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Yes, it's come to this.
A fan of Kentucky Fried Chicken's Double Down sandwich has gotten a tattoo of the gluttonous creation on his leg.
It's a real tattoo, and you can even watch him get it done in a new KFC commercial.
Debuting in 2010, the Double Down contains bacon, two kinds of melted cheese and "special sauce" between two breaded chicken fillets.
KFC pulled the item from its menu, but now it's back for a limited time.
The man in the video is referred to as the "ultimate Double Down fan."
"I actually went on a date with my girlfriend to get a Double Down, it was a while ago. I think when they first came out. I guess that's how it all started," he says.
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Karin to me was the most annoying....pretty sad Uzumaki. She is also basically like all the girls who were obsessed w/ Sasuke which was annoying...if she was more serious it would be much better
Tie between Karin and S06P
hinata and konohamaru, can't decide between those two
Tenten - she's useless, all she can do is throw weapons.
Kabuto - I hated him from day 1
Kiba "Pick up Akumaru's crap no jutsu"
Naruto..... When he was a kid....
Sasuke, because he is a whiny brat who thinks he has to tear down the world just because his life sucks. He gets handed power on a silver platter that he doesn't deserve, and he doesn't have the maturity to use it properly. He wants to tear down his village because someone who is now dead gave his big brother a terrible choice to make, that resulted in Sasuke's life being spared. And even when his brother's wishes are clear, he still goes against them and decides to avenge his brother (when Itachi really doesn't want to be avenged). So Itachi turns to Naruto, who reminds him of his best friend, in order to save everyone.
Sasuke has potential, but uses it all wrong, which is why even his brother has more faith in Naruto than in him. He made his bed and he doesn't want to sleep in it. He refuses to see past his own pain, he is conceited and thinks that he is the center of the universe.
That is why I find Sasuke to be the most annoying character. I preferred him during the chuunin exams and before he saw his brother again.
Hinata and Konohamaru's team mates.
45 year old genin. Its like get a job
Karin, period. I just don't like her overall. Though playing her is on a different level.
I'm glad Karin, Sakura and the Gaara fan girls are there. I think the series does a good job of pointing out how stupid it is to be that head over heals for someone purely based on *celeb* status.
Sasuke, to me, has to be the most annoying.
He's so cocky, yet has been close to death numerous times. Although my theory is because he interacts with cats, he has 9 lives.
He's a battle genius, but was a complete idiot outside of fights most of the series (ESPECIALLY after learning Itachi truth and even getting to see Itachi again as an edo....)
It's also annoying that Naruto and others are so obsessed with him even though Sasuke made it quite clear he doesn't give a moldy pancake's worth of chicken urine about them.... I'm 100% OK with forgiving friends... but when an old friend tries to kill my friends and threatens to exterminate my hometown........ not letting that fly.
There are some positives to Sasuke.
Those near death encounters. The baby *i'm going to cry* face. (verse Bee)
That *no I'm going to die face* against A.
Him almost losing to Danzou and Deidara. I give him props for Deidara fight, but Danzou was too cautious over Tobi.
Kakashi annoys me with his face :\
Madara though he's really hot...
Konohamaru and his stupid ugly brat friends annoy me. Also Hidan for his retarded swearing, Oro for never dying and Ino for being an insult to all girls (first series, now she is okay).
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December 18, 2013 —
NARROWSBURG, NY — About 20 area residents gathered at the Tusten-Cochecton Branch of the Sullivan West Library on December 17 in Narrowsburg, to greet the season and participate in a lantern walk to the river.
The walk was arranged by librarian Laura Moran, and started in the library with participants choosing their lanterns before walking off to the river and Veterans Park, singing Christmas carols along the way.
Once in the park, poetry was recited and memories shared in the crisp December air.


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Dordt College News
Dordt Writes features Calvin Seerveld and John Kok
October 22, 2013
The November Dordt Writes event will feature Dr. John Kok, Dordt College dean for research and scholarship and director of the Andreas Center for Reformed Scholarship and Service, and Dr. Calvin Seerveld, writer and educator. Kok is the editor of six volumes of collected essays and lectures written by Seerveld that will be published by Dordt College Press. All are invited to share a cup of coffee and a cookie and hear them talk at 3 p.m. on Monday, November 4, in the John and Louise Hulst Library on the campus of Dordt College.
The upcoming books, all subtitled Sundry writings and occasional lectures, include:
- Normative Aesthetics
- Redemptive Art in Society
- Cultural Problems in Western Society
- Art History Revisited
- Cultural Education and History Writing
- Biblical Studies and Wisdom for Living
"Seerveld has dedicated his life to the study of aesthetics, redemptive art, and biblical wisdom; devoting himself to reformational scholarship and service since the early 1950s," Kok says. "Editing his works has been an honor for me, and I'm happy to help make these writings available to all, exposing more people to his work."
Seerveld will be the featured speaker at that day's First Mondays Speaker Series. His first presentation, titled "How HOT is your Bible?" will be held at 11 a.m. in the B.J. Haan Auditorium. In the evening he'll present "The Meaning of our Nakedness" in the Ribbens Academic Complex classroom CL1144/1148 at 7:30.
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It's true that a part of us dies every time we see Dr. Dre doing Dr. Pepper commercials, but in reality we've pretty much accepted that "selling out" is a part of life. Everybody needs to get paid, right?
But sometimes corporate sellouts involve more than cringe-worthy ads and intrusive product placement. This is when selling out starts to get just a bit horrifying.
5The Military
It's kind of hard to trash talk mercenaries when The A-Team made it clear that next to being an astronaut fireman, there's just about nothing as cool as being a soldier of fortune. Still, it's one thing to hire a four-man army of mercenaries to get your watermelon crop to market, but it's quite another to hire over 100,000 private contractors to run everything from security detail to weapons training to air surveillance of your enemies.
Guarding opium harvests.
The Sellout:
When the U.S. military is stretched too thin, private firms like Blackwater and DynCorp have graciously offered to fill in the gaps. They're kind of like substitute teachers, except instead of kicking up their heels, reading trashy romance novels and snacking on CornNuts, these substitutes are kicking up their heels and doing some Abu Ghraibing, accidental murdering and sex slave trafficking.
Since 2000, Blackwater alone has received at least $600 million in contracts from the CIA and over a billion dollars from the federal government. In all, 90 percent of their total revenue comes from United States government contracts. So what do they do with all that money? The exact same thing the military does -- security, training, humanitarian aid and jogging in time to singsong rhymes.
And buying wicked cars for their phat cribs.
The problem, though, is oversight. Normally, the military is accountable to the government; the minute a marine screws up, a whole can of procedural hell is opened up.
Not so with private security companies, which was why when Blackwater contractors killed 17 unarmed civilians in September 2007, no one was quite sure what to do about it. And why when a former employee was accused of murder, Blackwater founder Erik Prince said all they could do was fire him. And probably why the same accused murderer was free and available for other private contractors to get him armed and back in the Middle East within months of the incident.
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Ahhhh, good times, guys. Good times.
Not only are the repercussions of dirty dealings murky for private contractors, but also for a while there the guys were pretty much immune from Iraqi law. The fact that private security companies have to start playing by some vague rules that aren't exactly spelled out is the good news. The bad news is that once official troops finally start getting out of Iraq, the number of private contractors is expected to triple.
