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Apartment / 3 bedrooms / sleeps 7
|Key Info
The accommodation (with a view over the lake) belongs to a residential complex of high standards. Beautifully situated in the lovely town of Lierna, furthermore the house is perfect for an amusing holiday along the Como Lake. Shops and restaurants within 500m. In the surrounding you can visit among others: Varenna along the coast of the lake (via the road s.p.72). The location is ideal for visiting Milan by train, this way you can shop wonderfully in Milan without traffic and parking place. In the town there is a small and easy train station. Via the public boat transport, you can quickly go to Bellagio and reach the other side of the lake. A small distance from the house is a restaurant.
|Sleeps up to 7, 3 bedrooms
|3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms of which 2 Family bathrooms
|Nearest beach
|LIERNA 500 m
|Car advised
|Nearest travel links
|Nearest airport: ORIO AL SERIO 61 km, Nearest railway: LIERNA 800 m
|Family friendly
|Great for children of all ages
|No pets allowed, No smoking at this property
Features and Facilities
|Jacuzzi or hot tub, Internet access
|Shared outdoor pool (unheated)
|Central heating, TV, CD player, Wi-Fi available
|Kettle, Toaster, Iron
|Dishwasher, Cooker, Microwave, Fridge, Freezer, Washing machine
|Double beds (1), Single beds (5), Dining seats for 7, Lounge seats for 6
|Linen provided, Towels provided
|Shared outdoor pool (unheated), Balcony or terrace, Private garden, Shared garden
|Parking, Suitable for people with restricted mobility, Not suitable for wheelchair users
|Further details indoors
The entrance on a wide hall is just 10 m away from the swimming pool. The apartment is on one floor and includes: spacious sitting room with TV satellite, stereo and a fireplace, dining room, wide closet, kitchen fully equipped for 7 people with the following facilities: fridge, freezer, microwaves, coffee machine, oven, dishwasher, juicer, iron and iron board, toaster, hangers etc.
A corridor will lead you to your bedrooms and bathrooms:
1st bedroom with double bed, wardrobe, bedside tables and lamps
2nd bedroom with 2 single beds, wardrobe, bedside tables and lamps
3rd bedroom with bunk-beds, and a third single bed, wardrobe, bedside tables and lamps
1st bathroom furnished in white marble from Carrara, equipped with big wardrobe with mirror, wc and Jacuzzi.
2nd bathroom furnished in white marble from Carrara, equipped with big wardrobe with mirror, wc and huge Jacuzzi shower.
|Further details outdoors
Spacious apartment (120m2 on one floor, ground floor) situated by the Lake of Como, on the Lecco side, where the lake is shining.
This villa (with an outstanding view over the lake) belongs to a residential area.
Among the rest, the facilities we can provide are: 2 swimming pools, tennis court, covered car park, 10.000 m2 communal park, electrical gate provided with your own code and remote control.
Villa Smeraldo is situated in Lierna, a small and typical village on the lake, 200 m away from La Riva Bianca, one of the widest beaches of the lake. Close to the house you will find many shops, bars, restaurants etc. Not far from the house you can visit Varenna (5 km away), and the lake coast. This area is also ideal for winter sports (ST. Moritz being 1 hour drive away) and well positioned to visit Milan avoiding traffic jams, by travelling by train (times and fares on www.trenitalia.com). The Ferry Boat will easily take you to Bellagio and the opposite side of the lake.
Villa Smeraldo is equipped with a covered car park and a private garden fully furnished to have your meals on the patio.
|Further details
Arrival on Saturday between 16.00/18.00hrs
Departure on Saturday between 8.00/10.00hrs
EARLY DEPARTURE EXTRA CHARGE 15 € PER HOUR ( before 8.00 a.m)
The swimming pool is open from the first week of June to the last in September
Rents are from Saturday to Saturday (more flexible during Low Season from November to April)
The Lake Como region
As with most subalpine lakes of Italy, the geological origin of the Lake of Como is of a glacial sort.During the quaternary era the whole of the basin was covered by a grand glacier which reached as far as Brianza beyond the lake branches of Como and Lecco forming the existing morenic hills.The lake was formed in the cavity dug out by the glacier.
Evidence of its slow passage is shown by the rocks which still bear signs of erosion and by numerous erratic boulders which are present, mainly on the high plains of the Larian Triangle (the centre part of the Lake).The Lake of Como, which has been inhabited since prehistoric times, has always been an important passageway between the northern regions and the Po Valley.
After the Gauls came the Romans who made it their strategic outpost opening the route on the western bank which connected the "Larius" with the Rhaetia region. Later, during the lombard rule, this pathway still named "Regina", was reopened and restored by Queen Teodolinda.
Because of the important and strategic position of the lake which allowed one to reach the mountain passes of Maloja and Stelvio, the area was for centuries subject to invasions and domination. After the Francs, around the year 1000, the city of Como which had become an independant Commune had to continuously fight for its autonomy. It later was subjected to the signory of the Viscontis and of the Sforzas. These Lordships thought of widening the bed of the Adda in order to have a river link with the Duchy of Milan; for this reason they decided firstly to open the Paderno waterway. Then came foreign rule; first the Spanish then the Austrians and for a brief period even the French.
The Lake of Como measures 146 square kms and is the third biggest Italian lake after Lake Garda and Lake Verbano. It has a characteristic upside-down Y shape with Colico to the north Lecco to the south-east and Como to the south-west. Its perimetre measures 170kms.
