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- A new exhibition aims to show the former splendor of Orient Express
- The iconic train's first voyage was in 1883, and it connected Paris to Istanbul with stops on the way
- The train's luxurious carriages welcomed royalty, business elites and celebrated artists
- It also inspired many novels such as Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express"
In 1883, what was to become the iconic Orient Express train pulled out of Paris' Gare de l'Est on its maiden voyage to Istanbul, or Constantinople as it was known at the time.
It was the creation of an entrepreneurial Belgian, George Nagelmackers, who had already founded the Paris-based parent company, the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits. Now, the SNCF French national rail company is planning on bringing the Orient Express back to life and before doing so has teamed up with the Arab World Institute to bring to the public a long lost era when time had another meaning and traveling to Istanbul took four days and three nights.
Levantine dream
It's important to make one thing clear right away: the superb new exhibit, Once Upon a time the Orient Express, thoroughly indulges in Orientalism; the exhibit celebrates the romanticized images that Westerners had of the Middle East during the late 19th century to the first half of the 20th.
Curator Claude Mollard and his advisers were perfectly aware that they might be accused of colonial nostalgia, and have gone about the exhibit intelligently, putting it into the historic and political context of the time.
Moreover, that this world was a Western fantasy no longer becomes important when visitors board the several perfectly restored carriages of the Orient Express parked in front of the Arab World Institute: we would all have liked to be passengers on the train.
Stepping back in time
The idea, explained Mollard, is to climb on board and imagine that the train has stopped in a station and the passengers have gotten out to stretch their legs, leaving their possessions in the carriages, a fur, a silk scarf or a tweed jacket draped over the seats.
The first carriage is the 1929 Flèche D'Or, luxuriously decorated by René Lalique with molten glass nymphets set in panels made from Cuban mahogany. Champagne flutes are set on a table; a coat and women's scarf are thrown negligently over the back of a club chair. A copy of Le Figaro newspaper from 1883 refers to the Orient Express's first trip; photographs were not yet in use, the article is accompanied by an engraving of the train.
On another table there is a bottle of brandy and a package of Gitanes cigarettes. The décor makes reference to the personalities who traveled in the train and often wrote about it -- French novelist Pierre Loti, Robert Baden-Powell when he worked as an intelligence officer using the cover of a butterfly collector or Mata Hari, the spy.
Josephine Baker was involved in an Orient Express rail accident in 1931 when Hungarian fascists destroyed a section of a viaduct near Budapest; she gave an impromptu concert to calm the survivors. One table is set up with a Remington portable typewriter in honor of Graham Greene, whose 1932 novel Stamboul Train, later adapted to film, was set on the Orient Express.
In another compartment identical to the one in scenes from the 1963 Bond film From Russia with Love, the movie is projected onto a screen. With wall panels in precious wood and door handles in gilded brass, each compartment had a matching washbasin and a built-in toiletries cabinet.
The 1929 Train Bleu's décor was more abstract with Lalique floral motifs in molten glass set into plane tree paneling. A salon-bar is equipped with bridge tables and armchairs; gambling was regular pastime during the journey. Cupboards are stocked with champagne and Bordeaux wine.
The exhibit would not be complete without mention of Agatha Christie, whose celebrated 1934 novel "Murder on the Orient Express" took place almost entirely on the train. Christie's place at a table is set up opposite her archeologist husband Max Mallowan with whom she frequently traveled, taking the extension of the Orient Express, the Taurus Express, which covered routes from Istanbul to Cairo, Teheran and Basra, passing through the cities of Aleppo, Jerusalem, Beirut or Baghdad.
Icon of travel
The second part of the exhibit is inside the Arab World Institute and includes an exact model reproduction of the Orient Express chugging around on a long toy track. (The actual speed was 70 kilometers an hour).
A section of the museum is devoted to the Arab world and the Taurus Express train extension.
A large-scale interactive map helpfully points out the major historical and political changes in the region from the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the Sykes-Picot agreement, the First World War, the Second World War up to the creation of the Israeli state.
A gorgeous collection of Art Deco vintage travel posters is displayed, depicting the Pyramids and other Levantine monuments in vibrant colors, but also luxury hotels. The Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits opened hotels (such as the Pera Palace in Istanbul) in many of the cities the Orient Express and Taurus Express stopped in, in order to provide passengers with the luxury they were accustomed to.
One of the highlights of the exhibit is a documentary made in Lebanon with two former employees of the Taurus Express. At 95 and 100 years respectively, one sold Taurus Express tickets for Thomas Cook in Aleppo, while the other was a mechanic. These men provide the link to today's world and are living proof of another epoch.
The exhibit may travel next to Vienna, which was the last destination the Orient Express traveled to from Paris, to Liège, the birthplace of George Nagelmackers, and finally, Istanbul.


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Edit: I'm having a hard time finding a picture of one...
315 units in stock!! LOL! wtf!
same price i got mine for, too.. off gunbroker awhile back, without the rear sight block tho.. not a bad price considering 5.45 krinks are around 800-1000, sometimes without a barrel.
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What is the rear sight block on a krink like anyway? Since the rear sight is on the cover...?
Edit: I'm having a hard time finding a picture of one...
Hey these are virgin kits! And at 2005 prices too! That's what I remember paying for mine from back then. I made it a pistol and still think about converting it to SBR. Tritium sights are about 7 years old on mine so about time to refurb them. It is every 7 years for the halflife, if I remember
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Yup, had to get matt yeamens to make a gas tube retainer... whatever its a rear sight block, same place, different function... regardless... i think ill be a whore and buy another one before supplys run out, figured id share the good news tho
G.D. I wish I had the cash right now.... :S
Yes they would have too be virgin or American barrels, or they would not be allowed too import.
Used import barrels are machine gun barrels, no longer imported.
Smooth every point of contact, before installing that barrel.
I don't know about the virgins, but those Yugos love too gall that barrel.
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Will Falling Oil Prices Boost Petrobras?
Yes, says Citigroup's Pedro Medeiros.
Petrobras (PBR) has been hammered recently, in part, by the Brazilian government's refusal to let it charge market rates for oil, making its refineries a money losing business. The price of oil is dropping, however–Brent crude, the European benchmark, has dropped 4.5% so far in April–and that's helping Petrobras narrow its losses. In a reported released yesterday after the close, Medeiros wrote:
The recent weakness in international crude and fuel prices combined with a stronger domestic currency have substantially lowered Petrobras' fuel price discount to parity to 6.3% and 7.5% for gasoline and diesel, respectively. The level compares to an average discount of 11% at the time of the last diesel price hike, 35 days ago.
And oil weakness doesn't mean that Brazil won't raise the amount Petrobras can charge for gasoline and diesel, Medeiros says. He notes:
We continue to see room for fuel price upgrades in the next six months, particularly on diesel. Although current fuel prices appear to be below the levels implied by Petrobras' last business plan assumptions of $107/b for oil and R$2/USD, this price level is still not enough for PBR's refining unit to generate positive EBITDA standalone. We see room for a further 5% hike in pre-tax refinery-gate diesel included in our forecasts. The increase could also be offset by government tax cuts which would enhance sentiment towards the stock following the change. This increase would be enough to get the company's refining unit to break-even under current oil prices. We also see room for a minor 2-3% increase in gasoline prices, though with much lower chances due to continued concerns with domestic inflation.
During the past 120 days of trading, Petrobras has had a correlation of -0.38% to the price of Brent Crude, according to an analysis of FactSet data, while Exxon Mobil (XOM) has a correlation of 0.22%. A positive correlation means that two assets tend to move in the same direction, while a negative correlation means they tend to move in opposite directions.
