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Casper - A Great Stylish Studio, in a traditional Cypriot stone village
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Velikost40 m²
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|Mama street, 7740 Tochni, Larnaca, Kypr
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It is situated off a very quiet pedestrian street, within walking distance of a cafe, shop, bank and restaurants. Parking is about 20 metres away and is secure.
Wi-fi is available and the owner lives close by to offer help and advice regarding places to see and visit nearby and across the island.
It is a great place for walking, cycling and photography!
Domovní řádCheck is from 14.00 to 20.00.
Check out by 12.00 midday.
Smoking is permitted outside only.
You have close neighbors so party animals would be better to stay elsewhere!
There are steps and it's situated on side of a hill so you need to be fit!
|Weekly rate for up to 3 guests
|379 €
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|1316 €
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Very good stay in Tochni.
High quality welcome by Hugh with so wonderful generosity.
All appartments in Dolphin House are so nicely furbished and clean.
A very good place to stay and to come back as soon as possible.
Very nice place and comfortable. The village is calm, beautiful and a good counterpart to the touristic "madness" like Limassol. Hugh is friendly and helpful, when we needed something in the apartment we got it immediately. The apartment has appropriate facilities. Tochni is good starting point to visit the whole island. Only two small shortcomings: we had the apartment with the sea view and the "view on the sea" was a little bit exaggerated (but no wonder, Tochni is about 6miles from the sea – so no reason to complain), and the kitchen had only one hotplate. But except these little points, we enjoyed the stay at Dolphins House very much.
We were the first guests of Hugh and received a very warm welcome. The appartments are beautiful, modern and located in a nice part of Tochni. Parking your car isn't a problem at all and Hugh did everything to make sure we had a pleasant stay. He was very flexibel and everything was possible. We really enjoyed our stay and I can absoluty recommend a stay in Tochni.
Es war ein super schöner Urlaub! Wir wurden sehr herzlich empfangen!
Die Unterkunft war exakt wie die Fotos es versprochen haben.
Es war alles notwendige vorhanden. Sollte doch etwas gefehlt haben, standen Hugh oder seine Vertretung jederzeit zur Verfügung.
Wer nicht mitten in den Touristenorten leben möchte, ist hier genau richtig.
Sollten wir noch einmal nach Zypern fliegen, würden wir aufjedenfall das Casper-Appartement buchen.
Liebe Grüße Claudia und Clemens
Tochni ist ein wunderschönes, sehr ruhiges Dorf mit 2 Tavernen. Die Unterkunft bei Hugh war stilvoll und angenehm.
Er ist ein guter Gastgeber und schaut bestens zu seinen Gästen!
Wir würden uns wieder für seine Unterkunft entscheiden!
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The host cancelled the booking, this review is automated.
It was such a nice holiday. the apartment was perfect, so beautiful! Hugh is an amazing man, very very friendly. When we arrived, we had a very big problem and Hugh did very thing to help us. we thank Hugh very much!
We will come back, for sure!!
We were looking for a quiet place in Cyprus and with the Alpha Studio we found exactly what we were looking for . It was love at first glance. The apartment is tasteful furnished, equipped with all basics you need for a relaxing vacation. The apartment is a peaceful oasis within the village and located that you feel integrated into the village community. You can have very nice chats with the people from Tochni. The surrounding area is ideal to have nice hikes in whatever direction. April was a perfect time concerning the climate.
Hugh was a very charming host and always helpful for all kind of questions . Thanks a lot
Peter and Gisela
Our stay on Cyprus was great! Hugh was a great host, and the Apha Studio was beautiful. The apartment was only a bit hard to find at night.
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Looking back it is strange, and sad, to consider Lou Vincent was just 29 when he played his last match for New Zealand.
His retirement from the game at 34 ends the career of one of the country's most colourful players, and you're left wondering at a talent lost just when he should have been reaching his best years.
Remember Vincent is one of just eight New Zealanders to hit a century on test debut. But only Vincent did it against Australia, one of four centurymakers in Perth in 2001, and against a bowling attack of Glenn McGrath, Jason Gillespie, Brett Lee and Shane Warne. Some entry, that.
There were three hundreds in his 23 tests, including 224 against Sri Lanka in Wellington in 2005 - the eighth highest score by a New Zealander - but a test average of 34.15 is lower than it should be for a batsman of considerable talent.
In a sense, Vincent was never about numbers. He had a flamboyance about his batting.
When on song, he was a treat to watch.
He was a pioneer in the use of the Mongoose bat - possessing a longer handle and shorter blade with more meat at the bottom of the bat.
It looked odd, but in the right hands, such as Vincent's in the short forms, it worked. "The idea is to bat normally and just let the bat do the talking for you," he once said of the Mongoose, ironic given Vincent's love of talking for himself.
Vincent's career was blighted by battles with depression. He was certainly misunderstood by the powers within New Zealand Cricket, and the national team.
Blues coach and former All Black great Sir John Kirwan, another who has had a high profile battle with mental health issues, recalled a teammate who offered the seriously new age remedy of "just harden up". Vincent could probably relate to that.
He didn't feel the warm embrace and certain heads around the New Zealand team at the time should have heads hung in embarrassment at his treatment.
Add to that he has a distinctive, quirky personality, which didn't always sit comfortably in a clique-heavy dressing room.
Vincent's problems came to a head in 2007, his final year in the national team. Getting away from the game he loved at that time was "the best thing for me" he reflected recently.
"I was very passionate about playing for New Zealand. But how many times can you be let down by something that you love? How many times can you have your heart broken?" he said in an interview.
Lack of support left him desperate.
"I had my first child who I would look at and think, 'God what world have I brought you into? I am completely pathetic'."
Vincent became a cricketing wanderer. He did stints with four English counties and popped up in T20 leagues around the globe.
He was an entertainer and if consistency - he also had three hundreds and an average of 27.11 in 102 ODIs - was a problem, Vincent was always worth watching.
His run-a-ball 153 against Canterbury two summers ago carried Auckland to the national one-day title.
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By Alex Hickey / American Press
It's October, which means the only thing on the line in every game is the entire season.
"These next three weeks is technically a playoff game for us," said McNeese State wide receiver Darius Carey. "We win each of these next three, we'll definitely be in the hunt for a conference championship."
Things went south on McNeese last October. The Cowboys lost all four of their games and needed to win out in November just to salvage a winning record.
The No. 19 Cowboys (4-1, 1-1 Southland) will try to wipe away the taste of last year's Dead October in a crucial matchup with No. 21 Central Arkansas (4-2, 2-1) tonight at Cowboy Stadium.
"I feel we're in better position than last year," said right tackle Alec Savoie. "Just having the week of rest helped some guys get back on their feet. Some guys who might not have been able to play last week we've got back."
McNeese is coming off its bye, while UCA has yet to have one. The Cowboys bye was in Week 2 last season.
"I'm sure our training room looks a little more crowded than theirs, you would think," said UCA coach Clint Conque. "We've played six very physical games without a chance to breathe."
The stakes are high for both teams. The only team to win a Southland title with more than one loss was Texas State in 2008, and that was on a technicality because one-loss UCA was ineligible for the crown as it transitioned from Division II.
The loser will likely see its championship hopes vanish and may need to win the rest of its games for a shot at an at-large FCS playoff berth, though a season-opening win over Middle Tennessee State could give McNeese slightly more at-large breathing room than the Bears.
It's a game our program really embraces. We have great respect for that program," Conque said. "They're kind of the gold standard of the conference regardless of who is playing well for a period of time. You have to go through McNeese to get a conference championship and I think this year is no different."
On top of that, there's a trophy to battle for in the Red Beans and Rice Bowl.
"We've got to go get our trophy back," said McNeese safety Terence Cahee.
Based on recent results, the game is poised to live up to the billing of a battle between nationally ranked teams.
The last three meetings between the Cowboys and Bears have been decided by less than a touchdown, with UCA winning the last two games in Conway, Ark.
"They've been really competitive games," said McNeese coach Matt Viator. "Any time that happens, you develop a really good rivalry."
Turnovers, or the lack thereof, may be the deciding factor tonight.
McNeese turned it over five times in last year's 21-18 loss, including a Marcus Wiltz fumble near the goal line that was returned 98 yards for a Bear touchdown.
The Cowboys and Bears boast the best turnover margins in the Southland, with McNeese at plus-8 and UCA at plus-7. Viator has expressed the importance of ball security in the two weeks McNeese has had to prepare since its 30-22 win over Northwestern State.
