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diner was very good, breakfast was fantastic, direct entrance to the Thermen of Spa We had a room at the street side and at night there was a lot of noise
Location, connection with the Therms, furniture style cleaning of rooms is to be improved
The excellent choice for breakfast which was of a high standard
The service and particularly the facilities connected to the SPA thermes in terms of the access and price
Great location for the spa. Nice rooms. Very good breakfast. Frendly staff. If there is available space, you can park for free outside of the hotel (no need to pay €16/day). Rather crowed on saturdays and during sunday morning breakfast. Special teleferik to the spa for hotel's customers didn't function that day, something rather inconvenient due to rainy and cold weather. Cleaning of the room during staying could be better.
the direct acces to the therms It felt as if there was not enough staff to handle such a busy weekend...check out took long...and breaffast was tooo busy
It was excellent we he'd a good time
Great service, great food and wine on the terrace bar. Everything was excellent
Excellent hotel staff , very good services !!! We love this hotel and want to come back to spa! The room could be bigger.
Very polite and professional. Nothing ever too much trouble. Location is excellent Not the cheapest but you poay for what you get.
Room was in the eaves so you couldn't stand on one side of the bed. Shower flooded the bathroom as it had no door. Damp patch on the wall. Staff were polite but very slow and not overly concerned about any issues raised.
Free of charge wireless internet -
Room was too cold and no proper heating. Furniture cheap and old. Not good value for money.
The wellness facilities & the restaurant
Dinner Dirty noisy and being refurbished
Convenient location to Spa race track Wanted to use the gym and had called the hotel directly to ask if they had a gym and they said yes. Unfortunately it was a bedroom with 4. Pieces of equipment. Hardly a gym !
Traveled in and around Spa
great hotel..i liked the location, spa facilities, breakfast buffet...staff was very friendly as they offered to change the room after my partner reported that shower head was not working in the bathroom the room was renovated but still needed a final polishing e.g. shower head was nto working
Modern and clean room with big flatscreen tv (superior room), great breakfast and friendly staf. Hotel is very well situated, just 2 minutes away from the Spa center by car
Comfortable room and excellent meal in restaurant. Best shower of all the hotels in our itinerary.
Comfort & silence & excellent restaurant at this manoir. No.
The incredible surroundings, almost castle like and the combination of this with modern interiors in the rooms and excellent cuisine. Breakfast should be included in the room price
very nice setting, well designed interior with attention to detail there were no feeding chairs for children
very nice atmosphere, very helpful staff, excellent cuisine, beautiful location
peace and quiet most of the time Lack of headboard on bed gap between matress and wall! Designer wash basin with no way of containing the water, not very eco friendly. Noise from quad bike between 10.30 and 11pm
Great luxury hotel. Hotel staff was very kind. The wellness facilities were of the latest technologies and designs. Luxury all over the place. Very clean. Diner at the restaurant in the evening was excellent, quality products and very warm atmosphere. Fire place is very pleasant to have a cup of tea in the afternoon. We had the castellane suite which was very spacious, with all facilities needed. Big bathroom with large bath and rainshower, a separate room with desk. Only thing that could be improved is breakfast. I expected a buffet but everything was on the table when we arrived. Poor choice in my opinion but i am used to have large breakfast. i missed some yoghurt, dry fuit, cereals, eggs, brown bread (only wite),...
The room and especially the bathroom were lovely. The decor of the entire place is perfect.
very nice hotel kitchen ' smell' in the room 5
Beautiful view from the back of the castle. Tables in the back for relaxing and have a drink. Very relaxing.
`We did like the Welnes Centre a lot!! Nice view with a glass of champagne in our hands,.. We also booked a relaxing massage and that was really nice.The suite was fenominal, nice bathtube in the room, beautiful view outside, good bed, very friendly staff! Did all their best to fix the internetconnection..
liked the welcome, the helpfulness of the staff, the good breakfast, the location ,the calm and the quiet luxury of this hotel
Very friendly staff, very polite and helpful. Beautiful setting, right in the middle of spa, but in a quiet road. Secure parking. The pillows were a bit big and hard
Nice location with lots of charm. Beautiful, clean rooms. Very quiet. Buffet breakfast was ok, but there could've been more choice.
The atmosphere of the building, the quietness a kingsize bed would have been better
Very good location; clean room; nice breakfast buffet.
good bathroom and breakfast v dark room
Room was of an excellent size, especially teh high ceilings and large doors, which made it feel special. No. Would stay there again.
Attractive, city-centre hotel. Pleasant staff. Little English spoken by receptionist - but then why should she - it's in Belgium. Pretty garden with tables & chairs. Limited secure parking. Rooms 16 & 26 wrap around lift shaft. Lighting to room could have been better. Breakfast doesn't start until 8.00, which is too late.
excelent hospitality, lovely atmosphere, Fresh, spacious and clean rooms with many historical details. Your stay makes you feel like a royal princess.
Location, size of rooms, friendly staff
location is good, walking distance from the center This is an old house and the rate does not correspond to the actual condition of the hotel. I would expect something impressive at a rate of 9.1 which was not the case.
Very quiet and peaceful. Relaxing surroundings, beautiful grounds and very friendly, accommodating staff. Delicious breakfasts, and the sauna was also an excellent addition. Close walk into town.. couldn't fault it at all.
The couple that run the B & B were very pleasant and helpful. Upon our arrival, the woman helped us with our bags and provided much useful information about the area and even made dinner reservations for us. The bedroom and bathroom were very spacious and well decorated. Overall, a very pleasant stay.
The rooms were very clean and spacious. I was there on business and so had little time to spend at the hotel, but from what I saw it was all done to a high standard. A bit difficult to find, off the beaten track. Go past the Casino on your left, turn left past the Auberge hotel, and go up the hill, over the railway crossing, turn right at the fork, and then left at the fork, still going up the hill.
beautiful rooms, lovely grounds, ample breakfast. This is not a complaint as I had a very pleasant 3 days here, but my room was on the second floor and unfortunately when I arrived the owners were not there and I had to carry my big siutcase up a narrow circular staircase, which was not easy.
quit location, easy access to nature walks, fantastic back yard, room was beautifuly decorated, lighted, and comfortable, internet connection was crucial for 1 day work which I required, and was for free. TV only in French...
lovely place, very friendly and attentive householders, cosy house in a nice country style, tasty breakfast (shef-made scrambled eggs are to be tried!). cons of an old house: bad soundproofing. not so easy to find at the first time.
My second visit, and still the best hotel I have ever stayed in. Great location - quiet, and only a few minutes walk into town. Beautiful house, and gardens, friendly owners, great sauna, big friendly cat and the best scrambled eggs i have ever eaten. Top notch. Will be staying there again next year for sure.
The extremely friendly and warm attention shown by the owners/management. Very cosy, family-style environment and feeling. Good food.
Our stay was just tremendous. We had a truly magical weekend which involved relaxation and the buzz of the Grand Prix weekend. Just perfect.
Relaxation and Privacy
- Los servicios y el centro de bienestar (siempre y cuando uno se aloje con un paquete que los incluya) y el desayuno. - The services and facilities and the wellness center (whenever you book a package including them) and the breakfast. - Sin contratar un paquete, TODO se paga por separado, incluído el albornoz. Y la cena buffet del sábado era excesivamente cara para lo que se ofrecía. - Unless you book a weekend package, every additional extra has to be paid separately, even the bathrobe. And the buffet dinner on Saturday was a bit too expensive for what was offered.
