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Heart of Kazimierz! Wi-Fi! Mona Lisa Apartment
Size38 m²
Floor No.3(with elevator)
- Internet/WiFi
- Kitchen
- Pets allowed
- Elevator in building
- Disabled access
- Towels
- Baby cot
Accommodation summary
|Jonatana Warszauera, 30-001 Krakow, Poland
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Today, Kazimierz is the centre of the cultural and amusement life and it is obligatorily visited by the tourists arriving in Cracow.
Our apartment is situated on the third floor (elevator) of the NEW BUILDING at Warszauera Street, opposite the famous Kupa Synagogue, less than 15 metres from Plac Nowy (the New Square) and "Alchemia" pub, which is famous for its unique atmosphere.
Also, the centre of the beautiful Old Cracow is available to you within a nice walk. You can reach the WAWEL CASTLE within less than 7 min and it will take you another 7 min to walk to the MAIN MARKET SQUARE, for example along Grodzka Street – the former ROYAL ROUTE.
The apartment consists of the kitchen, hall, and a quite large room. The kitchen is a separate room, although it is not separated with any walls from the room.
In the spacious room of 18 m2, there is a double bed, and convertible armchair, table, convertible sofa (150x200 cm) on which one or two persons may sleep and convertible armchair.
The apartment is decorated with ATMOSPHERIC PHOTOGRAPHS of the city taken by the Cracow photographer, Łukasz Pieńkowski.
In front of the apartment there is A FREE PARKING LOT, although it may be sometimes difficult to find a free place there.
Transfer from Balice Airport for 2 - 3 persons 85 PLN , for 4-5 Persons 130 PLN.
You are welcome very much!
House rulesOur House Rules:
- Check in time: at the apartment after 2:00 PM
- Check out time: before 12:00 PM
(It's possible to check out at any time before 12:00 PM)
- Keys and payment: during the check in time at the apartment
(It's good to contact with us one day before check)
|Weekly rate for up to 2 guests
|Monthly rate for up to 2 guests
|Price for > 2 guests
|R 109 ZAR per guest/night extra
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Reviews of this property
Cosy atmosphere near the old market place in Kazimierz. The apartment
was very clean and well maintained. Katarzyna and Lukas were punctually at the meeting point and well organised. Not far away from the apartment one could reach the Wawel, the old City of Kazimierz and it was about a 20 minutes of walk to Krakow City(Rynek). Lukas was very helpful, he drove us to the airport by car. We would like to come back.
5 out of 5 stars due to the friendly and sane host. Clean, neat and functional apartment. Location in great neighborhood. Thanks for the fan in the heat wave, it was lovely!
5 ud af 5 stjerner pga venlig og tilregnelig vært. Ren, pæn og funktionel lejlighed. Beliggenhed i fantastisk kvarter. Tak for ventilator i hedebølgen, det var dejligt!
Reviews for this host's other properties
The apartment had everything we needed. The location could not be better, in the centre of Kazimierz and nearby all the touristic places. Lidia was really nice to us and help us as much as she could.
Nice and clean appartement. Kitchen and bathroom are well-equipped. Host is friendly and flexible.
Kazimirez has a special atmosphere, lively and full with history, also in nights. So not recommended people who can only sleep in silence. But who wants in such environment? - Who sleeps a lot, lives less (...levre mindre!) :)
We had a very good time!
The host cancelled the booking, this review is automated.
Krakow is a charming city full of old buildings where absolutely everything is so close together that you know the way soon. The homely flat in a beautiful old building, is the ideal base from which to explore. Krakow and surroundings Kazimiers is a pleasant lively area, we felt right at home. You really have everything nearby, explore the area on foot and let your guide los ... On weekends there can be some noise from neighboring cozy cafes. Kate is the perfect hostess, helpful, friendly and concerned for the welfare of its guests. An absolute must :-)
Krakau is een sfeervolle stad vol oude gebouwen waar echt alles dicht bij elkaar ligt zodanig dat je er de weg gauw kent. De huiselijke flat in een mooi oud gebouw, is de ideale uitvalsbasis om Krakau en omgeving te verkennen. Kazimiers is een aangenaam levendige buurt, wij voelden ons direct thuis. Je hebt echt alles in de buurt, verken de buurt te voet en laat je reisgids los... In het weekend kan er wel wat lawaai zijn van gezellige naburige cafeetjes. Kate is de ideale gastvrouw, hulpvaardig, vriendelijk en bezorgd om het welzijn van haar gasten. Een absolute aanrader :-)
We had a very good time in the accomodation of Lukas and Katarzyna in Kaziemierz, Krakaw. The apartment was perfect for us, clean and we could use two beds, bathroom, kitchen. It is located very central and close to everything you want to see and do in town. We did it all by walking around. Lukas and Katarzyna are very kind and helpful.
a nice apartment in the Jewish district of Krakow, Kazimierz. The flat is nice and clean, with a simple kitchen which has all one needs. The bathroom is very nice and has a wahing machine too. Kazimierz is famous for being Jewish area on the one hand and being a party area on the other. Many nice bars and restaurants are in the same street! If you are interested in Jewish history of Europe / Poland, you will find many traces of Jewish life here. Also, only a 20 minute walk will bring you to either Wawel castle or the Main Square (Rynek). We found a Carrefour Express which was open 24 hours a day just a 10 min. walk from the apartment too, very practical.
We really enjoyed our stay here and Katarzyna was very helpful in any way. We would stay here again for sure. Thanks!
Good location. Good standard. Good value for money. One downside was the internet it often did not.
Goede locatie. Prima verzorgd. Goede prijs kwaliteit verhouding. Een minpunt was dat het internet het vaak niet deed.
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To conceal its origin?
Or as suggested by one packer, because that's what the consumer wants?
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To conceal its origin?
Or as suggested by one packer, because that's what the consumer wants?
"It's no secret to anyone in the business that the only reason all the pollen is filtered out is to hide where it initially came from and the fact is that in almost all cases, that is China,"
'The Sioux Honey Association, who says it's America's largest supplier, declined repeated requests for comments on ultra-filtration, what Sue Bee does with its foreign honey and whether it's ultra-filtered when they buy it. The co-op markets retail under Sue Bee, Clover Maid, Aunt Sue, Natural Pure and many store brands.'
I think the authors of this article are confusing ultra filtered Chinese honey with how North American packers normally filter liquid honey, thru a filter
press,which just happens to remove all the pollen.The reason is to give the product a longer shelf life by not granulating .It just happens that both products do not contain pollen, the Chinese product contains considerably less honey attributes.Of course this similarity aids those who are packing both products
If, as stated in the article, the only way to determine the origin of honey is via pollen, then regardless of how it is removed there is no longer any way to determine its source. That surely opens the door for a load of opportunistic profiteering.
