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The sporting world witnessed an important piece of history on Day 3 of the 2018 Olympic Games when Canadian figure skater Eric Radford became the first openly gay male athlete to win Olympic Winter gold.
This is amazing! I literally feel like I might explode with pride. #Olympics #outandproud #https://t.co/zzNd8ggHhE
— Eric Radford (@Rad85E) February 12, 2018
He and his pairs skating partner, Meagan Duhamel, helped Canada earn top honours in the team figure skating event.
Radford officially came out in an article in Outsports Magazine in December 2014, almost a year after helping Canada earn Olympic silver in the same event in Sochi.
The 33-year-old reflected on that time in an exclusive article written for Sportsnet last month.
"I had never felt compelled to talk about my sexuality before because I believed it was a non-issue," Radford wrote.
"But I put myself in the position of a young kid, who might be afraid to follow their own dream. Or maybe they just want to get out of their own small town and do something in the world," continued Radford, who skates with Sudbury's Duhamel. "If that young kid was able to see someone on TV — someone similar to myself, who was openly gay and winning medals — then maybe that would give them the confidence to feel it was truly possible for them."
Radford shared the podium with American skater Adam Rippon, who became the first openly gay male American athlete to medal in the Winter Olympics.
Congrats to Adam Rippon (@AdaRipp), the first openly gay American athlete to medal at the Winter Olympics! pic.twitter.com/iEOVli9tOB
— Human Rights Campaign (@HRC) February 12, 2018
So proud that @Adaripp and I get to wear these medals and show the world what we can do! #represent #olympics #pyeongchang2018 #pride #outandproud #medalists #TeamNorthAmerica pic.twitter.com/eXMlZ2Utrw
— Eric Radford (@Rad85E) February 12, 2018
Rippon helped the U.S. to team figure skating bronze with a near-flawless performance, and won over the entire Internet in the process thanks to his skill, his story, and his refreshingly honest tweets and interviews.
Radford and Duhamel will hit the ice again in the short program, which will begin Feb. 13 at 8 p.m. ET.


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It happened again. For the fifth time in our nation's history, we have a President of the United States who received fewer popular votes than his opponent.
As if we needed more political developments to question the legitimacy of our political system, we can now add to the growing list a President claiming a mandate to implement his agenda who lost the election by 2.86 million votes.
This issue for many is all about the individual persons who actually won and lost. It shouldn't be. The larger, more fundamental issue is about democracy. It's about the credibility and legitimacy of our political system.
The fundamental question is very simple: should citizens in the United States have the right to have their individual votes count equally when electing their President? Yes or No?
While Congressional Committees are now investigating the threat posed to our elections by the Russians, including possible hacking of private emails, every citizen should be hacked off by the proven threat to democracy on full public display every four years by the built-in system for (s)electing the President: the Electoral College.
Never mind a possible single wall built between Mexico and the U.S. in the next four years, multiple walls were erected in our own original Constitution to keep We the People outside our own government and governance.1 Washington, Hamilton, Madison, Jay and other of our nation's "founders," fearing the potential political power of "the rabble," had little interest in establishing anything approaching a real democracy.
The Electoral College is one of those walls. A relic of the immoral and heinous slavery era of our nation, the Electoral College was included in the Constitution to protect the political power of southern slave states when electing the President. Since slaves had zero rights, including the right to vote, an actual democratic national popular voting system would threaten the institution of slavery.
A nifty alternative was proposed by southern slave masters counting the "votes" of states over those of citizens, with each slave counted as 3/5ths of a real person when determining the number of proportional "electors" representing that state. This inflated the political power of slave states, protecting the barbaric institution. Democracy, like many slaves who resisted their inhumane treatment, was tarred and featured. Little wonder that four of the nation's first five Presidents were from slave-dense Virginia.
Adding to the dismay was the requirement that each state, regardless of population, would receive an additional two electors — representing the number of Senators of each state. The democratic distortion was in full display (or decay) before the ink dried on the parchment of the original Constitution.
The sordid link between the Electoral College and slavery transcends its birth. Rutherford B. Hayes was the second loser of the popular vote to become President. Hayes lost the popular vote to Samuel Tilden in 1877. Twenty electoral votes were "unresolved." The (s)election of Hayes as President was determined by a special commission, controlled by the CEO of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and made up of Supreme Court justices and members of Congress. A deal was struck, The Compromise of 1877: Hayes would receive the 20 electoral votes if he agreed to pull federal troops from the South. This put an end to Reconstruction and the launch of Jim Crow racist laws. Those same troops were shifted to put down the first national labor strike in 1877, resulting in the death of over 100 strikers. Other troops were sent to fight the "Indian Wars" in the West, which stole land and created a different form of enslavement – Indian Reservations.2 Thank you Electoral College!
Democratic disaster
A few years ago Donald Trump said: "The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy."
Views can and do obviously change when the shoe is on the other foot – or in his case Tweets are coming from another smartphone. It's not surprising that Electoral College outrage is so partisan. It's the same with gerrymandering. Those doing the line drawing to benefit their political party and marginalize the other party always think it's fair, even if the drawing paints a democratically damning picture. The Electoral College is, however, a nonpartisan assault on real democracy.
The major pillar of the Electoral College defense is the argument that it provides balance in ensuring political voice and power to rural and unpopulated communities and states. The point was made, for example, that the entire 2.86 million popular vote advantage of Clinton came from just California and New York and, thus, a popular voting system would in effect be determined by wishes, wills and whims of these two coastal states.3
Numbers can be parsed, of course, in ways to make exactly the opposite point. Texas, with its 38 electoral votes, can be claimed to have determined the national election. Given that Trump received 74 more electoral votes than Clinton, it can be asserted that it was the wishes, wills and whims of the Lone Star State alone that determined the final outcome.
There's a reason that no other nation on the planet self-identifying as a "democracy" or "democratic republic" has anything like an Electoral College. Why? Because it violates the basic democratic principle of "one person, one vote." Every vote should count and be weighted identically. Under the Electoral College, voters in small states have greater power per person than in more populous states due to every state, regardless of population, automatically receiving two electoral votes. It's simple math.
Smaller states also have disproportionate power in the U.S. Senate. Gerrymandered congressional districts result in one political party (Republicans at the moment) having far better representation in the House of Representatives than their number of registered party members would warrant in state after state. If you add in the rights of minorities from majorities (be they individuals or institutions) inherently protected by the U.S. Supreme Court, a solid argument can be made that the constitutional scale is tipped well away from the right or power of popular, majority rule.
The fundamental democratic "unit" in our country is the human person (or in the case of elections, voters), not "the state" or "substate" like such as individual states, counties, cities, wards, or precincts. It should be irrelevant, therefore, how many states, counties, cities, wards or precincts presidential candidates won, but only how many eligible human votes they received. That's how winning candidates are determined for Senate, House of Representatives, state elected office, county elected office, mayor, councilperson, even ward precinct committee person. Governors in all 50 states are elected by popular vote. Should not the same be true for the governor of all states – the President?
It's only the Electoral College that permits losers to be winners.
