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Book your room at Pullman Munich
4-star family-friendly hotel with a full-service spa in Munich (Schwabing)
With a stay at Pullman Munich in Munich (Schwabing), you'll be convenient to Muenchner Freiheit and English Garden.
This 4-star hotel is within close proximity of Euro Industry Business Park and Chinesischer Turm.
Make yourself at home in one of the 331 air-conditioned rooms featuring minibars. Rooms have private balconies or patios. Satellite programming provides entertainment, and wired and wireless Internet access is available for a surcharge. Private bathrooms with shower/tub combinations feature rainfall showerheads and hair dryers.
Pamper yourself with a visit to the spa, which offers massages, body treatments, and facials. If you're looking for recreational opportunities, you'll find a sauna and a fitness center. Additional features include wireless Internet access (surcharge), babysitting/childcare, and a hair salon.
Grab a bite to eat at the hotel's restaurant, which features a bar and a garden view. You can also stay in and take advantage of room service (during limited hours). Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge.
Featured amenities include high-speed (wired) Internet access (surcharge), a 24-hour business center, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby. Planning an event in Munich? This hotel has facilities measuring 2669 square feet (248 square meters), including meeting rooms.
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Hotel Amenities
In addition to a full-service spa, Pullman Munich features a sauna and a fitness center. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Business-related amenities at this 4-star property consist of a 24-hour business center and meeting rooms.
High-speed wired and wireless Internet access is available for a surcharge. Event facilities measure 2669 square feet (248 square meters). This luxury hotel also offers spa services, a terrace, and multilingual staff.
Pullman Munich has designated areas for smoking.
- Terrace
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Sauna
- Complimentary newspapers in lobby
- Fitness facilities
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Bar/lounge
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Total number of rooms - 331
- Number of floors - 5
- Babysitting or childcare
- Laundry facilities
- Elevator/lift
- 24-hour front desk
- Full-service spa
- Hair salon
- Wired (high-speed) Internet access - surcharge
- Designated smoking areas
- Luggage storage
- Meeting rooms
- Conference space size (feet) - 2669
- Conference space size (meters) - 248
- Number of meeting rooms - 5
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Coffee/tea in lobby
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Wireless Internet access - surcharge
- Multilingual staff
- Porter/bellhop
- 24-hour business center
- Garden
- Spa services on site
Available in all rooms: Wireless internet access ( 17.50 EUR per day ), Wired high-speed Internet access (surcharge)
Available in some public areas: Wireless internet access ( 17.50 EUR per day ), Wired (high-speed) Internet access - surcharge
Room Amenities
- Air conditioning
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Rainfall showerhead
- Balcony or patio
- Room service (limited hours)
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Private bathroom
- Hair dryer
- Iron/ironing board
- Satellite TV service
- Complimentary newspaper
- Wired high-speed Internet access (surcharge)
- Shower/tub combination
- Desk
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Wireless Internet access (surcharge)
- Pillow menu
Where to Eat
Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 6 AM and 11 AM.
Theos Restaurant - Overlooking the garden, this restaurant specializes in international cuisine and serves light fare only. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar. Happy hour is offered.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Nearby Things to Do
Recreational amenities at the hotel include a sauna and a fitness center.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Bicycle rentals nearby
Spa Services
Guests can pamper themselves with a trip to the onsite spa, which has 2 treatment rooms. Services include sports massages, massages, facials, and body treatments. The spa is equipped with a sauna and a steam room. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy.
- Massages
- Body treatments
- Steam room in spa
- Sports massage
- Number of treatment rooms 2
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Sauna in spa
- Facial treatments
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible path of travel
- Accessible parking
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Pets allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- Breakfast fee: EUR 24 per person (approximately)
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: EUR 17.50 per day (rates may vary)
- Fee for wireless Internet in public areas: EUR 17.50 per day (rates may vary)
- Self parking fee: EUR 22 per day
- Pet fee: EUR 15 per pet, per day
- Rollaway bed fee: EUR 45 per night
We should mention
Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments. Reservations can be made by contacting the hotel prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Children 12 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding.
National Rating
Hotelstars Union assigns an official star rating for properties in Germany. This property is rated 4 star Superior and is displayed on this page as 4.5 stars.


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Hear Little Boots Reinvent Her Electro-Pop Vamp on 'Motorway'
Forthcoming 'Nocturnes' LP will be her first in four years
It's been four years since Little Boots released her rave-kissed dance-pop debut Hands, but the English artist born Victoria Hesketh hasn't been idle since. After wrapping up touring, she hunkered down on the international DJ scene and began to assemble the blueprint for her forthcoming follow-up, Nocturnes, due May 6 on her new On Repeat imprint.
"Much of the 'dance music' we've been bombarded with of late leaves me cold," she says via statement, "and recently it feels like Proper Songs have somehow gone out of fashion. So a big part of what I wanted to do on this record is show that you can produce dance-pop that's both interesting and artistic, but maintains the magic of classic pop songwriting."
To that end, Hesketh developed the new set's sound with DFA Records' Tim Goldsworthy, Simian Mobile Disco's James Ford, and Andy Butler of Hercules and Love Affair — three producers uniquely suited for the job. And Goldsworthy-produced first taste "Motorway" is indeed both danceable and long on depth. In exchange for your e-mai; address, you can download it here. Nocturnes is also available for pre-order here.
