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Dear Editor,
I often hear conservatives say that labor unions' time has passed and that they were good once, but are not needed any longer. I personally think that labor unions are still needed and will make a comeback in the 21st century and here is why:
1). Corporate profit margins have reached an all time high. Companies are making more per dollar of sales than they ever have before.
2). Wages as a percent of the economy are at an all time low. One reason companies are so profitable is that they are paying workers less than they ever have before.
When presented with these facts, most conservatives invoke one of two arguments. First: technology is making workers irrelevant. Second: low- skill jobs command low pay. Both of these arguments miss key points: technology has been making some jobs obsolete for 200+ years, but it is only recently that corporate profit margins have gone through the roof. Just because employers can pay workers so little that they live in poverty doesn't mean they should - especially when retention is often a problem and their profit margin is extraordinarily high.
More broadly, what's wrong is an obsession with a narrow view of "shareholder value" which has led companies to put "maximizing current earnings growth" ahead of another critical priority in a healthy economy: investing in human and physical capital and future growth. If American companies were willing to trade off a small amount of their current earnings growth to make investments in wage increases and hiring, American workers would have more money to spend. And as American workers spent more, the economy would begin to grow quickly, and the growing economy would help the companies grow more quickly.
But, instead U.S. companies have become so obsessed with generating near-term profits that they're paying workers less, cutting capital investments, and under investing in future growth. This may help their shareholders get richer, but it doesn't make the economy healthier. Ultimately, as with any ecosystem that gets out of whack, it's bad for the whole ecosystem.
Ideally, we would fix it by getting companies to voluntarily share more of their wealth with their employees. But the "shareholder value" religion has been so embraced that any suggestion of voluntary sharing is viewed as heresy.
I've heard all the responses: "the only duty of a company is to produce profit for it's owners!" "If workers want more money, they should start their own company!" Etc. Beyond basic fairness and the team spirit of we're all in this together, what these responses lack is any appreciation of the value of personal loyalty, retention, and pride in the workforce.
It would be great if companies would start sharing their wealth voluntarily. But that isn't going to happen. So if companies can't be persuaded to do this on their own, then many workers need to rethink their views of labor unions.
Healthy capitalism is not about "maximizing near term profits." It is about balancing the interests of several critical constituencies: shareholders, customers, workers, and the environment.
Labor unions allow workers to have a say so in their workplace.
If American workers want a slice of the pie, we must organize the un-organized!
Ben Lofton


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Force and Frequency of Hits Likely a Factor, but Genetics, Even Diet, May Play Roles, Too
May 16, 2012 -- College football and hockey players sustain numerous blows to the head every season. Those hits, according to a new study published in the online edition of the journal Neurology, may add up to brain injuries that impact learning for some players.
The authors of the study followed football players at three schools: Dartmouth College, Brown University, and Virginia Tech. They also tracked ice hockey players -- both male and female -- at two of those schools. Altogether, they studied 214 athletes over the course of a season, comparing them to 45 players in non-contact sports such as track, crew, and Nordic skiing.
At the beginning and end of the season, all of the study participants took a 20-minute computer test to measure memory and reaction time, while a smaller number also took a comprehensive battery of mental tests. The preseason test results showed few differences between the contact and the non-contact players. For researcher Thomas McAllister, MD, that was encouraging.
"They are all Division I level and have been playing for many years, and the contact players have been hitting their heads for many years, so we thought we might see a difference between them and the non-contact players, but both looked pretty similar," says McAllister, a professor of psychiatry and neurology at Dartmouth Medical School.
The players' postseason scores, however, told a somewhat different story.
While the researchers found that a season's worth of head impacts do not have a measurable effect on all athletes, some players do appear susceptible. On one of the tests, which is used to measure a person's ability to learn and remember new things, 22% of the football and hockey players performed at a level that many clinicians would find "worrisome," says McAllister. Only 4% of the non-contact players showed a similar negative result.
The football and hockey players each wore helmets rigged with the HIT System, which monitors and measures the impacts of blows to the head during both games and practice. The helmets recorded an average of 469 hits per player over the course of the season.
According to the study, those who suffered the heaviest blows in the last week of play did worse on two of the mental tests. This, McAllister says, suggests "a modest correlation" between both the number of hits and the force of the hits and brain performance.

