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March 8, 2007
A variable star has been discoved in TrA, according to the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams (CBET No. 867, Daniel W. E. Green, ed.):
"C. Jacques, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, reports that C. Colesanti, E. Pimentel, T. Napoleao, and he have found a previously unknown variable star on CCD images obtained in the course of the Brazilian Supernovae Survey (cf. IAUC 8482). The new object is located at
R.A. = 16h20m50s.18, Decl. = -60d23'39".5 (equinox 2000.0).
February 24, 2007
Don Davies discovered a 7th magnitude eclipsing binary (GSC 02484-00592, HD74057, VSX J084246.2+315145) in May, 2005, announced on our discussion group (posting 5/27/2005), and subsequently published in Peremennye Zvezdy:http://www.astronet.ru/db/varstars/msg/1212913
The coordinates are
and the approximate magnitude is V=7.18, with (B-V) = 0.56
February 21, 2007
IAU Circular No. 8810 (Daniel W. E. Green, ed.) announces the discovery of a possible nova in Scorpius; this object [V1281 Sco] is not to be confused with 1651-32 V1280 Sco (N Sco 2007, see AAVSO Alert Notice 346).
Coordinates provided by K. Itagaki, Yamagata, Japan:
R.A.= 16h 56m 59.35s, Decl. = -35o 21' 50.2" (2000.0)
Independent discoveries by:
- Yuji Nakamura, Kameyama, Mie, Japan, (via H. Yamaoka, Kyushu University)
<12.0 CCD, Feb. 14.8575 UT
9.3 CCD, Feb. 19.8593
February 7, 2007
IAUC 8803 announces a new nova in Scorpius, independently discovered by Y. Nakamura and Y. Sakurai. The position is
and the unfiltered magnitude is about 8.3 (T. Krajci, 2007-02-06).
Spectra indicate blue color, no emission blueward of 540nm, but Halpha emission with P-Cyg profile.
Report observations to the AAVSO as: 9999+99 V1280 Sco. Please be sure to indicate what you used for comparison stars.
Thank you for your astronomical efforts and contributions!
January 24, 2007
William Liller, Vina del Mar, Chile, reports his discovery of a possible nova; confirmation and spectra are needed. According to Bill, "its approximate magnitude is 8.2. It appears on two photos taken near Jan 23.354 UT with Kodak TP film, an orange filter and an 85mm lens. Nothing brighter than magnitude 11.5 was seen at this position on Jan 15.36. Nothing seen at this position on the Real Sky Digitized Southern Sky Survey."
Coordinates (from Liller): R.A. = 11h 43.2m Dec. = -58d 03' (2000)
January 19, 2007
In AAVSO Special Notice #29, the wrong satellite was named as the source of observations being analyzed by Dr. Jeno Sokoloski. A correction published in Special Notice #30 was ambiguous. To clarify matters, below is the corrected full text of the AAVSO Special Notice #29. Please disregard Special Notice #30. We apologize for the error and confusion! -- Elizabeth Waagen
January 18, 2007
In AAVSO Special Notice #29, I said that Dr. Jeno Sokoloski was requesting our observing assistance on V550 Cyg in order to correlate her observations taken by ROSAT in the last few days. Since ROSAT ceased operating in 1999, I clearly mis-spoke! However, Dr. Sokoloski is using archival ROSAT data in her research on this star in addition to her recently-obtained observations. My apologies to Dr. Sokoloski for the error.
Elizabeth O. Waagen
Coordinates of V550 Cyg: RA = 20:05:05.2 Dec = +32:21:22 (2000.0)
January 11, 2007
We have been informed by Daniel Green, Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams, that the Sakurai object announced in AAVSO Special Notice #27 as a possible nova or new variable in Sco/Oph has been determined to be a false alarm.
Sincere thanks to those who investigated the field surrounding the coordinates R.A. = 17:41:17 Dec. = -24:45:33 (2000.0).
This special notice was compiled by: Elizabeth O. Waagen
January 10, 2007