"It's going to be huge. Obviously that cost us last year," Viator said. "We had turnovers at bad times... We keep stressing you've got to finish the play."
NOTE: Viator is going for his 50th career win. If McNeese wins, he will become the second-fastest Cowboy coach to reach that milestone, trailing only Les DeVall (1957-65).


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Obama's Undeserved Peace Prize
Original post made by Paul Losch, a resident of Palo Alto, on Oct 10, 2009
The Nobel folks decided, rightly or wrongly, to send the message that the United States as a country is important, and the Obama leadership is welcomed, and the Bush leadership is rebuked in a major way.
The Obama White House was so surprised by this whole thing that I find it surprising the President could make a statement within hours.
Should he have declined the honor? Reasonable people can argue yes and no around that. For me, he described the prize as a call to action. A call to action cannot be argued, prize or not.
a resident of another community
on Oct 10, 2009 at 4:25 pm
Thank you Paul for your rational response.
a resident of Midtown
on Oct 10, 2009 at 6:21 pm
"For me, he described the prize as a call to action. A call to action cannot be argued, prize or not."
Can anybody explain this statement to me?
a resident of Atherton
on Oct 11, 2009 at 10:42 am
Call me old-fashioned, but I don't think you should give prizes to people to INSPIRE them to do the things they need to do in order to earn the prize, but rather to people who have already DONE the things that were necessary to earn the prize.
I think it shows that there's one group more "in-the-tank" for Obama than the US media: the Norwegian Nobel Prize Selection committee.
a resident of Greenmeadow
on Oct 11, 2009 at 11:35 am
I think people need to stop bickering about what has been done, or what other people have done, or their opinions about everything, and take some action themselves. The people of this country are far too opinionated.
a resident of Midtown
on Oct 11, 2009 at 3:08 pm
Paul, suddenly this is about what COUNTRY deserves the "prize"? C'mon. And about rebuking Bush? Geez..Um..he has been out of power since the Dem takeover in 2006, what little power was left to the Office of President nearly completely neutered after 11/4/08, and then completely out of any power at all for the last nearly 9 months.
I won't repeat what the other threads said out of not wanting to bore anyone, but I simply could not let go by without comment this attempt to redefine the meaning of this "prize" ( sorry, can't write it without the quotation marks).
No, it was all about hoping Obama would get straightjacketed into expanding Carter's foreign and domestic policies, ( the last US Pres to get this, not shockingly), both of which we continued to pay for over the next 30 years in terrorism, culminating in 9/11/09, and in the economic wildfire lit by Carter's Community Reinvestment Act ( which Obama worked for through ACORN as an Attorney).
Well, ok...so if these are the results that our country must bear in order to earn such an important "prize" to tell us how highly important we are now to the Nobel Committee, please, I will beg them, don't wish any more importance on us!
a resident of Downtown North
on Oct 11, 2009 at 3:24 pm
I share Perspective's wish to forget that GW Bush was president, but we are stuck with his toxic legacy for at least a generation. I think the Nobel committee is recognizing Obama's efforts to erase its most egregious immedaite effects, and I concur with Paul L's surmise that the prize expresses an international desire to continue that course.
Significantly, I notice that Obama's neocon detractors on this forum carefully avoid mentioning the first two US presidents to win the Peace Prize: Teddy Roosevelt (that profound embarrassment to the Republican party, second only to Lincoln), and of course Woodrow Wilson, their archguru of international interventionism.
a resident of Midtown
on Oct 11, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Willie Brown's humorous comments today ("What's Next for Obama -- Sainthood?") at Web Link
I voted for Obama, but so far he has been a disappointment. For a while I thought I was the only one who saw him as "The Speechifier." But I see columnists saying that he talks too much and does too little, e.g., Nancy Gibbs in Time: "By now there are surely more callouses on his lips than his hands." Web Link
Awarding Obama a prize for his words is a nice gesture, but I wish the committee had waited until he walked the talk.
a resident of Midtown
on Oct 11, 2009 at 4:01 pm
Teddy Roosevelt got the NPP for negotiating the Russian/ Japanese peace
Woodrow Wilson got it for ending the First World War.
It it chose Carter, an American ex president, who uses moral equivalence as a tool for making peace.
A better award for Obama at this point in his
"I've only been President Not George Bush for 9 months"?
Presidential message is an Oscar for his performance with a teleprompter.
A cautionary tale in Mikhail Gorbachev who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990.
A year later, he was out of power and the Soviet Union had dissolved.
In 2010 the balance of power in House may change and the socialist experiment of Pelosi etc will be dissolved.
a resident of Downtown North
on Oct 11, 2009 at 5:27 pm
"I've only been President Not George Bush for 9 months"
That's more than sufficient. Obama would not have gotten the award had he followed President Gore.
"Presidential message is an Oscar for his performance with a teleprompter"
If that were true, Reagan would have won 8 oscars in a row,1981-1988. Actually, I always thought Reagan should have shared the Peace Prize with Gorbachev. Perhaps he was offered it, but declined fearing a withering backlash from Republicans.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Oct 11, 2009 at 10:32 pm
Since this is about Obama getting elected ... I think the Nobel committee should have given their Nobel Peace prize to the American people, and donated the money to the US treasury.
a resident of Meadow Park
on Oct 12, 2009 at 5:53 am
Some people may think progress toward larger governments and progress toward socialist governments is progress toward peace.
Those are, in my opinion, the primary achievements (as opposed to hopes and efforts) that Obama has made.
Saying what foreign governments want to hear may be a good thing, but it's not a foreign policy achievement.
a resident of Midtown
on Oct 12, 2009 at 7:14 am
Prize Meaning: Well said.
Paul: If we follow your logic, anyone elected after Bush should have gotten the Nobel Not-Bush prize. Or is it only anyone following Prize Meaning's definition of presidential progress? If that is the case, then it isn't really a not-Bush prize, but a not-pro life, liberty and individual responsibility prize.
When the NYT, you, and every other left-winger ( I say this because my side, along with the Founding Fatheres, is always called "right wing") actually WANT to proclaim award as defined as you have defined it, then I guess the prize really should just be renamed.
Why doesn't the NYT hold a re-naming contest, and let's just call it what it is?
a resident of Barron Park
on Oct 12, 2009 at 8:22 am
"Those are, in my opinion, the primary achievements (as opposed to hopes and efforts) that Obama has made."
There was also the little matter of rescuing the world economy from the GW collapse....
a resident of Downtown North
on Oct 12, 2009 at 11:01 am
"Paul: If we follow your logic, anyone elected after Bush should have gotten the Nobel Not-Bush prize."
No. Neither Cheney nor Palin would likely have gotten it.
"I say this because my side, along with the Founding Fatheres, is always called "right wing""
Whatever you say, for yourself. But be careful what company you arrogate: The founding fathers were extreme lefties with radical notions: empire of laws not men, republic not kingdom, all men created equal. Jefferson even rewrote the gospels (horrors) to leave out the miracles. The right wingers of the day (called Tories) despised them almost as violently as our contemporary right wingers do Obama.
"Why doesn't the NYT hold a re-naming contest, and let's just call it what it is?"
Does the NYT have to always define your world for you? Where's that good old fashioned right wing initiative?
a resident of Midtown
on Oct 12, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Slight foray into definitions:
Paul, I realize you don't want "the right" to be associated with the Founding Fathers, but you have to look at what the "Right Wing" advocates in our country, and what the Founding Fathers advocated.
I agree with you, in OTHER countries living under tyranny right now, the same principals our own Right Wing now advocates, and that were the foundational principles of this country, are considered "liberal". That is where the term "neoconservative" comes from, those of us who support individual freedom, including the freedom to accept one's own consequences, are the liberals of the 60s and 70s, before the traditional meaning of "liberal" got confused with meaning "trust government decisions over individual abilities", or "marxist" or "statist" or "socialist" or whatever you want to call it. The end result still is taking from one to punish or reward another, as decided by someone in government.
So, by definition, we, the real liberals of the 60s and 70s, broke off, and became "neoconservatives" recognizing that our original "left wing" home had gone full circle back into..whatever you want to call "government control of individuals".
The original meaning of liberal, getting government to butt out and stop stealing from people, stopping government from determining what people could and could not do, etc was what the Founding Fathers professed, and what our "Right Wing' professes in our modern era.
