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Cosy + Central Flat with Wi-Fi
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Accommodation summary
|Calle Moratín, 28014 Madrid, ספרד
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This bright apartment with a sleek interior boasts a comfortable bedroom with a desk where guests can sit to continue planning their stay. Walk through sliding doors to reach a cosy living area with a double sofa bed and a fitted kitchenette.
Guests can benefit from Wi-Fi access as well as a wall-mounted flat-screen TV upon which a light-hearted comedy can be enjoyed. Also available is a bathroom with a relaxing, hot shower.
Baby cot available under request, 10€/stay
Antón Martín Metro Station is a 3-minute walk away and provides direct access to Atocha Train Station. Gran Via Street and its neoclassical architecture can be reached within 15 minutes' on foot.
Huertas is an elegant neighbourhood from an architectural viewpoint. Its streets are packed with tapas restaurants and bars. The first Saturday of every month a market takes place.
כללי הבית•Security Deposit: 100€
• Our check in time is from 4pm, this meaning that by then the apartment will be ready. However, if you come to Madrid earlier, we will make our best so that you can drop your luggage before 4pm.
• In case you plan to arrive after 9pm, check in can be arranged by any of the following options:
1. A pick up from your arrival point with the taxi driver we normally work with. He would pick you up and bring you to the apartment, leaving you settled and giving you a set of keys. The cost of this service is 10€ plus the regular taxi fare.
2. Reception in the apartment by us from 9pm to 11pm (subject to payment of 15 euro as late check in fee). Unfortunately after 11pm we are not able to meet you in person, so the taxi would be the only option.
Let us know your travel info so that we can decide what option would be doable in your case.
•Check out is by 11:00am.
•Please do not leave trash or dirty dishes in the apt.
•Parties or smoking are not allowed
•Only people who are officially on the reservation can sleep in the apt.
•Please be sure that you've turned everything off when you leave the apt.
•The Spanish legislation requires us to notify to the police the data of all people staying in the apartment, so we must ask you to show us your passport.
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Bueno que decir de este apartamento, encantados mi pareja y yo tanto con el apartamento como con Oscar, un lujo en el centro de Madrid.
Destacar que todo esta NUEVO, en perfectas condiciones y sinceramente parece la habitación premium de un hotel de 5 estrellas.
PUNTOS POSITIVOS: todo esta cerca, incluso supermercados, renfe, metro, autobuses... etc. esta muy cerca de el museo del Prado y de el Caixa Forum.
Limpieza, en general esta muy limpio, solo algun cubierto y alguna sarten mal fregada, pero bueno algo normal y que no tiene mucha importancia, el baño esta impoluto, muy limpio y muy comodo.
La cama es ENORME y es cómoda, aunque para esto cada uno es como es.
La cocina no tiene grandes lujos, tiene dos fuegos y es suficiente, aunque nosotros echamos en falta un horno. Dispone de microondas.
Tiene de todo, tanto para limpiar como para lavar la ropa, así como de sal, azúcar, papel para las manos....etc. Equipado a tope.
Aire acondicionado que funciona muy bien.
La ventana insonoriza perfectamente.
La ducha esta genial pero no tiene alcachofa, tiene el aplique de lluvia que me gusto mucho pero eche en falta la alcachofa.
El agua caliente, dispones de unos escasos 10-15 minutos, esto en verano no importa pero en invierno dos personas no se pueden duchar una seguida de la otra mas de 7 minutos cada uno, lo cual no es algo que guste. Y es una pena ya que el chorro de lluvia relaja muchísimo y apetece estar un rato bajo ella.
Es un tercer piso sin ascensor, y no son escaleras muy cómodas.
La noche en fin de semana, no puedes tener la ventana abierta, mucho ruido hasta las 3 que es cuando cierran los bares de la zona.
La cortina, no es opaca y no dispone de persiana, tiene un estore enrollable que tampoco es opaco, lo cual hace que de día entre una luz enorme en la habitación.
Nosotros volveremos posiblemente.
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This is a lovely little studio, clean and smartly decorated. Someone was waiting for us at the time agreed upon and explained all the rules in perfect English (our Spanish isn't quite good enough unfortunately)! The apartment has all the amenities and is well situated. Surprisingly quiet! Perfect for a couple! No elevator so not suited for anyone with reduced mobility, but not an issue for most people I would think. The owners have created a laminated map with recommended restaurants, etc. Very useful!
Fantastic apartment with all you need in the very City center of Madrid so you can walk to All sightseeing and shops or take the Metro or bus. Very good Service from our host both at arrival and departure. We got a late luggage checkout as our flight was in the evening. However 1 of the 3 bedrooms could hear some Street noise.
I really enjoyed my stay at 6 calle de Jordan. This is a very comfortable and welcoming flat – it was amazing how much I felt at home after just a couple of days. Oscar and co. were terrific hosts, were flexible and friendly and made it all very straightforward. I hadn't been in Chamberi before and really liked the area. Spent a lot of time in plaza de Olavide just at the foot of c. de Jordan – a very nice square with cafes and terraces all round it. In the other direction, just down the road on Fuencarral there is one of the ubiquitous VIP restaurants for those times when you want a meal outside normal Spanish eating hours. Throw in a Carrefour supermarket a couple of minutes away and the usual plethora of cafes and bars, plus a couple of metro stations, and you're all set. Would have loved to have stayed longer, would definitely go back and would recommend to anyone.
We enjoyed our stay. Vanessa and Oscar were very cooperative. We could use the apartment dircetly after our arrival at Madrid and earlier than officially scheduled. On the day of our departure we could leave our luggage until 5 p.m indoors. The appartment was nicely furnished and comfortable. For people who have problems with their back the bed was a bit too soft. But I could sleep on the sofabed very well.
The house is ideallly situated for exploring Madrid on foot. There are many nice restaurants and bars around the corner.
Vanessa was a very good and flexible host. At our arrival, she accepted to let us have an early check in and a late check out on our departure day. The apartment is very well located, spacious and clean. It was perfect to celebrate new year's eve and to be close to the events which happened in the city.
I have just returned from my stay in Vanessa & Oscar's superb, marvellous flat. It is very well equipped and comfortable: I felt at home immediately. It would be ideal for a family also (due to illness with travelling companions I was there on my own but thoroughly enjoyed the experience). Very roomy, a kitchen if you need to cook, a large and small bathroom, double and two single beds, dining and living areas: fantastic. The barrio has everything with a well-stocked supermarket 3 minutes (1 minute?) from the flat. Bars, cafes, shops everywhere, and 2 metros. Oscar was very helpful, informative and friendly - there were communication problems that were entirely my fault - I didn't realise how inefficient my phone was.
I wish I could have stayed longer!
Good communication and friendly host. Nice clean apartment.
Very good location and close to a big supermarket.
Next door is an internet point where you can print your boarding pass also until midnight.