Little Boots, Nocturnes track list:
1. "Motorway"
2. "Confusion"
3. "Broken Record"
4. "Shake"
5. "Beat Beat"
6. "Every Night I Say A Prayer"
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Sometimes a "reboot" corrects problems like that. Turn the unit off, pull the plug (lets any memory clear), wait 3 minutes and plug back in. Also, check the clock. Maybe the clock needs to be reset. |
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Lomopedia: Smena Symbol
Sought after by lomographers, camera collectors, and generations of film photographers to this day, the Lomo Smena Symbol is noted for being a lightweight camera that offers robust controls and takes photos with saturated colors. -
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After a couple of rolls using my Smena Symbol and framing many pictures horribly, I finally found out how to frame subjects right and get better pictures from my Symbol! -
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VARIOUS ARTISTS By Tom Jackson Published January 25, 2006 WORLD GROOVE Putumayo
Some of the lyrical subject matter here is pretty heavy stuff: there's racism and isolation in Cheb Mami's "Parisien du Nord," pollution in Issa Bagayogo's "Nogo" and abusive relationships in Brenda Fassie's "Ama-Gents." But it's the grit in the oyster that makes the pearl, and this is a shiny, chirrupy Saturday morning of a record, a lustrous mosaic of upbeat, highly-produced tunes plundered from the crossover end of the world music racks. Some of the tracks—Turk Mustafa Sandal's eurosmash "Aya Benzer" or Lebanese Ragheb Alama's cheesy pop "Sahrony Leil"—have already featured in pop charts, while the French DJ collaborations (Rouge Rouge and Major Boys) feel rather more like they were specifically crafted for compilations just like this one. If you're comfortable with spending 44 minutes up to your elbows in the global mishmash—and why shouldn't you be?—you'll be more than satisfied. Don't think about it, just jiggle your way through this soundtrack to the washing up.


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I am one of the lucky ones. A year ago, a job I'd taken nearly a decade earlier, primarily for the health-care benefits, became untenable. Even before that, the major corporation for which I worked had hardballed our fairly powerless union into rendering those very benefits a husk of what they once were. In this regard, the difference between your average major media corporation and your average, say, Walmart is not vast. Corporations are corporations, and they all behave in the same herd-like way.
It was interesting to watch how the membership of the union broke down on the issue of health-care benefits. The older members, like me, saw them as an essential part of a fundamental covenant between employer and employee. The benefits were something the company agreed to provide in exchange for salaries that might have been higher. That was the system in which we'd grown up. In many cases, that was the system into which our parents had bought, and it was part of the breathing room in the economy that had helped create the modern American middle class.
The younger members of the union several of whom expressed serious doubts about the value of having a union at all not only didn't seem to see the logic of this covenant, they didn't seem to see the covenant at all. The benefits were something that the Company provided for its own mysterious reasons, and if the Company wanted to claw some of them back, well, that was the Company taking back some of its own.
In any case, we started paying more and more of our own health-care costs, and we got shuttled into a new health-care provider that wasn't remotely as good as the previous one. I went along because of the situation within my own family, and the fact that I'd finally found a primary-care physician capable of partly overcoming my inbred medico-phobia.
(My mother, a survivor of polio, didn't go back to a doctor for more than fifty years. She dreaded them so that when my father developed Alzheimer's, she locked him away in her home rather than confront the issues. By the time we finally broke through to her, among her other medical problems she had a whopping skin cancer and toenails so long that they were photographed by the podiatrist for educational purposes. This kind of thing she handed down to me.)
There is an undeniable sense of being trapped in the system of employer-based health care, a powerful psychological screw for the employer to turn when the employer wants concessions in other areas, which it always does. A year or so later, when I became the target of a lethal combination of intellectual cowardice and grasping corporate brownnosing, working there became completely intolerable. One of the things necessary for my escape, however, was the knowledge that decent health insurance was available for my family at a marginally affordable price. I was one of the lucky ones. I lived in Massachusetts, and Mitt Romney once was my governor.
Jon Gruber is enthusiastically tucking into a salad at a restaurant west of Boston, and he's even more enthusiastically talking about the very first meeting he ever had with Mitt Romney on the subject of health-care reform.
"I'd been hired to develop the [health-care] plan, and the meeting was to decide whether or not he'd go forward with it. The meeting was Romney fighting with his political advisors. They were saying, 'Don't do this,' and Romney was saying that, no, it was the right thing to do. He was approaching it like an engineer, you know? He was saying, 'How can we make this work?' What was impressive was that he really wanted to solve a problem in the way that you'd hope a politician would try to solve a problem. He wanted to do the right thing, which is all I ever want from a politician. He was excited to do the right thing. I remember coming home and my wife, who was a big gay-marriage advocate, was saying how mad she was at Romney, and I told her, you may be, but he was pretty impressive on this."
Romney's mind was concentrated because, in 2005, with national ambitions percolating since his tenure running the Winter Olympics three years earlier, he really needed a win. He'd parachuted into Massachusetts, shoving aside the incumbent Republican governor, Jane Swift, the only woman in the line of stern portraits up at the State House. In 2004, he'd thrown all his influence behind a campaign to elect more Republicans to the state legislature. That had resulted in one of the most resounding failures in the political history of the commonwealth; the Republicans wound up with a net loss of three seats in both houses of the legislature. Shortly thereafter, Romney met with the editorial board of The Boston Globe and told them, "From now on, it's me-me-me."
At the same time, the national Republican party was groping for some sort of conservative market-based alternative to the rising call for an honest-to-goodness single-payer health-care system. The issue had been crucial to electing Democrats over the previous decade, and even with the failure of the Clinton administration's ambitious attempt to overhaul the system back in the early 1990s, it was plain that adherence to the status quo was not politically viable. These two dynamics came together in Massachusetts. In one of history's king ironies, given the distortions that Romney has made this year of the president's remarks about how no business is built all on its own, and given his tortured position that his health-care reform was really a triumph for states' rights, Governor Romney saw an opportunity to reform health care and burnish his national profile through the judicious use of ... federal money.
"Here was the deal," Gruber recalls. "Ted Kennedy was delivering $400 million in federal slush funds to our safety-net hospitals, Boston City and Cambridge Hospitals. President George W. Bush said, 'Why am I giving $400 million a year to Ted Kennedy? I'm taking that away.' Romney, to his credit, went to Bush's HHS and said, 'Instead of taking this money away, why don't we just use it to cover the uninsured?' And Bush, to his credit, said sure.
"That was the money that made all this happen federal money. It was delivered by Ted Kennedy and then rededicated at the front end to cover the uninsured."
Gruber's plan had three elements: require anyone who could afford insurance to buy it, subsidize coverage for the working poor, and create some sort of "exchange" within which people could shop for the best insurance plan to suit their budget and their needs. "When I first presented it," Gruber explains, "it was like an economist's dream, a centrist Republican economist's dream. The law had two goals: to cover the uninsured and to fix a broken insurance market." And everyone agreed that the individual mandate, a conservative idea out of the Heritage Foundation, was critical to the success of the plan.
