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Double room in Pisa Bed & Breakfast
Størrelse15 m²
- Familie / Barne vennlig
- Kjøkken
- Vaskemaskin / tørketrommel
- Anpasset for funksjonshemmede
- Egnet for Eventer
- Låsbare rom
- Parkering tilgjengelig
|Via di Padule, 56124 Pisa, Italia
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|5 dager siden
Open 24 hours
B&B drive by family, always open, in a typical Tuscan house of the nineteenth century. The upstairs has hardwood floors and the house is stone offering cool in summer and warm in winter. Ideal for budget holidays and great for those who have to attend hospital patients.
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1 double bed
Desk and chair
2 bedside tables (one with two drawers, one without drawers)
Large wardrobe with 5 doors and cab
Chest of 4 drawers
Television with satellite channels
Fan and dehumidifier
Telephone for internal communication, and external alarm
Conditioned and soundproofed windows
Parquet floor
Bathroom, large bath and is located just outside the door of room (shared but often use)
Situated on the first floor with comfortable stairs of 15 steps with handrail and railing
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- Utilities: water, electricity, gas, heating, fan
- Set 3 towels: washbasin, bidet, bath / shower
- Transmission: daily bed linen and towels (on request), otherwise weekly
- Cleaning accessories: hair dryer, soap, shampoo
- Clothing accessories: washing machine (4 euro / time if you use), clotheshorse, iron, ironing board
- Kitchen (on request): with large table, ceiling fan, microwave, fridge, fridge freezer, toaster etc..
- Bicycles: for adults and children (service development)
- Internet: WiFi 300 Mb / s on ADSL 20 Mb / s
- Parking: you can download at the entrance and then go to the common parking which is located in 100 meters with places still available (not Habitable on Monday morning for the market). The parking garage with gate has an extra charge of 5 € / day.
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Telephone and fax: VOIP and analog
Printer: Color inkjet
Shuttle: hospital (2 euro), train (5 euro), center (5 euro), tower (5 euro)
Breakfast (3 Euros per person)
Guide and companion: in agreement
Event Planning: on-site with edukom.it
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- Hospital: 1 km (also connected by bike path)
- First aid: 1 km
- Pharmacy: 250 m (time of pharmacies of Pisa)
- Bar / Cake: 150 m
- Italian Post: 600 m
- ATM: 200 m (there are several in the area within walking distance)
- Supermarket: PAM (200 m); Mall Pisanova Esselunga (500 m), Coop (800 m), Carrefour (2 km), Media World (1 km)
- Restaurant / Pizzeria: 650 m
- Railway station: 3 km (Pisa Centrale) Train schedule
- Bus: line 14 (50 meters), line 13 (100 m), line 22 (100 m), LAM blue (200 m);
- Airport: 4 km
- Parking: 70 m (within 100 meters there are more than 50 seats)
- Highway: 2 km (Florence-Pisa-Livorno)
- Highway: Pisa center (8 km), Pisa Nord (12 km)
- Leaning Tower: 3.5 km, in addition to the complex of Piazza dei Miracoli is near the Piazza dei Cavalieri
- Town center: 2.5 km (here it is, half bridge, over Italy, a village close, the National Museum of St. Matthew, Spina Church, Church of S. Cristina ...)
- Cinema Green Island: 0.5 km
- Walk: 1 km (Avenue of shores: shaded walk along the Arno River, with playgrounds and gymnastics)
- Teatro Verdi: 2.5 km (information)
- Church: 0.5 km (Holy Family Parish, time of harvest with other churches pastoral unit)
- Playground: 30 m (in front of the house shaded park with playground and benches)
- Sea: 15 km
2. Pets: Pets may be alone in the courtyard of the house but did not enter into
3. The town of Pisa requires a local tax cost of 1.5 euros per person, per day of stay. We are humbled by this decision, but this cost must be borne by you upon your arrival. Then this is an extra cost additional to that indicated that in turn will remit to the municipality.
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W pokoju bardzo dobre warunki. Korzystanie z kuchni i łazienki bez problemu. Jedynie te cienkie drzwi przez które wszystko słychać. Komunikacja z centrum bardzo dobra lub spacerek do centrum 20 - 30 min. Polecamy super pizze na Via Carlo Mateucci w lokalu La Grappa Mangiatoia zaraz za stacją benzynową Q8. Greetings for Simone
wurde in einer anderen pension untergebracht, den grund dafuer habe ich nich wirklich verstanden. die pension, in der ich war, war sehr gepflegt und huebsch, der gastgeber war nett und zuvorkommend.
Leuke accomodatie in Pisa, met de bus in 15 minuten in het centrum. Simone geeft veel info over de omgeving. En is erg behulpzaam. Wifi aanwezig
Ben je op zoek naar een goed restaurant in de buurt dan moet je zeker naar Ristorante Pizzeria "il mio Capriccio" gaan.
Adres: Via Matteucci 50 Pisa
Posizione comoda per l'accesso in centro, anche con l'auto. Gli svantaggi sono il bagno in comune e gli scarichi che non funzionano.
De toutes les chambres que nous avons louer avec Wimdu durant notre voyage. Celle-ci était la plus belle et la plus propre... La famille était charmante et accueillante. Notre hote est venu nous chercher au train et nous reconduire à l'aréoport... Et la dame nous a offert une petite douceur cuisiné maison :) Merci beaucoup
camera spaziosa e luminosa, bagno adiacente molto pulito. Ospiti molto carini, ci hanno fornito cartina e guida turistica della città. unico neo la posizione, non di per sé ,ma in quanto mal collegata. siamo andati a cena fuori in centro ma alle undici e mezza non vi erano più autobus e siamo stati costretti a prendere un taxi al costo di dieci euro. ottima sistemazione per chi è dotato di automobile ma per gli altri dovrebbero essere messe a disposizione delle biciclette (che hanno detto esserci ma, purtroppo per noi, in riparazione).
Good apartment to visit Pisa for a day.
We were there only for 1 day so cannot really say much about it. It had what we needed so fine for us.
Great location apartment. Close to the airport, near the center, very close to the train station. Nice apartment in a new building. Unfortunately, the apartment is very run down. It was just dirty, the floor is sticky, kitchen table we had to wash ourselves, bathrooms dirty - stand there cosmetics bottles left by former residents, toilet or not is the purest, sofa on the lower level very creaks (really!). Dirty bedding from previous users was curled in a container on the lower level - even one not pulled off! Disgusting!
Remarked to pick up from the airport - a man who had us up an hour late (but behaved very fair, because he did not take money from us).
For someone who wants only there to sleep it is okay, but nothing more. If someone specifically to clean up the apartment, it would be really okay.
Simone is a very nice person! He is very friendly, and very helpful (especially with internet problems!). He is very knowledgeable about the bus system, and what useful place are nearby (post office, cafes, bar, etc.) This room is very cute, which we loved. This place has a spacious, clean bathroom with a nice shower. We had to share it with another room, but we never had a problem with sharing. Overall, a very lovely place! I would stay here again!
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The $OEXA200R Monthly (the percentage of S&P 100 stocks above their 200 DMA) is a technical indicator available on StockCharts.com used to find the "sweet spot" time period in the market when you have the best chance of making money.
