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April 18, 2012
Largehearted WORD Books of the Week - April 18th, 2012
In the Largehearted Word series, the staff of Brooklyn's WORD bookstore highlights several new books released this week.
WORD is an independent neighborhood bookstore in Greenpoint, the northernmost neighborhood of Brooklyn, that recently celebrated its fifth anniversary. Our primary goal is to be whatever our community needs us to be, which currently means carrying a lot of paperback fiction (especially classics), cookbooks, board books, and absurdly cute cards and stationery. In addition, we're fiends for a good event, from the classic author reading and Q&A to potlucks and a basketball league (and anything set in a bar). We're a small operation, just 1000 square feet and four people, but we read too much, so it all works out. If a weekly dose of WORD here isn't enough for you, follow us on Twitter: @wordbrooklyn.
WORD also hosts the monthly Largehearted Lit reading series, featuring authors who participated in this blog's Book Notes series and musical guests.
Eat With Your Hands
by Zakary Pelaccio
The founder of Fatty Crab and Fatty 'Cue has a new cookbook full of inventive, eclectic recipes that encourage dirty hands and adventurous eating (pig ear salad, anyone?). Sidebars include drink suggestions and tips about what you should listen to as you cook.
Boy + Bot
by Ame Dyckman and Dan Yaccarino
Jenn would like to give this to robot-loving-children everywhere. Do little boys need oiling? Do robots like applesauce? Important questions are answered herein!
The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict
by Trenton Lee Stewart
Stephanie says, "A very satisfying prequel to the Benedict Society books that will be loved by fans of the series or folks who haven't read it yet."
Kit and Willy's Dogs of the World
by Zebedee Helm
Kit (a boy) and Willy (a dachshund) helpfully explain the identifying traits of various dog breeds, from chihuahuas (which eat the mints out of their owners' handbags and thus have nice breath) to the rare chocolate lab, which obviously is harder to find because mostly they get eaten by chocolate fans.
WORD Brooklyn links:
WORD website
WORD blog
WORD on Twitter
WORD's Facebook page
WORD's Flickr photos
also at Largehearted Boy:
other Largehearted Word Books of the Week (weekly new book highlights)
52 Books, 52 Weeks (my yearly reading project)
Antiheroines (interviews with up and coming female comics artists)
Atomic Books Comics Preview (weekly comics & graphic novel highlights)
Book Notes (authors create music playlists for their book)
guest book reviews
musician/author interviews
Note Books (musicians discuss literature)


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|50 lei 1922
|40 mm diameter, 16.13 g, gold 90%, silver 7.5%, copper 2.5%, grained edge
legend "FERDINAND I REGELE ROMANILOR - 50 LEI" meaning "FERDINAND I KING OF THE ROMANIANS - 50 LEI" and half profile crowned effigy of the king to the left; next to the right shoulder P. M. DAMMANN, name of the engraver, outer pearl circle
|legend "MARIA REGINA ROMANILOR - 1922 -" meaning "MARY QUEEN OF THE ROMANIANS - 1922 -" and half profile crowned effigy of the queen to the right, outer pearl circle
Mintage: 105.000 coins
The gold coin pictures above are present on Romanian coins through the kind permission of an anonymous donor.
About the 1922 coin set
Struck in Great Britain at London Royal Mint, in 1928 or 1929 (after Octavian Iliescu and Paul Radovici, Monetele României, 2004), although antedated in 1922. The decree for the issuing of these coins was published in the Official Gazette on June 4th 1927. King Ferdinand died on July 20th the same year.
The coin pictured here belongs to a four coin set of 20, 25, 50 and 100 lei. 20 and 100 lei share common design, the same for 25 and 50. The entire set was engraved by the renowned French artist Paul Marcel Dammann (1885 - 1939). The catalog values of king Ferdinand gold coins indicate that a lot of them were not released. Mr. J. M. suggests that a large part of the mintage was melted, maybe to strike other coins.
The coins were issued to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the coronation of Ferdinand I and Mary as sovereigns of the now entire Great Romania. Through the three Unions of 1918 Romania became again wholly complete. The Romanians had been brought together by Michael the Brave for the first time in 1600, that being the reason for which Romanians called World War I the Nation Recompletion War. The October 1922 coronation took place at Alba Iulia, in the heart of Transylvania, just like it did the first time in 1600 to add deepest signification.
Below are presented the pictures of two uniface essays made from bronze, from the G.F. collection, Germany. Both essays have thick rim.
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Yesterday was a tragic day for VA Tech and our nation. Please pray for the injured, the family and friends of those killed, and for this community. We also need to mourn with those who mourn.
This world we live in, unfortunately is not becoming more civilized but more barbaric. There are a lot of messed up people out there. You cannot avoid the mess. We live in a sinful world; a world that is self rather than others centered.
The church can no longer be an institution that believes we can be a good Christian if we can check all the boxes. We cannot just hand out or read a tract to someone and pat ourselves on the back thinking we have done our job. We are the church and God called us to make disciples of all people. He did not tell us how. He told us to love Him and love people. He never told us to love ourselves. That comes naturally. If we love God we must love those he died to save. He gave his life for messed up people (I am thankful for that). We can do more than read a tract to a stranger. We can develop relationships with people. Even hurting people. It's messy. It will make church messy. But Jesus entered a messy world and died a messy death for messy people. Lets get our hands dirty.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Messy Church
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Modern monetary systems
Domestic monetary systems are today very much alike in all the major countries of the world. They have three levels: (1) the holders of money (the "public"), which comprise individuals, businesses, and governmental units, (2) commercial banks (private or government-owned), which borrow from the public, mainly by taking their deposits, and make loans to individuals, firms, or governments, and (3) central banks, which have a monopoly on the issue of certain types of money, serve as the bankers for the central government and the commercial banks, and have the power to determine the quantity of money. The public holds its money in two ways: as currency (including coin) and as bank deposits.
In most countries the bulk of the currency consists of notes issued by the central bank. In the United Kingdom these are Bank of England notes; in the United States, Federal Reserve notes; and so on. It is hard to say precisely what "issued by the central bank" means. In the United States, for example, the currency bears the words "Federal Reserve Note," but these notes are not obligations of the Federal Reserve banks in any meaningful sense. The holder who presents them to a Federal Reserve bank has no right to anything except other pieces of paper adding up to the same face value. The situation is much the same in most other countries. The other major item of currency held by the public is coin. In almost all countries this is token coin, whose worth as metal is much less than its face value.
In countries with a history of high inflation, the public may choose to use foreign currency as a medium of exchange and a standard of value. The U.S. dollar has been chosen most often for these purposes, and, although other currencies have had lower average inflation rates than the dollar in the years since World War II, the dollar compensates by having lower costs of information and recognition than any other currency. Societies agree on the use of dollars not by a formal decision but from knowledge that others recognize the dollar and accept it as a means of payment. At the turn of the 21st century, estimates suggested that as much as two-thirds of all dollars in circulation were found outside the United States. Dollars could be found in use in Russia, Argentina, and many other Latin American and Asian countries.
Bank deposits
In addition to currency, bank deposits are counted as part of the money holdings of the public. In the 19th century most economists regarded only currency and coin, including gold and other metals, as "money." They treated deposits as claims to money. As deposits became more and more widely held and as a larger fraction of transactions were made by check, economists started to include not the checks but the deposits they transferred as money on a par with currency and coin.
The definition of money has been the subject of much dispute. The chief point at issue is which categories of bank deposits can be called "money" and which should be regarded as "near money" (liquid assets that can be converted to cash). Everyone includes currency. Many economists include as money only deposits transferable by check (demand deposits)—in the United States the sum of currency and checking deposits is known as M1. Other economists include nonchecking deposits, such as "time deposits" in commercial banks. In the United States, the addition of these deposits to M1 represents a measure of the money supply known as M2. Still other economists include deposits in other financial institutions, such as savings banks, savings and loan associations, and so on.
The term deposits is highly misleading. It connotes something deposited for safekeeping, like currency in a safe-deposit box. Bank deposits are not like that. When one brings currency to a bank for deposit, the bank does not put the currency in a vault and keep it there. It may put a small fraction of the currency in the vault as reserves, but it will lend most of it to someone else or will buy an investment such as a bond or some other security. As part of the inducement to depositors to lend it money, a bank provides facilities for transferring demand deposits from one person to another by check.