If this were as fair as its promoters suggest in choosing a President, it would be a relative breeze to develop an equivalent Electoral College-friendly system at the state level to elect, say, U.S. Senators. Compared to the months it takes for state officials every decade to create gerrymandered congressional and state senate and representative districts, designing such a system would be a relative cakewalk. Winning the greatest number of counties in their a state with rural counties weighted more heavily would elect U.S. Senators regardless of the state's overall popular vote. Why hasn't it happened? Because no politician or "Blue Ribbon Commission" could sell it to the public.
Winning when losing broadens and deepens the ever-growing legitimacy crisis of the Presidency in particular and U.S. political system in general.
The hallmark of one person, one vote as the mechanism to determine outcomes transcends politics to include virtually every civil society organization. Even "Dancing with the Stars" honors one person, one vote in their annual faux electronic elections. You can't get any more culturally legit!
Taking action
There are very few moments when fundamental flaws in governing institutions are so blatantly revealed. This is one of them.
The challenge will be to address fundamental democratic constitutional flaws amidst responding to scores of anticipated horrific public policy proposals from the Trump Administration.4 It's what the Move to Amend (www.movetoamend.org) campaign to abolish corporate constitutional rights and money defined as constitutionally-protected free speech faces in the coming years.
It's the same old story for people of conscience: deciding where to strategically place their strategic time, energy and resources. Should we focus on electing or unelecting public officials? Should we advocate for better laws and regulations? Should we organize for long-term structural and institutional change?
The answer is, of course, some of each. They're all needed. They all, if understood as a package, reinforce one another.
Despite the in-our-faces contradiction between the myth of one person, one vote that we're raised to believe our nation upholds compared with the reality the Electoral College presents, little activist energy exists for a constitutional amendment campaign to abolish this antidemocratic arrangement, despite an Amendment being introduced in late 2016 by former Senator Barbara Boxer.
Abolishing the Electoral College is more likely to occur as part of a larger package of constitutional "Democracy Amendments" in the future. This will require that citizens continue organizing a larger "democracy movement" which undergirds many current social, economic, political and environmental efforts. As a reaction to the evaporating myth of democracy in our country, there is growing dedication to a democracy movement capable of successfully pushing a package of "Democracy Amendments." It could be a reality much sooner than we think.
In the meantime, there is an alternative strategy that would neutralize the Electoral College and its democratic distortions. Ten states and the District of Columbia have already passed legislation awarding their respective Electoral College votes to the winner of the national popular vote. These states and DC account for 165 electors. If additional states with a cumulative total of 105 electors take the same action, the Electoral College would, in effect, be trumped with one person, one vote becoming the means for deciding the next President.
Being hacked off about the Electoral College is wholly legitimate. Our task is to convert that anger into positive vision, engagement and common action on behalf of an electoral system with democratic integrity.
1 A list of undemocratic Constitutional provisions has been itemized in an earlier POCLAD article, A U.S. Constitution with DEMOCRACY IN MIND, http://poclad.org/BWA/2007/BWA_2007_MAR.html#3
2 Human Rights for Human Beings, Not Corporations,
3 The word "coast" is constantly used in this and other contexts not as a geographic descriptor but as a form of derision. "The coast" infers being on the edge or fringe, compared to being mainstream, or the center. The Midwest is authentic or real because it lies in the "heartland." Interesting how those who use the word "coast" with such derision never use it when describing, say, Texas, with considerable coastline on the southern edge or fringe of the nation.
4 There would have been many horrific policies, though in some cases of a different set, deserving of immediate reaction and resistance if Clinton had been elected.
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Commenting on the value of colonial-issued money, the "Continental"…
"Every stone in the Bridge that has carried us over seems to have a claim upon our esteem. But this was a corner stone, and its usefulness cannot be forgotten."
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
In 1832, Jackson called on Congress not to renew the charter of the Second National Bank of the United States. He vetoed a bill to renew the bank's charter, saying the bank was guilty of fraud, corruption and controlling the money supply (expanding and contracting the supply of money to economically and politically benefit the bank). He stated, "beyond question…this great and powerful institution had been actively engaged in attempting to influence the elections of the public officers by means of its money." Jackson ordered the US government to move its money out of the Second Bank. In response, the bank called in all its loans and ceased issuing new loans. An economic panic followed. In 1835, Richard Lawrence fired two guns at Jackson but both misfired. He claimed his assassination attempt was because, in part, "money would be more plenty."
Roosevelt missed a chance to fundamentally improve our economy, if not democracy, during the Great Depression when he chose to go into debt to pay for his many "New Deal" programs. A group of prominent economists from across the nation had urged him in what was known as "The Chicago Plan" to pay for his programs by issuing debt-free money, based on the previously issued Greenbacks during the Lincoln Administration. Instead, FDR added to the government debt, which enriched bankers and all others who purchased U.S. Treasuries.
"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed." One of his "7 Deadly Sins" was "wealth without work." He also said "[a] small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."
The first central bank in history, which was publicly owned, was established in Amsterdam.
"When a bank makes loans it increases both the quantity of money in the economy as well as the quantity of debt."
"The overriding principle when we are deciding who should have the authority to create money is whether or not the 'creator' can benefit personally from creating money…this requires the separation of the decision on how much new money is to be created from how that newly created money is to be used."
Backed by bankers and other businesspersons, the League was established to promote a national private central bank. Their letter to their members on this date stated:
"Congress is wavering over the question of banking reform. The Democratic leaders are undecided whether to bring in a currency bill at the special session in the Spring or defer action until the regular session next December …
President-elect Wilson has been quoted as holding the view that public sentiment as to banking reform has not yet crystallized.
Write to Mr. Wilson if you know him. If you don't know him, it is a good way to get acquainted.
The National Citizens' League has 10,000 members and a million friends. If every member of the League and every friend of banking reform does his duty, Congress will have substantive evidence that the business world is not indifferent…"
The 1993 film, Groundhog Day, tells the story of a TV weatherman who is caught in a time loop — repeating the same day over and over. This is similar to how most nation's respond to being in debt: by borrowing more money and going into more debt — over and over. It's an economically destructive loop that forces nations to impose austerity on the majority of its citizens while enriching the elite. Only when the weatherman in the film acts with compassion is the loop broken. And only when nations understand that money can be created not as debt but as assets interest- and inflation-free to meet the physical and human needs of people will the debt loop be broken.
Massachusetts becomes the first British colony to issue paper money. The money was used to facilitate economic transactions in the absence of British money.
The income tax provides a guaranteed and consistent source of income for the payment of any federal government function, including payment of interest on national debt. It was ratified earlier in the same year as passage of the Federal Reserve Act, which turned over the nation's money power to a private central bank. Many economists believe the dollar holds its value better than the Euro in times of economic crisis since US interest payments from debt can be covered by US income taxes. There is no equivalent European income tax to cover Euro debts. This provides investors greater confidence in the dollar over the Euro.
"A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men, who, even if their action be honest and intended for the public interest, are necessarily concentrated upon the great undertakings in which their own money is involved and who necessarily, by very reason of their own limitations, chill and check and destroy genuine economic freedom. (1911)
[Note: Despite such misgivings, Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act two years later]
The "Banking Reform Bill" was introduced in the House of Commons. It "would provide regulators with new authority to break up a bank if its investment activities put deposits at risk. The legislation goes a step beyond previously proposed policies that would merely require banks to separate retail banking from investment banking. Under the proposed legislation, in addition to requiring that institutions ring-fence deposits, the Bank of England could force an institution to sell off certain businesses if it determines that the institution has failed to protect retail banking activities from high-risk investments. The bill also would, among other things, provide depositors preference if a bank becomes insolvent, and set new leverage caps."