Now the stock's "leverage to oil price weakness relative to peers [looks to be] to be tested," Medeiros says. He wrote:
We have argued that PBR's stock performance should be actually positive relative to most of its international oil peers over a scenario of weaker oil prices due to the company's integrated setting and its domestic fuel pricing policy.
The wild card: The strength of Brazil's real. Petrobras has 104 billion reais in foreign currency exposure, and local prices are set in reais, not dollars. If the real stays below R$2 per U.S. dollar, Petrobras should get a boost.
Brent crude has gained 0.7% to $105.52 a barrel today, while shares of Petrobras have gained 4.4% today to %16.81, and Exxon has risen 0.65% to $89.17. The Energy Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLE) has gained 0.7% to $77.87.


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Bases loaded 1out for Yanks in top of 9th if u guys want to see during this commercial... Chris Stewart up..
I like this. Playing defense and making shots.
23-4 run!
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Amazing Joe Giardi actually let Chris Stewart hit against Fernando Rodney with 1out in the 9th and bases loaded..lol Its not up to Ichiro!
IChiro with the 2un single!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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To achieve quality care, efficiency and patient safety, meaningful use standards must be met in order to receive incentives. These criteria ensure your EHR system is fully operational and workflow is developed effectively. You do not need to meet meaningful use requirements in the first year of the program if you are adopting, implementing or upgrading your EHR system.
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Meaningful Use Implementation: In a given payment year, Hospitals attesting for both Medicare and Medicaid, known as "dual-eligible", will demonstrate and be "deemed" a meaningful EHR user through Medicare. Hospitals that are "deemed" for the payment year will still need to apply for an Oregon Medicaid EHR Incentive payment but will not report meaningful use to Oregon in the application process. Hospitals that are not "dual-eligible", namely children's hospitals, will report and demonstrate meaningful use when they apply for an Oregon Medicaid EHR Incentive Payment.
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Oregon is accepting attestations for Stage 1 meaningful use. The criteria for meaningful use will be staged in three steps over the coming years. Stage 1 sets the baseline for electronic data capture and information sharing. The new stage 2 rule released by CMS in 2012 modified some of the stage 1 criteria for program years 2013 and later. Click here to view Stage 1 objectives and measures from the CMS website.
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I have built two hives and today a guy gave me another. This is am old hive that his dad bought a few years back and put together, never used, never painted, because he got sick.
So my questions is two fold. First, it has a non screened bottom board. Should I build one, buy one or just run it on the old syle board? I have spent too much money so far and I am wanting to cut back, but is this a place to skimp?
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Both 2010 Hope women's and men's track teams have been named to the national All-Academic Team Honor Roll by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association for a fourth consecutive year.
In addition, four athletes have been named to the association's National Scholar academic honor roll. They are John Donkersloot of Zeeland (Zeeland East HS), Jeffrey Minkus of Glen Ellyn Ill. (Glenbard West HS), Kara Vande Guchte of Hamilton (Hamilton HS), and Sarah Venlet of Zeeland (Holland Christian HS).
The Hope honorees are among 540 student-athletes from all NCAA Division III institutions to receive the distinction. To qualify, an athlete must have a cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.25 and obtained an NCAA automatic or provisional qualifying mark for the national outdoor track & field championships.
Donkersloot, Minkus and Vande Guchte are each being honored for a third straight year. Each also received NCAA All-America honors this past spring at the national meet. Minkus graduated while Donkersloot and Vande Guchte will each be seniors next school year and Venlet will be a junior.
The Flying Dutch had a cumulative 3.37 grade point average. Haverford, Pa. topped the women's listing with a 3.66 GPA. Also honored from the MIAA were Albion (3.38) and Calvin (3.46).
The Flying Dutchmen had a cumulative 3.10 grade point average. Kenyon, Ohio topped the men's team with a 3.50 GPA. Also honored from the MIAA were Albion (3.12) and Calvin (3.18).


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Contemporary app for iPad
Contemporary: Art Gallery of NSW lets you explore featured artists and works from our contemporary collection – including the John Kaldor Family Collection – on an iPad. It includes some of the most important artists of our time, from Francis Alÿs to Bill Viola.
Get closer to the artwork than possible in the Gallery. Zoom into images to see fine details, discover stories of the artists and the art, go behind the scenes with videos, interviews with leading artists and audio commentary from Gallery curators, and get simple explanations of art terms, including movements such as conceptual art and minimalism.
Many works in the app formed part of the first display in our new contemporary galleries at the Art Gallery of NSW, launched in 2011. A special focus on Sol LeWitt is the latest in a series of updates.
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Vajrayana Buddhism is most closely associated with Tibet and can be characterized by the figure of the siddha, the master whose spiritual realization is so profound that he or she has power over the phenomenal world, and in whom the profundity and vastness of absolute truth is fully and completely manifested. Many of our most well-known authors come from this tradition of Tibetan Buddhism .
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Boundless Heart
The Buddha's Path of Kindness, Compassion, Joy, and EquanimityCompassion, kindness, equanimity, and joy are not only the fruits of the awakened life but also the path to it: attitudes of mind that can be cultivated by anyone willing to set the intention for doing so. Christina Feldman shows how these ennobling qualities—known in Buddhism as the brahma viharas (sublime abodes) or the Four Immeasurables—are far more than simply the "feel-good" states they are sometimes mistaken for. If we… Read More
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The Four Immeasurables—the cultivation of loving-kindness, compassion, empathetic joy, and equanimity—is a rich suite of practices that open the heart, counter the distortions in our relationships to ourselves, and deepen our relationships to others. Alan Wallace presents a unique interweaving of teachings on the Four Immeasurables with instruction on meditative quiescence, or shamatha practice, to empower the mind. This book includes both guided meditations and lively discussions on the implications… Read More
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Downtown Danville Wine & Chocolate Stroll
Original post made by Discover Danville Association, Danville, on May 2, 2012
Stroll throughout downtown Danville and enjoy live music and entertainment throughout the evening. Singer/songwriter and local artist, Deborah Kuhl, will be performing at the corner of Hartz & Prospect and Steve Fox of Bay Area Broadcast DJ's will play hits to bring music to your ears at Danville Chocolates.
Be sure to stop in at your favorite stores to see their latest spring offerings.
Tickets are $25 each and can be redeemed for wine glasses at the corner of Hartz & Prospect Avenues from 5:30-7:00pm the night of the event. Any remaining wine glasses will be available for sale from 5:30-7:30pm.
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a resident of Danville
on May 4, 2012 at 12:11 pm
Oh great, Danville is now an alcohol pusher encouraging people to drink and drive. Maybe one of the terms of participation is an agreement to a breathalyzer test upon leaving the cordoned off street premises. At the least that would be a great opportunity for alcohol education and awareness.
I suggest we stop the discrimination against other alcohols versus "wine." What makes "wine" tasting OK on which to base a street event?
How about "tasting" some fine rums, brandies, tequilas and scotches? Or some high-end boutique beers?
To make it even more fun, along with wine tasting, we could have shot slamming and beer chugging contests. Oops, but then that would be the equivalent of Hot Summer Nights...
a resident of Danville
on May 7, 2012 at 3:02 pm
I like the shot slamming and beer chugging idea. Good suggestions.
a resident of Danville
on May 8, 2012 at 9:42 am
Will we be allowed to have our glasses of wine on the sidewalks or do we have to be inside the alcohol dispensary or within its outdoor defined premises? The Police police the 4th of July Parade and ticket or harass anyone found with alcohol on the streets. Can't wait to see if they are part of the graft and turn a "dollar-purchased" eye.
