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- Hive — open source crowdsourcing framework from NYT Labs.
- Prezi Data Team Culture — good docs on logging, metrics, etc. The vision is a great place to start.
- Scroll Behaviour Across the Web (Chartbeat) — nobody reads above the fold, they immediately scroll.
- threat_research (github) — shared raw data and stats from honeypots.
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Crowdsourcing Framework, Data Team Culture, Everybody Scrolls, and Honeypot Data
Four short links: 10 December 2014
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- Clearing the Air Around Tor (Quinn Norton) — Occasionally the stars align between spooks and activists and governments and anarchists. Tor, like a road system or a telephone network or many pieces of public infrastructure, is useful to all of these people and more (hence the debate on child pornographers and drug markets) because it's just such a general architecture of encryption. The FBI may want Tor to be broken, but I promise any spies who are counting on it for mission and life don't.
- Offline Cookbook — how Chrome intends to solve the offline problem in general. I hope it works and takes off because offline is the bane of this webapp-user's life.
- The Pirate Bay, Down Forever? — As a big fan of the KLF I once learned that it's great to burn great things up. At least then you can quit while you're on top.
- Luigi (Github) — a Python module that helps you build complex pipelines of batch jobs. It handles dependency resolution, workflow management, visualization, etc. It also comes with Hadoop support built in. (via Asana engineering blog)
Four short links: 26 November 2014
Metastable Failures, Static Python Analysis, Material Desktop, and AWS Scale Numbers
- Metastable Failure State (Facebook) — very nice story about working together to discover the cause of one of those persistently weird problems.
- Bandit — static security analysis of Python code.
- Quantum OS — Linux desktop based on Google's Material Design. UI guidelines fascinate me: users love consistency, designers and brands hate that everything works the same.
- Inside AWS — Every day, AWS installs enough server infrastructure to host the entire Amazon e-tailing business from back in 2004, when Amazon the retailer was one-tenth its current size at $7 billion in annual revenue. "What has changed in the last year," Hamilton asked rhetorically, and then quipped: "We have done it 365 more times." That is another way of saying that in the past year AWS has added enough capacity to support a $2.55 trillion online retailing operation, should one ever be allowed to exist.
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- Michael Ossman and the NSA Playset — the guy who read the leaked descriptions of the NSA's toolchest, built them, and open sourced the designs. One device, dubbed TWILIGHTVEGETABLE, is a knock off of an NSA-built GSM cell phone that's designed to sniff and monitor Internet traffic. The ANT catalog lists it for $15,000; the NSA Playset researchers built one using a USB flash drive, a cheap SDR, and an antenna, for about $50. The most expensive device, a drone that spies on WiFi traffic called PORCUPINEMASQUERADE, costs about $600 to assemble. At Defcon, a complete NSA Playset toolkit was auctioned by the EFF for $2,250.
- Gates Foundation Announces World's Strongest Policy on Open Access Research (Nature) — Once made open, papers must be published under a license that legally allows unrestricted re-use — including for commercial purposes. This might include 'mining' the text with computer software to draw conclusions and mix it with other work, distributing translations of the text, or selling republished versions. CC-BY! We believe that published research resulting from our funding should be promptly and broadly disseminated.
- Xenotix — an advanced Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability detection and exploitation framework. It provides Zero False Positive scan results with its unique Triple Browser Engine (Trident, WebKit, and Gecko) embedded scanner. It is claimed to have the world's 2nd largest XSS Payloads of about 4700+ distinctive XSS Payloads for effective XSS vulnerability detection and WAF Bypass. Xenotix Scripting Engine allows you to create custom test cases and addons over the Xenotix API. It is incorporated with a feature-rich Information Gathering module for target Reconnaissance. The Exploit Framework includes offensive XSS exploitation modules for Penetration Testing and Proof of Concept creation.
- Firing Range — Google's open source set of web security test cases for scanners.
