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Victoria Hills Golf Club
Located in historic DeLand, Victoria Hills Golf Club serves as the primary home course for Stetson University's men's and women's golf teams. This arrangement is one of the first major steps in a strong relationship that the Victoria Park community is building with Stetson University, Florida's first private university. Currently Victoria Hills is ranked as the #10 course in the state of Florida, and ranked #41 by Golf World in public courses in the country.
The practice facilities at Victoria Hills are outstanding. The driving range is double-ended and the back range features an 11 hole practice scoring V system. The front range is two tiered, with a manicured , huge hitting area. Directly behind the range is the putting green and also a chipping green and bunker. One of the great practice areas is located between 18 and 1 green. This area features two practice bunkers and greens and wedge shots can be hit up to 60 yards.
Stetson Head Women's Golf Coach Floyd Kerr says, "The great practice areas we have, plus being able to access the course and practice areas seven days a week make for an ideal situation. Also we have a wonderful working relationship with the management and staff at Victoria Hills. Our players always feel welcome and are treated with the utmost service."
Towering oaks and native Floridian pines welcome golfers to this resplendent championship course that features unique, natural challenges carved out of the contours of the land. "Our team plays many outstanding courses around the country and Victoria Hills rates among the best courses we play," says Stetson Head Men's Golf Coach Bob Weickel.
Rolling hills, spans of flowing greens and pristine lakes are the visuals a golfer will experience at Victoria Hills Golf Club. An array of pot bunkers, waste bunkers and native wetlands challenge golfers of all abilities. Regardless of the time of year, golfers will find outstanding putting surfaces at Victoria Hills. The greens are designed with tif-eagle grass, which stands up to more harsh conditions and allows the greens to roll true and perform well every month of the year.
Victoria Hills Golf Club is one of the focal points of Victoria Park. Here the neighborhoods blend seamlessly with the native Florida landscape, Victoria Park features homes priced from the mid $200,000s to over $1 million. Single-family homes by St. Joe and custom homes by independent builders give residents many lifestyle choices. Close proximity to regional cities like Orlando and Daytona Beach and a number of cultural centers make Victoria Park an attractive option for those who are interested in city life conveniences and the personal familiarity of a smaller community. Several educational opportunities are available to residents including Stetson University, Florida's first private university, a prestigious community college, and a number of excellent public schools.
Sandhill Golf Course
Originally designed for walkers by Dave Wallace and opened to the public in 1968, Sandhill Golf Course offers a professional yet relaxed atmosphere that promotes a challenging game of golf for all ages. The course construction keeps the holes close together without the feeling of being too tight for the average golfer.
Surrounded by Majestic Live Oak trees, you are apt to encounter our comical Sandhill Cranes and other local birds while you experience many interesting changes in elevation not normally associated with golf in Central Florida.
Whether you are out for a weekend round or if you have booked a tournament with us,
it is our goal to ensure a pleasurable visit to our course.
LPGA International
LPGA International sets a standard of excellence for our Club – offering challenging courses, quality service and immaculate conditions.
Since 1994, the LPGA International has been the home course of the LPGA Tour. Conveniently located near I-95 in Daytona Beach, FL, it gained its notoriety as the host of numerous LPGA Tour Championships and is now the host of the final state of the LPGA Tour Qualifying School.
Here are some of our accolades:
- Golf Digest – Four-Star Rating
- Golf for Women – Top 10 You Can Play Public Access Golf Courses
- Golf.com – No. 1 Choice in "America's Most Women-Friendly Courses"
- Golf Shop Operations – Top 100 Golf Shops" 1996-2007
- Golf for Women – Top 100 Courses of year 2000
- Golf For Women – Top 50 Courses of the Year 2007
- News-Journal – Reader's Choice Award "Best Pro Shop" 2006
- Golf Shop Operations – Top 100 Golf Shops 1996-2007
- Golf For Women – Top 100 Golf Shop
Venetian Bay Golf Club
As you play Venetian Bay, you'll notice this isn't the normal development course. There are no holes with housing on both sides and several with no housing at all. Wide Fairways and smooth rolling greens that work their way through the Florida landscape giving the golfers a respite from the fast pace of daily life. You'll want to"Play the Bay", again and again!
Venetian's a great place to work on your game. We've "amenitized" the club with a generous practice putting green, a chipping green including a practice bunker and a beautiful driving range boasting multiple target greens. As you play the course you may notice the two nines have a different natural character. The front nine plays through more of the wooded portion of the property and the back nine with fewer trees and more parallel fairways, gives it more of a links look.
We'd be remiss if we didn't mention one of the main features of the course is the plethora of strategically placed bunkers. Just remember there is ample landing area and these are positioned more for low handicappers and drama and do not come into play for the average golfer.
The two finishing holes are great matchmakers or match breakers. The ninth is a short hole that plays back to the rear of the clubhouse. The tee shot offers all kinds of risk/reward scenarios with club selection being critical. Play it safe out to the right with a shorter wood/long iron or take it over or around the large cypress trees, which block your line to the green. This potentially is reachable for the long drivers, but they need to watch the hazards. The eighteenth is a bit intimidating, demanding a well-placed drive with water all along the left through the green and bunkers virtually framing the landing zone. And don't forget, the 19th hole where you are invited to enjoy a cold beverage or a selection from a delicious menu created by Chef Ron!
The Deltona Club
The Deltona Club re-opened in January of 2008 having undergone a complete renovation under the direction of noted golf architect Bobby Weed. He re-grassed tees, fairways and all 18 greens, and lengthened the course, which is now over 7,000 yards from the "permission only" back tees. Weed planted more than 250 trees, installed a new irrigation system and drew up plans to move and expand the driving range. Formerly known as the Deltona Golf and Country Club, this golf course has been around for more than four decades.


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Christopher Dorner was officially charged with murder Monday in Los Angeles, Ca., as the massive manhunt continues. Riverside District Attorney Paul Zellerbach, reportedly said that the 33-year-old former LAPD officer was charged with murdering one police officer and the attempted murder of three other officers—one from Riverside and two from the Los Angeles Police Dept. These charges will allow police to arrest the accused killer on sight.
According to NBC News, Zellerbach made clear at Monday's press conference that the fugitive Dorner is a threat to every police officer in the area, adding that "by both his words and conduct, [Dorner] has made very clear to us that every law enforcement officer in Southern California is in danger of being shot and killed."
Dorner, who was fired from the LAPD in 2009, allegedly shot four officers on two separate incidents last Thursday in an apparent revenge plot for losing his job. The murdered officer is 34-year-old Michael Crain, an 11-year veteran and former Marine who served two tours in Kuwait. He leaves behind his wife, 10-year-old son and 4-year old daughter. The names of the other officers shot were not released.
Before his alleged shooting spree, Dorner had posted a manifesto on Facebook, which was later published by the LA Times. He targeted several officers for what he said was his unfair firing and also outlined rampant racism and abuse within the department.
The former police officer now charged as a cop killer, is also accused of killing an officer's daughter and her fiancé on Feb. 3 in Irvine but no charges for those murders were filed yet.
More than 50 police officers and their families are now under 24-hour protection as Dorner remains at large.
During Sunday's press conference, after announcing a $1 million reward for information leading to the capture of Dorner, Chief Charlie Beck called the ex-officer, who was once part of his team, "a trained assassin" and said that what he did was "an act of terrorism."
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa also spoke at yesterday's press conference, saying that they will not tolerate the killing of police officers or their families. He added that it was not a matter of if they will capture Dorner but more a matter of when.
As much as the mayor sounded confident, the former cop remains on the loose as the dragnet to arrest him widens beyond the San Bernardino Mountains. The fugitive is reportedly well trained, skilled in survivalist techniques and has some experience flying planes. Authorities now fear he may make a run for Mexico and have heightened security and inspection at the California border crossing into Mexico. This in turn has caused heavy traffic delays.
On Monday, Customs and Border Protection joined the LAPD in the intense manhunt for Dorner.
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While much of the nation will resolve to shed some extra pounds this year, Simpson, 32, and Hudson, 31, are showing off their hard work in spot for Weight Watchers spot, for which they are both official spokespersons.
