available anywhere in the world.
Enjoying four full seasons, the area thrives with outdoor activities year round.
The district extends over 6,100 square kilometres as urban comforts unite within a rural environment dotted with thriving communities. In Huron County these include Goderich – Canada's Prettiest Town and the Town of Wingham which, as part of North Huron, is rich with cultural, historical and recreational opportunities is a place to enjoy hiking, antiquing, fishing, canoeing, snowmobiling and more.
In South Huron the quaint but bustling little town of Exeter springs in to overdrive each year with its annual Exeter Ram Rodeo held in early August and the Hamlet of Walton has played host to the TransCan Motocross Championships for the past 20 years. The Ontario's West Coast Vacation Guide describes Huron County as a
"patchwork quilt of rural Canadian towns, farm landscapes, parks and Lake Huron shoreline, knit together by agriculture heritage dating back almost two hundred years. Huron County is a vacation destination of charm, culture, beauty and endless possibilities!"
The arts are alive in Perth County starting with the City of Stratford, considered a major international arts and cultural hub. The world-famous Stratford Shakespeare Festival, the largest in North America draws audiences of more than 600,000 each year, with a season that runs from April to November. The Festival provides many out-reach activities, including educational opportunities for students and professional development programs for educators. Other flourishing Perth County communities include St. Marys, Listowel, Mitchell and Milverton, all mixed with urban amenities and rural flavour.
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Discussion in 'malware problems & news' started by pykko, Feb 12, 2012.
The "contact developer" email address is nadeer.netqin@gmail.com. But they have the developer's web site as netqin.com. It's bad that the Market does not allow for reporting malicious apps (at least I could not find any place to report) or leave a comment unless the app is installed.
Allows the applications to accept cloud to device messages sent by the application's service. Using this service will incur data usage. Malicious applications may cause excess data usage.
I've seen some of the apps in the market that need location, personal data info, ability to send text messages, etc. It would seem a malware app would need several permissions to run properly. Does the developer cite the needed permissions? Or does someone in the Android Market run the app and then let the potential users know what permissions are needed? It would seem that if the developer can determine what needed permissions to list (or leave out) that the needed permissions list could be manipulated easily.
FWIW - looks like the program has been removed from the Market.
Actually looks like every Android App by that vendor has been removed from the Market. That would be even better news to me.


girl does not love mondays.
today's not half bad though.
even the cold, rain and the dusting of snow on the tops of the mountains hasn't put a damper on my mood.
I'm even blogging. I don't think I've ever blogged on a monday. could be the start of something new.
Here's some random bits of information about my day so far.
*I decided to wear a skirt today since it's cool enough to don my black tights. Now everyone keeps asking me why I'm so dressed up. It's a black denim skirt folks. Not a formal gown.
*I'm on my second cup of coffee and I'm not even that tired. I'm just craving hot, sweet coffee with that creamy, frothy foam on the top. mmmm. Batista's who can make non-fat milk taste like the half & half are the bees knees.
*Just polished off a bowl of miso soup with rice for lunch.
*I started in on book #3 of the Sookie novels. again. I feel like I rushed through the series the first time around.
Don't forget to leave a comment for the Pixie Petals give away! You can leave a post here if you'd like. I will draw a name tomorrow night.
I also had a bit of a shop update last night. Take a looksie when you get a moment. I've got more new items that'll go up later this week.
Lastly, my girl Vee is a having a give away of one of my new canvas prints on her lovely blog.


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CPI (ML): `Shameful betrayal' at Copenhagen -- India and China sign undemocratic US-scripted accord
By Radhika Krishnan
December 24, 2009 -- Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation -- The 15th Conference of Parties (COP15) has finally ended in Copenhagen, and it is now time to officially write the obituary. This week-long conference, where 110 countries got together to try and evolve a blueprint to handle the climate change crisis, has quite predictably and most unfortunately ended in failure. Predictable, because for a long time now there have been indications that the US would continue to hold the rest of the world to ransom by refusing to accept responsibility for its role in creating the climate crisis.
Copenhagen climate talks
CPI (ML) Liberation
India: Statement condemns government military offensive against the Indigenous people
Adivasi women protest in West Bengal.
October 14, 2009 -- Sanhati is a collective of activists/academics who have been working in solidarity with peoples' movements in India by providing information and analysis (see http://www.sanhati.com).
