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PURPOSE:Health Care Associated Pneumonia (HCAP) is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in the critical care settings. Lower respiratory tract culture can be obtained via endotracheal tube aspiration (ETA), or via bronchoalveolar lavage BAL. We conducted a study to evaluate whether BAL compared to ETA culture will result in a change in the management of patients intubated with pneumonia.
METHODS:We reviewed the medical records of patients on mechanical ventilations with a diagnosis of Pneumonia, who had ETA and BAL specimens sent for culture. We analyzed the microbiology and the antibacterial sensitivity of bacterial isolates of ETA and BAL cultures. Similar sensitivity pattern was defined as 2 or more bacteria sensitive to the same group of antibiotics.
RESULTS:A total of 25 patients were included in the study, ETA and BAL samples were taken less than 3 days apart in 21 of 25 (84%) and in 4 to10 days apart in 4 (16%). Different bacteria were isolated in BAL and ETA culture in 13 out of 25 (52%), same bacteria were isolated in 12 (48%). Among those 13 patients with different microbiology pattern; different sensitivity patterns were found in 3 out of 25 (12%) and similar sensitivity pattern in 7 out of 25 (28%), in the other 3 (12%) either ETA or BAL culture was negative. A change in antibiotics regimen was made in 7 out of 25 patients (28%). Antibiotics were discontinued in 1 out of 25 (4%), deescalated in 1 (4%), changed in 2 (8%), and new antibiotics added in 3 (12%).
CONCLUSION:BAL culture resulted in a change in the current antibiotic regimen in 28% of the patients compared to ETA culture.
CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS:A larger prospective study with BAL and ETA collected at the same time should be conducted to better evaluate the use of BAL in the antibiotics management of patients intubated with pneumonia.
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Ductless versus Central Air Upgrade ???
We're converting our 300 sq ft garage into a family room. Trying to decide between a running $2,000 worth of duct versus buying a $4,000 ductless mini-split system. My preference is to go duct and tap into my central air.
But I am worried that it will be too warm in the summer. I've got a dual-zone system. 1.5 ton for the 600 sq ft upstairs and 1.5 ton for the 600 sq ft downstairs. Calculations show we have almost exactly 300 sq ft capacity left downstairs. It will be close.
Another thought: My Armstrong central air system is 13 years old. It may be getting close to the end of its life. I am thinking about going duct, and if it is too warm, upgrading the end-of-life Armstrong to a higher tonnage.
My question: How much does an average system replacement cost? I want to replace both the condensor and evaporator coil.
Can you give me parts and labor seperate? I've got family in HVAC that can do labor free if I provide enough beer.
If you've got family in HVAC, then why will it cost $2000 for just duct work?
You are correct, you should replace both the the condenser, outdoor unit and maybe fan.
Again, if you have family in HVAC have them come over and do a Manual J and Manual D. That will give you your answer as to whether your current system and duct work will suffice. The cost of beer to have them help is too high if they don't know what or how to run a Manual J and D.
BTW, I'm still running an 18 year old York, so at age 13 your system could still have plenty of life left in it, unless you find it will be undersized for your remodel.
To answer the question about "why don't I just call my family"?
(1) I am pulling a permit to do the renovation. Family may not be able to pull a HVAC permit.
(2) I am willing to spend a thousand or two, NOT to have to deal with family. I would rather do business with a stranger. Then I can rip them a new one or hire a lawyer if something goes dreadfully wrong.
(3 My Dad is an old-school duct man, and doesn't do system install & service. He doesn't know anything about ductless minisplits, and hence he doesn't agree with me getting one. My cousin is an install & service man, but doesn't do duct. My cousin is an a-hole. Both live 2+ hours away.
I am just weighing all my options. Going with family may be difficult.
I completely understand the family and friends can't-complain-when-its-free dilemma.
Then I would get some quotes, and make sure they do a Manual J and Manual D for that part of the house. If you don't have specifics for your remodel on insulation values, number, size and type of windows and doors, then the calcs cannot be done until you do. Ask to see their numbers from the Manual J in particular. Once you have the numbers it will then be clear whether that 1.5 tons will work for the added area.
Did a HVAC-CALC tonight.
Existing: 10,000 Gain, 29,000 Loss
Garage: 6,500 Gain, 13,500 Loss
Total: 16,500 Gain, 42,500 Loss
I have a 1.5 ton 10 SEER A/C, and a 40,000 BTU furnace.
So I am close. But is it too close? Any advice?
What is the stated cooling capacity of your 1.5 ton unit? They are not always the same.
I'm now seeing the problem. It may be very close to call.
Being slightly under on your furnace should not be a problem.
i dont see any reason why your system now cant hold up for the time being. i mean as far as doing what it is supposed to do. well you got 2 zones at 1.5 ton on 600 sq ft both with 40,000 btu furnaces right? ok well 1.5 ton will cool well over 600 sq ft and as for the furnaces, lets just say on the high side you need 50 btu per sq ft 50 * 600 = 30,000 btu so honestly you would be right in the ball park on that side but nothing to offbalanced to worry about.
Some more thoughts and questions.
1. What is your furnace? Depending here a minisplit might be more economical, or more expensive to heat.
2. Based on your current duct work what does HVAC Calc say you will need? Is it even feasible to run the size of duct and branches HVAC Calc says you'll need for this remodel? Will you have to change your entire duct system?
3. Did you plug in all proposed insulation values, windows, doors, etc. into HVAC Calc, or just the way it is now?
1. HVAC Calc is supposed to follow a Manual J. Manual J is allegedly conservative, meaning that number is more of a worst case.
2. Is it too late to make changes to your remodel to lower heat gain? You can always add in a window or skylight later if the system is working good.
3. Get your ID coil model number, and maybe, just maybe, it can mate with a 2 ton unit and still achieve the stated SEER. This is a long shot and at best you probably won't mate with anything greater than a 13/14 SEER. Check the ARI Directory.
4. Cross post to hvac-talk's residential section. There are actual pros there that do this all day long.
5. Kizzl775, please be careful in using the square footage method. The OP has effectively used Manual J, which is far more accurate. It is easy to come up with identical square footage designs but drastically different heat gain/loss.
Here in Costa Rica 95% of all A/C is mini split and they seem to work great. Here I just bought a 18000 BTU installed for $850. Shop around on price.
I would go with the mini split. I decided to spend the extra money and can tell you its well worth it. Plus it kept me warm when my main furnace wwent down last winter. Cheap to operate too.
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It is doubtless that terrorism might be eradicated in the encounter of the earth in case the modern society as well as the govt wage a war with each other on terrorism. Terrorist organizations regard on their own as rightful governments preventing for their well-deserved rights and justice. To rid these terrorists in their delusion of grandeur, we want to gauge the psyche of such terrorists and find out what ticks them off. It isn't unnatural to disagree with any established order. Immediately following all, "what is normal to the spider is chaos with the fly" too set by Charles Addams. All the same, inflicting harm on the harmless human beings are unable to be justified in by any faith or in any universe.
