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PORTLAND --Shop owners fed up after a rash of iPad and iPhone thefts in boutiques across Portland teamed up to catch a suspect Friday.
A shop owner spotted one man in her Northwest Portland store and captured his picture. Shop owners circulated the picture, believing the man belongs to a team of thieves.
The woman then called the boyfriend of another shop owner for help, and that s when James Dees spotted the man with another guy outside the store.
The two men split up, so Dees called police and followed one of them.
I then went up to him and ask him if he knew what an off-duty police officer looks like. He threw the iPad at me and I gave chase, but I'm wearing good shoes so I backed off, Dees said.
Dees then told a Mounted Patrol Officer what was going on and the man was taken into custody in Old Town Portland.
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a beautiful journey along the scenic Delaware River behind New
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Visit to one of New
Jersey's most beautiful Wineries. The train will take you to the end
of our line where you will board a bus for the short trip to the
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After a Steam Train ride along the Delaware and
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Catalinas may be "newer" if you compare the same bucks for a Moody, but in five years, the Moody will still look the same, while the Cat will look 8 (if not 10) years older. The CC Moody 40 I saw was a good looking boat. The cockpit was far enough aft to keep it from looking like a trawler, and the overall profile was low enough to be pretty. The after deck was big enough to be useful for handling dinghies, sunbathing, or fishing, without interfering with or messing up the cockpit. The lazarette was big enough to be useful too. If I remember correctly, below, there was a tri-cabin setup with a v-berth forward, a upper & lower berths next to port in their own cabin, with a head opposite. The roomy main salon had comfortable banquettes and swivel chairs, with the galley to port of the companionway ladder. To starboard was the nav station and the passage aft to the master suite, alongside the engine compartment. In the passage aft to the Master suite there was another single berth. The Master suite had good headroom and another head, to port (opposite the passage on the stbd side.) Nice joinery and ample stowage as well. The one drawback (if it is one in your mind) was the mast being deck-stepped. Since the boat had made it transatlantic before I saw it, however, this didn't seem to be too much of an issue. Don't know how they sail, but do the PHRF ratings seem normal for a cruiser?
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Begin a downhill walk with your guide into the city's ruins. The route will take you past the Odeon, the Celsus Library, the Temple of Hadrian, the Fountain of Trajan and the Great Theater. The theater, one of the city's best-preserved monuments, it is still used today for the local spring festival. It once had seating space for 24,000 people, and it is believed to be the site where St Paul preached to the Ephesians.
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Thanks! But it's actually a bit snug when zippered and the sleeves are about an inch or two too short. Thinking about selling it and trying for a bigger size.
I bought this one new off of eBay. It is a slim G9 sized as a 38. I usually wear a 40 in jackets, so if I were to re-buy I would get that size in the slim fit.
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Unfortunately I don't know the brand and there's no label (well, the label says "100 % Leather and Cotton Made in China ..."). They're suede equestrian gloves which I've had for years, and if you check out equestrian apparel stores you'll find many gloves in a similar style (though blue suede is unusual in a riding glove, I admit), and in various levels of formality and informality. Riding gloves tend to be quite durable, and even the dressier ones are often inexpensive compared to comparably well made gloves you might find in men's apparel shops. In general, the better ones are good value.
Sorry I don't have more information on this particular pair.
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I don't get this outfit, it would work much better with the more rugged elements if you removed the tie and had some thick oxford button down. BTW is the shirt blue with a contrasting collar or just plain white?
MC trick: if it's casual don't wear a tie, jeans are casual, corduroy is casual, those boots are casual, etc.
Connery's reaction when he heard that a knit tie in a 4ih wasn't appropriate for a spread collar:
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Connery is wearing a three piece with a knit and a spread collar, in a movie, probably set and filmed in the 60s. Our friend is dressing now, with jeans and a lot of casual elements. Same advice as above, ditch tie, replace shirt.
I did end up ditching the tie. Kept the shirt though. Not because I thought it was a good decision, but because I already had it on. :-X
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I agree with this. I wasn't saying that a tie was good with that outfit, I was commenting on the specific critique of knit tie + spread collar.


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Find a local credit union with good online banking.
Many of the major banks are extremely dishonest. Bank of America almost left me stranded overseas once by charging me huge fees each time I used my card overseas- something they promised not to do when I met with them before my trip. They literally robbed me!
My experience with credit unions is that they generally will have much better service, and no unexpected fees. They have no conflict of interest with stockholders, executives, etc- they are customer owned and exist solely for the benefit of their members.
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Nyepi, the day of silence, is a very interesting ceremony usualy in march or april.
It is strictly forbidden to be outside your house or hotel for about 30 hours !!
And you should make no noise and use no light.
And it is enforced with stiff fines !!
Late afternoon and evening there are processions with giant figures "Ogoh Ogohs" in Kuta also with laser illumiations, in the night they will be placed on the beach and you have to hide in your hotel / house. On the 3. day in the morning most of the Ogoh Ogohs will be destroyed and you can go out again.
Next on23. march 2012, 12. march 2013, 31. march 2014, 21. march 2015.
Unique Suggestions: If you want to see it or can´t avoid it stay in a hotel / resort with a pool and a fully working kitchen (some will have only fried rice).
