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Sunny-room, L'Rambla, Pl'Catalunya
Maks. liczba gości3
Rozmiar6 m²
Piętro2(z windą)
- Internet
- Balkon/taras
- Zamykany pokój
- Ręczniki
- Winda w budynku
- Przyjazny dla rodziny/dzieci
- Kuchnia
- Zwierzęta dozwolone
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|Carrer del Tallers, 08001 Barcelona, Hiszpania
|Rodzaj nieruchomości
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You can't be more central in Barcelona than at this location - just next to 'Plaça Catalunya', "Plaça Universidad", Góthic area, Cathedral, Picasso Museun, and much more! Directly at the world famous 'Ramblas'. From here many top sights are in walking distance and next to the subway station at 'Plaça de Catalunya' (the city centre) or 'Plaça Universitat' if you need to travel more far.
It's the perfect spot if you want to enjoy Barcelona's night life, without need to taking a taxi home. Just next you'll find restaurants, bars, clubs, grocery (food) and much more just around the corner - that's very comfortable. From here in a minute you enter 'The Rambla', strolling by Sundays hippie markets, buy fresh fruits, having a coffee or leading down to the harbor and beach area walking. Once there you can take a ferry boat to Ibiza, Mallorca, Marocco or elsewhere and continue your travel... Barcelona has season all year round as there is so many things to discover and enjoy!
Our room is fully equipped with a comfortable double bed with shared bathroom just next, (but everything really clean, easy and convenient)! As the room is large it can accommodate up to three persons total - if you need a long stay, it's the perfect room. Staff is around all day to keep the house (and bathroom) clean and you have 24-hours access to the building with your own key.
You also can use the kitchen to prepare your own food.
Top location in the old town - at 'Plaça Catalunya', Plaça Univesidad, and 'The Ramblas'
Pick-up service - We also pick you up at the airport for a small charge (easier to get here)
Flexible check-in/check-out (please ask in advance)
All rooms with table/chairs as well (dine-in)
Nicely and cozy decorated house (to make you feel comfortable)
Spacious bathroom (shared/housekeeper on site)
Later luggage pick-up/use of bathroom (if your flight/travel leaves later on day of check-out without charges)
Free high-speed Wi-Fi in all rooms (no TVs in the rooms/bring your PC/tablet/Smartphone)
Fully equipped kitchen
Travel assistance (car rental, tour bookings, tickets, information - just ask!)
**Pick-up & Drop-off at the Airport!
We also can pick you up at the airport for a small charge! It's easier and faster to get here! Just give us your flight details - From the airport directly to our door in short time!
Price per 1 or 2 persons - 20 Euros
*Fantastic tours from Barcelona!
If you plan to stay few days and would like to know some other place around or near Barcelona, we can bring you to fantastic places for a small charge!
Montserrat - It's one of Barcelona and Spain's most popular tourist attractions with breathtaking scenery, unique rock formations and panoramic views of the Catalan countryside.
Church of Sant Miguel del Fai - The Monastary of Sant Miquel del Fai is an area of great natural beauty in the valley "Vall del Tenes" one hour from Barcelona by car. The monastary is perched on a sheer cliff with a lovely waterfall flowing down.
Sitges - Is the the famous pearl from Catalunya! It's a town about 35 kilometres southwest of Barcelona, renowned worldwide for its Film Festival and Carnival. Located between the Garraf Massif and the sea, it is known for its beaches, nightspots, and historical sites.
Would you like to go and see those beautiful places? Just ask... :-)
*At check-in you'll receive the password to the WIFI and your keys
*It's not allowed to bring guests without communicate before
*We're in a family building... You can enjoy your stay allot! Just be careful to don't incommode the neighbors - After 22:00 hrs the quite is required
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Carlos is very warm and good host. The rooms (we had an opportunity to sleep in 2 of them) are clean and comfy, there are 2 bathrooms in the appartament which is useful. The best thing is the location - close to EVERYTHING: metro station, bus (we came from the airport by it and we got off in front of the building), all kinds of shops (markets, farmacy etc.) and ATMs. There is a lift in the building and our stay was satisfying :)
The worst place in Barcelona, I know becuase I was there. Insects in the bedroom, but when I ask for this situation..."you can going other place".
The manager told me that situation can do it in anywhere...What?? maybe for you that´s a normal situation... insect walking on the bed.
I can´t change the place, because Barcelona was full...The worst place in the world
our stay in Carlos apartment was very good. Room looked exactly like on the picture. Location near University and Placa Catalunya is very convenient. Also in front of the building is metro station. Nearby you can find small restaurant serving delicious breakfasts :)
Carlos, thanks for your hospitality :)
Carlos was fantastic. What a lovely host, very kind and extremely helpful. He went out of his way to help us find his apartment after we arrived late. The room is a good size and has a lovely view from the balcony. The room and communal bathrooms were very clean. I would highly recommend staying here. Thanks Carlos
The host cancelled the booking, this review is automated.
Carlos is a very sympathic host. We had a nice stay. Just in front of the house there is a stop of the Aerobus to the airport, very convenient! The house is clean. The room and the breakfast table are a bit small. But at this price I would still recommend it. Thank you Carlos!
Carlos is a friendly and pleasant guy and gave good instructions on how to get to the place. It was very easy to get there and the location is the best part. Room was clean and so were the bathrooms. The breakfast was good too. We got cornflakes, milk, bread, butter, marmalade, muffins, croissants, tea, coffee and juice.
The room was strictly ok and quite small. The bed was old, creaky and uncomfortable. There was no heater and the thin blanket wasnt enough and we were cold in the night. The pillows were very small and we folded them up to get some support.There was only one window which opened to the inner side of the building overlooking the adjacent bathroom. We kept it closed to keep the smell away.
Despite these things, given the price we paid, its location and general amenities, I would say its not too bad.
We were very happy with the room and Carlos is a very helpful person. The accommodation was very easy to be found and the metro station is just a few steps away.. Everything was just great! Thanks a lot Carlos!
Lovely host, short walk to L'Rambla. Clean room, kitchen en bathroom.
apartment actually was in a good location and host was quite helpful. unfortunately flat was in poor condition - mold in the bathrooms and rooms,general mess and bad smell. the room was very small, the bed springs sticking out and one case for real view from the window was on the sewer pipes.... cheap but not very nice. rather, I would not recommend, unless very economical
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Manhattan Beach approves council pay raises
Manhattan Beach City Council members voted unanimously to increase their pay at the council's regular monthly meeting Tuesday, Dec. 4.
Ordinance 10-12 passed Dec. 4, and says council members will receive $860 a year, the mayor will receive $3,600 a year, and the clerk/treasurer will receive $7,500 a year.
The ordinance went into effect at the beginning of 2013.
Formerly, council members were paid $760 a year, the mayor was paid $1,000 a year and the clerk-treasurer was paid $5,000 a year.
The planning and zoning chairman and secretary will now be paid $100 each per meeting attended, and the planning and zoning commission members will be paid $75 per meeting attended.
Council member Marlene Yurek was the first to bring up the issue of pay; she suggested that council members be paid by a per-meeting basis, as she was not able to make it to all council meetings.
The ordinance drafted in light of Yurek's comments provided council members with $125 per meeting. That ordinance was rejected as many viewed it as too expensive for the city, and it was replaced with Ordinance 10-12.