You have to remember that our entire country has shifted so hard to the left that our left wing now has come full circle, with every policy push resulting in loss of freedom for someone in our nation with a goal of equality of OUTCOME, not equality of OPPORTUNITY.
This is a fundamental difference in philosophy between the two sides, regardless of what you want to label it, but it does mean that whoever opposes this shift is now considered "right wing". Like so many other definitions in the last 20 years, it is upside down, but it is the language we use.
As for NYT, trust me, I don't give a flip, and neither do the vast majority of Americans, what the the NYT thinks. I thought it would be a good idea to simply encourage the news media of the left to re-name the award into one that is a real name, not a fake one. Me, I don't care if you call it "World's Best Dad" Award, it won't matter a whit to the vast majority of us. Most of us know it as a joke that occasionally isn't,by accident, and that is that. I just think it is hilarious that the biggest "big government" supporters are finally actually admitting it is a misnomer as well, and wish them luck with the renaming.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Oct 12, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Some posters to this thread qualify for the Nobel Prize for Most Convoluted Attempt at Logical Thought in Justifying Denial of Fact. The awards dinner is staged by the Pythons.
a resident of Downtown North
on Oct 12, 2009 at 3:05 pm
Some perspective from Johnny Cash:
"Well, the one on the right was on the left
And the one in the middle was on the right
And the one on the left was in the middle
And the guy in the rear, said "hear, hear"."
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Oct 12, 2009 at 8:23 pm
Who cares? People who deserve a prize, don't need one.
I do think he should give the money to charity.
a resident of Professorville
on Oct 13, 2009 at 1:56 am
When I heard that President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize my first reaction was "Oh boy, now I can rush home and maybe watch Glen Beck's head explode on national TV".
Didn't happen, but I get to log onto Palo Alto Online and laugh at "Obama Derangement Syndrome".
After just days earlier having to be subjected to the pathetic and despicable spectacle of conservatives clapping because the USA lost the Olympic Bid...oh wait because losing means "Obama Fails", then the world awards our President with the Nobel Prize. And the spasms continue!
For another perspective on this...
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Lots of people got the Nobel Peace Prize even though their inspirational efforts had so far borne no fruition, or even never materialized.
Bishop Desmond Tutu got it even before the apartheid system of South Africa was dismantled and replaced by the ANC taking power.
Former President Carter received it even though Begin later double crossed him and the peace efforts floundered.
In 1935 a German journalist was given the award because he symbolized opposition to the rising Nazi power...
Dissidents in Myamar and Iran have been awarded the Nobel Prize for their stance and efforts, even though "no real" achievement may be in evidence.
Woodrow Wilson was awarded the prize for his work in Versailles Treaty ending World War I, and in forming the League of Nations. But look how that turned out----Versailles only laid the foundation for World War II and the League floundered. But the Prize went for his efforts and goals.
History is full of "problematic" Nobel Peace awards. One was given to Henry Kissinger, a man better suited to sit in the dock of a War Crimes Trial.
Teddy Roosevelt was given a Nobel Peace Prize for his role in negotiating an end to hostilities between Japan and Russia. But any even cursory review of Teddy Roosevelt's many speeches exhorting war as a noble and invigorating endeavor should give wonder as to why he would ever get a "Peace" prize. (Though domestically Teddy Roosevelt did many great things, broke through many barriers...and when his own son Quentin died in WWI he was quite inconsolable for years after).
Throughout it's history the Nobel Prize has been awarded for people who try, whose efforts and words inspire, way in advance of the actual goals being accomplished. One may disagree with this all they want. But Obama receiving this award and honor does not break away from past award practice. People should stop pretending that it does.
To quote Obama..."..it's also been used to give momentum to a set of causes"
You may disagree with "the cause" whereby Bush/Cheney was replaced by Obama. You may not even have a hint of understanding of what Bush/Cheney did to our international standing and reputation, how out of control and downright crazy we seemed to the majority of the world (just look at video's of John Bolton ranting at the UN for instance). You may want Obama to fail and will go to any length in that quest, be it clapping when his efforts fail to win our country the Olympics, booing when our President is awarded the Nobel Prize as part of a tsunami of international support and appreciation, may embrace outright racism in the desperate quest to somehow vanquish Obama, may even entertain dreams of a military coup. But meanwhile the rest of us move on in support of President Obama's basic goals and the world now views our country in a favorable light again.
And President Obama accepted the award as "a call to action".
Meanwhile some consider international encouragement and hope for success for an American President is something to be ashamed of.
The American President just won the Nobel Peace Prize.
By any measure all Americans should be proud.
a resident of Barron Park
on Oct 13, 2009 at 10:00 am
According to an online dictionary, "underserve" means "To supply with insufficient services, especially social and health services."
How does that meaning work in the headline of this article? And how do the followup comments contribute to anything except spleen venting?
a resident of Community Center
on Oct 13, 2009 at 11:28 am
Jon S--I thick thumbed the title, my intent was to use the word "undeserved," not "not underserved."
a resident of Community Center
on Oct 13, 2009 at 12:25 pm
So what? Good grief, we build too high the pedestal; too much nothing about nothing that changes to world!
a resident of Professorville
on Oct 13, 2009 at 1:42 pm
First it's again predictable how the intended headline language spin assumes something--that the Nobel Prize awarded to President Obama is somehow "underserved"--- which upon even a cursory deeper analysis is found to be off base.
But Paul may have done a literal Freudian slip...
"Under served" about fits the bill.
People should be "serving" gratitude and appreciation that we finally have a President who has a hefty abundance international standing, influence and clout. Especially so in light of the previous administration's despicable record.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Oct 13, 2009 at 9:37 pm
Well, golly gee. If enough high-minded Palo Altans think Barry really earned it, then it must be so!
a resident of another community
on Oct 14, 2009 at 2:16 am
Obama has changed the attitude of the US to the rest of the world. GW gave gave the US "Freedom Fries" and was openly hostile to Europe (and most of the rest of the world), the US Obama leads is much more civilized. The award recognises the changes that have already happened, as well as encouraging future action.
I used to live in Palo Alto (and loved it), but was always slightly shocked at how little attention was paid to the rest of the world, even in such an open and intellectual community. The comments so far evaluate Obama from a domestic viewpoint, but the Nobel prize is not a domestic prize.
Be gracious, accept that even the first attempts at turning the very influential US around was considered by the Nobel committee to be worth the prize.
a resident of Professorville
on Oct 14, 2009 at 8:25 am
It will be interesting to see what the future holds. In 10 years, unless the right wing hit job agenda gets it's way (mirroring the abortion action), former President Obama will be introduced as "Nobel Prize Laureate and former President of the United States..."
a resident of East Palo Alto
on Oct 16, 2009 at 11:06 pm
Maby you deserve it..since in SURE YOU THINK YOU DO..Mr "Hoover"
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Oct 21, 2009 at 3:14 am
I think many of the above posters underestimate how frightening the prospect of a fascist state in the US is to the rest of the world -- the push for permanent Republican majority at any cost has not gone away, either -- and their understanding of just what Obama was up against to get elected and at least make for a chance that it won't happen. I have a colleague from Germany -- where growing up they had to study the speeches of Hitler line by line, and the colleague says many of the same tactics were used by neocons, and why can't people here see that?
It wasn't about Bush, it was about the neocon agenda that he perfectly embodied. Neocons are just like communists complaining that we just need to push for more perfect implementation of the ideology and everything will go from terrible to great. They're just the other end of the extreme. We may not see that here, but it's pretty clear from the outside.
a resident of Midtown
on Oct 21, 2009 at 6:09 am
Yep..uh huh..yes, right.
The classical liberals ( the dreaded label "neo-con") clearly were and are as scary as Hitler in their beliefs and techniques. C'mon...you gotta be kidding...You truly believe that people who stand on the side of individual freedoms and individual rights would pull a Hitler? Geez. Europe's education is pretty scary if this is what they are producing. Did you and your friends study all the speeches of Stalin? Mao? Castro? Note any similarities? Did you know that Mao massacred more people than Hitler and Mussolini combined? Somehow Mao is never held up as a symbol of horror..think about why you think "Hitler" not "Mao" whenever you want such a symbol, and ask yourself why this is true? Examine your own brainwashing.
Not saying that Hitler was a good guy, don't get me wrong!! But the reflexive comparisons of all quote "right wing" to Hitler is absurd.