This is a fantastic hotel, and you would expect it to be given the cost, but it lives up to those expectations. The room was fantastic, food was great and same with the service. The Formula 1 teams and some drivers stay there as well so you know its good. The only problem I had was with one of the receptionists who was very condescending and rude.
we both felt that pool should have been free as in line with other hotels and treatments extra
The view from my room was spectacular. I was lucky enough to have a rear facing room looking down into a valley. Room air conditioning was appreciated as it was quite warm. Decent sized car park at the front of hotel - useful for those who may intend bringing some extra wheels to the race circuit. Very convenient location for the Spa Francorchamps race circuit. Very polite and helpful staff. Didn't have any coffee/tea making facilities in the room, though it did have a minibar.
Big room and and big and big, sunny and calm terrace
very relaxed atmosphere , helpful reception staff background "Muzak" was a bit annoying , especially in restuarant
I found the bed extremely comfortable, good a/c, fantastic breakfast! Poor gym equipment both selection and the condition, price of beer was extortionate.
The hotel is not in Spa, but the centre of the town can be easily reached by car or by taxi. The room what we had was large and clean with spectacular view to the woods and hills. The food in the restaurant was just OK, but not really enjoyable and below typical Belgian standards.
room and view were excellent The quality of the buffet on saturday was poor. We arrived at 8 pm and most dishes were almost empty. For this price quality not acceptable
Good value for money inclusive of beakfast, lovely location in Spa and easily accessible for exploring local area. Quadruple room was a really good size for our family of four and very clean.
Pierre is a great and friendly guy, speaks good english and is prepared to do an early breakfast (i was working and had to leave early in the morning)
Very friendly staff. Little nice garden. Coming from Denmark we would like Belgian beer in the refri. and not Danish beer!
Friendliness of the hotel owner. Noting.
no restuarant facilities
Clean and comfort rooms;Breakfast was nice;Polite personnel
The hotel was very close to town center so we were able to walk everywhere. The guy who helps run the hotel was super friendly to us and was even able to speak English (which was a nice plus)! Most of the residents were elderly people, which isnt really a bad thing but just out of respect, we had to watch our noise level.
Its location within Spa shops,bars and resturants and within easy reach of the race circuit. The room was very hot even with the window fully open and that was in October, I think a ceiling fan would make the room alot more comfotable.
The proprietor was extremely helpful and welcoming - the rooms was very comfortable and the position was excellent
comfort and facilities no
Excellent breakfast and friendly service
Everything was very good, restaurant extrenely good
Great stay, very clean and upto date rooms, staff very helpful even when we arrived very late after ferry delays (gone midnight!). Excellent Breakfast in same building weekends and in Restaurant across the road during the week. The Restaurant serves some of the best food we have had in a long time, fantastic! Overall an excellent stay.
Rooms nicely appointed, good linen/towels etc and coffee/tea in room. Breakfast was good but more selection would have been nice. Very picturesque, both location and the set-up with ncie pool area (pity about the rian). BBC TV available in room was a bonus. Restuarant across road was excellent, gourmet meals with wide selection available. Not strictly part of hotel (so 2x bills). Great location for group frineds as its the only busy place in this very small hamlet. They can also house large parties across road in seperate annex (self catering and decor not up to hotel std). Good kids facilities eg bouncy castle,etc but care for young children its located on junction of 2x minor roads, cannot get to accomodation w/o crossing. Checking in past 6pm wasn't too clear, you need to cross the road to the restaurant (as no-one answered the 2 call bells ie restaurant was busy). But then it was very simple. Its not cheap to eat/drink/sleep here but very pleasurable.
it was nice and friendly
reasonable room goog breakfast
Fantastic location, close to attractions and limitless possibilities for walks / cycling. Very comfortable and spacious accomodation and a heated swimming pool. Despit having a kitchen area, there was no fridge or cutlery, which I found slightly strange.
The staff were helpful and friendly, the adjoining auberge was really nice with excellent food. The situation was really nice and appealing. There was no ventilation to the toilet in the room. The furnishings in the upper room of the apartment were very basic
The friendly staff. The excellent breakfast in good surroundings. Unfortunately I didn't get to use the pool but it looked good. No hairdryer in room. The lack of an early breakfast
Restaurant was excellent and whole place had great character. Customer service was superb
The rooms were nicely furnished, very comfortable beds and excellent showers. We ate in the restaurant and Pascal is a very talented chef and we had really superb meal.
stylish.Reduced.perfect. We stayed not long enough ;-)
Beautiful modern interior of old farmhouse. Everything spotless. Breakfast delicious. Quiet and peaceful, tho' might not be quite so on Race w/es.
Nice and helpful staff, calm/relax atmosphere, comfortable room (princess) with very big balcon and wonderfool view. For summer should be great place for weekend
A lovely family run hotel. The owners have a real sense of service & hospitality - could not have been more helpful or attentive to us. Like staying weith a family. Great!
A lovely hotel in a nice location. The facilities in the hotel and the rooms was excellent. The staff were very friendly and helpful. It is a hotel I would recommend and would stay in again. 10 out of 10!
Excellent staff, breakfast, romantic hotel and room
The place is marvelous: nice hotel (romantic rooms, garden, furniture, color...) + kind staff (Dutch couple). The hotel staff might be a bit more open to any eventual late wake up (serve coffee + sthg to eat)...
Excellent staff, lovely atmosphere in a "manoir". And they have a funny cat :).
Excelent location and wonderful building. For me and my wife is our lucky place and the guarantee of tranquillity, polish, calm and relaxation. The service is faultless.
Very quiet, very comfortable. Very friendly and personable owner who loves to play host to your stay.
The hotels owners make their guests feel very welcome and cannot do enough for them. A great place to stay and great people to stay with.
Very friendly staff, comfort and clean facilities. Great value for money in an excellent location
The room and the swimming pool were bigger than expected. I could see the owner cares a lot about cleaness for the entire hotel. Diner was also excellent.
A friendly welcome and a very good choice of "gourmet" dishes for dinner Booking-in time of 1800 hrs is very early if one has travelled any distance
Cleanliness, friendly and helpful, great food.
Probably the best food during our trip in Belgium. Rooms are reasonable and clean. Proprietor was charming and extremely personable. Lovely place with an exterior covered pool. A nice location and impeccable service. We arrived with 3 motorcycles looking like down troden wet beasts and were offered the use of the locked garage. A wonderful unexpected service
i could not fault it on any account coffee and tea in the room
Very warm welcome. Informative about local amenities. Quiet location situated beautifully near the Ardenne mountains. Good off-road parking. Perfect location for us to visit Spa Francorchamp race circuit.
This cottage is the ultimate suggestion if you visit Spa!The owners are very kind and friendly. We had the room in the upper floor which we loved for the great view to the back yard and the lake! The decoration is very pleasant combining modern and classic.The "douche" is very relaxing. In the back yard it has trampoline and swimming pool for the kids! It is a great place with "personality" both for couples and families with a little kid! In the kitchenette on the ground floor you can have coffee, hot chocolate, soups and tea! It offers also a variety of board games if you want to relax to the room.It is definitely recommended! We ll absolutely come back in spring time or summer (in the winter it was also great)!
