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A Suburban Saga
Livin' the dream online since 2006. I like my Dr. Pepper cold and my sons potty trained.
Thursday, July 21, 2016
Our Wonder Book...
It's July, so that means it's time for me to start thinking about school stuff again! :) My brain needs a summer break. (It gets this long break after the excitement of planning in May for the fall while sighing over the stuff that we're still finishing up).
I do some fall planning in May, but I wait to finish up our current Wonder Book in late summer. There's a good reason for this. Finishing up the Wonder Book before finishing school prep for the coming year reminds me that we actually accomplished a ton. I can see it there before me, a much needed visual reminder that my sons have been doing many things other than fighting over Legos and groaning over their 3rd spelling curriculum of the year.
I start with a quality 1 1/2- 2 inch binder. It's got to have nice inner pockets for stuffing in fliers from events we've attended, random brochures, and things that won't easily be hole punched. Then I get the 5 divider pack. At this age, we don't need more than that. I label them History, Language Arts, Science, Music and Arts, and Misc.
I keep a list of books read for different subjects in Microsoft Word all year long, so at the end of the year, I can print that off. Books that the boys have really enjoyed get noted here. I also type up what resources we're using for table work.
I keep a few samples of copywork and math worksheets here and there so I can see how they've progressed.
I just sat here and typed up what we'd done for composer study and picture study and the resources we used, and I hit "Print." I forgot to mention the art class we'd taken through Parks and Rec, so I wrote it under that in pen. It's a super classy and professional book, y'all.
It's been a goal of mine to print out pictures and put them in the book using these handy dandy clear photo pages. I even bought them. It hasn't happened yet. We'll see if this is the year. :)
If the house ever catches on fire, I'm grabbing these books. The boys may never care to go through them, but they're a priceless record for me of the years we've been learning together at home.
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Labels: homeschooling
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Sweet Mr. Fred let us use his front yard for their very first lemonade stand. (We live at the back of the cul de sac, and I didn't think anyone would come all the way back to our house.) Evan wanted to spend his own money on supplies, and we typed up a list of expenses. He had to get a business loan from Seth of $1, and I rented him the table and chairs. He made $6.86 in profit! And we all got to enjoy standing around with neighbors that generously came out to buy and talk. Friends drove by on their way to run errands. The boys had a fabulous time, and I was reminded of some of things I love about the community where we live.
It's a testimony to how busy our spring and early summer have been that the plant hangers I so excitedly bought have been sitting in a corner collecting dust for a month. David put them up for me during a "date night" (yeah, he was thrilled), and now the shade loving plants Mom potted for me are enjoying their new home. There's something very soothing to me about puttering around and watering plants, usually with hair still damp from the neighborhood pool.
First photo booth. These goofballs. Ben hung around this booth at the local festival for 30 minutes after the other boys had moved on, trying on wigs and hats and glasses. He's our dress up king.
Dinner most evenings happens at these tables. We've even figured out how to use the grills at the pool. I know why people in Florida always seem so relaxed. Two words: summer laundry. No socks and long sleeves and coats and gloves and pants. Combine that with picnicking all the time and not having a kitchen to clean up? Man, that's living. :)
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Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Aldi Friendly Spaghetti Sauce...
My kids are eating a lot more spaghetti lately, so my Mom's recipe that I used to make and freeze isn't stretching as far as it used to. I decided to modify it, and now I'm making a pot of sauce and having leftovers for later in the week. I can get what I need at Aldi most of the time, excluding the minced garlic in a jar I keep in the fridge and possibly the Worchestershire sauce?
Olive oil
1 28 oz. can crushed tomatoes
1 8 oz. can tomato sauce
1 t. minced garlic
1 onion, finely diced
1 bell pepper, finely diced
1 t. sugar
1 heaping t. each basil and oregano
a generous splash of Worchestershire sauce
1/2-1 lb. of ground beef, browned
Brown the hamburger and remove from your large pot. Put some olive oil in there and add the garlic, onion, and pepper. (I mince mine in the mini food processor that lives on my counter.) Saute until softened, and then add all the other ingredients except beef. Bring to a boil, then simmer for 20 minutes. Add ground beef and simmer another 1/2 hour.
Feeds 4 hungry males. Maybe.
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First 4-H presentations....
This year, I decided to get my act together and get the big boys to do their first 4-H presentations. My mom will tell you that 4-H was an important component to her homeschool, and I agree that it was really useful for me. The public speaking skills that I gained from having to give a talk with visual aids from the time I was pretty young have stood me in good stead, and that's just the beginning, really.
So what was stopping me from doing this before now? Daily life. A full schedule. Adding one more thing to the to do list. (And I kept telling myself I had time because I only had one Cloverbud.) BUT, it's worth it, so we pulled it together in time for our county presentation day. I had the boys tell me what they wanted to present, and I helped them organize their talk and make posters. We printed off text and images and Seth was able to arrange his how he wanted. (I admit to doing Evan's posters for him. Sue me. He's 6.)
Seth's presentation was called "Seth's Wacky Gadgets." He talked about famous inventors that inspired him, showed a couple of things he'd come up with, and then gave a step by step demonstration of his rubber band crash car game. The judges had lots of good questions and made him feel really encouraged. He told them that when he invents something awesome one day, he'll give them a discount. That's my boy.
Evan's presentation was called "Critter Catching School." He mostly showed how he catches a variety of wild creatures (like frogs and lizards and bugs), complete with gardening gloves, a box to keep them in, and a few little plastic bugs and toads and snakes. The last poster was about safety, and I included large pictures of copperheads and black widows. We have taught him not to try and catch anything with patterns because it might be poisonous. (We have decided that telling him that he can't catch things because he might get stung or bitten isn't the way we want to raise him or his brothers. This article sums it up pretty well.)
I really enjoyed how Evan kept trying to pack up all his things and walk off while the judges were still asking him questions. I guess I should've covered that part of presentation etiquette. Next year. :)
David said he could see why I thought presentations were worth it after seeing the boys at our county day. A tired end-of-the-year-homeschooling mom likes to hear that from the principal. :)
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Saturday, March 05, 2016
On trying again...
I've meant to write about this a few times, but I have been paralyzed by wanting to explain perfectly, so I haven't made a start. I give up. It won't be perfect, but here goes. :)
I'm singing again.
I was raised by an opera singer. Mom has a M.A. in Vocal Performance from Cincinnati College Conservatory, and she was a coloratura soprano before I was born. She sang lead roles in operas, including the Queen of the Night from Mozart's "The Magic Flute." I've heard recordings, and I remember flipping through her photo albums of performances, watching her strike a dramatic pose in flamboyant costume on stage, her mouth formed for an impressive high B.
Now, this means that I was a classically trained singer's child. :) My brother and I sat with her at the piano while she taught us to sight read music. We were blessed to live near the well ranked music school where she got her undergraduate degree, and there was a really good children's choir in town, so we both joined when we were old enough. I sang in that choir from ages 10-18. I went to international children's choir festivals, and I was a street urchin in the "La Boheme" chorus and a shepherdess for "Ahmal and the Night Visitors". When I went to college, I joined the choir.
Then I got married and started moving around, and singing in a choir just didn't seem to be something I could find time for anymore. The babies started coming (thank the Lord), and I woke up one day and realized it had been about 15 years since I'd sung classical music.
I have a sweet friend from my Mothers of Preschoolers days who sings classical music, and I was watching her on Facebook talking about singing in an opera chorus, and something just snapped in me, I think. I realized that I didn't want to let this part of who I am just die away from neglect. My youngest is now 4, and it suddenly dawned on me that I might be able to rehearse in the evening for the first time in years.
I contacted my friend, and she suggested that I try out for the choir that sings with our symphony. That sounded totally intimidating. (I suspected it would probably be full of musical professionals, and I think it is.) She said the director was really kind and encouraging, so I contacted him, and I went for an audition last September.
I sang a bit of an old choir piece a cappella. I did some sight singing, and he had me vocalize to assess my range. He told me that I needed to "get the cobwebs out." He also told me to see a voice teacher a couple of times and come back and re-audition in January.
Yeah, I cried on the way home.
And then I realized that he hadn't told me "no." He'd given me clear and concrete things to do, and I could do them. So I pulled myself together, threw my shoulders back and put my chin up, and I called my friend (who is a voice teacher). She gave me a classical aria to learn to sing for my audition. This is it. (Not me singing.) I decided that she must have a lot of confidence in me. :)
I practiced a little each day for a few months, mostly during nap time or while David was putting the boys to bed. I saw my friend again for another lesson. And I scheduled an audition for January.
When I got there, I listened to the others auditioning in front of me through the sanctuary doors, and I wanted to just stand up and walk out. I'm sure I didn't only because I decided that this whole experience was about facing my fears and doing my best with the time and resources I had and leaving the rest to God.
When I walked down the aisle, the director recognized me. I told him what I'd been doing, and I sang for him. He said, "I think you still need a little work on your upper range.... so I'm making you a second soprano." And then he said, "Most people don't come back."
Every rehearsal feels like a gift to me. I still can't believe I get to make beautiful music with talented singers. Sometimes I feel like the worst one there, and I might or might not be, but I also suspect I might be the most grateful singer in that room.
I was afraid to try to do this, so afraid that God would say "no" to this desire. But He said "yes" instead, and in that "yes," I feel like He said, "I see you, Ellen." Me. Not "mom" or "wife" or "homeschooler", but this person that He shaped through the experiences that she had as a child and the things He allowed her to do and be because of who she was born to and where she lived and the space that He created for the works that she would do.
