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Cosy and light apartment in Antwerp
Size40 m²
Floor No.
- Kitchen
- Towels
Accommodation summary
|Bothastraat, 2140 Borgerhout, Belgium
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The location of the apartment is perfect; it is located in a quiet residential area in Antwerpen Borgerhout, just around the corner of the busy Turnhoutsebaan where you can find all the shops you need: supermarkets, lunchrooms, restaurants, bakery's, greengrocers, clothing shops etc. The beautiful Rivierenhof park is close by: here you can go for a walk, relax, exercise or enjoy one of the free open-air theatres they have in the summer months. You are located about 10-15 minutes away from Central Station and about 20 minutes away from the Meir; Antwerps famous shopping street.
The apartment
The apartment is on the second floor (quite a steep stairway but worth when you see the apartment) and has all the facilities you need to relax after a long day in the city: a bright living room with a comfortable couch, TV and DVD player. A kitchen which includes a fridge, oven/microwave and a coffee machine. There is bathroom with a great shower: including lights, water jets and radio(!), and a bedroom on a high sleeper with a comfortable double bed.
We will make sure there are clean sheets, towels, and toilet paper.
Public transport / parking
You are within walking distance of public transport taking you straight into the city centre.
The apartment is only a 15 minute walk from the Central Station (and about 5-10 minutes by tram or bus). And public transport takes you to the famous 'Groenplaats' with all its nice restaurants and bars in about 20 minutes. You can park your car in the street (parking in Antwerp is cheap: only 3,50 euro per day).
Check-in and check-out
Check-in and check-out is flexible although we would like to agree the check-in and check-out time before you arrive since we will be there to welcome you.
House rules* We put a lot of effort in renovating the apartment so please treat the property as your own and keep it clean.
* Please remove all the garbage before you leave.
* Please take the sheets off the bed before you leave.
* Close windows and outside doors whenever you are not around
* Smoking is not allowed inside the apartment, but you can use the balcony.
* No drugs allowed
* Pets are not allowed
* We ask you to send us a copy of your identity card/passport through email so we know who will be staying in our apartment
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Reviews of this property
First to mention the things we liked:
Friendly hosts. Nice kitchen/ dining area. Modern TV. Heating worked well. Well equipped kitchen. Good Wifi. Cosy atmosphere in the appartment.
Things we did not like:
Food from former guests in a fridge without light. Very dark bathroom. Toilet flush did not work properly, we had to fix it several times. Dirty windows.
Reason we left after one night although we had booked and paid for three nights:
The bed is by far too small for two "normal" sized adults. It's not only 1.40x2.00, but its an alcove build what means its surrounded by walls on all sides, with no chance to put out arm or leg out of it. The appartment's heating sits straight under the bed and switches on and off all night.
Thank you for the nice flat!
Very good located!
Thank you Martha und Saki!
Lisa and Holger, Germany
the apartment is situated in a nice multicultural neighborhood and quite close to the central station, the tram-station only 2 minutes away. everything else is around. the equipment in the flat is good.
it was not very clean!
after the second night, the humidity in the flat made it impossible to sleep in the bed so we slept on the couch which was only "ok"...
Thanks Martha and Saki for being very nice hosts! The flat is totally perfect for a weekend and has enough space. Everything which is needed is included. To come to a point which was not so nice for us two girls in another country: The front door of the house is totally broken and could not be closed! We thought this won't be a problem until a drunken friend of the hosts rang the door bell 20 times in the evening and recognized that the house door was open and then entered the house to come upstairs and pressed the door handle down and told us several times he would like to enter. Of course it's not the fault of the nice hosts, but you should communicate to friends and other people that there is nobody at home. Also on the next morning when the boss of the hosts rang the bell 5 minutes at 6 o'clock because he needed some keys....
For girls it's not funny to see someone drunken is really in front of the flat door and he talks some minutes that he wants to enter.
But we really have to point out that the hosts were always accessible and exerted to make the stay for us good.
Apart from that, flat is good located. 20 minutes by foot to central station. parking costs EUR3.80 for a whole day (on Sunday you do not have to pay).
Everything was perfect! The apartement was very clean and modern, it was very nice to live their for a week. The pwners of the apartement were very friendly and helpful before the trip and also while the trip! If I would decide to visit antwerp again I would come back to this apartement!
We had a wonderfull time in the apartment and really enjoyed our stay there!
A great place and very nice and friendly people. We can definitely recommend the apartment!
Thanks again!!
We had a very good time and our hosts made everything so very easy. Its only a 10 minute tram ride, which itself is practically outside the door steps, from the Roosevelt/historic area. There are shops close by if you need anything and it has to have one of the best showers around! Also, the price is fair. It ticks all the boxes for us, even if the stairs were a bit steeper than we're used to. If we're in Antwerp again, would definitely like to stay there again as its much more homey than a hotel/hostel.
Who is happy in a multicultural neighborhood, comes home in a modern, light, small nest with the luxury of a beautiful kitchen, relaxing shower, and romantic sleeping niche, which I definitely recommend to call. At Saki and Martha No noise from traffic, internet, tram around the corner, many shops, and parking for 3.5 euros per day. And thanks to our lovely host and hostess who turn out to be global citizens ....
Wie graag, in een multiculturele buurt, thuiskomt in een modern,licht, klein nest met de luxe van een mooie keuken, ontspannende douche, en romantische slaapniche, die raad ik zeker aan om bij Saki en Martha aan te bellen. Geen geluidslast van verkeer,internet, de tram om de hoek,tal van winkeltjes, en parking voor 3,5 euro per dag.
En dank aan onze lieve gast-heer en-vrouw die wereldburgers blijken te zijn....
Friendly host, housing quiet, surprising, well placed in a wealthy neighborhood in which intercultural "Bobois" and where there are very good things to eat, we enjoyed our stay. Tram nearby and daily street parking to 3.5e what is reasonable.
Hôte sympathique, logement au calme,surprenant, bien placé dans un quartier riche en interculturalité qui se "boboise" et où l'on trouve de très bonnes choses à manger, nous avons bien aimé notre séjour. Tram non loin et parking journalier dans la rue à 3.5e ce qui est raisonnable.
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I was wondering if anyone has heard what he is going to do ? Is he still going to skate ? Dance? Pairs ? single?
I sure hope he continues because it would be a shame if he didn't.
I was wondering if anyone has heard what he is going to do ? Is he still going to skate ? Dance? Pairs ? single?
I sure hope he continues because it would be a shame if he didn't.
I don't think he could do singles or pairs -- he hasn't jumped in ages. The only thing I've heard was a few months back, when he was looking into skating pro with Gretchuk. Of course, with her personality, I won't be surprised if it never got off the ground.
Apparently, it was reported in a skating magazine that he has a new partner (dance of course) and that it will be revealed to the public soon. Most people expect Shae-Lynn Bourne to be the one. They already skated together in a show in Newington awhile back and were seen training together not very long ago either.
If this is what's going to hapen, I expect them to skate professionaly and probably go to SOI or/ and CSOI. Meno&Sand are not with the tour anymore and maybe they want another duo. Shae-Lynn is also very popular in Canada of course.
I don't remember why Kraatz retired--refresh my memory?
IIRC, he felt that to be a pro he needed to devote as much time to training as he did as an amateur. I think that Shae's schedule with coaching was not going to allow for that.Originally Posted by RealtorGal
Hi, I would really love to see Shae Lynn Bourne to skate with Peter. I believe that they would make a better couple and with a long term partnership better then Grishuk.