First, if you listen to Hitler's GOALS and the methods he wanted to use to get there, not just the "pretty speeches"..who/what party does he remind you of?
You have to learn that EVERY dictator wanna-be uses high sounding rhetoric in speeches, period. EVERY candidate and party sounds the same in its goals. Most humans want peace and prosperity, so of course speeches sound "the same". Read what Mao, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin all "said" in their speeches, and you will be shocked at how much you agree with. for their goals "Peace" "Prosperity" "Health Care for all" "No more poverty" "Our moral duty to..." Blah blah blah
Where the real fear comes into play is when there is a brainwashed public and "journalism" which has a propoganda template, combined with a government determined to convince you to "believe what I tell you, not what you see" mentality, mixed in with always standing on the same side as loss of individual liberty, ...be it in deciding which other governments to support, or which domestic policies to push.
This pattern has clearly been the tactic of the Democrat party in this country for over 30 years, and has now come back into full ascendency. You have not seen AS MUCH, please note, I said AS MUCH, coming from our right, or even the European right. Some, because ANY growth in government equals a loss of someone's individual amount of freedom.
If you don't like to read, tre to see the movie "Straight Talk", or the other one "Remains of the Day" to get a sense of true historical perspective. Compare to who says and does what today. Check out the list of Nobel Peace "Prize" nominees and recipients, and you will see why Obama was not overly thrilled with getting this "award". he knows what company he is in, for the most part. Don't be shocked if somebody nominates, let alone gives the award to, Chavez next year for his "Peace Work" in South America with Zelaya ( I say this with full disgust). Ask anyone, and I mean anyone, who grew up behind the Iron Curtain, in Cuba, or anywhere south of our border, who the Dems remind them of right now, and see what they say.
Then ask yourself, would your life be better going back to the dreaded "neo-cons" who ruled in the 80s, and latter 90s and 2000s,( look up what a neo-con is, by the way..I doubt you know), or continuing along the path we are on right now, a la 70s, or currently Chavez and Zelaya? ( I have no doubt that Chavez is going to get a Nobel Peace Prize next year..you wait and see..if he succeeds in shoving Zelaya back into power over the will of the entire constitutionally elected representatives of Honduras).
a resident of Professorville
on Oct 21, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Being a counter culture hippie back then was probably just a way to get laid. And now such a rejected stance is used for street cred being a modern NeoCon.
But......My Sweet Neocon
You call yourself a Christian
I think that you're a hypocrite
You say you are a patriot
I think that you're a crock of shit
And listen now, the gasoline
I drink it every day
But it's getting very pricey
And who is going to pay
How come you're so wrong
My sweet neo con.... Yeah
It's liberty for all
'Cause democracy's our style
Unless you are against us
Then it's prison without trial
But one thing that is certain
Life is good at Haliburton
If you're really so astute
You should invest at Brown & Root.... Yeah
How come you're so wrong
My sweet neo con
If you turn out right
I'll eat my hat tonight
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah....
It's getting very scary
Yes, I'm frightened out of my wits
There's bombers in my bedroom
Yeah and it's giving me the shits
We must have lots more bases
To protect us from our foes
Who needs these foolish friendships
We're going it alone
How come you're so wrong
My sweet neo con
Where's the money gone
In the Pentagon
Yeah ha ha ha
Yeah, well, well
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah...
Neo con
I suppose also supporters of a more "socialistic" model, where capitalism and socialism co-exist even, could wrap themselves as the most solid "conservatives" and reference tribal society. Spin being what it is.
Well if we are to get into a discussion of "does the left wing or right wing have more bloody hands"...
I watched a documentary (Ironwood Film) about North Korea a while back. It pretty much (IMO) accurately described the dismal and despicable situation there--and probably that is just the tip of what may later be revealed.
But one interesting aspect was that some of the anti-North Korean activists pointed out that their "natural allies" tended to be legislators who had a more conservative bent, that many on the left didn't seem interested in either exposing or countering the repression in North Korea.
Of course the reciprocal of this is when conservatives rant about Cuba, yet are all to eager to ignore, deny, or even celebrate, the huge body count across Latin America---all due to US trained and inspired death squads, CIA inspired coups, etc. Brazil, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Chile, Argentina, etc. The body count is about 100,000 in some of the smaller countries alone.
And in the above post we see support for the military coup in Honduras, probably a support which would embrace a return to death squad tactics of the 80's.
Whenever I hear people try to compare Hitler's crimes with those of Stalin or Mao's...it's usually a marker that person really wishes the USA and Britain had teamed up with Germany against the USSR, etc. Like that Command and Conquer video game historic revision.
What is further interesting is that, while the poster alluding to GW Bush bringing on a fascist state in the USA may be a bit hyperbolic,......one can back away from the fascist label a bit and still find plenty of room for the world to have been very concerned and threatened by the actions of Bush/Cheney. Just bathe in the light of Bolton ranting.....
Look at the juxtaposition! Even if Bush was a fascist leader on the prowl, or had potential for such, this isn't nearly as bad as Stalin or Mao. And Stalin or Mao is 1) what we've had somewhat with 30 years of the Democrats (?) and 2) Obama is looking to be another Stalin of sorts.
And meanwhile we now have "The Oathers", using the 2nd Amendment hysteria to get people pledging to "resist".
I sometimes think that we are actually headed for another Civil War. We have a modern day Lincoln of sorts---wants to preserve the union ("bi-partisanship") but doesn't realize that his very election has sent the opponents into a frenzy. One now seeming to be led by South Carolina politicians just as in the past (Calhoun from SC caned Thaddeus Stevens and SC first to secede). In retrospect Lincoln seemed to know exactly what he was doing and played it well, with the slaveowners finally being suppressed. I can only hope President Obama is acting in likewise fashion, with the big picture in mind.
The right wing seems to be in a frenzy to reverse the popular swing of things....denying voter rights via attacks on ACORN, bringing up secession in Texas, bringing up a military coup as an option in an established old school Republican magazine, calling reasonable efforts to step back from the brink of financial plutocracy as "Statism" in an effort to envelope years of anti-gov. spin. And now the profoundly discredited "NeoCons" can try to wrap themselves in some type of Counter Culture rebelliousness.
Before it settles into the solid camps I predict many of the "Tea Baggers" may switch as their economic interests aren't being served by those they support now. And that many liberal Palo Altan types will forgo liberalism (if it means paying a living wage to city workers for instance as opposed to pocketing more and hiring from Home Depot parking lot).


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Over the last few weeks, TechCrunch has run a couple posts using their own referrer logs to measure how sharing on various social services drives traffic. In these and other analyses based solely on referrer information, Twitter performs surprisingly poorly relative to expectations many of us have based on our own observations of the volume of link sharing on Twitter.
Does that mean the people you follow on Twitter who share links all the time are that atypical? Do most normal people just not click on links in Tweets? Is LinkedIn far more popular with the rest of the world than it seems to be with the people you know?
No, no, and no. There is a much simpler answer behind this disparity: referrers are a poor way to attribute traffic from social sharing.
Referrer analysis is based on the outdated metaphor of the web as a network of links between static pages that could only be navigated by browsers. Today's web is built around social streams and other APIs that are consumed via dynamic web applications, desktop clients, mobile apps, and even other web services, all of which render referrers obsolete as an attribution mechanism.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Win or lose Saturday, Miss America contestant Allyn Rose will have conveyed a message about breast cancer prevention using her primary tool as a beauty queen: her body.
The 24-year-old Miss DC plans to undergo a double mastectomy after she struts in a bikini and flaunts her roller skating talent. She is removing both breasts as a preventative measure to reduce her chances of developing the disease that killed her mother, grandmother and great aunt.
"My mom would have given up every part of her body to be here for me, to watch me in the pageant," she said between dress rehearsals and preliminary competitions at Planet Hollywood on the Las Vegas Strip Wednesday. "If there's something that I can do to be proactive, it might hurt my body, it might hurt my physical beauty, but I'm going to be alive."
If crowned, the University of Maryland, College Park politics major could become the first Miss America not endowed with the Barbie silhouette associated with beauty queens.
Rose said it was her father who first broached the subject, during her freshman year of college, two years after the death of her mother
"I said, 'Dad I'm not going to do that. I like the body I have.' He got serious and said, 'Well then you're going to end up dead like your mom.' "
She has pondered that conversation for the past three years, during which she has worked as a model and won several pageants, including Miss Maryland USA, Miss Sinergy and the Miss District of Columbia competition, which put her in the running for Saturday's bonanza.
