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Space is in the basement so there are stairs upon entering/exiting.
Dee2016-12-15T00:00:00ZDots house was spotless and very inviting. Great value as well! Would highly recommend!
Allie2016-12-14T00:00:00ZWonderful place to stay. Dot was very hospitable and responsive to questions. She took time to help me with the August app. The rooms and bed were very comfortable, with plenty of space to move around and make myself at home. I'd definitely stay here again and highly recommend
Jennifer2016-10-16T00:00:00ZDot was very accommodating and was terrific in communication. The lower floor was very comfortable and private. And a terrific TV...the biggest TV I have ever seen! Very convenient to I35, Starbucks and Jethros...a terrific BBQUE restaurant
Kelly2016-10-28T00:00:00ZThe place was perfect and made you feel like you are at home.
Melissa2016-11-03T00:00:00ZGreat communication. Nice and easy the whole time!
Aimee2016-10-02T00:00:00ZVery nice lower level apartment. Private and very well appointed.
harry2017-01-29T00:00:00ZDot communicated well with me. She was a fantastic host!
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Johnston, Iowa 50131, Stany Zjednoczone
Loved staying here! I would highly recommend.
Lindsay2017-01-02T00:00:00ZRodzaj pokoju
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Johnston, Iowa 50131, Stany Zjednoczone
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Johnston, Iowa 50131, Stany Zjednoczone
Rebecca is great at keeping in contact with you for any issues you may have. Wished we had known no cable tv. Also that they are outside the limits for many food/restaurant deliveries. Home is huge for large family gatherings but plan to bring the needed pans and dishes to use.
Linda and Mike2017-01-02T00:00:00ZWe were very glad to have found this large home for such a great cost. I don't like to leave poor feedback, but found many things awry. On the positive side, if you can overlook everything cited below the home is very spacious, and so is the back yard. Nice large TV. The cost is quite a deal for a four bedroom house in such a great neighborhood. Following is a list of our issues: Piano looks great, but keys are dirty and way out of tune. Upon arriving, found wet, "mildewy" towels folded on the bathroom counter with no directions where to find clean towels, so we washed them ourselves, and borrowed some from family in Des Moines. Last day we discovered towels in a closet behind the master bathroom door. The playroom looks great, but at closer look, the toys are very dirty, as are the children's bunk beds. Did not want my 9 month old granddaughter putting her mouth on them. There were no curtains on our bedroom window. We found dishes in the sink and since the dishwasher smelled awful, we washed all dishes by hand. All hangers were in the master bedroom; the other closets had none, and were full of the hosts' personal belongings.
Pamela2016-10-31T00:00:00ZA fantastic large family house with a gorgeous backyard.
Johan2016-09-14T00:00:00ZVery comfortable house in a pretty setting tho it was a bit out of the way for my purpose (visiting family in Clive). My grandsons loved the play set and play room when they visited me. Perfect communication with the owners. Generally great experience.
sue2016-10-10T00:00:00ZHouse was a great value for the price. It was spacious with a very large yard and a bonus play room we weren't expecting for our kids. Kitchen is very large. Parking and location were easy. Communication and accommodations by the host were great. Very close to 141 highway access, a new wal-mart, and a few little chain restaurants. Great for our family visit the week of thanksgiving.
Rebekah2016-11-28T00:00:00ZRodzaj pokoju
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Johnston, Iowa 50131, Stany Zjednoczone
Tiffany responded quickly to my request to stay, that helped a lot. Very friendly and helpful host. Great communications.
Mike2016-09-24T00:00:00ZKurt and Carla were gracious hosts and provided everything I needed including having pizza with them!!!! Their acreage is even lovelier than the pictures..I disagree completely with the last review...give it a try and u will see.
Ila2016-09-01T00:00:00ZTiffany was an AMAZING host. If you're looking for a place to stay while in Des Moines, I strongly suggest her place. Ridiculously pet friendly--yard is huge and she didn't mind my dog roaming around the house at all or playing with her dog. The room was also wonderful, bed comfortable. I found the location quite convenient as well. I got off the freeway and was at her place in less than 5 minutes. Her and her boyfriend were so friendly and great company. If I could give more than 5 stars, I would. I can say for sure that I would stay here again.
Stefanie2016-08-31T00:00:00ZTiffany and her boyfriend John were amazing hosts (and some of the coolest people) I've come across in awhile. Everything about our stay in Des Moines was made so much better sheerly based off of their hospitality. If I could give them more stars I would. I would highly recommend to anyone in the Des Moines area!
Connor2016-08-08T00:00:00ZTiffany was an excellent host, very nice and welcoming. Appreciate her hospitality.
Michael2016-10-18T00:00:00ZCozy, clean, comfortable, and accommodating. My first (and second) Airbnb experience was beyond expectations. Tiffany provided a wonderful halfway spot to rest for my travels to and from MN and CO. The room was simple and VERY clean. As was the bathroom. The perfect place for me and my dog, Macaroni. She went out of her way to make us feel welcome and at rest. This will always be my first choice when I need a home away from home in Des Moines.
Walter2016-08-29T00:00:00ZTiffany was a fantastic host, I didn't spend much time at her home, but everything was clean and wonderful!
cindy2016-08-22T00:00:00ZTiffany was an amazing host. I was traveling across country with my dog and we had a good night at Tiffany's place. My dog played with her rescue that she was fostering. Everything was good. The area is a quiet tree lined street with easy street parking. The room was comfortable and so was the bed. I would highly recommend anybody to stay at her place.
Kathryn and Chloe2016-08-27T00:00:00ZRodzaj pokoju
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Windsor Heights, Iowa 50324, Stany Zjednoczone
The condo was clean and gorgeous. Two thumbs up!
Josh2016-09-24T00:00:00ZGreat location, great place and the host was awesome. Loved it and will come back
Christian2016-10-07T00:00:00ZGreat host. Great location. Would definitely recommend.
Nathan2016-10-18T00:00:00ZGreat place. Fongs pizza right across the street is a plus! You're right in down town Des Moines. I'd stay here again.
Brandt2016-10-12T00:00:00ZAwesome place! In the perfect area in downtown. My friend and I went to a concert at the Wells Fargo Arena and it was easy walking distant. Would deff stay here again.
Kylee2016-10-05T00:00:00ZKate was a great host! She was accommodating to my needs and gave a nice tour of the parking garage and room. The location is close to downtown which made it convenient for me to find activities to do. I had a comfortable stay and I recommend staying here.
Tan2017-02-15T00:00:00ZKate was great and met us on time the first day. She showed us the condo and described the amenities in a timely manner and even made some recommendations on where to eat and what to do. I would absolutely recommend staying here.
Sarah2016-10-27T00:00:00ZRodzaj pokoju
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Des Moines, Iowa 50309, Stany Zjednoczone
I stayed with Linda with my mom and a friend on our way to a music music festival. Unfortunately we didn't get to meet Linda since we arrived so late but she communicated very well about how to get in, what to expect and even suggested some places for dinner. The space was wonderful. It was clean and the bed was very comfortable. Linda provided all sorts of little extras like toiletries in the bathroom, clean towels, microwave popcorn, bottled water in the mini fridge, even a magazine about events and restaurants in town. I would definitely stay here again.
Amanda & Dan2016-08-07T00:00:00ZExcellent! Warm, large space with private bathroom, desk, towels, and a bunch of other anemities which make you feel like you are truly at a bed and breakfast. Linda was more than gracious, especially considering how late we arrived. She has two wonderful dogs and offered us coffee in the morning. What more could you ask for? Highly recommended
arusha2016-06-08T00:00:00ZSuper friendly couple. Great private, large space. Convenient coffee pot, mini fridge and microwave. This was our second visit. We highly recommend!
Michelle2016-10-08T00:00:00ZMany amenities. Lovely accommodations. Kind host.
Brittany2016-09-21T00:00:00ZWhat a wonderful place! Such a lovely couple. The owner of the house even drove me to the airport so I wouldn't have to take a cab! I will definitely be staying there again!
Megan2016-10-05T00:00:00ZFantastic experience, highly recommended!
Gregory2016-08-03T00:00:00ZLinda and Terry were very warm and gracious hosts. We enjoyed our stay with them immensely. It was our first Airbnb experience and Linda and Terry made it a very great first experience. Their space is just as pictured. Everything was very clean. The area is very nice and spacious. The location was really convenient for us. Our only regret is not being able to stay longer. Breakfast was cooked for us in the morning, and it was wonderful. We would highly recommend their place to anyone. Thank you Linda and Terry for the delightful stay!
