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Apartments: 6 - Bedrooms: 15 - Baths: 12 - Extra Beds: 4 - Total Pax: 34
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Address: Località Castelletto 151, Sinalunga, 53048, Siena
Phone: +39 0577 630208 - +39 3347259191
Website: www.villacastelletto.it
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The structure of Villa Castelletto has holiday apartments in Tuscany that originated in the Eighteenth century. Set near Siena and on the top of a hill, it is composed of a villa, a farmhouse, a cottage and a lemon house. Each building was restored with taste maintaining its original appeal and style. The villa is not dedicated to guest accommodation. This area is a central intersection of renown tourist routes, perfect to start discovering southern Tuscany and its nature.
VILLA LIMONAIA – 12 beds – 6 rooms 350 sqm
A detached villa with garden to exclusive guest use. The fountain adds a classic touch to the outdoors that can be admired from the wide windows of the villa and accessed from the large dining room. The spacious kitchen is fully equipped and includes a large fireplace, perfect for grilling food. A gas stove top, electric oven, dishwasher, fridge and freezer are also included. The living room features original brick arches. It is a large room with a wide fireplace. It includes sofas near the fireplace and a large dining table.
The ground floor includes a matrimonial bedroom with canopy bed and ensuite bathroom with shower. The first floor has one matrimonial bedroom with canopy bed and a double twin bedroom, both with ensuite bathroom with shower, another matrimonial bedroom with ensuite bathroom, plus one matrimonial and one double twin bedroom sharing one bathroom with shower. All rooms are well appointed and furnished with original antiques, also providing wonderful views from their windows. La Limonaia includes satellite television, fast DSL Internet, stereo hi fi system, safe, private phone line and a private washing machine.
LILLA – One-room apartment – 1 room 40 sqm
At Casteletto holiday apartments in Tuscany Lilla is perfect for two and located at the ground floor. It has its own independent entrance, one matrimonial bedroom, a kitchenette including dishwasher and fridge, one bathroom with shower, phone, television and safe. The outdoors include a loggia with table to dine outdoors with chairs and a barbecue.
COTTAGE – Small house with swimming-pool 2+2 beds 1 room 65 sqm
This detached property is set in the garden near the swimming pool and also enjoys an outdoor equipped area with barbecue to dine alfresco. It includes a kitchen with fridge and dishwasher. The living area includes a table, a comfortable sofa bed, sat television and a phone. From the double matrimonial bedroom the view of the swimming pool can be enjoyed. A bathroom with shower is also included.
PAULONIA – Apartment 4 beds 70 sqm
Rustic holiday apartments in Tuscany at the ground floor and characterized by terracotta tiled floors, exposed wood beams, and independent access from outdoor stairs. The dining room includes a well stocked kitchenette, fridge, dishwasher, satellite TV, telephone and safe. Antique furniture from the Seventeenth century decorates the double bedroom. The apartment also includes a bathroom with shower and an outdoor shaded loggia equipped for al fresco dinners with barbecue.
ARCHI – 4+2 beds 2 rooms 130 sqm
Accessed from the private garden, this ground floor apartment is the largest of all the holiday apartments in Tuscany at Castelletto and includes a living room with fireplace, a sofa bed and satellite television. Vaulted ceilings, brick arches and exposed beams are the original elements of this characteristic apartment in Tuscany. From the living area one enters a double bedroom with canopy bed with direct access onto the garden, and another matrimonial bedroom with wrought iron and direct access onto the garden. There are two bathrooms with shower. The kitchenette in the dining section also includes a dishwasher and a fridge. This is a very welcoming apartment, with elegant decorations and sheltered from summer heat. The outdoors include table and chairs under a loggia and a barbecue.
MANDORLO – 6 beds 3 rooms 120 sqm
An internal staircase from the farmhouse leads to this ground floor apartment in Tuscany. One enters the dining room where floors are tiled with terracotta, ceilings expose wood beams, and a fireplace invites to sit down and relax. A practical kitchenette includes fridge and dishwasher. Other amenities are telephone, satellite TV and safe. The night area is composed of a matrimonial room with canopy bed and another double bedroom, both furnished antiquities and sharing a bathroom with shower. Another double bedroom includes a private ensuite bathroom. The outdoors are equipped with dining furniture and a barbecue under the loggia.
The splendid holiday apartments in Tuscany near Siena are best enjoyed during summer time. The property is open from April until the end of October.
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> Thanks a lot to all of you. That really sounds quite promising and will
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> -There are missing observations and the dropout rate is quite high. However,
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Location: Toronto, On/Huntsville, AL
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Hey gang
Sorry I've taken so long to post my trip review but I've been busy and had a lot of stuff to get through to do this.
Anyway, we had back to back trips, 10 days apart due to family commitments. This will be part one and will be about what we had on the journey.
I will do this in reverse order of enjoyment.
We gave into temptation when staying in Cinci and tried a mid west chain called Rooster's.
If you see one from your hotel room and it's not very far away, keep looking. It was like Hooter's but not as good. Not as scenic either. The staff were really nice and they did put a hockey game on just for me. So service was good.
Any of these next three are pretty interchangeable and were downright solid. Nothing special but enjoyable none the less.
The Bluffton Dari Freeze is an old drive in just off I-75 and a nice stop. There's very little made in house however they do a good job of sourcing out better quality items. (Quality dogs, ice cream, etc.)
The foot long dogs are very tasty. It's a hot dog so expect as much. This isn't a bland, over salty tube steak though. Nice and tasty. Sorry but no skin. They claim to have the "Best hot dogs east of the Mississippi.)
We also sampled deep fried mac n cheese which was tasty and their ice cream floats and sundaes are really good too. What you want to get though is the shredded chicken sandwich.
This regional specialty is as ubiquitous at local gatherings as sweet tea in the south. This specimen is pretty much like the basic recipe. Roasted, shredded chicken with cream of mushroom soup on a bun. It's a nice spin on chicken salad and well worth ordering again.
The Rootbeer Stand in Cinci is always a good stop. I opted for the Big Ed which is a cheeseburger with warm deli ham.
There's enough that the ham plays a co staring roll and is really quite a nice sandwich. The accompanying root beer float is so nice.
The Farmer's Daughter in Urbana was up against it. I've been dying to hit Crabill's and thought we had picked a good time. I checked the hours and we were good. So off we go only to find the posted hours didn't match what was on line (not their fault. They didn't post them on line). Denied one of those awesome looking burgers we hit FD.
The fried chicken is really good as is the meatloaf. Neither are anything that separates themselves from the heard but were well executed none the less.
What would bring me back is the cinnamon biscuits. Deep fried dough with cinnamon sugar that were flat out incredible.
A stop at Schmucker's is always welcome. Mrs. Sippi can't get by the roast beef sandwich and for good reason. I opted for the L. Erie Perch sandwich. I was a bit disappointed that it was a pre frozen piece but it was really good. Fish does do well frozen especially if you don't do the volume to cut your own off a large piece. Tasty breading, delicate, creamy fish and an all around exellent sandwich. The Scutterbotch pie for dessert was just stupid good.
As you can expect, it's butterscotch and is incredibly good.
On any other trip, Rotiers may have been the highlight but it could only muster 3
Mrs. Sippi declared the Pimento Cheese sandwich as good as any she's had. She did reengineer the sandwich to her tastes but for the spread itself, it was fantastic.
She also loved the Gizzards.
Good plain but much better with hot sauce. One of the owners said he loves them with the blue cheese dressing and a lady from the kitchen said they were best with gravy.
The Hershey Pie for dessert was really good as well. Not as decadent as I'd like but tasted like Hershey's chocolate so well executed.
