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Life in the Suffolk town of Ipswich has always centred around the water, and with a rich maritime history and a waterfront bursting with bars, restaurants and shops, it''s easy to see why this bustling town holds such an attraction for visitors.
Families and couples will enjoy a relaxing break in Ipswich, but there is plenty to see and do here too. The Maritime Ipswich Festival takes place every year and is well worth checking out - you can expect live music, a beer festival, fireworks displays and street entertainment for all ages.
For those interested in art, head for the Tudor Christ Church Mansion, where you''ll find some of the best collection of the artists'' work outside London, including paintings by Gainsborough and Constable.
Another idea is to enjoy a leisurely boat trip with Orwell River Cruises, they also run evening cruises as the sun sets which is especially magical, particularly if you''re enjoying a romantic break. Of course, if it''s gourmet delights you are after, you''ll find plenty on the menu here to tempt you. The Suffolk Food Hall is the perfect place to pick up local produce and prepare a delicious meal back at your cosy Suffolk cottage, or visit Jimmy''s Farm, which was featured on the BBC.
You''ll find a lot to do here, so start your search for Ipswich holiday cottages today!
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Lovingly renovated, 'The Loft, Mumfiddy Barn', adjacent to the owners home, is a stylishly compact and cosy loft style holiday home with views over open countryside. Ideally located for easy road access to many historic East Anglian towns and villages, this delightful beamed property is set in the owner's cottage garden which guests are welcome to use. Additionally a balcony offers the opportunity to enjoy alfresco dining. The wooden floor in the property is made up of reclaimed pine shelving from the Science Museum in London, and there is an antique iron and brass bedstead in the double room. The property is conveniently situated for visits to the historic county towns of Bury St Edmunds, Ipswich, Colchester, Norwich and Cambridge, there's also an excellent train link to London. The picturesque villages of Long Melford and Lavenham are not far away, while the market towns of Needham Market and Hadleigh are even closer. Felixstowe is only 18 miles distant, likewise Woodbridge and Framlingham, the Tudor castle there being of great interest! Convenient too is Dedham in the heart of Constable Country, and the Suffolk Heritage Coast, Aldeburgh for famed fish and chips, Thorpeness featuring the 'house in the clouds', Southwold with the wonderful pier and famed beach huts, and not forgetting of course, Snape Maltings boasting a world famous concert hall....plus many more places of great interest dotted between. Nature lovers can visit RSPB Minsmere of Springwatch fame, or if it's fishing or golf you enjoy, those facilities are well catered for too. Shop 1 mile. Pub 500 yards.
External, open tread stairs to entrance. All on first floor: Living/dining room/kitchen with vaulted ceiling, beams and wooden floors. 1 double bedroom. Shower room with toilet. Low sloping ceilings.
Woodburner in living room (initial fuel included). Electric central heating, electricity, bed linen and towels included. Freeview TV. DVD. CD. Electric cooker. Induction hob. Microwave. Washing machine and tumble dryer in shared utility room. Wi-fi. Shared lawned garden. Balcony and furniture. Gas barbecue. Parking (1 car). Welcome pack. No smoking.
8 reviews
As the name implies, Field View, adjoining the owner's home, has delightful views over open countryside. This comfortable holiday property has a secluded sitting-out area and there are numerous footpaths nearby, making it an ideal base for walkers and bird watchers. This is also an ideal area for cyclists. The hamlet of Nettlestead, adjoining the village of Lower Somersham, whilst delightfully rural, affords easy access to the many pretty towns and villages of East Anglia, including Bury St Edmunds and Ipswich. There are two, free, public tennis courts a 10-minute walk away. Field View is also just a short stroll to two excellent local pubs. Shop, pub and restaurant ½ mile.
Ground floor: Living/dining room. Kitchen with Velux and tiled floor. Spiral stairs to first floor: 1 double bedroom. Bathroom with shower attachment and toilet.
Oil central heating, gas, electricity, bed linen and towels included. Freesat TV. DVD. Gas cooker. Microwave. Washing machine. Wi-fi. Sitting-out area and furniture. Use of owner's garden. Parking (1 car). Cycle store. Welcome pack. No smoking.
14 reviews
This detached cart lodge, adjacent to the owners' 400 year old former farmhouse is set along a no-through single track lane on the outskirts of the village and overlooks fields with country views and footpaths. Ipswich is a short drive with rail links to London, leisure centre and restaurants. The riverside town of Woodbridge and the Victorian seaside town of Felixstowe are within easy reach as are Snape Maltings and Aldeburgh. Visit Constable Country, Sutton Hoo (NT) and Alton Water Reservoir where you can hire dinghies and windsurfers. Golf, 2 minutes' drive. Shop, pub/restaurants 3 miles.
Ground floor: Living/dining area with beams. Kitchen. Separate toilet. First floor: 1 double (6ft zip and link) bedroom with Velux. Shower room with toilet.
Electric heaters, electricity, bed linen and towels included. Freeview TV. DVD. iPod dock. Electric cooker. Microwave. Washer/dryer. Fridge/freezer. Wi-fi. Enclosed lawn with decked area and furniture. Barbecue. Parking (1 car). Cycle store. Welcome pack. No smoking. NB: Fenced pond in owners' grounds.
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St Mary's Cottage is a stylish semi-detached holiday cottage set in the heart of the historic Suffolk market town of Hadleigh, which is a convenient base for exploring the delights of Constable Country. It is a Grade II listed building, which was originally built in the mid 1800s as the annexe to a large Victorian townhouse. The cottage is located adjacent to the imposing 15th century St Mary's Church and close to the ancient timbered Guildhall and fine red brick Deanery Tower, ideal for wedding guests or as a really special retreat for the bride and groom. The ancient market town of Hadleigh has over 200 listed buildings, a wide range of independent shops, restaurants and pubs and is a good central base to explore the delights of Suffolk and Essex. Within a short drive are the picturesque villages of Lavenham, Long Melford (for NT properties), Kersey, Sudbury, Colchester with its castle and zoo, and Felixstowe for a day at a traditional seaside resort. There are 3 golf courses nearby and the area is ideal for walkers and cyclists. Shop, pub and restaurant 500 yards.
Ground floor: Living/dining room/kitchen. First floor: 1 double bedroom with en-suite shower room and toilet.
Gas central heating, electricity, bed linen and towels included. Travel cot on request. Freeview TV. DVD. Stereo/CD. Electric cooker. Microwave. Laundry service on request. Dishwasher. Wi-fi. Front garden. Enclosed rear courtyard with sitting-out area and furniture. On road parking. Welcome pack. No smoking.