Our room was beautiful. We overlooked a green field and lake with a chateau in the distance. Our host, Anja was so pleasant, friendly and obliging. Nothing was any trouble. There was champagne on arrival and chocolates on our pillow each night. We could not fault Les Nenuphars.
Location and Servic
everything was great! even the restaurant in the same street!
Ce B&B se situe dans un cadre sympathique et calme. L'accueil est convivial et chaleureux. Petit déjeuner agréable. Possibilité de réchauffer un plat en cas de petit creux. L'accès à Internet est gratuit. Que demander de plus ? ;-)
We enjoyed the fabulous hospitality of the onwer and the charming environment. The room reached all our expectations.
Easy access, great location, very comfortable, very friendly If they do not take credit cards, this should be clearly pointed out in the info section for the hotel!!! This policy can catch many people in an embarassing situation!
I liked very much the owner who welcomed us. Very accommodating . we asked where to go to a restaurant in the area, since some of the restaurants are closed on Mondays. He went and verified the restaurant that is opened. Location was very close to the Cav
the room was very comfortable, the breakfast excellent , very beautiful landscapes around
Made to feel very welcome, comfortable beds, good breakfast
Spacious room, great breakfast, very quiet
The breakfast was excellent and Monique was the perfect hostess. The room was comfortable and very pleasant and the hotel easy to find.
Comfortable and Clean with generously supplied secure parking for my Classic Car. Good location in pleasant village close to Spa Motor Circuit Sharing the Bathroom


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Out with her adorable daughter Maddie, Jamie Lynn Spears was spotted in West Hollywood, CA on Sunday afternoon (May 6) getting some ice cream and shopping.
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A 41 year old man who was trafficking children as young as 13 while he was under house arrest for a previous conviction has been found guilty of compelling prostitution, 1200 WOAI news reports.
Prosecutors say Frank Lara would place ads on the Internet offering underage girls for sex, and then would complete the transaction on a phone in his mother's home, where he was under house arrest and on an ankle monitor as part of his parole on a previous conviction.
Lara would pocket the cash from the transactions, prosecutors say, which was generated by the repeated sexual assault of the girls.
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Pork Carnitas Quesadillas With Pineapple Salsa
Recipe by Galley Wench
Great as a main dish or appetizer. The pork can also be cooked in a crock pot. Mangoes can be substituted VERY successfully . . . guess that would change the name of the recipe!
Top Review by AZPARZYCH
This was really good!!! I did make some changes; I left out most of the peppers (I am a whimp and cannot handle the heat) and skipped the black beans because I do not care for them. This dish still had a ton of flavor and went over well with my husband--even my 19 month old son ate it!!
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Ingredients Nutrition
Pineapple Salas
- 1 cup fresh pineapple (or mangoes) or 1 cup canned pineapple, finely chopped
- 1⁄2 red bell pepper, seeded and finely chopped
- 1⁄2 yellow pepper, seeded and finely chopped
- 1⁄2 poblano pepper, seeded and chopped
- 1⁄4 cup red onion, finely chopped
- 1 jalapeno pepper, seeded and finely chopped (adjust to taste)
- 2 tablespoons lime juice
- 1⁄4 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1⁄4 cup cilantro, chopped
- salt & pepper
Pork Carnitas
- 2 lbs boneless pork chops, cut in 1 inch cubes
- 3 cups chicken broth
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons salt
- 4 garlic cloves, minced
- 1⁄2 cup onion, chopped
- 2 fresh jalapeno peppers, seeded and chopped
- 2 tablespoons dried ancho chile powder (to taste)
- 2 teaspoons ground cumin (to taste)
- 1 tablespoon Mexican oregano
- 1 chipotle chile, chopped and seeded (optional)
- 1 tablespoon adobo sauce, from canned chipotle chile
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste
- 8 -10 inches flour tortillas
- 1 cup frozen corn, thawed
- 1 cup black beans, drained and rinsed
- 2 cups havarti cheese or 2 cups monterey jack cheese, grated
Directions See How It's Made
- Pork:.
- Place pork, chicken broth, salt, garlic, jalapenos and onion in large pot and bring to a slow simmer. Add cumin, oregano, tomato paste, chipotle chiles, adobo sauce and chile powder to meat.
- Cover and simmer for 1 1/2 hours or until pork is pull-apart tender. Increase heat to evaporate excess liquid. Shred meat with a fork and set aside.
- Salsa:.
- Combine salsa ingredients and chill for a minimum of 30 minutes.
- To assemble:.
- Lay out tortillas and spread pork mixture on 1/2 of each tortilla. Top with corn, black beans and cheese. Fold over and brown on each side on hot griddle. Place on cookie sheet in warm oven to hold. Serve with pineapple salsa.


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CFAA is a community company in place to lead, lobby for and support the development of the parish of Achill both infrastructurally, socially and culturally. It is a not for profit company limited by guarantee with no share capital and a registered charity. Helping businesses grow profitably, promoting the use of the Irish Language, alleviating personal and commununal disadvantage and helping to develop infrastructure are all key objectives for CFAA Members & Staff. As Gaeilge
At present we provide the following courses:
For residents and businesses:
Our Heritage & Culture Officer is presently working with the community on developing "A History of Achill" which will be published in mid-2016.
From April 2016 to Feb 2017
We provide a wide range of resources and services to the people and businesses of Achill:
The Achill Experience will be Achill's first all-weather visitor centre and Mayo's first Aquarium comprising of the following;
CFAA produces the Achill Link - a fantastic snapshot of Achill community life containing articles ranging from local issues and thoughts to those of our Achill Diaspora scattered all over the world. Archived copies of the magazine are available from CFAA and this present 2016 publication can be purchased for €5.
2 hours a week for 4 weeks at CFAA, Keel, Achill. Course Fee: €20. Contact: Linda on 098 43292 for more information or email email@example.com.
Comhlacht Forbartha Aitiúil Acla/ Achill Local Development Company Invite inquiries from persons interested in participating in our new Tourism,Heritage and Cultural Studies, FETAC Level 5 Major Award.. Course takes place in Achill, Co. Mayo. Eligibility per DSP/MSLETB Guidelines. Trainees will receive a training allowance including travel if applicable. The course will run for 44 week duration on a full-time basis. Modules to include the following: Archaeology, Appreciation of Irish Culture, Folklore and Ethnology, Heritage Tourism, Local History, Communications, Customer Service, Work Experience.
Please contact the following in order to secure your place on the course: CFAA office 098 43292; email firstname.lastname@example.com or Achill LES Office 098 45782 for more information.
We are, in conjunction with Udaras na Gaeltachta, organising a Start Your Own Business Course to run over 4 days in the months of May & June. (Four Mondays)
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This course will cost €100 per person and places are limited. On completion of the programme CFAA will be able to work with and support any individual who would like to progress with their idea in terms of access to appropriate state agencies, administrative support and advice.