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- A Critique of the Balancing Metaphor in Privacy and Security — The arguments presented by this paper are built on two underlying assertions. The first is that the assessment of surveillance measures often entails a judgement of whether any loss in privacy is legitimised by a justifiable increase in security. However, one fundamental difference between privacy and security is that privacy has two attainable end-states (absolute privacy through to the absolute absence of privacy), whereas security has only one attainable end-state (while the absolute absence of security is attainable, absolute security is a desired yet unobtainable goal). The second assertion, which builds upon the first, holds that because absolute security is desirable, new security interventions will continuously be developed, each potentially trading a small measure of privacy for a small rise in security. When assessed individually each intervention may constitute a justifiable trade-off. However, when combined together, these interventions will ultimately reduce privacy to zero. (via Alistair Croll)
- ISP Interconnection and its Impact on Consumer Internet Performance (Measurement Lab) — In researching our report, we found clear evidence that interconnection between major U.S. access ISPs (AT&T, Comcast, CenturyLink, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon) and transit ISPs Cogent, Level 3, and potentially XO was correlated directly with degraded consumer performance throughout 2013 and into 2014 (in some cases, ongoing as of publication). Degraded performance was most pronounced during peak use hours, which points to insufficient capacity and congestion as a causal factor. Further, by noting patterns of performance degradation for access/transit ISP pairs that were synchronized across locations, we were able to conclude that in many cases degradation was not the result of major infrastructure failures at any specific point in a network, but rather connected with the business relationships between ISPs.
- The Emergence of Github as Collaborative Platform for Education (PDF) — We argue that GitHub can support much of what traditional learning systems do, as well as go beyond them by supporting collaborative activities.
- Mobile is Eating the World (A16Z) — mobile becoming truly ubiquitous, bringing opportunities to use the construct "X is eating Y."
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Leaky Search, Conditional Javascript, Software Proofs, and Fake Identity
- Fix Mac OS X — each time you start typing in Spotlight (to open an application or search for a file on your computer), your local search terms and location are sent to Apple and third parties (including Microsoft) under default settings on Yosemite (10.10). See also Net Monitor, an open source toolkit for finding phone-home behaviour.
- A/B Testing at Netflix (ACM) — Using a combination of static analysis to build a dependency tree, which is then consumed at request time to resolve conditional dependencies, we're able to build customized payloads for the millions of unique experiences across Netflix.com.
- Leslie Lamport Interview Summary — One idea about formal specifications that Lamport tries to dispel is that they require mathematical capabilities that are not available to programmers: "The mathematics that you need in order to write specifications is a lot simpler than any programming language […] Anyone who can write C code, should have no trouble understanding simple math, because C code is a hell of a lot more complicated than" first-order logic, sets, and functions. When I was at uni, profs worked on distributed data, distributed computation, and formal correctness. We have the first two, but so much flawed software that I can only dream of the third arriving.
- Fake Identity — generate fake identity data when testing systems.
Four short links: 17 October 2014
2FA, Copy Image Text, Electric Garbage Trucks, and MSFT's Q
- Time to Enable Two-Factor Authentication on Everything (Gizmodo) — instructions for enabling 2fa on Google, Facebook, and other common consumer Internet services. (via BoingBoing)
- Project Naptha — automatically applies state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms on every image you see while browsing the web. The result is a seamless and intuitive experience, where you can highlight as well as copy and paste and even edit and translate the text formerly trapped within an image. Chrome extension. (via Anil Dash)
- Garbage Trucks and FedEx Vans (IEEE) — Foo alum, Ian Wright, found traction for his electric car biz by selling powertrains for garbage trucks and Fedex vans. Trucks have 20-30y lifetime, but powertrains are replaced several times; the trucks for fleets are custom; and "The average garbage truck in the U.S. spends $55,000 a year on fuel, and up to $30,000 a year on maintenance, mostly brake replacements."
- Microsoft's Quantum Mechanics (MIT TR) — the race for the "topological qubit", involving newly-discovered fundamental particles and large technology companies racing to be the first to make something that works.
Four short links: 10 October 2014
Evolving Malware, Male Advocates, Every BU is an Internal Startup, and Amazonian Warehouses
- Slow Release Malware — Prof. Vigna outlined scenarios in which an increasingly sophisticated and opaque breed of malicious executable will evolve to 'mimic' the behaviour patterns of benign software, in an attempt to avoid wasting its payload behaviour on a sandbox or virtualised environment. (via Slashdot)
- Top 10 Ways to be a Male Advocate — pass to any men in tech that you know.
- All Businesses are Now Digital Businesses (Vikram Kumar) — given that your business units are buying their own IT and thus reinventing their own business, How many CEOs and CIOs think of business units acting as tech start-ups?
- Amazon Opens First Physical Store (WSJ, paywall) — in NYC, for pickups, returns, exchanges, and same-day delivery of some items from the accompanying warehouse. I'm curious to see what of Amazon's infrastructure, analytics, and other thin-margin tricks they can bring to substantial physical presence.
