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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Kevin Harvick sat out both Daytona 500 practice sessions on Friday and he wasn't alone.
Joining Harvick on the sidelines were 11 other drivers, including Richard Childress Racing teammates Austin Dillon and Paul Menard. Dillon is scheduled to make his Daytona 500 debut. Other notables who sat out Friday were Clint Bowyer, Joey Logano, Juan Pablo Montoya and Mark Martin.
Harvick goes into Sunday's season-opening race with two wins in two races at Speedweeks. His No. 29 Chevrolet sat covered in its garage stall most of the day.
Three-time NASCAR champion Tony Stewart posted the fastest lap of the day in the second practice when he ran around Daytona International Speedway at 197.131 mph. He was followed on the speed chart by four-time champion Jeff Gordon and Danica Patrick. Kasey Kahne's 10 consecutive lap average of 195.305 mph was tops for the day, and he was followed by Patrick, who went 195.258.
"Practice today, it was the most racing we've done,'' she said. "I ran 32 laps straight. We are feeling much more comfortable with the balance going into Sunday.''
Patrick is the first woman in history to win the top starting position in NASCAR's top Sprint Cup Series. Crew chief Tony Gibson said Patrick has chosen to start the race from the outside lane, which will allow her to run early in the high line that has worked so well for drivers this week.
Patrick started on the inside in Thursday's qualifying race, and said she learned quickly the Stewart-Haas Racing crew had made the wrong call. Part of Thursday's decision was to line Patrick up in front of Stewart, her teammate and co-car owner.
"Our plan was to stay with Stewart right behind us, and we were hoping to pull away, both of us, at least right at the start,'' Gibson said. "We're going to cut her loose on Sunday. We told her to treat it like a video game.''
Among those who did go out Friday was Carl Edwards, who ran single car laps only. Edwards was involved in wrecks that have damaged three cars during Speedweeks, and a fourth was crashed during testing at Daytona in January.
"Someone texted me that Bobby Allison wrecked three cars and then won,'' said Edwards, "I haven't wrecked a rental car yet, so we should be good.''
Crew chief Jimmy Fennig brought the Roush-Fenway Racing crew in early Friday to begin work on the 500 car, and a backup car was shipped in overnight from Charlotte, N.C.
"We already got it at 6 o'clock this morning and they already put it in the truck,'' Fennig said. "While you guys were sleeping, we were working.''


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Businessman hoping to transform New London neighborhood
New London - Declaring his nine-story, 52-unit New London Harbour Towers project a success, project manager Tony Silvestri is moving on to an equally ambitious plan to buy up large old homes, extensively renovate the interiors and sell them as condominiums.
The project, known as City Flats, has not gotten off the ground, but Silvestri said he has approached the city Planning & Zoning Commission about his ideas, as well as the historic-preservation group New London Landmarks and residents near Harbour Towers.
The project would initially target Reid, Coit, Brewer, and Tilley streets and parts of Blinman and Washington streets. Silvestri likened his plan to the now-defunct New England Savings Bank's restoration of historic Starr Street properties more than three decades ago.
"It's really about transforming entire neighborhoods," Silvestri said.
From a business point of view, it's also about the numbers. Silvestri says Harbour Towers represents a $16 million investment by the developers, but he will never have more than $750,000 tied up in the City Flats project. He envisions it rolling out one house at a time, with no more than four renovations under way at once.
The condo units, which he plans to sell through Admiral Properties, will average about $100,000 each. He estimates the pricing will mean affordable mortgages in the $700-a-month range, which would include taxes, insurance and condominium fees. A person or couple making $23,000 a year could afford a condo at such a price, he added.
Under Silvestri's scenario, owning a City Flats home would be significantly cheaper than renting a typical two-bedroom, 900-square-foot apartment with appointments comparable to his planned condominiums. A similar concept, instituted in South Providence, R.I., by the nonprofit development group Community Works Rhode Island, has resulted in $60 million worth of investments and about 1,000 units of improved housing.
Silvestri said he will start by trying the City Flats concept in the neighborhood behind New London Harbour Towers, a transformation of mostly three-unit apartment houses that he added should be beneficial in completing the sales of condominium units at his Bank Street project. So far, he said, Harbour Towers is about 70 percent sold - thanks largely to a marketing initiative that allowed buyers to get credit for the value of their old homes, which Silvestri then fixed up and resold through two associated companies, Franklin Construction and Franklin Properties.
Silvestri's new concept is different from the Harbour Towers project, but includes some similar elements. Both are designed to promote home ownership in the city, he said, and he hopes to get the City Council to agree to tax abatements for City Flats that are similar to those approved for Harbour Towers, involving graduated reductions in property tax levies over a seven-year period that would knock an average of 50 percent off normal rates.
"We want to bring New London back to its heyday," Silvestri said.
For the concept to work, he said, New London will need to tweak its blight ordinance to put some more teeth into requirements that homeowners keep up the exterior of their properties. This would include enforcement of requirements to quickly repair crumbling porches, peeling paint, broken windows, wobbly siding and piles of debris, he said.
"We're not interested in forcing somebody to do repairs to their house that they can't afford or don't want to do," he said. "We just want them to make the exterior look presentable ... and we'll help them to get it accomplished ... at cost."
Silvestri said he has a list of people interested in the City Flats concept, which he said will work best with the worst-maintained properties because he will be able to acquire them at a lower cost.
Silvestri added that he is willing to share his formula with anyone willing to tackle a similar neighborhood transformation. He estimated that hundreds of homes in the city would be conducive to condo conversion, which would promote homeownership in a city that is populated by many renters.
"The beauty of this is that it works everywhere - throughout the entire city," he said.
Silvestri said he is aware of maintaining the historical integrity of older New London homes and will work with New London Landmarks to ensure that architectural details are honored. Houses would be gutted down to the framing, he said, with new roofs, windows, siding, wiring, plumbing, heating, insulation, off-street parking, decks and courtyards included.
"He assured us that he would be respectful of the historic buildings," said Sandra Chalk, executive director of New London Landmarks. "I think his concepts are good and appropriate to 21st-century living conditions."
Silvestri believes that the City Flats project would reduce the frequency of house fires thanks to updated wiring and heating systems and than an increase in home ownership would decrease crime. Silvestri estimates that his condos would dramatically raise the value of individual buildings, leading to a 50 percent increase in tax collections on City Flats properties compared with unimproved housing, after tax abatements expire within the next decade.
