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In a surprise move suggestive of further capitulation to developer interests, the Sunland-Tujunga Alliance has bought off on Councilman Paul Krekorian's and the City's hopes to revisit the Foothill Boulevard Corridor Specific Plan.
Last week, courting more favor from the Council office, the organization sent a letter to Krekorian's office assuring Krekorian the group supports re-opening the Specific Plan.
Their approving letter to Krekorian also stated that "[A]mending our Specific Plan is not meant to open the Specific Plan to changes that would undermine the underlying purposes and goals of the Specific Plan which are proposed to be left "as is" in the updated Specific Plan."
But a land use analyst told me last night that once a Specific Plan is opened for amending, it may end up being amended in ways that were unintended at the beginning of the process.
"This looks like a way for Dick Platkin to make some money," another source in the Sunland Tujunga community told me. "I can't see any community upside to opening a Specific Plan. You can bet the City and the developers who own it are just licking their chops at the prospects of an opened Specific Plan for our commercial corridor."
The [*leadership of the] Sunland Tujunga Alliance, once groud zero of the City's anti-density advocacy, has also been unusually quiet about a pending 64-unit inclusionary zoning project on Samoa, which I discussed in my profile of Krekorian in April.
The ST Neighborhood Council Land Use Committee meets tonight at North Valley City Hall, 7747 Foothill Blvd, Tujunga.
*NOTE: phrase in post added 6.22 so that Sunland Tujunga Alliance leadership can more readily understand it. The Sunland Tujunga Alliance, a 501(c)(4) organization, entreats the public to contribute to it at its website, but as a (c)(4) does not have an obligation to disclose contributions made to it publicly, or account to the public regarding its financial backing.


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Originally Posted by statusquo
I will contact Pierre to see if he has any more of those old carbon forks.
Support a fellow Canadian and KKF member!
Good luck with your decision. (Those Sabatier forks look nice, too.)
Yes, I ordered one of those forks with my boning knife, can't wait, he might have a few more lying around. Pierre is a great guy, easy to deal with. Oh and yes, Canadian and a KKF member
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I've never purchased or ordered anything from Russell Apiaries and have no "bone to pick" with them. I've heard folks bragging on them and folks dissing them. I have no idea what the story is here. Until I heard that they were going to stop selling to the hobby beeks I was considering getting some caucasians from them in a year or so. I'm aware that people tend to be more vocal when they have problems and that when things turn out smoothly they don't say much...simple human nature.
Whatever the case, I figured I'd create a simple poll. It would be good if only actual customers of Russell's vote, but of course it can't be guaranteed that non-customers will not vote.
Three options:
Satisfied...satisfied with delivery time and/or queen quality
Neutral...nothing really good or bad to report, similar to other queen sellers
Dissatisfied...dissatisfied with long/wrong delivery times and/or queen quality
No need for discussion...plenty of threads elsewhere for that.
And moderators, if Beesource is not the place for this....delete it, please.


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That is darling
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
That is darling
I LOVE it! Good directions, too. Would you object if I made it to sell at our church craft sale?
Thanks for sharing the tute. Your "cake" is absolutely beautiful. I'd love to see pictures of what some of our members make now. Anyone up for the challenge?
Thanks so much for sharing the instructions. This is the most beautiful pincushion ever.
its so pretty. Thank you for shareing. I've already printed it out.
Thank you for sharing the tute! You are very generous.
that is so pretty.
Wow, you did a great job with your pdf file. Thanks. I love the dish you used for your cake stand.
Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost but now am found, was blind, but now I see. [John Newton (1725-1807)]
Thank you for the wonderful comments everyone! To answer some of your posts:
They all will be beautiful! this is an easy and fun project!
If anyone makes one, please either post it here or post it on your own thread and send us the link!
Thanks Linda! I was very nervous about making the directions.
Finding the dish was half the fun... we got it at an old antique barn. Been back there three times to find another to no avail.
I just checked out eBay and came up with some neat finds under $10 for mini-cake dishes. The pedestal kind tend to run more than $10. They tend to be listed as glass compote, bon bon, candy or even candle dishes. Saucers tend to cost less and would not tip over easily.
I'll post the links in case any strike someone's fancy. Since the number exceeds the limit for images, i will need to do it in two posts.
Here are the first few:
Blue Glass Saucer: http://www.ebay.com/itm/180797072040?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649
Green Daisy Glass Saucer:
Pink Glass Saucer:
Vintage China Lacy Design Saucer:


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Vacationing in Italy, you wander into the coastal village of Velia, a few hours south of Naples. On the edge of town you notice an archaeological dig. When you go to have a look at the ruins, you learn that the place now called Velia was once the Greek settlement of Elea, home to the philosopher Parmenides and his disciple Zeno. You stroll through the excavated baths and trace the city walls, then climb a steep, cobbled roadway to an arch called the Porta Rosa. Perhaps Zeno formulated his famous paradoxes while pacing these same stones 900,000 days ago. Was there something special about the terrain that led him to imagine arrows frozen in flight and runners who go halfway, then half the remaining half, but never get to the finish line?
That night, Zeno visits you in a dream. He brings along a sack of ancient coins, which come in denominations of 1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, and so on. Evidently the Eleatic currency had no smallest unit: For every coin of value 1/2 n , there is another of value 1/2 n+ 1 . Zeno's bag holds exactly one coin of each denomination.
He teaches you a gambling game. First the coin of value 1 is set aside; it belongs to neither of you but will be flipped to decide the outcome of each round of play. Now the remaining coins are divided in such a way that each of you has a total initial stake of exactly 1/2. The distinctively Eleatic part of the game is the rule for setting the amount of the wager. Before each coin toss, you and Zeno each count your current holdings, and the bet is one-half of the lesser of these two amounts. Thus the first wager is 1/4. Suppose you win that toss. After the bet is paid, you have 3/4, and Zeno's fortune is reduced to 1/4; the amount of the next bet is therefore 1/8. Say Zeno wins this time; then the score stands at 5/8 for you and 3/8 for him, and the next amount at stake is 3/16. If Zeno wins again, he takes the lead, 9/16 to 7/16.
In the morning you wake up wondering about this curious game. What is the likely outcome if you continue playing indefinitely? Is one player sure to win eventually, or could the lead be traded back and forth forever?
I briefly discussed a version of the Zeno gambling process in an earlier column ("Follow the Money," September-October 2002). Since then I have continued to explore the game, trying to understand its long-term behavior and relate it to other models in probability theory. I've had only partial success, and so what follows is a progress report, presented in the hope that others will build on it.
A few properties of the Zeno game are easy to state. For example, the betting process appears to be fair (assuming that the coin being flipped is unbiased). Each player has the same odds of winning or losing each round, and the amount at risk is the same.
Another way of saying that the game is fair is that the expectation value for each player is 1/2. If you play many independent games, you should come out roughly even in the end. But an expectation value of 1/2 does not mean you should expect to go home with half the money at the end of a single game. Indeed, after the first coin toss, the game cannot possibly end in a tie.
But you can never go broke, either—at least not in a finite number of plays. However small your remaining wealth, the wagering rule says you can't risk more than half of it. Of course the same reasoning protects your opponent as well: If you can't lose everything, neither can you win it all.
Here's another observation: In the game-within-a-dream described above, all of the numbers mentioned have a distinctive appearance. They are fractions whose denominator is a power of 2. In other words, they are numbers of the form m /2 n , called dyadic rationals. Is this predilection for halves, fourths, eighths, sixteenths, etc., a peculiarity of that one example, or does the pattern carry over to all Zeno games?
The answer comes from an inductive argument. Suppose at some stage of the game your score is a dyadic rational, x, and is less than or equal to 1/2. Then the amount at stake in the next round of wagering is x/ 2, so that your new tally will be either x – x/ 2 or x + x/ 2. But x – x/ 2 is simply x/ 2, and x + x/ 2 is 3 x/ 2; both of these numbers are dyadic rationals. A similar (but messier) argument establishes the same result for values of x greater than 1/2. Thus if your score is ever a dyadic rational, it will remain one for the rest of the game. But the starting value, 1/2, is itself a dyadic rational, and so the only numbers that can ever arise in the game are fractions of the form m /2 n .
