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As the IndyCar circus arrives in St Petersburg, Florida, for the start of this year's championship series, one of New Zealand's top professional motor racing drivers, Scott Dixon, is again a favourite to take the title.
He's finished in the top three every year since 2007, the standout being 2008 when he won the series and became the first New Zealander to win the Indianapolis 500.
Dixon has been at the Ganassi outfit since the 2002 CART season, and for the fifth year in a row, his teammate will be Dario Franchitti.
Between them, they have won six championship titles in 10 years and as Ganassi said, "How do you bet against these guys going into the season?"
Last year, Dixon finished second at St Pete's and early on in the season looked to be on track for his third IndyCar title until the mechanical gremlins struck.
The Kiwi had more DNFs in that season than he's probably had in his entire career and was either at the front of the field or parked up.
With so many non-point-scoring races it is even more remarkable the Kiwi still finished in third place in the championship.
"We were quick at times last year but a few things went wrong," said Dixon. "It seems we're always in the hunt, but we've only got one championship."
"It's frustrating, but it goes to show just how good the competition is. If you keep knocking on the door eventually it'll open. It's hard to swallow, though, that at times it's the smallest of things that get in the way.
"If reliability was better last year and we didn't get that silly call at Milwaukee, we could have been there instead of 35 points off the championship. That's frustrating."
This is the second year of the new Dallara DW12 car, and the niggling problems of last year should have been sorted. The only drawback is that not all the teams have had the same amount of testing available to them before the opening race in St Pete's.
"We didn't have as much time in the car in the off season as we did last year," said Dixon. "The last test [just over a week ago] at Barber didn't go too badly and we were top of the sheets for a while.
"It was okay for the most, but we spent a lot of time trying to get the engine right because towards the end of the day the Chevy engines seemed to dominate the top 10."
The consensus appears to be that the team is doing all right, but needs to get a better handle on the Honda engine. There were reliability and driveability issues last year, and although improvements have been made, it looks as though the Chevy-powered cars have the edge.
But it should never be forgotten testing and practice is just that. Racing is another ball game.
"It's hard to tell exactly how you're going until you get to the race and the lights go out," said Dixon. "The formula is so restricted these days that it's almost like going spec racing.
"You can change the aero package a little as well as changing the dampeners, but that's about all. With all the different disciplines [short tracks, super speedways, road courses and street courses] there's a lot going on.
"It's going to be as tough as hell but the racing is going to be really good. It's the best series for watching racing but the TV deal is rubbish."
An added difficulty is that this is the last year on the current engines, so it wouldn't be too long a bow to draw to suggest Honda may not be keen to put a lot of energy into further development of the power plant.
Couple this possible factor with rumours that Honda may be making a comeback in Formula One would suggest a bigger push in the development of smaller turbo charged engines, as both categories will be using a similar type of engine in the future.
"What makes it interesting is that the engine we used at Barber we have to use for the first four races," Dixon said. "Because we're locked in for so long with the same engine the development cycle is that much slower. You're not just giving up on one or two races but three or four now if you're behind the others. Honda seem to think they can help the engine going into St Pete's, so we'll just have to wait and see.
"I'm not sure it's going to be the amount we would really like, but I'm optimistic it'll be all good."
Dixon was on the track in January during the Grand-Am Series 24 hour auto race at Daytona, driving the Ganassi Racing BMW Riley car. He is still at the peak of his career, and has the peace of mind of having signed a contract extension with Ganassi, so he can be counted on to be a contender for this year's title.
He's also one of three active IndyCar drivers with an Indy 500 win to his name, and with an average 500 finish of 3.8 in the past five years, he could add another likeness of himself to the Borg-Warner Trophy.


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DETROIT — As much as he respects Billy Beane, Dennis Eckersley admits he didn't make it through the Moneyball book. Too much sabermetric statistical stuff for his taste, and not enough drama.
But Eckersley has been riveted by Beane's latest work, the 2012 A's.
"C'mon, five rookie starters getting you to the playoffs down the stretch? All these guys nobody's ever heard of?" he said. "It's the craziest thing I've ever seen in the game, but I love it.
"Maybe they wrote the book on Billy too soon."
Eckersley, who will be a studio analyst for TBS during the divisional series round, may have a point. This latest Beane creation reveals a general manager who has come out from under the more negative stereotypes Moneyball engendered and has become a more benevolent, smell-the-roses executive.
As much as Beane may have enjoyed being portrayed by Brad Pitt, he has tired of the myths born out of the book, the movie and the scrutiny and backlash that came with them.
"I've been called a micro-manager and I've been called disengaged," he said after the team won the American League West on Wednesday. "And on a few occasions, I've been called both at the same time."
The disengagement is explainable. Unlike past seasons, when he was an almost constant presence in the clubhouse, this year he was intent on giving manager Bob Melvin and the players distance to operate. He wasn't even present for the celebration when the A's clinched a playoff berth on Monday.
Part of that is that he doesn't feel like one of the boys anymore. He turned 50 recently, and doesn't feel the need to rub shoulders with the players as much as he once did. He doesn't feel as comfortable doing it, either, being that a number of the A's players are younger than his daughter Casey.
"True story, and Jarrod Parker can verify this," Beane said. "In May, we're playing in San Francisco. I'd gone into the clubhouse for a workout. A guy walks in — he's looking at me, I'm looking at him — and I'm thinking, 'Who the heck is that?' We didn't say anything to each other, but then he finally put on his cap and it dawned on me it was Parker, and he was pitching that day. So I went over, stuck my hand out and said, 'Jarrod? Billy Beane, general manager.' "
Even though he has distanced himself from his players, Beane maintained he's had more fun putting this team together and watching it than any other. It has shown in his demeanor.
"The two times I've seen Billy this year when I was out in Oakland, he seemed more relaxed than I'd ever seen him," said Eckersley.
Beane said it's a function of savoring his team's achievements a lot more.
"When I first came here in the late '80s (as a player), we always won," he said. "Then when we were good again (in the early 2000s), you sort of got used to it and took it for granted. But when you hit bottom, you realize how hard it is to get back.
With the Moneyball teams, he said, "I didn't really take time to understand what the guys had accomplished. So this time, I really wanted to appreciate everybody's contribution from top to bottom. Maybe that's the nostalgic part that kicks in as you get older."
That's one of the reasons Beane decided to come to the team's celebration of the A.L. West title, not so much to spout any personal triumphs but to savor the celebration and congratulate the participants.
While he admits a lot of what has happened this season defies explanation, Beane has issues with anyone who calls this team a fluke.
"I hate using the word 'surreal,' even though I know it's meant in a positive way," he said. "If anything has made my teeth grind the past couple of weeks, it's that too many people have talked about this being a Cinderella story.
"After 162 games, you're not a Cinderella. Surprises come in May, they don't come in October. I don't think it recognizes the talent of the players. You don't play through a season like we've had and get lucky."


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New Yorker staffer, author of bestselling "The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America," spoke at University Hall
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Packer shared a number of stories from his New York Times bestselling book "The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America," which won the 2013 National Book Award in nonfiction. At a reception following his lecture, Packer signed copies of the book while chatting amiably with attendees.