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I kind of got that 'hero we go again...' kind of thought. But I knew #10 could bail us out in the eleventh hour. But this time he didn't need to. We got going before the fourth quarter
Thought we could come back, just wasn't expecting that so quickly, turnovers have a way of changing the complexion of the game!
I tried to leave the stadium but the section I was in would not let me.
I did enjoy the Brownie fans talking smack after the first quarter, lol. I was pretty surprised how many Browns fans were at the stadium, who the heck supports the Browns and pays to go see the game at giants stadium?
anything can happen with that much time left in the game. thats the way i looked at it and wasnt worried at all!
if the Giants had gone into the 3rd qtr down by that much then yea i worry but not give up!
not that its necessarily the same thing but i feel like if the Giants can win 6 games in a row to take the superbowl then they can certainly come back from 14 down in a game with 3 qtrs left against a team who hasnt won a game yet and with a rookie qb!
Not at all, but it annoys me we cant just roll over teams like the Browns


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Hope and Calvin will co-host the 12th annual Cal Bergsma Memorial Men's Soccer Tournament on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 7-8.
The tournament honors the memory of Dr. Calvin Bergsma who died tragically in a car accident during the summer of 2001. A 1967 graduate of Calvin College, Dr. Bergsma was a West Michigan urologist who was known as a kind-hearted man who cared deeply for everyone. Dr. Bergsma was particularly close to his friends at both Calvin College and Hope College. He had family ties to both institutions as his wife Gwen (1968) and son Corwyn (1996) are Calvin graduates while his son Clayton is a graduate (2000) of Hope College. Clayton was a four-year member of the Hope men's soccer team while Corwyn was a four-year member of the Calvin men's basketball program.
Games are hosted by both Hope and Calvin with an exchange of opponents. Hope is the two-time defending champion.
Aurora,Ill. at Hope (Van Andel Soccer Stadium), 7 p.m.
Dominican, Ill. vs. Calvin (at Grand Rapids Christian HS), 8 p.m.
Dominican, Ill. at Hope, 7 p.m.
Aurora, Ill. at Calvin, 5 p.m.


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This is probably one of the middle books. I love history and this absolutely covers it, but not the serious side of it. It was a nice break away from some of the more heavy books I have read.
I think the books by Vowel might be good because of the way she mixes in humor and the real story about history and what happened.
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I enjoyed learning more about the person and the presidency and especially liked having a review of what order they served in and what were the key points of each era.
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The Neenah Public Library offers wireless connections to the Library's Internet service. Users are expected to follow the library's Internet Safety Policy, especially as it pertains to acceptable use in a public setting.
Neenah Public Library provides internet access via an 802.11g wireless access point, which is compatible with 802.11b and 802.11g network cards. If your laptop uses an 802.11a only network card, it will not function.
Most laptops are configured to connect to any available wireless connection using DHCP. In those cases you can simply turn on your laptop, let it automatically find and connect to one of the access points, and begin surfing the web.
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The most common problems occur when the laptop isn't configured to use DHCP, the laptop is configured to only connect to an incompatible wireless network, or both. If your laptop is not configured to use DHCP, see instructions below.
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Canon EF 35mm f/2
Further readings for the Canon EF 35mm f/2
To provide photographers with a broader perspective about mobiles, lenses and cameras, here are links to articles, reviews, and analyses of photographic equipment produced by DxOMark, renown websites, magazines or blogs.
Our technicians have tested no fewer than 130 lenses on Canon's 50.6Mp EOS 5DS R Digital SLR. With the results for both prime and zoom lenses covering a diverse range of focal lengths, we've got all the data you need for picking out the right lens. In Part 1 of our three-part review, we bring you the analyzed and verified scores for standard zoom lenses as well as 35mm, 50mm and 85mm primes on the Canon EOS 5DS R.
Early in the year Canon updated its high-speed 35mm f/1.4 L series prime, which is the first revamp of this model since the original was introduced in 1998. Read on to find out how well this new lens performs.
This is the first in a series of reviews rounding up the Lens Metrics Scores on 35mm primes for Canon, Nikon and Sony. We start by looking at options for Canon EF, and with several own brand and 3rd-party options on the market, there are plenty of choices available. Ranging in price from $320 to $1843, however, it's tough to decide which one is best for you. So let's take a closer look at image quality, features and value for money to help you decide.
Canon's EF 35mm f2 has been around for quite a while, launched in late 1990, 22 years ago, it predates digital photography as we know it. Does this matter? Apparently not, this small, old, cheap lens continues to be a worthwhile piece of equipment, albeit on a rather basic level, but in this age of super-zoom lenses, this light, compact workhorse is worth looking at. Here are the DxOMark test results, while waiting for those of the new version of the Canon EF 35mm f / 2 IS USM released last November.
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Not very competitive in price and AF motor
Canon Ef 35mm f/2 is certainly competitive optically.
But, Canon needs to lower the price and put faster and quieter AF motor to make it competitive with Nikon, Sony 35mm f/1.8 lens.
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Canon 35mm lenses
You have no test data for these lenses. Why? It is not like these are some freak lenses. Right? BTW I do rely on your site to provide me with alot of trade data. Thanks


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I just recovered from the flu so my voice still sounds a tad blocked. Much better than how I was in some of my other videos during my sickness.
I haven't uploaded much lately because I've been busy. I'll resume normal service next week!
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Really pretty fabrics!! Absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE the purples!
Now I know haw many of us "purple people" there are. I think I have three of those purples in my stash!!!! And I just love them! :lol:
Nice! I love it all!
Can't wait to see it all finished!
I am most definitely NOT a purple person, but the mom of the baby who this will be for is... :)
Okay those are all too cool. The purples are nice.
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The Belmont World Film series continues its must-see
programming with a screening of Vittorio and Paolo Taviani's compelling and
brilliant Caesar Must Die (2012), a
quasi documentary about hardened inmates in a Roman prison who are putting
together a production of Shakespeare's
Julius Caesar. The film works on several levels: as a version of the play,
as an account of how the play was staged, and as a reflection of the lives of
the inmates in the cast.
This Is Spinal Tap
(1984) is tomorrow tonight's Science on Screen
featured film, and following the screening, the painful medical procedure of
the title will be demonstrated on some lucky member of the audience. ...Well,
maybe some other time. Instead, Christopher Shera, a fellow of the Acoustical
Society of America, will discuss the film and its relationship to studies about
how the ear amplifies, analyzes, and transmits sound.
The last awards ceremony of the year may well be the best,
and not just because Phoenix film
editor Peter Keough is one of the presenters. For the 19th year, the Chlotrudis
Society will present awards to the best of the year's offbeat, obscure, and
independent films in a program notable for its puckish humor and musical
ingenuity - just try writing a song with the name of Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul in the
Her Zero Dark Thirty
got robbed at the Oscars, but you can console yourself by watching some of
Kathryn Bigelow's earlier films in this triple feature at ArtsEmerson. It
includes Blue Steel (1989; 1 pm), in
which Jamie Lee Curtis crushed Hollywood female stereotypes playing a cop out
to get a serial killer; Point Break (1991;
6 pm), a genre-scrambling thriller in which Keanu Reeves is cast against type
as an FBI agent who infiltrates a gang of surfing bank robbers; and The Weight of Water (2000; 9 pm), an
adaptation of the Anita Shreve novel, in which the lives of those investigating
a century-old murder intermingle with those of the people being researched.
