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Classic Double RoomMax Occupancy: 3 guests (up to 1 infant)
Junior SuiteMax Occupancy: 4 guests (up to 2 infants)
Double Room Single UseMax Occupancy: 1 guest
Siena inn in Siena Historical Center, walk to Torre del Mangia
Located in Siena Historical Center, this inn is within a 10-minute walk of San Spirito, Torre del Mangia, and Palazzo Pubblico. Piazza del Campo and Siena Museo Civico are also within 10 minutes.
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Along with concierge services, this smoke-free inn has express check-in and express check-out. WiFi in public areas is free. Additionally, tour/ticket assistance, multilingual staff, and a front-desk safe are onsite.
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All 14 individually decorated rooms feature free WiFi and minibars. For a bit of entertainment, LCD TVs come with satellite channels, and guests will also find refrigerators and hair dryers.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
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Locanda Di San Martino features tour/ticket assistance, multilingual staff, and concierge services. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access. This Siena inn also offers express check-in, express check-out, and a safe deposit box at the front desk.
Locanda Di San Martino is a smoke-free property.
- Total number of rooms - 14
- Elevator/lift
- Front desk (limited hours)
- Luggage storage
- Number of floors - 3
- Concierge services
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- Express check-out
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- Year Built 1300
- Smoke-free property
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
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- Hair dryer
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- Shower only
- Desk
- Satellite TV service
- In-room safe
- Cribs/infant beds available
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- Free Wi-Fi
- Individually furnished
- Individually decorated
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The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
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Check-in time ends at 8 PM
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Minimum check-in age is 18
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Special Instructions: Please contact the property ahead of time if you are planning to arrive after 10 PM.
A tax is imposed by the city and collected at the property in cash: EUR 2.50 per person, per night, for the first 6 nights. For stays from 1 November to 29 February the tax is reduced to EUR 1.50 per person, per night. This tax does not apply to residents of the city, children under 12 years of age, or disabled persons. Please note that further exemptions may apply. For further details, please contact the property using the information contained in the confirmation received after booking.
Check-out time is 11 AM
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- No onsite parking is available.
- A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 2.50 per person, per night, up to 6 nights. This tax does not apply to children under 12 years of age.
- Pet fee: EUR 10 per pet, per night (maximum EUR 20 per stay)
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One trick I have learned is that, if they really don't want to be found, the more you look for them, the more they hide. Sometimes on cat-sitting house calls, I sit quietly and motionless, waiting for missing cats to appear. When they do, I usually am greeted by "deer in the headlights" stares, but at least I know they are inside.
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I tried putting it on the matching leather love seat. It would not stay put because of the leather. Ordinarily you put a cover on a fabric chair and you can use push pins or something. I thought the ties would work to keep it in place. It slid all over. The love seat and chair are not worn out. I wanted my burgundy pieces to look more light for summer.
I purchased the chair and loveseat slipcovers in light khaki to update my living room furniture. These products are not manufactured by Sure Fit, as some reviewers have mentioned, but are part of the Simply Shabby Chic line. That's basically the look you get, which I do like, but I'm not a fan of constantly tucking and re-tucking the covers to help them look neat. I did run each piece through the dryer with a wet towel, and that helped to get rid of the major wrinkles. I also sprayed the cover with water, once it was in place on the chair, and smoothed out any wrinkles that were left. I have an oversized chair that measures 48 inches across, and this cover did fit it easily, with a bit of room to spare. I don't really like the overall shabby look of the one-piece slipcovers, so I plan to return the loveseat cover and find something else. I am keeping the chair cover to use in my bedroom, where the look is more appropriate and the chair is not used as often. Overall, these covers are a good value for the price, the fabric is fairly decent and natural (I could not see my dark green chair fabric through the cover), and they provide a romantic, shabby chic look. I just want something more tailored for my living room.
I ordered this slipcover for our huge "chair-and-a-half." The chair was given to us by some friends, but it had an ugly 80s southwestern pattern on it. Like others have said, the slipcover is very big. It fits our chair and has a little extra room to tuck under the back of the cushion. It seems a little thin, but our chair was ivory before, so nothing shows through.Overall, a good product.