"Here's the thing," Gruber explains. "If you tell insurance companies that they have to cover anyone, and then you tell people they can wait until they get sick to buy insurance, insurance companies freak out. They raise their rates and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. The rates get so high that nobody buys insurance. In Massachusetts, that totally killed our market. The first leg of reform is ending insurance- company discrimination, and for that, you need the mandate."
Romney then went all out to sell the plan.
So involved was Romney in the negotiations that he went to the homes of both the Speaker of the Massachusetts House and the president of the Massachusetts Senate and personally delivered letters asking them to work out some sort of compromise. Ultimately, after some ferocious back-and-forth between the principals, everyone got up onstage at Faneuil Hall and signed the bill. Gruber was so happy that in 2008, when he was advising Democratic campaigns and reporters called him for a quote about Romney, who'd already started backing away from the Massachusetts law, Gruber kept his mouth shut.
"I said, I'm not going to bad-mouth the guy, even when he started saying terrible things about Hillary's plan, and that was the same plan as his, too. That was disingenuous. He's never dealt with that inconsistency."
Gruber is not holding to his vow this time around. He is unsparing in his criticism of the ungainly dive Romney has taken on the program they worked together to fashion. "He had three choices, right?" Gruber says. "He could've done what Newt Gingrich did, which was to repudiate ever holding that position. Gingrich did that with the mandate. Or he could've said, I'm glad I did it in Massachusetts. Or he could've done what he did, which was to take this third ground and say it worked in Massachusetts, but it can't work nationally. The problem he has is that's a totally illogical position, and he looks like an idiot."


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My Luna actias have started eclosing recently, and I let four of them go and kept one really nice female. I put her out on the patio on the ground Saturday night and nothing seemed to happen. Then yesterday, I found a male luna that the body had been eaten on it. I'm sure it is all the frogs that live on my patio and eat the butterflies, etc that don't get away. So I moved the cage up on one of the plant shelves.
Last night I woke up a couple of times and wondered if there might be a male outside, but I just couldn't bring myself to get up and go check. This morning I found the cage knocked over. The female was alone, but there were eggs on the netting. Then I saw the male, he was above the cage up on the siding. I released the female and was going to get the camera to take a photo of her. I saw another male near the door. I took pictures of the three lunas, and for some reason looked up. We have sky lights. I counted a dozen luna moths! They were in the skylights, on the ceiling. A whole lot of males looking for some action! We've lived here for 6 years and I've never seen a luna moth around. I always thought there had to be some in the area. Now, I've got my answer! And eggs for a new generation. Sandy |
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Always amazes me how many male lunas show up at my house when I put a female outside considering it took 40+ years for me to spot a wild luna in Ohio (first time ever was last month) without using female bait. There are a lot more out there than we think. Hopefully, it stays that way since they are my favorite moth. KC |
- Posted by misssherry Z8/9MS (My Page) on Mon, Aug 16, 10 at 12:51
Yes, indeed, it IS amazing how many males can show up when a female is "calling" - I've read they come from miles around! Congrats, Sandy - how many other moths or butterflies do we have that are green, and a beautiful shade of it at that! Sherry |
I had more than usual this year, I found 5 one morning. One hung from the porch light for 2 days, another clung to the brick for 1 day. So what kind of enclosure do you put the female in? I would love to raise some eggs next year. |
Wow. Now, this post has me really intrigued. It all just sounds so awesome! I have never ever laid my eyes upon a Luna Moth. I think that I would faint with joy. Butterflymomok, I see that you and I are in the same zone. How does a person attract Luna Moths to the yard? At the BMNA site, I see them listed for my state but not my county. Gosh, I would adore raising them, or heck, even just seeing one would be terrific. :o) |
I second bandjzmom - how do we get them to come around? I would LOVE to raise some. I am in North Texas. Thnks!! |
- Posted by butterflymomok 7 (My Page) on Tue, Aug 17, 10 at 0:09
Bill Oehlke has a website where you can purchase eggs of the Luna Moth, and directions on how to raise them. You will need a host plant available in abundance to feed the caterpillars. Once you have raised your first brood, you will have the "bait" to see if there are Lunas in your area. I wouldn't raise them if they aren't found where you live. I found luna wings in the nature park near where I live, but never had seen any in my yard. The bait is the newly eclosed female that you put outside to draw a male for mating. I used a cage made of a tomato cage with the prongs trimmed and bent in. I covered the cage with one of the 5 gallon paint strainers from Lowe's--fit perfectly--and set the whole thing (upside down) in a plant saucer. This makes a great eclosure container. I set the container outside so the female could call to males. It took several nights for the males to appear. If there are other Lunas around and a male finds your female, you will have more eggs to raise, and can continue this process indefinitely. I became interested in raising moths after I raised Cecropia caterpillars that I found on my Buttonbush. I now have a second generation that has pupated. These won't eclose until next spring as there is only one generation a year. I'm not sure how many generations of Lunas there are. The caterpillars I raise from the eggs that were laid this morning will most likely pupate over the winter. I have just gotten into raising moths lately. MissSherry, kcclark, and cecropia have been raising moths for quite a while. There are lots of posts on the Butterfly Forum about raising moths, as well as the information on Bill Oehlke's site. It's something to think about and seriously consider before you take it on. Sandy |
Sandy, thanks so much for the info! Well, it all sounds great to me. First, I need to do some research re host plants so that I can determine whether I already have them or need to plant them. Would there be pictures of your "cage" set-up available for viewing somewhere? I'll make sure that everything is in place before I begin. What month of the year would be a good one for me to plan to start trying? I am an avid butterfly gardener and am very conscientious when I am raising them. I understand about the seriousness of the undertaking. I actually found a slew of Milkweed Tussock Moth cats on my Common MW yesterday. I think that I shall take a few of them for raising and observing. Yes, I know to be careful, and I have done the research re burrowing substrates and all. The largest moth I have found here at my house was a Tersa Sphinx moth, which I found on my dining room floor last Fall. No clue as to how that puppy ended up there! :o) Thanks again for your help. I hope to one day see the majestic Luna. |
- Posted by butterflymomok 7 (My Page) on Tue, Aug 17, 10 at 11:22
Bandjzmom, Go to Bill Oehlke's website. You can email him and find out when Luna eggs are available in your area. He has people ship them from all over, but, I'd stick with eggs that come from your same region. I think I'd wait until next spring so you can raise a brood that will eclose during the summer. I posted directions and a photo for making the cages this morning--they are very simple. Good luck, Sandy |
Thank you so much Sandy. I really appreciate your time and the great info! |
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Thought I would go ahead and attach Bill's info on rearing Luna moth caterpillars. He has done quite a job with extensive research and hands-on rearing and I look to him and his website for virtually all of my info on rearing sphinx moths. His website also includes a state-by-state database of sphinx moths range and information, including LFPs and photos of the adults and larvae. I highly recommend that anyone who intends to raise either the silk moths or the sphinx moths utilize it. He also has a list of various states (may still be in progress) of the Catacolas as well. I found my first Catocola moth caterpillar this summer. Moths hold a real fascination for me, and I've handraised 11 different sphinx moth species found on various hosts in my backyard. Susan |
Here is a link that might be useful: Luna Moth Rearing
Thanks a bunch Susan! Great piece of info there. I have it bookmarked. Wow. I am getting excited now. |
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I asked my future husband's sister to be one of my bridesmaids, and she agreed. After about a month she backed out because we didn't ask her live-in boyfriend to be in the wedding party, and he was hurt. We don't know him that well. This has caused some hard feelings. The family feels we're wrong and that we should have just let him be a part of everything. Are we wrong, and is there anything we can do to make everyone happy?
