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- 6 medium sweet potatoes (Local Lands)
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- 1 head of garlic (Mealor Family Gardens)
- 1 medium onion (Local Lands)
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- Thai chili sauce
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Alekos Sofianidis
Alekos Sofianidis (Greek: Αλέκος Σοφιανίδης; 3 August 1933 in Istanbul – 6 July 2010 in Athens) was a Greek football player and manager. Sofianidis was a left back. He is known as Aleko Sofyanidis in Turkey.
Playing career[edit]
Born in the Beyoğlu district of Istanbul, Sofianidis began his career at Beyoğluspor based in Istanbul.[1] In 1948, Sofianidis transferred to Beşiktaş J.K., winning the Istanbul League in 1949–50 season.[2]
In the late 1950s, Sofianidis moved to Greece, and joined AEK Athens between 1950 and 1969. Sofianidis retired after the 1970 season as a player of Panachaiki F.C.. During his career, he played 240 Greek League games in total.[3]
International career[edit]
Sofianidis was capped by Greece seven times. He played his first national game on 15 November 1958 against Yugoslavia.[4] His last game for Greece against Finland was on 10 May 1967.[5]
Managerial career[edit]
Sofianidis coached several Greek youth teams following his retirement from football in 1970. He was a gymnastics teacher by profession.
Sofianidis was appointed Greece manager in 1988. His first game was against Hungary (winning 3–0) on 15 November 1988. Greece played 7 times with Sofianidis as their manager, winning 3, drawing 1, and losing 3. He was also manager during the infamous friendly match between Greece and Turkey on 29 March 1989, losing 1–0. This was his last game with the Greece National Football Team.[6][7]
A non-footballing issue[edit]
In 1968, when AEK Athens played Fenerbahçe S.K. in the Balkan Cup of 1968, Sofianidis did not accompany his club to Istanbul as he would have been liable for arrest by the Turkish authorities for failing to fulfill his military obligations.
Personal life[edit]
In 2010, Sofianidis died after a long battle with cancer at age 73.[8]
See also[edit]
- ^ Kolokotsios, Lambros (18 July 2010). Αθλητικοί Φάκελοι (ΣΟΦΙΑΝΙΔΗΣ) [Sporting Capsules (Sofianidis)] (in Greek). Evrytania News. Archived from the original on 18 October 2011.
- ^ http://forfubas.tripod.com/futbol/ariligi.htm
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- ^ http://www.rsssf.com/tablesg/grk-intres48.html
- ^ http://www.rsssf.com/tablesg/grk-intres60.html
- ^ http://www.rsssf.com/intldetails/1988e.html
- ^ http://www.rsssf.com/intldetails/1989e1.html
- ^ Εφυγε ο Αλέκος Σοφιανίδης [Alekos Sofianidis has left] (in Greek). Contra.gr. 6 July 2010.
External links[edit]
- Alekos Sofianidis – FIFA competition record


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Urban battles of 1916 were a precursor of what was to come in Iraq
The hazards the British army ran into in Dublin in 1916 have much in common with urban battles in our own age. In 2004 a Division of US Marines, were like the British forces in 1916 faced with a city, Fallujah in Iraq, that had fallen into the hands of insurgents.
British Army Casualties
Nearly twice as many British troops were killed in the Easter as Rising as Volunteers or Citizen Army men. Some 113 were killed and over 350 wounded.
Dozens were shot down in lethal close range crossfire at Mount Street Bridge, a slaughter compounded by the insistence of their commander, Brigadier General Lowe that the position had to be taken 'at all costs'. One was Captain Deitrichson of the Sherwood Foresters, whose family poignantly, he had just moved to Dublin
Some 15 more died around North King Street and another 40 were wounded in savage house to house fighting at the rear of the Four Courts. One of the wounded was Harold Bullock aged 22 from Cradely Heath in England, who had joined the South Staffordshire Regiment during the Great War. He lost a leg to a grenade blast and was discharged from the Army before ever serving in France.
In the South Dublin Union fighting was if anything even more ferocious, taking place inside the hospital buildings with small arms and grenades.
(Image Credit: Bureau of Military History section, Military Archives Website)
The Volunteers and Citizen Army fighters are often criticised for their military naiveté, and certainly the overall military strategy had little hope of success. But in all of the locations where close combat occurred, they fought tenaciously in Easter week.
The British Army's casualties in Dublin were soon forgotten by all except their loved ones. How could it have been otherwise with thousands of young men dying every week on the battlefields of the Great War.
Urban Warfare
Former Irish Army officer Declan Power when interviewed spoke of the similarity of modern urban warfare in the likes of Iraq in some of the challenges they faced. Fighting in an urban environment he argued, cancels out many of the advantages held by regular troops over insurgents. Visibility is hindered by the dense cover offered by a built up area. Troops are disorientated by the echoes of gunfire off buildings, fire can unexpectedly from any side.
One British officer remarked, 'In some ways the fighting in Dublin was worse [than in France]. In France you generally had a fair idea where enemy was and where the bullets were going to come from. In Dublin you never knew when or from where you were going to be hit.'
At Fallujah in November 2004, the American forces used tanks, artillery and airpower to all but flatten the city. The British in 1916 had not the same quantity of firepower, but their strategy was in many ways similar; isolate the insurgent positions and call in heavy weapons – in their case artillery and the guns of the Helga to force them to surrender.
In both cases, though, where infantry had to actually clear defended positions, progress was slow and losses were high. The American Marines lost nearly 600 casualties at Fallujah in 2004, with nearly 100 killed. The only reason their number of dead was lower than the British Army in 1916 was because military health care had improved so much in the intervening 88 years.