The other thing that this begs to question is, if we remove all of the pollen, have we not produced simply a sterile, albeit natrually created sweetener? And if that's the case, why should honey command a premium over granulated sugar?
I suspect that if the consuming public had any idea.....the market for grocery store honey would disappear.
Pollen grains are pretty large when compared to cellular debris. There's probably enough nucleic acids left to make a determination as to the origin.
Frankly, it makes it much easier if all of the pollen, with its load of polymerase inhibiting polyphenols, is already removed from the sample.
They can filter, but they can't hide.
Or, are you saying that a persistent investigator with access to the technology and unlimited resources could determine the origin without any remaining pollen?
If there's no pollen to examine, palynology wouldn't be possible.
And frankly, without palynology, other tests wouldn't have the kind of corroboration needed.
"Or, are you saying that a persistent investigator with access to the technology and unlimited resources could determine the origin without any remaining pollen?"
I'm not sure why you would think that a modestly equiped laboratory couldn't handle simple barcoding/fingerprinting chores.
It's not outrageously expensive to do. A well trained Palynologist is harder to find..
Besides, unless U.S. honey producers want to be overrun by funny honey, you're going to need to develop new testing options.
"The Sioux Honey Association, who says it's America's largest supplier, declined repeated requests for comments on ultra-filtration, what Sue Bee does with its foreign honey and whether it's ultra-filtered when they buy it. The co-op markets retail under Sue Bee, Clover Maid, Aunt Sue, Natural Pure and many store brands."
I wonder if our own Ted Kretschmann, whose company is a member of the Sioux Honey Association would care to comment.
None of this just hardly bothers me at all. Reason being, the way I see it, won't it only make OUR product of "the real thing" for lack of better terminlolgy for home produced raw honey, more in demand? Isn't all this publicity about smuggled honey possibly containing bad metals ect. good for us as beekeepers and local honey producers?
Don't get me wrong. I care about any dangerous food product on the market for the the comsumer here as anyone does because I'm a consumer too. I hope that last statement doesn't make me contridicting my own point.
I happen to be far more concerned about what Monsanto is doing.
Thanks for post the link, this is great marketing material.
250 Articles, reports on honey and its adulteration and detecting adulteration in honey from Dr White
It would seem with todays technology one should be easily able to discern what 's adulterated, in honey and with precisely what. I guess not.
Rice syrup?
I recently read an article article titled So is it honey or not? published on honeybeesuite.com on this subject. Apart from other claims and views, I was particularly interested with one statement made and asked (Deniz Ogut, being me) as a comment:
A reply was published (Rusty, most probably Rusty Burlew, copyright owner of the site):Quote:
Deniz Ogut
December 4, 2011 at 6:20 pm
Part of the confusion stems from the definition of honey used by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). That organization states that if honey has been ultra-filtered and no longer contains pollen, it cannot be labeled as honey.
Where do they say this? Would you please mention a source?
Then, I posted another comment, which was not published and seems to be unapproved/deleted for some reason.:scratch: For sure, every site owner has the right to approve or not to approve a comment, but -in my opinion- there's something wrong if we use this right not to make public the facts which are not supporting what we've said. Anyway; my comment/question was something like as follows (I haven't saved a copy for myself):Quote:
December 5, 2011 at 7:58 am
The statement was made in a letter from FDA press officer Tamara Ward to honey industry leaders. It was meant to clarify the definition of adulterated food, which can be found in the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act Section 402(b)(1). That citation reads, "A food shall be deemed to be adulterated if any valuable constituent has been in whole or in part omitted or abstracted therefrom."
So I came back to my hive, beesource.com Forum.:D Any comments?Quote:
When I was asking my original question, I had "United States Standards for Grades of Extracted Honey published in the FEDERAL REGISTER of April 23, 1985 (50 FR 15861)" in mind. Its available for download on USDA Web site. There clearly states that, there's nothing wrong with filtering honey to the extent that it contains no pollen: "§52.1393 Styles. (a) Filtered. Filtered honey is honey of any type defined in these standards that has been filtered to the extent that all or most of the fine particles, pollen grains, air bubbles, or other materials normally found in suspension, have been removed." Even further, the more you filter the higher grade you get for "filtered honey". From your reply I get the impression that there's no official statement such as "if all the pollen is filtered out of honey, we can not call it honey anymore", made by FDA. Yet, its still interesting if a press officer of FDA stated such -even in a letter clarifying, commenting on a general rule. A letter of a press officer is not of equal value with a federal standard regulation, but it might be a standing point for further discussion and maybe for altering the standard itself. Is it possible for you to supply us with a source we ordinary Internet users can reach regarding that letter of the press officer?
There may be a number of different levels to discuss might be but not restricted to:
* Regulations regarding ultrafiltration of honey
* Is there any rule againgst filtering all the honey from honey by means of a) ultrafiltration, and b)any other method other than ultrafiltration
* Apart from federal regulation, what's your opinion on filtering honey (as opposed to straining)
* In your opinion is some amount of pollen particle a must for honey to call it honey?
* Is there anybody who knows something on that alleged letter of "the press officer"?
No, I don't think there is a rule, regulation or law against filtering all pollen from honey. There is no ingresdient list on honey. Like Ice Cream. But, there is no Standard of Identity defining what honey is and what it must conyain to qualify as honey.
I don't filter mine. I strain. So, I don't really have an opinion, other than, "How can it really be honey w/out pollen present?" I also think it would be impossible for honey producers to meet pollen content requirements, unless they were pretty wide.
I think we must define "ultra filtering" or" ultra-filtration"
From wiki a definition
Ultrafiltered honey is processed by very fine filtration under high pressure to remove all extraneous solids and pollen grains. The process typically heats honey to 150–170 °F (approx. 65–77 °C) to more easily pass through the fine filter. Ultrafiltered honey is very clear and has a longer shelf life; it crystallizes more slowly because the high temperature breaks down sugar seed crystals, making it preferred by the supermarket trade.
I think the Chinese refined this process by adding water before filtering and evaporating it after filtering and were able to remove chloramphenicol , heavy metals and other undesirable contents to below detectable levels.The product was along ways from what we call honey
I was fairly shocked to see that the major stores carry these kinds of honey, but thankfully I have been using local honey for years.
"The reason is to give the product a longer shelf life by not granulating "
Does granulation affect shelf life?? I belived it only changed consistency?
"I don't filter mine."
- excellent and important point. I tell my customers that my smallest screen is 1/16 inch. It will definitely let the pollen through but may keep the " bees knees" in.