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Bert Cooper, executive director of Community Works Rhode Island, said his organization has done a few condo-conversion projects such as the one envisioned by Silvestri, often involving large Victorian homes, and all have sold out eventually, though some moved slowly.
"It seems like he's being strategic about it," Cooper said after hearing of Silvestri's plans. "One of the lessons we learned is to be supportive of the condo associations to make sure the projects are sustainable."
Cooper added that Silvestri's plan sounds like something "an enlightened developer" might offer up despite a payback that may not be huge. But Silvestri, a former president of the Home Builders Association of Eastern Connecticut, pointed out that the region needs affordable homes, and the lower end of the scale is where much of the buying activity is occurring in local real estate.
Silvestri said he needs some commitments from the city, including approval of an overlay zone that would allow free-standing garages, gardens and play equipment that could be worked into a development plan. In addition to tax abatements, Silvestri also wants the city to make a commitment that it will install new, uniform streetlights, sidewalks and curb cuts and will help to find an alternative location for vehicles stored at Columbus Square Auto behind New London Harbour Towers.
Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio issued a statement calling the City Flats idea "a very good framework" for addressing the city's housing needs and saying he "welcomes any good ideas that will benefit New London."
Silvestri said he hopes many of the people who rent the homes he plans to renovate will be able to buy City Flats condos and save significant money compared to the cost of leasing.
"Our goal is not to displace the families currently living in these neighborhoods," he said. "Our goal is to give them choices of new energy-efficient homes that they can afford."
He figures hundreds of houses in the city, including those in areas such as Vauxhall Street and Hodges Square, could use extensive renovation and be converted to homeownership opportunities.
"The demand is going to be far greater than the supply," Silvestri said. "I guarantee you we're going to have a waiting list."


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The Situation of Penn State Bystanders
Posted by J on November 14, 2011
Many blame-laden fingers have been pointed at those who didn't act immediately and decisively to stop the sexual atrocities that took place at Penn State. We all know what the right thing to do was, and we are all confident that we would have done it.
But should we be?
To state the obvious, what transpired within the Penn State football system was wrong on many levels. We know that rape is wrong, that rape should never happen, that if a rape does occur, it should be stopped from happening again. We know that pedophilia is wrong, that using power to exploit the vulnerable is wrong, that turning a blind eye to misdeeds is wrong. Still, wrong happens.
Perhaps going forward many of us may be more likely to "do the right thing" after this media frenzy than we would have been had we never been confronted with this story. But I'm interested in a slightly different question: would we ourselves, in the precise situation of those we are judging, really have acted so differently? Would we have immediately, vocally, and publicly intervened, protested, and contacted the police?
As this blog routinely highlights, for more than a half century, social psychology has been dismantling the notion that we can accurately predict our own behavior in strange situations. The names of Solomon Asch, Stanley Milgram, and Phil Zimbardo are all familiar because of what their research reveals: We often fail where we expect we would succeed.
And yet that lesson doesn't stick; the illusion of our own imagined heroism remains robust. Even many of us familiar with the countless experiments illustrating the power of situation and the illusion of disposition manage to exempt ourselves from those lessons and assign blame to those who did not measure up to our standards.
We easily assign blame when they found ways to diffuse responsibility. We see with clarity where they saw ambiguity. We wonder how could they be so blind and so immoral and conclude that they are not like us.
To reach such a conclusion, we place more faith in our rage than we do in the lessons of social science. A mountain of research shows that we have much more in common with those we judge harshly than we want to believe. Among those similarities is the motive to see ourselves, our groups, our systems, and our world in affirming ways. The tendency to see "them" as different and ourselves as superior is a symptom of the same nonconscious motivational force that allowed "them" to see themselves as doing enough.
We should resolve to do the right thing both when we encounter wrongdoing and when we judge others who encounter wrongdoing. That is not only the honest and empathetic approach, it is our best hope to gird ourselves against the strong currents of our own situation.
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The following 37-minute video was assembled hastily to introduce a small group of my students to the events unfolding at Penn State. It contains video clips that depict, among other things, the integral role that football has long played at Penn State, the legendary and iconic status of Joe Paterno at that university, the different perspectives taken of those events and of Joe Paterno, and the various ways in which public and private law and the media have shaped the coverage and the reaction to the unfolding events. The video also includes several clips from ABC's "What Would You Do?" series hosted by John Quiñones. Those clips might help remind viewers of some of the ways in which we tend to overestimate our own propensity to speak up, to resist, to get involved, or to fight back and underestimate our readiness to sit on our hands, to turn away, to opt for rose-tinted spectacles, or to go with the flow.
The video, be warned, has many problems (e.g., quality, editing, organization, redundancies); it did, however, provide useful fodder for what I thought was an illuminating discussion. Because of that, I decided to include it here in case others might find it useful. Though credits are not included, the vast majority of the videos can be found on Youtube.
A Sample of related Situationist posts:
- The Bystander Effect at Penn State
- Bystanders in Child Abductions
- The Situation of Bystanders,
- The Situation of Gang Rape,
- The Situation of Helping,
- The Situational Effect of Groups,
- The Positive Situation of Crowds,
- The Situation of Helping,
- "Solomon Asch's Famous Compliance Experiment,"
- "The Situation of Bullying,"
- The Situation of Hazing, Torture, Gender, and Tears, and
- Journalists as Social Psychologists & Social Psychologists as Entertainers.
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Test yourself with paperless OneNote flashcards
Sure, school is only just slowly getting back in session. And yet, before you know it, one of your teachers will spring that first pop quiz on you. Memorization drills aren't exactly a ton of fun right after summer, but did you know that you can create quick and easy flashcards using the built-in outlining features in OneNote?
Flashcards are a great way to test your knowledge when you're learning a foreign language, studying historical facts and dates, or when you need to learn and memorize anything else that can be tested in a question-and-answer format. There's just one problem: Paper flashcards are hard to keep in the correct order, they take time to reorganize, they're easily forgotten at home or in class, and they get too bulky to carry around if you need them for a handful of school subjects.
What's an easy solution? Create and keep all of your flashcards in OneNote, so you can easily use, reorganize, or modify them — and take them with you wherever you go.
Make text-based flashcards in OneNote 2010
In the following example, I'm going to demonstrate how I use the collapse/hide outlining feature in OneNote 2010 to create vocabulary flashcards using a list of French words and their English translations.