We have been profoundly disturbed by the Indian government's reported plans to launch an unprecedented military offensive in the huge forested regions of central India, populated by millions of Indigenous tribes (adivasis), for stamping out an alleged Maoist insurgency. We feel that this will be a democratic and humanitarian disaster. Hence we have taken the initiative, in consultation with progressive intellectuals, to draft a statement of protest against the Indian government's military offensive and have circulated it among democratic and peace-loving citizens of India and the world for endorsement.
Below is the statement, the list of signatories (which includes many eminent intellectuals/academics) and a background note which puts the current conflict into perspective.
To Dr. Manmohan Singh Prime Minister,
CPI (Maoist)
Indigenous struggles
CPI (ML) Liberation: Cooperation, not confrontation, should be the basis of India's China policy
A massive parade in Beijing marked the 60th anniversary.
By the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation
October 9, 2009 -- The October 1 celebration of the 60th anniversary of the foundation of the People's Republic of China has attracted worldwide attention. Considering the historical baggage of backwardness with which modern China had begun its journey and the size of China's billion-plus population, China has indeed come a long way in these six decades. With "Made in China" products virtually swamping the global market, the whole world obviously recognises China's economic prowess. The 2008 Beijing Olympics saw China emerge as the number one sporting nation. Compared to China's economic strength, its voice in the strategic domain of international relations has of course been rather soft and subdued, but of late China seems to have begun stepping up its role in this arena too.
Communist Party of China
India: Lalgarh's battle for dignity and justice
September 27, 2009 -- The following appeared as the editorial in the July 2009 issue of Liberation, the central organ of Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) – CPI (ML). Since then, while the paramilitary campaign in Lalgarh has ended, repression against the adivasi (tribal) people of Lalgarh continues, with incidents of rape and violence reported. It must be remembered that the People's Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) began in Lalgarh after adivasi women were sexually assaulted by police during an anti-Maoist raid; one woman was blinded. The state government of West Bengal [formed by the pro-business Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Front] initiated an enquiry that established the assaults had taken place – but only offered some monetary ``compensation'' to some of the victims, refusing to meet their demand of punishment for, and a public apology by, the police authorities concerned.
CPI (M)
India's 2009 general election: Lessons for the left
By Dipankar Bhattacharya, general secretary, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation
May 24, 2009 -- The results of 2009 elections for the Lok Sabha elections (India's lower house of parliament) can be described as a string of surprises, not only for many well-entrenched parties and seasoned politicians but also for a host of commonsense notions about contemporary Indian political reality. Of late, it has become customary to look at elections in India through the prism of coalition politics, caste equations and regional diversities. Verdict 2009 has given a serious jolt to this facile view and reasserted the underlying structural dynamics of Indian politics.
CPI (ML) Liberation: A crime against humanity, not a `famous victory', in Sri Lanka
May 21, 2009 -- According to an announcement by the Sri Lankan government, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) chief Prabhakaran is dead, killed by the Lankan Army. The LTTE is yet to confirm the death, and some sections are questioning the veracity of the claim.
The exact manner of Prabhakaran's death is clouded in suspicion. The Sri Lankan government claims he was killed when the army opened fire on a van in which he and two top aides were travelling; initially, Sri Lankan officials said the van caught fire under rocket attack and Prabhakaran's body was badly burnt. Subsequently, they claimed to have found his body, dead from a bullet, dressed in fatigues and having identification papers on him, during a combing operation. There are many unanswered questions about the manner of the death: including the suspicion that he might have been captured alive by the Lankan army, or that he might have taken his life before capture.
Who is endangering civil peace in Nepal?
The Analytical Monthly Review, published in Kharagpur, West Bengal, India, is a sister edition of the United States-based Marxist journal Monthly Review. The May 2009 issue featured this editorial.
By Analytical Monthly Review (India)
May 2009 -- Few familiar with recent events in Nepal would dispute that there is a serious threat to the civil peace, whose origin dates from the unilateral ceasefire obeyed by the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) from the start of Dasain 2005. [Dasain is the 10-day rice-harvest festival, held around September-October and observed in Nepal, Sikkim and Darjeeling in India, and in Bhutan.]
