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Palma Old Town loft at 850mt/beach
Maksimum Konuk Sayısı2
Yatak odası1
Boyut50 metrekare
Floor No.
- İnternet/Kablosuz ağ
- Mutfak
- Klima
- Çamaşır makinesi / Kurutma makinesi
- Balkon/teras
- Havlu
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|Plaza Cort, 07002 Palma de Mallorca, İspanya
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The apartment has one beautiful bedroom with double bed with wardrobe and heating and hot and cold air conditioning units. Tastefully decorated bright and sunny with a terrace and views to the town, mountains and neighbourhood. The kitchen is fully equipped, opening onto the living/dining room. The Loft Penthouse is spacious and with a lot of light, a total of 60 sq metres, tastefully furnished and with attention to detail.
The apartment is situated in the famous pedestrian street next to the square of Plaza Cort (Town Hall of Palma), 50 metres from Plaza Mayor, ideal for people who want to experience the old city of Palma. Close by is the shopping centre of Palma, El Corte Ingles, Supermarkets, and Boutiques.
The famous market El Oliver is 7 minutes away. All the historical sights palaces, museums and art galleries are within walking distance, not forgetting the impressive Cathedral. Surrounding the Loft apartment are many famous squares with coffee shops, tapas and wine bars and restaurants.
The central bus and train stations are also very close, with a fast bus connecting the airport with Plaza España. Near to the apartment is a bicycle rental, Palma is fully equipped for cyclists. Palma's beaches are 10-15 minutes' walk away, and discovering nearby beaches by local transport is easy.
Throughout the year Palma hosts many fiestas and celebrations, from art nights in the streets, to medieval fairs, firework displays and outside live music. The city hosts international sailing events, and connects the other Balearics Islands by ferry.
Not forgetting the famous Tuesday nights busy "Ruta Martiana" which happens in the area of the apartment where all the tapas bars are open offering tapas and beer or wine for 1.50€ each.
The famous antique train to Soller also leaves from Palma, travelling through the beautiful countryside, to the village of Soller.
Nearby beaches: 15 minutes from the apartment is, Can Pere Antoni against Gesa building, to 500mtrs Portixol Beach with its restaurants first line, bordering the bay.
Bars and restaurants every Tuesdays "ROUTE Matiana" from 1'50 € tapas with a glass of wine or beer included. Recommendations: Molta Barra, S'ambigu, Ca La Seu, Quina Creu, Bar España and more, let loose and enjoy the taste. Olivar Market ideal for getting lost in the smells and flavours, with fruit, vegetables, meat, fish, etc. a place to recuperate with great tapas of fish or oysters with cava or Japanese sushi.
Plaza Mayor: The place to visit, to see people and curiosities walk towards San Miguel Street, Colon, and Ramblas full of flowers. Underground parking open 24 hours in Plaza Mayor.
Museum and Art Exhibitions. "Cappuccino" old Palace Café to enjoy the aroma of coffee or just read the news is located in San Miguel shopping street or square Plaza La Reina at the end of Es Borne.
The rental of this property is based on the Spanish Law on Urban Leases (29/1994, 24th November). According to this law the property is available for seasonal renting, however, the contract does not offer any tourist service. It is only for the use and enjoyment of the property.
Flexible changeover day, arrival at 14:00 hours departure at 11:00 hours. We work hard at accommodating every body's needs so your arrival runs smoothly. If an earlier/later arrival departure into the apartment is needed please enquire at the time of booking.
We request information about the day and time of flight arrival and departure to organize the reception of clients and their departure.
There is a charge for final cleaning and laundry.
The interior is comfortable and cozy and is recommended for 2 people.
Prices are for this property in Euros.
Long winter rental prices on request.
Refundable deposit required 250 Euros for any willful damage to the property or its contents, to be paid upon arrival.
rentals also taken through all year.
Check in after 21'00 is an extra of 50€ to be paid on arrival.
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We liked:
-Excellent location, easy to walk within minutes to restaurants, bars, shops, cafes. Perfect with little baby.
-Spacious lounge & dining area (we were 3 adults and a 5 month old baby).
-2 good size double bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
-Elevator (but 3 steps to get up to it made it a little tricky with pushchair).
-Quiet - good for sleeping!
-Lucky it was available at short notice.
We didn't like:
-No electric kettle - just one for the hob - far too time consuming for tea & making baby bottles!
-No AC in the bedrooms, only in lounge. We had to have the lounge at lowest temperature for a few hours to help cools the bedrooms.
-Tiny microwave (our standard MAM baby bottles wouldn't fit).
-En suite bathroom did not have a shower curtain.
-Poor water pressure in showers.
Top flat, super service!
The appartment was well suited for Our need - 3 bedrooms and 3 Bath rooms for 6 girlfriends. The double in one of the rooms was very narrow, but the other beds were all right. The apartment's location in the old part of Palma was very Nice. It was a quiet area With no traffic noice. The negative part was that there was no list. With Heavy suitcases this was a chellenge. But we managed and enjoyed Our stay.
We were surprised that we had to pay a deposit of Euro 250 in cash when the rent was paid upfront. That was a New experience. I have recently rented a house in Floride which I paid upfront, and no depositum was needed. The house I rented was not through Windu.
Owner is kind. Apartment very nice, clean, right in the center of Palma. Small minus - the lack of air conditioning in bedrooms.
We stated in the loft with 4 persons in our twenties looking for a place for our own to have a relaxing holiday.
Location: In the center of the city between two main squares. One with a big shopping mall and bus station and the other near the main shopping district and tapas bars were most of the locals seem to come.
Accommodation: very neat and specious for four persons. two room; one with a two-person bed an another with two one-person beds. We didn't cook in the apartment however there sufficient supplies in the open kitchen.
service: after a text message the owner met us at the apartment very promptly and arranged everything with us.
Generally speaking: very nice place to use as a hub to go into Palma and explore the island. We for one very much enjoyed our stay.
Big thanks for Spain Rentals for having us over.
Fabian, The Netherlands.
Alles gut geklappt , schöne Unterkunft, sehr sauber, sehr unkompliziert
Hervorragende Unterkunft mitten in Palmas Altstadt und sehr ruhig gelegen! Achtung: das Treppenhaus ist sehr eng und steil und es hat keinen Aufzug - also nur für Leute, die gut zu Fuss sind.
Fantastisch mooi appartement in het hartje van Palma! Heel mooi ingericht Ikea plus veel Spaanse tinten. Wij hebben genoten, alles op loopafstand. Wij komen volgend jaar terug. Het enige nadeel waren de 50 trappen naar de derde etage.
