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The No. 19 Georgetown University men's soccer squad tallied four unanswered goals in the second half to pick up the 6-2 victory over the University of Pittsburgh Panthers (4-11-2, 2-5 BIG EAST) on Wednesday afternoon at North Kehoe Field. After Pitt tied it early in the second, the Hoya offense exploded with a 4-0 run to seal the victory and improve to 9-3-4 overall as well as 4-2-1 in league play.
Leading the way for Georgetown is freshman forward Brandon Allen (Old Bridge, N.J./St. Joseph's) who has 14 points with six goals including a BIG EAST-high five game winners as well as two assists. Senior Andy Riemer (McLean, Va./Georgetown Prep) has 10 points on five goals, while junior Steve Neumann (New Hope, Pa./Council Rock North) has six points with a goal and a team-high four assists.
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Despite a large turnout of residents and teachers attending the meeting in protest, the Stewart Manor Board of Trustees voted 3-2 to pass a bill into law on Tuesday, Aug. 6, that will force faculty members of Stewart Manor Elementary School to pay $50 a month for parking privileges.
Stewart Manor Elementary School currently has no parking lot of its own. Previously, teachers parked on the streets surrounding the school and did not have to pay a parking fee. However, under the newly-passed law, 35 parking spaces on Dover Parkway North on the west side of the street have been designated as paid permit spaces for teachers and staff of Stewart Manor Elementary by the village at a cost of $50; this translates to $500 per 10-month school year.
Mayor Gerard Tangredi said that the reason for the proposed law was, despite previous attempts to close village budget gaps by increasing non-taxable revenue such as parking meters and permit fees, additional expenses, such as unfunded state mandates, health insurance, and pension costs necessitated the need for additional monies to be generated.
"We wanted to explore other non-taxable revenues first, but our options are limited due to the size of our village," he said. "The most reasonable non-taxable revenue is parking fees. We have explored new high-traffic areas to install parking meters, but despite the school being a high-traffic area, it would be unreasonable to install meters there. So the village has instead decided to use advance payment permit parking for these parking fees."
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A major complaint was the fact that 35 parking spaces will not be enough to accommodate all staff members of the school; therefore, teacher without permits, either by choice or by omission, will be forced to park in the neighboring streets of the school. Thus, due to current parking time limits imposed by the village on residential streets, these teachers will be forced to leave school grounds to move their cars every two-to-four hours or risk acquiring parking summonses from village code enforcers.
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After the public comment session was closed, Trustee Michael Onorato attempted to pass a motion to postpone the vote on the permit parking bill in order for the board to consider the comments and concerns expressed by the residents and teachers attending the meeting, but was unsuccessful in doing so. The board then immediately voted on the bill, passing it on a vote of 3-2.
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A photographer friend and I met at the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History (woolly mammoth in entry) to see the winning entries of a recent photography contest sponsored by Smithsonian and Epson. If you google 'Smithsonian Photo Contest' all info will be available to you.
The photos are spectacular and look to be at least 3 feet on the shortest sides! The gorgeous colors and detail are enhanced by the presentation. The photos are behind plexiglass and mounted on what looked like dark boxes about 1.5 inches thick and appeared to float on the walls. I'm surprised no one yelled at us for being too close as we tried to figure out the process! It took us an hour to read each label and sit and watch the accompanying film.
From that Smithsonian, we drove to the Smithsonian's Portrait Gallery/ American Art Museum. There we visited "Landscapes In Passing: Photographs by Steve Fitch, Robbert Flick, and Elaine Mayes" on the second floor. We appreciated most the work of Mr. Fitch showing quirky motels and novelty stops in an earlier time in America.
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Washington, DC 20004, 202-628-7949. We ended up spending $90 for lunch for 2! I had a half and half (ice tea/lemonade) and we both had coffees (espresso and cappucino). I will attempt to reconstruct the tapas we each had later. Food and service were great.
Parking in DC can be a major annoyance. I strongly suggest you use bus or metro to get into town. I parked at a 2-hour meter near our first venue after driving around for about 10 minutes looking for a free 3-hour spot. For the second spot, I just put the car in a commercial garage so I wouldn't have to worry about feeding a meter. It cost $25 for about 3 hours! If you take Metro to the Smithsonian stop, you can easily cab to others not in walking distance and still save money!
