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Four time world champion Sebastian Vettel stands in front of Red Bull's trophy cabinet which has been cleared out by burglars
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(CNN) -- The Red Bull Formula One team has had its trophy cabinet cleared out by thieves in a smash-and-grab burglary Friday night.
The British-based marque has won 50 grands prix, four constructor titles and four drivers' world championships in its 10-year history.
The spoils of this success had been on display in the reception to its factory, which is based on an industrial estate in Milton Keynes, England.
"We are obviously devastated by this serious factory break-in, which saw offenders drive a vehicle through our front entrance and steal more than 60 trophies which took years and hard work to accumulate," Red Bull team principal Christian Horner said in a statement.
"The break in caused significant damage and was very upsetting for our night officers who were on duty at the time.
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HOTEL HEALTH: It pays to check up on your hotel before you book.
The difference between a hotel room at $75 a night and $750 a night is the view, the extra shampoo, the cost of the pillows, the fluff of the towels.
Price is a measure of comfort and service. What must always be the same - at every price - is your security, your safety and cleanliness.
Unfortunately, it's not.
Across the US, hotels are skimping on key safety measures, and the consequences range from stolen laptops and Peeping Toms to sexual assaults and robbery at gunpoint. More than 125 property crimes are committed in US hotels and motels every day, in addition to more than 21 violent crimes (excluding murders).
What's needed is a grading system that will alert potential guests to the quality of a hotel's security, guaranteeing that A-rated facilities have measures in place to assure guests' safety and the rooms' cleanliness. In New York City, Los Angeles and other cities, restaurants are graded based on government inspections, and those grades are posted so you can see them before you walk in the door.
Hotels and motels also are entrusted with customers' health and safety, and they must be held equally accountable.
That accountability starts with basic security. For instance, many hotels fail to perform adequate background checks on job applicants before hiring them.
In September 2011, a woman staying at a Best Western hotel in Arizona woke up in the middle of the night to find a man standing over her bed. She says the man raped her. He was a registered level-3 sex offender, according to news reports, but Best Western had hired him as a night clerk and given him a master key to guest rooms, allowing him unfettered access to turn any of its female guests into his next victims.
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Fallbrook High Schools wrestling team has a home dual meet today (Thurs., Dec. 4) against Guajome Park Academy and the Warrior wrestlers began practice November 15, but perhaps the teams most important starting activity this season was the November 19 ribbon-cutting of the new wrestling room at the high school.
The wall between Room 139 and Room 140 has been removed, giving the wrestling team 3,200 square feet of space.
"Its going to help the program. The boys are excited about it," said Gary Backe, the president of the Fallbrook Wrestling Association booster club and the assistant coach for Fallbrook High Schools wrestling program.
"Weve gone from a room that was about 1,100 square feet," Backe said. "Its very much more accommodating for the growth of our program."
This year the high school team has 32 participants at the various levels, a 50 percent increase over the 2013-14 season. The Relentless Wrestling program for children from age five to eighth grade will also use the new wrestling room; the "Kids Club" has more than 30 members this season compared to 12 a year ago. "Our Kids Club is also benefiting," Backe said. "The room has been a big part of it."
The former wrestling room has been turned into the gymnastics room, giving the gymnastics team a room for the first time. "Gymnastics will also have their own warm-up and practice space," Backe said.
Backe worked with Fallbrook High School gymnastics co-coach Shar Larsen, who is also the schools athletic secretary, on the new wrestling room and the transition of the old wrestling room to a gymnastics room. "Its been a two-year process," Backe said.
In addition to mats, the wrestling room will also have a coaches room, an equipment storage room, and a cardio room. "Its just a nice overall room," Backe said. "Were really excited about it."
The new room has 1 1/2 mats while the old room had 2/3 of a mat. The mats are for practice rather than competition. "Were now able to have all 30-plus of our high school wrestlers practice at one time," Backe said.
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Making good use of a small room often needs clever thinking. Designs like the All I Own House and Kitoko Studio's maid's room conversion in Paris use sliding furniture to reconfigure space as required. A Tokyo bedsit does the same and to the same effect, but in a much simpler way.