Mikaela2016-06-13T00:00:00ZTop marks for Linda's home and our stay. We had a delightful and relaxed time. Marvelous backyard, trees and patio to sit down and relax. Friendly welcoming and engaging hosts. Felt very much at home. Thank you Linda and Terry.
Michael2016-06-14T00:00:00ZRodzaj pokoju
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Des Moines, Iowa 50312, Stany Zjednoczone
I felt very welcomed into Jennie's home .... and welcomed by her kitties, as well. It was like having my own mini-apartment ... bedroom, bathroom and living room. It was delightful AND that was the most comfortable mattress that I have ever slept on -- ever! Additionally, it was only a few blocks from my daughter's place and it was pleasant to walk ... a very safe neighborhood.
Dyan2016-05-17T00:00:00ZSo amazing! Wonderfully patient with my check in and poor use of the corkscrew!
Lisa2016-06-15T00:00:00ZChez Jennie was exactly what I needed during a busy prep for a conference. The house is adorable and Jennie's hospitality was top notch. The neighborhood was green and lush and I saw multiple bunnies hopping through the yards. Not so good for the gardens of the neighborhood but they sure where cute to see as a visitor. It was convenient to everywhere I needed to be in town. I just wish I would have had more time to spend in the covered patio and back yard. It was a wonderful sanctuary.
Janee2016-07-29T00:00:00ZVery clean and neat, Jennie is extremely friendly
Paul2017-01-12T00:00:00ZBest AirBnB I have ever stayed it. Clean, Private, Loving cats, Amazing host, Central location. I have no complaints at all. If i ever pass through again the is the first place that I will be staying.
Taylor2016-11-28T00:00:00ZGreat place and Jennie was very friendly!
Cody2016-11-26T00:00:00ZJennie was very helpful upon arrival and helped us with decisions on where to eat, etc. The bed was incredibly comfortable and the little apartment had everything we needed. It was a 10 minute drive to our conference downtown so it was a very convenient location. Thank you Jennie for letting us hang with your sweet cats!
Stephanie2016-08-02T00:00:00ZMy stay was very quiet. Host kept to herself mostly, which made for more privacy. A pleasant neighborhood with great food and shops nearby made the experience more homely. I enjoyed how clean the basement was, and the heater for colder days was very useful. You must be okay with seeing a cat every once in a while, but you certainly won't seem one ever day. Great saty!
Timothy2016-12-22T00:00:00ZRodzaj pokoju
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Des Moines, Iowa 50310, Stany Zjednoczone
Everything was perfect just as described. Host had info as far as restaurants,attractions. Convenient to walk to diner and to drive around where we wanted to go. Host also available for questions to be answered. House was extremely clean and host provided coffee snacks . Would recommend to anyone!!
Eugene2016-08-16T00:00:00ZThis beautifully maintained house made for an easy stay with convenient access to downtown Des Moines.
Mandy2016-08-29T00:00:00ZNot expensive, you get so much for your money. Everything was very clean, tidy, and decorated super cute! The snacks were fantastic!
Alexandra2016-09-08T00:00:00ZThis home was very inviting and full of extra personal touches provided by the host. Aly was very responsive and provided great recommendations on places to see and dine. We enjoyed the fresh cookies, coffee, and late night glass of wine. The house is located in a safe, walkable neighborhood--close to a great coffee house and just a $5 uber ride from downtown. Very spacious with 3 bedrooms, however the bathroom is a bit small. We would definitely recommend this charming place to anyone wanting to stay in Des Moines!!!
Andrew2016-07-04T00:00:00ZWe loved staying at Aly's house! Everything was beautifully decorated, comfortable, and clean. The beds and pillows were very fantastic and the snacks and drinks available were a nice extra. Check in and out was very easy and Aly responded to emails within minutes. We had everything we needed and more and would definitely stay again. Highly recommended!
Christy2016-10-26T00:00:00ZThis home is adorable and welcoming! All the little extras around the home made the stay an extra treat for us!
Heather2017-02-05T00:00:00ZThis is a lovely place to stay if you are visiting IA. It's super clean and organized and you feel right at home after a long flight. Aly and Dace are awesome and are very considerate of even the smallest details for their guests to make the stay more pleasant.
Annie2017-02-03T00:00:00ZThis was a great find! Aly was wonderful and very easy to communicate with. The check-in/out process was very quick and easy and the home was so great. I encourage anyone looking into this place to consider booking!
Megan2016-12-12T00:00:00ZRodzaj pokoju
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Des Moines, Iowa 50314, Stany Zjednoczone
Scenic neighborhood and close to public transport. Will recommend for people seeking to explore Des Moines!
Melvin2016-12-27T00:00:00ZThe place so nice, we stayed there twice!
Aaron2015-09-16T00:00:00ZThis was a perfect stay. Very gracious host who provides a comfortable room with a very nice bed and soft bedding. Quiet and quaint which was great for a good night's sleep. Having coffee available first thing was perfect. We appreciated how organized everything was. Thank you for your hospitality. We will definitely be back.
Terri2016-08-19T00:00:00ZKori's place was just what I needed after a couple long travel days. Comfortable, accommodating and easy to find location. If I'd ever find myself in Des Moines again, it'll be first on the list.
John2017-01-14T00:00:00ZKori was extremely helpful both prior to arrival and once we had arrived. Her directions to the house were very clear and we had no problems finding it. The room was absolutely charming, and we were greeted with a cleanly pressed bed and fresh air from the opened windows. The neighborhood is very quiet and charming, but is easily accessible to busy streets to get downtown within 15 minutes. Kori provided some great suggestions for dinner options, and was extremely respectful of our privacy and comfort while we were visiting.
Anne2015-10-22T00:00:00ZWhat you see is what you get - this listing is perfect for solo travelers, those on business or who want to get away and experience the city. It is a cozy room and house, charming and the decorations make it lovely and homely. Although I didn't get a chance to meet Kori since I was visiting the one night, she was very friendly and flexible through messaging. There is a lot of information Kori has for guests, which was helpful. I would recommend this listing.
Faye2016-09-04T00:00:00ZI stayed at Kori's place for 3 days and the I really enjoyed it. The room was cozy and clean. Kori was a helpful host too. I recommend this place to everyone that needs to stay in Des Moines.
Yuxing2015-11-02T00:00:00ZStay here! It's super cozy and Kori is a very friendly person who will provide a long list of recommendations of what to do in this cute city!
Magdalena2017-03-01T00:00:00ZRodzaj pokoju
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Des Moines, Iowa 50310, Stany Zjednoczone
My husband and I stayed here overnight to break up our long road trip with our 2 small kids. It was less than 10 min off the free way, easy to find, had off-street parking, and the house looked exactly like the photos! Corinne was super on top of communicating, and a breeze to work with! Would definitely stay here again, when passing thru Des Moines.
Rachel2016-12-21T00:00:00ZGreat house in Des Moines! Will definitley try to stay here next time I'm in town
Emma2017-03-02T00:00:00ZNice little place, great kitchen, very clean, & quiet location. Easy to access with off-street parking. Good communication from Corinne. She even warned me about a snowstorm and had the driveway and porch shoveled and salted before my arrival. Good experience!
Kerry2017-02-17T00:00:00ZA lovely updated home in an accessible area. Corrine goes above and beyond to ensure the comfort and ease for her guests. Will most definitely stay again!
Cody2017-01-24T00:00:00ZGreat place and Host!
Kurt2017-03-09T00:00:00ZThis is the cutest house! We loved staying here. It was super well equipped. Extremely clean and great parking. Easy to get in and out. We definitely will stay here again if we have any more trips to Des Moines.
Abby2017-01-20T00:00:00ZCorrine was a wonderful host! She knew we were staying during Thanksgiving so she went out of her way to set out a pan for my friends and me to cook a Friendsgiving meal. Central location, just minutes from downtown. As an animal lover, her friendly cat Fuzzie was a bonus. Would definitely stay again. 10/10
Ryan2016-11-28T00:00:00ZAwesome place to stay! It was clean, comfortable, and exceeded our expectations! Also, Corrine is a great communicator if you have any questions.
Joseph2017-03-03T00:00:00ZRodzaj pokoju
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Des Moines, Iowa 50310, Stany Zjednoczone
I enjoyed my stay and I would recommend their place to anyone visiting the Urbandale area.
Casey2016-09-15T00:00:00ZThe hosts were very friendly and communication was very timely. Rooms were clean and location was easy to get to.