The weekly charts below are current through the week's close.
Weekly OEXA200R vs. S&P Comparison
According to this system, the market is now Tradable. The OEXA200R ended the week at 88%, down from 94% last week.
Of the three secondary indicators:
- RSI is POSITIVE (above 50).
- MACD is POSITIVE (black line above red).
- Slow STO is POSITIVE (black above red).
Background on How I Use This Indicator
The OEXA200R is a valuable metric used to accurately assess the state of the market in order to make profitable trading decisions. That is, whether we are in a bull, a bear or transitioning from one to the other, as well as market volatility and risk within each of those situations. Historically, it has also given traders a clear early warning signal of impending serious market downturns and later safe re-entry points. While not intended as a day trading tool per se it can certainly be used as background information by high frequency traders. Simply put, the OEXA200R gives traders the ability to identify the most opportune conditions within which to execute their various long, short or hold strategies.
Following a major market correction, the conditions for safe re-entry are when:
a) Daily $OEXA200R rises above 65% (I follow the Daily but do not publish the chart here)
And two of the following three also occur:
b) Weekly RSI rises over 50
c) Weekly MACD black line rises above red line
d) Weekly Slow STO black line rises above red line
Without the solid foundational support of two out of three Weekly secondary indicators it is unsafe to trade even if Daily OEXA200R edges above the 65% line. The market is considered safely tradable as long as Daily OEXA200R remains above 65% and two Weekly secondary indicators remain positive. Volatility and risk for long traders are relatively low. The trend is on their side.
Conversely, when Daily OEXA200R drops to 65% and / or two out of three Weekly secondary indicators turn negative it is taken as the conservative signal to exit all long positions, even if Daily OEXA is above 65%. Volatility and risk increase substantially. In the past, this has often been a "tipping point" condition presaging a substantial market drop.
For simplicity sake, just look for the notice in the "Interpretation" section above as to whether the market is either "Tradable" or "Un-tradable".
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Triumff: Her Majesty's Hero by Dan Abnett
Published by Angry Robot / Harper Collins UK, October 2009
352 pages
Review by Mark Yon.
It's often said (and here at SFFWorld we're hardly different) that humour is a very difficult thing to get right in a novel. What will make one reader roar with laughter will be greeted by a stony silence from another.
Such is true, and perhaps more so, with genre novels. For here you not only have to make it funny but make it so whilst also using the logical (or illogical!) parameters of SF, Fantasy or even Horror.
Not easy to do. And personally, there's not many 'humorous' books that amuse me. I am, as they say, quite 'hard to please' in that department.
So, really: with a book where even the title/titular moniker of the book/lead character is a joke, called 'Triumff', what else am I to expect?
Well, actually, this was a greatly entertaining read.
Perhaps it should've been expected, though. Dan Abnett has written for Games Workshop / Black Library in the past, and it shows. The novels at GW have a reputation for being solidly written, not too deep, certainly not too reflective, but fast-acting and fun. So is Triumff. Here I was reminded of the BBC's BlackAdder TV series, with a whiff of Douglas Adams, a sprinkling of Jasper Fforde and a dollop of Monty Python absurdity.
Set in the time of Elizabeth XXX, we discover that although the date is 'now', this is the Brass Age of Exploration and Adventure, where the power is not steam but clockwork. It is ruled by Queen Elizabeth and her Anglo-Spanish Alliance (Unity) with a combination of both military might and magic – sorry, magick, called the Arte. Thus the tale is firmly rooted in Elizabethan style England, with odd twists. There is a mix of 'old' with 'new'. The clothes of the times still involve doublet and hose, yet at the same time there are guns and swords and comments about Visagebook and ThySpace, not to mention the singers Diseased Rascal and Lady Geegaw.
The tale is told through a combination of first person narrative, through the unreliable narrator, William (Wllm) Beaver, and third person. Wllm's role here is relate the tale of the lead character. Sir Rupert Triumff ('seafarer, Constable of the Gravesend Basin and celebrated discoverer of Australia'), a real Errol Flynn of a character, drinking and fighting his way through the book, a character with honour, a loyalty to the Queen and a highly tuned sense of self-preservation. Sir Rupert is given the responsibility of going undercover by Cardinal Woolly in order to stop the plot and save old Three Ex herself.
As you might therefore expect this is a fast-paced romp, which is held together by a range of characters. As well as Triumff, there is Mother Grundy, a lady who would give Granny Weatherwax a run for her money, who dashes to the capital after a premonition of things that are bad. Triumff is helped in his task by his loyal girlfriend Doll Taresheet and his batman-servant Agnew.
There's some impressive action scenes, and some excruciatingly bad jokes and puns throughout. At times this can be a real disadvantage – in places Dan seems to try too hard – but in this shotgun approach generally for me there were more hits than misses.
If you can cope with characters called Eastwood-ho, whose key line seems to be "Are you feeling opportune?", then you will enjoy this book greatly. The nature of these books is that if one joke doesn't work, there'll be another along in a minute, and in this matter Dan doesn't disappoint.
Dan is a writer who tells a great tale and has the craft and experience to do it with panache. There are layers here in all the enhanced performance. It is funny, and at times very silly. Some parts actually didn't work too well for me, and like many of these stories, if you think too hard about them, the implausibilities become obvious.
But that's not really the point here. The plot is there to give the reader a great read, without contemplating too profoundly the meaning of the universe. There's a nice sense of the absurd here and a general glee that makes the tale the polar opposite of, say, the dark cynicism of Joe Abercrombie and Steven Erikson.
So in summary, a great fun read, definitely not to be taken too seriously. It's a book that swashes your buckles in a most entertaining manner, and will keep many a reader (unlike Queen Victoria) well-amused.
Link to extract: http://angryrobotbooks.com/our-authors/dan-abnett/triumff-by-dan-abnett/
Mark Yon, October 2009


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TALES OF THE TAPE; Popular Sizes in Art: Large and Xtra Large
By GRACE GLUECK
Published: May 2, 2001
BIG is big time in the art world. The Museum of Modern Art's current $650-million-expansion project includes a 100-by-200-foot gallery planned for the display of -- among other giant-scale works -- three monumental steel sculptures by one of the art world's grand spacemeisters, Richard Serra, whose works are a must for any contemporary institution.
At the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the sprawling factory-turned-museum, known as Mass MOCA, in North Adams, Mass., a gallery 275 feet long by 55 feet wide by 24 feet high houses Tim Hawkinson's ''Überorgan,'' a self-playing reed organ whose 13 air bags are each the size of a school bus.
And at the ultra-edgy Dia Center for the Arts in Manhattan, which plans to open a 292,000-square-foot building in upstate Beacon, N.Y., next year, there will be room for such pieces from its collection as Andy Warhol's ''Shadows'' (1978), whose 102 individual paintings run the length of 454 feet of wall space, and Hanne Darboven's ''Cultural History 1880-1983,'' with its 1,700 individually framed panels taking up 7,000 square feet.
Not to be overlooked is the new Tate Modern in London, a power plant converted to a museum for $200 million, whose 133,000 square feet of exhibition space has already served as the setting for such humongous works as Louise Bourgeois's three 65-foot towers, titled ''I Do, I Undo, I Redo.''
