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Outside of Leavenworth, Washington, there is a beautiful place called The Sleeping Lady Mountain Resort. I recently spoke there for a very nice group of people.
This is an incredibly beautiful spot in the world. There are majestic trees, a beautiful meandering creek and, in the background, there are snow-capped mountains.
This is 67 acres that were bought in 1991 by a lady named Harriet Bullitt. She had been brought to the area when she was just six years old, beginning in 1931. Today this lady is 85 years young and still going strong.
Harriet Bullitt developed the entire Sleeping Lady Mountain Resort because she thought the area was so beautiful and should be preserved and enjoyed by many people.
The thing I liked about the resort is that it reminded me of certain things that are solid in our lives. This year there have been many things that have made our lives feel shaky – like tsunami's, hurricanes, tornados, the economy – all kinds of things that made us feel as if we're literally walking on quicksand.
I think it's important, during these times, for us to think about certain things that are solid in our lives. Certain things that are not going anywhere.
The beautiful Sleeping Lady Resort, with its majestic trees, is not going anywhere. The snow-capped mountains I saw there are not going anywhere. The beautiful stream I saw there, other than the water flowing, is not going anywhere.
And, what is most important in our lives, that I believe we should focus on that is solid, is the relationships that we cherish. Even if there is just one person in life who cares about you, that is something solid.
Thus, for this message, I'm suggesting that we focus on what is solid, what isn't going anywhere, and not spend quite so much time thinking about other things that make us feel as if we're on shaky ground.
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Steamboat Springs boys basketball against Skyline
Steamboat Springs boys basketball, 2008-09
- Dec. 5, Steamboat 48, Roaring Fork 34 at Roaring Fork Tournament; (1-0)
- Dec. 6, Steamboat 53, Basalt 36 at Roaring Fork Tournament; (2-0)
- Dec. 11, Castle View 57, Steamboat 38 at Steamboat ShootOut tournament; (2-1)
- Dec. 12, Steamboat 70, Summit 41 at Steamboat ShootOut tournament; (3-1)
- Dec. 13, Green River, Wyo., 68, Steamboat 41 at Steamboat ShootOut tournament; (3-2)
- Dec. 18, at Flaming Gorge Classic basketball tournament; (3-3)
- Dec. 19, Evanston, Wyo. 49, Steamboat 37 at Flaming Gorge Classic basketball tournament; (3-4)
- Dec. 20, Cheyenne East 41, Steamboat 38 at Flaming Gorge Classic basketball tournament; (3-5)
- Jan. 9, Steamboat 46, Battle Mountain 23; (4-5)
- Jan. 10, Steamboat 55, Eagle Valley 30; (5-5)
- Jan. 16, Steamboat 78, Palisade 46; (6-5)
- Jan. 17, Steamboat 66, Delta 37; (7-5)
- Jan. 23, Steamboat 65, Rifle 38; (8-5)
- Jan. 24, Steamboat 47, Glenwood Springs 45; (9-5)
- Jan. 27, Steamboat 44, Moffat County 32;(10-5)
- Jan. 30, Steamboat 63, Eagle Valley 41;(11-5)
- Feb. 6, Steamboat 50, Palisade 44;(12-5)
- Feb. 7, Steamboat 54, Delta 43;(13-5)
- Feb. 13, Steamboat 54, Rifle 45;(14-5)
- Feb. 14, Glenwood Springs 61, Steamboat 51;(14-6)
- Feb. 17 vs. Moffat County, 7:30 p.m.
- Feb. 20 at Battle Mountain, 7:30 p.m.
- Feb. 25 state playoffs begin
Any questions about the Steamboat Springs High School boys basketball team's confidence after two late-season losses were answered in the first nine minutes of Wednesday's first round Class 4A playoff game against Skyline.
The Sailors, playing as intense defense as they have all year, imposed their will on both ends of the court in a 61-41 win in which the Falcons scored 22 of their points in an inconsequential fourth quarter.
"We were undefeated and thought we were untouchable," Steamboat senior Nelson Brassell said about the team's two late league losses to Glenwood Springs and Moffat County. "I think we needed to lose those games to really find what our team was about. That's Sailors basketball and defense. If we play defense, we're always in the game."
Against the perimeter-oriented Falcons, the Sailors put the game out of reach before most of the crowd at Kelly Meek Gymnasium got comfortable.
Steamboat held Skyline scoreless for the first 9:15 of the game, limiting the Falcons to 0-of-10 shooting from the field. The Sailors also forced 11 first-half turnovers.
The Sailors had a 20-3 lead by the 4:27 mark of the second quarter.
"You have to make perimeter shots early to loosen (the zone) up, and we didn't," Skyline coach Brandon Knudsen said. "They are very disciplined, they run more stuff, they take the ball to the hole, and they're very strong."
Steamboat also keyed in on Skyline guard Blaine Robinson. Robinson came in averaging more than 20 points per game. On Wednesday, Robinson had seven points, five of which came in the final quarter. Things were so tough for Robinson that a three-quarters-court shot he hit at the end of the third quarter was waved off after two Steamboat defenders forced him into a travel.
"Coming out with that kind of defensive intensity put them back on their heels," Steamboat coach Luke DeWolfe said. "They couldn't seem to recover from that. That's what we talked about all week - establishing that intensity from the first minute."
Steamboat extended its lead to 43-14 late in the third quarter and went into the final frame with a 46-19 lead.
By that point, everyone on the Steamboat bench had entered the game, with eight players scoring. Brassell's 18 points led the Sailors. Alex Wood added 11 points, Charles Wood scored nine points, Jack Spady scored eight, and Isiah Forsyth chipped in seven.
Skyline was led by 11 points from Kevin Coats off the bench and 10 points from Jake Garritson.
Now, the Sailors turn their attention to another Northern League team. Sixth-seeded Steamboat plays at No. 3 Longmont on Saturday. A game time hasn't been determined.
The Trojans come in at 18-5 overall and are ranked No. 10 in the Rocky Mountain News. Longmont beat Skyline, 68-50, in late January.


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Does anyone know what the edition sizes (total production run) are for any of 2005 ROTS Limited Edition repilcas? I've been searching eveywhere. There are tons of ROTS lightsaber hilts on Ebay, but not one list this information.
I checked out RebelScum.com because they recently published photo archives for Darth Sidious, Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi lighsabers (very nice BTW). The site did not list the total edition size for each item. It's also strange that the metal plaque ONLY lists the number of the replica you own. In the past, MR put the edition size on this plaque as well, such as 1345/1500.
Anyone know why this was done? Did MR not want to commit to a concrete production size? Seem a bit mysterious. Also probably frustrating to a hardcore collector who purchases replicas for investment value.