Packer's book tells the story of America over the course of 35 years, through the eyes of various individuals, from a working mom in Youngstown, Ohio, "Detroit on steroids" (owing to its decimation via the disappearance of its signature industry, steel rather than automobiles), to a Washington lobbyist to hip-hop mogul Jay-Z and other household names.
Today, Packer said, we have celebrity bankers (JP Morgan Chairman Jamie Dimon), celebrity media moguls (Arianna Huffington and her eponymous "Post") and real estate tycoons (Donald Trump). However, the institutions that once kept in check the financial, media and housing industries are scorned and bereft of any regulatory power.
"Institutions that underpin a healthy democratic society" have fallen into decay, Packer said. Instead, the celebrities themselves have become the institutions and, "If you are the institutions, you don't have to play by the rules."
Rather than the imperfect postwar "social contract" of the New Deal (which wasn't much of a bargain for African-Americans and other ethnic minorities, or gays and lesbians), today's celebrities/institutions adhere only to "the hackers code: ask forgiveness, not permission."
It would be one thing if celebrities remained tabloid fodder and mere distractions, but their centrality to the daily lives of most Americans causes harm, he said, by lulling the have-nots into a false sense of inclusion and familiarity with the haves. "Their success is based on leaving the rest of us behind," he said.
He offered talk-show host-turned-lifestyle maven Oprah Winfrey as an example.
"As she got bigger and bigger … she never lost touch with her audience," he said, but added that, while she had billions of dollars, "they had things she didn't: children, debts and spare time."
Eventually, as Oprah's profile grew to include influence over the publishing industry, and the occasional free-car giveaway, she became something of a spiritual leader, steering her adherents via "magical thinking" toward questionable health regimens and dangerous personal philosophies.
"And since there's no random suffering in life" according to the ethos of Oprah's experts, "Oprah left (her audience) with no excuse" for their financial reversals, the breakdown of their families and other personal and societal maladies reflecting the national malaise.
However, earlier in the evening as Packer kicked off his remarks, he warned that he wasn't about to deliver any suggested solutions to the problems he has spent much of his career highlighting. "I'm not an expert in anything, which makes me a journalist," he quipped.
He also warned that chronicles of historical decline tend to coincide with the chronicler's 50th birthday.
Still, Packer decided to write "The Unwinding" in the wake of the Iraq War, which he called a "spectacular failure" and a "stress test on the body politic," and the collapse of the U.S. financial and housing markets. "It felt pretty apocalyptic to me," he said of the confluence of the new century's events in America. So, in 2009, he began traveling around the country in search of the people who would tell the nation's story firsthand.
Before long, he could see the dismantling — the unwinding — taking place all around him in real time. In his visits to Youngstown, Ohio (locked in "a death spiral of gangs and violence and crime), and Tampa, Fla. ("Ground Zero of the foreclosure crisis"), he saw that middle America was continually the loser in the country's emerging economic order, and Wall Street, Silicon Valley and the cult of celebrity enjoyed the spoils of victory.
Worse, the often-corrupt institutions and regulators of the past — which at least served as a brake on egregious income inequality — were sacrificed to cynicism.
"Suspicion of government has been in the American DNA" from the time of the Revolutionary War, Packer said, but today's distrust of government is more akin to nihilism. As a result, financial inequity is at its highest "since the days of the robber barons."
For instance, Packer said, the six heirs of big-box retail pioneer Sam Walton own as much wealth as the bottom 42 percent of Americans. But Walmart, which reaps profits by advertising cut-rate prices to low- and middle-income Americans, is hardly the only exemplar of an out-of-whack economy and national values system. There might be greater social equality today, but far less shared prosperity than during the New Deal, or what Packer called "the Roosevelt Republic."
"We now have gay Boy Scouts, but chances are they attend lousy public schools," he said.
Packer was introduced by Dr. Caroline Heller, Lesley University professor of graduate educational studies, who studied writing with him, and Lesley graduate student Ramona Islam. Heller jokingly recalled her former teacher as "so perceptive, as I thought only a woman could be," while Islam pointed to Packer's "enduring belief in democracy and social justice."
The lecture was sponsored by the Friends of Lesley, a group of influential alumni and community leaders who share the university's passion for education and recognize its centrality to individual opportunity, economic growth, community development and democratic principles.
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FSLR: Bulls See Cost Improvement, Bears See Shifting Accounting
Shares of solar energy technology provider First Solar (FSLR) were one of the biggest decliners in U.S. markets today, falling $3.03, or almost 8%, to close at $36.32, after yesterday's huge 45% gain, following a better-than-expected forecast by the company for this year and the next two years.
First Solar peers declined in tandam today, with SunPower (SPWR) off 61 cents, or 5.4%, at $10.78, Canadian Solar (CSIQ) down 10 cents, or 2.4%, at $4.09, and Trina Solar (TSL) down 14 cents, or 3.2%, at $4.26.
The company's outsized forecast for this year, in particular, is being described by analysts as pulling some expected business into this year from the out years. But that has not dampened the enthusiasm of bulls on the stock, some of whom are raising price targets today. Bears argue the shifting accounting leaves something to be desired.
Shahriar Pourreza, Citigroup: Reiterates a Buy rating and raises his price target to $50 from $35. "As we highlighted in our 2/28/2013 note where we reiterated our Buy thesis when most others capitulated (see Looking Ahead To The Analyst Meeting), we expected the April analyst meeting to provide the much-needed visibility through the outer years – this came to fruition yesterday. Contrary to the bear argument, FSLR's outlook is not bleak though execution is key going forward. Additionally, despite the material outperformance yesterday, FSLR share reaction was merely a reversion from the material sell-off in the shares post year-end earnings which spooked investors with several ratings changes coming from our peers. Therefore, the share reaction post analyst day was justified as prior fears of a depleting pipeline have been removed as we expected." Pourreza shifted EPS estimates to $4.31, $3.37, and $4.97 for this year, 2014, and 2015, versus $3.22, $3.52, and $3.68 previously.
Sanjay Shrestha, Lazard Capital Markets: Reiterates a Buy rating and a $45 price target. "We are reaffirming our thesis that First Solar has clearly established itself as a distinct winner in the unfolding sector bifurcation. Our most significant takeaway from yesterday's event was that the company has assembled a strong team capable of executing on its cost road map while opening new sustainable markets. The company's cost road map and guidance are better than the consensus view with over 50% visibility in cash flow
through 2015. We believe the analyst day dismissed skeptical views in terms of long-term viability and cost competitiveness of the company. Given the recent significant move, shares might take a pause; however, we remain constructive as we believe the team is capable of executing on its long-term plan." Shrestha raised his 2013 estimate to $3.86 billion and $4.20 per share from a prior $2.98 billion and $4, while raising 2014's revenue view to $3.94 billion from $3.67 billion, and cutting his EPS estimate to $3.25 per share from $5.