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Port-au-Prince, Sunday street life intersecting Grand Rue near the Marche en Fer (Iron Market). #Haiti::::https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8634/15859776141_ace3f0dea3_m.jpg
Haitian houses on a hillside. Taken along the road we hiked from the national park below Haiti's highest peak, down into the capital city of Port-au-Prince. A terrific hike that took us from the silence of pine trees and the occasional horse or two throu::::https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7556/15853994252_4d39c92df3_m.jpg
Bon weekend from Haiti! A couple of schoolkids greet us on our way across the mountain.::::https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8628/15822220636_54c5bef7f4_m.jpg
Bon weekend from Haiti! A couple of schoolkids greet us on our way across the mountain.::::https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8589/15846055801_7b887dd05f_m.jpg
Haiti…who knew? I say this to myself regularly on this visit. After a cool evening with our own homemade Haitian spiced hot chocolate and a little fire to warm our room, we set off into the hills on a morning hike, through villages, among cowboys, and p::::https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7534/15659386247_e015b4f51d_m.jpg
Good morning, Jacmel. One more dose of coast before we head back into the mountains for a few days. #Haiti::::https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7533/15643268500_fa56281731_m.jpg
A view from my day-ending beer. Sunset, Haiti style. Kabik Beach, Jacmel Cayes. How to beat the #polarvortex::::https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7570/15203089723_f95f21b379_m.jpg
Bassin Bleu — in the hills just outside of Jacmel, Haiti. I have a mixed relationship with waterfalls, as many are oversold. This one, however, lived up to its billing and included a little mini-rappel (abseil), a couple of pleasant pools, and plenty of::::https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8643/15821023905_d6ceaae24f_m.jpg
Countryside Haiti. A stop at a family guildive rum distillery, outside the town of Milot. Pure sugar cane in, clear fire water out, and a cognac-like process in between. Called guildive because drinking it is supposed to "kill the devil". Local apprentice::::https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8545/15628381837_862a53e574_m.jpg
Cap-Haïtien central market. A covered market whose red wrought-iron gates and roof open to a world of managed chaos and Vodou mysticism. A sea of people end to end, even on a holiday.::::https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7582/15787926906_25c0015756_m.jpg
The streets of Haiti, just outside the main covered market of Cap-Haïtien. As locals trade in produce, shoes and Vodou (voodoo) paraphernalia, the Sunday morning streets echo with church sounds and Latin beats.::::https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7577/15187028344_c92be5b391_m.jpg
Patience! A typical bank borlette, a Haitian lottery shop. Numbers are based on the draw of the New York state lottery. This one on the supremely colorful streets of Cap-Haïtien. We played a ticket for just short of $1. If we win? Thinking we'll quit our::::https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7476/15619174498_b7dc6c3efb_m.jpg
Audrey takes a walk with a local girl named Mika-Josephine that we met at the beautiful ruins of Sans Souci Palace. Perched in the hills of northern Haiti and built by Henri Christophe after crowning himself King of Haiti in 1811, the structure knew a sho::::https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7564/15616480399_4023cc382e_m.jpg
Haiti, a taste of the mountainous north. This, an old guard house in the shadow of the Citadel Laferrière outside of Cap-Haïtien.::::https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8123/15797695102_f010d0f632_m.jpg
All aboard! Our Haiti adventure begins in Port-au-Prince. Some might say "chicken bus", Haiti says "tap tap".::::https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7561/15791612572_dc2a484fb3_m.jpg
South Beach Stopover. Kickin' back at the lifeguard chair, considering the sunset. Overnight before setting off for Port-au-Prince, Haiti.::::https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8402/15787790042_39c131d402_m.jpg
Spying on the Queen while flying over what I think is Windsor Castle on the way into London Heathrow. Today's flight plan: Berlin – London – Miami – Port au Prince, Haiti.::::https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7502/15779194075_6da42091b7_m.jpg
25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall (November 9, 1989). Taken from the East Side Gallery. Two million visitors in town for the festivities, including the release of 8000+ balloon lights from along a 15km segment of the wall.::::https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7581/15750901435_897ac6d477_m.jpg
Nikola Spasić passage — Belgrade, Serbia. Am a lover of these interior courtyard arcades I so often associate with Eastern Europe. This one has all the trappings of what Belgrade was to me on our walkabout: beauty in decrepitude, hints of old grandeur an::::https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7576/15546588538_58ba1b33e7_m.jpg


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WASHINGTON -- Our strongest memories call up equally strong emotions: Remembering certain experiences make us feel good; others, not so much.
It seems like a completely natural process. But researchers at MIT may have figured out how it works -- and may have found a way to change that around.