Fighting world-wide terrorism necessitates the strengthening of social fibre by marketing and advertising equality and encouraging cultural variety of various races, religions and creed. It truly is very often observed that fewer privileged sections on the modern society and uninformed many people are straightforward to be used as cannon fodder by anti-social corporations to additionally their doubtful finishes. Rabble rousers are preying on the gullible persons and brainwashing them to become equipment of massive destruction themselves. We regularly listen to the term 'jihad', which many of us have interpreted for a war killing innocents inside the name of faith. Misconceptions and modest know-how have brought some situations upon this planet. Even though "jihad" is usually translated as "holy war", the phrase essentially will mean having difficulties or striving in the path of Allah. (Jihad: A Misunderstood Theory from Islam – What Jihad is, and is particularly not) Most phony spiritual leaders have twisted and turned the strategy of jihad for his or her ulterior motives, thus wreaking havoc about the globe. Insufficient awareness has brought about the divide involving people young and old plus the final results are horrendous. Besides bridging the cultural divide, social reconstruction needs to also entail removing the hiatus relating to the rich additionally, the terrible. It doesn't require placing an conclusion to capitalism but uplifting the downtrodden most people even while also fostering meritocracy. Corporations ought to focus on Corporate Social Duty creating a superior globe. Empowering the considerably less privileged section will make sure that that no disgruntled area becomes disaffected only as a result of we did not lend those individuals a encouraging hand. The indicate and lean enterprises which have been paying homage to utilitarianism to some extent have got to adopt fairer insurance policies to the welfare of their personnel.
The United states of america has become a robust pressure with the Middle East since the Second Planet War. The US has decided on to generate selective intervention in international affairs. One example is, its interventions in Iraq in 2003 and Libya in 2011, but not in Syria in 2013 or Saudi Arabia in 2001 elucidate some incoherence for the element of american diplomacy. (Bousquet, 2013) These irregularities go on to show that armed forces interventions through the US were being not simply driven from the intent to only reduce a foreign predicament but also by its desire on the world's most vital supply of energy – oil. The moment selfish finishes arrive into engage in, the humanitarian and ideological grounds have a again seat surely. Every year the US squanders billions on its armed forces in these overseas international locations. It may be effortlessly inferred that a far more oil self-sufficient US is likely to have a alot more humane strategy in its foreign interventions.
Advancing human intelligence and synthetic intelligence can go a protracted way for you to counter terrorism. So as to thwart the nefarious acts of terrorists, we need to find out their programs forward. But acquisition of the intelligence from differing federal government companies and processing all this details to recognize styles is really an uphill climb. Modern technology, at the same time, has the would-be to form humongous info to find out any designs and relationships. This is often among the list of huge advantages that AI bears in excess of their human counterparts. The chance to make out irregular or suspicious habits or facial recognition in certain situations can help to apprehend the notorious terrorists. Even if synthetic intelligence can be employed productively to foil terroristic endeavors, there is no substitute of human intelligence too. Heritage reveals how spies are already a wonderful help in bringing down the enemies. At the moment even the terrorists have a multitude of engineers operating for them to include their tracks. It's explained that Bin Laden started applying human messengers as opposed to the satellite phones to dodge the US surveillance. Getting belongings in these terrorist groups is by no possibility an uncomplicated issue to attain. But a synergy in between human intelligence and artificial intelligence can brilliantly counter the terrorist groups with bigger precision. (Aviv, 2009)
Unfortunately, there have been completely various evidences that establish how US torture may possibly have led to the rise with the ISIS. Driving a superior horse and fully blaming the government for this could possibly be irresponsible due to the fact we, as human beings, have posed immense tension within the authorities to incarcerate the terrorists guiding a multitude of massacres. Although, heinous torture techniques resorted through the US pressure are unable to be defended on any grounds. According to the Washington Submit, ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi recounted his narrative in 2005 about how he was captured with the American forces and held being a prisoner within the Bucca Camp in southern Iraq for four decades. This guy http://okessay.org/essay-help// essay help went on to run al-Qaeda and revive the Sunni rebel. (McCoy, 2014) The CIA has become accused of subjecting some detainees to bodily abuse such as rectal feeding, around drowning, dungeon-like "salt pit" or perhaps sexual assaults. A lot of detainees with significant wounds were being formed to face in stress-inducing positions. There have actually been circumstances where by some detainees were wrongfully held. (Shane Harris, 2012) These atrocities around the title of interrogation really need to close if we would like to halt the brand new wave of recruits for virtually any anti-social firm.
When we pledge to eradicate terrorism through the planet and adopt more recent insurance policies within our communities, it is going to be valuable to distribute the information of peace and more robust social structure towards rest of the community. Together with the intent behind this broadcast would be to enlighten and tell the people young and old. This thought-provoking conversation is exactly what the terrorist forces are fearful of. Boko Haram, which has just about taken an incantatory electrical power in Nigeria which includes a dying toll of about 5000 seeing that 2009, basically would mean that western training is forbidden as well as the Muslims really should not engage in any social or political things to do affiliated along with the West. The fear of the militant Islamist team is not misplaced for the exceptionally principles fundamental western instruction are liberty and equality not oppression and brutality. Virtually a yr ago there was a world-wide campaign to costless the Chibok women who have been abducted by Boko Haram fighters from a college. It can be stated unequivocally that the globe preferences greater instruction rather than to mention, a spirit of camaraderie. So to recapitulate, world-wide terrorism may possibly be managed if we were to understand that we've been not merely fighting terrorists but an ideology that impersonates them. A fair entire world without any social injustice is a great location to start with our campaign versus terrorism.


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n December 2014 KDnuggets reached to a number of Data Mining, Data Science, and KDD research leaders and asked them 2 questions: 1. What was the most important research paper on Data Science, Data Mining, Databases in 2014? Or if you don't want to select from papers of others, what was your most favorite paper in 2014? 2. Which Data Science, Data Mining, Big Data trend do you expect to dominate in 2015? The most popular trends among mentioned were AI, Deep Learning, Healthcare informatics/analytics. As for the papers, we found that many researchers were so busy that they did not really have the time to read many papers by others. Of course, top researchers learn about works of others from personal interactions, including conferences and meetings, but we hope that professors have enough students who do read the papers and summarize the important ones for them! Here are the answers.