The host cancelled the booking, this review is automated.
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Christian Thompson is one of many young, emerging Indigenous artists who challenge our very understanding of Australian identity and what it means to 'be' Australian.
Kangaroo and boomerang jumper and Tiwi jumper are 'housed' in display cases reminiscent of the reptile house at the zoo, the intentionally useless sleeves of the apparel entwined around the disembodied torsos, resembling contemporary versions of the Rainbow Serpent, a significant Indigenous ancestral being.
The original early 1980s pattern book from which Thompson drew inspiration portrayed attire purporting to represent Australia and Indigenous icons adorning non-Indigenous models, thereby relegating Indigenous people to the status of invisibility. Not so the case in Thompson's re-staging of the original images.
'Blak's Palace follows on from my previous work that challenges notions of Aboriginality manifested in an Anglo–Celtic or western artifice. This works speaks specifically of a particular era — the 1980s. However, the colours chosen for the jumpers reference powder pinks, sky blues and camel browns that so often decorate kitsch or tourist market objects referencing Indigenous people. I'm basically reinterpreting these 1980s items of clothing by making them in the residue of 1950s kitsch. People like me who grew up in the 1980s in regional Australia, well there was material like these jumpers being made — suggestive of Aboriginal culture but definitely not representative of what Aboriginal culture meant to Aboriginal people.
The title [of the series] derives from my traditional country near Springsure in the Carnarvon Gorge [in Queensland]. Our traditional painting on the rock faces in the Gorge illustrates our [D]reaming and is a fertility site for women. Many blacks and whites in southwest Queensland call this place the Blak's Palace, inferring that this site is of immense beauty — it is for me.'
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Previously I had been using 3 render-targets for my light pre-pass implementation and 1 more render-target for shadows.
My G-Buffer / Render-targets = ~7.5 MB
- Depth-map: R32 1024 x 576
- Light-map: ARGB32 1024 x 576
- Output : ARGB32 1024 x 576
- Shadows: R16 512 x 512
- Draw scene depth to the depth-map
- Draw the shadow buffer to its render target
- Draw/Calculate AO and shadows using ONLY the depth-map, to the Light-map
- Blur the light-map using the output render-target as a temporary buffer
- Draw scene lighting using depth
- Draw the scene to the Output buffer using the light-map
- Ping-pong between the light-map and output for post-process effects
Now this looked FINE, but I wasn't satisfied. I had completely ignored normals and as a result was stuck with only simple point-lights.
So I got to thinking about how I could squeeze in a normal-buffer. The most obvious idea of just making a new render-target would leave me squeezed at ~9.5 MB, which is NOT OK!
So after much pondering I finally came up with a way to do it in the render-targets I already had!
I can use the SAME G-BUFFER!
What I'm doing now, and what I'm stuck on:
- Draw scene depth to the depth-map and scene Normals to the output render-target
- Draw the shadow buffer to its render target
- Draw/Calculate AO and shadows using ONLY the depth-map, to the Light-map
- Blur the light-map using the Shadow render-target as a temporary buffer (Both AO and Shadows are only a representation of lightness / darkness and can easily be represented as just 1 byte / pixel)
- Draw scene lighting using depth and Normals!
- Draw the scene to the Output buffer using the light-map
- Ping-pong between the light-map and output for post-process effects
Now theoretically this should work, and it does... sort of.
I can go all the way through the render-cycle, and when I go to draw lights at step 5, I have both a depth and a normal buffer!
Unfortunately, when I try to draw lights taking into account the normal-buffer, the lights are calculated incorrectly.
Now after much pondering, searching and tweaking, I have still yet to get over this little obstacle.
I previously had only been using point-lights, just calculating the attenuation with a depth-calculated world position, and that worked fine,
and if I remember correctly, to take normals into account for an omni-directional light I just have to multiply my current output by the dot product of the lightVector and the surface normal, right?
So here's the pixel shader for the point light:
[source lang="cpp"]float4 PixelShaderFunction(VertexShaderOutput input) : COLOR0{ float2 screenSpace = GetScreenCoord(input.ScreenSpace); float lightDepth = input.Depth.x / input.Depth.y; float sceneDepth = tex2D(Depth, screenSpace).r; clip(sceneDepth > lightDepth || sceneDepth == 0 ? -1:1); float4 position; position.x = screenSpace.x * 2 - 1; position.y = (1 - screenSpace.y) * 2 - 1; position.z = sceneDepth; position.w = 1.0f; position = mul(position, iViewProjection); position.xyz /= position.w; // Surface World Position is calculated correctly // Light position is in world space float Distance = distance(LightPosition, position); clip( Distance > LightRadius ? -1:1); float3 normal = (2.0f * tex2D(Normal, screenSpace).xyz) - 1.0f; float3 lightVector = normalize(LightPosition - position); float lighting = saturate(dot(normal, lightVector)); return lighting * (1.1f - Distance / LightRadius) * LightColor;}[/source]
Here is the little bit of shader code that generates the Depth and Normal buffers:
[source lang="cpp"]PreVertexShaderOutput PreVertexShaderFunction(PreVertexShaderInput input){ PreVertexShaderOutput output; float4 worldPosition = mul(input.Position, World); float4 viewPosition = mul(worldPosition, View); output.Position = mul(viewPosition, Projection); output.Depth.xy = output.Position.zw; output.Normal = mul(input.Normal, World); return output;}PrePixelOutput PrePixelShaderFunction(PreVertexShaderOutput input){ PrePixelOutput output; output.Normal.xyz = (normalize(input.Normal).xyz * 0.5f) + 0.5f; output.Normal.a = 1; output.Depth = input.Depth.x / input.Depth.y; return output;}[/source]
Now, a couple of pictures would be nice to illustrate what I'm seeing.
- I overrode the final scene drawing to get the normal buffer to show up for this pic, so I am getting some sort of normal value,
- And here's what it looks like with the incorrect lighting, the lights are all squeezed and distorted.
- Here's what it should/used to look like in the light-buffer
So even after typing ALL this up, I still haven't been able to figure this out...
Is it the normals? is it the light? I don't know...
Any help would be greatly appreciated
-Thanks in advance
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I have trouble remembering to get the BOM's each month so I put post it notes on the next month. Thanks !!! I need to get my Xmas mojo going ...
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I think this is one I will do! I am already thinking of the Connecting Threads fabric that looked like it was knitted..hope they still have it..would be great for the mittens!
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Months after murder of student, Red Bluff High School makes safety changes
RED BLUFF, Calif. - The death of 14-year-old Marysa Nichols back in February hit much of the Northstate hard, especially Red Bluff High school.
Since February, the high school has made some new changes to keep their students safe both on and off campus.
Nichols' body was found behind the school next to a creek. Since then, the Red Bluff Joint Union High School District has been thinking of ways to keep students safer.