It is unfortunate that Shae and Victor are not skating together anymore just like Peter and Naomie, Both of these danse couple were made for one another but if someone has some chances together it is Shae and Peter now that both their partners are retired.
They could and can bring something magical together on the ice. Just hope that they do create a partnership.
It would of been nice to continue to see both of these danse couple in the future but things happens in life and just cant wait to see for sure if he is skating with Shae.
Good luck to them if they are. Well they wont need luck, they have it done already because of their talent and they would be great to see in a tour because we did not see enough of them has professionals.
I hope he skates with Pasha. I really miss her amazing twizzles.
I could see him and Shae Lynn together=but=him and Pasha I don't think so.
If this is any clue: BOI is going to do a 10 page interview with Peter & his new partner for the October issue.
While Peter is certainly a popular ice dancer, I doubt that Peter and an "unknown" would get such a large coverage. It sounds like Peter's partner is also a major name in figure skating.
Peter & Oksana tried out together several years ago-but they didn't mesh. Peter & Shae-Lynn have been skating together at shows. Another person could be Jamie Silverstein-she certainly has a lot of talent, and has US citizenship-which is important if Peter wants to go the Olys. However, I'm not sure how involved she is in Ice dance.
Oh, well-guess we'll all find out for sure in October.
Last edited by lulu; 08-03-2004 at 10:16 AM.
Anyone know the relative heights of Peter and Pasha? She's very tall and I don't think he is. For this reason, I'm not sure they'd mesh... although there are certainly notable exceptions in dance where the partners are near the same height.
Originally Posted by Linny
Oksana is not tall-perhaps you're thinking of Angelika Krylova?
I know Evgeny Platov is 6'0, and I think I read that Oksana is around 5'2-5'4 range.
Peter is around 6'0-6'1.
Perhaps, but since both Shae-Lynn and Pasha are way more famous that Peter, why is the lead story about him? Concievably, many fans of both ladies may not even bother to read an article about Peter. Wouldn't "Pasha's return to the ice" or "Shae-Lynn makes a splash with a new partner" be much more eye catching headlines? Maybe it's Eve Chalome or Jamie Silversteen after all, famous, but not as famous as him.Originally Posted by lulu
Peter skated for the USA. That automatically makes him more famous in the US.
For some reason, I thought Pasha was taller. She certainly looked quite tall when she skated with Sasha Zulin.
I would be very surprised if Peter would now compete as an eligible with another partner. I think it would be too hard to get into skating with another partner at this age at the level needed for eligible skating. I bet he'll just do shows.Originally Posted by lulu
Who knows? Maybe with an experienced partner such as Silverstein he would progress quicker through the nationals pipeline. Also his goal is to compete in the Olympics and the US isn't that deep in ice dance that Peter and Silverstein (or whomever) can't make the world team next year or the Olympics.

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Another eCPPT v2 review
A couple of years ago, Armando Romeo, from eLearnSecurity, allowed me the privilege to review their initial course offering. Two years later, I was pleased to be asked to review the second generation of this course, and at no surprise to me, they've only improved upon what they'd offered in the earlier version. I spent my spare time, over the past few weeks (while also studying for another well-known certfication,) diving through the courseware, comparing and contrasting v2 to v1, as well as looking at much of the new information that was provided. My goal, not so much to compare against everything else on the market, but to really see what changed, in this new version. Along the way, though, I was happy to see that it STILL outdoes many of the competitors on the market, both in terms of information exposure, as well as in ease of learning, clear presentation and informational accuracy.
What was immediately apparent to me was a much cleaner interface and presentation, than in the previous version. While the organization of the materials was much the same, and it is still Flash-based presentation, the interface was easier to navigate, for me, and was even better 'put together,' from the presentation point of view. The links at the bottom of the pages, to references and videos, were a nice update, and made it easy to quickly reference outside information, also allowing me to watch video segments, etc, at times when the written material started to feel long, and I needed a mental diversion for a bit (not out of being bad material, but because I was going through at night, after some long work days, prior, so at times, after reading for a while, my mind started to wander.)
(Note - ironically, Andrew Johnson's review, http://www.ethicalhacker.net/content/view/420/1/, on ethicalhacker.net was posted today, as I was working to complete this, and many of his thoughts mirrored mine)
The individual Section titles from v2 are:
System Security
- Module 1: Introduction
- Module 2: Cryptography and Password Cracking
- Module 3: Buffer Overflow
- Module 4: Shellcoding
- Module 5: Malware
- Module 6: Rootkit coding
Network Security
- Module 1: Information Gathering
- Module 2: Scanning
- Module 3: Enumeration
- Module 4: Sniffing and MITM attacks
- Module 5: Exploitation
- Module 6: Post-exploitation
- Module 7: Anonymity
- Module 8: Social Engineering
Web Application Security
- Module 1: Introduction
- Module 2: Information Gathering
- Module 3: Vulnerability assessment
- Module 4: Cross site scripting
- Module 5: SQL Injection
- Module 6: Advanced Web Attacks
With regard to the individual sections, I'm strongly in agreement with Andrew's review, on ethicalhacker.net. One of the the points I'd noted, when I originally reviewed v1, was that they did a good job of explaining topics like the stack, and buffer overflows. In the new version, I feel they made that even better, both through change in visual presentation, as well as the occasional quiz (there were a few self-quizes throughout the course,) in order to make sure you grasped the concept they were teaching you. As Andrew noted, it feels even less like you're being thrown into something, if it's a topic you previously didn't understand, or had been introduced to.
Added content was also a plus, such as the extra section, on Post Exploitation, that was added to the Network Security section. eLearnSecurity did a great job of expanding upon the modules, and presenting the student with more information than in the previous release. Even with the additional material, the modules continue to flow clearly, one to the next, through well-thought-out, organized processes, which align to the various penetration testing methodologies. Aside of my aforementioned need to occasionally step off the written page, and into the videos and side reference links, I felt it much easier to keep my head into the topics being presented, as this was eased by their organization of the course and materials.
The most notable additions to the course, however, are their labs. The course allots the student (it did me, anyway) 30 hours 30 minutes of time to spend in the Hera Labs, which are new to v2 (note this is NOT the extra, paid Coliseum labs, which are ALSO of great benefit to students, whether in study for the course, or just looking for general practice.) The Hera Lab exercises were aligned to specific sections of the course, and give you hands-on practice within the skillsets. Each lab has a PDF with instructions, as well as solutions for the tasks the student has been assigned to do.
The Hera Labs are:
Lab 1 - System Security - "Assembler", "Dev-C++", "Exploit Development" and "Fuzzing"
Lab 2 - Information Gathering - "Detect Live Hosts", "NMAP Scans", "DNS Enumeration" and "Zone Transfer and NSLookup"
Lab 3 - Scanning - "Port Scanning", "OS Fingerprinting", "Service Detection" and "Idle Scan"
Lab 4 - VA & Exploitation - "Vulnerability Assesment" and "MultiPlatform Remote Exploitation"
Lab 5 - Post Exploitation - "Privilege Escalation", "Maintaining Access", "Data Harvesting" and "Pivoting"
Lab 6 - Blind Penetration Test
Due largely to the fact that I've previewed this during another certification, I didn't spend time in the labs, right now, so I'm very thankful that the time will remain in my account, as I look forward to going through them, upon completion of my other certification. However, I did read through the lab exercises, over my lunch breaks, the past few days, and can assure the reader that they are both relevant to pentesting, and good / solid exercises to go through, especially for those new to pentesting, who really need the groundwork laid, and have never done many of the steps. Lab 1 deals more with the underlying system hacking concepts, such as exploits and the stack. Labs 2-3 deal more with the gathering of information and 'mapping out' the target(s). Lab 4 covers finding vulnerabilities, while Lab 5 deals with what to do after the initial exploit has succeeded. Finally, Lab 6 goes into other areas, such as web applications and web app enumeration / exploitation. So they give you a small dose of everything from the course, in their hands-on labs.