"I was overweight my whole life," Hudson says in the ad, which will air starting Jan. 3.
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After losing over 50 lbs. on the program, Simpson recently announced her second pregnancy in another TV spot for the company, but she "will not be following the program during the pregnancy," Weight Watchers said in a statement.


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Salem adding second housing inspector
May 9, 2013
SALEM — A second part-time housing inspector will begin work Monday in the city of Salem, giving the department more coverage and giving the current inspector some help with the workload....
I hope this one will do something. Too many slum landlord homes and violations have been unaddressed in this town. I love this town but am unhappy how things are run...
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vcable Just curious. What violations in particular do you think are not being addressed?
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Landlords who do not make tenants responsible for trash, animals, mowing etc. I was told by one such landlord that as long as they get their rent money they don't give a crap. Also vacant houses that are unattended and left to rot.
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I am not saying you are wrong about those things but I don't really think those are things that the housing inspectors inspect. They inspect wiring, plumbing, hand rails, smoke detectors and such. Something else if the tenant is responsible for mowing the grass etc. shouldn't the city be going after the ones whose responsibility it is to do those things? The tenants are the ones that need fined if it is their responsibility not the landlord. Landlords can not just demand things these days. Do you know how difficult it is to evict someone? It is almost impossible thanks to fair housing laws and if there happens to be a pregnant woman in the house it is even harder. It is the tenants that are irresponsible and need to be made to follow the rules. Expecting landlords to do it will not make irresponsible tenants become responsible. Thankfully good tenants keep their homes up, others destroy them. The ones that are doing the destroying are the ones that need fined not the landlord.
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Well 'Concerned' you may have a point to a degree. Then someone has to be responsible for the property and I was under the inmpression that homeowner was... Are there no laws concerning landlords or renters? I own my property and if I was to let my grass grow to 6ft. would I not be responsible? If my trash was attracking rats and other varmints I am not responsible? So if not the homeowners who then? Why do I have to pay property taxes and abide by the rules, when others do as they please and ignore the rules? If I am wrong so be it but owning a home whether you live in it or not is the owners responsibilty from everything I have understood.
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Also when the housing inspector does look for rails, detectors etc. does he ignore the trash, the grass, and the state of the homes? I am so confused by this.
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For your information : Go to channel 9 Salem Comm, Serv,
Wait for housing inspector section. It will high light his duties and responsibilities,
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Thanks Ladybug I will check when I get home tonight.
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Warning : Hit the program at the wrong time it seems like you wait forever to get to the Gov, Sect,
Comes right after housing and planning.
Keep in mind the fire dept does most of the tech inspection part.
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Vcable, I think I know which landlord you are referring to. A landlord has said almost word for word the same thing to me when I confronted him.
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vcable Like I said I am not disagreeing with you about the condition of some properties in town. I am just saying the housing inspectors are not authorized to force people to do some of the things, some people would like them to do. They can not force people to paint their homes and keep things all nice and pretty. Salem's housing inspection program is not a beautification program it is a housing safety program. We do disagree on who should be responsible for grass and debris violations the city has in place for all properties not just rentals. I think the ones responsible for the neglect should be held accountable you seem to think someone else should. If a tenant is suppose to keep the grass cut then he should be held responsible for that. Excusing people of their responsibility does not teach them to be responsible.
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There's only so much they can do... the rental regulations are fairly lenient in Salem (compared to, say, a college town with a ton of student rentals). And as mentioned, it's not their job to enforce beautification issues. Even if they could, unless the grass is a foot tall there is no action to be taken, and "clutter" is nothing more than an opinion.
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Uggh I am not saying the housing inspector should do all this but someone in the city offices should enforce the laws that are in effect. Ok tell me then when the landlords don't do their yards and trash because of an agreement then why don't they do something. I still stand by the homeowner being responsible for the mess and tenants if they have them. If this 'Save Salem' is going to work then it should include a cleanup of sorts.
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Vcable specifically which laws do you want enforced that are not being enforced? Please site specific laws from the city codified ordinances. If Salem has a law about something that is where you will find it. If it is not there then there is no law to be enforced.
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I meant cite the specific laws you want enforced. Wouldn't want grammar police to get after me for using the wrong word. : )
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I guess I will have to do some research... I am afraid that a lot of people have lost their 'pride' in having nice properties, sad but true.
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vcable I agree that pride of ownership is lacking and it is not just those that rent their properties out. But the city can't make up the rules as they go along. Another thing some folks have wrong is they think it is only those on the lower end of the economic scale that don't take care of their property. That is not correct either I have seen people that don't have much money be some of the best people to display pride of ownership. I think it all has to do with like you said people having "pride" in having nice property.
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Friday, February 22, 2013
Dantez Bennamon scored a game-high 24 points, and made all 19 of his attempts from the free-throw line, as the Goose Creek Gators captured the Lower State championship in Class AAAA on Friday night with a 57-47 victory over Sumter at the Florence Civic Center.
The Gators (22-4) meet Irmo, a 63-49 winner over Hillcrest in the Upper State final, in Friday's state title game in Columbia. Tip off is set for 8:30 p.m. in Colonial Life Arena.
Bennamon also added nine rebounds and five steals for the Gators, who converted 33 of 36 free-throw attempts to counter their struggles from the field.
Sumter led 26-23 with 3:50 left in the third quarter before the Gators went on a 24-4 run to take control. They did most of their damage from the charity stripe in the run, making 15 free throws. Bennamon made nine free throws during the stretch and knocked down a long 3-pointer.
Sumter cut its deficit to 52-43 with 1:22 left but Chris Singleton made 5 of 6 free throws in the home stretch for the Gators. Singleton had 14 points.
Goose Creek last won a state championship in 2009 but Blake Hall, the first-year Gators coach, has a chance to go back-to-back. Last winter, he guided North Charleston to the Class AA championship.
Hall is a perfect 9-0 in postseason games as a high school coach in South Carolina.
For a number of Gators on the basketball team, including Bennamon, a championship could ease the sting of a football season cut short by the South Carolina High School League. The Gators were 13-0 in football season and only two wins away from back-to-back titles before being bounced from the postseason for using an ineligible player.
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Since 2001, the RLCs have been helping researchers work in national parks and integrating research into the visitor experience, park resource management, and educational outreach programs. They fill their role in collaboration with universities, K–12 schools, professional societies, and diverse research and education groups.
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Back on Oct. 12, Canadian and American members of the Peace Bridge Authority gathered at Fort Erie, Ont., headquarters to amicably and routinely approve construction projects for the next several years.
In a unanimous vote, the 10-member panel authorized about $50 million worth of improvements: a new secondary customs inspection facility on the Buffalo plaza, widening the Buffalo approach to the Peace Bridge, a customs pre-inspection pilot project in Canada, and engineering for replacement of the 86-year-old span's original deck.
All was right with the world.
But by the binational authority's December meeting, the New York contingent was rallying around different priorities that, it says, failed to even appear on drawing boards.
Now, the different emphasis on priorities lies at the heart of the most bitter dispute in the long history of the international span.
"Something changed," said Ron Rienas, a Canadian who serves as general manager of the Peace Bridge Authority. "Right after the board adopted that capital budget, they wanted us to write them a check for $95 million."
That authority money, Rienas explained, was to be entrusted to New York State to develop a Buffalo plaza deemed crucial for the commercial and tourist traffic at the second-busiest crossing on the U.S.-Canadian border. While Rienas said Canadian members of the authority have never disputed the eventual need for an expanded plaza in Buffalo, they do question the shift in priorities – a shift, he says, that has yet to be explained to the full board.
"Even to this day," he said, "no resolution has been ever introduced to change anything they have already approved."
It was obvious as far back as Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's 2012 State of the State address, however, that progress on the Peace Bridge stood as a top priority of his new administration.
By April of that year, Cuomo was calling for state action to acquire the Episcopal properties and Busti Avenue, while pointing to inaction at the bridge as a 20-year symbol of dysfunction and stagnation.
"Could you now slow the progress? No, because you're not making any progress," he said Wednesday during a trip to Buffalo. "So there's nothing to slow. My point is the exact opposite – let's do something."
