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The Hipster's Guide to Vienna
Okay, I get it. I listen to strange music, I own two typewriters, I spend my days writing in rustic cafés, I down lattes like they were Smarties, I wear high-waisted jeans and I don't give a fuck what you think. I may, in fact, be a hipster. Whatever. Most people spend years running away from who they really are. I'm comfortable in my hipsterdom.
I just got back from spending a month in Vienna (with an extra couple of weeks on the side to visit friends in London, Prague, Amsterdam and Brussels), and while I was in the planning stages of the trip, I was Googling fun, alternative, creative things to do in Vienna, but came up empty. Apart from doing the museum-clusterfuck, or the Stephansdom-two-step, the internet was not very forthcoming with activities for the lumberjack-suspenders-bowtie-red-lipstick-thick-eyebrows crowd. Last name FAIL, first name EPIC. No TripAdvisor, I do NOT want to jump on an obnoxious hop-on-hop-off bus painted the colour of communist China. Yes LonelyPlanet, there are other places to get free wifi besides the McDonalds on the Graben, thanks.
So I decided to make my own Viennese Hipster guide so no one has to suffer my fate again. If you're headed to the Austrian capitol and want to be a total WIENER (haaaaaaaaaaaaa), I did all the artisanal legwork for you. I've crafted The Hipster's Guide to Vienna for all your ironic needs. included in this post are helpful tips on:
Shopping That Isn't Bullshit
Activities That Aren't Lame
Cafes that Aren't Touristy
Cafes To Avoid Like Herpes
Souvenirs That Aren't Made In China
Hunting Vienna's Dark Past
Museums That Still Profit From Nazi-Looting
German Phrases You Will Deffo Need.
Accommodation & Where To Stay
See this above photo? That's where I stayed. It was a palatial flat in the area of Meidling with high ceilings, massive windows, glass chandeliers, antique furniture, a record player, and two Snugglebum von Cuddletummies (cats). And I stayed here for free.
Housesitting, I was. As usual.
If you're a hipster, you COULD pay for an overpriced Air Bn'B on the Ringstrasse, you COULD Couchsurf on some uni student's couch that smells of patchouli, OR you could stay for free in a place all to yourself in exchange for giving the Snugglebum von Cuddletummies some lurve. It's up to you. If you do decide to stay in a hostel or hotel or some other huge mistake, do yourself a favour and stay outside of the touristy Maria-Hilfer strasse. It's just too gross, too uncultured, too bullshit. Meidling was a great area because it was only 3 uBahn stops away from Westbahnhof station, and only 3 stops away on the Schnellverbindungen to the Quartier Belvedere, or 4 stops to Landstrasse Wien Mitte.
A video I made of riding the trams in Vienna. Definitely ride the trams!
I could get anywhere within minutes, and I was within walking distance of the Schonbrun Palace and Gardens. Also, the homeowner left me her metropass and her bicycle so all my travel was free. I never had to pay for expensive meals (unless I wanted to) because I went grocery shopping and cooked all my meals at home. Comforts of home! I cannot stress Housesitting enough, people. You should get on that.
Shopping That Isn't Overpriced FUBAR
Vienna is famous for its expensive shopping districts like the Graben and on Kartnerstrasse. There are tons of expensive jewelers, high-end clothes and shoe shops, and antqiue boutiques. BUT why blow all your money on the high streets when you can spend a couple cents on the same items at….
The Naschmarkt!
During the week, the Naschmarkt is a regular farmers market located just outside of Kettenbruckengasse uBahn station, but on Saturday mornings, it also features an AMAZING fleamarket. It mostly features antiques like chandeliers, home furnishing, bric-a-brac, and kitchen supplies, but it also has other amazing finds like historic photographs, Jugendstil jewelry for a fraction of the price on the high street, mobile phones, vinyl records, wall art, and SO MUCH CLOTHES. Here are three examples of some of the things I procured on the fleamarket. The above photograph is of a love letter I bought on the Naschmarkt for €2. It's dated 1940 and sent from Switzerland by a woman named Grete to Salzburg to a man named Wolf. It's in German but I translated it, it's your standard love letter, full of hopes, longing, expectation and desire. But what's interesting is that postal sticker on the back. It says it was OPENED by the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht before it reached its destination, and you can clearly see the Nazi eagle and swastika. The other interesting feature is that it is addressed to Salzburg, which as we all know is in Austria. BUT the letter is addressed to the "German Reich." Remember, this is 1940, so because of the Anschluss, Austria as a country had ceased to exist.
This above love letter I bought for €3. It's a rare find on a Viennese fleamarket because it's in ENGLISH! It was sent in 1947 from Vienna to a woman in Southend-on-Sea, UK. As you can see from the first line, the Austrian soldier has just been released from a Russian POW camp and is looking for his lost love Annie whom he hasn't seen since 1939 before the war. Annie's last name is listed here as Reifmann, which sounds awfully German to me. Or perhaps, Jewish? Maybe she had family in Austria and that's how they met? But if it was sent to the UK, why was it back in Vienna for me to find? As the envelope indicates, it was Return-To-Sender. So either Annie didn't live there anymore, she died in the blitz (or worse), or she was like, "You were a German soldier so fuck you."
This above document I bought for €5. It's a "Persilschein." These were documents issued by the occupying Allied forces after the war to citizens who had proved they hadn't been Nazis et.al. before or during the war. The document is in German, English, French, and Russian. Persil is a type of washing liquid, and schein means shine, so if you had this document, it literally meant your past was squeaky clean.
I also bought photographs, necklaces, and other trinkets and tokens on the Naschmarkt, basically at cost. Highly recommended for your Saturday mornings!! And you walk away with gifts and finds you won't get on the fucking Graben.
Activities That Aren't as Lame as Your Gramps
Cool Museums
So Vienna is all about museums. They love that shit. They eat that shit up. But sometimes it feels like if you've seen one museum, you've seen them all. There's only so much goddamned art one can take in before it all starts to look the same. So here's a selection of the museums and galleries I liked that weren't too much of a gaudy tourist trap.
Westlicht is an amazing photography gallery that has a wicked selection of the best photographs of the 20th and 21st century. The place also has it's own cafe and bar, and a selection of great photography books for sale. Only €10 entry. Also, it's located in a particularly grimy (but also charming) section of Westbahnstrasse so at least the affluent snobs from Kennebunkport won't be there.
The MAK (free Tuesday nights!)
The museum of design is free every Tuesday night from like 6pm until closing, which is when I went, but I would have gladly paid the entry fee, it was amazing! These are pics I took inside. Look at this awesomeness!
There were video clips, light installations, and they gave you bubblegum to chew as part of the experiment! One section was a bicycle that needed to be pumped hard in order for the light installations to work! I loved it all. And of course, there were also the more refined design aspects, like art deco furniture and an entire wing dedicated to the evolution of the chair, hahaha.
The museum is on the Ringstrasse so it's easy to find, but it wasn't really patroned by tourists, rather by design students, so it felt like an edifying experience amongst people who genuinely care about this shit.
And and and! ThERE WERE KLIMTS!
Look at that gorgeous thing!!!
Mumok (I was only charged €6 for some reason)
The Museum of modern art was great because it was one of the few museums in the city that actively carried and promoted the works of women artists (more on this later). The exhibits were engaging and interesting. It's in the middle of the Museum Quartier so it's easy to find, but again, there weren't very many tourists here, it was mostly students and locals. I liked that.
And when you're done museum-ing, they have their own cupcake cafe inside!! Also the museum has free wifi and also a free app you can download on site for a free audioguide!
The price is supposed to be €11 but they only charged me €6 for some reason. Maybe I look like I'm under 27. BITCH I'M 35.
Wien Museum (free first Sunday of the month!)
I wouldn't have necessarily paid the full entry for this museum if it hadn't been free the first Sunday of the month, but I'm glad I went just for the Klimts! Did I mention I love Klimt and I eat that shit up? This here is a portrait of his longtime mistress Emilie Floge. It's part of his gold leaf period and when his style was so unique and more two dimensional than the other portraits of the time that aimed to give the illusion of 3 dimensions. The Wien Museum also does like this history of the Stephansdom gargoyles and a whole bunch of other relics from Vienna's past as a walled-city and such. They also had an exhibit on two really important artists from the pre and post war Vienna, detailing the sadness and atrocities happening around them that was highly stylized and super engaging. All in all, me likey, but glad me no pay full price.
Here's another Klimt!