In NC, the Standard of Identity for Sourwood Honey states that if Labeled "Sourwood" 50% of the honey in the jar has to be Sourwood Honey, maybe it is 51%. How would anyone determine percentage once the honeys are mixed? And, if someone takes their honey off in the fall and extracts the whole crop at once, then labels it sourwood, who is to say it isn't? How do they establish that it isn't? As long as it tastes like Sourwood.

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#1 Sat 01 Sep 12 8:58pm
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Jamie at Home
A repulsive effort to make money out of idiots!
I thought Jamie had morals, then I met a party planning woman selling Jamie's overpriced rubbish............a tagine reduced from �45 to �37!
Absolutely disgusting!
Jamie, you should be ashamed!
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Re: Jamie at Home
Welcome to the forum lizstansbridge
Jamie at home is a party plan system of selling where sellers opt in and sell products at times that suit themselves through small gatherings at people's homes , the same as is done with Tupperware , the pampered chef products and many other Similar organisations used the party Plan method of selling their Porducts.
Many of the Jamie at Home products are designed by specific designers and crafted our of sourced materials , like the American Oak .
I particularly like the look of the wooden items I have sen ,they have a lovely finish and a great wood grain.
Jamie at Home products may seem expensive to you but to others they are a cheaper alternative . I have been traveling to and from London quite a bit this year and have noticed that some people do indeed have quite a lot of money , (whilst others have far less ) I have seen with amazement some of the prices in some of the shops and wondered myself if people actually buy the pricey items .. Of course they do ! To me the prices of these things I have seen in the shops might be high but to others they might seem like a bargain ... It's all relative to the indervidual person.
If you go to a Jamie At Home party , you are not obliged to buy anything , you should only buy something if you want of need it , the choice is yours.
It's up to each indervidual what and when they chose to buy.
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Can I get one made of plastic? I sometimes(always) wet the couch...
These were required for Youth Hostels back in the 70s.
Seems like long ago I read they were useful on boats. So they'd prolly be good on RVs, too. Roll 'em up and get the bedding out of the way fast in the morning.
'Specially if you're renting an RV for a month or so in the summer.
Hmmm... every time the grandkids sleep over we have to change the guest bed. For 10 bucks we don't have to do that anymore!
"Made from machine washable Poly-Sateen"
I believe Poly was a stripper back in the late sixties,always wondered what happened to her. Kind of a sad ending for a woman with enormous talents. This may be my last chance to sleep with her!
I'm glad this is new and not reconditioned!
This will come in handy when I visit a housecleaning-challenged relative who doesn't understand the concept of clean sheets and pillow cases. It will reduce my creeped-out factor.
In for two: Great for when my cat pukes on the bed. Hairballs. Of course, one cat may decide to snuggle INSIDE this thing and then puke...
gusvonpooch wrote:"Made from machine washable Poly-Sateen"
I believe Poly was a stripper back in the late sixties,always wondered what happened to her. Kind of a sad ending for a woman with enormous talents. This may be my last chance to sleep with her!
Her sell line was: "Poly Sateen...She's Biodegradable!" She nows lives in seclusion in New Jersey.
In the description it says:
"No more cold feet – it's like a personal cocoon"
Good, now I can finally shake the caterpillar envy I've struggled with for so long!
It's a Snuggie® without sleeves!
Do they still make "Shell No-Pest Strips?" These were some kind of thing you hung up and it sent out a low dose of nerve gas that killed insects but (allegedly) did not harm humans or pets. Rumor had it that it was a contract Shell got from the Government to get rid of old chemical warfare stocks by slowly dispersing it throughout the USA.
If they are still around, you could drop one inside one of these, and kill bedbugs as sort of a mini-fumigation system. Not sure what it would do to you, but it might clear up your acne.
If you think this will keep out bugs of any kind, you are wrong.
They're here!!! They're here!!!
They come out of pods!
Had to use a similar (required) product while backpacking in Europe and staying in youth hostels.
hmmm... tempting.. tempting...
house full of teenagers.. never know how many i'll have.. this may work for throwing them puppies on the floor and say deal with it..
I'm in..
Is there an easy escape "hatch" for the instances in the middle of the night when you have to go really really bad? If not, is this stain resistant?
Never heard of Poly-Sateen, but i am sure it is must be polyester. And that would be miserable to sleep in. Polyester does not "breath" well.
It will make you sweat!
So, it's basically a sleeping bag that's not as warm with a pillow?
Take your sheet on a plane...... take your sheet while camping in the forest, since it is a 2 pack, you you can even give a sheet to a close friend.
what the heck?
This is a perfect gift for my friend Jerry. He prefers the tuck, but I like the no-tuck. I don't know why he likes the tuck, nobody tucks anymore. Besides, the tuck is more work for Lupe the maid. Now she can just do two no-tucks, and Jerry can still have the tuck with this product!
Can't wait to find out if it works well for a traveler
Might make a great dutch oven!
Could a 350 lb man and a 300 lb woman, who are joined in matrimony, fit in this for conjugal visits? Or perhaps good for "Threesome Thursdays", *wink, wink*
It's *new* AND *the original. That's pretty special!!!
Knowing what I do know about Woot, this item will rock! Everything I get from Woot is awesome. I could spend hours on Woot. My husband (who snores) prefers to sleep in the living room, this will be perfect. The fabric is cool so happy snoring old man!
monica502 wrote:I'm ordering three because these will be perfect to send with my kids to summer camp. Sleeping bags are always too hot in the middle of summer and this way their top sheet won't end up wadded up or falling off the bunk.
Sleeping bags may be too hot, but this stuff is made of "poly-sateen" which is a slippery-feeling polyester. Polyester is terrible in the summer because it traps heat and doesn't breathe. A warm-weather sleeping bag will be a lot more comfortable temperature wise than a bag made out of polyester.
Also, this is a slippery fabric so I can't imagine it will be any better than a sleeping bag or regular sheet when it comes to sliding off of the bunk.
radi0j0hn wrote:Do they still make "Shell No-Pest Strips?"
Sort of:
Same ingredient,The EPA keeps talking about banning them but I think the latest bedbug invasion may have changed there mind for a while.
truthbtold1331 wrote:Its much better then the Nightmarie!
Ohhhh emmm geee YOU WIN. I'm at work and my students are watching a movie and I almost peed myself trying to not laugh at this. It was the icing on the cake after reading the sock post....
In one of the reviews it said that you can not dry them in a dryer.. Air dry only... Can anybody confirm or disprove that?
Rickable wrote:There are glad bags big enough to fit people in?
Once upon a time (really) there were disposable sleeping bags made out of paper. Multi layered paper for short term use.