Frontal Assaults
Power remarks that many of the British losses in 1916 were unnecessary, the result of officers 'thinking culturally and not militarily'. At Mount Street Bridge for instance, there was no need to launch repeated frontal assaults, the position could simply have been by-passed at the next bridge over the canal at Baggot Street. It was, Power reflects a symptom of the British command's desire to demonstrate their superiority over the rebels.
Similarly on North King Street, British troops were progressing slowly down the street, hacking through walls to avoid the Volunteers' fire, until a Colonel Taylor insisted on a costly –and failed - assault of the barricades.
In Dublin in 1916 and in Fallujah in 2004 the use of heavy weapons in an urban area caused heavy civilian casualties. In both cases, British and American commanders respectively argued that it was the insurgents who had put their lives at risk. General Maxwell for instance said of the civilian casualties that they were ' the inevitable consequence of a rebellion of this kind'.
A final lesson to take from both battles is though, that military victory and political victory are not the same thing. The British Army re-took Dublin fairly rapidly in 1916. The Americans after a month of fighting crushed the Iraqi insurgents in Fallajah in 2004. But in 1922, the British Army left Dublin, which became the new capital of the Irish Free State.
Today Fallujah is again in the hands of Sunni insurgents –largely the same as in 2004 but now rebranded as the Islamic State. Without a settlement that encompassed self-determination for Irish nationalists, the British Army's victory in 1916 was meaningless. In the same way, with Sunni Iraqis excluded from power in that country, the ground was laid there for the rise of IS and the current civil war.
So for the friends and comrades of the British and American soldiers who died in either city, in retrospect it must have seemed a bitter victory.
John Dorney is a historian, author of 'Peace After the Final Battle the Story of the Irish Revolution 1912-1924 (2014)' and editor of The Irish Story website.
GPO Photo Credit: National Library of Ireland.
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'So, President White Sox Fan, Who Were Your Favorite White Sox Players Growing Up?' ::Crickets::
It's not rare for a politician to express fake love for a sports team(s) in an attempt to endear themselves to the sports-loving peasantry… er, I mean, voters… but every once in a while the phoniness is hilariously exposed.
This is a conversation Obama had in the booth with the announcers after throwing out the first pitch at yesterday's Washington Nationals game, via Gateway Pundit:
Obama to Dibble on why he wore a White Sox fan to throw out the first pitch in Washington: "I'm a Southside kid, I gotta make sure (White Sox owner) Jerry Reinsdorf doesn't get to angry with me.â€
Dibble: "Having played with the White Sox for a short time, I know how the Cubs fans and White Sox fans go back and forth. Who was one of your favorite White Sox players growing up?â€
Obama: "You know uh ….. I … I thought that … uh …. you know … the truth is a lot of the Cubs I like too! But, uh … I did not become a Sox fan until I moved to Chicago. Because I uh …. I was growing up in Hawaii so I ended up actually being an Oakland A's fan.â€
The teleprompter was screaming "Say 'Bucky Dent'!" but unfortunately TOTUS was left downstairs.
My dream follow-up question would have been, "Okay, who were your favorite A's players?" Suddenly Obama would have somehow ended up a Royals fan.
Hillary can name more New York Yankees than Obama can name White Sox players:
I knew it… no genuine male baseball fan throws a ball like this.
Oh well, the president still has the Penn State Nittaly Lions to root for!
Update: Limbaugh's playing the entire clip, and the one above cuts out before Obama talks about the old White Sox stadium, "CoMINSKY Park"… instead of Comiskey. Yeah, what a huge fan. It wasn't a slip-up either — he's said it that way before.
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Nick on
April 6th, 2010 6:30 pm
Sarah Palin wanted to be Vice President but couldn't name any landmark Supreme Court cases.
Rick on
April 6th, 2010 4:58 pm
VP Biden probably thinks the Supreme Court is a Rap Group.
The One is embarassing himself to his peers.Fidel and Hugo can name lotz of White Sox,you betcha.
Joyanna Adams on
April 6th, 2010 5:14 pm
Ball was thrown…up, and to the left…up, and to the left…up and to the left…
Nanny on
April 7th, 2010 12:26 am
So name me a few Nick then go back to your 7 th grade propaganda friend/teacher and repeat what you said here so they can pass it on to Huff a Puff Post. Cominsky – Alinsky Zero could not answer the question – no pre approved telepromter question for the Zero.
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Considering the brand of politics he came from in Chicage I would have expected him to name someone like Shoeless Joe Jackson or Arnold Gandil…
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The individual freedom to be and do what we want is endangered here. As long as no one is being harmed, I see no reason why a person can't wear baggy clothes and camouflage wear. Remember there is no prior restraint in this country. Yet. No one can be held responsible for events that haven't happened yet.
There is no doubt in my mind that if you buy into this national paranoia there will be no stop to it. What's next? For God's sake, a boy in another state was kicked out of school for drawing a gun! Another was charged with sexual assault for giving a young girl schoolmate a peck on the cheek. I believe he was only six years old.
This must be stopped. Do not buy into this new version of hate-mongering. Nothing good can come of it. Only more hate.
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Wanted to share our trip report of the Normandy Highlight tour...the trip that a lot of people do their first time in Normandy: Mont Saint-Michel, Bayeux, and Honfleur. A little about us: We are a 30ish year old couple, not big museum people - prefer strolling and taking in the sights leisurely and like boutique B&B accommodations. We currently live in Europe so we travel a bit, but hadn't been able to spend any time exploring France (outside of Paris) up to this point.