And this is an interesting story tied in with Klimt. This is a portrait of Arnold Schoenberg, the famous composer. The portrait was painted by Richard Gerstl who was having an affair with Schoenberg's wife Mathilde. She briefly left her husband for Gerstl but returned a few months later for the children. When that happened, Gerstl hung himself. He was never famous or well known in his own time, but after the war he became so popular and now I've found his works in every major museum and gallery in Vienna. Below is his self portrait. Anyway, the reason this is super interesting and tied in with Klimt is because, over 100 years later, Schoenberg's grandson Randy, a lawyer in Los Angeles, was hired to represent Maria Altmann in her Supreme Court case versus the country of Austria. Why was she suing them? They were holding on to Klimt's famed portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, considered the Mona Lisa of Austria, and Altmann was the heir to the painting. It was looted from her family home by the Nazis and never returned. SIX DEGREES OF KEVIN BACON. I found it rather fitting that the Klimts and the Gerstl portraits were hanging side by side. It's like, hey guys, do you have any idea how much shit your heirs are gonna stir?
Also, they have works by Egon Schiele, whom I didn't like 10 years ago, but I feel like he's grown on me and I appreciate his stylized pain a lot more than Klimt now. Here's him in a self-portrait, flashing us his west-side gang signs.
Resistance Museum (free forever!)
Now let's not mince words. It's not as if Austrians put up much of a resistance. When the Anschluss happened, the white anglo-saxon Austrians welcomed Shitler with flowers and a huge parade. They cheered him in the streets, the church bells rang out and the bakeries gave out free sweets. They welcomed it. They weren't the "first victims of WWII" as they like to paint themselves. However, that doesn't mean there weren't a few conscious objectors. Individuals did indeed resist and attempt to circumvent the Nazis, but there wasn't exactly a cohesive, organized resistance movement. The only real official resistance in all of Europe that was organized and widespread (although quickly quashed) was the tram-workers strike in Amsterdam in 1941. No one in Europe was able to mount a large, organized resistance (although major props to the Polish for putting up a good fight too). Anyway, the resistance museum is free for obvious reasons (as are all Concentration Camps memorial sites throughout Austria and Germany, and the like…) and their displays have really interesting artifacts from individual's resistance attempts. I was super engrossed in it. Worth the visit. I like bad-ass rebels.
Space Invader Hunting, and other street art hunting!
If you're an actual hipster and not some tourist, then you know who Space Invader is. Also, if you read this blog often, then you know who he is. If not, what exactly are you doing here? Anyway, by now you should have already downloaded his Flash Invader app and have flashed at least one of his thousands of pieces erected around the world in dozens of cities. And if you have, then you know, that there are many of his pieces up in Vienna from his visits in 2006 and 2008. I flashed 23 of them.
Like this gem.
And this one.
And this one at street-level. The great thing about hunting Space Invaders when you're new to a city is it is a free activity that allows you to get to know the layout of the city better. I found all my 'Vaders in my first week in Vienna. After that, I could walk around the city without a map, because I knew each quartier and platz from him. "Oh I know this area because I found a 'Vader here." OR I knew that something wasn't far off because I had already walked the distance to find him. Sometimes I would go hunting and the 'Vader was long gone, but you could still see the imprint from the tiles in the wall or building or bridge. That would suck, but at least I discovered a new area of the city through it. Hunting 'Vaders brings you to new areas of the city that you wouldn't ordinarily get to otherwise. Sure he puts things up in touristy areas, but he also goes to the quiet, dead corners of the suburbs as well. Those are always awesome.
And Vienna is great for hunting the works of other great street artists. This is a Roa someone had the gaul to partly cover!
I call this one, "Neeeeeeaaaaarrrrr…….. faaaaaaaaaaaarrrr!"
Ah, the women of Sonke. I love Sonke's oeuvre so hard. Oeuvre on fleek.
You're beautiful. It's society that's fucked. I KNOW RIGHT.
My German is so good now, I can read this without having to resort to google translate! When I found this I was like… FINISH THE SENTENCE, I'M BREATHLESS WITH ANTICIPATION!!!
…was the best/worst thing that ever happened to you.
Bike-Share Rentals & Bicycle Paths
Vienna has the same city bike-share program as other major cities like London, Paris, Toronto, Montreal and NYC. You can find the stands located outside almost every major attraction or uBahn stop. You register with a credit card right there at the terminal and use the same pin number each time you want to take out a bike. They have large baskets, adjustable seats and 3 gears. And they're super cheap compared to other cities! The first hour is free! After that, it's like one euro for the next hour and it goes up incrementally after that but I think four hours is like less than latte. AND if you put it back before the first hour is up, then wait 15 minutes, you can withdraw another bike and get another hour free! Renting bikes from a shop is for suckers and not a hipster like you. I used these bikes a lot. There are excellent bike paths all throughout Vienna. One day I cycled from Meidling, along the canals, through the city, across the Ringstrasse, across the Danube, and up to the Prater, and that only took me 45 minutes! No traffic! Bike lanes are well-maintained and clearly marked. I felt super safe the entire time.
I also recommend you cycle along the Danube canal to check out some of the great murals and street art along the water. Great activity on a sunny Viennese day.
Before Sunrise film locations
Everyone's favourite 1995 indie summer thinking-woman's cult hit was filmed in its entirety in Vienna and after a month of being in Vienna, I would be walking down a small alley on the Molkerbastei, or I'd be at the Arena complex near Erdberg, and I'd be like, waaaaaait a minute….
Anyway, I found almost every location where they filmed their infamous scenes….
…from the bridge where they meet the dudes putting on the play about the cow…
…to the Riesenrad ferris wheel where they have their first kiss at sunset…
…to the street where they dance to the harpsichord then take mental photographs of each other.
I even found the record shop where they listen to that record in the listening booth. And Cafe Sperl where they pretend to speak on the phone to their friends…
…more on this place later!
It's crazy to think how many famous people have come from Vienna. In fact, it's crazy to think how many famous people were living in Vienna at the exact same time. Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Sigmund Freud, Adele Bloch-Bauer, Arnold Schoenberg, Gustav Mahler, Alma Mahler and ADOLF SHITLER were all living in Vienna at the same time. I like to think that if Klimt had passed Shitler on the street when Shitler was a starving artist, lugging his colours and palettes and brushes around and hoping to get into the art academy, Klimt probably would have felt sorry for Shitler. He probably would have given him a shilling out of pity. Anyway, with so many stars, it stands to reason their graves are here too. This is another free activity to do in Vienna that will get you exploring different areas, and you can enjoy the amazingly-scenic tram rides to get there. Also, don't forget to Instagram them, you hipster douche.
First grave I found was the most important to me.
Luckily his grave was within walking distance from where I was staying. I found him pretty easily, and was pleased to see that the Jewish tradition of putting stones on the grave was being employed here. Klimt wasn't Jewish, he was Catholic (yet he did some rather unCatholic things like fathering dozens of illegitimate children to poverty-striken young women), but many of his patrons were Jewish, and he wasn't one of the many anti-semites running around the Austro-Hungarian empire at the time. He didn't care, he socialized (and slept) with everyone. And perhaps his most famous patron was also buried in Vienna…
Well I say buried, but this is actually a crematorium wall, so I'm assuming her cistern is inside the wall. I must say, I am so glad Bloch-Bauer and Klimt passed away before the second World War. I can't bear to think what might have happened to them had they lived…. Had they witnessed the destruction of civilized society, the murders and beatings on the street, their friends throwing themselves out of windows rather than be taken by the Nazis, their entire property be seized and then being forced into exile. Or worse, being deported to a camp. I'm glad they died of natural causes. I'm glad they have no idea what came next. But perhaps they did have a tiny inkling that their legacies would cause a massive shit-stir one day and turn the world on its head. Here's hoping that thought gave them comfort.
Mozart was actually buried in an unmarked mass grave and it took decades for them to go in and try to find his remains. What lies in this grave could be Mozart, it may not be. But this was a super quiet experience, the cemetery was empty and I was the only one there. I told Mozart quietly that I enjoyed the marriage of figaro and the magic flute and his requiem and most of all, his piano concerto no.23 in a major k488. Grazie, Maestro!
Beethoven's remains have been moved three times, but here he finally rests. Roll over! Haaaaaaa.
Using those old-fashioned photobooths is a HUGE thing in Austria and Germany (and France too, really). You'll find the classic booths in most uBahn stations and places of interests. I found one inside the Museums Quartier. They're only €2 for 4 photographs, and they come out looking super stylized in black and white. I love mine. It's hanging on my wall right now.
Burgtheater Tour
For €7 you can have a tour of the imperial, ornate, illustrious Burgtheater near Schottentor, across the street from the Rathaus. If you like live theatre at all, backstage stories, and fresco paintings by Klimt before he was famous, then this is super fucking righteous and totally engaging (I majored in Theatre in university, so this was like a wet-dream for a hipster-shit like me). And if you're lucky like me, you will be the only one to show up for the English-language tour, and instead of the tour being just an hour, you'll be there for 3 hours and the staff won't know you're still there and they'll turn the lights off on you and the guide and you have to find your way out of there by feeling the walls. It was super fucking cool and interesting, highly recommended!