"We are continuing to educate our kids about how to be safe, where to walk, walk in groups, don't use the creek," said Superintendent Lisa Escobar.
The school also blocked out the 'short cuts' that the students often used.
Red Bluff High also added new surveillance cameras all around campus and the school's new principal is working on fencing off the entire campus.
"Fences provide a definite distinction of what's school and where the community is and so students have boundaries that way," said Red Bluff High School Principal Ron Fisher.
There have also been changes made on school grounds and during passing periods, students will be watched more closely.
Principal Fisher said the school would like to do away with off-campus lunches too.
"Our goal is to keep them safe and while in school so if they have that opportunity to leave, it makes it more challenging to keep them safe," said Fisher.
The school also added a new position this year, a dean of students, who can focus his time on preventing situations that could lead students to trouble.
"It's my utmost concern that when parents drop [their kids] off at school, they are going to come home at night," said Superintendent Escobar.


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I read Deirdre Fulton's recent article in the Phoenix about the impact of technology and "learner-centered" education on the college experience (see "Learn Here," August 27) with a mixture of admiration, because I think she got most things correct, and dread, because I think she got most things correct. I recently retired after 40 years of teaching large classes in biology at the University of Rhode Island (my student nickname in later years was "Dr. Death," perhaps reflecting the fact that I was one of the few remaining URI profs who graded on the basis of performance, not "effort").
I have seen dramatic changes in incoming students over the last ten years. They are far less independent than students used to be. When they are thumbing away on their Droids, more often than not it is to mommy or daddy. They also hate to read textbooks. Unfortunately, they are not very good at using the net for serious purposes. Last fall, I tried an experiment. My class was coming up to a unit on the kidney. I divided the lecture class in half, left and right. The left-hand students I ordered to study the kidney from their textbook, and promised them an unnamed but dreadful fate if they typed "kidney" into their computers. The right-hand side I forbade from reading the text, and directed them to find out about the kidney any way they wanted from the Web.
A couple of weeks later, they had an exam on the kidney. I drew the questions not from the book, which wouldn't have been fair, but asked them thought questions, like "would you expect the kidney of a freshwater fish to be larger or smaller than the kidney of a saltwater fish of the same size?" The students who had reluctantly and resentfully studied from the text did about 40 percent better than the students who had learned from the net. How come?
I went to the net myself to find out. What's the first thing you do? Google "kidney." What's the first hit? Wikipedia. Now, I love Wikipedia, and use it all the time. But its two priorities are accuracy and completeness. Clarity is down on the bottom of the list. I'm a professional biologist, but I was confused about the kidney after about the fourth paragraph, because I'm not a kidney specialist. Technical words are not defined, but connected to links, and the usage of the word in the link may not be the same as the primary page. In a textbook, on the other hand, clarity is of utmost importance, and texts are edited to hell for this quality. Also, the external references on medical topics in Wikipedia frequently lead you to commercial Web pages of questionable veracity — and freshmen, God love 'em, just don't have the experience to tell the difference between brilliant and bogus.
So, when you turn people loose on their own, every student is going to come up with different answers, and will probably leave the opencourseware course with a fairly substantial supply of spurious information. Is that good or bad? I don't know, but as you pointed out, it's the wave of the future, and I guess we're going to find out pretty soon.
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Priority Video Response Seminar Focuses on Police, Industry Partnership
More than 100 members of the alarm, law enforcement and insurance industries attended a Partnership for Priority Video Alarm Response (PPVAR) seminar here to learn how to build public-private sector alliances through the use of video alarms and priority response.
October 17, 2012
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — More than 100 members of the alarm, law enforcement and insurance industries attended a Partnership for Priority Video Alarm Response (PPVAR) seminar here to learn how to build public-private sector alliances through the use of video alarms and priority response.
Organized by J.D. Benfer, president of wholesale monitoring provider Response Center, the program promoted the use of video alarms to make arrests. Benfer, who served on the San Antonio Police Department (SAPD) for 20 years, says he has seen firsthand how the partnership between law enforcement and the alarm industry has deteriorated. Because of this, he wanted to host the seminar to revive law enforcement's enthusiasm for responding to alarms.
"Officers form their own opinions about the reputation of alarm companies in their areas," he tells SSI. "They also know which alarms have the likelihood of an apprehension of a criminal. In my day, officers fought over responding to audio listen-in alarms because there was a distinct possibility of making arrests, and they knew of the locations more prone to break-ins. With the sheer proliferation of alarms today, that likelihood has dwindled to an unrecognizable trickle."
In addition to building partnerships, the training also focused on the benefits of video alarms from the insurance industry perspective. During the session, the National Insurance Crime Bureau's (NICB) Michael Gallagher explained that priority response is an effective way to reduce property crime, make arrests and reduce the amount of insurance claims. NICB, a PPVAR member, works closely with law enforcement agencies across the nation. Among its efforts, NCIB provides "bait cars" to help capture criminals, plus cameras and GPS trackers at no cost to local police departments. The group also trains more than 20,000 officers on risk assessments, investigation techniques and best practices per year.
Gallagher shared statistics from the National Sheriff's Association that indicate video alarms have delivered arrest rates of more than 20%, plus statistics by the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters Association that show one arrest eliminates 30 additional burglaries.
PPVAR Executive Director Keith Jentoft, who is president of RSI Video Technologies, also took part in the program, describing how PPVAR aims to put central stations at the center of public safety, using video to verify actual crimes.
"The driving issue is not false alarm rates but the drive for arrests," Jentoft tells SSI. "With declining budgets impacting resources to law enforcement, it is ideal for the alarm industry and police to use video alarms to make arrests together."
Attendees also listened to presentations from representatives of Check Video, RSI Videofied and Tyco. Throughout the demonstrations, the manufacturers stressed that video alarms are not self-surveillance tools.
"Self-surveillance allows the property owner to see if their kids are home, if their pets are OK or if their employees are working," Jentoft says. "The goal of video alarms is to verify a crime in progress. There are now video alarm upgrade kits that piggyback on a Honeywell or Interlogix panel. These are real video alarms that send video clips to a central station for review and dispatch."
Benfer has already received positive feedback from San Antonio police officers who attended the event. Because of this, Benfer believes all police officers nationwide will want to implement priority response.
"I am confident that police departments everywhere will not only embrace video verification, but also endorse it," Benfer says. "If the industry does not embrace the concept, they will do so at their own peril. Verified video alarms are like having someone go to the scene and see if anyone is breaking in prior to the officer being dispatched. A wonderful bi-product is that if no evidence of criminal activity is found, the officer is not even bothered. Properly presented, it is a much easier sell to law enforcement and insurance than it is to alarm dealers."
PPVAR plans to schedule additional seminars throughout the United States in the coming months.
Ashley Willis is associate editor for SECURITY SALES & INTEGRATION magazine. She can be reached at (310) 533-2419.