Topping them all, perhaps, will be the new Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum proposed for the waterfront in the financial district of Manhattan. At an estimated cost of $678 million, with 550,000 square feet, the new Guggenheim would be twice as big as the one in Bilbao, Spain, and 10 times the size of the Guggenheim's Frank Lloyd Wright building on the Upper East Side. Whew!
''Two factors drive our expansion,'' said Glenn D. Lowry, the Modern's director. ''One is certainly the size of the art and design objects we have to show.'' The other, he added, is the bigger audience that comes to see that art. The number of yearly visitors to the Modern, he said, is ''well over 1.8-million.''
Michael Govan, Dia's director, put it this way: ''I would emphasize the fact that we are catching up with the artists. We're building space to accommodate them. But big is a simplistic category. Depending on the environment, a work might look grandiose, or -- out in the west Texas desert like Donald Judd's work in Marfa, relatively small.''
Art, of course, has had its moments of giantism, from the great statue of Amenhotep III at Thebes that dates to the 14th century B.C. to the huge canvases by mid-19th century French painters, among them Gustave Courbet and Thomas Couture. Courbet's 10-by-21-foot ''A Burial at Ornans'' (1849-50) and Couture's 15-by-25-foot ''Romans of the Decadence'' (1847) both hang in the supersize Musée d'Orsay in Paris, a former railway station reborn as a museum in 1986, itself a forerunner of today's gigantic art arenas.
But an off-the-cuff canvass of art historians and artists suggests that today's whoppers can trace their origins -- at least in part -- to the federal programs of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency. Hired by the government to make murals and other adornments for official buildings, artists enlarged their studios, got used to working in bold scale and kept right on going. Most of the Abstract Expressionist painters, whose canvases were considerably larger than those of their predecessors, were alumni of federal programs.
The concept of big in sculpture got a boost in the militant 60's, when artists, mostly of the Minimalist persuasion, turned against the clean, clinical white-box environment of establishment museums and galleries to push art beyond commercial boundaries.
''There was an idealistic attempt to take work into the public arena, to develop art not appropriate to the gallery or museum structure,'' said Paul Schimmel, the chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. ''Artists wanted their work to exist on its own outside of the commercial realm. Today, increasingly, artists don't think as much of individual work as in trying to use the space as a complete environment.''
The rebellion found expression in huge Land Art projects, like ''Double Negative,'' Michael Heizer's monumental excavation in the desert of Nevada (1969), and Walter De Maria's ''The Lightning Field'' (1977), 400 stainless steel poles, each 20 feet high, set in a rectangular grid array one mile by one kilometer in the desert of New Mexico.
That same year, De Maria brought his Land Art indoors by creating a roomful of dirt 22 inches deep as a permanent installation, ''The New York Earth Room,'' in a 3,600-square-foot Dia-owned loft in downtown Manhattan. Michael Heizer, too, crossed the line between outdoor installations and museum art, making projects that filled galleries of museums like the Whitney Museum of American Art. Outdoor art had found its way indoors, and museums began trying to keep up.
One of the first to do so was the Temporary Contemporary (now known as the Geffen Contemporary) in Los Angeles, which opened in 1983 as an experimental annex to the Museum of Contemporary Art. Once a city warehouse and service garage in the Little Tokyo section, its vast spaces were deliberately left raw and unfinished by the architect, Frank O. Gehry, to recall the spirit of artists' studios. Since its opening, the museum has presented a wide range of large-scale installations, including the work of Michael Heizer, Richard Serra, Dan Flavin and Barbara Kruger. Comprehensive exhibitions have also been displayed, like Mr. Schimmel's current ''Public Offerings,'' works by 24 young artists, including one, Takashi Murakami, who has created an environment of brilliantly painted walls illuminated by eight 16,000-watt klieg lights.


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Base Pairs to Bedside: A Visit to Beijing Genomics Institute
Posted by Autism Speaks Vice President of Scientific Affairs Andy Shih, Ph.D.
Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI), the world's largest genome sequencing organization got its start a little more than a decade ago at a moment when idealism, patriotic fervor and more than a little chutzpah converged to create what one of its founders, Huanming Yang, Ph.D., recently acknowledged was "a Mission Impossible."
Yang, then with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, promised to complete 1 percent of the Human Genome Project–at the time the biological equivalent of the moon shot of the 1960s. There was just one problem: He didn't have a gene-sequencing machine!
What followed was one of the most thrilling rags-to-riches stories in modern science. Yang and his colleagues overcame immense technical, financial and political obstacles to deliver the DNA sequence of their portion of human chromosome 3. In doing so, they changed Chinese science forever and built a scientific-industrial juggernaut that now represents 20 percent of the world's capacity for genome sequencing.
That same can-do spirit was clearly on display when I and Autism Speaks-funded Duke University researcher Yong-hui Jiang, M.D., Ph.D., visited BGI in Shenzhen after the Autism Research Collaboration Development Meeting, co-hosted by Children's Hospital of Fudan University in Shanghai and Autism Speaks. Not coincidentally, Yang gave the keynote address to the meeting, which ended last weekend.
Today most of BGI is housed in a former shoe factory on a small campus that includes several high-rise dormitories for nearly 4,000 employees. In recent years, the institute has produced such high-impact scientific accomplishments as complete genome sequences of rice and potato plants and the human gut microbiome (our digestive microbes). Through genetic sequencing, it also identified the culprit behind this summer's deadly E. coli outbreak in Germany. In the face of this public health crisis, BGI marshaled the staff and technology to sequence the entire genome of the toxic bacterial strain in less than three days.
In visiting BGI, I was impressed by more than the arrays of cutting-edge automated sequencers, which run 24/7. I was struck by BGI's eclectic leadership.
BGI cofounder, Jian Wang, Ph.D., recently scaled Mount Everest, after three attempts over a two-month period. For inspiration he credits BGI's landmark collaboration with U.S. and European scientists in documenting the rapid evolution of the Tibetan human genome to accommodate life at high altitudes.
BGI executive director Jun Wang, Ph.D., joined the institute when he was 23 and went on to amass 36 publications in Science and Nature over 12 years. For your average researcher, having 1 or 2 publications in Science or Nature is sufficient to secure a tenured position at a top U.S. or European university.
At age 25 years, Yirui Li is leading the bioinformatics efforts of BGI's recently announced collaboration with Autism Speaks to sequence 10,000 autism genomes. With 16 Science and Nature publications to his name, Li dropped out of China's elite Tsing Hua University at age 19.
Despite their intellectual firepower, drive and personal and professional accomplishments, they were a down-to-earth group. They thought nothing of coming in on a Sunday to meet with us. Sporting what appeared to be their regular uniform of T-shirts, jeans and flip-flops or running shoes, they looked more like grad students than high-profile executives of a leading international research institute.
Yang and his colleagues also have a refreshingly progressive view on science and its end game. Impatient with traditional distinctions among scientific disciplines–such as genetics versus environmental sciences–they advocate a "trans-omics" approach to scientific development. In their view, decoding the genome is part of a continuum of activities that includes epigenetics, proteomics, cell biology, systems biology and computer science.