Let's face it though, we were here for burgers. Simply put, these are very simple and very tasty. Just standard ground beef, no special blend, ground in house or any of that pretense. Make patties, season, put on griddle. Basic. Fantastic.
An even better burger can be had at Terry's Turf Club in Cinci. This mecca of all things neon is a really cool place.
It's probably in my top 5 burgers of all time. It tasted more like a steak sandwich than a burger.
Large, beefy and with a generous amount of bacon based on today's standards. They cook to your specified doneness. They basically do one burger and a full page of modifiers. Some of them are very involved and full of pricy ingredients. Terry said on 3D that he'd rather lose money than sell something sub standard.
The single best meal of this trip, one of the best ever and clear cut winner was at Champy's in Chattanooga. I'm really loving this place. The Crawfish Boil was simply incredible.
Mrs. Sippi declared it the best she'd had. The addition of mushrooms to the brew was a nice touch. They suck up the goodness as well as anything.
So there you go. Some really good eats on these road trips. Look for part II of this for the eats in and around Huntsville.
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Should I really start with a small criticism of Andreas Whittam Smith? He is a columnist now, but he was the inventor and founder editor of The Independent. Without him, you would not be reading this newspaper, I would have been differently employed for the past 14 years, and the editor would not have asked me to share with you each week my thoughts - hitherto published only in bulletins to my colleagues - on points of grammar, logic and English usage. We owe a good deal to Andreas, but his Monday column this week still should not have said, "Of course, share prices decline when institutions bail out..."
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Misfired metaphor of the week: "A carefully orchestrated operation of media spinning... gave the Prime Minister an almost cast-iron insurance policy..." What is almost cast iron? Molten iron ready to be poured into the mould? The writer cannot have meant that. Incidentally, how did cast iron become a byword for infrangibility when it is actually quite brittle? Cast-iron piano frames can be smashed with sledgehammers. I suppose people assume that a material that is hard must be tough as well. In fact, wrought iron is tougher.
Unparliamentary language: Several people wrote complaining about the language used by the parliamentary opponents of the legislation to bring in an equal age of consent for gay teenagers.
Apparently those peers and peeresses who loudly feared an outbreak of "buggery" among 16-year-olds should instead have been talking about "sodomy". Our correspondents seemed to think that the distinction depends on the sex of the person who is the object of this love that apparently does not even know its name. Sodomy for a boy, buggery for a girl? The Oxford English Dictionary says the two words are synonymous. Collins, exotically, restricts sodomy to humans of either sex, but allows buggery to embrace beasts as well. Enough of that. We are getting beyond the most overheated imaginations on the Tory benches.
January13 2001
Mixed metaphor of the week: "Here, surely, was a story that exposed the vacuity of the Prime Minister's mantra of 'education, education, education'. It should have provided the Tories with an open goal. But where was Theresa May, the shadow Education Secretary? Opportunities for oppositions to score easy runs are rare. This was an excellent chance passed up by Mrs May."
Presumably the poor woman was too busy tearing off her football boots and grabbing her bat and pads.
January 27 2001
Paris in the winter: The haute couture shows are here again, visions of glamour sway down the catwalks, charming swags and ruffles of fashion prose adorn the news pages - and the folk who write picture captions seem to lose their heads. This season we have published more than one caption like this: "A model presents a flower -printed shirt with long sleeves and a matching skirt." Had I not been told she was a model, I would surely have imagined she was a brain surgeon doing a bit of modelling on her day off. What has been forgotten is that this is not a photograph of a beautiful though skinny young woman, it is a photograph of a frock. At this rate we will soon see picture captions on the sports pages beginning "A footballer...".
June 23, 2001
Basque terrorists, we reported on Wednesday, planned to plant a car bomb on a ferry from Spain to Plymouth. Among the terroristic kit they were carrying when they were arrested were "a detailed plan of the ferry and a full timetable of its sailing schedule".
Devilish cunning these Basque terrorists. Not just a plan, but a detailed plan. How detailed? We are not told, but it certainly wasn't a plan with no details on it, such as might have been carried by terrorists less desperate and dangerous than these. And the timetable? It was full. Scary. Much more scary than those timetables with half the sailings left out that ferry companies so often publish.
Those Basques certainly had a frightening arsenal of fatuous adjectives and meaningless cliches. At the trial we shall no doubt learn the full details.
June 20 2001
Bandits at 10 o'clock: Our introduction to Wednesday's "You ask the Questions" feature, on the architect Richard Rogers, remarked that the Lloyd's building in the City of London " drew flack for the fact that its high-tech elements broke down too often".
Rarely has this newspaper published 14 words containing so much to criticise.
First, "flack". That should be "flak". The word is a German acronym from "Fliegerabwehrkanone" (not a C in sight), meaning anti-aircraft gun. Like "Lili Marlene", the word crossed from German to Allied usage during the Second World War, when RAF types said things like "We caught some pretty heavy flak over Hamburg". Flak came to signify a barrage of criticism. "Flack" is a pretty well forgotten piece of early 20th century US slang, meaning a publicity agent.
Next, "for the fact that". Any sentence containing the words "the fact that" needs to be recast. It is a useless sound, as of grinding gears, emitted by a brain desperately trying to work out how to get to the next bit of the sentence. In this case "because" would do nicely.
Next, "high-tech". The Independent's style book prefers "hi-tech". It doesn't much matter which you use, but having decided on a style we should stick to it.
Next, "elements". This is the sort of bland abstraction to which writers resort when they are short of facts. What broke down? The lifts? The cabling? The lavatories? I want to know.
Finally, "too often". How often is too often? What would have been the right number of breakdowns? What is wrong with plain "often"? Or do we mean "sometimes" or "occasionally"? How many breakdowns were there? Five? Fifty? A hundred? Over what period? "Too often" is a way of being deliberately vague.
That leaves "drew" and "broke down". I can't think of anything wrong with them.
September 1 2001
Cliche of the week: There was fighting at the Leeds music festival on Monday, and, yes, a police spokeswoman condemned the "mindless violence". Why do the police think that mindless violence is so bad? I should have thought calculated, planned, orchestrated violence was more dangerous.
July 6 2002
Cliche of the week: The farce No Sex Please, We're British hit the London stage more than 30 years ago, and ever since we have been putting up with a stream of frivolous headlines, each more desperate than the last. Last Sunday's business section came up with "No techs please, we're British", which I suppose is a clever enough pun; but what can you possibly say for Tuesday's offering: "No singing Rule Britannia' at the Proms, please, we're British"? Can we stop this now?
Why must people break into foreign languages? Monday's Review brought you a feature about the "ten best cheeses". Whoever wrote the puff for it on the front page thought it would be a jolly wheeze to make some reference to "big cheeses". And why not do it in the very language of gastronomy? The result: "Grandes fromages". Mais, mon cher ami, le fromage, c'est masculin. That should have been "grands fromages". A few moments with a dictionary would have saved us from de l'oeuf sur le visage.
March 15 2003
Daft headline of the week: You won't have seen this unless you bought Thursday's paper in some far-flung place that receives the first edition. It was drawn to my attention by the eagle-eyed night sub-editor who made sure that civilised parts of the country were spared it. So I shall share it with you now.
"Rats found in hospital praised for cleanliness."
Thank goodness the rats cleaned their teeth and brushed their fur before invading a hospital.
August 2 2003
The gulf between those who find and write the stories and those who turn the results into a newspaper has always been deep and unbridgeable. Nothing exacerbates it more than false corrections by subs of copy that was all right when the reporter wrote it. I suspect that must be what lies behind this, in a news story from Baghdad on Tuesday.