All in all, the course is a hands-down improvement over it's previous iteration. Still (and even moreso) the "CEH killer", as Jason Haddix (another ethicalhacker.net columnist) called it, in his v1 review, this course is considerably more informative and hands-on than the CEH, for those who don't just want to gain information, but to build their skills and get a more realistic approach on the fundamentals. Students get more 'bang for their buck', and due to the continued access to their course materials, will always be able to come back for review, without having to retake a bootcamp, or buy another CBT.
In the view of this pentester, the course is definitely a solid offering, and well worth the look and investment.
"All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer,
but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved."
- Sun Tzu, 'The Art of War'
OSCE, OSCP (Former - GPEN, C|EH - both expiring / expired)


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2013 News Round Up: GTAOnline, DLC, Avatars and iFruit
Grand Theft Auto V - General News | @ 05:46 PM MDT | By Ash_735
Well there's been some quick batches of news the past few days some small and some quite meaningful so we're doing a round up post instead to cover most of these. First up, an update about Grand Theft Auto Online from Rockstar regarding the Stimulus Pack and the first free Online DLC pack coming in the next few weeks along with a screenshot:
We know many of you are anxiously waiting for us to show you the GTA$ Stimulus Package money we announced a couple weeks back. As mentioned in that post, we of course want to ensure that game progress loss issues are sufficiently sorted before distributing the GTA$ to everyone. We have a few more tweaks and fixes to make in a new title update that will hit sometime next week and then we will distribute the cash.
Coming in early November will be the first add-on content update, the Beach Bum Pack which will bring all-new beach themed vehicles and new weaponry that you'll be able to use in both GTA Online and Story Mode. Plus new customization options for your GTA Online character including new tats, hairstyles and more. We'll also be adding lots of brand new action-packed Jobs to play with Gang Attacks, Survivals, Last Team Standings, Parachutes, Deathmatches and Races that will have you bloodying up the waters and coastlines of the finest beach resorts across Los Santos and Blaine County.
We are also working to bring you the debut of the first part of the GTA Online Content Creator this fall – giving players the ability to craft, publish, rate and play custom-made Deathmatch and Race Jobs. We'll be keeping our eye open for exceptional ones that we'll be stamping as 'Rockstar Verified' and will be featuring them here at the Newswire and as part of forthcoming GTA Online Social Club Events. Both the Content Creator and the Beach Bum Pack are free.
Starting in November will be the first Grand Theft Auto Online Social Club Event weekends which will bring special rewards and bonuses ranging from limited-edition in-game Event Crate Drops to in-game discount specials and even a special new GTA Online live-stream show hosted by Rockstar at the Social Club Events page and Rockstar Games Twitch page – plus prize pack giveaways of hard to find GTAV gear and more.
Next up Rockstar have also released more Avatars on PSN and Xbox Live for you to purchase, you can grab them for $0.49/£0.21/€0.25 each, there's also a "premium" theme released which just cycles through the wallpaper already available on the website, ...for free:
Good news for Android device users as Rockstar have FINALLY released their iFruit app onto the Google Play Store, it does seem to be a bit late but now you can join in with training Chop and customizing vehicles from your mobile device.
Lastly, some of you may have noticed a few websites talking about a large DLC for Grand Theft Auto V which takes place in North Yankton, this was a FAKE, it was made up and some websites decided to roll with it and post about it hoping to get some extra hits. Sorry to say but right now the only DLC we know about is the forthcoming Online DLC packs, anything else you read will most likely be fake.
2013 GTA V Stunt Montage
Grand Theft Auto V - Community News | @ 09:38 PM MDT | By rappo
The infamous GTA IV stunter Ben Buja returns to the scene with his first GTA V Stunt Montage! Check out the video below and get inspired to have some stunting fun in GTA: Online. He always seems to know what jumps will create the craziest flips...
Thanks to knopknup for the heads up
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Leaf Blowers at 7 AM on Weekends -- REALLY???
Original post made by quiet resident, Pleasanton Heights, on May 12, 2013
You have your yard service come out at 7 AM on every Saturday and I have put up with the endless leaf blowing for months. Get them a rake and a broom. But you topped it off today, Sunday, by having your "contractor" show up before 8 AM to set up power tools.
There is a noise ordinance in Pleasanton and I will have the police department remind you of it next weekend. NO NOISE at those decible levels before 9 AM on Sat, or before 10 AM on Sunday. And if your so-called contractor is really licensed he cannot do work like that on weekends at all.
I have tried talking nicely with you. I am done.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on May 12, 2013 at 2:34 pm
and no barking dogs that early on weekends either. We have a neighbor that plays in his front yard with his yapping dog at 7:30 Sunday mornings. I call the police.
a resident of Birdland
on May 12, 2013 at 2:57 pm
Why don't you approach your neighbor politely and ask them to be considerate. If they still proceed to not care then call the cops.
a resident of Pleasanton Heights
on May 12, 2013 at 3:17 pm
"Really" -- try reading the post before commenting.
"I have tried talking nicely with you. I am done." Talking with them, more than once, has accomplished nothing.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on May 12, 2013 at 9:11 pm
Didnt work with the barking dog either
a resident of Pleasanton Valley
on May 13, 2013 at 8:47 am
mooseturd is a registered user.
Dear QN,
Where did you come up with those weekend quiet hours? (Comment partially removed by Pleasanton Weekly Online staff)
a resident of Foothill High School
on May 13, 2013 at 9:06 am
Dear Cecil,
You forgot that the fundamental rights given to you by the Constitution of the United States don't include the right to ignore the Law of United States or your local laws. According to this law you may not drive when you are drunk or open a whore house in a residential area. Also, according to the law you may not ignore noise standards of the Alameda county. If you choose to ignore this law, you neighbors have the right to call the police and to sue you for disturbance.
a resident of San Ramon
on May 13, 2013 at 9:20 am
Dear Original Post,
You can move.
a resident of Parkside
on May 13, 2013 at 9:26 am
Yes, move to San Ramon. They have lots of ordinances to prevent bringing day laborers into neighborhoods to perform work they are fully capable of doing themselves, but are to lazy to do, or are afraid of getting their hands dirty. Go post on the San Ramon forum, loser.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on May 13, 2013 at 9:39 am
Local laws? What a bunch of rubbish. Just more regulations from the socialist crowd. See West, Texas.
a resident of Parkside
on May 13, 2013 at 9:40 am
Unbelievable...sad...what ever happened to common courtesy being reasonably considerate, folks?? It actually used to be pleasant to live in Pleasanton. Can't we all - as individuals - move back in that direction? Self-serving, self-centered individuals who mistakenly fail to understand what reasonable, civilized people instinctively do understand - one's rights do not entitle you to encroach on the rights of others to enjoy safety, peace and happiness - a lack of self-control or concern for the bigger good makes life miserable and unnecessarily stressful for victimized neighbors and our community. Just a little thoughtfulness goes such a long way. Don't forget - your chilren are watching you all the time and taking their cue from you. We all have to live together - let's do it pleasantly. - what a great place we have - let's make it better!
a resident of Pleasanton Valley
on May 13, 2013 at 9:44 am
Having crews with leaf-blowers come early on Saturday mornings is just bad neighboring.
a resident of Oak Hill
on May 13, 2013 at 10:15 am
"Having crews with leaf-blowers come early on Saturday mornings is just bad neighboring."