Council meeting minutes show that a public hearing for Ordinance 10-12 took place Nov. 7, 2012.
In other business Dec. 4, the council:
• Heard from Tim Bray, Crow Wing County highway engineer. Bray discussed the county's five-year plan with the council. Other road issues, including ditch damage from ATVs and mailbox damage from plows, were also discussed.
• Discussed staining city hall, but tabled the issue until spring. The issue of spraying for lady bugs was also tabled until spring.

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Top: UTSA basketball player Derrick Gibson (right) helps fellow
students move in. Middle: UTSA basketball player Travis Gabbidon
(right) helps student Lucy Menjivan move in. Menjivan's grandmother
is at left. Bottom: New student Lauren Wilson (orange shirt) and
family members put her apartment in order.
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UTSA students move into new campus housing
By Kris Rodriguez
Public Affairs Specialist
(Aug. 16, 2007)--It was a busy weekend as students moved into their new campus residences and UTSA kicked off the school year with UTSA Roadrunner Days, a week of events to acquaint students with the university community.
More than 3,200 students moved into University Oaks Apartments, Chisholm Hall, Chaparral Village and the $40 million Laurel Village housing facility, all at the 1604 Campus.
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- La Prensa Foundation is newest member of UTSA Lone Star Society
- UTSA alumna Jordan Kaufmann wins $50K for new stent-graft start-up
- UTSA begins new way-finding sign installation this summer at Main Campus
- USA Today: UTSA long jumper Tyler Williamson rescues three-year-old boy
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With Phase I of construction nearly complete, Laurel Village staff members welcomed 206 students to their new homes. Housing 680 students, the facility is across the street from the Chaparral Village residences, which opened in 2004. Phase II of Laurel Village will open in summer 2008.
One of more than 1,000 Houston students enrolled at UTSA, freshman Lucy Menjivan now is a resident at Laurel Village. "I came to UTSA to get my Ph.D. to become a psychiatrist," said Menjivan. "I like listening to people and trying to help them with their problems."
But the increased interest in on-campus living also is coming from inside Bexar County. Many students such as Reagan High School graduate Lauren Wilson are moving in. "I'm really excited because it's a new place and I will be on my own," said Wilson, a freshman on scholarship with the UTSA track team. "I can't stop smiling."


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Pupils unveil murals as part of £3.5m revamp of Fort Nelson - Tuesday, 15 February 2011
School children unveiled four brightly coloured and eye-catching murals yesterday (Monday 14 February) as part of the £3.5m revamp of the Royal Armouries Museum at Fort Nelson.
Pupils from Northern Junior School, Portchester, created the works of art, which now take pride of place on the construction hoardings at the Victorian fort near Fareham.
Four youngsters – Mollie Dack, aged 10, Ellie Bezani-Cox, 9, Ramon Poate, 9, and 7-year-old Frankie Lacey – came up with the designs, and all the school's pupils helped to colour them in. The artwork included designs relating to Forts, Portsdown Hill and Fort Nelson itself.
Teacher Lyn Keemer said, "We really enjoyed the project and every child has been involved. I am delighted with the end result – the murals are fantastic."
The Royal Armouries has worked closely with Northern Junior School in the past year as part of its education partnership. Youngsters have been involved in a variety of projects, including putting together a time capsule and launching the Royal Armouries' fund-raising campaign last May.
The museum revamp – part-funded by a Heritage Lottery Fund grant of almost £2m – will see the Victorian Fort refurbished sympathetically into a modern visitor attraction, complete with a breathtaking glass-sided gallery, The Voice of the Guns. Other features include a visitor centre with catering, shop and parking facilities, plus brand new, state-of-the art education facilities including a 'classroom of the future'.
National construction company Mansell – who were awarded a £2.25m contract last summer to build the new visitor centre and gallery – donated the materials for the murals project, including paint, varnish and timber panels.
Work is due to complete during the summer of 2011. The Fort remains open during the construction period.
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Two bursts of human innovation in southern Africa during the Middle Stone Age may be linked to population growth and early migration off the continent
Zenobia Jacobs, Richard G. Roberts
Even by archaeological standards, Blombos Cave is a modestly sized shelter. Yet artifacts recovered from just 13 cubic meters of deposit inside transformed our understanding of when our species developed behavioral attributes we associate with "modern" humans. From this cramped hole in a sandstone cliff on the Southern Cape coast of South Africa, Christopher Henshilwood and his colleagues unearthed evidence of symbolic expression, in the form of abstract designs (carved ochre bars) and personal ornaments (shell beads) at least 70,000 years old. That is more than 35,000 years before anything comparable emerged in Europe.
When these discoveries were first announced earlier this decade, they stood out as extraordinary and provocative—at odds with the prevailing wisdom about the time and place of emergence of symbolic behavior, a trait unique to
Homo sapiens
. Our modern anatomical features can be traced back almost 200,000 years, based on fossilized remains found in Ethiopia, but the making of the modern mind apparently lagged behind by more than 100,000 years. The remarkable finds at Blombos raised several intriguing questions. What triggered this watershed event in human prehistory? How geographically widespread was it? Did it occur simultaneously elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa? And what role, if any, did such innovations play in the first steps of the worldwide dispersal of our species?
Important clues come from the stone toolkit that accompanied the crosshatched ochres and deliberately perforated shells at Blombos. Stone tools commonly are the most ubiquitous items at archaeological sites because they survive longer than animal or plant remains. Archaeologists pay close attention to their method of manufacture and how they might have been used. Although much less heralded than engraved ochre and shell beads, the Middle Stone Age deposits at Blombos contained an important assemblage of stone tools known as Still Bay points. These finely shaped lanceolate, or narrow, points are flaked on both sides and probably formed spearhead parts. Discovered in 1866 by Sir Langham Dale near Cape Town, they were among the first type of stone tool described in South Africa. A. J. H. Goodwin, the father of South African archaeology, was the first to appreciate the technological sophistication of this stone-tool industry.
The Still Bay cultural industry is now widely viewed as a phase of precocious and innovative technology within the Middle Stone Age of Africa, preceded by 200,000 years of much less sophisticated stone toolkits. It was followed by another episode of technological innovation—the Howieson's Poort industry—that includes bladelike tools made blunt on one side and attached to a wooden handle to produce a composite weapon. Like the Still Bay, Howieson's Poort vanished too. Technology of similar sophistication does not appear again in the archaeological record until the Later Stone Age in Africa and the Upper Paleolithic in Europe, many tens of millennia later.
The importance of the Still Bay and Howieson's Poort lies not only in their enhanced technological sophistication with what looks like hunting tools, but also with the range of associated innovative behavioral artifacts. These include the Blombos finds in the south, engraved ochre at Klein Kliphuis and decorated ostrich eggshells at Diepkloof in the west, and bone points and shell beads at Sibudu to the east. These relics of human cognitive advancement imply that an increasingly complex technological and social organization coincided with what some archaeologists now consider a period of expanded human population size and settlement density in Africa. Comparably sophisticated stone-tool technologies also existed in North Africa (most notably the bifacially flaked and stemmed Aterian projectile points found throughout the Maghreb) and, possibly, in East Africa, the suspected launching ground for early human forays off their native continent. Personal ornaments occasionally have been found at those sites as well, including perforated ostrich eggshell beads and pierced shells of marine gastropods.