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Great report. My family hates to get wet, so I'm glad we weren't with you on the Back-lot Tour. I'd never hear the end of it. You had a couple of disappointments for the day, but you seemed to have still been able to enjoy your trip.
Got back last night from a brief trip to the world.
We went yesterday as a trip to see the Christmas decorations/lights and as an early birthday type thing for me (real birthday is on the fourth). I wore my Birthday Pin even through it wasn't quite my birthday. We started at out Epcot. We got all of the front part of the park done before 1 pm, save for The Seas and the JII pavillion. We walked past Spaceship Earth numerous times in hopes that by some means they would start soft opening a little earlier and we would get a chance to see it. No such luck. From what we could see behind the wall, the sign has changed on the ride building, there is a sign outside by the queue line explaining that the ride is a slow moving attraction, ect. From what we could see of it, the painting on the outisde just before you enter to the moving platform seems to be the same. After completing Test Track and Mission Space on the left side of the park, we made our way to the UOE. I brought the video camera with me, mainly to tape the lights later, but also with the intentions to get video on the outside of the Wonders of Life pavillion, especially since there is a lot of rumors of the building and attractions therein being demolished. Upon approaching the building and taping it I noticed that the old DNA stand that use to be towards the front of the building was gone. Maybe part of the beginnings of possible demolition? Got plenty of "happy birthdays" throughout the day from cast members, and even from some regular guests. For lunch we went to the Electric Umbrella and recieved cold burgers and fries, a family next to us got salads and said that the salads could have been fresher. Its been a while since I've been to this dining establisment, but we were a little disappointed that the quality has seemed to have gone down. We were a little surprised when we did the Land boat ride and found garland, ornaments and bows decorating the vegetables and herbs in the area where they showcase hydroponics. After doing the front of the park we went to the Disney-MGM Stuidos.
Upon reaching MGM we went to Dinosaur Gerties (where we had never eaten before), ate our ice cream and then headed off to the GMR. Our host in the ride seemed to have her mike keep cutting off on her, though the bank robber that took the vehicle didn't seem to have a problem with the mike. After this we did Star Tours, which was labled at a 20 minute wait, but was more like 5. Then we made our way to the Backlot Tour. When we got on the tram, the row of the tram we were told to get in was soaking wet. Would have scooted over but they put more people in behind us so I got stuck sitting in a drenched seat. When we got to Catastrophe Canyon, it did its thing and I got soaked! I've been going to Disney-MGM Studios since they opened, and not once have I ever gotten soaked on this ride, I've gotten a little wet, but this time I might as well have ridden Splash Mountain. After this we went to the Studio Catering Co., tried to dry off and waited for the Osbourne Lights. The lights came on at around 6 pm. Very spetacular, the light-dancing that they do with the Christmas tree closest to the NY city skyline is awesome. They also did a light dance arranged to Trans-Siberian Orcestras' Carol of the Bells which was nice. It "snowed" down the street as it does on Main Street. Area was pretty packed through.
After this we took the boat back to Epcot with the intentions of eating at the Yakatori House and then going out and grabbing a seat in front of the Tori gate to watch IllumiNations. Portions at Yakatori look like they might have been cut back, but again, this is another restaurant I haven't eaten at in years. Food here was very good, would greatly recommend the Sukiyaki Beef. When we went out of the restaurant, the benches in front of the tori gate were all taken. By then we'd decided we'd be best off leaving anyway. Fireworks didn't start until 9:30 and given that we would have to pick up our dogs at the kennel at home, we wouldn't be home until around 1 am. If we were staying at a resort we probably would have stayed for the fireworks, maybe next year if we can get to Mousefest.
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Great report. My family hates to get wet, so I'm glad we weren't with you on the Back-lot Tour. I'd never hear the end of it. You had a couple of disappointments for the day, but you seemed to have still been able to enjoy your trip.
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They booked the absolutely amazing Winslow Estate in South Orleans, MA. It will be an outdoor tent reception and she is going for vintage chic tea party inspired decor. So, the idea of vintage tea party has really inspired me lately. I put together some pieces in the showroom that I will be posting later this week but while brainstorming I came across an image that really stoked the fire:
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The book plugs a companion CD, available only at the author's website for $17. I bought the CD, have used it, and would like to review it here, so that those of you who buy the book can better decide whether you should spring for the CD.
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This book is an 8 week program on meditation for beginners where each week the book teaches you a different meditation technique. The program has you meditate for just 8 minutes a day every, which taught me to concentrate on my meditation more while building a habit of meditating every day. Although I have tried some Zen meditation in the past, the techniques I learned in this book gave me better tools to meditate. After completing the book I have been able to keep up with my meditation practice. If you would like to build a lasting meditation practice in your life, I highly recommend it.