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This lovingly restored, quaint, cosy, detached cottage makes an ideal romantic country retreat. Well-appointed and stylishly furnished, it has a pretty cottage garden (accessed by a stable door), ideal for al fresco dining or enjoying a glass of wine on a balmy summer's evening. An ideal holiday location for exploring the delights of both Suffolk and Essex - the Suffolk Heritage coastal resorts of Southwold and Aldeburgh are within an hour's drive. Many nearby attractions include Dedham Vale and Constable Country with Flatford Mill and Sir Alfred Munning's house. Ideal bird-watching and walking area; fishing and tennis nearby. Alton Water is on the doorstep with bicycles, sailing dinghies and windsurfers for hire. Jimmy's Farm (from the TV series) is also nearby. Farm shop 50 yards, pubs 1 mile.
Step to entrance. Open-plan living/dining room with rugs on wooden floor and modern kitchen area. Double bedroom. Bathroom with over-bath shower and toilet.
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This lovely, traditional, semi-detached holiday cottage adjoins the owner's home, set in a ¾-acre garden and retains lots of original features. Ideal for visiting Ipswich, Norwich, Colchester, or for the train to London. Constable Country, Lavenham, Long Melford, the Suffolk Heritage Coast and Suffolk village churches are an easy drive. Fishing lakes and golf close by. Shop, pub and restaurant 2 miles.
Ground floor: Living room with wooden floor. Dining room with wooden floor. Kitchen with tiled floor. Utility room. Shower room with toilet. First floor: 2 bedrooms: 1 double, 1 single, both with wooden floor. Bathroom with roll-top bath and toilet. Low doors and ceilings.
Open fire in living room included. Woodburner in dining room included. Gas underfloor central heating, gas, electricity, bed linen and towels included. Freesat TV. DVD. iPod dock. Gas hob. Gas Rayburn. Microwave. Washing machine. Dishwasher. Freezer. Internet connection.Telephone-incoming only. Lawned garden with terrace and furniture. Barbecue. Parking (2 cars). Cycle store. Welcome pack. No smoking. NB: 3 steps on terrace. 3 raised uncovered water butts in grounds.
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This delightful, detached single storey holiday home is set in an AONB, in the pretty village of East Bergholt in the Dedham Vale where the artist John Constable painted many of his most famous scenes. Set in the owner's grounds, Appletrees has its own private south facing garden. An excellent area for walking and cycling. The nearby Roman town of Colchester has an excellent range of shops. The peaceful Stour Estuary, Manningtree and Mistley are 6 minutes' drive or visit London, less than an hour away by train. An excellent location to explore all the delights of both Essex and Suffolk. Shops ½ mile, pub and restaurant 200 yards.
All on ground floor: Living room with French doors. Dining room/kitchen with French doors and laminate floor. 2 bedrooms: 1 double (5ft), 1 twin. Bathroom with shower over bath and toilet.
Oil central heating, electricity, bed linen and towels included. Freeview TV. DVD. CD. Electric cooker. Microwave. Washer/dryer. Dishwasher. Fridge/freezer. Wi-fi. Lawned garden with sitting-out area and furniture. Barbecue. Parking (2 cars). No smoking.
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Lovingly restored to a very good standard, Walnut Cottage has been in the owner's family for several generations and dating back to the 14th century, is the oldest cottage in Sproughton. Semi-detached and situated in the centre of the village it is full of character, it has a woodburner in the living room and an enclosed suntrap garden where guests can enjoy al fresco dining. Offering easy road access to many historic East Anglian towns and villages, it is conveniently situated for visiting the county towns of Norwich, Ipswich and Colchester, or taking the train for a day out in London. The picturesque villages of Long Melford, Lavenham, Clare and Bildeston are all a short drive away. Also convenient for Constable Country and the Suffolk Heritage Coast. Shop 50 yards, pub and restaurant 100 yards.
Ground floor: Living room with beam. Dining room/kitchen. Step up to shower room with toilet. Steep stairs to first floor: 2 bedrooms: 1 double, 1 twin, both with beams and vaulted ceiling.
Woodburner in living room (initial fuel included). Gas central heating, electricity, bed linen and towels included. Freeview TV. DVD. Electric cooker. Microwave. Washing machine. Wi-fi. Enclosed lawned garden with sitting-out area and furniture. Barbecue. Parking (1 car). Welcome pack. No smoking.
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Set in one of Suffolk's loveliest villages and boasting light and airy holiday accommodation with glorious, undulating countryside views, this converted barn, adjacent to the owners' home, is a wonderful place to relax and watch the world go by. Surrounded by quiet country roads, it is ideal for cycling and walking, and golf is nearby. The town of Woodbridge is just 5 miles away and offers shopping, museums and a picturesque harbour. Other nearby attractions include Sutton Hoo (NT), Orford Ness and Snape Maltings concert hall. There are also the quaint seaside resorts of Aldeburgh and Southwold, which are home to a popular summer theatre. Inland, constable country and Framlingham Castle invite exploration, and the many amenities in the town of Ipswich are within a short drive. Beach 10 miles. Shop 3 miles, pub and restaurant 1/2 mile.
Ground floor: Living/dining room/kitchen with tiled floors. First floor: 2 bedrooms: 1 double (5ft), 1 twin. Shower room with toilet.
Air source heat pump central heating, electricity, bed linen and towels included. Travel cot. 28" Freesat TV. DVD. Electric cooker. Microwave. Washing machine. Large garden with sitting-out area and furniture. Parking (2 cars). Welcome pack. No smoking.
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This single storey old milking parlour is set amidst 300 acres of arable farm. Amble along the many paths around the farm and in the area. A canoe and kayak for guests use (at their own risk) on the lake in the grounds. Fishing available - bring own tackle. Set on the edge of Dedham Vale and Constable Country, within easy reach of Bury St. Edmunds, Ipswich and Colchester. Golf and sailing close by. Shops and restaurants 2 miles, pubs 1/2 mile.
All on ground floor: Living room with French doors/dining room. Kitchen with tiled floor. Beams throughout. 2 bedrooms: 1 double (5ft) with en-suite bathroom with shower attachment and toilet, 1 twin. Shower room with toilet.
Open fire in living room (initial fuel included). Oil central heating, electricity, bed linen and towels included. Travel cot. Satellite TV. Video. CD. Electric cooker. Microwave. Washing machine. Tumble dryer. Dishwasher. Fridge/freezer. Courtyard and furniture. Shared use of 300 acre arable farm. Parking (3 cars). No smoking.
