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12-02-2012, 06:44 PM #1Member Platy
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Cichlid beginner
I want to start a african cichlid tank, because I have hard, alkaline tap water thats perfect for them. I have a 65 gallon tank, In need of a hood and lights, Any recommendations? Plus, What plants are ok for these tanks? My nitrates are high out the tap so plants keep them down. My other tanks are doing fine with high nitrates if they are planted.
I do want yellow labs, what other fish go well with these? and how many fish are normal for a 65 gallon tank? And what decor should be givin to these fish? I understand I can go look all this up, but real world answers help so much more.
not so sure on the other points, but make sure you crowd african cichlids
because to keep aggression under control. many african cichlids are herbivores or they dig, making plant choices limited. I have heard that vallisneria works best, but you will have to protect its roots.
0Originally Posted by unitednations161
Yellow labs are compatible with pretty much all other mbuna species; in a 65gal you'll want to select species of similar temperament (rusty cichlids, pseudotropheus saulosi, etc). If you omit the saulosi's a single pseudotropheus demasoni can be substituted.African cichlid and saltwater aquariums
12-02-2012, 10:34 PM #4Member Platy
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0Originally Posted by kaybee
everyplace online told me that I could house Mbunas in 36" or bigger. So I need to overstock the tank I was told as well, so about how many fish is that?
In a 65gal tank you're probably looking at 8-16 mbuna's.
Mbuna's are a diverse group of african cichlids. A 36" tank may work for mildly-aggressive mbuna species, but the aggressive, extremely aggressive and hyper-dominant species require more tank length (I wouldn't advise including kenyi, auratus and other aggressive species in 3ft tank).African cichlid and saltwater aquariums
12-03-2012, 01:16 AM #6Member Platy
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0Originally Posted by kaybee
I really have no idea what Mbunas are mildly aggressive or ones that aggressive, is there a list of these somewhere? That the common names are included. My fish store is limited on what fish they have.
For a beginner, I would suggest 4 Rusties, 4 Acies, and 4 Yellow Labs. Those three are the most easy going out of all the Mbuna. BUT, there can always be cranky ones in amongst the not so cranky ones! The theory of crowding Mbuna to keep aggression down should only be used as last resort, in my opinion. A tank that's stocked and set up properly, not overstocked, is the best way to go.
You need plenty of rocks to make up various caves/hiding places for these kinds of cichlids. Breaking up the so called line of sight is very important to limit aggression.
If you can, get 1 male and 3 females of each species of cichlid to limit aggression. If you can't, try and make arrangements with your LFS to take back any really aggressive fish once you have stocked your tank and they start showing that kind of behaviour.
Mbuna love plants. A lot of them will constantly tare them apart. If you really want plants, then Java Fern is a good one to put in with them. They don't really like the taste of it too much. It grows best when it's attached to rocks or driftwood, so that also makes it harder for the cichlids to destroy.Three-fourths of the Earth's surface is water, and one-fourth is land. It is quite clear that the good Lord intended us to spend triple the amount of time fishing as taking care of the lawn. ~Chuck Clark
0Originally Posted by unitednations161Gas mileage isn't everything OIIIIIIIO
Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.
Why pretend there are no stupid questions? Actually, There are many stupid questions: "Should I drink this bleach?" Is just one example.
Having said that, Just because it's a stupid question doesn't mean that it shouldn't be asked. It's better to know.
A warm beer is better than a cold beer. Because nothing is better than a cold beer, and a warm beer is better than nothing.
Follow escamosa's advice and you will have NO problems, I followed all his advice when i first started with Mbunas and had very few issues
12-04-2012, 01:36 PM #10Member Platy
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any suggestions on the filter and heaters? Im looking at a 62 degree house in the winter. I do have a rena XP 3 on my RES tank and do like that. but any suggestions would be great! What GPH would work?


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So I ported the concept into Savage Worlds. Here are my house rules for Trust:
This is for use with games which feature a heavy systemic focus on inter-party trust and betrayal. With this set of rules, players roll an additional Trust Die along with their Trait tests when they are acting in a situation of trust or betrayal. This system is pretty much a direct port of the Trust mechanics from Cold City.
Initial Trust: Each player starts the game with a number of Trust Dice ranks equal to twice the number of players, minus one. They then divvy those ranks out on a note card, assigning their character's trust in the other characters.
Assigning Trust: When initially assigning Trust Dice ranks, make a list containing the names of each other character at the table. Next the the names put two columns: "Mine" and "Theirs." Next to each character, assign your trust in them using the Mine column. For example, if your character is in a group with Bobby, Leon, and Sasha, then there are four total players, giving you 7 trust ranks to assign (4 x 2 = 8, 8 - 1 = 7). You assign 4 ranks to Leon because he's dreamy, 3 ranks to Sasha because you and she go way back, and none to Bobby because everyone hates that two-timing rat bastard.
When you're done, make sure the other players know your Trust ranks. In the "Theirs" column, you right down the trust rank that that chracter currently has assigned to you.
Reasons For Trust: When assigning your Trust ranks, you need to be able to write a quick note about why you do or do not trust the character so much. A siple method is to think of one good thing about them for each rank you assign, then turn it all into a sentence.
The Trust Die: When your character is taking an action and relying upon their trust in another character, they get to roll a Trust Die determined by their rank in the "Mine" column next to that character's name. You roll this as if it were a second Wild Die.
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Ranks Trust Die
1 d4 (I might get a drink with him, but that's it)
2 d6 (I'll show her my middle school pictures)
3 d8 (I'd let him house sit for me)
4 d10 (I'd let her watch my kids for a week)
5 d12 (I'd trust him to marry my daughter and take over the farm)
6 d12+1 (I'd let her shoot an apple from atop my head)
7 d12+2 (you get the point)
8 d12+3
9 and so on...
If you are counting on your trust in multiple characters, you only receive the bonus die from the character in whom you have the highest Trust investment.
Example: You're running into the fray firing while you trust your mate to provide covering fire. You're performing surgery while relying on your surgical assistant to provide proper help. You're mind-hacking into the security panel while trusting your teammate to watch your back.
Betrayal: When your action is one that betrays another character, you get the trust die you have written next to them in the "Theirs" column. You roll this die as if it were a second Wild Die with your test. If you are betraying multiple characters, add all their trust ranks together to determine what die you receive. This mechanical reward make betrayal quite a rewarding endeavor.
Example: You're negotiating a deal that will benefit you but totally screw over your partner. Your buddy is sniping at the enemy while you stand behind him and shoot him in the head.
Re-arranging Your Trust: During game play, you can rearrange your Trust ranks. After any major encounter in which Trust came into play, you can adjust your assigned trust ranks in the other character by one point each, with the GM's approval of your reasons.


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#1 Fri 05 Apr 13 1:05am
He should be allowed to park there!
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ge … ay-1812379
You know I wish something would happen that would make it legal for him to park there. How I wish I was allowed to do something to him to make it OK for him to park there.
There are many Disabled people whose benefits have been cut by him who wish that something would happen to him that would make it ok for him to park there.
You know he says that he has only cut benefits to disabled adults, so it is OK because disabled children wont be affected? And they have also said they will look after the most seriously disabled.
That is a lie. We have lost out big time, probably much more than adults and people with minor disabilities.
Off the top of my head this is what we have lost.
They have cut seriously disabled Tax credits by half. The excuse for this was, it isn't fair on adults. Sort of strange when they have cut what adults get with the excuse they wont do it to kids. Cut what all disabled get with the excuse the most serious cases wont be cut?