Efforts to compare the timing of these technological and behavioral innovations to those in southern Africa have long been frustrated by uncertainties in the dating of evidence from each region. As a result, identifying the time and place of the emergence of modern human behavior has eluded us. So have the reasons for, and the immediate consequences of, our ancestors becoming "human." Solving these puzzles will require more finely resolved dating and chronologies for key archaeological sites across the continent. We started this quest with a systematic dating study of several sites in southern Africa. Our results hint at the possible role of population expansions in Africa as a trigger for these Stone Age innovations—and, maybe, for early migrations out of Africa about 60,000 years ago.
A general problem encountered in trying to date archaeological events or objects is that multiple, independent age estimates are typically more scattered than would be expected with normal statistical variation, even when margins of error for each estimate are considered. Much of this extra spread is an artifact of experimentation—an unwanted but unavoidable outcome of different materials being dated by different methods, using variable equipment, calibration standards, measurement procedures and data-analysis techniques. This complication often arises even when a common set of samples (or a single sample) from one site is dated using the same technique in different laboratories. Unless all experimental conditions, instrument specifications, reference standards and analytical software are identical, extra spread in results should be expected. We call this the chronological "haze" because it obscures the true age of the sample or event of interest.
Many attempts have been made to determine when the Still Bay and Howieson's Poort industries started and ended, using a range of numerical and relative dating methods. Numerical methods produce quantitative age estimates that can be placed on a standard timescale, commonly expressed as years before present. Relative dating methods produce ages that can be ordered relative to one another but need to be calibrated against a numerical age to get anchored on a timescale. The first and best-known numerical technique is radiocarbon dating, which under ideal circumstances can pinpoint when a plant or animal died in the last 60,000 years. In practice, however, sample contamination makes it challenging to reliably date samples more than half that age, so alternative numerical methods are used for older samples and nonplant or nonanimal materials. Uranium-series dating of calcite formations in caves, electron spin resonance dating of tooth enamel, thermoluminescence dating of burnt stones and optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating of sun-bleached sediments have all been applied with varying success to southern African archaeological sites over the past three decades. So has dating of ostrich eggshell by amino acid racemization, a relative dating method. Resulting age estimates for the Still Bay ranged between about 130,000 and 50,000 years ago, whereas the Howieson's Poort estimates were slightly younger, 100,000 to 40,000 years ago. Such coarse-grained chronologies leave plenty of room for imaginative speculation about the likely duration of these two industries and the reasons for their origins and demise.
In 2006, we began to clear the haze obscuring the Still Bay and Howieson's Poort industries. We did it by deploying a single dating method, OSL, on the same type of material from a number of key sites, using identical procedures and equipment. OSL offers many advantages. It can capture ages of objects that originate or events that occurred during the entire Middle Stone Age. It produces ages with a precision of better than plus or minus 5 percent. If a single operator can perform the dating, then the precision can be improved further, as can the chances for consistency.
OSL exploits the fact that buried quartz grains absorb energy from natural ionizing radiation sources (mainly uranium and thorium, their radioactive decay products, and potassium) in the surrounding ground. A small fraction of that energy is stored by electrons trapped at defects in the crystal structure of the grains. Using blue or green light, the electrons are released from their traps in the laboratory and the resulting OSL is detected with a filtered photomultiplier. This allows an estimate to be made of the equivalent radiation dose. By also measuring the rate of supply of ionizing radiation to the quartz grains from the surrounding deposit (the environmental dose rate), it is possible to calculate when the grains and nearby artifacts, whether they be stone tools or Stone Age ornaments, were buried.
OSL dating was introduced by David Huntley of Simon Fraser University and his colleagues in 1985, primarily to date geological sediments. But the method underwent a revolution near the turn of the millennium, when measurement procedures and instrumentation enabled equivalent radiation doses (and, by inference, burial ages) to be obtained from single grains of quartz as small as 0.1 millimeter in diameter. That made it feasible to routinely measure hundreds of individual grains for every sample, providing multiple, independent estimates of age that could be compared for self-consistency and any signs of sample contamination or disturbance. For our dating of the Still Bay and Howieson's Poort artifacts, article co-author Zenobia Jacobs collected and analyzed all of the samples in a systematic fashion, eliminating inconsistencies from site to site that plagued earlier dating efforts.
Judging when an archaeological tradition might have started and ended is not simple. It cannot be done solely from artifacts collected at one site because it is unlikely that the entire duration of an industry will be represented at one location. Archaeologists must assemble a series of "snapshots" from multiple sites to get a fix on first and last appearance dates. This is easier said than done, especially in the case of the Still Bay, which has been found at only a handful of spots throughout southern Africa. The situation is much better for the Howieson's Poort, with around 30 confirmed or claimed occurrences in the high mountains of Lesotho, the desert fringes of Namibia, the continental interior and subtropics of South Africa and the coastal areas and hinterlands along the continent's southern margin. All the sites are natural shelters and caves that hunter-gatherers used as temporary camping places. Remnants of their everyday activities—fireplaces, food remains and tools—have been excavated at the sites.
Our subcontinental survey included 11 locations that contained one or both of the Still Bay and Howieson's Poort industries, including some of the classic Middle Stone Age sites of southern Africa, such as Klasies River. Other sites were either not accessible for sampling or, in the case of Blombos Cave, had been dated previously by Jacobs. We intentionally selected geographically widespread sites in diverse environmental settings to capture the full range of natural variability in climatic conditions affecting the region at different times. The deposits at two of the sites proved unsuitable for OSL dating, but a sufficient number of samples (54 in total) were dated from the remaining nine sites to allow us to establish the time of first and last appearance of the Howieson's Poort and, with less confidence, the Still Bay.
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in 2008, both industries appear to have been extremely short-lived, appearing suddenly and then vanishing soon after. Remarkably, this pattern is seen over an area of 2 million square kilometers, cutting across a range of climatic and ecological zones. Because of the lack of any spatial variation in timing, we pooled all of these data in a statistical model, devised by Rex Galbraith of University College London, to estimate the first and last appearance dates of the Still Bay and Howieson's Poort. We concluded that the Still Bay lasted no longer than perhaps 1,000 years (from approximately 72,000 to 71,000 years ago). Howieson's Poort debuted 7,000 years later in the archaeological record, around 65,000 years ago. This industry ended abruptly five millennia later, followed by another gap of about 3,000 years before the first of the subsequent periods of less sophisticated Middle Stone Age technology. The margin of error on these estimates is only a few millennia at the 95 percent confidence interval—sufficiently precise to resolve the ephemeral and punctuated nature of these bursts of technological and behavioral innovation.
Answers about the ages of these artifacts, of course, lead only to more questions. What stimulated the Still Bay and Howieson's Poort industries? Why did they last so briefly and end so abruptly? And what was responsible for their—in archaeological terms—instantaneous appearance and subsequent disappearance across a vast expanse of southern Africa? Human responses to environmental change have long intrigued archaeologists, so climate change must top the list of suspects. The last interglacial/glacial cycle stretched from about 130,000 to 12,000 years ago, which includes the time span of the Still Bay and Howieson's Poort. During this period, southern Africa experienced marked changes in temperature and precipitation associated with global changes in ice volume, sea level and patterns of oceanic and atmospheric circulation. The timing and magnitude of these climatic fluctuations have been detected by international climate research groups in the pattern of change in the ratio of oxygen isotopes (and the concentration of atmospheric greenhouse gases) in ice cores retrieved from Greenland and Antarctica. These records share many general features, but the Southern Hemisphere climatic records from Antarctica are the most relevant to southern Africa.