I agree. But I don't understand what is accomplished by writing an anonymous open letter about it in the Pleasanton Weekly. I doubt that the target of this open letter has read it. So a note to "Quiet Resident": If talking to your neighbor didn't accomplish anything, take your complaint to the police (I'm pretty sure that they'll support you in view of my understanding of Pleasanton noise ordinances) and then, if necessary, to your other neighbors. I'm sure that they're not happy about the noise, either.
a resident of Birdland
on May 13, 2013 at 10:26 am
At least the blower noise lasts only a few minutes. We live next to sports park. The noise there also starts at 7 AM and lasts all weekend and into the evening and most weekdays during the summer. And yes, it's as loud as a leaf blower at times, particularly with loud screams, en masse cheers and people using air horns (thank you Park & Rec for reminding teams not to use them). Sometimes it's difficult to enjoy our own back yard recreation. But public noise is one of the distractions we have for living in one of best 5 climates areas in the world and one of the best cities in the U.S. So remind yourself how nice you have it.
a resident of Foothill High School
on May 13, 2013 at 10:35 am
Unfortunately, Pleasanton Weekly doesn't have the option to like peoples' comments, so I Like Rose's comment here.
But, since it's very difficult to find a time for noisy work, which would be suitable for everyone, including old people and babies, noise regulation policies are adopted by almost every community. And unless you believe that America doesn't have to have any laws, or that respect for others is not necessary in American society, please don't confuse socialist regulations with peoples' requests for a quiet weekend rest.
By the way, you can check Section 21-56-d of the San Antonio Noise Ordinances to find out what they will do with your dogs if you will not teach them be quiet.
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a resident of Stoneridge
on May 13, 2013 at 10:38 am
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a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on May 13, 2013 at 10:51 am
Noise is such a problem in the AM or PM. I have party neighbors that start up every summer around noon and at 10 pm they are still at it. After 10 pm I ask them to quiet down as their noise comes right into my bedroom and I can't sleep. Sometimes they do it. If not I call the police and they take over.
After years of this I'm ready to move. Anyone else got noisy neighbors on a regular basis? Have you solved it?
a resident of West of Foothill
on May 13, 2013 at 11:02 am
Below are Alameda County & Pleasanton's Noise Ordinances. But to summarize, Alameda County is roughly "quiet time" for leaf blowers between 7pm-7am on weekdays and 7pm-8am on weekends. Pleasanton is no leaf blowers between 10pm-6am unless during 6am-8am you have a blower that doesn't generate 73 dBA at 50 feet on weekdays. Weekends & holidays are 10pm-7am no leaf blowers unless from7am-8am the leaf blower doesn't generate more than 73 dBA at 50 feet.
Here is Alameda County's Prohibited Noise Disturbances Ordinance (6.60.050). Web Link
6.60.050 - Prohibited noise disturbances
Electric/Gas Powered Tools in Residential Areas: Vehicle Maintenance.
Operation or use in residential areas between the hours of seven p.m. and seven a.m. on a weekday or between the hours of seven p.m. and eight a.m. on a weekend, of any electric or gasoline powered leaf blower, sweeper, vacuum, lawn mower, trimmer, edger, hedger or similar tool or device which produces sound which is plainly audible at a distance of fifty (50) feet from such device.
Repairing, rebuilding, modifying or testing any vehicle in residential areas between the hours of seven p.m. and seven a.m., in such a manner as to produce sound which is plainly audible at a distance of fifty (50) feet from the vehicle.
Pleasanton's Noise Ordinance is not as clearcut as they have exceptions for how many dBAs the Leaf Blowers are. Here's a link to get to Pleasanton's Municipal Codes: Web Link
9.04.045 Leaf blowers.
1. On Monday through Friday, no person shall operate a motor powered leaf blower between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.
2. On Monday through Friday, between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. no person shall operate a motor powered leaf blower unless the city has determined that the model in use cannot generate greater than 73 dBA at 50 feet. The Echo PB4500 leaf blower has been determined to generate less than 73 dBA at full throttle at 50 feet.
B. Saturday, Sunday and Holidays.
1. On Saturday, Sunday and holidays, no person shall operate a motor powered leaf blower between the hours of 10:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m.
2. On Saturday, Sunday and holidays, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. no person shall operate a motor powered leaf blower unless the city has determined that the model in use cannot generate greater than 73 dBA at 50 feet. The Echo PB4500 leaf blower has been determined to generate less than 73 dBA at full throttle at 50 feet.
C. Business Parks. Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, motor powered leaf blowers may be operated at any time within the area bounded by I-580 on the north, Foothill Road and Hopyard Road on the west, Santa Rita Road on the east, and Stoneridge Drive (between Foothill and Hopyard Road) and Arroyo Mocho boundary on the south and also the two business parks commonly referred to as Koll center and valley business park. However, this subsection shall not be effective for those portions of the areas described above which are within 300 feet of a residence. (Ord. 1384 § 1, 1988; Ord. 1356 § 1, 1988)
a resident of Sycamore Heights
on May 13, 2013 at 11:03 am
Rose says it very well. The bottom line is we live in a world where selfishness exists on so many levels.
We speak out when others don't care because we hope for a listening ear and for ideas from others when our efforts have been unsuccessful.
I sympathize completely with the concerns and frustrations of "Quiet Resident" (and their choice to be anonymous if that is what they want) because when my friend was dying and struggling with chemo, we dreaded early Friday mornings until noon!
Having peace and quiet disturbed while enjoying your morning or your sleep takes a little pleasure out of life or can even make one sicker.
You can't stop selfish people from being inconsiderate, and those sorts don't listen even to the laws or the police. That is sad for the decent folks on this planet and in our town.
For now, we do what we can to stop them or possibly even reason with them.
Or...use good earplugs or something that is enjoyable listening to cover up the noise if you know it's coming. :-)
a resident of Birdland
on May 13, 2013 at 1:10 pm
liberalism is a disease is a registered user.
Good posts, Rose and Sharon. Our noisy, partying neighbors were driving us nuts, They refuse to grow up and consider they live in a densely packed neighborhood. I guess they are trying to keep up with their college age kids.
In any case, we having mostly resolved the issue by calling the cops, since reasoning with these 'adults' has proved pointless. In addition, we had triple paned windows installed, which cut out a lot of noise and better insulated the house (plus we got a tax credit). We also use earplugs and sometimes leave a fan going to generate some white noise to drown out their screaming from their hottub at 2AM.
When that doesn't work, we let our dogs out at 6am and make sure they bark near their fence, under their bedroom window. paybacks are a beeyatch.
a resident of Jensen Tract
on May 14, 2013 at 7:39 pm
ccwc is a registered user.
Quit Your Bitchen......the city law is they CANNOT start before I believe it is 8AM....Just call the city....they will put a halt to it. Don't stress - just HANDLE it!! MY GODDNESS!!!!! Life is too short!!


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"Araby" James Joyce
The following entry presents criticism on Joyce's short story "Araby" (1914). See also James Joyce Short Story Criticism.