The deposits of commercial banks are assets of their holders but are liabilities of the banks. The assets of the banks consist of "reserves" (currency plus deposits at other banks, including the central bank) and "earning assets" (loans plus investments in the form of bonds and other securities). The banks' reserves are only a small fraction of the aggregate (total) deposits. Early in the history of banking, each bank determined its own level of reserves by judging the likelihood of demands for withdrawals of deposits. Now reserve amounts are determined through government regulation.
The growth of deposits enabled the total quantity of money (including deposits) to be larger than the total sum available to be held as reserves. A bank that received, say, $100 in gold might add 25 percent of that sum, or $25, to its reserves and lend out $75. But the recipient of the $75 loan would spend it. Some of those who received gold this way would hold it as gold, but others would deposit it in a bank. For example, if two-thirds was redeposited, on average, some bank or banks would find $50 added to deposits and to reserves. The receiving bank would repeat the process, adding $12.50 (25 percent of $50) to its reserves and lending out $37.50. When this process worked itself out fully, total deposits would have increased by $200, bank reserves would have increased by $50, and $50 of the initial $100 deposited would have been retained as "currency outside banks." There would be $150 more money in total than before (deposits up by $200, currency outside banks down by $50). Although no individual bank created money, the system as a whole did. This multiple expansion process lies at the heart of the modern monetary system.
Credit and money
Centuries of innovation have changed the ways in which the public conducts transactions. Credit cards, debit cards, and automatic transfers are among the many innovations that emerged in the years after World War II.
Credit and debit cards
A credit card is not money. It provides an efficient way to obtain credit through a bank or financial institution. It is efficient because it obviates the seller's need to know about the credit standing and repayment habits of the borrower. For a fee that each subscribing merchant agrees to pay, the bank issues the credit card, makes a loan to the buyer, and pays the merchant promptly. The buyer then has a debt that he or she settles by making payment to the credit card company. Instead of carrying more money, or making credit arrangements with many merchants, the buyer makes a single payment for purchases from many merchants. The balance can be paid in full, usually on a monthly basis, or the buyer can pay a fraction of the total debt, with interest charged on the remaining balance.
Before credit cards existed, a buyer could arrange a loan at a bank. The bank would then credit the buyer's deposit account, allowing the buyer to pay for his or her purchases by writing checks. Under this arrangement the merchant bore more of the costs of collecting payment and the costs of acquiring information about the buyer's credit standing. With credit cards, the issuing company, often a bank, bears many of these costs, passing some of the expenses along to merchants through the usage fee.
A debit card differs from a credit card in the way the debt is paid. The issuing bank deducts the payment from the customer's account at the time of purchase. The bank's loan is paid immediately, but the merchant receives payment in the same way as with the use of a credit card. Risk to the lending institution is reduced because the electronic transmission of information permits the bank to refuse payment if the buyer's deposit balance is insufficient.
Electronic money
Items used as money in modern financial systems possess various attributes that reduce costs or increase convenience. Units of money are readily divisible, easily transported and transferred, and recognized instantly. Legal tender status guarantees final settlement. Currency protects anonymity, avoids record keeping, and permits lower costs of payment. But currency can be lost, stolen, or forged, so it is used most often for relatively small transactions or where anonymity is valued.
Information processing reduces costs of transfer, record keeping, and the acquisition of information. "Electronic money" is the name given to several different ways in which the public and financial and nonfinancial firms use electronic transfers as part of the payments system. Since most of these transfers do not introduce a new medium of exchange (i.e., money), electronic transfer is a more appropriate name than electronic money. (See also e-commerce.)
Four very different types of transfer can be distinguished. First, depositors can use electronic funds transfers (EFTs) to withdraw currency from their accounts using automated teller machines (ATMs). In this way an ATM withdrawal works like a debit card. ATMs also allow users to deposit checks into their accounts or repay bank loans. While they do not replace the assets used as money, ATMs make money more readily available and more convenient to use by accepting transactions even when banks are closed, be it on weekends or holidays or at any time of the day. ATMs also overcome geographic and national boundaries by allowing travelers to conduct transactions in many parts of the world.
The second form of EFT, "smart cards" (also known as stored-value cards), contain a computer chip that can make and receive payments while recording each new balance on the card. Users purchase the smart card (usually with currency or deposits) and can use it in place of currency. The issuer of the smart card holds the balance (float) and thus earns interest that may pay for maintaining the system. Most often the cards have a single purpose or use, such as making telephone calls, paying parking meters, or riding urban transit systems. They retain some of the anonymity of currency, but they are not "generally accepted" as a means of payment beyond their dedicated purpose. There has been considerable speculation that smart cards would replace currency and bring in the "cashless society," but there are obstacles, the primary one being that the maintenance of a generalized transfer system is more costly than using the government's currency. Either producers must find a way to record and transfer balances from many users to many payees, or users must purchase many special-purpose cards.
The automated clearinghouse (ACH) is the third alternative means of making deposits and paying bills. ACH networks transfer existing deposit balances, avoid the use of checks, and speed payments and settlement. In addition, many large payments (such as those to settle securities or foreign exchange transactions between financial institutions) are made through electronic transfer systems that "net" (determine a balance of) the total payments and receipts; they then transfer central bank reserves or clearinghouse deposits to fund the net settlement. Some transactions between creditors and debtors give rise to claims against commodities or financial assets. These may at first be barter transactions that are not settled promptly by paying conventional money. Such transactions economize on cash balances and increase the velocity, or rate of turnover, of money.
As technologies for individual users developed, banks permitted depositors to pay their bills by transferring funds from their account to the creditor's account. This fourth type of electronic funds transfer reduces costs by eliminating paper checks.
Central banking
Modern banking systems hold fractional reserves against deposits. If many depositors choose to withdraw their deposits as currency, the size of the banking system shrinks. A run on the bank—a sudden withdrawal of deposits as currency or, in earlier times, as gold or silver—can cause banks to run out of reserves and force their closure. Bank panics of this kind occurred many times. After 1866 in Great Britain, but not until 1934 in the United States, did governments learn to use the central bank (or some other government institution) to prevent bank runs.
The Bank of England was the first modern central bank, serving as the model for many others, such as the Bank of Japan, the Bank of France, and the U.S. Federal Reserve. It was established as a private bank in 1694 but by the mid-19th century had become largely an agency of the government. In 1946 the U.K. government nationalized the Bank of England. The Bank of France was established as a governmental institution by Napoleon in 1800. In the United States, the 12 Federal Reserve banks, together with the Board of Governors in Washington, D.C., constitute the Federal Reserve System. The reserve banks are technically owned by their member commercial banks, but this is a pure formality. Member banks get only a fixed annual percentage dividend on their stock and have no real power over the bank's policy decisions. For all intents and purposes, the Federal Reserve is an independent governmental agency.
The notes issued by a central bank (or other governmental agency) plus deposits at the central bank are called the "monetary base." When held as bank reserves, each dollar, pound, or euro becomes the base for several dollars, pounds, or euros of commercial bank loans and deposits. Earlier in the history of money, the size of the monetary base was limited by the amount of gold or silver owned. Today there is no longer a formal limit to the amount of notes and deposits that a central bank may have as liabilities.
The way in which a central bank increases or decreases the monetary base is, typically, by making loans (discounting) or by buying and selling government securities (open-market operations) or foreign assets. If, for example, the Federal Reserve System purchases $1 million of government securities, it pays for these securities by drawing a check on itself, thereby adding $1 million to its assets and $1 million to its liabilities. The seller can take the check to a Federal Reserve bank, which will exchange it for $1 million in Federal Reserve notes. Or the seller may deposit the check at a commercial bank, and the bank may in turn present it to a Federal Reserve bank. The latter "pays" the check by making an entry on its books increasing that bank's deposits by $1 million. The commercial bank may, in turn, transfer this sum to a borrower, who again will convert it into Federal Reserve notes or deposit it.
The important point is that these bookkeeping operations simply record a process whereby the central bank has created, out of thin air as it were, additional base money (currency held by the public plus sums deposited with a reserve bank)—the direct counterpart of printing Federal Reserve notes. Similarly, if the central bank sells government securities, it decreases base money. (See also monetary policy.)
