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Great Apartment Close to Manhattan
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|Van Horne St, 07304 New York, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri
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All rooms are spacious and modern. The kitchen is completly new and is fully supplied with dishes and cookware, and has a gas range, stainless steel refrigerator, granite counter top, microwave and dishwasher. Fresh bedding linens and towels are included. In bedroom you have full sized foam mattress bed. There is huge double closet.
The living room has a large sofa bed that can be easily use as a full size bed if needed. There is also easy street parking for those with a car.
Location is great. Just 20 minutes by convenient public transportation to Manhattan and just 10 minutes by car. Walking distance to Liberty State Park with beautiful views of Manhattan, there is recreation area, jogging paths, playground, barbecue areas, Sciance Museum and the ferry to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty.
There is 10 minutes walk from historic downtown Jersey City with trendy restaurants, bars, and shops. From there you can take the PATH subway to Manhattan (2 stops to the World Trade Center or 4-5 stops to midtown - 34th street).
Price is for 2 people any additional person is $25 per night (maximum 4 people in appartment).
Check-in time is 2:00 p.m. or if will be arranged in advance we will try to be as flexible as possible. Check out time is 12:00 p.m. Thank you!
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The apartment was large, light and airy. It could have been an excellent place to stay but due to small things it was just OK to good.
The kitchen is large and has a good cooker and fridge but not enough pots or equipment to make it useable. An example being there are frying pans but nothing like a spatual to get food out, there are only small pots so you cannot cook pasta etc and no strainer if you do cook.
It needs some TLC to freshen it up and small things things like plugs for the sinks etc. There was no broom etc to sweep the floor if you dropped anything so it got a bit dusty by the time we left.
However it served as a good base for our stay. The location is a bit noisey at night and I would not recommend wandering around alone late at night but we had no problems and felt safe enough. The lightrail terminal is only 5 mins walk away and from there you get the Path into Manhattan. It cost approx $6 to get into Manhattan and takes about 35mins.
The stay was cancelled as the description location was far different than advertised.
Requested a place in mid town Manhattan NY and it gave me a location in NJ (where I am from.)so there was no sense to lease a place when I could commuted the same distance to the conference I was attending.The owner apologized for the mistake.
Hello people,
me and my girlfriend stayed in Nj at Sylwia´s appartment for almost one week. The flat was quite ok for that price but "minutes from manhattan" is maybe not the perfect expression. All in all you need 30 to 45 minutes to get to Manhattan when you take the bus to Grove Station and pathway to WTC or whatever. If you want to go straight to midtown plan with a few more minutes.
When we arrived at the flat it was occupied by a stranger who didn´t open the door. So we had to wait for Sylwia for half an hour. Actually that was not our deal. She said it was a missunderstanding and sorted that problem out.
The flat itself was almost clean but not fairly equipped. It should be possible to have some salt, pepper, sharp knives, a can-opener, a bigger pot and another pan in that flat. Just the basics in a kitchen. Then it would be awesome cause the kitchen is actually quite nice. We liked the livingroom and our bedroom. The flush of the toilette was leaking and running for longer times and not well cleaned. There were hairs and surely not from us.
Downstairs there was a very helpful guy from poland. He helped us out on our first evenung and brought us to a grocery store, a bank and a small restaurant in an old VW Beetle. That was a quite nice experience.
The contact with Sylwia was ok, the first evening was strange though because of the other person in our booked appartment.
The last point is the neighborhood. I can´t recommend to walk on the streets after 10 pm. It´s basically not the best street in a black community. During the day it´s not a problem. Once people, kids threw a can against our taxi and the taxi driver asked us if we are sure to at that place. We did it, it was kind of awkward but also nice. It´s not the typical touristic place to stay. But for our needs it was enough. We would do it again because you can save lots of money when you stay there. :) It was good but not perfect.
Anyway, thank Sylwia.
A very nice and comfortable furnished apartment. Everything was perfect. We enjoyed our stay very much and would love to come back for a second time. Thank you very much!
Although the apartment was a large, clean bedroom the toilet leaked when you flushed it, the airconditioning was only in the bedroom, there was only one pot to cook with and it was situated an an area of Jersey city that was not very nice. There were few restraunts, public transport was at least 20 minutes walk away and the only way to get a cab was to reserve one. We moved out before the end of our stay to an apartment in Manhatten as travelling from This part of Jersey city took too much time.
Sylwia was graceful, the apartment was renovated as advertised but we had some issues with there being no a/c as advertised and as it was uncommonly warm for the season. It made things very uncomfortable. Would not have been an issue, as we could open the windows but both nights we stayed, there were screaming people outside all night. We did not get much sleep and so we left early. Also, although the apartment had a lovely fully-fleshed out kitchen, there was little to no cooking utensils or pots and pans. So, it was pretty much useless for us. I don't think we would stay again due to those problems.
Eine Randlage am Industriegebiet von Jersey City mit einfachen Amerikanern. Die Straßenbahn mit der Station Liberty State Park ist zu empfehlen, oder der Bus an der Ecke Richtung Newport Mall. Das Apartment ist leider sehr dreckig gewesen und wir mussten putzen. Und wir sind wirklich nicht pingelig, Araber das ging zu weit. Fotos können geliefert werden, da wird einem schlecht! Ich hoffe, das nach dieser Bewertung Sylwia endlich handelt. Die Lage stimmt und der Preis ist dafür okay
Appartement spacieux à un bon prix.
Dommage qu'il soit si mal desservi par des bus hors de prix.
A conseiller si vous avez la voiture.
4 Personen (zwei Paare) / USA-Rundreise mit Stopp in New York / Wohnlage mit Ausflugsrückkehr vor Einbruch der Dunkelheit empfohlen / Wohnung optisch modern / Anbindung nach Manhatten via Path Rail ab Groove Street
Kritik: Recht laute Wohngegend und hellhörige Wohnung / Sauberkeit verbesserungswürdig / Möbel abgenutzt und wenig gepflegt / Bett im Schlafzimmer katastrophal / Essbereich nur für 2 Personen / Wenig Geschirr und Gläser
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It's been a few days and a lot has been going down, so it's time for a roundup of news from around the web. The message is simple: don't be a slacker or you will have to put together a hell of a long recap blog post.
Interview: The Head and the Heart's Tyler Williams on the band's journey from open mics to three nights at The Fillmore – thebaybridged.com – Interview/ Feature
In a well written feature article/interview before the Fillmore shows Tyler reveals all, well maybe not all, but a lot. Here is a blip ""It's not a healthy criticism circle up there. It bore down on Jon. It came out in one song … it's pretty angsty," he said. A second song, going with the working title of "Bird With Her Own Cage" will have a "hair" of electronica. "It's about unrequited love, when you were young. And now you can actually have love, when you're older. Does it mean the same as that unrequited love?"
Highly recommend checking out the full interview.
The Head & The Heart: Seattle Band Are "Liked," A Lot – cityweekly.net – Feature/Interview -
A great article that was released before THATH's Salt Lake City performance opening for The Shins:
"They had something like 1,700 fans, and we had something like 1,600," says The Devil Whale bassist Jake Fish. "So, Charity bet [Jones] that they could have more fans at the end of a year or something, just kind of joking around." As of press time, The Head & The Heart had nearly 100,000 fans; The Devil Whale had nearly 3,000.
"I think they won," Fish says with a laugh.
The feature goes on to discuss the relationship between the two bands (The Head and The Heart and The Devil Whale), and then dives into the song writing process on the new album and creativity with some input from Tyler.
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Hi, i was just wondring if gunz will get working on linux open suse?
Hi, i was just wondring if gunz will get working on linux open suse?
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Well, not to be reviving such an old thread, but I figured this thread can be archived and it may help someone else at a later time.
Demo of Gunz functioning on Debian: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnlBCUPqssw
If you're interested in setting up DirectX in the non-free copy of Virtualbox (Free for use, not free for modification), you can download a copy of VBox at the official website (www.virtualbox.org).
From there, setup a copy of Windows XP (Home/Pro) or Windows 2000 (Vista/later is not supported as far as I know) in VirtualBox.
In the virtual machine, setup Guest Additions, then download the WineD3D installer (http://aybabtu.com/rmh/wined3d/).
Execute the installer while in safe mode (To enter safe mode, reboot your virtual machine, and repeatedly press F8 until an options menu pops up)
NOTE: During WineD3D setup, only select DirectX8 and DirectX9 - anything else may cause problems!.
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Any non-california based Almond goers wanna share thier experience with the Franchise Tax Board?
We are still waiting on our 2011 refund from CA. We had around $62,000 withheld, after doing our paperwork the actual tax was about $7,000, and now we are playing the waiting game for the check is in the mail.
How did they ever come up with 7% of the gross being a proper withholding?
Now im trying to file for a reduced withholding to get the amoun withheld down to a number to what are actual tax should be and they are kicking it back to me. And of course today is a federal holiday so i won't get a respoonse until tomorrow if im lucky.
Does anyone have any advice to dealing with them?
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A slump (sometimes called a grunt) is a cobbler with light, puffy steamed dumplings, rather than browned biscuit dough, on the top. This variation calls for tart "pie" cherries as well as an assortment of sweeter summer fruit (berries and plums) to round out the flavor and brighten the sour-cherry color. Recipe by Nancy Baggett.
Nutrition Profile:
High Fiber
Low Cholesterol
Low Sodium
Serves 8
Prep Time 20 min
Total Time 60 min.
Step 1
To prepare fruit: Stir together 3/4 cup sugar, cornstarch and cinnamon in a 9- to 10-inch nonreactive deep-sided skillet or 3-quart wide-bottomed saucepan or Dutch oven (see Note). Stir in cranberry (or orange) juice and lemon zest, then the cherries and other fruit. Bring the mixture to a gentle simmer over medium heat, stirring. Simmer, stirring, until the mixture thickens slightly, about 2 minutes. Remove from the heat, taste and add up to 2 tablespoons more sugar if desired.
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To prepare dough: Whisk all-purpose flour, whole-wheat flour, 1 1/2 tablespoons sugar, baking powder, salt and baking soda in a medium bowl. Add butter and oil. Using a pastry blender, two knives or a fork, cut in the butter until the mixture resembles coarse meal. Add 3/4 cup buttermilk, mixing with a fork just until incorporated. The dough should be very soft and slightly wet; if necessary, stir in a little more buttermilk. Let the dough stand for 3 to 4 minutes to firm up slightly.
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To finish: Use lightly oiled soup spoons to scoop up the dough, dropping it in 8 portions onto the fruit, spacing them evenly over the surface. Return the slump to the stovetop and adjust the heat so it simmers very gently. Cover the pot tightly, and continue simmering until the dumplings are very puffy and cooked through, 17 to 20 minutes. (Cut into the center dumpling with a paring knife to check for doneness.) Let the slump cool on a wire rack, uncovered, for at least 15 minutes. Sprinkle the cinnamon sugar over the dumplings. Serve warm.
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WOW reschedules anniversary party to Jan. 31
Due to the expected severe weather forecast for Jan. 25, The Women of Waynesville WOW cancelled its first anniversary Grand Opening Party. The rescheduled party will be from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 31, at the Herren House, 94 East St., in Waynesville. Heavy hors d' oeurves and beverages will be served. All are invited to attend. For information, call 545-6879.
The Women of Waynesville (WOW) will be celebrating the group's one-year anniversary. The event is an opportunity to meet the women of WOW to find out more about the group.
WOW was established in the late winter of 2011, and spent the 2012-year raising funds for organizations and residents of Haywood County. Many will remember the "risqué" 2012 calendar of semi-nude ladies that hit the streets of Waynesville at the Apple Festival in 2011. That calendar raised $2,000 for REACH.
The 2013 calendar was sold at the last Apple Festival in Waynesville, and with the monies raised through it, WOW has been able to deliver free heaters to five families in Haywood County, a contribution of approximately $900.
In addition to the calendars, WOW raised funds through two first-time fundraisers, the Mom's Music Festival in May and a Halloween party fundraiser in October, raising $1,500 at the music festival, benefitting the local KARE program, and gave away a free cruise for two, more than a $450 value, at the Halloween Party.
"We feel that we have hit the ground running with our fund-raising efforts, and in less than 15 months, we have been able to raise just under $5,000 for multiple local causes," said Michelle Briggs, vice president.
"The Women of Waynesville are made up of women of all ages, walks of life and of their own independent ways of thinking —and that's what makes WOW work," said Nikki White, president of the group. "The WOW women want to spend this year growing what seeds they have planted, and they want to do it with an expanding membership of new and independently thinking women."
WOW is a nonprofit organization committed to the empowerment of women, by collaborating to raise funds through innovative, diverse and inspirational methods. A focus of WOW is to support agencies offering assistance/advocacy to women who have been victims of domestic violence or sexual assault and to abused and neglected children. Women in Waynesville or Haywood County, who are looking for a place to make a difference, are invited to take a closer look at WOW.
"We understand that we are not an organization that is fit for everyone, and that's one of our unique components," said White. "WOW is not an organization that is designed to conform to what is 'normal' or 'expected.' We enjoy rocking the boat at times, and so far, there have only been rewards given for it."


