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The ability to discern the thoughts of the dead or other noncorperal concepts and use the resulting force in various ways. A sub-power of Omnipathy, a Power Mixture of Mental Manipulation, Mediumship and Dimensional Awareness.
Also Called
- Psychosomatic Manipulation
- Telepathic Order
This power is an extremely rare psionic ability usually displayed by deceased telepaths, mediums, or extremely powerful celestial beings. On the ethereal plane this power is used to keep malefic spirits and apparitions in order by manipulating their ectoplasmic brain patterns and causing whatever past thoughts and desires they had while living to be returned to their psyche. This drastic change in pathos torments ascended souls by making them experience all their past concerns and cursing their soul to never find peace.
- Memory Absorption of the deceased.
- Telepathy using the information of spirits and concepts to relate the thoughts of those on the worldly plane.
- Quintessence Force
- Mental Manipulation
- Minor Illusion Manipulation
- Sensory Deprivation
- Minimal Mediumship
- Charged Attacks
- Disintegration Beam
- Spiritual Flame Manipulation
- Ancestral Evocation The user can call upon the thoughts of ancestors to increase their power tenfold.
- Power Augmentation If the user does no expel the energy right away.
- Conceptualization If absorbing the thoughts of incorporeal concepts.
This power can be expressed on the worldly plane on rare occasions usually from users with raw psionic potential. A clear link to other dimensions is needed in order to perceive the thoughts. Once users have absorbed the left over thoughts their mind refocuses the echos into pure disintegrating energy. That energy is then reinforced throughout the users body and takes on an aura-like appearance. The user then expels the energy through semi-cohesive wisps (mimicking the classic ghost appearance). Due to its returning to this plane, the energies disintegrating properties add to it a blazing quality that is capable of tearing and burning through the intended target. Like most mental attacks this force can be highly draining of the user and is usually only used as a last resort.
- Death-Force Manipulation
- Dimensional Awareness
- Ethereal Manipulation
- Mental Manipulation
- Necroscience
- Omnipathy
- Spirit Physiology
- May only be able to absorb the thoughts of one deceased person or concept at a time.
- The amount of time needed to charge the power to full capacity.
- Echos of the deceased may be overpowering.
- User could be driven insane.
- Ghostly thoughts may haunt the user.
- Cannot read the minds of living beings without first communing with a closely related specter.
Known Users
- Deceased Telepaths/Mediums (Comics)
- The Spectre (DC Comics)
- Mephisto (Marvel)
- Martians (DC Comics); while Intangible
- Kelemvor (Forgotten Realms)
- Hades (Greek Mythology)
- Osiris (Egyptian Mythology)
- Various Underworld Deities (Mythology/Folklore)
- Death (Mythology/Folklore)
- Ro Ryou (The Outcast)


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SHORE in Lenapehoking ESSAY by Lisa Damour
SHORE: An Invitation
At one point in the performance of SHORE at New York Live Arts, Emily Johnson stands on her tiptoes, raises her arms up and throws her head back, spine arched, and looks behind her, head upside down, as she tries to walk forward. The move is both difficult and mesmerizing to watch, and occurs, I believe, about halfway through the performance. I say "I believe" because SHORE has a dense, dreamlike structure that is difficult to recall in linear time. And this move, a body pulled backwards and forwards, a gaze intentionally flipped embodies the questions that rise up for me as I watch the piece: Can we trick ourselves out of "easy" habits that may be destroying our culture, our earth? What role does community play in the lives of U.S. citizens who have been trained to forge ahead and self actualize? What does it mean to be completely contemporary, inhabiting / inhabited by the DNA of our ancestors? What gymnastic feats are necessary in order to find fresh perspectives / original thought?
In Lenapehoking, SHORE began outside on a school basketball court. As the audience hung out on mats, Emily played basketball with a couple of friends, a band of red makeup across her eyes, evoking a heightened state of ritual: this was not your average pick up game. I watched them play and the rest of the audience gathering, and before I really knew it was happening, sensed dozens of other performers circling me, jogging at an energized pace, one by one leaving the court to begin a slow walk down the sidewalk on the other side of the chain link fence. Emily stood on a pedastal in front of us and told us story about dreaming herself into a tree. As I listened, I turned my head towards the fence and watched Manhattan pedestrians quickly passing the slow-walking line performers – a woman with a baby carriage, a man talking on his blue tooth cell phone. A casual glance, their stride not broken. The tunnel vision of getting where you're going, of pushing through. The intentional gaze of live performance: see and re-see. Conjure the space. Create the energy.
A bell rings and we are all asked to silently walk to the theater, about 5 Manhattan blocks. The performers line the sidewalk as we make our way – some of them intoning chords, holding the space for us. In the theater, I see Aretha Aoki, one of the three trio of dancers who anchor the piece, dressed in red on stage, with red warrior paint that matches Emily's and a fake mustache pasted to her lips. Associations begin to fly: The lady in Red. Gender (bending it, playing it, inhabiting it). Aretha's Japanese heritage (but was she born there? Or in the US? Is she part Japanese?) Aretha as trickster: a mythic creature that causes mayhem in order to bring wisdom.
This dance moved fluidly between small group movement (performed by Aretha, Emily and Krista Langberg) and large group events (performed by the 20 + person ensemble). The image of the trickster stayed with me throughout, for this dance seemed designed to jolt me into new, fresh moments, to keep me in the present. A solo ends, timpani drums begin to play, echoed by the stamping feet of the chorus. A trio of the three warrior women, holding hands, walking slowly, eyes closed. A brightly colored curtain suddenly drops from the sky, a backdrop of a moment of choral singing. A pilgrimage of potted plants, carried across the stage. Emily, dancing as fast as she can, cutting the air with her arms until she is out of breath and close to tears. Acknowledging the paradox: we must stay present, we must engage in the work of repairing, healing, maintaining, nurturing. We must acknowledge our anger during the times when it all feels futile. And yet, in all times, transcendent and excruciating, we live in a community. We are part of an ecosystem. We can say fuck you, or we can say yes, I'm here, I'm with you, a part of you.
Perhaps what I am most struck by with SHORE is the feeling of being invited into an active group contemplation. The experience felt private, but ONLY within the context of being in an audience in a room with these performers. The honesty of the performance pulled me out of myself and into the room. There was no hiding of the mechanics of the performance – costume changes happen in full view, the ensemble never leaves the stage. No mysteries or questions resolved. It was as though Emily said: Here. Here are my free associations on this matter. Oh and by the way? I free associate with my body. I can't make this easy for you, but I can invite you in, and challenge you, within this community of thinkers, to go deeper when you leave this room. We are all in this together, and we all have the potential to be tricksters. To embrace who we are and where we've come from. To actively and joyfully shake up the norm. Shall we?
SHORE in Lenapehoking ESSAY by Kaitlyn Kramer
In the last weeks of April after a tireless winter, the sun's appearance became consistent and a frozen New York City began to thaw. We shed our wool layers and our dormancy as the layers of snow melted to reveal the earth below. With this reveal of land and skin, the city quickly regenerated. Communities were reborn. Around the same time in April, Emily Johnson introduced her own form of warmth to New York. She began on the shore.