The total quantity of money at any time depends on several factors, including the stock of base money, the public's preference regarding the relative amounts of money it wishes to hold as currency and as deposits, and the preferences of banks regarding the ratio they wish to maintain between their reserves and their deposits. (The reserve ratio is, of course, dominated by legal reserve requirements, where they exist.) Banks hold treasury bills and other short-term assets to provide additional liquidity, but they also hold some reserves in the form of currency so that they may cash checks or pay withdrawals from their ATMs.
On a much broader scale, it follows that a central bank can vary the total face value of money by controlling the amount of the monetary base and by other less important means. The major problem of modern monetary policy centres on how a central bank should use this power.
Money has an "internal" and "external" price. The internal price is the price level of domestic goods and services. The external price is the nominal, or market, exchange rate. The principal responsibility of a modern central bank differs according to the choice of monetary standard. If the country has a fixed exchange rate, the central bank buys or sells foreign exchange on demand to maintain stability in the rate. When sales by the central bank are too brisk, the growth of the monetary base decreases, the quantity of money and credit declines, and interest rates increase. The rise in interest rates attracts foreign investors and deters local investors from investing abroad. Also, the increase in interest rates slows domestic expansion and reduces upward pressure on domestic prices. On the other hand, when the central bank's purchases are too brisk, money growth increases and interest rates fall, thereby inducing domestic expansion and stimulating an increase in prices.
If a country has a floating exchange rate, it must choose a policy to go with the floating rate. At times in the past, many countries expected their central bank to pursue several different objectives. Eventually, countries recognized that this was an error because it focused the central bank on short-term goals at the expense of longer-term price stability. After high inflation in Europe and the United States in the 1970s and the hyperinflation (inflation exceeding 50 percent) in Latin America and Israel in the 1980s, many central banks and governments recognized an old truth: the main objective of a central bank under floating rates should be to stabilize domestic price levels, thereby maintaining the internal value of money.
Increased awareness of this primary responsibility led to lower rates of inflation in the 1980s and '90s, although central banks continued to be concerned about employment and recession in addition to price stability. Several adopted rules or procedures to control money growth by adjusting interest rates in response to both inflation and deviations in output from the long-term growth rate. Following the examples of New Zealand and Great Britain, several countries adopted inflation targets, typically based on time frames of one or two years, and then adjusted policy to reach these targets. Under the Maastricht Treaty of the European Union, the European Central Bank has a mandate to maintain price stability. The ECB has interpreted this mandate to mean inflation of 2 percent or less.
Learn More in these related Britannica articles:
economics: MoneyOne of the principal subfields of contemporary economics concerns money, which should not be surprising since one of the oldest, most widely accepted functions of government is control over this basic medium of exchange. The dramatic effects of changes in the quantity of money…
history of Europe: Prices and inflation…rooted in part in frequent monetary debasements; the French kings, for example, debased or altered their chief coinage, the
livre tournois,in 1519, 1532, 1549, 1561, 1571–75 (four mutations), and 1577. Probably more significant (though even this is questioned) was the infusion of new stocks of precious metal, especially silver,…
history of Europe: Early capitalismMeanwhile silver, everywhere the basic unit of value, remained in short supply. One-sided trade with the east meant a continuous drain. Insufficient silver was mined; declining imports from the New World did not affect only Spain. Governments tried to prevent the clipping of coins and so revalued. The deficiency remained,…
China: Reforms…reality of a rapidly spreading money economy by increasing the supply of currency. The state became involved in trading, buying specific products of one area for resale elsewhere (thereby facilitating the exchange of goods), stabilizing prices whenever and wherever necessary, and making a profit itself. This did not displace private…
Price, the amount of money that has to be paid to acquire a given product. Insofar as the amount people are prepared to pay for a product represents its value, price is also a measure of value. It follows from the definition just stated that prices perform an economic function of…
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From March 17th-22nd, 48 amazing servants from Stillwater Church of Christ spent their spring break blessing Arms of Hope: Medina Campus. These men and women, along with their families, contributed to our campus in so many ways. They cleared cedar out to make way for more construction, helped with deconstruction at our barn, hosted a Spa Night for our Single Mothers, provided multiple devotionals and games and hosted a VBS that went through the final days of Jesus for our little ones. A big thanks goes out to Jake Perkins for bringing this amazing group to our campus for the 2nd year in a row. Our campus thanks
you and your church for your hard work and willingness to serve just as Jesus did. Watch the video below and click here to see the pictures.


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In the daily hustle of life, the loudest noise in our routines seems to be that of the negative things surrounding us. We hear of crime, of conflict, and of other moments where people give into the imperfections that weaken us all...but then there are other moments-those glistening snippets of time where we are reminded of the purity of the innate goodness of humanity.
Daughters of the Road bore witness to many simple acts of kindness compressed into one Saturday morning event: #HashtagLunchbag Orlando.
The #HashtagLunchbag movement is a nationwide initiative aimed at feeding needy members of the community through the simple acts of assembling bagged lunches (lovingly packed into brown paper bags with messages of encouragement penned on the outside) and handing them out around the city.
Saturday, September 24th, 2016 marked the first anniversary of this event in our City Beautiful: Orlando, Florida. The event's coordinator, Stacey Marine, is a shining example of the capacity of a single person to impact hundreds through an unyielding sense of compassion.
Stacey welcomed us with open arms and we commenced in the lunch-making process. With care and consideration, each bag was filled with handmade sandwiches, pieces of fruit and snacks for later. Children, learning the necessity of being a part of the betterment of our communities, drew pictures and wrote notes on each lunch bag.
After the lunch assembly, we loaded as many lunches as we could into our tour bags, backpacks and strapped to our sissy bars; our bikes carrying cargo more precious than we had ever considered. Crossing paths with some of the youngest participants, we were reminded of the joy one feels when doing something selfless. The children were so proud that they had "passed out all of their bags" that they greeted us with big smiles and high fives as we passed them on our route.
We were touched by the people who worked alongside us, as well as those whom we fed. We met not a single ungrateful person that day. Many of those individuals were surprised at the purity of our intentions: to feed them and to make this day better than the last.
The beautiful faces we saw that day, some new friends and some old, all came together to create an untouchable moment of rejuvenation. Each lunch we passed out took both literal and figurative weight from our shoulders.
We want to wholeheartedly thank Stacey and everyone else who contributed to this month's #HashtagLunchbagOrlando event. You all gave greater reason to our two-wheeled journeys this past weekend, and we are that much better for it.
To join the next event in our town, follow @Hashtaglunchbagorlando on Instagram, or locate the #HashtagLunchbag event in your city.


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FanDuel Pitching Primer: Tuesday 5/8/18
In daily fantasy baseball, success starts with nailing the starting pitcher spot in your lineup.
When compared to hitters, pitching performance tends to be much more predictable and stable throughout the course of the season. You know what you're getting from a top-level ace when you roster him: probably a dominant effort with only one or two implosions per season. In contrast, even the game's best hitters have days at the plate when they go 0-for-4.
As a result, lineup construction should begin with the starting pitcher. Each day we will highlight a starter to consider from each pricing tier, and we'll also look at one contrarian play for tournaments.
Who should you consider on tonight's main slate?
High-Priced Stud
Corey Kluber, Cleveland Indians
at Milwaukee Brewers
FanDuel Price: $11,400
Corey Kluber checks in as the top stud on tonight's slate, and by a pretty wide margin. Although the Indians' ace has seen a decline in his strikeout rate (27.5% from 34.1% in 2017) and an increase in his hard-hit rate (33.6% from 28.9% in 2017), he hasn't seen a dip in his surface numbers. His 5-1 record and 2.41 ERA are both among the league leaders in the AL, and he has registered a quality start in each of his seven outings.
Kluber's opponent, the Milwaukee Brewers, have the fifth-highest strikeout rate in the National League versus right-handed pitching, as well as the sixth-lowest wOBA (.306).
Kluber gets a park downgrade traveling to Miller Park, but gets to dodge the designated hitter, giving him the potential to rack up more strikeouts with the opposing pitcher at the plate.
While the peripherals aren't yet where we want them to be for this price tag, expect Kluber to rediscover his dominance tonight against the Brew Crew.
Mid-Range Play
James Paxton, Seattle Mariners
at Toronto Blue Jays
FanDuel Price: $9,500
If you believe that Kluber's decline in strikeouts and increase in hard contact are legit (and therefore worthy of fading), James Paxton is a viable alternative in the mid-range.
