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Sunny Studio Apartment, FREE parking
Size50 m²
Floor No.0
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- Balcony/terrace
- Family/child friendly
- Kitchen
- Washer/dryer
- Parking available
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|Buiksloterdijk, 1034ZD Amsterdam, Netherlands
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The Buiksloterdijk used to be the place where the Dutch East India Company captains retired. The 17th century houses where called 'the captains heaven'. The water of the IJ-river that runs behind the Central Station came up right to the house. Since 1870 it is a polder.
If you want to go to the city by bike, this is also very easy and quick. In fact we recommend renting bikes as this is the best way of transport in Amsterdam. Right in front of our house is a bicycle path. Just follow this path 7/10 minutes and you are at the ferry behind the Central Station. It is a beautiful ride along the NH Canal and the Noorder Park. You could also stroll along the canal to get to the ferry. This will take approx 25 minutes.
Staying on our dike is the feeling of being close to the buzzing scene of Amsterdam and yet feel like your in the countryside. Here you wake up with birds whistling in the morning. That is why this location is one of the most sought after locations of Amsterdam. There is nothing better than coming home to this quiet and beautiful spot after a tiring day of sight-seeing in the city.
The view from the house is magnificent. Overlooking the North Holland Canal and the Noorderpark. In the back, where the studio, is you will find a beautifully kept garden, with terraces and ample lounge chairs. It is a very sunny spot, you have the sun coming in very early in the morning and stay all day on the terraces and the garden. You have your own entrance, though the gate a the side of the house. This is also the place where you can store your bicycles safely.
Amsterdam North is the starting point of numerous bicycle and walking routes through rural North Holland. These routes go right past our house.
Just a few kilometers away, along the North Holland Canal, you get to the Ilperveld, a bird sanctuary and nature park. It is possible to rent so called 'whisper boats' (electric engine) and tour this very special area. A very good idea if you feel like a pick-nick or a swim in summer.
An 18 hole golf course is just around the corner.
Amsterdam North is the where the artist live in Amsterdam. The brand new Eye film museum with the best terrace of Amsterdam is located here. MTV resides here, so is Universal. There are many specialty restaurants, such as the IJkantine, Café Modern, Il Pecorino, Plekk, Loetje, Stork or Hotel de Goudfazant. Many of these restaurants are located in old factory buildings of former shipyards and overlook the IJ river.
At just 30m there is a small café which serves cakes, muffins, juices and ice-cream. You can also get very reasonably priced meals at night. A small grocery store is at 150m, and a Dutch Bakery at 300m. Also a large supermarket is close by.
Parking is FREE all day in our street. This is very exceptional in Amsterdam, where parking fees go through the roof.
The studio apartment consists of a living/sleeping area, a separate kitchenette with all necessary equipment.
There is a separate toilet and a luxury bath room with shower and sauna.
The apartment has floor heating, large windows overlooking the garden and a double bed of 1,80m x 2,00m. There is a sofa and a dining table for 2/4.
Free Internet is available. You can find a lot of maps, guides and touristic books about Amsterdam. As your hosts -we live in the house ourselves- we are very happy to help you with tips and online tickets and any other questions you might have.
House rulesSmoking is allowed on the balcony.
No pets.
Check in 12.00 noon, check out 15.00 hrs
Breakfast on request € 10 pp
Sauna €15 for a 2 hr period.
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very pleasant and comfortable accommodation, the countryside to the city!
spacious and well-equipped space, tasteful decor, gracious hosts and very discreet
I highly recommend it for the comfort, tranquility and proximity to the city center
logement très agréable et très confortable, la campagne à la ville!
espace spacieux et bien équipé, décoration de bon gout, hôtes charmants et très discrets
je recommande vivement pour le confort, la tranquillité et la proximité du centre ville
3 wonderful days in Amsterdam - the apartment corresponded to what was shown on the Internet and therefore our expectations.
Tastefully decorated, clean and a parking lot right at the door.
The City was reached without problems with the bus.
Ellen and Rene are two lovely hosts, so we have felt ourselves very well.
Therefore from us 5 stars and greetings to Ellen and Rene.
3 schöne Tage in Amsterdam - die Ferienwohnung entsprach dem was im Internet gezeigt wurde und somit unseren Erwartungen.
Geschmackvoll eingerichtet, sauber und einem Parkplatz direkt am vor der Tür.
Die City war ohne Probleme mit dem Bus erreichbar.
Ellen und Rene sind zwei liebenswerte Gastgeber, so dass wir uns rundum wohlgefühlt haben.
Deshalb von uns 5 Sterne und liebe Grüße an Ellen und Rene.
Everything was wonderful, nice apartment, nice helpful owner, great quiet location. Thanks for everything.
Alles wunderbar, schönes Apartment, nette hilfsbereite Vermieter, tolle ruhige Lage. Danke für alles.
We received René met Ellen and the day we were going. Very nice, discreet, very clean apartment. Staying there again if returned to Amsterdam
Nos recibió René y a Ellen la conocimos el día que nos ibamos. Muy agradable, discreto, el apartamento muy limpio. Volvería a hospedarme allí si regresara a Amsterdam
Our stay at" the first floor" apartment this last week was superb.The accomodation is very clean and comfy,in fact home from home.The beds and duvets are superb.The location is residential,but not far from the city centre on the bus,You can hire a bike and cycle along the river for about 10mins,and cross by free ferry to the rear of the station.We stayed for 1 week our daughter travelled from Vancouver to have a holiday with us.It worked brilliantly.There are several shops within a short walk,there is also a swimming pool across the street.The bus costs 2.80 euro for 1hr but you can buy 24hr.pass for 7.50eur this you can also use on the trams and buses anywhere to the city.We would love to return to Holland.We would not hesitate to stay here,and to recommend the apartment to anyone .Our special thanks to Ellen and Rene who are a luvly couple and superb hosts.Pat and Dennis and daughter Sue.
Very lovely house, clean rooms and beautiful interior. Quiet neighbourhood, but still close to the city-center. We didn't have a lot of time to spend in the house, but enjoyed it very much.
And last but not least: very nice hosts!
Comfortable, clean and quiet apartment not far from the center of Amsterdam. Very friendly hosts who are always there when you need them, but not intrusive. Very helpful, they have printed for us Admission tickets for the museums online, so we did not have to wait in line! Thank you! It is near the Wohung Einkaufsmölichkeiten. A supermarket and a bakery. We can only empfehelen this apartment. Thank you Rene and Ellen will be back!
Gemütliche, saubere und ruhige Wohnung nicht weit vom Zentrum von Amsterdam entfernt.
Sehr nette Gastgeber die immer da sind, wenn man sie braucht, jedoch nicht aufdringlich. Sehr hilfsbereit, sie haben für uns die Eintritskarten für die Museen online ausgedruckt, damit wir nicht lange anstehen mussten! Vielen Dank!
Es hat in der Nähe der Wohung Einkaufsmölichkeiten. Einen Supermarkt und eine Bäckerei. Wir können diese Wohung nur empfehelen.
Vielen Dank René und Ellen wir kommen wieder!
It was beautiful! The apartment was really clean, beautifully furnished and equipped with lots of love, there is absolutely nothing to complain about. The bus stop was about 5 minutes away and it was really fast in the middle of the city. The bedrooms were very large and comfortable. We felt very comfortable and would definitely come back. Thank you Ellen and René :)
Es war wunderschön! Die Ferienwohnung war total sauber, sehr schön eingerichtet und mit viel Liebe ausgestattet, es gibt absolut nichts zu bemängeln.
Die Bushaltestelle war ca. 5 Minuten entfernt und man war total schnell mitten in der City.
Die Schlafzimmer waren sehr groß und gemütlich. Wir haben uns sehr wohlgefühlt und kommen gerne wieder.