Day 1: Paris - Saint Malo - Cancale - MSM
We flew into CDG Friday afternoon and spent the weekend enjoying Paris. Monday morning, we caught a 7:30am direct train from Montparnasse station to Saint Malo to begin our Normandy adventure. We arranged to rent a car from Europcar and their office was right across the street from the train station - super easy. We opted to prepay for a tank of gas and return the car empty - probably not the more cost effective option, but made life easier. Side note, when booking online it was cheaper to select the Saint Malo city pickup rather than the Saint Malo TGV station...even though it's the same office/place. We drove the 1 mile to the center of town and parked where the road ended in several parking lots, just outside the old city walls. We spent probably two hours strolling the streets and along the ramparts and stopped for a bite to eat. We ended up having some of the best moules and frites of our trip! I can't remember the name, but it was just before you cross through the wall onto the ramparts by the sea, with a yellow awning/sign. Saint Malo was cute and we enjoyed it. No doubt it's been made more popular of late by the book All the Light We Cannot See.
From there, we made the quick hop over to Cancale (about 20-25 min) for oysters!! We jumped the gun a little bit on parking as soon as we entered the town - there were plenty of spaces towards the market end, but we didn't mind walking the length of the town. It was neat to see all of the boats "stranded" in the sand due to the tide. We finally made it to the other end and found a half dozen stands selling fresh oysters from €4.80/dozen with several different varieties. Add €0.50 for a lemon and €0.50 for the lady to open them all and serve them on a plate. We sat right on the sea wall and tossed the shells over the edge. The oysters were so good, so fresh...so we had a second dozen! Once we finished, we simply brought the plate back to the lady to wash in a big soapy bucket. We sat for a bit and watched the fishermen tend to the oysters beds, driving out in big tractors - it was really neat.
It was about 5PM at this point, so we needed to get moving and drove the 50 min or so to Mont Saint Michel. I had read that dinner options were limited and we would need to be seated around 7pm, so instead we stopped at the Carrefour en route and picked up some bread, cheese, meat, etc and a bottle of wine for a picnic. We weren't exactly starving after a late lunch and a few dozen oysters, so this worked well for us. We arrived at our hotel - the Mercure - dropped our bags and set off for the 2km walk towards the Mont.
It was an absolutely gorgeous walk and so quiet and peaceful. We stopped to take so many pictures. It was hard to imagine that there would be crowds of people in the morning! We walked part way up the main path inside the walls - still teeming with vendors - and decided that we would save the ascent for our morning visit. We hopped on one of the shuttle buses back (they're free and run every 10 min or so to the main land hotels and parking lots) and got off at the first stop which was the observatory area on the newly built dam. There we caught the last rays of light and enjoyed the quiet of nature as the sun set. We sat and enjoyed a few snacks and beverages and absolutely could not have asked for a better late summer evening.
The Mercure hotel is just past an access gate, but still on the main land in the last cluster of hotels just before the causeway to the Mont. It's dated and motel style, but we had an interior room with a renovated bathroom and once you got past the bad carpet in the lobby, it was actually quite okay. Rooms were a decent size (huge by Paris standards!) and the price was right. I think it was about €135 including breakfast. And for us, the location was unbeatable, literally across the street from the shuttle stop and so close to the observation area. Many people argue that staying on the Mont is a once-in-a-lifetime experience (and worth the €300+), but we loved our evening watching the sunset around the Mont - it was one of our favorite evenings. I'd absolutely recommend staying here (or one of the neighboring places). There are no views of the Mont if you're staying on the Mont!
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We leave tomorrow for France and Normandy. This whets the appetite! Looking forward to more.
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What were the dates of your trip, if you don't mind sharing, please? Thank you for the report.
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KyraS - we were in Normandy the 5-10th of September.
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Day 2: MSM - Bayeux
We had breakfast at the hotel the next morning and hopped on the shuttle bus to be at the Mont shortly after 9am. We chose to follow the ramparts up to the top which proved to be a very good decision as we peered down into the main street. We toured the abbey and snapped a zillion more pictures of everything - the incredible history, stunning views, etc. We loved it. We were off the Mont by 11am and couldn't believe the difference in crowds. We opted to walk leisurely back to the hotel as the weather was nice and checkout wasn't until noon. We did feel a bit like salmon swimming upstream at that point. I was so glad to have read recommendations to visit the Mont twice - once in the evening and again the following morning before the day trippers arrive. It was great advice.
We loaded up the car and headed to Bayeux (about 1h30). We stayed at the most lovely B&B right in town by the cathedral, Hotel Tardif Noble Guest House (€334 for 2 nights). It was once owned by a botanist that worked at Versailles so the grounds are beautiful and the house is decorated with antique period furniture. Our host met us as we arrived, showed us to our room and kindly let us know that the last entry to the Tapestry was at 5:45pm.
We set out looking for some crepe options for a late lunch and stumbled upon Creperie Le Triskell which hit the spot. My husband, however, was less than enamored with his selection with Andouille sausage...which apparently is made with intestines in Normandy - lesson learned! After lunch, we strolled the town. Small, nice, and certainly a pleasant afternoon, but not somewhere I would go out of my way for unless using it as a base for D-day tours (which we were). The L'Aure river (stream) runs through town and there is a pretty water wheel with flowers. I went for a long run along the river into the countryside late afternoon and then we enjoyed a bottle of local cider that we had picked up in town on the terrace of the hotel. Dinner was recommended by the hotel and was an ok but unmemorable evening at Le P'tit Resto (not to be confused with Au Ptit Bistro which gets very good reviews).
Day 3: D-day Tour
We booked the full day American tour with Bayeux Shuttle and it was worth every penny. I highly, highly recommend it. We lucked out and had only one other couple and a solo guy on our tour, all around our age. Our guide, Mike, was phenomenal. He lives and breathes WWII history and is incredibly knowledgeable and passionate on the subject. I was a little worried that I wouldn't have enough prior knowledge (I knew the basics!) but Mike explained everything very thoroughly and answered our many questions. He added additional commentary as he drove and really made each site come alive for us with personal stories of soldiers that had been there. He had an immense amount of respect for the soldiers and history of the area. There is no way we would have the same appreciation for what happened that day without Mike to guide us.