Ben Schuman , Pacific Crest: Reiterates an Underperform rating and opines there's a "floor" for the shares at $20. "Huge Overreaction to Guidance [...] The 2014 EPS target of $2.50 to $4.00 likely reflects over $3.00 of pulled-in earnings. we believe investors overlooked the fact that First Solar's better-than-expected guidance was merely a function of revenue accounting. Excluding the impact of the Desert Sunlight pull-in, First Solar will actually be far less profitable in 2013 and 2014 than we previously thought. The
company gave reason for optimism with aggressive cost-reduction targets, a cool new silicon module technology, and a very aggressive target model for 2015, but we still view its ability to generate cash beyond the life of its current pipeline as speculative. We see downside below $30 as investors digest the drivers of the new projections.Implied operational metrics—especially core project margins— were actually far worse than we were previously modeling. We also place very little faith in the 2015 target model, which relies on very aggressive assumptions." Schuman raised his 2013 estimate to $3.8 billion and $4.27 from a prior $3 billion and $3.23. For 2014, he now models $3.81 billion and $2.73 versus a prior $2.95 billion and $2.74.


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Broiled salmon nestles on top of a warm apple-studded lentil salad and a simple sauce made with pureed lentils and their cooking liquid. Serve with sautéed spinach or chard.
Nutrition Profile:
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Prep Time 40 min
Total Time 90 min.
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To prepare lentil salad: Combine 2 cups water and lentils in a large saucepan; bring to a boil. Cook for 5 minutes. Drain and return the lentils to the pan.
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Add remaining 4 cups water, wine, onion, carrot and garlic to the pan. Tie thyme sprigs, parsley stems, cloves and bay leaf in a cheesecloth bag and add to the pan. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to medium-low and simmer, uncovered, for 30 minutes. Season with 1/4 teaspoon salt and pepper. Continue cooking until the lentils are tender, about 20 minutes more. Drain, reserving 1 cup liquid. Discard the cheesecloth bag. Cut carrot and onion into 1/4-inch dice.
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Place the reserved liquid and 1/2 cup of the cooked lentils in a blender or food processor; puree until smooth. (Use caution when pureeing hot liquids.) Place 1/2 cup of the puree in a large bowl; mix in the remaining lentils, diced carrot, onion and olive oil. Scrape the remaining puree into a small saucepan.
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Peel, core and finely dice apple. Stir apple, walnuts and parsley into the lentil-carrot mixture. Cover and keep warm.
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A few days ago I asked for help from readers in identifying sources of free and accessible books that could be downloaded and printed.
I had shared that I'm a big fan of Reading A-Z and the hundreds of fiction and non-fiction small books that they have for teachers to download and print-out. My students love them. I also wrote, though, that it costs $85 per year to get them, and that I know that there are a lot of teachers around the world who would find that price to be a burden.
So here's a very short "The Best…" list sharing The Best Sources For Free & Accessible Printable Books:
I first want to mention that Reading A-Z has about thirty books that are free to download and print. I'd certainly recommend starting with them.
The DLTK Website has a good printable book for every letter in the alphabet. They also have a number of books with a religious perspective, but that does not seem to be present in their alphabet books. Thanks to Roselink for pointing out this site.
Linda Pratt suggested I check-out the Tar Heel Reader. I've written about, and used, The Tar Heel Reader a lot. It's on a bunch of my 'The Best.." lists. It has a ton of talking stories, and students can create their own. But until Linda had suggested it, I had not realized that their books could be printed-out as PowerPoint presentations. When I tried printing one out, it turned out to be a perfect printable book. Thanks, Linda!
Nellie Edge has several printable books. Thanks to David Deubelbeiss for the tip.
Susan the book chook (who has a great blog on children's literacy) also suggested I include sources of free readers theater scripts. It's a good idea, and here are her recommendations:
Chiew suggested I check out English Banana. I found that they certainly have a bunch of useful free resources that are well worth a visit, but they didn't seem to have any printable storybooks.
Thanks to everybody for your help!
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We are located in one of the best zones of Valencia. You can reach the main attractions of the City, bars and restaurants just walking. Two blocks from our place you can find a Taxi station and Bus stop.
We have an equipped kitchen for guests with Microwave, Burner, Sink, Skillet, Dishes, etc. Open for 10am to 9pm each day.
All the rooms have access to our Free WiFi.
We offer some services for an extra fee: Breakfast. SURF / SUP / LONGBOARD Classes at any level. English and Spanish classes at any level. Laundry (except august).
HázirendNon-smoking rooms
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Respect other guests, feel and behave at home
Relax and enjoy your stay!
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Die Unterkunft ist wirklich hervorragend. Das Zimmer und die Küche sind toll. Die Lage ist ausgezeichnet. Alles ist sehr gut zu Fuß zu erreichen, ganz in der Nähe gibt es tolle Tapas-Bars und außerdem den Park Rio Turia. Ich fahre bestimmt wieder hin. Allerdings finde ich die Vermittlungsgebühren von Wimdu zu hoch.
En primer lugar agradecer la amabilidad de Lili,Nina y Dani, que se preocuparon en todo momento de que estuviéramos bien y nos ayudaron en todo lo que les fue posible. El edificio es muy centrico, la casa es preciosa y cuenta con unas amplias habitaciones. La limpieza es absoluta y resulta muy agradable pasar unos días ahí. Recomdable 100%.
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Excellent! I agree with the previous comments.
Very friendly and helpful. Lily and Dani gave me great tips. Insiders only!
Rooms, bathroom and kitchen were very clean.
Amazing!!!everything was perfect!!!Lili and Daniel are so kind and helpfull. The room was clean and with all the confort, close to lot of good restaurant, public transport and everything you need to visit valencia! i'll suggest to everyone this accomodation
Having just arrived home from travelling through the South of Spain for a few weeks, we are all too happy to share here how wonderfully we started that journey with our stay with Lili and Dani. Not only a very patient couple (our arrival was hours late because of our delayed flight, and they waited for us and welcomed us with ease and cordiality) but also such joyous, helpful and warm people. For us, the most memorable thing of our stay in Valencia is having met with Lili & Dani. But we also felt very welcome in our little studio that was decorated and furnished with impeccable taste,designed to make you feel at home! If you love the pictures of the rooms - well, nothing is exaggerated, it is at least as nice as you see in the photo! Also really comfy is the location of their place: near the park, on walking distance to the old city, and in the middle of nice places to eat very Spanish tapas or to have a nice breakfast. We think we will be back one day...
Great place in a good location. Lili and Dani where very helpfull.
Very friendly staff, room was prettily furitured, hence to the old character of the buildings in that area, the walls and doors were pretty thin, so expect some noises from neighbors:)
The bathroom was shared but very clean.
We would stay again anytime.
The room it is really Charming!
I really like it, with a lot of space and light with a huge nice T.V , good couch and big comfortable bed, because Valencia is very hot between June to September, I find especially useful the air conditioning of the room and perfect if you want a quiet night. A very good room for Remotely working as I did.
The place is very well located in one of the nicest Valencia areas and near to the center and very well conected and with a lot of cafes,supermarkets shops and restaruants.
Daniel and Lili are very friendly and helpful in everything.
The next time when I will go to Valencia I will book again with you :).
Many greetings and see you soon!
We loved staying here. The accomodation is cosy and clean, Lili was very helpful and the neighbourhood is very pleasant. There are a lot of restaurants and boutiques in the street and surrounding streets, all very nice. And both the old (city centre) and the new (ciudad de las artes y las ciencias) highlights are a fifteen minutes walk!
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#1 Thu 22 Mar 07 9:01pm
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Hello @all
Hi, i`m new in this Forum and want say "hallo" @ all. First: sorry for my english, i think it is not so good, but i hope you understand what i`ll saying ;o). The Fun about this is, that my real father come from London. But I don`t know something about him. My Dream is, take a trip to London and visit my Grandma and her man.