Merveilleux et magnifique appartement en plein centre de à ville de Palma. Intérieur joliment arrangée Ikea avec par ci par là des accents espagnols. Nous revenons l'année prochaine. Seul inconvénient; les 50 marchés pour atteindre le 3ieme étage
fin lejlighed med gode forhold
Perfekt!!! Top Adresse für einen Besuch in Palma!
Kann man nur empfehlen!!!
Das Appartement:
Lage: bombastisch!
Zimmer: zum Wohlfühlen :)
Ausstattung: alles da - alles gut.
Terrasse: wunderbar :)
Alles sauber!
Unkomplizierte Kommunikation mit Spain Rentals
ausgesprochen nettes Check in und -out mit Maria - alles bestens!
Wir hatten eine super Zeit!!!
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LECOM's economic impact grows
The Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine generated more than $593 million for the national economy and $185.3 million for the Erie area in 2013, a new study has found.
The analysis by Tripp Umbach, a Pittsburgh-based consulting firm, called LECOM "an important anchor" in its communities through job creation, generation of tax revenues, and construction and renovation projects.
"We're happy to be in the community and happy about the part we play with regard to economic impact on the community, as well as with the delivery of health care, primarily emphasizing prevention and wellness," LECOM President John Ferretti said Thursday after a news conference announcing the study results.
LECOM's national economic impact has increased by 80 percent since Tripp Umbach's last study in 2009, which measured it at $328.8 million. The economic impact in Pennsylvania has increased by more than 63 percent since that time -- from $225.4 million to $368.6 million -- and in Florida by 168 percent, from $59.9 million to $160.8 million, the study found.
Several factors spurred the increase, including new construction and renovation projects and steady growth in academic programs, enrollment and number of employees.
In addition to its main campus in Erie, LECOM has campuses at Seton Hill University in Greensburg, and in Bradenton, Fla. The study also included related facilities, including Millcreek Community Hospital, the Clinical Practices of LECOM, the John M. and Silvia Ferretti Medical Fitness and Wellness Center in Erie, the Coffee Culture Cafe and Eatery and Student Center in Erie, and the LECOM Senior Living Center, scheduled to be completed in summer 2015.
LECOM commissioned the $50,000 study in January. Among the other highlights:
- LECOM's economic impact on the Erie area of $185.3 million in 2013 is a 36 percent increase over the $136.2 million impact measured in 2009.
- Construction projects accounted for $55 million in total economic impact in Erie and supported nearly 600 jobs. Projects over the last four years amounted to $37.2 million in spending and include the expansion of the main LECOM campus and the construction of the Eastside Medical Center, the Coffee Culture Cafe and a new entrance on the north side of the Erie campus.
"All of these projects have a positive impact not only in Erie but in Pennsylvania and the U.S.A.," said Michael Visnosky, chairman of LECOM's board of trustees.
- LECOM sustains nearly 2,300 jobs nationally, including nearly 1,600 in the greater Erie area through LECOM and Millcreek Community Hospital. The Erie-area jobs pay nearly $12,000 more on average than other jobs locally, they said.
"These are important jobs to have in the region," said Paul Umbach, co-founder of Tripp Umbach.
The study found that LECOM's 3,800 doctor of osteopathic medicine graduates and 1,300 doctor of pharmacy graduates are generating more than $7.37 billion in economic activity and support or employ more than 4,900 workers. And graduates working mainly in primary care contribute to $684 million in health-care cost savings annually through preventive care practices.
LECOM also provides free medical care for those who can't afford it, charitable contributions, and volunteer services that amount to more than $2.6 million annually, the study found.
Erie County Executive Kathy Dahlkemper said she was surprised by the growth in economic impact in only a few years.
"The fact that they're able to do this in such a short period of time is a testament to their drive and what they do here at LECOM," Dahlkemper said.
The effect LECOM has on the local and broader economy might not be in "everyday view" of the public, she said. "This really brings it out into the open and lets the community see their value to economic growth."
ERICA ERWIN can be reached at 870-1846 or by e-mail. Follow her on Twitter at twitter.com/ETNerwin.

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I'll be 35 in four months. ĀMost days I'm pretty excited about TTC, other days I'm thinking, am I nuts? ĀAm I alone? ĀMy DS will be 2 in December and is very active. ĀWe also struggle with his eating habits. ĀMost days he wants to eat, other days I can't get him to eat anything. ĀWith all the struggles it took to have him and all the struggles we face as we go along, I stop and think, why am I trying to do this again. ĀBut other days when my DS is sleep and I'm touching his cute little feet or when I look at his baby pictures, I'm so encouraged to try again. ĀHow do most of you feel about it?
Do I want this or not
Ok, I got my BFP and my first thought was "crap, that can't be right" ┬ĀI go between being excited and being completely scared to death. ┬ĀI'm still in shock that it happened. ┬ĀI don't look pregnant. I just feel like I have super bad PMS and an upset tummy. ┬ĀAlmost like I am coming down with something. ┬ĀI wanted this baby so badly and now that we succeeded in getting it I'm pretty freaked out. ┬ĀI'm going to be a first time Mom at 37, just shy of 38 when the baby is born. It's nice to know I'm not alone in the "what the hell am I thinkning" thought process.
congrats Sunshine Jodi, but I can certainly understand the mixed feelings.┬Ā I still want this, but at the same time yesterday made me wonder if I can do this when my DH had a fit when he had to get up and bring my DS to daycare that is literally 8 houses down.┬Ā I thought can I handle another when I don't have help with this one?┬Ā But then I miss when my┬ĀDS couldn't roll over on his own.┬Ā Or I definitely don't want him to be alone.┬Ā IDK
DS born 12/14/09. Expecting #2 April 2013
I go back and forth daily but deep down something keeps pushing me to want another one.┬Ā I didn't always feel this way though.┬Ā When my 2nd son was born in December 2009 I was DONE.┬Ā We traded in the mini van and got a smaller SUV.┬Ā I packed away all of the baby stuff and couldn't wait for bottles to be over.┬Ā But something wouldn't let me sell the baby stuff at the yearly garage sale in my neighborhood.┬Ā Last June it really hit me that I could see us as a 3 kid family.┬Ā I'm worried about conceiving this time though.┬Ā I turned 34 in October and had less than stellar hormone levels before I got pregnant last time.┬Ā We went for an IUI and my Estradiol was 119, LH 129 and Progesterone 1.9.┬Ā I guess this isn't good b/c my RE cancelled the IUI and prescribed clomid.┬Ā I didn't get to take it the following cycle b/c I ended up pregnant on my own!!┬Ā I guess miracles do happen and my youngest is the most funny, sweet, caring little guy ever.