Paxton is actually the second-most expensive pitcher on the slate, but comes in at an almost $2,000 discount from Kluber.
Fresh off a dominant 16-strikeout outing against the A's, the Mariners' lefty has recorded a slate-high 35.7% strikeout rate so far in 2018. He has gotten himself into trouble at times, with a 9.5% walk rate (up from 6.7% in 2017), but his 2.95 SIERA shows he has been able to limit damage to a large degree.
While their strikeout and walk rates are around league average, the Blue Jays' offense has the third-lowest wOBA against left-handers (.312) in the American League. Fire up Paxton with confidence in all formats, as he has a tremendous amount of upside tonight.
Value Option
Sean Newcomb, Atlanta Braves
at Tampa Bay Rays
FanDuel Price: $7,900
The Braves' Sean Newcomb has made the jump from a serviceable youngster with potential to one of the best arms in the NL East this season. He has seen his strikeout rate increase from 23.7% last season to 29% this year, and while his walk rate is still in double-digits (10.3%), it is an improvement from where it was a year ago(12.5%).
The Rays have struggled to score runs and possess the American League's seventh-highest strikeout rate versus left-handed pitching. They have actually fared better against southpaws in terms of team wOBA and OPS (2nd in the AL in both), but have been mediocre in those numbers at home (7th in both).
Although Newcomb will have to deal with the DH -- something he is not use to doing in NL parks -- Tropicana Field is one of the better pitchers' parks in the American League.
On a 14-game slate with a ton of pitchers to pick on with high-priced bats, deploying Newcomb and his cheap salary could be a way to load up on offense.
Contrarian Play
Luis Severino
vs. Boston Red Sox
FanDuel Price: $10,100
Typically we don't want to pick on the offense of the Boston Red Sox, but Yankees fireballer Luis Severino showed in his last start that he is as matchup-proof as they come.
Severino tossed a gem last Wednesday against the Astros, firing a complete-game shutout with 10 strikeouts while scattering only 5 hits. On the season, he has had only one start in which he has failed to record at least 40 FanDuel points, while registering a 5-1 record with a 2.11 ERA and dominant 0.85 WHIP.
The Red Sox are tied for the lowest strikeout rate as a team in the majors (19%), but the Astros had only the sixth-lowest strikeout rate before being mowed down by Severino.
The right-hander also gets to pitch at home, where he has a 1.33 ERA and a minuscule .134 batting average against this season.
Given the price gaps between Severino, Kluber and Paxton, most will shy away from the Yankees' starter. The matchup could also serve as a deterrent, keeping him at low ownership tonight. Severino provides GPP-winning upside as the top contrarian play on the board.
Drew Crawford is not a FanDuel employee. In addition to providing DFS gameplay advice, Drew Crawford also participates in DFS contests on FanDuel using his personal account, username squid0308. While the strategies and player selections recommended in his articles are his personal views, he may deploy different strategies and player selections when entering contests with his personal account. The views expressed in his articles are the author's alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of FanDuel.


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Easy Apps
By Lori Powell
Happy New Year! My gift to you is a quick and easy-to-assemble hors d'oeuvre to put together in minutes, as long as you have a couple of items around in your pantry. It's as convenient whether you are entertaining just one other person or are having a bunch of friends over.
The following "recipe" is really a non recipe and is truly just some ideas on what to fill readymade, store-bought little phyllo cups with. The boxes of phyllo cups are sold in the freezer section of the supermarket near the phyllo sheets and puff pastry.
I always keep a box or two of these on hand since they can be kept frozen for months and you can use them straight from the box or reheat them in the oven in just minutes. Another bonus is they provide a crispy holder for yummy ingredient combinations and are low in fat and calories.
So here's to a new year of easy entertaining!
Hot Phyllo Shells
Serves 4
Fill each of 15 phyllo shells (1 box) with 1 teaspoon goat cheese, brie, pearl mozzarella (super-tiny balls of mozzarella that come in a tube with water) or taleggio cheese and ½ teaspoon fruit chutney, fig jam, hot pepper jelly or Asian chili jam. Bake in the middle rack of a preheated 400F oven until cheese is melted, about 3 minutes. Sprinkle with freshly ground black pepper and garnish with fresh herbs such as rosemary, chives or basil.
Cold Phyllo Shells
Serves 4
Fill each of 15 phyllo shells with 1 ½ teaspoons taramosalata, (fish roe spread found in jars in the refrigerator section of the supermarket where herring, marinated olives and hummus are sold) or whitefish spread or smoked salmon dip. Top with chopped cucumber and fresh dill.
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Arr! Ahoy, mateys! Okay, I'll stop that now. It might not be International Talk Like A Pirate Day yet, but pretty soon there's a new (and possibly final) Pirates of the Caribbean film coming out and I wanted to share my thoughts on the story of some of Captain Jack Sparrow's adventures, especially as I've decided to re-watch the films in the lead-up to the release of the fifth one, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales – a title that seems somewhat contradictory to the actual events of the story (given how many walking and talking undead seem to pop up every other film), but that's a topic for another day.
Now you might be wondering why in the blazes I'm starting off with Dead Man's Chest (2006), the second in the saga, rather than Curse of the Black Pearl (2003). The reason is two-fold: 1) very simply, I hadn't thought of the idea of writing a few blog posts about this when I re-watched the first one a week ago, and 2) more importantly, I realised that I didn't need to discuss the first one. Why? Because I feel like almost everything has been said of that film that needed to be said. If you want my thoughts on it, I'll sum it up really quick: the first Pirates of the Caribbean, while not without its issues, is a very solid, very entertaining adventure film, and the Pirates-saga is still riding on its coattails, to some degree. The reason for this is, I think, mainly because screenwriters Ted Elliot and Terry Rossio (whose advice was some of the first I'd ever read on writing) knew exactly what the audience wanted before they did and delivered it: a fun, high-stakes, high-seas adventure with pirates. Just think about the film:
- It has the utterly crazy, yet loveable rogue in the form of Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp).
- It has a romance between the handsome young blacksmith that turns a bit pirate (Orlanda Bloom) and the charming, but secretly tomboyish noble lady (Keira Knightley).
- The villains are a group of undead pirates on their ship, the Black Pearl, led by the dastardly Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), who is intensely entertaining in his evil.
- There is adventure, there is swashbuckling, there's ships, there's sword-fights, there's an ancient treasure and a curse that lies upon it, there's a mysterious island and a magic compass, etc.
Do you see what I'm saying? Ted Elliot and Terry Rossio seemed to literally take everything we associate with this type of story and everything you'd want for a fun, entertaining, magical adventure film about pirates and turned it into a coherent, elegant narrative. Couple this with Johnny Depp's legendary performance (and generally good work of all actors involved), the great sets and costumes, great CGI (still somewhat ground-breaking at the time), the directing and the rousing score and it's completely understandable why this was such a huge success. Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl is not exactly a masterpiece, but it doesn't need to be: it only strives to create an entertaining, whirlwind adventure and at that, it succeeds marvellously.
The second film, Dead Man's Chest, however, is typically met with more mixed reactions. Some consider it better than the first, many consider it less so, but still better than the third and fourth. I consider myself in the former camp, but I would be lying if I said I didn't see its flaws. As I was re-watching it again last night, I got a clearer sense of what worked and what didn't about the film and why Dead Man's Chest can simultaneously seem better and worse than Curse of the Black Pearl sometimes. So without further ado, let's delve right in, shall we? I'm going to take a look at it point by point.