The tour included the German Cemetery, St Mere Eglise, Utah Beach, Pointe du Hoc, Omaha Beach and the American Cemetery. We were the first ones to the German Cemetery and it was so quiet and peaceful, really pretty. As part of German military service, they must care for their cemeteries worldwide and sure enough, we saw German soldiers mowing the lawn that morning. Omaha Beach was filled with families and kids splashing in the water when we visited in the afternoon. Mike said that some visitors tell him they find it offensive that people use Omaha Beach as a beach, but his response nails it: Isn't that what they fought for? The freedom to enjoy this beach? And oh my goodness, the American Cemetery was simply stunning. I was overwhelmed by the magnitude of the memorials and patriotic does not even begin to describe how I felt. The whole day was absolutely incredible.
We were pretty beat after we arrived back in Bayeux around 6pm, so we relaxed with another bottle of cider on the terrace of our hotel (don't worry - it's low alcohol!) and headed almost next door for a casual, outdoor dinner (crepes) at Moulin de la Galette. We had wanted to try La Rapiere or Au Ptit Bistro but just weren't up for a big meal that evening. Food was good and service was friendly but slow. I asked for a dessert menu after our meal and waited for 15 minutes before giving up and going inside to pay and leave.
Up Next: Pays d'Auge and Honfleur...
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I'm very much enjoying your trip report and especially appreciate the info about the Normandy tour.
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We'll be taking a similar trip at the end of October, so am eagerly awaiting the next installment! Still fiddling with the details of our itinerary and trying to decide where to stay one night and where to stay 2 nights, out of an 8-day trip total.
We'll start in Giverny, head to Honfleur (1 or 2??), then to Bayeux (or maybe outside the city in the country?) for 2 nights, then Mont St Michel, then Cancale (1 or 2?), and finally back to Senlis for our final night before morning flight back to the States.
The biggest problem we're facing is one place sounds more charming and lovely than the next, I wish it were going to be a much longer trip.
Any takeaways from your trip, in terms of places you wish you'd stayed longer, or anything you look back on and think, "coulda skipped that"?
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Thank you for your response. I am in the early stages of possibly planning a trip to Normandy and/or Brittany and appreciate the information, very much.
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Day 4: Pays d'Auge - Honfleur
From this part of the trip on, planning was a little loosey goosey...
Breakfast at the Hotel Tardif in Bayeux was nice - a spread of breads, meats, cheeses, yogurt, croissants, etc around a communal dining table. We finished up, bid our host adieu and hit the road to the Pays d'Auge. The original plan was to do the cider route, but after thinking about it - how much cider did we really want to taste and buy?? The revised original plan would be one cider and one cheese place en route to Honfleur…
We stopped first in Beuvron-en-Auge. I had read that this was "the" quintessential Normandy town and it looked just like a postcard with it's half-timbered houses. As is our custom, we wandered around and snapped a few pictures, enjoying the late summer sun. We did stop in and taste some Calvados and Pommeau. The Calvados was a bit strong for my liking, so I ended up with a small bottle of Pommeau which is a mix of cider and Calvados. I also ended up with a small jar of Teurgoule to try, which if my French is correct, is a sort of rice pudding with sugar and cinnamon. Initially we had considered trying to come to Beuvron-en-Auge for the gourmet meal at Pave d'Auge, but after looking at the map, it made sense to be our first stop coming from Bayeux which would be right after breakfast, so we scratched that idea.
From there we headed to Domaine St Hippolyte, having read on another thread it was a great place to taste and buy local cider and cheese and have a picnic on their grounds. Unfortunately, it was closed — looks like they may be doing some work. Whoops there went our lunch plan.
Fortunately, we had also planned on visiting Chateau Saint Germain de Livet, the checkerboard chateau, so we hadn't driven out of the way. It was about 1:20PM at this point and naturally, the chateau was closed for lunch until 2:00PM!! We had a little meat and cheese left from our apero the previous evenings, so we sat at a picnic table in the park next door to the church and soaked up the sun. There was a sign for a creperie, but we were a little crepe-d out at this point. It seemed like everybody knew that the Chateau reopened at 2:00 because when the doors opened, there was a group of 10+ people waiting to get inside. It's a guided tour and while the tour guide made an effort for the English speakers (us and another couple), the 10 minute French explanation was usually followed by only a 2 minute English description. I was surprised by how small the interior of the Chateau was, but the exterior was beautiful - complete with peacocks in the gardens and swans swimming in the moat. It's kind of a quirky place, but I liked it!
By this time it was mid-afternoon so we decided to head towards Honfleur. We did stop briefly on the way at Chateau de Breuil — I had marked it as cider, but it was a Calvados distillery. No big deal, it was right on the way. We arrived in Honfleur a short while later and settled in at La Petite Folie.
La Petite Folie was also gorgeous (€323 for 2 nights), right in the center of Honfleur. It's located down a narrow lane that judging by the number of people in the street, looks to be a pedestrian only street, but it's not! Erwan welcomed us and gave us a list of restaurant recommendations, including a warning that all of the restaurants around the harbor were touristy and terrible. We wandered around the picturesque harbor and debated having a drink somewhere, before buying another bottle of cider to enjoy in the quiet garden of the hotel. We had dinner at L'Homme du Bois which had good atmosphere and we enjoyed. The oysters and mussels were very good. The prawns were so-so.
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Adlmllr - I'm having trouble posting a response to you for some reason!