- I'll start by creating a blank, new page and typing my first French vocabulary word — étude.
- Next, I'll press the ENTER key to create a new line, where I'll type the translation.
- After each definition, I'll press ENTER twice to create a blank line between each word and its translation.
I'll do this for every word/translation combination in my list, which will soon look like this:
As you can see, I've already formatted my list with bold and italic text to help visually separate each French word from its translation. You can choose to format your own list in any way you want — including colors, highlights, and symbols.
- Next, I'll need to indent each of the translations. I'll click anywhere in the text of the first translation text.
When the cursor is active (blinking), I'll click the Increase Indent Position button (look for it on the ribbon, on the Home tab, in the Basic text group).
The translation under the first vocabulary word should now be indented. I'll now repeat this step for every other translation in my list, which will eventually look like this:
- To make this list look and function like real flashcards, my next task is to hide the translations.
To do this, I'll move my mouse over the word at the top, until a 4-sided arrow icon appears to the left of it — just outside of the note container:
- Next, I'll move the mouse pointer directly over the 4-sided arrow icon, until the mouse pointer itself becomes a large 4-sided arrow:
- Now, I'll double-click the left mouse button. This collapses (hides) the indented translation text below the vocabulary word.
I'll do this for all of the other text groups, which will leave me with a list of words that I can test myself on — each with a clickable, stacked arrow icon next to it:
- To check the translation of any word, I can simply double-click the icon next to it and its translation will appear. To hide the translation again, I can just double-click the icon again.
This method of creating flashcards in OneNote doesn't just work well for simple word lists. You can also create more visual tests for yourself, where the answers to test questions consist of photos or screenshots that you've collected while doing research on the Web.
Let's have a look at how you can use the same flashcard technique with images.
Make image-based flashcards in OneNote 2010
In the following example, I'm going to demonstrate how I create a visual alphabet list to test my knowledge of American Sign Language (ASL).
- Once again, I'll start by creating a blank, new page. To start the list, I type the first letter of the alphabet ("A"), after which I press the ENTER key twice to create a blank line between each letter.
I'll do this for all 26 letters of the English alphabet. Here's what my list looks like after the first few letters:
As in the earlier French vocabulary list example, you can format this new list as you like. In my list, I'll make the alphabet letters a bit larger and bolder, so they'll stand out a bit more when I've inserted the images.
- Next, I'll insert a different image under each letter. I've already taken screen clippings of the sign language hand gestures that represent each letter of the alphabet, so I can now insert these one by one.
To begin, I'll click the blank line immediately under the letter "A" in the list. This is where the first image will be placed.
When the cursor is active (blinking), I'll click the Insert tab on the ribbon. In the Images group, I'll click the Picture button.
- In the Insert Picture dialog box that opens, I'll browse to the folder that contains the images I've prepared, where I'll double-click the first image that I want to insert.
- Once the matching image is inserted on the line below the letter "A," I'll click to select the image.
Next, I'll click the Increase Indent Position button (as before, look for it on the ribbon, on the Home tab, in the Basic text group).
The image below the letter "A" should now be indented:
I'll repeat steps 2-4 for the remaining letters of the alphabet until each letter has an indented image below it.
- As in the previous French vocabulary list example, I'll now move my mouse over the alphabet letter at the top, until a 4-sided arrow icon appears to the left of it — just outside of the note container.
- Next, I'll move the mouse pointer directly over the 4-sided arrow icon, until the mouse pointer itself becomes a large 4-sided arrow:
- Now, I'll double-click the left mouse button. This collapses the indented image below the alphabet letter.
I'll do this for each of the other letter/image groups, which will leave me with a list of all 26 letters of the English alphabet and their ASL sign language gestures that I can test myself on — each with a clickable, stacked arrow icon next to it:
- To check the correct sign language gesture for any particular letter of the alphabet, I can simply double-click the icon next to each letter, and an image of the correct ASL hand gesture will appear. To hide an image again, I can just double-click the icon again.
Tip You could also create a reverse list, where the image of a sign language gesture is the test question and the corresponding letter of the alphabet is the answer.
By the way, for those of you who have a Tablet PC (or a touch-capable PC running Windows 7), you can also make flashcards from your handwritten lists and from sketches you've drawn. And for those of you not in school, you can always use this OneNote outlining technique as a great way to hide things like "ice cream" and "candy" from your shopping lists! 😉
Your feedback and ideas are always welcome. Please leave me a comment to let me know if you found this useful.
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Suppose I could offer you a choice of two technologies for watching TV online. Behind Door Number One sits a free-to-watch service that uses off-the-shelf technology and that buffers just enough of each show to put the live stream on the Internet. Behind Door Number Two lies a subscription service that requires custom-designed hardware and makes dozens of copies of each show. Which sounds easier to build—and to use? More importantly, which is more likely to be legal?
If you went with Door Number One, then you are a sane person, untainted by the depravity of modern copyright law. But you are also wrong. The company behind Door Number One, iCraveTV, was enjoined out of existence a decade ago. The company behind Door Number Two, Aereo, just survived its first round in court and is still going strong.
The difference between them—and the reason for Aereo's willfully perverse design—originated in a critical 2008 DVR decision by the federal Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Cartoon Network v. CSC Holdings (which everyone just calls "Cablevision"). The tech at issue in Cablevision was a "DVR in the cloud," and because of the way the Second Circuit answered the question of whether a DVR "performs" a copyrighted TV show when the user hits "play," the decision opened a whole range of possibilities for entrepreneurs willing to mash up technologies in ways God never intended.
This is the story of Cablevision, the companies that followed in its wake, and how we got to the strange place where wasting resources on thousands of tiny antennas made you legal—but where using one antenna broke the law.
To understand what Cablevision decided and why it matters, we need to understand a bit about how copyright law treats broadcasting and streaming. For a very long time, copyright has covered more than just making copies. In 1856, for example, Congress gave playwrights an exclusive right to stage their plays in public. That "public performance right" has gradually expanded to cover almost everything that can be copyrighted and performed, from movies to musicals.
The meaning of a "public performance," however, has been surprisingly hard to pin down. For more than a century, technologists have been coming up with unexpected ways of bringing media to people. Some cases were easy: the courts quickly decided that showing movies in theaters and broadcasting songs on the radio were public performances requiring permission of the rightsholder, while mere audition (in English, that's "listening to the radio") was not.
