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Since the revolution of Duchamp's readymades and Picasso's collages early last century, the very conception of what art can be has expanded and changed dramatically. Sculpture was at the forefront of this interrogation of the boundaries between art and life that characterised much twentieth-century art, and throughout this period the parameters of sculptural practice became increasingly fluid. While for a time in the 1960s and 1970s the sculptural object seemed in danger of dematerialising into the expanded field of performance art, happenings, installation, land art and conceptual art, currently the sculptural object again occupies a central place within contemporary practice.
A defining feature of this return to the sculptural object is a fascination with the physicality of objects, with their relationship to the world and us, and how ideas can be expressed and experienced through materials and process. While the legacy of conceptual art has meant that the physical aspects of an artwork were deemed irrelevant or viewed with suspicion, in much recent work concept and form have become inseparable. Artists employ an extraordinary and seemingly inexhaustible variety of materials, and a noticeable aspect of much contemporary sculptural work is the use of manufacturing processes that are time and labour intensive, often requiring high levels of technical and manual skill.
Since its launch in 2000 the National Sculpture Prize has taken a very broad view of what contemporary sculpture might be. In contemporary practice genres and disciplines cross over, and few artists identify themselves as 'sculptors', they are simply artists. The Prize does not attempt to be thematic or definitive, and it is characterised by an inclusive approach to contemporary practice. Artists in this year's Prize address questions of form, content and materiality in very different ways. Yet while there is no single thread linking all of these works, there are surprising points of connection between even the most seemingly disparate works: shared sensibilities and points of reference, the questioning of formal sculptural concerns, and an engagement with broad social and political issues.
At a time when humanity's impact on the environment becomes ever more problematic, ideas of the natural world and our relationship with nature are a central discourse in much contemporary art. The metaphorical associations of the cyclical and regenerative aspects of nature are explored in GW Bot's Hillside, evoking a view of a delicate yet tough Australian landscape. Kirsteen Pieterse's Canyon and Ravine describe the negative spaces of these natural features in the manner of an architectural model, reiterating the notion of the landscape as a cultural construct. Bonita Ely's Bonsai landscape comments on humankind's mistaken belief in its ability to control and order the natural world, and the disastrous consequences of this as evidenced in the 2003 Canberra bushfires.
Geoffrey Drake-Brockman's Floribots can be seen as a manifestation of the ultimate fulfilment of this desire to control nature: a virtual garden of robotic flowers that endlessly move through the cycle of life, growth and death. Also exploring the interface between nature and technology, James Angus's digitally designed and manufactured Manta ray is a futuristic merging of twenty-first-century technology with evolution, as though the principles of contemporary design have been applied to a manta ray to create a new and improved showroom prototype.
The extinction of species and degradation of the marine environment is the subject of Nicole Byrne's Repetition, its intricate paper construction recalling organic marine forms. Maria Fernanda Cardoso's Woven water: submarine landscape evokes the beauty of the underwater world, while its construction from the bleached remains of starfish reiterates the vulnerability of this environment and its creatures.
In Continuous moment Damiano Bertoli translates German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich's The sea of ice 1823–24 – an iconic image of the helplessness of man in the face of nature – into the language of abstract Minimalist sculpture. The work negotiates a space between painting and sculpture, nineteenth-century narrative and twentieth-century abstraction, within an ongoing discourse of humanity's place in the natural world. Recalling eighteenth-century philosopher Edmund Burke's conception of the sublime, which proposed that the most powerful of aesthetic responses originates in terror, Mel O'Callaghan's DVD The fall aestheticises the drowning death of a parachutist through the beauty of the billowing folds of the parachute.
The expression of a spiritual relationship to land is a fundamental purpose of traditional Indigenous art. The carved and painted imagery of Gunybi Ganambarr's larrakitj Dhanbarr depicts designs sacred to his mother's clan, while the traditional function of the larrakitj is as a ceremonial container for the bones of the deceased, which over time would decay and return its contents to the earth.
For both Richard Goodwin and David Jensz science is a path to the contemplation of the infinite. Richard Goodwin's Moth is rich with metaphorical allusions to journeys and transformations, both physical and spiritual, while David Jensz's Unbounded space takes as its starting point the desire to make tangible a conception of an endless universe as described by contemporary physics.
As a way of connecting to the divine principle, chanting is a central practice in Buddhism. In Nigel Helyer's sound installation Chant, ten bronze Buddhas equipped with radio receivers and speakers endlessly repeat the sacred Mani mantra. The significance of pattern in spiritual art and repetitive activity as a meditative act is also explored in Juliana Bartulin's Barcelona devotional, in which the artist transforms the modernist grid into a delicate radiating structure evocative of natural forms. Most specifically concerned with the creation of a spiritual art, in Buddha of infinite directions Lachlan Warner blends eastern and western elements to create a devotional image of the Buddha endlessly repeated within its mirrored setting.
Referencing archetypal forms and Greek mythology, Bert Flugelman's Caryatid Minotaur resembles a ceremonial gateway, a place of literal and metaphorical passage. However, this gate is physically and visually impassable, with the upright forms set close together and its highly polished mirror finish reflecting back on ourselves.
Mikala Dwyer's Selving utilises mirrored surfaces and transparent plastic to express concepts of impermanence and mutability. The work's ever-changing contours frustrate attempts to define its form, its apparent weightlessness and formlessness in direct opposition to a conventional understanding of sculpture as an art of mass and volume. Similarly, the form of Fred Fisher's Tilt is ambiguous, the optically charged surface of the work challenging the limitations of visual perception and disrupting our expectation of a rational relationship between structure and surface. Neil Taylor's Virtual hermetic articulates a complex space that is at once inside and outside. Open-ended and potentially endless, its construction of open wire mesh allows the three-dimensional form to be read simultaneously as two-dimensional delineation. In Turbulence Paul Selwood presents sculptural form as essentially contingent. There is no fixed view of the work; rather it reveals an ever-changing relationship of geometric shapes and interior spaces as the viewer moves around the work.
The manipulation of scale and the inversion of the relationship between object and the body of the viewer is employed in works by Craig Walsh and Ruth Johnstone. Their works create a disorienting sensation so that, like Alice in Wonderland, we are alternatively shrunken and enlarged. Craig Walsh's DVD projection Cross-reference disrupts the space of the gallery, simulating an open doorway through which can be seen the (big) participants in the Big Day Out music festival. Walsh attempts to connect both sites and engage both audiences in a consideration of the conventions of cultural practice. Ruth Johnstone's The doll's house gallery (boxed) – a detailed miniature replica of an eighteenth-century interior – functions as a kind of 'micro-installation': its small scale denying the possibility of the viewer's actual experience of the room, the effect of miniaturisation triggering sensations of memory and experience.
Employing a meticulous one-to-one scale, Paul Procee's still life Untitled – comprising two pairs of shoes and a handbag – alludes to the absent wearers of these items. Painstakingly fabricated from lead, the symbolic associations of this material are also suggestive of transformation. The function of clothing as a signifier of social status and gender is used by Mona Ryder in Les animaux sauvage. Ryder's work employs the necktie as a traditional symbol of masculine authority and power to satirise the rituals of corporate culture and its impact on modern life.
The instability of individual identity is explored by Geoffrey Bartlett in Double self-portrait. In his work Bartlett refers to the doubling of the mirrored image and creates a series of juxtapositions to articulate that the presentation of self is composite and layered – the frame around the two heads recalls the psychologically charged space of Giacometti's Surrealist sculptures. Jon Tarry's Inversions one to two subtly refers to the body through the proportions of its two components. The close relationship between these two forms, one open and transparent the other closed and covered by a surface skin, is suggestive of two states of mutually possible existence. In Protrusion and Term Charles Robb invokes the stylistic conventions of the traditional truncated portrait bust. Robb's disturbing realistic portrayal of these fragmentary bodies acts as a metaphor for the disintegration of humanist values.
Humanity's propensity to violence is the subject of Ewen Coates' Overground, an installation of twelve sinister, hooded heads. Within each are small dioramas depicting various acts of brutality and terror. Using suspended and folded Vietnamese and US currency, Glen Clarke's American crater near Hanoi #2 replicates the exact dimensions of a specific crater photographed and measured by the artist. Clarke comments on the underlying economic causes of modern warfare, using the crater as a space symbolic of the devastating impact of the Vietnam War on the inhabitants of that country. Ian Howard's The WOSP-EFC project is a continuation of the artist's long-standing investigation of the relationship between military and civilian populations. Incorporating objects that have autobiographical, historical and cultural significance Howard's work locates an individual life within the context of ongoing global conflict since the First World War.