On another visit to the National Gallery, I was able to find a spot next to the gallery. Still had to feed the meter but at least it was close. So going early would be great advice as well. Enjoy!
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A photographer friend and I met at the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History (woolly mammoth in entry) to see the winning entries of a recent photography contest sponsored by Smithsonian and Epson. If you google 'Smithsonian Photo Contest' all info will be available to you.
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That sounds great. We often travel for photography exhibits, or at least make sure to see them in major cities. Thanks for the report.
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Thanks for reporting. Will have to check it out. Expensive day for you though.
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My tapas plates: 6 tiny endives with tiny mandarin oranges, pecans and a sauce; crostini type bread and sweet peppers with evoo; a quail with candied onions and a honey sauce.
My friend's: a mussels dish; salad with sliced apple, fennel, cheese and walnuts; and a shrimp dish in a really great garlic/chili sauce---we spent the end of the meal dipping bread into that!
The dishes weren't cheap (you can google Jaleo and see the menu) but we liked everything. 2 dishes apiece might not have been quite enough. I don't care for mussels and my friend isn't a big meat eater so we decided to suit ourselves first and only share bites. It worked out fine.
The decor of Jaleo is really special. Be sure to check out the bathrooms, the floors, the art and the lamps. All done really well. We had seats by the window and weren't disturbed by others but the room wasn't full so I can't say about the noise level.
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"Since then," Torvalds continues, "I've lived a life of subterfuge, always afraid that somebody would find out the truth. I'm actually relieved that it's over, and that the Alexis de Tocqueville Institute has finally uncovered the lie. I can now go back to my chosen profession, the exploration of the fascinating mating dance of the common newt."
In a PS he adds:
"Btw, did you know that newts have more offspring if you play the harmonica to them during their mating rituals? It's true."
And in a PPS:
Btw, I do believe that somebody took over adti.net.
I don't think the Alexis de Tocqueville institute ever had humor (they certainly used to take themselves very seriously), but their site today is filled with jokes.
Maybe they forgot to pay their DNS registration fee, and some enterprising person decided to play a joke on them? Or maybe their clocks are running a month-and-a-half late?
Or is it really unintentional?
|Zoue 12/19/04 09:29:14 AM EST
|Will Fortin 09/23/04 03:37:17 PM EDT
..The Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus huh?
|Stormkrow 07/19/04 03:52:12 PM EDT
David Mitchell
Investigate, learn, seek the truth.
FACT: AdTI wrote the book for Microsoft.
Go use your XP box, surf AOL, and pay for your personal rights. You should have been bleeting like a sheep or mooing like a cow. Would have made more sense.
|Gray Hair 07/13/04 09:03:39 PM EDT
What did Linus invent? *nix was invented years before by a couple of AT&T employees.
|Justin 06/28/04 07:25:54 PM EDT
Ken Brown is probably a spy from Microsoft and SCO. Read the link above. A creep.
|Justin 06/27/04 12:14:48 AM EDT
Thank you! You are certainly a man with wisdom and humor, Milord Linus. Your legacy will without doubt stretch throughout the lands, continents and oceans. Your enemy will eventually crushed by their own idiotic ideology. Long Live Linus!
ps: Have fun with your chosen profession.
|Heke++ 06/07/04 07:48:26 AM EDT
Yeah, Billy boy ain't a clean boy, for sure. If you really start digging, never know what comes up. Maybe there's a obscure young student who owns some of the M$ codebase, but left unnoticed. One day s/he may sue the big bad...
But when it gets down to it, I think it really does not matter who invented Linux. It is reliable and fun to use. I have no way back... :) But as we know that Linus is the guy, it is a pleasure to address the credit to him (+ all the contributors)!
Linux is bringing the World closer to perfection.
P.S. I object the claim that one need to live in CA to have a sense of humour. Need more proof :)
|Timo Toivonen 06/04/04 07:13:30 AM EDT
I didn't read all the comments, though Billy Gates inventing Linux sounded familiar. Wasn't that the guy who stole Apples GUI for the early Windows versions back in the 80´s ? I saw a movie few years ago about those events. Hmmm..
|Ray 06/01/04 10:31:57 AM EDT
And David Cutler never wrote NT for M$...
|Empty 05/28/04 02:13:07 PM EDT
I cannot help but notice that the ADTI site has a section for Linus Brown and Tanenbaums comments...
