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Let's get ready to rumble!
If the great sheets of ice on Greenland could talk, they might be saying "Let's Get Ready to Rumble!!!!!"
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Inside grasshopper poop
Grasshopper poop, grasshopper poop, fruit seeds are inside grasshopper poop.
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Icy volcano on saturn's moon
Saturn is a planet that almost everyone knows about--it's the one with the pretty stripes and all the rings. Last year a little spaceship about the size of a short school bus flew really close to one of Saturn's moons called Enceladus. The spaceship Cassini was packed with lots of tools to help scientists get a good look at the faraway moon.
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Chimps try to help
How many people have you helped today? Did you help your brother find his shoes before school? Did you lend a pencil to your best friend in math class? Did you help your soccer coach put away the balls after practice? If you did, you must be a human. Humans are some of the most helpful animals around. We lend a hand to our family, our friends, sometimes even strangers. Other animals aren't even close to being that helpful--or are they?
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A beaver buddy for the dinosaurs?
Wouldn't it be cool to go back in time and see what things looked like 164 million years ago? Those were the days of the dinosaurs, which is why scientists digging in China were so surprised when they found a new animal fossil from that time that looks a lot like a beaver!
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Facing a tough decision? Forget about it
The best way to make a tough decision is to collect the information you need and then forget about it.
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For tomatoes, yummy means healthy
Can a tomato taste healthy? That's what some scientists think. They wonder if maybe the flavors of a tomato or a strawberry give us little clues about the vitamins and other healthy stuff inside, according to a study in the 10 February issue of the journal Science.
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Find far fish fast
In May of 2003, scientists recorded tens of millions of fish swimming around in one loosely connected group in the Atlantic Ocean not so far from New York City. That's a lot of fish to keep track of at the same time. In fact, that's the most fish, and maybe the most creatures that have ever been instantaneously "caught on film."
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Tracking cougars with a virus bug
What if your mom could tell where you'd been and who you'd been hanging out with after school, just by checking to see who else in your neighborhood also had the nasty cold you caught last week? That's the kind of snooping some scientists did recently when they wanted to know where cougars were living and roaming around in the western United States and Canada.
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'Gut feeling' geometry
Kids and adults who have probably never seen a ruler or talked about triangles, rectangles or parallel lines have a reliable "gut feeling" about geometry, according to a new study.
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It's raining natural gas
On Saturn's biggest moon, infrequent but heavy downpours of liquid natural gas have created steep-sided valleys and flushed icy debris and dark goo into shallow lakes.
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Farming ants run microbe motels
The ants that grow fungus in little gardens face a problem that is well known to human farmers pests. Scientists have just discovered that farming ants are covered in little "motel rooms" that serve as shelter for bacteria that protect their crops.
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Water in the trunk of a tree
Every December, people cut down pine trees and other evergreens and stick them in their houses. The trees start sucking up water right away (unless you wait too long between cutting the tree and putting it in water, of course). A new study helps to explain how the heck water moves up the trunk of cone-making trees called "conifers."
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Aquarium fish and human skin color
Zebrafish, tiny aquarium fish with stripes on their sides, have helped scientists explain in terms of genetic makeup the variety of colors that human skin comes in.
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When did 'pet rocks' and 'wild rocks' become cool?
"Pet rocks" became cool in 1975 -- they suddenly seemed like the perfect low-maintenance pet, and almost instantly, people were buying pet rocks like crazy. You could teach a pet rock to sit and play dead instantly!
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Earliest bird had dino-like feet
A new fossil discovery shows that the earliest birds had feet similar to those of theropod dinosaurs (the group of two-legged, meat-eating dinosaurs that includes T. rex). The new specimen provides important details about the feet and skull of these birds and strengthens the argument -- which many but not all scientists agree on -- that modern birds arose from theropod dinosaurs.
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New 'time machine' from ice
Thanks to air bubbles trapped in a long cylinder of ice from a glacier in Antarctica, scientists have jumped an extra 210,000 years back in time. This scientific "time machine" now tells us how much carbon dioxide and methane was in the air as far back as 650,000 years ago.
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What do butterfly wings and TV screens have in common?
Many of the gadgets we use every day work by controlling the movement of light waves. CD and DVD players use lasers to read information off disks, allowing us to listen to music or watch movies. Optical fibers carry information signals long distances, in the form of light, allowing telephones and other devices to "talk" to each other.
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Europe's first farmers
People migrating from the Middle East brought farming techniques to present-day Germany and other parts of central Europe about 7,500 years ago. For years, scientists have been arguing over whether people with European ancestors are closely related to these first farmers. Some scientists say yes. Others say no and argue instead that people with European roots are closely related to the humans who lived in Europe long before the first farmers showed up.
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Words versus sentences
It's pretty easy to tell the difference between a word and a sentence. But how your brain works when it reads a word versus how it works when it reads a sentence is still a mystery.
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Trees protected villages from tsunami waves
In India, trees growing along the coastline helped to protect villages from the "walls of water" or tsunami waves that were triggered by a powerful earthquake that struck beneath the Indian Ocean on 26 December 2004, scientists have discovered.
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Logging, a bigger threat to the rainforest than we knew
The amount of land in the Amazon rainforest that's being damaged by human activities is twice as large as we had previously thought, suggests a new study. That's because researchers didn't have a good idea of how much logging was occurring there, until now.
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Green ocean machine
The plants in the window, the trees outside and the broccoli in the refrigerator all have ancient ancestors that didn't used to be green. They only "got green" when they captured smaller green creatures that turn sunlight into food. These small green creatures eventually became the green "chloroplasts" that the plants use to capture energy from the sun through the process of photosynthesis.
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Great White shark swims laps in the ocean
A great white shark swam across the Indian Ocean twice in nine months. The female shark swam from South Africa to Australia and then back to South Africa, according to a new study.
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Why good grooming matters for birds
Once barn swallows have chosen their mates for the season, the females may not stay faithful if their males don't keep themselves looking sexy, new research shows.
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Zumba is a fusion of Latin, International and popular music dance themes creating a dynamic, exciting, effective fitness system! The routines feature aerobic, fitness interval training with a combination of fast and slow rhythms that tone and sculpt the body with easy to follow dance steps.This instructor is part of the NYC Park's Fitness Instructor Training Program.
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"Life is not about posting other peoples quotes ad nausium, but creating your own. So others may share yours ad nausium."
"Special is something what makes you unique, otherwise common things are almost common in common commonalty & it's a commonality."
"You are realised by your uniqueness. Keep it unadulterated as much as you can. Once you adulterate it, you won't even be able to realise you."
"Are we really all unique. In a sense, we are not. We all have feelings and emotions. The same feelings and emotions. I agree with our individuality, but really; We all love. We all cry. We all get sad, mad, angry, happy. We all change. We all grow up. We all mature. We all separate. We all find true love. We are nothing alike, but exactly the same."
"Not following the conventional track doesn't mean I'm lost. It just means I'm discovering my own path."


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On Monday, June 30, a group of 42 travelers from the local area as well as surrounding counties and states left Columbia for a trip west.
The group traveled through 11 states including Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, California and Nevada.
The first day, the travelers stopped in Little Rock, Ark. and spent the night just blocks from the Bill Clinton Presidential Library, a structure of steel and glass.
Margaret RoBards was honored with a bridal shower on June 7 at Living Grace Church. Pictured are, from left, Anita Smith, Elsie Miller and Linda Martin, hostesses; RoBards; Debbie Fryrear and Linda Ward, hostesses. RoBards will marry Karl Feige on Aug. 7 at Beech Mountain, N.C.
The annual Beams family reunion took place on Sunday, June 22 at the Elk-Pit Masonic Lodge.
Trenton and Kim Beams and their 4-month-old baby Logan from Brooksville, Fla. traveled the longest distance to attend.
Attending from Cookville, Tenn. were Tammy Spencer and her sons Taylor, Clay and Dalin; from Hendersonville, Tenn. were Charles and Velda Beams; and Ronnie and Carolyn Beams came from Floyds Knob, Ind.
Deandra Jyll Williams and Matthew Lacy Walton Harris will exchange wedding vows on Saturday, July 26.
Williams is the daughter of Michael and Cindy Williams of Elk Horn. Her grandparents are Corrine Williams of Elk Horn and John and Carol Silver of Campbellsville.