State officials acknowledge the New York delegation's October vote, but they also say they were increasingly disappointed in the pace of development slated for the U.S. side and that expedited action was needed to compensate for years of emphasis on the Fort Erie plaza.
"The New York representatives want to immediately initiate a redesign of the Buffalo plaza to improve traffic flow, reduce pollution and route traffic around Front Park and the surrounding neighborhood instead of through it," Lt. Gov. Robert J. Duffy recently wrote in an Another Voice piece for The Buffalo News. "They believe a plaza redesign should be fast-tracked – not at the back of the list after other Peace Bridge projects."
"By the Peace Bridge Authority's current plans, it will be eight years before the plaza redesign is complete," he added. "That is unacceptable."
A Cuomo administration official who asked not to be identified dismissed the premise that the New York caucus has changed its priorities. He said that ever since Cuomo took office, widening the plaza to accommodate a number of economic objectives has always topped his Peace Bridge list, and that Albany still supports the projects approved in October.
The problem, he said, lies in the failure of the authority to launch any planning process in conjunction with the approved projects.
"The board has not adopted any kind of process toward moving on plaza widening," the official said.
Rienas, however, disputed the lieutenant governor's claims that progress on the plaza will be delayed by eight years. And he pointed to a host of projects in Fort Erie – such as the relocating of tolls and authority administrative offices – as part of a history of efforts to free up space on the smaller Buffalo plaza.
Indeed, Rienas contends that the Canadian caucus has always recognized the need for the Buffalo plaza expansion, but that it can't proceed until Washington and Ottawa determine the success or failure of a commercial pre-inspection experiment for customs, expected to begin this fall on the Fort Erie plaza.
Long sought by Cuomo and federal representatives including Sen. Charles E. Schumer and Rep. Brian Higgins, the pilot pre-inspection project will determine the feasibility of pre-clearing U.S.-bound trucks in Canada to open even more space on the Buffalo plaza.
The pilot is scheduled to be completed by early 2015. If successful, it would require the authority to construct a pre-inspection plaza costing $25 million to $30 million, since both federal governments have said they will not fund the capital costs.
Rienas contends that no physical expansion can proceed on the Buffalo plaza until success or failure of the pre-inspection experiment is determined roughly two years from now, providing an interim period to address the other projects.
That includes replacing the span's original 1927 deck at a cost of $90 million to $100 million, he said, pointing to continuing deterioration that forced 52 days of lane closures in 2012.
"The governor wants to do everything at once; we say we can't, because of this uncertainty," Rienas said. "Our point is let us do what we can now and work through these pre-clearance issues."
He added that the authority still envisions the possibility of "land banking" the Episcopal properties and Busti Avenue for development that can be seriously addressed in only two years.
But he points out that despite the state's April 2012 promise to acquire by eminent domain the Episcopal properties and Busti Avenue for plaza expansion by June 2012, it has yet to consummate a deal.
"We share the governor's frustration," Rienas said. "The authority has undertaken every possible effort to move things forward."
The administration official counters that too much is made of waiting for the outcome of the pre-inspection experiment. Contingent planning is more than possible for any outcome, he noted, based on whether customs facilities will occupy space on the plaza – and those possibilities are limited anyway.
He also noted that a similar pilot program in Blaine, Wash., is set to launch before the Peace Bridge project. The results of that effort can be assessed while planning for Buffalo proceeds, he said.
Still, following Wednesday's preliminary action by the State Legislature to dissolve the Peace Bridge Authority, Rienas fears the board's next scheduled meeting, on June 28, will result in no action on projects slated to begin next month.
While a vote is scheduled to proceed with the first phase of a $13 million project for widening the Buffalo approach, he predicts some board members will reject the already-approved work because of fears the bond market will not want to provide financing for a doomed authority.
In addition, he said, the priority pre-inspection project is also threatened by the possibility of being shut out of the borrowing market.
The legislation to dissolve the authority will be sent to Cuomo for his signature.
Rienas also said that with the deck project as the board's ultimate priority, some members will likely vote against the widening project to conserve authority funding for the redecking project.
From his standpoint, the state's claims of a slow pace will only delay progress more.
"The fact of the matter is that we are ready to award the first shovel in the ground for the approach widening," Rienas said.
"If those things can't proceed because of the legislation and our need to husband our resources for the bridge redecking, those projects simply won't happen," he said.
The Cuomo official, however, said other financing options for the projects are available outside the Peace Bridge Authority.
"There will not be Armageddon," he said. "Regardless of the outcome of the New York State legislation, the redecking can be finalized without interfering with the other projects."
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This house has three bedrooms with a double beds. The living room has a sofa, a TV and its very spacious. The kitchen is fully equipped. The bathrooms have toilets and showers. The outside are its perfect to relax. There is Cable TV, Internet, outdoor fireplace, everything what is in the apartment can be used by the guests. The guests have a private garage for their car.
The owner will be in contact with guests on a day of arriving and leaving for sure, and if the guests would need something they always can contact the owner for anything what they need.
It's a huge house, on two floors, so it's very comfortable and has enough space for everybody, beside that it's in quiet area, very ideal for vacations. The beach and the sea is 2 minutes by walking from the apartment. The center is 5 minutes by car and public transportation or 15 minutes by walking. The view from the house is amazing and the nature surrounding also.
The neighbors are really nice and helpful in every situation, so if the guest would need something they could count on them. Public transit is near by, 1-2 minutes by walking from the apartment to a main street where you have a buses every few minutes to the center of Split. The beach, the sea, the market, the center of city everything is in the area of 100-1000 meters.
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Very good, big, clean and cosy apartment. The apartment is in a beautiful part of Split. Beach, bus and store takes about 10-15 minutes to walk. The host is very kindly and helpful. We can really recommend this apartment.
Best appartment in our trip in Croatia. Everything is very good. Big appartment, very clean and nice view. We have very nice holiday here.
Ivan had warned us that he would be out of town for business when we arrived. He had arranged for his brother Marko to greet us instead. He was there the moment we arrived and showed us around the apartment. It was very clean and comfortable with living space downstairs and bedrooms upstairs. There was a balcony just outside the livingroom with a beautiful view of the Adriatic from which we enjoyed our coffee and drinks. Marko was very responsive to our needs while we were there and we would recommend this property to anyone. The only complaint was the kitchen appliances were a little tricky to use. Thanks again to Marko/Ivan for our very enjoyable stay in beautiful Croatia!
We had a wonderful time in Split and in the apartment. The apartment is exactly as described and offerered a lot of space for us being a group of 6 people. Ivan and his brother Marko are very kind and helpful. At the day of arrival they showed us around and made sure that we know where to find the supermarket, bus stop etc.
The apartment is located in a quiet neighbourhood, the next supermarket is a 10-15 minutes walk and the historic centre is a 25 minutes walk, but you can also take a bus to the city centre.
We can definitely recommend this place without any reservation.
The host cancelled the booking, this review is automated.
We were 6 and had a great time! The reception was perfect and the house was in order, it was only necessary to clean the bathroom more accurate, but definitely passable for the complex. Great location for those who want to go to the beach, by the way is only 15 minutes from one of the most beautiful beaches in Split, Žnjan. In the center you can get there by bus and the bus stop is just a 10 minute walk. Nearby it is also the market smaller and larger as Lidl, banks, pharmacies, bakeries and fruit and vegetables. Highly recommended as a place for those seeking a good compromise between price and quality!
Siamo stati in 6 e ci siamo trovati benissimo! L'accoglienza è stata perfetta e la casa era in ordine, è stata necessaria solo una pulizia del bagno più accurata, ma decisamente passabile per il complesso. Ottima posizione per chi vuole andare in spiaggia, tra l'altro è a soli 15 minuti da una delle spiagge più belle di Spalato, Znjan. In centro ci si arriva col bus e la fermata dista solo 10 minuti a piedi. Nelle vicinanze si trovano anche dei market piccoli e più grandi come Lidl, banche, farmacie, panifici e frutta e verdura. Decisamente consigliabile come posto per chi cerca un ottimo compromesso tra prezzo e qualità!