For starters, I noticed that the story of Dead Man's Chest has pacing problems: while the start of the film provides two nice mysteries to keep us interested (one is Lord Cutler Beckett's arrest of Will and Elizabeth and his play to use them to obtain Jack Sparrow's compass; the other is Jack's search for the titular Dead Man's Chest), the story still takes a long time to get going. It takes a full 45 minutes (nearly half of most movies!) before Act I is finished (when Will and Jack are finally re-united and escape from the island) and we truly start getting to the heart of the matter. The reason for this is obvious, but it's still a flaw: the actual tale (which is that of Davey Jones, Jack's desire to get out from under the deal he once made with him and the involvement of Will and Elizabeth in it) is spread out over two films, Dead Man's Chest and At World's End. The writers feel like they have the time to have Will and Jack gallivanting about, because they have two films anyway – but this still does a disservice to the story. Because what purpose did that whole section with the cannibals serve? It's entertaining, I grant you, but because it's unrelated to the story, it still feels like a waste and stretches out the story meaninglessly in the long run. What would've been a far more interesting and appropriate alternative would be if:
- Will locates Jack rather quickly, following the trail of destruction that Jack leaves as he's being chased by Jones and the Kraken;
- Jack manipulates Will into helping him infiltrate the Flying Dutchman and steal the key to the chest by revealing that Will's father is still trapped there and getting the contents of the Dead Man's Chest is the only way to potentially set him free from Jones;
- The mission goes awry, Will is captured by Jones and Jack strikes a deal with Jones for an alternative to settle their debt, but it's actually a ploy designed to give Jack enough time to find the chest.
All of this is a suitable Act I and can probably be done within the space of about 30 minutes, leaving another 90 for Act II and III. Act II can focus entirely on Jack meeting up with Elizabeth and searching for the Dead Man's Chest, while Will later escapes the Dutchman with the key and joins them to find it. This way, Act III has all the time in the world for the confrontation with Jones that follows and the climax. It works better and probably shaves about 20 to 30 minutes off the run-time.
Story Structure
The pacing issues lead me to a general point of criticism with Dead Man's Chest and At World's End, but really, it applies to almost all sequels where two films are used to tell one story (another example of this are The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions): if you're not careful, the story will feel incomplete. Now, part of that is obviously intentional, because the writers and producers hope that, by ending on a cliffhanger, viewers will want to see the next one to find out how it ends. Unfortunately, we usually don't enjoy films this way and I think it goes back to the heart of storytelling: it is an emotional journey, meant to be complete (with a beginning, middle and end) and it doesn't satisfy us if we only get half. It's like, instead of cooking a separate, delicious meal for each day, you only get half of both of them across two. It feels weird and just doesn't work. There are some films that do it right, such as The Empire Strikes Back from Star Wars: it absolutely ends in a manner that makes you eager to know how the saga will continue, but also delivers a full, complete journey for each of the characters. Dead Man's Chest, sadly, is not that. ALL the issues that are raised throughout the film (Jack's troubles with Davey Jones, Will's father trapped on the Flying Dutchman, Will and Elizabeth's relationship, Elizabeth's desire to be free as manifested in her attraction to Jack, Cutler Beckett's schemes, etc.) are left open-ended: there is not a single plot-thread that is really resolved, except maybe Norrington bartering Jones' heart with Beckett to regain his former place in society. With nothing resolved, the entire story feels like it's been cut in half and fails to satisfy us. It shows in the entire structure: usually, the middle of a film (or about 2/3rds or 3/4ths into it) has a central, powerful moment in which something very relevant happens, there's an important development, a character gains a profound insight or changes in some way, etc. In Dead Man's Chest, around this time, Will faces the Kraken… And while there are important developments before that point (Will meets his father again, comes to terms with his father leaving him and swears he will free him from Jones), the encounter itself is not super relevant, even if the scene is pretty spectacular. And it makes sense that the middle of this film is unsatisfactory, because the actual middle (the middle of the entire story that's being told across two films) is found at the end, which incidentally is the most powerful moment so far.
…And now watch me contradict myself immediately! Because for all my bitching about the story being incomplete and ending on cliffhangers – I also realised that the cliffhangers are probably the best damn thing about Dead Man's Chest! Basically, while the story feels incomplete and fails to satisfy, the cliffhangers are actually done well enough to make them the most enthralling moments of the film. Look at how everything ends:
- Elizabeth finally pulls a very pirate-like move, betraying Jack by chaining him to the ship and leaving him to die to the Kraken to save herself, Will and the rest of the crew.
- Jack, while managing to escape the chains, doesn't attempt to flee, but faces his last moments boldly, as he and the Black Pearl are torn apart by the Kraken;
- Davey Jones watches Jack go down with his ship and considers their outstanding debt finally settled – only to scream with anger upon realising that his heart is missing from the chest.
- Jones' heart is revealed to be in the possession of Norrington, who has no problem making a deal with the devil (Beckett) in order to be pardonned.
- Will, Elizabeth and the crew, having failed to settle the matter with Jones and feeling lost without Jack and the Pearl, are suddenly given a chance to bring them back – with the help of Barbossa, who we saw die at the end of the first film!
What I said before still stands: none of the plot-threads we're following are actually complete. We're still pretty much going forward with what we were doing before. Nothing is resolved. Yet each of these cliffhangers is written, shot, acted and scored to absolute perfection. For all of the movie's little mistakes so far, each of these moments is a bullseye, one after another.
And that's why it's easy to see for me why this film, among the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, tends to be one of the more divisive, with people uncertain whether it's really better or worse than the first one. The story that was started isn't done yet and we leave it, knowing that the sequel has a lot of potential for success – or for failure. And on that note, I end my analysis for this film. Sometime next week, we'll get into the film that had to deliver on what Dead Man's Chest set up, At World's End.


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The Bond
A Star Trek: Enterprise Story
"Sail Forth - steer for the deep waters only.
Reckless O soul, exploring. I with thee and thou with me.
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared go.
And we will risk the ship, ourselves, and all."
- - Walt Whitman's "Passage to India" - -
Storm Front
For a moment, she felt relief, knowing he was back aboard. Every second he and Ensign Mayweather had been down below, on World War Two Earth, she had been terrified that something would happen to him – that she would lose him, just like she'd thought she lost Captain Archer. Her emotional control had been severely compromised by the death of her human captain and his subsequent return from the planet they had thought him on; T'Pol did not want to know what would become of her if she lost her human-
There were not words for what Commander Tucker – Trip – was to her, not in Vulcan. Words like "colleague" and "associate" did not describe the flurry of emotions that the commander had engendered in her from their very first meeting, but they were the best that her language had. No Vulcan colleague had ever enraged her so, nor would have actively sought to anger her as he did. The mere memory of their heated confrontation on the bridge during their first mission together was enough to cause spikes of anger in her even now, years after. No Vulcan colleague would have told her about decrypting and reading her personal correspondence either, nor would have seemed genuinely apologetic about it when found out. No Vulcan colleague would have so persistently tried to invade her personal space – would never have asked her age, or persisted in getting her to attend "movie night" had such a thing existed on Vulcan vessels, - nor would have been so genuinely concerned after her well-being when he realized he'd made her uncomfortable. Before meeting Trip, no one had ever asked what she wanted, and it had never occurred to her to ask the same of herself.
She was a maverick for her kind. She was already on her third career when most women her age would be starting families, putting aside their jobs for a decade or two to raise children. Her choice to work for the security directorate had been considered an unusual occupation for so young a Vulcan, and her mother had been her species' equivalent of overjoyed when she'd decided to persue a career in the High Command instead. Her posting to Earth was only ever have supposed to have been brief – a six-month service at the embassy as interim director of the scientific exchange program between Earth and Vulcan while the man who normally held the position, Storak, returned to Vulcan before the... unpleasant... realities of pon farr overcame him – but the human's move to launch Enterprise early had not been anticipated, and she was the best qualified amongst the Vulcans then on Earth to be sent to mind them.
And now T'Pol could not think of leaving them.
Could not think of leaving him.
There were many things she could blame it on, if she thought about it. The pa'nar. The trellium. The lack of time to meditate. The stress of being in command of a human vessel that had just lost its captain. The knowledge that, with their mission over, if Starfleet would not grant her a commission, the High Command would demand she be returned to Vulcan. But the fact of the matter was, after Lieutenant Reed told them that Captain Archer was dead, she had never felt more broken inside – and not because of her own grief, though it was strong, but because, it hurt her to see Commander Tucker – Trip – hurting too.
Oh, T'Pol tried to ignore the feeling, to push past her grief like she had so many other emotions and continue with her duties, but throughout her shift her thoughts kept drifting back to Commander Tucker – Trip – as she wondered how he was. It would have been better if there was something, anything available to distract herself with, but, with the Aquatic ship taking them back to Earth, most systems that would normally require monitoring were offline and only the most pressing of repairs were under way. So, unable to help herself, she worried about Commander Tucker – Trip; - unable to help herself, she'd found herself calling on him after her shift ended...