This line of argument actually yields a slightly stronger result. For a score x <1/2, the net effect of the gambling transaction is to multiply x by either 1/2 or 3/2. In either case, the denominator is doubled; as the game proceeds, the denominator increases monotonically. An important consequence is that the entire numerical process is nonrecurrent : In the course of a game you'll never see the same number twice. This is one reason the game can't end in a tie: After the first flip of the coin, the score can never find its way back to 1/2.
The evolution of a Zeno wagering game corresponds to a special kind of random walk. A player's gains and losses are represented by the movement of a walker along the interval between 0 and 1. The walker starts at the position x =1/2. Each flip of the coin determines whether the next step is to the left (toward 0) or the right (toward 1). The length of the step is half the distance to whichever of these boundaries is nearer. In other words, the step length is 1/2 min ( x , 1– x ).
The illustration at left shows a few trajectories constructed according to these rules. One feature of note is an apparent tendency for paths to flee the middle of the interval and linger near the edges. It's not hard to understand this behavior, at least in a qualitative way. Whenever the walker is near the center, it is moving with higher velocity (that is, taking larger steps per unit time), and so it doesn't stay long in this neighborhood. Out at the periphery, the walker moves very slowly, and so it takes a long time to escape. It's as if the walker were moving over a landscape that's smoothly paved in the middle but becomes a sticky mire near the edges.
A plausible hypothesis suggests that a typical random walk will spend more and more time near the end points of the interval as the walk proceeds, coming arbitrarily close to 0 and 1. To test this idea you might follow a walk for many thousands of steps, but that process is computationally challenging. If you represent the walker's position by means of a floating-point number, the program will usually report that the walker has reached either 0.0 or 1.0 after just a few hundred steps. This outcome would surprise Zeno! The problem is that floating-point formats have only finite precision, and very small values are rounded to zero.
A remedy for the round-off problem is exact rational arithmetic, but this becomes cumbersome. Here is the unwieldy numerical value of a game score after 150 steps:
The numerator and denominator both have 45 digits, and they differ by less than one part in a trillion.
An alternative to tracing a few very long games is to gather statistics on the outcome of many shorter games. The illustration at right gives the observed frequencies of various outcomes for games of length one through six, based on samples of several thousand trials.
Games of length one (a single coin toss) can have only two possible outcomes, namely 1/4 and 3/4, and these events are equally likely. Two-round games must end with a value of 1/8, 3/8, 5/8 or 7/8, and again all four choices have the same probability.
Things get interesting with games of three or more rounds. After the third coin toss, the score of the gambler (or the position of the random walker) must be a fraction that, when expressed in lowest terms, has a denominator of 16. There are eight such fractions, but only six of them ever turn up as results of Zeno games; 5/16 and 11/16 are simply not observed. Among the six values that do occur, two of them (3/16 and 13/16) are twice as common as the others.
Going on to four-round games, the pattern gets more peculiar. In this case all game values must be fractions with a denominator of 32. Of the 16 possibilities, only 10 are actually observed, and a few of these are two or three times more frequent than others. The likeliest game outcomes are 3/32 and 9/32 (along with the symmetrically related values 29/32 and 23/32, which are equal to 1–3/32 and 1–9/32). The differences in frequency are much too large to be an effect of statistical noise.
As the number of wagering rounds increases further, the patterns become even more pronounced. Wide gaps in the frequency distribution turn the graph into a snaggle-tooth smile. And certain numbers are dramatically more popular than the rest. For games of length six, only 24 of 64 possible outcomes are observed, and much of the probability is concentrated in just three values (and their symmetrical counterparts). The three favored fractions are 9/128, 27/128 and 3/128. Why does the Zeno process favor these particular numbers? The powers of 2 in the denominator have already been explained, but why do the most common game outcomes all have powers of 3 in the numerator? It can't be an accident.
In an effort to puzzle out these patterns, I tried constructing the tree of all possible outcomes for games of a given depth. In other words, I listed the two available moves from the starting state x =1/2, then for each of these positions I wrote down the two possible outcomes of another coin flip, and so on. (Eventually I wrote a program to do the calculations and draw the tree.)
Before plunging into the intricacies of the Zeno tree, it's worth pausing to look at a simpler model—a random walk in which the step size is halved with every step. Starting at x =1/2, the walker goes either left or right a distance of 1/4, then 1/8, then 1/16, etc. Tabulating all possible walks of this kind yields a binary tree that fans out to reach all the dyadic rationals. The branches bifurcate symmetrically, and each branch is completely isolated from all the others. The descendants of two neighboring nodes will come arbitrarily close but never touch. In a wagering game based on this rule, winning the first round is enough to put you in the lead forever. Even if you lose every subsequent bet, your share of the wealth can never fall below 1/2.
The Zeno game tree starts out exactly like this tidy binary tree—the first three levels are identical—but then things start to get weird. In the lower levels of the tree there's a lot of disorder, with various gaps between adjacent nodes, and many crossing branches. Even more remarkable, many paths through the tree bifurcate and then immediately come together again. (Strictly speaking, a structure with loops of this kind isn't a tree at all, but it will do no harm to continue using the term.)
We can understand a lot of what's going on in the Zeno tree by looking at two specific fragments. First is the loop formed below the node at 1/4. One path descending from this node goes left to 1/8 and then right to 3/16; another path goes right to 3/8 and then left to meet up at 3/16. The fact that these two routes converge on precisely the same point is not some miraculous numerical coincidence; it's just a matter of working out the arithmetic:
When the dust settles, this identity comes down to the proposition that a half of three halves is three quarters, and likewise three halves of a half is three quarters.
The second interesting spot in the tree is right next door—the pair of paths descending from the node at 3/8. The branch to the left, as we've already seen, goes to 3/16, and then the next turn right on this path lands at 9/32. The alternative route heads right from 3/8 to 9/16; however, on the next leftward bend this path fails to rejoin its partner at 9/32. Instead the branch stops short at 11/32. The reason is that this path crosses the midline of the tree at x =1/2, and for points to the right of this line distance is measured not from 0 but from 1. The two branches fail to meet because the equation no longer holds:
This mechanism effectively divides the tree into three vertical zones. For all points to the left of 1/3 and to the right of 2/3, a node's two children are both on the same side of the midline and thus are governed by the same rule for calculating step lengths. As a result, these zones form a fairly regular latticelike structure, made up of diamond-shaped panes that grow narrower toward the periphery. In the middle zone, by contrast, all nodes have one child on each side of the midline, where different rules apply. The result is chaos.
The structure of this tree begins to illuminate some of the observations made about the statistical distribution of Zeno-game outcomes. For example, a simple counting argument explains the existence of gaps in the distribution. Every node of a binary tree has two descending links, which is just enough to reach all the dyadic rationals, whose population doubles at each level of the tree. But when links from two or more nodes converge on the same child node, then other nodes must be missing from the tree. (If I have two children and my spouse has two children, that doesn't necessarily mean we have four children.)
Counting can also explain why some game endings are more common than others—such as why 3/16 turns up twice as often as 1/16. Think of playing a Zeno game as tracing a pathway through the tree, starting at the root (level 0) and continuing down to some final node. At each interior node, the path turns left or right with equal probability. In the simple binary tree, this procedure yields the same probability for all the nodes at a given level. In particular, at the third level each of the eight nodes is reached with probability 1/8. In the Zeno tree, however, two different paths both lead to the third-level node at 3/16. Since there are two ways of getting to this node, the probability of landing there is doubled.
The path-counting analysis can be understood more clearly if we suppress some of the clutter and disorder in the Zeno tree. Suppose a random walk always takes steps of size x /2, adopting the rule that governs the left half of the Zeno tree but applying it everywhere. The corresponding tree has a uniform lattice structure in which it's easy to count paths (see illustration at left) . Every interior node has two parents, and the number of ways of reaching the node is simply the sum of the number of ways of reaching the parents. Hence the path counts correspond to the entries in Pascal's triangle.
There's something else notable about this tidied-up version of the Zeno tree: All the numbers that appear in the lattice take a very specific form: 3 m /2 n . Thus the numerators are drawn from the series 1, 3, 9, 27, 81,..., and the denominators follow the now-familiar progression 2, 4, 8, 16, 32.... These are the very numbers that appear with higher-than-average frequency in the Zeno game, and it's clear why. The highest path counts run down the middle of the lattice, supporting the observation that numbers such as 3/32, 9/64 and 27/256 are extraordinarily popular.