My mom and dad and my husband and oldest son are coming to my first concert. I hope that Mom pats herself on the back. I can sing with this choir because she gave me the tools. I hope my 9-year-old boy hears Beauty and remembers the prayers he prayed for me when I wanted to give up. I want him to see that perseverance sometimes pays off in the ways we hope for.
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Monday, February 22, 2016
Winter days and Caddie...
As the boys get older, winter days get more pleasant. I notice a change every year. Sure, there are still times when our house feels very small, and I'm putting people in time out for sword fighting in the living room. But we're also having days when all of them can handle a calm activity all together for an hour!
This afternoon we sat at the kitchen table and colored (Seth drew) for an hour after rest time. (Ben kept begging me to let him have coloring sheets from the nice books I got as birthday presents, and I kept insisting he finish out the page he had instead of leaving three measly marks on there and declaring himself done, but that was the most drama that happened. Very minor.) We get a lot of books on CD from the local library, and we're going through one of my childhood favorites, "Caddie Woodlawn."
I painstakingly brushed with markers while Caddie's father told of his childhood in England to his family gathered around his hearth. We heard how Caddie's teacher put Obadiah in his place, how she fixed the circuit rider's clock and became her father's partner in clock repair, and how the family ended up eating turkey all winter because her mother wouldn't part with her birds for the Civil War prices...
The boys occasionally made comments. "Why would she do that?" "Uh oh." I wondered about the things they didn't say. Were they internalizing the ideas about English inheritance law and how American pioneers differed in their thinking? Good books teach. I believe that.
Now I'm making chicken soup and corn muffins. (David loves Jiffy, so I've stopped trying to make cornbread from scratch most of the time. ;) They'll head off in the rain for Cub Scouts after dinner, and maybe I'll read with the little guys under each arm, letting them head to the book case to pick whatever they want. Maybe I'll get Evan and Ben to play UNO with me, Evan with his cards laid out on the table so I can help him with them, Ben on my lap "playing" my hand for me.
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Sunday, February 21, 2016
Things that are working for me....
Hello, blog. It's been a long time. But I may have to reconcile with you now that I have discovered that I can upload photos from my Android phone with ease. ;)
So, a few things that are making this winter season enjoyable for me....
1. Agatha. That is the name that I've given my cheery little space heater. She is a cozy mystery to me, what with her realistic looking flames and the fact that she doesn't have to give heat unless you flip an extra switch. I can see her sitting there on my hearth from the kitchen, calming me with her soothing, light bulb induced flames that are realistic enough to slake my fire lust.
2. Duraflame logs. They are good for our marriage when Agatha just won't do. There's no trudging out to get wood and painstakingly building a fire with enough kindling and paper to ensure success. I have a basket of them beside the fireplace. They're about $2 a log, but David thinks it's worth the price not to have to do the aforementioned as often as I'd like a fire.
3. Spiral bound pads and good pens. I've begun keeping a daily gratitude journal, usually writing in it when I sit down after the kids are in their rooms for rest time. Assessing the morning with gratitude in my heart for what has gone well (especially if it's a day when many things have not) has really been a good exercise for me. I like that spiral notepads mean that I can keep the little notebook open a lot more easily, and a V5 Precise fine point is a little luxury that means I write more than I would with a Bic.
4. Fair Trade Fridays. I got a subscription to Fair Trade Fridays because I wanted to help provide these courageous ladies a regular source of income through making something that they can take pride in. Well, I got way more than I bargained for. I've gotten some lovely things in my monthly packet, including 3 lovely necklaces that I wear all the time and a really cute black and white tote bag that I'm saving for spring.
What are some little things that are helping you enjoy winter just a wee bit more?
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Monday, January 11, 2016
Every time I climb a tree....
Every time I climb a tree
Every time I climb a tree
Every time I climb a tree
I scrape a leg
Or skin a knee
And every time I climb a tree
I find some ants
Or dodge a bee
And get the ants all over me
And every time I climb a tree
Where have you been?
They say to me
But don't they know that I am free
Every time I climb a tree?
I like it best
To spot a nest
That has an egg
or maybe three
And then I skin
The other leg
But every time I climb a tree
I see a lot of things to see
Swallows rooftops and TV
And all the fields and farms there be
Every time I climb a tree
Though climbing may be good for ants
It isn't awfully good for pants
But still it's pretty good for me
Every time I climb a tree.
- David McCord
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Saturday, December 19, 2015
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Loving bugs...
Hey, bug, stay!
Don't run away.
I know a game that we can play.
I'll hold my fingers very still
and you can climb a finger hill.
No, no.
Don't go.
Here's a wall- a tower, too,
a tiny bug town, just for you.
I've a cookie. You have some.
Take this oatmeal cookie crumb.
Hey, bug, stay!
Hey, bug!
Lilian Moore
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Wednesday, September 30, 2015
I think it's working....
Planting corn with Papa to discover whether corn planted with little fish grows faster than corn planted without them. The verdict is in, and Squanto had something going for him...
I am guilty of writing when I'm processing stress but not coming back to Ye Olde Blog when pulling out of the nosedive. :)
The first week of school was rough for all. BUT, we are getting into a good routine. I was too quick to throw my hands up in despair. (Ain't that the way it always goes when you're a recovering perfectionist?)
I'm often most in awe of the growth in my oldest child. After all, he's the first one to walk this far on this journey with me.
I reminded him today that I want a good part of his rest time to be reading time, and he told me excitedly that it definitely would be. "I have this AWESOME book called, "Two Bad Pilgrims," Mommy. I read it all yesterday, but it was so good that I want to read it again. They nearly blew up the Mayflower!"
I have been putting new books in his library book basket in his room... and he's READING THEM! :) No coaxing, no begging, no half-hearted mumbling about how he "looked at" them during rest time. He told me the whole story of a Graphic Library telling of Marco Polo the other day because he couldn't contain himself. He was leaning on my bed as I was sitting there with a sleepy Ben and talking fast because he couldn't wait to get it all out.
He's asking to re-do Spanish exercises from our Spanish book that he wants to understand better. He wants to build molecules from atoms. He's learning to take more ownership of his own work. "Can I come back and finish my school work? I've been on break for awhile now." I can even sit at the table and answer a question here or there from him and work with my kindergartener at the same time!
And my 6-year-old son? The one that I was setting a 10 minute timer on our reading work so that I wouldn't explode in frustration from his unwillingness to attempt to sound out the word "mad"? (Yes, I did see the irony at the time.) He's sounding out three letter words like a champ and giving me high fives. Today he discovered that he could use his math blocks to get the answer in more than one way. "Look, Mommy, it's not just 3 and 3 that make 6! I can make 6 with 5 and 1, too!"
I couldn't have imagined being where I am today when I had a kindergartener and 2 wild preschoolers.
I went to a workshop at the homeschool conference the spring we were wrapping up kindergarten, and the speaker said that if you had no students that could work independently, you were likely to suffer from burnout. A light bulb went off in my exhausted brain. "Hey, that's me. That is very much me." I felt guilty that I was suffering from burn out only one year in. How was I going to make it if I was suffering from burn out only one year in?
Well, now I know how. The secret is students who get older and more independent/responsible and actually excited about learning! Very few things are more wonderful to me than seeing their enthusiasm. (Good French chocolate and coffee with lots of half and half and vacation in the mountains, yes, but also their enthusiasm.)
Without a vision, the homeschooling mothers perish. My own vision on the hard days is sustained because of the beauty of my own homeschooled childhood. I keep it by reading encouraging blogs, and finding things to include in our morning basket that inspire me, and by asking those who are ahead of me on the trail to give me a sip from their water bottle of increased perspective. I find it again by running across books that I read as a child that I loved and want to read again with my children. I expand it in the library stacks when I see what new treasures there are to be explored.
I have learned to have affection for things that I didn't love because I knew they were things worth trying to love. I have learned to love lesson planning (at times) and gross science and even some things about teaching math because God has helped me learn to love them. I'm thankful that He has helped me not to give up and set my heart to appreciate beautiful and hard things that are serving us all well.
I wanted to share that. I am not who I was when I started homeschooling, and I'm not now who I hope to become. I was shaped by my homeschooled childhood, and I see that I will be changed again by the process of becoming a homeschooling mother.
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... a lead-balloon caper ...
Owen Gleiberman - Entertainment Weekly
A small fortune in salaries and stunt cars might have been saved if the director, Tom Dey, had spliced together bits and pieces of Midnight Run and 48 Hours (and, for that matter, Shrek).
A.O. Scott - New York Times
Dean Essner - Guardian [UK]
... Showtime isn't much of a show at all.
Mike Clark - USA Today
It's not so much the generally preposterous premise as it is its sloppy handling that completely unhinges the film.
Stephen Hunter - Washington Post
So pleased with its own spoofy conceit it stays in annoyingly self-amused, predictable mode.
Desson Thomson - Washington Post
[P]artnering Murphy with Robert De Niro for the TV-cops comedy Showtime would seem to be surefire casting. The catch is that they're stuck with a script that prevents them from firing on all cylinders.
Tom Russo - Boston Globe
90 punitive minutes of eardrum-dicing gunplay, screeching-metal smashups, and flaccid odd-couple sniping.
Jessica Winter - Village Voice
Without a heavy dose of self-reflexive irony, the film's ample use of cliches don't come across as clever -- they're just cliches.
Eric Harrison - Houston Chronicle
Showtime's starry cast could be both an asset and a detriment. Those who trek to the 'plex predisposed to like it probably will enjoy themselves. But ticket-buyers with great expectations will wind up as glum as Mr. De Niro.