We were all (6 persons aged 16-60) very satisfied, the apartment is very large and very well equipped. In the kitchen you will find everything you need if you want to cook, the fridge is very spacious and there is plenty of space for chilling drinks. The apartment is very convenient split, because the bedrooms are located on a different page, so you can go to sleep undisturbed even when others want to watch TV or chat. It is not far to the beach. In the city we went by car. We can only recommend it.
Wir waren alle (6 Personen im Alter von 16-60) sehr zufrieden, die Wohnung ist sehr groß und sehr gut ausgestattet. In der Küche findet man alles was man braucht, wenn man selbst kochen möchte, der Kühlschrank ist sehr geräumig und man hat viel Platz zum Kühlen der Getränke. Die Wohnung ist sehr praktisch aufgeteilt, denn die Schlafzimmer befinden sich auf einer anderen Seite, so kann man ungestört schlafen gehen, auch wenn andere noch fernsehen oder sich unterhalten möchten. Es ist nicht weit zum Strand. In die Stadt sind wir mit dem Auto gefahren. Wir können es nur weiter empfehlen.
Ottimo soggiorno! Ivan disponibilissimo e gentilissimo! Consigliato al 100%
Ivan tog imod os da vi ankom, og satte os ind i lokalområdets muligheder. Han havde sørget for at indhente brochurer om de seværdigheder vi på forhånd havde sagt havde vores interesse, så det gjorde det let for os at disponere vores tid i Split. Lejligheden er meget rummelig og udgjorde en god base for vores ophold i denne fantastiske by, Vi kan kun anbefale at bo hos Ivan.
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Mini Pumpkin Candle Holder | DIY | Fall Harvest Table Setting
Mini Pumpkin Candle Holders
for the Fall Harvest Party
I recently shared a Fall Harvest Party idea with the Williams-Sonoma Blog, The Blender. Part of the table setting included these mini pumpkin taper candle holders.
These were so easy to create - and an inexpensive alternative to pricey fancy candle holders.
Mike made them for me in about 20 minutes. Here are the step-by-step instructions...
**I do not recommend holding the pumpkin while you drill - put it flat onto your work surface and drill straight down.
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"Dennis Maher: House of Collective Repair"
Through May 12
In 2009, local architect and artist Dennis Maher bought a house on Fargo Street for $10,000.
Since then, he has stripped back layers of wood and paint, radically reconfigured the interior structure of the building and filled it with an always shifting collection of oddities, thrift store finds and sculptural objects of his own design.
The show features sculptures by nine local contractors, each of whom was invited by Maher to visit the house and draw inspiration from his work to create their own pieces of art. The results – from a model house made from roofing materials by contractor Chris Ziolkowski to another house model that doubles as a guitar by window and door expert Dan Farrell – challenge viewers to think more deeply about the materials that surround them.
Maher told The News in September that he was excited that the gallery had chosen a local artist for a residency. The entire endeavor, from the house to the work of nine local contractors, he suggested, is an attempt to paint a picture of the city in an entirely new way.
"I call this whole project a city-house model," he said. "I think about this as kind of consolidating the energy, the movement of things in the surrounding world of social, economic material exchanges and bringing them into the boundaries of the house."
"Agnes Martin: The New York-Taos Connection (1947-1957)"
Through May 12
When some artists come face to face with their early work, a kind of instinctual revulsion sets in.
For these artists, the idea of confronting a flawed painting or a piece that no longer fits into their artistic approach is just too painful to bear. So these artists – among whose ranks are some of the best ever to set paintbrush to canvas – make a concerted effort to destroy that work.
Martin, the enigmatic painter known best for her stern, minimalist paintings featuring austere grids, was one such artist. While living in Taos, New Mexico, in the 1950s, she created 100 or so abstract paintings that are very different in style from the work she's most famous for. So Martin, motivated by that feeling of disgust familiar to so many committed painters who have methodically destroyed old work, did away with as many of them as she could.
But she missed a few. And these paintings, which reveal a different side of an artist many in the art world only think they know, are the basis for this exhibit. The show originated at the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos and was organized by Harwood curator Jina Brenneman.
The exhibition features a series of biomorphic abstract paintings, which will give context to the Albright-Knox's modest holdings of Martin's work, which includes the quiet 1965 painting "The Tree." Albright-Knox Chief Curator Douglas Dreishpoon will also pad out the exhibition with works on paper and other paintings by Martin from the gallery's collection.


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Multiple cedula holders hunted down
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Apr 26 2012 16:29PM
- An operation headed by the Central Electoral Board`s cedula issuing unit director Americo Rodriguez, together with electoral military personnel and directed by the JCE is launching a series of raids on the homes of people who have taken out between two and four and even up to twenty national identity cards, known as cedulas. According to El Nacional, the head of the JCE Inspection service, Juan Bautista Tavarez Gomez spoke to reporters during the first raid in Villas Agricolas at a house owned by Juan Carlos Jose Aguiar de los Santos, who has had four duplicates. Up to now 149,000 free duplicate cedulas have been issued, valued by the JCE at between 500 and 1000 pesos each, and whilst the law does not limit the number, the JCE is concerned by the figures and are raiding their homes to find out why the duplicates were requested. It has been discovered that 146 people have requested more than one duplicate, including Juan Antonio Morales Rodriguez from Bani, who requested 58. Read original at
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Happy 2013.
I've got a great backlog of things I would like to show you, but I was so busy making presents that I forgot to take pictures. But no worries, since we've just started a new year, I am going to be a lot better at making and taking the time to design, draft patterns, sew, draw, read, take pictures, print, dye, stitch, knit, cook, bake ... and learn a great deal of new things.
Have I forgotten anything?
Thank you for your comments and e-mails on the advent calendar. I really enjoyed putting it together.


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Top Definition
A gay village or area prodominately inhabited by homosexuals.
The West End is a total gaybourhood.
Beküldő: angelvs 2005. március 30.
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Can you define these popular missing words?
1: A surrounding or nearby region primarily populated by the queer community. These spaces can consist of an area encompassing a few streets or entire neighbourhoods within a city. Such areas as the West End in London, Castro District in San Fransisco, Davie Street in Vancouver, Schöneberg in Berlin or Chelsea in New York.
Let's get out of this gaybourhood and visit the breeders.
Beküldő: Marvel Knight 2010. május 31.
A neighbourhood made up of gay looking houses, trees, and gay people.
These trees look so gay.
This must be a gaybourhood.
This must be a gaybourhood.
Beküldő: naked monkey 000 2011. május 25.
The gaybourhood as stated in other accurate definitions is the area (spanning from a few streets like "the montrose area" in Houston to the hugest of them all, although arguable San Francisco. Homosexuals tend to live in higher concentrations then other areas (atleast openly) in larger metropolitan areas and like most minority groups the gaybourhood often has a unique culture, with more art, nicer restaraunts and a double-edged sword depending on your view, drugs are often much more accessable in these areas, most likely due to the abandonedment of fearing social taboos.
John- "Hey I met up with Big Bear at a really nice cafe` in the gaybourhood and picked up some peyote."
Jane- "Awesome, lets get together tonight."
Jane- "Awesome, lets get together tonight."
Beküldő: Phungguy 2006. augusztus 20.
The Chelsea Area of New York.
I went looking for a drink in the Gaybourhood, but ended up going Downtown.
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The Department of Surgery at the University of Michigan, founded in 1850, is nationally recognized for excellence in patient care, education and clinical and basic science research.
Each year, our teams perform thousands of surgical procedures. And our surgeons are internationally recognized as experts in a wide range of specialties including:
University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers in Ann Arbor, MI is ranked nationally in 12 adult and 10 pediatric specialties. It was also high-performing in 4 adult specialties, as shown below. University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers is a 919-bed general medical and surgical facility with 45,137 admissions in the most recent year reported. It performed 17,784 annual inpatient and 28,270 outpatient surgeries. Its emergency room had 81,021 visits. University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers is a teaching hospital.
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Read Evan Wright's posts on the Penguin Blog.
Read about the Penguin Group (USA) partnership with HBO in support of the Generation Kill Troop Drive here.