The stage is set. The curtain rises.
I've found stolpersteines (which literally translates as "stumbling blocks") all over Europe and of course they are here in Vienna too. This is another activity that is free and also loaded with meaning, heart, sadness, mourning, healing, hope, and all that other good stuff. If you walk around the city, pay attention to the ground. A German artist began installing these gold bricks into the ground, marking the spot where a person who was persecuted by the Nazi's once lived. More of then than not, the person in question was killed, but sometimes the stolpersteine will note that the person survived. Most of these people were murdered in concentration camps or died in transit. So when you're walking through beautiful and regal Vienna, and you find one of these stones, you immediately know the names of the people who once called that spot home and they were forcibly ripped from their homes and their families, then slaughtered like cattle. Don't ever forget that every street, every corner, and every house has a dark and sad history to go with the good.
This family died in Auschwitz.
This family died in Auschwitz, Gurs, and Chelmno
Last Residences of Famous People
The internet is full of the former addresses of famous people. Sometimes their former residencies have been turned into museums, like Freud's has above. Or sometimes there's just a marker, like Kafka and Beethoven's below. But more often than not, I would find an address, and there was no marker. Someone wonderful lived here and called it home, but no one who lives there now knows about it. Still, it was a free activity and it kept me exploring and full of wonder, so this was an A+ activity for a frugal hipster like me.
I made sure I found the homes of: Maria Altmann, Milena Jesenska, Adele Bloch-Bauer, and Klimt. Do you have some favourite celebs from Vienna? Maybe Michael Hanneke (you will only know who he is if you're a hipster anyway)? Christoph Waltz? Google their addresses and go searching for them, you hipster-fuck.
Cafés That Aren't Touristy Bullshit
A hipster without a cafe in which to drink and write is a hipster close to death. What would we do without our cafes? I DON'T EVEN WANT TO THINK ABOUT THE HORROR. Here's my ultimate list of A+ cafes that featured zero tourists, only locals, and whose decor and drinks were top notch. I'm not including links here because I'm a carpal-tunnel hipster but all you have to do is google "Vienna + the cafe's name" and you'll find them easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy.
Liebling: good-looking people, rustic wooden tables great for writing, vintage furnishings, cheap lattes, a bit too smokey. Free wifi.
Café Nil: a kind of Marrakesh decor coupled with a 1950s green tile design. Adorable retro stands next to the tables carry the sugar, salt & pepper. Nice servers. Lots of natural light. Free wifi.
Café Pruckel: has been around for 100 years, and hasn't changed it's decor for 60. Unlike other massive centenarian cafes, this is populated solely with locals. Lots of newspapers on the wooden racks to read, free wifi, really good looking people abound.
Café Siebenstern
The above photograph is of a communal fridge inside Siebenstern cafe, where locals can put their unwanted food, and anyone is invited to take it, although I mostly saw the homeless and refugees taking advantage. Free wifi, large communal tables, open late for food and drinks, good-looking servers who speak English.
This is what it looks like. Cafe plus bookstore plus vinyl shop plus good-looking people. The wifi password is clapyourhands. You're welcome! I came here so many times, I loved it. Great for writing and people watching.
Vollpension: designed like your grandmother's sitting room, free wifi and lotsa communal tables but so difficult to snag a spot, this place is super busy. Brunch on weekends needs to be reserved in advance.
The Breakfast Club: only open until 2pm, great food, almost no place to sit. No wifi but you can mooch off of Vollpension next door if you already have their wifi password.
Café inside Leopold Museum (separate entrance): you don't need to pay to enter the museum to visit this cafe. Free wifi, really nice view of the Museumplein, gorgeous long-bar, newspapers to read, open late, separate smoking area, gorgeous tattooed guy behind the bar. I WANTED TO HAVE HIS ABORTION.
Café inside the Kunsthistorische Museum (must pay entry): You have to the entry fee of the museum to gain access to the cafe but THIS PIC BELOW IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE. It's like a bloody Russian novel up in hurr. Free wifi, and I chatted with a super rich grandmother and her grandson from NYC who sat next to me. They were charming in a myopic sort of way. The servers were marveled by how quickly I can type on my iPad. #hipsterproblems
Café Ulrich: free wifi, decent lattes, serves food and the tables after 5pm are reserved for diners. Creepy dudes can populate the long-bar, but in general, I liked this place.
Café Europa: I took the following photo inside Cafe Europa. Mirrors everywhere. Smoking section not properly secured, free wifi, decent lattes, lovely tall windows.
Supersense (EXTRA HIPSTER POINTS):
Okay this one I'll link to because HOLY MOTHER OF GOD THIS IS THE GRAND PUBA OF HIPSTER. I wish I had discovered this place earlier in my stay (found it days before I left) because I instantly fell in love. Gorgeous Jugendstil Art Deco furnishings and large wooden high tables and stools, and free wifi. But the crowning jewel of this place was the attached shop that was a CORNUCOPIA of hipster shit that gave me an ironic stroke. There was an old wooden birdcage elevator upcycled into a recording booth that records you for 90 seconds and puts it on vinyl! They had wax and envelope stamps. There was a machine that put your thoughts/wishes/recipes/whatever on a scroll and sealed it in an antique bottle! I WAS ENCHANTED.
Kleines Café:
Also featured in Before Sunrise (the palm reader scene), it's super small but is very charming and there's lots of newspapers on the rack to read. No wifi but that's good for writing.
Café Jelinek: early 20th century red velvet decor and lush window drapings, oddly shaped tables, free wifi, cheap lattes, a log fire, and lots of space. Surly and ornery servers but who cares. I'm just as surly. Hey! Surly only cares about one person. SURLY.
Hmm. Sorry Surly.
Shut up.
(Hipster points for knowing what I'm referring to.)
Café & Bar Warning
Even though the rest of Europe, and lo, the rest of the civilized world, has banned smoking in public establishments, Vienna is still behind the times. Technically there is some kinda no-smoking law, but it is either not enforced, or won't really go into effect until 2017 (depending on who you ask). Thus, people will smoke in your face all day long in the cafes and no matter what kind of dirty looks you throw them, it won't stop them. Some cafés have a smoking section (haaaaa! Remember Smoking Sections??!!) but staff rarely close the fucking doors to the smoking section, so all the smoke wafts over into the non-smoking section. You will walk out of every café or bar one minute closer to death and smelling like arsenic.
Cafés That Will Kibosh Your Buzz (aka AVOID)
Café Central: long-lineups, all tourists, loud, jerk waiters. I walked in to photograph the unusual inverted ceiling and then left.
Café Schwarzenberg: if you go here after peak hours, then it's fine & kinda nice. Otherwise, it's a shitshow.
Alt Wien: where 19-year-old university frat-holes go to piss on the floor
Skybar: just because you have a nice view of the Stephansdom doesn't mean you're cool. Also, FULL OF YUPPIES.
Café inside the Belvedere: €6 for a latte? Go fuck yourself, how about that.
Souvenirs That Aren't Postcards or Tshirts
I wanted to get myself something that was quintessentially Viennese but that no one else would have. Something you can't buy at those overpriced souvenir shops on KarntnerRing. I was reading a lot about Vienna and I came across the works of Secession artist and Wiener Werkstatte founder Koloman Moser. Aside from being an internationally acclaimed visual artist and member of Vienna's intelligentsia of the early 20th century, he was also adept at the fine art of the Ex Libris.
For those hipsters not aware of the literati-snob practice of owning your own Ex Libris, let me explain:
Ex Libris is latin, and translates to, "Out of the library of," or "Out of the book of." It is a stamp, almost kind of like a Standard or a Coat of Arms, that indicates to whom a book belongs. You see, the socialites and intelligentsia of era's past would of course own their own vast private libraries in their homes, and they liked to lend them out to their friends. But to keep track of all the books they had loaned and shared, they would stamp the inside cover with their own custom Ex Libris. As time went on, the design of the Ex Libris went from being a simple stamp with someone's name on it, to a fashionable artistic expression of the person. And Koloman Moser was the go-to Ex Libris designer of 1900 Vienna. He fashioned them for everyone from Sigmund Freud to Adele Bloch-Bauer. Here are some examples of his work.
Pretty fucking sweet, right? So I was like, I WANT MY OWN EX LIBRIS! I'm a writer, I'm a literature-snob, I love Viennese-shit, and I'm a ridiculous hipster.