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Let me try again in bits and pieces and see what the system is not liking...but really, all good problems to have! We essentially did the same trip but in reverse, minus Senlis. I was trying not to end up at Mont Saint-Michel, the furthest point away, leaving us with a long drive before our flight back from Paris.
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I actually really like the pace of our trip - MSM (1), Bayeux (2), Honfleur (2). We felt like we had "done" each city and were ready to move on, but nothing comes to mind to have skipped off hand, but let me ponder some more...
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The rate for the Mercure at Mont Saint Michel is variable because I paid just 70 euros for it in November.
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Thanks for finishing the rest of your trip report and your thoughts! We have the same dilemma with whether to head to the furthest point west first (Cancale) and then make our way back, but figure that a 4+ hour drive on our last day, then an overnight close to the airport would be preferable to a 4+ hour drive on our first day, after an overnight flight.
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Really enjoying this. Thank you for sharing!
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Nothing earth shattering in the last couple days of our trip, but wanted to go ahead and finish it!
Day 5: Deauville - Trouville & Relaxing!
Breakfast at La Petite Folie was similar to the Hotel Tardif - a continental spread around a communal dining table. Each couple gets a little bread basket and the croissants were out of this world delicious. So buttery and flaky.
We spent the morning exploring Honfleur some more, wandered up towards the Cote de Grace and marveled at all of the artists' workshops lining the streets - it is still very much an artists' town. We popped into Saint Catherine's and right away noticed the two naves looked like hulls of ships (first seeing the chapel at MSM built by shipbuilders helped!).
We drove along the coast to Trouville (20 min) and parked the car. We spent the next several hours walking along the beaches and pedestrian streets of Trouville and then across the bridge to neighboring Deauville. As others have said Trouville is the more authentic beachside town, while Deauville is the glitzy 21st arrondissement of Paris. I wish we had brought swim suits as the weather was warm! I settled for ice cream along the boardwalk
Mid-afternoon we stopped at Manor D'Apreval on our way back to Honfleur and tasted a couple of ciders. We had noticed it on our way out of town and thought it looked interesting. At their suggestion, we tried the pear cider and actually found we liked it the best! We returned to La Petite Folie and relaxed in the garden with a bottle of the pear cider and a couple of good books until dinner.
Dinner was at Le Moulin St Georges just outside of Honfleur towards Trouville/Deauville. Ambience was nice and only French was spoken. I had the Seafood platter and my husband had moules once again. The discovery seafood platter had a half dozen oysters, half dozen shrimp, crab and a pile of whelks and periwinkles. We were too full for dessert! I don't think I had ever eaten whelks before and have to admit, I couldn't quite figure out the periwinkles. There didn't seem to be much to them anyway. All in all, a very nice evening.
Day 6 - Giverny & back to Paris
Saturday morning we had a leisurely breakfast and made our way back to Paris via Giverny. Ideally, we would have liked to have been at Giverny at 9:30 when it opened to avoid the crowds, but we were on vacation! No sense in stressing about getting up and moving too early. It was about a 90 min drive from Honfleur to Giverny and we arrived around 12:30. There were a ton of people there, but it was beautiful nonetheless. There was still plenty in bloom in the gardens and the water gardens were green and luscious, even in early September. I can only imagine what it looks like in the summer! Even though it was crawling with people, there's something about that pink house and the brightly painted rooms that I just love.
We drove the last hour back to Paris and dropped our car off at Gare Montparnasse without any issues. Fortunately I had read somewhere that the rental car return was on the bottom floor of an Indigo parking garage next to the station because the Europcar sign was very small and I had trouble finding a rental return address on the Europcar website. Google maps had the Indigo parking garage shown.
One last side note about navigation systems. The rental car company wanted to charge us another €100 for a GPS system (almost as much as the car!) which I thought was ridiculous. I know many people like to buy the Michelin maps or other hardcopy maps, but as millennials, we would be lost without our smart phones We used an app called CoPilot that works offline. We downloaded the map for the country/region that we needed while we were connected to wifi and then put the phone in airplane mode so as not to rack up huge roaming charges, and we were able to type in any address and get directions on the fly. There's a 7 day free trial, which was perfect for this trip, so we didn't need to buy any of the country maps (which at $30-$40 still would have been a lot cheaper than the rental GPS!). There are several of these apps -- I think TomTom offers one -- but just wanted to share an alternative to the rental car GPS or hard copy maps!
We had a delicious dinner our last night in Paris at Paul Bert, which understandably gets mixed reviews. Our meal was very, very good, my husband thinks their steak au poivre is the best ever, and the waiter was working his butt off. Service was still slow (especially at the end of the meal once the restaurant was really buzzing) and our entire side of the restaurant was all Americans. I guess that's what happens after Anthony Bourdain visits!
Those of you who are planning trips to Normandy -- enjoy! It really is a spectacular area to visit.
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BOISE - Another presidential hopeful is coming to Idaho.
Newt Gingrich will be in Idaho on Thursday. He is holding a fundraiser in Harrison, Idaho. The cost is $1,000 per person.
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* Multiple Profiles: Allows up to 3 players to save their own progress
* Over 40 level and secret bonus stages
* Dizzy Bee 2 offers multiple difficulty settings, expanding vastly the level count
* Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch
Dizzy Bee is a finalist for the upcoming 2009 Independent Games Festival Mobile in two categories:
* Achievement in Art
* Best iPhone Game
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The Times of India has an article entitled This Spam is Just For You! The article is awkwardly written and I don't think that the point comes across very well, so I thought I'd rewrite some of it.
SAN FRANCISCO: Yes, guys, those spam e-mails for Viagra or baldness cream just might be directed to you personally.
So, too, are many of the other crafty come-ons clogging inboxes, trying to lure us to fake websites so criminals can steal our personal information.