My council tax has shot up by nearly £500 because central government have reduced what they give local government and have allowed local government to reduce council tax benefit.
If they just increased taxes or council tax, everyone would feel it, everyone would know. So what they did was reduce council tax benefit, so only the poorest feel it and only the poorest would know. Well they have nothing to loss by that, they know the poorest always vote labour anyway. Well all except me, I don't trust any of the lying bastards. Never have, never will.
Reduction in what central government gives local government has also resulted in reduction in services. Some of you lot know from older posts that I get to sleep three nights a week. Well I am always crazy, but before I got my three nights a week my posts were real crazy. They sort of mellowed out after I started sleeping three nights a week. That is because my son needs machines to keep him alive when he sleeps. Machines to breath for him, machines to feed him, sometimes machines to separate oxygen from the air for him and machines to pump in a infusion in to him. There are other machines too, but no room to write them all. In the past I used to look after all these machines all night on my own. Until it got to the stage where I got so tired that I would fall asleep and something would go wrong. I asked our local authority for help. They dragged their feel and social services refused to help because they said because we don't beat our kids there is no chance of them being put in to care and they are the only people they help.
Anyway, one night when the machines alarmed I was so tired I slept through it, and he nearly drowned in his own vomit. We were told it would be best if we ended treatment and doing so would mean he has 3 days left to live. And I bought a grave, so as soon as he goes we would be ready for him. I called my family to say their final good byes, when they came, my son stood up out of bed when he saw his sister and shouted "you have come to visit me", he seemed so happy, I couldn't go through with it. We changed our minds and demanded treatment continued. After that our local authority started giving us three nights a week of night care, which allowed me to stay up 4 nights a week because I get three nights a week of good sleep. Recently our local authority have stated they intend to end that 3 nights a week recently. So it would be 7 nights awake, and no nights a sleep again.
Not sure how I would manage. But praying that something happens to that filthy hypocritical lying **** to make it legal for him to park in that disabled parking bay will give me strength.
Please God punish him in this life and the next!
#2 Fri 05 Apr 13 1:35am
Re: He should be allowed to park there!
You know these lying filthy scum bags make it sound like we choose all this as a way of life. No one chooses to become ill and no one chooses illness for their children.
We didn't one day decide, "lets make one of our children disabled so we can live a life full of riches at tax payers expense."
No one chooses that.
My wife went to one of the most respected medical colleges in the world and scored the highest in her graduation year. I studied one of the hardest degrees, well the University I went to was shiit. But the degree wasn't, it was Honours, and I did do very well in it. Hmmmm come to think of it, it was the best out of all the Shiit Universities. you know, what is known as the New Universities, the ones that used to be Polytechnics.
We got married a year after she graduated and when I had just completed my second year. When engineering in this country ended, I did what I was meant to. Retrained as a teacher. I got offered a Job at a local college, they sent the papers for me to sign and send back. But I started at the post before the documents had arrived. Then my son fell ill, well he was always getting ill, but this time it was worse. At that time we didn't know what was happening. It was before diagnoses. So I couldn't go to my post, fill in the forms. I didn't even have time to tell them to hold the Job for me.
No one chooses to be in the state we are in. We didn't choose it. Our Son was born with a condition. It just happened. And we have to look after him. We do what we can to minimise his pain, and discomfort. He has no cognitive disability so understands everything that is happening to him. We just do our best to keep him as happy as possible while he is with us. And we try and do things so he will be able to live as normal a life as possible just encase medical advancements are made and he manages to live in to adulthood and maybe out live us.
It is just upsetting when people have the attitude people choose to be in our situation. Or we are some how privileged.
We are privileged in the DLA we get and the Blue badges that allow us to park in disabled bays. If George Osborne thinks that we are so privileged with our disabled parking bays and DLA, he should break his own back and claim these rights himself instead of taking it away from us.
#3 Fri 05 Apr 13 1:42am
Re: He should be allowed to park there!
Oh I got it wrong. He got really ill soon after diagnoses.
That part of my life is a bit of a blur, but It was definitely a few months after diagnoses, so soon after I learned what was going on.
But he was ill loads of times before diagnoses too, but just not as ill.
All the facts are right. I just might have got some of the sequences wrong. When I try and remember the time before three nights a week night care, that chapter all seems really blurry.
I don't know, it is 1 am and I need some sleep. Bye.
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#4 Fri 05 Apr 13 2:17am
Re: He should be allowed to park there!
This is when you really wish for karma to be real, but so often, people with power and money walk all over others without suffering any loss or consequences.
It is chilling to hear of the refusals of care and of their petty refusal to give you disabled parking. I hope socialized medicine never happens here!!!!
#5 Fri 05 Apr 13 3:56am
Re: He should be allowed to park there!
If we lived in America we wouldn't need help with looking after him because he would be dead. His condition is vary rare so the drug that stops his very rare form of muscular dystrophy progressing is very expensive. So Insurance companies weasel out of giving it when ever they can. It isn't as bad now that it has received FDA approval. But it still happens. My son was diagnosed before FDA approval. So if we lived there he would have been dead.
Believe me, people with rare conditions like this, wish you had what you call socialised medicine there. There is a reason why almost all countries have that system.
Night care is unconnected to the health service. The health services is national, National Health service. help with looking after a elderly relative, or sick relative or sick child is given by your local authority. It has nothing to do with hospitals or doctors at all. And is paid for by local taxes. such as taxes on the place we live. London is divided in to 33 local authorities. Local issues are things like rubbish collection, street sweeping, schools etc.
#6 Fri 05 Apr 13 2:32pm
Re: He should be allowed to park there!
I'm so sorry Abs. I shouldn't comment since I don't know how the system works. I hope you can get some help and a parking permit. What is the cost to others to allow you to park in a disabled spot? More yellow paint?
#7 Mon 08 Apr 13 2:20pm
Re: He should be allowed to park there!
Sorry MrsP. It was my fault for not making myself clearer. What I wrote above was a rant against George Osborne. And the changes he has made to the UK's tax and welfare system. Disabled people are hit the hardest by it. Not just by reductions in welfare but increases in taxes. As well as new rules meaning everyone how ever little they earn now having to pay council tax(our local tax). He has also reduced tax on the highest earners.
The pictures of him parking in disabled bays (he has been pictured doing it more than once) just put all the reductions in benefits for the disabled he has put through in to context.
I think you already know I have loads of respect for you and your husband. And you can comment on what ever you want. I think my style of writing assumed everyone here was from the UK and everyone here knew about the changes that are happening here.
What I wrote wasn't anything to do with UK healthcare. Well the bastards haven't really done what everyone suspects they want to do to that yet.
It was to do with UK care. For example of an old person couldn't dress themselves, feed themselves or go to the toilet any more, local government has an obligation to send someone to help. In the case of children with disabilities it is the Job of their parents, but in some instances like ours, the work load is too much so some help is sent by local government.
Previously we got three nights a week of care, now it has just been reduced to two.
When it comes to the American insurance based healthcare system compared to the systems that exists in the rest of the world. The American system does have its good points. Cancer care is very good in America, and so is research and development of new treatments and new drugs.
But because a lot of these treatments are only available to people who can afford it or people who can afford insurance from companies willing to cover it, such treatments are not available to the majority of Americans.
In the case of my son. the drug that stops his muscular dystrophy from progressing was developed in America. And is manufactured by an American company. The scientists that thought of it were from all over the world. But thinking of it is just a thought in the heads of a bunch of people if you don't have a company willing to produce it.