As I emerged from underground on a Far Rockaway bound subway, I saw the morning sun glisten atop the calm Jamaica Bay and felt worlds away from my Brooklyn home that had grown all too familiar during the long winter months. When I exited the subway at my destination on Rockaway Beach Blvd., I consumed the familiar scents of cold air and sea and recalled the coastal town where I was born and raised. Homesick doesn't quite describe this sensation; I was home-filled.
I continued to think of the various homes I've come to know—of memories of their peculiarities and their roles in the different stages of my life—as I walked to Firehouse 59, the meeting point for the first event of SHORE: Lenapehoking. The plan was to join local volunteers in a dune restoration project following a story walk led by the high school student leaders of The Rockaway Waterfront Alliance. The importance of home, particularly the way that individuals come together because of shared adoration and respect for their homes and communities, was evident from the moment I entered the gathering.
Firehouse 59 bustled with movement as volunteers interacted with one another, peeling oranges and playing an impromptu game of soccer. I was sitting on a picnic table observing the ease and comfort of those around me when I noticed that Emily was running with the ball, exuding pure joy and laughter. When the activity wound down and Emily briefly described SHORE and the structure of the day, I reminded myself of the context of this event—I was at an art performance. I forgot.
This temporary lapse in awareness of the context of my participation continued to occupy my thoughts as words were shared. Members of The Rockaway Waterfront Alliance's high school internship program, Shore Corps, relayed personal stories of their involvement in the Rockaway community and how their participation in the program has helped to connect them with the physical environment where they were born. I attempted to recall another instance where I forgot I was in the presence of a work of art. Nothing. However, this revelation is not a negative one; in fact, it was exciting. I contemplated SHORE's humble merging of art and life—of performer and audience, of history and action, of land and movement—realizing that this bond is what made our presence on the beach that day so profoundly pure. It was honest.
As we traveled from the lawn to the dunes where we would plant two hundred native shrubs in an attempt to restore the beach, which was severely damaged in Hurricane Sandy, the stories never ceased. I spoke with excited students who would head to college in the fall to study architecture and environmental science, leaving their home in the Rockaways for the first time. I heard reflections ranging from the devastation of the hurricane to a fight for the inclusion of a bike lane along Rockaway Beach Blvd. In each distinct recitation the significance of community was apparent, and it played out as we worked together to plant the shrubs along the dunes.
After all two hundred shrubs were planted, we gathered near an entrance to the newly renovated boardwalk where were asked to form a circle together and to take turns speaking synonyms for "joy." As the group stumbled through the task, laughing and enacting the meaning of each unique word, I spoke with a poet and musician who was participating in the SHORE: Story curated reading later that night in downtown Manhattan. We shared brief anecdotes about the different cities we call home, our thoughts on our common experiences, and what drew us to Emily's SHORE performance project. I asked him if there was a theme that would unite all of the storytellers that evening. He responded: we will tell stories of home. As I left the beach, warm with shoes full of sand, preparing to descend back underground, I felt ready to write my own.
SHORE in Lenapehoking ESSAY by Jack Gray
SHORE NYC - an insider and indigenous perspective
by Jack Gray
Months before SHORE happened in Lenapehoking, I was told a story about Emily Johnson, an established and well known choreographer of Alaskan Yu'pik descent. My friend and colleague, Jacqueline Shea Murphy had gone to see the work premiere in Minnesota and had said something along the lines of "I think you will really like Emily's work, you two have alot in common".
In my culture, as a Maori from Aotearoa (New Zealand), I am familiar with these types of connective introductions, we call them mihi. Our system of greeting is a way of acknowledging. We acknowledge all things, from our ancestral geographies and points of origin (even if they may be different to where we ourselves were born), from mountain to river, from ocean to land, from living to dead, we constantly cross the thresholds of what was, what is, and what will be.
Cut to a moment during the performances of SHORE, with my now familial relationship of listening to Emily's mihi. Every night around dusk, we would congregate to make a circle of awareness. Emily would center everyone to tell us about her dream. This dream was also told to me by Emily another time, when I was with a group of friends, artists, scholars and practitioners whom I had assembled in another configuration called the Lenapehoking Transformance Lab.
Weeks before at Nelson A. Rockefeller Park, the Lab had convened to discuss Emily's work SHORE. I asked her quietly if she might share a song — customary practice for Maori - and she replied, "I will share a dance". The dance partly was a retelling of the dream. In that dance, she gave us a closed eye meditation, that enabled us to feel the soles of our feet, to feel the concrete beneath the shoes, to go deeper to feel the earth beneath the concrete, to imagine that sensation connecting in all directions throughout Manahatta.
During that invocation, my meditation self had burst across the ocean (past the Statue of Liberty) back on shore in another place. I was in Mitimiti, my ancestral home in Aotearoa. A place I have invested alot of time in reconnecting to, and before my journey to the United States, had stood on shore there looking deeply and hopefully into the horizon. I recall this strange time travelling moment, going back to Mitimiti (from the future) to look at my past self wondering exactly what I might be doing in New York.
In my own artistic practice I explore phenomena in indigenous cultural cosmologies looking at the pathway of the spirit after death. The name of my dance company Atamira, means platform or stage. But also, traditionally, Atamira was the raised platform dead bodies were placed on during mourning rituals. Another work of mine, Te Reinga, created in Hawaii, honoured the site of Rerenga Wairua, where departing spirits jump off the tip of the North Island of New Zealand, Te Ika a Maui to return to Hawaiiki (our ancestral home as Polynesians).
Her meditation exercise reminded me of other moments of seeing, feeling and tracing intangible pathways that inform my choreographic interests. Like dance, our dreams develop intuitive abilities of acknowledging and opening into new spaces, allowing us to converse and tap into this richer knowing. So Emily, the storyteller, shares these glimpses, opening spaces and creating portals for both knowing and maybe unknowing. I found myself always rooted in more than one place at one time, just like the tree, just like the whale, just like the hawk or the eagle or the owl.
On Day 1 of rehearsals, the SHORE choir that I had infiltrated had its first meeting. I always find the beginnings of things so interesting, who are all these people, what are we doing, what is to be explored? Emily broke the ice, funny thinking about that metaphor, as she would many times in many interactions with people. You see, she has this disarming way of being, firstly she always smiles, and she also blushes, she's also confident, and she's also introverted. It's a fascinating mix, that just makes you want to do something for her. If she asks for something, it seems like the most natural thing in the world is to reciprocate. This is why I think she's incredibly powerful, and also why I think she takes such good care and responsibility for others.
There is something about her unconscious understatedness (as a choreographer and human) that provokes a type of mistiness for people. Even after days of spending time together, learning and relearning the songs, breath, sounds, silence and blocking and reblocking, one of the funniest things to me was when fellow ensemble members would say, "Do you know what this piece is about?". Perhaps a cultural lens is required, demanded almost, to allow what it is, or could be, to permeate through.