Of course the real Zeno tree is not so tidy; the lattice is torn apart between any two nodes on opposite sides of the midline. As a result of these trans-midline events, factors other than 3 can enter the numerator; they form shadow lattices of their own, visible in some parts of the tree. Thus the probabilities calculated from the simple lattice are at best approximations.
Those are all the answers I can offer on the Zeno wagering game, but I certainly haven't run out of questions. Here are three more.
First, how dense is the set of numbers included in the Zeno tree, measured as a proportion of all the numbers that might be present? At level n there are 2 n dyadic rationals in all; what fraction of them are Zeno-tree numbers, and how does that fraction evolve as n increases? At the first three levels of the tree the fraction is 1: All the dyadic rationals are included. Then there is a steep linear descent as the fraction goes from 3/4 to 5/8 to 1/2 to 3/8. This series obviously cannot continue or the tree will disappear in three more steps. And indeed the slope begins to flatten out: The next four elements of the series are 9/32, 25/128, 19/128 and 7/64. At this point each level of the tree includes only about a tenth of the dyadic rationals at that level. It seems a reasonable guess that the density will approach zero as n tends to infinity.
Second, how much structure can we find in the Zeno tree? To make this question more concrete, suppose you want to determine which node, on a certain level of the tree, gives the closest approximation to some specified value on the real number line. With the standard binary tree this is easy: You can list a series of left and right turns that describe a path from the root to the closest node. It's not clear to me how to find such a path in the Zeno tree, except by exhaustive search.
Finally there's this big question: If you allow a game to continue arbitrarily long, will one player gain an advantage and hold onto it indefinitely, or will the lead change hands repeatedly? In terms of the random walk, will the walker get stuck on one side, or will the walk cross back and forth over the midline? Of course it's always possible for the walker to get back to midline; all it takes is a sufficiently long sequence of steps in the right direction. But it doesn't necessarily follow that such an event will have a probability greater than zero when the number of steps grows without limit.
For what it's worth, here's what the experimental evidence suggests. In random walks of 10,000 steps, roughly half exhibit no midline crossings at all: The walker sets out either left or right initially and never gets back to the other side. For those walks that do cross the midline, the last observed crossing is usually within the first 10 steps; the latest I have seen is step 101. But trials of 10,000 steps, or even 10 million, prove nothing.
It's entirely possible that these questions have already been answered somewhere in the literature on probability models. Knowledgeable friends have pointed me to two areas in particular: urn models and reinforced random walks. I have not yet found any discussion of a model that I can recognize as being isomorphic to the Zeno game, but I've found some fascinating reading along the way.
Urn models are the 18th-century ancestor of the Powerball lottery: You mix up a bunch of balls in a container and draw them out one by one. Of particular relevance is a class of models studied by George Pólya, Bernard Friedman, David A. Freedman and a number of others, including recently Robin Pemantle. In one version, an urn initially holds one white ball and one black ball. Then each time a ball is drawn at random from the urn, that ball is put back in along with an extra ball of the same color. When the process is repeated many times, will the ratio of black to white balls settle down to some fixed value, or will it keep fluctuating? The answer is that in any single long run, the ratio will tend to a stable value, but the value itself is a random variable. If you try the experiment again, it will come out differently.
The reinforced random walk was invented by Persi Diaconis and has also been studied by Pemantle. The idea is to watch a random walker stepping from node to node through a network. Visiting a node increases the probability that the same node will be chosen the next time the walker is nearby. The question asked is whether the walker can range freely throughout the graph forever or will get trapped in some local neighborhood. The answer seems to depend on the details. On a one-dimensional lattice (like the line of integers), the walker gets stuck in a five-node region. But a variation that associates probabilities with the links between nodes rather than the nodes themselves allows the walker to escape confinement and visit every node infinitely often. On two-dimensional infinite lattices the fate of the walker is unknown.
It is unclear to me whether the Zeno game belongs to the same family as these models. The Zeno mechanism includes no explicit reinforcement of probabilities; on the other hand, it does have an indirect form of positive feedback, because movement away from the center reduces the step size and thereby makes it harder to move back. Perhaps the Zeno process can be reformulated in a way that will make the correspondence with known work clearer. But the analysis of all such models is a subtle art. Every time I think I'm getting close to an answer, it seems the problem has moved on a little further down the road.
© Brian Hayes
Freedman, David A. 1965. Bernard Friedman's urn. Annals of Mathematical Statistics 36:956–970.
Friedman, Bernard. 1949. A simple urn model. Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics 2:59–70.
Hayes, Brian. 2002. Follow the money. American Scientist 90:400–405.
Johnson, Norman L., and Samuel Kotz. 1977. Urn Models and Their Application: An Approach to Modern Discrete Probability Theory . New York: Wiley.
Krapivsky, P. L., and S. Redner. 2004. Random walk with shrinking steps. American Journal of Physics 72:591–598.
Pemantle, Robin. 2007. A survey of random processes with reinforcement. Probability Surveys 4:1–79.
Steinsaltz, David. 1997. Zeno's walk: A random walk with refinements. Probability Theory and Related Fields 107:99–121.
You can find this online at http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/num2/wagering-with-zeno/2
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Kristen Stewart & Alleged Lover Rupert Sanders — PICS
Poor Robert Pattinson! Browse our gallery of Kristen & Rupert together, then tell us: Do you see sparks between them?
If you didn't know Rupert Sanders' name before, you do now! He's the director of Snow White and the Huntsman, but more importantly, he's also the man with whom Kristen Stewart reportedly cheated on Robert Pattinson. HollywoodLife.com assembled this gallery of Rupert and Kristen together from their SWATH promotional tour, so take a look at the photos and tell us: Do you see sparks between the two?
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Slang for acid aka LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide). Typically used by those who know they are as fine as they wanna be (see 'fantastique')
Jane- Yo son, you on that illy spilly?
John- Yes dawg, I am tripping balls.
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|R. Leopoldo Miguez, 22060-020 Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
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This one bedroom apartment is only 370 meters from the sand of Copacabana beach. This is great for a couple or a small group of three people looking for have a good time in the marvelous city of Rio de Janeiro. It's perfectly located, Copacabana neighborhood has everything you may need for a perfect stay in Rio de Janeiro: beach, restaurants, stores, supermarkets, banks, cinema, travel agencies (for tours), laundry services, etc..
It's a residential building located on a quiet street with no bus traffic. The apartment is located, near bus stops and a metro station. Taxis are always nearby. Public transportation is great; you can go wherever you want.
The apartment was renovated a few months ago, with all electrical and hydraulic installations changed.
There is an equipped kitchen with refrigerator, microwave, coffee maker, electric skillet, hot plate, toaster etc.
The bedroom has one full-size bed, LCD TV with a package of sattelite channels including various European channels, air conditioning, and closet. Bed and bath linen included.
In the living room you are going to find a ceiling fan and a small sofa, which opens up to two single mattresses.
The optional hammock can be used in the bedroom or the living room.
Internet Wifi is available for internet access, but you need to bring your own mobile device(s).
If you are looking for a cozy, clean apartment, where you can relax and recharge your batteries after a long day of sightseeing or at the beach, this is your place.
Check-in and check-out times are flexible, if there isn't another check-in or check-out in the same day.
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Check-in and check-out times are flexible, if there isn't another check-in or check-out in the same day.
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If you ever want to feel like living in Rio's Copacabana, stay in Bob & Angelica's appartment. Their clean, roomy and fully equiped appartment makes you instantly feel at home. Everything feels brand new, a good bed and a nice shower! The quit street is close to everything a visitor needs: bakery, supermarket, beach, subway, internetcafe. Bob & Angelica's tips and trics really made our stay in Rio easier and more enjoyable. We really recommend their B&B!
It was a pleasure to have Bob and Angelina as a host. Very good location in the centre of Copacabana in a lovely street, nice appartment and if you need help because of an accident, a denstist for example because of your broken tooth, they'll help you to find a good and friendly one ;)
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The Purpose of Alt Text
Because text most often comes in the form of ink on paper, not all users are able to access all of the information. Alternatives must be provided by LCC in those situations where an accessible format cannot be acquired independently by students.
For instance, a blind user may require text to be converted into Braille, a dyslexic user may require text simultaneous aural and visual access to text, or a user without the ability to physically manipulate the text may require the text to be converted into an electronic format
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Alt text comes in many varieties, and must often be customized for its user. Some of the formats provided by Reader Services are described below.