With her angular face, pale blonde hair and watchful blue eyes, Rose is unusually reserved. She acknowledged that she comes off as more of an ice-queen than a girl next door
"You have to block out everything and I think sometimes that makes me appear a little cold," she said. "But it's because I had to be my own mentor, I had to be my own best friend."
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Judy had one breast removed in her 20s, but waited until she was 47 to remove the other one, which Rose's father had called a ticking time bomb.
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I like the character guys the Giants have. Two SBs in 5 years?? Tells me they ARE getting guys who can play and aren't total headcases.
I hate nothing more then to see a Giants player interveiwed and sounds like he just heard the English language last week. Some of these guys couldn't legitimately graduate HS let alone college. I like the trend the Giants have had choosing smart, educated(seemingly), good person type players.
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Before the U.S. House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations, Ralph Regula, Chairman
May 1, 2001
Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee:
I am pleased to appear before you today to discuss the Department of Education's postsecondary education budget for fiscal year 2002. Our budget complements the Administration's request for elementary and secondary education and supports the President's commitment to providing access to quality education at all levels for every American.
In today's information-based, high-tech global economy, individual economic success as well as America's continued economic prosperity, international leadership, and long-term security increasingly depend on maintaining a highly educated, flexible, and productive workforce. The President's plan for education envisions a seamless K-16 education system in which high standards of achievement will prepare all students to enter and succeed in college. Currently, low-income and minority students continue to be underrepresented in higher education, and a disproportionate number of those who do enter college do so without the academic preparation needed for success.
Our budget for postsecondary education would expand support for Federal programs that help prepare low-income and minority students for postsecondary education, student financial aid programs that help students and families pay the rising college costs, and programs that strengthen postsecondary institutions serving large proportions of minority students.
In order to increase support for areas of greatest need while remaining within the President's limit on discretionary funding, we are proposing to eliminate a number of small programs that can be supported under existing programs or under the President's No Child Left Behind education initiative, or for which there is no demonstrated need.
The President is committed to making sure that every student has the opportunity to attend college by helping to make college more affordable for all Americans. We are proposing an increase of $1 billion for the Pell Grant program to increase the maximum award by $100, raising the maximum award to $3,850 -- the highest ever -- and providing Pell Grants to over 4 million students. We are continuing to support other need-based student aid programs and both the FFEL and Direct Loan programs. Our request would make available approximately $50 billion in student aid, excluding loan consolidations, to over 8 million students. The Pell Grant program, the foundation of the Federal student assistance effort, has been the most effective and well targeted program in helping deserving low- and middle-income students attend college. In 1998-1999 approximately 85 percent of Pell Grant recipients had annual family incomes of $30,000 or lower, and approximately two-thirds had incomes of $20,000 or lower.
Recent program data indicate that more students are applying for Pell Grants, and more of those applying are eligible to receive aid, than was previously forecast. As a result, the cost of funding awards for the 2001-2002 award year increased by $117 million; this additional prior-year need would be funded from the proposed $1 billion increase. In addition, the fiscal year 2001 appropriation used $319 million in surplus funds from prior years to fully fund the maximum award level of $3,750. In the absence of these supplemental and surplus funds, $436 million of the proposed $1 billion increase for fiscal year 2002 is needed to maintain the previous year's funding level, replacing the $117 million and $319 million used in fiscal year 2001. An additional $78 million is needed to fully fund a $3,750 maximum award in fiscal year 2002. Increasing the maximum award by $100, to $3,850, for academic year 2002-2003 requires $312 million, with the remaining $57 million of the proposed $1 billion set aside to account for possible further growth in program costs.
To supplement the funds available under the Pell Grant program, we are proposing to continue support at current levels for the Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant and Federal Work-Study programs, at $691 million and $1.011 billion, respectively. Our budget also includes $100 million in continuing support for the Perkins Loan Program Capital Contributions, and $60 million for Perkins Loan Cancellations. Through a combination of grants, loans, and work-study, these programs provide institutions with the flexibility to best meet the needs of low- and middle-income students.
We are proposing to continue the Leveraging Educational Assistance Partnership (LEAP) program at $55 million. This level of support includes $25 million to provide States with additional flexibility in meeting the needs of their students under Special LEAP. We are also requesting $1 million for the second year of the Loan Forgiveness for Child Care Providers program to enable this demonstration program to continue on a limited basis while its effectiveness is evaluated.
In fiscal year 2002 students and their parents will take an estimated 9 million loans, borrowing approximately $36.5 billion under FFEL and the Direct Loan program. The Administration is committed to supporting both loan programs. To encourage more students to enter math and science teaching, the Administration is proposing to increase substantially the maximum amount of loan forgiveness for math and science teachers at qualified low-income schools - from $5,000 to $17,500.
The Administration is also proposing a number of tax benefits to provide students and families with greater choice in postsecondary education. These benefits include increasing the annual contribution limit to education savings accounts to $5,000; extending tax-exempt prepaid tuition plans to private colleges and universities; allowing tax-free distributions from qualified State tuition plans for certain higher education expenses; and extending the exclusion for employer-provided education assistance.
America's higher education population continues to increase, both in size and in ethnic and racial diversity, creating new challenges for our colleges and universities. Today's enrollment of 15 million is expected to increase by another 2.5 million by the end of this decade. Increasingly, these students will be minority and first-generation college students. To complement the significant Federal investment in student aid, we are proposing to increase assistance to institutions of higher education that serve large populations of low-income and minority students to help them meet the needs of these students.
Our budget includes additional support for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) under Title III and Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) under Title V to help these institutions meet the growing demand for their services. We are proposing to increase funding for Strengthening HBCUs by $12 million and Strengthening Historically Black Graduate Institutions by $3 million, for totals of $197 million and $48 million, respectively. These funds would further strengthen these institutions' academic programs and administrative and fundraising capabilities. We also propose to increase support for HSIs by $4 million, for a total of $72.5 million, to help ensure that Hispanic students have access to high quality postsecondary education, and to help close the achievement gap between Hispanic and non-Hispanic students. Our budget would continue support for the Strengthening Institutions program at $73 million, Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities at $15 million, Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions at $6 million, and the Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program at $8.5 million.
In order to take full advantage of the opportunities for postsecondary education, many students need additional assistance, particularly those who are economically disadvantaged and whose parents have not attended college. In fiscal year 2002, we are requesting an increase of $50 million for TRIO, for a total of $780 million. These funds would support new competitions in Talent Search, Educational Opportunity Centers, and Staff Training and would enable programs to increase the intensity of their services, which has been shown to have a positive impact on student outcomes. The additional funding also would support technology supplements in TRIO projects to help bridge the digital divide, and would continue special funding priorities initiated over the past 2 years to increase retention and success in secondary and postsecondary education.
We are requesting $227 million for Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) to support on-going projects and cohorts of students. New cohorts would not be added except in projects that do so with non-Federal resources. The GEAR UP program has increased rapidly since it was initiated in fiscal year 1999, and our request would provide an estimated 1.15 million students with the academic and financial support they need to enter and complete postsecondary education.
In fiscal year 2002, we are requesting $51.2 million for the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) to continue support for exemplary innovative reform and improvement projects. Our request also continues support for academic mobility and student exchange programs with Mexico, Canada, Brazil, and the European Union. In addition, these funds would support on-going projects initiated under the Learning Anytime Anywhere Partnerships (LAAP) program. We are not requesting funds for LAAP because we believe that similar activities can be supported under FIPSE's Comprehensive Program. We also believe that activities supported under Demonstration Projects to Ensure Quality Higher Education for Students with Disabilities can be funded under established programs such as FIPSE's Comprehensive Program.
To encourage academic excellence and to help ensure that America has the high level of skills and knowledge needed in the 21st century, we are proposing $10 million for the Javits Fellowships program, $31 million for Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need, and $41 million for the Byrd Honors Scholarships program. To enable low-income parents of young children to attend postsecondary institutions, we are proposing to continue support at the current level of $25 million for Child Care Access Means Parents in Schools.
Our fiscal year 2002 request also includes funding at the current level of $67 million for domestic International Education programs, and $10 million for overseas programs. These programs help to develop and maintain the international and foreign language expertise that is essential to America's international leadership role, and continued Federal support for them is important to our national interest.
