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MY cousin's friend's neighborer's cat got pregnant when someone broke into the house and she got out through the window. She had three kittens, and I was over there two days after they were born. Two were both solid slivery gray and one was born slivery gray and white with slightly darker points ( ears, nose, feet, and tail).
I was over there again last night, The kittens are now around 3 1/2 months old. The two solid kittens eyes have changed to a cooper color, but the pointed kitten - whose points have become real dark gray - eyes are still blue. Mom's eyes are a light amber.
I have always thought that it took two blue eyed cat parents to make blue eyed kittens, and that pointed kittens were always born solid white and the points came in over time.
Either I have never known what I have been talking about, or this kitten has defied genetics?
If had the monetary means to do this kitten right, I would have taken him home ~ LOL!
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Blue eyes are a recessive gene, so both parents need to possess the recessive trait in order for the gene to become dominant in any of their offspring. Cheers ^_^
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This is Rosemary. Rosemary is very smart. Why is she so smart? Rosemary is so smart, because she knew I needed a guest blogger, and I didn't! Yep. Rosemary and I are the new thing, the new trend … you know … "blogging friends" – all the cool people have them. So, in the midst of our email discussions, Rosemary offered to be a guest blogger! She noticed that my tagline says knitting and I never knit. Oh, I knit. I just never finish anything.
So, guess what?!! Rosemary is going to do a sort of knit-along! Anyone and everyone is welcome to join in. She will be posting instructions and inspiration every week. And at the end of it, you will have a fabulous Christmas stocking!!
Isn't it adorable?! So, without further ado, I bring you Rosemary:
Hi! I'm Rosemary and I'm a fan of Sidewalk Shoes. I'd call myself an intermediate knitter and I'm lucky to have a very small circle of knitters at my workplace. We enjoy working on projects together, exchanging ideas and tips and helping each other figure out how to navigate knitting patterns. I'd like to expand the group and thought that it may be possible to do that through blogging. I asked Pam if she would be open to considering a "guest contributor" and she said yes! So, here I am!
For the last 10 years, I've made my home in central Massachusetts. My husband and I bought a house built in 1847, then a wedding gift from a mill owner to his daughter. Sadly, she died four years later. We think of Ann Eliza from time to time and make an effort to keep up the house to her liking.
I work as social worker at a community health center and just love it. Like Pam, I enjoy reading, cooking and gardening and I've copied her idea and included a picture of myself taken while looking in the mirror!
Genealogy is another passion of mine.
My friend, Amy, has a Christmas stocking knitted decades ago by her grandmother. The pattern was featured in a magazine for women 1945! Amy, Alicia and I have worked through two stockings each and are now comfortable with the pattern. I'm including the one I made last year for a new addition to our extended family, Julie.
There is time to make this stocking for someone for Christmas. I want to invite you to do the project together and I'll make another along with you for new baby, Allana. I'll happily answer any questions as we go along. Keep watching Sidewalk Shoes…next week I'll include the pattern, a picture of Amy's original stocking and let you know all we'll need to get started.
So very nice to meet all of you!
Doesn't this sound like fun!!


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Strange Talk Debut Album 'Cast Away,' Out, 10/8
Strange Talk, a Melbourne, Australia based alt-pop four-piece will release their self-produced Wind-up Records debut album Cast Away on October 8, 2013. All songs were mixed by Tony Hoffer (M83, Phoenix) with the exception of "Climbing Walls," "Eskimo Boy" and "Is It Real?" which were mixed by Eliot James (Bloc Party, Two Door Cinema Club). Rolling Stone (Australia) recently gave Cast Away a four out of five star review calling it "Equal parts Cut Copy and Daft Punk with pinches of Eighties pop, Strange Talk's album is a fizzy cocktail of synths, breathy vocals and tinny drums." Debut single, "Climbing Walls" is at radio now.
The buzz has been building since the release of their self-titled 2011 EP (Wind-up released an updated version of this EP June 4, 2013). They reached the #1 spot onBillboard's Uncharted chart with "Climbing Walls" in the United States; the music video for that song was also part of a hugely successful Cheer laundry detergent campaign "Dig It. Get It" in the United State and Canada which made it the first-ever music video to feature hidden rewards to be found within it. They've played such festivals as Parklife, Stereosonic, Future Music, Soundscape and Falls, opened for Foster The People, the Rapture, Neon Indian and Marina and The Diamonds and wowed New York City at both 2011 and 2012's CMJ Music Marathon. Now Strange Talk will make their U.S. album debut with Cast Away - 12 tracks of indie-meets-electro gems (track listing below). You can get the song "Another Day" for free here and on Strange Talk's website.


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Simon Katich top-scored with 73 as the Australians were all out for 218 in a two-day practice match against a local side here on Saturday.
The 33-year-old left-hander hit 10 fours in his 105-ball knock after captain Ricky Ponting won the toss and elected to bat against the RCA Centre of Excellence eleven.
Ponting, who averages a dismal 12.28 from eight Tests in India, failed to use the opportunity to find form ahead of the four-Test series, making just five.
Prolific opener Matthew Hayden (16), making a return after an injury lay-off, put on 54 runs for the opening wicket partnership with Katich.
Fit-again Shane Watson worked hard for his 30 runs which came off a 91-minute stay at the wicket and included three fours.
The all-rounder, 27, is set to figure in the opening Test of the four-match series starting in Bangalore on October 9 as a seamer and middle-order batsman.
Left-arm spinner Gajendra Singh, 20, picked five wickets for 58 runs, exposing Australia's vulnerability to spin.
Brief Scores:
Australians 1st innings: 218 all out in 77.1 overs (S. Katich 73, S. Watson 30; G. Singh 5-58).


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We Lost one of the classiest guys.
Lost our own time inventor
Show Steve some love... ripSTEVEshirts.com
You'll be missed dude!
I was truly saddened to hear that we lost such an icon. Steve was a great man and he deserves to be memorialized eternally. On a lighter note....I went to modmyi.com and the first thing I saw was this pic, and was like "Why the hell is Ashton Kutcher on MMI?"
Breaks my heart to no end.... I hate this part of life. He was to young.
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But Why Does Apple Wants To Take On The Role Of Content Gatekeeper?
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Still, it does make you wonder why Apple is bothering? All it seems to do is piss off people. It takes extra work and effort on Apple's part and it's hard to see who benefits. Plenty of other systems out there allow anyone to develop apps and content, and they get by just fine, often using user feedback systems to make sure that "bad" content and apps get weeded out fast, without any complaints from users. Having Apple set itself up as the ultimate gatekeeper isn't "censorship" -- it's just pointless.
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The one undeniably innovative thing about the Kindle is the free wireless EVDO access. The limits on access to Internet content may be an attempt to keep the bandwidth consumption down. But in a world where you can get an unlimited data plan for your iPhone for $20 per month, they should at least have an option for a flat rate "all you can eat" data plan, which would allow you to access Internet content and subscribe to an unlimited number of blogs, newspapers, and public domain books. Bezos obviously wants this to be the iPod of the printed word. But one of the crucial factors behind the iPod's success is that it gives you free access to content in open formats. You can rip your CDs and listen to them on an iPod. You can subscribe to an unlimited number of podcasts. With the Kindle, in contrast, Amazon apparently expects customers to buy an unfamiliar proprietary device, and then pay a premium to read content like blogs and public domain books that's available for free on the Internet. Somehow I don't think that very many people are going to go for that.