Mom to 2 wonderful little boys!!
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Five singers declared winners in local Met Opera auditions
Five singers were selected by judges to advance to the next round at Saturday's Wisconsin District Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.
Countertenor Kangmin Justin Kim, mezzo-soprano Corrie Stallings, soprano Caitlin Ruby Miller, tenor Ian D. Koziar and tenor Joe Shadday will compete at the Upper Midwest Regional in St. Paul, Minn. The five vocalists also won $2,000 each. »Read Full Article
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Most companies in US avoid federal income taxes
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Most companies in US avoid federal income taxes
Business Week/Associated Press, August 12, 2008
Posted: 2008-08-17 08:53:33
Unlike the rest of us, most U.S. corporations and foreign companies doing business in the United States pay no federal income tax, according to a new report from Congress. The study by the Government Accountability Office ... said two-thirds of U.S. corporations paid no federal income taxes between 1998 and 2005, and about 68 percent of foreign companies doing business in the U.S. avoided corporate taxes over the same period. Collectively, the companies reported trillions of dollars in sales, according to GAO's estimate. "It's shameful that so many corporations make big profits and pay nothing to support our country," said Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., who asked for the GAO study. The GAO study did not investigate why corporations weren't paying federal income taxes or corporate taxes and it did not identify any corporations by name. More than 38,000 foreign corporations had no tax liability in 2005 and 1.2 million U.S. companies paid no income tax, the GAO said. Combined, the companies had $2.5 trillion in sales. About 25 percent of the U.S. corporations not paying corporate taxes were considered large corporations, meaning they had at least $250 million in assets or $50 million in receipts. The GAO said it analyzed data from the Internal Revenue Service, examining samples of corporate returns for the years 1998 through 2005. For 2005, for example, it reviewed 110,003 tax returns from among more than 1.2 million corporations doing business in the U.S. "It's time for the big corporations to pay their fair share," Dorgan said.
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U.S. Military Wanted to Provoke War With Cuba
2001-05-01, ABC News
In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba. Code named Operation Northwoods, the plans reportedly included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities. The plans were developed as ways to trick the American public and the international community into supporting a war to oust Cuba's ... Fidel Castro. America's top military brass even contemplated causing U.S. military casualties, writing: "We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba," and, "casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation." The plans had the written approval of all of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and were presented to President Kennedy's defense secretary, Robert McNamara, in March 1962. But they apparently were rejected by the civilian leadership and have gone undisclosed for nearly 40 years. The Joint Chiefs even proposed using the potential death of astronaut John Glenn during the first attempt to put an American into orbit as a false pretext for war with Cuba. Should the rocket explode and kill Glenn, they wrote, "the objective is to provide irrevocable proof … that the fault lies with the Communists." The scary thing is none of this stuff comes out until 40 years after.
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Former U.S. Air Force Officers Recount Experiences With UFOs at Nuclear Missile Bases
2010-10-27, ABC News
The U.S. government's official line may be that unidentified flying objects (UFOs) don't pose a national security threat, but a group of former Air Force officers gathered Monday in the nation's capital to tell a different story. During a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., seven former Air Force officers once stationed at nuclear bases around the country said that not only have UFOs visited Air Force bases, some have succeeded in disabling nuclear missiles stationed there. "I want the government to acknowledge that this phenomenon exists," said Robert Salas, a former U.S. Air Force Nuclear Launch Officer. Salas said he doesn't think the UFOs he claims to have encountered had any offensive intent, but he believes they wanted to leave an impression. "They wanted to shine a light on our nuclear weapons and just send us a message," he said. "My interpretation is the message is get rid of them because it's going to mean our destruction." Other former officers recounted similar stories of unexplained moving lights and odd-shaped flying objects during their time in the service. Leslie Kean, an investigative journalist and author of the new book "UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record," said thousands of pages of documentation support the officers' accounts. She spent the last 10 years researching UFOs and combing through thousands of pages of declassified government material. Kean said that one declassified document that she researched for her book, relating to the Salas incident, said, "the fact that no apparent reason for the loss of the 10 missiles can easily be identified is a cause for grave concern to this headquarters."
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Inside the secretive Bilderberg Group
2005-09-29, BBC News
How much influence do private networks of the rich and powerful have on government policies and international relations? One group, the Bilderberg, has often attracted speculation that it forms a shadowy global government. Every year since 1954 [they have brought] together about 120 leading business people and politicians. At this year's meeting in Germany, the audience included the heads of the World Bank and European Central Bank, Chairmen or Chief Executives from Nokia, BP, Unilever, DaimlerChrysler and Pepsi ... editors from five major newspapers, members of parliament, ministers, European commissioners ... and the queen of the Netherlands. The chairman ... is 73-year-old Viscount Etienne Davignon. In an extremely rare interview, he played down the importance of Bilderberg. "I don't think (we are) a global ruling class because I don't think a global ruling class exists." Will Hutton ... who attended a Bilderberg meeting in 1997, says people take part in these networks in order to influence the way the world works, to create what he calls "the international common sense". And that "common sense" is one which supports the interests of Bilderberg's main participants. For Bilderberg's critics the fact that there is almost no publicity about the annual meetings is proof that they are up to no good. Bilderberg meetings often feature future political leaders shortly before they become household names. Bill Clinton went in 1991 while still governor of Arkansas, Tony Blair was there two years later while still an opposition MP. All the recent presidents of the European Commission attended Bilderberg meetings before they were appointed. Informal and private networks like Bilderberg have helped to oil the wheels of global politics and globalisation for the past half a century.