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Fuggedaboutit! That's about all Scott McLaughlin could say about opening the defence of his V8 SuperTourers title. The Aussie-based Kiwi V8 Supercars driver arrived in the country on Saturday night after testing his new V8 Supercars Car Of The Future across the Ditch and jumped straight into his SuperTourer for qualifying at Hampton Downs on Sunday morning.
While not having the best 20 minutes of qualifying, McLaughlin still managed 13th place for race one. Unfortunately he was punted off the track on turn one, lap one, an accident largely caused by an over-exuberant Andre Heimgartner.
With three of the four corners of McLaughlin's car badly damaged it was a big ask for his team to get the vehicle ready for race two, or even race three. This is one of the drawbacks of having qualifying and three races on the same day - severe damage early in the proceedings can ruin your whole day.
Credit to his crew. McLaughlin did manage a few laps in race two towards the end, but engine issues ended his foray into the feature race three and he retired early.
On a positive note, drivers are allowed to drop the points from one round of the seven-weekend series so McLaughlin and co won't be too disappointed in binning the meagre 27 points from last Sunday.
While obviously miffed, McLaughlin was happy to talk about testing his new Gary Rogers Motorsport V8 Supercars ride.
"The new car's great. The boys at GRM have done a great job to get it up and running in such a short time.
"The car has been running faultlessly so far, touch wood, so we'll just keep pushing forward."
McLaughlin will be at the Clipsal 500 in Adelaide from February 28-March 3.
The Kiwi has proven he can mix with the best in Aussie tintop racing, having finished sixth at Bathurst in his rookie V8 Supercars event there. He also placed a gallant 17th after a late callup to the last round of the 2012 championship in Sydney.
"Everybody will have their best gear on at Clipsal and hopefully we'll be there or there about.
"The car feels really comfortable, I'm not stretching for anything and I have a great engineer in Richard Hollway who's worked with Mark Skaife in the past and is a championship winner."
Every team in the 2013 series is starting from a level playing-field, so McLaughlin couldn't come into the main game at a better time. Nobody knows what's going to happen when the gloves come off in just over a week's time.
"Everyone's getting used to the new cars, but I'm sure drivers like Jamie Whincup, Craig Lowndes and a few others will find a way to be fast - they're always fast.
"The cars feel different to the old ones, especially the gearbox, which is more positive. It's a little bit faster and there's more grip with the 18-inch tyres.
"It still fundamentally feels like a V8 Supercar - it's still got the same amount of downforce as the old cars. While there's not a huge amount of difference, there's more than enough to make getting used to them a bit of hard work."
McLaughlin's goals for his first hit-out at Adelaide as a main game driver are realistic. "We had excellent testing and we were regularly in the top 10. I would be very happy with a top-15 finish in both races. I would be over the moon with top-10 finishes in both races.
"A podium and top-five finish would be like winning he championship for me."