Megan2017-03-01T00:00:00ZHosts were friendly and very welcoming, great with our child also :) House was clean and beds were comfy. The upstairs was nice for our family! The neighborhood is quiet and has space to park a trailer!
Ericka2016-11-22T00:00:00ZAshley and Nate were great hosts! Communicated really well and was super easy to check in. The place was just as advertised - very neat and clean, all things we needed were right there, private bathroom, very accommodating! Gave us a great reference for a restaurant (Exile Brewery... oh yeah), and allowed us to come back after our Cross Country race and shower. Highly recommended.
Dan2016-11-20T00:00:00ZAshley has the best place to stay in the Des Moines area. She and her husband go out of their way to welcome guests.
Casey2016-11-15T00:00:00ZAshley and Nathan were wonderful hosts, and I would be happy to stay again.
James2017-02-16T00:00:00ZAshley and Nate were so friendly and welcoming. They were my first Airbnb hosts and definitely set a standard. I only stayed one night but we talked for a few hours and I learned a bit about them. Their home is very clean and cozy, and it's right near lots of stores and restaurants. It's also just a short drive from the highway which was great since I was traveling. Thank you again for opening up your home to me!
Leah2016-11-30T00:00:00ZAshley's home is very cozy and clean in a great neighborhood with walking trails. We would definitely stay again.
Brenda2017-01-21T00:00:00ZRodzaj pokoju
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Urbandale, Iowa 50322, Stany Zjednoczone
The host was awesome and made it feel like home. The location was nice and very easy to find and was very close to everything you would need. Wish we could stayed longer.
Brian2016-07-18T00:00:00ZTony is an amazing host. He is so welcoming and helpful for any requests we had. Response rate is quick! We had an amazing stay there. The place is also clean and we were free to use the laundry, kitchen, and living room. Definately recommend this place to anyone who is going to Drake U. It's only 10 min walking distance away.
annie2017-02-28T00:00:00ZTony was super helpful and welcoming. It felt more like it was actually my home than an air bnb. He goes above and beyond to make it a great experience. His place is super close to the city and he will take care of you. The room was small but clean and all toiletries were provided. I had a great time.
Sumner2016-06-13T00:00:00ZTony is especially communicative. As a frequent business traveler I am especially appreciative of someone like Tony. I look forward to my future visits to Des Moines.
Nick2016-11-03T00:00:00ZStaying there was just like dropping at a friend's house for a few days. Conveniently located in Des Moines. You've got everything that you need for a short stay. The bed a sheets are clean and comfortable. Nice little bedroom.
Christian2016-09-19T00:00:00ZI enjoyed staying at Tony's house. It is in a safe neighborhood that is tree-lined with beautiful older houses. Tony keeps his house very nice. The bed was comfortable. The bathroom is down the hall, and a shower upstairs. No problem. Nice big newly remodeled kitchen to use. Very reasonable price. About a 10 minute drive to downtown. And a five minute walk to a wonderful natural food store where I got my morning fresh green juice. I would definitely stay at Tony's house again.
William2016-05-02T00:00:00Z5/5 The place was amazing and Tony is a great host! All the rooms were very clean and the beds slept great. We will definitely be staying here again when we come back through.
Cole2016-05-10T00:00:00ZTony was very accommodating of our last minute request to stay. The room was clean and I had a great night sleep. Would recommend to future travellers.
Michael2016-07-06T00:00:00ZRodzaj pokoju
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Des Moines, Iowa 50311, Stany Zjednoczone
Friendly hosts; clean and comfortable room/bathroom.
Cody2016-08-05T00:00:00ZBeautiful home in a great neighborhood right off I-80. Very kind and generous family. Excellent hosts!
Daniel2016-10-02T00:00:00ZVicki and Lloyd's home is a nice place to stay when traveling. Everything was clean and Vicki was very accommodating. Easy to find and convenient to the highways. Would stay here again.
Warren2016-09-25T00:00:00ZI had a great rest staying at Vicki and Lloyd's home. Vicki was home to greet me and we had a nice visit before I headed out again. Their home is immaculate, and the bed very comfortable. It was a very quiet and peaceful stay. I highly recommend them as your hosts when in Des Moines.
Bonnie2016-10-12T00:00:00ZVicki and Lloyd were great hosts! The entire place was clean. They were the most friendly hosts I've ever had. They helped me get around Des Moines and feel very comfortable. Also, they have 3 terrific well behaved dogs, a big plus!
Evan2016-08-14T00:00:00Zgreat as always.....good people & place to stay !!!!
Steph2017-03-01T00:00:00Zgreat place as always !!!!
Steph2017-03-04T00:00:00ZWe had a great stay at Lloyd and Vicki's place! They were so welcoming and their room was cozy and comfortable. They made us coffee and breakfast in the morning and we're lovely to visit with.
Laura2016-12-10T00:00:00ZRodzaj pokoju
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Urbandale, Iowa 50322, Stany Zjednoczone
Another great stay at Dat and Alan's house during a short visit to Des Moines! Beautiful home, super comfortable and welcoming, and a great location. Love staying here when I'm in Des Moines!
Chance2016-05-10T00:00:00ZDat and Alan were great! The house, speacilly the bedroom are amazing! I really would say for who goes to Des Moines this is a perfect place to stay. Only 15 minutes walking for downtown. Thank you guys, hope see you again.
Daniela2015-03-23T00:00:00ZDat&Alan are great people with wonderful hospitality. The room is very pretty.
Jie2015-02-10T00:00:00ZLOVE THIS PLACE! From the moment I walked in I felt at home. Alan greeted us at the door. Very friendly and calm. The house is very well kept with colorful landscape and just feels good. They were very kind allowing me to check in earlier than normal. My fight arrived at 1220p and my scheduled appointments began at 2pm. Typical check in is at 3pm. Even if the room wasn't ready they were very accommodating to allow me to drop off bags and freshen up. Alan showed us to our private room and bathroom. Windows overlooking downtown and a walkout on deck. Very comforting feel. Comfy queen bed soft sheets and towels folded into elephants was a high class touch. There is a chair as otoman near the deck walkout, TV, wifi and plenty of outlets to charge up. Private bath is very accommodating with a tub/shower unit, large vanity and commode. Shampoo conditioner and bar soap provided. (Although I didn't use, also makeup remover available). A warm shower and Plush white towels hit the spot after a long day. Alan was kind enough to show us around the house and how I would love to spend a few more days here. This is house that would accommodate entertaining very well. Outdoor patios are inviting and natural light throughout the main floor. Love the keyless entry system. Don't have to carry a key that I'm not used to carrying and allows access whenever needed. Overall. I couldn't have asked for a better place to stay. I only wish I was able to stay a few more days.
Justin2015-05-20T00:00:00ZAlan is a very welcoming host and gave us a tour of his beautiful home that is spotlessly clean and tidy. Our room and bathroom were sumptuous, sheets and towels pure white. We walked to a restaurant for dinner past lovely old homes and through a shady park. Thank you Allen and Dat for a wonderful stay.
Rosalind2016-07-11T00:00:00ZAnother great stay with Alan and Dat!
Chris2016-12-19T00:00:00ZExcellent location. Great home, lovely host
beau2016-12-28T00:00:00ZAmazing stay with Dat & Alan! If I could give them 10 stars I would. Everything was exactly as described. The room was located on the main floor near the front of the house which made coming and going very easy. Dat and Alan's room is upstairs so we didn't have to worry about disturbing them. I would actually call the room a suite since it had it's own attached bathroom. It even had direct access to the outside deck which would be nice in the warmer months. They provided the usual items, shampoo, conditioner, and bath gel as well as, a hair dryer (and believe it or not) a curling iron! I didn't need them, but it was the thought that counts. We had coffee in the morning, they also have espresso and tea. The coffee was freshly ground and extremely good. We had to shorten our stay by one night so we were a little disappointed, but we will definitely be back next time we are in town!
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Des Moines, Iowa 50314, Stany Zjednoczone
Ram's place was very cozy. Bedrooms were comfortable, and everything was clean and new. You do have to go through their front door or garage to access the basement, but we had no issues with that. Their place is close to an awesome grocery store and coffee shop. Ram and his family were great hosts and we would stay again next time we visit Iowa.
Janelle2017-02-28T00:00:00ZGreat find right off of 80 for travelers, easy communication and a private cozy space!
Sara2017-02-03T00:00:00ZSo much room! Very quiet, and peaceful area. The basement lends itself to a very private setting. Safe and lovely neighbourhood, and the attached garage was a huge plus point for me! I loved that I was able to check in late on my road trip. Ram was very accommodating and pleasant. I wish I had more time to chat with him but it was an in and out trip for me.
