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BABEL (Tower of)
The Tower of Babel was an immense tower that, according to the Bible, the sons of Noah wanted to raise in order to reach the heavens. God then annihilated this mad enterprise by the confusion of tongues. The word Babel or Tower of Babel has entered the language to designate either a gigantic construction, a confused mass of objects, a rash idea or enterprise, or a place where many languages are spoken, etc... ― There have been attempts to identify the Tower of Babel with different ruins, like that of Babil, north of Babylon, or that of Borsippa, to the south of Hillah, but nothing has come to confirm these conjectures. ― As it has come down to us, the legend of the Tower of Babel can be a lesson to us. It shows us that it is necessary, above all else, that the peoples regard one another fraternally. And it is less their different languages that are an obstacle to that, than the shifty diplomacies of their leaders. The peoples must learn to commune in a common ideal, that they strive to understand each other, and that they banish or punish all those who would ignite national discords. This is why an international language would be useful, and serve to suppress many misunderstandings between the peoples. (See Esperanto, Ida, International language.)
NIHILISM n. m. (from Latin nihil, nothing)
A deeply rooted and widely spread misunderstanding is closely linked to this word born, 75 years ago, in the Russian literature and passed without being translated (thanks to its Latin origin), into other languages.
In France, in Germany, in England and elsewhere, one usually understands by "nihilism" a current of ideas – or even a system – revolutionary and social politics, invented in Russia, having there (or having had) numerous organized partisans. We routinely speak of a "nihilist party" and of "the nihilists," its members. All this is false. It is time to correct that error, at least for the readers of the Anarchist Encyclopedia.
The term nihilism has been introduced into the Russian literature – and thus into the language – by the famous novelist Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883), towards the middle of the last century. In one of his novels, notably, Turgenev described in this way a current of ideas that had arisen among Russian intellectuals in the late 1850s. The word was a success and rapidly entered into circulation.
This current of ideas had above all a philosophical and moral character. Its field of influence always remained very small, having never extended beyond the intellectual stratum. Its style was always personal and peaceful, but that did not prevent it, however, from being very lively, imbued with a great breath of individual revolt and guided by a dream of happiness for all mankind. The movement it had provoked, contented itself with the literary domain and especially that of morals. But in these two areas, the movement did not shrink before the last logical conclusions, that it not only formulated, but sought to apply individually, as a rule of conduct.
Within these limits, the movement opened the way to a very progressive and independent moral and intellectual evolution: an evolution that, for example, brought the entire Russian intellectual youth to extremely advanced general concepts and resulted in, among others things, the emancipation of cultured women, of which the Russia of the late nineteenth century could rightly be proud. It is necessary to add that this current of ideas, while being strictly moral and individual, was nevertheless in itself, thanks to its largely human and emancipatory spirit, the seed of future social ideas: conceptions that succeeded it and later resulted in a vast political and social action, with which, precisely, this school of thought is confused today outside of Russia. Indirectly, "nihilism" prepared the terrain for the movements and political organizations of a markedly social and revolutionary sort, that appeared later under the influence of ideas prevalent in Europe and of external and internal events. The misunderstanding is, precisely, in that we confuse, under the name of "nihilism", the revolutionary movement later led and represented by organized groups or parties having an agenda and a purpose, with a single stream of ideas which preceded and to which alone the word "nihilism" should be attributed.
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As a philosophical and moral conception, nihilism had for bases: on the one hand, materialism, and, on the other hand, individualism, both pushed to the extremes.
Force and Matter, the famous work of Büchner (German materialist philosopher, 1824-1899) appeared in that era, was translated into Russian, lithographed clandestinely and distributed, despite the risks, with a very great success, in thousands of copies. That book became the veritable gospel of the young Russian intellectuals from then on. The works of Moleschott, Ch. Darwin and several other foreign naturalists and materialists, exercised and equally great influence. Materialism was accepted as an incontestable, absolute truth.
As materialists, the "nihilists" waged a relentless war against religion and against everything that was beyond pure, positive reason; against everything found to be outside material and immediately useful reality; against everything that belonged to the spiritual, sentimental, idealist domain. They despised beauty, the aesthetic, sentimental love, the art of dressing, of pleasing, etc ... In this vein, they went so far as to completely disown art as an expression of idealism. Their great ideologist, the brilliant publicist Pisarev (who died accidentally in his youth), launched, in one of his articles, his famous example, saying that a simple shoemaker was infinitely more to be esteemed and admired than Raphael, because the first produced material and useful objects, while the works of the second served no purpose. The same Pisarev tried desperately, in his writings, to dethrone, from the materialist and utilitarian point of view, the great poet Pushkin. "Nature is not a temple, but a laboratory, and man is there to work," said the nihilist Bazarov in the novel of Turgenev. (In speaking of a "fierce war" waged by the nihilists, we must understand by this a literary and verbal "war," and nothing more. For, as I already said, "nihilism" limited its activity to the propaganda of its ideas in a few reviews and some intellectual circles. This propaganda was already difficult enough, for it had to reckon with the tsarist censorship and police that cracked down on "foreign heresies" and every independent thought).
But the true basis of "nihilism" was a sort of characteristic individualism. Risen, first, as a normal reaction against all that, especially in Russia, crush free and individual thought, its bearer, this individualism ended by renouncing, in the name of an absolute individual liberty, all the constraints, all the shackles, obligations and traditions imposed on individuals by the family, society, customs, mores, beliefs, etc… Complete emancipation of the individual, man or woman, from all that could attack its independence or the liberty of its thought: such was the fundamental idea of "nihilism." It defended the sacred right of the individual to complete liberty, and the inviolable privacy of existence
The reader will easily understand why this current of ideas has been called "nihilism." We mean by this that the partisans of that ideology admit nothing (nihil) of that which was natural and sacred for others (family, society, religion, art, traditions, etc ... ) To the question that one posed to such a man: -- what do you accept, what do you approve of all that is around you and claims to have the right or even the obligation to exert over you some influence? – The man responded: nothing – "nihil." He was thus a "nihilist."
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Despite its essentially individual, philosophical and moral character (let us not forget that it defended individual liberty, equally, in an abstract, philosophical and moral fashion, and not against concrete political or social despotism), nihilism, as I have said, prepared the terrain for the struggle against the real and immediate obstacle, the struggle for political and social emancipation.
But it did not itself undertake that struggle. It did not even pose the question: what is to be done to genuinely liberate the individual? It remained, to the end, in the domain of purely ideological discussions and purely moral accomplishments. That other question,—which is to say, the problem of real action, of a practical struggle for emancipation,—was posed by the following generation, in the years 1870-80. It was then that the first revolutionary and socialist parties were formed in Russia. The real action commenced. But it no longer had anything in common with the old "nihilism" of the past. And the word itself remained, in the Russian language, as a purely historical terms, the trace of a movement of ideas in the years 1860-70.
The fact that those in foreign countries have the habit of understanding by "nihilism" the entire Russian revolutionary movement prior to bolshevism, and speak of a "nihilist party," is only a historical error due to the ignorance of the true history of the revolutionary movements in Russia.