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This attractive, spacious and well furnished bungalow, set amidst the owner's beautiful gardens yet retaining complete privacy, is ideally situated for exploring the Suffolk coastline with Felixstowe for its sand and shingle beaches, Woodbridge, Orford, Dunwich, Minsmere and the ever popular towns of Southwold and Aldeburgh all within easy driving distance.The holiday property boasts an impressive indoor heated swimming pool with exclusive use from 10.30am to 10pm each day. Surrounded by beautiful countryside with lovely walks right from your doorstep, with golf and sailing close by, yet only a 15 minute drive to the centre of Ipswich for excellent shops, restaurants and pubs. Easy access to the A12 and A14 making Colchester, Bury St Edmunds, Cambridge and Norwich within easy reach. Shops and pub 2 miles.
All on ground floor: Living room with double sofa bed (for alternative sleeping). Dining room/kitchen. Utility room/cloakroom with toilet. 2 bedrooms: 1 double, 1 twin with two en-suites, one shower room with bidet and toilet and one bathroom with shower over bath, bidet and toilet.
Gas central heating, electricity, bed linen and towels included. DVD. Stereo/CD. Electric cooker. Microwave. Washing machine. Tumble dryer. Dishwasher. Fridge/freezer. Wi-fi. Large garden with sitting-out area and furniture. Barbecue. Parking (2 cars). Indoor heated swimming pool (8.5m x 4.25m), exclusive use 10:30am-10pm. No smoking.
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Granary Cottage is a superb property in the quiet village of Tattingstone, near Ipswich. A perfect blend of stylish décor, comfortable surroundings and fantastic views await inside this stunning cottage. Set in 30 acres of grounds, including a fishing lake, which adds a unique backdrop to your break away. Inside on the ground floor, you will find a large open-plan living room with woodburner for those chilly evenings, opening onto a sun trap conservatory and south facing garden and patio area. The kitchen is well equipped with a large oak table as the centrepiece for dining. In addition, there is a quiet snug room, ideal for children, and a convenient shower room and toilet. Upstairs the bedrooms are light, airy and offering spacious comfort. There is a large family bathroom and also a further en-suite off the master bedroom. Granary Cottage is only 10 minutes from Ipswich, and conveniently located giving you easy access to the Heritage Coast, Woodbridge and the undulating country walks Suffolk has to offer. Beach 15 miles. Shop, pub and restaurant 2 miles.
Steps to entrance. Ground floor: Living room with wooden floor. Second living room. Dining room/kitchen with tiled floor. Conservatory. Shower room with toilet. First floor: 3 bedrooms: 2 double (6ft), one with en-suite shower room and toilet, 1 twin. Bathroom with free-standing bath and toilet.
Woodburner in living room (initial fuel included). Oil central heating, electricity, bed linen and towels included. Travel cot. High chair. 42" Freeview TV. DVD. iPod dock. Electric cooker. Microwave. Washing machine. Tumble dryer. Dishwasher. Freezer. Fridge/freezer. Wi-fi. Large enclosed courtyard garden with patio, terrace and sitting-out area and furniture. Barbecue. Shared 30-acre grounds. Parking (3 cars). Cycle store. Fishing available on-site. Welcome pack. No smoking. NB: Lake in grounds, 100 yards.
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should the two be mixed?and what are the dangers if not
What are the effects from taking oxycodone and soma together?
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- 25 Apr 2011 by liz vegas
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25 Apr 2011
Hey liz vegas,
The following is the warning concerning these two medications together:
oxycodone ↔ carisoprodol
Applies to: oxycodone, Soma (carisoprodol)
MONITOR: Central nervous system- and/or respiratory-depressant effects may be additively or synergistically increased in patients taking multiple drugs that cause these effects, especially in elderly or debilitated patients.
MANAGEMENT: During concomitant use of these drugs, patients should be monitored for potentially excessive or prolonged CNS and respiratory depression. Ambulatory patients should be counseled to avoid hazardous activities requiring mental alertness and motor coordination until they know how these agents affect them, and to notify their physician if they experience excessive or prolonged CNS effects that interfere with their normal activities.
As long as you were prescribed these two medications by the same doctor or both doctors knew about the medications, then you should be ok.
Good luck,
25 Apr 2011
once again laurie beat me to it and gave you the best advice. but i'm going to give my two bits about soma. it's a very dangerous drug. i was on this med for 2 yrs at 3 tabs a day. i would leave the house totally naked and go driving around and would not remember the next morning. i got a dui on some (NO I DO NOT DRINK) they took a breathalizer and it came back negative. so they drew blood took me to jail then after 6hrs released me. i thought that was the end of it, NOPE 3months later i got a summons in the mail to goto court i had a dui, they found me guilty driving under the influence of a prescription medication. which included going to AA 3x a week for 3 months, DUI classes for three months, 4500 in fines, and because i'm disabled had to goto jail for three days. not to me i then had to have a SR-22 attached to my auto insurance for 7yrs and my insurance went up. so just a note of caution when taking soma, it works well for some but not so well for me.
you go laurie
I am on Oxycodone HCL 15mg and Soma 350mg 4x plus daily for pain. I am taking it for over a year and it does work for me because it helps me a great deal with pain for my DDD and Osteoarthritis. I never had any episode of running around naked or getting DUI as you describe. Maybe your dose is way to high. I don't understand. I know only one thing that I couldn't live without it. I went recently to Neurologist and he told me to cut it down, so after four days of being only on 60mg per day I thought I will go crazy because of pain. I have tried so many different things but nothing works. Massage brings some relieve, after working 30 minutes my legs are getting numb and I am done. I don't know I pray to God to help me because I don't want to live like this. I tried chiropractors, pool exercises, spent about thousand on different equipment without positive response.
I am really heart broken especially that I did everything I was told and my neck and lower back is not getting any better. It's tough to live like this, knowing that I could make some nice living with my profession. I did it all acupuncture, epidurals, chiropractors, physical therapy, walking you name it. Does someone have an idea or do I have to live this boring life without any help. Good luck to all with pain with finding solutions and/or sharing something that might work.
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From Light to Darkness: Astronomy's New Universe
By DENNIS OVERBYE
Published: April 10, 2001
BALTIMORE, April 5— A gasp went through the auditorium of the Space Telescope Science Institute on Wednesday when Dr. Adam Riess, a young astronomer from the institute, put the last mark on his so-called Hubble diagram, a plot of the brightness and speed of distant objects that astronomers use to divine the history of the universe.