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1. A person (always a female) that shows no symptoms of a disease but harbors the infectious agent of that disease and is capable of transmitting it to others during sexual contact.
2. A baseball-like game played by children with two or more bases. Also known as pickle.
2. A baseball-like game played by children with two or more bases. Also known as pickle.
Guy 1: Dude, why are you bent over and limping.
Guy 2: I had a run in with a hotbox.
Guy 1: Hotbox? I haven't played that in years!
Guy 2: I was referring to a your sister.
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Guy 1: Hotbox? I haven't played that in years!
Guy 2: I was referring to a your sister.
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A hotbox is an air-tight room or vehicle that contains one or more pot-smokers smoking one or more joints. The exhaled smoke and the smoke coming from the joint, unable to escape, circulates and thus is breathed in and is not wasted. Smokers in a hotbox may find themselves totally fucked beyond the point of speech after about 30 minutes. Hotboxing is an event that requires some amount of planning, but ensures optimal weed usage.
Guy 1: "Dude, my parents are on hliday and we're gonna hotbox my bathroom!!"
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by Rep August 24, 2004
a sealed car with marijuana smoke in it; stay in a hot box to get more high
ey man, lets get messed up tonight, lets hot box your car!
by suj March 21, 2003
when u smoke in an enclosed area so that it holds all the smoke
shit all we have is one j....so lets just hot box in phipps car and get high off those fumes
by brad p. nigga May 06, 2005
When you smoke in an enclosed area(Car, SAUNA, Tent, small room) and the smoke stays in the area and you are contnuously breathing in smoke... the purpose is to FUCK YOU UP! Have fun.
Smoke a blunt with all the windows up!
by Mike Lancea August 29, 2005
smoking marijuana in a vehicle or room until it is filled with smoke.
we smoked a blunt in the S500, it was hotboxed in 5 minutes.
by lex February 13, 2003
Smoking cannabis/marijuana in smallish inclosed space causing the smoke to fill the room and be reinhaled.the room often starts to heat up during the procces.Often done more by high/college students then older smokers.
Although many belive hotboxing gets you more high this is untrue.The active ingrediant in marijuana is THC. When you inhale the THC is absorbed by the aveoli in the first 3-5 seconds. Some say they get more high in a hot box this is a plucibo effect.
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Is there a storage-engine or database that naturally support this use-case:
1) Key-Value storage. Small Fixed Length Key, and value within [1KB, 64KB]
2) Access is read-mostly
3) Latency more important than throughput.
4) Use discs for values; not a memory-database, but keys could be kept in RAM.
5) Transactions (that involve several values) are NOT required
6) It should be possible to roll-back to a point-in-time (say, 1 week ago max).
7) All changes are attributed to some specific entity (a user)
8) It should be possible to roll-back changes done by a specific group of users
within a certain time interval.
9) Rollback happens rarely, so transaction logs should not be kept in RAM.
10) Online backups are possible.
11) I should be directly or indirectly accessible from a JVM.
While I know several engines / DB that generally fit, point 7 and 8 are more problematic.
What would fit this use case best?
[EDIT] This is my first "independent"/private project and I don't have much money to invest for software. Also I'm not sure yet if I will charge for it, or open-source it when it is done, so I would prefer a free storage, or at least one with a free version. Here a clarification of some questions raised in the first answer.
3) I'm sold to SSD already.
4) I said "use disc" simply because the data will not all fit in the RAM I can
afford. Also I suspect I will have a lot of "cold" data, that gets created once
and never accessed again, so it would seem a waste to keep it all in RAM, as
would be the case with VoltDB, for example.
7) Adding explicitly the UserID is not problem in most database. I just thought that
some storage system might have some kind of "special" ID that makes rollback
8) This is where the real problem is. Writing a traditional "undo/rollback" by hand
is time-consuming and error-prone. I know I can do all the rest with most DB.
What I'm looking for is one that implements the undo/rollback for me, given some
transaction ID or similar. And most importantly, without undoing other
independent transactions that happened before or after.
9) I think redis does that; not sure.
10) I was (implicitly) thinking about a free one, where it's not always a given.