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The Fairmont State University College of Liberal Arts honored its high achieving students during the fifth annual Academic Awards Ceremony at the end of the spring 2015 semester.
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Do you recognize these magnified crystals? They look a little like snowflakes. They're actually crystals of a very common compound named sodium chloride.
The Back Story
- Sodium chloride is plain old table salt. No doubt you think of it as a seasoning for food. But sodium chloride has hundreds of other uses. For example, it's used in many manufacturing processes. It also has many uses around the house.
- Sodium chloride is an ionic compound. It consists of positive sodium ions and negative chlorine ions (called chloride).
- Watch this video to learn more about how and why ionic bonds form in sodium chloride: http://www.nbclearn.com/chemistrynow/cuecard/56354
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- Why is the bonding of atoms a little like an atomic version of the card game Go Fish?
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- In general, what are the properties of ionic compounds such as sodium chloride?
- How are ionic compounds named? For example, why is table salt named sodium chloride rather than chloride sodium of some other name?
- Why is sodium chloride useful for preserving foods?
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Heard the one about the Scotsmen, the Irishmen and the Welshmen? It was ruined by too many Englishmen. Warren Gatland's punchline on how many of Stuart Lancaster's thriving young side he might employ this summer may have got lost in translation – or covered by a backtrack quick enough to haul in any Wallaby line break – but it is indicative of the background music that accompanies the grand old championship every four years.
Which of the four home nations will have the Lions' share of the 30-odd red jerseys handed out later this year is a debate that ebbs and flows around each round of this year's Six Nations. An English hammering of the supposedly hapless French on Saturday will increase the clamour for a near whitewash of Gatland's squad, but then, with Wales suggesting they might be clambering back on their feet and Scotland quietly confident with a couple of winnable home games to come, it may require more of a pick and mix. And don't write off the injury-riddled Irish. They have Bod on their side.
The Six Nations is one of this country's sporting cornerstones. The sheer numbers who turn up in London, Edinburgh and Cardiff as well as Dublin, Paris and Rome are on a scale to make even rugby's sporting elder brother envious. Football does not attract such audiences to the national sides of Scotland, Wales or Ireland, while at Twickenham England compete on an equal footfall with their Wembley neighbours. It is in rare old health off the pitch and on it – the last four years have seen four different winners.
The looming Lions tour, which takes in three Tests in Australia, is supposed to add an extra frisson to the season. There is even more to play for than your country, there is that famous jersey to be earned, the pinnacle for any player. Except it isn't. The pinnacle is the World Cup, after that the Grand Slam. There should be no more incentive required for any player in any sport than to pull on your country's colours. Thousands upon thousands want to, very few enjoy the privilege. And the Lions represent nobody's country.
There is something of a red myth surrounding the Lions. When they do get together they are rarely any good and in this modern sporting world of marginal gains scratch sides are only going to find it ever more difficult to beat national ones. The Lions have won two of their last nine series, lost their last three and their last in Australia, in 2001. Perhaps they should follow golf and look to Europe to bolster numbers; the British and Irish and Italian and French Lions. Or Les (Ros)Biifs.
The Lions remain an oddity and most likely would have disappeared into the history books where it not for one factor. Like the overhyped Ryder Cup, it is a lucrative franchise for those who run it, and those who host it. It is not because Australia can beat them more easily than, say, England that this summer's hosts, as well as New Zealand and South Africa, relish the arrival of the Lions. It's because a healthy boost to the host union's coffers follows – some 30,000 from Britain and Ireland are expected to head to Australia in support of the Lions. Meanwhile, back in the northern hemisphere, the home unions' chief executives will be equally happy in their counting houses. The Lions began more than a century ago as a commercial idea and today it is a lucrative one. This year's £14m tour Down Under is expected to result in a £4m profit divided equally among England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales – for the latter two, in particular, that is a welcome quadrennial bonus.
If it didn't pay its way the carefully selected tour party would not leave these shores but when it does depart this summer it will not be accompanied by any great interest from this quarter. Team sport is about caring about the colour of a shirt, identifying with the men or women wearing it. Support your club and support your country because in sport there is nothing above that.
Britain is not a sporting nation. England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are sporting nations. It was impossible to care about the contrived British Olympic football team. Last summer's surge of sporting Britishness was a one off, fuelled by our delight in hosting the Games and the flattering mirror that the genius Danny Boyle held up for us to look into. It will not be back in Rio.
Like the British football team – a labelling that looks odd and sounds odd – the Lions are a sporting contrivance, albeit one with a weighty history. Their identity is not one with which I can identify. I care who wins the Six Nations and that emotional investment is definitive. I cannot care whether Gatland's selection beat Australia no matter how the numbers add up.Reuse content


text: The news earlier this week that George Lucas had sold his production company, Lucasfilm Ltd., to Disney and that Star Wars: Episode VII would be produced by the Mouse for release in 2015 came as a shock to just about everyone. Everyone, that is, except for two Star Wars legends: Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Hamill revealed that, although Lucas did not inform them of the impending Disney deal, the mogul did take him and Fisher out for lunch back in August and revealed his plans for a new Star Wars trilogy to be exec produced by Lucasfilm co-chair Kathleen Kennedy.


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So there's a new game demo development contest sponsored by Intel going on.
I started to work on something for the previous installment of the contest but failed to finish it before the deadline, even though I got a lot of coding done and, when the going got tough, didn't get much sleep for almost two months (while somehow managing to keep my day job). I shouldn't have gotten derailed experimenting with things that didn't add to the gameplay experience, like dynamic soft shadows.
But the biggest trap I got myself into was trying to work with other people, thinking that I wouldn't be able to handle everything by myself. "Artist" types. Hate them all. In the end they didn't get anything done other than complain and bug me about how they wouldn't be able to do anything unless I implemented normal mapping or whatever. I ended up doing the modeling myself (the player ship turned out okay for a coder, eh?), but by then it was already too late.
I've learned my lesson and will make it this year.
Why am I blogging about this here? It's not even a free software project. Ah well, I guess this is more topical than proclus' political ranting.
It's been a while. Oh crap, is it really 2012 already?
So what have I been up to?
I've been
wasting investing a ridiculous amount of time trying to learn Japanese. It's a nutso language, especially the writing system. Seriously. And I used to think that English was weird. Being able to read, say, a sci-fi novel written in Japanese without a dictionary is looking more and more like a pipe dream. I should have gone with, say, Mandarin instead, which looks a lot more sane (and more useful these days). Anyway, along the way I wrote a couple of programs to help (?) me with my learning (??).
The first one (which I still use every day) was a flash card program to practice vocabulary and kanji. That one's not too interesting.
Then I wrote a Missile Command clone to practice kanji. Here's a YouTube video. And here's the code.
Then I wrote a typespeed clone with kanji. (YouTube video. Code.)
Then I wanted to try out Android programming and started to write a Tetris clone with kanji. (YouTube video. Code.) Yes, of course I'm not using Java. Java, as we all know, sucks. There's a tiny Java wrapper but most of the code is under the jni/ directory, and I can compile a stand-alone Linux version with SDL/OpenGL.
I started to use C++ for my personal coding, which is a lot more fun than C. Unfortunately my C++ code has yuck-inducing raw pointers all over the place (oh hi ncm).
This concludes our blogging for the year of 2012. Thank you, you've been a lovely audience.
(Actually, I have a Japanese-language blog somewhere else but I'm not telling you where it is! Muhahah!)
I uploaded my kanji Missile Command typing game thingie to GitHub (the ugly code is here). Is there a license like the WTFPL, but, er, nicer?
I really want to finish this game. However, my desktop machine at home decided to finally bite the dust this week, after many years of heroic struggle. Gah.
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Should make * have higher precedence than +, right?
I don't want to have anything to do with a spiteful god that punishes such people.
I'm sorry for my earlier offensive (and quite crackpotish) diary entry, but a comment I read somewhere really pushed my buttons. I understand that one can be a Christian and not think that way [2]. I was going to delete that diary entry, but I suppose that now it's a bit late and I'll just have to own it up.
And yes, I donated to the Haiti relief efforts, too.
[1] when I commented on this to my Japanese friend, she was quite surprised. "What do you mean? It isn't like that in your country? Who does the cleaning, then?"
[2] I still love you, Don Knuth.
We should do something about the spammer problem. For a site meant for hackers, this is an embarrassment.
Each and every news article on the web covering the events now unfolding at a certain far-east country is littered with comments written by religious wackos, who seem to be convinced that this is all the doing of a bearded Galactus-like superbeing in the sky, outraged at the refusal by the population of the aforementioned country to accept and embrace their religion of love and compassion. (The claim that it's a religion of love and compassion, while apparently at odds with the implication that their imaginary friend has just murdered tens of thousands of people on a whim, is to be accepted without questioning, because a horrible book written by pig-ignorant savages before flush toilets were invented says that it is so.) The same crackpots wrote similar things about the recent disaster in Haiti. (You know, voodoo.)
Up to now, I've always evaded the question whenever someone mentioned religion, careful not to offend anyone. But you know what? I'll finally get out of the closet and say it: I'm an atheist. That's right, I'm not even agnostic. If accepting your religion in order to go to heaven means I'll have to endure the company of you nutsos for the rest of eternity, I'd rather burn in hell. You make me sick to my stomach.
By the way, I've donated today.
I searched for open source English grammar checkers, naively thinking that they would work by fully parsing English, but most of them only do pattern matching to look for common errors - like LanguageTool, used by OpenOffice. They are peephole optimizers, not complete parsers.
Except for Link Grammar, used by AbiWord. This one does parse English!
Even though it doesn't answer my original question (it thinks that "explain me something" is okay), it is quite cool.
proclus: no offense man, but your photograph isn't that interesting. Do you really need to post a link to it so many times?
My alter-ego^H^H8191 talked about writing a patch for mod_virgule that adds e-mail confirmation when creating a new account. Maybe we should at least have something like that!
Blacklisting would be nice as well.
Not sure if StevenRainwater is still accepting patches.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
Keep up with the latest Advogato features by reading the Advogato status blog.
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WAH.....I live in Hong Kong. I pre-order MR jedi collection 45 scale lightsaber the total shipping cost is......wah...... USD $284.94 = HONG KONG
DOLLAR $2222.52 which cost can buy buy another lightsaber or buy more one
jeb collection. After I immediately cancel the order. On the other hand, I saw
toynk.com who say may be MR release "gold edition 45 scale" and the price is
each $2xx.99. This version scale is very small. Why the ship cost is super
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I am pleased to report that, to date, almost 88,000 households have contributed nearly over $17,200,000 to the 2012 Annual Catholic Appeal. This inspiring generosity has characterized the response to the Appeal in recent years. It brings all of us such a profound sense of hope to know that even in these difficult economic times, the faithful of the Archdiocese of Chicago have continued to share what God has given them to support the critical work of the schools, parishes, agencies and ministries of the Archdiocese of Chicago.
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This is a view of the mine dump of the Dan Patch Pegmatite Mine, just west of Keystone, South Dakota. The light colored pegmatite rock is composed primarily of large crystals of quartz, albite feldspar, and muscovite, with lesser amounts of tourmaline and beryl. The pegmatite is an igneous rock that was intrusive int...
Biotite-muscovite-garnet gneiss from the Goochland Terrane in Virginia's Piedmont Province. Estimates of its age vary, but current thinking holds that its protolith is Meso- to Neoproterozoic-aged, and metamorphosed in the Devonian.
Abandoned Muscovite quarry off Kartesh biological station, RAS, White Sea. The mine was operational at the end of 17 and beginning of 18th Centuries. New attempt of mining happened in 1930 during GULAG times. Not successful in all respects.