The Darth Vaders of astronomy had gathered here to take stock of their expanding and increasingly dark realm. Once upon a time astronomy was about what could be seen in the sky, about jewel-like lights that moved in eternally recurring patterns and the soft glow of galaxies and comets.
Now it is about what cannot be seen. In the last few decades astronomers have had to confront the possibility that stars and galaxies -- not to mention the creatures that inhabit them -- are barely more than flecks of froth on a stormy sea of dark matter.
Now Dr. Riess was presenting his colleagues with evidence, based on observations of a star that exploded 11 billion years ago, that the universe -- dark matter and all -- was being blown apart under the influence of a mysterious antigravitational force known only as ''dark energy.''
''We are doing astronomy of the invisible,'' admitted Dr. Mario Livio, a theorist at the Space Telescope institute, who had organized the meeting, called ''The Dark Universe: Matter, Energy, and Gravity'' last fall.
As it turned out, the meeting coincided with a NASA news conference announcing the breakthrough discovery by Dr. Riess and his colleagues and thus was dominated by discussions of new telescopes in space and new dimensions in the universe as astronomers grappled with the meaning of dark energy and how to take its measure.
Now physicists, some of whom have been reluctant to take acceleration of the universe seriously, will have to explain what this dark energy is. ''Those numbers are alarming, and apparently true,'' said Dr. Michael Dine, a theoretical physicist from the University of California at Santa Cruz. He described his colleagues as now working ''frantically'' to find an explanation.
On one level, the universe, with all of its dark baggage, seems to make sense. The total amount of matter and energy seems to be just enough to guarantee that the large-scale geometry of space-time is ''flat,'' or Euclidean, a result that cosmologists have long considered to be the most desirable and aesthetic. On the other hand, the detailed breakdown of the constituents of the cosmos is, as Dr. Livio says, ''ugly'' -- 65 percent dark matter, 30 percent dark matter of unknown nature and only 5 percent stars, gas and dust.
''We live in a preposterous universe,'' said Dr. Michael Turner, an astrophysicist at the University of Chicago. ''Dark energy. Who ordered that?''
Of course, it was Einstein who originally ordered dark energy when he inserted a fudge factor called the cosmological constant into his gravitational equations describing the universe. Lambda, as it is known, after the Greek letter, represented a sort of cosmic repulsion associated with space itself that kept the cosmos from collapsing of its own weight. Einstein abandoned the cosmological constant when it was discovered that the universe was expanding, and resisted efforts to bring it back, once referring to it as his biggest blunder.
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''This was a very strange result,'' recalled Dr. Riess, who was a member of one of the teams. ''It was the opposite of what we thought we were doing.'' Was this Einstein's old cosmological constant, something even weirder or a mistake?
The effect had showed up as an unexpected dimness on the part of certain exploding stars known as supernovae that the astronomers were using as so-called standard candles, objects whose distance could be gauged from their apparent brightness. The astronomers deduced that these stars were farther away than they should have been in an evenly expanding universe, and that therefore the expansion was actually accelerating.
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Born and raised in Monterey, California, it was only natural that Alpana Singh would develop an interest in wine. Her family owned an ethnic grocery store in Monterey where she worked at an early age; a life experience that she credits for her present day work ethic. While waiting tables in college, she discovered her love for wine and found that it combined her varied interests of traveling, history and food. At the age of 19, Alpana landed her first job in the wine business as a sales clerk at Nielsen Bros. Market in Carmel, California. In 2000, at the age of 23, she became the sommelier for the highly acclaimed Everest Restaurant in Chicago. Three years later, Alpana passed the final level of the Master Sommelier exam.
For ten seasons, Alpana served as the host of the Emmy Award-winning restaurant review television show, Check, Please!, which airs weekly in Chicago on the PBS station WTTW Channel 11. She appeared frequently on the station's nightly news program, Chicago Tonight, where she answered viewer questions regarding wine and spirits in her ongoing segment, Ask Alpana. Nationally, Alpana has appeared on The Today Show and Food Network's Iron Chef America as well as in numerous publications including Newsweek, Food & Wine, Wine Spectator, Bon Appetit, and The New York Times. Most recently she received the 2013 Sommelier of the Year Wine Star award from Wine Enthusiast and was also named one of Food & Wine's Sommeliers of the Year in 2013.
A graduate of Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Chicago, Chef Tanya Baker joined The Boarding House's opening team after serving as line cook and chef de cuisine in restaurants throughout the city. She was appointed executive chef in 2014 and was quickly recognized a chef on the rise by the Chicago Sun-Times. She has since been featured prominently in the Chicago Tribune, Northwest Indiana Times, Mandarin Quarterly, Thrillist and more. In 2015, the James Beard Foundation named Chef Baker as a finalist in the Rising Star Chef category for the organization's annual, prestigious Awards.
As the only child in grade school that had seaweed, pickled daikon, and rice packed in their lunch box, Baker's Korean mother had a large impact on her introduction to food. She spent most of her childhood in the kitchen, watching, learning, and eating with her mother. Combined with her father's Cajun roots and his family's affinity for gumbo, jambalaya, dirty rice, and other Southern dishes, Baker developed a diverse palate early on. After a trip with her parents to Louisiana, her love of Southern flavors grew deeper and she and her father returned home inspired, preparing homemade boudin and crawfish beignets for the Super Bowl. Baker's parents played a significant role in feeding her curiosity for food then, and continue to support her love of the industry today.
Executive Chef Baker's focus at The Boarding House lies in preparing simple, seasonal and visually appealing dishes. She applies a 'less is more' philosophy when it comes to food and pays delicate attention to enhance each product's natural beauty, adding fun and elegant elements along the way. In nurturing both her culinary team and the guest experience, she enjoys close collaboration with the restaurant's impressive team of women leaders, including Owner Alpana Singh, Pastry Chef Julia Fitting and Sommelier Kelly Peterson Bates.
Outside of the kitchen, Baker spends her time with friends and family, fishing, golfing and enjoying the city of Chicago.
Matthew Sheridan was born and raised in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fashion Design from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and worked in fashion production, but his true calling was the restaurant business. He lived in New York for ten years, working at Le Pere Pinard, Balaboosta and Olea – restaurants specializing in Mediterranean fare and European wine programs. He then returned to Chicago and worked at Vermilion restaurant until meeting Matt Fisher at Eve. He began as a server and was quickly promoted to event planner, Maitre d' and Manager. Matthew continually seeks new ways to exceed customer expectations by developing guest recognition techniques and ideas culled from his extensive travels, which include tours in Europe, Australia, Mexico, Costa Rica, Peru, Israel, Jordan, India, Thailand, Cambodia, South Africa, and Hong Kong.