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When grilling okra, I found there are benefits to cutting and to skewering.
Cut Version: My husband preferred the cut version because they tend to char a bit more and the inside of the okra is cooked more.
Served with Simple Summer Salsa: Cut corn. Black Beans. Tomato. Cilantro.
Skewered Version: SO much easier to flip!
Served with Simple Spicy Asian Sauce: Fish Sauce (or Soy Sauce). Ginger. Red Pepper Flakes.


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Plopping the Live Curly Live Free Way
I've had quite a few people ask me how to do the LCLF plop method since so many of my clients have had success with it. I eventually would like to have some YouTubes going to demonstrate some of my methods, but for now, a written description will have to do :)
a. Take a large curly-friendly towel, measuring at least 16 by 29, and fold it in half on the diagonal so that it looks like a large triangle.
b. Place the triangle on a low flat surface, such as a countertop or toilet seat, with the point, or tail, away from you and the long flat side running horizontally closest to you.
c. With your head upside down, carefully gather your curls in a loose ponytail on top of your head (do not twist them). Now, accordion, or scrunch the curls up to the top of your head as you lower your head down onto the plop towel. Aim to place the edge of the long side of the plop towel right over your front hair line.
d. Press your head firmly against the plop towel to anchor it to the surface so that it doesnt move, scrunching your curls firmly against the top of your head as you do so.
e. Take the tail of the plop towel with your left hand and pull it backwards to cover the back of your head, covering the nape of your neck.
f. Holding the tail firmly, reach over with your right hand and grab the righthand point of the plop towel and pull it tightly to the left over the tail so that it is now on the left side of your neck.
g. Holding the right-hand point securely over the tail, grab the left-hand point and pull it towards the right side of your neck.
h. Take the left and right points and pull them snugly up and around the sides of your head to the top of your head, then tie them tightly on the top of your head (in the front towards the forehead) in a small knot. Tuck the tail carefully underneath if the excess fabric covering your neck is bothersome.
Have fun! And let me know how it works for you!
I've given up on plopping, but I'll give this a try. Thanks for the clear instructions! =)
Same here. I think the floursack towels I was using to plop with were too small for the Jessicurl way.
I just did the Struttswife way and it worked!! Plus it is nice and tight. I look like a pirate though, hehe.
My flour sack towels are about 27'' by 27''.
I'm gonna try this. My plops are hit and miss (sometimes they are good, other times some hair sticks out by the temples). Maybe this will be more consistant.
Thanks Tiffers:toothy3:
I tried this method today after momof3curls described it on another thread.
I will plop this way from now on. It worked well!
Thanks so much for that- written so clearly it helped far more than seeing a video! I think this was will work much better for me.
I never thought about folding the towel in a triangle. I have been fighting with my micro fiber towel, because it is to dense to twist AND tie. This was helpfull, thanks!
i will try it that way. when i've plopped in the past, it has worked well for most of my hair, but the front top of my hair gets too dry, frizzy. i've tried it for about 15 minutes when i get out of the shower.
should i saturate that part with water before i plop?
I'll have to give this a try tomorrow, and I'll let you know if I can figure it out or not. I've tried unsuccessfully to "plop" in the past. I just can never manage to twist and tie the ends up and it ends up all falling off.
Alright, where do I get a towel that'll work for this method??
I just bought some flour sack towels at Walmart that are square and the perfect size. Cheap too! :)
Where in Walmart?
They're in the cooking section actually. I got mine at Target. Had to ask an employee to help me because I couldn't find them myself even though I looked in the cooking section.
I tried this with my CurlEase to try an overnight plop, but I can't get the ends around to the front of my melon head. :oops:
I bought them at Walmart in the kitchen towel section. 5 for $5.50. They are wrapped in a blue paper band.
I'm curious - is there a reason the triangle/wrapping around the head and fastening at the front are beneficial? Does it have something to do with where the pressure is placed?
(I've got, as RCC put it, a melon head, so finding a towel big enough for this might be a challenge and I'm wondering what makes the difference and if I can get what I have to do the same basic thing...)
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Cadillac Allante Forum Discussion, 1989 needs new struts in Past Cadillac Vehicle Discussion; From what I am seeing is they are non electronic and standard is that correct ?...
1989 needs new struts
From what I am seeing is they are non electronic and standard is that correct ?
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Re: 1989 needs new struts
Dwight from another site. These are what I put on my '89 with good results. Lots of folks I know use Monroe sensatracs.
" As you know, the original type electronic struts are only available for the Northstar cars now. If I were replacing the struts on your car, I would use the GM 88945832. This passive strut is also sold as ACDelco 503-352. It has a good combination of firmness without being too harsh on normal roads. The rears are 22189456, ACDelco 580-6"
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by Crystal Hayes
Last week was Father's Day and it explains why I had such a hard time sleeping all week. Of all the holidays, I have the most complicated relationship with Father's Day. It's a regular reminder of what was stolen from me. After 41 years it's still hard. I cut my teeth and grew up behind prison walls and I am not alone. There are nearly 3 million children in the United States growing up with an incarcerated parent.
The United States imprisons more people than any other country in the world with devastating consequences for the poor, and Black and Brown communities and their children. We incarcerate over 2 million people and many of them long-term due to overly harsh drug laws and rigid sentencing practices obsessed with locking people up for profit. There's no way out of this without comprehensive prison reform policies.
I am glad to see that we're talking about ending the war on drugs, but we must do more than rename it. We also need to expand the conversation about mass incarceration to include the truth about parole and life sentences. My father, Robert Seth Hayes, was sentenced to 25 years to life for his involvement with the Black Panther Party, but not life without parole. He was eligible for parole in 1995 but every two years for the past 18 years he's denied release—despite an exemplary prison record—by the New York State Parole Board.
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So we have an unexpected road trip that I would -very much- like to do at the end of March. Our daughter will be 4 months almost exactly. It's 8 hours give or take without stopping.
She hates the car right now, and will cry for between 5-20 minutes before conking out and sleeping for the rest of the drive. We're trying different things to help this, but right now, not much seems to make a difference. I was hoping someone being back there would help her not feel alone, but it doesn't change her attitude. The only thing so far was removing the bundle me from her seat (I think not being able to see properly was a problem).
We're planning on taking out her convertible carseat and trying that, as she's currently in a bucket seat. Any other tips? She's exclusively breastfed, and still will be at that point, so obviously we'll have to stop every few hours to nurse and get out of the car. How often should I be concerned about stopping (outside of the obvious, when she's hungry)?
I'm wondering about the wisdom of trying to keep her up a bit the night before, and then leaving early morning, and hoping she'll sleep for most of the drive off and on. She normally sleeps til around 10am right now, and goes down around 1130 or midnight.