New drugs are expensive because companies need to make back the money they spent on research and development while the drug still has a patent, and drugs for rare illnesses are expensive because it costs pretty much the same if you have a lab that produces 1 kilogram of a drug or 1 tonnes of a drug. Material costs are not much compared to the costs of the lab. When you have a new drug for a rare condition, that means it is very expensive, because patents last for 10 years, and in that 10 years the company needs to pay for all of its R&D and make the biggest profit they can.
American insurance companies are also there to make money. So many of them refused to pay for the drug.
This has meant even though it is an American drug children in the UK with that condition survive, while children in America with it die unless they have rich parents or good insurance.
The thing is, this isn't the UK vs America. It is America vs pretty much the rest of the world. Because even some not so rich countries like Algeria and Malaysia fund it. Kids even get the treatment in India which is a very poor country, because the government there has negotiated with the Drug company to get the treatment for free.
The reason why state funded healthcare works better than insurance based healthcare is companies are there to make money. If it isn't profitable to keep you alive, the company will not keep you alive. And your life is worth more than a companies profit margins.
Another reason is, it is far cheaper. We pay for what we get through our taxes, and so do you. You do pay your insurance premiums too, but even so, the percentage Americans pay for healthcare from their taxes is still far higher than the rest of the world.
This is because when private companies provide the services, as well as paying for the cost of the treatment, you also have to pay for the costs of running the company, and the companies profits. As well as paying for the costs of doctors and nurses you have to pay for the adverts the insurance company makes on TV to try and get new customers.
#8 Mon 08 Apr 13 2:28pm
Re: He should be allowed to park there!
I have a parking permit. We call it a blue badge here.
The issue is, he hasn't.
I have the right to park there, he hasn't.
If he thinks he should have the right to park there. The solution is very simple. He should break his own back. And if he does, I will be very happy. I wouldn't mind at all of he parks there.
I would even volunteer my services to smash his back, legs or any other part of his body he needs smashing to be able to get a blue badge and the right to park in disabled bays.
I am sure a lot of people would volunteer for that.
#9 Mon 08 Apr 13 2:45pm
Re: He should be allowed to park there!
That is a very good description of the system here. We are somewhere in-between right now with some states offering 'affordable' coverage for anyone, although that is definitely a relative term costs are still very high. Uninsured people take their children to the ER in the hospital and they are obliged to treat everyone. Some hospital systems offer millions of dollars in treatments as charity to those who can't afford it. Yes, the cost of keeping insurance companies is business is very high. Our insurance is also the provider of our medical services - one of the largest health groups in the country. I thought there would be a big conflict of interest, but the care and doctors have been very good and nothing has been held back from us in terms of pro-active health care as well as treatments we needed, but it is wildly expensive every month and then we pay a fee for each service as well.
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Family: Vireonidae, Vireos view all from this family
Description ADULT Has an olive-green back and neck with a grayish crown, white supercilium, and dark eyestripe with a white line below. Underparts, including throat, variably flushed yellow with least amount of color on belly. JUVENILE Similar, but yellow on underparts is more obvious.
Dimensions Length: 6" (15 cm)
Habitat Generally rather scarce summer visitor (mainly May-Sep) to new growth deciduous woodland; often in similar habitats to Red-eyed Vireo although the two species' behavior ensures there is little overlap when feeding and nesting.
Observation Tips Easiest to detect by song.
Range Texas, New England, Southeast, Florida, Southwest, Plains, Western Canada, Eastern Canada, California, Rocky Mountains, Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic
Voice Song comprises a series of short phrases with pauses in between, rather similar to that of Red-eyed Vireo; call is a nasal tchrrr.
Discussion Short-billed, short-tailed, warblerlike vireo. Specifically, appearance overall recalls Tennessee Warbler, from which it is told by its stouter bill, relatively larger head, and stronger plumage patterns. Forages for insects in a more deliberate manner than most warblers. Sexes are similar.


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I'll decide when I see them in person.
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I feel a great disturbance in the Force.
I voted I'll decide when I see them in person (if I do) though I'm leaning towards not buying them.
Since the Luke & Leia infants appear to be not much more than accessories of two repacked pegwarming figures, I'm currently inclined to pass on them.
Constant repacks, repaints, or otherwise rehashed figures are a great way to destroy collector enthusiasm. I know I feel apathetic about buying any more of Hasbro's stuff.
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Of course I will buy them, becase I am addicted, it's a sickness that I will never be cured of...and I like it that way.
May the force be with you.
Will you buy the new "Seperation of the Twins" figures?
No, but I'll buy the "Separation of the Twins" figures.
I voted "Yes" but I am not going out of my way to find them (Besides, they are Wal-Mart exclusives, therefore I shouldn't have to).
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Since I have a grand total of 4 ROTS figs, I highly doubt it, but voted I'll decide when I see them in person.
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Mummy of the raincoat is a gigantic trollop.
No I am not buying more rehashed junk. Enough is enough, come up with something new,if you want more of us to buy stuff.
They really, really missed an opportunity on this one. They should have sold:
Cinema Scene 1: Owen, Beru, and baby Luke (with articulation that can be taken in and out of a blanket sleeve)
Cinema Scene 2: Bail (in the correct outfit), the Queen and baby Leia (articulated like Luke)
Beast Pack: Obi-wan with hood up AND EOPIE
They would have FLOWN off the shelves.
As it is likely the only baby Luke or Leia we will ever see I will buy them, and am very frustrated. At least Obi-wan's hood should have been up.
Yes, but I would have greatly preferred to have gotten them in cinema scenes with higher-quality figures. I have bought everything else in the basic ROTS line, and these will still be a unique addition to my collection.
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I voted "Yes" as I don't see these costing anymore than a basic figure so $6 isn't bad. If they go and charge deluxe prices then somethings wrong. It doesn't appear that you get any other accesories with him so the baby is just the lightsaber or blaster for the figure.
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single stepLao Tzu
Choose a spot on a map and you are there — immersed in a panoramic view you can move and zoom. Since 2007, Google Maps with Street View has transformed our ideas about going places, from faraway lands to a restaurant across town.
Computerized, interactive "movie maps" go back 35 years. Today's connected computer power is turning tools that were once the province of artists and visionaries into a part of everyday life.
Vintage Street Views
In April, 1906, a filmmaker named Earl Miles attached a movie camera to the front of a trolley in San Francisco and filmed all the way from mid-Market Street down to the Ferry Building. Pedestrians in hats wander across the tracks mixing chaotically with horse-drawn wagons and flimsy-looking early automobiles. He advertised the footage for sale in a film magazine.
Less than a week later, the great earthquake and fire destroyed most of what the camera saw, and killed or made homeless many of the people who had stared curiously into its lens. The photographer's own offices on Market street were destroyed, and if the film hadn't been shipped off to New York the night before the quake it would have been, too. Today, this footage offers an excruciatingly poignant glimpse of what it was like to wander through a lost world.
Video: A Trip Down Market Steet, Then and Now
From cave paintings to 1950s 3D movies, artists and photographers have long used the best techniques at their disposal to immerse viewers in a distant scene. One 16th century Chinese panorama of a famous battle stretched 85 feet. Cycloramas – round rooms with realistic views painted on the inside – were popular tourist attractions in the 19th century.
An early use of the movie camera was for virtual walks down city streets, like the fateful 1906 tour of Market Street. In the 1970s, California filmed all the state's main highways from a car-mounted camera.
The practical side of street views has a history, too. Before roads had consistent names and signs, landmark-by-landmark photo guides called Photo-Auto maps were one effective way to specify a route for the early motorist.