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As part of a powerful, all-woman leadership team, Peterson Bates works closely with Singh and Executive Chef Tanya Baker, a finalist for the James Beard Foundation Rising Star Chef Award in 2015. The sommelier-chef relationship is integral to the nuanced choreography that comes to life at the Boarding House. The duo collaboratively taste food and wine as the menu evolves, and Kelly has designed versatile bottle and by-the-glass programs that seamlessly match with Chef Baker's contemporary, internationally inspired cuisine. Guests holding private events at the restaurant also benefit from customized offerings featuring unique, off-menu possibilities.
While studying at the Berklee School of Music in Boston – and while she was also serving at Parish Café – a wine representative for Cycles Gladiator led a wine training for the staff. It was Bates' first official tasting, and she displayed an instant knack for identifying flavor profiles. It was the first time she learned of the Court of Master Sommeliers, and was inspired. Peterson Bates took a year off to live in Israel, where she also visited her first vineyard – the first of many. It was during this exploratory year that she came to understand the synergy between food and wine and became inspired to make it her life's work after after graduating Magna Cum Laude with a degree in performance and songwriting from Berklee.
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i love the way you render your painting, i can't figure it out the way you paint it, i really wish i know :/
anyway love your gallery
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Mostly soft big brush at the beginning, then I detail with sharper brushes. I sometimes places decals from photos to raise up the detail density.
i really wish you made a gumroad tutorial explaining your process from start to finish , i would love to see you paint hehehe. it's really awesome .anyway, thanks for the reply
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Awesome! Reminds me a lot of Chriss Foss was he an inspiration?
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Really amazing bird of prey. I appreciate the colors.
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Lovely bird.
How does the jet maintain combustion if the intake is directly behind the nose cone? Rhetorical question, just thought I'd point it out.
yeah... I think an engineer wouldn't be very convinced by this design. ^^
At first, I thought that this was an actual photo, due to its intense realism
Thanks ! I used some photos to enhance the amount of details of some parts, but I think the smooth shadows are the key to give this sensation.


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Oh, and from what I've heard, there isn't even really a tip of the hat to the scene in the original where a member of the first group of paranormalists studying the ghostly activity hallucinated clawing his own face off (which they could never, ever get away with putting in a PG-rated movie these days; in fact, it was borderline R-rated). I am not saying they had to duplicate it, but give us something other than the clown doll, the tree, and "They're here/This house is clean," for Chrissake! Check out this piece we wrote when the first trailers of the movie went online for more, including the actual gory scene (we recalled adults in the audience yelling "HOAH!" in horrified surprise even louder than the kids our age).
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The closing credits for Gil Kenan's remake of the 1982 horror classic "Poltergeist" feature the band Spoon covering the Cramps' 1980 punk classic "TV Set." Spoon is a tasteful, studious yet largely anodyne indie rock outfit that has become an NPR staple; the Cramps were a scuzzy, unhinged psychobilly band whose most famous gig took place in an actual mental hospital. It's hard to think of a more fitting postscript for this professionally executed yet bloodless film, itself an act of homage that hews reverently to its source material while missing the essential spirit and vitality that once powered it. [pmc_film_review_snippet]Generally entertaining yet fundamentally unnecessary[/pmc_film_review_snippet], this tribute-band take on one of the genre's greatest hits should score decent opening weekend numbers before finding its way into the light.
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The Road by Cormac McCarthy (2006) Vintage (2007) 241 pp
In anticipation of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize, I thought it might be nice to look a few past winners (by the way, don't miss out on the opportunity to win a $75 gift certificate for books from KevinfromCanada by picking this year's Pulitzer).
I first read The Road shortly after it came out and shortly after my first son was born. It struck me so profoundly that on the day the Pulitzer Prize was announced I was in such a state of anxiety that one would have thought I had written the book. Honestly, I don't care who wins the Pulitzer, but that year I wanted it to win. It won, I think, against the odds (it had <warning: potentially alienating bias> already been nabbed by Oprah). I know that some of the reason this book touched me so much was because I was (I still am) very touched and overcome by my relationship with my son (sons now). It's something I never expected and cannot explain. Yet somehow, in a bleak — some say depressing — post-apocalyptic novel, McCarthy communicated a father-son relationship incredibly well. No doubt McCarthy's relationship with his recently born son informed his writing. This review might seem heavy on that perspective, so I'm interested in how others responded to this book.
In the first sentence, McCarthy shows the father-son relationship:
When he awoke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he'd reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him. Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before. Like the onset of some cold glaucoma dimming away the world. His hand rose and fell softly with each precious breath.
That was not sentimental. That was not sentimental. It's what I still do every night. And I'm not living on the side of a road in the cold. I also like this opener because with such conciseness we get a sense for the repetitious passage of time. The verb tense shows that this is not one particular night but rather any number of nights, perhaps every night, for a while now.
The world is gray, and ash falls in the place of snow. Something awful has happened — what, we're never told, and it doesn't matter because that's not the point. We have few details, but we know that it happened shortly after the son was born, so this son knows no other world. The father and son have been travelling because the father knows they could not survive another winter where they were. So they set off south across the United States and apparently into Mexico, looking for the sea, using the road, hoping to make it to a warmer climate.
The father sees little hope in the world. He has lost faith. Though they are travelling to a warmer climate, he has no idea what they will find there, if anything, and he knows they could die in any number of ways during their course. However, he maintains a pretense for the son, who is trusting and good natured. His son's demeanor is dangerous, actually, since the son often wants to help those they meet on the road. The father would sooner have nothing to do with others; he's seen what could happen. I found the father's pretenses to be particularly touching and insightful. Despite his own lack of hope, he wants his son to have hope. Somehow, this expresses a deep, desperate faith in humanity that the father can't help but cling too for his son's sake — it would be too painful otherwise.
That the father has lost hope and faith is completely understandable, however. Though not nearly as violent as McCarthy's magnum opus Blood Meridian (I haven't yet managed to get through Blood Meridian, in fact, because of the violence, though I found it brilliant), The Road is still a violent book. And as in Blood Meridian and No Country for Old Men, the violence is sudden and McCarthy is almost as disinterested and descriptive as a detailed crime report, not romanticizing violence by any means, but not shying away from a matter-of-fact description, say, <warning: violent image> of a beheaded infant roasting on a spit. It is this world the father sees all around him, and it is difficult for him to reconcile the ugliness of this world with the beauty he sees in his son. How can the two coexist?