Fun Alternatives: Take the last boat from Padangbai to Lombok or Gilimanuk to Java
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Polo and Polo Ralph Lauren Stores
first of all, if you would check on the official Ralph Lauren Website www.ralphlauren.com/ý , you would see that they don't have any Ralph Lauren or Polo Ralph Lauren or Polo Stores in Indonesia (Bali and Batam Island included!). why is it that there are many Polo and Polo Ralph Lauren Stores in Kuta and Bali, you would ask?
simply because a local enterprising businessman trademarked Polo and Polo Ralph Lauren in the Indonesian local patent office before Ralph Lauren can come and build stores in Indonesia, that is why when you see the many Polo and Polo Ralph Lauren stores in Kuta and around bali and around Indonesia, these are all counterfeit! they hare made by local indonesian businessman and copied from Ralph Lauren but you would see that the fabrics are thin and don't be tempted by the 50% discount of buying 3 or more shirts as still, they are not the original Ralph lauren Merchandise!
most polo shops are open from 10:00 am to 10:00 pm everyday
Unique Suggestions: there are lots of Polo and Polo Ralph Lauren stores in Kuta and Bali, you can look but don't buy if you are not into counterfeit stuff like me!
Fun Alternatives: don't buy these counterfeit stuffs!
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Horse Carriage Ride
along the main JI Pantai Kuta Street facing kuta beach (the main beach road) here in Kuta,there are rows of horse drawn carriage that catered primarily to adventurous tourists and the horse carriage ride is offered by the locals for about 60,000 Rupiah per hour for willing tourists who want to go around the kuta and seminyak area around the horse carriage and the trip can go up to 4 hours and prices then come up to 220,000 rupiah.
few people do the horse carriage ride here as they charge a lot for tourists and it is easy to walk around the kuta area.
Unique Suggestions: haggle a lot since there are not many people doing the horse carriage ride so you could bring down the rate up to 40,000 rupiah for a 30 minute ride around kuta.
Fun Alternatives: just don't ride them since walking around kuta is really easy as this tourist area is small
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If want to send postcard or packet, or anything.... better go to the real post office than to the cyber cafe that mention also post office and can send anything to all of the world.... 'cos it happens to me, that I send 10 post cards to my friends on VT, and no one arrive!!
Be careful with some tailor shops
Around Kuta you'll found many tailor shops...making leather attire but mostly doing men and women suits. Be very careful choosing tailors...some of them claimed they can sew your pants/shirts/suits/jacket in a short time...but in the end when it doesn't fit...they'll give 1001 excuses why they can't fix it...even worst dissapear from the shop telling their staff they're not around. Some of these people are willing to do anything to get your money!!!
Pay to get in; pay to get out
To clear Bali's customs, I purchased a US$25 visa to enter then another US$15.00 to leave! I did not have any US$ and so was told to pay in UK sterling. Having done some calculations after the event, it soon became apparent why they were so happy to take sterling. The entry visa cost me £20.00 UK and £10.00 UK for the exit visa. Doing a conversion on xe.com, it seems I was, in fact charged the equivalent of $32.41US to enter and $16.20US to leave. Seems a little bit naughty to me. You have been warned!
Unique Suggestions: Take some US$ if you can or demand some change!
Too many noughts!
I am not too proud to admit that I was taken advantage of due to my ignorance regarding the Indonesian Rupiah. Being from the UK, I am not used to handing over millions to settle a three day hotel bill or thousands for a bottle of water. Therefore, on more than one occasion I paid substantially more than I should have done to certain street vendors. So just keep an eye on your noughts!
Bargain bargain bargain!!!
When you shop in Bali's street vendors, bargain your way to the floor! They will give a different price to tourists (org bule - white guys) than to locals. Sometimes locals are able to get the same item for half the price. So please, find out what the thing you'd like to buy is worth, and bargain your way down. A good rule of thumb is, try to walk away if they don't agree to your lowest price. Usually they will call you back and give you somewhere close to your lowest price. Especially after the bombing, tourism is slow, they will definitely try to sell things to tourist even at a low price. So learn how to bargain and bargain away!
Fun Alternatives: Walking away is a good way to tell if the price is low enough!
The price could go lower ....
When buying necklaces or bracelets at Kuta Beach, do not be disappointed with the earlier prices you have paid for your purchases. The vendors are fond of lowering the prices further once you are done with your purchases to entice you to buy even more.
Unique Suggestions: Well, if you wish to buy more, why not - the price is cheaper anyway...
If you can bear with this kind of "trap", buy from a departmental store, like "Matahari" where prices are fixed.
Fun Alternatives: As above
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Touts at the airport
When you arrive at Bali, you may meet touts at the customs or buggage claiming area who will try to negotiate with you to help you to clear customs faster if you give them some money. Some of these so-called touts are actually the customs officers themselves! Do be careful of such people and watch your luggage.
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check out the prices
we wanted to go rafting so there were loads of tour counters along kuta. they will always ask where and which hotel u staying. the first one we started bargaining with showed us the brouchure and the price stated around 100 usd and then he waited for our response which was obviously too expensive. then he said 50% discount cos its low season. i said no thanks and started walking away cos it was still expensive. he started calling out lower and lower prices, i just kept on shaking my head. he finally offered 40usd for 2 persons which i thought was a good price.
i guess its finding the price u r comfortable with. some shopkeepers are very agressive but just maintain your cool and be firm. one even refused to let me leave but it helped that i was taller and bigger than him :p
Hawkers! Hawkers! Hawkers!...and MORE Hawkers!