So I found this shop on Siebensternegasse that only fashions stamps. That's all they make! Nothing but stamps! I couldn't believe something like that actually existed. That's like having a milkman or a blacksmith. It's so quaint! A stamp man! I walked in and asked if he could make me an Ex Libris. He asked if I had a design in mind, and I showed him the screencaps I had taken of Koloman Moser's work. I asked if he could just take one design and plug my name in there. He said "keine problem" as they say in German, and 2 days and €35 later, I owned MY OWN FUCKING EX LIBRIS!
So if you want your own Viennese souvenir that wasn't made in China or unravels in the wash, get thee to an Ex-Librisy (or something).
Hunting Vienna's Dark Past
I don't think there's anything wrong with having dark fascinations, like looking at photos of dead bodies, or collecting Nazi junk. Our fascinations aren't inherently good or bad. It's what we do with these fascinations that's important. Using these mementos of humanity's past to remind ourselves of what is good and evil, to remind us of history so as not to repeat it, I think, is a good thing. And Vienna is one of those cities that is responsible for a lot of shit. Namely: Shitler.
Of course you won't find a single place in Germany or Austria that marks a place where Shitler lived or worked or was born or hung out. Obvi. Once you mark it, it's turns into a place of pilgrimage. So not only are none of his former places of residence in Vienna marked, I betcha the current residents don't even know. The internet is good for this type of thing (like I mentioned above in the Former Residences of Famous People section), so it wasn't long before I found the site of Shitler's first flat when he moved to Vienna from Linz circa 1906. It's just around the corner from the Westbahnhof. The building itself is rather unassuming, kinda dank and under-maintained. However, when I found it one night when it was cold and windy out, I realized I needed to be discrete and respectful to the current residents. First of all, you don't want to make a big fuss, and also, you don't want to glorify things. So I looked at the place from across the street, I didn't take any photos, I stared for a bit, then left. I don't know what I was expecting to see or find, but it felt similar to when I've visited concentration camps. You reflect, you think, you move forward.
Also, I found out that after a couple years of living in flats in Vienna, and after being rejected twice from the Vienna Arts Academy, Shitler's living allowance ran out and he became a homeless crazy beggar on the streets. He had to move into the homeless shelter in Meidling. I WAS HOUSESITTING IN MEIDLING. That was a total mindfuck for me because not only was the building I was living in pre-war, almost all of Meidling escaped Allied bombings, which means the streets and facades of Meidling probably looked exactly the same when Shitler was begging on the streets there. He probably knew my area well. When I would walk home at night, it gave the area an extra kind of layer of sadness and horror.
I also found out about one particularly sad detail of Cafe Sperl, seen in this picture I took below:
I mentioned Cafe Sperl above in the Before Sunrise section because this is where they filmed that scene where they pretend to talk on the phone. Cafe Sperl has been around for over a century and pretty much looks the same as it did then. In the early half of the 20th Century, Cafe Sperl was usually occupied by artists, both successful and starving. They had a practice where they would give starving artists a cup of coffee in exchange for one of their drawings or paintings.
One of those starving artists was — you guessed it — Adolf Shitler.
Naturally, Cafe Sperl doesn't like to advertise this fact, so when you visit, just be mindful.
Just think of how different the last 100 years would have been if Shitler had just been accepted into the Art Academy. Talk about lack of foresight.
Another place to visit is the former location of the Hotel Metropole, which, after the Anschluss, was taken over by the Gestapo and became their headquarters. I found this place by accident because I found a Space Invader in the Morzinplatz (see! Hunting 'Vaders leads to other discoveries!), and I noticed a huge empty green space with a large memorial stone atop it. People would disappear into the Metropole and would never be seen again. Interrogated, tortured, shipped off to a camp, never heard from again. The Hotel is long gone but being in that spot which overlooks a nice section of the Danube canal was a bewildering but meaningful experience.
Speaking of Vienna's Nazi past that still haunts the present day….
Museums That Still Carry Nazi-Looted Art & Refuse to Give It Back Because They're Blood-Profiteering Shitbags
I have mentioned many times in this post the infamous case of Klimt's portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer and the fight to have her returned to her rightful heir. Last year in NYC I stood in line for 90 minutes to run inside the Neue Gallerie and stare at the portrait for an hour before closing. I've always loved the haunting portrait. It's so famous, they even made a movie about it last year starring Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds. It's not a very good film, to be honest, but it gives you a good understanding of the legal battle (less about Adele herself). Actually, if you want an excellently-written study of Adele, her portrait, the cityscape of Vienna during Klimt and Adele's time, and during the Nazi years, I would highly recommend reading Anne-Marie O'Connor's book "The Lady In Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer." I bought this book while I was in Vienna and I COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN. MY HIPSTER BRAIN BLEW THROUGH CHAPTERS LIKE SOME PEOPLE BLOW COKE UP THEIR NOSE. Such a good read.
Anyway, the book goes into great detail about how Vienna and the German Reich systematically looted art from persecuted Jewish families in the city. Then, after the war, the very Nazis who had looted it were now in charge of restitution!! Many exiled Austrians didn't want to return to Vienna for obvious reasons, but they wanted their paintings back. For this, they would need exit permits and visas for the paintings. Did they Austrians give them the permits? DID THEY FUCK. Of course they didn't. Most of the time, the authorities wouldn't even acknowledge that the paintings belonged to the families in the first place. They would fabricate or alter documents to claim the paintings had been "donated," or "sold" to the state or to the galleries before the war.
Why? Because art is lucrative, and Nazis like to live like the prosperous despots they are.
Since Maria Altmann's epic court case, where Austria had its ass handed to them on a global scale, they've tried to quash further legal battles with other heirs to paintings stolen by Nazis. They still don't want to give up their paintings, even though they don't own them, AND they're profitting from the paintings. Here are just some of the museums that profit from Nazi-looted art and won't give them back. Yes, I paid entry into these museums. Yes, I hate myself for it. Yes, I wanted to see the paintings. Yes, I sorta yelled at some museum attendants for having this art. Yes, I was almost thrown out. Whatever.
The Belvedere
The Belvedere is perhaps the most well known (and most fucking expensive) museum and gallery in Vienna. I paid TWENTY FUCKING EUROS for a ticket to both the upper and lower Belvedere. This is the very same gallery that had the Adele Bloch-Bauer portrait for almost 70 years before they had to give it back. Do they still have Nazi-looted art on their walls? YOU BETCHA.
Right next to Klimt's famous The Kiss painting hangs another of his portraits. It's an unfinished portrait of a young woman named Amalie Zuckerkandl. I found it rather interesting that the Belvedere's audioguide had NO audio or information on this piece. HOW INTERESTING. I wonder why? Because they don't own the piece and it was stolen by the Nazi's, that's why.
As the lawyer who represented Altmann in court, Randy Schoenberg, writes in this piece for MSNBC, the piece actually belonged to Adele Bloch-Bauer's husband! The very man who owned the portraits of Adele! The very man who willed them to Maria Altmann! The Nazis stole it, and sold it illegally to the Belvedere. The Belvedere doesn't mention this anywhere on the plaque or in any documentation or guides, NOR does it mention that Amalie Zuckerkandl DIED IN BELZEC CONCENTRATION CAMP along with her daughter.
But the Belvedere DOES sell postcards, pins, books, bookmarks, magnets, and other capitalist bullshit with Zuckerkandl's face on it. I need a moment to let the class wash over me.
Vienna Secession
The Vienna Secession began during La Belle Epoque to showcase works and artists who weren't interested in the classical ways of painting dominating Viennese society. Klimt and Koloman Moser were founding members of it in the Wiener Werkstatte. In fact, the building was the place where Klimt's famous Beethovenfries was first ever exhibited. The piece was meant to be temporary and torn down and destroyed, but someone convinced the Lederers (who were one of Klimt's major patrons) to buy it. They cut it down and kept it. The Secession building was later destroyed during the war but rebuilt, and the Lederer's art collection was stolen by the Nazis and they themselves were killed. Most of the Lederer's collection burned in a fire, but not the Frieze. Erich Lederer, heir to the Lederer estate, and a Jew in exile, tried in vain after the war to get an exit permit and visa for the Frieze. Authorities said no, but they did acknowledge that it belonged to him, so they forced him to pay for its storage in a cellar underneath the Belvedere, where flooding from the war had caused water damage to the Frieze. Unable to get it out of the country, he sold it in 1956 to the founder of the Leopold museum for a mere$1150. He would have gotten more if he could have gotten it out of the country, but he couldn't and he needed the money.
The Secession building was rebuilt and the Frieze now hangs there. I took this below photo of it. You're not allowed to take photos inside the Secession but THUG LIFE THUG RULES. I took this pic and I got yelled at. HAAAAAA.
Now the Lederer heirs are suing Austria to try and get their Frieze back, and I hope they do. The audioguide of the Secession literally makes no mention whatsoever of what happened to the Frieze during or after the war. They lie and say it was donated. It was not, you liars.