The maximum length between Como and Gera Lario is 50km; the maximum width between Fiumelatte and Cadenabbia is 4.4km; the minimum width between Careno and Toriggia measures 650mts; its maximum depth of 410 metres between Argegno and Nesso makes it the deepest of all the European lakes; its average above-sea level is 199mts.
The lake is entirely surrounded by mountains, the highest being Monte Legnone (2609mt) above Colico.
There are 37 rivers flowing into the lake the most important being the Adda followed by the Mera.
The Adda is also its only outlet. It flows out through Lecco and after having formed the lakelets of Garlate and Olginate it continues towards the Po river.
The only island of the lake is Isola Comacina, situated in the Como branch of the lake opposite the commune of Sala Comacina.
The climate and the flora
The Lake of Como is particularly favourable and renowned for its generally mild and humid climate which assists the lushness of nature.
All of this is possible due to the Alpine ridge which resists the winds from the north and also because of the great mass of water of the lakes which tend to reduce sudden drops in temperature.
In the sunnier areas, for example around Tremezzo, the winter climate is never very harsh and in the summer the heat is hardly ever stifling as it is mitigated by great vegetation. However, rainfall is heavy in the pre-alpine zone.
Thanks to these unique climatic characteristics, the flora along the lake banks is varied, abundant and of a mediterranean sort: cypress trees, laurel trees, camellias, azaleas. rhododendrons, magnolias, and palm trees. In some more wet and sheltered areas we can even find tropical and sub-tropical vegetation.
In Tremezzo for example Villa Carlotta is famous for its splendid park where the visitor can admire all sorts of flowers and rare plants; during the warmer seasons we can see azaleas, cacti, austral ferns, palm trees citron trees and orange trees.
The growing of grape-vines and of olive trees is not common because of the geological nature of the land and one can find these in certain areas only.
Along the banks of the lake, certain localities recall a tradition of olive growing: along the west bank there is a zone in Tremezzo which in dialect is called "Zoca de L'Oli" while on the east bank we have Oliveto Lario and Olcio.
On the mountain slopes around the lake there are numerous chestnut woods and higher up one finds pasture-land where narcissuses and lilies of the valley grow.
Lake vegetation is sparce and is found only in areas like the Pian di Spagna as there are neither pools nor areas of still water along the lake banks.
Lierna is situated on the Eastern Coast of the Lecco Branch of Como. This
Beautiful lakeside town which gets plenty of sunshine is full of beautiful villas, many
of which are dating from the 18thand 19thcenturies are primarily second homes for
the Italian Nobility and residents of nearby Milan. Lierna has a great position ÌJ1that
within 20 mins you can be in the heart of Lecco and just 10 mins drive from Lierna
you can enter the superstrada (dual carriageway) for easy access to many other towns
and the Rhaetian Alps, S1.Moritz etc.,
For an attractive and pleasant view of a typical Larian town, a visit to Lierna is a must where, taking a little boat, you can go about a 100 metres out into the lake. You will be amazed by the imposing backdrop of the mountains and the delicate lacy border of the town in the foreground, stretching along the lakeside. You can see the proud aristocratic villas forming a natural contrast to the austere church of S. Ambrogio, the small peninsula where you can make out the ruined tower of the Castle, the town walls along the lakeside, the steep stairway climbing up to Bancola. For a different viewpoint, now take one of the paths leading up to the upper villages and enjoy the relaxing sight of vineyards and olives groves, but try to resist the temptation to turn round until you reach the crest of the Lierna Alps. Now you can turn round and take in what is one of the most beautiful and evocative panoramas in the central area of the lake and along the whole eastern
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Peach Nutrition
Peaces are an excellent source of vitamin A in the form of beta-carotene and 1 peach contains about 10% of the daily value. Peaches are also rich in vitamin C (20% of the value per cup). They are also a good source of magnesium, potassium and copper.
Peaches promote good vision and prevention of night blindness
Carotenoids in peaches help promote good vision and are particularly good for boosting night vision. Beta-carotene has the potential to be converted to vitamin A, which helps with the production of rhodopsin, the night vision pigment in the retina of the eye. Beta-carotene can also help prevent cataracts and delay macular degenration.
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|Recapping 1996
|Written by Pete Pokulok - Let's Talk Fishing
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Here we are in the mist of a deep freeze, and it kind of reminds me of the way the fishing season started this past April. Normally, come the opening of trout season here in southern Ontario, the fish have run and have been up the rivers and streams in these parts for some time. They've undergone the riggers of spawning and have dropped back into the deeper pools to recuperate prior to heading back to the big waters where they'll once again put on the feed bag.This past spring things were a little different It was cold -- damn cold -- and most of the fish hadn't even started to run the rivers yet. Fresh fish were still trying to make it upstream to spawn three weeks into the season. Therefore too many spawning fish were taken off of the beds for my liking, and I truly hope it doesn't effect the fishery a couple of years down the road. The Ministry of Natural Resources should have the jurisdiction to postpone the opener or at least make it a catch and release fishery only until the fish have had a chance to spawn when mother nature throws us a curve in the weather. That not only goes for the trout opening, but walleye, bass, and all other species of fish that are vulnerable when spawning.
Of course, the fishing was nothing short of fantastic with fresh fish moving up to the head waters almost daily. You'd fish for a time drifting a pool with roe bags and nothing would be happening, then you'd look down stream and you'd see these wakes heading up towards you! Soon afterwards you'd be into fish almost non stop until they passed through. It was rude. A couple of clients that I had out guiding booked two additional days with me because the fishing was so hot.