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Survey: Census 1990
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Data set: Summary Tape File 1 (STF1)
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Sex Ratio
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Our focus on using antibiotics to kill bacteria has blinded us to their diverse functions in the organisms that make these chemicals
Robert L. Dorit
Last year, some 50 million pounds of antibiotics were used in the United States, an amount that would correspond to roughly 5 tablespoons—or 75 doses—of antibiotics per person. In fact, much of this antibiotic—as much as 70 percent by some estimates—is being used not to treat infections, but instead to promote food production, as antibiotics have become a key ingredient in the American food chain. We are, in short, marinating the living world in antibiotics.
Against this backdrop, the emergence of antibiotic-resistant pathogenic bacteria can hardly come as a surprise. Antibiotics, after all, are used to suppress and kill bacteria, and bacteria, like every other living thing, have no greater evolutionary imperative than to stay alive. Our overuse of antibiotics methodically rewards any bacterium fortunate enough to carry a mutation that confers even slight resistance to the substance in its environment. The less-fortunate bacteria die, leaving behind empty ecological space for resistant strains to fill. Slowly and inexorably, we thus enrich the world with bacteria that now scoff at our attempts to control them.
It did not take long for antibiotic resistance to emerge once the drugs entered the arsenal of modern medicine. Penicillin, discovered in 1929, came into widespread use on the battlefield during World War II: Some 100 million doses were produced between 1943 and 1945. But even before the end of the war, the first penicillin-resistant strains of bacteria appeared. Over the next five decades, the pattern repeated numerous times. The discovery of every new antibiotic class created excitement by promising to bring bacterial infections to heel. Inevitably, however, the edge of this new tool for the treatment of infections became blunt with overuse as resistant strains grew common. The useful clinical life of new antibiotics, defined as the time between clinical introduction and the rise of resistant strains, is often no more than a matter of three to five years. Over the past decade, moreover, antibiotic resistance, once only a public-health concern, has morphed into a measurable cause of death. Conservatively, untreatable bacterial infections result in some 100,000 deaths per year in the United States. The early promise of the age of antibiotics—an end to infectious diseases—now seems absurdly naive.
But every day, in clinics and hospitals around the world, doctors are forced to administer antibiotics to clear up bacterial infections that threaten the lives of patients. And every day, the bacteria—both the pathogens we are targeting and the innocent bystanders that end up as collateral damage—respond by evolving mechanisms to resist the antibiotics. Each dose is a skirmish in a larger war. Yet, focused as we are on what we see as an epic battle between humans and pathogens, we forget that both antibiotics and antibiotic resistance have been part of the microbial world for the past
3 billion years. Yes, the widespread use of antibiotics to combat infections has had profound implications for the evolution of infectious disease, but it is a mere blip in the history of the microbial world.
Four out of five antibiotics in use today are based on naturally occurring compounds produced by bacteria and fungi. The organisms that produce antibiotics have not, of course, been doing so over billions of years just so that we might discover them and put them to therapeutic use in the 21st century. So what are antibiotics doing for the organisms that produce them? The explanation most obvious to us, of course, is to see these compounds as part of the competitive arsenal of the bacteria that produce them. In this model, antibiotic-producing bacteria kill their competitors and make ecological space available for themselves and their genetic kin. Seen this way, antibiotics in microbial ecosystems and antibiotics in the clinic do one and the same thing: kill bacteria.
To be sure, naturally produced antibiotics in intact microbial ecosystems enable producing strains to kill other bacteria. Some antibiotics, such as a class of proteins called the bacteriocins, are not subtle: A single molecule entering a target cell will kill it. These molecules are designed to kill and nothing more. But the concentrations of many other antibiotics in natural ecosystems seem consistently too low to kill surrounding organisms effectively. Why would bacteria bother to produce antibiotics—which are expensive molecules to synthesize—at concentrations too low to reap the benefits? It now appears that at lower concentrations, antibiotics may well, to the bacteria, mean something utterly different than they do at the massive concentrations encountered in the clinic. In their original context, antibiotics may not be killers at all, but instead messengers enabling cell-to-cell communication both within and across bacterial species boundaries.
Researchers such as Fernando Baquero and Jose L. Martinez of the National Center for Biotechnology in Madrid, and Julian Davies of the University of British Columbia, among others, have begun to articulate a radically different perspective on the role played by the now-mislabeled "antibiotics." Far from being just stone-cold killers, naturally occurring antibiotics appear to be part of the vocabulary of bacteria, words in the nuanced language of this world unseen by humans. Like language, antibiotics are capable of conveying multiple meanings to different recipients.
At sublethal concentrations, antibiotics can have profound and unexpected effects on surrounding cells. Several different antibiotics, when present at a small fraction (less than 1 percent) of their lethal concentration, coordinate the expression of whole sets of genes in bacteria that sense the antibiotic. These coordinated responses are not simply the molecular expression of panic (the aptly named "SOS response") expected when an antibiotic is present. The signal may, for instance, induce Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria to develop into a bacterial biofilm—an architecturally complex, surface-bound conglomeration of cells—which, regrettably, makes bacteria much less sensitive to antibiotics in clinical settings. In another irony, low concentrations of antibiotic appear to upregulate the expression of a suite of genes responsible for increased virulence, in effect transforming a benign bacterium into a pathogen. These and other examples, in short, suggest that antibiotics may be far more than just toxic substances designed to kill all bacteria within range. And in the latest of many surprises, George M. Church of Harvard Medical School and his colleagues have isolated hundreds of soil bacteria able to subsist on antibiotics as their sole source of nutrition. This is not resistance but rather downright insolence, as these bacteria think of antibiotics not as threatening molecules, but instead as food.
Our ability to understand the origin and role of antibiotics has, in effect, been hindered by the uses to which we put them. In a fit of intellectual narcissism, we assume that if we use them in clinical settings to kill bacteria, that must be what they evolved for. However, when we recast them in a subtler role as agents of competition, and also as regulators and communicators in the bacterial world, we can view their lethal (and thus, for us, salutary) effects in a different light. It is when we administer doses of antibiotics that are orders of magnitude greater than those encountered in nature that a subtle, modulated signal is transformed into a deafening, and increasingly deadly, roar.
If antibiotics are part of the whispered conversations of the microbial world, what then should we make of antibiotic resistance? The last 65 years of clinical antibiotic use have exposed a dizzying array of mechanisms that bacteria use to survive the presence of toxic antibiotic concentrations. The diversity and complexity of these mechanisms—enzymes that chemically disable antibiotics, shape-shifting targets that prevent antibiotics from binding, complex pumps that eject the antibiotic from the target cell—have raised an obvious evolutionary question: Where do these mechanisms come from? Part of the answer, unsurprisingly, is self-defense. Many of the bacteria that produce antibiotics also harbor mechanisms that make themselves impervious to that antibiotic compound. In the case of the lethal protein antibiotics discussed previously, the bacteriocins, producer bacteria also synthesize a second protein that pairs up with the antibiotic, rendering it inactive until it reaches its target.
In the classic militaristic interpretation, antibiotics exist to target competitors, and resistance genes evolve to protect producers. But here again, we might do well to remember that massive concentrations of antibiotics used in clinical settings, and the consequences of such massive use, may be obscuring subtler phenomena in the microbial world. A second effect, which I will call the Pete Townshend effect, may also underlie some of the evolution of resistance. In this scenario, antibiotics are playing their signaling role, but the levels of this signal molecule are so high in and around the producing cell that they will cause unintended damage as a byproduct of their high concentration. Resistance evolves in producer strains to protect them from the damaging consequences of overwhelming signal strength. As the antibiotic diffuses away from the producer, its concentration declines. The antibiotic loses its lethality and regains its signaling function. If antibiotics have multiple meanings, resistance too must mean more than one thing.
Our ability to examine the genomes of both culturable and unculturable organisms has changed the way we look at the origin of antibiotic resistance mechanisms. Resistance is everywhere, and we don't always know why. We now realize, for example, that the bacteria in a gram of soil harbor hundreds of different genes that can, in the right setting, contribute to resistance. For instance, work by Gerard D. Wright of McMaster University and others, reveals that bacteria in the soil already harbor the rudiments of resistance to all known antibiotics, including entirely synthetic antibiotics with no counterpart in the natural world. Virtually every bacterial cell in these environmental samples is, on average, resistant to eight antibiotics.
The collection of mechanisms responsible for resistance in these soil bacteria has come to be called the "environmental resistome" (as it rhymes, as everything must nowadays, with "genome"). The samples used to investigate the resistome are not ones where clinical strains selected for resistance might be congregating (although wastewater streams from hospitals and water treatment plants in large cities harbor their own impressive collection of clinic-selected resistant strains). Instead, virtually every sample used has a stable microbial ecosystem that has never been exposed to clinical levels of antibiotics and has not been in contact with resistant clinical bacterial cultures. Nonetheless, every one of the samples harbors a vast repository of resistance genes.
This environmental resistome provides a glimpse of the raw materials that clinical pathogens have accessed in the antibiotic age. What is sobering about the discovery of the resistome is the revelation that the microbial world already possesses a functional arsenal of defenses against the antibiotics we develop for clinical use. The resistome also demands a subtle, but critical, change in our perspective on resistance: Many of the mechanisms involved in so-called resistance may be playing other critical roles in cells coexisting peacefully with their neighbors. If antibiotics at sublethal doses really are signal molecules, perhaps resistance is really a signal modulator, altering the meaning and modifying the effects of the message on the recipient cell. Once again, the context in which we usually first encounter resistance mechanisms—in clinical infections as they become insensitive to therapeutic doses of antibiotics—may be obscuring the many roles these mechanisms play in the microbial world.
We cannot lose sight of how profoundly 50 million pounds of annual antibiotic use impacts the microbial world. The widespread use of antibiotics has created a black market for antibiotic resistance mechanisms where bacteria poach ready-made shortcuts to resistance: It has enhanced and rewarded the evolution of a vast network that allows for the transfer of resistance along nongenealogical lines. These mechanisms of horizontal transfer now connect the extensive environmental resistome with any pathogen (or commensal bacterium) exposed to clinical concentrations of antibiotic. As a result, bacteria in the presence of potentially lethal concentrations of antibiotics no longer face the daunting evolutionary challenge of remaining alive while they and their descendants cobble together resistance one point mutation at a time. Instead, fully functional resistance located on moveable genetic elements can now be acquired by swapping with other bacteria, or by taking such elements up directly from the environment.
To make matters more challenging, many of these ready-made resistance elements are packaged as a set. Multiple genes encoding resistance to multiple antibiotics now travel as a team (up to 74 different resistances have been found to occur together). The ubiquitous presence of human-administered antibiotics in the environment selects strongly for bacteria that are able to acquire these resistance packs, and may also be selecting for the evolution of increasingly mobile and promiscuous elements equipped with increasingly diverse arrays of resistances. As mobile elements, their Darwinian imperative is to make and move copies of themselves, and that in turn may depend on their ability to keep their host bacteria alive in a sea of antibiotics.
Many forces—social, economic and medical—propel excessive antibiotic use. An expanded perspective on the role of antibiotics and resistance in no way contradicts the urgent need to reduce antibiotic consumption. Our current behavior, moreover, drowns out the subtle melody unfolding in microbial ecosystems and superimposes the deafening roar of therapeutic antibiotics and increasingly resistant pathogens in its place. We can hope that new antibiotics will continue to be developed and broadly prescribed, buying us a few more years. We can keep doing what we have always done, and hope we can reach a stalemate with ever more-aggressive bacterial pathogens. Or we can instead start paying more attention to what microbial ecosystems have to teach us, acknowledging the lessons that have always been embedded in a gram of soil. Our relationship to the unseen world extends far beyond pathogens and our efforts to combat them. We can, if we put our minds to it, begin to see a world in a grain of sand.
You can find this online at http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/num2/routes-of-resistance/3
© 2016 Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society