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After a short discussion, Danilo and I have agreed that moving intltool to Launchpad would be better for the project, and us, as its maintainers. The project is not specific to GNOME, and we would like to encourage non-GNOME projects to adopt it for use by their translators. All future development will take place in the LP project, with Danilo and myself as its continuing maintainers. Please report any new bugs or requests in the bug tracker on Launchpad. I will be sending a mail shortly to the appropriate GNOME lists, with some more details soon. If you have any questions about how this will affect you, feel free to e-mail me or ping me on IRC.


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Short films about people, babies and bunnies trapped in unusual situations, with dark dramas, weird comedies and even more surreal documentaries set to confound and astonish.
Does the world ever seem slightly off to you, like you haven't slept in days? Are you worried that someone is plotting against you: your weird neighbor, or your adorable children, or your husband? Do you suspect that phantom casinos are scamming you, or the message in the heavy metal is making you evil? In this program of amusing and disquieting short films, it's all true. You're trapped, and these startling cinematic spectacles are your only escape.
- Mark Elijah Rosenberg
A Pretty Funny Story (Evan Morgan | USA | 20 min.)
After witnessing a neighbor's embarrassing antics, a bored family man is eager to report the story back to his office chums, but before he can he's ensnared in a drastic, bizarre plan to silence him.
Comme des Lapins (Osman Cerfon | France | 8 min.)
"Like Rabbits" follows the fish-headed man's melancholy ramblings, spreading bad luck and discontent inside a fairground. And if you see this film as a sordid portrait of humanity gone astray, it is only because you have a twisted mind.
Club Magic Moment (Zachary Volker | NY | 15 min.)
Rooftop Filmmakers' Fund recipient. A dark comedy about foreclosure, heisting, and makeshift casinos.
Endless Day (Anna Frances Ewert | NY | 11 min.)
For most people, sleep comes naturally, but for some, the night turns into an ongoing struggle to drift off into oblivion. This trance like documentary explores what it's like to be awake against one's will and the feelings of despair and loneliness that accompany the passing of time.
Black Metal (Kat Chandler | USA | 9 min.)
A dark drama that follows Ian, a husband, father and heavy metal musician struggling with the guilt and blame of a tragic and senseless murder.
Avant Que de Tout Perdre (Xavier Legrand | France | 30 min.)
"Before Losing Everything," a young boy pretends to go school, a teenage girl in tears waits at a bus stop, a woman picks them up and races to a shopping mall, and a desperate escape plan begins.
Brooklyn dream-pop quartet Lazyeyes show a lot of promise, even if they haven't put out a full-length album yet. With a freshly released debut EP under their belt and a 13th place in The Deli's list of the best NYC Emerging Artists of 2012, this year could be one of growth for the band. Their music calls for the long summer days ahead even more than the Manhattan wind tunnels, and as warm weather approaches their songs will resonate more and more with the many dreamers out there... - The Deli


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A key to Ravenswood's success is our long-standing relationships with over 60 independent grape growers. Vineyards are chosen for their location, age, yield and special flavor characteristics. At Ravenswood, we are devoted to working with growers who share our philosophy about high quality.
Ravenswood Vineyard Designate wines are made employing what winemaker Joel Peterson refers to as "stubborn and impractical" Old World enological practices. Wines are fermented in small wooden tanks using wild, natural yeasts and punched down by hand three to five times per day. The wines are characterized by intense, spicy aromas supported by rich, berry flavors and long, clean finishes. View all Ravenswood Wines
About Napa ValleyView a map of Napa Valley wineries
It's hard not to think of Napa Valley when thinking of California wines. The region is, after all, the one that brought world recognition to California wine making. The area was settled by a few choice wine families in the 1960's who bet that the wines of the area would grow and flourish. They were right. The Napa wine industry really took off in the 1980's, when vineyard lands were scooped up and vines were planted throughout the county. A number of wineries emerged, from large conglomerates to small boutiques to cult classics. Cabernet Sauvignon is definitely the grape of choice here, with many winemakers also focusing on Bordeaux Blends. Whites are usually Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc.
Notable FactsWithin the Napa Valley lie smaller sub-AVAs that lend even more character specifics to the wines. Furthest south is Carneros, followed by Yountville, Oakville & Rutherford. Above those two is St.-Helena and finally, just granted an AVA, Calistoga. These areas are situated on the valley floor and are known for creating rich, smooth Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Chardonnay. There are a few mountain regions as well, nestled on the slopes overlooking the valley AVAs. Those include Howell Mountain, Stags Leap and Mount Veeder. Wines from the mountain regions are often more structured and firm, benefiting from more time in the bottle to evolve and soften.
About California
The most famous of the California wine regions is Napa Valley, and these wines are certainly outstanding – but it's not as broad and diverse as its larger neighbor, Sonoma County. Down south, Santa Barbara's Santa Maria Valley is well-known for its Rhône blends, as well as cool-climate varieties like Pinot and Chardonnay. The Central Coast, the largest California AVA, has many different microclimates that lead to a wide range of wines with many sub-AVAs.