They were called a generation without heroes.Within hours of 9/11, America's war on terrorism fell to those like the twenty-three Marines of the First Recon Battalion, the first generation dispatched into open-ended combat since Vietnam. They were a new pop-culture breed of American warrior unrecognizable to their forebears—soldiers raised on hip hop, video games and The Real World. Cocky, brave, headstrong, wary and mostly unprepared for the physical, emotional and moral horrors ahead, the "First Suicide Battalion" would spearhead the blitzkrieg on Iraq, and fight against the hardest resistance Saddam had to offer.
Read about the Penguin Group (USA) partnership with HBO in support of the Generation Kill Troop Drive here.
They were called a generation without heroes.
Then they were called upon to be heroes.
Now a major HBO event, Generation Kill is the national bestselling book based on the National Magazine Award-winning story in Rolling Stone. It is the funny, frightening, and profane firsthand account of these remarkable men, of the personal toll of victory, and of the randomness, brutality and camaraderie of a new American War.
Anthony Award – winner
Los Angeles Times Book Prize – winner
"One of the best books to come out of the Iraq war."—Financial Times
"Stunning."—Boston Herald
"Engrossing."—Washington Post
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quote: ...when the U.S. Air Force revealed that it would interfere with an estimated 75 percent of commercial and government GPS units.
quote: The FCC broke their own rules. If GPS can not operate when neighboring frequencies are used then those frequencies should be reserved and licenced to the GPS system. The FCC should NOT license those frequencies to other companies.


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A short, attractive gay man - so small, he looks as though he can fit into your pocket.
I just love to pick up hot pockets at the gay bar.
by fluffyqueer October 21, 2005
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The act of shitting inside a fold-out couch and then re-closing it, leaving it for an unsuspecting guest. (see similar terms: "upper-decker", "mexican waffle", "trunk muffin")
That drunk guy that slept over last night left us a hot pocket.
by Sam F March 23, 2005
1. The most delicious form of evil. It tastes, looks, and smells good, but you practicly die of burns when you take a bite if you don't wait 5 minutes.
-What happened to your face?! Its all...charred!
-I had hot pockets last night.
-I had hot pockets last night.
by Ricky February 27, 2004
White man who wears a red hat and is an ass hole
Go fuck yourself hot pocket!
by Aleksander12 February 15, 2014
name for a pastry that took after the pop tart. except it is filled with nasty meat. It can only be served 2 ways;
1. Warm outside, frozen inside.
2. boiling lava hot, will destroy your mouth.
usually given to patients suffering from constipation.
1. Warm outside, frozen inside.
2. boiling lava hot, will destroy your mouth.
usually given to patients suffering from constipation.
Hey Travis, would you like a hot pocket?
by Eric Franz January 15, 2007
When the person you have sleeping over shits in your fold out sleeper couch, doesn't clean it up, and folds the couch back up without telling you.
I'm not friends with Rob anymore.
He made a hot pocket with my fold out couch.
He made a hot pocket with my fold out couch.
by xJcalx April 16, 2010
When a girl is going down on a guy and his balls start kickin right before he's about to cum, you shove his balls in his anus and yell "HOT POCKET!"
"I'm about to cum..."
(She shoves his ballsac into his anus)
(She shoves his ballsac into his anus)
by PTSpice July 06, 2009
a woman's special lady parts, aka vagina.
yo girl, thanks for letting me hide my tube steak inside your hot pocket
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Google publicly announced it is working on a new Linux-based operating system aimed to compete against Microsoft Windows and Apple OS X.
Chrome OS is being designed by Google engineers for netbooks and is completely independent from its Android OS currently used on a growing number of smartphones.
"Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks," the company said in a blog post. "Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010."
The OS itself is expected to make its debut sometime later this year.
Since Chrome OS will be available under an open source license, programmers can freely edit and modify the OS's code. Furthermore, the OS will be designed for Intel and ARM processors, and could eventually transition away from netbooks to PCs and laptops.
The OS is specifically designed for users who use the internet heavily and won't be ideal for people who aren't connected to the internet often. Google has said it would continue to launch new products and services in the cloud, including its own Gmail and Google Docs, but very few people expected an OS announcement.
Chrome OS will focus on speed, simplicity and security, and reportedly is a lightweight OS that will be able to boot up in just a few seconds. Google hopes its interface will be simple enough for all users, with the GUI and user experience expected to be heavily Web-based.
Google is calling for help from the open source community to help work on the OS and iron out any bugs that may arise.
Many Google supporters said the company would eventually release a new OS -- wishful thinking, some analysts said -- but it appears to be a move that could move from netbooks to regular laptops. Android, which is popular on smartphones, has led several manufacturers to begin using the OS on netbooks currently in development -- instead of porting Android over to netbooks immediately, it seems Chrome OS will help the void.
"We hear a lot from our users and their message is clear -- computers need to get better," the blog also reads.
Microsoft has long-ruled the OS market, but has faced increased pressure from Linux, and must now contend with yet another competitor. Google has eaten into Microsoft's control of internet offerings, with its Google search engine, Gmail e-mail service, and other cloud-based services.
"We have a lot of work to do, and we're definitely going to need a lot of help from the open source community to accomplish this vision," the Google blog ends.
quote: Wake up to reality, linux is still struggling for any coherence, mac is a joke, and a new netbook OS......
quote: I want to use any network management apps I go to Control Panel/Admin Tools. In Linux, there would be 13 Control Panels, one named Control Panel, another named Admin Mods, another named Raped Goat, another named PARzChiclet... This is ridiculous.


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Observations on British and American English
by an American linguist in the UK
England and America are two countries separated by a common language.
--George Bernard Shaw
BrE = British English
AmE = American English
OED=Oxford English Dictionary (2nd edn. [1989], unless otherwise noted)
Sunday, November 26, 2006
missing /j/s
Since BrE is so /j/-ful, it often strikes me when the /j/ goes missing in some British pronunciations of American names. Twice this week, I heard the American director John Huston's name pronounced by BrE speakers without the /j/: /hustn/. Americans would pronounce his name as /hjustn/ (imagine the 'n' as a syllable--I'm too lazy to go after the phonetic symbols tonight)--and as far as I can find, that's how the Huston family now pronounces it too. (There was a slight discussion of this on the American Dialect Society list in 2003. The name was changed from Houghton by John Huston's father, Walter, but the Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary reportedly says that Huston is pronounced with the /j/.) Similarly, BrE speakers often call Houston, Texas /hustn/, but the American pronunciation has a /j/. (We can't take the British too much to task for incorrectly pronouncing Houston Street in New York City, since most non-New-Yorker Americans pronounce it incorrectly too. The first syllable is pronounced like house.)
I encountered another missing /j/ in a production of Angels in America: Millennium Approaches in Johannesburg some years ago. There I sat, enraptured by an excellent production of an incredible play, believing that the actors had been imported from the US, as their accents were impeccable. But then the Mormon characters started referring to the state of Ootah. (The actors also seemed to be allergic to the the in the AmE phrase in the hospital.) It didn't diminish the strength of the play, but it left no doubt that the actors were not American.
This all could lead to the hypothesis that there are only so many /j/s available to a dialect, and if they use them all up in words like Tuesday, they'll not have them for use elsewhere. (Similar things have been claimed for dialects that don't pronounce the /r/ in dear but find an /r/ to put at the end of idea.) But I think the real story, once again, is that the pronunciation of names is particularly difficult to master.
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- Jaŋari (formerly aidhoss) said...
I've noticed lately that some AmE dialects may be experiencing a bit of /w/-intrusion (along the same lines as the /r/-intrusion in idea). Though I must admit that I haven't actually heard very much. I've mostly noted it typographically; words like 'cool' are being spelled 'kewl'.
I suspect* that the vowel in 'cool' is moving from the not-so-far-high-or-back /U/ as in 'book' or 'snook', toward the more cardinal /u/ as in 'coup' or 'snooker'. The presence then of the /l/ would motivate the vowel to diphthongise to(wards) /uo/ which sounds close to the intrusion of a /w/.
I miss phonology (sometimes).
What was this post about again? Oh right, /j/. Sorry for being so off-track!
*Mostly from trying to replicate how I assume it sounds; not the best form of fieldwork I admit.
- 27 November, 2006 01:13
- Bridget said...
...or it could just be hypercorrection of names that are perceived as being very American.