Why this calendar? Many people have questions about the root causes of our economic problems. Some questions involve money, banks and debt. How is money created? Why do banks control its quantity? How has the money system been used to liberate (not often) and oppress (most often) us? And how can the money system be "democratized" to rebuild our economy and society, create jobs and reduce debt? Our goal is to inform, intrigue and inspire through bite size weekly postings listing important events and quotes from prominent individuals (both past and present) on money, banking and how the money system can help people and the planet. We hope the sharing of bits of buried history will illuminate monetary and banking issues and empower you with others to create real economic and political justice. This calendar is a project of the Northeast Ohio American Friends Service Committee. Adele Looney, Phyllis Titus, Donna Schall, Leah Davis, Alice Francini, Deb Jose and Greg Coleridge helped in its development. Please forward this to others and encourage them to subscribe. To subscribe/unsubscribe or to comment on any entry, email firstname.lastname@example.com
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"Aptic is interesting and stimulating to work with, and my work on the Board adds another dimension to my existence."
I'M FROM THE VARA REGION, north of Gothenburg, have worked with Svante since 1992 and have been travelling on the Aptic journey since 2005. At that time the Board members were representatives of the shareholders, today it's an exceptionally professional group of people with strong reputations. I contribute financial expertise from many years of experience in the world of business, but perhaps in particular with the common sense of the farming folk from the Vara Plain.
IT IS NO COINCIDENCE that Aptic started in Skövde. The university college has made a great commitment to IT, and there is a strong culture of system development in the city, dating back to the eighties. Sweden's first software for debt collection activity, Inkasso 2000, was put together here a long time ago. Aptic is quite simply the best and latest generation of credit solutions, with a fine pedigree.


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When Evangelion first came out all those years ago it was as maligned by the mainstream of Japanese society as much as any robot anime, however it quickly became apparent that there was something different about this anime that placed it in a very odd pocket of Japanese culture. It was not enjoyed by the mainstream in an ironic way like some of the retro robot anime nor as an extension of kawaii culture, it appealed to both sexes and crucially it felt new. It was iconic, plain and simple – iconic motifs, sounds, quotes and dealt with not only the human condition, but the unique post-apocalyptic quandaries that modern Japan faced.
If you want a good read on this subject you should probably start with Little Boy curated by Superflat king Takeshi Murakami. In short, this is not a discussion I need to have – Evangelion is not just an anime, it became a representation of culture and whether you can get past Shinji's whining, crude (but not that crude) fan-service or the "highlight" episodes or not, you should probably force yourself to watch the thing in its entirety to see why everyone else has.
With that said, want to see what happens when the pioneers of Japanese leather produce their S/S 2011 collection around the theme of Evangelion?
On the sixth day of Christmas Tokyo Telephone sent to me: Fashionate appreciation of a pop-culture icon.
I first saw this collection from the geniuses at No, No, Yes! at Japan Fashion Week's roomsLINK, and coupled with the greatest of guys that are the designers I was completely astounded by the quality of their work on this project. This is proper high-fashion stuff, not some printed geek-chic t-shirt.
Given that this is No, No, Yes! we are talking about, it should come as no surprise that most of the pieces are entirely leather or a combination of leather and cotton. Add to that a healthy mix of organic dying, ink-jet printing and high quality Japanese pig leathers and you have one of the coolest unisex collections of the year.
The Evangelion motifs themselves are very restrained and rarely use the actual characters from the anime. Instead they rely on patterns and details that are quintessentially Evangelion – which serves the duel purpose of not being too obviously as anime tie-in and being a perfect homage to the subject.
My personal favorite print is the Lilith on cross. This has to be one of the most iconic images of the anime that has lost none of its edge in the passage of time.
I think these sandals just go to show how even the very colour combinations of Eva are ironic. Not that they are just recognisable, this is a combination that is beautiful and works well with a strong black palate.
The rest of the looks don't disappoint either, and for me they mark a new age in anime collaborations and a standard that probably won't be reached again for quite some time.
Well all this just leaves me wanting more iconic pop-culture collaborations. What would you want to see?


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The Facebooking diplomacy database project takes a deep dive into the use of Facebooking by diplomats.
The project is in an advanced design phase. It uses data from 160 Facebook pages published in 25 locations from 2016 and 2017 to develop insights and recommend social media strategies and tools for diplomats.
The data has led to analyses of political leaders on Facebook and uncovered some strange sources of friends for diplomatic Facebook pages.
Recent publications based on the research are available; further publications are expected soon.
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New Delhi, Oct 28 (IANS) The appointment of an interlocutor is not a U-turn in the government's Kashmir approach as militants and their supporters would be tackled militarily while those who want to have a dialogue can come and talk, BJP leader and its Kashmir in-charge Ram Madhav said on Saturday.
Madhav rebutted opposition criticism to the move, saying Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Kashmir policy was "consistent" in a sense that tackling the issue needed a multi-pronged approach that called for different activities to be taken up simultaneously.
"And one of them is to tackle terrorists through strong military action. Whoever indulges in anti-national activities in the valley – whether in the form of indulging in terrorism or in the form of promoting it, sponsoring it, supporting it – will be caught. That will continue. But if somebody wants to come and talk to the central government, they can talk to the representative," he told CNN-New18 TV news channel.
Asked if it was not a complete shift from the government's approach of refusing to talk to the Hurriyat and an acknowledgement that the solution to the Kashmir problem lay in dialogue, Madhav said talks would be held with "sections that are ready to engage… but you will deal with sections in an appropriate manner that are out to indulge in terror".
The government on Monday appointed former Intelligence Bureau chief Dineshwar Sharma as an interlocutor to open talks with all stakeholders in Kashmir.
Madhav ruled out any involvement of Pakistan in the government's Kashmir approach, saying it would talk to the neighbouring country but only about the parts of the state under Islamabad's control.
"Otherwise, the Kashmir issue is an internal matter for our government. We will talk to the people of the state, to different groups of the state. No outside power has any locus standi on that."
He also said Kashmir was moving towards peace as "things have gradually settled down" in the valley.
"Normal political activity has also started. The government of the day, BJP and PDP, is now focusing more and more on development. Now why a special representative has been appointed to talk to different groups in the state – you see the Home Minister has made it clear that the government's doors are open for groups that want to talk.
"It also should be understood that it cannot be done by the Home Minister or somebody at that level. So we decided that Dineshwar Sharma will be the government's representative to talk to different groups, and talking is never an option we shut down."
He said the approach was "very different" from the previous UPA government.
"They (the UPA) had a great Kashmir policy, which landed the state in such a big turmoil and complete mess. This is the result of the so-called Kashmir policy of the Congress government. Today in power, we are putting a different approach in tackling the problem, and we are sure that at the end of the day we will have an amicable solution."
Reacting to Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad's remarks that hundreds of lives of civilians as well as security forces could have been saved if there was no confusion in the BJP government's approach, Madhav said: "Under their government, the loss of life was maximum — loss of lives of innocent people.