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Mackinnon Stakes winner Alcopop will represent Australia in the Hong Kong Cup and his trainer says he will be beefing up for the trip.
Jake Stephens said the 8-year-old, who has been plagued by injuries and setbacks throughout his career, was continuing to please him following his successful spring campaign in Melbourne.
"This will be his first preparation where he's gotten through to this position unscathed, so fingers crossed he can keep going," said Stephens. "It's not like with a normal horse where if something goes wrong with them in the spring, you can bring them back whenever.
"When you're at that level and looking to win those bigger races, they only come around once a year."
Alcopop returned to his best form this spring, twice finishing runner-up at the top level before claiming his first group one win in the Mackinnon Stakes on Derby Day.
Stephens has been conferring with other trainers, veterinarians and the Hong Kong Jockey Club about conditions on the ground as he prepares his first runner for the A$2.7 million Hong Kong Cup (2000m) at Sha Tin on December 9.
"We'll try to have him 15 to 20kg heavier before we leave, just to have that up our sleeve," Stephens said.
"On the flight they can lose a couple of per cent of bodyweight, which is 10kg, no problem."
And although the likelihood of a firm track will be in Alcopop's favour, Stephens says he will need to adapt to racing in the reverse direction.
Alcopop will be joined in Hong Kong by Sea Siren, the Manikato Stakes winner, who will run in the Hong Kong Sprint (1200m).
French star Dunaden will be there to defend his Hong Kong Vase title, despite finishing down the track in the Melbourne Cup.
Craig Williams, who rode Alcopop to his Mackinnon Stakes victory, has been booked to partner him in Hong Kong.
Stephens felt reasonably confident about Alcopop's chances.
"He's performing so well that there's no reason not to go, and more reason to go," he said.


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Discussion in 'Members Zone' started by trickblue, May 31, 2005.
Play The Longevity Game
78 for me...
72....but I think that is VERY kind for me lol.
75. And then I was a bit more honest and it got down to 63. That's still good enough for me.
I'm looking at about 82 but I have a feeling that God will keep me alive a lot longer to punish me.
83 for me
and us...
I got 79, but I say BS.
I am 21, and I will live forever. (So when does one actually come to accept their mortality?)
BTW - I am 6-1 228, but it gave me a BMI of 30.07, which, in their terms, is obese. That's stupid though - you can't calculate BMI off of those numbers, you have to measure. I am far from obese. I am overweight, but I exercise daily, and a good amount of that is muscle. My last BMI at the recruiter was 23.
Thus proving my immortality.
The truth sometimes hurts, my friend...
Help, I'm dead already !!
LMAO by then Reality will problably have me IP banned.
Your right about that BMI, mine was not accurate at all. I'm 5-11 and weigh 165 lbs and i got a BMI of 23, ive calculated mine before and its been between 19 and 20. Also there have been studies that show the current BMI theory goes out the window with athletes as muscle weighs more than fat.
77 which considering the shape I'm in would be a miracle
Well... let's hope your longevity isn't linked directly to quality posts...
for either of us
I already feared that... that is why I attempt to pad my post-count... more of a chance to slip an extra 1 or 2 in there...
We are amateurs in post padding compared to Hos
I dont agree with that test, my family history is excellent, my numbers dropped a whole lot due to the lifestyle questions which were much to vague anyway.
True... he is working on the 150 yo barrier...
77, That's fine with me, there's no point in livin past 30, and I've already done that :violin:
h***, I had like 100 posts in all of yesterday and Hos does that in 30 min.


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last day to be able to frequent the boards and at this job
[/quote]You missed a 'doozy' in here yesterday.... Me and Daven were going OFF on each other
Just sent ya a text
I still think you are just being a sore loser honestly, it's quite obvious that at least some of the people who are acting up in arms over this common everyday situation (the trayvon martin thing) are doing so because they want to be cool or want attention, it's no different then the Kony thing...or the next big media driven agenda....I'd say it's more then likely the majority of people....but it's definitely at least a portion of them....it's actually just stupid to claim it's not.
[/quote]OK, I see you're gonna pick it up where we left off.
Never did I suggest that 100% of the people that are attending these rallies and supporting the arrest were doing it for a just cause, I was saying that a majority are and you deny that claim. To you it seems like they are all hipsters looking for the next 'cool thing' but in actuallity the majority are angry at the whole situation and doing it because its the 'right thing' not the 'cool thing'
[/quote]This is why people can be afraid of people wearing hoodies. This happened yesterday.
a six year old girl was caught in the cross fire. Wheres the media?
Black on black crime is the real issue and it continues to be ignored.
[/quote]OK its obvious you dont get the whole issue at hand, just give it up man, you're making yourself look silly
And those are both horrible crimes but im not denying them or making jokes about them like some on this board *cough cough*
[/quote]I get the issue. Its a double standard. Its staring you straight in the face. Fact is more African Americans are killed by black on black violence over white on black violence. And theres more black on white crime that always goes un reported.
The media just wants to get viewers and sell their papers.
And now its coming out this kid wasnt the angel everyone was making him out to be. He was suspended over 3 times for having a burglery tool and womens jewlery, graff, and pot. He even bragged about being suspended on facebook or twitter.
[/quote]Big deal, double standards happen all the time, get used to it. Just because double standards happen doesnt validify you ignoring the issue, thats just 1 wrong for another and in the end it doesnt help anyone.
So now you're discrediting the victim of a murder to what, try and justify Zimmerman killing an UNARMED teenager??? Nobody ever claimed he was a saint or whatever, just an unarmed teenager walking home from the store. I really dont get your point with discrediting him, its not like he had a gun and pointed it at Zimmerman
Im becoming less and less of a fan of yours by the second man


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Or this one? Home | Valkyrie Armament
Haven't built one but they look interesting.
Has anyone here built a belt-fed AR15 upper? (even in calibers other than 5.56) If so, would you mind sharing some info?
Something like this? D&D Guns - SHRIKE 5.56 Belt feed Conversion for M16 / AR15 Family of Weapons
Or this one? Home | Valkyrie Armament
Haven't built one but they look interesting.
"To show you how radical I am, I want carjackers dead. I want rapists dead. I want burglars dead. I want child molesters dead. I want the bad guys dead. No court case. No parole. No early release. I want 'em dead. Get a gun and when they attack you, shoot 'em."
Ted Nugent - speaking at the NRA convention April 17, 2005
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Enforcement, NOT Amnesty!!!!!!
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hehe! the belt fed ar-15/m-16 looks mean as hell--
i often wondered why the DOD didn't develop something like that into a SAW type weapon.
and it would be cheap to build compared to what the DOD is buying.
i wonder?? does it eject through the mag port or out the ejection port?
Ejection port. A lot of the mag wells have a adapter for a saw box (or nut sack).
"To show you how radical I am, I want carjackers dead. I want rapists dead. I want burglars dead. I want child molesters dead. I want the bad guys dead. No court case. No parole. No early release. I want 'em dead. Get a gun and when they attack you, shoot 'em."
Ted Nugent - speaking at the NRA convention April 17, 2005
I think Colt even designed some belt fed models. The problem is the quality of 5.56 belts. They aren't great when new and get worse with use.
Hi Bill,
So this is going to wander around a bit. But I have to tell the whole story so that everyone will understand what went into this design.
Back in the day (1989-1991) an associate of mine did a lot of work in this regard. His answer was not terribly revolutionary, but the weapon operator could use either belt feed, or Magazine feed; which was unique at that time.
He perfected his design, mostly by trial and error much like John Browning did, and by 1991; he demonstrated his baby to the Marine Corps. They were suitably impressed. They requested 10 units for initial trials, and he built those forthwith. 2 days before delivery, the State of Kalifornia raided his shop. You can fill in the blanks for yourself. In his defense, he was fully licensed, and was operating completely within the law. The State had completely screwed the pooch on the raid. But, since they are the State, and cannot tolerate their supremacy being challenged, they raided again three days later but also had search warrants for the employee's vehicles and homes. One had marijuana "residue" in his vehicle. And that, was the end of that.
The 10 trial units were allowed to be delivered to the Marine Corps., who found the design to "hold great promise". But since the State of Kalifornia had leveled charges against the employee and the business, nothing ever came of it.
I fired examples of this weapon, and would sell my wife and my children to own one. It possessed every blessing you could want. The most important design elements were:
1. Replaceable barrels. 18" were the standard length.
2. Double roller (Think HK, but with two rollers on each side of the bolt carrier) interrupted recoil operation. This was really unique because full disengagement did not occur until the projectile was nearly exiting the muzzle.
3. Cyclic rate was 725-785 rounds per minute.
4. Really controllable in operation. The weapon was light, about 13.5lb but it tended to bury itself into your shoulder as opposed to radical muzzle climb. Very similar to an MG42 in operation. Very heavy barrel profile, about 1.15in at the receiver end of the weapon, and stepping down toward the muzzle in three increments to .775in.
5. Operator configurable to fire from either an open bolt, or a closed bolt.
Very simply put, the biggest issue with this design was the shitty ammo links, they used to hand sort them into a usable pile, and a reject pile. They even created some sizing tools to speed up the process.
At 400 meters, I could reliably perforate any target like you would at a carnival game where you shoot out the red star...At 600 meters, the impacts would wander around in a predictable way. Think M-60.
The last time I fired one of these, I put 750 rounds downrange with only enough time to change the 125 round linked belts. No failures. But I personally think the barrel was toast after that. It was early evening, and the barrel was glowing a dull red for the last 6 inches of the barrel.
My buddy eventually beat off all of the charges, but it sank him. He BK'd in 1993 and moved to Arizona.
My retelling of this does no justice to the absolute perfection of this design. Sadly, it is just another example of how the Gov. tends to crush innovation and the free exercise of our rights. My buddy passed away in 1997. I spread his ashes from an airplane over Anacapa Island off the coast of Ventura, Ca. as he had asked for in his will on his birthday in 1998.
A little bit of background on my buddy.
He enlisted n the Marine Corps in 1961, I was not even an itch at that time.
He participated in numerous deployments undertaken by the Marine Corps. in the Caribbean, Southeast Asia, and "other" locations. Some you you Marines will understand. Four tours in Vietnam, three were voluntary.
Also served in Lebanon, was captured, and spent 16 weeks in captivity until he was able to kill his captors and escape. He was nearly killed by his own Marines because they did not believe that he was who he was until he pulled off the clothes he was wearing to reveal his skin color. I am certain that there are some Marines out there who have heard this story.
He served until 1985, retired as a Master Gunnery Sergent (I think, E-9 specifically).
I am not going to name my Buddy. He would not approve. He always preferred to be known as a Marine. He was all of that. In my heart, I believe that he is the NCOIC of the Marine Guard at the Gates of Heaven.
Thank God for our Marines.
Remained a Marine until his dying day.
A superbly disciplined individual, and one of the most Honorable Men I have ever known.
I hope that helps some.
Imagine whirled peas
Peace, Love, And Superior Firepower