There are many hawkers or what i call 'vendors' (Hawkers seems a bit too blunt for me) in Bali - its a well known fact. BUT what disappoints me the most when i goto Bali (I have been already 25-30 times) is that Tourists continuously get 'sucked in'.
The trouble here is that Tourists are TOO KIND. Now dont get me wrong this isnt a bad thing, but the vendors take advantage of this.
For example, as another writer on VT expereicend they tout and give you serivices you dont request:
1. Touts such as 'Good Price!' or 'Please im hungry' etc etc
2. Making you pay for serivices such as manicures when you are getting a massage on the beach - even though you EXPRESSLY decline the provision of such services. BUT because tourists are nice they will manicure your toes even with your rejection and ask for a payment otherwise - if you dont, they call the police.
So how do you survive the innumerable touts, taunts (yes, you do get taunted if you dont buy their goods) and canvassing without looking like an evil imperialist?
Simple! Just walk on by and when they canvass to you DO NOT engage in eye contact and just say a polite (not too polite) "No, Thnak you" and walk on by.
As soon as they see a weakness in you they will swarm to you like vultures on a carcass (nice analogy :-)).
Unique Suggestions: So use the byronium113 three-step approach:
1. Walk normally
2. Decline politely - NO EYE CONTACT
3. Walk normally
If they taunt you - IGNORE it
i) You are outnumbered
ii) If you get in trouble by assaulting them or anything the police will bust your a** and ask money from you in order to get released andl
iii) You dont set a good image for other tourists if you assault anyone.
REMEMBER STAY Calm
Be strong
Dont convey interest in their product or else you'll pay through the nose
You can enjoy Bali much more byignoring the hawkers than by satisfying them.
I give you good price!
Touts everywhere seems to be saying the same thing over and over again. Everywhere you can hear "I give you good price!" or "Only one dollar", or "Please, my children have not eaten for days" or "Tolong, buat pelaris", etc..
Unique Suggestions: Smile and shake your head. If you buy one, more touts will come after you....
Manicure? More than that!
Along Kuta beach, there will be ladies trying to promote their services to u. I was interested in a Manicure with nailart. So i negotiated the price and sat down. ($70000 rp)
When I sat down, a bunch of her friends approached me! Some of them selling sarongs, some selling bracelets, some do temporary tatoos, some do hair locks, some do massage. Before i know it, while doing my nails, one woman was massaging my back. I said no, but she continued! And another woman started to put bracelets around my wrist! I said no but I could not move cos i was doing my manicure! And another woman started to plaid my hair! I ended up paying more than $100000rp for their services! BEWARE! SAY NO FIRMLY
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Man arrested in New York Salvador Dali heist
Published on Feb 20, 2013 6:52 AM
NEW YORK (AFP) - United States (US) authorities said on Tuesday they have arrested a Greek man for making off with a Salvador Dali watercolor and ink painting worth about US$150,000 (S$186,000) from a New York private art gallery in June.
Phivos Istavrioglou, 29, was arrested on Saturday at JFK international airport in a sting that lured him to the US from Italy, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance announced.
"After surveillance images of a suspect were released to the public, the drawing... was anonymously mailed back to the gallery from Greece.
"A subsequent investigation led to the arrest and indictment of the defendant, who is charged in New York State Supreme Court with Grand Larceny in the Second Degree," Mr Vance said in a statement.
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NEW YORK—US stocks were mixed early Thursday despite weekly unemployment claims in the United States falling to their lowest level in four years.
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The tech-rich Nasdaq was up 3.30 points (0.11 percent) at 3,071.39 and the broad-market S&P 500 gained 0.37 point (0.03 percent) to 1,399.33.
The Labor Department reported 357,000 initial jobless claims were filed in the week ending March 31, the lowest level since April 2008.
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Mammoth Hot Springs area, as seen from Upper Terraces. Mammoth Hotel complex on the left; Fort Yellowstone buildings on the right. October 16, 2008. 36 images with Canon SX110 and Gigapan.
The lighting conditions were not optimal, which is why the sky is so washed out. The good news is that they got better after this...
Absaroka Volcanics (Eocene) dominate the cliffs on the other side of this glacial trough, as well as the talus slope in the foreground.
Volcaniclastic breccia from the May 18, 1980 eruption of Mount. St. Helens. Found approximately four miles northwest of Toutle, WA. To explore this sample's translucent features, click here: gigapan.com/gigapans/124815 Sample collected and contributed by Lee Gonzalez.
This area was in the distal region of the Devastated Zone from the May 18, 1980 Mt. St. Helens blast. Note how below the road the forest regeneration is at a far more advanced stage than above the road. This is the result of tree plantings in the lower area by the timber companies that own the land.
Devils Tower as viewed from the National Monument group campsite. The cottonwoods were just beginning to turn yellow for fall.
Early morning view of the west side of Devils Tower.
At least this roadcut was below the clouds. You can see the 1980 ash deposit near the top of the cut.
Just around the corner from where Gary Rosenquist snapped the famous series of photos of the beginning of the eruption of Mount St. Helens on the morning of May 18, 1980. This is near the edge of the blast zone; many trees were knocked down here but quite a few were still standing, albeit stripped of their branches.


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The Pokes will go head-to-head with each Big 12 team in a round-robin conference dual final on Friday; Then, the Cowboys will take to the mats Saturday for individual competition.
Top-seeded Oklahoma State opens with Illinois Friday night.