If the Internet is a copyright minefield, Cablevision had just right-clicked a new safe square for startups to stand on.
Cable TV, though, broke the mold. Back when the typical cable TV operator was an edgy upstart, the cable business model was retransmission without the express written consent of anyone. A cable network would put up an antenna somewhere with good TV reception, lay wires over the hills and far away to communities with terrible TV reception, and relay the signals to paying subscribers there.
In a pair of decisions, 1968's Fortnightly v. United Artists and 1974's Teleprompter v. CBS, the Supreme Court held that cable retransmission was not a "performance" for copyright purposes and so didn't need copyright owners' permission.
"Broadcasters perform. Viewers do not perform," the court explained in Fortnightly. A cable network was just a way to help viewers receive distant TV broadcasts, like a gigantic pair of rabbit ears.
But the Supreme Court had meddled with the primal forces of nature, and Congress promptly swung into action, revising the law to override Fortnightly and Teleprompter. The 1976 Copyright Act added a "transmit clause" to its definitions to make clear that whether a work was performed "by means of any device or process" and whether the public received it "in the same place or in separate places and at the same time or at different times," it would still infringe if transmitted without permission.
Meanwhile, Congress bought off the cable companies—who didn't like this at all—with a complicated licensing scheme. In essence, copyright law was sucked into telecommunications law's gravity well. In time, satellite TV broadcasters got the same deal: they were subject to copyright, but with their own crazy-intricate licensing system spelling out exactly what they could do and how much it would cost.
Harmony and order returned to the universe—until the Internet came along.
Son of cable
The Internet has never played nice with carefully crafted regulatory schemes. Since streaming became practical in the 1990s, a series of adventuresome dot-com entrepreneurs have been searching for a way to repeat the cable systems' original legal coup, bringing live TV to Joe User—preferably without paying to do so. (It's hard to make a living by streaming video when copyright owners can always turn around and grab back your profits by demanding higher licensing fees. Exhibit 1: Netflix. Exhibit B: Hulu.)
The first high-profile try was the aforementioned service behind Door Number One, the Canadian website iCraveTV. It hoisted an antenna in Toronto, picked up TV signals from Buffalo, New York then turned around and streamed those signals on the Internet (surrounded, of course, with ads). It tried to lock out Americans, but it didn't try very hard (it asked users to enter a Canadian area code) and nearly half of its viewership came from the United States. When the movie studios sued in the United States, the court had little difficulty claiming jurisdiction over iCraveTV and its officers. An injunction was entered; goodbye, iCraveTV.
More recently, websites like FilmOn and ivi have tried to solve the copyright problem by fleeing back into telecommunications law. Both of them restream over-the-air TV on the Internet. ivi argued that it was a "cable system" and was therefore entitled to the Copyright Act's special license for cable companies; FilmOn called itself a "carrier" with a similar goal.
Neither ended well. A federal court shut down ivi, giving a long history of the cable license and pointing out, rather inconveniently for ivi, that the company hadn't even attempted to comply with any of the FCC's extensive rules for cable licensing. The appeals court agreed—an Internet streaming server is not a "cable system." (While the FCC is slowly considering whether to start treating pure TV-over-IP services like cable systems, it's not there yet.)
FilmOn agreed to an injunction and to pay $1.6 million.
Hope for the rebroadcasters, however, came from an unlikely place: the cable industry.


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Interview: 'Oz the Great and Powerful' China Girl star Joey King
Sure, the character of China Girl in the blockbuster movie fantasy "Oz the Great and Powerful" may appear to be a dainty and delicate, but to Joey King -- the spunky 13-year-old actress who gave voice and facial expressions to the character -- there's a lot more to the porcelain powerhouse than meets the eye.
"China Girl is very breakable and delicate, but she's not just fragile," King told me in a recent interview. "She's feisty, very strong and determined. When she's put back together, look out."
China Girl is a main character whom Oscar Diggs (James Franco) finds literally broken and sad in the Land of Oz in director Sam Raimi's "Oz the Great and Powerful," which makes its debut on Blu-ray and DVD (Walt Disney Home Entertainment) Tuesday.
Based on the works of "Oz" author L. Frank Baum, "Oz the Great and Powerful" tracks the origins of Oscar, a scheming, small-time circus magician who is whisked away in a hot-air balloon from the swirling dust of Kansas and dropped in the mystical, vibrant land of Oz.
Once there, Oscar encounters sister witches Theodora (Mila Kunis) and Evanora (Rachel Weisz), as well as a flying monkey Finley (Zach Braff), China Girl and Glinda the Good (Michelle Williams) -- who are all part of his mystical journey that will transform him into the all-powerful Wizard of Oz.
Among the features on the Blu-ray of "Oz the Great and Powerful" is a fascinating look into how China Girl was brought to life on film. On the set, a puppeteer used a marionette of China Girl that the actors could interact with as King appeared not far away to recite the character's lines. In addition, King would recite her lines in a booth as a frame of reference for the animators, who digitally rendered the character for the completed film.
"It was very unique and complicated process -- I never worked with that kind of technology before," said King, who also appears in the prologue of the film as a wheelchair-bound girl hoping to walk again. "I was on set for the majority of the time, sometimes in a little booth where they would film my face, and then attach my expressions and movements to China Girl, so you could really tell that it wasn't just an animated character. It was something more. It was something deeper. It really looked like she was intently listening, or really looked confused in certain scenes."
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The release of "Oz the Great and Powerful" on video caps off a whirlwind year for King, who also worked for Christopher Nolan as the young, imprisoned version of Talia Al-Guhl in the 2012 blockbuster "The Dark Knight Rises."
Working with Raimi, she said, was also an amazing experience.
"He's such a brilliant director and the thing I loved about him is that he really, really cares about what you think," King said. "Even though I'm a kid, he didn't treat me like a kid at all. He treated me like one of the adults. He really wanted to know what I thought about my character or the scene I was about to do, or what I thought be changed or added."
"He was just so easy-going and a genuine, nice guy, but he also knew how to make everything flow, even when we all had different opinions about things," King added with a laugh.
See the trailer for "Oz the Great and Powerful" below.
A 'Great and Powerful' reunion
"Oz the Great and Powerful" marked the first time in five years that the director worked with Howard Berger -- the Oscar-winning makeup effects guru who makes up one-third of the KNB Effects Group along with fellow makeup artists Robert Kurtzman and Greg Nicotero.