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SMD Branch School for Young Monks at Namo Buddha
In 2000, Rinpoche opened SMD Branch School (SMDBS) for young monks at Namo Buddha (about 2 hours away from the main school). There are about 100+ monks at SMDBS, under the capable guidance of Principal Khenpo Chonyi Rangdrol, who is also Principal at the main school. Karma Samdup is teh Vice Principal at SMDBS.
SMDBS was established to relieve overcrowding in the main school, and to give the young monks a wholesome atmosphere in which to live. The Branch School runs from Nursery up to Class 9. Rinpoche sends his more able monks down to the main school from Classes 6 to 10, with the intent that, when they graduate, they can become junior 'gegens' (teachers) at SMDBS. The reason for sending these monks to the main school is because, at the main school, the secular curriculum is more advanced, and the young monks can be exposed to modern teaching methods.
All the children who are put into Thrangu Rinpoche's care are given a secular education whether they are nuns, monks or lay children. When the monks and nuns reach the age of consent, the can then take full ordination if it is their wish. If not, they can leave the monastery or nunnery. With a secular education they are able to make their ways in life and the choice of full ordination thus remains a fairly pure choice.
The monks at the Branch School follow a modified curriculum with a heavier emphasis on Tibetan language, calligraphy and grammar, along with practice in ritual.However, their days are a little more rigorous than kids' at the main school; the Branch School monks have classes 6 days a week. Class times are from 8:30 AM until 3 PM, but they also study in the morning before classes start and they study Dharma texts in the late afternoons. They do a cycle of pujas, one a day. (Chenrezig, Green Tara, Mahakala, Guru Rinpoche, Medicine Buddha, White Tara and on special <auspicious days, like Guru Rinpoche Day> they also do pujas). They dedicate the merit to all sentient beings, especially to their sponsors.
Contact Gloria Jones to sponsor a young monk.


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By Erik Hayden, The Atlantic Wire
Count us among those who were surprised in early June when Mitt Romney came out officially as a lonely global warming believer in a climate-change denying GOP field. Since then, the mercurial frontrunner has had to rebuff a broadside launched by the Rush Limbaugh conservative base and tacitly accept praise (a kiss of death) from Al Gore on his sensible position. So Mitt's campaign, eager only to focus on jobs-related issues, appears to be minimizing the matter.
Last Thursday, in town hall held in Derry, New Hampshire, Romney argued that carbon emissions shouldn't be regulated as pollutants by the Environmental Protection Agency. The candidate's admission that "I don't think carbon is a pollutant in the sense of harming our bodies" was caught on tape by Think Progress and, yesterday, Politico reignited debate about his limited climate change support. The remark also revived the long-running liberal charge that Mitt Romney paradoxically believes in global warming yet won't do anything to help combat it.
By Noel Sheppard, Newsbusters.org
Nobel laureate Al Gore must be noticing the public's continued lack of concern for his money making myth about carbon dioxide destroying the planet.
On Tuesday, he announced a new campaign and worldwide event to re-energize global warming hysteria:
Today, The Climate Reality Project (formerly the Alliance for Climate Protection) announced a new global campaign to broadcast the reality of the climate crisis and mobilize citizens to help solve it. The campaign kicks off with 24 Hours of Reality, a worldwide, live streamed event on September 14-15.During the 24 Hours of Reality event, people all around the globe living with the impacts of climate change will connect the dots between recent extreme weather events -- including floods, droughts and storms -- and the manmade pollution that is changing our climate. From Tonga to Cape Verde and Mexico City to Alaska, the event will feature scientists, celebrities, business leaders and concerned citizens, along with former Vice President Al Gore. It will be broadcast live online over 24 hours, in 24 time zones and in multiple languages.
"The climate crisis knows no political boundaries. Ferocious storms and deadly heat waves are occurring with alarming frequency all over the world. We are living with the reality of the climate crisis every day. The only question is, how soon can we act?" said Vice President Gore.
I guess Gore noticed the total failure of last month's climate talks in Bonn, Germany, as well as last week's Harris poll which found "the lowest number who believe in global warming since the question was first asked in 1997 (44% now do, down from 51% in 2009 and 71% in 2007)."
The reality is despite all of his efforts to con people into believing a trace gas in the atmosphere is causing the planet to warm, fewer and fewer are buying it.
I guess that means it's time for another international dog and pony show to shore up all the financial investments he's made.
When are the media going to see through this charade?
By Brian K. Sullivan - Bloomberg
The calendar says summer starts tomorrow in the Northern Hemisphere. The snow falling in the mountains of Colorado tells a different story.
A storm that has prompted a tornado watch across Nebraska and Kansas today also left 2 to 4 inches of snow in the Rocky Mountains, said Joe Ramey, a weather service meteorologist in Grand Junction, Colorado.
"It is unusual," Ramey said. "Here it is the last day of spring."
A winter storm advisory has been posted in the mountains of Colorado above 10,000 feet until 6 p.m. local time, and at least one tornado was reported in Kansas, according to the weather service. The Northern Hemisphere summer starts at 1:16 p.m. New York time tomorrow.
By Elmer Beauregard
USA Today tried repeated the story put out by Jeff Masters of Weather Underground and Mark Serreze of NSID about how Global Warming is causing more snow. When you read the comments you get the idea that maybe the readers aren't buying it anymore.
Here are a few samples.
Using this logic you can blame global warming next time your toilet gets blocked, or your car doesn't start, late for work...etc. Global warming is now your all purpose excuse for everything that goes wrong in your life. If it's good enough for liberals it's good enough for us.
Utterly laughable!
Dear Scientist,
The global warming lie is over ..... get on with your next big lie. You got caught red handed manipulating data so why in the hell would we believe anything else you have to say in this matter...... WE DON"T!
These so-called scientists will blame every weather change on their global warming hoax!!! Give it up already! The jig is up.
Feel Free to join the fray
(CNN) -- An icy cold front that swept through northern Mexico over the weekend left 65 zoo animals dead, the zoo's owner told CNN on Monday.
Parrots, crocodiles and peacocks were among the victims of temperatures that dropped as low as 5 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 15 degrees Celsius) early Saturday morning at the Chihuahua Zoo in the city of Aldama, about an hour north of Chihuahua.
By Gene J. Koprowski, FoxNews
If the planet is warming, why is a third of America locked in a deep freeze, with record-low temperatures as far south as the Mexican border, where the thermometer in Ciudad Juarez plummeted Wednesday night to a bone-chilling 9-below zero?