Compare any of today's so-called romantic comedies with the
elegant confections of Ernst Lubitsch from eight decades ago and you'll
probably get depressed. So just forget about them and enjoy the offerings in
the Brattle Theatre retrospective series The
Lubitsch Touch. It starts tomorrow tonight with Ninotchka
(1939), in which Greta Garbo plays a Soviet commissar whose party-line
propriety is shattered when she visits Paris on assignment and falls for the
couture and the charms of a class enemy, a Count played by Melvyn Douglas.
Our crack reviewer Peg Aloi is also a practiving Wiccan, and thus the ideal person to report on this up-and-coming event that just wrapped up today. Fittingly in this city infamous for witch hunts, a featured film included "West of Memphis," (reviewed by Jake Mulligan in this week's issue of "The Phoenix") a documentary about a contemporary witch hunt -- the wrongful prosecution and conviction of the three then teenagers of the title for a 1993 triple homicide.
You might recall Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas from when
his terrific Battle in Heaven (2005)
was cited recently by the Phoenix for
featuring one of the 55 Worst Sex Scenes of the 21st Century ("Saddest blowjob
in the world"). His latest film, Post
Tenebras Lux (2012), may not be as transgressive, but it nonetheless bears
the stamp of a unique and visionary artist in its depiction of a privileged
family whose façade of respectability melts into hallucinatory chaos.
Still from "Landfill 16" by Jennifer Reeves
One of the most innovative and intriguing film series
around, Balagan doesn't disappoint with tonight's program, DIY Dystopia. It includes
experimental shorts, made the old fashioned way -
on celluloid, that draw parallels between the doom of traditional filmmaking and
the downfall of the environment.
A festival nestled in a sleepy suburb has grown into one of
the area's best-programmed and most rewarding film events. Now in its 12th
year, the Belmont World Film Festival, which runs through April 29, opens
tonight with Argentinean director Sebastián Borensztein's Chinese Take-Away (2011). In it, a reclusive Buenos Aires oddball whose hobby is
collecting bizarre news stories uncharacteristically helps out a stranded
Chinese stranger.
As I've said before, the hammering that Kathryn
Bigelow has been getting for "Zero Dark Thirty" might have as much to do with male chauvinism as with political correctness.
True, the Academy gave her an Oscar in 2009 for "The Hurt Locker,"
moved no doubt by its gut-wrenching depiction of macho men doing heroic deeds
to save people.
Korean director Seung-Jun Yi's documentary Planet of Snail (2011) traces the outer
and inner lives of an extraordinary couple: Young-Chan, a deaf and blind poet,
and his wife Soon-Ho, whose body is shrunken to the size of a child's from a
spinal disorder. Together they overcome life's obstacles, such as changing a
light bulb, while sharing a life of poetic imagination.
The winner of the Where's Whitey Award for Best Animal Performance of 2012 was actually annouced weeks ago at the Boston Society of Film Critics Award ceremony at the Brattle Theatre on February [thanks to Ellen Gitelman for the photo]
My apologies for keeping you in suspense.
The winner in a hard fought battle was Snoopy, the dog from "Moonrise Kingdom."
Made while he was dying, Raoul Ruiz's final film, Night Across the Street (2012), epitomizes
the themes he had been exploring in the hundred-plus films of his career and
serves as a surreal affirmation of the power of cinema and the imagination. An
ailing office worker reminisces about his hallucinatory past — involving
unlikely encounters with Beethoven, Long John Silver, and assorted phantasms — and
opens a labyrinth of cryptic, interconnected narratives.
Maybe Brian De Palma's best film and, next to The Shining, the best adaptation of a Stephen
King novel, Carrie (1976) remains the
scariest depiction of a difficult adolescence on film. Sissy Spacek plays the
tormented teen of the title who will not suffer long the bullies in school or her
Bible-thumping mother (Piper Laurie).
Many of you will get your first taste of the visionary,
disturbing, and seductive cinema of Park Chan-wook with his first Hollywood film, Stoker,
which opens Friday. For the full course, you should sample
his Vengeance Trilogy, which will be screening as a triple bill at
the Brattle Theatre on Wednesday, March 6.


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User Account Control (UAC) has been one of the big complaints about Windows Vista. It certainly was the butt of one of the cutest 'I'm a Mac' commercials. The truth is, as I have mentioned previously, Microsoft had to make some tough decisions in developing the new, modern operating system, and UAC was a way of protecting users from themselves… 'Open virus-infected program… are you sure you want to open virus-infected program?'
I'm pretty sure if that were the extent of it, people would have been much more forgiving of UAC, but because it was so much more, it was difficult to put up with; 'I want to manage my computer. Are you sure you want to manage your computer?' or 'I want to install a driver for my printer. Are you sure you want to install a driver for your printer?' People were ignoring it because they were seeing far too often.
In Vista there were two settings for UAC… on or off, and a lot of its detractors spent a lot of time bragging that most users were disabling it outright. In reality about 12% of users did disable it, hardly most, but that is irrelevant. In Windows 7 there are different settings to UAC… and by default user input will not bring up UAC windows, only when programs try to access protected areas of the OS. Users will still have the option of enabling the full UAC or disabling it, but most should be satisfied with the happy medium.
There are scores of improvements to Windows 7 over Vista, many of which I will talk (and write) about over the next few months, but instead of waiting for it why not download the release candidate and see for yourselves. Get on board with Windows 7 now and be ready for the most secure desktop operating system that Microsoft has ever come out with.
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An adorable girl who you'll never forget. She has a place in all her friend's heart, and she's as cute as a button. She's not as cute as a supermodel, but she's not butt ugly. Katie Augustin's can sometimes be super duper insecure with themselves at times, but at other's she could be talking her friends out of their insecurities. She's loved by everyone and everyone loves her. Unless you're Nash Helsel. She's not talking to you for dumping her books on the ground.
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Fishing and More Beneath the Pines
Flat Creek Lodge • Swainsboro, GA
Escape Kit
- A One-Night Stay for Up to Four in a Cottage
The Destination
Drawn to the area's mature oaks and eastern white pines, Cherokee Indians once hunted for white-tailed deer, wild turkey, and boar amid Central Georgia's dense woodlands. Not much has changed in the half century since these skilled sportsman roamed the region: Visitors to Emanuel County can still find rolling green hills, ponds stocked with bream, and thick groves of sweet gum trees. Dubbed the "Crossroads of the Great South," the town of Swainsboro is an ideal base for hunting, fishing, and hiking. And for those with a taste for relaxation, the destination is perfect for whiling away molasses-slow days with a trip to the farmers' market and local antique shops.
The Digs
Hidden among nearly 2,000 acres of pristine fields, lakes, and forests, Flat Creek Lodge is home to eight refined cottages. Each unique pine structure at this gorgeous nature preserve overlooks the lake and features a private veranda and paintings by local artists, as well as modern extras like a golf cart and Wi-Fi. When you're ready to explore, the lodge provides access to paintball, fishing, and sporting clays. Best of all, an on-site farm crafts artisanal cheeses, oyster mushrooms, and sweet berries to enhance the wild game served in the Dining Room at Flat Creek Lodge.