In a way, "Oz the Great and Powerful" was a sentimental journey for Berger because you can't have an "Oz" film without witches -- and Evanora at one point seems to take on the distinct characteristics of the witch at the end of the horror comedy classic "Army of Darkness" -- the second film Berger worked on with Raimi on after "Evil Dead 2."
"Sam love his hags. He calls them his 'horrible, hideous hor-hags," Berger told me with a laugh in a recent interview. "We've done them over and over again for him, be it in 'Army of Darkness' or 'Drag Me to Hell.' We tested the makeup on Rachel and took it to set. Sam looked at me and said, 'This is the best horrible, hideous hor-hag you've done so far. It's horrible.'"
Berger said KNB jumped at the chance to work on "Oz the Great and Powerful" not only for another chance to work with Raimi, but it afforded them the rare opportunity to work on an "Oz" film. The makeup and effects artist had several duties on "Oz the Great and Powerful," not the least of which turning Kunis into the Wicked Witch of the West as she transforms from the once-good witch Theodora.
Berger said getting the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to do the makeup for the iconic character was thrilling on one hand, but "also scary."
"We didn't want to reinvent the wheel, but pay homage to the original film and to some degree, the source material," Berger said. "Yes, we were able to be welcomed into this new world of Oz and paint this portrait of it, but Sam always held the source material with the utmost respect."
Thankfully, Berger said, Raimi "wasn't one of these filmmakers who went, 'I really hated the original and I'm going to do everything over.'"
"Filmmakers who do that are super-insulting, but Sam was never that way," Berger said. "He respected everything that we were dealing with, but in the same sense, he gave us the freedom and liberated all of us to think of new things and progress the characters."
Apart from the witches, Berger and Nicotero were responsible for the several other "Oz" characters, including the Winkies, Tinkers, Munchkins, China Girl and Finley -- a tall order, but one that came off without a hitch.
Berger said the ultimate validation of their work came from Jeff Dawn, a third-generation makeup artist whose family worked on the original "Wizard of Oz" in 1939.
"Jeff called me up after he saw the movie and said, 'I thought I'd have to come over and give you a beating if the makeup wasn't up to snuff, but after seeing the film, I know my uncles would have really been happy and proud because you captured the essence of what they created with the original film,'" Berger recalled with a laugh. "That made me really happy."
Bring Me The News film critic Tim Lammers is a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association and annually votes on the Critics Choice Movie Awards. Locally, he reviews films on "KARE 11 News at 11" and WCCO Radio. As a feature writer, Tim has interviewed more than 1,000 major actors and filmmakers throughout his career and his work is syndicated nationwide.


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Buffon's Needle
- The Buffon's Needle problem is a mathematical method of approximating the value of pi involving repeatedly dropping needles on a sheet of lined paper and observing how often the needle intersects a line.
- 1 Basic Description
- 2 A More Mathematical Explanation
- 3 Why It's Interesting
- 4 Teaching Materials
- 5 References
Basic Description
The method was first used to approximate π by Georges-Louis Leclerc, the Comte de Buffon, in 1777. Buffon was a mathematician, and he wondered about the probability that a needle would lie across a line between two wooden strips on his floor. To test his question, he apparently threw bread sticks across his shoulder and counted when they crossed a line.
Calculating the probability of an intersection for the Buffon's Needle problem was the first solution to a problem of geometric probability. The solution can be used to design a method for approximating the number π.
Subsequent mathematicians have used this method with needles instead of bread sticks, or with computer simulations. We will show that when the distance between the lines is equal the length of the needle, an approximation of π can be calculated using the equation
A More Mathematical Explanation
Will the Needle Intersect a Line?
To prove that the Buffon's Needle experiment will give an approximation of π, we can consider which positions of the needle will cause an intersection. Since the needle drops are random, there is no reason why the needle should be more likely to intersect one line than another. As a result, we can simplify our proof by focusing on a particular strip of the paper bounded by two horizontal lines.
The variable θ is the acute angle made by the needle and an imaginary line parallel to the ones on the paper. Since we are considering the case where the interline distance equals l, we might as well take that common distance to be 1 unit. Finally, d is the distance between the center of the needle and the nearest line. Also, there is no reason why the needle is more likely to fall at a certain angle or distance, so we can consider all values of θ and d equally probable.
We can extend line segments from the center and tip of the needle to meet at a right angle. A needle will cut a line if the length of the green arrow, d, is shorter than the length of the leg opposite θ. More precisely, it will intersect when
See case 1, where the needle falls at a relatively small angle with respect to the lines. Because of the small angle, the center of the needle would have to fall very close to one of the horizontal lines in order to intersect it. In case 2, the needle intersects even though the center of the needle is far from both lines because the angle is so large.
The Probability of an Intersection
In order to show that the Buffon's experiment gives an approximation for π, we need to show that there is a relationship between the probability of an intersection and the value of π. If we graph the possible values of θ along the X axis and d along the Y, we have the sample space for the trials. In the diagram below, the sample space is contained by the dashed lines.
Each point on the graph represents some combination of an angle and a distance that a needle might occupy.
There will be an intersection if , which is represented by the blue region. The area under this curve represents all the combinations of distances and angles that will cause the needle to intersect a line. Since each of these combinations is equally likely, the probability is proportional to the area – that's what makes this a geometric probability problem. The area under the blue curve, which is equal to 1/2 in this case, can found by evaluating the integral
Then, the area of the sample space can be found by multiplying the length of the rectangle by the height.
The probability is equal to the ratio of the two areas in this case because each possible value of θ and d is equally probable. The probability of an intersection is
Thus, in order to approximate , it remains only to approximate .
Using Random Samples to Approximate π
The original goal of the Buffon's needle method, approximating π, can be achieved by using probability to solve for π. If a large number of trials is conducted, the proportion of times a needle intersects a line will be close to the probability of an intersection. That is, the number of line hits divided by the number of drops will equal approximately the probability of hitting the line.
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[1] http://www.maa.org/mathland/mathtrek_5_15_00.html
[2] http://mste.illinois.edu/reese/buffon/bufjava.html
[3] http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Monte_Carlo_method
[4] The Number Pi. Eymard, Lafon, and Wilson.
[5] Monte Carlo Methods Volume I: Basics. Kalos and Whitlock.