Four short links: 3 October 2014
Physical Web, USB Horrors, Microsoft Sway, and Startup Code
- The Physical Web — a discovery service for physical things. Interesting to see a Google angle: the list of available things might be huge, so it'll be sorted, and ranking long lists of results is a Core Competency.
- Unfixable USB Attack Closer — researchers have released code implementing the omgdoom USB firmware attack. (Not its formal name) (Yet)
- Sway — looks to me like Microsoft have productised the Medium design sense.
- How 50+ Startups Manage Their Code — I'm a full stack voyeur. I like to look.


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The Cardinal Wuerl North Catholic star ran for 1,820 yards as a sophomore tailback, then quarterbacked the Trojans to WPIAL and PIAA Class A championships as a junior last season.
Now the 5-foot-7, 180-pound senior will add receiver to his repertoire. He could line up anywhere from wildcat quarterback to tailback to the slot.
"Right now that's the plan," North Catholic coach Bob Ravenstahl said. "If we just had him playing running back, he'd be one of the top choices. He's one of the most versatile guys in the WPIAL."
The Trojans return quarterback Adam Sharlow, who was lost to a torn ACL in Week 7, as well as 1,100-yard rusher Jerome Turner, a senior.
"I just like having the ball in my hands," said Fulmore, who has made a verbal commitment to Duquesne. "I'll play anywhere. I just like being on the field."
Fulmore ran for 1,213 yards and 14 touchdowns and passed for 388 yards and three scores last year. But he starred in the slot at seven-on-seven camps, which prompted North Catholic to consider splitting him wide.
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You would have to have been living under a rock since July 1996 not to know that before rebranding herself as the designer of some very covetable clothes, Victoria Beckham was once a Spice Girl. As such, Beckham is no stranger to the greatest hits compilation, so it is fitting that to launch e-commerce for her labels today she has chosen to re-release a selection of dresses from her archive.
While Beckham has had her detractors, since she first launched the line for spring/summer 2009 at New York Fashion Week in September 2008 it has not only been lauded by the style press, but according to reports sells particularly well too. Dubbed "Icon", the collection celebrates the body-conscious aesthetic that has come to define Beckham's personal style and designs – the two are inextricably linked after all, as she has made no secret of designing for herself, even going so far as to act as fit model.
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On a cold day this was a welcome place for a warm drink. You order at the counter. Strangely enough, you only pay before you leave. This system added to the chaos and the poor lady was alone taking order, serving, cleaning tables and playing cashier. Sandwiches and cakes are on display and that was basically all the food they had. We all opted for...
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You're never going to find the best Spanish tapas in Budapest, but it's very good all the same. If you're tired of meat stew and potatoes, or want some vegetarian options, this is a good place to try. I found the tapas a bit hit and miss: some were great, some were good, some were ok, but none were awful. The lentil croquettes were particularly...
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Centrál Kávéház - Central Coffehouse
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Muvesz Kavehaz - Artist Coffee House
This is another one of the typical old coffeehouses. It is located almost vis-a-vis from the State Opera, thus it is only natural that it draws an artsy crowd. I had walked by in the afternoon and thought it looked charming (it was built 1884 in Neo-Renaissance style and properly restored in 2008). I went in after the opera. It was not very busy...
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Cafe KoR
Cafe Kor is highly touted on VT, in tour books, and in advertisment booklets as the best bistro dining in Budapest, and it is indeed very good. Small and crowded, the arched ceiling, crowded tables, hustle and bustle, and specials on a handwritten blackboard typify the scene. The walls are a light orange with wood trim, understated and appropriate....
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Mongolian Barbecue Restaurant
i imust say one of the must in budapest, nice atmosphere with kind stuff and everything you could expect from a marvelous restaurant, though there is a health risk, not because of the bad quality in this case but the very delicious and unlimited food :) enjoy
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Kek Rozsa Etterem - Blue Rose Restaurant
Coming soon The summer menu included a goulash soup cup, a salad, a main dish (grilled pork with fries) and a dessert (sponge cake with chocolate sauce and whipped cream on top), all very good portions for only 2700 HUF (about 10 EUR, drinks not included)... and the waitress even gave us a card for a 10% discount for the next day (it's a pity we...
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Ruszwurm Cukraszda Orszag - Ruszwurm...
Ruszwurm, which was started in 1827, is a beautiful, old Hungarian confectionary on Castle Hill in Budapest. As you walk through the entrance, you will feel as if you are going back in time. The elegant furniture dates from the mid-1800s. In addition to cakes, the wooden cases are filled with various items from Ruszwurm's past including cake...