I noticed that Emily didn't bring out in larger discussions, the notion of indigenous cultural identity. I became aware of the way this type of discourse goes in the United States. It is very different in Aotearoa, in fact almost the opposite, where we are culturally conditioned to speak to our genealogy and enact its assertion at almost every opportunity. I mean, recently, the Queen of England's (and ours) grandson, Prince Harry, came to New Zealand and partook in a haka, a Maori dance of defiant looking gestures. It was a social media hit, even my mother was saying how much she loved dear Harry for doing the haka, as if he was now an adopted nephew.
I couldn't help myself from orienting everything I experienced throughout the SHORE life I lived back to its innate indigeneity. It was almost like this marvelous secret. This piece was a hall of ghosts. These ghosts gathered in places around us. They came out at twilight, in the streets, cloaked amongst everyday pedestrians. They occupied a different sense of time, they were much slower, more present, less preoccupied. They witnessed everything. Every night when it was my turn to leave the nest, I would walk into the dream and catch my step, from fast to slow. I would always pass by people unaware of the performance/ceremony and realize there was a shift in zone. These people thought we were crazy, or religious, or odd. I always savored the moment of being one of them, and then transitioning into the other side. I felt like presence made present, made people feel uncomfortable. Singing life, breathing to the leafless trees, the giant painted figure on the wall of the school, to the clouds, this opening moment was precious.
Wandering from the children playground to the venue at New York Live Arts, past the sex shop, the rainbow rising, the three ducks and not the Joyce, an imperceptible thread was being woven through the city. One night, I concentrated my thoughts on following the pathway of Minetta Creek. It was hard being a ghost without the ability to walk through people, theres so much making way in this city. In my silence, I often noticed alot of action at one particular restaurant. From people standing outside smoking, to people with dogs. For some strange reason I always felt underdressed at the same spot every night.
Making our way into the theatre, without fail every single night I would rush to the toilet before going to the stage. Again, it became a ritual, that was an odd reoccurrence. I would see myself every night, swish my hair in the mirror, notice that I was wearing the same outfit, and run back into the dream again. One time during a run through, I had turned the wrong way with Yumi, and ended up being very late to stage. Being late to your own dream scared me, so I never did that again.
The show, well, so much to say. I feel and know, that I saw something crystallize over the rehearsal and performance period, in a profound way I might never experience again. The dancers, Emily, Aretha and Krista, became my guides, they lived something every single time in this black box world, that engulfed us all. During the rehearsals, I thoroughly enjoyed my witnessing state, the room was filled with thirty participants, all there to watch, sing, move and pay attention. I introduced myself to Aretha and Krista immediately, it felt almost rude to be let into this intimacy, without announcing myself. I think if I were a ghost, I would be the kind that knocks the vase over.
I watched this dance happen and everytime it had an authenticity about it that breathed differently. I was entranced by Aretha, this gorgeous creature, fierce, warrior-like, sharp, powerful, she had a presence that bled over the stage. I was constantly checking in on Emily, feisty, emotive, breathy, full, she was unpredictable and unapologetic. And my heart warmed to Krista, this languid, swan like vessel of fluidity and warmth. She really can move. They were all so beautiful, so different and so connected.
As a choreographer myself, I watch for gaps, spaces, things that link, tried to decode their secret language and marveled to see that what looked like improvisation, would be the same night after night. And then somehow it wasn't the same night after night. The movement was a combination of sitting, waiting, thinking, expressing, it had sustained periods of complexity and effort. I loved many of the scenes, and watched the same pathways over and over.
In this process I experienced my own journey in multiple ways knowing there was no way to replicate anything anyway. I felt exposed and seen, and then forgotten and unseen, I felt like I was contributing, and other times I felt like I was crowding the space. There was a message of humility that made me somehow compliant to something unspoken. I was always grateful for the moment that Georgia brought the plant over to the front of the stage. Somehow that plant made me feel real again, somehow it distracted people to think and consider something else. Over the show nights, I tried different approaches to being. That was hilarious I suppose, as it might have translated into the same thing. Like a leaf trying to fly a different angle, even though it was always still attached to the tree.
I think this piece might have a great power, and I constantly wondered if people noticed. Just in the same way that people might not notice the creek beneath the concrete. There was always a part in the show where it felt like it was our last song, and then there was still more of the show to do. These types of intersections interest me. What signals time, what shifts the moment, what more is to be said and done?
I didn't attend some of the other events associated with the project, the first time because I had a severe case of disorientation and ended up catching so many types of public transport over a period of three hours still to end absolutely nowhere (according to my rapidly dying iPhone) that I gave up. Another time, I was just exhausted from the many activities I was doing in New York City. There was certainly something about getting around that city and having the energy to do it that I encountered my own resistance. I did however make it to the feast, remarkable also because I gave up going to a dear friends wedding just to be there. I would't have felt complete if I didn't and I suppose thats a testament to the type of work SHORE is. As I said before, Emily has that way that if she asks you, you just want to oblige. The Feast was a beautiful event, more salmon and oysters cooked on an open fire, a pleasant row in a canoe through a superfund site (I had to google superfund to know what that was), and my favourite, a final sing with Emily, Margot, Julia, Meredith and Ben to the setting sun. Yes, this is what we do right?
I am so grateful to reflect about these things, and I know it will be ongoing. I know that the depth and reach of SHORE is as unlimited as we make it. I thank Emily and Catalyst for their work, and also for introducing me personally to the concept of future joy. I send love back across the ocean, as I sit in my bed in Auckland, New Zealand, knowing time to stand together again will come, remembering we can indeed, be in two places at once.
SHORE: Minneapolis ESSAY by Bao Phi
At The Loft Literary Center, housed in Open Book in Minneapolis, Emily Johnson has gathered poets and writers from as far away as Thunder Bay and as close as Phillips. They are here for SHORE: STORY, the literary arts segment of her dynamic multidisciplinary project. There are sons and grandmothers and everyone in-between, reading, and we in the audience are consuming. Read aloud often enough and you know the audience is a living part of the craft. While the majority of the poets are Indigenous, there are also other races speaking their hearts and truths. Everyone's shoreline is different. Someone says "sure, why not?" and that attitude strikes me as powerful. The writers address racial conflicts, talk to their community like a lover, relate a conversation with their child on a bike ride, allude to teaching creative writing to businessmen.
SHORE: Minneapolis ESSAY by Andy Sturdevant
It had been a rainy few days before SHORE's opening weekend. Or the part of SHORE that took place at the Northrop, at least – Emily Johnson's SHORE is a multi-faceted project that existed in a number of different locations and spaces. Even the part that took place at the Northrop didn't take place in the Northrop. Not initially. The first part of the performance had a few hundred people sitting on the great lawn outside, on the University of Minnesota's mall, the oldest part of campus.