- Electronic Text
Often shortened to just e-text, electronic text is text that has been converted or created for use on electronic devices such as computers, phones, tablets, or handheld readers for the blind.
E-text comes in many formats itself, including DOC, PDF, EPUB, and websites (HTML). Each format presents its own accessibility challenge, but they all share the key feature of being accessible to computers. This seemingly small feature allows computers and the computer users (you!) to do amazing things with the text, including:
- Select, copy, and paste text.
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Braille is a tactile writing system that uses a system of raised dots within rectangular cells to represent letters and characters. A special machine is required to write Braille to special paper, often making the production of it very expensive.
In recent years, many Braille users have opted to utilize refreshable Braille displays to read electronic text rather than converting text to Braille.Notice! Brailled materials can take up to 12 weeks for processing
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Tactile graphics, like Braille, are a way for visually impaired users to feel information with their hands. But unlike Braille, tactile graphics are used to represent images, graphs, charts, and other visual information rather than textual information.
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Not long ago, Reader Services used student staff to record textbooks onto a cassette tape. While we do still have some tapes, mp3s, and wav files, it is no longer a service that we provide. Voice synthesizers, the technology behind screen readers, improved dramatically in the early 2010s, leading to the decision to discontinue our "books on tape" accommodation in favor of e-text.Notice! Audio Files are no longer available through Reader Services
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After reading the title for this article I know what you're all thinking. Mindy, how can you give insight on promoting yourself in the writing world when:
- You're unpublished
- I never heard of you before
- And your only twenty-two?
- What makes you think you have enough life experience to give us tips?
All valid points and all true. However, I wanted to write these articles for one main reason; I'm learning right along side you. In order to learn with you I have to practice what I preach. So here's what I'm preaching:
In order to become well known as a writer I have learned three very important things from other authors.
- Have a website. A website is incredibly useful. On your author website, readers or potential readers of your work can get to know you, the author. Consider registering your own name or at least your pen name as your own domain and create a portfolio that showcases you and your writing. Your own site also helps keep your readers up to date with any new projects, news, reviews, etc.
- Social media. I've found social media to be a powerful and useful promotion tool. I have had a Facebook account and Twitter page a while but never used them to promote anything writing related, until recently. Now I'm meeting many fellow writers and readers on Twitter and Facebook, especially with Facebook Groups. I highly recommend for those who have a Twitter account to read the conversation hundreds, if not thousands, of writers have each day through the hashtag called #amwriting.
- Events. Going to events based on writing can be hard if you're shy like me. I'm slowly getting out of my shyness because I get out of my comfort zone and put myself out there. Going to events like a NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) Write In, is a great way to get to know local writers and promote yourself. As are local writing groups, conventions, and conferences. Also the good old 'word of mouth' is still much more useful than anything else.
Important Tip: Though promoting yourself is invaluable, remember not to go overboard. I have wasted many days by checking my Twitter account every two minutes. Anything else I wanted to get done that day, like writing, was never accomplished. Also, one of the most effective ways to promote yourself is to promote others. Share and share alike. Give back to the community and you'll become a friend to others who will promote you too.
What other ways can we promote ourselves and our writing? How do you get the word out about what you do?
Until next time, thanks for reading!
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withholding on available satisfaction, as to make the act more pleasurable when finally given in to due to one's appreciation of it's absence.
Not jacking off for a month. Then finally jacking off. Delayed Gratification.
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A term for Money Laundering. Coined after the infamous house majority leader, Tom DeLay, after his conviction on money laundering charges.
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CHEYENNE, Wyo. - A bill that would eliminate the elected position of State Superintendent of Public Instruction has been introduced to the Wyoming legislature.
The Chairmen of the Legislature's Joint Education Committee said their bill, SF0104, "Education-State Administration", would create an appointed position to administer the Wyoming Department of Education.
Prompted in by an acknowledged strained relationship between the Legislature and State Superintendent Cindy Hill, Senator Hank Coe (R-Park) and Representative Matt Teeters (R-Goshen) said the bill has broad co-sponsorship. They said that support includes all majority and minority members of House and Senate leadership, the Joint Appropriations Committee chairmen, and various members of the Legislature's education committees.
In a joint news release, Coe and Teeters said the director would be appointed by the Governor. The bill would also adjust the duties for the Superintendent of Public Instruction. They said Wyoming's state-level education governance structure no longer serves the needs of students, schools and citizens.
Teeters added, "Education issues should not be political in nature. The time has come to take personal politics out of the education equation."
Coe said the legislature was proud of its $1.3 billion annual investment in K-12 schools. He added, "Wyoming has made a first-class effort to provide the best possible education system for our children and we need to ensure we have a Department that can effectively oversee this investment, and that is best provided by an appointed director."


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The 1952 Bowman Small Football Card Set includes 144 cards that measure 2 1/16" by 3 1/8". The 1952 Bowman Small football cards were issued either vertically or horizontally for both the veteran and college players featured in the set. The high number series (73-144) are slightly more difficult and expensive to collect. The 1952 Bowman Small set is identical to the large set with the single exception of size.
The key rookie cards from this set include #14 Paul Brown, #16 Frank Gifford, #23 Gino Marchetti, #29 Hugh McElhenny, #48 George Halas, #85 Andy Robustelli, #127 Ollie Matson and #140 Yale Lary.
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I don't always root for the Cowboys but when I do I wear my pink Jessica Simpson edition Romo jersey. (yes I lost a bet)
I really didnt enjoy this draft. I can see taking Pugh because OTs were flying off the board, but was suprised we passed on Floyd, Werner, and Rhodes here. Jenkins was def not one of my fav picks in 2nd, especially when we passed DT Floyd in 1st and guys like A. Brown, Bostic, and J. Taylor were there. I liked the Moore pick in the 3rd and thought it was a no-brianer for the value. The Nassib pick blew my mind, as I thought we were heading up for Greene, possibly Poyer, or even Porter or Barrett Jones. I really dont understand it, but if he ends up contributing down the road and actually sees the field somehow I can see myself eating my words. I think Cooper Taylor is boom or bust, Herman Im unsure of, and I dont know why we took someone like Cox over Maysonet (who I saw the Eagles drafted in UDFA... great!). Id grade us a low C and thats being generous. Im no expert though and dont claim to be. I hope Reese knows what he's doing because I feel he's lost a lot of my trust after this draft.


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Photos of new WWE signee, French wrestler Tom La Ruffa. Nicknamed "The French Stallion," La Ruffa is a top wrestler in Europe. He is a product of former WWE wrestler Lance Storm's Storm Wrestling Academy and was featured on the premiere season of the World of Hurt reality television series in Canada. La Ruffa has competed in a WWE ring before as he was an opponent of Big Show's in a 3-on-1 Handicap Match last November.


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Cozy Studio Overlooking Pantheon
Size30 m²
Floor No.5
- Family/child friendly
- Kitchen
- Air conditioning
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Enjoy your vacation in this cozy apartment in the historical center of Rome. Close proximity to major tourist attractions of this fascinating city. Just 5 minutes walk takes you to Piazza Navona, Trevi Fountain and Spanish Steps. A great experience!
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Reviews of this property
We spent a great weekend in Lias appartment in september 2013. The appartment is very small, but has everything a couple nede for a good time: Great view to Panteon, roof-top-terrace and many attractions and restaurants in the local area.
Nice appartment, with a little kitchen, toilet/shower, little room with a table/chairs and a sofa (bed). On top of the kitchen a double bed. Great view, and even if it was located in the center, close to Phanteon, it was queite. Close to every attraction, only 10 minutes by bus from central station. Nice and good communication with the owner/landlord. Note: stairs up to 5th floor.
A very nice apartement. Lovely view. !!!! Nice and clean, we had a very good stay, but the apartement is not for older people, it is on the fith floor - and that is a long way up with a suitcase
Kirsten Eriksen
The four weeks in Rome were beautiful. Also because I could be in a very nice apartment. The loft is very well equipped, it has a beautiful view, it is centrally located and still have peace. It was just great.
Die vier Wochen in Rom waren wunderschön. Auch weil ich in einer sehr schönen Wohnung sein durfte. Die Dachwohnung ist sehr gut ausgestattet, man hat einen schönen Ausblick, sie ist zentral gelegen und trotzdem hat man seine Ruhe. Es war einfach super.