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The Aging Rock Scenester
Any metropolis is crawling with them — the perpetual scenesters who use the restorative powers of rock and roll to reverse Time's endless trudge to oblivion. What started out as an ironic trucker hat to wear at nu-redneck O'Brien's gigs a decade ago is now hides an actual lack of hair. But hold your scorn, young whipper-snappers: this thirtysomething man is, perhaps, propping up what's left of the music industry, thanks to his old-school tendency to actually spend money on music. From buying cassettes at gigs, to forking out for the vinyl box-sets of albums that the younger skinny-jeans set would download for free, this dude may be one of the last people who still gets music-related items as gifts. So whether you're finding a coal replacement for his stocking, or getting ready to max out some plastic for something that will be on display in his living room (next to signed-and-framed Funhouse LP), here are some suggestions for a dying breed:
CHEAP †‡† CD-R (DISARO RECORDS CDR034) | $5.00 | This holiday season, why not give the gift of witchhouse to someone you love? What's great about this new special-character-dependent genre is that it involves cheap-o burned CD-R's from labels that aren't real labels and that instantly sell out. Which means that, whatever record you order, it'll be paydirt for your scenester pal when, a few months from now, his CD shelf is now stuffed with some honest-to-sold-out blog fodder: "Oh, you guys didn't pick up the †‡† [pronounced "Ritualz"] CD back when it came out in November? You snooze, you lose!" Dude will thank you later.
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DELUXE ORANGE JUICE, . . . COALS TO NEWCASTLE (6 CDs + 1 DVD) (Domino) | £45 — err, $69.99 | The way everyone keeps crowing about the recent digital unveiling of the Beatles discography, you'd think this shit was previously unavailable or something. But any cool music person needs a new Beatles collection like they need to be told that putting Trout Mask Replica on at a party will clear the room. Forget that noise, and instead invest in a one-stop-shop, complete catalog blowout like the recently released box set containing all musical notes ever conceived by Scottish post-punk geniuses Orange Juice. OJ's discography basically sounds like if got the chance to listen to the Smiths for the very first time again, which is basically the equivalent of Ponce de Leon discovering the Fountain of Youth for your average aging music fanatic.
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Whole house- middle of Berlin 24
Maximální počet hostů12
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Velikost120 m²
Floor No.0
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Accommodation summary
1.bedroom- 1 full size bed and balcony
2.bedroom- 1 full size bed
3.bedroom- 2 full size beds (walk through)
4.bedroom- 2 queen size beds
The mattresses are comfortable and each room is tastefully decorated. Our apartments are always professionally cleaned and we provide clean sheets and towels.
The house is in the airplane landing approach and is equipped with sound proof windows. When the windows are closed, you will not have any exterior noise. Leaving the windows open will have a greater noise level.
We hope to see you in Berlin and will happily answer any questions that you may have.
The apartment is equipped with the following:
Sheets and Towels
Washing machine
Blow dryer
Fully equipped kitchen
Working Fireplace
Iron and iron board
Coffee maker
Water heater
Baby bed upon request
Flat screen TV
stereo system
DVD player
A few books
Domovní řádAn obligatory city tax totalling 5% of the entire rental cost (total rent less all fees, cleaning and VAT) is required. Business travellers and stays above 21 days are excluded.
Bed linen and towels are provided.
The apartment is in the airplane landing approach zone and is equipped with soundproof windows. When the windows are closed, you will not have any exterior noise. Leaving the windows open will have a greater noise level.
A baby bed can be provided on request.
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Very nice apartment near Alexander Platz. The property owner was very helpful, and all the indications for the reservation very clear.
Very nice apartment near trains in a nice part of Berlin. Really helpful landlords
Nice an tidy appartment, close to communication just 5 minutes walk. Recommend this place !
The host cancelled the booking, this review is automated.
Nice apartment in a decent location
strategic location close to the metro station sudkreuz.Quartiere quiet and hot servito.Appartamento and accogliente.Grazie Ben x having us
This Loft was great. Very spacious and well appointed. Nice quiet building easy check in. The kitchen was adequately equipped but bring your own shampoo and conditioner. The neighborhood had lots to offer and was really close to shopping and the U Ban. I highly recommend this place.
My experience with Windu was less than straightforward. The web site said your credit card would be billed upon check in. Not true, it was billed at the time of the booking. A notice after booking tells you of additional taxes that are assessed. I assumed this is what would be billed upon check-in but evidently one is suppose to leave cash behind to cover it. Attempts to resolve this with the owner were complicated by the web site which refused to send my messages because it would not recognize my phone number.
Found this apartment very disappointing in comparision with others we have rented in the city. It was very dark and gloomy and extremely meagre in terms of towels, and kitchen equipment provided. The nearest shops for basic supplies were at least 10 minutes walk away, unusual for Berlin.
Very nice apartment. Easy to get access to by the information via E-mail. Clean and well equipped. Big up for being on the groundfloor.
The apartment was gorgeous, very spacious, kid friendly and conveniently located! I would definitely recommend. If you want the baby cot you should notify Ben in advance.
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A handkerchief is usually a small square of cloth used especially for wiping the nose or mouth, although it can vary in sizes. Minerva McGonagall owned a lace handkerchief, and Rubeus Hagrid owned a large spotted handkerchief the size of a tablecloth. Ron Weasley also had a handkerchief which he used in 1997 to clean the oven at The Burrow in preparation for the Delacours' arrival, and which he offered to Hermione Granger when she started to cry while discussing the trio's search for the Horcruxes.


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Comment Paramaterize SQL? (Score 1) 156
My god, it's 2013 and where talking about SQL injection? If your not parameterizing your sql, your doing it wrong.
My god, it's 2013 and where talking about SQL injection? If your not parameterizing your sql, your doing it wrong.
So can you boot this version with a newish nvidia card? Cause last time I checked, it used nouveau as default, which fails massively for any newer nvidia cards. All I get it a screen with white blocks. Why linux distros insist on using an alpha video card driver to boot the system for the first time is beyond me.
Doesn't it make sense to use a generic one that will work with everything and then let the person choose to install the alpha one (or propitiatory one)?
Since when is supporting gay marriage and stem cell research "ultra-right wing conservative"? last I checked the Koch brothers seemed to line up more with Ron Paul in ideology, then Rush Limbaugh...David H Koch was a libertarian back in the 80's (just like Ron Paul)...
with the Spitfires from Demons Run...
I thought the timer was perpetually stuck at 5:02 PM on the 22 April, 2011?
um...if the constitution explicitly allows Congress to regulate inter-state congress. Durbin is a US Senator, and the US Senate is part of Congress...
um...could one not build bluetooth into the bomb and then have a bluetooth enabled cell phone (or iTouch) act as the detonator? What is the TSA going to do then? Ban all cellphones from a flight?
Because everybody knows it is really Vladmir Putin who runs Russia, and is Prime Minister to get around the consecutive term limits, and will run again for the Presidency, and win after Medvedev's term is up...
and then the next thing you know it will be mandatory to buy bike insurance, just like car insurance! Don't tell the Tea Party!
Chrome has it's exe in APPDATA, that is how they get around UAC.
A petition will not do a damn thing. You're going to have to threaten to kill people if your demands are not met.
and if they did recover it, they would find a message written in old high gallifreyan on the black box translated as "Hello, Sweetie"
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Mojave Airport, one of a handful of outlying air fields where abandoned aircraft wait to be recycled. Looking at these once proud "birds" just sitting there, abandoned, amidst the windblown scrub, evokes a sad sense of nostalgia. In truth, to continue to operate these machines once they develop stress f...


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Painter Charles Williams, known for his realistic Lowcountry landscapes, takes his skills off the canvas and into the classroom to teach middle and high school students in art and now you can see the fruit of their efforts. Created as part of the C.E. Williams Collaborative, student paintings will be on display at Robert Lange Studios, but their mind-blowing work is only on display for four days, so don't miss it. Robert Lange Studios, 2 Queen St. Wednesday-Saturday, 5-8pm. Free. (843)805-8052, www.robertlangestudios.com


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There was a thread here a while ago asking if anyone has tried these, I can't find it anymore so here's a new one. Has anyone used these for a while? Are they holding up? How difficult to carry out and set up? Is the release like the gunners up or zinger? I see on their site a 2 month wait, so someone is using them.