[6] Heart of Mathematics. Burger and Starbird
[7] http://math.tntech.edu/techreports/TR_2001_4.pdf
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The GPUs in the series include the GTX 280 and GTX 260
NVIDIA launched a new family of GPUs today called the GTX 200 series. Within the series there are currently two GPUs -- the GTX 280 and the GTX 260. The NVIDIA GTX 280 is now the flagship GPU from NVIDIA and sits in the line above the 9800 GX2.
NVIDIA is stressing with the new GTX 200 family that the GPUs go beyond gaming and are one of the most powerful processors in a PC and can be used for rendering video and other functions. NVIDIA says that its goals with the architecture of the GTX 200 series were to design a processor twice as powerful as the GeForce 8800 GTX, rebalance the architecture for future games with more complex shaders and more memory, improve efficiency per watt and per square millimeter, provide enhanced CUDA performance, and add a significant reduction in idle power requirements.
NVIDIA says that the GTX 200 line provides nearly a teraflop of computational power. The GTX 200 family also offers support for PhysX powered physics processing right on the GPU. Both the new GTX 280 and GTX 260 support SLI and 3-way SLI. The previous NVIDIA 9800 GX2 could not support 3-way SLI.
Key features in the new GTX 200 GPUs include support for three times the number of threads per flight at any given time. A new scheduler design allows for 20% more texturing efficiency. The memory interface for the GPUs is 512-bit (GTX 280) and full-speed, raster-operation (ROP) frame blending is supported. The GTX 200 series also features twice the number of registers for longer and more complex shaders and IEEE754R double precision floating-point. The GTXC 200 line also supports 10-bit color scan out via the DisplayPort only.
One of the main goals with the GTX 200 line was improved power management. Both the GTX 200 series GPUs have idle power requirements of about 25W; during Blu-ray playback power requirements are around 35W; full 3D performance requirements vary with the most power needed being 236W (GTX 280). The GTX 200 line is compatible with HybridPower, which makes the power needs of the GPU effectively 0W.
The GTX 280 is built on a 65nm process and has 1.4 billion transistors. The stock video cards have a graphics clock of 602 MHz, processor clock of 1,296 MHz, and a memory clock of 2,214 MHz. The GTX 280 has 1GB of GDDR3 and 240 processing cores and 32 ROPs.
The GTX 260 is also built on the 65 nm process and has 1.4 billion transistors. The graphics clock for the GTX 260 is 576 MHz, the processor clock is 1,242 MHz, and the memory clock is 1,998 MHz. The memory interface on the GTX 260 is 448-bit and it has 896MB of GDDR3 memory. The GTX 260 has 192 processing cores and 28 ROPs. The maximum board power is 182W.
Both video cards will support PhysX processing on the GPU. NVIDIA purchased Ageia in early 2008. GTX 280 video cards will be available tomorrow for $649 and the GTX 260 cards will be available on June 26 for $399.


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What moms should look for in cars
By Kelly Herdrich, Contributing writer
In this tight economy, if you can pinch your pennies enough to afford a new car, you'll be pleased with not only the selection available, but also with the deals that car dealerships are willing to make to move some of their stock off the lot.
Families need more than affordability, with safety and space topping many a mom's list. If mom is trying to decide what kind of a car is the most family friendly, be sure to take the following things into consideration first.
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Consistently, some of the same family friendly cars come in ahead of the pack over and over again.
In Consumer Reports' Top 10 Vehicles for Family Travel, you'll regularly see the Honda Odyssey and the Toyota Sienna as the top minivans; the Toyota Avalon, Honda Accord and the Lexus RX top choices for moms looking for family cars.
These cars are popular for the three things moms are most concerned with when looking for family friendly cars: safety, size and budget. In addition, check JD Power and Associates, which lets you check car ratings based on factors such as car safety, dependability and overall car quality.
Safety First
If a car isn't safe, moms shouldn't go anywhere near it. Start by reading up on car safety features from Consumer Reports, which tests both car manufacturers' claims and actual performance. You can watch crash test videos on its Web site -- moms would be wise to take a peek at how their car choices perform in an accident.
In addition, it offers side-by-side comparisons of family friendly cars for parents who want to see what one minivan has to offer versus another.
Newer car safety features such as built-in booster seats, child safety locks and side-impact airbags have the potential to make a car safer for both parents and children.
Size Second
The more kids, the more room moms seem to need when driving. Whether or not a minivan is your style, you may be surprised that the size and space a minivan can provide is second to none. You don't have to own a full-size minivan, either.
Edmunds.com recommends the Mazda5, remarking on the smaller minivan's lower price tag and "ample storage capacity without the lumbering physique or bland styling of most full-size minivans."
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Retiring Journal reporter ready to focus on the farm
She's spent the past 50 years either working for a newspaper or driving a semi cross-country, but it's a love for animals and farming that will be Terry Katz's primary focus starting next week.
Katz ends an 11-year affiliation with the Sturgis Journal Monday, as the 68-year-old Sherwood-area resident is retiring. Though she's been raising animals and starting orchards on her 10-acre property as time allows around her newspaper schedule, Katz said she's ready to take on the outdoor duties full time.
"I guess it's time … I went to my 50-year (high school) class reunion this summer and I was the only person there who was still working full time," Katz said, laughing.
A Pennsylvania native, Katz had no shortage of newspaper experience when she took a job freelancing for the Journal starting in June 2001. She became a full-time employee in July 2002, tackling the municipal government beat. Her major, standing assignments included meeting coverage of the St. Joseph County Board of Commissioners and the Sturgis City Commission.
There was never a shortage of work and Katz held her own, as she did on reporting and editing jobs at newspapers in the Pittsburgh area. Katz secured her first newspaper job as a sophomore in high school, convincing the editor of her local newspaper she could boost its circulation.
"It was the Valley Daily News and they took me on as a stringer after I told the editor I can find a story about anybody," Katz said. "I started attending several (after-school) clubs and recording minutes of their meetings, and that's what I'd write up for the paper."
The editor loved her contributions, as they were heavy with names and rich with details relevant to the local school. Katz not only provided an abundance of local copy to the paper, but she also helped deliver it – a 35-paper route over five miles she covered on horseback.
Katz grew up in a household that always had farm animals. She said the small farm from her childhood days remains the source of fond memories, but it would be many years later before Katz would tend to a farm of her own.