The secret life of ordinary objects is explored in Wanda Gillespie's Impossible flight, the fans apparently engaged in a futile quest to escape their earthbound existence. Christian de Vietri's Einstein's refrigerator 2nd law comments on our failure to address issues of environmental sustainability. In his work a refrigerator, a consumer good implicated in global warming, is subjected to the logical outcome of its own condition and is melting. The aesthetics of consumer desire are articulated in Christopher Langton's Dolly and Built for comfort. Like the mass-produced inflatable toys they resemble, the works' immaculate and brightly coloured surfaces are immediately seductive. Yet Langton's work also reminds us that this attraction is only skin-deep and that the essential condition of such desire is to remain unfulfilled.
In Stack, a bookcase constructed from books, Patrick Hall creates a visual analogy for the way that individual meaning is generated through the arrangement and structuring of thought, lived experience and language; the form of the bookcase a literal and symbolic container of many stories. Also employing an aesthetic strategy of accumulation, juxtaposition and arrangement, Hany Armanious's Turns in Arabba continues the artist's ongoing fascination with the transformative potential of the casting process and the investigation of sculptural forms organised around a central axis.
Alasdair Macintyre's The Art Park Project is a model of an amusement park devoted to art, containing replicas of iconic sites and work of art that the artist would like to see. The work questions the relationship of the original to the copy, and positions Macintyre within a peculiarly antipodean tradition where the artist's initial knowledge of the history of art is primarily through reproductions.
The antipathy between pure abstraction and ornamentation is explored in Simeon Nelson's Wall zip (for Brancusi and Barnett Newman). Nelson maintains the tension between both forms of abstraction, one in opposition to the natural world and the other informed by it, the modernist grid a hidden armature over which organic-based forms proliferate. In Monument to progressing thought (after Homer Simpson) Tony Schwensen refers to the origin of modern sculpture in Duchamp's readymades, yet he has placed the wheelbarrow on car stands suggestive of a plinth, the essential condition of monumental sculpture whose rejection was a crucial part in the development of sculpture in the twentieth century. The absurdity of thus conflating the monument with the readymade is likened by the artist to recent suggestions to reverse the flow of Australia's inland river system.
In Jurek Wybraniec's Clueless Ø190 (silver) word and form seamlessly merge in a glittering, transparent sphere. However, as in the fortuneteller's ball, meaning is not crystal clear, the work an elegant and enigmatic post-millennial postscript.
Within these highly individual practices, each informed by multiple preoccupations and operating simultaneously on several layers, there are also significant points of connection between works, common approaches and participation in the wider discourses of contemporary art.
Since the first Prize in 2001, the National Sculpture Prize has filled an important role as the most significant national exhibition of contemporary sculpture. The 2005 Prize is the largest exhibition of contemporary sculpture mounted by a public gallery in Australia for over a decade. Significantly, this year's Prize also includes works in new media, including digital works, DVD projections and sound works, as well as large-scale installations alongside sculptural objects. Many works explore cross-disciplinary concerns and the exhibition includes works in which practices such painting, printmaking, video art and architecture intersect with particularly sculptural concerns.
Deliberately not attempting to illustrate predetermined themes or to be a definitive survey, the open nature of the selection process by a panel of judges has allowed for the inclusion of a broad selection of works. The exhibition invites comparisons and contrasts, the reconsideration and recontextualisation of works, and an unrivalled opportunity to encounter the possibilities of sculptural practice today.
Elena Taylor
Curator of Australian Painting and Sculpture
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Why we are in Afghanistan
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- While Congress debates who is going to pay the spiraling costs of health, the U.S. government spent $30 billion to send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. According to Linda Bilmes, a public-finance expert at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government: "The total cost of [the escalation in] Afghanistan will be at least twice the direct cost and perhaps three times the cost of the estimate." She cites equipment replacement, medical and disability payments to veterans and interest accrued on money we are borrowing to finance the war. And how does one put a monetary value on the lives that will be lost?
Reading press accounts closely, one is left befuddled as to who we are really fighting and why - al-Qaida, the Taliban or the "bad" Taliban vs. the "good" Taliban. Nor do these explanations address the fact that al-Qaida operates openly in Somalia, Yemen or any number of other states, including Pakistan. Why have we not targeted those countries?
Humanitarian reasons have been cited - to improve the status of women and to aid the economic development of Afghanistan. But then why do we not have troops in the Congo to stop the rape and mutilation of thousands of women, or in Myanmar (Burma) to stop the violent repression of human rights there?
The reasons for our military commitments are complex, but one explanation can be summed up as: pipelines, geography and energy reserves. Afghanistan sits smack in the middle of a pipeline route that would bring the control of future energy to whoever can install "friendly governments" in the area. Afghanistan's gas reserves are largely unexplored, but expected to be vast (the World Bank is funding a study of those reserves). But the key is the region itself. Afghanistan lies south of Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. These three countries have known gas reserves that place each of them among the top 20 nations with the most natural gas.
There are a number of financial interests vying to control the pipeline that has actually started construction in Afghanistan. One is the Asian Development Bank, whose purpose includes meeting Japan's future energy needs. Why is the U.S. fighting to protect Japan's interests?
Japan and the United States each hold 12.8 percent of the votes in the Asian Development Bank, which means they control more than one-quarter of the votes. The next largest bloc of votes is China and India, both countries with desperate future energy needs. They each only control a little over 5 percent of the votes. Vote proportions are based on "subscribed capital." This means the United States has purchased a controlling interest in this bank. Where was the general public discussion of this investment?
The second important player in Afghanistan is Chevron. In 2005, Chevron merged with Unocal - an energy company that had been in talks with the Taliban after the Soviet army was driven out. Unocal had negotiated an agreement to build a pipeline through Afghanistan. According to Richard H. Matzke, president of Chevron Overseas Petroleum Inc., "Another mega-project on the drawing board is called the Central Asian Oil Pipeline. This is a proposal by Unocal and the Saudi company Delta. They want to build a $2.7 billion pipeline from the heart of Turkmenistan, south through Afghanistan and Pakistan to the Arabian Sea. Oil would then move by tanker to the fast-growing economies of East Asia." The above quote is an "American" corporation executive with an "American" company describing the plans to deliver oil, not to America, but to the economies of East Asia. Unfortunately, American troops are being used to accomplish this agenda.
If "American interests" are at stake in the quest for energy sources, why are we not developing the vast natural gas reserves of the Marcellus shale formation - a gas reserve the size of Greece that underlies West Virginia and several other northern Appalachia states. Is "energy independence" simply a slogan for political purposes?
The American public needs answers for these questions that, so far, our media has failed to give.
Ewen is a retired sociology professor and former co-director of the Center for the Studies of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia at Marshall University.

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Lovely Apartment with Terraces
尺寸60 平方米
Floor No.(with elevator)
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- 洗衣机/干衣机
- 电视机
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- 大厦电梯
- 适合家庭/儿童
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Accommodation summary
|Rue François r, 06000 Nice, 法国
Excellent location in a quiet street chic " Carré d'Or " near the pedestrian streets , shops , the old town , but the beaches and the famous Promenade des Anglais , all within walking distance.
Embellished with 2 terraces, one of 26m2 tree which is very rare in the city center, with a table and chairs, loungers , ideal for breakfast in the company of the first rays of sun that gives us daily the French Riviera !
Equipment comfort: modern and functional furniture , air conditioning , fully equipped kitchen , washing machine , TV + DVD , HI -FI , free WI-FI connection , Telephone , Baby cot, kitchen etc. ...
Consisting of 2 bedrooms, 1 with double bed , 1 with 2 single beds , double bed modular .
Apartment rated 4 * by the Office of Tourism Nice.
Close to all amenities : supermarkets , pharmacies, cinema, restaurants and pubs , public parking Grimaldi Maccarani street, public transport, motorway and airport.
A unique opportunity to explore the Côte d'Azur!
Apartment rated 4 * by the Office of Tourism Nice.
住宿规定Keep noise to a minimum.