She is a 2006 graduate of Taylor County High School and is employed at Amazon.com in Campbellsville.
Harris is the son of Clayton and Wallean Harris of Dunnville. His grandmother is Loretta Moore of Murphy, N.C.
Malcolm Richerson obtained a private pilot certificate from the Federal Aviation Association on May 24.
To obtain a private pilot certificate, one must pass the required aeronautical knowledge test, log at least 90 hours of flight time and pass a flight proficiency or practical test with an FAA certified examiner.
Richerson received his instruction from Ben Overgaauw and Bill Troutwine.
He is the son of David and Teresa Richerson of Campbellsville.
Scott and Linda Gaye Bottoms of Campbellsville announce the forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Laketa Cherise Bottoms, to Micheal Allen Hagan, son of Jesse and Carol Hagan of Columbia.
Bottoms is the granddaughter of Rubel and Zelma Sallee of Mannsville, Joyce Bottoms of Scottsville and the late Rev. Robert Bottoms.
She is a 2004 graduate of Taylor County High School.
Hagan is the grandson of Joyce Barnes of Columbia and the late Clyde and Erie Hagan.
Haley Wright celebrated her 11th birthday on June 13. Those attending were Brianna Armor, Gabby Pyles, Savannah DeLaGarza, Lydia Cave, Bradyn Wright, Morgan Bryant, Brittany Speer, Nikki Wright, Sabrina Wright, Trent Jones, Matthew Speer, Mason Wright, Ty Jones, Courtney Wright, Hayley Moss, Jordyn Southern, Kensi Moore, Shelby Carney, Cheyenne Moran, Olivia Burton, Megan Hedgespeth, Hannah Feather, MaKayla Sabo, Mary Jo Edrington, Kelsey Lahiff and Taylor Smoot.
Misty Dawn Wright and Richard Allen Wooldridge Jr., both of Campbellsville, will exchange wedding vows on Saturday, July 26.
Wright is the daughter of Matt and Tammy Wright of Campbellsville. Her grandparents are Tony and Mary Stubbs of Campbellsville and the late Buck Wright and Bobbie Wright.
She is a nursing student at Western Kentucky University.
Wooldridge is the son of Richard and Carolyn Wooldridge of Campbellsville. His grandparents are Charles and Nancy Moore of Lebanon and the late Jim and Joyce Wooldridge.
Ashley Brooke Simpson and Steven Michael Seibech, both of Campbellsville, exchanged wedding vows on Saturday, June 21 at South Campbellsville Baptist Church.
R.B. Mays performed the ceremony.
The bride is the daughter of L.C. and Patricia Simpson of Campbellsville.
The groom is the son of Deneisa and Jimmy Beckley of Campbellsville.
Music for the ceremony included Keith Urban's "I Wanna Be Your Everything" played during the lighting of the unity candle.
Billy Floyd of Edwards-O'Banion Post 82 was elected to the post of Commander of the 4th District.
His job will be to travel throughout the district (19 legion posts) attending meetings and events, serve as liaison with state officials and preside over district meetings for the next four years.
Joining Floyd for the next year are Post 82 Commander Robert Bryant as sergeant of arms and Sylvia Young as district chaplain.
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Groton - Poquonnock Bridge Fire Chief Todd Paige told the district board Thursday it owes more than $461,000 this month, not including payroll, and the district will be out of money by February or March.
Paige also said the district owes Groton Utilities more than $99,000 for fire hydrant rentals.
Taxpayers recently approved a budget of $3.5 million for the year that began July 1, about half of what the board had sought and not enough to cover payroll. Voters also elected three new board members.
The new board met for the first time since that budget was set Thursday at the Groton Senior Center. Members authorized Paige to pay the bills owed for July and scheduled another meeting for 6:30 p.m. Monday at the Senior Center to come up with a future spending plan.
The board then went into executive session to discuss the firefighters' union contract as it relates to the budget.
About 40 taxpayers and firefighters attending the meeting Thursday, some of whom spoke angrily about the district's finances and potential cuts. Some demanded that reports be read aloud, shouting from their seats.
Others waited to speak.
"You are entrusted with a huge amount of tax money collected from us and it is definitely our business what you do with it," Cindy Baril said.
Other speakers said they're upset the district still hasn't fixed its ladder truck but is depending on Groton City for mutual aid.
Hank Steinford said he had a fire at his house earlier this year and the last truck to arrive was the City of Groton's ladder truck.
"Had it been a situation where someone was upstairs it would have been a disaster," he said.
One potential cut that may be considered would be to limit firefighters' response to medical calls. Firefighters in Poquonnock Bridge are considered first responders to medical calls, meaning they are dispatched along with an ambulance and often arrive first.
Joan Steinford, his wife and a member of Representative Town Meeting, said she's concerned about timely response to medical calls. She said a woman two doors away had a stroke, and the ambulance took almost 15 minutes. But Steinford said Poquonnock Bridge firefighters arrived quickly, got her oxygen and helped her.
"Time is of the essence with stroke," Steinford said. "I've had one."
Libbie Burdick, whose husband Robert Burdick served as Poquonnock fire chief from 1979 until his death in 1993, said of the board before the meeting: "They're playing with people's lives."
She told the board she was distressed by what has happened, and added, "I know he is."
She then presented a small bouquet to Paige to recognize the firefighters for their decades of service.
During an earlier interview, Noank Fire District Chairman Frank Socha said firefighters are frequently the first on the scene of an emergency.
Socha, who also has worked as a 911 dispatcher in Groton since 1989, said all of the town's fire departments, including Groton City, Noank, Mystic, Old Mystic and Center Groton, respond to emergency medical calls.
Groton has two ambulance services, Socha explained; Groton Ambulance on Route 117 and Mystic River Ambulance on Sandy Hollow Road, which covers a portion of Stonington.
Mystic River responds to Poquonnock Bridge only for mutual aid if Groton Ambulance is unavailable, Socha said.
He said because ambulances take patients to hospitals and answer multiple calls, crews may be at some distance when an emergency call comes in, and it could be eight to 10 minutes before an ambulance arrives. Those minutes can make a difference, he said.
"It's all about time, really," he said. "Time is the key element."
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Wednesday morning Q022 grinds up hill through Hinsdale with a AC6000CW on point.
Up hill Battle.
CSX Q022 battles the steep and unforgiving western slope of Washington Hill on the Berkshire Subdivision. Leading the way is CSXT 617 an AC60CW in the YN3 paint scheme.
Making good work of the 1.5% Grade CSX Q022 thunders though the town of Hinsdale, MA on a sunny Saturday morning.
CSX Q264 slowly works his way through Hinsdale, MA as he climbs the west slope of the Washington Hill Grade on CSX's Berkshire Subdivision with a massive 125 car train.
Last train of the day, L424 slowly make there way up the grade through Hinsdale with a clean ES44AH leading and sounded great up hill.
After hearing this guy climb the hill for a good 15 minutes Q022 finally makes there way through the Small town of Hinsdale and is making some noise up hill with a good size train in tow.
On a frigid, cold, but sunny Saturday morning, loaded auto rack Q264 is thundering upgrade through the small town of Hinsdale.
Worcester bound Conrail freight "SEPW"(Selkirk to Providence & Worcester) slogs up the 1.4% grade to the summit of Hinsdale deep in the Berkshires on a cold November day. The crew has adorned the... (more)
Living in the Berkshires in the early 90's was a great way to capitalize on the Conrail's "blue boats" on the former NYC B&A. Looking back I can still hear the brace of Dash 8s as they chuffed t... (more)
Snow squalls obscure the distant hills as a U30B leads a westbound manifest downgrade through a wetland area near Hinsdale, Massachusetts.
18,000 almost brand new horses pulling the grade to Washington. On the rear another 3,000 horses are helping. Whether or not we liked it that much in 1977, we all miss it now.
The finest Central of New Jersey power went to Conrail in 1976. CR 6050 Ex CNJ 2050 proudly leads a mingled freight eastbound over the western slopes of the Berkshires.
Westbound freight heads into darkness. Shadows fall from nearby hills and crowd out much needed light. Background sun burns away bright horizon. At this hour in the Berkshires we have daylight and... (more)
"Thanks for the push". SD40-2 is cutting off the caboose after a 15 mile push from Chester to Hnsdale. Now the engine crew will coast down hill to Pittsfield with full dynamic brakes.