"It is not known if Tamantin and Thamir are aware that their son and brother are dead." Looks all right, until you remember what you were told four paragraphs before - that the son and the brother are the same person, a man called Mazen. Tamantin and Thamir are his mother and brother, so the copy should read "... that their son and brother is dead." I imagine that it probably did, until somebody over-hastily "corrected" it.
Reporters complain bitterly, and quite rightly, about this sort of thing. They forget about the numerous occasions when subs save them from their own, far worse, blunders.
March 27 2004
Watch out: What I believe to be an error so common that it is perhaps not an error at all surfaced on Wednesday in one of Robert Fisk's reports from Baghdad. A hotel receptionist, Fisk reported, was "watching me like the proverbial hawk". The expression "watch like a hawk" (which, by the way, is not a proverb) refers, I believe, to the practice of old-fashioned falconers, as described in T H White's marvellous book The Goshawk, who used to "watch" a bird as part of its training. The man would stay awake longer than the bird could, until, after many hours, the bird at last consented to go to sleep on the fist. The hawk is being watched, not doing the watching (though the latter may be suggested by the piercing glance of a bird of prey). "He needs to be watched like a hawk" thus means "You can't afford to nod off when he is around."
July 24 2004
A Europe in Brief paragraph on Thursday assumed a startling lack of alertness in the reader. It began thus: "Police evacuated crowds of tourists from the Eiffel Tower in central Paris yesterday after a telephone caller threatened to attack it." Oh, you mean that Eiffel Tower? Not the better known one in suburban Sidcup just next to the Blockbuster video store?
It gets worse. The next sentence reads: "Police said the warning turned out to be a false alarm." Well (as my children would put it), duh, it was a false alarm! I savour the solemnity of "police said" - as if the reader on Thursday morning needed that assurance that the Eiffel Tower had really, officially, not been blown up by terrorists on Wednesday. Was that not sufficiently indicated by the newspaper's decision to report the events in a single paragraph on page 23, rather than devoting its first dozen or so news pages to that story and nothing else? The job would have been done much better by simply inserting the word "hoax" in front of "telephone caller".
July 10 2004
Is anything more insulting than those homely illustrative units of measurement, the use of which conveys the assumption that the poor dumb reader has no idea what a metre looks like or a kilogram feels like?
Mercifully rarer than it used to be is the "bag of sugar" traditionally employed to express the size of premature babies. The objection to this usage is so obvious that one is almost ashamed to state it. The circumstance that a bag contains sugar implies nothing about its size. A bag of sugar could in principle be the size of a walnut or the size of a car. The reference is, of course, to the bag of sugar conventionally sold in supermarkets. Its use as a unit of measurement implies that the reader is accustomed to define all aspects of life in terms of shopping in supermarkets.
Even sillier is the use of the football pitch as a unit of land area. Correspondents to our letters page recently pointed out that the rules of association football actually allow a good deal of variation in the dimensions of the pitch.
But perhaps daftest of all is the double-decker bus. This was, I think, popularised as a unit of length by the motorcycle stuntmen who were fashionable 20 or so years ago and used to perform ever more daring feats of jumping over longer and longer lines of vehicles.
Wednesday's paper solemnly informed us - copying, presumably, from a press release - that the giant roof arch of the new Wembley Stadium has "a span as wide as 275 double-decker buses". Is that 275 double-decker buses placed side to side or end to end? Either way, why specify double- deckers? They are neither wider nor longer than single-deckers, just higher.
In any case there is something wrong, for the next paragraph discloses (for the benefit of those of us who can sign our names and tie our own shoe-laces) that the actual span of the arch is 315m. That would imply that the size of each bus (presumably the width) is 1.145m (or about 3ft 9in for those who left school a very long time ago).
There are no buses that narrow. One figure or the other must be wrong. It could be that the double-decker bus figure is really 27.5, placed end to end. That would give a length for each bus of 11.45m, which looks about right. But I'm past caring.
October 15 2005
Daft headline of the week: 'Millionaire's death could see Constable masterpieces back in the UK' (Saturday). Is this a scene from the fevered imagination of some decadent 19th-century Expressionist: the robed figure of Death stalking a dimly lit gallery to inspect the Constable masterpieces, his very glance blighting innocent English landscapes? Sadly not. This is just another example of the irritating use of 'see' to mean 'be the occasion of'.
December 31st 2005
Horror: 'Customers help stamp out Turkey's sex slaves', yelled a headline on Wednesday. Headlines inevitably compress the ideas they convey, sometimes to the very edge of reason, but whichever way you look at it there is a crucial difference between stamping out slavery and stamping out slaves.
September 30 2006
Monday's paper contained a crashingly uninformative picture caption. On the Labour conference page was a "stand-alone" picture with no story. The caption said: "Cherie Blair wears a mask as she tosses a pancake during a tour of the stands at the G-Mex Centre in Manchester yesterday." That was it. Mrs Blair was in fact wearing not a mask but a blindfold, as the picture shows. But why was she trying to toss a pancake blindfolded? And did she succeed? Whoever allowed this deplorable caption into the paper clearly did not credit the likes of you and me with the alertness to raise such questions.
December 8 2007
Pedant confounded: Will Self wrote in his Psychogeography column in last Saturday's Magazine: "Chicago is the grid city ne plus ultra: the principle avenues and cross streets are at mile intervals." That should be "principal", which means most important or foremost; a principle is a truth or rule of conduct. It is a common error, but a bit embarrassing in a writer who has just used a term as fancy as ne plus ultra and, as he tells us, quoted Seneca to a bemused hotel clerk.
Pedant confounded (2): Still, this column can't talk . Last week we remarked upon the charms of the actress Keira Knightley. Dangerous territory for susceptible old geezers. Somehow one's mind wandered, and her surname came out as Knightly.
June 21 2008
Rye smile: Another news-in-brief item on the same day bore the headline "Pi in the rye". The story told of a crop circle designed to illustrate the mathematical symbol pi, created in a Wiltshire field of ... barley.
Sorry to be a spoilsport, but barley and rye are two different grains. The headline was therefore not true.
Yes, I know, I know. It was a great headline, pithy, witty, a real gem. A tragedy to miss it. And its author was honest enough to leave the true information in the text, so no one was deceived. But what we are paid for is making up clever headlines that fit the facts, not making up the facts to fit a clever headline. The former is more difficult than many people outside this business (and some inside it) appreciate: the latter is cheating.
August 2 2008
Risk assessment: Hugh Minor writes in from Cardiff to point out a logical glitch in a picture caption that accompanied an article on Thursday about deluded women who apparently imagine that men will fancy them more if they have weird surgical operations on their breasts.
The caption said that "breast augmentation carries the same risks as any operation". Mr Minor remarks: "I shall find this a great comfort if I ever need brain surgery." What the caption was trying to say was that, like any operation, breast augmentation carries risks. But the risks are not the same. Some operations carry more risks than others.
January 24 2009
Wrong picture: A headline on a news page last Saturday said "Academic jailed for two years for vandalising antique books." The story was about a man who cut pages from books in the British Library and the Bodleian to fill gaps in his own book collection. He seems to have been motivated by an outrageously excessive lust for books. In this context the word "vandalising", which does not appear in the story, only the headline, really will not do.
The Vandals were one of the Germanic peoples who overran the western Roman Empire in the fifth century. They settled in North Africa and sailed to Italy to plunder Rome in 455. That event made them a byword for wanton and violent destruction, especially of valuable and beautiful things by the ignorant who do not appreciate them. What the man in the court case did was almost the opposite of that. Not all illegal damage is vandalism.
February 14 2009
Fowl play: We entered realms of fantasy in Thursday's leading article about the resignation of Sir James Crosby from the Financial Services Authority. The decision to appoint him, we opined, "smacked of putting a fox in charge of the chicken coup".