"I've got an idea, guys -- why don't we just pay them by the war crime?"
The idea behind privatizing things that used to be run by the government is that private companies tend to do jobs more efficiently. Walmart gets you through the checkout line way faster than the DMV gets you a new license.
So, when privately run prisons started popping up, it seemed to make sense; if a corporation can guard, house and feed prisoners more efficiently than the government, why not let them? It will save everybody money and if it makes life harder on a bunch of criminals, who gives a shit, right?
"Wait, it doesn't cost anything to set those chains on fire, right?"
Well, here's the thing ...
The Sellout:
As a society, you kind of want there to be fewer prisoners. Prison is about the most expensive possible way to deal with a person who is doing something you don't like. But if you're a company getting paid by the prisoner, well, you want the opposite.
So, remember Arizona's controversial anti-illegal immigrant law, which required immigrants over the age of 14 to carry their papers at all times? And how getting caught without proper documentation would get them up to 20 days in jail on the first offense? Actually, illegal immigrants are probably relieved about the 20-day thing, since the first version of the law allowed for up to six months in jail.
And they have to share a cell with Rod Blagojevich's hair.
Now, we're not interested in debating immigration policy or border safety. But chew on the first draft of that law for a second. Six months in jail, when it costs somewhere in the neighborhood of $62 a day to house an inmate, and when Arizona claims to have somewhere in the neighborhood of 460,000 illegal immigrants. Someone was going to have to house a whole bunch of unNorth American Americans.
"Can we just stick them in some shitty slums and harass them when they try to leave? Has anyone thought of that yet?"
It's a good thing a for-profit prison company had a plan! They didn't just have a plan, they were the driving force behind the law itself. According to this investigation, the Corrections Corporation of America, a publicly traded billion-dollar company that imprisons people for profit, helped draft SB 1070 because "immigrant detention is their next big market."
They added, "We're also considering fucking up some babies."
Before the bill was ever introduced to legislators, before you or anyone in Arizona heard of it, a group of businessmen and interest groups wrote it, named it and voted on in at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Washington, D.C. -- not even in Arizona.
And don't think that just because the CCA had a heavy hand in writing the bill that they nobly recused themselves from campaign donations or lobbying legislators, because of course they didn't. Even better, a solid year before the bill passed, representatives from the company started pitching a prison to house illegal women and children, since women and children are clearly Arizona's number one perpetrators of mayhem.
Oh yeah. That kid means trouble.
What's so wrong with prisons that make a little money? Nothing, except for two small things. One is that private prisons are pretty shitty at their jobs. One private prison has been accused of using beatings as a behavior management tool. At another facility, an immigrant was left for 13 hours in solitary confinement after suffering some sort of mysterious brain injury. He died not long after, and family and friends are still in the dark about what happened to him in the first place.
Unfortunately, we'll never know.
Other private prisons are accused of cutting corners to the point where the corners are no longer corners -- they're just dilapidated knobs. They cut guard pay, food quality, drug rehab programs, medical care and basic necessities like toilet paper because, hey, why not?


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MONTPELIER The developer recently brought on board for the 1 Taylor St. project at the Carr Lot has offered to buy the Capitol Plaza Hotel and Conference Center.
Larry Williams, a principal with Redstone, told members of the Carr Lot Design Committee on Monday that his firm has offered to buy the hotel from the Bashara family. Williams Burlington-based commercial real estate development company is working with the city to build a multimodal transit center and welcome center topped with several floors of privately owned development that could include a hotel.
We have started talking to them, I can assure you, said Williams when a member of the committee asked whether Redstone had reached out to the hotels owners, who have voiced concern about a competing hotel overlooking their property.
Redstone is hoping to convince the owners of the Capitol Plaza that another hotel in the citys core would be good for their business as well, said Williams, but they are not persuaded so far.
Were going to open the door to possibility, but we cant make them walk through it, Williams said of concerns raised not only by the Basharas but other community stakeholders about what a large new hotel could do to existing lodging establishments, in addition to Capitol Plaza. We can give them a lot more evidence than they have now, he said.
Williams said Tuesday he had not wanted to discuss the Redstone offer in the newspaper and had been unaware a member of the media was at Mondays meeting. He said in a brief phone interview, I thought it was a little more confidential than that.
I feel badly, Williams said. We did meet with them, and we are interested in their hotel. It would solve a lot of obstacles that are potentially an issue for us.
The Bashara family issued a statement Tuesday afternoon about the news that Redstone had approached them about possibly buying the hotel.
The statement by Brian Cain, hotel and sales director at Capitol Plaza, said: At the request of Redstone, we had a preliminary meeting between two potential neighbors. There was no formal offer, only an inquiry to purchase the Capitol Plaza and no follow-up on that topic. The Capitol Plaza is not in support of a chain hotel as a neighbor and competitor and will continue to protect our property for the benefit of our business, tenants and employees.
The statement went on, We ARE in support of the original concept of the multimodal transit center which should maximize public use of that space for such things as the farmers market, downtown housing or commercial space. We are also in favor of the continuation of the bike path, but only if it works for all parties involved and has limited impact on how we need to provide for our hotel guests and clients.
We are NOT in support of a hotel chain being considered in the Carr Lot for reasons of sustainability and do not think it is appropriate to use federal and city tax money for that type of development, the statement continues. We are strongly concerned with the lack of parking at that site and the impact it would put on our parking lot, our clients and employees. We also know as hoteliers that lobby space is not public space, and to list a hotel lobby in a proposal as a public gathering space is unrealistic.
The statement concludes: Montpelier is the hometown for four generations of our family. We want the Carr Lot to succeed and offer the city of Montpelier best wishes in this time of expansion. We respectfully ask that its decisions are based on the good of all its citizens and existing downtown businesses.
The statement is signed by the Fred and Mary Bashara family.
The familys concerns about a new 80-room hotel, plus the fact that rights of way are needed from the Basharas for the planned bike path through the site, would make acquiring their hotel a boon for the new development, Williams said.
The hotel issue came up when the Carr Lot Design Committee was discussing the four public sessions that Redstone and its architectural firm, Gossens Bachman Architects, are planning.
Theres more than one way to get things done. You just have to go down more than one road at once, Williams said, adding that a purchase would resolve the competition concerns and the issues related to the bike path rights of way.
I think you could turn that property into a gem for downtown Montpelier, he said. If you totally redid that property, it might change the metric for another hotel.
There was instant interest among the committee members and officials present, including Mayor John Hollar. When pressed, Williams said of his discussions with the Basharas, They didnt say no. They didnt say yes, either. I think it gives us the opportunity to keep talking.
The public process with the city and Redstone will get underway in early May. Details on the four sessions, which will run through mid-July on separate evenings, are to be coming this week.
The city purchased the once-contaminated Carr Lot this winter and has several federal grants for the project. The use for the additional privately owned floors is yet to be determined and will be part of the public process and at the City Council level.
When do we roll in the 500-pound gorilla in the room? architect Gregg Gossens asked of the hotel concept, which is Redstones preference for the development it will own on the upper levels of the building. Other possibilities include residences and office space.
Williams said the hotel concept will need to be put on the table sooner rather than later. He told the committee this week that there are really only three companies in the country that do acceptable hotel feasibility studies, and were talking to two of them and we would need to get going on that.