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Living in the Past
Three business executives who bought the homes of famous figures see themselves as stewards of history—but with ownership comes pricey renovations, persnickety preservationists and the occasional tourist.
One recent Sunday morning, Chuck Callan was taking out the garbage from his stately Victorian home and clad only in dirty gardening shorts when a motorist startled him by leaning out her car window and snapping pictures.
"Had I known, I would have dressed,'' said Mr. Callan, a senior vice president of Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc. The gawker wasn't interested in the half-naked executive. Her subject was his Grand view-on-Hudson home—a residence where Betty Friedan wrote "The Feminine Mystique,'' the groundbreaking 1963 book that launched the modern feminist movement.
Owning a famous figure's home offers both perils and pleasures. Tourists eat into privacy, and contractors savvy about historically sensitive renovations eat into the pocketbook. On the other hand, there's the unique thrill of living under the same roof as someone who made an indelible mark on U.S. history. And experts say a well-preserved historic house generally gains value.
Robert Carr, chief executive of Heartland Payment Systems Inc., ended up with Woodrow Wilson's 1896 Tudor in Princeton, N.J., after his 2011 divorce. His ex-wife, Jill Carr, said she left him the house because she couldn't afford its $70,000 annual property taxes and costly upkeep. The Carrs spent 51 months restoring the home where the future U.S. president lived until 1902 while a university professor. The effort, he said, is an example for "how history should be preserved for others.''
John Castle, CEO of private-equity firm Castle Harlan Inc., shelled out nearly $11 million to buy and renovate the Kennedy clan's former beachfront estate in Palm Beach, Fla. The project, which included adding bathrooms No. 14 and 15, required 300 inspections.
President John F. Kennedy wrote his inaugural address at the 14,500-square foot mansion, called the Winter White House during his term. Mr. Castle kept the same unlisted phone number that JFK had used there.
America's historical housing stock depends on owners like Messrs. Castle, Carr and Callan continuing to see more upside than headache. "The bulk of historic houses in America are preserved by virtue of the private individuals who own them,'' said Tom Mayes, deputy general counsel at the National Trust for Historic Preservation. "They feel the connection that place brings.''
The Friedan Mystique
Mr. Callan paid $1.63 million in 2005 to buy the high-ceilinged Italianate home once owned by Ms. Friedan in part to inspire his four daughters to become capable women "standing on their own two feet,'' he said. The Friedan link "was a selling point.''
The six-bedroom house, built in about 1868, overlooks the Hudson River. Ms. Friedan moved in with her husband and three children in 1958. There, she wrote about the "feminine mystique" that kept educated women in domestic isolation. She worked in longhand on yellow legal pads at a living room desk or table in the octagonal dining room, said her daughter Emily, now a pediatrician.
The instant best seller transformed the frustrated suburban housewife into an activist. Ms. Friedan co-founded and became the first president of the National Organization for Women in 1966.
The weekend after she died in 2006, nearly 100 Friedan fans turned up at her former residence. Mr. Callan encountered several of them on his front porch. "They started to turn red and left,'' he said. "Others wandered into the driveway.''
The homeowner soon locked horns with NOW over a proposed memorial to the famous feminist. Mr. Callan said the organization wanted to adorn his curbside sandstone wall with a large marker complete with bas-relief sculpture of Ms. Friedan.
"I didn't want undue attention," he said. Muriel Fox, a co-founder of NOW, said the organization only proposed a small plaque.
Instead, a large marker with the sculpture was erected near the village hall a year ago. Emily Friedan and Ms. Fox still yearn to see a plaque placed on the home—perhaps after the Callans move. "Something great happened in that house that changed the world,'' the physician said.
The 71-year-old Mr. Castle, a millionaire merchant banker by age 28, already owned three residences before he acquired the furnished Kennedy estate as his primary residence. He likes to show off President Kennedy's narrow bed with its carved Gothic oak headboard and a walk-in closet drawer labeled in the careful script of matriarch Rose Kennedy "black underwear."
John F. Kennedy interviewed most cabinet candidates in the library of the stark white Mediterranean compound and swam in the Olympic-size pool the weekend before his 1963 assassination. In 1991, the compound was the scene of an alleged rape by William Kennedy Smith, a nephew of JFK's who was ultimately acquitted.
The Kennedys sold the property in 1995, and Palm Beach declared part of the mansion a landmark after Mr. Castle bought it. Designation as a local landmark or placement in a historic district typically limits a homeowner's ability to make exterior changes. In Mr. Castle's case, he had to agree not to alter a 60-foot portion of the wall where the president occasionally gave news conferences.
Mr. Castle said souvenir hunters frequently showed up during his $6 million renovation of the 11-bedroom mansion, "put chunks of brick in their car, and drove away.'' He also had to cope with strict demands from local officials. "We had an inspection every day,'' he said.
One inspection failed, he said, because a screw near an electrical connection "was one-eighth of an inch out of alignment.'' Another time, preservation officials limited the height of the new indoor/outdoor spiral staircase that Mr. Castle was building to enjoy a grander view of his 205-foot oceanfront.
Today, Mr. Castle relishes living amid 62 years of Kennedy family history. He especially likes to unravel knotty work problems while seated in the mansion's outdoor loggia, where President Kennedy crafted his inaugural speech and overlooking the sea.
''You get an enormous sense of inspiration,'' Mr. Castle said.
Presidential Preservation
Restoring the Wilson residence turned into a lengthy labor of love for Mr. Carr, a longtime U.S. history buff who bought it in 2003 for about $2.1 million.
The house had remained vacant for two years and gone through 19 owners since Woodrow and Ellen Wilson left. "There was very little preserved," he said.
Mr. Carr wanted to recapture much of the house's original character and update its amenities. His efforts were guided in part by his review of Wilson's correspondence about the home's construction. The renovation cost more than $7 million and lasted until spring 2007.
"There was no budget and no time restrictions,'' Mr. Carr said. "It seemed like the right thing to do as the custodian of a bit of history."
Except for a new solarium, the three-story residence with pale-lemon stucco walls looks from the outside as it did 110 years ago. Mr. Carr even pulled up the concrete circle driveway and replaced it with the type of red stones used by the Wilsons.
While showing a visitor around, Mr. Carr paused in the unusual foyer with a fireplace where Mr. Wilson, a Princeton University professor, often taught his students as a fire roared. To restore the foyer to its original condition, contractors disassembled, structurally reinforced and reassembled the room using the same individual pieces of vertical-grain fir.
"This room and the ceiling are exactly the way they were when Woodrow Wilson lived here,'' the chief executive said.
Despite his attention to detail, Mr. Carr worries about Princeton's proposed creation of a historic district that would cover the Wilson home. "People tell you if you can paint your house,'' he said. "It may not help the resale value.'' He and other disgruntled owners wrote a letter protesting that the district would "significantly chill the market for owning and investing in these homes.''
Princeton officials declined to comment, but in a September report recommending creation of the district, the town's Historic Preservation Review Committee said supporters cited studies showing "a positive effect of historic districting on property values.''
Meanwhile, the executive loves to celebrate his home's famous former owner. He threw a 150th birthday party for the former president at his home in December 2006. He gives talks about Mr. Wilson's life at local schools. And in October, he hosted a centennial celebration of President Wilson's election. As an extra treat, his 530 guests could view a newly framed note in Mrs. Wilson's handwriting that restoration workers found behind a fireplace frame.
"It's a privilege to live in a house like this,'' Mr. Carr said.


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Family: Scolopacidae, Sandpipers view all from this family
Description ADULT breeding Female is stunning, with black and maroon stripe on side of neck and peachy orange throat and chest. Back is gray and maroon, underparts are mostly white. Summer male is similar, but darker overall and less colorful. ADULT WINTER Has pale gray upperparts and whitish underparts. JUVENILE Recalls winter adult, but upperparts are brownish, back feathers with pale margins.
Dimensions Length: 9" (23 cm)
Habitat Nests beside muddy ponds, shallow lakes, and reservoirs; common and widespread in west but breeding range in wast is restricted. Winters in South America and migrants gather in large numbers on saline lakes in southwest (outside range of this book) to molt prior to migration.
Observation Tips Enchanting to watch during nesting season on suitable pools within breeding range. Scarce during migration in east.
Range Florida, Plains, California, Eastern Canada, Great Lakes, Northwest, Alaska, New England, Rocky Mountains, Southwest, Mid-Atlantic, Texas, Western Canada, Southeast
Voice Utters soft croaking calls.
Discussion Elegant shorebird with needlelike bill. Like all phalaropes, has lobed feet used for swimming (often spins) and exhibits sex role reversal: more colorful female courts male who incubates eggs.