"Under this government, yes there are people dying, but those who are dying are terrorists. And if Azad's sympathy lies with terrorists, I can't help. We are trying our best to ensure minimum civilian casualties."
Asked about the possibility of Sharma talking to the Hurriyat leadership, Madhav said it was up to the separatist leadership to decide if they were "willing to talk". It "is a question you have to ask them".
"We have appointed a representative to engage with the groups. It cannot go on eternally. At some point we will have to assess the results. While I wouldn't say any specific timeline, this cannot be an unending process. Dialogue has to start and end somewhere."
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Fox was the number-one network overall in the key 18-49 demographic in preliminary ratings for Wednesday (May 29) with 1.6.
The season premiere of So You Think You Can Dance was down 16% from last year at 8pm, earning 1.6 (5.30m). This was the show's lowest-rated season premiere ever.
The CW's The 100 hit 0.6 (1.69m) at 9pm, an improvement of 20% in the key demo.
Inside the Mind of Edward Snowden delivered NBC an 18% rise over its 2013 summer ratings at 10pm with 1.3 (5.91m).
Motive on ABC averaged 0.9 (3.95m) at 10pm.
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Cranky Brit auto-journalist extraordinaire Jeremy Clarkson has, shockingly, named the 2009 Corvette ZR1 the best car of this past year. Of course, he also selected an American car as one of the worst.
When Jeremy Clarkson first reviewed the ZR1 he claimed love for the American-made supercar despite the propensity for it to disintegrate. In his year-end retrospective for the Sunday Times he essentially repeats this claim but says, despite this, it was the best car of the year.
And then out of nowhere came the ZR1, which has a supercharged V8 that manages to be both docile and extraordinarily savage all at the same time. I've been trying to think of a dog that pulls off a similar trick, but there isn't one. And anyway, this car is not a dog.
Oh, it's not built very well. After just three days in my care, the boot lock disintegrated and the keyless go system refused to acknowledge the keys were in the car, but I didn't mind because there is simply no other car that looks this good, goes this fast – in a straight line and around corners – and that most of the time bumbles about like a forgetful uncle. And when you throw in the price tag of just £106,690 – lots for a Corvette but modest next to a similarly powerful Ferrari – the case for the defence can sit down and put up its feet knowing that the prosecutor simply has nowhere to go.
It is an epic car and I'm only sad that unless the healthcare and pensions company that makes it can be turned around, it will be the last of the breed.
By selecting the new Corvette ZR1 as the best car of this past year Clarkson is agreeing with our ZR1 review, in which we stated it was "the best car ever made" and had an Amerigasm so massive the earth shook. He also seconds our fear of the Carpocalypse halting the return of the great American car.
Of course, he has some bad things to say about the Chrysler Sebring but, c'mon, who doesn't hate the Sebring?
The Sebring is an extraordinary car. Ugly to behold and hateful to drive, it is not cheap, elegant, comfortable, practical, prestigious, clever, economical, luxurious, well designed, well thought out or, if the rental car I drove in America this year is anything to go by, especially well made either.


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Publication: Globe and Mail, The
Issue: 1 December 2011, page L8
Title: Ruth Major (Lives Lived)
Web Link: link
Ruth Major
Educator, woman of faith, devoted wife, sister, aunt. Born Sept. 25, 1905, in Bowmanville, Ont. Died Oct. 5, 2011, in Toronto of natural causes, aged 106.
December 1, 2011
For 20 years, Ruth Major taught mentally and physically challenged students in a Toronto elementary school with love, compassion and encouragement. Some of her former students kept in touch with her even to her 100th year.
Ruth Isabella Mary Grigg was born in 1905, the youngest of two children of David and Jessie Grigg. She graduated from Bowmanville High School in 1923, her report cards and awards attesting to her brilliance as a student.
Ruth studied piano and music theory at the Royal Conservatory of Music, receiving high honours. She enjoyed plays and in her youth performed in amateur productions of As You Like It and A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Destined to become a teacher like her sister, Jane, Ruth studied at teacher's college in Toronto. Passionate about her role as an educator, for Ruth marriage came later in life. In 1945, at age 40, she married William Major, a lawyer nine years her senior whom she had met at Danforth United Church. After she married, she left her teaching career.
Ruth and Bill travelled extensively to Western Canada, Bermuda and Europe. They always lived together in one house with Jane, her husband, Duncan, and their daughter, Heather, who grew up with two sets of parents in one home. While Ruth had no children of her own, her many great-nieces and -nephews, cherished friends of all ages and Heather, in particular, were her treasures.
After Bill died in 1977, Ruth decided she would get on with her life: "I have just made up my mind to be happy." With the help of her strong Christian faith, she pressed on, keeping busy with church volunteer activities, committee meetings and the Christian Endeavour auxiliary group.
Ruth cared for Jane, who suffered from Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease, with great compassion until her death in 1993.
Well into her 80s, Ruth retained a driver's licence, regularly taking a written test. She vehemently disagreed that when merging onto a highway you had to match the speed of traffic. Certainly a full stop was best.
She had her eccentricities. She was a woman of style and loved smart, but not extravagant, clothes. When she bought a new car, she always bought a new outfit.
At Christmas, Ruth always bought Heather clothing. These gifts were always successful, as Ruth had the same item in other sizes and colours out in the car to ensure the right fit and match.
Healthy throughout her life, Ruth never had to take medication until the end. Only old age finally caught up with her. She lived her life with grace, dignity, courage and compassion, leaving a legacy that will be hard to match.
By Keith Pond, a family member through marriage.


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Australia, 1993 (MIFF 1993, Documentaries)
Director: Kevin Lucas
Black River is a sumptuous and compelling adaptation of one of Australia's boldest contemporary operatic works, featuring Aboriginal mezzo-soprano, Maroochy Barambah (Bran Nue Dae, Women of the Sun) as Miriam. The production was originally mounted, to unanimous acclaim, by the Sydney Metropolitan Opera and the Bangarra Dance Theatre. This inherently cinematic rendering of that work has taken it far beyond the stage, into a realm all its own.
The film explores the memories, visions and fears that envelop the central characters; imprisoned as much by their prejudices and cultural ignorance as they are by the imposing storm and flood that forces all to take refuge in the local gaol, where Miriam's son had recently been found hung.


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Antiwar Masters of Horror
I've long been a fan of so-called "horror" films, in addition to sci-fi and fantasy.
Unfortunately, the Showtime series "Masters of Horror," thus far, has been a bit of a disappointment to me; it's a mix of schlock and gore, with just a few thrills thrown in for good measure. I prefer horror to have a purpose, maybe a bit of "Twilight Zone"-like morality play at work. At the very least, it should be suspenseful, rather than predictable.
I did enjoy Friday night's episode, "Homecoming," directed by Joe Dante, which made a few biting political points. For me, the funniest right-wing caricature was played by Thea Gill, who was a "skank"-like right-wing pundit, curiously comparable to Ann Coulter. It was quite a change for Gill, who portrayed the mild-mannered Lindsay in "Queer as Folk."
The Dante-directed "Homecoming" gives us a zombie tale, in which fallen soldiers come back from the dead to right the wrongs of a Presidential administration that involved them in a no-win war. No spoilers here; if you haven't caught the episode, check it out.