Committee member Elizabeth Robechek, who asked about inviting people into the process who have voiced concerns already, said, One thing Ive pulled from this last month is people have very strong feelings about that particular use. Theyre either for (a hotel) or against it. The town could decide this is the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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The landscape for coding Palm OS applications with Java is far from uniform or level. There are several different APIs currently available, each of which gives a different degree of access to the underlying Palm OS API. Perhaps the most well known of these is the one from Sun Microsystems; it is not the only one. This article is not a tutorial on Palm programming with Java -- each solution discussed has its own challenges and quirks -- but, rather, an overview of what tools are available for developers. We will survey the landscape to discover what you can expect when developing Palm OS applications with Java.
The KVM is the Kilobyte Virtual Machine, so named because its memory footprint is measured in kilobytes rather than the megabytes that the Java Virtual Machine requires. Because of these stringent memory requirements, the functionality of the KVM is but a subset of the full JVM. You can get a full breakdown of what is and is not supported from the Javasoft site, but notable omissions include reflection, JNI, custom classloaders, as well as an altered security mechanism.
Sun has formulated a game plan of providing both configurations and profiles to meet the needs of device programming. A configuration is an API that is designed to provide a basis for a broad and general category of devices, all sharing similar characteristics, such as limited memory, occasional network connectivity, and low power consumption, probably running on batteries. A configuration defines a "lowest common denominator," in terms of Java libraries, for these devices. As such, it is, by design, general and abstract. There are currently two configurations available for the Java 2 Micro Edition, the CLDC and the CDC. The latter is for devices a bit more powerful than a Palm and is outside of our scope. The former, which stands for Connected Limited Device Configuration, addresses devices like PDAs, two-way pagers, and even cellular phones. The CLDC includes a subset of classes found in the J2SE but with some important differences. For example, the CLDC's java.lang.Object contains no finalize method because of the garbage collection mechanism employed by the VM on small devices. You should remember that a particular class may be present in the API, but particular methods may be absent.. Refer to the documentation to ensure that what you're counting on is actually there.
A surprise for many developers upon beginning to develop with the CLDC is that it does not include support for floating point numbers. This is the default implementation of the KVM; the KVM is written in C and can be ported to many platforms. It lacks floating point support because of the underlying hardware often used for smaller devices, including 8-bit processors that do not support floating point arithmetic.
A profile is specific, concrete, and targets a more specific class of device than a configuration, including user interface and event handling elements, which are not present in the configuration. Currently there are no publicly available profiles for the Palm OS or PDAs.
The Java Community Process has a PDA Profile that has been in progress for some time now. The developer community is still waiting for an early access release of the PDA profile. If traffic on the KVM interest mailing list is any indication, there is some frustration owing to the elusiveness of this early access release.
In the meantime, what can a developer who wants to follow the KVM/Sun solution do? The release of the CLDC included a minimal set of classes which one could think of as an extremely primitive profile for the Palm OS. Be warned that Sun does not endorse using these classes for any commercial development, nor do they plan any updates to this API. But in the absence of the PDA profile, developers are using the classes. Commonly known as Kjava, it includes a number of GUI classes: CheckBox, RadioButton, TextBox, List, etc. In addition to these, there is the Spotlet class, which is used for event handling and includes callbacks to the Palm OS for trapping stylus taps, "hard" key presses, and so on.
A class that uses kjava to display a simple string of text and a Button might look like the following.:
import com.sun.kjava.*;
public class HelloKjava extends Spotlet
private static Button OKButton;
public static Graphics g = Graphics.getGraphics();
public static void main(String args[])
HelloKjava hk = new HelloKjava();
public HelloKjava()
{ OKButton = new Button("OK", 84, 140);
public void penDown(int x, int y) {
if (OKButton.pressed(x,y)) {
public void drawScreen()
g.drawString("Hello KJava",20, 10);
There's also a com.sun.kjava.Database class, which is a way to get at the Palm Database (pdb) API. That said, it's extremely primitive and doesn't give full access to everything in a pdb. It only allows the setting and getting of byte arrays; it doesn't allow keyed access other than by record id (an integer). Since the Database only understands byte arrays, to give your data meaning you will need to parse the byte array into meaningful fields.
Kawt is an implementation of the Abstract Window Toolkit for the KVM and is the work of Michael Kroll and Stefan Haustein, both of whom serve on the expert committee for the PDA Profile. Kawt offers an API set more familiar to the Java programmer. For example, it uses the common layout managers (with the exception of GridBag) for placing components on the screen, and then it allows you to set listeners for those components. In other words, the Spotlet mechanism is not involved. Button, Panel, Label, TextField, and other AWT classes are all available. In addition, there are custom classes: FtpShel, TabbedPane, and GifLoader. There is also a java.io.File class which is an abstraction of a directory and file structure that uses a standard pdb (Palm Database File) to store the data.
Using Kawt, we can say hello in the following way:
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class HelloKawt extends Frame implements ActionListener
Button OKBtn = new Button("OK");
Label lbl = new Label("Hello Palm");
public static void main(String args[])
new HelloKawt();
public HelloKawt()
this.add("South", OKBtn);
this.add("Center", lbl);
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae)
While Kawt gives you a better set of classes than kjava, it's actually based on kjava and, therefore, lacks a database class other than kjava's.
This is a problem for serious Palm development. In general, any commercial application will require the data stored on the device to later be synchronized with the desktop. Synchronization of a kjava.Database is problematic because it does not contain the categories that the HotSync software expects, nor does it allow access to the attribute bits that each "native" palm database file contains at the start of each record. Even with the release of the PDA Profile, this is unlikely to be addressed, since the profile targets PDAs in general and not the Palm OS in particular. Nevertheless, the Kawt team has done a great job at making it easy for a neophyte Palm programmer to get started with Java. You can obtain a copy of Kawt at www.kawt.de.
IBM has its own virtual machine, called J9, which in many ways is superior to the KVM. J9 is supported by the Visual Age Micro Edition, an IDE from Object Technology International, a wholly-owned subsidiary of IBM. VAME is a full-featured development tool that gives you full access to the Palm OS API. This comes at some cost, however. While VAME is a Java tool, what it provides is a wrapping of all the native C methods of the Palm API in Java. As such, the method calls in VAME are exactly the same as you would find in C. Therefore, you need to have some understanding of the structure of the Palm API and the arguments to each method. While it is never a bad thing to understand the OS that your application will run under, the need to be familiar with the method signatures of the C API for the Palm is a problem if you are a Java-only developer. This is a drawback that the engineers at OTI seem aware of and are intent on improving.
The following is a simple example written under VAME:
import com.ibm.oti.palmos.*;
import com.ibm.oti.palmos.util.OSX;
public class HelloJ9 implements OSConsts {
public static void main(String[] args) {
CharPtr title = new CharPtr("IBM Vame Demo");
EventType event = new EventType();
try {
FormType form = OS.FrmNewForm(0, title, 0, 0, 160, 160, 0, 0, 0, 0);
OSX.WinDrawChars("Hello J9!", 5, 30);
while(true) {
OS.EvtGetEvent( event, -1 );
if (OS.SysHandleEvent( event )==0) {
if (event.getEType() == appStopEvent) {
} finally {
As you can see, it looks a bit different than the previous examples. If you can get past this hurdle, your application performance will be far superior to a KVM-based app. The other distinct advantage of VAME is that since it accesses all of the native API calls, any Palm Database you create can be synchronized with a conduit. The distribution of VAME comes with some nice examples which can get you through some of the difficulties. You can obtain a copy of VAME from www.embedded.oti.com.