Biju2017-02-20T00:00:00ZThe beds were super comfortable! Both king size. Loved the pool/ping pong table. Garage is a great perk and as much privacy as we needed!
Kathy2017-03-07T00:00:00ZRam and his wife were amazing hosts! We got stuck in a snow storm on our way to Des Moines and got in way late. Ram woke up in the middle of the night to let us in and make sure we had everything we needed. His house is beautiful and the downstairs area is huge. We couldn't have asked for more after driving 14 hours.
Erin2017-01-10T00:00:00ZRam was so friendly. We arrived late and he stayed up to welcome us and get us settled in. His house is gorgeous and modern and stands out in the area. Ram provided us with food and activity suggestions and gave us his number if we had any questions. The space is incredibly well decorated and clean and has every amenity that a traveler could desire. Thank you Ram for hosting us! Highly recommend this space!
Emma2017-01-10T00:00:00ZGreat place to stay! Highly recommend!
Preston2017-02-04T00:00:00ZThe hosts are great and the accommodations are wonderful.
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5 Awesome Thanksgiving Leftover Recipes
This post written by guest blogger—Laurie Rockenbeck
I used to buy my turkey thinking that I would get the biggest bird I could find so I could have all these wonderful leftover turkey dinners. I could package them up into individual dinners and pop them in the freezer for a steady stream of leftover yumminess.
The problem was always the same. I would have plenty of one thing left over, but not enough of another. I might have six cups of mashed potatoes, but no turkey. Or a bunch of meat, but no stuffing. I no longer bother even trying to put together little meals.
During the two days that follow, we pile up plates with leftovers and heat them up to recreate the same meal over and over until we're left with what's left. Here are a few recipes that require minimal interaction with other ingredients of your Thanksgiving day meal to use up some of those odds and ends.
Stuffing Hash and Eggs
We usually have stuffing leftovers, even though I make really yummy stuffing. It's sort of an extra side dish that I threaten to leave off on Thanksgiving day, but it always ends up back on the menu. I could make less, but this is the one time I buy a loaf of white bread, and I have no idea what I would do with leftover white bread, so I make the stuffing.
4 cups leftover stuffing/dressing
8 oz. low-fat bulk breakfast sausage
4 eggs
Cook the sausage in a cast iron or oven safe non-stick skillet. There shouldn't be any fat in the pan if you use low-fat sausage, but you can blot it out if there is. Gently deglaze with half a cup of water to get up any browned bits off the pan. Mix in the stuffing, breaking up clumpier bits to blend with the sausage.
Cook until it is heated through and forming little crusts on the bread bits. Press the mixture down into the pan and smooth across the top, reduce the heat to low. Use a spoon to make four wells in the mixture, all the way to the bottom of the pan. Crack an egg into each. Place under a broiler for three-four minutes—longer if you don't like your yolk all runny. Serve out of the pan. Four servings.
Here are 4 more great ideas for leftovers with recipes to come!
Hoisin Turkey Wraps
I love Peking duck, but it's not exactly a quick work day evening meal you can toss together. Years ago, we used to stop by a certain fast food chain and pick up fried chicken tenders, cover a tortilla in hoisin sauce, add the chicken and some scallion to make mock Peking Duck.
This recipe came to me as I was considering the possibilities of a slightly healthier version of our fast food run around. Left-over turkey is reheated with some Asian influence and then put together with a compatible slaw and sauce to make a delicious wrap. If you are really short on time, you can just reheat the turkey with some water and broth and use purchased Asian Slaw from the market. Everyone in the family loved this one. You can fancy it up by making scallion brushes to paint the hoisin sauce on the wrappers. The brushes then can be torn apart and added to the wrap for an added kick.
Turkey Corn Soup
When I was growing up, my mom always made turkey noodle soup after Thanksgiving. I remember her groaning about the work involved in rolling out the noodles–not so fun after spending the day before in the kitchen cooking. My husband's family has a bit of Pennsylvania Dutch heritage, and I first had this soup while dating him. It turns out the traditional form is for chicken, but my mother-in-law had made the turkey innovation early in her marriage. The thing that makes the soup so charming are the rivels—little tiny German dumplings—and are a ton easier than rolling noodles out by hand.
When clearing the Thanksgiving table, take a few minutes to remove the majority of the extra meat from the bones, leaving the little schnittles that don't come so easily on the carcass. Set aside the meat in the fridge for leftovers and put about two cups of the smaller, spoon sized pieces, aside for the soup. You can wrap the carcass up and put it in the freezer to make stock later, or immediately put it on the stove. My kitchen is usually such a mess, I go ahead and turn the carcass into stock right away and freeze that if I don't feel like making the soup right away.
Fast and Easy Chilaquiles Casserole
Another turkey heavy recipe, but this is so fast, so easy, and so yummy that I had to share it. My whole family loved this one.
And for dessert—
Cranberry-Sauce Bread Pudding
I love bread pudding as an easy way to use up leftover bread. And, there is always leftover cranberry sauce. I used a whole cooked sauce in this recipe, but I am pretty sure that this would work just fine with any that uses fruit and sugar as opposed to the frozen/creamy/horseradish kind.
This recipe is variable with the amount of rolls you have. If you have less, any custard not soaked up in the bread will flow to the bottom of the pan and create a separate layer of just custard which is also really tasty. I added Cointreau to the custard since orange and cranberry go so well together.
So check back for the next couple days and get the recipes for the above dishes to make the most out of your leftovers! And let us know some of your favorite leftover dishes in the comments below.
Laurie Rockenbeck is a writer, knitter, and blogger in Redmond, Washington. Her blog covers a melange of subjects and can be found at www.laurierockenbeck.com
Thanks for this great post! Where is the recipe for the chilaquiles casserole, though? I can't seem to find it.


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Those fans still in the building stood and cheered Wayne Gretzky Monday night in Madison Square Garden, chanting his name and clapping until their hands hurt as the scoreboard showed highlights of his magnificent 21-year career. With emotion, Gretzky waved thanks to the audience and then urged his coach and teammates to get back to the game. Although his goal broke a 1-1 tie late in the third period, many fans had already left, perhaps because the Rangers-Islanders game had been so sluggish, maybe because they wanted to watch the college basketball championship on television.
Gretzky's goal led the Rangers to a 3-1 victory and it put Gretzky past the last of Gordie Howe's totals. Now it is Gretzky 1,072, Howe 1,071, in goals, regular season and playoffs combined, in both the National Hockey League and the World Hockey Association. Along with Bobby Orr, Howe and Gretzky are considered the best their sport has produced, a trinity of talent.
''Pretty special moment,'' Gretzky said. ''I feel very fortunate. I've always admired Gordie Howe. Best player to ever play the game. He was my idol. He's been one of the classiest people the game has ever had. I hope when I am done and gone that I can be the same.''
Gretzky recalled his first goal, with the Indianapolis Racers of the W.H.A., in 1978, a backhander from the slot, and compared it with his most recent, a poke of a loose puck.
Continue reading the main story''Awful goal,'' he said of the first. ''Wasn't very pretty. This one wasn't either. I was 17 years old. I was just happy to be playing hockey for a living.''
Recalling his career sweep of more than two decades, Gretzky said: ''Like anybody else, I wish I knew back then what I know now. I have no complaints. I've had a wonderful career.''
He recalled a few special goals and said the best game he had ever played was for Team Canada against the Soviet Union in 1987, when he didn't even score.
Of Monday's goal, he said: ''Obviously, I was ecstatic when it went in. It was a big goal and a goal probably I'll never forget.''
There have been too few moments like this for Gretzky in his three seasons as a Ranger. In his 20th N.H.L. season, he has only 9 goals. Although he plays in the biggest city and in the ''World's Most Famous Arena,'' Gretzky is not that big a deal at home games. On many nights, he is another mediocre performer on Manhattan's mediocre team, a fading hero in a show-business center filled with so much ascendant talent in so many professions.
It is on the road that you remember Gretzky's star power and the affection for him throughout the sport, when you see the swarms of fans seeking autographs and the knots of reporters seeking his words. At age 38, Gretzky will not say whether this is going to be his last season, but everywhere he goes, everyone treats it like a farewell tour, just in case.
On Nov. 19 in Los Angeles, where he spent almost eight years of his career, Gretzky sat on the bench late in the game, inwardly smiling and reminiscing. The Rangers had a big lead and Gretzky said it was one of the few times he lost focus on a game. So many memories.