...He was in his cabin, his own shift just over and his careful, almost-Vulcan mask of sublimated grief starting to break down. "What are you doing here, T'Pol?" he asked, not moving from his position on his bed and sounding more tired than she'd heard him in many weeks, as if he was almost broken, as if this was one straw too many.
"I was concerned about your mental state."
Looking away from her towards the window that showed only the docking bay of the ship they now rode inside, he humourlessly told her, "I'm not going to off myself, if that's what you're thinking."
She was unfamiliar with the term but, thinking it inappropriate, did not seek clarification at the moment. "I was not thinking anything of the sort. I merely thought you could use friend."
As he turned back towards her, his expression slightly sheepish, T'Pol was forced to admit she had formed a friendship of sorts with this angry, argumentative alien. For some reason or another, his well-being had somehow become integral to her own. The very thought that he might spend another nine months hurting for the captain's death as he had his sister's caused a pain that was almost physical within her.
Impulsively, T'Pol sat down beside him and placed an arm around him, as she had seen humans do in the movies he'd insisted she view, and, after a moment more, rested her head against his shoulder. After an amount of time she couldn't judge, he managed, "You know, at least one good thing's come of this all."
"And what would that be?"
"You. When we started out, you wouldn't even shake my hand, and now look at you."
"I have discovered the human need for physical contact is not quite as illogical as I once thought."
"Oh, really?"
"I will admit I myself find it... soothing... at times."
She sensed more than saw his frown return. "I just can't imagine he's gone. I know we've been in some tough scrapes before, but he's always..." And then there were no more words, just emotions, and she held him as he cried, and found herself not fighting back the tears that were forming in her own eyes. She should have run from such a display of emotion, should've hidden herself away at her body's own rebellious sharing of her feelings, but didn't. Instead, she stayed, and if Commander Tucker – Trip – found anything odd about it, he was gracious enough not to say anything. He just let her hold him, and, eventually, they both exhausted themselves and their tears, falling asleep on his bunk in a tangled mess of limbs and blankets.
She could've made excuses hours later, when she'd woken, her entire body feeling leaden with grief. She could've left, and he might've thought he'd only imagined her spending the night in his bed. A better Vulcan than she would've, but she'd realized several weeks ago that she'd never been that kind of Vulcan. If she had been, she'd not have been here in the first place. She'd have left when her original ten day tour was over, or when Koss's parents had called her home, or before entering the Expanse, or any of a dozen other times. She had wanted these emotions, had courted them with her use of trellium-D, and had to learn to deal with them the human way.
So she stayed, feeling more in control of herself than she had in ages as she lay in his arms. And, when Trip had eventually woken, she did not dissemble about her presence, but turned and leaned into his embrace.
"Please tell me this is just a dream," he whispered.
Confused and feeling more than a little foolish, she began to pull away, "I apologize if I have misunderstood the situation-"
Trip responded by gripping her tighter. "No, stay, please. I'm just surprised, that's all." At her questioning brow, barely visible in the dimmed light of his quarters, he explained, "I thought you would've left by now."
"I didn't want to be alone."
"Neither do I. It's just..." He propped himself up on one elbow and, almost nervously, tugged at the collar of his slept-in uniform, "...just tell me this isn't going to be another experiment."
Swallowing back pre-formulated responses on the illogic of human-Vulcan relationships, T'Pol ran through every experience she had, trying to find words to tell him that she held him in higher regard than she did any other human; that she'd missed his presence during that period of time immediately after their sexual encounter, when they'd each done their best to avoid the other and that this had been why she'd, eventually, sought him out again, even if only to argue; that she could, honestly, no longer imagine a future without him in it, and, while she didn't know what such a level of attachment might mean, all she knew was that she had lost one friend that day, and the thought of loosing him too made her positively ill. But, in all her years, she'd never felt this way before, and so had no words. She didn't know if, honestly, she could handle a relationship – of any sort – with someone as emotional and illogical as Trip, but she'd rather have that friendship than live without it.
But her silence carried on too long, and, disappointment colouring his features, Trip began to climb out of the bed. Panic set in at the thought – no, the absolute knowledge – that, if she let him go now, he'd be lost to her forever, and she grabbed his arm to stop him.
He turned back to look at her, a faint trace of the usual human surprise at Vulcan strength taking place of some of the sadness, and T'Pol raised herself up enough to kiss him, gently but thoroughly, on the lips. "I will be here as long as you'll have me," she whispered, her voice sounding faint and uncertain to her own ears. It almost had embarrassed her that she, who had lived twice as long as he and seen more than he could possibly imagine of the galaxy, had sounded so young.
Voice heavy with emotions she daren't guess at, "And if that's for longer than just tonight?"
"We'll have to leave for our duty shifts eventually," she countered, "but I wouldn't be adverse to joining you here afterwards."
Pulling his arm away, "God damn it, T'Pol!" Striding over to his window, he looked out once more at the Aquatic's docking bay before, obviously not finding what he was looking for in the sight, turning back around, arms crossed defensively in front of him. Frayed – that was the best word to describe him, she thought. How humans could handle so many emotions at once, she could not guess, only that the few coursing through her now – sorrow for loosing the captain, hurt confusion at Trip's actions, and a warm desire in her belly of the sort she'd never experienced before meeting this all-too-unsettling human – were more than enough to keep her on the edge of control.
"You misunderstand me, Trip," she tried, but before she could get too far, he was raging again, all of the anger and sorrow coming out in a distinctly human way she, in better times, might've raged against. But she just felt so unbearably tired in the soul that she barely had the strength with which to function, and some part of her, no matter how small, felt that she deserved it for her stupidity. She'd no right to expect anything from him, not after how she'd treated him. In fact, the anger was only justified, and if he knew the other idiocies which she'd taken part in – the mind-meld, the trellium – he'd probably agree with her current assessment that she shouldn't be in command of a starship. That she was here at all was probably the most telling thing of all, and, had the High Command known of it, they would have seen to it that she was never posted away from Vulcan again. She should've cared, but couldn't bring herself to, and took it.
"What's there to misunderstand? You come in here, fall asleep on my bed; you say these things- God, T'Pol, For all we fight and for all that's screwed up between us, you're my best friend. I don't think I'd've made it through the last few months without your help. You're all I ever think about – you have been, for a long time. Hell, I'm in love with you and, if we're doing to do this, I don't want want some torrid affair that'll last only as long as Starfleet and the High Command will let you stay on Enterprise. I want it to be the real thing, forever and a day, and not just because your sad or scared or wanting to 'experience human sexuality' again."
There'd been silence for a long moment, and then, "I don't know," she managed at last (Trip already turning away as she said this, which hurt her so much that the next words came out all in a rush), "if I can give you what you want, but I'm willing to try."
Trip crossed the room in a single step, his expression immediately changing as one hand came up to grasp her face, the other her waist as he pulled her to him, his lips hard and insistent on hers, and her hands were fumbling to remove his uniform, and, for the first time in a long while, she'd felt like everything was as it was supposed to be...
...and now they were finally back at Earth, in the wrong version of their second World War, and he and Ensign Mayweather had had to be sent to the surface to recover the stolen shuttlepod because he was the only one who could fix it and Ensign Mayweather was the only one who could fly it...
She had thought things would be fine when Captain Archer, who suddenly turned out not to be dead at all, had gone back down to the surface and negotiated for their return. Both officers had been returned with minimal injuries considering, or so the transporter operator had reported, and it was only that and the fact that she had the bridge that kept her from heading down to sickbay and seeing for herself.
But it hadn't been him. It had been the Suliban, Silik, and Trip was down there still.
T'Pol tried to remain rational, but that was becoming harder and harder where Trip was concerned. Regardless of the fact that her language had words for neither "friend" or "lover," that was Commander Tucker – Trip – had become to her. It was illogical, but she... she...
She needed him to return from the surface alive.
She needed him.
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Odonell Loft
Property details
- Bedrooms
- 1
- Bathrooms
- 1
- Sleeps
- 2
- Square meters
- 45 m²
- Floor
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Property description
Located on the outskirts of the Salamanca District, and only a few minutes away from the historic centre, this modern, cosy, recently renovated loft apartment offers a comfortable space, ideal for a couple seeking tranquillity. It is conveniently located near major streets such as Goya, Alcalá and the Manuel Becerra Square. The Fuente del Berro neighbourhood is a calm area, with one-story houses, and its location allows for easy connections with the rest of the city. Fuente del Berro is a neighbourhood known for the park of the same name, and the apartment lies just a few minutes away from the park, probably the least known among the historical gardens of Madrid. It is a quiet, hidden place of great beauty, situated on the land that was once the Quinta de Miraflores, commissioned by Philip IV as a new royal site, an oasis within the city.