There are uncertainties involved in extrapolating from one continent to the other, and there are some differences in the timing and amplitude of changes among the various Antarctic records. But neither obscures the overall picture: the Howieson's Poort occurred during a period of climatic warming, whereas the Still Bay cannot be confidently assigned to either a warming or a cooling interval. The fact that the same climatic conditions do not appear to have prevailed during these two episodes of innovation suggests that their emergence and their demise were not driven by a common environmental cause. The lack of correlation between symbolic human expression and a particular type of shift in climate does not preclude the possibility that climatic fluctuations influenced where and when people occupied or abandoned rock shelters. On the contrary, given the lifestyle of hunter-gatherers, the best sites for habitation and access to resources surely changed over time, in concert with environmental changes. In fact, our data hint at the preferential occupation of rock shelters during generally warmer intervals; perhaps more open-air sites were favored at other times.
Two further lines of evidence challenge the view that the rise of Still Bay and Howieson's Poort can be explained simply as responses to environmental factors alone. First, these industries are found in diverse climatic and biogeographic contexts, yet they appeared and disappeared around the same times at various sites. Such synchronicity would not be expected if only certain environmental conditions were conducive to their launch and spread. Second, the Howieson's Poort was followed by three separate periods of much less sophisticated stone-tool making known as the post-Howieson's Poort, the late Middle Stone Age and the final Middle Stone Age. No personal adornments or symbolic renderings contemporary to those periods have been found. The latter pair of cultural phases, and possibly the post-Howieson's Poort, flourished during periods of relative warming—as did the Howieson's Poort—yet none of them boasts any technological or behavioral innovations. When viewed in this broader context, therefore, the flaring of symbolic behavior during the Still Bay and Howieson's Poort periods cannot be linked exclusively to a warm, cool or transitional climate.
What, then, might have triggered the onset and termination of these two bursts of creativity and ingenuity? The answer may lie in the history of expansions and isolations of hunter-gatherer populations, as revealed by recent studies of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in living humans. These genetic sequences are inherited maternally, meaning they do not recombine with paternal-source DNA generation after generation the same way nuclear DNA does. Mitochondrial DNA records the pattern of ancient population expansions, declines and isolations, albeit accompanied by a number of assumptions and complications that still thwart consensus on the demographic history of
H. sapiens
. Still, for sub-Saharan Africa, new genetic data offer a much clearer picture of the major demographic events that affected the diversity and dispersal of our species.
One of the most recent studies, by Quentin Atkinson of the University of Oxford and his colleagues, examined four major mtDNA lineages indigenous to Africa—the L0, L1, L2 and L3 groups of haplotypes. The L3 haplogroup is the youngest and is especially interesting because all mtDNA lineages found outside of Africa derive from just two haplogroups (M and N) that descend from L3. Intriguingly, when the timing and pattern of expansion of the four major haplogroups were estimated for the last 150,000 years, the first marked increase in population size began some time between 86,000 and 61,000 years ago in the L3 haplogroup—a time span that includes the Still Bay and Howieson's Poort. No other haplogroup expanded substantially until more recently than 20,000 years ago.
It is tempting to link the population explosion of the L3 haplogroup with significant environmental events that occurred about 75,000 years ago. As recently reported by Christopher Scholz of Syracuse University and his colleagues, 60,000 years of severe drought in East Africa ended around that time, followed by the onset of generally wetter and more stable conditions. Also, the supereruption of the Toba volcano on the island of Sumatra—the largest eruption known to have occurred on Earth since the emergence of the genus
—occurred about 74,000 years ago. The injection of volcanic ash and aerosols into the atmosphere is thought by some scientists to have triggered a brief, so-called volcanic winter around the world that reduced the size of human populations. But the breaking of East African megadroughts cannot account for the demographic expansion of only one of the four haplogroups. And the Toba supereruption is incompatible with the observed increase in size of the L3 haplogroup. As a result, Atkinson and his colleagues have dismissed environmental change as the sole factor responsible for the rapid growth in L3 populations and the migration of their descendents out of Africa 10,000 years later.
As an alternative explanation, they proposed that some form of cultural innovation and increase in behavioral complexity by members of the L3 haplogroup gave them a competitive edge over rivals, perhaps by improving technological efficiency, economic productivity, social cohesion and group coordination. Our new ages for the Still Bay and Howieson's Poort industries place them squarely in the same time frame as these estimated human population expansions. We cannot say whether their innovative attributes were a cause or a consequence of the L3 expansion. But the latter would seem more likely, given the thousands of miles separating southern Africa from East Africa, where the L3 haplogroup is most diverse and is thought to have originated. But resolving cause and effect here requires a fine-tuned chronology for the L3 expansion, so that its precise timing can be compared with the start and end dates of the Still Bay, the Howieson's Poort, and the similarly sophisticated stone toolkits in North and East Africa.
On the flip side of the demographic coin are records of population isolation also preserved in mtDNA. There is an emerging consensus that our species experienced several such episodes in sub-Saharan Africa, and did not always form a single, geographically continuous population. Particular attention has been paid to the L0 haplogroup, which is the most ancient of the African mtDNA lineages and has two branches (L0d and L0k) that are most prevalent among the Khoi and San (Khoisan) "Bushmen" of southwest Africa. The Khoisan still live a hunter-gatherer lifestyle and are famous for speaking a "click" language. Recent studies of complete mtDNA genomes have revealed that the Khoisan became genetically isolated more than 90,000 years ago. Only with the advent of the Later Stone Age—tens of millenia later—was there renewed genetic admixture in the Khoisan mtDNA pool, supporting a deep ancestry for this language family. A similar demographic pattern has been uncovered in tropical central Africa, using the L1c haplogroup to trace the mtDNA history of isolation of Pygmy hunter-gatherers. The ancestors of these equatorial rainforest dwellers became genetically isolated no later than about 74,000 years ago, with gene flow resuming about 40,000 years ago. At present, we also cannot rule out the possibility that the L3 haplogroup experienced episodes of population isolation, superimposed on a general trend of growth and lineage diversification between 80,000 and 60,000 years ago. Is the similarity in timing of these major demographic shifts in sub-Saharan Africa and the ages for the Still Bay and Howieson's Poort mere coincidence? We think not.
Successive pulses of population expansion and contraction in southern Africa might explain why the Still Bay rose to prominence so abruptly across such a large area and then vanished in less than a millennium, and why the Howieson's Poort began 7,000 years later and lasted about 5,000 years. For technological and behavioral innovations to be spread widely and rapidly, a cohesive network of social contacts is needed to promote the transmission of new ideas and inventions. Periods of population expansion of the L3 haplogroup could conceivably have created such a network and prompted geographically widespread trade and exchange of high-quality stone and symbolic artifacts across southern Africa. In this hypothesis, the gap between the Still Bay and the Howieson's Poort represents a period of population contraction, during which social networks weakened or collapsed. The reasons for this calamity remain an enigma, but perhaps the prevailing cooler conditions altered the balance of nature, triggering a change in the distribution, diversity, predictability and productivity of resources needed by hunter-gatherers. If people were forced to abandon habitation sites and to move to find sustenance, links in the social network could have been strained or broken, isolating new innovations to smaller groups with limited geographic dispersal.