Nice studio, with especially a perfect location to visit Rome! Friendly and easy contact with Lia A remake!
Studio sympa, avec surtout un emplacement parfait pour visiter Rome !
Contact chaleureux et facile avec Lia
A refaire !!!
The studio is really perfect! You simply walking distance to everything! The! Ascension of! is a bit exhausting, but was previously known ... One finds in the apartment everything you need for a short stay before! Even coffee and biscuits was ready for us. Lia is very nice and cooperative. So it was no problem to leave the suitcases to the late afternoon in the apartment to get replacement towels etc. Simply by sms or What's app Lia has always responded quickly. At the next visit to Rome be guaranteed stay here again! Grazie mille per un ottimo soggiorno nella Città Eterna, Lia! :-)
Das Studio liegt wirklich optimal! Man einfach alles zu Fuß erreichen! Der !Aufstig! ist etwas anstrengend, war aber vorher bekannt... Man findet im Appartment alles was man für einen Kurzaufenthalt braucht vor! Sogar Kaffee und Kekse stand für uns bereit. Lia ist sehr nett und kooperativ. So war es kein Problem, die Koffer bis am späten Nachmittag in der Wohnung zu lassen, Ersatzhandtücher usw zu bekommen. Ganz einfach per Sms oder What´s app. Lia hat immer blitzschnell geantwortet. Bei der nächsten Romreise werden garantiert wieder hier absteigen! Mille Grazie per un ottimo soggiorno nella Città Eterna, Lia!!! :-)
Great little apartment for 2 people. Fantastic view as it is on the 5th floor. Very central with less than 5 min. walk to the Pantheon and a supermarket in the same street. You need to be in fairly good shape for the stairs.
Very nice and clean apartment with everything we needed. A little tough to get up the stairs sometimes after a whole day of walking around the city, but then we could rest with a drink on the balcony!
A lovely hideaway in the center of the city. Small and simple, but everything is there. Very many stairs but then you enjoy even more when you are above landed. And Lia was great: very attentive and helpful! We have had a wonderful time! Tone
Een heerlijk stekkie midden in het centrum van de stad. Klein en simpel ,maar alles is er. Wel erg veel trappen maar dan geniet je des te meer wanneer je boven bent aangeland. En Lia was super: heel attent en behulpzaam!
We hebben er een schitterende tijd gehad! Toon
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Crypto Complete™, one of the most popular encryption solutions for the IBM i, just took things to a whole new level. Version 3.3 now allows users to automatically encrypt files stored on the Integrated File System (IFS).
"We don't think there is any other solution out there that provides this feature," said Ron Byrd, Senor Engineer for Crypto Complete. "Based on feedback we were getting from our customers, it seemed like the obvious next step for us."
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- Heaven and Hell
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The condition of our world is such today that many are questioning whether the classical doctrine of the Absolute Sovereignty of Almighty God can still have any meaning. Human society is in a state of seething unrest. Quite apart from …Read More
A Sower Went Out To Sow
Church historian Mark Noll writes, "In many ways, the defining figure in the history of American evangelicalism is the eighteenth-century revivalist George Whitefield." Prior to America's declaration of independence from England, the Calvinist preacher from England turned the colonies upside …Read More
Sowing and Reaping
The words of the apostle Paul are ominous, fearsome, sobering, encouraging, and strengthening as he says, "Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, this he will also reap" (Gal. 6:7). When I was a young …Read More
The Spanish Inquisition
In 1492, Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain sponsored Christopher Columbus and his voyage to the New World. But in 1477, they were behind something far more infamous. In that year, the Spanish monarchs petitioned Pope Sixtus IV to revive the …Read More
Speaking the Truth in Love
Sometimes the best way to love your neighbor is to challenge a false belief that is holding him in confusion, discouragement, or some worse state of spiritual bondage. The idea that it's unloving to defend truth or confront lies is …Read More
Speaking the Truth in Love
We live in a world where people love to talk. Studies suggest that the average American adult speaks approximately 16,000 words per day. Multiply that by a lifespan of 70 years, for a total of nearly 409 million words, and …Read More
Speed with God
When Sereno E. Dwight included the seventy resolutions in his biography of his great-grandfather Jonathan Edwards, he added the arresting comment: "These were all written before he was twenty years of age." Doubtless the resolutions display the marks of relative …Read More
Spirit of Light
The reformers placed tremendous stress on the gifts of the Spirit to the whole body of Christ. John Calvin himself has rightly been described as "the theologian of the Holy Spirit" (B.B. Warfield). Yet Reformed Christians always have been given …Read More
The Spirit of Promise
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The Spirit of Rebellion
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Forrer Hall is a center of activity on the residential side of campus. The four-story building houses approximately 360 women in separate areas for first-year students, sorority members, and unaffiliated upperclass students.
Forrer Hall features spacious community bathrooms, laundry facilities on each floor, a 30-station computer lab, and a chapter room for each of the four sororities on campus. A courtyard in the center of the building connects it to the William T. Young Campus Center and the University dining hall.
Many student services are housed in Forrer Hall, providing easy access to all students. These include the Department of Public Safety, the Office of Community Service, the Office of Health Services, and the Department of Residence Life. Forrer provides three conference rooms that are set aside for 24-hour study, and the front lobby also is designated for study. The back lobby is more social with a big screen television, automated teller machine, and the Residence Life Desk, where all residents receive their mail and packages.
Forrer Hall is both social and conducive to good studies. Residents commonly leave their shower caddies in the hallway next to their doors for the entire year without fear of them being disturbed—an example of the congenial atmosphere. Students actively engage in conversation, floor activities, and community service projects and leave their doors open while studying in their rooms.
The facilities, location, and staff contribute to making Forrer Hall an exciting community to live in.


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When the J.J. Abrams reboot of Star Trek, original recipe, was announced, I was highly skeptical.
Abrams had already disappointed me with the endings of Alias and with how Lost, well, lost its narrative flow. I had little faith in his ability to make a movie with a great ending and less faith in anyone's ability to recapture the magic of the original Trek.
The largest problem, to me, was recasting James T. Kirk.
For all the Spock-love, it's William Shatner's Kirk who makes that original series tick. Kirk is the one providing the energy and the fire to that show, the one at the exact center of the logic/emotion triangle, with Spock and Bones McCoy at the ends.
Shatner's acting can be over the top, especially when given some ridiculous scripts in the third season, but he's never boring. Yes, he's known for the women and the ripped shirts but the key to Kirk is his intelligence and his decisiveness, even arrogance.
Kirk's the one who says "not chess, poker." He's the only who doesn't believe in the no-win scenario, he's the one willing to move past the obvious answers and find the hidden ones. For all his supposed recklessness, he's the one who tries to work with supposed enemies like the Horta.
He's arrogant, restless, impulsive, arrogant and sensual and still clear-headed and intelligent.
It's such a fascinating combination and Shatner was so iconic in the role, I didn't expect either the writing or acting to get Kirk right in a reboot.
When the movie started getting great reviews, I decided to give it a shot.
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Primal Rite was born after the premature demise of San Francisco's Scalped, but finds new life adding vocalist Lucy of Profile (React! Records) to an already well-respected lineup that features current and former members of Busted Outlook, Condition, Tony Molina Band, Face The Rail and many other Bay Area punk and hardcore groups. Primal Rite goes beyond any specific hardcore formula, injecting elements of blazing Japanese and Scandinavian hardcore punk, Cleveland-styled crunch and '80s crossover into their sound. Look for a self-recorded 7" single and LP recorded by Jack Shirley at the Atomic Garden (Defheaven, Loma Prieta) soon after.
Jeff Caudill (Gameface), Garrett Klahn (Texas Is The Reason), and Popeye Vogelsang (Farside) are playing a show together on June 24th in Garwood, NJ, each doing songs from their respective past bands. Click on the image below for ticket info.
ThisIsReno.com has posted a photo gallery from the Fall Silent reunion show on March 19th in Reno, NV. It featured the original line-up from their "Drunken Violence" album and was the band's first show in almost 13 years. Click on the image below to check it out.
The Guardian has posted an article by Tony Rettman entitled Still Angry After All These Years. In it, he talks to members of Revelation artist World Be Free, amongst others, about their motivations behind their new band. Click on the image below to check it out.