This apartment is on the ground floor, and it can be access directly by a quiet street. The loft was designed to be a modern, practical space. Its light colours, the natural sunlight that comes in through its large windows in the mornings, its open spaces and high ceilings truly stand out.
The clear spaces within the loft are divided in three levels, with wooden floors throughout. The bedroom has a double bed (1,50 x 2,00 m) and it is at the top level, separate from the rest. The middle level has a dining room with a crystal table for four, a fully equipped kitchen and a comfortable bathroom with a shower. On the lowest level, accessible from the street, there is a living room with a comfortable sofa for 3, an armchair and a flat-screen television. With a 45m2 area, this property is best suited for those with a young spirit who seek to enjoy a comfortable holiday, as well as for professionals seeking to stay in Madrid for a longer time.
Fuente del Berro is one of the six neighbourhoods that make up the Salamanca District in Madrid. Here lies the Fuente del Berro residential area, with small detached and attached houses built in the early 19th century, with high purchasing prices. Also, on the eastern part of the neighbourhood lies the Quinta de la Fuente del Berro Park.
It has a landscape garden with several levels, and it is made up by meadows scored with sinuous walks and rustic stone steps. It also has a rich variety of trees. Among the most noted elements to be found in the park are the monument to Bécquer, the statue dedicated to the poet Pushkin, fountains, waterfalls, a couple of small ponds, and a small palace, the only remnant of its regal past.
- Washing machine
- Dryer
- Iron
- Ironing board
- Bed linen provided
- Cable/Satellite TV
- Internet Enabled TV
- High-speed Internet
- WiFi
- Oven
- Microwave
- Coffee maker
- Espresso machine
- Refrigerator
- Freezer
- Vitro ceramic
- Fan / extractor
- Toaster
- Water kettle
- Kitchen utensils provided
- Air-conditioning
- Shower
- Towels provided
- Hair dryer
- Smoking allowed outside
Arrival sheet
Check In:
When you arrive to the apartment, a Flat Sweet Home team member will provide you with all of the relevant information about the property and its surrounding area. You will be asked to sign the rental contract and entry form, show your passport and your credit card and pay the security deposit. You will then be handed the keys to your new apartment in Madrid!
We ask all of our clients to follow our apartment check in Policy:
•Check in hours are between 3:00pm and 9:00pm.
•If you would like to check-in before 3:00pm we will do our utmost to accommodate you. If an earlier Check in is not possible, you are more than welcome to leave your luggage in the apartment, go out and begin exploring Madrid and return to the apartment as of 3:00pm.
•If you would like to Check in after 9:00pm or sundays an additional fee of 30 euros will be charged; for Check ins after 11:00 pm a 50 euros fee will be charged.
Check Out:
On the day of your Check Out, you must vacate the apartment before 11:00am. We kindly ask that you inspect the apartment before leaving, dispose of any garbage, and leave the keys on the living room table, you don't need to wait for us. Our team will arrive after you leave to clean up and to review the apartment inventory, in case we find any issue not reported we will send you an email attaching pictures.
If you would like to leave the apartment alter 11:00am we will do our utmost to accommodate your needs; however, it is vital that you inform us your plans in advance. If a late departure cannot be arranged, you are more than welcome to leave your packed luggage in the apartment and return to pick up before 3:00pm.


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Former W.J.Jeffery director Charles Williams and gunmaker Mark Mitchell of Scotland are the architects of this beautiful and brand new W.J.Jeffery rifle in the caliber .450-400. Mark Mitchell is a veteran of the British gun trade and worked for many of the prestigious British gun firms before re-locating to Scotland where he resides today. He does work for the gun trade, primarily as actioner.
After receiving the green light from Mr. Williams, Mark went to work and created an exact copy of a vintage W.J.Jeffery box lock double rifle. The action on this rifle is not a replica of a bulky Webley & Scott action that so often was utilized in vintage British double rifles. Rather it is based on a more appropriate sized and more re-fined action made by the Lenard shop of Birmingham. I have seen in the past double rifles by this maker and the handling is usually superb. Some of you may have seen pictures of the famous Jim Corbett double rifle, which was also created for Jeffery by the Lenard shop.
As often which such projects, a number of craftsmen had a hand in it, such as the barrel maker, machinist, stocker, engraver and finisher. However, Mr. Mitchell oversaw everything from start to finish and I think the result speaks for itself.
It is important for a craftsman to have a network of colleagues where advise and sometimes encouragement can be had. I'm very happy to have Mr. Mitchell in my network and to have as a friend. These days people of his caliber are increasingly rare.
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Housing three divisions of products at Classic Displays (Site Furniture, Holiday Displays, Flags & Banners), you can imagine how expansive our product lines are. Regardless of the number of products we have to offer, our customers don't necessarily want stock items; they want something more personalized. It is for that reason that we offer a number of customization options in each of our divisions.
Site Furniture
At Classic Displays we understand that well manufactured, long lasting site furniture can be a large investment, which is why we want to make these piece multi functional for our customers. Why should a waste receptacle be used solely to collect garbage when it can also help further brand a company, city street or act as an advertisement for a local business?
With site furniture, the customization doesn't stop at waste receptacles. We do a number of different types of bench customizations including embossed ends, which is very popular on our Riverside benches and can be seen in the City of
Christmas Displays
We've been in the Christmas décor business since 1977 and we have done a number of custom jobs since then. The nice thing about the LED displays that we manufacture is that it's easy for our customers to share their design concepts with us and we can turn around and make them a reality. And it doesn't have to be just for Christmas.
Flags & Banners
Using laser cut steel, we can create custom banner and floral arms by cutting names and designs into them. It's a great way to enhance a city street or BIA and examples of this can be found in the Islington BIA and
Offering a wide variety of customization options to our customers is something we think separates us from the rest. To increase our capabilities in this area we have a graphic designer on staff that can turn our customers ideas into working designs in the event our customers don't have the capacity to do so themselves. We also have an in house engineer that has worked on a number of custom site furniture products, from designing new pieces that we've have not previously manufactured to making alterations to our existing products to better suit the needs of the customer.


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Tyler Ulis fined for role in Suns-Grizzlies on-court altercation
Former University of Kentucky star Tyler Ulis was fined $15,000 by the NBA for his role during an altercation between the Phoenix Suns and Memphis Grizzlies near the end of their game on Feb. 8.
Ulis, whose first-year NBA salary is $918,369, came to teammate and fellow former Wildcat Devin Booker's defense after Grizzlies guard Troy Daniels took exception to Booker's hard foul on a three-pointer with 1:10 remaining in the game. Memphis won 110-91.
Suns Coach Earl Watson told the Associated Press that he appreciated the emotional display from his team in a tough loss.
"That shows they believe in each other," he said. "And they believe in a purpose."
Memphis Coach David Fizdale told the AP that he didn't think much of the late-game activity.
"These guys aren't fighting," Fizdale said. "There was a whole lot of huffing and puffing and pushing and shoving."
Daniels and the Suns rookie Marquese Chriss were also fined $15,000, and Phoenix center Alex Len was suspended one game without pay for leaving the bench area and entering the playing court during the altercation.
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Suns & Grizzlies scrap during garbage time. Tyler Ulis wasn't backing down... pic.twitter.com/8t0wnQbHyw— Ben Golliver (@BenGolliver) February 9, 2017
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Jenny Jones said:
"The policing of the student fees demonstration shows that the Met still hasn't learned how crucial communication is to the effective policing of demonstrations. They under-estimated the numbers as they didn't listen to the National Union of Students who reported a big surge of interest with more coaches being booked. The Met failed to deploy quickly, even after the students entered the wrong building at Millbank Towers."
"To be fair on the police, they got caught out by a spontaneous outburst of anger and those moments are very hard to anticipate and plan for."