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The UC has entered a 25-year power purchase agreement for the full power output, with project developer Centaurus Renewable Energy. This Five Points Solar Farm has 271,200 solar panels, covering approximately three-quarters of a square mile of fallow farmland.
Researchers from Linköping University of Sweden and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) of China have overcome this by continuous research. These two research groups will be presenting their results in the high-profile journal Advanced Materials. The efficiency of polymer solar cells with fullerenes in converting the sun's energy is approximately 11% and is considered to be good.
Solar energy remains one of the most used forms of renewable energy. However, it is generally not the only option used when creating power. This is because solar cells are limited in the amount of power created. No matter how bright the sunlight or how many hours of continual sunlight, the solar power cells create […]
As per the information by the Energy Administration, they have stated to consider in calculation the small-scale photovoltaic generation in both state and nation levels. They have placed the improvements targeting a bigger task in consideration of the number of commercial rooftop systems and small residential we have in place.
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Monday, 3rd September.
Dear Diary:
Oh. My. God.
There's like, just too much stuff to do. I can't take this anymore!
I need to remind myself to:
- Help Dad fix Lassie's kennel!
- Finish my school project on urban myths!
- Do a backflip in the hopes of impressing Kevin!
The last one wouldn't be a problem if those sleeping pills fucking worked. I've been having a few really weird dreams and stuff, and I always wake up all sweaty and EW, feeling like some creepy creep is watching me! No wonder Kevin won't want to go to prom with me, when I keep having these psycho episodes! I don't wanna end up like Helen do I? LOL! :)
Ugh I should go and do the stuff I need to do now, try and tick something off the list.
Got some artificial stuff from the chemist too, said it'd be better than the herbal sleeping shit I've been taking.
So... yeah! Wish me luck?
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Gene cassette transcription in a large integron-associated array
The integron/gene cassette system is a diverse and effective adaptive resource for prokaryotes. Short cassette arrays, with less than 10 cassettes adjacent to an integron, provide this resource through the expression of cassette-associated genes by an integron-borne promoter. However, the advantage provided by large arrays containing hundreds of cassettes is less obvious. In this work, using the 116-cassette array of
We demonstrated that the majority of the cassette-associated genes in the subject array were expressed. We further showed that cassette expression was conditional and that the conditionality varied across the array. We finally showed that this expression was mediated by a diversity of cassette-borne promoters within the array capable of responding to environmental stressors.
Widespread expression within large gene cassette arrays could provide an adaptive advantage to the host in proportion to the size of the array. Our findings explained the existence and maintenance of large cassette arrays within many prokaryotes. Further, we suggested that repeated rearrangement of cassettes containing genes and/or promoters within large arrays could result in the assembly of operon-like groups of co-expressed cassettes within an array. These findings add to our understanding of the adaptive repertoire of the integron/gene cassette system in prokaryotes and consequently, the evolutionary impact of this system.
Integrons are genetic elements capable of mobilising and rearranging genes packaged as mobile gene cassettes in a site-specific manner
An integron typically consists of a integrase gene (
Site-specific recombination catalysed by the integrase, IntI, causes gene cassettes to be inserted either at
Class 1 integrons were initially characterised through the antibiotic resistance phenotypes conferred through the expression of cassette-associated genes. The expression of these genes has been shown to be due to the integron associated Pc
Resolving the question of the expression of cassette associated genes in large arrays is important in extending our understanding of the adaptive potential of gene cassettes arrays, and by extension the way in which LGT can provide varied phenotypes in prokaryote populations. In order to investigate cassette expression in large arrays, we used
1/ Are only cassettes proximal to the integron in
2/ If cassettes throughout the
3/ Is cassette expression, if present, conditional or constitutive and does this vary across the array?
4/ If multiple promoters are present within the
Gene cassette expression
It has been shown that transcription of DNA into mRNA is the most limiting step in the expression of prokaryote genes, due to the general translation of mRNA by either the presence of Shine-Dalgarno type sequences, or through leaderless translation
The major analytical tool used in this work was a PCR that amplified a subset of all gene cassettes within a sample by using the relatively conserved areas in gene cassette-associated
Figure 1
Figure 2
A flow chart of the molecular methods used in this work
A flow chart of the molecular methods used in this work. Parallel extractions of gDNA and RNA from a single cell culture with subsequent reverse transcription of the RNA, allowed an analytical comparison to be made between the gDNA and cDNA gene cassette profiles by an
Figure 3
A flow chart of the analytical process
A flow chart of the analytical process. Individual 'size class fingerprints' were firstly, (1) calibrated to size (bp) and then, (2) Fingerprints were assessed for gDNA contamination. (3) Data were assigned to a size continuum and (4) normalised so that heights of peaks between fingerprints could be compared. (5) The variability in each size class was measured amongst replicate PCRs, to establish significance levels. (6) Amplicon peaks were correlated with expected gene cassette amplicon sizes. (7) PCR biases were corrected to allow comparison of peaks within a fingerprint and the peaks representing gene cassettes rearranged into their order within the gene cassette array.
Culture methods and stress assays
Monoclonal stocks of
Thermal stress
Individual treatment cultures were grown at 4°C, 14°C, or 28°C, in the dark, overnight with mild shaking. Care was taken to hold each culture at its growing temperature and in the dark until immediately before the lysis step in the nucleic acid extraction.
Oxidative stress, 30 minute
Individual treatment cultures were grown for 12 hours at 28°C in the dark with mild shaking and then inoculated with 3% hydrogen peroxide solution (H2O2) to give final concentrations of 0, 0.9, 1.8 and 3.6 mM H2O2 and allowed to grow for a further 30 minutes at 28°C in the dark with shaking before being harvested for nucleic acid.
Oxidative stress, 18 hour
To 5 ml liquid cultures of
RNA/DNA extraction
The SV RNA extraction kit (Promega, Wisconsin USA) was used exclusively. For RNA extraction, the manufacturer's methodology was used with the following exceptions: Dual one-hour on-column DNase digests were substituted and 0.75 ml of the final culture (OD 1.1, measured at 600 nm) was used as a sample. In parallel to RNA extraction, control DNA was recovered by using the same extraction methodology with the exception that the DNase digest was replaced with an RNase digest step.
Reverse transcription
The MMLVh-reverse transcription system (Promega, Wisconsin USA) was used according to manufacturer's specifications using YB3 primer (Table
Table 1
Promoter isolation
MazG f
Cassette 21 ORF fwd
Method validation, Promoter isolation
MazG r
Cassette 21 ORF rev
Method validation, Promoter isolation
VhC 21f
Cassette 21 ORF fwd
Promoter isolation
VhC 21r
Cassette 21 ORF rev
Promoter isolation
VhC 89f
Cassette 89 ORF fwd
Method validation
VhC 89r
Cassette 89 ORF rev
Method validation
Cassette 16 ORF fwd
Promoter isolation
Cassette 16 ORF rev
Promoter isolation
Cassette 17 ORF fwd
Promoter isolation
Cassette 17 ORF rev
Promoter isolation
Cassette 18 ORF fwd
Promoter isolation
Cassette 18 ORF rev
Promoter isolation
Cassette 19 ORF fwd
Promoter isolation
Cassette 19 ORF rev
Promoter isolation
Triplicate PCRs were performed on each extracted nucleic acid sample (cDNA/gDNA/RNA) as follows:
Per 50 μl reaction: 2.0 μl × sample DNA (i.e. cDNA/gDNA/RNA), 50 nM MgCl, 10 nM dNTP, 1.0 μl × 1 mg/ml Rnase, 50 pM YB3 primer, 50 pM YB4 primer, 0.3 μl. Red Hot Taq (Abgene, Surrey, UK), 5.0 μl × 10× PCR buffer (Abgene, Surrey, UK). Primers are detailed in Table
Thermal profile
80°C hot start, 94°C for 10 minutes initial denaturation followed by between 27 to 35 cycles of 94°C 30 sec, 55°C 30 sec, 72°C 1 min 30 sec. with terminal 72°C for 10 minutes.