Also toying with the idea of borrowing an in car DVD player for that weekend. She is interested in shapes on the tv (specifically... hockey) and just now we're trying her with baby einstein for the first time, and she is enthralled!
Anyways, so give me your tips, tricks, concerns, things I might not have thought about... I'm not so much worried about the weekend once we're there, but very hesitant about the drive there and back.
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We drove across the country when DD was that age. We found we could typically get in about 6 hours of driving each day - and it took us the whole day to do it. I think getting up really early and starting your trip during a time when she's usually sleeping sounds like a pretty good idea. The only tip I have is to try to figure out places you can stop where you'll be content to stay for a couple of hours, because if your baby is like mine, she's going to need good long breaks in between sessions in the car, and you don't want to be stuck for two hours somewhere really boring like a gas station parking lot.
When my daughter was that young, it was worth it to us to drive at night and catch up on sleep when we got to our destination. We would do her normal bedtime routine, nurse, then pop her in the car seat in her PJs. We only needed to stop to breastfeed and change diapers every 2 or so hours, then she would go back to sleep. Expect to add a couple hours to your driving time, though. And pull your window shade down, even if it's pitch black outside, since toll plaza and gas station lights can wake them up and make them angry!
When our son was 5 months we did a 10 hour drive...well, it's 10 hrs without a baby, but was 12 hrs on the way and about 11 hrs on the way back. I sat in the back with DS. We left early in the morning (6-7am) and he quickly fell into a 3 hour rhythm. Sleep for about 2-2.5 hours, wake and be content for a while, then get hungry and fuss. The we'd find a good exit, put more gas in the car (so we wouldn't have to stop while he was sleeping), change diaper, nurse, and then back on the road. Draping a blanket over the bucket seat helped keep sun out of his eyes. At times I even held up a large road almanac to block sun coming in from my side of the car. The best advice I read here was to try to only stop when baby is ready to stop (so as not to wake a sleeping baby). Our stops along the way were typically about 30 minutes long.
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iAd -- Is $60M A Big Deal?
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Most of the news this morning at WWDC was around iPhone 4 and iOS 4. Will leave the new device and platform play to my colleague Charles Golvin. I can't wait to get one of the new phones . . . very slick as it looks like a mini iPad in a modified format.
iAd . . . $60M committed for the second half of 2010. Initial advertisers include: AT&T, Best Buy, Campbell Soup Company, Chanel, Citi, DirecTV, GEICO, GE, JCPenney, Liberty Mutual Group, Nissan, Sears, State Farm, Target, Turner Broadcasting System, Unilever, and The Walt Disney Studios.
Pretty impressive. How do they get to $60M? Rumor is that the minimum buy-in is $1M, but it goes up from there. They claim to have 50% of mobile ad market share according to a J.P. Morgan study. I think it is a bold claim unless this is purely the media spend and doesn't include creative. Our number is comparable -- but without creative. Advertisers can count on the buzz surrounding iAd's launch on July 1. That alone may justify the initial buy. These initial advertisers are a smart bunch. A few million dollars isn't much to any one of them, but these are sizeable buys for mobile.
I think there are a lot of interesting questions to be answered. Many will be "wait and see," but here's my wishlist:
- What do I get for $1M+ in mobile advertising? Am I buying creative, development, ads, and analytics?
- How much targeting do I get?
- Is it performance-based? Or CPMs?
- What will work well on the i OS4 devices? Branding? Or, will the ads leverage context -- the context of how, where, and when I use these devices? Will the ads drive me to online purchases or into a nearby store to make a purchase?
- How much control do I get over where my ads are placed?
- Will these ads perform better than those of third-party ad networks?
- How much will a developer get per ad viewed or clicked on?
- If I play the same free game everyday, how many different ads will I see? How many ads will Nissan have?
Apple is committed to the success of the platform and great user experiences. With all of the new device features rolled out today, I'm sure we'll see ads that will blow our minds. Sustaining this level of creativity will be tough, but there could be a big business in making it worthwhile to many in the industry. We'll have to see more than what was demo'ed for Nissan today. Use of device features -- very cool. Configurator -- nice. Cost of driving -- great. Giving away the free car? Okay, this drives up the number of page views and ad performance, but are sweepstakes qualified leads?
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This is the definitive spec sheet on the DVDO iScan VP30:
The iScan VP30 is a high-definition video processor and A/V hub that converts standard or high definition from your DVD player, VCR, PVR, HD set top box, game console, or PC to any output resolution between VGA and 1080p, including popular HDTV resolutions such as 720p and 1080i.
VRS Precision Video Scaling II technology by ABT - 10-bit Scaling with Enhanced Sharpness Control
Motion and source adaptive video deinterlacing for NTSC (3:2 and 2:2 pulldown; video) and PAL/SECAM (2:2 pulldown; video) sources (SiI504)
Upgradeable to the VRS Precision Deinterlacing Card (ABT102)
SD(480i/576i) Source, Motion and Edge Adaptive Deinterlacer
Arbitrary cadence detection (any:any) to detect non-standard cadences in input signals.o Reliable 2:2 pull-down detection for 50Hz countries o Detection of 2:2 to/from 3:2 crossfades and out of phase 3:2 crossfades o Detection of multiple source types within a frame for example video titles over film o Bad edit detection and compensation to minimize artifacts caused by sequence breaks in film content
ABT's Precision A/V Lipsync - Intelligent digital audio delay technology to match Audio and Video timing
ABT's Rightrate - High-Performance Framerate Conversion
ABT's AutoVFR - Intelligent Component Video Inputs with Automatic Video Format Routing
ABT's AutoCUE-C - Automatic Chroma Upsampling Error detection and correction
User defined output resolution from VGA (640x480) to 1080p (1920x1080)
Analog HD Transcoding and Processing
Gamma Correction - 0.5-2.5
Input Aspect Ratio Controls
Presets: 4:3 full frame, 4:3 letterbox, Panorama, 16:9 full frame or user-defined aspect ratio (10)
Flexible Horizontal and Vertical Zooming & Panning controls
Overscan Adjustment per input
Output Aspect Ratio Controls
Presets: 4:3, 16:9, 2.35:1 or custom output aspect ratio
Separate Display/Screen Adjustments
Underscan Adjustment to eliminate Overscan inherent in a display
10 User-Defined 'Display Profiles' - For multiple display, framerate, and image shift configurations (10)
10-bit 300MHz Instrumentation Quality DACs (2x Oversampling for 1080p)
Full-frame Timebase Correction
High performance, multi-standard video decoder (10-bit: 480i/576i; 12-bit: 480p/576p/720p/1080i)
High-quality super-adaptive comb filter with 2D Y/C separation
Flexible Digital and Analog Audio switching and routing - 4 HDMI audio/video inputs, 5 assignable audio inputs (4 digital, 1 analog) with 1 HDMI audio/video output and 2 active digital audio outputs.