CPN (UML)
Monthly Review (USA)
Indian communists: India must end support for genocide in Sri Lanka and the elite coup in Nepal
By Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation
May 11, 2009 -- A shameful spectacle of opportunism is being played out in Indian politics even as Sri Lanka is waging a chilling ``final solution'' to its Tamil national question. In the name of a war to eliminate the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Mahinda Rajapakse's regime in Sri Lanka is waging war on the Tamil people. Independent observers, international rights groups and even journalists have been prohibited from covering the reality of the war. Conservative estimates, trickling through, put civilian deaths at a minimum of 5000, including at least 500 children, since January. At least 100,000 civilians are estimated wounded. The Sri Lankan army is using cluster bombs and chemical warfare in blatant violation of the Geneva Conventions. Tens of thousands of innocent Tamils are caught up in the war zone, starved of food, water and medicine. Some 100,000 others, fleeing in desperation are being rounded up behind barbed wire fences in ``camps'', where by all accounts they will be kept under detention for three years. Sri Lankan journalists questioning their government's brutal policy have been silenced by assassination and arrest. International journalists reporting on the detention camps for Tamil civilians have been detained and deported.
CPI (ML) Liberation: Indian government must stop intervening in Nepal
May 5, 2009 -- The fledgling republic of Nepal seems to be standing on the verge of a new phase of civil war. Chief of Army Staff (CoAS) Rookmangud Katawal had been asked by the civilian government to explain why he had continued military recruitment despite the government's halt order and reinstated eight brigadier-generals who had been retired by the defence ministry. Backed by its foreign patrons and right-wing parties in the country, the military high command openly defied the authority of the elected government. The government responded by removing General Katawal, who refused to accept this and the government's decision was then illegally overturned by President Ram Baran Yadav, of Nepalese Congress party. With its coalition partners in government refusing to support the United Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) [UCPN (M)], Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal (Prachanda) announced that he had no choice but to resign.
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation manifesto for the 2009 Lok Sabha elections
Liberation -- The 15th Lok Sabha [April-May 2009] elections have been announced. As the country gets ready to vote for the constitution of a new Lok Sabha, dark clouds of deepening crisis overshadow our entire economy. While the rural economy had long been reeling under an acute agrarian crisis, and soaring prices had been reducing the already limited purchasing power of the masses, now jobs have started vanishing even in the so-called growth sectors and wages are going down to make survival a challenge for ever larger sections of the poor and working people. The government's pompous rhetoric of rapid economic growth and massive investment inflow has melted into thin air, and the people have been asked to get ready for a long period of recession.
Elections in India: Asserting people's issues above the clamour of `crorepatis', communalists and corporate media
By Kavita Krishnan
April 24, 2009 -- The media's poll pundits have already declared that there are "no issues" in India's 2009 parliamentary polls. At the same time, the corporate media houses have launched campaigns seeking to ``awaken'' middle- and upper-class voters. They have been awash in self-congratulation at their success in mobilising this class of voters – the only class, they imply, which is capable of making Indian politics clean and meaningful, because it is not a ``vote bank''. ``Slumdogs'', they rue, are even willing to sell their kids, so their votes are suspect – while sheer wealth places corporates and crorepatis above corruption.
[India's Lok Sabha (national lower house of parliament) polls, are being held in five phases between April 16 and May 13, 2009.]
Iqbal Bano: The subcontinent's voice of defiance against tyranny
April 22, 2009 -- Iqbal Bano, the subcontinent's beloved ghazal singer, born in India and trained in the Dilli Gharana by the legendary Ustad Chand Khan, passed away on April 21, 2009, in Lahore at the age of 74.
India needs a genuine Third Front, not an opportunist alliance
CPI (ML) Liberation activists. Photo by Satya.
[CPI (ML) Liberation representative Kavita Krishnan will be a featured guest at the World at a Crossroads conference, to be held in Sydney, Australia, on April 10-12, 2009, organised by the Democratic Socialist Perspective, Resistance and Green Left Weekly. Visit http://www.worldATACrossroads.org for full agenda and to book your tickets.]
March 17, 2009 -- On the eve of the Lok Sabha (national lower house of parliament) polls, which will be held in five phases between April 16 and May 13, the launch of a ``Third Front'' spearheaded by the efforts of the Communist Party of India (CPI) and CPI (M) (the Communist Party of India-Marxist) has been announced. The front, it is claimed, is a non-Congress party, non-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) front committed to ``alternate policies''.
left unity
A spectre haunts imperialism … a rebirth of the left
Protests in Iceland brought down the government.
[Kavita Krishnan will be a featured guest at the World at a Crossroads conference, to be held in Sydney, Australia, on April 10-12, 2009, organised by the Democratic Socialist Perspective, Resistance and Green Left Weekly. Visit http://www.worldATACrossroads.org for full agenda and to book your tickets.]