The study on mice has found the circuit in the brain that controls how memories link with certain emotions, as well as a way to use light to reverse the emotions associated with specific memories. Researchers were able to condition some mice to consider one side of a rectangular box as pleasant; others, to consider one side as unpleasant.
Then, by using a laser to activate parts of the mice's brains, they were than able to reverse the process and entice the mice to spend more time in the area of the box they had once been conditioned to fear and less time in the part they'd been conditioned to enjoy.
The MIT researchers were able to plant false memories in the mind of mice in a study last year; this study examines what combines memories with certain emotions.
Researchers say that these findings might light a path to creating drugs that help treat conditions such as depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Senior author Susumu Tonegawa says, "In the future, one may be able to develop methods that help people to remember positive memories more strongly than negative ones."
The study is described in the Aug. 27 issue of the magazine Nature.
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Performance in the role of President and the People's Right to National DefenseSubmitted by Seaofrhodes on Wed, 06/27/2012 - 22:53
In his treatment of the Trayvon Martain case, we saw that Barack Obama was nothing less than a bigot. In dealing with the Supreme Court's Arazona decision, we saw that Barack Obama was nothing less than a megalomaniac. This translates to the qualifications required for a full blooded tyrant. The Greeks knew about tyrants and had some means for dealing with them. I fear that the Founding Fathers planned well but had nothing worse than King George in their list of references. King George was a gentleman by comparison with Barack Obama. At least, King George (though mad part of the time) played with the established bag of tricks. Barack Obama threw away the bag and ate the tricks. All of which is to say that when the GOP comes to power some very serious thought must be given to limiting the office of the president. It has been said that, if re-elected, Obama could destroy the country as he would very much like to do now. Wild dislike for the Constitution should be the signal which terminates a president's time in office. I never realised how wise the Founding Fathers were in limiting the powers of the president, and I am greatly disturbed that they did not go far enough. Items of proof of eligibility to perform the role of president of the United States should be an on-going law at any time within the four year terms, and any properly constituted forum of citizens should be able to call the president on performance with the penalties being either a citizen's No Faith Warning or Termination of that president's time in office.
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Jakada Imani Named Director of New Center
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Ken's Steak House is an improbable success story. Ken and Florence Hanna opened the Lakeside Cafe in 1935, the throes of the Great Depression. Bite by bite, they built a loyal base of customers (who always just called the eatery "Ken's"), and after five years, the restaurant took up residence in a small diner on Route 9, then known as Starvation Alley.
But Ken dreamed of a day when the grimly named strip would flourish. Today, it's known as the "Golden Mile"—and Ken's Steak House itself has mushroomed. The kitchen still serves the salad dressing recipes created by Florence Hanna—now a national line of salad dressings—and Ken's son, Timothy, and his wife are in charge.
Chefs broil and fire-grill prime cuts of steak, marinating the chateaubriand's center cut roast tenderloin in a reduction of port wine, or infusing the 8-ounce filet mignon with the earthy smoked notes of the warm cedar planks it's served on. Seafood options nestle up against their turf counterparts, including bacon-wrapped scallops, a full pound of lobster stuffed with crab and shrimp, and pistachio-crusted Atlantic salmon. Chicken and pasta dishes round out the menu, and diners discover Italian influences and plenty of seafood-pasta plates. The rustic wood paneling harkens back to Ken's Steak House's roots, and the upscale fare and soft light cast from chandeliers make the spot an ideal choice for an anniversary dinner or a piñata's last meal.
When The Melting Pot originally opened in 1975 just outside Orlando, diners had just three options: swiss-cheese fondue, beef fondue, or chocolate fondue. The restaurant first expanded four years later, when an enterprising waiter at the initial location opened up a new outpost in Tallahassee. Today, the company?now owned by that original waiter, Mark Johnston, and his brothers Mike and Bob?reigns as the premier fondue, wine, and drink restaurant, stretching across the U.S., Mexico, and Canada with more than 140 restaurants and plans to expand to Saudi Arabia and Dubai. The restaurant's menu has also expanded, and patrons can now select from six varieties of hot dipping cheese fondues paired with salads, entrees, and their signature chocolate fondue.
On a given night, groups of viscous-dip-loving foodies gather around tables to nosh on cheese-fondue appetizers and various salads while cooking a variety of steaks and seafood in a choice of one of three flavored broth or traditional oil styles. Birthday revelers and romance seekers cap decadent evenings sharing the chocolate desserts that have defined The Melting Pot for decades.