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Cook chicken tenders quickly on the grill and top with pesto made with cilantro and sesame seeds for a zesty, speedy dinner. Serve with: Quinoa and grilled asparagus.
Nutrition Profile:
Diabetes Appropriate
Gluten Free Diet
Healthy Weight
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Low Calorie
Low Carb
Low Sat Fat
Low Sodium
Serves 4
Prep Time 35 min
Total Time 35 min.
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Whisk lime juice, soy sauce, oil and chili powder in a large bowl. Reserve 2 tablespoons of the marinade in a small bowl. Add chicken to the remaining marinade; toss to coat. Marinate in the refrigerator for 20 minutes or up to 1 hour.
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Preheat grill to medium-high.
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Meanwhile, place cilantro, scallions, sesame seeds and the reserved marinade in a food processor and process until fairly smooth.
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Oil the grill rack (see Tip). Remove the chicken from the marinade (discard marinade) and grill until cooked through and no longer pink in the middle, about 2 minutes per side. Serve the chicken with the cilantro-sesame pesto.
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The Airbus Corporate Jet Centre's (ACJC) reputation as a cabin-outfitting innovator is being underscored this week at the largest annual gathering for Europe's business aviation community, EBACE 2013 – where the 100-per cent Airbus subsidiary is presenting its ACJ319 Bluejay cabin concept.
Designed by the head of ACJC's own Creative Design Studio Sylvain Mariat, this new cabin configuration maximises use of the unique space provided by Airbus' ACJ319 corporate jet and was inspired by the avant-gardism, shapes and colours of director Stanley Kubrick's film "2001: A Space Odyssey."
The contemporary cabin concept's keystone is its use of light and space in perspectives that can be modulated via translucent partitions between the forward lounge and dining area. These partitions use the latest generation of switchable glass that is able to change from transparent to translucent and vice versa.
Additional key features of the ACJ319 Bluejay cabin concept include a high-low table that employs special extensions at its extremities to seat five people without adding new seats; a decorative light made by the French crystal house Baccarat using fibres of carbon and crystal; a special U-shaped galley providing crew with a spacious separate area where they can work with ease; a "bright and airy" washroom with large square shower; and a unique VIP seat inspired by the Charles and Ray Eames-designed Lounge Chair, which has become a classic in the history of modern furniture.
In addition, the cabin is outfitted with a fine hologram display that shows the names of arriving guests in soft blue tones – which has never before been seen on a corporate jet and offers a modern complement to the classical crew welcome.
Also at the EBACE (European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition) industry event – being held 21-23 May in Geneva, Switzerland – the Airbus Corporate Jet Centre announced two developments: its Part 145 maintenance organization approval from the Russian State Centre of Aviation Flight Safety, which empowers the ACJC to perform maintenance and modifications on Russian A320 Family aircraft; and the Airbus subsidiary's European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) approval as a Continuous Airworthiness Management Organisation, adding a new way of building long-term and solid partnerships with its customers.


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Online news agency cautiously thrives in Russia
Russian journalists know that garnering the attention of authorities can be dangerous. When writing about topics like crime and corruption, it can also be easy. However, Gregory Shvedov, editor of online news agency Kavkazsky Uzel, (Caucasian Knot), isn't worried about the Kremlin knocking on his door.


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Aloft Houston's mod furnishings and ultra-cool vibe make this brand-new Uptown hotel the perfect place to mix and mingle after exploring downtown Houston. Lofty ceilings and extra-large windows ensure guest rooms are bright and airy, while massive flat-screen TVs, MP3 players, and Wi-Fi makes tapping into high-tech conveniences a breeze. Stylish bathrooms offer a spa-like escape with frosted glass panels, walk-in showers, and loads of natural light. Packed with pops of color, urban-influenced design oozes throughout multiple common areas including the re:mix lounge, w xyz bar, and indoor pool.
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with the recent news happening on Superbowl weekend i am set!!

UFC's Main Event

Georges "Rush" ST Pierre will beat the ever loving snot out of Nick 'd-bag' Diaz... so bad his own mamma wont recognize him.. GSP! GSP!

of course the GIANTS win SB XLVI ,whatever that number is, vs... whomever, we wont remember who finished second place anyways..

so im good

any MMA fans here

[/quote]posted Nov 4th.. the MMA card has changed no more GSP..im hoping my second prediction doesnt


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Awesomenauts dev takes to Kickstarter to fund expansion
Romino Games is keen to expand on Awesomenauts, its side-scrolling MOBA, but needs your help to do it.
Blizzard trademarks title "The Dark Below," possible World of Warcraft expansion?
As spotted by MMO-Champion, Blizzard has filed a trademark for something called The Dark Below under the category "Computer game software downloadable from a global computer network," and while that could mean anything, that title does have Warcraft implications.
Skyward Collapse Nihon no Mura expansion hits beta
Skyward Collapse gains a third faction in its upcoming Nohin no Mura expansion, which is now in beta for those who pre-order.
DDO: Shadowfell Conspiracy screens show off new dungeon
The second major expansion for Dungeons & Dragons Online, Shadowfell Conspiracy, is almost upon us. These new screens apparently show off the new content's main dungeon.
Neverwinter update to add new Campign progression system
When Cryptic Studio's releases Neverwinter's upcoming Fury of the Feywild expansion module, it will also add a new system of unlocking content and rewards, guiding your adventures through the new zone.
Crusader Kings 2: The Old Gods out now, prep with massive title update
Crusader Kings 2 gets its first major expansion today in the form of The Old Gods, which gives players the chance to explore cultures falling outside the core game's religious flavours. It's available through various digital distributors for $15, and in anticipation of its arrival Paradox has issued a huge title update for Crusader Kings […]
SWTOR: Rise of the Hutt Cartel live, launch trailer released
The first digital expansion for Star wars: The Old Republic is finally live to all comers. Grab Rise of the Hutt Cartel now for $20, or $10 if you're a subscriber, and gain access to new missions, a higher level cap, Elder Game content, Macrobinoculars and Seeker Droids, and the planet Makeb. Not convinced? Check […]
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LotRO: Riders of Rohan dev diary checks out mounted combat
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Quick shots - RIFT's Storm Legion is full of dragons and robots
Robots, dragons, and possibly even robot dragons in RIFT's upcoming Storm Legion expansion.
Dungeons of Dredmor Conquest of the Wizardlands DLC out now
Gaslamp Games has released its third major expansion to light-hearted rogue-like Dungeons of Dredmor. In addition to an extensive list of previously detailed features (which you can read more about on the game's blog) the $2.99 pack includes six new skill sets: Communist, Bankster, Egyptian Magic, Magical Law, Paranormal Investigator and Tourist. Purchase it over […]
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Storm Legion cover price includes vanilla Rift
Rift's first major expansion won't require you to own a copy of the core MMORPG.
Dungeons of Dredmor DLC to add drunkenness, new weapon types, more
Gaslamp Games has a huge whack of new gameplay features for the next Dungeons of Dredmor content drop.
Rage: The Scorchers PEGI rating hints at DLC release
As spotted by Siliconera, PEGI recently rated something from Bethesda called Rqge: The Scorchers, for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The Scorchers were a sixth bandit clan cut from Rage during development, so it seems quite likely we're looking at an expansion or DLC pack for the 2011 id Software shooter.
Civilization V: Gods & Kings trailer shows off new gameplay features
Religion is back in the new Civilization V expansion, Gods & Kings. This developer diary explains how the new mechanics integrate with the core game and deliver a whole new world of ways to conquer the globe.
Dawnguard bigger than Fallout 3 DLC, smaller than Oblivion's
Dawnguard, the upcoming DLC pack for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, is bigger than anything Bethesda produced for Fallout 3, lead artist Matt Carofano has confirmed.
Hearts of Iron III expansion announced at E3
Finally, some E3 2012 news for the PC Elite. And by PC Elite, I mean that portion of it that doesn't get a headache and lie down when confronted with the amazingly complicated grand strategy Hearts of Iron III, which is about to get even bigger.
Dawnguard to release on Xbox 360 June 26
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim's first expansion drops in just under three weeks.
Expansion latest
Quick shots – RIFT's Storm Legion is full of dragons and robots
Hard Reset Extended Edition, Exile DLC finally available on Steam
Dungeons of Dredmor DLC to add drunkenness, new weapon types, more
Civilization V: Gods & Kings trailer shows off new gameplay features
Dawnguard bigger than Fallout 3 DLC, smaller than Oblivion's
Shogun 2: Fall of the Samurai trailer shows off artillery battle
Trine 2 expansion teaser trailer is gorgeous, much like Trine 2
Fall of the Samurai Shogun 2 expansion has pre-order incentives, new trailer
Dungeons of Dredmor: Realm of the Diggle Gods expansion inbound
CD Projekt not finished with The Witcher 2, expansion teased
Red Orchestra 2 to continue free DLC and mod tools tradition