Quantitative PCR (QPCR)
Quantitative PCR was performed using the Roche Light Cycler® (Roche Applied Sciences, Mannheim, Germany).
Per 10 μl reaction, using 1.0 μl × sample cDNA, 40 nM MgCl, 50 pM of each primer and 1.0 μl of SYBR GreenTm master mix (Roche Applied Science, Mannheim Germany) per reaction. Primers used are detailed in table
Thermal profile
A 10-minute initial Taq activation step at 95°C followed by 35 cycles of 15 seconds at 94°C, 15 seconds at 50°C and 30 seconds at 72°C followed by a final cool down step of 10 minutes at 20°C.
Sequencing of selected gene cassettes (cassettes 21 and 89) for method validation was conducted using manufacturers recommended protocols on an ABI 377 instrument.
High-resolution polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis
The fluorescent products of the
Routine agarose gel electrophoresis
Samples were run on 2% TAE gels run at 100 V for 1 hour. Gels were immersed in 20 μg/ml Ethidium Bromide solution for 15-20 minutes prior to visualisation with UV light at 260 nm.
Data analysis
Individual sets of size class data from high-resolution electrophoresis were initially examined for DNA contamination by the presence of amplicons in the RNA and H20 samples. Entire data sets were discarded if contamination was evident. Resulting 'clean' cDNA data were calibrated to size (bp) and then assigned to a bp size continuum in an Excel spreadsheet. The data were normalised to allow different levels of applied stressor to be compared within an experimental series. Normalisation was accomplished using the sum of all amplicon peak heights above 90 bp in size within a PCR as an inter-PCR standard. Replicates were utilised to calculate mean and standard error to establish the variability in each size class and hence significance levels for subsequent comparisons. The published sequence of the
Method validation
Because the methodology used in this work was novel, it was validated by comparison with established methods as follows:
• The identification of amplicon size classes with individual gene cassette species was confirmed by gel extraction and sequencing of individual amplicon size classes (cassettes 21 and 89). These sequences were then confirmed as being the target cassette.
• Replicate studies of each stage of the methodology showed that the PCR stage invoked the majority of the variability. Consequently, triplicate PCRs were included in the methodology to assess reproducibility and set significance levels for each cassette size class. Variability in the abundance of cassette specific amplicons averaged a 12% Standard Error (%SE). Conservatively, a value of 50%SE was then adopted as the maximal variability inherent in replicate amplification of a single amplicon. Accordingly, a significant change in expression at the 95% confidence level could be defined as an observed two-fold change in expression (i.e. 1.96 × 50% SE or a 100% change in expression, and this equates to a single standard deviation, and hence a minimum 95% confidence interval).
• Within-treatment quantitation was validated by relative QPCR of single RNA sample for cassettes 21 and 89. These cassettes were selected for their large difference in observed expression and also their wide spacing within the array. Results of the QPCR study were found to be comparable with that achieved in the methodology used, with a 95% confidence limit.
• Between-treatment quantitation was confirmed by relative QPCR of cassette 21 expression across all treatments of a single stressor, and the results found to be comparable with that achieved in the methodology used, within a the 95% confidence limit.
Promoter localisation
An intra array promoter was localised through comparison PCR results on cDNA and gDNA samples, of successive nested pairs of primers initially bracketing the target area between cassettes 16 and 21 (Figure
Figure 4
Localising a promoter amongst cassettes 16-21 of the
Localising a promoter amongst cassettes 16-21 of the
Promoter PCRs
Per 50 μl reaction: 2.0 μl × sample DNA, 50 nM MgCl, 10 nM dNTP, 1.0 μl × 1 mg/ml Rnase, 50 pM of each primer, 0.3 μl × Red Hot Taq (Abgene, Surrey, UK), 5.0 μl × 10× PCR buffer (Abgene, Surrey, UK). Primers are listed in Table
Thermal profile
80°C hot start, 94°C for 10 minutes initial denaturation then between 27 to 35 cycles of 94°C 30 sec, 55°C 30 sec, 72°C 1 min 30 sec. Followed by a terminal 72°C for 10 minutes
Promoter activity measurement by quantitative PCR (QPCR)
Quantitative PCR was performed using the Roche Light Cycler® instrumentation (Roche Applied Sciences, Mannheim, Germany).
Per 10 μl reactions using 1.0 μl × sample DNA, 40 nM MgCl, 50 pM of each primer and 1.0 μl of SYBR greenTm master mix (Roche Applied Science, Mannheim Germany) per reaction. PCRs using primer pairs YB4/mazGr were compared with mazGf/mazGr. Primers are detailed in table
Thermal profile
The temperature profile included a 10-minute initial Taq activation step at 95°C per the manufacturer's recommendations, followed by 35 cycles of 15 seconds at 94°C, 15 seconds at 50°C and 30 seconds at 72°C followed by a final cool down step of 10 minutes at 20°C. PCR products were run on a 2% TAE gel to verify the presence of amplicons of expected size and the absence of non-specific amplifications.
Results and discussion
Expression of cassette-associated genes under optimal growth conditions
Cultures grown overnight in Vibrio media at 280 C showed that the majority of detectable cassette size classes (39 of the 62) were detectably expressed. That is, copy DNA (cDNA) species, corresponding to 39 of the 62 detectable cassettes within the array were detected in the cDNA samples. These expressed cassettes were distributed along the length of the array and were interspersed with cassettes that, while detectable in gDNA, could not be detected amongst cDNA species (Figure
Figure 5
Relative expression of gene cassettes in the
Relative expression of gene cassettes in the
The technique used provided relative quantitation of expression amongst the individual gene cassettes in the DAT722 array by using the stoichiometric relationship between cassette species in gDNA as a quantitative standard. This quantitation showed at least a 100-fold difference in the intensity of expression between the most and least detectably expressed cassettes (cassettes 95 and 11 within the array respectively). Additionally, 'blocs' of adjacent expressed cassettes were expressed at similar intensities, with less than three-fold difference amongst cassettes within the bloc (for example, cassettes 31-35 in Figure
The hypothesis that the integron-associated promoter, Pc mediated expression of the entire array implies the presence of large contiguous transcripts of the array amongst cDNA species. In this work, we detected cassettes within the array whose expression was undetectable interspersed amongst detectably expressed cassettes within the array, indicating that not all of the expression seen within the array is due to Pc. The presence of additional promoters within the array was therefore implied. Additionally, the observation that different 'blocs' of similarly expressed adjacent cassettes within the array, were expressed at levels significantly different from other 'blocs' (for example, cassettes 21-23 were significantly more expressed than the bloc containing cassettes 31-35 (Figure
Conditional expression of gene cassette associated genes
We then examined the question of conditional expression of cassette-associated genes in the
Figure 6
A conditional expression map of the
A conditional expression map of the
A number of gene cassettes, detectable in gDNA were not detectably expressed under any stressor (arrowed in red in Figure
Amongst this widespread conditional expression, the following patterns were noted:
-Gene cassettes were similarly expressed within blocs. That is, within a bloc, the level of expression was largely consistent irrespective of stressor. This observation supported the suggestion that individual promoters were associated with these 'expression blocs'.