Surrogate Travel
With traditional panoramas and movies, the viewer can only see a predetermined scene or route. By adding computer control, MIT's 1978 Aspen Interactive Movie Map changed all that. In this stunning touchscreen-controlled drive-through of Aspen, Colorado the viewer was in charge of the tour and could go wherever he or she wished. The project pioneered basically all of the features of street view and other mapping services today, including navigation buttons for turning and moving, integration with flat maps and aerial photography, computer-generated panoramas, and 3D models of buildings.
The Aspen Movie Map was funded as a way to familiarize soldiers with remote locations – "surrogate travel". It was inspired by the success of the Israeli raid on Entebbe in 1976, where commandos successfully freed hostages after practicing on a mockup of the real location. The technology was cutting-edge for the time. Nicholas Negroponte of the Architecture Machine Group at MIT (later the Media Lab) realized that the newly developed laserdisc player – which used shiny disks like giant DVDs – could do far more than play videos start to finish. By controlling it with a computer you could create customizable multimedia, with endless links and branches chosen by the user. Selecting a building in the Movie Map worked like a modern Web link and let users get more information, or even go inside.
Video: Aspen Interactive Movie Map, 1978-1981.
Credit: MIT Architecture Machine Group
To capture Aspen's streets, project leader Andrew Lippman and cinematographer Michael Naimark customized a set of stop-motion animation cameras on a car's roof to snap a full panorama roughly every 10 feet. Each shot was logged in a computer database. When the eventual user wanted to "move" a specific direction, the computer would call up the appropriate shot from the laserdisc player.
The Aspen Movie Map was ahead of its time. There were several efforts to start companies based on the technology, and a brief flowering of 1990s interest in computerized panoramas using Apple's QuickTime VR ("Virtual Reality"). But street views remained mostly a niche product for art or the occasional display for tourists until the 2000s.
Google Takes to the Streets
In 2003, Google co-founder Larry Page got intrigued with the idea of capturing street level views at massive scale. After shooting test footage with a video camera from his own car he funded a project at Stanford to develop techniques.
By 2005 Google had bought the companies that became Google Maps and Google Earth. Street View joined them in the same building, with Frenchman Luc Vincent coordinating the part-time efforts of a number of Googlers. The team experimented with high speed video cameras before settling on panoramic cameras like the early movie maps. The prototype van was filled with so much equipment it required a separate generator. The custom cameras were protected in an ominous-looking turret.
It all worked, in fact so well that the van quickly made itself obsolete. As soon as the company decided to go ahead with Street View at full scale, the custom installation was replaced with a more minimalist rig that could be quickly fitted to standard cars.
The service launched in 2007 as several other street view efforts were ramping up world-wide, including City8 in China, Everyscape in the U.S, and Location View in Japan.
Cheap computer power and storage had made street view services practical. Even more important, high-speed networking and the World Wide Web made them accessible. Early interactive movie maps required expensive custom equipment and high capacity data disks for each stand-alone user. By the mid-2000s, millions of people could realize the once-exotic dream of "surrogate travel" through an ordinary Web browser.
The Longest Road Trip
Beginning with views of four selected U.S. cities in 2007, Google Maps with Street View has grown to cover major streets in over 39 countries, or more than five million miles of road, path, track, trail, and even museum hallway. It is the leading street view service world wide.
Local drivers work as contractors to Google all over the world, some logging tens of thousands of miles. For special projects, the company uses trikes, snowmobiles, hand-pushed carts, and even a backpack to map the paths and indoors spaces that cars can't reach. Google planes have also started filming 3D views from the air.
The hand-pushed Street View camera cart saw first use in 2009 at Iraq's National Museum, which houses some of the world's most important artwork and artifacts from early civilizations. The Museum was partly looted in the aftermath of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.
Video: Luc Vincent, Director, Engineering, Google Inc. talking about the early days of Google Maps with Street View
A Simple Idea – Massively Scaled
Like the original movie map projects, Google Maps with Street View drives cars equipped with roof-mounted camera clusters down streets. The driver checks reference shots on a screen, and can see both streets covered and those to be done on a moving map.
The panoramic cameras, now in their seventh generation, are tough and reliable. They take a set of pictures in every direction at known intervals, usually every nine to 15 feet. Beyond measuring the distance between shots, the cars use laser rangefinding, GPS, and image analysis to precisely determine the position of each picture and to later correlate it with Google Maps and Google Earth.
After the camera's hard disks are sent back to Google comes the hardest part – the processing that wasn't cost-effective on a large scale until recent years. Custom software automatically "stitches" the separate photos taken together into a single panorama, and creates transitions between each set of pictures when you virtually move down the street.
The company also uses Street View to refine Google Maps. Special software analyzes the photos for readable signs and correlates them with the Maps database of businesses, street names, and house numbers.
Privacy in a Global Village
We all know streets are public. But there's a big difference between being seen in the moment or just by those nearby, and having your public self recorded and potentially seen by millions. This tension has been a part of street view projects since the 1970s. In response to both public and government pressure, many services including Google's now blur faces and license plates automatically, and remove other things – from nudity to a sensitive military base – on request.
Privacy norms and laws also vary by country. Far more German households opt to blur their property than elsewhere. Japan limits camera height to avoid topping walls. Russia doesn't restrict public photos, and nothing is blurred in street views by search engine Yandex.
Since Street View's start, a number of Web sites have sought and shared sexy, humorous, and shocking images recorded by the roving cameras. A small percentage of these are staged, from mock fights to flashing: being recorded brings out the ham and the prankster in some people.
Social Impacts
After Google Maps with Street View toured the streets of Pompeii, the excavated Roman city that was buried with volcanic ash in AD 79, real-world visits went up 30%. Similar stories hold for other attractions. Many people reflexively check the street view of a restaurant, apartment for rent, or new friend's house before visiting in person. Most of us have looked at our own home online.
From armchair travelers to real estate agents to tax collectors, street views are subtly but deeply changing the ways we think about going places – and the facades we show to the world.
Street views can also be an important public record; from information for new zoning, to helping rebuild more safely after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
The Road Ahead
The first interactive movie maps go back more than three decades. What will the armchair traveler see 30 years from now?
Street views remains one of three very different ways of representing places: flat maps, three-dimensional models like those in games or Google Earth, and photographs of the world as it really appears like Street View.
The three are converging. As 3D models get better, the artificial views they produce rival actual photographs. Conversely, Google and competitor's technology for mapping street views onto three-dimensional models also improves.
Then there are historical views. People have long been fascinated with comparing the same scenes as they change over time, and computers can now automatically map photos to their place and viewing angles in the real world. So tomorrow's street views may not only give us "surrogate travel" in space, but also in time.
What about video? Current street views are static, as if time had stopped. As video sources multiply, from CCTV to private smartphones, future services may bring in not only photos but live feeds from all over the world.
Augmented reality promises to flip the whole process, and bring more and more computer-linked information to the real world as you walk through it.
The Going Places exhibit will be on display at the Computer History Museum from June 23, 2012 to August, 2013.


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Good Morning CC warriors! Start thinking about your letters from Patients and Caretakers and bring them on!!! September 15th is the deadline to make yourselves heard! Patient letters to Sophie and Caretakers to me. Looking forward to the e-mails.
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He doesn't seek land on water marks and exits where I'm standing.
I think I follow why you're asking about water force. He enters the water great, but will not re-enter the water with an over or back no matter how much pressure. He knows the casts, but he doesn't care about the pressure. So, that being said I'm not really sure how its going to help when I've been trying to force him in the water and he's not responding. At this point I'm afraid to use much pressure going forward.
