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George Lamming 1927-
(Full name George William Lamming) Barbadian novelist, essayist, poet, short story writer, and editor.
The following entry provides an overview of Lamming's career through 1997. For further information on his life and works, see CLC, Volumes 2, 4, and 66.
Lamming is one of the most highly regarded contemporary Caribbean writers. His works about the decolonization and reconstruction of the West Indies following the end of British colonial rule are commended for their nationalistic spirit and poetic prose style. Lamming's writing focuses on finding new political and social identity and the long-lasting effects of early colonialism on the minds and actions of the Caribbean people. His use of allegory and metaphor give deeper political meaning to stories of people newly freed from the oppression of colonial rule. Lamming's writing style is experimental, often containing circular plot structures and abrupt shifts in narrative. Through his direct confrontation of old colonial rule and his inventive writing style, Lamming has become a groundbreaking writer who has paved the way for younger Caribbean authors.
Biographical Information
Lamming was born in Barbados in 1927, and has witnessed and participated in much of the social and political upheaval that has taken place in the West Indies during his lifetime. Throughout the 1930s, rapid population growth, widespread economic depression, and the shift from a primarily agrarian economy to an industrial one profoundly altered traditional Barbadian village life. Trade unions became an effective political force and organized labor led the drive for political reform, ultimately resulting in the Barbadian independence movement. All of these factors had an impact on Lamming's life and are reflected in his works. As a child, Lamming attended Roebuck Boys School and earned a rare scholarship to Combermere High School. In 1946, he left Barbados and traveled to Trinidad, where he worked at El Collegio de Venezuela as a teacher. During this time, he met several important Trinidadian writers including Clifford Sealy and Cecil Herbert and published poetry in literary magazines. In 1950, Lamming moved to England where he worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation and as a journalist while pursuing his own literary career. He quickly established himself as a writer and an intellectual. His first two novels, In the Castle of My Skin (1953) and The Emigrants (1954), were successful and well received. In 1955, Lamming visited the United States on a Guggenheim Fellowship, serving as a writer-in-residence at the University of Texas. In 1956, he was a participant in the first international Congress of Black Writers and Artists in Paris. In 1957, In the Castle of My Skin received the Somerset Maugham Award for Literature. Lamming returned to the Caribbean and became involved in various political causes, including the movement for Barbadian independence, which was achieved in 1966. He published two novels, Of Age and Innocence (1958) and Season of Adventure (1960), and a book of essays, The Pleasures of Exile (1960), in rapid succession. In 1962, he received a Canada Council Fellowship; in 1967 he was a writer-in-residence at the Mona, Jamaica, campus of the University of the West Indies. After a twelve-year hiatus, he published two more novels, Natives of My Person (1972) and Water with Berries (1972). In 1975, Lamming was a writer-in-residence at the University of Dar-es-Salaam and the University of Nairobi. In 1976, he was awarded a British Commonwealth Foundation grant, a traveling fellowship that took him to major universities in India and Australia. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Connecticut, the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University, and the University of North Carolina. He has also acted as the director of the fiction workshop at the University of Miami's Summer Institute for Caribbean Creative Writing. Lamming remains associated with educational and cultural projects of the Barbados Workers' Union and the Barbados Labour College while dividing his time between England, the Caribbean, and the United States.
Major Works
Lamming's first novel, In the Castle of My Skin, is generally regarded as an important novel of decolonization and a national classic of West Indian literature. Set on the fictional island of San Cristobal, the story follows a male protagonist, identified only as G., from childhood to adolescence. The story concludes with G., at the age of eighteen, preparing to leave San Cristobal to pursue his education abroad. Drawing heavily on his own childhood experiences, Lamming relates the story of G.'s growth into manhood amid the political and social upheaval of the 1930s and 1940s. In Lamming's second novel, The Emigrants, he explores the massive post-World War II migration of West Indians to Great Britain. His story focuses on a group of emigrants who travel by ship from the Caribbean to England, a place they have been taught to believe is culturally superior to their native islands. Once settled in their new environment, the emigrants discover a lack of welcome, disillusionment, and a feeling of alienation; they subsequently long for home. Lamming's next novel, Of Age and Innocence, features characters who return to San Cristobal after living in England. Two of the protagonists, Mark and Isaac, react differently to being reunited with their homeland. Mark has difficulty readjusting to life in San Cristobal and is confused, whereas Isaac becomes obsessively involved with overthrowing colonization and establishing a new political and social structure. Of Age and Innocence shows race and age relations on the island and the long-lasting effects of colonialism. In his fourth novel, Lamming furthers his writing of rebellion and social change, as well as adding a cry for West Indians to reclaim their African roots in order to restructure their society. Lamming's next work, The Pleasures of Exile, is a collection of essays that gives further evidence of his nationalistic sympathies. The essays challenge both the values and beliefs that colonizers have imposed on the native populations, and the assumption that European colonization is superior and brings civilization to indigenous cultures. In 1972, Lamming published two novels almost simultaneously: Water with Berries and Natives of My Person. In Water with Berries, Lamming uses plot elements from Shakespeare's The Tempest as the basis for a profound examination of the colonial experience. In the novel, three artists, Derek, Roger, and Teeton, leave the West Indies and travel to England for enlightenment and opportunity. Like the exiles in The Emigrants, their quest for fulfillment ends in failure, disillusionment, death, and imprisonment. The false affection for colonization gives the exiles a misplaced trust that leads to their downfall. Natives of My Person focuses on slave traders of the sixteenth century. The novel reconstructs the voyage of the ship Reconnaissance, which is led by a character known as the Commandant. To atone for his past cruelties and barbarism, the Commandant plans to establish a Utopian society on the island of San Cristobal. The enterprise fails for many reasons: fighting amongst the crew, loss of interest, greed, and an inability to erase the past. The novel argues that an ideal society cannot be built by those who have committed moral atrocities and unnecessary bloodshed in their past.
Critical Reception
While In the Castle of My Skin was considered an immediate Caribbean classic and was highly praised, Lamming's succeeding novels have met with mixed reviews. Most critics find Lamming's novels to be important postcolonial literature, but some have difficulty with Lamming's writing style. The use of multiple characters and abrupt shifts in narrative have been derided by some as a sign that Lamming's works lack form and cohesiveness. However, others have praised this and see these shifts as a form of allegory for the confusion and upheaval in the lives of the West Indians. Generally, reviewers agree that Lamming is most successful with autobiographical themes, citing In the Castle of My Skin as an example. Lamming continues to be lauded as one of the most important literary voices of the postcolonial West Indies.
Principal Works
In the Castle of My Skin (novel) 1953
The Emigrants (novel) 1954
Of Age and Innocence (novel) 1958
The Pleasures of Exile (essays) 1960
Season of Adventure (novel) 1960
Natives of My Person (novel) 1972
Water with Berries (novel) 1972
Conversations: George Lamming: Essays, Addresses and Interviews, 1953-1990 (essays and interviews) 1992
Coming, Coming Home: Conversations II: Western Education and the Intellectual (essays) 2000
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Times Literary Supplement (review date 15 January 1972)
SOURCE: "Symbols Ahoy," in Times Literary Supplement, No. 3,693, December 15, 1972, p. 1,521.
[In the following review, the commentator voices his displeasure with Lamming's circumlocutory writing style.]
Ostensibly, Natives of My Person is about a voyage undertaken by a slave ship, the Reconnaissance, which sets sail from Europe during the seventeenth century in defiance of the law and with a few ulterior motives rankling in the breasts of captain and crew alike. Beneath this story—and not all that far beneath—lies an historical lesson, a political theory and a network of emotional paradigms; and the notion of those barely hidden depths is given...
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Helen Tiffin (essay date October 1979)
SOURCE: "The Tyranny of History: George Lamming's Natives of My Person and Water with Berries," in Ariel, Vol. 10, No. 4, October, 1979, pp. 37-52.
[In the following essay, Tiffin examines the underlying themes of enslavement and empowerment in Lamming's Natives of My Person and Water with Berries.]
I had felt the wind rocking me with the oldest uncertainty and desire in the world, the desire to govern or to be governed, rule or to be ruled forever.
Wilson Harris, Palace of the Peacock
In the West Indies a concern with the slave past and the disorienting effects of...
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Helen Tiffin (essay date 1979)
SOURCE: "Freedom after the Fall: Renaissance and Disillusionment in Water with Berries and Guerrillas," in Individual and Community in Commonwealth Literature, University Press, 1979, pp. 90-8.
[In the following essay, Tiffin explores the interactions among characters in Lamming's Water with Berries and V. S. Naipaul's Guerrillas.]
In A House for Mr. Biswas V. S. Naipaul in what now seems to have been an aberrant moment of optimism, pointed the way to a West Indian self acceptance and hence a personal freedom to legitimize the achieved political one. As Robertson has observed, in post-colonial literatures the pattern of the Edenic myth...
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Carolyn T. Brown (essay date Winter 1983)
SOURCE: "The Myth of the Fall and the Dawning of Consciousness in George Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin," in World Literature Today, Vol. 57, No. 1, Winter, 1983, pp. 30-43.
[In the following essay, Brown studies the autobiographical aspects of the character "G" in Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin, giving special consideration to the effect that Lamming, writing as an adult with an adult perspective, has regarding the awareness and experiences of a child.]
In 1958 George Lamming wrote that the modern black writer's endeavor is like that of "every other writer whose work is a form of self enquiry, a clarification of his relations with other...
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Reed Way Dasenbrock (review date Spring 1985)
SOURCE: A review of The Pleasures of Exile, in World Literature Today, Vol. 59, No. 2, Spring, 1985, pp. 307-08.
[In the following review of the reprinting of Lamming's The Pleasures of Exile, Dasenbrock laments that the book has not aged well and finds it to be bitter and illogical.]
I am a little perplexed as to why Allison & Busby, George Lamming's British publishers, would issue this reprint of his only work of nonfiction, published initially in 1960, for its has not worn well in the intervening twenty-five years. I hesitate to use a more precise term than "work of nonfiction," as The Pleasures of Exile is, among other things, part...
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George Lamming with Frank Birbalsingh (interview date 12 November 1985)
SOURCE: "George Lamming in Conversation with Frank Birbalsingh," in Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Vol. 23, No. 1, 1988, pp. 182-88.
[In the following interview, conducted November 12, 1985, Birbalsingh and Lamming converse about African and Caribbean literature and the effects of national experience on a writer.]
[Birbalsingh:] Let me start with a general question about the place of Africa in Caribbean consciousness. In the 1950s we had many colonial hang ups, and Africa was a place that all West Indians—including those of African descent—were very mixed up about. Since then we've had many commentators, in particular Edward...
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Avis G. McDonald (essay date 1987)
SOURCE: "'Within the Orbit of Power': Reading Allegory in George Lamming's Natives of My Person," in Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Vol. 22, No. 1, 1987, pp. 73-86.
[In the following essay, McDonald examines the symbolic representations contained in Natives of My Person.]
In the last few decades there has been a resurgence and re-evaluation of allegory both as a practised form in creative writing and as a critical technique in literary theory. To use a current cant word, the valorization by Goethe and Coleridge of symbolism over allegory signalled, if it did not cause, a long eclipse of allegorical writing. At least in critical writing this eclipse...
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Reed Way Dasenbrock (review date Autumn 1987)
SOURCE: A review of Natives of My Person, in World Literature Today, Vol. 61, No. 4, Autumn, 1987, p. 669.
[In the following review, Dasenbrock admires Lamming's attempt at the blending of historical fiction and allegory, but finds that Lamming's narrative fluctuates too often between the two genres to be considered a successful novel.]
Natives of My Person, a 1971 novel now reprinted by Allison & Busby, is certainly George Lamming's most ambitious and probably his most significant work to date. It is above all an attempt to come to grips with the peculiar history of the West Indies, peculiar not just because most of its inhabitants were brought there...
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George Lamming with Paul Buhle (interview date 25 November 1987)
SOURCE: "C. L. R. James: West Indian George Lamming Interviewed," in C. L. R. James's Caribbean, Duke University Press, 1992, pp. 28-36.
[In the following interview, conducted by Paul Buhle on November 25, 1987, Lamming discusses C. L. R. James's writing and the effect it has on other West Indian writers, including Lamming himself.]
[Buhle:] Can you describe [C. L. R.] James's influence on you and the other West Indians in England during the 1950s?
[Lamming:] I think that his friendships among West Indians in England were pretty general. He had a seminar thing, a generation who used to go to Staverton Road, and who were...
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Joyce E. Jonas (essay date Spring 1988)
SOURCE: "Carnival Strategies in Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin," in Callaloo, Vol. 11, No. 2, Spring, 1988, pp. 346-60.
[In the following essay, Jonas examines the essence of the "Trickster" and shows the instances of this imaginary creature presiding over Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin.]
West Indian novelist George Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin takes its title from a couplet in Derek Walcott's juvenilia:
You in the castle of your skin I the swineherd.
Walcott here invokes a conventional romance situation—unattainable mistress and infatuated, self-denigrating admirer—with the added pungency of...
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Michael G. Cooke (essay date January 1990)
SOURCE: "The Strains of Apocalypse: Lamming's Castle and Brodber's Jane and Louisa," in Journal of West Indian Literature, Vol. 4, No. 1, January, 1990, pp. 28-40.
[In the following essay, Cooke studies the effect gender has on the tone of a "coming of age" novel written by a Caribbean writer. In the Castle of My Skin is written from the male standpoint, whereas Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home is written from the female point of view.]
George Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin is self-consciously built around three apocalyptic scenes: the opening flood; the prolonged episode of the heroic fisherman at the "other side"...
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Neil ten Kortenaar (essay date April 1991)
SOURCE: "George Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin: Finding Promise in the Land," in Ariel, Vol. 22, No. 2, April, 1991, pp. 43-53.
[In the following essay, ten Kortenaar discusses his displeasure with In the Castle of My Skin, finding fault with Lamming's wordiness, insufficient character development, and lack of plot cohesiveness.]
Sandra Pouchet Paquet in her authoritative book on the novels of George Lamming analyzes In the Castle of My Skin as a sociological and political study of Barbados. She finds that the narrative reproduces the historical process whereby a feudal mercantilist economy gave way to a capitalist market economy. But in...
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Gordon Rohlehr (essay date August 1992)
SOURCE: "Possession as Metaphor: Lamming's Season of Adventure," in Journal of West Indian Literature, Vol. 5, Nos. 1-2, August, 1992, pp. 1-29.
[In the following essay, Rohlehr examines the political metaphors and instances of allegory in Season of Adventure.]