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Cafe Miro
Horrid Experience. The design of the place is lovely. However, food is just bland, nothing special, and the service is terrible. The waiter followed us and threatened us to pay the full 12% service after leaving the place. We had paid 10% and only €0.50 was due. Horrible place and experience.
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Cafe Vian
I think for something to be considered a tourist trap, it has to exploit tourists rather than just appeal to them. And while Cafe Vian on Liszt Ferenc Ter may market itself to the tourist crowd, on my visit several tables were occupied with locals who chose this restaurant as the place to meet their friends and family. Don't be put off by the...
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New York Cafe House(under...
This coffeehouse has been open for over a century and of course has attracted many serious writers over the years. The interior is very extravagant, elegant, and beautiful. If you are in the area and have time, you should stop here for a coffee (at least) and see the inside of the New York Palace building. More than just coffee is served here...you...
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Cafe Mozart
It's not hard to work out the general theme of this cafe. The staff are dressed in historical costumes, there are paintings featuring Mozart's life on the walls, there is an airy relaxed feel, perfect for enjoying morning tea and sandwiches.
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Karpatia Etterem - Carpathia Restaurant
If you want to experience everything that Hungarian cuisine has to offer, then you should try this restaurant. It dates from the 1870s and offers every traditional dish you can think of. You can listen to the gypsy band while you sip wine and dine on hortobagyi palacsinta (meat-filled pancakes with sour cream sauce). Sour cherry soup, goose liver,...
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Soul Café & Restaurant
A fantastic place that is very nice, has great food, good service from friendly staff at very affordable prices. It was my favourite restaurant of all the places we visited in our 5 days in Budapest. I was perusing the menu and under the soups section saw: Goulash Soup French Onion Soup Cold Raspberry Soup with Lemon Sorbet This intrigued me so...
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Karma Cafe & Restaurant
A little slice of fusion cuisine was exactly what I needed after one too many fried cheese salads in Budapest. So, we found ourselves at Karma, a restaurant offering discounts to Budapest Card holders, located on the super-popular, super-cute Liszt Ferenc ter (#11, to be exact). I couldn't resist the opportunity to start my meal with cold fruit...
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Marquis de Salade
Marquis de Salade is a very interesting restaurant with a quiet ambience. The restaurant itself is located underground in a cellar, so it has a cozy feeling. The brick walls are decorated with Azeri carpets and photos of Baku. The service was excellent and I didn't have to wait a long time for my food. They have a very extensive menu, so sometimes...
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Dionysos Taverna
Dionysos Taverna serves the most authentic Greek food in Budapest! I come to this restaurant for every special occasion since the food, atmosphere, and service are all excellent. When you come to this restaurant, you feel like you are in Greece. The portions are pretty generous. The best appetizers are the tzatziki with bread, dolmades (stuffed...
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Kaltenberg Bajor Kiralyi Etterem -...
Kaltenberg (Kaltenberg Bavarian Royal Restaurant) has it all, you can try Hungarian and Bavarian dishes as well, but if you stick to your simple greek salad or something vegetarian, you won't be left starving either. However, their speciality is the heavy food, meat with some more meat, pasta, sour cream, etc...:) There is also live folk music...
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Ket Szerecsen Kavezo es Etterem - Ket...
Great atmosphere, popular with locals with friendly service. Our first visit was so enjoyable that we had to return 2 nights later. Our group of 4 tried various starters, mains and deserts and were never disappointed by anything that was put before us. The wine list caters for all tastes and is reasonably priced. It's very hard to choose a...
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Matyas Pince - Matthias Basement
When you're hungry you start to look for a place to eat. We had walked all day already and didn't want to go lookign for a nice place to eat for the rest of the evening. So we consulted the small guidebook that i had gotten from the travel agent and we choose this place. Apperenty the windows in the ceiling are famous internationally and are...
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King Arthur's Restaurant
In this authentic American bar everyone can find their favorite drink or food to be enjoyed at the bar. Sport events can be watched on big TV screens on jazz, blues, country, swing bands play live from Thursdays to Saturdays evenings on the stage. FISH & CHIPS 2290,- Made to a traditional British recipe with mayonnaise SHRIMP SKEWER 2 PIECES...
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Hild Etterem - Hild Restaurant
Great local restaurant in Central Pest. Has a history of over 70 years that spans the pre and post Communism period. The Beef Goulash is great as is their Mushroom Soup. Very good value for around $20 USD per person including 3 courses and drinks. Beef Goulash - Beef was amazingly tender.