It might have taken another explosion in population size to reinvigorate this social network across southern Africa, resulting in the widespread transmission of the latest technological innovation associated with the Howieson's Poort (backed blades for hunting weapons). This integrated, subcontinental network of hunter-gatherer communities was maintained for more than five millennia, but then disappeared about 60,000 years ago, perhaps in response to the population contractions and isolations identified by genetic studies. Similarly sophisticated stone-tool technology did not reappear for another 20,000 years—the end of the Middle Stone Age in East Africa—when there is evidence for renewed gene flow south of the Sahara.
The hypothesis offered above is a mix of fact and fiction, imaginative storytelling based on disparate datasets, some of which are better constrained than others. But it is consistent with computer simulations carried out by Stephen Shennan of University College London in 2001 that posit that cultural innovations are more likely to be kept and shared in larger rather than smaller populations. Periods of population expansion would be more likely to produce successful transmissions of technological and behavioral innovations—such as those associated with the Still Bay and Howieson's Poort. And such novelties would likely have been lost when populations shrank and became isolated. If cultural differences developed among segregated populations, then recent model simulations suggest that migration between groups would have been discouraged and demographic growth further impeded. The rise and fall of the Still Bay and Howieson's Poort may most likely be linked, therefore, with the demographic history and social fabric of our hunter-gatherer ancestors.
The challenge before us now is to transform speculative claims into robust inferences. The quest to understand the emergence of modern human behavior and our ancestors' dispersal from Africa will require insights from archaeology, ecology, genetics, linguistics and climate science. There is also a clear need for reliable dating of key archaeological, genetic, demographic and environmental events, and the placement of each on a more finely resolved and standardized timescale. At present, we cannot explain the population expansion of the L3 haplogroup in sub-Saharan Africa as the direct outcome of any particular environmental event. In fact, the timing of climatic and demographic changes is too imprecise to confidently plot them in correct chronological order. Perhaps it was a spark of human ingenuity among a group of L3 carriers in East Africa that was the catalyst for cultural innovation. And perhaps that innovation encouraged social cohesion and the more efficient use of natural resources, prompting rapid population growth among this group of people. This population expansion may have, in turn, promoted more innovations—including the Still Bay and Howieson's Poort in southern Africa—and the migration of people out of Africa to the north. A crucial next step is to resolve the timing of the main cultural phases in North and East Africa with a precision similar to what has been accomplished for southern Africa. We must position all of these archaeological turning points on the same chronological yardstick with the major climatic, genetic and demographic events on the continent. By arranging events in the correct sequence on the same time line, it may be possible to establish cause and effect—action and reaction—and produce a more informed model of modern human prehistory.
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Knitette, love your quilt. What great outfits they are wearing.
Gramajo, you're bright colors and backing are perfect.
Wildyard.....have you considered ironing on a muslin interfacing? They make one-sided. You could stabilize it that way and add the rest of your blocks. Once the top and sandwich are together you could heavily quilt it, especially along the seams such as SID on both sides of the seams. I think that would hold it well. What do you think?
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So the quilt is purple and since our school colors are purple and white I figure I can take it to football games. I do wish I had done a better job on it since the pattern is very pretty but I am so disgusted I will probably never make another one.
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Ring, ring JN. It may have been a pain to quilt, but it turned out beatifully.
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Renan & Fran are the only team left with no penalties.
Fer and Ferds look like they should be called FAIL and Ferds since they FAIL to arrive in 1st place two times
My favorite teams are Renan & Fran and Ana Paula & Renata I don't like the interaction between Fer & Ferds.
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I had an idea for Playstation but I don't know where to post.
So if here is the wrong place, I'm sorry.
I was thinking about a way to really immerse yourself in the game with motion controllers, but with possibility of playing more complex games like Modern Warfare and etc.
Please, check the whole idea and details here:
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I don't understand what the idea even is...a glowing suit? I don't think that's necessary or practical (PSEye can already detect body movements). Especially for a game like MW; I think the sharpshooter would be the best way to experience that type of game, rather than just use your body.
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I'm sorry for taking that long to answer, I thought that when people posted I would get an e-mail to let me know, but I just notice that I wasn't subscribed and etc.
So, to see the idea you have to download the pdf file. The glowing suit it's just an image, the actual idea would be the glove.
I know that Sony already has the PSMove, but it's basically just a Sony version of the Wii controllers.
And Kinect is Microsoft. So I just thought that Sony could have something different, although I do realize that is sort of Minority Report feel to it.... Wasn't my intention, but it ended up like that.
As for the glowing suit, I was thinking if the buttons (X, square, and all others) were characters, how would they be.
And then evolved for persons that would enter a PSWorld, and immerse and have those outfits (wich could be personalized) on their avatars, and use as their names the respective buttons. And because I like the glove design, I decided to follow the pattern and ended up with the glowing suit. XD
So with that, I started a little story, with X being the main character, aka The Jumper (since X usually jump), and she would practice parkour, and would use those moves while immerse on this PS reality. And that goes for all of the other buttons wich I still have to properly design.
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1 week later and the tetra looks very healthy & is eating better. I notice the fish scratches after dosing, so I am leaning towards thinking its fertilizer not flukes, but I am still not sure. The color looks very good and the fishes activity is more normal. I posted this to help other fish keepers know of this condition so not to medicate too quickly in some cases. Still learning.
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What started out as a simple modification for the PC version of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, is now becoming the root of a new attack against the franchise. The mod is called "Hot Coffee", and it opens up a new "pornographic" mini game to players, revealing more sexual actions, and "skin" on the player's girlfriends, than originally intended for the final retail version of the game. I was browsing around to see what the current situation was involving this mod in the media, and I found a CBS news article and video brief. It pretty much explains how this may affect the game. You can visit that page here.
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JACKSONVILLE - Jacksonville police have increased the reward for information leading up to the shooting death of a woman at a bingo hall; they also say they believe the victim was a robbery target prior to being killed.
65-year-old Kim Hua Flournoy was shot and killed behind the TNT Bingo on Henderson Drive at 7:42 p.m. Sunday.
There are several surveillance cameras on the building police will be combing through for evidence.
The suspect has been identified as a black man. He reportedly fled from the area in a white or silver Dodge or Chrysler 4-door sedan.
Juan and Vanessa Lopez live behind the bingo hall. They say it is usually quiet. They say it is unsettling to have a shooting so close.
"It's just so close, it's right there ad one move from either of us and it could have easily been us," said Vanessa Lopez.
The family has released a statement saying, "The family wishes to thank everyone for their thoughts and prayers in this difficult time. Kim, or "Nancy" as she was known to some, was our loving mother and with the birth of her first grandchild became an even more devoted grandmother. We will miss her dearly.We ask that anyone with information please contact the Jacksonville Police Department or Crimestoppers."
Neighbors say they are having a hard time coming to grips Flournoy's death.
"It just bothers me to know that she's not going to be here anymore," said neighbor Catherine Helm. "Because she's such a sweet, neighborly, woman. One of the best neighbors I could have asked for."
Crimestoppers Chairman Joe Yannessa announced today that an acquaintance of the family of Kim Hua Flournoy has posted a supplemental reward of up to $10,000 with Onslow Crime Stoppers program.