Our budget includes $54 million to fund on-going projects under the Teacher Quality Enhancement Grant program, and we are proposing that some funds be used to continue support for two national evaluations of the program. We are not requesting funds for new projects as we believe that virtually all of the activities carried out under this program can be supported through the proposed State Grants for Improving Teacher Quality Initiative.
We are requesting $1 million for GPRA Data/HEA Program Evaluation activities. The decrease from last year's funding would be partially offset by the Administration's request for an evaluation set-aside under the Teacher Quality Enhancement Grants program.
We believe that our budget for postsecondary education honors the President's commitment to education by providing additional resources to the most pressing issues in postsecondary education, while at the same time adhering to the Administration's policy of fiscal restraint.
My colleagues and I will be happy to respond to any questions you may have.


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Kiwis are being challenged to add an extra serving of fresh fruit and vegetables to their day during the 5+ A Day Fruit and Vegetable Month of November.
The objective is to encourage all Kiwis to eat and enjoy five or more servings of fresh fruit and vegetables every day for better health, taste and variety.
The 5+ A Day programme was launched in 1994 and is one of the most recognised food and health brands in New Zealand today.
Awareness of 5+ A Day is high among household shoppers as well as children, with the programme promoted in schools.
Take up the challenge, New Zealand ...
Add an extra serving of fresh fruit and vegetables to your day throughout November and feel the difference. Check out tips and recipes to make this easy at www.5aday.co.nz
November, 2012.
Nationwide. Join the challenge on the 5+ A Day Facebook page - Facebook.com/5adaynz - and be in to win great prizes.
All New Zealanders.
Fresh fruit and vegetables are not only excellent value for money, they are delicious, promote good health, clear skin, shining hair, protect against cardiovascular disease and diabetes, and can help with weight management.
The 5+ A Day Challenge is at Facebook.com/5adaynz
Primary schools are holding 5+ A Day events nationwide and inviting their local communities along.
We have challenged workplaces via our e-newsletter to take the 5+ A Day Challenge, by encouraging staff to add an extra serving of fresh fruit and vegetables to their work day.
Cherries, chilli peppers, radishes, raspberries, red apples, red cabbage, red grapes, red kumara, red onions, red peppers, red potatoes, rhubarb, strawberries, tomatoes, watermelon.
Include red in your low-fat diet to help maintain:
A healthy heart.
Memory function.
Urinary tract health.
YELLOW and ORANGE
Apricots, butternut squash, carrots, golden kiwifruit, golden kumara, grapefruit, lemons, mandarins, mangoes, nectarines, oranges, peaches, persimmons, pineapples, pumpkin, rock melons, swede, sweetcorn, tangelos, yellow apples, yellow peppers, yellow potatoes, yellow tomatoes.
Including yellow and orange in your low-fat diet helps maintain:
A healthy heart.
Healthy vision.
A strong immune system.
BROWN and WHITE
Bananas, brown pears, cauliflower, dates, garlic, ginger, mushrooms, nashi pears, onions, parsnips, potatoes, turnips, white melons, white nectarines, white peaches.
Research has shown that white fruit and vegetables can decrease cholesterol levels and therefore help with heart health.
Artichokes, asparagus, avocados, broccoli, brussels sprouts, celery, chinese cabbage, cucumbers, green apples, green beans, green cabbage, green grapes, green melons, green pears, green pepper, kiwifruit, leafy greens, leeks, lettuce, limes, okra, peas, spinach, zucchini.
Include green in your low-fat diet to maintain:
Healthy vision.
Strong bones and teeth.
Adding more green leafy vegetables in your diet may help reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes.
Helps keep the heart healthy.
BLUE and PURPLE
Beetroot, blackberries, blackcurrants, blueberries, boysenberries, cranberries, eggplants, plums, purple asparagus, purple cabbage, purple grapes, purple peppers.
Include blue/purple in your low-fat diet to help maintain:
Urinary tract health.
Memory function.
Healthy ageing.
Blue/purple fruit and vegetables contain varying amounts of health-promoting phytochemicals such as anthocyanins and phenolics, currently being studied for their potential antioxidant and anti-aging benefits.


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To lose control. When cooking biscuits, you do not flip them. Since it is something that you do not do, if someone makes you go crazy over something, they will make me "flip my biscuits."
If she comes in here again talking about how much money she saved by spending money while shopping I am going to flip my biscuits on her.
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An Aixamar is a girls name, usually very beautiful and intelligent. They usually have a great smile and are very friendly until someone makes them angry. They should be compared to a rose. Beautiful but deadly if you don't handle them correctly. They are extremely funny and will make you smile even on the worst of days. Aixamars are very forgiving people, but that does not mean that they are push overs. Aixamars are the most rare and beautiful creatures that have ever walked the planet earth.
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Fergus Falls high school band on way to Inaugural Parade
FERGUS FALLS, Minn. (AP) — The Fergus Falls High School marching band is on its way to President Barack Obama's Inaugural Parade in Washington.
Police and fire trucks escorted the band's three buses out of town as they left about 2:30 p.m. Thursday.
Band director Scott Kummrow addressed the students at sendoff and asked them to follow the band's progress on Twitter.
KBRF-AM (http://bit.ly/r11BGJ) reports it was 11 degrees when the chartered buses were loaded. Highs are expected to range from 32 to 40 degrees when the band marches in Washington on Monday.
The Fergus Falls band also took part in the 2009 inaugural events.
Information from: KBRF-AM, http://www.kbrf1250.com
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If you wont support their kind of practice why do you have an XBOX live banner in your signature, and you say you'll buy it on PC.
PC, so you're running windows, microsofts operating system.
..and like someone already said, it is not and will not come to PS3 because a contract has already been signed preventing such and people shouldn't blame Microsoft. All companies make exclusive deals with developers. Stop acting acting like children.
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Yes but you see Fortresscraft is the copy-cat, Xbox is getting not PS3. Which sucks. Looks like Mojangs got themselves into a contract with Microsoft, it would have being more porffitible if they had a wider range of consoles. But they made a stupid move.
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i have heard minecraft is going for xbox 360 and i will never get one cause ps3 is by far the best system hands down but if they did make minecraft for ps3 i would buy it the day it came out
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well i got bad news last years E3 in the xbox 360 confrens they said mincraft was gana be only on the xbox but maby they do chang and if it is in a consul i think it wont be as fun becas how can you mod i thing it shod be for a handheld like the psvita now that wood be cool but lets all hope i hope it comes out for everything long live play
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Im not allowed to play minecraft on my computer because it overheated one of them, so if it came out on the PS3 and u could still use the same saves then that would be EPIC and AWESOME. come on Notch......


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thank you so much Ruffles78. so great to see caroline smiling like that, landing big jumps. without seeing agnes i can't say it yet but i wonder if when i've seen them all, this performance will be the one that warmed my heart the most of any in the SP's.
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We stopped going to the Outback steakhouse for years because we weren't impressed with the food. Tonight we were very impressed with the gluten-free menu and the quality of the food. Thank you.
Any place that has GF chocolate cake is awesome. Everyone here seems to understand the problems we have when ordering GF. They cook GF food on a separate grill. Great place to eat and feel safe about it.
Great food! Can eat normal food which is nice
Awesome and varied GF menu! Very accommodating!
they know. they understand celiac. wonderful experience. have been to outback in several states and same good service everywhere
909 N Elmhurst Rd, Mt Prospect, IL 60056
Love this place! Can't get enough! Never had a bad meal when we've come here. Steak with garlic butter, sweet potato and broccoli with cheese are my go to meal. Great place the whole family can enjoy.
655 Crossville Rd., Roswell, GA 30075
My daughter really love the Thunder Down Under!!!
4905 Commercial Way, Spring Hill, FL 34606
I have a newly found love for outback! not only is their steak and sweet potato with butter and brown sugar DELICIOUS, but they are very careful about ensuring gf. my meal was brought out with the bourbon glaze on top of my steak, which was NOT gf, but the manager immediately cane out and apologized and had a whole new plate made for me. while I was starving when my friends enjoyed their dinner, the manager and waitress were very apologetic and helpful.
1212 Providence Hwy., Norwood, MA 02062
got good options, staff is knowledgeable. service can be slow at busy times.
1435 13th Ave. Dr. SE, Hickory, NC 28602
NEVER gotten sick here and I've eaten here for years. So many options and delicious food.
5891 Red Bug Lake Road, Winter Springs, FL 32708
GF menu, service so so. Took them 3 tries to get one of our steaks done properly!