Be respectful of the neighbours.
The final cleaning room and linens ( Towels , sheets, blankets , kitchen towels , etc. ...... ) is 60 € (REQUIRED) to be paid on arrival and a deposit 400 Euros returned upon departure .
The small animals are accepted by prior agreement with the owner. The tenant enjoys renting a peaceful manner and ensure that the tranquility of the neighborhood is not disturbed by his act or that of his companions.
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just returned after a wonderful week in this apartment. It was better than expected . Location was perfect. It was close to the beach , restaurants, shopping , culture - indeed close to all those who rented the apartment was helpful and very nice . can really recommend renting this property .
We will rent this apartment again .
Charming greeting smack bang in the centre of Nice just off the pedestrian area yet in a quiet street. Close to the tram which whisks you around in no time, near the promenade. Extravagant terrace spacious living room lavishly equipped kitchen 2 air conditioned bedrooms both bigger than the hotel rooms across the road for which you would pay double the price. In a well maintained building. Don't tell anyone about this place they will all want it.
This was the perfect place to stay in Nice. Close to everything, clean and with lovely terraces. I wouldn´t hesitate to choose this apartment for my next visit to this fantastic city.
Arne Fossheim
Great apartment, fantastic location. Couldn't ask for anything more for our stay in Nice for the week of Ironman France. Thank you very much!
It was a very nice apartment we hired. It had all facilities we wanted. It was situated right in te center of Nice with only 5 minutes walk to the old town.
We strongly recommend it to other who will visit Nice and want to live by themselves and not i a big hotel.
Very nice flat in the centre of Nice. The equipment (furniture) was perfect to stay and enjoy the city. i can totally recommend to stay in Nice. best wishes dieter
We had a great stay in this apartment .The apartment is so nice and we missed absolutely nothing. In fact we would like to come back some time to Nice and will definately then stay at this great apartment!
The apartment is in the very center of Nice - and the terrasse is so beautiful, carm and it is a pleasure to just sit there and read a good book after a great day in Nice.
Also give our best to your brother who helped us get "in and out". He was
very nice and helpfull.
nice to be in nice :-) in a such quiet apartment in the heart of the city ! Very kind the owner, to go back to catch to warm and the sun.
Logement impeccable. Situation parfaite pour visiter Nice sans problème à pied.
Accueil chaleureux. Bref, à recommander sans réserve.
Wir hatten einen wunderschönen, 3-tägigen Aufenthalt. Die Wohnung befindet sich im 5. Stock in einer zentral gelegenen, kleinen Seitenstraße.
Sie ist sehr geschmackvoll eingerichtet und hat einen tollen, großen Balkon mit Frühstückstisch, einer schönen Loungegruppe und 2 Liegen.
Restaurants, Cafés, Shops befinden sich direkt um die Ecke. Perfekt, um die Stadt zu entdecken. Trotz der zentralen Lage ist die Wohnung ruhig.
Der Strand und die Busstation zum Flughafen sind in maximal 10 Minuten fussläufig erreichbar.
Didier ist super sympathisch und jederzeit erreichbar. Stadtpläne und Infomaterial über Nizza und die Cote d`Àzur befinden sich in der Wohnung und der Kühlschrank ist mit Wasser und Orangensaft gefüllt - toll!
Unsere Koffer konnten wir an unserem Abreisetag leider nicht in der Wohnung lassen, da das Apartment noch am selben Tag weiter vermietet wurde.
Ich würde diese Wohnung jederzeit wieder mieten - sie ist perfekt!
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Kayla Taking Stock
Despite being a very young 21 years old, lady racer Kayla Mozeris from Phoenix, Arizona, is already very well accomplished within NHRA's Stock Eliminator category. Since 2008, she has been the driver of one of the Hughes Performance fleet of drag cars: Jim Hughes' J/SA '88 Camaro. In that car, Kayla has racked up a pretty impressive driving record that includes numerous Stock Class Eliminator wins. Her first event win came during NHRA's Division Finals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in 2012, but for sure her biggest win came just last April when she won her first national event—scored at the NHRA SummitRacing.com Nationals also at The Strip. Kayla's Camaro features a 350ci engine by RWR Engines and tips the scales at 3,470 pounds, including driver. Her budding and very promising career receives terrific support from a number of people, including her father, Joe Mozeris; Seth Palvdore; and her two uncles, Dave and Fuji.
Canadian Capital Camaro
Sean and Kevin Gaffney, from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, are carrying on a long family tradition by racing a meticulous 1967 Camaro. The brothers are following in the footsteps of their father, Ken Gaffney, who passed away in 2009. Ken was a very active Sportsman drag racer whose career dates back to 1960. Sean and Kevin acquired their SS/GA classed car, which was formally raced by Andy Fogle in 2011 and continue to race as a tribute to their father. The Camaro features 350ci engine program by John Gulius and has runs of 9.48 seconds at over 138 mph to its credit. Both Sean and Kevin have taken turns at the wheel to date, but it will be fellow Canadian driver Rob Carpenter (from St. Catherines, Ontario) who will be tasked as the primary driver for 2013.
Super Street Stunner
Buddy Wood's Super Street/Hot Rod 1967 Camaro is truly one of the nicest machines to be seen anywhere in that category. Wood, who is from Oklahoma, races in close conjunction and as a teammate with highly involved Sportsman driver Jimmy Lewis. Buddy's Camaro, new for him in 2013, has a rather unique history, as it was formally owned by retired NBA star Larry Nance, who used to race it within Street Legal events using a 600+ci Pro Stock motor. Wood and Lewis, however, in conjunction with Tracy Dennis and Terry Sullivan, converted the car for legal 10.90-sec. class competition. The Camaro is now motivated by a 582ci (1,100 hp) engine and a Powerglide from Sunset Race Craft in Texas. Buddy's wife, Karen, and Jimmy's wife, Phylis, round out the NHRA Division Four-focused race team.
Involved Racing
California's David Coapstick does double duty at dragstrips. In addition to being the crew chief for one of NHRA Division Seven's best Top Sportsman cars (Joe Roubicek's 1968 Camaro), David also finds the time to race his own Camaro, a uniquely bodied 1967 model in Super Gas. Originally a 1963 Corvette and campaigned with former partner Jim Sowards, Coapstick updated his race car to a topless Camaro version following a crash in 2008. His biggest win thus far in his career came later that same year during the NHRA World Finals at Pomona. Today, the slick machine, which was built by Tom Yancer, features a 950hp, 598ci Chevrolet motor by Bob Tietz. Coapstick is a private trucking contractor by profession, and when he goes drag racing his wife, Sharon, is his accomplice.


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Maryland pretty seriously reevaluating that fracking moratorium
posted at 8:31 am on December 10, 2012 by Erika Johnsen
As states up and down the eastern seaboard have raked in the thousands of private-sector jobs and millions upon millions of dollars in revenue that have come from tapping into the oil and gas resources trapped in the Marcellus Shale formation using the hydraulic-fracturing technique known as "fracking," Maryland has conspicuously declined to get in on the shale-gas boom. The state's blueish influences managed to inflict a moratorium on the practice, citing fears of potential groundwater contamination to shut down the natural gas industry before it really got started, but as Virgina, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and others have seen only flourishing success from allowing fracking, Maryland's pro-gas advocates are starting to speak up. WaPo reports:
But there are signs that Maryland's resolve is weakening. Time is slowly running out on a de facto drilling moratorium imposed by O'Malley, who issued an executive order last year that barred the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) from approving drilling permits until a scientific study costing $1.5 million could be completed. The state did not fund the study, and the deadline for completing it is summer 2013. …
"What we're hoping for with this session is a very strong shot across the bow," said Del. Heather R. Mizeur (D-Montgomery County), who has sponsored numerous pieces of anti-drilling legislation. "No studies, no fracking. Until these studies are undertaken, there will be no drilling in Maryland"
But in the past legislative session, the American Petroleum Institute thwarted a state Senate bill that sought to place a fee on the oil and gas industry for the study, which would investigate the quality of Maryland's underground water in Garrett County, where the state's Marcellus Shale is most abundant, and examine whether chemicals used in fracking would taint it. …
"Tell me another example where a business wants to come into Maryland and has to pay for a study to do it," Cobbs said. "When you're working with people who don't want to compromise, that's the end result." …
Maryland's 'environmentally conscious' (read: big-government progressives who are predisposed to believe that all drilling is bad) managed to demonize fracking by crying wolf over the ostensible threats of groundwater contamination, but not even the oh-so-zealous, power-wielding EPA has been able to find an excuse to shift regulatory authority from the states to the feds based on that ostensible threat.