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Iguana Bar & Grill
Considered by many to be the best Mexican in Hungary, this is, for me, easily one of the best restaurants in the capital. Quality food, with lots of options, including tasty vegetarian ones. Original ideas, house specialities and a choice of spice levels means that everyone can find something they will enjoy. The service is also very efficient and...
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Baraka has moved to a new location on the beautiful Andrassy ut. one block from the Heroes Square. It is located in the 5 star Andrassy hotel and is truly elegant and a wonderful experience. The food is exquisite from the first couses, intermezzo and amazing deserts from the owner/pastry chef. The dishes are edible artwork each one surpasses the...
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Kisbuda Gyongye Etterem - Pearl of...
A real old school Hungarian restaurant with style. Excelent local dishes, as well as international ones. Traditional hospitality like our grandfathers experienced it before WWII. Live music and garden during the summer. You can count on the waiter, you will like what he recommends.
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Aranyszarvas Vendeglo
This building from the beginning of the 18th century has been a restaurant and a pub for centuries. The menu still propose typical game-dishes... At walking distance from Castle hill, this is a very authentic restaurant with quality food...Even better, the prices there are far from the over-priced restaurant of the touristic area... A definite...
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Kulacs Etterem - Kulacs Restaurant
Visited Kulacs following many recommendations. We were offered another table as we found baby cockroages walking on our table and on the wall while we were waiting for our order.The waitor did not seem bothered and even joked about it at the end.He did not even change the table linen. The band was playing very few songs of gypsy and Hungarian...
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Kepiro Restaurant
FOOD: truely great. we had the seafood soufflè, snails, duck, fish, and this cholocate desert. All were brought out perfectly timed between intervals. The presentation was great. The tastes - sensational. SERVICE: extremely attentive staff. First Class. AMBIENCE: Slick, Modern, Cool, Discrete, Understated, Elegant VALUE: All in all - great food...
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Alabardos Restaurant
400 year old gothic restaurant. The largely meat oriented menu is well balanced, although a meal for two doesn't come cheap thanks to the restaurant's fine reputation and Castle Hill location. The outdoor terrace is particularly nice during the summer. 1st Class SPECIAL COURSES PREPARED AT THE TABLE Fillet Mignon of beef with Cognac flambeed...
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Astoria Cafe
A truly apulent setting in which to enjoy a light pastry and coffe, the interior of the Cafe Astoria retains an untouched turn of the 20th century charm. Reasonable prices, although service is pretty unremarkable. Open: 7a.m. 11p.m. daily
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'Kinai Gyors' - Chinese fast food...
My friend and I ate at Happy Kinai Bufe one lunchtime during a visit to Budapest in January 2008. This small Chinese buffet restaurant is located opposite Keleti railway station in the Pest region of the city. All of the food is laid out in trays behind a glass counter and, as all the descriptions were in Hungarian, we resorted to pointing at the...
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Pest-Buda Restaurant
All the reviews below are outdated and refer to a different restaurant. Pest Buda has a new owner and was made over 100% and has reopened as one of the coolest Hungarian restaurants in town. Features grandma's Hungarian kitchen from great ingredients, with love and soul. Casual and fresh and features the only true chef's table in the astonishing...
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Okay Italia
Again.. Not a Hungarian one. I red good words about this place from VT and elsewhere, and since we do love Italian restaurants, we did want to try this. The place was quite popular, I think we could have booked a table, but luckily we fit in, when there was only 2 of us, and we were there quite late. Many locals seemed to have eaten allready. We...
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Hotel Hold: Historia Restaurant,...
I attended a fabulous VT meeting in Budapest on Sunday 22nd June 2003. Unfortunatly, many restaurants seem to be closed on Sundays, but by chance we found Historia Etterem of Hotel Hold. This restaurant has a very nice open-air terrace in the inner court of the Hotel. They serve both local and international dishes for reasonable prices.
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Gambrinus Restaurant
Its expensive, for Hungary, but you pay 3 - 5000 HUF for the main courses, so not expensive by European (or norwegian..) standards. Three guys are playing violin, base and guitar on request. Traditional Hungarion food, exclusivly made and served. Excellent service! Nice selection of Veal courses.
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Vista Cafe Restaurant & Café
Buena Vista is separated into a restaurant (first floor), a caffeteria (ground floor) and also a pub.. Has a very beautiful style, you can be sure designers made a good job on it.. you will find beautiful harmony of colors and designs, that is not over too luxurious, but make it a lot comfortable.. Meditteranean dishes...