Self-proclaimed planetary climate czar Al Gore thinks he has answer.
"As it turns out, the scientific community has been addressing this particular question for some time now, and they say increased heavy snowfalls are completely consistent with what they have been predicting as a consequence of man-made global warming," Gore write in a blog post. The Nobel Prize-winning former vice president was responding to a question posed by Fox News' Bill O'Reilly, who wondered on air why global warming was such an urgent science policy priority when the New York City area had become a "tundra" this winter.
Gore also indicated that he believes a rise in global temperatures is creating "all sorts of havoc," from hotter dry spells to colder winters and ever more violent storms. This is even endangering certain species of animals and leading to forest fires and floods.
But not surprisingly, some climate-change skeptics are a bit hot under the collar over Gore's "scientific" explanation.
Two dozen states in line of fire Weather.com
100 million people will be impacted by this storm.
Another winter storm is pounding much of the nation. Between Midwestern blizzards, record-breaking Northeast snowfall and widespread winter cold, what's with climate change and global warming?
Are the U.S. winter extremes proof that global warming isn't happening or is even a hoax, as many skeptics suggest? Are the winter extremes a product of a warming atmosphere, as many climate change advocates assert?
While opinions about climate change vary greatly, even among experts in climate science, the consensus is that short-range weather events have little to do with the climate change debate.
There's no debating that it's been cold, especially in January. According to Deke Arndt of the federal National Climatic Data Center, "January 2011 will rank among the coldest 20 percent of Januarys on record since 1895." December, although very cold in the Deep South, averaged near normal across the country since the Southern cold was balanced by warmth elsewhere.
On Friday, MSNBC's Chris Matthews blamed the crisis in Egypt on George W. Bush and the Iraq war.
Two days later, climate alarmist extraodinaire Joe Romm blamed it on - wait for it! - global warming:
This summer's extreme global weather raised fears of a "Coming Food Crisis," as CAP's John D. Podesta and Jake Caldwell warned in Foreign Policy: "Global food security is stretched to the breaking point, and Russia's fires and Pakistan's floods are making a bad situation worse." Earlier this month I discussed how, in fact, "Extreme weather events helped drive food prices to record highs." Back then, experts were worried about food riots. Now they are happening.
By Brad Wilmouth, Newsbusters
On Friday's World News on ABC, correspondent Linsey Davis filed a one-sided report in which she cited the views of climate scientists who blame the recent cold temperatures and high amounts of snowfall on global warming. After recounting the recent extreme weather around the country, Davis continued:
If this winter seems especially brutal, scientists say you're right. ABC News contacted 10 climate scientists to ask their take, if an extreme winter like the one we're having is the way of the future. The consensus? Global warming is playing a role by shifting weather patterns in unpredictable ways. Many say the forecast for the future calls for record-breaking precipitation and extreme temperatures year round. And that means winters with more snow.The ABC correspondent concluded the report by noting the unusually cold temperatures in Boston:
LINSEY DAVIS: Here in Boston, the good news is that the snow has stopped, at least for now. But the bad news is that temperatures are expected to drop below zero for the first time in this area in six years. Diane?DIANE SAWYER: And this could be the new normal, as you say. Linsey Davis reporting.
Notably, in July 2005, ABC's World News filed a report that warned that hurricane intensity would likely increase due to global warming, omitting the theory that hurricane intensities go through cycles over decades. The report was recycled in September 2007 as a nearly identical piece ran.
By Elmer Bearegard
The mainstream press is doing a good job of pushing the latest piece of Global Warming propaganda that 2010 is the warmest year ever. To prove their pont they show this chart, which shows a gradual increase in temperature of one degree over the last 130 years.
The thing that bugs me about these charts that show how "bad" global warming is, is that they zoom in extremely close to exaggerate how bad the problem is. If you look at the left side of the chart they are measuring in tenths of a degree. That is why I made the above chart which zooms out and shows more the earth's temperature range.
The average temperature on Earth is about 13ºC. The highest recorded has been 56.7ºC and lowest -89ºC. For my chart I zoomed in on an 80 degree range form +40º to -40º which still only shows 55% of the earth's recorded temperature range. By the way the temperature in Minnesota got down to -46º F yesterday, which is off this chart.
Of course all of this "horrible" global warming is caused by the increased CO2 in the earth's atmosphere. In the last 50 years CO2 has gone from 315 to 385 PPM. which stands for PARTS PER MILLION.
To show this increase they always show this chart from the Mauna Loa Observatory. Notice how they zoom in to show a very small part of the earth's atmosphere which makes it look like it's increasing at an alarming rate. That's why I made the above chart which gives a a bigger picture of what that increase really looks like. My chart still only shows 1% of the earth's atmosphere, which is still exaggerating the "problem" a hundred times.
Keep in mind that greenhouses usually have CO2 levels at 1,000 parts per million for better plant growth.
by Joseph D'Aleo, January 14, 2011 Full Report in PDF form.
1961 Farewell Address to the Nation
NOAA and NASA announced this week that 2010 was tied for the warmest year.
NOAA's Dr. Lubchenko, when she was president of AAAS in 1999, urged "Urgent and unprecedented environmental and social changes challenge scientists to define a new social contract ... a commitment on the part of all scientists to devote their energies and talents to the most pressing problems of the day, in proportion to their importance, in exchange for public funding."
NOAA and NASA are receiving big dollars $437M (NOAA) and $438M (NASA) in climate research funding and are expected to provide the information needed to support environmental, social and political agendas. NOAA and NASA also benefited from funding for climate change research from the Recovery Act of 2009 with up to $600 million. You can see how quickly the political operatives and the media enablers respond to those press releases (Hill story here).
The pressure has been mounting. The public doubt about global warming has been increasing in recent years given Climategate, and how promises of warm snowless winters failed. After cold and snowy winters in 2007/08 and 2008/09, the winter of 2009/10 was the coldest ever in parts of the southeast, and in parts of Siberia and the coldest since 1977/78 or 1962/63 in many parts of the United States, Europe and Asia. This past December was the second coldest in the entire Central England Temperature record extending back to 1659. It was the coldest ever December in diverse locations like Ireland, Sweden, and Florida. Reluctantly, alarmists changed their tune and the promise of warm and snowless winters as recent as 4 years ago morphed into global warming means cold and snowy winters.