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UTSA Cyber Defense Competition team
UTSA wins regional cyber defense competition
By Kris Rodriguez
Public Affairs Specialist
(March 23, 2006)--While some students spent their spring break enjoying outdoor activities, seven members of UTSA's Cyber Defense Competition team honed their skills indoors, capturing first place at the second annual Southwest Regional Cyber Defense Competition over the weekend in Corpus Christi.
The UTSA team hopes to claim the national title when they take on five other regional winners at the first-ever National Cyber Defense Competition April 21-23 in San Antonio at the Airport Hilton hotel.
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The UTSA team took first place while host Del Mar College of Corpus Christi finished second. Competitors included the University of North Texas and Texas A&M University. The competition featured four teams that were scored on their ability to operate and maintain a business network while under hostile cyber attack.
"We were disappointed in our placement in last year's competition so we examined the flaws in our approach and decided on a new plan of attack," said Gabriel Cornyn, UTSA cyber defense team member. "Sometimes, we spent more than five hours a day in the testing lab during the two months preceding the event, so we would have a well organized and knowledgeable team."
"It was a stressful event and the competition was tough, but we made it and we're definitely looking forward to nationals," said Ashley Price, UTSA cyber defense team member. "We have a good team and we'll make UTSA proud."
UTSA's cyber defense team members included Dylan Kulesza, Ashley Price, Andrew Benson, Jacob Hammack, Jacob Silva, Gabriel Cornyn and John Pandzik.
In April, UTSA's CIAS hosts the first National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition featuring winning teams from the 2006 Collegiate Cyber Defense Regional Competitions. The competitions are this month in the Midwest, Southeast, Southwest and Mid-Atlantic regions and an additional site involving all five U.S. service academies.
The regional competitions were modeled after last year's first Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition hosted by CIAS. The event featured teams from the University of Texas at Austin, UTSA, Texas A&M University, University of North Texas and Del Mar College.


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Posted by Nick Hayes on February 19, 2013
Facebook made headlines last Friday with its announcement that it had been the victim of a sophisticated security attack. All major news publications picked up the story, citing widespread concern about the implications of the breach.
The breach itself, however, was largely a nonevent from a security standpoint.
Facebook identified the security breach before it infiltrated too deeply into company systems, remediated all compromised machines, informed law enforcement, and reported the Java exploit to its parent owner Oracle – acting quickly and appropriately. Most importantly, Facebook made it clear that the breach did not expose any of its users' data.


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No one's ready to think about coats yet, but fall is on the way… and that means that you're going to need something to keep you warm.
Here are some fall-style plus-size jackets that, while they won't work in the middle of January, will still keep you warm through the fall.
A swing coat is one option. Loose-fitting and flowing, a swing coat is a warm layer that looks super stylish. This shorter-style swing jacket is a nice transitional piece from fall to winter. It goes well with any professional outfit or nice jeans.
Another idea is a corduroy shirt jacket. Pull this on for any casual day or weekend wear. The corduroy is comfortable and stylish, and the accents add a fun flair.
Stay tuned for a post later in the fall when we'll discuss the best winter coat options.


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One of the things we most take for granted in the modern world is clean and easy home lighting. Unfortunately, a billion and a half people in developing countries do not have access to electric light, and are instead forced to turn to kerosene lanterns. Although a candle-lit dinner is considered a romantic novelty by many, relying on kerosene lanterns exposes the users to pollutants that lead to respiratory diseases, and also the risk of fire. Furthermore, kerosene is expensive, creating a poverty trap for low-income families.
Consider this:
The World Bank estimates that, as a result, 780 million women and children inhale smoke which is equivalent to smoking 2 packets of cigarettes every day. 60% of adult, female lung-cancer victims in developing nations are non-smokers. The fumes also cause eye infections and cataracts, but burning kerosene is also more immediately dangerous: 2.5 million people a year, in India alone, suffer severe burns from overturned kerosene lamps. Burning Kerosene also comes with a financial burden: kerosene for lighting ALONE can consume 10 to 20% of a household's income. This burden traps people in a permanent state of subsistence living, buying cupfuls of fuel for their daily needs, as and when they can.
The London-based design firm Therefore has tackled this problem and developed a revolutionary solution that promises lighting that is free of pollution, free of fire-hazard, and free of ongoing fuel costs. Their creation, the Gravity Light, is a novel blend of modern and ancient tech, combining high-efficiency LEDs and a gravity-powered gear system found in grandfather clocks. Continue Reading "Save the Planet by Converting Gravitons to Photons" »