-The particular expression response to a stressor varied in both direction and extent amongst expression blocs. That is, the expression of some blocs was increased under a particular stressor whilst others blocs were not. This suggested that different types of promoter were responsible for the expression of the various blocs. For example, it was noted that cassettes 21-24 were similarly expressed under both 30-minute oxidative stress and thermal stress whilst the expression of cassettes 1-15 differed markedly under these same stressors (Figure
Figure 7
Differential gene cassette expression under different stressors
Differential gene cassette expression under different stressors. The lower panel shows the differential expression of the first 26 gene cassettes in the
Localising a promoter within the
It was expected that a possible location for an intra-array promoter would be indicated by cassettes that were not detectably expressed, as adjacent expressed cassettes necessarily required the presence of a promoter. Cassette 19 was not detectably expressed under any stressor while adjacent cassettes 18 and 21 were both strongly expressed, though under differing stressors. In order to identify the promoter in this region of the array, the 5' end of the cDNA transcript was localised through the PCR of nested primers bracketing the target area. An initial examination of the area between cassettes 16 and 21 (Figure
Figure 8
Localising the promoter at the junction cassettes 20 and 21 in the
Localising the promoter at the junction cassettes 20 and 21 in the
Comparison of
The cassette 21 promoter appeared to bridge the
Some implications of widespread gene cassette expression in large arrays
We have found, that in the
Firstly, the widespread expression of cassette-associated genes within the 116-cassette array indicated that a wide range of the phenotypes implied by cassette array was available to
Secondly, the presence of cassette-borne promoters indicates that these promoters as well as cassette-borne ORFs may be rearranged within the array by the action of the IntI integrase. Consequently, with the observation of polycistronic cDNA transcripts in this work and elsewhere
Further research
We have established here a link between environmental stress and the differential expression of cassette-associated genes. It has also been established that lateral gene transfer involving gene cassettes can rapidly and randomly produce new phenotypes in prokaryote communities
In this work, we have demonstrated that the majority of gene cassettes in large integron-associated arrays are expressed conditionally in response to environmental stressors and that this expression is facilitated by the presence of different intra-array promoters. These findings, demonstrate that large cassette arrays may produce diverse and complex phenotypes that are reactive to environmental changes, and so demonstrate an increased repertoire of the adaptive capabilities of the integron/gene cassette system.
Authors' contributions
CM conceived the work, designed and executed the experiments and analysis, and co-wrote this publication. ML contributed to the analysis and co-wrote this publication. Both authors have read and approved the final manuscript.
The authors would like to thank the following colleagues for discussions:
Y. Boucher, M. Gillings, A. Holmes, and H. Stokes.
This work was facilitated by an Australian post-graduate award to C.M. through Macquarie University.
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The condo's housekeeper/manager, Maria Luisa, will try to sort out any problem you might have. She's fluent in English and very helpful.
Warning: There is a longish slope and 35 steps up to the pool, but it can be reached by car as well.
NEWS: On November 8th the NEW PRINCESS OF GARDA, a huge complex with indoor/outdoor swimming pools, wellness and fitness center,facilities including massage and sauna rooms will be opening in Garda.
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- Apartment
- On floor 3
- 40 m²
- Elevator : two elevators in the residence
House Rules
- Max. occupancy 4
- Events Allowed
- Children Welcome
- Non Smoking Only
Accommodation Type
- Vacation Rental
- Guests Provide Their Own Meals
Onsite Services
- Concierge
- Daily Maid Service
- Housekeeper
- Staff
- Long-Term Renters Welcome
Bedrooms: 1 Bedroom, Sleeps 4, Beds for 4
Bathrooms: 1 Bathroom
Other Amenities
- The bathroom ,bedroom and kitchen linen and cleaning fees are included in the price for stay of 7 nights or more. Laundry service is available through the caretaker Maria Luisa who speaks excellent English, at the cost of 4€ /6 kg. Internet service is available on request. Wheelchair access is granted through the backdoor. Garden, deckchairs, chairs, swimming pool, washing machines, swings and cots are communal. Daily maid service is available on request and it is not included in the price....moreless
- DVD Player:
Satellite / Cable:
Three german channels (Eurosport ,ARD and ZDF) ,a English speaking channel (BBC News) and Italian digital tv channels (120)...moreless
- Television:
- Away From It All
- Family
- Holiday Resort
- Sports & Activities
- Tourist Attractions
- Autumn Foliage
- Churches
- Cinemas
- Library
- Marina
- Pond
- Recreation Center
- Restaurants
- Theme Parks
- Water Parks
- Winery Tours
- Zoo
Local Services & Businesses
- ATM/Bank
- Fitness Center
- Groceries
- Hospital
- Laundromat
- Massage Therapist
- Medical Services
Leisure Activities
- Horseback Riding
- Paddle Boating
- Scenic Drives
- Sight Seeing
- Walking
Location Type
- Mountain
- Resort
- Town
- Waterfront
Sports & Adventure Activities
- Cycling
- Fishing
- Golf
- Hiking
- Mountain Biking
- Mountain Climbing
- Mountaineering
- Paragliding
- Sailing
- Scuba Diving Or Snorkeling
- Ski Lift Privileges
- Skiing
- Swimming
- Tennis
- Water Skiing
- Wind-Surfing
- Child's Highchair
- Dining Area
- Seating for 4 people
- Activities Guide
- Air Conditioning
- Alarm Clock
- Basic Soaps
- Bottled Water
- Elevator:
- Filtered Water
- Hair Dryer
- Heating
- Internet:
- Iron & Board
- Linens Provided:
- Local Activities Guide
- Local Maps
- Local Restaurant Guide
- Parking:
- Safe
- Sofa Bed
- Sunbed
- Telephone
- Toilet Paper
- Towels Provided:
- Tumble Dryer
Washing Machine:
Laundry service available. It costs 4 Euro for each 6 kg of clothes (washed and dried)...moreless
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- 2 Ring Stove
- Coffee Maker
- Cooking Utensils
- Dishes & Utensils
- Kitchen
- Microwave
- Mini Refrigerator
- Oven
- Pantry Items
- Refrigerator
- Stove
- Toaster
- Deck / Patio
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- Lawn / Garden
Pool / Spa
- Communal Pool
- Outdoor Pool
Building Type
- Building
Car: Not Necessary
The complex, called Euroresidence, is located on the outskirts of Garda.The town, which has lent its name to the lake, is a holiday resort found on the centre stretch of the Riviera degli Olivi where lake Garda opens out after the enchanting promontory of San Vigilio and Mermaid Bay. Both are within walking distance from the Euroresidence. The lake can be easily and quickly reached via a private underpassage. At the end of it you will find a snack bar right in front of you, to the left the beach that stretches round the coastline to Punta S. Vigilio ,to your right a promenade that leads downtown Garda (5 to 10 minutes) and, if you are in the mood for a long walk ,you can continue walking, on the very same promenade, until you reach Bardolino, Cisano and Lazise (about 8 km).