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What is the distance in the sense of Gromov-Hausdorff between $\mathbb{Z}_{p_1}$ and $\mathbb{Z}_{p_2}$ with the usual p-adic metrics? I got stuck and simply have no idea how to deal with such questions: I've got two metric trees and have to observe somehow all embeddings to all spaces which seems a bit intractable.
The Gromov--Hausdorff distance is good only to define topology; i.e., one should not care about distance between particular spaces. But since you insist, I will answer an easier question which is closely related.
There is a modified distance $d'_{GH}(X,Y)$ defined as infimum of all numbers $\varepsilon>0$ such that there are maps $f_1\colon X\to Y$ and $f_2\colon Y\to X$ such that $$|f_i(x)-f_i(y)|\ge |x-y|-\varepsilon.$$
This distance $d^\prime_{GH}$ is equivalent to $d_{GH}$ and it is usually easier to find value $d^\prime_{GH}$
If $ p < q < p^2$ then it is easy to see that
$$ d^\prime_{GH} ( \mathbb Z_{p},\mathbb Z_{q}) = \tfrac{p-1}{p}. $$ Further, if $ p^2 < q < p^3$ then
$$ d^\prime_{GH} ( \mathbb Z_{p},\mathbb Z_{q}) = \tfrac{p^2-1}{p^2}$$ and so on.
My guess is that covering numbers will give you fairly accurate lower bounds on the Gromov-Hausdorff distance. If a space $X$ can be covered by $k$ balls of radius $r$, but a space $Y$ cannot be covered by $k$ balls of radius $R$, then the Gromov-Hausdorff distance between the two spaces has to be at least $(R-r)/2$. The covering numbers for the p-adics can be explicitly computed, so one should be able to work out explicit lower bounds this way. Conversely, once one finds a scale r at which $X$ and $Y$ have similar covering behaviour, it should be possible (especially given the ultrametric (tree) structure of both spaces) to find a way to move elements of X to elements of Y and vice versa while distorting the metric by at most O(r), so one should get an upper bound comparable to the lower bound.
I hope you get a much better answer than the following - there must be an established body of techniques for computing GH distances. (Edit: see this MO question.)The following is very elementary, but given the "where do I start?" tone of your question, maybe it's not completely useless.
First, you don't have to think about "all embeddings to all spaces". To compute the GH distance between spaces $X$ and $Y$, you only need to think about all metrics on the disjoint union $X \amalg Y$ that extend the given metrics on $X$ and $Y$. (This is probably proved in almost every text in which the GH metric is defined.) Given any such metric on $X \amalg Y$, you can take the Hausdorff distance between $X$ and $Y$. The GH distance between $X$ and $Y$ is the inf of all Hausdorff distances arising in this way.
So, for instance, it's easy to show that $d_{GH}(\mathbb{Z}_{p_1}, \mathbb{Z}_{p_2}) \leq 1$. For this, all we need to know about $\mathbb{Z}_{p_1}$ and $\mathbb{Z}_{p_2}$ is that they each have diameter $\leq 1$. Indeed, let $X$ and $Y$ be metric spaces of diameter $\leq 1$. Extend the metrics on $X$ and $Y$ to a metric on $X \amalg Y$ by taking $d(x, y) = 1/2$ for all $x \in X$ and $y \in Y$. With this metric, $X \amalg Y$ has diameter $\leq 1$, so the Hausdorff distance between any two subsets is $\leq 1$. In particular, the Hausdorff distance between the subsets $X$ and $Y$ is $\leq 1$. So $d_{GH}(X, Y) \leq 1$.
(Sorry if you already knew all that. It's hard to tell from your question how much you know. If you did already know what I wrote, maybe it would be useful to edit your question to tell us how far you've got in this problem: e.g. what upper and lower bounds do you have?)


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The month of Cheshvan is called by many MarCheshvan. Are both correct or which one is more correct?
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I don't know that I'd put money on this one, but I heard that the original name was warach-sheman (an aramaic version of yerech shmini) and that the dialect allowed for an interchange between the w (our vav) and the m sound, corrupting it further to marach-shewan.
After a search, I found a "What's the truth about..." on this subject which also talks more to the point of the question.