I loooove cooking, and love to create new recipes. Some Friend tell me, that i have failed my real job. I work in a digital print store, bad guys called it "copy shop".
My Favorite is to create Burgers, Sandwiches and all forms of nudles like the italien kitchen. In Moment I work @ my own Hompage, to show my recipes.
Hope you understand me and wish all a good Time.
Yours Joe
#2 Fri 23 Mar 07 1:06pm
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- Member since Wed 14 Mar 07
Re: Hello @all
Welcome to the forum. I'm new too, but it's great fun reading all the posts and you can pick up an amazing aqmount of information. There are some very clever people out there!!
#3 Fri 23 Mar 07 3:09pm
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Re: Hello @all
Welcome to the forum Joe
#4 Fri 23 Mar 07 5:24pm
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- From Austria
- Member since Thu 22 Feb 07
Re: Hello @all
Hi Joe
Ich bin von Österreich!
Dein Englisch ist eh gut im Gegensatz zu meinem.
Wenn deine Homepage fertig ist, kannst du mir dann vielleicht den Seitennamen deiner Homepage sagen?
#5 Fri 23 Mar 07 5:45pm
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- From Curitiba - Brazil
- Member since Fri 26 Nov 04
Re: Hello @all
hallo !
bitte Englisch schreiben...
viele leute (da bin ich) sprechen keine deutsche hier...
So Joe,
will you postt some burger recipe ?
I want to try mixing different meats (like cow and
did you try it ???
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#6 Fri 23 Mar 07 5:48pm
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Re: Hello @all
OK i will write English again!
That`s a good idea, Joe should give us some burger recipes!
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President Barack Obama's ongoing evolution on the issue of same-sex marriage has ceased being only a topic of friction between him and the gay-rights community, becoming, in the dawn of the general election campaign, an early test of political character…
"What I think you are seeing now is the extent to which the White House miscalculated that they can continue to give a non-answer on what is one of the major issues of our day," said Richard Socarides, a former aide to President Bill Clinton and senior White House adviser on gay rights. "You can evolve for a time, but they have stretched this out 18 months now."…
"The question is, is there a risk?" said one prominent Democratic Party official. "It is not nationwide [polling] we are talking about. We are talking about Virginia, North Carolina and other swing states, and we are talking about, would Karl Rove and his team stoop to using horribly grotesque and hateful tactics … and would that peel off 10,000 votes?"
"He won here by such a narrow margin that almost anything could make the difference'' said longtime Democratic strategist Gary Pearce, who is based in Raleigh. "I don't blame him for being cautious. The country is also evolving, and he doesn't want to get there too early."…
A big reason the issue is tricky for Obama is that two of the constituencies that were pivotal to his 2008 victory – young voters and African-Americans — are at odds. While gay-rights advocates frame marriage as a civil-rights issue, many churchgoing African-Americans approach it in a religious context. In North Carolina for example, an Elon University Poll in February found that only 35 percent of voters ages 18 to 34 support a constitutional ban on gay marriage. Among black voters, the percentage supporting the ban jumped to 46 percent…
"It's a gamble,'' said Mileah Kroner, Elon University assistant professor of political science. "On one hand, him coming out for gay marriage could infuse the base and get young people excited, which could be in his favor. Then again, it could turn off older people, who he didn't do particularly well with in the last election. Same with black voters, who tend to be evangelical. It's a political calculation.''
"The walk-back was one of the weakest moments for the administration on this issue," said one LGBT activist. "[Biden] was crystal clear on what he was saying. People in the gay community know what's going on, but the fact that they're not doing a more masterful job of explaining this is a little upsetting…
Another prominent gay supporter — who attended a fundraiser featuring a who's-who of gay donors for Obama in Florida last month — said that while the president's refusal to express his support for gay marriage stings the community, "they know the alternative is frightening."
Fred Sainz, the vice president of communications for the Human Rights Campaign, agreed with that premise, saying the differences between Romney and Obama are "stark and cold."
"There's not an alternative. We view this president as a friend," Sainz said.
Some leading gay and progressive donors are so angry over President Obama's refusal to sign an executive order barring same sex discrimination by federal contractors that they are refusing to give any more money to the pro-Obama super PAC, a top gay fundraiser's office tells me. In some cases, I'm told, big donations are being withheld.
Jonathan Lewis, the gay philanthropist and leading Democratic fundraiser, is one of many gay advocates who has been working behind the scenes to pressure Obama to change his mind. When Obama decided against the executive order last month, arguing that he would pursue a legislative solution instead, advocates were furious — such a solution will never pass Congress, the executive order has been a priority for advocates for years, and the move smacked of a political cave to conservatives who will not support Obama no matter what he does.
Now these and other donors are beginning to withold money from Priorities USA, the main pro-Obama super PAC, out of dismay over the president's decision.
[O]n this issue, the president isn't leading. He's following. And the gap by which he trails others in his party grows broader and sadder…
But right now, Obama could stir up a lot of counterproductive noise and passion with an emphatic position in favor of marriage equality. And while it's the job of advocates to focus on one issue and amass their armies on a single front, it's the job of those who govern to promote an array of concerns and serve multiple constituencies. To do any good in office, you have to be in office…
He brags about this progress, and has a right to. But he shouldn't expect those of us who support marriage equality to find the sound of that trumpeting so very musical. It's a tentative, incremental bleat. And it's especially unsatisfying from a president who's such a moving, hopeful symbol of this country's imperfect and incomplete journey toward full respect for all its citizens, no matter their gender, race, creed or sexual orientation.
Reporters fired dozens of barbed questions and taunts. "Contorted position! . . . Why did you guys send out statements to clarify? . . . What does the word 'evolving' mean? . . . Is he not evolved?. . . I want you to dissect the evolution." A fly buzzed around the lectern. Carney let out a sigh.
NPR's Mara Liasson asked whether Obama was "too clever by half," essentially telling voters: "I'm getting ready to change my mind."
"His views," Carney maintained, "are crystal clear."
Via Mediaite.
"His critics in the LGBT rights movement can also learn a thing or two about tolerance and patience. Lesson number one, can start with asking themselves the question: Are you holding the president to a tougher standard because deep down inside you don't really trust him? And if the answer to that question is yes, perhaps the next question you should ask yourself is why?"
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Here's a modest proposal for resolving the problems associated with marriage:
Abolish it.
Think how much simpler life would be if there were no wedding gifts to buy, no anniversaries to remember, no in-laws to tolerate, no for-better-or-for-worse to endure. And politicians would also be relieved from the burden of taking a position on the hot-button issue of allowing same-sex couples to wed. Or form civil unions. Or domestic partnerships. Or whatever.
If there was no marriage, those uptight pols could relax and go back to pretending gay people don't exist.
If you think having a firm opinion on same-sex nuptials is easy, consider the convoluted case of Republican gubernatorial candidate Paul LePage. According to the Augusta Insider Web site, LePage attended a forum in North Yarmouth in March, where he was asked if he supported civil unions for gay couples. He said no. That was a surprise, because a few weeks earlier, he'd been quoted on the Web site Pine Tree Politics saying he supported the idea.