Danke Ellen und René :)
The perfect place to spend a few summer days in Amsterdam: quiet to sleep, have breakfast in the sun on the terrace. After a tiring day arrive in a neat, fresh and also nicely decorated room, away from the bustle of the city, yet close and easy to reach ... All space to stay with three generations: with two bedrooms and a living room no one extra early or extra late to go to sleep. Prepare. All necessary facilities for a breakfast or a picnic And any help with booking museums or providing public transport cards. A sooooo much better option than a dusty room in downtown Amsterdam! (I hate hotel carpets ;-))
De perfecte plaats om enkele warme zomerdagen in Amsterdam door te brengen: heerlijk rustig om te slapen, lekker in de zon op het terrasje ontbijten. Na een vermoeiende dag aankomen in een nette, frisse en bovendien mooi ingerichte kamer, weg van de drukte van de stad, maar toch vlakbij en makkelijk te bereiken...
Alle ruimte om er met drie generaties te verblijven: met twee slaapkamers en een woonkamer hoeft niemand extra vroeg of extra laat te gaan slapen.
Alle nodige faciliteiten om een ontbijt of een picknick te bereiden. En alle hulp bij het reserveren van musea of het voorzien van OV-kaarten.
Een zooooo veel betere optie dan een stoffige hotelkamer in centrum Amsterdam!!
(ik haat hoteltapijten ;-))
We were greeted very warmly by our hosts. The apartment had plenty of space for four people. Everything was beautifully decorated and very clean. We felt from the beginning very well. It was soagr an information folder with all the important things, such as where the nearest bakery and the nearest bus stop etc. is by the host. The area was very quiet yet central location (within 7 minutes of the main train station). It was a great stay. Nadine - Germany
Wir wurden von unseren Gastgebern sehr herzlich empfangen. Das Appartment hatte für vier Personen genügend Platz. Alles war liebevoll eingerichtet und sehr sauber. Wir haben uns von Anfang an sehr wohl gefühlt. Es wurde vom Gastgeber soagr eine Info-Mappe mit allen wichtigen Dingen, wie bspw. wo der nächste Bäcker, die nächste Bushaltestelle etc. ist.
Die Gegend war sehr ruhig und doch zentral (innerhalb von 7 Minuten am Hauptbahnhof).
Es war ein toller Aufenthalt.
Nadine - Germany
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Want to know if bees will use these trees. I'd like to plant some because of fast growth
Want to know if bees will use these trees. I'd like to plant some because of fast growth
ewwwww. Not a fan of those trees, I would NOT recomend planting them. They've put alot of Bradford pears in neighborhoods around here. They look spectacular in bloom and thats about it. They smell like garbage, rotting, stinking flesh in bloom, the berries they produce make a mess, starlings come in to feed and litter the streets with poo. They are also not very strong and are easily damaged in moderate winds. Many of the trees are split, broken in half. If you plant them put them far away from your house not near driveways, sidewalks, etc.
Never seen the girls working them either.
Plant a tulip poplar, linden, black locust. Something else. I hate bradford, cleveland pears.
I've got 3 within 50 feet of my house and never had the problems that burns375 mentions. However, I've never seen the bees work them either, which is why I originally planted them. Oh, well. They do look pretty, tho, even when they're not in bloom.
Rusty Hills Farm -- home of AQHA A Rusty Zipper and Rusty's Bees.
Be sure to provide diverse forage. Plant trees, shrubs and flowering plants to provide forage for the longest possible period.
Everything will be all right in the end... if it's not all right then it's not yet the end
Although I agree with most of what was said about being weak and everything else, my bees covered them this year. In years past there wasnt much activity on them, but sounded like a swarm was moving in for a little over a week. When these last two break, Im replanting with more fruit trees like crabapples or the like.
They all seem to a fall apart here. I planted dwarf fruiting pears for part of my landscaping. They look great. I don't like to eat the common Bartlet pears too well. The sweeter finer textured ones like Seckel are great. Of coulter you don't want more in the yard than yoo can keep picked. I'm planning to plant a couple full sized pears on my farm for the bees and deer. Deer like them better than apples.
They are 8 years old and over 30 feet tall. Three years ago they withstood the tornado that peeled the shingles off my roof. They bent to the ground and bounced back. Like you, I always thought they'd snap and break, but they did just fine. The bees ignore them. They go ape for my Bartletts and Seckels, tho.
Rusty Hills Farm -- home of AQHA A Rusty Zipper and Rusty's Bees.
Fruiting pear varieties can be grafted on the ornamental pear trees. Fruiting pears are supposed to be easy to graft to each other with success rate being high. Why not get some fruit and not just the bloom from the ornamental pear tree?
All pear varieties are supposed to be refrigerated for a period of time and then put on the counter at room temperature to ripen to sweet, softer and yellow. The flavor really develops in cold storage. Each variety is a little different as far as length of cold storage. I think there is less grit when the pear ripens off the tree.
Pears should be picked when they change from the dark green to the lighter green stage and put in the fridge. A pear that is ready to pick will have the stem break from the tree when the pear is lifted gently to a horizontal position from vertical.
We love our sweet Bartlet pears! They do have a fine texture when ripe.

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Now is the time when skeletons walk hand-in-hand with Super Marios and candy-hungry princesses trailed by zombie retinues are as regular a sight as dollar vans barreling down Flatbush. October is for lovers of the weird and morbid, and there is perhaps no better setting for our darker speculations than the bone tenanted grounds of a cemetery. In the course of doing research for a patron I came across the story of a lesser-known Brooklyn cemetery, the long-gone Union Cemetery in the Eastern District. It embodies a timely bit of ghoulish history which should serve our local masqueraders well as a backdrop for any number of scary stories they might wish to share with one another late at night over Snickers and Charleston Chews.
An 1855 map showing Union Cemetery.
In his book, Brooklyn's Eastern District, historian Eugene Armbruster quickly lays out the history of the cemetery: "During the cholera epidemic of 1832 a tract of ten acres was purchased of Mrs. Margaret Duryea by the Grand Street Methodist Church on Grand and Attorney Streets, New York City. The Grand Street Methodist Protestant Church of Williamsburgh became part owner of this cemetery which was opened for burial purposes in 1851. The grounds were bounded by Knickerbocker, Irving and Putnam Avenues and Palmetto Street. One part of the grounds was known as Snake Hollow. The New York congregation sold its share in the tract in 1875 to the Brooklyn Church. The latter sold the plot in 1897, the grounds having been filled. The remains of the bodies were taken out and removed to Cedar Grove Cemetery."
A quick search through the Eagle Online uncovers a slew of stories about the cemetery, most of which, like the one that appears with the above headline, have to do with the exhumation and removal of the dead. Needless to say, with the remains of roughly 30,000 people to identify, transfer, and rehouse in new rough pine and cedar boxes, the project was of a massive scale and drew a great deal of attention. Among the many onlookers that first day the transfer began was an elderly German woman who, with tears in her eyes, inquired of the manager when her husband's grave would be uncovered and whether they could assure her that his remains would all make it to the new plot to be reinterred without incident. The laborers charged with digging out the dead were all Italian and, as the Eagle reported, "worked like beavers" to move the cemetery in the allotted 60 day window. In the coffins they found a number of curiosities: dolls and dishes buried with children, pennies, costly "metallic cases," and in more than one instance, extra bodies.
In addition to this remarkable story of the raising of the dead, Union Cemetery also often appeared in the pages of the Eagle as the scene of much grief and pain.
This headline comes from a brief story, published in the July 14, 1876 issue of the Eagle, describing the plight of a widow and her five children. Utterly bereft, the woman, Maria Ruhl, had taken her family to her husband's grave to die. A police officer, spotting the wailing children, brought them in to the station where a small sum of money was raised to help the family get back on its feet.
A similar story, but with a far different ending, appeared just a year later in the Eagle. On September 25, 1877 it was reported that Sebastian Trinkhause, a 70 year old German, had been found hanging by a thick cord from the branch of a willow tree. His son ran a lager saloon at 431 Bushwick Avenue, and his wife, who had died several years earlier, was buried in Union Cemetery.