...all of which link to "Page under construction".
I imagine they are looking for creative ways to snip out all the bad things that these people have said about their farce, leaving only support, and keep ending up with an empty set.
Linus, if you read this- personally I would sue for libel and ask for nothing in settlement but the copyright of the book, which you can then bury far down a hole with the bodies of the aforementioned holiday critters(whome we really know you killed and replaced with evil robots in order to steal their source).
SCO should too since they stole it from the good witch of the north, the three little pigs, along with snow white and the seven dwarves.
You all disgust me. The good witch, snow white, the seven dwarves, and the three little pigs have vowed to fight this injustice in an IP lawsuit against you, santa claus and the tooth fairy. We all know it would take at least 20 magical creatures to build such an operating system.
for shame...
I have been obliged to do a MCSA course by my employers. One thing I have noticed is that when M$ lift the skirts on the functionality of Windows 2003 Server, especially at a command prompt, suddenly there are all sorts of UNIX functions poorly disguised. Perhaps that's why M$ don't want people reading THEIR code too closely.
|jps 05/21/04 05:54:44 AM EDT
Breaking News: Santa Claus Isn't the "Father of Linux".
Santa Claus Discloses *Real* Fathers of Linux:
|Technophile 05/21/04 01:54:57 AM EDT
Santa is from Los Angeles, California. I saw him last week at a pub crawl. Later on we had a few hands of poker and the bastard still owes me $50!
At least I think it was Santa....or one of M$'s other tactics.
|Juhaz 05/20/04 05:50:48 PM EDT
Of course Väinämöinen didn't write Linux!
|zebra 05/20/04 04:41:49 PM EDT
sorry guys,
Santa Claus is a wealthy man an can afford many homes,
"During the rest of the year he lives at the North Pole, in Finnish Lapland, or Dalecarlia in Sweden (traditions vary) together with his wife, Mrs. Claus,..."
kind regards
|daniel 05/20/04 04:13:55 PM EDT
thank you santa!
|Stint 05/20/04 03:23:41 PM EDT
Now he's done it. SCO's subpoena is on the way to the North Pole as we speak.
|jtheory 05/20/04 03:05:51 PM EDT
I wonder if anyone caught Linus' reference to P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster... Notice the "I can now go back to my chosen profession, the exploration of the fascinating mating dance of the common newt."
One of the characters in the books was fascinated by newts, and demonstrated the mating dance to his friends. Funny stuff.
|AdTI 05/20/04 01:41:28 PM EDT
*FLASH NEWS* Linus Torvalds linked to Saddam regime. Acording to the AdTI, Linux would have been used in Iraqi WMD. In an addendum to the polemic report, a US general is quoted:
"The main reason we have not found documentation proving the presence of WMD is that apparently Saddam was reluctant to document his programs. This follows closely the tradition of undocumented open source programs. Coincidence? We do not beleive so. Not documenting programas is very unamerican"
In another interview seen at the report, Darl has shown concern for possible IP violations by the antique Iraqi regime concerning alledged SCO IP property of various WMD including , but not limited to, Mustard Gas, Sarin and Anthrax:
"We are really concerned about IP violations committed by the Iraqi regime concerning our products. We beleive Saddam couldn't have really got in to the top three Evil Axis without our really killer products."
SCO has sent letters to the familiars of the Kurds that used this WMD. The letters threatens legal actions unless familiars pay a $699 fee for each license wich would authorize to one dead familiar. SCO also offers a discount of $99 to those kurds that survived to the WMD and thus didn't use SCO products to their entire satisfaction.
|David Mitchell 05/20/04 11:03:04 AM EDT
What's interesting is that neither the spoofish reply by Torvalds nor the many clap-on-the-back comments by Linux fans actually engage the substantive claims. If the de Tocquevile study is balderdash--or, more likely, irrelevant; Shakespeare, after, all grabbed his core plots from other sources, but then transfigured them--why not make the case? It doesn't work to acknowledge the existence of the study and then simply to dismiss it as unworthy of substantive engagement. That's trying to have one's cake and eat it too. Outsiders will conclude that the reason the study isn't being answered is that it can't be. (A press release, by the way, is not the same thing as the report a press release is about.)
|A Dane 05/20/04 10:29:28 AM EDT
Wrong! Don't believe the false claims! Santa Claus lives in Greenland that by the way is ruled by Her Majesty Queen Margrethe of Denmark.