As the No. 1 team in the nation, Oklahoma State wrestling will travel to Kent, Ohio, to face Kent State, Northern Iowa and Wisconsin.
The Oklahoma State wrestling squad will have an action-packed weekend, hoping to improve to 13-0 overall and 4-0 in Big 12 action.
2013-14: Compiled a 18-11 record and 3-4 dual record ... Wrestled primarily at 184 pounds ... First dual win came in the form of a fall in 1:11 over Nick Bayer from Northern Colorado ... Defeated multiple ranked opponents, including No. 10 John Eblen of Missouri, No. 12 T.J. Dudley of Nebraska and No. 20 Alex Utley of North Carolina ... Won 14 matches with bonus points, including 11 falls and three major decisions ... Finished second at the UCM Open.
2012-13 (Redshirt Year): Went 10-4 in his first year as a Poke, wrestling exclusively at open tournaments ... Eight of his wins came by fall and another came by major decision ... All but two of his falls came in the first period, with his fastest coming in 47 seconds ... Finished second at the Oklahoma Open and third at the UCM Open ... Also competed at the Lindenwood Open.
High School: Attended Mead HS in Spokane, Wash., where he was coached by Phil McLean ... No. 1-ranked wrestler nationally in his weight class by several outlets during his senior year ... Compiled a 144-8 career record ... Finished his high school career with individual state titles in 2009, 2011 and 2012 ... Received the Dan Hodge Award, the Wade Schalles Award and the Dave Schultz regional award in 2012 after compiling a perfect 42-0 record and pinning all 42 of his opponents ... During the 2010-11 season, he won the ASICS National Championship in Greco and Freestyle at 171 pounds and was also a double champion at the FILA Cadet Nationals in Ohio, where he was named Outstanding Wrestler ... Represented the United States at the FILA Cadet World Championships in Hungary in August ... Received All-America honors at the Fargo ASICS Championships for his third-place finish in Greco and second-place finish in Freestyle ... Earned silver at the 2010 Youth Olympic Games in Singapore and won the FILA Cadet Freestyle Pan American championship, the Cadet Freestyle and Greco National championship and the FILA Cadet Freestyle National championship ... Placed second in Freestyle and fourth in Greco at Cadet Nationals in 2009 ... Two-time academic state champion ... Member of Fellowship of Christian Athletes and Associated Student Body.
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Redoing suburbs another "Sputnik moment"
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Add another category to President Barack Obama's "Sputnik moment": redoing America's close-in suburbs.
Like Clairemont, Point Loma, National City, La Mesa -- the so-called "first-tier" suburbs that were built after World War II.
Close to transit and jobs, containing the pipes and parks that make livability possible, these communities represent the focus of the next round of redevelopment, now that downtown San Diego and central business districts in other cities have been largely rebuilt.
They are the "sweet spot for redevelopment," according to Patrick Phillips.
"They have a distinct urban feel but not quite the urban grit. They are close to transit, jobs, cultural and entertainment facilities. They are walkable, architecturally interesting -- and they are employment centers."
He is the CEO of the Urban Land Institute, a Washington, D.C., think tank, who keynoted a recent conference in North Carolina and elaborated on his views in a subsequent interview.
"This point in time might be considered our industry's Sputnik moment, when we readjust our thinking and our expectations about real estate," he said.
In the interview, he said the challenge will be to get residents of these neighborhoods to rise above NIMBYism -- not in my backyard attitudes opposing change around them.
"We see it everywhere," he said, "despite the fact that these neighborhoods are well located to receive additional density, particularly in transit investment or other new investment in infrastructure."
The trick, he said, is better design for new development on underperforming sites, such as commercial strip centers, not necessarily on blocks containing well-maintained single-family homes.
"It's good design, not density," he said. "It's how much we can vary the form from the existing building pattern."
San Diego urban designer Howard Blackson, in a separate interview, couldn't agree more that design is key. But he said ULI and local planning agencies have failed to come up with tools beyond the 50-year-old system of zoning and building codes.
"We're trying to do high-density, mixed use, transit oriented development without following a very good regional plan," Blackson said. "We have a good smart-growth map but it's not grounded in any sort of tools. The locals only know what they know."
He said San Diego does have some successful models, from 1920s neighborhoods like Kensington and Rancho Santa Fe to the Uptown District completed about 20 years ago on a former Sears site in Hillcrest.
"We have a lot of great stuff and a great environment," he said. "We don't have a lot of great places.
In his speech, Phillips said the mistake in recent times is that new development occurred in ex-urbs, such as Temecula and the rest of southern Riverside County. Many buyers moved there where they could afford large homes, but then ate up a lot of their savings in commuting costs.
Now, he said, younger people desire to live in vibrant neighborhoods close to work, and their aging Baby Boomer parents plan to keep working and not move.
"In the area of workforce housing, it's clear that despite the housing collapse in many areas, there is still a shortage of affordable housing that is close to jobs," Phillips said. "Yes, home prices declined, but that does not address the fact that in most of urban areas, the bulk of the mainstream workforce lives far from employment."