Waba is yet another VM that's the work of several individuals. In style, Waba is somewhat between Kjava and Kawt. While it includes many more GUI components than kjava, it uses coordinate position to place components on the screen, rather than kawt's layout manager approach
The advantage of Waba is speed. It is indeed faster than the KVM. If you think your application may target more than just the Palm OS, Waba also runs under Windows CE. There are extensions to Waba as well, called Superwaba, which provide even more functionality.
Here is the same small app written with Waba. It uses an additional class (not shown) to set the title:
import waba.ui.*;
import waba.fx.*;
public class HelloWaba extends MainWindow
Button closeButton;
public HelloWaba()
Title title = new Title("HelloWaba");
title.setRect(0, 0, this.width, 15);
closeButton = new Button("Close");
closeButton.setRect(0, this.height - 15, 44, 15);
public void onEvent(Event event)
if (event.type == ControlEvent.PRESSED)
if (event.target == closeButton)
Waba has some nice perks, including; the ability to copy and paste using the clipboard, and access to the System keyboard for easier text entry. In addition there is a class which encapsulates some of the VM details, allowing you to determine which platform that the VM is running under and which ROM version.
Waba is available from www.wabasoft.com. SuperWaba is available from www.superwaba.org.
The choice of Java solutions for writing Palm OS applications depends on several factors: whether you are targeting the Palm OS only; whether speed or ease of development is more important. And this is far from the last word on Palm programming with Java. The landscape is bound to change even more in the future.
Matthew E. Ferris is President, Chicagoland Java User Group, a Sun Certified Java Programmer, and a contributing Author for Professional Java Server Programming, Wrox Press.
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Empty Bowls is an international project to fight hunger; projects are personalized by artists on a community level.
The promotion and growth of the project is managed by The Imagine/RENDER Group, but each community's events are self-developed and independent, with events currently being held in many areas in the United States and Canada.
Empty Bowls now supports food related charities around the world and has raised millions of dollars to aid in the fight against hunger, with 100 percent of each event's proceeds devoted to local hunger-fighting organizations.
After the organ concert, those in attendance may choose a bowl to be filled for a suggested minimum donation. For many such events, the bowls are filled with soup, but in August, the local potters decided ice cream would be much more appealing. Dr. Sarah Gremmel, head potter, suggests a minimum gift of $20 for the concert, and a bowl filled with ice cream. Larger amounts will gladly be accepted, while those who want to help but can't afford that amount may opt for a plastic bowl for a smaller donation.
The local group, who meet once a week at Gremmel's "Clay House," has been working for approximately a year on the project and have completed around 50 bowls. Susan Crumrine's art students at St. Philip's Episcopal School decorated some of the bowls.
This is the local potters' second Empty Bowls project and organ concert; the first one since August 2012.
The Beeville Vineyard is in need of money at this time of year, when vacation time distracts the community from helping others. (The Vineyard receives much more support in the fall and winter months.) Funds from the concert and Empty Bowls project will enable the Vineyard to assist many more needy people.
The Berclair mission also distributes food to the needy, and the Empty Bowls support will increase the number of people who can be helped in that small community.
Art teacher John Hartom initiated the Empty Bowls project in 1990-91 when he joined a drive to raise charitable funds in his Michigan community. His idea was to give artists and art students an opportunity to make a personal difference. The success of that initial project led to the organization of the umbrella 501(c)3 Imagine/RENDER Group, which has greatly expanded the successful idea.
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Santa Speedo 9 Hundreds of people came out in their skimpiest Santa outfits for the Santa Speedo Run.
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Kelly McMasters owns a small, independent book store, Moody Road Studio, located in Maude Alley in the 1000 block of Main Street in Honesdale, PA. She writes about the experience in a monthly column for The Paris Review. She is the author of "Welcome to Shirley: A Memoir from an Atomic Town," the personal story of growing up in her hometown on Long Island, NY where there were three nuclear reactors and all three leaked. A documentary based on the book was shown earlier this month at the Black Bear Film Festival in Milford, PA.
McMasters is married to artist Mark Milroy, whose studio is located in Wayne County, PA on Moody Road, which inspired the name for the bookshop and for his art studio. They have two young children.
TRR: On a scale of one to 10, where 10 is "wonderful," how would you rate curling up with a book on a cold rainy or snowy afternoon?
KMcM: Definitely a 12. I was thinking about it earlier this week because I was just starting to miss summer. Up here in summer, there's always so much to do and to get done chore-wise that you never really have those lazy afternoons. In winter it's much quieter, and there's more opportunity to just curl up and be by yourself. There's something I love about reading during the day in winter. Somehow it's like going to the movies in the middle of the day and when you come out and it's still light, it's something like playing hooky that's really fun.
I think aside from maybe beach reading that winter reading is my very favorite.
TRR: Do you have a favorite genre that you like to read?
KMcM: There's certainly stuff that I'm drawn to more, but there isn't much that I would say I dislike. I'm primarily a non-fiction writer and an essay writer, and so I always love reading essays and non-fiction books, but I also love my novels and poetry, and I like science fiction and historical fiction, too, so I'm definitely not exclusive.
TRR: Can you name a book that changed your life?
KMcM: So much of my life has been changed by books… (Pauses in thought) I would say it probably started with "The Secret Garden," and then… I went through this moody period in college, this kind of transitioning period where it felt like every book was transformational. I was reading "Anna Karenina" and "Steppenwolf" and "White Noise." So these books sort of got me to different emotional places. And then "The Orchid Thief" by Susan Orlean was professionally transformational. That was when I realized what an open frontier non-fiction could be. That book was just thrilling in that way. And then E. B. White's essays and Joan Didion's essays, those collections were also professionally [influential]...
TRR: When I go to a bookstore, I'm really overwhelmed by how many choices there are. Do you have any thoughts to share on how to make a decision?
KMcM: I think anybody who works in a bookstore and is putting their time in around the books is there because they have an addiction to books, like me. I've found that to be true in all of my favorite book shops, so I always go for the staff recommendation. [But don't just] ask what they're reading; tell them what you like… and don't be shy or feel like you have to pretend that you like something super literary. Be honest, because then you'll get the next favorite book.
TRR: Finding good, new writers is both a pleasure [when it works out] and a challenge. And frequently an author's first book makes for a really exciting read, because he or she is just burning to tell that story Do you have suggestions for how to discover new writers?
KMcM: There are a few prizes that I keep my eye on every year. Writers will submit their manuscripts, maybe they've never been published…, but it's a juried prize and there are a few that are almost always outstanding without fail, and those have become some of my favorite sleeper hits that I never would have found out about otherwise. Also books that are [mentioned in] literary magazines or are out from small presses. Their books are always quiet; I mean you're not going to see them typically on the New York Times bestseller list. I hardly ever read what's on the bestseller list; it's just not where my interest lies. And then also I have a pretty decent network of people in New York who are publishing, and other independent book store owners who are saying what they're excited about, and reading series—I like to see who's reading where in a reading series and maybe I'll look at a book that I hadn't considered for the shop. And my mother. (Laughter). She's a huge book person, and almost every conversation we have, she's just read about some new book. I mean we're reading totally different lists, so I always listen to my mother.