Eastbound CSX 683 is still working hard as it reaches the summit of Washington Hill on the old Boston & Albany main.


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O ignis Spiritus Paracliti / Sequence for the Holy Spiritby Hildegard von Bingen
English version by Barbara Newman
Original Language Latin
Fiery Spirit,
fount of courage,
life within life
of all that has being!
Holy are you, transmuting the perfect
into the real.
Holy are you, healing
the mortally stricken.
Holy are you, cleansing
the stench of wounds.
O sacred breath O blazing
love O savor in the breast and balm
flooding the heart with
the fragrance of good,
O limpid mirror of God
who leads wanderers
home and hunts out the lost,
Armor of the heart and hope
of the integral body,
sword-belt of honor:
save those who know bliss!
Guard those the fiend holds
free those in fetters
whom divine force wishes to save.
O current of power permeating all
in the heights upon the earth and
in all deeps:
you bind and gather
all people together.
Out of you clouds
come streaming, winds
take wing from you, dashing
rain against stone;
and ever-fresh springs
well from you, washing
the evergreen globe.
O teacher of those who know,
a joy to the wise
is the breath of Sophia.
Praise then be yours!
you are the song of praise,
the delight of life,
a hope and a potent honor
granting garlands of light.
|-- from Symphonia: A Critical Edition of the Symphonia armonie celstium revelationum, by Hildegard of Bingen / Translated by Barbara Newman
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I thought a meditation on the universal flow of life by the great Medieval mystic, Hildegard von Bingen would set the right tone for us today.
This song of praise is more than just a beautiful catalog of how God, in the motherly aspect of the Holy Spirit, is so important to creation. Read it deeply and you will see that a powerful and very specific vision is being communicated.
God, through the Holy Spirit, is "life within life / of all that has being." This is an image of the formless, vivifying force of the divine, the Holy Breath that permeates all of manifest existence, everything in nature, every form, giving it life, making it holy, making it divine.
Through this divine animating spirit shared by all, all separate things are actually one: "you bind and gather / all people together."
Especially notice the lines:
Out of you clouds
come streaming, winds
take wing from you, dashing
rain against stone;
and ever-fresh springs
well from you, washing
the evergreen globe.
Another translation renders these lines as:
From you clouds flow, air flies,
rocks have their humours,
rivers spring forth from the waters
and earth sweats her green vigour.
All of physical reality, even in its most solid forms of earth and rock, all of 'solid' reality... flows. Nothing is as tangible or stationary as it may superficially appear. All forms possess a sort of divine inner 'sap' -- the fluid Holy Spirit -- that is its true being or essence which shows itself as life: "and earth sweats her green vigour."
This is not a dusty theological statement, but a vision of life, how the Divine flows unhindered through all of creation, and it is that flowing that is life. And all things, all people, you and I, we are not solid, separate physical bodies; we, too, are nothing less than that eternal flow.
O teacher of those who know,
a joy to the wise
is the breath of Sophia.
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Nagarjuna was a 2nd Century Indian Buddhist philosopher who articulated the doctrine of emptiness (Shunyata) and is traditionally regarded as the founder of the Madhyamika ("Middle Way") school, an important tradition of Mahayana Buddhist philosophy.
After graduating from Notre Dame in 2000, Olsen taught middle and high school for a decade in Chicago and San Diego County. She received a master of arts in liberal arts and a master of arts in Eastern Classics from St. John's College in 2012. She is currently doctoral student in philosophy at Tulane University, where she teaches undergraduate classes in Buddhism.
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The Lindsay Lohan Machete poster photo that is making the rounds is both provocative and laughable. See the Lindsay Lohan nun outfit, licking a gun and looking way too cool for school. A trailer video is below as well. She poses topless in Machete which is why the topic interests me. You might like gun-licking nuns but I got other things to do in church.
Reader comments are appreciated because we coddle our readers. Is this Lindsay Lohan Oscar winning material. Or is Lindsay a skank? You be the judge and we will be impartial facilitators of your stream of consciousness. Comment now, bookmark us and come back again because the Right TV chicks are super cool babes just like you.
Machete is a movie directed by Robert Rodriguez. Surprisingly some good actors are in the movie such as my manly man Robert DeNiro who plays a really super important Senator guy.
Steven Seagal plays a character named "Torrez" (surely FICA World Cup goalie material) while Don Johnson plays Lt. Stillman. Jessica Alba plays somebody, who exactly is irrelevant. Same with Michelle Rodriguez. Yeah okay, Don Johnson is not a superstar but the other guys are cool dudes and Jessica is world class wannabe her, and especially wanna see her with Michelle Rodriguez if you catch my drift.
Judging by the pre-publicity photos and video trailer, the plot of the movie is a lot of guns and a few swords. Shoot people with the guns actors are holding. Sword fight. Chicks. Simple. I like guns and chicks but at this time of night those guns are usually under the sheets and hubby is too tired for more chicks. Let's just say the sword is sheathed.
See way much too much more right here, sort of here and totally positively here.
Speaking of sheets, back to Lindsay Lohan. The nun outfit is fairly hilarious would you not agree? It's not just the celibacy thing that makes it all wrong but the preposterous need by the film's marketing people to make Lindsay a focal-point of their advertising campaign. By God, what does DeNiro have to say about it? Who really cares about Lindsay Lohan when Jessica Alba is on screen.
Okay Perez Hilton will buy a ticket but what else is there to see here?
Well, see the trailer video for Machete, Lindsay Lohan nun licking sword thing and all.
Machete Video: Lindsay Lohan, Robert DeNiro, Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriguez


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Chaos on Deponia PC
- Publisher: Daedalic Entertainment
- Release Date: Nov 6, 2012
- Summary: Embark on round 2. CoD promises to be even crazier than the first game and quickly puts the player under its spell. After the events on Deponia, it appears that Rufus came to his senses.
- Developer: Daedalic Entertainment
- Genre(s): Adventure
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Oct 2, 2012Chaos on Deponia continues the beautiful story of Deponia. The game brings nothing new to the genre, however it has great and funny characters, nice riddles and a fantastic atmosphere. Chaos on Deponia shows how an adventure game should be made.
Jan 29, 2013Chaos on Deponia is not an ideal adventure game, but it is totally worthy of being called a true successor to Monkey Island.
Nov 28, 2012Chaos on Deponia is indeed an exciting adventure, full of idiotic dialogues and situations, long running and with great graphics.
Nov 14, 2012Chaos on Deponia is so much better than its predecessor in almost every aspect. The story starts to be really intriguing, the main character has grown and puzzles are well thought and a lot of fun to solve.
Dec 24, 2012The puzzles are tough enough that you probably won't figure them out right away, but they're not so tough that they'll stump you for days at a time, either. For me, that's exactly where I want the difficulty of an adventure to be, and combined with the humor of the game, it makes Chaos on Deponia an easy game to recommend.
Nov 15, 2012It's guaranteed to provide you with a few good belly laughs, plus some genuine brain teasers as well.
Nov 16, 2012It's not bad, but compared to its predecessor, and to other Daedalic adventures in general, it's not really all that good, either.
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Positive: 9 out of 11
Mixed: 2 out of 11
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Nov 25, 2012Chaos on Deponia is definitely the best point and click game I've ever played, going above Monkey Island and Broken Sword games which haveChaos on Deponia is definitely the best point and click game I've ever played, going above Monkey Island and Broken Sword games which have been my favorites for a long time.
Chaos on Deponia is the second game in 3 part series. The first game was amazing too, but not nearly at this level
Not spoiling too much,(just don't read if you haven't played the first Deponia) star of Deponia 2 is once again Rufus, egoistical jerk who always has some scatter brained plan for everything and of course people get hurt in the process. He lives in a planet called Deponia, this giant garbarge pile where humans, or human like creatures live. Rufus is trying to get to Elysium, this place high above in the sky. Another big character is Goal, the love interest, and unlike in first game, this time she's not asleep for the majority of the game, only in the beginning as you try to assemble her mind back together. Both are great characters and really funny in their own way. Rufus is always trying to hit on Goal but she doesn't seem to be responsive, and Goal's mind is split in 3 parts and all of the parts have great personalities and you get to know her better as a whole when you try to persuade all of the parts and get to Elysium to tell them that Deponia is inhabitent and not to blow it up.