And what is the point? Why seek to perpetuate existence in such a world? The father knows that the son's fate is potentially going to be worse than death. That's why he carries a pistol with two bullets, one for his son and one for him should they be captured by the marauding cannibals. If brought to that point, could he do it?
I think McCarthy's prose style, which I admire greatly, found its best substance here. Always laconic, always complex while seeming simple, here the form fits its function: it mimics existence in an intense but mundane thousand mile walk on a road. The book is broken up into many small sections, each running for half a page to a few pages at most. Again, I think this form mimics the tension they feel and what must have been a fairly laconic, bare essentials existence.
Yet in all of this simpleness, there is a layer of complexity and linguistic virtuosity. Though he most often uses blunt Anglo-Saxon words (which, again, I find fitting in this book), he's the type of writer you should read to study for the verbal section of the GRE. Here are a few: granitic, collet, chifforobe, discalced, macadam, woad, tang (of a shovel), bolus, knurled, isocline, patteran). McCarthy also knows how to use ordinary words in new, but obvious ways. James Wood said McCarthy was almost Shakespearean in his capacity to use old words in new ways. For example, when using a pair of binoculars, the father "glasses" the land (could be new just to me). And in the next paragraph, sands are coagulate and a fire is feral.
They stood on the far shore of a river and called to him. Tattered gods slouching in their rags across the waste. Trekking the dried floor of a mineral sea where it lay cracked and broken like a fallen plate. Paths of feral fire in the coagulate sands. The figures faded in the distance. He woke and lay in the dark.
I also like the above passage because it shows the almost pre-civilization view of the world and the gods. There are several eerie places where one gets the sense that this is a ravaged world ruled by gods more like ghosts, haunting but almost not there. This paragraph also contains another of McCarthy's references to a W.B. Yeats poem. Assuming, as I'm sure he does, McCarthy knows Yeats's philosophies — what all the gyres mean — and used some of it in structuring this book, it is a fascinatingly ambiguous venture into hope and despair.
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I am the fussiest reader you will ever meet and I would not read this book…haven't in fact read anything by Cormac McC…he doesn't seem to call out to me……but I am surrounded by readers here and I know C McC is very highly thought of by them ..in fact my younger son Dan (a student at Edinburgh Uni …Eng Lit and Philosophy wouldn't you know( how is that going to earn him a living? )) referred to him as a genius !! …. and as Dan is coming home tomorrow for the Easter holidays I'll try and remember to check out what he thought and get back to you…..always assuming that I'll actually see him while he is here …..
Hi Trevor, seeing as you mentioned his books aren't that interesting to women, I'd like to offer my view. True, I was put off by his other, previous books due to the violence. But The Road really spoke to me, mainly for the same reasons as it did you. The father and son relationship was the deal clincher. It was as real to me as if it were a mother and son relationship (I have three sons). Of course, it helped that the writing was amazing. I was totally blown away by this book, and possibly will venture into his other works just to experience his voice again. Probably All the Pretty Horses should be less violent than either Blood or No Country..?
I read "The Road" and felt the same feelings that you and claire felt. It was amazing. I wanted it to have a different ending, however, but that's probably because I like all of my books and stories to have happy endings. There was a lot of violence but I think it portrayed what could actually happen in our world very well.
Trevor–I really liked your comments about McCarthy's word choice. He works on so many levels but never sacrifices the action and intensity of his plot.
Lois–I thought The Road did have a sort of happy ending (there are other "good guys" out there trying to keep the fire alive), but it is tinted with sadness.
I'm also kind of interested about what people thought of the mom in this story and her role.
I have a personal confession about The Road — it is on the "I really must read this sometime" shelf. The book is in good company — Moby-Dick, Don Quixote, Les Miserables and The Complete Stories of Leo Tolstoy are all on the same shelf (and that is only a sample).
My problem with McCarthy is not the violence, but the bleakness — and I suspect that here is where being a Canadian effects my response. We in the Canadian West have our bleak writers and I have read them — Sinclair Ross, Frederick Phillip Grove, Guy Vanderhaage. I did read McCarthy's trilogy and thought it went downhill from volume one and that "bleakness" was a major reason for that. I just remembered that Blood Meridian is on that same shelf — some day when I am feeling particularly cheery and need to be let down, I'll pull one of them off. One of the reasons that I love reviews like this one is that they keep me up to date on these books that I am avoiding reading.
On the last paragraph: I think it's typical of McCarthy's longing for the old word and its old codes (or "maps and mazes" of "a thing which could not be put back"). The boy represents that in this book, as did the Sheriff in No Country and John Grady Cole in Horses. I tend to think of McCarthy channeling Dylan (maybe Yeats, too, though I know much less about him)–a prophet condemning this new world that has lost touch with ancient, "vermiculate patterns" as bound for destruction. Maybe I read him too optimistically, but I feel the same fears as a father–which you hit on in that first passage.
Also, Jennifer Egan wrote an excellent piece if anyone's interested that compares McCarthy's style and Hemingway's here: http://www.slate.com/id/2151300/
I didn't find it bleak; I found it absolutely beautiful. Certainly the setting for the story is bleak, but that makes the contrast of the characters and emotions much more poignant.
I think it's hard to portray the urgency and depth of feeling parents have. Using such a desperate setting really makes those feelings tangible. My world is fairly cushy, but as a parent I found many of the lines from the book to state exactly what I felt.
The Road is the only McCarthy I've read, but I've always been interested in others. Bleakness and violence don't bother me when used and written well. And I think McCarthy is fairly brilliant in his usage.
I'm not specifically addressing the ending. I find myself still questioning whether there was a happy ending. It is a bit suspicious they waited to talk to the boy until the father was gone. Why wait until no one is protecting him? I find that suspect.
But as I said, I don't find it bleak but beautiful. Despite the bleak situation humanity still prevails. The point of the book isn't the state of the world, but the relationship that still endures.
Maybe that makes it more bleak, that something so beautiful is surrounded by so much ugliness. Which then would suggest the ending is very bleak. But still, the hope was alive in the father/son even if they no longer wanted to have it.
Trevor says to pull it out. It's a one day read.