A couple of mountain bikes are at your disposal.
Other Activities: canoeing
Manager info
Year Purchased: 2006
Why Corno, Garda VR, Italy:
The residence is located in an ideal position to explore Lake Garda and equiped with all that you will need for a great stay! It has beautiful views of Garda and is in a quiet location. The apartment is a 10 minute walk to Garda and a 5 minute walk to the beach. There is a swimming on site, with a good restaurant/pizzeria if you don't fancy a walk into town. Another restaurant /pizzeria is conveniently located just in front of us.
The Unique Benefits at this Apartment:
Our sunroof offers a breathtaking view of the lake and the surrounding mountain range. A convenient underpass connects our park to the lakefront promenade and to San Vigilio beach.
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One by one, Houston's Art Deco buildings and homes are disappearing almost every day. One preservation group is doing its best to make people aware of what the city is losing, in the hope of saving some of the old structures. Houston Public Radio's Jim Bell reports.
Art Deco was the architectural and interior design style popular for several decades after 1920. It was stylish and colorful, and it was the Roaring 20s' rejection of the dark pessimism of World War I, and the neoclassical emperial architecture of the 19th century. Between the world wars, countless buildings, museums, airports, apartment buildings, private homes and movie theaters were built in Art Deco style. Only one Houston theater from that period — the River Oaks — is still in use. Standing in front of the River Oaks, David Bush of the Greater Houston Preservation Alliance said Art Deco is everywhere you look in this town.
"Houston City Hall is a really good example. Joseph Finger designed that, and it's been restoered and maintained very well over the years."
The old 1940 Houston Municipal Airport terminal on Telephone Road is classic Art Deco. It sat empty and abandoned for many years, but preservationists are restoring it and turning it into a flight museum. Other examples:
"San Jacinto Monument by Alflred Finn, the biggest example probably. The Jeff Davis Hospital on Allen Parkway. Sam Houston Coliseum and the Music Hall downtown."
All those but monument are gone now. The Hobby Center and parking garage have replaced the Coliseum and the Music Hall. Bush says it's tragic but many other Art Deco buildings and homes are also disappearing fast in Houston's freewheeling rush to tear down the old and build the new, because:
"Houston's laws don't prevent the demolition of designated city landmarks. That's one of the myths where people think it's a city land mark so it won't be torn down. Or it'll be listed on the National Register of Historic places, so it won't be torn down. And that's not true. Neither one of those offer any protection from demolition."
While the GHPA and other groups campaign constantly for a preservation ordinance with real teeth, Bush and web designer Jim Parsons have created a website catalogue of Houston's Art Deco structures, those still in use, those still standing but not in use anymore, and those that are gone. Parsons says he had no idea how big a job that would be.
"At first when we were just brainstorming we thought there might have been fifty Art Deco buildings standing in the city. And, you know, we tracked down those fifty, and then as we drove around and walked around we kept noticing them popping up more and more, and now I think the website is close to 130, and that's not nearly all of them."
Parsons urges anyone who knows of an Art Deco house or building that's not on the website to let them know so it can be included. Along with the website, Bush and Parsons have produced a book about the city's Art Deco architecture, and it's due out in the fall. Take a tour of Houston's Art Deco on our website KUHF dot org. Jim Bell, Houston Public Radio News.


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Rallies have been staged in several countries to protest against claims an Armenian "genocide" was carried out in 1915 under the Ottoman Empire, SIA informs citing the Anadolu Agency.
Protests were held across nations including Turkey, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan and Australia as well as Palestine on Friday, April 24, the day on which the Armenian city of Yerevan commemorates those killed in the 1915 events.
In Kyrgyzstan, more than 100 Kyrgyz youths staged a silent walk to condemn the Armenian claims relating to the events.
Gathered at the foot of the Tian Shan mountain, they held banners with slogans including: "We condemn the Armenian genocide lie" and "O world, do not believe the Armenian genocide lie".
Ahiska Turks and Azeri Associations in Kyrgyzstan also condemned the claims at several events held around the country.


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While the trade deadlines in baseball, hockey and basketball are exciting days full of wheeling and dealing, the NFL's just isn't the same.
Maybe it's the salary-cap structure or the value of draft picks.
But movement is sparse at the NFL trade deadline, and that was again the case Thursday.
The Ravens let the deadline pass without making a move. There had been rumors that the Arizona Cardinals were interested in acquiring offensive tackle Bryant McKinnie, but nothing came of it.
Baltimore isn't without needs, especially after the slew of injuries to the defense. The team could've used help in the secondary or in the defensive front seven. The Ravens might've even benefited from an additional offensive lineman. But most teams have similar needs they didn't address.
Trading is a bit more common on draft day and in the offseason, but the 5-2 Ravens stood pat as another deadline passed.
In a completely unrelated topic, the Ravens' injury report has taken on a completely different look since the team was fined $20,000 for not including Ed Reed while he played with a torn labrum.
While the list included just a handful of players over the first seven weeks of the regular season, every member of the squad with a minor tweak or scratch appears to be on it now.
Thursday's practice report included 16 players, four of which haven't been able to practice fully:
* Defensive end Pernell McPhee (thigh) did not participate Wednesday or Thursday.
* Wideout Jacoby Jones (foot) was limited in practice both days.
* Defensive tackle Haloti Ngata (shoulder) did not participate Thursday.
* Cornerback Jimmy Smith (abs) was limited both days.
As for the ailing players who were able to fully participate both days: cornerback Chykie Brown (ankle), tight end Ed Dickson (hand), linebacker Dannell Ellerbe (hand), safety James Ihedigbo (hand), defensive tackle Ma'ake Kemoeatu (knee), McKinnie (thigh), tackle Michael Oher (ankle), tackle Kelechi Osemele (ankle), safety Bernard Pollard (chest), Reed (shoulder/chest), linebacker Terrell Suggs (ankle), and guard Marshal Yanda (shoulder).
Whew. Try reading that list in one breath. Guessing this will satisfy the league a bit more.


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U.S. Cellular was named Business of the Year at the Waukesha, Ozaukee and Washington County Workforce Development Board Annual Dinner Meeting on Oct. 8.
The award is presented yearly to a business in the three-county area that has met and exceeded the Workforce Development Board criteria in the following categories: leadership, relationship with the Workforce Development Centers, workforce development practices, community involvement, effective use of community resources, number of new hires, excellent training and innovation in hiring, training and retention.
U.S. Cellular's Customer Care Center is located in Waukesha.