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Fair Harvesters will live with a cooperative member family and work alongside the farmers to harvest coffee. You will learn by participating in the daily lives of small-scale farming families and begin to understand the meaning of Fair Trade producers. This is a unique opportunity to experience the other side of the struggle for social and economic justice.
Fair Harvest is not intended to be a tour or tourist visit, but rather to be a lived experience that will motivate participants to be committed activists upon their return. Qualifications: Participants must be capable, self-reliant individuals with at least basic Spanish language ability. You also must be dedicated to working on a Fair Trade campaign in your community when you return. This may include talking to the media, giving presentations, writing articles, asking your local stores to offer Fair Trade products, etc.
WHY FAIR TRADE? Millions of coffee farmers around the world are facing poverty and starvation because global coffee prices have plummeted to all-time lows in recent years. This worldwide crisis is causing problems such as malnutrition and loss of family farms in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. It has even led to increased drug cultivation in Colombia and Peru. Fortunately there is an alternative — Fair Trade Certified coffee. Fair Trade guarantees farmers a fair price for their harvest. Fair Trade means community development, education, health, and environmental stewardship for coffee farmers around the world. For more information, check out our Fair Trade campaign.
Please email Corina [3] if you would like to receive a sample itinerary for this delegation.
- TYPICAL DAY'S SCHEDULE: Wake up at 5AM to pick coffee. Stop picking at 10AM, eat something, and process the morning's harvest-depulp, ferment, wash, dry, and sort, working with the family. Eat lunch, and then help the family with other work or do other activities in the community. Then relax. Eat dinner around 6PM or 7PM, and go to bed shortly after sunset
- Visit a Fair Trade Certified Cooperative, a model which guarantees farmers and workers a fair price for their products-as well as direct access, credit, and support for sustainable agriculture. TransFair USA has enabled farmers in some of the most disadvantaged communities in the developing world to invest in their products and critical community development initiatives. Click on the adjacent Fair Trade logo for more information
- Visit local nature sites and observe wildlife (waterfalls, forests, birds, sloths, orchids, etc.)
- Learn to cook typical foods
- Visit various parts of the community, such as the barrios of hacienda laborers
- Learn what life is like for non-fair trade coffee farmers and laborers
- Learn about the history of cooperatives and how they are organized
- All highlights and activities subject to change, as conditions permit
- Click hear to visit the Global Exchange Fair Trade Campaign [4]
- Double-room accommodations; on-ground transportation including airport pick-up and drop-off; Global Exchange bilingual trip leader; preparatory reading and orientation materials; admission and fees to all program activities; two meals a day (breakfast and dinner)
- NOT INCLUDED: airfare, airport departure taxes, tips, lunches, and personal expenses
- Please note: participants will arrive and depart from the Managua airport. All Global Exchange participants who arrive and depart on scheduled trip dates are guaranteed airport transportation. Please notify program coordinator with special travel arrangements
To register, please send in your application form and a deposit of $400. Payments by Mastercard, Visa and Discover are welcome. Deposits are non-refundable unless the trip is canceled by Global Exchange as explained below.
Please note: We must meet a minimum number of trip participants on every trip, so please register early!
To ensure that all participants can plan accordingly, the minimum number of participants must be reached within 30 days before departure, or the trip will be canceled. If the trip cancels registered participants can choose to receive a full refund or transfer to a future group. Once a trip is confirmed (reaches the minimum # of participants) registrations may be accepted up to 30 days before the departure date.
This trip will be as diverse as possible in terms of race, age and life experiences. In some cases, a limited number of partial scholarships are available for low-income applicants.


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What about Wimbledon last year? Or FO in 2008? Or AO in 2010 and 2011? Was he more or less injured today than those other losses which were also blamed on injury?
How much longer is Rafa going to be able to play if he takes roughly 9 months off and can still barely make it through the clay court season?
FO 2009, you are correct.
And I am not claiming he wasn't injured in any of those matches. I just found austingator's assertion that "He was clearly hurt. I've watched him for years, and I've never seen him move like that" to be funny because in a number of his other slam losses, injuries have been asserted as the primary cause. So was this really the worst?
If he's hurt, then fine. It happens. I just get tired of certain of his fans claiming that he is essentially 164-0 in slams when healthy and 0-22 when injured. Sometimes, the guy just gets outplayed. That's what I saw today.
Lleyton Hewitt w/ a straight set win over Wawrinka.
There's no doubt that he just gets outplayed sometimes. I think today, last year's wimby, and FO 2009 are examples of that.
But there's also no question that his inability to stay healthy is a major plotline in the story of Nadal's career. For example, the 2009 season to me, as a Nadal fan, is such a goddamn shame. There is simply no denying that he was the best player in the world in 2009 on all surfaces, and then he basically just sits the year out. It does make you wonder what could have been.
I'm legitimately concerned about his career
I'm legitimately concerned about his career
better than stan darsh
Rafa is a big boy. He was signing autographs after the match, and being a class act during his post match interview. I think he has a better perspective on his tennis career than his fans, and his haters. It was not in his best interest to fight on today.
Aussie 2010 was the time he had an abdominal muscle injury. He could not serve. (if I remember correctly).
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Spying on media exposes French government's dark side
"The freedom of the press and the lie of the state." The headline Thursday in the influential newspaper Le Monde was bound to make a big splash. While President Nicolas Sarkozy was basking in the glory of his Libyan intervention and celebrating the virtues of democracy, the French "paper of record" was denouncing the dark side and the dirty tricks of his government.


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Nuclear Guardianship Ethic
(created ca. 1990, revised July 2011)
1. Each generation shall endeavor to preserve the foundations of life and well-being for those who come after. To produce and abandon substances that damage following generations is morally unacceptable.
2. Given the extreme toxicity and longevity of radioactive materials, their production must cease. The development of safe, renewable energy sources and non-violent means of conflict resolution is essential to the health and survival of life on Earth. Radioactive materials are not to be regarded as an economic or military resource.
3. We accept responsibility for the radioactive materials mined and produced for our alleged benefit.
4. Future generations have the right to know about their nuclear legacy and the dangers it brings.
5. Future generations have the right to protect themselves from these dangers. Therefore, it is our responsibility to pass on the information they will need, such as the nature and effects of radiation, and methods for monitoring and containing it. We acknowledge that deep burial of radioactive materials precludes these possibilities and risks widespread contamination.
6. Transport of radioactive materials, with its inevitable risks of accidents and spills, should be undertaken only when storage conditions at the site of production pose a greater hazard than transportation.
7. Research and development of technologies for the least hazardous long-term treatment and placement of nuclear materials should receive high priority in public attention and funding.
8. Education of the public about the character, source, and containment of radioactive materials is essential for the health of present and future generations. This education should promote understanding of the interconnectedness of all life forms and a grasp of the extraordinary time spans for which containment is required.