Story takes couple of nice turns and leaves in a nice cliffhanger while giving satisfying ending. At some point you learn something aboyt Elysium, which might make you question a bit is Rufus really trying to do the right thing when he's trying to stop the supposedly bad guy and stop Deponia from exploding, and what does Rufus himself really want?
Gameplay is standard, if you've played point & click games you'll know and if you haven't, it's not that hard to catch on. You talk to lots of colorful characters to gain information, and collect and combine all sorts of weird stuff from your inventory to progress forward.
Puzzles in this game are top notch, best I've ever played. They're logical, they're challenging but not on impossible level but you still need to think and really listen to the characters. Sometimes there aren't even any hints to what you should do, not at least verbally because those puzzles are explained a little differently and they can get challenging.
Humor is also one of the best in any game I've ever played. There's constantly coming real laugh out loud moments (Mc Thulhu restaurant was the best part).
I played the game with English voice acting which was superb. I've heard that some previous Daedalic games haven't had that great English translation and many jokes have been lost from German version, but I don't think that's the case here, about every joke hits the mark and everything is completely understandable.
Only bad thing I can say are the typo's, there aren't that much of them but they're noticeable. Now, I probably misspelled something in this review too as my native language isn't English, and neither is for the guys who made the game, Daedalic Entertainment, but those typo's still give away a bit unprofessional feeling and remind me that this is indeed an indie game. This doesn't make the game worse in any way and if you play it with English voice over and your first language is English, you most likely won't even read subtitles and the typo's are just a letter here and there, just pointing out.
All and all, awesome game. This is definitely the best game in 2012 that I've played and new king of point & click games in my list. Can't wait for Deponia 3.… Expand
Jan 17, 2013Well, I really liked this game, even more than Deponia. The storyline is great, and the writing is fantastic. The puzzles are also muchWell, I really liked this game, even more than Deponia. The storyline is great, and the writing is fantastic. The puzzles are also much better than Deponia, which had a few puzzles that were basically impossible without a walkthrough - there was still a few ridiculous puzzles, but not nearly as many. My only other complaint is that, like Deponia, the ending feels rushed and unresolved. Hopefully the final game in the trilogy will not be like that. I don't think I'd have paid $20 for this, but I don't regret paying $10 for it, and at $5 it would be a must-buy.… Expand
Jan 17, 2013The sequal to the first game (Deponia). I recommend that you play the first game, and if you already have and you're reading this, what theThe sequal to the first game (Deponia). I recommend that you play the first game, and if you already have and you're reading this, what the hell are you waiting for? Go play Chaos on Deponia! :)… Expand
Dec 9, 2012An amazing sequel to Deponia. Game is long and everything that I ever liked in original is improved. More characters, more locations, moreAn amazing sequel to Deponia. Game is long and everything that I ever liked in original is improved. More characters, more locations, more puzzles, more humor, and ofcourse, even more junk.… Expand
Nov 20, 2012Amazing game with lots of personality! Puzzles sometimes have illogical solutions but in hindsight I just needed to be more observant. TheAmazing game with lots of personality! Puzzles sometimes have illogical solutions but in hindsight I just needed to be more observant. The creators are great at adding more and more layers of depth to puzzles so the first solution you come up with is only a part of it. I love how fresh every puzzle is, they never recycle elements. More hilarious moments in this one than the first (lollipop scene is priceless). Rufus seemed like a total ass in the first one but I'm really starting to like him and root for him, even if he's still an ass. Again the only issue with this series is some mismatch between audio and subtitles but it barely takes away from the experience since it only happens once or twice, pretty good for a translated game. A real gem for adventure games.… Expand
Nov 11, 2015Good game. Reminds me of Monkey Island. Brings back memories. Good puns, jokes, insults.
The last third of the game had unintuitive puzzlesGood game. Reminds me of Monkey Island. Brings back memories. Good puns, jokes, insults.
The last third of the game had unintuitive puzzles but I would still say that it was worth it.… Expand
Aug 25, 2013Chaos on Deponia has great drawings, an interesting, appealing atmosphere, and an epic score, which livens up the start menu section.Chaos on Deponia has great drawings, an interesting, appealing atmosphere, and an epic score, which livens up the start menu section.
Unfortunately, under the pretty facade, both on its own, and in comparison with its predecessor, this adventure game is severely lacking in actual content. Yes, there are more areas to explore, more scenes to play out, and more videos to watch, but the jokes are fit for little children (which is out of place in a game with a mature setting), are devoid of wit, intelligence, or class (oh, this guy speaks in a funny way, let's laugh about it for the entire game, because it's obviously such a riot) not to mention the completely needless and tasteless parts with cruelty to animals.
Supplementing the vapid, hollow humor are unlikable, skin-deep characters that do not evoke the tiniest bit of emotional attachment.
All except the protagonist, of course who is a loathsome with no redeeming qualities, which I found repeatedly wanting to see fail. The fact that he is an oblivious, rude, shallow, mean-spirited, self-centered, charmless, immature idiot (and yes, this is how the game itself portrays him) might have been (almost) cute in the first game, but his behavior is simply insufferable this time around. In effect, he does not serve as a hero, anti-hero (Guybrush Threepwood has that part done correctly), or even as comic relief.
In short, this is an average adventure game, that falls short of the classics it tries to imitate (there are a few homages too, not that they help much). Despite wanting to like it, I became more and more disappointed as the story progressed. Perhaps this trilogy (why?) can still be saved in its third installment, when that is available, but my advice is to think three times before handing over your money.… Collapse
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Bengt Robert Holmström (born 18 April 1949 in Helsinki) is a Finnish economist who is currently the Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He belongs to the Swedish speaking minority of Finland.
Holmström received his B.S. in mathematics and science from the University of Helsinki, a Master of Science degree in Operations Research from Stanford University in 1975, and his Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford. He has been on the faculty of M.I.T. since 1994. Holmström is particularly famous for his work on game and incentives under asymmetric information.
Holmström was a member of Nokia's board of directors from 1999 until 2012.[1][2] He is a member of the Board of the Aalto University. He is also a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 2001.[3]
- Holmström, Bengt, 1979. "Moral Hazard and Observability," Bell Journal of Economics, 10(1), pp. 74-91.
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- _____, 1983. "Equilibrium Long-Term Labor Contracts," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 98(Supplement), pp. 23-54.
- _____, 1999. "Managerial Incentive Problems: A Dynamic Perspective," Review of Economic Studies, 66(1), 169-182.
- Holmström, Bengt, and Paul Milgrom, 1991. "Multitask Principal-Agent Analyses: Incentive Contracts, Asset Ownership, and Job Design," Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 7, 24-52.
- _____, 1994. "The Firm as an Incentive System," American Economic Review, 84(4), pp. 972-991.
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To: Palestinian Remembrance Authors, Architects, Documenters, Scholars and Intellectuals
From: Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
Date: June 08, 2008.
You have some very good websites. Thank you for the stellar documentation work. It is certainly useful, and in a just and moral world, these narratives and documentations of the Nakba would make good evidence in a fair court room. Among these stellar websites which appear to carry authentic accounts include: palestineremembered.com, plands.org, al-awda.org, badil.org, alnakba.org, and many more narratives which can be found on this links page. The most significant and substantive work done in documentation of the Nakba, in the humble view of Project Humanbeingsfirst, is by Dr. Salman Abu Sitta of Palestine Land Society. His new book"The Return Journey, The way to return Home" – A Guide to the Depopulated And Present Palestine Towns And Villages and Holy Sites – is a masterpiece of factual compilation that would be hard to challenge in any fair and moral court of law on any planet.
Except on Earth! In this world, and on this planet, where only power dictates and not its victims seeking redressal and justice, it is going to take a bit more than just documentation and narratives to get one's homes and lands back. As those given to even a modicum of reflection and empiricism well understand, among humanoids, power is only known to respect power – as "Hegemony is as old as mankind" – and justice in this system on such a vast national scale is only that which is administered by the victors to the vanquished.