The Leopold (Although at least they acknowledge it!)
Inside the Leopold you will find a lot of Klimts and Schieles, perhaps the largest collection of Schieles that anyone owns. Like this famous Klimt of Death and Life…
and this self portrait of Schiele…
One of the Schieles on the wall is a portrait of his longtime lover and supporter Wally, a ginger beaut with fat red lips. The plaque next to the portrait acknowledges that the portrait was looted by the Nazis and hung in the Leopold for decades before the heirs of it's rightful owner, a Jewish woman who had died long before, sued the museum and the country when the portrait was on show in the USA. Because of such ownership disputes, the USA seized the portrait until the case could be resolved. The heirs won their case. They sold the piece, got what they were owed, and now it's back in the fucking Leopold. I'm not sure if the Leopold was the buyer or if they convinced the buyer to loan it, but still….sneaky fucks.
Kunsthistorisches Museum
Another fancy-schmancy museum, another looted piece worth millions that they won't give back because who cares about Jews and persecution when there's all that money, right? This is a painting by the grand Dutch master Johannes Vermeer. It's called the Artist in his Studio. So basically, a self portrait. I took these pics inside the gallery.
This painting was owned by a man named Czernin who wasn't Jewish himself, but married to one, so he and his family faced the same persecution. He sold the painting under duress. Guess who was the buyer?
He sold the painting under fucking duress the butcher of the 20th century. Does the audioguide of the Kunsthistorichemuseum make note of that? Nope. This piece hung in Shitler's own private estate until after the war when Austria took it and placed it in the museum. Czernin and his heirs sued for restitution but where denied. Why?
"Because Czernin's wife was only one quarter Jewish," aka they don't believe he actually faced persecution and that he wasn't under any duress.
That is some bullshit right there. The entry fee for the Kunsthistorische museum is €15 too! Super expensive. So they profit from Nazi-looted art with the ticket price, and then they sell kitsch with the Vermeer on it in the gift shop, AND to add insult to injury, they don't even acknowledge that this was stolen by Shitler in the first place!!
Subheader: Women Artists Need Not Apply Because Vagina
One glaring omission slapping everyone in the face who visits these museums is the lack of women artists on the walls of The Belvedere, the Leopold, the Secession, and the Kunsthistorische. There are literally no women artists on their walls at all. NONE. But! They do have a lot of paintings of naked women! Naked women in various unnatural, idealized, fantasy poses. There's even Klimt and Schiele paintings of masturbating women! FUN. And what does the audioguide to these dehumanizing naked portraits say? "Look at the natural way in which the female form has been painted…." I'm sorry, but no woman's boobs look like two upright cantaloupes with pink nubbins for nipples. What the fuck man. I understand that at the time these were painted, women's sexuality was believed not to exist at all, so this was perhaps an act of rebellion. But was it also an act of objectification and exploitation? Yup. It was all those things. So listen up, women artists. The only way to get inside the Belvedere is to be naked. You're not getting in there otherwise. Sorry, but… you know…. vagina.
Important German Phrases You Will Need
Ein milchkaffee bitte. A latte, please.
Kleine, bitte/Grosse, bitte. A small one, please/a big one, please.
Kann ich die zucker haben? Can I have the sugar?
Was ist das passwort fur das Wlan? What's the wifi password?
Es gibt Wlan? Is there wifi?
Ist das Wlan kaput? Is the wifi not working?
Wo sind die Toiletten? Where's the toilets?
Wo ist der schlussel fur die Toiletten? Where's the key for the toilets?
Kann ich zahlen bitte? Can I pay please?
Wie viel kostet das? How much does that cost?
Nein, das ist zu teuer! No, that's too expensive!
Kann ich die Rechnung haben, bitte? Can I have the receipt please?
Danke schoen! Thanks a lot.
Vielen danke fur deine hilfe! Many thanks for your help!
Das ist mein einziger Mantel und mein Reisverschluss ist kaput! This is my only coat and my zipper has broken! (I had to figure this out really quickly one day when this exact scenario happened to me on the street and when I finally found a tailor around the corner, he spoke no English. Also learned: tailor = SCHNEIDER!)
Schoen tag! Have a nice day!
Schoen abend! Have a nice evening!
Ich mochte ein Termin bitte. I'd like an appointment please (great for when you need a haircut or whatever)
Ich kann nur wenig Deutsch Sprechen. I can only speak German a little.
Mein Deutsch ist nicht sehr gut. My German is not very good.
Ich verstehe nicht. I don't understand.
Sprechen Sie Englische? Do you speak English?
Sprechen Sie Franzosiche? Do you speak French?
Genau. Exactly.
Naturlich. Naturally.
Ja. Yes
Ausgezeichnet. Excellent.
Ich lerne Deutsch! I'm learning German!
Kartoffeln. Potatoes.
Das ist ein schoenen, perfekten Schwanze. Nice dick, bro.
** I have omitted the umlauts from almost everything in this post because….reasons.
I hope this Hipster Guide to Vienna has been somewhat helpful for your future visits to the Austrian capitol of cool. If you link to this post, or repost, please remember to give a sistah some credit. I took all these photographs myself and it was a lot of work putting this post together.
Just don't be a ding-dong. Do the right thing.


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Two Chinese anti-submarine aircraft violated Taiwan's air defense identification zone (ADIZ) on Wednesday (Sept. 23) in the sixth incursion by People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) aircraft since Sept. 17.
On Wednesday evening, the Ministry of National Defense (MND) announced that two Shaanxi Y-8 anti-submarine warfare aircraft had entered the ADIZ off the southwest coast of Taiwan earlier that day. The Taiwanese Air Force responded by scrambling fighter jets to drive the planes away, broadcasting radio warnings, and tracking the aircraft with its land-based anti-aircraft missiles. Source Taiwan News
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|This article may rely excessively on sources too closely associated with the subject, potentially preventing the article from being verifiable and neutral. (July 2013)
Microsoft Message Queuing or MSMQ is a message queue implementation developed by Microsoft and deployed in its Windows Server operating systems since Windows NT 4 and Windows 95. The latest Windows 8 also includes this component. In addition to its mainstream server platform support, MSMQ has been incorporated into Microsoft Embedded platforms since 1999 and the release of Windows CE 3.0.[1]
MSMQ is essentially a messaging protocol that allows applications running on separate servers/processes to communicate in a failsafe manner. A queue is a temporary storage location from which messages can be sent and received reliably, as and when conditions permit. This enables communication across networks and between computers, running Windows, which may not always be connected. By contrast, sockets and other network protocols assume that direct connections always exist.
MSMQ has been available to developers on Microsoft platforms since 1997,[2] and has commonly been used in enterprise software built with Visual Studio, both in the native pre-.NET incarnation (version 5 and 6), and in Visual Studio .NET. Microsoft also has incorporated MSMQ in its messaging technology framework, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). Under WCF, MSMQ can be used for providing secure, reliable transport with a unified programming model compatible with other communications standards.
MSMQ is responsible for reliably delivering messages between applications inside and outside the enterprise. MSMQ ensures reliable delivery by placing messages that fail to reach their intended destination in a queue and then resending them once the destination is reachable. It also supports security and priority based messaging. Dead letter queues can be created for looking at messages which timed out or failed for other reasons.
MSMQ also supports transactions. It permits multiple operations on multiple queues, with all of the operations wrapped in a single transaction, thus ensuring that either all or none of the operations will take effect. Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC) supports transactional access to MSMQ and other resources.
The following ports are used for Microsoft Message Queuing operations:
- * These port numbers may be incremented by 11 if the initial choice of RPC port is being used when Message Queuing initializes. Port 135 is queried to discover the 2xxx ports.[3]
Version References
- Version 1.0 (May 1997). Supports Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0 SP3, Windows 98 and Windows Me.
- Version 2.0, included with Windows 2000.
- New features include:[4] Support for registering public message queues in Active Directory, 128-bit encryption and digital certificate support, full COM support for message properties (achieving functional parity with the Win32 API function calls, full DNS path name support, improved performance in multi-threaded applications.
- Version 3.0, included with Windows XP (Professional, not Home Edition) and Windows Server 2003.
- New features include:[5] Internet Messaging (referencing queues via HTTP, SOAP-formatted messages, MSMQ support for Internet Information Services), queue aliases, multicasting of messages, and additional support for programmatic maintenance and administration of queues and MSMQ itself.
- Version 4.0, part of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.
- Version 5.0, part of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
- Version 6.0, part of Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012.
- Version 6.3, part of Windows Server 2012 R2.
"MSMQ" is heavily used in various Windows Platform based contact center applications which utilizes this service for internal notifications and services.