Most importantly, perhaps, they see all these activities as integrated and dedicated to "advancing the science of medicine" and "improving the effectiveness of healthcare." Clearly, they remain driven by the sense of urgency that allowed them to identify and decipher a deadly pathogen by sequencing its entire DNA sequence in three days.
I left BGI inspired by what I saw and heard. The BGI team seemed refreshingly unencumbered by the petty divisions and willful near-sightedness we too often encounter in science and society. They are pursuing a grander vision that I, too, have lost at times. More than ever, I am hopeful that with enough idealism, ambition and even a little chutzpah, Autism Speaks collaborations like this one will soon deliver a better future for all of our families.
After a few drinks and a dinner of simple and very spicy local fare in the BGI canteen, Yang leaned over to me and said matter-of-factly, "We'll get it done."
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Autism Speaks Science Team Returns from China
Posted by Autism Speaks Chief Science Officer Geri Dawson, Ph.D.
The Autism Speaks science team traveled to Shanghai, China, last week with the goal of enhancing collaboration among Chinese and North American scientists. Despite the challenges of speaking different languages, we learned a lot from each other. Our Chinese colleagues were eager to hear about new research and treatments being developed in North America. The Americans were impressed with the technological prowess of the Chinese.
A prime example of this technological power is the Beijing Genome Institute, the largest genome sequencing institution in the world and a new Autism Speaks partner. In the coming year, the Beijing Genome Institute will be sequencing the DNA of families participating in our Autism Genome Resource Exchange (AGRE) program, allowing us to create the world's largest whole genome sequence library for autism research. (See our related news item.)
Another example is a recently launched Chinese program that sends text messages to new mothers, alerting them to the early signs of autism. Chinese researchers are studying whether this innovative "eHealth" strategy results in better referral, assessment and intervention rates for children with early symptoms.
Although my conversations and learnings from my Chinese colleagues were enlightening and we planned many future collaborations, the most significant moment for me was talking to 200 Chinese parents of children with autism. I walked into a room filled with mothers and fathers eager to hear new information about autism. Through a translator, I described new research findings and treatments and fielded questions from the audience.
The questions were remarkably similar to those I hear from parents in the United States. One mother told me that her son had frequent tummy aches and constipation; she wondered if this could be related to his autism. Another parent asked what she should do about her daughter's fear of fireworks, a common part of special events here. Should she keep her at home and miss the family outings? A father showed me a large bag filled with medicines he had purchased through the mail and asked if I thought they would help his child.
We talked about the association between autism and gastrointestinal problems and how treating these physical problems can relieve discomfort and, so, help children gain more from their educational programs. We talked about auditory sensitivities and discussed a range of strategies for helping children cope with loud noises. And we talked about how to evaluate whether a treatment is truly effective and safe for a child.
As our conversation continued, I was struck by the fact that, although China and the United States are very different cultures, autism is a common bond. Parents across the globe are looking for answers to help their children. My hope is that Autism Speaks Global Autism Public Health Initiative will be able to make a difference for these families. By partnering with scientists and clinicians in China, we can translate and adapt many of the tool kits and other resources we have developed here in North America—while also learning from our colleagues and families in China.


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French for 'cow' and is used to call someone a bitch.
My stepmother's a total vache.
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French slang for cops. Literally means "cows"
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A literature review will be conducted of cases of nickel contamination of soils and methods for remediation of Ni contaminated soils. ARS will identify soil properties which promote or reduce Ni phytotoxicity and soil amendments which can strongly reduce the potential for Ni phytotoxicity for sensitive plant species. Fundamental causes of Ni phytotoxicity in relation to soil properties and solubility of Ni ions in soils will be summarized. Examples of using the analysis of causes of Ni phytotoxicity and use of soil amendments to alleviate Ni phytotoxicity will be summarized. A systematic approach to soil and plant analysis to diagnose Ni phytotoxicity will be developed. In addition, present status of Ni phytoextraction and phytomining will be summarized as another method for remediation of Ni phytotoxic soils. As with most areas of research, only part of the literature on Ni in soils and plants is now understood to be relevant to the understanding of practical Ni phytotoxicity. Factors which influence the solubility of Ni in soils, and factors of contaminated soils which interact with Ni loading to influence phytotoxicity will be summarized. The mechanism of soil Ni-induced phytotoxicity will be summarized where it is known. The mechanisms by which soil amendments can persistently alleviate Ni phytotoxicity will be reviewed and applied to development of recommended remediation practices. The potential for Ni phytoextraction to support soil remediation by NiPERA organizations will be summarized. Current best management practices for Ni phytoextraction will be summarized, and approaches to the use of phytoextraction in practice for soil remediation will be summarized.


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Topical Anesthetics
Topical Anesthetics
The topical use of anesthetics consists of applying an anesthetic agent, such as lidocaine, to the skin or mucosa. In cancer care, topical anesthetics are used to reduce the acute pain of diagnostic procedures, such as biopsy, and postoperative incisions. Topical anesthetics have been examined in chronic pain as well.
Effectiveness Not Established
Research Evidence Summaries
Cheville, A.L., Sloan, J.A., Northfelt, D.W., Jillella, A.P., Wong, G.Y., Bearden III, J.D., . . . Loprinzi, C.L. (2009). Use of a lidocaine patch in the management of postsurgical neuropathic pain in patients with cancer: A phase III double-blind crossover study (N01CB). Supportive Care in Cancer: Official Journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer, 17(4), 451–460.doi: 10.1007/s00520-008-0542-x
Study Purpose:
To investigate the efficacy of one or more lidocaine patches in reducing incisional pain
Intervention Characteristics/Basic Study Process:
In the initial four-week treatment phase, patients received either lidocaine patches or placebo to apply to postsurgical incisional sites. After four weeks, the lidocaine group received placebo and vice versa. Pain was rated at baseline and at four and eight weeks.
Sample Characteristics:
- The sample was composed of 28 patients.
- Mean patient age was 61.9 years.
- Nineteen patients (68%) were female. Nine patients (32%) were male.
Eligible patients
- Had experienced pain for one month or longer, and the pain rating was equal to or greater than 4.
- Had pain with neuropathic features (e.g., burning, paresthesias, allodynia), pain involving an area that could be covered by three patches or fewer, pain related to a surgical site associated with cancer treatment.
- Were at least 18 years old and had no recent history of drug or alcohol abuse.
- Were expected to live for a period longer than six months.
- Had no evident cognitive or psychiatric morbidity.
- Were neither pregnant nor nursing.
- Patients were ineligible if their condition involved nonsurgical pain etiologies (e.g., malignancy, dermal pathology, chemotherapy-induced neuropathy) at the painful site.
- Multisite
- Ten clinical centers
- United States
Study Design:
Double-blind, randomized, two-period crossover trial
Measurement Instruments/Methods:
- Rating of pain intensity
- Brief Pain Inventory (Short Form) (BPI-SF)
- Neuropathic Pain Scale (NPS)
- Patients' Global Impression of Change Scale
- Short-Form McGill Pain Questionnaire (SF-MPQ)
- Pain Catastrophizing Scale
- Profile of Mood States Short Form
- North Central Cancer Treatment Group Patient Quality-of-Life Linear Analog Self-Assessment Scale
- Average weekly pain intensity ratings were not significantly lower while patients used the lidocaine patch versus the placebo.