TRR: I'm the crazy aunt who always buys books for Christmas and birthdays for my nieces and nephews and any other children I know. I'm determined to turn them into readers, but I also never know how to choose books for children. Do you have any advice?
KMcM: Well, there are some pretty great and reliable "best 100 books of the century" lists that are in the Moody Road cannon. I think the New York Review of Books has a good one; the New York Public Library has a really good one. Many of them would be classics, so maybe they've read them, but I'm a big believer in the classics. I mean, not that I don't believe in the new stuff, but for gifts, it's kind of nice to give something that isn't just out.
I actually I had a crazy aunt who always gave books, and I still remember, and I still have one; it was from my high school graduation. At that point I had no plans of being a writer. I mean I won my high school poetry award or something like that, but I never thought of being a writer as a career, because I thought, "Well, who can do that?" But she gave met this giant hardcover book called "The Big Book of Women Writers," and at the time it did feel a little like, "Oh, really? That's what I get for graduation?" But I'll tell you, it's one of my all-time favorite gifts that I've ever received because she saw something in me that I didn't see. And I've retuned to that book again and again; it's been really inspiring, so that was a fantastic gift. And also don't just [consider] novels, but also something like Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring"—something that might not be the best thriller, or a love story, but there are some really beautiful and classic books like that that will stretch your brain and also be a beautiful read.
TRR: Do you worry about children not reading enough?
KMcM: It's terrifying. Maybe about a year and a half after my book was published, I read at this college in Brooklyn, and I visited one particular class… It was for kids who were trying to catch up to college level. This one teacher who invited me thought that because [my book] was a Long Island story, that they might see themselves reflected because [they were] the same age. Actually we had a really fantastic discussion, but I would say that a third of them said that this was the first book that they'd ever finished, and I can't even fathom that.
I know that some people just aren't readers and that's fine—no actually that's not fine, but you know what I mean. And that's why I partner here with First Book, and for every book that I sell, we give a book to a kid in Wayne or Pike County. Last year First Book did their book gifting around the holidays… and they're planning their Christmas event again this year. They focus on pre-K. These are the very first books that these kids will ever own, and then they're going home and reading them to their parents, because in some cases their parents can't read, and that act—I mean I have a two year old and a four year old and we're constantly reading together. With the two year old, he's just now asking for the books, and he's really excited in choosing his books, and now the four year old is starting to read to me. It's this really interesting capsule in time where… we're sharing a story and sharing physical space. I mean they'll both be on my lap, and it's such an amazing time together. And that's what I think will translate into a love books later on. I mean that's why I love books, because they were such a huge part of my childhood.
I grew up in the Catskills for those first pre-reading years. Probably very similar to a lot of your readers, we were in a little house where we couldn't see any other houses. There were just me and my mom at the end of this long driveway, so what we did was read. I don't even remember a TV, though we must have had one. We listened to the radio and we read. It was just part of our everyday [life]… and then once could read to myself—I'm an only child—so it was a huge companion for me. I would say the first series where I started demanding books was the Nancy Drew series. I loved [those]. I was obsessed. And then I started getting really into Christopher Pike, which was like teen horror where you scared yourself a little (laughter) and Judy Blum, of course. I mean I would say probably my first book that I was obsessed with where I read it and I couldn't' stop thinking about it even when I wasn't reading it was "The Secret Garden,"
TRR: Tell me about running a small independent book store.
KMcM: This is my first crack at small business, at a physical business. So there have been some surprises about those things that go into it, like quarterly taxes and sweeping the floor and that kind of stuff, which is fine. But what's been really interesting are the reactions of people. Some walk in and it's like they've fallen into a secret garden. They say, "I didn't know you were here. I can't believe you're here. I mean, what are you doing here?" (Laughter) So they start to look [around], and then they'll say, "Oh, I read this," or "Oh, I've been wanting to read that." There's just that excitement, which of course is how I feel every day.
And then there are the people who walk in and you can sort of tell that they don't feel they belong here and they're trying to be polite, but then their eye will catch something that interests them, and that's sort of my favorite moment. Then there are people who just poke their head in the door and say "books," and then they run away. (Laughter)
I'd say another thing is that the idea of this store from the start was the celebration of paper, and that goes to our woodblock prints as well as to the printed book. A lot of the books, particularly the ones on the table, are not art books necessarily, but they're kinds of books that you wouldn't get the same experience if you read them on an e-reader. Not to say that I'm anti e-reader, because I'm certainly not. It certainly has its place, but I can't imagine reading poetry on my Kindle, or….
TRR: Do you have a Kindle?
KMcM: I do, although I have to say it's probably lost its charge 16 months ago and I haven't…
TRR: So you sort of have a Kindle.
KMcM: (Laughter) Yes.
TRR: But curling up on a cold snowy afternoon with a Kindle just isn't the same.
KMcM: No, going back to your original question, perhaps the best part about curling up and reading is falling asleep with the book on your chest. (Laughter)
TRR: Tell me about your column for The Paris Review. How did that come about?
KMcM: Well, I had an essay published in the American Scholar right as the shop was staring to open. The American Scholar is like my nerdy crush (laughter), so I was very excited, because I'm a religious reader. They had this column by Michael Dirda, who was a huge bibliophile, and I saw in one of his columns that he was going to be leaving and that they hadn't found a replacement yet, so I thought, "Oh my gosh, this is perfect. I can write for the American Scholar on a column basis."
So I put a pitch together and sent it to my agent. And she said, "I love your pitch—just the idea of leaving the city and coming to the country and opening a bookshop. Can you let me have this pitch for two weeks and let me try to [send it around]?" And so she sent it to The Paris Review, and they wrote back immediately and they said "yes." Later on I asked why they were so quick to say, yes, and [my editor] said she thinks it's every literary person's dream in New York City to (a) leave the city and (b) open a bookshop. She also said she [didn't want] this to be a sort of glowy thing; she wanted the real stuff, and that is what I think I'm giving in the column. But it's also helped me figure out how I'm feeling [about the bookstore] and how it's doing. I'm just trying to be honest on the page, but it's also reaffirmed—not that I thought running a bookshop would be easy—but it's just reaffirmed my relationship with books.