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Johnson Space Centers (JSC) Acting Director Roy S. Estess speaks from the lectern in Hangar 990 at Ellington Field during the STS-108 and Expedition Three crew return ceremonies. Seated (from left) are Nikolai Zubov, Deputy Director for Logistics and Procurement, Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, Star City, Russia; astronaut Frank L. Culbertson, Jr., Expedition Three mission commander; and cosmonauts Mikhail Tyurin and Vladimir N. Dezhurov, both Expedition Three flight engineers. Tyurin and Dezhurov represent Rosaviakosmos. The STS-108 crew delivered the Expedition Four crew and supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) and brought the Expedition Three crew back to Earth.
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Beautiful two-bedroom oceanfront cottage apartment with unbelievable second floor views and next-door to historic Fort Moultrie.
This is the best small vacation spot you'll find. The views from the second floor porch, bedroom and living area are unbelievable. The historic Fort Moultrie property and a large maritime forest extend for over a mile up the beach making for a seemingly deserted island during walks and runs. We have a birds-eye view of every boat that passes through the harbor whether it's a cruise ship, sailing ketch or shrimp boat.
Fishing out front is good and you're almost always guaranteed to see lots of bottle-nose dolphins. Swimming right of the rock jetty is good as we have a gentle slope with small, lapping waves.
You can walk up the beach in the morning to watch the sunrise over the ocean and then sit out front in our Adirondack chairs to see spectacular sunsets over the harbor and the steeples of old Charleston.
Our place is a 100 year-old Southern beach cottage that was built to house Army Corps nurses prior to WWI. While totally updated and in great condition, we've made sure to preserve the old beach cottage charm. It's wonderfully decorated but is all about comfort.
We have lots of books for reading and napping. Much to our chagrin, we also have wireless internet, cable, DVD and an iPod ready CD player. We are literally next door to historic Fort Moultrie that is now a very uncrowded National Park but played an integral role in the Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWI and WWII.
Sullivan's Island is not a tourist town. It is a beautiful and quaint village island. It's mostly made up of full time residents. It is very safe and family friendly. You can bicycle down to the town center for great restaurants with outdoor dining, playgrounds, tennis, basketball, beach volleyball, galleries and a small grocery store. Lots of folks think of Sullivan's Island as 'Mayberry by the Sea'.
Keywords: cottage, condo, old, vintage, apartment, condominium, historic
Because Sullivan's Island is so incredible...mimimal tourism...laid back...great beach...lots of history...fun restaurants...old beach village funky
We previously owned the other apartments in the cottage but always loved the second floor unit the most. It has unbelievable views and additional privacy.
Keith: Once again we had a wonderful week in your cottage! It's sure hard to leave such a calming and relaxing place!!! Thank you for everything. We can't wait to come back. There is absolutely no where else we'd rather be than sitting on the porch of your cottage. We love it there and we love Sullivan's Island
This was the most relaxing vacation we've EVER had! The cottage welcomed us in saying "You're home for the week". We spent our time sitting on the porch watching the cargo ships slide silently by, watching the pelicans land on the jetty, and watching the dolphins swim lazily back and forth. This was the perfect medicine for a hectic life. The side effect is a lot of wonderful memories and the knowledge that we must come back again. Thanks Keith for giving us this wonderful respite!
We reluctantly arrived back home after a wonderfully relaxing time at your beach cottage. Thank you for sharing your little piece of paradise on Sullivan's Island. We loved the history of the home, the setting and watching the boats travel into and out of Charleston Harbor. Every morning we'd wake up to the spectacular view from the bedroom and the gorgeous early morning light and we spent endless amounts of time on the front porch. It's truly a magical place and we will definitely be back. Out of all of the places we've stayed in the Charleston area, this one became our favorite by far. We will be back.
My wife and I absolutely loved this cottage. A wonderful beachy combination of comfort, beach front location and rustic old style charm. The unit really felt like the "beach". The owner, Heather, was delightful and extremely helpful. The unit was very clean, comfortably decorated and well equipped. As other reviewers have noted, the porch is a wonderful place to sit--having coffee in the morning or cocktails at the end of the day enjoying the sunset (while beach front, the unit sits on the southern end of the island and interestingly allows a western--hence great view of the sunset). The unit is small, so great for a couple or family with a couple small kids. There are a number of good and fun restaurants on Sullivans Island or in nearby Mt. Pleasant--and of course Charleston is also close. The Sullivans restaurants offer an easy beach vibe--we never bothered to leave Sullivans. Just a great, great place. Good place to stare at the ocean, walk on the beach, sleep, enjoy a cocktail and watch some sports on TV. Very relaxing.
We are so excited about our return to this wonderful cottage on Sullivan's Island! We stayed here in June 2011 & have been dreaming of our return ever since. We will be back in May 2015!!! There's no place better to stay, in our opinion, than on Sullivan's Island. And this cottage is just so perfectly located. You can sit on the porch & be entertained by the water traffic or read a book or simply do nothing but enjoy the ocean breeze. Inside the cottage it's so comfortable you feel like you're at home - until you look out the window! Keith is so very helpful with suggestions and has already given us things to think about for our visit next year. Love, love, love this place! Can't hardly wait till May. See you then Keith :)
We just finished a one week stay at this wonderful property and I cannot say enough good things about it. The unit was exactly what we were looking for with 2 young boys. There was tons to do on the island and in Charleston. The views were incredible and the beaches were fantastic. We will definitely visit again!
