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One of the city's most significant public art projects in recent years is finally complete. Janet Zweig's public artwork "Pedestrian Drama," which consists of five kiosks, each with a trio of flap signs inside, was installed on E. Wisconsin Ave. in late summer. But one of the kiosks didn't work.
That kiosk was shipped to Italy for repairs and has just been reinstalled. The other four kiosks have been functioning just fine. The cinematic sequences created by the mechanical flap signs, once common in train stations, could be enjoyed individually, but the artwork is also meant to be experienced as a whole as one walks down the street.
The little dramas come to life when pedestrians approach the kiosks.
The five kiosks, situated near Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co., feature 900 separate images, silhouetted figures. In the future, Zweig will create additional dramas, again using the help of Milwaukee-area artists, writers and filmmakers.
Zweig selected the spot because it is a gateway to some of the city's most artful attractions, including Mark Di Suvero's "The Calling," the Milwaukee Art Museum, Discovery World and the Summerfest grounds.
Zweig spent more than half of the funds from her approximately $300,000 commission here in Milwaukee, her hometown. A plaque is being installed on each kiosk to credit the participating locals. About 80% of the project was funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation as part of the Wisconsin Ave. corridor project. The city funded 20% of the project.
The project became briefly controversial in April of 2009 when some aldermen were unimpressed by a presentation by members of the Department of Public Works staff who shared preliminary schematic designs.
Zweig currently lives in Brooklyn. She is an award-winning artist who has been recognized for many of her public projects, such as the 1,200-foot frieze at the Prince St. subway station in New York and a system-wide interactive project for the light-rail train stations in Minneapolis, a project that also incorporated the work of more than 100 area artists.
Her works have been exhibited widely, including at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Exit Art and the Walker Art Center. She has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design and Yale University.
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This campground has extremely narrow roads and tight turns. We were able to navigate our 35' MH with a toad, but I wouldn't want to do it in a 45' one. The exterior ring road is wide enough, but if your have to go down one of the interior roads it would be very challenging if not impossible. Fortunately we were there in October with very few other people in the park, and we had our choice of sites so we picked one that was right off the main ring road and easy to access.
The campground is right off of Hwy 17, and is noisy during the day, but it seemed to quiet down at night.
The beach area is beautiful and the sunset was awesome. With no other lights around, viewing the stars at night was incredible. There is a very nice visitor center at the park with friendly staff.
If you need electrical be sure to have at least 75' of power cord as the outlets are for two sites and set between sites so a long cord is needed for most sites. - cagvc
Jul 2016 - $50.00
Beautiful place, we really liked it. Pretty pricey, but I'd still come back. We were on the last row, so Highway 17 was only 50 yards away, but the highway noise didn't bother us. The beach is very nice and clean. - Bob806
Jun 2016 - $46.00
My family loved the hiking trails and the clean site that had privacy. Not much luck on the fishing but still a blast! - K Petersen
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It was the last night they were open. No employees there and only one other rv. Sites are electric or none. Very private sites. Electric outlets in really bad places. You need an extra long cord where they are located. Pit toilets close by and another nice bathroom with showers, toilets and even a laundry. - Paige Taylor
Aug 2016 - $31.00
Very quiet in the campground, despite being near Hwy 17. Dark skies, enough to see the Milky Way. Bring flashlights. Porta Potties in electrical campsites area. Comfort Station has modern showers included in camp fee, flush toilets, and one coin operated washer/dryer set in the laundry room. Bring a long extension power cord. Dump station located near the entrance, by the gate house. Canoes are available for rent ($5.00CAD/hour) from the gate house. Change for the laundromat is also available from there. Dogs on 6' leashes are allowed, but not on beaches. Camp fee above is in USD and does not include HST or online reservation fee. - rvYoungster16
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The hostess would not give a price until we stated which club discount we were going to use. The wife felt as if she was getting taken. The site was level. The stay was pleasant. No satellite reception because of the trees. - Coy R
Aug 2016 - $44.00
No hot water in the laundry. WiFi was come and go: worked good when on. Overhanging trees on entry make for a one way road. Just hope no one is coming the other way. Very tight turns and difficult to get to dump when entering. OK when exiting.
With exchange rate: works out to about $35USD. So not bad for what you get. Yes, there is a pool and hot tub and the only park for the area. But could use some tree trimming. Trees scraped our sides and roof all night. And needs grounds updates: at least attach the screen to the laundry door. - SailorGolf
Aug 2016 - $50.00
This is a pleasant and convenient place to stay near hwy 17 and many lovely lakes, rivers and trails but important to note: this is a "campground" not a "resort". Still, the best in the area. Good variety of open and secluded sites, big rig access but some turns are tight. Quiet, friendly. Roads are gravel. Pool, washrooms and showers are older in style - concrete & wood- but mostly clean. Wifi not bad. Water pressure good. Could use some updating. - sue123


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Located in Roswell, Holiday Inn Atlanta/Roswell is convenient to Sky Zone Indoor Trampoline Park and Archibald Smith Plantation Home. This hotel is within close proximity of Andretti Indoor Karting and Games and A Southern Trilogy.