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Cafe Cyrano
We found Cyrano while walking on Váci utca. I fell for the sobriety of their decor with music at the right volume to talk without screaming. The atmosphere is suitable for romantic and/or fancy dining without making a big hole in your wallet (or pocket). I'd say it's suitable for business dinners during day time. Good sized portions, not too big...
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Magyar Borok Haza - House of Hungarian...
I think tha Borok haza is the most worthy thing to be visited in the old Buda. Forget about Fishermen bastion, Mathias church and all those gallerys in the King's palace! Go and taste some vines in Borok haza just some 100 meters away from these "must see places". Tokaji. You must try it! But do me a favour: taste that one with 5 stars, not the...
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Our sleek and comfortable one bedroom apartment is modern yet quaint, right in the heart of Kitchener and Waterloo! Within easy walking distance to both downtown cores, easy access to restaurants and nightlife, you will enjoy our quiet urban space!
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City Suites 138 - Casual Living
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We hope you will love our City Suites 138 apartment during your visit to Kitchener Waterloo!
138 Moore is a quiet, executive 1 bedroom + den apartment, in a beautiful century home surrounded by trees. Centrally located within minutes walking distance of Uptown Waterloo or Downtown Kitchener. Located on a major bus route and only steps away from the future LRT station, you won't find a better location than this!
The apartment is a lower level city suite, (rear entrance) within easy walking distance of groceries, banking, several restaurants, pubs and LCBO. You are truly located a few minutes walk from Uptown Waterloo or Downtown Kitchener.
Apartment Information • transitional design • Queen Size Bed from West Elm • Full Office • Leather sofa and Chairs in living room • 50" flat screen TV • In suite European style washer and dryer • Eat in Full Kitchen (for 2), Including Stove, Fridge & Microwave • All dishes, pots and pans & cooking utensils provided • Parking for one spot
You will find our apartment ideally located, very comfortable and with all the amenities you will need for your executive stay in Kitchener Waterloo!
Neighbourhood Information:
Family Neighbourhood - You will feel safe and secure in this lovely family oriented neighbourhood!
Work & Learn Nearby - No Commute - Large tech corporations, Hospitals and Universities are all within easy biking / walking distance. Wilfred Laurier, University of Waterloo - Health Sciences Campus & Pharmacy School, Clarica/Sunlife, Manulife, Stantec, & Communitech. The Tannery Warehouse District is right down the street with High-Tech firms such as (website hidden) and Desire2Learn, plus many smaller neighbourhood shops, stores and services.
Shop Nearby - Groceries, banking, government services, and health services are all within steps of your front door! Shop the Kitchener Farmers Market, Central Market, Vincenzo's or Sabletine! Beertown, The Bauer Kitchen, The Bauer Butcher, The Works….. all within easy walking distance of your front door!
Transportation - Local buses stop literally at your doorstep, and the main terminal is very close by. The VIA station with access to Toronto, as well as the new LRT station!
Entertainment - A short walk gets you to a variety of downtown & uptown restaurants, theatres and amenities. A five minute walk to downtown Kitchener and you have The Centre in The Square, Kitchener Public Library, & skating rink at Kitchener City Hall, and in 5 minutes to uptown Waterloo you have the Princess Twin, The Clay & Glass Gallery, The Shops in Waterloo Town Square, as well as the Waterloo Skating Rink! Lets not forget the world class institutions: The Perimeter Institute and The Center for International Governance!
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One bedroom apartment + den, kitchen and full bath. This is not a shared accommodation, you have access to the entire apartment. Included is a 50" wall mounted TV, with Rogers Cable as well as high speed Internet.
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Interaction - as much as the guests need!
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Our apartment is located in one of the most central areas of Kitchener-Waterloo. It is within walking distance to the Lang Tanning Building, or The Breithaupt Block, as well as either downtown core! Restaurants and bars are within close proximity, as are major Universities. The neighbourhood is very quiet and family oriented with beautiful century homes.
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Major bus stops right outside the front door!
Absolutely no smoking! Be respectful to our City Suite apartment and enjoy your stay!
City Suites 138 - Sweet Dreams!
The apartment and neighbourhood were great. On the day of arrival the host was very helpful. We stayed here for a month and we would recommend this apartment to anyone planning a trip to the Waterloo area.
Melissa is a lovely person who took the time to get to know us and to make us feel very welcome! Her location is perfectly placed on a quiet street with mature trees central to both Kitchener and Waterloo. Spacious, clean and esthetically pleasing, this basement apartment makes for an easy and comfortable stay.