As for Jan(g)ari's comment: there's definitely a lot of movement going on with /u/ but I'm not sure that most/all of it is going the direction you describe. In my (CA) dialect, as in many others, the vowel in 'cool' has been fronting more than anything, to the extent that about 10 years ago teenagers were using a pseudo-phonetic spelling 'kewl' and it was almost homophonous with 'keel.'
- 27 November, 2006 01:48
- lynneguist said...
Hi Bridget--Hypercorrection is a possibility, I think it'd be easier to see it as hypercorrection toward(s) AmE if these were in phonetic contexts where BrE would expect a /j/ (and expect AmE speakers not to have a /j/). But since they're not after coronals and they seem limited to proper names (I don't hear BrE speakers saying hooge instead of huge when they attempt an AmE accent), I see it more as a 'names are unpredictable' problem.
As for cool--I wouldn't want to make a generali{s/z}ation about AmE vowels based on a word that is evaluative and slang. People exaggerate or minimi{s/z}e the vowel in cool in all sorts of ways. I associate the kewl spelling with an attempt to recreate Dude-speak (or Surf(er)speak), whereas another way to pronounce it (in order to try to sound nonchalant) is with a very quick schwa-like sound.
- 27 November, 2006 11:56
- barnoid said...
I don't hear BrE speakers saying hooge instead of huge when they attempt an AmE accent
Not unless they are attempting a comedy Brooklyn accent, in the style of Danny DeVito or similar.
- 27 November, 2006 14:23
- Howard said...
It's important to note that in the accents of many British dialects the /j/ or 'y' sound in words like Tuesday and tune are omitted in the same way - particularly those from East Anglia and the East End of London. The same seems true of the Devon/Somerset area.
- 27 November, 2006 14:55
- Paul Danon said...
As Howard points out above, BrE dialects aren't all /j/-ful, including many, if not all, in east Anglia. It is there that we find the vast turkey-producing business of Mr Bernard Matthews who, IMHO, has built his commercial empire through TV-advertising during which he describes his sometimes controversial wares as /'butəfəl/.
Where did I hear: "Put up your dooks," I wonder? I think dooks are fists and maybe it was a cartoon character issuing that challenge.
As for IPA syllabic N, is it here? I'd embed it but the comment-facility doesn't allow image-tags. Some web-authorities suggest you can represent a syllabic consonant with a preceding superscripted schwa, but I can't find that in ASCII. BTW, my off-the-wall phonetic system is here.
Just as London has Euston = /'justn/ railway/train station, so Dublin has Heuston station, but can anyone tell me how you say it?
Speaking of Euston, I remember the 1968 Carry On Up The Khyber in which Kenneth Williams played Rhandi Lal, the Khasi of Kalabar, who often asked Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond, played by Sid James, to convey his felicitations to England's 19th-century queen. Unfortunately, the Khasi kept mixing up his central London railway-stations. "Do remember me," he would say, "to your magnificent Queen Paddington," or "your marvellous Queen Waterloo," which Sir Sidney had to correct to "Victoria".
- 27 November, 2006 21:38
Mr Bernard Matthews was probably wise to stick to the claim that his products are "bootiful", rather than using the alternative slogan suggesting that they are "Norfolk 'n' good".
- 27 November, 2006 23:47
- Janet said...
Yes...the largest city in Texas does indeed get mispronounced all the time on TV and on the radio over here. It's a common thing -- in our house -- to hear both a female American voice AND a male British voice yelling, simultaneously, "HUGH-ston" when that happens!
- 28 November, 2006 14:04
- Doug Sundseth said...
"Where did I hear: "Put up your dooks," I wonder? I think dooks are fists and maybe it was a cartoon character issuing that challenge."
IME, it's usually spelled "dukes", and pronounced in AmE without the /j/. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (10th ed.) confirms that spelling and lists the etymology of that sense as "prob. fr. dukes of York, rhyming slang for fork (hand, fist)".
With that etymology, I'd expect a British (specifically Cockney) provenance. (Though with /j/ in that dialect.)
The phrase is fairly common in older American movies and cartoons.
(Aside: Blogger Beta seems to dislike showing the word verification image when the site is viewed with Firefox 2.0.)
- 28 November, 2006 18:12
- lynneguist said...
Blogger beta seems to be having all sorts of problems.
At any rate, what I had said before, but which has disappeared, is that, as ever, when we talk about pronunciation, there will be a lot of variation among regions, social registers and individuals.
Also, interestingly, while the American Heritage Dictionary frequently gives /j/-ful alternate pronunciations, the OED tends to not offer a /j/-less alternative, although, as has been discussed here, there are /j/-less dialects in the UK.
- 28 November, 2006 22:01
- Red Squirrel said...
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. You should hear how our teachers in Russia insist on the BrE variant of pronunciation, but sometimes unconsciously use the AmE or "RE" one.
- 29 November, 2006 18:35
- dearieme said...
"alternate pronunciations"; alternative, surely?
- 29 November, 2006 19:52
- lynneguist said...
Dearieme, you just wait for days when I have a stomach bug, don't you? The 'alternative' meaning of alternate is marked in the OED as US, so it should have had an "AmE" marker there. It's still prescriptively frowned upon by some in AmE, though it's interesting that the American Heritage usage note on the subject is concerned that one doesn't use alternative to mean alternate, rather than vice versa. (I.e. "don't say on alternative Tuesdays", rather than "don't say 'an alternate pronunciation'." Their third definition for alternate, 'Serving or used in place of another' is the sense I've used here, i.e. the one that the OED marks as AmE.
Red Squirrel, I enjoyed reading about your experiences studying English in Russia. I hope you'll continue to contribute to the comments here.
- 29 November, 2006 22:32
- howard said...
> With that etymology, I'd expect a British (specifically Cockney) provenance. (Though with /j/ in that dialect.)
Actually, Doug, Cockney tends not to do /j/ in words like 'duke' - as I suggested above, it's one of the dialects that doesn't.
- 01 December, 2006 14:36
- Doug Sundseth said...
You did, indeed. Sorry I missed the "East London" thing. My experience with Cockney is, ummm, thin on the ground.
- 01 December, 2006 16:33
- outerhoard said...
One of your examples surprises me: I have never noticed a British person put a /j/ in "sue".
The Australian custom is to put a /j/ in most, but not all, words that the British do. One example that sounds odd to me when said in an English accent is "suitcase".
- 07 May, 2008 16:21
- John Cowan said...
My understanding of dukes is that it's Angloromani in origin, along with dukering 'fist-fighting'.
From 1634: The Bavarian Crisis by Eric Flint and Virginia DeMarce:
"Do they normally duke these things out on the public roads?" Keith asked.
"There's no duke involved here," Durre said. "What's important jurisdictionally is that these are imperial knights, directly subject to the emperor, with no intervening authority."
As for "bootiful", Peter Trudgill explains why this spelling doesn't work well for a Norfolk accent: the /ju/ is indeed jodless, but that doesn't make the vowel of beautiful the local representative of GOOSE.
- 18 January, 2009 07:23
- TomV said...
The j-glide is* common in the southeastern US after stops (as in "tune", "dew"), but not after /s/ or /l/. "Dew" and "do" were generally contrasted in southern North Carolina when I was growing up.
*Or "was", 30+ years ago.
- 08 July, 2010 21:35
- ella said...
there's also the palatalisation aspect. For better or for worse (and I don't know if it comes from my British (S. UK BrE) influence or my Canadian influence) I tend to pronounce words such as 'Tuesday' as /tʃuzde/. I once nearly got into some trouble with a (culturally Jewish) acquaintance by referring to a local restaurant as the /dʒu/ Drop Inn. Hilarity ensued.
- 11 November, 2010 08:38
- David Crosbie said...
Houston is a town in Scotland and a surname here, both pronounced without a j.
As with all North American place words carried across from here, we see the spellings and recognise the names.
- 06 August, 2013 02:18
- Iain Mac Eochagáin said...
Paul Danon, Heuston Station in Dublin is pronounced just like Euston in London, but with a(n) H in front of it. It was renamed from Kingsbridge in 1966 in honour of Seán Heuston, an Irish rebel who took part in the Easter Rising of 1966.
- 31 October, 2013 01:31
- vp said...