Philip Wuntch - Dallas Morning News
It's really yet another anemic and formulaic Lethal Weapon-derived buddy-cop movie, trying to pass off its lack of imagination as hip knowingness.
Steven Rosen - Denver Post
Peter Rainer - New York Magazine
The movie's funny in the opening scenes and then forgets why it came to play.
Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
The thinness of the conception gives the actors so little room to maneuver that they turn in uniformly one-note performances.
Mark Caro - Chicago Tribune
Showtime's complete lack of originality oozes off the screen like, um, rancid popcorn butter.
Steven Rea - Philadelphia Inquirer
Jeff Strickler - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Between them, De Niro and Murphy make Showtime the most savory and hilarious guilty pleasure of many a recent movie season.
Susan Stark - Detroit News
Dean Essner - Arizona Republic
Sloppy, half-baked mess.
Jonathan Foreman - New York Post
The results are hit and miss and miss again.
Roger Moore - Orlando Sentinel
You know you've entered flat dramatic terrain when William Shatner towers over it.
Geoff Pevere - Toronto Star
... most of Showtime is a layering of tired pop-culture tropes by actors who are not especially interested in what they're doing.
Ray Conlogue - Globe and Mail
Showtime isn't particularly assaultive, but it can still make you feel that you never want to see another car chase, explosion or gunfight again.
Charles Taylor - Salon.com
The film is nothing more than a re-hash of other individual Murphy and De Niro outings.
James Berardinelli - ReelViews
Under the routine direction of Tom Dey, Showtime looks like any cop movie made during the past decade.
Kirk Honeycutt - Hollywood Reporter
De Niro looks bored, Murphy recycles Murphy, and you mentally add Showtime to the pile of Hollywood dreck that represents nothing more than the art of the deal.
Peter Travers - Rolling Stone
Showtime is a fine-looking film with a bouncy score and a clutch of lively songs for deft punctuation.
Kevin Thomas - Los Angeles Times
A funny movie for adults and older teens.
Nell Minow - Common Sense Media
Dean Essner - Empire Magazine
Derek Adams - Time Out
Throughout the movie, De Niro scowls and looks as if something smells bad -- and something does. It's the script.
Judith Egerton - Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)
Dean Essner - Film Threat
Alexander Walker - This is London
Christopher Tookey - Daily Mail [UK]
Wilson Morales - BlackFilm.com
Kimberley Jones - Austin Chronicle
...the real problem with Showtime is that, for a comedy, it's not nearly funny enough.
David Nusair - Reel Film Reviews
While it's completely pointless and silly, 'Showtime' does have one of the most vital ingredients for success - it entertains.
Tom Grealis - RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)
Pairing no-nonsense actor Robert De Niro and comedy king Eddie Murphy may have been a clever idea rife with possibilities, but they are working for a creative team that ultimately misses its own point.
John R. McEwen - Film Quips Online
Matthew Turner - ViewLondon
Margaret A. McGurk - Cincinnati Enquirer
Shatner is probably the funniest person in the film, which gives you an idea just how bad it was.
Robert Roten - Laramie Movie Scope
Eric D. Snider - EricDSnider.com
Kevin N. Laforest - Montreal Film Journal
The uneasy balance of comedy and action -- including a shockingly dumb moment where we're expected to cheer police brutality -- does little justice to either genre.
Mark Palermo - Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
Murphy is no more capable of portraying an authentic cop than he is of going to the grocery store without a posse of Hollywood hangers-on.
Jon Niccum - Lawrence Journal-World
Urban Cinefile Critics - Urban Cinefile
Showtime was right on time. I needed the laugh.
Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel - 3BlackChicks Review
Rich Cline - Shadows on the Wall
Showtime is about as crass and ridiculous as a motion picture can get without having the name Jerry Bruckheimer attached to it
Jason Clark - Matinee Magazine
Showtime is closer to Slowtime.
John J. Puccio - DVDTown.com
John J. Puccio - Movie Metropolis
Marshall Fine - Journal News (Westchester, NY)
Garth Franklin - Dark Horizons
Stephen Himes - Film Snobs
...such an egregious enough example of color-blind, tone-deaf incoherence that it warrants mention even amid the madding crowd of Bruckheimer debacles.
Sean Burns - Philadelphia Weekly
E uma pena que, mais tarde, o proprio filme abandone o tom de parodia e passe a utilizar os mesmos cliches que havia satirizado.
Pablo Villaca - Cinema em Cena
Showtime is one of the hapless victims of the arrogant "if we put together a wry white man and a chatty black man and give them guns, the movie will be funny" syndrome.
Audrey Rock-Richardson - Tooele Transcript-Bulletin (Utah)
Makes a joke out of car chases for an hour and then gives us half an hour of car chases.
Ian Waldron-Mantgani - UK Critic
Dean Essner - FilmFour.com
The very definition of autopilot.
Eugene Novikov - Film Blather
There's surely something wrong with a comedy where the only belly laughs come from the selection of outtakes tacked onto the end credits.
Neil Smith - BBC
As I try to think back to "Showtime" and type up a review, I'm getting a headache.
Larry Carroll - Countingdown.com
Jules Brenner - Cinema Signals
Emily Blunt - Blunt Review
Chalk up another big-name star vehicle that fails to live up to a wealth of potential.
Michael Dequina - TheMovieReport.com
It asks nothing of the audience other than to sit back and enjoy a couple of great actors hamming it up.
Steve Rhodes - Internet Reviews
The jokes are stale, the reality TV shtick has been done to death and the action sequences & bad guys are totally 80s...
JoBlo - JoBlo's Movie Emporium
Dean Essner - Boston Phoenix
Both DeNiro and Murphy, no strangers to the buddy-buddy genre, are trapped in what is essentially a futile effort to make Showtime a top-of-the-line parody of the salt-n-pepper partner formulaic flicks of yesteryear
Frank Ochieng - Movie Eye
Prairie Miller - WBAI Web Radio
By the time the production reaches its third act, it is nothing but car crashes and shoot-outs.
Edward Johnson-Ott - NUVO Newsweekly
This has the feel of something that was written by committee and it's all been done before.
Richard Roeper - Ebert & Roeper
Jason Anderson - eye WEEKLY
The film benefits from De Niro's personification of the unglamorous, grumpy Mitch, from Murphy's overstressed -- yet amusingly credible -- performance.
Yazmin Ghonaim - Cinephiles
Cynthia Fuchs - Nitrate Online
I suspect the writers simply ran out of clever ideas after establishing their basic premise, and coasted through the rest of the script on the creative equivalent of automatic-pilot.
Joe Leydon - San Francisco Examiner
It quickly becomes impossible to suspend your disbelief, let alone stay interested in the proceedings.
Ethan Alter - Film Journal International
Bob Bloom - Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Susan Granger - www.susangranger.com
The numerous references to other movies only show how uninspired this one is.
Jim Lane - Sacramento News & Review
This strenuously unfunny Showtime deserves the hook.
Mark Ramsey - MovieJuice!
Are we supposed to take an almost entirely unironically cliched reluctant- buddy- cop action movie as some sort of mockery of cliched reluctant- buddy- cop action movies?
MaryAnn Johanson - Flick Filosopher
De Niro and Murphy are never boring and this rickety, messy film remains slightly amusing ... so we'll give it a B.
Ross Anthony - Hollywood Report Card
Brian Orndorf - Modamag.com
This movie understands exactly how much we'd like to hang out with De Niro and Murphy.
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie - Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Given that the new comedy Showtime stars Eddie Murphy and Robert De Niro, it's disconcerting, discouraging and downright disorienting to realize halfway through it that what you'd really like is to see a bit more of William Shatner.
Mary F. Pols - Contra Costa Times
... its breeziness keeps it from ever being completely bland or flat.
Shawn Levy - Oregonian
Instead of being a spoof of buddy flicks, Showtime is a buddy flick. And a not particularly good one despite the presence of Robert De Niro and Eddie Murphy.
Robert W. Butler - Kansas City Star
... aside from a few scenes with Shatner, it just isn't funny.
Frank Lovece - TV Guide's Movie Guide
Nothing debases a concept comedy quite like the grinding of bad ideas, and Showtime is crammed full of them.
David Elliott - San Diego Union-Tribune
Everyone involved should be arrested.
John Anderson - Newsday
[De Niro and Murphy] manage to entertain, even if it seems they could have phoned in their performances.
Jack Garner - Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Director Tom Dey demonstrated a knack for mixing action and idiosyncratic humor in his charming 2000 debut Shanghai Noon, but Showtime's uninspired send-up of TV cop show cliches mostly leaves him shooting blanks.
Michael Tunison - Boxoffice Magazine
So how many exes and children does Robert De Niro have to support, anyway? It's one of the things you could think about while enduring the abysmal Showtime ...
Terry Lawson - Detroit Free Press
... the comic chemistry between Robert De Niro and Eddie Murphy positively crackles.
Donald Munro - Fresno Bee
[N]o matter how much good will the actors generate, Showtime eventually folds under its own thinness.
Rene Rodriguez - Miami Herald
Generally funny, though it eventually devolves into the standard buddy cop flick it sets out to spoof.
Andrew Manning - Radio Free Entertainment
The film essentially amounts to 48 HRS. with a reality TV subplot.
Todd Anthony - South Florida Sun-Sentinel
A good, old-fashioned, suspend-all -disbelief, Hollywood comedy that leaves you laughing like crazy.
Bruce Kirkland - Jam! Movies
It's the chemistry between De Niro and Murphy that makes Showtime work, because it's certainly not the script or Tom Dey's uninspired direction.