Software Upgradeable
Predefined output resolutions for Plasma, DLP, LCD, LCOS, and CRT-based displays:
480p (720x480)
576p (720x576)
720p (1280x720)
1080i (1920x1080)
1080p (1920x1080)
VGA (640x480)
SVGA (800x600)
XGA (1024x768)
SXGA (1280x1024)
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User customizeable output resolution from 480p (720x480) to 1080p (1920x1080)
Technical Specifications
Twelve Video Inputs Available
Two Composite (NTSC/PAL/SECAM)
Two S-Video (NTSC/PAL/SECAM)
Two Component (YPbPr or RGB/S) processes 480i/p, 576i/p, 720p, 1080i
One RGBHV/Component (BNC-style connectors) processes 480p, 576p, 720p, 1080i, VGA/SVGA/XGA/SXGA@60Hz
Four HDMI processes 480i/p, 576 i/p, 720p, 1080i, VGA/SVGA/XGA/SXGA@60Hz
One Optional SD-SDI (Serial Digital Interface) processes 480i/576i
Nine Audio Inputs
Four HDMI
Two Coaxial Digital
Two Optical Digital
One Analog Pair (L/R)
One Analog Video Output
Using High Quality BNC-style connectors
Configurable for YPbPr, RGBHV, RGB/S, or RGB
One Digital Audio/Video Output
Using HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface) connector
Configurable for YCbCr or RGB
Also carries audio
Two Digital Audio Outputs
One Coaxial Digital
One Optical Digital
Front Panel
Infrared remote control with direct access codes or manual controls on front panel
Functions accessible via either On Screen Display (OSD) or 2 line, 20 character front-panel LED display
RS232 port for software downloads and automation.
Fully programmable controls for each separate video input with non-volatile memories:
- Automatic input source detection & input priority selection
- Picture controls with memory for each input: Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, Hue, Y/C Delay, Sharpness
Output Controls: Analog/Digital, Format/Resolution, Aspect Ratio, Sync Type, Colorspace (RGB or YPbPr),
Frame Lock, Display Profiles (10)
35 Built-in test patterns for ease of set up
Universal AC mains input: 100 - 240 VAC @ 50-60 Hz
Consumption <30W
Sleep Mode - automatic 30 second timeout indicated by power indicator color change
Physical Dimensions
10.4x17x2.2 (26.3cmx43.4cmx5.5cm) with feet
10.4x17x1.8 (26.3cmx43.4cmx4.6cm) without feet
Available Accessories
ABT102 Precision Deinterlacing daughter card
SD-SDI Input Module
Silver Front Bezel
Rack Mount Kit (1RU)
VP30 Owner's Manual
Available here: http://www.dvdo.com/documents/DVDO_i...75-0239-01.pdf
VP30 Quick Start Guide
Available here: http://www.dvdo.com/documents/DVDO_i...StartGuide.pdf
Discrete IR Generator - Created by Barry Gordon
Available here: http://www.dvdo.com/faq/faq_setup.php
Q: What are these new 'Game Modes' that come with the Precision Deinterlacing Card?
A: These modes can reduce the amount of video delay to less than a single frame. In many competitive processors the effects of applying complex algorithms to the video image results in upwards of a seven frame delay. This can inhibit the real-time performance for gamers who want instantaneous response to react to stimuli and to realize peak performance from their application. The VRS Precision Deinterlacing Card (when set to one of the Game Modes) will reduce frame delay down to slightly less than one frame of video.
Q: What comes on the DVD that ships with the Precision Deinterlacing Card?
A: The DVD that comes with the Precision Deinterlacing Card includes many test patterns to assist the you in optimizing the setup of your iScan VP30 and to evaluate the performance of your iScan VP30 (or any other video processing). This DVD was produced by Stacey Spears and Don Munsil (S&M) and I strongly believe that this will be the Reference DVD that everyone uses to compare video processing from now on.
The Static Patterns include:
Picture Controls (Brightness/Contrast, Color/Tint, Y/C Delay, and Resolution)
Geometry (Frame Geometry, Image Cropping, Cross Hatch - Coarse, Cross Hatch - Fine, and Focus)
Gray Scale (10IRE - 100IRE Windows and Gray Ramp)
Half Patterns (Black/White, Color 7 Bars 75, Color (7) Bars 100, Color (8) Bars 75 and Color (8) Bars 100 - These are the 'other half' of the test patterns which are built into the iScan VP30)
The Motion Patterns include:
Chroma Upsampling (ICP, 2-2, and 2-3)
Source Adaptive (Film, Film Detail, and Synthetic Wedge - Each test patterns has 2-2, 2-2-2-4, 2-3-2-3, 2-3-3-2-2, 2-3-3-2, 3-2-3-2-2, 3-3, 4-4, 5-5, 6-4, 8-7-8-7 cadences as well as a sped up cadence and bad-edits)
Edge Adaptive (Jaggies at 45/20/10 degress, Jaggies at all degrees, Video sequences which have very difficult diagonals: 'Ropes', "Ship' , 'Hockey', and Bridge')
Mixed Mode (Horizontal Text and Vertical Text)
There is also a Demo Loop which goes through all of the deinterlacing evaluation content.
The Source Adaptive 'Film' and 'Film Detail' content should be familiar to everyone, they are the infamous Cafe scene (ever wonder what happens after the bum gets the newspaper?) and Super Speedway, respectively.
Q: Can I purchase an iScan VP30 with the SDI input module and/or the ABT102 Precision Deinterlacing Card preinstalled.
A: At this point these two cards are purely user/dealer-installabe upgrades. Both are very easy to do and the installation of either will not void your warranty.
Q: Does the iScan VP30 use the same SDI input module as the iScan HD and HD+?
A: Yes, the iScan VP30 uses exactly the same input module and the VP30 will ship with two standoffs to facilitate the swap from your existing HD or HD+ to your VP30.
Q: Can the iScan VP30 take an HDMI input signal and output that same signal over the analog outputs?
A: If the input signal has HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection) legally we must turn off the analog outputs. If the input signal does not have HDCP, then the iScan VP30 CAN output this signal as an analog signal (either RGB or component) at any resolution between VGA and 1080p.
Q: What features does the VP30 have, which the iScan HD/HD+ does not have?
A: Upgradeable to ABT102 Precision Deinterlacing Card
4 HDMI Inputs and 1 HDMI Output (Audio/Video)
HD and HD+ have 1 DVI input and 1 DVI output
Precision Video Scaling II - 10-bit scaling
HD and HD+ use Precision Video Scaling (I) which is 9-bit
12-bit Video Decoder (480p/576p/720p/1080i)
HD and HD+ use 10-bit Video Decoder (VP30 does for 480i and 576i)
BNC input and output capable of RGBHV or Component
HD and HD+ have HD15 connectors capable of RGBHV or Component
RGBHV Input is processed and transcoded
HD and HD+ pass through on HD15 input
Component HD is processed and transcoded
HD and HD+ pass through 720p and 1080i on Component inputs
Elegant front panel design
Analog Audio Input
Q: If I connect an HDMI (audio/video) source to the iScan VP30 will I be able to get audio out via the optical/coaxial digital outputs?