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The Arizona Eye Institute & Cosmetic Laser Center (Sun City and Wickenburg) is committed to personalized patient care, with your health and satisfaction being our main objective. Dr. Emilio Justo takes great pride in the unique style of personalized care and examines each patient personally during every visit. The staff constantly strives to help you feel as comfortable as possible with the medical, surgical or cosmetic procedures you are considering.
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Quiet Apartment with 2 balconies - Centr
Size70 m²
Floor No.1
- Kitchen
- Washer/dryer
- Internet/WiFi
- Balcony/terrace
- Towels
- Dishwasher
- Lockable room
Accommodation summary
|Mary Zeldenruststraat, 1091DL Amsterdam, Netherlands
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|Property ID
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|Response time
|A few hours
|Calendar updated
Even though the apartment is right in the middle of the city, it's so quiet it makes you feel like you're in a rural area. It has 2 balconies, unique for Amsterdam!
You will be staying in a big apartment (70m2), all private for you.
You'll sleep in a cosy bedroom facing a quiet & lush garden. The bedroom has its own private balcony where you can enjoy summer nights. The comfortable queen size bed (2x2meter) sleeps two people Towels and bed linen are provided. You will get the keys to the appartment so you can come in and go out whenever you want to.
The apartment has a modern bathroom with a big rain shower (&hair dryer) & separate toilet and a big living- and dining room. The living room has another balcony with a view of the quiet one-way street. The kitchen has a stove, microwave, refrigerator, oven and dish washing machine.
With your stay comes free fast Wifi access and some maps of the neighbourhood!
The east side of the city centre is a nice safe neighbourhood with lots of good restaurants just around the corner.
Public transportation is abundant with a subway station (Weesperplein) just 5 minutes walk away and also a lot of tramlines are within 2 minutes of my front door. The nearest train station is Amstel station but also central station (3 minutes by subway) and Schiphol airport (20 minutes by train/subway) can be easily reached. Parking is available in the street but is very pricey (about 36 eu/day).
The area is known for the lush Oosterpark, Artis zoo, the tropenmuseum, amstel and Hermitage museum, all 5-10 minutes walking distance away. Travel time from my front door to the city centre by tram or subway is app 10 minutes or 15 minutes if you decide to walk.
I won't provide breakfast but you of course can make your own breakfast or walk 2 minutes to the best bakery in the city!
Check-in is variable, and will be discussed when you make the booking. Check out is always at 11 am, but if no other guests are coming you can store your bags in the living room!
I hope you will enjoy your stay!!
House rulesNo special rules, just try to be not too loud between 11pm and 8am. Smoking, open fires or drugs are not allowed inside the house or on the balcony. No visitors allowed, by safety regulations no more than 2 tourists are allowed in the aparment. And please clean up the kitchen after you used it, but other than that, just enjoy your stay!
|Weekly rate for up to 2 guests
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Reviews of this property
Very cosy appartment, close to the center. It is just some minutes to walk to the central area of Amsterdam. We have got very detailed guidelines about how to find the appartment, there are also good transport connections. So we had a very nice stay in Amsterdam and enjoyed it!
Everything was fine, Marc was very kind with us and well organized to host us. The room was nice and clean and the house has a good position to reach all the attractions. The only thing to point out is that is not possible to lock the bedroom door from the inside, by the way this was not a problem, you are not going to have people in your room!
We had a good first wimdu experience and enjoyed our staying despite the weather.
We had an amazing stay @ Marc's Appartment! We'd be glad to come to Amsterdam again in the future!
Quiet and well served by public transport.
The neighborhood is very nice.
Bedroom facilities are fine.
Contact before and during stay very pleasant.
Rustig en goed bereikbaar met het openbaar vervoer.
De buurt is erg leuk.
Slaapkamer en faciliteiten zijn prima in orde.
Contact vooraf en tijdens verblijf heel prettig.
Room located in a very quiet neighborhood but very close to downtown Amsterdam.
Marc is a very nice guy who will make your stay easy.
A very positive first experience with Wimdu.
We had a nice stay in Amsterdam.
The organization has worked very well, it was all well prepared.
We felt in the apartment very comfortable, everything was there, which one needed.
Highly recommended.
Gladly again.
Thank you Ute and Peter
Wir hatten einen schönen Aufenthalt in Amsterdam.
Die Organisation hat sehr gut geklappt, es war alles gut vorbereitet.
Wir haben uns in der Ferienwohnung sehr wohl gefühlt, es war alles da, was man brauchte.
Sehr empfehlenswert.
Gerne wieder.
Vielen Dank Ute und Peter
GOOD VALUE FOR MONEY! We had a great time staying in this warm, cozy apartment. The location is fantastic (3 -5 minutes walk) from the metro station. There are few restaurants around the block. HALAL restaurants are just 20 meters away from the house (two restaurants, Indian and Arabic), hence there will be no problem for those who are looking for halal option. All the necessities are complete, and not to mention, the apartment is nice and the decor makes u feel like home. fMarc has been so wonderful by giving us with several tips and guides (verbally and written in a file, so you can browse later- from the transportation guidelines to local food suggestions). There are multiple exit from the metro station, do take the "uitgang Mauritskade" exit to avoid crossing the junctions to get to the apartment. I have sent few pictures to my friends this accomodation will be on our list in the next visit to Amsterdam. Thanks Marc for the lovely hospitality.
Marc was a very pleasant host. He put us immediately at ease. Her apartment is clean and very functional. In addition, he gave us good advice for our stay. Thank you to him
Marc a été un hôte très agréable. Il nous a mis tout de suite à l'aise. Son appartement est propre et très fonctionnel. De plus, il nous a donné de bons conseils pour notre séjour. Merci à lui
The accommodation I would highly recommend. Good quiet location, Marc is very friendly, helpful and uncomplicated. We felt very comfortable in his home.
Die Unterkunft kann ich nur sehr empfehlen. Gute ruhige Lage, Marc ist sehr freundlich, hilfsbereit und unkompliziert. Wir fühlten uns sehr wohl in seiner Wohnung.
Well maintained and very centrally located apartment, equipped with everything necessary :-) Just a short walk to the Metro. Bakery, supermarket, cafes and bars, etc. around the corner. Everything was fine organized and Marc was very friendly and helpful!
Thanks and best regards, Britta and Melanie
Gepflegte und sehr zentral gelegene Wohnung, mit allem Notwendigen ausgestattet:-) Nur ein paar Gehminuten zur Metro. Bäckerei, Supermarkt, Kaffees und Bars etc. um die Ecke. Alles war prima organisiert und Marc war sehr freundlich und hilfsbereit!
Danke und viele Grüße, Britta und Melanie
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This was my third year trying to obtain a swarm. We moved to a new town in January, and I promptly got the word out that I was keeping bees.
Before swarm season began, I had posters up at all the major businesses, my name on the swarm list, my business card with the local sheriff, fire department, and dispatch center. I wrote an article about beekeeping for the local newspaper, and had an ad in the same paper. I also spread the word each time I did class presentations. I placed five swarm traps along the major country road through town with a great lure recipe from a guy who's caught 30 swarms this season. Two of those traps were hives full of comb, on people's property who wanted bees. I thought with the calm winter, this would be the year I would find success. I drive my stretch of highway 4-12 times every day, and always scan the trees and fences for any sign of swarm activity.
Honestly, what more could I have done? I'm quite depressed over the situation. I was counting on catching at least two swarms this season, as my "bee budget" did not permit the purchase of more than one package this year. AARRGH!


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"This recipe came from my grandmother many years ago," says Linda Chaput of North Bay, Ontario. "It's absolutely delicious. You can also use cream of mushroom soup instead of tomato or add a piece of onion to the cheese in the center."
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- 1/4 cup chopped onion
- 2 tablespoons beaten egg
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1/2 pound lean ground beef
- 8 cubes cheddar cheese (1/2 inch each)
- 2/3 cup condensed tomato soup, undiluted
- In a small bowl, combine the first five ingredients. Crumble beef over mixture and mix well. Divide into eight portions. Shape each portion around a cheese cube.
- Place meatballs in an 8-in. x 4-in. glass loaf pan coated with cooking spray; top with soup. Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until meat is no longer pink. Yield: 2 servings.
Originally published as Cheddar Stuffed Meatballs in Cooking for 2 Summer 2009, p21
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Reviewed May. 23, 2014
"I like these. Used fresh minced garlic instead of powder, and cream of mushroom soup instead of tomato. Simple but different!"
Reviewed Apr. 14, 2014
"Good. I love garlic, but cut the powder after the first time. Also good with cream of mushroom soup. Good with ground turkey also."
Reviewed Feb. 2, 2013
"This is a favorite at my house for adults & children alike. It's always easy to add to. I've added crumbled bacon at my granddaughter's request. Yummy!!"
Reviewed Dec. 14, 2012
"I have made this recipe several times & get raves each time from everyone. Delicious & a breeze to prepare. It's a quick, easy throw together yet different meal with veggie & rolls, rice or potatoes."


text: Anybody know where I can find a diagram of a twizzle tracing? I'm struggling to tell if I'm really twizzling or just 3turning. One way feels twizzlish but the other is definately 3turns. I only started working on these today so I'm not expecting to beable to do them yet but if anybody has tips they would be most welcome.