Indeed, to begin with, it is gonna take a much deeper understanding of how sophisticatedly the Palestinian Nakba has been fueled, the intellectual capital that drives it, and why merely documenting stories and narratives is great for your antagonists, who, while you tell heart wrenching narratives, go on constructing political and structural faits accomplis that are subsequently irreversible. Without concomitant coddling of power-structures and playing with astute devilish efficacy on the 'Grand Chessboard', the ever spreading Der Judenstaadt is a fait accompli that has now made a Palestinian homeland less and less viable, except as "reservations". Overtime, while these might be sugar-coated to look less like self-governing reservations, and more like segregated 'Black' minority neighborhoods that become part of Israel proper, a Jewish state in all of Palestine is now irreversible by virtue of practicality.
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To make the point clear – who does not know how the Native American Indians' lands were settled in the previous New World, or how California was taken from Mexico? All the documentation in the world – and yet, faits accomplis are a powerful reality that may not be overcome or reversed without power and its incantations on one's side! With the passage of time, even power cannot reverse an existent reality on the ground without bloodshed – imagine a Mexican peasant today knocking on one's million dollar door in Sunnyvale California wanting his great grand-father's orchards back!
Time is on the side of the Zionists – give a hundred more years, or perhaps only twenty, even the Palestinian vacant lands documented by Salman Abu Sitta will have Zionist homes, farms, and state-parks with every Jew in the world planting his tree there! Try giving a California or Colorado state-park back to an American Indian were he to come calling with all the documentation in the world!
As the Palestinians continue to narrate and document, continue to assert slogans like: "Our DATE is 60 years LATE, we shall return.", the Land of Canaan is becoming Eretz Yisrael. Obviously Palestinians know this well in their own spilled blood and tears and need not be informed by a non-Palestinian, even a friend.
And yet – how do the Palestinians react? Precisely – they only react! Not anticipate, not preempt, not strategize, and not comprehend, but react. That, and lament! And react and lament precisely as expected by their antagonists. Thus they face systematic elimination from their own homelands with each new Katsuya rocket one baby-step at a time!
Perhaps it's time to do things differently?
To catch a mere glimpse of the enormous intellectual and political capital that hands the Palestinians their Nakba even as we speak, and why Palestinians continue to lose despite having "HAQ" and "Claims" on their side as the world complicitly spectates "looking from the side" without lifting a whit of a finger to come to their fellow-brethren's assistance, please see: "Celebrating Israel's 60th Birthday in the 60th year of the Nakba"
And to further glimpse how your own good and honest intellectuals and ruling elite have continually let the Palestinian peoples down because they are entirely outclassed by a far superior devilishly calculating foe who is easily able to co-opt them into selling themselves short, please see: "2008 Orwell Prize for the Palestinian Narrative of Nakba – Making a fool of Palestinian intellectualism".
The solution? Perhaps the direction in which to find it is pointed to here: "Letter to Palestinian Think Tank on 'Palestinian options as the Nakba turns 60'", and here: "Letter2 to Palestine Think Tank on 'Take 10 and give back 1 if the Palestinians behave, then repeat!'". A conquest and an oppression originally begun in the intellectual–political space, will also only be concluded there. The Zionist masterminds apparently understand this far better than the Palestinians. And therefore, always appear to be better prepared across the board.
With every new "peace process", and every stone and rocket launch, the Palestinians have lost more, using the method: take 10 during "revolutionary times" and give back 1 if the Palestinians behave, then repeat! Anyone can hopefully do that math to get the total sum!
This is also why the exponents of Israel entirely control the global discourse on Israel-Palestine throughout the world, even among the ruling elite in the Muslim nations, not to mention among the Palestinian ruling elite itself, none of which reflects either any deep comprehension of the manifest reality on the ground, or the aspirations of the Palestinian masses. These are the Masters of Discourse, and a far more formidable foe across the world's Jewry than the Palestinians seem to apprehend – as they continually losingly engage the foot soldiers among their antagonists and not the real power-wielders!
Israel Shamir notes in the English Introduction to his new book the following veritable truth which must by now be self-evident to all who are able to comprehend the power of the concept of "Der Judenstaadt" on the global Jewish psyche which carries upon its bent backs, the weight of three thousand years of history (Jewish History, Jewish Religion):
The new Jewish elite did not fully identify with Russia but carried out a separate policy. It had a fateful effect in 1991, when over 50 % of the Jews (as opposed to 13 % of the Russians) supported the pro-Western coup of President Yeltsin. In 1995, 81% of the Jews voted for pro-Western parties, and only 3% for the Communists (as opposed to 46% of Russians), according to the publication by the Jewish sociologist Dr. Ryvkina in her book, Jews in Post-Soviet Russia (1996).
In ever-expanding America, the Jews did not have to kill or remove the native elites; they became its important part, controlling discourse and wielding considerable financial clout. They still do not identify with the goyish America: they force the Congress and the Administration to send billions of dollars to their Israeli offshoot, they forced the US to break Iraq to pieces, and now they are trying to let America fight their war in Iran, though it brings disaster to America. They do discriminate against other Americans; otherwise 60% of the leading positions in the media would not become Jewish.
Jews of France do not identify with France, either. "Their identification with Israel is so strong, it overshadows their ties to the country they live in," writes Daniel Ben Simon in Haaretz. This dual loyalty was made very clear to me by a Jewish doctor in Nice. "If the choice is between Israel and France, there's no question I feel closer to Israel," he said, without a moment's hesitation. He was born and bred in France; he went to medical school in France; his patients are French; he speaks French with his wife and children. But in the depths of his heart, he feels a greater affinity with the Jewish state.
In Palestine, the Jews have no compassion for the natives. They travel by segregated roads, study in segregated schools, while a Jew consumes ten times more water resources than a goy, and has an income seven times higher. Thus, the Jewish separateness remains a fact of life for many Jewish communities.
While the Palestinian intellectual and revolutionary need not adopt the discourse of European anti-Semitism – cousins as they are of their oppressors – they do need to comprehend the immense psychological and sociological power of that discourse, and the power of the world Jewry in sustaining the Jewish State because of it. The significance of this statement is made evident by the fact that this discourse prevailed upon not only the very Evangelical Christian American President George W. Bush, but also the Christian Prime Minister of Germany, Angela Merkel, the Christian Prime Minister of France, Nicholas Sarkozy, the Roman Catholic Christian Prime Minister of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi, and the Christian Prime Minister of Britain, Gordon Brown, along with the Queen of England, representing the world's most powerful Christian coalition of Western Hegemons, to pay homage to Jewish Zionistan on May 15, 2008. None showed up, even in false courtesy, to offer their feeble condolences for the Nakba to what remains of the Palestinian Reservations!
What may that suggest to those given to reflection on power? Not just military power, but the power that fuels its many manifestations, including occupation? The prime-movers ain't the overt incantations! And Palestinian intellectuals to politicians to its ruling elite have continually failed to recognize it over the past sixty years – by virtue of there not being a single JINSA or AIPAC or AEI or CFR or RIIA or Rothschild or Rhodes or Time and Newsweek equivalent among the Palestinians (and among its other victims worldwide)!
Sixty years have passed in intense suffering, one day, one year, and one election in the United States and the European nations at a time. In none of those days, years, and elections, have Palestinians understood power, or its incantations. Khalid Amayreh, writing from Ramallah for the Palestinian Information Center, was finally forced to admit the reality of this power, but still only in its outer visible superficiality without penetrating the deep depths to which his observations actually hold:
In comparison to the madman in the White House, Europe may look less bellicose, less confrontational and less unreasonable in its overall approach to contentious international issues. However, when the issue is the Palestinian plight, the US and Europe look very much like tweedledee and tweedledum.
In recent months and years, European leaders from Germany's Merkel, to France's Sarkozy, to Britain's Brown and Italy's Berlusconi were shamelessly pandering to Israeli savagery to the extent of embracing relentless Israeli criminality against the Palestinian people , including the ongoing genocidal ethnic cleansing in the occupied Palestinian territories, particularly in the Gaza Strip.
True, the European tone of speech often sounds less odious especially when compared with the unmitigated saber-rattling coming from Washington. But, in the final analysis, the outcome in both cases is similar. In fact, the US and Europe collaborate and even collude to effect the same unethical goals often by playing the old game of Mutt and Jeff (good cop and bad cop), with their persecuted victims, whether in Palestine, Sudan or Iran.