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Here, listed alphabetically by author, are 10 of the best works of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry the Phoenix wrote about in 2007.
Vikram Chandra | Sacred Games
Chandra, now a teacher at UC-Berkeley, takes us on a 900-plus-page portrayal of contemporary Mumbai (formerly Bombay), following the stories of, among others, a gangster whose life could be right out of the Bollywood films he loves and a divorced Sikh police detective in his mid 40s. Sacred Games alternates first-person chapters from the gangster's point of view with third-person narratives of the detective's investigation. But as you'd expect in a book of this length, the author is prone to digressions, and the Dickensian epic sprawl could make you feel at times that you're holding the entire teeming city in your hands.
Mike Dash | Satan's Circus: Murder, Vice, Police Corruption, And New York's Trial Of The Century
"Trial of the century" might be going a bit far, and yet the 1912 murder conviction of a New York City police lieutenant deserves its innings. For one thing, he didn't do it. But this tale of judicial miscarriage is merely the tantalizing underpinning for historian Mike Dash's portrait of turn-of-the-century New York's demi-monde, and the Lower West Side neighborhood known as Satan's Circus, where gambling, prostitution, graft, and a host of ethnic rivalries worked hand-in-glove with the city's elected establishment. Dash's account is a tour de force of scholarship and entertaining storytelling that lets the 21st century in on the lawless details of how the 20th began. This is what history writing should be.
Denis Johnson | Tree of Smoke
Denis Johnson has given us so many maimed and suffering souls in the past 25 years, he could fill a trauma ward. Now, with this National Book Award winner, he gives us his "apocalypse now": a big, slow-motion epic about America's experience in Vietnam. Even if you think you're done with Vietnam novels, Tree of Smoke could change your mind. Not only does it re-create the jungle's ooze and the paranoid warble of a war being micro-managed by the CIA, it encapsulates the long horrible fallout in prose as good as any Johnson has written.
Norman Mailer | The Castle in the Forest
Having taken on such larger-than-life figures as Marilyn Monroe, Gary Gilmore, Pablo Picasso, and Jesus Christ, Norman Mailer, in his last published book before his death at 84 on November 10, turned to Adolf Hitler. But he takes his subject only up to the age of 13. We learn how Hitler's beloved mother cleaned his asshole, how he organized war games with the local kids, how he was initiated into something dank and demonic by a hermit in the woods, how his experiments in masturbation inspired his toothbrush moustache. The theories of Good and Evil, God and Satan, history and fiction, don't always convince, but the Mittel-Europäisch melodrama, with its Grimm-like uncanniness and the author's rollicking, ribald, grave-reeking voice, does. Would that he had lived to write the sequel.
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To commemorate ChildFund's 75th anniversary, we invited the leaders of each of the 12 ChildFund Alliance member groups to reflect on the past and future of their own organizations and the Alliance. Today, we hear from Sweden.
Sofia, 14, has a friendly smile and an air of confidence. She is the chairperson of the student parliament in her school in central Ethiopia. When she grows up, she hopes to be a doctor. But a year ago this dream was about to disappear.
Sofia's stepfather and her mother wanted to send her to Saudi Arabia or another foreign country to work. They felt her income was needed to support the family, and this had a higher priority than her education. But Sofia managed to hold her ground. She had learned about the importance of education and the dangers connected with child migration in her youth club in school.
Sofia spoke to her siblings and her teacher, who in turn spoke to her parents — and managed to change their minds. It was a close call because her stepfather had already arranged a false identity card stating her age as 18, and an application for a passport was the next step.
The situation could have turned out differently had Sofia's school not been taking part in a three-year project working against harmful traditional practices (HTP). Barnfonden is supporting the project, working through ChildFund Ethiopia and a local partner organization.
Hundreds of village leaders, health workers, local officials, religious leaders and school headmasters are part of this project, which is aimed at changing attitudes and behaviors through information and education. The goal is to reach 20,000 children and youths, to increase their knowledge and awareness of the consequences of HTP, a broad definition that includes female circumcision, child marriage, heavy and dangerous child labor and child migration. The project is based in central Ethiopia, with many sponsored children.
Since Barnfonden was started 22 years ago by BØRNEfonden (ChildFund Denmark), we have managed to increase our support to children in need every year. We have developed from being mainly a sponsorship charity to a broader organization that has diverse fundraising sources and many activities that help children in need.
With the help of the ChildFund Alliance, we have started advocacy efforts and raised our voice in the national arena for the causes of child protection and prevention of child violence. Today, we have 25,000 sponsors supporting 27,000 children in 25 countries. With the help of our sponsors, children in need are provided with education, better health care and the means and training to make a living on their own as adults.
To our delight, we also see an increase in funding from institutions and corporate partners, making it possible for us to support projects like the work against harmful traditional practices in Ethiopia. Our ultimate goal is to help even more children and families.
In everything we do, we remind ourselves about the children and families we are working for. And we remain grateful to our faithful sponsors, other supporters and corporate partners.
Important Dates in Barnfonden's History
2005: Supported more than 20,000 sponsored children
2005: Started a dedicated project in Rajastan, India, in partnership with ChildFund International
2007: Received accreditation as the first member organization of ChildFund Alliance
2009: Started a partnership with ChildFund Australia and its programs in Cambodia
2011: Launched a designated project in Selingue, Mali, in partnership with BØRNEfonden
2011: Celebrated our 20th anniversary
2012: Began a project against harmful traditional practices (HTP) with ChildFund Ethiopia
2013: Supported a children's rights project in Myanmar (Burma) in partnership with ChildFund Australia
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Dear Mr President
Original post made by The Cohen Brother, Old Palo Alto, on Jan 26, 2007
Thanks for your address to the nation. It's good to know you still want to talk to us after how we behaved in November.
Listen, can I be frank? Sending in 20,000 more troops just ain't gonna do the job. That will only bring the troop level back up to what it was last year. And we were losing the war last year! We've already had over a million troops serve some time in Iraq since 2003. Another few thousand is simply not enough to find those weapons of mass destruction! Er, I mean... bringing those responsible for 9/11 to justice! Um, scratch that. Try this -- BRING DEMOCRACY TO THE MIDDLE EAST! YES!!!
You've got to show some courage, dude! You've got to win this one! C'mon, you got Saddam! You hung 'im high! I loved watching the video of that -- just like the old wild west! The bad guy wore black! The hangmen were as crazy as the hangee! Lynch mobs rule!!!
Look, I have to admit I feel very sorry for the predicament you're in. As Ricky Bobby said, "If you're not first, you're last." And you being humiliated in front of the whole world does NONE of us Americans any good.
Sir, listen to me. You have to send in MILLIONS of troops to Iraq, not thousands! The only way to lick this thing now is to flood Iraq with millions of us! I know that you're out of combat-ready soldiers -- so you have to look elsewhere! The only way you are going to beat a nation of 27 million -- Iraq -- is to send in at least 28 million! Here's how it would work:
The first 27 million Americans go in and kill one Iraqi each. That will quickly take care of any insurgency. The other one million of us will stay and rebuild the country. Simple.
Now, I know you're saying, where will I find 28 million Americans to go to Iraq? Here are some suggestions:
1. More than 62,000,000 Americans voted for you in the last election (the one that took place a year and half into a war we already knew we were losing). I am confident that at least a third of them would want to put their body where their vote was and sign up to volunteer. I know many of these people and, while we may disagree politically, I know that they don't believe someone else should have to go and fight their fight for them -- while they hide here in America.
2. Start a "Kill an Iraqi" Meet-Up group in cities across the country. I know this idea is so early-21st century, but I once went to a Lou Dobbs Meet-Up and, I swear, some of the best ideas happen after the third mojito. I'm sure you'll get another five million or so enlistees from this effort.
3. Send over all members of the mainstream media. After all, they were your collaborators in bringing us this war -- and many of them are already trained from having been "embedded!" If that doesn't bring the total to 28 million, then draft all viewers of the FOX News channel.
Mr. Bush, do not give up! Now is not the time to pull your punch! Don't be a weenie by sending in a few over-tired troops. Get your people behind you and YOU lead them in like a true commander in chief! Leave no conservative behind! Full speed ahead!
We promise to write. Go get 'em W!
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a resident of College Terrace
on Jan 26, 2007 at 7:46 am
Some war. Even GWB's conservative, Zionist base can't be bothered to enlist.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Jan 26, 2007 at 7:58 am
Bush's state of the union address did not describe the deplorable state of the union. The speech's importance consists of Bush's plea to Congress to please let him fool them one more time in order that he can attack Iran and start a bigger war that Congress will have to support in order to support Israel.
That is all the president had to say.
The "surge" of US troops for Iraq is another deception. The surge's purpose has nothing to do with achieving victory in Iraq. Its purpose is to counter the pressure from the American public, Congress, and the US military to withdraw US troops from Iraq. Once a withdrawal begins, the neoconservative misadventure in the Middle East is at an end before its goals can be achieved. Delaying the withdrawal by proposing an escalation and provoking a debate gives Bush and Israel time to orchestrate an attack on Iran.
No one in Congress or print and TV media is prepared to call Bush on this transparent deception. Instead, critics focus on the fact that the surge cannot succeed.
a resident of Midtown
on Jan 26, 2007 at 8:26 am
Just killing is easy.
Just killing the bad guys is a bit more complicated.
a resident of College Terrace
on Jan 26, 2007 at 8:37 am
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a resident of Midtown
on Jan 26, 2007 at 2:39 pm
I spent a year in combat as a combat infantryman.
My grandson just returned from his second tour with the Marines in Fallujah, one nephew just came back from a year in Kosevo, another Nephew did 2 years in Turkey and Iraq.
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a resident of College Terrace
on Jan 26, 2007 at 2:49 pm
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a resident of Leland Manor/Garland Drive
on Jan 26, 2007 at 4:35 pm
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No real combat soldier would ever be a militirastic groupie, excitedly and gladly accepting and agreeing to every single US military operation and never questioning it. Real soldiers, like Senator Jim Webb or Senator Hagel, smell a phony unnecessary war such as the Iraq fiasco like a dog can smell beef stew. Real soldiers hate war and know that you go to war only if attacked,always as a last resort and never against a small country that never posed any danger to your country.
a resident of Midtown
on Jan 26, 2007 at 9:24 pm
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A big congrats to you all on your wedding I enjoyed it so much you all looked wonderful thank you for showing us your family I find it very hard to understand what your saying most of the time but you dont need words to see how much you all love each other all the best from all in ireland
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I don't know if the allegations are true or not but I do believe a group other than TMZ should do the investigations. Maybe Mr TMZ someone should be looking into the who and why about your wife's death Mr TMZ and take your kind of trash off the air and leave the family alone. Go back to being a lawyer and maybe the "news" in this country will be more reliable. LEAVE THE SHOW ALONE TLC UNTIL YOU HAVE RELIABLE FACTS. GO JUNE!!!