SHORE: Minneapolis ESSAY by Diane Wilson
In the center of a long, low barn, a 30 foot table covered with a white tablecloth holds a dazzling array of homemade food: salads straight from the garden, an enormous platter of roasted pig, warm biscuits with strawberries and real whipped cream. White lights ramble across the rough walls, lending a celebratory feeling to this gathering. A side table offers dozens of plants to be taken home as a gift for each person. Quilt squares bearing a scrawled word or two are strung along the wall, each one invoking something we would like to see in our community. Everywhere I turn, there is an invitation to create, to share, and to participate. Outside a light rain is falling, as if blessing this event.
SHORE: Minneapolis ESSAY by Eleanor Savage
Emily Johnson's SHORE gave me a keen sense that this artist, and the circle of artists with whom she collaborates, have been making their way toward me for a long time and vice versa. The stories of this new work emerge, strange and disturbing, and join the accumulating conversations with the works in this trilogy, The Thank-You Bar followed by Niicugni. Johnson's works dwell in the liminal space between memoir and dream, intimate and mythical, dance and installation, continually working away at the boundaries between performers and audience.
SHORE: Minneapolis ESSAY by Jacqueline Shea Murphy
In two parts of SHORE: PERFORMANCE, Emily Johnson tells stories out loud. She tells one standing on a pedestal on the grass of the University of Minnesota campus, pointing to a tree just down a ways from where we are sitting. "I think I remember that tree in my bones," she says. Then she tells us about a dream she had during the SHORE production process. In the dream, she's at rehearsal, and out the window sees an eagle and a hawk flying together in tandem, touching. She calls everyone over to see, and then the birds land right outside the window, and the eagle turns into a hawk, and the hawk turns into a baby, and the hawk holds onto the baby.
SHORE: Minneapolis ESSAY by Will MacAdams
Emily Johnson tells me that the first time she realized she was dancing was when she was hugging a tree as a little girl and she felt it's swaying and she realized she was swaying with it.
I like imagining dance like that: something you echo, something you already are. I thought of it often when I was watching Catalyst's SHORE, as well as planting in the rain garden at East River Flats and participating in the feast at Foxtail Farm.
Wait, Emily told me the story of her dancing with the tree after I did all of those things. True, but didn't the story of the tree at the top of SHORE move forward and backward through time, as if to say: the past, the future, the present, they are knotted together like roots?


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Monday, June 24, 2013
Coy Mathis - Six year old boy to use girls' bathroom at school
A sad story in Colorado. It seems that a mother with obvious emotional issues decided to raise her son, Coy Mathis, as a girl. The school initially refused to allow Coy to use the girls' restroom (he is a boy with a penis). Mother Dearest became upset and with the help of the nice lawyer, Michael Silverman, sued the school. The school lost and now they are forced to put this little boy in the girls' bathroom.
Dressed in blue jeans with pink sneakers, and a sparkly tank-top, 6-year-old Coy Mathis quietly sat in front of a dozen or so TV news cameras before — her family hopes — wandering out of the limelight.
Read more: Coy Mathis' family celebrates civil rights win for transgender child - The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_23529796/coy-mathis-family-celebrates-civil-rights-win-transgender#ixzz2XC4qpxZD
That is the empowered Mother front and center. Dad is hiding in the back as another woman looks at him in disgust. How does a father allow a woman to molest his son in such a manner?
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Ramzpaul...The woman in the back looking at the father in disgust is dude in a dress. I don't know why you think this is so bad, these people and their ridiculous ways are voluntarily removing themselves from the gene pool. It's cultural evolution at it's best. Promote the reproduction of the ones left over, you know the men who are men and women who are women.ReplyDelete
Thank God that Youtube won't let me watch the video from England.ReplyDelete
I think I may have kicked the f*cking screen in..It is child abuse. Simple.
On the plus side, in the UK, the authorities are turning a blind eye to thousands of little muslim girls having clitorectomies, so as to reduce their sex drive, in the interests of cultural sensitivity and, er, Dhimmitude?
Unnecessary really, as I cannot imagine any woman enjoying sex with a hairy Arab just home from a session with his toy boy. http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=852Replies
I had a problem watching you tube videos from the UK. I used this program called "anchor IP unblocker" and can now watch any video from around the world.Delete
Lisa - I think you might be right, that could be a guy.ReplyDelete
Another advantage is that years ago you had to pay money to see a freak show. Now it is free!
Dear Ramz;ReplyDelete
You didn't reply when I posted this on your video, so I thought maybe you'd see it here.
You seem to have this strange belief that transgenderism isn't real because you think it isn't. Scientists have essentially proven the hell out of transgenderism by showing that MRI scans of trans people correlate with the gender they believe they are: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110422202859AAD76tM
Here's my question; if Coy Mathis got an MRI showing she has a female-structured brain, would you apologize for your video?
A little while ago I left a link where I provided scientific proof of transgenderism. It's not here now.ReplyDelete


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The Birmingham Hebrew Congregation (Singers Hill) Synagogue is a Grade II* listed building comprising 26, 26A and 26B Blucher Street in central Birmingham, England.
Built in 1856, it was designed by Yeoville Thomason. It replaced the Greek Revival, 1827 Severn Street Synagogue, which survives as a Masonic Hall, and was the fourth synagogue building to be erected in the city.
It features "a Norman-wheel window in a building design in red and yellow brick, which combined neo-classical, Romanesque, and Italianate details, and used a classical basilica plan, with a central Bimah (reading desk)".[1]
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...You guys know that much better versions of ALL of these songs already exist, right?
I'm not even going to touch on the fact that the stage version of this show apparently removes every bit of nuance and poise from a film that was almost pure, distilled subtlety. (This coming from a big fan of musical theatre)
I'm just going to focus on the fact that this is essentially a cover album, where none of the covers come close to matching the quality of the original work. The songs on the first Swell Season album (as well as the soundtrack for the film) were written and performed by two musicians actually falling in love with each other while filming a movie about two musicians writing music and falling in love with each other. That really comes through in the original songs, and provides for not only one of the best albums of the last decades, but one of the most outstanding film soundtrack albums of all time. It's intimate, beautiful and heart-rending all at once.
What this gives us, on the other hand, is a crass re-appropriation of those same songs by people thirty steps removed from the original. These versions are loud, over-annunciated parodies of the original songs, and just feel cold in comparison.
This isn't an attack on the other people who have given the album 5-star reviews, either; I get why they gave the album glowing reviews, because they ARE beautiful songs. However, I can only assume that this is their first time experiencing them, and they don't know that they're listening to sub-par renditions.
But don't just take my word for it: You can find the real songs (found either by "The Swell Season" or "Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova") on iTunes and see for yourself.
one of the best shows i've seen in ages
i had the pleasure of catching this adaptation of the indie film at the new york theatre workshop and was deeply moved and blown away. i had liked the film, not loved, and was more interested in the details of what and how they chose to move it to stage than expecting it to be very successful. fortunately it is the rare (if ever?!) adaptation from screen to stage that rises above the original source material --due to the incredible creative team and also largely to the amazing leads. it's moved to broadway now --if you can, see it before either of them are replaced. they're terrific. i wept.
Beautiful music for a beautiful show.
I had the experience of seeing this show on Broadway, and it was absolutely wonderful. The actors had a sense of authenticity that I admired. The music was so beautiful! Definitely a great purchase.