This is going to enable the living daylights (nightlights?) out of my OCD.
jonnij wrote:Perfect for using in Sleeping bags!!! Much easier to toss in the laundry. I'll toss them in the camper
Forgive me for not wading through all the comments...can anyone comment on how well this material might work in a sleeping bag, temperature wise? I know silk is the bees knees of bag liners, but would polyester totally kill the temperature rating (like wearing layers of nightclothes does)?
So...if a Dreamie and a Snuggie got married and had children, would they be Druggies?
This would be an excellent donation to homeless people. They can use it on park benches, the ground, etc.
this is cheaper than making it yourself. i've used something like this to sleep on many dodgy mattresses in hellholes throughout the world. it's brilliant.
lichme wrote:Take your sheet on a plane...... take your sheet while camping in the forest, since it is a 2 pack, you you can even give a sheet to a close friend.
but then you wouldn't have an excuse to double up...
[quote="jezebelseven"]This would drive me NUTS. I *like* having my feet hanging out a lot of the time. I kick off socks and blankets in my sleep. That being said, I'm probably weird in that regard.
All the same, they do seem like they'd be handy for traveling, and that's a nice price.[/quote]
I agree completely!! I like my feet to be out of the blanket with a fan blowing on them at night! My feet always get too hot.. and then I can't sleep because of it!
Also, the pillow compartment wouldn't work for me because I like my arm to be under the pillow. All in all, this is a horrible product for me.
One thing that did sound good however is using it as a sleeping bag liner! This would definitely be easier to wash than a sleeping bag!
Why didn't my block quote work??
Poly-Sateen is 100 % Polyester. Any experiencies how the body rects to this material in the summer days? I wonder if I can use it everyday during my next Euro-tour.
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shafnutz05 wrote:I'm going to tell you right now, CBear is lying. For starters, if I were fake role-claiming the vig, I would not pick a character that I would assume SOMEONE else in the village has to have. It would be something much more obscure.
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When Zon Ito was growing up in Osaka in the 1970s, vacant lots were his playgrounds. He used to snatch praying mantises and grasshoppers with tweezers or scoop little fish from neighborhood ponds. So much for his early artistic education, later formalized by a degree from the University of Fine Arts in Kyoto, where he currently lives and works. Ito's fascination for things natural is at the core of his artistic vocabulary, described in a variety of lowbrow media, including drawing, embroidery, book-making, and animation.
A series of five handmade books, Scrap Works of Scum (1999) is exemplary of Ito's playful and surreal take on the relationships between man and nature. When the covers of each volume are aligned side-by-side, they reveal a sunlit mountain landscape, deserted but for a few eerie human and animal beings. In each book—titled respectively View of the River; Luminous Book; Animal Picture Book; Super Rainbow; and Scrap Works of Scum—aerial shots of a fisherman at the bend of a river, fluorescent insects, psychedelic landscapes, and hallucinatory vistas form a disjointed collection of playlets that grapple as much with the frailty of life as with the tenuous nature of memory and the subversive power of the unconscious.
Vacant Lot, a series of five embroideries on fabric commissioned by the Walker Art Center for its 2003 exhibition How Latitudes Become Forms: Art in a Global Age, similarly tackles the oneiric and the uncanny to bring about visions of the world seen from under rather than above, scrutinizing the forgotten, the leftover, and the overlooked. Suspended on a string in the traditional manner of displaying kimonos, the five panels are cut in the shape of actual vacant lots. While one side of each panel is overcrowded with embroidered details depicting the underground life of insects in vivid colors, the other side is spare, bearing only the half-formed letters of the title on a dense dark blue background framed by images of a dog and wild grass.
For this accomplished guitarist who once performed in the now-defunct rock and roll band Anti-Gravity Johnny while swinging in the air as the other musicians played upside down, the key word may very well be "underground." The seemingly anomalous world Ito depicts is a globalized vision born as much out of Osaka's local life and Japanese anime as of American psychedelic and hippie youth culture and the artist's own brand of quiet subversiveness.


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The best solution for visualizing data is sometimes a simple one
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A Venn diagram is an unusual choice for data representation. It serves a very specific purpose, to show two or three sets and how they intersect. What works well to teach children the basics of set theory might not be the best for visualizing set-based data, however.
The Venn diagram at right was posted on the blog Nuit Blanche with a challenge to improve it. The diagram originated in a 2006 Archives of General Psychiatry article that compared techniques used to diagnose autism. The authors compared the performance of clinicians (clinician), the Autism Diagnostic Interview–Revised test (ADI-R) and the Pre-Linguistic Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule test (PL-ADOS). They sought the most successful single or combined diagnostic technique used with two-year-old children. The prevalence figure is the percentage of children later confirmed as autistic.
Significant problems were immediately apparent. Different-sized circles and intersections in the diagram appeared to suggest something meaningful about the data but were arbitrary. Rather than being able to scan the diagram quickly to understand the data, a reader had to study numbers and compare them. The diagram hindered understanding more than it helped.
My first step in tackling a redesign was to extract the numbers and list them in a table. Often, a simple data table is the best choice for presenting and analyzing small data sets such as this. Although the number of combinations complicated things, the table let me reorganize the data simply by sorting the prevalence numbers. My hope was that this would make the strongest diagnostic approach readily apparent. I was not disappointed. Reordering the first three columns after sorting made it clear that clinicians had the best chance of being right. The two 100 percent cases were based on exceptionally small samples, of course, but the pattern persisted even when they were excluded.
In addition, the three diagnostic columns formed a hierarchy (or a tree, as computer scientists would call it). The clinicians' yes or no divided the table into an upper and lower half, and each was in turn divided into two by ADI-R. Each of those four quarters was split into one yes and one no group by PL-ADOS.
This hierarchy became the central idea for my redesign. In addition to displaying the numbers in a familiar bar chart format, I added a node-link diagram to show the data's structure. The "y" nodes denote autism diagnoses; the "n" nodes denote cases where autism was not diagnosed. The combination of yes and no answers can be read along the lines leading to each bar.
The neat layout of the tree, with only one crossing line, reinforced the success of clinicians (by locating them at the first bifurcation). ADI-R was second and PL-ADOS last.
Although the tree diagram may be less familiar than a Venn diagram, the approach has advantages. It provides more useful information, it shows numbers in a way that can be easily compared and it displays relationships between subsets without interfering with the data.
Another Nuit Blanche reader, Patrick Murphy, found my design confusing and developed an alternative. He reintroduced the Venn diagram, coloring its sections and bars in the same palette. This way, the Venn diagram showed overlapping successes while precise numbers were illustrated in a bar chart.
There were more than a dozen other redesigns, including some posted here: http://snipurl.com/revenn. All provide the data in a readable fashion and make it easier to analyze.