A: In most cases the audio that is available on the HDMI connection will be available on the optical/coaxial audio outputs. Exceptions include MLP (DVD-Audio) and DSD (SACD) which SPDIF connections are incapable of carrying due to bandwidth limitations.
I'll keep the original thread starter for prosperity:
Since nobody else went for the obvious thread name, this will be the iScan VP30 Thread.
First off, we will have a press release on the DVDO iScan VP30 on August 15th (next Monday). We will have pricing/trade-up discounts and complete product info available on our website at that time.
I will not discuss any specs until Monday, but here is a better picture of the front panel of the iScan VP30:
1) The Front Panel Display is actually a 2 line, 20 character display
2) This is pre-production unit in the picture, there will be no imperfections in the machining on the production units.
If only the pic had showed the more interesting rear end
Are there preliminary specs you can let us know prior to Aug. 15th?
That's my wish list.
Looking forward to August 15!
Your answer, Kraig.
But even I know it's more than "just an Iscan HD+ with HDMI." (Although not much more.)
Isn't there another thread around here talking about WSR's 100th issue having some ad for the supposed hardware this thing will have? Either Gennum or Faroudja, etc.?
Can you tell us anything about when we should expect to be able to buy the product? I'm not sure if you are saying that it will be available this month or not, but I'm hoping that an announcement this much before CEDIA means availability soon.
Aside: Your avatar and caption literally made me LMAO. Kind of scary, but mostly downright hilarious!
Your answer, Kraig.
But even I know it's more than "just an Iscan HD+ with HDMI." (Although not much more.)
Isn't there another thread around here talking about WSR's 100th issue having some ad for the supposed hardware this thing will have? Either Gennum or Faroudja, etc.?
I've not seen anything definitive as to what this new VP30 has/does. The only thing I can recall is them saying the algorithms are ABT:
4 HDMI with audio is all we know so far, good start anyways..
can we put inside the sdi card of my iscan hd ?
is there a dvi output for connecting with my hd2k because the hdmi connection is not as strong connection as a dvi !
if your product is ready before the dragonfly i will stop my order
Can you comment in vague general terms (yes/no) if there will be an upgrade program for existing HD/HD+ users as you've done in the past?
He says as much in the first post,
Hmmmm....clearly someone switched my regular leaded coffee with decaf.
Monday will actually be good timing for me -- I was going to send off my HD to JVB for an HD+ upgrade next Tuesday, but perhaps now I won't. It's going to be a long weekend of waiting.
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The iScan VP30 is up on our website now: http://www.dvdo.com/
Couldn't wait 'til Monday eh?
Good show!
Dumb question: Will this new Iscan still be like the others where: Analog input devices mandate the use of analog output?
In other words, I can't plug devices into both analog and digital video inputs and have it ALL come out via just the HDMI output?
(HDCP and all, I suspect the answer is yes, but I just want to make sure.)
Looks fantastic, especially at that price point!
HDMI carries audio and video on the same three channels. So your idea of combining two cablws won't work.
This brings up an interesting question. If the scaler takes the audio/video output of say a DVD player and strips the video part of it for display through the HDMI output, how will the audio be connected to a receiver or processor?
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St. Therese is a rapidly growing, multicultural, Catholic parish located in the Lake Norman area of Mooresville, N.C., invigorated by Jesuit spirituality. Through ongoing stewardship and active involvement, they seek to become more like the 'Little Flower' of Jesus, St. Therese by following her "little way" of doing ordinary things with "extra-ordinary" love. St. Therese's connection with the Jesuits began in 1970 and continues that affiliation today under their current pastor.
The St. Therese community of faith, celebration and service was founded in 1946 as the St. Gerard Mission of St. Joseph Church in Kannapolis. In 1949, as the St. Therese Mission, they occupied their next home in a reconstructed chapel from Camp Lejuene, seating about 168 people. They moved into the present facility in 1988. Today St. Therese Catholic Church has over 3,200 parish families and over 1,200 children and youth in Faith Formation Programs. St. Therese is one of the largest parishes in the Charlotte Diocese.
St. Therese has a variety of outreach ministries, including a prison ministry where members teach inmates in nearby jails and prisons practical skills to prepare them for life on the outside. Every year, the ministry hosts a Christmas party in the Taylorsville prison where they provide food for 100 inmates and sing Christmas songs.
An increasingly important part of the parish's apostolic outreach has been its work among the Latino population of the area. Although the number of parishioners who speak Spanish as their first language hovers around 10 percent, the sacramental work extends far beyond the parish boundaries.
Due to the cooperation and help of the Jesuit Collaborative, an increasing number of parishioners are being made familiar with and inspired by Ignatian spirituality. Lay people are also learning more about Ignatian spirituality through participating in the Magis program, Christian Life Community and other activities that St. Therese is promoting with the Jesuit Collaborative.


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The deepening economic downturn has been hard on a lot of people, but it has been hard in a particular way for economists. For most of us, pain and apprehension have been mixed with a sense of grim amazement at the complexity of what has unfolded: the dense, invisible lattice connecting house prices to insurance companies to job losses to car sales, the inscrutability of the financial instruments that helped to spread the poison, the sense that the ratings agencies and regulatory bodies were overmatched by events, the wild gyrations of the stock market in the past few months. It's hard enough to understand what's happening, and it seems absurd to think we could have seen it coming beforehand. The vast majority of us, after all, are not experts.
But academic economists are. And with very few exceptions, they did not predict the crisis, either. Some warned of a housing bubble, but almost none foresaw the resulting cataclysm. An entire field of experts dedicated to studying the behavior of markets failed to anticipate what may prove to be the biggest economic collapse of our lifetime. And, now that we're in the middle of it, many frankly admit that they're not sure how to prevent things from getting worse.
As a result, there's a sense among some economists that, as they try to figure out how to fix the economy, they are also trying to fix their own profession. The discussion has played out in blog posts and opinion pieces, in congressional testimony and at conferences and in working papers. A field that has increasingly been defined, at least in the public eye, by quirky studies explaining the economics of our everyday lives - most famously in the best-selling book "Freakonomics" - has turned decisively, in the last couple months, to more traditional economic turf. And at economics powerhouses like Harvard, MIT, and the University of Chicago, faculty lunch discussions that once might have centered on theoretical questions and the finer points of Bayesian analysis are now given over to dissecting bailout plans. Long-held ideas - about the stability of the business cycle, the resilience of markets, and the power of monetary policy - are being challenged.
"Everyone that I know in economics, and particularly in the worlds of academic finance and academic macroeconomics, is going back to the drawing board," says David Laibson, a Harvard economist. "There are very, very, very few economists who can be proud."
A few are suggesting, as well, that there are deeper problems in the discipline. Economists are asking aloud whether the field has grown too specialized, too abstract - and too divorced, in some sense, from the way real-world economies actually function. They argue that many of the models used to explain and predict the dynamics of financial markets or national economies have been scrubbed clean, in the interest of theoretical elegance, of the inevitable erraticism of human behavior. As a result, the analytical tools of the trade offer little help in a crisis, and have little to say about the sort of collapses that led to this one.