Also appearing in 1877 was the above headline, which ran at the top of a long list of missing Brooklynites. Among them was Martha Becker, who disappeared on September 3rd of the previous year. Just 21 years old, and listed in the paper as "insane," Ms. Becker had decided to take a walk to Union Cemetery and was never heard from again. Sounds a little bit like the Agatha Cunningham story Ivy wrote about the other day...
And from 1902, this snippet of the patrolman and his skull proves just how hard it was for the dead to stay buried and the cemetery to be, once and for all, gone.
A Belcher Hyde atlas from 1912, showing the plot of land where the cemetery had been.
Another Belcher Hyde atlas, this one from 1920, shows Woodbine Street now running through the old cemetery. That large orange polygon at the corner of Irving and Woodbine is Bushwick High School.
This photo, from 1912, shows the school under construction. Graduating its last class in 2006, Bushwick High School is now closed. Three small high schools currently occupy the building: Bushwick High School for Social Justice, Academy of Urban Planning, and the Academy for Environmental Leadership. Complementing our healthy clippings file on Bushwick High School, we also have a number of photographs of the school and its students, early yearbooks, and issues of the Bushwick Bulletin, the "Oldest High School Newspaper in Brooklyn."
And in leafing through one of these old school papers, the one pictured above, in fact, I found a piece written by someone named Carmine Forestiere which, when looking back on the area's history, struck me as eerily consonant with the tales of Union Cemetery. The dead don't stay dead, or something like that.
During this time of year, with darkness falling earlier and earlier every night, with cold winds whispering under collars and up shirtsleeves, with miniature ghouls and goblins trolling the streets and demanding candy sacrifices, a person's mind quite understandably entertains superstitions of ghosts and hauntings. In a city as aged as New York, it does not take a stretch of the imagination to start seeing ethereal appartitions in the dimmed windows of brownstones, to start hearing centuries-old horse hooves clapping against cobblestones, or to start smelling the decaying rot of ancient burial grounds (or maybe it's just trash pick-up day?).
A testament to October's inherently spine-tingling nature is that most of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle's ghost stories appear in the tenth month. For those who thrill to a good ghost story (as I do), the newspaper is a wellspring of macabre tales, with spooks popping up in every neighborhood of the borough.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, October 14, 1887
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, October 9, 1895
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, October 23, 1901
One of my favorites, albeit from the usually happier month of April:
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, April 20, 1896.
And finally this Long Island ghost, who proved that women can haunt too, in the age of suffragettes.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, October 3, 1902.
One of the most heavily reported haunted houses was Melrose Hall, which once occupied a sumptuous 20 acres of land on Bedford Avenue, between Winthrop Street and Clarkson Avenue in the Flatbush neighborhood. The large mansion was a prime setting for a haunting, both for its appearance and its history. The house was set back from the street at the end of a long lane of trees, and was, according to the Eagle, "the quaintest and queerest old place one could imagine." The main building was two-and-a-half stories high, with a wing on each end, and "steep roofs slanted in all directions and gables projected here and there in the oddest sort of way."
Descriptions of the interior cast a more sinister shadow over the property, with "dark corridors, oddly shaped rooms, winding stairways, black holes, mysterious trap doors, and other unprecendented features." The structure was built in 1749 by an Englishman named Lane, who was banished from his homeland for his wild, carousing habits, which he quickly took up again in his new American home. After Lane's death, the house was sold to a Colonel William Axtell, a loyalist to the British crown who was himself a "rollicking fellow and a lusty drinker," and was at his frequent parties "noted as a three-bottle man." Axtell allegedly built secret chambers in the mansion to hide his Tory friends along with dungeons under the house to imprison American patriots during the Revolutionary War.
Although riddled with dungeons and secret chambers and possessed of a bacchanalian past, Melrose Hall, from its outward appearance, looked every bit the distinguished mansion.
It was Axtell's residency that produced the ghost which would immortalize the mansion. The story was popularized by celebrated actress and author Anna Cora Mowatt, who lived in Melrose Hall (and gave the mansion its name) in the mid-1800s. Upon retiring from the stage Mowatt published a memoir, The Autobiography of an Actress, in 1854, which described her years in the historic Flatbush home and included a story of doomed love that made the mansion, according to the Eagle, home to the "largest assortment of the most grewsome [sic] ghost stories of any house in the state."
From the Eagle, October 13, 1895:
"Colonel Axtell, according to tradition, was the second son of an English nobleman, and he married the daughter of a wealthy British merchant. His fiancee was accomplished and prepossessing, but unfortunately she had a sister named Alva, with whom the colonel fell in love." Miserable, Axtell set sail for New York to serve in the American colonies, but little did he know that, "the next ship which sailed for that port from England bore the colonel's beautiful sister-in-law, who, as the story goes, had disguised herself by putting on on men's clothes."
Alva revealed herself to Axtell, who was then living in Melrose Hall. He had a secret chamber (again with the secret chambers!) built above the ballroom, "fitted up with all the luxury and comfort that money could buy," and hid Alva there. One of Axtell's slaves was charged with taking care of Alva's needs, but no one else was to know about her presence. After three years of this unlikely arrangement, Axtell was called away for several weeks. During his absence, the slave woman died and, accordingly, so did Alva, who starved to death in her gilded cage. Mowatt heard about the grisly fate of Alva from her neighbors in Flatbush, who "affirmed that a young girl had been purposely starved to death in that chamber and that her ghost wandered at night around the house."
A grainy photograph of Alva's eternal home, from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, April 7, 1901.
The Brooklyn Public Library is said to have its own ghost, one not unlike poor Alva of Melrose Hall. Legend has it that a six-year-old girl, Agatha Ann Cunningham, was visiting the Central Library with her classmates in October of 1977 when she strayed, unnoticed, from the group. Her absence wasn't discovered until several hours later, and the child was never found. But employees and patrons alike say they hear mysterious noises coming from the library's basement stacks -- sometimes the soft laughter of a girl at play and other times the nervous sobs of a lost child. A documentary crew recently visited the library to investigate the rumors of a ghost, and we eagerly anticipate the unveiling of their findings:
Students from the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture and Preservation Planning talk about their research uncovering the rich architectural history of Bushwick Avenue, and the preservation plan they produced as a result.
Illustrated talk begins at 7 p.m. Wine and cheese reception precedes the talk at 6:30 p.m. in the Brooklyn Collection Reserve Room, 2nd floor, Central Library, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn NY 11238. Seating is limited to 40 people. Tickets will be handed out at 6:30.
On October 6, 1887, a humble little advertisement ran in the classifieds column of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle:
"Applications for enrollment in classes in mechanical and freehand drawing, designing and modeling, will be received on and after October 10. Class work will begin October 17. Circulars giving general information furnished on request. Personal interviews at office of Institute 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. and 7:30 to 9 P.M."
A little over a week later, on October 17, 1887, twelve intrigued students attended the aforementioned drawing class, and thus Pratt Institute was born.
Photograph of Pratt's inaugural faculty, 1887.
Since then, the Institute, which is now kicking off its 125th anniversary year, has built a reputation as a leading undergraduate art and design school (incidentally, it is also home to a graduate program in library science, with which we are collaborating in the Project CHART grant). As told in Pratt's 50th anniversary publication, The Story of Pratt Institute, 1887 - 1937, the school wasn't originally conceived as a fine art school, but rather as a center for vocational training. The art classes supported founder Charles Pratt's belief that "to co-ordinate the hand and eye was fundamental in all expressions of manual skill," and the curriculum evolved from that combination of practicality and artistry.
Above, Pratt students learn blacksmithing. Other trades were taught as well, including wood-turning, tinsmithing, carpentry, plumbing, stone-cutting, house- and sign-painting, and bricklaying.