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Comhlacht Forbartha Aitiuil Acla which has provided a broad range of services to the parish of Achill for the last 15 years from Aras Forbairt Acla, including the promotion and development of Irish, is opening a new language and culture office in Achill Sound. It is to be located in the UdarAs na Gaeltachta building adjacent to the Achill Credit Union. Terence Dever, CEO of CFAA outlined the importance of this office, 'working with our partners in Udaras na Gaeltachta and other stakeholders in the parish of Achill, this office will focus on Irish language development and cultural activities'. Pat Kilbane, CEO of CFAA has outlined that the parish of Achill, like all Gaeltacht parishes are being assessed as part of a review of Gaeltacht boundaries. As part of this review, the people of Achill will have an opportunity to actively engage in a process to determine the future of Irish as a spoken language within the parish. Coiste Cultúir agus teanga CFAA which is the culture and language sub-committee in CFAA are actively developing a strategy to help ensure the future of spoken Irish in the parish and is looking forward to engaging with all groups in the parish as part of this process.
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Finally is arrived, I can't say how I'm happy and excited!!
Probably is the most rewarding thing I've ever received in my life, more than hitting the Elite status!
So here it is!
Isn't it wonderful?
TimTam are really great, and Vegemite.. mh.. I'm scared to try it
I'd like to say once again a huge THANKS to Envato, these 17 months as author have been incredibiles. And a bigger thanks to every customer. Thanks to everyone who trusted me and loved my works.
This is really the best place to work in the world.
Now let's look forward to the next goals!
PS: the new Envato logo is really horrible indeed!!
Cool, congrats mate and thanks for sharing – it's nice to celebrate it with you this way
I still want a cup like that T____T
And congrats! =)
Awesome package, enjoy it!
Yes, really awesome. Enjoy dude!
Coool , congratulations !
You got a Blackberry with yours!! Lucky you!!
Congratulations! Is blackberry cellphone included in the package?
They've changed some stuff since we got the package We had two t-shirts, one with the elite and one with the envato logo. However, we didn't have the usb stick and the notebook. Nice to see they keep it up to date
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You got a Blackberry with yours!! Lucky you!!
yes, very rich package!
Obviously I used my BB to display my logo. A 900$ phone is a bit too much for the package hauahauaha


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Many of you already know this, but for those of you who don't, I don't do tech for a living. I'd like to it for a living, and I'm working on that. This is why you'll find me with my nose in a book, studying for the Red Hat Certified Engineer certification test I'll take someday (and, if I ever scrape up enough money, Red Hat classes).
What pays the bills — what I've done since my first day on the job at The Miami Herald on President Carter's inauguration day (yes, I'm that old, and get off my lawn) — is newspaper work. I currently work as a copy desk editor at the Santa Cruz Sentinel, but it's a news career that has spanned three decades, three different media (print, TV and radio) and two continents.
I am a third-generation man of letters: My father was also a newsman and his father was a mailman.
I bring this up because at the Sentinel I am known as the Grammar Hammer; a moniker which I am honored to have and one that I constantly strive to live up to. I have a three-pound sledge at my desk. I wield it with the same conviction and passion that Thor might wield his hammer, only instead of vanquishing bad Nordic guys, I'm vanquishing bad grammar and spelling.
As you might imagine, I spend a lot of time reading; more than I spend writing, as a matter of fact (isn't that always the case?). In much of the tech realm — most in forums and comment sections — the spelling and grammar aren't always what they should be for people who, generally speaking, are smarter than the average person (and sometimes are smarter than the things they say. But I digress . . .). In the grand scheme of things, that's OK — I'm not really that interested in picking nits, gramatically speaking, as much as I am concerned with content.
[Note to those who speak English as a second-, third- or fourth-language. This does not apply to you, and thanks for making the huge effort to communicate in tech's lingua franca. My hat is off to you, and thank your lucky stars you don't have to communicate with me in Spanish or Japanese, the only other two languages in which I can communicate. I dare not say I "speak" them.]
But there are a few things that drive me up the wall and across the ceiling when it comes to grammatical and spelling morsels I see in comments and forums (and even in tech stories and blogs, albeit rarely), like:
MAC, as in Macintosh: It's not an acronym. Mac is short for Macintosh, the product from the new evil empire based in Cupertino called Apple. It's big-M small-a small-c. Not to be confused with MAC, as in MAC address, which is the Media Access Control address, and the MAC there should be all upper case. The next person who writes MAC to refer to the Macintosh, I'm going to come through your screen with hammer blazing.
It's Xfce, but LXDE: With all the desktop hubbub going on, these two up-and-coming environments sometimes get mislabled. I've seen it XFCE and Lxde, most recently in discussions on the Felton Linux Users Group, which is going great guns in the desktop debate on the mailing list. I've never understood why Xfce is 75 percent lower case, but it is. LXDE, according to its site, is all upper case. Speaking of all upper case . . .
GNOME, not Gnome: This is not a GNOME 3 issue, surprisingly. A general rule of thumb is that if it's an acronym, it's all upper case. GNOME originally stood for GNU Network Object Model Environment, though I understand that this was so long ago in a galaxy far, far away that some want to drop the caps. I can live with "Gnome," but on a purely grammatical stanpoint, I'll keep capitalizing it, thank you. Besides, GNOME folks, do you really want KDE to be the only major desktop environment to be all caps? Fuel, meet fire . . . .
There are more, of course, otherwise I wouldn't be the Linux curmudgeon that you all know and love; at least the Linux curmudgeon you all know. But you get the idea.
All of which is to say, when posting here or elsewhere, let's be careful out there. Dot each i. Cross each t. Don't dangle your participles.
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(Larry Cafiero is one of the founders of the Lindependence Project and has just started developing software in his new home office. Watch this space.)
In a state of Flux
In lieu of the meeting at Cabrillo College at which the Cabrillo College Linux Users Group was supposed to get the school's blessing, I instead am in the computer lab. The ICC meeting was cancelled because it's — surprise! — Halloween, so Cabrillo LUG gets to wait another week before the college give us their imprimatur.
So now I've got nothing to do for a couple of hours. Good time to blog, no?
This would be a good time to bring up a random set of thoughts, like:
In a state of Flux: Fluxbuntu released it's version 7.10, and it's a great system. The Fluxbox desktop environment is one that can grow on you, and it makes you wonder why the general populace has been brainwashed into expecting icons on the desktop as a standard. What's more appealing — to me as well as the thousands (maybe millions?) of PowerPC Mac users abandoned by Apple — is that Fluxbuntu will also be releasing a PowerPC version shortly.
Nigeria picks Mandriva: Mandriva gets a pretty peachy account — powering school computers in Africa's most populous nation. The Nigerian government has selected Intel-powered classmate PCs running on Mandriva Linux for educational use in nationwide pilot, with the project's aiming to improve the quality of technology delivered to students — as well as to help teachers and parents. Mandriva's a good choice in that regard. More on the story, as we say at Open Source & Free Software Reporter, from Mandriva can be found here.
Santa Cruz Sentinel: There, I said it — Marc DesJardins, the copy chief at the Santa Cruz Sentinel, has his Google news search set to the name of the paper for which we both work. This blog always pops up — thanks, Google! Since I'm on vacation from the paper, I'm just wondering if the news desk is enjoying the silence in my absence — so are ya, Marcus me ol' buddy?