I think I need to back up. And, I have someone helping but we haven't been able to get together for a few days. In the meantime, I think I'm going to work on land blinds.


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Window or attic fans are very effective when outside air is cooler than the temperature inside the home. Operated during the evening and night, these fans exhaust warm air and bring in fresh outside air through doors and windows.
To be effective, a fan should be able to change the air in the house at least once each minute. Fans are rated by the volume of air they will exhaust per minute. Manufacturers furnish these ratings with each fan. They are given in cubic feet per minute (CFM). Large fans deliver a given amount of air more slowly than smaller fans and usually make less noise.
To determine the fan capacity you need, figure the volume of the rooms you intend to cool. For example, if you want to cool an area 30 x 40 feet having a ceiling height of 8 feet, the volume will be 30 x 40 x 8 = 9,600 cubic feet. You will need a fan that will exhaust at least 9,600 CFM. (See note under window fans.)
Table 1 gives typical attic and ceiling fan specifications. Use this table as a guide only. Always refer to the manufacturer's ratings.
Table 1Attic and ceiling fan specifications.
Increasing the speed of a fan increases its capacity but also greatly increases its power requirements. For example, doubling the speed of a fan almost doubles the amount of air delivered but increases the horsepower requirement eight times.
Switches for manual control should be conveniently located, since fans may need to be shut off during the night. Fans can be shut off automatically by using appliance timers. These are time switches that can be set to shut off the power at a predetermined time. Temperature switches can also be used. These switches operate by thermostat and automatically start and stop the fan at predetermined air temperatures. Window fans are available with these temperature switches built into them.
Figure 1
The amount of cool air entering different rooms is controlled by adjusting window and door openings. If certain rooms are to be cooled, open windows and doors only in these rooms. Rooms "A" and "B" in Figure 1 are being cooled. Outside air can enter only through partly open windows in rooms "A" and "B." All other windows and doors are closed. The window in room "A" nearest the fan should be shut. Air entering this window would go directly to the fan and have little cooling effect. With this window closed, the entire fan capacity will be used for effective cooling.
Window fans are easy to install. They are relatively small in size and vary from 8 to 20 inches in diameter. The small 8-inch size may have an exhaust rating of only 350 CFM, which is too small to cool even one room effectively. The 20-inch size may have a maximum exhaust rating of about 3,850 CFM. This capacity will cool three to four average rooms.
The rating you want is the exhaust ratingWindow fans with switches giving two or more fan speeds are desirable. The best location is the side of the house opposite from the bedrooms or a window in a hallway. This allows air to be drawn across the bedrooms for effective cooling. It also places the fan noise some distance away. These fans can be used in single- or multiple-story homes. They can be located on either the first or second floors.
Figure 2
These fans can be installed in various ways, some of which are illustrated.
An attic fan can be mounted in the attic in one- or two-story homes as in Figure 2. The ceiling opening should be located above a hallway so that air can be drawn from all rooms. Refer to Table 2 for size of ceiling opening and exhaust opening at end of attic.
Table 2Ceiling and exhaust openings for attic fans.
Figure 3
An attic or ceiling fan can be mounted in the attic in one- or two-story homes as in Figure 3. This installation will be easiest if the attic has a low ceiling. It should be mounted above a hallway so that air can be drawn from all rooms. Refer to Table 2 for size of exhaust opening in the end of the attic.
Figure 4
Attic fans can be mounted in a window or other opening on first or second floors of one-and-a-half or two-story homes. Figure 4 illustrates a fan on the second floor at the head of the stairway. It can also be mounted this way in one-story homes. When mounted in this way, it is similar to a large window fan.
Figure 5
Attic fans mounted as in Figure 5, left, can be used to cool the attic to reduce the load on an air conditioning unit. When used for this purpose, the fan is operated only during the day to keep the attic temperature from building up. Thermostatically controlled switches are available to control fan operation automatically.
NoteDo not install a fan in the attic, as in Figure 5, to cool the house. Attics have many cracks and places for air to leak through. The fan will pull air through these cracks and will do a poor job of ventilating the house.
These openings should have at least one square foot of open area for each 1,000 CFM fan capacity. If openings are covered, use values given in Table 2.
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University expands options for TigerCard, Paw Points
Posted December 6, 2007; 09:05 a.m.
The University's TigerCard Office is introducing a new way for students to buy Paw Points for the TigerCard, and is expanding the number of places where students, faculty and staff can make purchases with their cards.
The TigerCard, which is the University's ID card for students, faculty, staff and affiliates, has a magnetic strip that allows it to be used to make purchases from various campus vendors. Students can use the TigerCard to charge items to the accounts through which the University bills them for tuition and other expenses, and also can use it like a debit card by purchasing Paw Points. The points also can be purchased for the TigerCard by faculty, staff and affiliates.
Effective next semester, students can charge the purchase of Paw Points to their University accounts, in addition to continuing to buy points with cash, credit card or check. The new system allows $250 worth of Paw Points to be charged to student accounts each semester. For undergraduates to take advantage of this option, their parents, or the individuals responsible for paying student bills, would opt in to accept this charge on an annual basis. Graduate students can accept this charge by opting in on an annual basis.
The expansion of services comes in response to student requests for increased functionality of the University TigerCard system. The Office of the Executive Vice President and University Services met with Undergraduate Student Government leaders and held a student focus group earlier this semester to gather student input on how the system could be enhanced.
As part of the expanded services, the TigerCard will be accepted at new on-campus and affiliated locations. Paw Points, TigerCard charges to student accounts, and the departmental Tower Card are now accepted forms of payment at the newly opened Labyrinth Books. The independent book store will begin supplying academic textbooks to University students for the spring term.
Paw Points and Tower Cards also are now accepted at the Princeton University Store insignia and apparel shop on Nassau Street and will be accepted at the Princeton University Store's primary location on University Place after renovations are completed in spring 2008. The University Place location will feature a convenience/grocery store open 24 hours and sell products such as dorm supplies and stationery.
University Ticketing plans to start accepting Paw Points at various campus ticket offices during the spring term as well.
Also effective spring semester 2008, all but two student agencies will convert to accept Paw Points, in addition to cash, credit cards and departmental charges. The Tiger Foods and Water delivery agencies will continue to accept charges to student accounts through the spring semester. Effective fall semester 2008, all student agency businesses will no longer accept charges to student accounts and will continue to accept Paw Points, cash, credit cards and departmental charges as forms of payment.
The TigerCard Office will send a mailing to parents and graduate students enabling them to purchase $250 worth of Paw Points through the new student account option; an online form also is being developed. Charge requests will be honored for students in active enrollment status and in good financial standing.
Paw Points still can be purchased at any time through the TigerCard Office website, the TigerCard Office at New South and at the Value Transfer Station at the Frist Campus Center. If a card is lost or stolen, users should suspend points accounts through the TigerCard Office website and immediately notify the TigerCard Office during normal business hours.
General Manager for University Services Paul Breitman said the University plans to conduct future focus groups to receive feedback on the newly expanded services and to consider additional expansion of the TigerCard system.
"The expansion of future service and functionality of the TigerCard Office will be ongoing and a work in progress," Breitman said. "We look forward to continuing to work with students as we consider future enhancements of the TigerCard program."
Paw Points, TigerCard charges to student accounts, and Tower Card will continue to be accepted at all residential dining halls, athletic concessions at Princeton Stadium and Jadwin Gymnasium, and at all retail dining operations on campus, including Café Vivian, C-Store, and Food Gallery in Frist, as well as these other cafés: Chancellor Green, E-Quad, Genomics and Woodrow Wilson. The Garden and Tap Room at Prospect House will continue to accept Paw Points and Tower Card. In addition, Paw Points will continue to be accepted for photocopying services in the libraries and in Frist.