Below, female students gather in the Pratt gymnasium. While the purpose of this solemnly geometric assembly is unknown, it is certain that Pratt accepted female students from the beginning, often in its domestic arts department, which taught sewing, dressmaking, and millinery.
Much like the libraries that sprouted up all over the country thanks to Andrew Carnegie's steel wealth (and like the university that was founded by glue magnate Peter Cooper), Pratt Institute was funded by Gilded Age industry -- in this case, oil. Charles Pratt made his fortune in petroleum oil in the second half of the 19th century, establishing the Astral Oil company in Brooklyn's Greenpoint industrial corridor. The oil works occupied a patch of land on the East River, bounded on the south by North 12th Street and the east by Kent Avenue (known until 1885 as 1st Avenue).
Brooklyn Daily Eagle advertisement, 1875.
Eventually becoming a well-known brand of illuminating oil, one of the company's slogans claimed it "will not explode." That may have been true for the end-product, but danger is inherent at oil refineries, and Pratt's oil works was not without its hazards.
Above, the tremor caused by an explosion at Astral Oil wreaked havoc within a mile-and-a-half radius of the plant in January of 1880. By the Eagle's estimate, three-quarters of the windows in the vicinity were shattered by the shockwave. Below, an explosion in December 1884 set the East River aflame.
Pratt's oil business was absorbed by John D. Rockefeller's growing Standard Oil company in 1874, at which point Charles Pratt joined that company's board of directors and installed his son, Charles Millard Pratt, as secretary of Standard Oil. Finding himself even wealthier than he had been before, Pratt turned toward philanthropic pursuits. In addition to founding Pratt Institute to train Brooklynites in technical trades and higher arts, Charles Pratt tackled what the Eagle described as "the problem of how to live decently and economically." As the city's growing population spilled from Manhattan into Brooklyn, overcrowding became a social concern, and a better solution than squalid tenements was sought. In line with the efforts of other industrialists like London housing benefactor George Peabody, Pratt conceived of a building that would provide attractive, wholesome apartments for working people at an affordable price.
The Astral Apartments building, occupying the entire block of Franklin Street between India Street and Java Street in Greenpoint, was completed in 1887. The Eagle fawned over the structure, declaring it, "the most perfect type of an apartment house in the world." An advertisement from that year promised three- to five-room apartments with hot and cold water, bathrooms, natural light, and ventilation. Profits from the apartment building, which in 1887 were expected to total $30,000, were promised to support Pratt's other new project, the aforementioned institute.
Below and above right, the Astral Apartments as they look today.
The gifts did not end there. Pratt installed a library in the basement of the Astral in 1889, which the Eagle described as possessing a "an artistic and homelike air, suggestive of the cheer and comfort which may come to a wanderer on a stormy night." Although membership was initially limited to Astral residents, the library was opened to the general public in 1890. By 1900, the library boasted a collection of 6,500 volumes.
The Astral Library in 1901.
The Astral library was eventually incorporated into the Brooklyn Public Library system, in 1901. In that time, as the city was using some of Andrew Carnegie's promised funding to build more libraries throughout the borough, consolidation of existing libraries became a hot-button issue, one that reflected the various tensions and viewpoints of New York City's recently-consolidated constituents. The library was offered as a gift to the city, provided a $50 monthly rent for the site was paid to Pratt Institute. The city's Sinking Fund Commission balked at the steal of a deal and refused the gift in a move one library trustee described as, "indicative of the attitude of Tammany Hall toward libraries... the organization cannot control the appointments to be made in the library force, and, therefore, is not interested in the library system itself." After much back-and-forth, the Astral branch was approved in the waning days of 1901 -- a year that saw an additional five new libraries established in Brooklyn. Alongside Greenpoint's Carnegie building, the the Astral branch served the neighborhood until it was closed permanently in late December of 1934.
Charles Pratt did not live to see the controversy of the Astral library, having died of heart failure in May of 1891. At the time of his death the Eagle praised him as Brooklyn's "wealthiest man and greatest philanthropist," and went on to downplay his fortune in favor of highlighting his generosity. "A horsehair, imprisoned in a bottle of water, will draw to itself animalculae which will barnacle upon it and make it seem a living thing. But neither artist, nor poet, nor historian, nor publicist would regard the horsehair as deserving praise, because the animalculae twined about it. No more is the wealth on which more wealth accretes entitled to distinction." A bizarre metaphor, to be sure, but perhaps a fitting enough one for a man whose legacy resides more in his gifts to Brooklyn than in his bank account.
In the webpages of this blog, we have never missed an opportunity to praise the efforts of our mother institution, the Brooklyn Public Library. Be it by cheering the library's legacy of bookmobile visits to underserved communities, by drawing attention to the efforts of our staff in difficult economic times, or by noting our various initiatives and collaborations with the Multicultural Internship Program, Project CHART, and Brooklyn Connections, we are unfailingly willing to toot our own horn. Today's post is no exception.
From the 16mm film collection, we present The Library: a family affair. This 1952 film (divided into two parts for easier viewing) was made by Brooklyn Public Library in collaboration with the Board of Education. It takes the viewer on a tour of the library's many services through the story of one "typical" nuclear family, the Greens. Although the dramatic pacing is on par with that of an afternoon nap, it is a little gem of a film that shows a myriad of now-antiquated library technologies in action. At the 9:55 minute mark, we are introduced to the Photocharger, a device that was invented by a librarian in the 1940s, and would take a photograph of a patron's card, the book's card, and a numbered and dated transaction slip to track circulation. Now replaced by our computerized check-out system, the Photocharger was still in use at the library as late as the 1980s.
The Telautograph machine makes its appearance at the 10:07 mark, used in the library setting to remotely call up books from the storage decks. This analog precursor to the fax machine used telegraphic technology which was, by 1952, rather old hat. The Eagle made note of the telautograph's invention in 1888:
As a side note, the telautograph's inventor, Elisha Gray, is perhaps most famous for his claim to have beaten Alexander Graham Bell to the invention of the telephone. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported on the controversy as it unfolded through the closing years of the 19th century; the newspaper's 1901 obituary of Elisha Gray casts the inventor's life as a tragic story of ingeniousness thwarted by bad luck and dirty business dealings.
Aside from its gee-whiz adoration of 1950s library doohickery, The Library: a Family Affair also represents the creative efforts of local institutions working in collaboration. The scenes that took place in the Central Library were, of course, filmed on site, and the family's few branch visits were filmed at what appears to be the Carroll Gardens Branch:
The home interiors of the film, where Mr. Green toiled so uselessly over his little wooden boat, were shot at the Brooklyn High School for Homemaking, just down Eastern Parkway from the library, at 901 Classon Avenue (now the site of Clara Barton High School). At this all-girls school the curriculum was, not surprisingly, centered around the domestic arts -- childcare, cleaning, sewing, food preparation, even upholstering -- with the idea that these skills could be applied in the home or in the workplace.
At right, students care for toddlers in a "laboratory nursery school" in 1946.
Below, students learn out to arrange sheets on beds.
The school was trumpeted, by the Eagle, as the first school of its kind in the world, unique for its laboratory approach to home economics. The Eagle featured the school in its always interesting "What Women Are Doing" section in March of 1946, remarking that "within the school itself are home units of every size, business offices, a doctor's office, hospital rooms, sewing rooms..." and on and on -- all simulacra of functioning workplaces designed to prepare students for the real-life scenarios they would encounter once employed.
But I digress. You are no doubt dying to learn if stodgy old Mr. Green ever swallowed his pride and admitted that the library was a useful institution, and so I present the exciting conclusion to The Library: a Family Affair:


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Test flights found that the Lightning II cannot be within 25 miles of known lightning conditions due to a poor design of the On-Board Intert Gas Generating System. This feature makes sure there are correct oxygen levels in the fuel tank.