Our friends over at Doublecrossxx.com have just posted an interview with World Be Free vocalist Scott Vogel. Click on the image below to check it out.
World Be Free's "The Anti-Circle" full-length is now available for pre-order! Click on the image below to order yours today.
They're Back! Well, at least for a couple of shows. Youth Of Today will play Europe with their "We're Not In This Alone" line-up of Ray, Porcell, Sammy and Walter in April of 2016. This will be the first time the band has performed with this line-up in over 20 years. Go!
Revelation Records is proud to announce the up and coming release by World Be Free entitled "The Anti-Circle." Featuring members of Gorilla Biscuits, Judge, Terror, Strife and Despair, "The Anti-Circle" is expected to hit store shelves on February 5th. Click on the image below to check out a track exclusively at punk news.org:


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A once existing webcomic about a futuristic world in which a stranded colony world that derives its technology from plant life. Events unfold, and the colony finds itself with the damaged remains of a large militarized robot that must be rebuilt to find Earth and answers to their origins.
The website was www.kitty-bot.com It was totally awesome.
The website was www.kitty-bot.com It was totally awesome.
Me: Have you seen kitty bot? Can you find an archive of it?
internet: nope, sucks to be you
Me: I am sad =(
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Backyard Berkshires Wedding from Kate Drew Miller PhotographyI'm a huge fan of back yard weddings and how they really allow a couple's personality to totally shine through. And this backyard wedding, captured brilliantly by Kate Drew Miller Photography, is certainly no exception. This adorable couple truly embraced the location
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Weather Journal: Missing Winter? Here It Comes
The dreaded wintry mix will hit Greater New York on Wednesday, but New York City should mostly escape the sleety, slushy conditions that will afflict the suburbs.
Inland areas will see freezing rain along with the rest of the mix, while any fluffy accumulations of genuine snow should reserved only for the Hudson Valley, part of Connecticut away from the coast and the mountains of Pennsylvania. In places like Poughkeepsie, N.Y., snow totals could reach five inches — enough for sledding and snowmen.
But for coastal areas like New York City, Wednesday will bring mostly rain possibly mixed with sleet at times during the morning rush hour. No accumulations of ice or snow are expected in New York City at any time over the next seven days.
At the city's official weather observing post at Central Park, warm temperatures have pushed the mounting snow deficit this winter over the three-inch mark. The five boroughs are currently running a fever of more than six degrees above average temperatures for the first half of the month.
But colder air is on the way. Looking ahead as far out as we can reliably see, a renewed blast of frigid Arctic air looks to arrive early next week that could produce a prolonged stretch of temperatures below the freezing mark. Next Wednesday's high temperature, for example, is currently forecast in the mid-20s in New York City.
That intense cold could linger all the way until the end of the month. With air that cold, snow actually becomes less likely: cold air holds less water than warm air, so any remaining moisture is squeezed out of the atmosphere.
Weather Journal's Greater New York forecast roundup for Thursday:
- WSJ Headquarters in Manhattan:
- Actual High: 37; High feels like: 34
- Actual Low: 34; Low feels like: 31
- Weather: Rain mixing with sleet
- Brooklyn: 37/34
- Queens: 38/36
- Bronx: 37/34
- Staten Island: 38/34
- Poughkeepsie, N.Y.: 35/25, two to five inches of snow
- Trenton, N.J.: 42/31, rain only
- Islip, Long Island: 39/32, a few ice pellets, but mostly rain
- New Haven, Conn.: 36/27, "wintery mix"
Meteorologist Eric Holthaus contributes daily weather reports and analysis on Metropolis. For the latest on conditions in New York and elsewhere, follow his updates (@WSJweather) on Twitter.


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Apartment with Wi-Fi + Balcony
Størrelse50 m²
Etasje(med heis)
- Kjøkken
- Klimaanlegg
- Vaskemaskin / tørketrommel
- Heis i bygningen
- Balkong/terrasse
- Internett/WiFi
- Håndklær
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|Carrer Enric Morera, 08902 L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spania
|Eiendoms ID
|Innen noen få timer
|Kalender oppdatert
|I går
The elegant apartment features wooden floorboards and stylish décor. The combined living/dining room includes a table and a double sofa bed. It contains a twin bedroom, and the fully-equipped kitchen offers stainless steel appliances and a coffee maker. Laundry facilities are available.
Ildefons Cerdà Station is 250 metres away and offers guests access to 4 train lines and 4 metro lines on Barcelona's excellent transport system. The apartment is also well-connected by numerous bus services within walking distance.
The surrounding area offers a parks and a range of shops and restaurants where guests can experience the local cuisine.
HusreglerA fee of €20 is required for check-in between 8pm and 10pm.
A fee of €30 is required for check-in between 10pm and midnight.
A fee of €50 is required for check-in between midnight and 2am.
Authorisation is required for check-in after 2am.
Respect the neighbors and keep noise to a minimum after 10pm.
No parties.
Please empty rubbish into the waste container on the street.
Please ensure the lights and air conditioning are turned off when they apartment is not occupied.
Guests should leave the apartment in the same condition as it was at the time of check-in.
|Pris for >2 gjester
|99 NOK pr. gjest/natt ekstra
|Innsjekking etter
|Check-in før
|Etter avtale
|Utsjekking før
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We had 5 fantastic days in Barcelona, the apartment was great, had everything we needed, we were met on our arrival day outside and told a little about the area and the trains! Apartment was clean and well equipped!! Perfect for 2 adults and 2 teenagers! I would definitely recommend this apartment to anyone, thanks Fernando
Unfortunately the list of cons is longer than list of pros. We were staying in the apartment at the beginning of June. To start with the shower in the bathroom was leaking. A rug we were putting on the ground was completely soaked after each shower. If you forget to put something on the floor there will be a pond. The smell of mould was in the air. However it was recognizable already on the staircase so most probably it was not just a problem of this particular apartment. Secondly, the sink in the bathroom annex was almost completely closed by the cap impossible to lift. Therefore after each usage of the sink it would take several minutes for the water to drain. Third of all, unbearable morning noise from the street. Sometimes it was a garbage truck, other times a cyklist maniac trying capabilities of his motorbike before 8 am - not very pleasant neighborhood. Another "minus" is about bed sheets that were covering materaces - they were simply dirty. The last con I would like to mention is about beds in the bedroom. They were very small and uncomfortable. Springs were creating a noise with tiniest move. After all these come advantages which is location - close to the airport and relatively close to the city center. Well connected by city transportation with the both. Despite shortcomings I mentioned before the apt. was looking quite neat. To sumarize: if you want to stay there only for a weekend and most of the time you will spend outside - you may consider it. Otherwise for this price it is not worth it. It is a pity because with set of easy fixes this apartment could be more appealing.
Great location, just 5 mins walk to FGC station "Ildefons Cerda". Nice decor but there's a few things I have to complain:
1. The bed is not comfortable and there's noise when you turn around.... maybe the support under the mattress is insufficient... the management may consider to add a board or something to improve
2. There is a strong smell coming out from the drainage in bathroom, you MUST keep the bathroom door closed before you go out, otherwise the smell will spread all around the apartment when you are back.
3. The lock of the building gat has some problem, I have to keep turning the key, push and pull the door repeatedly so as to open..... it's a great challenge for me when I went back every night....
4. only 2 rolls of toilet tissue was provided....... hey, I booked 6 nights for 2 persons!! i try to ask more and the staff replied that I have to buy myself....... okay, guys.... if you consider to stay here for a few days or more, pls shop at supermarket first
5. A washing machine is available, but black mould was found on the passage that water goes through ......... I tried to remove them but unsuccessful......
I hope the operator will read this review and fix all the above problems. Besides of all these issues, it is a great apartment. Thank you.
Super apartment, only good things to say.
We Will return to Fernandos place again next year.
Nice and clean place
Very close to nou-camp, shops and metro
Good place for there people
Only problem is the horribele Smell from toilet.
This a ''A'' place ! Clean, well funished, well equiped, with a perfect shower (very importend) excellent airco, giant shopping mall and public transport at 5 min. walk dist. If you are in Barcelona you must stay here ! But one thing : Don't come by car !!! Barcelona is a driving disaster with trafficlights every 15 meters and parking even worse. Luckily Fernando helped us fantastically.