"I don't believe that the state should be in the marriage business," LePage told PTP. "The state, for years and years and years, has been trying to sanitize religion out of government. So if they're truly intent on doing that, I think what the Legislature should have done is simply say, OK, folks, we're going to have a civil union. And anyone who wants to have a contract to say that they want all the freedoms, they have a civil union. If you want to have a marriage, we'll leave that up to the churches. So, I go one step further than many, because I say if you're going to get married by the state, it's a civil union, period. Whether you're a homosexual, lesbian, heterosexual. Everybody. That way everybody gets the same legal standing."
Why did LePage give a contradictory answer at the forum? Maybe he heard from folks who'd been married by a justice of the peace and who weren't pleased about having their coupling converted from wedded bliss to unionization. More likely, he got an earful from GOP right-wingers.
Hey, numb nuts, they politely explained, under your plan, gay people can get civil unions and then have church weddings, which means they're married. We're against that. And we're the people whose votes you need if you don't want to become one of those unfortunate afterthoughts of Maine political history that only get mentioned when snarky columnists are looking for somebody to pummel.
So, LePage's platform underwent an adjustment.
On his Web site, he stated, "I also support traditional marriage, along with Maine voters who decided last fall that the definition of marriage should be preserved."
But then he told the Augusta Insider he stood by his comments to Pine Tree Politics.
As far as I can tell, his position is that he wants traditional marriage both preserved and abolished, more or less simultaneously.
I feel the same way about the New York Yankees.
You can get away with cognitive dissonance in baseball, but not so much in political campaigns. Bumblers like LePage have to stop straddling the line, and take a definite stand.
Which is where my idea comes in. Get rid of the thing.
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Well-known Cole Porter tunes in the concert are "Let's Do It, Let's Fall In Love," "Night and Day," "Begin the Beguine," "I Get a Kick Out of You," "What Is This Thing Called Love?" "You're the Top," "Night and Day," "Brush Up Your Shakespeare," "De-Lovely" and "Anything Goes."
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Smells like T spirit!Boston's mass-transit system dates back to 1631, when sailboats ferried passengers from Chelsea to Charlestown. In the subsequent 377 years, service has become a teeny bit faster — but at a price that has put the MBTA in debt to a tune of more than $8 billion. With transportation issues getting renewed scrutiny under the Patrick administration, Phoenix staffers fanned out to kick the T's tires.
• The trolley Svengali: Why Dan Grabauskas might actually fix the T — if he can keep his job. By Adam Reilly.
• Trouble 'round the bend? MBTA workers have been without a contract for two years. Arbitration will settle the matter soon, but could stir an angry hornets' nest for 2010. By David S. Bernstein
• Seven habits of highly effective T-riders: Keep your hands on the pole and not on your neighbor's ass, bucko. By Sharon Steel.
• The T and the Tube: London's Underground is seething with danger. Boston's T has cuckoo juice. By James Parker.
• Underground art: Reviewing the MBTA's subterranean aesthetic. By Mike Miliard.
• A sinking feeling: Leaky MBTA tunnels have been seeping Boston's groundwater for years. Can a new plan prevent potential catastrophe? By David S. Bernstein
• The Phoenix editorial: Is the MBTA on track?
Welcome to the MBTA's multibillion-dollar debt fest.
With the T approximately $5 billion in the red (more than $8 billion if you apply interest), most of the items on riders' wish lists seem as far removed as the next 66 bus on a Sunday.
Just how many projects and purchases could be sped along if the T didn't have such weighty obligations? In a sort of fantasy-league-inspired shopping spree, we shrugged off the interest and rode home with these items.
NEW CARS The Orange Line's 120 cars have been on the tracks for 20 years or more, according to MBTA estimates. The Green Line follows a close second with 92 almost-legal-drinking-age cars, followed by the Red Line's 84 and the Blue Line's 70. Though the T just completed its purchases of 95 Green Line cars at more than $2.3 million each and 94 new Blue Line cars at $1.8 million each, MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo says the first step toward new Orange and Red Line cars won't take place until this summer, with new models not arriving until 2012. Bummer. For the sake of argument, let's say the T takes a bid of $2 million apiece for new Red and Orange Line cars. If you're going to pay more than $400 million to update two lines, you may as well do all four and the Mattapan trolley. "We have a Mattapan system that is 75 years old and says 'Welcome to the Green Line,' " says Lisa Sadika Edwards, chairwoman of transit advocacy group the T Riders' Union. "They say they're preserving history, and I say, 'Put history in the museum.' " TOTAL COST $745.6 million
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I let the nights sharp air infuse my lungs with the tang of freedom. You'd think I'd be upset, hopelessly blanketed in a dark aura of depression. I guess that something inside me knew that tonight was my last . These moments were to be the last moments I'd ever have control over; these would be the moments I was going to have to hold on to for the rest of my life....... You'd think I'd be upset . I wasn't.
I felt. I just stood there and felt the cool rain dribble from the hazy night sky. First it was a light pitter patter, the annoying sort that does nothing but get you soaked. Several breaths passed. Sweaty droplets glided then swirled round into the tiny rim of my mouth; the droplets then proceeded to antagonise my lips, making me thirst for more. Normally the thirst would have annoyed me but not tonight. Tonight was different. After another round of several breaths the rain increased. The light pitter patter had been replaced by a constant drumming; the clouds to relaxed and let go of all the tension, leaving it to plummet to the earth. I stood there my t-shirt flapping in the billowing wind, my arms were open, my palms positioned towards the heavens; I'd turned my face up towards the sky too.
There were only a few stars visible that night. They were tiny, like baby gems passionately placed by the nights artist. I was going to miss the stars.
Then I felt it, a tiny, pipet sized droplet of despair rising up from one of the unknown creveses in my soul. It was surprising how even after all this time I still didn't know how deep my soul could stretch. I shook the despair away. it was better that way. I muted my thoughts.
The rain sprayed across me face it concealed me in an opal blanket. Soon the rain went to work on my pores of my face, swishing through my bodys barriers, drowning my insides. I simmered down.
I gasped in sharp, humid breaths. I felt my whole body contract on every inhale and relax on every exhale. I rooted my feet into the ground, praying to whoever would listen, that this feeling would never die. I allowed myself to gaze at the moon; an out of reach treasure. Even more so, I allowed myself to get drawn into the revitalising,alien state the moon's haze carried.
Through the cars almost perfectly blacked out windows I saw a twitch. It was time to go. I guess I had read to many stories when i was a little girl. I just couldn't help looking out into the horizon in faint hope that my Knight in shinning armour would be there and would take me home. I was being stupid. I had never found them before so why now ?.
I whispered goodbye to the moon and the stars. The earth whispered back through the wind. I'd never forget this night. I looked up one more this time letting the wind fill the crevices of my eyes, nose and mouth. I let go of the sensation of freedom that had filled my lungs. As if the elements had heard the echoing beat of my heart, the wind picked up the rain came swimming down harder and harder. I stood there allowing the elements to kiss me good bye. I swivelled my heels on the slippery grass, soaking up the dampness that was through my canvas shoes and turned towards the car. After several strides i reached the car and opened the sleek black door. Before I entered i snuck just one glance out to the patch I'd previously been wallowing in. My heart sunk in disbelief......my hero wasn't coming . I entered the car. Without a single tear in my eye.