Members of the campus community who have questions may contact David Tierney, associate director of the TigerCard Office, at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Long time no blogging. Hmm, maybe I should work on that more.
So, I have some news and discoveries here.
wxWidgets and Google Summer of Code
wxWidgets has been accepted as a Google Summer of Code Mentoring Organization. And guess what, I'm a possible mentor :)
I did some quick (and lame) elaborations on some of the items on our project ideas list. I'll do some better elaboration on the items that I have knowledge about once I've slept and had my morning coffee after that :) Perhaps I'll also add some, will have to think about possible projects a bit more deeply.
So, if you qualify for the Google Summer of Code as a student and have some interest towards our great cross-platform framework, make sure to check the list out regularly and stay tuned! Other mentors are hopefully working on elaborating on the worthy ideas as well, but you could of course always have your own, too! Check Google's SoC Students FAQ about that, I guess.
Me, wxWidgets and Gentoo Linux
I was contacted by a Gentoo developer a while back with a query if I'd be interested in helping maintain the wxWidgets related ebuilds in Gentoo's portage tree. Seeing the sad state of wxWidgets in Gentoo, and having thought about helping out earlier, I of course agreed, and we've version bumped wxGTK and wxPython to 184.108.40.206 version by now in unstable and some application version bumps as well, together with clean-ups to the ebuilds in question. Now I have this ebuild quiz here... we'll see what happens related to that ;)
The sad state of wxWidgets related packages in Gentoo is hopefully over soon.
Linux-2.6.16 and cold benchmarking
I stumbled on a easy to parse list of new stuff in Linux, and found out that Linux-2.6.16 has now support for dropping the clean caches, dentries and inodes from memory, causing that memory to be free. This effectively means that there is an end to the ugly hacks some of us in the performance and benchmarking crew (GNOME rockstars) were doing to do benchmarks with a cold disk cache. Reading large unrelated files to get the relevant-to-benchmark disk data out of RAM and other dirty things.
Just "echo 3 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" with a 2.6.16 or newer kernel, and all the disk cache and other stuff is gone with the wind. The multiload_applet-2 also instantly shows the effect - the buffers and cached memory color is replaced with the color for "free memory" :)
From kernelnewbies.org the description: "Add /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches. Writing to this will cause the kernel to drop clean caches, dentries and inodes from memory, causing that memory to become free. This is mainly useful for benchmarking, for getting consistent results between filesystem benchmarks without rebooting. To free pagecache: "echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches", to free dentries and inodes: "echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches", to free pagecache, dentries and inodes: "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches". As this is a non-destructive operation and dirty objects are not freeable, the user should run `sync' first (commit)"
Of course there is lots of hot cache benchmarking to do, lots of low hanging fruit to pick in the performance land. So cold benchmarking isn't all that interesting just yet. Nevertheless this thing can be helpful once in a while.
That's it folks. Someone should beat me to blog more often, or something.


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Romulo Yanes
This frittata makes a perfect brunch or lunch — it works especially well for a picnic. And on a steamy summer night, it may be all you need for dinner. Adding a green salad and a nice piece of bread is an easy way to round out the plate.
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Absolutely fabulous!
I gave this recipe 4 stars for its wonderful taste and adaptability and its susitability for my many friends with restrictive dietary issues. I call it my-favorite-clean-out-the-refrigerator frittata. These are my suggestions: microwave 2 small-med potatoes, cool slightly then peel, dice. Add to one bunch of sauteeing sliced green onions, 1 TBSP dried marjorum, 1/2 TBSP dried italian seasoning (thyme is also favorite). Add approx 1/2 bag of TJ's frozen grilled corn (adds nice tooth--not really much flavor) and 1 box of thawed/fully squeezed box of chopped spinach, some parsley. Sometimes I add precooked spicy italian sausage. I pour all of this into a 9" round deep baking dish, mixing in/topping with good handfuls of pregrated "Mexican mix" cheese. Then I pour the 6 beaten eggs over the already hot mixture and bake 15-20". It's flavor packed!
Very tasty. I made some changes to ingredients and methodology..I sauteed the potatoes first, then added the garlic and green onions, thinking they would be charred beyond recognition before the potatoes ever cooked. As it was, the potatoes were slow to cook, so once they were browned I added some chicken stock to simmer them in. I added mushrooms and half a red pepper and cut the corn in half. Also added some minced chives, cilantro, and oregano, and topped it with shredded Romano. I also added some buttermilk to the eggs and cheese, which gave it a nice tanginess.
A great dish for Easter ham! Added chopped poblano peppers,and used Monterrey Jack cheese instead of cheddar. Might try some cilantro next time. So adaptable and so easy. Definitely will make again.
Loved this - although did tweak the recipe a bit. No mozzarella in the fridge so used Parmesan instead. And did half corn and half frozen peas. Oh and no scallions either! Heavy on the seasoning and it was yummy
Just OK for me. It was underseasoned and stuck to the pan (both my fault, I realize). If I try it again, I'd add bacon & green chiles.
I used two small potatos, 6 eggs, a few crimini mushrooms, and a couple stalks of chopped asparagus (additions to recipe). Also made with a mix of gruyere & mozz cheese. totally forgot the garlic (even after I prepped it!) but it still was great. Start to finish in my big iron skillet. we used salsa or organic ketchup with some toasted California protein bead to make breakfast & dinner meals. Added some sauteed spinach for a complete dinner. All organic ingredients. Easy, healthy, & delicious.
This was great! I added mushrooms with the corn and a sprinkling of parmesan cheese right before broiling.
I made this as the entree for dinner & it was great that night as well as leftovers for the next night.
Super good! I stuck to the recipe and highly recommend it.


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Dean Kamen
UTSA President's Distinguished Lecture Series features Segway inventor
By Marianne McBride Lewis
Director of Public Affairs
(Sept. 10, 2009)--UTSA President Ricardo Romo announced today that Dean Kamen, a member of the National Inventors Hall of Fame and the inventor of the Segway Personal Transporter, will address the UTSA community as the UTSA President's Distinguished Lecture Series 2009 featured speaker. Free and open to the public, the lecture is 4 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 17 in the University Center Retama Auditorium (2.02.02) on the UTSA Main Campus. A reception with light refreshments will follow the talk.
Kamen founded New Hampshire-based DEKA Research and Development and holds more than 440 U.S. and foreign patents -- many for innovative medical devices that have advanced medical care worldwide. Besides the Segway, Kamen invented the first wearable insulin pump for diabetics and the iBOT mobility system -- a wheelchair than can climb stairs.
Kamen's connection to UTSA came through College of Engineering Dean Mauli Agrawal, who serves on the BioMed SA board of directors. In addition to the UTSA lecture, Kamen will be in town to receive the BioMed SA 2009 Julio Palmaz Award for Innovation in Healthcare and the Biosciences.
"The opportunity to have an inventor and entrepreneur of Dean Kamen's caliber meet with our students and deliver our distinguished lecture is fantastic," said Romo. "Not only does Mr. Kamen exemplify discovery and innovation, values we hold dear here at UTSA, but he also works fervently to inspire future generations to pursue careers in science and technology. We are absolutely thrilled to host him."
In addition to his research and development projects, Kamen is the founder of For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST), a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to inspiring young people to become leaders in science and technology. Through activities such as robotics and engineering competitions, FIRST fosters life capabilities including self-confidence, leadership and communication.