To the barricades! The chickens are staging a coup! And who knows, with a fox in charge, they might succeed. Or could this even be a mangled report of the latest offering from an avant-garde celebrity chef: chicken-flavoured ice cream or coupe de poulet?
Alas, no. It should have read "chicken coop".
September 5 2009
It was like being forced, at school, to read T S Eliot's Four Quartets . The language is apparently English, but the words convey no meaning. This sensation of baffled helplessness was induced by the following passage, from an interview with the actress Zooey Deschanel, published on Tuesday.
"She's thoughtful when asked if she believes in love at first sight: 'I believe everything is out there. Love is such a universally appealing theme. It just depends on your point of view. In some way, it exists in thought form. If it has a name, then you are creating it. I think people who try to force a relationship that's not happening are just insane.' "
Ms Deschanel is not to blame. Anybody can get an attack of the burbles, and she was brought up in California, where, it is said, everybody talks like that. But the interviewer surely had a duty to flush out her meaning with a supplementary question. Failing that, somebody should have cut the passage out.
Having read the quotation three or four times, I think Ms Deschanel is saying that she does not believe in love at first sight; that people are told about it and convince themselves they are experiencing it. Or it could be that if you believe in love at first sight, then it may exist for you. Dunno really.
April 17 2010
Old bird: "Veteran osprey lays her first egg of 2010". It is not easy to pin down a single reason why this headline, which appeared over a news story on Wednesday, is so delightfully absurd.
It suggests that the bird is not only old (she is in fact 25, which is indeed old for an osprey) but that she has been an osprey for a long time. That raises the question of what she was before she was an osprey.
But mostly, I think, the comic effect is created by the desperate journalistic desire to pass judgement , to use language that suggests how the reader ought to react. To describe the avian mum-to-be merely as "old" would suggest some implied criticism. Being old is bad. But this story is good. So how can we find an upbeat way of saying "old"? Ah, I know: "veteran"!
If we were in America, I suppose the maternal raptor might have ended up as a "senior osprey".
August 21 2010
Journalese: On Monday we reported on a jewel raid in the City of London. Sure enough, the crime was committed "at the exclusive Royal Exchange shopping centre".
There are two problems with calling shops "exclusive". First, it is meaningless. To be sure, the shops at the Royal Exchange are exclusive in the sense that, in effect, they exclude people who cannot afford the prices of the goods they sell. But so does my local Sainsbury's.
And second, expensive and luxurious shops look "exclusive" only to people who cannot afford to use them. To their customers they are just shops. By assuming that our readers will identify with the word "exclusive" we imply that they are among the ragged urchins with their noses pressed to the glass. Not very flattering.
Immortalised on film: On Wednesday we carried a story about the young actress who has been cast to star in a forthcoming film of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The headline said: "The girl with the very bright future." There is nothing wrong with that heading; it is actually quite good. But I fear it heralds some horrors in the years to come.
Some film titles get stuck in the brains of those who write headlines. We have all grown weary of the endless variations on A Bridge Too Far, The Godfather, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and others. If this new film is a success, and if there are still such things as headlines in 2050 or thereabouts, some of them will certainly begin with the words "The girl with the ...". Thank goodness I shall not be here to see it.
February 5 2011
Theme music: "The skill of a great film composer is to marry moving images with sound in such a way that they seem organically linked." That was the opening sentence of our news report on Tuesday, telling of the death of John Barry. How true, how very true. Now tell me something I don't know already.
May 21 2011
Connoisseurs of classical journalese were delighted to see this headline on a news page on Thursday: "Bride-to-be saved from death leap." Vintage stuff. As long ago as 1938, Evelyn Waugh's Fleet Street satire Scoop has a genial, bone-headed reporter remarking: "On Monday afternoon I was in East Sheen breaking the news to a widow of her husband's death leap with a champion girl cyclist." Brides-to-be have no doubt been with us as long as death leaps. And of course if all goes well after the "happy day" they soon turn into mums-to-be.
Thursday's story, however, turned out differently. This unfortunate young Chinese woman had been jilted by her fiancé. Wearing her wedding dress, she tried to jump from a high window, but was pulled to safety. So she wasn't a bride-to-be at all, but a bride-not-to-be. The headline was not only journalese but wrong.
Sept 10 2011
Pouring oil on troubled waters is one of the most popular demonstration displays at the Museum of Ancient Metaphoric Curiosities, almost as popular with the kiddies as the daily demonstrations of battening down the hatches and changing horses in mid-stream.
A visit to the museum might be profitable for the writer of this sentence, from a comment piece published on Tuesday, speaking of Alistair Darling's memoirs and the damage they have done to Gordon Brown's reputation: "I suspect he is alert to the damage. He looked nervous in his interview with Andrew Marr on Sunday. At one point he said: 'If Gordon is watching this ...' The image of Brown watching his old friend pour oil on the wreckage of his reputation is enough to make anyone nervous."
Apparently, you can reduce the turbulence of water by pouring a film of oil on to the surface. It sounds unlikely to me, and why would anyone want to do it? But there you are; that is what the metaphor is all about. Pouring oil is meant to calm things down. What Alistair Darling is doing to Gordon Brown's reputation sounds more like pouring petrol on a fire. (Unfortunately, health and safety regulations have forced the museum authorities to suspend that once popular display.)
March 10 2012
Tuesday's Trending page reported that Scarlett Johansson is to act the part of Janet Leigh, star of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho - "which beggars the question: is there a more intimidating role to take on than that of another celebrated actor?".
There are two layers of error here. First, the writer has confused "beggar belief" with "beg the question". So, which ought it to be? In fact, neither.
First, the story is obviously nothing to do with beggaring belief. The use of "beggar" as a verb dates back to the 16th century. To beggar someone is to reduce them to the status of a beggar, by exhausting their resources. Hence, the slightly odd, but perfectly respectable expression "beggar belief". An idea "beggars belief" if it is so unlikely or outlandish that it exhausts our capacity to believe it.
So, what about "beg the question"? This is probably the most widely misused expression in the language. I don't propose to explain what it means. People with degrees in philosophy have no trouble understanding it. The rest of us find it virtually ungraspable. There are only two things you need to know about "beg the question". The first is that it is not the same as "raise the question" - which is the expression the writer of the Johansson item should have used. The second is this: don't write "beg the question" - ever.
April 7 2012
Romantic lead: Yesterday's Arts & Books section carried an interview with the actor Liam Neeson. At one point the report's logic suffered a glitch: "Off-screen he famously dated Helen Mirren as well as capturing the romantic attentions of Julia Roberts, Brooke Shields, Cher and Sinead O'Connor. Neeson proved the ultimate gentleman, never kissing or telling." What, no kissing? It is impossible to believe that Neeson, who is I am sure a real man as well as a real gentleman, proved such a disappointment to such a succession of glamorous women. That should have read "never kissing and telling".
June 30 2012
Number crunching: A leading article on Saturday said: "It is here that the substance of the arguments come in." No, the arguments may come in, but the substance comes in. There is nothing much to be said about this failure to tell the difference between singular and plural, except that there is far too much of it about, and I don't know why. Every day the public address system at my local station says that "for your safety and security, CCTV and 24-hour monitoring is in use". It's all I can do not to alarm my dead-eyed fellow commuters by screaming: "Are! CCTV and 24-hour monitoring ARE in use!" (And by the way, what is the distinction between safety and security?)Reuse content


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There is no video on YouTube to deal with the bee experiences I am having... here is one.
There is no video on YouTube to deal with the bee experiences I am having... here is one.