"The program's most recent vulnerability assessment showed that the removal of fueldraulic fuses, the PAO shutoff valve and the dry bay fire suppression, also removed in 2008, results in the F-35 not meeting the Operational Requirements Document (ORD) requirement to have a vulnerability posture better than analogous legacy aircraft," officials wrote in the report.
The report also found cracks in the F-35A's right wing and right engine as well as the F-35B's bulkhead flange.
"Lockheed Martin believes the program is demonstrating exceptional stability, certainly significantly greater than any legacy aircraft development program, which is a primary measure for DT&E," said Laura Siebert, a Lockheed spokeswoman. "Each year, as issues are discovered in test, our flight test team identifies additional test objectives that can be accomplished while we resolve the issues discovered.
"From an Operational Test and Evaluation perspective, we fully expect to deliver a qualified product to OT&E as scheduled. We appreciate the feedback from the OT&E community on what remains to be demonstrated over the next three years leading up to the OT&E phase of the program."
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It may be May. but the muni market can't yet escape its March and April doldrums. Those two months traditionally constitute the market's weakest period of the year before things typically turn around in May. That recovery is slow to arrive this year, as municipal bond mutual funds and exchange-traded funds have now reported nine straight weeks of net outflows, per Lipper data, including a $391 million net outflow in the week ended today.
The weekly outflows had seemingly abated a week ago to a modest $102 million, down from $535 million and $631 million in the two prior weeks, which marked the two peak weekly outflows during the current losing streak.
Even amid the ongoing outflows, the broader muni market has continued to benefit from a concurrent Treasury-market rally. The iShares S&P National AMT-Free Muni Bond (MUB) fund closed at $111.83 Thursday, up 26 cents in the past week and up $1.67 from the beginning of April. The Nuveen Municipal Value (NUV) closed-end fund finished Thursday at $10.38, down a penny from a week ago but 24 cents higher than a month ago.


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It's WAY past time I got a cordless set of these for removals. I'm guessing 18V is the way to go? What do folks like/dislike about the rigs they've used?
It's WAY past time I got a cordless set of these for removals. I'm guessing 18V is the way to go? What do folks like/dislike about the rigs they've used?
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I bought the 18 volt black and decker set for +/- $100 a couple of years ago. Included drill, skill saw, sawzall, vac, and stud finder, and carry bag. I really like them. I bought an extra charger and 2 extra batteries. The skill and sawzall runs down the battery pretty quickly.
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If you're on a tight budget then I would recommend
shopping ebay....... Get a quality unit and steer clear
of any tool that still runs on NiCad batterys. NiMH
are a far better choice and have come down in
I have run Panasonic cordless tools for nearly 10 years
on the job with great durability. I've had Porter Cable
and DeWalt but they don't hold a candle to the Panasonic
Voltage can be enticing but deceiving. My 15.6V Panasonic
drills have more torque than the DeWalt 18V.
Closing in on retirement.......
If you want to get a Sawzall, you'll have to get a Milwaukee Tools brand, since that is their trademark... And, if I wanted a reciprocating saw (or circular saw) for demo work, I'd get a corded model. The battery models don't have the power or torque for any amount of extended work. Trust me on that.
I have both corded and battery models (18 and 24V), and every time I get into some "real" demo work, I have to swap batteries, which even with NiMh is often. The corded models, for some reason, keep on going. If you want to buy some battery models anyway, I have Porter-Cable, and they work. Dewalt is okay as well. Corded - buy Milwaukee, their tools are way above other models in quality and durability.
I can't talk details, but my husband has a wide variety. From what I gather, the 18V is a must if you want any power, but the tools are heavier. He also has a spare battery so it can be swapped out when the first inevitably goes dead when you need it most.
As for brands, he has Makita (old, not 18V), Dewalt, Porter-Cable, so I can not deduce a preference. However, as Mapman said, the Milwaukee corded tools appear to be the best, because they are stored carefully and are not the ones used for every day use.
The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams. -Henry David Thoreau
MM is correct on corded tools. If you are going to do
extended demo work they are better. My work truck
has a corded saw in both reciprocating and circular
for any extended or particularly nasty work.
But for cut outs, and quartering a deer or elk, a quality
cordless is fine. My Panasonic reciprocating saw cuts
mostly angle iron for hanging doors and openers. It
will cut a lot of 2" angle before I swap batteries.
My Panasonic trim saw (5 1/2" circular) will cot well
over 100 2x4's before battery swap.
Closing in on retirement.......
Good points all. I probably could get away with a trim saw; it's really only for shallow cuts in sheathing or the like. Pretty unusual to have to use it, it's almost always the sawz... reciprocating saw. And for cutouts I don't think I've yet put more'n 15 minutes of total run time on either the reciprocating saw or the circular, which is why I was thinking cordless. I would use these infrequently enough for anything but cutouts that the short-use models would be OK.
$100? Seems like I'm seeing them for more like $300. It seems like it's the batteries that are the spendy part?
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I'll be darned if I'm paying for a skillsaw or sawzall, catchy names but there are better reciprocating saws and circular saws out there to be had. As far as cordless: Lithium ion batteries aren't worth a darn when it gets cold out. The regular (NiCd?) hitachi tools sold at lowes and other places have very competitive/attractive prices in the store but you will wind up paying in the field- the batteries can come off the charger and be dead again within 1 or 2 minutes and the tools; well lets just say you'll be getting a lot of warranty (or after warranty) work done. You get what you pay for. 18v Dewalt, decent tools and battery performance for the price, same could be said for Bosch and Makita. Can't comment on Panasonic saws, although their impact driver is very nice. As mentioned earlier, batt circ and recip saws are the hardest on batteries, it's important to set the circ saw depth to the minimum needed and keep the blade perfectly straight in the kerf if you want a good runtime. For making one small cut, I might grab a cordless saw, anything else (a cutout for instance), I'll be using a corded saw even if that means firing up the generator and fighting cords.
I have cut many feet (like 100) of 1/2" plywood
on a single battery with my Panasonic saw. And
not having to screw with cords often saves me
a lot of time.
Closing in on retirement.......
I'm a big fan of the 18V cordelss dewalt tools. We use the heck out of them at work, & they last years.
I bought my wife the 4 piece set for her birthday a few years ago. She loves it.
I know B&D ain't the best, but I was buying on a budget and need one. On walmarts website tonight my package was $182.00. Cheaper in the stores than their website. I use my corded tools for most my stuff. But for small jobs, I have no complaints with my set.
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Which brand is actually,.. 'made in America'?
I don't have to depend on my tools to make my living so maybe I haven't tested them quite as hard as some of you others. Having said that, I'm very happy with my Ryobi One+ tools from Home Depot. I haven't had any problems and there are dozens of tools available all powered by the same battery pack. The tools all seem tough enough to hold together for awhile but most are a couple short steps behind the sate-of-the-art tools. Prices are good and Home Depot stands behind them.
Just a thought... I've seen some (for lack of a better way to describe them) - mini circular saws. Those might be really handy for cut-outs where you don't need a 8" blade. They look a tad pricey. Here's a random link, grabbed without price shopping:
Someone may make a cordless model, don't know.
The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams. -Henry David Thoreau
I bought the Black & Decker package: drill/driver, circular saw, reciprocating saw, flashlight. It is a couple of years old. 14.4v I think. Anyway, the Drill works great though the batteries don't last as long as they did. The Circular Saw doesn't last long any more, but used to cut plywood and 1-by material all day and 2-by material well enough. These will be remidied with a new battery.
The reciprocating saw is another issue. It has never been impressive. If I need to cut a few nails loose or maybe a couple of plastic or copper pipes or a single 4-by. Fine enough. But even with two batteries, it just seemed to sap the juice long before the other appliances.
NiCads will do that waya........... you could rebuild
them with NiMH batteries....... All batteries get weak
with age and non-use. But NiCads are the worst
IMO, especially with the memory issue.
Closing in on retirement.......