Visualizing abstract data is difficult. In many cases, a simple bar or line chart just doesn't cut it. If you need to visualize complex data or know of depictions that should be improved, submit your problem to me at my website: http://eagereyes.org/ask. I may discuss entries (and proposed solutions) in future Sightings columns.
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Maine needs better roads, maintained better. We probably need to spend more than $25 million to fix them, but that's a start. And then there's $16 million for railroad work, including preserving a key rail section in Aroostook County. Throwing in $6.5 million to develop the deep-water pier at Portland's Ocean Gateway isn't likely to really help the waterfront or the local tourism/cruise industry much — and it bugs us that we have to vote on all three of these things bundled together — but we get some other good stuff, so we might as well go along with it.
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It's unclear whether state investments in business development really pay off over time. All the money and tax breaks we gave the paper industry barely managed to slow that sector's inevitable decline. Proponents say Maine's business environment needs pretty much any help it can get at the moment, but is borrowing $24 million from ourselves and the taxpayers of the future really the way to go? Better to keep this money in Mainers' pockets, to spend as we wish, than to give it to Augusta to fritter away fruitlessly again.
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Two similar algorithms are commonly used to check for line of sight in tile-based games. Which should you use?
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Video: Pregnant Gloucester teen says there was no pact
posted at 5:36 pm on June 24, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Or rather, there was a pact but it wasn't entered into until after the girls were pregnant. Or was it?
[School principal Joseph] Sullivan first told the Gloucester Daily Times the district was worried about a surging pregnancy rate in March; other officials have also made it clear that a number of the 18 girls who tested positive as being pregnant at Gloucester High this past school year became so intentionally, with the idea of being moms together — and raising the children together.
Sullivan's the one who pushed the "pact" angle with Time, though. Pay close attention to the blonde woman in the glasses at the beginning of the segment; that's the mayor of Gloucester, describing her interrogation of Sullivan as to where/when/how he came to believe there was some sort of ex ante pact warranting global media coverage. Exit quotation: "His memory failed." Hmmm. Click the image to watch.
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Rep. Adam Schiff is terribly disappointed in Rep. Nunes…again
Dem Intel Committee member Adam Schiff: We now have more than circumstantial evidence of collusion between Russia and Trump staffers
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Lying tart!!
madmonkphotog on June 24, 2008 at 5:39 PM
The descent.
The_Freeze on June 24, 2008 at 5:39 PM
This publicity is eating at the liberal city and policy.
jencab on June 24, 2008 at 5:41 PM
This interview by Cuomo is pathetic.
He asks if they picked out a name as if there's no problem here, and help legitimize the acceptance of an unwed teenage mother.
Next, he asks if there was a pact to get pregnant. The skank replies that there wasn't. And then, a most assinine response by Cuomo, he acts relieved that there wasn't, so again, hey no problems here, what's all the fuss about?
What an errant ignoramus.
Andy in Agoura Hills on June 24, 2008 at 5:43 PM
Since the world now knows who are these hussies, no aid of any kind should be given to them from any government. If their parents were not speaking out about this "coincidence" this past weekend, they should not have a voice when aid is cut off from the irresponsibility of their parenting.
madmonkphotog on June 24, 2008 at 5:43 PM
Must be true, she is trust worthy.
Wade on June 24, 2008 at 5:44 PM
OMG, that accent cracks me up!
Chakra Hammer on June 24, 2008 at 5:44 PM
That City Journal piece on this was pretty good. You can give them all the sex ed and birth control you want, but if 15-years old girls want to get pregnant, they will get pregnant.
Vote Sauron 08 on June 24, 2008 at 5:44 PM
The girl in the story was on BC and got pregnant anyway.
Liberal answer is "we need more money for BC."
And the GMA guy just fawning over these two dipsticks?!
I didn't know the city allowed trailer trash into school.
Andy in Agoura Hills on June 24, 2008 at 5:45 PM
Fox said one "couple" wouldn't speak unless they got paid.
amerpundit on June 24, 2008 at 5:45 PM
Hey! This middle-class white girl is not the target of birth control by the leftists. So its not a problem.
Andy in Agoura Hills on June 24, 2008 at 5:47 PM
They really talk like that?
For reals?
PS – And yes, I qualify my statement with the understanding that I'm from Texas and some, uneducated and misguided folks (it's sad really), think WE talk weird…
18 girls who tested positive as being pregnant at Gloucester High this past school year became so intentionally
Question: What Color were those girls?
Answer: White
Rebuttal: Figures.. Now we know.. :}
Chakra Hammer on June 24, 2008 at 5:51 PM
Chloe Jade….nice.
Seems like the issue of "the pact" is a diversion from the real issue of "the pregnancies".
As a student pastor, this whole story breaks my heart. I know some parents and dopey guys I'd like to slap around.
danarchy on June 24, 2008 at 5:55 PM
Is this the one that let the homeless dude impregnate her?
pseudonominus on June 24, 2008 at 5:57 PM
Wow! Having a baby is so cool! You even get to be on TV and meet Chris Cuomo and stuff!
DelD on June 24, 2008 at 5:59 PM
Jane you ignorant slut.
Warner Todd Huston on June 24, 2008 at 5:59 PM
I hear the girl who hooked up with the homeless guy had a baby shower. She received a Playskool shopping cart, a sample sized bottle of Thunderbird and a little sign that says "will work for teething rings".
GoodBoy on June 24, 2008 at 6:01 PM
Video: Pregnant Gloucester teen says there was no pact
Amazing…through it all, not a peep from their parents?
byteshredder on June 24, 2008 at 6:01 PM
Another welfare queen in the making. Lucky for her she lives in a state that encourages that kind of thing.
Nahanni on June 24, 2008 at 6:06 PM
…Please, somebody explain. Why is it so important whether these girls made a pact, or didn't make a pact? Why is this story even in the news?…Seriously, I do not understand..(honest)..
Ben Here on June 24, 2008 at 6:09 PM
Another welfare queen in the making. Lucky for her she lives in a state that encourages that kind of thing.
Nahanni on June 24, 2008 at 6:06 PM
Free HealthCare.
Chakra Hammer on June 24, 2008 at 6:09 PM
One thing's for sure: This can ALL be blamed on Juno.
jimmy the notable on June 24, 2008 at 6:11 PM
Hmmm…I remember back in the day, this kind of thing was kind of something to be just a little bit embarrassed about…or maybe just a little bit concerned…
Now you can be on National television, grinning like an idiot…Discussing how this should have been 'A fond memory'….
I wonder if she'll still recall it as a fond memory 10 years down the road while she's working the swing shift at Denny's….
BigWyo on June 24, 2008 at 6:15 PM
True. Not a pact.
Cliques. The perennial high school social network.