By Bill McAuliffe, Star Tribune
Every morning, Roland Fowler walks a snowy path across his yard, opens a white, wooden box, and checks the condition of Minnesota's soul.
Fowler, 78, is the National Weather Service observer in Embarrass, and his reports frequently reinforce the notion that Minnesota is not for the faint of heart.
They often land the tiny Iron Range settlement in the daily news as the coldest spot in the continental U.S. Not Mt. Washington. Not Caribou, Maine. Embarrass, Minn.
"I've worked hard at this weather stuff and it's paid off for the community," Fowler said.
The Weather Channel, Garrison Keillor and Jimmy Kimmel have all paid shivering homage to Embarrass over the years, and news crews are frequent visitors to Fowler's back door. That's just down the road from Cold County Liquors and the sign reading "The Cold Spot."
UPDATED: Nearly 71% of the USA is covered in snow, 49 of 50 states have snow on the ground
UPDATE: The map and data have been updated from NOHRS. We now have added to yesterday's total with new overnight snows, bringing the CONUS coverage to 70.9%. KGMB-TV in Hawaii reports, that with snowfall on Mauna Kea, 49 out of 50 states have snow on the ground, with Florida the exception. -Anthony
Meanwhile, New York City declares a weather emergency due to snow.
Data from the National Weather Service National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center in Minnesota show that nearly 70 71% of the USA has snow cover.
The South just isn't prepared for a quick clean up after a major snow storm. And the temperatures continue to drop below freezing every night this week. It doesn't make economic sense for Atlanta to house large fleets of snow plows and tons of salt and gravel. But residents need it this week.
The data is finally in and 2010 is the warmest year this century, of course that's not saying much because this century is only 11 years old.
1998 is still the warmist year since we've started tracking temps using satellite and 1934 is still the warmest since we started using weather stations. But third place is still surprising, by looking outside my window I would have picked 2010 as one of the colder years. Maybe the warm-mongers are right, maybe global warming does cause global cooling.
Marc Morano on Fox News
By Elmer Beauregard
Found this article at Colorado Springs Independent. Basically it tells all the mind-numbed robots how to "debunk" the "deniers". I am the only commenter so far debunking the debunker, you should all join the conversation, it'll be a hoot.
Record cold in Argentina? Per a China News Service...
Cold wave in Argentina leads to 28 deaths
BUENOS AIRES, July 19 (Xinhua) -- At least 28 people had died, 16 from hypothermia, as a polar cold wave swept across Argentina during the past week, authorities said Monday...
Then Per Bloomberg news Argentina Colder than Antarctica Argentina is importing record amounts of energy as the coldest winter in 40 years drives up demand and causes natural-gas shortages, prompting Dow Chemical Co. and steelmaker Siderar SAIC to scale back production.
Ironically why does this go hardly mentioned by main stream media and why do I have to get this from the Chinese media? instead they try to make us believe 2010 is the hottest on record... yeah right!
On Record : Discovery News - Aug 9
Jul 16, 2010 ... Last month was the warmest June on record, and so far, 2010 is the warmest year ever recorded, according to data released yesterday by the ...
The US Media reports on this: per Google the search
"hottest year on record 2010" About 14,700,000 results 2010 on Track to Be Warmest
How can they draw this conclusion its only august and I don't trust their data or their agenda.
The "coldest year on record" yielded on google About 902,000 results (0.26 seconds)
While all this occurs, the media focuses on the Arctic melting in the summer and the Antarctic melting in the winter. While ignoring the natural cycle where the Antarctic GROWS in the summer and the Arctic GROWS in the winter time. Instead they focus on 1/2 the story which sells sensational climate change, ignoring that the climate has been changing since the beginning of time.
by Paul Joseph Watson http://www.infowars.com/greenpeace-to-global-warming-skeptics-we-know-where-you-live/
Green Peace [War?] - We know who you are. We know where you live. We know where you work.
http://www.infowars.com/greenpeace-to-global-warming-skeptics-we-know-where-you-live/ - per info wars.
The article, written by Greenpeace activist "Gene" from India, calls for "mass civil disobedience to cut off the financial oxygen from denial and skepticism".
"Gene" then has a special message for roughly half of Americans who, in the wake of the climategate scandal, are now skeptical of man-made global warming - "We know who you are. We know where you live. We know where you work. And we be many, but you be few."
"Gene" quotes another climate activist who calls for an army of greenies to break the law and take retribution against anyone who stands in their way.
"The politicians have failed. Now it's up to us. We must break the law to make the laws we need: laws that are supposed to protect society, and protect our future. Until our laws do that, screw being climate lobbyists. Screw being climate activists. It's not working. We need an army of climate outlaws."
Greenpeace has not issued a retraction of the comments, preferring instead to buffer the blog at both beginning and end with desperate-sounding explanations insisting that the author has peaceful intentions. The organization has obviously been taking a hammering for this as it worsens into another public relations disaster.
This is by no means the first time global warming adherents have resorted to physical threats in an effort to bolster their rapidly crumbling credibility on climate change issues. In June last year, a global warming activist posted an article on the Talking Points Memo website entitled "At What Point Do We Jail Or Execute Global Warming Deniers?"
Shortly after the article was retracted, a comment traced back to another prominent global warming activist which appeared on the Climate Progress blog threatened Skeptics that "an entire generation that will soon be ready to strangle you and your kind while you sleep in your beds." Website owner Joe Romm defended the comment as "clearly not a threat but a prediction".
on a lesser known note, they also declared war on the iphone... http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2007/10/greenpeace_decl.html - Greenpeace Declares War on the iPhone
The kooks at Greenpeace have no problem with bombing banks, but iPhones meet with their righteous disapproval.
I like pointing out when supposed Conservative Republicans believe in Global Warming. I thought Glenn Beck was a Global Warming skeptic, but in his interview with USA Today he sounds more like a Greeny Weeny.
"You'd be an idiot not to notice the temperature change," he says. He also says there's a legit case that global warming has, at least in part, been caused by mankind. He has tried to do his part by buying a home with a "green" design and using energy-saving products. "I'm willing to do anything but use the CFLs," he says of compact fluorescent light bulbs. "I put them in once and couldn't stand the way they lit up the room."