Proof? It's on the Internet.
|Roland Smith 05/20/04 06:02:02 AM EDT
Andrew Tanenbaum thoroughly debunks the ADTI study.
Proof again that being a MS sock puppet can hurt if you care about your reputation. :-)
|sam moses 05/19/04 12:37:57 PM EDT
Hey, if these guys care so much about copyright infingement, why are they using a copyrighted picture of the penguin from the old batman series on their main page without the permission of DC comics? Must not be that important.
|Daniel R. Bonnici 05/19/04 12:34:38 PM EDT
I like Linus T. He is a rare breed of creative entreprenuer, along with his friends/associates whose expertise and drive, and dedication, have given the computing world a valid choice of operating systems. These people exhibit what makes humans different from animals.
So Linux is intellectual property of Santa Claus OI (OI is inc. in Finish), or shorter, SCO.
|ThenAvain 05/19/04 09:35:53 AM EDT
I covered this a long time ago:
|The Tooth Fairy 05/19/04 09:31:14 AM EDT
Oh no!!! They all know now!! Sh1ts really gonna hit the fan and by the way Santa, we agreed 'its for free!' or there's gonna be hell to play!!
|arl 05/19/04 09:27:53 AM EDT
Yes, yes, now I remember .. It was Gandalf which insisted me to release Freax, and name it to Linux.
The name "Linux" had some REAL meaning, but I do not remember what it was, maybe it had something to do with those lost eunuch programmers Santa Claus was trying to find.. or were they serving lemon scented napkins somewhere instead of doing the kernel coding..
|copsewood 05/19/04 06:58:14 AM EDT
Typical criticism of a post-modern project from a modernist perspective (see Larry Wall's article http://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html great explanation of this cultural conflict).
|baustiech 05/19/04 04:53:00 AM EDT
Jesus, they're French, after all. Or at least they have a French name. Both are HUGE strikes against them. How could you expect more?
|Bill Door 05/19/04 03:06:12 AM EDT
Linus MUST be a Terry Pratchett fan :-)
|joulupukki aka santa claus 05/19/04 02:25:51 AM EDT
Yes, i am from finland. i know elves and raindeers but who is toofairy?
|wawadave 05/19/04 01:38:37 AM EDT
Aye santa never wrote linux. he designated it out to the elves and raindeer. toofairy only did debuging! that all and i,m sticking to it!
|wawadave 05/19/04 01:29:36 AM EDT
Aye santa never wrote linux. he designated it out to the elves and raindeer. toofairy only did debuging! that all and i,m sticking to it!
|annon 05/18/04 10:09:07 PM EDT
This is a bunch of lies. How can you say that Linux didn;t invent Linux. Where is the proof that the things being quotes here are actually from Linus. Who the hell do you think maintains the Linux Kernel. This whole thing is a joke and I hope it gets resolved. Power to Linus.
|Al Franken 05/18/04 03:11:01 PM EDT
When this is over and the courts determine that Santa Clause owns all the IP rights to Linux, Linus could tour as a stand up comic. Unfortunately, you'd have to have an IQ of atleast 135 to understand his jokes.
Damn.... Well, maybe I could just sit there and drink.
|dol 05/18/04 02:17:53 PM EDT
hail spongebob... now i remember who bill gates reminded me of.
|The Truth 05/18/04 02:16:22 PM EDT
No one should question the fact that Santa Claus lives in Korvatunturi, Finland! Come and meet him if you don't believe me. But leave your woolly hats at home if you're about to visit him at summer. And no, you don't have to be afraid that you would be eaten by a polar bear since we've got none. ...Nor penguins...but lot's of reindeers of course!
|Zeead Elaheebocus 05/18/04 12:50:39 PM EDT
Santa is indeed the real father....I got a tip off from one of the elves working for him. I'm surprised
|Rodrigo Peres Gomes 05/18/04 12:30:43 PM EDT
thats funny
|Michael 05/18/04 12:06:00 PM EDT
Finally the true reason why they called one of the major distributions 'Red Hat'
|Jasper 05/18/04 10:13:25 AM EDT
Linus, he is truly a GENIUS.