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Over the years, we've covered some vicious and despicable pieces in the media, many of them published in The Guardian. But amongst the many commentaries and analyses of the Gilad Shalit prisoner deal, one by Deborah Orr in The Guardian's print edition really plumbs the depths.
Orr writes:
All this, I fear, is simply an indication of how inured the world has become to the obscene idea that Israeli lives are more important than Palestinian lives. Netanyahu argues that he acted because he values Shalit's life so greatly.
Yet who is surprised really, to learn that Netanyahu sees one Israeli's freedom as a fair exchange for the freedom of so many Palestinians? Likewise, Hamas wished to use their human bargaining chip to gain release for as many Palestinians as they could. They don't have much to bargain with.
Is Orr really suggesting that Israel's desire to get back one of its soldiers at such a high price is driven by some racist sense of valuing Israeli or Jewish life above all others? Apparently so:
At the same time, however, there is something abject in their eagerness to accept a transfer that tacitly acknowledges what so many Zionists believe – that the lives of the chosen are of hugely greater consequence than those of their unfortunate neighbours.
The abuse of the concept of the "chosen people" refers specifically to Jews and is commonly employed by anti-Semites to falsely assert that Jews claim to be superior to non-Jews not only in a theological sense but also in a racial one.
As Joseph Telushkin asks:
Does Judaism believe that chosenness endows Jews with special rights in the way racist ideologies endow those born into the "right race"? Not at all. The most famous verse in the Bible on the subject of chosenness says the precise opposite: "You alone have I singled out of all the families of the earth. That is why I call you to account for all your iniquities" (Amos 3:2). Chosenness is so unconnected to any notion of race that Jews believe that the Messiah himself will descend from Ruth, a non-Jewish woman who converted to Judaism.
The fact that Israel values the life of a solitary individual so much that it is prepared to release hundreds of Palestinians responsible for some of the most appalling terrorist outrages instead tells us how much Israel values human life. This overwhelming desire to return one of its own people is a value to be proud of.
Orr appears to be distressed at the implication of a deal that sees one Jew as the equivalent of 1000 Arabs. If this is the case, then Orr would be better directing her ire at Hamas for demanding and setting such an unbalanced equivalance.
That Deborah Orr is prepared to descend to the depths of anti-Semitism to claim that Israel is motivated by racism says much about her own warped values. That The Guardian was prepared to publish such an obscene commentary merely confirms the publication's vicious anti-Israel bent.
Send your considered comments to The Guardian –email@example.com
Writing in a Guardian commentary in the October 26 print edition, it is clear at whom Jonathan Freedland is aiming this paragraph:
It should go without saying that Israelis would have preferred a one-to-one exchange, releasing a single Palestinian prisoner, rather than more than a thousand – many of them guilty of horrendous acts of violence – in return for Shalit. But, contrary to what some have suggested, it was Hamas, not Israel, that set that 1:1000 exchange rate; it was Hamas, not Israel, who decided that the freedom of a single Israeli was worth the freedom of a thousand Palestinians.
Still no sign, however, of The Guardian publishing any proper rebuttals of Deborah Orr, either in its opinion section or on the letters page.
The intense criticism and the deluge of emails from HonestReporting subscribers and other concerned parties to The Guardian has had some effect. The October 27 print edition contains a response from none other than Deborah Orr herself.
See our Special Update – Deborah Orr's Disgusting Excuse For an Apology