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Beautiful Views of The Pacific. Great Drive 220 miles up the coast. Photo Opportunities Around Every Turn. Many Beaches to Explore. Wildlife Viewing. Lots of Fog.
Start your drive on US Highway 1 aka Pacific Coast Highway just North of San Francisco. The drive will take about 1 -2 days so plan on overnighting somewhere. Hotels are scarce in the unpopulated areas but there all lots of Cabin rentals throughout and several campgrounds around. Just make sure you plan ahead. Most of the towns have a convenience store or restaurant.
You can stop at Arched Rock at Marshall Gulch located about 2 miles north of Salmon Creek, it's a pretty amazing view. The view from the road 4 miles north of Jenner, CA when it goes inland is stunning. You can see the curvy road as it winds up the mountain (once you go up, look to the left and you can see the curvy road you just went up). As soon as you reach the top, look out for the Sonoma Coast Overlook on the left side, quite a site to take in. If your lucky, you may be able to see clouds below you.
Head north and you will be driving along the coast several hundred feet above the water. You can get a beautiful view of the coastline as far as the eye can see. 50 miles north of here is Sea Ranch, CA. The Sea Ranch Lodge is located here and had beautiful accommodations if you can reserve them in advance and have the money to do so. You will see a ton of deer in this area, so keep your eyes peeled (and on the road). Another 24 miles up the PCH and you'll find the road to the Point Arena Lighthouse standing at 115ft tall. This is lighthouse and museum and the hours of operation are 10:00a-03:30p. It gets incredibly foggy here so if you want a shot of the lighthouse make sure to check the weather.
Fort Bragg is 45 miles north of the lighthouse. After Fort Bragg there is the last 25 mile stretch of the PCH which literally goes along the coast before meeting up with the 101. In my opinion, the best road cruising and pictures of the PCH are in this stretch, particularly the section before Juan Creek before heading inland through the redwoods. There are also campgrounds located along this stretch with ocean views in and around Westport, CA. The drive through the Usal Redwoods is the last part if this journey which is quite the drive if you like tight turns and corners. Finish it off by stopping in Leggett and checking out the drive through tree named Lantern Tree, a majestic redwood with a tunnel carved out at the base.
There are lots of pristine beaches throughout that are untouched and you really can't go wrong anywhere in this area. Be sure to be on the look out for deer as they are very common. There are curvy roads everywhere and make for great photo opportunities. Several lighthouses are located throughout this area as well just be sure to check if they are open to visitors on that day. Many of the higher elevations offer the Above the Clouds viewing/photo opportunities just be aware that most of the rural areas do not have cell service.
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I don't recommend doing this drive on a weekend, or during high summer - there are just too many cars & motorcycles on the road now, it's too stressful if you are the driver. Go in the "off season" February, March, April and early May or in the fall, October and November are lovely.
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What "Scandal" Star Got Himself Into Trouble?!
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Looks like one of Olivia Pope's very own gladiators got himself into some real life trouble! Columbus Short, who plays Harrison Wright on the show, was recently involved in a bar fight and put a guy in the HOSPITAL!!
Apparently Short was at Gabe's Bar and Grill in L.A. celebrating a couple's engagement when another party-goer had made some kind of statement along the lines of "You might be richer than me but I get my girls to buy me everything I want, including your wife"!!
Not going to lie...that would make me mad too!! At that point, it's been reported by an eyewitness that Short came up behind the guy and sucker punched him, breaking his nose and knocking him unconscious for some time. Short then quickly left the bar, just missing the ambulance that came for the injured man.
Things aren't looking too good for Columbus Short. Cops are currently investigating a "criminal battery" AND this also wasn't a first time offense for him. Back in 2010, Short was playing basketball at a gym when he got into an argument with another player and punched him, knocking his teeth out!
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Bridges, tunnels and roads: Concrete is the main component of our infrastructure. And when the structural elements need to be repaired, it often leads to long traffic jams.
At the Annual Meeting of the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) in Washington, D.C., Prof. Christian Grosse from the (TUM) and other experts talked about smart materials for sustainable infrastructure.
Small cracks can form in concrete due to permanent loading or variations in temperature. As Prof. Christian Grosse from the Chair of Non-destructive Testing (NDT) at TUM explains, the cracks do not usually pose any direct threat to the stability of structures: "However, water and salts can penetrate the concrete and damage the affected components."
Repairing infrastructure is expensive and can result in long traffic jams. In the EU research project HealCON, an international team of researchers is working toward the development of concrete that can repair itself. The scientists are examining three different self-healing mechanisms.
– Bacteria as mini construction workers
Certain bacteria produce calcium carbonate as a metabolic product. The scientists soak balls of clay with the spores of these bacteria and mix the balls into concrete. Once water penetrates the concrete, the microorganisms become active and release calcium carbonate, one of the main components of concrete. "The bacteria can close cracks of up to a few millimeters in width in a matter of a few days," says Grosse.
– Hydrogels as gap fillers
Hydrogels are polymers that absorb moisture. They are used in diapers, among other things. Materials containing hydrogels can expand to ten or even 100 times their original size. Cracks that form in concrete can be healed by a hydrogel that expands when it comes into contact with moisture, thus preventing the water from penetrating further without expanding the cracks.
– Greater strength thanks to epoxy resin
Epoxy resins or polyurethane can be encapsulated and mixed into the concrete. When the concrete cracks, the capsules break open and the polymer is released. It forms a hard mass that seals the crack. It also has a positive side-effect: It increases structural stability.
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Jerome Burnel was once a hero. He intervened to prevent multiple killings and in doing so damned himself. His life was torn apart. He was imprisoned, brutalized.
But in his final days, with the hunters circling, he tells his story to private detective Charlie Parker. He speaks of the girl who was marked for death but was saved, of the ones who tormented him, and an entity that hides in a ruined stockade.
Parker is not like other men. He died, and was reborn. He is ready to wage war.
Now he will descend upon a strange, isolated community called the Cut, and face down a force of men who rule by terror, intimidation, and murder.
All in the name of the being they serve.
All in the name of the Dead King.
Magnificent, magisterial and masterful – three words that could easily describe both John Connolly's writing and his creation Charlie Parker. It's great to have Charlie Parker back, life certainly wouldn't be the same without an adventure from the private detective, a private detective who's baggage increases with each outing. There's no shortage of depth in this novel either, thanks mainly to Parker. It's the depth of his character that's so good, Connolly effortlessly allowing the reader an insight into his feelings and an opportunity to share his immeasurable pain born from past experiences.
There's very little to say that hasn't been said in the past but John Connolly improves with each novel, there's no fear of an author resting on his laurels here, Connolly knows what works and sticks with the format time after time but like a good bottle of wine, with maturity comes excellence.
Charlie Parker is one of those characters you'd want on your side. Imagine the scene in school as a kid, you're faced with a decision that could affect the rest of your days in school, the dreaded pick your team scenario. With Parker it's a case of do I pick him first or second, Jack Reacher or Charlie Parker (two very different protagonists), two veritable champions, because there's never the option of not choosing him! Not having him on your team would be a huge mistake and many a bad person have paid the price in the past and will no doubt suffer in the future!