However when walleye season opened this was the first year in a very long time that I missed it. You guessed it, I was still fishing for those silver run bullets. And, from what I was told I didn't miss much. Again, because of the late spring, cold waters, and very little weed growth, the fishing was difficult. We did manage to get out a few times, though, and managed to catch a few keepers, but not like in previous years. The fact of the matter was that this past year we were extremely busy with sportsman shows right up until the 3rd weekend in June. I even had to forego two walleye tournaments for which entry fees had been submitted months before. That was a first for me: working that is, instead of fishing tournaments.
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'The conservator's philosophy speaks directly to war-torn areas. For example, Iraqis feel intensely about their ancient sites and artifacts. We know that. The conservator's code fosters that feeling in them, helps unite them and raise them above sectarian divisions." Lois Price has just come back from her mission in Iraq. At first glance, you wouldn't associate her with intrepid forays into troubled regions, she being a petite bookish woman of a certain age with a precise manner. But she is today's incarnation of the Monuments Men tradition—dedicated to saving the heritage of others from destruction in conflict.
"Our students," says Ms. Price, "share the sense that Mesopotamia is their culture and that it's world culture. But even with controversial objects, say with Saddam's artifacts, they learn that, like it or not, the conservator's first duty is to respect history and preserve it." We sit in her modest office at the Winterthur Museum, where she is head of the conservation department—her primary job—and discuss the wave of archeo-historical devastation sweeping the Middle East and beyond. The Coptic Churches in Egypt, the shrines in Mali, the revered sites of every denomination in Syria.
So great is the challenge to civilization that the imagination reaches for oversize, futuristic solutions. But one suspects that if a real-world answer is ever to be found, it will begin modestly, embodied in a single-minded person like Ms. Price. And it will have the kind of densely bureaucratic name such endeavors must have these days to keep all co-ordinating parties happy. She is the chair of the Iraqi-American Advisory Council of IICAH—the Iraqi Institute for the Conservation of Antiquities and Heritage.
IICAH is based in the relatively safe Kurdish zone city of Erbil, and thus requires patronage from the regional government and the one in Baghdad. "We fall under the national Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, whose current head is a Sadrist," a Shiite faction hostile to the U.S.
Patrons of her venture include the University of Delaware, Baltimore's Walters Art Museum, the State Department and others. It began as part of a U.S.-Iraq deal finalized in 2008 to help preserve Iraq's national heritage. The State Department turned to Winterthur for its renowned expertise in educating conservators.
The institute opened in autumn 2008: Five years and several hundred students later, is only Iraq getting its message—and only one region of Iraq at that? And what is that message?
"Actually our students come from all over the country," she says, "and we don't just teach techniques—we also teach them how to teach, so that they will go home to their provinces and spread the word. They learn to make the case for conservation. They're being taught to interact with local communities around sites, how to conduct outreach with posters, talks, advocacy. When they're with us, they get a multilayered instruction. We teach through interpreters. The students also have to learn English, but as a grounding they learn the ethics of conservation, and the exigencies of teamwork, which means implicitly that they have to rise above negative sectarian attitudes. And the fieldwork requires them to respect diverse traditions. With us, they work at a nearby citadel with 8,000-year-old beginnings, also at a museum for Syriac Christians among other sites. But the truth is, they've all seen the destruction firsthand in their own areas, so they come to us already converted to doing something about it."
Ms. Price notes that she and her American colleagues "would travel all over Iraq if we could but the security costs are prohibitive. Plus, it's a struggle to get visas to go in and out of Iraq's different regions, which is mandatory. For now, it's our students that come and go—to work at Babylon, the museum in Baghdad, to Nineveh, the looted museum in Kerkuk, to Najaf [an area of Shiite shrines] and so on."
Perhaps the most succinct statement of the conservator's creed comes from Ms. Price in IICAH's press materials: "Iraq holds the esteemed position as the birthplace of Western Civilization. With that distinction comes a responsibility for all of us to save our past for future generations." According to Ms. Price, 400,000 to 600,000 objects were looted in Iraq from 12,000 sites. "Looting and despoliation aside, a lot of sites suffer from the elements, flooding, erosion and the like. We address the full spectrum of problems."
At the center they teach the science of materials and their deterioration, from paper to iron to bricks. Then they move on to hands-on work with objects and at archaeological sites. The building in Erbil houses labs, classrooms, exhibits, dorms, computers and a backyard with facilities for mudbrick baking and sand-pit excavation training. Young men and women study together in fairly close proximity—an achievement considering the religious fanaticism of recent years.
The students are mostly employees of state-run antiquities departments from all 18 provinces—a return of enlightened thinking after years of conflict between Iraqi regions. "Even before the war," Ms. Price says, "Iraq was stuck in outdated modalities, left over from their Soviet instructors. We started out retraining senior Iraqi antiquities staff and museum directors to updated global standards. In Babylon, for example, you see renovations that were falsely conceived and badly done. That has to be undone, with great care and skill. We also taught them how to choose the right students to send us. It's been a process. We had to earn trust. Now the institute has a reputation. We are creating a community with shared ideals, one in which they all support each other when they go forth."
Some top students started the Arab Conservators Network and stay in touch with counterparts across the region. Iran's Ministry of Culture wants to send students. A Syrian-refugee archaeologist is an institute interpreter.