"It's the next best thing to having Greek friends who put a spit in the yard come Easter," proclaims The Improper Bostonian of Aegean Restaurant. The glowing review should come as no surprise—for one thing, Aegean's founders Nicholas and Toula Ntasios hail from Greece, and for another, they've been working at it for nearly three decades. In 1972, the pair left their small village to chase after success in America. Their gamble paid off in 1980 when they opened the first Aegean Restaurant. As locals discovered the strip-mall eatery, a spot as deceivingly nondescript as a fortune cookie that contains the president's phone number, business went from sparse to thriving. In the three decades since, Nicholas and Toula (eventually joined by sons Arthur and Chris) have drawn customers not with glitzy marketing campaigns, but with authentic, personalized food. The Improper Bostonian deems their braised lamb "especially worth the trip," but Mediterranean influences shine through most in seafood dishes, such as the charcoal-grilled, lemon-kissed swordfish steak.
Guadalajara, nestled in the state of Jalisco, was the birthplace of many of the flavors used in Mexican food. Those influences shine through in the recipes at Taqueria Mexico, where the chefs draw on family recipes brought by over from the inventive city. The dishes have helped earn the eatery very good to excellent ratings on Zagat.
As at any good taqueria, the gorditas, tacos, tortas, and burritos can be stuffed with a wide range of meats and veggies. Carnitas, pork traditionally slow cooked with green chilies, is nearly as tender as steamed beef al vapor. Lengua, or beef tongue, is also a time-tested taqueria meat. And like the dependents section of a scarecrow's taxes, the eatery's quesadillas brim with squash.
Green Chili's family of flavor aficionados melds more than 49 years of culinary know-how and worldwide travel with international influences to populate an extensive menu of classic Indian and American entrees. Diners can sample an assortment of traditional Indian dishes, including mint-tinged chicken tikka ($6.99) tucked neatly into a spinach, white, or wheat wrap. Shrimp curry ($10.50) zings taste buds with zesty spices and socially relevant one-liners, and a sky-high veggie sandwich ($6.50) buttresses layers of onion, sautéed potatoes, and cilantro between thick slices of bread. To quell crack-of-dawn cravings, Green Chili whips up breakfast items throughout the day, as well as fluffy Indian pancakes ($4.99–$7.99), served with spicy lentil and cool coconut dip. The savory smorgasbord also includes American entrees, such as the Corporate Dog ($3.15–$6.25), a plump hot dog topped with chili, sauerkraut, and upward mobility.
CJ's is a sandwich shop on steroids! Full breakfast menu every morning...ice cream all summer...fresh seafood plates...and the best rotisserie cooked roast beef sandwich on the planet!! Comfort food at its finest...in a hometown diner-style atmosphere where you'll feel right at home, as soon as you walk in.


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Drake, Take Care
Fame, sex and money are terms synonymous with hip-hop, products of the culture, and despite the ill-validity of these prizes, everyone still seems to be rapping about them. Even Drake.
A year and a half removed from the release of Drake's debut, Thank Me Later, a record heralded for its sideways look into the life of a young rapper who had everything but still wasn't happy, Drake is still the young gun struggling with his fame. Whereas Thank Me Later was a catalyst for his fame, Take Care is a response to it.
Musically speaking, Drake has opened the well into the new era of hip-hop, spearheaded by artists like Lupe Fiasco, Common and Kanye West, rappers who don't just posture and decide to write lyrical journals instead of ego-centric self-advertisements alone. Yes, on paper, Drake's life plays out like a modern soap opera. He's one of the few artists who can rhyme about texting his girlfriend. But there is something real about seeing a person at their weakest, and although Drake spends a good part of 17 songs on Take Care trying to convince his listeners that he's got everything under control, you don't believe him for one second—and I'm not quite sure that's unintentional.
The record opens with "Over My Dead Body," with expansive-sounding keyboards and Chantel Kreviazuk singing beautifully in the background before Drake enters with, How I'm feeling, it doesn't matter / 'Cause you know I'm OK. In many ways, the track is representative of the album as whole, with its lush instrumentation and its guest spots that at times take the forefront to Drake's vocals ("HYFR," "Make Me Proud"). "Crew Love," featuring the Weeknd, follows along these same lines: opaque soundscapes that lull more than awaken.