The narrative is as strong as ever and the plotting is both complex and inspired, how Connolly brings this together in the end is crazy! Amazing writing. The tempo increases towards the end of the book, so much so that you feel as if you're holding your breath on numerous occasions. There are a few shocks in store, Connolly is never one to shy away from violence and there's definitely no shortage of that in A Time of Torment, this is in parts quite brutal!
Characterisation is good and we get to have another outing with Angel and Louis, two great characters that were introduced to us in Every Dead Thing in 1999, the year that Charlie Parker himself, a former NYPD detective, was introduced to the world. The sidekicks are great value and the books would certainly be lighter without the duo creating havoc and mayhem. Don't worry, there's more than enough bad guys to satisfy all readers here!
Another wonderful read, A Time of Torment stands alone well but as with any long standing series, the more you've read the more you take from the books. So get reading the back catalogue, you won't be sorry! Bravo Mr Connolly!
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
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Duration: 85 min
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Release: Jun 25, 2011
IMDb: 5.3
The middle part of 2011 is proving to be a good period for the SyFy channel and their originals. Earlier this year SyFy's 51 (see review here) and BEHEMOTH (see review here) were promising, but both failed in their respective executions.
BEHEMOTH promised a huge, planet-destroying creature but simply gave us a lazy, Lovecraftian-influenced beast who was attached to a mountain. But then last weeks ICE ROAD TERROR really surprised me with how fast-paced, gory, and fun it was (see review here), and now SWAMP SHARK, premiering on Saturday, June 25th at 9pm (ET/PT), once again proves that when the boys and girls over at SyFy really wanna make an entertaining flick, they can do it.
SWAMP SHARK stars the original BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, Kristy Swanson as Rachel Broussard, the owner of the Gator Shack restaurant located right next to the swamplands of the Atchafalaya Basin. She runs the restaurant with her younger sister Krystal (Sophie Sinise, Gary Sinise's daughter) and her older brother Jason "Swamp Thing" (Jeff Chase). Everything's going really well as the town prepares for their yearly big event, Gator Fest, until crooked sheriff Watson (Robert Davi), who sells illegal exotic animals (??!!!?) accidentally releases a shark into the swamps. Yeah I know; it's a silly and completely absurd set up, but it actually fits the entire campy world created in SWAMP SHARK. Swanson is one of the first people to spot the shark and instead of balling up into a panicking, hysterical woman, she grabs her hunting rifle, a boat, and anyone else who believes her and goes out to hunt down the swamp shark. I loved Swanson's character and since her best known film is the original BUFFY, it would've been hard seeing her as anything other than a butt kicking hottie.
And what self-respecting SyFy Original would forget to include some kind of 1980's pop culture reference? Not too worry; SWAMP SHARK has Baseball Hall of Famer Wade Boggs as a red neck deputy. I would've like to have seen him in a bigger role, but his role is pretty fun.
One of the people Swanson recruits to hunt the shark down is Charlie (D.B. Sweeney; where's he been?), a mysterious man hanging around the town. Their first hunting party doesn't, as you can imagine, go very well and they loose their boat and are forced to regroup. But in the meantime the town is preparing for Gator Fest and the shark has really gotten a taste for human flesh. Of course we get tons of nods to the granddaddy of shark films (and arguably all "giant creature" flicks), JAWS, but everything in SWAMP SHARK is done with such a fun spirit that you just sit back and go along for the ride. Davi's sheriff Watson is so sleazy that you can't help but smile every time he's on screen. The man knows there's a shark in the swamp (because he's the one that accidentally released it) but does nothing to try and fix the situation. He doesn't send out a hunting party and he doesn't prevent people from swimming in the swamp even after the dead bodies start piling up (in pieces). I loved Davi's character and it's nice to see he still "has it"!!
And maybe I'm just getting completely desensitized to bad CGI, but I thought the shark looked pretty good!! SyFy actually exhibits some restraint and doesn't show off the beast at every opportunity. We see flashes of it here and there and get teased way more than SyFy usually does. Of course there's the standard, "must have" scene of the shark jumping out the water to kill someone. This is the best look we get of the shark (until the final reel) and it was actually pretty cool looking. The body count could've been higher for my tastes, but the killings we do get were well-filmed. Director Griff Furst (who also directed last year's flaccid SyFy flick LAKE PLACID 3), takes his time here and sets up some pretty suspenseful kill scenes. And if you're like me you'll wonder why the two twenty-somethings, who wanted some privacy to have sex, took a canoe out into the swamp not 20 feet away from their friends. Sex in a canoe? Hey why not!!
And just like in ICE ROAD TERROR, we get a little more blood than the usual SyFy Original. We get to see a lot of post-attack, ripped apart torsos and appendages, and we're privy to a lot of blood spraying all over various cast members. Yeah people, this one is pretty fun. Maybe it's because Summer's here? Maybe it's because I'm a sucker for a fun "beast attacks" flick? Or maybe it's just because the people over at SyFy are putting in some time and effort into their scripts!! But writers Charles Bolon, Jennifer Iwen, and Eric Miller give us a fun, light- hearted, and fast-paced script that despite the holes in logic keep you interested up to the end. And just wait until you see how they finally kill the shark!! I thought we were gonna get a very JAWS-like ending, but the writers took a hard left turn and gave us something original, fun, and very bloody. Nice job.
A great cast who're obviously having a really fun time, a solid script with some originality in it, and some well-crafted death scenes make SWAMP SHARK a really entertaining and fun summer flick. SyFy has renewed my love of the "attacking beasties" summer flick and I can't wait to see what they have in store for us next!! Catch SWAMP SHARK this Saturday, June 25th at 9pm (ET/PT) on SyFy. Seriously!!


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Welcome to the Bristol Marriott Hotel City Centre
In the heart of Bristol, with an indoor heated pool, two restaurants, 24-hour room service, and stylish non-smoking rooms, Bristol Marriott Hotel City Centre offers business and leisure travelers a comfortable home while exploring southwest England.
Hotel Features
The 300 non-smoking rooms of this 10-story Marriott feature stylish interiors, cable TV, work areas, coffeemakers and high-end bedding. The upscale Terrace Restaurant serves breakfast and dinner, while the more casual Terrace Lounge specializes in coffee and snacks throughout the day. Room service is available 24 hours a day. The fitness center offers state-of-the-art machines, a sauna and an indoor heated pool. Additional amenities include a business center, concierge and parking (for an additional fee).
Hotel Location
Along Castle Park, this Marriott is in the center of Bristol's thriving music and shopping scene. The hotel is adjacent to Cabot Circus and Bristol Cathedral is a mile from the property. Clifton Suspension Bridge is two-and-a-half miles from the hotel and SS Great Britain Steam Ship is two miles away. It's nine miles to Bristol Airport.