text: Home > Entertainment > Bollywood Dhoom 3: New Thrilling & Sexy Stills By IndiaTimesDecember 18, 2013 facebook twitter reddit SKIP AD Image 10 of 19 Related Galleries Next Gallery Starts in 12 Secs X SKIP WAITING AUTOPLAY ON OFF Prev Next Watch The Crackling Chemistry Between Randeep Hooda And Nandana Sen In Rang Rasiya Foods to Improve Prostate Health Celeb Moms in Their Pre and Post Pregnancy Avatars SLAM! What The Real Indiawaale Are Missing From Shah Rukh Khan's US-Canada Tour Dipika Pallikal, Women Shooters Win Bronze; Sourav Ghosal Reaches Squash Final Bang Bang Leads Hrithik, Katrina Get Matchy Matchy 133466 Prev Next Dhoom 3 It's nearly time to Dhoom again as Dhoom 3 releases this Friday. As we count down to the last hour, check out some new thrilling and sexy stills from the film Dhoom 3 Aamir Khan plays the chief antagonist in the film Dhoom 3 Also joining the cast is Katrina Kaif as acro-dancer Aaliya Dhoom 3 The film sees Abhishek Bachchan return as ACP Jai Dixit Dhoom 3 Joining Jai is Ali (Uday Chopra), his old partner Dhoom 3 The songs of 'Dhoom 3' remain a mystery as only 30 second promos were released Dhoom 3 Dhoom 3 will feature some mind-blowing action Dhoom 3 Aamir's character is Sahir, a clown-turned-thief Dhoom 3 As usual, it's Jai's job to catch Sahir before his next heist Dhoom 3 Aamir will be seen romancing Katrina Kaif in the film Dhoom 3 Actors Katrina and Aamir have never worked together before Dhoom 3 It'll be interesting to see if audiences still find Jai and Ali's bickering funny. Dhoom 3 Significant portions of 'Dhoom 3' were shot in Chicago Dhoom 3 'Dhoom 3' as the title suggests, is the third installment in the super successful film franchise. Abhishek Bachchan has been part of all three films Dhoom 3 'Mr Perfectionist' Aamir Khan put in hours to get the look of Sahir right. According to sources, he went on a diet for two years to achieve the physique required Dhoom 3 A number of cool BMW superbikes have been used in the film Dhoom 3 Busy downtown areas of Chicago had to be entirely cordoned off to the public to shoot the stunt scenes Dhoom 3 A song sequence between Aamir and Katrina has been filmed at the Chicago landmark 'Cloud Gate', more popularly known as 'The Bean'. Interestingy, the installation was put up by British artist Anish Kapoor, who is of Indian origin Dhoom 3 'Dhoom 3' releases on December 20. Are you excited? We sure are! < 8 9 10 11 12 > Follow @indiatimes facebook twitter reddit Comment Here Dhoom 3 Aamir will be seen romancing Katrina Kaif in the film ADVERTISEMENT


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I am expecting my second child in late July. I BF'd my three year old daughter for over two years and used a Medela Pump in Style for brief separations from her (I work part time teaching Pilates and yoga, so a few classes and/or private sessions a week plus the occassional "me" time or date with DH) .
As far as I know and can remember the PIS works fine. I hated it, though, and in fact quit pumping as soon as I could--probably after a year or so when she was eating solids regularly and drinking cow's milk.
I got about 4 ounces (sometimes as little as 3 ounces and rarely as much as 6) from one breast consistently when using the PIS, and often pumped while nursing because it took about 20-30 minutes to get that much. It was uncomfortable (verging on painful), awkward, and I couldn't wait to stop. My biggest issues were the tubing pulling the bottle/flange over and spilling precious milk and the discomfort/pain of having my nipple sucked through the flange. I adjusted the suction frequently to try to find a comfort zone, to no avail.
My question is, should I try a different pump? Are my complaints just part of pumping or is it the kind of pump?
I have heard great things about the Avent Isis, even as a manual pump, and the Ameda Purely Yours. I hesitate to spend the $$$ on a new pump but I plan on breastfeeding and pumping at least a year again with this baby. Keep in mind that I will only need to pump enough for one or two feedings a day for 2-3 days a week. I rarely pumped in absence of the baby, only enough to have a few feedings' worth for when I was gone. I am also leaning toward the Avent Isis Uno. Any suggestions?
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VSEA seeks to reduce Montpelier parking pinch
MONTPELIER A state workers union is working to resolve the capital citys long-standing parking problems, which have been compounded by a recent legislative change, construction projects and the relocation of some Waterbury state workers to Montpelier.
An online survey by the Vermont State Employees Association has gathered more than 100 responses for what kind of travel reimbursement package they would like in order to help reduce parking issues in the capital city.
The responses will help inform solutions and a discussion at a meeting from noon to 1 p.m. March 12 in the House chambers of the Statehouse.
VSEA organizing director Kristen Warner said even with the addition of the Carr Lot by Taylor Street and the Winooski River, theres a net deficit of 290 spaces every day. At National Life, theres a deficit of 250 spaces every day, which doesnt include visitors, she said.
This is a pretty huge concern, she said. (And) that comes from the (Buildings and General Services) commissioner.
In late January, VSEA representatives met with state officials to reconcile the issue, bringing forth proposed solutions. The state Department of Buildings and General Services has responded to the recommendations, and the state is still evaluating how to proceed.
For the current legislative session, the state had expanded the number of reserved spots for legislators and legislative staff from 208 to 240, an increase that took away from the overall parking for state government. Warner said VSEA wants the spaces on a first-come, first-serve basis.
A November report noted that for the 1,595 state employees there year-round, parking areas adjacent to and near the Statehouse and key state buildings during the legislative session would be 992.
Traffic guidelines suggest that for every 10 people, there are eight spots, a ratio that exists when the Legislature is not in session but one that drops to six spots per 10 people during the session, according to the state.
The state last fall identified several ways to address parking woes, identifying options that range from 50 percent subsidies on bus passes to other financial incentives for measures like vanpooling. Michael Obuchowski, commissioner of Buildings and General Services, said funds are available for a pilot program.
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……..These are words from the canto of Ulysses from Dante's Inferno and they were quoted in the most moving book I've ever read, 'If This Is A Man' by Primo Levi.
In the 'Thought For The Day' slot on the Today Programme on Radio 4 last week I heard someone describe their thoughts and feelings on visiting Auschwitz concentration camp. A few days later I began to read the magnificent novel HHhH by Laurent Binet, which I reviewed here. The shadow of the concentration camps and the man-made hell on earth to which millions of Jews, and others, were subjected hangs over the novel, a kind of evil that felt like it sat by my shoulder throughout my read of that book – I just couldn't shake the feeling even though I was immersed in the novel.
That feeling while reading 'HHhH', and the words from that "Thought For The Day", have echoed in my head, and I'm reminded of how I'm drawn to fiction and non-fiction about the Second World War and about the Holocaust in particular. But of course, as well as acknowledging that it holds some moth-to-the-flame appeal to me as a topic for reading, I've also been thinking about why.
At the age of 18 I was fortunate enough to visit Auschwitz. This was in 1979, when Poland was still Communist and behind the Iron Curtain. Somehow a group of teachers and youth club leaders I knew persuaded the then Local Authority of Strathclyde Regional Council to lend us tents and a mini-bus to travel around behind the Iron Curtain. God knows what they were thinking of (!) but somehow they agreed to it. After months of preparation and interminable paperwork to secure visas, we spent about 6 weeks touring around East Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia. The trip was hugely influential for me in so many ways, but none more so than the day we visited Auschwitz near the Polish town of Oswiecim. I recall the entry through those gates, the words above me, watching a documentary of the Holocaust in a small cinema, listening to the commentary in French because there was no English version in those days and quickly realising the language of the commentary was irrelevant as these were images which needed no words, the flowers and candles freshly placed in remembrance against the Execution Wall and the huts converted to long glass cabinets and filled floor to ceiling with hair, and spectacles, and suitcases, and shoes. I can't describe how it felt now anymore than I could then.