Bottle-nose dolphin viewing, Bird watching, Golf carts, Parasailing, Perfect launch site for Hobie Cats and kayaks
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Perhaps there's a limit to female masochism after all. To the great astonishment of the New York Times, which put the story on page one, Creating a Life, Sylvia Ann Hewlett's book deploring the failure of female professionals to have as many children as she thinks they need to be happy, is a big commercial flop ("The Talk of the Book World Still Can't Sell," May 20). Out of a 30,000-copy first printing, perhaps 8,000 have sold, despite a publicity campaign from heaven: Time cover story, 60 Minutes, Oprah, Today, wall-to-wall radio. The UK edition, Baby Hunger (Hewlett's original choice of title--gag me with a spoon!), is also piling up in warehouses.
The Times quotes numerous bewildered publishing people--could it be the cover? women's "deep level of anxiety"?--but it's no big mystery why the book isn't selling. Except when right-wing foundations buy up truckloads of copies, antifeminist tracts usually do poorly despite heavy attention. The media love them--this week's newsstand features New York with "Baby Panic" and Us with "Will They Ever Have Babies?" in which Jennifer Aniston and other nulliparous stars bemoan their lot--but book buyers don't bite. Hewlett follows in the steps of Katie Roiphe, who got great press but few readers for The Morning After, which argued that date rape was just "bad sex." Partly the reason is that these books tend to be so flimsy that the media campaign gives away their entire contents, but the main reason is that nobody but women buy books about women--and women who buy hardcover books are mostly feminists. They know date rape isn't bad sex, and they don't need Hewlett to tell them their biological clocks are ticking. (Apparently not as fast as Ms. Hewlett claims, though. Dr. Alan DeCherney told the Times a woman's chances of getting pregnant at 40 are better than Hewlett makes out.) Why buy a book that tells you to smile, settle and rattle those pots and pans? That's what your relatives are for.
By the way, my friend Judith Friedlander, coiner of the immortal phrase "a creeping nonchoice," was surprised to find herself on Hewlett's list of tearful women whose careers got in the way of childbearing. "I've had a great life," she told me, "with no regrets, and I spent a long time telling Hewlett just that."
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What if a woman ran for President who had great progressive politics except for one thing--she believed that any man accused of rape or sexual harassment should be castrated without a trial? How many progressive men would say to themselves, Oh well, she's got great positions on unions, the environment, the death penalty, and all the rest, and besides, women really like her, so she gets my vote! Ten men? three? two?
Of course, no progressive woman would ever put this crazy notion forward. Our hypothetical candidate would understand all too well that she couldn't propose to kick men in the collective teeth and expect them to vote for her. Back in the real world, however, this is precisely what some progressives apparently expect women to do for Dennis Kucinich, whose anti-choice voting record was the subject of my last column. Besides numerous e-mails thanking me for "outing" him and two or three upholding the "human rights" of the "itty bitty zygote," I heard from a few readers like Michael Sherrard, who urged "liberals" to "get over their single-issue abortion orthodoxy." Instead of asking women to give up their rights, why not pressure Kucinich to support them? To get that "broad based multi-issue progressive movement" Sherrard wants, Kucinich is the one who needs to get real, to face the demographic truth that without the votes, dollars and volunteer labor of pro-choice women and men, no Democrat can win the White House. His anti-choice votes may suit his socially conservative Cleveland constituents, as his supporters claim, but America isn't the 10th Congressional District of Ohio writ large.
What Kucinich's fans may not understand is that for pro-choice women, abortion is not just another item on the list. It goes straight to the soul. It is about whether society sees you as fully human or as a vessel for whom no plan or hope or possibility or circumstance, however desperate, matters more than being a nest for that "itty bitty zygote." As I've written before, despite the claims of "pro-life feminists" and "seamless-garment" Catholics, progressive social policies and abortion rights tend to go together: Abortion bans flourish where there are backwardness, poverty, undemocratic government and politically powerful patriarchal religion, where levels of education, healthcare and social investment in children are low, and where women have little power. Instead of asking women to sign over their wombs for the cause, progressives should demand that "their" politicians add abortion rights to their agenda. No progressive would vote for someone who opposed unions or wanted to bring back Jim Crow. Why should women's rights matter less? It's disgusting that the AFL-CIO supports anti-choice politicians--as if their members aren't getting (or causing) abortions in vast numbers--and it backfires, too. In Pennsylvania's Democratic gubernatorial primary, pro-choice centrist Democrat Ed Rendell trounced anti-choice labor-endorsed Bob Casey Jr., 56 to 44 percent.
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A French committee is promoting Ahmed Shah Massoud, the assassinated Northern Alliance commander, for the Nobel Peace Prize (among the signatories: actress Jane Birkin, Gen. Philippe Morillon and that inevitable trio of trendy philosophes, Bernard-Henri Levy, Alain Finkielkraut and André Glucksmann). I know what you're thinking: If Henry Kissinger could be awarded this honor, why not the CIA/Russia-backed Tajik warlord who helped set up a fundamentalist government in 1992, destroyed Kabul by fighting with his erstwhile ally Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and helped create so much havoc, including documented massacres of civilians, that Afghans welcomed the Taliban? Still, there's something repellent about proposing to award Massoud, thanks in part to whom Afghanistan is riddled with landmines, the same prize won by anti-landmine activist Jodie Williams in 1997. Maybe they should call it the Nobel War Prize.


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Pablo Sandoval placed on disabled list with left hamstring strain
Jul 28, 2012, 3:03 PM EDT
Pablo Sandoval strained his left hamstring while stretching for a throw at first base on Monday and the Giants have decided they won't go short-handed on their roster any longer.