I stayed in Melissa Scot's basement apartment for two months because of a research stay in the University of Waterloo. The apartment was perfect for my needs. It was ideally located with good bus connections (iExpress and bus 7) to downtown Waterloo and Kitchener. There was a supermarket just one block away so grocery shopping was convenient. The neighbourhood was enjoyable with lots of green, pleasant houses, friendly neighbours. And the apartment itself was fantastic; the pictures depict quite well how it all looks. The kitchen was well equipped and the big television with lots of radio channels was a blast. It was a sunny autumn and I enjoyed reading in the garden with curious squirrels dropping by. But most of all, I appreciated the small office where I spent countless hours working on my research.
Melissa was a splendid host. All preparations went very smoothly (and given that I came from Europe the time difference was a factor) and during my time in Kitchener was helpful when needed. There was a booklet with various practical instructions about the apartment, shopping opportunities in the area which served me quite well. Overall, I would definitely recommend this for shorter stays in the Waterloo area.
We had a nice stay here, with the whole basement apartment to ourselves. Melissa was welcoming, with some tips on the local area, and had a set us us up with a few supplies to start us off - the fresh bagels and cream cheese were much appreciated :) The apartment itself was nicely furnished and had a good feel. There was some occasional humming that could be heard in the bedroom, which isn't ideal for a light sleeper, but it's manageable. It was good to have the separate study area with desk (as we both had to work while there), and the rooms were all a good size.
I had a great experience staying at City Suites Apartment for 3 weeks. Melissa was very welcoming and attentive, she left food in the kitchen, and the apartment was very clean. The photographs in the listing lived up to the reality. The neighbourhood is quiet and easily accessible to many amenities. The apartment felt like a home away from home. I would definitely recommend it.
My husband and I stayed in this quaint little apartment while visiting our son in Waterloo. Melissa was a wonderful host and went out of her way to make sure our stay was enjoyable. The apartment was immaculate and the bed was more comfortable than most hotels we have stayed in. Our flight was not leaving until later in the day and she very graciously offered the use of the apartment until we were ready to leave.
We had a very enjoyable stay at Melissa´s appartement. We actually exceeded our expectations in many aspects. The hosts are very friendly and accomodating and the place is very cosy and clean.
I love to travel & live like the locals. My happiest days are spent exploring new places, or just sitting in a cafe and watching all that exists around me. I own a design company Mel V Inc, and an online retail store, Tableaux Ltd, with my partner, Spencer Thackray. We both love and appreciate interior design which has led us to purchasing multiple properties of which we have renovated and now rent out short term and long term. Whenever we travel we ALWAYS rent an apartment or house, and NEVER stay in hotels. We have both done an extensive amount of travelling for work and for pleasure and truly understand the needs of a weary traveller! I am torn between my love for Italy and my love for Southern California. My ideal day is spent sitting beachside in Marina Del Rey with a glass of red wine watching the sunset!
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Government departments, as we report today, are experiencing an unusually high turnover of staff.
One striking result is that a majority of ministers have been in their current jobs longer than their most senior civil servants. Both in principle and in practice, this need not necessarily be a bad thing. A perennial complaint from outsiders who have dealings with the Civil Service, particularly with its rarefied upper echelons, is that while it may be world-class in many areas, it is uniquely adept at devising ways of protecting its own interests. If the accelerated turnover in the upper ranks means that new thinking can rise faster, the departure of some senior staff need not be too much mourned.
Other factors may also be in play. Some departments are always happier than others, and some ministers more popular than others. That staff turnover is especially high at Education, where Michael Gove is Secretary of State, and at Communities and Local Government, where Eric Pickles is in charge, may mean that these two politicians are "difficult" characters. But it could also mean that they are especially determined or committed to policies demanding new approaches, and that they have alienated those staff who do not see the future the same way.
Every government that aspires to use its parliamentary majority to bring about change complains sooner or later about delaying by civil servants. Sometimes there are clashes. As it is the minister, not the civil servant, that has the political mandate, a parting of the ways may make sense. If dissenters cannot live with the policy, which is what civil servants are paid to do, then it is better for them to leave rather than sabotage it from within.
While a historically high turnover of civil servants should not, of itself, be a cause for panic, however, and could even be healthy, it is no reason for complacency either. For what at least some of the recent departures suggest is that highly competent and well qualified individuals are choosing to jump ship for perhaps less contentious, and almost certainly better remunerated, employment in the private sector.