Nice stay in a very authentic place which is very quiet during the night and sometimes busy in the Morning. Modern equipment & furniture as promised and offered. Fernando & Lorena are very polite and reliable hosts. Good place to be in Barcelona if privacy, local life or closeness to the exhibition center is aimed.
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Duke basketball ranked number one
Duke basketball ranked number one
DURHAM - The Duke men's basketball team moved into the No. 1 spot in the Associated Press and USA Today Coaches Poll on Monday, marking the 11th time in the past 16 years the Blue Devils have ascended to the top spot in the polls.
"We are excited about being ranked No. 1," said senior Mason Plumlee. "Part of the reason you come to Duke is to play for a top ranked team, but we are really just focused on improving as a team each day. We are a mature group and we want to be ranked No. 1 at the end of the season. We feel like we are playing as well as anyone in the country and we want that to continue."
Duke has opened the 2011-12 season with nine straight wins, including three wins over top-5 teams (No. 2 Louisville, No. 3 Kentucky and No. 4 Ohio State). The Blue Devils own four wins (Louisville, Ohio State, Minnesota and VCU) over teams that are currently ranked in the top 25 of the AP poll.
Mike Krzyzewski has now led Duke to the No. 1 ranking in either the AP or Coaches Poll in 18 of the past 28 seasons. Krzyzewski holds the NCAA record by leading the Blue Devils to the top spot in the AP poll in 16 different seasons.
The Blue Devils return to action as the top-ranked team in the country Wednesday, Dec. 19 with a home contest versus Cornell at 7 p.m. on ESPNU. Duke also faces Elon Thursday, Dec. 20 (7 p.m. – ESPNU) before the holiday break.
Here is a look at some more No. 1 notes for the Duke program:
· Duke has been ranked No. 1 123 weeks - second-most in NCAA history behind UCLA (134). Coach K has led the Blue Devils to the top spot in the AP poll 105 weeks.
· Duke has spent 92 weeks ranked No. 1 since 1990 - 40 more weeks than the next closest school (North Carolina) in that span.
· Including Wednesday's game, Duke has played more games at No. 1 (210) than as an unranked team (141) under Coach K.
· Entering Wednesday's game, Coach K is second in NCAA history in wins (183) and games (209) while on the sideline for the No. 1 team in the AP poll.
· Duke has been ranked No. 1 in 11 seasons since the 1997-98 campaign. The Blue Devils have been ranked No. 1 68 weeks in that span, 31 more than the next closest school (North Carolina).
· The last Duke recruiting class to not claim a No. 1 ranking in the Associated Press poll was Coach K's three-man 1984-85 senior class of Todd Anderson, Jay Bryan and Danny Meagher. Those three played as the No. 2 team in the country for nine consecutive weeks during their senior season in 1984-85, but never reached the nation's top spot. Since that class graduated, every one of Coach K's recruiting classes has played as the No. 1 team in the nation for at least one week.


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MICHIGAN BRIEFS: Care for a nice, tall glass of ... 'cow pie'? Gulp
This week's nominee for World's Toughest Job: The person in charge of marketing a technology for extracting drinkable water from manure. Announcement of the McLanahan Nutrient Separation System came last week from Michigan State University. The system produces water that is said to be clean enough for cattle to drink. (So if you know a Holstein with high standards, cheers!)
"If you have 1,000 cows on your operation, they produce about 10 million gallons of manure a year," Steve Safferman, an associate professor of biosystems and agricultural engineering who is working on the project, said in a statement reported by The Associated Press. "Here in Michigan, we have a tendency to take water for granted. But out west, for example, where drought remains an issue, the accessibility of clean water could make the difference between a farm remaining viable or going out of business."
The system now extracts about 50 gallons of water from each 100 gallons of manure. Developers are aiming at raising that to 65 gallons. About 90 percent of manure is water. We'll take their word for it.
Supreme Court: State can't stop opening of tribe's casino in U.P.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 last week that Michigan can't block the opening of the Bay Mills Indian Community's off-reservation casino in the Upper Peninsula because the state's legal challenge is barred by tribal sovereign immunity, The Associated Press reported.
Michigan argued that the Bay Mills tribe opened the casino in 2010 without permission from the U.S. government and in violation of a state compact. Writing for the majority, Justice Elena Kagan said the federal Indian Gaming Regulatory Act only allows a state to bring lawsuits challenging casinos operating on Indian lands. The Bay Mills casino was opened outside the tribe's reservation, Kagan said, placing it outside the law's coverage.
Report: Water-based industries account for 1 in 5 Mich. jobs
Michigan is fourth in the nation in the share of its workforce associated with industries that develop freshwater technology and services or are highly dependent on plentiful and clean water, according to a report released last week.
"You just have to look at what's happening around the country with all the droughts to understand how important it will be in the 21st century to know how to conserve and protect water," said Jeff Mason, executive director of the University Research Corridor, the consortium of the University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Wayne State University that sponsored the analysis. The report was produced by East Lansing-based Anderson Economic Group and released during the Detroit Regional Chamber's Mackinac Policy Conference.
The report found that 718,704 jobs in the state — 21.3 percent of total employment — are with industries that benefit directly from innovation and research that boost water quantity and quality.
• Ada-based Amway Corp. said the second arrest of its CEO of India operations in the past 13 months is "unjustified and unnecessary." William Pinckney was taken into custody last week in connection with a consumer complaint alleging unethical circulation of money through the India affiliate, The Economic Times reported. Also last week, Amway extended its research relationship with Yale University to improve Amway products that lighten age spots and resolve other skin tone problems.
• Wolverine Worldwide Inc. filed an infringement suit against the maker of Vans over the blue rectangle heel tag trademarks used on its sport shoes, MLive.com reported. The Rockford-based footwear maker claims the Vans tag looks too much like Wolverine's Keds brand.
• Work is scheduled to begin on a $71 million project aimed at speeding up traffic through northwestern Indiana's congested railroad corridors, which are part of the Chicago-to-Detroit Amtrak route, The Associated Press reported. Officials have estimated the project, along with improvements in Illinois and Michigan, will cut 30 minutes off a Chicago-Detroit trip.
• Michigan State University received a record 33,172 undergraduate applications, up 5 percent from last year. Out-of-state applications increased 12 percent, the Lansing State Journal reported.
• Sparrow Health System in Lansing has more than doubled the size of its surgical center in a $15 million expansion at Sparrow Hospital, the Lansing State Journal reported. The new center has 10 new operating rooms at the hospital's main campus
• Chicago-based fairlife, a milk producer, plans to spend $96.3 million to expand its plant in Coopersville west of Grand Rapids and create 100 jobs. Zeeland-based Lakeshore Advantage, a West Michigan economic development organization, said the Michigan Strategic Fund approved a $9.34 million performance-based incentive package for the project, to be realized over 12 years.
• This just in from the "Be Careful of What You Wish For Department": Saugatuck was voted the No. 1 summer weekend escape destination in the USA Today readers' choice poll.


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Go get Shock Totem #4 for free on your Kindle today. It's a great issue. I love those guys.
Thanks to any who spread the word!
In the last year and a couple months I've sold five books to Delirium/Darkfuse, and it still blows my mind. Dave Thomas just interviewed me on their website, which was a lot of fun, and I reveal some secrets. Have a gander.
Also neat to see that Goodreads has a feature that lets me list the Division mythos on my author page. It's going to be pretty amazing to watch that fill up with all 13 books in the next few years.
Glad I stumbled across that. I learn something new every day.
Jonathan Maberry just guest posted on Book Den, too. Check it out!
Darkfuse has the Delirium novella subscription available for Kindle now too.
And my newest novella DOWN HERE IN THE DARK wants to rock your socks off. Go snag it and leave me a review on Amazon or Goodreads. I'm also giving away a few copies but you have to hurry…
My latest novel (the sequel to Nursery Rhymes 4 Dead Children) is going to go all gang busters on you. It's dark and vivid and wants you to give it a chance.
Stay tuned for an interview with Greg Gifune and a guest post I'll be doing about the first Red Piccirilli book BEFORE LEONORA WAKES.