The tendency to employ ecstatic possession as metaphor of the descent into the unconscious mind of the individual and the group, has become quite common in both Afro-Caribbean and Afro-American literatures. Texts such as Brathwaite's The Arrivants, Scott's An Echo in the Bone, Toomer's Cane, Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain, Salkey's A Quality of Violence and...
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Peter Hulme (essay date 1993)
SOURCE: "The Profit of Language: George Lamming and the Postcolonial Novel," in Recasting the World: Writing after Colonialism, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, pp. 120-36.
[In the following essay, Hulme examines the reworking of Shakespeare's The Tempest in many of Lamming's works.]
The colonial situation is a matter of historical record. What I'm saying is that the colonial experience is a live experience in the consciousness of these people. And just because the so-called colonial situation and its institutions may have been transferred into something else, it is a fallacy to think that the human-lived contents of...
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Margaret Kent Bass (essay date Fall 1994)
SOURCE: "'Whirling out of the Dance …': Three Autobiographies Written in Exile," in Griot, Vol. 13, No. 2, Fall, 1994, pp. 42-6.
[In the following essay, Bass finds many similarities among American Richard Wright's Black Boy, South African Ezekiel Mphahlele's Down Second Avenue, and Caribbean George Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin despite the different nationalities of the writers.]
In Metaphors of Self James Olney says, "It is the great virtue of autobiography as I see it to offer us understanding that is finally not of someone else but of ourselves" (x). However, what we can expect to understand about ourselves is not...
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Roosevelt Williams (essay date Fall 1994)
SOURCE: "Mothers and Their Defining Role: The Autobiographies of Richard Wright, George Lamming, and Camara Laye," in Griot, Vol. 13, No. 2, Fall, 1994, pp. 54-61.
[In the following essay, Williams compares the strong mother figures in Wright's Black Boy, Laye's The Dark Child, and Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin, and analyzes their effect on the lives of their children.]
The autobiographies of George Lamming. Richard Wright and Camara Laye have much in common with many other autobiographies which have emerged out of the European tradition. They share with other writers of the autobiography a common intention, which is to make themselves...
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Viney Kirpal (essay date April 1997)
SOURCE: "George Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin: A Modern West Indian Novel," in Ariel, Vol. 28, No. 2, April, 1997, pp. 103-14.
[In the following essay, Kirpal defends In the Castle of My Skin in light of Neil ten Kortenaar's negative critical review (Ariel 22:2 April, 1991). Kirpal evaluates the novel from a different perspective and finds it to be a worthwhile political/social endeavor and a complex work of fiction.]
Doubt about the merit and stature of postcolonial literary texts—rather than their paucity—is the factor that most likely discourages many Departments of English in India and elsewhere from formally introducing them into...
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Further Reading
Chukwu, Austin. "Mad-Men and Sane Boys: The Old and the New in George Lamming's Of Age and Innocence." Commonwealth: Novel in English 5, No. 2 (Fall 1992):49-65.
In this essay, Chukwu explores the themes of age, race, and innocence in Lamming's Of Age and Innocence.
Jonas, Joyce. Anancy in the Great House: Ways of Reading West Indian Fiction. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1990, 150 p.
Compares the themes contained in the writings of George Lamming and Wilson Harris, giving special consideration to the problematic limitations of language and perceptions of the protagonists.
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This weekend a small team of British and American drivers and navigators will set out in a fleet of Land Rover-based QT Wildcat off-roaders to compete in the Dakar Rally, the world's most gruelling long-distance race.
It's a deadly serious affair that has claimed more than 50 lives since 1978, cuts across three countries in 15 days and has become a symbol of full-throttle adventure. But not any of this seems to worry the Race2Recovery team, made up of six former soldiers who lost limbs or suffered serious injury while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The idea for a team of disabled veterans came about in 2009 when Race2Recovery co-founder Anthony Harris, a captain in the Royal Fusiliers, met Tom Neathway, a corporal in the Parachute Regiment, at the army's rehabilitation centre at Headley Court, Surrey. They had both lost limbs to improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Afghanistan and were looking for a "challenge" to give themselves a "goal for the future".
"There was an opportunity to try rallying and we both wanted to show what was possible and the idea of tackling the Dakar sprang from there," Harris, 31, says. He lost his leg after an IED exploded under his Jackal armoured vehicle in 2009 and now leads a team of walking wounded drivers and navigators. They include Neathway, army medic Andrew Taylor, US Marine Mark Zambon, Royal Fusilier Matt O'Hare, Irish Guardsman Philip Gillespie, and several professional drivers.
The Dakar Rally, now held in South America after fears of terrorism forced a move from West Africa in 2009, is probably the world's most challenging endurance race and in an age of dull Formula One processions, it runs 8000km of the most inhospitable terrain Peru, Argentina and Chile have to offer. To tackle this extreme route, the team's four Land Rover Wildcats will be supported by a team of mechanics in South America and on-call experts back in Britain to maintain the team's prosthetics.
"There's no denying it will be a real challenge for us," Harris says. "But there's less of us to damage so we're a lot harder to injure. In all seriousness though, seconds count in motorsport but it's a sport where nobody cares if you're disabled or not. In fact, you're positively encouraged to use the latest technology, whether on your car or on your prosthetics, to get the best result."
A case in point for Harris, who lost his left leg below the knee after an infection from an IED blast, was the clutch on his Wildcat. He was unable to feel the biting point until the team's mechanics fitted a warning light system to let him know when the pedal was depressed.
An even greater challenge faces Neathway who lost both legs above the knee and his left arm after triggering a booby-trapped sandbag in Helmand Province in 2008.
"My prosthetics are not built to withstand the condition on the rally, by which I mean shocks, knocks and extremes of temperature," he says. "They're meant to last about five years in normal conditions, but with all the punishment I'm putting them through, mine will probably only survive two years."
He's taking two spare sets of legs with him to South America and, like the other above-knee amputees, will need to make sure his limbs are free of sand and fully charged from his car's on-board power supply.
"The real challenge for the Race2Recovery team will be the South American sand," says Chris Evans, a Dakar veteran who helps organise the event and has followed the team's progress in training and at the Tuareg rally in Morocco. "The sand is soft and it'll be really tough if they get stuck and need to dig out one of their vehicles in the searing heat ... That beats many people who are fully able."
Martin Colclough, head of sports recovery at Help For Heroes, agrees the Dakar will be a new challenge for the team. "Modern prosthetics are very robust," he says. "But the conditions on Dakar will test the team's limbs to the limit because, as with all modern technology, sometimes prosthetics trade off robustness with function."
He says Neathway faces the most difficulties: "The drivers mainly have below-knee amputations so fairly simple prosthetics they can maintain with their personal pack of Allen keys, grease, oil and grub screw. But for amputees with more complex needs like Tom, the biggest risks are the kinds of shocks they'll experience over rough terrain and extremes of temperature."
All the drivers and navigators are also likely to face exhaustion and pain related to their amputation sites during the rally. Limbs removed surgically, in the treatment of cancer for example, tend to have very clean stumps, but limbs lost in combat are often irregular and can still have embedded shrapnel. Socket technology is advancing and organisations like Help For Heroes and British Limbless Ex-Service Men's Association are working on therapies, while researchers at MIT in Boston are working on biomechatronic limb sockets, but it will still be a major area of concern for the team.
"Their sockets are made of carbon-fibre material and shock loading on those can result in cracking and discomfort. There's also the risk of fungal infection to worry about, so the guys need to be meticulous about caring for their stumps" Colclough says.
As well as raising more than £1 million ($1.94 million) for Tedworth House, one of five recovery centres set up with the Ministry of Defence, Help for Heroes and the Royal British Legion, the team are working to rebuild themselves for the future in line with its tagline "beyond injury, achieving the extraordinary".
And it's not the only amazing thing Race2Recovery could achieve. "All the mechanical equipment, from their Land Rover engines to their sockets and prosthetic limbs, will be tested to the limit out there, so we'll get excellent feedback for the development of future technology and sports rehabilitation," says Colclough.
The Dakar Rally
What: 15-day endurance race
Distance: 8000km
Covers: Peru, Argentina and Chile
Background: Shifted to South America from West Africa in 2009 because of terrorism fears
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Advance tickets for the 69th annual Holiday Folk Fair International, America's premiere multi-cultural festival, are now on sale at locations throughout southeastern Wisconsin. The event will be held Fri., Nov. 16 – Sun., Nov. 18, 2012, at the Wisconsin Exposition Center at State Fair Park.
Advance tickets can be purchased for $10 through Thursday, November 15, at:
• Sendik's Food Markets
13425 W. Watertown Plank Road, Elm Grove
5200 W. Rawson Avenue, Franklin
N112 W15800 Mequon Road, Germantown
2195 1st Avenue, Grafton
7901 West Layton Avenue, Greenfield
10930 N. Port Washington Road, Mequon
3600 South Moorland Road, New Berlin
8616 West North Avenue, Wauwatosa
280 North 18th Avenue, West Bend
500 East Silver Spring Drive, Whitefish Bay
• Usinger's Famous Sausage: 1030 N. Old World Third St., Milwaukee
• Park Bank
330 E. Kilbourn Ave., Milwaukee
302 E. Wells St., Milwaukee
7540 W. Capitol Dr., Milwaukee
15850 W. Bluemound Rd., Brookfield
• International Institute of Wisconsin, 1110 N. Old World Third St., Suite 420, Milwaukee
• All participating ethnic groups
Advance tickets can also be ordered by phone (414-225-6225 or 1-800-FAIR-INTL); fax (414-225-6235); or on-line at www.folkfair.org. In addition to the individual tickets, family four-packs are available for $36. Advance Sale tickets requested in one of these ways must be ordered by November 14, and there are no refunds.
Produced by the International Institute of Wisconsin, Holiday Folk Fair International celebrates the cultural heritage of the people living in southeastern Wisconsin. This year's theme, "Celebrate the Culture of the Story," will allow Fair-goers the opportunity to learn the ways in which music, food, dance, and art explain a culture's history and traditions.
Special attractions at this year's event include the "One World, One People" photo exhibit, the Sister Cities International Young Artists and Authors Showcase, the UNESCO World Heritage Sites photo exhibit, an Old World Wisconsin display area, the Wisconsin Woodturners, and a bonsai exhibit.
The three-day event features the All Nations Theater with traditional music and dance, the World Café offering traditional dishes, the International Stage where young people perform their ethnic dances, the Music Pavilion with a variety of musical styles, Heritage Lane with unique traditions and customs through interactive exhibits, the International Bazaar where cultural artifacts create a unique shopping experience, and the Callen Construction Cooking Demonstration Stage featuring local chefs preparing traditional cuisine.
Holiday Folk Fair International will also host a United States Citizenship Naturalization Ceremony Sat., Nov. 17, at 10:30 a.m. and an "Around the World" 5K Run/Walk Sun., Nov. 18 at 9:00 a.m.
Hours on Fri., Nov. 16 are 2 p.m. – 10 p.m.; 10 a.m. – 10 p.m. on Sat., Nov. 17; and 10 a.m. – 7 p.m. on Sun., Nov. 18.
Admission at the gate will be $12 for adults; $8 for children ages 6 to 12; children under the age of five will be admitted at no charge. Those 62 and over will be admitted for $10, and all military personnel with a military ID card will be admitted free.
For more information on the 2012 Holiday Folk Fair International, visit www.folkfair.org or call the International Institute of Wisconsin at 414-225-6220.
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Exploring South Lake in Boutique Style
Basecamp Hotel • South Lake Tahoe, CA
Escape Kit
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- Daily Breakfast for Four
- S'mores by the Fire Pit
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The Destination
Walk five minutes west and you're wading in Lake Tahoe. Walk five minutes south and you're boarding a chairlift at Heavenly. Walk five minutes east and, well, if you enjoy gambling, you can do that, too. Is there any better place from which to explore Lake Tahoe than from the aptly named Basecamp Hotel?
The Digs
Brand new, boutique, and smack-dab in the middle of the Tahoe Basin, this 50-room hotel caters especially to the outdoors set, not only with its prime location just minutes from the gondola, but also with environmentally friendly business practices and a staff of savvy locals. The hotel also features a rooftop hot tub, a bar serving gourmet coffee drinks as well as microbrews, and two fire pits for nighttime revelry.
Rooms are appointed with rough-hewn wood furnishings (a log nightstand, a hand-fashioned bench) and original artwork by Bay Area native Wendy McNaughton. Each room is also equipped with a 32-inch flat-screen TV, wireless Internet, a walk-in shower, and a rack for drying and storing outdoors equipment. At night (if you stay on a Wednesday, Friday, or Saturday), you'll have the opportunity to spend a little extra for a communal dinner, where you can break bread with—and glean tips from—other explorers at the hotel.
The Diversions
Reach for the sky on day two with a trip up to Heavenly Mountain Resort. Take the 12-minute, 2.4-mile gondola to the top; from there you'll have expansive views of the Carson Valley as well as easy access to mountain biking and hiking trails. Or, dip a toe in the icy waters of Lake Tahoe with a paddleboard rental from South Tahoe Standup Paddle. Not only for paddleboarders, this friend of Basecamp Hotel offers a variety of watercraft for rent, from single and double kayaks to pedal boats and canoes. Just across the border you'll find several options for nightlife at the casinos and clubs of Stateline, Nevada.
"Adventure-seekers will feel right at home at this affordable, playful 50-room hotel, which was built as a place for like-minded people to mix and mingle (and there's an inviting lobby, plus communal dinners to help make it happen)."-- Travel + Leisure
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Essentia Health offers advice for flu season
Essentia Health-St. Joseph's Medical Center in Brainerd is temporarily restricting visitors due to high levels of flu-like illness.
The hospital requests visitors be limited to immediate family. To protect patients and children in the community, the hospital requests children do not visit at this time.
The best way to protect yourself and your family against the flu is to get vaccinated.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend a flu vaccine for anyone who is 6 months old or older. It's not too late to get your flu vaccine.
The CDC indicates that the strains of flu being seen this year are a good match to the strains in the vaccine. Some people who get the flu shot may still get the flu, but typically symptoms will be milder.
Kari Russell, registered nurse and infection preventionist at Essentia Health-St. Joseph's Medical Center, said, "Getting vaccinated is the best way to protect yourself, your family and your community from the flu. Other precautions you should take include cover your nose and mouth when you cough or sneeze, wash your hands frequently with soap and water or alcohol based hand rubs, and do not go to work or school if you are sick."
Pequot Lakes Schools substitute nurse Nancy Moritz said the district is experiencing the beginning stages of the flu.
"We're seeing the symptoms, but we haven't seen a large number," she said. "There's no need to report to the state. At this point we're crossing our fingers."
The state requires flu cases be reported if 5 percent of the school population is sick with flu.
Flu-like symptoms include fever, cough, sore throat, runny nose, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue. If you are experiencing any of these symptoms:
• The CDC recommends that you stay home for 24 hours after your fever is gone without the use of fever-reducing medicine.
• Essentia Health is encouraging the public not to visit patients in the hospital if they have a fever or cough.
• Flu vaccine is available at all of the Essentia Health Clinics.
To make a flu vaccination appointment, call your local Essentia Health Clinic or 218-828-2880. The cost of a flu vaccine is covered by Medicare Part B, Medicaid and most private insurance companies.