Perhaps I overstated myself — it isn't that the book is totally bleak, it is just that the resolution occurs in such bleak circumstances (and that is true of the McCarthy that I have read). I will definitely read the book at some point, but in fairness to both it and the author I think I need to wait until I am in the right mood. With two feet of snow in the backyard at the end of March and the poor dog looking at snowbanks that are twice her size, I think it might be a mid-summer, read it on the patio effort, if you can understand my thinking.
That was not sentimental. That was not sentimental.
As no-one else has picked up (or at least commented) on this, I thought I'd say: nice!
I too read The Road in 2006 – right at the end of the year, so it just missed being the first book I reviewed on my blog – and I gave it a notional four stars out of five, with the deduction coming from my usual feeling from McCarthy, that he sometimes overdoes it with his language ("The snow fell nor did it cease to fall" being one phrase that I recall).
However I do wonder now if I should reread it, now that I have a son of my own, to see if the added emotional heft pushes it higher still.
"McCarthy … sometimes overdoes it with his language"
Oh yes, my goodness. The first time I picked The Road up, I put it down after a page. McCarthy's prose can be overwrought, pompous and offputting. But thankfully I later had another go and thought it was brilliant. (More detailed comments here).
It's absolutely about a father-son relationship. I don't have a son but I can't read it any other way. Michael Chabon makes the point perfectly in a terrific review (though I think it's subscription-only access now). The Road isn't sci-fi, it's horror: a chillingly real evocation of a parent's worst fears.
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What I just can't get through, and it frustrates me, because so many do it, is when an author is just so pompous. Its almost like they want to stump the reader as to what they mean.
They want to use to many metaphors, and simile's. Reading, is thinking enough. You don't want to have to have a thesaurus and dictionary to refer to as you get through a book.
Shakespeare wrote that way, because that is the way everyone talked at the time.
We do not talk like that. A father, in a barren post-apocalyptic world, would not talk like that.
Just tell the tale, and let us read it.
Does my comment make me look stupid? Maybe. I can assure you I am not.
I just saw the movie, and I am a little confused as to why they were being followed by that family. What did that mean? Why won't he have to worry anymore? Was his father a bad guy?
Ryan, art is sometimes (the best of it, often, not always) an attempt at reaching a truth beyond the obvious equations. There is no obligation to adhere stringently with 'how things are', and there is no need to feel angered by something beyond comprehension or understanding. Instead of merely asking, 'Why was that family following them?' etc, why not ponder such things, without fear of being wrong or 'stupid', and make up your own mind? There is never going to be a collective answer, as you, and anyone else, will have to meet the work halfway and bring everything you have to the table to come to your own, worthy conclusion.
I honestly just seen the ending as a dream. Mccarthy places so much emphasis about dreams throughout the whole book, then all of a sudden the boy is saved out of nowhere. I couldn't help but feel like they were both dieing, and the whole thing was their final dream.


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Letting go of resentment
Published: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 at 4:30 a.m.
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The Big Book of "Alcoholics Anonymous" includes the story of a woman whose drinking landed her in jail twice and nearly ruined her third marriage.
Her final drunk, she recalls, lasted 60 days around the clock. "It was my intention, literally, to drink myself to death," she said. Joining AA saved her life, largely because it helped her overcome the habit of resentment.
This woman wrote that "self-pity and resentment were my constant companions -- for I seemed to have a resentment against everybody I had ever known." Moreover, "the only people who would support this attitude or whom I felt understood me at all were the people I met in bars and the ones who drank as I did."
AA recognizes that resentment is toxic to our inner lives. The case is plainly stated in the Big Book: "Resentment is the number one offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything else."
A person mired in resentment has scant chances of recovering from addiction. And remember that many forms of addiction left unchecked are fatal.
It's revealing to look at the word itself. "Resentment" is close to "re-sentiment" -- "sentiment" meaning "feeling" and "re" meaning "again." So, resentment is literally "feeling again." This gets to the heart of resentment: recycling old negative feelings, revisiting old wrongs done to us by others.
It's as if each of the offending incidents is captured on videotape in our minds. Resentment, in effect, is mentally replaying the scene countless times each day. As we do so, real wrongs grow worse, and wrongs that are merely imagined assume a life of their own.
This mental habit extracts tremendous costs. After all, resentment does nothing to change the person we resent. Nor does it resolve conflict. Instead of freeing us from the wrongs of others, resentment allows those people to dominate our thinking -- a kind of emotional bondage.
Fortunately the Twelve Steps of AA give us practical tools to defuse resentment, such as the following:
Do this, she adds, even if such a prayer seems like mere words at first. Try it every day for two weeks and you will come to mean it. This technique literally squeezes resentment out of our minds, because positive concern and resentment simply cannot coexist.
She puts the same idea in other words: "AA has taught me that I will have peace of mind in exact proportion to the peace of mind I bring into the lives of other people."
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Noise isn't necessarily bad, however. The random spin fluctuations of electrons or protons, for example, can reveal much about collections of atoms or molecules. The signals from spin noise are so weak compared with those induced by outside forces, such as lasers and magnets, that until about . . .
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Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
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Heterospecific call recognition and phonotaxis in the orientation behavior of the marbled newt, Triturus marmoratus
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The role of acoustic cues as reference cues for orientation by amphibians has been demonstrated in anurans, the only amphibian group that engages in acoustic communication, but not in urodeles. Orientation responses of marbled newts, Triturus marmoratus, were studied to determine whether heterospecific calls elicited positive phonotaxis. The orientation tests consisted in presenting either a familiar acoustic stimulus, the advertisement calls of natterjack toads (Bufo calamita), or a control stimulus, the advertisement calls of European green toads (Bufo viridis) that the newts would not be expected to recognize. Marbled newts and natterjack toads occur in simpatry, but T. marmoratus and B. viridis are allopatric species. Thus, T. marmoratus is distributed over the northern half of the Iberian Peninsula, whereas B. viridis occurs in the Balearic Islands, but not over the Iberian Peninsula. Newts were released in a circular arena while a recorded chorus of natterjack toads or European green toads played outside the arena to determine whether they displayed positive phonotactic orientation. Our results show that marbled newts performed positive phonotaxis when exposed to the breeding calls of natterjack toads, but not to those of European green toads. Newts chose a compass course in the direction of the advertisement calls of B. calamita. Acoustic information might improve orientation accuracy. This study is the first to provide evidence of heterospecific call recognition and positive phonotactic response in urodeles.
KeywordsAcoustic orientation Homing Migration Phonotaxis Triturus
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Two games down; two substitute-inspired triumphs.