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Priceline guests say Bristol Marriott Hotel City Centre is a "beautiful hotel with big rooms and very comfy beds." They call the hotel a "good choice" for your stay in Bristol.
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Please note that public parking is available opposite the hotel and is subject to charges.Please note that the terrace is closed from October to March.
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October 21, 2015
Group Traveler
Location and the breakfast buffet
Renee from Sault Ste Marie, Canada
December 11, 2014
Solo Traveler
December 11, 2014
Solo Traveler
No free wifi (£15 a day) room was located above the terrace where music played until very late and loud conversations were made, heard every word of a circumcision conversation
Jason from Jackson, TN
July 6, 2014
Solo Traveler
July 6, 2014
Solo Traveler
There are semi-private patios overlooking the city, meaning one could sleep with an open window.
The part where I had to leave.
Great for a city trip or a good day at the spa. Nice leisure center and a really good breakfast.
Alexander from Coquitlam, Canada
September 1, 2011
September 1, 2011
friendly staff, clean, good value for money
expensive parking
thumbs up! apart from the pay parking, everything was great about it
Normand from Laval, Canada
August 31, 2011
August 31, 2011
Great place, great service, great room.
Situated near train station and shopping mail.
Bev from Abbotsford, Canada
June 6, 2011
June 6, 2011
The pool & workout room, size & look of rooms.
The cost of using Internet was way too high.
Beautiful hotel with big rooms and very comfy beds. Everything was clean and high quality.
Pete from Stittsville, Canada
May 18, 2011
Business Traveler
May 18, 2011
Business Traveler
Location to the City Centre was excellent.
the Internet speed/bandwidth was very poor.
Nice hotel, excellent location, friendly staff.
Barbara from Saint Petersburg, FL
May 6, 2011
May 6, 2011
Clean and extremely comfortable beds.
The dinner in dining room was not acceptable and expensive, The included breakfast buffet was good.
Good choice with great beds and breakfast included.
Agnes from Snellville, GA
April 27, 2011
Solo Traveler
April 27, 2011
Solo Traveler
easy check in and out, very flexible.
no free wi-fi, no microwave or fridge
not bad at all. Clean, comfortable, friendly staff.
Don from Sacramento, CA
September 22, 2010
Solo Traveler
September 22, 2010
Solo Traveler
Right in heart of downtown shopping and nr castle park
A little isolated after shops close.
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Lisbon 13 - In Rossio, the most central square!
Maximální počet hostů8
Počet místností3
Velikost120 m²
Floor No.4
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|Rua dos Sapateiros, 1100 Lisbon, Portugalsko
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Apartment 13 is on the 4th floor (no elevator!) of a renovated historical building located in Rossio square. It offers an amazing view to the square and to the National Theatre D. Maria II (Teatro Nacional D. Maria II). This impressive building dates back to the 18th C and possesses high ceilings.
The perfect mix: location & confort. By staying in this flat you will be in one of the most exciting areas of the city and you will find a very comfortable, modern, spacious and bright place to relax.
Rossio square is the starting point of the city's main promenade. You are in the very heart of it. This is the ideal location for walking lovers as it allows easy access to the other picturesque neighbourhoods of the city, like Chiado, Bairro Alto, Castle (S. Jorge) and Alfama. It is also at a one minute walking distance to the subway and train stations that can take you to the beaches around Lisbon or the mystical village of Sintra.
You are also next door to Rua Augusta, a street full of restaurants and shops.
There are two public parking garages at your disposal within a 2 minutes walk.
The apartment is 120 m2 and includes the following:
* one living room with dining and sitting areas, one double sofa bed, flat screen cable TV, DVD player and stereo. This area is provided with air conditioning;
* one bedroom with a double bed (140 cm * 200 cm);
* one bedroom with a double bed (150 cm * 200 cm);
* one bedroom with two single beds (90 cm * 200 cm);
* a complete kitchen with electric oven and stove, dishwasher, washing machine, drying machine, microwave and fridge with frozen compartment;
* a bathroom with bathtub and shower;
* a bathroom with shower.
Wireless broadband access available for those who have their own laptop with Wi-Fi compatible equipment.
In wintertime it is heated with electric heaters.
Remark: This apartment is provided with double glass windows.
We will welcome you with a bottle of cold "vinho verde". You will also find in the apartment various CDs with typical Portuguese music to complete your cultural experience in Lisbon.
Domovní řádCheck-in and check-out:
- Check-in is after 4 PM (You can always come after 11 to leave you luggage and get the keys, but if we have someone else leaving on the same day the apartment won't be ready before 4 PM).
- Check-out is until 11 AM.
In labour days, you can leave the luggage in our office before 11AM in the day of your check-in and/or after 4PM in the day of your check-out.
Please call us 30 minutes before your arrival.
Check-in Monday to Friday from 4PM to 9:30PM is free of charge, except on Portuguese public holidays.
Particular situations:
- additional 30 Euro for check-in from 9:30 PM to 00:00 AM everyday;
- additional 45 Euro for check-in from 00:00 AM to 8:30 AM everyday;
- additional 25 Euro for check-in on Week-ends and on Portuguese public holidays till 9:30 PM.
Please note that, for security reasons, you must bring a copy of your id card or passport when you check-in.
Kindly note that a damage deposit of 150€ OR a credit card responsability term will also be asked upon arrival.
Cleaning and maintenance:
The apartment will be cleaned prior to the arrival of each tenant.
When leaving, the tenant is obliged to leave the apartment in a reasonable condition.
The tenant signing the check-in form will be liable for the correct and decent behavior of all the persons accompanying him/her, and specifically avoiding any activity that is against any law or health policy.
Don't forget that you are going to stay in residential buildings. Guests staying in one of our apartments should know that if parties or loud music are heard, or neighbors complain and/or police is called, it can result in immediate eviction. This will also result in loss of prepaid rent.
Quiet time is from 10 PM to 10 AM. We are sure that you understand that the nightly rest of other inhabitants must be respected.
Smoking is not permitted in the apartments unless stated otherwise.
|Monthly rate for up to 4 guests
|3813 €
|Cena za více než 4 ubytované(ých)
|26 € Cena za osobu/noc navíc
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Great apartment in a perfect location. Highly recommended!
We had a very nice stay in an amazing apartment in an amazing city. Very good contact with the host before and during the travel.
10/10 would book again.
Although it has been some time, I remember very well that it was a great experience to stay at this appartment for some days. We even stayed longer than intended and that was no problem at all. Beautiful view when sitting on the rooftop at night or day. The slanted walls throughout the whole appartment give it a funky feeling, but is a bit inconvenient for very tall people. Would recommend this place to anyone wanting a Lisboa city experience, as it is very central and close to most sights.
The host cancelled the booking, this review is automated.
We had a wonderful stay in Lisbon. The location is terrific if you wish to be a part of the famous Fado neighborhood. Great restaurants directly across from the Fado Museum. The climb to the apartment is around 100 steps, but once you get there the view from both sides is well worth it. The apartment is very comfortable and very clean. It would comfortably sleep 4
Amazing apartment, amazing location, amazing host.