Another argument the anti-fracking agitators like to drudge up is that the price of natural gas has been declining, meaning that pretty soon, companies won't even want to start breaking ground anyway — but if the U.S. government would hurry up, get its act together, and start allowing American companies to export the relatively cleaner-burning natural gas into the burgeoning world market, the subsequently increasingly prices mean we would be on the receiving end of robust economic growth and job creation. The question isn't whether natural gas is a boon for both the economy and the environment, because it undeniably is; the question is whether states like Maryland and the federal government will ever allow it to be all that it can be.
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Crosslake Ideal Lions to host roadside cleanup April 27
The Crosslake Ideal Lions will host their annual roadside cleanup Saturday, April 27.
Participants should meet at 8:45 a.m. in the Reed's Grocery Store parking lot in Crosslake. Lions Club members will direct workers to clean-up locations in the community.
To request an area to clean before April 27, call Jim at 218-838-8220.
After cleanup on April 27, volunteers will meet at 11:30 a.m. at Zorbaz for pizza.


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Discussion in 'The Trash Can' started by haribobo, Jan 29, 2013.
Well, no time like the present to get this thing started!
Hanyu, Takahashi, Miner
It's a loaded field, and anybody's guess.
It's sure to be safe money to bet on Hanyu and Takahashi making the podium, but if one or both don't, stranger things have happened.
Anyway, my shot in the dark:
Hanyu, Aaron, Takahashi, Miner, Rippon, Reynolds, Mura, Song, Yan, Ten, Rogozine, Balde
or: Hanyu, Takahashi, Aaron, Miner, Reynolds, Rippon, et al.
or: Miner could make the podium and Aaron come in fourth
Making the podium will likely depend a lot on which guys go clean programs with successful quads in both programs.
I think Miner will be the 3rd. He took bronze medals three times in Japan (2009JGPF, 2011NHK, 2012NHK). Also he finished 3rd at last year's 4CC.
Ross has been very consistent in making impression this season. So my third pick is Ross.
I am going out on a limb and picking Aaron to win the bronze, after Hanyu & Takahashi get gold & silver (in any order).
This! Japan has been a friend to Miner in the past, plus it's a podium i'd really like
Mura and Aaron, and maybe possibly Song or Yan, could potentially score higher than Ross, but they aren't the most consistent, and apart from a very on Mura, who tends to run hot and cold, Ross should have a PCS edge on all of them. So I think the odds are good Ross medals unless the other guys skate clean with 3 quads (Aaron and Song are capable of that, Yan and Mura have nice quads, but I don't think they plan 2 in the FS, unless they've recently changed their layouts). So hopefully Ross can land on the podium which would help him going into Worlds. If Max can finish 4th or 5th, which I think is very possible and fairly likely, that will also set him up nicely for Worlds.
Of course RickyD was not initially listed in this poll because who knew he would end up competing in Adam's stead!? And then end up being ahead of other U.S. guys in third after the short program. Way to go Ricky! He must be at the full strength he was missing at Nationals.
I know these type of polls carry absolutely no logic or statistical accuracy, but it's also quite funny that Han Yan received zero votes. Not to mention that Dai is lurking off the podium after the sp having been saved by rep points.
"Whither thou goest, figure skating???" Despite the often unpredictable, controversial and entertaining chaos, hmmm, I'm not so sure I'm willing to continue going with thee.
Here's a very unofficial ranking of the top guys going to Worlds based on Euros and 4CC scores (Han and Kovtun not confirmed)-putting Chan on top just because...
1 Chan
2 Fernandez 274
3 Amodio 250
4 Reynolds 250
5 Hanyu 246
6 Brezina 243
7 Han 235
8 Aaron 234
9 Joubert 232
10 Kovtun 226
11 Takahashi 222
12 Mura 218
13 Miner 214
14 Majorov 211
15 Rogozine 201
16 Ge 201
17 Ten 197
18 Pfeifer 194
FYI, it's Han (first name) YAN (last name).
Aren't you going to start a new poll thread for Worlds with these numbers?
Haha yea pretty soon- suppose I should wait to see who the Russian and Chinese entries will be first...or has China named their team?
sk8tingcoach, pretty amazing.
Just like to say, I'm happy for Kevin, who won gold by a very healthy margin.


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Record number of shoppers hit stores on Thanksgiving weekend, over $59 billion spent
posted at 2:41 pm on November 26, 2012 by Ed Morrissey
Having worked a few Thanksgiving weekends in retail, I've remained traumatized enough to avoid shopping on Black Friday or any point on the holiday weekend ever since. I'm in a distinct minority, though, and an even smaller one this year. The National Retail Federation estimates that American consumers made 247 million shopping excursions in the last four days, combining on-line and in-store visits, and generated over $59 billion in sales:
As the BBC reports, the average per-visit spending total rose too, although not quite as much:
A record 247 million people visited stores and websites between Thursday and Sunday and spent a total of $59.1bn (£36.9bn), 13% more than last year, the National Retail Federation (NRF) said.
The average shopper spent $423 over the weekend, up from $398 last year.
Surveys suggest Americans also plan to spend big on so-called "Cyber Monday".
"Millions of Americans found time this Thanksgiving to make the most of retailers' promotions and enjoy a special family holiday," said NRF chief executive Matthew Shay.
That's a 6.3% increase in per-shopper spending, significant in itself but also demonstrating that the growth was broader rather than deeper. The biggest jump came on line, though, which exceeded a billion dollars on Friday for the first time, an increase of 25%. Thanksgiving Day sales, while most brick-and-mortar stores were closed, rose a third over last year, according to Comscore.com. They expect sales for "Cyber Monday" today to go over $1.5 billion, which would be a 20% increase over last year.
Retailers of all stripes better enjoy it while they can. The NRF tells the BBC that they expect a 4.1% increase in overall sales this year, which would be weaker than last year's 5.6%, and that this burst may end up taking demand from later in the holiday season. Thanks to heavy discounting, that might end up costing retailers margin on those sales. If consumers fail to see a resolution of the tax dispute in Washington as Christmas approaches, they may start thinking more like Grinches than Santa Clauses, too.
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Athens- Acropolis view, huge veranda (Athens)
מספר אנשים מקסימלי4
חדרי שינה1
גודל37 מטר רבוע
Floor No.5(with elevator)
- מתאים גם למשפחות/ ילדים
- מיזוג אוויר
- מכונת כביסה / מייבש
- טלויזיה
- מתאים לאירועים
- מעלית בבניין
- מטבח
- חדר הניתן לנעילה
Accommodation summary
|Kalypsous, 17561 Palaio Faliro, יוון
|סוג נכס
|פרטי הזיהוי של מקום הלינה
|Acceptance rate
|Response time
|A few hours
|Calendar updated
The Space
Last floor accessed by elevator & stairs
An open plan studio with
1 Terrace with view of Athens -Acropolis
1 room with double bed &
1 double quality sofa bed
1 fully equipped small kitchenette
1 bathroom.
1 home cinema and open air cinema
1 electric barbecue in the veranda
Washing machine available in another floor.(no cost)
Bed linen and towels are provided
Free Wi-fi, Air condition, TV, hair dryer, iron etc
We can provide baby cots if you want to travel with kids.(max 2 babies)
- A Top floor Studio, with a veranda that has fantastic overview of Athens & the Acropolis
- Fast/easy access from/to Piraeus port (8 minutes) & Airport
- No charge for babies up to 1 year old. Free baby cot & chair.
- Air condition system with inverter technology (Coolin & heating)
- Home cinema ,open air cinema & barbecue.
- Discover the real Athens, enjoy sunset & night life in Flisvos Park & Marina
- Airport /port transfer is available upon request.
- We offer BASIC ingredients to prepare by yourself your breakfast (coffee,tea,sugar,cereals,)
- 98% satisfied guests. We are the most experienced hosts in Athens. We have hosted over 4.000 people from 36 countries.