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Hello, On 7.Nov, 2009, at 22:58 , Brian Candler wrote: >> * How do would you write/implement tests for your views? > I don't see in principle why it can't be any different to normal > tests. That > is, you ... of course, it is not different *in principle* at all. I am specifically curious about concrete strategies/techniques/best practices or ways *how* to do it. Eg., Jan has a fixture directly in the design document: how does one work with it then? Is this a good way to TDD views? >> * What is the recommended practice for writing the views? In Futon? >> In >> an editor and uploading them to db via couchapp or similar? Via >> CouchRest or similar layer? > I do the latter (using my own CouchTiny rather than CouchRest). Your > views > are source-controlled together with the rest of your application, your > application can populate the design docs when required, and you can > integrate your view tests with your application tests just as you > wish. Yes, that's one way of thinking about this. But, in fact, when I am thinking about "mental shifts" Couch brings to my RDBMS-based experience, I don't think it's the one ot the best way. In a standard Rails app, for example, database is *usually* (please note emphasis) just dumb storage for data. You model the domain, manage validations, etc in your application code. With Couch, as I see it, it would make much more sense to "de-couple" the database from the application. First, "my" app is not neccessarily the only one working with the database, given MVCC/replication/ standalone couchapps/etc. (And that I tend to see as good and awesome thing.) Second, Couch provides relatively rich functionality without any "middleware" -- think polling the _changes API or the _update hooks. My knowledge here is severely limited, but this seems to me like a big (and, again, awesome) difference to the usual ways. So I am not convinced that tying the view tests/development/generation to the app is neccessarily the best way. That's why I was asking about concrete strategies, because I couldn't find almost *any* documentation on this. >> * Is there a way to automatically run such test suites? (Via >> browser, or >> something like Rhino?) > Same. Sure: again, I am sorry, but was asking about some specific, real- world info. After some investigation, using couchjs for running the JS code would be much better fit. But, is there any info/tutorial? > ou can set up 'test', 'development' and 'production' environments for > CouchDB just as ActiveRecord does, and this is how I handle it. See > http://github.com/candlerb/couchtiny/blob/master/doc/RAILS.rdoc Thanks for the link! So, you basically declare the view JS code in your model (`define_view "Foo_by_bar"`) and let CouchTiny upload it to the database? While I see the point here, I would rather not tie views to the application code in this way (as said above). But, again, I might be seriously mistaken about this. I would highly appreciate any info, or just opinion/perspective on this... Best, Karel
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David Cameron and Nick Clegg are due to unveil new childcare plans in a joint press conference today, with further detail expected to follow next week.
According to reports, families could be entitled to claim up to £2,000 per child every year from their tax bills, to cover the cost of childminders and nurseries as part of a new government scheme to help families.
The new measures will not be means tested, and will replace the current voucher and allowances scheme.
We'd be interested to hear what you think of these proposed changes, particularly in the light of the changes to child benefit which have been implemented today.
Have any of the actual details of this been released yet, or are we still just being told that there will be additional investment in child care to help 'working mothers' ?? Is it Thursday the government are supposedly meeting to firm this up?
Many thanks for all the posts - interesting reading.
Nobody outside the government is quite sure why this announcement wasn't made yesterday - although there are some hints in press coverage today that this might be down to internal Coalition disagreement over the policy.
It looks likely that some sort of announcement on childcare funding will be made in the near future, so do please keep letting us know what you think.
Another massive con. They must think we're totally stupid... Worse than nothing I think, because whilst they're removing child tax credits and child benefit they're offering undisclosed tax breaks that will penalise stay at home parents. It's nonsense.
If they really wanted to help children they'd have state child are for all, just as they do in Denmark / Sweden, where children have high quality child care available so that parents can split work responsibilities as they choose - instead of bogus tax breaks that send yet more money into shoddy private sector nurseries, where the fees will rocket.
Great post DeGlitterBug. Totally agree.
Actually, I'm seething now. All this bullshit about "working mothers"... It's so fucking patronising. We don't hear about "working fathers" do we? No. Because its assumed that fathers work. These policies do not even use language that reflect the realities of modern life. PARENTS work. We're paying taxes and we're bringing up the next generation of taxpayers and I'm sick of being talked down to whilst this government force through more back-of-a-fagpacket policies that clearly will save no money whatsoever.
Spot on Deglitter
There is quite a bit of wrong information about childcare vouchers and salarty sacrifice on this thread so just to clarify...
Notaqueef's scheme must be a workplace nursery. THese are tax and NI exempt to the total cost. Other employer supported childcare (the most common of which is childcare vouchers) is exempt up to the limits depending on rate of tax. Whether it's offered through felx makes no difffernece to the tax status, just on how your emlpoyer admnisters the scheme.
Annie you also save NI so the savings for a basic rate taxpayer is 30.6% or 32% making up to £933 a year not £588 (although still not £2000! but nearly for two parents)
Concessionsavailable childcare vouchers don't go poof if you leave or go on maternity leave (although your employer may do this). On the whole they don't expire and can be used til 1st september following 15th birthday of your youngest DC (this may depend on the voucher provider). They certainly don't when you go on maternity leave as you can continue to get the vouchers on maternity leave - and an employer who does not allow this or is contrary to the sex discrimination act. In particular the Maternal and Parental Leave (Amendment) Regulations 2002
Hope this helps!
Further to cogitosum's post about CCV when on maternity leave, the rules of any salary sacrifice scheme is that your company must continue to provide you the benefit that you have contracted to sacrifce salary to receive while on maternity leave, in exactly the same way as any other contractual benefit. The rules go further to state that your maternity salary CAN NOT be reduced/sacrificed further by your employee as you have already been on a reduced salary contractually in order to receive this benefit.
The upshot is that when you go off on maternity leave, if you have been part of a salary sacrifice scheme to receive CCV, then your company MUST continue to provide you with the CCV's while on maternity leave but your maternity pay should not be reduced. I discovered this handily a few months before going on mat leave with DC2 and fought hard to get my HR department to understand the legislation (small company, ended up getting their own legal advice) and I won. Made what was a pitiful maternity package (only SMP) slightly more acceptable.
I don't work and have lost my CB and as my youngest DD is 12.
I can't invent a job out of thin air, I refuse to leave a my DDs (even at 15&12) all summer in the middle of nowhere with no transport.
They get on very well, but after a few days they would had enough and I refuse to have DD1 being responsible for trampoline, cycling or climbing frame accidents especially involving the girl next door.
Therefore, the Government can Fuck the Fuck off an do what the hell it likes.
All it's bright ideas make us worse off so I no longer care.
Dave and Nick revealed very little in their press conference. The "leaks" to the press were a cheat. Beware of Coalition leaks.
Sorry, that should read an my pension contributions as DD2 is 12.
Pension was Labour, it used to be 16
Child benefits is the Tories
Given DHs employers do some defence stuff the Liberals hate them.
So basically all the political parties are shit!
Maybe they ran it up the flagpole, watched the reaction and realised it wouldn't fly?
I've not read this whole thread, and I know that the policy wasn't announced anyway, but I have a question.
I saw on the front of the Telegraph today that this would punish SAHMs because they wouldn't get a tax-break to pay for childcare. I must confess that I didn't read the whole article because I was reading over someone's shoulder on the train and I can't find it online now.