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In Hacked D.N.C. Emails, a Glimpse of How Big Money Works
2016-07-25, New York Times
19,000 internal Democratic Party emails released on Friday by WikiLeaks [set] off a frenzy on the eve of the party's quadrennial nominating convention and forc[ed] the resignation of the party chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Some of the emails revealed internal discussion by D.N.C. officials — obligated under party rules to remain neutral in the presidential primary — about how to discredit Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, enraging some of his supporters. Some ... are highly critical of Mr. Sanders. But the leaked cache also included thousands of emails exchanged by Democratic officials and party fund-raisers, revealing in rarely seen detail the elaborate, ingratiating and often bluntly transactional exchanges necessary to harvest hundreds of millions of dollars from the party's wealthy donor class. The emails capture a world where seating charts are arranged with dollar totals in mind, where a White House celebration of gay pride is a thinly disguised occasion for rewarding wealthy donors and where physical proximity to the president is the most precious of currencies. Donors who raise $1.25 million for the party — or who give $467,000 — are entitled to priority booking in a top hotel, nightly access to V.I.P. lounges and an "exclusive roundtable and campaign briefing with high-level Democratic officials," according to a promotional brochure obtained by The Times.
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Mobile phones are 'cooking' men's sperm
2016-02-22, The Independent (One of the UK's leading newspapers)
[A] study finds sperm levels of men who kept their phones in their pocket during the day were quite seriously affected in 47 per cent of cases. Fertility experts are warning men that using a mobile for as little as an hour a day is "cooking sperm". The new study shows that having a mobile phone close to the testicles - or within a foot or two of the body - can lower sperm levels so much that conceiving could be difficult. Professor Martha Dirnfeld, of the Technion University in Haifa, said: "We analysed the amount of active swimming sperm and the quality and found that it had been reduced. "We think this is being caused by a heating of the sperm from the phone and by electromagnetic activity." The team monitored more than 100 men attending a fertility clinic for a year. They found that besides men keeping their phones close to their groin many spoke on the phone while it was charging and kept it only a few centimetres from their bed. Even keeping the phone on a bedside table appears to raise lower sperm cell counts. The findings are in the journal Reproductive BioMedicine and support a long-feared link between dropping fertility rates in men and the prevalent use of cellular phones. The quality of sperm among men in Western countries is constantly decreasing and is considered crucial in 40 percent of the cases in which couples have difficulty conceiving a child.
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29 Pages Revealed: Corruption, Crime and Cover-up Of 9/11
2016-07-16, Huffington Post
When you listen to any member of our government state that the newly released 29 pages are no smoking gun - they are lying. Read the 29 pages and ... remember that they were written during 2002 and 2003. President Bush wanted to go to war in Iraq - not Saudi Arabia. So, 29 full pages that said "Saudi" and "Bandar" instead of "Hussein" and "Iraq" was a huge problem. There was a concerted effort by the FBI and the Bush Administration to keep incriminating Saudi evidence out of the Inquiry's investigation. The Joint Inquiry was still able to write 29 full pages regarding Saudi complicity in the 9/11 attacks. No other nation is given such singular prominence in the Joint Inquiry's Final Report. Not Iraq. Not Iran. Not Syria. Not Sudan. Not even Afghanistan or Pakistan. The 29 pages have been kept secret and suppressed from the American public for fifteen years - not for matters of genuine national security - but for matters of convenience, embarrassment, and cover-up. Instead of calling for an emergency session of Congress to immediately name the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as a State Sponsor of Terrorism, President Obama continues to downplay, belittle, and ignore the truth leaving us vulnerable to terrorist attacks that are still to this very day being funded by our "ally". The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia provided operational and financial support to the 9/11 hijackers. That is a fact. And, the U.S. government has been covering up that fact for fifteen years - even to this very day.
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Volunteers make huggable dolls
Published: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 at 12:15 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 at 12:15 p.m.
Surrounded by piles of cloth, markers and more than a handful of sewing machines, volunteers feverishly worked on national Make-A-Difference Day to bring smiles to children.
Volunteer Community Connections had 119 volunteers turn out to work at the 10 projects that it was either producing or supporting. For information, call 953-5965 or visit www.connectingvolunteers.org.
At New Life Lutheran Church in Sarasota on Saturday, more than 30 volunteers created rag dolls that will be given to homeless children at the Open Door Resource Center, a program operated by Turning Points in Bradenton.
Rag dolls previously made by the church were sent to Afghanistan for distribution by the U.S. military to Afghan children.
This is the third year New Life Lutheran Church member Lola Stehr has coordinated the making of rag dolls for homeless children in the area. Stehr said her church and the volunteers are happy to be involved with helping children.
"The kids come in with their parents, they're scared, they're in transition, now this is something they can hug onto," Stehr said.
This year, students from New College of Florida joined the effort.
Jasmine Respess, a second-year student at New College, sat at a table with three other women drawing the faces that would become a finished rag doll.
"I remember how much I liked my stuffed animals and if I couldn't have any, I'd be really happy if someone gave me one," Respess said.
The volunteers worked four or more to a table, some cutting material, sewing legs and arms together while others stuffed material into the dolls to the sounds of Motown music.
Linda Gaines is resource mapping coordinator for Turning Points, which will receive the dolls again this year. She was at the event to help make dolls and also thank church members and the other volunteers for their efforts.
Gaines showed a video of a homeless child receiving a rag doll at the group's Open Door Resource Center.
"It's heart-rending because some of these kids have had nothing for so long and to get one of these dolls, they just grab them and hug onto them," Gaines said.
Volunteers will work on the rag dolls through December and will donate more than 200 dolls this year.
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This Wednesday evening, as part of Dwell and New York magazine's full plate of design programming for City Modern, design critic Alexandra Lange led a discussion on gender and architecture with three leading New York architects at Vitra's Meatpacking District showroom. Continuing a few of the themes explored in her essay on Architect Barbie from the July/August issue of Dwell, Lange spoke with Galia Solomonoff of Solomonoff Architecture Studio, Marion Weiss of Weiss/Manfredi, and Claire Weisz of WXY Studio, three firm principals who also teach architecture at Ivy League programs (Columbia, Penn, and Yale, respectively).
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The newly opened Wythe Hotel proved to be an apt setting for the City Modern Brooklyn Design panel. A converted warehouse turned boutique hotel, the Wythe is a fine case study in the types of decisions that seem most relevant to design in Brooklyn today—a respect for the old alongside a desire to create something new.
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Tuesday night, Jerry Helling, the president and creative director of Bernhardt Design, and Wendy Goodman, New York magazine's design editor, hosted a panel of young designers and entrepreneurs at the Museum of Art and Design for City Modern. It was a collection of nascent talents Goodman dubbed "the Dream Team." As Goodman told the audience, "Sometimes there's just a small beat inside yourself you have to listen to. These young people were all courageous enough to follow it and are now pursuing great passions."