- No extra cost, and no need for deposit
- We communicate in 6 languages. English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Turkish
The entire top floor studio is at your exclusive use. An open space 35 sq meters. comfortable,clean, private studio with bathroom (shower), hot water 24/hours, cooking facilities, fridge, Satelite TV WI-fi,e.t.c. On the veranda you can have a barbecue under the Athenian sky, while enjoying full Acropolis view and thus maximize your Greek experience.
We try to be environmentally friendly , so we have solar heating and bed sheets/towels are washed with ORGANIC detergent .
Guest Access
The entire apartment and its amenities are at your exclusive use.
There are 2 options to reach the apartment.
1) Private transfer (extra cost). Arriving or leaving after midnight? No problem!
2) Arriving by your self and meet you at the apartment. This option is available for arrivals between 7 in the morning till 11.30 in the night.
Interaction with Guests
By making a reservation with us, you are getting access to many suggestions for tours or accommodations, in many islands and places of interest all over Greece.
We are a Swiss- Greek family and speak Greek, French, English, German, Spanish, Italian
Our first aim is to get to know new people and make new friends...we are waiting for you!We welcome any question that will help you organize your trip.
The Neighborhood
Palaio Phaliro , probably is the most beautiful area of Athens and you have the opportunity to discover the real city of Athens and not just the typical touristic areas.The house is next to the city center, ideally situated between Athens historical center and Piraeus port.Our area is a very popular choice for Athenians for swimming , walking and dinning.House is 12 minutes walk from the beach, the magnificent seaside walk of P.Faliro and the newly build marina of Flisvos where you can choose among, our unique open air cinema, coffee shops, bars and restaurants, while enjoying beautiful sunset over Castella Hill (see photos)
As our area is next to the sea, it is a little bit cooler compared to the center of Athens,during the summer and away from demonstrations and traffic jams. Our neighborhood is quiet and absolutely safe with no parking problem in case you rent a car.
Furthermore, within 2 minutes walk from the house you can choose from a vast variety of restaurants , supermarkets, bakery, pharmacy e.t.c. . For sailing lovers, you are just 3 km away from the 2 Athens main marinas, where you can start your trip to Aegean sea.
Getting Around
BY CAR - 32' minutes. If you like we can arrange pick up service at a friendly price
BY BUS - Minimum 90' min. Athens centre IS QUITE FAR from the airport. Easy access with express bus X96, that runs 27/7 (55 minutes) plus walking.
BY METRO & TRAM Minimum 2 hours.
BY CAR - 8' minutes. If you like we can arrange pick up service at a friendly price
BY BUS & METRO - Minimum 25' min (depending on the island, walking to the ferry can add up to 30 minutes extra time) . Bus Stop in front of the house.
BUS -13-17 minutes to the Acropolis, Plaka or the centre. Bus stop in front of the house
TRAM is more easy and frequent but slower, takes 38 minutes to reach the same places. Tram advantage is that during weekends operates 24 hours.
TAXI for Acropolis/centre takes 6-8' minutes
Walking distance 10 – 20 MINUTES
Other things to note:
Families friendly, gay friendly, lesbian friendly, single women travel friendly, Senior travellers friendly, pet friendly.
After your booking , we are sending to your email, a document with all the different options of reaching the apartment and a map of the area.
כללי הביתWe want you to feel like home but please keep in mind that there are things, habits and house standards that might be completely different from the ones that you have in your country. For example almost no one in Greece is owning a cloth dryer, king size bed or English type toaster.
Be prepared to experience Athens the authentic way...the way we do!
1) Trash
Guests are requested to deposit their trash regularly (and certainly prior to their departure) in the grey colored trash collection containers in the street. Please recycle. The blue containers in the street are for recycling materials.
2) Kitchen
We expect from our guests, prior to their departure to clean their dishes and leave the kitchen as clean as they found it. In case that you do not wish to clean your dishes or you do not have time to do it, you can leave 14 euros in cash in the kitchen for the cleaning lady.
3) Toilet.
Thank you for helping us save the environment and the Greek seas. No paper towels, kleenex or feminine products to be flushed in toilet.
With every stay regardless the length of stay, we offer 2 rolls of toilet paper
4) Respect the neighbors. Please restrain from making loud noises between 02.30 pm-5.30 pm and 11.00 pm -08.00 am.
5) This is a NON smoking apartment. Smoking is allowed only in the Veranda.
6) Towels are provided but they are not to be used as a bath mat , or to remove make up.
7) Please lock with the key the entrance of the building after 10 in the night.
By making this reservation, you accept that this not a hotel. This is a house and you are a guest. The host cannot be held responsible for any accidents or injuries that occur to guests on the premises.
Guests are held responsible for their own actions if they break the law. Use of drugs inside the apartment is prohibited. The Greek law covers this agreement and any civil difference should be held in Athenian courts.
|Weekly rate for up to 2 guests
|Monthly rate for up to 2 guests
|מחיר ליותר מ-2 אורחים
|מקסימום לילות
|2 months
|Check-in before
|עזיבה לפני
|מדיניות ביטולים
חוות דעת על מקומות לינה אחרים שמציע/ה מארח/ת זה/זו
Very nice large apartment in the very center of Athens, but in a quiet and silent area. Helena and co-workers attentions were splendid. Good time in Atherns
We were few days in Athens and we travel one day with Vassilis to Peloponnesus. Everything was great. We enjoyed a lot the trip with Vassilis because of his recomendations and explanations. The apartment is on a perfect location, just few minutes walking to the acropolis (althougt it is not visible from the window). It has 3 HVACs, and it had everything we needed. Very well in general.
We enjoyed a lot our stay. Chryssa was so kind with us when we arrived. The house was nice and near to the city centre.
We stay at a property Vassilis and Helena rent near the Acropolis Museum (they maintain several in the Makrygianni-Koukaki neighborhood, near the Acropolis and its convenient Metro stop). The couple maintain their apartments beautifully, have well-equipped, very usable kitchens, and comfortable verandahs for enjoying the evening view across the Athenian rooftops. They've also chosen a neighborhood with a laundromat and a convenient little grocery, which makes a great deal of difference if your stay more than a day or two.
The folks they use to handle the little issues that crop up with any flat are also alert, responsive, and very friendly to deal with. Add into the bargain good internet, their own book about the antique look of the surrounding neighborhoods (the couple are urban historians a bit on the side) and these are excellent places to stay.
Everything was perfect!!!! The apartmet really confortable, and near to the tram which is directly connected with Santagma Square and the metro. We really appreciated our vacation in Athens and surely we will come. Thanks to Helena and a big hug to Cryssa, beautiful person, always available and really kind. We could't choose better than this. Thanks
We stayed at this lovely appartment one night with my boyfriend, my brother, his wife and their 11 months old baby girl. It was perfectly located for a brief visit of Athens! Very cute and well maintained appartment in a quiet residential area 10-15 minutes to the Acropolis!
We will be back;)
Wow just what we needed for a 6 day stay in Athens, 2 bedrooms with good beds, small kitchen with everything you need, bathroom adequate, lounge area large with huge verandah. Restaurants and supermarkets at your door step. The base of the Acropolise only a 5 minute walk. Greeting and key hand over completed with ease. A great place to stay.
Our family of 5 very much enjoyed the apartment, overall. We were met promptly by a kind and enthusiastic associate who got us settled in. The apartment was close to all the places we wished to visit (by foot)! The space was roomy, clean , and quiet. The kitchen was well stocked with dishes. The terrace was very large, but we wished that there was an awning, as you could not be out on it in the direct sunshine. Also, all 4 deck chairs were broken (seats ripped and could not bear weight). There were travel books available for our use, and were appreciated. Would recommend the apartment!
The area of Helena's apartment is quiet and safe.
The location is perfect - straight connection (several tram station) with the center of the city and at the same time with the beaches at the seaside.
There is a park at the same street and large shopping area in the distance of one tram station.
The apartment is very clean and comfortable.
Full information is clearly given for the guests - concerning all the things a tourist is looking in the city.
The host is very friendly, open and offers her sincere help. In fact you fill like under your mother's care.
When visiting Athens again I will try to come back to Helen'a apartment.
We were very warmly welcomed at the airport and everything was fine during our stay. The apartment is quite spacious and can easily accommodate 3 couples. The sights were easily accessible on foot. Also shopping were very close. The balcony was a bit narrow but still offered seating for 5 people. The terrace didn't use, The TV had only 3 programms but because the most of the time we were in the city and on the beach, this did not play a role. All in all, we can recommend the apartment very much.