The Waukesha-Ozaukee-Washington County Workforce Development Board would like to announce the re-election of the board Chair, John Heyer, President of Kettle Moraine Coatings and Vice-chair, Mary Wehrheim, President of Stanek Tool.


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"I will not drop this poor child off in a warehouse full of children like a puppy pound; we both know what becomes of the children who are left there. I will keep her at my home and take care of her until she is better and then we can figure this whole mess out. Good day," Ezra abruptly stated, making his way towards the door.
"One more thing, Mr. Olden," the witch doctor called out. Ezra stopped in his tracks and turned around.
"What now?" At this point he was so fed up with how withdrawn the women had been towards the poor child.
With a look of sheer revolt the woman revealed, "She's human."
Screaming. Screaming. Screaming.
Erin's eyes shot open and she jolted up in her bed, gasping for air. Her body shook, drenched in cold sweat, as her hands clawed at her throat in an attempt to let air in.
It was just a dream.
"I'm okay, I'm okay," she panted, closing her eyes and sucking in a deep breath. It had just been another terrifying nightmare that felt so raw it made her skin ache.
It wasn't real. She was okay.
Slowly calming her thrashing heart, she turned her head towards her crooked clock and realized with utter dread that she was late for her first day back to school.¬¬¬
With a groan, she ripped herself out of bed to quickly change in hopes she would make it to class on time.
Erin threw her exhausted body down the stairs with just enough time to grab an apple. Ezra's eyes floated up from his newspaper with concern at the sight of her dishevelled clothes and messy hair.
Raising his polished eyebrows, he took a sip of coffee before closing the paper as Erin stood there frozen, waiting for him to say something.


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Serena and Dementieva set up repeat of Wimbledon thriller
By Steve Keating
TORONTO (Reuters) - World number two Serena Williams brushed aside qualifier Lucie Safarova 6-3 6-2 on Friday to reach the semi-finals of the Toronto Cup and set up a mouth-watering clash with Elena Dementieva.
Tennis fans can expect a treat if Williams and Dementieva come close to a repeat of their memorable Wimbledon semi-final in July won 8-6 in the third set by the American before she went on to beat sister Venus in the final.
Williams needed just 57 minutes on a blustery center court to dismiss 46th-ranked Czech Safarova.
The 11-times grand slam winner has displayed impressive form on the Canadian hardcourts, surrendering no more than five games in any match.
Dementieva had to work much harder for a semi-final spot, the fourth-seeded Russian scraping a 6-7 6-1 6-3 win over feisty Australian Samantha Stosur.
"I think it will be a great match, our last match was really insane," Williams told reporters. "I love playing her, it will be good.
"I just feel like I've kind of played my way into a rhythm. I felt really good out there today, I felt like I was really consistent and moving well."
Williams needed a few games to find her range but once she did Safarova had no answers as the 2001 champion swept seven games to take the opening set and a 4-0 lead in the second. Continued...


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Rays' Hickey Says "It's A Good Race For Fifth Starter"
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Tampa Bay pitching coach Jim Hickey joined The Ron and Ian Show live from Port Charlotte Friday morning to talk about the Rays and his pitching staff.
The most asked question so far this spring has been who will fill the fifth spot in the starting rotation. It would seem the three finalists for the position are Jake Odorizzi, Cesar Ramos, and Erik Bedard.
With only 10 days until opening day, Hickey says who will land the spot is still a mystery.
"Odorizzi is right there with Ramos," Hickey said. "They both have four quality pitches. It's a good race for the fifth starter, don't ask me who wins."
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New thoughts. New goal. New year. 2013
I arrived home (Stanford) last night after spending Christmas and New Years at Genyas house (parents et al.) in NJ.
I woke today morning so excited to come to lab. There is no doubt I'm a workaholic – I've realized that much about myself. After a week of eating, watching movies and relaxing, I was roaring to get back to work.
To walk into lab. To see a full house. Everyone back at their desks. Working. Writing. Ah, this feels home.
I grabbed a cup of coffee from the pantry and started making my to-do list.
I have been thinking about my goals for this year. As I stepped on to the plane yesterday on my way back home, I passed people already occupying their seats. Some were playing Sudoku on their iPad, some were reading books.
And that's when it occurred to me.
I could spend this year trying to read as many books as I wanted or running marathons.
But ,I bet I could find at least a dozen other people on this flight who would whup my ass on all those activities. There would always be somebody better at running. In fact, the old lady next to me is reading Dante's Inferno, and I bet she's far more well read than me.
I feel it's time to settle down and focus on one thing.
I asked myself, what is the one thing that I have that nobody on this flight has.
And I realized.
My work. No one on this flight is fortunate enough to be in a highly specialized rheology group at stanford.
There's only a handful number of people all over the world looking at the research problem I am investigating.
So I thought to myself. Why bother trying to run all around the world. When I can sit in my lab and cover far more ground than anyone else.
So I've decided. My goal for 2013 is this.
To have less goals. To spend more time in the lab. To train myself as a better scientist. I don't have to worry about conferences and papers. My goal is just to put in the hours. Everyday. Every week.
Learning more. Experimenting more. Immersing myself more in my research.
It occurs to me that this is my time to lay the foundation for my scientific career. I can run and travel all my life.
And if I waste my time now, I'll probably regret it later in my life.


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Thanks to Ariana Grande!
It's been 6 years since the last episode aired and on July 2nd Grande will host "Total Ariana Live". Ariana will give a performance of 'Problem' plus debut her new single 'Break Free'. Not exactly like old school TRL but we get the old school music video premiere like the good old days!
The 30 minute special will be live in the Times Square Studio and Sway returns to talk to Ariana about her new album PLUS a special announcement! July 2nd, tune in.
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Manchester Attack
Colvin Stretches Beyond 'Four Walls'
Shawn Colvin will ring in the "second half" of her life with "These Four Walls," due Sept. 12 via Nonesuch.Shawn Colvin will ring in the "second half" of her life with "These Four Walls," due Sept. 12 via Nonesuch. Not only has the 50-year-old artist begun the lifestage of middle age, but she has also teamed with a new manager and label for the release.
"It's a major confrontation, knowing that you have to grow up," Colvin tells Billboard.com. "I come from a generation of prolonged adolescence. I have an eight-year-old, I'm a single mother and I don't have image marketing at my disposal anymore."
It was a conversation with country vet Emmylou Harris that encouraged her to make a switch from Columbia to the Warner Bros. subsidiary. "She was going on and on about how she was on the best record label and waxed on how much she loved it and how well they treated her," Colvin recalls. "So while I was still at Columbia, I just stored that little nugget in the back of my brain."
Despite these changes, Colvin's collaboration is a familiar one with producer/songwriter John Leventhal, who co-wrote nine of the album's 13 tracks. The album also includes covers of "Even Here We Are" by former Replacements frontman Paul Westerberg and the Bee Gees' "Words." Guest musicians like singers Patty Griffin, Marc Cohn and Teddy Thompson and pedal steel player Greg Leisz contributed to the recordings.
In support of the album, Colvin will tour extensively this fall for the first time since giving birth to her daughter. "She's got school and activities that she has to deal with. I can't take her away from that. But I also can't be gone for all three months The longest I've ever gone is a week and a half!" she says. "But it's an investment I have to make every few years. And I'm hoping to round up some very good friends and players for the road."