9. The formation of policies for managing radioactive materials requires full participation of the public. For this purpose, the public must have ready access to complete and comprehensible information.
10. The vigilance necessary for ongoing containment of radioactive materials requires a moral commitment. This commitment is within our capacity, and can be developed and sustained by drawing on the cultural and spiritual resources of our human heritage.
The Nuclear Guardianship Ethic is proposed as an evolving expression of values to guide decision-making on the management of radioactive materials.


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major blow for the Niners, as he really emerged last year as their top receiving threat
major blow for the Niners, as he really emerged last year as their top receiving threat
I hope Nicks and Cruz stay out until the first pre-season game
Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience. MB Rule # 1
Great news for the rest of the NFC really. Opens things up a little more in terms of the playoffs.
*knock on wood* for our players!!!!!
I hope it doesnt hinder his career...
It's a shame. I really like Crabtree's game. Was hoping to see a full season of him with a QB that actually gets him the ball.
Football has been very, very good to us.
After losing seasons 2013-15, the giants put up 11 wins in 16.. they are on way Back
But for now we can console ourselves with this fact-
# of Super Bowl victories since 1985:
1-Chicago, St. Louis, Tampa Bay, Indianapolis, New Orleans, Seattle
2-Washington, Green Bay, Pittsburgh, Baltimore
3-San Francisco, Dallas, Denver
4-New York Giants!!!
Let's make it 5 in 2016 so we can be on a LINE NE again!!!
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John Ross made an unlikely looking Cherokee chief. Born in 1790 to a Scottish trader and a woman of Indian and European heritage, he was only one-eighth Cherokee by blood. Short, slight and reserved, he wore a suit and tie instead of deerskin leggings and a beaver-skin hat. His trading post made him more prosperous than most Indians—or white men. But his mother and grandmother raised him in a traditional household, teaching him the tribe's customs and legends. When the Cherokees embraced formal education—they were adapting quickly to a world they knew was changing—he attended school with their children. After his mother died, in 1808, Ross worked at his grandfather's trading post near present-day Chattanooga, an important way station on the road to the West. There he encountered white settlers moving onto Cherokee land.
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To a degree unique among the five major tribes in the South, the Cherokees used diplomacy and legal argument to protect their interests. With the help of a forward-looking warrior named Major Ridge, Ross became the tribe's primary negotiator with officials in Washington, D.C., adept at citing both federal law and details from a dozen treaties the Cherokees signed with the federal government between 1785 and 1819. In the 1820s, as they enjoyed one of the most promising periods in their history—developing a written language, adopting a constitution and building a capital city—Ross became the Cherokees' principal chief, and Ridge was named his counselor.
All the while, white settlers kept coming.
The state governments did little to discourage them, ignoring federal treaties and even abetting the taking of Indian land through bribery, fraud and coercion. When the tribes turned to Washington for redress, federal officials proved ineffectual or hostile, depending on the administration. One by one the other major Southern tribes—the Chickasaws, the Choctaws, the Creeks and the Seminoles—signed treaties that required them to uproot to the far side of the Mississippi River. But the Cherokees held out.
They finally succumbed in 1838, when they were marched 800 miles into an extremely bitter winter. The survivors of the journey to what is now Oklahoma would call it the Trail of Tears. The exodus was a communal tragedy, as it had been for the other tribes. But in the case of the Cherokees, their resistance and defeat were reflected as well in the rise and collapse of the extraordinary partnership between Ross and Ridge.
The two had met in 1813, the year Ross had a political awakening while on a trading trip through what would become Alabama. A Creek chief named Big Warrior told him a faction of his tribe had become openly hostile to European customs and settlers. These Red Sticks, as the faction called itself, were threatening civil war. Ross, only 22, recognized a hazard to the Cherokees: such a war would likely endanger white settlers, and given that whites scarcely distinguished between tribes, any retaliatory move they made would threaten every Indian. So he wrote an urgent note to the local U.S. Indian agent: "The intelligence received from the Creek Nation at this present crisis is very serious. The hostile party is said to be numerous and if assistance is not given to the Big Warrior and his party by the U.S. it is apprehensive that they will be conquered from the Superior force of the rebels."
When Tennessee militiamen intervened that fall, the Cherokees joined them, both to protect their own interests and to curry favor with whites. Ross, whose early record shows not even a fistfight, was among the 500 Cherokees who enlisted. So was Ridge, already a renowned warrior.
The Cherokees called him "the man who walks on the mountaintop," for his preferred means of traversing the woods; white men interpreted that as "ridge." He would appropriate the rank he was given during the Creek War as a first name. Born in 1770 or 1771, Ridge straddled two generations: in his youth he had fought white settlers, but as a man he welcomed European traditions. "He appears very anxious that all his people should receive instruction, and come into the customs of the whites," the missionary William Chamberlin would write in 1822. Indeed, Ridge was one of the first Cherokees to send his children to missionary schools.


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FORT WAYNE, Ind.—Twelve Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) students majoring in history, as well as education, English, German, and anthropology, will present their papers based on the research they conducted in their upper-level history classes at the Sixth Annual History Department Undergraduate Conference, Saturday, April 26, from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. The conference will take place in Kettler Hall, Room G-46. It is free and open to the public.
The conference will feature panels on four topics:
8:35 to 9:35 a.m. "Heresy, Inquisition, and the State"
9:45 to 10:45 a.m. "State Institutions and Extermination Practices in Nazi Germany"
10:55 to 11:35 a.m. "State-Building and War"
11:40 a.m. to 1 p.m. "America as a Work in Progress"
"The conference provides an opportunity for our best students to share their research with an audience of their classmates, faculty from the history and other departments, their parents, and interested members of the Fort Wayne community," said Ann Livschiz, associate professor of history. "It's an opportunity for students, some of whom are planning to go to graduate school, to get experience with conference dynamics. And for all students, it is an important opportunity to develop public speaking and oral communication skills and the confidence that comes with these skills."
The conference is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Ann Livschiz, associate professor of history, at 260-481-6693 or email@example.com.


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"Man needs but two things to survive alone in the woods. A blow up female doll and his trusty old AK-47" - Thomas Jefferson 1781
I gots to get me a shorty! Thanks alot guys. I cant afford the builds I got going now, Now I cant get the one 4th built outta my head.
Clan MacPherson
there is another guy talking about building 4.5" super-shortie!
i think there is a "shortie" arms race going on! HOW short can you go?
i was in the lead but my super shortie has got the gas-port in the chamber--now i got to find that special ported brass ammo--LOL!
I'm going to show my ignorance here, but why couldn't you make it a blow back being so short? Is it because it's not a straight walled case? I'm no expert but isn't the Desert Eagle
a modified AR bolt head? Just thinking out loud.