BrE "Houston" without a /j/ is probably a spelling pronunciation. No other word spelled with "ou" has the /j/ sound, except AmE "coupon" (which is invariably yod-less inBrE).
- 05 November, 2013 22:21
- David Crosbie said...
BrE "Houston" without a /j/ is probably a spelling pronunciation.
Spelling may confirm the pronunciation, but surely the motivation is the existence of the town of Houston here in Scotland, and of the surname Houston — both with the expected pronunciation
- 06 November, 2013 00:02
- vp said...
@David Crosbie:
BrE "Houston" without a /j/ is probably a spelling pronunciation
Spelling may confirm the pronunciation, but surely the motivation is the existence of the town of Houston here in Scotland, and of the surname Houston — both with the expected pronunciation
I doubt that more than a tiny fraction of Britons have ever heard of the Scottish Houston (a village with a population of 6,000, according to Wikipedia).
As for the surname Houston, its pronunciation is all over the map. By far the most well-known bearer of the surname is the singer Whitney Houston, whose name is pronounced as in the Texas city.
- 10 December, 2013 21:07
- David Crosbie said...
By far the most well-known bearer of the surname is the singer Whitney Houston, whose name is pronounced as in the Texas city.
In other words, we Brits pronounce her name the way we pronounce the Texan city. OK, I concede that some Brits might get Whitney's name 'right' but not the city. For my generation, by far the most well-known bearer of that surname is Renée Houston, whose name is pronounced as in the Sottish town.
In any individual speaker's life, one pronunciation is heard early in life; the other is heard either later or not at all. Spelling need not enter into it.
- 10 December, 2013 23:24


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Tiffin reports
A caller at Webster and Minerva streets reported a tree limb fell on two vehicles Saturday afternoon.
A caller in the first block of Ash Street reported Saturday afternoon she was cleaning out a house she just bought and found drug paraphernalia.
A caller in the 300 block of South Monroe Street reported there were two males attempting to break into cars Saturday afternoon.
A caller in the 100 block of Hunter Street reported Saturday evening there was a woman going door-to-door with cleaning wipes and requesting to enter the residences.
A male caller in Oakley Park reported Saturday evening there was a male taping him and his friends. The male then returned to his residence in the first block of Sixth Street.
A caller in the 300 block of Jefferson Street requested to speak with an officer about a Kirby salesman Saturday evening.
A caller in the 500 block of Hedges Street reported Saturday evening that a Kirby salesman forced his way into the residence.
A caller in the first block of Erie Street reported Saturday evening that a Kirby salesman forced his way into the residence and made some offensive comments to the caller's girlfriend.
County reports
A caller in the 3000 block of N. TR 179 reported Saturday afternoon that his neighbor was setting off something that sounded like dynamite.
A caller in the first block of Jefferson Street reported Saturday morning that a window of his truck was broken and his trailer, which contained scrap metal, was missing.
A caller reported suspicious activity at the Church of Christ, Fort Seneca, Saturday night.
A subject came to the station Sunday morning to speak with an officer about a theft in Melmore.
A caller in the 1000 block of W. TR 198B advised Sunday morning there were two telephone poles down across the road in front of his residence. A deputy at the scene reported a third pole was split. The power company was contacted.
A caller in the first block of West Tiffin Street reported Sunday morning a vehicle, which had followed her niece home, had passed by the residence multiple times.
A caller at the intersection of TR 73 and TR 130 reported Sunday morning he had found two cash registers in the bank of the Sandusky River.
Fostoria reports
Brandon J. Murphy, 26, of Fostoria, was charged Friday afternoon with failure to appear.
A disturbance was reported at Los Tocallos early Sunday morning. A warning was given to one subject for disorderly conduct.
A caller at Dunn's Lanes reported a hit-and-run accident Sunday morning.
Officers responded to Dunn's Lanes Sunday morning for several activated motion detectors.
A complainant at Nye's requested to speak to a deputy about a stolen bike Sunday afternoon.
Tiffin fire
Firefighters responded to an unintentional detector activation Saturday afternoon at 77 Jefferson St.
Firefighters responded to an outside rubbish fire Saturday evening at North Sandusky Street and Leitner Avenue.
Firefighters responded to an unintentional smoke detector activation Saturday night at 187 Jackson St.
County fire
Bascom firefighters responded to a downed power line on South County Road 591 Saturday afternoon.
Tiffin Municipal Court
Timothy J. Miller, Bellevue, pleaded no contest to operating vehicle impaired/under influence, 30 days jail, 30 days suspended, six-month license suspension, approved for restricted driving privileges, complete/pay for driver intervention program, six points, $641; pleaded no contest to improper turn.
Arnold C. Marks, Jr., 686 S. Sandusky St., Lot 108, pleaded no contest to failure to reinstate license, $350.
Jamie Atkins, Attica, pleaded no contest to providing a false statement, 180 days jail, 180 days suspended, $509.
Amy D. Bryant, 82 Franklin St., pleaded guilty to assault, 30 days jail, 30 days suspended, ordered to stay away from victim, $720.
Caleb M. Schubert, 201 Sycamore St., underage drinking, case placed on diversion, $240.
Joel B. Patuto, Burgoon, operating vehicle impaired/under influence case dismissed upon motion of city prosecutor due to plea in companion OMVI case; pleaded no contest to operating vehicle impaired/under influence, 30 days jail, 30 days suspended, six-month license suspension, ALS terminated, approved for restricted driving privileges per pretrial order, complete/pay for driver intervention program, six points, $632.
Terry L. Zuern, 71 Oil St., pleaded no contest to assured clear distance, two points, $162.
Christopher H. Garlock, Vickery, pleaded no contest to littering from motor vehicle, $167.


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Kenya Bell has a little diarrhea of the mouth in a recent Juicy Magazine interview. I don't know if this interview will score Kenya a spot on next season's Basketball Wives, but I'm sure she just scored a few guaranteed beat downs by her cast mates. Come on girl, what were you thinking saying that you didn't want to have to lay them hands on Evelyn when you were quick to run away from her before she EVER picked up the bottle!
Juicy: What was going through your mind when EVELYN threw that bottle at you during dinner?
KB: I've been professionally trained to fight thanks to my Dad. I have no fear of any of them and all of their bullying, negativity, and pure haterism. It's sad that as women, they aren't supporting my efforts to be independent as a woman and a mother, especially after I spent years helping my husband make it to the NBA and he's chosen to ruin his life. [The cast] can talk all they want, as long as neither of them put their hands on me, they have nothing to fear.
Juicy: The girls seem to think you're j****** they're style. What's your response?
KB: In response to me "jacking" their style……I've been me since birth, and although I'm younger than most of them (oh wait I forgot, I'm 40 according to them!), ask those who know me the best, I haven't changed.
Juicy: What are your current thoughts on TAMI?
KB: I'm very surprised to see the footage of Tami talking bad about me behind my back. I still feel that she has a good heart, that's why she stepped in between Evelyn and I. Because of the supposed "stabbing" that my husband accused me of, I really didn't want to have to hurt Evelyn on national television, so I appreciated that. But as a fellow mother of two, it's very disappointing that she was so mean and hurtful knowing she went through the same things I'm going through on the show.
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It could be true..just because someone is quick to run their mouth doesn't make them not able to handle themselves buuuut she did take off her shoes on Keisha but didn't do anything with Evelyn, nor did she run..Tami kinda pushed her out the way. *shrugs* they're all to grown to be fighting anyway
You're right @ Ms. UCNGE Kenya didn't run..Tammi had to make her get up and out of the way.
Kenya comes off as odd but I don't see b**** made. I actually watched that part of that episode because everyone was talking about it.
I will say something is truly and deeply wrong with Evelyn. I don't know why everyone is skirting around THAT big ass elephant. I've said it before..Evelyn needs a psychotherapist and some strong meds.
It's like you can tell she's taking her anger out on everyone/thing than who she needs to take it out on.She's very angry at something and needs to deal with it.
Kenya is fine with her country ass..lol
She don't know karate she knows caaarazyyyyyyyy
lol why did I instantly think of Sheneneh. I watch way too much Martin :/
LOL @ Ballalert caaarazyyy is what you have to watch out for...