Considered one of Joyce's best known short stories, "Araby" is the third story in his short fiction collection, Dubliners, which was published in 1914. It is perceived as a prime example of Joyce's use of epiphany—a sudden revelation of truth about life inspired by a seemingly trivial incident—as the young narrator realizes his disillusionment with his concept of ideal love when he attempts to buy a token of affection for a young girl. Critical interest in the story has remained intense in recent decades as each story in Dubliners has been closely examined within the context of the volume and as an individual narrative. As the third story, "Araby" is often viewed as an important step between the first two stories—"The Sisters" and "An Encounter"—and the rest of the collection.
Plot and Major Characters
The narrator of "Araby" is a young boy living with his aunt and uncle in a dark, untidy home in Dublin that was once the residence of a priest, now deceased. The boy is infatuated with his friend's older sister, and often follows her to school, never having the courage to talk to her. Finally she speaks to him, asking him if he is going to attend a visiting bazaar, known as the "Araby." When she indicates that she cannot attend, he offers to bring her something from the bazaar, hoping to impress her. On the night he is to attend, his uncle is late coming home from work. By the time the young boy borrows money from his uncle and makes his way to the bazaar, most of the people have left and many of the stalls are closed. As he looks for something to buy his friend's sister, he overhears a banal young salesgirl flirt with two young men. When the disinterested salesgirl asks him if he needs help, he declines, and he walks through the dark, empty halls, disillusioned with himself and the world around him.
Major Themes
Each story in Dubliners contains an epiphanic moment toward which the controlled yet seemingly plotless narrative moves. Among the best-known epiphanies is the one that occurs in "Araby," in which a young boy recognizes the vanity and falsity of ideal, romantic love. It has also been interpreted as a story about a boy's growing alienation with his family, religion, and the world around him. Moreover, it is viewed as autobiographical, reflecting Joyce's own disillusionment with religion and love. As such, Dubliners is considered a collection of stories that parallel the process of initiation: the early stories focus on the tribulations of childhood, then move on to the challenges and epiphanies of adulthood. A few critics have detected the theme of Irish nationalism, as Joyce employs Irish legends to indicate the vast discrepancy between the narrator's idealized view of the girl and the harsh reality of the bazaar. Moreover, the theme of the quest is a prevalent one in "Araby," as the young narrator embarks on a dangerous journey to win the hand of a young maiden.
Critical Reception
For many decades Dubliners was considered little more than a slight volume of naturalist fiction evoking the repressed social milieu of turn-of-the-century Dublin. When critics began to explore the individual stories in the collection, much attention was focused on the symbolism in "Araby," particularly the religious imagery and the surrounding of the bazaar. In fact, some commentators have invested the story with many layers of meaning and religious symbolism; others urge a more superficial reading. Literary allusions, influences, and autobiographical aspects of the story have also been a rich area for study; in fact, commentators have found traces of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, Dante's Commedia, and Homer's The Odyssey in Joyce's story. Much critical attention has focused on stylistic elements, especially the impact of the narrative voice in "Araby." As scholars continue to mine Joyce's Dubliners for critical study, "Araby" remains one of the most highly regarded and popular stories in the volume.
Principal Works
Dubliners 1914
The Portable James Joyce 1947
The Essential James Joyce 1948
Chamber Music (poetry) 1907
A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man (novel) 1916
Exiles (drama) 1918
Ulysses (novel) 1922
Poems Penyeach (poetry) 1927
Collected Poems (poetry) 1936
Finnegans Wake (novel) 1939
Stephen Hero (unfinished novel) 1944
Letters 3 Vols. (letters) 1955–1966
Critical Writings of James Joyce (criticism) 1959
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William Bysshe Stein (essay date 1962)
SOURCE: "Joyce's 'Araby': Paradise Lost," in Perspective, Vol. 12, No. 4, Spring, 1962, pp. 215–22.
[In the following essay, Stein surveys the religious imagery in "Araby."]
As L. A. G. Strong has observed in The Sacred River, "Christianity for Joyce is inescapable, and his critics cannot escape it either." And he is right. No matter the work, Joyce always views the order and disorder of the world in terms of the Catholic faith in which he was reared. Turn though he does at times to other sanctions for his beliefs, he never quite shakes off the power of "a symbol behind which are massed twenty centuries of authority and veneration." Only...
(The entire section is 3174 words.)
John O. Lyons (essay date 1964)
SOURCE: "James Joyce and Chaucer's Prioress," in English Language Notes, Vol. 2, No. 2, December, 1964, pp. 127–32.
[In the following essay, Lyons considers the influence of Chaucer's Prioress' Tale on Joyce's "Araby."]
When Joyce's commentators mention the influence of Chaucer, the detail they cite most frequently is the character of Molly Bloom, which reminds them in its licentiousness and common sense of the Wife of Bath.1 I think it can be shown, however, that Joyce's use of Chaucer is more than casual. There is no doubt of his knowledge of and respect for the writings of Chaucer. In 1912 he wrote, as part of an examination for a degree...
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Harry Stone (essay date 1965)
SOURCE: "'Araby' and the Writings of James Joyce," in Antioch Review, Vol. 25, No. 3, Fall, 1965, pp. 375–410.
[In the following essay, Stone explores the literary allusions and symbolism found in "Araby," contending that Joyce "was careful to lacquer his images and actions with layer after layer of translucent, incremental meaning."]
Love came to us in time gone by When one at twilight shyly played And one in fear was standing nigh— For Love at first is all afraid. We were grave lovers. Love is past That had his sweet hours many a...
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Robert P. ApRoberts (essay date 1967)
SOURCE: "'Araby' and the Palimpsest of Criticism or, Through a Glass Eye Darkly," in Antioch Review, Vol. 26, No. 4, Winter, 1967, pp. 469–89.
[In the following essay, ApRoberts refutes Professor Stone's thesis in the essay reprinted above, asserting that "Araby" is a self-contained story and should be read at face value.]
"You see how easy it is to deceive one who is an artist in phrases. Avoid them, Miss Dale; they dazzle the penetration of the composer. That is why people like Mrs. Mountstuart see so little; they are bent on describing so brilliantly."
—George Meredith, The Egoist...
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Bernard Benstock (essay date 1967)
SOURCE: "Arabesques: Third Position of Concord," in James Joyce Quarterly, Vol. 5, No. 1, Fall, 1967, pp. 30–9.
[In the following essay, Benstock supports Professor Stone's thesis in the essay reprinted above, and agrees that "Araby" serves "as a vital introduction of many of the motifs of the later works of James Joyce."]
"You must say 'paragon': a paramour is, God bless us, a thing of naught."
—A Midsummer-Night's Dream
"I'm the Sheik of Araby, Your love belongs to me; At night when you're asleep, Into your tent I'll creep."
—"The Sheik of Araby"
"… (if you can...
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Frank Turaj (essay date 1970)
SOURCE: "'Araby' and Portrait: Stages of Pagan Conversion, in English Language Notes, Vol. 7, No. 3, March 3, 1970, pp. 209–13.
[In the following essay, Turaj finds a parallel between "Araby" and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, maintaining that the two works represent two different stages in Joyce's personal development.]
"Araby" is regarded as the story of a boy for whom young love becomes mystical and religious. It is partly a story of his initiation into love, and it is partly a story of his conversion from orthodox religion. Besides being a principal theme in Joyce's writing, this dialogue of the world and the spirit is,...
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Edward Brandabur (essay date 1971)
SOURCE: "The Green Stem of Fortune," in A Scrupulous Meanness: A Study of Joyce's Early Work, University of Illinois Press, 1971, pp. 49–56.
[In the following essay, Brandabur provides a thematic overview of "Araby."]