But lulling is OK, because on a record that's more influenced by Jagged Edge and Ginuwine, lush overtones are the benchmark. Drake is always the sweet talker here, as he weaves the stories of the women he's been with, often lamenting the times that love simply didn't work ("Take Care.") On "Look What You've Done," Drake tells another story on top of liquor-parlor-like piano, conversations muddled behind his words. Drake is smart enough to dive into the specifics here, and amid the haze of the bar he plays back a message from a woman who misses him, much like the dialogue at the end of Kanye West's "Blame Game," and to the same cathartic effect. The track is mesmerizing in its nostalgia and it becomes clear that Drake's struggle with his image is more than based on how much money he makes, but how much he can hurt people.
Drake's ponderings, however, can sometimes become tiring, especially on a record where each song could encapsulate the very moment when the woman walks out on the man. But Drake is often better when he rhymes instead of pondering. Album standout "Undergound Kings" is Drake poised with his crew and his city, and instead of sparse, meandering beats, the track is held down by a powerful guitar lick and beat, which give the track the record's strongest backbone. It's reminiscent of Eminem's "Lose Yourself" and "Not Afraid" in its raw power. "Lord Knows," guest-starring Rick Ross, follows suit in front of a triumphant choir sample, a track that could have easily fit well on West's Graduation.
The album's biggest problem, however, is its sequencing. At a mammoth 17 tracks, the breadth of material is already too much to digest, and with most tracks sitting inside a setting of expansive ambience, ("Take a Shot for Me," "Cameras") songs start to drift into one another and you're not quite sure just where the record is going. But it's at this point that you realize it doesn't really matter.
The latitude of Drake's emotions across the spectrum of the album is wide, and the dealings of Drake's soul sometimes make the most sense when they make the least sense. It's in Drake's genius to let himself bare all without baring all, his keen ability to purposefully let his transparency be shown, that the record triumphs.
From a moral standpoint, there's much content to object to—take the parental advisory sticker seriously. But the greatest question at hand doesn't revolve around the myriad of sex and money and vulgarity that Drake accepts, but around the lack of love for himself, as evidenced in the nearly hour and 10 minutes Drake spends telling his stories.
As imperfect humans, we admire others' imperfections in the hope of redemption. Through the booze and sex and thin self-praise, it's in this hope that Take Care compels us to believe, and that's a good thing.
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Looking for some advice from the DPSubmitted by Freedom means l... on Mon, 07/29/2013 - 01:00
Hello DP,
I am looking for financial advice from the group of people I believe have it right the most.
Here is my situation:
I recently graduated from pharmacy school and recently got a job at a chain making 95K/yr. I have a wife who is an occupational therapist who makes approximately 70K/yr. We have 111K student loan debt from me and 70K student loan debt from her totaling 171K debt averaging about 5% interest rate. We currently live with her parents and pay rent (1k/month) to help them out (her dad lost his job recently). We own 2 cars (Honda Pilot and GMC Sierra) which are our only assets besides wedding rings and clothes and a little furniture. Her parents own a cabin on a lake in Minnesota that is almost paid off and is very nice but a tiny lot and not much room to garden. My family owns land in South GA (my grandpa is still living there) with a house and plenty of farmland.
Here is my thought process moving forward.
Scenario A:
Buy a nice home in a place we like (West Knoxville, TN) in a super nice country subdivision that should hold its purchasing power for ~350K and play the game with a low interest rate (4%), pay off loans over 10 years or so, pay the mortgage off in about 20 years, and have a tiny bit to buy some food store (rice, honey, salt, canned goods, coffee, liquor), a little silver (1/3 of savings), and a little cash (1/3 of savings). My chain matches 4% of 401K plus profit sharing up to another 4% on a good year (essentially 6-8K bonus that is stuck in 401K). I would probably do that if we stay with this plan but am open to suggestions. Pretty much live the (upper) middle class life and hope everything stays afloat...
Scenario B (The doomsday collapse preparation):
Pay off our debt as fast as possible, move up to Minnesota where we could live by ourselves most of the year, buy food stores, buy a bunch of silver and eventually move some of it to gold as silver piles up, have a good bit of cash stored in an immovable safe (heavy mofo), buy seed and gardening gear, fishing gear (including ice fishing - winters are HARSH up there), water distill, vitamins, etc. And if no collapse occurs, we eventually get comfortable enough to play the game as above.
My thoughts:
If we don't buy at these interest rates (Scenario A), we may never afford a house like this and may be pinching ourselves.