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Thirteen Brooklyn design studios—with locations ranging from Red Hook to the Navy Yard to Bushwick, and practices varying from furniture design to brand consulting to woodworking—opened their doors to the public as part of City Modern on Tuesday. The Brooklyn design culture has proved collaborative and supportive for many of the people whose work was featured. Needless to say, we spied exciting, innovative pieces in spaces to match during the event.
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Businessman Herman Cain credited his marriage and his faith to help him deal with being diagnosed with cancer in 2006. Former
Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum tearfully confessed to have resisted loving his severely disabled daughter. Rep. Michele Bachmann said God used the pain and hardship created by her
parents' breakup to strengthen her.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry said his faith helped fill the emptiness he experienced after leaving the military. And fellow Texan Rep. Ron Paul said his Lutheran training as a child and exposure to evangelist Billy Graham influenced his decision to commit to Christ.
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Cubs are middle of the pack in average, 5th in OPS, 2nd in walks, 4th in runs scored in MLB. Their runs scored ranks 17th in the MLB in July.
Boston, leading everything, continues to rake in July.
Lester has given up one run or fewer in 11 starts this year. So I'd answer yes. Three of his last four starts were duds, yes. Not worried about him at all. Arrieta is concerning, to be sure. I look it at as, what he was doing was historic, so the regression was bound to happen. He showed in his start against the Mets that he's still capable, and I'd bet on him regaining his form.
marlins getting a.cashner and c.rea from SD
This is not an attack...But In what stat are the Cubs second from last in MLB, in hitting? I don't see this.
How odd the stats:
Cubs 1st in pitching in MLB
2nd to last in hitting.
In May they were 1st in both.
trevor clifton (high-A) could be interesting in a couple seasons...could even become a high/middle rotation guy. he's got a lot of pluses in his pitching except control.
eric leal's (high-A) progression through the minors should be worth watching even if only projects to be an mid/end-rotation starter.
we also gotta keep a long-distance eye on guys like jose paulino (ss-A) and preston morrison (A).
As Johnny Bach used to say when it was time for the MJ Bulls to crank up the defensive pressure: "Release the Dobermans!", and Jordan, Pippen, Rodman and Harper would just suffocate the other team.
I'd love to add Carl Jr. to that group - he's got the stuff.
Historically, the Moneyball guys have been great at identifying productive hitters. Not so much with pitchers.
Wow - Pierce Johnson with an ERA of 8.01 in 42IP!
What a stud prospect! Must be pitching with a pierced johnson.
Looks like Ryan Williams is the only legit prospect there. That is sad...
Well it would seem that's all they need now. "Stropy" can have his moments, but he's been more consistent post-asg.
Take THAT, Cardinals -- you beat Fernandez, we beat Sale.
I really like Lackey as a 6-inning pitcher.
Three amigos? Because the Dominican, the Venezuelan, and the Cuban?
Maybe the three-headed dragon?
Who says Contreras can't frame? Stone cold robbery of Eaton with that called third strike for the first out in the eighth
Three amigos time?
he should hit more of those. that would be an ideal outcome. /moneyballs
Russell with 19 RBI in July so far. Grand Slams help.


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I installed iTunes in Italy, (and I am outta there long ago) now it just connects to the italian itunes store. Is there any way short of renistalling, that I can convert it back to the english itunes store
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Rebuilding Iraq is a U.S. national security priority. As part of this effort, Congress appropriated $79 billon in emergency supplemental funds for fiscal year 2003 for military operations and Iraq's reconstruction, including humanitarian relief, peacekeeping, and economic and political reform. We have issued reports on similar programs to rebuild countries in the former Yugoslavia, the former Soviet Union, and other locations (see attachment III for a listing of previous GAO reports). Based on this work, we have developed short papers to help congressional decision-makers think about and prioritize the range of issues related to rebuilding Iraq.
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Syria Humanitarian Assistance:Implementing Partners Have Assessed Some Risks of Providing Aid inside Syria, but U.S. Agencies Could Improve Fraud OversightGAO-16-808T: Published: Jul 14, 2016. Publicly Released: Jul 14, 2016.
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I have a couple of batch files which must be run as Administrator. I can do so if they are on my machine, but when I put them on the network and then try to run them as Administrator, the command prompt simply shows no output and finishes, apparently without executing any of the code. When I run the network batch files normally, I at least get a bunch of error messages telling me that access is denied.
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I am executing these batch files via shortcut, and the shortcuts do not use UNC paths. I have also configured the shortcut to run as Administrator.


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Aidan Lang became Seattle Opera's General Director on September 1, 2014. Selected by the Seattle Opera Board of Trustees after a two-year, international search process, Lang moved to Seattle in March, 2014 to effect a smooth transition of leadership from Seattle Opera's previous General Director, Speight Jenkins.
Before moving to Seattle, as General Director of New Zealand Opera from 2006 to 2013 Lang strove to ensure that every production was theatrically stimulating and musically ambitious. Working collaboratively is a top priority for Lang, and during his tenure New Zealand Opera implemented a series of collaborations with such companies as Glyndebourne, Opera North, and Welsh National Opera, bringing exciting productions from directors Nikolaus Lehnhoff (Jenůfa), Tim Albery (Macbeth), and Christopher Alden (Turandot) to New Zealand. In addition to bringing productions in, Lang made it a priority to develop the capacity to build productions in the country, establishing New Zealand's first-ever opera production workshop. This workshop resulted in international co-productions with Scottish Opera (L'italiana in Algeri), Victorian Opera (Serse), and last year's Der Fliegende Holländer and La Cenerentola with Opera Queensland in Australia. Future international co-productions are also underway with Cape Town Opera, West Australian Opera, Opera Queensland, State Opera of South Australia, and Victorian Opera. Lang's collaborative approach has also reaped significant rewards in the business area. With the expansion of the company's reach to include Christchurch, in addition to its performing centers in Auckland and Wellington, Lang rebranded New Zealand Opera as a truly national company, one that serves the entire country. The partnership Lang spearheaded with Creative New Zealand (the country's national arts development agency) resulted in significant increases to its core grant funding, securing long-term financial stability for the company.