From the harsher portrayals of Dublin's youth encountering perversity in the first two stories, Joyce turns to romance. For "Araby" displays characteristics of "Romance" described by Northrop Frye in Anatomy of Criticism most clearly as it concerns the hero's power of action: "If superior in degree to other men and to his environment, the hero is the typical hero of romance, whose actions are marvelous but who is himself...
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Epifanio San Juan, Jr. (essay date 1972)
SOURCE: "Araby," in James Joyce and the Craft of Fiction: An Interpretation of Dubliners, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1972, pp. 54–67.
[In the following essay, San Juan offers a stylistic analysis of "Araby."]
Among the various reasons why the existing interpretations of "Araby" have failed to grasp the principle of organization informing the narrative, I would point to the wrong emphasis placed upon stylistic details—the texture of description, the rhetorical appeals of imagery and ambiguous allusions, symbols, and so on—and the distortion of form created by this emphasis.1 For if the formal whole of the story resides in the...
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Susan J. Rosowski (essay date 1976)
SOURCE: "Joyce's 'Araby' and Imaginative Freedom," in Research Studies, Vol. 44, No. 3, September, 1976, pp. 183–88.
[In the following essay, Rosowski views the primary conflict in "Araby" "not between the child's and the adult's visions, but between psychological and factual realities."]
Readers have long recognized the importance of "Araby" in Joyce's canon. The third and final story of the childhood phase of the Dubliners (before adolescence, maturity, and public life), "Araby" portrays an early stage of the struggle that Joyce develops later in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and in Ulysses. The story is viewed...
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John J. Brugaletta and Mary H. Hayden (essay date 1978)
SOURCE: "The Motivation for Anguish in Joyce's 'Araby'," in Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 15, No. 1, Winter, 1978, pp. 11–17.
[In the following essay, Brugaletta and Hayden question important plot elements of "Araby."]
In his discussion of James Joyce's "Araby," Epifanio San Juan, Jr. contributes to Joyce studies a predominantly valid discussion of plot.1 We agree with San Juan in his assumption of the "relevance and qualified validity of all the existing interpretations of 'Araby.'"2 Our only disagreement with this critic's view of the story—our point of departure from that of other critics who have discussed...
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Donald E. Morse (essay date 1978)
SOURCE: "'Sing Three Songs of Araby': Theme and Allusion in Joyce's 'Araby,'" in College Literature, Vol. 5, No. 2, Spring, 1978, pp. 125–32.
[In the following essay, Morse explores the different literary allusions found in "Araby."]
I'll sing three songs of Araby And tales of fair Cashmere, Wild tales to cheat thee of a sigh, Or charm thee to a tear And dreams of delight shall on thee break, And rainbow visions rise, And all my soul shall strive to wake Sweet wonder in thine eyes. And all my soul shall strive to wake Sweet wonder in thine eyes.
—W. G. Wills, "Araby"1
Adults enjoy being reminded, at a...
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Joseph J. Egan (essay date 1979)
SOURCE: "Romantic Ireland, Dead and Gone: Joyce's 'Araby' as National Myth," in Colby Library Quarterly, Vol. 15, 1979, pp. 188–93.
[In the following essay, Egan examines Joyce's utilization of Irish culture and history in "Araby."]
Although A. Walton Litz points out that a "careful analysis of the last pages of 'Araby' shows how the boy's personal despair is extended symbolically until it encompasses religious and political failure,"1 perhaps insufficient attention has been given to the story's national imagery drawn from Irish culture and history and set in motion by the narrator's love for Mangan's sister, "the brown-clad figure...
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L. J. Morrissey (essay date 1982)
SOURCE: "Joyce's Narrative Strategies in 'Araby,'" in Modern Fiction Studies, Vol. 28, No. 1, Spring, 1982, pp. 45–52.
[In the following essay, Morrissey analyzes Joyce's narrative techniques.]
In his analysis of Roland Barthes's poetics of the novel, Jonathan Culler points to a "major flaw" in Barthes: "the absence of any code relating to narration (the reader's ability to collect items which help to characterize a narrator and to place the text in a kind of communicative circuit)."1 Yet, "identifying narrators is one of the primary ways of naturalizing fiction."2 Paradoxically, Culler decides that although "the...
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David W. Robinson (essay date 1987)
SOURCE: "Narration of Reading in Joyce," in Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Vol. 29, No. 4, Winter, 1987, pp. 387–92.
[In the following essay, Robinson considers the imagery in "Araby" and its relationship to the narrator of the story.]
… Of the three opening stories in Dubliners, "Araby" presents by far the clearest framing of narrated events within the controlling viewpoint of a definite narrator. Here, finally, is a narrator whose relation to his early self can be confidently gauged and whose interpretation of the past has some claim to authoritativeness—or so it seems. A fairly consistent level of ironic detachment helps us locate...
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Phillip F. Herring (essay date 1987)
SOURCE: "Trials of Adolescence," in Joyce's Uncertainty Principle, Princeton University Press, 1987, pp. 3–38.
[In the following excerpt, Herring reveals the structural and thematic links between Joyce's "Araby" to "The Sisters" and "An Encounter."]
"Araby" is the last in a set of three stories about how a youth is thwarted in his quest for transcendence. Each of the stories begins in the tedious surroundings of home or school, in reaction to which boys set for themselves idealized destinations involving eastward journeys: in one case it is a mystical state of mind associated with the priesthood, exotic dreams, and Persia; in the next story it is...
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Albert Wachtel (essay date 1992)
SOURCE: "The First Trinity," in The Cracked Looking Glass: James Joyce and the Nightmare of History, Susquehanna University Press, 1992, pp. 23–37.
[In the following excerpt, Wachtel views "Araby" as the third story in a trilogy—the other two being "The Sisters" and "An Encounter"—and deems it an important transition to the other stories included in Dubliners.]
Although they depict the meanness, entrapment, and blindness of the citizenry, the first two stories of Dubliners are actually about the discovery of those same qualities in the protagonists. "Araby," third in the series, is the final example of such self-scrutiny before the...
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Garry M. Leonard (essay date 1993)
SOURCE: "The Question and the Quest: the Story of Mangan's Sister," in Reading Dubliners Again: A Lacanian Perspective, Syracuse University Press, 1993, pp. 73–94.
[In the following essay, Leonard utilizes the theories of Jacques Lacan to analyze the depiction of Mangan's sister in "Araby."]
The displacement of the signifier determines the subjects in their acts, in their destiny, in their refusals, in their blindness, in their end and in their fate.
(Lacan 1988c, 43–44)
Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and...
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Margot Norris (essay date 1995)
SOURCE: "Blind Streets and Seeing Horses: Araby's Dim Glass Revisited," in Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 32, No. 3, Summer, 1995, pp. 309–18.
[In the following essay, Norris explores stylistic elements of "Araby," particularly the narrative voice in the story.]
Joyce's "Araby" not only draws attention to its conspicuous poetic language: it performatively offers the beauty of its art as compensation to the thematized frustrations of the story. The little boy whose heart is broken by a city "hostile to romance," transmutes his grief into a romance of language. Joyce, whose Dubliners stories tend to bear rhetorical titles, makes of "Araby" a...
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Robert Fuhrel (essay date 1998)
SOURCE: "The Quest of Joyce and O'Connor in 'Araby' and 'The Man of the House,'" in Frank O'Connor: New Perspectives, edited by Robert C. Evans and Richard Harp, Locust Hill Press, 1998, 173–87.
[In the following essay, Fuhrel discusses the motif of the quest in Frank O'Connor's "The Man of the House" and Joyce's "Araby" and contrasts the setting, tone, point of view, and themes of the two stories.]