However, if a collapse happens, we will be pinching ourselves that we didn't set ourselves up for a sustainable living in a post collapse America (such as in Scenario B)
After my grandpa passes, we could move to South GA and set up a small farm in addition to jobs we commute (30+ minutes at least) to, but my wife wouldn't be nearly as happy down there. It is pretty dull and would be a warzone in a collapse I would imagine. We could do the whole migration thing after my grandpa passes but he is a hearty fella who may last another 20 years we hope lol.
What would you suggest? Is there a combination of the two that you see could work? What would you do? What questions should I be asking?
Thanks for the discussion, DP
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Live frugal, get out of debt, and forget Gramp's place.
Make frugal a game. You will be amazed how cheap you can live if you work at it. You can have that debt paid in two years time. Then decide where you want to be and buy land with small or no house (and build small to start with design to add), and pay cash if you can, or pay it off as soon as you can. You'll be light years ahead, as opposed to going into debt now for that upper middle subdivision dream home, which will become an albatross (expensive to live in, maintain, and repair). I've construction experience, and no way would I buy any subdivision home. They are notorious for cutting corners, hiding mistakes, and making them look pretty.
And your grandfather may have to use his assets to pay for elder care. Never count on inheritance. If he leaves you something, it's a bonus.
Undo what Wilson did
Here's my advice
1. What does the wife want to do? Do that. (even if it doesn't work out for the best, your relationship will survive shf much better (and she can't blame you).
2. Seek ways to get the loan reduced, grants, if the loans come from the state, see if the state can reduce them. If the loans come from the fed gov., see what they have. If the loans come from a private source federal credit union.. and see what you can about shifting the loan, out of where it is, reducing it, into another, just think FLOW.. cash flow..
3. You may not want to hear this, but you could have the loan reduced or eliminated by elisting as a reserve in the military, or a contractor.. two years/ four years they could absorb the debt.
4. Don't count your on your grandparents place..
Here's my advice,
get rid of the debt and then start thinking about a house. If you work hard you should be able to pay that debt down pretty quickly. In the mean time, spend time at the cabin, visit Grandpa and West Knox to get an idea of where you'd like to live.
You also didn't mention children, that 350k mortgage will be hard to make on one income with a couple of extra little mouths to feed. If you haven't talked to your wife about children, it's a conversation you need to have.
Even if the shit doesn't hit the fan, life has a funny way of throwing you curve balls and being weighted down with debt is a recipe for disaster. In the 15 years we've been married we've seen our share of ups and downs but not having money problems made it much easier to rebound. Parents get sick (they live with us and siblings can't help, they can't even help themselves, why? Scenerio A), siblings (my brother and my husbands sister) have lost their homes and marriages (Scenario A) and landed here to get back on their feet, neighbors lost their jobs and we've fed them (Scenerio A)...
Frankly, I'm getting sick of picking up the pieces of Scenerio Aers - it's a very bad idea.
I guess my advice is pay off your debts, live beneath your means, keep the people you love close, invest wisely, learn to live off the land and keep a little stockpile. :-) Good luck and best wishes!
Don't buy a $350k house.
Buy 3 $120k houses over time instead, putting 40-50% down, and rent two of them out through a property management company. One rent check would pay the mortgage on all three.
Even in a total hyperinflation disaster, people still have to live somewhere. Even in Weimar Germany, landlords were in good shape the whole time since rent is inflation indexed but mortgages are not.
Buying a large house is an albatross around your neck; it reduces your options. With interest, you will be paying on it for a long time with no income resulting, and in shifting scenarios you want to be as flexible as possible. Property tax is likely to get heavy as well in coming days.
Keep in mind, if you own five houses outright, you can retire. Live in one and the four rent checks pay for your living expenses.
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Your debt must be dealt with first.
For as long as you ARE in debt, you will have no freedom to even think about your future. A debt basically means that you are a slave to your debtor, and anything bought with that debt is not yours, but theirs.
After you are free from your debt, stay debt-free. Never take out a loan, nor use a credit card, nor use any financial instrument that inflates your true worth, ever again. Never ever play with the IDEA of a loan. Run away from the loan game as fast as you can. As long as you do, you can be absolutely sure and proud that you are the private owner of everything that is yours - that you have earned the full amount of what you have worked for.
No compromises.
I believe in the freedom to be what we choose to be.
I'm not licensed to give financial advice, but I can say what I'd do if I were in your shoes for the sake of discussion...