Charu Aggarwal, Distinguished Research Staff Member at the IBM T. J. Watson: Individual papers are rather incremental these days and broad advancements can only be understood in the context of collections of papers. Furthermore, most of these advancements existed before 2014, but 2014 saw a significant push in these directions. The three most important areas of growth in the data science field are as follows: 1. While the IoT (Internet of Things)phenomenon started around 2011 or 2012, it has greatly sped up in 2014, especially in terms of its impact on data science. This is because of the confluence between the area of big data, data streams, and the natural data intensive applications in the IoT paradigm. Smart healthcare, social sensing, smart cities are examples of these phenomenon and there is also significant commercial interest. History has shown us that advancements are most permanent when they are supported by commercial interests. 2. There has been an increase in the number of papers written on the interplay between big data/data streams and more complex data types. In the past, most of the streaming papers were focused on the notion of multidimensional data, which is an important but limited paradigm. The temporal and streaming aspects are now being studied in the context of complex data types such as graphs, social networks, and social streams. This area of analysis is rich and remains largely unexplored. 3. The focus on healthcare data analytics has also become increasingly prominent in 2014. The key areas of focus include smart technologies, electronic health records, data integration/fusion, and privacy. The issue of privacy remains the primary challenge for data scientists and also the greatest opportunity for new research. The future developments are likely to mirror recent advancements. Research is a continuous process, and one cannot expect the advancements to be decoupled from the recent developments. In the longer term, as processing power increases, I expect data science to play a key role in the development of amazing artificial intelligence applications. For example, the defeat of human champions by the automated Watson system in Jeopardy was a landmark in artificial intelligence. How far can one go? I believe that the development of more efficient processors and compact storage systems will open frontiers, which were previously considered unattainable.
Mohammed J. Zaki a Professor of Computer Science at RPI: 1) I think the emphasis on Big Data will continue, with newer/better systems and algorithms for big DM and ML. 2) There will be increased focus on health informatics data, i.e., electronic health records and personal health data management/analysis 3) Focus on "data mining for social good" will continue to make waves, i.e., open source Gov data mining, smart cities, smart utilities, etc.
Bing Liu , Professor, UIC; Chair, SIGKDD: I feel one of the key research issues for data science is how to make use of the big data in a novel way to go beyond what data mining researchers have done using a large amount of data in the past (e.g., scaling-up machine learning and data mining algorithms and data stream mining). In my opinion, one of the long term trends is or should be to use the big and diverse data to discover common sense knowledge for continuous machine learning and data mining, i.e., to retain the results and knowledge learned in the past and use them to help future learning and problem solving. Without this lifelong learning capability, no system will ever be intelligent. More intelligence is what the data science should go for in the big data era. Although standalone or pure statistical machine learning and data mining algorithms, which represent principled guessing, can still be improved, they have their limits. The question is how to go beyond such pure algorithmic approaches to push machine learning and data mining forward. I believe we should go for more intelligence, i.e., to learn as humans do. (GP: continuous machine learning is the goal of CMU NELL: Never-Ending Language Learning system)
Johannes Gehrke, Tisch University Professor, Cornell: Paper: Show and tell: A neural image caption generator, by Vinyals, Toshev, Bengio, and Erhan (Google) Arxiv 1411.4555 GP: This paper from Google researchers presents an amazing system which combines deep learning, computer vision and machine translation to automatically generate natural sentences describing an image. This paper was widely covered, and was in KDnuggets Top Tweets in November 2014. Trends: Deep networks
Qiang Yang, Professor, HKUST and the head of Noah's Ark Lab: Paper: Data Science and its relation to Big Data and data-driven decision making. F. Provost and T. Fawcett. Big Data 1(1), 2013. Trends: "Open Source Systems" and "Feature Engineering" are two trendy keywords that we will see more often in the coming year. Disk Centric and Network Centric Issues are questions concerned most by practitioners and will have big impact in the practical field.
Eamonn Keogh, Professor at UCR, a world leader in time series analysis: Paper: I am a bit of a contrarian. I like papers that show a flaw or weakness in existing work, or show that a common assumption was unwarranted. "Deep Neural Networks are Easily Fooled: High Confidence Predictions for Unrecognizable Images", by Anh Nguyen, Jason Yosinski, Jeff Clune, is the most interesting such paper I have read in years. As an aside, the authors have done a spectacular job in presentation. Not only is the paper very well written, but there is a great supporting webpage with a video and even a useful FAQ. Trends: Not trends in data science per se, but two nice meta-trends in how we do data science research are: 1) Some nice empirical work on how good is peer review, i.e. the NIPS consistency experiment 2) A movement towards insisting on reproducibility, i.e. ACM SIGMOD 2015 Reproducibility GP: See also KDnuggets Interview with Eamonn Keogh: SPOTLIGHT: Can Data Science Save Humanity from Mosquitoes and other Deadly Insects?
Philip S. Yu, UIC Distinguished Professor and Wexler Chair in Information Technology: Paper: Detecting anomalies in dynamic rating data: a robust probabilistic model for rating evolution. , by Stephan Gunnemann, Nikou Gunnemann, Christos Faloutsos. KDD 2014: 841-850 Trends: Fusion data from heterogeneous data sources. If you look at the papers in the major conferences, quite a few of them are fusing multiple data sources to improve the prediction. I think it will be an important trend going forward.
Jian Pei, Professor, Simon Fraser University: Paper: (from Jian Pei group) L. Duan, G. Tang, J. Pei, J. Bailey, G. Dong, A. Campbell, and C. Tang. "Mining Contrast Subspaces". In Proceedings of the 18th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD'14), Tainan, Taiwan, May 13-16, 2014. The paper proposes a new research problem that we met again and again in a series of practical applications. It won the best paper award in the PAKDD 2014 conference. Trends: Big data will go deeper into traditional offline domains, and will come closer to customers in their daily life. Novel, big data enabled business models become a key in unlocking the power of big data.
Jeff Ullman, Professor of Computer Science (Emeritus), Stanford: Paper: I'm not sure I can select best 2014 paper, but I want to plug my son Jonathan's recent work with Moritz Hardt: "Preventing False Discovery in Interactive Data Analysis is Hard", 2104 FOCS, pp. 454-463. arXiv 1408.1655 The idea is that any algorithm that asks a sequence of queries of a database of size n, where one query depends on the outcome of previous queries, can be led to false conclusions after O(n^3) queries. They believe this can be reduced to O(n^2) but can't prove it. Essentially all interesting data-analysis algorithms have this property, e.g., gradient descent. You can think of it as a stronger Bonferroni's principle for non-independent trials. Trends: I suspect that "deep learning" is going to be all the rage in 2015, but that like with most approaches to data analysis, it will have a few successes that are widely trumpeted and lots of failures that never see the light of day.
Jiawei Han, Abel Bliss Professor, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Papers (from Jiawei Han group:) Xiang Ren, Jialu Liu, Xiao Yu, Urvashi Khandelwal, Quanquan Gu, Lidan Wang, and Jiawei Han, "ClusCite: Effective Citation Recommendation by Information Network-Based Clustering", in Proc. 2014 ACM SIGKDD Int. Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'14), New York, NY, Aug. 2014.The following paper dated in 2015 but was accepted in Oct. 2014 is an even more favorable one by me but it is officially dated in 2015. Ahmed El-Kishky, Yanglei Song, Chi Wang, Clare R. Voss, Jiawei Han,"Scalable Topical Phrase Mining from Text Corpora", PVLDB 8(3): 305 - 316, 2015. (Also, in Proc. 2015 Int. Conf. on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'15), Hawaii, Sept. 2015) Trends: I believe statistical learning-based mining methods could become more dominant next year. In the long run, I expect heterogeneous information network creation and mining will become a key thing to turn structured or unstructured data to organized knowledge.