It's not been particularly pretty, but Belgium are into the last 16 with a game to spare after snatching victory against Russia.
The pre-tournament clamour for Belgium's golden generation has been infiltrated by doubt as they struggle to unlock defences.
This wasn't the Belgium many had tipped for success, but their early results are ominous for the other nations in Brazil. They may not have clicked yet – although we saw a glimpse of their attacking potential in the final 10 minutes against Russia – but they are grinding out victories. It's perfect tournament football.
For much of their Group G clash with their fellow Europeans, Belgium's creative ensemble buzzed around the opposition backline looking lively but producing dreary and predictable results.
Romelu Lukaku drifted through the game without direction. The man who upset the Premier League's stingiest defences last season, firing 15 goals along the way, could barely get a touch. It led to an astonishing statistic: in 115 minutes of World Cup action the striker had accumulated just one touch in the opposition penalty area.
Eden Hazard weaved across the pitch in a desperate bid to find space, but each new touch merely directed the Russian swarm into his path. On the other flank, Dries Mertens was a rare bright point in the opening period but even he was anonymous after the restart.
It was Russia who looked the more likely, carving out a string of openings in an otherwise insipid first half. Thibaut Courtois, the standout European goalkeeper from last season, twice palmed clear drives before Aleksandr Kokorin somehow headed wide with the goal agape.
The stage was set for Fabio Capello's troops to conquer the heavily-fancied Belgians. The Italian threw on Alan Dzagoev – the young midfielder who excelled at Euro 2012 – with eight minutes remaining to push for a deserved victory. But from that point on, they were barely in the contest as Belgium awoke from their slumber.
Substitute Kevin Mirallas rolled a free-kick against the post, Eden Hazard twice tricked his way into the penalty area and the once resolute Russians were caught out of position. Moments later, another Marc Wilmot's replacement was wheeling away in delight – 19-year-old Divock Origi becoming the latest player to emerge from the Belgium conveyor belt of talent.
They had done enough to beat Russia, but surely their World Cup journey would come to an abrupt halt in the knockout stages? Well, perhaps not.
This Belgium side might be in their formative years, but they already understand the art of grinding out results. They qualified at a canter, claiming a healthy 26 points from a possible 30, but it was a campaign built on defensive resolve rather than attacking brilliance.
A backline marshalled by the impressive Vincent Kompany – who ended a speedy Russian counter-attack in the first half before landing a superb tackle to spark Belgium's winner in the second – conceded just four goals en route to Brazil.
Make no mistake. This is not a team of individuals. Yes, their attacking talent has struggled to shine but, crucially, it has produced when it mattered. This is a side used to grinding out hard-fought victories, indeed only one of their 10 qualifying matches was won by more than a two-goal margin.
They haven't shown the form of a World Cup winner elect, but neither have tournament favourites Brazil and Argentina. Even Germany have dropped points. With none of the major forces displaying complete dominance, it's been left the outsiders of Chile, Colombia, France and the Netherlands to get the neutral excited.
Belgium are in that chasing pack and are rightly being touted as potential victors. They'll likely meet Argentina in the quarter-finals, but on their early showing in Brazil can go into that clash with real optimism.
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MeshSLAM: Robust Localization and Large-Scale Mapping in Barren Terrain
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AbstractRobots need to know their location to map of their surroundings but without global positioning data they need a map to identify their surroundings and estimate their location. Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) solves these dual problems at once. SLAM does not depend on any kind of infrastructure and is thus a promising localization technology for NASA planetary missions and for many terrestrial applications as well.However, state-of-the-art SLAM depends on easily-recognizable landmarks in the robot's environment, which are lacking in barren planetary surfaces. Our work will develop a technology we call MeshSLAM, which constructs robust landmarks from associations of weak features extracted from terrain. Our test results will also show that MeshSLAM applies to all environments in which NASA's rovers could someday operate: dunes, rocky plains, overhangs, cliff faces, and underground structures such as lava tubes.Another limitation of SLAM for planetary missions is its significant data-association problems. As a robot travels it must infer its motion from the sensor data it collects, which invariably suffers from drift due to random error. To correct drift, SLAM recognize when the robot has returned to a previously-visited place, which requires searching over a great deal of previously-sensed data. Computation on such a large amount of memory may be infeasible on space-relevant hardware. MeshSLAM eases these requirements. It employs topology-based map segmentation, which limits the scope of a search. Furthermore, a faster, multi-resolution search is performed over the topological graph of observations.Mesh Robotics LLC and Carnegie Mellon University have formed a partnership to commercially develop MeshSLAM. MeshSLAM technology will be available via open source, to ease its adoption by NASA. In Phase 1 of our project we will show the feasibility of MeshSLAM for NASA and commercial applications through a series of focused technical demonstrations.
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MONTROSE, Colo. (KKCO) - The City of Montrose says it has been working for nearly a year to fix traffic problems along the major roads near the downtown area -- and a piece of their proposed solution has some downtown businesses upset.
For more than 40 years, Budgetline Furniture & Appliances has stood at the corner of South 1st and Cascade. But store employee Ed Moreland says he's worried that might not be the case for much longer.
"It basically, I think, could possibly put us out of business," says Moreland.
He's talking about the city's proposal to replace the four-way intersection at South 1st and Cascade with a roundabout -- a move the store says will eliminate eight of its 12 parking spots and create problems for their and their suppliers' delivery trucks.
"It would probably be at least 50 to 75 feet to carry everything to our store," says Moreland.
The City of Montrose says the plan was never intended to create problems. "We're certainly looking to minimize the impacts to those people," says Jason Ullmann, city engineer for the City of Montrose.
The plan was to fix them. The City says traffic near the downtown area gets very backed up at certain points during the day. Officials point to several reasons for the delays: people are driving through downtown to access Highway 50, having to get through three traffic lights along Townsend from South 1st Street to North 1st Street, and waiting for long periods of time to turn left onto Townsend from downtown streets.
To alleviate the congestion, the City plans to move the traffic lights from North 1st and South 1st to North 2nd and South 2nd, and block off South 1st at Townsend. In doing that, they believe it will push a lot of that traffic onto Cascade as people try to access the downtown shops, City and County Offices, and the Post Office.
"The decision was made that we would need to make some improvements on Cascade so that we don't move a problem from one area to another," says Ullmann.
City engineers say they felt a roundabout, rather than a four way stop, would be the best way to keep that traffic flowing. Officials say they do realize the project will result in lost parking spaces, and they're working with impacted businesses to address their concerns.
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Budgetline employees say they hope that's the case.
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