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Mission Possible seniors to meet Oct. 2
The Mission Possible Senior Club will meet at noon Wednesday, Oct. 2, at Mission Town Hall. All seniors are welcome to attend. Bring a dish to share for the potluck.
After a potluck lunch, state Reps. John Ward, DFL-Baxter, and Joe Radinovich, DFL-Crosby, will speak.
Thrifty White Drug will give flu shots. Those interested should bring a driver's license, Medicare Part B card and insurance information.
For more information, call Glen at 218-765-3265 or Delores at 218-765-3713.


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Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff was born on June 19, 1945, in Birmingham, Alabama. His father, Arthur, was an aeronautical engineer but also a pathological liar and supreme con artist, as detailed in the 1979 memoir The Duke of Deception, by Tobias's older brother, Geoffrey. As a result of one of these many deceptions, Tobias, who was raised and remains a Catholic, did not discover until adulthood that his father was Jewish. His mother, Rosemary Loftus Wolff, a waitress and secretary, was a woman of spirit, resilience, and great intelligence, who met the many reverses in her life with humor and determination.
Wolff's parents separated when he was very young. He was raised by his mother in Florida, Utah, and Washington state. Eager to escape rural Washington and life with his mother's second husband (experiences vividly recounted in his memoir This Boy's Life), he won a scholarship to the Hill School, a prestigious academy in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. He loved the school but struggled because of his poor academic background. Ultimately, he was expelled because of failing grades in math.
In 1964, Wolff joined the U.S. Army. He spent a year learning Vietnamese, and then served in Vietnam as a paratrooper. Out of these experiences came his second memoir, In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War (1994). After his discharge in 1968, he enrolled in Hertford College of Oxford University, where he earned a degree in English in 1972. In 1975, he earned a master's degree in English from Stanford University, where he was also awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing.
Wolff taught at Syracuse University in New York from 1980 to 1997. The novelist Richard Ford and the short-story writer Raymond Carver were among his friends and colleagues. Since 1997, Wolff has taught English and creative writing at Stanford University, where he holds the Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods professorship in the School of Humanities and Sciences. Among his honors are the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Rea Award for the Short Story, and three O. Henry Awards. In 2015, Wolff received the National Medal of Arts.
Tobias Wolff married Catherine Spohn, a social worker, in 1975. They have two sons and a daughter.
"There is a need in us for exactly what literature can give, which is a sense of who we are, beyond what data can tell us, beyond what simple information can tell us; a sense of the workings of what we used to call the soul."
—Tobias Wolff, from Stanford Today interview
On January 5, 2008, Dana Gioia, former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, interviewed Tobias Wolff at his office at Stanford University. Excerpts from their conversation follow.
Dana Gioia: Would you characterize Old School as an autobiographical novel in any sense?
Tobias Wolff: The events of the novel are themselves, to some extent, autobiographical, in that as a boy of that age I was in such a school. The school that I went to was like this one, a very literary place. Edmund Wilson had gone there, and I heard Robert Frost there. There was a great sense of excitement, always, around the visits of these writers, around the literary magazine, about trying to get stories published or even to get on the editorial board. In some schools, of course, it would be the football team, and football was no small thing at this school either. So my somewhat vague ambition of being a writer really became solidified there. The actual events of my time there would not have lent themselves to a memoir. I was certainly aware in bringing this forward in this voice, in this situation, that a lot of readers familiar with either or both of my memoirs would make assumptions about this being, in fact, a memoir disguised as a novel. And I really didn't mind that.
DG: As a fiction writer you've been most associated with the short story. What for you, imaginatively or creatively, are the differences between writing a short story and writing a novel?
TW: When you write a short story you at least have some confidence you're going to be able to finish it! From the time I first put words to page on this book and the time Old School actually was published, it was five-and-a-half years. Aesthetically I can't say that I find the experience that much different—the kind of pressure you put on yourself to get the right voice, to write the sentence perfectly, to rewrite, to rewrite, to rewrite—all that is similar. Really, in each case it's mainly going to the desk every day. I often am quite mystified about what I'm going do when I sit down. And the work teaches me how to write it as I go. My first drafts would really make you wonder, if you saw them, why I ever chose this line of work. Revision is crucial to my work.
DG: One of the strokes of genius in Old School is that at the very end, just when you think the story's over, it continues with a twist in another voice. Did you have this coda in mind when you began the book?
TW: No, but it was important, I think, because although the narrator talks about writing, we never really see him writing anything, and we don't get any of his stories. He's always talking about telling other people's stories and telling us what this friend wrote and what that friend wrote, but where's his story? Finally he tells a story. He is, after all, a writer.
DG: Do you have any thoughts on the human purposes of fiction?
TW: Fiction gives us a place to stand outside ourselves and see our lives somehow being carried on, to see the form that our lives take in some apprehensible way. Most of the time, experience washes over us moment by moment, in a way that makes it difficult to discern the form in lives––the consequences that choices have that will only appear years later, in many cases. Fiction shows us those things in a kind of apprehensible form and something we can comprehend, and see, and actually feel. We kind of see our lives almost acted out in front of us in miniature. And that's both exciting and also often very chastening, I think.
"The fact that a writer needed solitude didn't mean he was cut off or selfish. A writer was like a monk in his cell praying for the world..."
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Here's some more pics.
Just want to add, there is no way an original barrel will work in this rifle as is, it would flop around, the only way to get it to work would involve cutting and welding.
The first pic is with the steel tube welded on the barrel, I thought I had a better pic but just to give an idea of it diammeter, the new barrel just fits inside the tube.
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i'm new to beekeeping.
very excited and nervous and really just want things to go right for the bees in their first year. i bought one of the TBH from this site.
it looks very slick and well constructed!
hope to meet more of you as the days go on.
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Elsa Youngsteadt
In this roundup, Elsa Youngsteadt summarizes notable recent items about scientific research, selected from news reports compiled in Sigma Xi's free electronic newsletters Science in the News Daily and Science in the News Weekly. Online: http://sitn.sigmaxi.org and http://americanscientist.org/sitnweekly
Leaping Labidocera!
When threatened by fish, some marine plankton leap through the air to safety. Researchers studied this previously undocumented behavior in two species of copepods (tiny crustaceans) that swim near the ocean's surface. Video of 89 Anomalocera ornata individuals, recorded in the field, showed that a single leap typically carried the animals more than 40 times their own 3-millimeter body length. Upon landing, only one individual was attacked by its original pursuer. Using high-speed video of a related species, Labidocera aestiva, the researchers calculated that jumping plankton lost more than half their kinetic energy to water drag and to breaking the surface tension—but that loss was rewarded by low air resistance: One jump carried them at least 10 times farther through the air than it would through the water. (Illustration not to scale, courtesy of Brad Gemmell.)