The UTSA President's Distinguished Lecture Series features internationally recognized scholars engaged in traditional research and activities, as well as those whose contributions are in the creative fields of architecture, fine arts and music. The series began in April 2008, featuring "Gene Targeting in the 21st Century: Mouse Models of Human Disease from Cancer to Psychiatric Disorders," a presentation by Mario R. Capecchi, Ph.D., recipient of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Kamen was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 2000 by President Bill Clinton, the Lemelson-MIT Prize in 2002, and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in May 2005. Read a biography of Kamen (PDF format).


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Lemonia House, stonebuilt old renovated village house in typical greek neighborhood
Size120 m²
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- Family/child friendly
- Internet/WiFi
- Kitchen
- Air conditioning
- Washer/dryer
- Lockable room
- Balcony/terrace
- Towels
Accommodation summary
|digeni, 85100 koskinou, Greece
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EOT license number: ar.prot.:3576/15//09//2014
Lemonia is located in the traditional precinct of the old village of Koskinou in the island of Rhodes. The village is less than ten minutes drive from Rhodes Medieval and New town and three minutes from the near-by Kalithea beach. It is famous for it 's local sweets 'melekounia' (honey and sesame sweets), it's wood bakeries and it's many taverns with local food.
The Lemonia is right next doors to the Myrtia house, and can be rented together, for bigger groups or 2 families.
Lemonia house is a stone-built house made before 1928 (year that was first registered) with original hand made pebble floors, last restored in 1954, as written on the living room floor. The last renovation finished in 2012.
The house consists of one kitchen, a living room, a bedroom, 1 big bathroom, an extra toilet, one big interior courtyard and there is a roof terrace as well, with sunbeds. The kitchen has a high sleeper with double bed, the living has 2 high sleepers with each a single bed, and the bedroom has a double bed as well. the high sleepers each have their own stairs going up, and curtains in front of it, for privacy.
The large living room offers a discrete comfort adjusted to the village's style with many of it's original furniture and a big dining table enough for six persons. The kitchen is fully equipped with all devices for a comfortable stay and with direct access to the living room and also to the courtyard table.
The interior courtyard leads to another toilet and has a nice barbeque. The privacy that the courtyard has to offer makes it ideal for sunbathing or outdoor dining.
The house also has a washing machine, a dish washer, free Wi-Fi, a telephone for incoming calls.
Lemonia house is a village house, right next to Myrtia house, so can also be booked in combination with this house, for larger groups or 2 families. The house is located in this very nice and friendly typical Greek neighborhood, where the granny's are sitting outside watching their grandchildren play on the streets, and keeping an eye on social matters around. both Lemonia house and Myrtia house have high walls surrounding the property, so you will only find the neighborhood once passing these walls. the neighbors love spoiling our guests with some jam, a glass of wine or just a simple good morning in greek, and like to learn some english too. at night they all sit outside and have a drink on the streets, while laughing on naughty jokes.
the Lemonia house is a ver comfortable and spacious house, with 2 double beds, and 2 single beds. there are 2 sleeping sofa's as well, in case someone might crash out on your couch. the house has all amenities wishable, and it guarantees a great stay for a holiday.
the pergola in the courtyard takes care of enough shade, but on the roof terrace one can enjoy the sun to the fullest as its there almost all day.
House rulesplease check out my description on the location. it is not as stated in google here on this site. for some reason it doesn't accept its real location.
there are 2 airco devices, with a total additional cost of 10 euros per night in total. you can decide on the spot if you wish to take the airco and pay for it locally.
|Price for > 4 guests
|$ 12 AU per guest/night extra
|Check-in after
|Check-in before
|On arrangement
|Check-out before
|Cancellation Policy
Reviews for this host's other properties
We had a very nice stay at the Lavender House. Koskinou is a very typical Greek village, with small pebble stone streets and friendly people. From Koskinou you are within 10 min. in Rhodes City (by car), and close tot to the road to to Epta Piges, Anthony Quinn Bay, Archangelos Beach and Lindos.
The house was very nice and clean, with plenty of room and a nice classic Greek interior.
Lavender house was beautiful and Koskinou was nice and calm. Gudrun was a very nice host and we would love to come back again sometime!
Do you want to live your greek dream? here it is!
The house is situated in a very lovely location,narrow streets with all year living people with the daily- lives sounds. And at the same time you have all the rest of want you might look for on your holiday as restaurants, beaches, interesting sites nearby.
The house is an experience itself. Renovated in a really,really nice way with an extraordinary feeling for coulor and details.the reality is even better than the photos here. And even though we never got to meet the host we felt welcomed and a hospitality in all the arrangements in the house.
We were there as a couple and it would have easily been comfortable for more people.The only restriction we can see is if you have any disability to move; the stairs are frequent and steep.
We spent a week in this dream house typically Greek, located in the quiet streets of the small village of Koskinou beautifully restored and fully equipped kitchen (fridge, freezer, dishwasher, espresso maker, electric fruit press, TV, DVD, hate hi-fi, wi-fi connection free bbq, and the icing on the cake on arrival, a bread in the fridge and a Greek salad and a bottle of wine. could ask for more? hosts are charming and have other locations as well restored in the same village, also available on Wimdu. Anyway, nothing to complain about.
Nous avons passé une semaine de rêve dans cette maison typiquement grecque, située dans les calmes ruelles du petit village de Koskinou, merveilleusement restaurée et complètement équipée (frigo, congélateur, lave-vaisselle, cafetière à expresso, presse fruit électrique, TV, DVD, haîne hi-fi, connection wi-fi gratuite, bbq, et cerise sur le gâteau, à l'arrivée, un pain et dans le frigo une salade grecque et une bouteille de vin . Que demander de plus ? Les hôtes sont charmants et possèdent d'autres locations tout aussi bien restaurées dans le même village, également disponibles sur Wimdu .
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Ein super schönes Haus! Das Dorf ist ebenfalls sehr schön und idyllisch. Wir haben vieles auf Rhodos gesehen, aber diese Ortschaft ist absolut am besten platziert.
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Alles in Allem ein sehr gelungener Urlaub und das Dorf mit dem Haus würde ich mit keinem Hotel in Faliraki tauschen!
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Dane County's Child Protective Services manager said she has confidence in the work of her staff despite questions about the department's involvement following the death of a 5-year-old of alleged child abuse.
Neither Dane County nor the state will confirm whether CPS was involved with the family before the death, despite family telling WISC-TV it was.
Dane County CPS Manager Julie Ahnen said she can't comment on whether her department was involved with the family of 5-year-old Brayden Turnbill before he was removed from his Sun Prairie home and subsequently died from injuries suspected of being related to child abuse.
The state Department of Children and Families, although it has released some details in other cases, won't release any record of involvement, either. But Ahnen said that's no reason for the public to lose confidence in her department.
"The confidentiality laws do not prevent us from doing our job," said Ahnen. "I'm very confident that my staff are working very well with law enforcement and medical personnel to do what they need to do."
Ahnen said her staff takes action to remove 20 to 30 children a month from homes where there is evidence of abuse or neglect, but confidentiality laws prevent them from sharing details about their work.
"I think it's very natural for people to try to understand why something like this would happen and why somebody might not have intervened," said Ahnen about the Turnbill death. "But it's difficult to find those answers all the time. There's not always a clear answer or reason as to why something tragic like this has happened."
WISC-TV asked whether people should be looking to her department for any blame in the situation.