But my question is, how would you give a SAHP a tax-break? My understanding is that a tax-break is on income tax. That's how my childcare vouchers work anyway. So if you're not working, you're not paying income tax. How then - in fact, why then - would you get/need a tax-break?
(BTW I have absolutely no problem with parents claiming their vouchers and using them however they want in the system as it stands at the moment. If one parent works and the other doesn't, then why shouldn't the working parent claim vouchers and use them for childcare to allow the other parent to study, or write a novel, or learn judo or whatever the hell they want? That's not my point, my point is how you give someone a tax break when they're not paying income tax - do you let them pay less VAT?!)
It is my understanding that the working parent would still get a tax break to pay for childcare in the same way, regardless whether or not they had partner at home.
The confusion is perhaps whether 2 earners would get double the tax break (which surely makes sense as they would use more childcare)
As they say at the end of the article, "the main barrier for women returning to work is the cost of childcare... we simply dont get stay at home mothers contacting us saying they want more money for childcare" - no 10 source
It is about making returning to work a viable CHOICE for second earners, no one is forcing you (if you can survive on 1 income)
However I don't think 2k per year tax deductible changes anything vs current childcare vouchers (it is still nowhere near enough)
And for those whom it is not a choice because they can't afford not to both work, helping them out as they contribute to the future of our society by having children and both paying income tax
There are situations where a couple is worse off if the second earner works due to the extortionate cost of childcare. (Or single parents who cant afford to work). That is simply wrong.
Therefore making childcare payable out of pretax income makes absolute sense. The problem is, only allowing £2k per year to be paid this way makes hardly any difference. It needs to be 100% although I understand the need for a cap it should be more realistic, say 10k per child.
Or capped according to the local cost of childcare in the same way housing benefit is capped at average rent for the area for the size you need.
Local costs woudl be better but there is very little money in state coffers so I am not holiding my breath. Cost of a full time daily nanny if you have a proper full time job and she looks ater 2 or 3 under 5s which is very common is going to be about £25k - £30k a year including paying her natinoal insurance, her tax and emplo0yers' NI on her salary. You pay that out of your taxed income.
So if you could set the £30k (some hope) off against 40% tax then £12k is from the state and £18,000 paid by you or £9,000 per parents (childcare costs are never just costs for women - men find and pay for childcare and are a full part of this issue in most equal households - real women don't marry sexist men who expect women to be in charge of children not in 2013 and not even 30 years ago). I also think this Government is going to have to drop the sexist stance it has put on this as they will annoy even libertarian flat taxes who woudl be in favour of abolition of all credits, child benefits and the like by their suggestion that Nick Clegg and other men are somehow less responsible for children even than their higher earning wives like his - Miriam G. They can woo the female vote if they avoid sexism but even here they are getting that wrong (... calm down dear). Avoiding sexism would not cost them a penny and buy them much credit but they are still getting it wrong.
I read somewhere today that married couples would be getting a tax break. All these rumours do seem a bit odd to say the least and no announcement yesterday. It does look as if they are testing the water.
I wouldn't get your hopes up think it was only £150 a year.
Highly silly,unfair and a complete waste of money IMHO.
Basically 2x 40k will now get CB,help with cc and a married couple allowance.Those of us on one income of 50-60k who have happily been living together for years get nothing.
Fair- I think not.
Yes, they are Vivienne and as Xenia points out, dropping the sexist language and stance would be a very, very good start Coalition Government imho.
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I agree that they have been testing the waters with the rumours.
Enough of their core voters have expressed horror, bafflement and/or derision for a total rethink to be in order.
It doesn't count as a u-turn if you never officially announced it in the first place...
There are some countries where they do what Xenia's suggested...
So if someone earns £50K, and has to pay for childcare of £10k/per year, the way they'd be taxed would be first X amount free (something like £8000 now?), followed by the £10k that you pay for childcare, and therefore you are only liable for tax of 50-8-10=£32K. This would mean that on 22% tax (because you fall in the lower tax band), you'll pay £7K in tax per year, which is much better than the current system where you would have to pay tax on £50-8-(243*12)=£39K.
They even allow tax rebates on having more children (in a bid to increase birth rates), and other sorts of tax rebates.
And yes, they need to stop the sexist language and stance...!!!!!!!!!!
Just thourght might try clarify voucher confusion.
Back in 2011 could have been april co-alition changed the rates you could save with vouchers was less than we got in 2006 for 1st child.
My guess is if old old contract ie been in same place years then maybe that stayed same.
Like I say hubby,s always done it through his job which helped me when I was working and at home.
Also different employers use different voucher providers current one is computer share and elctronic back in 2006 was paper and not sure which provider.
So if terminate one scheme and join new employer then you have to join under new terms and conditions I guess therefore getting less.
Also not every employer offers it and always seem wrong self employed people cant benefit unless they can make childcare part of annual tax return that be good a rebate on childcare costs.
Me and husband discussed earlier as we both been employers and only management or supervisors say took advantage of the scheme no one else asked of course was advertised in company handbook. One single parent cashier 16hours said majority of her childcare was paid through working tax credit childcare element no sure if this still exists as never was eligible when working for help with childcare other than vouchers and free 15hours term after 3rd birthday.
I really hope not axed at age 5 as its really going to hurt many business, childminders and after school clubs. some schools axed after school clubs as not enough parenst working to warrent it.
Even use vouchers in nursery class of prep up until age 5.
Most people only get 6weeks holiday and school only runs for 32weeks of year so how do we provide childcare for 14weeks if no family near by.
Uses 2diffrent nurserys both private one for each child and they converted houses and wouldent space for loads of kids and become battery farmed childcare!
The childcare for disadvantage d 2year olds red herring its sole purpose is not childcare its child development.
Watched on daily politics last nite as missed lunchtime and both woman conservative and lub dem bloke men were self congratulating themselves why wouldent the middle mind the redistribution of wealth and giving their childcare breaks to family on less income than themselves. This offended me personally we stuggle on most months we not rich.
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The material the MovieWedge is constructed from is some sort of microfiber suede. It's very soft and wont damage your iPhone or iPod Touch. A side benefit is it can be used as a great cleaning cloth for you screen as well which is excellent considering the MovieWedge is created for watching movies and few things are more annoying than watching video through a dirty smudged screen.
There are a couple things that would improve the MovieWedge. First of all the tag. I hate that horrible MovieWedge tag sticking out. It's distracting and gives off a cheap and unsophisticated vibe. I'd like to see them remove the tag entirely maybe printing a logo on the bottom instead. In the most recent refresh of the MovieWedge (I believe the refresh happened within the last week or two) they have improved upon the Tag making it much smaller and less distracting. In a perfect world I'd also like the base of the MovieWedge to be a different material so it will stay firmly put on slick surfaces that move a lot like a dashboard or center console of a car.
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There are often riots at the prison. The most recent one, in May last year, started when a dispute broke out, allegedly over a woman who'd been smuggled into one of the cell blocks. That ended relatively peacefully, after the bishop of San Pedro Sula negotiated with the inmates to put away their weapons (which are as easy to smuggle into the prison as mobile phones, pets and women). Only one prisoner was killed. A riot in March was bloodier. Thirteen people died, including a man who was decapitated before his head was tossed in front of the prison gates.