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Juggling as art ... and science
Michael Moschen puts on a quietly mesmerizing show of juggling. Don't think juggling is an art? You might just change your mind after watching Moschen in motion.
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It's the last official weekend of summer but there are no signs of summer weather easing anytime soon with a dry weekend moving in and a dry, settled, week next week. So, how much longer do we have to wait for rain? Philip Duncan takes a look at conditions around NZ and our part of the world.


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The Beerlooter doesn't want some slime bag cheap ho like Hillary on his ticket.
You only have the rights you are willing to fight for.I Like 1911's.
The Beerlooter doesn't want some slime bag cheap ho like Hillary on his ticket.
We have met the enemy, and he is us!
With a 1" Afro and the loss of that silly 'do, the brother could go places.
Maybe to Washington D.C. with Hitlery. I don't think either would mind having the other for a running mate.
Naw...Not Hillary. we should pair him up with someone who isn't detested by the country as a whole.
Give him a tighter 'fro and with that suit, he'll clean up nice.
As long as he can use correct grammar or at least repeat what is fed to him by the hidden wire Bush used, and sober up for PR appearances, that winning smile will take him far.
We can get Karl Rove to puppeteer him into being Shrub's successor.
He is clearly a small time looter compared to Hillary.
Everyone had you pegged.
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I like it!
Kewl, Dirtalert's back posting. Glad to see yer back Dirt.
We have met the enemy, and he is us!
Thanks for the kind words Pogo. Now where did I put that Pogo pictures folder?Originally Posted by Pogo
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. -- Bertrand Russell
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." Robert J. Hanlon