- הבטחת איכות מקומות הלינה
- כל מארח מאושר טלפונית
- תשלום מאובטח


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--LF is one of the toughest spots to figure. Very few players spent the bulk of their playing time in LF in the 70s. Roy White compiled themost value strictly as a LFer, but there were alot of guys who had some good seasons there and more elsewhere; Stargell DH/LF, Foster LF/CF, Singleton LF/RF, Yaz LF/1B, Rose LF/3B, Staub LF/RF/DH. Rose and Yaz already have significant support in the 3B/1B polls and as such are not eligible for this one. Foster I was very much undecided on whether to list him here or save for CF, but decided he was a better fit here. Anyway vote for your top 5.
All Stars
1970: 1) Billy Williams, 2) Yaz, WC) Stargell (Kenny Henderson CF)
--MVP - Tommy Harper 6th, Henderson 8th
1971: 1) Staub, 2) Northrup, WC) Stargell
--MVP - Stargell 1st
1972: 1) Williams, 2) White, WC) Johnny Briggs
--MVP - White 5th, Briggs 9th, Williams 10th
1973: 1) Rose, 2) Stargell
--MVP - Stargell 1st, Rose 5th
1974: 1) Kenny Henderson, 2) White, WC) Garr
--MVP - Henderson 5th, Garr 8th
1975: 1) White, 2) Briggs, WC) Stargell and Singleton
--MVP - Singleton 1st
1976: 1) Singleton, 2) Foster
--MVP - Hal McRae 4th
1977: Mitchell Page, 2) Bruce Bochte, WC) Oscar Gamble
--MVP - Gamble 1st, Foster 7th, Singlton 8th, McRae 10th
1978: 1) Greg Luzinski, 2) Jeff Burroughs
--MVP - Burroughs 5th, Foster 7th
1979: 1) Dave Kingman, 2) Foster
--MVP - Foster 10th


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MARQUES PONTE LIMA ApT. with Great Views
Size85 m²
Floor No.3
- Internet/WiFi
- Balcony/terrace
- Towels
- Family/child friendly
- Kitchen
- Pets allowed
- Smoking allowed
Accommodation summary
|Rua Marques Ponte de Lima, 1100 Lisbon, Portugal
|Property type
|Property ID
|Acceptance rate
|Response time
|A few hours
|Calendar updated
|4 weeks ago
This is for people looking for an apartment with soul, history and wishing to stay in the city center. The Apartment has 2 double rooms, 1 room with twin beds, 1 bathroom with bath and shower, a living room equipped with satellite TV and table games for socializing and a large fully equipped kitchen with stove, microwave , fridge, table for 6 people, cutlery and kitchen utensils.
The apartment is a charming flat located in a privileged area of Lisbon, overlooking the city center and the famous castle of Sao Jorge. Its just 5 minutes from Rossio has taverns and restaurants of typical Portuguese food apaenas the 100 meters. The famous tram 28 part and just 200 meters from the metro station too. The area is very quiet so you can rest.
House rulesNo Parties allowed.
200€ Damage fee required in cash.
City tax: €1.00 per person per night, applies to guests over the age of 13 years and for the first 7 nights of the stay only.
|Price for > 4 guests
|£ 18 per guest/night extra
|Check-in After
|Check-in before
|Check-out Before
|Cancellation Policy
Reviews of this property
Die Wohnung liegt wunderbar und die Vermietung ist sehr gut organisiert. Man hat einen schönen Blick auf die Altstadt und der nächste Supermarkt liegt genauso wie kleinere Restaurants in kurzer Gehdistanz. Insgesamt ist die Wohung sehr zu empfehlen.
Reviews for this host's other properties
We had a super trip and a nice stay. Plenty of space and super service. We will be back... :-)
We already had a very nice contact with Albertino. We could ask him everything :) Albertino gave us also a fantastic taxidriver! We had to wait for a missing bag, but the driver was so nice and kindley and wited the whole time! The appartment was fantastic! Very central, clean, nice livingroom and lots of sleeping rooms. We had two bathrooms and a nice kitchen. Thank you so much for a fantastic weekend in beautiful Lisbon!
This Holiday flat is in a great location, a few minutes from the metro and under ten minutes from the train station. It was comfortable for six single persons, my only major complaint was there wasn't enough cooking pots and pans (Yes, I like to cook!).
We were given a friendly welcome by one of the staff and a adequate induction for the flat. The flat was was in a clean and orderly state. During our stay we had two problems; one power cut, WiFi stopped working for a couple of days. However in both cases, the response was quick and resolved.
Overall we were given good service and the apartment was well decorated and functional.
We were 6 people who lived in the apartment and all had major problems with noise from the roads around. It was not air conditioned and very hot inside. The distance to the center was a little long. It was not pleasant in the living room. I would not stay here again.
Very nice and clean apartment. He also indicates the arrival much information about the city, which is a nice extra on the already good service! Also, we could leave the luggage all day in the apartment because we stand at night only flew back to the Netherlands.
Zeer mooi en schoon appartement. Ook geeft hij bij aankomst nog veel informatie over de stad, wat een mooie extra is op de toch al goede service! Tevens konden we de koffers de hele dag in het appartement laten staan omdat we 's avonds pas terug naar Nederland vlogen.
Paulo was very friendly and gave us useful information . The apartment was clean and well located . It was a great stay in Lisbon . We would always like to go back to this apartment again . Price performance was fine
We really enjoyed this really very tasteful, comfortable apartment. In the morning breakfast on the balcony with a wonderful view of the Tagus River and the Old Town, in the evening the sunset ....! Albertino has warmly welcomed us with a bottle of wine and a lot of information and also drove back to the airport. The location is so central, everything is within walking distance. A tip: Always nice to go slowly uphill, as the Lisboaer do it, never rush or push. The different viewpoints on this beautiful old town and the flea market at the Campo de Santa Clara, Tuesday and Saturday are highly recommended. The famous elevator (Santa Justa) -Now yes- there was us, the long wait to shame! Be sure the Oceanario at the Parque das Nacoes See -einmalig - !!! We are excited by both the city and its inhabitants and the great home and will be back !!!
Wir haben diese wirklich sehr geschmackvolle, komfortable Wohnung sehr genossen. Morgens das Frühstück auf dem Balkon mit einem wunderbaren Blick auf den Tejo und die Altstadt, abends den Sonnenuntergang....! Albertino hat uns herzlich mit einer Flasche Wein und vielen Informationen empfangen und auch wieder zum Flughafen gefahren. Die Lage ist so zentral, alles ist zu Fuß zu erreichen. Ein Tipp: Immer schön langsam bergauf gehen, wie die Lisboaer es tun, niemals hetzen oder drängeln. Die verschiedenen Aussichtspunkte auf diese wunderschöne Altstadt und der Flohmarkt auf dem Campo de Santa Klara, Dienstag und Samstags sind sehr zu empfehlen. Den berühmten Aufzug (Elevador de Santa Justa) -nun ja- da war uns die lange Wartezeit zu schade! Unbedingt das Oceanario im Parque das Nacoes anschauen -einmalig-!!! Wir sind sowohl von der Stadt und deren Bewohnern und der tollen Wohnung begeistert und werden wiederkommen!!!
Very cozy apartment with all the amenities, we were 11 people and all were perfectsmente installed.
Piso muy acogedor, con todas las comodidades, éramos 11 personas y todas estuvimos perfectsmente instalados.
- Quality assured accommodation
- Every host is verified by telephone
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Support Groups
Having the support of other people with narcolepsy is an important part of living well with narcolepsy. One of the best ways to get this support is through a support group, where PWNs can come together to talk about their experiences, learn more about narcolepsy and just enjoy being around others who truly understand what it's like to live with narcolepsy. Families and friends of PWNs can also benefit from support groups.
Below is a state-by-state list of known support groups. If there is not a group in your area, our online message boards and Facebook support group can provide you with a supportive community no matter where in the world you are. Find information about other online resources on our Online Support page. To see if there is an upcoming support group in your area, go to this page.
Interested in forming a support group? Narcolepsy Network has resources to help you get started. Watch our Starting a Support Group video presentation to learn more or contact Sarah DiDavide.