Put her in a queen cage and set her on top bars in the hive. If the bees start attacking the cage then you know she's not that colony's queen. When you find a colony that seems to be "friendly" towards her you've probably found her colony. The cage should keep her alive until the correct colony is found.
The tissue at the end of her abdomen is the wrong color for an egg. Can't see clearly, but it could be the mating apparatus of a drone after a mating flight and it got stuck there.....? Can't see that well, but I can tell you its not normal.
Thanks... I wonder if the protrusion is put there to stop her from breeding? I got some bees from a strawberry farmer and these were for pollination... what do you think? could something be added to stop a queen from laying?
My guild actually just talked about this on Monday. It does look like a penis that is stuck in there. The worker bees would take it out when she got back. She was probably on her mating flight and got tired and was resting. If you take a bunch of bees and throw them in a new hive and add her then you should be able to make a new hive (same thing as a box of bees.)
Disclaimer: I know enough to know I don't know anything yet.
if you do find her a hive, i suspect they will supersede her as soon as possible if she is damaged, but i would think she'd be able to lay eggs in the mean time...
Her missing front leg is her undoing, she cannot measure the cell size without it.
Mike Forbes
Red Dirt Apiaries
I just now watched the video and heard the audio...I agree with NasalSponge...a missing front leg means she needs replacing.
Thanks guys. I added you comments to the YouTube video and will add a link to this chat to the video
Here is a pic of what I am calling a Japanese "Sumo" Drone - a massive Japanese drone that probably left his penis in my small dainty western "mite susceptible" queen... Since Japanese bees have had 100k years to adept to verroa mites they are not susceptible to the disease they carry... yet they are dying... http://youtu.be/L8dPWx665lc... here is the Sumo Drone pic http://j.mp/SumoJPDrone . Today I netted some Japanese bees and moved them to a safe location near 5k sun flowers...
Here is the video of me finding them... the villagers thought they were mine and were angry... reason for my wife's attitude in this video http://youtu.be/Uj7lIM8d9tI
That's too bad that you're getting blamed for a swarm of bees. It will be difficult to explain, but in time hopefully the people around you understand a little more about what you do. Hopefully the swarm prospers in their new home!


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Sharon Lockhart is a Los Angeles-based photographer whose work leads a recent trend in contemporary photography to, as one critic writes, combine "fact and fiction while melding the nonchalance of snapshots with the artful organization of film stills."
Influenced by the movie-making industry in her hometown, Lockhart functions almost as would a Hollywood director when setting up shots. She gives her subjects loosely scripted direction that she then captures as still images. The figures in this work seem to be caught in action, although what occurred before or after that moment is deliberately unclear.


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Calcutta: Former captain Graham Gooch who, as England's batting coach, has decided to exclusively focus on Test cricket, spoke to The Telegraph from the UK on Saturday afternoon.
Now 59, Gooch had an outstanding Test career, finishing with 8,900 runs with 20 centuries. He totalled 4,290 in ODIs (8x100). Overall, Gooch scored 128 first-class centuries.
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Q Was it actually too much being the batting coach in all formats?
A I believe that Test cricket must not lose its primacy and I'd wanted to exclusively work with the present band and the next generation of Test batsmen. Given the amount of cricket being played, teams need multiple choices.
When did you decide to step down from the ODIs and the T20 Internationals?
It wasn't a sudden decision... I first spoke to Andy (Flower, the team director) about it... England will be playing 10 back-to-back Ashes Tests and that's a priority... Then, India tour England in the summer of 2014... Beginning with the upcoming matches in New Zealand, there's a lot of Test cricket ahead for England. Indeed, there's work to be done.
One school of thought is that you're most comfortable only with Flower, who is also now largely focusing on Test cricket...
That's not correct and I'm not following Andy... The idea that I focus on the Test batsmen was, in fact, first mooted before the Test series in India when Andy was directly involved with all formats.
[Ashley Giles' appointment as the head coach for ODIs and T20 Internationals was made after the second Test.]
What was it like working with Giles during the recent ODI series in India?
Very good... Ashley is an experienced coach and the ECB have made a very wise move. There's always a breaking-in period... I believe he'll do a good job.
Is Graham Thorpe your full-time replacement in ODIs and in T20?
For now, Graham is only for New Zealand... The ECB will have to take a call after that.
Could separate coaches for the different formats be the way forward, like separate captains in many countries?
It's certainly an option... I don't see downsides, to be honest... The workload is shared and a Test series, for example, will allow the other coach to plan for the ODIs and the T20 Internationals. England have just embarked on this... It's not my case that this is the only way forward... Not too long ago, we had three captains for the three formats ' Andrew Strauss, Alastair Cook, Stuart Broad ' and that worked well. It's good to be flexible.
But is there much of a difference in the manner of coaching in the different formats?
The basics are the same, but the tactics and the way batsmen shape their innings is different... At the end of the day, you've got to play match-winning innings, you've got to make telling contributions. The principles are the same across formats.
Was it disadvantageous that you'd never played T20 cricket?
No, because I'd played a lot of rain-reduced matches in County cricket... In ODIs and in T20, batsmen face the time-pressure, which is not there in Tests. That's the one big difference.
Just how much can coaches do at the international level?
Depends on the nature of the two-way relationship... If there's trust and belief in what the other can do, then there will be a positive influence. Coaches must remember that a fine line exists and cannot be crossed, that it's the batsman alone who'll execute what is discussed.
Is there an ideal way to coach?
Different people look at a piece of string differently... Some find it long enough, some don't... There are extravagant stroke-makers and there are the conservative run-getters... The key is for batsmen to know their limitations and, of course, to know their game. Coaching is all about getting the best out of what you've got.
I assume it's easier when a coach has himself been an accomplished player. You're a legend...
Look, I don't think your achievements as a player automatically makes you a good coach... In soccer, there are examples of great coaches who haven't played at the international level. Communication is important.
What did the trips to India, your first as an England coach, teach you?
All of us came away richer for the experience... Alastair Cook and the boys showed enormous character to bounce back and win the series after losing the first Test... The T20 contest was drawn... We lost the ODIs 2-3, but that's no disgrace. India are the world champions and played better. I should add that the grounds were second to none and the hospitality overwhelming.
England did very well... What, for you, was the biggest gain?
Proving to everybody that we could recover from 0-1 down to win the four-Test series 2-1... Cook led by example and, as I've said, the boys showed such character. Eminent experts had predicted a 4-0 win for India. We proved them wrong.
How soon do you see India improving as a Test team?
The raw material is there, you have a big population and the facilities are top-class. The talent is there, it's how you galvanise what's available.
Did any India player(s) catch your eye?
(Cheteshwar) Pujara looked a competent all-round batsman in the Test series... In the ODIs, (Ravindra) Jadeja stood out and contributed in all departments... (Suresh) Raina seemed to have a real passion and, like Jadeja, contributed in the three departments... (Mahendra Singh) Dhoni proved that he's one of the best in ODIs. He left nobody in doubt there.
You've spoken of grounds and facilities... Well, what did you make of Dharamsala as an international venue?
It has the prettiest ground, more pretty than even Newlands (Cape Town).
Do England start overwhelming favourites in New Zealand?
Recent performances would suggest that, but matches have never been won on paper... The team sheet doesn't determine the winner, rather it's how that team performs on the field.
[England will feature in three matches in every format: T20 Internationals, ODIs and Tests.]
How do you see the India-Australia Test series in India going?
I'm not sure what your selectors have in mind, but India have the advantage in the spin department... That Ricky Ponting and Michael Hussey have both retired is a massive loss for Australia.
With the Ashes this summer, will you be following the four-match series very closely?
I'll be in New Zealand then... Yes, I'll be watching whatever I can.
The final one... I've asked this before... What's the future you see for Sachin Tendulkar?