February 25, 2009 -- The people of the United States (through their vote for US President Barack Obama and ``change'') and Iraqi journalist Muntadar al-Zaidi alike may have given George W. Bush (and all he stood for) the boot – but India's Congress Party wants to give Bush the Bharat Ratna![1] Congress Party spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi, addressing the annual general meeting of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), declared, "Give Bharat Ratna to Bush. I don't know what the rules are but I will officially do something."
Sri Lanka: Genocide of the Tamil minority
Tamil refugees who fled from Sri Lankan military operation in Vanni
By Brian Senewiratne
January 23, 2009 -- There is a humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka, where the Tamil minority in the island's north and east are facing annihilation at the hands of the Sinhalese-dominated government.
This article will deal with the current crisis, with the more fundamental problem of the legacy left by colonial British rule (1796-1948) dealt with in later articles. These colonial administrative structures will need to be reversed of there is ever to be peace or prosperity in Sri Lanka.
I am a Sinhalese, from the majority community, not from the brutalised Tamil minority. I quit Sri Lanka in 1976.
Who runs that country is of no concern to me, as long as it is run without serious violations of human rights. Sri Lanka was tossed out of the UN Human Rights Council in May last year due to its human rights record, and the drift of a democracy to a fascist politico-military dictatorship, none of which have been publicised internationally.
Current problem
Obama and the change the world demands
The United States – and the world – has just witnessed Bush's exit from and Barack Obama's entry into the White House. The mood at Obama's inauguration – an event replete with symbolic resonances, situating the Obama presidency in the history of the civil rights movement against racism in the US – indicates the endurance of that groundswell of popular hope in the US which powered Obama's election campaign. For a US people reeling from financial crisis and the highly unpopular Bush presidency, Obama has offered a promise of ``change''.
Capitalism and sport: Sports for a few
Sachin Tendulkar (pictured) and other stars learnt their cricket in the compounds of their buildings or in lanes and alleys. But even these spaces are now beyond the reach of the common people.
By Vidyadhar Date
The competitive frenzy for winning in sports has been fuelled by aggressive marketing. Together they ensure that while a minority is trained with superlative sports facilities, the majority is deprived of even basic amenities to play and breathe fresh air. In India, market forces have pampered cricket while harming all other games in the process.
India won just three medals at the recent Beijing Olympics, though it did better than in the past. This is seen as a breakthrough by our ruling class, which now wants the nation to gear up for further success at the London Olympics in 2012.
Pakistan: Joint left demonstration against India-Pakistan war drive
By Javed Ahmad
December 20, 2008 -- While the danger of war between India and Pakistan is accelerates, a peace demonstration in Lahore on December 20 demanded no war between the two countries. More than 100 activists of the Labour Party Pakistan and the Communist Mazdoor Kissan Party (CMKP) demanded an end of war fanaticism.
The demonstrators chanted the slogans: "We want peace", "Peace not war, bread not bombs, jobs not bombs", "No to imperialism and no the religious fundamentalism", "Long live the friendship of peoples of Pakistan and India", "Labour against war, people against war". They were holding banners and posters.
Communist Mazdoor Kissan Party (Pakistan)
LPP
India must not succumb to the US strategy of proliferation of terror
By Dipankar Bhattacharya
December 15, 2008 -- The recent siege of Mumbai for nearly three days by a small band of well-trained terrorists has almost universally come to be described as ``India's 9/11''. In terms of sheer audacity of planning and execution, the places targeted and the scale and range of people killed and injured, the Mumbai terror siege can surely be bracketed with the original 9/11, and in terms of the duration of the skirmish it can also claim to have left the original way behind.
The analogy between New York 9/11 and Mumbai 26/11 must not however be confined to these operational details. What is most important is to recognise the Mumbai attack was an extension of the same terror trajectory that struck New York seven years ago. What should we learn from this?
India: West Bengal Left Front government sides with big capital, attacks peasants
By Satya Sivaraman
Nandigram and Beyond, edited by Gautam Ray,
Gangchil Publications, Kolkata, 2008, pp 224, Rs395.
In recent times there has been no greater rupture within the Indian left movement than that precipitated by peasant struggles in Singur and Nandigram against forced acquisition of land for industrial purposes. The spectacle of West Bengal's Left Front regime, led by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) --(CPI (M) -- sending police and party cadre to gun down poor peasants fighting to protect their land not only earned it the wrath of ordinary Indian citizens everywhere but also left large sections among its own supporters deeply divided.
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