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Recently, a new data-stealing worm caught our attention. The reason why it stands out from many similar amateur creations is that its author is most probably Czech, as the text strings, variable and function names used by the malware suggest.
The Czech text above is displayed by the worm inside a console window and translates to: "Initializing. This operation can take several minutes. Please wait…", pretending to be a message from Microsoft.
But wait, variable and function names used by the programmer? Those aren't normally seen in a compiled binary unless we have the associated PDB file (Program DataBase: a file format commonly created at compile-time that may list symbols that aren't stored in the compiled module itself). But in this case, the worm is written entirely in PHP and "converted" to a PE file using the Bambalam PHP EXE Compiler/Embedder. This embedder simply encodes the PHP source files using Turck MMCache and then adds the resulting PHP bytecode as resources in a launcher binary. By decoding these, we were able to get a fairly accurate view of the original source code.
So let's take a look at what the malware actually does…
Firstly, we classify it as a worm, as it contains methods for spreading itself. In order to replicate through removable media and modify the infected system to ensure persistence, i.e. that it gets relaunched subsequently, the worm copies its body to the following locations:
For each of the above mentioned locations, the worm randomly chooses one of the following innocuous-looking file names:
The purpose of the worm is to collect a large set of sensitive user data and system information, including:
The list of types of data that the worm harvests from the infected machine is quite long, and they are all gathered using various unsophisticated methods. In order to collect most of the data associated with Instant Messaging applications, browsers, and so on, the worm simply uploads all the files from the installation folders of the respective applications. For information related to Windows user accounts, network connections, running processes, and the Windows Registry, the following shell commands are used:
Another method employed for collecting the victim's data is the use of third-party password-extraction utilities by NirSoft. The worm's binary drops and executes four of these tools and sends their output back to the attacker.
The worm uses a simple mechanism for sending the collected data to the remote server. It sends many HTTP POST requests (port 80) containing the stolen data gz-compressed and Base64 encoded.
As you can see from the description above, the worm lacks the sophistication of some of the more advanced malware that we sometimes see. Yet, unfortunately, even these simple threats often get the job done.
Given the very low prevalence of this malware, the fact that at the time of this writing 100% of the detections came from the Czech Republic, and its apparent Czech origin, there is a possibility that this tool was used in a targeted attack on a specific victim. Or it may just have been an experiment by an amateur malware-writer. Or both.
ESET detects this worm as Win32/AutoRun.PSW.Agent.E. The malware analysis was done by Jakub Horký.
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Quoting percylives:
So have I, expect I provided evidence from peer reviewed papers to support my claims wheras you have yet to do so.
Quoting percylives:
It's not a "weak argument." The TSI increase on ACRIM can explain no diurnal temperature change over the last 30 years, it can explain the increasing TSI at the surface, and it can also explain the decrease in Cloud Cover, which I have posted can be directly explained by solar activity, thus strengthening the case for the ACRIM dataset even further.
Quoting percylives:
Good, because CO2 is not the strongest Greenhouse Gas. Water Vapour ranks as number 1 as you've said, and the OLR reduction from Cloud Cover ranks as number 2. That's why it's so crucial to get Cloud Feedbacks less certain, because they play a HUGE role on the Climate.
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I've quoted many more than just one or two...
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Size32 m²
Floor No.
- Family/child friendly
- Kitchen
- Indoor fireplace
- Lockable room
- Balcony/terrace
- Internet/WiFi
Accommodation summary
The studio is at hte first floor of a beautifully restored 19th century building wwith lots of ornaments and details. Is has an outdoor terrace on the quiet sunny side, attached bathrooom, a fully equipped kitchen with cooking facilitys, coffe/tee and frridge. Big double bed.
Breakfast not included, on request at E 5,- p/p
Bicycles for rent to explore Amsterdam and the vicinity.
House rules
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|$ 23 US per guest/night extra
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Reviews of this property
Very good stay in Amsterdam with Har.
Warm welcome with a wonderful room (lovely patio) perfect for a couple.
Easy access to the city center with the tram (line n°1).
No point booking an hotel anymore !!
We can really recommend this cosy, beautiful appartment.
Har was so nice to us and made us really welcome.
Next Time in Amsterdam we will try to get this awsome appartment again.
Har was fantastic, very friendly and attentive. We will be staying there again in the future. Apartment was great with lots of character, really comfortable bed and wonderful balcony. Very quiet, whilst being so close to the centre of Amsterdam. Highly recommended. Would like to thank Har for making the stay such a pleasant one.
I really recommend staying here. The room is gorgeous with lovely details and the host is great. Me and my friend felt welcomed and had a pleasant stay in Amsterdam. Probably the best you can get.
Har welcome, nice room, quiet and ideally located for access to city center. (On foot, by tram, bicycle .....)
Bon accueil de Har,belle chambre,calme et idéalement située pour accéder au centre ville.(A pied,en tram,à vélo.....)
Great spot, Har was very kind, nice porch close to Vondelpark! Tiny bath but ok for a few nights. We'll be back.
We spend a pleasant weekend at Har. The apartment is beautiful and very well-placed for the city center. More Har lent us passes so we could visit the museums. I strongly advice this apartment.
Nous avons passer un agréable weekend chez Har.
L'appartement est superbe et très bien placé par rapport au centre ville.
De plus Har nous a prêté des passes pour que nous puissions visiter les musées.
Je conseil vivement cet appartement.
Really great host, my girlfriend and I felt totally welcomed for a 2 day stay. We could rent very nice bicycles at a very cheap price for the day which was very convenient ! Har is lovely, really nice person. Without saying how lovely and cosy is the studio. Fully equiped, laaarge bed, very nice outdoor terrace showing cute gardens and very quite place ! We really appreciate our stay here. Central Amsterdam is reached by 10 minute walk and it feels like one ! I hope I'll come again ! Thank you !
Har is a wonderful host, friendly and courteous. The room is really schnuckelig, clean and there is a real feeling of Amsterdam. The location is great, drekt at the park, not far from the center, great to ride the bike. Just outside the door can take the tram. The only downside is the clairaudience of the rooms. We would be happy to sleep, but it was simply too loud (from about 8 clock). Who does not want to sleep late, is that the do not disturb. Otherwise abolut recommended. We would come back again. THANK YOU HAR!
Har ist ein wunderbarer Gastgeber, freundlich und zuvorkommend. Das Zimmer ist echt schnuckelig, sauber und es kommt echtes Amsterdam Feeling auf. Die Lage ist super, drekt am Park, nicht weit vom Zentrum, super mit dem Rad zu fahren. Direkt vor der Tür fährt die Tram. Einziger Minus Punkt ist die hellhörigkeit der Räume. Wir hätten gerne ausgeschlafen, allerdings war es dafür einfach zu laut (ab ca 8 Uhr). Wer nicht lange schlafen will, den wird das nicht stören. Sonst abolut empfehlenswert. Wir würden wieder kommen. DANKE HAR!
My son was very well received at Har for two days, the studio was very nice and had a wonderful stay. it is a place that I recommend. Odile Gavet
Mon fils a été très bien accueilli chez Har pendant deux jours, le studio était très agréable et il a passé un merveilleux séjour. c'est une adresse que je recommande.
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Track Hindprints are about 3" (75 mm) long; foreprints smaller and rounder, and placed behind paired hindprints when running, producing a distinctive set of 4 tracks.
Sign Den is often a burrow. Clipped shoots are cleanly cut on a slant; deer's are ragged at tip. Gnaws bark from base of soft-barked trees and shrubs.
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Quoting RobertM320:
An oil tax, for environmental clean-up is a good idea....
For every State in the Union that is NOT affected by the spill.
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By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 2:54 PM GMT en Mayo 24, 2010
An extratropical low pressure system (90L) between the Bahamas and Bermuda is moving north-northwest towards North Carolina and is close to tropical storm strength. Last night's ASCAT pass saw a large area of 35 mph winds to the north and east of the center, and buoy 41048 to northeast of 90L's center was seeing sustained ENE winds of 36 mph, gusting to 43 mph this morning. Bermuda is seeing some heavy weather from this storm, with winds blowing at 35 mph on the west end of the island, and the Bermuda radar showing an area of moderate to heavy rain moving over the island. Seas are running 5 - 10 feet in the outer waters of Bermuda today, and are expected to increase to 10 - 14 feet tonight before diminishing on Tuesday.
Figure 1. Visible satellite image of 90L this morning.
Strong upper-levels winds out of the west are creating about 25 knots of wind shear over 90L, but the shear has been gradually decreasing over the past day. Visible satellite loops show that 90L does not have a well-defined surface circulation. The main thunderstorm activity is in a large curved band to the north and northeast of the center. This band is several hundred miles removed from the center, which is characteristic of subtropical storms. I expect that 90L will continue to grow more subtropical in nature today through Wednesday as the shear continues to fall. Sea surface temperatures are near 25°C today and will fall to 23 - 24°C on Tuesday. This is warm enough to support a subtropical storm, but probably not a tropical storm. On Wednesday, 90L will be nearing the warm waters of the Gulf Stream, and SSTs will warm again, to the 24 - 25°C range. This is still pretty cool for a tropical storm, and I expect 90L will never become fully tropical. To understand the difference between a tropical and subtropical storm and why we care, see my subtropical storm tutorial.
The SHIPS model predicts that shear will fall to the medium 10 - 20 knot range by Tuesday. A large amount of dry air to 90L's southwest associated with the upper-level trough of low pressure on top of the storm, as seen on water vapor satellite loops , will hamper transition of 90L to a subtropical or tropical storm. The system will move slowly towards the Southeast U.S. coast over the next two days, making its closest approach to the coast on Wednesday, when most of the models indicate the center will be 200 - 400 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. All of the major models currently predict that 90L will not make landfall, but will move slowly eastward out to sea on Thursday, when a trough of low pressure moving across the Eastern U.S. picks up the storm. There presently isn't much to be concerned with about this storm, as it appears that it will remain offshore and will become, at worst, a 40 - 50 mph subtropical storm. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is giving 90L a medium (30% chance) of developing into a depression or tropical/subtropical storm. Wunderbloggers Weather456 and StormW have more on 90L.
Western Caribbean disturbance
A small region of disturbed weather has developed in the Western Caribbean, off the east coast of Nicaragua. Moisture is expected to increase across in this area in the coming days, and by Saturday, the GFS and NOGAPS models predict that shear will drop low enough to permit the possible development of a strong tropical disturbance or tropical depression. This storm would then move northeastward over eastern Cuba early next week. The other models keep the shear high in the Caribbean all week, and do not show anything developing. Thus, the Western Caribbean bears watching later this week, but the conditions appear marginal for development.
Moderate risk of severe weather today in northern Plains
The Storm Prediction Center has placed western Nebraska and portions of South and North Dakota under their "Moderate" risk for severe weather today. They warn that "a couple of strong and possibly long-track tornadoes appear possible given the forecast scenario." Keep an eye on the activity today with our Severe Weather Page.
Major oil threat continues for the coast of Louisiana
Light winds are expected to prevail across the northern Gulf of Mexico all week, resulting in continued oiling threats to the Louisiana shoreline from the mouth of the Mississippi River westward 150 miles, according to the latest trajectory forecasts from NOAA. There is no longer a flow of oil moving southwards towards the Loop Current, and the oil that did move southwards last week was mostly entrained into a counter-clockwise rotating eddy attached to the northern boundary of the Loop Current. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery over the weekend showed that most of this oil has dispersed, and very little of this oil is now visible from space (Figure 2.) Imagery from NASA's MODIS instrument and from NOAA aircraft did not show any oil in the Loop Current headed towards the Florida Keys over the weekend, so that is good news. NOAA comments that there may be some "scattered tar balls" in the Loop Current headed towards the Florida Keys. I expect these scattered tar balls have completed the full loop of the Loop Current and are now headed east towards the Keys, and will pass the Dry Tortugas and Key West sometime Wednesday - Saturday. My guess is that the oil and its accompanying plume of toxic dispersants will be too thin and scattered to cause significant problems in the Keys.
Figure 2. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image of the oil spill taken at 11:41am EDT Saturday May 22, 2010, by the European Envisat-1 satellite. Only scattered patches of oil are evident in the counter-clockwise rotating eddy on the northern boundary of the Loop Current. A small amount of oil appears to be in the Loop Current, and is moving southward. Image credit: Center for Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing, University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. SAR images have a resolution of 8 - 50 meters, and can be taken through clouds and precipitation.
Future threats to the Keys
Mostly offshore winds are expected this week over the northern Gulf of Mexico, thanks to the approach of the 90L storm along the Southeast U.S. coast. It is uncertain if these winds will be strong enough to push oil southward into the Loop Current, though at least one ocean trajectory model does show this occurring. As I discussed in my post Wednesday, the Loop Current is very unstable right now, and is ready to cut off into a giant clockwise-rotating eddy, an event that occurs every 6 - 11 months. At least one ocean model (the Global HYCOM model from the HYCOM consortium) is predicting that such an eddy will form this week. In the event a Loop Current Eddy does break off, it would create a rotating ring of water 250 miles in diameter to the south of the oil spill. Oil moving southwards would tend to enter the giant eddy and circulate around it, not threatening any land areas. Roffer's Ocean Fishing Forecast Service has a nice discussion on the possibility of the Loop Current cutting off into a Loop Current Eddy. Keep in mind, though, that during the first month that a Loop Current Eddy forms, it exchanges a considerable amount of water with the Loop Current. Thus we can expect that a portion of any oil moving southwards into a Loop Current Eddy will find its way into the Loop Current and move past the Florida Keys.
Oil spill resources
My post Wednesday with answers to some of the common questions I get about the spill
My post on the Southwest Florida "Forbidden Zone" where surface oil will rarely go
My post on what oil might do to a hurricane
NOAA trajectory forecasts
Deepwater Horizon Unified Command web site
Oil Spill Academic Task Force
University of South Florida Ocean Circulation Group oil spill forecasts
ROFFS Deepwater Horizon page
Surface current forecasts from NOAA's HYCOM model
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery from the University of Miami
I'll be back with a new post Tuesday morning.
Jeff Masters
The views of the author are his/her own and do not necessarily represent the position of The Weather Company or its parent, IBM.
Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather


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Replaced my RTA1320E with a Draytek Vigor 120. The RTA1320 are nice modems because you can put them in half-bridge mode, but they just keep locking up for me. And I got a bit sick of replacing them every 6 months or. They used to be really reliable for me, but somehow are no longer. Perhaps it's a bit warmer in our home now we've installed an HRV system?
The modem is setup with protocol PPPoA with PPPoE Pass-through checked. I can now configure my ppp on FreeBSD with this:
set device PPPoE:fxp0
set server 30001 mypassword
set authname isp_login
set authkey isp_password
set dial
set login
add default HISADDR
disable ipv6cp
disable mppe
enable lqr echo
accept lqr
deny mppe
set log +lqm
and use -ddial mode to have it connected. Still need to test if lqr works fine, so link is brought up after some failure.
I've made a change to my firewall script as well: now using built-in nat with ipfw, so goodby nat daemon. Was actually trivial to do, should have done that earlier.


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Serves 4 to 6
This is a basic Indian kebab recipe that has probably not changed much since the sixteenth century except for the addition of chilies and what is now the ubiquitous chaat masala, a mixture of hot and sour spices that most Indians just buy in the market. The use of mustard oil is interesting—I have seen it used for kebabs in both India and Pakistan. Both countries have a Punjab, as that state, today on India's western border and Pakistan's eastern border, was split into two when the British partitioned India.
Put the yogurt in a cloth-lined colander set in the sink. Leave 10-15 minutes. Put the drained yogurt in a bowl. Add the oil, salt, cayenne, garlic, ginger, and garam masala and beat well with a whisk to mix. Add the meat and mix again. Cover and refrigerate overnight or as long as 24 hours.
Preheat broiler.
Push 4 skewers through the centers of the lamb cubes, dividing them up equally. Leave the marinade behind. Brush generously with the melted butter. Rest the two ends of each skewer on the rim of a broiling tray (the tray catches the drips and the kebabs stay in suspension) and place the tray about 5 inches from the source of heat. Broil 5-7 minutes on the first side and another 5-7 minutes on the opposite or until the kebabs are done to your taste. Sprinkle the chaat masala over the top.
Photo: Christopher Hirsheimer
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I used to occasionally bring my laptop here to do work or send out job applications. The girls who work here really do wear cute tops and skinny pants. (What else is one supposed to wear to work at a coffee shop?) Also, they have good coffee and a nice selection of snacks, and are not grumpy at all. Certainly not as grumpy as Ray.
This party was supposed to take place on Bushwick Pl. near Johnson Ave., which, as anyone who lives in Brooklyn knows, puts it square in the middle of McKibbin Lofts territory. I lived in those infamously bed bug-y lofts the summer of my 20th year, and it cost me $400/month. Now, it costs like $850. Would you pay $850/month to live in a room you have to climb up a ladder and through a little hobbit door to get to? Ugh, I feel old.
Anyway, it's a good enough fit for the show, because it's where you live if you're still in college and/or sad college is over. And there are still lots of parties there. But I've never seen anyone smoke crack at any of them, because hipster kids don't do crack, not even ironically. They do coke. They don't even know where to get crack.
This is where Shoshanna runs to after her crackcident. It's about a 20 minute walk from the party (I guess crack gives you lots of endurance!), and tends to be totally desolate at night. This means she either doesn't know Brooklyn well enough to know which direction is the "safe" one to run in, or she's on too much crack to remember. Probably the latter, as Shoshanna seems very concerned with potential dangers.
There are, indeed, a lot of these around. But I've never been inside of one, because I don't have enough money to hang out at the bank or wherever it is the people who live there hang out. Which is a shame, because I could really use a friend with a hot tub.
Now I am the one who is sorry, but that's way too prime a piece of waterfront real estate for Adam to get through the whole corny thing without being arrested for graffiti. Which is ironic, considering "proximity to graffiti" seems to be the douche-rises' main selling point. (See last slide.)
I used to occasionally bring my laptop here to do work or send out job applications. The girls who work here really do wear cute tops and skinny pants. (What else is one supposed to wear to work at a coffee shop?) Also, they have good coffee and a nice selection of snacks, and are not grumpy at all. Certainly not as grumpy as Ray.
Hannah and Marnie's spacious India Street apartment is the least realistic representation of Brooklyn I've seen on the show thus far. This part of Greenpoint is expensive, guys! I was recently apartment hunting myself, and a place like this costs at least $1800/month, probably more. Marnie might be able to afford her half of the rent on her ~$30,000/year salary, but unless she's got a secret trust fund (which is possible, I guess), there's no way she'd be able to cover Hannah's half for even one month. Non-rich recent college grads who want to live in Greenpoint live way up Nassau by the sewage treatment plant, an area my friends and I have dubbed "Greenpoint Heights." Same underground oil spill, lower prices.
This is where Hannah gets all tired and angry after her not-very-long jog with Adam. It's five blocks from her apartment. Hannah is in terrible cardiovascular shape! Maybe she should try some crack.
Do you know how hard it is to get from Greenpoint to Prospect Heights using public transit? Hannah must really like Adam if she's constantly going there just to say hi to his penis. Conversely, it also explains why Adam is always at Hannah's house later in the season. Even if you have a bicycle (the best way to get between the two places), Pro-Hi lies up a very long and steep hill. Come to think of it, that might not be a bad way for Hannah to get in shape, assuming the crack doesn't work.
Hannah says she dislikes this bar for its hoity-toity-ness. On the one occasion I managed to bike all the way there for a drink, I found it to be refreshingly unpretentious despite its mustachioed "mixologists." And the drinks were delicious! A little on the expensive side, though.
This is a fancy neighborhood for rich people and their children. It's really nice and really boring, and makes me think Lena Dunham does not like to party nearly as much as her character does. The closest "cool" neighborhood is DUMBO, and DUMBO hasn't actually been cool since the '90s. This makes me think Lena was only pretending to be a hipster to make everyone mad, when actually, she likes purebred dogs and fine wainscotting and playing bridge with old ladies. Like I said: laughing all the way to the bank.