Gemmell, B. J., et al. Plankton reach new heights in effort to avoid predators. Proceedings of the Royal Society B (published online March 21)
Efficient Quantum Lights
Quantum dots are on their way to becoming the next big thing in visual displays for televisions and gadgets. When exposed to electric current, these nanometer-scale semiconductor crystals emit light in narrow wavelength bands defined by dot size and chemistry. In electronic displays, they are sandwiched between electrodes in quantum-dot light-emitting diodes (QLEDs). But QLED efficiency has so far been poor: They convert only about 2 percent of their energy supply into light. By tinkering with the electrodes—modifying the usual indium tin oxide anode material and using it for the cathode—engineers boosted efficiency of red and green QLEDs to 7.3 and 5.8 percent, respectively. Those values compete with current technologies and what's more, the green device was the brightest QLED yet reported.
Kwak, J., et al. Bright and efficient full-color colloidal quantum dot light-emitting diodes using an inverted device structure. Nano Letters 12:2362–2366 (May)
The Orderly Brain
Underlying the brain's inscrutable complexity is a relatively tidy circuit board of nerve fibers. The cell bodies in the brain's gray matter are connected by axons—long nerve fibers that make up the interior white matter. To see whether the axons form a tangled spaghetti-like mass or a tidy grid, researchers looked into the brains of living humans and dead specimens of four other primate species using diffusion magnetic resonance imaging. The method detects three-dimensional diffusion of water molecules in the brain to infer the physical structure of axon bundles. (Each line in the image below, of an owl monkey's brain, represents thousands of cells.) The team was surprised to find gently curved sheets of fibers in parallel and perpendicular arrangements, with few diagonals or squiggles. The grid-like structure hints at simple developmental rules that could give rise to the final complex structure. (Image courtesy of Van Wedeen.)
Wedeen, V. J., et al. The geometric structure of the brain fiber pathways. Science 335:1628–1634 (March 30)
Prehistoric Fisheries Success
How to eat fish without wiping them out is an ongoing problem for conservation and governance. Prehistoric Hawaiians may have had it figured out, according to an analysis of more than 700 years of coral-reef fishing. Researchers reviewed archaeological, anthropological and historical records to estimate the Hawaiian catch from 1250 onward. They found that for the 400 years before European contact, Hawaiians caught at least 12 to 17 metric tons of fish per square kilometer of reef per year. Today, most reefs show signs of depletion with only half that much fishing. The authors attribute the Hawaiian success to strict regulations about who could fish, what they could catch and when they could do so. Rules were locally made and ruthlessly enforced. The authors suggest that, even without adopting such harsh punishments, enforcement of modern fishing regulations could be improved.
McClenachan, L., and J. N. Kittinger. Multicentury trends and the sustainability of coral reef fisheries in Hawai'i and Florida. Fish and Fisheries (published online March 20)
Tectonic Baby Steps
Today, Earth's tectonic plates are in constant motion. In subduction zones, as illustrated in the left side of the figure above, the Earth's solid surface (green) dives hundreds of kilometers into the mantle (orange) without interruption. But it wasn't always so. Conditions on the young Earth may have made the process go in fits and starts. When researchers modeled subduction as it would have happened some 3 billion years ago, when the mantle was 200 degrees Celsius hotter than it is today, they got the result on the right side of the figure: Tectonic plates began to subduct but quickly broke off, stalling further movement for millions of years. The result could help explain why the oldest chemical signatures of subduction are found in relatively thin layers of rock that accumulated for just a few million years at a time. (Image courtesy of Jeroen van Hunen.)
Moyen, J.-F., and J. van Hunen. Short-term episodicity of Archaean plate tectonics. Geology 40:451–454 (May)
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A little about who I am:
My name is Tyler Summers musician/composer/producer in Nashville, TN.
I grew up in a musical household on the west coast of Canada and went on to get a degree in Jazz Studies from The University of North Texas, specializing in Woodwinds (Saxophone,Clarinet,Flute).
I've been fortunate to have played on the Letterman Show, Today Show, Canadian Country Music Awards, and the in front of 45,000 people at the CMA Festival backing up artists Spoon, Feist, Johnny Reid, and Lee AnnWomack.
I lead a Jazz Trio (Tyler Summers Trio) and also have a piano pop group (TylerSummers.com).
My influences range from Mozart, to Charlie Parker, to Billy Joel, to Max Martin.
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She'll meet you on the course
Harriet Smith, of Crosslake, is perhaps the only female golf starter in the area, if not the state. She works at Crosswoods Golf Course in Crosslake, and both she and owner Kelly Stone agree they've never seen a female starter before.
As a starter, Smith is responsible for greeting the golfers as they come onto the course, verifying their tee times, explaining the course and marking down their cart numbers. She lets them know about the food available at the clubhouse and does her best to put nervous golfers at ease as they tee off at the first hole.
Stone said golfers usually comment that they've never seen a female starter before, adding that it's refreshing.
Stone also said that Smith knows the Crosswoods course well and gets along well with any age, joking that she keeps the bachelor parties in line.
Smith also said that golfers are surprised when they see a female starter greeting them at the first hole.
"They say, 'Well, look here. It's about time,'" Smith said. "It's the only job I've ever had when people thank me for having a good time."
She not only enjoys telling people about the course, but she loves simply being out in the fresh air. There's also the camaraderie she feels amongst those who are on the course and the ladies in the golf league she's a part of.
Smith, 70, has been golfing for 40 years. She raised both her own two daughters and her two nephews after both her sister and brother-in-law passed away. When one of her nephews was in junior high school, he wanted to play golf but needed a ride to the course. Instead of waiting in the car, Smith took up the sport and has been playing off and on ever since. She hopes to continue playing until she's 90, she said.
She enjoys every part of the game, even the frustration.
"You're never perfect at it. Even the pros aren't perfect," she said.
Golfing is a popular sport for her whole family. Smith said nearly all of her family plays, and her daughter married a professional golfer after Smith suggested her daughter take lessons with him.
Smith plays golf at least three times a week, not counting the time she spends working Saturdays as a starter. She'll play at least twice a week with her husband and once a week with the ladies golf league at the course.
She plans to play through the autumn until the snow flies.
"Golfers are a tough bunch. Fifty degrees and sunny is great for us," she said.
Smith calls her position as a starter her fourth career. She and her husband, Charlie, are both retired, but "neither one of us likes to sit still," she said.
Smith was a beautician, and then took a position as a production control manager in a circuit board warehouse. After that she spent around 20 years in real estate.
Smith said her job as production control manager was also a male-dominated position. She doesn't consider herself a feminist, though, just someone doing what she enjoys.
"My mother told me I could do anything I set my heart at," Smith said simply.
The season is still going strong at Crosswoods, and Smith said she'll work through the season and hopes to come back next year, too. "If they'll take me," she said.