"Mar" also means "a drop" (as in Isaiah 40:15, כמר מדלי, "like a drop from a bucket"), so "Marcheshvan" also means "rainy Cheshvan" - it's the usual beginning of the rainy season in the Land of Israel.
Source: Pri Chadash, Even ha-Ezer 126:7
The actual name is Marcheshvan - it is derived from the Babylonian, as are all of the names of our Hebrew months (note that the current names on the Hebrew months only appear in Tanach in books that occur during or after the Babylonian exile). I do not recall the exact Babylonian version of it, but a simple Google search can turn up that info. All of the cute derashot about mar meaning drop or bitter are post-facto ideas that, frankly, I am not sure where they came from.
MarCheshvan simply means


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[CLOSED] Tree: cannot add leaf as a child of leaf node via drag drop: node disappers
Though it is possible to drag-and-drop leaf node of a tree to another non-leaf node, drag-and-dropping leaf node to another leaf node makes the dragged one disappear after dropping it. The problem is that initially all the leaf nodes have TreeNode#isChildrenRendered property turned off (false). When the leaf is dropped to another leaf node this property does not changes. Thus the implementation of Tree.onAdd works incorrectly:
protected void onAdd(StoreAddEvent<M> event) { ... if (isOrWasAttached()) { // event.getItems().get(0) is a dropped leaf-node // parent is a target leaf-node M parent = store.getParent(event.getItems().get(0)); TreeNode<M> pn = findNode(parent); if (parent == null || (pn != null && pn.isChildrenRendered())) { // we'll never get here because pn.isChildrenRendered() == false ... // rendering the children nodes } ... } ...
30 Nov 2011 7:24 PM #2
Thanks for the report - we're looking into it.
1 Dec 2011 10:44 AM #3
2 Dec 2011 7:10 AM #4
Looks like the problem in store and my data model syncronisation during nodes moving. In Tree.onAdd method:
int parentChildCount = parent == null ? store.getRootCount() : store.getChildCount(parent);
parentChildCount= 1 after dropping one leaf node on another but parent.getChildren() is still empty but should be instead contain node that passed in event.getItems(). Looks I have to look close to the TreeStore and how it use properly.
2 Dec 2011 8:48 AM #5
Looks like the bug submission is irrelevant, my error was not keeping my own tree model in sync with TreeStore model.
5 Dec 2011 8:53 AM #6
Thanks for the update, and for all of the other testing you've done. Let us know if another bug shows itself - we'll hopefully get those other tree bugs closed out this week.


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Curtis M. Kimbell, 61, of Palmyra, died Oct. 28, 2013 in Lincoln. He was born June 11, 1952 in Syra-cuse to Marvin G. and Verneda A. (Hagerman) Kimbell.
He was a U. S. Army veteran and self-employed carpenter. He was a member of Carpenter's Union and American Legion Post #100, Syracuse.
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On a Debian installation back in 1999. 14 floppy disks for the basic installation.
I tried to get xfree86 working.
But it took me nearly a week to find out that the resolution setting (1024x768) didn't work. I had to switch it to 640x480 until the graphics card finally worked (at 1024x768... buuuuuug....).
I tried to get the serial port mouse to work on COM1. So I tried to get the mouse to work. Reading a book (back then I had no usable high-speed internet), I tried with
And it didn't work and didn't work.
It took me nearly another week to find out this was because I needed to type the
It was about then when I finally realized what 'case-sensitive' really means.
A long time ago, I was installing MkLinux on my Mac, and I wanted to replace the file that governed command processing (not the shell, something more basic, don't remember quite what anymore). The instructions said to do
As root of course....
Mine was
Never did that again (and still don't know how to restore such a situation).
I mapped the CapsLock to ESC on the entire system. When I did it, the Capslock was on.
A reboot removed the permanent state of CapsLock. It was mapped to ESC
It wasn't really painful but I felt stupid when I realized what I'd done!
I don't keep track of errors on my own boxes, but from the last 15 years here are my two work fatalities:
1995: Standard '
1998: Ran newfs (SunOS) on a production AFS (now OpenAFS) file server instead of the replacement we were standing up. Spent the afternoon and night restoring from tape.