See also
- List of Microsoft Windows components
- Java Message Service – similar technology on the Java platform
- IronMQ - Example of Message Queuing as a Service
- Amazon Simple Queue Service – commoditized messaging service provided by Amazon.com for a per-use fee. It allows users to rent access to messaging without having to maintain their own server.
- RabbitMQ - Open source message queue broker that implements the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP).
- ^ "Microsoft Windows CE 3.0 Message Queuing Service". Microsoft Developer Network. Retrieved 2009-11-25.
- ^ InformationWeek News Connects The Business Technology Community. Informationweek.com (2014-02-04). Retrieved on 2014-02-22.[dead link]
- ^ TCP ports, UDP ports, and RPC ports that are used by Message Queuing. Support.microsoft.com (2011-09-28). Retrieved on 2014-02-22.
- ^ "New Features for Windows 2000". Message Queuing (MSMQ). Microsoft Developer Network. Retrieved 2006-08-05.
- ^ "New Features for Windows XP and the Windows 2003 Family". Message Queuing (MSMQ). Microsoft Developer Network. Retrieved 2006-08-05.
- ^ "What's New in Message Queuing 4.0". Message Queuing (MSMQ). Microsoft Developer Network. Retrieved 2006-08-05.
- ^ Sub-queues in MSMQ 4.0
- ^ "What's New in Message Queuing 5.0". Message Queuing (MSMQ). Microsoft TechNet. Retrieved 2006-08-05.


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Romney campaign had $25.7 million left after U.S. election
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mitt Romney's presidential campaign had $25.7 million left in the bank days after the November 6 election that ended months of relentless fundraising in the most expensive race in U.S. history, new campaign finance disclosures showed on Thursday.
President Barack Obama, a Democrat, defeated the Republican candidate following a campaign that cost more than $2 billion overall.
Obama's re-election effort had $14.2 million left as of November 26, according to the Federal Election Commission disclosures.
Leftover campaign cash is common and often goes to the national party or other candidates.
The Romney campaign on Thursday said every raised dollar had gone toward Romney's run and that it "continues to process invoices for pre-election expenses." It expected to have less than $1 million by the end of the year.
"It is not uncommon. It is of course a great risk," said Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics that tracks campaign finance. "As a loser you want to make sure you've given it your all."
Obama and Romney both spent much of their campaign cash on voter outreach and especially advertising. But the Democrat and his "Super PAC" backers at Priorities USA Action, an unlimited-spending group, held an early advertising game advantage.
Obama's campaign dominated the airwaves, booking the increasingly expensive spots earlier and at the lowest price.
The "super" political action committee, which was legally barred from coordinating with the campaign, ran a series of aggressive ads about Romney's private equity past that portrayed him as a corporate raider.
The damaging ads, as well as negative press surrounding Romney's disparaging "47 percent" comment about Americans relying on government funds, contributed to the candidate's defeat.
The pro-Romney Super PAC Restore Our Future - boosted once again by this year's Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson - plowed $45.5 million into a last-ditch effort to sway voters, according to Thursday's filings.
But according to Reuters/Ipsos polling, nearly three-quarters of Americans had made up their minds in the presidential race before Obama and Romney faced off in the first debate on October 3.
The pro-Obama group spent $20.9 million from October 18 and had $4.3 million in cash on hand as of November 26, according to the FEC filings. Romney's Restore Our Future reported having $842,062 left.
Adelson, billionaire chief executive of Las Vegas Sands, and his wife Miriam contributed another $10 million to Restore Our Future, accounting for nearly half of all the group's last-minute fundraising and bringing the couple's total gift to the Super PAC to $30 million.
Adelson's total donations to Republican candidates and organizations, although not all of them are disclosed, are said to have topped $100 million this election cycle. He planned to spend "that much and more" in the next campaign, he told the Wall Street Journal earlier this month.
The pro-Obama Super PAC received 11th-hour $1 million infusions from two of its own top donors, media mogul Fred Eychaner and Houston lawyer Steve Mostyn.
They brought Eychaner's total to $4.5 million, and Mostyn's to $3 million, according to FEC filings.


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Novus Supports European Symposium on Poultry Nutrition with Diamond Sponsorship
BRUSSELS (May 2, 2017) — Novus International, Inc., as a leader in animal nutrition and health solutions, is proud to support the global poultry industry and share its latest research through a Diamond Sponsorship at the 21st European Symposium on Poultry Nutrition. Novus's innovations in minerals and eubiotics will be on display at the scientific conference in Salou/Vila-Seca, Spain, May 8-11.
"We are bringing some of our latest research to ESPN this year," said Silvia Peris, head of technical services in Europe and the Middle East for Novus. "The results of this work look very promising for the future of the poultry industry since we do address several challenges our customers face today. We are excited to share these findings with the European scientific world"
More than 1,000 participants are expected to attend this year's conference. ESPN gives industry representatives the opportunity to learn from one another by discussing critical topics in their fields during the conference and poster sessions. Novus will present its latest advances in poultry nutrition with five research posters, including three from Novus Europe, one from Novus Asia and one in collaboration with the University of Berlin.
"We have dedicated a lot of time and resources into the poultry nutrition sector, and these findings are the direct results of that commitment," said Peris.
Novus will also host the ESPN Gala Dinner on Wednesday May 10th at Tarraco Arena Plaça, known as the old bull arena, which represents a reference site in Catalonia and a great place to host large scale events. The beautiful venue will also feature flamenco, castellers, and tenors for entertainment.
For more information about Novus's presence at the ESPN or the Gala Dinner, please visit http://www.novusint.com/ESPN2017.
About Novus International, Inc.
Novus International, Inc. is headquartered in metropolitan St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A. and serves customers in nearly 100 countries around the world. A global leader in developing animal health and nutrition solutions, Novus International's products include ALIMET® and MHA® feed supplements, ACTIVATE® nutritional feed acid, ACIDOMIX® preservative premixture, CIBENZA® enzyme feed additive, MINTREX® chelated trace minerals, SANTOQUIN® feed preservative, AGRADO® feed antioxidant and many other specialty ingredients. Stratum Nutrition, a division of Novus Nutrition Brands, LLC, focuses on human nutrition through specialty and functional ingredients for manufacturers of foods, beverages and dietary supplements (www.stratumnutrition.com).
Novus is privately owned by Mitsui & Co. (U.S.A.), Inc. and Nippon Soda Co., Ltd. For more information, visit www.novusint.com. ©2017 Novus International, Inc. All rights reserved.


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PITTSBURGH (AP) — People are going nuts in one western Pennsylvania city that claims to be the birthplace of the banana split.
The residents of Latrobe, a city of 9,000 some 40 miles east of Pittsburgh, are poised to scoop on peanuts, chocolate sauce and whipped cream as they honor the frozen concoction.
But the cherry on top is a celebration that's morphed into three scoops of fun — Friday, Saturday and Sundae, er, Sunday — underwritten by Dole, the banana and fruit company, with help from nearby St. Vincent College, which has adopted the banana split as its unofficial festive food.
"We started throwing this idea around and it turns into this weekend celebration," Dole spokesman Bil Goldfield said. "It got pretty big, pretty fast."
Latrobe officials got the ball rolling when the historical commission agreed in April that the city made its case for a historical marker crediting the first fruit-filled sundae to David Strickler 109 years ago.
The commission said two other American towns also claimed credit for the first banana split — including Wilmington, Ohio, which holds a weeklong festival each June — but found there was better evidence to support Latrobe's claim.
Wilmington's claim dates to 1907, while Latrobe officials found receipts showing Strickler had ordered special boat-shaped banana-split bowls from a glass shop by 1905, said Jarod Trunzo, the assistant to Latrobe's city manager. The National Ice Cream Retailers Association also recognizes Latrobe as the sweet treat's birthplace.
Once the city's place in history was secure, officials began looking for ways to dedicate the marker giving the apprentice pharmacist his just desserts for inventing the indulgent treat there in 1904. It will be dedicated on Friday.
And that's where Dole and St. Vincent come in.
Dole has been using National Banana Split day, which falls on Sunday this year, to sponsor social media contests encouraging healthier banana split recipes with 300- and 500-calorie targets. A typical split, including three scoops of ice cream, one 100-calorie banana, and assorted sweet toppings and nuts easily eclipses 1,000 calories, Goldfield said.
But it was St. Vincent's director of public relations, Don Orlando, who suggested the fruit company come to Latrobe to help the city celebrate.
The 2,000-student Catholic college also takes credit for its role in popularizing banana splits. Its students were said to be among Strickler's most loyal customers and legend has it they spread the gospel of the split when they'd scatter each summer, seeking similar treats in hometown ice cream parlors. As a result, St. Vincent still offers banana split bars to jump start student and alumni gatherings.
"It brings a smile to people's face. It's kind of an interesting tradition, but that's what we do," Orlando said. "Have you ever seen anybody unhappy at the Dairy Queen?"