Lise Getoor, Professor, UCSC: Paper: Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks Not necessarily the best data science paper, but certainly important for the discussions it brought up about data science ethics. (GP: this paper describes a massive and very controversial Facebook experiment) Trends:
- Causality & decision making
- Interpretability
- Ethics and data science
Pedro Domingos, Professor, U. of Washington: Paper: 1. Szegedy et al., "Intriguing properties of neural networks", ICLR-14. (GP: this paper was also covered in KDnuggets: see Does Deep Learning Have Deep Flaws?. It found that for every correctly classified image, one can generate an "adversarial", visually indistinguishable image that will be misclassified. This suggests potential deep flaws in all neural networks, including possibly a human brain. ) Trends: Deep learning will continue to rack up successes and increase in popularity. GP: See also KDnuggets Interview: Pedro Domingos: the Master Algorithm, new type of Deep Learning, great advice for young researchers
Dimitrios Gunopulos, Professor, University of Athens. Papers: I liked the following three papers from KDD 2014:
- Reducing the Sampling Complexity of Topic Models, by Aaron Q Li (CMU), Amr Ahmed (Google), Sujith Ravi (Google), Alexander J Smola (CMU and Google), KDD-2014 Best paper award. This paper presents an approximate sampler for topic models that theoretically and experimentally outperforms existing samplers thereby allowing topic models to scale to industry-scale datasets.
- Towards Scalable Critical Alert Mining, Bo Zong, Yinghui Wu, Jie Song, Ambuj K. Singh, Hasan Cam, Jiawei Han, and Xifeng Yan
- Grouping Students in Educational Settings, Rakesh Agrawal, Behzad Golshan, Evimaria Terzi
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A trip to the General Staff building in Kiev, the engine room of the Ukrainian war effort, is a journey back in time. Once inside the crumbling compound, and past several guard stops, you're greeted with wide, brown Stalinist corridors, and walls decorated with Soviet-style military pomp. There is little attempt to hide the country's deep, common history with its eastern neighbour, and now adversary.
Like many of Ukraine's top military officers, commander-in-chief Colonel-General Viktor Muzhenko has a long association with Russia. He spent his formative years as a young cadet in Leningrad, the present-day St Petersburg; many friends and family remain on that side of the border. Yet the past 15 bloody, fraught months at the helm of the Ukrainian armed forces have left him altogether apprehensive about the intentions of once fellow compatriots. Ukraine's top commander says he holds little hope that key conditions of the Western-brokered Minsk peace accord – aimed at stopping the conflict between government forces and the Russian-backed separatists – will be fulfilled.
"I don't believe Russians will withdraw their troops, hand over control of the border, or allow free elections in Donbass, no, absolutely not," he said. "I can only assess what is happening at the moment and there is currently little evidence of movement on any of these fronts."
Col-Gen Muzhenko confirmed that while a ceasefire has largely held since 29 August, reconnaissance groups have remained active along the front lines. A significant enemy military presence – "more than 40,000" – remains inside the separatist enclaves, he said, and "all of them are answerable to a Russian chain of command".
Ukraine crisis: A timeline of the conflict
Ukraine crisis: A timeline of the conflict
1/22 30 November 2013
Public support grows for the "Euromaidan" anti-government protesters in Kiev demonstrating against Yanukovych's refusal to sign the EU Association Agreement as images of them injured by police crackdown spread.
2/22 20 February 2014
Kiev sees its worst day of violence for almost 70 years as at least 88 people are killed in 48 hours, with uniformed snipers shooting at protesters from rooftops.
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3/22 22 February 2014
Yanukovych flees the country after protest leaders and politicians agree to form a new government and hold elections. The imprisoned former Prime Minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, is freed from prison and protesters take control of Presidential administration buildings, including Mr Yanukovych's residence.
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4/22 27 February 2014
Pro-Russian militias seize government buildings in Crimea and the new Ukrainian government vows to prevent the country breaking up as the Crimean Parliament sets a referendum on secession from Ukraine in May.
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5/22 16 March 2014
Crimea votes overwhelmingly to secede from Ukraine and join Russia in a ballot condemned by the US and Europe as illegal. Russian troops had moved into the peninsula weeks before after pro-Russian separatists occupied buildings.
6/22 6 April 2014
Pro-Russian rebels seize government buildings in the eastern cities of Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv, calling for a referendum on independence and claiming independent republic. Ukraine authorities regain control of Kharkiv buildings on 8 April after launching an "anti-terror operation" but the rest remain out of their control.
7/22 7 June 2014
Petro Poroshenko is sworn in as Ukraine's president, calling on separatists to lay down their arms and end the fighting and later orders the creation of humanitarian corridors, since violated, to allow civilians to flee war zones.
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8/22 27 June 2014
The EU signs an association agreement with Ukraine, along with Georgia and Moldova, eight months after protests over the abandonment of the deal sparked the crisis.
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9/22 17 July 2014
Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 is shot down over eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board. Ukrainian intelligence officials claim it was hit by rebels using a Buk surface-to-air launcher in an apparent accident.
10/22 22 August 2014
A Russian aid convoy of more than 100 lorries enters eastern Ukraine and makes drop in rebel-controlled Luhansk without Government permission, sparking allegations of a "direct violation of international law".
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11/22 29 August 2014
Nato releases satellite images appearing to show Russian soldiers, artillery and armoured vehicles engaged in military operations in eastern Ukraine.
12/22 8 September 2014
Russia warns that it could block flights through its airspace if the EU goes ahead with new sanctions over the ongoing crisis and conflict
13/22 17 September 2014
Despite the cease-fire and a law passed by the Ukrainian parliament on Tuesday granting greater autonomy to rebel-held parts of the east, civilian casualties continued to rise, adding to the estimated 3,000 people killed
14/22 16 November 2014
The fragile ceasefire gives way to an increased wave of military activity as artillery fire continues to rock the eastern Ukraine's pro-Russian rebel bastion of Donetsk
15/22 26 December 2014
A new round of ceasefire talks, scheduled on neutral ground in the Belariusian capital Minsk, are called off
16/22 12 January 2015
Soldiers in Debaltseve were forced to prepare heavy defences around the city; despite a brief respite to the fighting in eastern Ukraine, hostilities in Donetsk resumed at a level not seen since September 2014
17/22 21 January 2015
13 people are killed during shelling of bus in the rebel-held city of Donetsk
18/22 24 January 2015
Ten people were killed after pro-Russian separatists bombarded the east Ukrainian port city of Mariupol
19/22 2 February 2015
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20/22 11 February 2015
European leaders meet in Minsk and agree on a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine beginning on February 14. From left to right: Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, Russian President Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, France's President Francois Hollande and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.