- BPI-SF interference scores were lower in patients receiving the lidocaine patch in the first period: general activity (p = 0.02), work (p = 0.04), relations with others (p = 0.02).
Pain interference scores were significantly lower in the group that received lidocaine patch first. Significant differences in postsurgical pain intensity, with the lidocaine patch applied to incisional areas, were lacking overall.
- The number of patches used varied.
- The study lacked power.
- Patients self-reported pain by means of telephone and email. Patients applied the patches themselves; whether they applied them correctly is unclear.
- In regard to weekly measures: Change may have occurred at times when measurements were not taken.
Nursing Implications:
Further research is needed to determine whether lidocaine patches augment the analgesic regimen for incisional pain.
Ismail, M.A., Kamal, A.M., Ghobashy, S., Al Baz, A.G., & Roshdy, M. (2015). Comparison of pain control during Trus guided biopsies between basal peri-prostatic local infiltration anesthesia versus combined topical anal lignocaine ointment and local infiltration anesthesia. Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology, 45, 285–289.
Study Purpose:
To compare two techniques for pain relief with transrectal ultrasonography (TRUS)-guided biopsies
Intervention Characteristics/Basic Study Process:
Patients undergoing prostate biopsies were randomized to receive either local infiltration anesthesia alone or a combination of local anesthesia and lignocaine 5% ointment to the anal rind, canal, and anterior rectal wall. Patients were asked to rate pain during insertion, during infiltration, and after biopsy.
Sample Characteristics:
- MEAN AGE = 61.7 years (range = 50–88 years)
- KEY DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: All had elevated prostate-specific antigens
- SITE: Single site
- SETTING TYPE: Not specified
- LOCATION: Egypt
Phase of Care and Clinical Applications:
- PHASE OF CARE: Diagnostic
Study Design:
Randomized trial
Measurement Instruments/Methods:
- 100 mm Visual Analog Scale (VAS) for pain
Patients who received a combination of local and topical anesthesia reported significantly less pain (p = 0.005) at all stages of the procedure.
The combination of a local anesthetic infusion with a topical anesthetic may provide better pain control during biopsy.
- Risk of bias (no blinding)
- Measurement/methods not well described
- Measurement validity/reliability questionable
- Other limitations/explanation: Data regarding pain differences were reported using different numeric scales, so the actual method of measurement and resulting analysis was unclear. It was unclear how patients during biopsy could reasonably use the VAS to report pain.
Nursing Implications:
The combination of anesthetic infiltration and a local topical anesthetic may reduce pain during biopsy.
O'Connor, J.M., Helmer, S.D., Osland, J.S., Cusick, T.E., & Tenofsky, P.L. (2011). Do topical anesthetics reduce periareolar injectional pain before sentinel lymph node biopsy? American Journal of Surgery, 202(6), 707–711; discussion 711–122.doi: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2011.06.040
Study Purpose:
To determine whether lidocaine-prilocaine cream decreases injection pain related to sentinel lymph node biopsy
Intervention Characteristics/Basic Study Process:
Eligible subjects were randomized to either the treatment or control group, then provided with a syringe that contained either the study medication (lidocaine-prilocaine cream) or a placebo cream that looked identical to it. Subjects also received instructions on how to apply the cream and a copy of the postprocedure survey, which asked patients to evaluate ease of application as well as level of pain. The subjects were to apply the given cream and then a barrier dressing to the area. Patients went to one of three radiology departments to receive an injection of the Tc sulfur colloid for the sentinel lymph node biopsy. Postoperatively, over the telephone, the patients completed the survey with help from a researcher.
Sample Characteristics:
- The sample was composed of 39 patients.
- All patients were older than 18 years.
- All the patients were female.
All the patients had breast cancer
- Multisite
Inpatient and outpatient settings
Phase of Care and Clinical Applications:
Phase of care: active treatment
Study Design:
Triple-blinded prospective randomized placebo-controlled trial
Measurement Instruments/Methods:
- Scale measuring ease of cream and dressing application, a five-point Likert-type scale
- 10-point pain scale, to measure pain
A tool that recorded whether patient would recommend cream (yes/no)
Thirty-nine subjects completed the study. Subjects from both groups rated the cream as easy to apply, and both groups responded similarly in regard to dressing retention. Authors reported no significant difference in median injectional pain scores between the treatment and control groups. Authors noted two trends: The treatment group was more likely than the control group to recommend the cream, and the control group was more likely to rate the injection as painful or extremely painful.
The pain scores of subjects who received the lidocaine-prilocaine cream were not significantly lower than those of the control group.
- The study had a small sample size, with fewer than 100 patients.
- The study comprised variability in injection techniques and volumes.
Study design was based on the prediction of a large difference (4) between the two groups on a 10-point Likert scale.
Nursing Implications:
This study does not indicate that a topical anesthetic, lidocaine-prilocaine cream, had a significant effect on injectional pain; however, the finding may be a consequence of the study design. Further studies, with larger sample sizes and smaller predicted differences in the study groups, may produce a different result.


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This is the Minnesota Birding Report for August 4th, 2011.
Nine BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS were found by Jan Kraemer on the 1st at the Park Point Recreation Area ball fields in Duluth. On July 29th, Bob Williams found several Buff-breasted Sandpipers in a field on the south side of McLeod County Road 5 about two miles west of County Road 1. John Cyrus reported them in Carver County on the 30th in a field just north of the Salem Avenue sod farm. On the same day, Jim Ryan found them in Rice County in a field on the west side of Goodhue Avenue just south of 90th Street. And on July 31st, Steve Weston found them at Etter bottoms in Goodhue County.
Other shorebirds reported over the past several days include SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER, SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER, BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, and PECTORAL SANDPIPER.
And on August 4th, Bruce Baer reported a SWAINSON'S HAWK in Dakota County at mile post 24 of state highway 3.
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Open iTunes to buy and download apps.
Going on a camping trip but aren't sure if you are missing any gear? Campers List is the app for you! CampersList helps you plan your next camping event. This application comes with an editable list of frequently-used camping gear. Starting from the default list, you could mark items as "have" to indicate you already have this item, or "need" to indicate you still need to get this item, or "none" to indicate you do not need this item at all for this event (There are 100+ items in the default list anyways). These items will be organized into their corresponding tabs. Finally, the "packed" tab acts as a final check-list for your packing before the event. Enjoy your camping, leave no trace!
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- Updated: 20 June 2012
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- Address: Praia do Forte, Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
- Hours: Open year-round
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Praia do Forte
Praia do Forte is an area of spectacular biodiversity less than two hours by bus from Salvador.
Like many beach towns in Brazil, Praia do Forte was once a small fishing village that became known for its beautiful stretches of coastline, diverse ecosystems, and wildlife.
Now a bustling eco-resort, Praia do Forte's stunning beach and surrounding ocean and jungle is the main drawcard for visitors who come to relax and take advantage of the many adventure activities and whale & turtle watching.
Praia do Forte's high reef is well exposed at low tide, leaving warm pools of colorful fish and natural baths to loll about in. The area's wide variety of marine life makes it an ideal spot for snorkeling and diving.