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Current proposal from Group
During the METIS meeting in May 2013, it was agreed that the relationship between Neuchâtel and GSIM should be reviewed.
After this meeting, the Neuchâtel working group met with the GIG and it was agreed that the Neuchâtel working group would bring a proposal about how to harmonise/ align the two models at the end of July. After a number of discussions, the Neuchâtel working group would like to put forward the following proposal to the GIG.
Neuchâtel and GSIM working together: A two part proposal
1) It is proposed that Neuchâtel becomes part of GSIM. This means that the terminology used in GSIM and Neuchâtel is changed so that there is complete alignment. As such it is proposed that changes are made to the GSIM Specificiation layer in terms of objects, definitions, attributes and relationships (the proposed changes are detailed below).
2) Neuchâtel contains some excellent detail that is very useful to people implementing it. This level of detail is too detailed for the GSIM Specification layer (the current most detailed level of GSIM), but is necessary for those working with classifications. In addition to the changes made to the GSIM Specification Layer, an annex will be written which includes this finer level of detail.
The annex will be able to stand in its own right as a document. It will align completely to the GSIM Specification Layer and will reuse / update much of the content of the current Neuchâtel document. The creation of this document will be the responsibility of the Neuchâtel working group.
The Neuchâtel working group asks that the GIG consider their proposed changes to the classification objects in GSIM.
The proposal is outlined in the diagrams and tables below. Please note that the attributes and relationships pertaining to classification index entries is still being fine tuned by the group.
Current GSIM picture
Proposal from this group (purple indicates a change to object name or relationship)
Detailed proposed changes to GSIM:
|Current GSIM Object
|Proposed change
|Revised Name
|Revised Definition
|Revised Relationships
|Classification Family
|Change definition
|Classification Family
Definition: A Classification Family comprises a number of Statistical classifications, which are related from a certain point of view. The family may be based on a common Concept (e.g. economic activity).
Explanatory notes: Different classification databases may use different types of Classification Families and have different names for the families, as no standard has been agreed upon.
Source: revised Neuchatel
A Classification Family groups Classification Series
Potential relationship to Classification Index to be added
Change name
Change definition
|Classification Series
Definition: A Classification Series is an ensemble of one or several consecutive Statistical Classifications under a particular heading (for example ISIC or ISCO).
Explanatory notes:
Source: revised Neuchatel
|A Classification Series groups Statistical Classifications
|Classification Scheme
Change name
Change definition
Add attributes of version and variant
Add self referential relationship
|Statistical Classification
Definition: A Statistical Classification is a set of categories (Classification Items) which may be assigned to one or more Units in statistical surveys or administrative files, and used in the production and dissemination of statistics.
Explanatory notes: The Classification Items are defined in terms of one or more characteristics of a particular Population of Observation Units. A statistical classification may have a flat, linear structure or may be hierarchically structured, such that all Classification Items at lower levels are sub-groups of the next Level up. The Classification Items at each level of the classification structure must be mutually exclusive and jointly exhaustive of all objects in the target population.
Source: David
A Classification Series groups Statistical Classifications
A Statistical Classification can be based on a Statistical Classification
A Statistical Classifications has Classification Items
A Statistical Classifications has Levels
A Correspondence Table compares a Statistical Classification
|Classification Version
Remove from GSIM model
Add as attribute of Statistical Classification
|Classification Version
Remove from GSIM model
Add as attribute of Statistical Classification
|Revise definition
Definition: A Statistical Classification has a structure which is composed of one or several Levels. A Level often is associated with a Concept, which defines it. In a hierarchical classification the Classification Items of each Level but the highest are aggregated to the nearest higher level. A linear classification has only one level.
Explanatory notes:
Source: revised GSIM
A Statistical Classification has Levels
A Level groups a Classification Item
|Classification Item
Change definition
Add attributes of case law
|Classification Item
Definition: A Classification Item represents a Category at a certain Level within a Statistical Classification. It defines the content and the borders of the Category. A Unit can be classified to one and only one item at each level of a Statistical Classification.
Explanatory notes:
Source: revised Neuchatel
A Statistical Classification has Classification Items
A Map maps to a Classification Item
A Level groups a Classification Item
|Revise definition
Definition: An expression of the relation between a Classification Item in a source Statistical Classification and a corresponding Classification Item in the target Statistical Classification.
Explanatory notes: The map should specify whether the relationship between the two categories is partial or complete
Source: revised GSIM
A Correspondence Table contains a Map
A Map maps to a Classification Item
|Correspondence Table
|Change definition
|Correspondence Table
Definition: A Correspondence Table expresses the relationship between two Statistical Classifications
Explanatory notes: These are typically: two versions from the same Classification Series; Statistical Classifications from different Classification Series in the same Classification Family; a variant and the version on which it is based; or, different versions of a variant. In the first and last examples, the correspondence table facilitates comparability over time. Correspondence relationships are shown in both directions.
Source: Revised Neuchatel
A Correspondence Table contains a Map
A Correspondence Table compares a Statistical Classification
|Add new object
Classification Index
(the group is still discussing exactly what this object should be - including the exact definition, attributes, explanatory text and relationships)
Definition: A Classification Index is a list of words or text strings (e.g. the name of a locality, an economic activity or an occupational title and task) that refer to Classification Items refer to Classification Items in one or more Statistical Classifications from the same Classification Family.
Explanatory notes: A Classification index shows the relationship between text found in statistical data sources (responses to survey questionnaires, administrative records) and one or more Statistical Classifications. A Classification index may be used to assign the codes for classification items to observations in statistical collections. A Classification Index may be presented in alphabetical order of the text, in code order, or searched electronically.
Source: Revised Neuchatel
To Be Confirmed
A Classification Index groups Classification Items
A Classification Index [ something ] a Classification Family
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Proposal from this group (purple indicates a change to object name or relationship)
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Does a variant and the version that it is based upon belong to the same Classification Series or not? This is not clear from the definition of the Classification Series. An example could be given or some explanatory text could be provided to cover this.
Some of the relationships need to be improved e.g. For Correspondence Table: A Correspondence Table compares
aStatistical Classifications. For Map: A Map maps to aClassification Items
Index: I do not believe that there should be a relationship betweeen Index and Classification Family. However this may be based on my assuming that Index here is like the Classification Index or Classification Index Entry in the old Neuchãtel. The potential relationships would then be to Statistical Clasification and/or Classification Item, but not Classification Family.
I've two questions:
- is there a need for the word 'statistical' in the label 'statistical classification'?
- do we need a construct for joining 2 or more classifications into a new overall total? I could imagine to have two (hierarchical) classifications. One is named 'animals' the other is named 'plants'. Could I join both into a classification called 'living things'?
In answer to question 1, the neuchatel group were keen to keep the object as statistical classification. The reason for this is that the restrictions in our definition (e.g mutual exclusivity and exhaustiveness) may only apply the classifications used in within the statistic world and not outside.


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Cozy Apartment in the City Center
Size40 m²
Floor No.7(with elevator)
- Kitchen
- Air conditioning
- Washer/dryer
- Smoking allowed
- Elevator in building
- Towels
- Internet/WiFi
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The living room is equipped with all the amenities you will need during your stay, including a very nice environment. It is very trendy and cozy. The view is great. The whole apartment has a lot of light during the day, which makes it very bright.