"The two enemies of the people are criminals and goverment, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so that the second will not become the legal version of the first" ~ Thomas Jefferson
Blowback is reserved for relatively low powered rounds, a .223 to be viable as a blowback would take a 20 something pound bolt. Not practical. And the Desert Eagle is a gas operated gun, which is why the manual states only use jacketed bullets. The lead ones melt into the gas system.


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Hope College presented awards honoring teaching, service and scholarship to multiple faculty members during the college's annual recognition luncheon on Monday, Jan. 9.
Named a "Towsley Research Scholar" was Aaron Putzke, assistant professor of biology.
The "Janet L. Andersen Excellence in Teaching Awards" were presented to Billy Mayer, professor of art, and Sonja Trent-Brown, associate professor of psychology.
The "Ruth and John Reed Faculty Achievement Awards" were presented to Andy Nakajima, associate professor of Japanese, and Roger Nemeth, professor of sociology.
The "Academic Computing Advisory Team (ACAT) Innovation Award" was presented to Barry Bandstra, who is the Evert J. and Hattie E. Blekkink Professor of Religion.
The "Provost's Awards for Service to the Academic Program" were presented to Deirdre Johnston, professor of communication, and Tracey Nally, director of sponsored research programs.
The Towsley Research Scholars Program is funded through an endowment made possible through a grant from the Harry A. and Margaret D. Towsley Foundation of Midland. Through the program, newer Hope faculty members receive support for a project for four years. The foundation's awards to the college have also included grants for the construction of the Van Wylen Library and the Schaap Science Center, faculty development in the pre-medical sciences and support for an endowed chair in communication.
Putzke will use the award to support his on-going research into the way that a protein called Fer affects how cells behave during both normal development and disease states such as cancer. Long-term, he is seeking to understand how altered amounts of the protein—either too much or too little—relate to abnormal cell functioning, including the processes that, in humans, can result in prostate cancer and leukemia. Ultimately, he hopes that the research will lead to effective new therapies for human diseases involving altered Fer function. Hope students will be working on the project as collaborative researchers both part-time during the school year and full-time for several weeks each summer.
Putzke has been a member of the Hope faculty since 2009. He has been involved in cancer-related research for more than 15 years, and immediately prior to coming to Hope was a postdoctoral research fellow for five years at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Wash.
The Janet L. Andersen Excellence in Teaching Awards are presented to faculty members who have been teaching at Hope for at least seven years and who have demonstrated recognizable excellence in specific activities or aspects of teaching. The award is named in memory of Dr. Janet Andersen, a professor of mathematics at Hope who died of injuries sustained in an automobile accident on Thursday, Nov. 24, 2005.
Mayer was recognized for his effective modeling of creativity in teaching and nurturing of creativity in his students that serves well beyond the classroom and studio. A sculptor whose work can be found throughout West Michigan, he teaches sculpture and oversees the college's ceramics program. He joined the Hope faculty in 1978, and served as the chair of the department of art and art history from 1987 until 2004.
Trent-Brown was recognized for her effectiveness as both a classroom teacher and a research mentor. She was praised for bringing innovative topics and approaches to her course work, and for combining commitment to high standards to praise from students for dedication to their success. A member of the faculty since 2005, she has involved multiple students in collaborative research and supervised several others in independent projects.
The Ruth and John Reed Faculty Achievement Awards recognize members of the Hope faculty who are superior teachers and have also contributed significantly in some other area of professional life. The award was established in memory of Dr. Ruth Yzenbaard Reed, a 1965 Hope graduate who was associate dean of Macomb Community College. Reed died in August 1999 at age 55.
Nakajima, a member of the Hope faculty since 1996, was honored for his active role in developing the college's Japanese program, which includes a composite major in Japanese studies and an academic minor in Japanese. He also serves as a resource for members of the Hope community visiting Japan and as a campus ambassador for visitors from the universities with which Hope has exchange relationships.
Nemeth, a member of the Hope faculty since 1983, was recognized for his teaching—blending rigor and approachability--and scholarship, the latter of which has included involving students as collaborative researchers on a variety of projects in the U.S. as well as abroad, including both Romania and Japan. External recognition of his work has included statewide awards for teaching and service from the Michigan Sociological Association.
The Academic Computing Advisory Team (ACAT) Innovation Award is presented to a faculty or staff member who exemplifies innovation and ingenuity in the application of technology to the academic program. The innovation may have been used in the classroom or out, in teaching or in research, or in any form of academic support or performance.
A member of the Hope faculty since 1983, Bandstra is director of academic computing and chairperson of the college's Academic Computing Advisory Team in addition to his role in the department of religion. In addition to his leadership role in integrating the use of computer technology into teaching at Hope, within his own discipline he has spent nearly three decades designing materials for both the personal computer and the web.
The Provost's Award for Service to the Academic Program is presented to individuals who have provided special contributions to the academic program through student academic support, general education, assessment work, implementation of programs that support/enhance the curriculum, and any activity outside of formal teaching that contributes to the overall excellence of the academic program.
Johnston was recognized for her leadership role in shaping her department, including as a main force in developing an internship program required of all student majors, an honors program that sees nearly all student participants attend conferences to present research projects and development of a May Term to Scotland. A member of the faculty since 1994, she served as chair from 2003 to 2010.
Nally was recognized for her effectiveness in assisting faculty across the college in seeking external grant funding in support of their scholarship. She joined the Hope staff in 1995 as administrative assistant to the dean for the natural and applied sciences, and moved to her current role in 2007. She has also coordinated the college's annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Performance since the program's inception in 2002.


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This recipe gets added depth and a pretty finish from a balsamic vinaigrette that's enriched with either port or black tea. Try the boldly flavored marinade with chicken too.
Nutrition Profile:
Diabetes Appropriate
Gluten Free Diet
Healthy Weight
Heart Healthy
High Potassium
Low Calorie
Low Carb
Low Sat Fat
Low Sodium
Serves 6
Prep Time 20 min
Total Time 60 min.
Step 1
Whisk apple juice concentrate, 2 tablespoons mustard, 1 tablespoon oil, rosemary (or thyme), garlic and peppercorns in a small bowl. Reserve 3 tablespoons marinade for basting. Place tenderloins in a shallow glass dish and pour the remaining marinade over them, turning to coat. Cover and marinate in the refrigerator for at least 20 minutes or for up to 2 hours, turning several times.
Step 2
Heat a grill or broiler.
Step 3
Combine shallot, port (or tea), vinegar, salt, pepper and the remaining 1 1/2 teaspoons mustard and 1 tablespoon oil in a small bowl or a jar with a tight-fitting lid; whisk or shake until blended. Set aside.
Step 4
Grill or broil the tenderloins, turning several times and basting the browned sides with the reserved marinade, until just cooked through, 15 to 20 minutes. (An instant-read thermometer inserted in the center should register 155°F. The temperature will increase to 160° during resting.)
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Transfer the tenderloins to a clean cutting board, tent with foil and let them rest for about 5 minutes before carving them into 1/2-inch-thick slices. Arrange the pork slices on plates and drizzle with the shallot dressing. Serve immediately.