In Calgary, he was the archenemy for 10 years as the star of the Edmonton Oilers dynasty, just up the road in Alberta. But this past winter, the Calgarians cheered him more loudly as the game went on, hoping he would break Howe's record for them. Gretzky said later that he skated with tears in his eyes.
In Detroit, Howe's town, a special moment came off the ice after the game, a Ranger victory that Gretzky left early with an injury.
He was with his father, Walter, and they were strolling through a corridor of Joe Louis Arena. For three decades, he had traveled with his dad to what is now called ''Hockeytown,'' home of the Stanley Cup champions. Back then, Walter would drive the amateur Wayne from Brantford, Ontario, to play at a suburban rink called ''Gordie Howe Hockeyland.''
The Red Wings were Walter's favorite team, so they were Wayne's, too. On this cold night, Walter and Wayne seemed to know every team official, usher and Zamboni driver. As they moved slowly to the exit, both men accepted handshakes and back slaps, father and son at the rink together once again, smiling and in no hurry to leave.
Back in New York, after Monday's goal, Gretzky said he would send the stick and puck to ''my dad.''
A few weeks ago, when Joe DiMaggio died, many recalled how he had retired from the Yankees in 1951 after a respectable season, when he still had some baseball talent left. Why not continue, people asked DiMaggio. No, he said, he wanted people to remember him at his best.
Just as proud, comparably talented and with similar dignity, Gretzky has chosen a different way. He is leaving gradually, savoring the moments, smelling the flowers along the way. Even those wistful about witnessing his diminished impact can appreciate sweet moments of success and long ovations of appreciation like those at the Garden on Monday night.
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I don't agree with you all.....mostly..I would think of it more as of an insulation. Plus, the chaff on a cleanly shaven face is horrible under the chin area. I prefer beards!
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ive never really grown a beard cause im only 17 but i doubt it would keep you that warm cause your pubes dont keep your dong warm when the waters cold so why would facial hair keep your face warm?
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Haha......how do you know your pubes aren't helping? have you shaved them b4? I have shaved my face clean as a babies ass and with a hood i hate it. Beard I like it. Still cold either way you look at it. But, I don' think there is any tests out there that can prove that a beard will in fact make you warmer. I just feel IMO that it does in my case. So beard it is.
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the comment about getting ice in your beard being bad isnt true. I grow out my beard during the winter, and it freezes everyday while im out snowboarding. It for sure keeps me warmer than when i have i freshly shaven face. So Ice in the beard=Good. Come on guys it doesn't take rocket scientist to figure that one, why the hell else would hair grow there??? It keeps you warm
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If you grow one, don't let it get outta control:
Think I have surfed a winter under every option and none assist more than others. What really helps the most are trips out of the US for many of the winter months. And having ice on your hair can cause it to break. I had that happen once way back in the day when riding home on a bike after catching some waves in a snow storm.
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Do you read me HAL? Robot wars, moral machines and silicon that cares - Part 1
Robots are among us. They might be on their way in to childcare and aged care as silicon carers too. Will the 'digital natives' born today be more comfortable with that prospect? And, many thousands have now been deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, with billions being invested in the development of fully autonomous killing agents. Will they fight fairly? Could they be more ethical and humane than humans? Over a series of shows, Natasha Mitchell speaks to leading roboticists and thinkers about the brave new now.
Natasha Mitchell: Well the next few shows are as much as anything an excuse to play some classsic beats from Kraftwerk. Welcome to All in the Mind on ABC Radio National, great to have your ears, Natasha Mitchell with you and we're going robotic.
Australia's minister for defence personnel, materiel and science,Greg Combet, just announced a million dollar competition with the US Department of Defence to encourage the development of autonomous, intelligent robots for use in urban warfare — in fact, thousands of robotic devices, you might be surprised to hear, are already being deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Ronald Arkin: I will never make the claim that these systems can be perfect, there will be mistakes made, still, but it is my firm belief that we can do better than human soldiers in the battlefield. What that translates into is a lessening of non-combatant casualties and collateral damage as a whole and that saves lives — if it can be achieved. Human beings fail and they fail in terrible ways in warfare.
Natasha Mitchell: Top roboticist Ronald Arkin on lethal artificial intelligences, it's an ethical battlefield, on the show next week. Today we're putting robots to domestic service though, even in childcare, aged care and perhaps beyond.
Noel Sharkey: I mean looking at my own children over the years, my children range in age from 16 now to 43, and it's the way they accept technology, you know some of them were born just after the remote control was invented for television and for me the remote control was still fascinating that I could change my television from a distance. But you watch this child lifting up the remote control and it never knew there wasn't one and similarly my 19-year-old was born just before the world wide web hit so she's had the world wide web all her life and thinks nothing of it, whereas I still think wow, this is incredible. And my youngest one of course with Facebook and all those social networking things. they just take them for granted. So if you imagine being born into an age where robots are around all the time you're going to have a very different conception of a robot, so maybe when you're old it will be fine to be with robots. I don't really know, we need to be discussing that question.
Natasha Mitchell: That's right, people will be so familiar personally, their entire lives will be mediated as they grow up by digital entities, it might not be unusual for them to be looked after by a robot.
Noel Sharkey: Yes, it sounds very odd to us, doesn't it?
Natasha Mitchell: Actually I'm not so sure it sounds so odd to me, as unsettling as it is, perhaps I'm more of a digital native. In fact I was just reflecting on the first computer I was given in '83, a little secondhand Sinclair ZX 81 with memory the size of a gnat. Artificial intelligence researcher Noel Sharkey there.
If you're apprehensive about a robot carer showering you in a nursing home, consider this scenario at the other end of life.
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Eurydice Euroney: As childcare costs have risen, even high end professional couples have struggled to keep up, and lobbying from the vocal and well organised child free movement has put an end to family allowance and other government subsidies to parents. But just as at childhood we're beginning to feel more and more alone, technology came to the rescue.
Robots never reached their potential as housework tools; problems with fine motor skill co-ordination just couldn't be overcome. They could mop a floor but only if you tidied away first. But when business re-focused its robotic investment into surveillance and entertainment they hit the jackpot. Here at Kids World Kirk Ambeno, the public face of children's Robbies explains some of their finer points.
Kirk Ambeno: We have a huge range of Robbie care systems and what you pay for is what you get but this is the basic starter model, and it relays audio-visual back to the parent and more or less accompanies the child, responding to his or her needs.
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Young man: I think that my point of view on this is a bit old fashioned. You see I grew up in a big family, like there were three of us for God's sakes and although we were struggling we had a basic model Robbie. I remember when I first saw it I thought it was a new kind of vacuum cleaner or something, I remember Mum said this is a new machine and it's going to sit and watch you in the bath. I was so shocked by that, I thought that the first time I actually got into the bath with my socks on, and that became like family folklore — we told that story every Christmas. But it actually turned out to be pretty good that first Robbie, not perfect, like later models, it would go off sometimes and like spin out of control, like rotate around at the knee joints. And funnily enough that made it seem more human; most of the Robbies these days are more or less indestructible.
Natasha Mitchell: From the brilliant prize-winning mockumentary by producer Eurydice Euroney and I've put the full audio of that on our website. It first aired on Radio National in 2002 but service robotics is a serious enterprise in 2009 and it continues to provoke those eternal questions about the evolving relationship between us, flesh and blood, with silicon.
So, picking up again with Colin Allen, who you caught on the show a few weeks backs, he's professor of cognitive science, and history and philosophy of science at Indiana University in Bloomington. His new book with Wendell Wallach is called Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong.
Well look Isaac Asimov kicked us off probably when he offered his three laws of robotics in 1942 which became four laws — that was a fictional exercise but it was a significant one, wasn't it? What was the essence of those essential laws?
Colin Allen: Well the original three laws say first — don't do any harm to a human being. Second — obey a human command as long as that's not violating the first. And third, protect yourself as long as that's not violating either of the other two. So they are a strictly hierarchical set of rules and eventually later in his fiction he added a zero flaw which was supposed to have precedence over all those three which was do no harm to humanity as a whole. But I think right from the beginning they really were a fictional plot device, in fact the very first story in which these appeared, a story called 'Run-around' there's a lot of tension between the first and the third, actually the second as well, the robot's told to go and do something, it has to get something that's crucial to help humans on this remote planet to get away from the planet but it's too dangerous for itself to get this material without destroying itself. But if it destroys itself then they are going to come to harm, so it ends up running around in circles around the source of this material.
So it's very clear that Asimov used these as a way to throw up the paradoxes you would get when you tried to boil down robotic morality to some simple set of rules.