Apparently, this new millennium calls for something other than jocks, freaks or geeks:
Breeders. Under age, under educated, ill prepared, and overly stupid, teen breeders.
So, tell me again when the state's CPS troopers will march in to these gub'mint schools, and round up all these at risk, under age, breeding teen girls?
Or is this not Texas?
locomotivebreath1901 on June 24, 2008 at 6:16 PM
I hear the girl who hooked up with the homeless guy had a shower.
GoodBoy on June 24, 2008 at 6:01 PM
But did she give the homeless guy a shower first?
(c'mon, y'all were thinking it, and such questions MUST be asked)
splink on June 24, 2008 at 6:18 PM
So treating this one like a friggin' celebrity is the answer…
singlemalt_18 on June 24, 2008 at 6:19 PM
In a small town, many, many teens just decided to get pregnant all on their own?
Absolute B.S.
Weebork on June 24, 2008 at 6:25 PM
I still don't get the Juno angle that the news keeps referencing.
Just because a movie about teen pregnancy is popular does not mean that it glamorizes teen pregnancy.
I'm about as big of a stick in the mud as you can be and I don't think Juno is the kind of movie that's going to get kids to run out and get knocked up. Am I missing something?
JadeNYU on June 24, 2008 at 6:27 PM
The mayor of Gloucester also denied Monday that there was evidence of a pact and blamed the increased number of teen mothers on a lack of health education funding
misterpeasea on June 24, 2008 at 6:28 PM
"…ruined what should be a beautiful memory for you." Are you friggin insane. I have not seen anything on TV as depressing as that in…well…forever maybe. Wrong in so many ways.
Dirthead on June 24, 2008 at 6:30 PM
I'd offer her a pamphlet.
"So You've Ruined Your Life"
Coronagold on June 24, 2008 at 6:33 PM
yea, let's shed some spotlight to them kids. let's tell the other kids that it is ok to get pregnant and its cool co'z you might be on tv. yea lets do that.
gr8inferno on June 24, 2008 at 6:35 PM
THIS is why 18 year olds and younger should never vote. Brain dead piece of ….whatever. And big surprise, the mayor throws the principal under the bus so she can spout her left wing dope the kids with BC pills mantra.
MNDavenotPC on June 24, 2008 at 6:39 PM
I grew up in a very rural area deep in southern Illinois. For many years back in the '70s and '80s (and maybe later, I left in '87), our county had a higher per capita unwed pregnancy rate than Cook County…this in a county whose county seat was a town of 900 max. People pretty much ignored it/didn't discuss it, as they still had the capacity for shame. Including the kids. But THIS! Man, how much faster things have slid downhill in just 20 years.
splink on June 24, 2008 at 6:40 PM
Those kids on the video are idiots (yes, the boy is 20, but I stand by calling him a kid), and the moron interviewing them is nothing but an enabler. He was not only condoning their behaviour, but outright praising it.
I couldn't finish the whole thing. I have my brain to protect. I graduated high school in 2000, and I remember 1 girl getting pregnant that I knew personally, and that was at the end of our senior year. Maybe all the other pregnant girls dropped out or aborted, but they were not a common sight. Camden-Wyoming, Delaware is the town where I went to high school (suburb of Dover). I hope things haven't changed, it's a great school.
Those kids on the video are idiots (yes, the boy is 20, but I stand by calling him a kid), and the moron interviewing them is nothing but an enabler. He was not only condoning their behaviour, but outright praising it.
We just watched it and that's just what we thought too: Fawning moron interviews tramp and doof.
Doesn't help to confirm a "mistake" when it wasn't a mistake but a stupid, life-altering choice.
splink on June 24, 2008 at 6:50 PM
Well, according to Obama there "punishment" will happen in 5 months.
Maybe Obama needs to have a sit down with these young ladies.
jharada on June 24, 2008 at 7:05 PM
I am so glad I brought my girls with me to work in the church nursery with the infants and toddlers, wherein they changed diapers, dealt with crying, played with the endlessly energetic, etc.
I am so glad my girls have a MAN for a father who did whatever it is girls need so they didn't look to any teenybopper boy or homeless 24-year-old to provide them with "something to love" which in fact will demand all their time, attention, patience and nerve.
These girls haven't a clue what they're in for. A more ignorant, uneducated, unprepared bunch there never was in the history of the world.
Mommynator on June 24, 2008 at 7:07 PM
1. What kind of life is the newborn going to have?
2. How old is the mother to be doing this? Where's all the rape charges on the father?
3. Who's going to take care of this child and all the things that will ripple down as a result of such stupidity?
It just gets me that all the new things they present in school to educate girls that this crap still happen. If the girl would have been raped in a broom closet she'd be such a big victim and all that, but to run off and hump some dude just to make a baby out of wedlock and everything else, makes me just want to go throw up some place. That doesn't make you a woman there girlie. It makes you a stupid child creating a child thats going to have so many friggin psycological issues it won't be funny, let alone the burden on the parents and everyone else.
"the drama that's grown out of what should have been a beautiful memory for you."
What kind of moron are you, cuomo. She's a little girl! Don't you get that you stupid son of an elitist commie. What the hell did you learn in growing up with that ggrrreeeaaattt communicator as a father.
peacenprosperity on June 24, 2008 at 7:13 PM
"Chloe-Jade…" Oh my god! could they be any more pretentious and yuppie like!?
Here's a name for their kid…. BASTARD!
Or better yet, BASTARDO… that way it sounds exotic!
clawjockey on June 24, 2008 at 7:14 PM
The stupidity that leaked out of cuomo's facial orifice was excruciatingly vile.
PappaMac on June 24, 2008 at 7:16 PM
What brilliant young minds.
The dredges of society rise to the top of the media.
Grafted on June 24, 2008 at 7:22 PM
Oh yeah, the two of them need to talk about the lovely McDonalds career future they'll have. Friggin stupid white trash. Having kids isn't a fashion statement. Go collect baseball cards ya little punk.
Whether or not a pact was made is irrelevant. When I was in school, she would have been considered a slut and be hanging her head in shame instead of appearing on TV.
The interviewer exemplifies the issue when he says this publicity ruined "what should have been a happy memory" WHAT IS HE SMOKING? The liberal crack pipe, thats what.
jman on June 24, 2008 at 7:41 PM
Or better yet, BASTARDO… that way it sounds exotic!
clawjockey on June 24, 2008 at 7:14 PM
BigWyo on June 24, 2008 at 7:45 PM
What is with these idiot kids?
Who the hell do they think is going to take care of the infants?
Who is going to pay for their care and upbringing?
THEM? With their 10th grade educations?