A new study by Cisco Systems Inc found an alarming increase in the amount of personalized spam, which online identity thieves create using stolen lists of e-mail addresses or other poached data about their victims, such as where they went to school or which bank they use.
Unlike traditional spam, most of which is blocked by e-mail filters, personalised spam, known as "spear phishing" messages, often sail through unmolested. They're sent in smaller chunks, and often come from accounts the criminals have set up at reputable Web-based e-mail services. Some of the messages are expertly crafted, linking to beautifully designed websites that are bogus or immediately install malicious programmes.
The first part of the article is correct in that personalized spam comes harvested from other sources. For example, a cyber-thief might steal your email address from a website you visit, like a Reunion website and find out where you went to school. In this case, they might use a social engineering technique to harvest more information from you: "Hi So-and-so, your 15th reunion is coming up. Please go to this web page to fill in more details!"
They might also hack into a bank's system and get a list of email accounts of all the users for that bank. In this case, a clever spammer would target you while spoofing your own bank in an attempt to deceive you into providing your bank password. A spammer with a list of email addresses for a specific bank has a better chance of getting a victim than a spammer with a general list spamming a million random email addresses.
The article does a poor case of drawing the link as to why personalized spam gets through filters and is sent in smaller chunks. The reason it is sent in smaller chunks is that targeted advertising doesn't need to cut as wide a swath to get the desired response rate. If you already know something about your audience, you don't have to waste time sending out millions of messages. Do manufacturers of power tools advertise on the Oxygen network? Do retailers who sell women's makeup advertise on Sunday afternoons during football season? Of course not, because the target demographics aren't watching. Similarly, if a spammer knows something about the victims he is intending to spam, he only needs to send out a small spam campaign, not the millions of messages he might normally do by slinging mud and hoping something sticks.
Now, the reason that these spear phishing messages get through unmolested is because the article assumes that most email filters today use reputation filtering as their main line of defense. That's mostly true, but not strictly true. If a spammer has to send a huge advertising campaign, then he needs to send it from a lot of sources. These big spam volumes are easy to detect. But if he sends only a small spam campaign, then that is tougher. These smaller blips hide within larger IP ranges and therefore it is harder to build up a reputation on them and therefore, reputation filters don't work.
Of course, it doesn't follow that the message will sail through to the user's inbox. At least in our case, we rely on a lot of content filtering to catch much of our spam. So even if reputation filtering is evaded, the content filtering after that will detect the message as spam.
Finally, it doesn't logically follow that spear phishing messages are sent from reputable web-based mail services (like Gmail or Hotmail). If you're a spammer, then sending from a reputable web service will increase your chances of delivery regardless of whether or not the attack is targeted. However, sending a small chunk of messages from a web-based service makes reputation filtering very easy to evade.


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(Reuters) - A concert by rapper Kanye West was called off early on Monday, leaving thousands of fans massed outside the Manhattan venue where the surprise gig was meant to have taken place.
West had dropped hints about the gig when he made an unannounced appearance at another concert sponsored by a radio station on Sunday, Billboard magazine reported.
Fans turned up by the thousands, with some saying on social media sites including Twitter that more than 2,000 people had flooded the streets outside Webster Hall in the East Village neighborhood within 15 minutes.
West himself posted "Show at 2 a.m. SOLD OUT" about an hour beforehand, however the venue announced on its Twitter page "There is no late show", adding "Please get home safely".
Pictures and video posted online showed thousands of fans jamming the streets and sidewalks and sitting on top of vehicles. West made a brief appearance outside before departing, his vehicle chased by dozens of fans as it made its way out of the neighborhood.
Here's what the crowd looked like:
Outside Webster Hall right now 😳😳😳 #PABLO pic.twitter.com/6ZbaaRYveP— TeamKanyeDaily (@TeamKanyeDaily) June 6, 2016
more Kanye craziness outside Webster Hall (photo via KTT) https://t.co/jGWhcgsbEM pic.twitter.com/JmCr9YwlgK— BrooklynVegan (@brooklynvegan) June 6, 2016
Kanye's 2am concert got my street like: pic.twitter.com/S4Z307Yrba— Andrew Goldstein (@AngeGold) June 6, 2016
Kanye has arrived in a car with @trvisXX and is waving to fans. pic.twitter.com/VNy08nCA2k— The FADER (@thefader) June 6, 2016
West apparently tried to get the mayor of New York City to shut down four streets to hold the concert outside:
SHUT DOWN THE BLOCK 4 STREETS AND PUT SCREENS SO THEY CAN HAVE A PARTY OUTSIDE. @kanyewest the 🐐 pic.twitter.com/scOfRht9V6— TeamKanyeDaily (@TeamKanyeDaily) June 6, 2016
West's Sunday afternoon concert on Randall's Island in New York's East River had earlier been canceled due to bad weather.
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Paul Richard Artist
I went to a gallery reception the other day and discovered a really unique artist by the name of Paul Richard. Apparently (based on a little research I did) he's also known in New York as a street artist with a radical twist.
His work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum and Guggenheim Museum, but most interesting in my opinion is the work displays on the streets of New York and his paintings I saw at the Fish With Braids Gallery reception in Jersey City.
This is an example of his street work executed on the sidewalk on 10th avenue in Manhattan – "Sidewalk Art." You can literally miss it by simply walking 0n it if you're not looking down.
Click here and here to find out more about his unique street art using urban structures like fire hydrants, tree stumps and various public locations.
The above video is Paul doing his street art thing! (Note: If you are receiving this post as a subscriber emailed to you – please click onto "DesirableThings" to read this post from its landing page in order to see the video).
he installation is currently showing in a gallery in Jersey City called Fish With Braids, 190 Christopher Columbus Drive call (646) 573-7164 if you're interested in purchasing one of Paul's creations.