This add debut's environmentalism "green nazis" in practice during Audi's superbowl as joke, but perhaps they are making fun of the "Green Jobs" Obama promised? Surprisingly these subversively witty adds, are poking fun at real laws that most entertainment obsessed folks aren't aware of. Some have already referred to this as 'war on the American citizen'. This effects, the world, the Nation and of Course Minnesota. Ironically MUCH of what they are doing is featured in Minnesota'ss "NEXT GENERATION ENERGY ACT - 2007" see PAWLENTY SIGNS NEXT GENERATION ENERGY ACT -- May 25, 2007
These include arrests for styrofoam cups, incandescent bulb usage, plastic bags/bottles, emissions, eco check points, battery disposal, trash inspection, heating your tub too high! , etc.
See the actual green police #1 video's below
(trouble viewing here's their youtube link)
See the actual green police #2 video's below
(trouble viewing here's their youtube link)
click below for more.
By Richard Foot, Canwest News Service
Call it the mystery of the missing thermometers.
Two months after "climategate" cast doubt on some of the science behind global warming, new questions are being raised about the reliability of a key temperature database, used by the United Nations and climate change scientists as proof of recent planetary warming.
Two American researchers allege that U.S. government scientists have skewed global temperature trends by ignoring readings from thousands of local weather stations around the world, particularly those in colder altitudes and more northerly latitudes, such as Canada.
In the 1970s, nearly 600 Canadian weather stations fed surface temperature readings into a global database assembled by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Today, NOAA only collects data from 35 stations across Canada.
Worse, only one station -- at Eureka on Ellesmere Island -- is now used by NOAA as a temperature gauge for all Canadian territory above the Arctic Circle.
While our government is spending billions to prove AGW, this chap disproves it for £5.00.


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I have just recently had a wood stain applied to my new cedar fence. My gripe/problem is that is simply too opaque. I would love for some of the grain to show through. I just wish I would have thought of this before having the fence guys come out to stain my fence. I've lost sleep over thinking about its overbearing monotone. Its an acrylic based opaque stain from sherwin williams, and is under the "woodscapes" line of their exterior opaque stains. I called the guys who stained it and they said they've never had to deal with this sort of retroactive treatment. Bummer. Hopefully this isn't the case.
I really hope there is a thinner that I can apply that will let some of the grain show through without substantially compromising its protection characteristics. I understand that thinning it out will undoubtedly reduce its ability to protect the wood, but I am figuring that re-applying a semi-transparent one might even be in order. Protection and longevity is obviously a high priority, but I'd rather have it look the way I want it to even if it means having to stain/retouch more frequently. I am looking for a (somewhat) fast and effective solution to getting the stain to appear less opaque. My goal is to achieve a more natural look. I actually like the way a weathered wood looks, so perfection isn't my goal here, again something that just looks a bit more natural. If possible, I'd like to avoid having to sand down every plank. The build of this fence is board on board, and is an overlap design...I'd be sanding for weeks. If this is the only way to get some of the grain to show, then I will just have to live with my mistake and eventually I'll get over it. Im a total rookie when it comes to this sort of thing, so please explain product/technique suggestions as best as you can. I will try to entertain questions in the same fashion. Thanks in advance. |
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- Posted by mike_kaiser (My Page) on Fri, Sep 25, 09 at 9:11
The only ways to remove a finish are mechanical or chemical. Mechanical would include sanding (which doesn't seem practical for a fence) and sand blasting (maybe?). Chemicals would be messy and expensive. You would also be sacrificing the protection afforded by the stain. Generally speaking the more opaque the finish, the more protection it provides. I'm inclined to think you're just going to have to live with the fence. |
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PS3 3.70 firmware showers automatic update love to PS Plus subscribers
Recommendation system to be introduced, improvements on Blu-ray 3D incoming.
Sony today detailed the upcoming v3.70 firmware update for the Playstation 3, giving another reason for Playstation Plus subscribers to strut their badge (as if free games and DLC offers weren't enough).
The paying member of the PSN fratentiy will now be able to choose to auto-backup game saves and trophies. The Automatic Download feature will be renamed to Automatic Update.
The other updates, which will be made available to everyone, includes a new recommendation system. As the name suggests, it will allow users to 'recommend' stuff from the Playstation Store, such as games and videos, to their friends. Users can send messages with a store link from the product pages within the Playstation Store.
All video streaming services like Netflix, Hulu PLUS and VUDU will be shifted to a new category on XMB called TV/Video Services. Users will also be able to find and download all of the video applications available directly from this new category.
Blu-ray 3D users have something to look forward to as well. 3D support will be added when accessing the Java-based special features on Blu-ray. Support fr DTS-HD MA and DTS-HD HR decoding/bit streaming for 3D movies have been added as well.
The v3.70 update will be available "soon".


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Document Type Master's Dissertation Author Olokun, Mariane URN etd-03252010-154854 Document Title The potential impact of an inclusionary Housing policy on the affordability housing in South Africa Degree MBA Department Gordon Institute of Business Science Supervisor
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- housing affordability
Date 2010-03-25 Availability unrestricted Abstract The right to shelter is viewed internationally as a basic human right, and this is supported by the South African constitution through the Bill of Rights. The current state of accessibility to housing in South Africa is, however, being eroded by issues such as the rapidly decreasing ability of a growing section of the population to afford market related housing. There are several policies – the latest of which being the inclusionary housing policy - being instituted by the National Department of Housing that in whole or in part attempt to address this issue of affordability. The success of these housing policies in addressing this issue has not yet been fully determined.
The aim of this research was to take a specific housing policy – the framework for inclusionary housing - and determine its impact on the affordability of housing and from this, and outline potential implementation hurdles that should be addressed in order for the policy to be effective. Due to the lack of research in this area from a South African perspective, this was an exploratory study which used semi-structured interviews of housing industry experts as a means of gaining insight.
The research ascertained that an inclusionary housing policy will have a very limited impact on the affordability of housing in South Africa, but the social benefits that it will bring to the country in terms of integration will far outweigh this. The research further determined that there are serious problems in the execution and implementation of housing delivery in South Africa which are directly related to the cost of land, the current government subsidy schemes, the township establishment process and the capacity of local government.
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