"This is in addition to the to Crimestoppers customary reward level of up to $2,500." Yannessa stated. "Including the match reward offered by Jacksonville Police Department (up to $2,500), this brings the total possible reward amount to $15,000 for information leading to the arrest and apprehension of the suspects in this case."
Anyone with information is asked to call Crimestoppers at 910-938-3273.
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A sexual act performed immediately after performing a Las Vegas Chainsaw. The partner on whom the Las Vegas Chainsaw has been performed positions themselves on all fours with ass crack up. As a loving performer of the act, the other partner gingerly reinserts each of quarters that were previously extracted via the Las Vegas Chainsaw back into the the other partner's ass, one by one, like a chronic gambler feeding an old style coin slot machine. For extended and invigorating play, repeat the Las Vegas Chainsaw after all the quarters are back in.
Tonya was feeling frisky and let her boyfriend perform a Las Vegas Chainsaw on her. As if that was not enough pleasure, her boyfriend stuffed her full again by Slugging The Vegas Slot. Tonya hit the jackpot.
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IndyTechFest registration is now open!
IndyTechFest registration is now open! This year there is a limit of 500 registrations (I believe last year's was like 400 and it was booked up within just a couple weeks). So I strongly encourage you to register sooner rather than later!
There is a great lineup of speakers and sessions at this year's IndyTechFest! Some of the speakers I have seen speak before include Paul Hacker, Larry Clarkin, Michael Eaton, Arie Jones, Tom Pizzato, Dan Rigsby, and Bill Steele. There are many other great speakers that I know or have heard of. This should be an excellent event and one that is worth a good long drive to get to!
Some of the sessions that I'm really looking forwards to include Test Driven Development (TDD) w/ VS 2008, Tips and Tricks for the New C#, Tips and Tricks for the New VB .NET, Duplexing WCF in the Enterprise, and Virtualization of SQL Server. There are many other sessions that I'm going to hope to get to but alas, with it being a one-day event, I doubt I'll get to most of the ones I really want to see. 😛
Props to the people who worked hard to make this event possible, including Brad Jones, Dave Leininger, John Magnabosco, Mark McClellan, and Bob Walker, as well as all of the support of the local user groups to help drive the event!
Just as I was wrapping this post up, I received a phone call. Apparently as of 1pm (1 hour after registration opened), nearly HALF of all available registration slots were filled! If you read this post and have not registered, go register NOW and don't wait or you'll be left out!


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From left are Ricardo Romo and John Frederick
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John Frederick begins duties as UTSA provost
By Tim Brownlee
Assistant Director of Public Affairs
(Feb. 19, 2008)--John Frederick began his duties yesterday as UTSA provost and vice president for academic affairs. President Ricardo Romo selected Frederick in December from three finalists after a nationwide search netted 71 candidates for the position. Frederick succeeds Julius Gribou, who served since May as interim provost and vice president for academic affairs.
Today's headlines
- La Prensa Foundation is newest member of UTSA Lone Star Society
- UTSA alumna Jordan Kaufmann wins $50K for new stent-graft start-up
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A native of San Antonio and 1976 graduate of Jefferson High School, Frederick comes to UTSA from the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC), where he was a senior fellow.
He served as executive vice president and provost at the University of Nevada, Reno from 2001 to 2007. At NASULGC, he helped implement the Science and Mathematics Teacher Imperative, a national effort to enhance the quality and production of math and science teachers at the middle and secondary school levels.
The UTSA provost, who reports to the president, is responsible for academic leadership in ensuring curricula, teaching and research of superior quality; working with Faculty Senate on matters of general welfare for the university; building and overseeing the university budget; advising the president on plans, policies and operations; and representing the university in the president's absence at state and regional organizations.


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The Game-Making Game
This event has already taken place. Click here for the latest events.22-02-2014 12:00:00 22-02-2014 12:00:00 America/New_York The Game-Making Game | 1:30pm and 2:45pm The exhibition Indie Essentials: 25 Must-Play Video Games showcases the work of game designers and developers who have taken daring creative risks to explore new forms and methods of play. All games, from Tic Tac Toe to Madden NFL, are actually systems that share common features. In this 60-minute workshop, children ages 8 and older, learn what makes a game a game?and what makes a game fun?by making one, using tokens, die, game chips, and other materials. Materials fee: $5 http://www.nymetroparents.com/2015neweventinfo.cfm?id=154816 Museum of the Moving Image Museum of the Moving Image
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text: First off, here in Mississippi, we've been having much colder than normal weather. Temps have been below freezing at night. This morning, I made some 2 to 1 syrup to give to my girls, since the temps were supposed to level off, I went and put the feeder on one hive, no problems, the next hive, OMG, they hit me 4 or 5 times before I could get the feeder on. Never seen them do like that. They suddenly just swarmed out of the hive and went nuts! Oh well, maybe they will be happy with the feeding.


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Misconception of Latinas
Misconception of Latinas
More From Christy
Christy's Biography
First Paying Job: Cleaned dental equipment. "What was really great was that once you work in a dentist office, you never skip flossing, ever again."
What Does Lean In Mean to You: "Leaning in is about being ready to fail."
Success & Failure:"I've learned very little from success. I've learned everything from failure."
Early Bird or Night Owl:All of the above. "Sometimes I'm excited about things and I can't sleep."
Christy Haubegger is the founder of Latina magazine, the first of its kind. Born to a Mexican-American mother and adopted by a "tall blond family" at a very small age, Haubegger was encouraged to embrace her Mexican heritage. What she saw in the media, however, was another story. It was a rare occasion to see a character on television who looked like her.
Haubegger earned a degree in philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin and then went to Stanford Law where she enrolled in business classes. Motivated by the lack of Latina faces she saw in the media and making decisions within the media, Haubegger took on a class project to design a business plan for a Hispanic women's magazine inspired by Essence magazine. She made the plan into a reality when she approached Essence's Ed Lewis. The magazine launched in September 1996 and has continued publication since, reaching over 4.5 million readers through its media platforms.
In 2005, Haubegger transitioned from publishing to the agency life at the Creative Artists Agency where she continues to "change the complexion" of America working with Latinas in Hollywood.


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Health Hazards
Thanks to industrial revolution, the nature is no more what it originally was. The air no longer remains fresh while dumping of industrial waste in water bodies keep on haunting us. Indiscriminate use of fertilizers and pesticides have already intoxicated the soil. So, there is an immediate need of proper and timely health hazard detection to protects ourselves from various forms of pollutants present in air, water, soil and in immediate microenvironment. Thanks again to the advances in technology, various testing methodologies have been developed to aid in detection of such pollutants, for instance, Lead test kits helps in detecting lead contamination from various lead-based paints, tap water, colorful ceramic dishes, lead-painted toys, soil and airborne lead particles. Anyhow, did you know that lead poisoning may results in limiting a child's ability to learn,as a child's IQ can drop 3 points for every 10 micrograms per deciliter of lead in their blood! Radon, on the other hand is a radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium which occurs naturally especially in areas over granite and considered as one of the major causes of lung cancer.No wonder, we have radon test kits too which can test both, radon in gas and radon in water. Similarly, Asbestos, a fibrous amphibole; used for making fireproof articles, inhaling which can cause asbestosis or lung cancer, can also be detected by various asbestos testing kits which are often based on polarized light microscopy (PLM).