Having released nearly a dozen records and won three Grammys, Colvin is unsure what her next big career goals are.
"I've never been motivated to conquer the world. I don't need some big, explosive makeover or to sell out big rock stadiums. I've always been a solo artist, touring solo," she says. "The things I would like to do are more collaborative, like what Emmylou did with Mark Knopfler. How smart was that! My fantasies would be maybe Neil Finn or somebody like James Taylor. It would be quite an adventure."
Here is the track list for "These Four Walls":
"Fill Me Up"
"These Four Walls"
"Tuff Kid"
"Summer Dress"
"Cinnamon Road"
"Venetian Blue
"The Bird"
"I'm Gone"
"Let It Slide"
"Even Here We Are"
"So Good To See You"
"That Don't Worry Me Now"


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Located in Copenhagen City Centre, Copenhagen Star Hotel is within a 10-minute walk of popular sights such as Tivoli Gardens and City Hall Square. This 134-room, 3-star hotel has conveniences like a restaurant, a bar/lounge, and free in-room WiFi. It's in central Copenhagen and also a short walk from Stroeget and Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek.
Enjoy a leisurely bite to eat at the onsite restaurant, or have a drink at the bar/lounge. Buffet breakfast is offered for a fee each morning from 6:30 AM to 10 AM.
The 134 rooms have an array of amenities, including private yards, coffee makers, and safes. TVs come with cable channels, and free WiFi keeps guests connected. Hair dryers and desks are also standard.
Copenhagen Star Hotel features free WiFi in public areas, coffee in a common area, and a computer station. Self parking is available for DKK 195 per night. Multilingual staff at the front desk are standing by 24/7 to help with dry cleaning/laundry, tours or tickets, and luggage storage. Additional amenities include free newspapers, a terrace, and a TV in a common area.
Property features
- Walking distance to Tivoli Gardens and Stroeget
- Free WiFi in rooms and public areas
- Onsite dining
- 24-hour front desk
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The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. A computer station is located on site and wireless Internet access is complimentary. This Copenhagen hotel also offers a terrace, tour/ticket assistance, and multilingual staff. Parking is available onsite for a surcharge.
Copenhagen Star Hotel is a smoke-free property.
- Total number of rooms - 134
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Multilingual staff
- Year Built 1880
- 24-hour front desk
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- Number of floors - 6
- Bar/lounge
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- Coffee/tea in common areas
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- Free WiFi
- Smoke-free property
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Copenhagen Star Hotel offers 134 accommodations with safes and coffee/tea makers. Cable television is provided.
Bathrooms include showers and hair dryers. This Copenhagen hotel provides complimentary wireless Internet access. Housekeeping is offered daily and irons/ironing boards can be requested.
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- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Hair dryer
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- Television
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- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- In-room safe
- Cable TV service
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Free WiFi
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Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 6:30 AM and 10 AM.
Copenhagen Star Hotel has a restaurant on site.
Start your morning with a buffet breakfast, available each day from 6:30 AM to 10 AM for a surcharge.
Nearby Things to Do
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
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Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
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- Children are welcome.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets allowed for an extra charge of DKK 200 per accommodation, per night
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The cat's in the cradle
Michelle looks out from her home at the dreary wet day ahead and the annoying photographer in the doorway. A few seconds later she scampered off under the bushes but was back when I disappeared.
Cats love their comfort and Michelle is no exception. She's spoilt rotten like most house cats and never has a worry in the world!
This is one of my first shots with my shiny new Canon 50mm f1.8 lens. It was delivered while I was at the conference on Wednesday and I'm very impressed already. It's horribly sharp and fast. The shallow depth of field offered by an aperture of f1.8 is beautiful and falls off from the sharp in-focus bits really nicely.
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December 1, 2006
Once you f1.8, you'll never go back! Did you get a cat?
Happy birthday by the way 🙂
December 1, 2006
Thanks Donal! I'm very happy with the lens so far. I took it out while walking around Blarney too but didn't get any inspiring shots, nothing to do with the lens I might add!
No, we didn't get a cat. Oscar is enough of a handful, Michelle belongs to Jacinta's parents and unfortunately she's not too great with stranges which is why she runs from me even now. I was glad to get this shot as she never stays put long enough when I have my camera out!
December 1, 2006
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Cute pussycat. Lovely shot. Well wear with the new lens.
December 1, 2006
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Looks like a good life inside that box. Thanks for sharing our experiences with the 1.8.
December 3, 2006
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oh my god! i just died with a cute attack!
that little house is soo great! hahhaa, look at her clean & perfect blanket!
December 5, 2006
Hey Donncha,
Thanks for the photo of Michelle. Miss my little fat cat, maybe you guys can mail her to me?
Suz xx
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as cute as can be!
October 1, 2007
I love the way her face is painted. She looks very happy.
February 3, 2008
Too small for cat. IMHO
May 5, 2008
Cute cat. I love cats very much 🙂
June 25, 2008
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How to play cool games and make fun summer crafts using foam pool noodles. You and your kids will have so much fun with these pool noodle activities, decorating, preschool learning tools, and all of the amazing pool noodle games you can play!
Pool noodles can be purchased at the Dollar Store and therefore are a really cheap way to entertain your kids and the neighbor kids this summer!
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1. Summer Pool Noodle Wreath Tutorial ~ How to make an adorable summer wreath out of a pool noodle, fabric, and some felt.
2. Make a Pool Noodle Garland ~ This project is so simple, and really adds such a bright and playful element to your outdoor decor- plus its weather-proof!
3. Pool Noodle Flower Garland Tutorial ~ How to turn a pair of noodles into some nifty room decor and make these darling pool noodle wall flower garland.
4. Pool Noodle Flower Straws ~ Cut pool noodles into flowers with a kitchen knife and then attach to some straws for a fun little table decor, preschool play group snack, or just for fun.
5. Pool Noodle Bouquet ~ Create a bouquet of flowers for Mother's Day, or any occasion. Write on each leaf something your child says they like about mom.
6. How to make a Pool Noodle Headboard ~ This headboard was created using several of them stacked on top of one another. Check out the dollar stores during the summer and you can create this headboard for cheap. Here's another DIY noodle headboard from Family Fun.
7. A chair and ottoman made entirely of foam noodle-like tubes, like the ones kids play with in a pool.
8. Pool Noodle Candy Canes ~ You can easily transform round pool noodles into mint decorations with just some fishing line and ribbon.
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9. Pool Noodle Backyard Games ~ How to make a target station by joining rings into colorful targets for flying disks, soccer balls, and more. Stakes keep the target upright.
10. Agility Tire Jump Game ~ Duct-tape six rings to one another, then tape them to thicker (3 1/2-inch-wide) hollow pool noodle posts.
11. How to Make a Wicket Game ~ Use a hammer to pound two chopsticks or 1/4-inch dowels (cut to 10 to 12 inches long) halfway into the ground about 30 to 40 inches apart, depending on how tall you want your wickets. Slide a hollow pool noodle in place.