The Diversions
• Flat Creek Dairy & Farm
• Main Street Market at the Boneyard
• Flat Creek Lodge Dining Room
"We have been to many places, but we have never been to a place that made us feel like a king and queen until now! We experienced what it is like to be treated like royalty at Flat Creek Lodge and we loved every minute of our stay."-- Flat Creek Lodge Testimonials
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Special appeal: Save Montreal-based NGO Alternatives
Alternatives under attack from conservative gov't: Pledge your support
Today hundreds of people will march through Montreal in support of APC member Alternatives http://www.alternatives.ca – a non-profit organisation which has helped thousands of people living in some of the most difficult situations in the world. Alternatives has come under attack from the right-wing Conservative government in Canada and it is rumoured faces savage funding cuts which could threaten its existence. Join the Facebook campaign to "Save Alternatives" http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=206738355616&ref=mf&v=info and send your letters of support.


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Happy Valentines Day from SMP at Home!We get it. Valentine's Day isn't everyone's schtick. But here at Style Me Pretty, it goes without saying that any excuse to celebrate love is SO up our alley. Here is a look at one of our favorite events to date
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$1 million reward for arrest of cyberextortionists
A pharmacy benefits management firm announced Tuesday that it is offering a $1 million reward for information leading to the conviction of whomever is threatening to divulge the personal information of millions of its members.
Read more....
So Ethical Hackers - Get into action - $1 million could be yours.
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just plain wrong..... roflmfao
Sheep Questions & Answers
Q: How do farmers find their sheep in long grass?
A: Very satisfying.
Q: What do you call 4 sheep tied to a lamppost?
A: A leisure center.
Q: Why do Scotsmen wear kilts?
A: Sheep can hear zippers.
Q: When it rains, why don't sheep shrink?
Q: What's the difference between Mick Jagger and a Scotsman?
A: Mick Jagger says, "Hey, you, get off of my cloud!"
The Scotsman says, "Hey, McCloud, get off of my ewe!"
Q: How do you get a sheep to push harder?
A: Face it toward a cliff.
Q: Why do the horses run so fast in New Zealand?
A: Because they know what's done to the sheep!
Q: Did you hear about the shepherd who committed suicide?
A: He heard the song, "There'll Never Be Another Ewe."
Q: Did you know that they've just discovered two new uses for sheep?
A: Meat and wool.
Q: What is the smallest organ in a sheep?
A: A shepherd's tallywhacker.
Q: What's the difference between a sheep and a Yugo?
A: It's marginally less embarrassing being seen getting out of the back
of a sheep.
Q: Where does virgin wool come from?
A: Ugly sheep!
I know nothing...........nothing !
just plain wrong..... roflmfao
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I'm a Scotsman and a Hoosier, I think I have a thing or two to say about this post........ what?.......... Ohhhhhhh........, it was a joke!!!!!!!! It was funny!!!
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Jim Davis would be appauled by this!
Q: When it rains, why don't sheep shrink?
I have asked myself that question before, good thing it's the only one from your list
finish the statement Coils.......'I have an answer to'? Sorry Coils, had to do it!!! Oh Yeah... to gunkgy, the poster...... What is the answer to this question?Originally Posted by Coils
Buddy Hacket told this one to Johnny Carson one night, I was amazed the NBC censors let it air:
A traveller whose car had broken down at night walks up to a farmhouse and asks the farmer if he can spend the night in his barn. The farmer and his wife instead offer to put him up for the night in their guest bedroom. The next morning the traveller awakens to the smell of a hearty breakfast being prepared.
After eating his fill, the traveller wished to express his gratitude. The Farmer refused to accept cash so the traveller offered to repay him in another manner.
"I can speak to your animals for you, find out if they are happy and if they aren't what you could change to make their lives better."
The Farmer doesn't believe for a minute he can talk to animals, but tells him to go ahead. The guy goes out to the barn for maybe 20 minutes then comes back in.
"Did you have a nice chat with the animals?" the farmer asked, trying not to laugh.
"Why, yes I did. First I talked to your horse. He's pretty happy with his life overall, but he did mention that the new bit on his bridle has a really sharp burr on it, it digs into his gums and hurts really bad."
Hmnn, thinks the Farmer. He has been a bit skittish every time I pull on the reigns. Maybe there is something to this guy's animal talking after all.....
"Next, I talked to your milk cows. All of them are very happy, but they did mention the suction on your milking machine was a bit much, it makes them uncomfortable when you milk them."
Wow, thought the farmer, I did crank up the suction a bit last week, maybe I should drop it back down a bit.....
"Finally, I talked to your sheep and......"
The Farmer jumps up and yells: "They're lying, they're Liars!!!! Every one of them!"
No one else??? I thought we'd have some fun with this one!
Me too, maybe it hits to close to home for some.
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Historic Luxury in Downtown Dallas
The Adolphus Hotel • Dallas, TX
Escape Kit
- A One-Night Stay for Two in a Deluxe King or Two Double Room ($109)
- Or, a One-Night Stay for Two in an Executive King or Executive Two Queen Room ($139)
- Valet Parking
- Combine Vouchers to Stay for Up to Three Nights
The Destination
Dallas's glitzy skyline has been a beacon of style since the city's oil-fueled beginnings in the mid-nineteenth century. Today, the shimmering metropolis is full of opportunities for you and your sweetheart to indulge in its swoon-worthy boutiques and dreamy dining spots. Here, subterranean cowboy bars give way to skyscraper bistros, and art studios take root in ultra-mod Dragon Street warehouses. True to its Texas pedigree, in Dallas, everything runs big—including romance.
The Digs
Located in the heart of downtown Dallas, The Adolphus Hotel sits along the same route that President Kennedy's motorcade took on that fateful day in 1963. Built a century ago by beer baron Adolphus Busch, the sumptuously decorated hotel is all Gilded Age glamour. With its glittering chandeliers, intricately carved Steinway piano, and stunning flower arrangements, it's no wonder the hotel has attracted an enviable collection of Hollywood royalty and British nobility. Tastefully appointed with marble bathrooms, and boasting spacious sitting and dining areas, each room is done up with the flair of an English country manor.
The Diversions
Begin your exploration of Dallas by heading to Dealey Plaza, where The Sixth Floor Museum gives visitors access to a replica of Lee Harvey Oswald's sniper's perch, before experience the Big D's lighter side at the flagship location of luxe department store Neiman Marcus. Then, load up on artistic culture at the Nasher Sculpture Center, where you can stroll through rooms of Picasso bronzes and colorful Frank Stella abstracts.
Come mealtime, melt into the cushy velvet chairs of The French Room, the hotel's on-site restaurant hailed by Travel + Leisure as one of the world's top 25 dining experiences, and one of the country's highest-rated restaurant in Zagat. Indulge in a tasting menu filled with dishes like foie gras with brioche and peach jam, Copper River salmon with lobster-potato gratin, or a rack of lamb with blue cheese-and-onion jam. Then, finish things off with one of the pastry chef's artistically crafted soufflés—a dessert good enough to go down in history.
"Beer baron Adolphus Busch created this Beaux-Arts building in Downtown Dallas in 1912, sparing nothing in the way of ornamentation. The European-style rooms, filled with unique floral prints and Queen Anne-style furniture, have modern amenities."-- Read Fodor's Review of The Adolphus Hotel
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|What you'll get:
|USA Track & Field
|Events coverage, Hall of Fame information, statistics.
|American College of Sports Medicine
|ACSM Foundation
|Features a variety of health and fitness topics and brochures in PDF format.
|A World of Sport Information
|SIRC (a Canadian company)
|Information on sports played around the world from archery to yachting.
|Sports and Nutrition
|University of Illinois Extension
|Contents in four sections: Don't let your diet let you down, The pre-game meal planner, Keeping energy levels up, and Keeping fluid levels up.
|Sport! Science
|Explains scientific connections to sports, such as the physics behind a curve ball.
For a list of databases to search for articles on Physical Education topics, check the SPC Library Database Finder.