"You can't just say, 'I have a model for tremors that works great, I just can't explain earthquakes,' " says Kenneth Rogoff, a Harvard economist who has studied financial crises.
Historically, periods of severe economic distress have shaken up economics, and helped drive its evolution. And in the midst of the current crash, there is an urgent search for approaches and models that might better illuminate how to speed the recovery and forecast future meltdowns, and that might help us better understand the unruly flow of money.
The question of how well economists can model crises takes on an even greater importance because of the central role economic experts will play in Barack Obama's administration - not only at the Federal Reserve, the Council of Economic Advisors, and the Treasury, but in the Economic Recovery Advisory Board, a newly formed body created by the president-elect and headed by former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker. Obama has a reputation as someone who places a great deal of stock in expertise and the power of data. For better or worse, the evolving understanding of economic breakdowns will have ample opportunity to test itself against the real thing.
Along with everything else they have done, the financial meltdown and attendant economic slump have spurred unprecedented political attention and participation on the part of economists.
"In my lifetime as an economist I've never seen economists so engaged by what's going on," says Richard Thaler of the University of Chicago. "At the University of Chicago people always talk economics at lunch, but for the last three months they've all been talking about the crisis and the bailout, and writing op-eds."
This is something of a change. The topics economists study often have little to do with the average person's economic life - as in most any academic field, practical relevance can have little to do with what questions are deemed most interesting and rewarding. This divergence was exacerbated, many economists say, during the span of almost uninterrupted economic growth that began in the late 1980s, a period when many of the more practical questions in economic policy-making came to be seen as having been settled. For years, leading economic figures like Larry Summers and Alan Greenspan argued that the United States had more or less brought the business cycle to heel.
Partly as a result, many bright young economists turned to questions that were quirkier, or more purely mathematical. To the wider public, the most visible ramification of this was the boom in papers and books about the economics of everyday life - the best-known practitioner was Steven Levitt of the University of Chicago, but economists like Ray Fisman of Columbia, Edward Miguel of UC Berkeley, and Justin Wolfers of the University of Pennsylvania also worked at least partly in this vein. In often ingenious studies, they used economics as a forensic tool to examine family dynamics, speed-dating, parking scofflaws, basketball games, or the life choices of street criminals.
For those who stayed on more traditional economic turf, however, the trend was toward narrower questions, and more abstract ones. Financial economists set out to figure out why it is that stocks earn more than bonds, or to devise better ways of calculating "beta," the correlation between the price of a single asset and the price of the market it was part of. Others took on the surprisingly difficult question of defining what, exactly, money is.
Wolfers, being an economist, describes these intellectually challenging but less policy-relevant questions as a sort of scholarly "luxury good." "During good times we all consume more luxuries," he says, "but during a bad economy, it feels to macroeconomists that what we should be doing is stuff to help today."
Some economists have suggested that this focus may account for why so many failed to see the warning signs of the financial crisis, and to predict the size and scope of its fallout.
Others see a broader problem in that the sort of behavior we've seen in everyone from home buyers to investment bankers in recent months is hard to fit into economists' analytical tools. The models that macroeconomists - those who study national and regional economies in their entirety - rely on do a poor job of describing the messiness of an actual market in flux. Many, for example, only have one variable for an interest rate, even though in times of economic turmoil the gap between various rates often widens so far that it's difficult to say what "the" interest rate actually is. As a result, economists end up oversimplifying such situations when they model them - or simply avoid studying them at all.
"We have a very restrictive set of language and tools, and we tend to work on the problems that are easily addressed with those tools," says Jeremy Stein, a financial economist at Harvard. "Sometimes that means we focus on silly questions and ignore greater ones."
Today there is a move to hone and rethink the models that describe the huge interlocking wheels of the economy, and to find a way to include the human tendencies that can bring them grinding to a halt. Some economists are looking to the methods and findings of psychology, others are applying themselves to the tricky task of modeling bubbles, a relatively neglected topic. Whatever the approach, the study of financial crises is likely to be a predominant question for the newest generation of economists.
"I guarantee that over the next couple of years you are going to see lots of papers on banking crises and financial blowups," says Andrew Lo, a financial economist at MIT's Sloan School of Management.
In addition, others predict, there's likely to be a sharp migration among young economists into these fields. "Banking has been an incredibly important field that has not been hot for some time," says Edward Glaeser, a Harvard University economist. "What's happened is that banking is sexy again."
Already, the crisis is reshaping long-running debates. It has chastened believers in the self-correcting abilities of the free market - Alan Greenspan said as much before Congress in October - and emboldened those who see the need for more active government intervention.
In a sense, it's a debate that has been seesawing back and forth from crisis to crisis over the past century. Classical economics was devastated by the Great Depression, and in the years afterward gave way to the ideas of the British economist John Maynard Keynes: that individually rational economic decisions could add up to collectively disastrous consequences, that the "stickiness" of prices and wages could lead to long-term unemployment and stagnation, and that the government, as a result, has to step in to kick-start the economy.
The stagflation of the 1970s, while mild compared with the Depression, swung the pendulum back. It was Milton Friedman, a sharp critic of Keynesianism and a fervent advocate of unfettered free markets, who solved the seeming paradox of simultaneous inflation and high unemployment by realizing the deadening power of people's expectation of future inflation, and it was Friedman's proposed solution - sharply restricting the money supply - that eventually, albeit painfully, solved the problem.
Today's crisis has brought Keynes back to the center of the discussion, but some economists also see it driving the field into new territory. Up until very recently, the study of market bubbles was marginalized - there was no widely accepted definition of what a bubble was, and some economists, believers in the complete rationality of markets, argued that bubbles didn't even exist. Today, however, there is a growing sense that understanding bubbles is vital to understanding markets - among those making the case is Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, who, as head of the Princeton economics department, made a point of hiring young economists interested in the topic.
Over the same time period, the field of so-called behavioral economics has risen to prominence, led by, among others, Thaler, Laibson, and Robert Shiller, a Yale economist who warned of both the housing bubble and, in 2000, the dot-com bubble. By borrowing the insights and methods of psychology, behavioral economics focuses on all the ways in which humans fail to act as the rational, self-interested beings that economic models call for - we aren't good at thinking about the future, we're susceptible to peer pressure, we overestimate our abilities and underrate the odds of bad things happening. It's a set of traits that describes perfectly the behavior of many of the people who, in a cascade of self-defeating decisions, helped create the subprime crisis.
"People used to think that these behavioral effects were small anomalies that turned up in experiments but washed out in the real world," says Tyler Cowen, an economist at George Mason University not himself affiliated with behavioral economics. "But there's a sense in which they get multiplied in the real world."
For now, behavioral economics remains a critique without a real alternative. That may be starting to change: Lo has developed what he calls the "adaptive markets hypothesis," a model that he argues reflects both the rationality of the investor in good times and the blind panic of the bad.
Nonetheless, for some economists, the lessons of the crisis are likely to be smaller, though no less humbling. These scholars argue that they're facing not a new challenge but a familiar nemesis.