Prior to leading New Zealand Opera, Aidan Lang held artistic leadership positions at Buxton Festival, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Glyndebourne Touring Opera, and Opera Zuid in the Netherlands. Concurrent with these leadership positions, Lang was a sought after freelance director working around the world. Among other productions, he directed the first Brazilian production of Wagner's Ring at the historic Teatro Amazonas in Manaus. Other noted productions include Le Comte Ory (Welsh National Opera), Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (Lisbon), The Turn of the Screw (Salzburg) and the British premieres of The Magic Fountain by Frederick Delius (Scottish Opera) and Cornet Christoph Rilke's Song of Love and Death by Siegfried Matthus (Glyndebourne). As Artistic Director of the Buxton Festival, Lang expanded the Festival to include Baroque and contemporary music, tripled its audience attendance, and delivered significant operating surpluses in each year. He was a key part of the triumvirate senior management team at Glyndebourne, where he held dual positions for nine years. He succeeded in developing a unique identity for Glyndebourne Touring Opera, distinct from the larger Glyndebourne Festival, and continuing the company's tradition of nurturing young singers. Concurrent with his positions at Glyndebourne, he was appointed the inaugural Artistic Director of Opera Zuid, a newly created touring company based in the Netherlands. During his leadership, Opera Zuid's impact and the quality of its work were such that the company received national funding and is now a permanent fixture of operatic life in the Netherlands. Born in 1957 in the UK, Lang is a graduate of The Tiffin School and the University of Birmingham. He relocated to Seattle with his wife of 24 years, the former soprano Linda Kitchen, and their 17-year-old daughter, Eleanor. In addition to his operatic leadership skills and international directing experience, Lang is an accomplished musician, having studied clarinet since the age of 8.
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Every year colleges find and sign talented prospects who have been omitted from the lists of top-rated high school senior prospects. Names such as Stephen Curry (Davidson), Luke Harangody (Notre Dame), Jack McClinton (Miami), Curtis Jerrells (Baylor) and Tyrese Rice (Boston College) weren't considered blue-chip recruits or All-Americans. Still, these under-the-radar players have contributed greatly at the college level.
Of course, there are similarly talented, untouted players in the Class of 2009. The following five prospects have major sleeper potential:
1. 6-foot-9 C/F Brett Roseboro (Quakertown, Pa./Community High School)
Roseboro, whom we at Scouts Inc. rate as our No. 78 power forward, has signed with Marquette. Golden Eagles head coach Buzz Williams recently said, "Roseboro is, unquestionably, our least publicized recruit, but do not be surprised that in the end he could have the most value to our program." Roseboro was almost totally unknown nationally, and his signing with Marquette was one of the major shockers of this recruiting period; he is the only prep prospect Marquette signed who is not rated in the ESPNU 100. Roseboro is now a high-post player with good skills and an excellent shooting touch. He needs to become stronger and more physical to perform well as a center. Williams said, "His skill set is so high that he can ultimately play the high and low post for us. I believe that he will become an outstanding college player."
7-0 C Ruslan Pateev (Montverde, Fla./Montverde Academy)
A native of Russia and an Arizona State signee, Pateev impressed me with his low-post skills as a junior playing in the 2007 City of Palms Classic in Fort Myers, Fla. Although he is not a stellar athlete and lacks leaping ability, this young man has outstanding skills and excellent knowledge of the game. Montverde coach Kevin Sutton said, "Ruslan was well-trained in Russia, and came to us with a remarkable understanding of the game and advanced skills. In his two years at Montverde he has really progressed and is going to be a fine college player."
Pateev attended the 2008 NBPA Top 100 Camp, where he arguably had the best hands and most accurate shooting touch of any big man. Nonetheless, he remained relatively unpublicized. He has the ideal skills to excel in coach Herb Sendek's system at Arizona State, and I predict that this 7-footer will be an immediate impact player for the Sun Devils next year.
6-8 PF Kadeem Batts (Powder Springs, Ga./McEachern)
This athletic young man made a significant impression on Providence head coach Keno Davis, who signed him to a national letter of intent with the Friars. Davis was a successful head coach at Drake and is accustomed to finding unheralded players who are loaded with potential. Based upon our observation of Batts' stellar performance for the Smyrna Stars at the AAU 17-Under National Tournament in Orlando, he could be a major steal for Davis. Despite averaging only 10 points per a game as a junior, Batts has the athletic ability and physical talent to become a force in the Big East. He is a strong rebounder and shot-blocker. He will have to become an effective high-post scorer at the college level.
6-8 PF Ray Turner (Houston/Jones)
The high-flying Turner could be one of the most athletic forwards in this senior class. Texas A&M coach Mark Turgeon certainly was impressed by Turner's talents and has signed him for his program. Of the four future Aggies, Turner is the only one not nationally rated. But he definitely has the potential to become the best newcomer for Texas A&M. At the Reebok National Championship Tournament in Las Vegas in July, Turner showed the ability to play both forward positions and displayed an accurate outside shot. He can really run the court and explode to the hoop. Look for Turner to make a significant move upward in the player rankings this season and to have a successful career at Texas A&M.
6-8 PF Keith Clanton, Orlando, Fla./Christian Prep School
Clanton, who has narrowed his college choices to South Florida and Central Florida, was a relentless rebounder and dominant force inside for the top club team in the nation this past summer. Playing for Team Breakdown (Fla.) along side touted guards Kenny Boynton (Pompano Beach, Fla./American Heritage)
and Brandon Knight (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.), Clanton showed that he is a true gamer who knows when to defer and when to assert himself. Clanton is a productive blue-collar worker; he controls the boards and is an effective high-post scorer. He averaged 22 points and 14 rebounds and shot 65 percent as a junior, leading Orlando Christian to its first state championship. Clanton has an exemplary work ethic and is a true court warrior. He is destined to become a standout college player.
Other notable unheralded seniors with outstanding potential include 6-6 WF Derrick Williams (Southern California), La Miranda, Calif.; 6-10 C/F Shawn Kemp, Jr. (Alabama), Canton, Ga./Cherokee; 6-3 2G Dexter Fields (UAB), Orlando, Fla./Olympia; 6-11 C Daniel Miller (Georgia), Loganville, Ga./Loganville Christian Academy; and 6-8 C/F Carl Baptiste (St. Joseph's), Annandale, N.J./North Hunterdon Regional.
Bob Gibbons is the editor and publisher of the All Star Sports report and is widely regarded as the recruiting guru of college basketball.


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Deportations Are Up, But Is Anyone Applauding?
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Ben Winograd, an American Immigration Council staff attorney, was quoted in a KPBS article in which he explains government deportation-speak:
To clear this up, I called up Ben Winograd, a staff attorney at the American Immigration Council, who pores over these statistics.
He explained that in deportation-speak, the government generally uses two terms to refer to how it boots someone out of the country.
"When the government refers to a removal, they are referring to the forced departure of an immigrant based on an order of removal," from an immigration officer or judge, Winograd said.