Make yourself at home in one of the 102 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wired and wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and satellite programming provides entertainment. Conveniences include safes and desks, and you can also request cribs/infant beds (surcharge).
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Featured amenities include complimentary high-speed (wired) Internet access, a 24-hour business center, and dry cleaning/laundry services. Planning an event in Roswell? This hotel has facilities measuring 4100 square feet (369 square meters), including a meeting room. Free self parking is available onsite.
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For over a year, we, the citizenry of the world, had been watching the clock tick down. For over a year, we had been reluctantly ripping the days of the calendar away. And now the pages are no more and the ticks and the tocks of the clock are down to a meager few.
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I'm generally aware of the evidence suggesting there's little point in calling timeout right before the opposing team attempts an important kick. But I hadn't seen updated figures. So, I promised to take a closer look.
Wyman was asking in relation to the Seattle Seahawks' decision to call timeout before the Atlanta Falcons' Matt Bryant attempted the winning 49-yard field-goal try in the divisional playoffs Sunday. Seattle called timeout before the attempt. The Falcons snapped the ball anyway. Bryant missed his non-counting attempt. Bryant then made the winning kick following the timeout.
The chart shows field-goal rates in the final minute of fourth quarters by distance for iced and non-iced kicks since 2001, counting playoffs. The overall percentages are the same. Iced kickers have made a higher percentage of longer-range kicks. Perhaps it's easier lining up the longer ones when given additional time. Perhaps there aren't enough attempts to make such a conclusion.
Bryant's attempt against Seattle falls into a range where the numbers suggest calling timeout might not matter much either way. Filtering just for 49-yard tries, iced kickers have made 4 of 6 since 2001, counting the one Bryant made. Non-iced kickers have made 3 of 6 from that distance. Not much to go on there.
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EUR/USD Lifts On Fed Minutes
EUR/USD Open 1.2531 High 1.2553 Low 1.2429 Close 1.2525
On Wednesday Euro/Dollar increased with almost 115 pips on FED minutes. The European currency appreciated from 1.2429 to 1.2543 yesterday, matching the positive money flow sentiment at nearly 26%, closing the day at 1.2525. This morning the Euro ascended slightly further, reashing 1.2553.
On the 1 hour chart the wide and small angle upward channel has renewed, while on the 3 hour chart wide range trading has formed. Break above the nearest resistance and today's top at 1.2553 may trigger further strengthening of the Euro. Going bellow yesterday's bottom and first support at 1.2429, however, would confirm continuation of the bearish trend, towards next objective downwards 1.2318.
Today's focus is on Germany GDP Q2, and France, Germany and EU17 PMI at 6, 7, 7:30 and 8 GMT respectively.
Quotes are moving above the 20 and 50 EMA on the 1 hour chart, indicating bullish pressure. The value of the RSI indicator is positive and calm, MACD is positive and inclining upwards, while CCI has crossed up the 100 line on the 1 hour chart, giving over all light long signals.
Technical resistance levels: 1.2553 1.2672 1.2800
Technical support levels: 1.2429 1.2318 1.2200
Yesterday we made +15 pips profit/loss on EUR/USD from the following sent to clients only signal:
5:15 GMT+1 Buy EUR/USD at 1.2463 SL 1.2437 TP 1.2513, exit sent at 9:24 GMT+1.
Total yesterday +68, as shown at http://www.zifx.com/performance.php.


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Below you will read the letter sent to the New Mexico Attorney General's office. Consumer Protection Division. Regarding the EdenPure Model 1000. Attached is pictures of the actual units in question. You won't believe your eyes. They even got Bob Villa to endorse this product as a safe inexpensive alternative to heat your home, and it's safe for pets too. See if you will let your cat or dog sit on this? Or maybe you'll let your toddler or even wife go near this! I think a class action lawsuit is in place. If your a lawyer reading this and are interested in filing a class action lawsuit against Edenpure, Biotech Research, Suarez Corporation Industries. [continued below]....