"Conservators have to be optimists," Ms. Price says, "because we start out knowing we are fighting a losing battle—against rust, against nature, time, human depredation. We take the long view. We have to."
Mr. Kaylan writes about culture and the arts for the Journal.


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SAN FRANCISCO — Sunday was just Buster Posey's day.
Hours before he got to the ballpark for the San Francisco Giants' afternoon game with the Cincinnati Reds, the Leesburg native got the news that he had not only been named the starting catcher for the 2012 All-Star Game on July 10 in Kansas City — Posey's first starting nod of his three-year pro career — but that he set the National League record with 7.6 million total votes.
But wait ... it kind of gets better.
Posey then went out and played like the All-Star he is by lifting the Giants past the Reds after leading off with a ground-rule double, then scoring the game-winning run on a walkoff single by Angel Pagan in the bottom of the ninth inning.
In addition to his ninth-inning double, he also had two RBI singles to give him a team-best 42 RBI for the season. He hit a go-ahead single to break a 2-2 tie in the seventh to plate Ryan Theriot, who matched a career high with three runs scored.
"He's a great player," manager Bruce Bochy said of Posey. "We needed some timely hits, and he got them for us (Sunday)."
Posey was beyond floored when he heard he earned the starting bid, and equally as taken aback when he learned how he did it.
"Yeah, it's kind of hard to wrap my head around it right now," Posey told CBSsports.com. "At this point last year I was concerned with getting healthy and getting back on the field. That's why I'm enjoying every bit of this season.
As position players, Posey joined teammates Melky Cabrera (OF) and Pablo Sandoval (3B) on the All-Star roster, and right-hander Matt Cain was picked to join the pitching staff.
Posey is just the seventh All-Star catcher the Giants have had since the franchise moved to San Francisco in 1958, joining Bob Schmidt (1958), Ed Bailey (1961, '63), Tom Haller (1966-67), Dick Dietz (1970), Bob Brenly (1984) and Benito Santiago (2002).
Posey, who is batting .303 and also leads the team with 10 home, has recovered nicely after missing most of last season with multiple left leg and ankle injuries sustained in a May 25 home-plate collision.
"Physically, I feel great," Posey told the web site. "It's kind of hard to believe we're almost at the halfway point. I'm excited for the second half. In six or eight weeks, it's going to get really fun coming down the wire and I'm looking forward to it."
He should be. The Giants are in first place in the NL West, and winning games in a gritty, hard-nosed fashion — just like they did when they improbably ran away with the World Series title in 2010 as Posey, still a rookie, leading the way.
"He's a great player who's beloved in this city," Bochy told CBS.
Posey, forever humble any time he's asked about to talk about an honor or an accolade, said the entire season — comeback and all — just seemed surreal.
"I'm obviously really excited. It's little overwhelming. I just thank all the fans that voted. They're the ones who make this special for us. … It's gonna be a blast," he told the web site. "You don't think about it that much, but when it happens, it's humbling. As long as I can remember, I watched the All-Star Game and the home run derby. It's a bit surreal to think I'll be in one."
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There is this dumb picture you take at a Flaming Lips show, before you know better, before you figure out that it's stupid to pay attention to this tiny smartphone screen when there's all this incredible shit going on around you. I guess it's that you want to commemorate the trip you're on, and you pose with the stage as your backdrop. You're dumb, because a) the glorious stage comes out looking tiny and like crap, and b) when you face the stage, the bombardment of color bathing your face would have been cool, dipshit.
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But it's fair to say the Flaming Lips experience at the Pacific Amphitheater Wednesday (ticket got you free Orange County Fair admission--and a ride afterward on the kick-ass Ferris wheel!) was less of one than usual, shorter and tamer than what devotees have come to expect. Hey, when you raise the bar as high as dancing rabbits, sequences from Battle Royale and strange Japanese gameshows, and spacetime-portal-bending doorways, some days you're only way forward is under.
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|The composition of medium-chain-length (MCL) poly(3-hydroxyalkanoate) (PHA) biopolymers is normally an uncontrollable random mixture of repeating units with differing side chain lengths. Attempts to generate MCL PHA homopolymers and control repeating unit composition have been published in native PHA-producing organisms but have limited ranges for the different sizes of repeating units that can be synthesized. In this study, a new Escherichia coli-based system that exhibits control over repeating unit composition for both MCL PHAs and short-chain-length (SCL) PHAs has been developed, covering an unprecedented range of repeating units. The fadB and fadJ genes from the β-oxidation pathway were eliminated from the chromosome of E. coli LS5218. The subsequent blockage in β-oxidation caused a buildup of enoyl-CoA intermediates, which were converted to PHAs by an (R)-specific enoyl-CoA hydratase (PhaJ4) and PHA synthase [PhaC1(STQK)] expressed from a plasmid DNA construct. Fatty acid substrates were converted to PHAs with repeating units equal in the number of carbon atoms to the fatty acid substrate. The broad substrate specificities of the PhaJ4 and PhaC1(STQK) enzymes allowed for the production of homopolymers with strict control over the repeating unit composition from substrates of four to twelve carbons in length. Polymers were purified and analyzed by GC, GC-MS, and NMR for structural composition and by DSC, TGA, and GPC for thermal and physical characteristics. This study marks the development of the first single biological system to achieve consistent repeating unit control over such a broad range of repeating units in PHAs.