Over seven different species of sea turtle live in the surrounding waters. It's worth visiting the TAMAR project to see them in their natural environment and learn more about the project's conservation work.
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Praia do Forte is 1.5 - 2 hrs on a bus from Salvador. You can get the bus from calçada (near the bottom of the Lacerda lift) or from the rodoviária bus station).
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Some of the key figures weren't there, but those who were present at the 27th annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Saturday night delivered a heartfelt and epic celebration -- much to the delight of both the high rollers at the VIP tables and the 6,000 "real" fans who whooped it up in the Town Hall balcony.
Much of the news leading up to the event focused on those who were skipping it, whether for health reasons (the Beastie Boys' Adam "MCA" Yauch and the Faces' Rod Stewart [2]) or because of lingering issues with bandmates -- most notably Guns N' Roses' Axl Rose [3], who was roundly booed by the crowd every time his name was mentioned during the evening. But disappointment and hard feelings were scarce throughout the five-and-a-half-hour bash, which was packed with enough verbal and musical highlights to give HBO's editors palpitations as they hone it down to two-and-a-half hours for its May 5 broadcast premiere.
Rock Hall of Fame: 10 Things Seen & Heard Behind the Scenes [4]
Green Day, there to induct GNR, got things off to a crushing start with "American Idiot's" "Letterbomb" as Billie Joe Armstrong exhorted the crowd to "stand up…This is f---ing rock 'n' roll! This is not a f---ing party -- this is a celebration, motherf---ers!" That set the tone for a night that mixed musical fireworks with warm and emotional speeches, putting plenty of heart in rock 'n' roll and reveling in past glories to, as Armstrong also said, "know where you f---ing come from."
So Bette Midler choked up as she remembered the late Laura Nyro as "the very essence of New York City, really, not in the gritty, real sense but in the passionate, romantic, ethereal, maternal sense. She would take the most ordinary people in the most ordinary situations and spin them into heroic figures…" Carole King noted that the "most fervent wish" of the late Don Kirshner, receiving the Ahmet Ertegun Award for non-performers, "was to be inducted in this iconic institution"; his widow, Sheila, noted that Kirshner would have turned 77 on April 17 and considered the induction "the best present he could've received." Fortunately, Johnny Meeks of Gene Vincent's Blue Caps -- one of the six backing bands/vocal groups being inducted years after their frontmen -- was there to be inducted the day before he turned 75.
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Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea let the tears flow freely as he thanks his mother, producer Rick Rubin and others -- and recalled playing street football with former GNR drummer Steven Adler when they were teenagers together in Los Angeles. Bandmate Anthony Kiedis, meanwhile, thanked his longtime friend and cohort for helping him to get clean. And Ronnie Wood, Ian McLagan and Kenney Jones each paid tribute to the late Small Faces members Steve Marriott and Ronnie Lane.
There were moments of levity as well. Comedian Chris Rock's hilarious induction speech for the Chili Peppers took at shot at the habitually late Rose -- "Even if he was coming here tonight he wouldn't have been here by now" -- and also applauded the Chili Peppers for wearing black ties rather than tube socks on their, well, you know, for such a formal occasion. John Mellencamp, meanwhile, talked about first meeting Donovan, a hero since he was a youth (he brought a copy of an early album along to prove it), while he was having a fistfight with his guitarist at a Los Angeles recording studio. And LL Cool J joined the laughter as he described his first impression of the Beastie Boys as "punks."
Despite what guitarist Slash called the "drama" surrounding GNR's induction, the former band members who attended -- original guitarist Izzy Stradlin and continuing keyboardist Dizzy Reed joined Rose as no-shows -- credited fan support for their success, which was well received at Town Hall. Drummer Matt Sorum, meanwhile, spoke of being asked to join the group because Steven Adler had been kicked out for doing too many drugs. "I said, 'In Guns N' Roses, how the f--- is that possible?!' Steven Adler deserves an award for THAT." Sorum also fessed up to bringing cocaine into GNR's heroin-dominated drug mix; "I said, 'You guys have to wake up and play some rock 'n' roll."
The GNR alumni did just that, tearing through a three-song set fronted by Myles Kennedy of Alter Bridge, who also sings for Slash's band, and joined by onetime guitarist Gilby Clarke, who was not included in the induction. Armstrong guested on "Mr. Brownstone," while "Sweet Child O' Mine" and "Paradise City" had the Town Hall crowd on its feet and pumping its collective fists. The Faces skied in Simply Red's Mick Hucknall -- who's been working with the group since 2009 -- from England for a tight set that included the Small Faces' "All or Nothing" along with "Ooh La La" and "Stay With Me." And a consortium of the Roots, Kid Rock and Gym Class Heroes' Travie McCoy -- with the MCs in green Adidas track suits -- paid homage to the Beastie Boys with a medley that included "Sabotage" and "No Sleep 'Til Brooklyn."
ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill joined forces with Derek Trucks and Joe Bonamassa for a fierce Freddie King salute of "Hideaway" and "Goin' Down." Donovan capped his three-song set by dueting with Mellencamp on "Season of the Witch." Sara Bareilles celebrated Nyro with "Stoney End," 2011 inductee Darlene Love sang "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" in honor of Kirshner and Ledisi sang "At Last" for the In Memorium segment.
The Chili Peppers rocked the night to a close with "By the Way," the recent hit "The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie" and a rendition of "Give It Away" that flanked drummer Chad Smith with predecessors Cliff Martinez and Jack Irons. The group was also charged with the night's all-star finale and coaxed the Faces' Wood and Jones, Armstrong, Slash, George Clinton and Funkadelic guitarist Michael Hampton on stage for a romp through Stevie Wonder's "Higher Ground." "Thanks for sticking around," Kiedis told the weary but still wired crowd - as if anybody would have really considered the alternative.
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or right near the start of the backup window.
This happens on both sites effecting both NDMP & normal backups, we have
2 sites with a robot & media server assigned per site.
It looks like the backups kick off all around 8pm when there scheduled to
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Suicide is the most preventable cause of death
Janet Hackert, Nutrition and Health Education Specialist, Harrison County, University of Missouri Extension
Sadly, suicide has become a common cause of death. In Missouri, there are 16.3 attempted suicides each day and many of those attempts are made by young people ages 15 to 19.
Gary Hillebrand from Preferred Family Healthcare (PFH) Prevention Services, a mental health facility offering treatment services throughout Missouri, parts of Kansas and in San Antonio, Texas, said that suicide is the most preventable kind of death.
"The suicide rate these days (approximately 13.7 per 100,000 a year) is like as if a full airliner took off and crashed every other day, killing everyone on board," Hillebrand said. "If this happened, we'd ground planes till we figured out and corrected the problem! The same needs to happen with suicide. Suicide is preventable."
Hillebrand also described and corrected some of the common myths about suicide and suicide prevention. For example, confronting a person about suicide mostly likely will lower, not raise, the anxiety they are experiencing about their negative feelings. Knowing someone cares enough to ask directly can make a big difference. Also, it's not just for experts to take care of — everyone can help prevent suicide.