On December 12th, 2009 I "Name Removed" made contact with Biotech Research Customer Service division via telephone at 1-800-219-8458. I spoke with a woman who advised she was a Customer Service representative. During this conversation I advised her that my EdenPure Heater Model 1000 which I paid over $500.00 for, had melted again. I explained to her that the original purchase was sometime in February 2006. (Actual date by Biotechs own records is 2/24/06.) (1st Unit) I went on to explain to her that the Biotech Research Company had already made two exchanges for the same reason. In each case the EdenPure model 1000 severely melted. Each unit carries a 3yr warrantee from Manufacturers defects. The first exchange occurred on 1/22/07.(2nd Unit) The second complaint and exchange occurred on 5-11-07. (Third Unit) This was the third unit sent to me under warrantee for a total of three units. It is also the unit I am currently complaining about to Biotech Research Customer Service as the product defect was not cured since the original purchase. Enclosed are pictures of the defective merchandise. As you can see in the picture the unit is severely melted and caving in. It almost caused a fire within my home. Upon wakening the morning of 12-11-2009 I discovered the EdenPure Model 1000 severely melted and hot. I of course unplugged the unit in time to prevent a fire. My formal complaint is not only for my personal gain of my monies and return shipping, but also to advise the Consumer Protection Division of this very dangerous defect, that has affected many consumers throughout the United States, according to the many complaints by Consumers Nationwide via internet. Attached is an example of complaints found. Apparently, Biotech Research is very well aware of this dangerous defect, and yet, has failed to address it. I believe it to be in accordance of law to make known of these defects with the Underwriters Laboratory and U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Biotech Research has made it a habit of publicly advertising that their EdenPure Model 1000 will save you money and produces no side or top wall heat. They confirm this guarantee by also advertising its safe for pets, and display a picture of a cat sitting on top of their Model 1000 with a dog next to it. The pictures enclosed will without a doubt challenge such a claim. You can see that the Unit got so hot that the top and the side walls caved in as a result of melting. My unit was set to 75 degrees and is usually left on throughout the day to maintain warmth. Had this happen while I was at work, my family and I probably would not have a home to go home too. The following is a copy and paste from an actual email sent to me by one of Biotech Researchs representatives.
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Our records indicate that you have only purchased one EdenPure Heater Model 1000 on 2/24/06. Two exchanged units was sent on 1/22/07 and 5/11/07. The heater only had a three year warranty which has expired. To find a service center close to you, please refer to www.edenpureservice.com and click on the Independent Service Centers Tab and then enter your zip code.
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Kelly Fern
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Suarez Corporation Industries
7800 Whipple Ave NW
North Canton, Ohio 44767
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AS you can see by there own records the last exchange was made on 5/11/07 which carries its own 3yr warrantee due to their defects. Yet, Kelly Fern does not want to accept the simple fact that whenever merchandise is exchanged due to Manufacturers defects it carries its own warranty, which in this case is a 3yr warrantee. This in fact makes my 3yr warrantee valid through 5-11-2010. The previous Biotech representative that I spoke with on 12-12-2009 recognized that my unit was still under warrantee and offered to send me free UPS shipping labels via email to return the units. She even offered me a choice of a refund or an exchange. I told her to send me the shipping labels and I would leave a note inside the box after deciding refund or exchange. The representative agreed. However, Ms. Kelly Fern on the other hand does not recognize my rights to warrantee, and is refusing to compensate me in any way, after it was already approved by the previous representative to send the shipping labels. Since I did not receive an email from the first representative that I spoke via telephone with on 12-12-2009, I sent an email asking where my shipping labels email was to be found. This is when I received the above response from Ms. Kelly Fern. As you can see by the above-mentioned dates, the Biotech Research Model 1000 does not last more than one season without melting. At this point I am so fed up with receiving defective merchandise that I am requesting a full refund, and want the free shipping labels to return the merchandise via UPS. I am also requesting that for the best interest of Public Safety that you investigate the defect in question. If you Google Customer complaints against Biotech Research in reference to their heating products you will see what I am referring too. You will also find in your search that Biotech Research has even been categorized by former employees as a Corrupt Company with a full explanation of their company practices such as: lying to customers, too deliberate mishandling of paid merchandise.
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The salesman from Retriever Merchant Solution came in and told how he could save me money. I was with First Data, he smoothed talked me into change to Retriever. He told me one price for leasing a terminal. Which was not correct. The first month I paid more. he did not tell me that I would have to pay 79.00 anually fee and that I would have to pay 90.00in PCI fee which is to high. The fee per transaction is not what he said. He is charging me more the First Data. So I tried to call within my 30 day time period to cancel but my call was not returned until 37 days later. When the salesman did finally call back he told me that he just got the message. Then the salesman told me he was a Christian, so I did trust him. He wasnot telling me the truth about anything regarding the contract that I signed. I am very unhappy with this company. My next step is to contact my attorney.