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The Rabbit Ears Motel, located in beautiful Steamboat Springs, Colorado, is your choice for comfortable, affordable lodging right in the center of downtown.
Either they built Steamboat around our motel, or our motel was conveniently built in the center of all the action. So, both ways, you know that all the activities and nightlife the valley provides are in close proximity.
Choose a weekend get-away for the family, or stay with us the whole week. World-class skiing with slope-side ski-in, ski-out convenience is expensive and overrated. Our motel is right on the main street and just a 5 minutes' bus ride to the gondola and the base of the ski area. Oh, and the bus is free.
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August 11, 1979
Stevenage, UK
Knebworth Festival
The Song Remains the Same, Celebration Day, (Out On the Tiles intro) Black Dog, Nobody's Fault But Mine, Over the Hills and Far Away, Misty Mountain Hop, Since I've Been Loving You, No Quarter, Hot Dog, Rain Song, White Summer ~ Black Mountainside, Kashmir, Trampled Underfoot, Sick Again, Achilles Last Stand, Jimmy Page solo, In The Evening, Stairway to Heaven, Rock and Roll, Whole Lotta Love, Communication Breakdown.
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Not as good as the first week and also a little more tension in the air. Some songs sound very sloppy, almost like the band doesn't want to be there, but then again, some sound excellent. The opening 45 minutes or so sound strong and good, but the intensity starts to flag towards the end. Jimmy butchers the solo in Whole Lotta Love, and the end encores sound tired ("Can you do the dinosaur rock?" reflected what the band thought playing these old tunes). This was also the last concert in the United Kingdom but Robert, before as he left the stage, said: "We'll see you soon. Very soon. Don't know about the Marquee, but somewhere soon." They couldn't knew what happened a year later. Some problems with Page's guitar and PA system truncated Over The Hills And Far Away and Misty Mountain Hop.