"What we're experiencing now is a good old-fashioned financial panic," says Jeffrey Kling, an economist at the Brookings Institution. "This is perhaps the biggest scale, but on some level it's not that different."
Robert Lucas, an economist and Nobel laureate at the University of Chicago and a champion of the rationality of markets, doesn't see much fundamental change coming out of the crisis, either. What it has reminded us of, he argues, is simply the impossibility of seeing these events in advance.
"I don't know anybody involved who thought he could predict these turning points. Do macroeconomists know as much as we thought we did?" he asks. "Of course not."
By this logic, the problem isn't how economists see the world so much as it is what we expect of economics.
Laurence Ball, an economist at Johns Hopkins, makes a similar point. "Nobody ever sees anything coming," he says. "Nobody saw stagflation coming, nobody saw the Great Depression coming, nobody saw Pearl Harbor or 9/11 coming. Really big, bad things tend to be surprises."


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Is anyone else playing in super-slow-motion? No idea, what's causing it...
Does anyone have an extra key?
''By the blood of my father, I will end them."
Looks really fun! I just signed me and the brother up for Alpha. Does anyone know if we signed up too late or if they're still giving out keys? If they're not handing them out anymore and someone has 2 spare keys for me and my bro let me know. =)
I keep getting a windows application error when I try to launch it.
Don't know if it's lag or not. But everything is super unresponsive. Feels like I'm playing underwater
There's a lot of people who lag and don't choose their appropriate region because of the limited player pool. The regions are spaced out pretty specifically for that very reason (southwest, west etc) If you play against another player who doesn't connect to you well or doesn't have the best connection, the match is going to suck for everybody.
This is the error I get. Anyone know how to fix it?
Been playing a a decent amount of hours now and have played through a good amount of decent latency matches. Honestly, I'm not impressed. The game feels a really slow and annoying version of extreme boost.
My biggest annoyance personally is that landing is unsafe as shit regardless of anything else. Height, Boost, nothing matters. Landing is just unsafe and take decades.
IF anyone would have a spare key i could use it would be really appreciated! ^^
When There Is One,, There Will be More!
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Alejandro Lerner
Alejandro Lerner is an acclaimed singer/songwriter from Argentina who rose to national fame during the early '80s. While his popularity as an icon of the mid-'80s Argentine pop/rock scene would diminish steadily over time, he continued to release new albums with regularity. His latter-day music was generally well received among longtime fans and critics, earning him a number of Grammy nominations. Over the years his songs have been covered frequently. Among the more notable artists to cover his songs have been Santana, Ricardo Montaner, Luis Miguel, Carole King, Cristian Castro, Mark Anthony, La Ley, and Alejandra Guzmán; moreover, the Lerner song "Nuestro Amor Se Ha Vuelto Ayer" became a chart-topping smash hit for Victor Manuelle in 2006.
Born on June 8, 1957, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Lerner began his musical career in the 1970s, collaborating with legendary Argentines such as Raúl Porchetto, León Gieco, and Gustavo Santaolalla. He began his solo recording career in 1982 with the album Alejandro Lerner y la Magia, featuring a band comprised of Hernán Magiano (bass), Damián Figueroa (guitar), Oscar Kreimer (saxophone), and Luis Queron (drums). The debut album was a resounding success, spawning a pair of lifelong hits, "Por un Minuto de Amor" and "Nena Neurótica." Lerner in turn chose to drop his backing band (i.e., "La Magia") and mount a full-fledged solo career. His next two albums, Todo a Pulmón (1983) and Lernertres (1984), were even more successful than his first, spawning the respective hits "Todo a Pulmón" and "No Hace Falta Que Lo Digas." A couple albums of archival material, Sus Primeras Canciones (1984) and Concierto (1985), were released in the wake of his early-'80s breakthrough success. In the meantime, the singer/songwriter took a three-year break, not releasing an album of new material until Algo Que Decir (1987), an independently released effort.
In 1988 Lerner began an association with BMG that includes the albums Canciones (1988), Entre Lineas (1990), Amor Infinito (1992), Permiso de Volar (1994), and La Magia Continúa (1995). He subsequently switched major labels, moving to Universal for the release of latter-day albums such as Volver a Empezar (1997), Si Quieres Saber Quién Soy (2000), and Buen Viaje (2003). Universal also released a career retrospective, 20 Años (1999), and a live album, Lerner Vivo (2002); meanwhile, BMG released its share of best-of compilations as well. Following another sabbatical and independently released effort, Canciones Para Gente Niña (2006), Lerner returned with the Latin Grammy-nominated Enojado (2007), his first album on EMI. ~ Jason Birchmeier
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As the commercials, yard signs, and Web ads subside with the election of a new national leader, artifacts from a different era remind us that campaign materials have always played a significant role in presidential politics. During the 19th century, platform slogans and portraits graced the stars and stripes of Old Glory, as displayed in a September exhibition at GW's Luther W. Brady Art Gallery. Alumnus Mark Shenkman, MBA '67, and his wife, Rosalind Shenkman, loaned their collection of historic wool, silk, and cotton political flags as surviving examples of this unique campaigning device. Two of these distinctive pieces are shown above. One is a 36-star American parade flag made for the 1868 presidential campaign of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Schuyler Colfax, the Republican candidates. The other is a portrait-style kerchief, made for the 1848 presidential campaign of Zachary Taylor with the portraits of four other Mexican War officers. Although the U.S. Congress outlawed the use of text or portraits on the official insignia in 1905, the practice continued for a number of years.


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Cosy Corner Hostel
Poets Corner Hostel offers spacious and bright dorm and private rooms. You'll also find a fully equipped kitchen, a welcoming and cosy common room and spotlessly cleaned and maintained bathrooms.
When you arrive you'll be treated to an introduction with the Poets' own 'Treasure Map' of Olomouc, which will give you a great overview of things to see, do, eat and drink in our lovely town. If you're interested in looking a little deeper you can tap into all of the information we've gathered over the years and have made available to our guests via our info folders; '101 things to do in Olomouc', 'Eat, drink and be merry', 'Top 10 Daytrips' and 'Cycling'.
Hostel amenities include:
8 bed mixed dorm rooms
Private rooms for 2,3 or 4 people
Spacious, well equipped kitchen
All pots, pans, plates, even a fondue set!
Free food and spice shelves
Fresh herbs on the windowsill (summer)
Recycling facilities
Fresh linen included (real cotton sheets!)
Inexpensive bicycle hire
Inexpensive laundry service
Book exchange, library, games and sporting equipment.
Hair-dryer, umbrellas, and iron available
Wi-Fi Internet access for free
The hostel relaxed atmosphere:
Antique Moravian furniture
Colourful and creatively decorated rooms
Homelike surroundings
Comfy lounge with armchairs, sofas, and no TV
Balcony with a view of cathedrals and hills
Key access, no curfew, no lockout; come and go as you please
An easy stroll to dozens of cozy cafes and cheap bars
Insider information includes:
Our exclusive treasure map guide to Olomouc
An up to date whiteboard of all the festivals, concerts and other events
Dozens of recommendations for things to see and do around the city
Specially prepared guides for at least twelve daytrips into the surrounding countryside
Library of travel guides and books about the city.