First one
One time, I had defined an alias to help me clean temp files:
and of course one day, when I had forget what the alias was doing I mistyped:
I think I lost a good couple of seconds before I realized what was happening... :(
Second one
I was working as usual with my Mac laptop and my Ubuntu desktop. When I plugged the external HD of the Mac (HFS+ filesystem) in Ubuntu, I noticed that the owner was
So I modified the UID on the mac and launched a big
Ignored warning about
Not sure where installation actually failed, but I was left with one root console on a dial-up line with every single app exploding. Just one running
Had a lot of fun of recovering it. Uploaded statically linked
Somehow managed to unmount /dev and thought I would be screwed forever if I rebooted the machine.
Nerve wracking hour ensued trying to figure out if it would be safe to reboot it. It was, nothing bad happened.
Wanted to make an archive:
Of course,
Remember that the archive name follows the
My favorite is when I was building the new Solaris system for an Oracle database installation. Everything was in place including the high priced oracle consultant right in the middle of the DB optimization work he was doing. I was in the server room checking on another server, when I tripped over the power cord to the server.
I was once trying to zero out a USB thumbdrive using
Needless to say, when tty1 started spitting out ReiserFS errors from my root partition, I had to reinstall...
Trying to get the Xwindows driver for my Nvidia card working when Fedora initially released the Nouveau driver. I had downloaded the Nvidia source to compile and install myself as I had many times in the past, but this release, I could just not get it to work. There were quite a few steps to find in the Fedora Forums to completely disable the Nouveau driver, and get the Nvidia driver working. Quite painful to say the least.
Back in the day you had to do erase the first 512 bytes of a partition to properly format FAT drives from Linux. This is done using the
Except the FAT partition was
I didn't realize what had happened until after I rebooted. Luckily I was able to recover it by re-installing Lilo, or something.
Twenty minutes ago, I was painstakingly recreating a complex directory structure from files I had on my other PC. I decided to run
On my return I noticed, to my severe dismay, that instead of running
I had absent-mindedly run
Many web apps like magento or eZ Publish have a
After doing this a couple of times, it is scientifically proven that you always end up:
Lesson learned: create an alias for this command with an absolute path in it.
The first time I installed GNU Linux on my desktop, I installed Debian, no help, I only installed the basic system, no GUI. And I was like:
"OMFG OMFG WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO NOW?... I will need to go back to Windows"
But then I remembered how to install packages (first time in GNU Linux, only a
It feels... good experimenting with your computer xD
1st ex employee: How do I do (something trivial)?
Installing Debian (with net-install) on a computer and realise after rebooting that I had somehow skipped the part where one is supposed to choose which packages to install.
Sure, a non-graphical system with basically only
I wanted to delete a file and its backup copy (
So I wanted to type
and I did
Now I am always checking what the suggested completion is.
A while ago, I needed to do some extensive configuration on one of my machines, that mostly involved editing bunch of files in
I was on the phone with a colleague who was out at a customer site. She was working on their systems and I was telling her stroke for stroke what to type, she misheard me when I told her
Back when I was "learning as a sysadmin", I was writing my own adduser script (didn't have it on early SysV). A shell error in the script
I did
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Apartment in Prag 1 for 7 with parking
Size120 m²
Floor No.0(with elevator)
- Baby cot
- Internet/WiFi
- Kitchen
- Lockable room
- Elevator in building
|11000 Hlavní město Praha, Hlavní město Praha, Czech Republic
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Living/dining room with satellite-TV and dining-table. Smoking not allowed. Internet (Wireless LAN [WLAN]). 1 single bed and 1 double sofa bed.
Sleeping room with 2 single beds. Sleeping room with 2 single beds. Sleeping room with 2 single beds and 1 double bed.
Kitchenette with micro wave, oven, dining table, fridge and deep freezer.
Bath-room, shower and hip bath/WC.
Other equipment: children's highchair, hair dryer, iron.
More information by the provider: ON REQUEST: baby cot, high chair, washing machine.
Large, family friendly, cosy apartment house "St.Giles" from the 14th century, renovated in 2005.
House Equipment: central heating, washing machine (extra).
Access & Parking: private parking. All-season motor access to the house. Narrow street. Stepped path.
More information by the provider: Parking is available on request. We have limited number of parking place. We recommend to book it in advance. Situation: in the centre, central, busy position. View from the apartment of the resort.