As a result, the event Dole has dubbed the "Great American Banana Split Celebration" will begin and end with St. Vincent's help.
Incoming freshmen will attend Friday's historical marker dedication wearing commemorative t-shirts provided by Dole. The celebration ends Sunday afternoon with a free public banana split bar on campus. Dole is picking up the tab for the cream and some other costs, plus providing all the bananas.
In between, students will participate in a flash mob — with hundreds or thousands peeling bananas simultaneously on the school's football field — while the city and civic groups are promoting street merchants, a car cruise, a carnival and a special "yellow tie" banquet Saturday night.
"All these different entities wanted to be part of it and each one scheduled their own event," Orlando said. "It's really a rather remarkable convergence."
Going bananas: Pa. city gearing up 'split' bash
PITTSBURGH (AP) — People are going nuts in one western Pennsylvania city that claims to be the birthplace of the banana split.


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LOS ANGELES, Calif. - For the fans of Archie Andrews, his impending death marks a fitting end for the do-gooder comic book icon.
The famous 73-year-old red-headed comic book character will die in Wednesday's installment of "Life with Archie" when he intervenes in an assassination attempt on senator Kevin Keller, Archie Comics' first openly gay character who is pushing for more gun control in Riverdale. Andrews' death was first announced in April and will mark the conclusion of the series that focuses on grown-up renditions of Andrews and his pals.
"Not to be too grandiose, but this demise is a fitting and tonally perfect tribute to a character who has always put his friends first," said Chris Cummins, who writes about comic culture for DenOfGeek.us. "This is a publicity stunt for sure, but one with heart that will have permanent ramifications."
Andrews' final moments will be detailed in "Life with Archie" No. 36, while issue No. 37 will jump forward a year and focus on Riverdale honouring the legacy of their freckle-faced pal, who first appeared in comics in 1941 and went on to become a colorful icon of Americana and wholesomeness. Other incarnations of Andrews will continue to live on in other Archie Comics series.
"We wanted to not only grab people's attention but really show the heroic nature of the character," said Archie Comics publishers and co-CEO Jon Goldwater. "He's willing to literally die to save his friend, Kevin. Archie would have died to save any of his friends. I think Archie would've even died to save a stranger."
Keller first joined Veronica Lodge, Betty Cooper, Jughead Jones and Reggie Mantle in Archie Comics in 2010. He later appeared in his own solo title. In "Life with Archie," he's a married military veteran and newly elected senator who's pushing for more gun control in Riverdale after his husband was involved in a shooting.
While the original comic book series starring Andrews began as an innocent look at a group of pals at Riverdale High School, Archie Comics has in recent years strived to appeal to modern sensibilities with "Life with Archie," a more socially relevant spin-off aimed at longtime adult Archie fans. Over the past four years, "Life with Archie" plots have involved Keller's marriage, the death of longtime teacher Ms. Grundy and Archie love interest Cheryl Blossom tackling breast cancer and affordable health care.
Archie Comics similarly launched a horror spin-off series last year called "Afterlife with Archie" that envisions a zombie outbreak coming to Riverdale and recently enlisted "Girls" creator and star Lena Dunham to write a four-part Archie story set for release next year that chronicles the production of a reality TV show in Riverdale.
Andrew Wheeler, who writes about the comic book industry at ComicsAlliance.com, praised the way that Andrews will be killed off. He wrote on Monday that "Archie's sacrifice isn't just a moment of heroism; it offers an unambiguous condemnation of America's lax gun laws" and said that it's "not surprising to see Archie Comics tackling such a serious issue" because the publisher "doesn't shy away from risky ideas."
Who shot Archie? Goldwater isn't spoiling the killer, only teasing it's a stalker who wanted to take Keller down.


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If you depend on moving a lot of data around and are looking for ways to move it faster then the Thunderbolt technology (formerly Light Peak) is something that should be of interest to you. Companies and individuals who work in the area of video editing and transfer will be one of the first groups that will take advantage of the Thunderbolt technology. The Thunderbolt technology was developed by Intel in collaboration with Apple. The technology supports both data and display protocols simultaneously over a single cable. The Thunderbolt technology outperforms all other method of transfers by a mile.
- USB 2.0 480MB/s
- FireWire 800 (800Mb/s)
- eSata 3GB/s
- USB 3.0 5GB/s
- Fibre Channel 8Gb/s
- Thunderbolt technology 10Gb (bi-directional)
Task that previously took a workstation will soon be performed on a consumer compact device. The new Macbook Pro is the first computer to take advantage of this technology. One of the first companies that has created a device that takes advantage of the technology other then Apple is La Cie. La Cie first show case the Thunderbolt technology at the Intel Developer Forum in September 2010. Since then it has worked even more closely with Apple and Intel to develop various storage solutions and peripherals that take advantage of Thunderbolt technology and to bring them to market. This close cooperation between La Cie and Apple is nothing new. La Cie has been working closely with Apple for over 20 years developing innovative and cutting edge products. La Cie specializes in hard drives including desktop, mobile, network storage, Raid and Multimedia Hard Drives. Their newest product called the Little Big Disk will be coming out summer 2011. The Little Big Disk was built to store large amounts of video and audio files. The integration of the Thunderbolt technology will allow that data to be transfer far quicker then any other technology. This in turn will speed up the process of both backup and editing. Task that used to take hours will now be completed in minutes without any effect on bandwidth performance. Multiple Little Big Disks can even be daisy chained together to expand storage. You can also connect other peripherals like cameras or high resolution displays. The chairman and general manger of La Cie said it best:
"Thunderbolt technology is a breakthrough in I/O technology and
represents the future of mobile computing. Soon you will be able to
carry workstation-class power and functionality in compact devices,"
said Philippe Spruch, Chairman and General Manager,LaCie. "LaCie is
excited to be one of the first to deliver Thunderbolt technology with
the LaCie Little Big Disk."
La Cie obviously sees Thunderbolt as the the transfer technology of the future. whether it is will depend on how fast other companies create products that take advantage of it.


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As many of you know, I actively trade (and sometimes sell) quite a few things thanks to the internet, which means over the course of the past several years, I've become intimately familiar with how the different package shipment services work. In the past few years, I've used the postal service, FedEx, and UPS to ship packages and I've learned a few things about how to maximize your buck.
All three organizations have disgruntled/bad employees who may damage your package.
I've read countless times on countless forums about how either UPS, the postal service, or FedEx damages everything they send or receive from them. Different people will swear by different services and completely avoid other services.
From what I've seen, it mostly comes down to individual people. The vast majority of people working for each of these organizations will treat your package well (or well enough, at least). There are a few people that work for each of these organizations who don't respect your package at all.
You might be unfortunate enough to live in an area where your delivery person is disgruntled and abuses your packages, leaving a bad taste in your mouth. Trust me – given the number of packages I've shipped and received over the last decade, all of the services tend to mostly do good work with a few bad apples in each.
I cannot say that I've seen one service or the other have a significant edge in terms of item security in a broad sense. Naturally, there will be local areas where one outpaces another, but that's entirely dependent on local employees.
Because of that, you must package your items well.
Pad everything with as much padding as you can. Packing peanuts work really well for this, but I've also used balled-up old newspapers and bubble wrap.
Since I both send and receive packages on a regular basis, I save all of the packing peanuts and bubble wrap that I receive for future packaging. I also save old newspapers for this very purpose. Whenever I see a cardboard box that's around the right size for my shipping needs, I break it down and keep it in the garage. It's easy to make the cost of shipping materials very cheap if you just watch out for it as you go along.
When you box up a package, every seam should be covered in packing tape and, when you shake the box, nothing inside should rattle at all. The only way that rattling is acceptable is if you're sending an item in shrinkwrap and that item rattles within the shrinkwrap.
If you don't do this, you're taking a very serious risk that items inside the package are going to show up with some kind of damage on them. As I said above, it really depends on who handles the package between your town and the destination, but the less secure your packaging is, the more you leave things in the hands of the employees that touch your packages.
In terms of cost, for one-time packages, it's hard to beat the postal service.
UPS and FedEx tend to offer large discounts to companies who use them for bulk shipping – think Amazon. What that generally means is that on most packages, if you're an individual customer walking in the door, you're going to get the best price from the post office for shipping.
There are exceptions. If your package is larger than, say, 24 inches in any dimension, you might want to price it using all of the services. I've found that on individual larger packages, I'm better off with UPS, unless the item is valuable and needs insurance, in which case FedEx usually comes out on top.
Also, if you're starting a business of some kind where you're going to be shipping a lot of packages, you may want to talk to the shipping companies about negotiating a bulk rate. That's when the various companies get significantly less expensive and UPS and FedEx often undercut the postal service.