The Green Party is committed through its Constitution to non-violent forms of direct action, and has condemned yesterday's violent protestors for drawing attention away from the aims of the overwhelming majority of peaceful demonstrators, who are appalled at the government's plans to raise the cap on tuition fees to £9000 per year.
As always the media attention is on a small number of violent people, virtually ignoring the thousands of legitimate protesters.
The majority were just plain old students, but angry. The kind of students who go to their lectures, go to parties, play sport at the weekends and sometimes get a bit drunk and lairy. And there were a lot of very young students there. Maybe they were first years, but many of them looked like school students. They weren't all middle class, they weren't all white, they hadn't all come in on the student union buses.
These are the people who made up the majority of the people at Millbank – ordinary young people, working class and middle class, from school age up to university age, who hadn't been on many demos before, whose only encounter with the police, or with agitated crowds, had been Saturday night lairiness or sports matches.
And that set the mood. It felt like a rowdy night in a busy town. People were angry and frustrated, and they hadn't had the training or the experience to deal with the situation. If it was true that a militant anarchist faction had led the violence at Millbank then here's what it would have looked like:
Everybody facing the police line would have had a mask on. Nobody would plan to feature prominently in national newspapers with their face clearly exposed, throwing a stick at a police officer or smashing a window. But what did we actually see? A few make-shift bandannas slipping down people's faces and a huge number of students who hadn't even tried to hide their identity.
Millbank showed what happens when a generation realises that they are being disenfranchised. We voted, it didn't count.
Condemn the stupidity of dropping a fire extinguisher on a crowd, of course. But the masses who swarmed peacefully into the lobby through open doors should be heroes


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HIV infection has been transformed in less than 30 years from a typically fatal condition to a chronic disease patients can live with for decades.
That longevity has HIV specialists scrambling to figure out how the virus affects the aging brain and how they will differentiate between the start of Alzheimer's disease and cognitive issues associated with HIV infection.
"I think this is one of the more pressing issues right now in geriatric neurologic HIV (medicine)," said Dr. Victor Valcour, a professor of geriatric medicine and neurology at the University of California, San Francisco Memory and Aging Center. "We really need to figure this out."
Doctors have long recognized that individuals infected with HIV can experience mild to severe memory or cognitive decline. HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders affect some 30 to 50 percent of infected patients, even those on antiretroviral drugs.
"They still run into cognitive problems, despite people having viral loads that are completely suppressed," said Dr. Marcel Curlin, an HIV specialist with Oregon Health & Science University.
Researchers believe that may be the effect of inflammation of the brain caused by the virus. While antiretroviral drugs are effective at keeping the virus from replicating elsewhere in the body, they may not be able to fully penetrate the blood-brain barrier that generally protects the brain from toxins.
Many researchers believe that could make individuals with HIV much more susceptible to aging-related dementia and Alzheimer's disease, in what's known as the two-hit hypothesis.
"Having two diseases instead of one makes you present with symptoms more frequently," Valcour said.
Doctors have seen this phenomenon in non-HIV patients. One study based on autopsies in individuals who died after the age of 80 found that many individuals who had no cognitive issues during their lifetimes still had the physical signs of Alzheimer's disease in their brains. For some unknown reason, their brains were resilient to the effects of the disease and they showed no symptoms.
"That's less likely to happen when people have a second disease," Valcour said.
Individuals who also had cerebral vascular disease, such as those who experienced a number of small strokes, were much more likely to have exhibited Alzheimer's symptoms.
"As people with HIV age, they already have that cerebral vascular disease," Valcour said. "If that holds true for this older population, there's increased risk there."
Many of these questions remain unanswered in part because HIV specialists haven't had large numbers of older patients to study. At the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis in the 1980s and 1990s, HIV primarily affected individuals in their 20s and 30s.
"Now that lump in the snake is progressing down toward the tail," Curlin said. "Alzheimer's disease doesn't show up until later, and now we're getting people who are moving into that range."
Today, individuals age 55 and older account for more than a quarter of the estimated 1.2 million Americans living with HIV. But the risk of Alzheimer's begins to climb exponentially after age 65, doubling every five years. As two trends intersect, doctors may be facing a lot of HIV-positive patients with dementia.
"The good news is they're living long enough to get Alzheimer's," said Dr. Scott Turner, a neurologist with Georgetown University Medical Center. "But the bad news is I'm wondering whether HIV is a risk factor for Alzheimer's."
Turner recently documented the case of a 71-year-old man who had been HIV positive for at least 14 years and had begun to experience memory issues. Doctors used a special imaging test to show deposits of beta amyloid in the brain, a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease.
Turner published the case report in part to draw attention to the issue because of concern that Alzheimer's disease could easily be overlooked.
"I'm wondering whether there are a lot of people who are misdiagnosed, who are actually being labeled as HAND but they may also have Alzheimer's," Turner said. "Everyone sort of assumes that if you become demented with HIV, it's HAND and end of story."
That could stem from the fragmented nature of HIV care. HIV specialists are primarily infectious disease doctors, who may look at the patient's CD4 count to determine how well the immune system is working, or to check the viral load to see how much virus is in the body.
"But no testing of any cognition," Turner said. "Even if there's a mild memory complaint, it just takes time to do cognitive testing."
For years, the disease was so deadly, doctors treating HIV patients had their hands full just keeping the virus at bay and overcoming resistance to the medications. But as they were able to keep patients alive with complex cocktails of different drugs, they had to expand their practice to deal with issues such as high cholesterol, hypertension and heart disease that arose from the either the HIV infection or as a side effect of the treatment.
"I think Alzheimer's falls into that as well," Valcour said. "I don't think there's been particular concern around things like Alzheimer's disease because we were dealing with a generally young population."
Researchers are now trying to develop protocols for distinguishing HAND from the start of Alzheimer's. That could include using PET scans to look for amyloid plaques in the brain.
"The challenge is that it's not terribly available to people," Valcour said. "It's highly expensive and it's not FDA approved. It's not reimbursed by Medicare. It's not something that most people are going to be able to afford."
There is a national study underway to test the ability of PET scans to diagnosed Alzheimer's and to justify Medicare reimbursement. Turner said doctors who suspect their HIV patients may have Alzheimer's could get free scans through the clinical trial.
In the meantime, doctors are left with more questions than answers.
"How are clinicians going to vet whether this is just HIV itself or whether there is an ominous second disease brewing?" Valcour asked. "I think there is a real risk for older HIV patients to be diagnosed a little bit late, because they're living with a disease that alone can cause cognitive impairment. Doctors may not recognize the early signs."
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Accountancy Intermediate Apprenticeship at Truro and Penwith College
Course description
You'll develop your skills in finance administration: double-entry bookkeeping, basic costing principles and purchase, sales and general ledgers.
Course content
Basic Costing
- Understanding an organisation's cost recording system and using it to record or extract data
- Use of spreadsheets to convey information on actual and budgeted income and expenditure.
Computerised accounting
- Entering data at the start of an accounting period to set up customer and supplier accounts
- Recording and processing customer and supplier transactions
- Recording and reconciling bank and cash transactions
- Processing and using journals to enter accounting transactions
- Production of reports (day books, account activity, aged analysis, statements or remittance advice).
Work effectively in accounting and finance
- Understanding an organisation's accounting or payroll function
- Using numeracy and literacy communication skills
- Working independently or in a team to prioritise tasks and manage colleagues' responsibilities
- Understanding ethical values, principles and importance of confidentiality
- Understanding and explaining benefits to organisations of sustainable values.
Processing bookkeeping transactions
- Understanding double-entry bookkeeping, integrating books of prime entry and describing coding system functions
- Understanding discounts and settlement, trade and bulk discount differences
- Preparing and processing customer and supplier invoices and credit notes
- Totalling and balancing a 3-column analysed cash book
- Totalling, balancing and reconciling petty cash records within an analysed petty cash book
- Processing ledger transactions and extracting a trial balance.
Control accounts, journals and the banking system
- Understanding the purpose and use of control accounts and journals
- Maintaining and using control accounts and the journal
- Reconciling a bank statement with the cash book
- Understanding the banking process and main services of banks and building societies
- Understanding requirements of retention and storage relating to banking documents.
Future opportunities
On completion of the Intermediate Apprenticeship, you'll be awarded with the Level 2 Certificate in Accounting.
How to apply
If you want to apply for this course, you will need to contact Truro and Penwith College directly.
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