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Lonely Planet:: "Aussie owners Greg and Francie are a wealth of local information at this friendly and well-run hostel. Bicycles can be hired for 100Kc per day. In summer, there's a two-night minimum stay, But Olomouc is definitely worth it"
Rough Guides:: "Welcoming, superbly central hostel run by people who know their stuff when it comes to travel in Moravia. It's spread over two floors of an apartment building, with eight-bunk dorms plus doubles and triples with homely old furniture. There's a spacious kitchen, cosy living room, and wi-fi throughout".
Rick Steves:: "Poets Corner Hostel fills two 1930's apartments near the town center. Tastefully furnished, immaculately clean, and run by a friendly Australian couple, Greg and Francie, the hostel fits in perfectly with Olomouc's character as a university town and ultimate back-door destination for the Czech Republic. The common room has sofas, armchairs, a decent library, Czech CD's - and no TV - and holds a wealth of information on Olomouc and the surrounding area".
Trip Advisor:: "#1 Specialty lodging in Olomouc"
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Hostel Facilities & Policies
- 24 Hour Security
- Bicycle hire
- Bicycle parking
- Board Games
- Book Exchange
- Common Room
- Credit Cards Accepted
- Free City Maps
- Free Internet Access
- Free WiFi
- Fridge/Freezer
- Games Room
- Hair Dryers
- Hot Showers
- Internet Access
- Self-Catering Facilities
- Laundry Facilities
- Linen Included
- Security Lockers
- Luggage Storage
- Meeting Rooms
- No Curfew
- Non Smoking
- Outdoor Terrace
- Reception (limited hours)
- Safe Deposit Box
- Tea & Coffee Making Facilities
- Tours/Travel Desk
- Towels Included
- Utensils
- Wi-Fi
Cancellation PolicyThis property has a 1 day cancellation policy. Failure to cancel within this time will result in a cancellation charge equal to the first night of your stay.
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The train and bus stations are 30-40 minutes walk outside the historic centre of Olomouc. So we suggest taking the tram.
From the Bus Station:
*go through the underpass and cross the tracks, buy a 14czk ticket from the machine; Catch tram #4 to the train station then change to a number 7 tram to Namesti Hrdinu (5 stops) then follow the directions below.
From the Train Station:
* Buy a 14czk ticket from the machine; Catch tram #7 to Namesti Hrdinu (6th stop for all except the #7 it is 5th stop ) then follow the directions below:
* Get off at Namesti Hrdinu
* Walk 200m toward the GREEN dome (away from the red church with the steeple and while clock).
* We are to the right of the Charley's second hand clothing shop at Sokolska 1.
* Buzz the [HOSTEL] doorbell and come upstairs.
By Taxi
The rank at the train station is off to the right past the tram stop: the fare should be about 125czk/5euro
If Olomouc is your first stop within the country, there are bank machines both at the train station and near the tram stop where you will get off in the centre. Also near the bank and the tram stop is a big illuminated map of central Olomouc.
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* Located right within the historic centre of the city.
* 400m from the main marketplace square, swimming pool, hockey stadium
* 300m from internet cafe, pharmacy, teahouse, cinema, jazz club
* 200m from tram and bus stops, 7 days/week supermarket
* 100m from 'Cafeland', carparking, bank machines and shoe/backpack repairer
* 0m to one of the Czech Republic's highest-rated hostels and one of Olomouc's best views


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NEW YORK, Feb. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Experian Marketing Services announced several new clients for its email marketing services, CheetahMail ® , as new email business grew 158 percent for fourth quarter 2012 calendar year compared with the same time period in 2011. Email marketing continues to be a driving force in today's cross-channel integration, and these new clients are able to implement the latest services from Experian Marketing Services to better connect and engage with their customers. "The Experian Marketing Services stable of services helps bring brands and customers closer together, enabling us to help clients capitalize on CheetahMail's offerings to improve their email campaigns, as well as drive more integrated cross-channel marketing programs," said Peter DeNunzio, general manager of Experian Marketing Services' CheetahMail. "Our technology, innovation and vision for the future of digital marketing further enable us in helping marketers connect with their customers in a dynamic, complex world through actionable consumer insights and integrated marketing." Feedback from new CheetahMail clients includes:"We are very pleased we made the switch to CheetahMail. Our deliverability has significantly improved, allowing us to reach more of our customers and achieve greater campaign performance from our emails."- Ben Rotnicki, director of online marketing at Men's Wearhouse "CheetahMail was able to support our aggressive holiday growth plan that included heavy creative design and campaign production requirements. Additionally, as we venture into an SMS program, CheetahMail's integrated email and mobile marketing capabilities provided us with technology that can support us as we expand further into mobile."- Kim Lewis, charming charlie CRM director "We chose CheetahMail because of their ability to get our email program up and running quickly. We were impressed by the broad range of services available to help our marketing programs grow, such as mobile. We've been very happy with our decision and we look forward to utilizing more of Experian Marketing Services' capabilities as we look to expand and optimize our programs."- Rachel Stephens, manager of customer relationship marketing for TJX Over the past year Experian Marketing Services have made several announcements to expand its offerings and further its commitment to helping clients grow their businesses. Some of these announcements include:


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Bosses "not doing enough to stop bullies"
LONDON (Reuters) - Bullying in the workplace is far too widespread and bosses are not doing enough to tackle the problem, a report said on Friday.
The Chartered Management Institute (CMI), which published the study, said poor managerial skills were mainly to blame and employers were failing in their legal duty to protect staff.
"In the current economic climate, the pressure to deliver is more acute than ever, but the need to perform should not be seen as an excuse to bully," said Jo Causon, director of marketing and corporate affairs at the CMI.
"Without strong but fair leadership how can working environments be productive and how can employers hope to motivate staff in what are already trying times?"
The CMI said government figures indicated that workplace bullying cost the British economy 13.75 billion pounds and 100 million days in lost productivity a year.
The report, based on the views of 867 managers in the private, public and voluntary sectors, said the failure to educate staff better could risk long-term damage to their businesses.
The study found 70 percent of managers had witnessed instances of bullying in the last three years while the extent of bullying reported was higher than in a previous report in 2005.
Not all cases involved bosses bullying their staff, with 63 percent of respondents citing incidents involving bullying between peers while 30 percent had witnessed subordinates bullying their manager.
More than one in three who experienced bullying said their organization took no action. Continued...


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Happy Veteran's Day!
Today we thank and honor our country's brave veterans who served honorably in the military – in wartime and peacetime. Veteran's Day celebrates the courage and sacrifice of all U.S. veterans.
Each summer, all of the branches of our military have several large and small teams of Active Duty, Retired, Reservists and National Guard members who have bravely served our country.
On this Veteran's Day, we honor all Americans who have served or made the ultimate sacrifice for our country including the service men and women of our RAGBRAI military teams.