Louis B. Hobson - Jam! Movies
Showtime is by no means great cinema, but it does succeed in taking your mind off terrorism, global warming, taxes, and impending old age for about 95 minutes.
Tor Thorsen - Reel.com
Showtime is like a pair of comfortable old shoes. There's nothing new or particularly exciting about them, but you like to put them on just the same.
Staci Layne Wilson - Fantastica Daily
It might be full of big stars and big guns, but Showtime shoots blanks.
Dean Essner - E! Online
[B]eyond proving that there are no new ideas in Hollywood, Showtime could have been worse and is fun in its own small way.
Duane Dudek - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Dean Essner - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
If anyone ever needed a demonstration of what happens to actors when that ventriloquist known as the screenwriter is missing in action, this is it.
Mick LaSalle - San Francisco Chronicle
Dean Essner - Hollywood.com
[U]neven but frequently engaging comedy ...
Moira MacDonald - Seattle Times
Intentionally or not, the writers and director Tom Dey have made about as unreal a cop movie as you'll see.
Dean Essner - Charlotte Observer
It's definitely a hate-yourself-in- the-morning glut.
Glenn Lovell - San Jose Mercury News
It is really quite ironic then that the one guy putting out consistently good comedy is Hollywood's most serious actor.
Joshua Tyler - Filmcritic.com
[A] placebo of a film, bland and inert.
Bob Aulert - culturevulture.net
While dyed-in-the-wool fans of De Niro and Murphy might enjoy what's offered here, it simply isn't as good as others will probably be expecting or hoping.
Jim Judy - Screen It!
Good lord almighty, call in the stink police! Trust me, this crime on celluloid should change its title to Stupidtime.
Dean Essner - BeatBoxBetty.com
The entire film feels like outtakes.
Joe Baltake - Sacramento Bee
Murphy's ad-libbed takes and De Niro's surly reactions serve them well, especially when the thrown-together script fails them.
Sean Means - Salt Lake Tribune
...pitiful, slapdash disaster. A DOA dud from frame one.
Dustin Putman - DustinPutman.com
... has virtually no script at all ...
Gary Thompson - Philadelphia Daily News
Not that any of us should be complaining when a film clocks in around 90 minutes these days, but the plotting here leaves a lot to be desired.
Jeff Vice - Deseret News, Salt Lake City
[F]or all its Hollywood excess, Showtime is pretty much a scream.
William Arnold - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Neither the funniest film that Eddie Murphy nor Robert De Niro has ever made, Showtime is nevertheless efficiently amusing for a good while. Before it collapses into exactly the kind of buddy cop comedy it set out to lampoon, anyway.
Bob Strauss - Los Angeles Daily News
Yet another bootleg copy of the Lethal Weapon franchise.
Manohla Dargis - L.A. Weekly
There is no great ambition here. But -- as Warner's advertising and trailer cutters obviously realize -- it's hard not to warm to a film that features William Shatner looking at De Niro's character and complaining about what a lousy actor he is.
Andy Klein - New Times
One of those films that started with a great premise and then just fell apart.
Tony Toscano - Talking Pictures (U.S.)
The subject could have been the focus of sharp satire, but here it's treated as bland sitcom fare instead...Tepid, stale and endlessly predictable.
Frank Swietek - One Guy's Opinion
... the script for Showtime, which was rushed into production to avoid last year's anticipated actors' strike, is so achingly generic it can't even score points off as easy a target as Shatner.
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) - St. Paul Pioneer Press
Even the finest chef can't make a hotdog into anything more than a hotdog, and Robert De Niro can't make this movie anything more than a trashy cop buddy comedy.
Brian Webster - Apollo Guide
It's getting harder and harder to ignore the fact that Hollywood isn't laughing with us, folks. It's laughing at us.
Paul Tatara - CNN.com
It's just too bad the screenwriters eventually shoot themselves in the feet with cop flick cliches like an oily arms dealer, squad car pile-ups and the requisite screaming captain.
Jackie Potts - Citysearch
a decent bit of fast-paced action comedy
Robin Clifford - Reeling Reviews
The story is boring, the action scenes are fine as far as they go, but the whole thing's a waste of time. Don't waste your time.
Eric Lurio - Greenwich Village Gazette
Sly, sharp and frequently funny, Murphy displays a rare return to 48 Hours form.
Sean O'Connell - Eclipse Magazine
One can't call a movie this stupid a "satire" of anything but unintentionally of itself.
Walter Chaw - Film Freak Central
DeNiro shows he is capable of inspired silliness in this affectionate parody of buddy cop films.
Nell Minow - Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
De Niro can't be blamed for looking mighty uncomfortable in this tepid comedy.
Harvey S. Karten - Compuserve
A grating, emaciated flick.
Jon Popick - Planet Sick-Boy
Chalk it up to my adoration for both De Niro and Murphy, but I had a pretty good time with this movie - despite its myriad flaws.
Scott Weinberg - eFilmCritic.com
Sloppy construction and a ludicrous subplot drag down the energy, allowing it to surface in mere fits and starts.
Jeanne Aufmuth - Palo Alto Weekly
It's pathetically sanctimonious to make a satire that becomes, then grossly exceeds, that which it's meant to mock.
Rob Blackwelder - SPLICEDWire
Impossibly lightweight for TV satire.
Ed Gonzalez - Slant Magazine

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At least Hollywood acknowledges the Armenian Genocide, even if President Obama won't. The Promise — which recently premiered at the 2016 Toronto Film Festival — is the latest historical drama directed by Terry George (Hotel Rwanda). Starring Christian Bale and Oscar Isaac, the film utilizes elegant cinematography, intense action sequences and love triangles to address the horrific events of the 1915 – 1917 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks.
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In the least surprising development of the 2016 presidential campaign, the New York Times on Sunday endorsed "Hillary Clinton for President." The last Republican the Times endorsed was Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956. What wasn't as expected was a follow-up anti-endorsement of Donald Trump, "the worst nominee put forward by a major party in modern American history." The NYT bravely tried to make a positive case for Clinton: "Our endorsement is rooted in respect for her intellect, experience and courage," while dismissing her classified documents scandal as "a matter for the help desk."
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On Monday's CBS This Morning, anchor Charlie Rose asked Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook a blunt and straightforward question about the Democratic candidate's weaknesses, which is a rarity in the morning media world. After Rose asked Mook if Clinton was going to be on the offensive or defensive in the debate, he followed up by asking if there was any way Clinton could improve her record of trustworthiness with voters, in one debate, anyway.
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Appearing on MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Reports on Monday, NBC correspondent Katy Tur denounced Donald Trump's campaign team for demanding fair treatment from the press ahead of the upcoming debate: "So what they're trying to do is find a way to best game this system. And what you're seeing on TV, all over the airwaves, is his campaign manager and his surrogates trying to blame the media before the media has even covered the debate."
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There are a couple ways to create a new hit show: great dialogue (House), groundbreaking concept (Lost), or you can just show lots of boobs. Apparently Netflix, or Nipflix as they could be called, opted for the latter option with their latest original series, Easy.
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As if the politicization of Sunday night football wasn't enough, you can now have politics shoved down your throat while watching a concert too. At the iHeartRadio Festival in Las Vegas on September 23, Bono warned screaming fans against a Trump presidency, or as Rolling Stone put it, "spun the Republican nominee's gloomy rhetoric into an optimistic message."
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The LGBTQ movement strategically promotes an image of tolerance and acceptance – it's good for their brand. Yet, after a closer look inside the ranks, it's clear that division and prejudice exist between the community's very members.
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When will the highly left-politicized "fact checking" site known as Politifact evaluate a statement about the unemployment rate among young blacks as "Mostly True"? When Bernie Sanders says it.
When will Politifact take a very similar statement and determine that it's "Mostly False"? When Donald Trump says it — even though, if judged consistently by Sanders' strange definition of "real unemployment rate," Trump was closer to the mark than was the Vermont senator.
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Appearing as a guest on Saturday's Smerconish show on CNN, former ABC News anchor Carole Simpson -- who was a presidential debate moderator in 1992 -- fretted that NBC's Lester Holt will not be aggressive enough in pressing GOP candidate Donald Trump, and will perhaps devote too much time to Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton's mishandling of classified email as Secretary of State.
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On Monday's Today, co-hosts Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie conducted back-to-back interviews with Hillary Clinton's campaign manager Robby Mook and Donald Trump's campaign manager Kellyanne Conway. While Mook was treated to softballs about Clinton's strategy, Conway was hammered on Trump being an "aggressor" who likes to "hurl insults."
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In a contentious interview with Donald Trump's campaign manager Kellyanne Conway on Monday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie scolded the Republican nominee for joking about inviting Bill Clinton mistress Gennifer Flowers to the upcoming presidential debate and warned Trump against mentioning the former president's sex scandals during the event.
In a contentious interview with Donald Trump's campaign manager Kellyanne Conway on Monday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie scolded the Republican nominee for joking about inviting Bill Clinton mistress Gennifer Flowers to the upcoming presidential debate and warned Trump against mentioning the former president's sex scandals during the event.
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The Washington Post and Time magazine are trying to play up the fact that debate moderator Lester Holt is a registered Republican – as if this means anything about his performance. Registering only gives you the right to vote as a Republican. It doesn't mean that you actually do. It could just be a public-relations ploy. NBC and Holt have studiously avoided comment, perhaps because they wouldn't want a probe of all the registered Democrats at 30 Rock.