(Laughs) I'll tell you what I've told you before... Sachin's the best player of his generation, he's an icon... He'll make his own decision... At the age he is (nearing 40), the decision to quit altogether can't be too far away... Sachin's set high standards and he'll be looking to satisfy himself first... Like other professionals, I assume he's his own biggest critic. He's carried a lot of responsibility for over 20 years.


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Another week in, and the Maple Leafs are going strong. The Blackhawks are back on top out West, though their three closest competitors all have three games in hand, down by three points. That's 333, which when doubled, means the Devils are currently in last place in the entire NHL. They're followed by Ottawa and San Jose, which none of us saw coming. But it's still early. And the Bruins still have a game in hand to move close to Toronto, and two in hand to move into 4th place. But exactly how convoluted are the standings after two weeks? Let's look at what would happen if the playoffs started as of Thursday, October 21, before the day's games:
Chicago has been the busiest team thus far, playing eight games, but they've gotten 11 points out of it, including four straight victories. Calgary is just squeaking in, and while their defense is better than Chicago's, their offense has only scored nine times. That's not enough to beat Chicago, even after shedding salary cap space.
Columbus is back in the picture, but the Kings' have allowed just nine goals, and are perfect at home, 3-0-0. After breaching 100 points last season, and with some decent pieces people have heard of, the Kings are too good to fall here.
Colorado has one more point, but one more game out of hand. They've scored and given up 19 goals, with the Red Wings sacrificing some offense for more defense, comparatively. The Red Wings are still the Red Wings, and Colorado hasn't been that good for a while.
The Stars have one more win, but lose out on the tiebreaker because two of their wins were in shootouts. They've also scored 20 goals. Nashville has better defense, but two OT home losses. Plus, those two shootout wins means Dallas is better early on in close games.
Aside from Nashville, Toronto is the only team yet to lose in regulation. It makes you wonder whether Toronto is happy they gave away Seguin for Kessel. Carolina has only played one game at home so far, but at 2-3 on the road, Toronto has got to be liking their chances.
One more win, assuming it's not in a shootout, will make Boston a better team than Tampa, but #4 because of Toronto. Boston's defense has been great again, giving up seven goals, though five of those are Tuukka Rask's fault. The best defense in the league, behind only Florida, should have no problem with this one. It's a good thing Tim Thomas realized not trying gets you booted from the starting job.
Who saw the Islanders coming? Montreal has won their last two, and has a decent defense, but without Halak? The Islanders are another one of those teams with 20 goals, and that's what they've been using to win. For the Canadiens to make the upset, Carey Price will need to step up to a level he hasn't done so far.
At 2-3 at home, Pittsburgh was out of the playoff picture not too long ago. They do have 23 goals, behind only Chicago's 25, but the Caps have Ovechkin, and home rink advantage. Pittsburgh will need that unbeaten road mojo going for them to have a shot this time around.
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Could you put some links in here so I can check out the teams?
I'd like to keep up with hockey by following this blog series.
Not a bad idea, I'll keep that in mind for future reference.


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Chapter Four
Marketing Your First eBook with No Budget
Using Fingertip Marketing to Sell Your Books
Q: What is Fingertip Marketing?
A: Fingertip Marketing is defined as, any marketing that adheres to the following two
1. It is free of charge.
2. It includes no verbal sales pitch to anyone.
You communicate through your computer keyboard using your fingertips.
In this chapter and on my new website, eBook-marketing.com you will find many
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Q: How did you come up with Fingertip Marketing as an effective way to sell eBooks?
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I actually believed that I would be in a universal listing that bookstore managers and
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Boy, was I stupid!
The truth is that the author must do all of the marketing of his/her book.
There is no universal listing that will get libraries and bookstores to order your books.
You have to become a "salesperson."
Most authors that I have met are not salespeople. In fact many authors I meet despise
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Ronald C. Moe, a political scientist who specialized in analyzing U.S. government organization and management for the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress, died May 10 at his home in Washington of an apparent heart attack. He was 73.
Dr. Moe joined the CRS as a policy analyst in 1973 and served for nearly three decades, providing nonpartisan research and analysis to members of Congress and various congressional committees. Before his retirement in 2002, he produced more than 200 CRS reports and confidential memoranda for senators and representatives.
In addition to his federal government career, Dr. Moe taught at George Washington and American universities and lectured occasionally at Princeton University and the University of Virginia. At the time of his death, he was a teaching fellow at the Center for the Study of American Government at Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Moe edited several books, contributed regularly to scholarly journals and wrote two published books, "Administrative Renewal: Reorganization Commissions in the 20th Century" (2003) and "The Hoover Commissions Revisited" (1982). He also was the author of a forthcoming study of the event that set the stage for the Russian Revolution of 1917, "Prelude to the Revolution: The Murder of Rasputin."
Ronald Chesney Moe was born in San Diego and grew up in Southern California. He was a 1959 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of what is now Claremont McKenna College.
Dr. Moe received a master's degree in public law and government from Columbia University in 1962. After serving in the Army as an intelligence officer for several years, he returned to Columbia and received a doctorate in public law and government in 1968.
Dr. Moe began his career teaching political science at San Diego State University and then moved to Washington in 1970 to work as a policy adviser at the Office of Economic Opportunity.
He was a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and a member of numerous professional organizations. His other memberships included the Cosmos Club in Washington.
His marriage to Carolyn Carr ended in divorce. Survivors include his wife of 35 years, Grace Tyler Moe of Washington; two children from his first marriage, Steven Moe of San Diego and Cynthia D'Errico of Hampton, N.J.; a sister; and two grandchildren.
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Cruised around Alamo Square, walked through Chinatown and did the whole photo shoot thing in Lombard Street.
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About a half hour before he signed his national letter of intent Wednesday morning, Silverado defensive end Keenan Graham was asked by a school receptionist what program he chose.
"A college," Graham said, laughing.
That was the kind of uncertainty that shrouded recruiting of Graham, who decided on UCLA over Utah on Sunday but was yet to publicly confirm his choice. He even brought letters from both schools to the Skyhawks' on-campus ceremony.
But after donning a Bruins cap with a broad grin, Graham left no doubt, and the Utah letter never left its envelope.
"It was very close," said Graham, who has lived previously in Utah. "Utah didn't make it easy, and I definitely at one point was going to go to Utah.
"But I had to look at it all over again. Talking with coach (Rick) Neuheisel and all the UCLA coaches, I felt like UCLA is the best place for me."
The 6-foot-3-inch, 220-pound Graham rang up 24 sacks the past two seasons. Rivals.com ranks him as the No. 2 overall prospect in Nevada and the nation's No. 14 defensive end.
Graham originally gave an oral commitment to UCLA in November but began considering Utah after officially visiting the Utes in January.
He exhausted all five of his visits, also taking trips to Nebraska, Wisconsin and Colorado.
Graham is convinced UCLA can rise quickly in the Pac-10.
"The biggest thing I'm looking forward to is competing for a conference championship," he said. "In the future, UCLA's going to be up there with USC. I truly believe that."
The Silverado ceremony also was attended by defensive back Michael Wadsworth, who signed with Hawaii.
After the suspense with Graham, signing day went according to the script in Southern Nevada.
Palo Verde was the only school to have multiple players sign with Bowl Championship Series conference programs.
The Panthers hosted an on-campus ceremony to honor cornerback Torin Harris (Southern California), linebacker Liloa Nobriga (Colorado) and cornerback Sidney Hodge (UNLV).
"One second after the state (title) game, I started missing them already," said Palo Verde coach Darwin Rost, whose team was 14-0 before a 13-12 loss to McQueen in the Class 4A final.