Perfect location for Bairro Alto where there is alot of restaurants, cafés and bars. Also short distance to Chiado and all transportation to go where ever you would like to go. The apparatment is big anough for 3, maybe 4 people/family. It has one big bedrom and to sleeping couches. There is a bar on the corner so there are some noises, especially in the weekends. I will absolutely recommend this appartment.
Mooie locatie in een levendige buurt, vlakbij metro Cais do Sodré. Het appartement zelf is ruim en comfortabel, en heeft gelukkig heel isolerend glas want de buurt is nogal rumoerig 's nachts. Bij het woord 'luxury' (en voor die prijs) had ik wel verwacht dat er iets van douchegel voorzien was, of wat basics in de keuken. Niet dus. En nog een minpuntje: check-in is pas om 16u.
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- Transitions of care and long-term surveillance after vascular surgeryAndrew W Hoel
Division of Vascular Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 676 N St Clair Street, Suite 650, Chicago, Il 60611 Electronic address
Semin Vasc Surg 28:134-40. 2015..The purpose of this review is to provide a contemporary perspective of transitions of care at discharge and long-term surveillance recommendations after vascular surgery interventions. ..
- Variation in smoking cessation after vascular operationsAndrew W Hoel
Division of Vascular Surgery, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH 60611, USA
J Vasc Surg 57:1338-44; quiz 1344.e1-4. 2013..The purpose of this study was to examine smoking cessation rates after vascular procedures and delineate factors predictive of postoperative smoking cessation...
- Aneurysmal disease: thoracic aortaAndrew W Hoel
Division of Vascular Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
Surg Clin North Am 93:893-910, ix. 2013..Specifically discussed are treatment advances arising from the development of endovascular technology. ..
- Under-representation of women and ethnic minorities in vascular surgery randomized controlled trialsAndrew W Hoel
Division of Vascular Surgery, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Mass 02115, USA
J Vasc Surg 50:349-54. 2009..This study describes the reporting of gender and ethnicity data in vascular surgery RCTs and analyzes whether these studies adequately represent our diverse patient population...
- Outcomes of Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair and Subclavian Revascularization TechniquesKimberly C Zamor
Division of Vascular Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL Division of General Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
J Am Coll Surg 221:93-100. 2015..The purpose of this study was to compare outcomes of LSA coverage during TEVAR and revascularization techniques...
- A comparison of results with eversion versus conventional carotid endarterectomy from the Vascular Quality Initiative and the Mid-America Vascular Study GroupJoseph R Schneider
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What city in Europe has the highest number of trees and green surface per inhabitant? What city has the third best subway system in the world?Madrid! Yes, Madrid, Spain, is the answer to both of the above questions. It was chosen one of the 10 most livable cities on earth by Monocle magazine, and it is now the third richest city in Europe (after London and Paris). It also has one of the highest concentrations of bars and restaurants per capita in the world. It's quite a surprising, fun and cultural city.
Start the New Year with a new film series at the Chevy Chase Library!Classic films will be screened every Monday Night at 6:30 p.m.But what is a classic? That term can have a lot of meanings, so while you are in the library vote for what your favorite 'classic' film would be.Can't pick just one? That's okay! Vote early, and often. Results may be used to plan for future films in this series.
Meredith Mileti, author of the new book Aftertaste: A Novel in Five Courses, will be speaking at the Chevy Chase Neighborhood Library on November 12 at 2 p.m.
"The Borscht Belt" refers to the resort hotels of New York's Catskill Mountains, which acted as an incubator to many of America's best-known comics and entertainers through much of the 20th century. Most of these resorts closed down in the 1980s or '90's, so they are virtually "gone with the wind," but they left a huge influence on American culture.
November is National Novel Writing Month and we'll be hosting three "write-ins" at our branch. Come on in to write, get together with fellow writers, and use all the library resources you need to write your masterpiece! (There will also be refreshments.)Our write-ins will take place on November 16, 23 and 30 from 6 to 8:30 p.m.
Ecuador is full of surprises! That's why it is the subject of our National Hispanic Heritage Month display at the Chevy Chase Library this month. Did you know...
For the next two months, we will be screening some of Alfred Hitchcock's best work Mondays at 6:30 p.m.
On Saturday, September 10, we will be screening two film in memory of the 10th anniversary of 9/11.
Biloxi Blues is a movie based on Neil Simon's play of the same name, a semi-autobiographical story of Army boot camp recruits during World War II. The play is part two of Neil Simon's Eugene Trilogy, which also includes Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound. The role of Eugene was played by Matthew Broderick on Broadway, and Broderick also stars in the movie version, which was directed by Mike Nichols.


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Clearing the Path to Big Data Initiatives
Big data isn't just about collecting all your data sources into one place. That's important, but it's only part of the whole picture. There's a difference between a "Big Bunch of Data" and "Big Data." As marketers today do their best to wrap their arms around the concepts of big data, it's important to keep a clear vision of what you hope to accomplish so you don't get stuck in the weeds and delay adoption. (For more advice on getting started, check out my last article on this topic.)
Regardless of where you are regarding your company's big data initiatives, here are three points to consider as you explore solutions for the adoption of big data in your own organization:
1. Be ready for big. The beauty of big data is about finding relationships between different sets of information. To accomplish that you need to make sure all your data is accessible and actionable across channels and sources. This requires some sort of scalable technology to have a place to store it all moving forward. Data breeds faster than rabbits.
Once you begin collecting and coordinating data from across points of customer interaction, you'll need a platform to aggregate the information, preferably stored within unique customer profiles. Having real muscle behind your platform is also essential for you to freely run analyses. The value of pulling together your critical data housed in separate systems into a single platform is one thing, but you also need to make sure your system has what it takes to quickly report back to you, especially as the volume of information continues to grow.
2. Time to get messy. Traditional bunches of data are orderly and structured, but things get interesting when you pull unstructured data into the mix. Unstructured data is information that doesn't neatly fit "inside the box" — i.e., details that aren't standardized by traditional data intake approaches. Such information can hold high value, however. Examples of unstructured data can include handwritten notes, comments and complaints. The best data management platform or database systems should have a way to create space for unstructured information, tagged appropriately. Be sure you have a system in place to capture and use all your information, even when it doesn't come in neat and pretty. Sometimes messy is good.
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At first sight Barcelona Sants station has everything, except trains. Trains are buried beneath the streets of Barcelona. We descend to the platform and find our seats on train 3940, heading to Córdoba. A woman in the seat in front is playing Beatles songs out loud on her phone until the guard walks past and wags a finger. She should have known better. A man with two budgerigars in a cage sits behind us and we consider whether they are tweeting, chirping, warbling. ...
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... of the noodles in the same place - again the noodles were eaten. Each time I fed it, it gets a little less timid around me, and now I could get close enough to see that this dog has been lost for a while - it was super skinny, it has dirt build up on its mouth and it has mites or fleas or something visible in the white fur. I remembered that back when I was first in Spain, Jess had given me some left over porridge for my food bag that I hadn't eaten. So I got my Trangia bowl out, ...
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