Natasha Mitchell: More recently the famous roboticist Ronald Arkin has coined the phrase 'bombs, bonding and bondage' to describe our concerns about how we might relate to robots. What's he getting to there in terms of our anxieties?
Colin Allen: Well yeah, he sees three ways in which we could end up really using robots in ways that might actually not be so good for us. So bombs refers to the military applications of them, bonding refers to the idea that robots are going to play some role in the development of the sex industry, which is actually already, you know it's well past the horizon, it's coming. And bondage refers to the idea of robots as something like personal slaves.
Let's take that last one first, the concern there is we've had a long human history of trying to eliminate slavery and to reintroduce it, even in the form of mechanical servants, may lead us into a frame of mind where slavery doesn't seem so bad perhaps. So he's very worried about the potential consequences of that. So those are all focused on how having these robots around affect us but he's also, Ron Arkin, is also working on how you make the robots, especially military robots, behave ethically in military contexts as well so putting ethics rather like Asimov was imagining into the robots themselves.
Natasha Mitchell: Yes, and we will be picking up with roboticist Ronald Arkin himself on how he's doing that on the show next week. Colin Allen there's this intriguing concept of Uncanny Valley that's often talked about in AI circles about the prospect of machines becoming more human like. What is Uncanny Valley, I like this idea very much?
Colin Allen: That's based on some research in Japan where it seems as though as you make robots more and more humanoid, more human-like in appearance, people generally tend to like that, but if you get too close to a human being all of a sudden it drops off and these machines are just creepy and they make people have negative feelings about them.
Now the thought is that at this point this drop-off comes from having machines that are human-like but not quite human-like enough, and if we can only get through and get even closer to human-like machines then we'd climb out the other side of the valley and people would accept them again. So it's a hypothesis that there is a valley — so far we've only seen a cliff as you get closer and closer to humans. But there's all kinds of theories about why this is and the person who introduced this idea actually thinks it has something to do with reminding people of death because what you have when you have something that's almost human but not quite human is the kind of thing that Hollywood likes to show you in a zombie movie, you know, the living dead. So it's really a rather creepy experience.
Natasha Mitchell: Sure is.
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Robyn Williams: And so to robots.
... Across the tabletop moves a robot scorpion and it's suddenly wary.
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Cynthia Breazeal: Robot technologies are special in that they can interact without human brains and our bodies and social systems in completely new ways that other technologies have not done in the past. So the sense of this partnership I think is the difference.
Natasha Mitchell: MIT roboticist Cynthia Breazeal, speaking to The Science Show, and robotic antics there from the remix aficionados over at The Night Air, Friday and Sunday nights here on ABC Radio National, where you're tuned to All in the Mind with me Natasha Mitchell, going global on Radio Australia and as podcast.
Noel Sharkey is professor of robotics and artificial intelligence and professor of public engagement at the University of Sheffield and he's become vocal about the ethical and social consequences of his field. You might know him as judge on the popular TV show called Robot Wars, which pitched robots against each other.
Noel Sharkey: So robots would compete two at a time against each other and knock each other to pieces, essentially.
Natasha Mitchell: OK so like your classic robot cop but a bit more violent?
Noel Sharkey: Yes, and they showed one episode in Australia but it was too aggressive for the Australians, it's been everywhere else in the world but for some reason it was too aggressive for Australia.
Natasha Mitchell: How interesting. Look it makes for a fairly unsettling reading what you've written. You've said we are 'in danger of sleep walking into a world where robots have become indispensible to service our needs, to watch our every activity, to police us and to fight our wars for us.' I mean certainly we've always entertained, you know, the sort of dystopian scenarios about robots. So what makes this era different in your mind, Noel?
Noel Sharkey: Well because usually when it's talked about, the dystopian view is science fiction normally, and that's the idea that robots will suddenly become super intelligent and take over the world. And what I'm talking about is not intelligent robots, in fact it's the opposite, it's very dumb robots which is what we've got and it's their use by people in various roles that is unsettling me. But I have to say before I say anything else that I actually have a very, very positive view of robotics, its beneficial aspects in doing dull, dirty and dangerous work, and helping us in medicine and a whole plethora of things, even including therapy with autistics which is becoming quite big. But what my role is is to point out the ethical issues.
Natasha Mitchell: I wonder if we've been somewhat distracted by our focus to now really on whether we'll be able to develop an artificial intelligence that rivals our own, and with that prospect comes the possibility that they might come to dominate us. Has that been somewhat of a distraction?
Noel Sharkey: I think it has been a distraction. Our own government here in the UK at the end of 1997 produced a document; it was the first document on ethics with robots, or rights and robots, that the UK government has produced ever. And unfortunately it was about the rights of robots and it was a kind of fantasy document based on a few magazine articles, the idea that in 50 years time robots might demand housing rights and social welfare rights. And that was absolutely ridiculous, so that's the kind of distraction that we talk about. And when for instance the military sometimes, well not the military but the politicians talking with the military, kick up smokescreens about very intelligent robots and it covers the real issues.
In normal terms of view, if you think about what we think about robot working parts it's usually one of those big robot arms working in the petrochemical industry painting cars, building cars, that kind of thing. Now they've been around since the 1950s, there's just over a million of those on the planet working. Now service robots have been around since about the year 2000 and we've already got something like five and a half million of those with 18 million predicted over the next couple of years and they are robots that will do things for you like the little vacuum cleaners, you know those little...
Natasha Mitchell: Roombas.
Noel Sharkey: Roombas, yes that's right. You have window cleaning robots, we have robot surgeons that are operated by surgeons remotely at the moment, so they're not actually working on their own. We've also got things like childcare robots, there are 14 companies in Japan and South Korea building childcare robots at the moment and we've got robots in Japan being tested in the United States and built in the United States as well for looking after the elderly. Not completely looking after them yet, but for helping them, say, it's a good thing, helping them to the toilet that sort of thing. Bill Gates has said that he thinks robots will be like the internet was 10 years ago, it will suddenly be upon us and they will be everywhere.
Natasha Mitchell: Well let's go back to this prospect of Japanese and South Korean companies already developing versions of child minding robots. What do they do?
Noel Sharkey: At the moment they don't do an awful lot, I'd say they were more like mobile baby monitors, very sophisticated ones with entertainment systems on board. So for instance the PaPeRo, the cream of the crop at the moment, you can control that from your mobile phone, you can sit in another room, or sit in another building or another part of the world in fact with a little window up on your screen and you can see everything that the robot can see. So through its camera eyes, as it were, and you can speak to the child through your mobile phone through the robot's voice and monitor where the child is at all times.
Now the robot also has a certain amount of autonomous function and this is where it starts to get worrying. The child can wear something called a PaPe Sack which is a little infrared transmitter around its neck and so the robot knows where the child is at all times and it can alert you if it leaves the room for instance. You know most of us have put our children in front of the television occasionally when we're really busy but with this robot you could leave your child for longer and longer because it entertains them as well. It's got face recognition so it can recognise their face and say 'Good morning Mary, what game would you like to play today?' and then it can play quizzes with them. So my worry — I'm looking at the future, say 5 to 10 years with this development — I know that parents will leave the children with them.
Natasha Mitchell: And you have to ask what sort of attachment, or what sort of a relationship might a child form with their robotic supervisor over a long period of time?
Noel Sharkey: Yes, this is the worry. If you leave them with them for a very short time it's very motivating for them, inspire them and get them into engineering or science, they'll ask questions about it. But if you start leaving them with them for longer and longer periods and there are signs of this already, actually, you'll find the child will have to form an attachment with them. We're talking now about very young children, say pre-speech, little toddlers to about four years old, three years old.
Natasha Mitchell: A critical period for child/parent attachment.
Noel Sharkey: Exactly, that's the target market, and it's when you're learning languages, when you're learning emotion, you're looking to your parent for emotions of the face etc, so it's quite daunting.
Natasha Mitchell: How are the Japanese and South Korean companies actually marketing these, what's the pitch?
Noel Sharkey: Well at the moment they are too expensive for normal people but there one called Hello Kitty, a little robot and it can move its arms and can recognise your face, it can hear you, play some games, it can't walk and that's been marketed as a child minding robot. And if you look around the internet you'll find parents — and they're terrible parents actually saying things like, 'Now I've got the Hello Kitty robot when I'm working long hours I don't have to listen to the lonely cries of my child from another room'. And of course you have other people writing back if you don't mind my language saying 'You cold bitch, you shouldn't be a parent anyway, they would be better with a robot'. So there's some debate but it might become normative if there's a lot of them, that's the problem.