372 E. 1300 South, Orem, UT 84057
We LOVE eating gluten free at Outback. We typically order the "chocolate thunder from down under" brownie dessert for our appetizer because it is so incredible. They have a great gluten free menu and we've never had an issue with cross contamination in the 10+ times we've eaten there. (My wife has celiacs and is very sensitive) we usually get the Alice springs chicken and a simple sirloin and share them both. Ooh and the Caesar salad is great too. (Without croutons)
7643 Rivers Avenue, N. Charleston, SC 29406
My husband has Celiac. we ear at th u still Outback when we come to Charleston. as long as he doesn't eat the salad, he does not get sick, so he gets an extra side instead of the salad. I don't know what the problem is with salad, but I would not recommend it
10904 Boulevard Circle, Owings Mills, MD 21117
Don't eat here if you have celiac disease. Spoke to the manager before ordering and was assured that it was prepared in a separate area of the kitchen. When they brought the salad it had croutons on it .
25 Crystal Run Crossing, Walkill, NY 10941
Multiple gluten free options and they are very accommodating.
100 Southern Road, Southern Pines, NC 28387
They seem to be very conscientious of preparing gluten free menu items. I have eaten here many times without any issues.
7000 Tiffany S. Blvd., Boardman, OH 44512
My daughter gets the grilled chicken with fruit and has never been cross contaminated
2410 SE Tones Drive, Ankeny, IA 50021
Croutons on salad, mgr visited, bad experience for Outback
5628 N. Division Street, Suite B-6, Spokane, WA 99207
Best GF experience yet. I have celiac with high sensitivity. They had a separate GF menu with dessert! And I didn't get sick after eating here.
2225 Hwy. 44 West, Inverness, FL 34453
There during a busy time...usually something I avoid, but happy to report, was not gluten-ed. Staff was knowledgeable.
8250 Macedonia Commons Blvd., Macedonia, OH 44056
A dedicated separate GF menu!!! Excellent good tasting options! Very attentive wait staff. I will be back!
909 N Elmhurst Rd, Mt Prospect, IL 60056
I have Celiac Disease and eat here frequently. The staff can help make choices and make sure your food is prepared safely. I love the steaks, potatoes and even dessert.
547 Arena Hub Plaza, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18702
Food was so good, service was excellent and the best part was I did not get sick from my meal. Pretty big gluten free menu, compared to most restaurants. I will definitely be returning!
4723 South Yale Ave., Tulsa, OK 74135
Outstanding service and great food!
1887 S. Bascom Avenue, Campbell, CA 95008
meh, they have a gf menu but seems expensive for the portions you get.
3100 W. Tilghman St., Allentown, PA 18104
The service was horrible.
11950 Sheldon Rd., Tampa, FL 33626
I was excited to see Outback had Gluten Free menu. I explained my severe gluten allergy to the waitress and ordered a Cesar salad. It looked great and as I ate half of it. Then I saw several croutons on the bottom of the salad!! These are gluten containing croutons. It's my impression that there could have been croutons on top of the salad but that they were picked off but forgot about the ones already mixed in. I do not recommend going to this Outback if you have Celiac or any other gluten related ailments.
160 N Gulph Rd Suite 4220, King of Prussia, PA 19406
We had a wonderful meal from the gluten free menu. There were plenty of options. The staff were helpful and we were told the kitchen is well trained and they have a lot of gluten free eating guests (I asked lots of questions). My 9 year old daughter who has Celiac loved her food and had no issues.
3411 S Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas, NV 89109
Gluten free menu cooked in separate area in kitchen. Have eaten here multiple times and have not got sick. Steak potato and wedge salad. Very good
146 S. Brand Blvd, Glendale, CA 91204
This place tries. Young staff including the manager assured me that they would take all precautions and make sure that no cross contamination would occur. I got sick. I've never gone back
4004 S Mooney Blvd, Visalia, CA 93277
They take gluten-free seriously. Great menu!
3241 Chicagoland Circle, Joliet, IL 60431
They seem to understand gluten free well. I have eaten here many times and done well!
547 Arena Hub Plaza, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18702
Great gluten free options, good prices and friendly service.
2124 Merrick Mall, Merrick, NY 11566
my daughter has celiac and could not say enough about this particular outback they understand the Cross Contamination especially it's great they have a decent amount of options just wished they had a dedicated fryer for French fries. I always need to bring my own for my 6 year old.
72220 Hwy. 111, Palm Desert, CA 92260
My daughter has celiac. Server knew nothing but manager stepped in and took care of everything and supervised it all in the kitchen. All good!
25 Crystal Run Crossing, Walkill, NY 10941
Diagnosed celiac disease and extremely gluten sensitive. Spoke with take out folks and they were wonderful, explained how food is cooked separately etc. Have eaten there twice and the food was terrific! Highly recommend for those gluten sensitive. Separate g free menu including very yummy dessert!!!
1031 State Hwy. 114 W., Grapevine, TX 76051
I've eaten here many times and have never had a problem!
633 N. 48th Street, Lincoln, NE 68504
No prices on GF menu
5704 S. Broadway, Tyler, TX 75703
I had a great steak from their GF menu with many options, our waiter was well trained and was able to answer my questions where I had confidence that I could safely eat a meal here.
7201 Indiana Street, Evansville, IN 47715
Love outback's GF menu. Our waiter checked with the manager after we told him we were ordering gluten free. Steak was good and the baked potatoes were ok. I usually get mashed potatoes, but at this location they were a little dry and bland. Overall it was a good meal though!
1664 N. 1200 W., Layton, UT 84041
Eat here quite frequently and never have any issues.
3463 Hutton St., Springfield, OR 97477
I haven't had any reactions after eating there.
10860 State Road 54, Trinity, FL 34655
Good food with lots of options.
4001 Nicholasville Road, Lexington, KY 40503
Very knowledgeable staff. Since I'm newly diagnosed with Celiac, I'm still learning about what to ask about in order to avoid cc. I was very impressed when my waitress asked if I also wanted my chicken wrapped in foil when being cooked on the grill. Food was also delicious.
4221 S. Padre Island Dr., Corpus Christi, TX 78411
They have an extensive GF menu, and while I've been in other Outback restaurants that knew how to handle GF orders, this one did NOT! Obviously they have not been trained properly. I told them up front that my order needed to be GF. Even so, I still always tell them no croutons for my salad. The salad came out with croutons. My steak came out with an announcement that it was lo-cal and when I asked if that meant that it was also GF, they didn't know. The waitress came back and said she checked and was okay because they didn't put butter on it! After calling on the manager and supposedly checking with the cook, I finally had a cold $24 steak that I was not confident that I could eat!
401 W. Dussel Rd., Maumee, OH 43537
Good food and many options. Very knowledgeable
4220 S. Tamiami Trail, Venice, FL 34293
They have a gluten free menu! I had roasted chicken , baked potato, and blue cheese how salad very very good. The chicken was small but very flavorful and tasty. I'll have lunch tomorrow!🤗
2066 S. Abilene Street, Aurora, CO 80014
I have inconsistent service here. One time they bring my food out separately and then the next time they don't.
13265 South Freeway, Burleson, TX 76028
Outback had a really good deal going on so we went for dinner one evening. I was blown away by the fact that they had a dedicated Gluten Free menu so I didn't have to seek and find the little GF icon and the special that they had included the GF meal's. We also ordered the GF Brownie thingy and I kept asking the waiter if it really was GF...it was PHENOMENAL!!!!!
1401 North Davis Road, Salinas, CA 93907
Had salmon and a sweet potato. My salmon was so small that it looked like a hot dog, and sweet potato very small too. Not the best food but didn't get sick. Waiter was very nice.
3101 Browns Mill Road, Johnson City, TN 37601
Found out tonight the manager is Celiac. They've gone above and beyond here.
2432 US Hwy 6 & 50, Grand Junction, CO 81505
I decided to give it a try despite the bad reviews due to the recent good one. I got salmon with baked potato and a side salad. The food not only tasted bad but I got sick as well. Do not recommend. Only one of two outbacks that I have had problems with.
8195 Vineland Ave., Orlando, FL 32821
LOVED! Great GF meanu. Just need to request it. The prime rib was not listed on the GF menu, but it is GF and that is what I ordered! It was fantastic!
14225 W. Grand Ave., Surprise, AZ 85374
Best gluten free pizza I have had!