A young man narrates a tale about a time when, as a boy, old enough to leave the house and travel some distance by himself but innocent in matters of the heart, he had created an imaginary world in which he was a hero. Focusing on everyday matters is a...
(The entire section is 6196 words.)
Further Reading
Atherton, J. S. "Araby." James Joyce's Dubliners: Critical Essays, edited by Clive Hart, pp. 39–47. New York: The Viking Press, 1969.
Discusses the ways in which "Araby" is typical of Joyce's oeuvre.
Brooks, Cleanth and Robert Penn Warren. "Araby." Understanding Fiction, pp. 414–24. East Norwalk, CT: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1943.
Brooks and Warren explicate the major themes of Joyce's "Araby."
Collins, Ben L. "'Araby' and the 'Extended Simile.'" Twentieth Century Interpretations of Dubliners: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Peter K....
(The entire section is 179 words.)


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"The further away you go, the more they pay you," he laughs wryly.
In Jonesborough, the International Storytelling Center hosts one of the country's largest annual festivals for storytellers; attendees number between 12,000 and 15,000, spread among several tents. Parent will regale his audiences with selections from his extensive repertoire.
He has one story retelling the fable of "Beauty and the Beast" from the Beast's point of view; another is a series of vignettes called "Heroes and Sheroes, Working Class and Otherwise," which includes one tale about a sanitation worker "who puts pizzazz in the collection of garbage," he says.
He tells folk and fairy tales, but many of his pieces are based in fact, though embellished for the telling. "I take events that actually happened and try to capture the spirit of the event, whether or not I have all the facts straight," Parent says.
A favorite of his is "The Beautiful Game," a story centered around the fire that destroyed Lewiston's St. Dominic's Arena in 1956, crushing the spirits of hockey players and fans alike in that economically troubled town. It's based on the facts of the event — including research into newspaper archives on microfiche — but his descriptions of residents' reactions are based on his own experience growing up in Lewiston as a player on one of Maine's five high-school hockey teams at the time.
Parent begins his stories by writing them, but before they are ready for delivery, he tries them out on friends, preferring to hone his work in the telling. "You'll come up with things on your feet that you'll never come up with sitting on your butt," he says.
And when honed, they're ready. "You have 1000 people in a tent, and as soon as a story starts, it's just dead silence," he marvels. "I think people are longing for that kind of connection with the spoken word." (He mixes guitar music in with his stories, and seeks audience participation from time to time — whether singing along or performing on stage with him: "I seem to have a gift for getting people to be a bit silly," he says.)
Parent has been performing as a storyteller since 1977. "I feel I'm really getting the hang of it, after 30-plus years," he says, only half-joking. His first Jonesborough performance was in 1981; "it isn't quite the career catapult that it once was," because there are so many more storytellers and so many more festivals. In fact, after Parent leaves Tennessee, he's heading to another storytelling festival in Washington. He swears he'll come back at some point soon — keep an eye out for him in our listings pages and around town in Portland or Brunswick.
Hear some of Michael Parent's work at michaelparentstorytelling.com.
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Denise Clarke is overwhelmed that the fight is finally over to have the body of her partner returned to Christchurch, after it was taken to the Bay of Plenty by his family to be buried with his ancestors.
The Supreme Court today dismissed a bid for James Takamore's body to be kept at the Bay of Plenty burial site, against Ms Clarke's wishes.
Mr Takamore was interred at a marae at Kutarere in accordance with tikanga, or Maori customs and tradition, after he died from an aneurism in 2007.
Since then Ms Clarke, his partner and executor of his will, has been in a legal battle to have his body returned to Christchurch, where he lived with her and their two children for 20 years.
Mr Takamore was originally from Taneatua, in Bay of Plenty, and had returned to the North Island only twice in 20 years since moving to Christchurch.
He had specified in his will that he wanted to be buried, but did not say where.
Ms Clarke had intended for him to be buried in Christchurch, but before that could happen the Takamore family collected his body and buried it in Bay of Plenty.
Both the High Court and the Court of Appeal ruled it was unlawful for Mr Takamore's family to take his body, but his sister Josephine Takamore appealed to the Supreme Court.
Ms Clarke said today her reaction was "extreme relief" that the fight had finally come to an end after five years and four months.
The Supreme Court's ruling said Ms Clarke was entitled to have the body exhumed for a reburial in a place of her choosing.
She said that would happen in a matter of weeks.
"I'm hoping, all going to plan, early next year. It won't be months, it'll be weeks. It's not going to drag on another year anyway."
She said she could hardly comprehend it was all over.
"I'll be able to relax a bit more over Christmas now, knowing it's over, knowing I won't have to fight any more."
Mr Takamore would be laid to rest at Ruru Lawn Cemetery, in suburban Bromley, not far from her home, Ms Clarke said.
In her heart, she believed it was the outcome Mr Takamore would have wanted.
"I wouldn't have fought for this long if I didn't (believe that)."
Ms Takamore said she would not comment about the ruling until after she had spoken with her whanau.
The Supreme Court today said there was "significant cross-cultural misunderstanding" between Ms Clarke and Mr Takamore's sister and extended whanau.
The justices unanimously dismissed Ms Takamore's appeal.
Three of the justices said there was common law rule under which personal representatives had both the right and duty to attend to disposal of the body of a dead person.
"The rule becomes operative where there is no agreement or acquiescence among the family on what is to be done, where arrangements have broken down, or where nothing is happening."
They said the representative should take into account the views of those close to the person.


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Last week started with a 15% two filter clean and had two 2% vaccumings and ended with ~8ppm NO3. This week started with a 5% two filter clean and will get daily 1% vaccumings. Have moved the rotala to the surface.
Obviously, my nitrates are not a problem. The sponges are certainly the main source. Unfortunately I can not say much about the increase in nitrogen consumed by the now emergent rotala since I made the change at the same time as changing my cleaning routine.
|Amandas tank
|Oooo that sounds like it will be extremely nice! I hate the glare from the lights too. When I lay on the couch to watch the tank, I have to turn the T5's off otherwise they shine down right in my line of sight!
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|I will journal the build. I also like the rimless look, and am tempted, but have my reservations about the safety and practicality. My fish are not likely to jump but, among other things, I don't like the idea of seeing the glare from the lights. I will probably build it at 50" long so I can recess 48" strip lights down inside it using the tank itself like the canopy sides with the top few inches blacked out.
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Those dimensions will make for an awesome tank! Be sure and start a journal for it will ya! I'd love to watch the progress of the build.
I like the rimless look but the open top makes me too nervous. I'd be afraid my fish would jump out if startled or something.
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When are you thinking of starting a 100 gallon tank?
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|Last week started with a 15% two filter clean and had two 2% vaccumings and ended with ~8ppm NO3. This week started with a 5% two filter clean and will get daily 1% vaccumings. Have moved the rotala to the surface.
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|it's funny how different two tanks which sound the same in theory can be in practice.
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|Oh yeah, it's easy. It takes about four weeks for a visible layer of algae to form on the glass, then I add a full dose of excell and its gone for another four weeks. I want to end up with a great looking tank, if possible, but am starting with ease of maintainance as my main goal.
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|Your welcome Man that's awesome that your cleaning is so simple! When I had a bare tank I hated it!!! What a mess! I had to syphon first and then use an algae scrubber to clean what the syphon wouldn't suck up.
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Thanks for all your input, Amanda. I am now giving some serious thought to how a backdrop type feature might be incorporated to add to the dynamics... perhaps emulating a large cave somehow.