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In the September 26 edition: top newspapers want reporters to go easy on Hillary Clinton in order to save the country from the "dangerous" Donald Trump, as a New York Times columnist confesses her liberal friends want the media to give Hillary "a total free pass." Also: CBS tweaks a video to hide Bill Clinton saying his wife has "frequently" had episodes similiar to her 9/11 collapse; CNN creates a false quote of Trump proposing "racial profiling" and then attacks him for it; and Andrea Mitchell frets that the terrorist attack in New York City will knock Hillary "off message."
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The Root's Michael Harriot has a problem with the phrase, "Not all cops are bad cops," and insists, "This is not a pronouncement wrapped in hyperbole." On September 21, Harriot suggested, "Maybe there are no good cops." He then went on to say, "It is as obvious as sunshine at day and darkness at night. It is founded on the simple reasoning of human nature, legal precedent, and commonsense logic."


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As hundreds of media and fans continue to wait out the front of St Mary's Hospital in London they were fooled when Will and Kate look-alikes turned up causing quite the stir and I'm sure some much needed entertainment to the otherwise bored crowd.
Some of the photographers have been braving the London heat for well over two weeks as Kate is expected to give birth any day now with her due date being in mid-July, although no one knows the exact date.
The look-alikes seen in the video are surely cashing in on their celebrity looks, but it was revealed they were not the real deal as they were wearing T-Shirt's promoting Britain's Sun newspaper they read
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By JEREMY TIMMERMAN
NORTH AUGUSTA — A persistent rain fell for much of Saturday's Class A Lower State title bracket opener between Fox Creek and Lamar, but the home Predators didn't seem to mind, prevailing 10-2.
Fox Creek (24-2) made a pair of errors late in the sloppy conditions, but they didn't prove as costly as the three the Silver Foxes (19-8) committed that directly led to three Predator runs. The gaffes also left the door open for the home team to score four runs in the second and five in the fifth.
"This is our field. It's home-field advantage," said starting pitcher Brent Lacey (7-0). "It does rain out here a good bit, and luckily for us, we do get to practice in it, so it helped a little,"
Predator head coach Wesley Brown said that practicing in the rain, something he picked up during his days playing for South Aiken coach Bob Polewski, was a key for his team being prepared to handle the conditions.
"We have not missed one practice the entire year with all the rain we've had," Brown said. "In between rain showers, we actually got out there and learned to play in the rain, and I owe a lot to that. ... I really believe that's got a lot to do with how we played defensively in this game."
Never was that more evident than in back-to-back frames in the fourth and fifth innings. With the Predators leading 4-1, the Silver Foxes looked like they had something to work with when a leadoff single by Gole Bennett followed by a walk by Trey Bullard had runners on first and second with no outs. Gage Jordan hit a short chopper near the third base line, but Fox Creek third baseman Terrance Hillary turned and fired to a sprinting Roby Gillespie, who came over from shortstop to record the out at third base.
Gonza Brown hit a bouncing ball to the mound, and Lacey hit Hillary with a strike to record the second out at third base. Leadoff hitter and losing pitcher Maliki Mack hit a bullet back up the middle, but Lacey speared it before running back to the dugout without surrendering a run.
The fifth started on a similar note. The first three batters reached for Lamar, and Tyler Smith drove in a run with an infield single. That was all Lamar got. One fielder's choice to home and a 6-4-3 double play later, the Predators were out of another jam.
"That's what I've preached to these guys from day one is we're not going to be a power team; we're going to be kind of a finesse team," Brown said. "But we've got to be able to play defense. There's that old cliche, 'Defense wins championships.' That's what we strive for."
The Fox Creek offense gave Lacey more than he would need in the second inning alone. After the Silver Foxes manufactured a run in the first inning, the Predators went in order in their half before keeping the visitors off the board in the second.
Then the home team went to work at the plate, as four straight hitters reached base. Forrest Whitfield drove in a pair of runs, as did Roby Gillespie to give the Predators a 4-1 lead, much to Lacey's delight.
"It was a big relief," he said. "From that point on, I knew we had the confidence on our side and the momentum, and that was big."
The Predators also answered the bell with five runs in the fifth after the Silver Foxes scored their only other run. The Fox Creek fifth saw all nine batters come to the plate, with a pair of runs scoring on a throwing error by Mack before Thomas Colvin drove in a run on a single and Gillespie drove in his third run of the game on a triple to right. The Predator shortstop went 2-for-3 with three RBIs, and Colvin, who also drove in the Predators' last run in the sixth, went 2-for-3 with two RBIs.
Fox Creek advanced in the winner's bracket with the victory and will now face defending state champion St. Joseph's on Monday at 6 p.m. at Riverview Park.
"It's set up for us in the fact that we're home all the way through if we keep winning," Brown said. "Boy, the toughest test is next. ... St. Joe's is the defending champ, and they haven't lost but one game in (each of the last) two years, so they're a very quality program."
Jeremy Timmerman has a journalism degree from Mercer University and has been at the Aiken Standard since June 2010.
Staff photo by Jeremy Timmerman Fox Creek's Forrest Whitfield attempts a double play against Lamar on Saturday.×
Staff photo by Jeremy Timmerman Fox Creek's Roby Gillespie connects for an RBI triple against Lamar on Saturday.×
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Patti Knight and I have been joking all week about spring.
On the first day of spring, it was zero degrees in Chicago. Yesterday it was five. Today it is 17. We're getting closer!
My friend Ces Guerra posted this on my Facebook wall last night:
LOL! It's so true. Mr. D's birthday is on April 27 and 90 percent of the time it snows and THEN we get spring.
Personally, I got the cast off my foot and am a free woman again so I am really looking forward to it warming up so I can get outside on my bike.
For those of you who are already playing outside, I'm jealous. But not jealous enough to keep Gin and Topics from you.
This week's videos are courtesy of Susan Cellura, Mr. D, Liz Reusswig, Deb Dobson (sorry, Jason Konopinski, she sent it to me first), and yours truly.
5. Old Spice: Meet the Wolfdog. This is the kind of stuff that really makes me miss working with consumer packaged goods and food clients. I mean, really. A talking wolf to introduce a new product? That's marketing that I just did to you. And while you're at it, follow my twitters and read my blog writings.
4. After Ever After. I don't know if this is fantastically hysterical or frightening, but the guy is extremely talented. He sings what happens after all the Disney dreams come true. You know, such as mermaids going missing because of oil spills. Do not let your kids watch this!
3. Cocktails for Two. These two absolutely darling children belong to Liz Reusswig. They pantomime Spike Jones's Cocktails for Two. Apparently her father-in-law taught it to them and they are freaking fantastic! I want to kidnap them! Liz, if they end up missing, don't come looking for them!
2. Seal Pup Slip 'n Slide. You're about to go into cuteness overload as you watch baby seals try to climb onto a surf board. They must be very social creatures because every time one more finally gets up there, another one tries.
1. I Knew You Were a Goat When You Walked In. Seriously, this might be the funniest thing I have ever seen. Ever. Poor Taylor Swift. But man! F-U-N-N-Y!
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Oh my god the SEALS!! I love how the first two are just lying there all smug!! HAHAHAHA
@belllindsay I love how they finally get up there and then slide off the other edge. Hilarious!
@ginidietrich I know!! And at the beginning: "No Vaseline was Used" – hahahaha
@belllindsay Step away from the bat….;)
janbeery Thanks, love!
Love Mr. Wolfdog. And I see http://www.mrwolfdog.com is a Tumblr site. Sign of the times.
Perhaps I'll have to buy his book, "Is It Wollfdog In Here? Or Is It Just Me?"
Ha ha.
@bradmarley "I'm OK, You're Mr. Wolfdog" (you may be too young to get this) LOL
@belllindsay Was that a song?
@bradmarley LOL Brad, you are too funny! Trust me – your MOM had this book! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I'm_OK,_You're_OK
@bradmarley Follow my blog writings.
Wolfdog- love that guy,
@Joshua Wilner/A Writer Writes I really want to do something creative and fun like that!
FINALLY! The truth about the story of Pocahontas is OUT! Getting thru the Princess stage with my girls was harder than potty training. Give me midnight feedings any day of the week.
@KristenDaukas Wasn't that great? I love the jabs at The Man, too.
Hahaha…no need to kidnap them @ginidietrich ! I'll send them to visit with Auntie Gini anytime!! 🙂
@lizreusswig @ginidietrich I live closer. I can grab 'em up. 🙂
@jasonkonopinski @ginidietrich LOL…no offense, but I'm guessing they'd rather visit Chicago, but ya never know! 😉
@lizreusswig @ginidietrich But…but…but…SNYDER'S and UTZ.
@lizreusswig SWEET!!!
If I have to lose to someone, it can be to debdobson anytime.
@jasonkonopinski 🙂
@ginidietrich @jasonkonopinski funny debdobson was torching you in the cafeteria and and recess yesterday. Called you old and slow Jason. Don't work I tricked her onto the teeter totter and got off when she was high in the air. But then she did steal my tater tots at lunch!
@HowieG @ginidietrich @jasonkonopinski debdobson Now watch it…….
@debdobson62 @ginidietrich @jasonkonopinski It is ok Deb you did get to eat my tater tots! Jason is still trying to make it to lunch with his walker…since Tuesday.
@jasonkonopinski debdobson Now aren't you sweet. I don't mind losing to you.
@debdobson62 @jasonkonopinski is a sheep in wolf's clothing careful Deb!
I'm pretty Taylor Swifted out, but that cracked me up
The Disney princess thing drives me crazy. I could write a whole other blog and call it Child Spin Sucks.