Facilities and distances: shop 50 m, grocers 100 m, supermarket 100 m, restaurant 10 m.
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This was an overall appalling experience and thus has led our family to never rent from Wimdu ever again moving forward. As the photos advertised a lovely apartment (not cheap, I might add - about $300 per night), we realized upon arrival and after reading the fine print that the photos on the post were simply an "example" of an apartment that you MIGHT be placed in. After taking an expensive cab ride to pick up the key and digging through pages of contracts to find the code to unlock the door and the safebox, we then had to take another expensive cab to the other side of the city where the apartment was located. The location was fine but we had to drag our heavy bags up three flights of stairs, because the apartment did not have a lift. When we arrived, the apartment was tiny and nothing like the photos online. The worst part was then at checkout, we were expected to return the key to the safebox again on the other side of town. These people BRIDGESTREET ARE COMPLETE FRAUDS! Do not rent from them. Ever.
Apartment is exactly as described.2 rooms ,clean,suitable for a family with upto two kids with a small kitchen.Its 30 mins by bus from the apartment to the altsatdt but the bus stop is only 20m away from the apartment.Could have been better if wifi was also provided.the host was really good, also giving us some suggestions on places to visit for kids.
Will definetly recommend to others.
Apartment was great: decent size with one double bed, two singles and a sofa bed in lounge, which we didn't use, but would have made a decent third bedroom. No wifi in apartment so paid 30 € for a gadget to get us all on line for a week but that was hopeless, not worth the money. In terms of location, Levante beach is not nearly as nice as Poniente. There is a bus (apparently) my son tried use, but that was difficult and took ages. So we used the car to get to the nice beach. Restaurants and bars all better at Old Town. We used this as a base only. If you want somewhere rough, full of stag parties, streets smelling strongly of urine and vomit, Levante is for you. Otherwise stay near the old town or Poniente beach. The apartment is fine but the location is not. I would also add its about a ten minute walk up a steep hill back from bars, perhaps not ideal for lone ladies.
The car park is accessed either by an illegal manoeuvre ( turning right when a right turn is not permitted) or you can find a road which is a detour of about four miles. Everyone does the illegal manoeuvre but it is not at all ideal.
What really made this house great was the outside area; great swimming pool and enough space around with nice seats. Also de patio was a great spot for dinner and lunch.
The interior was not great; no airco of fan (so HOT), bad kitchen equipment (old or simply missed) and not quite clean.
Staff of Interhome gave us good support.
Place is quiet and nice. It is superior place to spend some days with dog since there is an open space in front of cottage.
There are two super markets down the hill(mountain?) which is just enough to
have everything you need.
One thing you need to be careful is that this entitiy does not have WIFI connection. If you really want to connect to internet, you need to prepare by yourself.
Apartment was lovely - clean and well-stocked. Beds were comfortable and main bedroom was roomy. Restaurants and hiking trails close by.
Great place to stay during Alp days in Swiss. Charming apartment in a wonderful village with all comfort and home tools. Besides, Patricia the owner is really helpful and make you feel like home. I would recommend this apartment to any traveller.
This apartment is very well designed and the owner was very friendly. We spend a very good time in Brugge. I will recommend this apartment. But we had a problem with Wimdu because they gave us a wrong telephone and address and we couldn´t contact with the owner and Windu. Finally we could contact with Interhom and they gave me the right telephone and address. It was a very stressful situation.
We stayed in the appartment during Christmas.The appartment itself is fabulous and located in a wonderful, but quite village. All rooms, big kitchen, furniture and facilities were well taken care of. A practical space for a family, like ours with two young children. Forests for walking is near. Shops and cities are further away. A good option is to drive to the closest train station to catch one of the trains that take you through the whole country, with its nice towns and to Luxemburg city for just 4euro a day, children under 12 yrs travel free. Food and wine in Luxemburg are nice, so we enjoyed Christmas very much.
The place was very clean and big. It had a nice garden that we could use whenever we wanted, which is great if you go with kids. The only problem was that it said the beach was 400m away, which is true but it was 400m of steps, which is a problem when you are coming back and have to go up (with kids, baby and a lot of stuff).
Apart from that, everything was great.
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