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In a statement, a spokeswoman for Dane County Executive Joe Parisi said he has confidence in the work of the department, which thoroughly investigates thousands of cases each year, and that the review underway will examine how the department conducted this matter. Parisi noted the department has 76 CPS workers -- the largest CPS unit in the state -- with nearly $13 million dedicated to the cause.
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Hi Justin. Thanks for the input. I also have an extensive health guarantee on any pups I breed. The parents have OFA (hips and elbows), PennHip, CERF, EIC and CNM clearances and are titled. I too am very proud of my dogs and produce the best litters I can. I train and handle my own dogs. With all that said, I believe choosing the dog's name is the owner's privilege. I am flattered if they choose to include my kennel name. No offense intended to you or any other conscientious breeder. Have a great day. Mary
My name is Justin Schneider, I recently read a post that you put on a thread, you said "A breeder requiring a new owner to use their kennel name is just arrogant IMHO"
I do not try to be arrogant, in fact I do it because I am proud of the pups that I help produce, I spend alot of time and money making sure I produce the best litters I can.
I require a puppies from a litter I produce to have "Foundation" or "Foundation's" in their litter name in order to get the 26 month health guarantee, I believe that if I help produce a pup that is not phyisically sound I should be marked by that pup.. I feel it is a very small thing for people to do when they buy a pup considering I offer to refund the majority of the purchase price in my contract if something is wrong with the pup - they have 26 months to have EIC and CNM as well as hips elbows and Eyes checked over, I am sorry you feel I am arrogant, but I do hope the best for you and your dogs.
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The UK's most ambitious music prize is the PRS for Music Foundation New Music Award which carries a £50,000 prize.
This year, for the first time, they are opening the voting to the public. The voting will close on 12th September and the public vote will count as one vote on the judging panel. The winner will be awarded a £50,000 prize at a glittering ceremony in the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion on 16th September and their winning new musical work will premiere in 2011.
Let us know at the bottom of this blog which piece you think deserves to win and why, then vote here. The best answer will win a Zeppelin Mini and an iPod loaded with the five short listed films plus a half-hour SkyArts documentary.
The five shortlisted ideas cover the widest possible range of musical genres from electronic and site specific to acoustic and African-inspired beats, and the PRS for Music Foundation has comissioned a short film for each of the entries.
The five entries are:
aroundNorth – a stellar orchestra based on the rotation of stars around the Celestial North Pole
Automata Musica – combines the skills of composer and craftsman to make "automatic instruments" which audience members can play
The Battle of the Wordsmiths – recreates African musical instruments through beatboxing which introduces western audiences to the ancient traditions to Yoruba culture
The Organ of Corti – recycles existing sounds to create new ways of listening
SATSYMPH – a "satellite symphony" delivered through an iPhone app
The films will also be screened free from 26th July to 5th September. Venues include the ICA, London, Watershed in Bristol, the Black Box in Belfast, Sage Gateshead, Cornerhouse in Manchester, Cardiff Chapter Arts Centre, Glasgow Centre for Contemporary Arts, Liverpool Bluecoat Arts Centre, Nottingham Broadway Media Centre and the Roundhouse, London.
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M.B.A. Pop Quiz: Are You Employable?
As More Emphasis Is Put on Job Placement, Career-Services Staff Sit In on Admissions Talks About Prospective Students
Want to get into business school? Be employable.
As schools focus more attention on their job-placement numbers, several M.B.A. programs are now bringing in career-services staff to evaluate candidates for admission and set expectations for prospective students on what the school can, and can't, do in an uncertain job market.
Business schools have long considered applicants' career goals, though admissions staff rarely sought input from the career office on whether a particular candidate's aims were realistic. But when the financial crisis upended the banking sector and sure-thing jobs on Wall Street disappeared, schools began formally tying input (applicants) to output (graduates). The change also comes as prospective students are weighing the potential return on an M.B.A. investment, and seeking assurances that a chosen school will propel them on a desired career path.
Leigh Gauthier, the director of careers for the full-time M.B.A. at University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, last year began sitting in on committee meetings to help assess applicants.
Ms. Gauthier said she's looking to match student skills with industry need. For example, for an applicant with a stated interest in consulting, she may pay particular attention to whether he or she can manage ambiguity. She also seeks out candidates with strong interviews and leadership potential, a plus in both classroom and corporate realms.
While she doesn't have veto power over an admissions representative's suggestion—about 10 people are involved in each discussion—Ms. Gauthier has pushed the committee to "think more critically" about borderline candidates, said Niki da Silva, director of recruitment and admissions for Rotman's full-time M.B.A. She said Ms. Gauthier's input has bumped some students onto the wait list, or rescued others from that no man's land. "There is some give and take," Ms. da Silva said.
Admissions and career services teams at University of Rochester's Simon Graduate School of Business joined forces about a year and a half ago, as the school adapted to a job market that no longer favored its finance-focused talent.
"Adversity has a way of creating motivation," said Mark Zupan, Simon's dean.
Bob Park, Simon's executive director of corporate relations and career management, now meets with the admissions team at least twice a month. He provides data on which firms or industries are recruiting at Simon. That information helps admissions officers understand which students might be most in demand come graduation. He also shares files on recent graduates who fared particularly well to use as a guide when selecting the newest cohort.
It's still too early to determine whether these moves will improve placement figures, but Messrs. Park and Zupan said first-year students are expressing more interest in fields beyond finance.
Charles Johnson, a first-year M.B.A. at Simon, said he thinks the school's attempt to diversify students' career paths beyond finance helped him land a spot there. So did the fact that Mr. Johnson wasn't interested in breaking into an entirely new industry; the 29-year-old plans to return to a job in marketing after graduation.
'Making employability too weighty a factor in the admissions process can backfire, deterring schools from accepting riskier candidates.'
As recruiting creeps into the early days of the school year—on many campuses, interviews for elite consulting, finance and management trainee positions begin just a few months in—schools have less time to train students on interview etiquette or the art of the thank-you note. So career-services staff are interviewing more applicants, stepping in, as Mr. Park's team has at Simon, when the admissions team is on the fence about a candidate.
Mr. Park said he's particularly keen on assessing an applicant's presentation and communication skills.
In these interviews, career-services representatives judge how students may come across to corporate recruiters. Amy Wittmayer, director of the M.B.A. career management center at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill's Kenan-Flagler Business School, for the past two years has trained admissions officers to look for the same traits a hiring manager might, such as the ability to assess a problem and self-edit their remarks.
While the newly integrated admissions approach is mainly aimed at finding employable prospects, career-services officers also provide a key reality check for applicants early in the game, says Graham Richmond, a former admissions officer at University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and founder of admissions consulting firm Clear Admit.
This past fall, the new director of career services at University of California, Los Angeles's Anderson School of Management began attending admissions events. After hearing positive reviews from applicants, the school is including those representatives at all domestic events, said Alex Lawrence, UCLA's assistant dean and director of M.B.A. admissions.
To be sure, making employability too weighty a factor in admissions can backfire. Looking at applicants through a narrow vocational lens may deter schools from accepting riskier candidates, such as entrepreneurs or career-switchers, in favor of more sure things, such as aspiring management consultants, Mr. Richmond said.
Students with more audacious goals may be wary of sharing their real plans, too. For example, someone who works in a family farming business and wants to expand the operation globally after school may instead tell of a career plan that involves a middle-manager job at agribusiness giant Cargill Inc., he said. "They'll play it close to the vest," rather than say they want to take a small business into a new market, Mr. Richmond said.
Simon's Mr. Zupan admitted he is somewhat concerned about focusing too much on hiring during the admissions process. "You want M.B.A.s to dream big, so it's a real fine line," he said.
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