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Helleborus collection of six plants
hellebore collection
This perennial is semi-evergreen so it can lose some of its leaves in winter. In colder regions or more exposed gardens, it may lose them all, but then fresh new growth appears again in spring.
- Position: partial shade
- Soil: neutral to alkaline soil
- Rate of growth: average
- Flowering period: January to April
- Hardiness: fully hardy
Hellebores herald the start of the new year with their gently nodding flowers that open as early as January. The large saucer-shaped flowers and attractive foliage makes them ideal for the front of an early spring border.
This fabulous collection will normally contain a mixture of H. × sternii, H. argutifolius, H. niger, H. × hybridus (H. orientalis), however it can vary slightly dependant upon the season.
- Helleborus × sternii: Easy-to-grow with clusters of showy green flowers tinged pink and purple (Feb-Mar), 35cm tall.
- Helleborus argutifolius: Stunning evergreen foliage and subtle green flowers that appear in late winter and last well in to early summer (Feb-Jun), 40cm tall.
- Helleborus niger: The Christmas rose, which produces gently nodding white flowers (Jan-Apr), 30cm tall.
- Helleborus orientalis: One of the most popular hellebores with its captivating range of flower colours from white through to slate black (Feb-Apr), 45cm tall
- Garden Care:Grow hellebores in a partially shady spot that's nice and sheltered as strong, icy winds can damage their blooms. Remember to dig in plenty of organic matter in to the soil when you plant and mulch every spring.
- Harmful if eaten/skin irritant


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Wrong Division airs live every Thursday evening/Friday morning from 1AM to 3AM on 88.1 FM KDHX. Stream the show and check out past playlists at KDHX.ORG.
Cheer-Accident "Christmas Song '98" from A Smoking For Two Christmas
The Warden "Side A" from The Warden
Bleeding Gums "Demo 2015" from Demo 2015
Ritalin OD "Ritalin" from S.S. Baby Jacket
Smear "Smeared" from Smeared
Gush "Gud Girl" from Naughty Nuff
Cheer-Accident "Christmas Song '01" from A Smoking For Two Christmas
Swell Maps "Let's Buy A Bridge" from Jane from Occupied Europe
90 Day Men "Dialed In" from (It (Is) It)
Hylidae "Juno" from Intransitive
Food Pyramid "Mango Sunrise" from Mango Sunrise
Footwork "Jurassic Punk" from Footwork
Cheer-Accident "Christmas Song '03" from A Smoking for Christmas Two
Health Problems "Paramount" from Winners
Angel Hair "Origin of Species" from Pregnant With the Senior Class
Animal Lover "At the Pool With My Boys" from Guilt - EP
Archaeopteryx "elephant jester with a hat made out of trunks either sneezing or crying" from Animal/Archaeopteryx Split
Arab On Radar "St. Patrick's Gay Parade" from Queen Hygiene II / Rough Day At the Orifice
Sediment Club "R Radio Raheem" from Psychosymplastic
Antioch Arrow "Paper Moshay" from Gems of Masochism
Aksak Maboul "A Modern Lesson" from Un Peu de L'âme des Bandits
Cheer-Accident "Christmas Song '99" from A Smoking For Two Christmas
Animal "Improvisation 1" from Animal/Archaeopteryx Split
BIG BEAR "Song 20" from Under the Beach
Nü Sensae "swim" from Sundowning
Eunuch "Endless Drone Strikes" from Castration
Shaved Women "Adulthood" from Shaved Women 7"
Harco "Green" from Influential Noise Band
The Fordists "Spirit Of The Truth" from Economic Stimulus EP
Pillow Talk "I'm Famous" from Pillow Talk
Cheer-Accident "Christmas Song '07" from A Smoking For Two Christmas


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For Winning Presentations, Be Steve Jobs, Not Mark Zuckerberg
You know the cliché: People are more frightened of public speaking than rabid dogs or even death. Yet your presentation skills are essential to being a success with employees, investors, partners, and customers. What kind of presenter are you? As CNN recently pointed out, you can learn a lot from watching top CEOs present -- especially when the results are less than stellar.
Last week, Mark Zuckerberg keynoted a Facebook media event in which he introduced Skype integration for the social network. But some notable slip-ups can teach us how Steve Jobs is still the master we want to emulate when it comes time to start up PowerPoint.
Control the pre-meeting messaging. Steve Jobs -- and the entire Apple PR machine -- is typically mum about the content of Jobs' addresses before the event. That builds excitement and enthusiasm for the presentation. Zuckerberg, on the other hand, treated the event like a Hollywood movie premiere by saying that Facebook would be announcing "something awesome." The hype set expectations too high, and attendees walked away underwhelmed.
Don't be slick. Make no mistake: Jobs prepares meticulously for his presentations. But he comes across as somewhat extemporaneous, with a casual and laid-back demeanor. Zuckerberg, on the other hand, started his presentation with an anecdote about how, when walking around his neighborhood just that very morning, a neighbor asked him for Skype-like video chat for Facebook. Really? That felt exceedingly disingenuous; does anyone really think that Zuckerberg takes a stroll around his neighborhood? Or that someone petitioned him for video chat? The very morning of the press conference? The whole story sounded manufactured and cynical.
Know your audience. If you've ever seen Jobs talk, you know he understands his audience. He talks about how people's lives can be enhanced through the capabilities of Apple products. Zuckerberg? His presentation lacked any sort of self-awareness. Showing a chart about Facebook's projected growth, he said that data was a "logarithmic-normalized graph." The Twitterverse was quick to pick up on this, cattily critiquing his presentation with tweets like: "Logarithmic graphs? Jesus Christ."
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There are many reasons people buy video games. Some buy them to support the developers. Some buy them to show off their cool new game to their friends. Some buy them to get Platinum trophies on their Playstations. Then there are some crazy people who actually buy games to play them. Can you imagine? Freaks...
But even though I want the trophies and the showing off (not so much supporting the devs in this case), the real reason I'm buying Hardline is, frankly, a little stupid:
I'm sick and tired of military shooters.
Sounds a little vague, doesn't it? I should probably rephrase that. I hate the military aesthetic in modern first-person shooters. I get where the devs are going with this. Really. The military gets all the cool gadgets that could easily transition into mechanics in a first person shooter game. Things like UAVs, tanks, squad-based tactics and such. Bash modern games all you like in favor of Doom, most of the time I'll even agree with you, but you can't say that some of the game mechanics that these tools make aren't extremely fun. So it's great and all that they used this aesthetic to create gameplay elements, but isn't it possible to put those kinds of tools in other settings? What about sci-fi shooters, like Killzone or Halo? What about a pseudo-fantasy setting reminiscent to Shadowrun?
Or maybe something that's a little close to home: Cops and Robbers.
You may be wondering why I have an aversion to military aesthetics, and to be honest, for the most part, it can be explained in one, simple word.