@JoeCardillo The Taylor Swift one makes me laugh, literally, out loud every time I see it.
At first, I was green with envy when I read it was 17 degrees in Chicago. Then I remembered you're talking about Fahrenheit world and realized it's only -8°C and it's 2°C (36°F) here in Toronto. Hope it warms up soon. 😉
@EdenSpodek Yeah… it's FREEZING!
@ginidietrich Dislike, unless of course you want more snow. 😉
@EdenSpodek HAHAHAHA! I did the same thing Eden for about three seconds! LOL
@belllindsay @EdenSpodek Jeez. I'm going to have to start converting for the Canadians like I do on time zones.
@ginidietrich @EdenSpodek Oh, we know how to convert Gini (double C and add 30 – roughly) it's just that number 17 looked soooooo tantalizing!!!
@belllindsay @ginidietrich @EdenSpodek is that a bra size Lindsay?
@HowieG @ginidietrich @EdenSpodek BAHAHA! Might be but definitely not mine! 😉
PRNewser 😀 Happy Friday!!
Oh my goodness. That princess guy is SO talented. Great find. Also, I needed the seal video. So adorable. LOVE.
@kateupdates Hope they helped after your long week!
@ginidietrich @kateupdates the thing Gini didn't tell us is the seals were used to make her new coat! It is Zero ya know!
@HowieG @ginidietrich @kateupdates I'd love to have a sealskin coat. Not even kidding.
@LauraPetrolino You know what's even funnier? You could have looked at the temperature and made the same decision to arrive in your cute little dress, but with the wind, it would have felt like 30 below you anyway.
@ginidietrich Oy!
@LauraPetrolino @ginidietrich Chitown wimps until it hits -20 it is summer damn it!
Love the Cocktails for Two girls… see how cute lip syncing can be, Gini? (#SocialSong hint hint)
@creativeoncall LMAO!!!!!!! Ah, man. OK. Fine. FINE!
@ginidietrich Can't wait! Maybe you can get Lindsay and Patti to join in, for moral support
Oh, and on another note…goats are HUGE right now. This video will probably single handedly revitalize Taylor Swift's career! I hope she donates some quality money to a goat rescue or something to give back.
@LauraPetrolino Bahhhh!
@Kara McAulay LOL! I figure once a week doesn't hurt to have a little fun. My brain is fried by the time I write this one so I assume everyone else's is too!
@ginidietrich @Kara McAulay but so many people send you stuff it must be easy watching a gazillion videos while @belllindsay works ghost writing for you.
@HowieG @ginidietrich @Kara McAulay You trying to get me fired again Howie?
I actually think the Old Spice spot is the WORST waste of money and dumbest campaign of the year so far. I bashed it heavily before and I will until it gets buried. Horrible product that I guess now is having campaigns to match it. It isn't funny!
Hold on.
Hi Howie @jasonkonopinski here. You do know that @ginidietrich 's guy is an Old Spice Man right?
Hi @jasonkonopinski what up bra!? No didn't know he seemed like an AXE dude for sure. Thanks.
That said numbers 1-4 are possibly the best 4 ever in tandem on G+T
@HowieG Oh come on! It's hilarious! It's a talking wolf!
debdobson Oh I love it when I tweet myself….NOT
howiegoldfarb Hi Howie.
debdobson waves from the northern tundra 8)
howiegoldfarb Waves back from cold "hot" Atlanta
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The majority of Maine's youth population is white, but the minority youth population has increased dramatically over the last few years, and is projected to continue growing. At the same time, the white youth population is trending downward. This report presents quantitative 3-year trend analysis (2005-2007) and initial findings from a qualitative assessment project which begin to describe Maine's challenges and opportunities for improving the juvenile justice system's ability and preparedness to handle these population changes. This report provides a baseline of rates of disproportionate minority contact (DMC) in Maine's juvenile justice system. It also provides information for practitioners and policymakers looking to inform their understanding and awareness of the treatment of minority youth within Maine's juvenile justice system. Many of Maine's more rural counties have small minority youth populations, which prevents statistically valid examination of DMC. The six most populous counties (Aroostook, Androscoggin, Cumberland, Kennebec, Penobscot, and York) have sufficient minority population sizes to enable analysis of minority youth contact with the juvenile justice system, with some caveats.
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Disproportionate Minority Contact in Maine: DMC Assessment and Identification
Cutler Institute awarded $600,000 to help youth raised in foster system
USM's Cutler Institute for Health and Social Policy has been awarded a $600,000 grant to help young people raised in Maine's foster system to prepare for college and the workforce.
The money comes from the Annie E. Casey Foundation as part of a $5.4 million national effort aimed at youth who are homeless or in either the foster care or juvenile justice systems.
"Many of these young people have suffered abuse or trauma and were raised in poverty and neglect," said Marty Zanghi, the Cutler Center's youth development director.
The money -- including an expected $400,000 more in matching funds -- will pay for contracted work with agencies in the target areas, starting with the greater Portland area and Penobscot, Kennebec and Somerset counties.
Nationally and in Maine, only about 3 percent of people who grow up in the foster care system achieve a college degree, he said.
"It's dramatically lower than the rate for the general population," Zanghi said. "It's a horrible outcome."
It doesn't have to be that way, though.
"There are young people that overcome these circumstances," he said. "I know people who have master's degrees and Ph.Ds."
The Casey Foundation's national effort is being called the "Learn and Earn to Achieve Potential" (LEAP) initiative.
The initiative is working on partnerships in Maine and nine other areas: Alaska, Arizona, California, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska and New York. In each case, people will adapt two evidence-based models to meet the needs of these youth, including support to address the trauma they may have experienced in their lives.
In Maine, the work will include a pair of successful programs, Jobs for Maine Graduates (JMG) and Jobs for the Future. Results will be carefully tracked, Zanghi said.
After the first year, the program is expected to grow.
"Eventually, the additional help will be available to all children, 14 and over, in the foster care system in the state of Maine," Zanghi said.
2015 Maine Crime Victimization Survey Report
Findings for the 2015 Maine Crime Victimization Report, released on December 1, 2015, were discussed at a press release forum at the Muskie School of Public Service. This report highlights findings from telephone interviews conducted with 843 randomly selected Mainers on whether they had been a victim of criminal or unwanted behavior (e.g. violent crime, property crime, threats of violence, identity crime, and stalking) in the past 12 months.
After the presentation a distinguished panel responded to the findings and offered comments.
2015 Disproportionate Contact: Youth of Color in Maine's Juvenile Justice System Report
A new report released by the Muskie School of Public Service reveals a racial bias towards minority youths in Maine's juvenile justice system.
"Disproportionate Contact: Youth of Color in Maine's Juvenile Justice System" examines racial disparities in the system and provides recommendations on how to move toward racial equity. Robyn Dumont, Erica King and George Shaler of the Muskie School's Justice Policy Program authored the mixed-method report.Learn More


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A SOUTH Philadelphia woman claims cops trying to subdue a neighbor's unruly pit bull blasted their guns at the animal - and hit her.
In a lawsuit filed Monday in Common Pleas Court, Kristen Kelly said that at least one of the six bullets two officers fired at the dog on Aug. 5, 2012, hit her in the leg on her block on Etting Street near Reed.
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On Tap Today: An unsung director gets his due
Have you ever heard of Rouben Mamoulian? I thought I had a pretty thorough database of important directors stored up in my brain, but this name eluded me until today.
But reading just a bit about his life and career accomplishments, it's clear that he deserves his due. One of his first claims to fame was directing a theatrical production of "Porgy" featuring an African-American cast -- in 1926. He was also the director that brought "Oklahoma!" to Broadway -- leading to a career in cinema that included directing Hollywood's first Technicolor feature, "Becky Sharp," in 1935, and ahead-of-their time techniques including overlapping dialogue. A native of what was Russian-ruled Georgia, Mamoulian also witnessed the Bolshevik Revolution -- and he was targeted during the Hollywood blacklist era in the '50s. »Read Full Blog Post
'Billy Jack' star Tom Laughlin dies at 82
Tom Laughlin, the maverick actor and filmmaker best known for the "Billy Jack" films, has died, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday. He was 82.
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text: Yes you can disable the traction control on the Gen2 Prius: http://priuschat.com/forums/gen-ii-...n/29334-can-you-disable-tration-controll.html I tried this procedure on my Gen2 about 3 years ago from an earlier thread. I think the procedure worked fine but I didn't drive the car that way to see if it were really disabled or not, I just moved it around the driveway to see if I could. There is a danger of damage to the PSD with TRAC disabled. It is called an inspection procedure and could be used to run the car on a chassis dyno. It's needed because the Gen2 TRAC (and also the Gen3 I imagine) uses an input from all 4 wheel speed sensors. TRAC won't let you apply power unless the front and back wheels are both moving at about the same speed. I think our late friend Brian of BT Tech did try this on his dyno and reported that it worked. The first time he ran his Prius on the chassis dyno he did not know about this procedure and disabled the wheel speed sensors. That same procedure (or a different one) might work on the Gen3 but I hadn't intended to try it because it has no practical value other than testing due to possible PSD damage.


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by James A. Bacon
I turn 62 years old today, and one of the few perks of advancing age is the prospect of collecting Social Security. I, like thousands of other Baby Boomers who turn 62 every day, face the decision whether to start pocketing Social Security now, wait until full retirement at 66 or delay taking benefits even longer in the expectation of bigger checks down the road.