It's very close to the Atocha station, so you'll be right in the middle of Madrid. In the surroundings you will find supermarkets, banks, hospital, some great spots to discover as well as landmarks.
Enjoy your stay.
House rulesGuests should be careful not to damage the apartment or its contents.
If there is any point of failure or breakage circumstance, please comuniquenlo the owner or the website of windu, to fix it as soon as possible.
Please respect the owner's personal items as much as possible, I want to please by offering a clean and healthy apartment (Please Do equal) otherwise a charge of € 30 will be charged for cleaning.
For stays for more than 7 days, extra percentage charge for water, gas and electricity.
|Weekly rate for up to 2 guests
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Reviews of this property
This is a cozy apartment with a great bed and has all you need. The only problem for us was no wifi. We arrived late afternoon and so had no access to tourist info until the next day. Tourist info closes if it gets too hot and was closed by 2:00 that day. Groceries are close by and Atocha train station is 5 minutes away. Reina Sophia is 15 minutes walk away as is the stop to get on the hop on hop off bus. However you have to go further to buy the ticket. El Prado is a 30 minute walk from the apartment. City buses are close by on a major road into town. Marcos was available by text to answer questions about the apartment. Great value. Gracias Marcos.
The apartment is conveniently located. The highlights of the city are within walking distance. The handover of the apartment was quite straightforward. The decor is very simple but practical. Otherwise it was quiet. We felt at home. Thanks to the host.
Die Wohnung liegt sehr verkehrsgünstig. Die Highlights der Stadt sind fußläufig zu erreichen. Die Übergabe der Wohnung war ganz unkompliziert. Die Einrichtung ist sehr einfach aber praktisch. Ansonsten war es ruhig. Wir haben uns wohl gefühlt. Danke an den Gastgeber.
Perfect apartment for a couple. Equipped with everything you need. Marcos and his perfect mother. Very central, typical for Madrid very comfortably walk.
The only thing that would change is the mattress of the bed. Too hard. Matter of taste.
Apartamento perfecto para una pareja. Equipado con todo lo necesario. Marcos y su madre perfectos. Muy centrico, propio para ver Madrid de forma muy comoda andando.
Lo unico que cambiaria es el colchon de la cama. Demasiado dura. Cuestion de gustos.
A very cozy, quiet apartment in a central location. Very friendly and helpful hosts.
Eine sehr gemütliche, ruhige Ferienwohnung in zentraler Lage. Sehr freundliche und hilfsbereite Gastgeber.
We have spent Holy Week in Madrid and the truth is I was super successful choose Wimdu! We have been very lucky find this wonderful very well located and in a quiet neighborhood apartment. The apartment is bright, is super friendly and have been very good! The bed is very comfortable and large. The sink is comfortable and you shower great! We were in the living room when we arrived from our long walks around the city and the truth is that we feel at home. Just as you step on that floor came wellness feeling. Smells super good and if we return to Madrid certainly repeat! Marcos is very nice and hospitable. We explained everything and was very clear. He explained the functioning of the water, heating and all the facilities that we have had. It was great to be there! It is a private apartment! A few stops from the center and super convenient to walk to Retiro, Prado, Cibeles, Thyssen, Caixa Forum, etc ,.
We will recommend for sure! Thanks Mark and good luck!
Hemos pasado la semana santa en Madrid y la verdad es que fue super acertado escoger wimdu! Hemos tenido mucha suerte encontrado este maravilloso apartamento muy bien situado y en un barrio muy tranquilo. El apartamento es luminoso, es super acogedor y hemos estado muy bien! La cama es muy cómoda y grande. El lavabo es cómodo y te duchas muy bien! Estuvimos en la sala de estar cuando llegábamos de nuestros grandes paseos por la ciudad y la verdad es que nos sentimos como en casa. Solo pisar ese piso ya te entraba sensación de bienestar. Huele super bien y si volvemos a Madrid seguro que repetiremos! Marcos es muy agradable y hospitalario. Nos lo explico todo y quedó muy claro. Nos explicó el funcionamiento del agua, de la calefacción y todas las facilidades que hemos tenido. Fue excelente estar allí! Es un apartamento céntrico! A pocas paradas del centro y super bien situado para ir andando al Retiro, Prado, Cibeles, Thyssen, Caixa Forum, etc,.
Lo recomendaremos seguro! Gracias Marcos y buena suerte!
The site is centrally located, at a time when you are in Atocha, in the heart of Madrid. The cozy and nice flat. Marcos and his mother, very attentive, asked several times how things were going very well.
El sitio está muy céntrico, en un momento estás en Atocha, y en el corazón de Madrid. El piso muy acogedor y agradable. Marcos y su madre, muy atentos, preguntó varias veces cómo iba todo, muy bien.
Great location if you travel by train and well connected to the center of the city on foot or by subway. The apartment is very good, not lack anything. We have spent a few days very comfortable with two little girls we were, 100% recommended. Marcos just talked on the phone but very friendly and helpful at all times, his mother was the one who gave us the keys really great. Return.
Magnífica ubicación si viajas en tren y bien comunicado para ir al centro de la ciudad andando o en metro. El apartamento esta muy bien, no le falta de nada. Nosotros hemos pasado unos días muy a gusto con dos niñas pequeñas que íbamos, 100% recomendable. Con Marcos solo hablamos por teléfono pero muy amable y atento en todo momento, su madre que fue la que nos dio las llaves realmente estupenda. Volvería.
Great appartment, great location, everything as described, very friendly.
I slept very little because you can hear everything that happens next door and on the floor above. My companion had no problem with this.
Everything perfect sense to me at home and is close to all taking a walk. I recommend you have no hits.
Todo perfecto me sentido como en casa y esta cerca de todo dando un paseo. Lo recomiendo no tengo ninguna pega.
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Playing old school
By Dan McGrath, Jour '72
Larry Williams left his office at the University of Portland hoping to hustle home in time for the tipoff of the 2010 NCAA Tournament title game.
The Butler Bulldogs were not only the Cinderella story of the Final Four. They were playing for the national championship in Indianapolis, their hometown. Much was made of the fact that they had been able (and willing) to attend classes the day of the game.
The analyst for the radio broadcast was incredulous. In his pregame rundown, he suggested the Butler players should not have been concerned with going to class on "the biggest day of their lives." Williams, listening on his drive home, was stunned and angered. It espoused one of the attitudes he finds most problematic in intercollegiate athletics.
"We're not a minor league for pro sports franchises," Williams says. "It's big business, obviously, but we're also in the business of using sports to help young men and young women with their development as people.
"That 'biggest day of their lives' is just wrong. What if they get married, have kids, graduate from college. Wouldn't that be bigger?"
Williams, Marquette's 49-year-old, first-year athletics director and vice president for intercollegiate athletics, is not some nerdy egghead acting out an anti-sports bias born of some long-suppressed frustration at having been the last guy picked in playground games. Quite the contrary: The middle child of nine in a rambunctious, sports-minded family, he was a two-time All-American football player at Notre Dame and logged eight seasons in the NFL as an offensive lineman with four teams.
At Marquette, he oversees the 16-sport intercollegiate program involving approximately 300 student-athletes.