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21/22 13 February 2015
Pro-Russian rebels in the city of Gorlivka, in the Donetsk region, fire missiles at Ukrainian forces in Debaltseve. Fighting continued in Debaltseve for a number of days after the Minsk ceasefire began.
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22/22 18 February 2015
Ukrainian soldiers repair the bullet-shattered windshield of their truck as their withdraw from the strategic town of Debaltseve. Following intense shelling from pro-Russian rebels, Ukrainian forces began to leave the town in the early hours of February 18.
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This month, 95,000 troops took part in extraordinary exercises in Russia, he said. The commander interprets these as a direct threat to Ukraine. "Where else can they be headed? I very much doubt Russia could put such a force together for Syria."
Last year, at a time when Ukraine was much less prepared militarily, Russian tanks were described as being just "a few hours" away from Kiev. Today, the threat of a full-scale invasion seems diminished, but Col-Gen Muzhenko says Ukraine has not ruled it out due to the "volatile" nature of the situation.
"We have plans for every possible scenario – from defence to offence… we have to be ready to react," he said.
In his time as Commander-in-Chief, Col-Gen Muzhenko's own actions have attracted much criticism from public and military alike. They point to his role in the damaging capitulation at Ilovaisk in August 2014, then the loss of Donetsk airport in January 2015, and the equally humiliating retreat from Debaltseve in February. Many believe army incompetence and hubris cost many Ukrainian lives. Some estimate the number of soldiers lost in the Ilovaisk battle alone to be more than 1,000 (official figures are nearer 500). Col-Gen Muzhenko told The Independent that about 90 per cent of the information he received during the Ilovaisk battle turned out to be false.
It was, he says, a failure of Ukrainian intelligence gathering and deliberate Russian misinformation.
"The Ukrainian army was deliberately destroyed over the past decade – systematically," he said, referring to what he called the presence of foreign agents undermining the military. Intelligence had improved significantly since then, he claimed, but the reality of Russian infiltration "remains an issue". Summer 2014 represented a chaotic low point for the Ukrainians, and was the "worst moment in the war" for the commander himself.
"We had entire units to the south of Donetsk in Ambrosievka and Uspenka abandoning their positions without orders," he said.
Some of the soldiers were "defeated psychologically", and were "lacking proper military preparation".
In reality, an unanticipated surge had meant that many soldiers felt outgunned. Some of those who left say they had run out of ammunition.
Russia denies involvement in these crucial battles, but credible evidence appears to suggest otherwise. Around the time of the surge, 10 Russian paratroopers were captured inside Ukrainian territory; they claimed to have "got lost". Over in Luhansk, Ukrainians captured documents and two armoured vehicles from what they say was Russia's Pskov 76th Airborne division. An independent Russian newspaper corroborated this version, reporting major casualties in that division, and drawing on interviews with bereaved wives.
Col-Gen Muzhenko said regular Russian forces had a tactic of operating in the second wave of attack, to reduce visibility. He also made new claims about a previously undisclosed role of Russian special forces in the battle for Debaltseve in February. He said the appearance of such units within the town itself was the factor that forced the Ukrainians to retreat.
"I can't have your readers thinking the Ukrainian commander-in-chief has Napoleonic tendencies"
"We were holding Debaltseve right up until Russian special forces and marines entered the town – we had a supply route, had ammunition, but that was a game-changer and we had to leave," he said. The forced retreat from Debaltseve happened after the signing of the Minsk agreement, at a time when a ceasefire was supposed to be in place. Col-Gen Muzhenko rejects criticism that the retreat from Debaltseve was "panicked". Instead, he says military planners could not order the withdrawal as quickly as they had liked since they were waiting for enemy artillery to be repositioned from the east, from where it could easily hit Ukrainian escape routes. As soon as that happened, Ukrainian forces began to withdraw. "The retreat was planned, co-ordinated and staged, and with minimal losses," he said.
Given the level of hostility that now exists between the two countries, once part of the same state, did Col-Gen Muzhenko ever envisage returning to Russia?
"If this wasn't an interview, I'd tell you exactly how I'd like to return," he says.
"But please understand me right – that was a joke.
"I can't have your readers thinking the Ukrainian commander-in-chief has Napoleonic tendencies."
Ukrainian pilot: 'I was taken by separatists'
Hauled before a Russian judge on charges of killing two journalists, a Ukrainian politician has demanded that she be released, saying she had been kidnapped by separatists and held hostage.
Nadezhda Savchenko, 34, faced a court in the Russian town of Donetsk accused of complicity in the deaths of the Russian journalists in Ukraine in June last year, before illegally crossing into Russia. She asserts she had been captured in Luhansk, handed over to Russian forces and held for a week before being charged.
Ms Savchenko, who is a former military pilot and now a Ukrainian MP, faces up to 25 years in prison if found guilty.
Meanwhile in Kiev, a court extended the detention of Russian servicemen Alexander Alexandrov and Yevgeny Yerofeyev, who were captured in eastern Ukraine in May, for at least two more months. Russia's defence ministry said they had resigned from active duty in December.
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I'm stealing the idea for song titles as chapter titles, btw
Disclaimer: Twilight is not mine…
Summary: Bella, Alice and Rosalie, 3 bffs, are determined not to let their last summer vacation before college go to waste. So, they invite their cousins (Emmett, Jasper, and Edward), and go on a trip across the US. Will love grow along the way? Usual pairings ALL HUMAN
Chapter 1
Bella's POV
It was the last day of school. The seniors around me were literally bouncing in anticipation, me being no exception. The teacher had given up trying to teach us something a half hour ago, so now everyone was talking happily and anxiously glancing at the clock. My best friends Mary Alice Brandon (who goes by Alice) and Rosalie Hale (but likes to be called Rose) were in this class and were talking excitedly about a plan to drive all the way across the country and visit almost every state. Rosalie had convinced her parents to let her borrow their RV (which was totally awesome); on the condition that we each bring an extra person that could protect us if we needed it.
"How unfair is that? Who could we possibly bring along that we wouldn't want to kill within two weeks and could protect us?" Rose complained loudly. Her platinum blond hair was down and swished as she shook her head. Her blue eyes seemed furious at the idea.
"Well, I could always go if you wanted." I turned around and came face-to-face with Mike Newton. He had been trying to go out with me for weeks (though I had no idea why. I mean, come on, I was pretty average), and probably saw this as an opportunity for me to date him. The truth was I didn't like him like that. He was just a friend.
"Sorry, Mike," I apologized, "but, no."
"Why?" He whined. I almost started laughing at how funny he sounded. I could imagine him as a Labrador, whining to be taken along on the family vacation.