I don't think she was afraid of Evelyn and I would have moved too if a chick tried to throw a wine bottle at me. Evelyn picks on people who are afraid of her. She never stepped to Tammie or Royce again b/c they slapped her back. I can't stand bully bishes. I wish she'd kick Evelyn's butt
Sheli you are so right, she didn't even want to tell Tami that she messed with her ex...she didn't get smart or anything when her amd Tami had the meeting about the t-shirts...the same with Royce, she knew Royce wasn;t afraid of her ass so she didn't go as hard as she is on Kenya .
lol @ "supposedly" stabbed...


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Eve Ensler's newest work, I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World, was released in book form by Villard/Random House on February 9. Made up of original monologues about and for girls, the book aims to inspire girls to take agency over their minds, bodies, hearts and curiosities. V-Day has developed a corresponding targeted pilot V-Girls program engaging young women in our "empowerment philanthropy" model, igniting their activism and giving them a voice. I Am an Emotional Creature chronicles the stories inspired by girls around the globe. Girls today often find themselves in a struggle between remaining strong and true to themselves and conforming to society's expectations in an attempt to please. I Am an Emotional Creature is a celebration of the authentic voice inside every girl and an inspiring call to action for girls everywhere to speak up, follow their dreams, and become the women they were always meant to be. Among the girls Ensler creates are an American who struggles with peer pressure in a suburban high school; an anorexic blogging as she eats less and less; a Masai girl from Kenya unwilling to endure female genital mutilation; a Bulgarian sex slave, no more than fifteen, a Chinese factory worker making Barbies; an Iranian student who is tricked into a nose job; a pregnant girl trying to decide if she should keep her baby. It is through these varying voices and experiences that V-Day hopes to nurture the future activists of the world ...
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Hier ein kurzer Clip von vor ein paar Wochen als Elisabeth Blackburn den Nobelpreis gewonnen hat. Man sieht ein paar Aufnahmen von unserem Campus, einige meiner Kollegen und wenn ihr genau aufpasst seht ihr auch mich.
By DWIGHT GARNER Published: October 8, 2009 The winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature isnt always a bolt-out-of-the-blue surprise, a writer whose work is known only to an elite fraction of American readers. It only seems that way. Since 2000, after all, Nobel recipients have included VS Naipaul, JM Coetzee, Orhan Pamuk and Doris Lessing, writers of vast audiences and outsize reputations. But the Swedish Academys announcement on Thursday that the 2009 prize had gone to the Romanian-born German novelist Herta Müller — she is the 12th woman to win the Nobel in its 109-year history — caught more readers than usual off guard (Herta who?) and reinforced the Academys reputation for being defiantly, if predictably, unpredictable. Ms. Müller joins the ranks of Nobel laureates — most recently the French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio last year and the Austrian playwright and novelist Elfriede Jelinek in 2004 — whose work, at the time of their announcements, anyway, was little known and little translated here. Only 5 of Ms. Müllers some 20 books have been translated into English. Those translations are suddenly in great demand and short supply; the Nobel committee has given American readers another unexpected and vaguely exotic homework assignment. The choice of Ms. Müller, whose dark, closely observed and sometimes violent work often explores exile and the grim quotidian realities of life under the dictator Nicolae Ceausescu of Romania, may feed the suspicions that the Nobel ...
Lessing reads from her 1972 article, "In The World, Not Of It", collected in The World of the Sufi, edited by Idries Shah (1979)
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The book, Memoirs of a Survivor, is not exciting, or "action-packed," but it does, like most of my favorite books, leave you with some ideas you might not've had when you started it. Not an "easy" read, like Fight Club, but not a "hard" read, like Crime & Punishment. Read it, and see what you think.
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British author doris lessing has won the 2007 nobel prize for literature. Her breakthrough work was 'the golden notebook," published in 1962. (oct. 11) 現年 (Doris Lessing)於11日獲得2007年諾貝爾文學獎。她最具代表性的作品是1962年出版的金色筆記本。對她而言,諾貝爾獎像是為她的文學生涯開了一個同花大順。
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...home in north London on Thursday. AFP/Getty Images All Things Considered, October 11, 2007 · British writer Doris Lessing was announced the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in Stockholm Thursday. Just several weeks short of age 88, she is the oldest...
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British writer Doris Lessing on Thursday won the Nobel Literature Prize for five decades of epic novels that have covered feminism and politics, as well her youth in Africa. Lessing, who will be 88 on October 22, is only the 11th woman to have won the prize since it was first awarded in 1901. The Swedish Academy described her as "that epicist of the female experience who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny." Lessing was out shopping when the prize was announced and only learned the news several hours later when she returned to her London home, where she was met by a throng of journalists. "This has been going on for 30 years," said Lessing who put down her shopping bag and sat on her doorstep, head in her hand, after being told of the award by the waiting photographers. "I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one, so I'm delighted to win them all. It's a royal flush," she said. Lessing, whose work has covered a multitude of topics, has over the years been mentioned as a possible Nobel laureate but she was not seen as among the frontrunners this year. Although "The Golden Notebook", her best known work, established her as a feminist icon back in 1962, she has consistently refused the label and says her writing does not play a directly political role. Nonetheless, for the Nobel jury, "the burgeoning feminist movement saw it as a pioneering work and it belongs to the handful of books that informed the 20th century view of the male-female relationship." Born Doris May Taylor in Khermanshah, in what is now Iran, on October 22, 1919, Lessing spent her formative years on a farm in Southern Rhodesia, what is now Zimbabwe, where her British parents moved in 1925. It was, she later reflected, a "hellishly lonely" upbringing. In "Africa Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe", published in 1992, she describes going back in 1982 to the country where she had grown up. Unsurprisingly, she could not wait to escape and in 1939 married Frank Wisdom, by whom she had two children before their divorce in 1943. She then married a German political activist named Gottfried Lessing, but divorced again in 1949, when she fled to Britain with her young son and the manuscript of her first novel, "The Grass Is Singing." A searing examination of racial oppression and colonialism, it was published the following year to rapid success. Her radical political affinities drew her into the British Communist Party, but she resigned in 1956 at the time of the Hungarian uprising, never to return. Her "Children of Violence" series of novels, published between 1952 and 1969 around a central character named Martha Quest, first established her credentials as both a writer and a feminist. "I wasn't an active feminist in the 1960s, never have been," she has since insisted. "I never liked the movement because it's too ideologically based. All sorts of claims were made for me that simply weren't true." In the 1980s, with her popularity in brief decline, she decided to test the importance of a name in publishing, and submitted a novel under a pseudonym, only to find it rejected. It was later published, when she revealed her true identity. Over the years, she became an increasingly outspoken critic of Africa, particularly the corruption and embezzlement by governments. She was barred entry to South Africa in 1956, but was finally able to revisit in 1995, after the fall of apartheid. Her novel "The Good Terrorist" (1985), about an immature young woman who joins a terrorist cell, has strong echoes today. In recent years Lessing, who lives in the London suburb of Hampstead, has also written several works of science fiction. She is also probably one of the oldest people anywhere to have her own page on the popular social networking web site MySpace. On a recent visit the site announced, under the label "Female - 87 years old," that "Doris Lessing has 136 friends." Last year, the Nobel Literature Prize went to Turkish author Orhan Pamuk. Lessing has won a number of awards and prizes, including the Prix Medicis in 1976 and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in 1995. She will receive a Nobel gold medal, a diploma and 10 million Swedish kronor from the hands of Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf at a formal ceremony in Stockholm on December 10, the anniversary of the 1896 death of Alfred Nobel, the founder of the Nobel prizes. The Nobel peace prize will be announced on Friday.
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A deal has been struck to dedicate tax dollars to public infrastructure improvements needed to accommodate the proposed Hamilton Crossings shopping center in Lehigh County.
Tuesday the Lehigh County Industrial Development Authority gave the go-ahead for a tax revenue split among Lower Macungie Township, Lehigh County and the developer.
The money can only be used for public improvements such as drainage and roadwork.
The proposed shopping center would be located on 63 acres along the Route 222 bypass at Krocks Road.
The deal must first be approved by several other agencies before it can go ahead.