Harris hopes the Panthers were part of Las Vegas becoming a hot spot for talent.
Fifteen local players have signed with Football Bowl Subdivision schools, and more could be added to the list by the April 1 deadline.
"It's just a landmark for our school to show that we produce athletes, and the same for Las Vegas," Harris said.
Bishop Gorman defensive end Justin Chaisson (Oklahoma) led a contingent of five Gaels to sign, including an area-high four FBS recruits.
He was joined in an on-campus ceremony by defensive backs Charles Childers (UNLV) and John Therrell (UNLV), offensive lineman Sam Womack (Navy) and linebacker Sam Aigbe (Southern Utah).
"It's awesome," Chaisson said. "It shows what kind of program we have here at Bishop Gorman."
Cheyenne hosted a ceremony at a pizza parlor Tuesday night to honor linebacker Damien Proby (Northwestern), defensive tackle Jeremiah Tofaeono (Utah) and slot back Marcus Sullivan (UNLV).
Proby was one of the final players to publicly announce his decision. He had at least seven FBS offers but visited only Northwestern. The runner-up was Oregon State.
"I looked at the academics and the sport," he said of Northwestern. "They're in the Big 10. That's good football, no matter where you play."
Though the recruiting process can be cutthroat, it also provided a chance for longtime friends Proby and Tofaeono to have a little fun.
"We always talk a friendly competition, 'When we play you,' and different scenarios that could happen in bowl games," Proby said. "I've known Jeremiah since sixth grade, so we're real close friends."


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Last night was the 30th anniversary of 75 year old Luke Appling hitting a home run off Warren Spahn in the 1982 Cracker Jack Old Timer's Baseball game.
Appling, a Hall of Fame shortstop with the Chicago White Sox, was never a power hitter and the left field stands were in football configuration, but the homer was one of the great moments in RFK Stadium history.
Old Dog With New Tricks – Sports Illustrated
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The number of Pennsylvania residents undergoing total joint replacement of knees, hips or shoulders increased significantly between 2006 and 2010, according to a recent report released by the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4). Mount Nittany Medical Center is following the national and statewide trends in the significant increase of joint replacement surgery in 2010.
"Mount Nittany Medical Center is a recipient of HealthGrades® Joint Replacement Excellence Award™ for the fourth consecutive year, which allows patients to see how healthcare facilities compare and underlines the exceptional care the Mount Nittany Health provides," said Linda Kuhlman, RN, MSN, vice president of professional and clinical services, Mount Nittany Medical Center.
During the five-year period covered in Orthopedic Surgery in Pennsylvania, 2010, hospitalizations rose 16.1 percent for total knee replacement, 22.2 percent for total hip replacement, and 100 percent for total shoulder replacement.
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- - RickD - N0NJY - Hiya (Ham Radio Operator) (http://www.sailnet.com/forums/introduce-yourself/48211-rickd-n0njy-hiya-ham-radio-operator.html)
RickD - N0NJY - Hiya (Ham Radio Operator)
My name is Rick Donaldson.
Call sign is N0NJY (that's a Zero there) and I'm an Amateur Extra Class License holder (ham radio operator).
I wandered in since I was invited over from another site.
Wife and I are new to sailing - and are in the process of purchasing a used boat, a Venture 25.
The boat is not-yet-named, but will be this spring in an "official" (read: Traditional) ceremony. We live in Land-Locked Colorado Springs and hope to be out on the ocean within 3-4 years (not with the boat we're buying).
This boat is our "learning boat". We'll be attending some ASA basic courses this spring, sailing around the same time and naming the boat right after we put her in the water again.
I'm here for advice, information and education.
I'm also here to help you folks.
I have over 40 years of experience in HF radio systems (as well as VHF, UHF and many other systems). I was in the Air Force for twenty-six years, retired in 2002 officially. I was in the active side for 14 years - during which I served in Combat Communications for five years and the White House Communications Agency for eight years providing Presidential Communications for Presidents Reagan, Bush and former Presidents Nixon, Ford, and Carter and several of the First Ladies. I've traveled all over the world - 45 countries now, almost every state in the US and about 300 major cities world-wide.
My last twelve years of military service were in the USAF Reserves and they shared me with a local college where I taught basic and advanced electronic theory, as well as digital theory.
I am currently working at a military installation somewhere near Colorado Springs on electronic systems.
Since I am relatively useless at the moment as a sailor but will have a boat by Saturday this week, I am offering my help in electronics, and in particular radio and antenna theory and with problems.
I have some experience with packet radio and will be looking into things like "Sailmail" and similar systems, and I've got some experience with many different types of computer operating systems.
Currently I have access to, and use, XP Pro, Vista, and use or have used Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS).
My wife is JoAnne and she may or may not join me here from time to time.
We started a blog recently which is about our dream to sail and cruise. That blog can be found at: Our Boat | Winds of Change
I have a "political blog" (of sorts) located at: Reality Check
A site I assist in administering is located at: The Trans-Asian Axis
(No I'm not advertising anything, those are simply places you can read about things I do or have done).
Last year my wife and I took radio gear to Jamaica for an unsuccessful "DXpedition" (that's where we set up in a foreign location and have local call signs, and attempt to make as many contacts with other hams around the world as possible). The "DXpedition" failed because the TSA folks managed to break my transmitter enroute and I didn't have the proper tools available to repair the radio system.
I look forward to doing my best to help folks with radio issues - and to learn from you folks as well.
Feel free to contact or PM me any time.
Rick Donaldson, CET, NØNJY
It's better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for who you're not.
Hey Rick...welcome aboard. Try off topic for the political stuff. I think you'll like OUR presidential poll results! :D
Thanks for the good introduction!
Thanks for the invite.
I've been in emails working out the final details of buying our boat.
Should be headed over to get it Saturday if the weather holds out.
We have to pick it up on the other side of the Great Divide.... 12000 feet above sea level... The current owner has agreed to move it to THIS side and I'll pick it up about 2/3 of the way there (185 miles away).
Almost have our first boat.
N0NJY de KB3HOZ. I'm a new sailor as well, and also an amateur radio operator (currently general, studying for extra). My wife and I are working on buying our first boat, too, and I'm excited to spend some time building and installing some radio equipment on it. I spend most of my time now playing with electronics and APRS gear. I think you'll find this forum full of all sorts of useful information--I know that it has been a great resource for me in just a few months of reading. Maybe I'll catch you on the maritime net someday.
I'm going to put a 2m rig in, and probably set up for HF only "because" but this is a "practice boat" for us.
See you on the air.
Hey, always room for another ham! And you can catch me when I'm on the boat which right now is my only ham shack.
Wife's call is KB0IRW - She's currently a tech (she JUST upgraded a few months back from Novice :))
Just one more test to make general! It is easy now that they did away with the CW test. I'm usually on 20 meters, but I'm normally only on the air Wednesday evenings and some weekend nights. Out here on the West Coast, 40 meters gets blasted with shortwave stations from the Far East most evenings.
Im on 20 meters right now. But, I see you're not connected to the site...
I'm listening to someone running a pile up on 14.167 at the moment.
Haven't caught his call yet. PJ2 portable QX not catching his actual call right now. Oh well.
Some island someplace though!
Darn it! Work gets in the way again. Some day I'lll have to do something about it, but it sure gets in the way of a lot of fun at times.