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My jaw is still on the floor
LOL they lost to the Chiefs...Yeah I feel sorry for them too now
"...two minute drill at the end of each quarter, Ya'know with the wind like this blowing mooch and marshall into the ocean...If that's behind me I think were getting 3 from 70 so holla at your boy. IF YOU DON"T PICK ME THAT'S A JOKE RIGHT?" - Justin Tucker, Ravens kicker
Complain?, ain't Nobody got time for dat!
lol Jamaal Charles ran the daylights on them. No Payton No Defense No Playoffs... not too surprising. I fully expect them to go 0 for September and fantasy football players to start all their available roster players against the Saints defense every week this season.
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I feel no sympathy for those fools. Brees is not that good. He is a result of the Peyton system.
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!!!
***Stat provided by "Schloss22"***
The Bounty stuff is bringing them bad Karma now. Let's hope we destroy em when they come to our house later in the yr. We owe them big time!


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I think these are valid thoughts, i for one still believe that in his World of Tiki, he must have thought that the troops would rally to his cause (possible retirement), they didn't, he painted himself into a corner and pride got him in the end.

how goofy will he feel if this team were to go deep or more?

these grown men have become subsumed by greed and ego and have really lost sight of what a team really is and made of.

Eli and Tiki need to let the crap run down the drain and move on. only thing that will come from this stupid episode of the melo-drama: The Jints be Burning, is more needless and useless chatter.

Frankly and REALISTICALLY Tiki DID carry this team in the final stretch and that's a hard fact that many can't swallow. So did he not give his all out there? Stop smokingcrack...you know he did.

Meanwhile the other 31 NFL teams concentrate on the upcoming season and what they have to do to get a Championship...

Well good for Eli I agree that he should have stood up for himself and I'm glad that he's now laying it down and putting it behind him. This thing was so ridiculous but it had to happen and I'm glad it did.

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[quote user="egyptian420"]Don't get me wrong, Newton is a tremendous athlete and a fantasy point machine...but how many wins has he gotten? At this point, I'd take Dalton over him.
[/quote]He has 2 less wins than Eli has this year. What's your point? He was the no. 1 draft pick meaning he went to the worst team in the league. Oh yeah, did I mention he's a rookie? Dalton couldn't hold Newton's jock strap.