Sound Technology
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|Recording Website
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For a list of databases to search for articles on Sound Technology topics, check the SPC Library Database Finder.
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|Internet Broadway Database
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|Records of productions from beginning of New York theatre until today. Details include pertinent people, interesting facts and production statistics.
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|IMDb, Inc.
|Huge collection of movie information including who was in it, who made it, and trivia about it.
|Movie Review Query Engine (MRQE)
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|Database of links to online reviews drawn from hundreds of sources including newspapers, magazines and fan sites.
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This bouncy follow-up to Funny in Farsi has too much heart to be shrugged off as froth. Humorist Firoozeh Dumas resists playing gimmicky Western misperceptions of Islamic culture for gags. Instead, in Laughing Without an Accent, she affectionately chronicles a childhood in Iran, teenage years in Southern California, marriage to a French man, and her doting, nutty Persian family's diligent attempts to adapt to life in "Amrika". "The velour navy jogging suit is my male relatives' default attire," Dumas notes. "After all of them had acquired second and, in some cases, third pairs, they started getting catty."
Teasing out the absurdity underlying ordinary situations is the introspective Dumas' cup of tea, particularly when she reinvents her parents' quirks as universal comic zingers, rather than progress reports on their cultural assimilation. When her father turns eighty, 51 relatives cram aboard an Alaskan cruise ship, where they're tailed by the crew's pricey shutterbug. "My father...kept interrogating relatives about the number of photos they had purchased," observes Dumas. "Then converting that to Iranian currency and letting them know what that money would have purchased in prerevolutionary Iran."
Laughing Without an Accent is, I'm sure, wry and lively in its written form. But as narrated by Firoozeh Dumas a 2005 Audie Award finalist in her creamy-textured, toasted licorice voice, it upgrades to an indelible personal account. Dumas uses even pacing, few pauses, and a soothing, chatty tone to build intimacy. Her warm honeysuckle inflections groove with character-specific dialogue and she's most animated when narrating sections in Farsi, her lyrical native tongue, or imitating her mother's charmingly accented English. ("Vat? Eez very good.") She is such splendid company that when Dumas reflects "this feeling of being on the outside has shaped me into the perfect party guest", it seems even she must know she eez better than just very good. Nita Rao
With dry wit and a bold spirit, Dumas puts her own unique mark on the themes of family, community, and tradition. She braves the uncommon palate of her French-born husband and learns the nuances of having her book translated for Persian audiences. (The censors edit out all references to ham.) And along the way, she reconciles her beloved Iranian customs with her Western ideals.
Explaining crossover cultural food fare, Dumas says, "The weirdest American culinary marriage is yams with melted marshmallows. I don't know who thought of this Thanksgiving tradition, but I'm guessing a hyperactive, toothless three-year-old." On Iranian wedding anniversaries: "It just initially seemed odd to celebrate the day that 'our families decided we should marry even though I had never met you, and frankly, it's not working out so well.'" On trying to fit in with her American peers: "At the time, my father drove a Buick LeSabre, a fancy French word meaning 'OPEC thanks you.'"
Dumas also documents her first year as a new mother, the familial chaos that ensues after she removes the television set from the house, the experience of taking 51 family members on a birthday cruise to Alaska, and a road trip to Iowa with an American once held hostage in Iran.
Droll, moving, and relevant, Laughing Without an Accent shows how our differences can unite us - and provides indelible proof that Firoozeh Dumas is a humorist of the highest order.
©2008 Firoozeh Dumas; (P)2008 Audible, Inc.
"There's such warmth to Dumas' writing that it invites the reader to pull up a seat at her table and smile right along with her at the quirks of her family and Iranians and Americans in general." (Booklist)
"These stories, like everything Firoozeh Dumas writes, are charming, highly amusing vignettes of family life. Dumas is one of those rare people - a naturally gifted storyteller." (Alexander McCall Smith)
M.A. in English. Avid reader and listener.
"Horrible narration!"
Occasionally it is fine when authors decide to narrate their own books, but there is a reason why they have professionals for this sort of thing. I wanted to listen to the whole story because it seemed like it would have been interesting, but I couldn't get past the first couple of chapters because of the narrator's voice.
"Laughing Without an Accent"
Listening to Laughing Without an Accent; by far was one of my most pleasurable experiences. I was constantly mesmerized by author's undaunting wit; her colorful descriptions of the events; and her genius selections of the themes. I think Firoozeh stories bring humor and joy to not only Iranian-Americans but also all the immigrants to this wonderful land. I can not wait to listen to her other book Funny in Farsi
"What Hoot!"
I Love this author and will listen to anything she writes (then reads) She has a great sense of humour, and laughs readily at herself, even sharing cringe worthy details of her life. Love how she gets into family and culture and ties it all together in her stories letting us in on her past the good and the bad. The only thing I wasn't thrilled with was her stories aren't in any order that I could see, they seemed to jump around the time line a lot. So there was some overlapping and backtracking. However, that aside, I would recommend this book highly and again have to say would love to meet her and spend some time with her and her famiy!
"Firoozeh Dumas has done it again!"
Entertaining, enlightening, enjoyble and genuinely funny as Firoozeh Dumas one again leads us through trails of an Iranian and French family's life in America. Pieces of this adorable read could be the account of any American with children...tough days! The red spread story is very typical of a mother's love and desire to please, while the food stories regal us with visions of lamb's head...all entertaining and fun! Looking forward to her sequel. Peggy Davis
"Sweet and funny like the first - and maybe better"
you won't be able to keep your self from smiling out loud numerous times throughout this thoroughly enjoyable listen. I think it's even better than her first. The Immigrant experience in America specifically from a Persian / Iranian view. A personal, thoroughly enjoyable recount of life in and appreciation for America without blind to some of the foibles of a free to be crude and sexuallyexploitive society - sharing concerns many parents have expressed over such as "Juicy" plastered across the seat of little girls' pants. It's no moralistic diatribe, just genuine, honest, and frequently funny. if you don't smile frequently throughout, you need a humor adjustment.
"So much fun!"
I love this book. I feel like I made a friend while listening to the authors stories. I feel blessed to have glimpsed into her world and the culture she comes from. Firoozeh has built a bridge between popular perception and reality and I'm so grateful for it.
"A Book Of Vignettes"
The most important thing to know about this book is that it is a book of vignettes - not a novel with a story line that follows through from beginning to end. That being said, the stories were witty and sometimes quite funny. I had not read the first book but I don't know if that is why I felt like I was constantly missing something (a bit like leaving the theater to buy popcorn and coming back not knowing what happened).
The author reads the book. She is a novice but, at the same time, the language skills required to read a book of this nature are rare. I don't think it would have been the same had someone else attempted it.
What I enjoyed most was the insight in to life in Iran (pre-revolution) and the little bit of insight in to life for Iranians living in America during the hostage crisis.
I wish I had read the first one prior to reading this one.
Nope. Current public sentiment in the US is too ignorant to accept something like that.
"She is so funny"
Took me a while to get into it, but Firoozeh is really funny. Since it's not a thriller or mystery, but rather short stories, I'm able to come back to it when I have some free time and I want to be entertained. This book almost feels like Firoozeh is your friend, though she's a bit older than me. She talks about this and that and has no trouble making ANYTHING into a funny, enjoyable story. I'm not quite done with it yet, but I find myself enjoying every minute. I wish she and I could be friends! I even checked out her and her family on google images and I can see that others have the same. Firoozeh is candid, very open and she really shares of herself in her storytelling.