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From Bill of WinPatrol Blog (Bits from Bill) :
Do you remember programs from Gator, MyWaySearch, Net.Net or 180Solutions? Are there still programs running on your computer that you really don't want?
You're not alone! Most annoying programs now come from legitimate companies who know they're not really adding value but do it to make share holders happy. There's always been competition by companies to get their programs installed on the greatest number of computers. When you notice your computer keeps getting slower you can blame it on these programs. At least when AOL shipped out millions of CD's you had the choice of installing it or not
I created my WinPatrol program to alert me if new programs are being added to the Windows startup procedure. Originally this popular feature was designed to prevent spyware from infecting your system. Now, the biggest problem doesn't come from spyware or viruses, it comes from well known companies like Apple, Adobe, Google and even Microsoft. […]
In the past it was common for WinPatrol fans to report programs which were malicious, designed to steal data, monitor key strokes or create pop up ads. Sadly, the most common complaints I see now are for programs from legitimate companies.
Google continues to top the list of companies wanting to make sure you have their toolbar and updates of anything else they feel you need, like it or not. A large number of companies are paid to install the Google Toolbar via programs like Adobe Flash, Cyberlink PowerDVD, IrfanView, PC Tools Spyware Doctor, Threatfire, RealPlayer, ZoneAlarm and more. The fact WinPatrol users are requesting Info on GoogleUpdater implies they have no clue how it was installed on their system.
Continue reading in http://billpstudios.blogspot.com/2010/06/legal-software-more-annoying-then-most.html


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Re: What a Birthday!
Hello, John and Linda. Glad you are enjoying the blog.
California tour sounds great. I have only been to San Fran and Sonoma, but loved it. We will look forward to hearing about your trip.
I don't know if I'll do more with the photos. We took 1200 pictures in Mexico, 1700 in Argentina, and 750 so far in Uruguay. I download and sort them every few days, but going through +4000 pictures to make a slide show will take time. Of course, since real estate development is dead, I guess I have a little extra time.
And yes, Barbara is VERY good for me.
See you soon.
What a birthday!
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Of course, high season in Punta is January and February, and we are here in late fall. But it's still a beautiful place. When we arrived last Friday, it was Indian Summer and warm. Today, it is Fall and a little cooler, but sunny and gorgeous.
To visualize Punta, think a mix of the new beach resorts along Florida's Panhandle (Seaside and Watercolor) with some glamourous high-rises from Miami/Ft. Lauderdale. And behind the high-rises lining most of the beaches are some neighborhoods reminiscent of Winter Park.
Our apartment here is a big step up from the one in Buenos Aires, the small studio that Barbara dubbed the "shoebox in the sky." This apartment is beautifully decorated and MUCH larger.
In addition to the yacht basin across the street, there are several nearby restaurants to keep us well-fed.
But staying fed is not really a problem. The apartment comes with a maid who cooked a great birthday dinner from a recipe that Barbara found.
In short, this is a great place to spend my birthday.
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Tapper to WH on Benghazi: So, wouldn't it be President Obama who shot first and aimed later?
posted at 5:21 pm on October 10, 2012 by Erika Johnsen
If you'll recall, in the immediate wake of the breaking news of the riots in Cairo and Benghazi in September, the biggest question on the mainstream media's collective mind was not anything in the vein of, Is any of this related to terrorism and has the Obama administration adequately protected our security interests?, but rather, Did Mitt Romney get ahead of himself by issuing a statement that criticized the Obama administration's handling of the situation?
President Obama ran with the media's spin, positing on 60 Minutes that America doesn't need a president who would "shoot first and ask questions later," but given the ensuing fallout (from this-wasn't-terrorism to this-was-clearly-terrorism, and what with sending out Ambassador Rice to paint a false narrative to the American people and deriding a "disgusting, reprehensible" internet video in front of the United Nations, etcetera)… wasn't it maybe President Obama and his administration who actually jumped the gun on this whole thing? ABC reporter Jack Tapper put the question to White House press secretary Jay Carney this afternoon:
TAPPER: President Obama, shortly after the attack told "60 Minutes" that regarding Mitt Romney's response to the attacks, specifically in Egypt, the president said that Romney has a tendency to "shoot first and aim later." Given the fact that so much was made out of the video that apparently had absolutely nothing to do with the attack in Benghazi, that there wasn't even a protest outside the Benghazi post, didn't President Obama shoot first and aim later? …
CARNEY: Right. I'm not disputing that there was a protest, but what we said at the time was that the intelligence community assessed that the attack began spontaneously following protests earlier that day at our embassy in Cairo, ok? Again, this is a moving picture, and people who, on the night of an attack, or the day after, claim they know all the facts without making clear that what we know is based on preliminary information aren't being straight. In some cases trying to politicize a situation that should not be politicized.
Carney went on, implying that it was wrong for Mitt Romney to seize on the events in the Middle East without knowing all of the facts, but Tapper's point was made. The term "hoisted with your own petard" springs to mind.
Fox News' Ed Henry also got in a good exchange with Carney, in which Carney insisted, "I never said, I never said we don't know if it's terrorism."
But, as BuzzFeed points out… that's not exactly what the White House was saying in the immediate aftermath of the attack, was it? On September 14th, Carney told the press pool: "We don't have and do not have concrete evidence to suggest this was not in reaction to the film." I'm pretty sure this is what "mincing words" looks like:
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After listening to Sarah Palin, that distinguished foreign policy expert, Americans may yearn for a return to the peaceful days of George Bush. In a typical response of an individual who is ignorant regarding the complexities of foreign policy, she defiantly told an interviewer: "Ihave the confidence in that readiness(to be president) and knowing that you can't blink. You have to be wired in a way of being so committed to the mission, the mission that we're on, reform of this country in the war, you can't blink."She fully supported NATO membership for Georgia and the Ukraine and insisted "we've got to keep an eye on Russia. For Russia to have exerted such pressure in terms of invading a smaller democratic country, unprovoked, is unacceptable."
The comments of Governor Palin are frightening, to say the least. There is not an iota of understanding anything about the situation in Georgia other than mouthing tough rhetoric. Sarah Palin appears completely ignorant that Georgia initiated the original attack on South Ossetia. In response to a question concerning if Georgia membership in NATO would commit the US to go to war with Russia, she responded: "Perhaps, so, I mean, tht is the agreement when you are a NATO ally."
Perhaps, if Governor Palin knew a bit of history, she would have learned that President Kennedy during the Cuba missile crisis, blinked, negotiated a secret agreement which included withdrawal of US missiles from Turkey and avoided nuclear war. Neither Sarah Palin nor John McCain are anything like the cool headed John F. Kennedy.