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Venue/Location: Warehouse Theatre
Date: Saturday, November 16, 2013 - 7:30 PM
One performance only!
Momma at the Gate & Potboilers presented by the P.A.R. Pierce Artist Residency in collaboration with Agnes Table inspired by Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children: A Chronicle of the Thirty Years' War & Park Wan-Suh's Momma's Stake
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Bingham Memorial CEO Denies Allegations Of Bad Business
Controversy Over Document In Saipan Raises Questions
BINGHAM COUNTY, Idaho - An eastern Idaho business is making big headlines across the Pacific Ocean in Micronesia.
International Consulting Services, LLC, or ICS, was founded in February by Bingham Memorial Hospital CEO Louis Kraml and COO Dan Cochran.
Kraml said they created the company to help a struggling hospital on the island of Saipan. That's part of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, which is a U.S. Territory.
According to documents, an agreement was signed by Cochran and the CEO of the Saipan hospital on February 24, turning management of the facility over to Cochran and Kraml.
But the Mariana's Attorney General, Edward Buckingham, said that document was illegal. In a cease-and-desist letter dated April 8, Buckingham said the project wasn't announced for bid, nor was it certified by his office.
Buckingham said by phone that the agreement would have given Kraml and Cochran's company a commission above industry standards and a number of fees he felt were inappropriate.
"Two entities that were really watchdogs for the Commonwealth were not involved in the initial process, mainly the Department of Finance and the Office of the Attorney General," said Buckingham. "Both entities have, I think, critical roles, one looking money and dollars and other looking at the appropriateness and legality."
The controversy has some in Saipan and eastern Idaho raising questions about Kraml and Cochran's company. Are they working on other businesses while on the Bingham Memorial clock?
In an hour long meeting with media on Tuesday morning, Kraml laughed off allegations that it was a "sweetheart" deal or on Bingham Memorial's dime. He said his only motive is to help a desperate hospital.
"This has been quite an adventure," said Kraml.
Kraml said Saipan's Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation heard about his reputation of successfully turning around struggling rural hospitals, like Bingham Memorial.
"It starts by looking at people, the people that work in a hospital," said Kraml of his strategy.
After a week in Saipan with Cochran, the two created ICS. Kraml dismissed claims of an outside relationship between Saipan hospital heads and Idaho.
"I have a connection with no one over there, except now I have a connection with the hospital from my heart," said Kraml.
Kraml and Cochran are ICS' only two employees; both co-owners through their own separate limited liability companies. Kraml has more than a dozen LLC's registered to his name in the Idaho Secretary of State online records.
He said JAG Consulting and ICS are for Saipan business, LDK and KConco are existing but inactive, and the rest, he said, are related to Bingham Memorial, which is also registered to him as BMH, Inc.
"This is me moonlighting, okay," he said. "Which is, I can do that with my contract at the hospital."
But when that contract earned him more than $700,000 in 2009, according to 990 tax forms, it raises the question: When does the CEO have time to moonlight?
"When I sit back, I've probably got an extra two-and-a-half, three hours a day I can contribute," he said.
Kraml said he took a week of vacation days to make his first and only visit to Saipan. He said ICS doesn't have an office, but emphatically stated that work is not performed at Bingham Memorial.
"We make sure that's absolutely separate," said Kraml. "Someone asked me, 'Do hospital employees help?' I said, 'There's not even a Bingham paper clip involved in this project.' There can't be. That would be wrong."
Kraml pointed to documents he said were from the Saipan hospital's board of trustees and director, defending the integrity of his company.
In a letter dated April 27, board members wrote, "ICS has done nothing illegal and in fact were the only people willing to help CHCC when this small hospital was about to close, leaving the 55,000 people of Saipan without critical healthcare."
Kraml said the adventure didn't start as a business, rather, as efforts to help out. At the same time, he said, if he and Cochran do great work, they expect to be paid for it.
Kraml said Cochran is in Saipan with his wife right now, working to hammer out the details.
Buckingham said negotiations are on-going. He hopes the two sides will reach a legal contract this week.


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Hope College graduate Julie Meyers will present the address "Deflating the Legend: Michelet's Portrayal of Napoleon" on Wednesday, March 14, at 4 p.m. in the Maas Center conference room.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
Meyers is a 1999 graduate of Hope, where she majored in French and Spanish, and is currently a doctoral candidate in French language and literature at the University of Chicago. Her talk, which will be delivered in English, is being presented through the college's French Cultural Studies Colloquium.
According to Meyers, although Napoleon Bonaparte did not set foot in France after 1815, he was an omnipresent force in French culture and politics well into the 19th century.
"Alternately glorified and demonized, idealized and humanized, he inspired a plethora of representations in literature, art and politics," she notes in her description of her talk. "He was seen both as the savior and preserver of the Revolution and as the traitor of its most fundamental ideals. At the same time, some saw him as the fusion and incarnation of all the French people, while for others he was simply an opportunistic foreigner."
The presentation will include a brief biography of Napoleon and an overview of the legends that he has inspired, ending with French historian Jules Michelet's changing representations of him and his ultimate rejection of the very role of the "grand homme" (great man).
The Maas Center is located at 264 Columbia Ave., on Columbia at 11th Street.


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hey guys is it possible to can with honey instead of sugar if so what is the recipe? thanks
Yes, but it depends on what you are canning. My books say 1/2 cup honey is equivelant to 1 cup sugar. Don't add the honey and boil your brine. Add the honey after the brine is boiled and removed from heat. What are you canning? I've made pickles and pickled eggs using honey. They both tasted good but the brine became ropey and cloudy. Make sample batches before going full throttle in your canning. Some honeys that have a strong flavor really comes out with the brine.
This looks like the book you need.
Use google and search "canning using honey"
I guess i was wondering for like fruits and stuff. yea i googled it a little but was feeling lazy so just thought i would see if some one else had done it.
Years ago my wife canned 40-50 quarts of peaches using honey. They tasted ok (I think normal canned peaches were a little better) but had a brown tint to them. They didn't look as nice a bright yellow peaches.
I have the book "Putting it up with Honey" here at my store and it is a pretty good reference. Amazon sells it as Beeslave mentioned. There are a lot of fruit recipes. If you are looking to do any canning with honey I would recommend it.
If you use Pomona's Universal Pectin instead of Surejell, the package includes recipes for jams and jellies made with honey.