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Retriever Merchant Solutions in Holland, IL
SUBMITTED: Thursday, September 18, 2014POSTED: Thursday, September 18, 2014
On April 3, 2014, the salesman for Retriever Merchant Solutions was at our place of business to sign the paper work with their company for credit card processing. He told us that the company would supply the credit card terminal, an Ingenico ict220, for $29 per month and 4.95 per month insurance. With tax, we are paying $36.42 per month via automatic withdraw from our bank account. No mention of a 4 year noncanellable lease contract with a 3rd party was mentioned at the time. The day we recieved the credit card terminal, 4 April 2014. I let Mr. Moreno know we received it and he said that someone from the company would call to verify that it was working properly. The company did call that day and did verify that the terminal was set up and running, but no mention of the 4 year noncancellable lease was mentioned. A couple weeks later we received a letter from Lease Finance Group, LLC (LFG) dated April 16, 2014 thanking us for leasing the credit card terminal through them and that. No one from Retriever had told us about this 3rd party leasing company so I called LFG the day we recieved the letter and questioned the "contract". They told me that it was a 4 year noncancellable lease. I tried contacting sales person via phone and email about the issue, but he never returned any phone calls or emails. I then called Retriever and talked to his supervisor and she said that the person who called to verify that the terminal was set up and running when we recieved the terminal should have went over the terminal being a 4 year noncancellable lease.I told them that no one told us that it was a 4 year noncancellable lease; the sales person didn't nor did the phone support person. She said that it should have been recorded and she would check into it. I called back numerous times to see if they found the recording but they kept telling me they were working on it. Finally they told me since it was on the contract (which Mr. Moreno did not point out unless he wrote it in after I signed) that we were stuck with it. They never produced the phone recording where the person was supposed to verify we knew it was a 4 year noncancellable contract. Then on Aug 6, 2014, Retriever withdrew $90 from our account with out prior approval. I called Retriever and questioned the withdraw and Cheryl Baker said it was for a PCI protection program. I told her that Mr. Moreno said, when we signed the contract, if we had this certian terminal that we would not be charged any kind of PCI fee. She did verify that we were PCI compliant. Again, no one told us about this fee. Through out this ordeal, I have tried to contact Mr. Moreno numerous times concerning the issue, but he fails to return calls or emails. I contacted the company and they still yet have not produced any kind of phone recording that their technician stated and verified with us about a 4 year noncancellable lease.
I then filed a complaint with the BBB and of course the BBB can't do anything after months of going back with the company. The company refuses to acklowledge that they were in the wrong. I've dealt with other merchant companies in the past and never have I experienced such fraud as this. Now even if my business doesn't make it, I am still required to pay per month for 4 years. WOW! Shame on you Retriever people!!!!!
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Whether it's navigating cold winters, camping in the mountains, or backpacking through Europe, Uncle Dan's Outfitters is for everyone. All are welcome from travelers to hikers to walkers to campers to glampers to commuters to dog walkers. From path to pub, mountain to museum, we will outfit you from everyday urban adventures to exciting excursions abroad.
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A number of media outlets today seized on comments made by Rush Limbaugh in which the king of conservative talk radio appeared to praise President Barack Obama for his leadership in the killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan on Sunday. "Rush Limbaugh: 'Thank God for President Obama,'" read a headline at Politico, which went on to report that "Limbaugh credited the president with the strategy that led to the killing of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden." In a post titled "And Hell Freezes Over," Andrew Sullivan at the Daily Beast noted Limbaugh's "going out of his way to celebrate Obama's singular role" in the bin Laden assassination. And the site Mediaite wrote that "Limbaugh opened his show today with huge praise for his President, his military, and his country. That's right, folks. America can still get along."
Well, not quite. At first listen, Limbaugh does in fact sound like he's praising Obama for being the leader who "single-handedly came up with the technique in order to pull this off." But then you remember: This is Rush Limbaugh, people. That's not praise; it's sarcasm at its very thickest. Here's the video of Limbaugh's remarks with an excerpt below it:
"You see, the military wanted to go in there and bomb as they always do. They wanted to drop missiles and drop bombs and a number of totally destructive techniques here. But President Obama, perhaps the only qualified member in the room to deal with this, insisted on the Special Forces. No one else thought of that. President Obama. Not a single intelligence adviser, not a single national security adviser, not a single military adviser came up with the idea of using SEAL Team 6 or any Special Forces."
Limbaugh's not lauding Obama's role here. He's mocking it. If you're still not convinced, listen to Limbaugh's reaction later in the day upon reading the reports citing his praise of the president, per Media Matters:
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So the weather: Gray and cool and raining. I continue to rave to anyone who's willing to listen to me what an amazing autumn I had. But I'm slowly starting to realize that I didn't actually get a free "out" from Juneau's autumn. It just came a month late. September was August. October was September. This month, this late-year month that is supposed to see a fair amount of white stuff, feels a lot like early October. I've been doing lots of drenched road riding on the Karate Monkey, a couple runs, and a few trips to the gym. On Thursday morning, I got out for a hike with my friend Sean. He wanted to take me to see his favorite place to ski, the dramatic, cliff-encircled bowl above Fish Creek. We climbed to about 2,500 feet elevation and it was still warm and still raining, hard. In November. I could almost hear his skier's heart breaking.