I would stay where I am right now and pay off debt as fast as possible. I'd try to save as much as possible and live frugally, despite the nice double income. I'd save precious metals, if possible.
I'd head up to the cabin and enjoy the outdoors. I'd learn some skills, improve existing ones, and have fun. I'd try and make like minded friends who are close by. Reinforce relationships with family. Stash a stockpile at camp in you case you need to stay there unexpectedly for a while.
All you have to do is wait. Keep working. Save money. Some day the real estate will drop in your lap and you'll have no debt and lots of liquidity. When the day comes that you inherit property, you can either move there or sell it and buy land closer to where you're at now.
The best prep is community. Couples and loners stand zero chance, despite how much stuff they have.
the first thing you need to do is
Give your in laws more in rent! Geez you make 165,000 and your basically living for free. If you go with #1, do you plan on taking then in? Your loans were to get good jobs, live like paupers and pay off the loans. If the SHTF the house you are looking at will drop like a rock....then buy, you know it will....it's just a matter of time. Gets about 3 to 6 months of supplies to out last the shockwave. Bullets, bread and burning wood and keep your head down.
Pay Off The Debt
Save your money and buy some land..ok..a lot of land..make sure you have a good supply of water under ground on the property.Pay cash for the land.Put a shed you can live in on the property. Make your garden..eat and can up what you can..sell the rest. (A 2ac garden would be nice to start)
Make a root cellar to store your food. Build a smoke house.
Start saving again and start buying up things you need to build a house. Learn how to do as much as you can yourself..and what you cant do..hire out..pay all cash.
Ever seen the show Mountain Men on History Channel? I love it myself. There are men that will teach you how to live that life if you seek them out. But be warned..you will work your ass off to learn..but once you do..you'll never forget it.
I believe in Hope & Change..I Hope the government will Change
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Avoid using a mortgage to
Avoid using a mortgage to purchase a house at all costs. Do the math on the compound interest. It's a lesson I learned the hard way. Well, I knew it in advance but I chose to do it anyway because I was young and foolish. I don't care what everyone else thinks. Most people follow the herd. The single best thing you can do for yourself and your family is to get out of debt and then stay that way. It's much harder to do that once you have a mortgage.
This is a tough one. In all
This is a tough one. In all probability, the sh1t won't hit the fan for a 15-25 years.
But if you choose route one, you won't have the chance to choose route 2 later on if you feel locked in with your jobs, home, friends, etc.
Also, route 2 sounds attractive in its own right, with or without any catastrophic collapse.
You guys should choose the life that you think will make you the most happy, regardless of whether or not SHTF.
Also, a lot of your prep ideas for SHTF aren't entirely practical. What importance is there in paying off student debt in a collapse scenario. The government will hardly be able to collect it, and inflation would wipe it away. Severe deflation, if allowed, would end up with mass debt write offs for unpayable student debts.
The stores and the property are a great idea, with or without collapse, I guess. Assuming you'd be happy managing stores.
Gold and silver will be of limited value in a full blown collapse, much more value in a generalized severe inflation or dollar collapse.
Food stores might be forced under severe price controls in a scenario of high inflation but still stable government control.
You seem to be debating: maximize skilled specialization and income, and take immediate advantage of low interest rates and relatively low property costs.
Or, prepare for a collapse in the value of high specialization and ties to corporations and currency wages, and focus on more economic autonomy in property in goods, in a more remote region.
The odds are so tough to figure. Could you perhaps head toward the region you imagine ti be safer, pursue your respective high wage, high specialized careers for the next 10-15 years, keeping your eye on the world situation, and saving up in real assets and property, like in plan B?
In neither scenario do I see a tremendous urgency is worrying about the student debts, which seems to be a pretty big aspect of your question. Because trying to pay it off all immediately (basically throwing money into US govt blackhole) means forgoing other investments and assets.
Property ownership is good in either scenario. What about a pharmacy and general store combo up in the plan B region? With a close enough urban-ish area for your wife's practice?
Its hard to imagine any investments that will truly protect you in a full blown apocalypse, because at that point even a farm will just be an invitation to government requisition and unwanted company. In a true collapse 90% of us are probably doomed no matter what we do.
I think its more realistic to prepare for bad times in terms of eventually high inflation and declining standard of living. A mix of cash, metals, property, and some necessities and decent stable businesses (or specialized skills) will do well in a stable, prosperous future or a highly unstable and not so prosperous future.