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By Gloria Vazquez
With the summer heating up again, think about cooling off with a hike that ends at a water hole enticing enough for wading and deep enough for swimming.
Drive approximately 35 minutes east from North Bend to a sweet little gem that my daughter and I recently discovered – Mirror Lake.
The Mirror Lake trail lies southwest of Snoqualmie Pass and doesn't see much boot traffic.
In fact, we were the only ones on the trail that sunny afternoon. From Seattle drive east on 1-90 to exit 62, the Kachess Lake exit turnoff. Turn right off the exit ramp and drive on a paved road for approximately 1.1 miles. Turn right again, onto the well-maintained gravel Forest Road 5480. Wind your way up and around the edge of beautiful Lost Lake.
Soon the road forks five ways. Take the third road from the left or the middle road.
Continue to make your way up, and at approximately 7.1 miles from the freeway exit, Forest Road 5480 will become narrow and rough. Stop and look for a stake with a trailhead marker.
Park and lock your car at this point. (Do not leave any valuables in sight in your vehicle.)
Hike a half mile up a very rocky path or primitive road until you come to another short stake, held up by rocks.
Turn left and hike another half mile through a somewhat bushy and narrow trail. The trail soon opens up and at about one mile into the hike, start looking for a wood sign tacked to a tree. It points to Mirror Lake and the Pacific Crest Trail.
At this point you will be at the base of Cottonwood Lake, a small lake, more like the size of a pond.
From Cottonwood Lake the trail meanders peacefully for another half mile, following a moderate incline to the shores of Mirror Lake.
Trail signs tacked on trees will mark the way. Forest lines most of the edge of the lake, but there are a few cleared sandy spots that make a perfect place to picnic or even pitch a tent for an overnight stay.
Peaceful pleasures await you on this trail, and the water beckons hikers to unlace their boots and cool their feet. More intrepid hikers may wish to go for a swim in the cool waters. Consider lingering on the lake's edge and enjoy the reflections of nearby peaks on the glassy lake. You'll see why this picturesque gem was named Mirror Lake.
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IRVING — SMU coach June Jones made it clear Wednesday that Texas transfer Garrett Gilbert will be the starter.
J.J. McDermott was a senior last year. Stephen Kaiser and Kyle Padron transferred.
"Garrett's going to be the guy," Jones told reporters at C-USA media day. "He'll get the same reps as the other guys initially, but two weeks before the [first] game he'll be getting 80 percent of the snaps."
As a freshman at UT, Gilbert replaced injured Colt McCoy in the national championship game. He started all 12 games for the Longhorns the next season and in 2011 was pulled after the second game.
Gilbert should fit into SMU's run-and-shoot scheme. He played a similar offense at Lake Travis High School.
Jones said Gilbert's experience was the deciding factor. Conner Preston and Garrett Krstich are redshirt freshmen.
"He's older, he's experienced, he's played in the national championship game as an 18-year-old freshman," Jones said of Gilbert. "He has done it at the highest level, and I think he'll be more ready to play. You've got to get in the system and play."
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An estimated 300,000 people have transformed themselves into "sovereign citizens," members of a movement who share a common belief that most laws don't apply to them and that the government is the enemy, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights group.
Ohio -- long recognized as fertile ground for recruitment in the decades-old movement -- has seen a marked upswing in residents joining the cause in the wake of the financial and foreclosure crises, experts said.
"They believe (the federal government) is not the real government," said Mark Pitcavage, an anti-government expert with the Anti-Defamation League. "It's sort of a shadow government or a replica of the government and they claim it has no authority or jurisdiction over them, that they don't have to obey its laws."
"As a result, it makes them among the most extreme anti-government folks in the entire country," he said.
And potentially some of the most dangerous: On May 20, Jerry Kane and his 16-year-old son, Joseph, two sovereign citizens from southern Ohio, killed two police officers during a traffic stop in West Memphis, Arkansas.
It occurred after Jerry Kane got into an argument with the officers about his rights and pushed one of them. That's when Joseph Kane stepped from their minivan and repeatedly fired an AK-47 machine gun. He continued to fire as they fled the scene, shooting out of the van's window.
"What we're after here is not fighting," Jerry Kane said during a sovereign citizen seminar posted on the Internet prior to the shooting. "It's conquering. I don't want to have to kill anybody, but if they keep messing with me, that's what's going to have to come out."
And consider Matthew Fairfield, whom Cuyahoga County prosecutors say is a sovereign citizen.
In April, authorities raided Fairfield's house in North Olmsted, only to find a napalm bomb ready to be detonated. That was after police found a crate of high-level explosives in a Cleveland garage Fairfield was using.
"That's as dangerous as it gets," said Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason.
Channel 3 News spoke with two Clevelanders who say they are sovereign citizens on the condition that we conceal their identities. They say the majority of sovereign citizens only seek to live peacefully.
"The only people that should fear sovereigns are the people that are breaking the law," said one sovereign citizen, who has believed in the movement for at least a decade.
To sovereign citizens, those people range from Wall Street executives to judges to police, they said. But most of their contempt is aimed at government officials. That's because they believe the federal government is actually a giant corporation owned by an international banking cartel.
"We follow God's law and anybody who does not follow God's law are our enemies," said the other sovereign citizen. "Everybody I know keeps it civil. Now there are the laws of necessity. You're going to kill me, I can kill you back."