"hilarous and insightful"
This is a laugh-out-loud book about the experience of Iranian immigrants to the US... you will laugh if you know anything about American culture, anything about Middle Eastern culture, anything about being a misfit in any society... anything about family life... it's a great book!
Because it's just a collection of stories with no particular linkage between one and the other, there are some strange jumps where you don't know what happened to cause the change (e.g. she did not used to drink alcohol, but then she was drinking it; we don't know how she married her husband, even though we know about how they first met... things like that! But it's not meant to be a fully-fledged memoir, I guess)
I had not read the author's previous book - but I am looking forward to that now!
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Spacious Apartment for 7 People - DESIDERIO (201)
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- Family/child friendly
- Kitchen
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|świętego Filipa, 30-001 Krakow, Poland
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Kitchen with lounge seating is the quintessential modernity. Create a minimalist kitchen area
Graphite dark furniture and a comprehensive Appliances (Refrigerator, dishwasher, hob, microwave with grill function and an electric kettle). Equipment complements tableware for 4 people. Salon is a place of relaxation and rest after a day-long sightseeing. Cream walls, gold stucco and crystal chandelier improve mood, a leather sofa and TV complement the comfort of your holiday.
In such an elegant and ultra-modern style furnished is also a bathroom: dominated by blacks and graphite.
Connected with kitchen. Equipped with comfortable pullout sofa bed, TV with satellite channels, dining table.
The extraordinary power of the original room colors walls: gold and intense violet is extravagance in the full-time. Room refers to the neobarokowego pomp and grandeur in arranging space, and the characteristic curvature and a line of furniture highlight this palatial style. Room Furnishings consists of double bed palaces, spacious wardrobe with mirror, stylish chairs, tables with marble tops and neo-Baroque fantasy dressing. Wholeness complemented by a rich crystal chandelier.
Quiet room in the second part of the apartment. Warm wood tones contrasts beautifully with creamy color of the walls and the burgundy and gold curtains. The dominant point of the room is palatial 2-person bed (can be converted into twin beds), one extra bed is possible, in addition emphasizes the nature of the neo-Baroque interior drawers with mirror and drawers.
House rulesOur standard check in and check out times are as follows:
• Check in: from 14:00
• Check out: till 12:00
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Unfortunately, the apartment was not as clean as we would have liked, especially the kitchen cabinets showed heavy contamination. The equipment was not as angegeben.Kaffeemaschine and hair were not available.The phone contact, either on German moch on Polish side were accessible. The beds were badly worn, the saggy mattress, the bedding consisted of one material, as used in hospitals. I advise against booking this apartment, for it is just too expensive.
Leider war die Wohnung nicht so sauber, wie wir es uns gewünscht hätten, insbesondere die Küchenschränke zeigten starke Verschmutzungen. Die Ausstattung war nicht so wie angegeben.Kaffeemaschine und Föhn waren nicht vorhanden.Der Telefonkontakt,weder auf Deutscher moch auf Polnischer Seite, waren erreichbar.
Die Betten waren arg abgenutzt, die Matratzen durchgelegen, die Decken und Kissen bestanden aus Einmalmaterial, wie es in Krankenhäusern verwendet wird.
Ich rate von der Buchung dieser Wohnung ab, dafür ist sie einfach zu teuer.
The apartment was exactly as described: modern, sleek, clean and very centrally located - the keys perfectly - unfortunately our neighbors were very loud at 4 clock in the morning (and the apartment very noisy) - we were very satisfied!
Die Wohnung war genau wie beschrieben: modern, schick, sauber und sehr zentral gelegen - die Schlüsselübergabe perfekt - leider waren unsere Nachbarn um 4 Uhr morgens sehr laut (und die Wohnung sehr hellhörig) - wir waren sehr zufrieden!
short distance to the old town, pleasant rooms with historic flair, kl. balcony with views over the suburb roofs, daily market activity just around the corner, so far everything is great, but difficult lighting conditions (extremely dark energy-saving lamps, only 1nachttischlampe for 4 beds), 1 double bed single beds from 2, which ultimately remain standing with distance and a very broad ritz have. 1 bed something is broken ...
kurze entfernung zur altstadt, angenehme räume mit historischem flair, kl. balkon mit blick über die Vorstadtdächer, tägliches Markttreiben gleich um die Ecke, soweit alles prima, allerdings schwierige beleuchtungsverhältnisse ( extrem dunkle energiesparlampen, nur 1nachttischlampe für 4 betten), 1 doppelbett besteht aus 2 einzelbetten, die letztlich mit abstand stehen bleiben und einen sehr breiten ritz aufweisen. 1 bett ist etwas defekt...
Great location and easy to toaccess and quiet area. Clean and tidy place. The only negative was that the quilts were to thin for the weather. Otherwise highly reccomendable. Claus from Denmark
Very nice location in Krakow.
We did not get the impression this apartment as we had ordered, and that there had been a system failure at one or another level. We were incorrectly registered in another apartment, despite the fact that I had received confirmation that everything was in order by e-mail. This second apartment was of a different caliber, a very bad exchange. We complained and were offered another apartment 15 minutes outside the city, which was of no interest to us.
Vi fikk ikke inntrykk av denne leiligheten som vi hadde bestilt, i og med at det hadde skjedd en systemsvikt på et eller et annet nivå. Vi var feilregistrert på en annen leilighet, på tross av at jeg hadde fått bekreftelse på at alt var i orden per e-post. Denne andre leiligheten var av et helt annet kaliber, et svært dårlig bytte. Vi klagde og fikk tilbud om en annen leilighet 15 min utenfor sentrum, som var uaktuell for oss.
Perfect location, good size and spotless service. Highly recommended.
Excellent value
Lovely large apartment, right in the center. Directly from the door, the bustling (even at night!) Square.
Heerlijk groot appartement, midden in de binnenstad. Direct uit de deur, het bruisende (ook 's nachts!) plein op.
The house was as the promotional picture and very comfortable. The owner is very gentle and helpful too.
We have passed a good time in that house.
Nice apartment, brand new, 5 minutes walking to the Old Town, comfortable, very clean, spacious and quite, Host super friendly and helpful. I would recommend this apartment to everyone going to Krakow.
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As you expressed I wish to be acquainted with some of the natives, if you will dine with me tomorrow you will oblige me by christening a fine native boy who I have. Unfortunately poor boy, his father and mother were killed. He is about two years old.
Letter of invitation from Mountgarret to the Rev. Robert Knopwood, 3 May 1804, for his first direct contact with a Tasmanian Aborigine, a surviving infant from the Risdon massacre.


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Five-hour Redmond standoff ends peacefully
Police say man chased, threatened 3 women with large knife
REDMOND, Ore. - A downtown Redmond house was surrounded by police, many with guns drawn, and neighbors were evacuated for nearly five hours Thursday afternoon and evening after a man allegedly chased and threatened at least three women with a large knife, officers said.
The standoff that forced closure of nearby streets and some evacuations and lockdowns of a bank and the nearby Redmond Proficiency Academy ended when the man, whose name was withheld, was taken into custody without injury and taken to St. Charles-Redmond for evaluation, said Lt. Nathan Garibay.
Police responded to the 700 block of SW Seventh Street around 3:20 p.m. on at least two separate incidents in the area of Seventh and Highland and contacted the man, who was uncooperative and refused to comply with officers' directions, Garibay said.
The man then went back inside his home and refused to come out, Garibay said. Officers tried several means to encourage him to come out, without success, and soon Seventh Street, and later Highland Avenue were closed to traffic as officers surrounded the home, many with guns drawn.