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Movie Review: The Rum Diary
Director Bruce Robinson's adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's early novel has its moments but fails to leave a mark.
Director: Bruce Robinson MPAA Rating: R Studio: Dark & Stormy Entertainment
Johnny Depp was the prime mover behind director Bruce Robinson's stab at adapting for the big screen this early novel by his firebrand, take-no-prisoners friend Hunter S. Thompson. Depp scores points for loyalty and fidelity—it's his second fictionalized Thompson portrait after Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas—but the resulting movie, though enjoyable and luscious to look at, only sporadically catches fire. Gonzo, it most certainly isn't.
It's great to see Depp playing something other than that increasingly tiresome pirate, though, and here is the avatar for Thompson's young self, a boozy journalist arriving in that virginal, color-saturated, late 1950s paradise of Puerto Rico to work for a down-bound English-language newspaper, presided over by a cynical, acid-tongued, hilarious toupee-wearing editor (Richard Jenkins, the movie's standout). Pretty much permanently buzzed, he rubs shoulders with fellow staff writers, the wised-up Michael Rispoli (a scene-stealer) and drugged-out Giovanni Ribisi. Something resembling a plot rears its head when he gets connected to a multimillion-dollar land scam being hatched by a skeezy real estate tycoon (Aaron Eckhart) and begins a seductive relationship with the boss's beautiful girlfriend (Amber Heard).
It's all so stoney, meandering and low key that very little of it leaves a mark, but, along the way, there are a few fun, slapstick-y chases, some pointed comments about racism and imperialism, crackling banter between the old time movie star-style glam couple Depp and Heard that evoke photocopy echoes of Bacall and Bogart and Grace Kelly and Cary Grant. It's not a wild ride, but a fun one.


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The Taite Music Prize finalists have been announced, with seven acts competing for $10,000 and the right to claim they produced the best Kiwi album of last year.
Home Brew, @Peace, Lawrence Arabia, Aaradhna, Collapsing Cities, SJD and Opossom are the finalists vying for the music award named after the late journalist Dylan Taite.
They were selected by a team of judges tasked with weighing up the 75 nominated acts.
Independent Music New Zealand business manager Dylan Pellett said the lengthy list of nominations and strong finalists show New Zealand music is healthy.
"This proves that our culture and our identity is quite healthy and represented across all music genres - and that is something to be celebrated. I've enjoyed discovering interesting new gems that had passed me by throughout the year - I'd urge any music fan to bend an ear to the full list of albums nominated."
The Taite winner will be announced on April 17 at an invitation-only event at Galatos in Auckland's central city.
Along with $10,000 to be spent how they want, the winner will get free recording time at Red Bull Studios and a year's supply of Red Bull.
The event will include live performances from previous nominees Julia Deans and another artist who is yet-to-be-announced.
Know the finalists:
Aaradhna: Treble & Reverb
"Experienced co-writers and producers Evan Short and Pete Wadams (P-Money) have helped to keep the overall effect focused and accomplished, giving Aaradhna's voice the treatment it deserves" - Lydia Jenkin.
Collapsing Cities: Strangers Again
"Collapsing Cities have expanded their sound in a more diverse and refined direction... though it may have lost the innocence and rawness of their debut, it also sounds more accomplished" - Scott Kara.
Home Brew: Home Brew
"The 21 tracks walk a delicate line surrounded by joy, humour, and misery, a beautifully eerie picture of optimism and condemnation which is undoubtedly a local hip-hop classic" - Lydia Jenkin
Watch: Home Brew performs Good God
Lawrence Arabia: The Sparrow
"He paints a romantic, European-flavoured picture of musicians playing together, smudged by glistening rain and lamplight, in a way that harks back to the jazz age of 1920s Paris" - Lydia Jenkin
Opossom: Electric Hawaii
"It's a delightfully brief but filling album, and though you can hear the influence of The Mint Chicks and his brother Ruban, it announces Nielson's brilliant and distinctive voice as a solo songwriter and musician" - Lydia Jenkin
SJD: Elastic Wasteland
"Donnelly has never done a dud album, and he's not about to start now, even when he's come up with something quite different from what he's created before. Elastic Wasteland is bold and unique, yet effortless, charming and masterfully crafted" - Scott Kara.
@Peace: @Peace
"Against a body-moving soundscape created by El Truento on beats, B-Haru on keys and drums, and Dick Dastardly on beats and sax, Tom Scott and Lui Tuiasau had the audience eating their words up like a late-night kebab" - Scott Kara
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Emma Stone without Andrew Garfield which is fairly rare.
George Clooney and his future bride have dinner in Venice.
The Goopster spends some time Bingo calling. Or singing.
Hugh Dancy and Claire Danes have a date night.
Heidi Klum and Seal took their kids to Disneyland yesterday.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Alison Williams discuss a Modern Family/Girls crossover.
Jwoww in NYC yesterday.
Kate Beckinsale looking decidedly less glamorous for her new role.
Sandra Bullock making a school run.


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I headed out into the Montana plains, which I had experienced a little of the day before between Cut Bank and Shelby. However, I was to discover that the slight rolling plains would give way to a totally flat expanse of countryside with nothing of any description bar fields for miles and miles on all aspects of the horizon - no trees, no houses just fields and the occassional cow. I think the video below demonstrates this more than words!
The sun was shining and I knocked off 40 odd miles before deciding that a 2nd breakfast would be in order so I pulled into Chester and tucked into my 2nd portion of eggs and bacon
The bikers came in and I got chatting to them, which rather delayed my day because we spoke for nearly 2 hours. They were on a 23 day trip from Philadelphia (or Pittsburgh?) and were heading to Alaska and then returning. One of them had left his family behind but had a wallet made by his daughter from gaffer tape that she had then coloured in all sorts of gawdy colours. As we were all at the beginning of our big adventurs we had a lot to share and I was able to show them this travelpod site which Kaye had found from me, because they were looking for a way to blog about their trip and I showed them what an easy and fantastic site this is
It was now past midday and yet I had over 60m to go...... I arrived in Havre after 5pm and was, unsurprisingly, a little shattered. It had not helped either that I had had my first puncture. Though it only took 10-15mins to change it was an addition to my day I could have done without. Fortunately, there was a bike shop in town so I was able to restock on inner tubes. I was also told by the owner of the bike shop that I was the first cyclist he had met who was doing the Coast to Coast. I am on one of 3 routes that are mapped by Adventure Cycling, an amazing non profit organisation that creates these maps, and about 50-100 people do each route each year and it appears I am the firts lunatic on the Northern Route.
Whilst at the bikeshop I met a couple who were amazing. They were farmers, restraunters and handyman to boot. Lefrey (I think that is how you spell his name) single handedly runs a 4000 acre farm - all wheat - and in addition he helps out with plumbing and electrics for people and at night he works in the kitchen helping his wife who runs one of the largest diners in Havre
Having finished at the bike shop I cycled down to the Best Western to discover that all the rooms were full - arrgh - it turns out that this weekend it is Canadian Memorial Day and a lot of them come over the border (about 30m North of Havre) for the weekend. I had to cycle over a mile back to the other side of town and then realised I would have to cycle back again for diner! Just what I needed an extra 3m after such a long day.