This is a great piece of work and believe it or not, Tutu Man was created using all pencil etching on gessoed wood and some scratched out real graffiti (without any enamel paint) "pencil only" amazing and a very unique technique for a contemporary artist I'm told by Uta Brauser.
You have to see this in person to really appreciate the detailed work here by just using a pencil and marker! A really fun (and somewhat cheeky) artwork to hang on your wall. Additional favorites from the show . . .
I really like Paul Richard's work and creative vibe. His artwork has a strong hint of "self-indulgence" and a strong sense of someone with a "firm stance" on whatever he believes in. It's apparent (at least to me) that this is an artist with something to say and I would love an opportunity to speak with him in person just to see what his point of view is really all about (unfortunately he didn't attend the reception).
Make sure to visit Uta Brauser's Fish With Braids Gallery (click here). She too is an extremely talented artist and we will be posting some of her work soon, as DT develops its art showcase/gallery focusing on New York's and Jersey City's emerging art scene. Is that Paul Richard again . . . lurking in the back of that painting (below)? Wonder what he has to say?
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This artist's work is great! Thanks for the article, very interesting blog!
I am glad you discovered a very special artist at my gallery,
the Fish with Braids gallery features Metro artists, new talents or mid career, with the interest on Urban communication art, new media and political context.
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a small correction also: Tutu man is all pencil on gessoed wood,
with some scratched out real graffiti, but no enamel paint.
Pencil only. A very unique piece and technique for a contemporary artist.


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Rodgers on Agger injury latest
Brendan Rodgers has revealed Liverpool will check on the fitness of Daniel Agger ahead of the Reds' trip to Old Trafford to face Manchester United on Wednesday night.
Agger was withdrawn in the 57th minute during the 1-0 defeat against Southampton at Anfield on Saturday.
Rodgers explained how the centre-back will be assessed over the next 24 hours to see if he can figure in the Capital One Cup third-round clash.
"We'll see how he is for the game [against Manchester United]," Rodgers told reporters gathered at Melwood.
"He could be a doubt for that game as he has not quite recovered. We wanted to give him time at the weekend, but unfortunately he was struggling with his breathing because he got a knock to his ribs.
"But we'll see. He's a player who makes a good recovery and we'll see over the next 24 hours how he gets on for the game on Wednesday."
Agger was replaced by Jose Enrique during the weekend's defeat against the Saints - and Rodgers was also quizzed on the fitness of the Spaniard ahead of the trip to United.
"We've had to taper his load in training because he's had this niggle now for a few weeks and obviously we're in a period where we have three games this week," said Rodgers.
"We decided to miss him out at the weekend to allow him to be involved over these next couple of games.
"It was just unfortunate that Aly Cissokho was out with injury or else he would have been able to step in and Jose might have been able to rest that wee bit more.
"But he's training and he's fine. We just need to protect his load and the last thing we wanted to do was lose him."


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• attends external events to create networks and potential new opportunities
• involved in office marketing events, is an 'ambassador' of the firm demonstrating knowledge of its products and services
• develops contacts within other service lines in the firm
• responsible for building and maintaining good working relationships with all clients
• assists manager in developing audit committee papers
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• is an approachable and respected member of the team who takes a proactive interest in the team's performance and well being
• assists in employee development, motivating and coaching trainees by giving regular feedback and promptly competing assignment appraisals
• inputs to all assignment appraisals for junior team members, and also completes self job appraisal and six-monthly forms on a timely basis
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• adheres to firm's risk management policies
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Majjar (Iraq), June 25 (Reuters): Iraqis said today that anger over weapons searches in private homes triggered the killing of six British soldiers and the wounding of eight others in clashes around this southern Shia town this week.
But a British military spokesman in Iraq, Lt-Col Ronnie McCourt, said the killing of the six military police in Majjar yesterday was unprovoked, adding: It was murder.
Witnesses and residents said four Iraqis were killed and 14 wounded in the clashes in Majjar, 30 km south of the city of Amarah.
The British soldiers, training local police, were killed inside a police station, McCourt said near Amarah, 350 km southeast of Baghdad. He gave no other details.
In the second incident, seven troops were wounded when a helicopter was fired on as it went to aid a military convoy under attack. A British soldier in the convoy was wounded.
British forces denied they had issued a 48-hour ultimatum to local Iraqis to hand over the killers of the soldiers.
I can categorically deny that ultimatum was ever set, Captain Gemma Hardy, a press officer for British forces in Iraq, said. That has not been issued.
In London, Prime Minister Tony Blair said troops may have run into trouble as they tried to disarm local Iraqis.
There is a background to do with the attempts by British forces to make sure the local population... were disarmed of those weapons, Blair told parliament.
But Blair said it was too early to say what happened in Majjar, in what appeared to be the worst casualties suffered by British forces in a single hostile fire incident since the war to oust Saddam Hussein erupted on March 20.
Residents and witnesses said yesterdays clashes followed days of resentment over efforts to disarm Iraqis, and the shooting erupted after the British forces fired plastic bullets to try to control thousands of protesters.
The witnesses said the Iraqis, believing the British were firing live bullets, fired AK-47 assault rifles, killing the soldiers.
I yelled at them because they pointed their rifles at a child. I told them: Dont do that but a soldier hit me with the butt of his rifle in the face, one resident, who refused to give his name, said.Then the shooting started.
Honeymoon over
The killing of six British soldiers has smashed the popular image of a honeymoon between benign UK occupiers and Shia inhabitants of southern Iraq who hated deposed former leader Saddam Hussein.
The killings were a wake-up call for the UK to the perils of policing post-war Iraq.