Please accept the humblest condolences from Project Humanbeingsfirst to all Palestinians on their on-going Nakba – and if the Palestinians labor under the misperception that they can reverse their catastrophe (only) on moral, legal, or prior ownership-claims grounds with unimpeachable documentation and narratives displayed on elegantly constructed websites and in loudly rehearsed annual Nakba conferences, they are sadly mistaken. Only more ignoble "Peace" and other Orwellian Prizes and prestigious Chairs await the Palestinian intellectual and politician. Unless the real thinkers among them – your good selves – astutely rise to the challenge of shrewdly leading your beleaguered peoples, just as Theodor Herzl once did his peoples, by intimately apprehending power and its incantations, and harnessing it!
Zahir Ebrahim
Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
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Definition of stamp collecting in English:
stamp collecting
noun[mass noun]
The collection and study of postage stamps as objects of interest or value; philately.
Example sentences
- Edna, 71, from South Croydon, has always been interested in stamp collecting and now spends at least five evenings week sorting them into categories and themes.
- His meticulous character suited his outside interests of coin and stamp collecting, chess, genealogy, and Scottish history.
- Decades later, when Worley was in his late 40s, his young daughter took what proved to be a short-lived interest in stamp collecting.
archaic timbrophily, timbromania
stamp collector noun
- Example sentences
- A quiet and reserved man, Sandy continued his favourite hobby of Scottish country dancing, was a keen stamp collector and reader, and a member of the local Rotary club.
- A lifelong stamp collector as well as a professional historian, Dane Claussen hopes the embrace of eBay among many scholars may encourage historians to seek out private collectors for research assistance.
- Aravamuthan, a keen coin and stamp collector as well as a dealer in rare stamps and ancient coins, avers that philately has become a rich-man's hobby.
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Book your room at INK Hotel Amsterdam by MGallery
New Church is within a 5-minute walk of INK Hotel Amsterdam by MGallery while other popular sites like Dam Square are within a 15-minute stroll. This 149-room, 4-star hotel has a restaurant, a 24-hour fitness center, and free in-room WiFi. Centrally located in Amsterdam, the hotel is also a short walk from Royal Palace and The Old Church.
Sit down for a leisurely bite to eat at the onsite restaurant, or enjoy a drink at the bar/lounge. Savor a meal from the comfort of your room with 24-hour room service, or get a quick energy boost at the coffee shop/café. Start each morning off right with buffet breakfast served for a fee.
All 149 air-conditioned rooms provide minibars, coffee makers, and free newspapers. Guests can enjoy free WiFi and digital TV. Beds are dressed in premium bedding and down comforters, and bathrooms offer hair dryers and free toiletries. Free bottled water, safes, and desks are also available.
Property features
Guests staying at INK Hotel Amsterdam by MGallery enjoy a 24-hour fitness center, a sauna, and free WiFi in public areas. Offsite parking is offered for a fee. The 24-hour front desk has multilingual staff ready to assist with dry cleaning/laundry, concierge services, and luggage storage. Other amenities at this historic hotel include a meeting room, a business center, and a library.
- Walking distance to New Church and Dam Square
- Free WiFi in rooms and public areas
- Onsite dining
- 24-hour fitness center
INK Hotel Amsterdam by MGalleryNieuwezijds Voorburgwal 67 Amsterdam 1012 RE
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
INK Hotel Amsterdam by MGallery houses its own sauna, and health-conscious guests benefit from discounted access to a local fitness center. The 20 square meters hotel's conference facilities include a meeting room that is equipped with audio-visual facilities and can accommodate up to 62 people. A range of office-support services are available in the business center and those with laptops can stay connected via complimentary high-speed wireless Internet accesss. Multilingual staff at the 24-hour front desk are on hand to book tours and offer advice on local sights and attractions. Other amenities include currency exchange and around-the-clock room service, and complimentary newspapers are available in the lobby. Off-site parking is available (surcharge).
- Bar/lounge
- Total number of rooms - 149
- 24-hour front desk
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Number of floors - 5
- Elevator/lift
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Business center
- Coffee shop or café
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Concierge services
- Fireplace in lobby
- 24-hour fitness facilities
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Free WiFi
- Library
- One meeting room
- Multilingual staff
- Garden
- Terrace
- Luggage storage
- Restaurant
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Year Built 1986
- Conference space size (feet) - 215
- Conference space size (meters) - 20
- Offsite parking discounted rates available
- Sauna
- Smoke-free property
- Number of buildings/towers - 3
- Television in common areas
- Use of nearby fitness center (discount)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Offsite parking discounted rates available
Room Amenities
- Pay movies
- Hair dryer
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Premium bedding
- Air conditioning
- Free newspaper
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Free bottled water
- Daily housekeeping
- Free toiletries
- Shower only
- Desk
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- In-room safe
- Digital TV service
- Free WiFi
- Partially open bathroom
- Room service (24 hours)
- Down comforter
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
Where to Eat
Duke of Windsor - This Orient Express-themed bar serves drinks and snacks. The bar is open from 7 AM until midnight and offers 24-hour room service.
Breakfast is offered for a surcharge.
PRESSROOM - International restaurant offering local classics with a contemporary twist next to international culinary superstars. The chef finds inspiration all around the globe, but has a soft spot for local ingredients.
Nearby Things to Do
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible bathroom
- Roll-in shower
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Special cancellation policies or charges may apply for group reservations (more than 8 rooms for the same hotel / stay dates).
- A 5 percent city/local tax will be charged
Optional extras
- Fee for buffet breakfast: EUR 25 per person (approximately)
- Rollaway beds are available for an additional fee
Hotel Name
- Convent Amsterdam MGallery Collection
- Convent Hotel
- Convent Hotel Amsterdam MGallery Collection
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- Convent MGallery Collection
- Hotel Convent
- Amsterdam Convent Hotel
- INK Hotel Amsterdam MGallery
- INK Hotel MGallery
- INK Amsterdam MGallery
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Children 11 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.


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Update: Southwest plane makes safe landing at Dallas Love Field after it blows tire on takeoff
Update at 11:10 a.m.: A Southwest Airlines plane has made a safe landing at Dallas Love Field after damaging two tires on takeoff.
Mark Duebner, Dallas' director of aviation, says there was a blown "outbound tire on the main gear," but the plane was able to safely land at the city-owned airport. A second tire was also damaged.
A statement from Southwest Airlines said the pilot of the Boeing 737 did a "fly-by" to allow officials on the ground to inspect the damage before landing. Now ground crews must change the tires before the jet can be towed off the runway.
"The 125 customers and crew of five will be moved to another aircraft to continue their journey to Austin," the airline said.
Original item posted at 11:02 a.m.: Dallas Fire-Rescue is on the scene at Dallas Love Field, where there are reports of a plane coming in with a blown tire. The blow-out appears to have occurred during takeoff.
Jason Evans, Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesman, says crews are on the runaway awaiting its arrival. Dallas Love Field officials say they are awaiting further details. Messages have been left for Southwest officials.


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The University of Kentucky College of Agriculture is partnering with Purdue University to offer the fourth annual Kentuckiana Dairy Exchange. The two-day meeting will give dairy producers an opportunity to visit other dairies and learn the latest from UK and Purdue specialists Aug. 2-3 in Fort Wayne, Ind. and the surrounding area.
Dairy specialists from both universities believe Kentucky and Indiana producers share many common challenges and have a wealth of knowledge and experience to share.
State Fair entry
The Kentucky State Fair will be Aug. 18-28, but entry deadlines are as follows: Open livestock entries must be postmarked by July 10. Open Show livestock may enter after July 10 by paying a double entry fee, but no open livestock entries will be accepted after July 25. Open show Poultry and Pigeon entries must be postmarked by July 10 and Rabbit entries by July 18. Most entries can be made at www.kystatefair.org.
Hay is a significant agricultural crop in LaRue County and is important to livestock producers of all types. Therefore, harvesting hay for higher and better yields is critical.
Recent research from Wisconsin Extension gives ideas on how to shorten the harvest window, enhance forage quality and reduce the chance for rain damage. Growers should consider the points below:
• Mow to a proper height, which is between 2-4 inches for alfalfa and between 3-4 inches for most grasses.