For three years in the 1990s, Katz drove a cargo van cross country for Roberts Express, an Akron, Ohio company that specialized in expedited service. She traveled 400,000 miles with a cat and a dog and quickly found life on the road a place where she felt the most comfortable.
Her love for the job brought Katz in 1996 to truck-driving school in Coldwater, where she eventually earned her CDL and later secured a job as an over-the-road trucker at All Star Transportation in Pacific, Mo. She hauled produce from California east to New Jersey and many large cities.
Those who know the soft-spoken, cordial Katz may have a hard time picturing her behind the wheel of a semi tractor-trailer, patronizing truck stops and living the life of a trucker. But it was a place from which she saw the best the United States has to offer.
Her journalism instincts kept Katz inquisitive and she always managed to make acquaintances at every truck stop; from bums to hookers to other drivers. As she told her first editor many decades ago, Katz repeated that she could find a story in anybody, and the details she'd glean from people at truck stops satisfied her curiosity about everyday people.
"I've seen a lot of the country and I consider myself lucky because of that," she said. "Even when I'd drive to Sturgis to go to work at the Journal, my mind would be on the highway."
Katz still has a valid Class A CDL but she doesn't expect to make any more long over-the-road trips. In 1998, she married her truck-driving instructor, Bryan, and the two live outside Sherwood.
As much as she loves seeing the country and meeting its people, Katz said she got used to spending her vacation days at home, caring for her chickens, ducks and geese, and nurturing her orchard. The 32-tree orchard, she hopes, will someday yield apples, nectarines and apricots.
Katz made her decision to retire in September but agreed to stay on board through the end of the year. Far and away, Katz said her favorite stories were about animals and farms, and Fair Week in Centreville was always a highlight.
Looking ahead to retirement, Katz is confident she made the right choice and is sure the best years of her life are in front of her.
"I plan to do a lot of reading, take care of my critters and learn more about growing (fruit-bearing trees), so I'll have a productive orchard someday," she said.
During her tenure at the Journal, Katz won five awards through the Michigan Press Association and Associated Press competition. In 2005, she was named employee of the year by the Journal's previous owner, Liberty Publishing Co. And in 2011, Katz was the recipient of the Michigan Ag Communicator of the Year award, presented by the Michigan Farm Bureau.
Prior to working at the Journal, she earned more than 50 state and national reporting awards, including being named Pennsylvania's Newspaper Reporter of the Year.
She was recently acknowledged by the St. Joseph County Board of Commissioners as well as the Colon Village Council for her years of coverage.
Fellow Sturgis Journal reporter Rosalie Currier said Katz stepped up her commitment to covering Colon village and Colon Township governments after the community's newspaper folded.
"She was very diligent in covering Colon news after their own newspaper was discontinued and one of her favorite sayings was 'I can find a story anywhere,'" Currier said. "From my five years of working in the newsroom with Terry, it seemed that her love for writing the news and love for her farm was a race too close to call. But apparently this time, the farm won."


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Hot Wheels: Chevrolet unveils SS muscle car
DETROIT (AP) -- For those who like to drive fast but still haul people, Chevrolet is reviving the big rear-wheel-drive muscle car sedan.
The General Motors brand plans to unveil the Chevy SS on Saturday at the Daytona International Speedway. It's Chevy's first rear-drive high-performance sedan in 17 years.
The Australian-built car is a new version of the Pontiac G8, a much-revered sporty car that died when GM scrapped the Pontiac brand late in 2010. The G8 lives on, though, in the Caprice police patrol vehicle. The SS also is sold in Australia as the Holden Commodore.
Chevrolet reached back to its muscle car history to get the SS name. The SS stood for "Super Sport" and was the badge given to high-performance versions of mainstream cars dating to 1961. Chevy sold SS versions of the midsize Chevelle, the Impala full-size car and the Camaro sports car, among others. There even was an SS version of the lowly Chevrolet Cobalt compact in the past decade.
Chevrolet's last rear-drive high-performance sedan was the 1996 Impala SS, a muscle-car version of the mainstream Caprice.
Here are some details about the new SS:
INSIDE: All the SS models come loaded and seat five. Leather seats with added side bolstering for spirited cornering. Nine-speaker sound system. Push-button start. Touch screen. Automatic parallel parking-assist sensors. Lane departure warning, blind-spot detector and backup camera, plus front collision alert.
OUTSIDE: Looks a little like the old G8, but slightly more sculpted with some LED daytime running lights. Wide, athletic stance with wheels pushed out. Slight "power bulge" in the aluminum hood. Big brakes and 19-inch forged aluminum wheels.
UNDER THE HOOD: Same 6.2-liter V-8 engine now used in the 2013 Corvette, with 415 horsepower. The SS can go from zero to 60 mph in under five seconds.
GAS MILEAGE: Not tested yet. Corvette with similar motor gets up to 26 mpg on highway.
PRICE: To be revealed closer to date it goes on sale, sometime in the fourth quarter of this year.
CHEERS: Brings tight handling and neck-snapping acceleration to people who need space to carry people and things.
JEERS: Probably won't get great gas mileage, especially in the city. But if you buy it, do you really care?


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The objective of this paper is to bridge the gap between location theory and practice. To meet this objective focus is given to the development of software capable of addressing the different needs of a wide group of users. There is a very active community on location theory encompassing many research fields such as operations research, computer science, mathematics, engineering, geography, economics and marketing. As a result, people working on facility location problems have a very diverse background and also different needs regarding the software to solve these problems. For those interested in non-commercial applications (e. g. students and researchers), the library of location algorithms (LoLA can be of considerable assistance. LoLA contains a collection of efficient algorithms for solving planar, network and discrete facility location problems. In this paper, a detailed description of the functionality of LoLA is presented. In the fields of geography and marketing, for instance, solving facility location problems requires using large amounts of demographic data. Hence, members of these groups (e. g. urban planners and sales managers) often work with geographical information too s. To address the specific needs of these users, LoLA was inked to a geographical information system (GIS) and the details of the combined functionality are described in the paper. Finally, there is a wide group of practitioners who need to solve large problems and require special purpose software with a good data interface. Many of such users can be found, for example, in the area of supply chain management (SCM). Logistics activities involved in strategic SCM include, among others, facility location planning. In this paper, the development of a commercial location software tool is also described. The too is embedded in the Advanced Planner and Optimizer SCM software developed by SAP AG, Walldorf, Germany. The paper ends with some conclusions and an outlook to future activities.