This list of local Support Groups is presented for the convenience of those using this website. We hope that our Members and others will use the contacts presented here to promote fellowship, networking and the free exchange of information about coping and living with Narcolepsy and other Sleep Disorders. The opinions, statements, activities, etc. of these organizations, their leadership and members are not necessarily those of the Narcolepsy Network, Inc.


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A Leila Akoucham /   Erkan Albayrak /   Holger Alpermann /   Bettina Amann /   Barbara Anton /   Etienne Antuszewicz /   Jürgen Aßmus /   B Tobias Bacht /   Estefanía Baeza Picado /   Stéphane Bara /   Benjamin Barbaros /   Katja Bärenfänger /   Simon Baus /   Hendrik Behrens /   Fouad Belhad /   Alexander Berger /   Louis Bergis /   Marta Besalú i Canals /   Eva Blsakova /   Csaba Böhm /   Sascha Bohnenberger /   Klaus Bollinger /   Aurélien Bonvalet /   Pierre Bourdier /   C Stefano Cammareri /   Maria Carbonell /   Joseph Chappell /   David Chavez /   Gülüzar Coskun /   Paul Covillault /   Marina Csanyi /   D Máximo de la Peña Toca /   Klaas De Rycke /   Aurélie Dell /   Christopher Dinges /   Corinna Dönges /   Andreas Dönhoff /   Martin Dudek /   Christoph Duppel /   E Philipp Eisenbach /   Leonie Eitzenberger /   Alexander Engel /   Martin Eppenschwandtner /   Ümit Esiyok /   F Mark Fahlbusch /   Olesja Fedorov /   Angela Feldmann /   Paul-Marc Fleischmann /   Andrea Fölbach /   Hannah Franz /   Alexander Freund /   Carole Frising /   Eleni Frousiou /   G Diana Gehrels /   Christoph Gengnagel /   Andreas Gergenreder /   Yannik Gies /   Christian Götz /   Manfred Grohmann /   Claudia Groth /   H Christoph Hackl /   Simone Hainz-Vrkić /   Pia Halbich /   Barbara Hasenmüller /   Carina Haubfleisch /   Silke Healy /   Paul Hechinger /   Moritz Heimrath /   Alexander Heise /   Kirsten Hendriks /   Laura Hinkel /   Alexander Hofbeck /   Arne Hofmann /   Philipp Holzer /   Sarah Hübner /   Florian Hutter /   I Kudret Isufi /   J Ewa Jankowska-Kus /   Wim Jansen /   Tobias Jarosch /   Liliana Jawor /   Justin Jégorel /   K Walter Karst /   Katrin Maria Kaupa /   Matthias Keil /   Mirko Klein /   Heike Kling /   Susanne Kollenberg /   Simone Kraft /   Martin Krämer /   Wolfgang Kraus /   Natascha Krnic /   Robert Krüger /   Torsten Künzler /   L Hendrik Laing /   Jérôme Lalande /   Sabrina Langer /   François Lefeuvre /   Marc Leyral /   Kim Boris Löffler /   Martin Löhr /   Anna Lohs /   Michael Lommertz /   M Thierry Martinez /   Sandra Marx /   Elisa Massari /   Luka Pepe Matthias /   Emiliano Mattiussi /   Birgit May /   Michaela Mayer /   Kinga Anna Michałek /   Alamir Mohsen /   Niels Moskalenko /   Jens Müller /   Astrid Münzinger /   Simone Murr /   N Dragos Naicu /   Stefan Neuhäuser /   Jean-Rémy Nguyen /   Pero Novakovic /   Susanne Nowak /   O Felix Oberfrank /   Martin Opel /   Adam Orlinski /   P Tommaso Pagnacco /   Janin Paninski /   Rafael Pastrana /   Julia Patzak /   Horst Peseke /   Laura Petri /   Daniel Pfanner /   Elisabeth Pichelbauer /   Constance Pirotzky /   Emilio Podreka /   Clemens Preisinger /   Sabrina Preuß /   Rainer Pum /   R Margherita Ratti /   Sarah Reich /   Tobias Reuther /   Christiane Richter /   Eva Riebel /   Simon Ruppert /   Andreas Rutschmann /   S Thomas Schaumberger /   Frauke Schiffner /   Jessica Schlaps /   Anna Schmidt /   Jörg Schneider /   Berthold Schorn /   Annette Schulte /   Andreas Schwarz /   Michael Seelig /   Uwe Sennewald /   Kathleen Shortle /   Natalia Shtaveman /   Daniel Skrzipek /   Flemming Højbjerre Sørensen /   Mikko Stachl /   Heike Stasiak /   Birger Steffe /   Ulrich Storck /   Matthias Stracke /   Timo Streitenberger /   Nicole Streuer /   Kosana Šušak /   Mathias Süß /   T Matthew Tam /   Frank Tarazi /   Ljuba Tascheva /   Andrea Tessar /   Fumihiko Tomita /   Richard Troelenberg /   Heiko Trumpf /   U Daniela Unglaube /   V Brecht Van de Velde /   Dwayne van Halewijn /   Laure Vandeputte /   Nannette Veith /   Kenny Verbeeck /   Robert Vierlinger /   Edgar Vogel /   Achim Vogelsberg /   Tanja Volkert /   W Michael Wagner /   Agnes Weilandt /   Ines Weiß /   Max Wittich /   Z Sonia Zerhouni
20 May - 20 September 2017
A "Paradiesgarten" for LutherThe contribution "Paradiesgarten" by students of the UdK Berlin within the framework of a students competition was awarded the first prize. The walk-in installation will be shown until September 20th in the "Stadtpark Wittenberg" opposite the meadow of the castle.
Bollinger + Grohmann provided the students during planning and implementation.
17 May 2017
Opening: Art Biennale in Venice 2017The Austrian Pavilion presents in the course of the 57th Biennale again artistic installations. Bollinger + Grohmann gave expert advice to the artist Erwin Wurm for his Performance One Minute Sculpture "Stand quiet and look out over the Mediterranean Sea" as contribution for the Austrian Pavilion and acted as sponsor.
The Biennale runs from 17 May until 26 November 2017.
9 May 2017
Europa leuchtetOn the occasion of the Europe day and the 60th anniversary of the European Union, the EUROPE light installation will shine from the 9th of May for two weeks at the stage tower of the Komische Oper Berlin. The happening presented three artworks, music and talks that put forward a positive statement for Europe.
Bollinger + Grohmann was pleased to support this project and provided technical advice for the organisers.
13 April - 15 October 2017
IGA Berlin 2017: Inside the FlowerBetween 13 April and 15 October 2017, the IGA Berlin 2017 is inviting to a festival of the most beautiful international garden design and green urban life culture under the motto "an ocean of colours".
In the "Horizons" area is located, among others, the pavilion "Inside the Flower" by the artist Janet Laurence. The project was implemented in cooperation with LAVA and Cityplot, Bollinger + Grohmann gave advice for static issues.
New website online: IngenieurtalenteThe website is supported by the German Consulting Engineers Association VBI state associations and provides information about careers, training and contact persons in the fiel of engineering careers. The goal is to arouse interest among young people for the job of a structural engineer and the workspace in an engineering office.
24 March 2017
Opening of HYUNDAI Motorstudio Goyang in SeoulIn Seoul, Hyundai's largest adventure centre just opened. On a total of 14 levels are located the new exhibition-, office-, educational- and recreational spaces. The building has also 5 basement levels, housing parking-, service areas. Delugan Meissl Associated Architects from Vienna were responsible for the design and execution, Bollinger + Grohmann were charged with the structural and façade design in this project.
26 April 2017, 7pm
AZC invite Bollinger + Grohmann au 15/17"De Re Aedificatoria"
Lecture by Klaas de Rycke (B+G Paris)
Location: AZC 15/17 rue Vulpian Paris 13ème
19 April 2017
Construction site of the Park Apartments Belvedere: Excursion of our Viennese teamA mixed-use building complex consisting of three residential and two hotel towers in close proximity of Vienna central station is rapidly progressing! The open ground floor space with the characteristic piles is clearly visible now. Expected completion is scheduled for autumn 2018.
February 2017
Won: "Typenhochhaus 2.0"First prize for the competition team of LIN Finn Geipel, Berlin, Germany + Giulia Andi, Paris, France. The aim of the non-open ideas competition was the design of a high-rise as modular system.