But what affected me more, and what has stayed with me more, was the camp at Birkenau. Auschwitz then had been converted into a monument and museum by the Polish Government whereas Birkenau had been left to lapse into ruin and decay and was all the more chilling and awful as a result. The grass was knee-high, the huts broken down, rotting, with little glass left where the windows had once been and the bunks on which so many had tried to sleep and survive were piled high and haphazard. Somehow this desolate, windswept, and barren place made much more of an impression on me and it has never left me.
When I returned from that trip, I tracked down a copy of Primo Levi's "If This Is A Man", the story of his year in Auschwitz and "The Truce" the equally moving story of his nine month struggle to survive after liberation and get back through a war-ravaged Europe to his home in Turin. Reading that book was the beginning of so many books I've subsequently read over the years about the Holocaust, those who perpetrated it, those who turned a blind eye to it, those who suffered it and those who survived it. It's only as I take stock of what I've read over the years do I realise how much I've read on that subject.
As a teacher I was amazed at the clever, subtle way the Holocaust was handled for children in the books When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr and the magnificent I Am David by Ann Holm, both of which I read to pupils over the years. As a young man I read the incredibly powerful book Schindler's Ark, by Thomas Keneally, and watched in awe as it was transferred magnificently to the cinema years later as Schindler's List.
In recent years I was impressed by The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne, and I went on to watch the film of this with my daughter and it made me realise that it had brought much-needed awareness of the Holocaust to a whole new generation of children and young people, in the same way that I Am David had done in previous years.
I read Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathon Safran Foer and immediately followed it with The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, which I preferred. My first introduction to the writing of Bernhard Schlink was The Reader. I thought it was such a good book and one that made a very powerful impression on me. I've now got the film of The Reader on my Sky + but it's been there sometime and I'm avoiding watching it. I have a feeling I'm going to be disappointed in the film, despite the fact that I've read good reviews of it in several places.
But good as all these books, and several others, have been, none of them have had that profound effect on me that the first reading of Primo Levi did. There was a simplicity about the survival instinct he wrote about and a perfect balance between observation and emotion in his books. Above all they are books of such dignity and gentleness in the midst of a world which was the very opposite. He describes in his afterword to If This Is A Man that his time in Auschwitz was in some respects his "university" But his latyer reflections on that time are the most powerful and moving. He ends the afterword thus
"And, finally, I was helped by my determination., which I stubbornly preserved, to recognise always, even in the darkest days, in my companions and in myself, men, not things, and thus avoid that total humiliation and demoralisation which led so many to spiritual shipwreck"


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Kathleen Imhoff, OCLC Board of Trustees
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Monday, December 12, 2011 - Badminton World Federation | Badminton Photo
World number 1 men's singles player Lee Chong Wei and world number 1 women's doubles pair of Wang Xiaoli and Yu Yang have been awarded the 2011 BWF male and female Players of the Year respectively.
The Badminton World Federation (BWF) president, Dr Kang Young Joong, presented the 2011 BWF Players of the Year awards to Malaysia's Lee Chong Wei and China's Wang Xiaoli/Yu Yang at the opening dinner of the 2011 Li Ning BWF World Superseries Finals in Liuzhou.
This is the third consecutive year that the Malaysian has been awarded the prestigious title, while it's the first time in the history of the award that a doubles pair was awarded the BWF Player of the Year.
Lee Chong Wei (pictured right) may have lost the 2011 World title to his arch nemesis Lin Dan at the 2011 Yonex World Championships in London, but that did not overshadow his outstanding accomplishments throughout the year.
The 29-year-old had picked up 5 OSIM BWF World Superseries titles in the 2011 regular season, and will be remembered for making 11 consecutive finals appearances in 2011.
On a 24-hour online fan poll conducted last week, Chong Wei had also edged Lin Dan as the 2011 fan favourite male player with many acknowledging Chong Wei's remarkable consistency, on-court temperament and persistence had won them over.
The 2011 BWF Female Players of the Year award saw a clear winner in Wang Xiaoli and Yu Yang (pictured left), who have become the first shuttlers to scoop a 'grand slam' with their 5 OSIM BWF World Superseries Premier titles in 2011.
Having only teamed up for slightly over a year, Wang/Yu have already picked up the 2011 World title and were also champions at the 2011 Asian Championships. The duo made 12 consecutive finals appearances with 7 BWF World Superseries titles to their name in 2011.
Wang/Yu have also taken the women's doubles game to a new level with their aggressive and speedy style of play. Not only has this set them apart from the rest of their peers, their success has been recogised as an instrumental force in revolutionising the women's doubles game. Beyond their accolades, they are both active ambassadors of the sport.
The popular Chinese pair was runners-up in the fan favourite poll in which Indonesia's Liliyana Natsir, backed by a vociferous Indonesian online crowd, had taken pole.
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Great place on a great location. From Nostrand AV subway in Manhattan within 20 minutes. Friendly neighborhood. The apartment was clean and well organized. Some neighbor noises but never till late. We liked it a lot.
We expected a lot of our stay at Coretta at NY. But a lot went wrong.
When we arrived we had to wait for 1.5 hour in front of th appartment because she didn't answer her phone and she forgot our arrival time.
We found a cockroach in the bathtub.
Our toilet was clogged.
We couldn't store our luggage. She only wanted to meet us again to pick up the luggage at a certain hour, but we wouldn't take the risk anymore. So as far as the luggage storage is concerned: you don't have any cotrol of you luggage at all.
NY is a great city, this appartment and especially the service wasn't at all.
Nice appartment in Brooklyn. Restaurants, laundry and subway nearby.
Very nice apartment, excellent location as close to the metro and very helpful host. We can highly recommend this apartment
The apartment is spacious and clean. Bathroom is a bit small but absolutely adequate. The bed in the second bedroom was a bit narrow for our 14-year-old twins so one of them slept on the sofa bed which was perfectly ok. Coretta was very nice and easy going. The neighborhood is safe and sound, very quiet and neat street, and the apartment is only a few blocks away from the A train to Manhattan. We stayed for 9 nights and enjoyed it very much.
We had a great stay in a well-furnished apartment, close to public transport and within easy reach of supermarkets and delis, in a safe neighborhood. If you want to get to know everyday life and not feel like a tourist all the time, this is the place for you. Coretta was a wonderful host, everything was in perfect order and water and juice were waiting for us after a long trip. JFK can be reached by direct train, just like Manhattan. Anyone interested in more than just buying up Broadway will find this a very convenient location with a host who can reply to any questions asked and who is very helpful.
During our stay at Corettas' place everything went perfect and was just as expected. Coretta was very helpfull during our stay and made our visit even more comfortable. The appartment is just like described - everything was clean and neat.
The Location was perfect for us, grocery shops and coffee shops are all in walking distance. The Metro connection was fast and easy to Manhatten. The Station is about 2min walking distance away.
Spacious apartment in very quiet neighborhood, with garden, a good bed and well equipped kitchen. Nice to be welcomed with water, coke and juice. 4 minute walk to supermarket, 6-7 minute walk to subway: express train to Manhattan, and direct line to JFK. The house is a bit noisy inside due to the wooden floors: you can hear other people walk, not talk. We had a great stay in Brooklyn, NYC.
A very pleasant stay at Corettas in Brooklyn. Price vs quality was very good and everything was nice, clean and tidy. You can really feel at home her, making your own breakfast and also dinner if you want.
The concept of living in Brooklyn as a home-base was excellent!
Coming back from Manhattan to Bed-Stuy in the evening was really nice.