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Hard Travel to Sacred PlacesHard Travel to Sacred Places is the record of a personal odyssey through Southeast Asia, an external and internal journey through grief and the painful realities of a decadent age. Wurlitzer—novelist, screenwriter, and Buddhist practitioner—travels with his wife, photographer Lynn Davis, on a photo assignment to the sacred sites of Thailand, Burma, and Cambodia. Heavy Westernization, sex clubs, aging hippies and expatriates, and political dissidents provide a vivid contrast… Read More
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[quote user="DavenIII"][quote user="Kase-1"]OK, and what YOU think are 'facts' could turn out as lies too, hell on that line of thought we may all find out that water isnt wet and the sky isnt blue[/quote]
that's the difference Kase I don't think I know anything about this right now, I've heard all the stories from all the different sources....but I don't believe ANY of them are 100% factual...that's why I'm not making a decision..
[quote user="Kase-1"]TMZ, OK I see we're getting condescending and pompous again. News sources such as CNN, Huffington Post, Boston Herald, Daily News and Yahoo are dis-credible sources to you, I forgot it wasnt on CSPAN so you werent allowed to form an original opinion... Silly me[/quote]
Yes I do not consider CNN, Huffington Post, Boston Herald, Daily News and Yahoo credible sources, because they have all (especially the Huffington Post) have been known to opinionate stories.
About CSPAN, you still clearly do not understand what CSPAN is, it's NOT a news source, it literally just broadcasts Congress...while it's in session...there is nobody to relay the information (and therefore editorialize it) CSPAN is the Congress floor...straight into my ears...hence completely unbiased...that's why I'm saying politically it's the only unbiased source...because it's simple the senators/congressmen discussion on the floor.
[quote user="Kase-1"]OK all you keep saying is that your source is credible and mine isnt[/quote]
NO I'm saying ALL sources are not credible anymore, I'm saying the media as a WHOLE can not be trusted anymore....unless it's an unedited police report, a court decision, or it's coming from the horses mouth it has to be questioned....
[quote user="Kase-1"]in reality all that shows is that you're closed minded and cannont accept the fact that someone can formulate opinions different than yours without being a 'sheep' or 'brainwashed'... Its highly offensive, comical, and disgustingly condescending of you, but keep going, humor me
No what I'm angry about Kase, is that people are forming opinions based upon lies, I'm simply NOT forming an opinion...and I don't think you should either..until we have the REAL facts (aka after or at least during the trial)
All of those media sources I named are JUST as biased as anyone out there but that doesnt make them dis-credible, you just gotta take the issues with a grain of salt and free thinking. If they are discredible to you then where do you get your news from, cause im sure they have some bias
Dude the CSPAN thing was a joke, you obviously cant take one
So the media as a whole cant be trusted, OK thats why we have our own sources and such but of course since im on the opposite end of the spectrum you believe that all my sources are just made up fallacies and liberal nonsense and thats comical, it shows just how horribly 1 sided you are
And I gotta say you seem pretty upset that I have formulated a differnent opinion than you on this case, I could careless that you disagree with me and your constant suggestion that my sources are 'false' and 'made up' is quite disrespectful.


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Ignorance on food processing bruises producers, processors, and people.by Hoard's Dairyman staff
Recent media hype, by a select few, has drawn an outcry of attention to food safety concerns concerns that the beef industry is struggling to defend. The challenge for the 2 percent of the population (agriculture) that feeds the world is to provide safe and healthy food. This is difficult to do with the scrutiny of ignorant outsiders. They judge sound and regulated practices and then sensationalize the issue (pouring ammonia on steak). They add colorful vocabulary to stimulate their issue's appeal. (I won't add to the fodder in this blog by using their terms.)
Lean finely textured beef (LFTB) is 100 percent USDA-inspected beef. Repeat. . . Lean finely textured beef (LFTB) is 100 percent USDA-inspected beef. It is not a filler. Fillers would include cereals, legumes, vegetable, roots, and tubers. LFTB is the beef trimmings from roasts and steaks, just with fat attached. LFTB is not subpar, not from the cutting floor, and is not a pet food-only product as some media outlets incorrectly report.
That first swing is viewed as the truth. It is in defending yourself (the second swing per se) where finger-pointing and blame can be assigned. The beef industry has produced videos and sent press releases to outlets in the hopes of educating consumers on lean finely textured beef. However, the media blitz from one national television network had trumped all other major network coverage three-fold and continues to scare consumers.
The company at the center of the issue is Beef Product, Inc. (BPI) which announced that it would suspend operations at three of its four plants in Kansas, Texas, and Iowa. They are not shutting down . . . they are waiting for the dust to settle. They are continuing to pay full salaries and benefits to their employees at these three plants. They believe in their product and their people. In fact, the International Association for Food Protection gave its highest award (only one given each year) to BPI just five years ago. Food safety and quality was a priority then and remains so now.
Schools districts will now have the option to receive meat products without LFTB from USDA. Those products will come at a higher cost because a replacement for LFTB will be more expensive. Who will pay for that increase? Consumers are being encouraged to talk to their grocery stores about purchasing LFTB. And as we know, consumers carry a big stick the checkbook. And when grocery stores or restaurants no longer carry LFTB products, how high will the consumers' bills increase?
I am sure there are people who have heard bits and pieces from the news and have sworn off any meat. That not only affects beef producers, it affects dairy producers, because we are beef producers, too. Over 1.5 million more head of cattle will need to be raised to account for the shortfall if LFTB is not used in the meat industry. That means more cattle (on the same amount of land), more feed will need to be grown, even higher feed prices, all in order to meet the "demands" of today's misinformed consumer.
Learn more about lean finely textured beef so you can speak up for your industry.
Click here for facts about LFTB from the MeatSafety.com website.
Top 8 Myths from the "beef is beef" website are found here.
A meat scientist's technical explanation of the process of producing lean finely textured beef is found here. The second video below also has a microbiologist talking about LFTB.
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Constipation Drug Improves Survival in Palliative Cancer Care »
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Trituration of Mustargen®
(mechlorethamine HCl) for Injection
MUSTARGEN® (mechlorethamine HCl) should be administered only under the supervision of a physician who is experienced in the use of cancer chemotherapeutic agents.
This drug is HIGHLY TOXIC and both powder and solution must be handled and administered with care. Inhalation of dust or vapors and contact with skin or mucous membranes, especially those of the eyes, must be avoided. Avoid exposure during pregnancy. Due to the toxic properties of mechlorethamine (e.g., corrosivity, carcinogenicity, mutagenicity, teratogenicity), special handling procedures should be reviewed prior to handling and followed diligently.
Extravasation of the drug into subcutaneous tissues results in a painful inflammation. The area usually becomes indurated and sloughing may occur. If leakage of drug is obvious, prompt infiltration of the area with sterile isotonic sodium thiosulfate (1/6 molar) and application of an ice compress for 6 to 12 hours may minimize the local reaction. For a 1/6 molar solution of sodium thiosulfate, use 4.14 g of sodium thiosulfate per 100 mL of Sterile Water for Injection or 2.64 g of anhydrous sodium thiosulfate per 100 mL or dilute 4 mL of Sodium Thiosulfate Injection (10%) with 6 mL of Sterile Water for Injection.
MUSTARGEN, an antineoplastic nitrogen mustard also known as HN2 hydrochloride, is a nitrogen analog of sulfur mustard. It is a light yellow brown, crystalline, hygroscopic powder that is very soluble in water and also soluble in alcohol.
Mechlorethamine hydrochloride is designated chemically as 2-chloro-N-(2-chloroethyl)-N-methylethanamine hydrochloride. The molecular weight is 192.52 and the melting point is 108-111°C. The empirical formula is C5H11Cl2N•HCl, and the structural formula is: CH3N(CH2CH2Cl)2•HCl.
Trituration of MUSTARGEN is a sterile, light yellow brown crystalline powder for injection by the intravenous or intracavitary routes after dissolution. Each vial of MUSTARGEN contains 10 mg of mechlorethamine hydrochloride triturated with sodium chloride q.s. 100 mg. When dissolved with 10 mL Sterile Water for Injection or 0.9% Sodium Chloride Injection, the resulting solution has a pH of 3-5 at a concentration of 1 mg mechlorethamine HCl per mL.
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Before receiving mechlorethamine, tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are allergic to it; or if you have any other allergies. This product may contain inactive ingredients, which can cause allergic reactions or other problems. Talk to your pharmacist for more details.
Before using this medication, tell your doctor or pharmacist your medical history, especially of: blood/bleeding disorders (e.g., anemia, low blood cell counts), gout, current infection, kidney disease, liver disease, radiation treatment.
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