Russians. And if not them, then it's Iraq. If not them, then it's the Nazis. Then, if not them, it's Canada. The list goes on. I'm not saying the US should be a villain, but story writers for games like Call of Duty try so hard to be so grand that they basically turn an entire nation into a terrorist cell, hell-bent on world-destruction using "nuclear missile bomb," nearly all of which are played by people with thick accents and not a single, utter, shred of humanity in their entire being. It's generally accepted by the media that this is all "just a game," but the way the stories are written seem to have a subconscious impact on the way people think. In a lot of cases, this ends up hurting the wrong people, my friends and family included (I was a sociophobe for years due to the intense fear that resonated from people whenever I told them my nationality), thanks to strong stereotypes and generalization. Most people tend to skip the campaign, as do I, just to get into the meat of the multiplayer experience. But somehow, all that pseudo-politics (yes, I love the word "pseudo") seeps through into the multiplayer experience as well, and not thanks to the players I'm playing with.
This is particularly notable with Tom Clancy games, with Blacklist being fresh in my memory for cramming their politics down your throat, no matter what single-player/co-op game mode you happen to be playing. Even when you skip the cutscene, the game starts glorifying every single military action that happens in the game through its dialogue, as long as it's against the enemy. Which makes sense, I suppose, but the double standards thing brings up the whole question of "good and evil" when in reality, everything is a huge, massive, blurry grey area which is so foggy that most people have no idea what's going on in between, even in Blacklist's story. I should tell you now, I love Splinter Cell: Blacklist. Really. I really do think it's the greatest entry in the entire franchise. But at the same time, I despise it for force-feeding me a gibberish plot that always feels like it is attempting to steer me into thinking in black and white. Every time I get my adrenaline pumping from an intense, cerebral stealth segment, I'm immediately brought back to the Earth with a loud "thud" by Sam's (and his crew's) dialogue.
The reason I'm bringing this up is because I'm practically in the same boat with Battlefield 3, a game which I absolutely adore playing whenever I get the opportunity. Granted, it's nowhere near the blunt scale that Blacklist was at, making it a much nicer multiplayer experience to play. But I feel it could be better. Hardline sounds like a dream come true. From what I played, yes, it is just an upgraded Battlefield (really, aren't they all?), and it does have some pretty cool new things that previous entries didn't have, like the ability to arrest instead of kill enemies (both teams, actually), grapple hooks, and all that good stuff. But really, all that matters for me is the aesthetic.
I'm pretty sure the story's going to open up with the Russian Mafia, somehow, but let's not kid ourselves, Mafia are, actually, criminals. And when a bank heist is going down and all the civilians have been shot, there's no gray area in the middle of it, anymore. There's no politics. There's no rationalization. It's just freakin' cops and robbers.
Honestly, when I first heard about Battlefield: Hardline having nothing to do with the army, I laughed at how stupid the idea was.
For a good five seconds. Then I paused with wide eyes and asked my friends: "How cool is that?!"
And already, the difference is notable in the way the game feels. It may seem like DLC, but the truth is that lots of the elements of Hardline already feel different, from the way cars handle especially under pressure from bullets, how game modes are tweaked to suit the theme, and how the campaign, from the reveal, seems to drop the whole "one man army" trend in favor of more of a "freedom-of-approach" style. Honestly, I believe them to be much better than they were in Battlefield 3, from what I have seen. Plus, with the recent rise of anti-hero popularity, it just seems all that much cooler to be a cop or robber fighting over cash instead of a soldier fighting over territory. The game's not even out yet, and we don't know anything about it except from the beta footage. Even so, I've never been this excited over a Battlefield title since Bad Company 2. All this just from a change of setting and aesthetic.
It's not just the change in aesthetic which is the reason I want to buy it. I want to buy it because I want to see more of it. I want to see devs behind games like Call of Duty and Battlefield think a little out-of-the-box when it comes to incorporating gameplay mechanics from settings, and I want to see them do something different, even if in doing so all they'll do is make cops-and-robbers games for the next decade.


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I'll post later this week about my StarFest adventure in Denver this weekend. Look for video! 🙂
In the mean time…
THIS JUST IN: Dragon Riders of Pern Series by Anne McCafferey being adapted to film.
Here I admit my one true love for…*gasp*…DRAGONS. Yes, you heard me. I love dragons!
BUT…. only Anne McCafferey's dragons.
I was spoiled. The Dragon Rider's of Pern was the first "adult" fantasy book series I was ever introduced to. Before I go any further, I admit freely that I have not read the entire series, not by a long shot. But I was completely obsessed with Dragonsong and Dragonsinger in sixth grade. On long road trips suring my middle school years these two audiobooks were constantly playing on my walkman and my own ridiculously fantastic story woven into the fabric of Pern. I really identified with Menolly (the main character of Dragonsong/singer) at that time in my life. I suppose it was a fandom very similar to many's obsession for Harry Potter. It was so ridiculous that when we were in Ireland and in the county Anne McCafferey lives in, I actually tried to find her in a random local telephone book. At the time I had NO idea how creepy that was. I'm better now…I hope. 🙂
It's funny, I'd almost forgotten how big of a Geek I was about those books.


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Ophiuroidea " The O" located at 609 S. Talbot St. in St Michaels, Maryland, will host the 5th Annual Eastern Shore Sea Glass and Coastal Arts Festival, to be held on Saturday, April 9, 2016 from 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. and Sunday, April 10, 2014 from 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Parking is available at the St Michaels School Campus parking lot two short blocks away, as well as municipal parking lots throughout the Town of St. Michaels.
The festival entrance fee is $5.00 per person, per day, children under 12 are free. The festival will be held outdoors (tented) and will be a rain or shine event.
The Eastern Shore Sea Glass and Coastal Arts Festival is hosted by Ophiuroidea "The O", a coastal inspired clothing, home décor, gift and art gallery, located in St Michaels, Maryland. The first festival was held in 2011 and featured 12 local artisans. Each year the festival has grown, as the love of sea glass grows in popularity. This year, the Eastern Shore Sea Glass andCoastal Arts Festival will include two fun filled days, and over 35 artisans from all over the East Coast, from Maine to South Carolina. Local musicians will keep the festival atmosphere throughout the weekend.
As an added bonus, retail shops throughout town will also feature their favorite sea glass artisans all weekend long, a list of participating shops and galleries can be found on the festival website.
For a list of participating artisans, musicians, parking and general information, please visit www.seaglassfestival.com


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A late reply to KingWho?, here is my Xmas swag 2010, it is only one thing but its a goodie. The original HK poster for John Woo's The Killer.
I already had an original of the US release poster, but I remember seeing this one on a wall on a dvd extra or tv documentary that I can't remember now, and thought it looked cool, I have wanted one ever since then and luckily for me my wonderful wife snagged one for me, it was just a little late in the post but well worth the wait. Hope you like it as much as I do.
Sunday, January 16, 2011
The Killer Original Hong Kong Poster
3 comments:
- Kingwho? said...
Very, very cool. I want one now too. It's nothing like I imagined. It's rather simple. I want it!
- January 16, 2011 at 1:47 PM
i love the poster i would love one of those too. but i think i would want a wife that would buy it for me more! you guys are so lucky i envy you both.
- January 16, 2011 at 3:36 PM
- A hero never dies said...
Go for it KingWho, I think it is available on ebay, and it is worth it, its lovely.
OCD, not sure what you are looking for is available on ebay but I hope you find it somewhere!