Bollinger+Grohmann provided technical advice for the architects.
5 April 2017
CAADRIA 2017 in Suzhou, China1:30 - 2:30 p.m.:
"New Structures"
Keynote by Manfred Grohmann
Location: XJTLU South Campus DBG19
Until April 2nd
Philippe Parreno: Anywhen / Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, LondonPhilippe Parreno has transformed the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern in London into an immersive experience that aims to challenge the viewer's perception of time and space.
Bollinger + Grohmann have supported the French artist once again on questions relating to the realisation of the constructive design and detailing of his design.
30 March 2017
Competition "Mino": 1st prizein the invited competition for the young Norwegian architects from Transborder Studio, Oslo, Norway, together with Bollinger + Grohmann Ingeniører for the extension of the Holocaust Centre in Oslo.
27 March 2017
Competition Frankston Railway Station in Melbourne: 2nd prizefor the team Supermanouvre and Scott Carver from Sydney.
Bollinger + Grohmann Engineers supported the architects for the structural design of the timber roof.
Apprenticeship as draughtsperson in civil engineeringStarting on 01/09/2017 we offer again a training as a draftsman for civil engineering. There is the possibility to attend 2-3 test-days in our Frankfurt office.
23 March 2017, 7pm
Talking about ArchitectureKlaus Bollinger will be speaking at the 'Talking about Architecture' lecture series hosted by BENE. Location: BENE-lecture hall Neutrogasse 4–8, Vienna.
23 - 24 March 2017
2nd Annual Innovative Glazing Global Summit in Prague17/03/24, 9:10 a.m.:
"Killing streotypes - merging performance and aesthetics in façade engineering":
Lecture by Daniel Pfanner
Location: Kings Court Hotel, Prague
March 2017
Currently at the construction site of FLOATThe structural work of the basement of the 220 m long and 60 m wide building is nearly completed.
8 March 2017
In memoriam Gaetano LicataSuddenly and unexpectedly we received the sad news of the death of Gaetano Licata on Wednesday, 8 March.
Our thoughts are with his family.
February 2017
La salle de sport de CalaisProgress on the construction site: the steel structure of the roof is completely mounted now.
30 January 2017
Competition new Oscar-Paret school: 1st prizeIn the coure of the architectural design competition Bollinger + Grohmann supported the architects from mvm+starke, Cologne, for the structural design.
27 January 2017
Exhibition: DAM prize for architecture in Germany 2017The 24 best buildings from/in Germany.
Awarded were among other projects the "Grimmwelt" in Kassel, Germany (kadawittfeldarchitektur, Aachen, Germany), the extension of the "Europäsiche Schule" (NKBAK, Frankfurt, Germany) as well as the residential building at "Quai Henri IV" in Paris, France (LIN Architekten, Berlin, Germany).
The exhibition is running from January 28th until April 30th 2017 in the DAM in Frankfurt, the exibition opening was on January 27th.
We are looking for a draftsman/draftswoman for MunichTo apply for this excellent opportunity, please forward your resume to
17 January 2017
Pavilion at the Kochi-Muzuris BiennaleAn art pavilion by Eva Schlegel and Carl Pruscha has been recently completed in Kochi, India. The Biennale opened on 12/12/2016 runs until 29/03/17. Bollinger + Grohmann consulted on the steel structure.
14 December 2016
Laying of the foundation stone: Musée de la Cour d'Or in MetzThe ceremony for the new entrance of the Musée de la Cour d'Or in Metz took place on December 14. The construction works will be completed by the end of 2017.
12 December 2016
Bridge above the Tauber river shortly before completionThe last concreting works need to be done, also railings have to be installed and connecting areas have to be established. But the successful implementation of the design is already clearly visible.
November 2016
Provinciehuis Antwerp construction siteThe Viennese planning team of Bollinger + Grohmann visited the construction site of the Provinciehuis in Antwerp. The building shell of the new office tower has meanwhile reached the seventh floor and the congress building has already been completed.
21 November 2016
L'Equerre d'argent 2016 für "Lieu de vie"This year, the jury of the 34th edition of the architecural prize decided to opt for the project on the campus of the Université de Saclay.
Architect: Muoto, Paris
Structural and Façade Design: Bollinger + Grohmann Sarl, Paris
15 November 2016


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Saturday, May 27, 2017
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A quick update on what's going on with everything Multiplex-related:
- The storyboards for the Multiplex 10 animated short are DONE. Rough, but done. Pre-production continues for the next few weeks with the construction/editing/etc. of the first rough animatic and design/illustration work.
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- Multiplex: The Revenge (Book Three) is being shipped out to Kickstarter backers and will be available for purchase to everyone else on June 14th — as will the Multiplex mini-posters set.
- I will be at Wizard World Philadelphia (Friday–Sunday only) with copies of Book Three, so if you're in that neck of the woods, you can get it a little early. :)
- Multiplex Movie Reviews like this one, bonus comics from Multiplex: The Best Laid Plans (Book Four), and other stuff are being exclusively posted to Patreon a couple of times a week. Er, except for this one, obviously.
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Washington, D.C. - A consumer debt collection company will pay the United States more than $6.4 million to settle allegations that it made false claims in connection with defaulted student loans under the Federal Family Education Loan Program and the William D. Ford Direct Student Loan Program, the Justice Department announced today. The settlement resolves allegations that CSC Accounts Management Inc., d/b/a CSC Credit Services, Inc. (CAMI) submitted claims for payments of commissions and incentive bonuses relating to certain defaulted student loans that were consolidated in violation of applicable laws and regulations.
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"Today's settlement is an example of the Justice Department's determination to ensure that federal funds are protected from fraud and abuse," said David W. Ogden, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division.
The charges initially were brought under the qui tam or whistleblower provisions of the False Claims Act by three individuals, Wanda Washington, Donald George, and Joseph C. Molina. The United States intervened in the lawsuit and filed its complaint in the District of Columbia in May 1999.
The whistleblowers will receive nearly $900,000 as their share for bringing the matter to the attention of the government. Under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act, a private party or relator can file an action on behalf of the United States and receive a portion of the settlement if the government takes over the case and reaches a monetary agreement with the defendants.
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INTERPOL Illicit Arms Records and tracing Management System (iARMS)
About iARMS
The INTERPOL Illicit Arms Records and tracing Management System (iARMS) is a state-of-the art tool that facilitates information exchange and investigative cooperation between law enforcement agencies in relation to the international movement of illicit firearms, as well as licit firearms that have been involved in the commission of a crime.
iARMS is an integral part of the international strategy and operational framework to combat the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons.
iARMS is an information technology system which provides a common global platform for firearm-related information exchange and cooperation, namely through:
- Providing a centralized system for the reporting and querying of lost, stolen, trafficked and smuggled firearms by law enforcement agencies globally;
- Facilitating the submission of, and responses to, international firearms trace requests including support to monitor the status of trace requests.
Firearms of interest
For the purposes of iARMS, a firearm is deemed to be "illicit" if:
- It is considered illicit under the law of the country in whose territorial jurisdiction it is found; or
- It is transferred in violation of an arms embargo decided by the United Nations Security Council in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations; or
- It is not marked in accordance with the International Instrument to Enable States to Identify and Trace, in a Timely and Reliable Manner, Illicit Small Arms and Light Weapons (International Tracing Instrument); or
- It is manufactured or assembled without a license or authorization from the competent authority of the country where the manufacture or assembly takes place; or
- It is transferred without a license or authorization as required by a competent national authority.
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Terrorist suspect wanted by Algeria found in Malian jail following checks via INTERPOL
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Very clever, alot of cutting and sewing for 1 block, I would get too frustrated...
Do you cut 1 1/4" measuring from the from the center? Or measuring from the edge? Looks like the center from the pics.
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Quiltforme, I used your concept and Roolen's changed measurements in my post today of paper pieced Disappearing Pinwheels.
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The unsolved murders of three Pakistani journalists reflect a government that is not guaranteeing the rule of law or fundamental human rights. CPJ's Bob Dietz narrates. Animation by Dave Mayers and production by Dana Chivvis
Read our accompanying special report, "Roots of Impunity," which examines the culture of anti-press violence in Pakistan.
- May 23, 2013 12:00 AM ET
- Short URLhttps://cpj.org/x/548b
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