"Because, my dad wouldn't like that. You know how protective he is." I answered; thanking the heavens I had that excuse. My dad was the police chief of Forks, and I was pretty sure he wouldn't let any random guy go with us, especially not Mike. Rose had told him about how Mike kept trying to go out with me, and he told me that I could use him as an excuse any time I needed.
This was definitely one of those times.
"Oh, ok." Mike mumbled, and walked away to go sit with Jessica and Lauren. I turned back to Alice and Rose, who were snickering.
"Yeah, yeah, laugh it up." I muttered, sitting down in my desk.
Alice abruptly stopped laughing. "Hey," Alice started, her emerald eyes glimmering in excitement as an idea struck, "I could bring my cousin Edward!" She jumped up and down in her seat merrily at the idea, her spiky black hair bobbing along with her. "That would be so great! I've always wanted him to meet you guys! He lives in Chicago, so we'd have to fly him over first, but that would be so cool! He has the best taste in music, oh and…" I droned out as she continued on and on about her cousin in detail. He was a pianist, he loved classical music and books (insert a nudge and a wink from Rose and me rolling my eyes), and he had bronzish colored hair and eyes similar to her.
"So, Bella, who would you drag along with us psychos?" Rose asked me suddenly.
Instantly, a picture of my cousin Emmett flashed through my mind. He was a wrestler and a football player (not to mention he worked out every day), so he could keep us safe. Not to mention, he was absolutely hilarious. He loved to play video games and pull pranks. He had curly dark-brown hair and hazel eyes. He loved cars too, so Rose would have someone to talk to. He was the perfect choice. When I told them my idea, they squealed.
Rose smirked. "Just to keep up with the trends, I guess I could invite my cousin Jasper. He lives in Alabama. He is pretty quiet, and I'm not sure he could protect us very well, but I'm sure that Dad would approve."
"Yes!" Alice cheered from beside me. "So it's settled? We're going to invite my cousin Edward, Bella's cousin Emmett, and Rose's cousin Jasper?"
"Yep!" I chirped. Around us, everyone had started screaming a countdown to the bell ringing, making it feel like New Year's Eve.
"You know what this means, don't you?" Alice yelled over everyone else, a familiar evil glint in her eyes. Oh, no… "Shopping trip!"
"No way Alice!" I argued. "We'll probably go shopping along the way. Don't you think that we should just use what we have?"
"Come on Bella! It'll be fun!" Rose added, agreeing with Alice.
"No." I was stubborn and proud of it.
"Fine. You come shopping with us and we won't do your make-up for…a week." Alice compromised. I considered the options, and since this was probably the best deal I was gonna get, I agreed.
"I mean it guys! No make-overs for a whole week! That's seven days!" I yelled over the crowd of teenagers chanting the numbers louder.
"Of course Bella. One whole week, seven days." Alice agreed, but she was smirking. Oh no, she had a plan.
The bell signaling the end of school rang out and everyone screamed and ran out of the class. Everyone was congratulating one another and telling each other to call so they could hang out. I saw Tyler, another guy who liked me, start walking my way. I quickly walked towards my rusty red truck that I had gotten for my birthday to avoid him. Alice and Rose were there waiting for me. I climbed into the driver's seat and we drove off to my house to plan our vacation and call our cousins.
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The hubby and myself thoroughly enjoyed cruising on The Pride of America. It was all that we envisioned and more. The staff bent over backwards to make us feel welcome. Everyone was so friendly and helpful if we needed anything. The accomodations were exceptional, and cleanliness was definitely a plus. No complaints there. The only drawbacks I had were the fact that I booked so early and could have saved a ton of money had I waited longer. Also I felt the ship could have provided more entertainment. In comparison to other cruiselines I have used, I felt this one was more laidback. Definitely for the older crowd.
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In a detailed response to the application made by Kingfisher to import aviation turbine fuel (ATF) directly, oil firms stated that India is surplus in jet fuel and exports half of its production annually, official sources said.
Allowing direct import of ATF may lead to avoidable simultaneous import/export of ATF and undue burden on port infrastructure in the country, the oil firms said.
Kingfisher believes that by importing ATF directly, it can make substantial savings by not having to pay sales tax (which varies between 4 to 30 per cent from state to state).
Oil firms however say the airline would have to pay 12.83 per cent duty on the imported ATF (additional customs duty or CVD of 8.24 per cent plus a 3 per cent education cess on top of it and an additional 4 per cent special CVD or SAD).
Against this, Kingfisher presently pays only 8.24 per cent excise duty on jet fuel purchases made from oil firms.
Sources said oil PSUs also made it clear that they do not have surplus infrastructure facility at any port location in India, which can be hired by Kingfisher to import ATF.
Besides, the airline would either have to build its own storage tanks or hire those from oil companies for stocking the imported ATF at the ports. It would then have to make arrangements for transporting ATF to airports in trucks.
Even after time and cost consuming exercise, Kingfisher can dispense the fuel into its aircraft at only three airports - Delhi, Hyderabad and Bangalore-- which allow refuelling infrastructure to be shared on "Open Access" basis.
In rest of airports, oil companies have the monopoly and the airline would need to negotiate and enter into specific agreements with these companies for extending their facilities on "open access".
Sources said Kingfisher requirement of ATF during 2011-12 is 4,34,000 tonnes or 33,600 tonnes per month and availability of adequate tankage would be a constraint to receive such parcel sizes.
Also, state governments tend to levy additional entry tax when they feel their revenues are being compromised due to direct imports.
In 1995-96 when import of ATF was undertaken on behalf of ATOs (Air Transport Operators) and Airlines against Special Import Licence, additional entry tax was levied by state governments, the oil companies pointed out.
Of the 9.7 million tonnes of ATF produced in the country in 2010-11, 4.5 million tonnes were exported in 2010-11.
With an increase in refining capacity in the country, surplus ATF would increase by 140 per cent to 7.5 million tonnes in 2016-17 from 5.2 million tonnes in 2011-12 and all of the surplus would have to be exported.
Sources said oil companies feel there is no tariff protection in the form of customs duty differential vis-a-vis crude oil for the domestic refining industry. This in itself is a relief to the airline industry.
More importantly, as per excise and custom rules, the imported ATF is required to be handled in exclusive containers and not co-mingled in existing storage facilities of the oil companies so as not to get into litigation with states on applicability of sales tax.
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New Delhi, Sep 24 (UNI) Despite all the attempts in recent times to professionalise football set-up in the country, the AIFF has failed to appoint a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for second edition of the I-League, which kicks off on Friday.
Last month, the All India Football Federation (AIFF) had created posts of chief executive, manager and assistant manager to run the professional I-League according to the guidelines of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).
But till now, the federation has not appointed anyone for any of the posts.
Explaining the delay in appointing a CEO, AIFF president Priyaranjan Dasmunshi said, ''Till now we didn't get a good candidate for the post of CEO. We are still looking for it and our host broadcaster Zee Sports is helping us to find a suitable person. So we have decided to appoint an acting CEO for the time being.'' The issue assumes vital importance since failure to comply with AFC norms may cost India a berth in the Asian Champions League - the showpiece event of club football in the continent.