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Fuengirola Apartment To Rent
Apartment with 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, shared pool and golf nearby in Fuengirola, Spain
From £859 per week
Apartment to rent in Fuengirola, Spain
Bright apartment with a large balcony and sea view.This spacious apartment can accommodate up to 8 guests. It is comfortably and practically furnished. On the large balcony with sea view.
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Bright apartment with a large balcony and sea view.This spacious apartment can accommodate up to 8 guests. It is comfortably and practically furnished. On the large balcony with sea view, you can have breakfast and end the day later with a glass of wine. You can also use the shared pool in the complex.The beach is only 50 meters away, so it is easy to get to the sea early and enjoy the wonderful weather of southern Spain all day long. If you fancy an interesting day trip, the beautiful city of Málaga, the second largest in Andalusia, is just under 35 minutes' drive away. It is perfect for an interesting day trip, thanks to lots of shopping opportunities, various museums, such as the Museo Picasso, but also other cultural and historical sights, including the extremely impressive fortresses Alcazaba and Gibralfaro.Enjoy a relaxing and varied holiday in this inviting apartment.
Clickstay description
This solidly constructed apartment was originally built in 1975 and refurbished in 2015. The agent has rated it as a three star property so it is a well-kept apartment, equipped with standard furniture. It is also good value for money. This apartment has use of a shared pool and sea view; it is also only 10 metres from Fuengirola. It is set in a very convenient location, just 250 metres away from a sandy beach and 50 metres from a sandy beach. There's also a restaurant only 120 metres away.
The apartment has free WiFi. You can also park on-site at no extra charge. The apartment is well equipped: it has a refrigerator, microwave, washing machine and dishwasher.
There is a golf course nearby.
This apartment does not have any reviews but the agent has 149 reviews for their other properties.
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Prices and availability
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Changeover days and minimum stays
- 2 October 2022 - 13 January 2023: changeover day is Saturday.
Final cleaning
€100.00 per booking, paid locally
Consumption costs
Free of charge
Bed linen (including towels)
€5.00 per person per booking, paid locally
About this apartment
- Bedroom
- Kitchen
- Living room
- Bathroom
- Terrace
- Balcony
- Swimming pool
- Sauna
- Whirlpool
- Fitness
- Front door
- Carport
- Activity room
- Staircase
- North
- Basement
- Ground floor
- 1st floor
- 2nd floor
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- Agent quality rating: three stars
- Year built: 1975
- Year modernised: 2015
- Holiday apartment (internal area 120 m2)
- 6th floor
- Apartment constructed from concrete
- Sea view
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- Non-smoking house
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- Shared outdoor swimming pool (70 m2)
- Pool open all year
- Wireless internet
- Air conditioning cold / hot
- Lift
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This apartment has 4 bedrooms:
- Bedroom no. 1 (6m2): 1 single bed
- Bedroom no. 2 (10m2): 2 single beds
- Bedroom no. 3 (10m2): 2 single beds
- Bedroom no. 4 (12m2): 3 single beds
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Please note: the bedrooms numbers are marked on the floor plan above.
- Bathroom no. 1 (5m2): hand shower and bath
- Bathroom no. 2 (6m2): shower
- Living room
- Kitchen / diner
- Kitchenette: hot and cold water
- Electric cooker (4 hobs)
- Refrigerator
- Cooker hood
- Freezer (50 litres)
- Coffee machine
- Microwave
- Washing machine
- Dishwasher
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- Terrace or similar
- Terrace or similar
- Free parking nearby
Frequently asked questions
When do I receive directions to the apartment and key collection information?
Directions and details on how to collect the keys will be emailed to you after you have paid for the booking in full. You will receive full details about your booking including directions to the property and a booking voucher that you need to hand over to the property manager when you receive the keys. In some instances you may need to collect the keys from the property manager's office or some other location which is not the actual property you have booked to stay in. Please note that the agent provides us with the GPS co-ordinates in the travel directions and we communicate these to you; you should contact the property manager if these are unclear.
Bed sizes / bedrooms
The exact dimensions will vary from property to property but the agent has specified that bed sizes are as follows:
- A single bed is typically 70cm to 85 cm wide and 180cm to 190cm deep.
- A double bed is typically 140cm to 180cm wide and 180cm to 190cm deep.
- A "grand lit" is a European double bed, suitable for couples, and can be smaller than the usual UK or American doubles. It is typically 130cm wide but in some instances may be wider; it is approximately 180cm to 190cm deep.
A bunk bed is two single beds, one on top of another. Some properties also have pull-out beds, sofa beds and/or bed chairs; in a few properties the bed can be low in a wooden frame on the floor. The beds often have terry cloth sheet mattress protectors to protect the mattresses; please use them with the bed linen.
Some properties may have a loft as a bedroom: this is usually an open room at the top of the house with sloping walls and mattresses on a low bed or on the floor itself. You need to climb a ladder to reach this room. Lofts are very popular with children but may not be suitable for adults or elderly guests.
If a property has an annexe then it will typically be a building attached to the main property or a small self-contained building. Annexes often have no central heating.
Please note that bedrooms in holiday rentals are usually not that large; you should refer to the floor plan to get a sense of size.
Quality rating
Quality rating: three stars. The agent rates this as a well-kept, middle of the range holiday property.
Do I need to do anything to arrange any pre-booked optional extras?
If you select any optional extras as part of your booking then you will need to confirm details with the local property manager after the booking has been fully paid. You will receive the property manager's contact details (phone number and/or email address) after you have paid for the booking and you should contact him or her to confirm details. If you cannot get hold of the property manager then please contact the Clickstay support team for further assistance.
Please note: you do not need to contact the property manager about any compulsory extras such as final cleaning (i.e. cleaning upon departure).
Agency From Virum, Denmark Member since Dec 2016
This apartment is managed by Novasol, an established travel agent that was founded over 40 years ago. We've been working with them since December 2016 and have had 854 bookings with them.
Past bookings: 854 bookings
Response rate: 91%
Response time: within 2 hours
Number of properties: over 1,000
We are a property management company based in Copenhagen, Denmark. We offer self-catering properties throughout Europe including beautiful holiday homes near the sea, rustic country cottages in stunning surroundings, villas with private pools and many apartments close to a number of European cities.


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