Per Amy Gutierrez of CSNBayArea.com, Sandoval was placed on the disabled list this afternoon while light-hitting infielder Emmanuel Burriss was designated for assignment and first baseman Aubrey Huff was activated from the disabled list. Marco Scutaro, who was acquired from the Rockies late last night, was also added to the active roster and is starting at third base this afternoon against the Dodgers. Scutaro hasn't made an appearance at the hot corner since 2008 as a member of the Blue Jays, but he'll be asked to play there every day for now.
The move with Sandoval is retroactive to July 25, so he'll be eligible to return on August 9. Giants manager Bruce Bochy told Andrew Baggarly of CSNBayArea.com that they are hopeful he'll be ready by then. It's worth noting that August 9 is the last day of a road trip, so they could wait until they begin a six-game homestand on August 10.
Sandoval, 25, is batting .299/.352/.491 with eight home runs, 33 RBI and an .843 OPS in 62 games played this season. He missed five weeks after undergoing surgery in early May to remove a fractured hamate bone from his left hand.
- stabonerichard - Jul 28, 2012 at 3:26 PM
- yahmule - Jul 28, 2012 at 3:42 PM
Sandoval's legacy might be one of wasted talent.
- minimoose763 - Jul 28, 2012 at 4:56 PM
He has a career batting average of .307 so far. How is that wasted talent?
- joecool16280 - Jul 28, 2012 at 5:27 PM
Maybe he's just referencing that Sandoval can't seem to play an entire season for whatever reason. Getting hit by pitches in the same bone on different hands might just be random bad luck. On the other side, he can just be one of those guys who are injury prone. The fact that he can't maintain his weight is just a lack of dedication.
- yahmule - Jul 28, 2012 at 9:15 PM
Well, the talent part is the .307 average. The wasted part is being a morbidly obese 25 year old professional athlete. Nobody can say for sure if being overweight caused this injury, but the extra weight certainly doesn't help him in any way. His manager and general manager have been challenging him to get in shape for the last three years so I don't think I'm advancing a radical notion here.
- yahmule - Jul 28, 2012 at 9:20 PM
The repeated hamate bone injuries are certainly bad luck and can't be attributed to a lack of conditioning. If there is an underlying cause for those injuries, I wonder if it might be due to the way he chases so many pitches out of the zone. This might put his hands under extra stress on some swings.
- mungman69 - Jul 28, 2012 at 4:17 PM
Wasted talent yes, wasted food no.
- joecool16280 - Jul 28, 2012 at 5:31 PM
This has nothing to do with this story but I'm ready for a change in GM. They won in '10 in spite of Sabean's moves. His formula is crap and the Zito contract has held them back tremendously. He lucked out with Jeff Kent and is a smug jerk every time he's on the radio.
Can't wait for the next 38 yr journeymen though!
- vegasgiantguy - Jul 28, 2012 at 6:22 PM
I'm a football Giant guy, not baseball but dude made an amazing play at a position that is not his. Anyone other than a true first basemen would be on the DL as well.
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I have heard the argument stated several times that "the DRM on Xbox One will work just like it does on Steam, why do you have a problem with it?"
This attestation is idiotic. The main reason I love Steam so much is because of the consistently decumbant prices. Any gamer that has seen the Steam Summer Sale will tell you how mind-blowing the prices are, and those deals are the whole reason I am content with having Steam games locked to a single ID, and not being allowed to buy the games used.
That is a huge factor, and one that I do not trust Microsoft enough to deal with as they haven't given me a reason to. Early in the life of the 360 Microsoft began to allow their titles to be downloaded, requiring no physical copies. This may have been a good idea to thwart used games, but Microsoft always kept their prices way higher than the retail prices. I would have loved to have the convenience of picking up Dead Rising while I was at home instead of having to work my way over to Gamestop, especially since every time I give money to that chain I feel like I'm abetting the Devil, but MS decided to make the download copy $20 more expensive than the version in the store. ($40 to download, $20 at Gamestop) Smart move Microsoft, instead of getting 100% of my money by urging me to download it, you got 0% because you decided not to match the price, or even make it reasonable.
That price difference was not a specific case. Every game released to download on the 360 was exponentially more expensive than buying a physical copy. If Microsoft won't even lower their prices to compete with used games, how would anyone expect them to lower their prices when they have no competition at retail? I believe the main reason Steam does it is to battle piracy, and with all the hoops the Xbox one is making for the consumer I'm fairly certain that won't be a problem, leading me to believe most games will scarcely drop in price.
I want designers to get money, I honestly do, but there are just so many games I am not willing to spend $60 on, and it looks to me as if Microsoft is giving me no choice.


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While addressing reporters on Tuesday in Bokaro in Jharkhand, Singh had said that militants who are apprehended belonged to one community only and had also questioned silence of secular forces on the same.
However, Singh later on clarified that few people were associated with the militant activities.
"I had told media that there are few people in the nation, who support terrorism and Pakistan. There are few people who are associated with militant activities," he said.
Singh had also reiterated his earlier statements that people who want to stop BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi were Pakistan-bound.
"From where did such talks begin that I made a controversial statement? I would like to question the UPA (United Progressive Alliance government) minister Farooq Abdullah, who runs the government in Kashmir. He swore by the Constitution and on August 14 Pakistan's National flags are waved. Why do Congress party leaders become mute then? Why don't the secular forces question Farooq Abdullah?" he said.