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In my previous letter to the editor, I urged all residents of Crosslake to watch the city council meetings. They are broadcast at noon and 6 p.m. every second Tuesday. We all need to be aware of the actions our new council might take.
As an example, the continuing council members have held private meetings with the newly elected council members along with an attorney who was not being paid by the city.
As a result of those meetings, our present city attorney made the following statement, and I quote:
"It has been my experience that the most valuable asset that a City Council possesses is the public's trust. That trust is essential to the legitimacy of the City Council and those conducting the City's business under the authority of the City Council. As the city attorney, my job is to represent the City and help implement policy set by the City Council. If that policy is decided in private, in a meeting that but for the passage of time would be in violation of the Open Meeting Law, my ability to implement that policy will fall under the same cloud of suspicion that has descended upon the four members that met with the (non city attorney). I prefer to maintain a higher standard in my law practice, and for that reason I prefer not to represent the City of Crosslake …"
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retail sales. When such sales are made to manufacturers or construction contractors not
registered as dealers or other persons, such sales are not for the purpose of resale and
tax must be collected with respect thereto. Any charges for labor or fabrication or other
costs of production may not be deducted from the sales price in computing tax.
B. Machinists and foundry men who repair tangible personal
property of others are furnishing taxable services.
Rule 78. Meals Furnished by Hotels, Restaurants, Clubs, Etc.
A. Sales of meals by hotels, restaurants, drive-ins,
drugstores, private clubs, and establishments not specifically exempt under the ordinance
are subject to tax. This is true whether individual meals are sold, whether a flat charge
is made, or whether meals are furnished as a part of the compensation for services
B. When employers, such as restaurants, furnish meals to
employees as a part of the compensation for services of such employees, but make no
specific charge, the tax shall be calculated upon the cost price of such meals. Sales of
food to hotels, restaurants, and others are sales for resale which are not subject to tax.
C. Food provided to customers on a complimentary basis is
taxable. The tax shall be calculated upon the cost price of such food products.
Rule 79. Meals Sold by Schools, Hospitals, Etc.
A. Public school boards, high school boards, churches,
hospitals, religious organizations, colleges, universities, and private schools operating
lunch rooms, cafeterias or dining rooms for the exclusive purpose of providing only their
respective students, members, staff, or patients with meals are deemed not to be engaged
in the business of selling tangible personal property at retail and are not liable for
collection of sales tax with respect to such transactions. Purchases of food products by
such institutions are exempt from local sales and use taxes.
B. When any cafeteria, lunch or dining room is available for
use by the public, the school, hospital, college, church, university, or religious
organization operating it is deemed to be in the business of selling tangible personal
property at retail and is liable for collecting the sales tax on the sale of such meals to
the public. The school, hospital, college, church, university, or religious organization,
in this case, may provide a Resale Exemption Certificate to its vendor for the purchase of
the food.
Rule 80. Memorial Stone and Monument Vendors
Memorial stones are tangible personal property and when sold to users or consumers, the
sale thereof is taxable. When the seller of a memorial stone agrees to install such stone
or monument upon a foundation, a segregation must be made of materials used and labor
charged. The seller may deduct such labor charges or services when computing the tax, if a
segregation is made on the invoice. Failure to make a segregation subjects the entire
amount to tax.
Rule 81. Newspapers and Magazines
Sales of newspapers and magazines are not taxable.
Rule 82. Off-Road Vehicles
Dealers of off-road vehicles, as defined in Louisiana Revised Statute
47:301(17), are responsible for collecting and remitting the tax on sales of all such
vehicles, notwithstanding that they are also dealers of motor vehicles subject to
registration and licensing by the Motor Vehicle Commissioner.
Rule 83. Ophthalmologists, Opticians, and Optometrists
A. The taxability of transactions by
ophthalmologists, opticians, and optometrists depends upon the nature of the transaction.
B. Opticians are engaged in the sale of tangible personal
property. When such sales are to the ultimate consumer, the sales are taxable retail
sales. When the sales are to optometrists or ophthalmologists who use them in the
rendition of professional services to their patients, the sales are likewise taxable
retail sales. When the sales are to ophthalmologists or optometrists for the purpose of
reselling them to their patients, then the sales would be sales for resale and could be
made under a Resale Exemption Certificate.
C. The charges of an ophthalmologist or optometrist for his
professional services are not taxable. If glasses or contact lenses are furnished as a
part of the rendition of such services and an overall fee is charged, no tax is due. In
such cases, the ophthalmologist or optometrist is a user or consumer of the eyeglasses,
contact lenses, and other materials employed in rendering services and tax is owed thereon
by the ophthalmologist or optometrist. If a separate charge is made for the glasses or
contact lenses, the sale is a taxable retail sale.
D. Some ophthalmologists or optometrists also maintain their
own optical laboratories in which they prepare and assemble the glasses or contact lenses
furnished to their patients. If a separate charge is made to the patient for glasses or
contact lenses, then tax is due on such charge, and the materials which were used in the
preparation of the glasses or contact lenses are being purchased for resale and may be
purchased under a Resale Exemption Certificate. If no separate charge is made, then the
optometrist or ophthalmologist is deemed to be the user of such glasses or contact lenses
and his purchase of such materials is taxable.
E. Eyeglasses and contact lenses sold at retail, as a result of
a prescription written by either an optometrist or ophthalmologist, are considered
orthotic devices and are exempt from the 1/2% Sewer tax, the 1/2% Street Improvement tax,
and the 1% Educational Facilities Improvement District tax for sales in this Parish.
Rule 84. Orthotic, Prosthetic, Ostomy, Ileostomy, and Colostomy Devices, Wheelchairs, and Patient Aids
Sales of orthotic, prosthetic, ostomy, ileostomy, and colostomy devices, wheelchairs,
and patient aids are sales of tangible personal property subject to tax. However, the 1/2%
Sewer tax, 1/2% Street Improvement tax, and the 1% Educational Facilities Improvement
District tax provide an exemption for those devices. Eyeglasses and contact lenses
prescribed by an optometrist or an ophthalmologist are also exempt from the above taxes
when sold at retail.
(See Rule 1.)
Rule 85. Oxygen, Acetylene, Hydrogen, and Liquefied Gas
Sales of oxygen, acetylene, hydrogen, and liquefied gas (butane, propane, etc.) to
manufacturers, processors, refiners, repairmen, contract welders, dentists or junk
dealers, or for use as fuel or illumination, are sales to consumers or users and are
subject to tax. If such products are sold to dealers for resale in their original state or
for use for further processing, such sales are not subject to tax.
(See also Rule 67.)
Rule 86. Parking Lots, Etc.
The furnishing of parking privileges by parking garages and parking lots is
a taxable service. Persons who regularly furnish space for the parking or storage of
automobiles, trucks, trailers or other vehicles are deemed to be operators of parking lots
or parking garages. Charges made for parking recreational vehicles at campgrounds
and parks are taxable. The total charges made for such storage or parking privileges are
taxable whether such charges are made by hotels, hospitals or any other person.
Valet parking charges are considered part of the parking service and are taxable. Valet
parking charges are taxable even when parking is "free" and there is a charge
only for valet parking.
Rental of real property for a flat fee is not taxable when the property is used for
parking and no parking fees are collected from individual parkers.
Rule 87. Drugs
The sale of drugs, whether by prescription or over the counter, is taxable.
The sale of prescription drugs is exempt from the tax levied for sewers and sewerage
disposal works, the tax levied for street improvements, and the tax levied by the
Educational Facilities Improvement District.
Rule 88. Photo Finishing and Photographers
A. Photo finishing involves the developing of
negatives and the printing of finished pictures. If a single charge is made for both
operations, the entire charge is taxable. If separate charges are made for the developing
of the negatives and the printing of the pictures, only the charge for the printing is
B. The tinting or coloring of photographs by a photo finisher
constitutes a non-taxable service.