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Wenceslas sq 3 BDR Ruterra Apartment
Maksimum Konuk Sayısı10
Yatak odası3
Boyut92 metrekare
Floor No.3(with elevator)
- İnternet/Kablosuz ağ
- Mutfak
- Havlu
- Binada asansör
- Bulaşık makinası
Accommodation summary
|Opletalova, 11000 Prague, Çek Cumhuriyeti
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|Referans kodu
|Acceptance rate
|Response time
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|Calendar updated
3 separate fully furnished bedrooms can fit up to 10 people! This apartment will be a perfect choice for group of friends, big family or 3 couples. Bedrooms and kitchen are also fully furnished and equipped.
Apartment consist of:
* hall
* first bedroom (19 m2) with big double bed for 2 people and comfortable sofa , wardrobe and writing desk
* second bedroom (18 m2) with double bed as well for 2 people and nice sofa for 2 people, wardrobe and writing desk
* third bedroom (15 m2) with double bed, sofa and wardrobe and writing desk (all three bedrooms look the same :))
* kitchen (19 m2) is competently equipped with oven, fridge, microwave, kettle, toaster crockery and cooker, dinner table for 6 people and TV.
* 2 bathrooms, both of them with WC and shower unit, with hairdryer
Guest Access
Also we provide:
*Towels and bed linens
*unlimited Wifi
*iron, ironing board
*TV with satellite (Cinemax, Discovery, Eurosport, Fashion TV, HBO, History Channel, MTV)
*good recommendations where to go and what to see in Prague
*24 hours support during your stay
Interaction with Guests
We will support you 24/7 during your stay in Prague
The Neighborhood
The apartment location allows getting deeper into life of an Old and New Town in the same time with a specific unforgettable atmosphere, wagging streets with small medieval squares and numerous cafes and restaurants. It all promises an unforgettable experience of your visit to Prague.
Every famous sight in Prague is located within 15 minutes walking from apartment, so you will forget about public transport, for sure :
•0 min. - Wenceslas square (metro A,B,C)
•2 min. – shopping street Na Příkopě
•2 min. – Building of National Muzeum
•5 min. – Main train station (train, metro C)
•10 min. – Old Town Square and Jewish Quarter
•15 min. - Charles bridge and riverbank
Truly amazing neighborhood !
Getting Around
We are open to advise you our favorite restaurants, clubs and must-see sights, just ask us about!
Other Things to Note
It takes 30 minutes to get to your apartment from airport by taxi. We can organize a transfer from the airport directly to the apartment - the cost of this service is 20 EUR/car for 1-3 ppl, 25 EUR/car for 4 ppl, 35 EUR/car for 5-6 ppl, 55 EUR/car for 7-8 people, 70 EUR/car for 9-10 ppl. In this case our driver will meet you in the arrival zone, drive you to your apartment and hand you in all needed maps and keys.
The nearest public parking is located in 2-5 minutes walking from apartment on the same street – it's paid on working days (approximately 1.5 euro/hour) and free on weekends and nights. Guarded parking garage "Slovan" is located in several steps from apartment and parking there costs app.32 euro/24 hours.
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I can recommend everything: the apartment (central, big enough (we were altogehter 5), clean, modern, well-appointed), the agency (very helpful, very obliging, reliable) and, of course, the beautiful city Prague! I would definitely make a reservation with ruterra Apartment over and over again.
We were 10 people and visited Prague for a weekend trip. As we arrived late on Friday, we picked up the keys in a locker which was very comfortable. The flat is really good located and we could reach everything easily by feet. The flat was very clean and modern. All of us liked especially the shower ;)
We had a very nice stay in Prague and all 10 of us were really satisfied wih the flat. I can recommend it for bigger groups as there are 2 bathrooms and enough space for all.
Thank you!
The apartment was nice, kitchen facilities, clean, big enough for a group of eight people. They even left two cods for the babies. The location is so perfect that we could walk everywhere, and Is just there in Wenceslao square. Would definitely repeat it.
the apartment is right in the new city center, we could walk to old town in about 15 minutes and had everything - shops, bars, cafés right around.
The apartment was VERY clean, which is great! It offers basically everything, coffee-machine, water-boiler, big fridge, hairdryer, even a washing machine.
Everything seemed really new - the furniture and the bathrooms. We especially loved the "rain"-showerhead! ;)
The beds are comfortable and the rooms look very nice.
On our last morning, the electricity went off - but we called the "emergency number" of the office and they send a guy over in just a few minutes that repaired everything. Great service!
The apartment is located in a very comfortable and central zone, very close to Wenceslas Square. Inside, I found it very ordered and clean. It is very pretty and the owners have always been very kind and helpful, they gave me all the necessary informations about the city and places where to go to, with even some advice about the most peculiar spaces and what's more, they answer in a very little time in any occasion.
...I would suggest it and the city, I really had a good time there (:
Sehr schönes Apartment in guter Lage.
Küche gut ausgestattet (Backofen, Mikrowelle; Spülmaschine, Toaster, Wasserkocher..), alles was man zum Kochen braucht.
Schlafzimmer sind sehr schön eingerichtet.
Das einzige negative ist, dass nicht genügend Stühle in der Küche waren (4 Stühle in der Küche, 3 weitere in den Schlafzimmern für 9 Personen).
Bei Fragen wurde immer sofort freundlich weiter geholfen.
Nuestro viaje a Praga ha sido maravilloso, y a ello ha contribuido el apartamento que hemos compartido las 6 amigas. Renovado y muy limpio. Está muy bien situado, en una perpendicular a la Plaza Wenceslao. Muy espaciosa, con 3 habitaciones enormes, dos baños completos. Alex y Kate nos propusieron un transfer que nos fuera a recoge al aeropuerto y fue una gran idea, porque el chófer nos llevó las llaves del apartamento, nos acompañó y nos dio todas la explicaciones. Totalmente recomendable.
Gute Begleitung, Infos und Kartenmaterial. Transport vom Flughafen. Sehr saubere, geräumige Wohnung mit neuwertiger Mobilierung, gut ausgestattete Küche. Sehr gute Lage für eine Prag Städte Tour.
La situación del apartamento, inmejorable! Se podía acceder a todos los sitios de interés a pie. Las camas, amplias y cómodas.El conductor que nos recogió en el aeropuerto, muy amable y nos orientó sobre lugares interesantes y nos resolvió todas nuestras dudas y consultas. Como hizo tanto calor, algo no habitual en esa zona, echamos de menos, el poco tiempo que estabamos en el apartamento, el aire acondicionado.Al ser un piso muy céntrico, había mucho ruido por las noches. En general, muy positivo.
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What is the reason that discussion is forbidden on the For Sale forum? I frequently see items (Bee Bee trees, tools, etc.) that I'm interested in, but with the blackout on discussion, no more information is ever publicly forthcoming about the item or folks past experiences with it. That's one of the really nice things about shopping on Amazon, for example, seeing the comments from past purchasers about what they liked (or didn't), or even clarifications of what's included in the box, etc.
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Litchfield >> Everything was pink as far as the eye could see on Sunday at White Memorial Conservation Center as about a thousand walkers, supporters and volunteers came out to celebrate survivorship and raise money to fight against breast cancer.
The 5-K walk was kicked off by some inspirational speeches from survivors and from some who lost loved ones to the disease.
All of the money raised through registrations, donations, silent auction and refreshment sales at the event, will be going to Making Strides Against Breast Cancer and the American Cancer Society.
A similar event was held for Connecticut residents in New Haven at Lighthouse Point Park on Sunday as part of the month-long observance of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
One family came out for its second event as mother Yvonne Bay approaches her second year of survivorship. Her daughter, Belkys Camacho, helped support her by walking with her and raising money for the cause.
Bay was glad to be there to help raise money for the American Cancer Society. "I feel very happy for the survivors here, and I'm glad that I'm a survivor," Bay said.
An estimated total of around $75,000 was raised Sunday at the Litchfield event alone and organizers were thrilled with both the amount raised and the turnout.
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Man sentenced to at least 30 years for beating, raping child
PUEBLO, Colo. - A Pueblo mother says her family finally has the closure they have wanted for the past year and a half.
A judge sentenced Jose Garcia, 31, to 30 years to life in prison. In May, Garcia was found guilty of kidnapping, sexually assaulting and beating a then-9-year-old girl.
Stephanie Cordova says knowing Garcia will be in prison for at least 30 years will bring her daughter comfort.
In January 2012, Cordova's daughter was walking home from school in Pueblo when Garcia kidnapped her, punched her in the face and raped her.
Cordova was in the courtroom on Thursday afternoon when the judge delivered the sentence. Her daughter wasn't in the courtroom but Cordova said her daughter was excited to know the case was coming to an end.
"I just want her to feel safe and secure knowing that he's behind bars and he can't hurt her no more. There's no more hurt," Cordova said.
Cordova said the sentencing eases the pain but won't erase it. She said Garcia took away her daughter's innocence.
"She's not at peace," Cordova said. "That peace will never be there again."
"Some days she feels it when around people she kinda gets scared and I hope that she doesn't feel like that anymore and that on most days she just doesn't think of it and just lives with her life," said the victim's 12-year-old cousin, Arriana Apodaca.
Garcia faces another trial in December. He's accused of sexually assaulting and kidnapping another child on the same day.