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Renovated 3 Bedroom Loft Manhattan #32
מספר אנשים מקסימלי6
חדרי שינה3
גודל800 ft²
Floor No.3
- אינטרנט/ אינטרנט אלחוטי
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|Henry Street, NY 10002 New York, ארצות הברית
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A comfortable night's sleep can be had within the snug double bedroom. Both a cityscape picture and a nature inspired wall mural highlight a nice living room where leisure time can be enjoyed. The living room opens onto a fitted kitchen where home cooked meals can be enjoyed. Find a shower in the bathroom.
Central Park is a 10-minute subway journey away and offer a welcome respite from the hustle and bustle of the city streets which surround it on all sides. Go here to discover 21 playgrounds, to make use of sporting facilities or to enjoy the more laid back activities of chess and checkers.
Stroll through streets lined with skyscrapers to find many eating establishments, cultural institutions and entertainment venues.
כללי הביתGuests will only be provided with one set of keys.
A $250 security deposit is required for the keys. If guests lose or do not return the key immediately upon check-out, the security deposit will be lost.
|Weekly rate for up to 3 guests
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The topic "gemütliches nettes Zimmer" means "cosy bedroom" is a description which does not fit with the reality. Very small room (as described with no window), two paople could sparely store their luggage and hang a shirt. Sparely possible to open the door when somebody is standing in the room and luggage is stored.No window in the whole appartment exept in one room. No fresh air in the room, the ventilation was insufficient, so it was pretty hot at night. Very thin walls, so every talk in the rooms besides could be heard. Later we did change the location for the shower should be repaired, the other location was better.
Great location. Very simple and small apt. The location is wonderful as you atre on the green subway (just 5 mints) and you can go up and doqn. John was nice leaving us till 5, instead of 11.30, with no extra payment.
We have just arrived at home. We have spent a week in this apartment. The beds are comfortable to rest and the room was really clean. The rest of the apartment is not as big as we imagined taking a look to the photos. It is really well comunicated with the rest of Manhattan. We didn't see Mike a lot, but he was kind when we met. The building is not really nice but it is not a bad place to spend a days in NY.
Host did not show his/her face once.. not at the start and not at the end.. even did not text me back after leaving the appartment. Room (and bed) was much smaller than the pictures. Bathroom also was not what I had expected. All in all, not the best stay I've had. But it's very cheap and the location is excellent.
Thank you so much! Great place to stay during your visit, recommend it! . Great host!!
I fyou're looking for a shabby room in a noisy area , with a shared bathroom with eleven other people (good luck cleaning your teeth in the morning after a stranger has just been in the bathroom!), andif your lucky, no windows in your bedroom, then this is the place for you. The air conditioning is really noisy, so keepsyou awake, and if its not that, then it will be the loud music from next door. If thats what you're looking for, you.ll love this place. The lift ourside has a unique odor to it too, so really welcoming. And don't be confused, the white clean bedsheets on the website, may not be there to make the rooms look bigger, but i promise, it's the same room you booked. If you're not hapy with it make sure you use the wholeof your first day trying to resolve the situation, because if you don't, the proprietor, or Wimbdu, wont helpyou. You may have to move location completely. Happy holiday!
the apartment was great! it was clean and nice, everything was arranged well. The neighbours were very quite and the apartment is well situated.
Clean room in a clean flat. Mike was super cool and the location in the heart of Chinatown is awesome if you want somewhere away from all the Times Square nonsense. Would definitely use again!
Stayed at this apartment on the lower eastside for 8 days. The apartment was as presented in the photos and was clean and well appointed. The location was perfect, close to the East Village and Greenwich Village. Close to the Subway, with 7 train providing access direct to Bryant Park (Times Square ) We could not of hoped for a better situated place to stay.. Very safe neighbourhood with my wife taking subway by herself at 10.30pm at night after seeing a Broadway show .The whole Wimdu and host experience ran very smoothly so full marks to both of them. The only suggestion to improve the quality of the apartment would have been a TV with a better reception, as at times we struggled to pick up the one news station ( only a minor criticism ). Yes I would recommend the apartment to others and would stay there again
Clean, basic and noisy. You get what you paid for.
- הבטחת איכות מקומות הלינה
- כל מארח מאושר טלפונית
- תשלום מאובטח


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Do you know any younger children who engage in a social network? I'm not just talking Twitter or Facebook here. Have they got a Club Penguin or a Moshi Monsters account? Do they engage in some other forum or chat board, Minecraft perhaps? Or, are they using your iPad to play boardgames online with others that they don't know?
Do you know how these children navigate and use social networks?
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Eight Arsenal players are currently away on loan, five of whom, Armand Traore, James Dunne, Nacer Barazite, Kerrea Gilbert and Abu Ogogo remain on British soil. Eighteen-year-old left-back Traore is the only loanee cutting his teeth in the Premier League while Dunne, Barazite, Gilbert and Ogogo are further down the English system with Nottingham Forest, Derby County, Leicester City and Barnet respectively.
Overseas, the Gunners have players in Italy, Spain and Holland. Philippe Senderos, who has made 115 appearances for the Gunners, will spend the season with Serie A giants AC Milan. Pedro Botelho has joined Spanish Segunda Division outfit UD Salamanca while Vincent van den Berg is out on his second loan spell in as many years, this time with FC Zwolle of the Eerste Divisie in Holland.
Armand Traore
Portsmouth 0-3 Newcastle
Sunday, December 14.
Armand replaced Arnold Mvuemba after 58 minutes of Portsmouth's 3-0 defeat to Newcastle at Fratton Park on Sunday. Michael Owen, Obafemi Martins and Danny Guthrie all struck in the second half to hand Newcastle their first win in five games. As a result, Portsmouth now sit eighth in the Premier League but have won just one of their last seven games in all competitions.
Kerrea Gilbert
Carlisle 1-2 Leicester
Saturday December 13.
Kerrea played another 90 minutes for league leaders Leicester as they came from behind to beat Carlisle at Brunton Park on Saturday. Danny Graham slid the home side ahead from close range after 11 minutes when he rounded Foxes keeper David Martin. Andy King equalised on the hour mark before Bruno Berner netted the winner nine minutes later.
Philippe Senderos
Juventus 4-2 AC Milan
Sunday, December 14.
Philippe was an unused substitute as AC Milan were eventually beaten in an enthralling affair at Juventus. Alessandro del Piero put the hosts in front from the spot on the quarter-hour but Alexandre Pato equalised 16 minutes later. Giorgio Chiellini restored Juve's lead 90 seconds later and Amauri extended their advantage four minutes before the break. Massimo Abromsini threw the visitors a lifeline just before the hour but Gianluca Zambrotta's 65th-minute red card made a difficult task even harder. Amauri duly grabbed his second of the evening, and Juve's fourth, just four minutes later.