He'd never hiked to the bowl in its "summer" phase (as he described the route, which was still carpeted in bright green plants and moss.) He sloshed confidently across this fast-flowing creek and I followed at the same speed, forgetting what a super klutz I am compared to most people (especially skier types). I went down hard and started sliding just above this waterfall, and likely would have plummeted down it if I hadn't blindly groped at the rushing water and managed to grab a random piece of driftwood wedged between two rocks. I was elated that, while I may have poor balance, my reflexes seem good. Sean seemed to think I should be upset that I fell full-body into a creek when temperatures were in the high 30s. Given the state of the weather, I didn't think it mattered.
After the hike, despite being soaked head-to-toe-to-core, I still took Pugsley for a quick jaunt up the mountain at Eaglecrest. The snow was rain-saturated and as thick and mushy as warm oatmeal. I abandoned the quest about halfway up the hill and hiked without the bike the rest of the way to the ridge, where it was still raining. I think I could skiers' hearts breaking across Juneau. If November doesn't come soon, it's going to be a long winter.


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My boat is equipped with two deep-cycle batteries and an 11-horsepower diesel with the original alternator. I expect to run the engine only for short periods of less than 30 minutes and my loads will be limited to the autopilot, VHF, stereo, bilge pump, and basic lighting. Can you suggest a best-bet approach to battery charging?

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If the boat is tied to a dock, your best bet is an AC battery charger. For a little over $100 at a discount price, you can buy a three-stage charger that will take good care of flooded batteries. If you have gel cells, expect to spend $250 or more.

If the boat is on a mooring in a sunny environment, a small solar panel is the way to go. The output of the panel should be around 0.3 percent of total battery capacity, perhaps a bit higher if your climate is less sunny. In your case, that works out to around 0.6 amps, or about what you would expect from a 10-watt panel. That will feed about 20 amp-hours into your batteries per weekless when it is cloudy. If that doesn't meet your demands, you can go up to a 20-watt panel (or two 10s) without significant risk of overcharging.

The alternator on your engine will not keep your batteries up with 30 minutes of running time a week, no matter what its rating, and putting a bigger alternator on an 11-horsepower engine is probably not a good idea. Either the panels or the charger will be the least costly, least complicated, and most effective approach for your boat-use pattern. Good luck to you.

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Located in the western region, characterized by extensive grounds vineyards and hills crowned with windmills, very close to the Atlantic coast with a unique natural beauty beaches. This cottage looks at a huge valley with a view punctuated by the Serra do Socorro far (one of the signaling stations Wellington general during the Peninsular War). It was built in the century. XIX and after careful renovation has become an ideal place for holiday in the central village of Sobral. This house is ideally situated for all those interested in the Peninsular War given the proximity of the Torres Lines (bastion of the defensive system during French invasion at the beginning of the century. XIX) and General Wellington and Beresford barracks. The Santo Quintino Church is also a local attraction (with century tiles. XVII and XVIII). You can walk, ride a bike, ride a horse, visit the beaches, go to the island Berlengas (appropriate location for diving), golf, water sports, go to the convent of Mafra, Óbidos, Caldas da Rainha and to follow harvest during the month of September. You can enjoy all the amenities offered by this house including two bedrooms for four people + an extra room for about two children, a living room, kitchen, a bathroom, pool, garden and the village center near where you can visit the traditional shopping and sightseeing.
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This Family Countryhouse dates back to 19th century - a vast mansion and farmhouse has now, after careful and detailed renovation, Become an ideal spot to relax and enjoy your holidays at its best just in the central village of Sobral.
This house is ideally situated for all Those interested in the Peninsular War. The Great Redoubt at Sobral, Wellington and Beresford's headquarters are minutes away.
Also at short distance you can find the Alqueidão Fortress, center of the famous Torres Lines (Vedras) and bastion of the defensive system During the French invasions at the beginning of the 19th century and from the 16th century the church of Santo Quintino (where the abundance of 17th and 18th centuries 'tiles' (tiles) deserves your attention).
In the center of the Western region - region of extensive vineyards and hills crowned with windmills, very close to the coast with its long beautiful beaches - the house looks onto a breathtaking valley, with a view to the Serra do Socorro (Socorro Mountain) Wellington's main signaling station.
In addition to walks, cycling, or horse riding in the surrounding countryside, you can go to the beaches along the west coast or to the Berlengas Islands (Berlengas Islands) - Natural Maritime Reserve of rare beauty. You can practice nautical sports on the Obidos Lagoon (Obidos Lagoon), visit the fortresses, go to the convent of Mafra, Peniche, Obidos, Caldas da Rainha, you can even watch the work going on in the fields, Especially the wine growing and join in the harvest parties. Countryside family house is constituted by 2 bedrooms for 4 adults plus one bedroom for 2 children, one large bathroom, one living room, kitchen, pool and gardens,
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Ce Country House familiale du 19siècle date - un vaste manoir ferme et qui est après rénovation minutieuse devenu un endroit idéal pour se détendre profiter et au mieux vos vacances, dans le village center Sobral.
Cette maison est située idéalement, pour tous ceux qui s'intéressent à la guerre péninsulaire: la grande redoute to Sobral, Wellington et le siège de Beresford sont to quelques minutes.