Going with the Metro late nights was no problem, feeling secure the whole way.
A quiet place with a bunch of friendly and helping people.
Small restaurants nearby and several stores to by food and others.
Next time we'll go to New York - this is the place to book!
Thanks Coretta and thanks Wimdu for good services and a reliable concept.
It was superb!
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We really enjoy our stay in New York.
The apartment is particularly well situated, near the subway. It is also spacious. The neighborhood is so quiet.
Coretta was present when we arrived. She gave to us information we needed (shops, subway, ...).
When we had a problem with the hairdryer, Coretta solved it very quickly.
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I've decided to let ds2 self wean. He turned two last Saturday and still nurses one to two times at night between say 8pm and 7am, and on and off all day long. If I'm not home he doesn't seem to miss it, so on days when we are out and about he may only nurse three times or so from the time we get up until we go to bed. On days we are home he does drive by nursing pretty much constantly.
So here's my dilemma. I really want him to self wean, but I want to start setting some limits. I know that the three key nursing sessions for him right now are morning, before nap, and before bed. I want to keep those sessions for as long as he needs them. I'm also not opposed to more than three times during the day, however I'm so done with the constant nursing when we are home. How do I refuse some nursing sessions and allow others and still let him self wean? Is it really self weaning in this case? He seems to want to nurse in the morning before we get out of bed, after breakfast, mid morning, after lunch, before nap, after nap, after dinner, and before bed. That's really starting to take a toll on me. That's 8 times during the day and twice at night. Plus the drive by's that last only a few seconds. I feel drained. And sometimes I can distract him, but that means I have to be standing up - as soon as my behind touches a chair he's on me.
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U.S. officials tell NBC News they believe North Korea does have the capability to put a nuclear weapon on a missile and that they have missile deliverable nukes. Those missiles, however, cannot go more than 1000 miles. NBC's Richard Engel reports.
North Korea escalated its provocative rhetoric on Thursday, warning that its military is authorized to wage "cutting-edge smaller, lighter and diversified" nuclear strikes to protect against the United States.
"The moment of explosion is approaching fast. No one can say a war will break out in Korea or not and whether it will break out today or tomorrow," read the statement of an unnamed military spokesman.
The statement, which was carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), informs the White House and the Pentagon that "the merciless operation of its revolutionary armed forces in this regard has been finally examined and ratified."
The warlike rhetoric is the latest escalation in a series of threats from Pyongyang, which claims the joint U.S. and South Korean military exercises taking place in the South are in preparation for an invasion.
"The U.S. high-handed hostile policy toward the DPRK aimed to encroach upon its sovereignty and the dignity of its supreme leadership and bring down its social system is being implemented through actual military actions without hesitation," the military statement read.
The United States says the exercises are routine military drills.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Wednesday that North Korea's provocations are "a real and clear danger and threat" to U.S. interests and Washington is taking them seriously.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel addresses the ongoing threats made by the North Korean government while speaking Wednesday.
"We are doing everything we can ... to defuse that situation on the peninsula," Hagel said after a speech at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C.
"I hope the North will ratchet this very dangerous rhetoric down," he said, adding that there is a pathway to peace but only if Pyongyang decides to be "a responsible member of the world community."
U.S. response
The U.S. has responded to the diplomatic crisis with more than words, dispatching two warships to the western Pacific to be on alert for missiles and conducting bomber and fighter flyovers.
Defense officials also said an advanced anti-ballistic missile system will be sent to the U.S. military base in Guam in response to North Korean threats targeting Guam and U.S. military facilities in the region.
The system -- which includes missiles, launchers, radar and communications -- is expected to arrive within two weeks.
A former UN official who visited North Korea last year reports that officials there said they could re-start the Yongbyon reactor in three months.
That is a lot shorter than many U.S. nuclear experts believe a re-start would take.
U.S. officials tell NBC News that no matter what the timeline is, they don't believe the operation would be a huge engineering challenge. A re-start would, however, be significant, as it would give North Korea the capability to make weapons-grade plutonium again. The reactor was shut down in 2007.
"North Korea's assertion that it intends to bring Yongbyon back on line can't be easily written off as an insurmountable hurdle," said one U.S. official.
If North Korea were to employ nuclear weapons, it would impact U.S. troops and pressure Japan and South Korea to also consider obtaining nuclear weapons – something that could lead to an all-out arms race. NBC's Andrea Mitchell reports.
Asked how long a re-start might take, U.S. intelligence officials declined to provide any details.
Banning South Korean workers
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has shown no inclination to back off yet. The rogue nuclear state's latest move was banning South Korean workers from the jointly run Kaesong industrial zone.
Seoul said about 800 South Koreans who had stayed overnight at the complex were being allowed to return home, but that new workers were not being allowed across the border.
Kaesong, a major source of income for the impoverished, communist North, is home to 124 South Korean companies that employ 53,000 North Korean workers in a cross-border, heavily fortified joint enterprise. Permission is granted on a daily basis for South Korean workers to cross into the complex, situated in the North, the BBC reported.
"South Korea's government deeply regrets the entry ban and urges it be lifted immediately," South Korea official Kim Hyung-seok told reporters Wednesday.
China expressed "serious concern" to U.S. diplomats over the worsening crisis. A Chinese official met ambassadors from the United States and both Koreas, expressing hope that Pyongyang and Seoul could resolve their differences through talks, China's foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei said, according to Reuters and Voice of America reporter Steve Herman.
PRC foreign ministry says Chinese official has meet US, #ROK, #DPRK ambassadors in Beijing to express "serious concern." #Korea— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) April 3, 2013
Russia also voiced concern about North Korea's military apparatus, saying human error or technical malfunction may cause the situation on the Korean Peninsula "to go out of control," according to a report Wednesday on Russian news service Interfax.
Vowing to reopen the Yongbyong nuclear reactor, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un showed no sign he's listening to the outside world and that his nation has no intention of giving up its nuclear weapons. NBC's Richard Engel reports.
The comments came after Secretary of State John Kerry denounced North Korea's increasingly threatening rhetoric as "unacceptable," and said the U.S. would defend its allies, South Korea and Japan, from any threat from the North.
During a joint news conference with South Korea's foreign minister at the State Department on Tuesday, Kerry said North Korea knows what it needs to do if it wants to resume dialogue with the rest of the world.
NBC News' Andrea Mitchell and Becky Bratu contributed to this report.
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Wednesday is yet another big day in labor talks as things heat up with players and owners once again in New York, and we also head to Denver, San Francisco, and Washington for some football talk.
Fox wants a running back … One of the biggest offensive shifts in the league could come in Denver, where the wide-open passing attack of Josh McDaniels will give way to John Fox's multi-RB approach. OC Mike McCoy is a holdover from the previous staff, but he has experience under Fox and will call the plays. Although the Broncos drafted Knowshon Moreno with the 12th overall pick just two years ago, Fox's #1 priority is to bring in a free agent RB with Moreno potentially moving into more of a third-down role. It's a move we agree with, because Moreno isn't really equipped to be the centerpiece of an offense. He can put up decent production, but he's limited with a lack of fluidity as a runner. Among the free agent RBs, the obvious name is DeAngelo Williams, who had a lot of success with Fox in Carolina, rushing for 1000 yards in back-to-back [...]


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