It also raised awkward questions about the oft-vaunted expertise and supposed softly, softly approach of British troops proud to wear berets instead of the helmets preferred by US soldiers towards Iraqi locals.
So far we had been given the impression that the British troops are more sensitive, they get along with people, and they are not like the insensitive Yanks who have no idea, UK-based West Asia expert Dilip Hiro said.
But now Im afraid that situation is changing.
Obviously there was a lack of preparedness, said Bernard Jenkins, defence spokesman for the opposition Conservatives.
While British troops have been widely praised for their success in winning the hearts and minds of locals, their task was easier than the Americans in the first place because of historic Shia antipathy to Saddam. The US-controlled areas are largely dominated by Sunnis, from whom Saddam drew his ruling elite.
The reputation of British troops has also been tarnished by allegations of mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners of war. Police arrested one soldier after pictures developed in a British photo laboratory appeared to show Iraqi prisoners being abused.
This incident is worse than most of the bad days in Northern Ireland, said Tim Ripley, of Lancaster University, referring to the decades-old conflict on their doorstep where UK troops gained plenty of experience policing hostile locals.


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According to radio personality and Fox News contributor Meghan McCain, the Obama administration has "blood on their hands" as a result of its utterly failed foreign policy in the Middle East.
Appearing Tuesday on Fox News Channel's Outnumbered, the five-member panel was discussing violence in the Middle East and a growing call to label the slaughter of Christians by the Islamic State and other terrorist organizations as "genocide."
"There's blood on this administration's hands. Ever since the 'red line' [referring to Obama's flip-flop on Syria], these people [Syrians] have been chemically gassed. It's the biggest refugee crisis since World War II," said McCain. "History will reflect very badly on the United States' role in all of this."
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"It's horrific. It is hard for me to even talk about this because it's the worst kind of atrocity that exists. If we truly believe that America is the greatest nation, we should be helping these people," McCain continued. "At least [label] it [genocide]. That's all we're asking at this point, is for you [the administration] to label it 'genocide.'"
President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry have been given until March 17 to officially label Christian slaughter in the Middle East as genocide, a designation which the European Parliament has already recognized.
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This isn't the first time the administration has come under fire for his hesitation to label terrorist actions appropriately. President Obama has routinely been criticized for his unwillingness to label ISIS as radical Islam as well his hesitation to label the Fort Hood shooting as terrorism.
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Best TV under $500:
Looking for the best TV under $500? The 55" TCL 55US5800 is the way to go. Beyond its large screen size, the TCL 5800 offers 4K resolution and built-in Roku TV, making it one of the easiest to use and most fully functional smart TVs on the market.
The TCL lists for $699, but it's currently available for only $499.99 on Amazon, making it an absolute steal.
Why the TCL 55US5800?
If you have thousands to spend on a set, there's no shortage of excellent choices in a large screen TV. But that list drops significantly as you go below $1,000, and is basically non-existent below $500. In this price range, there are two brands worth considering - TCL and Vizio.
Vizio is offering its 50" E50u-D2 for $499.99 through vizio.com and is available for roughly the same price through other online and brick-and-mortar retailers. It too provides a 4K picture and local-dimming, which, on the surface, is a more advanced backlight technology than TCLs. However, that local-dimming feature has received mixed reviews.
The Vizio also doesn't have smart apps incorporated into the TV. Instead, you must use the SmartCast app on your smart phone or tablet to cast content to the TV - a major drawback. And the Vizio doesn't have an integrated TV tuner for receiving over-the-air broadcasts.
At the same time, Vizio is in a period of transition, having just been acquired by Chinese TV electronics manufacturer LeEco. LeEco will be bringing their own brand of value-focused TVs to the US market later this year, so what this means for the future of Vizio is unclear. There have been complaints in the past regarding post-warranty support for Vizio sets, and if LeEco phases out the Vizio line, this may be a concern for future purchasers.
In contrast to Vizio, the TCL 5800 offers a larger screen size for the money - 55" versus 50" - and built-in Roku TV streaming and search. Having used many smart TV platforms, I can tell you that Roku is better than any of them. While you can certainly buy a separate Roku box and connect it to the Vizio (or any other TV), having it built into the TCL saves you $50 and makes for a more seamless experience. For someone who is looking for a simple to use, yet incredibly functional smart TV experience, you will be very happy with the TCL.
As far as image quality, the TCL is on par with other models in this price range, which means very good overall, with some compromises. Many reviewers found it to have picture quality on par with the Vizio E-Series. On the upside, the TCL has less motion blur than the Vizio (both are 60Hz sets), making it more suitable for watching fast moving scenes and sports. On the downside, it's not as bright as the Vizio, though still fine for most situations.
Owners have also been fond of the TCL, giving it 4 out of 5 stars on Amazon. Many praise the image quality and features for the price. A few report on technical issues with freezing or uneven light levels. However, I'm encouraged to see TCL customer support reps reaching out directly to these customers on Amazon to help them resolve their issues - I wish many other tech companies would follow this lead.
In short, the TCL 55US5800 offers an amazing combination of features and value, which makes it our choice for the Best TV under $500.
Sub-$500 Alternatives
If you don't care about 4K, you can save even more by going with the 1080p version, the TCL 55FS3750, for $50 less ($448 on Amazon). Unless you sit closer than about 7 feet, you're unlikely to notice much difference between the 4K and 1080p sets. Other than resolution, the core technology and features are the same.
Beyond these TCL options, the Vizio E50u-D2 is really your only other viable option. But given its issues with motion blur, complicated smart TV setup and uncertainty about its future, it's hard to recommend it over the TCL.
(UPDATED: 11/7/16 with new picks. Prices accurate as of date of publication.)