The conventional wisdom is that it makes sense to wait to 66, or even older if you can, because each year you delay, your SS benefits increase by roughly 8% to compensate for the actuarial reality that you'll have one year less to collect before you die. If you're in good health and expect to live longer than average life expectancy for male 62-year-olds — 83.8 years — delaying retirement is an especially good idea.
But what if you don't have faith in the system to deliver on its promises, as I do not? What if you share the widely held belief that, barring heroic action by Congress, that the Social Security Trust Fund will run out by 2030? If the trust fund runs dry, the system can pay out no more than it brings in through payroll taxes, or about 75% of current promised levels.? Should we adopt the attitude of take the money and run? Get what's yours while you can?
It's a big decision, so I punched some numbers into a spreadsheet to see how the Retire-at-62 scenario compares to the Retire-at-66 scenario. (The numbers below are rough estimates only, not official Social Security Administration estimates.)
This chart compares the cumulative payout under a Retire-at-66 scenario receiving $2,000 per month or $24,000 per year compared to a Retire-at-62 scenario of $1,500 per month or $18,000 per year.
Waiting until 66 means no Social Security income for the first four years. During that period, you'd end up a cumulative $72,000 in the hole. But then, beginning at 66, your annual payout would be roughly $6,000 per year higher. You'd whittle away at that $72,000 hole until, at age 77, you broke even. After that, you'd be ahead of the game by increasingly large margins each year.
Then comes Boomergeddon. Around 2030 — the left vertical line — the trust fund runs out of money and Uncle Sam reduces the payout to what it brings in through payroll taxes, or about 25%. (The actual number would vary, depending upon economic and employment conditions.) In one sense, you're screwed — you're getting less than promised. But you'd be screwed if you retired early, too. You'd still be ahead of the game compared to retiring at 62 — just by a smaller margin, ahead by only $4,500 per year instead of $6,000 per year.
If you live until 83.8, your life expectancy at 62 years old today — the right vertical line — you'd still be ahead. If you're healthier and more long-lived than average and live past 83.8 — and half of all males do — then the cumulative payout surpasses the early retirement scenario by an increasingly large margin.
This calculation does not take into account inflation, but that's a non-factor because the Social Security program adjusts the payout each year to reflect the higher cost of living. Neither does it take into account the time value of money. A dollar earned in 2015 is much more valuable than one earned in 2030. That's especially true if you actually save your money and earn a return on your investment. But most people (including me) don't anticipate saving money during retirement; they anticipate spending down some or all of their savings. They view Social Security payments as income to be spent. Thus, the time value of money really has no application here.
What if, as I argued in my book "Boomergeddon," Uncle Sam changes the payout in a Boomergeddon scenario to make Social Security even more of an income-redistribution engine than it already is? People living on the margin, say $1,000 a month, live a marginal existence as it is; they would truly suffer if their payments were cut when the trust fund is exhausted. There is a high degree of probability that politicians would give low-income households smaller cuts and take the balance out of the hides of higher-income households. But that still doesn't change the bottom line that most middle-class Americans would be better off retiring at 66 — they would be better off by a smaller margin. Anyone with a lick of sense would anticipate the possibility of changes to the payout formulas and adjust their lifestyles accordingly, but the prospect of Boomergeddon shouldn't change the decision when to retire.
The critical variable influencing your retirement-age decision is your health. If you have diabetes, untreated hypertension, a high risk of cancer or other health threats, you have worse odds of making it to 83.8 years old. Even then, you're not necessarily well advised to take the money and run. The break-even year is 77. If you live older than 77, you'd still come out ahead delaying your retirement.
For many people, the discussion is purely academic. If you're working a full-time salaried job, it probably makes sense to continue working, generating income and letting your Social Security retirement benefits gain value. But there are plenty of sixty-plus people who have lost their jobs, find themselves working part-time or have fluctuating free-lance incomes for whom that Social Security income might look pretty good. Those would be well advised to think carefully before making the leap.There are currently no comments highlighted.


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Cross the Brooklyn Bridge for a Gastronomic Global Grand Tour
By Maria Lisella
New York Local Expert
Brooklyn is a Gastronomic Giant: From old-school pizza to cutting edge regional American cuisine, and fusion cuisine. The one and only Museum of Food and Drink opened in October. At the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge is the pioneering River Cafe that debuted in the 1970s when the site was an abandoned dock but now has incomparable views of Manhattan and New York Harbor.
First-time travelers to New York City may still be under the impression that Manhattan is New York City. This one-time outer borough is now a global powerhouse on many levels from dining to design to real estate to the Brooklyn Tech Triangle. The Brooklyn dining scene is off the charts: from a one-year old veggie-focused newcomer that grabbed a Michelin star almost immediately to a gourmet pizzeria that sprouted in an abandoned portion of Bushwick and has since spawned an upscale dining destination in its own backyard, tasting menus are having their moment, and fusion cuisine has never been fresher.
Brooklyn is a world unknown even to most native New Yorkers. The Brooklyn Bridge is a gateway to a plethora of neighborhoods from: Crown Heights to Greenpoint or Little Poland, Brighton Beach or Little Russia and Carroll Gardens, Park Slope, Bushwick, Bed-Stuy and the unstoppable force that is Williamsburg for the most up-to-date action.
There's a world outside Manhattan, and it's just a short bus, cab or subway ride away.
River Café
Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge for a memorable evening because once at the River Cafe, which was built on a barge, diners will be treated to a majestic skyline across the water. Inside, they find that service and food complement the wonderful view. Try Colorado rack of lamb served with Merguez sausage, and top it off with a luscious dessert. Sunday brunch features dishes like crisp duck egg served with creamy spinach, mushroom Wellington for vegetarians, and Bronzino encrusted with shrimp and chorizo. Prix-fixe brunch menu run $55; a two-course prix-fixe lunch costs $42; and $150 for the three-course prix fixe dinner; or opt for Caviar Service for $170 or $85 per ounce. (718-522-5200)
Fette Sau
Fette Sau, German for "fat pig," is a smoke-scented, coolly industrial barbecue joint in Williamsburg. Locally-bred meats include lamb. boar, and goat when in season; dine on lamb belly, pastrami, boar all rubbed lovingly with an amalgam of recipes Joe Carroll has culled from all the places he's been. Locals, hard-drinking craft beer fans and multigenerational local families favor the long beer list. On warm days, the open-air space has outdoor tables. Jersey native, Joe Carroll could never get enough of smokin' good meats, so he opened Fette Sau in 2007, an offshoot in Philly with his wife Kim who grew up in Germany, hence the German accent. He started off with Spuyten Dival Bar and St. Anselm. Carroll teamed up with Francesco Panella to create Oleanders restaurant and Xanadu, a Champagne-inspired rooftop lounge at the McCarren Hotel. Carroll is also part owner of Semilla, a veggie-focused Michelin-starred newbie. ((718) 963-3404)
Occupying a spot on Haverymeyer St., a neighborhood on the edge of change visitors will pass a tattoo parlor, a check-cashing place, an old-fashioned barber shop charging old-fashioned prices as diner head for Semilla to spend upwards of $200 on a veggie-heavy Tasting Menu. Sit near the kitchen pass to sneak a peak at Chef Jose Ram�rez-Ruiz and pastry chef Pamela Yung at work shaving truffles over what appears to be a pedestrian bowl of scrambled eggs and Carolina rice (add a supplement of $35 for this seasonal luxury) or indulge in what can happen when rutabaga appears as a spring roll dipped in bittersweet orange juice reduction. Of course there are experiments that may go awry especially around the wines, some of which can be called a bit eccentric, but taste taste taste and decide. Semilla is on to something quite spectacular in a city that is hard to impress. (718-782-3474)
Pok Pok Ny
James Beard Award-winning, Portland-based chef Andy Ricker imported his enormously popular Pok Pok (and also the stellar Pok Pok Phat Thai down the block) in Brooklyn's remote Columbia Waterfront District, a vaguely made-up-sounding neighborhood situated between Carroll Gardens, Gowanus and Red Hook, in April 2012, and was an instant success. Just over a year later, fans of his noodles, spicy wings, smoked frog legs and lemongrass-stuffed La Belle Rouge chicken proved so ravenous, he moved the entire operation to a larger spot down the block. In November 2013, the expanded Pok Pok NY debuted with 65 seats, double the kitchen space and an enlarged bar. At last report Ricker was running seven restaurants, published a page-turning cookbook and has contracted to write two more cookbooks. (718-923-9322)
Buttermilk Channel
Situated on a picture-perfect stretch of Brooklyn's Court Street, this neighborhood spot serves farm-to-table fare with a southern drawl. The kitchen specializes in elevated versions of crowd-pleasing American comfort foods including the brunch favorite, hearty pork chops with cheddar waffles, and the signature buttermilk fried chicken with waffles at dinner. Popular with couples, groups of stylishly outfitted friends, and food-conscious local families Buttermilk Channel has something for everyone. At dinnertime, or the Bloody Mary-soaked weekend brunch, the wait for a table can be considerable, but the long, warmly lit bar has an impressive list of local and imported bourbon and whiskey, and pours both signature cocktails and glasses of local microbrews with smile. ((718) 852-8490)