Également the courte distance, trouverez vous la Forteresse Alqueidão, center de la célèbre Linhes Torres (Torres Vedras) et bastion du système défensif pendant les Invasions françaises du début du 19ème siècle. Vous aussi trouverez l'église Santo Quintino datée du 16ème siècle, unique dans l'art des tiles (carreaux) des 17ème et 18ème siècles'.
Dans le center de la région de l'Ouest - région de vignobles vastes et collines couronnées of moulins à vent, très proche de la cote avec ses longues et belles plages - la maison donne sur une vallée the couper le souffle, avec une vue sur le Mont Socorro, principale signalisation post of Wellington.
En plus des promenades, le vélo ou l'équitation dans la campagne environnante, vous pouvez aller sur les plages le long de la côte ouest or l'Berlengas Islands (Berlengas) - une réserve naturelle maritime d'une beauté rare. Vous pouvez pratiquer des sports nautiques sur la Obidos Lagoon, visitez les forteresses, allez dans le Couvent de Mafra, Peniche, Obidos, Caldas da Rainha. Vous aurez l'opportunité of suivre le travail de la viticulture et participer the des parties de récolte.
My name is Madalena and I'm your host together with my parents during your holidays at our countryside house.
Portugal is a beautiful country to visit and explore and we will be more than glad to welcome you and share our culture and places.
Madalena purchased this cottage in 1920
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Thomas Davis is one of the leading contenders for Sports Illustrated's 2015 Sportsman of the Year. You can see the full list and the entire series of essays that make the argument for each candidate here.
I remember meeting Thomas Davis at the Panthers facility when I arrived in 2011. I had known about him for some time and admired his athleticism. Thomas made a point to come by right away, and his enthusiasm was contagious. He was anxious to get the taste of a bad season out of his mouth—the team went 2-14 before I got there—and he just wanted to get past that. Listening to him talk about wanting to become a better football player and wanting us to become a better football team was inspiring.
Now that I know Thomas well, one of the best ways I can think of to describe him is "high character." Here is a young man that gives back to the community constantly. He's so caring about those types of things. But he's also a tremendous player having a tremendous season, a tremendous teammate, and just a tremendous young man who really truly believes what he preaches.
The other reason I say "high character" is because Thomas is a young man who's come back from three ACL tears and along the way he's never stood back and said "woe is me" or asked "why me?" He's just put his nose to the grindstone and pushed and fought to get back to where he is today.
Thomas's leadership transcends his on-field performance. He's an ideal example to the young guys, showing them that you can succeed in light of your circumstances. He shows young men how to be a person of high character.
I thought the speech he gave earlier this year at the NFL Honors when he was named Walter Payton Man of the Year was unbelievable in terms of imploring players to do things the right way, to set the right example. It speaks so much to his character. What he's gone through in terms of getting back as well as his personal struggles in growing up have made him the special person he is today.
People don't understand when Thomas was a kid, just eight, nine, 10 years old and didn't get a Christmas present because his mom couldn't afford it, he strove to have a better life. And now he says, I'm going to make sure every kid has a Christmas present, every kid I can touch will have a Christmas present. That's who he is as a man.
The year Thomas is having means so much to me. This goes back to him being a guy who wanted to give it another shot after his third ACL surgery. The story goes that when he wanted to come back the team was very concerned because it was his third knee operation, and on the same knee. Thomas asked for a meeting between the owner and I and him. So we sat down with Mr. Richardson and talked about it. Mr. Richardson looked at me and said, "Coach, what do you think?" and I said, "You know, Mr. Richardson, Thomas does things that I can't coach. He has that kind of ability. If he can come back and be that player that he was, I'd love to have him keep playing." Thomas said, "I can do it. Coach, I'll make it back." Just the way he said it, with the resolve in the way he said it, I knew he was either going to make it all the way back or he was going to give 100% and it would be his best effort.
There is sense of pride in how he's playing as well as he is. I'm not responsible for it, I'm just proud. Here's a guy that I know what he's gone through and I know what it took to get back to where he is today. I'm so happy for him.
Thomas Davis epitomizes what a world-class athlete is on and off the field. He's a tremendous athlete but he's a much better man. If you look at on that scale, he deserves to be SI's 2015 Sportsman of the Year.


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A warlock with a daughter? Now there's something you don't see everyday. Then again, I've only met one warlock in my life, even though, seeing was hard to believe. You know that phrase seeing is believing? Well I doubted his powers until I saw what he could do. I clearly haven't been here long enough to see every weird thing, creature or person that roams the halls. I'm sure there are some that think I'm weird enough, including the talking cat, but it's not all me, unforunately. Hint hint. *cough*demonghost*cough*
I'm a little confused. Another plane? Where the hell did Jerry and Alex send me? Is there a map to this town? Is it even a town. They just dropped me outside of this building, that I assume was an apartment building, and blindfolded me the whole way here. Where am I? What world is this? Am I going insane? Are there padded rooms here? Does demon ghost have something to do with this? Can we even go outside? Are you all even real? Am I real? What the hell is going on?