What happens with your
What happens with your finances in a few days when every market collapses all at once? I'm sure you have the brain power to imagine that image. After all, you do post on The Daily Paul.
I would pay off debt. The economy can't be trusted, it's crooked
It's harder to go wrong with "cash and carry".
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Professor E. J. (Jonathan) Lowe (1950-2014) spent the last thirty four years of his life at Durham University, during which time he established himself as one or the world's leading metaphysicians and inspired philosophers all over the world. This conference will celebrate his life and work. Speakers will engage with various different aspects of his philosophy.
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THE PAS -- If you're going to go head-to-head with a Canadian icon, you better be confident.
That's no problem for Al and Johanna McLauchlan, the entrepreneurial couple behind western Canada's largest producer of a mouth-watering maple syrup alternative.
"The first thing we tell people is to clear their minds of the taste of maple, because birch syrup tastes nothing like maple syrup," said Al, co-owner of Rocky Lake Birchworks.
Indeed birch syrup offers a sweet caramel-like, citrusy taste all its own. And thanks to the McLauchlans, it's a flavour that is reaching a growing number of pallets.
It all started more than a decade ago when the McLauchlans, in search of a new hobby, saw untapped potential -- literally -- in the thousands of birch trees in The Pas region.
"I had tapped maples down east as a child, but there are no sugar maples here," said Al, as gentlemanly as he is brawny. "I was looking at Manitoba maples, but there were none close to our home. However, we had lots of birch, and after a little research, we started tapping."
Things didn't go so well that first year. The McLauchlans tapped sap from 15 trees and, using a turkey cooker as a boiler to remove the water, burned the syrup.
The next year was better as 50 trees yielded a small but edible return as the McLauchlans boiled off the syrup on a wood cook stove like Al's grandfather used to have.
Never ones to shy away from exciting risks, the McLauchlans decided to go big or go home. They found a site north of The Pas, tapped 350 trees and for the first time produced syrup on a sizable scale.
Ten years later, with about $250,000 invested in equipment, they now tap more than 1,000 trees a year, extracting sap with a vacuum system and isolating syrup with a large evaporator.
With help from sons Peter and Andy, along with friends and neighbours curious to see the inner workings of this exceptional enterprise, the McLauchlans sometimes put in 20-hour days couples half their age wouldn't attempt.
It's not that Al needs more on his plate. A retired Mountie and college instructor, he also happens to be mayor of The Pas.
If politics is about amassing widespread support, then the syrup business is about pleasing a narrow market. Yet for a supposedly niche gourmet product, birch syrup has surprisingly broad appeal.
While most Rocky Lake Birchworks customers are Manitobans, the company has shipped to such far-flung places as Australia, China, Afghanistan, England and Spain.
So how does one enjoy birch syrup? With just about anything, from pancakes and waffles to yogurt and ice cream.
Some customers use the dark sauce to sweeten their tea; others as a natural medicine for its apparent detoxifying benefits.
Food and beverage retailers are even discovering northern Manitoba birch syrup is the perfect addition to their products. Among them: a birch bark bar, a martini and a cocktail.
The notion birch syrup is not only edible, but delicious, is news to many, but the tree actually has a long history as one of nature's great philanthropists.
"The birch tree is called the 'mother of the forest' by some early tribal peoples," Al said. "It gives us a number of products, including birch sap, which has been boiled down into syrup ever since man entered the boreal forest."
That tradition will continue for years to come if the McLauchlans have their way. They have some 3,000 trees on their property outside The Pas and eventually want to tap all of them.
"We are getting new retailers every month, chefs are discovering birch syrup and the demand is growing," Al said. "There are 10 producers in Canada. We are the largest in western Canada and we would love to be the largest in the country in a few years."
Adds the entrepreneur: "We enjoy sharing the bounties of northern Manitoba with the world."
Jonathon Naylor is editor of the Reminder newspaper in Flin Flon.
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Alabama Earns No. 10 Seed in 2014 SEC Tournament
Started by Tider27, Mar 08 2014 07:15 PM
Posted 08 March 2014 - 07:15 PM
Posted 09 March 2014 - 11:11 AM
I'll watch.
Posted 09 March 2014 - 11:29 AM
Maybe Relly can will this team to a few more games. The supporting cast (Hale, Taylor, Randolph) certainly seems better now than it did back in January/February.
Blake "The Snake" Sims
8-1 (5-1)
Next Game: vs. Mississippi State Bulldogs
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