Sovereign citizens, like former Cleveland Schools custodian Bilal Al-Amin, also believe that the government creates secret treasury accounts for people at birth that are based on their future earnings.
The accounts, they say, are opened up using birth certificates and social security numbers and are used to secure foreign investments.
But sovereigns believe they have a right to withdraw money from them by using various government and self created forms.
It didn't work for Al-Amin. He was indicted on charges he produced phony papers claiming he was a multi-millionaire, prosecutors said.
Al-Amin was arrested after giving the paperwork to a Cuyahoga County Common Pleas judge in an attempt to bail out his son.
"There is a way that you can do paperwork and that you can create money," said the long-time believer. "There have been a few people that have been successful, but many have tried and many have paid the price for not getting maybe their paperwork right."
Sovereign citizens even have their own flag, license plates and signs warning government officials to stay away.
"People of all sorts of races or backgrounds can be involved," said Pitcavage. "There have been professionals, dentists, chiropractors. There have even been millionaires."
Tiarra Turk was a North Randall auxiliary police officer when, prosecutors say, she tried to buy a Cadillac Escalade at an east suburban dealership using her secret treasury account.
Turk, who faces multiple charges, even tried to pay a speeding ticket in Willoughby with a $10 million check.
Authorities say some sovereign citizens have also run foreclosure and other scams -- and go after public officials through the courts. It's a tactic that has earned them the name "paper terrorists."
"It's done to bog the courts down, to threaten, to intimidate, to cause public officials to be scrutinized," said Sgt. Don Cleland, of the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Office, who has been sued for $250 million after prosecuting one sovereign citizen in a case that was dismissed more than a year after legal wrangling.
"Once the public official is under the microscope, they believe they can move in, beat their case and walk away from it."


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For various Music Department courses and the College of Professional Studies' music courses, she has worked with professors to create interactive lecture materials for distance learning platforms. In affiliation with Pearson Education, she has also produced interactive supplements to their MyMusicLab and MyJazzKit textbook publications.
Prior to earning a Master of Professional Studies degree in Digital Media from Northeastern's College of Professional Studies, she created the website and marketing materials for the new program. Upon graduating in 2008, she taught the graduate-level Interactive Design course and has served as a thesis advisor.
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Lost Sounds begins with the pummeling 'Open Doors' alternating between a seething verse and one of the better vocal hooks Conrad Keely has ever committed to tape. 'Open Doors' more or less sets the tone for an album that rarely dials back on its focused aggression, which is amped up even further on the following track 'Pinhole Cameras'. Whereas ToD may have tended to drift into the tangential on songs like these in the past, nothing here feels superfluous or overdone, as the brief instrumental interludes on both continue to propel them forward. This is the sound of a band with something to say.
It isn't until the album's midpoint that the band lets up with the one-two of the title track and 'Flower Card Games' and even then the derivation from the established path is minimal. 'Lost Songs', with its running time of two minutes, is a short centerpiece that laments the current lack of rock songs with anything to say: "Lost songs are going nowhere / Lost for words with nothing to share." These lines could read as the album's mantra, especially when considered with Keely's statements about its inspirations, which include civil war in Syria and a dedication to Pussy Riot. 'Flower Card Games' stands out as one of the album's catchiest songs, repeatedly returning to a murky bass turnaround that also serves as an effective hook. Considered together, these songs allow some room to breathe without lessening the urgency of ToD's message nor interrupting the overall flow of the album.
Lost Songs' second half alternates between the bombast of its opening section and its slower-paced middle. Straight-forward rock songs like the single 'Catatonic' and 'Bright Young Things' are shuffled with the more downbeat 'Awestruck' and 'Time and Again.' Tellingly, only one of the songs on the latter half of the album exceeds four minutes.
Given ToD's career trajectory, it is difficult to consider their new material without also relating it to the remainder of their discography. That said, Lost Sounds deserves to be heard as an entity all its own, standing as a testament to the power of this band when they are on top of their game. This is not just a very good album as compared to Source Tags, it is a solid album in its own right.
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Also nominated as finalists in this category were: Mary F. Calvert, freelance photojournalist, for her courageous work published in The Washington Times that vividly documents how rapes, by the tens of thousands, have become a weapon of war in Congo; and Robert Cohen of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for his sensitive portrayal of homeless suburban families camping in motels during the recession, often recording memorable emotional moments.


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Hatyai Trip 2010
Came back from Hatyai, Thailand last weekend with a ZOMBIE mind. My last round of traveling to Hatyai is about 10 years back with my group of UNI friends. After 10 years, the whole Hatyai really changed a lot. I remember when I am young, my Mom used to bring me and Sis to Hatyai during CNY. At that time, we used to took Thai Airways but now is only by bus unless you take a flight from KL to Alor Star and then travel by bus or taxi to Hatyai.
I went to Hatyai with a new group of friends. This group of friends are slightly different because all are really drinkers and can party whole night. They are much much more older than me but their stamina to party whole night is much more greater than me. I do really salute them.
With almost 8 hours of traveling time, we reached the Thai immigration center at about 6 am. That is really early but the whole immigration center is jam packed with people. Everyone was traveling in for celebrating the Songkran festival. I didn't sleep thru the whole journey cos I can't sleep in a bus. It is really a torturing journey and when I reached Hatyai really felt like vomiting. Through out the few days in Hatyai basically we went for makan-makan, drinking, massage and did some shopping.