Good God.
drjohn on June 24, 2008 at 7:57 PM
Is it taboo to mention that the girls who give it up easiest and choose to keep their babies are the overweight, painted, snotties…? I guess it gives them status as being desirable 'women'. Geez…! The Liberal cure for ugly-fatness… Spread your legs.
Rugged Individual on June 24, 2008 at 8:05 PM
As long as taxpayers aren't forced to pay for any aspect of this, then how is it anybody's business?
Of course financing didn't get addressed in that lame interview. They focused on a pact. Who cares?
nottakingsides on June 24, 2008 at 8:35 PM
Anna on June 24, 2008 at 6:45 PM
I had the exact same reaction. I stopped after the interviewer alluded to their "beautiful moment" being ruined. Douche.
SouthernDem on June 24, 2008 at 8:59 PM
Well, at least now I have a face to attribute to the bumper sticker that says, "Keep working. Millions on welfare depend on you."
Send_Me on June 24, 2008 at 9:41 PM
I'm 50+ female from small town USA. I just don't understand most reactions. I was sexually active at 16, used contraceptives until I chose to become pregnant by my husband. I'm no angel, but I wasn't a slut either. I was and still am a "conscious decision maker".
My reaction … sad. Just sad for the young people making such bad decisions.
Why is this "News"? Catholic school where contraceptives are not provided upon demand; School nurse resigns because not allowed to provide contraceptives. I didn't receive contraceptives from my school. I went to the local "health clinic", told an blatantly obvious lie about my age and paid for the pill using my babysitting money.
Pact or no pact, what is the difference? As a "pact" it got media attention and subsequently our attention.
Agenda? Someone with a problem with the Catholic position on contraceptives which the media is more than willing to advance.
MsDollie on June 24, 2008 at 9:57 PM
"Chloe-Jade…" Oh my god! could they be any more pretentious and yuppie like!?
Here's a name for their kid…. BASTARD!
Or better yet, BASTARDO… that way it sounds exotic!
clawjockey on June 24, 2008 at 7:14 PM
Maybe they should just abort the kid?
As you can see, it's not the kids fault that the parents are idiots..
Chakra Hammer on June 24, 2008 at 10:51 PM
It's Bush's fault.
Well, now we know…
Dorvillian on June 25, 2008 at 12:00 AM
Pact or no pact, you're still stupid, girl.
No sympathy from me. And don't expect a baby shower gift from me, either.
(Dang! I waited until I was thirty-three – Yes! 33! – until I finally got pregnant with my first child. What? Is that the age of these girls' mothers? Would not be surprised!)
newton on June 25, 2008 at 12:23 AM
I've been pregnant out of wedlock before…..
With a job and a healthcare plan at a Fortune 500 company, and solid plans in place with the father of the baby to commit to the child and myself—-the commitment to myself having been apparently secured a few weeks before the conception, and the marriage having taken place before the birth. I've been a single mom due to divorce before, someone would have to be crazy to do it deliberately.
Or better yet, BASTARDO… that way it sounds exotic!
Il Bastardo Obeso! Come here wee man!
Sorry. Had a 'when Mike Myers was kinda funny' flashback. Good grief, that girl was dumber than a box of rubber dog cr*p. Has someone announced a lawsuit on the school yet? I'm not paying much attention to this story, but it seems like someone needs to pay out some big money to these poor traumatized girls.
austinnelly on June 25, 2008 at 1:06 AM
Even though you can tell both these two KIDS are really soaking in that 15 minutes of fame with relish, neither of them has a clue as to what is waiting for them just around the corner.
Just another example of the type of quality lifestyle you can expect from a Liberalism Gone Wild state like Massachuetts. I surprised something like this didn't happen in Vermont first.
pilamaye on June 25, 2008 at 7:22 AM
"One thing's for sure: This can ALL be blamed on Juno.
jimmy the notable on June 24, 2008 at 6:11 PM"
One more thing's for sure. If the media's pushing it, the government wants it. In Ruskie, they have weekend screwfests for the slavs to try their luck at making little ugly ass baby slavs. They get double door refrigerator for first little Ivan and Washer Dryer combo for second. Muslim get bus fare to Azerbaijan. I keed. I keed. Wait, no I don't.
pc on June 25, 2008 at 8:35 AM
He asks if they picked out a name as if there's no problem here, and help legitimize the acceptance of an unwed teenage mother.
Andy in Agoura Hills on June 24, 2008 at 5:43 PM
Yes, let's turn them all into pariahs and drive them to an abortion mill instead. Jackass.
Darth Executor on June 25, 2008 at 8:45 AM
Okay. I'm now officially interested.
Nonfactor on June 25, 2008 at 9:28 AM
Offers from Dr. Phil in 5…4…3…2…1…
flipflop on June 24, 2008 at 5:46 PM
Dont forget Oprah and Maury. I think they'd be good candidates for the Jerry Springer show.
abcurtis on June 25, 2008 at 9:28 AM
We can stand back and make fun of the misguided girls, their parents, school, and so on. But the fact of the matter is, they have decided to have the babies. In our culture, especially in a socialist democrat state like Massachusetts, they are encouraged to have abortions. Thankfully, for whatever reason, they chose life. Granted, they should have been taught better morals and not get pregnant in the first place. But the deed is done and at least an innocent wont pay with their life for a teen age girl's stupidity. At least as far as we know. It aint over yet.
And yes, dnarchy, as a minister, I agree with you.
abcurtis on June 25, 2008 at 9:36 AM
One other thing. As Darth Executor said, let's not make them pariahs and drive them to abortion mills. There's too much of that now.
These girls need to be shown that even though they messed up, there is still forgiveness. The days of throwing an unwed mother and child out in the blizzard are gone. If, and I stress IF, we are truly a Christian nation, the let's show some Christian love and help these girls. Their parents and their ministers (if they have one) need to rally around these girls and not condemn them. Maybe somebody might recommend adoption. I know plenty of childless couples who would love to adopt an infant. There are always alternatives to abortion.
The fathers of these babies should be found and held accountable for their children. The boys probably arent much more than children themselves, but they have taken on adult responsibility. The girls should not be held accountable alone – it takes two to make a baby.
abcurtis on June 25, 2008 at 9:43 AM
My reaction … sad. Just sad for the young people making such bad decisions.
MsDollie on June 24, 2008 at 9:57 PM
I'm with you, MsDollie. There are too many Pharisees willing to take them out and stone them. As one who has made bad decisions myself (let's see a show of hands of those who have never made a bad decision… ok – I thought so) I find myself in sympathy with the girls for not having the good sense to wait, wait until they get an education or a skill, or a husband to help out. Stupidity is it's own malady.
abcurtis on June 25, 2008 at 9:53 AM
What is with these idiot kids?
Who the hell do they think is going to take care of the infants?
Who is going to pay for their care and upbringing?