"We located the subject at a residence on 7th Street, he was uncooperative, and due to the nature of the call, and the danger to the public, we immediately contained the location and surrounded the house," said Garibay.
"We attempted for numerous hours to get the subject to come out of the residence," he added.
Well after nightfall, and armed with a search warrant, officers and members of the Central Oregon Emergency Response (CERT) Team, the region's SWAT team, entered the home and took the man into custody, Garibay said, adding that there were no injuries.
"He was alone inside the house," Garibay said.
Garibay said police were investigating possible charges -- three counts each of menacing and unlawful use of a weapon, and disorderly contact -- and will work with the Deschutes County District Attorney's Office and social service agencies "to determine an appropriate resolution."
Garibay said early on that residents of houses directly adjacent to the one on the west side of the street were asked to evacuate while they dealt with the man.
A nearby bank locked its doors and a loudspeaker was heard several times, as officers urged the man to come out of the home or turn on his cell phone to talk to them.
"We have the situation contained," Garibay said early on.
Later, Highland Avenue was closed in the area as well, as the tactical operations team arrived and portable lights were brought in to illuminate the scene.
A friend who was on scene told us the man's mother died late last year, and he had been laid off from his job and evicted from his apartment.
It was a busy day for police in the Redmond area, as the apparent standoff came just a few hours after a chase led to a crash into an OSP pickup truck and the arrest of a wanted Redmond man.


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John C. Butcher
LEWIS CARROLL IN NUMBERLAND: His Fantastical Mathematical Logical Life.
Robin Wilson. xii + 237 pp. W. W. Norton, 2008. $24.95.
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who wrote under the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an Oxford don, a talented mathematician, a deacon in the Church of England and a pioneer in portrait and studio photography. He is best known as the author of
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Through the Looking-Glass,
which are, on one level, books for children. Within them, however, are philosophical discussions, sophisticated word plays, parodies, satirical comment and mathematical allusions. In
Lewis Carroll in Numberland
, Robin Wilson focuses on Dodgson's personal life and particularly on his mathematical life, asking, "What mathematics did he do? How good a mathematician was he, and how influential was his work?"
In a nod to the playful nature of Dodgson's writing style, Wilson divides his own text not into chapters but into eight "fits," after Dodgson's extended poem
The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits
. Wilson's fits follow the chronology of Dodgson's life as they delve into his mathematical pursuits and other activities. The final two deal with puzzles, problems, paradoxes and logic.
Wilson is insightful, and his approach to his subject is scholarly and serious. The portrait of Dodgson that emerges is intriguing. The book shows him to have been an earnest and pious churchman, a dedicated teacher and popularizer of mathematics, an artistic and creative pioneer in photography, and a diffident and stammer-prone adult. Dodgson took his vows of celibacy very seriously, Wilson emphasizes; his opinion is that Dodgson would never have engaged in inappropriate behavior or done anything "untoward" in his friendships with children, whom he regarded as "the embodiment of purity."
Dodgson's character and his place in the world influenced every aspect of his life. Because of his shyness and insecurity, he was conservative and unadventurous in his dealings with adults. He got on better with children, especially girls, apparently because they didn't judge him so harshly; it also helped that they weren't anything like the boys he was forced to compete with for leadership roles when he was a pupil at Rugby School.
Dodgson was also conservative as a mathematician. He wrote pamphlets for his pupils that clarify and explain the text of Euclid's
and provide exercises. When a movement sprang up advocating the use of texts other than the
to teach geometry, Dodgson wrote
Euclid and his Modern Rivals
in response
a play in four acts that shows the
to be superior to 13 rival texts. Wilson devotes much of his fourth fit to this controversy over alternative teaching resources. The movement for change was led by the great mathematicians James Joseph Sylvester (who attributed his childhood hatred of geometry to the study of Euclid) and Augustus De Morgan (who asked whether reliance on Euclid was more of a hindrance and a delusion than anything else). An Anti-Euclid Association was formed.
Much of the concern about the place of Euclid in mathematical thinking centered on the fifth postulate (see diagram at right). An equivalent postulate states, "Given a line
and a point
not on it, there is only one line parallel to
that passes through
" If the sort of geometry we want requires this parallel line to be unique, then Euclid's fifth postulate is required. However, those who had questioned whether the fifth postulate was self-evident were unable to derive it from the first four.
That no such derivation is possible had been established by 1830 by Carl Friedrich Gauss, Nikolai Lobachevsky and János Bolyai, who all constructed non-Euclidean geometries in which the first four postulates hold but not the fifth. The remarkable discovery that Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometries are equally valid changed the philosophical view of mathematics, but it largely passed Dodgson by, because he deemed non-Euclidean geometries irrelevant to our physical world. Donald Coxeter, in his introduction to the Dover Edition of
Euclid and his Modern Rivals
, speculates on what the consequences might have been if English mathematicians Arthur Cayley and William Kingdon Clifford, who understood these new ideas, had met Dodgson and explained them to him.
Dodgson's belief in the immutable truth of Playfair's axiom (as the accepted modern formulation of the fifth postulate is known) led him to write
A New Theory of Parallels,
in which he replaced the fifth postulate with an axiom he believed to be self-evident, basing his proof on the diagram shown.
After the popular success of
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
, Queen Victoria is said to have asked to be sent a copy of Lewis Carroll's next book. As Wilson recounts, this is how the Queen came to receive a copy of
An Elementary Treatise on Determinants
. She should have felt honored, because it is arguably the best example of Dodgson's mathematical writing. It contains what is believed to be the first published proof of what is usually referred to as the Kronecker–Capelli theorem, which gives the conditions under which a system of linear equations has a solution.
Dodgson's contributions to mathematics include several studies of systems of voting and political representation. His popularity as an author gave him an audience for his expositions on mathematics and for a series of puzzles that he produced (he awarded levels of honors to successful solvers). In
Pillow-Problems Thought Out During Sleepless Nights
, he presented a series of questions that were supposed to be answerable without paper and pencil—with one's head on the pillow. Although many of these look silly from a modern viewpoint, some are gems.
is a window into the mathematics of Dodgson's day and into his character. This is well illustrated by his explanation that he intended the book to be a remedy against thinking impious thoughts before going to sleep:
There are sceptical thoughts, which seem for the moment to uproot the firmest faith; there are blasphemous thoughts, which dart unbidden into the most reverent souls; there are unholy thoughts, which torture, with their hateful presence, the fancy that would fain be pure.
I learned a great deal from this book and was able to satisfy my curiosity on two points. I had always wondered what Dodgson's young friends thought about him. It now appears that, to children, he was not the boring pedant that some of his Oxford students thought him to be, but a humorous and kindly storyteller. I had also wondered what the Reverend Henry Liddell, the Dean of Christ Church College at the University of Oxford (and the father of Dodgson's young friend Alice), thought of Dodgson, guessing (incorrectly) that Liddell regarded him as an inferior. Actually, Liddell's treatment of Dodgson was always that of a good employer; he knew the man to be a talented member of his college and supported him generously.
Dodgson led a very busy mathematical life, and this book has plenty of material for a general reader to explore. I would have liked to see more critical commentary on Dodgson's work in the context of what was happening in mathematics in the rest of the world. But this is a minor quibble. Dodgson's remarkable intellect shines through the book. His contributions were brilliant even when they were flawed. This very nice book gives new insight into the life, the character, the stories and above all the mathematics of its remarkable subject.
John C. Butcher is Honorary Research Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. He is the author of
Numerical Methods for Ordinary Differential Equations,
which is now in its second edition (Wiley, 2008).
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