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WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) - U.S. Agriculture Secretary Thomas Vilsack met with Warren Buffett last week to urge the billionaire investor to make sure his BNSF railroad is ready for an expected record corn and soy harvest this year.
Vilsack said on Tuesday that Buffett, who heads the sprawling conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway, recognized the challenge and indicated his company was taking steps.
"I said, 'Warren, you've got to make sure that your railroad understands what's going on here,'" Vilsack said he told Buffett during a 45-minute conversation. "There is pressure now, but as soon as this crop is harvested, there will be more pressure."
Speaking at a conference sponsored by Growth Energy, a biofuel trade group, Vilsack said BNSF was making "significant" investments. "It's a long-term issue."
Backlogs along U.S. rail lines became a major concern for a number of commodities markets this year.
In June, for example, U.S. officials ordered BNSF and Canadian Pacific Railway Co to report their plans to clear a backlog of grain cars after months of service delays blamed on harsh winter weather and high freight demand.
BNSF is a unit of Berkshire Hathaway. The railroad, which was struggling from the Great Recession when Berkshire bought it for $26 billion in 2010, returned a $3.8 billion profit last year.
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Thanks to all of you, I have revised my itinerary in a way that I hope makes more sense and I know requires less moving around. It also provides a little bit of flexibility for people who have different interests to take day trips on their own. This is especially important as there is now a chance that my parents might be joining us! I would love for this turn of events to materialize, but it would require some scrambling for childcare since my parents were previously the plan!
To recap, my husband and I are in our 30s, seasoned travelers for our age, but not in Italy. My husband has never been, and I only hit the highlights during college. My mom has been to Italy once years ago, but my father has never been. I am hoping to hit the major highlights for a first-timer, but also focus a bit more on food than some others might. Less interested in art museums (brief look at the biggies is all I need), more interested in outdoor sites like the Colosseum and more active things like cooking classes. And generally just hoping to do lots of wandering in the streets, sipping coffee in an outdoor cafe, taking it all in. Looking for a mix of city and country.
With that in mind, here is the revised plan. 14 nights on the ground, planning for April 2013. 2 nights Venice, 4 nights Bologna, 3 nights Tuscany, 5 nights Rome
Day 0 - Depart USA
Day 1 - Arrive Venice early AM, Fight jet leg, Try to Sightsee, Sleep Venice
Day 2 - Sightsee Venice, Sleep Venice
Day 3 - Sightsee Venice (Murano?), Train to Bologna in time for late dinner, Sleep Bologna
Day 4 - Cooking Class, Sleep Bologna
Day 5 - Day trip, if desired, Choice of Florence, Modena, Ravenna, Parma, etc (this allows those with varying interests to do what they want - my husband and father can get to Florence and see the David so they don't feel like they missed out, but I can relax in Bologna or take a day trip to Ravenna or Parma - this also gives my husband the option to go to one of the darn car museums, without dragging the rest of us along - forces him to prioritize!!), Sleep Bologna
Day 6 - Food Factory Tour, Sleep Bologna
Day 7 - Sightsee Bologna, Rent car, Drive to Tuscany, Sleep Tuscany (Pienza?)
Day 8 - Explore Southern Tuscany, Sleep Tuscany
Day 9 - Explore Southern Tuscany, Sleep Tuscany
Day 10 - Explore Southern Tuscany, Drop car in Orvieto, Train to Rome, Sleep Rome
Day 11 - Sightsee Rome, Sleep Rome
Day 12 - Sightsee Rome, Sleep Rome
Day 13 - Optional day trip (Pompeii, etc) for those interested, others relax in Rome
Day 14 - Sightsee Rome, Sleep Rome
Day 15 - Depart Rome, Arrive USA
We are not worried about seeing all of Tuscany or any other place that we are going. I'm hoping that this itinerary (with the optional day trips) allows those in my group who really need to get in certain things the option to do so, without cramping the more relaxing style of the others. It is definitely an overview trip that tries to fit in a lot, but I'm hoping that we've built in enough time to not just be running from one museum or monument to the next (though I know we will be doing that on a few days!). What do you think? Does this itinerary seem to accomplish our goals?
Thanks again to everyone who gave input! I welcome more ideas or suggestions.
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Revised Itinerary for Venice, Bologna, Tuscany, Rome - input requested
Thanks to all of you, I have revised my itinerary in a way that I hope makes more sense and I know requires less moving around. It also provides a little bit of flexibility for people who have different interests to take day trips on their own. This is especially important as there is now a chance that my parents might be joining us! I would love for this turn of events to materialize, but it would require some scrambling for childcare since my parents were previously the plan!
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I forgot to ask...does anyone know about how long the drive from Bologna to southern Tuscany will take? For now, assume we are staying in Pienza, but that's still TBD. Thanks!
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Google maps says its 229 Kms. the most direct route. It gives traveling time as 2 hrs 35 minutes, but add to that time to pick up rental car ( it seems there is usually a line- up), getting out of the city, traffic, and stops.
I think you have done a wonderful job revising your plan. It looks well spaced, and you've chosen bases that have a variety of interests.
Just one thing, I think you will find you hate to leave Venice after only two nights, but the only place you could steal a day is from Rome. So, I guess it's a matter of what's most important to you.
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don't know what cooking class you're taking in bologna -- but if you want to take a second class, we absolutely loved the class we took in rome. cookingclassesinrome.com . fun, super informative, 10 people and a fantastic meal. however-- it did bite into the better part of a day.
we love bologna!! see my recent trip report if interested in more on bologna.
have a great trip!!
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I like it---you have done your homework---have fun !
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Great. Thanks! Yes, I had originally planned for 3 nights in Venice and it is torture trying to decide how to trim. I think that I might appreciate ending the trip with a longer stay in one place, but when it comes down to it, I might just have my companions vote on which destination gets the night!
And another cooking class in Rome is definitely not out of the question. I could easily see my mom and I doing that. Thanks for the tip!
Now that I feel pretty good about the overall itinerary, I'm sure I'll be posting more specific questions about various things. Thanks to all of you for being so generous with your advice and experience!
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I like how you planned it as well.
Just maybe you can drop off car at Rome airport in Fiumicino and take train directly to Termini station in Rome. Would be a shorter train ride than Orvieto, and it is a very easy drive to Fiumicino.
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The only problem with dropping the car in Orvieto is if the rental car office is closed when you want to leave the car. Otherwise, the Orvieto drop-off/train into Rome is more straight forward then detouring by the airport. Although perhaps a bit more expensive.
I too think you've done a great job editing your trip itinerary into something everyone will enjoy.