Our Day 1 – Hatyai Makan-Makan Session
First stop after we passed the Thai immigration center, we went for Chicken and Roast Pork Rice. Then head on to Songkla and went to a temple for prayer. Pray for health and pray for everything soon soon lei lei this year for the family and me. Then back to hotel and I knock off immediately. The hotel is a real disappointment. All hotels in Hatyai are fully booked that weekend and the room I stayed in looks like a CHICKEN HUT. Me and S, were cursing left right center for giving us this room.
After a short nap, we went for massage and after massage went for light late lunch. Ordered fried Lobak, Ooh Chien and we had a cup of local coconut ice-cream and choco. It comes with a lot of condiments in it. Coconut, pulut, peanuts, sweet potatoes, bread and attap seeds in it.
Night dinner, we walked to a nearby Thai Chinese Restaurant and had the best dinner ever especially for the Stewed Pork Leg. We ordered quite many dishes but only managed to shoot the first four dishes. Everyone is too busy eating. Hahaha…
Our Day 2 – Hatyai Makan-Makan Session
Thai Bak Kut Teh
Day 2 breakfast, woke up earlier and went for Thai Bak Kut Teh and Dim Sum. The Dim Sum is good and so does the Bak Kut Teh. At one point, I felt the Bak Kuth Teh is much more better than our Klang Bak Kut Teh.
Again we went for massage and after massage we went for fried noodles for lunch. The six of us ordered on Fried Hokkien Mee and one Wat Tan Hor Kuey Teow or in Thai they called it Rad Na.
At night we went to the local floating market before we head on for our dinner. The floating market is similar to the one in Bangkok but this one they only sell food on the small sampan.
Ewwww… found this at the floating market and we bought these insects to try. Ewwww… scary and damn geli but it tasted not too bad. Hihi…
For both consecutive nights, after our dinner we hang out at the pub. Drink and drink non stop and in just one night we can drink 20 towers of beer. Terror or not? The above picture has been blurred because of some privacy matter. Anyway, we really had a lot of fun. The poor leng chai Thai pub singer, Poon has been our victim for both nights. He must be thinking this group of mad woman really sot sot tei.
The tequila pop that nearly makes me drunk on the second night.
Our Day 3 – Hatyai Makan-Makan Session
The hang over from the second night makes me got no mood to take pictures anymore. The only picture I capture is the fried chicken stall near the immigration center. Bought two of it but it is really tasteless. Looks nice only but in actual fact it doesn't taste good at all. We left Hatyai early morning and had our late lunch in Bukit Tambun. Reached home almost night and I am still blurring till the next day when I go back to work. Really a torture when I am back to the office to work the next day. ZOMBIE the whole day and I am so so so tired.
Didn't buy much things from Hatyai apart from food but I found one shop selling all the stainless stell items. Finally I found the Mut Foong Tow mould. Bought 6 of it ( size : S,M,L ) that cost me almost 1,000 Baht.
Bought some fried seaweed, durian cake and some instant Thai Tom Yam noodles from TOPS. Some recommendation that whenever you are in Thailand you MUST BUY. Its the Thai Tom Yam Kuey Teow. I bought 5 packets and tried one last nite. It is really good. If I know it is so good, I should have buy one carton back. Hahaha… Last but not least to wrap up, it is an enjoyable trip. Hope to go with all of you guys again in the next few months.
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SIFF! (Need I Say More?)
23 May
This past week, one of the events that I wait for all year finally began! The Seattle International Film Festival opened its latest since the first festival in 1976.
Not many people know this, but SIFF is actually the biggest film-focused festival in all the world. This faire runs longer than any other festival – from May 20th to June 13th – and shows more films than many other (more well-known) fests the world over.
Primarily supported through film-loving volunteers (like myself!), SIFF is a wonderful way to dive into international culture and independent filmmaking.
Prefer glitz and glamour? SIFF provides the goods there, too. Attend one of the events hosted throughout the run of the festival, like the Centerpiece Gala, the Closing Night Gala or the Tribute to Edward Norton.
The Centerpiece Gala takes place on May 29th, and features a film called Farewell. Tickets for the whole night are $25 for non-SIFF members, and include entrance to the film, followed by a party at the DAR Hall on Capitol Hill. I volunteered at the party last year, and things were crazy until the wee hours of the morning. Absolutely everyone (even us lowly volunteers) had an amazing time.
The Tribute to Edward Norton is on June 4th, and features his latest film, Leaves of Grass, followed by an on-stage interview that includes clips from his body of work. There are also tickets available for the "pre-Tribute" which is a more intimate event, and Ed will be there as the guest of honor! As a continuation of the honoring of Mr. Norton, there will be special late-night screenings of three of his best films (25th Hour, Fight Club, and American History X).
The Closing Night Gala takes place on June 13th and features Get Low. Tickets include a couple of drinks, entrance to the film and entrance to the fabulous party at the Pan Pacific Hotel. Aside from the awesome location, the Gala will have food from Seastar and Long Provincial.
As a volunteer, you get vouchers for the hours you've worked. It's a wonderful way to experience the festival for free, and give back to (what I believe) is an important cause. The vouchers are good for an entire year, too. So, if you can't make it to SIFF this time around, you can still see movies at SIFF Cinema for free. There are shifts available, so if you'd like to volunteer (and you SHOULD), get all the information here.