The following personnel recommendations were heard June 20 by the LaRue County School Board:
• Employment of Keshia Pitt as instructional monitor for Kid's Crew.
• Employment of Denise Rose as childcare director for Kid's Crew effective May 23.
• Employment of Brience Willian as evening custodian at Hodgenville Elementary School effective July 1.
• Employment of Jamie Hines, Kristy Stillwell, Gladys Cissell and Shelia Skaggs as Cool School assistants for the Family Resource Center.
Rebekah A. Hellman of Hodgenville has been named to the Dean's List for the spring semester at Georgetown College.
She is the daughter of Roie and Karen Hellman, of Hodgenville.
The Dean's List honors undergraduate students who completed the semester with at least 12 credit hours and a 3.7 GPA.
Adults interested in returning to college and completing a bachelor's degree are getting an extra boost through Project Graduate, a statewide program designed to recruit and graduate former students with 90 or more credit hours. Through fall 2010, a total of 492 former students had completed a bachelor's degree with the help of high-touch services and incentives offered through the program.
Project Graduate is a collaborative effort between the Council on Postsecondary Education and the state's public universities.
Marites Helvey was named to the Dean's List at Elizabethtown Community and Technical College for the spring semester.
She is working on an associate degree in accounting.
She and her husband, Joe Helvey, live in Hodgenville.
First day of school – Aug. 4
Holiday, Labor Day – Sept. 5
Fall break – Oct. 3-7
No School – Nov. 7-8
Thanksgiving break – Nov. 23-25
Winter break – Dec. 19-30
Students return after winter break- Jan. 2
Martin Luther King Day- Jan. 16
President's Day- Feb. 17
No school- March 5
Spring break- April 9-13
May 4- No School
Last day for students- May 16
LaRue County Schools' students can continue their reading pleasure and skills in July thanks to a summer reading program sponsored by Hodgenville and Abraham Lincoln elementary schools' family resource centers.
"Statistics show that students who do not read during the summer, their reading level goes down," said Melissa Pearman, Hodgenville FRC coordinator. "This is a great opportunity for them to read some good books and see their friends, too."
LaRue Baptist Church will host "Biker Sunday" July 10.
Charles Allen, a member of the church, said the event is a first for the congregation. If it's a success, they'll build on the idea next year.
"We're expecting in excess of 125 motorcycles," Allen said.
At least two bike clubs have committed to the event and the parking area in front of the church will be reserved for motorcycles.
Allen and his daughter, Judy Bottoms, will open the church between 8 and 9 a.m. to greet early arrivals.
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How the new 12b(1) fee restrictions could transform the financial advisory industry
Brokers selling 401(k) plans may have another nail driven into their coffin
A new SEC proposal to cap, rename and force disclosure of infamous 12b(1) fees looks to be another gift to the fee-based world of advisors and another nail in the coffin of the commission-based brokerage business model.
The proposal, which is entering a 90-day comment period and is likely to be the subject of a tsunami of lobbying because the stakes are so high, caps the amount of fees that mutual fund companies can collect from their clients and use to compensate brokers who sell their funds.
The change could push more brokers to embrace the advisory business model, in order to be able to replace 12b(1) fees with AUM fees. It could put advisors on more of a level playing field with brokers in the 401(k) advice businesses – and might, at the same time, put many smaller retirement plans under strain.
The key details of the proposal are these:
The proposal limits the amount of asset-based sales charges that individual investors pay. The proposal would restrict "ongoing sales charges" to the highest fee charged by the fund for shares that have no ongoing sales charge. For example, if one class of the fund charges a 4% front-end sales charge, another class could not charge more than 4% cumulatively to investors over time. The fund would keep track of how long investors have been paying ongoing sales charges.
Separately, funds could continue to pay 0.25 percent per year out of their assets for distribution as "marketing and service" fees, for expenses such as advertising, sales compensation and services.
To read the rest of the SEC's fact sheet about the proposal, go here.
Investor advocates were generally thrilled by the proposal.
"Based on our understanding of the proposal, we think it is a very positive step for investors," said Barbara Roper, director of investor protection for the Consumer Federation of America. "It appears to take a reasonable approach that preserves the 25-basis-point administrative fee while applying appropriate limits to the portion of the 12b-1 fees used primarily to compensate brokers. If it is adopted and appropriately implemented, investors should get the best of both worlds, the choice of an incremental sales charge but without the risk of paying compensation fees above the legal limit."
I talked to four experts in the RIA world to look more deeply into how this potentially transformative shift could play out. Here's what I learned.
The impact in the 401(k) world
Jim Sotell, managing director of Comperio Retirement Consulting Inc., a Chapel Hill-based firm with $500 million of retirement assets under advisement, says he believes the change, combined with new rules from the Department of Labor calling for more disclosure, will ultimately play out to advisors' advantage. See One down, two to go: Trio of important DOL regs reshapes 401(k) advice business.
The chief advantage of 12b(1) fees for brokers has always been that they were hidden – investors didn't notice them or understand them if they did. By limiting the amount that can be charged via mutual fund accounts, the SEC is forcing retirement plans to find other ways to pay for plan services. Those other ways are likely to be out in the open.
RIA fees have always been out in the open – and RIAs have often been forced to justify them.
Now "everything is coming to the surface," he says. "RIAs stand a good chance of benefiting."
Some retirement plan sponsors may be in for a rude awakening as the fees come to the light of day. Sotell said he's aware, for instance, a $20 million plan that a broker was charging $100,000 a year to advise on.
He said the most profound affects will be in the market of retirement plans of under $10 million. Those plans typically must pay brokers and advisors more than 25 basis points to manage the plans to convince brokers to take on the accounts.
Sotell added that he believes more 401(k) advisors – both RIAs and not – will eventually adopt a flat-fee system for advising retirement plans. His firm uses one.
Pushing more brokers to consider the advisory model
Ron Rhoades, RIABiz's One-Man Think Tank columnist, sent us his thoughts on the implications of the rule change.
1. This will transform the existing business model of many brokerage firms, who came to rely upon the 1% (0.75% plus 0.25% combined) 12b-1 fees to pay compensation for their registered representatives.
2. Unless a similar rule is enacted for variable annuity trails, a lot of registered representatives will seek to sell VAs, instead, despite their generally higher costs of often-disadvantageous tax consequences to investors.
3. Mutual funds and/or brokerage firms will have to adopt systems to ensure that fees charged over time don't exceed the maximums permitted.
4. One result which may occur is the acceleration of the move toward dual registration (as RRs/IARs) by registered representatives. Many registered representatives will become dually registered, and as investment adviser representatives they will begin charging AUM fees for managing a mutual fund portfolio for a client, rather than rely on the old 12b-1 fees to provide ongoing compensation.
5. If more "product sellers" become transformed into "purchaser's representatives" – as BDs move to the RIA platform – then increased downward pressure on mutual fund fees will result. Not just "disclosed fees" reflected in the fund's annual expense ratio, but also "hidden fees" resulting from transactions within the fund. Pressure would increase to abandon soft dollar compensation arrangements, limit portfolio turnover, and pay more attention to methods to control transaction costs within stock and bond funds. This would, in turn, likely lead to some further consolidation in the mutual fund industry. Additionally, since new funds rarely pass the due diligence tests performed by investment advisers, the barrier to entry for new funds (or new fund companies) may well increase, as well.
6. There is the possibility that, as asset-based fee payments end (at the end of the five-year period, or due to the maximum sales load amount being reached), that a broker-dealer and its registered representatives could engage in churning of mutual funds, by recommending to customers that they sell funds as the fund approaches the end of the fee payment period and purchasing new funds (thereby commencing a new up-to-five-year fee payment period). Rules will have to be adopted to prohibit such practice, and vigorous enforcement will be required. I continue to see this problem exist in the broker-dealer community, given the strong economic incentives present to generate a new commission (or ongoing sales charges, in this instance), rather than see a revenue stream disappear. Problems persist with both Class A mutual fund shares, Class B mutual fund shares (although they are now sold rarely), as well as with certain variable annuities.