According to local news reports, he was a former leader of a faction of prisoners who had become so unpopular they rose up against him. They also killed his dog. "The prisoners rule," assistant prison director Carlos Polanco told Associated Press. "We only handle external security."
Honduras is plagued by such stories. According to a United Nations report last year, Honduras is now the deadliest place in the world. Per capita, more people are murdered here than in any other country, including Iraq and Afghanistan. And it's getting worse. Early last year, the American Peace Corps, whose largest mission used to be in Honduras, pulled all its people out of the country, citing "comprehensive safety and security concerns".
Honduras, with a population of just under 8 million and formerly best known for its bananas and pristine beaches, is now gangland's ground zero, its endless body bags the toll of an endlessly vicious feud between the transnational rivals Mara Salvatrucha and the 18th Street gang.
Their hatred for each other knows no limits, and it defines life in San Pedro Sula, including in the prison, as I learned two weeks before the March riot, when I spent a brutally hot morning inside speaking with inmates. The prison was designed to hold 800 people, but when I visited more than 2000 were incarcerated, divided into three cell blocks: one for Mara Salvatrucha, one for 18th Street, and one for the unaffiliated, most of whom were pesetas, deserters who've left one or the other gang. The populations cannot be mixed or there would be a bloodbath every day, instead of just every few months.
At the 18th Street cell block, a man calling himself El Termite stuck his head out of a small window in a rusted steel door, marijuana smoke and the fumes of corn starch moonshine wafting out with it. An "18" was tattooed on his forehead, and below his left eye an "LA" in the Los Angeles Dodgers typeface; like most older gang members in Honduras, El Termite had spent much of his life in the United States. Now 31, he's serving a life sentence for two murders, though he admits he has carried out many more. He joined the gang in his teens, drawn in by a sense of belonging and opportunity.
Now he is animated mostly by revenge: his seven-year-old son was recently gunned down. "Life here isn't easy," he said. Around the corner, in the courtyard of the Mara Salvatrucha dorm, the stories were much the same.
In the peseta block, they were even worse. When I arrived, a group of shirtless young men massed in front of a gate to speak with me. They were covered in gang tattoos too, but some had begun trying to remove them, as was clear from the razor and knife scars on their bodies. Deserting one's gang is tantamount to being in the opposing gang, and all the men have prices on their heads. On a bar in the gate they'd hitched a couple of mirrors to keep an eye on the Mara dorm next door and the passageway that led to the 18 dorm.
A man in his late 20s named Jairo told me he left his gang because the new generation was too ruthless. "They kill everybody," he said. He fled to North Carolina but, like El Termite, was deported. "I feel freer here in jail," he said. "Everybody outside wants to kill us." Like most deserters, Jairo is worth more dead than alive. His corpse will fetch about 5000 lempiras, about $US260.
San Pedro Sula recently surpassed Ciudad Juárez in Mexico to become the most dangerous city in the Americas. It may also be the most dangerous city in the world outside Syria. In addition to gang violence, assaults, robberies and rape are routine, as is extrajudicial violence committed by the police and military. In the first three months of 2012, there were 1709 killings in Honduras, a murder rate 20 times that of the United States. In San Pedro Sula, it's 40 times. This murder capital of the world's murder capital sits in a valley near the mountainous border with Guatemala. To the west are the magnificent ruins of Copán, a Mayan royal city, and to the east the Caribbean Bay Islands, a popular scuba-diving destination.
Both are crawling with US and European tourists who come by way of San Pedro Sula's modest airport and see little of the city besides the Hilton, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Dunkin' Donuts on its garish main commercial strip before high-tailing it out of town. Beyond the strip, the city is a welter of barrios and industrial zones. Honduras is still one of Latin America's poorest countries, and its past as a proverbial banana republic is still everywhere in evidence.
Plantations and shanty towns surround San Pedro Sula, into which there is only one highway. The country has never fully recovered from Hurricane Mitch, which displaced more than 1 million Hondurans in 1998 and flat-lined the economy for a full year, or from devastating floods four years ago. Even before that, the International Monetary Fund estimated that the country's black market made up well over 50 per cent of the national economy.
In recent years, even Honduras has become a locus of globalisation, however, and San Pedro Sula, studded with foreign-owned factories that have set up shop in search of cheap labour, represents two-thirds of the country's gross domestic product. Increasingly, its residents don't have to migrate to the US to find work. The unemployment rate in 2011 was an enviable 4.8 per cent. This has led to the encouraging rise of a middle class; next to the new factories one often finds bulging communities of modest, one-family houses.
But they are gated and employ teams of guards. Some have installed barricades and barbed wire fences. Indeed, armed guards stand in front of just about everything in Honduras. A Payless shoe store I passed regularly kept two men with 12-gauge shotguns and flak jackets on duty all day.
The violence is not confined to the gangs. In 2009, a group of industrialists allied with the military deposed the country's president, Manuel Zelaya, and soon after installed a wealthy landowner from the National Party, Porfirio Lobo Sosa (Pepe, as he is both affectionately and derisively known). Since then, police attacks on critics of the government have increased markedly, and the country has taken on both a lawlessness and a militarised air that amazes even jaded Hondurans. Jesuit priest Ismael Moreno, who runs a local radio station, told me, "The overriding institutional criterion in Honduras is violence."
I met Moreno, a short, rotund man, in his office in an industrial satellite town of San Pedro Sula. Moreno, who also does outreach work with gangs, sweated and smiled as we talked. He got up from his desk and walked over to a map of Central America on the wall and began poking rural Honduras.
In the 1980s, he explained, land-owning families like Lobo's began employing bands of former soldiers to keep in check campesinos, or rural workers, demanding better treatment. These paramilitary groups were easy to form and easy to arm: guns left over from the civil wars and US interventions in neighbouring Nicaragua and El Salvador were pouring into Honduras (which the CIA used as a staging ground to aid the Contras rebel groups). "To buy an AK-47 was as easy as buying a pair of shoes," Moreno told me. But these militias were less easy to disband. When the groups began looking for new sources of income, they allied with Colombian drug traffickers.
At the same time, another criminal phenomenon 2000 miles away was taking shape that would soon plague the cities of Central America. In the 1980s, in the poor neighbourhoods surrounding downtown Los Angeles, immigrants from Honduras and El Salvador, under assault from Mexican organised crime, formed their own gang: Mara Salvatrucha, a slang phrase whose meaning refers to guerrillas or fire ants, depending on whom you ask. It grew rapidly and soon developed a rivalry with 18th Street, a Mexican gang that had formed in the 1960s and had, unlike most Mexican gangs, taken on Central American members.
Both gangs became known for their ruthless violence, the fierce loyalty they inspired and demanded, and their elaborate iconography, tattoos and lore. Both proliferated wildly. In the 1990s, the US government began deporting gang members en masse, and Mara Salvatrucha and 18th Street were re-exported to Central America, infesting cities like San Salvador, Guatemala City and San Pedro Sula. They took over entire quarters and instituted a sort of martial law, collecting "war taxes" from local officials and businesses, and even issuing permits for civilian traffic.
One researcher I spoke with estimates there are 150,000 gang members in Honduras, a country with fewer citizens than New York City. More common estimates place the figure in the tens of thousands.