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Re Venice, we submitted to a high pressure sales guy by St Mark's Square, and ended up on a water taxi to Murano. It wasn't worth it ... very touristy, and pressure to buy throughout. We really enjoyed wandering in the quieter districts of Venice, e.g. Cannaregio (very historic) and Dorsoduro ... far fewer tourists.
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Forgot to mention: Venice Pass provides unlimited vaparetto rides ... like taking the bus, and they run very regularly so it's a convenient and economical way to get around the city. In Rome, we bought a Roma pass, which let us walk right past the massive line-up at the Colliseum and other popular spots.
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Thanks for the tips! I'll research our rental car dropoff location a little more once we have our Tuscany itinerary more detailed. Assuming I don't switch to Umbria...the decisions never end!
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traveler08 has good advice on Murano. We went on a tour offered by our hotel, and when we declined to buy any of the glass in the factory store, they were very insistent. And did not give us a ride back to Venice! We had to go find the public boat by ourselves. So beware.
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5. Max Richter, Recomposed by Max Richter
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"This is just fucking original shit. It's not metal but it's creative as fuck. Plus, it rocks."
3. Big Wreck, Albatross
"It is a fucking killer rock record. If you don't buy it, you're a dick."
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The house wasn´t really clean ,when we arrived. There was a lot of dust under the beds and mice droppings everywhere, especially in the kitchen (toaster, cupboard,etc.) and the bedrooms (even in our beds we found mice droppings). The toilet bowl was very dirty when we arrived, so we had to clean it by ourselves.The house needs mosquito screens, because we got bit like crazy. There are also many wasps and hornits.The pool and yard was nice and the farmers were really friendly. The house is far from everything, so you have to drive a lot staying at this house. The house is not luxurious at all, but nice. The only thing that was really stunning was the view. The Abruzzi is really an amazing region in Italy and we will definitely come back, just not to this house.
This years vacation rental that went to Abruzzo at La Casa Rosa turned out to be excellent.
The house is roomy and really comfortable, with nice furnishing in generally big rooms. Kitchen and bathrooms lacked nothing.
La Casa Rosa is situated beatyfully, with an astounding panorama of the hills and mountains in the area. The nearest neighbours are not far from the house, but far enough so you are not bothered. On top of this they are wonderfull people. I talked with the old man for about ½ an hour, even though he only speaks Italian, and I dont!
The pool is well kept and nicely laid out, big enough for some swimming, but not huge. Also dont miss the great sandbeaches nearby.
Finally the owner is extremely nice, well organized, communicates swiftly and do everything possible, so you will have an enjoyable stay. Thanks Adam.
Adam is extremely helpful and everything was as described. The people living in the surrounding houses are very friendly but no ones speaks English so try to learn some basics before you go - we didn't and felt very ignorant lol. If you are looking for a completely relaxing holiday the farmhouse certainly fits the bill. We ventured out each day to various villages that had been recommended to us and tended to eat out for lunch and return to the farmhouse in the afternoon for a dip in the pool and then spent our evenings playing games or reading. No hesitation in recommending.
Gorgeous rustic house, beautiful view, refreshing pool, sweet kind neighbours and lots to do around this gorgeous part of Italy. Day trips to many interesting parts of Abruzzo. Well equipped kitchen, large bedrooms and bathrooms, spacious living areas. Would not hesitate to recommend. If you love Italy, you will love Casa Rosa and Abruzzo.
The house is clean, convienient and situated in the fantastic area - driving around everyday was such a pleasure and the views from the house were splendid. It was quite complicated to find our way there - and thanks to Adam for the detailed descriptions he mailed us. The Italian family neighbours were very friendly and helpful - inspite the fact that we could not speak Italian and they nad no English. And it was lovely to see a bit of farm life for our children - sheeps and rabbits and a horse in the neighborhood.
From the simple, rustic beauty of the house itself to the breathtaking view of the Gran Sasso mountain (and the Majella) in the distance, the Casa Rosa was precisely what the Dr. ordered for us and our friends. Sergio and Annamaria, the folks who run the farm adjacent to the property couldn't have been nicer, more welcoming people (and the pecorino cheese they make rivals the best we've had anywhere). And this theme of welcome and generosity played out everywhere we went, from Franca's amazing cooking at the agriturismo 5 minutes from the house, to wonderful people at trattorie and ristoranti in Loreto Aprutino and Penne, to the villagers we met and talked with in nearby Castiglione Messer Raimondo and Castilenti. The people of Abruzzo are not jaded by mass tourism and seem to take their responsibilities as hosts as a matter of honor. It was humbling. And we were very sorry to leave.
The local topography was stunningly beautiful- rolling hills like something from a renaissance painting, and the house well situated: 30 minutes from Penne's charming historic center; 40 from Loreto; less than an hour to the beach. It took only a beautful 40 minute drive from the house to arrive on the Campo Imperatore, the high mountain plain above the Gran Sasso. We passed pasturing cattle, sheep protected by their white sheepdogs and herds of wild horses before descending on the medieval towns of Santo Stefano and Castel del Monte. The diversity of the landscape might be unrivalled in Italy.
The house was very comfortable and well-equipped. It has been very tastefully restored. We shopped in Penne and had the local pasta maker in Castiglione craft some ravioli and Maccheroni alla chitarra for us and grilled lamb and sausage poolside, watching the rocky face of the Gran Sasso change colors in the fading light. It was magical.
Our fellow travelers were veterans of many Tuscan stays. They kept repeating how much friendlier and open the local Abruzzese people were. And their young daughter, who loved the pool, kept a log of every animal she saw. We will be back.
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Betta Koi approved.
Had one once, hated it. Threw it away. Would never mix well or chop contents fully. Cheaper blender still works 10 times better today.
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jlimm1 wrote:Hmm, looks good.
How can a blender separate food vertically? What is this sorcery?
I have this as the squirrels are the greatest, Awesome for the Betta Koidesimation.
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How does this compare to the BL660? Are they essentially the same, but this comes with a second pitcher?
I ordered the 660 a month ago, but was twice shipped the wrong blender base, so it looks like I'll have to return it...
This is +5 against all fruit
I wish I was a ninja so I could level up
My mom just bought one of these. this is an awesome deal on a great product.
jc7676 wrote:That smoothie would be awesome because Koi have great taste! >:-p
Don't go giving away all our secrets, now!
I hate woot today
Why isn't it showing up free shipping when I try to order it?
for grape justice, i crave blended goods.
does anybody have any idea what's going on
Being a Ninja, I already have one. Mine makes ninja very happy. Now, bring on the next item!
We love our Ninja. If we had it our way, we would have bought this model first.
dragons are real, so are ninjas
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Is that Koi row at the bottom of the glass? I'm disgusted.
Still can't figure out how to raise my level, been all over woot, links and all.
You can blend two things at on time. Yippee
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If only my Koi fins could press blender buttons...
has anyone leveled up yet?
Have a Ninja and love it for smoothies.
Ninja V'OWLS!
I missed out on this Woot! ;( had it in my cart then got preoccupied with other things.
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