Pedro Botelho
UD Salamanca 3-0 UD Levante
Sunday, December 14.
Pedro racked up 90 minutes for second-place Salamanca as they swept aside Levante on Sunday. Raul Ganan handed the home side the lead after 20 minutes and, despite dominating the encounter, Los Charros had to wait until late on to finally extend their lead. Miku and Sergio Pelegrin both struck in stoppage time to secure a comprehensive victory.


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Here are some fantastic examples of Nicole Coco Austin 's fabulous booty. Yes, she has an amazing set of mammaries, but that ass is off the chart. It is way up there with any the Hip Hop Girls out there. Coco is pretty flexible too, which is nice. At eighteen, Coco began specializing in lingerie, swimsuit and body modeling. She entered in swimsuit competitions and modeled for calendars, catalogs and videos. She also won the 1998 Miss Ujena contest in Mexico.
Nicole Coco Austin had worked for Playboy for six months, working their events and parties at the Playboy Mansion. This shapely actress appeared in low-budget R-rated films, including Southwest Babes , Desert Rose, and The Dirty Monks. In the beginning of 2005 married actor/rapper Ice-T. Coco is frequently seen with him at red carpet events. If you want to see more Nicole Coco Austin naked photos, just click on the link.
Nicole Coco Austin has made guest appearances on various TV shows, such as Jamie Kennedy, E! Hip-Hop Wives, the Comedy Central Roast of Flavor Flav, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Coco was featured in a layout in the March 2008 issue of Playboy magazine and had a role in the film Thira.


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Shakespeare's Henry IV is considered one of his "histories," as it enacts actual acts and battles of the British king who deposed Richard II. But its complex logistics of alliances and rebellion also form a vessel in which play out some of the Bard's most sophisticated and satisfying relationships: the King (Thomas Anthony Quinn) and his son Prince Hal (Chris Allen), who has lately displeased him by slumming it in the taverns; Hal and his surrogate father, the legendary fat drunkard Falstaff (Bill Van Horn); Hal and his foil Henry Percy (Dustin Tucker) a young rebel whose bravery the King wishes were of his own spawn. In Shakespeare's gorgeous language and characterizations, Henry IV presents not just a complicated history but a rich treatment of family, loyalty, and honor. Lovers of the Bard should not miss the superb production of Henry IV, Part 1, at Theater at Monmouth, under the direction of the company's new Producing Artistic Director, Dawn McAndrews.
Do not be put off by the revelation that McAndrews has gone steampunk on Henry and his kingdom. While clockworks and retro-futuristic eyepieces have become a rather over-fashionable way to spice up the classics, and while the choice here seems unnecessary and its relationship to the text not particularly explored, neither is it distracting or ill-wrought. In fact, it's pretty sexy: On a stage set with a vertiginously angled grid of fine wire mesh, a drop of dirty industrial plastic, and a row of bare bulbs on chainlink, the King sits in a throne of gears and spikes (set design by Michael Minahan), strapping young bawds drink sack (a sweet wine sharpened with brandy) in leather tunics and aviator goggles, young Percy fumes in black leather pants and a mohawk, and his uncle Worcester (James Noel Hoban) wears tails with truly incredible pale aquamarine batwing lapels (costumes by Heather Carey).
More importantly, the performances of Monmouth's Henry IV are among the most supple and intelligent I've seen of Shakespeare in New England. In the hands of Allen, a tall and lissome drink of water, Hal has a fresh-faced alacrity and a remarkably long and nuanced arc to his maturation. He and Falstaff (excellently full of debauch and compassion as portrayed by Van Horn) have a crudely affectionate rapport that veers just often enough in to the poignant: When Falstaff, playacting as the King to Hal, says truth enough to sting him, Hal reciprocates as King to Falstaff's Hal with a vehement cruelty, in which Allen eloquently shows the young man's hurt, his guilt for the company he keeps, and the remorse he feels, even as he's doing it, for abusing his friend.
As Hal's foil Percy, whose fiery petulance seems to rise in proportion to Hal's measured resolve, Dustin Tucker is simply magnificent. For years, Tucker has often been cast in mainly comedic roles, with here and there a hint of his true range; in this production he opens all the stops. His Percy is mercurial, quick, and roiling with devastatingly intelligent passion, though Tucker does also bring his wickedly timed comedy (even his trademark clenched, toothy grin). Watching Percy take peevish jabs at the self-important warrior Owen Glendower (Matthew Delamater, glowering like a primitive god), is an epic pleasure, as is his bantering lust and love with Lady Percy (Ambien Mitchell, in stunning costume design).
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14.5 Cu. Ft. Commercial Beverage Center
Description & Highlights
Summit 14.5 Cu. Ft. Commercial Beverage Center - White
Designed for commercial freestanding use, the Summit 14.5 Cu. Ft. Commercial Beverage Merchandiser (SCR1400WOB) is perfect for restaurants, bars, and large offices. This commercially approved and CalCode compliant unit has a self-closing glass door with stainless steel trim for an attractive view of cans and bottles. A factory-installed door lock keeps beverages secure when you're not around. A digital thermostat with external temperature readout in Celsius or Fahrenheit gives you easy control over the temperature, which can be set anywhere from 34°F to 43°F. Two internal fans ensure fast temperature recovery.
Seven heavy duty wire shelves offer loads of storage with fifteen glide options to accommodate different sizes. The auto defrost interior is fully lit by LED lighting so you'll never fumble blindly in the dark for beverages. The fully finished white cabinet offers a clean look for displaying your beverages.
Commercially Approved:This unit is ETL-S listed to NSF standards for use in any commercial food service establishment
Digital Thermostat:Electronic controls give you precise control over temperature, anywhere from 34°F to 43°F
- Model: SCR1400WOBSummit 14.5 Cu. Ft. Commercial Beverage Center
- Brand: SummitSelf-closing glass door with stainless steel trim
- Freestanding designETL-S listed for commercial use
- 14.5 Cu.Ft.capacity4 level legs
- Digital thermostatFully finished white cabinet
- Digital displayTemperature range: 34°F - 43°F
- LED lightingFreon type: R600a
- Automatic defrostHigh side PSI: 270.0
- 7 adjustable heavy duty wire shelvesLow side PSI: 103.0
- Two internal fans for fast temperature recoveryElectrical: 115V / 60Hz / 2.8A
- 39 1/2" long stainless steel door handleWeight: 190 lbs
- 100% CFC freeInterior dimensions: 62.38" H x 20.25" W x 20.88" D
- ETL & ETL-C listedExterior dimensions: 70.75" H x 23.63" W x 24" D
- Warranty: 90 days, parts and labor
- Height: 70.75"
- Width: 23.63"
- Depth: 24"
- Height: 62.38"
- Width: 20.25"
- Depth: 20.88"


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