Natasha Mitchell: The slippery slope.
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Natasha Mitchell: I mean look even more visceral is the current development of robots to take over some aspects of aged care. What sorts of roles are we talking about here — and I guess...let's explore some of your concerns in relation to the slippery slope there?
Noel Sharkey: That's quite different from the child care, that's more of a trade-off really I think, an ethical trade-off, because on the one hand I would be happy to have robots that would assist me at home to keep me out of care home for longer. If you've got dementia for instance it could guide you to the bathroom, it could remind you, we have these smart sensing houses at the minute that sense all around the cooker so it will tell you you've left the cooker on, or if there's any kind of danger. So they could be a very good thing. Now one of the bad things about them is in trying economic times — and one of the problems throughout the western world and in Japan, particularly in Japan — is that the demographic is shifting so that the aged population is getting larger and larger. Japan are moving towards a third of the population being over 65. Now in this case you don't have enough young people to mind the elderly.
Colin Allen: And so the idea of having robots in nursing homes is very attractive to them and it's a stated governmental objective and many commercial enterprises are trying to make a dollar off that too, or make a yen, I guess.
Natasha Mitchell: Philosopher Professor Colin Allen.
Colin Allen: But the interesting ethical issues there is that if you start having machines that are in these contexts where they perhaps are ordering patients to take medicines, how do you write a software for a machine that knows when it should insist and when it should let the patient have their own say about whether or not to take these things. There are also other kinds of concerns which again relate back to how it changes us, so there are worries about what happens if people actually begin to find these mechanical devices more attractive than the other people around them, you know that could be bad for social relations as well.
Natasha Mitchell: I mean certainly in aged care facilities you'll often see people hanging on to an inanimate object, a doll, or a teddy bear for comfort, I wonder whether they might do the same with their robots.
Colin Allen: There's been some mixed results on that, some initial experiments where robotic toys were put in to nursing home situations, were very much in high demand and in fact, because there weren't enough for everybody to have one, it led to a fair amount of discontent among the people in this particular nursing home. When they had to give it up, when someone had to give it up and let somebody else use it there was a lot of resistance to that and a lot of ill-feeling. At the same time longer term studies, putting these things into elderly care have suggested, at least with the technology that's being tried at the moment, the older people especially sort of lose interest in these fairly mechanical robots that have only a very limited range of abilities, and eventually prefer just a teddy bear,one nursing home director said. But I think that's also just a technological issue, I think as the composition of the ageing population itself changes, because we continually have people growing up with gadgets ageing and the interactivity of the machines themselves improves, that's not always going to be the case. At some point I think these things will be more engaging than a teddy bear.
Natasha Mitchell: The Gen Y might be very happy to be nursed by a bunch of robots.
Colin Allen: Yes that's right.
Natasha Mitchell: Digital natives right to the deathbed.
Colin Allen: Yes exactly, right, and we tend to focus on the negatives of these things but you know there can also be positives too. I think that if the choice is what you see in a lot of nursing homes is a lot of people with not a lot of stimulation in their lives, and an appropriately designed gadget might well actually be a good thing for them.
Noel Sharkey: All people like all the rest of us need love and human care and attention and at the moment we have this idea that we have meals on wheels and that sort of thing in Britain where carers come around twice, three times a day, take you to the toilet, wash you, bring you food. And for some old people, in fact for many of them, that is the only human contact they get. So you take that away from them and that's one of my biggest worries, really.
Natasha Mitchell: There are a range of robot pets being tried in nursing homes, and I guess it could be argued, dare we consider that a robot pet may well be better than nothing in terms of company?
Noel Sharkey: It would be for a while, you're talking about Paro the seal, for instance which is cuddly, and again there's a trade-off here.
Natasha Mitchell: A fur covered robotic seal.
Noel Sharkey: Yes, that looks beautiful with great big eyes that can flick open and a lovely mouth and it makes really nice signs and you'll find that you'll go aah, you know it's one of those things that draws that out of you. And while you're cuddling it of course it's monitoring your heart rate and that kind of thing so very, very useful. But the worry here is that, well, for one thing you're deceiving people who have got dementia who don't know any better, deceiving them into thinking it's a real companion.
Natasha Mitchell: And that in itself is an ethical question, isn't it?
Noel Sharkey: Yes it is, I'm not sure about it you see, because it won't love you back, and people compare them to dogs but when you form a relationship with a dog it's a genuine relationship, it's two-way, the dog love you and you love your dog. With this robot it's one way. And the other thing about it is it's like doll therapy for the elderly, a question about are you infantilising them and it loses dignity a bit I think. I'm not sure about these questions to be quite honest with you, and I'm raising them just because I think we need to discuss them before we start applying them.
Natasha Mitchell: The fanciful suggestion, but the concerning one for you, is what if robots came to be the primary carers for us as we age?
Noel Sharkey: And you really might just as well die as belooked after by machines, I mean it's a horrific dystopian world, isn't it?
Natasha Mitchell: I'll say, thanks to roboticist Professor Noel Sharkey from the University of Sheffield. Look, as a philosopher you've got some very tangible concerns about where we're heading and about the destructive potential of artificial intelligence and certainly what might happen once we cross that Uncanny Valley. I mean is there a risk of provoking fear here though, because really have we progressed much beyond the robotic dogs and a few novelty vacuum cleaners? Why should we be concerned now, why are you concerned now?
Colin Allen: Well first I think it's because we're not actually just talking about things that are explicitly trying to be humanoid, I mean you mentioned robotic dogs but that's the same thing where we're trying to reproduce some living creature. But we have also robots that are not trying to be humanoid at all, for instance robots that have been developed for use in warfare.
And I would also add things that computer scientists call bots to distinguish them from physical robots, which are automated pieces of software which operate in virtual environments, in networks, in markets. Every time you run a credit card some computer somewhere decides whether or not to approve that purchase. These are all happening without direct human supervision. Yes you can get on the phone and call somebody at the bank if you don't like the decision that they made and maybe they'll correct it for you.
Natasha Mitchell: If you get through.
Colin Allen: If you get through.
Natasha Mitchell: Mostly you're talking to a robot.
Colin Allen: Exactly right. And there's a potential for all kinds of unthought-of interaction effects. You can imagine with not too much difficulty a sort of cascade of events that could have quite dire outcomes. You know without being scaremongering about it I think it's one way to get attention to this issue that we are in fact increasingly surrounding ourselves with machines that are doing things without direct human supervision, what we call autonomous machines, and those machines are all at the moment what we call ethically blind, they are insensitive to what kinds of harms they might be causing by the decisions they are taking. And a lot of that involves some very hard problems of AI, which is first, how do you detect or anticipate harm that you might be causing. So if you go back to Asimov — you know do no harm to a human being, how would you actually program a computer that could recognise, or a robot that could recognise when it was causing harm? And then the second thing, even if it's causing harm, we know that sometimes harm is necessary, even small harms, you know the doctor sticking a needle in a child's arm for a vaccination, that's a small harm, the child's facial reaction would say don't do this to me but the doctor goes ahead and does it anyway because he or she judges this is something that is worth the little bit of harm for the potential benefit.
So could you program that kind of decision-making or any other kind of moral decision-making into a machine?
Natasha Mitchell: Could you indeed, and that's what I'm picking up on next week, the prospects for a moral robot in war, autonomous military machines that can kill, but have ethics — how could that be?
Philosopher and cognitive scientist Professor Colin Allen there, from Indiana University. The podcastable audio, transcript and references all on the website, I'd really love your comments on this one on the All in the Mind blog too, head to that via abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind
Thanks to the definitely not artificially intelligent colleague Anita Barraud and to Carey Dell. I'm Natasha Mitchell.
- Professor Colin Allen
- Department of History and Philosophy of Science
and Program in Cognitive Science
and Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior
Indiana University
USA - http://mypage.iu.edu/~colallen/
- Professor Ronald Arkin
- Regents' Professor
Associate Dean for Research
School of Interactive Computing
College of Computing, Georgia Tech - http://www.cc.gatech.edu/aimosaic/faculty/arkin/
- Professor Noel E. Sharkey
- Professor of Arificial Intelligence and Robotics
Professor of Public Engagement
EPSRC Senior Media Fellow
University of Sheffield, UK - http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~noel/
- Title
- While my android gently weeps
- Author
- Noel Sharkey
- Publisher
- The Guardian, March 2009
- Homepage
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/mar/02/robots-usa
- Title
- Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong
- Author
- Wendell Wallach and Colin Allen
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, 2009
- Description
- Title
- Governing Lethal Behavior in Autonomous Robots
- Author
- Ronald Arkin
- Publisher
- Chapman & Hall/CRC; 2009 (distributed by Palgrave McMillan in Australia)
- Title
- Living with Robots: ethical tradeoffs in eldercare
- Author
- Noel Sharkey, and Amanda Sharkey (in Wilks, Y. Artificial Companions in Society: scientific, economic, psychological and philosophical perspectives.)