C. Sales to photographers of materials which become an
ingredient or component part of the finished picture, such as mounts, frames, and
sensitized papers, are sales for resale and are not taxable. Sales of materials such as
chemicals, plates, proof paper, trays, etc., which are used or consumed in the manufacture
or fabrication of pictures and do not become an ingredient or component part thereof, and
sales of materials to be used or consumed in the tinting or coloring of photographs, are
D. Sales of frames, film, portraits, and other articles by
photographers or photo finishers are taxable retail sales.
(See Rule 105 - Videographers.)
Rule 89. Physicians and Medical Clinics
A. Physicians, surgeons, and medical clinics are the
consumers of the various items of tangible personal property which they use or consume in
the rendition of their professional services, and sales to them of such items are taxable.
B. Tax does not apply to the fee for professional services
rendered by physicians and surgeons. If physicians and surgeons sell to their patients
medicines, medical supplies, bandages, and the like, they must register as dealers and
collect and remit the tax on such sales.
Rule 90. Printing Industry
A. Sales by printers of advertising circulars,
books, briefs, envelopes, folders, posters, racing forms, shopping guides, tickets, and
other printed matter to persons who do not resell such articles in the regular course of
business, but who either use or consume them, or lease or distribute them free of charge,
are subject to tax. The cost of labor, author's alterations or other service charges in
performing the printing may not be deducted from the sales price even though such charges
are stated or shown on any evidence of sale separately from the charge for the printed
material, since such charges are considered an integral part of the articles sold.
B. When stamped envelopes or government postals are purchased
and printed for customers or when stamps are provided, the charge for the postage may be
deducted in determining the sales price.
C. Sales of printed matter to advertising agencies who purchase
for their own use or for the use of their clients, and not for resale in the regular
course of business, are taxable retail sales.
D. Sales of tickets to theater owners, amusement operators,
transportation companies, and others are sales for consumption and subject to tax. Such
tickets are not resold by the purchasers as tangible personal property, but are used
merely as a receipt to patrons for payment and as evidence of the right to admission or
transportation. Sales of school annuals and similar publications by printers to schools or
student organizations therein are subject to tax.
E. Sales by printers of books, envelopes, folders, posters,
racing forms, stationery, tickets, and other printed matter to dealers for resale in the
regular course of business are not retail sales and are not subject to tax.
F. The binding and rebinding of books for others is taxable as
a fabrication.
G. The purchases and sales of the following, including all
chemical supplies necessary to produce such items, whether manufactured by a printer or
purchased from a subcontractor, are not taxable:
H. The sale of a plate to a particular customer and the
purchase of equipment and furniture by printers is taxable.
Rule 91. Per Diem or Car Hire on Freight Cars, Piggy-Back Cars, and Rolling Stock; Repairs
A. The sales, use, and lease tax shall not apply to:
Hourly, daily or periodic mileage or other charges referred to as "per diem or car
hire" on freight cars and other rolling stock, when such charges are paid by reason
of the presence of freight cars and other rolling stock owned by another on the tracks of
the taxpayer;
Piggy-back trailers or containers when brought into or operated as piggy-back trailers
or containers in the Parish; and
Rolling stock, such as engines, switch engines, freight cars, and machinery owned,
operated or leased by a railroad or any other person, firm or corporation.
B. Repairs made in the Parish to railroad rolling stock, such
as engines, switch engines, freight cars, boxcars, and tank cars, are subject to tax. If
the rolling stock is repaired out-of-parish and is returned to the Parish, a use tax is
due on any materials added to the rolling stock during the repair. If labor charges are
not separately stated on the out-of-parish repair invoice, the entire amount of the repair
is subject to use tax. A credit against the use tax due will be granted to taxpayers who
have paid an equal or greater local tax in another local taxing jurisdiction for the
rolling stock repair.
Rule 92. Refinery Gas
A. Refinery gas is subject to tax. Refinery gas is defined as a
"waste" gas or "by-product" gas which is produced in the process of
distilling crude petroleum into its marketable products.
B. The annual cost basis computed by the Louisiana Department
of Revenue shall be the value at which such refinery gas is taxed.
C. The sales price of refinery gas, when sold at retail,
wholesale, or for further processing, shall be the average of the monthly spot market
price per thousand cubic feet of natural gas delivered into pipelines in Louisiana as
reported by the Natural Gas Clearing House and as determined by the Department of Revenue
for natural gas severance tax purposes at the time of such sale, or the price for which
such property is actually sold, whichever is greater, and such sale shall be taxable (Act
29, 1996).
D. The "cost price" of refinery gas shall be 52 cents per
thousand cubic feet multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which shall be the posted
price for a barrel of West Texas Intermediate Crude Oil on December first of the preceding
calendar year and the denominator of which shall be $29, and provided further that such
cost price shall be the maximum value placed upon refinery gas by the state and by any
political subdivision under any authority or grant of power to levy and collect use taxes.
Rule 93. School Books and Supplies
A. Sales of school books by persons engaged in the business of
selling such books to users or consumers are subject to tax.
B. Purchases of school books by public schools for distribution
to students or for library purchases are exempt from local sales and use tax (Act
1029,1991). Effective July 1, 1997, purchases of school books, work books, computer
software, films, videos, and audio tapes by approved private and parochial schools are
exempt from local sales and use tax (Act 15, 1996).
C. When publishers or proprietors of bookstores sell books to
school boards strictly for the purpose of filling orders previously taken for the same
from students and such school boards do not maintain any stock of books or engage in the
business of selling books, such school boards are deemed to be the agents of the student
and such sales are retail sales subject to tax.
D. Publishers or proprietors of bookstores selling books to
school boards, teachers or other persons operating bookstores and maintaining stocks of
books for the purpose of resale to school students are deemed to make sales for the
purpose of resale. In such cases, the purchasing school board, teachers or other persons
operating such bookstores and engaged in the business of making sales at retail shall be
responsible for collecting and remitting the tax upon such retail sales. In all cases, the
burden of proof shall be upon the publishers or proprietors of the bookstores to show that
any particular sale was made for the purpose of resale.
E. This rule applies with equal force to sales of writing
paper, drawing materials, ink, laboratory, and other school supplies.
Rule 94. Self-Propelled Vehicles or Heavy Equipment
Louisiana Revised Statute 47:305.22 provides an exemption from local sales/use taxes
for self-propelled vehicles or heavy equipment which were purchased or imported tax-free
for resale and are subsequently withdrawn from resale inventory, for rental, as a method
for promoting sales. To be eligible for this exemption, the equipment must (1) be of a
type not subject to titling under Louisiana Revised Statutes, Title 32; (2) have a
dealer's cost of not less than $3,000 per unit; (3) be mobile, motorized, self-propelled
farm equipment and attachments thereto; and/or (4) mobile, motorized, self-propelled
earth-moving equipment and attachments thereto; and/or (5) mobile, motorized,
self-propelled construction equipment and attachments thereto. The dealer shall be liable
for the tax levied on the rental income and a sales tax upon any ultimate sale of said
Rule 95. Ship Supplies
The sale of materials and supplies, the furnishing of repair services, the
sale of materials and supplies used in such repairs when they enter into and become a
component part of ships or vessels operating exclusively in foreign or interstate
coastwise commerce, and laundry services when purchased by owners and operators of such
vessels, are not subject to tax. The seller of materials or supplies or the furnisher of
repairs or laundry services shall secure from the purchaser an exemption certificate
furnished by the Finance Director and signed by the purchaser, stating that such materials
and supplies are to be used exclusively in vessels operating in foreign or interstate
coastwise commerce. Any dealer who fails to secure such an exemption certificate will be
held liable for and must pay the tax himself.
Rule 96. Shoe Repairing
The charges of shoe repairmen for the services of shoe repairing, shining or
rebuilding are subject to tax. Sales to shoe repairmen of materials such as sole leather,
rubber heels, thread, and nails, which become a part of the articles repaired, are sales
for resale and are not subject to tax.