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Day 6: Portland/York/Cape Elizabeth; Nahant, MA
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Today I got up early so I could get to the Portland Head Lighthouse. First I stopped in Portland. The city is a little weird and there wasn't much to see or photograph, plus it was getting a little busy because of morning rush hour, so I decided to make my way down the coastline to see some of the lighthouses. I stopped by the Portland Breakwater Lighthouse, also called "Bug Light." It's a tiny lighthouse with a nice park around it. It's located in South Portland so you get some good views of Portland across the water. Next I went by the Portland Head Lighthouse. This is the most photographed lighthouse in the US! It's one of my favorite lighthouses, I just love the way the water hits the coastline. After I got some great shots, I continued on down to Cape Elizabeth. I went by Two Lights State Park. The lighthouse here is a little run down and old and I couldn't figure out how to get up to it. It was kind of up on a hill so I'm not sure if it is open to the public
I made my way down the coast. I stopped back in Gloucester to go by Good Harbor Beach. It was such a nice day, the weather was amazing, and the view here is so serene. I wasn't thinking when I booked my flight back to VA because it didn't leave until Saturday morning but I had to return my rental car tonight before midnight. Which means that I was stuck at the airport for like 8 hours waiting. It was still a nice day outside, the weather was in the 70's as the sun was going down
Finally at 7am I was on my plane back to Virginia! Next time I come to Boston, I'm just going to get a hotel room in the city so I won't have to drive around and get lost for hours! Boston still has a special place in my heart and I will always have a love/hate relationship with it. Only hate when I have to drive around in the city :)