2855 W. Ogden Avenue, Naperville, IL 60540
They have a lot of gluten free options (you can find a full gluten free menu online)...salad dressings are gluten free too (dressings are sometimes questionable but they advertise that all of their dressing are GF)
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Staff Attorney Need
Prairie State Legal Services, Inc., a 75-lawyer legal services organization, serving 36 counties in northern and central ILLINOIS outside of Cook County, is seeking applicants for a STAFF ATTORNEY position in our community legal services office located in PEORIA. The successful applicant will participate in a full range of legal activities, including the preparation and conduct of administrative hearings and trials of cases for elderly and low-income persons. Prefer applicants already admitted to the Illinois Bar with a public interest background. Prior experience in foreclosure and housing law is preferred. Salary is $40,000. Please indicate "PEORIA Staff Attorney" in the subject line and e-mail a resume, short writing sample (10 pages or less) and three professional references to:
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Program Administrator Connie Peterson at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Women, minorities, and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. Prairie State Legal Services is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
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2013 Directory Changes and Email Changes
Dunn, Jeffrey M., Fax: (309) 691-3890
Evans, Angela, M. (Correction): Email: email@example.com
Address Changes
Bach, Nathan R., 124 SW Adams St., Suite 600, Phone: (309) 676-0400, Fax: (309) 676-3374, Email: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Bathke, John T.D., 456 Fulton St., Suite 425, 61602; Phone: (309) 676-8986, Fax: (309) 676-4130, Email: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Miller, Ashley M., 100 NE Monroe, Phone: (309) 671-4227, Fax: (309) 671-4228, Email:
Schlehuber, Thomas E., 604 W. Knoll Crest Dr. Peoria, IL 61614-7117, Phone: (309) 688-1305
Vogel, Steven H., 456 Fulton St., Suite 203. All other information remains the same.
(Effective October 1, 2013)
Muir, John M., Jr., 2501 E. College Ave., Suite A, Bloomington, IL 61704; Phone: (309) 808-2579, Fax: (309) 410-5000, Email: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Oberle, Patrick E., Address: 2807 Broadway Rd., Suite B, Pekin, IL 61554.
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Anyone with information on the Last Will and Testament of Doris E. Winkler (DOD, July 31, 2013) please contact Mary Pillow, Benckendorf & Benckendorf, P.C. at (309) 673-0979 or email email@example.com.
Anyone with information on the Last Will and Testament of George S. Powell (DOD, August 15, 2013) please contact Sean Donahue, (309) 674-0821.
Judges Needed
Bradley University's Pre-Law Center will be hosting their Third Annual Mock Trial Tournament on the Bradley Campus this fall (October 19-20). The dates and times for each round are listed below. The time slots reflect an allotment for a period for registration and a brief judge's orientation. For morning rounds, we would ask that judges arrive no later than 8:30 a.m., and for afternoon rounds, no later than 1:00 p.m. Some rounds may be longer than others, so the times listed are meant to reflect the maximum length of time for a given round:
Saturday, October 19, 2013; 8:15 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Saturday, October 19, 2013; 12:45 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Sunday, October 20, 2013; 8:15 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Sunday, October 20, 2013; 12:45 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
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President Jim Kane would like to thank the officers, board members and committee members for their service during the past year and in the year ahead. "I am honored to have been chosen to serve as PCBA President. I pledge to do my best to follow the excellent example which was set by my predecessor, Hon. Lisa Y. Wilson. Two areas to which I would like to give particular attention during my term are as follows: 1) Increase active participation in the PCBA by more of our members. This would include service on committees and attendance at PCBA events, such as the Lincoln Banquet & Gala and the Law Day Luncheon. 2) Serve and actively involve "more experienced" PCBA members. Currently there are 209 PCBA members who are age 60 and above, and 72 PCBA members who are age 70 and above. I would like to work to find ways to serve the needs and interests of those members, such as assisting with the transition to e-filing. I am asking PCBA committees for their suggestions in this regard. I am encouraging those members to be active in the PCBA and the Peoria legal community by actively serving on PCBA committees and volunteer activities, such as Prairie State. My overall goal is that the PCBA continue to be a valuable resource to our members and a positive influence both in the legal profession and in our entire community."
10th Annual Diversity Luncheon
The Annual Diversity Luncheon will be held on Wednesday, October 23, 2013 from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m., at the Peoria Marriott Père Marquette. This year's featured speaker will be Monica Torres-Linares, Founding Member of Legal Prep. Tickets are $35.00 per person or $350.00 per table of ten. Deadline to reserve your seat is October 16, 2013. Remember, proceeds for this event help fund the Diversity Scholarship and this year's scholarship recipient will be announced at the luncheon. You may complete the Registration Form included with this issue and return it to the PCBA, office along with your payment, or you may register online www.peoriabar.org/Shop/CLE. If you are registering for a table of ten online, please be sure that you list attorneys attending and their menu choice in the "Order Comment Section" when checking out. If you have questions, please contact the PCBA Office (309) 674-6049.
Illinois Joining Forces
The PCBA will be working with Illinois Joining Forces (IJF) to better serve local military personnel and veterans. IJF is a statewide network of public and private organizations which serve military personnel and veterans. The PCBA has joined IJF to give back to those who have selflessly sacrificed so much. Through IJF, the PCBA will help veterans and military personnel find the legal assistance they need. The PCBA will also host various programs to educate local attorneys in areas of the law most pertinent to veterans and other military personnel, in an effort to increase the number of attorneys able to provide necessary services. Many local attorneys have been providing services to local military personnel and veterans through efforts largely coordinated by local attorney Michael Lied of Howard and Howard Attorneys PLLC. The PCBA hopes that by joining IJF, it can institutionalize Mr. Lied's efforts to find and match service members to an attorney who can assist them, while empowering a greater number of service members with legal access and knowledge. Further information may be found at www.illinoisjoiningforces.org.
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PCBA Annual Golf Outing
This year's Annual Golf Outing surpassed last year with 20 foursomes who enjoyed picture perfect weather at Coyote Creek Golf Club. The PCBA would like to thank Jeffrey Bach (right) for his hard work organizing the details in his first year as the Chair of the outing. At left with Jeffrey are this year's winner for low gross (71) Craig Young and for women's low gross (101) Janet Sosin from the ISBA. We also appreciate this year's sponsors: Hole in One and Door Prizes: Pearl Companies; Beverage Station: Ringler Associates; Deluxe Hole: Heinold-Banwart, Ltd. and Sivertsen Reporting Services, P.C.; Holes: Attorneys' Title Guarantee Fund, Baird/Scott K. Elger, Bob Lindsay Honda/Acura, Busey Bank, Chambers and Sons Landscaping, Inc., Circuit Wide Reporting, Elam Private Detective, Inc., Endeavor Title Services, Ginoli & Company, Ltd., ISBA Mutual Insurance Company, Jaguar-Land Rover, Merit Reporters, Peoria Title, L.L.C. and Trademark Title Services, L.L.C.; Signs: City Blue Technologies; Welcome Bags: ATG, Commerce Bank, PCBA and Rapid Print.
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Michael E. Brandt, Chief Circuit Judge
Whereas Peoria County is implementing a new case management system, the Integrated Criminal and Civil Justice System, and whereas the installation of said system will involve the transfer of large amounts of data planned to commence at the close of business on Thursday, November 7, 2013, continuously thereafter 24/7, and to conclude on Monday, November 11, 2013.
For all courts in Peoria County, it is directed that no court dockets be scheduled for Friday, November 8, 2013, excepting emergency matters such as emergency orders of protection, warrant returns, and the like. Monday, November 11, 2013, being a designated court holiday, regular courts may resume on Tuesday, November 12, 2013.
Michael E. Brandt, Chief Circuit Judge
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Peoria County Pro Bono Plan
By Sandra Crow, Pro Bono Coordinator, firstname.lastname@example.com
Access to Justice… After Hours 2013 will be held on Thursday, October 17, 2013, from 6:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. at Weaver Ridge Golf Club. This is a fundraiser to benefit Prairie State Legal Services, Inc. The event will feature a live and silent auction, live music, appetizers, and a cash bar. Auction items include a one week time share to Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands, University of Illinois football tickets, a wine tasting package, and a fishing trip package. Tickets are available online at www.pslegal.org or by contacting Prairie State's office at 674-9831. Ticket price is $30 per ticket, although a $10 discount will be given to all ticket purchasers age 36 and under. All proceeds from the event will support Prairie State's programs in Peoria and the surrounding communities.