In the last decade, meanwhile, Mexican drug cartels have increasingly looked to Honduras, as well as the gangs, for distribution. The US Drug Enforcement Administration estimates that 25 to 30 tonnes of cocaine, or one-third of the world's volume, now moves through Honduras every month.
"Honduras is by far the world's largest primary trans-shipment point for cocaine," a US official told the Washington Post. And not just trans-shipment: last year, anti-narcotics police raided a cocaine-processing lab in the mountains outside San Pedro Sula, reportedly the first facility of its kind in Central America.
The country's politics have struggled – and failed – to keep up with the explosion of gangs and drugs. By the time President Carlos Roberto Flores, a Liberal Party stalwart and former newspaper owner, entered office in 1998, the gangs were an overweening social anxiety and a cause célèbre in the media. Flores introduced the first official anti-gang measures, including a liberal-minded reintegration program that met with moderate success. But the violence increased. A group of the country's conservative industrialists and landowners hated Flores and saw to it that his successor came from different stock.
Ricardo Maduro, the Stanford University-educated chairman of the Central Bank of Honduras, was their choice. In 1997, Maduro's son was kidnapped and murdered, a crime that went unsolved and catapulted him, backed by the National Party, into political life.
He won the presidency in 2002 and, once in office, introduced a zero tolerance policy toward the gangs that went well with his name – the campaign was called Mano Dura, or Iron Fist. He combined military divisions with the police, brought in former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani to advise, and enjoyed the support of US President George W. Bush's administration.
In 2004, Maduro and his public security minister, Óscar Álvarez, implemented sweeping anti-gang laws. Indiscriminate dragnets in the barrios brought in scores of young men arrested on little or no evidence. The prisons swelled. According to an organisation that works with street children in Honduras, Casa Alianza, thousands of boys were killed by the authorities. Casa Alianza called Maduro's law a "selective policy of extermination". The result, ironically, was not just an incalculable increase in rancour between the public and the government, but also a calculable increase in violence: between 2005 and 2010 the homicide rate in Honduras more than doubled.
Guillermo López, formerly the chief criminal justice in San Pedro Sula, says judges were instructed to get tough on gang members. I met him in a small office used by human rights lawyers, where he recounted to me a meeting in which a Maduro administration official instructed López and his colleagues to use even the slightest evidence in gang-related cases. The mere supposition of affiliation should be enough to convict, the official told them, and supposition could be based on as little as a tattoo. López told me he refused to go along with the orders. "In most of the cases, there was no proof," he said.
The pressures on judges eased somewhat as Maduro was replaced by President Zelaya. But after the 2009 coup, López was dismissed by Lobo, whom US President Barack Obama recently praised for his "restoration of democratic practices".
Lobo also reinstated Álvarez as public security minister. But even he started speaking up. Last northern autumn, Álvarez declared that at least 20 police commanders in Honduras were allied with drug-trafficking organisations (how he arrived at that number he didn't say). Days later he resigned.
That was shortly before the widow of a retired Honduran Army general told reporters that police on a motorcycle had assassinated her husband. A motorcycle assassin also killed a former adviser to the security ministry who was an outspoken critic of police corruption. The Honduran Congress response has been to ban passengers on motorcycles.
The irony, López told me, is that even as people are charged with being gang members without supporting evidence, actual gang members and other well-funded criminals bribe prosecutors and judges to drop cases against them. The government has yet to bring a major organised crime case against the leadership of either Mara Salvatrucha or 18th Street, and it's no wonder, López added: the police aren't just committing a lot of the crimes, but have almost no capacity to solve those they aren't committing. The impunity rate in Honduras – crimes that go unprosecuted – is more than 90 per cent.
Despite so many unsolved crimes, everyone I talked to here seems to have a relative or friend who has been on the inside of San Pedro Sula's teeming, tin-roofed hovel of a prison. One young man who had recently been there reluctantly agreed to talk to me one afternoon. Andreas (not his real name), who had recently left the Mara Salvatrucha gang, met me in the lobby of my small hotel. When we sat down to talk, he kept eyeing the security guard nervously, and we retreated to a back courtyard. Then, he worried we were being overheard, so we moved to an alcove inside. He walked with a slight limp from a bullet still lodged in his hip.
His father died when he was an infant, and he was raised for much of his childhood by his grandmother, while his mother was working in the US. He was recruited to Mara Salvatrucha by a cousin. "You got a gun, women, drugs," he told me. "They brainwash you." When his cousin was killed, he believed it was his duty to seek revenge. But to join, he had to carry out "missions" – kill people, in other words, including deserters, police and suspected snitches. By the time he was 12 years old, he had killed some 15 people by his reckoning. His first, he said, was a local drug dealer who refused to pay taxes to the gang. "It didn't affect me," he said. His friends threw a party for him afterward.
In his early teens he moved to South Los Angeles to live with his mother, a hotel housekeeper, and worked as a drug distributor for the gang. At 23, he was deported to Honduras, he told me. He returned to San Pedro Sula to find that gang life had become almost unbearably intense. There was constant pressure to provide revenue to the leaders, and after never pulling a trigger in California, he had to kill more people to re-prove his loyalty. Young recruits were murderous in a way that repelled even him.
"Homies were crazier," he recalled. He took part in a series of public massacres that left dozens of innocent bystanders dead.
When I asked Andreas whether he felt guilty about any of the killings, he said that one did bother him. She was a middle-aged woman, a low-level drug dealer whom the gang supplied. They found out she was "stepping on" the supply, mixing it with talcum powder to increase her profit. So Andreas was sent to kill her. "She was always very nice to me," he said. He said he shot her eight times in the back, as her six children looked on.
Eventually, Andreas came to the realisation that for all the talk of loyalty, protection, family – all that the gangs say they provide – "it's all bullshit." They're so greedy for revenue that even their rules have a price now, and for about $US9000, Andreas was able to buy himself a way out. How long that will last, he has no idea. It doesn't provide protection from his enemies or the police, only from his one-time friends: Mara Salvatrucha.
"I'm in the hands of God now," he told me. "I killed a lot of people. So I wouldn't be surprised if I was killed."
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Are you tired of trying to find pajama pants that fit? Use this free sewing pattern to make your own! It's so easy you can make a different pair for every day of the week.
Project Type: Make a Project
Time to complete: In an evening
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History of the Pajamas
Up until the late 1800's, standard sleeping attire in western culture was essentially a long shirt referred to as a nightgown. British colonialists discovered the loose fitting pants worn by people in India, called pyjama, a word of Persian origin which means "leg garment." As they were known to do, the British brought back this part of Indian culture to England and the loose pants began to be worn as a lounging garment. Eventually, the pajama pant and top took over as sleep wear in favor of nightgowns and soon, the whole ensemble was referred to collectively as pajamas.
Since their introduction into western culture, pajamas have gone through numerous fashion phases. Starting with the traditional button up shirt and loose pants, pajamas soon transitioned to include footed onesies meant to be warmer in winter time with the signature butt flap to easily take care of nighttime business. Women's pajamas began taking more fashionable and less functional turns with the introduction of the baby doll, a tunic-length top with bloomer-like shorts underneath. The many transitions of the pajamas have led to the wide variety of sleep wear options we have today.
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why can I not access instructions for these pj's
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