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10 hotels in and around Masku. (view map)
Martinkatu 6, Raisio, 21200 Map Save
6.14 miles from Masku
Situated in central Raisio, a 10-minute drive from Turku, this hotel provides free Wi-Fi and sauna access and free private parking. Mylly Shopping Centre is less than 10 minutes' drive away. More
Matkailijantie 2, Naantali, 21100 Map Save
6.77 miles from Masku
Naantali Spa Hotel is situated by the waterfront in the Finnish Archipelago, less than 1 km from Naantali town centre. It offers free Wi-Fi and a variety of spa treatments. More
Opintie 3, Naantali, 21100 Map Save
6.92 miles from Masku
This property is 300 metres from the popular Naantali Spa and a 20-minute drive from Turku. It offers communal kitchen facilities, a guest lounge and free parking. More
Sukkakuja 3, Naantali, 21100 Map Save
6.98 miles from Masku
Located just 1.7 km from the Moomin World Adventure Park and 800 metres from Naantali Old Town, is Villa Sukka, offering convenient accommodation with free parking and WiFi. More
Luostarinkatu 12, Naantali, 21100 Map Save
7.23 miles from Masku
Set in Naantali's Old Town, Hotel Palo offers free Wi-Fi and rooms with old-fashioned style décor. Moominworld Theme Park is within 10 minutes' walk. More
Nunnakatu 5, Naantali, 21100 Map Save
7.26 miles from Masku
Set by Naantali Harbour in the Archipelago Sea, this family-run hotel is 10 minutes' drive from Kultaranta Castle. Flat-screen TVs, kitchenettes and sea views are standard room features. Wi-Fi is free. More
Kaivokatu 18, Naantali, 21100 Map Save
7.35 miles from Masku
This historic inn, dating back to 1880, is located in the centre of Naantali old town, about 10 minutes' walk from Moomin World Theme Park. It offers free WiFi. More
Mannerheiminkatu 16, Naantali, 21100 Map Save
7.39 miles from Masku
Set in Naantali's old town, this hotel offers free parking, free Wi-Fi and rooms with a TV and a private bathroom with shower. The Moomin Theme Park is a 5-minute walk away. More
Katinhäntä 3, Naantali, 21100 Map Save
7.41 miles from Masku
This family-run property is in Naantali's Old Town, next to the main street, Mannerheiminkatu. It offers fully equipped apartments and functional guest rooms. Turku is 16 km away. More
Rantakatu 20, Naantali, 21100 Map Save
7.46 miles from Masku
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Catholics gathered in Bangor and Brewer to witness an annual tradition this Palm Sunday.
The way of the cross procession made its way from St. Joseph Church in Brewer to St. John Church in Bangor.
The procession included prayers, readings and reenactments of the fourteen stations of the cross, as they're known in the Catholic faith.
Dozens of community members dressed in historical costumes to portray the Biblical events leading up to the crucifixion of Jesus.
"This is important because our faith is based on the crucifixion of Jesus, so to reenact the stations of the cross helps us grow spiritually and also helps us grow closer together as a community," said Timonthy Dougherty, deacon at St. Paul the Apostle parish.
"We bring Jesus to the streets, and it's a way for us to evangelize, a way for people to know Jesus that don't know Jesus. And so we bring it to the streets for everyone to see," said Jake Maltz, who was dressed as Jesus.
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Legislation to Cut Down Number of Hospital Infections
New York, NY —
New Jersey lawmakers are hoping a new healthcare regulation will reduce the number of infections patients contract in hospitals. WNYC's Fred Mogul has more. REPORTER: In American hospitals alone, healthcare settings account for an estimated 1.7 million infections and almost 100-thousand deaths each year.
REPORTER: Today, Governor Corzine signed into law requiring hospitals to implement infection prevention programs. The regulation also requires hospitals report to state health authorities cases of a particularly widespread drug-resistant virus called MRSA.
REPORTER: New Jersey becomes one of the first states to target MRSA specifically. Together with New York, it was already one of the approximately one-third of states that gather information from hospitals about infection rates generally. For WNYC, I'm Fred Mogul.


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Jersey Women Tell Thrilling Tales
Daily Home News
Miss Andrews told yesterday how they waited for the fourth lifeboat, because there was not room for the three together in the first three boats. When they got out on the water they found that their men companions, who had said they could row, had done so only for the purpose of saving themselves. Miss Longley had to take an oar with the one able bodied seaman in the boat.
In a boat alongside of them a sailor lighted a cigarette. He flung the match carelessly among the women, who screamed their protests.
?Ah, we?re all going to hell, anyway,? replied the sailor, ?and we might as well be cremated now as then.?
This is the story Mrs. Hogeboom told:
?At 11:45 Sunday night we were awakened by a terrific crash on the side of the ship where our staterooms were. I called to my sister and niece to find out what it was. In going out o [sic] the corridor we found many ice crystals, which had come in through the portholes.
?We made inquiries and the steward said, ?No danger,? and we were assured that all would be repaired in a few moments. We went back to bed without fear.
?A little after 12 we heard a commotion in the corridor and we made more inquiries, and they told us then that as a precautionary measure we had better put on life preservers. We had only five minutes to get ready. We put our fur coats on over our night dresses and rushed on deck.
?One lifeboat was already full, but there was no panic. The discipline in a was was [sic] good. No one hurried and no one crowded. We waited for the fourth boat and were slowly lowered seventy-five feet into the water. The men no effort to get into the boat. As we pulled away we saw them all standing in an unbroken line on the deck.
?There, they stood, Major Butt, Col. Astor, waving a farewell to his wife; Mr. Thayer, Mr. Case, Mr. Clarence Moore, Mr. Widener, and hundreds of other men bravely remaining on board.
?Before our boat was lowered they called to some men and said, ?Can you row? and they answered ?Yes.? But upon putting out, we found we had a Chinese and Armenian, neither of whom knew how to row. So there we were in mid-ocean with one able-bodied seaman. So my niece took one oar and assisted the seaman, and some of the other women rowed on the other side. We then pulled out about half a mile, as we feared the suction should the ship go down. We noticed then that the bow of the Titanic had settled a great deal.
?At about 2 o?clock we heard a mighty crash--the boilers had exploded and the lights went out. The ship literally broke in two, the bow end going down at once and in a few moments the whole ship had disappeared. Then we heard the most horrible shrieks and screams as more than 1,000 persons went down.
?Never in our lives can we forget this frightful scene, as we stood there in the lifeboats in midocean, surrounded by a sea of ice and icebergs. One icefield looked over a mile in length.
?Scarcely any of the lifeboats were properly manned. Two lifeboats, filled with women, capsized before our eyes, with no one to rescue them. The collapsible boats were only temporarily useful. They soon partially filled with water. In one boat eighteen or twenty people sat in water above their knees for six hours. Eight men in this boat were overcome, died and were thrown overboard. Two women were in this boat. One succumbed after a few hours and one was saved. This was only one of the hundreds of sad events. Every hour seemed like twenty-four. It was bitterly cold and we were all insufficiently protected from the weather.
?About dawn we saw a ship in the dim distance, seeming many miles away. This gave us our first hope, but at the same time the wind commenced to rise and the waves grew large. As our oarsmen and oarswomen were nearly exhausted, we did not know how long we could endure it. Had the wind increased, as it did a few hours afterward, we would never have escaped. Shortly after 8 o?clock the Carpathia reached near enough for us to row to it, we having rowed about nine miles, and being the last lifeboat to
reach the rescue ship.
?With our frozen fingers and feet it was difficult to climb up the wet, slippery rope ladder, but a rope fastened around our waist protected us from slipping into the sea.
?The kindness of the Carpathia, captain, officers and passengers to all the survivors was wonderful and was appreciated by all.?
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(1912) Jersey Women Tell Thrilling Tales Daily Home News (ref: #2309, accessed 28th May 2017 09:50:54 PM) URL : https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/jersey-women-tell-thrilling-tales.html
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Added to Encyclopedia Titanica Tuesday 3rd February 2004, last updated Monday 3rd April 2017.