It's important to take all signs and indications seriously. Watch for direct verbal clues, like "I've decided to kill myself" and indirect verbal clues, like "I think I'm being a burden to my family, pretty soon they won't have to worry about me." Watch for behavioral clues, like stockpiling pills, giving away prized possessions, or a sudden interest or disinterest in religion. Look for situational clues, like being fired or expelled from school, diagnosis of terminal illness or the sudden death of a loved one.
QPR is a frontline, community-based way to prevent suicide. QPR is the action needed when suicide is suspected:
Q: Ask the suicide Question — Talk in private, ask directly, be persistent (get an answer!) and give them the time it takes to talk through it.
P: Persuade the person to stay alive — Find the help they need, be it from a counselor, spiritual advisor or other professional.
R: Refer the person for help — Ideally, go with them for help or find the resources, or at very least, have them promise they'll get help.
Help can be found with a professional counselor. For immediate assistance, call the suicide prevention hotline at 800-273-TALK. When meeting with a counselor is delayed, work with a school counselor, pastor or other professional to give the person a chance to work through life-threatening issues.
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Ian Somerhalder Sexy Glamour Photo Shoot, What Would Nina Dobrev Say? [PHOTOS]
Ian Somerhalder and his piercing blue eyes grace the latest issue of Glamour magazine. The 33-year-old star of the CW hit The Vampire Diaries plays 170-year-old lovesick vampire Damon Salvatore. He chatted about dating and a slew of other topics with the magazine. Here are a few highlights:
On Pets: "I have a lot of little paws in my house,"
On the grand gesture: He even went to Paris just for a lunch date. "Flying across the ocean for one meal was pretty awesome. It paid off!"
On not being in to the macho act: "If you are respectful and nice and charming to a woman, it's a better approach. And I don't know what women want. No one know what women want!"
On what is true to his heart: The Ian Somerhalder Foundation, which he created to give young people the power to save the planet themselves. "Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities," he says. "That's the future."
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KITTERY, Maine -- A Jazz Tap Holiday will be presented for two shows only on Saturday, Dec. 15 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 16 at 2 p.m. at The Dance Hall.
The joyful dance and music celebration features legendary tap dancer Brenda Bufalino (shown here); notable locals Drika Overton and Gay Nardone; and young lions Ryan Casey and Ayan Imai-Hall, both dancers in NY based touring tap dance companies.
The distinguished musicians include Mark Shilansky-piano, Nate Therrien-bass, Charlie Tokarz-reeds and Jonny Peiffer-percussion.
Surprise guests will be making cameo performances! More information and tickets at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/286097!
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DARTMOUTH — The historic Akin House, Allen's Mill and other iconic buildings and pristine open spaces have found themselves safe from time, the elements and development over the past 10 years because of the Community Preservation Act, Community Preservation Committee Chairman Howard "Buddy" Baker-Smith said.
Dartmouth adopted the act in April 2002 and proponents of the measure hailed 53 ongoing or completed projects over the past decade.
"These historic properties would have continued to deteriorate" without funds from the CPA, Baker-Smith said last week.
Statewide, the CPA funnels seed money from a surcharge of up to 3 percent on local real estate taxes into an account that is partially matched by state revenue from a fee on registries of deeds transactions. The committee then disburses the money to worthwhile projects throughout town ranging from open space preservation to affordable housing projects.
In Dartmouth, the CPA levies a 1.5 percent surcharge, meaning the average homeowner pays $35.71 per year, Baker-Smith said.
"It's been a boon for the town in many ways," said Select Board member William J. Trimble.
The committee has not performed flawlessly, however, Trimble said, adding that it once purchased farmland and placed a conservation restriction on it only to find that it was unsuitable for agriculture.
The town's practice of taking out bonds for conservation projects and then paying them back with CPA funds doesn't sit well with Trimble either, even though he regards the act as a positive overall.
"We just wouldn't be able to do those" projects, Trimble said.
At the historic Akin House on Dartmouth Street, preservationists feared that they would never be able to raise enough money to keep the 1762 home from collapsing in on itself, said Dartmouth Heritage Preservation Trust member Peggi Medeiros.
"It was touch and go on whether we'd raise the money" in time, she said.
The committee plans to continue allocating funds to projects such as the Russells Mills Library, the old State Police barracks on Route 6 that is being turned into affordable housing and other projects in the short-term, Baker-Smith said.
The town "has really found CPA funds to be a tremendous resource," he said. "Without CPA funds there would be no resources for the town government to support these projects."
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The revolt in Rome will not end for a long time to come! Join the action and find out who is the most powerful ruler by skillfully playing your cards.
No matter if you strengthen your own position with strong cards like Arena or Ballista or if you augment your victory points with Templarius and Triremis -- you will be the winner if you use your characters and buildings with wits.
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Stefan Feld
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Year: 2009
Players: 2
Time: 30 minutes
Ages: 8 and up
Weight: 627 grams
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A film adaptation starring Liam Neeson as Ethan, Joan Allen as Zeena, and Patricia Arquette as Mattie.
From The New York Times.
This one from The New Yorker.
Money problems for the Wharton estate.
Check out the fashions during Wharton's time.
Susan Vega's "Edith Wharton's Figurines," from her album Beauty and Crime.
Listen to a YouTuber's original song inspired by Ethan Frome.
Edith Wharton at age 18.
Check out her amazing outfit.
She looks to be wearing a corset under that fine frock.
A painting of Edith Wharton.
The cover of the 1993 movie starring Liam Neeson.
Review of Hermione Lee's 2007 biography of Wharton.
A review of The Letters of Edith Wharton, a published collection of Wharton's letters, including those to her lover, Morton Fullerton.
All about Edith, from her own pen…
An exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery
A site dedicated to the author and her estate, The Mount.
The entry on Wharton in PBS's The American Novel timeline.
All about Edith, from her own pen…
A highly regarded Wharton biography by Hermione Lee.


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Pop in Saturday to pop-up Trans.Lation market in Dallas' Vickery Meadow neighborhood
Artist Rick Lowe and crew roll out a pop-up market and an unusual gallery walk this Saturday in that global village known as Vickery Meadow. Vickery Meadow is a central Dallas neighborhood of low-rent apartments where about half the residents are foreign-born and many come with stories worthy of cinema.
For the artists, it's a lab of "social sculpture" where they aim to inspire esteem for Vickery Meadow and teach residents practical skills as they sell their art, crafts and other products.
For the Nasher Sculpture Center, it's one of 10 off-campus Nasher XChange projects to celebrate its 10th anniversary in Dallas.
For the residents, Vickery Meadow is just home and sometimes more — a refuge from war-torn and conflict-ripped countries like Iraq, Nepal and Mexico.
Lowe and crew call the project Trans.Lation/Vickery Meadow. That's because they hope to get this Babylon-like neighborhood and the rest of Dallas into a big conversation translating their cultures and their higher values.
"One of the challenges of bringing people together is everything had to be translated, culturally and language-wise," Lowe says.
"We are trying to create opportunities where people will celebrate the creativity of their culture. The market serves that in that people get their work out and seen by people."
The Houston-based artist is famed for his Project Row Houses, which 20 years back took dilapidated row houses in Houston's Third Ward and restored them with sweat and paint and re-imaging that makes them a tourist attraction to this day. For residents, it swelled pride and made the neighborhood safe, too. The project continues with a $1 million budget and a variety of programs. It's featured in this documentary.