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Positioned at the center of each village, a colorfully painted mosque awaits the villagers for their daily prayers. A water well, usually a shallow bore well, completes every mosque as it is custom to clean one's hands and face before entering to pray.
While the purpose of the well is to provide water for this act of worship, like many other faith based institutions who offer services or food to the needy, the mosque's water is available to the villagers for far more than the washing of hands and faces. In the peri-urban and rural communities surrounding Tangerang, Indonesia women described how before getting access to safe water through Water.org, nearby rivers or mosque wells were the only sources of water available to them.
Realizing this is the common scenario among the communities served by Water.org, Sa'arah's story begins precisely in this way. Sa'arah lives in a village called Mataram. Here Sa'arah and her husband have raised their daughter who is married now, with a baby boy. They all live together in Sa'arah's home. Rarely did the family have adequate access to water. After Sa'arah's husband would leave to farm in the fields, Sa'arah and her daughter retrieved water from the mosque well, but it was never enough to cover their needs. To supplement what they needed, Sa'arah would put buckets, pots and pans around her porch to hopefully catch some of the rain when it fell. This system was frustrating and unreliable.
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When asked to describe her life now, Sa'arah cheerfully replied, "We have enough water now. I don't have to wake up during the night, or suffer carrying water. It was so heavy. I am pleased."
This mosque in Mataram was once Sa'arah's main source of water.
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A high residue diet is a diet high in dietary fiber, which aids in normal bowel movement.[1]
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Nevertheless, the pity of it is that when the Sainsbury Wing was built 10 years ago specifically to rehouse the gallery's early Renaissance paintings, the architects did not do what any ingenious Renaissance architect might well have done and allude to the source of the money that was paying for it. With the Sainsburys there was such scope for affectionate architectural allusion to the grocer's trade, for piles of Cheddar cheeses serving as rusticated columns, for sheeps' heads as corbels and pigs' heads as drain hoppers, for loops of sausages as handrails and paired lamb chops for door handles, for stylised sides of bacon elongated into applied pilasters, but, alas, of these there is not one.
The building is not without its little jokes, but they are those of the American architects, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, and they are jokes for other architects, not us, dependent on the maladroit abuse of the ancestral language of architectural detail. They did everything they could to ensure that their columns, pilasters, cornices and string courses were out of scale, had evidently no structural function to perform and need not be there at all, and thus need neither be proportionate nor begin or end in even a remotely logical relationship with the walls, ceilings or entrances of which they appear to be a part - they are mere decoration and wholly whimsical.
"We wanted to make those mistakes," said Venturi when critics expressed mild irritation with their obvious puerility; they are "a Renaissance conceit", claimed Denise Scott Brown, seeing herself as the inheritor of the dropped keystone and other little jokes that became the common usage of the mature Renaissance architect, forgetting that in the 16th century buildings were built, not by the bone and skin methods of today, but stone upon stone, and jokes had always to be structurally functional.
Ten years on, Venturi's mistakes and conceits have worn very thin indeed, his clever clowning as tiresome as a repeated pun and as aggressively noticeable. His wing, much praised by a lone American critic as a distinguished building of "comic irony ... artful homage... (and) one of the best museum-going experiences anywhere", has, after the traipsing through it of at least 25 million visitors, required some refurbishment, but with painted walls refreshed the deliberate mistakes seem renewed in vigour and assertiveness, particularly where those in travertine marble have been ineradicably stained by the sweat of so many passing palms.
What should be a long vista of fine Renaissance arches, at once austere, awe-inspiring and uplifting, an essential mechanism in the business of separating the visitor from the bustle of the entrance hall and the effortful clamber up the stairs, translating him from Trafalgar Square to the calm of the Florentine cloister of six centuries ago, is spoiled by the graceless ugliness of Venturi's frankly rotten eye for detail and proportion.
Neil MacGregor, director of the gallery, of whom only one curmudgeon ever speaks ill, has argued recently that these are "the best possible galleries for the display of early Renaissance paintings". He may well be being diplomatic. When he goes further and claims that they are "probably the only place in the world where the visitor can walk through the revolutionary achievements of the whole of western European painting from 1250 to 1500", he claims too much.
The National Gallery is one of the smallest of such galleries; it has an almost random-selection of Italian and Netherlandish pictures that, even with a significant number of indisputable masterpieces among them, give only fractured and erratic insights into the two most important Renaissance schools of painting; it has very few German pictures of the period - no Durer, for example, though the Virgin with the Iris, surprising in red instead of blue, is now again believed to have come from Durer's workshop rather than that of some later pasticheur; it has nothing of the astonishing French Renaissance, nor of the Swiss, Polish-and Bohemian reflections of Renaissance painting; it has only one Spanish painting of the period. With such lacunae it is frankly absurd to assert that the National Gallery can acquaint its visitors with every revolutionary achievement of the early Renaissance; not even if the Royal Collection were united with it (when the revolution comes) would that claim be legitimate, and its illegitimacy is, in the revised hanging that accompanies the refurbishment of the Sainsbury Wing, more evident than ever.