- January 17, 2011 at 5:50 PM
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Scientists have made yet another sensational discovery in the search for alien life in our solar system. Astronomers have now found a key molecule for the formation of microorganisms in the atmosphere of Titan, one of Saturn's largest moons.
The international Cassini-Huygens mission has made a groundbreaking detection of a molecule that is fundamental in the production of complex organics inside the hazy atmosphere of Saturn'slargest moon Titan.
The ESA Cassini spacecraft has detected by surprise, in the hazy atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan, a particular type of negatively charged molecule that is fundamental in the production of complex organic molecules.
Titan, mankind's next stop?
There are many mysterious surrounding Saturn's largest moon Titan, the second largest of the Solar System, after Ganymede.
Composed mainly of ice and rocks, Titan has a diameter 50% larger than the Moon and is 80% more massive. Its atmosphere, composed mostly of nitrogen and methane, is dense and opaque. Something that has prevented scientists from being able to take a peek at its surface until relatively recently.
Recent research has allowed astronomers to learn more about the alien moon.
Its geologically young surface is a rocky wasteland, covered here and there by a few hydrocarbon lakes.
The cryogenic volcanoes are another of the trademarks of Titan's landscape.
Around 100 kilometers below the surface, scientists postulate that there could be a sea composed mainly of water and ammonia, although it is still unknown whether it harbors some type of life, either unicellular or multicellular.
But for us to speak about the latest discovery made by Cassini, we must not look at Titan's surface and landscape, but direct our gaze to the heights, because it is in Titan's atmosphere that new and interesting finds have been made.
In a study published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, scientists have discovered a chemical called "carbon chain anion," a linear molecule that is often part of other more complex molecules that are based on the oldest forms of life on Earth.
The discoveries were made thanks to Cassini's plasma spectrometer, called CAPS, while the spacecraft traversed Titan's high atmosphere, between 950 and 1,300 kilometers above the surface.
"We have made the first unambiguous identification of carbon chain anions in a planet-like atmosphere, which we believe are a vital stepping-stone in the production line of growing bigger, and more complex organic molecules, such as the moon's large haze particles," says Ravi Desai of University College London and lead author of the study.
"This is a known process in the interstellar medium, but now we've seen it in an entirely different environment, meaning it could represent a universal process for producing complex organic molecules."
"The question here is, could it also be occurring within other nitrogen-methane atmospheres like Pluto or Triton, or at exoplanets which contain similar properties?"
"The possibility of a universal pathway towards the ingredients for life has implications for what we should search for in the quest for life in the Universe," says co-author Andrew Coates, also from UCL, and co-investigator of CAPS.
"Titan has a local example of exciting and exotic chemistry, from which we have much to learn."
And while many mysteries are yet to be revealed under Titan's misty, cold mantle, great progress is made with every new mission.
The only thing we can say is certain is that thanks to studies and exploration of this type, science is closer to determining what life is and how it reproduces itself in the unfathomable and enigmatic sidereal space.


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Death of a Salesman
How does Linda treat Willy? How do the boys feel about him? Is Biff trying to spite Willy? Why does Biff come home in the spring?
Act One
Act One
he treats Willy like he's another child.
No, Biff is just spoiled rotten- he comes home in between the time he spends working as a farmhand.


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We love this apartment for its location and comfort. Friendly was fairly efficient at check-in (see other comments) and was helpful in giving information about scheduling a taxi to take us to the airport at the end of our stay. The amenity bag was very welcome and a wonderful touch for our first evening in the apartment.
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Customers service très rapide et gentil. Très bien situé et tranquille.
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The location was great. The size of the apartment was great. The lift was a bonus as well as the washing machine. It was a lot bigger than we expected and especially compared to other apartments in other cities on our trip.I felt the pictures made the apartment look more modern and upmarket than what it was. Everything in it was very shabby and well used. It has been a big money earner with not much invested back into it. I wasn't a fan of having to go to a booking office and then onto the apartment. We were lucky as our flight came in late and had to meet the contact at the apartment (but had to pay for it). We had to borrow a waiters phone to call them. It would have been good if they had what's app or were on email
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accogliente e bellissima vista
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Ja hoor. Hele goede locatie met fantastisch uitzicht.
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We were here for 5 days. Excellent location for Barcelona, close to everything. Clean, spacious, everything you need - surprisingly quiet with double glazed windows yet a great view outside. Buzzy area just far enough away from the main drag to escape. Metro nearby. Excellent tapas bars all around, walking in Gothic, but close to Barcelonetta for a range of shops and other eating places. Lift useful for taking suitcases up and down. Loved it.
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The Location of the Apartment is perfect and very ideal. Located just few minutes walk from the marina bay, over looking the yatchs, 10 minutes walk to La rambla, very close to tourist attractions like the Marimagnum, aqua sealife, 40 minutes walk to Sagrada Familia. Restaurants are available next to the apartment and a convenient store, where you can buy almost everything you need for you stay at the apartment is available, including foods, drinks and for cooking is just next door to the main entrance of the apartment. And there is a bus stop infront and a cash point on the side. The apartment itself is well equipped, it just feels like home.
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Appartement fonctionnel, lumineux, accès internet
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Ubicación perfecta, en el Paseig Colóm, en el mismo barrio gótico, en frente del puerto y la barceloneta, se puede recorrer todo lo que hay que ver en Barcelona a pie. Comodidad del apartamento, ideal para una pareja un/a niño/a.
Gracias Alexander!James Customer Care
Tout est parfait de la hote a la réception jusqu'à la sortie c'est top merci grâce a vous on a passé un séjour inoubliabletout est parfait il y avait tout ce qu il fallait
Merci Aziz!!!James Customer Care
The location was ideal. Facilities were very good.
Thank you John!James Customer Care
Bellissima e comodissima la posizione dell'appartamento ,la vista dalla finestra sul molo è altrettanto bella, l'appartamento è ben attrezzato e molto carino
Grazie Mille Arianna!James Customer Care
What a view! Great location, market downstairs, cafes on the same block, easy access to everything. Love the place and will definitely book again! Thank you for everything. jh
Thank you so much Joyce! See you again soon!James Customer Care
The view, the location, the apartment layout, the elevator, pretty much everything. This is as good an apartment as we have ever had.There was nothing not to like.
Thank you so much Thomas! We look forward to having you back with us!James Customer Care
Merci Christine!James Customer Care
Ubicación, amplitud y equipamiento.
Gracias Luis!!!James Customer Care
The location and space was great.
Thank you Sara!James Customer Care
Location was great!
Gracias Ranjita!James Customer Care
Gracias Eduardo!James Customer Care
Position and view.
Thank you Richard!James Customer Care
Location .
Thank you Paul!James Customer Care
La ubicacion y el equipamiento en general, las toallas, menaje de cocina, etc. muy completo y muy bien. La casa era muy tranquila.
Gracias Immaculada!James Customer Care
The location was great.