|Christopher 05/18/04 10:08:17 AM EDT
It`s so disgusting to read paid people`s bullshit!
bill is an idiot
|Morvan 05/18/04 09:30:09 AM EDT
It´s the beginning of the END, for M$. They´re desparate! they commence to show signals of the debacle. Long Life for Linus...
|Morvan 05/18/04 09:29:55 AM EDT
It´s the beginning of the END, for M$. They´re desparate! they commence to show signals of the debacle. Long Life for Linus...
|WhoBacksAdTItoWriteThisStuff 05/18/04 08:52:03 AM EDT
If all this hokey stuff really is Microsoft working through paid shills, it is
|anonymOus 05/18/04 08:50:02 AM EDT
Hmm, I know this idea is not very popular but...
No, Linus did not 'father' Linux when it comes to ideas initially, he does when
Going from there to claiming he stole them is way too far tho, at that time
I think it is important however to se that distinction. This argument is going
I for one would be interested to hear what Linus himself has to say about it. I
|Laxator 2 05/18/04 08:35:19 AM EDT
I visited the web page http://www.adti.net and guess what ?
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Even so, most insiders privately assumed that if the two sides failed to come up with a replacement package, Republicans would probably cave first. Thats because sequestration doesnt touch entitlement benefits from Medicare and Social Security that Democrats care about most, but it does hit the military especially hard, a concession Republicans had to make in lieu of agreeing to automatic tax increases. The fact that the Defense Department budget was already scheduled to shrink by $500 billion over the next decade made the additional $500 billion in sequestration cuts seem all the more unthinkable.
Indeed, House Speaker John Boehner made precisely this argument to his caucus members to get them to go along. Guys, this would be devastating to Defense, Boehner told fellow Republicans, according to Bob Woodwards book The Price of Politics. This is never going to happen.
But now it has happened. And theres no sign of the cuts being lifted anytime soon. Many people regard sequestration as an index of Washingtons failure: Congress cant even succeed in designing a lousy plan! But while its true that the plan was flawed, its failure has revealed an important shift within the Republican Party.
One reason that so many people assumed sequestration would work is that it ensured a showdown between two important factions of the party: the anti-tax crowd and the pro-defense crowd. Until now, these groups had easily coexisted, despite the inherent contradiction in their objectives (cutting taxes shrinks the government, while spending more on the military expands it). GOP leaders were always willing to accommodate both, deficits be damned.
In the past, the cuts forced by small-government conservatives have fallen mainly on whats known as the non-defense discretionary budget mostly social programs to help the poor and middle class.
Military spending wasnt threatened, and, in fact, doubled in the decade after the attacks on 9/11. Partly, this owed to the strength of the GOPs defense caucus and partly to Democrats unwillingness to challenge that caucus for fear of seeming weak or unpatriotic (when President Obama proposed a budget freeze three years ago, he exempted the armed services).
The presumed strength of the defense caucus, combined with the fact that non-defense spending cant be reduced much further, implied that tax increases would constitute a significant portion of a plan to replace sequestration. Certainly, the White House thought so: Its why it didnt demand more revenue in the fiscal cliff deal.
In hindsight, everybody was wrong. Anti-tax activists steamrolled the defense crowd. Why? The answer probably lies in the composition of the Republican caucus, especially in the House: nearly half its members 48 percent were elected in 2010 or after. These Republicans are genetically different from those who held power in the 1980s and 90s.
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The unexpected power of this group has a number of important implications: The military may no longer be sacrosanct; Democrats may wind up with much less tax revenue than they were counting on; Republicans may finally be getting serious about actually cutting the national debt, rather than talking about it. But at least for now, these changes will be imposed in the worst way possible, because a measure never meant to take effect looks likely to remain the law of the land.
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Um, where did this week go? Tomorrow is Thursday, and then my weekend starts. Kinda. Except Friday is really spent in a DUI seminar. But, DUI = talking about booze all day = close enough to a weekend for me. I blame a lot of things for me going MIA from the blog again. Like 3 hours of crappy painful dental work. And the resulting codeine fog that followed. And this appeal brief that is due to the Court of Appeals Tuesday and I'm having to reteach myself how to Bluebook. And bluebooking f-ing sucks (can I get an Amen for those lawyers and law students out there?).