Rule 97. Sign Painters and Manufacturers
A. Persons engaged in the business of painting signs
on buildings or other real or personal property belonging to others are furnishing
non-taxable services. However, sales of paint, brushes, and other tangible personal
property to such sign painters are taxable retail sales.
B. When a sign painter fabricates and paints a sign from
his own material or from materials supplied by his customer and sells it to the customer
as a finished article, the transaction is a taxable retail sale. No deductions may be made
from the selling price for labor or service charges.
C. Sales of electric, neon or other illuminated signs,
whether manufactured by the seller or not, are taxable retail sales. If at the time of
such sale, the seller contracts to furnish periodic maintenance or repair service for a
flat charge, including the purchase price of the sign, the total gross proceeds are
taxable. If the charges for maintenance or repair services are rendered subsequent to the
sale, such charges are taxed as sales of service. If the maintenance contract includes
non-taxable services, such as insurance and inspection, the portion of the charge
representing the cost of inspecting and insurance may be excluded from the taxable amount
if such charges are segregated in the contract and on the invoice.
Rule 98. Stocks, Bonds or Other Securities
The term "tangible personal property" does not include stocks, bonds, notes,
or other obligations or securities, and accordingly, the sale of such is not subject to
Rule 99. Transportation Services
The tax does not apply to the furnishing of transportation services by taxi, boat, bus,
or other instrumentalities for a fare. It does apply to the rental of such
instrumentalities when the price paid is in the form of a rental and not a fare.
Rule 100. Tire and Tube Repair
Persons engaged in repairing and vulcanizing tires and tubes and retreading
tires are performing taxable services. The gross proceeds derived from such services are
subject to tax. Materials and supplies purchased for use in performing such repairs, which
become a part of the articles repaired, are deemed purchased for resale and may be
purchased tax-free under a Resale Exemption Certificate.
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COFFEE connoisseurs are rushing to pay $50 a cup as the wives of elephant keepers in northern Thailand eagerly pick through piles of fresh elephant dung.
In a world first, coffee made from pure Arabica beans are being slow-cooked in the stomachs of a herd of 30 elephants, plucked from their dung 30 hours later, then washed and roasted.
And, no, the result is not a crappuccino, nor is it promoted as "good to the last dropping".
It's called Black Ivory Coffee and, according to those who have sipped the brew, it has a fragrance that tastes of "milk chocolate, nutty, earthy with hints of spice and red berries".
Anantara Hotels, Resorts and Spas, a luxury hotel group, is selling the coffee at its hotels in northern Thailand, the Maldives and Abu Dhabi, and business is brisk, despite the price tag of $US1100 ($A1050) a kilogram.
Correspondents from Bangkok have made the journey into the Golden Triangle - where Thailand, Laos and Burma meet - to witness the jumbo baristas at work and to sip the finished product.
"When an elephant eats coffee, its stomach acid breaks down the protein found in coffee, which is a key factor in bitterness," said Canadian Blake Dinkin, 42, who has spent $US300,000 developing the brand. "You end up with a cup that's very smooth without the bitterness of regular coffee," he said.
"My theory is that a natural fermentation process takes place in the elephants' gut … that fermentation imparts flavours you wouldn't get from other coffees," he said.
The coffee beans, handpicked by villagers, stew together with bananas, sugar cane and other ingredients in the elephants' vegetarian diet.
It takes 33 kilograms of raw coffee to produce one kilogram of Black Ivory. Many of the beans get chewed up, broken or lost in tall grass after being excreted. The wives of the elephant keepers, mahouts, collect the dung, break it open and pick out the coffee. It is then ground by hand and brewed using technology developed in 1840 in Austria.
The first batch of 70 kilograms of Black Ivory has already sold out and Mr Dinkin hopes to produce six times that amount in 2013.
The elephants used in the production once tromped around the streets of Thailand's tourist resorts with their keepers relying on donations to feed them. Now they are at work in grounds owned by Anantara with some of the proceeds from coffee sales going to provide healthcare for them, including the hiring of an elephant veterinarian.
Black Ivory is not the first novelty coffee blend to hit the market in recent years. Coffee passed through civets, a cat-like tree-dwelling mammal in the Philippines, Vietnam and Indonesia, sells for a similar price.
In 2010, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono raised a few eyebrows when he presented then prime minister Kevin Rudd with the packet of Kopi Luwak, or civet coffee, during a visit to Australia.


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Falling in Love with the Southwest
Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town • Albuquerque, NM
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The most populous city in New Mexico, Albuquerque straddles the Rio Grande in the center of the state. Its desert locale belies the juicy history and culture for which the city is known. Visitors will want to wring out every last drop of flavor the colorful Old Town district has to offer: ten blocks of shops, Southwestern art galleries, and saucy eateries. Peek into The Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, just steps off the Old Town Plaza, to see collections spanning four centuries and pieces by established New Mexican artists.
Named number six on Outside magazine's list of America's Best Cities in 2009, Albuquerque draws outdoor enthusiasts with an average of 278 sunny days per year and gorgeous natural features: the Rio Grande and nearby Sandia Mountains. Its Open Space program preserves land in and around the city, making it easy to find hiking trails with stunning views—don't miss the petroglyphs along Rinconada Canyon Trail. And the area is a haven for cyclists, boasting more than 400 miles of bike paths and trails—the Paseo del Bosque Trail runs right through the city.
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ChicagoCon by The Ethical Hacker Network
EH-Net is exploring the idea of hosting a security event in Chicago named ChicagoCon, and we need your feedback. We're considering launching ChicagoCon this fall (early Sept 2007) and/or next Spring (April 2008) in one of the following formats:
- 5-Day Work Week Event: This format would contain a collection of boot camps M-F including CEH/CNDA, CPTS, ECSA, CPTE, Security+, CISSP, CHFI and SCP (list due to change). Each morning before class, we would have keynotes by our columnists and friends of EH-Net. Lunch would be provided for the students. After class we would have evening keynotes and presentations with hacker competitions to follow. Both students and outside attendees are invited to the evening sessions.
- 2-Day Weekend Event: This format would have all of the features of the Week Long Event minus the boot camps. We would just squeeze the keynotes, presentations and contests into a 2 or 3 day schedule.
- Combination: We could combine the aspects of both to have a 7 day event.
For either format, we are also considering an exhibit hall where the free lunch will be held. The exhibitors would not be allowed to approach the lunch tables but be able to have small booths around the perimeter of the lunch room.
Price for the boot camps would be competitive with other boot camp providers. Price for the evening sessions and hacker contests would be minimal. We're thinking under $100 and maybe free if we get sponsors and enough attendees.
Let us know what you think and/or offer suggestions,
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I am looking for any news of feral European dark honey bees (Apis mellifera mellifera) in North Carolina, Southern VA or East TN. If you know of any colonies fitting this description or that you suspect fit it, and would not mind letting me know about them or their general location; please send me an PM.
It is probably unlikely that we have any pure German dark honey bees in this part of the country anymore, however, I would think that there are likely some feral colonies which have a pretty good share of these genetics. I think it would be interesting to capture swarms from such colonies in order to back cross and breed the closest we can to the old German dark honey bee.
I have heard that these honey bees tend to be kind of defensive and runny on the combs--not traits that many a beekeeper wants. I too am not so interested in these two traits; however, I am interested in keeping genetic diversity available. I have also heard that the closer to A.m.m. genetics you get, the calmer the honey bee--basically, that the American feral bees with A.m.m. genetics are likely defensive due to hybridization rather than the A.m.m. genes alone. (So my theory would be that back crossing and selecting for relative gentle behavior, might get close to the ideal A.m.m. I have heard and read about from European beekeepers who work with this race of honey bee.
Thanks for any information on dark bees you know of or have heard of in NC, Southern VA or East TN.