Meanwhile, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said, there was no association between religion and terrorism.
"We believe that religion has no relation with terrorism or violence. People use it for violence that is a different thing," he said.
This is not the first time that Singh has quoted controversy. In April this year, he had said that people opposed to Modi would have to leave India and go to Pakistan after the BJP won the election and formed a government.
Also, leader of regional Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) Manoj Jha called it a shock that leaders like Singh were a part of politics.
"It's a shock that Giriraj Singh and the people like him, they are allowed in politics. You know they are out to damage the very social fabric of India, they don't understand terrorism, they don't have any idea about the history of India or the history of different communities and how they are placed with each other in such beautiful terms so far in the history of India," Jha said.


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|Jul 4, 2003, 08:35 PM
Sound files on OS X
I am a novice to OS X and have two questions involving sound files.
1. At work (system 9) I can save sound files to my desk top. I double-click on them and they sound instantly. With OS X (what I have at home), when I click on a wav, mpg3 or snd file, iTunes opens and plays the sound. Highly annoying! And what's worse, THEN iTunes starts playing everything in its inventory after it plays the sound. Is there any way to create a sound file I can double-click on without opening up an application?
2. Some sites have sounds that I'd love to download. But I can save them only as Quick Time Movies (yes, MOVIES!). In other words, when I click on "save as," I am forced to save them this way. So needless to say, when I click on these icons on my desk top, they don't play, and I get a window saying "The movie file [say, Orig_0000818e.IETemp] cannot be found. Without this file, the movie cannot play properly," followed by "Couldn't open the file [name of file] because an unknown error occured. The number of the error is: [say, 128]." How can I save/convert a Quick Time movie file containing a piece of audio to something that I can save on my desktop and double-click on?
I just want to click on a sound icon and hear it immediately. Why is this so difficult?
Thanks to anyone who can help me!
P.S. I tried using something I downloaded called Sound App. But it was only operable in 9. When I realized it, I trashed it, as I didn't want to convert to 9 every time I opened it. Now I use something called SoundConverter. But that doesn't help with my two problems above.
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|Jul 4, 2003, 08:50 PM
what kind of sounds are you talking about. and is there any reason why you play random sounds.
|Jul 4, 2003, 08:50 PM
While not as simple as OS 9 you can play mp3's Wav Snd Aif Mov files directly in preview mode. There are 2 ways to preview a file.
1 Column view in the finder will show a preview and info of a file. If it can be played then it will show a control bar. Just press play.
2 Get info... get the info of a file and you can preview the file in the preview widget of the get info box.
Your desktop is accessible in column view from your home folder.
As for point 2 of your question. What type (format) of files are you trying to download?
|Jul 4, 2003, 09:05 PM
The type of sound files I'm trying to download are wavs. Or they play as Quick Time movies. They are basically sound bites from movies and TV shows. At work (system 9) we use these as substitute alert sounds and press them to sound instantly when they fit into the conversation (uh... yeah...I know).
I'm just trying to understand why I can't do the instant-click thing in OS X.
|Jul 4, 2003, 09:23 PM
This feature isn't supported in OSX.
If you use the column view method from the finder then you will be able to play all your sound files (including downloaded wav files) as easily as if you double clicked them in OS9. It's just a different way of doing it.
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I would just like to say that if you are overly sensitive to issues of rape do not read this story. One of the character is a rapist, while I never write him doing anything to any of the characters, I do insinuate through words what he is and what he does. (i.e. He smiled at me the way a rapist would when greeting his next victim: aroused, dangerous, hungry, deadly." If this sentence is offensive to you don't read futher. Thank you.
This story is now finished. I will continue to edit but I will not update it as I do plan to have it published, so you'd be able to read the edited version after it's published. That being said please don't comment on grammar and spelling in your reviews because it'll be likely that I'll have already fixed those issues. Thank you.
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A court battle with department store Macy's Inc. over a partnership with Martha Stewart also has raised questions about Johnson's judgment. Macy's, which has had long-term exclusive rights to the Martha Stewart brand for products such as bedding and bath items, is trying to block Penney from opening Martha Stewart mini-shops, planned for this spring.
Macy's contends that Penney's deal with Stewart infringes on its own deal with the home maven. If Penney loses, it will have to take a big loss on the products that it ordered from Martha Stewart Living.
While acknowledging that Penney made some mistakes during the fourth-quarter conference call with investors, Johnson said Penney would start offering sales in stores every week - about 100 of the 600 or so the chain offered each year prior to his turnaround plan. And it would bring back coupons.
Critics have said that one of Johnson's greatest missteps was that he didn't test the pricing plan with shoppers. He argued that testing would have been impossible because the company needed quick results and that if he hadn't taken a strong stance against discounting, he would not have been able to get new, stylish brands on board.
"Experience is making mistakes and learning from them, and I have learned a lot," Johnson said at the time. "We worked really hard and tried many things to help the customer understand that she could shop any time on her terms. But we learned she prefers a sale. At times, she loves a coupon."
During his tenure, Johnson had spoken of being around for the long-haul and referred to his plan as a multiyear strategy. His plans were only partially realized. Shops for Joe Fresh featuring brightly colored clothes were launched last month. A new home area sporting names like Jonathan Adler and Michael Graves is set to launch this spring. Other brands were expected to be unveiled in coming years as the stores transformed into a collection of up to 100 mini-shops.
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