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On Saturday Night, I lay about, exahusted from the very hard ride that morning. And I was hungry; my garmin, after all, told me that I had burned almost 3,000 calories during my ride alone.
So, I stumbled down to the kitchen to find dinner. But my kitchen was too messy for cooking. And I was too tired to clean it up. I had nothing prepped for easy nuking. So I turned to the freezer for an easy frozen meal. Which there were none of.
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The entire pint. Straight out of the container. As I talked to Ariela on Skype.
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A few weeks ago, I tried to cook all my meals for the week on the weekend so that I would have healthy food at my fingertips. But I got tired of what I had cooked by Wednesday or Thursday.
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Brekky in bed: 3 Eggs, goat cheese, peccorino cheese (not local), roasted red peppers and roasted tomatoes.
Salad Nicoise: Ahi Tuna Steak (not local), boiled potatoes, yellow cherry tomatoes (FROM MY GARDEN), salad greens, olives (not local), hard boiled egg, beets.
Roasted Eggplant Salad: Salad Greens, Portobello Cap roasted with balsamic vinegar and evoo, feta cheese and Rosemary and EVOO roasted potatoes.
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24-07-12, 08:42 #1
Alex Reid and Chantelle have named their baby girl.......
Since birth their baby has been nameless as they didnt know what to call her and after 5 weeks hard thinking they have finally decided, it must be something fantastic, original, pretty, a strong name suitable for the rest of her life.
Sadly no all that thinking and they decided on.....Dolly?!?!
I dont think i've really heard it before apart from Dolly Parton and Dolly the sheep so its unusual but honestly that poor girl, the name may be 'cute' now but as she grows up its just going to be ridiculous!
Sorry, know its not really a serious topic for chat, just wanted to share it as I thought it was quite amusing!!
24-07-12, 08:52 #2
Its cute for a baby, Ii even quite like it for when she's an old woman, but can you imagine her school years with that name! And going for job interviews and things . I usually like celebrity unusual names, but for me its a step too far with this one I'm afriad!
24-07-12, 08:54 #3
at least it wasnt apple or princess
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Oh dear. I really don't like it.
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I actually beg to differ, my Mum's step-sister is called Dolly and has a successful career as a barrister.
I am also of the opinion, that if you judge and form an opinion of someone based on their name then that is just as shallow as judging someone based on appearance.
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Is that because that's how she sees her - as a little dolly?
Am I horrid for hoping she grows up to be a total tomboy lol
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Well, the pair of them are hardly Mensa candidates are they. I am quite surprised they have come up with Dolly to be honest, I was expecting something more Jordan-esque like Ickle-Bickle-Sparkle-Princess.
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Our dog was gonna be called Dolly, I think it's a cute name!
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Wow, so they are thick for naming their child Dolly. I've heard worse to be honest.
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Dolly is short for Dolores. So when she gets older it won't look entirely stupid.
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personally i dont see anything wrong with dolly, actually i quite like it.
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My aunty is called Donna but we've all called her Dolly for most of her life, lets face it they could have done a lot worse! At least it's a name! I'd rather go through school being called Dolly then Apple or Princess or Tigerlily! You know what? I actually like it
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24-07-12, 12:28 #15
I used to work with a very strong career minded lady called Dolly. She was also a very kind hearted person and the name suited her very well.
In fact I don't think I have ever met a person who does not suit their name, unusual or not....
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Could have been worse - they could have called her Ethel, like Lily Allen's daughter
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I wouldn't have personally chose it, but people may not like the name I chose for my lo, its all personal preference at the end of the day.
I remember somebody saying to me eww, I don't like the name carol (my mums called carol : $)
I didn't say anything because it didn't bother me ; )
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It just amuses me that it took 5 weeks to come with Dolly! Those cogs must have been turning very slowly....


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Land Rover her brought us a lovely little gift on a Tuesday morning – the manufacturer has just unveiled their all new, superbly sexy and pretty powerful Discovery Sport SUV.