Anyway I went to the restaurant and had a delicious meal and was even more amazed to learn that in addition to their huge job undertakings they had 3 kids who were all between 20 and 23 but that they had also adopted 3 other kids. They were both so charming and when I walked into their restaurant I was virtually mobbed by their waitresses because they had all been told about (and I quote) "this rather charming and crazy Englishman who is cycling across the US". I was given a table in their dinning room even though they were fully booked and when my bill arrived they had taken off all my drinks! I ensured my tip more than made up for their kind offer though. It was so refreshing to meet two people who were so charming and humble who worked so hard and diligently and who also had given so much to their kids and 3 other kids - all of whom had been to college and 2 of whom were now helping out for the summer in their restaurant
I cycled home with a full belly but absolutely shattered and hardly remember undressing though I do remember that my legs were so shaky from their exertions that I had to prop myself up against the wall to prevent myself from falling over. I fell asleep and in the morning discovered that I had had a 5min conversation with Kaye that I have no memory of!
Tomorrow would be a day of needed but enforced rest........


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A pair of pants with excessive cargo and utility pockets that also convert into shorts by unzipping the legs. Often comes in a variety of shades of khaki and with other urban warfare necessities such as elastic cuffs and key loops.
When it got too hot, Nads impressed everyone by converting his yuppie battle pants into shorts. Oh, how prepared!
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Chargers Hosting Multiple Prospects In San Diego
Oregon Safety Patrick Chung
Oklahoma Safety Nic Harris
Ohio State Running Back Chris Beanie Wells
NC State Running Back Andre Brown
Michigan State Running Back Javon Ringer
San Jose State Defensive Lineman Jerron Gilbert
Stillman College Defensive Lineman Sammie Lee Hill
USC Defensive Lineman Fili Moala
San Diego State Linebacker Russell Allen
University of Pittsburgh Linebacker Scott McKillop
Western Michigan Cornerback E.J. Biggers
Feel free to contribute to this list by adding the names of any prospects I've left off the list in the comments section below...
March 29, 2009at 8:00 PM Posted by Rob Zepeda
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I hope we host private workouts to these other players as well :
Rey Maualuga, MLB, USC.
Ebon Britton, OT, Arizona.
Andre Smith, OT, Alabama.
Michael Oher, OT, Ole Miss.
Those are some possible first round selections the chargers may pick. However, I won't be surprised if AJ Smith trades away the pick for let's say a : trade 1st rounder and 6th rounder for a team with 2 second rounders.
I really like how the chargers are hosting Fili Moala, a much-hyped prospect last year though clearly his stock has fallen.
Running backs such as Javon Riner, SHon Greene, and Donald Brown sound like potential picks but I am doubtful due to the resigning of LT and franchising of Sproles.
Realistically, I see the chargers picking an OT, DL, or possibly the best prospect available.
man i just hope we pick up a ILB or a SAfety to compliment Weddle
a rookie safety is not the anwser......we need a veteran safety right now......if we dont upgrade that position......another wasted season
Malcolm Jenkins, bring him in and play as safety. Or take Maualuga in the 1st, Moala in the 3rd. In the 4th address, OL,Safety, WR or RB. Hart should play better with Merriman back and with Rivera running the defense for a full off season. Also, give Oliver some reps and let him start if he improves later on down the season. I think Oliver will be a better safety than hart. I would like to get a guy like Delmas, Chung, Vaughn or Johnson from Bama. All good safety's. Ban Cromartie from training with Neon Deion. Needs to improve his cover skills, can't always go for the home run play. Or put Cason as a safety. 808
we need a big playmaker on offense or else we are not a dangerous threat to opposing defenses. We should draft Maclin if he is there since Chambers will most likey leave in the next couple of years. If Maclin is gone, then we must concentrate on defense since there is no other big playmaker on offense. (Harvin?)
dude vincent jackson is a monster we have plenty of playmakers on offense, we need to address defense cause it wins championships, look at pittsburg
It's funny how WE all speculate who AJ and the chargers are going to draft in the 1st round.. If you look at the past drafts, it's always been someone who's not on the radar. Exp: A. Cason, B. Davis, A. Cromartie, even L. Castillo!
So this draft it will probably be Evander "Ziggy" Hood. You know AJ loves guys with a nickname.
except that we're bringing in ziggy hood
Here's the (semi?) complete list so far known.
Course, as noted previously, these types of lists have meant squat the past couple of years.
Knowshon Moreno RB Georgia
Donald Brown RB UCONN
Beanie Wells RB Ohio St
Javon Ringer RB Michigan St
Rashad Jennigs RB Liberty
Andre Brown RB NC St
Michael Oher OT Ole Miss
Sammie Lee Hill NT Stillman
Fili Moala DE USC
Jarron Gilbert DE San Jose St
Ziggy Hood DE Mizzou
Scott McKillop LB Pitt
Rey Maualuga ILB USC
Nic Harris ILB/SS Oklahoma
EJ Biggers CB Western Michigan
Patrick Chung S Oregon
Russell Allen LB San Diego St
if we sign a running back this year it's goin to be really disappointing because if L.T. has a great year or even good that rookie running back is going to have to play the back for a while. we need someone who we can throw in the mix to start. an impact player and i feel it should be on the defensive side because are offense is pretty explosive already.
not one sighting of an OT....well done AJ.....let the running game suffer again.....r u trying to get rid of LT?...no Oline, no production gives you the out you want......we all know its your team AJ....can we get past that and do what is best to get that unattainable ring?
We need a playmaker on defense - Any of the USC linebackers will do. Unless they trade up to get B.J. Raji, although Raji only played good for one year. A.J. Smith said that they're are plenty of good running backs, plenty of championship caliber running backs that he can get in the later rounds so the chances of him drafting a running back in the first round is slim. A.J. Smith does give signs to what he will do. When he went looking for a head coach he said having head coaching experience is a plus and he chose the one coach who had head coaching experience of the candidates he interviewed - Norv Turner, so I think he will draft a running back later in the draft - Alabama's running back Coffee and North Carolina's State's running back may be options but I think the first pick will be Rey Maualuga from USC or Tyson Jackson from LSU, although LSU defensive players have yet to make an impact in the NFL. If we get an offensive player my hope is we get Shonn Green from Iowa, Chris Wells, Darius Butler, or eith of the running backs I mentioned earlier - not Knowshon Moreno who may have flashed moves and jumping ability in college but he did that while playing against amateurs - he simply is not fast enough to do the same thing in the NFL.
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Small victory for VA landowners over natural gas royalties
ABINGDON, Va. - A group of southwest Virginia landowners picked up a small win in federal court in a long-running case that's made its way to the Virginia governor's race.
We have the latest on the court proceedings. Five individual lawsuits over natural gas royalties in southwest Virginia are now one class action case.
Monday's ruling by U.S. District Judge James Jones is a small win for the landowners.
They are accusing two energy companies of cheating them out of natural gas royalty payments.
According to court documents, the owners claim EQT Production Company and CNS Gas Company based their royalty payments on below market gas prices and deducted for operation expenses that violated the lease agreement.
The cases involve more than $30-million in disputed natural gas royalties from across southwest Virginia.The money is currently being held in an escrow account.
You may recall this issue has been a hot topic in the Virginia governor's race.
It's fueled quite a bit of debate between the two candidates along the campaign trail.


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