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El Paso County Sheriff says no evidence Black Forest Fire "intentionally" set
Black Forest Fire Chief declares the state's most destructive fire was intentional
BLACK FOREST, COLO. - El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa responded critically to a statement made by Black Forest's Fire Chief in which the Chief declared this summer's deadly fire was intentionally set.
Black Forest Fire Chief Bob Harvey made the announcement Wednesday night (11/20/13), saying "yes, it was human caused and appears intentional.
Chief Harvey says he collaborated with "outside experts" and says that they came to the same conclusion many had been suspicious of since June.
"It's clear that this was human caused," Harvey said. "I don't think anybody in the Black Forest area is surprised that this is human caused and probably intentional at all."
However, El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa said there was no evidence that the fire was intentionally set.
In a media release, Maketa wrote a critical response to Harvey's announcement.
He said, "Do not buy into Chief Harvey's claims until it's confirmed by the actual agency that has been the lead of the investigation and will base its findings on indisputable scientific evidence that can withstand the scrutiny of the criminal justice system. Right now that isn't the case. His comments are nothing more than an attempt to mislead the public and a mere witch hunt."
Maketa conceded that the fire was "human caused", but he said Fire Chief Harvey was not involved in the investigation and thus not "qualified to offer legal and scientific evidence."
Maketa continued, accusing the chief of being "less than truthful about other circumstances with [the] disaster."
Maketa considered that Harvey could be "covering his own mishandling of the event in an attempt to avoid responsibility for letting the fire get out of hand."
After making the announcement, Harvey declined to elaborate on any specific evidence or who the outside experts were that he consulted with before determining the fire was intentional.
He said that he felt an obligation to report what he found to the National Fire Protection Association and the public.
"I think the worst thing is this person still is out there," Harvey said.
The fire started on June 11, 2013 and burned for over a week, scorching more than 14,000 acres. 486 Homes were destroyed, and 37 were damaged.
Two people, Marc Herklotz, 52, and his wife Robin Herklotz, 50, were killed in the fire, as they tried to escape the flames.
The fire cost more than $85 Million, and is considered to be the most destructive fire in the state's history.
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Your useless celebrity/presidential trivia bit of the day/week:
While they certainly don't look much alike, billionaire Warren Buffett and President Barack Obama are indeed related, reads Ancestry.com. According to the genealogical-tracing site, Buffett and Obama are seventh cousins, three times removed. Come to think of it, at least in these pictures, their noses really do look similiar!
These two very famous, not to mention powerful, men's family trees converge at a 17th-century Frenchman named Mareen Duvall, Obama's ninth great-grandfather and Buffett's sixth great-grandfather. Duvall was an indentured servant that became a land owner in Maryland in 1659. A planter, merchant, and carpenter, Duvall was considered to be a country gentleman, according to the site, the New York Times also reports Duvall was a slave-owner.
According to Ancestry.com, Brad Pitt and the President are also ninth cousins. That's what you call good genes!


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Providing an in-depth look at American, European, and World history, BVU's history major provides you with the intellectual tools to continue developing an historical consciousness and for cultivating the life of the mind after graduation.
As a history major seeking a secondary education licensure, you can look forward to gaining the knowledge and skills to:
- Utilize both a factual and interpretive knowledge of history to help make informed choices about the world around you.
- Benefit from extensive and varied field experience opportunities in order to be a high quality educator.
- Teach middle and high school with a 5-12 teacher certification from the State of Iowa.
History with Teaching Licensure (5-12) Courses
- HIST 101 History of the United States to 1877
- HIST 102 History of the United States After 1877
- 9 additional credit hours of American history (if taking History 482, then 6 credit hours)
- HIST 111 World Civilizations I or HIST 121 The Emergence of Western Civilization
- HIST 112 World Civilizations II or HIST 122 The Revolutions of Western Civilizations
- HIST 125 Asian Civilizations
- 6 additional credit hours of World history (if taking History 481, then 3 credit hours)
- HIST 481 The Historian's Craft (World, Counts for elective credit in World history) or HIST 482 The Historian's Craft (U.S., Counts as elective credit in U.S. history)
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The education core, which is required of all students seeking a teaching license, is the nucleus of the teacher education program and includes basic courses in education and psychology. Elementary education majors, students seeking secondary licensure, and Post Baccalaureate students are required to take all EDCO courses for a letter grade and to earn a minimum grade of "C-" in each course.
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Students must take the methods course related to their major. In addition, if one desires to add another secondary teaching endorsement, the methods course for that endorsement must be taken. Most secondary methods courses are offered every other year.
- SEDU 402 Methods of Teaching Secondary Business and Field Experience
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Please show up in force at the Super Bowl. The Patriots must lose this game. Tom Brady is now ripping my city, and my team, and my hatred for the Patriots is even more intense than in 2007. I find myself in a similar situation. The third time in my life I've been a huge Giants fan. (07, this year regular season, and ow the Bowl.)
I know we are looked down on, but I'm pretty sure the fans of most other teams would agree with me.
We need you guys to win. Your fans need to be awesome. Say a prayer, be loud at the game, be superstitious. Do anything that could possibly help the Giants win this game.
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"To make your dreams come true, it takes hard work," Michelle Kwan said to a room of young learners at the kick-off of this year's Let's Read! Let's Move! summer enrichment series at the U.S. Department of Education. The Olympic figure skater and member of the President's Council on Fitness reminded them that it's important to "practice, practice, practice."
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Arsène Wenger admits Japanese winger Ryo needs to be playing more regular football in the coming months.
The 19-year-old spent the tail end of last season on loan at Feyenoord, quickly becoming a fans' favourite with three goals in his 12 appearances.
Ryo has only recently returned to full training after suffering an ankle injury for the Reserves at the beginning of November and Wenger says he will revisit the idea of a loan spell in January.
"Nothing has been decided," said the Frenchman. "We will have a look at the whole squad.
"He needs to play now and I will sit down with him and see what we will do. He has been injured for a while now and we will see in January."Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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Here are some interesting excerpts regarding cell size from some old bee books.
Here are some interesting excerpts regarding cell size from some old bee books.
Hi Barry,
Got any from Wedmore and Philips as they also agree on 5 cells to the inch. I will look and see if Jay Smith also says 5 cells to the inch.
References like the Cowan one where the measurments are across 10 cells apparently to 100th of an inch are very useful. I'm not so sure about measurements like "5 to a inch, 4 1/2 to an inch and 4 to an inch" they sound accurate only to half the width of a cell in an inch. They could be 4 3/4 or 5 1/4 to a inch and we couldn't tell by these measurements. Still most of this is supportive of the fact that the worker brood cells were smaller.
Really interesting references. Thanks.
I have an "ABC XYZ of Beekeping" 38th Edition printed in 1980. Not very old, but has a whole section on the cell sizes measured by AI Root, what size foundation they used to make, the experiments by Ursmar Baudoux in 1893 on larger cell sizes etc.
AI Root's conclusion is the bees prefer and do better on natural sized cells.
There is 3 1/2 pages on the subject, most of which is already quoted in Dee's work.


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|When our troops are called to serve, their families must rise to meet the challenges of service as well. To thank them, Cheerios® and the USO have partnered in a postcard campaign that spreads Cheer directly to these honorable military families and supports USO programs.
Now through November, 2011, specially-marked boxes of Cheerios cereal will feature Cheer postcards on the front of the box. You can simply cut out the postcard from the Cheerios logo, write a message of thanks on the back, add a stamp and mail the pre-addressed card to the USO. The USO will deliver the Cheer card to military families across the country.
For Each postcard USO receives now through November 2012, Cheerios will make a $1 donation to the USO to help Fund programs that support Military families
To kick off the campaign, Cheerios has already donated $150,000 to the USO and will donate up to an additional $100,000 based upon the number of postcards received from specially marked boxes now through November 30th, 2012.
You can check out the Cheerios Cheer website for more information and the Cheerios Cheer facebook page
I know how much a little bit of cheer can brighten my day especially through deployment. The smallest of gestures mean so much. It only takes a minute to cut it out, write a message and send it off the USO who will take care of the rest, You will be bringing smiles to military families across the US who I know can use a little pick me up from time to time. To help You send a little bit of Cheer Cheerios and MyBlogSpark have offered one lucky reader to in this Awesome Cheerios Cheer Prize pack!