To answer; the tank is a breeze to clean now. There is one piece of drift that has a shape which traps all of the waste under it. I clean that stuff up almost every day by sliding the drift over with the spihon tube then sucking up all the stuff it reveals. I get almost 100% of the junk in about ten seconds.
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I woke up thinking about your tank this morning. Good grief LOL!
Anyway...I forgot to mention that the sketches are simply something to give you ideas and not to tell ya you should start over. You already have driftwood with plants attached. I am not suggesting you change them out for anything else. Just move them around a bit in a way that will give you the appearance of depth and an illusion that nothing is potted. How has it been cleaning the tank since you've added the dw and pots? Do you have to move them or are you able to get the hose angled to suck up dietrist around them?
Anyway, in my sleep lastnight I was thinking about something that could be really cool. You know the 3-D backgrounds a lot of folks make? That could really add a lot to your tank! And, it would cast an image of your background to the bottom of the tank (at least I think it would). If you did something that wrapped around the corners that would even add that much more.
Or.... I don't know if others would recommend this or not...and I don't know how it would work far as cleaning, but I imagine it could be pretty cool. If you could use the same principle as the 3-D background and put it on the bottom! Make it appear to be rocky, like you see in most lakes. Big rocks that slope towards the front of the tank or to the center (big rocks sloping inwards from either side). That way you don't have a ton of crevises to try and clean.
This might be more work thatn you want. But the possibilities! I bet you could make something incredible!
Don't mind my brainstorming k!
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When are you thinking of starting a 100 gallon tank?
Okay. I did a bit of reading on the web today and the conscenses is that the folowing plants usually do get minimal nibbling from gold fish. (some get a bit more, but grow fast enough to keep up) Some of these you already have in your tank.
Java Fern, Java Moss, Anacharis, Hornwort, Vallisneria, Anubias, Water Sprite, Marimo Balls (supposedly good for using up access nutrients keeping algae at bay) Crypts and swords.
The plants that need substrate can be potted and cover the top with a mesh liner to keep the goldfish from uprooting them. The more plants you plant at once the better because from what I've read, the goldfish don't know what to do (or where to start LOL) with all the plants!
I laid out a few ideas on paper. You might hate the scapes, but hopefully they can get you along in designing your scape.
the scapes look better at a distance...the colors get distorted in the closeups
There ya go! Hope this helps I have more to share with you about the bare bottom but I gotta get to bed. So tired. Night!
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I did only 20-25% once a week. I fed them only once a day. How often do you feed? They got a variety of foods to include brine shrimp, blood worms, flakes, algae wafers, floating and sinking pellets and some other type of worm...I can't recall right now. I hated them...they were really gross and white as well as slimy as soon as water touched them. Yuck! (None of the food was live; it was either in pellet form, frozen or dried)
I am going to make a sketch for you to show you what I'm thinking. Be easier than trying to put it into words. I will get it done as soon as I can
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|Havin' hornwort munched on for the first time. Three moors leave it alone. The one fantail chews it. I know it is a conclusion leap, but maybe breed specific??
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I was thinking about your tank. I have a few ideas that I would try if I had a bare bottom goldfish tank like you have. Not sure if your looking for suggestions so let me know if your interested
Ya know what though...I am curious why you had trouble with so much waste. When I had goldfish I had more than I should have in the tank (my husband just kept adding them ) They cleaned the gravel constantly. There was also a juvenile spotted sailfin in the tank. The tank was always clear of algae and when I'd vaccuum the gravel once a week, hardly anything would come out of it. And I was aggressive with the vaccuum I tell ya! Perhaps it was because of the soil you used? What about using medium smooth gravel or even the Eco-Complete Planted (I love it!) and try that route? I had the water tested twice a week and always had healthy parameters with o ammonia. This tank is the one I mentioned earlier with the few plants in it.
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In some of my supers, my bees have drawn very thick comb generally at the top of the frame to the point where it causes the comb on the next frame to be drawn very thin. This makes the frames fit together somewhat like puzzle pieces.
I have come up with two potential solutions:
1) Trim this wide comb using a serrated bread knife now so that they can even things up this summer.
2) Wait until a possible harvest this fall when uncapping will accomplish the very same thing without disrupting what they are doing right now.
What is the best plan here?
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we'll see alot of new faces next season for sure. upgrade the O-line and probably D-line.we might have a low season or two while restructuring this team
People talk about him like he's 30, but Bradshaw is only 26. I'm not saying he's amazing or anything, but people forget one thing. While it is already mentioned this is the Eli show there is a very important reason why Bradshaw is our starter: he pass protects with the best of them. Coughlin's number one priority is keeping #10 upright. Until anyone can prove they can pass block as well or better than him he will be in on the majority of the snaps.
Let's put the women and children to bed and go lookin' for dinner
I ain't buying it, there is more to the issue than Bradshaw. The execution is not there....
He needs another back to press him. Not sure why Brown and Ramses didn't get what they deserved this past week.
This isn't so much about age as it is about running style. Both Bradshaw and Brown run hard, but Brown is more explosive; he finds the holes and runs through it dragging DLinemen with him if he has to. Right now, Whether it's because of injuries over the years or lack of vision, Bradshaw is a 3 yards and a cloud of dust type of RB


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Old train depot will allow BARTA to expand bus service in Berks County
READING, Pa. - Passenger trains may not be running through downtown Reading again, but the station that thousands once passed through on their way to and from those trains has been reborn.
Dozens of invited guests gathered Friday afternoon as BARTA rededicated the refurbished Franklin Street Station on South 7th Street.
"My fondest memory was when I was real small, about 4- or 5-years-old, we would get on the train on Saturdays or Sundays and go down to Upper Darby to visit my Aunt Edie with my family," said Commissioner Kevin Barnhardt, D-Berks Co. "It was really a wonderful experience not to have to drive in a car."
The Reading Company's old train depot, which hasn't serviced travelers since 1981, will soon be bustling again with BARTA bus riders.
"This is the last vestige. This was the focal point of the Reading Railroad, but as important as it is restore the building, I didn't build a museum. This is going to be a functioning transportation center," said Dennis Louwerse, BARTA's executive director and CEO.
BARTA acquired the station from the city for just $1 in 2005 with the goals of refurbishing it to its former glory and allowing the transit agency to expand service in Berks County.
Much of the building's history remains intact, including the original tall windows, terra-cotta walls and terrazzo floors.
"This building in 1930 cost $500,000. Today, you couldn't build that floor for $500,000 alone," said Louwerse.
Items that couldn't be preserved, like the long, passenger benches and light fixtures, were recreated to mirror the original items as closely as possible, said Louwerse.
"If you would have been here prior to the reconstruction, you would have never thought they could actually rebuild or restore it to its beauty today. It looked like a total wreck," Barnhardt said.
Modern elements have also been added to the 83-year-old building, including air conditioning, dozens of security cameras, a fire suppression system and glass vestibules around the doorways to control the indoor climate.
The BARTA Transportation Center, located within a block of the Franklin Street Station, is already near capacity with approximately 40 buses passing through it each hour, Louwerse said. The station will allow the agency to add more service, including a planned route to the Berks Park 78 industrial complex in Bethel Township.
The restoration, started in November 2011, was funded by approximately $5 million in state and federal grants and about $200,000 from BARTA, officials said.
"Didn't we do a great job, really? Isn't this wonderful?," Louwerse asked the audience. "It's great. I could never ask for it to be any better, really."
BARTA will hold two open houses for the public before the station opens for business. The first will be Saturday from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m.; the second will be Monday from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m.
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