Tracking and insurance are on a per-item basis.
It mostly depends on the arrangement I've got with the recipient. If it's not a regular trading partner, I'll get both tracking and insurance. Usually, with a regular partner, I just get tracking, particularly if I'm confident in how I've packaged the item.
For gifts and items like that, I'd only get tracking unless I was concerned about covering the cost of the item in the event of a disaster. In other words, I'd only insure something rather expensive.
The slow boat is usually the right boat.
In terms of shipping speed, always ask for all options and choose the cheapest one. Within the United States, even the slowest options are generally only a few days slower than the fastest ones, and if that slowness can save you a few bucks, it's well worth it.
For example, whenever I ship a book, I'm almost always using Media Mail as it's incredibly cheap for books and other such items. I can usually ship a book for under $2 and it arrives usually within a week (though I'm positioned in the center of the country, which helps). Since most packages I send aren't incredibly urgent, this works really well.
So, to summarize:
+ I use recycled packing materials and pack my items extremely well so that there's no rattling at all.
+ I use the postal service for smaller packages and shop around for larger ones.
+ I usually get tracking as a "guarantee" that I've properly shipped the item, but only insure in rare situations.
+ I use the cheapest possible shipping option.
This procedure shaves several dollars off of every single package that I ship, leaving me with more money in hand and better results in terms of the value of a trade or an item sold.
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The annual event takes place around July or August as the strong wind heads for Padanggalak, Sanur, where the festival is held. Never imagine numerous small colourful kites decorate the blue sky above Sanur beach as the festival shows off various forms and colours of giant kites of 10-meter width. It is really about the competition of Balinese's creativity.
The month of August in Bali witnesses the great commemoration of the anniversary of Bali Province that takes place on August. The running competition takes participation of elite athletes from international, national, public and students. As part of sport tourism, this event is expected to draw a big number of tourists to highlight this event on their holiday agenda.
Amongst the foreign arrivals, Europe particularly, Sanur suits their best taste. The green view of villages in Sanur area which is well sustained inspires the organization of Sanur Village Festival that brings along a series of cultural events, music shows and culinary festival, also dance performances and water sports activities. Besides, through this event, the villagers around Sanur can merge with international community.
The carnival that takes place in the most famous tourist spot in Bali, Kuta beach, is usually held towards end of the year, like in October or September. It is a complete annual occasion consisting of beach sports, art and cultural, food festival, and painting exhibition centered at bursting Kuta.
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As it happens every decade or so, the NBC late-night lineup is undergoing a much-publicized sea change as Late Night host Jimmy Fallon gets bumped up to Jay Leno's job at The Tonight Show, which boasts the iconic Johnny Carson as an alum and is basically every comedian's hosting-gig wet dream.
In turn, Fallon's seat would be empty for another enterprising jokester to fill. Rumors that Alec Baldwin would be replacing him have been disputed, and Howard Stern was also considered. However, we're pretty willing to bet that it's gonna be some other middle-aged, straight, wealthy white guy. In a suit. I know. We're just crazy like that.
It's a pretty strange phenomenon that Leno's been the primary target of critics in the last few years. They say he's sold out, he's not funny, and he's watered down his own talent and formerly-great material by trying to please Middle America. Sure. This is all true. But let's count the number of old white guys on high-profile late-night TV: Letterman, Fallon, Leno, Carson Daly, CBS's Craig Ferguson. And the women? Chelsea Handler. That's about it. And she's on cable. Meanwhile, Kathy Griffin and Whitney Cummings' cable talk shows were both cancelled this year.
Go ahead and slam Leno all you want, but it's the uncreative, inherently bigoted NBC execs who we should be putting the heat on for continuing to make so-called "safe" choices. Specifically: no hosts of color and no women, even though it's long overdue. (Or, as Vanity Fair called it back in a 1998 article, the "crass ceiling.") May we suggest Archer's Aisha Tyler, who's a damn fantastic comedian and has just as much cred for the job as Fallon did initially? (Remember: He was just the dude who always broke on SNL.)
Or how about Amy Schumer? Julie Klausner? Maria Bamford? So many options! (The one woman mentioned briefly as a candidate was, naturally, Tina Fey, who says she's too busy.)
Meanwhile, in other primetime TV respects, women are killing it. Just look at Lena Dunham, or The Mindy Project showrunner-slash-star Mindy Kaling, or the showrunner Elizabeth Meriwether who oversees Zooey Deschanel and co. on The New Girl. So what is it about partially-unscripted comedy that's lagging behind? That old "Women Aren't Funny" dumb*ssery, perhaps? Yup.
Time Magazine writer James Poniewozik wrote in 2010 that: "It's a relative handful of jobs, yes, but late-night comics are the unelected legislators of America: they mock the mighty and audition Presidents. When late-night shows began, male-dominated comedy reflected society's power balance. Now guy humor is an increasingly isolated preserve of omega-male movies and geek-aggressive TV shows piped into man caves."
Remind you of anything? Seth MacFarlane's weirdly misogynistic, sophomoric Oscars hosting stint, for example? Bingo.
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Today, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of religious liberty and fundamental first amendment rights.
The Supreme Court was asked to determine whether or not the Obama administration had once again overstepped its authority per the limits imposed on it through the bipartisan Religious Freedom and Restoration Act (RFRA)—and in a landmark decision the justices ruled that the Administration had. The Obama mandate would punish people of faith and would force them to provide coverage for items that went against their religious beliefs. The decision considered the mandate to be an undue burden on specific employers' free exercise rights, as safeguarded under the United States Constitution.
All Americans, including family business owners, must be free to live and work according to their beliefs without fear of government punishment or mandates. Thankfully, the Supreme Court through its ruling in the Hobby Lobby case recognized that these fundamental rights should be protected and upheld.
Standing outside the Supreme Court on a hot, humid, June day in DC it struck me how many young people joined on the steps of the Supreme Court defending freedom. A variety of pro-life, pro-family, and pro-freedom groups were represented and stood together in defense of religious liberty, making their voices heard.
Surrounded by so many students from Young Americans for Freedom and Students For Life was inspiring and affirmed what I already knew—that we are the pro-life, pro-freedom generation. Young America's Foundation is an advocate for and a representative on behalf of young people. We know from our polling that young people don't want an interventionist government and they certainly don't want the massive government overreach we are subject to under the Obama Administration.
The government tried to hit families and family businesses with crippling fines for simply exercising their religious freedom and the Supreme Court ruling affirmed that we must respect the religious freedom of everyone. The Obama administration has consistently tried to ensure that if you own a business the government runs it—but this time Obama's overreach was shut down.
It seems fitting that this decision was handed down the same week that America celebrates its birthday and independence. Nothing will ever come close to describing the elation felt by all when the decision was released and religious freedom was preserved. The Supreme Court stood with the framers when they enacted the First Amendment to protect the rights of American family business owners to exercise their beliefs.


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His Holiness the Dalai Lama will be teaching in California on October 12, 2010. The Gyuto Vajrayana Center is honored to host His Holiness the Dalai Lama for a teaching at the San Jose Convention Center on October 12, 2010.
Suggested readings, in preparation for His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama's Teaching on the Eight Verses on Mind Training
– Tenzin Gyatso, the XIVth Dalai Lama. An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life, edited by Nicholas Vreeland. New York: Little Brown and Company, 2001. This book records the Dalai Lama's teaching on the Eight Verses in New York's Central Park on August 15, 1999.
– Transforming the Mind: Teachings on Generating Compassion, trans. by Geshe Thupten Jinpa. London: Thorsons, 2003. This book records the Dalai Lama's May 1999 teaching on the Eight Verses in London.
– Toward a True Kinship of Faiths: How the World's Religions Can Come Together. New York: Doubleday, 2010. The Dalai Lama writes about his own history of interfaith encounters and deep commitment to inter-religious understanding.
– Gyeltsen, Tsultim. Keys to Great Enlightenment: Commentaries on Geshe Langri Tangpa's Eight Verses on Thought Training and Togmey Zangpo's The Thirty Seven Bodhisattva Practices. Thubten Dhargye Ling Publications, 2006. This book offers a verse-by-verse commentary by Geshe Gyeltsen on two key Tibetan Buddhist texts.
– Iyer, Pico. The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. This presents a well-rounded portrait of His Holiness by a brilliant writer who has talked and traveled with him over the course of the past three decades.
– Thurman, Robert. Why the Dalai Lama Matters: His Act of Truth as a Solution for China, Tibet, and the World. Hillsboro, Oregon: Atria Books/Beyond Words, 2008. This book explores why His Holiness has gained the world's admiration and closes with the author's vision of a sustainable and peaceful future for Tibet.
More information are available on http://gyutocenter.org/events/dalai-lama-visit.html