If you like pork dumplings, you'll love the version here, which are fried in a crisp, salty pretzel crust, and served with bracing dipping mustard. The pad thai is studded with thick-cut bacon, and seasonal items like brussels sprouts give locavores something to crow about. If bar-hopping is more your style, grab a stool and sip on a house concoction like the Brooklyn Sling, an East-meet-West combination of gin, pineapple juice and locally bottled bitters. The friendly bartenders are happy to recommend bar snacks as well, including yuzu guacamole or the spiced Kung Pao chicken wings. Since Talde's opening in 2012, Dale's newest ventures include Thistle Hill Tavern, Pork Slope, Bell + Gray, Talde Jersey City, and Talde Miami Beach. He has also released his first cookbook in September 2015 titled Asian-American: Proudly Inauthentic Recipes from the Philippines to Brooklyn. ((347) 916-0031)
Described by The New York Times as "one of the more extraordinary restaurants in the country" it occupies a former manufacturing building, and features communal seating and private tables. Chef Carlo Mirarchi reinvented this desolate block installing an urban gardening initiative with onsite internship program, recording news and lifestyle broadcasts via Heritage Radio Network and, of course, a rambling restaurant centered around a prominently displayed wood-burning oven. Roberta's specializes in truly phenomenal pizzas. Since 2012, the rear courtyard became home to Mirarchi's second restaurant, Blanca, which proudly wears its two Michelin stars. A more upscale experience, Blanca takes reservations and serves $195 tasting menus that includes up to 20 courses. Last year a separate bakery and retail space opened, and offsite locations include Manhattan's UrbanSpace Vanderbilt market, and a seasonal Rockaway Queens haunt, Rippers. (718-417-1118)
al di la Trattoria
al di la Trattoria is based on a love story: Venetian Emiliano Copa first met Chef Anna Klinger when she studied at the cooking school he operated. One of the grand dames of our list, this popular trattoria has served a savvy crowd of local NYU professors, media types and food-minded families in Park Slope for over a decade. al di la Trattoria serves traditional Venetian cuisine in a warm dining room with a hammered tin ceiling and lovingly mismatched light fixtures. Primis like malfatti and casunziei, ravioli filled with red beets and ricotta are particularly Venetian as are bacala Montecato, spaghetti vongole with Manila Clams keep the clientele smiling, as does the extensive wine list, which consists of both Italian and international bottles. This team now owns two classy watering holes: Bar Corvo Bar Corvo at 791 Washington Ave. and Lincoln Station at nearby 409 Lincoln Place. (718-783-4565)
Peter Luger Steakhouse
Is it touristy? Yes. Old school? Absolutely. But sometimes, things are popular for a reason. For over 125 years, Peter Luger has been serving up mammoth porterhouses and fried German potatoes on a nondescript corner in Williamsburg. The two-story structure has seen a lot of changes outside its doors – remember when Williamsburg was better known for vaguely sinister empty lots than pricey high-rise apartments? – but, inside, the song remains the same. The hyper-masculine interiors and no-nonsense wait staff give the place and old-fashioned vibe, and the epic steaks keep customers coming back for more. Luger's has since opened a second location in Great Neck, Long Island, but come to the Brooklyn original for the full, meaty Monty. (718-387-7400)
Chef's Table at Brooklyn Fare
As if "hiding in plain sight," this haute cuisine tasting table is tucked inside a large grocery store on an unassuming block of Boerum Hill. The 18-seat, stainless steel counter in a horseshoe shape encourages communal dining while overlooking the open kitchen of Chef Cesar Ramirez, who trained with David Bouley. The 15-plus course tasting menu changes daily and is inspired by Japanese cuisine prepared with French techniques. The menu is heavily tipped toward seafood, both raw fish and shellfish. Featured are classical wines of Europe with bottle prices starting at $55 and exceeding $8,000. The prix-fixe tasting menus start at $306 per person, before tax, tip or wine. A "bucket list" place if ever there was one. (718-243-0050)
About Maria Lisella
No matter how many countries Maria Lisella has visited (62), this native New Yorker finds the world at her doorstep in amazing Queens where its residents speak 138 languages. Maria writes about New York and other destinations for outlets including NYC & Company, AFAR, Travel and Leisure, Wells Fargo Conversations, and others. As the Queens Poet Laureate, 2015-2018, she observes, listens and captures the urban energy of NYC in poetry and prose. Her book Thieves in the Family has been described as "… a collection of postcards from the Global Village…"
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The apartment is also located only 100 meters from what is considered the longest shopping street in Europe, Corso Buenos Aires, where you will find crowds of tourists looking for shopping.
Surrounded by lots of restaurants of all cuisines in the world the building is Old Milan style.
If you're an opera lover ...... only 3 metro stations away you will find the Temple of Opera: the Teatro alla Scala
The apartment is easily accessible from Central Station
Milan is known worldwide as the capital of fashion and design - from this apartment you can easily reach those that are considered the finest boutiques in the world.
Milan is also considered one of the three gastronomic capitals of the world together with New York and Paris. Find out why a few steps from the apartment
The apartment is located on the second floor without elevator and consists of a living room with kitchen and a double pull out sofa bed, a large bedroom and the bathroom.
wifi internet for free on request
check-out before 11.00
in case of difference need we can arrange other check-in check-out times
in case of one-night reservation requests do contact previously the host
For check-in later than 8.00pm an extra 10 euros fee will be charged
CHECK-IN: pick up of the keys by our office at the Central Station (where trains and buses from every Milan airport arrive)
CHECK-OUT: very easy, just leave the keys inside the apartment (no need to come back to our office)
We remind our guests the need to pay the city tax upon arrival: 2 euros per guest per night
per check-in oltre le ore 20.00 verrà richiesto un contributo di 10 euro
CHECK-IN: il ritiro delle chiavi presso il nostro ufficio in Stazione Centrale
CHECK-OUT: molto semplice: potrete lasciare le chiavi all'interno dell'appartamento
Ricordiamo ai nostri ospiti l'obbligo del pagamento della trassa di soggiorno da versare direttamente all'arrivo pari a 2 euro per persona per notte
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Goed gelegen appartement, ca. 200 meter van metrohalte. Maar "8 minutes from Duomo" is overdreven en dubbelzinnig. 8 minuten te voet? Neen! 8 minuten met de metro? Dat zal het ongeveer zijn, zonder de afstand van het appartement naar de metro te rekenen.
Ook rustig gelegen. Tweede verdieping, geen lift.
Inrichting van het appartement: het noodzakelijke is er, maar niet meer dan dat. Eén keukenhanddoek voor vijf dagen is weinig. Er is gasvuur om te koken, maar geen lucifers noch aansteker. Er zijn vier containers: voor glas, papier, groenten- en fruitafval, aluminium en plastic; maar geen voor restafval.
TV kijken vanuit het (lage) bed.
Heel positief: de medewerker die ons op 4 april om 18:40 uur aan het kantoor stond op te wachten was heel vriendelijk en gedienstig.
Of wij dit appartement aan een vriend zouden aanbevelen: dat hangt af van de eisen van die vriend op gebied van comfort. Daarom: max. 6 .
L'accueil pour obtenir les clés est très courtois et très professionnel (explications en français, documents écrits et plans détaillés, etc...)
Le logement est bien situé, très calme et dans un quartier agréable.
L'aménagement est correct. Cependant, il faut noter l'absence de rangement dans la salle de bains (pas de tablette ou de meuble pour y poser trousse, brosse à dents ou autres flacons); pas de poubelle non plus dans la salle de bains
J'avais lu des avis sur la disponibilité et la gentillesse des hôtes ??? Pour nous ils ont été totalement inaccessibles... Le logement est calme et idéalement placé mais manque d'équipements pour 4. (3 chaises, 2 verres, pas de rideau de douche etc.). Dommage car avec un peu d'attention il pourrait être parfait.
L'appartement de Filiberto pourrait être trés agréable car il a du charme et est très bien placé mais il mériterait un ménage de fond et quelques aménagements 'pas de prise pour la bouilloire sur le plan de travail, livebox sur le frigo !)et plus de matériel pour la cuisine (pas de theière, juste 3 verres, peu de vaisselle...).
The apartment was nice and clean and had working AC. It was nicely decorated and the beds were comfortable. A great thing was that the renters had put out different trashcans for easy recycling.
Another thing to mention was how sweet and caring the renters were! Really helpful, me and my friends were overall very pleased with this stay!
It was a very nice apartment, centrally located and close to Milan historic areas. However, it was unfortunate that there was no air-condition considering that in the summer, Milan is very hot up to 33 degrees celsius. Otherwise, we enjoyed our stay in the apartment. Thanks for allowing us to use your apartment
My daughter and her partner went to the appartment. Picking up the keys was easy and convenient. Location of the appartment couldn't be better, near the metro and supermarket. Inside it was really noisy, next to a heavy door that people banged shut. Two of the nights the neighbours upstairs moved furniture around for more than an hour around 2.30 in the morning it was terrible. When you are out all day walking you really need to sleep.
A nice little lamp would be cosy instead of the bright light.
We were 5 friends in Milan for a week-end. The appartment was perfect and well-located to visit both the lakes and the city center.
Filiberto is very easy to contact and accept that we arrive late.
fantastic clean and spacious apartment, excellent service
The appartment has several very serious problems:
- It is not clear;
- Too cold - no option for increase of the temperature of the heating system.
- The messages everywhere are not very polite, you feel like your on school vacation;
- The heating system is very nosiy during the night;
- The appartment it is not look like the pictures in Wimdu;
- The bathroom has serious problems with water everywhere;
- Not enough sunlight;
+The service was very good and helpfull.
+ Perfect location.
+ Many supermarkets and restaurants near the appartment.
+ Close to metro station.
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Badger Place, Woodhouse, Sheffield S13Semi-detached house for sale - 3 bedrooms
Guide price £110,000 - £120,000 An early viewing is essential in order to appreciate the level of accommodation offered by this effectively extended three bedroom semi detached set in this highly popular and convenient residential area. (contd...)
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