"One of my early impressions is how passionate people are about the school," he says. "I understand that. I'm proud of the fact that I went to Notre Dame, but I'm a Marquette person now and proud to be affiliated with such a great institution."
Williams' wife, Laura Lee, was a standout tennis player at Notre Dame and a national singles champion. They passed those athletic genes to their five kids.
Daughter Kristin was a varsity rower at the University of Santa Clara. She just graduated from law school at Cleveland Marshall and is following her father into athletics administration, having taken a position at Tulane University.
Eldest son Sean was an All-Ivy League football player at Yale University who is enrolled in Marquette's Graduate School, studying international relations.
Sons Scott, a senior linebacker, and Eric, a freshman quarterback, play football for Yale.
Son Louis is a freshman at Marquette University High School and an avid golfer.
Having five kids involved in high-level sports meant an endless succession of games, practices and travel, and made for a rather hectic lifestyle in the eight cities the family has called home since Larry and Laura were married in 1986.
"It was difficult at times, but I think living in so many parts of the country and meeting so many different people turned out to be a great experience," Laura says. "We always encouraged the kids to play sports or get involved in any extracurricular activity that appealed to them, but they understood that being a student came first. They were disciplined and accountable when it came to schoolwork. We were fortunate."
Raising a sports-minded family against a backdrop of his own career experiences reaffirmed Williams' old-school belief that athletics should be part of the education process, not the extent of it.
"I went to Notre Dame because we were Catholic and because the blend of academics and athletics appealed to me," he says. "I'd gone to a very good high school, Mater Dei in Southern California, and I thought I was ready for Notre Dame. But I wasn't. I fell behind, and then I kind of fought the system. Eventually the light came on and I started to appreciate the academic opportunity I had there."
Williams missed that intellectual stimulation when he moved on to the all-football world of the NFL. As a remedy, he enrolled in law school, taking night classes during his second year with the Cleveland Browns. He quickly came to realize his campus days were far behind him.
"We were on a trip, and while most of the guys on the plane were playing cards or just relaxing, I was studying," he says. "A coach walked down the aisle and stopped to look at what I was reading. We won the game, and I thought I played pretty well, but on Monday there was a note in my locker to see the coach. He asked me what I'd been doing on the plane. 'Studying,' I told him. He said, 'You're here to play football. If I ever see you doing that again, I'm going to cut you on the spot.'"
Once he got over his initial shock, Williams got the point.
"He was right," he says. "In the NFL, they're paying you to play football, and that should be your total focus. But in college, we can use athletics to instill some wonderful learning experiences in our kids."
That objective is among his top priorities at Marquette.
"If we're just using players for our own enjoyment, using them up and spitting them out when their eligibility is done, we're exploiting them," Williams says. "We have an obligation to help them grow and prepare them for the lives they'll be leading after they're through playing."
Williams gained that perspective from seeing some teammates lose their way after their playing careers ended.
"Larry cares a lot," Laura says. "The kids he works with are like his own children to him, and he wants them to develop their full potential. He has always believed that sports was just part of the overall educational experience.
"We talked a lot about what we would do after football. He went to school almost every year he was in the pros. He'd tell me that some guys weren't ready to do anything else when they stopped playing, and it bothered him."
It still does. "A lot of my friends haven't been doing so well since the lights went out," Williams says quietly.
With a growing family to raise, a second career was an imperative for Williams. He completed law school at the University of San Diego while playing for the Chargers and spent six years with an Indianapolis law firm before returning to Notre Dame to oversee marketing and licensing deals in the university business office. Most of the work was sports-related. The experience drew him toward athletics administration and a job as athletics director at the University of Portland in 2004.
The field "suits my personality," he says. "I like the games, the competition and the opportunity for engagement at so many levels. I guess I'm wired that way."
His Marquette engagement extends beyond athletics. Williams likes the short walk from his office to the Law School cafeteria for lunch, and he's on a first-name basis with many professors. He enjoys interacting with students who aren't athletes and wants them to feel as if they're part of things.
He says he's ready to handle the boatload of challenges he faces at Marquette, beginning with the circumstances of his arrival: a shakeup in the athletics department resulting from complaints over the handling of sexual-misconduct allegations against some Marquette basketball players.
The case is in no way similar, but if the sainted Joe Paterno can be pulled down from his lofty pedestal as men's football coach at Penn State, perhaps no campus is immune to the win-at-all-costs mentality permeating big-time college sports.
"What happened at Penn State shook the foundation of college athletics, and rightfully so," Williams says. "I can't imagine that there is anyone in the country who isn't deeply saddened by the Penn State situation, first and foremost for the victims of this terrible crime, and secondly for everyone associated with the program, PSU, and in fact, all of college athletics. This is the clearest and most cautionary tale of why it is so important to maintain integrity above all else."
At Marquette, men's basketball is the engine that drives the athletics train. Coming off back-to-back Sweet 16 appearances, Coach Buzz Williams is channeling Al McGuire as a campus hero: a colorfully down-home, slightly off-kilter philosopher who can coach the bejeebers out of a basketball team.
Williams believes an emphasis on each student-athlete's academic and social development will only make each program stronger.
"We are NOT de-emphasizing basketball," he declares. "I expect us to compete for national championships, and I believe we'll have the means to do it at Marquette, but there's more to it than that. We're going to do it the right way. We can be a beacon for what's good in college athletics."
Meanwhile, Williams must navigate Marquette's future in a turbulent world of nonstop conference reshuffling driven by the ever-increasing power of football while trying to grow his own athletics program with the addition of Division I men's and women's lacrosse. Deputy Athletics Director Mike Broeker, who has served with two basketball coaches and under three athletics directors, believes Williams is the right man for a challenging job.
"With his energy, his vision and his commitment, Larry is exactly the type of leader we need," Broeker says. "He's a man you'd want to help raise your kids." ❍
Dan McGrath, Jour '72, formerly a sports columnist for The Chicago Tribune, is now president of Leo Catholic High School in Chicago.


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A guy gave me a large hive of bees. It was 3 deeps and 2 mediums and I know it issued many swarms before i took it away. There was a virgin queen and plenty of bees on rather old comb. I pretty much left it alone for most of the summer. The hive was pretty much a mess. Scattered food stores and scattered brood clusters.
So I inspected the hive recently and found :
1. an alarming amount of missing bees.
2. Very little food stores of pollen and honey.
3. very scattered capped brood cells with small holes. The brood dead some wet and snotty and some dry and chalky.
4.A large queen laying eggs
5 almost no open brood maybe 10.
I am hoping the hive swarmed with the old queen and took there food stores with them.
I think the dead brood with the holes in the caps is from hygienic behavior, when the varroa entered the few cells available to them killing the brood.
and that is why I see a new queen laying it up.
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Everybody Loves Shredder – The Ninja Turtles Sitcom (Pilot)
We at The Rubber Chicken have long considered the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon a few edits and a laugh track away from being the perfect sitcom. Even the voice actors openly recognise villains Krang and Shredder as the classic bickering married couple. Now if only somebody would get rid of those pesky turtles, we could finally enjoy TMNT as the romantic adventure-comedy it was clearly destined to be.
We have the technology.
If you enjoyed this video, be sure to check out some of our previous TMNT posts, including an illustrated tribute to Krang, the Turtles' victory over Global Warming, or a warts-and-all look at their scandallous private lives.