THEM? With their 10th grade educations?
Good God.
drjohn on June 24, 2008 at 7:57 PM
That's the problem – nobody was thinking.
abcurtis on June 25, 2008 at 9:57 AM
It just gets me that all the new things they present in school to educate girls that this crap still happen.
That's because the schools all teach relativism now. There was a time when the schools backed up the parents and vice versa. But now we live in a non-judgmental age. How dare we judge these girls?(I'm being sarcastic) Every person does what is right in their own eyes because that is what is being taught. Nobody is allowed to judge right from wrong now. People like "judge not lest ye be judged." That's the only scripture they know and that's out of context. In an earlier post I mentioned how some of us are like Pharisees judging the prostitute. They had no right to judge her because they were guilty of the same thing of which they accused her.
Whenever people use Matthew 7:1 out of context, they always leave out John 8:10, 11:
When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
That's the key – learn from your mistakes and go and sin no more. It is the actions of the girls that should be judged not the girls. How long do we hold those deeds against them before we forgive? The rest of their lives? What will that accomplish?
My point is this – the deed is done. There is no place for condemnation. While we do not have to condone out of wedlock children, neither to we have to call them bastards. Our responsibility is to see the same thing does not happen again.
abcurtis on June 25, 2008 at 10:15 AM
Don't forget: The very concept of needing forgiveness is an insult to those who don't think they've done wrong. Do these two look like they feel the least bit guilty?
splink on June 25, 2008 at 10:45 AM
In Ruskie, they have weekend screwfests for the slavs to try their luck at making little ugly ass baby slavs. pc on June 25, 2008 at 8:35 AM
That is very offensive to this Slavic woman. I humbly ask AP to look into this matter.
I think the best way to deal with this issue is to hop on the Internet and spew some vitriol all over a group of minors. After all, nothing motivates teens to carefully consider the consequences of their actions like derision from a bunch of random keyboard jockeys.
Further, I'm sure the unborn children will be very much uplifted by having access to a written account of dozens of people mocking their mothers. It's like having a little spittle-flecked derision preserved in amber – a present for later!
Please people. The deed is done. There's no good in ranting about it now and a lot of potential harm to be done.
I'm all for discussing ways to change behavior for the future, but now's the time to cut out the high moral dudgeon and get on with the business of helping kids sort out a difficult situation.
TheUnrepentantGeek on June 25, 2008 at 4:39 PM


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Can You Imagine Something This Wonderful Happening In Palo Alto?
Original post made by Native Girl, Old Palo Alto, on Aug 25, 2007
You will love this slideshow: Web Link
We should all be greatful and count our blessings each day.
I have a friend with three small children, one child is severely disabled. She just emailed me and told me that her husband was just deployed to Afghanistan for a year. She is left alone to care for her children all by herself.
Please wish our troops well and may they return home safely.
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a resident of Downtown North
on Aug 26, 2007 at 6:36 am
Simply a joy to see such pictures. They were very touching..
However that said I have 3 comments:
1. This looks like a typical middle-America - did you see any African-Americans or Asians in these pictures.
2. Most of middle America chose Bush.
3. Like Bush would say: Welcome back home, now go back.
a resident of Green Acres
on Aug 26, 2007 at 2:32 pm
I cannot imagine it, because Palo Alto is full of people who, like Bill Clinton, "loathe the military". It has something to do with anti-authority attidtudes, but a committee of psychiatrists would need to debate the issue for ten years to figure it out.
I would tie it in with Frank Benest's and Emily Harrison's refusal to fly the flag at half staff during the recent fire department's request to honor fallen comrades in another town. It is more than a 'tin ear'...it is a real attitude issue. Now, apprently, they are writing up a policy, so that they are forced to do the right thing, next time. Well, at least that is progress...(Palo Alto style!). Frank and Emily represent PA attitudes, thus they should not be blamed for doing what they thought was the right thing.
I would also tie it in with the PAUSD's refusal to comply with the state education code, and require that homeroom teachers say the Pledge of Allegiance every morning. It is just a prevalent attitude....
I know many minority people who are very patriotic, more so than I. It is a slap in their face to suggest that only Middle America white people would wave the flag for returning troops.
a resident of Professorville
on Aug 27, 2007 at 6:06 am
We're lucky to have people like those in the link: it gives us a chance to sneer at the boobs in "Middle America", make allusion to their obvious racist attitudes, and feel smug and superior about ourselves because live here in IQ land where we would never stoop to such garish displays of jingoism. And of course we get to throw in yet another gratuitous supercilious comment about Bush - as yet more grandstanding act of moral superiority.
a resident of University South
on Aug 27, 2007 at 2:29 pm
Apparently this is in Kearney, Nebraska, which is why we see so few minorities.
We are happy that they have returned safely, but as Native Girl points out, when someone comes home, current policy is to replace them.
Rather than just hearing background music, I would like to hear them talk about their experience, and where they were successful and where they had problems. How can we evaluate Bush's win at any cost strategy?
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Aug 27, 2007 at 4:44 pm
No, current strategy is for volunteers to vote with their feet..as they continue to do.
BTW...many soldiers DO talk about their experiences, but if you want to hear them speak, you have to look for them.
a resident of University South
on Aug 29, 2007 at 11:48 am
The Kearney area had a large contingent go to Iraq. Does anybody keep track of the Palo Altans who have served in Iraq?
Maybe our city council should set up a parade to honor them.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Aug 29, 2007 at 6:29 pm
Amazing... Amazing...
It is a blessing to see a whole city welcoming home the troops who Iraq.
a resident of Los Altos Hills
on Aug 30, 2007 at 2:07 pm
Hey Chris!! Great idea!! I am not a Palo Alto resident..can you suggest that to your Council? I will ask mine. ( Each town honoring those "homepeople" returning)
a resident of Palo Alto Hills
on Aug 30, 2007 at 4:29 pm
Here in PA we don't honor the running dog lackys of the Bush Dictatorship Military Machine. We have a May Day Parade instead, and the only people we honor are the homeless who are victims of the Heartless Republicans in Washington.
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Santa Claus, Indiana to appear on Travel Channel
A southern Indiana town that postmarks thousands of pieces of Christmas mail each year will get a guest spot on the Travel Channel - but not until next year.
A crew from the Travel Channel will be in Santa Claus, Ind., this weekend to film the town's 22-foot Santa Claus statue and Santa's Candy Castle. Both opened in December 1935.
The castle will host a fruitcake-eating contest that day.
Filming also will take place at the Santa Claus Land of Lights, at a local campground and at other holiday attractions.
The Indianapolis Star reports the footage is part of a new special called "Christmas Showdown" that highlights the best holiday events in the country. It won't air until next year.
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