- Publisher
- Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2009
- Title
- The Ethical Frontiers of Robotics
- Author
- Noel Sharkey
- Publisher
- Science, 19 December 2009
- Homepage
- http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/322/5909/1800
- Title
- Scientists Worry Machines May Outsmart Man
- Author
- John Markoff
- Publisher
- New York Times, July 26 2009
- Homepage
- http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/science/26robot.html
- Title
- Why machine ethics?
- Author
- Colin Allen, Wendell Wallach, Iva Smit
- Publisher
- IEEE Intelligent Systems, Vol 21, No 4, July/August 2006
- Homepage
- http://www.tauzero.org/?dl=37
- Description
- PDF file
- Title
- Japanese technology policy for aged care
- Author
- Noriko Dethlefs and Brian Martin
- Publisher
- Science and Public Policy, Vol. 33, No. 1, February 2006, pp. 47-57.
- Homepage
- http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/06spp.html
- Title
- Design Guidelines for Childcare Robots with an ethnographic study of dual income and single income families
- Author
- Sonya S. Kwak, Jinyung Jung, Eunmee Shin, Jeong Gun Choi, Hye Jin Ryu and Myung Suk Kim
- Publisher
- Presented at the conference of the International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR) in 2007
- Homepage
- http://tinyurl.com/nb2pyn
- Title
- Design Guidelines for Childcare Robots with an ethnographic study of dual income and single income families
- Author
- Sonya S. Kwak, Jinyung Jung, Eunmee Shin, Jeong Gun Choi, Hye Jin Ryu and Myung Suk Kim
- Publisher
- Presented at the conference of the International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR) in 2007
- Homepage
- http://bit.ly/jgyNG
- Title
- A.I. Law: Ethical and Legal dimensions of Artificial Intelligence
- Publisher
- The Sigma Scan, Government Office for Science (UK),
Further Information
- Hear in full the award winning documentary,The Dribble Down Effect, mentioned in this week's show (Written and produced by Eurydice Aroney, ABC Radio National, 2002).
- Listen Now
- The Robots Podcast
- By a team at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland.
- Presenter
- Natasha Mitchell
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80 (Visited 07/2015): Tremont Tap House is located south of downtown Cleveland on Scranton Road in the Tremont neighborhood. Pretty close to the intersection of I-71 and I-90. There is a parking lot in the rear of the building. The exterior of the 2-storey building is olive green with maroon trim. Inside opens to the bar, which is dark with brick walls and wooden floors. The bar runs along the entire left side and there are tables on the perimeter of the room. Tap handles are set against a window, and there is a board above the bar listing the beers. As for the beer list, there are over 20 options, featuring many local and regional brewers like Great Lakes, Cleveland Brewery, Founders and Main Street. Around 50 bottled options as well, again with a lot of Ohio options. Service at the bar on a weekday evening was good. The bartender was friendly and made good recommendations. The burger I ordered was enjoyable, no complaints about the food. Overall this is a worthwhile stop for a solid tap list and food outside of downtown Cleveland. |
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94 Best beer bar in CLE. Awesome food. Service can be slow and prices arent low (not any higher than other places though). Cant say enough good things - the only world-class beer bar in CLE. |
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86 Really enjoyed this place. Awesome atmosphere and decor...lots of brick and wood...warm. very nice draft list and lots of bottles. Darn good food and fair prices...i would definitely go back if I hit Cleveland again. |
80 Visited at around 6:00PM on a Wednesday. Place was nearly empty. Sat in a booth with wife and kid for about five minutes, completely unattended. Asked the bartender should I order at the bar? "No, shell be right with you." Waited another five-ten minutes. Got a wave from the server. Waited some more, and then moved my family to to the bar. Everything was great after that. Bartender was very generous with sample, even though I hate when they automatically assume you know nothing about beer. Burgers were great though at NY prices.. Pork Carnitas thing was like something off the Food Network. Beers were in good shape. Glasses were mostly clean. Music not too loud. I will return. |
96 When I visited: May 2012.
What I had: Bear Republic NorCal California Style Bitter (draught), Sierra Nevada Hoptimum (draught), Bockor Cuvee des Jacobins Rouge (draught), Chorizo Tacos, cocktails for the lady.
What I liked: Outrageously robust tap list with many beers that Ive never seen on draught before (Gnarly Wine, Maharaja, Hazelnut Brown), relaxed and welcoming vibe, killer music, fast service with a smile, tasty and affordable pub grub, fair prices given the quality of everything.
What I disliked: Nothing.
Would I go back? No question. One of the best beer bars that Ive come across.
Overall Rating: 96 |
96 I love this place! Especially on Sunday! The bartenders are always nice and the beer selection is always good. The food by the way is outstanding. Love to go here after work on Sunday and just kick back relax and enjoy the rest of the day. |
88 I cant believe it took me so long to get to this place. I guess it was because of the hours and my laziness, but it doesnt matter... this will be a regular hangout for me now. Tucked away in Tremont, just off off W.14, this place is awesome. Cozy interior with brick walls, dark wood and dim lighting. They have one of the best tap lists Ive seen around town and the food is great. The service I had was awesome - actually, some of the best Ive had in a while. I know my sample size is small, but I enjoyed this visit quite a bit and plan to go back soon. |
86 Tremont Tap House is only about 5 minutes off the W14th street exit of I-90, and approximatly 5 minutes from Great Lakes Brewing and Bier Markt.
The Atmosphere was nice, open faced brick with a long bar. Several Flat Panel TVs behind the bar showing local/National sports. Small crowd being a Tuesday night, but not empty by any means.
Had a nice selection of Tap and Bottled beers. I counted 24 taps in total, but my counting usually sucks. 3 Handles from Bells including HopSlam, a few Stone, Rouge, 2 from GLBC including Nosferatu and Xmas Ale, Victory, Southern Tier, Ommegang were all represented well. Beers were served in the correct glass wear.
Service was good, no complaints there.
My wife and I shared several of the happy hour appetizers. Olive Tapenade Pizza Calamari, Pretzel served with a smoked cheese dipping sauceall of which were delicious.
A nice value, my wife and I had all of the food, plus one Ommegang Rare VOS, one Magic Hat #9, and 2 HopDevil all on tap for $34 before tip. Being we ordered the food on happy hour and 2 of the beers where also order during happy hour ($1.50 off drafts).
This is a nice destination that Clevelanders need to add into thier Beer adventure rounds.
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The ultra-affordable Acer Altos G330 delivers outstanding performance, value and availability to small and medium-sized businesses. The Acer Altos G330 is based on Intel Dual Core and Quad Core Technology. Advanced tools make the server easy to manage, which helps control IT expenses. In addition to affordability, the G330 offers you the possibility to run RAID 0, 1 and even 5 on the latest SATA or SAS storage technology in a flexible and affordable manner. Exceptional price performance
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Compatible operating systems
List of desktop operating systems tested as compatible with this product.
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise R2 x64 Edition, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise R2 Edition, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard R2 x64 Edition, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard R2 Edition, Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2, Standard Edition, Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2, Premium Edition, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 (EM64T), Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0, Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 (EM64T), Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, Novell NetWare 6.5
Chassis type
The type of rigid framework onto which is the hosuing for device components.
Optical drive type
An optical drive uses laser to read optical discs such as CDs, DVDs and Blu-Ray. Some types of optical drive are: CD ROM drive, CR-RW (CD writer) drive, DVD-ROM.
Power supply
The way in which the product is powered e.g. rechargeable battery, mains electricity connected via a plug and cable.
Weight & dimensions
The measurement or extent of something from side to side.
186 mm
Weight of the product without packaging (net weight). If possible, the net weight is given including standard accessories and supplies. Please note that sometimes the manufacturer leaves out the weight of accessories and/or supplies.
13.4 kg
The distance from the front to the back of something.
480 mm
The measurement of the product from head to foot or from base to top.
425 mm
Other features
Dimensions (WxDxH)
Dimensions of the product (Width x Depth x Height).
186 x 480 x 425 mm


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