This Saturday, Vickery Meadow events start at 1 p.m. in the 6300 block of Ridgecrest Road.
Shoppers can buy crafts at a pop-up market, where residents will sell henna-drawings, oil paintings, earrings, necklaces and purses.
The big event this time: Artsy production perched in three small galleries, designed by local architects. The white-cube galleries have already sprouted up on Ridgecrest to feature photography of the local residents, plants nursed by a seasoned gardener with his own back-story and an interactive installation. The installation will ask a trio of questions: What languages do you speak? What holidays do you celebrate? Would you rather have a job or an education?
They'll be a place for people to write their answers in the language they choose. The idea here is to democratize the art experience and who gets christened "an artist." If a guy like Andy Warhol, can take a red-and-cream tomato soup can, frame it, perch it in an elegant art space…Well, you may get an idea of the mischief going on here and its hopes for creative combustion.
Gallery curator is Darryl Ratcliff, who doubles as a resident artist. "A lot of this is about dignity and creating space for people to interact with each other," he said, as he strolled Ridgecrest earlier this week.
"Most people don't know this exists in Dallas. The world is literally in your backyard."
The Census Bureau, through a new mapping tool to visualize communities, shows four tracts in the heart of Vickery Meadow have a population of about 19,000 where about half the residents are foreign-born. The median household income ranges from $22,000 to $29,000–about half the median income for the entire city.
As Ratcliff gets to the last gallery site, Spanish-speaking children stop to offer cookies dyed an eye-socking holiday red and green.
Brendon Bryand, a seven-year-old in a hoodie with the slogan "Untamed Nation," wants to know if Saturday's fiesta is focused on Christmas. Nope, it's focused on the neighborhood and residents will have their photos in one of the little casitas, or galleries, he's told.
Not one to miss an opportunity, Brendon switches to English, and says, "Take my picture."
Ratcliff smiles triumphantly.
Down the street, inside the Trans.Lation studio, where the smell of curry wafts in, visitors greet each other with "Namaste" and "As-Salaam Alaikum." Sarah Mohammad, formerly of Basra, Iraq, moved here about three years ago. She'll be selling flower arrangements of rice paper and will be in a story-telling collective at the market. One of her tales this day involves a comedic act of kindness offered to her when she was stranded at a Dallas grocery store after her very pregnant neighbor went into labor.
She calls her tale "a poem."
The last of the pop-up markets is Feb. 22. What happens after is still in play.
Will the workshops continue? Who will fund them? What direction could all this turn?
Lowe seems well-schooled in such questions. Last month, he was appointed to the National Endowment for the Arts' 17-member advisory council. It makes recommendations on a multi-million dollar stream of high-prestige grants to those who fuse creativity and innovation in communities around the nation.
"I am presenting this as a cultural challenge to arts groups and others in Dallas," says Lowe of Trans.Lation's future. "I believe the arts can have an impact."


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Where the Sidewalk Ends
by Shel Silverstein
Where the Sidewalk Ends Man and the Natural World Quotes
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There is a place where the sidewalk ends
And before the street begins (1-2)
Before we've even heard about grass or trees, the poem has placed us in a world that we know is far away from the city and the suburbs, because there are no sidewalks or streets there. These lines ask us, what if the world was not marked out in grids of roads and traffic lights? What if there was something out where the streets couldn't reach?
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And there the grass grows soft and white,
And there the sun burns crimson bright (3-4)
If we weren't reading carefully, we would think that these lines give us a description of any old nature scene. But, luckily, we've got our thinking hats on, and can detect that there's something up in these lines. These descriptions seem a little… off. So where exactly is this world where the sidewalk ends?
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And there the moon-bird rests from his flight
To cool in the peppermint wind (5-6)
Have you heard of a peppermint wind? Or a moon-bird for that matter? Along with the slightly off details of the lines prior to these two, we're starting to realize that nature, in this poem, is not just nature. It's a world where the imagination is most free to run wild.


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After many long meetings, Mike Gillis feels he has the right man behind the bench and offers Alain Vigneault a contract extension.
Thursday, 05.22.2008 / 12:40 PM PT / Features
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"As we moved through the process, I was feeling stronger and stronger about me staying here and about me wanting to stay here," Vigneault told the Vancouver media on a conference call Thursday morning from his off-season home in Hull, Quebec. "I always made it very clear to Mike even though right now there are some jobs out there; the only place I want to coach is with the Vancouver Canucks. I love the city, I love the fans, I love the people in our organization and I want to win a cup here."
Vigneault says he knew that with wide-spread change at the top of the organization this off-season, he – like everyone else in a position of importance – would be subject to a review. It's only natural when a new general manager like Mike Gillis assumes control that he'll need some time to assess what he has to work with.
And part of that process involved several meetings between Gillis and Vigneault before the two agreed to move forward together.
"They were great meetings. Mike's an up front and direct person and it was two people who were trying to get to know each other. We discussed everything from philosophy to how we manage people to how we can make the Canucks the best possible team to win the Stanley Cup," he says. "The first two weeks I was there (in Vancouver after Gillis' hiring), we had long, couple hour meetings every day and we did that for two straight weeks. I always felt confident in my abilities and felt pretty good about the culture impact that we've had here in my two years. And I just expressed those things with Mike. It was a good process. It covered every base and I felt as we were moving forward it looked like I was becoming his guy."
That was made clear to Vigneault earlier in the week when Gillis not only told him he'd be retained, but also offered him the one year contract extension. The news wasn't all good, however, because as Vigneault learned of his fate, he also learned that the Canucks planned to relieve two of his assistant coaches -- Mike Kelly and Barry Smith -- of their jobs.
"As hard a day as it was for me yesterday, this is about moving forward and getting better. We feel that to get better, we have to make some adjustments," he says.
Those adjustments will come in the form of new bench help, although the head coach says it's far too soon to start speculating on who'll fill those spots. Vigneault also says that even though he and his new boss spent weeks discussing the Canucks' future, they spent very little time addressing the way the hockey club would actually approach the game next season.
"We really didn't talk about style of play in our meetings that much. The style of play that you try to put forward depends on the personnel you have available. I think that we're going to play the style that's going to permit us to win. Obviously, we're going to put a system in place that suits the personnel we have," Vigneault says. "Most of the meetings were spent making sure that we felt comfortable. I didn't know anything about Mike Gillis before. I had never had any type of dealing with him in the hockey world and to tell you the truth, I didn't know many people that knew him. He seemed to be really organized and direct in a non-provocative way, I really liked those two components of the way he conducts himself. As the process moved forward, I was feeling more and more at ease with what I was hearing from him. "
"It's going to be different just because of the way the NHL is now. We're no different than 75% of the league right now. We've got two big dates ahead of us – the draft and July 1st," he says. "The (recently concluded organizational) meetings in Las Vegas were great. There was a bunch of brain-storming not only going over our rosters, but the rosters of every team in the league and all of the players who might be available. The whole organization is working together on all the possible scenarios that will allow us to put the best possible team on the ice right now."
And as far as coaching that team is concerned, Alain Vigneault feels Mike Gillis got the right man for the job – the man he already had in place.


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