12. Summer Noodle Game ~ Cut a few swimming noodles in two, so that you have one half for each player. Scatter 20 or so blown-up balloons on the ground around a laundry basket.
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13. Pool Noodle Lacing and Counting ~ How to create a number game for preschoolers. It works on number recognition and one-to-one correspondence!
14. Water Noodle Lacing & Pattern Practice ~ This is a great activity for pre-schoolers and even kindergarteners. In fact, it is going to be one of my centers in pre-school this year. It is a great way to practice patterns.
15. Pool Noodle Beading Games ~ Depending on the skills you'd like to work on with your tot, use a permanent marker to write on the pieces. I made an ABC set and Numbers 1-20 set. You could also leave some blank and use them for patterns.
Games to play:
- Lace the "giant" beads on a piece of the clotheline or rope. (Motor Skills)
- Lace the beads in ABC order. (Motor skills & Literacy)
- Lace the beads in Number order. (Motor skills & Math)
- Lace the beads to spell words or names. (Motor skills & Literacy)
16. Noodle Chain Links ~ The children made long and short chains and one little boy put his together to make a motorcycle.
17. Pool Noodle Marble Racetrack ~ My kids love this activity. They will race marbles for hours. It's a perfect indoor activity for a rainy day or can be taken outside so you can enjoy some sunshine. I hope you'll give it a try and have as much fun with it as we have! Here's another pool noodle marble run tutorial from Family Fun.
Summer Fun
18. How To Make Pool Noodle Lances ~ The pool noodles were decorated with crepe streamers (it's what I had on hand, although in hind sight I wish I had used the colored duct tape.
19. How to make a Backyard Goalpost ~ Kids can practice their placekicking — and increase the challenge as their aim improves — with this adjustable goalpost made from pool noodles.
20. Real-life Harry Potter Quidditch Tournament ~ Made with pool noodles as the broomsticks, the orange nerfball is the quaffle, and the two small red ones are bludgers, and hula hoops for the goals.
Pool Noodle Crafts
21. No-Sew Felt Cupcakes Tutorial ~ Easy-to-make no sew felt cupcakes that can be made for pennies each out of pool noodles, pom poms, and felt.
22. Pool Noodle Floating Sculpture ~ How to make a sculpture that floats. This a great activity that you can bring outside or in the bathtub too. All you need is some cut up pool noodles and toothpicks.
23. Pool Noodles and Golf Tees Figures ~ How to make fun figures and sculptures out of cut up pool noodles and golf tees.
24. Pool Noodle Painting ~ Simply put some tempera paint in some recycled lids and put a cut noodle in each one and we were ready to print/paint.
25. Pool Noodle Lightsabers ~ How to Make Star Wars lightsabers out of pool noodles for a birthday party or just for fun.
26. DIY Pool Noodle Spider Halloween Costume ~ Quickly craft a creepy, crawly spider costume for your little one by using old pool noodles and a bathmat to create the effect of spider legs.
Pool Noodle Home Tips
27. Shopping Cart Safety ~ How to cover the metal handle of a shopping cart to protect your baby while shopping.
28. Cheap and Easy, Travel Bed Rail ~ Do you have a toddler who doesn't fit in a play yard anymore? Or perhaps you co sleep and can't bring all the comforts of home on your trip. Well I found a solution.
29. Pool Noodle Baby Shade ~ with some PVC pipe, some connectors, a tarp, zip ties and voila! The Made In The Shade pool shade was invented.
Backyard Wet & Wild
30. Pool Noodle Super Sprinkler ~ How to turn one into a super squirter that can be used to launch all sorts of fun and games, such as the High Water Jump shown here.
31. The Deluxe Kid Wash ~ The Kid Wash is crafted almost entirely from PVC pipe, a material we love not just for its low cost (about $30 for all the pieces shown here) and durability, but also for its ease of use (with all those interconnecting pieces — it's like Tinkertoys for grown-ups).
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Did you watch the memorials for five late TV stars on last night's Emmy Awards? And did you notice any names missing?
The Hollywood Reporter documents the controversial decision by Emmy producers to include the late Canadian actor Cory Monteith as one of five celebrities warranting an extended "In Memoriam" tribute on Sunday night's Emmys broadcast.
Best known for his role on the series Glee, Monteith passed away last July at the age of 31. A subsequent autopsy revealed he died of "mixed drug toxicity, involving heroin and alcohol."
The inclusion of Monteith into the hallowed group of five stirred up a ruckus in the days leading up to the Emmys broadcast. Some Hollywood insiders felt Monteith's memorial spot should have gone to Dallas star Larry Hagman, while others made the case for The Odd Couple's Jack Klugman.
Monteith's eulogy was delivered by his Glee co-star Jane Lynch midway through the three-hour Emmys show. Among other accolades, Lynch said, "Cory was a beautiful soul, he was not perfect, which many of us here tonight can relate to."
More pointedly, Lynch used the occasion to underscore the evils of substance abuse as it pertained to Monteith: "His death is a tragic reminder of the rapacious, senseless destruction that is brought on by addiction," said Lynch.
The other Emmy memorials went to comic actor Jonathan Winters, who was eulogized by Robin Williams; actress Jean Stapleton, feted by her former All in the Family co-star Rob Reiner; producer Gary David Goldberg, honoured by Michael J. Fox; and actor James Gandolfini, remembered by Edie Falco, his co-star on The Sopranos.
Last night's Emmys also featured a prepackaged rundown of other TV notables who passed away over the past 12 months, including Dennis Farina, Bonnie Franklin, Andy Williams and, yes, Hagman and Klugman.
On Saturday, Klugman's son Adam said his father's omission from the higher-profile TV memorials was "criminal" and accused the TV academy of pandering to younger viewers by including Monteith.
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In the old shed at the farm, there is the old Heflinger – I think it is an Austrian 4 wheel drive.
It has not moved from this spot for 20 years, but we do hope to get it working soon..
Acrylic and ink on canvas
50 × 60 cm
4 wheel drive colour hef heflinger junk old shed romsey
Fantastic Work
Thank you, Kathy, your kind words are much appreciated, Michelle
Beautiful rendition of this!
Thank you, Pamela, I am so happy that you like this!
really like this….. :)
Thank you, Linda, I truly appreciate the kind words, Michelle
Great work!
Thank you, again, Duncan, much appreciated.
Beautifully done…superb!!
Thank you, Narayan, I am very happy that you like the Old Hef.
Wonderful painting Michelle. I always love the rich colours you use.
Thank you, Angela, for your fantastic comments as always. I just love colour! Michelle
Fantastic Michelle, took it for a fave. Shirley
Thank you, Shirley and particular thanks for the Fav. Michelle
It looks good, Michelle! Your work is always interesting and the subject always unusual and fun.
As always, thank you for your kind comments and I'm looking forward to catching up on Thursday! Michelle
wow … I admire you for 'tackling' this subject because I myself usually shy away from anything that is somehow "technical" .. this is such "iconic work" :) …
Thanks for your wonderful comments – I'm so happy that you like it. I always just try painting the subject and sometimes it works and sometimes it is recycled into another painting. Michelle
Love the color in this painting and the imagery is funky. Love it!
Thank you, I truly appreciate the wonderful comments. Michelle
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