7. In summary, this Proposed Rule could be transformational, as to both the broker-dealer industry and the mutual fund industry. But much will depend on subsequent SEC rule-making, especially as to when fiduciary duties are to be applied to BDs and the scope of the Advisers Act, generally. Future rules from the SEC could well diminish, or enhance, the ultimate impact of the significant proposals advanced by the Commissioners today.
The case of Edward Jones
Edward Jones is often cited as a brokerage that depends heavily on 12b(1) fees.
But when I called the company, Brett Campbell, principal, client solutions group for the St. Louis-based brokerage, laid out a powerful case for why the company doesn't fear the proposal.
In fact, he said, "We like what we see. We think that the transparency and the disclosure is good."
He said the firm's 12b(1) revenue stream comes mostly from its sales of Class A mutual fund shares, which typically have a 25-basis point fee.
Under the new proposal, that is still permitted.
He said 90% of 90% of the its mutual fund shares sold have been Class A shares, with the remaining 10% split approximately equally between Class B and Class C shares.
"Firms that have relied on a C-share revenue stream may be more affected," he said.
The law of unintended consequences (or is this one intended?)
David Hou, partner in Los Angeles-based Luminous Capital, which has $3.5 billion in AUM, spoke up for the trustworthy brokers of the world, saying the change could unfairly take away their revenue stream. And while the former Merrill Lynch advisor agrees that the shift may incentivize people to become RIAs "not everybody should be RIAs," he said. He points out how difficult the RIA business is. For more on Hou's epic move from top Merrill broker to top RIA, see: Merrill Lynch stars take a leap of faith to a new office — and independence.
He also pointed out a particularly interesting implication of the proposed change from the tax law standpoint. Hou often sees new clients with Class C shares in their portfolios. There are a variety of possible explanations – unscrupulous brokers and unnoticing clients, or clients who didn't mind compensating a broker in that fashion. There's one more: for high-income investors, there is a tax advantage to C shares vs. advisory fees.
An investor who pays 1% via a 12b(1) fee will never be taxed on that 1%. But, because advisors' fees are not tax deductible, switching to a fee-based compensation system may well cost some investors a hidden tax break.
It's more investors than you might think, says Harvey Bookstein, a partner with Los Angeles-based accounting firm RBZ, because investors subject to the AMT also cannot deduct advisory fees.
"Ninety percent of my clients fall under the AMT," he said. "This is just another example of the government raising taxes without raising the rate."


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THE YEAR 1912 was a good one for science fiction and even better for fossil hunters. The publication of The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle saw his hero Professor Challenger find an undiscovered plateau populated by dinosaurs, where the missing link – a half-man, half-ape figure – still roamed the undergrowth.
Back in Britain, near the small Sussex village of Piltdown, an amateur archaeologist began a dig after discovering the bones of an unknown species which appeared to show the development from ape to man.
Truth really was stranger than fiction. Or was it?
Charles Dawson had made many antiquarian finds in his life, but was searching desperately for the big discovery that would make his name. He thought he'd found it when he uncovered bones, teeth and a skull in a shallow gravel pit in Piltdown. In 1912 he contacted his friend Sir Arthur Smith Woodward, a highly respected palaeontologist at the British Museum, and together they began to excavate the site.By December they were ready to unveil their discovery – the remains of a very early human fossil Eoanthropus Dawsoni, which they argued was around 500,000 years old. It was the earliest known human fossil ever found.
It split the scientific community with British experts enthusiastic, but the French and Americans remaining sceptical. The announcement of a second site – a few miles from the original discovery - along with hippopotamus, beaver and elephant bones - silenced the critics. The missing link had been found and evolution explained.
Forty years later when JS Weiner discovered that this so-called Piltdown Man was a fake made out of a 500-year-old skull and an orang-utan jawbone, the hunt began to find out who had perpetrated the fraud.
The main suspect has always been Dawson, possibly with the aid of his colleagues Sir Arthur Smith Woodward and Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a French Jesuit who had also assisted at the dig. But there is someone else in the frame. According to one theory this man had the means, motive and opportunity. He is none other than the Scottish creator of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Conan Doyle was first put forward as the hoaxer by John Winslow and Alfred Meyer in their 1983 paper The Perpetrator at Piltdown, where they described:"…a doctor who knew human anatomy and chemistry, someone interested in geology and archaeology…a man who loved hoaxes, adventure…and most important of all had a grudge against the British science establishment."
Winslow and Meyer set out a comprehensive breakdown of why the finger of blame pointed to Conan Doyle. They began by recalling an earlier hoax by Charles Waterton in 1825 which was very similar. Waterton claimed to have killed an apeman, but had actually remodelled the head and shoulders of a howler monkey to approximate a human. Waterton was a past pupil of the Jesuit prep school attended by Conan Doyle – who would have been well aware of his alumnus.
At the time of the hoax, Conan Doyle lived in Crowborough, less than eight miles from Piltdown, and as he is known to have been a prolific walker would have passed the site frequently as he tramped across the countryside. He had an interest in palaeontology and was a friend of Charles Dawson. Conan Doyle was an extensive traveller in the years before Piltdown, coincidentally visiting places that could have helped him in his fraud, stopping off at Malta at a time when hippopotamus bones were being dug up. He was friendly with a phrenologist who sold strange shaped skulls and he knew a man who could have helped him source an orang-utan jawbone.
Along with the physical evidence, Meyer and Winslow turn to Conan Doyle's own fiction writing to furnish further proof of his complicity. His novel The Lost World mirrors so perfectly the circumstances of Piltdown. The story tells of a tribe of red-haired, nest-building apemen, who are referred to as the "missing link." The area of the lost plateau seems to conform to the area of Sussex where the discovery was made. Crucially, he outlined the plot long before Piltdown yielded anything, telling a friend about his idea in 1910.
Not only that, but one of the characters, Tarp Henry, says:
"…if you are clever and you know your business you can fake a bone as easily as you can a photograph."
If you're prepared to go along with the idea that he did it, then surely the biggest question would be why? Meyer and Winslow have an answer to that too. They suggest that around this time Conan Doyle's obsession with spiritualism brought him up against Sir Edwin Ray Lankester – a Darwinian evolutionist who rigorously persecuted spiritualists.
Lankester launched a campaign to have mediums exposed as frauds – having successfully unmasked one as a trickster. Perhaps Conan Doyle wanted to show that all science was capable of being fooled or of attracting fraudsters, but this didn't necessarily invalidate every scientist or every scientific theory. Thus, spiritualism couldn't be damned on the back of one or two rogue practitioners.
Ultimately we'll never know. Whoever carried out the fraud took their secret to their death. If it was Conan Doyle then how ironic that the creator of Sherlock Holmes should have perpetrated the most complex and scientifically challenging fraud of the century and remained undetected.
If you enjoyed reading this, you may want to read:
Conan Doyle's obsession with the afterlife


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After FTC Decision, Google Rivals Look to Europe
After U.S. antitrust authorities dropped their antitrust probe of Google with a few concessions, the company's detractors must now focus elsewhere–starting in Europe.
On Friday a spokesman for the European Commission's antitrust watchdog said it had taken note of the FTC decision but it had no "direct implications" for its investigation, which began in 2010.
Thomas Vinje, a Brussels-based lawyer for Fairsearch.org, which represents Microsoft and other companies pushing for antitrust action against Google, said in an interview Friday that while "Google has done a good job of keeping the emotional temperature down" in its dealings with the European Commission, authorities there have "identified practices that could be deemed illegal, and which the FTC walked away from."
They key Google practice at issue is what Vinje calls "search manipulation," cases where they say Google promotes links to its own specialized websites in its search-engine results over links to non-Google sites. Those specialized websites include its Google+ Local business listings and travel-search service.
EU Competition Commissioner Joaquín Almunia, who last year expressed concern about the practice, among other issues, "has put his credibility on the line in a public way, so he's not going to walk away from this without something serious," Vinje said.
The European Commission spokesman didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
Almunia said the agency would work with Google to test specific remedies for such concerns in the market before Google agrees to a binding commitment. Mr. Vinje said Fairsearch was told by the commission that it could be involved in helping to evaluate such a market test.
In general, European officials are expected to extract more extensive and binding commitments from the company as part of any legal settlement there, as they face fewer constraints on their antitrust authority. Also, Google has an even larger market share in Web search in Europe than in the U.S.