One picture that has not been moved is Jan van Eyck's portrait of the lugubrious Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife. Ever since the Sainsbury Wing was opened this has hung in the windowless and misshapen room at its stunted south-east corner, in light so dim that it is virtually impossible to see the painting's wonderful colour or discern its immaculately precise detail. It is a picture that invites the curious to pry into the depths of its steep perspective and examine the oriental rug, the convex mirror, the chandelier and the flamboyant signature "Jan van Eyck was hereî; we need to peer at the pet dog, the discarded shoes, the hangings of the bed, the nail heads in the shutters and the gaps through which we glimpse a sunlit garden, but are frustrated by the gloom of the wretched, ugly little chamber to which this engrossing and mysterious masterpiece has been consigned. It deserves better than this broom cupboard.
The huge altarpiece of St Sebastian by the brothers Antonio and Piero Pollaiuolo has fared rather better. Formerly on a flank wall and impossible to see from a suitable distance, this flawed masterpiece, just short of 10ft tall, is now to be seen from north to south the length of the whole wing, through an imposing enfilade of galleries that compels the visitor towards it. The brothers maintained one of the most important workshops in Renaissance Florence, producing sculpture as well as painting - as is evident from the rounded, sculptural quality of the vigorous figures in this altarpiece, finished in 1475. The powerful muscularity of the archers, contrapuntal in arrangement, was immediately admired and the extraordinary realism and aerial perspective of the expansive river landscape in the distance was at once adopted by the young Leonardo da Vinci.
Scrupulous scrutiny of the male figure, both nude and clothed, is at the core of this picture, but the pyramid that binds the archers and the saint into a surface pattern is not supported in depth by perspective or a single viewpoint. It is as though the four archers at the base, the pair in the centre, and the saint at the top of the composition were painted separately and then pieced together, all the figures to be viewed from more or less the level of their heads. There is no satisfactory single viewpoint for this picture unless the spectator's eye is on the same level as St Sebastian's, looking down upon the archers - then, and only then, does the figure composition tie together in a single unit. Even so, the setting is divided into two unrelated zones of space, the act of martyrdom isolated on a rising hillock that provides an unreal stage, and a landscape that runs from too sudden a middle distance to a far horizon; again the viewpoint shifts and again this aspect of the painting is most comfortably seen as from a bird's eye view.
The present placing of the picture makes all this more apparent than it has ever been, for light is directed onto it at such an angle that it falls most harshly on the pale figure of Sebastian, flattening his form almost to silhouette, yet at the same time casts the interior of the top of the tabernacle frame into deep shadow, a most disruptive and distracting contrast in tone; the lighting is kinder further down the picture, with both its power and its leaching effect reduced. In its original position in a Florentine church the altarpiece would never have been subjected to such harsh, insensitive lighting, nor to lighting directed from above, and the gallery should have found some gentler solution; were the picture lit from below, as by candles on an altar, the leaching effect on Sebastian would be reduced. Only one thing is to be said in favour of the present arrangement - that the painter's preparatory business of incising the essentials of the composition into the gesso ground of the panel is extraordinarily clear, too much so indeed.
As for the frame, it is too tight - the picture needs more room; the panel on which it is painted has probably been trimmed all round - it is unlikely that the Pollaiuoli would have taken the head of Sebastian and the feet and elbows of the outer archers to the very limits of the panel and beyond; there is scarcely a millimetre with which to play, but even that would help relieve Sebastian's head from its conjunction with the band of shadow immediately above it. To ease the frame is not an insuperable problem.
I have to confess a lasting sense of disappointment in the Sainsbury Wing, not in the austerity of its galleries, for to have had the rich fabric wall coverings of the old building extended to the new would have been too Style Rothschild, but in the grotesquely ugly cooker-hood ceilings, ugly details, ugly proportions and, downstairs in the depths, its cramped and ugly exhibition rooms, too small by far for anything larger than mid-size, as Neil MacGregor puts it, and for which the theatre or restaurant should have been sacrificed. "There is very little here we would do differently now if we were starting again,î declares MacGregor, with what seems a measure of complacency wholly uncharacteristic.
Indeed? Perhaps the Sainsburys, a decade after the event, still demand the flattering kow-tow and the word wonderful. I would put statues of them outside the building in the roles of their patron saints, Simon sawn in two for martyrdom, John boiled in best extra virgin olive oil, and Timothy suffering adult circumcision at the hands of St Paul - now there's a thought for the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square.
The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, WC2. Daily 10am-6pm. Admission free.
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