Thank you Suzetta!James Customer Care
Very good location, very low noise despite the busy street, very friendly service at check-in, very nice bad, lift, near metro stations,
Gracias Rafal! We look forward to having you back!James Customer Care
posizione, panorama, ampio open space per coppia o famiglia, dotazione cucina,mancano tovagliette all'americana
Grazie Francesco!Dan Customer Service
LocationLayout, bedroom too small, Kitchen appliances, bad insulation
Thank you Michel! The Van gogh is a customer favorite. We appreciate your feedback and we will continue to do our best to provide a great experience in the Van gogh. Happy you will rent with us again, see you soon!James Customer Care
El apartamento muy céntrico, bien equipado, limpio, acogedor! Una vista bella! Tenia todo lo que necesitabamos! E
The location and cleanlinessThere was nothing I didn't like
Thank you James for sharing your experience with us!Team Friendly Rentals
The location was by far the greatest attribute together with the room layout and comfort. There was easy access to the main city features of Barcelona
Thank you Henry!James Customer Care
The size was a very pleasant surprise. Very roomy for a European apartment. It also had a wonderful view! It was safe, quiet, and very comfortable. - great shower!
Thank you Janet for sharing your experience with us!
Ubicacion y confort excelentes
The location of the Apartament and simplicity of decorations.
LocationThe refrigerator does not keep the food cold
la posizione , grande e comodoil prezzo è un po' alto
la localisation et la dimesion de l'appart.les serrures. les portes sont difficiles à ouvrir.
the windowthe stove
The location was great for the sites that we wanted to visit.There was honestly, nothing that disappointed us. The apartment was fairly and accurately represented. We plan to come back to Barcelona and if Van Gogh is available we will definitely be staying there again. The service of your staff was simply outstanding!
The location was perfect and within walking distance of the major sites. The flat was excellent. It was attractive and spacious with a good number of well-placed power points, including next to mirrors (something often overlooked in rentals). The bed was comfortable, and with the window closed the flat was not too noisy despite the busy street location.
JaGeluidsinstallatie functioneert niet (is gebaseerd op iphone 4 !) Te weinig (kleine) kookpannen
Excellent location. Comfortable. Everything worked. Excellent view - window opened letting in the sun on sunny mornings.People lock front gate from inside - could be an issue when leaving keys in apartment as instructed on departure. We were tipped off by review read before we went, so checked first. You need to warn of this. Otherwise all great.
The location
L'emplacement de l'appartement, la qualité de service
Un appartement moderne et confortable a deux pas du centre villeDevoir liberer l appartement des 11h
efficacité,accueil, produit
Proche de la mer,proche du centre ville et la vue sur le port par la fenêtre.
The location was great, it was close to everything and the amazing view on the sea! And of course John, the man that did our check-in at the apartment he was very friendly and nice.
Nice and quiet, but very centrally located. Other users sometimes double lock main front door - very dangerous if there was a fire - and could also pose problems when leaving the apartment for the last time!
Location, view from gothic window, spacious and well organized apartment!
location, view from the window
La vista! la ubicacion del apartamento
proximity to metros and center
caractere central-conception appartement
Lage des Appartement
Nice appartment, good localisation, clean
la ubicacion y las vistas del apartamento.
Window with a lovely view Washing machine and facilities Air conditioning Location
Great space and had everything we needed.
The location was fantastic, the space was enough for one couple, and all the necessities were there. The price was fantastic! Also, having the elevator, especially when moving luggage, was appreciated. Checking out apartments, booking with Friendly Rentals, and checking in (including the assitance by the office that was opened prior to the check-in office) was great, too.
Very central location
seaside view
La situación es perfecta y la vista inmejorable.
Ja, maar zie hieronder.
location, view
L'emplacement de l'appartement, son intérieur, la salle de bain.
The lady who checked us in was really helpful and the view from the apartment.
Thr position overlooking the marina and the comfortable couches
Het appartement is zeer goed bevallen en heeft de verwachting overtroffen. Het was ruim, licht en van alle gemakken voorzien. We waren zeer tevreden. De locatie is echt top. Prachtig uitzicht en dichtbij alle gemakken van de stad en het strand. Erg leuk om tussen de locals te "wonen".
la localisation, l'immeuble, la vue
Young & fiendly people at check-in. Simple & modern decoration - very practical house. Fantastic view & exterior look of the building.
Apartments view. It is in the center and at the first floor there is a market.
les facilités d'accés, l'emplacement, la vue,la douche, l'ascenseur
In the middle of everything. Enough room for 3 people. Comfortable furniture.
la semplicità nell' arredamento, la posizione e l organizzazione. ùCOMPLIMENTI!!!
Spacious and comfortable. Well equipped
The view and location were amazing.
Great location, especially for the price; apt was only a studio, but well laid out and perfect for two people. Nice bathroom with good water pressure and hot water. Was very clean when we arrived.
Het app. ligt op een prachtige locatie. Dichtbij alles.
There was a lot of space. It was really clean.
Sobre todo el lugar donde está emplazado y la vista del puerto desde la ventana. Fui a Barcelon a ver la Catedral de Santa Maria del Mar y estaba muy cerca. Tiene tiendas para poder comprar a cualquier hora. Hemos pasado unos dias muy buenos en el apartamento.
het appartement is goed bevallen. De ligging was ideaal voor bezoek aan de bezienswaardigheden van Barcelona.
The view from the window over looking the marina. Lots of great resturants and bars very close by. Great location.
L'appartement est beau et propre, il est très bien agencé et très bien situé dans la ville. il y a vraiment tout ce qu'il faut, il y est très agréable d'y vivre. Je ne regrette pas du tout du choix !! Je n'hésiterai pas à le louer à nouveau la prochaine fois que je reviendrai sur Barcelone.
L'appartement en lui même est très bien. Très bien équipé.
- the apartment has a great position - the apartment is very nice and rich of equipments
Zeker goed bevallen.Ideale ligging,mooi uitzicht.Strand op loopafstand en de buurt met al zijn straatjes en pleintjes waar je wat kunt eten en drinken echt perfect.Ook belangrijk de drukte van de Ramblas op goede afstand en wil je er toch even kijken is het lopend ook zo gedaan.Leuke winkels in de buurt,kan nog wel even doorgaan, maar dit was voor ons de 2de keer in Barcelona en de 1ste keer Friendly Rentals en zeker niet de laatste.Barcelona tot snel!
La localizacion del departamento
Die sehr gute Ausstattung, die originelle räumliche Aufteilung, die Lage und der Blick auf den Hafen.
Me ha encantado la localizacion, tamano, comodidad y 'sound proof' de la calle
L'état general, esthétique, vue sur le port
Location very central and interesting.
La situacion céntrica y la distribucion interior
L'appartement est grand et confortable. La décoration est parfaite. La vue sur le port et les aménagements modernes de cette partie de la ville est très agréable. La situation de l'appartement dans la vieille ville est très centrale et on peut circuler à pied dans tous les vieux quartiers.
the bed was beautifully comfortable!!! Close to everything. Great layout.
The windows were just over the harbour! I could see the harbour from the window. The kitchen is very well equiped.
location was fantastic, kitchen well-equipped
prima, ruim genoeg voor 3 mensen, perfecte locatie, goed uitzicht. We waren blij met de airco.
Central location, walking distance to downtown.
excellent prise en charge client, excellent accueil, appartement très bien placée et très bon rapport qualité/prix
Location was brilliant. Far better value for money than any hotel.
The apartment was very open and spacious, with a great view and a nice, wide kitchen that made it easy to cook in. The absolute best part was the location. Also, the staff at Friendly Rentals gave great service by being prompt, kind and clear with explanations.
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