Tsukiji Room H, designed by Yuichi Yoshida & Associates, has a floorspace of 47.6 sq m (511.8 sq ft), which is comparable to that of the All I Own House. It is designed as a single dwelling that can also be used as an office. A large, multifunctional central unit is used to give the sense of separate sections within the space.
The available space wraps around the central unit in a "U" shape. On one side are the kitchen and utility area, whilst on the other are the entrance hallway, bathroom entrance and bed. The bed and bathroom are contained within the unit and can therefore remain hidden from sight.
With the entrance to the bathroom being in the entrance hallway, it is naturally out of sight from most of the apartment and therefore quite discrete. The bed, however, is built into the corner of the unit and is therefore highly visible. To combat this, sliding wooden doors have been installed around the bed allowing it to be hidden during the day or when entertaining guests.
In addition to changing the use and feel of the space, the sliding doors also hide storage drawers below the bed. More shelving storage is provided around the top of the central unit, in freestanding units elsewhere in the apartment and above the kitchen units. The clearly sectioned nature of the room and its sparse furnishing allow it to be easily adapted as is required at any given time.
Tsukiji Room H was completed in September of this year.
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The report presents a detailed analysis of the market, combined with plausible insights and information about various market segments of the global budget hotels market. The report states that in the overall hotel industry, budget hotels have been observing a room occupancy rate of 70-80% in some countries.
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Increasing demand for affordable yet sophisticated lodging, rising occupancy of middle-class population, and rising disposable incomes have resulted in increased demand for budget hotels in Asia-Pacific and Africa. On a global front, the fact that budget hotels are less susceptible to financial crisis compared to luxury hotels is fueling demand.
The report on budget hotels includes market data from 40 countries between the years 2009 and 2013. Through in-depth analysis of this data, the report also brings forth key performance indicators of the global budget hotels market. The report segments the budget hotels market on the basis of performance indicators such as occupancy rate, number of rooms, number of hotel establishments, room nights occupied, average room revenue per available room, room nights available, average room revenue per occupied room, total room revenues, average total revenue per available room, total non-room revenues, number of guests, and total revenues for the review period (2009-2013) and the forecast period of the report (2014-2018). Detailed assessment of regional budget hotels markets of the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East is contained in the report.
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The study states that the European budget hotels market is the key geographic segment of the global market. Many leading brands operating in the budget hotels business including Ibis, Premier Inn, Motel One, easy Hotel, hotelF1, and Travelodge have a strong presence in Europe. Recent instances of economic depression hovering over a number of European countries have led to a consistent fall in consumer disposable incomes and number of out-of-town vacations. This has resulted in a significant rise in demand for economic lodging, making European budget hotels market a key revenue generator for the overall market during the review period.
Despite Europes strong hold on the market, the U.S. will continue to remain the largest segment of the global budget hotels market during the review period, with net worth totaling approximately US$12.4 billion in 2013. However, shares of the budget category of the overall hotel industry remained low in the U.S. compared to those in European countries such as France and the U.K., and Latin American countries such as Argentina, Peru, and Brazil.
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The regional budget hotels market of Asia-Pacific registered a strong growth rate during the forecast period. The report states that this regional budget hotels market is becoming increasingly standardized and the level of sophistication is becoming progressively consistent.
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By JOE CAGLE Wednesday, December 3, 2014 7:46 AM CST
The Arab Tribune
The new addition to the Arab Primary School has been completed and is being used for music and science lab classes.
Next school year principal Dr. Leah Keith plans on using the addition for much more.
We will have six, second grade classrooms by the beginning of next school year, Keith said. There will still be some second grade classes in the original building, however.
These new classrooms have several technological aspects which, Keith said, will be useful.
Each room has a projector and (smart) board, she said. Teachers in these classrooms will also have access to their own heating and cooling units. Were trying to keep these new rooms cutting edge and basically making them an extension of what we already do.
The new classrooms also have convenient technology such as motion detectors to control the rooms lights.