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text: Posted November 22, 2012 At its best, leadership development initiatives are designed to fit the needs and issues of the client. Some help people get along in an organization, some focus on individual development, some focus on culture change...and those are only a few examples. My graduate degree is in that field and I work in that business, too. Just cautioning the board not to assume leadership development is a cookie-cutter process. As far as program effectiveness is concerned: While there may be examples of "neutered" top performers in some cases, I'd hesitate before painting leadership development initiatives with such a broad brush. Research simply doesn't support that notion. I respect you may have personal experience that says otherwise, but let's be careful about generalizing. Leadership development in athletics is interesting. We tend to equate "leadership" with on-field performance. If a player shines as an individual performer, we call him/her a leader. Our judgement isn't generally informed by whether they do less obvious things to enhance a team's performance. Are they agile learners? Are they effective communicators and teachers of one another? Can they reflect on what was successful and what wasn't (and adapt accordingly)? These attributes are essential in all high-stakes, high performance contexts. Look at the Patriots. They succeed with several superstars, but lots of few JAGs. The right combination and chemistry of JAGs can outperform star-laden rosters. We like to think Belicik is just that brilliant. But if you listen to his players after they retire, you'll hear stories of leadership from coaches and players. Not just on-field leadership, but a culture, a discipline, and an identity focused on achieving the team's objectives. I'd say that's relevant to football. And wouldn't you say that culture has to start with the coaching? That it is almost impossible for it to carryover from the players, who generally aren't around for the many years it takes to establish an identity? That was my point in the whole leadership rant, that this can't be about players failing to lead, but that at a systematic level there is a failure of leadership. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Palma Old Town apartment 1km to beach.
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Grootte70 m²
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Centrally located in the old town of Palma de Mallorca.
This characteristic apartment is on the 2th floor with lift, in one of the most popular streets and very close to the Place of Almudaina and cathedral of Palma de Mallorca.
There are 2 bedrooms with double bed with a sharing bathroom has 2 double wardrobe and hot and cold air conditioning unit. Fully equipped kitchen next to the dining area.The apartment is spacious and with a lot of light, a total of 70 sq metres.
This cozy apartment privilege located on the historical part of the old town of Palma, close to: cathedral, bishop gardens, Arabic bath and the great wall, also beautiful Mallorquin Palaces.
The apartment is situated in the street at 100 metres from Plaza Cort and Paseo Es Born ideal for people who want to experience the old city of Palma. Close by is the shopping areas, Colon, Jaime II, Borne, San Miguel, Sindicato and also cafeterias, Restaurants and Boutiques.
All the historical sites, palaces, museums and art galleries are within walking distance, not forgetting the impressive Cathedral. Surrounding the apartment are many famous squares with coffee shops, tapas and wine bars and restaurants.
Palma's beaches are 15-20 minutes' walk away, and discovering nearby beaches by local transport is easy.
Throughout the year Palma hosts many fiestas and celebrations, from art nights in the streets, to medieval fairs, firework displays and outside live music. The city hosts international sailing events, and connects the other Balearics Islands by ferry.
Not forgetting the famous Tuesday nights busy "Routa Martiana" which happens in the area of the apartment where all the tapas bars are open offering tapas and beer or wine from 2.50€ each.
The famous antique train to Soller also leaves from Palma, travelling through the beautiful countryside, to the village of Soller.
The rental of this property is based on the Spanish Law on Urban Leases (29/1994, 24th November). According to this law the property is available for seasonal renting, however, the contract does not offer any tourist service. It is only for the use and enjoyment of the property.
ReglementenThe rental of this property is based on the Spanish Law on Urban Leases (29/1994, 24th November). According to this law the property is available for seasonal renting, however, the contract does not offer any tourist service. It is only for the use and enjoyment of the property.
Refundable deposit required for any wilful damage to the property or its contents, to be paid at hand over the keys.
For hand over of the keys, please ask for more details.
Refundable security deposits required for any damage to the property or contents, will be refunded 48 hours after leaving the property by bank transfer, so we will request your bank details (full name, name and address of the bank, IBAN, swift or bic number) either before or at hand over the keys.
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Perfect location, easy to walk within minutes to restaurants, bars, shops, cafes.
Spacious lounge & dining area. Two good sized double bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, one with en suite.
The apartment was clean and all necessary equipment available (TV, free WLAN, Nespresso coffee machine, A/C in all rooms except one sleeping room (only vent), washing machine).
Communication and logistics was excellent.
Had a wonderful week in our new "home" in Palma. The apartment was very central to everything going on - from restaurants, shops, bars, buses, taxis and a short walk to the train station. The apartment had everything that we had requested and was very clean. We met Claudia on our arrival and she was very welcoming and helpful. We will definitely use Wimdu again for our next visit to Palma.
Nice place, centrally located with bars and restaurants within a 5 minutes walk. Some cafes for breakfast directly around the corner.
The appartment is light, clean, big enough for three and nicely equipped. The kitchen could have a little bit more equipment and the WiFi should be checked (wasn't working for us all three days).
Communication and logistics was excellent.
The flat was really nice. We appreciated the good beds and the air conditioning. There were 41 steps to the secend floor but it was OK for us. It would be nice if you can do a manual to the washing machine. It´s much easyer to use then.
Basically everything was fine and according to the description with the booked accomodation:
The apartment was clean and all necessary equipment available (TV, free WLAN, Nespresso coffee machine, A/C in all rooms except one sleeping room (only vent), washing machine).
At arrival we were expected in front of apartment at agreed time (2PM).
Departure was at 11AM and we could deposit our luggage in the rental company's office until our final departure to airport.
Only problem (cause only 4 points instead of 5 points): the apartment is in 3rd floor and the stairways are VERY small to bring up the luggage. It seems this is standard in city houses in Palma, but it should be mentioned in the description.
Great host. Quick to reply by mail and text. Supplied baby cot and chair without hassle. Just easy!
Amazing location in old town, Palma.
The host cancelled the booking, this review is automated.
We had a great stay in the apartment. Location is really great. In reality exactly like the pictures. Pay attention: the stairs are rather steep!
Everything was more than ok, except for the noise the wooden floor makes.....
We liked:
-Excellent location, easy to walk within minutes to restaurants, bars, shops, cafes. Perfect with little baby.
-Spacious lounge & dining area (we were 3 adults and a 5 month old baby).
-2 good size double bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
-Elevator (but 3 steps to get up to it made it a little tricky with pushchair).
-Quiet - good for sleeping!
-Lucky it was available at short notice.
We didn't like:
-No electric kettle - just one for the hob - far too time consuming for tea & making baby bottles!
-No AC in the bedrooms, only in lounge. We had to have the lounge at lowest temperature for a few hours to help cools the bedrooms.
-Tiny microwave (our standard MAM baby bottles wouldn't fit).
-En suite bathroom did not have a shower curtain.
-Poor water pressure in showers.
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Students, parents speak out on Pueblo teacher controversy
South High community debates whether resigned teacher deserves more punishment
PUEBLO, Colo. - Students and parents at Pueblo South High are speaking publicly for the first time about former teacher Larisa Oringdulph.
KRDO NewsChannel 13 and the Pueblo Chieftain learned earlier this week that Oringdulph resigned last month amid allegations she behaved inappropriately with students. She was accused of kissing a student, texting a photo of herself in underwear to a student and sending text messages about sex -- an act commonly referred to as "sexting."
On Friday, three students and two parents shared their thoughts on the matter with KRDO NewsChannel 13.
Brandon DeHerrera said he and many classmates saw the photo.
"One of the kids finally told, and it caught up with her," DeHerrera said. "She has two kids and a husband. I don't understand why she would do that, especially (having) a family."
Another student, Isaac Clouston, said he understands how male students might think it's "cool" to have a suggestive photo of their female teacher. However, he believes most students disapprove.
"It's somewhat scary because when you don't know that kind of person is around you in a classroom setting and you find out, it just gives you a creepy feeling," he said.
One parent who requested anonymity said she began hearing about the situation from other students a year ago, but nothing was done after she informed police and School District 60.
"They told me to stop the rumors, that they were creating a very big ruckus in the school that wasn't true, and to just leave it at that," she said.
Students and parents also said they heard talk of Oringdulph possibly having a sexual relationship with a student. The mother of that student told KRDO NewsChannel 13 that her son did not have such a relationship, and that she believes Oringdulph didn't send the inappropriate photo and messages directly to him.
That student graduated last spring. Parents and students said they believe as many as five students, all juniors or seniors, initially received the photo and text messages.
Neither the district nor Oringdulph have commented on the situation. However, police Sgt. Eric Gonzales said police and the district attorney's office investigated the matter last month and agreed that there was no cause to file criminal charges against her.
"There could be moral and and ethical issues with (school) policies that District 60 may have," he said. "But there's nothing we can do about that."
Many parents and students said even if no crime was committed, Oringdulph deserves more punishment beyond losing her job because of what they consider to be inappropriate behavior with students.
"If it was my kid, I'd want further action," said Monique Ballejos. "But maybe they're trying to protect the reputations of the students."
Clouston wants more answers about the situation.
"The school needs to come clean and explain everything that happened," he said. "Then there aren't rumors."


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Honest Hearts for PS3 delayed
Honest Hearts will be available on Xbox LIVE and Steam at May 17th. The exact date of PlayStation 3 release is unknown.
"Honest Hearts will be available on Xbox LIVE and Steam tomorrow, May 17th – as originally planned. However, the add-on pack for PlayStation 3 will be delayed due to recent issues surrounding the PlayStation Network. As soon as we have more information on when it will be available we will let you know.