In the relatively recent past, the Civil Service has tried to make itself competitive as an employer by incorporating certain private-sector mechanisms, notably performance bonuses. In at least one recent case, that of the head of the Student Loans Company, a special tax dispensation was negotiated – which is now, quite rightly, to be withdrawn.
But the dilemma remains: how to attract and retain expertise that is also in demand elsewhere, while not inflating salaries across the Civil Service, where pay is set centrally by length of service and grade? One solution would be to make pay more flexible – for scarce skills – than the current rigid grade structure allows. Another, no less politically difficult at a time when so many people have their pay frozen or cut, would be to raise pay significantly at the top, bringing the Civil Service into line with the recent trend for top professional pay – of doctors, lawyers, headteachers and others – to race away, leaving the less qualified far behind.
Neither remedy would be well received, except by the potential beneficiaries. A more imaginative solution would be to encourage more fluidity between the Civil Service and elsewhere, so that a spell in Whitehall would be treated, as its equivalent in the US government, as a period of public service, where professionals accepted that the financial rewards will be lower. However ministers choose to respond, if at all, they could do worse than seize this rare opportunity to introduce fresh blood into a service whose signal defect remains its institutional aversion to change.
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Former Socceroo Robbie Slater has warned Australian football is not immune to match fixing after police in Europe unveiled a massive criminal network that rigged hundreds of matches around the world.
Europol said a five-country probe had identified some 380 suspicious matches targeted by a Singapore-based betting cartel, whose illegal activities stretched to players, referees and officials across the world and at all levels of the game.
Matches included two Champions League games, one of them in England, and World Cup qualifiers, netting criminals more than eight million euros ($A10.44 million).
While the scandal apparently involves some Asian football, there was no suggestion of A-League games or Socceroos games being involved and Slater said it was unlikely match fixing was an issue in Australia.
But the Fox Sports commentator said the wide-spread nature of the findings meant nothing could be ruled out.
Slater was playing with Lens in France when French heavyweights Marseille were relegated because of a bribery scandal in 1994 and speaking to people involved at the time opened his eyes to the existence of match fixing.
"I think anyone can (be involved)," Slater said.
"What my experience in France made me realise is it can happen to anyone, so it's not exclusive to one country.
"You would love to think in Australia, we are good sports and you'd love to think that's the case.
"We're a very new league. I'd be surprised if anything's gone on here but when you look at the amount of competitions that have been mentioned, you can't rule anything out."
Slater said even if Australia was not involved in the scandal, it could hurt the game here.
"Australian's don't like cheats," he said.
"If it's that deep, it can certainly have an affect on us."
Sydney FC defender Seb Ryall was shocked by the findings but was confident match fixing was not an issue in the A-League.
Anti-gambling advocate Nick Xenophon called for tougher laws for betting on sport and politics.
The independent senator also wants to know if soccer matches in Australia have been fixed.
"The laws here are inadequate," Senator Xenophon told reporters in Canberra on Tuesday.
He said ball-by-ball and micro-betting made sports ripe for corruption and match fixing and said the findings from Europol were "very disturbing".
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Europol director Rob Wainwright told a news conference in The Hague the fall-out hit at the heart of the world game's reputation.
"It is clear to us that this is the biggest investigation ever into suspected match fixing," Wainwright said.
World governing body FIFA said closer cooperation was needed between football's authorities and law enforcement agencies to crack down on match-fixers.
European governing body UEFA for its part said it was already working with the authorities.
The global policing body's chief Ronald Noble said last November it expected to make arrests in Singapore over last year's Italian illegal betting scandal after links were suspected between one suspect and crimelord Tan Seet Eng or Dan Tan.
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In April, an ITC judge ruled that Samsung had infringed an Apple patent on a text selection feature in both its smartphones and tablets. That patent was U.S. Patent No. RE41,922, covering "a method and apparatus for providing translucent images on a computer display," and the judge found that the text selection feature in the stock Android Browser application and the translucent buttons of the Android photo gallery were infringing.
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A first-half header from Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and a brace from Wayne Rooney after the break gave England a convincing 3-1 victory away to Scotland. It was The Three Lions' six successive win since returning from a disastrous World Cup, with the result ensuring that Roy Hodgson's men end 2014 on a high. England are next in action at home in a Euro 2016 Qualifier at home to Slovenia in March, which is followed by a friendly against Italy.
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- AC Milan v Verona Odds Rossoneri to grab three points at San Siro
- La Liga Best Bets Real Madrid Villarreal and Levante to grab wins
- Bradford v Reading Odds A replay beckons in this FA Cup quarter final tie


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