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Iowa State University's C6 simulator can take you inside a burning house, an active shooter situation and even a fire aboard the International Space Station.
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The C6 is a cube-shaped room in Howe Hall on the ISU campus in Ames. Every side of the cube lights up with images and with the addition of 3D glasses people go through a realistic virtual experience.
"Remember, it's a really, really heavy thing to do to close the hatch," said Nir Keren, an ISU associate professor of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering.
"Everything becomes real," said Elmer Tse, a junior in Aerospace Engineering at ISU.
"Some of the video games are getting extremely good, life like, but what they're missing is a sense of depth, a sense of just presences and that's what the C6 brings," said Peter Carlson, a C6 project 3D artist.
The C6 is lit up by 100 million pixels, images made by a highly advanced projection system. Every single side measures 10 feet and each side of the cube-shaped room adds to a viewer's 3D experience.
"This is a very sophisticated lab that creates this real life experience," said Keren.
Keren and a kinesiology professor are using the C6 to study and test how humans make decisions and respond in stressful situations.
"We measure heart rate, blood pressure," said Keren.
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Mutli-Level Addition and Renovation in Potomac, MD (time lapse)
As one of the original residents of the Avenel community in Potomac, MD, the homeowners had never made any changes to their home and dreamed of a much-needed renovation. After talking with...
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If you're shopping for a media-streaming box for your living room, you should include a Chromebox on your list of contenders in addition to the usual suspects (Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, et al).
A Chromebox is a small desktop computer that runs Google's Chrome operating system, and you can use one to access virtually any streaming video service available on the web. They're considerably more flexible than those sub-$100 set-top boxes, but they can't do as much as a Windows-based media PC. On the other hand, they're free from security and update hassles and they're a whole lot cheaper. You can usually find models from HP and Asuson sale for less than their $180 list prices.
Chromeboxes practically beg to have their HDMI ports connected to televisions, so I asked Asus to loan me one for testing. (The company sent a much pricier Intel Core i3 model, but the cheaper Celeron-based Chromeboxes should suffice for basic media streaming.) The Chromebox quickly became a powerful tool in my media-streaming arsenal, going places that other set-top boxes can't. But it took some work to whip it into TV-friendly shape. Here's what I did.
Setting up a Chromebox is easy if you already have a Google account and use the Chrome browser on other devices. Just plug in your username and password, and the Chromebox syncs all your bookmarks and apps automatically. You could even use another computer to assemble a list of bookmarked streaming sites.
After setup, I ran into a problem that I'd fully expected: My Sharp TV was cropping out the edges of the desktop, so I could barely see the row of icons on the bottom of the screen. A lot of TVs do this for any device you plug in, but most set-top boxes and consoles build an alignment tool into the setup process. Fortunately, Chrome OS hides a similar TV alignment tool under Settings > Device > Display settings, letting me shrink the screen down to size.
Scaling the Chromebox's resolution back to 720 was a necessary sacrifice to make icons and menu options legible.
After aligning the display, the layout still needed improvement. Looking at my 40-inch TV from about 12 feet away, all the screen elementsfrom the the icons and the address bar to the actual Web pageslookedpuny. That's because the OS is primarily designed for desktop, not living-room, use. So I went back to the settings menu to consider my options.
Chrome includes two simple ways to scale web content: You can change the size of text alone, or you can set a higher default zoom level so everything looks larger. But these settings don't affect the size of the icons in apps, bookmarks, or the address bar, all of which was too small for my liking.
The only solution was a compromise: I went into the display settings menu, and reduced the screen resolution to 720p. This increased the size of icons and the address bar, and allowed me to keep page zoom at 100 percent at the expense of video quality. I also increased font size to Very Large and enabled Show large mouse cursor in the accessibility settings.
Once everything was set up, the first thing I did was visit Hulu.com. While most set-top boxes require an $8 per month Hulu Plus subscription to watch full episodes, Hulu's desktop website includes full episodes of many recent TV shows for free. For Hulu subscribers, this alone could justify the price of a Chromebox. You could ditch your subscription and have the hardware pay for itself after a couple of years.
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