"When the government, by contrast, refers to a return, they're referring to an immigrant who legally could have been subject to an order of deportation, but was allowed to return voluntarily," he said.
Generally, people removed from the interior of the country, either through directed enforcement operations, workplace raids, or from jails, are "removed," whereas migrants caught trying to cross the border are generally "returned."
"It's kind of the thing that neither party likes to mention," Winograd said. "Republicans don't want to mention it because it makes Obama look good on immigration enforcement. And Democrats don't want to mention it because it makes Obama look bad on immigration enforcement."
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Milwaukee Music Video: See Tony Memmel perform with the Madison Youth Choirs
Local singer-songwriter Tony Memmel has a bigger backing band than usual in his latest music video for "Here We Go" from the 2010 album of the same name.
Memmel was an artist in residence for the fall of 2011 with the Madison Youth Choirs. »Read Full Blog Post
This is the final weekend for most Milwaukee County Parks pools
Milwaukee County Parks pools will begin closing after this weekend as lifeguards begin heading back to campus.
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I've always used RestSharp to handle async requests on Windows Phone 7 & 7.8 applications, but today, I was trying to add RestSharp to a Windows Phone 8 application and it wouldn't work. This is the error received:
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McCain not making sense
Published: Saturday, August 15, 2009 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, August 14, 2009 at 2:55 p.m.
To The Editor: McCain is being very vocal in opposing an additional $2 billion in funding of Cash for Clunkers, a program that is a win-win on many levels. Out of the $4,500 rebate for trading in a gas guzzler for a fuel efficient car, just about all of the rebated amount will go back to one government entity or another, whether it be state sales tax, title, tag and registration fees or federal income tax on the vehicle sales.
Dealers make money, salespeople make money, and insurance companies will sell more insurance. Bottom line, the program serves to reduce our dependency on foreign oil and reduce highway fatalities by removing outdated cars from the road. Increasing funding for this program is a no brainer.
Yet the same person who proposed a tax holiday on gasoline during his campaign for the presidency is now fighting against a program that will benefit citizens and the country. Since this is a program that will ultimately decrease fuel consumption, I wonder what is McCains agenda.
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2500 rim on front of dually
I have seen several duallys out there with a front wheel from a 2500 or even a single rear 3500. It looks like all you do is remove the spacer from the front hub. Is that really it? If anyone has done it or knows someone, please enlighten me.
Why would you want to do this?
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A Lotto player in east London has failed to claim a winning £4.7 million jackpot, it was revealed today.
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To all my readers,
I'm am sorry to say that I will retire this blog since I have decided to leave Microsoft as of September 1st 2007. I my new job at TIA technology (www.tia.dk) I will work on insurance applications not related to Dynamics AX.
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The Buffalo/Johnson County Justice Center Joint Powers Board had their meeting Tuesday afternoon and opened bids for work to fix problems at the old jail.
The building will be renovated and repaired to possibly be used by Volunteers of America or other entities for office space.
An overflow crowd showed up Tuesday evening for the artists' reception at Sheridan College featuring the photography of Diana Volk and Stacey Ellenwood,
The show is called "Spirit of the West" and is all about passion, pursuit, and promise, and captures the way of the great American West.
The Sheridan County Airport will apply for two grants, one through the FAA and one through the State Aeronautics Division.
Sheridan County Commissioners approved a land lease agreement with Verizon Wireless Tuesday. The agreement solidifies a prior agreement between Verizon and the Sheridan County Fair Association to construct a 60 foot monopole cell tower near the Fairgrounds office building.
Sheridan Fire-Rescue contained a structure fire to a shed on the 600 Block of KROE Lane Monday evening, preventing the blaze from reaching the adjacent home, according to a media release from Fire Marshal Brian Songer.
Sheridan County School District 2 board of trustees received a clean audit report and heard construction updates on Meadowlark elementary school at their regular meeting Monday night.
The Sheridan County School District 2 Board of Trustees met for their regularly scheduled meeting Monday night and received an update on funding for a potential new Coffeen Elementary school.
In late December, a well-known musician from Tensleep, Wyoming was arrested along with nine other protesters at the Occupy Iowa Caucus in downtown Des Moines, Iowa. Sheridan Media's Ron Richter has more.
Half way into the fiscal year, the City of Sheridan received some good news Monday night as Treasurer Jennifer Reed provided the City Council with a financial snapshot of how the City has fared so far and what's projected for the rest of the year.
The parent advisory meeting at Sheridan High School this week will focus on suicide prevention training for parents, students and the community as a whole.


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Many Participants in Workfare Take the Place of City Workers
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
Published: April 13, 1998
In the dimly lighted basement of 125 Worth Street, three blocks north of City Hall, Maurice Simmons, a broad-shouldered 21-year-old who attends accounting school at night, spends his days hauling sacks of garbage and unloading trucks carrying office supplies.
On the seventh floor of the building, which houses the New York City Health Department, Cecilia Mathis mops, sweeps, dusts and cleans bathrooms.
And in an office on the second floor, Evelyn Price, a stern but understanding supervisor, coordinates the schedules of dozens of workers, processes time cards and keeps tabs on no-shows.
Notwithstanding the differences in their tasks, these three workers have one big thing in common: workfare. They are required to do their jobs to obtain their welfare checks, and they are doing work once performed by civil servants.
By filling a spectrum of jobs -- from feeding hospital patients to painting park benches to translating at welfare centers -- workfare participants have quietly become an important, but unofficial, part of New York City's municipal work force.
These unheralded workers do much of the grunt work that makes city government run. Workfare participants and welfare experts say many New Yorkers fail to understand a significant fact about the program: the 34,100 people in the city's Work Experience Program constitute a low-cost labor force that does a substantial amount of the work that had been done by municipal employees before Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani reduced the city payroll by about 20,000 employees, or about 10 percent.
Mr. Giuliani has repeatedly declared that his program, by far the nation's largest, was not meant to replace regular workers and has in no way done so.
But interviews with more than 50 workfare workers and visits to more than two dozen work sites make it clear that many participants have taken the place of city workers. Not only are many doing much of the work once performed by departed city employees, but in many instances, they are doing the same work as current ones. Some union leaders contend that the workfare program violates a state law barring public employers from replacing regular workers with workfare participants. Two unions have sued the city on this issue.