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Whats the SDQL for today? Very curious! I will be putting half my bankroll on it. Its Due.
I am unload everything I got, House mortgage, car! Just give me the word. LOL. It either gonna confirm my play or pass for me.
The Hawks are 0-11 ATS (-10.6 ppg) since December 30, 2011 as a home favorite after a game in which they allowed less than 40% from the field. The SDQL is:
team=Hawks and HF and po:FGP<40 and po:season=season and 20111230<=date
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Dr. Ed Meyer *Physics PhD (Case Western Reserve) *Featured in New Yorker: "Brainiacs Build Money Machine!" *Certified SDQL Master!
Thanks for this thread Dr. Ed. What would you say about this:
The Hawks are 9-0-1 ATS (11.6 ppg) since January 07, 2012 when both they and their opponent have no rest.
Interested to know what you think when there are conflicting trends? Stay away? Is one more relevant?
Thanks again
The Lakers are 0-13 OU (-10.0 ppg) as a favorite after a game on the road in which they allowed at least 50% from the field. The SDQL is:
team=Lakers and F and p:A and 50<=po:FGP and 20100305<=date
Consider the Lakers UNDER tonight against the Wizards.
Thanks for this thread Dr. Ed. What would you say about this:
The Hawks are 9-0-1 ATS (11.6 ppg) since January 07, 2012 when both they and their opponent have no rest.
Interested to know what you think when there are conflicting trends? Stay away? Is one more relevant?
Thanks again
When trends conflict, I recommend one of two things. Move on to the next game or perform further research; investigating the timeliness, average margin recent results etc. Performing serious research in an effort to consistently win money betting on sports is a lot of work. Sorting out conflicting trends is not easy, but it is definitely worth the effort.
The Bucks are 0-9 ATS (-10.1 ppg) since April 10, 2010 at home after a win on the road in which Brandon Jennings was not the Bucks' high scorer.
team=Bucks and H and p:AW and Bucks:Brandon Jennings:p:points<max:p:points and 20100410<=date
Consider the Clippers.
The Nuggets are 0-9 ATS (-11.3 ppg) since January 27, 2006 as a favorite with at most one day of rest off a win in which the game was tied at the end of the third quarter. The SDQL text is:
team=Nuggets and F and rest<2 and p:W and p:M3=0 and 20060127<=date
Consider the Kings and the points.
The Clippers are 7-0 ATS (12.5 ppg) since May 07, 2012 with at least a day of rest after a win in which Chris Paul had at least 10 assists and p:season=season. The SDQL text is:
0<rest and p:W and 10<=Clippers:Chris Paul:p:assists and 20120507<=date
Consider LA over Detroit.
The Spurs are 9-0 ATS (8.4 ppg) since January 17, 2009 with no rest after a loss in which Tim Duncan played fewer than 30 minutes.
rest=0 and p:L and 0<Spurs:Tim Duncan:p:minutes<30 and 20090117<=date
Consider San Antonio over Denver.


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Peerless Mountain Climber's Log
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|With Horseshoe
Date Climbed: Aug 4, 2014
|Fun little two'fer
|Posted Nov 23, 2014 9:48 pm
|4 Mile Fun
Date Climbed: Aug 16, 2014
|Started with Sheridan, continued to Horseshoe and Ptarmigan and back.
|Posted Aug 16, 2014 6:44 pm
|Liba Kopeckova
|Windy day
Date Climbed: Oct 20, 2013
|Started with Sheridan, traversed onto Peerless, and continued onto Horseshoe.
Very windy, only a couple of people on 14er Sherman, otherwise completely alone on this hike.
|Posted Oct 20, 2013 9:19 pm
|Just missed the storm
Date Climbed: Aug 18, 2013
|Did Sheridan to Peerless to Horseshoe with Heather and Buster.
|Posted Aug 22, 2013 5:07 pm
|Nice Spring Hike
Date Climbed: May 24, 2013
|Excellent day. A bit of wind on the ridge, but that's almost always been the case here.
|Posted May 24, 2013 10:37 pm
|Mosquito Delight
Date Climbed: May 14, 2012
|I hiked 7 13ers and one fourteener. A great all day trip. Started at Leavick mining site. Hihed Horseshoe Mountain, Finnback Knob, Horseshoe Mountain again, Peerless Mountain, Mt. Sheridan, Mt. Sherman, Gemini Peak, Dyer Mountain and White Ridge. Great day.
|Posted Oct 24, 2012 5:21 pm
|From Leavick
Date Climbed: Apr 22, 2012
|Very last minute decision. I heard about the Lyrid meteor shower and thought I might car camp, watch the show, and get a peak or two in. Didn't see a single meteor! But did summit Peerless, Sheridan, Sherman, and White Ridge.
|Posted Apr 23, 2012 2:38 am
|Matt Lemke
|Peak number 2
Date Climbed: Apr 6, 2012
|in my Mosquito range traverse (Started at Horseshoe Peak via Leavick)
|Posted Apr 7, 2012 10:23 pm
|Via Fourmile Creek
Date Climbed: Oct 5, 2008
|Headed up this little summit as a quick detour on my way up Horseshoe Mountain.
|Posted Mar 30, 2012 8:46 pm
|With Horseshoe
Date Climbed: Jun 5, 2011
|With Horseshoe.
|Posted Nov 29, 2011 2:29 pm
|Peerless/Horseshoe combo
Date Climbed: Aug 16, 2011
|Nice bump on the ridge between Horseshoe and Sheridan. Did it with voxnihili but we had to go back down after Peerless due to incoming storm.
|Posted Aug 24, 2011 11:23 pm
|Fun little bump
Date Climbed: Aug 16, 2011
|Fun little diversion on the Horseshoe - Sheridan traverse.
|Posted Aug 17, 2011 2:12 am
|Between Sheridan and Horseshoe
Date Climbed: Aug 21, 2010
|Bump.........was in the way on the way to Horseshoe.
|Posted Aug 24, 2010 11:53 am
|With Horseshoe
Date Climbed: Jul 24, 2010
|Easy hike on way down from Horseshoe.
|Posted Jul 24, 2010 7:45 pm
|stole my hat
Date Climbed: Jun 19, 2010
|hiked over from Sherman
|Posted Jun 23, 2010 11:37 pm
|Woodie Hopper
|Fourmile Creek
Date Climbed: Oct 19, 2009
|Climbed on the way to Horseshoe from Sheridan. Like others before have said: it was in/along the way. Nice day.
|Posted Oct 16, 2009 11:09 pm
|A bump..
Date Climbed: Feb 21, 2009
|along the ridge.
|Posted Feb 22, 2009 10:58 am
|Nice Snow Climb
Date Climbed: Sep 13, 2008
|Climbed with Horseshoe and Sheridan. Snow above 12,500.
|Posted Sep 14, 2008 10:53 pm
|Sarah Simon
|From Fourmile Creek
Date Climbed: Sep 7, 2008
|My hiking partner's real estate committments in the early afternoon meant we ran out of time to summit Horseshoe. Still, we enjoyed the views (but not the icy winds!) from the top of Peerless. Hiking partner: Deb.
|Posted Sep 7, 2008 4:48 pm
|2 of 3
Date Climbed: Sep 6, 2008
|Got it on the ridgewalk from Sheridan to Horseshoe.
|Posted Sep 6, 2008 11:12 pm


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Illnesses which are spread around at science fiction and furry conventions due to the large numbers of people who gather and interact in one confined place. Lack of sleep, drama, stress, travel, and post con depression may also depress the immune system, contributing to con crud.
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London, Nov 10 : 'Beatles' legend Sir Paul McCartney has revealed that he regrets releasing his new and most cutting-edge album in years under a pseudonym.
McCartney, 66, who had been crowned MTV Europe Awards' Ultimate Legend in Liverpool this week, had released his dance album Electric Arguments under his alter ego 'The Fireman', and it is to hit shelves on November 24.
Trendy Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe has described his single 'Nothing Too Much Just Out Of Sight' as the "hottest record in the world right now".
"Paul has been rather taken aback by the initial very positive response and now regrets the album's getting a rather low-key release under his Fireman pseudonym," the Daily Express quoted a source as saying.
"With the benefit of hindsight, he would have put it out as an official Paul McCartney album," the source added.


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Now...slow down. Load 5 in a magazine and keep that front sight on the bulls eye through that long trigger pull. Smoothness is your goal, and the smoother you are the faster and more accurate you will be. By the time you get a thousand rounds through it, the trigger will be getting pretty sweet, and you will be shooting better than that at 15 yards.


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