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Parador Jaen
Hotel Castillo de Santa Catalina
As you drive up the road to the Parador, the views over the city of Jaen and the beautiful countryside of Andalusia are breathtaking. The ultimate panorama is reached at the Parador.
This panoramic view is one of the main reasons for the high position of the castle. it is easy to see an approaching enemy and also difficult to make an attack.
During the Roman occupation, around the time of Christ, Jaen was known as Aurigis because of the silver mines in the area. When it was later conquered by the Moors its name was changed to Geen which is the Arabic for 'crossroads of caravans', an important trading route.
Although the Arabs built the original fortress (Abrehui's), the current construction is of Christian origin, raised after the conquest of the city by Ferdinand III of Castile, called the Saint, in 1246. The castle held out against repeated attacks by the Moors over the next two centuries.
In 1968, the castle was restored and extended to form the Parador. The buiding's majestic appearance continues inside with impressive twenty metre high crossed arches in the main sitting room with large metal chandeliers hanging from the ceiling, the Arabic style dining room and comfortable bedrooms with wonderful views.
"ajo blanco" which is a cold soup with strong garlic flavouring;
Outside there is a lovely seasonal swimming pool and an area where guests can have a walk on the grassed parade of the castle while looking at the surrounding fortifications.
Acommodation consists of 8 single rooms, 6 double rooms and 31 twin rooms. Bedrooms are equipped with minibar, telephone and television with canal plus.
The Parador has air conditioning, heating, lift, restaurant and bar.
Conference facilities are also available at the Parador.
Pets are not allowed in the luxury hotels in the Spanish Paradores group.
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Parador Jaen
Castillo de Santa Catalina, s/n
23001 Jaen, Jaen
Latitude: 37° 46' 5.556" N (37.76795842598155)
Longitude: 3° 48' 7.0914" W (-3.802342414855957)
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|Comment posted by Thomas Neerbye
2014-10-16 13:14:24
|This is the third time I bring friends and family for a one-night stay at different Parador, the latest one in Parador de Jaen. Spectacular view from our luxurious twin bed room. Fantastic dinner in the evening in a wonderful setting of ancient-time surroundings. A pleasant staff both at reception and during our stay made this a highly recommendable visit. The nearby city of Guadix is also worth visiting, to check out the cave-houses.
|Comment posted by Mike Logan
2014-10-15 19:46:21
|We had a wonderful stay in room Romantica in August; the parador and castle have a sublime feeling of time, space and peace. The room was in the tower section that can be seen from the well maintained poolside gardens, but which had views to two further sides over the rugged country. It 2was great to just enjoy the space without feeling like there was a need to travel on-although we did go to Cordoba the following day. I liked the seasonal restaurant food; although I could not do it justice. It is a very special place.
|Comment posted by Christopher Farrell
2014-10-15 18:03:44
|My wife and I visited parador jaen the 3rd weekend of sept.2014,and spent two delightful nights with outstanding views from our room. Couldn't be better!!!! Our breakfasts and evening dinners were first class....staff helpful and accommodating.. Having cocktails in the great hall before dinner was a intro to a casual and gourmet experience. Having lived in Spain many years ago for six years I can attest that service and lifestyle have not been lost at parador jaen!!!!!
|Comment posted by Declan Finucane
2014-10-15 16:58:58
|What a Shame! We spent two nights in September in this is a beautiful hotel. It is both historic and set in beautiful surroundings with fantastic views. The bedroom was airy, comfortable and well-equipped. The public rooms were wonderful - some of the awe-inspiring. But why does nobody smile? With the notable exception of the lad at the pool and the barman in the evening, everyone else was bordering on surly. Staff at Reception when we arrived were too involved in their own conversation to even acknowledge us standing in front of them. When we were eventually seen to it was a case of 'here's your key and your room is down that way'. We had both evening meals there - the second night to establish if the previous evening's food and service had been as bad as we thought: it was! The food was well beneath our expectation and served with neither smile nor comment. The desert menu was actually thrown onto the table without comment on the second night. Why oh why waste such a glorious heritage site on staff who have no time for their guests. The Group must hold various training courses for their staff - which is evident from the service in all of the other Paradors we have visited. Somehow Parador de Jaen must have slipped through the net.
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Parador Jaen is a luxury hotel in a thirteenth century Arab fortress in Andalucia Spain.