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On a cold day, when you walk past the tail of a motor vehicle and a get a rush of warm exhaust fumes over your legs. Or in the winter when you're on a bike and you come up behind a bus or lorry.
It was a horrible ride to work, pissing down with hail, sleet and snow, but when I came up behind a bus at the traffic lights, I got a brief rush of exhaustacy.
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The most boring place in the world for the young, fabulous, and broke. For anyone who doesn't live here, I'm sure that Sarasota seems like a beautiful and wonderful place to vacation. But living here sucks. Basically, this is where rich, snotty old farts come to die. And irritate the hell out of the locals.
On any given day, you can see the blond, rich, family of four that just moved here from Michigan, ruining the sunset on Siesta Key, to take a family portrait in their "Floridian" white shirts and khaki pants. Shopping is a hobby, because there is nothing else to do. And, the shopping malls, now owned by the Texas-based Westfield, are now overrun by bored-out-of-their-minds preteens with Daddy's credit cards in their hot little hands. Buisnesses that have thrived here for 30-plus years are being driven out by greedy speculators. Every other home is for sale, with no one buying them, because the real estate bubble burst. I guess millionares don't feel like purchasing a home on Siesta Key, where driving one block on Memorial Day weekend takes four hours, and you are more likely to have your homeowners insurance taken away than a dog getting fleas. Then, once you're done playing the "hunker-down" drinking game during the latest hurricane, you can go to Walmart for the sixth time this week. The best thing about Sarasota is that is easy to spot tourists. Tourists, if you're at the beach, are the ones who bring two giant coolers, a giant bag of sandcastle building tools, a huge umbrella or tent, and about ten bottles of suntan lotion. And they do this to be at the beach for an hour. Outside of Siesta, they're the ones yelling at waitresses, cashiers, and just about everyone else in the service industry. Then they drive 30 miles an hour on US-41, and call it Tamiami Trail, to go for ice cream on St. Armands circle. They take pictures of the "art" that blocks the view of Marina Jack, without realising that the boats anchored in the bay are inhabited by people whom are considered homeless. Sarasota is the most segregated county in all of Florida, and the city planners are trying desperately to push out anyone who doesn't make at least 100K a year. But then again, they are too busy designing parking lots that are only easily navigated by the secret service.
by Knitakitty June 15, 2007
the place where driving is like moving around cones, because of the snowbirds whose buicks are the size of Tulsa. The place where ridiculously pale midwestern tourists come down to visit their redneck counterparts and show off their new tribal tattoos and trendy abercrombie board shorts while they get hammered at the daquiri deck. the place that feigns diversity and sophistication because it is still segregated (admit it), but most of all it is the sweetest town on the gulf coast, with some of the most beautiful babies (all local) and the best weather one could ever ask for. SRQ, represent.
by Snooty the manatee April 05, 2005
I should invest in a funeral home in Sarasota.
by Madlinx May 29, 2005
A coastal town in Florida. Lots of Rich and/or old people live there. Home of the Carlie Brucia kidnapping. Also home of the Ringling's home, Ringling art museum, Booker Elementary (The school where George W. Bush was at during 9/11),Cincinatti Reds spring training, and the former home of the ringling circus. Sarasota also has an international airport, and a pretty low crime rate. Overall a pretty nice place to live.
by rapsux February 26, 2005
A place where I live and you vacation.
Everybody thinks it's the greatest thing on earth, but sadly, it isn't. You will be surrounded by old people wating to die, while the sunny and extemely humid atomosphere is ruining your "totally rad" hairdo.
One good thing about it is that you can go to Marina Jacks at night and sit by the boat docks with your lovers.
Yeah, have fun.
Everybody thinks it's the greatest thing on earth, but sadly, it isn't. You will be surrounded by old people wating to die, while the sunny and extemely humid atomosphere is ruining your "totally rad" hairdo.
One good thing about it is that you can go to Marina Jacks at night and sit by the boat docks with your lovers.
Yeah, have fun.
hey, hey guys, im going to Sarasota to see my 90 year old grandparents, and there i will marvel at the fact that IT SUCKS.
by vengance May 20, 2006
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by m-cheesy January 12, 2008
Lifeless, overpriced beach town on the west Florida coast. Not very friendly, bad traffic, not much to do, terrible job market. Lots and lots and lots of old people. A dead-end feeling where the sense of futility and a vague depression are enhanced by constant sunshine and high humidity. Very nice beaches, though. A good place to relax for a few days if you like roasting in the sun. Don't move here.
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If you have never had Chinese hot pot, you have to come here. My wife and I lived in China for 3 years (1 year in Shijiazhuang and 2 years in Nanjing) and this is EXACTLY like the hot pots in China. The other Chinese restaurants are all "Meiguo-Chungua-fan" or Americanized Chinese food - Chinese style cooked to American expectations. Impress is not - it is genuine as it is served in China. Suggestions - the hot water that the food is cooked in gets more spicy as it cooks, so get the split cooking - hot and plain. Your lips will thank you. Also - most of the Fu-Yuan (waiters) are from China, so ask them to help you mix the various sauces. Since hot pot is a cook it yourself buffet, you choose what you will cook. Experiment. I like the lotus roots, the various mushrooms and the sea food best.
The food was great the service was great the prices are reasonable the environment was fun and nice but
the music for the bike rally held 5/18 was well my daughter pointed and said look at that green truck and see the band doing drugs that was not good and if this place continues to use drugged up bands to preform here I will not go back ever
Veri dissapointed with seeing them doing drugs which tells me brother johns either did not know or did and ignored it either way when that band mary something plays there or anywhere i will not go.
Lovely people,lovely food.Jordanian dish with pine nuts is so good.
Didn't expect to write a review but I did not want the above post to be the last, since he was mistaken about it being closed.
My wife and I enjoy a pizza and beer most Friday's before going into the adjacent movie theatre. The service, pizza and beer are always very good. Pizza is delicious, with much of the ingredients made on site. The glasses are chilled (as they should always be) and the draft choices should serve everyone's taste (although I can never get enough dark lager choices anywhere). The service is fast, perfect and always very personal. I would give a shout-out to the server by name, but I don't like doing that if I have not asked the individual first. She always remembers us, and what we like, even though we are never there more than once a week for one beer and a pizza.
Pleasantly surprised by the quality of food and service at this little cafe. Rather crowded - apparently the multitudes have found the place, but certainly one of the best food places I've run into in Tucson. Wait staff is knowledgeable and helpful, adding to the overall positive impression. Only possible negative is that in one section of the restaurant, you are in essence in a tent!
My spc needs son & I were just there tonight. It was EXCELENT. THEY A NEW STAFF & cooks. The head c
Should be Best of Tucson consistent winner for all the special selections hand-picked for her customers. Learn a little about wines at the tastings or ask her questions when you shop - she has all the answers - really knows her wines! AND is super nice too! A pleasure to shop here and the quality of the selections is guaranteed to be a good place to get gift-wines without wondering if you did OK!
The Sunday Brunch and Music Series at Monterey Court is fantastic! Great food and the best of local and touring acoustic artists start your week off perfectly. Hosted by local artist, Nancy Elliott, with a guest performer every week.
Best cheesesteaks outside of Philly! ! They even have TastyKakes! ! !
I'm an army brat and I spent 4 years in Iran so for me this place is comfort food. I haven't found a place in Tucson that does Iranian food well. There is nothing quite like their spices like sumak or saffron infused rice and the various kabob dishes. I was taking a trip down memory lane here. The owner was very friendly with us and the waitress was on top of everything. I don't get the negative reviews above. I found the meal great and the portions were huge.
Come try for yourself you will not be disappointed!!!
Great place to eat breakfast. We love Candace, she is very funny and we love the cooks, talk about fast!! We get into Tucson about once a month and try and get to Franks for their Huevos Rancherous on Thursday . This place rocks it
Amazingly beautiful
We opted for this restaurant for our Sunday lunch and I am thrilled to have found a diamond in the rough! Since moving here from the Bay Area years ago, we usually wait to eat Thai on our visits back to CA, but not any more. The dishes we chose were nothing short of amazing, including the tofu spring rolls, Gang Garee, and Tom Yum Gai. The crushed peanut sauce for the spring rolls was a delightful nuance to add to the appetizer's appeal. The Gang Garee was an experience that makes me want to get it again next time and yet I'm dying to try the other dishes to see if they have the same complexity of flavors and aromas. Very reasonably priced and served promptly, I only have two words of caution. First, don't be deterred by the appearance of the place itself (very clean and comfortable, just a little plain.) Second, pay attention to the pepper meter on the menu. The Gang Garee is a single pepper rating, but was about as spicy as I can comfortably go, and the Tom Yum Gai is a solid 3 for intensity of spiciness as well as flavor. I can't wait to take our next visitors from out of town!
Love this place. The food, service and atmosphere are excellent :) They are slightly expensive, but it evens out if you go during happy hour. Great fries and wine selection! I've never had anything I didn't like there.
I've had a lot of things from their menu over the times I've been there and have always loved it. Favorites include their messy fries, ribs and the ice cream! Always pleasant service, too. Highly recommend!
Wow, I'm shocked at the bad reviews on here. There's 0% chance that a anyone had an experience like that-- and those users only ever gave one review....hmmmm. They are always kind to everyone and have some of the best tasting food in Tucson. I hope people see past the negativity and give it a shot. It's my go-to for lunch dates with friends I meet up with downtown. The only bummer is they only accept cash-- but I go at least twice a month so obviously it's not a deal breaker lol. They have like 4(?) kinds of fresh juice and their combination plate is always an enjoyable surprise. I highly recommend their chicken mole and their vegetarian tamale :)
I have eaten here a number of times now and enjoyed the food, service and ambiance more than any other Indian restaurant I've ever been to. I felt so confident in this restaurant that I finally talked my son-in-law from England into trying it!! After 12 years in the states he said he finally found a proper Indian restaurant! Being from England and being that Indian food is his favorite, I think that is a great compliment! Keep up the superb work Saffron!
Weekend wine tastings at CataVinos are fantastic. Along with your 6 tastes (amazingly priced at just $10.00!!!) you get gourmet cheese as well as palette cleansers. Yvonne also has a really nice assortment of reasonably priced cheeses, meats, and crackers for purchase to accompany your wine. After your tasting you can purchase a glass of your choice for just $5.00. Each week the wine list is built around a clever theme so you can go every weekend and be sure to taste completely different wines. I've gone there on a whim on my own, planned with friends, and had many personal parties there and I always bring out of town guests there. The atmosphere is lovely both inside the shop and outside on the patio. This is one of the best spots for Tucson fun and a great way to support local business!
need to remove this. no longer there