''We're doing the same jobs as regular workers, but we're not getting paid for it,'' said Ms. Mathis, the Health Department cleaner, who works 24 hours a week and receives not wages but a $124 welfare check every two weeks and Medicaid coverage.
A decade ago, 20 salaried city employees did the Health Department's maintenance work, but as a result of attrition and buyouts, their number shrank to 3 by 1995. Now the building uses 50 part-time workfare participants.
The same story holds true for maintenance workers in other municipal buildings downtown, including the Criminal Courts building, Family Court, the Surrogate Court and the headquarters of the Department of Housing Preservation and Development.
In many municipal agencies, the city has shrunk its regular work force and increased the number of workfare participants. The Sanitation Department's work force slid from 8,296 in 1990 under Mayor David N. Dinkins to 7,528 in early 1994, when Mr. Giuliani took office, then down 16 percent more last year, to 6,327. Today, the department employs more than 5,000 workfare laborers, who wear bright orange vests, sweeping streets and doing other tasks around the city.
Probably the best example can be found in the Parks Department, where, because of a mixture of layoffs and attrition, the nonadministrative work force fell to 1,925 in early 1994, from 2,786 in 1990. Under Mr. Giuliani, park employment has dropped 40 percent more, to 1,156. The void is filled by more than 6,000 workfare participants, who rake leaves, pick up trash and do other tasks.
But if situations like these raise the ire of many union leaders, Mr. Giuliani's efforts to expand workfare have been greatly helped by the acquiescence of the labor leader with the most potential to create a storm. That official, Stanley Hill, executive director of District Council 37, the umbrella group representing 120,000 municipal workers, is a close Giuliani ally and has often said he can stomach the program as long as the city does not lay off any civil servants.
There are significant political dividends for Mr. Giuliani in this new work force. During past administrations, mayors often reduced the municipal labor force in times of fiscal trouble, only to anger the public, which complained about dirtier streets and deteriorating services. In fatter times, mayors would expand the work force again.
Mr. Giuliani, too, cut the city's payroll to hold down spending, but he was able to use workfare to pick up the slack. And now, with the economy strong and the city's coffers full, he can maintain services while holding the line on labor costs.
For many New Yorkers, though, there is a downside to the Mayor's policy: expanding workfare while shrinking the municipal work force means fewer opportunities for the many New Yorkers who traditionally viewed civil service jobs as a springboard to the middle class.


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An embrace of photography, nature and landscapes - Patrick Di Fruscia tells ePHOTOzine why photography is a real passion that he's embraced to the full.
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With a mother who was a gifted artist and a father who took up professional photography for one part of his life, following the creative stepping stones into a career in nature photography was almost a certainty for Patrick Di Fruscia. He was always a great fan of drawing and during his teen years he steered his creative side towards music, taking up piano lessons to fill his time. But he didn't actually pick up a camera until the year 2000 when his employer asked him to take images of the products they received so they didn't have to pay a professional. Even though he was unsure of his employers decision Patrick read every photography related book he could get his hands on and he took a basic photography course which focused on photographing babies and families a direction Patrick soon realised he didn't want to head. He soon began searching for a style, attending other courses and taking pictures of everything around him in attempt to find his niche.
His search came to a climax in 2003 when he found the breathtaking view at the summit of Mont Ernest LaForce in the Gaspe Peninsula.
"My search finished back in 2003, It felt like Divine intervention. Something told me that was the direction I had to go. Just the way it made me feel, I knew immediately this was for me. Of course back then I had no clue about the golden hours and how to achieve dramatic results so I have no pictures to show from that experience. I promised myself that I will go back and give justice to that beautiful part of the country I live in."
Not many will know that Patrick is a huge fan of ePHOTOzine and he found our site back in 2004 where he created some strong relationships, many of who are still helping him out today.
"I just love ePHOTOzine and I am really happy to see how far ePHOTOzine is today. I remember ePz in 2004 when everyone were so hungry for those little hearts we used to give each other. This meant the world to me, every night I would get back home after work to see how many hearts my photographs had. I met so many passionate photographers on your community and owe a lot to Peter. Because of him I met Adam Burton, Ian Cameron, Rich Nicholls, all incredible guys that I would have never had met probably if it wasn't for ePz. I was even fortunate enough to have Adam Burton invite me over to England to be the photographer at his wedding. I am sure that if you ask all your members, you would see that your community has created some really strong relationship and heart warming stories. Keep up the awesome work ePz!"
Patrick is a great lover of wide angles and big foregrounds, something which makes his work immediately recognisable to his fans. He tries to evoke a feeling of beauty and even though he creates work loved by others he never creates a piece with them in mind.
"I think it's important to shoot for ourselves, not for others. You shouldn't try to create what you think others will like. It is really easy to get caught into wanting to please others more than ourselves and meanwhile completely forgetting the incredible moments we are so fortunate to witness. A great photograph is one that makes you feel an emotion. There is absolutely no rules for good photography and opinion will vary greatly from one person to another. It all comes down to what moves you. So a good photograph for me would be one that evokes an emotion inside of me."
Patrick is in the fortunate position to say if the light's right it's relatively easy to create a great photograph. It's hard for him to explain something that comes so naturally to him, after all being brought up in such an artistic environment gave him plenty of opportunity to learn what's pleasing to the eye, something which helps him tremendously.
"Knowing what to photograph is something that comes naturally, it's almost built in me. I have learnt to follow my instincts and sometimes I find myself laughing because I immediately draw the best composition possible. From there I try different angles but somehow always return to the first image that was taken."
Unfortunately photography is still not Patrick's full-time career, he still works for the sports supplement company that gave him the chance to pick a camera up six years ago. Fortunately for Patrick he has a very understanding boss who in a way gave him is passion for photography and who allows him to continue to explore his passion today.
"I have set my goals to always improve my craft. My quest to become a better photographer will never cease. I personally think that the learning curve is endless, and I have only myself to criticise when I feel I am not living up to my artistic endeavours. I am constantly searching for those rare magical moments when the perfect light embraces nature in all its glory. Rest assured – this is only the beginning of a long and dedicated quest to capture the immortality of nature."
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With a stay at Insadong Crown Hotel in Seoul (Jongno), you'll be minutes from SACHOOM Theater and Tteok Museum. This hotel is close to Gyeongbok Palace and Dongdaemun Market.
Make yourself at home in one of the 83 guestrooms featuring refrigerators. Cable television is provided for your entertainment. Bathrooms have showers and hair dryers. Housekeeping is provided daily, and rollaway/extra beds (surcharge) can be requested.
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