Trust me when I say that SIFF is something you don't want to miss. Even if you only make it out to one movie, it will be worth it. I've seen films I'd never have a chance to see elsewhere – movies from countries all over the world – from Bolivia to Uruguay. Movies that have big stars like Bill Murray and Robert Duvall, and movies that star people you've never heard of from countries you didn't know existed.
Any way you slice it, the festival is an opportunity to expand your horizons and dip your toe into the fantastic world of film.


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Thursday, March 5, 2009
Hooked On: Polaroid Photos!
For more Hooked On fun... Head over to Hooked on Houses' blog party!
14 comments:
- springtreeroad said...
really cute - looks like a fun app! :)
- March 5, 2009 at 10:11 PM
- Terry said...
That is so cool. Real picture seem like a novelty these days. Folks really enjoy getting them.
- March 5, 2009 at 10:18 PM
- Holly said...
Cute kids!
- March 5, 2009 at 10:40 PM
- Jennifer said...
How fun! I'll have to look for that app.
- March 5, 2009 at 11:29 PM
- amylouwho said...
Oh Apple! Why do you insist on making me feel so inadequate?
- March 5, 2009 at 11:44 PM
- Tiffany Strietelmeier said...
This is a great application! How cool is this. I adore polaroids.. we must bring them back!
- March 6, 2009 at 3:22 AM
- amariaf2000 said...
That is awesome! Great pictures!!
~angela @ peonypatch
- March 6, 2009 at 8:42 AM
- Christine said...
Polaroids = LOVE!
- March 6, 2009 at 9:19 AM
- Kotori said...
What cute pics! Love them! I must get this app - what's it called??
- March 6, 2009 at 11:42 AM
- completely-coastal.com said...
It still amazes me what has become possible when it comes to taking pictures. I have an old polaroid camera somewhere, and wonder if I could actually still get film for that!
- March 6, 2009 at 6:39 PM
- Suzy said...
Great Pics, reminds me of the 70's except they should have a little yellow tint. Thanks for viviting my post, from one Michigander to another!
- March 6, 2009 at 7:26 PM
- The Summer Kitchen Interiors said...
What a fun thing to play with - love it! Thanks for the post!
- March 6, 2009 at 8:14 PM
- Julia @ Hooked on Houses said...
I love Polaroids. What a fun post--never heard of the iPhone app to turn your pics into them. When I worked as a designer's assistant back in the day before digital cameras, I carried one at all times to take photos of things I saw in the stores to show her when I got back. :-)
- March 6, 2009 at 10:31 PM
- Miss Aimee said...
dont you love that polaroid!
your kids are so flippin' cute!
great post. I have been so crazy this week- just catching up on reads. Off to the art museum now WITH 3 KIDS.
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1. Re: AT Commands with J2ME843851 Apr 22, 2002 10:14 PM (in response to 843851)Do you mean to a modem, or modem like device?
If so, It depends on what I/O services that the underlying platform provides. I believe the proposed method is to specify the physical device using a (possibly platform dependent) URL, and get the stream associated with it. Once you have the stream, it is relatively easy to read and write to the stream.
Unfortunately, I don't remember the convention (or even if there is one) for specifying a URL to a device like that. Hopefully there is platform documentation that might describe how.
2. Re: AT Commands with J2ME800384 Apr 22, 2002 10:27 PM (in response to 843851)Actually, the real name for the URL connected to a device is not URL but is URI
anyway, check out the IETFs RFCs on HTTP (2616), URLs, and URIs.
Try also using the Java COMM API, that has serial connection support.
Also, try JavaPhone and Java Telecom API these all should have
some support.
Also, I have been replying to posts on the same type of questions on hardware-based
programming in Java (in view of modems/hardware) in the Jini Technology and
General Distributed Networking forums. Try doing a search.
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3. Re: AT Commands with J2ME843851 Mar 9, 2003 9:34 AM (in response to 843851)No, you cannot send AT commands from J2ME. This is because the AT command set is incredibly powerful and would allow you to access low level parts of the phone (such as making phone calls, accessing address book, etc); J2ME was designed to be secure, so Midlets (like applets) operate in a sandbox that protects the user from it accessing personal data and acting on its behalf without its knowledge.
This doesn't mean it is not powerful, there are many things, like networking, screen manipulation, file storage, etc you can do but in order to access these features you must use the MIDP APIs.
4. Re: AT Commands with J2ME843851 Jan 18, 2005 2:48 AM (in response to 843851)hello to all,
My Questions...... is the statement from spm24 still up to date?
Or can i send AT- commands meantime over J2ME? (API�s)??
best regards!!
5. Re: AT Commands with J2ME843851 Jan 20, 2005 4:29 AM (in response to 843851)I am interested in something Similiar,
I wondering is it yet possible to have a Java Midlet running on a mobile phone, and for the Midlet to call an AT Command (on the phone itself)?
I appreciate any information you can provide me with.
6. Re: AT Commands with J2ME843851 May 13, 2009 6:25 AM (in response to 843851)U can execute the AT commands via j2me
7. Re: AT Commands with J2ME843851 May 14, 2009 6:23 PM (in response to 843851)Hello!
Edited by: cjliu on May 15, 2009 7:23 AM
8. Re: AT Commands with J2ME843851 Jun 28, 2009 9:37 PM (in response to 843851)Hi, I also got the same question, how do you execute the AT commands via j2me, thanks
9. Re: AT Commands with J2ME843851 Nov 12, 2009 4:09 AM (in response to 843851)We can implement it using AT commands!